#and have deep chats

[wikitpowers]

ash has a pet chinchilla. i repeat: ash morgenstern has a pet chinchilla. just putting that out there.

like this guy has one of these cuties who he just hangs out with :(

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Congratulations to Dungeon Meshi on the first episode of the animation adaptation!

(June 2024 Redraw)

[ardate]

Every Boromir hater makes my enormous love for him grow stronger. Sorry you couldn't understand him, I get him tho and we're holding hands and the whole of Gondor is laughing at you

[circusk]

wings and love

[speench]

ok so who's writing the fanfic where Doug Meat and an unwilling Kingskin co-parent this random teen girl who absolutely should be nowhere near a comically evil crime ring and end up fundamentally changed by the process and falling in love

[cat-hybridcellbit]

I miss Archivists guys…..I miss them so much. I miss how much they respected each other’s skills and how well they complemented each other. I miss Phil hearing that Cellbit needed evidence and then dropping just piles of sorted photos on him. And I miss Cellbit’s amazement that Phil went to all that trouble to organize and collect so much for him.

I miss how Cellbit would be trying to be serious and then Phil would start laughing and that would cause Cellbit to laugh and break character. I miss how they took each other’s words so seriously, how they’d believe what the other said even if it seemed strange or there wasn’t evidence. I just miss their interactions dude. I was so excited when they ended up sharing the same island after the reset because they’d be interacting more.

[arabella-strange]

people in the chat are disputing who Tal's character is, but I do [as of !break] think he is the Wildmother: who has better reason to hate the hubris of wizards who despise and murdered the ashari? And who has better reason to want to bring Aeor crashing back to earth, for their defiance of "nature"? She's the WILD mother, her alignment is not "good" -- it is True Neutral.

[leiascully]

Visitor & The All The Choices We've Made-verse

I don't think I've actually ever made a post of all of the Visitor-related fics, so here it is, inspired by the anon from the other day. All links are AO3 links, although all fics can also be found on my blog with a little digging.

Visitor At least he's guaranteed to see her once a year. (30K, written pre-revival, angst & PTSD to happily reunited)

Resident They have missed every other date they might have held significant - birthdays, anniversaries, days of mourning, days of celebration - but they will keep this appointment. (34K, the Scully-POV companion to Visitor)

Between A Rock And A Hard Place Tad O'Malley makes Mulder and Scully an offer they can't refuse. (12K, Visitor-compliant rewrite of My Struggle I)

Home Again Mulder and Scully investigate a mysterious murder in Philadelphia as Scully deals with her mother's failing health. (18K, Visitor-compliant rewrite of Home Again)

A Mann's World "When was the last time we had a lizard monster, anyway?" (17K, Visitor-compliant rewrite of Mulder & Scully Meet The Were-Monster)

Bonus materials (revival era):

Taurus Season Surely she could find some worthier trigger for her nostalgia than a mid-size American sedan with roughly the same design scheme as a dentist’s waiting room. (700 words, sometime during S11, a meditation on the road)

Mrs. & Mr. Spooky Spurred by an encounter with Tom Colton, Scully buys a birthday gift for Mulder. (1.5K, unrelenting fluff)

Bonus materials (pre-revival):

A Cabin In The Woods Mulder and Scully, on the run, stay for a while in a cabin in the mountains in Montana. A series of interlacing vignettes. (14K, a few months of respite and the Montana Mountain Woman)

Housewarming A walk in the woods near the unremarkable house; a fall night; a fire in the fireplace. (1.4K, what if the unremarkable house felt like the cabin?)

[fishsticxz-art]

wanted to doodle something so i had my friends pick fits for splatoon characters from @hometownrockstar's outfit memes! enjoy

[mueslicrumbs]

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

OK, so we all agree that Legacy is a mothcat, yes. But I JUST KNOWW that Ajax is a fox, same software but much more obnoxious when he wants to.

So, while moth is cuddling you for a long while and dearest Ajax gets bored of hanging out in the back of his mind he just goes and boycotts cuddling time by taking over their shared body.

He's the kind to start poking you because he's bored and wants to do something. Knowing him, he's taking you out on long ass hikes, smh. No peace until he burns some energy. Give him attention, he's bored.

Legacy is content with cuddles and naps 90% of the time but he comes with a restless ginger that is in fact physically incapable of staying still for ten minutes on a good day.

oh my goodness anon you're right. you're so right

if there's one thing you've learned, it's to be ready for anything, sudden changes of activity being on the top of that list. Foul Legacy often plucks control of their shared body from Ajax as easy as breathing, but the hijacking goes both ways, and if Ajax spontaneously decides that he wants to go outside, he will. he doesn't exactly drag you, though, instead preferring to squeeze you tightly when he's the one in your arms again. he nuzzles his face against yours, giving you wide, pouting eyes until you finally sigh and relent, his expression lighting up with a cheeky grin. THEN he picks you up and runs outside, happy as can be. Ajax pokes and bugs and annoys you with a type of mischievous delight, always taking you in his arms for an adoring hug afterwards. it's messy and a little rough, but once he gets all the energy out his hands turn soft as they cup your cheeks. sometimes there's a little blood, sometimes not- you never know with him

even when you're inside and just sitting on the couch together, Ajax constantly changes positions and fidgets. but he keeps one thing constant- he's always near or pressed against you somehow, whether it be leaning against your shoulder, having his head on your legs, or even holding you in his lap. he's always there, always around you, sometimes peeking over your shoulder and sometimes just soaking in your presence. occasionally he pokes you, gently, nudging his head against you with a pleading gaze. that's when he wants your attention, and your hand raises and plonks onto his head, ruffling his fluffy ginger hair. Ajax hums with a smile, nuzzling against you and closing his eyes. only then does he relinquish control, Foul Legacy appearing in a delicate crackle of violet electricity, looking VERY sulky and put out. but it fades when you begin to scritch behind his horns, your Abyssal monster's wings fluttering and flittering as he begins to purr again

[squidpedia]

Ok i am booboo the fool definitely no comic tonight

Have jackie

I love recycling outfits

[gingermintpepper]

One of my favourite little things about Apollo is how casual his and the Fates' relationship was.

Now, this isn't to understate how grave the Fates were in any way, as a matter of fact, it's written multiple times about the complex interplay between the Fates and Zeus (Stobaeus even wrote that the Fates were given the seat closest to Zeus' throne so he could better give counsel on all things from their machinations)

Indeed, even Zeus was beholden to them and even though the Fates usually left things up to natural course (and Zeus in his position as Moiragetes - that is, the Leader of Fates could even intercede on these events, even interrupting when a someone was set to die) in a lot of ways, there are many, many things that even Zeus could never interfere with, things that were above even the King of the Heavens. Some really good examples are things like Persephone's Abduction which the Fates ruled as necessary for the propagation of the seasons and his marriages to Themis and Hera.

By all accounts really, the Fates were incredibly stern, incredibly grave deities who presided over law, order, birth and death and even worked with the Furies to punish those who broke the sacred laws!

And then you have Apollo who was also known by the title Moiragetes (In Delphi, there were only two Moirai depicted and in place of the third was Zeus and Apollo Moiragetes according to Pausanias) but who did things like, checks notes, send the Fates to be the midwives of his paramour Evadne when she had to deliver his son alone in secret (by the way, he also sent the actual goddess of childbirth to help. The Fates absolutely did not need to also be there, he was taking every precaution:

and get the Fates drunk so they would agree to save his bestie Admetus' life:

Keep in mind btw - this con Apollo pulled for Admetus was multi-layered and even included getting Heracles to wrestle Thanatos and keep him still so Apollo could proceed to help Admetus cheat Alcestis away from Fates when Admetus expressed regret for making his wife die in his place:

And I cannot stress enough that Apollo faced zero consequences for this nonsense. NONE. The Fates weren't even cordial with other Gods - they're almost never referred to directly, they were often depicted apart from other deities or described as old, ugly and unable to walk (though, generally speaking they were artistically depicted as young maidens!) and apart from comforting Demeter by going to personally explain what happened to Persephone in some versions of the story, they didn't really get humanised the way most of the other gods or spirits did. Usually they're referred to euphemistically, or someone will speak distantly about a prophecy they once heard was designed by the Fates but Apollo? Apollo knew the Fates! He was good friends with the Fates! And I think it's even cooler when you consider that both instances of Apollo showing off his Fate's Favourite privilege have to deal with birth (of Iamus) and death (of Alcestis/Admetus) which were the two points most deeply associated with the Moirai and why there were usually depictions of them as a pair over that of a triad.

(Excerpts sourced from Theoi, Aeschylus' Eumenides, Pindar's Olympian 6 and Statius' Silvae; though just a note, one instance of the Fates' involvement with Apollo is misquoted on Theoi - that is the Fates being present for Apollo's birth, that's actually a misinterpretation of Evadne's birthing of Iamus.)

[okthatsgreat]

i’m realizing that one of my favorite ways to create a character is by first establishing a major flaw of theirs and then examining how that will inevitably fuck them up a bit. then fleshing them out from there

[yoshimitsubignaturals]

It pains me so much that Joost had to post that on insta (I do understand why he would then delete it tbf) he’s been through so much and a high percentage of fans to be honest aren’t making it any easier.

When the person is calling their own fandom toxic, it’s time to do some soul searching.

[feelingtheaster99]

Does anyone else think it’s fascinating how nicknames develop? Like sometimes a nickname is a logical shortening of a name, sometimes it’s a different part of their name, like a last name or a middle name, and sometimes it’s completely random, manifesting out of a series of twisting inside jokes and memories that is impossible to explain and you’re just like, “Oh yeah, that’s our friend, The Ball, don’t mind him.”