#(to a lesser extent)

[katkat030]

505 by Arctic Monkeys is a Scarian song and I’m prepared to die on this hill

[rookamell]

I think my favourite types of fictional couples are where each individual is severely fucked up on their own but when you put them together they work in a way where the relationship is actually pretty non-toxic

[sheridan-le-fanu]

the only ship dynamic that matters:

a: I'm going to achieve my goal no matter what!

b: and I can help you!

a: but don't you have a goal of your own?

b: yeah...but I can put it on hold for you. I care about you after all.

a: ...

[full-frontal-fishstick]

Gameplay vs Lore: Guilds and Adventuring

Guilds are really fucking important / Adventuring is hard work

Most shopkeepers won't buy your shit. If you want to sell to a vendor, you have to either deal in raw materials like ore to blacksmiths, trade goods-for-goods with the khajiit caravans, or sell your things in pawnshops at extremely steep rates. If you really want to make money selling items found on your adventures, you'll need a guild membership to open a small vendor for yourself, allowing you to sell common items directly to the citizens. For uncommon items, you'd need to find an appraisers / scholar / collector willing to pay high prices for such items.

Adventuring is also made more difficult by having sidequests from random npcs being much rarer, as most will instead take their requests to the local guild relevant to their needs, (i.e. the Fighter's Guild for mercenary work, the Ratcatcher's Guild for clearing skeevers from the basement, etc) This makes joining them a necessity to find work in most towns. Most guilds will have fees due at the end of every month, requiring payment to retain the benefits of membership. Sidequests are easier to find outside of the major cities or towns, but they are typically low-paying and carry a small risk of being stiffed for your work

[thelesbianthespianposts]

I’m a sucker for a story with a happy ending. When there’s no consequences, when the good guys win, when they get rewarded, they have no more problems, they’re universally celebrated. When they don’t have to fight anymore, when they’re finally free to live peaceful lives and move on from the events of the story When everything is perfect but it’s just. not enough. And it will never be enough Because everything that’s happened has changed them so much they can never achieve a true happy ending no matter how much time passes or how comfortable they should be

[darkandstormydolls]

Okay so I need to put this question out to the universe

Is the phrase “upstairs downstairs” (referring to a period drama that focuses on both an upper class family and their servants) something other people use to describe shows, or is this another random thing my family made up because I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it used by someone else

(I’m not referring to the 1970s show Upstairs Downstairs; I mean using the term to refer to the entire sub genre)

[lemon-dokuro]

Practice doodle of a praying mantis + doll/robot girl

[nemo-draco]

Thinking about Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Robots learning about ghosts, demons, etc., etc., and taking precautions for those just as seriously as you would any other hazard.

Robotic or automated ships, with either a few ghosts of their own, or having a slight fear of ending up like old stories, ex: the Mary Celeste.

Extra precautions put into electronics and robots to keep them from being shorted out by the presence of magic/energy manipulation.

Robots swapping stories about supernatural beings and occurrences along with their human friends.

Weird stories about space, especially given that I can see robots being used for tasks too dangerous for human personnel. The robots or AI having a stronger sense of honesty when it comes to documenting these stories, and their senses having literal logs to back them up, would make for an interesting body of evidence.

AI that control certain ships and facilities having clear protocol when it comes to a supernatural event. Perhaps they might've thought it was extraneous, and then something starts to happen...

Dimensional tears? Odd ripples in time and space? How does something like a robot, or an AI, react? Do they try to protect the humans with them? Or would they prioritize their own safety? Would it impact them physically, or would they be unharmed? Would that be contingent on whether or not they have organic parts?

Would there be cross-species friendships, so to speak, where you have AI or robots engaging with supernatural entities/creatures?

Might add more to this. Just interesting to think about.

[nomolosk]

Force Sensitive Lockwood and Co.

(so I've been playing Lego Star Wars again)

Lucy and her former team are all force sensitive kids that were sold to Jacobs so he could go and harvest all the stuff left behind by the official miners in the Kessel spice mines (or similar). He wanted force sensitives because he figured they'd be able to tell when a shaft is in imminent danger of collapse, and be able to get out in time, and he hoped they'd also be able to pinpoint the left-over deposits so they don't waste time mining in areas that don't have any.

Problem is, even with these advantages, Jacobs wasn't bringing in as much as he'd hoped from selling the stuff, so he started downplaying the kids' warnings, until one fateful day...

Lucy is the only true survivor, while Norrie is struck down by inhaling too much spice while escaping the collapse, and has brain damage too severe to fix with any kind of treatment they can afford. Even Jacobs doesn't make it out, and he had the decency to stipulate the freedom of his slaves in the event of his death. Of course, that means Lucy and Norrie are out on their ear without a job, and no one willing to hire Lucy after the mineshaft collapse. Lucy manages to find someone to care for Norrie while she's trying to find a better job (so she can pay for the treatment), she knows she will have to go off-world to truly find anything.

Lucy finds a job as a porter on an outgoing ship- basically, working to pay her fare to somewhere with more opportunities. The ship visits multiple ports, but while Lucy takes time to look for jobs while they're in port, nothing comes along that's better than either spice mining, or working as a ship porter, so she stays.

At one port, they take on a trio of passengers that Lucy initially ignores (aside from slightly resenting the fact that they take care of their own scanty luggage, which means no tip for her). But they sit in the mess a couple of times at odd hours when most people are asleep in their rooms, and one time Lucy wanders in just as one of the boys- the somewhat rotund, straw haired one- is struggling to levitate a cup. She doesn't say anything, merely rolls her eyes and goes to make herself a warm drink, and leaves immediately after.

She doesn't notice when one of the boys- the taller, dark haired (handsome) one- starts watching her as she performs her duties around the ship. Mostly, Lucy plays it safe- her abilities have already landed her in a dangerous line of work, so she only levitates the truly heavy stuff, and then only enough so that she doesn't have too much trouble lugging it around physically. She thinks no one has noticed, though some of the crew have been surprised by her apparent strength.

So she's surprised when the two boys knock on her door when she's off-shift about halfway through the trip. At first, Lucy is reluctant to tell them anything, or even admit that she's force sensitive, but Lockwood and George refuse to leave her alone. Eventually she tells them she's looking for a planet-side job- something lucrative enough that she can make enough to pay for her "sister's" medical treatment.

At that point, they introduce her to their older man companion, who turns out to be Jedi Master Mon Tegu. Now that he's in close physical proximity and not focused on his two padawans, he can tell that Lucy is very strong in the force. Very strong, indeed.

He makes her an offer: come and work on the new Jedi Academy that's being built, and he will guarantee Norrie's treatment, as well as paying her more than the ship's master can.

Lucy is tempted- very tempted. There's only one problem.

See, down in the mines, she happened to find a ghost. A force-ghost, to be exact. He's never told her just how or why he was down in an abandoned spice mine, but he hasn't left her alone since they met. To be fair, he has been occasionally useful and helpful, but he's also arrogant and demeaning, and he's never even told her what his name used to be. Also, there's the small problem that he used to be a Sith apprentice, before his untimely demise. She just calls him Skull, because he still wears that hideous face-paint, even in undeath.

Lucy was hoping he'd abandon her, now that she's caught the attention of an actual Jedi Master, but instead he pops up in front of them all and rants and raves, while she just stands there, facepalming.

[agirlinsearchof]

What is it with me and characters with "dark" or "demonic" origins who do their damnedest to do good even in spite of said origins?

[lagomerch]

welp, I’m back to being digital storage broke.

[thelesbianthespianposts]

going down a non bat superhero tag be like: Batman post, Batman post, Batman post that explicitly belittles the tagged superhero, more disrespect, post that doesn’t even mention the tag but says justice league in it, GOOD POST, good analysis but somehow still about Batman, ship art with Batman, post that has nothing to do with the tag or the fandom, the most incorrect take you’ve ever heard, more disrespect, take based on a spin-off animated show that hated he character, GOOD ART, just a genuinely confusing take, Batman post, Batman post, Batman post.

[vforvalensa]

baltimore also has this

I enjoy when sci-fi backdrops try to split the difference between presenting futuristic cityscapes and acknowledging that they wouldn't just tear down all the existing infrastructure by keeping the old buildings but having random high-tech shit sticking off of them, like the buildings themselves have cyborg implants.

[ladamedemartel]

hc + home

send me  ‘ hc ‘  + a word and i’ll write a headcanon about it regarding my character.

Tristan. Just, that's the tweet. Tristan is her home. Now, if you were to ask her, she would probably say that France is her home, but realistically, wherever Tristan is is her home. Though generally she prefers more Mediterranean climates, so she and Tristan likely rotate around there for the most part, but even Elijah was aware that wherever Tristan goes, Aurora follows.

[thatswhatsushesaid]

“um, you are actually supposed to hate this character with your whole chest, the text is EXTREMELY clear that he is terrible and you should not like him”

well i like him anyway. what are you going to do about it, tell my mom?