#'i don't have a headcanon tag' tag

[quickdeaths]

(little tired today, so instead of doing replies rn, have a lore/headcanon post that also doubles as a pride post for the OCs - explanation of name meanings and why they were chosen, if applicable)

Rio's first name is written as 莉桜 - the character for jasmine and the character for sakura/cherry blossoms. Her name can also be read as "Risa," although that mistake annoys her in its frequency. She went through a lot of potential names before settling on 'Rio,' but eventually picked it because she liked how it looked in both Japanese and in English. There wasn't a ton of significance to it outside of just enjoying how it looked and sounded. That said, it does fit decently well with her last name, since Fujioka (藤岡) is made up of the characters for wisteria and hill, continuing a floral motif. Fujioka is not her original last name, but is actually her mother's maiden name, since the uncle who adopted her is her mother's younger brother.

Izumi's first name is written as 泉水. It's a word on its own, meaning a fountain or a small pond or lake. The characters that make it up mean "natural spring" and "water," and Izumi's thinking was that a name that evoked a sort of gentle, pleasant, undisturbed fixture would help her come across as calm - this did not work. She'd also considered just choosing "Umi" with the character for the ocean, before deciding that people would make fun of her for it. Her last name, Ueda (上田), is a common last name that means "above/over" and "rice field," and likely has some connection to her family's historical livelihoods, place of living, or both.

Tsubasa's first name is written 翼 and means "wing." As a name, it can be read a lot of ways, but 'Tsubasa' is one of the more unisex ways to read it. As a cyber angel, Tsubasa naturally has digital wings, and on their skateboard, they're practically flying anyway, and thought that it was a good fit. They have an official last name in their family register, but they choose to write Saiba in katakana instead. Saiba IS a real last name that can be written in kanji, but Tsubasa writes it in katakana as a stand-in for the English word "Cyber."

Anzu's first name is written 杏子, which is the character for "apricot" and the character for "child". It can be read a variety of ways, with "Kyoko" as the most common other reading. In Anzu's case, there were two main points of importance - that her name would help people remember her, and that it would sound nice with her last name. Because her eyes are that sort of yellow-orange color, it's a good match, and if you find her eyes striking, you'll probably remember her name. Tachibana (立花) means "standing flower," and historically has associations with a particular samurai clan. In Anzu's case, her thinking was that a shorter, two-syllable first name worked best after a longer, four-syllable last name. Her stage name, Kohaku Goto XII, also typically has kanji and meanings associated with it, but, breaking with tradition, Anzu writes it in hiragana, or in English characters.

Shinobu's first name is written 志信, made up of the character for "aspiration/aim" and the character for "devotion/faith". It isn't a common way to write that name at all, but Shinobu chose it as a self-reminder to stay devoted to her goals. As Shinobu has mentioned, the ancestor who started their dojo was an orphan, and the name Yaguchi (矢口) was probably one that either he chose or was given to him, rather than his hereditary name. It's made up of the characters for "arrow" and the characters for "mouth/opening/entrance," and was likely chosen specifically in reference to the budding dojo.

Kousuke did not choose his name, which is written as 光佑, but he still tries his best to live up to it. It's made up of the character for "light" and the character for "help/assist." It's not an especially common spelling of that name, and he fairly commonly has to explain how it's read to teachers. Minami (南) is a very simple last name that just means "south."

Likewise, Kiyomi didn't choose her name, written 季世未, and is a little embarrassed about the spelling. Spoken aloud, her name isn't that unique, but the chosen characters are... pretty unusual. It's made up of the characters for "season," "world/society" and a character that doesn't have a direct meaning but can be interpreted as "still" or "even now." As such, Kiyomi has taken to writing her name in hiragana, and lying that she doesn't have kanji for it. Her last name, Kita (北) means "north" and it's Kiyomi's theory that her mom was worried she wouldn't stand out with a "plain" last name, thus leading to the unusual spelling of her first name.

[arggghhhsstuff]

forever obsessed with percy being weird. off-putting. strange even. a cryptid maybe. an urban legend if I may. my boy is the son of one of the oldest, most powerful gods, has been in FBI's records since the age of twelve, fought and won two wars against immortal beings, went to hell and back. I think he's allowed to be a little odd.

[zephyrchama]

"What did Mammon do now?"

The greedy demon was in his underwear, hanging upside down from a rafter in the hallway. He tried to coerce you into letting him down as you walked by, but you knew better than to do so without consulting Lucifer.

"Gambling. The usual." Lucifer had a hand on his forehead, pushing his hair up while jotting something down at his desk.

"Mammon gambles every day," you pointed out. "What'd he really do?"

By the way Lucifer groaned, you knew it was something juicy. "I caught him pilfering one of my rarest records, a gift from Diavolo, to use as collateral in a bet. It's one-of-a-kind. I doubt he even knows what it is, but Mammon always has a knack for finding things of high value."

"His secret sixth sense," you agreed. "What'd you do with his clothes?"

"They make it harder to tie him up tightly. He has a slightly higher chance of wiggling free with clothes on, so I made him strip." Lucifer gestured, Mammon's clothes had been put on some kind of mannequin, tucked away in the space between two bookshelves.

You'd never seen it before. Your jaw dropped into the widest half-smile half-astonished expression possible. It had Mammon's hair and his goofy smile. Even a flashy golden earring. "What is that?"

You practically ran across the room to inspect it. It was dressed properly in Mammon's shirt and tie. There were a lot of seams, more than seemed necessary, perhaps from being repeatedly repaired over years of use. "Lucifer, this is adorable."

"It's a necessary tool for my sanity." He pushed the chair back, standing up to join you.

"What do you mean?"

"I'll give you a demonstration."

Lucifer comically wound up his closed fist. With ballistic force, he struck the figure right in its chest. It flopped back, then sprung back up wildly to receive a fistful of lighter blows from Lucifer.

"You made a Mammon punching bag? Really?" You didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Isn't that a bit much?"

"I didn't make it, Mammon did."

Surprise of the day number two. "Mammon made this? Himself?"

To stop the wobbling, Lucifer grabbed the punching bag's tie, pulling it tight and then smoothing it out. "Cute, right? He thought it might make me go easy on future punishments. It's a very thoughtful gift from my little brother."

"Yeah, I didn't know he could sew. Huh." The two of you stood to admire it before Lucifer returned to his desk. You followed him. "Kind of reminds me of the doll Levi made of me."

Lucifer smiled. "Leviathan made you a doll, did he? How very kind."

"No, he made a doll of me."

Lucifer froze to process this information, frowning.

You continued, "I don't know where he usually keeps it, but I saw it under his desk one time. It's pretty big and detailed. I mentioned it once and offered to lend him a shirt for it, but he got really embarrassed and pushed me out. He's gotta take more pride in his work, it was really impressive."

"I see." Lucifer gritted his teeth. "You know, something I have to do just came up. Let's finish this conversation later." He was quietly seething as he escorted you to the door. Along the way he gave punching-bag Mammon a soft whack to the head.

You realized you forgot to ask if you could untie the real Mammon, but Lucifer had already marched down the hall in the direction of Leviathan's room. Rather than trying to catch up, you decided to go see how the Avatar of Greed was doing.

[chloefraazers]

horizon + animorphs dossier [ battle morph || bird of prey || personal ]

— Horizon Forbidden West PC

[krysmcscience]

Saw this post and couldn't resist because,

1.) @tesscourtes' human!Bill is a lil cutie-patootie menace that I very badly wanted to draw, and,

2.) I have a - M I G H T Y - N E E D - for any version of human!Bill to find any way he possibly can to annoy Ford a whole lot :D

Also, 3.) I like to headcanon that Bill's knowledge in The Sciences is mostly limited to 'Ways I Can Make A Really Cool Doomsday Portal', and everything else he knows is just a slapdash mix of the stuff he remembers from whatever schooling he went through on Euclydia, a whole awful lot of lucky guesses (which he WILL gaslight you about if you tell him he's wrong), and - naturally - conning all the rest of the answers he needs out of any more educated saps who are unfortunate enough to be around him at the time (answers which he will then proceed to take credit for), so as far as I'm concerned, this "outfit" is perfect for him.

Ignore the shitty backgrounds, I am sick to death of doing backgrounds, I just want to draw goofy shenanigans, okay???

[transvampireboyfriend]

part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7 - part 8

"I'm just saying, if the heat bothers you so much, you could cut your hair" Nancy points out, after declining Eddie's pleas for her spare scrunchie.

Robin sits on Nancy's lap, clutching the back of Steve's seat and she looks at Steve through the side mirror like she's afraid that he's about to go on a mission to defend Eddie's honor or something but Steve rolls his eyes at her. He's not that gone.

Or at least he knows how to hide it well.

Eddie's lost several of Nancy's favorite hair accessories and two weeks ago she bowed to never lend him any ever again.

Which, does not stop Eddie from asking her anyway at least once a day.

But the point is, even if Steve wanted to, Eddie's honor cannot be defended in this situation.

Nancy's leaning behind Argyle's back now to glare at the metalhead. Steve can see them in the rearview mirror.

Eddie gasps "I would never" he says, clutching his chest dramatically.

Steve secretly breathes a sigh of relief.

Johnathan chuckles at the wheel. "But you could" he comments, eyes on the road.

Steve can see Argyle subtly laughing and shaking his head out of the corner of his eye.

Today is a rare occasion, Jonathan is driving them in Steve's car.

The goal of Steve's rant earlier about having to drive them everywhere was to get Eddie to drive them, so Steve could sit shotgun and watch Eddie drive.

Instead, Jonathan had offered first and then Steve couldn't go in the backseat because he's in charge of their map.

But whatever, this is fine too. He trusts Jonathan and it is nice to get a break and to be able to fully turn around when he's talking to someone in the backseat.

"Jon, I would lose all my sex appeal, you don't get it" Eddie answers, getting a box of Twinkies from one of the many bags they packed and placed on the floor of Steve's car.

"I get it" Argyle chimes in, watching Eddie pull out a Twinkie and shaking his head no when Eddie offers him one.

"You'd still be sexy with short hair" Robin comments from her seat on Nancy's lap.

Everyone turns to look at her.

"What?" she shrugs "I can say that"

Nancy chuckles into her shoulder.

Steve opens their map again to stop thinking about Eddie's 'sex appeal', even as the guy is excitedly munching on a Twinkie in the backseat of Steve's car.

He's got cream in the corner of his mouth and he clearly put more in his mouth than he can comfortably chew. He's leaning one elbow on Argyle's shoulder, his hand holding half a Twinkie, his other hand holds his mop of hair up in a high bun, causing his cut off tank to sit barely covering his nipples, his tattoos on display and his armpit hair fully visible.

Steve's fairly certain nobody else in this car would get it, but to him the sight is mouth watering. The guy is practically irresistible.

"I don't think i would've gone on even half the dates I've gone on if i didn't have my hair" Steve muses, for something to say and to add to Eddie's point, even though he agrees with Robin.

Almost everyone answers with agreeable noises, except Eddie and Robin.

Robin snorts and says "You are relentless"

While Eddie says "You don't get dates for your hair" at the same time. In a tone that suggests he thinks this is an obvious thing.

"I mean- it doesn't hurt" provides Nancy, she sends Steve an apologetic look but Steve waves her off. It's a compliment as far as he's concerned, he loves his hair.

Eddie finishes his treat and opens a new one while everyone else gives their opinions.

"For a lot of people, hair is a big part of attraction" Jonathan is saying, trying to seem like he's not speaking from experience.

"Especially hair as luscious as Steve's" Argyle agrees, leaning forward to lightly comb the side of Steve's hair, making him laugh.

"Thanks, man" Steve says overlapping Eddie's response.

"And I agree!" he exclaims "I'm saying he doesn't get dates because of his hair." Eddie goes on, waving his new Twinkie around for emphasis. "People throw themselves at Steve, and always will, but it's not because of his hair" he repeats.

Steve feels his cheeks heat up but still asks "Then why?"

"Well, because you're very pretty!" Eddie answers easily, like everyone should already know this.

Steve keeps his eyes carefully trained on the map, like he needs to study it meticulously, right this moment, while they're in the middle of a highway.

His cheeks are burning up and he can feel it spreading to his ears.

"And that's if they don't know you!" Eddie continues "If they do know you they know you're kind and brave and strong ...and generous and funny. Who wouldn't want all that in a date?" Eddie finshes.

Oh I don't know, you? Maybe? Do you? Steve thinks.

"Even bald, people would still go crazy for you" Eddie adds, his words slightly muffled towards the end as he shoves almost all of the new Twinkie in his mouth but apparently thinks better of it, biting all but a small piece.

"Here. You want the rest of this?" Eddie offers Steve, talking through his mouthful, and presenting the small piece with his ringed fingers, right in front of Steve's face.

Without thinking, Steve leans forward and takes it with his mouth, his lips burning where they touched Eddie's fingers.

As Eddie retrieves his hand Steve realizes what he just did and how quiet the car got.

He sends Robin a panicked look through the side mirror as Jonathan awkwardly clears his throat.

"Argyle's got nice hair" Robin tries.

The car immediately fills up with enthusiastic agreement and Steve slowly breathes out.

He can't bring himself to look at Eddie as he chews on his bite. He practically licked Eddie's fingers. Unprompted! The guy probably meant for Steve to grab the treat and then eat it. If he even accepted it at all!

Steve feels like an idiot and he frowns at the map again, willing himself to ignore the goosebumps in his arms and the tickling on his lips.

He doesn't see Eddie worriedly staring at him for the remaining of their conversation, until Nancy takes pity on him and offers up her spare scrunchie to distract him.

part 2

[yhwcomeback]

"How did you even get in here" "Is that a rethorical question?" "Right you're a ninja, I forgot"

Headcanon that Brad has a flowershop in Dragon Rising and Lloyd drops by to get tea leaves every so often (no other reason in particular...)

[gabe-lovebot]

councilor 3D model

i learnt 3d modelling from the ground up to bring him to life. he's yours now. do whatever you want with him

[link]

please credit me if you make something using the model (or even ping/link me to it, i would love to see what you made!)

currently available as a .blend, .fbx and an SFM port.

[maggotmoment]

transfem vyncent save me. save me transfem vyncent save me

[triangular-static]

look i understand if people just don't like the idea of billford, i think we have a different internal concept of what shipping means (they're not good for each other at all but i need to dissect their dynamic like a bug. you understand. it's fun) but it's fine to avoid things you don't like, good for you genuinely

however people saying they like. don't see it. like. i'm not saying there's no platonic way to read it, i'm aroace spec myself i'm all for reading things in different ways. but i do think saying they weren't partners in any queer sense at all is trying too hard to go against what the narrative is trying to say, or missing it. somehow

anyway media literacy time if a character makes a joke like this

and the previous context of that joke within the show is that it's about an ex wife. what connection do you think the text is trying to get you to make.

and that's just from a writing point of view. not even noting that from an in universe perspective ford likely knows the joke from the same source as stan. and is therefore. placing himself in that role of the joke are you seeing where i'm coming from

(not to mention bill's side of this text which is. extremely manipulative but also does not read very platonic. again, it can technically be read as platonic! bill literally can manipulate ford's feelings. but the specific wording used is very much meant to look like possessive ex partner wording whether the character means it that way or not. it's coding. look again i'm not saying it was good for them i'm just saying there was something there.)

and then there's also the divorce/break up/rock bottom input on the website. like. how else is that supposed to be read. and the corresponding page in the book itself.

the language being used here. like yes he's saying it in a joking way but then there's the other side that isn't joking which is him crying at the bar. it's the both sides (the very coded language on top of the very genuine emotions and dynamic beneath)

i know most of us are on the same page with this i've just seen a couple people saying they don't see it when this is some of the most clear cut coding i've ever seen. and these are just the things that explicitly reference a relationship off the top of my head i'm not even including the general vibes of Everything

tl;dr it's barely even subtext anymore it's all but straight up text. what's not clicking have we forgotten what coding is (lighthearted i just enjoy the phrase what's not clicking. what's not clicking)

[quickdeaths]

Headcanon question time!

Are any of your muses good with kids? If so, which ones would you trust to babysit? Which ones would you consider least responsible enough to trust to babysit?

thank you for the question please enjoy the answer delivered in graph format. Short explanations for placements clockwise from top right.

Persephone doesn't spend time with kids very often, and doesn't think about them much, but she's not bad with them in rare opportunities. Yi-Chun is consummate big-sister energy, she's got snacks and a positive attitude and will cheer you up. Jason is basically a cool uncle in some ways, and has very strong opinions about taking care of kids. Rio is the baby of her family, so she doesn't know how to take care of little kids super well, but she remembers some things from how her brothers and parents raised her. Kousuke is a little boring, but he does his best and you can trust him to be responsible. Hana loves kids, she will eat snacks and game with them and forget all the important stuff she needs to do. Kiyomi wants cool big-sister energy, but she's definitely not there yet. Anzu is just Not That Responsible, but at least she's fun! Amour is like, ethically opposed to rules because of his own upbringing, so he would just let kids do whatever they want as long as it didn't kill them. Izumi, even as an adult, needs an adult. She is not an authority figure. Tsubasa is prone to focusing on their own things, plus they'd probably teach the kids skate tricks that would leave them with bruises and scuffed-up furniture. Maxi just doesn't really care for kids in general. He's polite about it but he lives a very adult life and children aren't a part of his vision for that life in any capacity. Hela is a murderous space alien with daddy issues and a temper. I feel like that speaks for itself. Juste is a very old vampire. She doesn't feed from children, and being in that she sleeps during the day, she rarely encounters them. If they become creative and ambitious adults, then she'll see them then. Maki is the Ultimate Child Caregiver, after all (lie). She doesn't necessarily like them but she Will protect them. Shinobu comes off as scary and stern, but they're responsible. When it comes down to it, she'll take care of a kid in need, all while chastising them.

[starmonsterrr]

[ * I wanted an excuse to draw a crossover. here. I accidentally made my own design for Dashie here. Also originally I was gonna have them handshake but I wanted to make it 20% cooler ]

[injestedsoap]

The 141 + Nik letting you paint their nails

Soap loves when you paint his nails. Admittedly they won't last long because he'll pick the polish off but he really likes watching you hold his hands so delicately, all your attention focused on his nails as you try to get the perfect stoke. He likes them done in black, no top coat because it won't last and he doesn't want you wasting polish on him like that, he talks animatedly the whole time, you have to keep grabbing his hands to get them back where you can work on them, laughing the whole time. He tends to smudge them quickly too, what can he say? He just wants to grab you and kiss you as soon as they're done.

Gaz really likes when you paint his nails. You tend to couple the painting with a hand massage and fuck if that doesn't feel good on his tense hands. You both put on your pajamas and he tells you all about his most recent job, you don't answer much, you need to focus on not getting any polish on his pretty hands, but you love listening to him and he likes to complain about work so this is really nice for both of you. When you're done Gaz is good and waits until they are all dry, top coat and all, before he grabs you to give you a proper thank you.

Ghost would rather eat glass than admit to anyone but you he loves when you do nail art on him. He wears gloves all the time anyway, who is going to know if he has bright pink nails with flowers carefully drawn on them, plus they look really nice and he knows you want to practice. You work with a playlist going of a mix of your songs and his, humming along to all the songs you know so well by now as you add the miniature details and Ghost watches you with the kind of tenderness he can only show when you're so focused you can't look up.

Price isn't much for painted nails but he lets you when you ask. You tend to just give him a clear coat, more than anything you just like this weird little intimate thing you can do for your partner, massaging his hands, moisturizing them, then carefully painting on a coat of shine to keep his nails nice and healthy. Price likes that, closeness that isn't complicated and doesn't demand anything from him but time, something he gladly gives you as often as he is able.

Nik actually asked you to do his nails when you two first got together. That really shouldn't surprise you, you've seen the old pictures tucked in the heli of a much younger Nik in mosh pits with safety pins shoved through his ear lobe, it's sweet, this little bit of his past he wants you to be a part of, refreshing his nails after so many years of not painting them. He likes dual colors, black on one hand, dark red on the other. He plays old metal music, it's bad in a way that's good, and he tells one story for every five songs and you hang on his every word as you blow on his nails to dry them.

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[gffa]

Hot Take: It would break my heart if Anakin's dreams of his mother weren't actually prophetic, they were just regular anxiety dreams about his fears and unsettled feelings about nearing the age of graduation from being a Padawan to a Knight, it's normal to fear that change, even when you actively, desperately want it. If they were just normal dreams that weren't Force dreams, but Palpatine, who had spent a lot of time with Anakin and could read him very well, including getting glimpses of his dreams, arranged to have that dream come true, so that Anakin would be all the more paranoid, that every thought that came into his anxious head would be one more example of the Jedi telling him that you have to let those fears ago, you can't be ruled by your anxiety, and now he can't distinguish between what's a Force dream and what's just his own terror, because it didn't feel like a Force dream (it wasn't a Force dream), but his mom was killed anyway. It's also so incredibly difficult to tell your feelings of warning from the Force's whispers of warnings, a Jedi can take an entire lifetime to learn the difference, but imagine someone actively sabotaging it in such an impossible to overcome kind of way? Palpatine playing the long game, so that he could use that paranoia when the time to strike came when he knew he would be able to use it against Anakin's desperation to save Padme again, is exactly the kind of horrible thing he would do to Anakin.

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

Timeskip Nekoma HC dump

The restaurant Fukunaga works at part-time is a hibachi grill, whenever the team does a group meet up they all go together and he gives them the full show. They cheer and whoop as if they're in an actual stadium, no other group pops off for the onion volcano quite like them. Kuroo tries to explain the science behind all the tricks but Yaku and Tora shut him up fast ("Oh my god stop talking, you’re ruining the meat with all that yapping")

Kenma uses his friends for stream content whenever they’re in town. Chat is constantly baffled at how many celebrities he went to high school with— a model, a comedian, several pro volleyball players, a high ranking member of the JVA?? Its all fun and games until they start exposing Kenma’s high school secrets, Kuroo stoops so low as to pull out the childhood photos and gets kicked out. Tora's a pretty regular guest and chat's favorite punching bag (to be fair he's really fun to bully with how easily provoked he is). Ironically some of chat's favorite guests are two of the non famous ones— Kai because he's super chill and Inuoka cause he has such contagious energy

Whenever any of them see one of Lev's billboards or magazine covers in the wild they take a picture with it and send it in the group chat. When they're out with him in person and see one they love making a big deal about it to embarrass him but this only feeds his growing ego

Kuroo's constantly hooking his friends up with free volleyball tickets and flying them out when something cool is going on, same with Lev/Fukunaga when they have shows and Kenma with conventions. Inuoka, Teshiro, and Kai's bosses are always like "How can you afford so many front-row tickets and business-class flights?!" and they're just like "friends are loaded."

Fukunaga makes more than enough from his comedy gigs but he keeps working his restaurant job because it gives him the best stories. The amount of insane customers he gets in a single night is enough to fuel entire shows, plus his boss is chill and lets him take home leftovers ingredients (which he uses to cook dinner for himself and Tora after he gets off practice)

Inuoka is THE babysitter, not just for the Nekoma alums but for anyone who remembers him from hs. He's great with kids, especially young ones cause he has enough energy to keep up, and the volleyball parents love that he practices with them. In addition, a lot of the students Teshiro and Inuoka work with are avid Kodzuken fans so the two of them make sure to snag a bunch of autographs every time they visit. One time for fun Kenma drops by unanncounced and the kids flip their shit