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[kingofthewilderwest]

hey psssst, gimme 3 and 4 in that ask game for Voltron, and maybe another fandom of your choosing for hornet's nest purposes XD

Fandom Ask Game

OH BOOYEAH HORNETS!!!! LET'S A-GO!

I don't know if I can successfully make spice for you, especially because I fear I'm mentioning ships you like, but we'll give honest answers. XD

3. VLD NOTP?

Lotura. By the time Lotor was a developed character in VLD, I'd been through DotU, Devil's Due, and other Voltron materials. How I see Lotura is colored by how their dynamics were set up across broader Voltron lore: a leetle lottle rapey.

Now. Let's be clear. I am open to people shipping or writing about anything (oh, here's spice for the crowd that I never thought I'd admit on tumblr main: if you asked me, I'd defend RPF slash). I think that fandom communities are in boon for tackling any and all topics. Shipping does not mean you are endorsing ethical frameworks... it means you like playing with a dynamic - and that can be any dynamic... because different dynamics are interesting in fiction and can be written for a variety of effects, purposes, colors, explorations, enjoyments, reflections, and ends.

But for me, VLD!Lotura shippers overall investigated it as a sincere ship. And I get that VLD Lotura is not DotU Lotor and Allura. I get that most haven't seen DotU. And I get that people can also reimagine characters any way they want - as more messed up or less messed up or so messed up a tornado is jealous of their destruction. But it means it vibes weird to me. I can't see past Lotor's weird sexual obsessions with Allura across the spans of Voltrondom, and that's not a thing I'm personally fawning over in a ship. But that's just me, and for all people who have a good time, please keep having your good time. ^.^

4. Is there a popular pairing you don’t necessarily dislike but aren’t too invested in?

These fall under the spectrum from "dislike" to "decidedly tepid."

Any ship with Pidge and any ship with Hunk that's not Hunk x Shay. My VLD ships have concentrated around characters like Keith, Matt, Shiro, and a little bit of Lance as a byproduct. But as someone who doesn't like everyone paired off, I tend to be rigid about wanting certain enclaves to remain gloriously platonic, as platonic is the end-all best-all type of relationship to me. There's a specific type of platonic dynamic that I like writing in all my works and that type of platonic dynamic is something I don't want tampered with when I find it in media I consume. So that means we don't touch the space engineers. Pidge and Hunk work endlessly great as a BROTP and I don't want that to change. Their BROTP is so, so, so good. I also headcanon Pidge rather ace-ly, so I just don't want her in a ship.

Also, Allurance. This is again colored by broader Voltrondom. I go in, Kallura has been the deal for decades, I like Kallura, they're friggin getting married in one comic I mean come on, I am preprogrammed to not think Lance and Allura could be an item. Showrunners changing the one canon relationship that's been around from the near-beginning would be wild, amirite? And yet they did. And there's nothing wrong with it! It doesn't bother me. It's cool they explored something new and kudos. But there was nothing in broader Voltrondom to make me care about it, nor did I find Lance and Allura's relationship compelling enough in VLD proper. I get why Lance and Allura connect up in VLD and it's fine, it's perfectly fine, it's just not sparking for me.

I have talked your socks off about VLD alone so I'll end it there, but feel free to poke me again if you want me to opine on another fandom. XD Whether or not people like my takes, I'll admit it's fun to acknowledge how I feel on these ones.

[peachdoxie]

5 Favourite Characters Poll (Tag Game)

Rules: make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favourite.

I was tagged by @gothiethefairy to do this so here goes!

Tagging @savioseal @mysterious-prophetess @that-cheer-up-anon @nonposter @lightraize

[thefuriousnightfury]

seems like discord is on the fritz like crazy. @kingofthewilderwest @fraulaina @cheyennekmcmullen @kingracer97 @shadow-academic @lightraize and whatever Jrhodson's is i dont remember lol. can anyone even do discord stuff at all sound off pls. where homies at

[kingofthewilderwest]

@lightraize

hey have you guys met my swiss nb friend Yodel, they/he, who -

[thatbanjobusiness]

Take a poke, buttface

Even though I literally have the book with this story on my computer (it’s from Jake Lambert’s biography of Lester Flatt), I’m typing this up from 100% memory, so don’t sue me if I get a detail or five wrong. And yes, this one’s long, NYEH. Deal with it. ;)

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The year was 1962. Flatt & Scruggs were about to hire a *｡★｡･:*✧ new band member ★.*✧･｡★. His name was Billy Powers. He was going to be hired to be both the band bus driver and a guitarist. And Billy was E X C I T E D. Boooom baby, he was going to be working FOR FLATT & SCRUGGS!!!!!

Well, the band was on their way to pick up Billy at an event to get his new illustrious career started. And unbeknownst to Billy, as the band was driving their bus to the event, they were discussing the very important matter of Conspiracy: How to give Billy the best most wholesome welcome they could... by means of a prank.

A songwriter friend, Jake Lambert, was on the bus, too. They realized Jake and Billy had never met before. Herein lay the key for their winning prank idea. Earl Scruggs suggested that Jake would pretend to be a reporter interviewing Billy for a newspaper article. Just in case Jake’s name had been passed around in music circles, they gave Jake a cover name... very inconspicuously moving the emphasis of his last name from the first to the second syllable. He was Jake Lam*BERT* now. Completely new person. Completely new identity. Nothing fishy about this at all.

Well. Billy was apparently excited and gullible enough to believe this random dude on the bus was a reporter coming to interview Specifically Billy. Billy was delighted at this interview opportunity. Not only would he be joining with an amazing band, but it would be talked about in the paper!!!

The prank was not immediate smooth sailing, though, because the band ended up having dinner with Fancy Prestigious People including the... governor... (I believe)... who then proceeded to ask Jake what he did with a living since he wasn’t a member of the band. Jake, seated right next to Billy, found himself in very hot water trying to bullshit the details of what his ‘job’ was in front of governmental leadership... before someone else in the band swept in for the rescue with a topic change.

With that close-call averted, Jake was able to take Billy into the bus for the interview. The bus had one section blocked off with a curtain, which is where Jake and Billy stepped behind. The rest of the band, wanting in on the action, sat on the other side of the curtain and leaned in and listened. At least as long as they could before they lost it laughing. Several band members had to leave the bus because they couldn’t hold it in. Flatt and Scruggs themselves resorted to stuffing towels in their mouth to dampen their laughter. Billy, unsuspecting, made it all the way through the interview, and when it was done, Earl Scruggs tried to make a fake show of being grumpy that it had “taken so long.”

Well. Obviously. A few days later. Billy Powers realized he’d been had. He laughed at how he’d been had, and then proceeded to spend the next few years of his life with the band.

Time passed. A real reporter came for Flatt & Scruggs, wanting to do an interview with each band member individually. Billy was inside, so a bandmate came to Billy to tell him the news that a person of a Certain Type Of Profession was out to interview him.

Billy, believing he dare not fall for this twice, delivered to his friends the well-worded message, “FuCK. yOU!!!!”

Everyone in the band except him ended up being interviewed for the article.

[kingofthewilderwest]

okokokokok last character bingo from me i swear but: Bill Monroe

Bruh, I love your prompts. XD Thanks for spamming!

I like doing Bill dirty. ;) that's what she said Bill Monroe is too easy to speak irreverently on! It's just because I love him! One of THE most characters of all time. Like how is that man even real?

[thefuriousnightfury]

@lightraize look

This unnamed Electric/Fighting Eeveelution was inspired by the explosive force of lightning strikes and the lightning-fast reflexes of martial artists and boxers.

Named: ? (Electric/Fighting)

#??? - On rare occasion, an Eevee can be affected by more than one environmental factor, and reacts to grow into a new, rare evolution. Electric/Fighting-type Eeveelutions are said to appear near stormy mountain peaks and high-energy battle zones, where they absorbs ambient electricity to fuel their strength. They are rapid, hit-and-run fighters that uses swift movement and electrified strikes, powered by intense internal bioelectricity. This gives it lightning-fast reflexes, allowing it to dodge and counter with startling precision. Wild individuals are known to challenge strong Pokémon in friendly sparring matches to hone their skills, often crackling with static when excited. Excess electricity manifests as glowing electrical bands along their legs. The brightness and activity level of these electric bands act as a visual cue for how much power they have built up, dimming when resting or conserving energy and violently sparking when energy peaks. Just before landing a punch or kick, these bands surge, supercharging the attack with a shockwave-like jolt. Calm, focused, and fiercely driven, these Eeveelution thrive on challenge and only bond with Trainers who are consistent, hardworking, and strong-willed. To evolve an Eevee into this Electric/Fighting-type, one must consistently train it in Fighting-type moves during thunderstorms or while within electrified terrain.

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[peachdoxie]

Tagged by @that-cheer-up-anon to do this iconic duo quiz thing! We got Mabel and Wendy!

Click the link to find out what iconic duo you and I are!

@mysterious-prophetess @wicked-ghoul @lightraize @nonposter @kingofthewilderwest

[moe-lazyeye]

Two Locations pt. 3 (botgd 2)

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Stonegit observed the scene and his eyes narrowed at the cloaked man. The last he needed was Egil to get hurt in the heat of an argument or be attacked by an unlikely assassin. He slung a small crossbow out from his coat and quietly loaded it from under the table. 

That said, the situation seemed innocent enough for now. Although he did find himself glaring at the sticky drink now dripping down onto various areas of the tavern. 

@furibotgd @lightraize @battleofthegroundeddungeon @hubwalker1

[grosutina]

Top 10 2019 albums

Tagged by @lightraize

TBH I am barely aware of half the things I've listened to, so here goes, in no particular order. Sicko mode: have only one Rome album on the list.

Konets Elektroniki - The End of Electronics

Witch Hunt - The Rites of Samhain

Various Artists - Dark Country 3 (helped me through some Times)

Blood and Sun - White Storms Fall (also helped me through Times but is absolutely the favorite)

Various Artists - Werewolf Songs (good shit)

Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - Hewers of Wood (GOOD SHIT)

The Dungeon Synth Archive's Winter Synth mix (two hours of snowy goodness and my introduction to the 2020 dungeon synth obsession)

Bjesovi - Bjesovi (helped me work through SOME STUFF. Pitch black.)

Rose Rovine e Amanti - Demian (hammy Italian neofolk)

Rome - Masse Mensch Material (earlier this year, good shit)

@vlodwassiliew , @cointelprole , @counttoatrillion , @stormed-just-once , @lupus-ex-machina , @punksleftshoe

[peachdoxie]

tags via @lightraize

Shitty Ianthe Tridentarius aesthetic: purple eyes, huh? does alexandria's genesis exist in the locked tomb universe. i know tamsyn muir saw that post

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Hey Frank, what's your favorite kind of cat?

What does one do with a "fucking cat" and what is the definition of "fucking cat"? I don't know

[kingofthewilderwest]

OKAY NOW FOR AN ACTUALLY FICTIONAL CHARACTER: Diane Nguyen! from Bojack. Horseman, obviously.

Good character! I feel I have thoughts on her but this board didn't bring them out.

[peachdoxie]

yo. unusual asks. 3, 11, 16, 21

3. rant. just do it

Okay so something that really pisses me off is when there’s a confrontation between two people and the person who was wronged continues to interact with the other people and borderline antagonize them? Like, I was looking through the Public Freakout subreddit today and there are so many people who get confronted by a racist person or whatever and then also call them names and argue with them?

Like??? What the fuck are they thinking? Continuing to argue with bigots is a futile effort. Telling them why they’re wrong isn’t going to work. Trying to get them to admit they’re wrong isn’t going to work. Insulting them isn’t going to work. All it will do is make them madder which will just escalate the situation further. And like, yeah, there’s some enjoyment in watching bigots get really pissed and lose control but also like....it’s not going to solve anything!

All continuing to antagonize bigots does is add fuel to the fire of 1) why they hate the people they’re bigoted against and 2) makes their victim complex even bigger. AND! It gives them a platform and a rallying point for OTHER bigots to find! It just makes all the divides in the country worse!

While I have sympathy for people who are attacked by bigots, I only have so much when they continue to goad the bigot in the first place. The ONLY solutions are to leave, shut up, or repeat the same non-insulting phrase over and over (the broken record method). It’s not an argument. Bigots want a reaction. The ONLY way to fight them without contributing to the cultural problems in this country are non-interaction.

And this also applies to internet arguments as well, because people will go on and on against a bigot. They’re not going to concede the point. It’s not a debate. Stop giving them a platform! If you feel you have to respond to them, do it ONCE and then move on.

Note: obviously, things can turn violent. Don’t fucking instigate the violence.

So many people are just fucking idiots when it comes to “shutting down” bigots or whatever the term is. The best shut down is non-interaction or deescalation.

11. what unusual talent do you have?

Honestly, I don’t think I have an unusual talents. The things that I’m good at are either common talents or skills that I have deliberately developed.

16. if you had to get a tattoo right now, what would you get and where?

The musical notation for the two main melodies of HTTYD played at the same time, tattooed on my left forearm (one of the cues I’m talking about is here.)

21. what’s a conspiracy you believe in?

Parts of the art trade among the uber rich are just money laundering schemes

[peachdoxie]

@lightraize

troll versions of gideon and harrowhark

im not actually sure about gideons blood color i just know its not in favor to her. also theyre pitch of course

[grosutina]

As seen on @bezakonik -describe yourself only in images you have saved on your phone

@stormed-just-once @vlodwassiliew @lightraize