#ask airlock

[airlockfailure]

WIP Tag Game

@brokenphoenix99 tagged me, so I'll do my best. Rules: In a new post, list the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I don't have a WIP folder, just a list~

Kinktober 2023 Incomplete Anthology (on AO3 as Sanguis Et Passio)

Et Cum Sola (Fox & Treeble, Quinlan Vos/Faie) Incomplete

Nec Aspera Terrent Incomplete (Sterling/Vaughn)

Dies Irae Sad Rece Fic * and Dies Irae Chapter 1

Hardcase/Tup

Invictus AU Chronological Order (a perpetual WIP)

Infragilis Et Tenera Chapter 1

Longshot/Wooley Outline (on AO3 as Mitescere Vario Aestus)

Bail and Thorn’s investigation of the GAR

Koda and Synth’s adventures through the war

Fox and Riyo go to Kamino

Knockout tracking down Ventress' and the GAR’s victims

Holly and Meiro short fic

Fordo and his family

Follow up to Perseids Blunt/Wynut/Zipper

Meerla and Zero become a thing/getting together fic

Thorn and Riyo as friends, trying to set her up with Fox and Fox being oblivious

Star Wars OC Bingo

Coruscant Guard Bingo

All of these fics are within the same Invictus AU.

No pressure tags: @seascribbling, @cacodaemonia, @thatonegreyghost, @marbled-polecat, @nimata-beroya, @trudemaethien, @reaalikaasu, @stellanslashgeode, @imrowanartist, @anstarwar

[hellsitegenetics]

it's amazing, just incredible, how this site keeps getting asks that go like "I hope it's a cat", "I love birds", and then the organism that comes out isn't even in the same phylum. anyway; not me, I'm different I'm special, and analysis of this text WILL result in a lizard

String identified: t' aag, t c, t t gttg a tat g " t' a cat", " ", a t t ga tat c t 't t a . aa; t , ' t ' ca, a aa t tt t a a

Closest match: Ilex aquifolium genome assembly, chromosome: 7 Common name: Christmas holly

[heart-of-a-rebel16]

Sabine. Sabine, please. Sabine, it’s the eighth time you’ve asked him

[txttletale]

fire emoji for Civilization and/or 4X games in general?

now that endless space 2 and stellaris exist there's no excuse to keep putting linear tech trees in 4X games. they're both just a gargantuan waste of potential strategic depth and (in the case of 'historical' 4Xs like civ) end up encoding a lot of racist and colonialist ideology into your game mechanics

[braisedhoney]

Booty McTooty

don’t look at me, pal, we don’t know either.

[lubble-underscore]

ik my followers are tired of me posting fanart for atwow fics they haven’t read (I will not stop)

[man-on-mars]

Have you told the crew about the time you accidentally filled the HAB with hydrogen?

NO. And I swore the NASA interns to secrecy because I know damn well that they're gonna mock the shit out of me.

[airlocksandaviaries]

can you share some random Dreamling headcanons plz?

You want to hear my headcanons?? 🥺💖 I'm honored!

Alrighty, Dreamling Headcanons, here we go:

Dream loves Hob's hair when it's long. Not too long, just above shoulder length, but it's enough for Dream to tousle and play with and run his fingers through. He protests whenever Hob gets a haircut, and insists he doesn't get any more than an inch cut off. Hob promises he won't but the barber usually makes it too short. Dream pouts about this.

Hob has an effect on the Dreaming. Not a big one, but enough to where Dream starts to notice. The flowers are always brighter in Fiddler's Green whenever Hob's dissertations have gone well. The library has Hob's favorite books automatically stacked on the tables whenever he comes to visit. And whenever Hob has a bad night, his memories rear up like tidal waves in the waters of the dreamers. Dream grumbles about the Dreaming betraying him, but secretly he is glad about it because he knows that it means that his subjects and lands have accepted Hob.

Hob is a face kisser. Whenever he and Dream have been kissing, he can't help but follow it up with a little peck on Dream's cheek, or his eyebrow, or his nose. It leaves Dream slightly shocked every time, with that thousand yard stare of his, but Hob knows that he enjoys it.

I have a strange headcanon that if Dream were to be trapped as a human by a curse for a short time for whatever reason, and couldn't access the Dreaming, he would of course start writing his stories down, but I also believe he would enjoy painting. Hob brings him a set of oils as he's moping in Hob's flat, and suddenly Hob is in awe as Dream is able to produce the most stunning paintings of the trees in Fiddler's Green, the light seeping through the stained glass above his throne, and the feathers on Matthew's wings as he flies. Hob hangs them all up and they stay on his walls, even after Dream's curse is lifted.

Sometimes Dream gets emotional or scared or angry or tired, and forgets to maintain his human form. He gets sort of fuzzy around the edges, his coat fading into the ground, hair seeping through the fabric of reality, his pale skin melting like a pool of wax in between sleeping and waking. This is usually when Hob finds whatever semblance of a hand (or claw) that Dream still has, and holds onto it, until Dream slowly comes back to himself and is able to rebuild his human form. Dream worries that Hob is scared of him when this happens. He is not.

Hob loses items throughout history, items that mean a lot to him, such as a jacket or a piece of jewelry or notebook that belonged to him long ago. He scours the local museums to find them, but to no avail. He always grumbles that he thinks they've ended up in some pawn shop and then sold to a hoarder. Once in a while though, after he's complained about losing something, it will show up on his desk the next morning. No explanation, but sometimes it's covered in sand. Hob doesn't need two guesses as to how it got there.

[bumblingbabooshka]

What sort of relationship do you imagine Tuvok has weith B'Elanna? During and after the maquis undercover ordeal. Side question: Favorite Tuvok episode and/or line?

X : Web weaving thing I did regarding B'Elanna & Tuvok's self-destructive habits (and secrecy regarding those habits) in the face of grief. X: A series of lines taken from the show which can be summed up as "What if your co-worker who you were trapped on a ship with for ostensibly the rest of your life reminded you of your estranged mother, your childhood bullies and yourself all at once?"

In the Maquis I doubt they would have had much of a relationship. Afterwards I can see B'Elanna being enraged at the betrayal but trying to keep it as professional as she can (I can also imagine Tuvok poking at this - 'I can see you're angry at me. You need to put that aside.') which only makes her angrier. B'Elanna is an incredibly passionate person and Tuvok is not. I imagine she'd see him handing them over to Starfleet as an extreme betrayal. They were fighting for something in the Maquis. They had values, they believed in something - how could he do this? The fact that the answer is 'easily and without difficulty, remorse or second thought' is -!!!!!!! There's a scene in an episode....I don't remember which exactly. Learning Curve maybe? Or Meld? When someone from the Maquis is angry with Tuvok saying something like 'you sold us all out to Starfleet' and Tuvok says 'It may be difficult for you to believe but I did not have to feel anything to do that.' <- I think this lack of passion would make B'Elanna confused and upset. I can see her thinking he doesn't truly BELIEVE in anything. Because of this and his earlier betrayal I think it would be hard for B'Elanna to trust him and Tuvok is not a comforting or particularly empathetic person. He isn't cruel but isn't 'sweet' you know? An example is when Neelix tells him about how a childhood trauma led to his fear of something outside the window Tuvok suggests he draw the blinds. He isn't saying this to make fun of him but he isn't connecting to the problem emotionally, bc he's Vulcan, but B'Elanna is an emotional person. Tuvok also in general doesn't seem to think highly of Klingons or B'Elanna in particular.

Here he's speaking about something that took place decades upon decades ago but more recently concerning B'Elanna he makes comments about her which make me believe he doesn't think very highly of her.

This is from 'Random Thoughts' and it's possible to argue that Tuvok is just providing a counterpoint to Janeway as like a good investigator explores 'all logical options' (as he later does tell Nimira that he has a responsibility towards both B'Elanna and actually doing his job which supersedes his admiration for the Mari's culture) but his admittedly personal comment about the Mari is interesting. A facet of a Tuvok's personality is that he's pre-disposed towards relating more to Vulcans and Vulcan-ity thus seeing it (and himself) implicitly as better. Humans also do this. Really, most star trek Vulcans vs Humans arguments are just both of them thinking they're superior because that's the way they live their lives. There's a certain unwillingness there (especially demonstrated by Humanity BECAUSE we see Humans interact with other species much more) to see other points of view as equally valid. Basically like: 'This [alien] is good because it shows [Humanity]' <- thereby subconsciously labelling Inhumanity as bad. Here, Tuvok does the same thing but for Vulcans. I think what I'm seeing implicitly in his exchange above is more explicitly stated in the exchange between him and B'Elanna below (same episode: Random Thoughts)

Really saying the quiet part out loud with the line "Burdened as you are by your Primitive Klingon psyche" eh, Tuvok? B'ELANNA.....KILL HIM!!!! HE SAID 'YOU'RE WELCOME' !!!! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A COMPLIMENT??? KILL HIM!!!!

He does say in 'Juggernaut' that Emotion itself is primitive so he COULD be saying 'Your [emotional] Klingon psyche' but it's still a HUGE red flag to be going around calling an entire species primitive. Tuvok isn't the only person who basically does this exact thing - attributing all of B'Elanna's perceived faults with her Klingon side and condemning them or feeling more threatened by any negative emotion she expresses than other crewmates BECAUSE she's Klingon but it's insane to me that the writers just have Tuvok SAY that to B'Elanna STRAIGHT up and she THANKS him????? KILL. HIM. !!!!! AND THE WRITERS!!!! In 'Juggernaut' we see them interact more than we have before. I think this might be the only time we get scenes that are B'Elanna-Tuvok other than that one where they captured and held in a cell together? She tells him a story about a time she fell into a rage because of constant bullying from another child who kept calling her turtlehead.

Tuvok seems to grasp that her lashing out at the time was a coping mechanism. It protected her, gave her strength and courage. However he has no qualms with immediately throwing what he's learned back in her face to provoke her. I can see what he's doing - he's trying to show her: "This USED to be a source of strength but now it's a weakness. If you can be provoked so easily you're at the mercy of others, not strong" but his methods don't seem like something that would mesh well with B'Elanna. I'm sure this would just be hurtful and irritating to her.

Again B'Elanna's surrounded by this type of behavior. Even the man who supposedly loves her sees her this way.

Again in the same episode Tuvok plainly expresses that he has no faith in her. How is he supposed to be mentoring someone he doesn't believe in? There's also no (to my recollection) scene or moment after this where he realizes he was incorrect not to have faith in her and so I can't say for certain whether this has changed his opinion of her. Which is also wild because the episode STARTS with them but has no conclusion to their meditation or relationship plot. Unfortunately I don't think we really have anything that shows how B'Elanna views Tuvok other than her dream in 'Barge of the Dead' where she sees him as the arbiter of what is and isn't a Proper Klingon which I imagine stems from him being so staunchly a Proper Vulcan. Basically Tuvok & B'Elanna are so conceptually interesting...one is desperate to not be perceived as part of her species, estranged intentionally from her culture and associating it with all that is 'bad' about her ("My father left us because we were Klingon") and Tuvok is someone who is very much part of and proud of his culture BUT he also views B'ELANNA'S people as lesser which B'elanna also believes?? What would happen there - a feedback loop? They also have similar backgrounds in that they were forced into monasteries, were rebellious teenagers and have had poor experiences with Humanity & Starfleet but Tuvok...'recovered' from these experiences and B'Elanna did not? In that B'Elanna is still clearly ashamed of herself and self-conscious about others and angry and hurt and rejecting her Klingon culture while Tuvok is fine with those aspects of himself and found peace through embracing them. Given his distaste for Klingons it really is difficult to imagine him canonically doing anything except encouraging her to be more Vulcan while negging her the whole time which, you know, I'd kill him for. Humans & Vulcans shaking hands and in the middle it says 'Thinking Klingons are violent barbarians full stop' - finally some common ground between them! Hitting them all with hammers. That's more of a Star Trek in General issue but it applies here. I don't see how they could have like...a healthy dynamic, even JUST as mentor-mentee let alone friends or father-daughter as I've seen some people portray them. On paper it works because Tuvok is a Vulcan so who better to help control her emotions AND B'Elanna had an absent dad and Tuvok's a dad so he must be fatherly towards people! But given their canon interactions it would probably be a very condescending and bad mentorship. And honestly her having issues with her father would probably only make it worse since Tuvok doesn't believe in her and sees her as lesser because she's Klingon. For canon (meaning their canon regard for each other) the best I can imagine is them being strictly professional or B'Elanna falling into a mentorship with Tuvok which essentially just becomes her trying not to 'fail' another father figure by being too Klingon. If I were to write their relationship improving there would have be SO much unpacking of ALL of that which I showed above...like I don't even know dude it'd take YEARS and it'd effect the entire ship because again, just because this is centered on Tuvok given the nature of the question - Tuvok is NOT the only one who does this!!! EVERYONE does!!! It's infuriating once you start to watch for it v_v One of my favorite Tuvok lines is his big windup about how easy it'll be to win at pool like so easy, logically it'll be a goddamn breeze and then he loses at pool and is like "Hmm maybe the ship is off balance" or something. Sore LOSER!!!

[eldstunga]

Ok here is a fun question I just came up with and I hope no-one asked before: Big cosmic shake, poor our fav Twili and Goat get shuffled into teach others worlds. How will they fare? They take what they are wearing/touching at the moment.

So, Rynn I think would do very well - she's a tough customer used to a huge world full of weird alien of varying tech levels, and though magic is kinda strange she uh... She has a handgun. And people always need someone to haul shit around. As for Sarissa, well...

[your-fave-is-cullable]

that piece of shit Amogus is cullable to high hell and back. alternian.

<>ε>wow he sure seems popular!! Two submissions for the same guy!!<3<>

<>ε>Amogus from airlock-altercations is Alternian cullable!<3<>

[airlockfailure]

For the wip game.

What can you tell us about 'Knockout tracking down Ventress' and the GAR’s victims'???

:D

It involves some growing pains for Knockout and Howzer.

@marple-cat, @trudemaethien

[ninjasmudge]

Dumb au thing for sharkster

MK: so if you’re a soul inside of a robot is it possible hatsune miku is actually a person trapped in a bunch of code? Are they keeping her hostage or is it of her own will?

Macaque: MK, please. It’s three in the morning.

MK:

Mac:

MK: you’re thinking about it now

Mac: is she real though??

macaque, shaking swk awake 10 minutes later: so you know hatsune miku-

[altraviolet]

I'll be real with you, my first immediate thought at the end when I read "airlock door" was that they were about to have some very weird zero grav sex. Then I realised wait no they're going into the ship.

haha, not an unwarranted interpretation. I don't know of a term for the airlock door going into the ship?? is that the exit?? or is the exit the door going out into space?? that sounds weird but if you're exiting space, you're going into the ship, so-

[fayesdiary]

6, 8 and 30 for the meme?

6) Who's your favorite lord/protagonist?

Celica and Micaiah are two other huge favorites! I've spoken on length on why i love them so... Yeah, I think they're neat and every time someone says something mean about them I love them more out of spite.

8) Least favorite lord/protagonist?

....Ephraim.

Before I inevitably get booed off the stage, hear me out.

I have two major problems with Ephraim: First is that his arc of becoming a less reckless, wiser leader feels entirely informed when he spends the entire story charging in and stabbing whatever's in front of him and it keeps working, but the second, far bigger problem I have with him is that he constantly makes Eirika look like an idiot for trying to clean up after him.

Biggest offender being the early chapters where Ephraim is the one who has the brilliant idea to charge into Grado with only three other men and engage in guerilla warfare for nothing other than his lust for battle, when Eirika chases after him to rescue him because this shit will inevitably get him captured or killed, guess what?

By plot contrivances, she is the one who gets captured and Ephraim's the one to rescue her. Fuck off game, seriously.

Also in the Eirika Route she fails to save Queen Ismaire despite having the entire army on her side and Ephraim apparently manages to conquer Grado all by himself along with probably a bunch of green units, for all they're worth.

Granted, I haven't played Sacred Stones in years so I could very well remember things to be worse than they actually are, but... yeah. Doesn't help that no one seems to really criticize Ephraim because according to mainstream fandom, the quality of a lord's writing depends entirely on how many people they stab. The more people they stab, the better written they are.

30) Since horse abuse is currently popular on Tumblr, beat up a dead horse with your take on an oversaturated topic🐴

Phoenix Mode was not only an harmless inclusion in Fates but it should have become a mainstay in the series. If someone wants to play Fire Emblem like a visual novel, then by all means let them.

And this is more of a complaint I have with the gaming community in general, but for the love of Sothis shut up about difficulty settings and stop complaining about how people don't play single player games the way you want them to.

[verm1c1de]

tell me a headcanon you have about tallest purple, bonus points for multiple

YAAAY ok watch this

hes actually really smart, competent even, but hes just way too lazy to actually put any effurt in. hes the kid who sleeps away the whole class yet still manages to ace the test. this is exactly whst happened while he was in elite training

enjoyer of fashion! fashion sense ranges furom "gaudy leopardpurrint and shuttershades" to "the kind of dresses more expensive than a house." he would wear the dalmation puppy coat

my brother has poisoned my brain i keep furgetting purple isnt canonically a he/they. so he is in my heart