#been thinking about this for a while since i started seeing those posts

[littlcdarlin]

getting Joel's name tattooed

warnings: big age gap (unspecified), dom!Joel, Joel likes the idea of everyone seeing his name on you, oral (fem!receiving), praise kink, claim kink (?), Joel calls reader “kid”/“kiddo”

note: Here's just a quick something to distract you all from the fact that I haven't posted a oneshot in two months. Enjoy! (Also, don't get people's names tattooed on your body without asking them first, this could seriously backfire. Or do what you want, I'm not your mother.)

Joel doesn’t dislike tattoos, but he never really cared for them either — he’s not one to make a fuss about his looks and likes you best just the way you are (or so he thinks)

It’s been rough, convincing your parents Joel isn’t a pervert for being with you (he is a pervert, but they don’t have to know about that), and you know Joel finds it hard to just walk down the street with you, thinking he’s ruining your life with his age and the hateful looks it attracts

It never bothered you much, which you tell him again and again, and though he let’s it go after a while, there’s still the occasional You sure you want me pickin’ you up from that? when you have a work event or something else Joel deems himself unworthy of attending

It’s unlike you to do something this drastic, this permanent, but in a way, that’s what your relationship to Joel is — drastic and permanent. There’s no going back from it, you don’t think you’ll ever want anything else

So you make the appointment, send the artist the design you want, tell Joel you’re going for brunch with your friends, let him kiss you gently and wonder if he’d stop you walking out the door if he knew what you’re about to do

You choose the placement on your hip, because it’s inconspicuous enough not to fuel Joel’s guilt, because other people would rarely be able to see it, and because you know how much Joel likes having you in his lap, his wide palms caressing that very spot

When you get home, he’s in his workshop, glasses low on his nose, carving away at yet another farm animal — he says he does it because it’s soothing, but you have the suspicion he’s hoping one of these days his load will take, and there’ll be a child to play with those animals sooner than later

I’ve got a surprise for you, you tell him, your hands massaging his powerful shoulders, and he puts down his tool and glasses, giving you his full attention. You gotta promise not to get mad, though.

Better not be one of those sour candies you gave me last time, because my tongue hasn’t been the same since, Joel answers, but when he sees you chewing on your bottom lip, the amusement seeps out of his voice. Won’t get mad, kid, I promise.

You believe him — there hasn’t been an angry man in your home since you moved out of your childhood home — so you pop open the button of your skirt, staring down at Joel. He clears his throat. Definitely not gettin’ mad, he mumbles, watching your hands pulling down the fabric. It slides of easily, you were supposed to wear something lose, so as not to irritate your healing skin

Joel’s eyes go wide when he sees the tattoo, the small, artful letters right above the waistband of your panties: Joel. You watch him swallow, his hands coming up to your hips, not touching the tattoo, but holding you as if to examine you more closely

Fucking Christ, he swears, his thumb drawing absentminded circles on your skin, you can’t be serious, angel. You’re fuckin’ with me.

You tell him you aren’t, that you’re serious about this, about him and his claim on you.

But…people will see, he mutters, eyes still glued to your skin, the top of his head all salt n pepper from your perspective. I want them to, you answer, and Joel looks up. You can see he's starting to believe you when you tell him you're his forever.

Joel spreads his big hand over your hips, tugs you closer, so that his nose is almost brushing your skin, and before he can kiss it, you thread your fingers through his hair and pull his head away.

It's got to heal, you explain, and Joel seems like he doesn't care for a moment, like he wants to ravage you anyway and risk an infection, but then his expression softens, and he slips his thick fingers under the waistband of your cotton panties

Well, I'm gonna touch my girl anyway, he growls, and tugs your panties down, his mouth latching onto your skin almost immediately. His beard scratches over your tummy, as he kisses you all over, mouth hot and wet, and so insistent

His hands grip your flesh hard, as if to keep you from moving away, but he's careful not to touch the little artwork on your hip

When he finally grazes your clit with his teeth, carefully, softly, your hips buck and your knees almost give out, but he holds you up

You stay right where you are, kiddo, I'm not done with you, Joel says into the skin right above your mound, and this more than anything sets your tummy on fire. He knows you'll do whatever he says, treats you like you're his, because you are – branded proof of it is healing on your hip.

So you let him move a hand to your folds, two fingers gathering the slick mess that's beginning to pool there, his touch almost playful.

He sucks on your clit as he sinks two thick fingers into your heat, curling them and forcing you to stay upright, when you almost sink down onto his lap. He could touch you like this easily without you standing in front of him, the muscles in your thighs quivering, but when you look down, his eyes are glued to his name right next to his hand.

The pleasure he gives you is merciless, and you can't help whimpers from escaping your mouth as he curls his fingers repeatedly, more than he moves them in and out of you

Go on, sweetheart, but tell me who you belong to first, he drawls softly, making your stomach flutter and clench.

You, Joel, you moan, and with another practiced movement of his fingers, you're coming on Joel's hand, unravelling while standing up, your legs shaking but unable to give in with how tightly Joel is gripping you and holding you up

Good girl, he praises, and you flutter around him again, as he drags his fingers out of you slowly, eyes on your new tattoo

How long does that take to heal? I gotta coat it in my cum, baby

[coldranger]

Had to take some time to collect my thoughts but generally, as previously mentioned, people tend to do their own things!

For some general rules of thumb of my own post-game/head canons, post constructs still within the "construct" are dependent on a hypothetical playthrough you could get in-game, memories of all routes and every possible ending to that route are given to the voices overtime, and regarding the vessels I just don't see Shifty willingly letting the vessels separate from her in most scenarios.

I'll mostly be talking about which post construct is usually seen on my blog and some smaller ideas I have

Main Group (seen in most doodles)

These birds come from a Moment of Clarity straight into Oblivion. Quiet goes into his eternal nothingness. With the voices tangled up in him and Shifty they manage to detangle themselves and into "the woods". There are no lasting physical scars on the voices from MoC (they do look different in MoC I just haven't gotten around to designing them). I don't really have any specifics regarding the voided vessels aside from the fact that they're all ch.2's specifically, since a ch.3 would imply those voices look visually different (my ch.3's for them but yk, time to actually conceptualized that where???)

"The woods" did start out as TLQ strands, but with 11 voices of a god walking around whatever leftover influence the Princess has reverted back to its usual look. The voices generally live in the normal woods area, but there is a part that looks like MoC's barely put together forest. As for Heart Princess she is more or less stuck within Shifty, but I could see the voices eventually attempting a rescue mission after a very long debate amongst themselves.

A Quiet Wasteland

You know Mod Owl's Burning Glass AU? Yeah, it's kind of like that. It's an Empty Cup into Oblivion. Much like the main group all of the voices awaken to a whole lot of nothing, but due to Empty Cup TLQ is aware of itself and more importantly- of it's potential powers. Things quickly go south as a power vacuum arises and many voices are either vying for control of TLQ or are simply trying to keep themselves safe from those who do. Hero is the only "normal" looking voice left. The woods have been divided into various territories with battleground areas being absolutely devastated and barren. Hero lives in on the outskirts of these areas with a rundown cabin.

This is a very old concept which I've been hesitant to share with how, uh, slowly I've gotten around to designing everyone. To boil it down it's basically my excuse to have kaiju level fights with the voices and have some more fun in their designs. The Princess does happen to show up here though! She's very late game however and ties into the narrative climax.

Extras

There are just smaller ideas I want to have fun with, like everyone's their respective ch.3 and don't remember any other routes or "The Gang's All Here" without any MoC or Razor. These aren't tied to any one ending in particular just fun little thought experiments. They could just likely be variations of NAUD.

As for the endings where you leave with Shifty or Heart Princess are some looser territory by nature of me not being sure what to do. Leaving with Shifty has me trying to figure out what two gods will do with their smaller parts, an ending where Quiet was mean to the voices and that reflects in their godhood would be neat to explore.

Leaving with Heart Princess is a lot more open ended, so there's a lot of angles you could take it from. I think one interpretation I'd explore is that Quiet and Heart do manage to escape the construct but without these key components to their being both god's forms destabilize and break the construct. So Quiet and Heart get to have a nice time frolicking in the new world while voices and vessels alike flounder about without any structure.

As a fun little hc of mine, confined to the construct the voices can only see how Quiet sees the world, mostly black and white, but if they manage to leave they can suddenly see in color. Aside from being suddenly flashbanged by the remaining color spectrum the voices also look different and have patterns. Do not expect a color guide anytime soon sdjhgfshjdgfs

I'm not sure/to what extent this would be given to the Princesses but I think I'd just piggyback off of someone else's ideas bc I would NOT know where to start in regards to colors for them

Hey slay the princess fandom!

Is there a common way to see the post Construct worlds and how the voices and/or vessels live? I've seen a few already and also have my own idea which I WILL talk about.. soon..... I just have to "professionally" write down the whole idea

I've seen: the woods, big house, a shit ton of cabins in the woods to choose from, and a couple variations of these, also JUST A VOID

Sooooo is there like a common agreement or intuitive way to see it or everyone's just going with their own flow? ALSO!!! Are they... alone? In the world? Is it a normal human world? A fantasy like one where creatures like them are normal?(not taking into account the human designs)

Also how do yall do it with memories of the game events? Do certain voices only remember certain routes? Do they all remember everything? Do they only remember the 5 routes one playthrough consist of?

And if vessels are involved, does Shifty let them go and just accepts she's not "whole" or decides to grant them more of a personhood than being a perspective? Was it her choice to begin with?

I already have my own ideas for all of these but I want to know if there's a silent agreement I'm missing. My inner Skeptic is acting up, I overanalyse everything and kinda lose myself....... help. It's the undertale multiverse structure all over again, it's the adhd again

[separatedleoau]

He eventually gets better at it, it just takes him a while to get there. One knows mystics and is good at some mystic stuff, so is gonna be specially frustraiting not to be able to control the odashi, Draxum's expectations on him don't really help. but he'll get there!! I do have a few episodes planned that tackle all of these

He doesnt really care about most of the scars, if asked, he's more likely to just shrugg it off and say they are from training or from a mission (not a lie)

there's just a couple of them that would get him excited to actually talk about (some on his shell) and I had thought to make a short comic on it, but it's been a while since I started this au and I've got so liitle out and so much of the story to tell so it's been discarted for now

When it comes specificaly to the ones from the vines, he would never in a million years admit what had happened. everyone is 100% on the dark on how he got them until the event I've dubbed Vine 2: Electric Boogaloo (more here) and even then, he would want and wont talk about them

when it comes to the others reaction those are part of the story I want to keep to myself until I can draw that part and tell the story properly, I believe I've talked about it a little bit before, you can scroll down the #slau seed tag on the askblog to look for more things

thank you!

Shredder stuff pretty much happens the same as canon, there's just a bit of a side quest going on too with Mikey trying to get Draxum and One to actually bond and get along

@jayonlyexisting

1- not really, at least not conciously, but I've realized a few paralells between him and other characters I like, I've never considered the Zuko vibes but I've got a few people mentioned the Hunter vibes, and with that I can agree to (1 / 2 / halloween edition/ theres also a few drawings I've made joking about it but I cant find them rn, I'll post them later... probably)

On a side note, I was watching lilo and stitch and One also has a lot of Stitch vibes if we go for the more gremlin and destructive side of him and I think thats really funny, is also not the first time I've thought about that

2- Splinter knew he existed in the "I know there were 4 turltes" when the whole mutation stuff happened, but as far as he knows at some point while running away he must had dropped one turtle and didnt noticed until it was too late and he couldnt go back for him. He saw the lab explode, so all the time he has thought that turtle died

they actually meet each other after the events of Shadow of Evil, but they have seen each other a couple of times before, one time is a made up episode I have planned and the other is piggybacking on The Fast and the Furriest, being the very first time they see each other, tho is for a very short time as One is already leaving

I dont wanna talk about it much, as I like more when a story tells itself, but Splinter at this point knows his sons have been hangin out with a new friend and that fried is from the Hidden City, they had just balantly hidden the part about knowing Draxum made them and also made this other guy at the same time, but Splinter does recognize One and later the others have to explain on how they know him and what exaclty they know

One doesnt really care about Splinter, he's just this random mutant/yokai that adopted the other experiments and is an obstacle on his mission to get them to join Draxum. One know their dad doesnt like him, cause he thinks One's being a bad infuence on his sons (and One thinks thats funny), One also knows he's the one who thought them to fight, but thats pretty much it

[vunblr]

Hey! I hope you're feeling better 🩷

I have another question about Tangled (this series is still on my mind). How did you come up with this idea? Did you know about Cecaelia before you started writing? Or did you see a picture of an octopus and was like "hmm, what if Bucky had tendrils?" I've never seen a concept like this in any other fandom I've read fanfiction for ever, so I was curious about your thought process on this one. Because mermen and mermaids have been done before, but cecaelia was not. How much research did you do before you started writing? Basically I wanna know everything about your thought process and writing process for this story, if you don't mind sharing ☺️

Hi!! Sorry for the delay in answering this! I was aware of cecaelias, but not by name at first - my first exposure was the witch in The Little Mermaid 😅 - and I recall seeing some fantasy art over the years as well. But the real spark came one day when I saw a post from the user @qnfrtt here on Tumblr with Bucky trapped by Hydra's tendrils. I just tucked that image in the back of my head for later.

Then, this year, a terrible flood hit my city. We went days without power or any means of communication, no internet, no cell service, only one radio network working. The only things I could really do -aside from cleaning mud- were read or write. I’d already been toying with the idea of a mermaid AU for a while, and that moment felt like the right time to try it.

I did a previous poll about it before the flooding. It made more sense to me than a classic merman, partly because the Hydra logo has tentacles, and partly because cecaelia have a darker, more mysterious energy to them. They felt like a better match for the kind of story I wanted to tell: something a little eerie, a little romantic, and very intimate.

I didn’t actually know anything about cecaelias when I started writing, only basic stuff about octopuses: that they’re solitary, territorial, and intelligent. So I just went for it and threaded those animal traits into their society. Since they’re solitary, I imagined a collective space to raise younglings without strong parental bonds, and then letting them fend for themselves as they matured.

The witch figure was always in the back of my mind, but I wanted to give those types of characters important, respected roles, not just the typical “villain sorceress” archetype. The rite of passage into adulthood was inspired by practices in many ancient cultures, and it felt like a fitting way to explain Bucky’s arm tattoo and his past.

As for the mating system, I completely made that up. I imagined a custom with clear rites and a kind of yielding” process, not romantic, more utilitarian for the sake of species survival. I don’t recall reading anything similar elsewhere, so I just created something that felt emotionally complex but culturally detached.

I think that is all!

I think I posted it before but the image I'm talkiing about is this one:

[tokyoghoulaspecs]

Based on the "Ghouls purr" headcanon.

Why or when do you think your favorite Ghouls would purr?

Okay NGL I was very confused for a sec why I got this ask on my TG aspec sideblog. But now I see you're asking a bunch of TG blogs and so,,, I am honored to be one of those. Thank you. 🥺

Now. I have no idea how many people know this, bc I haven't mentioned it in a while, but my main is @kyanitedragon. Normally I don't personally subscribe to the ghouls purr headcanon - it leans a bit too animalistic for my preferred interpretation of ghouls.

But! The idea is cute (who doesn't like purring??) and I did play around with it and go a very different angle and made up these headcanons:

Cats don't just purr from contentment, but also often purr when stressed, and there's a theory that cat purring aids in healing, which feels really ripe for worldbuilding considering that ghouls have regeneration. Maybe they go hand-in-hand — purring whenever their regeneration kicks in, or maybe they tend to purr when their regeneration gives out — instinctually using a more primative form of healing

(The theory also says that cat purring can lower stress and aid healing in humans too, so consider that for your ghoul x human ships! It wouldn't be an enhanced form of healing for humans, but it would still be comforting and have minor healing properties like the cat purring theory!)

And then I later made this post about Akira and how I see her reacting to ghouls purring, given she's a cat lover.

And then in my full ghoul au @2-steps-forward, I ended up further worldbuilding that ghouls purring is... kind of the ghoul equivalent in regards to the "boys don't cry" in toxic masculinity? Purring = affection or weakness, depending on the context. And that's something that in ghoul culture, generally speaking, is only "acceptable" in certain contexts / around certain people. You're only "supposed" to purr around your significant other, or your family when you're a kid. Otherwise, the only exception is self-soothing when on death's door. Any other time, you'll get looked down on. (Or so ghoul culture says.)

So these headcanons below are based on that worldbuilding:

Kaneki: When he gets bursts of happiness, purring will tend to reflexively come out, and then it'll startle him and thus abruptly stop. He'd probably cough and try to hide the sound.

Even when he learns what it is, he doesn't really purr often? He doesn't have many people he's close to as it is, and he cannot purr in front of Hide, and as he's been avoiding him since becoming a ghoul he doesn't necesarily have the opportunity for it to even happen around Hide anyway.

During his torture at Yamori's hands, he would purr in an attempt to self-soothe. And it may have become a secret coping mechanism in his own room at his group's hideout.

Hinami's really the only exception. During those 6 months together in their group, there would occasionally be some cute purring cuddles between them. But sadly, the key word here is "occasional", given Kaneki's mindset at the time. And it was probably born from Hinami taking it upon herself to hug him and purr and encourage it, thinking he needed it. (He always needs it. But sometimes he's too "busy" for purrs and cuddles. He's gotta track down their next targets or keep searching for Kanou and Rize.)

As Haise, between his uppity nature and his amnesia making his knowledge of ghoul culture reset... I think he would purr a lot. Half of it is overcompensation, trying to prove he's not a monster. And half of it is genuine affection. Or it's a weird mix of both. It's complicated. Don't ask him about it, he barely understands it himself.

In :re, Kaneki absolutely purrs around Touka once she married him. It's on accident at first, but when Touka doesn't mind it, he just doubles down and gets it all out.

And you bet he finally purrs around Hide post-dragon arc when it's no longer a secret!! Hide is thrilled and cuddles him and absolutely starts petting him like a cat. (Which Kaneki scoffs at and rebuffs but he honestly kinda likes it.)

Touka: She doesn't purr that often. Just, naturally. Which kinda sucks for her as she's a very "screw society, do what you want" person and wouldn't mind purring. It just... doesn't happen for her.

As a little girl she'd purr during long hugs or cuddles with her family. But after losing her dad, she hasn't been able to emotionally feel that sense of deep love or comfort enough to purr. Although, those early days/weeks she and Ayato probably cuddled up and purred to help each other cope.

Is it something she naturally grew up out of? Is it a trauma thing? Is it a personality thing? She has no idea.

She's purred a little bit around Hinami, but that's kind of it. And even then, it was her purring on purpose to reciprocate it, not an emotional response.

But in :re, some nights with Kaneki she might start purring and surprise the both of them. And post-canon, when things settle, I think she'd be able to purr openly and naturally, around Kaneki, Hinami, and Yoriko.

Hinami: I think her isolation from greater ghoul society and her close relationship with her family means that she purrs, like... all the time. When she's happy, when she gets bursts of affection from people she loves, when hugging. It was a shock to Touka at first, but she came to love it and absolutely indulges and encourages her. All of Anteiku finds it touching to see such an innocent and genuinely happy ghoul. Also, there's a high chance that this is how Kaneki finds out that ghouls purr. He very much worries something is wrong with her when she starts rumbling.

Nishiki: Never.

...Or so he says. He's purred once or twice around Kimi post-reveal, and then denied it each time. He used to cuddle and purr with his sister when he was younger.

Remember when Kaneki turned into Dragon and Nishiki (off-screen) gave Touka his jacket and hung out with her to comfort her? He may or may not have held her and purred when no one else was around. Just for a minute or two.

Tsukiyama: He'll purr around his Papa, but that's it.

His relationship with Kanae and Matsumae, while close, feels a bit too formal to warrant it. He sees them as family, but they're also his servants, and I think that disconnect would stop it from happening. Maybe once or twice it's happened over the years, when it felt right. Something more off-the clock and was just fun and bonding times. (Like, during a hug after his Scrabble games with Matsumae.)

If he was to purr around Kanae, Kanae would be stuck between "that is improper, do not do that!!" and loving it and wanting it to never end.

When he was bed-ridden in the timeskip and :re, he'd often purr to self-soothe. Which he didn't notice himself in his state, and all the servants felt weird about hearing it and unilaterally agreed to never discuss it.

[saras-almanac]

I’ve seen this idea or comment multiple times: That Tommy has no character. Which is either on its own or in connection to not understanding why anyone likes BuckTommy apart from two hot guys together. I’m not going to get into the second one here, but the idea that Tommy has no character is just false and either a completely failure in media literacy at best or a blatant ignoring of canon at worst.  

Now do we know everything there is to know about Tommy? Absolutely not, and I’m not trying to claim otherwise. But I would also point that question to any of the other characters on screen: Do we know everything about Bobby, about Chimney, about Buck, etc? I would say No, we don’t. I think the one we have the most information about is Buck just purely because the framing of the first season being about his growth and also because Buck is just such an open book about pretty much everything in his life and feelings. But even still, I don’t think we know everything about him. And that’s okay!

But back to Tommy—we actually do know a fair bit about him and have seen him grow and develop a bit. When we met him in “Hen Begins” in season 2, he’s not outright rude but he is very much, “not gonna put a target on my back here” because of Captain Gerrard (and/or perhaps because he had already realized his sexuality or was beginning to uncover it). When we meet him for the first time chronologically in “Chimney Begins,” he’s more rude and pretty dismissive of Chimney’s offer of friendship, even actively avoiding him. Again, this could be because of Gerrard, the environment here where it didn’t feel like anyone was really friends per say, or it could be down to what Eli tells Chimney: That these guys are not going to let just anyone in until they prove themselves, especially not a probie.”

However, the thing that shows the most about who Tommy is and his growth is his time in “Bobby Begins,” where it’s clear he’s got a really solid friendship with Hen and Chimney, making bets about the new Captain, going out for drinks, having those looks in the engine as Bobby gets them lost. It’s clear in the narrative in season 2 that Tommy, for all of being in only 3 episodes, has grown and changed a lot. (Which is why I find it so ironic that so many people criticizing this “retcon” of Tommy’s character always forget to mention Bobby Begins where it’s clear that Tommy’s friends with Hen and Chimney. I get that some fans want a full apology, but to me it reads like that probably already happened, or at least a conversation, a clearing of the air. Not everything needs to be directly spoonfed to you.)

Tommy coming back in season 7 has shown a bit more growth, as well as showing us sides of him we haven’t seen before. His patience and kindness with Buck and the newness of their relationship and Buck’s sexuality. His humor being dry and a little dark—“We’re all gonna die anyways” or even him suggesting to give Buck flying lessons because his fees are competitive. He’s open with his vulnerabilities when he feels safe enough to do so—immediately sharing his own jealousy at the 118 to Buck when Buck’s talking about his jealousy, telling Buck he cut the date short because he didn’t want to pressure Buck. To me, it shows maybe more growth or just another side of him because we only saw him in connection to his friends, where as Buck is a love interest.

Is this a lot of information? I guess it depends on what you want. Do we know his favorite color or his interests or how he romantically woos people or what he likes to do on his days off? I would argue that we do know a decent amount of that—he likes monster trucks, I assume watching romantic comedies as his favorite movie is canonically Love, Actually, he enjoys craft beers, knows and participates in Muay Thai, has a car lift in his garage so must know something about cars or mechanic stuff, is a pilot and firefighter, enjoys flying for fun on his days off, and has a trivia / karaoke thing (I’m still not sure if it’s a karaoke trivia or trivia at a karaoke bar, the wording confused me but whatever). Honestly, that’s more information than we have about any love interest Buck or Eddie have ever had when they were just starting a relationship.  

And that’s also a huge point that I think is being missed by these types of arguments: Buck and Tommy are just starting a relationship, as in they are just getting to really know each other. So there is more to learn and uncover about each other. And honestly, we the audience are probably not going to be privy to a lot of that because it’s an ensemble show. So instead, they’ll likely show us that they’re moving forward and getting more comfortable with each other when they do interact—the kiss in the hospital reads to me as two people who’ve been spending time together and getting to know each other a lot more where they feel more comfortable. Hell, even just Buck’s change from his hesitance in episode 5 to his confidence in episode 6 is supposed to show his growth in accepting his sexuality and comfort being with Tommy.

The whole point is that the show sketches the outlines and maybe fills in some spots, but they sort of expect you to be able to still see the bigger picture of things. We know the outline of Tommy and are waiting to see it all filled in. That’s why he’s such an intriguing character and love interest for Buck—because he’s developed enough as his own person but there’s still enough blank spaces to explore with. He is the most developed love interest that Buck’s ever had, but he’s still just become Buck’s boyfriend so there’s still more to learn about him. That’s what dating and being in relationship with someone is: learning about them, their likes and dislikes, and what they are like in relationships, seeing if you’re compatible. So while there is already a massive head start in characterization than anyone else (except maybe Abby but even she wasn’t a fabulously written character and was honestly a terrible protagonist), there’s still more to learn about him and that’s a good thing. And while I can’t speak for everyone who ships BuckTommy, I can say that for me, it’s so fun to extrapolate on the bare bones of character and see how they develop in canon.

Tl;dr: Tommy does have a character. It's just a lot of showing and not telling and some people can't handle that.

[majorasnightmare]

i know that technically the lack of party reactions to several of the act 2 Dark Urge Lore Reveals (and general lack of reactivity to non cutscene durge plot in general) is because of development constraints and budget and Releasing The Game On Time At Some Point, but PERSONALLY i just find it enjoyable and interesting to interpret it as addressable character flaws in them 💔

i love when characters are incidentally shit friends to people they care deeply about for very understandable reasons, and also i love when those seemingly small decisions explode into disproportionate consequences and maybe also have a body coubt

[skrunksthatwunk]

miraculous world: new york asks the bold question: what if batman and superman were lesbian married with children

[javierduffy]

is there anyone else out there who has so much respect for people who make insane, out-there aus/ships that are so far from canon that all of the content for it is supplied by their own mind and if yes do yall see ME as one of those people

[britneyshakespeare]

throughout the series of drake and josh it pretty consistently implies that josh nichols is a christian (josh peck is jewish) and in the finale of the series helen (played by yvette nicole brown, not jewish[?]) is portrayed as a practicing jew

[arolesbianism]

I Really need to properly draw Christopher at some point but everytime I want to I just look at her in game sprite and weep for her truest form has already been achieved. What's even the point. This is her in the flesh.

[solar-nightengale]

@lizardthelizard You wanted my thoughts, you're getting them 😏 Three and a half weeks later but you're still getting them ehehehe 😌😌😌 (Idk what to make of them so have fun with that word wall of mayhem)

August 2.18 | Zelena 3.16

[avocado-frog]

dylan is a "would you still love me if i was a worm" character by the way

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I think the reader's response to this post is probably going to either be "That's incredibly minor" or "Holy shit YES I'M ALSO PROUD", depending on people's personal experiences with academia, but:

Today I am incredibly proud of one of my students.

In the interests of disguising identities, let's call them Ceri. Ceri is one of my third year undergrads (meaning their final year, for anyone unfamiliar with UK uni systems.) They transferred to us last year, and within two weeks I was giving them the contact info to get to Student Services and get themself screened for ADHD; they have some mental health struggles, but I clocked pretty quickly that they STRUGGLE with procrastination, and punctuality, and attending 9am lectures in particular. Naturally, as is the way of my people, it took them a further four months to remember to go to the screening. Lol. Lmao. Rofl, in fact.

But, they did it eventually! Their screening lit up like a Christmas tree at the ADHD section, and they got a free laptop and optional one week extensions and a study support worker named Claire. This has helped tremendously, and although mental health + until-then-unsupported ADHD meant their academic profile had slid sideways somewhat, with the new tools available and a couple of resits they passed the year and hit this year running.

Until, that is, the last fortnight.

Now, I take them for a Habitat Management module that has two assessments: an academic poster presentation before Christmas, and a site-specific management plan in May. Naturally this means we are at that happy point in the year for the poster presentations. I give out the briefs at the start of the year, so they've had them since October; I've also been periodically checking in with them all for weeks, to make sure they don't have any major burning questions. The poster presentation was to pick a species reintroduction project, pull the habitat feasibility study out of it, and then critique that study; Ceri chose to look at the hen harrier reintroductions proposed for the southern UK. All good.

Which brings us nicely to today! Ceri's presentation is scheduled for 2.30. At 11am-1pm, I am lecturing the first years on Biodiversity, while Ceri is learning about environmental impact assessment with a colleague I shall call Aeron. This means we are separately occupied during those same hours.

Nevertheless, Aeron messages me at about 12.

"I think Ceri needs to see you after your lecture," he writes. "They're panicking, I genuinely think they might cry. I'm worried. Are you free at 1?"

I say I am. At 1, I get lunch and sit in the common area; Ceri comes to see me. To my personal shame, imagine all of the following takes place while I stuff my face with potato.

Now: this part is going to be uncomfortably familiar to anyone who has ever tried higher education with ADHD, especially unmedicated. It certainly was for me. All I can say is, I never had the courage to take the step here that Ceri did.

"I have to confess," they said quietly, and Aeron was right, they were fighting back tears. "My mental health has been so, so bad for the last fortnight. I've left it way, way too late. I don't have anything to present."

"Nothing at all?" I asked.

"I've been researching," they said helplessly. "I found loads on the decline of the hen harrier. But it wasn't until last night that I finally found a habitat feasibility study to critique. Generally... I've been burying my head about it, and it just got later and later. I thought I should come in for Aeron's lecture, and I should at least tell you."

This part is a minor thing, right? But honestly, I remember being in the grip of that particular shame spiral. I never did manage to tell my lecturers to their faces. I just avoided. I honestly can't imagine having the courage it took them to come in and tell me this, rather than just staying home and avoiding me.

"I think..." they said hesitantly, "I know I can submit up to a week late, for a capped mark. I think I need to do that, and apply for extenuating circumstances. But then I'll have both Aeron's assignment and yours due at the same time."

Which meant they would crumble under the pressure and likely struggle to pass both; so me, being as noble and heroic as I unarguably am, stopped eating potato and said, "Let's make that plan B."

(It was good potato. I am a hero.)

So, we made plan A: I moved their timeslot to 4.30, giving them three and a half hours. The shining piece of luck in this whole thing was that this was the crunch time assignment - if it had been Aeron's, they'd have had to try and write a 3000 report in that time. But for me, all they had to write was an academic poster, and those things are light on words by design. We found them a Canva template, and then we quickly sketched out a recommended structure based on the brief: if it's habitat feasibility, look at food availability, nesting site availability, and mortality risks in the target release site. Bullet point each. Bullet point how well the study assessed each. Write a quick intro and conclusion. Take notes as you go, and present the poster itself at 4.30.

"You think I should try?" they asked doubtfully, looking like I'd just asked them to go mano-a-mano with a feral badger.

"If you run out of time, so be it," I said. "But your brain is trying to protect you from a non-existent tiger. That's why you've procrastinated - it's been horrible, and you've been shame spiralling, and your brain is trying to shield you from the negative experience; but it's the wrong type of help for this situation! So while you're sitting there working on it, hating life, every time your brain goes 'This is hopeless, I can't do it', you think right back 'Yes I can, it just sucks.' And you carry on. Good?"

"Good," they said. "I'm going to mainline coffee and hole up in the library. Enjoy your potato."

And then, of course, I had to go and watch the other students' presentations, so that was the end of me being any help at all. I spent all afternoon wondering if they were going to manage it, or if I would be getting a message at 4.25 telling me they'd failed, and would have to submit late and hope for an EC.

And Tumblrs

Tumblrs

Let me FUCKING tell you

They turned up at 4.15, fifteen minutes early, wearing a mask of grim, harrowed determination and fuelled by spite and coffee, and they pulled up that poster and started presenting and yes, okay, I'll admit their actual delivery was dramatically unpolished and yes, they forgot to include the taxanomic name for the hen harrier on the poster and yes, fine, I admit that there were more than a few awkward moments where they lost their place in their hastily scribbled notebook but LET ME FUCKING TELL YOU -

They smashed it. It was well-critiqued, it had a map, it had full citations, it had a section on the hen harrier's specific ecology and role in the ecosystem, it had notes on their specific conservation measures. They described case studies they'd read about elsewhere. They answered the questions we threw at them with competence and depth. There was analysis. All that background research they'd done came right to the fore. They were even within the time limit by 15 seconds.

You would never have known they'd produced it in three hours, from a quivering and terrified mess fighting the bodily urge to dehydrate via tear ducts. After they left, the second marker and I looked at each other and went "So that was a 2:1, right?"

I caught up with Aeron downstairs and he was beaming. Apparently Ceri had seen him on their way out, and had gone over to talk to him. Aeron said the difference between the Ceri of this morning and the Ceri of then was like two different people; in four hours, they'd gone from their voice literally breaking as they admitted the problem, ashamed and broken, to being relaxed and happy and smiling.

"I reckon I've passed," they apparently told Aeron, pleased. "Maybe even a 2:2. There's things I wish I'd had the time to do better, but I'll be happy if I passed."

They won't know until late January what they got, because we're not allowed to release marks until 20 term days after hand-in, and the Christmas holidays are about to hit. But I'm really hoping I can be there when they're released.

But mostly, I'm just... insanely proud of them. I cannot tell you how happy I am. And I know, I know, obviously this is not a practice I would want to see them do regularly, or indeed ever again, and it only worked because they were fucking lucky with the assignment format, but like... when life is just punching you in the face, and you hit a breaking point... isn't it nice? That just this once, you pull off a miracle, and it's fixed? The disaster you thought was about to ruin you is gone? To get that relief?

Anyway. Super super proud today.

[youremyonlyhope]

There is a nonzero chance that I have COVID.

Yayyyyyyyy.

Let's hope it's just a cold...

[totalswag]

hii, I’m not sure if you take request still but if so is there a possible way you can do a drew x singer!reader one shot take on how Sabrina “arrests” her fans before performing Juno for being too hot but the reader does it to Drew during her shows please 🫶🏼

arrested for being too hot — DREW STARKEY

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summary "arresting" drew, your boyfriend, during your show before performing your song from your new album.

warning(s) none!

You are on tour for your new album in-front of thousands of fans almost every night. You worked hard on this album and it turned out wonderfully. If it weren’t for the amazing fans of yours, you don’t know where you’d be in your career— they are the reason you are doing this.

Half way into the show— going amazing. The crowd tonight isn't disappointing you. Everything you've hoped for on this tour. You've performed eighteen songs and about to go onto your nineteenth. Played musical spin the bottle not long ago which was really fun.

Before Juno, you begin with a small "skit" where you call someone out in the crowd, arresting them for being too hot. This became a thing after your first show of the tour and doing it ever since. Plus, fans absolutely love it. Interacting with your fans has always been something you did and create those bonds.

Drew, your boyfriend, is attending the show with Madelyn Cline, a mutual friend and cast-mate of Drew's. You told him earlier today you wanted to arrest him in the middle of the show to get the audience excited and it would be fun.

Drew was all for it, and he didn't want you to tell him what you were going to say—he prefers surprises.

Your pink, glittering, dazzling clothing was sparkling in the lights. You pressed your free hand to your brow as though you were looking around for a call. With security, you could see Drew and Madelyn making their way to the front.

You begin by adjusting your earpiece while moving around the stage in your long skirt. "You guys know that moment when you are in a room filled with such beautiful looking people that you start to feel overwhelmed?" When fans applaud, you smile.

"Oh, girls, I think I just seen my future husband in the front row! Oh my god, girls, come here, come here," you say anxiously into the microphone, beckoning them over and waving your free hand.

You turn to face Drew as the girls approach you, asking, "Do you see that gorgeous looking man over in the front row with his arms crossed in the tan shirt?" You speak into the microphone aloud, pointing to Drew in the crowd.

Your girls joyfully waved at Drew while placing their hands on your shoulder. As Drew blushes on the big screen, the crowd reflexively turns up the volume in the arena. 

"What's your name handsome?" With your head cocked slightly to the right toward your shoulder, you inquire in jest. 

"Drew!" You can hear him when he places his hands on the side of his lips. He gives you a childlike smile and a flushed face.

You say, "I'm sorry I couldn't get that?" as though you couldn't hear him. Leaning forward more, you place your free hand behind your ear.

He shakes his head and utters "Drew!" a little louder. 

"Oh my Drew, I must say that you must be a magnet because you drew me in" brings a smile to your face. Your tone indicated that you were trying quite hard not to laugh, yet you kept your calm brilliantly.

Fans had their phones out, capturing the entire interaction. Nobody would have expected Drew to be the person arrested at your gigs since the tour began.

"Drew, you are under arrest for being too hot," you say aloud, smiling and pointing at him— fanning yourself, moving your hips side to side as the sound of sirens going off with blue and red lights behind.

You put your left elbow against your girls shoulder, "guys do you ever just see someone so good looking that you just don't know what to do and all your clothes fall off in that moment" your long skirt slips off smoothy.

"Like your brain just like malfunctions and like I just wanna handcuffed to you now like," one of your girls puts the pink fluffy handcuffs into your hand, you kneel down, "do you know what I mean? Will you take these from me?"

Drew is overwhelmed in this very moment— it's very obvious how much you are affecting him. Drew gives you a gimme me gesture with his fingers, ready to catch the hand cuffs.

He takes them in his hands, looks down, and feels the smooth texture of the fuzzy. He tilts his head to the side before slowly glancing up at you with a smirk—keep in mind that he's still on the big screen.

"We're gonna sing this one to you, Drew."

Juno's song intro starts playing. You wave goodbye to Drew and Madelyn as you return to the center of the stage. You could hear the two begin speaking to fans in the distance.

Drew and Madelyn met you in the dressing room following the show. After giving Madelyn a hug and thanking her for attending the event, you moved to approach Drew and put your arms around his neck while grinning.

"That was insane," Madelyn exclaimed, pulling you into a hug. "What about the full call-out and the handcuffs? Iconic! "You're the talk of the night; everyone is crazy about it."

You giggled as your face heated up. "It seemed right." "You should have seen his face!"

She laughs, "I got the whole thing on video, I'll send it to you later."

"I'm going to give you two some alone time, but you did such an amazing job tonight and looked so hot doing it," Madelyn adds, taking your hands in her and wiggling her brows. 

"Thank you, babe. I love you always," you say, hugging her before she leaves you and Drew alone. 

When you close the door, Drew comes behind you, placing his arms around your waist and kissing you on the cheek, making you laugh with the tenderness of his lips.

"I'm so proud of you baby, you did such an amazing job on stage and looked unbelievable in your outfits made me feel like the luckiest guy in the entire world." He expresses emotionally, which uplifts you. 

"Coming from you, it warms my heart baby. Forever grateful to have you in my life," you smile softly, leaning against his chest, feeling that sense of warmth you always feel whenever you are with him.

"And I'm forever grateful for you" he quietly responds, kissing the top of your head.

"So what are we gonna do with those pink fuzzy handcuffs?"

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