#but refuses to explain why

[freepassbound]

Okay but this is exactly what Benjamin Lafayette Sisko's retirement project would be!

He comes back in time for the birth of his second child, with Kasidy (not over 20 years later - remember that Ira Behr has lots of very dumb ideas, and that's definitely near the top); Starfleet has no idea what to do with him, and Sisko's not really interested in running the station again - and definitely not interested in leaving for another assignment - but they can't just not reinstate him, right?

(You come back from the dead, you automatically get reinstated and get to pick your assignment - I'm pretty sure that's in the Starfleet regulations somewhere)

So they give him a promotion and put him in charge of the sector. Sisko doesn't want to overshadow Kira by staying on the station and possibly undermining her authority, so he puts his headquarters on Bajor - lives in his house in Kendra Province, transports to the capital for work.

And with a fair amount of downtime and no holosuites, what is Ben Sisko going to do for fun?

That's absolutely right - he's going to play baseball.

He goes full Field of Dreams and builds a baseball field at his house, and he talks the capital parks authority into making a diamond in one of the city parks near his office, so he can get a few cuts in at lunch.

At first, he's just got a robo-pitch machine throwing to him, though a few times a week, Jake comes by the house and they have a catch and some BP.

But then one day one of the younger kids playing at the park comes over and asks the Emissary if they can try hitting the "bean" (because it kind of looks like a big katterpod bean).

And Benjamin Sisko, Dad Extraordinaire and Baseball Lover Supreme, gives that big gleaming smile, says "You absolutely can", and gives that kid the best batting lesson he could possibly get.

It all goes quickly after that - more kids start showing up to play, a youth league develops in the capital; within a few years, there are youth leagues throughout the province, and in Kendra (playing at the Emissary's house is the highest goal of every kid on the planet).

The first adults to start playing organized games are the vedeks (baseball keeps popping up in orb visions, so they roll with it). The different orders start arranging games against each other.

By 2425, there's a worldwide professional league - the first commissioner, the retired Admiral Sisko, the Emissary, gives it its official name: Bajor League Baseball.

Bajor League Baseball

[afterartist]

Which ones Hikaru aah Twins

They did this solely because they know NO ONE will ever Believe Skywarp

(Soundwave is in on this trick btw, don’t be fooled, he encourages it)

Bonus frames :3

BONUS BONUS:

If you wanted to see the Twins harassing one of the other seekers (Starscream) check out my other post >:3

[magicpiano]

Bruce Wayne had a child that was somehow kidnapped right out of the hospital just hours after being born. He of them ever stopped looking despite how cold the trail had grown.

Years later there is some rouge attack and a civilian child was injured and taken to the hospital. Bruce does a DNA test on the blood found at the scene and concludes that the child is actually his long lost kid.

Dani was planning to sneak out of the hospital the moment the doctors stopped looking at her. Then Bruce Wayne of all people comes in and claims that she is his long lost child. She knows that this is very impossible because she is a clone, but Bruce won't listen to her and she really doesn't want to explain the clone thing to a "normal" stranger.

This does brings up a lot of questions about how Danny ended up living with the Fentons though.

[andsewingishalfthebattle]

Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.

Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU

[paraphwrites]

crystal says "guys who make gay jokes are the biggest pussies" at least half for charles and edwin. because, look, crystal isn't stupid. she knows edwin probably doesn't know all that much about queerness, and she knows that charles definitely has internalized something. and so she knows, in the back of her mind, that if she lets this slide, then edwin is gonna just accept that. i mean, why wouldn't he? so, yeah, she has to call it out, because edwin is clearly a raging homosexual, and crystal will sooner stab a bitch than let charles have even the slightest potentially harmful thing to say about it.

[aingeal98]

Imagine:

Cass and Ivy argument/conversation on plant lives

@but-a-humble-goon made a great post once that was basically Cass and Ivy standing over the body of a rich polluter Ivy killed and both of them just screaming "Why don't you CARE?" at each other. Really sums up the core dynamic they would have.

I do think that while Cass would never be able to be convinced that plant lives matter the way humans do, if Ivy can point out that the loss of plant life is killing humans? Yeah that would do the trick. Imagine she's trying to kill a billionaire who's destroying Gotham's conservation habitats to make houses and Cass is like killing is wrong! And Ivy's like oh you care so much about killing? What about the seventeen people who've suffered fatal illnesses due to pollution from HIS work? And Cass is like. What.

Cass: Why isn't he in jail?

Ivy: Because nothing he does is illegal.

Cass: Why not? He's killing people.

Ivy: Well he pays the people who make the laws. So they don't make any laws that can hurt him.

Cass:

Ivy: So can I kill him now?

Cass: Wait hang on. Let me try something.

Bruce, a few hours later, entering the cave and seeing Cass carefully building pipe bombs: Batgirl. What are you doing?

Cass: Oracle called it non lethal ecoterrorism.

Bruce:

[livinginadumpster]

WAIT YALL I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING

in hell there's an upside-down exit sign over the exit to the doll house. exit signs didn't exist when Edwin was alive so he would likely have assumed this sign was unique to hell.

then imagine his absolute terror when he saw an exit sign for the first time after he escaped.

[imperfectskeleton]

The kids battle morphs are so rooted in their personalities (as they should be)

So of course, let’s start with the bear. There are a lot of things important about the bear, but the most striking one on this read is its short sightedness in the heat of battle.

Rachel is eliminating distractions. So very Rachel, and both a help and a hindrance. It leads to occasional friendly fire when she can’t see right and wrong, but it also helps her lead others into battle, even when the case is she’s “[not brave], just blind.”

She says as she goes to acquire it, she can’t afford to be scared and have a normal life. Can’t worry about all of the options. She needs to fight the Yeerks.

The short sightedness paired with sheer aggression also makes Rachel and Tobias more dependent on one another. This book brings up a few times that Rachel can’t opt out when Tobias doesn’t even have one option of a normal life anymore. As far as the kids are concerned, the Ellimist weaponises the concept of Tobias having a happy family against them. So now Rachel has a protective morph to make up for Tobias’ fragility and Tobias is her eyes. (I’m pretty sure she’s blinded more than once in elephant morph too).

And bears are also famously protective. Mess with bear cubs, deal with mama bear. Mess with any animorph, you will deal with Rachel.

The elephant was still a good tanky morph of course. Incredible useful for protection, but more passive, protecting with bulk rather than attacking.

So let’s go for Tobias next. His father freed him from the life the Ellimist forced them to leave while also trapping him in it. Ungrounded, disconnected from humanity, with a different view of the world to the rest of humanity. Essential to the team because of his uniqueness (that’s true of all the animorphs actually). No good thing comes without a price.

Marco is holding onto humanity and normality. He’s also clever, and subtle, and the only one with thumbs a lot of the time. Plus, how else would he be able to drive?

Jake stumbled into an incredibly dangerous morph by chance and was lucky to escape unharmed. Initially the only apex predator of the group, he is also protective. As the series progresses, he needs skill and strategy - sure, as much as the others he has to cut out distractions and get the job done, but he also needs awareness of his surroundings and the ability to respond quickly to keep his team safe. It’s a very flashy morph that sets him apart from the group, and plenty capable.

Ax is his brother’s flag bearer. He’s the proxy of the Andalite military. He’s also proud, efficient, and like Marco, needs dexterity at times. Not having a battle morph sets him apart from the group, a reminder that he missed the animorphs’ initiation. An earth animal simply wouldn’t do him justice.

Cassie has the least flashy battle morph, and also possibly the least dangerous one. She’s there for her pack, not to do harm to others. And unlike Tobias, she is very grounded. Wolves and birds are both pretty traditional choices for humans in animal form, and Cassie and Tobias both have the most connection with something resembling real magic.

[cygnahime]

It is important, I think, to make your protagonists weird, even deranged, in some unusual direction. This is because doing so opens up a wild vista of bizarre actions for them to think are natural, some of which no one has ever done before and which have space for a protagonist of doing that.

Yes, you can have antagonists and mentors and prophecies shoving them unwillingly along at every step, but frankly the antagonist is overworked and does not have time to burn every peasant village the chosen one might be raised in. You can't collect taxes from smoking ruins!

Decide what you need your protagonist to do, and then create a character who will just Do That given half a chance. Saves a lot of effort all around.

[comradesummers]

i want so badly to know what the other parents at daycare think of maddie. like she must be friends or at least friendly with some of them what with playdates and the like. so do they know that maddie was just kidnapped by a serial killer? are they aware that this is her second kidnapping? how do they think she got the scar on her neck? the daycare parent gossip must be going crazy is all i'm saying.

[creampuffqueen]

outdoor cat people after hearing from every veterinary professional, ecologist, and caring pet owner in the world that they should keep their cat inside: but i can’ttttt 🥺🥺🥺 if i don’t let mr whiskers play unsupervised in the road for 18 hours a day he places a pipe bomb under my bed, i have no choice!! (the cat weighs eight pounds)

[awesomebutunpractical]

I changed my mind. No adorable cat for the Straw Hats. They are getting the World's Worst Raptor instead.

[kajaono]

Do you think they will kill Ethan?

[faunandfloraas]

im so glad im not the only person that looks at seungmin and goes "❓tism❓" bc he is Way Too Relatable to me as a person w autism

yeah..... like I say it in jest but also..... well, yk. sometimes you notice something and you notice something and you notice something and you go Hmmmm

[fuckinart]

(they'll never understand) How could I ever understand? No, I don't have to understand. I don't wanna understand. So I will never understand. (we could have everything)

[achillesisnotcomingdown]

Sure I strongly agree that saying Patrochiles (or any m/m duo from history/mythology) have to be lovers is reducing both the impact of the myths and platonic relations' potential. As well as shipping and fandom culture can get very annoying, especially when it actually touches history...

However, when discussing this kind of thing you can't leave out the fact that people have, for centuries, erased or diabolised every bit of queerness from history.

The mlm attraction is called Achillean bc his (possible) love with Patroclus is a proof that, thousands of years ago, there was queerness and queer love that wasn't perverse or immoral. We are not a product of the XXIth century nor a trend. We have always existed.

i personally prefer them as non romantic, but i do consider Achilles/Patrochiles as an undeniable and important symbol of queerness.