#Becki replies

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SON IS RETURNING TOMORROW! rejoicing

IDs are in the ALTs but also under the cut:

ID: Four sets of drawings, all black and white and containing Damian Desmond, alone or alongside Anya or Becky.

First image is a drawing of teenage Damian and Anya. His head is turned away from the viewer and towards Anya. He is sitting down comfortably, resting his arm on one leg. Anya is laying next to him on her stomach with her arms crossed. They are talking, surrounded by speech bubbles with no dialogue inside.

Second image is a drawing of Damian in a jacket reminiscent to the one he wears in Chapter 39/Episode 2 of Season 2. He is looking over his shoulder, pouting and lightly squinting in what is either confusion or mild annoyance. His hair is messy.

Third image contains two drawings of Damian. On the right, he is wearing his gym uniform, looking very annoyed. On the left, he is slightly hunched over, staring blankly with dot eyes.

Lastly, the fourth image is a drawing of teenage Damian and Becky talking. Damian looks very mildly frustrated while Becky is smug and teasing. They are both wearing their imperial scholar capes. Unlike in canon, Damian has glasses. Becky's hair is down and she is wearing a hairpin with a small bomb on it, and star-shaped earrings. End ID

[djsadbean]

More 9th grade au doodles!!! ✨

[nico-di-genova]

I love when they involve us in their domestic squabbles.

[pessimisticgh0st]

Thought for the day: Which TV shows do you think Tori would enjoy?

Hmm... Okay, I think she would like these

- She'd love Fleabag

- I'm Not Okay With This

- The Queens Gambit

- Everything Now

- Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (her and Becky would have watched this (Becky would have made her) and afterwards Becky would start talking about how much she loves Michael Cera)

- Young Royals (Michael would make her watch it and they would both cry)

- The End of the F***ing World (would binge this in a night)

- Black Mirror (would watch one episode of this about once a month or just really sporadically)

- Moon Knight (I feel like she wouldn't watch a lot of Superhero things and would generally not like Marvel because of how they've changed and a lot of the movies now are just an overload of CGI instead of focusing on the quality of plot, but Nick would have been trying to convince Charlie to watch something Marvel and Tori would have just been there in the room and sort of felt bad, so then when he would have suggested Moon Knight she would have watched it with him and actually really like it)

- I also can imagine Tori, Michael, Charlie and Nick all sitting together in Autumn and watching Gilmore Girls and making fun of it and just making jokes about it and just generally not taking it seriously.

- Nick and Charlie would make her watch Good Omens and consider it a crime that she hasn't watched it yet

I can't really imagine her liking many TV shows to be honest. I feel like she would either just watch a lot of really short shows that she could either binge in a night or a week, or stupidly long ones that just go on forever. I feel like she wouldn't be properly watching the really long ones, and just have it in the background of things or just watch it with Charlie as just another background noise.

[fair-city-inquiries]

Roleplay Information

Randy here, hello!

Okay - this is also out of character but I figured this would be a neat way to introduce not just the roleplay but the character involved with it! So, let’s get right to it, shall we?

Wordgirl: What the Future Holds

Lore/Information

The blog technically is an alternate universe nicknamed “What the Future Holds”. In reality, it’s a post-canon universe set after the series finale ‘Rhyme and Reason’. The blog follows title lead, Becky Botsford, who is now in high school as a freshman. The timeline is exactly how it happened in the show, though there might be some differences! Not that it’s entirely necessary to know, to be honest.

This blog is specifically for Becky Botsford, not Wordgirl. What the Future Holds will be focusing on both her time in high school, as well as silly nonsense with headcanons mixed in!

Now, onto information about the character/muse, Becky Botsford!

Becky Botsford

Name: Rebecca Botsford

Nicknames: Becky/Becks (used by friends and/or family), Beckface (coined by Victoria Best), any variant of Becky - Becky Doodles, Beckaroni, etc - (all coined by members of the Botsford family), kid/kiddo (by Dr. Two Brains), dearie/dear/my dear (used by Granny May)

Age: 14 years old!

Birthday: [404.EROR], May 15 (presumed birthday by the Botsford’s)

Allies/Friends: Violet Heaslip, Todd “Scoops” Ming, Rose Franklin, Bob Botsford

Acquaintances: Theodore “Tobey” McAllister III, Victoria Best, Eileen

Enemies: [REDACTED]

Friendly Rivals: Theodore “Tobey” McAllister III

Family Members: [REDACTED], Adoptive - Sally Botsford (Mom), Tim Botsford (Dad), TJ Botsford (Younger Brother), Bob (“pet” monkey)

Backstory

Becky Botsford is the eldest child in the Botsford family. She was taken in and adopted by them when she’d still been a young girl after being found mysteriously in front of their house. An adept reader as she was somehow reading a newspaper while still being very little.

She grew up in Fair City which was rampant with super-villains, although most were stopped by super-heroine Wordgirl. Apparently Wordgirl and Becky have interacted before but of course - that’s as far as it goes. The audience knows otherwise. As a child, Becky attended Woodview Elementary School alongside her best friend, Violet Heaslip, and her first crush Todd “Scoops” Ming. Things were a bit trying with the supervillains in the city, but thankfully - Wordgirl managed to kick butt and send them to jail, and again and again every time they broke out.

Becky would eventually graduate from elementary and middle school. Now the school year has picked up again as she’s exploring her time as a freshman. She’s part of the Debate Team, as well as an honorary member of Book Club (though she also has her moments when she seems to have disappeared-).

Things of course, are about to get very interesting.

Headcanons & Additional Muse Information

⭐️ The Botsford’s are Afro-Latin Americans, much like Becky! Even if she is adopted - she is also Afro-Latina. She’s fluent in both English and Spanish, though who knows maybe she knows other languages~ ;))

⭐️ Becky is an avid reader. Canonically, she’s known for checking out ten books at once from the library! She has a soft spot for light romance-fantasy genres - though she also enjoys crime and mystery thrillers!

⭐️ Her fixation on PPMPPH never went away!

⭐️ Becky is autistic and ADHD, and you cannot convince me otherwise. This is canon now.

⭐️ She’s a bit nervous about juggling [REDACTED] and her high school classes but she’ll be fine. After all, she could handle it in the past… right?

⭐️ Becky and Violet’s friendship strengthened following “Rhyme and Reason”, but it also caused some unfortunate trauma, and that’s all you’re getting for now!

⭐️ She has freckles because I said so

More headcanons will be dropped soon!

If you’re a fellow roleplayer who wishes to interact with the blog, please please - let me know if you want to! 🙏

[greatyme]

Freenbecky posted their reaction to today’s episode they’re so cute

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@legendsxx Post WrestleMania: Becky and Seth

Wrestlemania definitely hadn’t treated Becky or Colby well, with neither one of them walking out of the event victorious, and Becky’s night had definitely not been what she’d wanted, seeing as how she was sick as hell, and had to wrestle her match battling strep throat, and a 102 degree fever. However, she was more concerned with her husband’s emotional state when he walked backstage after losing the title to Drew, because it was rare Colby ever let himself get like that on live television, and while she knew he was happy for Drew, she had a feeling his tears were because of something else going on. Once she was able to get Colby to himself, at first, all Becky did was just pull him in for a loving embrace, wrapping her arms around him as tightly as she could, knowing more than anything he just needed his wife at the moment, before softly whispering her question in his ear. “Baby, are you okay?”

[repotting]

people who don't normally read sci fi have such bad taste in sci fi 😭

[st-just]

Opinions on the novel and novella categories excluding Elder Race?

Okay so, uh, 3 months late finally answering this (sorry - but I DID read Elder Race in the meantime!)

So, novels-

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine The central metaphor of how an empire can only understand something by consuming/assimilating it into itself was imo well-done, one of the better uses of a hive mind alien I've seen in a while. Mahit and (especially) Three Seagrass continue to be delightful. The whole palace drama plot in the City leaned a biiiiiit too close to 'the Empress is just and good! Sadly scheming ministers and self-interested officials have attempted to mislead her for their own ends' for my tastes, which absolutely made me start rooting for scheming vizer guy out of spite. Still kind of confused what happened to the Judiciary Minister who vanished 2/3 of the way into the first book without comment. Excellent read, would recommend

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers Absolutely my favorite thing Chambers has written, but that is a very low bar. There were a few pages of actual interpersonal conflict that wasn't just a silly misunderstanding! (Even if they had apologized and agreed to disagree by the end of the next chapter). In principle I approve of any sci fi with no human characters in major roles. Aeleon demography continues to give me a headache (how do you spend so much time on worldbuilding and just mess up the basic math?) - though honestly Pei's whole conflict over the societal expectation to have a kid would have had a bit more tension/drama to it in a setting where her species was legitimately endangered and at risk of extinction (the sheer angst potential!) Anyway, yeah, well-executed but Not For Me.

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki I did, uh, not much like this book. In a 'spent a couple hours cathartically ranting about it on discord after finishing it' sort of way. The central romance didn't work, every character arc was perfectly predictable, the whole incessantly hammered home bit about the magic and wonder of home-cooked food just makes me want to gag, I can kind of see what Aoki was going for with the sci fi half of the worldbuilding but it just didn't work at all, and so on. Still not entirely sure what to make of the fact that if you did the 0.5 degree shift necessary to turn the finale into a Christian morality play the quirky alien family plays an identical structural role to where the angels would be. The cursed/demonic-violin repair lady was fun, though.

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark This was fun! Nothing hugely ground-breaking and extremely trope-ey, but in a good way? Like the process was clearly 'buddy cop story in into steampunk urban fantasy Cairo' more than anything that evolved naturally out of the characters or setting. But like, eh? The finale involved a giant robot controlled by enslaved ifrit and a mad sorceress trying to restore the British empire attacking the city, nuance and subtlety clearly weren't the goals here. The central mystery was barely a mystery, though. You could pick out the villain by the end of the first act like three or four different ways. Still, yeah, great time. Very pulpy.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir If you don't know that this is by the The Martian guy going in, it will be extremely clear by the time you're 50 pages in. It's a writing style with a real personality bleeding through - if you don't like it, the book will I'm sure be torture. But anyway, I'm a sucker for first contact stories and properly weird but still sympathetic and agentic aliens, and that's the beating heart of the story so I mean, of course I enjoyed it. The science also all seemed plausible/not-obvious-bullshit to me, and Weir did a really good job of getting tension and drama without ever making anyone a villain, with all the threats being faced being natural/environmental. Fun read, assuming very high tolerance for technobabble and also magic amnesia that you don't apply anywhere near the standards of the rest of the books' science to.

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan I mean the whole premise of 'mythic/low-fantasy retelling of the founding of the Ming dynasty but with lesbians' feels like what you'd get if you simmered down my reading consumption of the last year or two and poured out the reduction. So like, yeah, of course I liked it! Probably would have been my vote for winner, though not at all sad that Desolation got it instead. As a character type, I really, really love the whole 'arranges everything to work out perfectly through desperate, furious scheming, then absolutely never breaks character and insists it must be providence and they're but a simple monk/scholar/whatever" so Zhu's whole bit there was just catnip to me. The whole melodrama in the mongol court was great, too. And how can you not love a book that ends with the heroine murdering the messiah in cold blood?

novellas-

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire The only other thing I'd read by McGuire before this was Middlegame, which may have given me unrealistic expectations but, like, this was fine? Or, like, I get the sense that this is very much a YA/Middle-grade book, insofar as it really feels like the literary equivalent of a tv special you'd watch with your kid niece and nephew because hey, it's not painful for you or anything? Really funny that this exists entirely independently of the apparently-a-real-thing cartoon Centaurworld, though.

Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky This was fun classic sci fi. Like, really classic - I kind of thought 'fantasy setting that's secretly a post-apocalyptic sci fi setting where all the 'magic' and 'monsters' are just poorly understood hypertech' went of fashion with the millennium. Anyway I adore things that play with POV and have different people see the same events and process/interpret them radically differently, so the whole book was catnip that way, and it managed to authentically feel like just a small slice of a vaster, weirder universe, and both deuteragonists really work for me. Don't have a solid pick for my preferred winner but this is one of the two I'm torn between.

Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard First and so far only thing by de Bodard I've read, which I should probably fix given how big a name she is. Anyway, this was fun! Nothing too groundbreaking, but that is 100% down to my reading habits rather than, like, 'lesbian court drama in a fantasy analogue of an asian country under threat of colonization' is an over-filled niche, or anything (really the only surprising thing was that I hadn't read this already).

The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente The other one I might have voted for. On the level of stories she's a bit hit and miss but on the sentence-to-sentence and paragraph-to-paragraph levels Valente is seriously one of my favorite writers working, and this was no exception. Just an absolute delight to read. Also, 'post-apocalyptic magical realism on the city-sized garbage heap floating in the ocean populated by a culture of survivors after the world drowned' is just a great premise. And my shriveled husk of a soul appreciates just committing to the character study and the ruin and the elegy without giving into the urge to make a grand redemptive quest of it all.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers I, uh, liked this significantly less than Galaxy and the Ground Within. Utopias are basically necessarily didactic but, like, you really don't have to lean all the way into literally having the heart of the story be conversations between the protagonist and a sacred and innocent alien whose always correct about everything. Also the whole 'we 100% could be immortal but we chose not to because, like, nature or something. Aren't we so amazing?' thing with the robots is bullshit. Which, combined with the entire aesthetic of the world just left be feeling peevish and asking questions which really weren't the point (Where are the mines? The foundries? You can't make solar panels or modern antibiotics in a basement workshop! And you sure as hell can't cobble together and repair fully mobile and sapient robots in a cave with a box of scraps.)

A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow So it's not that this was bad, exactly. But, like, I feel like it should have come out sometime in the '90s? (Okay without the explicitly gay bits but that's a matter of a few sentences tbh). Like, the deadline for metafictional feminist retellings of classic fairtails being genuinely novel or subversive was sometime before Disney got in on the game, sorry. Also, like, I'm sure it's just down to me being a weird morbid kid, but the whole shocking revelation about how fucked up the original Sleeping Beauty myth is was, like, something I knew before I hit puberty? Only other thing of Harrow's I've read was the Ten Thousand Door's of January and I'm really, really disappointed comparing them, honestly. (Also, as a general rule I dislike anything where it's very clear whether you're supposed to like or trust a character from the scene they're introduced and this is never wrong)

In other categories L’Esprit de L’Escalier should obviously have one novelette, "Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather" short story, Terra Ignota series, and Monstress comic, based off the foolproof criteria of 'those are the ones I've read'

[heartsbreaking-migrated]

becky was finishing up a masters in art history, and that meant hours pouring over art books, and artifacts in the library and the college archives. it strained her back and her eyes, but she loved the work even when it was exhausting. spending so much time in the library meant that she noticed the others who spent an equal amount of time there.

she leaned against the nearest shelf to the table he sat at, her bag slung over her shoulder. she'd been pouring over bottecelli for long enough. becky was starting to think it all looked the same, so she'd gone to see if she could find him. "no- i mean not really." she shrugged, "i know you're here a lot. you want coffee? i'm taking a break and i could use some."

REPLY to @blakesque / sage king *

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*opens up trenchcoat* you guys want some memes?

[piratespencil]

For the book questions: 9,10,11,12, and 13!

9. do you have a favorite author?

I don't think I have just one favourite author, but a recent favourite is Becky Chambers! I read all of her books in the past year and I've loved every single one. She writes exactly the kind of scifi that appeals to me. Highly recommend her books! (The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet and To Be Taught If Fortunate are tied for my favourites of hers.)

10. what book are you reading right now?

Right now I'm reading The King's Men by Nora Sakavic! Which is such a throwback to like 2016 when that series was all over tumblr, or at least my corner of tumblr. I read the first two books back then but I never read the third one so I've been doing a reread of the series and while it definitely has some... questionable elements... I am actually really enjoying it. Just super weird characters with bizarrely intense relationships, it's a trip.

11. what book do you want to read but haven’t?

Soooo many books. My current Goodreads tbr is 243 books long lol... I just added Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid to my list, it sounds interesting! I'll try to pick that one up soon.

12. which book will you read next?

I'm planning to read Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer next! I loooove that movie and I bought the book recently after my roommate read it and loved it, so that's next in my tbr pile!

13. what was the last book you read?

I just finished The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake the other day, and it was soooo so good. Just picked it up randomly at the library and I loved it. It's vaguely inspired by Twelfth Night and it's about family and mental illness and love and sex and the ocean and it's fantastic. Very much YA but very good YA if you're into that kind of thing. Loved it.

Thank you for all the qs!!! I love talking about the books I'm reading. <3

(Feel free to send me more book asks if you want!)

[wickedwvys]

@alwaysfought asked 4C ( becky + aj )

the room was quiet, dark except for the lamp on the bedside table on, casting shadows across the room. becky was awake next to allen, who looked to be sound asleep next to her, drawing small shapes against his chest as she watched him for a moment. the two of them didn't see each other as often as she would like, with becky being drafted to raw and allen being drafted to smackdown along with the rest of the oc. but the moments they did get together, she didn't want to waste.

after a few moments, thoughts running through her head, her hand traveled down his chest before stopping at the waistband of his sweatpants. she bit down on her bottom lip lightly before running her hand over his cock through the thin material. "allen, baby... wake up..." she said softly in his ear, placing another kiss against his skin.

[dylandunsmore]

@beckymorrisxn​ when: post rhys panic attack and post danny blow up

When Danny decides he was going to bring his storm directly in the path of Dylan she had done everything she could not to break until she was behind of closed door. When it did she felt like she cried until there were no tears left in her body. It felt like she was barely getting through her days after that. Finally the weight she had carried for so long was too much, finally crushing her spirit. Danny was the last straw. Come the weekend Dylan didn’t leave the apartment. Her door sat wide open as she laid on top of her bed staring at the ceiling trying to find a point in which her lows would level out and her highs wouldn’t be so hard to crash from. Sometimes she felt out of control, like her mind couldn’t understand all the things flashing through it. This weekend all she wanted to do was check out for a couple of days. She glances to her door when she hears movement in the hall, catching the edge of another woman. “Becks?” she checks in, thinking the other alternative could be June. 

[oblivionlotus]

since Leto is a bit cuckoo in my SH verse and @apphrodite is LOOOOST (say it Angela-style!) after waking up in the town, I'm calling it: this thread is a warped version of Alice in Wonderland featuring Becky as Alice & Leto as Hatter. I LOVE IT

[transmascsonicthehedgehog]

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woe, inbox be upon ye (also mayhaps a worgorl opinion?)

becky and the botsfords deserve more attention than they've been getting from the fandom for the past few years