#Long ish post

[i-may-be-an-emu]

SFTH FAQ and Info Masterpost

This is kinda long so

sfth info:

General info

Sam and Tom’s last names being different sometimes

Shark Friend, Mr Wompa and Squidboi terms origins

the boys degrees

information about what you get with patreon

navigating patreon

roll from the hip

wing it

All sfth youtube videos have been subtitled in English by the amazing subtitle team, as well as many other languages too!! The people who have done them are credited in the video descriptions. Patreon subtitles are being worked on, currently all the Patreon improvised plays are subtitled and some of the fringe shows :)

Unfortunately some sfth videos (especially on tiktok) have been stolen and uploaded as an attempt to impersonate sfth’s account. Please try to report these accounts!! Sfth are verified now, so it’s easier to see which is the real them.

Obviously there’s no rules on tumblr but as a general courtesy to the guys, consider keeping in mind:

Don’t share patreon links (which is probably a patreon rule anyway) and keep clips of patreon things under 2 minutes. Screenshots and discussions are fine!! (As some people have been wondering) Personally, I use the “#sfth patreon” tag so anyone who wants to filter it out can

Don’t share old sfth content around, such as videos and photos of them from years ago from accounts that aren’t theirs. They’ve stated they don’t want this done.

[again, tumblr doesn’t have rules- I’m just making some things known that respect the guy’s wishes]

links to stuff:

The Current fanfiction masterlist and also the Fanfiction masterlist- no longer updated (both lists are mine, fics are of many different authors all credited through the ao3 links) and also an ao3 page with mostly all sfth fics by @bbatcat-09

ao3 guide a relationships ao3 tagging guide and a revised ao3 tagging guide (specific for the sfth fandom) (all by the incredible @youling-the-ghost)

List of games that sfth have posted (by @letsbesharkfriends)

sfth fan wiki (by @youling-the-ghost, I and others have also contributed a little but it’s mostly him :))

tv tropes sfth page (by @friendofthesharks)

Sfth map (by @goingroundincircles-ontrack)

kiss count, not up to date (mine, diagram by @leftenmost-window)

“who said it” and “which member are you” really fun sfth quizzes! (by @toddandersonwithtrustissues)

Another very fun quiz a “which unrelenting aubergine character are you” quiz by @youling-the-ghost :))

You can find amazing sfth gifsets by @hellsquills (to find these search “shoot from the gif” within her blog)

Very impressive and helpful sfth death count by @letsbesharkfriends

some info about dnd and the bitter sweethearts and eftv characters classes in a reblog by @youling-the-ghost

tier list maker for all the longforms including patreon by @ardenofthegarden

sfth discord info by me

sfth videos youtube game playlists by @goingroundincircles-ontrack

info about sfth’s youtube membership “The Beetroot Brigade” by me:

How to join if it’s not working for you

what exactly it is

sfth family tree headcanon by @not-an-idiot and @svnnyd4ys

search “#sfth asks” on my blog to find any asks about or relating to sfth- it’s not just questions, but there is a great deal of questions that you might find yours answered by :) I’m always happy to get asks and to help out with any questions!!! I’ve also started tagging “#sfth faq’s” recently for things that I think others might want to know

You should check out all the amazing fanart too under “#sfth fanart”!!! (also sneaky self promotion that I make fanart sometimes lol “#emu draws” is my art tag :))

feel free to @, dm me or send asks anytime if you have any sfth related questions or wanna obsess over it with me :)

Fandom tags:

(from memory and just the common ones I see)

(These are of course and by no means rules with tagging or anything like that, just if you want to search for specific things!)

main tags:

#shoot from the hip #sfth #shootimpro #sfthposting #sfth screenshots

#sam russell #sfth sam #alexander jeremy #sfth aj #luke manning #sfth luke #tom mayo #sfth tom #sfth sam

fanwork tags:

#sfth fanart #sfth fanfic #sfth fanfiction #sfth edits #sfth headcanons

patreon tags:

#sfthpatreon #sfth patreon things #sfth patreon #the bitter sweethearts #sfth dnd #sfth livestreams #sfth livestreams #escape from the vault

roll from the hip tags:

#roll from the hip #rfth #the plaugeround

Here’s the link to join the sfth fan discord! https://discord.gg/sfthcord (Just a note that it is a 14+ server.) Everyone is lovely and there’s no pressure to interact- but if you do the community is so welcoming!!!

sfth linktree (stuff about their upcoming shows and links to their things. you can also sign up to their patreon here)

sfth website

sfth ko-fi

AJ ko-fi (for his film making) and his film insta @lofi_film25 and youtube

Tom’s graphic novel @futurethecomic (insta)

Sam wrote an audiobook “Evergreen” and you can find it on Spotify

if you think of anything that should go on this post let me know! :)

[anniflamma]

hi I actually love your ruthlessness animatic and its the reason I got into epic in the first place so id just like to ask how you design your characters?? your Poseidons design is really cool

Happy to know that my animatic introduced newcomers to EPIC! :D

So my process of designing a character always starts with trying to achieve a characterization that I want to highlight. From there, I gather references, references, and more references! I take inspiration from other media, arts, or photos. The way I came up with Poseidon is based on a headcanon of mine: that Poseidon is a representation of death and everything that Odysseus does not want to become, but ultimately, whether he realizes it or not, has already become.

The death motif is represented by the horse. It was inspired by, of course, the myth of Demeter and Poseidon, but it was also inspired by the novel "The Foretelling" by Alice Hoffman, where the main character is haunted by a black horse with red eyes. Not gonna spoil anything from it because it's genuinely a good book, but you can guess that the horse represents death. Then the idea of him having glowing eyes and teeth were inspired by all those creepy pictures from the Mandela Catalogue series, but I also saw pictures of horses showing their teeth, and that was scary enough for me to include.

So my first drawings of Poseidon were actually of his horse form. And I just loved the visual of a horse running on the waves!

When I started to create his human form, I had in mind to make him look like the horse and the human form were the same person. So at first, he had only black clothing, but I ended up changing it because I just knew that people would associate him more with Hades. So that's why he wears white instead.

I wanted to portray Poseidon as a father who has experienced pain and seeks revenge.

So he has tear streaks that show that he has recently been crying. His clothing is very loose and exposed, indicating that he didn't tend to himself before hunting Odysseus. He has black, silky hair due to his horse form having black, silky hair.

Something else that I also tend to do is not make an overly cluttered design. I'm not really into heavy detailing. I am much more keen on having details, but making them subtle and using shapes to tell a story.

And something that I really like about character design is to have characters designed to contrast with each other.

A good example is my designs of Hera and Zeus! Zeus is dressed in light clothing because he is the opposite of Hera, she is wearing heavy veiling. But I also really like to use shape languages. So Zeus has a large chest and the usage of clouds makes his upper body look big. So he will always look bigger than you. And Hera is the opposite again, her veil makes all the volume push down, and she looks small compared to Zeus, but she still takes up a lot of space with people beside her.

[bouquetofpoetry]

i remember really hating the ending of dead poets society the first time i watched it. i was sitting on the stairs of my house, looking angrily at the tv. i told my mom “this can’t be how this ends, there has to be more. i need to hear the rest of the story.” i felt the same way as if i had read a book series and thought the ending let all the strings loose. but now as a rewatch it for the millionth time, i enjoy the ending. i’m a lot more emotional now when i watch it, i cry harder than i do at the neil death scene (i honestly laugh cause of the slomo). i understand now that the ending is so open, it makes you wonder what happened next. but you know what happened… the cycle starts again. the travesty goes unnoticed and unpunished and the next group of welton boys go into the school and leave one day. the ending shot of todd’s head makes me so emotional because i genuinely feel so horrible for him, his life was changed by the people around him and the system brought them all down. his english class turned into a jail cell and his best friend died. the ending is now one of my favorite scenes in the movie.

[emo-crowgirl]

Headcanons about Bergy and Nix (Mostly Nix because he has the least amount of canon details):

In terms of the friend group that is the techs, Nix is pretty close to the edge of the group. Everyone knows him, but no one knows much about him (only two of the techs know that Nix is actually the last name of Adam Michael Nix (canonically his full name)) and he kind of has that “Friend of a Friend” type of vibe. There’s a degree of separation between him and the rest. His two proper connections into the rest of the group are through Mitch and Bergy.

Anyways I put way too much thought into why he’s canonically frequently paired up with Bergy so here’s more headcanons mixed with way too much analyzing.

I headcanon that Bergy was the newest glitch tech in Bailley before Five and Miko came along, while Nix is one of the older techs, having joined around the same time as Mitch, but is still way lower level than him partly due to him having a second job at Joystick Jr’s (which also contributes to that “degree of separation” between him and the other techs and also explains why he rarely shows up in the show. He’s working multiple jobs and literally can’t be around the others as much).

But also, it’s canon from the Glitch Techs Tech Manual (a kind of official-but-unreleased show bible that shows details about the show) that Bergy is kind of an odd one out in terms of his skills and why he was recruited in the first place.

Mitch is a gaming prodigy who’s been winning tournaments since he was a kid and still seems to be participating in them even though he’s stopped streaming and Hannesh is canonically a gaming prodigy who would regularly participate in tournaments until getting extremely burnt out and leaving that whole thing behind, with Hinobi seeking him out not long after. Five and Miko were recruited due to a mix of them winning the Hinobi Smash tournament, having the skills to defeat an arcade full of glitches with no prior training and Miko’s immunity to resets. Nix was apparently sought out for “completion of achievements” and just going by the standards of everyone else, those achievements were probably pretty impressive or extremely hard to get. What Zahra did to get brought in by Hinobi isn’t stated but again, just going by the reasons that Hinobi hired everyone else there’s no way she didn’t have some extremely high level of skill before being hired.

Bergy was canonically hired due to “overly-positive conduct in community forums”. So everyone else was brought in because they were some of the best gamers in town and were extremely good at what they do, while Bergy got in because he was just really friendly and a good person. Not exactly what Hinobi seems to normally search for in a tech.

So just because of that, I kind of wonder if Bergy was even originally going to BE a tech. Maybe he was brought in for something else, probably something more social and lining up with why he was hired in the first place, but somehow Bergy got himself into the glitch techs anyways. Maybe he found that he enjoyed being a tech more than his original purpose and Phil was more than happy to have another tech on patrol. Who knows.

Anyways, put yourself in Phil’s shoes here. You have a young, inexperienced, tech who doesn’t seem to have the traditional gaming skills or qualifications or to be perfectly honest, physical ability that techs usually have and/or are actively sought out for having, who might not have even been originally intended to be a tech. What do you do with him?

You pair him up with someone more experienced both so the inexperienced tech can learn the ropes out in the field and so the more experienced tech can act like a bodyguard if they end up going against something above their weight class.

So that just leaves who you stick Bergy with.

BITT should be the first choice because his name is literally an acronym for Binary Intelligence TECH TRAINER, but his job of running the entire store and serving as “guy-in-the-chair” support to techs is way too valuable, so sadly BITT cannot do what he was created to do.

Zahra and Haneesh aren’t the best options because (at least according to my own headcanons) they’ve joined about a year ago at this point in pre-canon time and aren’t as experienced as they are in the show yet, so there’s better options to consider first.

Mitch is immediately off the table for a variety of reasons including the fact that

There’s no way in hell that Mitch would take kindly to having to regularly work with another tech, let alone a tech that’s way lower level than him that he would have to train and teach things to.

It’s been shown in canon that Bergy just kind of.. takes orders from whoever’s in charge without questioning them, so combine that with the last point and Mitch would probably just tell Bergy to wait in the van or at HQ, or really anything that gets him out of the way. Point is Bergy isn’t going to get any experience of any kind from this arrangement.

Mitch’s idea of a Slow Day is one that only has him fight ONE extremely dangerous boss glitch, and when he’s not stealing glitches from other techs (which keeping another tech near him at all times might slow or actually stop), he’s hunting down and fighting the largest thing he can find on his radar. You don’t want a level one tech even remotely near any of that.

So just going by process of elimination here, that leaves Nix and Simi (who hasn’t transferred to Dabney yet).

Now Nix has a lot going for him in this scenario that works out.

He’s not Mitch.

He’s a older glitch tech with about as much knowledge as Mitch, at the cost of less actual experience and a lower level on account of that second job.

That lower level actually becomes an advantage because unlike Mitch, Nix’s lower level means that he’s more equipped to deal with and therefore fights lower level glitches. He CAN still go after something dangerous and drag Bergy with him, he’s only human, but the fact that his equipment is lower level is a pretty good deterrent and that’ll do for now.

Despite that lower level, Nix is still strong enough to bodyguard Bergy if stuff goes wrong.

Sure Nix isn’t around as much, but even compared to the other options like Simi or Zahra and Haneesh, Nix is just a better pick.

So that’s why the two originally got paired together, and they still frequently go on missions together even now that Bergy no longer needs someone training him simply because they’re friends at this point.

[princess-starscourge]

It’s sad how PLL basically made Aria’s character revolve around her gross relationship with Ezra. Isn’t she supposed to be this creative, artsy, kinda eccentric girl? But rewatching the show, I don’t really get that impression.

One thing I’ve noted and find interesting is that outside of that relationship, her main storyline involves her familial strife—and in a different way than the other girls. The Hastings have shady dealings and illicit affairs, Hanna pretty much just has issues with her dad, and Emily’s mom had a brief stint as a homophobe.

Typically, the strife was caused by something the parent was doing. Not that Aria never had this or was never mad at her parents, but with her, it feels more like she wants to fix the problems in her family and be close like they once were, rather than only spending time being mad at them. She very much feels like a fixer. Unless the other Liars have done something they regret that hurt their parents, I don’t get that same vibe from them. TL;DR, family feels important to Aria’s character in a way that’s different than the rest of the girls. And a lot of her family drama stemmed from what we learned early on in the show, Byron’s affair, so it’s not always a new thing like it is with the other girls. Also I think her being the only Liar who’s an older sibling adds to that, with how protective she is of Mike (and is closer to him than Spencer is with Melissa or Ali was/is with Jason).

But yeah the point is Aria is and should’ve been more than what the show made her. She is not just the girl preyed on (oh, I’m sorry—ROMANCED) by her teacher. Why I’m talking intensively about the least interesting character from goddamn PLL of all things, I don’t know. But I am and here it is :)

Also I loved her outfits in the earlier seasons.

[florasstudyjournal]

assignment prep 09.10 WED

went to the library today after class to clean up some assignments to be finished!! very productive day to be honest!! two things finished off, and submitted!! honestly, feeling okay but a little drained.

i mostly wrote from notes i took the other day, but im a little embarrassed of how messy they are (i went back to my old ways of writing in blue pen, then adding notes layered over the original writing in a light blue pen). however, they were extremely helpful because it wasnt just the notes from scholarship, but my thoughts and analysis that contribute to my argument, so good over all, i guess?

anyways it’s been a couple hours since i took this photo and did all this work if i’m honest. i spent most of the day after this walking around and just relaxing as i walked. sometimes walking is the best thing i can do because uts a thoughtless task. it’s really good for me mentally, because it forces me to take a break from everything.

[priscilla9993]

Tale of Coming of Age, Not Coming Out

Sometimes, Ouat gets it right, happy accident or intentional. With its history of queerbaiting (Mulan romantically tragic) and cash grab representation (Dorothy and Red underdeveloped), Once could have rehashed a bare bones version of “queer representation” with Robin and Alice’s love story. There was a likely chance considering Tiera was originally told she’d be slated for 3 eps, Rose for 5 eps, and their eventual characters’ storylines mainly played out in s7b. 

Now, I’m going to play the Devil’s Advocate and be like but wait, wasn’t Robin and Alice’s kiss in season 7 episode 10, the mid-season finale, a coming out moment, shocking to the audience that Robin and Alice were lgbtq?

Okay, you’re right, if you only watched the season or overheard at face value that the episode built up to two females aka Alice and Robin kissing as the Dark Curse loomed. However, coming out implies that initial assumption that the two are straight and happened to realize who they wanted to be romantically with, showing that to the world, family, or in this case, the audience. 

Author’s Note: Yes, while I do think any coming out story or queer representation is important, I feel that the media and Hollywood use that to pander with the bare minimum, doing what sells headlines, is dramatic, or can be easily pushed into the background. Sometimes, its inclusion is played out for laughs or as a flawed foil to put heterosexual ships on a pedestal. Ouat is no exception with its history and having two white attractive straight oriented blonde actresses play into an easily accessible trope of lesbian romance compared to the rarer gay/trans/non-binary category. That said, it’s a PG fairytale soap opera that aired domestically on Disney owned ABC and internationally elsewhere. Who needs reality to be the downer when we can live in a fluffy fantasy where love and hope is all that matters? Don’t get me started on the toxic fans or parts of the Ouat fandom. Rather than rioting a personal projected attack against a dislike, make verbalizing not liking something or a ship normal again. That out of the way, it may have taken 7 seasons to have a queer love story that’s taken seriously and might even be comparable to main ships, but it’s still something by having it canon and not end in ‘bury the gays’. I’m looking at you Supernatural. 

That said, into the rabbit hole we go!

Alice, since the start of her centric ep, 7x04 Beauty, winked and teased at Rumple by asking, “Are you looking for a prince?” regarding the ball and as Tilly mentioned to Weaver, “I had an ex-girlfriend who worked for [Victoria Belfrey] once.” Unless considered a blink and miss moment instead of casual on the nose comments, it’s clear Alice is queer or lesbian, cursed or not. 7x10 continues laying it on as Alice worries about her love, saying to Killian, her dad, “But Papa, if it happens, I will lose her.” He’s unfazed and responds with comfort, “Don’t say that, love, don’t! True love can win out over so much more.” Even though an act of true love has only been seen in Ouat as a magical solution to a curse when two people, familial or romantic, love each other and believe in magic, it can be taken here to validate and uplift that Alice and Robin’s love is strong enough to connect and endure. He also knows who to deliver her letter addressed ‘My Love’ to, without a mention of a name.

At the start of the episode 7x10, Robin worries and says, “If [the coven of the eight] are here, I have to warn-” to which Zelena, her mom, comforts her, “Don’t worry. Look, darling, we’ll warn everyone. We’ll protect our loved ones,” and tells Regina, “She’s got a case of young love.” Although Robin was a baby prior to s7 and we don’t get a clear look into her as a person before 7x10, it’s certain that Zelena knows who Robin wants to warn and is in love with, enough to nearly run aimlessly around the New Enchanted Forest for.

Assuming the audience is cued in on the love storyline, Robin looking for her love and Alice already explicitly hinting at her sexuality, their parents both supportive to them, the shock value should come from not their sexual orientation but rather who they're in love with. Instead of being reduced to their labels, Alice and Robin’s love story is about two people who come to know and love each other, their differing sexualities being an added bonus.

So, elephant in the room out of the way, where does the coming of age come in?

Well, in the characters’ growth and relatability as Alice and Robin both strive to be more than their past of summed up parts and the people they come from. TLDR: It’s all about finding their place in the world and discovering who they want to be rather than letting their past and others’ views define them.

Girl in the Tower vs Tower Girl

You could say it means the same thing, but like hear me out. Double meaning, Great Gatsby style. Was it intentional? In Ouat fashion, it usually is.

Taken literally, the first represents a girl that happens to be in a tower while the latter emphasizes how a tower is a characteristic of the girl. In context, when Robin first meets a spy lurking to watch a papa with a poisoned heart, she puts two and two together and curiously remarks to Alice, “Wow. So you’re the Girl in the Tower.” 

Just like how Alice is known for being in Wonderland, she’s also given names by strangers who know Killian, seen as “Nook’s kid” and the “Girl in the Tower”. Robin unintentionally gives away how interested she is in Alice, the referential girl in the phrase, caring about her enough to keep track of descriptive names and stories of someone she’s never met until then.

Despite being caged in Robin’s trap, Alice rebuttals uncomfortably, “I got out of that tower years ago.” 

The phrase also gives way to the way Alice thinks and feels about herself. She took notice of the ‘in’ bit, probably gravitating on the word ‘tower’, and wanted to clear the air. Alice defends and distances herself in term, separating away from any connection or fondness to the tower. By saying she got out of ‘that tower’, she claims she’s no longer trapped inside the tower and feigns indifference, as if it's a tower out of many instead of the home and her world before the Troll helped her escape.  

Later on, Robin nicknames Alice as Tower Girl, in fondness, awe, and sometimes disbelief at how Alice exists, seeing and going about the world as she does. Robin only says Alice’s name in moments of sensitivity and as a grounding basis, sarcasm and jokes out the window. To give a list of Robin’s usage of the nickname, it’s after Alice: claims the Troll is her friend instead of a monster flattening villages, is led by Robin through a humorous string of homonyms regarding riding a bug and having a whole life held in a smartphone, has differing views on goals, and tackles Robin upon her aim at the Troll. 

From the starting flashback in 7x14 to the Troll destroying the Tower in frustration, the tower is a part of Alice as much as she was a part of it. Being physically free of the tower wasn’t enough as it haunted her, either on the lips of others or how much she wanted her freedom to be the solution to making reality okay, happiness attainable. When Alice was trapped, she had hope that things were better outside and could be sheltered in the bubble of love her papa gave her. Alice was the girl in the tower, away from the judgement of society, unhurt by the reality outside her scope despite her imprisoned situation seeming bleak. 

Surprisingly, in the last time we hear “Tower Girl” being uttered in 7x14, it’s straight from Alice’s mouth after she says goodbye to the Troll in front of the tower, confronting the things she left behind and couldn’t be free of, coming to terms with her childhood and past. At the age of 18, Alice escaped the tower and ran away to multiple realms on tons of adventures to explore more while on her quest to find a cure. However, there was nowhere she wanted to be more than back home. In the end, she inadvertently did come home, say her honest truth, had someone by her side to hear her out, and realized that the tower didn’t have to be her enemy or her stopping point. By saying, “Goodbye, Tower Girl,” to the broken tower, we get the sense that she redefines herself as not one held back or prisoner to the tower, but one that keeps moving forward in spite of her original circumstances, staying true to herself.

Conforming to Expectations vs Accepting Themselves

Imagine growing up in a small town like Storybrooke where people are larger than life and everyone is intertwined with legends. If fairytales inspired joy, I doubt they did for Robin who had bigger shoes to fill than most. Robin Hood-Mills, daughter of the powerless Wicked Witch and the deceased Robin Hood who saved the world from a vengeful god. To be a powerful witch or leading archer? Both required skills and inadvertently influenced comparisons to be made.

Of course, although her mother had a lot of talent, Robin didn’t have much nor was she allowed to practice magic except in secret. Considering Zelena probably saw what power did to their family and her lack of magic to protect them both from danger, the forbidding of magic was an extreme safeguard. 

So, with small minded people in a school where everyone ages K-12 went, the deck was stacked against her. It wouldn’t be surprising if Robin was a goody two shoes initially, but learned that doesn’t build street cred or help make friends. If she was to survive school, Robin would have to fit in or stand out. And how did she do that with peer pressure and expectations to conform to? By pretending to be someone she’s not, becoming popular and cool. With that, Robin could make a name for herself, gaining attention and acceptance from her peers, leaning towards while stepping away from her parents’ shadows. 

What’s cool to high schoolers in Storybrooke might be being good at magic, making things look effortless, breaking rules, and not caring what anyone thinks. Thievery was frowned upon, but getting away with lockpicking, hotwiring, and stealing earned cool points and recognition in others. Robin might not have powerful magic, but in 7x11, she gets Regina to help her and her friends practice magic in the old vault via Cora’s spellbook. However, Robin doesn’t want to be popular per say; she wants to be accepted and loved for who she is, discover what she really wants with no pretenses.

If Storybrooke wasn’t the answer, anywhere else was. Throughout the season, Robin/Margot runs away to find and be themselves while longing to be home with supportive loved ones. In 7x11, Robin makes a potion to summon Mother Nature, which whisks her away to Gothel in another realm, claiming to have run away. Robin tells her mom upon shunning her away, “I am my own person, one you refuse to let me grow into,” and “I didn’t love magic. I just felt like I was supposed to… and there’s all these things I’m supposed to be good at,” after getting saved.�� In 7x14, Robin admits to Alice that she hotwired and stole Emma’s yellow bug, to be away from Storybrooke and only getting away for “eight glorious minutes”.

By the end of 7x11, Robin has reconciled with Zelena; Robin trusts her mother’s good intentions while Zelena vows to support Robin on any endeavor. However, her journey hasn’t ended, even in the New Enchanted Forest. In 7x14, Robin vows to honor her father’s legacy by killing the Troll and becoming the villagers’ hero. She retreads all her mistakes in medieval fashion until she wants to defend Alice from the mob, realizing that protecting those who need it matters most to her and connects her to her dad. Making peace with her parents and her insecure self, Robin decides to forge her own path and be more honest. 

Margot has a similar arc of wanting to change and see change. While less of a jerk and more open to different viewpoints as a mature traveler compared to Robin, she regressed in terms of relationships with her mom, Kelly, and never feeling like she’s treated like an adult, being in the know as equals. In 7x10, Margot is mentioned to have had a job at the bar, a ticket to Amsterdam, turned away from college at Vassar, is currently in Phuket, and never coming back home out of her mom’s lack of coolness. Lots to unpack, but the point is Margot decides to come back after 7x11 when her mom calls saying she’s changed and wants to talk, only worrying about Margot’s safety. By 7x16, Margot fights with her mom, claiming that she left in the first place because they’ve “never been able to communicate”. Hurt, Margot spills, “I am done being patient with you. All I’ve ever done is wait for you to change. You know what? I never should have come back.” 

Margot hates the lies and sinking feeling inside that her mom doesn’t trust her or might be in trouble. She doesn’t give her mom a chance until Tilly suggests that Margot seems amazing and wise, but her mom might be not avoiding the truth for a good reason. They make up, Margot giving her mom a bit more time and eventually chooses to stay in Hyperion Heights regardless of anyone else’s life choices or opinions on her.

Either way, Robin and Alice go through their own arcs, dealing with things we can relate to: feeling alone or unheard, being left in the dark, craving acceptance, doubting self, running away from problems, and worrying about people’s perceptions. Luckily, both women find their way on what they want and who they want to be; they become individuals that grow and adapt to their environments while learning to stay true to themselves, accidentally falling in love during the process. 

[questh]

Thinking of a Project Sekai Slay The Princess AU...

I adore Slay the Princess. If you haven't played or seen it, I encourage you to do so! Warning, though! It's a horror game, even if it says it's a love story. Additionally, there is visuals of blood and body horror within this Visual Novel. If you can stomach it, then I hope you'll find the game as entertaining, brain-shattering, yet tear-jerking as I did.

For Slay the Princess and PJSK fans out there, I sure hope I'm not the only one thinking about this...

The main idea of this AU only loosely follows the plot of Slay the Princess, different routes will follow a specific pairing of characters. (One of them being a voice, the other being a vessel/princess variant), I've thought of this AU being based solely on a singular pairing- but there are plenty of opportunities for good pairings, so I can't even focus on one.

This does beg the question on how the shifting Mound and Long Quiet will be incorporated if all 20 characters are implemented, but perhaps I'll think about it soon.

Also, I think Ichika would make a great Voice of the Hero, so imagine her tagging along like that by default.

Anyway, the ideas for pairings spans miles. Let me list them! I feel like most of these pairings are flexible with whatever ship there may be.

Minoharu- Minori as the Voice of the Smitten, with Haruka as the Damsel. (could work with a Saki ship, she makes a great Damsel too. ALSO WORKS WITH EMUKASA ACTUALLY)

Akitoya- Akito as the Voice of the Skeptic, with Toya as the Prisoner

AkiAn- Akito as the Voice of the Stubborn, with An as the Adversary (Could also work with MizuAn, perhaps?)

EmuKasa- Tsukasa as the Voice of the Cheated, with Emu as the Razor (AkiEmu could also work here! Or AkiAn....)

Polysho- Rui as the Voice of the Contrarian, with the rest of WxS as the Stranger.

HonaShiho- Honami as the Voice of the Hunted, with Shiho as the Beast

KanaMafu- Kanade as the Voice of the Paranoid, with Mafuyu as the Nightmare (Could also be KanaEna, actually?)

MizuEna- Ena as the Voice of the Cold, with Mizuki as the Spectre (Could would with Mizumafu, or Mafuena...)

NeneKasa- Tsukasa as the Voice of the Opportunist, with Nene as the Witch (Could Work with MizuEna)

Additional Ideas (Chapter 3 ideas, mostly)

-Nene as the Thorn, Tsukasa as the Voice of the Opportunist, Rui as the Voice of the Smitten

-Mafuyu as HEA (Chapter 3 Damsel), Kanade as Voice of the Paranoid, Emu as Voice of the Smitten

-Alternatively, the above, except replace Kanade with Ena or Mizuki as the Voice of the Opportunist

-Akitoya Prisoner Chapter 3 (The Cage), except Ena joins in as the Voice of the Cheated (she's done with their squabbling)

-Another HEA alternative. Saki as the Damsel, Honami as the Voice of the Paranoid, Ichika as Voice of the Hero as always. Voice of the Smitten... I'm not quite sure.

-Emu or Shizuku as the Burned Grey, Tsukasa as Voice of the Smitten, Mafuyu as Voice of the Cold

That's all the ideas I have. There's a lot of character pairings out there, so if any STP fans also like Proseka, and are also quite the multishipper, think about your favorite pairings in Slay the Princess!

I'm not a great writer myself, but a part of me really wants to write a Razor chapter with these guys, and the Akitoya Cage chapter with Ena, and one of the HEA chapters... Perhaps I'll consider it eventually.

[teasodium]

happy May the 4th !

Also fuck Mark Hamill n anyone else who doesn't support 🍉

[i-may-be-an-emu]

SFTH Fic Masterlist!!

This list is no longer active. I have however moved the list to here for several reasons explained in that post :) I’m still keeping this up though

someone said that they wanted a fic masterlist so I made one :))

These are all the sfth fics on ao3, wattpad and tumblr that i could find- they’re not really in any order but they are organised into the plays and stuff that they’re from. I have not read all of these, just compiling them here :)

the number at the end refers to how many fics there are in that category.

A big thank you to all these fic writers you’re amazing!

**full credit to the authors for these fics**

(note: no sexually explicit fics are on this list, though some are mature and some have serious warnings. Please read and consider the warnings.)

ao3:

#1. Omg Is This A Joke (3)

#.3 Lost In Your Eyes (3)

#5. Long Johns - STRIKE! (7)

#.10 The Midnight Mystery (2)

#11. Inside The Mysterious Cube and Part Two (19)

#13. All Eyes On Nigel (8)

#14. No! I Always Loved That Caravan (1)

#15. Wild, Wet & Worrisome (2)

#16. The Cardboard Stegosaurus (8)

#20. The Leftenmost Window (9)

#21. The Neighbours Under The Bed (3)

#22. The Milkman (10)

#23. Beetroots And Murder (3)

#24. Susan’s Holiday (1)

#25. The Evil Make a Wish Kid (1)

#26. Priscilla’s Final Petal (2)

#27. The Mystery Of The Midnight Circus (1)

#29. Wine Under The Bridge (2)

#30. The Unrelenting Aubergine And part two and part three and part four (32)

#31. The Lighthouse (1)

#32. Murders In Space (1)

#33. Marigolds Bluebells and Hugh (2)

#35. Burglary And Bobsledding (1)

#36. Toby’s Secret Pocket and part two (12)

#37. Ballet On The Battlefield (2)

#39. The Grape Depression (1)

#40. Strange Noises From The Hole In The Wall (2)

#41. Divorces And Teddy Bears (1)

#42. The Detective Versus The Christmas Tree Bandits (4)

Crossover Fics and crossover part two and crossover part three and crossover part four crossover part five (45)

Skits/Scenes (games/flurries) thirsty vamps(1) genre from huge(1) coming out timewarp(1) devils daughter (flurry?)(1) two therapist genre(1) total (5)

Headcanons/Lore/Other stuff (6)

Patreon Fics (you’re still welcome to read these if you’re not a patreon but it might not make sense) (3)

Live Show Fics (HOW!?!?!? Amazing. I think this play will be released and I’ll edit this when/if it does to be with fics from that play.) (1)

DND (not putting it in the patron list since some people bought tickets so it doesn’t really fit the patreon category) (9)

Tumblr:

Improvised play fics (5)

Wattpad:

Improvised play fics (2)

if you’ve written any sfth fanfiction that’s up on ao3 and it’s not on this list and you want it to be then let me know and I’ll add it :)) (or if you’ve noticed any missing fics too)

Total fics on this masterlist: 218

(that’s if my dyscalculia didn’t fail me and I somehow counted right^^)

Last Updated: 31st December 2024

[anniflamma]

so…I spent like hours thinking hard on this and I can’t believe I came up with this..mind you this is my own Crackhead theory so don’t take anything I say seriously but it goes.

me and my aunt were eating dinner and talking about mythology and I told her about a really Christian man coming up to me and saying “because you don’t believe in god and Jesus you will go to hell” and my Pegan but said “cool ima go pet a three headed dog” and then my aunt told me “well Christianity doesn’t really makes sense to me because where the hell did it come from because the first prominent religions were ones such as Greece and Roman beliefs”

and that got me thinking, so I decided to do some thinking.

and I got some connections so Chaos is like the lord right? The very first and most powerful, and he created the primordials, that created the titans and so on, and then Zeus came along and screwed everything up right? Then a few hundred years later Persephone or what mortals at the time called her Core, and after our lovely goddess of spring starting taking care of all of the mistakes, such as taking care of the rejected children of Zeus and others, so I was like who the hell is her dad because she has the power of nature from Demeter but where did she get her chaotic power from? Her father can’t be Zeus because she doesn’t have any power of the sky, and it can’t be Posiden because she has no power of any body of water..

then I remembered Demeter prayed and begged for a daughter..and the fates are directly tied to Chaos so Chaos gave Persephone to Demeter..CHAOS IS PERSEPHONE DAD!! It makes sense to me when I think about it really hard..

and I also realized because the oldest version of Persephone was so feared..but because of *cough* Christian writers a lot of those stories changed because of that. Sadly I don’t think a lot of people know that.

I DO NOT HATE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BUT YA’LL BE CONFUSING AS HELL, and also please understand THAT NOT ALL WITCHCRAFT IS BAD I SWEAR I HEAR THAT ALL THE TIME.

okay enough of my rant I hope that shines Al title light in my head.

That is an interesting take and connection! To be honest, syncretism and the evolution of religions and cultures are my biggest hyperfixations. Well, I grew up Christian and now hyperfixate on the Bible with a more historical and cultural perspective. So I'm not really as confused when it comes to the Christian religion. If you have any questions, just ask, and I will try my best to answer them!

The thing with European religion is that almost all of them stem from Proto-Indo-European mythology. And that includes the Abrahamic faith (which makes many people feel very uneasy). This is why the planet Venus is almost always female and the sun is male, and so on and so forth! Many people don't know that the Hebrew Bible starts off as henotheistic (believing that many gods exist but worshipping only one of them, while it is acceptable if other people worship other gods). Then it rapidly becomes monolatristic (acknowledging that many gods may exist but only worshipping one of them, and it is not acceptable if other people worship other gods) and then ends with being purely monotheistic. Of course, the Bible has been edited and changed to make it fit more with the monotheistic view, such as removing acknowledgments of the existence of other Canaanite gods. And removing the goddess Asherah, God/Yahweh's wife, and replacing her name with "the grove" or just the Holy Spirit. And the Christian faith did get syncretized with Roman/Greek pagan faith. There is no hell in the Bible, but there is an underworld! It's called Sheol, the "land of gloom and deep darkness." But there is no deep dive on what Sheol really is or how it was in the bible. It was just the underworld where all the dead people went. However, Sheol pretty much got paired up with Hades in the New Testament because both of them were the name of the underworld, so it just made sense, right? But the Greeks also had Tartarus, which is the place in Hades where you get tortured for eternity. And that is where the Christian hell pretty much stems from, it's just Tartarus but with Satan....

This is just a rough generalization, and the whole thing is more complex than what I have brought up here!

I don't think, though, that it was the Christians who changed Persephone. Kore (Persephone) was already really old before Christianity became even a thing. It's a really young religion compared to the Greek gods. 😅

But the concept of Christian saints was created in a way so it would be easier to convert pagans. Instead of removing the traditions, ceremonies, and celebrations, the god they worshipped was switched with a saint that could fit the description of that said deity. So Saint Sebastian is pretty much just the Christian version of Apollo. A twink God of archery, sports, healing, plagues, and gayness was replaced with the twink saint of archery, sports, healing, plagues, and accidental gay awakening. A COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT!! This is my crackhead theory!!!

And about witchcraft. Even the Bible thinks that not all witchcraft is bad. What I understand is there is good magic and bad magic. Necromancy is one of the bad ones. King Saul performed necromancy and brought Samuel's soul back, and that pissed Samuel off so much that he cursed Saul's whole family. But then we have good magic, like I dunno Jacob makes some weird unclear stuff with his sheep, and they become really healthy. I think the only thing Jesus said about witchcraft was like: "yeah, you can use your magic for good, and that is a good thing, but you don't need it if you already believe in my Father"!

There is a whole weird rabbit hole on Christian syncretization with the Greek gods....

Then we have the ancient history of where exactly God/Yahweh comes from. There is this popular theory that scholars think Yahweh most likely comes from the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon. And around the economic collapse during the Bronze Age, the worship of then Yahweh became isolated, which created the ancient Hebrews. Essentially, it started with an ancient warrior-storm god that became a god of the whole world. And I'm not even going to start with Gnosticism! What is like Christian Polytheism but with steroids!

I'm gonna stop here! Sorry I kinda derailed!

[cosmos-mews-and-twos]

Deep sea mew in your inbox

First off, I want to say sorry for not answering this one sooner! I've had a hard time focusing on drawing lately and I've been a bit busy, But as a bonus you get 2 mews!

First here is Gumi, he's just a silly guy! he was my first idea for this ask, He is based off those kinda scary bioluminescent fish (like angler fish and such) I imagen he can't go to long without water, so he uses the frill around his neck to hold a bubble to stay hydrated.

And then Oceana! (still in the early works) she's a Primarina fusion! she is mostly based on some inside jokes my siblings kept making about another character I'm working on (which I'll hopefully post soon as well as a slightly more detailed depiction of this one >:3 )

As for canon, Oceana has a fairly important part I'm still working on and will be part the comics at some point, and Gumi is more of a side character but will be in at least one or two chapters with Oceana.

[byt3-0nline]

guys guys guys guys what's going on

i think i'm trans

trans trans

like

"i'm actually a guy" trans

i'm actually pretty confident about this label

and i wasn't as confident before with any other labels??

asdfgghjhgghjhgfeufgyhnkwodfiuhebwn

anyways yeah i'm probably trans yayyy i figured it out

[hebuiltfive]

Trigger Warnings for very brief alluding to, and thus mentions of, child abuse/endangerment, and of swearing (all under the cut).

This is born from the discussion with @edutainer2022 the other day (hope you don't mind the tag!) that is still running circles in my mind.

Setting the scene: imagine for a moment that Scott is being questioned on the stand. By this point, the news and the media have been running wild with speculations, and there have been many vultures swooping in to try and rip the Tracy family, their company and/or International Rescue apart. Many lawsuits have been filed in succession, many rumours (some baseless, some probably true) are swirling.

The world is starting to doubt the legitimacy and integrity of iR and those who run it.

*puts this out there and runs for the hills*

.....

Prosecutor: Mr. Tracy, have you ever abused your youngest brother, Alan Tracy?

Scott: How fucking dare you?! Of course I haven't! He's my brother!

Prosecutor: Mr. Tracy, how old was Alan when you allowed him into your organisation?

Scott: ... Alan was never sent on a mission alone until he was fully trained and fully experienced—

Prosecutor: With respect, Mr. Tracy, that wasn't my question. I asked you how old he was.

Scott: When he first joined, he was fifteen. When he first started flying, he was sixteen.

Prosecutor: And his first solo mission was not long after that?

Scott: ... I'd say it was almost a year later.

Prosecutor: So you admit you had a minor working for you?

Scott: What? No! What we do at International Rescue isn't exactly work...

Prosecutor: Alright, let me rephrase it, then. You admit you allowed your younger brother, a minor, to participate in the dangerous day-to-day activities International Rescue undertake?

Scott: When you put it like that, it sounds bad, I get it, but that's not the full story! Alan—

Prosecutor: Was a minor, a child, who you allowed to be constantly put into danger!

Scott: It wasn't like that!

Prosecutor: I think you'll find that willful child endangerment constitutes abuse, Mr. Tracy.

....

In short, thank God the world trusts the Tracy family in these shows because they'd be so screwed if people ever did turn against them. I think The Imposters came closest to what could happen, but even then (as an episode that had to have the story be solved by the end) they didn't really delve into it all that much.

Disclaimer to say that the timings and ages for Alan are probably not accurate and are just placeholders. I began writing and it spiralled. Not even confident about posting this because it's so unfinished but I needed to get it out.

[remosdeerica]

Summary: Jade has brought Lian to the only person she could think of to protect her now that Roy is dead: Damian al Ghul.

[Context: this is set in my AU where Damian has adopted a bunch of Villain's kids. The 11yr old mentioned is Zoe Lawton.

TW: there are allegations to postpartum depression and abortion but nothing explicit.]

"You can't be serious. Nguyen, this is insane."

"There is no one else. She is not safe with me."

Damian took a sharp breath through his nose in frustration as he stared Cheshire down. She looked ragged. Tired in a way he had never seen her before, though unless you had known her for as long as he had you would never be able to tell.

In her arms was a bundle. Small, wrapped in a pink fuzzy blanket. Damian knew what that bundle was, and as he had just stated, it was asinine for her to have brought it to him of all people.

"What about, Queen? If the child is truly Harper's like you claim her to be, would it not make more sense for her to be with her adopted Grandfather?" Damian tried to reason.

Jade gave him a hard look. "Do you truly wish me to entrust the safety of my only child to Oliver Queen?

Okay, Damian could at least concede that Queen being given access to an infant was a horrible idea. Especially so fresh after he and Canary have split for what he assumed was the umpteenth time.

"I just don't understand why you would bring her to me. I can not be your first choice."

"Of course not," Jade snapped. "My first choice is dead."

Damian could admit he felt a modicum of guilt at invoking the thought of Roy Harper's demise. Especially as he was seemingly to be given the privilege of being the first to meet his daughter, when by all rights it should have been him.

"You aren't even my second choice," she continued.

"Who was?"

"Jason."

"Todd?" Damian asked.

It would make sense, he supposed. From what he understood he, Harper and Jade had all had some form of… arrangement. Harper being the focal point. Damian had only witnessed Jason and Harper together once, but they had looked so disgustingly in love that he made sure to never have to be in the same room with them again, if he could help it.

Grimly, he thought that would no longer be a problem.

But the problem with Jason being her second choice is that shortly before Harper's death, he and Father had some falling out in regards to the Penguin and he went off grid. Damian wasn't even sure if he knew his lover was no longer living.

"Yes, Jason." She said, "but though hard as I try I can not find him."

Damian sighed. "I'm not surprised. When Todd wants to disappear he makes sure that even Father can't find him. But I still don't understand the logic of me being your third choice."

Jade laughed bitterly. "Do you not understand, Little Prince?"

Damian winced. She had not called him that since they had been in the League.

"You are not my third choice. You are my only choice. There is no one else. I have no one else to trust."

The pair shared a long look amidst the silence of the cold night air.

"The Justice League would help you, Jade." He said, softly. It was not often he showed others this kindness. But he knew deep in his bones the hysterical and bitter feeling of having no one to trust. No one to rely on. It was part of the reason he had gone about collecting his little band of misfits. So at least he could be someone to trust, even partly.

Jade scoffed as she tightened her arms around her daughter.

"Please," she spat. "Like they protected Roy? Or Jason? Or you?

Damian had to look away from her glare.

"The Justice League can not even protect their own children! I can not- will not- entrust them to protect mine."

"But why me?" He shouted, demanding to know what the woman was thinking. "I'm seventeen. I live with a handful of other teenagers and an eleven year old. We don't even stay in one place for more than a few weeks. Not to mention that said eleven year old is also being hunted because of her connection to her father. Your child will not be any safer from your enemies with me, Jade."

"Perhaps not. But she will be safe from me."

Damian felt a growing sense of unease as he saw a deep hollowness take over Jade's eyes. He didn't have to wait long for her to elevorate.

"Sometimes she just… cries. And cries and cries and one night I- I almost- I could have-" she took a shuddering breath. Damian had never seen her this shaken. " I thought I could do this. I thought I could love her enough to be what she needed. But I'm not… I'm not built for this. For the… softness that she needs. It's just not in me."

Damian felt his heart twinge as he watched a single tear trickle from her eye.

"I tried. We're she anyone's but his… I would have terminated. But I… I couldn't bear to bring myself to kill the last part of him that remained in this world. I tried for her, for Roy, but… I'm just not built to take care of anyone but myself."

Damian opened his mouth to say something. What, he didn't know. But he felt she deserves to hear something.

She, however, interrupted him.

"But you are," she said, her voice nearly more than a whisper. Then stronger, " I have known you since you were a boy. I have witnessed you in many parts of your life. And what you have always demonstrated, without ever giving it conscious thought, is your ability to care for those you consider under your protection. Those you consider your own."

"My brother's would very much disagree with you."

Her lips twitched upwards. "You are a good man, Damain al Ghul. You always have been. Even all those years ago. I know that you will guard my child with your life. And that you will take the life of others in her defense, should you find it necessary."

Damian felt his shoulders sag in defeat.

"I still don't think this is a good idea. What exactly is your plan?"

Knowing she had won, Jade drew her shoulders back.

"Find Jason," she said, authoritatively. "He is who she has left now."

"And if he won't take her? Or if… he can't?"

"Do whatever you have to do to keep her safe."

Damian sighed for what seemed to be the hundredth time that night. "I supposed that's all I really can do."

He lifted his arms towards her to take the child.

[serenetestamentllama]

UtDrmv AU Names

Note: some don't change bc I don't think they need to *shrugs* (i.e: gerson, susie, noelle, lancer, rudolph, queen, alvin)

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Aofie (human alphys)

Aurelius (human asgore dreemurr)

Azriel (human asriel dreemurr)

Beckett (human berdly)

Bowen (human burgerpants/pizzapants)

Brynn (human bratty)

Caelum (human cap'n)

Calla (human catty)

Carolyn (human mayor holiday)

Catalina (human catti)

Daphne (human dogaressa)

Darius (human dogamy)

Della (human december/dess holiday)

Desmond (human doggo)

Duffy (human flowey)

Glenn (human greater dog)

Graham (human grillby)

Grayson (human w.d. gaster)

Kian (human king)

Krasimir (human k_k)

Lennox (human lesser dog)

Maddox (human muttlr)

Marleigh (human mad mew mew)

Mavis (human muffet)

Merle (human mettaton)

Nael (human nice cream vendor/blue ears)

Niall (human napstablook)

Paxton (human papyrus)

Rafferty (human ralsei)

Ren (human little red slicing hood)

Roscoe (human rouxls kaard)

Seraphina (human shyra)

Shiloh (human shyren)

Sulien (human sweet)

Stellan (human sans)

Tahia (human toriel)

Ulyana (human undyne)