#and stylization.....ughhhh

[skunkes]

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[skyler10fic]

Love at First Snowfall

By Skyler10

Summary:

Daisy's grumbling about having to share a snowy family vacation with another family in their cabin ends suddenly when she meets their gorgeous daughter. Love at first sight might not be real, but this is making a believer out of Daisy. Luckily for her, Carol is a confident woman who goes after what she wants. And what she wants is Daisy. Like the snow outside, these girls are falling hard and fast.

Based on this image prompt from @ficwip

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Daisy pulled her parka tighter as she trudged through the snow behind her parents. She was 25 but felt like a teenager, grumbling that snow was stupid and family vacations were stupid and blizzards blocking the driveway up to their cabin were especially stupid. It was cold, dark despite being only 6 p.m., and the groceries she was carrying from the convenience store in the village were threatening to break through their plastic bags. Plus, another family from the Air Force Officer’s Club was coming and sharing the cabin with them. Technically, the Coulsons were in side A and the other family was renting side B of the split duplex, but that side didn’t have any heating, so the three-bedroom three-bathroom side A half of the cabin would have to do for all six of them. 

“Ughhhh,” Daisy groaned as they approached the cabin and discovered the other family had arrived. A burly man with a snow shovel was clearing the driveway for his wife to pull in their giant SUV. Another “ughhh” sounded from the driveway as the door on the far side of the SUV opened and slammed shut. 

“Let me help!” a blonde young woman insisted to the burly man, who could only be her father. 

“I told you to wait in the car,” he insisted. “Young ladies don’t need to be out in this weather.” 

“Dad!” 

The two stopped bickering long enough to notice Phil, Melinda, and Daisy approaching, likely given away by the sound of their boots crunching on the icy snow. 

“Hey! I can grab some of those bags! Oh.” The blonde walked over, then exhaled a puff of white air as she saw Daisy up close.”Hi. I’m Carol.” 

Her rosy cheeks, soft smile, and bright eyes charmed Daisy immediately. “God, please let her be queer,” Daisy prayed to the rainbow gods. 

Carol’s mom turned off the SUV and got out to greet them, and introductions all around set the snowy week in motion. 

“And here we are,” Daisy concluded the short cabin tour for Carol, who plopped her duffle bag on the unclaimed bed. Daisy’s bed, with a view out the window at the snow-draped forest, was already rumpled from the night before. “Um, I hope that dark pink duvet is okay. We washed both when I arrived yesterday, and I took the navy.” 

“I like it.” Carol winked in a way that Daisy didn’t understand. “It suits us.”

“Sorry, what?” Daisy furrowed her brow, not following the reference. 

Carol nodded to the bi flag sticker on Daisy’s laptop, sitting half-open on the bedstand. She then pulled out her phone and lit up the lock screen. A stylized lesbian flag appeared, complete with a stripe so dark pink it was almost maroon, just like the duvet Daisy pulled off the shelf.  

So the sapphic goddesses did answer prayers. 

Daisy cleared her throat. “Oh! And do you have a girlfriend who is going to be jealous of us rooming together?” 

“I don’t have a girlfriend,” Carol answered with a wry smile. “And do you have anyone who—?” 

“No! No,” Daisy clarified hastily. “I’m free. Free as a bird. Single as a … jingle? ANYWAY!” Daisy rushed to make her bed and sat down on it, then got up again abruptly, eyeing the door. 

Carol strategically leaned against the doorframe, casually blocking Daisy’s escape. “My mom tells me you work at Stark Industries too? Shame I haven’t seen you before around the office. Then again, I’m up on the 10th floor with the rest of aerospace.” 

“I… I mostly work from home, or, well, until recently I was in the New York office, but now, I’m not. I mean, I just moved back to Colorado. But I could be in the Denver office now more. Maybe visiting the 10th floor?” Daisy finished and blushed. She wasn’t used to being the flustered one. Usually she held all the cards, batting her lashes and pushing out her cleavage or wearing the perfect dress to make a man putty in her hands. But Carol Danvers was no man. This time it was Daisy fighting desperately for her cool-girl life. 

“I’d like that. That is, if you’re not sick of me after this week,” Carol laughed in self-deprecation. “But I already know you’re a lot nicer to look at than any of the sweaty dudes up there. It’d be a nice change of pace.” 

“I think there was a compliment in there?” Daisy laughed. “Thank you.” 

“Welcome.” Carol gave her a cheeky once-over to make the flirtation clear. 

Daisy’s heart skipped. “You know that officers’ dinner gala thing our parents have to go to on Wednesday night at the ski resort?” 

Carol rolled her eyes and her smile fell. “Ugh, don’t remind me.” 

“What if we stayed here instead? Made dinner together and got to know each other better?” Daisy held her breath as she waited for an answer.

“Hell yes.” Carol sighed in relief. “I hate those things.” 

The night of the gala, the girls got dressed up anyway after the parents left. They ate dinner by candlelight, after lying to their parents that they were too tired from skiing and just wanted a “cozy girls’ night in.” While their parents assumed they were watching trashy TV and heating up a frozen pizza in their PJs, they were really having their first date. 

Though they had only known each other a few days, their chemistry was instant. Love at first sight might be a myth, as true love grows over time with emotional intimacy and investment, but desire at first sight is as real as the sudden blanket of snow on a winter morning, fresh and sparkling with possibility. 

Sometimes that pure desire is tarnished with exploration, but for Daisy and Carol, it grew with each moment. By the end of the week, they were waking up with limbs entangled under the navy duvet, watching the snowfall replenish itself to brave the light of a new day.  

[beautifulterriblequeen]

Breaking and unmaking

I’m stretching my Druids -> Assassins headcanon a little further today. 

So far, I’m enjoying the epic angst that comes with assassins being blood-promise-bound to their duty for the last 1000 years, because the Oath of Féanor is one of my favorite disasters from the Silmarillion. But that means that even if Runaan is freed from his coin prison, he’s still bound to his duty. He’s not free enough yet.

S4 and S5 were hinted to contain some history to help give us a better look at exactly how everyone got to where they are in the present day. I know I’ve posted about hoping that Janai and Amaya work together to find out the Orphan Queen’s/Queen Aditi’s/Harrow’s ancestor’s secrets. I don’t have a strong opinion on how that all plays out, but I would love to watch them work together and learn stuff!

So, what if we get something like this for teaching us Moonshadow history: Rayla does find Runaan’s coin, but with his arm still bound, and him bound to his blood promise (maybe the same thing, maybe not), if he’s released, he’ll die. She can free Lain and Tiadrin--if she and Callum can learn how to--because her parents are not bound by a failed mission the way Runaan is, even if they are/were assassins and did give the Dragon Queen a blood promise, too. This will leave Runaan as the only elf trapped beyond reach.

Gosh, that seems familiar....

Okay, so this is Rayla we’re talking about. She just crossed half the continent to return a baby dragon during an actual war. If she realizes that Runaan is either going to 1) be trapped forever or 2) die if he’s freed, which will she want to pick?

Door #3. Runaan might be fatalistic enough to accept freedom just so he can die in Ethari’s arms, but Ethari wouldn’t want that if there were another way, and neither would Rayla. So: Rayla’s gonna rip up the 1000-year-old blood promise. And that means first learning the full history of the Moonshadow elves because someone didn’t pay attention in history class! which might be partly classified, partly lost, and partly hidden. Moonshadows be like. She’d quest as far as she needed to in order to save Runaan, but see... this quest isn’t just for him anymore. If all the assassins in the Moonshadow Forest are bound to this blood promise the way that he is, then none of them have ever truly been free. Maybe this is how Rayla saves her people, in a way Runaan never could.

She’s a hero, and that’s what heroes do. They save people. People.

But maybe she won’t be breaking that promise, exactly... maybe she can just unwrite it somehow. Balance it out. I’m not sure what that would look like, but it could take three very special components that were present during the initial oathmaking: 1) the blood of a Moonshadow assassin: Rayla. She keeps calling herself an assassin. Might be a clan thing, not a matter of actually taking a life?

2) the Moon Archdragon Luna Tenebris. Please let Rayla go on a dragon quest! lhfksdfhihfis That would be the coolest thing ever! Why haven’t we heard a peep out of Luna Tenebris, or even learned if she’s still alive or not? She’s definitely important somehow. Her reign lasted from the division of Xadia--aka the Merciful Compromise that split the land--until the Fallen Star. Those are some serious bookends.

3) a Moon primal stone. You’ve noticed that there are two different Moon primal staffs. The gathering from 1000 years ago, before the Border was carved, shows a Moonshadow elf holding a staff shaped like a shillelagh--a traditional druidic weapon.

But 300 years ago the leading Moonshadow elf has a different staff. Taller, more commanding, bearing a big stylized Moon rune, and looking a lot like Runaan’s chest marking, handle and all. Instead of a shillelagh, this staff resembles a sickle--another druidic handheld. Its larger cousin is a scythe.

Did they rework the staff? Possibly. If so, it’s probably to reflect the Moonshadow elves’ change in status, moving eastward and joining the Sunfire elves in active defense of Right Xadia,

But maybe that first primal stone is busy spinning some very big spells. I have two guesses what they might be, and there’s no reason they can’t both be going at the same time. ahaha Moonshadow duality Maybe it’s running the blood promise that binds all of the assassins to their word on pain of death. Maybe it’s running Aaravos’s ghost program on a dedicated primal server.

Maybe breaking the blood promise will break the mirror spell on Aaravos’s prison. Wouldn’t that be interesting! Rayla having to choose to free everyone, or no one.

tl;dr: Maybe the Moonshadow elves we see today aren’t quite the heartless monsters we’ve kinda been suspecting, insta-ghosting each other and hating humans and all. Maybe they’re victims of their ancestors’ oath, just in a different way than the humans the assassins take. And if the blood promise can be undone, then they can all be free again. No more assassins, no more killings.

And now for the angsty side:

Ir Rayla’s questing to make it safe for Runaan to return to the world of the living, that means Runaan’s gotta stay in the coin until it’s safe to come out. 

Ughhhh. If something like this has to happen, and if it does mean Runaan and Ethari can’t kiss and reunite properly, then I really hope they can talk somehow, and that Runaan can at least tell everyone what he knows and all his thoughts and anything important he wants to say. In fact, I would like it if he couldn’t shut up for a while. He can’t use his Moonshadow stealth language and just touch people from inside the coin, so he’s gotta use that lovely voice. Aww. Can you imagine Ethari curled up with his precious coin in his fingers and Runaan’s just spilling his heart to him? Fifteen or twenty years of words that he’s saved up, spilling out in case things don’t work out and they don’t get another chance? God. 

And some further angst that I realized had to go along with this headcanon: if Lain and Tiadrin swore the blood promise too, it makes a little more sense why they’d go to the Storm Spire to guard Zym’s egg. Devon said in the Deluxe Elf Interview that little Rayla couldn’t understand how parents would have a bigger priority than her, and yeah, that’s rough. But if it’s a sacred blood promise that’s holding them... they kinda can’t say no. And if the blood promise takes you out if you fail in your duty... well. That explains Runaan’s emotional lockdown, yeah?

He thought Lain and Tiadrin had run... and then perished. He thought they were dead. His dearest friends. Their honor and their lives, gone in one fell swoop. It caught him completely off guard because he trusted them so much. No wonder he got all eyeshimmery when he saw them in the coin. They were alive! Yay! And they were trapped! Boo! And they never broke their promise! Yay! And the village ghosted them for no reason! Boo!

Speaking of the village... if the assassins uphold the honor of the whole Moonshadow race by serving the dragons according to their oath--if the whole Moonshadow identity of stoic service is tied up in that blood promise--then of course the village ghosted Lain and Tiadrin. The sacred oath guides their entire culture, their values, it dominates their history. They’d yeet themselves as far away from such a breach of the ancient trust as they could. They all wanna be the Sworn, never the Forsworn.

They’d ghost Rayla too, not because she’d sworn the oath and then failed it--since she probably hasn’t made any blood oaths yet--but because not breaking the blood promise is so vital to who Moonshadows are, and Rayla ran away on a mission to take a dangerous human. That’s the entire purpose of the assassins according to the blood promise: Spare the humans’ lives, and then be responsible to correct every misstep they make from that point forward. An endless oath of guardianship that can outlive its usefulness and become downright dangerous and chaotic with changing times.

Dude, I’d really like to see Rayla unmake that promise somehow, save Runaan, and save her entire people from a good faith vow they made for the very best of reasons, far too long ago. And I’m loving the idea that she’d kill Viren, and then free Aaravos. Such a chaos child, I love her.

[mysticdragon3md3]

PS5 Showcase Event Livestream by IGN

4:38 PM 9/16/2020 Spider-man Miles Morales Oh shit.  You know I love mid-air combat.  Do I have to get a PS5 now?  Damn it!  I swore PS4 would be my last console.   . I forgot about the PS5 livestream earlier today.  I hadn't even really been keeping it in mind.  But when I saw Professor Thorgi Tweeting praise for it...Now I'm excited.  

...

10:38 PM 9/16/2020 You can seep in all the nostalgic Final Fantasy music you want, but I'm just not feeling this new Final Fantasy.  When I think of Final Fantasy---what I PERSONALLY like about FF, it's that almost-steampunk mix of scifi and fantasy magic.  I love that modern, urban fantasy mixed with ancient magics.  That anachronistic amalgamation in the art style that can't really be placed anywhere.  

But even this costume design is so distinctly historic European.  With regular names like Joshua.  

The gameplay looks nice tho.

I don't think I'm interested in FF16.  Even if FF15 was disappointing, I loved Nomura's art style, the world design that is blatantly more than just "sword and sorcery" fantasy,...  I don't think I'll get Final Fantasy XVI.  

10:45 PM 9/16/2020 Or maybe it's just my depression talking.  I've been unable to enjoy things all day.  Getting excited about cool things has been out of the question today.  ;_;  

10:46 PM 9/16/2020 I stand corrected.  This Miles Morales trailer is making me cry AGAIN, and I already watched it earlier today.  You can do it, Miles!  ;o;  

10:48 PM 9/16/2020 Warner Bros?  Y'mean that new Bat Family game?  ...Oh no...Oh no.....Harry Potter.  ~_~  All those poor game developers working so hard on something that puts a bad taste in our mouths now, at the mere mention of it.  ~____~;  ...Ughhhh...  Just let it die.  ;_;  

10:57 PM 9/16/2020 Oh no!  Is Chris Redfield possessed?!???  Ok, old lady...  o_O!  So are they saying the lady reading the story IS Mia?  Ooh, stylized storytelling shadow puppets.  *.*!  Who is "Mother Miranda"?  VILLAGE.  SPOOKY.  Is that THE MERCHANT?!?  *O*  lol  

11:04 PM 9/16/2020 Yes!  There it is!  Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition!  ;U;  I passed up getting DMC5 last Black Friday, partially because I was hoping for soem kind of special edition...And here it fucking is!  *o*!  Sure, I've alreayd spoiled myself on the stoyr by now, but I want to play this game!  I always have so much fun playing this game.  ;U;  Ohmyfreakinggawd!!!!!!!!!!!  ;U;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ...Yeah, I know I saw someone mention a new DMC5 earlier, but it still makes me so happy.  ;U;  

IGN's stream is still off sync between the audio and visual.  Maybe I should switch to GameSpot's vid of the stream.  

11:09 PM 9/16/2020 Is this...FNAF??????????????? OMG  

11:11 PM 9/16/2020 Demon's Souls looks so high def and detailed, I didn't recognize it.  lol

11:16 PM 9/16/2020 OH YES!!!!!!!!  PERSONA 5 GETS JUST AS MUCH TIME IN THE MONTAGE!!!!!!!!!  More than 1 or 2 frames, like last time!  This time, SEveral seconds!  And the title reappears during the rundown of logotypes!  ^O^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

11:19 PM 9/16/2020 Oh, yes!  God of War!  Please go to Eagypt or some other panthenon! ...Oh, Ragnarok.  Well.  That'll be cool too, I'm sure.  It'll have way more gods than last time.  

11:17 PM 9/16/2020 Oh, PS5, you do look nice.  But I promised myself that PS4 would be my last console.  I just have to face facts now: I dont' actually play videogames much anymore.  It used to be a big part of my life.  An enormous part of my identity.  And I didn't want to let it go.  But I have to face the reality.  My backlog didn't pile up worse than normal gamers' for no reason.  I don't feel motivated enough to engage in such an active passtime anymore.  I need passive entertainment now in my "old age".  And look how overactive I already am, just reacting, making fan-art, and writing essays about all that passive entertainment I've been absorbed into instead.  I guess I'm too old and tired for videogames.  ;_;  Well, playing them, anyway.  I have enough fun watching let's players, and I waste enough time engaging with fan-art/fandom with just that already.  If I added gameplay time, I probably wouldn't have time to eat/sleep. And I'm too old now to not sleep, regardless of how much I already stave it off.  

11:23 PM 9/16/2020 PS5 November 12 release date. $500 with disk. $400 purely digital drive.  

11:24 PM 9/16/2020 Ok.  I don't care about IGN's reactions, when I know Professor Thorgi has a reaction vid on Twitch.  I'm going there now.  

[tathrin]

tagged by @indarkstars

Rules: Simply answer the following 21 questions and tag 21 people (or more!) you’d like to get to know more!

Name / Nickname: Nicky

Sign: saggitarius (I have arrows!)

Height: 5'7″ish...it varies? I guess?

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

Last thing I Googled: I was trying to use the word “sartorial“ in a story but I was spelling it too badly for spellcheck to help, so various misspellings of that until I got to the right answer. (I like how this is basically the same answer as yours with different details.)

Favourite musician/s: Uhhhh....let’s go with “folks I’ve been listening to lately,” shall we? Aurora, Svrcina, Rachel Rose Mitchell, Seanan McGuire (yes, that Seanan McGuire! No really, music too!), Pink, Ruelle, Nightwish, Tatu, Loreena McKennit, Blackpink, Hayley Kiyoko, Dessa, Within Temptation...

Last song I listened to: Here We Stand by Hidden Citizen featuring Svrcina is currently playing on my shuffle, so...that.

Song stuck in my head: See above. Although it was almost Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen because that lingered for a while after a Good Omens fan vid I just watched.

Followers: Um, 247??? I assume most of those are old, defunct blogs... O_o.

Following: 133 (but it’s mostly the same ten or fifteen people on my dash tbh, and that is not a complaint; I really like those ten or fifteen people!)

do you get asks: Nope. Well, except on rare occassion when I piss someone off...but even then, not nearly as much as I probably deserve! XD

Amount of Sleep: ughhhh let’s not talk about this right now; I stayed up ‘til 4am yesterday because I hit a Writing Groove and I do not have regrets, but I am sorry. Not as sorry as I was when my alarm went off this morning, but sorry.

Lucky Number: Nope. But I always used to pick 2 for things in school, because for some reason that was considered a “boring” number and no one else ever wanted it, but it was almost number one which meant it tended to be handy...

What I’m Wearing: maroon trousers, striped green and purple socks, and a navy blue shirt with a stylized blood drop on the front over which is printed the Mandalorian saying “aliit ori’shya tal’din”...in the Mando’a alphabet, of course! (Translation: family is more than blood.)

Dream Trip: Dream trip? Back to France--Provence and Paris and Angoulême--and, because it’s a dream, I actually speak French. More realistic trip I am longing to take sometime soon? I want to take my mom to Wizarding World of Harry Potter, as she has never been...and I want to go to Star Wars Galaxies. And possibly live there. (Oh but if it’s a Dream Trip, can it be a Star Wars Galaxies that exists in Legends Continuity? Please, yes?)

Favourite Food: There are too many foods I love to pick, so I will say durian.

Instruments: Celtic Harp. Yeah, really. But don’t let that fool you into thinking I am actually musically talented, because I am not. In fact I have both forms of cognitive amusia (beat deafness and tone deafness) mildly so yeah, no musical talent. Can’t read music either (long story). But I do know the basics of playing a Celtic Folk Harp and hey, good news about a harp? It is practically impossible to make them sound bad. So that’s convenient!

Languages: American English with fragments of Mando’a, French, and Sindarin.

Favourite Song/s: Oh man uhhh....hey, let’s go with “my theme song” instead because that actually has an answer that doesn’t just involve me scrolling through my latest shuffle playlist and writing down random titles lol: Weird Friendless Kid by Emilíana Torrini. (No I am serious to the degree that my gradeschool lunchbox was actually even purple).

Random Fact: I hold my pencil really really really fucking weirdly, to the degree that I have never met anyone who does even remotely similar, and complete strangers often stop mid-sentence to gawk when they notice me writing (not so much drawing; apparently it’s fine to draw like that but when they find out I write that way too that’s when shit gets weird) and I’ve never had a writing cramp.

Aesthetic: ...I’m only supposed to have one? Okay, how about Lazy Geek?

Uhhh okay @derinthemadscientist @hsavinien @superdragonoftheeast @overzelos @voldemorrissey @quasarsniffer @alanfromrochester @vonboomslang if you want to and anyone else who is interested!

[twitchesandstitches]

Thumb War of the Titans

The most mighty members of the Endowed Nomad Fleet (and thus the curviest) stared down at a bunch of pirates from the deck of a ship open to space; it was only the pseudo-atmosphere effect of the ambient magical field that kept them from floating out into space, but it did look cool. Especially with a holographic banner above their warship, showing the insignia of the fleet: a stylized femininity symbol, like a circle with a small plus beneath it, and within that circle was a mouthful of pointy teeth in a silly grin. The hologram kept adding new and completely random background details to the flag, as people kept arguing over things to put on it.

The pirates were numerous, and their sharp-angled ships were so many that they blotted out the stars, a solid wall of nothing but ships.

Sierra yawned sleepily, still groggy. She’d only woken up a few minutes ago, it seemed. “Ughhhh... what is it...” she blinked, staring up into the sky.

“YO,” said the pirates.

Sierra looked around at those around her: Terezi Pyrope, Rose Quartz, Undyne in her knight-themed mecha, and a number of others. All of them, at least the women, were far larger than physically possible for their species, and so ludicrously endowed with sheer matriarchal power that it should have impeded their movement. But they were too cool for something as boring as the laws of physics. “Ummm... did I miss something?” Sierra asked, and yawned again.

Terezi grunted. “Hell if I know. These pirates called us out specifically. I think they’re daring us or something.”

“Oh.” Sierra wandered off. Presently the intercom came on. “Hello, spooky space pirates! What are you daring us to do?”

In response, the wall of ships blurred, combined, and merged together, eventually morphing into a single giant robot as big as a continent.

Undyne watched this with a critical eye. “Meh. I’ve seen better transformation sequence.”

Rose Quartz munched some popcorn. “I think they did quite well, given what they have to work with!”

“...The hell did you get popcorn from at this time of day?”

Rose Quartz pointed behind them; Grimlock was standing behind them at a handcrafted fast food stall, apparently selling treats. His expression was terribly grave and serious, as if this was the stuff of epic journeys. Grimlock waved, and then made a rude gesture at her. Undyne returned it with gusto.

The composite pirate robot leaned in close, and bellowed, “WE HAVE HEARD YOU ARE THE MIGHTIEST FLEET IN ALL THE MULTIVERSE.”

Sierra looked dumbfounded. “...No. We’re not. We’re really, really not.”

“...YOU HAVE THE HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL POWER LEVELS, OR AT LEAST FIGURE SIZES, IN THE MULTIVERSE.”

Terezi looked skeptical. “Going by the averages of people we’ve met, I really don’t think so. We’re big but we’re not, like, divinity tier.”

The composite robot was looking worried. “YOU ARE THE 11515th MOST ANNOYING FLEET IN A MICROSCOPIC CHASM OF EXISTENCE?”

Sierra relaxed. “Okay, I can believe THAT! So... what do you want?”

The robot extended a fist. Specifically, a huge thumb. “WE CHALLENGE YOU TO A THUMB WAR, TO LAY CLAIM TO YOUR TITLE!”

Terezi snorted. “What, you have got to be kidding me-”

“We agree to your terms!” Rose Quartz and Sierra, and Undyne, all yelled simultaneously, with great passion and enthusiasm.

“Guys!” Terezi whined.

“Where’s your fighting spirit!?” Undyne bellowed at her.

Rose Quartz looked scandalized. “We can’t just ignore a direct challenge! It’ll set a TERRIBLE example.”

“I’m just going with the flow,” Sierra said, shrugging.

Terezi groaned. “Okay, fine, fair enough. So... should we maybe fuse into a single giantess to actually get big enough to do that?”

“Yeah!” They chanted back. Grimlock promptly packed up and fled, shouting something ot the effect of, ‘yeah, SCREW THAT’.

Sierra stuck out her arm, and in a disturbing twist of flesh and a flash of light, a long board-shaped slab of something dark appeared in her hand, its length curving like a helix. It opened up like a pair of jaws, and with a swipe, she scooped up all the others there, swallowing them whole. She then reabsorbed the slab-thing, glowing slightly...

There was a loud noise.

And a moment later, a giantess equally as massive as the composite robot floated before it, as large as a continent and a clear fusion of all the women. She was humanoid and impossibly curvy, her breasts occupying pretty much as much as space as the rest of her body put together, and her hair was a vast and trailing mass of light several times her size. Her enormous, matronly hips wiggled with the slightest movement, matched by a long and spiky tail.

Many limbs, adorned with claws and spiky bits raised up, magical lines of power coursing across her body. Her face, beautiful and shrouded by gills and machinery and not even slightly human, thoguh still beautiful and crowned by massive sensitive lips, stared with many eyes upon the foe.

Slowly, she extended one of her hands, power bristling with each movement. “YOU FIRST,” she boomed.

The pirates grinned, extending a robot fist...

And with a thunderclap, the battle was on.

Grimlock watched the thumb war of the titans with a detached, indifferent air. “I can’t tell if this is incredibly awesome or really ridiculous,” he said. He considered it. “Eh. Doesn’t have to be either/or.”

[sanzoumon]

My least favorite thing about making a comic is the SFX...

Like idk they always look so out of place when I do it. But I see others who manage to seemlessly integrate SFX into the panels where it looks like it's part of the art and not out of place at all.

It would be much more convenient if I could just draw mine out myself but I don't trust my hands for lettering work.

And then there's stylizing the text, coloring it, ughhhh... placement of it...

I'd forgo the SFX altogether but I'm so used to SFX being a part of comics. Plus when used right they do make a pretty good impact that the art alone wouldn't get across.

Fukcing sound effects. Causing me issues. I finally speed up my coloring process a bit and now I got this. Bleh.

Comics are hard, why does anyone subject themselves to this torment?

Obviously we must be masochists...

[bettsfic]

im terrible because i cant stop laughing at that weird bandage thing whatever kylos got like, it looks like those graphic bandaids that have disney princesses on them but the "boy" design ones that look like fucking corrugated metal or something so u know its "boy" bandaid, im sad its not like bad stylized flames or something

UGHHHH HE’S THE WORST

[sickandvomiting]

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✏️ - Want any tattoos?Yes, so many. I already have four, but I'm planning others. The next one I want to get is the molecular structure of seratonin, dopamine, melatonin, and oxytocin, perhaps stylized with flowers but I'm not sure on that part yet. I also want a little scene of Bag End from LOTR, because that's just so beautiful. And the inscription from the One Ring around my calf, right below it. I also want a bunch of silhouette trees to cover some old scars. I've got a lot.... XD

📺 - Top 5 favorite TV shows?Damn, this is a hard one. I'd probably have to go with Star Trek, M*A*S*H, Game of Thrones, House, and Scrubs. But also tied with like a bunch of those are Criminal Minds, Ripper Street, Star Wars the Clone Wars, Farscape, Gravity Falls, and Westworld. Just ughhhh so good. 
✏ - Random fact about yourself.One of my legs is longer than the other, which makes it look a bit like I have a limp when I'm walking. It's not significant, but still noticeable. 

🍴 - Favorite food(s) to eat?STEAK. I fucking LOVE steak. Garlic pan seared steak, between rare and medium rare. Ughhhhh so good. (Also ice cream. I love ice cream.) 


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Reactions to the PS5 livestream and trailers from yesterday.

4:38 PM 9/16/2020 Spider-man Miles Morales Oh shit.  You know I love mid-air combat.  Do I have to get a PS5 now?  Damn it!  I swore PS4 would be my last console.   . I forgot about the PS5 livestream earlier today.  I hadn't even really been keeping it in mind.  But when I saw Professor Thorgi Tweeting praise for it...Now I'm excited.  

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10:38 PM 9/16/2020 You can seep in all the nostalgic Final Fantasy music you want, but I'm just not feeling this new Final Fantasy.  When I think of Final Fantasy---what I PERSONALLY like about FF, it's that almost-steampunk mix of scifi and fantasy magic.  I love that modern, urban fantasy mixed with ancient magics.  That anachronistic amalgamation in the art style that can't really be placed anywhere.  

But even this costume design is so distinctly historic European.  With regular names like Joshua.  

The gameplay looks nice tho.

I don't think I'm interested in FF16.  Even if FF15 was disappointing, I loved Nomura's art style, the world design that is blatantly more than just "sword and sorcery" fantasy,...  I don't think I'll get Final Fantasy XVI.  

10:45 PM 9/16/2020 Or maybe it's just my depression talking.  I've been unable to enjoy things all day.  Getting excited about cool things has been out of the question today.  ;_;  

10:46 PM 9/16/2020 I stand corrected.  This Miles Morales trailer is making me cry AGAIN, and I already watched it earlier today.  You can do it, Miles!  ;o;  

10:48 PM 9/16/2020 Warner Bros?  Y'mean that new Bat Family game?  ...Oh no...Oh no.....Harry Potter.  ~_~  All those poor game developers working so hard on something that puts a bad taste in our mouths now, at the mere mention of it.  ~____~;  ...Ughhhh...  Just let it die.  ;_;  

10:57 PM 9/16/2020 Oh no!  Is Chris Redfield possessed?!???  Ok, old lady...  o_O!  So are they saying the lady reading the story IS Mia?  Ooh, stylized storytelling shadow puppets.  *.*!  Who is "Mother Miranda"?  VILLAGE.  SPOOKY.  Is that THE MERCHANT?!?  *O*  lol  

11:04 PM 9/16/2020 Yes!  There it is!  Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition!  ;U;  I passed up getting DMC5 last Black Friday, partially because I was hoping for soem kind of special edition...And here it fucking is!  *o*!  Sure, I've alreayd spoiled myself on the stoyr by now, but I want to play this game!  I always have so much fun playing this game.  ;U;  Ohmyfreakinggawd!!!!!!!!!!!  ;U;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ...Yeah, I know I saw someone mention a new DMC5 earlier, but it still makes me so happy.  ;U;  

IGN's stream is still off sync between the audio and visual.  Maybe I should switch to GameSpot's vid of the stream.  

11:09 PM 9/16/2020 Is this...FNAF??????????????? OMG  

11:11 PM 9/16/2020 Demon's Souls looks so high def and detailed, I didn't recognize it.  lol

11:16 PM 9/16/2020 OH YES!!!!!!!!  PERSONA 5 GETS JUST AS MUCH TIME IN THE MONTAGE!!!!!!!!!  More than 1 or 2 frames, like last time!  This time, SEveral seconds!  And the title reappears during the rundown of logotypes!  ^O^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

11:19 PM 9/16/2020 Oh, yes!  God of War!  Please go to Eagypt or some other panthenon! ...Oh, Ragnarok.  Well.  That'll be cool too, I'm sure.  It'll have way more gods than last time.  

11:17 PM 9/16/2020 Oh, PS5, you do look nice.  But I promised myself that PS4 would be my last console.  I just have to face facts now: I dont' actually play videogames much anymore.  It used to be a big part of my life.  An enormous part of my identity.  And I didn't want to let it go.  But I have to face the reality.  My backlog didn't pile up worse than normal gamers' for no reason.  I don't feel motivated enough to engage in such an active passtime anymore.  I need passive entertainment now in my "old age".  And look how overactive I already am, just reacting, making fan-art, and writing essays about all that passive entertainment I've been absorbed into instead.  I guess I'm too old and tired for videogames.  ;_;  Well, playing them, anyway.  I have enough fun watching let's players, and I waste enough time engaging with fan-art/fandom with just that already.  If I added gameplay time, I probably wouldn't have time to eat/sleep. And I'm too old now to not sleep, regardless of how much I already stave it off.  

11:23 PM 9/16/2020 PS5 November 12 release date. $500 with disk. $400 purely digital drive.  

11:24 PM 9/16/2020 Ok.  I don't care about IGN's reactions, when I know Professor Thorgi has a reaction vid on Twitch.  I'm going there now.