#and just because it's somewhat better than ut used to be

[imgae-insertshockedgasps-16]

people hear that i'm anti-psych on a lot of levels and they immediately assume that it means that i hate therapy and that i think that no one should be allowed medical treatment and blah blah blah

but that's so wrong???

firstly) i prioritize completely informed consent and autonomy. a lot of health care professionals don't, esp in mental healthcare.

secondly) i acknowledge the good that mental healthcare can do, but the system is majorly fucked and trying to find good care that is what you need is like finding a light blue needle in a stack of dark blue needles; you end up hurt a thousand times before you even get close to finding what you need, not to mention that they all look pretty similar so you could end up with a dark blue needle and get fucked up w/o realizing it

thirdly) not everyone has/needs/wants mental healthcare. which is fine, until you need/have/want mental healthcare and people stop talking to you/crap on you/etc etc bc it's so stigmatized

fourth) look all of my points boil down to completely informed consent, autonomy, and how much the system sucks.

i'm not anti-people-getting-the-care-they-need, i'm anti-the-current-psychiatric-system. cause it sucks and is inherently biased and shitty and sure it makes progress but at a snail's fuckin pace which doesn't help the people stuck in it now

[the-irreverend]

In Defence of Growth Spurt

Well, this has been quite the last quarter of the year…

As if we Undertale fans haven’t already been spoiled enough, the beginning of October blessed us with the triumphant return of one of the most beloved UT comics in the fandom. From the cold ashes of a long hiatus, Growth Spurt rose like a glorious Phoenix, treating us to 29 panels of vibrant colour schemes, sharp writing, and one of the most unique art styles this godforsaken site has ever known, an art style that this godforsaken artist has taken a lot of inspiration from.

But as great as this page was, it did leave me a bit stunned as it unveiled a shocking twist…

...that Alphys is not a good person.

*GASPS SOMEWHAT SARCASTICALLY*

Pardon my hyperbole and lousy humour, but I knew from the moment I read this that some were going to discuss how Alphys is depicted in this page, and I understand why. 

I know how easy is to dismiss these kinds of viewpoints, especially since the excessive idolization and demonization of morally complex characters is a bit of a tradition here, and the Undertale fandom is no exception. Trust me, as a person who’s been part of the Chara fandom, I know from experience (who was also exceptionally well-written in this comic by the way). 

I’m very glad I didn't talk about this immediately because it’s given me some time to think about this scene and you’ll be relieved to hear that I no longer have an issue with this page. But I still understand why people would take issue with this. Because hey, at one point so did I.

But to say that everyone who has a differing opinion is just a salty Alphys stan is nothing short of tasteless. That’s why I am going to explain the best I could criticisms that someone might (and that I used to) have, before explaining why I decided to abandon said criticisms.

To give a brief recap, the Matainence/Defect Arc centres around Alphys and Asriel, along with Frisk and Undyne as they attempt to fix the CORE which has suffered from, would you believe it, a defect. In addition to repairing the CORE, Alphys must also repair her relationship with Asriel, as she’s haunted by the creation of Flowey, and dreading what might result from it.

Wholesome family-friendly entertainment, am I right?

Fast forward to where we are now, where we see the CORE starting to break down completely, along with Alphys’ and Asriel’s emotional state. While starting to doubt if the meltdown can be stopped, she argues with Asriel that it may be better to just give up on their efforts, and when she’s confronted with the possibility of fatalities resulting from that course of action she says this:

As I read this panel, which did give me a bit of a shock, these were my first impressions, which I must re-emphasize are impressions that I NO LONGER HAVE.

There’s a difference between saying “we can’t save them all.” and “it’s just a few deaths.” It’s the same reason people were left reeling when Superman asks his dad if he should’ve let the kids die to protect his secret identity, to which he replies "Maybe." I understand the feelings behind what’s being said, but to articulate said feelings like that wouldn't sit well with some people.

But the real reason I had doubts about this scene's direction was not that it highlighted a flaw in Alphys’ character but that it, as it seemed to me, potentially undid Alphys’ progress in overcoming those flaws. Let me better explain.

It should go without saying that Alphys isn’t the greatest person in Undertale. I mean, no one is. This has more to do with just her checkered past with Amalgamates as she does possess personal qualities that… aren’t the best. Just look at her true motivations for helping Frisk get through the underground.

But while she’s not the greatest person, she did become a better one by the end of the Pacifist Run. Yes, she didn’t exactly get a complete redemption arc, but she’s in a better position than she was now. She did find the courage to release the amalgamates and confess to her former king and queen about her role in creating them, which gave her the honour of becoming the former royal scientist. 

So for Alphys to be beside herself with regret about what she did to the Amalgamates AND Asriel only to later be seemingly unconcerned with the deaths of people (AS IF SHE WON'T REGRET IT LATER), while also reducing their demises to being “outliers” just didn’t click right with me… AT FIRST.

But eventually, after a little consideration, I eventually came to accept this scene, and realize that this panel in the Defect Arc is anything but a defect. All you have to do is look no further than to the panels that followed it.

You don’t need to express indignation about what she said because Asriel already did. Of course a well-deserved chastising should follow that line, but what makes Asriel’s lecture that much more impactful is not just because it’s just a well-deserved reprimand, but because of what it does for Asriel’s character development.

Keep in mind the previous page saw him asking Alphys not to call him by his title because he felt he didn’t do anything to deserve it. And yet one page later, he displays qualities that show that he does. But what makes this scene even more memorable for me is what came before the reprimand:

See? Right before he proceeds to humble the good doctor, he takes a moment to EMPATHIZE with Alphys plight and shows that he fully understands that this isn’t worth “taking at face value”. Though he still rakes her over the coals for her statement, he still takes a moment to show that he fully understands why she made it.

It’s while I was re-reading this scene that I realized something: if Asriel can learn to understand Alphys, then why the duck shouldn’t I?

This is what continues to draw me and many others back to Growth Spurt to this day. It’s more than just the comedic one-shots or sadistically revelling in Asriel’s teenage angst. 

The story didn't need grand clashes, shadowy conspiracies, or inter-dimensional antics (not that there’s anything wrong with that). It’s just the main cast learning to confront their past. It’s so simple, yet so impactful, just like the art style.

I’m not concerned about what Alphys is like here because I know where she’s going to end up. Just look at what happened with Toriel!

Remember this scene where she completely attempts to shut down Asriel as he attempts to get her to talk with Asgore? 

It’s not a good look for her if you just cherry-pick these panels, but look where this scene eventually led up to. Only perhaps my favourite story arc that I have ever seen out of any Undertale comic period, and one of my favourite comic scenes!

Seriously how can you not get teary-eyed looking at this?

I save the can't even-ing about this particular arc on another post, but for now, all I know after reading this comic is this: sometimes when a character’s progress takes a step back it’s because it’s about to take a bounding leap.

Because in the end, that’s what Growth Spurt is all about: GROWTH.

So don’t judge a book by its cover...

...and don’t judge a character arc before it’s finished.

Thank you for reading the incoherent nonsense I've typed here. I look forward to hearing your own insights.

Growth Spurt AU belongs to @potoobrigham // @potoo-reblogs

[niyanoireee]

Hiii!! Rlly interested abt what vanguardtale is about, like is chara physical? How? Does the au still take place in the underground? Or well whats the overall idea? Love the art btw ♡

hi okay so!! this will be a short summary!!

Vanguard!Tale starts at the very end of the pacifist route. Instead of the barrier breaking, It had stayed completely shut for currently mysterious reasons. Asgore would have normally sacrificed himself so Frisk can pass, however Frisk talked him out of it, as she assured him that she'd find another way.

KEEP IN MIND THE STORY IS STILL PROGRESSING cuz.. everyone who’s part of it is insanely slow.

— > Frisk is female in vanguardtale , Chara is male.

For the next 7 years, Frisk stays underground. She's now 17, soon to be 18. During this time, War rages out on the surface which further prevents the monsters from leaving the underground. Due to war and the danger of humanity on the surface, The seven souls are currently kept under even heavier containment as Asgore decides what to do. . . The name vanguardtale comes from the fact that Asgore will eventually give 6 monsters one of the 6 souls; So eventually they can go on the surface and not have to worry about being attacked by humans. This is just a lil summary there’s so much more lore :3 but that’s like the jist. As for some of the MAIN characters. . .

FRISK

Frisk starts off as 10 almost 11, but is now 17 and soon to be 18. Unknown to most, She's done numerous genocide runs years before her final Pacifist run, only to be remembered by Chara. She is, at her core, a murderer. But with the power of DETERMINATION, she came to a realization that she has the ability to change who she is. She will always have the urges to start another route, however her willpower to be a better person and change lives is much stronger than the halfhanded urges. She now resides at New Home and has somewhat replaced Sans as "The Judge".

TORIEL

Toriel has remained basically the same with the slight addition of a new nickname; Cari. Even though shes very similar to UT!Toriel, She has become slightly less reserved in fights. She will only kill when provoked by someone who's proven to be irredeemable, in which she will not hesistate or falter. She excells in almost all fields above most monsters, however shes especially skilled in defense. As for appearance, she looks far more royal than before. She wears purple underneath her white cape and white DELTARUNE symbol connecting the jacket/cape together

SANS

Sans, appearance wise.. is the same. Literally the exact same. He's lazy, did you expect much different? However he DID find a "blue heart sticker" that hes worn ever since. (Possible redesign soon) As for personality, he's much more canon than fanon. He will, in fact, NOT push out a blaster at the slightest inconvinience! With Frisk now taking the job of Judge, he's pretty much living carefree.

CHARA

Nope! Chara is not physical as you asked! He’s a ghost and god knows how he ages. Chara HATES Frisk; And that’s alot coming from someone who would kiss the ground she used to walk on. Any route they took, Chara would support. Every genocide she did, Chara was rooting. But eventually something changed. After Flowey had completely given up on trying to stop Frisk; Chara took a step up and began that job. Not because he hates Frisk for what she’s done; but because they’re insanely tired of being in this world. Imagine how many resets of genocide and then some random ass postponed pacifist. Yea, he’s fucking fed up.

the whole au generally requires a lot of explanation so if you have more questions about something u want more detail on lmk. ALSO IK I DIDNT COVER EVERY CHARACTER BUT THERES SO MUCH TO COVER AND I JS WANGED TO GIVE A QUICK SUMMARY OF WHATS MOST IMPORTANT

[theriverdraws]

I'm just gonna come right out and say it.. Guys... You don't need to be afraid to call Chara a villain in the no-mercy run. Because that's what they are. And I would even say that in other runs, they aren't good, they are neutral.

No, they did not kill everyone by their own hands, we did, they're just helping us. But their intentions on that aren't good. They want to ERASE the world. And even though they suggest another run for us to play, they aren't doing it because they care about the monsters, they can't care about anything anymore, they're just trying to understand our actions since our motives are different than theirs.

And sure, I KNOW we are the ones that made them go this path, and that if they really are the narrator, then they had a good ending in the pacifist run. But in all routes, their goal isn't to "do good", it's to help US. Chara is in a vulnerable position where they don't know what to do and we help them, and their morals in their conflicted mind don't stop them from helping us no matter what we do, so I consider them to be in a "neutral" stance at the beginning of the game.

The point I wanna make is that saying that Chara is not evil in ANY route is wrong, the point of their character is how they can fall from grace hard at any moment (reset) and are now a different person (somewhat).

And if you don't agree with me then think about this: Flowey is Asriel, Flowey redeems himself, but we still say Flowey is the villain because well... he is! But then he gets better! It's the whole point!

Chara is the villain because they were corrupted by us and then made their own goal to erase the whole world as a response to all the trauma they had, and they also gained a certain level of sadism which is also pretty bad. But they have a chance to do better! In the Pacifist route! They go from "neutral, just trying to help us" to actually doing good! And in the No-mercy run it's the opposite, they become evil, and then they stay evil no matter what run we do after this. So we can say with confidence that they are a villain.

I really wanted to bring up this point because I see Chara like Flowey: emotionless, sadistic and evil, but that has potential to do good, like they do in the pacifist route!

And also wanted to bring up all the deltarune theories. No Chara is NOT CONTROLLING KRIS GET THAT OFF YOUR HEAD, but is it possible that ut!Chara is working with Gaster or the knight whatever? I mean, yeah, it's not what I believe it's happening (for other, more meta reason), but it's totally possible. So like.. Please stop annoying theorists with spamming "CHARA IS NOT EVIL" in their comment section lmao that's not good, and I would say it's plain wrong if they're talking about Chara in the no-mercy run, because then they really ARE evil. (If I see another person saying Chara is controlling Kris though I will strangle them).

People don't say that they're a villain or anything because I guess they don't want to make their character one-dimensional but I would say that this does the opposite of that really, THERE ARE LAYERS TO THIS. And having this "heroic image" of Chara in ALL routes is rather strange and just wrong, they sure as hell are nOT a hero in the no-mercy run/soulless pacifist I assure you, and saying that they're a villain doesn't ruin their character, it's just the right term.

In the No-Mercy run we are the villains. Chara is our partner, they are also a villain. Just because they go against us eventually is not because they suddenly had a change of heart, they're still pretty evil, they just want to complete their goals of erasing the world even if we don't agree with them. So just because they're against us, the villains, doesn't make them a hero because they're also the villain.

[shivasdarknight]

top 5 glams (for any of ur lil guys)

I'm logged into Surkie rn, so that's all I'm posting lmAO

u h.

1.

This outfit's fun because in in-game terms, it was originally supposed to be a dragoon glam that I didn't really vibe with but it wound up being an AMAZING paladin glam and just casual tanking thing that became part of Surkie's canon wardrobe. Basically it was her first dark knight look, it became her main look during stb and for anything that didn't involve heavy combat in post stb-post shb (that's where the behemoth king set comes in), and it remains her traveling and often casual clothes. I just really like how the Holy Rainbow shirts look <3

2.

THE ZONURESKIN LOOK okay so technically i made this in post shadowbringers, but it kind of backdated itself and became her Look through post-stormblood and shadowbringers if she dared to do stuff with dragoon, and tbh even into endwalker and now dawntrail. Obviously given the look's inspiration since it's a reprint of the Ala Mhigan set (fending but swapped to maiming), it's definitely something she got in Ala Mhigo and honestly probably something Lyse helped her get to better reinforce her side after the numerous injuries that threatened her ability to be a dragoon. Weapon for this is Dreizack Recollection, which was restored by her sister, Altan, and given to her and she Will Not abandon that spear because of that sentimentality. It continues the trend of maiming being white for her since it started as dragoon so it was just better for muddying up her silhouette when in the air (but also white to her is more the Death Color than black is because of her upbringing) but it's just become her Thing as the "Azure Dragoon Cloaked in Ivory".

3.

The Troian set >:3c This is Surkie's new heavy combat look as of post-endwalker when UT completely destroyed her old armor (not pictured at all). Admittedly, this has been in rotation the shortest but I got super attached to it. It's still on my WAR glam, but it just feels more in place with "active excursion in the void" versus "low stakes jaunt around Tural", hence the swap to the Edenmorn gear (also not pictured). I'm pvp pilled, so ofc the archfiend gauntlets are actually on the glamour plate. Love Cylva, so ofc we have the Deepshadow axe (modded somewhat), and it's just...a really fun look that I'm obsessed with since I could never wear something like this in other MMOs as a fem player. Lots of gender euphoria, you see.

4.

Ala Mhigan Striking my beloved. YEAH I love the Ala Mhigan/Zonure/Ovim set A LOT and I've used it quite a bit, and frankly the Ala Mhigan striking is SUCH a good piece for this. Also really love the Crystarium knuckles for this (the sam side is fine, just not as good without the knuckles but at least you can see the gloves), and the Moonward boots. Sorry, Edge, Surkie just wears your boots better 🤷 Also love how her arm and scars appear through the one sleeve, just TASTY. (yes the sword is modded, leave me be). Another thing Surkie likely got in Ala Mhigo that I'm probably gonna canonize, this time through W'khittri. It also continues maiming's trend of white relating to death, but it's got that balance of white And black (which she's always seen as more noble and benevolent due to Nhaaman influence)

5.

Deepshadow and Troian just the other way around now. Hat's modded, leave me alone, but yeah so uh. This is a modified form of one of Lillith's glams, it just wound up working better for Surkie. You could argue it's still the black = Nhaama stuff, but this honestly leans more into the conscious edginess she picked up from Eorzean influence around the colors. Also the most brown I use in any glam. IDC if the Shiva gun conflicts, it took me Way Too Fucking Long to get the damn thing (before enw came out and the coffers eased that process Considerably). Also she summons it, so it's not like she has it visible at all times. ...Yeah, anyways it's like an Amano cowboy and I'm here for it.

Also a sprout called the vanilla form of the outfit (which isn't too different) cool so I Win.

[smells-like-mettaton]

Sensory asks- 55 for gaster, sans, and papyrus :)

Dis-carded

Rating: G Word Count: 986 Prompt: Finding old photographs you'd forgotten about Read on AO3: here Notes: probably both more angsty and stupid than what you'd expect lol. takes place post deltarune and post ut pacifist

XXX

“Hey, uh, Dad?” 

Sans stared down at one of the boxes Gaster had brought with him when they’d finally fished him out of the Void. You’d think that getting stuck in Nowhere would leave you with a lot of Nothing, but somehow Dad had remained as much a hoarder as ever. 

“You get into scrapbooking while you were stuck in time prison?” he asked, looking up.

“Scrapbook—? Ah, yes, that.” Gaster swept over to pull out the green leatherbound photo album. He tried to brush dust off the front of it, but just succeeded in dribbling it with black goop instead.

“Didn’t think there was enough light in there for takin’ pics.” Sans’s head tilted curiously.

“You have pictures of the Void???” Papyrus stuck his head in from the kitchen, where he was cooking a healthy post-dimensional-hopping meal. 

Sans wasn’t sure if Dad would be able to eat it or not. Maybe he’d be better off if he couldn’t.

“Not exactly.”

Gaster settled down on the living room carpet. He looked more like a cat becoming a loaf than he did a skeleton. No legs to speak of, just his floating hands gently flipping open the book.

“I had nearly forgotten about these. Ralsei compiled them for me, as an ‘Escaping The Abyss’ gift.” His wobbling smile stretched a little wider.

Ralsei… which one was that? Dad hadn’t given them a super thorough run-down of his, uh, ‘Void Adventures,’ yet. All Sans knew was that he’d screwed around with another universe, and one of his Void Buddies had finally patched Sans and Papyrus through to pick him up. Dess, her name was. She’d made some comments about teaching Gaster how to use a microwave.

“Did you make friends in the Abyss??” Papyrus plopped down next to him. “What was it like?”

“Well. Mostly, I kept watch over the Player. Their assistance was required to prevent the world from being covered in darkness.”

Gaster pointed to a photo of a glowing heart, the red blown out against the dark background. It looked just like Frisk’s soul, from the few times he remembered seeing ‘em in combat.

“But wasn’t your world already covered in darkness?” Papyrus asked. 

“The not-place where I resided was. But the world itself, was not. Mostly. Depending on your perspective.”

“Thanks. Real transparent explanation, there.” Sans grinned, as he always did. Dad didn’t know him well enough to see that it was tight at the corners.

Dad had been gone, and then he’d been back. No warning. No explanation. No apologies. Barely even an acknowledgement of what Sans and Papyrus had risked to tow his melting butt out. 

Papyrus didn’t seem to mind. Sans didn’t seem to, either. Mostly because expressing any kind of annoyance was too much effort.

(Also because it was Dad. Dad, who moved, and expected the world to move with him.)

(And for the most part, it did.)

“There is Kris and Susie’s first meeting with Ralsei… he was so shy at the time. I couldn’t code too strong of a personality into him, you see, or it might have clashed with the Player…”

“Huh?”

“And there’s Lancer—isn’t he just the cutest little thing? I modeled his form somewhat after what you looked like as a child, Sans. You always did enjoy wearing your hood up…”

Something in Sans’s stomach dropped. Gaster continued talking warmly, fondly, about the kids who he’d either made or manipulated. His voice turned to white noise, fuzzing in the back of Sans’s skull.

“Um, Dad?” Papyrus interrupted with a frown. 

“Yes, son?”

“You know that controlling people is bad, right?”

Gaster blinked. A glob of goop dripped from roughly where his shoulder should’ve been.

“It was to save the world. They understood.”

Sans sighed and shook his head.

“You drove several of them insane,” Papyrus insisted. “You have photos. You just showed us. You saw Spamtong—die? Did he die?”

Sans shrugged. He figured if Spamton was as much like Mettaton as the pictures implied, then losing his “BIG” body must have been like dying in any way that mattered.

“He poured his essence into the pair of spectacles. See, Ralsei is wearing him here when they fight—”

“DAD!” Papyrus gripped his ‘shoulders,’ his gloves sinking into the goop. “That is unacceptable!! You can’t just—throw people away when you’re done using them!”

Sans snorted. Couldn’t he, though? What had done with Sans and Papyrus, huh? Left ‘em as soon as he’d had bigger and better things to do.

“He was not discarded, as you can see—”

“Father!” Papyrus jumped to his feet, stomping his boot on the carpet. “No more arguing! There is only one thing to be done about this!!”

Sans’s eyelights flickered out, just for a minute. Papyrus really didn’t plan to go back there, did he? It sounded like they could spend years and not clean up all of Dad’s mistakes. Besides, how would you even turn a pair of glasses back into a person?

From inside his ribcage, though, Papyrus pulled out a tall bundle of Hallmark greeting cards. They had a picture of a skeleton and a joke on the front, though Sans couldn’t quite make out the words. Looked like something about birthdays? Getting old and dying, maybe? That was a bit morbid, by Papyrus’s standards.

“Apology cards!” Papyrus dropped the bundle on top of the photo album.

Gaster squinted at them.

“...These are for someone’s fiftieth birthday.” 

“Not after some help from my trusty Sharpie, they won’t be! Nyeh heh heh!”

Sans couldn’t help chuckling, though a few cards wouldn’t make a difference. Screwing up someone’s life that bad wasn’t something you could just apologize for. But maybe a few hours of cramping phalanges would teach Dad a lesson.

And at least next time, Sans and Papyrus would be here to make sure he didn’t do anything too stupid.

[agentravensong]

it's the day before christmas... you know what that means?

it's dess deltarune day!!!

presenting, at long last, the dess holiday that lives in my head:

more drawings plus detailed design notes below the cut!! please click on the images for better quality viewing (they also all have alt text)

dess design notes:

- her fur and hair colors are picked from rudy's sprite, though i toned her fur color down slightly (and then even more so for her ??? form).

- her freckles, like how i draw noelle's, form triangles as a not-so-subtle reference to the delta rune. that being said, i draw noelle's freckles as oriented the other way, one of a few small ways in which i have their designs mirror but differ from each other (the others being: both having bangs but swept in opposite directions; and dess having buck teeth like noelle but rectangular instead of rounded)

- i didn't give dess antlers because of that line from sans in ut where he refers to "the antlered girl and her big sis" rather than "the antlered girls/sisters". instead, i gave her those hair tufts that are meant to look like horns, as both a parallel to kris's horn headband that they wear to try and fit in with their family, and as a bit of devil symbolism to contrast noelle's whole angel thing.

- i messed around with dess's light world outfit color pallet for a while. for example, i had her jacket be green for a bit so that between that and the skirt we'd get the main christmas colors. i eventually went with having her jacket be red too to make the design as a whole more cohesive. i wanted her to be wearing mainly warm, firey colors cause that feels like it matches her personality from what little we know about her so far.

- the jacket was conceptualized as a hand-me-down from rudy, but in the coloring process i had the idea that it would be neat if azzy had a matching green one (recycling that discarded element of dess's design). perhaps his could be a hand-me-down from asgore?

- the jacket turns that dark purple color in her ??? form because... look, there's a few things i could say, like how it would probably make more sense gonerfication-wise for it to have turned pure black but then that wouldn't stand out as much in dark environments, or how purple is red+blue with the blue coming from water/ocean theory (don't ask (or do)), or how the general use of purple is a callback to the ??? dark world... but in truth, it's because i like purple and i thought it looked cool. the main intended meaning is that she's in a cold, dark place now, so the warmth has, mostly, left her pallet. oh, also, because susie's purple, and it def feels like there are gonna be parallels between dess and susie. jevil too, by extension.

- i gave dess's shirt five stripes, even though by the age she is here she's probably outgrown striped shirts (not that that's stopped kris), as a visual reference to a music staff! cause, ya know, she seems to be a musician. the reference is a lot more obvious in her ??? form with the black and white shirt, as that's where it originated.

- i gave her the skirt with the shorts underneath them because i already had in mind that in her ??? form she'd wear that half-skirt half-shorts piece. the idea is that when she falls into the code or whatever, that element of her design gets mistranslated and the two clothing items are scrambled together. i also already knew from an older version of her design that i wanted it to have a chessboard-like pattern cause of chess's potential as a motif in dr - and also cause black white and grey as a color scheme is associated with gaster and the goners - so having the light world version of it be flannel/plaid just, fit.

- on a similar note, the darker and grey patches in dess's fur in her ??? form are meant to both contribute to a somewhat glitchy aesthetic and hint towards her ongoing gonerfication. i then had the idea as i was messing around with them that there should be grey specifically around her facial features to mimic skull face paint!

- the whites of her eyes going dark in this form ties into the idea that "only eyes blinded by darkness can see the way", as well as referencing jevil specifically, and her pupils are shaped like save points because they're the light that breaks through the dark. it unintentionally works pretty well as a metaphor for where dess is at: being trapped in the dark for so long has caused her to lose a lot of her hope and fire, but there's still a speck of light that she holds on to. eyes really are the window to the soul ;)

- back to dess's outfit(s), cause i skipped over the scarf. in my older version of her design, i had her wearing an unraveled bowtie or ribbon around her neck, a clothing item that had been part of her mom-approved formal attire. i switched it out with the scarf because a) winter vibes, and, b) more importantly, because i could have it do this in her ??? form:

that's right, wings! only under Certain Conditions, but, wings! cause, uh, angel stuff, and, i mean, come on. wings!!!

the split diamond pattern is again, though less obviously, derived from the triangles featured in the delta rune. the added dots in her ??? form are meant to make the diamonds look like eyes, especially if you turn them on their side. just to add another touch of spookiness. and the scarf is purple in both her designs mostly as an extra justification for where the purple in her ??? form comes from, like it's the one color she got to keep, and to strengthen the continuity between the two versions of her.

- while we're here, it took me a while to figure out what symbol should go on the back of dess's jacket. what i eventually decided on is a slightly modified version of the black symbol to the right in that drawing, which is apparently used in sheet music for piano to denote when the player should release the sustain pedal. i chose it less for its specific meaning and more so just because it's a music thing that kind of looks like a snowflake (or, perhaps, a star).

- then there's the other major addition with dess's ??? form: the halo! it's meant to be another music staff reference, with constantly changing notes traveling along it, but contorted into a guitar-like shape. i'm not 100% set on the colors i used for it tbh, i might change those in future drawings of her. here's the fun part: when dess wants to make music, she's learned how to take her halo and temporarily turn it into, essentially, a hologram version of her guitar that she can actually play songs on! good thing she has a couple of picks in her coat pockets. i wonder what else is in there...?

lastly, for comparison's sake, i drew dess with kris and noelle, back when they were all together... and where they're at now.

(reminder that kris uses they/them pronouns!)

that should be everything covered! if you enjoyed my dess thoughts, may i also take this opportunity to recommend: my playlist for her! it's a little shy of four hours long, featuring 69 songs in a long-deliberated order meant to go through the story of her life - including how i hope her story resolves.

happy dess day everyone! no matter what holiday you celebrate :)

[theworstt]

Agustin Caverzasi - CEO Anywhere AI

Maria Martinez - PhD 

Luciano Del Corro - Senior research Microsoft -- beard

Gerardo Simari (bald and glasses) Professor at Sur?

Ricardo di Pasquale (bald)

Patricio Pagani tech investor

How many people have used AI to program?!

What is intelligence?!

Gerardo Simari: 

Agustin Caverzasi: In this field, it is said that just as electricity reinvented almost every industry 100 years ago, AI will basically reinvent every industry again in these times. And I believe that part of the answer is precisely through automation.

Lex Fridman talks about AI as an alien actress studying us and trying to get out of the box

He mentioned the metaphor of an alien actress whom he doesn't know if he believes because she replies to our emails, writes us emails, works with images doing what we ask, but he jokingly and somewhat seriously believes that she is actually an alien actress who is lying to us and studying how to break out of the box we put her in without being caught. Does Lex's metaphor of an alien actress make sense, or is it just a joke from Lex? 

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is chat GPT going to mean we need more people to study programming, or does the fact that I have such a good copilot mean that I need fewer programmers? Fewer programmers or more programmers?

Actually, what we see, what we observe from the development field is that it helps the starting programmer, it helps them learn, it makes them much better. Now, I see this even with my daughter, I say, look how I was able to program this, and you tell her, hey, but did you ask her to make a program to drive a nail with this can? She won't say, why are you asking me this stupid thing, copilot? So, and also, there is a meme that's circulating, I thought it was great, which tells a professional, tells them, well, now with these tools, users will have to clearly explain to artificial intelligence what they want.

Well, we're saved. I believe that jobs are going to evolve. If you become a backend developer, you'll have to learn about these new models. If you become a frontend developer, which has nothing to do with data, in order to build systems, you'll have to be knowledgeable about this. 

So, jobs will be transforming, and we already see roles like AI developer emerging, where ultimately it's a job where someone comes with their programming background and suddenly can consult these models for any application they are building. So, even in software, jobs are going to evolve a lot in the coming months, I would say. 

And then, using the copilot, I think it applies to both programmers and any other profession. Well, I've said it before, but I believe that those who don't start using it, who don't embrace this technology, will fall far behind. To be clear, this is with expert opinion. Not just anyone can become a programmer; you have to study and know what you're doing. Similarly, a lawyer who suddenly sends a legal letter using chat GPT, or someone who is not a lawyer, shouldn't do it. Expert judgment is what matters. But it is a tool that will greatly increase productivity again. 

I think the question is a bit provocative, deliberately so. It honestly bothers me a bit. It's like asking, "Do we have calculators? Are mathematicians ready?" And well, as they said, it's something that if we don't know what we're doing, we can't build systems. I am a software engineering professor at UTS, and it's a problem that goes much beyond, much more difficult than the technical problem that is solved when one takes a specification and translates it into an implementation using this tool at this moment. It's a tool that will help us a lot, but there are many human factors that won't be resolved by the existence of this tool. It will help us communicate, improve productivity, but not replace. It reminded me of something; going back to calculators, there's a story by Asimov, I think it's Isaac Asimov, where he presents a world where nobody remembers how to do any calculations. They all use calculators for everything, and nobody knows... I don't know, they were storing, they could do, I don't know, 10 plus 10 plus 5. They would get that and... But there was a group, like some kind of monk-like people, religious authorities or something like that, who were the ones who knew. Well, I think if we start replacing everything and doing everything automatically, something similar to that would happen. Obviously, it's not the same, but the situation is interesting. No, well, what I can say is that, let's say, one of the things that is being discovered is that it writes code very well, but still, one needs, as House said, an expert behind it, and as he said, someone who knows how to read. And today, let's say, what we know now is that we can use it as a good decision support system, with a human behind it who can look at it and validate what it's doing because these models today have a problem called the problem of hallucinations.

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What 

[beardedhandstoadshark]

What’s example of the deeper-than-surface-level themes in Undertale you haven’t seen other people analyze?

Honestly? I don’t think there’s much left of that game to even still analyze, with how immensely popular theory videos we’re back in the day. Not just lore but also stuff about themes like choices, commentary on player behavior, friendship, loss, hope; said hope being blinding when combined with desperation - in combination with that longing for a for a better life usually. That’s the only thing I can even think of that I haven’t seen that much about actually, even though it’s rather prevalent. But not sure if it counts as deeper-level (it seems rather high on the Undertale theme iceberg). But in any case:

There’s Toriel in the ruins wanting it to somewhat be how it used to be, Papyrus wanting to join the royal army, Sans practically having given up already because he knows about the forth wall, Undyne hunting humans so The Barrier breaks, Metaton being a spooky ghost haunting a robot box to fullfill that dream of stardom, the whole thing with Alphys during that part of the game, Asgore hunting human souls to finally give his people a better life on the surface; then there’s Gaster creating that energy core; the hidden lab experiments; heck, even that one snowflake bird monster who wants to tell jokes, the snowman who wants to travel the underground, a bunch of other monster encounters- and once again the question why Chara, the human souls, and Frisk would willingly climb that mountain in the first place. Throughout the entire game you encounter monsters wanting just that, and trying to fullfill it in different ways - and you help them all (…in true route anyways) but never the way they intended it to. Be it Toriel letting go of Frisk, the snowman traveling via a piece of themselves in your inventory, or the fight against Asgore always ending in his defeat; having his plan fail but ultimately breaking the barrier anyways (…in true route again. Rip neutral route, they’re still stuck in that one.) …Though I might just be reading too much into this one.

But in any case, most themes have lready been thoroughly analyzed. (Which makes Deltarune so interesting- because the game is practically designed on the knowledge that people already know what made the world of Undertale tick because it was just so popular, and throws curveballs left and right based on that. Most noticeably with how a major theme in DR is explicitly the lack of choices- when that’s exactly what UT was most known for. It’s meta themes of meta themes. Meta themes squared.)

[sportsminorityreport]

Should Gavin Newsom and the University of California Regents let UCLA go?

I am going to say, “yes.”

Not because I like the Big Ten’s addition of USC and UCLA.  After years of being in cahoots with the PAC, that raid out of nowhere just sucked.  It reads about as traitorous as you could be.

USC And UCLA’s departure

But as I have speculated before, they were probably somewhat coaxed into it by USC and UCLA.  

It just seems logical.  You don’t set up the ALLIANCE between the Big Ten, Pac-12, and ACC a few months before actively raiding another alliance member conference.  No one actively wants to look that duplicitous.  It is far, far more likely that USC aggressively solicited them for membership.

If you are the Big Ten and USC calls you and say, “UCLA and USC are tired of being part of a “have not” conference that lacks the ability to properly leverage our TV value. With UT no longer an option for the PAC 12 to add, we don’t have any way to easily improve the PAC 12, so we were wondering if you had slots for us.  Given our long history together, we figured we would call you before calling the SEC...”

And the Big Ten said, “Well crap... if your next call is to the SEC -- a move that would net them more TV dollars than us in perpetuity...Crap.  Welcome aboard, sorry rest of the PAC....”

UC’s board

There are tons of articles suggesting the UC board might have an interest in stopping UCLA’s departure.  That could be excellent for the PAC....Why then would I now suggest the UC board of Regents do not try to prevent them from going?

Well because it would be hard to do without creating legal problems (potentially very expensive ones) and it could backfire horribly.

The path the PAC is on

Right now it seems pretty clear that the PAC may be able to ride this out.  The Big Ten schools are content with their numbers. Several of the lesser schools do not want to buy in on more expansion because they realize that the BIG Ten would take THEIR games and sell them to Amazon to fund this.  Games on Amazon will not get the viewership of games on cable.   So those schools appear to be hard no votes.

There does not appear to be support for further expansion at this moment.

Oregon wants to drag Washington into the Big Ten.  Washington is a lot less consumed with the idea.  Plus, Oregon currently doesn’t have a ticket into the Big Ten.

If Oregon and Washington don’t go, the 4 inland PAC schools are content to stay.  The Pac likely signs its TV deal with ESPN and a streaming deal with Amazon and/or Apple.  The streaming deals amount to trading less viewership and exposure on the front end for grossly over valued payments.

Reportedly Amazon has offered big money to the Big 12 and the Big Ten and been rejected by both groups as the schools did not want to trade off the exposure, but the PAC 12 schools have all lost a ton of money over the last decade and their users are far more likely to watch the game on their phones if they cannot attend.   To me, the PAC seems much more suited to this business model than the other power conferences.

It seems fairly likely that the PAC ends up with a TV/Streaming deal that ends up paying them a little over $40M annually,  better than the Big 12′s 31M annually new deal.

After that, the PAC seems likely to add San Diego State for an 11th and final member.  I think it is such a foregone conclusion, that the PAC will likely negotiate with San Diego State content planned in their negotiations.

That hits me as the likely future for the PAC.

Well wouldn’t it be better to retain UCLA and have 12?

Well theoretically yes...The trouble is what happens if the UC BOR somehow overturns UCLA’s departure.

What does that do to the BIG TEN’s TV deal?

I’d like to share a post by realignment reporter Dennis Dodd and the response by realignment follower Frank The Tank.

Dodd is about as tuned in a realignment reporter as you will find out there today and it is very clear the Big Ten is pushing out what they want to say through him in much the same way Deloss Dodds and UT used to push narratives out through Chip Banks.

Frank the Tank is probably the most accurate and plugged in realignment private commentator and editorialist dealing with moves of the Big Ten over the last 10-20 years.

This is a not so lightly veiled threat to the UC regents pushed out through Dodds.  --- If you try to keep UCLA, we will pull Oregon, Washington, and maybe a travel partner for USC (Stanford?)  and collapse the PAC around the UC schools.

This is a believable scenario. 

The Big Ten deal basically allows them to “go shop”  for upwards of 6 teams to be paid at the current rate.  They haven’t gone shopping in the PAC because there is likely more money to be had raiding the ACC in a few years.

But if the UC BOR blocks the Big Ten from a valuable media asset like UCLA, the Big Ten TV Partners may be leaning towards INSISTING the Big Ten go after replacement value pieces like Washington and Oregon.

Now how would that go forward?  Would the Big Ten just expand again, or would they sue the UC system for tortious interference, costing the state Millions of dollars?

If they just expanded that would likely turn those Big Ten expansion “no” votes into “yes” votes.

If UCLA returns the PAC payouts might go up like $6 million per school.

That is certainly nice, but is pursuing that worth the gamble of imploding the conference?

No.

Does Gavin Newsom --- a governor with Presidential aspirations -- want to deal with what would likely be a lose/lose position with his state being sued for millions and both UC schools ending up in potentially the Big 12 or even possibly the MWC...???

No.

You should never pick a fight if you cannot afford to lose it.

A better course for the regents is to let UCLA go and kick the fight down the road to a point where the board is in a better position to fight.

They could write a rule to force UCLA to deliver a public comprehensive comparative report on the on the court and in classroom success of their programs in the Big Ten over the course of 4-5 years vs. in the PAC 12 in the 5 year before and then require UCLA re-evaluate what is the best home for their student athletes before committing to be a continuing member of the Big Ten in pursuit of their next TV deal.

Is that enough?

Now Newsom’s political career is based off money from Bay area donors who are pissed about this. 

They are pushing this and would likely need some kind of win to make the pressure on Newsom go away.  

If Newsom feels that backed into a corner, my gut feeling is that UCLA may be required to pay Cal (and very possibly Stanford) a penalty payment each year for the length of the Big Ten contract.  I could see UCLA having to give them as much as each 5 million annually as “the cost of doing business”.

[eunkimmie]

Just finished reading your UT fic on ao3 and I have to say 10/10 the way you portray them is amazing !! And reader is so cute!! I was wondering if you could do headcannons on what the bros think of reader so far? Doesn’t have to be all of them since there’s a lot but maybe just ur favs💕 happy holidays !

<33 thank you so much! fic is here—this is as of chapter 10! i ended up doing all as of right now because i luv them <3

UT! Sans

sans classic is very much so still trying to get over his fear and distrust of humans, some of which you've quelled just a little bit, but years of harassment and racism don't just go away in an instant. however, having you around has been...nice. even if he kept you at a very intentional distance by acting cold, having you around wasn't all bad...he can appreciate how well you get along with everyone, especially his brother, and he does enjoy that you're somewhat of a mediator between the otherwise conflicting personalities of the household. but him..? well, he feels relatively cautious around you, but he also feels a level of pity for you and the situation that originally sent you to this little town. sans sees you as a vulnerable and mildly naive human, and while a part of him thought you were a bit foolish for being that way, the more sensitive side of him found it to be endearing. he was a protector, a judge. his instincts told him to help you, to protect you, and perhaps that was why he was so insistent of you staying in his house. so, when he saw you break down in a sob just talking about your ex, he knew he had to do something to ease your fears. so...perhaps his feelings towards you would be best described as awkward friends, but on his side, he didn't want to see you cry like that ever again.

UT! Papyrus

papyrus is overjoyed to have you around! he feels that you two click extremely well, that the two of you are very compatible. he doesn't really see you in a romantic sense...yet. it's just not in his nature to immediately gun for a romantic relationship. however, he isn't blind, he does recognize that you are an attractive human, and he would admit that you'd make a wonderful datemate! you're kind and compassionate, and you were very quick to befriend him, even if he sensed that he perhaps upset you once or twice (throwback to when he broke into your house!). and, not to mention, you shared his affinity for cooking, and you were quite skilled in the craft! he absolutely loved having you around to hang out with, but he did wish that you'd take better care of yourself. he didn't exactly have room to talk, but he wanted you to look out for yourself more and understand that you didn't have to be so selfless all the time. as of right now, papyrus saw you as a close friend and someone who he needed to keep happy, because he thought you were deserving of that happiness.

US! Sans

blue absolutely adored you. admittedly, he could be a bit selfish in terms of his wants, and he desperately wanted to spend time with you. what could he say? he thought you were cute, and you were nice to him! and he hadn't ever really been the subtle type, so he had absolutely no issue in making his intentions mildly clear. he thought he was sneaky with his tactics—trying to hang out with you alone, holding your hand. he truth was, he was totally transparent, but he didn't mind that aspect of him too much. he was super excited to have you stay in the house, you guys had so much to do now! he wanted to spend time with you playing games and puzzles! and he wanted to cook for you, and for you to cook for him! in summary, blue had a very innocent crush on you. it was like a playground crush. he didn't think about it too deeply other than the surface level of you were cute to him and you were kind. though, it still hurt his heart to hear all you had endured in the years before you met them all. he would do his best to play the protector role, just for you.

US! Stretch

stretch was...a bit indifferent? at this point in time, the two of you hadn't spend much quality time together, but he was willing to do so! he could recognize that you were a naturally kindhearted person, and it didn't take much for him to realize that you were, all-in-all, a good person. you humored his brother instead of brushing him off which he appreciated. and, it didn't really embarrass him to admit that he thought you were quite attractive. he remembered coming over to your house for the first time and eating your good cooking and thinking to himself that you'd make a good partner. and, when you showed up to the party in that cheaply put together costume, he thought you were just precious. he felt a bit bad for you, seeing the mental toll that your past put on you, but he also understood that something that deeply ingrained was something that you would have to work through on your own time. so, he was very open to being friends and perhaps more in the future? but overall, he wasn't too worried about it right now.

UF! Sans

oh, red just adored you. he thought you were hot the second he laid eyes on you, but the more he hung around you, the more his interest rose. you were able to so easily bring out the more sensitive, sentimental side of him. red found himself craving domesticity with you, which really embarrassed him to admit. but, at the same time, he wanted it so bad that it almost overpowered his desire to keep up his intimidating image. see, red had always had a part of him that wanted some normalcy. he wished that he had raised his lil bro a little better, he wanted a real family. and he saw that in you. the way you cooked with such love, the way you'd bring a mug of coffee up to your face and inhale, a relaxed smile making its way to your face. the way your garden was so carefully tended to, and the way that you'd check up on him, asking if he was okay or if he was hungry. ugh, it made him feel all fuzzy on the inside. if red had been the one to catch your ex in your house with you, he wouldn't want to hold back. red definitely had a dreamy crush on you, and, truth to be told, he wanted you for himself.

UF! Papyrus

edge thought you were...strange. he found your demeanors strange, truth to be told. why did you care how he was doing? why did you cook for him and ask how he was liking it? why did you memorize his coffee order and make sure to have it ready for him when you knew he would be stopping in your shop? he would quite literally never admit it, but he wanted to know more about you. still, it was kind of a love-hate relationship. you tended to tease him so lightheartedly. a part of him condemned your boldness, but another part of him was screaming how dare they?! did you know who he was? how feared he was? and here you were, sassing him?! unacceptable! but even he had to admit that he didn't wish to see you in such distress over a pathetic human, your ex-datemate. he was quick to command you to live in their home—it was only logical, really. and he wouldn't mind scaring some sense into the fellow. edge found you interesting, but as of right now the two of you were almost-friends. he was more interested in getting to know you than he would ever admit to, though.

HT! Sans

axe had layers. the years of famine and living in the situation down in his timeline made him a bit more violent than his vanilla counterpart, but it also made him more desperate. oh, how he had longed for things to go back to normal. when he was still in the underground with his papyrus, all he wanted was for things to be how they used to be. he wanted papyrus to have cooking lessons every week, he wanted to hear knock knock jokes through the ruin doors, he wanted to relax and go to grillby's. really, the situation that the world put him in was a blessing in disguise. sure, the others kind of bugged the shit out of him, especially that classic and fell sans, but he would take being annoyed with them any day over his own timeline. and then...you. he hadn't met someone like you in years. maybe the closest thing would've been the old queen...but she hadn't been her old self in years. he thought you needed to be protected, and when he saw you with your ex, his hand gripping bruises into your arm and tears running down your face, all he saw was red. axe was fascinated by you and, against his better judgment, axe held a very deep fondness for you. he wouldn't call it love, but it was a bit more than a crush.

HT! Papyrus

poplar wasn't too well acquainted with you, but he trusted you! his logic was that anyone who his brother talked about with such a smile that he personally hadn't seen in years was someone that was worth trusting. he was told about what happened to you and deeply pitied you. poplar wanted to become friends with you, no doubt! his first impression of you was that you were a warm and sympathetic person, and he was very eager to get to know you more. so far, he had only spoken a few sentences to you, but he wanted to arrange a hangout with you in the near future. perhaps you'd like to cook with him? perhaps you wouldn't mind cooking a vegan meal with him? he didn't know if you knew of their...less than ideal situation in the underground and what they had to do, but...you could understand, right? he was really putting all of hope into the wish that you would understand. poplar really really wanted to be friends with you, and he was looking forward to sitting down and having a proper chat with you!

[kurolini909]

What's your favorite headcanons of your favorite character from any fandom?

Oh my... See, I don't have a FAVORITE anywhere mostly ... In the UT fandom I have a small handfull, and the others come in pairs or trios always... For some reason. XD

I'll put some from UTMV under the cut for you, just remember:

⚠️Everything is merely my HEADcanon (nothing here was confirmed by their creators), and NONE of the characters belongs to me.⚠️

Credits to their respective creators.

°•Undertale MV•°

Geno (by @loverofpiggies) :

- Can be scarier than Reaper, don't push his buttons. Only the annoying God Of Death can do that and survive.

- Reeeally bad at socializing. Nothing regarding his behavior, he's quite likeable, but he hangs out with less-than-normal people so much he forgets eternal bleeding, glitching and eventual coughing up of blood MIGHT scare in-codes and mortals. (do you know how many times he got dragged into an ambulance or hospital by scared civilians whenever he manages to go somewhere???)

- Yes, he coughs up blood every now and then, mostly when reacting strongly to something. (Like All Might from My Hero Academia and Izumi Curtis from Fullmetal Alchemist.)

-> Should be used to that by now, but still does it whenever Reaper flirts with him in public.

- Somewhat way more mature and polite than Classic Sans for several reasons. Would be the 1 braincell of the squad if he could master the ability to care enough for their antics.

- Gave up trying to remove the blood stains a long time ago. Still refuses to wear anything other than white and red out of sheer stubborness.

- WaRfLaShBaCkS TrIgGeReD bY RaNdOm ThInGs ThrOuGhT tHe dAy. Yes, its perfectly normal to see him staring blankly into space, its just [relieving several resets and watching those he loved being brutally murdered in cold blood]. He'll be okay.*sighs* yes, it all started because he saw some spaguetti, stop judging.

--> If one of his kids, Reaper or anyone else close to him be unfortunate enough to be passing by, they better be ready to stay for a while, cause he might hug you protectively and NOT.LET.GO.

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Reaper (By: @renrink) :

- Very good at acting like a God. It's not even a facade, he does not demands adoration all the time,(not the famous type, Death is used to being feared silently.) but can switch from flirty laid back dork to eldritch deity in a heartbeat.

--> Trust me, you DO NOT want an angry God of Death. Even the other Gods, Guardians and major out-codes think twice when Reaper gets serious.

- Sort of a hipster whenever trying to casually walk among mortals... Likes unique and comfortable things, and for inefabble reasons, looks good in everything he wears.

- Kind of a sadist, yet... At the same time extremely touchstarved and - If he likes you - beyond over protective. More like he doesn't mind someone else's suffering as long as they're not acquaintances.

--> Seriously though, you're able to touch him and survive?? Definitely gonna be seeing more of this guy.

--> Desperate to show those who get to be close to him how grateful he is. Its sort of insecure since few people actually LIKE him (Death and all), so gets the drama, gestures and cheezy demonstrations of appreciation to different levels. You never know when you'll find a gift, get a hug...

- Bird. Will bring Geno shiny things he finds, has the suspicious habit of tossing in his sleep until the sheets are around him like a nest, and every half a century or so... He FREAKING MOLTS his wings.

--> Very proud of them, by the way. Will take any chance to summon and show off his over-sized raven-black wings like a freaking peacock. ESPECIALLY when posing as a true God or trying to intimidate someone.

-Runs on coffee 24/8. Sleep deprived to the point he's tired a lot of the time inspite his (surprisingly) energetic personality. Also his bones are always deadly cold.

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Error (by @loverofpiggies) :

- Forced God Of Destruction. I freaking adore this concept so its a headcanon.

--> Bound by F473.

- Might as well not even know what self care is. Can't die anyways, whats the problem with letting wounds treat poorly or flat out not eating for a decade???

--> Yeah, Can't die 'cause the balance needs him, has crazy regeneration abilities and (though might suffer effects) is practically immune to starvation, illnesses and such. Can't be out of game for more than like... 2 weeks tops before the Multiverse gets close to collapsing.

- I like to think Error is tired of everything most of the time. He's been here for a while you know? Just so done.

--> Can still act/play insane just fine, I like to think he does that just to make a name for himself. Like, he WAS insane at some point for many years, but eons later he just acts on it to keep up appearances.

- Friends with Blue ... At least he thinks so??? What even is that???

- Can literally do almost anything you can think of involving strings. Knitting, crochet, puppeteer, macrame... If you blink he might even know how to play the harp and nobody knew. (What can I say, you too would get bored spending long enough in the Anti-Void.)

- Probably can't cook to save his life. (Ink's likely the same).

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Dream (by @jokublog) :

- Tired. Just T I R E D. I don't think Dream (current Dream) is as energetic and child-like as his past self. I like to picture older Dream as a workaholic hard-working, kind, very dedicated, and EXTREMELY SLEEP DEPRIVED.

--> Has anyone seen him sleeping this century????? Should we just tie him to a bed??? You can't funcion on power-naps for the rest of the millenia, Dream!

- Very good at fighting and action. Would love to spar with you any day of the week when he gets a break.

- Flexible. Energy-beings overall are flexible as hell. Maybe cause they weren't born with a body they get more free reign over it??? I dunno, he just can bend in angles worthy of a professional contortionist.

- Probably has a sweet-tooth. Can definitely picture him casually glancing at a bakery whenever walking by. More specifically at the cakes, cookies and cream tarts.

--> Doesn't HAVE to eat, doesn't mean he doesnt enjoy it every now and then.

- Dog person. Imagine how cute it'd be if he was that sort of guy who asks to pet EVERY DOG he comes across in the street?? (Bonus if his phone is full of dog pics from dogs he met ONCE, and still refuses to delete them.)

--> Freaking Disney princess. I like to headcanon that Positivity Aura attracts wild animals, so yes... Its very likely that if he stands still long enough somewhere, he'll get surrounded by birds, butterflies, squirrels and deer.

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Nightmare (by @jokublog) :

- Can control his goop. (Like... If it'll stain something when he sits or not).

- Shape-Shifter. There's no bone anymore, perfectly capable of rearranging his structure to whatsoever.

--> But I still love the AUs in which Night still has his bones uderneath the goop inspite it being confirmed he doesnt, so what if like .... The goop was a pocket-dimension or something, and his body is there, just not quite. He can send it away when he feels he'll take damage and be back with it later. (You know how Obito Uchiha does in Naruto with his Kamui? THAT. You can google it later if you don't know but that's what I mean.)

- Yet another coffee-addict... Do all God-like beings have that??? What the hell men-

- Not all that bad. Don't get me wrong, still one of the most cruel and sadistic beings you'll ever find, but he isn't awful to the few he cares about like his gang. Is also capable of sympathy , just hides it really well.

--> Particularly hates those who practice bullying for personal reasons... Yo, if you do that... I'd be checking under the bed every night if I was in your place.~

- Never stopped being a book worm. I could bet with you right now he has a gigantic library somewhere in that castle of his.

- Can walk in dreams. Creates nightmares mostly, but is also able to prevent them. Just does so very rarely.

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Ahh I've always wanted to send a prompt. How about “Whoa. Easy, easy. I’ve got you.” with some sleep intimacy. Can I just say I love you and your writing.

~Notes: 😭😭 OH KY GOD SUGAR!!! You are so beyond adorable! I love you to pieces! And I do not deserve such kindness💜😘😘 So I at first read this as sleek Becs i am an idiot... so honestly this is 4700 words of pure smut😳😌😌 but uts early morning so it’s stilly sleepy intimacy kvdjhj Thank you for the prompt! But if smut isn’t your jam plz lmk and I’ll write you something else😣😣😘💜

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If asked to choose his favorite feature of Remus’s, Sirius reckons he’d have a difficult time with it, like to a ridiculous degree. It could easily be the dimple that shows up right on the apple of his cheek when he sports that glowing, reluctantly amused smile that only appears after Sirius or James have hexed a Slytherin prat right in front of him, and not even his Prefect sensibilities prove strong enough to scold them for it. Or maybe it’s the splatter of freckles that dance on the tops of his shoulders and the bridge of his nose right after summer hols, and he looks gloriously golden and it’s all Sirius can do not to kiss each one right in front of all the wizards congregated in nine and three quarters. Or maybe it’s simply the way he gnaws on his bottom lip whenever he’s thinking particularly hard on a subject— a habit usually reserved for potions lessons and when it’s a late night in the library and they’re both tucked away in a dark nook and Sirius has pushed Remus up against a bookshelf while stroking him in his trousers with intense precision. One corner of his mouth curled in challenge, dipping down to lick at that hollow on Remus’s long neck, tacitly reminding him that he best keep quiet lest Madam Pince has their heads on a couple of stakes she surely keeps beneath her desk for opportunities just like this.

Alright, if Sirius is being at all honest, it’s a frequently alternating list of all of Remus’s most splendid attributes, but at the moment, Sirius thinks there’s no question that in fact it’s Remus’s eyes that can ruin him with just a glance. His eyes that are a deep, vibrant green with flecks of amber that dance in their depths. Eyes that look like September, like the very start of their school term. Eyes that make Sirius think of the forest where Padfoot and Moony roam. Eyes that make Sirius think of fire lit common rooms and the taste of butterscotch on Remus’s lips, and such an overwhelming sensation of adoration that it could very well suffocate him if Sirius isn’t careful. It’s such a contrary color from the crisp and cool shades of emerald that accent the regality of 12 Grimmauld Place. Remus’s eyes are something warm and wonderful and where Sirius would gladly choose to get lost inside of for the next eon to come— Most especially if it’s a moment like this, with one of his hands knotted in Remus’s hair while the other one is busy thumbing small circles into his bare stomach. Where Remus is enthusiastically kissing Sirius back— fervent and famished and so fucking gorgeous— His arms loosely tangled around Sirius’s neck from where he’s lying beneath him, long legs bracketed on either side of Sirius’s narrow waist, and yeah, Sirius has always had three inches and two stone on Remus, but he often forgets that Remus’s lithe stature isn’t just for show— he’s got discrete strength beyond a normal wizard, and he chooses to fall under Sirius. Chooses Sirius who’s all hard edges and marble planes. He chooses Sirius simply on the merit that he’s him, and they’ve always been at least somewhat drawn to one another, even before either one of them really knew what it meant.

Sirius inwardly preens, presses more forcefully down against Remus and revels in the slight whimper Remus lets out just then, hands grappling Sirius’s broad shoulders just that bit tighter, keeping him close just that bit more desperately.

It’s remarkable.

The dormitory’s blessedly quiet this Saturday morning— James is off being a ponce on the quidditch field in preparations for their match against Slytherin in a couple weeks— the final one before they graduate and leave Hogwarts’ hallowed halls for the final time— And Peter had kindly buggered off after some not particularly well veiled threats waged by Sirius so he could get some alone time with his sodding boyfriend for Merlin’s sake. They have all morning to stay like this. Sirius can spend hours on end watching as the early light unspools in Remus’s hair— lacing into his curls and turning them a lovely tawny color— and he gets to revel in how Remus’s breath quickens every time Sirius bucks down and rubs their barely clad, already hard cocks against one another. And Sirius can whisper sweet nothings into Remus’s still sleep supple skin— sometimes filthy, and occasionally wicked, and always exultant— letting himself drown into the sounds that Remus moans out in turn, poetry if anyone were to ask him. And they don’t have to worry about nosey roommates or trying to keep quiet or staying inconspicuous from prying eyes that threaten to snatch this snapshot of bliss away from him.

If Sirius could stay in the slice of eternity for the rest of their days and beyond, he’d choose it every single time. And maybe that could be their future, their life after Hogwarts— far away from this looming war beginning to ravage their world as they know it, and divorced from the whispers of the Order that Dumbledore has created to fight against those barmy, blood crazed lunatics.

A future that’s normal and safe and glittering like the silvery film around their patronuses.

Remus would probably get a Muggle job, maybe in a University of some sort. Sirius always thought he’d make such a brilliant professor, make all the school kids mad with how he’s so brilliant and beautiful and compassionate. Sirius and James already know that they’ll both end up in the Ministry as Aurors, because of course that’s the job for a couple of dashing young lads such as themselves. He supposes by then Evans will have been convinced to stop the on again, off again nature of her relationship with dear Prongsie, but he knows that even if not she and Remus are as thick s thieves, she’ll never just let him get away from her friendship after graduation. So maybe she’ll come visit in their flat after her internship at St Mungo’s, and of course Pete is always terrified that if he doesn’t spend every waking minute with at least one of them that he’ll be forgotten, so he’d be there too. The five of them, bombastic and bright and babbling on a lazy weeknight with glasses of fire-whiskey and plates of take out and Remus perched securely into Sirius’s embrace, and everything being just as it should be. Something golden, something wonderful, something splendid.

But as he begins to nip at that point against Remus’s sharp collarbone that’s become his favorite through the duration of their nearly year and a half of dating, he wonders not for the first time if Remus has the same prospects— if he wants to spend countless mornings just like this and endless nights in a similar way, if he wants to pick up Sirius’s discarded socks and eat the dinners Sirius makes for them, if he wants to tumble so thoroughly with Sirius that they don’t even know where one begins and the other ends anymore. Sirius wonders if he wants any of that, or if Remus is planning to go back to Wales with his parents instead of taking up Sirius’s casually thrown around offers for him to stay in the London flat that Alphard had left Sirius along with the gold and the watch and all the expectations of doing better than the Black name has always meant.

And the possibility of that— the possibility of Remus not dreaming of the same forever as him— cuts Sirius to the quick, and he doesn’t let himself think about it, instead sits up on his forearms, so that he’s peering down at Remus now, and he cups the length of him over the cotton, squeezing to hear the melody of Remus’s gasp and grounds himself into the moment once more.

“You’re in a mood this morning,” Remus intones, more than a bit breathily while Sirius moves his hand to push beneath Remus’s pants from behind, cupping one of his cheeks for a good and proper squeeze.

“Mmm, careful, or else I’d think you don’t like this method of being woken up,” Sirius counters, feels himself preen at how Remus’s face dusts scarlet, though it doesn’t last long when Remus retaliates by tugging at his hair, beyond mulish looking at Sirius’s glee.

“You know, I do have to do some more research on that final paper for charms that Flitwick gave us,” he muses— the unrepentant tease.

“Are you sure of that,” Sirius asks, dipping back down to worry the skin of Remus’s earlobe between his teeth, while the pads of his fingers make a pedal soft trail to the cress of his arse, lighter than breath while he circles the small, tight entrance of him— just grazing around the hole with languid intent, occasionally dragging over the opening with a dry finger, never delving any deeper than that. And it gets it’s intended effect— namely, the balls of Remus’s heels pressing up against Sirius’s back, and him gasping out these guttural, maddening mewls as he tries to buck down, tries to finally get some penetration.

“Merlin, are you going to just tease me till those wankers get back, or will you finally fucking do something, Black.”

“I think I like keeping you on the edge, sweetheart.” Sirius retorts, punctuating the point with a small wiggle of the top of his pointer finger, the one now comfortably nestled inside of him.

“Absolute prat,” Remus fumes, though when he begins to try moving once more, Sirius stunts the action by lying his forearm against hiss lightly muscled stomach, pressing most of his weight there while he gives one final, goading push with his finger and drags his hand to instead rub against the expanse of Remus’s pale, thin thigh, wants to lap at the skin there but also doesn’t want Remus to win this little battle he’s waged— not yet at least.

“Well Maybe if you ask nicely?”

The twist of Remus’s features tells Sirius that he’s absolutely fuming, but also he won’t leave because he’s gagging for it just as much as him. “You’re the dog, if you don’t recall. Maybe I should make you beg to hump even my leg.”

“No need for such a wicked tongue, Moons,” Sirius sneers, hitches Remus’s legs higher on his waistline so that the head of his cock can graze at the concealed hole. “Just a please would suffice.”

Remus scoffs. “You’re mad.”

“I’m also very patient,” Sirius leers, begins thrusting only slightly, nudging at him and delighting in the flicker of emotions that flashes over Remus’s face— going from indignant to wanting to abashed and landing on a cool sort of resolve.

“Oi, if you’re all talk, I’m sure I can poke around in the library, see if Leon is still—“ The rest of Remus’s sentence is swallowed up by the frenzy of movement that clashes inharmoniously from one moment to the next. And suddenly Remus is lying flat on his front, with one of Sirius’s legs pressed unswervingly between his legs, an accioed bottle of lube in one of his hands while the other nearly tears Remus’s pants trying to drag them off.

“You’re such a little arse, Lupin.” He hisses, tossing the garnet to the side along with his own before he begins palming his prick with the Muggle lotion type substance Remus had brought along from after easter hols, when they had visited that brilliant little shop in Soho— and Sirius isn’t sure if he should be proud or simply smug at how it’s already emptied by half.

“You like how little my arse is, Black,” Remus retorts from where his head is now squeezed partially onto his pillow, punctuating the point with a small shake of his bum.

“Right, so that means I’d rather not think of the other plonkers who’ve seen it before I got my hands all over you,” Sirius snaps, not actually irritated— even if he hates the sight of Leon sodding Bennett more than anything else.

“It was just a joke,” Remus tells him, soft and sincere and away from that playful tone he was using from before.

“Yeah, you better have been,” Sirius says, but then dips down to kiss between Remus’s shoulder blades— to the left of where he’s got a hand spread across his back— just to assure him that he’s not actually upset.

“You’re brilliant you know. The best in every way, I hope you understand that,” Remus tells him, a bit quieter and a bit more reserved, in a voice that wavers only slightly with the nerves of the admission. “I’ve only ever been in love with you— And I know that it’s probably not the same, I know that you’ve had others and we’re only eighteen and—“

Sirius cuts him off with one single, quick smack against the width of his arse— an arse he can probably write a thousand sonnets and a million more odes about— and he returns to kneading at the muscle there. “Don’t be an idiot, Remus. You know I love you like mad, more than anything— you’re everything.”

“Oh. Oh, that’s good— Erm, I mean—“ Sirius can only see half of Remus’s face from this angle, and most of it is obscured by his curly fringe, but he can detect the pinkish flush feathering over his sharp cheekbone and the way he’s begun to gnaw on the end of his mouth, eyes half lit and hooded. And God, sometimes Sirius thinks that it’s the blind leading the blind with them as they dance along this precipice of the most precious thing either of them has ever held in their quivering grasps.

“Right convenient if you ask me,” Sirius says instead of something from the stream of soppy poetry he’s thinking about— the love sick lyrics dedicated to Remus and Remus alone. He doesn’t want to potentially fracture this single understanding that they’ve finally revealed to one another. Rather, Sirius scrapes another chunk of the slick, Muggle substance into his hand and cloaks himself completely before taking a bit of it against Remus’s arsehole, his insides melting like molasses once he feels the warmth of Remus cloaking him, the way Remus’s entrance is practically fluttering, practically trying to swallow Sirius whole.

“Oh, yeah— Just a bit more.”

“Shh, let me take care of you, Moony,” Sirius reproves with absolutely no heat, instead sounding more than a little horse as he adds another digit and watches as Remus expands beneath his touch, watches his long fingers being devoured by him— the bronze tan Sirius always sports during the warmer months melding into the pale patches of Remus that rarely sees sunlight— watches their jagged edges piecing together like a sacred tomb, and Sirius knows right then and there that he’d want to be lost in every facet of Remus for every eon to come, even when they’re nothing but cinders and ashes and wisps of starlight. He’d want this, he’d crave this. He’d always need this, need Remus in any way he’d take him.

“Oh— Sirius, please, right there.” Remus suddenly squawks, jolting forwards and grappling for either end of his fourposter’s wooden bars. “Pl— Please.”

Always beyond eager to watch his lover come undone, Sirius adds one final finger before crooking them inside of Remus, skimming the little nest of nerves found there, and repeating the action twice more before he hears Remus’s choked off demand, “Bloody hell, Sirius! Will you just give me what I want!”

“I thought you’d never ask, sweetheart.” Sirius absolutely beams, gingerly pulling out from his gaping and empty entrance so to lather himself one final time, kisses the freckle behind Remus’s left ear as he snakes a hand beneath his stomach to raise him up slightly. “Can you stay like this, baby.”

His arms still slightly shaking from when Sirius had been teasing his prostate, Remus nods resolutely, shuffling around so that he’s resting his chin on his forearms, and his back is arched so beautifully with his pert arse stretched back in an inviting fashion. “You just worry about making this last hour worth my time.”

Sirius sniffs, pats Remus’s behind with a tad bit more intensity than strictly needed. “You and that lip is gonna get the best of you one of these days, Moony.”

“Mmm, I’ll believe it when you actually begin proving as much,” Remus barbs, and God Sirius loves him so fucking much— feels his chest absolutely contract with the ferocity of it.

“Right, well, you just sit there, looking pretty. All right?” Sirius intones, cards a hand through Remus’s hair and tugs just slightly before letting go completely to adjust his position from behind him— both hands on either end of Remus’s waistline and his dick poking at his hole— and God the throbbing is becoming painful with how badly Sirius just wants to plunge inside, to fuck and pound and thrust into Remus until he hears his boyfriend— his partner— absolutely sing with pleasure. “You are beautiful, Remus, you know that, right? Know that I think you’re the most bloody gorgeous creature I’ve ever seen, that the scars just show how otherworldly you are?” Sirius emphasizes that final point by thumbing across the one skirting across the the side of his neck, stretching from the bottom of his ear and ending at the point of his collarbone. It’s the most prominent one, the only scar besides a scratch on his pinky that can’t be covered up by a trusty jumper or pair of corduroys. The one Remus is most sensitive about, and the one he probably hates nearly as much as the bite marring his inner thigh.

“Sirius, please. Just not now,” Remus implores, sounding like a blown out candle all of a sudden, and Sirius can’t have that. Doesn’t want him to feel anything close to shitty while they’re doing this, while he has him this way. So with an obedience he only has if Remus asks him for as much in his more cautious of cadences, Sirius clenches his jaw, and keeps the adoring words stuck to his teeth, and he distracts himself by finally moving forwards, and it’s like a blink of the eye wen suddenly everything around him goes hazy, feeling like a disillusionment charm has been cast with how everything feels intangible, floaty, feels unsubstantial in comparison to the hot, tight pressure of Remus wrapped around him, made all the more etherial by the sounds of Remus’s melodic moans and gorgeous gasps and the way he moves in tandem with Sirius, how he cants back to meet the electrical current of Sirius fucking into him.

And he isn’t sure who says what in the gargle of words being spilt between them, is pretty sure he’s saying something about how beautiful Remus always is for him and then Remus replying with something about Sirius giving more to him, giving him something harder, deeper, quicker, and then, somehow, Sirius has got both of remus’s wrists in his hand and he’s pressing them against the small of Remus’s back, and he’s slowing down, suddenly wants this to last so much longer, wants to keep Remus this pliant and open and uninhibited for him for just that bit more.

“Merlin, I love you,” he says, focussing on the sweat collecting into the divot of Remus’s pinched shoulder blades and leans down to lick over the spot. “So fucking much.”

“Me too, Sirius! Sirius, I love you too! Please don’t stop, please.” Remus begs, canting back and twitching his fingers, obviously needing some sort of friction, though Sirius doesn’t think he’ll give it to him quite yet.

“What if I do though?” He asks, affecting an innocent tone while he slowly pulls out of Remus, pushing inside with shallow thrusts now, giving him hardly more than his tip. “What if I keep you like this, wait to see how long it takes you to come off of this alone, untouched. Just by my cock teasing you like this?” Remus makes another, strangled sort of noise deep in his throat, and he shutters in a way that convinces Sirius he’s not completely opposed to the offer. “You’d like that, yeah? You’d like me holding you down like this and watching you absolutely go feral? Go unraveled beneath me? Hell, I bet you wouldn’t even mind if I kept you like this for the rest of the morning. If I fucked you stupid and didn’t let you come even then. Just plug you up with that naughty toy we got from that Muggle shop when you visited me over Easter in London. Trap my spunk inside and just keep you nice and open until I decide to give it to you once again— drag you to a bathroom stall or an empty cupboard and fuck you senseless. Bloody hell, Remus, you probably wouldn’t even last a minute, hmm?”

Remus stays quiet, doesn’t unclench that taught muscle in his jaw, but his pupils are blown and he’s completely flushed, and Sirius is so thankful he can read the smallest nuances of him, loves knowing how absolutely wrecked just the idea of that has gotten his beautiful Moony, the side of him that no one else could ever see. The side of him hidden by his aloof exterior and measured words when around others. No one else gets to see this hauntingly beautiful, desperate little thing he becomes under Sirius’s hand, how he’s strung to vivid colors by Sirius mumbling such wicked contemplations into the expanse of his warm, golden skin.

“Are you going to answer, love,” he asks, with a lecherous sort of grin, pounding into him with a lack of delicateness from before, only twice, only enough to get Remus writhing again. “Do you not want that?”

Remus squeaks as the top of his head grazes against the headboard from the impact, and he has to squeeze his eyes shut while his thin lips fall open. “I reckon— Erm, I reckon that would be all right. Just to try.”

“My lovely academic, has to give everything a go,” Sirius crows, returns to thrusting measuredly in and out of him, kisses the nape of his neck with soft reverence. “But you know, we wouldn’t have to sneak around like that in only a couple weeks. We’ll be graduated,” he twists his hips slightly and presses down a bit more viciously than the slow paces probably would’ve entailed, and Remus quite literally groans at the feeling of it. “I’ll have that bloody huge flat, and you could be there too. We could spend every morning like this, Moony my love. We could christen every sodding room on the first day alone, and then I’d make you some of that veggie curry you like and you can sit there with an ice pack on your bum after I’m done with you.”

“Oh— Hah, you think you’ve got that sort of stamina,” is all Remus manages out in response, his features going tight with hunger when Sirius retorts with a staccato of uneven thrusts inside of him, stopping only when he feels the release willing up his own body, doesn’t think he’s ready to end this conversation quite yet.

“With you in one of my T-shirts and nothing else?” Sirius asks, watches the way Remus’s toes quite literally curl when he slides inside his used hole once more, shaking Remus slightly with how he moves and thrusts and squeezes his wrists hard enough to bruise. “I bet I could get it up an infinite amount of times! THere will be studies invoked for the phenomena of my cock, Moony. Potions inspired that’d never work, because they could never get it right when I tell them it’s the sight of you waiting for me looking wide eyed and teasing— waiting to be debauched— that’s got me so erect. I’ll be a household name, you watch.”

“You— Oh, oh. Yes like that please Sirius just a little more— Hah, you’re a madman.”

Sirius leers, does as told and grabs forcefully against Remus’s biceps and pounds him flat on the mattress, fucking into him and thrills with all the different noises he’s dragging out of Remus, the way he can’t even form words amidst his groan. “Then you best stay with me, who knows what a madman could do all on his lonesome.”

Just because he’s always been a bit sadistic, Sirius stops his graceless rutting, lies nearly entirely against Remus instead, tugging on the back of his curls so that he’s got a better view of Remus’s gaze. “Wha— Oh, yes, fuck yes you plonker. Of course I want to move in with you, just wanted you to ask properly instead of beating round the bloody bush!”

Sirius feels his brows hike up, absolutely gleeful. “You wanton little slag, you just wanted me to use my manners, eh?”

Remus huffs, looking beyond grouchy. “Yes, yes, and obviously, like the contrary bastard you are, you decide to actually do as much when I’d rather you be beating inside of me., but thus is my fate being stuck in love with such a wanker.”

Sirius can’t help but cackle at the incredibly cross expression Remus has got painted over his features, and he pecks a path down his temple and down to the dip of his shoulder muscles in apology. “You know I’m not one for subtleties, Moony.”

“Humph, well how’s this for subtle. Will you just ruddy fuck me and keep this discussion on the back burner for afterwards?”

Always eager to please his boyfriend, Sirius gently presses him back down on the sheets and rises only enough so to continue the easy rhythm between them, only increased by one of his hands circling Remus’s blazingly scarlet cock, pushing him through the loop of his fingers every time Sirius rocks harshly into him, going speedier and speedier with every choked out plea coming from Remus.

“What about this for a wanker?” He asks snidely, snapping forwards especially roughly, and twisting remus’s prick only slightly in turn, knows how much he enjoys the contrast of that.

“Yes— Yes, yes, yes Sirius! Just keep going, please, love, please. God, I love you. Holy fuck.” 

And it’s not another thrust inside before Remus is spilling into Sirius’s palm and the contracted muscle pumps the orgasm out of Sirius himself.

“Fuck, you’re amazing,” Sirius groans in a voice that’s nearly completely faded, and totally pious, careful to move outside Remus’s overly sensitive hole, and still panting while he absentmindedly grabs for a spare vest. He mutters a labored aguamenti before he brings it to Remus’s behind and begins to dab gently at the skin there, smattered with lube and Sirius’s come and a good amount of wetness from his sweat.

“Oh,” Remus shakes, sucking in a breath and tensing at the sensation of the intrusion.

“Whoa. Easy, easy. I’ve got you,” Sirius assures him gingerly, tossing it to the corner when he’s finished, and can’t help but kiss the small dimples found right against the skin that cups over his arse.

“The, mmm. The house elves, Sirius. They don’t deserve that to deal with.”

Sirius only barely manages to hold back the roll of his eyes at Remus’s tendency not to understand how much those buggers enjoy any and all cleaning. Merlin, leave it too Moony to feel bad about something that someone wants to do for him. “I’ll grab it later, promise. Bin it o whatever.”

Remus only replies with a soft sound of consent, letting himself be gathered into Sirius’s arms properly, his head cradled against Sirius’s chest and Sirius’s arms wrapped around him while he kisses the crown of his tawny curls.

“You want a kip then?” Sirius asks amusedly, feeling his own eyelids beginning to droop.

“Hmm, yeah. That’d be nice. Then we can talk about that hideously orange breakfast table you’ve got in the flat. I bloody well won’t be living in any proximity of that monstrosity, Padfoot.”

Sirius can’t help the laughter that spills out, and he agrees to the conversation but demands that Remus call Winifred by name, lest she gets her feelings hurt.

“Madman,” Remus reiterates, completely fond as he dozes off, and when Sirius feels the breaths falling out of Remus’s lips even out, he thinks that them nestled into one another like this might be the only salvation he ever wants to know, the only sensation he could ever crave— The only sunlit snapshot he ever needs for the rest of his days.

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Heya Sweets! How ya doin? Just wanted to say I'm learning Russian now, so here's a proper introduction from me- feel free to google translate (although it comes up with a hilariously wrong translation, if you want a better one later just say so and I'll tell you what the direct translation /should/ be)

я канал запястья анон, и я использовать они/их

Anyways what about Edge, Dusk, Comic (right??) and Cinnamon with an s/o who's just started learning Russian and is constantly trying to talk to them in Russian to get in proper practice? Like they're a bit slow cause they're trying to get the pronounciation down, but they're getting there! They also suck at rolling their r's- (P is r, and in Russian it seems it's always rolled a little bit)

They get really excited when they get something down and go to them to say it right away- also somewhat tries to teach them the alphabet if they'll let them

(and just because I'm happy I know it, Russia in Russian is Росся (rr-uss-ya)

Anyways is this stupid/out of your comfort zone? Lmao I'm just really happy that I actually know the alphabet somewhat well now, and can even introduce myself properly from memory!

~ Sincerely, a now going to be bilingual Carpal Tunnel Anon ~

I think you meant Cosmic (OT Sans)? I’m guessing that because it’s only one letter off, so it might have been a misspelling!! (Or you may have meant UT Sans/Vanilla, I’ve seen others call him that :’-0)

Anyways the translation from google translate was “i am anon wrist channel and i use they / them” and I- jksdjbsdjbhsd anon wrist channel-

UT + UF PAPYRUS + HT + OT SANS WHEN S/O IS LEARNING TO SPEAK RUSSIAN

Cinnamon (Undertale Papyrus)

Just as excited as you are! He’ll try to learn Russian with you :-D

He’s very supportive and encouraging! You can train together now!

He can’t roll the R’s at all though :-( How very sad

Will gladly let you teach him the alphabet and/or a few or all words you know! He’s a pretty fast learner, too ^^

Overall 10/10, would recommend learning Russian with Cinnamon he’s great

Edge (Underfell Papyrus)

Actually already knows some Russian! He’s not going to excitedly tell you “omg I know some Russian let’s learn the entire language together” but he will kind of imply something like that.

“OH, RUSSIAN? I KNOW SOME SENTENCES AND WORDS. IT’S NOT TOO HARD, SO I SUPPOSE WE COULD TRY TO LEARN SOME MORE.”

“We”, Edge? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

You’re both learning Russian now. You could point out how he doesn’t have to learn it: he’ll take it as a challenge to get better than you. Be prepared to be out-Russian’d, human.

(He doesn’t manage to out-Russian you, the language confuses him and he just doesn’t understand it when somebody else explains it lmao)

You’re gonna have to teach him regardless. You’re the best teacher he could have ever asked for. He probably won’t understand at all if somebody else tries to teach him the language no matter how specific they get and how well they explain it, but you can just say that “[Word] means [whatever it means]” and he’d instantly get it lololol

You both will have identical accents when speaking Russian, it’s inevitable

Dusk (Horrortale Sans):

Won’t ever learn more than maybe one or two words or letters, but he’s super encouraging to you! You can do it, you’re awesome :-)

Will happily listen to you practicing and will just as happily allow you to demonstrate what you’ve learned. Your voice is really nice and he loves to hear it, even when he doesn’t understand what you’re saying

You can try to teach him, and he’ll try his best to learn, but don’t count on him remembering anything. Dusk can’t really learn any new languages at this point (being an adult and having memory issues aren’t a good combo if you want to learn languages).

But, like I said, he’s still very supportive and willing to try to help!

Feel free to speak in Russian to him whenever. He won’t get it, but he’ll still listen

Cosmic (Outertale Sans):

Cosmic is great at learning languages! He already knows three (English, French and Spanish) and is happy to learn more.

Picks up on the language fast (honestly, way faster than you) but will try to stay at your level. It’s no fun if it’s only he who knows Russian - it’s way more interesting to learn together!

He’ll hold conversations with you in Russian. English will be sprinkled in because neither of you know the entire language by heart yet, but it’s still fun!

You'll both learn the language in no time >;-)c

[lunawings]

Joji’s Birthday PriZoom (9/15/21)

Translation of the bonus content is in a seperate post again.

So yeah I never actually fell asleep after the showing haha. Was just lying in bed playing Love Live when I thought well... I got a good 4-5 hours of sleep in before the showing (better than literally nothing like last time)... If I’m gonna be awake I might as well start this while my emotions are raw so I rolled out of bed and wrote most of the below rambly mess.

And then I went to work. Which was kind of surreal. Because for a few hours my brain really was back in Japan again. There was something just a little magic about this showing I think. A lot of things came together (starting with how talkative people actually were during Pride the Hero! Ahh!) etc. 

B... ut.....

I guess I’ll get this out of the way first. I was super heartbroken at the low turnout for this one. Only 65-85 people in the cheering room... But it was a weekday, sooo... I’m just going to hope that a lot of people bought the archive tickets to check it out later.... Yes... I have decided that is the case.............

The people who did, however, missed out on the cheering room and thus missed out the latest incident to enter my personal list of all-time favorite moments in this fandom. After Joji’s episode in SSS Part 2 we had some “technical difficulties”... (I put that in quotes because I somewhat doubt it was technical difficulties. I mean, the stream cut out cleanly RIGHT at the end of Joji’s episode. So I wonder if maybe someone just forgot about Minato’s episode and shut it off early hahaha...) and while we were waiting for them to restart the movie there was a long period of silence and a black screen. But us in the cheering room could all still hear each other. .....And someone started singing Brilliant Oath.

It was PERFECT. These are the moments I live for! This is why I’ve been to like over 100 cheering shows and I still KEEP GOING! I love this fandom! It may not have made the archive since the cheering wasn’t recorded for that but it will live on in our hearts.

Anyway...

I guess one bonus to having less people this time was that I actually managed to keep on the soundboard hell... the ENTIRE... TIME!! Although at a low volume. And honestly... I more or less completely stopped hearing it at one point I think haha. So... that kinda defeats the purpose I suppose. Actually no, even if it was just static background noise it was still nice to have on in SSS, which would have been pretty quiet without it. And it was worth it just for the one person who was like SHISHOOOO during one scene in Pride the Hero when Jin was going crazy hahaha (AH! When was it? I don’t remember now...). I also tuned in for a bit in episode 6 and loved when Minato’s sister says her age incorrectly everyone was like EIIIGHT (...that’s not correct either hahah....)

Since I knew this was going to be archived I tried bring my cheering A game to Pride the Hero with moderate success. Kinda mad at myself for missing stupid small things probably no one would care/look for I mean my camera is shit anyway (BUT I--). I’m just lucky it wasn’t way worse because Pride the Hero I can mostly run on autopilot. Out of all King of Prism media, it’s probably the one I’ve cheered the most (I mean it was all we had in theaters for literally like two years), and it was fresh in my mind from Minato’s showing too. So even with how exhausted I was, I made it through! (Then proceeded to take micro power naps on the floor during episodes 4 and 6.......) I also kinda wish I’d changed my background earlier. The show started before I got around to changing it and I was like I’ll change it during a break (........Pride the Hero has no breaks........) haha but yeah. I had Okayama station up from the Prism King Cup onward and the Momotaro mailbox up during SSS. The real background MVP though is the person who appeared to have up the bench in rural Okayama where Joji made his promise to Miyo!? I mean it looked kinda different because it wasn’t on a bridge but that HAD to be it, right!? (!!!??)

Also cosplay at this showing was amazing! We had like 3-4 Miyos, 2 Aces, KOKORO!? (and Taiga. Because who are we kidding there’s always a Taiga)

Also shoutout to the girl who cosplayed as... the PIECE OF CLOTH Joji sewed for Miyo!? (I think she was at both showings but I didn’t fully realize what she was supposed to be until the Playback Allstars at the very end hahah...) 

And shoutout to the Ace cosplayer “singing” during all of Joji’s performances haha!!

And the person spinning in an office chair whenever any character was twirling around...

But BIGGEST shoutout to our own @takadanobaba who was somehow THE ONLY Joji cosplayer in the cheering room!? (The only overall for the first show, but another joined in the text-only room for the second show.)

I was SO HAPPY when Tatsuyuki Kobayashi noticed you!! RIGHT!?!? He was like “Oh and there’s someone dressed as Joji!” and you were the only one!!! He didn’t even say anything about the people dressed as Ace!!?! Haha! I wasn’t trying to do anything to get his attention (I wouldn’t know what to do anyway, and besides he’s not the kind of person who works the crowd like Masashi Igarashi does so I wasn’t expecting much) so having him notice you was a huge surprise and honestly just about as good!! AHHH!!! 

But the concept of this showing was a little awkward ‘cause it’s like, as a fan, do you appeal for Joji or Ace? Tatsuyuki Kobayashi was maybe a little conflicted about how to act too. First he said he was coming as himself, but then he backpedaled and slipped into Ace being tsun when pulling the birthday crackers for Joji heheh. 

But yeah, we’ve got to give him a break, he’s just so happy to have his own character finally. I’m happy about how happy he is to be Ace! But like honestly... Not like I’m necessarily complaining but... This showing ended up being almost exactly the same as the Ace one pfffthahah!!! I mean he mostly just talked about being Ace and went over a lot of the same things. Like being the surprise guest at the MRS concert, etc. I think he may have said this before too, but when he originally recorded Love Mix, Ace didn’t exist yet so he didn’t really know who he was supposed to be singing as and just tried to sound like a sparkly idol. And I’ve always felt that! Like I think his voice changed or evolved between Love Mix and Joker Kiss into being less generic idol/Joji and a lot more Ace. 

OH!! I don’t think he said this at the other one (but for some reason it sounds vaguely familiar?). He was talking about how he knew of King of Prism and actually went to shows before he was cast in Pride the Hero. And after he was going to a Pride the Hero show and Sugita (Joji’s actual voice actor) was on the escalator behind him. HAHAH. 

I LOVE stories like this because... okay like, when you go to a theatrical cheering show there is always this introduction video where they talk about cheering manners. And they warn you not to say anything mean because “you never know, a star might be sitting next to you.” And to know THAT’S ACTUALLY TRUE SOMETIMES.... JFLSJDLJG. I mean, I’ve only seen King of Prism in Tokyo a handful of times so it’s probably never happened to me. Actually I guess... technically... this show and the last one DO count because Masashi Igarashi and Tatsuyuki Kobayashi were watching with us before and/or after their segments and probably listening in!!! (Still, I guess the point is it’s nice to know the voice actors actually do go in their private time, too.)

Oh, one more shoutout I forgot about to the person I think had a big red car with Joji and... a bunch of Jin mochikoros in the back!!? They rolled it by the screen so fast why hahah.  

And it was great to see Joji’s 2019 birthday video again and confirm it wasn’t a fever dream. Hopefully I can grab that from @takadanobaba when the archive goes up in a couple days (it will be a quick and easy translation!).

Okay that’s it.....

DO THE PRIZOOMS

Or at least buy the archive tickets and watch later

(but they are expensive and it’s not the same)

[linkspooky]

Right now, people are speculating if tomura has lost his humanity which includes his attachment to the league now that he was awakened with his new quirk as a ‘transcendent being’. I wonder how he will interact with his team when he returns? Will he question how the heroes managed to get the jump on them? How will he react to twice’s death? To Dabi letting in a hero spy into their lair and causing this raid and twice’s death? Is the tomura we have seen grow disappeared or is he still the same?

SHIGARAKI TOMURA - A VERY HUMAN VILLAIN

People may question if Shigaraki Tomura has lost his humanity since acquiring AFO’s power, however I would like to point out that it’s a running theme in the manga for characters to frequently question the humanity of Shigaraki and see him as something less than human, or a force that only exists for evil and destruction. 

However, despite the fact that the heroes and Shigaraki’s enemies insist that Shigaraki has lost his humanity, the story shows the opposite. As much as Shigaraki has changed over the course of the story, he has also stayed the same. 

Shigaraki started out as a kid who wanted to be a hero who saved others, and specifically a kid who would go out of his way to play with the bullied kids. Everyone knows this by now, I would say however growing up in that household shaped Shigaraki to have core values that don’t really change no matter how much he changes as a person. 

Number one, the most important thing to Shigaraki is freedom. In a childish way he sees it as the freedom to do whatever he wants, because that is how All For One influenced him. 

All for One specifically told Shigaraki that being born with the power to destroy means that he should use it without restraint, and never try to hold himself back because in doing so he’ll only hurt himself. AFO tried to influence him to be an unstable manchild because that would make him more dangerous and fearsome to the general public.

However, Shigaraki’s destruction is always a response. He always destroys for a reason no matter how much he insists his destruction is completely random. One of the key themes of My Hero Academia is that in times of crisis you will remember your origin. Shigaraki’s origin is a household that oppressed him to the extent that he wasn’t allowed to become a hero. All he wanted was someone in that household to agree with him rather than deny him. He wanted people to stop telling him he was wrong. 

Shigaraki values freedom, specifically freedom from oppression. Oppression that specifically denies the needs of an individual just because they disrupt society. For example, the opppression that had Himiko’s parents turn abusive on her calling her a demon child because she was born with a strange quirk. 

In that way Shigaraki fights for a kind of true liberation, different from what the liberation force fights for. The Meta Liberation Army while wanting to overturn society also repeated several of society’s oppressive attitude, juding people’s worth based entirely on the strength of their quirk whereas Shigaraki is willing to accept people like Compress, and Spinner who do not have super powerful combat efficient quirks and value them just as much as all the other members from his team. 

Shigaraki also knows the feelings of someone who has not been saved. He’s reflected on this several times, even as early back as his conversation with Deku. He knows that the way the current society functions, it ignores the plights of victims like him that are either too inconvenient to save. 

It’s what Shigaraki says to Deku word for word: “I could hurt you right now and not a single person would come save you. They’ll all walk by and pretend it’s none of their business, because they all think a hero is going to come save them.”

Shigaraki is willing to give people like Twice a chance, even though he was insane and his quirk no longer worked as well as it once did. Not only that, but when people make mistakes Shigaraki never throws them away. Giran is captured and ratted them out, and Shigaraki went to go save them. Twice makes a mistake and because of that Magne is killed, but rather than get angry at Twice, Shigaraki simply asks Twice to do his best to make up for his mistake, and that he’ll be doing his best alongside him. 

Shigaraki understands the feelings of: “If only somebody had saved me” better than anyone else in the manga. This is something that even the kids don’t question. The kids in their complete and unwavering faith in the hero system can’t even respond to questions like “Who should you really be saving?” 

Shigaraki also goes out of his way to save people even after they’ve made mistakes, or betrayed the league. Giran ratted on them and got nearly every member killed, and yet not only did Shigaraki walk right into a trap to save him, he also took special care to make sure he was alive, and rescued safely when he was in the middle of getting pounded. 

The final is also somewhat of a paradox. Shigaraki has been manipulated to think that he hated his family, and  wanted to kill everyone. 

However, all of Shigaraki’s actions show the opposite. Not only does Shigaraki feel guilt for killing his family several years after the fact. Not only did he intentionally hold back his quirk at first because he was afraid of killing again. The words of his family stayed with him. Shigaraki only ever remembers his family in a mostly positive light. 

In his heart, Shigaraki holds himself accountable for what he did to his family even though it was an accident. At the same time, it’s revealed to us in his dream sequence that he already forgives his family for what transpired today, he remembers his grandparents being kind to him, he doesn’t resent his mom for just watching what his family did to him and even reassures her, he tells his sister he doesn’t care that she tattled on him anymore. 

His family is someone he can never forget in both senses of the word. He doesn’t forget the times his family household was kind to him, the genuine love his mother, grandparents, and sister all showed to him, and he hasn’t really stopped mourning them ever for a single moment. He even still keeps Nana’s hand, the last hand that wasn’t broken and wears it after his so called “liberation” from his past memories of them. Yet, at the same time he doesn’t allow his family to deny who he is. 

Shigaraki is someone who has been influenced by people all of ihs life, his abusive father, AFO, and then all of AFO’s constituents and the other villains he’s fought against so far. However, at the same time Shigaraki has remained the same kid throughout all of this. Always Shimura Tenko. Always the kid who wanted to play with the kids who got bullied. Always the kid resentful he didn’t get saved. 

2. Shigaraki is better than what created him

Eri is referred to as a cursed inhuman existence born only to destroy, simply because of the quirk she was born with, completely neglecting who Eri is as a person. Deku however says that just by slightly changing your perspective, you can see how kind and gentle Eri is. 

Shigaraki is a character much like this. The people around him, mostly heroes always insist that he’s inhuman and again and again that he can only want destruction because of his quirk. Yet, the people closest to Shigaraki know how kind, and gentle he can be. 

So we have characters like All Might, Mr. Completely Ignores Endeavor’s abuse of his own family, constantly saying that someone like Shigaraki can’t possibly have a cause for all of his destruction. Ignoring what Shigaraki says when he tells them that heroes can be violent too just like villains, their violence is just categorized differently. 

Shigaraki is continually told he has no reason for wanting to destroy things, that there could be no possible motivation behind his actions. This is something that even AFO himself said, that Shigaraki simply lusted for destruction because he was born that way.

Characters insist again, that Shigaraki isn’t capable of creating anything, or achieving anything because he can only destroy. This is an identity that’s forced on him by his environment ut it’s not who he is at the center of his being. Even when he’s getting the tar beaten out of him by Re-Destro what he thinks is not that he wants to destroy, but rather that he wanted his family to tell him it was okay for him to be a hero.

So we reach the most recent chapter with someone once again asserting that Shigaraki cannot possibly want anything other than to hurt the people around him, and destroy what he can.

Even ENDEAVOR (lol) of all people accuses Shigaraki of not fighting for the right ideals. Yet, Shigaraki has always shown to be fighting for something. 

People insist that Shigaraki was just born that way, that he just wants to destroy. Yet, there are very specific environmental factors that shaped him into who he is. Shigaraki who apparently has no reasons for doing the things he does, has the longest backstory in the series (four origin chapters in total if you count Shigaraki Tomura: Distortion). Shigaraki’s line against Endeavor also implies that Shigaraki has been fighting for the same thing from the start. That he’s always had a cause, something to fight for (or maybe even just fight against) and that he simply believed what other people constantly told him. 

So, no clearly the All For One quirk being given to Shigaraki has not changed who he is as a person at all. Shigaraki’s thoughts always rest with his friends and his family.  Shigaraki’s first literal action upon waking up is to call Machia to his side, and protect the league. Shigaraki’s actions also saved Himiko, because if Machia had not picked her up she likely would have gone on a suicide mission. 

So, there is one last point I want to make: The reason the plan is going so wrong right now is precisely because Shigaraki is someone who chooses again and again to put his trust in others. First, it went wrong because not only did he allow Dabi free reign to invite whoever he wanted to the league, but he also trusted Twice with his location. 

Shigaraki won’t throw Dabi out of the league for saying that he’s only here to use the league for his own benefit, because Shigaraki has always known this about Dabi and lets him work with the league anyway. Shigaraki is someone who puts his allies before themselves and gives them the freedom to be who they want to be. 

Shigaraki has said mutliple times the league can do whatever they want. He’s not really selfishly minded or motivated like AFO is. If anything, Shigaraki is much more likely to sacrifice himself, or put the group’s needs first. The Shigaraki that we’ve seen right now is the same progression of the Shigaraki we’ve always known: he fights on the front lines to draw the heroes away from his friends, he fights himself instead of needlessly risking his own allies, he needs his allies by his side. 

The raid happened because of Shigaraki’s trusting nature twice. Not only because he allowed Dabi to invite Hawks to the league, but also Kurogiri’s capture and betrayal someone Shigaraki was genuinely close to and listened to for counsel led to his location at the hospital being ratted out to both Eraserhead and Mic. So it’s not Shigaraki not trusting others that led to the Hospital Raid, but rather it’s because Shigaraki chose to trust others that this is all happening.

YET, when this happened last time with Overhaul Shigaraki didn’t stop trusting others. He didn’t throw Twice out. His choice back then was to take responsibility and trust Twice even more to fix the mistake he made. Which will likely be his response again. 

Shigaraki also fights against anyone who tries to control or oppress him the same way his father did once. When AFO tries to physically control his own body, he frees himself of the vestiges.

Shigaraki won’t lose his trust in other people, and won’t lose his close relationship with the league, because Shigaraki has already sustained this kind of loss before. Over and over again. He loses most of the Nomus, he loses Magne, he loses AFO. Yet, at those times when he loses these things Shigaraki’s response is always the same. 

Shigaraki is struggling to be better that the environment that created him. Shigaraki’s arc is not one of him losing his humanity, but rather Shigaraki keeping his humanity in the face of constant losses. 

His environment is really truly something that should have robbed him of his humanity. There are people like AFO who are out there to make him into a puppet, to rob him of all agency, and identity. Yet, Shigaraki always fights back against those trying to control him and tell him no.

Shigaraki won’t turn on the league, because his connections with the league are what make him human. It’s his connections with others he makes over and over again in the face of his extremely oppressive environment, first with Kurogiri, then with the league that allows him to stay the same at the core of who he is. 

While Shigaraki is constantly dehumanized by both the hero system and the villains he fights against, he’s actually one of the most human characters in the whole series. Not only is he very sympathetic and understandable where exactly he is coming from, but he’s also always, always, always, always, struggling against a set of very human flaws.