#Zack Courts

[windburnedeyes]

Zack Courts Reviews the 2024 BMW R 12 nineT

There’s something about a motorcycle that nods to its roots while boldly planting itself in the present. Enter the 2024 BMW R 12 nineT, a machine that’s as much about riding as it is about storytelling. Zack Courts, a well-known moto-journalist and all-around nice guy who works for Revzilla these days, recently got in the saddle of the BMW R 12 nineT and took it for a spin. It seems like a truly…

[ff7-has-taken-me-over]

Cloud and all the quiet ways he courted Zack during their Shinra days.

- Left flowers on his doorstep every Monday, courtesy of a girl that hung out in sector five with a flower cart (they’d become good friends at this point and she always gave him a bouquet and their meanings)

- Saved the last pudding in the cafeteria for him because Zack always showed up late and always complained when he saw he’d missed out again

- Threw his uniforms in the wash when he visited the SOLDIER’s apartment cause Zack was either too exhausted or just completely forgot sometimes

- Made enough food to feed himself and then give Zack the leftovers that usually lasted him the week

- Looked after him and went out of his way to get a few days off duty whenever it came around to Zack’s time for Mako top ups

- Giving him random little trinkets or gifts after he came back from missions or patrols just because they reminded him of the older man

- Staying up for hours on his phs when the other couldn’t sleep for one reason or another

- Picking up food from that Gongagan place that sold the only food Zack ever deemed as spicy

- Giving him a note whenever the SOLDIER had to leave for a mission that held a phrase, word or sentence in old Nibel. Usually it was a term of endearment or a declaration of sorts. Sometimes the strange ones that didn’t really have a proper translation in English but meant so much in Nibel

[aeterna-auroral-avenger]

Guarantee if the ice cream machine wasn’t broken before, it is now

Also Zack is giving me like some Wade Wilson vibes, and I’m here for it

[redbo-and-simbo]

(...I need another way to do this. This isn't going to work. It never was, in hindsight.)

(Strangle walks through the vents, alone.) (. . .Discordant singing can be heard. Its quiet, but still very much there.) (Strangle freezes and looks around frantically.)

(...Its here. Okay. I have a way out. The vent grate is right behind me, and It should stay in the vents.) (I still have this under control. I got this.)

(Strangle breathes deep in their mask, which makes a loud sound. The singing gets louder.) (Something turns the corner.)

// https://imgur.com/a/OdSC2Cl - Strangle

[awkadoodledoo]

I honestly and truly should not like Zack Hightower as much as I do. It's just...he's so funny.

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have A Christmas Story 1983

[rottenpumpkin13]

We heard from Sephiroth, but any unhinged things Genesis has said? (I love your posts ♥)

• "Would it be unethical to fake my own death just to see who cries the hardest?"

• "If Sephiroth can slice a malboro in half and be called a 'hero,' why am I labeled 'unstable' for suggesting we solve the printer jam with a crow bar and hubris?"

• "This banquet is a tragedy. Look at this bread roll, Angeal—look at it. It's dryer than Midgar's air after a week of smog."

• "The true tragedy of daily life is that I'm not allowed to offer my constructive criticism at my leisure without being written up for bullying. I am a man repressed, stifled by barbarism."

• "Today, I witnessed a man use mayonnaise as a pasta sauce. If that isn't proof that the apocalypse is imminent, I don't know what is."

• "Behold, my final fuck hath departed. Farewell, sweet courtesy, I barely knew thee."

• "Every great man has a tragic flaw. Mine is that I must suffer the indignity of people who think instant coffee is an acceptable beverage."

• *When he made the mistake of asking Zack how he was doing as a polite greeting, and Zack responded with "hang on, let me think...."* "The suspense is both infinite and insufferable."

• *During a budget meeting* "They'll approve a new leather coat for Sephiroth without question, but my request for a solid gold flute is 'frivolous spending.' The poetry of injustice."

• "I have just discovered someone used my personal copy of Loveless as a drink coaster. Angeal, please explain to the court that what follows is not violence, but performance art."

• *During weapons maintenance* "This sword polish is subpar. How am I supposed to maintain my aesthetic when my reflection looks like it's been filtered through the fog of Sephiroth's childhood memories?"

• "This mission is pointless. We could solve all our problems if Shinra just gave me a flamethrower and five minutes of unsupervised freedom."

• "The Goddess weeps. Not for our sins, but because this apple has the texture of wet cardboard."

• *During a meeting, waiting for Lazard to show up* "Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to honor the death of my patience. May it rest in peace."

• *watching Angeal have a mental breakdown over building a book shelf* "You cannot truly know a man until you've seen him assemble furniture. A test of patience, ingenuity, and his ability to read hieroglyphs masquerading as instructions."

• "If the Goddess truly loved us, she would have made people flammable by glare alone. The fact that they aren't proves we live in an imperfect universe."

[cy-cyborg]

The Untrustworthy Fake: Disability Tropes

[ID: A screenshot of Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as he limps towards a crowd using a cane. In the picture, he has a brown top hat in his hand, and he's wearing a suit with a purple jacket, multicoloured bow tie and cream coloured pants. Beside him is text that reads: "Disability Tropes, The untrustworthy Fake" /End ID]

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A new character is introduced into a story with some kind of disability - usually visible but not always. Maybe they're a seemingly harmless person in a wheelchair, maybe they're a one-legged beggar on the street, or maybe they're an elderly person with a cane and a slow, heavy limp. But at some point, it's revealed it's all a ruse! The old man with a cane "falls" forward and does a flawless summersault before energetically springing back up to his feet, the wheelchair user gets to their feet as soon as they think the other character's backs are turned, the one legged beggar's crutch is knocked out of his hand, only to have his other leg pop out of his loose-fitting tunic to catch him.

All of these are real examples. Maya and The Three introduces one of it's main protagonists, Ricco, by having him pretend to be missing a leg in order to con people (something that works on the protagonist, at least at first), Buffy The Vampire Slayer had the character Spike, pretend to be in a wheelchair, until the other characters leave and he gets up, revealing it's all a ruse and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory introduces Wonka by having him slowly limp out into the courtyard of the factory, only for his cane to get stuck, causing him to "fall" and jump back up, revealing that he's actually perfectly fine. Virtually every single major crime show in the past few decades has used this trope too, from CSI to The Mentalist, Castle, Law and Order and Monk all having at least one episode featuring it in some way. Even the kids media I grew up with isn't free from it; The Suite Life of Zack & Cody sees Zach faking being dyslexic after meeting someone who actually has the condition in the episode Smarter and Smarter and the SpongeBob SquarePants episode Krabs vs Plankton has Plankton fake needing a wheelchair (among other injuries) after falling in the Krusty Krab as a ploy to sue Mr Krabs and trick the court into giving him the Kraby Patty Formula.

No matter the genre or target audience though, one thing is consistent: this trope is used as a way to show someone is dishonest and not to be trusted. When the trope is used later in the story, it's often meant to be a big reveal, to shock the audience and make them mad that they've been duped, to show the characters and us what this person (usually a villain) is willing to stoop to. Revealing the ruse early on though is very often used to establish how sleazy or even how dangerous a character is and to tell the audience that they shouldn't trust them from the get go. Gene Wilde (The actor who first played Willy Wonka) even said in several interviews that this was his intent for Wonka's character. He even went so far as to tell the director of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that he wouldn't do the film without that scene because of how strongly he felt this trope was needed to lay the foundations for Wonka's questionable intentions and motivations. His exact words are: "...but I wouldn't have done the film if they didn't let me come out walking as a cripple and then getting my cane stuck into a cobble stone, doing a forward somersault and then bouncing up... the director said, well what do you want to do that for? and I said because from that point on, no one will know whether I'm telling the truth or lying."

There's... a lot of problems with this trope, but that quote encapsulates one of the biggest ones. whether intentionally or not, this trope ends up framing a lot of actual disabled people as deceitful, dishonest liars. Now I can already hear you all typing, What?! Cy that's ridiculous! No one is saying real disabled people are untrustworthy or lying about their disabilities, just people who are faking!

but the thing is, the things often used in this trope as "evidence" of someone faking a disability are things real disabled people do. A person standing up from their wheelchair or having scuff-marks on their shoes, like in the episode Miss Red  from The Mentalist isn't a sign they're faking, a lot of wheelchair users can stand and even walk! They're called ambulatory wheelchair users, and they might use a wheelchair because they can't walk far, they might not feel safe walking on all terrains, they might have unstable joints that makes standing for too long risky, they might have a heart condition like POTS that has a bigger impact when they stand up or any number of other reasons. Also even non-ambulatory wheelchair users will still have scuff marks from things like transferring and bumping into things (rather hilariously, even TV Tropes calls this episode out as being "BS" in it's listing for this trope, which it refers to as Obfuscating Disability). A blind beggar flinching or getting scared when you pull a gun on them isn't a sign they're faking their blindness like it is in Red Dead Redemption 2. Plenty of blind people can still see a little bit, it might only be a general sense of light and darkness, it might be exceptionally blurry or just the fuzzy outlines of shapes, or they might only be able to see something directly in front of them, all of which might still be enough to cue the person into what's happening in a situation like that. Even if it's not, the sound of you pulling your gun out or other people nearby freaking out and making noise probably would tip them off. A person needing a cane or similar mobility aid sometimes, but being able to go without briefly or do even "big movements" like Wonka's rolling somersault, doesn't mean they don't need it at all. Just like with wheelchairs, there's a lot of disabilities that require canes and similar aids some days, and not others. Some disabilities even allow people those big, often straining movements on occasion, or allow them to move without the aid for short periods of time, but not for long. Some people's disability's might even require a mobility aid like a cane as a backup, just in case something goes wrong, but that still means you need to carry it around with you, and unless it can fold down, it's easier to just use it.

Disability is a spectrum, and a lot of disabilities vary in severity and what is required of the people who have them day to day. This trope, however, helps to perpetuate the idea that someone who does any of these things (and many others) is faking, which can actively make the lives of disabled people harder and can even put them in very real danger, physically, mentally and even financially.

Just ask any ambulatory wheelchair user about how many times they've been yelled at for using accommodations they need, like disabled toilets or parking spaces. How many times they've been accused of faking and even filmed without their consent because they stood up in public, even if it was to do something like get their wheelchair unstuck or as simple as them standing to briefly reach something on a high shelf. I've caught multiple people filming me before, so have my friends and family, and it's honestly scary not knowing where those images have ended up. This doesn't just impact the person either, a friend of mine was filmed while standing up to get his daughter (who was about 4 at the time) out of the car. He was lucky to have stumbled across the video a few days later on facebook and contacted the group admins where it was posted to get it taken down, but had he not stumbled across it by chance, pictures with his home address and his car's number plate, his child's face and his face all visible would have just been floating around, all because a woman saw him stand briefly to pick up his daughter.

Many people don't stop at just saying a nasty comment or taking a photo though, a lot of people, when they suspect people are faking, will get violent. I have many friends who have been pushed, slapped in the face, spat on or had their mobility devices kicked out from under them. I've even been in a few situations myself where, had I not had people with me, I think the situation would have turned violent.

There's even been cases where those photos and videos I've mentioned before have been used against real disabled people and they've been reported to their country's welfare system as committing disability fraud. While cases like this are usually resolved *relatively* quickly, in many parts of the world, their payment will be halted while the investigation is in process, meaning they may be without any income at all because of someone else's ignorance. If you're already struggling to make ends meet (which, if you're only living off one of those payments, you probably will be), a few weeks without pay can mean the difference between having a home and being on the streets.

Not to mention that when there's so many stories about people faking a disability in the media, especially when the character is doing it to get some kind of "advantage", such as getting accommodations or some kind of disability benefit, it perpetuates the idea that people are rorting the systems put in place to help disabled people. If this idea becomes prevalent enough, the people in charge start making it harder for the people who need them to access those systems, which more often than not results in disabled people not even being able to access the very systems that are supposed to be helping them. A very, very common example of this is in education where accommodations for things like learning disabilities require you to jump through a ridiculous number of hoops, especially at higher levels, only to have some teachers and professors refuse to adhere to the adaptations anyway because they're convinced the student (and usually disabled students as a whole) is faking.

Yes, the "untrustworthy faker" is a fictional trope, and yes, it does occasionally happen in real life, but not as often as media (including things like news outlets) would have you believe. However, when the media we consume is priming people to look for signs that a disabled person is faking, it has a real impact on real disabled people's lives. "Fake-claiming" is a massive problem for people in pretty much all parts of the disabled community, and it ranges from being just annoying (e.g. such as people spamming and fake-claiming blind people online with "if you were really blind, how do you see the screen" comments) to the more serious cases I mentioned above. It's for this reason a lot of folks in the disabled community ask that people leave this trope out of their works.

[acebirdofprey]

[in court for their crimes]

did not get caught: Temperance Brennan not enough evidence to convict: Seeley Booth, Wendell Bray i'm literally neurodivergent and a minor: Arastoo, Lance Sweets, Nigel-Murray and I'll do it again!: Jack Hodgins, James Aubrey says 'sorry >.<' and is immediately acquitted: Cam, Angela I'm not going back to jail: Zack Addy currently on the run: Jessica Warren, Same Wells

[literaryvein-reblogs]

do you have anything on syntax? i'm currently in the middle of writing a story that uses old and modern magic, and i want to emphasize the differences in syntax. thanks 🫶

Writing Notes: Syntax

Syntax - the study of sentence structure.

In spoken and written language, syntax refers to the set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence.

Along with diction, it is one of the key ways writers convey meaning in a text.

Comes from the Ancient Greek for “coordination” or “ordering together.”

Syntax is the part of grammar that pertains to a speaker’s knowledge of sentences and their structures.

Any speaker of any human language can produce and understand an infinite number of possible sentences.

Thus, we can’t possibly have a mental dictionary of all the possible sentences.

Rather, we have the rules for forming sentences stored in our brains.

Essential Rules of Syntax in the English Language

The rules of syntax can be quite complex and vary greatly by language (as well as by time period and place). Depending on the language you are speaking or writing in, these rules might be very restrictive, or quite flexible.

There are 4 baseline rules when it comes to English syntax:

A complete sentence requires a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. This is also called an independent clause. A sentence without a subject and a verb is considered a fragment.

Separate ideas generally require separate sentences. A sentence containing multiple independent clauses that are improperly joined is considered a run-on sentence.

English word order follows the subject-verb-object sequence. (It’s usually the same in French and Spanish.)

A dependent clause contains a subject and a verb—but it doesn’t express a complete thought.

The Rules of Syntax. Combine words into phrases & phrases into sentences.

They specify the correct word order for a language. [Example: English is a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) language. ✓ "The President nominated a new Supreme Court justice." ✗ "President the new Supreme justice Court a nominated."

They also describe the relationship between the meaning of a group of words and the arrangement of the words. [Example: "I mean what I say" vs. "I say what I mean"]

The rules of syntax also specify the grammatical relations of a sentence, such as the subject and the direct object. [Example: "Your dog chased my cat" vs. "My cat chased your dog"]

Syntax rules specify constraints on sentences based on the verb of the sentence. ["Zack tries to be a gentleman" ✗ "Zack tries Robert to be a gentleman"]

Syntax rules also tell us how words form groups and are hierarchically ordered in a sentence. [Example: “The captain ordered the old men and women of the ship”]

This sentence has 2 possible meanings:

The captain ordered the old men and the old women of the ship.

The captain ordered the old men and the women of any age of the ship.

The meanings depend on how the words in the sentence are grouped (specifically, to which words is the adjective ‘old’ applied?):

The captain ordered the [old (men and women)] of the ship

The captain ordered the [old men] and [women] of the ship

These groupings can be shown hierarchically in a tree:

These trees reveal the structural ambiguity in the phrase “old men and women”. Each structure corresponds to a different meaning.

Structurally ambiguous sentences can often be humorous:

Catcher: “Watch out for this guy, he’s a great fastball hitter.”

Pitcher: “No problem. There’s no way I’ve got a great fastball.”

UG Principles and Parameters. Universal Grammar (UG) provides the basic design for all languages, and each language has its own parameters, or variations on the basic plan.

All languages have structures that conform to X-bar schema*

All phrases consist of specifiers, heads, and complements

All sentences are headed by T**

All languages seem to have movement rules

However, languages have different word orders within phrases and sentences, so heads and complements may be present in different orders across languages

*The internal structure of phrasal categories can be captured using the x-bar schema:

**All sentences contain information about tense—when a certain event or state of affairs occurred, so we can say that Tense is the head of a sentence. So sentences are TPs, with T representing tense markers and modals:

Sign Language Syntax. The syntax of sign languages also follow the principles of UG and has:

Auxiliaries

Transformations such as topicalization, which moves the direct object to the beginning of a sentence for emphasis, and wh movement

Constraints on transformations

That UG is present in signed languages and spoken languages shows that the human brain is designed to learn language, not just speech.

Ways to Use Syntax in Literature

Besides being critical to conveying literal sense, syntax is also one of the key tools writers use to express meaning in a variety of ways. Syntax can help writers:

Produce rhetorical and aesthetic effects. By varying the syntax of their sentences, writers are able to produce different rhetorical and aesthetic effects. How a writer manipulates the syntax of their sentences is an important element of writing style.

Control pace and mood. Manipulating syntax is one of the ways writers control the pace and mood of their prose. For example, the writer Ernest Hemingway is known for his short, declarative sentences, which were well-suited to his terse, clear style of writing. These give his prose a forceful, direct quality.

Create atmosphere. By contrast, Hemingway’s fellow story writer and novelist William Faulkner is famous (or infamous) for his meandering, paragraph-long sentences, which often mimic the ruminative thinking of his characters. These sentences, which often ignore the standard rules of punctuation and grammar, help create an atmosphere as much as they convey information.

That said, all writers vary their sentence structure from time to time. Using a variety of sentences is one of the key ways writers engage and maintain their readers’ interest.

Sentence Types in the English Language

The English language is extraordinarily flexible when it comes to building sentences. At the same time, all sentences in English fall into 4 distinct types:

Simple sentences. Consist of a single, independent clause. For example: “The girl hit the ball.”

Compound sentences. Consist of two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. The coordinating conjunctions are “but,” “or,” and “so.” For example: “The girl hit the ball, and the ball flew out of the park.”

Complex sentences. Consist of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses joined by a subordinating conjunction. Some subordinating conjunctions are “although,” “because,” “so,” “that,” and “until.” For example: “When the girl hit the ball, the fans cheered.”

Compound-complex sentences. Consist of multiple independent clauses as well as at least one dependent clause. For example: “When the girl hit the ball, the fans cheered, and the ball flew out of the park.”

Syntax Examples in Literature

To get a sense of some of the ways writers use syntax to express meaning, it’s worthwhile examining a few famous examples from literature.

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (1851). Melville begins with this famous line: “Call me Ishmael.” This first line—one of the most famous in literature—is short and direct. The sentences that follow, though, are significantly more sophisticated. In the fourth sentence, Melville uses a number of dependent clauses (“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth,” “Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul,” and so on) to create a sense of anticipation.

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (1877). Tolstoy’s novel begins: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This is actually two simple sentences joined by a semi-colon. Tolstoy could easily have just written them as separate sentences, but by joining them into one sentence he shows that these two thoughts are related and balanced.

Sources: 1 2 3 ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

You can find more details and examples in the sources. All the best with your writing <3

[pastafossa]

Hi Pasta! This might be kind of a weird ask but I need your help as my favorite writer and daredevil authority. I have to write a paper analyzing the ethical and moral frameworks of an organization or piece of media and of course I chose Matt Murdock. I was thinking of doing two main sections, lawyer Matt and devil Matt. I was wondering if you had any scenes or points I could make? I’m not a very good writer (this is an engineering major requirement haha) and I know you’re well versed on this subject. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! (I also want to connect it to todays current government issues but I’m a wee bit scared to)

FRIEND THIS ASK GOT ME LIKE

Thank you SO SO MUCH and also YOU CHOSE SO FUCKING WELL. Quite frankly I wish DD was out when I was taking my ethics class in college, my prof loved when we used pop culture scenes to illustrate key points in ethical debates, and I've thought more than once about the way I'd have come crashing in through his door holding a foam-covered stack of pages ranting about the ethical implications of Daredevil.

IN OTHER WORDS, I HAVE THOUGHTS THAT MIGHT HELP.

Firstly, you're right: Lawyer Matt and Daredevil both occupy different ethical spaces, which is wild since they're both in the same person. Those two sides are often in opposition, which obviously makes for lovely conflict since Matt's constantly struggling with finding a middle ground.

Interestingly though, a lot of what he does comes down to the same reasoning. Just with two different ways he does it.

For Lawyer!Matt, I'd argue important scenes illustrating his ethical and moral framework would be:

His entire closing statement in 'Rabbit in a Snowstorm' (Season 1 Ep 3 off the top of my head) is an excellent display of how he views the law, why he does what he does in the courtroom: "These questions of good and evil, as important as they are, have no place in a court of law. Only the facts matter. "

Season 2, episode 6 when he's convincing Foggy why they should take Frank's case to prevent Frank from getting the death penalty: "He's a person, Foggy. Like you, like me."

Season 1 ep 10, Nelson v. Murdock is rife with stuff for both Lawyer!Matt's ethics and Daredevil's, but for this one, it's worth considering how he convinces Foggy to leave Landman and Zack: "Is this what you want? To be a part of that? Protecting corporations from people that need help?"

I'd also bring up the examples in S1 and S2 where there's a ton of people who can't pay with money, and so pay with food instead. This is spread across multiple episodes, but it's a telling sign of how Matt truly does believe all should be represented, regardless of ability to pay. It's him helping his community.

For Daredevil's ethics, the three most massive, most telling scenes I'd argue are:

His argument with Frank on the rooftop, Season 2, episode 3. I love this scene so much I have it bookmarked. It is my favorite ethical argument scene ever. They're having an ethical argument that's thousands of years old. Why doesn't he kill? "What about hope?"

Another from Nelson v Murdock, where he talks about the little girl. I have this one bookmarked too, because it's another fucking amazing example of why Matt's ethics are what they are as Daredevil. He believes in the law. He does. And he believes we should be working to fix the system. But the law at present is not enough. "The law couldn't help that little girl... but I could." (SA warning for anyone who hasn't seen it)

Above episode also has the exchange between Foggy, "That isn't fair, Matt," and Matt's reply, "We don't live in a world that's fair. We live in this one. And I'm doing everything I can to make it a better place."

I'd can't remember it off the top of my head but the episode where Matt is examining Frank on the witness stand and sort of takes a sideways tangent into what this city needs. He calls out the corruption of the police, and why the city needs people who will act. He's VERY clearly talking about himself here and not just Frank.

And a tie in for both: his speech at Lantom's funeral about doing what he can for those around him.

I do think if you want to tie it into current events, you can easily do so! The corruption of the cops (S1), the writers drew inspo from a Certain Person in S3 for Fisk (iirc he even says he'll "Make Hell's Kitchen Great Again") including how he leveraged the feds for his own power, the failure of the system with Frank Castle in S2, hell, DDBA swung hard for it again with Leroy Bradford (he says something like "They're willing to spend five times more to lock me up than they are to feed me") and the entire corrupt cop plotline coming back around. The show's always been viscerally real even with the presence of enhanced abilities. Matt lives in a world very much like this one, and with a lot of the same issues. His struggle, in many ways, is ours, I wouldn't be too afraid to acknowledge that even if it's just in general terms since so much of ethics in fiction (and in Daredevil especially) is about seeing what it's trying to tell us about our own world. <3

[unicornsacorn]

wild kratts headcanons

feeling very drained so I'm gonna just ramble off some headcanons I think are funny

*Martin was in charge of picking up Chis from school and once he knew Chris wasn't paying attention he'd blast any and all music at top volume just to mess with him

*During a team sleepover Jimmy had been accidentally left outside and was locked out for 5 minutes, he still hasn't forgive everyone yet

*Martin was often left in charge of Chris when his parents had to go out of town, They would spend all night watch TV and nothing but junk food

*Jimmy does smoke weed but because the others don't like the smell he smokes outside or waits till everyone is asleep

*Chris did try smoking weed with Jimmy, but he found it made him over think to the point where he was trying to redesign the CPS, Martin wasn't happy about that

*Koki is so good at sewing and embroidery to the point the boys always bring they're gear to her specifically, so she can make little animal embroidery on the inside of they're gear

*Zack is so close to his mother he makes it a point to call her every Sunday around noon, everyone knows this and doesn't plan or do anything in those hours

*Aviva has a bit of a sweet tooth when ever Jimmy does some baking she's always the first to try his recipes

*Zach does have a crush on Chris but denys it, but he's not exactly subtle about it so Chris takes every opportunity to flirt with Zach just so he can see him get flustered, Martin just wants to go home during these times

*The ability for Chris being able to sleep anywhere is something he kept from his college years during cram weeks, the team gets very concerned when they caught him sleeping in a tree

*The reason the team sleeps in hammocks is because they're easier to clean and take less space than an actual bed

*During flu seasons Both Jimmy and Martin will fight tooth and nail not to get shots, it'll take an hour and bribery just to get then to sit down. It takes Chris has to hold both their hands to get them to calm enough to get the shot.

*The Tortuga gang can drink and often have drinks together during peaceful nights or after very stressful nights. Martin would always joke that Chris and koki were too much to drink, earning him a quick shoulder punch or an eye roll

*After the Chris bot incident the brothers joked that with the CPS they could be actually power house villans if they wanted too, Aviva knowing they were joking but not taking the chance locked the CPS for a week while she worked on fails safes in case that happened

*The Kratts have been sued by many poachers after either interfering with they're hurting or for the brothers attacking them after they've been shot at. In actual court the poachers always lost when the judges sided with the kratts for way reasons including, they were poaching on government protected land and it's very clean to tell actual animals from those that look blue and green and can talk

*Mama Kratt makes it a her responsibility to call her boys every week and for them to visit her every mother's day. When they visit she always has they're favorites ready and showers them in so many kisses the lipstick wouldn't wash off for a month.

[secondarysefikura]

Story idea where Cloud is a sheep dog(so like a Great Pyrenees or even a German Shepherd) who lives on the farm and is tasked with guarding a herd of sheep owned by his owners Zack and Aerith, while Sephiroth is a literal lone wolf who wants to find a mate and start a pack with.

One day Sephiroth stumbles upon the farm and as a result the herd of sheep and decides to hunt one of the sheep. But before Sephiroth can attack one of them he is attacked by Cloud. Fun fact about wolves is that they are much bigger then even the larger dog breeds, so while Cloud is able to chase Sephiroth off and even give him a few wounds, Cloud does end up getting banged up in the process and while he’s recovering Sephiroth has become smitten by the weird looking smaller wolf that managed to hurt him, and decides that Cloud will not only be his mate but that they will start a pack together.

After a few months Cloud is finally able to go back to guarding the sheep, which is when Sephiroth starts sneaking back onto the farm to court Cloud, which usually results in Cloud chasing him off and Sephiroth returning the next day to try again. Eventually Cloud just sees Sephiroth as an annoyance now especially since he hasn’t gone after any of the sheep since their first encounter and just wants him to leave him alone so he can do his job in peace. Cloud will try to threaten him with things like if his(Cloud)male human master spots him(Sephiroth) then he’ll grab his ‘loud boom stick’ and try to kill him with it, but those threatens never even faze Sephiroth in the slightest much to Cloud’s annoyance.

Story ends with Cloud trying to guard the sheep like normal while he’s laying down letting his and Sephiroth’s newborn pups nurse from him, while Sephiroth lays next to him happy that he succeeded in courting Cloud and that they’ve started a pack as he helps Cloud guard the sheep. Meanwhile Zack and Aerith are still scratching their heads over the fact that their male dog had gotten pregnant from a male wolf.

I was really fucking worried for a second when I read the first line that this was going to turn into one of those cow breeding stories. But you showed restraint, anon, and came up with a cute and silly dog story.

I love the idea of Cloud trying to threaten Sephiroth by basically saying "my dad will beat you up." Meanwhile Sephiroth is bringing courting gifts. I wonder what they would be, maybe dead animals to show he is a good hunter and can provide for Cloud? He tries to nuzzle Cloud and sleep with him, but Cloud has no interest in such things!

Eventually Sephiroth perhaps saves Cloud from another wolf or even protects the sheep when a couple of wolves or coyotes come to eat them, earning him acceptance in Cloud's fluffy heart. As for how the two have pups? I suppose Cloud is actually intersex, and neither Zack nor Aerith realized. Oh well! Having a litter of wolfdogs will only ensure the sheep are better protected.

[prismaticpichu]

I had a dream wherein the Nibelheim incident took place in a ginormous mall, with Jenova possessing Sephiroth after he got into a friendship-rupturing fight with Zack, Sephiroth gradually going feral and destroying different stores, and ending with Zack giving a tearful, heartfelt apology + hug to bring Sephiroth back to him as the food court was engulfed in flames and shshshshshhssj BEST FUCKING DREAM EVER 😂😂💖💖💖

[sunderedstar]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54039175/chapters/166942528

if you ever want to rethread your ribcage (139,277 words)

Chapters: 6/6

Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII, The Books of the Raksura

Rating: E

Pairings: Zack Fair/Angeal Hewley/Genesis Rhapsodos/Sephiroth/Cloud Strife

Tags: The One Where They Banora, Return of the Domestic Polyamorous Dragon Bee People, Cloud and His Obligatory PTSD Dissociation/Flashbacks

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And then, unfortunately, the court starts to sing.

Cloud's not expecting it. He should have, he thinks with a grimace. Raksura love that shit.

He's especially not expecting it to sound even more alien than Edge's song. Edge's song…pulls. Edge's song wants to unthread his ribcage and cradle his seizing heart in a gentle palm.

This hits like jab to the wrong part of the elbow. He shudders convulsively, then locks his knees and sets his jaw against the urge to squirm away. It's a good thing they're outside; the way Raksura sing, the eerie way the sound fills space and resonates along the bone, being inside the mountain-tree would be unbearable. He wants nothing to do with Banora's song, and Banora's song wants nothing to do with him.

[salternateunreality2]

Sephyrella (Sefikura Cinderella)

Cloud is the prince, Sephiroth is the maiden 💃

Sephiroth gets loose one day thanks to his fairy alien mother 👽, who gives him a lovely black leather dress, beautiful new shoes, and a bowl of pumpkin soup, which gives him the fuel he needs to attend the Nibel Mountains Kingdom Ball for the prince.

He is in love with Prince Cloud, because the LAST time he got loose from the mansion, he almost burned down a village, but was stabbed by the young man. He was still in his alien larva form at that stage, so his beloved didn't know what he was doing, poor thing, so Sephyrella is sure to look super normal and human for the ball.

Great job, buddy! Nailed it!

Cloud falls head over heels for this hot, giant girl, then becomes enraged when she ditches him mid-dance, leaving only her enormous, size 14.5 shoe.

It fell off because Sephyrella was turning to his alien form and his leg got slippery. It's not his fault! He just doesn't have as much practice as Mother at looking human. Not even the thigh-high belts could save him :(

It's ok, Cloud's royal retainer, Zack, found and fetched the shoe before Sephy could take it with him (goodest boy). 🐶

So now Cloud is angrily stomping around the mountains with this slimy boot that's almost as big as him, refusing to give any of the small women the time of day unless they have truly enormous clodhoppers. Claudia is sipping her wine going "what can you do? It's young love" while her advisors are wondering what they did in their past lives to be saddled with so much Strife in this one.

Hojo thought he was doing the world a service, honestly, by hiding his abomination away, but he still MADE Sephiroth, and tormented him into his first larval rage.

Cloud gets to the mansion, and Hojo tries to send him away, but he's so pissed about being slighted that he shoves his way in, yelling for Her to come out and give him a good reason for running away.

Cloud finds the sad Sephy as a gooey alien lump in the basement, crying because he's struggling to transform.

Cloud "impulse control is not my forte" Strife pulls out his sword, but Sephy transforms just in time and pulls on the perfectly-fitting boot.

Cloud is still gonna kill him, but Zack talks him down and they hear him out. They hear about Hojo's experimentation and abuse, find the vampire also locked in the basement who also has large shoes, and decide to set Mother loose as well.

Hojo dies a death worthy of the Brothers Grimm at her hands tentacles ✨

Sephiroth proceeds to follow Cloud around for months and months, and Cloud lets him because hey, it wasn't his fault Hojo brainwashed him the first time OR that he was turning to goo and had to leave the ball, he has no home, and he's really fucking hot. No, Cloud will not elaborate on whether that extends to his alien form or not.

Jenova gets employed as a courtier, and Vincent gets work as a palace guard. They make a really good team, and years after being forced to conceive a child, they realize they quite like each other and get married by Aerith, who also politely convinces Jenova not to Kill All Humans.

After the 51st fake-grumpy rant from Cloud about how annoyingly pretty Sephyrella is, his friends and family stage an intervention, inform him he's in love, and tell him in excruciating detail what he needs to do to gently court Sephyrella.

He ignores all their advice and uses his preferred approach to all problems: blunt force.

Cloud: Seph. Marry me. You're hot and good with swords and I don't hate you.

Sephyrella purrs so loudly it causes a minor earthquake, accepts, and they barely get married before they run off to their honeymoon to, uh, release some built up tension ✨