#Also something something morals and all

[authorazurite]

Okay now for the real shit

Sorta building on my other Oegwipali and Bamsaegi minific, though it's mostly just more stuff pertaining to SAH:C.

Oegbam shenanigans on the farm (implied to be the same farm from Born Like This - which in itself was a Lily Bell In The Thorn Thicket reference).

The Deserter Mice will be here at... some point, I do intend for the Field Mice and Tokgasi to be there, dunno about Jangmi and the rest though.

Whether or not I actually finish this fic - since I do intend for it to be a multi-chapter fic rather than sporadic series uploads - is completely up to chance, though considering I've wanted to write these two for awhile... Eh.

We'll see.

Also for context, Oegwipali is around late 20s and Bam is atleast 21. If you're wondering how Oegwipali's age would work if the Weasel War was atleast 9 years and the events of Cantonment Post-EAV is about 5 years: the Weasel Unit was run by a bunch of nut-jobs with hardly more sense of preservation for themselves as for their men, of course there'd be child-soldiers. Plus it figures since Mul and Geum are around the same age here, meanwhile Mulsajo is (was) older than all four of them.

[palarien]

sketched this out at jury duty actually

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The musical episode.

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[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

POV. You’re a foot soldier stationed at Heaven’s gate and the sexual tension between your boss and his second in command is getting weirdly high these days for some reason

Continuation of Paradise Lost soldier Mud

Doodling more of these guys. They hate each other so much, they should kiss about it <3

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Something something Merlin is Arthur's bane.

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[phoenixkaptain]

One thing I like is that the only people who really truly see Shinichi in Conan, the only people he drops his guard around enough to act like himself, are like: 1. Hattori, best friend, one of the first people to discover his secret, the human equivalent of a puppy dog. And 2. the Detective Boys, the literal young children he spends time with mostly against his own will.

And it's so funny because he TRIES to keep his guard up, he TRIES to act like a regular, boring child, but Shinichi/Conan has one fatal flaw that prevents him from pulling it off: he's too much of a perfectionist, he's too much of a completionist. Once a mystery has his attention he has to solve it, he has to get to the bottom of it, he has to solve riddles, he'll spend the entire day and night thinking about it because he NEEDS to know.

Hattori knows that because Hattori Gets It, he's right there with him, and he understands that the obsessiveness is what makes Shinichi a good detective.

But the Detective Boys do Not get it, they just know that sometimes their weird buddy gets strangely intense and normally it's because murder is involved but sometimes it's about a stupid map to treasure that he finds stupid until he finds out he doesn't get it and begins to obsess over it until he does get it. And sometimes their weird buddy starts laughing maniacally and they're all a bit concerned, but hey, maybe that's just how weird friend expresses himself? Sometimes weird buddy seems to pretend to be stupid, like he just spent fifteen minutes explaining something only to turn around and act like he's three. And this bothers them because, like, what? What's the purpose? And how is anyone convinced???

I love the Detective Boys plots, they are all Conan thinking that it's stupid only to then get way too into it. And just imagine how Inspecter Megure feels! This child yesterday explained the hows and whys of a gruesome murder, only to then be like "how does a clock work?" Like, bro must be SO confused. He and the Detective Boys are over there like, "I know Conan isn't stupid. You know Conan isn't stupid. Conan knows Conan isn't stupid. And yet, somehow, Conan just said the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. And now he's back to not being stupid, what was the poINT-"

All this to say, I like that Conan's friends know about Conan's interests and obsessions and accept those interests and obsessions as part of him, and even try to give him things to interest him and get him to spend time with them. Which is just something we never really see with Shinichi because Shinichi's only real friend seemed in the beginning to be Ran, and Ran in the first episode seemed caught off guard by the fact that Shinichi spent nearly an entire trip to an amusement park talking about Sherlock Holmes.

[random-cockroach]

And coloring based on @thegunnsara 's sketch

[vaguely-concerned]

the fact that irving canonically survives through the end of asunder to be at wynne's funeral is so fucking funny to me. nothing but love and respect for MY unstoppable cockroach morally grey machiavellian mage dad!!! he's survived in his position through multiple attempted rites of annulment and blood mage plots popping up left right and center around him. the chantry keeps trying to stamp him out but his dodge game is simply out of this world, divine. civil wars, political machinations and minefields, chantry atrocities, this wily old motherfucker is dodging and weaving his way through it all, not-quite-no-hits-taken-running-it-but-honestly-close-enough-under-the-circumstances style. if solas does succeed in tearing down the veil I would fully believe that one of the like three people still alive at the end of it all would be a very weary 90 year old first enchanter irving going 'oh this shit again huh'. the maker has cursed him for his hubris and his paperwork is never finished (affectionate, it's fine he canonically loves paperwork)

[mangio-formaggio]

Buffy loosing her virginity in Surprise > Spike revealed to be paralyzed from the waist down this very episode

Spike being physically invincible in The Harsh Light of A Day > Buffy's bad luck with consequences of physical pleasure and her emotional distress

Buffy finally being able to have long term sexual partner in Riley and fucking him at some point for hours > Spike's chip being a metaphor for an impotency, Dru and Harm leaving him for a while

Dru turning Spike is a deeply sexual act that gives him confidence in his body > Buffy being stabed with her own stake, betrayed by her body the very same episode

Spike being desperate for connection both physical and emotional, creating Buffybot, getting only physical satisfaction from this and then his body is brutally tortured > Buffy being afraid she can't love anymore and taking spiritual journey in solitude

Spike being so beaten up he can't tell bot from a real human right away > Buffy kissing him as a recognition of his worth and capability for humanity

Buffy being comatose after losing Dawn to Glory > Spike being the one who has a clear mind in Ben/Glory situation and is an active forse while Buffy is out of the game

Resurrected Buffy is physically and emotionally can't cope > Spike being capable to tone down his obsession with her, being gentle and suppress lust

Buffy kissing Spike to feel something > Spike after that kiss is slowly starting to lose his new found restrain that made him feel like a man over a monster and overwhelmed with feelings once again

Spike finding out that chip is not working on Buffy and immediately initiating date/the fight, accepting that violent physical touch is the only way they ever freely connected before > Buffy releasing her desire for him and getting physical satisfaction of her life but simultaneously killing all genuine emotional connection they started to develop before

Buffy believing that she killed Katrina because of her supernaturally strength, having a breakdown because of it, hopeless and sure that smth is wrong with her > Spike starting episode with a hope to rebuild their ability to have a normal conversation and ending it being an object for Buffy to fuck or hurt cause he the only one who can bare her strength

Spike's dream sequences always being about then fighting as equals > Buffy's dream spliting into two opposite scenarios: her killing Spike while he defenseless and her being comforted and held gently by him in a intimacy of her own bed

Buffy being physically incapable to fight full forse in the bathroom > Spike being at the lowest emotionally

Buffy in finale getting some relief by laughing her troubles off with Giles and having a catharsis by reconnecting with Dawn > Spike getting his soul back not by an act of moral sacrifice and nobility but by physically intense trials and then suffering for months

Buffy in Lessons allowing Spike to touch her senselessly > Spike being out of his mind

Spike in Beneath You performing sanity > Buffy not being able to bare his touch without a trauma flashbacks cause he seems his old self again

Buffy having a crazy lust outburst under the spell in Him > Spike being so mentally troubled by soul his body tense and he is repressing his natural physicality patterns

Spike's plot in CWDP being framed as a hook up but ending up as a mind control slaughter > Buffy's plot being a therapy about her affair with Spike among other things but ending up with a revelation that kills all progress she made in coping with her feelings

Buffy not having sexual intimacy throughout season 7, her date with Robin is crushed by Spike > Spike not having sexual intimacy throughout season 7, his flirtatious-ish conversation with Faith is crushed by Buffy

Spike getting his coat back and finally allowing his demon side to show up through the way he carries himself and fights > Buffy losing people, until she accepted her inner darkness and became a tough leader who no longer need guidance

Buffy just wanting to be held in Touched and ending up getting much needed inspiration > Spike just wanting to cheer up the hero inside her and getting affection he was dreaming about since the start of their affair

Both of them admitting that that night meant so much more > The hungry loudness of the space between them at the kitchen and later at the basement before the final battle

[hayaku14]

yapper bf x listener bf

[keferon]

There’s something incredible about your aus that they start out with fun characters and world building ideas and then we all start digging underneath. And inevitably end up with a story that, for me (and I’ll only speak for my own experience here), forces me to think deeply about the world around us and life in general. And that is powerful stuff. /pos

Thank you thank you

I’m kind of dooming my AUs into that every time because I have this imaginary rule to make every storyline .uh. unique? Like if I already have “a human who randomly befriended a mer” then all other characters has to be something entirely different. So I end up starting to dig out references and experimenting with contrasting concepts and genres. And usually it leads to everyone crying because nothing makes such a contrast with simple fun as complicated suffering heh?

[nellasbookplanet]

I've been thinking about Mollymauk, as I'm periodically wont to do, and the fandom discussion about him as a moral compass. Because the interesting thing here is, Molly wasn’t a very moral character. He was an unrepentant scammer. He had no respect for interpersonal boundaries and would deliberately push and break them. Generally, he was an asshole. As far as actually having a strong moral stance I would say Fjord was the standout of early m9, and to some extent Beau.

But here’s the thing: almost all of early m9 thought of themselves as horrible people. Fjord had been bullied so bad growing up that he still dealt with self-hate from it, and now suffered from survivor's guilt to boot. Caleb had killed his own parents. Beau, while she hated her dad, also had internalized self-hate and on some level thought she’d been such a shitty daughter she deserved his treatment. Nott was stuck in a body she considered monstrous. Yasha had survivor's guilt and knew she’d done bad things in her blank spots. Even when they did good, they didn’t think of themselves as good. Most of them were suspicious and asocial and faced the world with the same kind of distrust they expected to be (and were experienced in being) met with. (Jester was an exception, an agent of neither good nor bad but of amoral chaos)

But Molly was different. He was outspoken about loving life and people. He wanted to spread joy, even to people he didnt know or had even met: he slipped coin into people's pockets, hid a silver in a tree just so some stranger would one day be happy to find it. He openly cared for the party early on; was one of the first to step in and help Caleb when he went catatonic in battle. Above all, Molly had rules: where everyone else would agonize over what was the right or wrong or smart thing to do, Molly loudly proclaimed we don't leave people behind, and we leave every place better than we found it.

But the thing about Molly’s rules was, they were largely a cover. While the rest of the m9 thought they were bad even as they did good, Molly thought of himself as good even as he did bad. He scammed people, but made it a good and memorable experience, therefore thinking he gave more than he took. He charmed Nott and Fjord without consent, and when confronted would claim it was to help them. Out of the group, Beau saw through this, not because she was a better person but because she was a cynic. She saw that he caused harm, just as she did, and was personally affronted that he still thought of himself as good and tried to leave people happy, whereas she deliberately left every place worse than she found it.

I see Molly as a moral compass of the group not because he was actually any more moral than them, but because they made him their template. He was joy and brightness and he died trying to save them because it was the right thing to do, and they all chose to honor him by emulating his rules more than Molly himself ever did, because to them it was more than just a cover, backed up by genuine moral thought and discussion rather than small gestures. He taught them that it was possible to be kind of a shit person and still be good, to still love yourself and others. The idealized Molly they created never existed, and finally died for good when they resurrected him in the end and were met with a stranger, who they welcomed with the same love and care they would've expected Molly to show them.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I rlly hope you saw that lil doodle i made of my oc in that mud au you did…sighs..wait that sounds self-centered its not oh dear GOD

ANYWAYS- i was wondering..abt mud in ur au, does he like a resting post/nest (yes im getting this from tf2…shush) or is he usually by diligences side most of the time? Also does mud know abt mel in this au or does ken just never let him see her…💔

I did see your little doodle!! Your OC is SO cute, I lover her sm with her fancy uniform and cool mask, love that you played around with her design for this AU :) Everyone else should also totally go check your OC out! She’s very cool!!!

To answer your question, Mud technically does actually have a nest on top of the gate that he regularly has to climb up to to do perimeter checks / lookouts from above, but the rest of the time he's mostly stuck next to Diligence at the gate :)

Since he's almost always busy and on the job, he doesn't usually get the time to sleep so he’s rarely at his nest for long enough to rest. He's learned to sneak in a few naps throughout the day whenever he gets the chance. He's gotten scarily good at sleeping upright without anyone noticing! Although he did get caught. Once.

He didn’t realise even when he woke up and no one told him so he doesn’t even know about it 😭

Mud does know about Mel! In fact, she’s the first Smiling Dead he meets when they break into Heaven. It was while they were running away and everything was in chaos, so you could say that their meeting went… a little violently.

[secretly-a-catamount]

tim drake would rather die than kill innocent people and tim drake killed hundreds of supervillain henchpeople with long-range detonation explosives that one time are two separate headcanons that, contrary to what the fandom discourse would have you believe, can actually coexist at the same time.

there’s even a psychologist term for it.

it’s called compartmentalization!

[countlessofvoids]

Hiccup was a runt, the most awkward, frailest guy around. He was created with the intent of being someone who's different from everyone else; both in his design and story. Someone who's weak around people who value strenght, someone who befriends dragons while others want to kill them. Hiccup makes up for his physical weakness with compassion and trying to bring peace to both sides.

Which is why in his every iteration after the first movie (+ ROB); Hiccup is a 6'1, modern beauty standart who can easily beat everyone in combat no matter how more build or/and experienced they are, unless the writers decide they need to higher the stakes, or they have other characters fight the enemy for him.