#like i dunno -- depending on how it's phrased

[sugardollcurse]

hi! do you think you can do headcanons of the guys with an s/o who has a southern accent? it’d be so funny clashing with their liverpool accent

𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒏-𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓

꒰ pairing ꒱ paul mccartney x reader, john lennon x reader, george harrison x reader, ringo starr x reader

꒰ note ꒱ "ya'll" vs "lads"... ANYWAY HELLO I'VE GOT A SOUTHERN ACCENT TEW!!

꒰ JOHN ꒱

“You say that again, and I swear I’ll combust. D’you know what you sound like, love?”

He loves it.

Thinks it’s sexy, hilarious, and weirdly comforting.

Calls you things like “cowpoke,”

When you talk to strangers back home, he watches with awe.

“It’s like you’re speakin’ a different language,” he says, eyes wide.

That said, the clash is constant. You say “buggy,” he says “trolley.”

You say “coke” for any soda, and he’s like, “You want what?!”

“We’re gonna start a war with the way we talk,” he jokes, grinning.

But he always listens when you speak.

And when you get homesick? He does a terrible Southern accent just to make you laugh.

“Miss yer porch yet?”

You absolutely have miscommunications.

One time you said “fixin’ to” and he genuinely thought you meant you were repairing something.

“You’re fixin’ what?”

“No, I mean, I’m about to-”

“Well why didn’t you just say that?”

But he starts borrowing your sayings, throwing them into conversations just to make you laugh. “We’re fixin’ to leave, lads. Let’s go.”

꒰ PAUL ꒱

“You say things like molasses. Sweet and slow and hard to get outta your head.”

Paul is delighted by your accent. He finds it endearing, charming, and vaguely musical.

He leans in every time you talk, just to hear the curl of your vowels.

He especially loves when you say his name, “Paul” in your voice becomes “Paaawl,” and it drives him mad.

You tease each other constantly.

“Y’all alright?”

“Youse alright?”

He lives for the affectionate little phrases you use.

“If you keep talkin’ like that, I’ll do anything you say.”

When you visit your hometown, he asks a million questions.

“Do I have to eat grits?” “Why do you all wave to each other on the street?”

He starts using your phrases just to be cute.

Says it completely wrong and gets smacked for it.

He loves when you two blend accents in everyday life.

You say “supper,” he says “tea.” You say “y’all,” he says “you lot.”

Somehow, it works.

꒰ GEORGE ꒱

“Y’know, I reckon we confuse everyone when we talk. Good.”

It takes a minute for him to adjust when you two first meet.

He’s used to thick accents, sure, but yours is like molasses and light, and sometimes he has to ask you to repeat yourself.

“Wait, what was that? No, I’m not takin’ the piss, I swear. I just didn’t catch it.”

But once he does get it, he starts noticing the subtleties, when your accent gets stronger, or softer, depending on your mood.

He loves that.

George asks genuine questions about where you’re from, what it was like, what music played on the radio, how your voice got to sound like that.

Eventually, he picks up some of your phrases, quietly, without fanfare.

He kind of stereotypes you based off what he sees in movies.

He’ll tease you a bit, especially if you start sounding extra-Southern when emotional.

“Getting riled up, are we?” he smirks. “You sound like a banjo’s about to start playin’.”

꒰ RINGO ꒱

“I dunno what you just said, but it sounded sweet... so I’ll assume it’s nice.”

Ringo is delighted by your accent from the very first word.

“You’ve got such a nice voice. It’s all... soft an’ sunny. Like a radio show I’d fall asleep to.”

He grins every time you open your mouth.

“I mean it! You could read the phone book to me.”

The two of you absolutely have conversations where neither of you understands the other for a full 30 seconds.

He's like John with the miscommunications thing.

“I said I’m fixin’ to go.”

“You’re... what now? Fixin’ a toe?”

“No, I mean I’m about to go!”

“Ohhh! Right. Mad.”

He’ll try to imitate your accent and it’s terrible.

But he’s so earnest about it you let him get away with it.

He gives you cute nicknames that sound funny in his accent

He starts inventing phrases he thinks sound southern. You threaten to kick him. He thinks it’s adorable.

“Do I get points for effort?” he asks, pulling you into a hug.

“No,” you mutter into his chest.

“That’s fair.”

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[dereks-unrelenting-heart]

SFTH Chaotic Highlights (Lost In Your Eyes)

Commentary of the 3rd longform play, I feel like I said a lot more than I anticipated about this one. So I'm sorry or you're welcome, depending how you see it

A large part of me believes Tom chose this title purely to spite the 'absolute specimen of masculinity' in the audience lmao

We're not watching these in order, but it was while watching this video that my mom asked why 'so many of their plays are about war or being lost at sea'. This was followed by watching The Leftenmost Window so.. her point definitely wasn't disproven

Amanda off to a bold start by immediately slapping her mother in the face

Also istg these guys choose either the most common or most random fucking names, and there's never any in between. Here we've already gotten the perfect examples of 'Amanda' and 'Tarquin'

"The sea is a big place" "He was only going to France" ".. Maybe he went the long way around" I can't hear this and not just think 'ah yes, just like Christopher Columbus (probably smoking crack /ref)'

The passion in the way Luke says the word SMUGGLER

"Well of course we won't find someone as freakishly tall as Tarquin" *smug eye contact with Tom offstage* Love that they chose Tom's character for him there, that's funny as hell

Luke/Amanda's mom being continuously incapable of saying 'Addis Ababa'. I added the slash because I'm not quite sure when it stopped being Luke and started being a character choice

"If the law is unjust, is it unjust to break it?" "... I don't like riddles, Amanda" Love when the boys get political-

Mother gets her revenge (slight delayed reaction to being called a bitch, but it counts)!

"They're basically an occupying army of the rich and upper class, enforcing on the working man what they can and can't do while they all gallivant around" "Oh you fucking commie, Amanda" Love when the boys get political-

It sounds like maybe Tom walked 40 minutes through a broiling heat wave because the Angel tube station was shut. And he might have skipped lunch as well. I think maybe he's bringing a lot of reality into this scene guys-

"We're here together! Doesn't that inspire you?" Oh, three men on a ship, we used to be fifty-four-" Impeccable comedic timing Luke

"I told you to tie Rogers down!" Leave Rogers alone, his only flaw is an allergy to singing.. rip Rogers.. *insert AJ's incorrect sign of the cross*

"I used to have someone.. Penelope!" Od- ... Odysseus? Ody buddy is that you?

"But she always used to like to swim, so.. I'm happy for her, you know?" She died how she lived - In the sea

"And I used to have long, flowing locks" "I wasn't-" "You looked directly at my head" You absolutely did Tom, you can't deny that

The cop date being the most obnoxious man in existence did not go unnoticed by me

"The French, they're very difficult. Here, look- Can we get a fuckin', uh, menu" *Luke shoots a look at the audience before silently walking away* "See what I fuckin' mean?"

Amanda, on the verge of tears: "If someone were to go to France and not return on time, what do you think would've- would've happened to them?" Cop, apathetically: "Dunno darlin', do you want the um-" AJ's delivery kills me here, he really couldn't give less of a fuck about this hypothetical scenario

"Your knowledge of the French is very charming" *Cop immediately pawns the question off onto Luke's character who he previously said he didn't trust*

He just really fucks up the phrasing of it too

"I didn't catch your name" "I did not give it" I know it's a basic joke but I immediately thought of the Heathers musical

"It's just as well I'm not talking to you!" Have I mentioned I love Luke's character in this scene? So few words and yet the sass is unmatched

Also the irony of AJ saying he can't understand the French guy is not lost on me

"Just west of north Africa" "Are you sure?" "Yeah- Yes actually I am. I am sure." Love when you just know it's not the character talking anymore, it's just Luke

"Do you believe in true love?" "Yes I do.." "Not me and you-" These two can't go one play without flirting with each other, whether the plot calls for it or not

Similarly, is it even a SFTH play if Sam and Luke don't kiss at least once, whether the plot calls for it or not-

"Oh I stabbed you with my gun" And so begins a great running joke

And I am genuinely disappointed Luke's French waiter died, these guys have a way of making me care about the fates of characters I've only known for a minute or so

Absolute gibberish from AJ as he searches his mind vault for the same accent

At least Tarquin didn't leave Odyss- I mean Belly-Boots hanging for that hug

Remember what I said about liking to see AJ get a chance to show off his French in OMGITAJ? Well it also applies to Luke getting to speak fluent Spanish as the random guy from the Canary Islands

Luke: *is the most friendly guy ever, welcoming them to the islands* Tarquin: "I think he's threatening us"

Seriously idk if it's just my bias, but why are Luke's minor characters so likeable in this one, this is the 3rd of his guys that I've gotten attached to in an insanely short amount of time

I've watched this play like 5 times and I still don't fully know what's going on with the languages here. I think they decided Belly-Boots was just suddenly understanding Luke, but I have no idea what the original plan was

A minute later and none of the characters know what's going on either, and they're all confusing each other

The fact even Sam was caught off guard by Tom's accent(?) for the guy on the Petit Flo

"Tarquin who?" ".. Tarquin Rockhard" I actually don't know if Sam did this on purpose or if he did forget Tarquin's exact surname and used an innuendo to cover it up. Either way seems pretty believable

Classic 'AJ inserting himself into the scene' moment, of the 'random animal' subgenre. A shame that Bobo dies moments later, only breifly walking on water before succumbing to the depths of the Non-English ocean

Pirate Dude: "It's your ship now, my lady" Definitely Sam and not Amanda: "What?"

"The heat's had an effect on me.. Should've had lunch" This man better have gotten food right after the show, he's clearly starving

Amanda: "Have you sailed in her?" Tom, a perfect 90 degree angle: "Clearly."

AJ's little "Hello?" after Tom doesn't respond to him always kills me-

Singing allergies, a horrible way to go 😔

"You already had it poured-" "I knew you would come" I have recorded evidence from less than a minute ago that you did not know he would come

"You can never go home" Fuck did he drug Tarquin? "It's- it's strong stuff, isn't it?" Oh fuck he drugged Tarquin "What have you put in this drink?" *collapses* OH FUCK HE ACTUALLY DRUGGED TARQUIN

The Canary Island guide has heavy NPC energy and I'm living for it

"He's tall, he's handsome, and he looks a little bit like Superman" At least he didn't add on 'with a wasting disease' this time

"A perfect place to find one's true love-" "You're looking for true love?" "NOT YOU" Sam you can't really blame him when you keep directly flirting with every one of his characters

"We met once at a Christmas party" That joke has no right to be this funny, but it just leads me to so many questions and gives me answers to none of them- Why was there a smuggler Christmas party like it's a fucking office job? Did everyone bring their non-smuggler partners? Does Amanda's mom know this party even happened?

AJ changing his character's lie from 'he's dead' to 'he never left' to 'he killed so many animals' in the span of like 20 seconds. Absolute cinema

"I've got a gun and I'm not afraid to stab you" "I've also got a gun, there's a man lying comatose on my floor, what the fuck is going on here?" The icon returns

"His accent never stays the same!" In-Universe callout

"How did you shoot him with your gun?" Phenomenal

Sam taking any opportunity to mime-spit on his friends, even as his character is actively dying

Amanda dying is actually crazy though, no happy endings here-

But you know what, thank god the guide survived, I don't think I could handle 3 Luke characters dying in one play

Final Thoughts: Luke plays almost every minor character in this one, half of them die, and all of them are iconic.

[narrators-journal]

Yandere Stano headcanons

Have some more dr. stone content! I was originally gonna separate all of this into, like, three different posts, but I decided to squash em all together to save you guys some time lmao. So, this might be a bit jumbled? But I hope it’s still fun to read! Also, yes, this is a dual-yandere premise, but I also threw in some stuff about them as separate yans. If you see me split this up to go further in-depth, <3

SEPARATE

As separate yandere, Xeno and Stan are already pretty nightmarish.

Stanley Snyder is a marine sniper, he’s physically very powerful, intimidating, and experienced with killing.

Xeno, meanwhile, is a sadistic mad scientist who may or may not have morals depending on the alignment of the stars and the day of the month.

Stan is very much the type of yandere to shoot your boyfriend/best friend in front of you to prove a point.

He is not a very kidnap-happy yandere. Stan’s more the type to just keep you in line with vibes.

Xeno, meanwhile, is the type of yandere who would kidnap you quickly and proceed to use you as a scientific guinea pig.

Those factors don’t change, no matter the context of the yandere.

Platonic, Romantic, neither cares. Stan will still kill people in front of you to prove a point, Xeno will still experiment on you.

Stanley, on his own, isn’t a very forceful yandere? I dunno how to phrase it, but he doesn’t yell, he doesn’t argue. The bulk of what gets his darling to obey is his intimidation factor and simple threat. When he tells darling to do something, it usually has the weight to ensure you do it.

He’s a little cold, but he’s also very capable of giving affection and love to his darling.

Xeno, on the other hand, is fucking cruel.

He’s strict, experiments on his darling, would degrade them, and is very prone to getting so into work that he barely acknowledges his darling’s existence, let alone gives them affection.

Don’t think that being separate makes them easier though! Xeno will drug a darling easily, and while they might not share a darling, both will help the other keep their own.

They are mutual enablers in that sense. That’s the risk of childhood friend types being yandere. Though, admittedly, the biggest threat would be Xeno.

AKA, Stanley snyder’s darling has the worse chance of escape, because Stanley might take pity and let Xeno’s darling go. Xeno would not, and would in fact give his best friend a slew of drugs to keep you under control.

TOGETHER

If Stan and Xeno are nightmarish separately, they are a whole new level of fear when put together.

Stan’s experienced in sneaking around and tracking people, so he’d definitely be the one sent to observe and report back to Xeno about you.

He’s also the one who can best read people. Not because he’s some master of socialization like Gen is, but because he simply has more experience with how people behave, react, and feel than Xeno does.

Xeno, meanwhile, is something of the yandere mastermind. He’d be the one to single you out as ‘special’ and lock onto you as their ‘darling.’

Granted, if Stan doesn’t want you, they wouldn’t go after you. Xeno can convince his best friend of a lot, but Stan also knows damned well that Xeno wouldn’t hurt him. So, if he doesn’t want to do shit, he’s not gonna do shit.

That being said, Xeno is definitely the aggressor. Between them

He’s cruel as hell, backhanding, spitting at you, insulting you, he’s the type to do that.

Which, you’d think means him and Stan wouldn’t get along. Stanley’s scary, but he’s not the type to jump to harming his darling. But, his best friend is the opposite. Xeno over-compensates for the fact that he’s not as scary as Stan by being a shit ton meaner and quick to harm.

Yet, they’re the opposite. Their contrast makes them work better.

Stanley’s more level head keeps Xeno’s crueler tendencies in line, he helps his friend see the holes in his plans with his knowledge of people and the calmer thought process Stan brings to the table.

In exchange, Xeno’s more cunning and book smart. What Stanley lacks in terminology and study, Xeno makes up for.

AKA, Stan knows how to break the bone, Xeno knows exactly where to ensure your artery isn’t nicked.

When together, Stanley is effectively Xeno’s enforcer. He’s the muscle.

Xeno, meanwhile, is the commandant. He aims Stanley and gives him the step-by-step instruction on who to harm and how.

So, together? Stano makes one hellish pair of yanderes.

[bog-mummies]

yapping at length about stuff that nil says in zero dawn (i do not have his transcript for forbidden west. if anyone has that then HMU pleaseeee). a lot of my analyses may seem like a stretch but please just trust me. hold my hand. these are all from when aloy first meets him, and when she clears devil's thirst.

"Yes, yes, yes, trespass is forbidden on pain of death… Strange phrase, the pain of death. See, this one’s in no pain at all."

i like his little "yes yes yes". iirc he displays similar repetitive speech patterns later on and i find it very endearing. also, he's prone to philosophizing. based on his (likely) previous status as a kestrel and just the way he speaks and carries himself, i headcanon that he 1. came from a noble, or at least well-off/respectable family and 2. is well-educated and well-read. i think in another world he could've been a poet

2. "A thief, a slaver, a killer– the kind that give honest killers a bad name."

he sees himself as different, even though we *definitely* know that he's a killer, and was probably previously a slaver (or at least complicit in the enslavement of non-carja). dunno about thievery, but to his credit he doesn't seem like the stealing type to me (i'd imagine he sees it as beneath him. he's proud). anyway, he rationalizes his violence by framing it as more *civilized* than the shit bandits do. i think it's that carja exceptionalism he was probably raised with that's poking thru - he *cares* about honor. he cares about being civilized. it's important to him that he can justify what he does. he may come across as entirely amoral, but that's not really true. he does have convictions, he does believe in things other than violence, even if it's not immediately obvious.

3. (referring to a corpse) "This one and I just need a moment longer. To reflect on all we’ve been through."

i just think this is funny. he's such a freak.

4. "Call it a shared interest. And call me Nil."

there are multiple circumstances in which you can meet him for the first time, and he *always* introduces himself like this. "call me nil", not "my name is nil". i think this tiny difference is an intentional choice on his part - he is very explicitly *not* claiming that it's his name. Nil obviously not his original name, but does he even believe in names at all? i don't think he ever refers to aloy by her name in HZD - just calls her "huntress". personally, i like to think that he never learns her name until after he asks to duel. i headcanon (and this may just be projection) that nil prefers *titles* (or maybe nicknames) to names. a name is just a... sound, but a title is what you *are*. aloy is a huntress. nil is nothing (not true, but that's how he wants to perceive himself). and when he becomes "red teeth" in forbidden west, that's also a title, kind of. i'm not sure if it's something he chose, but it's still descriptive and meaningful. it's a nickname based on the mask he wears to hide his face, to hide the fact that he's carja - possibly even to hide the fact that he is *specifically* the scary-ass bloodthirsty carja from the red raids, depending on how well-known he was (spicier if it's the latter). it's based on his deliberate rejection of his past and identity, of his choice to assimilate into a foreign culture after being carja all his lifeo. it's not *just* a nickname - it's a symbol of the death of his previous identity. it mirrors how he likely changed his name after leaving sunstone rock, to reject his previous identity as a soldier, to become *nothing*. except this time, he's not nothing. he's a mask, a mystery, but he's still someone, and i think that's significant. because.

5. "Look there- those old rocks? A bandit clan squats under them. Disturb the rocks, and they’ll come wriggling out, (turns back to Aloy) worms that they are."

more of him reducing bandits to something lesser, something inhuman. more of him saying "i am not like that. i am *better* than they are."

6. "My partner and I shadowed these scum for days. Good tracker, but he went on ahead without me. We’d talked about this kind of behavior."

he never actually names his partner. significant? perhaps. perhaps not.

7. "Still, I understand. Leave it too long, your fingers itch for the bowstring."

i struggle a bit when it comes to analyzing his relationship with violence. a common interpretation i see is that for nil, sex and violence are intertwined. and i can see that (he does have a *lot* of suggestive dialogue), but i prefer a different interpretation: that he engages in violence *in place* of sex. i don't quite know how to put it into words, but i think that violence for him fulfills a similar purpose as sex (i headcanon him as ace <3). it provides him with both physical and emotional catharsis, and nil, to some degree, also sees violence as a form of intimacy (see also: some of his fight dialogue). i don't have any evidence that explicitly supports my interpretation over the other one, i just think it's more interesting this way.

8. "Trust is a rare egg to find, isn’t it? I’m just a traveler, with a bow, a concern about the state of these lands, and a missing partner."

something something "i'm nobody" something something. it's subtle but he's kind of diminishing himself here. not like, putting himself down, but making himself seem like less of an individual, less of a person. and aloy notices, and calls him out on it! "i don't think you're 'just' anything at all". and then he deflects, avoids talking about it. man it pisses me off how much he deflects and avoids talking about his past (i need to know literally everything about you and you are making it DIFFICULT for me. fuck you and fuck your stupid headdress and double-fuck your dumb haircut).

9. "And if you’re the heroic kind, who needs a little extra– there’s the captives."

implicitly distancing himself from heroism. more of that "im nothing im nobody i dont believe in anything" bullshit

10. "Feels good, doesn’t it? Hold it inside you one last breath, then let it out."

is this aftercare? discuss.

11. "They killed him. I hardly feel surprised. He was already getting cocky when we carved through the last bandit camp. I thought he and I were agreed: only enjoy the killing as much as the challenge. (he shrugs) No great loss. Nothing in the wilds I can’t handle, just me and the Voice of Our Teeth here."

distancing himself from personal relationships and ties to other people. back on his bullshit again. i do like his whole disaffected vibe tho, it's fun. i think it's interesting that he named his bow though - it's useful, it's (presumably, based on the fact that it looks like it has a mishmash of stuff from a bunch of different tribes) been with him for a while (almost certainly during the red raids), and most importantly, it's a tool for killing. violence is central to his identity, so he feels comfortable attaching himself to the tool he used, and continues to use, for violence. and he names it. y'all know how i feel about nil and names, so this is significant. i don't exactly know *how* it's significant, but i know that it is. idk im sleepy.

12. "They wrong us all. They live filthy lives, so they have to die that way, too."

see: 5 and 2.

13. "No, no– for sport. I can’t wait for wars any more: life’s too short, and the thrill of death too sharp. If you kill a tribesman, there’ll be retribution. Hunt a boar, they complain if you waste the meat. But bandits? They’re vicious. They always put up a fight. And no-one cares if you kill them."

a practical solution to his bloodlust. but it shows that he *does* care about honor (carja stuff again), that it matters to him that he does things the "right" way. i'm not sure it's really about right and wrong, more about clean and unclean. he'll challenge aloy to a duel, but he won't shoot her in the back. he'll slaughter civilians for sun-king jiran, but he won't kill innocents when there's no war to justify it. there's something there, i think.

i have a huge blind spot when it comes to nil and it's whatever the fuck he's got going on with aloy. like obviously she's a killing machine and he's enamored because of that but like. is that really *it*??? it cant be. but i suck at romance and analyzing romantic relationships so unfortunately i do not Get It™️

niloy stuff aside, i might add more onto this later. i've only really gotten out like a third of what im thinking (esp his whole deal with being carja, how his experience as a soldier for the sundom affects his relationship with violence, etc etc. and also the thing with his bow and his dealio with names. and why he seems to reject his past and personal identity so much. and common fan theories about him) but i just dont know how to put it into words.

also also also. if you liked this then you should also read this fic: 

Daylight - Anosrepasi - Horizon (Video Games) [Archive of Our Own]

because it's a very good character study on the little freak

[nightmaricwriter]

I have a question. Does the healing spell in my potential magic system for Stars of the Sky seem too overpowered in Chapter Eleven of A Court of Death and Ruination? She used the weakest healing incantation in the system to restore a faerie's wings, but she had to repeat it many times over to fully do so.

The magic system is based on intent within phrases, with more concentrated intent being more powerful-meaning less phrases, the more intent could be poured into each phrase. Meaning if Hades had only intended to stop the bleeding, it wouldn't have needed more than one or two uses, but because she needed more intent to restore wings, she repeated it quite a few times.

I don't want the system to be unbalanced/overpowered despite the variations in its effects and how it works between different users. If it were an Apollo-Named using the incantation, they'd be able to use a stronger one with greater effects and less repetition due to having a direct affinity to healing. Hades might have stronger healing affinity due to the rule of opposites-affinity for destruction gives bonus to creation, affinity to death gives bonus to life, affinity for water gives bonus to fire, affinity for earth gives bonus to air, etc.-but she doesn't have enough of an affinity to use the stronger healing incantations.

I dunno.

Imma tag the tag list so they can answer sooner since they are most likely to have read it :> Feel free to comment why you chose the answer you do! I want feedback!

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[real-fire-emblem-takes]

Finally. Here is me rating how good the Golden Deer are at sex.

Claude - this is a man who is solid at sex. Capable in terms of skill, probably reasonably versatile. Maybe similar to Edelgard in that unless he trusts you a lot he's not letting his guard down enough to bottom. 8/10

Hilda - Idk why but I feel like it depends on your gender? I just feel like if you're a woman you'd have more fun than if you're a man. Despite a lot of the shit she does she very much so feels like a girl's girl and I think that extends to having sex with women. 8/10 for women 6/10 for men.

Lorenz - LMAO so he's a tryhard. Like Ashe and Ingrid. And Ignatz, who will come up later. But he's a tryhard in a completely different way. He is SO annoying in bed like he will NOT shut up. It comes from a good place, it's a whole lot of "is this good? Do you like this? Do you feel good?" only phrased more elegantly, and he genuinely does care, but he's very annoying about it. Also he got all of his knowledge of sex from secret yaoi smut he keeps under his bed and only reads at the dead of night so he has somewhat unrealistic expectations. 4/10

Marianne - she's... fine? I think she'd be fine enough as a sub (but you better be nice to her) and I can see her domming if she's able to build the confidence slowly. 6/10.

Ignatz - he's a tryhard. Somewhere between Ashe and Ingrid on it-- I think he's reasonably stiff at first but he warms up eventually... and that dex growth lol... So once he's fully into it he's probably decent! I think he leans towards either subbing or like, no power dynamics at all, but you can probably get him to dom. He'll just need about 10 months to prepare for it. He also probably stops to stare at you a lot which is flattering but really annoying after a while. 5/10 I think.

Raphael - Really not my type so I dunno but I think he'd be decent! Very enthusiastic and cares a lot about how you're feeling. Might occasionally do things too hard even though he's being very very careful but no serious injury would result from it (L Dimitri once again!) so you'd both be fine. Afterwards he keeps you in his arms just kinda hugging you real tight. 7/10.

Lysithea - I feel weird making sex headcanons about her even though this is obviously all timeskip. But like. I think she'd probably have read on the subject and insists that she take the lead then fumbles like immediately. But she'd get it together I think. 6/10.

Leonie - she'd be solid! Quick learner, good enough technical skill, enthusiastic, maybe somewhat concerningly nonchalant about the whole thing. There'd be some mistakes but you'd both laugh them off and have a good time! 8/10.

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[maumausie]

Me looking at David Walker (he’s just like me fr)

Anyyways thinking about how different the Brainwashed Protags (Mason, Bell, Case, and Logan) were, y’know, brainwashed.

Like Mason’s brainwashing was more rudimentary, but pretty effective with the numbers.

It almost reminds me of the water drip torture method (often referred to as Chinese Water Torture) for some reason. As far as I can remember, no drugs were canonically used in order to achieve his brainwashing.

Bell’s brainwashing was really rushed, and resulted in lots and lots of amnesia. Implanted memories, drugs, the works (and I’ve already gone into depth about my thoughts on that in this post).

Despite that, I’d say his was the most effective. His trigger phrase worked, no pesky real memories coming through until Adler started poking at him.

Case’s brainwashing was the second most effective as far as I can tell.

He’s physically incapable of speaking about the Cradle and what was done to him. Similar to Bell, I assume that drugs were use to achieve the amnesia aspect (I suspect a large amount of benzodiazepines had a hand in that, and possibly narcotic painkillers if the Cradle experiments were painful as I expect they were in addition to the hallucinogens).

However, unlike Bell, he has these “episodes” where he kind of freaks the fuck out for a second. Mostly about the Cradle but also when Adler tells him to kill that guy who I can’t remember the name of right now. It’s also mentioned that he was violent and unstable, hence why it’s only second-best.

And as for Logan… we just don’t know.

I assume that they plan to use the same method as they did for Rorke, which is sort of similar to Bell’s brainwashing. He mentions the pit, but also weakening his body with exotic poisons, and then continuing the brainwashing from there. Like they said in the game, Rorke had been viciously, ruthlessly, loyal to the Ghosts. He was THE Ghost, some would’ve said. But right before he was taken by the Federation, he was betrayed (at least in his eyes) by Elias and by extension, the Ghosts as a whole. Logan never got that little push.

If he does end up brainwashed in the sequel (shhhh I’m manifesting), I think it would take a lot longer for him to break. Or at least I think he’d be the easiest to snap out of it. It really depends on the other Ghosts (especially Hesh). I feel like a Cain and Abel dynamic would be super cool to explore with them, but I also feel like that’s just not their dynamic, you know? If anyone could help Logan out of it, it’d be Hesh.

It also depends on the technology of the Federation. They probably learned a lot not only from Rorke, but potentially other POWs captured during the war.

I dunno 😞 I just think about my sillies (traumatized brainwashed military men) a lot.

[seeminglydark]

I dunno if the question list you reblogged is open for asks but if it is I’m curious about 8, 9, and 19 thanksss

it is! Since you didn't specify which two characters I'm going to assume Caro and John cuz I feel like thats who most ask about, if I'm wrong just send a follow up and Ill answer again haha!

number 8: How do they communicate with eachother? Are there any reoccurring phrases or gestures unique to their relationship?

Oh my god, this ones fun cuz I feel like their method of communication is ALWAYS unique to eachother. As children, Caro learned to sign to communicate with johnny, since he was pretty speech delayed, and then shy and quiet. They both communicate this way throughout their lives and relationships as a kind of secret language. As teens he actually did have a pay as you go flip phone, and they also had walkie talkies that they could use through the walls, their rooms were on the same wall so technically only a few yard between them. As adults, Caro calls him at the cafe, or he calls them from the cafe to the Gasco on the nights they are working. As far as how, Caro teases a lot, and John is soft, talks to them a bit like they are a scared animal. They communicate a lot with looks, Caro wears their emotions on their face and he can read them like a book. They read his eyebrow language, he is more guarded with expression but you can tells what hes thinking by the twitch of a brow. Just the nicknames as far as reoccurring phrases, Ponyboy and Angel. No one else calls either of them those names.

number 9: What is one quality they have in common?

Distrust. They both have fortresses built up around them. Lousy at communication.

number 19: Are they satisfied with their relationship? Do they wish they were closer/more distant?

HA well. No. Caro wishes they could be with him MORE. They miss him, they love him, they want him to come on their trips and be with them. They want to marry him and love him and be his person forever. They just don't tell him that. Which means he is also not satisfied. He is under the impression hes just a friend with benefits/soft place to land. He assumes they have many other lovers too, and hes maybe high up on the ladder of favorites but he actually doesn't realize he's their one and only. Or even a real boyfriend. He wishes he was. He wants to marry them and love them and be their person forever. This might be Caros fault for being too closed off. This might be his fault for being too co-dependent. hopefully they can work that out.

[valve3nthusiast]

I am so stupid into Prowl, I've written an absolutely obscene amount about him. I'm attracted to the competence but I am. Also a freak about pussy. I'm just so so into the idea of Prowl fucking semi-casually, or having a sparkling or two when combat dies out (isn't safe, otherwise, and he's not stupid enough to risk that.) And just. Nonetheless continuing to be the object of nightmares. He can be a decent carrier, enjoy interface, but I fully believe he is simultaneously ready to tear someone's fucking throat out with his denta.

I just... competence kink, alright? Sometimes, competence happens to be extreme violence. He might've killed one of his sparklings sires, might've ditched them somewhere they'd never be able to find him again, dunno, depends how familiar they are to him.

I like the phrase 'fucked stupid' but I. Do not thing he's the one being fucked stupid. He's probably having a great time!! But he's like. Also still doing work. It really depends on whether or not he likes who he's fragging and if they deserve his attention.

IM JUST. INTO HIM. I usually have personal issues with daddy/mommy kink stuff, but. Idk. He might be a MILF.

I keep trying to figure out how to answer this but when I think of Prowl being both terrifying and attractive at the same time my brain just starts yelling BLACK WIDOW PROWL BLACK WIDOW PROWL BLACK WIDOW PROWL

Do I mean "black widow" as in a woman that kills the men she marries, or as in the spider that is commonly said to eat its mate? Yes.

When not imagining Prowl as a wet cat little meow meow he is so black widow coded. Like every time I see the comic panels where his design has that red highlight on his crotch that's always the first thing I think of. Tarantulas fumbled a glorious opportunity to make Prowl even sexier by not turning him into a spider tbh

[crepesuzette2023]

What We Need Is A Schedule

After the fun and games of one year ago, John and Paul are no longer fooling around. Lennon & McCartney talk about their job, songwriting. from THE BEATLES BOOK MONTHLY, No. 33, June 1966

JOHN: Now that Paul's back from his holidays, we're getting ready to do quite a bit of recording. We have to get two songs for a new single in the next couple of weeks and we've got to start work on another LP album. That means we want nearly twenty new numbers- allowing for a couple of spare ones in case something doesn't really work out when we get in the studio.

PAUL: I think song-writing is like any other kind of writing. You tend to put it off until somebody tells you it has to be finished by a particular date.

JOHN: When we're on our own and we think of an idea for a song, the main thing is to get it down so that it isn't forgotten. Words you can write on bits of paper but it's not that easy with a tune. We've found the best way of all is to use a tape recorder.

PAUL: With a tape you can put on the voice and add bits of guitar and things later when you get a good idea in your mind for a guitar phrase or an introduction.

JOHN: And it doesn't really matter if you haven't got all the lyrics worked out. You can just hum or go "la-la-la-la" for the bits you haven't written yet.

PAUL: Then John and I get together and play over the tapes we've made.

JOHN: Paul's much more of an expert about recording his songs. Some of his tapes are fantastic--they're dubbed and everything so that you get the full group sound--not like mine which are just my own voice and one guitar.

PAUL: Just like any other kind of writing, it's impossible to walk about doing other things and suddenly say to yourself "Ah, l've got a song coming on. Here it comes now" and rush to your tape recorder.

JOHN: I dunno. Sometimes you can start off a new song like that. It depends.

PAUL: We've been talking about this and we've decided we ought to force ourselves to arrange days for songwriting together in advance.

JOHN: It's too easy to put it off if we just meet without any plan and say "Shall we write something today?". If you do that you feel as though you're losing a free day. What we're going to do is make dates beforehand and sort of say "Right Wednesday and Friday of this week are for songwriting. And Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week". Then we'll know it's something we've to keep to.

PAUL: We'll try to fix times and keep to them. Get into a room with guitars and a piano and a tape recorder and work things out.

JOHN: I said at the start we would need twenty new numbers. Actually, both of us have some half-started stuff which needs finishing. Some of Paul's tapes are almost complete too. We'll probably get five or six songs out of these and then begin thinking up new ones.

PAUL: One of the only real differences between the way we prepare for recording sessions now and the way we did it years ago is that we know more about recording techniques.

JOHN: Earlier on we'd go into the studio and George Martin would say after he'd heard something "Well, that's going to be O.K. but why don't you try putting a so-and-so in there." And he'd suggest an organ sound or double-tracking on something. Now we know just how much can be done in the studio we can think up new sounds and different instruments to use before a session.

PAUL: Means we should get more done at a session.

JOHN: Ah, I've got a song coming on. Here it comes now!

PAUL: Right! Let's get back to work.

Photos accompanying the taped "interview" (J & P talking to tape recorder)

[front-facing-pokemon]

koraidon is my best friend. my beast. his name is sandwich and i never make him fight ever if he doesn't have to. i yelled at all the characters for insisting he fight. he's a special little sandwich boy.

well! i've. certainly missed out on a lot. let's get through all these

number one! sandwich is a perfect name for a koraidon. the special little sandwich boy

now, everything else:

i. only caught this after everybody ragged on me for not getting it. i dunno HOW i failed to pick up on this but, yes, i've got it now

actually, i was just about to make a proper post asking what i should do with the blog (since i queued up the final pokémon in the natdex yesterday) so i will keep this one on the list of suggestions (hopefully. if i don't then remind me and feel free to drop it in the comments of the post i make abt it)—although there is one option that's at the forefront of my mind..!

this killed me on the spot when i first got this ask. incredible. i queued up iron boulder a few days ago (obviously since i have queued up every single pokémon in the national pokédex by now) but this is funny. be proud

you did yes. that's some commitment. rather powerful especially since i don't think they can even breed. not sure if they can show up in outbreaks though

this is a theory i'm hearing about for the first time from all of you, and it's one that i do quite like. although saying "until you start thinking about it for half a second" feels like you're accusing me of not thinking about it for half a second? probably not but damn. ouch! either way i think this makes sense. i feel like it wasn't explained in game very well at all

POWER CREEP THE POKÉMON YEEEAAAAHh

oh i just call most pokémon "little guys." i quite like the phrase "little guy" and use it to describe most creatures

oh yeah. especially with all their names being nearly identical just "iron (noun)" i feel like their designs are super boring compared to the past paradox 'mons. makes me wish i got scarlet instead

i would, but i doubt tumblr will let me post them, for one, so you'd have to DM me—and for two, they're in trmdl format. whether or not you'd be able to actually manipulate them (or even render them) depends on the software you're using. your mileage may vary

and now, the many, many nose ratings i've missed:

PHEW!! that was a lot! if you're still here, you must be dedicated! if you're that dedicated, expect two posts coming up shortly: number one, a few fundraisers that were sent to my ask box that i wanted to give their own post to not mix it with the regular content. as far as i'm aware, they've all been vetted. and number two, perhaps later: the post asking what exactly i should do with this blog once we reach the end of the natdex. after i get enough suggestions on that post, i'll send out a big poll with the top contenders to truly decide WHAT becomes of this blog once pecharunt posts. thanks for sticking around for this wild ride!

[thorraborinn]

Hey, bit of an odd question maybe but I've been looking into the use of "drengr" and had a thought I hoped you might have some insight on: I know "drengr" was & can be used for women just as it is but I was wondering if, grammatically/syntactically/etc., something like "drengkona" or "drengmaer" would make any sense at all if you wanted to specify a woman-drengr without other context? thanks!

I think maybe kvendrengr but the problem would be in the semantics. What modern English-speaking heathens mean when they say "drengr" comes from a particular set phrase, drengr góðr (or góðr drengr), literally meaning something like "good lad" but used so often that it takes on a distinct meaning separate from the two words that make up the phrase. Sometimes góðr is replaced by another adjective (beztr 'best', hæfr 'competent', dugandi 'capable', etc), and sometimes it's extended to harða góðr drengr, but you can always tell that some kind of formulaic phrasing is being used.

Outside of that phrase, you need to give context to how the word is being used, or it could mean any of several different things. In Old Norse times, I'm not sure what its unmarked, "default" meaning would be, but I don't think it was the same as when it's drengr góðr. It was probably just a young, unmarried man, or maybe "someone in service to a war-leader". In modern languages it mostly just means "boy," sometimes "farmhand/hired worker" or similar. In Modern Icelandic, the phrase drengur góður can still be used regardless of gender, but drengur on its own is inherently gendering (as male), and it probably was in Old Norse too.

Just to be clear, it was used in the same sense as the phrase drengr góðr, but that isn't the only thing it meant, and you need context to make it clear that that's what's intended, and as far as I can tell it was never applied to women that way. To give you a sense of the degree to which saying the whole phrase dominated usage of the word in general, here's a section of what is returned when your search the Scandinavian Rune-text Database for "dreng":

These are mostly in the accusative so look for góðan. The one third from the bottom that doesn't say 'good' says 'best'. And yeah, I could have looked for a section to screenshot that wasn't so uniform but I also could have given three or four non-overlapping sections that looked the same. The entries that don't say góðr (or another similar adjective) in proximity to drengr are mostly using the word differently, to say that someone died young (ungr drengr), to say that someone was in service to someone powerful ([some guy's] drengr), and sometimes it's plural and indicating the people who commissioned or carved the stone, so something like "we lads did this".

There are some derived words that might be useful to you, including drengskapr (think 'dreng-ship') and the adjectives drengiligr and drenglyndr. If your context allows use of two words, then drengilig kona would be a better way to say what you're trying to say. Or you could just use an adjective in the feminine in isolation, like drengilig (though this is also the plural neuter).

Personally (without knowing more about what you're doing with this), I would either say drengr góðr and let it be ambiguous with regard to gender, or just use a different word. I think English-speaking heathens would not think drengr were as special as they do if they had a better grasp on the Old Norse vocabulary generally. Maybe something like skǫrungr; this word is actually gender-neutral in application (grammatically masculine, but is used for women very frequently, whereas calling women drengr góðr is very uncommon, and just drengr nonexistent), and all the women in the sagas who are called drengr góðr are also called skǫrungr. But if you want to be specifically clear about her gender the word kvenskǫrungr already exists. I dunno, it depends on what you're doing with it and what in particular you're trying to say.

My experience of watching heathens put drengr on a pedestal has been very weird because I speak a language where it's still used and is very normal and no more interesting than any other word. So it's like if someone from a non-English-speaking culture were like "Can you help me to make sure I understand your extremely important social and religious concept of the 'guy' correctly?" The prevalence of the phrase drengr góðr on memorial runestones indicates that yeah, this formula had a significance back then that it doesn't have now (yeah, you can still say it, but nobody's putting it on their tombstone) but man it's weird to hear, especially as a single word. To be honest most of my experience of being called a drengur involves someone being vaguely demeaning.

[bonesandthebees]

Hiya!!

I was just wondering how do you go about writing dialogue? Yk characterizations and all that. I don’t know how to make natural banter or how to see how much a character would actually reveal about themselves. Bc like ppl have filters to what they actual say and I tend to try to resolve everything too quickly and unrealistically. So any advice would be appreciated!

-🌷(I’m new to tumblr and dunno what any of these emojis mean, I’m rlly confused 💀)

hmm okay, this one is a little tricky for me to answer because dialogue is probably the aspect of writing that has always come the most naturally to me so it's not something I actively think about. but I'll try my best to give advice!

first off, what's most important is to make sure you know your character. know what their core traits are, and use that to determine how the character is going to act in a given situation. now, if you're writing fanfic and more specifically if you're writing an au, once you understand the core of the character from the original media, make sure you understand your specific au version of the character as well. what's their background? how has that influenced the character to be different from the original canon character? how do their core traits— the ones you have to hold onto to keep the character 'in character'—still shine through even in this different world?

then, less specifically, how does the character think? what are they feeling about the situation they're currently in?

basically, if you understand who your character is and where their head is at, that's going to make writing dialogue a lot easier. you need to understand the emotions the characters are going through, and how they're going to handle those emotions.

for example: in stars, a lot of stars!wilbur's dialogue is influenced both by how he was raised, but also by his own paranoia and anxiety. he's been raised as royalty with the expectation that he will become his brother's advisor. he's been taught how to participate in political negotiations and understands how these political games are played. so when he speaks on these matters, he phrases things more eloquently than tommy does because he knows how to 'dress these words up' like most politicians do. at the same time though, he's paranoid about who they can trust, and scared of what will happen if things go wrong. depending on who he's speaking to, he reveals some information but not everything, depending on how much he trusts the person and what his relationship with them is.

I wish I could give better advice then that but just try to be familiar with your character and understand where their head is at.

(also don't worry about the emojis lol. it's not a standard thing by any means. just here on my blog I answer a lot of asks people send me, and sometimes if someone sends me a lot of asks anonymously they might want to sign off who they are so I (and everyone else on my blog who sees their asks) know they're coming from the same person, even if we don't necessarily know who that person is.)

[aranarumei]

12 an 29 for the wip asks!!

ask me something from this list?

12: a trope you’re really into right now

hm… nothing? I don’t think of fic ideas in terms of tropes, more just that I wanna express some specific feeling I have

29: how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

the short answer is “it depends” but I think the long answer of how I approach titling is way more interesting, so… here’s an impromptu “kiri’s personal guide to titling fics!” I know my tendency to ramble, so I’ll let this spiel live under the cut.

the first thing to note is that titling got a bit easier for me when I realized that it just so does not matter on ao3. without pointing fingers at any specific fic, I tend to recognize a fic I’ve read and liked by the summary, tags, kr author… usually I remember the title only bc I’ve seen it a bunch, not because it actually connects to anything. this applies to browsing, too: I tend to judge whether I want to read a fic based on the summary and the tags. other people I’ve talked to have agreed that fic titles don’t seem to really… Matter? to them as much as other stuff. so if you’re someone who gets really anxious about titling stuff, hopefully that lets you take it a little less seriously?

with that said, I do like to think about titles, because it is part of the package of the fic and I’d like it to be good.

also on a practical level it’s just helpful for me to distinguish fics. if every one of my fics was titled smthing vague but pretty, like, I dunno, “fuschia birdsong”… I don’t know think they’d be so easy to identify.

this was actually a real problem when I went through my archives… I remember my published ao3 fics well enough, but I’d also archived pieces of unpublished wips, and just had no idea what any of them were based on title alone. like why is “eyes are the window to the soul” my title for this fic I wrote like. 8 years ago where kageyama’s a demon. I probably just thought it was a phrase that correlated with soul or something…? but it’s un-parseable. for wips that I shelve, these days I tend to pick out really obvious labels instead, so above would just be titled as “demon!kageyama” for my archives or something (yes I know the ! is not in common use these days. let me indulge.)

my rambling coincidentally highlights what I think is important about a title: conveying a core part of the piece. I want to look at a title and at least somewhat be like “yeah, I remember what that fic is about” so my title has to touch on something major about the fic.

as for how I do that, I tend to go to two sources for titles: the fic’s “concept” and the fic’s “point.”

the fic’s “concept” is like… is there a certain situation that this fic is about? some examples: “the stranger in the hall” (it’s literally about shirahama meeting ichinose—a stranger—in the hallway) or “day negative fourteen” (a fic set fourteen days before the beginning of a dating sim isekai), or, in its most obvious form, “help! my classmate’s asking for relationship advice, but I’m aromantic!?” (this fic is exactly what it says on the tin)

the fic’s “point,”on the other hand, is like… what themes or ideas are being discussed in this fic? examples include: “something there” (revolves around the underlying tension of shirahama’s yet-unrealized crush on miyano, which is a Something There that he’s trying to not really think about) or “see the light” (fic deals with vision and perception in various ways, and tashiro gets compared to light in a couple of ways, so it’s like… seeing tashiro in a new way, which is what the final scene of the fic is all about)

so that’s a good base for how i wanna start building a title. but then getting the words into something that “feels right” is a lot harder. how do you condense your “point” or “concept” into something that’s concise enough? sometimes it’s really easy: “the anomalous agate” is meant to copy the style of a chapter of one of the first two volumes of the case files of jeweler richard, and I literally can’t write the fic without knowing what the central gem (agate) and idea (anomaly) is going to be. when it’s not, I tend to have two ways I go about it.

the first is pretty classically ao3: song lyrics! if I happen to have some songs that I’ve been listening to for the fic mood, it’s probably bc it matches something in the fic, so I’ll just borrow from there. apart from that, song lyrics in general just tend to have… nice phrases? so they can be fun to take out of context or use. both “something there” and “see the light” reference disney songs, which is kind of the reason for why I named “see the light” that way… I was like “oh shirahama’s narrating this fic again, it’d be hilarious if another disney song title fit—oh wait I can work with this one.” this cloud & tifa fic I’d written is just very vaguely like “wow… Life Goes On even when things suck” which. ig “life goes on” is a title but I went with “symptom of life” bc I’d been listening to that song by willow recently.

my other technique is one I used to do for personal essays to apply to college, actually… which is basically just “if one idea isn’t good enough, go with two!” the reasoning is basically like… if you pick one topic to talk abt, it feels like it’s been skewered to death, but if you pick two and manage to synthesize them somehow, it’s got way more of a chance of being unique, and you also get to sound clever and thoughtful by how you tie things together.

examples: “the peridot of favor” borrows from the same structured title as “the anomalous agate”, but here favor has two meanings: hanzawa’s doing a favor for tashiro by helping him out with their crossdressing contest, but he’s also showing him favor, because they liiiike each other. or something. “dialed in” refers to the point of the fic (tenma’s paying attention to yuki and reaffirming his connection with summer troupe) as well as the concept (the fic is built off a moment in canon where they’re literally on a phone call), and “ill at ease” also blends point and concept, because seigi is literally “ill” (it’s a sickfic) but the fic is also about him feeling “ill at ease” (his discomfort with the hotel room he’s staying in)

while I’m writing wips my titles are almost never the actual ao3 title. I like putting either a very plain title like “kagihira wip” or something that makes me laugh. the latter can definitely seep into my published fic titles… song lyrics and double meanings are fun to me, and so is titling something “help! my classmate’s asking for relationship advice, but I’m aromantic!?” (this was the wip title as well. it was too perfect to change)

and as a final, super personal rule, i try to avoid using the word “dream” because i used it way too much for earlier titles when frankly. they didn’t need it. I just think i like the word a lot… it’s pretty and represents a fun concept, and it has vague sentiments of yearning so it can apply to a lot of stuff. it’s definitely way too easy to get to vaguely pretty titles with it. therefore I really try to make sure i have a good justification when i use that word. after this ban I’ve only used it in one title: “dream; reality” which is literally a fic where these two characters keep dreaming about a tragic alternative universe version of themselves, and differentiating that from their much happier reality, so… yeah, I’ll allow that.

[inventors-fair]

Sublime Scares: Fear Contest Winners!

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Our winners this week are @izzet-always-r-versus-u, @nine-effing-hells, and @reaperfromtheabyss!

@izzet-always-r-versus-u — Don't Make a Sound

Not to be confused with Don't Blink, Don't Move, or Don't Try This at Home. This is a brutal punisher card, though, levying a harsh tax at anyone who tries to extend to far on their own turn. Of course, it still leaves players with the ability to do so if they're confident they can bear the cost, unlike more stringent effects like Rule of Law. I love the use of flavor here too: as with a lot of punisher effects, both the gameplay and flavor stress that you don't want to make a wrong move. I do worry that this might be just a bit too effective at two mana, because the restriction to only a player's own turn means you could simply build your deck to play on your opponent's turn and handily break the symmetry. But that's also a fairly big commitment to go all the way, so...I dunno.

@nine-effing-hells — Bedside Shadow

Oh, well, hello there! What bring you here at such a late hour, friend? This thing's got more than a little DNA from the original Lazav, but I appreciate all the little touches to set it apart. First, requiring specifically discarding and milling to trigger goes a long way towards sharpening the focus, though it does make it less broadly applicable. Lazav will pick up more faces just in the natural course of the game; this one asks you to go out of your way. That said, the ability to field multiple of these is very attractive, and needless to say I find the flavor brilliant. At a first glance this effect seems slightly dubious in mono-black, but in practice it's not all that different from black's propensity for stealing creatures from others' graveyards, so I'll give it a pass. Oh, and, one minor wording tweak: the typical phrasing is that it "has this ability," because you don't need to gain an ability you already have.

@reaperfromtheabyss — Nagging Anxieties

From sleep paralysis demons to the terror of the waking world, but no less a Nightmare! This is a neat little thing that—just like its namesake—compounds on itself very quickly. There's a bit of luck involved, and your mileage will vary heavily depending on what kind of deck your opponents are playing, but you should be able to hit something and a land reasonably often in any situation. I'm a big fan of how this explores how mill is often represented as a sort of mental attack, and it's also a lot more subtle and insidious than the blunt force of something like Traumatize or Glimpse the Unthinkable. The flavor text is great as well, evoking the spirit literally whispering doubts into your ear. I do have a small, potentially insignificant critique, though: I've been erroneously referring to this card all week in my head as "Nagging Worries," which I just feel flows much better than the chunky word that is "Anxieties." That's very much up to you though, of course.

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Don't go anywhere, runners up are right on your heels! —@spooky-bard

[chernobylcatfish09]

Here's the first part of The Question List(Trigger warning, cannabalism. it is question ten, so you can skip that one if u want)

How tall are you?

Do you like flower lamps?

Who's your favorite Egyptian god?

Do you like horror movies?

Have you ever yelled at a dog or cat?

Would you yell at a dog or cat if it did something bad? (like scratched up stuff or peed on ur floor or something)

Do you like classic literture?

Have you read Dracula?

What makes a monster a monster

Is cannibalism bad? why?

Do you like roses?

Do you swear online?

Do you swear in real life?

What are some of your "catch phrases" (things you say often)

Do you like the rain?

Do you like science?

What age is "old" to you?

Do you like Marvel or Dc better?

Have you ever read Moby Dick?

Do you believe in souls?

As a kid, did you ever have a monster under the bed?

Did you ever have an imaginary friend?

Have you watched the Mandalorian?

Do you like babies and small children?

Do you have a curious nature?

How would you describe your personality?

Have you ever been in a musical?

Do you agree with Diogenes's philosophy: "in a rich mans house, there is no where to spit but his face."?

Do you act differently online then you do in real life? Why?

What are your ideal conditions for sleeping?

Do you like wordplay?

What is your dream job?

Do you like crocodiles?

Do you like the 80's aesthetic?

Is this list too long?

AHHHHH! Here's the first chunk of The Question List. Enjoy!

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1. 5’2, but I am pretty close to 5’3

2. I think they are cool, dunno if I would ever own one

3. I don’t know many Egyptian gods, can’t remember the names well, perhaps Anubis though

4. I love the horror genre, in a broad sense I’d say yes but there are popular ones I don’t ever intend to watch; The saw series and the terrified movies, I prefer psychological horrors, but I generally don’t watch movies too often, I tend to watch horror gameplays or analog horrors, WALTEN FILES MY BELOVED IM SO EXCITED FOR MORE OF JT

5. I tend to yell at dogs and cats when they get on my nerves, I get mad easily, especially with dogs bc misophonia, I feel bad but I can’t do much bc neither of us can control it, but I can’t really get away, kinda just stuck together

6. I wouldn’t want to but I probably would, I also tend to gag if I have to clean up something, I wouldn’t be mad if they scratched something I don’t mind that, but I do have a dog who tends to piss on specific areas so we have pee pads for him when my mother goes on grocery trips bc he does it that often, if I was already pissed most likely, but maybe not

7. Not really, I’m just not much of a reader tbh

8. Not yet, dunno if I will

9. I’m not sure what makes a monster a monster, I don’t have any idea either, it’s a very good question

10. I would say yes, but it also depends on the situation, like if there are 2 people and one was dying and said the other could eat them to survive, then I’d say that’s alright bc it’s survival and the other said to was okay, but that’s specifically for humans, for animals it’s pretty much natural and I have no notes for animals, nature is brutal sometimes

11. I think roses are nice, but I prefer hydrangeas or hibiscus, i don’t actually know much about flowers

12. I swear a lot online

13. I would swear a lot more if I was allowed to freely, but yea I’d say a swear a decent amount

14. not rlly, I sometimes repeat random things but that isn’t really a catchphrase it’s a stim thing

15. I love the rain, it’s one of my fave weather things

16. I somewhat like science, only biology tho, I’m not smart enough for it

17. Maybe 40s, that’s like the start of older age but that’s a joke thing, probably 50s-60s and beyond as an actual answer

18. I don’t really care for either, whichever has Spider-Man I suppose

19. I have not read moby dick in fact

20. Somewhat, hard to say tbh

21. I’m pretty sure I did, no specific like design or look in mind but I think so

22. Pretty sure I did, if not, I def imagine fictional characters as my friends so I’ll count that

23. I haven’t, but my mother did

24. Not really, like I don’t mind if they are quiet or kept in check by parents, but otherwise they overstimulate me

25. Somewhat, I’m nosey and like to know things, I don’t rlly know if I look for actual answers too often

26. Flops between silly jester and jaded gloom beast, if I need to elaborate I will

27. I have not, most I would do is be behind the scenes helping bc I’m anxious and stop talking when I’m too nervous/overwhelmed

28. Somewhat, millionaires I’ll let slip by but not billionaires, we shall roast them on spitfires and feed them to animals

29. I do, I’m a lot happier online and talkative bc I can be myself, can’t do that irl, I’m a real hermit and jsut tend to keep to myself

30. Cold ac temp, a nice blanket, water on a nightstand near me, and something on the tv and that’s pretty much all I need

31. If it’s funny yea

32. Probably some job in an aquarium

33. Crocs scare me but they are cool

34. I don’t look a lot into it but it’s very neon, very cool

35. Nope, I love answering long things it’s very fun

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