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We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.

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I had a single, random thought of "what if RWBY, but ✨Pirate Aesthetics✨" and 45 seconds later I have 3 full plotlines and backstories for eight characters. I don't know if I'll actually write this, I've already got 2.5 other projects, but never say never I guess.

Atlas is the dominant naval power, ruling most of Remnant's oceans. Naval Huntsmen are meant to fight seafaring Grimm, but frequently end up in conflicts with Atlas and get labeled as pirates for their "aggressive actions against Atlesian military assets" regardless of who actually started it. Most "pirates", like the Branwens, are actually privateers but the difference is lost on Atlas, and most people don't care to make the distinction unless it's important.

Ozpin has some sort of control over the Vale military while Salem is Queen of the Pirates, a title Raven has tried and failed to claim multiple times. Oz and Salem are still very divorced but don't let that bleed into their jobs. Not sure if they're still immortal though...

Raven has the highest bounty in the world and is in charge of an entire fleet of privateers, but that doesn't stop her from visiting her daughters at least twice a year. (I like Mama Raven and nobody can stop me)

Ruby and Yang grew up in a small port town on Patch. They both got bounties when a bunch of drunken Atlesians lost a fight with Yang and got salty about it. Nobody on Patch actually treats them any differently, but they decided to join Raven so no civilians would get hurt by bounty hunters.

Maria Calavera took care of Ruby and Yang after Tai and Summer died. Raven would have done it except she was being chased by Atlas and couldn't stay long enough to actually do it. When Ruby and Yang left to join the Branwens Maria decided to tag along because "Patch is boring and I'm too old to care about the rules".

Blake joined the Branwens after the White Fang, formerly a group of Faunus privateers, turned into actual pirates and started extorting the people they had been protecting.

Weiss was abducted by the Branwens in hopes of ransoming her, but she ended up preferring piracy over Atlas and the rest of the group agreed to let her stay.

Penny is a cursed spirit bound to guard a pirate's "hoard" (it was a single chest of mostly copper coins) but she got really bored and made the money into a body for herself

Plotline A: What is Atlas doing with these ancient magical relics and how do we stop them? (Hint: there are a lot more than 4, and most aren't sentient)

Plotline B: Help Raven become the Pirate Queen.

Plotline C: Boy I sure hope the White Fang don't try to do anything about Weiss' bounty!

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Reason 33,550,336 that English is a stupid language: we only have one word for love and if you use it outside your family everyone assumes you mean romance unless you specifically say "I love you in this way". It's so dumb.

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Anyone else's brains just decide that certain words are bad? Not because there's anything actually wrong with it, but because by some arbitrary criteria 'shawl' is icky and evil.

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I think it's interesting that Ruby uses a gigantic scythe, a weapon which is impractical both because of being a scythe and being bigger than she is, because her uncle Qrow uses a scythe, and he uses one because his hero Maria used a pair of scythes/kamas (I'm not sure where the line is, but they're one of those) and it's likely that she used those because they're common farming implements that happen to be potentially lethal.

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Kekekekeke I'm going to make a hair grow in your mouth!

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Imagine if when Blake took off her bow in front of RWBY Weiss took the ribbon and used it to tie her ponytail in place of her tiara. I don't know what emotions this mental image is giving me but they're definitely smiley ones.

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Behold:

The Citrus Ingot

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Throughout Berlin and Dubai, I alone am the Hitter of Men

Imaginary Technique: Homing Suitcase

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In elementary school I was once asked "are you gay?" by another student and I answered yes, because I only knew one definition of gay and thought they were asking if I was happy. And then I was bullied about it (among other things) for four years until I finally moved to junior high where nobody recognized me. They never even told me what gay meant until 3 years later.

Turns out I might be bi, but while that is kinda funny I can't exactly use that to stab my childhood trauma to death.

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People in fiction getting mad about their height is kinda funny, but for once I'd like to see someone mention how short they are and they respond like, "I know, it's great! I can fit into so many tiny places, and my partner's hoodies make amazing blankets!"

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Mwahahahaha! With this curse laid upon you, you shall always find your keys two minutes too late to arrive on time!

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my brother started calling our cat "doobie brother" which he then lengthened to "dubious brother" and has since morphed into "brother dubious" like he's some sort of fucked up little monk

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I think Velvet would have been the first person to figure out Pyrrha's Semblance, or at least figure out that she has a Semblance that she's hiding. Velvet would try to use her Semblance to copy Pyrrha's fighting style and immediately realize that she can't dodge the same things Pyrrha can, and either watch her super closely or just directly confront her (or get Coco to confront her)

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I have found one (1) kind of good use for AI when I'm writing, and that is motivation. If I can't manage to get something onto paper I'll occasionally have an AI write it and it will, without fail, turn out so bad that my rage forces me to rewrite it completely so I can fix everything the AI did wrong. I don't do it much because anger as motivation probably isn't healthy, but it is dang effective at getting me to just write instead of imagining the scene over and over again.

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Norse mythology would be great as a Western movie/series of movies. The legendary outlaw Thor dressing up as a sexy barmaid to steal back Mjolnir, his pistol whose shots sound like thunder; a con man named Loki convinces everyone a wolf and a snake are his kids; it's all so perfect!

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Do you think Silver Eyes give better night vision like cat eyes?