#absorbing into my brain

[keferon]

I love when JP fics are like:

This isn’t based on any specific fic but kind of inspired by some of them haha

[egophiliac]

A-anime?

you know, sometimes I forget that Twst is actually an isekai that starts with the protagonist getting run over by an inexplicable horse-drawn carriage. and every time I'm reminded is a delight because that's AMAZING.

also. look. okay. there's a lot of very fun stuff in the trailer but I am obsessed with that Crowley surprised pikachu face. me when I spend all my keys and gems literally hours before they announce overblot SSRs and drop the anime trailer:

[lazylittledragon]

ok someone please correct me if i'm wrong but am i weird for thinking those 'audiobooks don't count as reading' posts are ableist as fuck????

[aquamarinebling]

every day I must physically prevent myself from saying “stars” or “crab” instead of actual swear words.

[c-kiddo]

this is autistic as shit but wee things abt how cad talks i noticed during my cr2 rewatch that i think are endearing and niceys :- )

makes grumbly noises like meehh weh hrmgn instead of acknowledging or replying to someone. example someone saying "wow thanks for dinner, cad" and he goes hrmgn and walks away

says n'morrow instead of tomorrow

stutters A lot . like restarts sentences several times pretty often. example i sent my friend when i was explaining it lol: “this is - this - this is - this is [giant spider food]”

he litrally loves to say Copacetic

[kockatriceking]

how Courier Six be looking at Jeannie-May Crawford just before putting on the red beret (her head is about to spontaneously explode)

[ulteri0rm0tives]

Do I think Johnny can cook anything beyond basic pre made meals like spaghetti from a jar? Nah. But I do think he could make a mean full American breakfast, talking eggs bacon hashbrowns fuck maybe even french toast, and WHATEVER maybe this is self indulgent because I want to imagine him making breakfast for V and him while passing it off like that was not at all his intention, just whoops, seemed to have made extra, guess u could have some but yr making yr own plate, already gonna have to deal with all the fucking clean up, and V is just smiling at him, rolling his eyes, like 'okay dude im sure thats what happened'. Because let's be honest, if Johnny was just making himself breakfast, at best it's a pre-packaged scop burrito nuked in the microwave, at worst it's a cigarette and a coffee from the vending machine.

[respectthepetty]

The way I lay in bed every Sunday night knowing My Stand-In and Wandee Goodday are all I'm going to think about for another week.

[ears-and-eyebrows]

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is exactly the same except every time Illya wear glasses, it's these:

[sillystigmata]

Lbf should get to keep his wiki page due to his whimsy and giant, heavy hog.

[moeblob]

Honestly? Good anime imo! I really enjoyed Aileen. I enjoyed Claude. I enjoyed Isaac and Keith and Rachel and Almond and Ribbon. I enjoyed Belzebuth and the flock of ducks (Walt/Kyle/Auguste) and Jasper.

[19o19o19o19]

Kevin looks like Wymack.

You put them side by side and actually try to pay attention to them, and after a while it's one of those things you can't unsee once you've seen it.

Sure, he has his mother's black hair and dark, intense green eyes. But everything else? Wymack. His tanned skin, his buff, muscular build; his face structure, with big eyebrows and strong nose and deep set eyes and full lips; his hands and ears and his wavy hair, too, even if Wymack doesn't keep it as long anymore.

If Kevin let his beard grow, all you'd see would be Wymack, if a little to the left; younger, with different colors and a bit more hair. No wrinkles or white hairs, just yet.

If you saw pictures of a younger Wymack, all you'd see would be Kevin. Kevin, with brown hair and brown eyes, the same wavy hair, if a little longer, maybe. This is specially true the younger you go. You put pictures of them as children and the grainy and faded quality of David's makes them look like the exact same kid. All the way down to similar mole placements.

Well. Except two of them.

Two small moles. Sitting one right next to the other, at the corner of Kevin's left eye. Those were Kayleigh's. They were one of Wymack's favourite places to kiss her.

It's been so long nearly nobody remembers he had them in the first place. But Kevin remembers. Kevin could never forget.

Riko used to say they were the perfect placement, back when they were still kids and would use markers to doodle the numbers on their faces. He would use them as guidelines, putting each line of the roman numeral over each mole. Riko liked them because then they would always know where to put the mark and he could use them as a reference for his own.

He also liked to joke, telling Kevin all about how they were a sign. A sign that everything was always meant to be like this, a sign that Kevin was always meant to be his second.

Kevin didn't exactly know how to feel about that. He didn't mind the idea of tattoos that much, but he felt odd whenever he looked at a mirror and couldn't see his mother's moles. Alas, it made Riko happy, and if Riko was happy, then Kevin had to be, too. If he tried hard enough, he could even convince himself that his mother would be proud. After all, it meant he was one of the best in the game, and wasn't that a good thing? All people had to do was look at his face and they would know immediately.

And anyways, it was just marker. It would fade eventually and his moles would still be there.

Except.

Then it wasn't just marker anymore, was it? It was ink. Permanent, at the corner of his left eye. Each line of the roman numeral forever covering each mole. The perfect placement, the perfect guidelines. A sign.

And it wasn't like they were the only connection he had with her, the only thing left behind.

He still had his mother's eyes. He still had his mother's hair. He still had Exy and her drive and her passion and her legacy and all the expectations that came with it.

And yet he was also aware that none of those things could ever truly replace her. That doesn't mean he didn't try, though.

Therefore, when he lost the moles, as small as they were, he couldn't help but feel as though he was loosing a key part of himself. That the space inside of him, the one with her exact shape, the one left empty by her death, the one he's spent his entire life desperately trying to fill with all the ill-fitting things she left behind, sat a little bit emptier now.

So, yeah. It's been a long time, but Kevin remembers.

Now, having a Queen instead might not be as good as having his moles back, but this, at the very least, he doesn't need convincing to know his mother would be proud of.

This, at the very least, doesn't feel as empty.

[flibbertigibbety-jibber-jabber]

okay so i’m very curious about graysteds parents bc there’s obviously something that happened that lead him into the GDA

ALSO i want to know more about like eve, william (if he’s included in this au, which im assuming he is?) and amber in this au like what’s graysteds relationship with them and stuff

oughhh i love ur au so much its so awesome

THANK YOU!! Sorry for taking too long I kept being Busy then Very Overinvested <//3

Honestly these would probably be better off as two separate posts? And would be a little easier to do them that way lol,,, I’ll do Mark’s parents (AKA the Grayson Incident) first cos I have that outlined the clearest, (+ tag you and link the posts when I get to the others ^_^) This kinda fell into a rambly story on accident but idk how else to explain… I can do stories better than this trust 🙏🙏🙏

Nothing’s truly different about Nolan or Debbie—it’s all in Mark himself.

Mark is clumsy, and gets tired quick, hurt more, dizzy and nauseous, is weak. The doctors say he’s fine, just different, and Debbie scowls at the ones who call him dramatic. She tells him she’ll love him no matter what, with or without his problems, that they’ll figure something out so he can be happy. Nolan… sometimes makes Mark feel weak. He doesn’t say it, but he feels like he disappoints him.

Mark is 7 years old when Nolan tells Mark about his heritage as a Viltrumite. Mark is excited, both to have powers and an answer. Maybe he’s different because he’s part alien, and when his powers come in it’ll all go away! There’s an undertone of expectation that makes him nervous, but he’ll live up to it. He’s sure of it.

I guess the moment the timeline diverges the most is when he trips over himself and loses the baseball game three years later.

About a month after the game, there was a half-day at school. William’s mom dropped him off at his house, where the front door had been left unlocked. Mark didn’t see or hear anything at first, just an empty, still house. He heard a thud, and when he came around the corner to investigate… well. He found Debbie’s bloody body and an open back door.

The GDA appeared not a minute later, taking them both back to the Pentagon with them—mostly because Mark wouldn’t let go of Debbie, still crying and sobbing, but then also because Cecil told them to. When they have to separate them to operate on her, do what they can to see if she’ll make it, he throws a fit but relents to sitting on the floor outside her room, still crying.

Cecil had to make a decision, one that both the fate of a 9-year-old boy and their entire planet rested on: What the hell do we do with Mark?

They don’t even know anything about Viltrumites other than data collected on Nolan from a distance, the “story” they told him, and that nobody—and no group—on the fucking planet could fight one and win. When Mark gets his powers, he’ll take up the mantle for strongest superpowered person on the planet, no matter how old he is. He couldn’t go to a normal family. Being raised outside was a risk, every little factor twisting their fate.

Cecil didn’t know. So, he found Mark, hoping to find an answer there and fast, because Debbie’s outlook was bleak and Nolan wasn’t in the solar system anymore. Pretty soon this kid would have nobody. Mark was still sitting against the door, clothes bloody and tear-soaked, staring at his shoes and sniffling. Cecil sat down on the chairs across from him, and before Cecil could say anything, Mark looked up at him and asked him if they’d found the bad guy yet.

Mark believed his father’s story. He believed that Viltrumites were altruistic saviors, and that his father was a white knight here to protect Earth. The one time he’d seen Mark before this—a complete accident—the thing he remembered the most was his starry eyed ambition, full of naïve trust and awe, so curious about everything involving superhero-ing and hanging onto every vague answer given as Cecil waited for Nolan to show up. So sure that, some day, he was going to save the world.

Cecil could work with that.

Debbie flat-lined after a few hours. Mark was taken in, brought to a room they used when people needed to stay overnight by Donald, who broke the news to him. He told him they were going to keep him safe from the attacker, and train him to be the best hero he could be.

Mark believed him.

[isogenderskitty]

hi it just occurred to me that when ted was in college, specifically when jenny “left”, pete would’ve been like 2 years old. he was never really old enough to know his brother before he became a sleazeball. he never knew teddy, just ted. this is hurting me so much wtf

[genocidalfetus]

Brain Rot Thot...BG3 style

So we all know that Gale and Tav can't do the nasty until the orb is stabilized because being overwhelmed could make him go BOOM....

But what about kissing? Would a chaste kiss make him overly excited? A more passionate one? Would he need a magical item to keep from going BOOM in a bad way?

Discuss?

[whomstsnek]

Really really like the CoS Team Theme of "otherness" and "outcasted by society"

Like. Shepherd and Sarnax are both very obvious, and they both talk about their experiences openly and often. How people often judge them bc of their species, how people are often afraid of them and sometimes take it out as anger. NPCs have been pretty upfront with how offput they are by the two of them, and theyve been given warnings that they will likely continue to deal with this throughout Barovia

Victoria has, for all intents and purposes, been cut off from society since birth. A half elf, the child of an affair, afflicted with strange shadow magic. Her father apparently made a habit of constantly reminding her that no matter how hard she prayed and how much she suffered in Ilmater's name, she could never be "absolved of her sin" since it was inherent to her, and shes internalized that!!!!

Then we have Kana, exiled from her home for a crime she didnt commit. Questioned and judged for her beliefs and customs because they are so different from the cultures of Barovia and western Avantris. Maybe its just the setting, a stark contrast to her homeland, but she always seems just a little out of place

Clayton is the only one i dont have an arguement for, but im literally only on ep 3 lol and hes plenty freaky and weird enough for me to imagine that hes separated from others in some way shape or form. Or, if not, you could argue that that makes him "othered" from his party for NOT having the experience of being othered.