#Label Plat

[chronically-ill-psionipath]

What do you think of Gay people?

:0

THE QUEERS?? I'm dating Alvar- >:D Of course I support LGBTQ+!

[deadn30n]

my blitz app is still so very lost

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[yesistolethisurl]

Karlach and Infernal War Machines (!Spoilers for Descent into Avernus!)

okay so, you know how in the Descent into Avernus book, there's an entire section on how players can obtain a war rig, and even customize it? after playing BG3, i wanted to brush up on everything these things could do again, and uh

wow. i'm thinking zariel might have gotten the better end of the deal, given that gortash seems to have walked away with just the understanding to make the steel watchers. don't get me wrong, the watchers are a terrifying concept and an absolute pain to deal with in combat, but compared to infernal war rigs? it could have been so much worse.

(the vehicles above are respectively labelled as "devil's ride," "demon grinder," "scavenger," and "tormentor.")

the four models in appendix b of the book provide the base templates for vehicles players can encounter, and potentially acquire. upgrades that players can obtain include, but are not limited to:

flamethrowers!

acid sprayers!

harpoons!

car platting that will steal your soul!

optional audio system that will give other drivers psychic damage

on one hand, i can see Karlach having complicated feelings towards the machines. they run on same engine tech, and at the end of the day, are functionally indistinguishable in terms of Zariels' crusade: a specialized weapon that runs on the souls of the damned. they're just the step before her, then onto the steel watchers. not to mention the warlords that typically use these things are just as bad as anything else raising hell in avernus.

on the other hand, if karlach has to wait for her heart surgery in literal hell, she should at least get a hell tank with a rocket launcher in the mean time. y'know, as a treat.

[oil-bh]

PLATAMORIC

(Plat - amor - ic)

hey!!! This isnt my usual content but idc lol

[IMAGE ID: A flag with 6 stripes of equal size. The first stripe is medium pink, the second is a lighter pink, the third is light salmon, the fourth is a light, slightly orange-yellow colour, the fifth stripe is pale yellow, and the sixth stripe is white. In the center of the flag is a hot pink flower head with 10 petals. The center of the flower is a 6-pointed yellow star. END ID.]

Platamoric is a relationship structure where two or more people feel intensely connected to one another in a purely platonic sense. They may or may not choose to label it as an attraction type, but platamoric is a relationship term above all else.

People in a platamoric relationship may compare it to “transcendent or delamouric attraction, but entirely platonic”. They may also compare it to “platonic soulmates” or feeling like the other’s “other half” in a platonic way.

Platamoric is not queerplatonic, romantic, amorous, tertiary, or any other attraction/relationship label. It is characterized by being entirely platonic!

The name comes from a combination of “plat” from platonic and “amor” for love. Platamoric relationships may feel intense like romantic, queerplatonic, etc relationships, hence the combination of “platonic” and “love”. It’s platonic love that feels extremely intense, possibly indescribable.

Flag meaning underneath the cut!

The pink stripes in the flag are a reference both to the platonic attraction flag’s use of pink, and how love is often equated with the color pink, which again combines platonic feelings and intense love toward someone. The yellow stripes are a reference to the yellow in the queerplatonic flag, showing how platamoric relationships may be similar to, but still different from queerplatonic relationships.

The stripes being paler than the flower are a reference to the transcendent attraction flag being pale. The flower is a reference to the delamour and platonic attraction flags having flower-like shapes in the center, and the star shape in the flower is how platamoric relationships might feel like they were destined to meet by some otherworldy source. It’s also a reference to how the flower-like shape on the platonic attraction flag also resembles a star, and how the delamour flag’s flower has a star shape in the middle.

[kyuusacutie]

Coming out to them as Trans! 🏳️‍⚧️

<Lovecraft, Ango, Louisa, Q, Kenji>

Lovecraft:

Doesn’t really understand the significance of coming out. I mean, he’s a formless mass of writhing tentacles. Why would he judge you for who you are?

Because of this, he’s very confused when you explain that not everyone is so accepting.

Lovecraft: “But it does not affect them. Why do they care so much about your labels?”

You: “They think it does…”

Lovecraft: “But-”

Yeah, he’s not going to stop asking questions for a while.

Take a gender and sexuality studies class together.

Ango:

He’s pleasantly surprised you trust him enough to tell him this.

Immediately reassures you that he would never think any less of you, and he’s proud of you for being true to who you are.

Happy to keep it confidential if you're not open about your gender identity. He respects your choices.

Overall very supportive, and a good person to come out to.

Louisa:

Also very happy you trust her enough to come out.

She stutters for a moment before finding her voice, and proceeding to ramble about how much she respects you, loves you, how you inspire her to be brave, and how happy she is that you feel comfortable with her.

You’re both blushing by the end of it and all you can say is “...wow.”

Q (plat.):

My nb baby…

Of course they accept you

And they’re thrilled to have something in common with you!

You could go to Pride events together! But, you know… prison & stuff.

Either way, they’ll find a way to curse anyone who judges you for being trans…

Kenji (plat.):

Listens to you very intently. When you’re done talking, he hugs you tightly.

Kenji: “I’m glad you told me this! Now I know you even better!”

Wonders why you seemed nervous before, and is sad to learn that not everyone has been so cool about it in the past.

Kenji: “You know what I always say… If a cow acts up, hit it with whatever’s handy!”

Is he wrong, tho?

[astral-arbour-system]

We have a discord server for hanging out and meeting people. DM for the link!

Do not send asks about fundraisers, they trigger my paranoia and won't be posted. If it's your first ever interaction with us you'll be blocked. If you're struggling I hope you find help somewhere else.

Tone tags are helpful for us most of the time, but too many can make it feel disingenuous. Like "you're cool /pos /gen /plat". Your autism is poking my autism.

We're pro endogenic (including created), non-traumagenic, and non-disordered systems, and uncomfortable interacting with anyone against those things. Don't call any of us alters unless the member in question refers to themself that way. Don't ever tell us how to label our own system and members.

We're proship by the original definition, being we don't care about other people's taste in fiction. We're uncomfortable interacting with those who consider themselves anti-ship. Leave our fictives out of your shipcourse, they are people and their relationships are none of your business.

We're bodily an adult and uncomfortable privately talking to kids online. No exact definition on that but like, don't DM us if you're 13 or something, okay? Unless it's really important.

We're pro everything under the alterhuman umbrella (including voluntary identities), and against the misuse of otherkin terms by people who don't at all identify as what they "kin". Don't use it as a verb around us even if you are otherkin please, we hate the implication that it's an action rather than an identity. Don't call us kinnies.

We are against transx terms, while acknowledging what many of them experience is probably real. For this reason we're pro dissodic, chronosian, aldernic, exoethnic, and related terms for similar phenomena that don't conflate it to being transgender or claim to truly, physically be those things. We're pro transspecies in the way it's been used by alterhumans since before this discourse.

We're pro xenogenders, neopronouns, and "contradictory" labels. Aspec people are queer, polyamory is queer, people who don't "look queer" to you are welcome because you can't tell by looking. LGBT+ folks who hate other ones aren't queer because it's about solidarity, not just being gay or trans.

[wimpy-imp]

Hot takes with Imp: Genocide. is bad. 👍

Zionists are not welcome here

General info:

name: Imp or Stitch

pronouns: he/him kitty/cat. it/its and neos are also fine idrc

age: 18+

DNI terfs and generally shitty people

I'm an adult. i talk about sex and serious stuff here. minors can follow but I'm not going to make myself family friendly so please know it's at your own risk

art account is @wimpyimpart

if you interact with me there's a chance I'll treat your blog like my dash for a lil bit. this greatly increases if we're mutuals

Tags:

cool art tagged #cool art :0, anything vaguely mecore that's cat related tagged #*catboy noises*, mutuals being cool tagged #gosh why are my mutuals so cool, asks are tagged #imp answers, posts about my fursonas will probably be tagged in the style #[name] the [species]. Manchester furmeets are tagged #mancfurs (if i miss something that you think should be tagged lmk)

fursona summaries will be under a read more :3

Fursonas:

Imp the Cat (main sona):

aka whore boy (affectionate) he/him

polyamorous, bisexual demiromantic. he's as trans as i want him to be at any given moment

he's the size of a normal housecat but has a slight bit of magic that changes his size

likes:

flirting with everyone

making people watch SU with him

dressing femme

cuddling up to his partner

getting kisses /plat or /rom

Carbon the Protogen:

he/they

asexual aromantic agender

likes:

kitty cats

watching cartoons

summer days that are just the right temperature

really small things

hugs!

Kerosene the dragon:

she/it

pansexual transfemme

she's an adopt and i love it a lot

likes:

space

robots

getting invited to parties even if she sits in the corner petting the dog

space

flying really fast

Fructose the Sun Bear:

ze/zir they/them he/him

nonbinary lesbian

very beanie stoner girl core /masc

likes:

pissing off exclusionists

getting really fucking drunk

The mountain goats

honey

punching terfs

Citric the Shark:

he/him

Cis gay man

silly lil lemon boy. like a sour sweet

likes:

Kerosene

being gay

doing crimes

won't admit it but loves cotton candy

helluva boss

Hydrogen the Minecraft Axolotl:

he/it

queer (doesn't really give a shit about labels)

glows under UV

Likes:

Parties

drinks with dumb names

glowsticks

making people play minecraft with him

going to fur cons

Stone the Peppered moth:

he/him soot/sootself

trans man, t4t,

likes:

trans people

being alive

volunteering

hikes

dandelions

(if you get this far please like this, it would make me happy :3)

[liilacwine]

i think your post about queerplatonic f/os confuses me. isnt the whole point of a qpr the fact that the label(s) are loose/different between people? if they want to label as such they can? i don't think i get the automatic part either like are people just bein horny but saying it is deeper than it seems?? i have a qp f/o but if u say if it's not explicitly () then it doesnt auto mean qp. for me it's a mix of romo/plat but should i not call her a qp f/o? :( /NOT MAD!!!! i also know you are not a monolith im just stupid and want to be informed and not a dumb bitch who misuses stuff..! if u have another example of what u mean that might help but THANK YOU anyways for your time!! :)

hi anon, hopefully i can clear some stuff up for you (and if i make it worse just lmk, im not always the best at explaining things as we've seen /lh)

first things first, how you label your relationship with your f/o is entirely up to you. im not here to say "this is/isn't a qpr because of xyz". if that feels like the right label for your relationship then by all means label it as such ദ്ദി ( ᵔ ᗜ ᵔ )

in relation to my post, i think it was just lacking context. i had seen a post where someone was asking how they should label their relationship with their f/o, which they described as non romantic and like a friends with benefits type thing. but a lot of people were in the comments/reblogs suggesting that it was a qpr. the goal of my post was just to say that being friends with benefits (or having any relationship that isn't explicitly romantic) does not immediately become a queerplatonic relationship. this also doesn't mean that ops relationship isn't queerplatonic, or that they aren't allowed to call it thay because of the nature of their relationship with their f/o. it's more directed at the people who immediately jumped to saying that it was 100% a qpr.

[genderqueerdykes]

god im a teensy bit intoxicated and was so perplexed (/pos intent only!) by your gender bc butch bear and femme just aren't labels u usually see with each other and then i realized. there's two of u. god. even if i'm wrong and you're a single person rocking all of these labels PLEASE go off and continue being badass, i hope ur back doesn't hurt too bad from carrying the entire lgbt community xoxo /gen /with plat love

hello there!

there are a lot of us here (many people, one body), so there are a lot of folks in here with different identities! our most common identities are masculine woman and feminine man, so on the whole, we identify as bigender and all of those things at the same time! we are a femme bear and a butch woman <3

AWH my back hurts but only because g-d gave me these big ole boy boobs ;) thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and leave some feedback!! have an awesome week, stay safe, take care!! thanks for being such a sweetheart

[pwlanier]

A BERNARD PALISSY OR HIS WORKSHOP EARTHENWARE ‘PLAT DU DELUGE’ LARGE OVAL DISH

CIRCA 1565-1570, PARIS

Decorated in relief on a blue ground with Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus on a protruding oval boss at center, surrounded by numerous men, women and animals in the Flood, the border with scenes of tritons and dolphins, the edge with a blue ground, the reverse marbled, with printed label inscribed ‘Einsatzstab R nr. 4128’ to the reverse.

Christie’s

[retphienix]

@natahposting replied to your post “My F2P ass finally made 1k plat at once. I've made...”:

Drop a guide my ass is out here with 2 plat to my name

​I don't have some big secret, but I will gladly be transparent on how I make my plat in the hopes that other players can as well.

But uh.

I ain't gonna remotely pretend it's the most fun part of playing warframe, I just so happen to have the correct mindset to allow it to happen without me growing to resent warframe.

So obligatory "You're results may vary" bit here.

ALSO. I PLAY ON PS4 RIGHT NOW AND THE MARKETS HAVE NOT BEEN MERGED. SO PRICING IS DIFFERENT HERE- BUT I BELIEVE SOME IDEAS SHARED HERE HAVE UNIVERSAL APPEAL- Especially when markets do merge.

The most important part for me is utilizing Warframe Market which is a 3rd party website-

not linking because sometimes tumblr is perfectly okay with links and sometimes it isn't and I think this info is potentially useful enough that I'd like it actually popping up in the tag I post it in, it comes up in a search more than easily enough.

- for posting things you'd like to trade which I find infinitely more usable than say spamming trade chat or standing around the bazaar. I genuinely don't get how any player could utilize that as their primary means of trading, that's insane to me.

Market lets you post what you have, how many, what rank (if a mod) and the price and have it be easily presented to others. You can also toggle if you're online, online in-game, or offline which, again, helps direct players to when to contact you for the trade (messaging offline players is useless lmao).

If you opt to utilize market here are the mini-tips for that (skip to end of bullet points if not):

Mark yourself as "online in game" when you're online so that people know to whisper you for trades

Make sure to mark yourself as invisible when you're getting off or you'll get a ton of spam and people confused as to why they couldn't whisper you

On the top left is a toggle for which version of warframe you are playing on- MAKE SURE IT'S ACCURATE! This dictates both where you're trades are posted and what trades you will see. You can toggle this at any time, but worth noting that if you bookmark the site it will bookmark the version you were on when you bookmarked.

The button to post new trades is on the bottom right of the entire webpage, "Place order", easy to assume there is a simpler button to click but there isn't lol.

The common courtesies are not law, but the common courtesies are to message someone on the website if they are listed as "Online", whisper someone in-game if they are "Online In-Game", and generally don't bother spamming people who are offline. The site flourishes off of quick "Hey you have thing? Here's plat. We're done-thank you" trades rather than "Hey, can you be on next tuesday at 6pm for a trade?" meetups.

Price as you see fit- but the best way to get trades is to see what the average is of "online" players- or the median (Or just most common) price of offline players. If 4 people are online charging 20p and 1 person is charging 30 and 1 person is charging 19, it's 20p, if 1 person is online charging whatever but 30 people are offline charging 20p it's probably 20p regardless of what the one person is charging. But play it by ear and label as you see fit until you get a sale.

So there's the "tool", it does the bulk of the work in my opinion, now what do I sell?

Used to just sell prime parts, not so much lately though.

So this should be easy to explain.

Whenever I have the spare time I run some relics to collect prime parts. I used to just toss each and every one on the market and that did very much work for me, buuuut it's a bit tedious doing like max trades a day and making very little plat because parts generally aren't worth much unless it's a gold reward from a vaulted item.

So now-a-days I run relics when I'm bored and collect in the hopes of getting a full set for something, sets sell for a bit more so it just kinda solves that problem. Instead of selling an orthos prime and it taking 4 trades, I can do it in 1 for usually a bit more plat for the convenience, although some items go for less as a set, give it a check from time to time but I generally just say "fuck it" and trade full sets even if say the neuroptics are currently overpriced and I could make plat that way instead.

Prime stuff has arguably taken a dive for me though. There are a lot of people willing to crack relics with the boys all afternoon so the prices are generally a lot more fair on my platform, which is good!... but means less lucrative farming. Still worthwhile though, especially if you sit down to farm your backlog of relics from currently vaulted things.

But with that I've moved over to farming mods.

There are a ton of good targets to farm when it comes to mods, so honestly just think of some of the best mods and consider if the task of farming is up your alley.

Some stand outs for me are the various 60/60 mods you can get from spy missions, specifically Rime Rounds (Tier 2 at 5% or Lua at 7%) or the mess of them you can get from the Kuva spy mission (Frostbite, Frigid Blast, Thermite Rounds, Scorch).

The spy farms are generally a breeze with many of them being easily farmed at max efficiency as early as getting Limbo or even Rhino to ignore knockdowns from some spy obstacles.

I do hate Lua's simon says puzzle though. It genuinely makes me second guess myself into recording the solution each time -.-

Corrupted mods, though obviously that pool is just silly with 90% of corrupted mods being worthless outside of gimmicks and then 10% being worthwhile and constantly selling.

On the plus side getting corrupted mods is easy as hell, it can even be fun if you bring some friends and all go on a great "Slow walking fast sliding" adventure together in the hopes of netting that coveted Blind Rage lol

(SOME) Syndicate mods, these are easy as hell to acquire but you really have to do your research to see what's even worth posting, and I just find it too bothersome to deal with.

Cross checking what mods are ACTUALLY unique to one of the 2 sides on the syndicate page is annoying as is, so honestly I just toss a Despoil augment or a pilfering augment (dome or tentacles) on the market from time to time and those generally sell because even people in the correct syndicate want them early for obvious reasons.

Growing Power, pretty self explanatory, it's like "The" good drop from the silver grove, so if you've got an oxylus or a patient mind you can go collect some day and night plants and go put the Knave Specter through some hydroid tentacles for a bit.

Arbitration Mods, funnily enough putting galvs behind content that requires a lot of play time to get to and making them tradable does make these sell pretty consistently. Not universally for a lot or anything, but once you're at the point where you can go do some arbitrations for fun you might as well consider the bit of plat you have access to :P

Kahl "Archon" Mods, same deal. It takes a bit to get to Kahl, so newer players will often trade for the mods early since some are genuinely quite nice. Nothing game breaking, but nice.

I feel like a good portion of why mods are feeling much more secure a trading front for me is because EVERY player needs good mods, from new to old, while most prime stuff exists as mastery rank fodder which can always be put on the backburner. (Most, not all). The market for prime stuff is very much alive, but the market for mods feels massive in comparison.

So genuinely, my sell history is basically this:

Full warframe sets ranging from 50-130p

A metric ton of 60/60 mods for 10-30p a pop

"Some" rarer mods like Growing power for like 50p a pop

Obviously, different platforms different prices, maybe I'd only be sitting on like 100p by now on PC, haven't the slightest. But after a metric ton of spy missions I can say I broke 1k for the first time which is neat.

The short version

Warframe Market (3rd party website)

Crack relics when you're bored and toss what you don't need on the market

Farm 60/60 mods and toss them on the market

Sell mods from late->end game content

????????? (<-Luck)

Profit? Maybe?

Buy the Sway emote.

Anyone with more experience trading, feel free to add or argue differences on different platforms. I've got like 2 years-ish trading experience on playstation and that's it.

[siverfanweedo]

Okay I know on this site we do not like tiktok (which is valid) but listen: we need to talk about how it is BAD that UMG pulled all "their" music off the app on the 1st.

Like not just people like Taylor Swift and Drake and the weekend

there is actually SMALL music creators who got discovered ON tiktok and they lost their whole plat form and they weren't even signed to UMG proper. Some where small label companies that where subsidiaries of umg. UMG said they didn't sign a contract with tiktok becuz tiktok wouldn't make a good artist first contract, as well as tiktok allowing AI covers thus replacing artists ( this is the only good point)

but listen: i don't think UMG actually cared that must about their artist becuz all i see are smaller artists who have no idea what to do now you had to put so much of their own money and time into tiktok to create a presence there becuz they where told to promote themselves and their music on that app.

Even if the music isn't good, these creators had NO say in the matter in fact i think many found out right as the rest of us did. Like a day before it was all taken down. And that is straight up awful.

[dragonbreakers07]

[In your inbox appears a small oddly shaped bottle with a cork as its cap, filled with a mystic drink the ssme color as the powder you've seen before]

Use this wisely. The entire potion equates to 120 hours of age reversal from the current form. You will be between the ages 1-4. You can drink the entire thing for 4 days or part of it and save the rest for a later time.

Scylla opens her [Inbox], a magical space that opens for everyone on the Yokai side of Tumblr, thanks to the witches at HQ. You can get and answer messages, and receive items as well. 

Good. She needs a distraction. Her hands are still shaking from her panic attack, despite the last couple of hours she had spent under Azalea’s trance.

God she had missed that.

She shakes off the unwanted thoughts about going back and looks in the little glowing box, seeing no notes today. She bets Leo and Donnie get tons of messages. 

However, at the very bottom of the box, is a little bottle with a message tied around the cork, the colors inside swirling with blues, purples, and one slightly inconceivable color she probably wouldn’t be able to see if not for the residual magic of the blade at her hip. She likes to call it Eldritch. It feels like a good name for it. 

She reaches inside and reads the label, blinking at it for a couple minutes before it actually clicks. 

Oh.

She pauses, sets the bottle on the table in front of her and mulls it over for a second.

…I could split it up. Save it. The rational, logical side of her says.

But 120 hours sounds good… Says the part of her that so desperately wants to just. Chug it all, become a kid for a couple days, fuck the consequences. That’s what… five days?

I should wait until I’m with someone, it’d be bad for me to be all alone like that. Says Rationality.

The tiny, still waiting impatient child inside her screams, BUT I WANNA DRINK IT NOWWWW.

She picks up the bottle and stuffs it in her bag. For once, Rationality wins out. If she drinks it all now, she’s going to regret it. She doubts this is exactly cheap stuff to make. And whoever dropped this in her ask box has to be very kind to give it for free. 

Scylla. She hears Shirogane hum in her head. His voice, as usual, is soft, comforting. Familiar. Do you need me to hold onto that for now?

Nah. She shrugs. I’ll just head back to Momma’s before I drink it. It’d be stupid to drink it now, Zay’s…

She looks over at the bedroom, the door still open. Azalea lays draped over her soft, light pink and gold sheets, entirely passed out as she recharges the magic she lost putting Scylla under earlier. Her golden wings shine in the light, glittering with temptation. 

I dont wanna bother her anymore than I have. 

She grabs her jacket she had carelessly thrown on the floor earlier, from when she had practically burst in, panting, her mind screaming as she grabbed onto Azalea, practically latched onto her, and refused to let go. She couldn’t get Chizu. She’d mess up everything, (as per usual) and Azalea was the next best option. 

Scylla pulls out a scrap of paper from the notebook she carries with her, scribbling out a quick, “Thank you, I love you /plat, hope you had a good nap. I’ll text you when I get back to my mother’s, thank you for helping me today. Sorry for botherin you.” and leaving it on the front table next to the door, closing the front door as quietly as possible. 

[mwolf0epsilon]

Deployment

Summary: 3 moments during Sponge's service days that shaped them into the stubbornly protective ori'vod that they had no choice but to become.

[2 out of 3 drabbles celebrating Sponge Day (the date of their creation). I hope you all enjoy the Sponge Lore drop!]

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The sound of Jelly's death rattle won't leave their fraying mind. The same can be said for the feeling of his blood soaking through the thick fabric of their body-glove. Their closest brother's life slipping through their fingers and sipping into their bones. Sponge can even swear that they can still taste that coppery tang in the back of their mouth. It snakes down their throat like thick oil, threatening to choke them out.

A guilty conscience pulls no punches.

They let their brother die to save someone else. And now they are completely and utterly alone. Undoubtedly soon to be repudiated by their batch, for causing them nothing but endless troubles with their bizarre peculiarities and selfishness.

Who is Sponge without Jelly? They don't really know.

The idea of finding out on their own is nothing if not terrifying to them. Not to mention absolutely heart-wrenching.

It wasn't ever meant to be like this...

Because they can't sleep without the threat of seeing their brother's broken corpse whenever they close their eyes, Sponge gets into the habit of wandering around aimlessly through out the halls of the Resolute.

They are still in transport. Getting further and further away from the sinkhole where Sponge lost it all. The medic they saved, Kix, is still recovering in the ship's medical wing.

Sometimes they stop at the foot of their cot, making sure he's still breathing evenly. They think if the other didn't make it that it'd be worse. That they'd wasted too much time saving another lost cause instead of focusing on Jelly.

They can't bring themselves to hate this vod. But it hurts to know he has someone to wake up to that will comfort him, when Sponge no longer has that. It's not fair.

They are wandering again tonight. Not really paying attention to where they are going. Eyes unfocused and body moving on autopilot.

Somehow they end up in the armory section of the large venator-class ship. In front of the storage closet where the 501st keeps their paints, to be more specific...

Sponge's dissociative episode ends, and they find themselves holding a can of paint. The label on it is not the iconic 501st blue that they are to use to show their new battalion color. To be quite honest they're not sure why they have this particular shade of pink (#F987C5). Maybe it's an inside joke of some kind they don't know about.

But they do know this was Jelly's favourite color and that he was going to dye his hair once he got the chance. A dream he never got to make come true...

The rookie medic can't help but fall to their knees while clutching the can of paint to their chest. They sob hysterically, the full impact of their grief finally overtaking the feeling of absolute numbness that had kept them going thus far.

Nothing is ever going to be ok ever again. Not without Jelly by their side.

Three hours later, Sponge leaves the armory with a fresh coat of paint on their armour. The right shoulder, arm and hand are completely painted in 501st blue. So is the abdominal platting. Their chest plate and codpiece are adorned with incision indicator, a rather morbid joke on their part.

Their bucket has the same lines going along the forehead, as well as a pair of surgical scissors to further drive in the point (they quite like the design, they might have it inked on their person sometime later). And, aside from a few more minuscule details and the red medical symbol on their left paldroun, the rest of their armour stays relatively bare of color.

They aren't here to make a fashion statement. They are there to serve as a reminder of clone mortality. Most of all they are there to remember Jelly and carry on for him.

No one needs to know about the small pink jellyfish delicately painted on to the inside of their chest plate, just above their heart.

-

Call them a bleeding heart and a bit of a sap for caring for such trivialities, but how could Sponge ever refuse those beady little soulful eyes staring up at them with so much hope?

They hadn't really planned to get a pet anytime soon. At least not in the middle of a raging war that had a tendency to take from them without restraint. But then the pitiful looking adolescent barghest was right there, and they just couldn't ignore how in need of help the poor thing had been...

Obviously they are a medic and not a veterinarian. None of the training modules ever accounted for circumstances where they might be taking care of an animal out in the field. But they were a fast enough learner and they knew how to disinfect and bandage wounds. Could probably even do it with their eyes closed if they really felt like bragging.

The poor creature was underweight, in dire need of a bath, and could certainly do with a bit of bacta here and there. Surely it wouldn't hurt to provide her with such simple care procedures? A simple in and out mission of sorts where no one would even notice her being there for the moment?

Sneaking the barghest aboard isn't the issue in the end. It's parting with her that proves more of a challenge. They should have known, in hindsight, that they would get attached after they had named her.

But then she just responded to Beautiful so naturally...

And she really was such a beautiful thing! So loving and trusting, despite having been in such poor condition when they'd first found her. A frightened ratty thing that had clearly been mistreated by cruel people. Their heart had ached for her.

It ached more at the prospect of seeing her go. Enough so that they resort to falling to their knees and begging their general to let them keep her. It's a momentary show of weakness but it seems to work.

"So long as you have it ship-trained and that it doesn't cause trouble for the crew..." If they didn't have any dignity or good taste in men, Sponge might have caved and kissed their general right there and then.

"She won't be any trouble at all." They had straightened their back, quickly regaining composure after so shamefully begging like a little sad tooka-eyed cadet. Wouldn't do good to have their reputation as an unshakable asshole tarnished by a fleeting instance of weakness. The only one they hoped their superior officer would ever see from them. "I'll make sure to train her myself and everything, general Skywalker sir."

In due time Beautiful becomes an asset to their work as a medic. She's got the intuition of a highly intelligent service beast, and the undying loyalty of a canine.

It reminds Sponge of those holos Jelly had loved so much. The ones where young lads grew up with their dogs, and shared a bond so strong that it kept them safe through out any sort of misadventure. They can almost picture themself as a cadet running in a field with Beautiful right beside them.

A heartwarming fantasy of something that just seemed meant to be.

Out of all the tricks she's taught, not all of them are for use in the field. Some are just learned for fun. Because Beautiful does deserve to do fun things that both enrich and bring her joy (and plenty of treats). And it's also nice that the silliness of some of her repertoire brings others around them some comfort.

They never quite teach her not to eat weird crap off the floor. Nor do they manage to make her learn not to hate her kennel.

Some things just can't be conditioned out of an animal, they ultimately conclude. But who are they to judge? They're also a little set in their ways.

It's certainly a match made in heaven. The perfect friend to have by their side.

-

Up until Coric finally lost patience and dragged them into a vodpile in the medical officers' quarters, it hadn't ever occurred to Sponge that they might be a little touch starved.

It was absurd right? The idea of a touch starved medic...

They were tactile enough with the myriad of vode they cared for, so surely that couldn't ever possibly be the case for them! Well, it turns out it wasn't as simple as it outwardly seemed.

After Umbara, Sponge had stopped touching anyone unless it was in a clinical context.

There was no tenderness to these encounters. Just strict and efficient practices of medical know-how. They were there to provide a service, and their patient was there to get some bacta slapped onto them so that they could get back out and hurt themselves all over again.

The cantankerous medic never let themself linger or get overly attached. Not anymore. And now they were so very in need of physical affection that the mere thought of it made them sick with trepidation. Someone else initiating contact almost felt like burning from just how jarring it felt.

Once they're pulled into the pile of bodies and limbs, they can't help but to shriek and squirm in discomfort. The feelings, smells and textures are too much at that very moment, and their heart is beating so quickly they swear it might explode out of their chest cavity.

Kix and Pitch wrap their limbs around their flailing body. Ride out the struggle despite getting a knee or elbow to the face or groin, because Sponge fights dirty sometimes and isn't petty enough to not admit to it.

Coric grins and bares it when Sponge bites into his shoulder, threatening to draw blood because they feel so stressed and cornered that they disregard their manners completely. The senior medical officer presses a kiss to the crown of their head and whispers words of comfort in their ear.

Sponge's heart continues to hammer away in their chest for 5 more minutes. And then, slowly, they begin to calm down. Begins to melt into the warm embraces of their vode and stop shaking so terribly.

The feeling of burning and wrongness is gone. The aching need for comfort and affection replaces it.

In a show of open vulnerability, they whine softly and press their face into their ori'vod's chest. They choose to ignore the collective sighs of relief that follow. Out of the corner of their eye they can see Twitch searching the storage racks for pilfered blankets none of them had ever bothered returning to the acquisitions division. Beautiful is by the kih'vod's side, looking almost as if she is appraising the material for quality.

Its hard to believe the kid is still standing after everything.

Umbara had left a nasty mark. Not a physical one, but a mark no less. One that had made them push others away and further isolate themself, until there was no other choice but to ambush and subject them to an emergency vodpile.

So many dead and for what? What had Krell hoped to prove by doing what he'd done? Sponge didn't really know.

All that they actually knew was that out of the dozen of squads they'd acquired prior to setting off to Umbara, only a handful of the Shinies had survived the horrors. Among the ranks of lost little kih'vode was Dogma, who was being arrested (and likely executed) for treason.

Treason. What a joke...

Sponge had only just reunited with Tup and Dogma. To lose one of the little brothers they'd taken a shine to so suddenly, before he could even settle down and catch up? Before that little brother could even grow into himself more comfortably now that he was away from Kamino and had that chance?

It was painful. It was unfair. It was war.

No amount of vodepiles, comforting touches, and pretending things would be ok could ever change that.

It certainly made it a terrifying affair for them to love their siblings.

[jem-fern]

Miniature Project: Free Time Bookshop (Rolife)

An extra miniature miniature project here - the Free Time Bookshop is on a smaller scale than other Rolife kits, and it has a forced perspective scaling as well, like a booknook. Items in front of the shop are larger than those at the back, so it gives the impression front-on of a larger item.

I made some edits to the colors inside, and added a few extra elements. Here's a photo of the bookcase configuration before I finished the back wall. The plant is my own work as well as the absolutely tiny Discworld model hidden on the top shelf.

After taking this photo I added tiny hand-written labels for the shelves and little door mat. The kit also came with headphones, a ladder, and a little door, presumably leading to the main body of the shop.

On each side there are two little windows; I added a few more decorative postcards and small elements on the shelves.

Outside there are more books and a cat bowl! I added some extra plats and moved some elements around.

I think I made over 50 books for this little bookshop! Overall, this was a cute little project - it would actually make a great booknook if you removed the wide windows and overhanging roof. (And the kits in this series are significantly cheaper than the booknook kits!)