#rules of both universe exist until they don't for rule of fun or rule of cool

[codename-mallorygrace]

DA Veilguard Party as Tellius Fire Emblem Characters

Mostly Radiant Dawn with Path of Radiance mixed in because those are the game mechanics I know best. Nothing here is balanced. And thank you to Serenes Forest for all the Fire Emblem details

Rook:

Class: Ranger, promotes into Vanguard with options of a secondary weapon of bows, tomes, or axes.

So there’s not really a character creation/avatar in Tellius and I want to respect that. That being said, in Path of Radiance, you can choose a secondary weapon at promotion, so that’s where you can choose if you lean more rogue, mage, or warrior (bows, tomes, axes respectively). And depending on which weapon you choose, you would get a different mastery skill (Deadeye, Flare, or Colossus).

Recruitment: Automatic

Base Stats: HP: Okay Strength: Very High Magic: Very High Skill: High Speed: High Luck: Low Defense: Okay Resistance: Low

Until promotion, Rook fights with a sword with high strength and magic so they can use both physical and magical weapons pretty smoothly. The low resistance and luck is a reference to all the bad magical stuff that happens to Rook and around Rook. And the other stats line up pretty much with typical sword unit, but they can improve depending on the promoted weapon chosen (higher speed/skill for rouge, higher magic/resistance for mage, and higher hp/defense for warrior).

Skills: Provoke: More chance of being attacked by the enemy Resolve: When under 50% HP, Skl ×1.5 and Spd ×1.5

I didn’t want to commit too many skills to Rook since it would be heavily dependent on the playstyle, but they would at least start with Provoke and Resolve. Provoke because sometimes it feels like enemies in Veilguard really have it out for Rook of any class. Resolve because that is Rook in a nutshell. They might be hurt, but that only makes them stronger and they hit back twice as hard (especially if Resolve gets them to double the enemy).

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Harding:

Class: Archer, promotes to Marksman

Recruitment: Automatic

Harding is an archer that’s part of your starting party in both worlds.

Base Stats: HP: Very High Strength: Very High Magic: Very low, but high growths Skill: High Speed: Okay Luck: Okay Defense: Very High Resistance: Very low, but high growths

She starts with poor magic and resistance, but as she grows into her new stone magic, she can improve both stats very quickly with high growth rates. I gave Harding higher defense over speed, which is typically a stat archer wants, because she has a lot of survival skills, both for being a scout and for her unique cooking. Plus with very high strength, she can just one shot enemies (especially flying ones) so no need to double if the enemy is dead.

Skills: Critical +15: Critical rate +15 Deadeye: Triples damage and sends enemy to sleep Cancel: Negates the enemy’s following attack Parity: Ignores both the user and enemy’s Skills, terrain bonus and support bonus

Critical +15 and Deadeye are the Marksman mastery skills and they also fit Harding quite well. Cancel feels like the closes to disrupting an enemy and staggering them from Veilguard, so it matches what Harding’s Seismic Shot and Shred want to do. Parity for her skills as a scout, since I imagine she can get a good lay of the land before attacking so that she can ignore any bonuses for a simple straight shot.

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Varric:

Class: Marskman

Recruitment: Automatic

Varric is your early game strong unit who starts in a promoted class.

Base Stats: HP: Very High Strength: Okay Magic: Abysmal Skill: Okay Speed: Very High Luck: High Defense: Low Resistance: Okay

He has over all good bases and okay growths, just do not give this man any weapons or skills related to magic. Mid strength because he uses crossbows, which ignores his strength anyways, so he doesn’t need strength as much. High resistance because he is a dwarf, but low defense because of, uh, what happens when he gets too close to a dagger.

Skills Critical +15: Critical rate +15 Deadeye: Triples damage and sends enemy to sleep Gamble: Doubles Critical rate but halves Accuracy

Critical +15 and Deadeye are the Marksman mastery skills. Varric isn’t necessarily a gambler, but he does get himself into high risk, high reward situations, so Gamble felt appropriate. And no other skills because he is your Jagen/early pre-promote that falls off very quickly to say the least.

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Neve:

Class: Wind Mage, promotes to Arch Wind Sage with knives instead of staves

Since there’s not really any ice mages in Tellius, Wind with its icy animation is the closest I can get. But Neve does get a knife on promotion as a reference to her mage knives in Veilguard and the potential of her dropping her healing skills if you harden her.

Recruitment: Starts in the middle of the map as a green unit and surrounded by enemies. Rook or Varric can talk to her.

You find her among bodies of Venatori when you first meet her, so of course she’s going to sweep the enemies on the map you recruit her (think Pent from FE7 in The Living Legend), which can be a double edge sword in a Fire Emblem game.

Base Stats: HP: Okay Strength: High Magic: Very High Skill: Very High Speed: Okay Luck: Low Defense: High Resistance: Very High

Very high magic, resistance, and skill and high defense as those are stats that would serve her very well as a detective in Dock Town. High strength to get the most out of her knives. Low luck because she feels so unlucky with all her cases going sideways in ways she could never predict.

Skills: Flare: Negates Resistance and user recovers HP equal to damage done to enemy Celerity: Movement +2 Howl: Prevents enemy from moving for one turn when user is attacked indirectly Pass: User can move through enemy-occupied tiles

Flare is the Arch Sage mastery skill. Since a lot of Neve’s Veilguard skills are about slowing down enemies, I gave her Howl even if she can't technically have it in Tellius. And Pass and Celerity because she does a lot of walking around in both friendly and not so friendly territory to solve her cases, so she gets both skills that can improve her movement around the map.

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Bellara:

Class: Thunder Mage, promotes to Arch Thunder Sage with staves

Thunder and electricity are closely related, so Bellara is a thunder mage in Tellius. She gets staves at promotion to reference her auto-healing skill.

Recruitment: Trapped behind a mysterious barrier as a green unit, you’ll need to interact with a switch near the middle of the map before you reach her. Rook or Neve can recruit her.

Bellara will start the map acting on her own going from device trigger to device trigger until you catch up to her. Rook can recruit her, but so can Neve since Bellara is a big fan of the detective.

Base Stats: HP: Low Strength: Low Magic: High Skill: Okay Speed: Very High Luck: Very High Defense: Okay Resistance: High

Overall, Bellara is a very strong FE mage with many of the class’ weakness, notability being low HP and Defense, though I gave Bellara okay defense because she is a bit bulkier than a glass canon, but she still shouldn’t be on the front lines.

Skills: Flare: Negates Resistance and user recovers HP equal to damage done to enemy Adept: Activates a 2 hit strike Imbue: Each turn, user recovers HP proportional to their Magic stat Miracle: Halves current HP when dealt a fatal strike

Flare is the Arch Sage mastery skill. Bellara’s Veilguard skills tend towards hitting multiple targets or covering an area around an enemy, which doesn’t quite match mechanics in Tellius. So instead, Bellara is hitting an enemy up to 4 times in one phase with Adept, as if she had unleashed a volley of arrows. Technically, she couldn’t have Imbue, but I like it on her because it makes her self-sufficient in a fight. She has Imbue and Miracle because I feel like Bellara, for as open and friendly as she is, can be solitary and not want to burden anyone with her needs, such as being healed in battle.

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Lucanis:

Class: Assassin

Assassin is a pretty easy class. Lucanis can’t promote like the others, because Assassin is already a promoted class, so instead, he has to reach a high enough level before he unlocks his mastery skill and gets promotion bonuses.

Recruitment: Rescue him from a jail cell near the beginning of the map. You have to use a key to open the door. Rook or Neve could recruit him.

Since you get him before you fight all the Venatori in the Ossuary, you can recruit him early in the map. His jail has one door (that’s not breakable) and no breakable walls. You need to use a key/a resource to open the door as a reference to his personal quest, Inner Demon, where you need to make an extra effort to reach out to him.

Base Stats: HP: Okay Strength: Okay Magic: High Skill: Very High Speed: High Luck: Okay Defense: High Resistance: Very High

Stat spread matches a typical FE assassin. The high magic is for Spite’s influence. There aren’t any magical weapons for thieves in Tellius, but Lucanis can make good use of any skills that require magic. And high resistance of course so he can be a mage killer even in Fire Emblem.

Skills: Critical +25: Critical rate +25 Lethality: Instantly KOs enemy [Doesn’t work on certain enemies] Vantage: User attacks first Wrath: When under 30% HP, Critical rate +50 Smite: Push a unit 2 squares if user’s (Con +2) > unit’s Weight

Critical +25 and Lethality are class skills that suit Lucanis fighting style very well. Vantage because he’s an assassin that strikes before targets even realize he’s there. Wrath is the closest thing I could think of to his Eviscerate skill. Smite, instead of shove, because Lucanis and Spite are both pushing the target.

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Davrin:

Class: Armour Lance, promotes to Marshall

Davrin in Veilguard uses weapon and shields, so he’s an Armour unit in Tellius. And I gave him lances because in FE it’s a weapon that tends to signify a noble purpose for fighting, and while Davrin might not be a literal knight, he fights and battles for a bigger purpose and cause than himself.

Recruitment: Starts as an allied yellow unit as you rush to save griffon green units. Recruit at the end of chapter.

In Tellius, there are yellow units that you can command but not fully control, which is like how you get Davrin in your party during his recruitment mission, but not full access to his skills and inventory until afterwards.

Base Stats: HP: High Strength: Very High Magic: Abysmal Skill: Very High Speed: Okay Luck: Okay Defense: Very High Resistance: Okay

A strong armor unit with the class’ features and weaknesses. Magic is very low because Davrin does not believe in the Fade (wild fact I love him for) so he wouldn’t have great access to magic, if at all. He does have alright resistance, though, because he is a Grey Warden and that makes him better equipped to handle magical attacks than he otherwise would be. He also gets alright speed for an armor unit because he has to keep up with Assan somehow.

Skills: Luna: Triples Strength and negates enemy’s Defense Guard: User takes damage for an adjacent Buddy Savior: Skill and Speed are not reduced when carrying an ally Counter: When damaged, deals half of received damage to enemy

Luna is the Marshall’s class mastery skill and I think it would play off of Davrin very well. Guard and Savior are both references to his role as front line tank and bodyguard. Counter can be seen as him fighting back when hit or Assan attacking the enemy if Davrin is hit.

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Taash:

Class: Warrior, promotes to Reaver

Recruitment: Starts as a yellow unit as everyone clears the map of enemies surrounding a dragon. Recruit at the end of the chapter.

Similar to Davin, you get them a little before you actually recruit them, so they also start the map as a yellow unit. They follow your lead, but very much has their own strategy for the map.

Base Stats: HP: Very High Strength: High Magic: Okay Skill: Okay Speed: High Luck: Okay Defense: Okay Resistance: Okay

A little bit of a glass canon, but one that’s very hard to kill because they have so much HP. Doesn’t suffer in any particular stat, so they very good at being what you need them to be in the moment. They also have alright magic so that they can use any skills or weapons based on magic to pretty good effect.

Skills: Colossus: Triples Strength and deals bonus damage = Strength – foe’s Defense Critical +5: Critical rate +5 Daunt: Enemies within a 3 square radius have their Accuracy and Critical rate reduced by 5 Pavise: Negates all damage Paragon: Doubles gained EXP

Colossus and Critical +5 are Reaver’s mastery skills and fit Taash’s fighting style pretty well. Daunt is for the intimidating way they can breath fire and a kind of translation of Dragon’s Roar. Pavise help keeps them alive, a reference to their Fortune Favor skill, and how they know how to properly fight a dragon. Also since I imagine you get Taash later than everyone else, so they get Paragon to help keep up with experience gains.

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Emmrich:

Class: Dark Sage, promotes to Arch Dark Sage with staves as secondary weapon

Historically in Fire Emblem, dark magic is the most misunderstood type of magic, so that’s perfect for a necromancer. He also gets staves when promoted as Emmrich is one of the team healer.

Recruitment: There's a house on his recruitment map, and if you visit it, he will come out as a green unit to help defeat the enemy, but he will only join the team if Rook or Bellara talk to him.

Emmrich is always eager to help, but for him to join you, I think would require that extra step of talking to him.

Base Stats: HP: Low Strength: Okay Magic: High Skill: Okay Speed: High Luck: Okay Defense: Okay Resistance: High

He might not hit as hard as Neve or Bellara might with their higher magic, but what he lacks in stats, he makes up for in his skills.

Skills: Corona: Negates Resistance and halves enemy’s Accuracy for one turn Discipline: Increases rate of gaining Weapon EXP Reinforce: User can call 3 NPC units to help (can only be used twice per chapter)

Corona is technically not the Arch Sage’s mastery skill, but lowering the enemy’s accuracy feels more in spirit to Emmrich than Flare. Plus he is still bypassing enemy resistance, so he’s still getting a boost from that. Like Taash, he comes to the team a bit later, so Discipline is there to help build weapon rank. Also historically, dark tomes are pretty rare in Fire Emblem, so Discipline helps get his weapon ranks up without spending every tomes. And he is a professor, how could he not have a skill called Discipline. Reinforce is technically is a personal skill of a specific person, but it’s too perfect for Emmrich to not give to him. Just imagine undead instead of Tanith’s pegasus knights.

[buttercupshands]

I had the silliest idea pop up in my head and couldn't refuse it

even though I'm sleepy

[hasnomoxxie]

Alternate universe time, lemme dump real quick

WW2 au was on the brain, so I did a couple clean ups to my Obelix design so that he matched my Asterix a little better- In this I think he'd be like an actual post delivery person, sending supplies to and fro (since he's the only one able to go out due to his strength). I did base this one a little on Obelis'h and mixed the old design in there. Haven't settled on anything for Asterix just yet or what he does-

But then I thought...

w h y s t o p t h e r e -

Theres TONNES of au tropes that could be done with Asterix (i say, rubbing my damn hands together like a fruit fly) So ummmmm,,, here are the most popular aus I could find but with the Asterix twist ^^

I scribbled these all in an afternoon, smite me whenever- I'll most likely never touch these again bc lowkey I don't want that stress. Ily Asterix

Genderbent/Rule 63

Comma & Monolita (genderswap) In the year 50bc, Julia Caesar has conquered the entirety of Gaul with her Roman army. Almost. The only place she hasn't managed to touch is the little Gaulish village towards the coast, home to the indomitable gauls. Thanks to the great druid Spoonfulofsuga, the gauls drink a magic potion that gives them superhuman strength, allowing them to consistently push back Caesars army with ease. The greatest of these Gaulish warriors are best friends Comma, a small but very skilled gaul who uses her wits to get herself out of any sticky situation, and Monolita, a large but well meaning menhir deliverer with incredible strength due to her falling into the cauldron of magic potion as a baby. These two are often sent off by their Chief Criticaldata to carry out tasks and go on adventures in distant lands before returning home to a feast of roast boar, cooked by the men of the village.

By Toutatis, turns out a lot of Genderbent Asterix stuff exists but still, its one of the most popular so gave it a shot in my own way. Dude, thinking of the names is so much fun. Plus female obelix has my heart uaua.

Role/Personality swap

Obeswix & Asterswix (Roleswap) In the year 50bc, Thea Cleopatra has conquered the entirety of Gaul. Almost. The only place she hasn't managed to touch is the little Gaulish village towards the coast, home to the invincible gauls. Thanks to the great druid Valueaddedtax that grants them invulnerability, allowing them to resist Cleopatras armies and send them running back to where they came from. The greatest of these Gaulish warriors are best friends Obeswix, the largest but also the smartest gaul in the village able to use both his size and skill to his advantage, and Asterswix, a clumsy but kind hearted gaul with a temper whenever anyone points out his size and permanent invulnerability due to him falling into the cauldron of invulnerability potion as a baby. These two have incredible chemistry with each other and are often sent off by their Chief to carry out tasks or go on adventures in distant lands before returning home to a feast of roast boar.

The titular bitchular, if anyone gets this far and says undertale. YEAH HI I THINK UNDERTALE IS COOL. Yk those three/four swaps are the ones I thought of. I think Valuaddedtax and his potion would be cool to explore

like, cmon. Be real, this is lowk sick too

Bizzaro/Mirror-verse

Brackix ⅋ Gigantix (Fell/dark twisted glimse into my fucked up mind that would simply make one go insane lmao this is all a joke) In the year 50bc, Julius Caesar has ordered a full scale invasion of Amorica, claiming each new country as his own with his roman army. That is until he and his army arrived to the last standing gaulish village, home to the irascible gauls. To Caesar's surprise, the village, that he assumed was filled with defenceless gauls, was filled with hulking monsters with super strength that quickly decimates Caesars armies. Instead of fleeing, this greatly intrigues Caesar- If his legion can take down a village of superhuman gauls, not only would he have fully conquered Amorica, but finding the root of these gauls power would give him the strongest army throughout the world. Unbeknownst to him, the source of this power is from a potion, one brewed by the druid Supatoxix, that grants the user super strength at the cost of making them mindless hulking masses of destruction. There's often lots of brutal violence in the gaulish village and not everyone gets along with one another, especially the strongest fighters. These would be Brackix, a caniving and sarcastic but the smartest gaul in the village that often views those around him are dumber than he is, and Gigantix, a stonefaced beast with a pure heart who (after following a young Brackix's advice to stand up to his childhood bullies by breaking into the druid's hut to steal some potion) accidently fell into the cauldron of potion as a baby and has permanently been stuck as a towering monster. As the village deems that Gigantix's condition is Brackix's fault, he's often seen taking care of him, as any negative outburst from Gigantix would be negatively reflected onto Brackix. Otherwise, these two would often be sent out by their chief to scope the encompassing areas for Romans and the first chance to knock the tyrant out of commission.

Summoned all the writing skills back from when I was like 7 for this one. Ngl, kinda interesting??? Tho lowkey I prefer the cartoony bonking and paffing of Romans to actually take this one seriously Whatever ^^ I DID SOMETHING AND IT SHOULD BE ARRIVING NEXT WEEK, AND IF IT TURNS OUT WELL I MIGHT DO SOME MORE. Fingers crossed (yes it it asterix related). I need to draw Caesar BADLY ALSO I READ ASTERIX AND OBELIX ALL AT SEA?? what the FART? MY BABY IS STRESSED THE FUCK OUT THROUGHOUT, HAD MYSELF STRESSED AND IK ALL THE COMICS END THE SAME BUT I WAS STILL STRESSED TF OUT. spongebob rollercoaster image but ngl I genuinely was stressed in the first half

Juicy lore mmhmm yes yes. The them appreciation panel for today

Absolute banger so far I think, I LOVE comics!

[maxwell-grant]

HEROFY: Annhilus.

A weird thing about where Annihilus stands nowadays is that, his original defining motivation was a complete and total fear of death, right? He was completely obsessed with preserving his own life to the extent of angling to murder everything else in the universe just so that nothing could ever possibly threaten his life ever again. But then after his major stint as a big bad in Annihilation and I think starting in Hickman Fantastic Four, he is instead defined as someone who is wholly incapable of dying (not just him, but everyone from the Negative Zone apparently) and who even actively wants it, still obsessed with death and slaughter but in an almost directly opposite way from his previous reason for it. Honestly, I love both approaches, I love Annihilus in general he's a very easy cosmic monster to love if nothing else because of the design, it's just it doesn't seem like they've ever conciliated these wildly different motivations. That's where I'd start, I think. Conciliating these two together.

Annihilus as a mutant spore who emerges near-fully formed as the first intelligent being born in the Negative Zone, completely incapable of getting answers to his existence and dealing with the creatures around him that keep trying to attack and hurt him, until this little nerdy cockroach stumbles on an alien spaceship and is brain-blasted with all the knowledge of his creators turning him into a near-immortal powerful new being who goes on to create new lifeforms, essentially ruling the primordial Negative Zone by default. Not out of any desire for conquest, but because it's the safest place to be, he figures. He doesn't yet know what it's like to want things, he is just fiercely obsessed with protecting himself from injury and death as a remaining defining primal instinct and so he creates the Cosmic Control Rod as essentially just a tool to protect him via combat, and then the Fantastic Four steal the rod from him.

They give it back after they're done with it, but in subsequent excursions to Earth, he learns what they were using it for. Over early attempts to attack this planet and the people that invaded his home the first time, so they may never invade again and never endanger him again, he learns what it feels like to die and come back. It feels nice. It feels good. It feeelssss sssssweet, ssssweeet death that brings resssurection. His greatest fear comes true and it's the first time he discovers joy. He learns that, not only is he immortal, but he has ways to prolong or save the lives of others. Death isn't scary at all, in fact it only made him stronger. He doesn't even need the rod anymore, it's basically just an Excalibur at this point to determine who rules the Zone. Hero Annihilus is driven thus by a desire to simply let everyone else in the universe join in on how awesome it is to live in the Negative Zone with him in charge, because on your boring mudball, you die, but in the Negative Zone, you can live.

It might take a few tries to convince him that the rest of the universe very much cannot come back from dying and very much does not share his enthusiasm about death and resurrection, but that in turn further drives him to share it. He will step up to prevent multiverse destroying catastrophes and refrain from murdering people not in his jurisdiction, but really, if everyone was in the Negative Zone, being slaughtered would just be a fun time that improves your life when you get it back. Skill issue on everyone else's part. The Negative Zone is great, guys, nobody has to die in it! His worms can bring you back everytime, if you don't just outright morph into something that molts and revives itself, like he did! We got trillions of bugs and technology and gladiator sports and tons of squirrels ever since Squirrel Girl's clone moved in, and if it's good enough for her it's definitely good enough for you.

There's at least 14 trillion and counting Negative Zoners already of the opinion that Annihilus is great and awesome and should rule everything forever, so democratically speaking, he's already a hero to more beings than the vast majority of Earth superheroes.

[dorotheataylor]

Lover

Pairing- Gojo Satoru x Fem!Reader

Summary- Listen to Lover by Taylor Swift

Warnings- FLUFF FLUFF FLUFFF, established relationship, really really small adult talk, this is really cliché, no curses!au, modern!au, my poor english, reader and satoru are so in love :( (i wanna cry) Based on Lover by Taylor Swift <3

Word Count- 2.7k words (excluding lyrics)

A/N- The amount of love I have for this man is insane. Gege when I catch you Gege!! Anyways this is something I imagine everyday with this man and decided why not share this with y’all? Hope y’all like this!

"Good morning Toru," you said in a sleepy voice as you rubbed your eyes.

Satoru smiled and said, "Good morning, my love," placing the coffee mugs on the nightstand nearby and leaning down to kiss you. You kissed him back for a moment but then immediately pulled away.

He looked at you with a frown and you spoke, "you know I have a very bad breath in the morning."

His frown suddenly turned into the grin you adored so much. "And you know that I don't care," he said before leaning down once more and kissing you. And this time you didn't resist.

You snuggled up into him to cuddle. He wrapped his hands around you as he laid beside you.

We could leave the Christmas lights up ‘till January

This is our place, we make the rules

"Happy new year," you beamed before moving even closer (if possible) to him. His body was warm- the body heat you’d always miss when you woke up in bed without him engulfing you.

"Well there's still some couple of hours left," he chuckled before kissing your forehead, "but happy new year."

Although the Christmas tree was gone by now- from the holiday a week ago- multiple strings of Christmas lights remained hung up on the living room walls. Turned off, the fluorescent lights were more gloomy than cheerful due to the festivities being over.

It being the first Christmas with Satoru in the new apartment, the one you both collectively bought together just over six months ago, the holiday was a milestone for your relationship. Decorating the small apartment was fun, placing ornaments carefully on the tree with Satoru while he broke over half of them; accidentally of course.

And now the lights remained, hung up on the walls of the open living room. While you took the first sip of the coffee- the caffeine sliding down your throat and almost scorching your tongue- it was as if Satoru read your mind.

“The Christmas lights are still up, we forgot about them.” There had always been a mysterious way about him, always seeming to know what you were thinking or feeling at any given time.

You'd heard of him in your university days. The uni heartthrob, star basketball player and the guy of every girl's dreams studying with you. Your friend would go on about him every now and then until she found her 'the one' as she called it.

You had to admit that you'd grown a crush on him too but you were too scared. He was the popular guy every girl swooned over, and then there was you, just managing to get through the uni. You doubted if he even knew about your existence. So you never worked on your feelings and just continued the way you lived.

The first time you officially met and talked with him was on the annual prom night. You were sitting alone, trying to get a shot as you watched everyone, including your best friend, dance on the slow song playing in the background.

You'd come there without a date as no one had asked you. You were slightly upset but your friend cheered you up, ditching her own boyfriend to go with you. But after a few hours of having fun, she wanted to spend time with him and of course you didn't mind.

So here you were, deep in thoughts and didn't notice someone coming up to you until the person spoke.

"Hey."

You immediately knew who's voice it was. You turned your head to look at them. And there he stood, dressed up in a black tuxedo, his white hair perfectly styled and faint blush on his cheeks as he showed his smile. Your heart started to pick up its pace as your cheeks heated up. Why would they not? Satoru Gojo, the popular guy of the whole campus and your long time crush, was talking to you.

"Hey," you replied, surprised and internally relieved you didn't stutter.

"Mind if I join you?" he said gesturing over the empty seat besides you.

"Not at all." You said and handed him a drink as he took the seat.

You were surprised, that 'The Gojo Satoru' would be so sweet and awkward at the same time. Still you two talked and got to know each other. Apparently, his date ditched him when he refused for PDA, and he claimed to enjoy your company more.

Have I known you twenty seconds or twenty years?

He almost got shy when he asked you for a dance. But you still accepted nevertheless. And let's just say it was the best time of your life. Neither of you two knew how to dance and all the time you were just stepping on each other's foot or just laughing your asses off. You knew you'd just met him but it felt like you'd known him for years.

The night ended with him asking you out. You gladly accepted. And with that, started a beautiful love story one could only ask for.

“I think we should leave them up,” a quizzing look you gave him with your eyebrows prompted him to explain, “you know, ‘cause why not? We’re adults, we don’t have to listen to any rules anymore, right?”

You laughed. “I guess I see your point... but it’s already New Year’s Day, and Christmas was a week ago. If others come around, what will they say?”

"Who cares, this is our place. Meaning," he held you tighter and continued, "we make the rules here. We could live it 'til the next January."

"You're crazy, Gojo." You said playfully and he rolled his eyes.

"Well sorry to break it to you sweetheart but you're stuck with me," he said with a little smirk.

"Wouldn't have it another way." You said giggling and giving him a quick peck on lips before getting out of the bed. As you were about to leave, he held your wrist and pulled you back. You landed back on the bed as he held you tightly once again.

"Let's just stay like this for the whole day." He said as he closed his eyes.

You giggled, "’Toru, if you don't let me go then we won't be getting any breakfast today."

"I don't care." He said as he buried his face in your chest, "you're warm and I want cuddles." You laughed at his childish behaviour and cuddled back with him. You slowly ran your fingers in his hair just the way he liked. He groaned at the feeling and hugged you even tighter.

There was a comfortable and peaceful silence until he said, "by the way I already made us breakfast."

You widened your eyes when you heard him. "Really? I'm surprised the house is not on fire yet."

He sat up and rolled his eyes. "You know I'm a better cook than you."

You hit him playfully on his chest as he laughed. He got out of the bed and went into the kitchen and you went to the bathroom and quickly brushed your teeth, excited to see what he had prepared for both of you.

He came back with two plates of honey-drizzled pancakes. You were sitting on the bed by then and your mouth immediately started watering after seeing the pancakes.

"Tell me how it is." He said after putting down the plates. You took a bite before widening your eyes and looking at him proudly.

"I see you've gotten my recipe perfectly." You said wiggling your eyebrows making him chuckle.

He chuckled, his eyes shining with satisfaction. "I wanted to do something different this time. You're always the one making breakfast, so I thought I'd give it a try and show you that I can make your recipes too. Consider it my New Year's resolution. Plus I know how much you hate to get out of the bed in the morning, so breakfast is now my duty."

Your heart melted at his thoughtful gesture. He had gone out of his way to make you happy, to bring a change to their routine. It was a small act, but it spoke volumes about his love and dedication. You couldn't help but fall in love with him even more if possible.

Moved by his sincerity, you leaned in and kissed him passionately, feeling the warmth of his embrace. In that moment, your connection deepened, your love reaffirmed. Your lips gently parted, and your foreheads touched as you locked eyes, sharing an unspoken language of love and understanding.

You’re my my my my Lover.

"You don't have to do anything special to make me happy." You whispered, "as long as you're with me, I'm content."

A smile graced his lips, and he spoke softly, "I love you."

"I love you too. More than words can express." You said before attaching your lips with his once again.

-

"Cheers to the New Year!" echoed throughout the room as everyone joyously raised their glasses and took hearty sips of their drinks. The lively party was in full swing, with conversations overlapping and laughter filling the air. To your right, was a group engaged in a spirited drinking game, while in a quieter corner, a few couples were making out while Satoru and Suguru shared jokes and laughter near the balcony, relishing their drinks.

I’m highly suspicious that everyone who sees you wants you

You tried to focus on the conversation you were having with your friends but failed miserably. All you could see was the unfamiliar girl who was now flirting with Satoru. He looked like he had no clue about it. Beside him, was his friend Suguru. Unlike your boyfriend, he noticed the dirty glances you were throwing at the girl.

You see him nudge Satoru with his elbow and point your way. Your eyes met his blue ones for a moment when you instantly looked away. You didn’t want to admit that you were jealous but god you couldn’t help it.

I’ve loved you three summer now honey but I want ‘em all

He was so gorgeous with his soft white hair and cold blue eyes that any girl would fall for him. But those cold eyes only showed warmth and love when they looked at you. You were the only one Satoru loved and will continue to do so till the end of time.

You looked at him again only to see him smirk. Can’t able to bear the sight of it, you decided to take matters into your own hands.

You excused yourself from your friends and walked over to where Satoru was standing. “Darling, It’s getting late. We should head home.” You said in a saccharine voice with a forced smile. Not waiting for his reply, you pulled him by his arm. The last thing you heard before exiting the venue was some words of 'good luck' directed towards Satoru by Suguru.

When you got into the car, you immediately turned towards the windows, not in the mood to talk. Satoru got inside and smiled at your behaviour.

When you got home, you both had to run inside because it had started raining. You immediately went to the bathroom to get dressed for bed, without sparing Satoru a look. After you were done, you laid on your bed and pretended to fall asleep.

Satoru, very well knowing that you were awake, gave your shoulder a nudge. “Y/N?”

"Go away, I'm trying to sleep."

“I highly doubt that. Is it something I said?”

“No.”

“Then what is it?”

“Well, I wasn’t the one who was totally oblivious to a girl hitting on me when my girlfriend stood just a few steps away.” You scoffed as you sat up.

“You can’t be serious.” He chuckled.

“Of course, I am.”

“Baby, look at me.” He said. When you didn’t listen to him, he cupped your face and made you look at him. He looked straight into your eyes and said, “You know you’re the only one for me, right? You’re the one who I’m deeply in love with.”

When you didn't say anything, he sighed and stood up. "Come with me." He said giving you his hand.

I take this magnetic force of a man to be my Loverr

You looked at him confused but took it nevertheless. "Why are we going outside? It's raining." You said when you noticed you were being led outside the house.

Satoru knew how much you loved the rain. That’s why if he was going to do this, he’ll do this with the things you loved.

You were still trying to comprehend as to why you were in the rain but you didn’t complain. You loved rain. It helped you calm down and helped relaxing your mind.

Satoru led you in your small house garden. You had already started getting soaked from the rain as you asked, “Why are we here?”

And you’ll save all your dirtiest jokes for me

“Why? Getting wet already?” he said as you rolled your eyes and laughed. He smiled at you. He swore his heart swells every time he hears you laugh or sees you smile, especially when he is the reason behind it.

“Let’s dance.” He said and spun you around. You laughed when he pulled you towards him and tried to waltz.

“You’re still a terrible dancer.” You said jokingly.

“Well you’re the only one who gets to dance with me so I suggest you get used to it.” He said, trying his best not to mess up the steps.

“Did you learn the basics of waltzing?” you asked when you saw him doing correct steps.

“Well, I know you love to dance and I’m a terrible dancer. So I tried learning just so you can have, not excellent but at least an average dance partner.” He said, scratching his neck sheepishly.

And at every table, I’ll save you a seat Loverr

You didn’t know that you could fall for him even more. He learned to dance, just for you. He knew you loved to dance so he tried to become better at it, just for you. You knew how hectic his schedule can get but still he took some time off it to learn how to dance, just for you. You loved this man so much and you’ll never get tired of admitting this.

Can I go where you go?

“There’s still something I need to do.” He said, now sounding somewhat nervous.

You raised an eyebrow and looked at him in suspicion, “what is it?”

You didn’t want to think the worse but with the way he was behaving, you couldn’t help it. Is this it? Is he going to break things off? You didn’t know how you will survive if your thoughts came true.

Can we always be this close?

He took a deep breath before reaching for his pocket and taking out a small box. He bent down on his knees and held open the box in front of you. You widened your eyes at sight before you and gasped when you realised what was happening.

“Y/N, I never knew I could love someone as much as I love you. You’re the ride and die for me, the one who is everything to me, the one who’s laugh and smiles makes my day, the one who’s tears break my heart, the one who will always own my heart. And I can’t believe that you love an idiot like me. I want you to be the first and only love for me. I want you to be the one who lights up my day with just a smile, who makes my nights beautiful with just a touch.”

Forever and ever and Ah

“I want to be the one for you who you’ll spend forever with just like you have always dreamed of. I don’t want to spend another minute without you being by my side.”

You’re my my my my

“So Y/N L/N, will you marry me?” he finished, tears falling from his eyes. You didn’t know when you started crying but this moment was the best moment of your entire life. You practically jumped on Satoru as you hugged him.

Oh you’re my my my my

“Yes, yes a million times yes!” you said in between your tears as Satoru hugged you back. When you pulled away, he slowly slipped the ring onto your ring finger.

You immediately leaned in and kissed him, pouring all your unsaid love into this kiss. He kissed you back with the same passion as you. You felt like you fell for him all over again. The love story that started long back when you were in university, when you never thought he even knew your existence, when you never thought he’ll notice you, when you never thought he would even speak yet alone dance with you. And you definitely didn’t think that out of everyone, Gojo Satoru was ‘The One’ for you. But even after everything, you wouldn’t have it any other way.

“Happy new year, Gojo.”

“Happy new year to you too, soon-to-be Mrs Gojo.”

Darling you’re my my my my

Loverrr <3

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ever blushed while reading your own writing? I just did lmao. Hope y’all liked this!

[tower-of-hana]

The Magic System in Harry Potter Is Kinda Dumb an Essay

The Killing Curse Was a Bad Idea

I took this one from a youtube video but it's true and I don't see it talked about a lot. The killing curse was a bad idea because it disincentivises the villains from ever attacking the heroes in an interesting way. Instead of using any type of dark magic that is interesting and cool they'll just reach for the instant death spell because it's easier.

It Doesn't Have Any Meaningful Rules:

Rules in a magic system are important because they allow the characters to establish strategies and for the audience to understand what those strategies are. Harry Potter doesn't do this which is why almost all of the magic fights are dumb and boring (it doesn't help that the main character knows like three spells but that isn't really a problem with the worldbuilding). Pretty much all the limits on the magic system in Harry Potter are used to stop the author from having to worldbuild.

It Also Doesn't Do Anything with the Lack of Rules:

That being said, anime fights where characters throw the sun at each other are dumb fun but Harry Potter doesn't do that either. Harry Potter doesn't really have any spells that are overpowered in an interesting way. As a result all fights are just characters throwing the same three spells at each other and older characters using undefined, more interesting spells to create the illusion of a better magic system.

Transfiguration Is Implemented Badly:

Transfiguration isn't a bad idea but the way it works in the books makes it completely useless. Why the fuck would anyone use a spell to turn a hyper specific thing into another hyper specific thing. That's just not all that helpful.

We Don't Know What Magic IS:

In Harry Potter pretty much everything about how magic works is badly defined. But I think most of this problem stems from the more fundamental problem that Harry Potter never establishes what magic is. In a lot of stories the author mentions at some point what their magic system fundamentally is: the force is some type of magic force that exists throughout the universe, chakra is magic energy that flows through your body etc. This is not necessary but it helps both you and the audience know what the rules and limits to magic are. Harry Potter doesn't do this so magic can just do random bullshit.

Good Guy Magic and Bad Guy Magic Operates on Twisted Morality:

Some pieces of media give the bad guys evil magic so you know that they are evil. Harry Potter tries to do this but utterly fails. Take the unforgivable curses for instance. The first is the cruciatus curse, it causes pain. This is fine, most people agree that pain is bad. The second one is the imperious curse, it allows you to control people. This would be fine because mental manipulation is generally considered to be bad. Or it would be, if the story hadn't already established that the "good guys" go around erasing people's memories all the time. In fact they constantly invade and manipulate the minds of muggles to the point where they genuinely do it more than the racist bad guys. In fact the wizarding world is basically an apartheid state enforced by the literal thought police and the main characters we're supposed to sympathize get positions of power in it (mostly) but I digress. The third is the killing curse and this one makes sense on the surface but when you think about it it's really baffling. Sure killing people with no other side effects or other purpose sounds evil until you realize that the good guys in Harry Potter try to kill people by: blowing them up, setting them on fire, crushing them with shelves of shitty plot devices, disintegrating them, defenestrating them (movie), freeing a dragon in a crowded area, setting unquestionably evil beings loose around children, suffocating them with magic plants, magic plant Havana Syndrome, crushing them with giants, burning them with the power of love, supposedly slicing them to pieces with transfigured knight statues, being eaten by magic bushes, poison murder trees, trampling them, and fucking yeeting them across the room. I dunno mate I would rather painlessly die tbh.

✨The Powa of Wuv✨

You know how the power of love is a thing we all joke about because it's such a trite and overplayed stand-in for an actual solution to a problem? Well the author decided to make it a part of the magic system. Now for the low low price of your mom you, yes you, can be immune to the plot. I would praise this as great satire if it wasn't taken 100% seriously the entire series.

[yukidragon]

Sunny Day Jack - Cat AU

Okay, so, two particular pieces of beautifully drawn fan art have collided together in my head to create a light and fluffy self-indulgent image that I just had to share with you all.

@okamiliqueur's heartbreaking picture of Jack's lonely and forgotten box from the new demo made me think of cats abandoned in boxes, "free to a good home." Only in the case of the game's story, he was left out in the rain to rot, the owner having given up giving him a good home.

@jazzylovetodraw's picture of Jack as a cat has been buzzing in my mind for quite a while. I just love how precious he looks in both forms, and when I was thinking of Jack being like those abandoned kittens in cardboard boxes... well, the combination was obvious.

I know that Jack's fursona is a snake, and I know being a cat is Shaun's thing, but I'm a sucker for kitties. I'm as biased towards cats as I am for dragons, if my avatar and username didn't offer enough of a hint. ;3 I'd love to see all the characters as kitties honestly.

Tempting though it may be to go with Fruits Basket rules for kitty Jack, like I toyed with over on twitter, I think I'm going to play with a different and simpler set of rules. In this universe, Jack is stuck as a cat until his sunshine's love allows him to become human again.

Admittedly, it's kind of hard to imagine Jack being alone for very long when he looks so adorable. Who wouldn't fall in love with that precious kitty face instantly? Most everyone would be putty in his paws.

Content Warning: I wind up touching on a couple explicit headcanon details near the end. I mean, I did say this is a pretty self-indulgent image with my OTP.

Maybe Jack was stuck as a cat via a curse ala Hocus Pocus and is guarding the box/tape/etc. Maybe he was stuck as a cat instead of in the tape and no one could see him until MC came along. Maybe he's got a tragic backstory like the cat from Fruits Basket.

Since this AU is more about the vibes, I'm just going to leave the how and why parts of the lore up in the air. All that matters is that Jack is stuck as a cat and left out in the rain in a cardboard box until MC decides to take him home.

I'm just going to switch over to Alice and what she would do in this scenario. Poor lonely Alice is out on the town, when she comes across the box out in the rain and sees an equally lonely kitten. Poor little thing, all wet and sad... She just has to take him home with her.

Alice cleans Jack up, gets him wrapped up all nice and warm in a blanket, and even gives him some chicken she bought for her own dinner that night. She'll have to get cat food and other things for her new furry companion tomorrow, though she should probably look for his owner and take him to a vet.

At first, Jack isn't sure what to do about the situation, though he is grateful. No one has even acknowledged his existence until Alice came along. She's so soft and warm. He loves it when she holds him. She's so kind too.

Alice does find it surprising Jack doesn't put up a fuss when being given a bath. Jack didn't exactly like the feeling of being all grimy, and don't get him started on fleas and other gross things cats have to deal with on the streets!

The vet isn't as fun, though Jack is well behaved, though very clingy to Alice throughout the appointment. He can't help but fear that she'll abandon him too. He'll keep up the helpless and adorably needy kitty act if it means she'll stay with him.

There's no ID chip, no tag, and no missing notice for any cat that looks like Jack. It's clear that the poor guy is a stray.

Alice is hesitant initially. She's wanted to get a pet cat for a long time now, but she has barely been able to take care of herself. How can she handle taking care of an innocent life that needs her when she's struggling so much with her own life?

That hesitation doesn't last long. Jack loves on Alice so much, constantly purring and snuggling up to her. He curls up with her when she sleeps or relaxes. He was hesitant at first, and she assumed that was because he was wary of her, when in reality, he just didn't want to cross any of her boundaries. He didn't want to do anything that might upset her and make her get rid of him. When she started petting and cuddling him, he wholeheartedly returned the affection, absolutely starved for it.

The first thing Alice thought when she saw Jack was that he was lonely, just like her. He's so sweet and can't stand to be apart from her. How can she just get rid of him when he makes her feel loved and needed?

Of course, a cat's life isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Cat food is a step down from people food, and a litterbox is anything but sanitary. Jack just skips that nonsense and goes straight to using the toilet despite the awkwardness, which shocks the heck out of Alice. He also snubs all cat food in favor of human food.

Yes, I could go with Jack being a ghost(?) cat that doesn't need food or to use the toilet, but then he wouldn't have gone through the indignities of a vet visit.

Then again... it would be funny if Alice brought Jack to the vet, only for them to think she's crazy, since to them all she's carrying is empty air.

Hmm... yeah, I think I'll go that route. As hilarious as vet hijinks and typical cat care with Jack while he possesses a human mind and identity might be, this would be a more interesting and tragic route. No one else can see Jack but Alice. He's lived for who knows how long in a world full of people that don't see him at all, unable to even be human anymore. It'd be a different type of hell than the one in the video tape, similar to what I talked about in my previous ramble.

Imagine if the 1984 incident Jack died and became a ghost(?) cat because he was secretly a cat shape shifter or something. Or maybe something more supernatural happened during the incident. Either way, cat ghost(?) Jack is very, very lonely.

Man, I just realized, it would be even more tragic (and complicated) if I go with the reincarnation route for this AU. Ghost(?) cat Jack probably had to watch Mary die slowly in the hospital after the incident, unable to help her or let her know that it's him. He couldn't even offer her comfort in her final days. It would've been so traumatizing.

For now, let's just play with this AU without the reincarnation angle, since this is supposed to be mostly light and fluffy feline fun with the OTP.

Jack, even as a cat, tries to do his best to help Alice out. If he can make himself useful, make her need him, then he won't ever lose her. He sneaks out when she goes to work to keep her company even though she initially tried to get him to stay home. No one sees him, so it won't matter. Besides, petting an invisible kitty is a good stress relief when dealing with awful customers, and certainly beats regular stimming.

The more Alice cares for Jack, the more powers he gets back, starting with the ability to talk. It's a huge shock for Alice of course, but Jack makes it clear that it's because of her love for him that made her stronger.

Of course, that love is platonic, at least at the start, which Jack knows full well, but he'll work on shifting things to a romantic love... especially after he gets the power to shift back into a form that has hands.

Like in typical canon, Jack answers Alice's questions as best he can. He probably lost his sense of identity like in game canon, so he references CloudyTown and stuff "he" did there, mixing up the show's lore with his own past. It's also intermingled with his many years spent wandering the streets being ignored and going crazy from the loneliness.

Jack does let Alice know that he used to be able to change from a cat to human. He just... can't anymore. He thinks it was because he was forgotten. He doesn't know why no one can see him until Alice came along.

It's so sad and tragic that Alice can't be unmoved by his plight. Sure, it makes things a bit awkward knowing that Jack is sentient and used to have a human form, but she feels for him. It also makes sense now why Jack always turned away whenever she changed.

Yes, Jack could have peeked. He could have even watched Alice while she was bathing, but he didn't. He refuses to do anything she won't allow. Cuddling her and sleeping in her bed is innocent, but the thoughts he'd have about her when she was undressing were anything but. He loves her too much to take advantage of her innocent trust in him. He needs her to want him to see her in that vulnerable state... even if it drives him crazy lusting over her. Poor pitiful kitty can't even have a good wank off session with his paws.

Still, despite knowing that Jack was human and is sentient, it's hard for Alice not to fall for his feline charms and not think too deeply about that fact. She still winds up cuddling him and petting him.

Of course, when it first hits Alice that she's treating a human like a pet, she stops and apologizes, but Jack insists that it's fine. He enjoys their cuddle time. He gives her the big, pleading kitty eyes as he begs her not to stop, and she can't help but give in.

Awkwardness soon fades and settles into a strange new normal. Alice does wonder if Jack really is real or if she was just so lonely she imagined something this crazy... but his presence is comforting. He keeps her company almost all the time. She doesn't feel alone anymore thanks to him.

Also... now that Jack can talk, he says such sweet things. It's weird to have a "pet" take care of her, but he reminds her of when it's time to brush her teeth, wakes her up for work, helps her get chores done despite how awkward it is with his paws and small size... It's so endearing.

The encouragement and assistance Jack gives Alice is wonderful, and his jokes are so fun and silly, but it's the praise that leaves her feeling flustered. If she didn't know any better, she could swear that he's almost flirting with her sometimes. She's in denial that's what it is, but it feels nice to be told that she's cute, and Jack is so sincere about it... and how can she not melt when he says sweet things with such a sweet face?

It's one morning that things change drastically. Alice's bond with Jack strengthened over time to the point that Jack finally can change back into a mostly human form, though he does have cat ears, a fluffy tail, and whisker markings.

It was a big surprise to them both really, as Jack transformed in his sleep. Alice had gotten used to cuddling up to a talking cat during the night, so it was a shock to wake up in a pair of big muscular arms. Jack was so happy when waking her that morning, giddy to show her his (mostly) human side, that it slipped his mind what a shock it would be.

Naturally, Alice bolted back against the wall away from the stranger in her bed. Jack quickly started reassuring her of who he was and that she wasn't in danger. He stooped down to her level, pretty much wilting really, with ears folded back, as he apologized for scaring her. He was just so happy that he wasn't thinking about how it must look from her side...

Seeing Jack so pitiful and sad, Alice feels her heart go out to him. Once things calm down, she can't help but be amazed by how he looks. Unthinkingly, she reaches up to pet his ears and feel how they attach to his skull. She only fully realizes how forward she's being when Jack starts purring.

Flustered, Alice immediately pulls back, only for Jack to whine at the loss of her touch. He didn't mind it at all. He always loves it when she cuddles with him.

It's a complicated feeling for Alice. On the one hand they've been very close for so long. On the other, Jack is definitely a human, so it feels different now.

Yet, Jack is so sweet. He's mindful of her hesitation, even if he's disappointed. It's harder for him to hide his feelings with such expressive ears. Alice can't help but want to reach out to him, especially after they've already spent so much time together, getting to know one another. He's chased away the loneliness that had been haunting her for so, so long.

Of course, now that Jack has a human form, Alice finds her feelings slipping into "dangerous" territory. He makes her feel so good, so loved, and she feels for him too. She doesn't want to dare assume he might feel anything more for her than just a friend, but she can't help but notice the way he looks at her, the way he clearly longs to be near her. He's so tender and gentle... and they've already been so cuddly.

It's easier for Alice to find herself cuddling up to Jack, letting him and taking guilty pleasure from his gentle warmth. He pets her hair too in return, and it feels surprisingly good... a bit too good at times.

The line between friend or something more blurs with all the cuddles and petting. Alice feels guilty about it, but Jack keeps encouraging her until, finally, something has to give and their relationship changes. Both of them feel relieved when it does, as they couldn't help but worry that their feelings might not be reciprocated.

In a lot of ways, it's pretty close to the normal continuity, just with some fuzzy ears on top. Jack can change into a cat at will now. As he gets stronger, people can start to see him, perhaps as a feline silhouette, or maybe with some unsettling shadows not from a cat. He's certainly going to be a bit territorial and not be afraid to hiss and use his claws if absolutely necessary.

Still, this kitty is pretty content thanks to Alice. Jack loves it when Alice carries him around as a teeny kitty, warm and snuggly against her chest, even in the cleavage of her shirt at times. Naturally, he returns the favor, carrying her around the apartment as often as possible. It's only fair after all~!

Naturally, Jack wants to get intimate with Alice as soon as she lets him. He's so pent up. Even with hands to take care of himself, all the cuddling and now kisses just make him ache for her even more. He longs to be inside her, biting her gently and growling in pleasure as he takes her.

A bonus with Jack being part cat is that he gets to have some vibrating action when he purrs. It adds a whole new dimension to their lovemaking, whether he's using his mouth on her sensitive parts, or thrusting himself deep inside.

Oh, I'm reminded of the cat-like features I mentioned in the Omegaverse AU. I guess Jack, having feline features, would have a dick that's ribbed for her pleasure too. Tongue too. Neither would be sharp because rule of sexy, but it would add a very pleasurable texture that a clever man like Jack is going to take full advantage of~

Of course, Alice can take advantage of those feline features too. The base of Jack's tail and ears are quite sensitive, and she quickly learns what spots get his motor running. Of course, getting Jack excited will lead to him pouncing on her and getting rather frisky, but Alice would certainly be expecting that result~

I can imagine Jack could make himself look fully human without any feline features, but he knows Alice finds his cat side to be adorable. She has a hard time resisting petting him when his ears and tail are out, and he certainly wants to encourage her to pet him as much as possible. He also wants to encourage her to let him pet her as much as possible.

Of course, if Jack can become powerful enough that other people can see him, he'll have to stick with only cat or human form when out in public. Still, even when other people can see and hear him, he prefers to be in Alice's company. Cats have their preferred human, and Alice is Jack's.

Naturally, Jack would have to be sneaky about showing Alice love when in public if there's a chance of getting caught. Good thing he has that perfectly innocent little kitty form to hide in. I can imagine it would lead to some interesting interactions where someone shows up only to find Alice incredibly flustered with a slightly disheveled appearance, while her "pet" Jack is just casually looking smug, as all cats do.

Person: Whoa, what happened to you?

Alice, not looking them in the eye: Uh... Jack, m-my cat just... ah, got a bit excited.

Person: Heh. Cats, am I right?

Alice: Haha... right.

Jack: :3c

Hmm... I wonder then if the other love interests should have cat transformations in this AU too. It'd be a crime if Shaun doesn't have that ability but Jack does. Jack already gets together with Alice, so I don't want to be extra cruel to Shaun.

Admittedly, I don't have too many ideas for other characters with cat modes. Well, aside from an image of Shaun taking care of his baby MoonPie by carrying her around by the scruff. This post was mostly just indulging in sweet moments with my OTP with a bit of feline flavor sprinkled on top. Maybe I'll revisit the idea again if I get more ideas than just a bit of fluff.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed this silly romp with Alice and Jack having some feline fun times!

@channydraws @earthgirlaesthetic @sai-of-the-7-stars @cheriihoney @illary-kore @okamiliqueur @kurokrisps

[very-bad-poetry-captain]

TOS novel book review McCoy edition nr 4 - Planet of Judgment

I knew there was a TOS novel where McCoy's wife was called Honey and she divorced him because they hadn't been intimate in three whole weeks, but I didn't remember it was Planet of Judgment. And I am judging this book.

Link to the previous review

Title: Planet of Judgment Author: Joe Haldeman Year published: 1977 (this was one of the very first trek novels ever published)

Content warning: a few descriptions of dying and wounded people, a bit of body horror

Plot summary in two sentences: A pretty large landing party including Kirk, Spock, and McCoy get stuck on a planet where natural laws don't seem to work and they have a few very bad no good days playing "stranded on a planet trying to kill us" before the aliens make contact, and then they are experimented on but like, it's clearly for a good reason so it's all fine (it's not). This book seemed like it could have been a TOS episode but mercifully it wasn't. Official plot summary: Never before had the Enterprise been betrayed by its own technology. Never before had their systems, instruments and weapons failed to respond. And never before had Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew faced a total breakdown of science and sanity... until they stumbled on the mysterious world that couldn't exist... A world orbited by a black hole ruled by chaos - where man was a helpless plaything for a race of beings more powerful than the laws of the universe. A brain-bending voyage into the unknown with the Starship ENTERPRISE.

This book is for you if you:

Kinda like the classic 70s scifi plot style

Want to read every novel that has McCoy in it (his parts are fun)

Enjoy philosophical questions such as "Is experimenting on aliens ethical if the constant 'clatter clatter' from their brains is really annoying? Like, super annoying. Honest." and "If Spock has read romance novels and knows about fake dating, does that mean every fanfic on the subject where it's Spock's idea is no longer out of character (asking for a friend)?"

Want to read a really detailed description of the scene on Vulcan in Amok Time minus the part about Jim's shirt being sliced open because that was apparently not important

This book was 50% not very interesting and 50% wow, he really wrote that huh 🫢

The ultimate McCoy questionnaire under the read-more (some spoilers):

1. Is McCoy in it?

Yes! More than I excepted at the beginning of the book!

2. Is McCoy in it a lot?

If you can get through the first part of the book, McCoy gets lots of time to shine. If you cut out most of the book and keep the McCoy parts I'd say it was a really good book.

3. Does he get to be concerned over whatever angst has befallen Kirk lately?

Well, yes and no. He's befallen with the same angst. Mostly. He gets to sneak in a "heh I really don't envy you having to be captain, Captain" in there. And there's a few hours where he thinks Jim is dead. The book doesn't linger too much on his anxiety but to be fair the book skips ahead quite a lot and isn't too keen on explanations.

But in a memorable scene he cuts down a tree and it falls right on top Jim 🤨

4. Does he get to have silly little arguments with Spock?

Read these excerpts from the book and tell me this isn't potentially the weirdest exchange of words he's ever had with Spock.

There was a really classic exchange though between the three of them that hit their dynamic just right (after Spock and McCoy join Jim to be stranded with him on the planet because they missed him):

Spock: You volunteered for the mission, Doctor. Surely there must have been some thread of logic to support your decision.

McCoy: Only intuition, Spock. Worked out the same.

Kirk: Whatever your reasons, I'm glad to see both of you but sorry we put you in the soup.

5. Is he the damsel in distress?

Not at all :/ But he does say "Good God. I wish Jim was here." so at least he was feeling like a damsel in distress.

6. Does he suffer, preferably a lot? Physical and/or psychological torment.

Mostly psychological, there's the experimenting of course and an injured crewmember that disappears and comes back all wrong and of course he blames himself for it for a while. And he gets to re-live when his wife left him. Because they, uh, haven't been intimate since March 3rd (three weeks ago). Presumably that wasn't the only thing but his immediate reaction to her taking their daughter and leaving the apartment is seeing an ad for Starfleet in a magazine and going "oh yeah I'll join Starfleet, that'll show her". Show her what? I have questions, Mr. Haldeman. And I think he could have suffered a bit more but I suppose there needed to be enough room for Kirk to have a sword-fight against pirates.

7. Does he get to whine and complain and be right about it? Even better, is he wrong about it?

Both he and Jim have these weird little rambling half-asleep thinking sessions that take up a couple of pages of unstructured and barely legible writing. He does complain about the experimentation though, and he gives Jim a really dirty look once. Most of his complaints are very reasonable in this one.

8. Does he get to throw some of that southern charm around?

There's a throwaway line that he's interested in one of the women in the landing party, but it really is thrown away and not used? He's always charming, though. Why is this even a question. Even Spock agrees in this book.

9. Does he get to do some medical malpractice?

Well now. He has to do stitches and use a knife, not even a clean one. And you know he hates such medieval practices but the medical instruments aren't working. I'd say that counts as medical malpractice. He also gets to kill a guy? I think that goes against his oath or something.

10. Does Spock call him illogical or similar?

Only a little bit. This is one of those missions where they finish each other's thoughts etc. so like. They're besties<3

11. Is he forcibly put through his arch nemesis the transporter? Or the dress uniform?

He has to go in a shuttle (not shown but I assume he didn't like it) and then he gets telepathically beamed through space by aliens with pretty bad aim several times :3

12. Does Kirk call him handsome (joke or not this happens more than you’d think)?

No but he complains that McCoy knows all the ship's scuttlebutt about who's sleeping with who and so on. McCoy was so ready to read out a list to Jim but I think he decided that as captain he's better off not knowing. And he tells McCoy not to get into mutiny-territory which, when you think about it, is kind of the same as calling him hot.

13. Bonus points if his accent is pronounced and his speech is full of befuddling southern expressions which make Spock question McCoy’s sanity (and me wondering if I need a dictionary)

He calls Spock "weirder than a whistling fish" and it took me forever to realize it wasn't some southern expression (or is it?) it's just that if a fish whistled it would be pretty weird. Anyway Spock is like yeah okay fair enough.

McCoy calls one of the aliens "ugly son of a bitch" so at least he got to swear in this one.

Criticisms/things I’d change

I'm sure this book is a product of its time so I won't be too hard on it. But if I could, I'd definitely elaborate on the scene where Spock asks McCoy to help him get rid of Chapel's interest in him. Like, I just think it has so much potential. Just trust me on this I'll make it really normal and not at all weird (it was already weird). Jokes aside I think they spent too much time playing "help we're stranded on a planet trying to kill us" and in the end no one even explained how all the science around the planet worked, just chalked it up to "oooh powerful aliens". The ending was interesting though. Being experimented on is enrichment for Starfleet officers.

Highlights:

To be honest the best part was where the aliens beamed everyone back to the ship using their mind powers only, except for Jim and Spock, and then after ten minutes they were like hey actually we made a mistake we're bringing McCoy back. They put my poor wife through something worse than the transporter twice when they could have just kept him on the planet all along, and said hey how about you help us save the world against evil scorpions with your will power, no pressure but we start in ten minutes and you'll probably die :D Also he sleeps on a bunch of cardboard boxes? And gets to cut down trees with the scifi equivalent of a chainsaw? And he gets to play mind poker in some kind of gangster movie setting... Fun times all around!

Final McCoy meter: 8/10

[ask-paradox-and-friends]

Welp. Just cause.

I'mma to try and world build a little.

So here we go.

When ragnarok is finished the gods get so upset the universe resets and everyone gets a second life. Funnily enough Göll is immune to the mind wipe but so are the gods who plan to make the godkiller lives harder as a result of them loosing.

They get a power boost between the godkillers getting stronger and both Goll and sunblood tracking them down. Funnily enough each others power system slowly creep themselves into each other.

There are multiple heavens and hells. Though only one purgatory. Purgatory is treated like life again while the heavens and hells are very different.

Yes. Hellavurse adam does exist along side ror adam. Someone tried to split Adam's power. (See there is a god named Adam Kadmon who is basically a personification of pure divine energy or pure potential.) Someone tried to rip the devine power out of ror adam and made hh adam as a crappy clone. Kadmon meanwhile thinks both adams were made to mock him as he is the one who made mortals in the new timeline.

Paradox being a dragon can grow to assanine size. He will grow until he dies. When the new timeline happens he dosent die until he's st least 1500 according to a goll who stole cronus's sickle (considering 35/131 Paradox full dragon form can pull a marvel world serpent have fun.)

The goll that stole the sickle is called G she is one of 3 Göll's walking around there's a break in the timestream. Timeline leads to the dc/marvel worlds another leads to our tumblr verse and the last one is a future that's now...gone. each Göll likes someone diffrent. One likes onyx one isn't sure who she likes and G is embarrassed to admit hers.

The god of war games aren't canon and neither is mortal kombat that is a different timestream but they can visit.

None of the ragnarok fighters can partake in the second apocalypse tournament.

The apocalypse tournament was simple. Get the most out of control gods and have them fight the gods that aren't with heaven whoever wins gets a wish granted or a law added to the rules of heaven.

There's many ways to become a god but you don't have to be allied with heaven to be a god.

The outer god title is only given to gods heaven can't control.

Humanity had been wiped out at least 5 times.

Golden age (mais time) destroyed by Zues when the titans were overthrown.

Silver age (Salems time) destroyed by the brother gods.

The iorn age (Just before dearil but after Oersted) destroyed by the god of hate Odio. (Odio was sealed away by a pissed of nyxie.)

The bronze age (modern day to buns time which is 150 years from now.) Destroyed by the gods of Pina's world and the monster god (he mostly hated humans for damaging the environment) as the gods feared humanity surpassed them and destroyed technology.

The nuclear age (Sunblood's generation) ww3 happened. Take a wild fucking guess.

Magic is split into 6 studies. Glyph,mana,sage,bless,summon,and channel.

They're are beings called chaos pins and order pins.

Voids of powers exist. (Easpers/psykers have level 0s magic users have Voids and chi users have Dams) each one is feared.

There's several gods who live in the mortal realms but they never show their powers.

No time god can accurately see the future. And none of them can be effected by or create a paradox.

Primordials were told as myths by gods who feared them while anything older then a god kept the stories alive as they are birthed from a Primordial.

The three oldest beings in reality are Archne (the Genesis of reality) Nxyie (the void itself) and Yahweh (GOD HIMSELF)

Noone knows oldest among them and they don't care.

Göll sets up the mortal fighters for the apocalypse tournament to fight just incase the gods won't and these mortal fighters become known as the champions.

Brunhilde isn't aware none of the Einherjars turst her and would rather be Göll's champions.

The Einherjars get new deaths and die at new ages in the new timelines.

The titans are dead. And so are most gaints and monster that were 'sealed away forever.'

The only thing that old left is a hecatonceries that refers to himself as 'Warden'

Several myths never happened.

The multiple hells have their own Satans and Lucifers and sins. Very few get along.

It is possible for a mortal to become a sin if one were to kill the previous sin.

The main enemies of the Einherjars start teaming up. It goes...horribly.

(If you want the joke ones here we go.)

Paradox is part equestrian ["so someone in my family f**ked a magic horse?...oh gods am I a loki descendent? Or zues's?"]

Bun is half mobian (sonic world) ["MOM! WHAT THE CRAP!?"]

Sunblood is half pokemon ["Well my mother was human. Otherwise my family would've kept the eggshell take from that what you will :)"]

[amazing-lovers-fic-fest]

So, what's the deal? What's this Seb Vettel's Amazing Lovers Fic Fest all about then, eh? What do you have to do? What are the rules for this fest?

Well... *cracks knuckles* ...lemme tell ya!

🌟 FEST RULES: 🌟 -All works must be complete and handed in ON TIME! If you have any issues prior to the fest’s due date, such as a possible time extension, get in contact with me or the mods well in advance.

-You may sign up as both a writer and an artist, if you want to.

-Submitting AI generated works is NOT allowed and goes against the fest’s rules. You will automatically be kicked out of the server if this happens.

-DO NOT WRITE OR DRAW ANY SEXUAL CONTENT INVOLVING MINORS (PEOPLE WHO ARE UNDERAGE)! You will be banned from the server if you’re caught doing this.

-You’re free to share snippets of your fanfic or artwork in this server. Just make sure you add ones that don't reveal too much of the story. Obviously, you can share the whole thing with the people you’re collaborating with by the time artist claims rolls around.

-Another thing to keep in mind of: If you’re going to talk about the fanfic you’ll be writing for the fest on platforms outside of Discord such as Tumblr, don’t spoil too much about what happens in your story. Try to keep it all under wraps until the date of the fest to keep your audience in suspense.

-As always, please don’t share your work with anyone outside of the fandom. The RPF world is our little corner of the internet and is not to be shared with anyone outside of that. That includes sharing it with the people you’re writing about.

✍🏻 WRITERS: 📖 -You are allowed to write more than one Seb pairing for your fanfic. You don’t have to restrict yourself to just one Seb pairing. You can have as many as you like in your story. Or you can stick to just one Seb pairing. Whatever you fancy!

-You are allowed to include any motorsport series you like in your fanfic (F1, Moto GP, WEC, etc.), but you MUST include Sebastian Vettel in it in some way. You can cross it over with other racing series, if you wish. However, general crossovers from films, TV shows and video games are NOT allowed! You can base a story off of them, but don’t attempt to put a character from, say, a Marvel film into your stories and artwork. This is a Sebastian Vettel and motorsport server after all! You can stick to canon or write a wacky, fun, silly, or dramatic story in the form of an AU (Alternate/Alternative Universe). It’s completely up to you!

-You can write a one-shot or a multi-chaptered fanfic. You may base your work off of an existing fanfic you’ve written, but it MUST be standalone and not a new chapter of a multi-chaptered fanfic. If you’re planning to make a standalone prequel or a sequel to a multi-chaptered fic you’ve written, then that’s fine.

-Your work must be at least 75% complete to submit your proposal by the artist claims.

-Communicate with your artist and beta readers. You can DM, email or message them. Whatever works for you and for them.

-All complete works must be 5k or more to allow the artist plenty of information to do some artwork for you.

-Your work must be tagged appropriately.

-You’re not allowed to publish anonymously. Your username must be clearly displayed when publishing your finished work. We won’t be able to find you otherwise!

-Make sure to give credit to the artist you are paired with when submitting your fanfic.

🎨 ARTISTS: 🖌️ -You have free rein to create all sorts of art pieces for the writer’s fanfic in any style and format you like: A title cover, a banner, a scene from the fanfic, etc. You can do some traditional hand drawn pictures, paintings, arts and crafts, video edits, traditional/digital collages, and many more. Go crazy!

-There’s no limit on how many you decide to do. Doing just one piece of fanart is absolutely fine if you can’t manage to do more than that.

-Be sure to give credit to the writer you’re paired with when submitting your artwork.

As mentioned before, if you have any questions or problems, don’t be afraid to get in contact with me or the mods.

In other news, sign-ups for the fest are still open, so head on over to our Discord server to join as a writer, an artist, or a bit of both. Maybe even a beta reader! Or you just want to have a bit of fun! Everyone's welcome!

Happy writing and arting! 💙

From your captain,

Gemma (aka @avida-heidia-5)

[gyokujyn]

First, Best, Worst Fanfic Tag Game

Tagged by @blackwood4stucky

Rules: In a new post, answer the following:

First Character You Wrote a Fanfiction About: My first fanfiction was in the Star Trek universe, but I was writing OCs, so... My first fanfiction writing about an existing character was probably about Fox Mulder from The X-Files way back in the mid/early 90s.

Last Character/Current Fixation: I feel like this goes without saying for anyone who knows me at all, but: Bucky Barnes.

Fic You Are Proudest Of: Probably something I'm not ready to share, yet, lol, but of the ones that I've got up on AO3? God, that's hard to choose... I could probably give you a top 3, in no particular order. The Disintegration Machine, The Illusion of Choice, and Hands-On Training, all of which were from my Febuwhump Bucky Series from this year. The Disintegration Machine is a flashback to pre-war times where Bucky reads a strangely prescient story to Steve to keep him awake after a mild concussion and I just really liked the way the narrative paralleled the Doyle story--I also loved the final scene when we check back in with Bucky in captivity. In The Illusion of Choice, Zola gives Bucky the choice between submitting willingly to Hydra's continued experimentations, or to die in obscurity and, idk, I just really wanted to kill Bucky and I think it flowed well. Hands-On Training is Bucky proving himself to be ready for field duty as a Hydra Asset and both Bucky and the POV character are so unreliable in it and it's just fun. Eventually, I will finish that whole series and then edit into a single fic and I hope that one will be my new proudest fic, lol.

Most Popular Fic: Well... Most hits would be Hands-On Training, linked above. No surprise, because it contains explicit sexual content of very dubious consent and people seem to be into that, lol. Most kudos is something I wrote for a Supernatural exchange a few years ago called Snow Falls Like Love which is possibly the sweetest, fluffiest thing I've ever written, lol. But, by far and away the most bookmarks and subscriptions goes to Breaking In, a standalone chapter one for a Bucky/Zemo WW2 AU that I completely intend to finish. Eventually. Some day. My villain has absconded with the plot and I am too burned out to fix it right this very moment, but I'm patient.

Fic you wrote that you DISLIKE the Most: I don't really post things I'm not happy with in some way, lol, but... Maybe The Lesson? I like some parts of it, like Bucky's dream, but both the scuffle in the previous scene and Bucky's interaction with Dima in the following scene were just the okayest.

Strangest Fic/People wonder where it came from/Why: I don't think I've had anybody ask where any of it came from, although I had someone tell me that they didn't realize that Bucky wasn't the POV character in Hand-On Training, again linked above, until quite late in the fic--which was intentional, the POV character is in a very similar situation to Bucky so I was happy to hear it, frankly.

Strangest Thing You've Ever Learned For a Fic: I don't know what I would consider strange... If I'm writing about it, I probably don't think it's that strange. I've learned a lot of fun historical shit, like the history of porn, sex toys, prophylactics, personal lubricants... I've studied a few different languages, including dead ones... I don't know, what's strange???

Favorite AU Type to Write: I'm actually really not big on AUs. I like to keep things pretty canon-compliant or maybe just diverging in one or two things that I think would make interesting changes to the story.

Favourite Trope/Type of thing to Write: Whump, I suppose. True tragedies where it could never have ended any differently.

No pressure tags: @katie-delaney @thepiper0fhameln @bromcommie @amaraangelicus and if any of my art/other media friends wanted to do this for their art, I'd be interested... 👀👀👀

[dameronswife]

ngl reading your response about Finn/Rey now has me curious so uh. Reylo for the ship asks?

After a lot of staring between my options I've decided to go with both answers for this one because my feelings on this ship is so mercurial and largely dependent on how forgiving I feel at the moment: I don't not ship it. But I also don't ship it.

What made you ship it?

When we couldn't get to the theater, me and my folks crowded around and watched a bootleg copy of tlj that criminally cut off right before the damerey meet cute. But during that first watch, my response was a hard "nope don't like this" up until the elevator scene, at which point my brain was suddenly quite compelled? Their certainty in each other and that they'd stand together, but the question of which side it would be on, was very intriguing to me.

I probably could've let the matter drop, as Kylo at the time didn't really interest me much as a character (he still doesn't, although I do have a lot of strong opinions on him), but the fandom backlash was so strong that the only corner of the internet that was still positive towards the sequels was the reylo community, so I followed some blogs and read a lot of interesting meta that focused on mythology and symbolism, that further drew me in (predictably probably).

What are your favorite things about the ship?

I like messy ships that end badly, lmao. It's a rarity for me to get really invested in a ship that doesn't have a happy ending, but sometimes a pairing is just fucked up enough I want to stick them in a centrifuge (other examples being Peter/Felicia and Poe/Zorii).

But I love how the two foil each other in interesting ways: Kylo's pull to the Light, Rey's to the Dark. The comics are doubling down on Kylo's insistence on non-attachment (evil edition) that is a fun inverse to Rey's attachment (not evil edition) that's a lot of fun to me. And Force Bullshittery is afoot.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I like TROS. Kidding! But also not. I don't think Rey losing him is incredibly tragic or anything — the almost and the what if nature of their bond is the most critical part of the entire concept to me. They were never going to have a “happy ending”, and even if Ben had survived. These two are the two characters in the entire Star Wars universe that I think are the LEAST likely to ever want children. They both have too much baggage for that.

Why don't you ship it?

A lot of reasons. Obviously, I think it's a fucked up dynamic and it's meant to be. The offer to rule the galaxy fucks Rey up, no matter what motivations you ascribe to Ren in that moment: the after effects of the betrayal is still felt in the next movie where we see her self confidence is in absolute tatters after being told she's nothing.

And I love that she cuts him off. He treats her like shit and she cuts him off and won't have anything to do with him until he gets his shit together. She makes her own family that genuinely loves and cares for her, and I love that message so much more than “fixing the bad boy.”

Besides storylines, the fandom killed most of my interest in it. The toxicity that circulated shipping communities during that time was insane and I definitely felt them (such as one friend no longer speaking to me and claiming I left them to "hang out with my new reylo friends" which wasn't even true I was such a hermit at the time), but a huge part was the overemphasis on bloodlines and nuclear family happy endings. That didn't sit well with me and still doesn't, and the hypersexuality also makes me uncomfortable (but that's any fandom for me).

Ultimately the thing that tipped me over into losing all interest was Poe, and how often the fandom villainized him for simply Existing around Rey and outright taking stuff out of context from expanded material to pass off as though he was being misogynistic towards her. And it's hard to be interested in a ship where you only genuinely like (1) character, and I only love Rey so my interest in Kylo is entirely dependant on how he serves her story.

What would have made you like it?

If it had been more like Osha/Qimir, I think? Those two are so fucked up in a different way that's far more fun to me. But honestly aside from that: if it wasn't enemies to lovers at all. That's not a trope I personally enjoy, I'm more of an annoyances to lovers person. I definitely think I could enjoy a modern au where they're just autism4autism hiding out on the porch for some quiet from loud family gatherings lmao.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

I think them serving as foils and their what if dynamic opens a lot of fun paths for character study for both characters as it exists in canon! And I think they have some of the best lightsaber fights in the franchise. The throne room scene is very exciting, no matter how many times I watch it!

ask me about ships!

[degrassi-tournaments]

Degrassi's worst character tournament!

After a brief hiatus (the last tournament ended on my birthday and then i had finals right after), I will now start preparations for the next tournament: Degrassi's worst character.

Before this one begins, I need to come up with the list of contestants. Thats where this google form will come in. Submit which characters you want in the tournament there along with (optional) comments about why people should vote for that character (that will appear next to the poll).

To make sure that things aren't boring, I've decided to ban characters that have committed violent or sexual crimes UNLESS they serve another purpose in the narrative at some point or can otherwise be considered a complex character. This is to prevent characters like Dean from automatically winning the competition.

Examples:

Dean does not qualify because his character purely exists to SA Paige and then get away with it, he doesn't do anything else that's important to the story.

Luke Baker (Becky's brother) SA'd Zoe, but he also had other storylines in the show and I don't think his character was even originally conceived for that purpose, so he qualifies and you can submit him

Rick qualifies because the narrative of the show does a lot to allow for sympathy towards him and the reasoning for his actions is more thoroughly explored than Dean, for example (plus, I see people sympathizing with him online very often, so clearly he's a more controversial character than a universally hated one).

Although it is not addressed in the show as such, both Katie and Anya arguably (but with a very solid argument) SA'd their boyfriends, but obviously they are both full on main characters so they qualify for the competition and you can submit them if you want

Minor characters that didn't commit any particularly violent or sexual crimes like Linus (the homophobe from Friendship club) or the plethora of shitty (but not violently abusive) parents on the show can also be submitted

Characters you just find annoying are very welcome, those will be the most fun for this IMO

Also, unrelated to that previous rule, characters from ANY iteration of the show can be put in, so feel free to put some DJH/DH or Next Class characters in there.

Here is a list of characters that are already in the competition; these are all basically characters that I've noticed are commonly hated on or are controversial in the fandom. They do not need to be submitted but if you would like to submit propaganda comments, feel free to use the same submission link and do so:

Rick Murray

Derek Haig

Blue Chessex

Peter Stone

Jay Hogart

Owen Mulligan

Tristian Mulligan

Hunter Hollingsworth

Ashley Kerwin

Craig Manning

Emma Nelson

Clare Edwards

You have a week (so until June 1st) to submit characters, then the tournament will begin.

Let the hating begin

The submission link (once again)

Alt submission link: https://forms.gle/3Xu4jC25vze62yMT9

[lovecanbesostrange]

What I would love to get from Marvel would be a 5 issue mini series for Rogue & Mystique.

I don't have a specific plot in mind, but the general idea would be that Mystique does a thing and Rogue reluctantly joins her.

Raven deals in information, she knows things, she has spy-experience and she has been made aware of something bad happening. It's not world-ending or universe-altering. It doesn't even have to be specifically anti-mutant. It can be some mostly white collar crime that would lead to a lot people suffering, noticeably mutants though. It could also be a political move with lots of backroom whispers, some long con for legislation that in the end would be easily turned into something anti-mutant (that looks appealing at first with a "what harm could possibly come from this"). But that demands a lot of complicated or convuluted explanations. And truth is the plot only needs to make a bare minimum of sense, because the heart of the story is the personal relationship.

The important part would be the outcome of it all. It has to be somewhat time sensitive. The proper channels or any news campaign would take too long. There is no threat to punch outright, Mystique is following a trail and infiltration works best. But well Raven is gonna be Raven and she doesn't care about breaking rules and using unethical means. So at first it looks like Mystique did a typical Mystique-thing and oh look, someone was hurt. Rogue can have a dramatic sigh about it, tells her fur babies to look after Gambit and goes after her.

The first important emotional beat is how the reader already knows more than Rogue and can see how Mystique lets her believe this is all a villain plot at first. If others see her as the bad guy? So be it. Don't care. But Rogue realizes something is up and she does give Mystique the benefit of the doubt (obligatory dead-pan about how this has not turned out well in the past). This comes full circle in the end though. When the threat is neutralized, there is some rumble, there needs to be a scapegoat or baddie for the public news and oh look, it will seem like terrorist Mystique did a bad thing. The truth is buried. But Rogue will know. And she can see that Mystique takes on this position, because this is the optimal outcome.

[Yeah, sorry, this is why I don't write things. There needs to be an actual somewhat political plot happening. Can be flimsy, but making enough sense. And I don't know any details for this.]

Something I need desperately is that every issue uses at least one of Mystique's identities. They need to be mentioned, at least one used to get her access somewhere. We need to revive the running gag of Mystique having more jobs than Barbie. Number one on this list, bring back top model Ronnie Lake. But for the lols, her old credentials from the Daily Bugle still work. Stuff like that. I am a fan of the times when the very many personas Raven has portrayed backfire in a way that she loses her own self. Make this part of the fun, but also the drama.

Also I demand at least one flashback to Brotherhood of Evil Mutants times. A hilarious crime they did together. It is absolutely allowed to tonally clash with the rest, it should read a bit like a relic from a different era. Otherwise flashbacks are important, to either give a commentary on scenes that have happened within the comics or to make this a complicated emotional mess, because they both remember happy family times. Because yes, those do exist. But also maybe I just want to pinpoint when it all went south. When Mystique stabbed Rogue during the Dream's End crossover.

(Bishop The Last X-Man #16 by Lobdell, Derenick, Massengill)

Yeah, Rogue got to stab her back, but up until here, there was always a connection despite being on opposite sides. Still, despite how cartoonishly evil Mystique was in that storyline, this is a thing that did happen. And I would be here for a lightly comical talk about it. (This is much worse than when Mystique shot Rogue, that actually helped save her life in the end, so...)

On the flipside, while Mystique uses her curated list of personalities, Rogue gets to call up her new hero buddies, non-X-Men edition. Most of all I want her to hit up Johnny Storm, because they were so close as Avengers, it's hilarious. And then she introduces Mystique in her alias. (We should not involve Dazzler, that is a bridge too far; also leave Carol out of this, it's for the best. Nobody wants to remember Michael Barnett ever existed.) This is also where Mystique takes a look at the people in Rogue's life and she will opinions on who she would accept as her son- or daughter-in-law more instead of Gambit. The pay-off by the end has to be that Mystique says something very nice about him though and then threatens to kill Rogue if she ever tells him. Very important.

Kinda wanna get back to here in a way:

(X-Men (1991) #94 by Davis, Kavanagh, Farmer, Javins)

[hollowsart]

can you explain mites a bit to me? i get the vague idea but ya know

Oh boy, oh boy, I get to info dump!!

The Hollowverse AU Mites:

Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite are of the same species, they're both Mites, but they can also be called 'imps' due to their appearance. They're from the same 5th dimension and world. Some may call it Zrrrf while others with call it the more aptly referred "Mite World".

Not everyone from Mite World will have a favorite character they idolize and not everyone will dress up as them. Mxy is a good example of this cuz while he has an obsession with Superman, he's not a Super-Mite.. which does also exist.

Mites are cartoonishly proportioned and function on cartoon logic, so they can handle a lot of hardcore slapstick and be just fine.. Well. In our world of the 3rd dimension, at least. It is their own kind that they can be truly damaged by.. or from anyone beyond their 5th dimension. They aren't by nature a species that will fight, but there are exceptions to that as they are all very mischievous.

Mites are quite small, only a couple of inches tall with large heads, large feet, and large hands. They all have tails and wings and some have horns, these can all vary in size and shape depending on the mite. Some mites can be bigger or smaller than others much like humans.

While they may dress up like their faves or even try to imitate them, their own personalities may not line up with that of their idol. And multiple Mites may idolize the same category of character (ie: Green Lantern) but each one idolizes a different person who took up that mantle and will be referred to as the name of the character to differentiate between each other within their designated group (Guy-Mite, Hal-Mite / Bat-Mite, Lady Bat-Mite).

Mites all have a real name and they can vary between nearly incomprehensible like Mxyzptlk or rather mundane and simple like in the case of Elvem the Mysterio-Mite who just prefers his real name as he is too cowardly to impose himself upon the image of his idol, Mysterio.

There are mites for any type of character along the spectrum of hero and villain and all that lies in between. They can be summoned at will if you know the words and "spell" (as is the case with my Mysterio summoning Elvem by a happy accident), or they will willingly choose to pop into the 3rd dimension to interact with their idols on occasion. Not all of them do, however, some just like to sit back in their home world of Mite World and watch their idols on their television-like viewing screens to keep up with their stories and lives.

Mites have their own sort of economy and society that is nearly reminiscent of human civilization.. just.. with some wacky cartoony differences, of course. They meet, they prank, they marry, they have kids-- via hatching!

Baby mites are even smaller than the fully grown ones which certainly is saying something! Only being about an inch in size give or take a few millimeters.

Fun Fact: Mites, compared to their 3rd dimensional counterparts which they idolize, are quite exaggerated in varying directions and aspects and their costumes are handmade by themselves!

Mites are confined by the law of rules and games. They make a rule? They are punished by the laws of the universe to follow their own rules: aka, Mxy gets tricked into saying his own name backwards somehow? bye bye Mxy :>

Mxy is doomed by his own hubris in this regard. While others like Bat-Mite don't have that hubris to create such a game, especially since they're so dedicated to their idol and want to stick around as long as they can.. until Batman goes "Dad Mode" and sternly asks Bat-Mite to please go back home.

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Time to overthink another necron guy!

Anrakyr the Traveler! Overlord of Pyrrhia (Pyrhhia? I never get it right, hang on...okay it's Pyrrhia). Blue guy who's good with machines and drew the short stick when it came to necron nicknames (Silent King! Stormlord! Diviner! Infinite! Traveler...sorry it just doesn't have a same vibes)

To get a little meta right off the bat, when I'm analyzing a character (a thing I just do for fun in my spare time because I'm a normal person), I generally start with the question most authors are going to frame that character's story around: what does this person want and why? Sometimes that's easy. An author (or multiple authors) has already written that character in a way that clearly outlines their goal+motivation so I just start there and let my thoughts run wild. Trazyn wants to collect things for his museum because he is a kleptomaniac gremlin believes in the inherent value of culture and history. Szarekh wants to reverse biotransference because it sucks and its his fault. That is the seed from whence all rambling blooms for me.

Anrakyr...does not have that clarity.

We do know what he wants! To awaken and unite all the sleeping necron dynasties. That's where his name comes from: traveling the galaxy, seeking out tombworlds to bring them up to speed on the state of this messed up galaxy we call home. Okay cool. Why does he want to do this? Uh...

Even in-universe, this question doesn't have a clear answer. To some, he's incredibly noble. He left behind his homeworld, sacrificing his throne, to help his people adjust to a tumultuous new era. A lot of these tombworlds are waking up damaged, or occupied by hostile alien species that didn't exist when they went to sleep. Maybe their planet is in a different part of space. It sure would be nice to have someone explain everything before an ork eats your face.

The opening paragraphs of Devourer refer to Anrakyr as "would-be overlord of the necrons." Does that just refer to the dynastic rank of overlord (if so, why add on the "would-be" since he literally is an overlord?) or does that line hint at higher ambitions? Is he trying to unite the dynasties under him? That's certainly possible! Ambition is not exactly unusual for necron nobility. It explains his suspicion towards the triarch prateorians who follow him around (put a pin in them). He thinks of them as spies, servants of a rival...and that rival is The Silent King. That's one hell of an enemy to choose.

Cool, right? Except there's another side to Anrakyr. Because he doesn't just go around helping other tombworlds, he demands a price: weapons, legions, other tributes. To some, who have just woken up and had lifesaving information dangled in front of them only to have it ripped away if they don't pay up? That doesn't seem strictly altruistic.

Anrakyr is fine killing his own subordinates for failure (see the Carnac campaign where he sets up his own general to die for the crime of not killing space elves with suitable efficiency). Of course, given that most of Anrakyr's armies are tributes, most of his forces aren't loyal to him per se. Aside from the immortals that left Pyrrhia with him. But overall he's in an awkward spot within his own army.

Except if Anrakyr wants to rule...why leave behind Pyhrria, the planet he literally ruled?

You see my problem here?

Okay then, where does that leave us? A goal with a bunch of conflicting motivation, actions, and no clear answers. And I admit, I was stuck here with Anrakyr for a while! I kind of wrote him off as "The Stormlord we have at home" and moved on.

Until I started writing for him myself. At which point "this dude is an inconsistent mess" doesn't really cut it.

The thing about people (and by extension characters) is that people change. Especially when a bunch of different unconnected writers major, violent events happen across millennia. So what if both versions of Anrakyr are true? What if the well-intentioned savior and the would-be conqueror are each aspects of the same person.

Going back to those three triarch praetorians.

For those unaware, Anrakyr has the joy of hosting three emissaries from the triarchy. Three praetorians whose names he does not know, so he literally just named them the necron equivalent of A, B, and C. He assumes they are spies for Szarekh, to whom he has no interest in pledging service, but he still keeps them around. They are mysterious, they literally hang random trinkets from their head pieces like Christmas ornaments, and they give cryptic advice.

What the heck are these three doing here?

I guess they could be spies, but why the heck would Szarekh send three praetorians to keep an eye on Anrakyr who really is not that important in the grand scheme of necron politics? Don't get me wrong, he's not a nobody, but...he's got a ragtag army, a planet he doesn't visit, and some Blood Angels he teamed up with one time. This is not someone the Silent King desperately needs to watch out for.

But hey, speaking of Blood Angels, remember The Word of the Silent King? The one short story where Szarekh has an active presence. Guess who else is in that story?

Anrakyr the Traveler.

He's in the first line! The necron half of the story is being told to him by one of the praetorians. Why draw such an intentional parallel between these two characters? Sure, sets up Anrakyr's involvement in the Devastation of Baal lead up (ngl I don't know the order these stories were published it could be the other way around, either way GW is tying up their lore in a bright little bow) but narrative continuity is a BORING answer for CHUMPS so LET'S GO DEEPER!

What might three weird little triarch praetorians see in Anrakyr that they also see in Szarekh?

Tragedy.

Szarekh's entire character is defined by tragedy (see my ramble about him for details). What if Anrakyr is in a similar position? What if he started his journey with all those good intentions? The desire to save his people, free them from alien invaders? And overtime those intentions got corrupted, turning him into the harsh, suspicious, bitter person we see in Devourer? The Anrakyr in that story doesn't care about the tombworld he's supposedly saving. He hates organic life, he needs the reinforcements from that world...but never does he truly express concern about it. Or sorrow when he finds it consumed by the flayer virus. But consider how many tombworlds he's seen fall to the flayer virus? Or infighting, or madness, or aeldar, or orks, or humans, or a random supernova or a million other things? Imagine how many worlds he found but could not save? This is a person who has lost the plot.

But the person who inspired those stories of nobility still exists. He still organized a massive campaign of different dynasties to save the tombworld of Carnac. He still defended necron tombworlds against the Silver Skulls (who are a real space marine chapter and not just a Trazyn goof!). He still fought Tyranids alongside the Blood Angels and the Mephrit.

Anrakyr's praetorian buddies have told him the Silent King won't speak to him. Yet. But Szarekh will if Anrakyr proves worthy. Anrakyr probably doesn't care either way, but for a praetorian to say this about their king is huge. To me it shows that they believe Anrakyr could be worthy, one day. They think he's worth watching. Not as a ruthless crusader, but as another person who suffered for their good intentions and came through it with a renewed purpose.