#blorbo rot got my ass

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━━━ PANZERBOY

[vvidderschynnes]

I am heavily considering purchasing this ridiculous sweater.

Should I? 🤔

[least-carpet]

For the shipping ask game, Xicheng and Chengxian?

Hello, anon! This got wildly out of hand, so it's all going under a cut.

Xicheng: Could Ship It

Borrowing this additional option I saw floating around!

I'm not strongly opposed to it, but it's hard for me to see them making it work in a canon universe. The fanart is very cute, though! And I've read some AUs that I thought made a good case, but they involved some thoughtful interventions.

What potential do you see in the ship?

Honestly, like, I just want them to both have something nice, they've had such a hard time. They both understand the hard work and sacrifices involved in sect leadership. I think the argument for it goes something like Jiang Cheng gets a person on his side who is kind to him, and Lan Xichen gets someone who's very reliable and also pretty direct, to heal his presumed post-canon trust issues.

What aspect makes you hesitant?

It just doesn't seem to me that they really enjoy each other? Like I believe they get along just fine and have a comfortable working relationship. I don't think they dislike each other, even. But they don't seem particularly close, even though they're of a rank and have been working with each other for years and years. I want my blorbo (Jiang Cheng) to be loved for his bad personality, not in spite of it!

I also think they would really struggle to communicate—Lan Xichen prefers to smooth things over, but Jiang Cheng reads too much reserve or politeness as rejection and, uh, gets reactive (thank you Jiang Fengmian for giving him the MOST deranged daddy issues, for real). Actually, I think Lan Xichen has a lot of potential to push a lot of Jiang Cheng's dad-related buttons just because of his temperament. (Maybe that's a plus? CRUNCHY.)

It also has the potential to cause some new and exciting political problems for them, which they both prefer to avoid.

Chengxian: Ship It

[lies face-down on the floor and starts hollering]

These two make me fuckin' insane!

What made you ship it?

Two things:

Their mutually happy childhood relationship, their initially compatible dysfunctions (Jiang Cheng is easily embarrassed but secretly wants affection, Wei Wuxian is bad at boundaries and WILL die if you don't pay attention to him -> Wei Wuxian touching Jiang Cheng all the time and receiving his attention, making both of them happy). Their enjoyment of each other. I love a badly-boundaried and devoted teenage relationship, it's delightful. Even before chengxian completely rotted my brain out, there was something specifically appealing about the Lan summer camp era.

The double golden core reveal took me out. I found Wei Wuxian's decision completely appalling to begin with, like viscerally disgusting. (I find it interesting when antis accuse Jiang Cheng of pretending to be upset when he finds out, or of not caring where the new core came from, because I, reader who did not get nonconsensual magic surgery, profoundly Did Not Like It. If it was my own body, I would freak out.) It's a fascinating combination of obsessive devotion and total denial of agency. Wei Wuxian is just like, "Don't worry, I will invent new and unheard of methods of violation for your own good because I can't cope with your despair." That's deranged, my dude. That is Not Normal. And then you find out that Jiang Cheng lost the core saving Wei Wuxian, and he plans to NEVER TELL HIM ABOUT IT. God damn it.

I don't even really care if they kiss, although it's fun when they do. Just reconcile! Reconcile!

What are your favourite things about the ship?

In no particular order:

In a text that is largely pro-Wei Wuxian—not in the sense that everything he does is moral, but in the sense that he's the cool protagonist, and he gets to kick ass and solve mysteries and have a happy ending—this relationship is one that highlights his weaknesses and failures in a very humanizing way. And in order to reconcile, he would actually really have to challenge himself and grow as a person, which I love for him. (I also think Jiang Cheng would have to struggle for it, but, like, dude has demonstrated the capacity to do hard and terrible things even when confronted with his own weaknesses. He's not gonna be cool about it, and he's going to cry and bitch the whole time, but if he thinks it needs to be done and it can be done, he'll do it.)

The lack of boundaries within the relationship, which is a product of the lack of clarity of the type of relation to each other. Are they friends? Are they martial brothers or real brothers? If Wei Wuxian is Jiang Cheng's shixiong, but Jiang Cheng is also Wei Wuxian's sect leader, which takes precedence? (It's clear what should take precedence, but Wei Wuxian just straight-up does not Respect His Authority, even though—by all available evidence—Jiang Cheng is a really good leader. But that lack of respect is also a form of intimacy.) It's super, super messy.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

By lying to him so extensively, and then by failing to show up for any of his commitments without any explanation, Wei Wuxian really did betray Jiang Cheng a whole bunch of times, and Jiang Cheng's resulting betrayal trauma really is his fault.

You break it, you bought it, coward! Stop running away! (For legal purposes, this is a joke.)

[kangofu-cb]

WIP game!

Tagged by @there-must-be-a-lock - thank you for helping me share my shame XD

WIP I’m actually working on:

I’m like 15 pages deep in some Winterhawk space wizard AU brain rot that is entirely the fault of @claraxbarton. Should I be working on this? No. Is it one of my WIPs, fictional obligations, or an update on any series? Also no.

HOWEVER, someone wisely told me that rotating your WIP crops is good for the blorbo soil, so. This is my cover crop. Also it’s been really really fun and writing hasn’t been fun in like a whole ass year so I’m not going to stop doing it.

WIP I keep open in the background so I don’t feel guilty:

Fake-EMT Jason moves to New York to lay low until Batman stops being mad at him, meets Clint Barton and goes on a vendetta against the Tracksuit Draculas. Featuring sulking-about-it Bucky Barnes. This is a gift for @noxnthea which I AM going to finish, it just got kind of sidelined by the, you know, crushing depression of the last year or so.

Imaginary project:

A musician!AU inspired by the dumbest possible premise, which is the trailer from that terrible-looking JLo movie with Owen Wilson called ‘Marry Me’. It looks so incredibly dumb but would likely be incredible as a fanfic. Unfortunately I don’t know anything about the music industry so it’s basically dead in the water.

Passion project:

Always always aways Halfway House. It’s not abandoned, it’s just sadly neglected. I peck at it every so often, adding words here and there, and eventually one day it will grow even more!

WIP from 3 months ago:

The Loyalty of Wolves - werewolf AU my beloved. The gentle premise of this is that Bucky is a werewolf who can’t shift, and Clint is a werewolf who wants to help him so damn much. And also they fall in love. But then they totally pine about it because the love is required they’re just both idiots.

Side WIP:

I don’t really know what this category means, but I’ve decided it means the WIP that’s supposed to be to the side, and unfortunately that’s the first one on the list, so actually I’m gonna say it’s Social Graces, which is what I WAS working on before the brain rot got me.

No-pressure tags:

@claraxbarton @drgrlfriend @noxnthea @flawedamythyst @carcrash429 @cloud--atlas @violsva @captn-sara-holmes @downwarddnaspiral and anybody else who wants to fling their WIP business into the void!

[total-drama-brainrot]

Sometimes i think about if i may be to obsessed with Trent, like i try and make some headcanons or something for him (duntrent sounds funi to me)

Like I headcanon that during the whole drama brothers phase he was the only person with a drivers license and he also ran over Cody (once)

Like he has pitched a whole ass tent in my brain and is not leaving….

-Ass Stars anon

Hello hello total drama brain rot how you doing 👋😊

Hello hello Ass Stars Anon, I'm doing well! I hope you are too. 👋☺

Trent is our dumb little princess who deserves only nice things in life. He's very blorbo-shaped despite his lack of defining personality (during Island) and/or his title of the Narratives' Favourite Punching Bag (Action did him so dirty character wise), but you have to remember that Trent was intentionally designed to be the "normal guy", meaning he's got the same appeal as any other "everyman protagonist"; that is, you can project/insert as many headcanons onto him as you'd like and they're all feasible! A jack of all trades, if you will.

(DunTrent is the mirror image of Gwourtney in my mind, which makes it very funny to imagine. I wonder how it'd work out?)

Trent is just functional enough to have gotten a driver's licence post-Action, and he probably inherited a beat-up pickup truck from his dad, or was gifted a second hand Ford Focus for his birthday. He's altruism would quickly lead to him becoming friend groups' allotted taxi driver, though he laments his charitableness when they take advantage of this.

The Cody incident was probably an accident (...at least, that's what he claims 😈), since I can imagine Cody being the eternal passenger princess to Trent's long-suffering designated driver. Justin and Harold would be the bickering siblings in the back seat on their way to their next gig, since they has tour bus privileges revoked after one of their public scandals leading Trent to be their main means of travel between shows. (He's itching to run over his bandmates at any given moment. Every time one of the boys walks in front of his car it's an internal battle against his morality and the desire to floor it.)

He's just a silly guy! 😋

[cameragore]

What is rotting rabbits…

hello nonnie ...ERM!!!!! I'm assuming yr someone who I reblogged with my blorbos sso I apologize for the autism I'm about 2 spew at you. and I hope that this iss something u think is cool ❤️.... Ok. so first u need to know everymanhybrid which is a cool slenderverse series and I think if you like horror or general cool films go watch emh explained by night mind. Ok.

rotting rabbits - the pairing name for EVERY omen & habit pairing, IT IS ALSO the singular name for rr!omen and rr!habit also known as the canon emh roleplay. omen is my self insert oc for emh because I'm a system and my bff is a habit fixtive and so I do what I do w everything I like (roleeplay w it)...... every rotting rabbits is habit and omen HOWEVER. rr!omen and rr!habit aren't anything else, it's a square is a rectangle but not every rectangle is a square. habit in every rp has rabbit motifs and omen has dog ones . This is also the reason for most of the pairing names .... rotting rabbits is also our big special interest currently. everyy rotting rabbits in every form is some sort of yuri... Btw

THERE'S ACTUALLY!!! multiple omens annd mutliple habits and their own aus, all of these r roleplays and if u look at my pinned most of my posts r tagged in some way. ( 📷 - rotting rabbits / emh au omen . 🔦 - haunted hares / ghost hunter au . 📹 - cursed canines / swap au !! hollowed hybrids omen still doesn't have a erm emoji but that's. Pretty ok)

haunted hares - the ghost hunter + ghost au!!! omen is a famous ghost hunter who takes fame and ego in return for feeding habit who is a whole ass house people!!!! yep!!!! habit is literally aa house that's starved for human flesh and hes managed to live on through folktales of the house on the hill that he lives in / lives as . omen is a ghost hunter that """gets rid of habit""" and is made. Extremelyyyy famous for it ,,, this ends really dependent but they're buddy buddy . surprisingly the most normal feeling au of every one of these.

cursed canines - swap au it's. A dog based one bc omens taking the place of habit I felt extremely smart when thinking of this and honestly it is onee of my prouder moments. this is also our current system wide hyperfixtion lol ..... it was originally made out of spite because people were arguing about shipping habit being proship and I was annoyed with it so I made OMEEN worse than habit and me and my bff play with them like barbie dolls. omen kills people on stream, her and habit mutually stalk each other, omen actually kidnaps him.......... YEAHH. this is mentally ill and it's very awesome and it's what most of my posting has been recently

hollow hybrids - our animal HYRBID au!!!!! habit is a parasitic bug that crawls over and infects the hosts body + only goal is to create a hivemind, Evan and tehcinlally habit by default are a spider . Omen is a English lop, who is extremely paranoid and is forced to help habit after habit took over her house LOL!!! this is da newest one and so I don't got a lot to say with it, but I really like it.

erm.... For asking about it even if it wasn't in an "infodump pls" ask and more like "what da fuck are u saying" ask...... have some doodles of the guys.

in order... cursed canines omen, haunted hares one and two, and a hollow hybrids omen. my pfp has rotting rabbits omen.

tl;Dr ; rotting rabbits is my everymanhybrid self ship pairing with roleplays that I do with my best friend .

[tunaababee]

20 Questions for Writers tag game!

gonna chuck this under a cut since it's gonna be lengthy!! thank you so much for the tag @popjunkie42 <3 <3 <3

1. How many works do you have on AO3? eight! my one foray into DDADDS, a handful of Homestuck fics (notably Cats and Coffee, which i need to rewrite at some point!!) and 2 for acotar, though that number will be going up!!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 76,793!!

3. What fandoms do you write for? mainly acotar at the moment - i will probably dip my toes back into homestuck periodically though, it is where my roots lie!!

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Strained (my one ddadds fic for a crackship) Cats and Coffee we will be everything we say Little Games Is It? (im pretty sure this was my first fic lmao)

5. Do you respond to comments? almost always, they make my day and mean so much!! if i don't reply im either busy and forgot bc my brain is like a sieve or happened to receive and influx and got overwhelmed!!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? probably Breathe, which i wrote while having severely unmedicated depression and also being angry at how they shafted my fave character!!

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? oh, hands DOWN wwbews. that is the fluffiest most tooth rotting ending and it was DELIBERATE!!!

8. Do you get hate on fics? im very lucky to have avoided anybody's ire, but i also love biting people on the internet sometimes and i am very liberal with my block button lol

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? i think i would die a little bit if i couldnt write smut?? i mostly write relatively sappy, breeding-kink heavy stuff haha. i want to dip my toes into stuff thats a little more taboo though!! (*cough* ascendant astarion mind control *cough*)

10. Do you write crossovers? no, personally i like keeping stuff in its own little pockets!! mad shoutout to crossover writers though <3

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? not as far as i'm aware!!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? no, but if anyone ever wanted to all they'd need to do is ask!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? nope, but i may have something in the works at some point soon 👀

14. What is your all-time favorite ship? no matter what, Karezi will always be my absolute ride or die, but Feysand is pretty fucking up there too!! i love most acotar ships, but in terms of homestuck ones, Arasol and Davejade are big faves too!!

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? there's an old Homestuck wip i have deep in the folders called Glitter that i remember the vague direction of? but i know that one is not seeing the light of day, along with a barely fleshed out bandstuck au haha. im determined to make my acotar ideas/wips see the world at some point though!!

16. What are your writing strengths? mm hard to say? i'm very pessimistic/negative about me and my work by nature, so it's difficult to say with honesty, but i like to think i convey emotion and inner thoughts decently well! i also think my dialogue is relatively grounded for the most part?

17. What are your writing weaknesses? so many. i struggle with writing out of order, so when i get stuck on something i get STUCK. i have a tendency to repeat names a lot, i struggle with scene transitions and when to call a scene done. i'm also either always going way too over the top or way too underwritten, i struggle with finding a good middle! there are probably many more i could think of but i don't wanna get too in the weeds.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? i haven't used other languages as far as i can recall? if i ever do i would try and get a native speaker to give it a read over, but otherwise i am afraid our old beloathed google translate would be carrying my ass.

19. First fandom you wrote for? that i published on the internet??? Homestuck. things that never saw the light of day?? shit man, i couldn't tell you. i've been thinking about cool things my blorbos could do since i was a kid.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? very biased, but wwbews. i genuinely think its some of my best work, my first ever completed longfic and i put so much time and love into it!!!

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tags, if you're feeling like it!! @reverie-tales @starfall-spirit @shardminds @damedechance @cauldronblssd @climbthemountain2020 <3

[vespennn]

WELCOME TO VESPEN'S INSANITY ON DISPLAY

HELLO, HI. ITS ME, MYSELF, THE ONE AND ONLY VESPENNN, THE BRAN ROT CONSUMPTION HAS FINALLY REACHED ITS PEAK.

I WILL talk about EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING MY BRAIN OH SO DESIRES. FROM MY FAVOURITE BLORBOS, WHATEVER ART I PULL OUT OF MY ASS AND WHATEVER THOUGHTS PLAGUE MY EVERY WAKING MOMENT.

I WILL BE UNHINGED ABOUT SO MUCH, BUT EXPECT THIS LONG ASS LIST OF WHATEVER AUTISM STRIKES ON A WEDNESDAY EVENING TO BE TALKED ABOUT, NO SIDE BLOGS IDC ITS ALL IN ONE PLACE:

TV, SHOWS, MOVIES:

LEGO JOKER (THE LEGO MOVIES ARE NOT SAFE)

CAPTAIN HOOK (DISNEY VILLIANS WILL BE STALKED DOWN)

SHE-RA (SO WHAT IF CATRA'S REDEMPTION ARC WAS RUSHED, IT DOESNT PLAGUE MY EVERY THOUGHT)

INSIDE JOB (TAKEN TOO SOON)

GRAVITY FALLS (THE INNER THEORIST WILL NEVER NOT SHUT UP ABOUT IT, WHAT LEAD TO THE ABERRANT SMP THEORIES)

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (I CAN'T FIND THIS GODS DAMN SUGAR BOWL)

OWL HOUSE (HUNTER WOULD'VE ATE THE GALAXY WOLF ERA)

AMPHIBIA SO WHAT IF U CAVED WHEN GRAVITY FALLS REFERENCE

CARMEN SANDIEGO (BLAH BLAH DR BELLUM PEAK CHARACTER DESIGN)

STEVEN UNIVERSE (GARNET AND AMETHYST FUSION PLAGUES MY EVERY BEING, TOO GAY FOR KID ME)

KIPO, SO WHAT IF THE PACING IS WACK

HILDA, ITS JUST SO WHIMSY

HAZBIN HOTEL & HELLUVA BOSS (UHMMM MAINLY STOLAS AND SIR PENTIOUS)

TROLL HUNTERS (IM NOT MAD ABOUT THE FINAL MOVIE YOU ARE)

MYSTERY OF AARAVOS (SO WHAT IF IM PROCRASTINATING THE MOST RECENT SEASON SO WHAT)

TROLLS (OKAYYY THE LAST MOVIE WAS PEAK)

ADVENTURE TIME (SSSSSSIMON PETRIKOV)

ANIME:

CASTLEVANIA (ALUCARD IS SO HOT)

DUNGEON MESHI, WOAH HEY

KAKEGURUI (GAMBLING AND LESBIANS, MY FAVOURITE)

ATTACK ON TITAN (PEAK WRITING, PEAK SHOW)

JJK (CRUNCHY ROLL SUBSCRIPTION ENDED BEFORE I COULD FINISH WATCHING

SHADOW HOUSE (SO WHAT IF IT INSPIRED MY MAIN OC, SOOO WHAT)

THE PROMISED NEVERLANDS (AS A MANGA READER, NO I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM)

STUDIO GHIBLI (I COULD GO ON FOR HOURS)

GAMES:

GENSHIN IMPACT, SPECIFICALLY THE ONE AND ONI ARATAKI ITTO

HONKAI STARRAIL, MAINLY BOOTHILL SORRY NOT SORRY

UNDERTALE (METTATON IS SERVING ALWAYS.)

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 (MAINLY ONLINE BC IM TOO POOR FOR STORY MODE, GET READY FOR PILFER PETTIFOGG)

STARDEW VALLEY (MR QI, HOLY MOLY)

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT (NUMBER 1 DWIGHT HATER)

ULTRAKILL (GGGABRIEL ULTRAKILL)

COOKIE RUN KINGDOM (STARDUST AND AFFOGATO ARE SO COOL)

DETROIT BECOME HUMAN (ERM UHM,, HANK THE HOTTEST)

SMILE FOR ME AND GREAT GOD GROVE (HABIT IS SO PERFECT)

MINECRAFT (MCRP IS WHERE ITS AT EVERYONE)

OTHER SHENNANIGANS

ABERRANT SMP OC, JAMIE VESDIRAS YOU WOULD'VE LOVED T2 (TEA SHOP)

WHATEVER OCS I PULL OUT MY ASS

WELL HOPEFULLY THAT COVERS EVERYTHING (I DOUBT IT)

I'LL TRY TO BE ACTIVE BUT I MAKE NO PROMISES, AIN'T GOT NO CLUE HOW THIS GOD FOR SAKEN WEBSITE WORKS (ONLY USAGE WAS TO READ COMICS FROM THE RIPE AGE OF UNDERTALE PEAK) ANYWAYS, ALL ART IS ON MY INSTAGRAM PLSSS GO FOLLOW, VESPENNN

[yetanothergayemo]

thank you to my suitemate who finally got me to stop rotting in my bed and get my ass up

because they came to my room trying to annoy me with a tiktok edit of their blorbo :)

[mwolf0epsilon]

I saw your original clones post and I was curious to know more about each of them if that's ok? I really like the one with purple hair

You're the first Anon of 2023. You're also lovely for asking me about my blorbos, thank you :')

This is gonna be a little long so I'll keep it under a readmore, but like, I'm keeping batchmates together because it's easier to explain who's who if I do it like that. I'll also be addressing them each through order of appearance so it's less confusing.

Anyway, lets do some clone talk!

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First lets start with my 104th ARCs, Bully and Jawbreaker. They were former members of Krell's Battalion and two of his favourite punching bags, which is where they got their scarring from.

They were pulled into the 104th by Maeleen Eppa, a natborn engineer that noticed their fearful and distrustful nature when Plo Koon's battalion ended up working with Krell's on the same mission.

They're the hard-ass older brothers because, back on Kamino, they lost two batchmates during training exercises, and then had two much younger cadets (Tup and Dogma) introduced into their squad to even out the numbers. It's become second nature to be protective of Shinies, and even if they don't trust very easily they are loyal to a fault (unless they feel like they've been personally betrayed).

They sadly don't make it post Order 66.

Next up we have the tragedy that are Pox and Syrup.

Pox was a clone medic trainee on Kamino that got along brilliantly with his batchmates. Despite the hardships of training, he was always kind, reliable and willing to drop everything to help someone else along the way. Syrup was no different from his batchmate, and while he was training to be a simple foot-soldier, he was going to be acting as a reserve medic as well for whatever battalion he ended up in.

They were finishing training during the last leg of the Clone Wars, when suddenly Sulu Ra called for Pox's squad to partake in some kind of a training exercise. Syrup was, at the time, in medbay for an injury he'd sustained during training, so he wasn't brought along for whatever mystery exercise they were being tasked with.

Long story short... It was a bioweapon test... One that killed several clone troopers that hadn't even graduated yet; left Pox as a carrier of a highly infectious disease that continuously mutated within him, while he went on the run; and which left Syrup essentially without his closest brothers to rely on...

While Pox eventually finds a group of vode to connect with post Order 66, Syrup isn't as lucky. His inhibitor chip was faulty and began to rot inside of him, much like Tup's had, and it obliterates his sense of self to the point where he doesn't consider himself a person. Just a tool to be used by the Empire.

Next up Hyena, a medic of the 104th.

Like with Bully and Jawbreaker, he wasn't originally with the 104th. He was assigned to the 501st with his squad from Kamino, which he never got along with because they were a bunch of unrelenting bullies that thought they were better than everyone else. The disagreements got so bad that eventually he grew fed up enough to request a transfer, and managed to get into the 104th where he felt much more at home.

There's not much to say about Hyena other than, he has quite the sense of humor and love for terrible jokes/puns.

Still unsure what happens to him post Order 66.

We're missing one of them (Goch) due to his face being a little harder to draw than your average clone due to several facial deformities, but next up comes the Long Name Squad.

Lichtenberg, Pretty Boy and Olly are in the 501st, 212th and Coruscant Guard respectively, while Hippo and Cala were never in battalions due to the two of them (and Goch) being confined in Sulu Ra's private lab.

Lich is the accident prone but often optimistic and carefree older brother of the batch, PB is the token pretty boy with a bit of a sassy mean streak, Olly is the responsible but heavily traumatized one, and Hippo and Cala are still getting used to being free at all.

Side-notes: Hippo's goggles are technically a visual aid because her cyclopsia has left her vision severely impaired. Cala needs a cane to walk due to her polymelia making her a little top heavy (she has four arms). Both used to be conjoined twins before being surgically separated.

They have a relatively happy ending post Order 66, even if getting to it is an absolute hardship that tests their bonds repeatedly.

Next up, Seafood Squad! And boy howdy these ones are such a burning trash-fire of a mess...

In order we have Geoduck, Conch, Crayfish, Jelly and Sponge. All of them were in the scuba trooper program before Sponge (who had always been a target of Kaminoan scrutiny, due to a set of circumstances that still make them very uncomfortable) was ultimately pulled from it and forced into the medical training program.

This seemed to cause a sizeable rift between Sponge and the three eldest members of their batch (one that grew overtime due to Conch's pettiness and Crayfish's indifference). Jelly, the most amicable and compassionate of the batch, stuck with them for the long run and refused to grow distant. The two of them were so inseparable to the point where Sponge begged Jelly to come with them into whatever battalion they got assigned, rather than go with the others. Jelly accepted, pulling out of the scuba trooper program and worsening the growing contempt a certain member of the batch felt towards Sponge.

Ultimately, Geoduck, Conch and Crayfish were assigned to Kit Fisto's battalion, while Jelly and Sponge were assigned to the 501st. Jelly then died in an incident that heavily traumatized Sponge, and from there on out the rest of the batch (mostly Conch) blamed them for the death of their favourite vod'ika, and stopped contacting them at all. This left Sponge alone to deal with their trauma, which they didn't do very well...

A lot happens to them throughout the war itself and, at some point (likely driven by guilt and shame of being such a poor excuse for an older brother), Geoduck decides to try to mend the relationship between the batch and Sponge. But, due to his rather unique issue (face blindness so severe that he honestly has trouble recognizing anyone), he never managed to do so during the war itself. Mostly due to Conch actively sabotaging his attempts, and Crayfish simply not caring enough to help because he'd rather not stick his nose into any drama.

Side-Notes: Geoduck, Conch and Jelly have sea creature themed names which they decided on when they first began their scuba training. Crayfish has a freshwater creature themed name instead, because he may or may have not eaten a live crayfish that he pilfered from the Kamino Kitchens during the night.

Meanwhile, Sponge is not named after sea sponges at all. They are instead named after surgical sponges due to a... Rather unfortunate incident during their training... In an ironic twist it just fits their batch's theme in a way.

What happens to the great majority of them post Order 66 is still a WIP, but I know how Sponge's story ends and I'm very pleased with it.

These three next ones are fun... Introducing Medic Canivete of the 212th, Officer Incognito of Krell's Battalion, and Ordnance Specialist 8-Ball. The one batch who can't decide which is the sane one of the group (none of them are).

Cani is essentially a Swiss army knife in terms of skills. She's officially a medic on record, but she also does a lot of flight crew tasks and a spot of engineering here and there. A girl has to keep herself busy after all! And she just likes to learn new things.

Incognito is an anxiety-riddled mess that wishes he wasn't often so unlucky with what life throws his way (he cannot get a break the poor sod), and has a lot of self-doubt that plagues him during his introspection sessions. He's living with a lot of survivor's guilt due to the situation he's stuck in (pretending to be a droid while trapped in a Venator he's trying to stir away from Republic space so the seppie droids that took over don't slaughter any more of his brothers), but overall seems to be in relatively safer hands with the droids than when he was under Krell's command.

8-Ball is a bit of an enigma to most. He's a happy go lucky sort, lover of anoobas of all shapes and sizes, and also a force sensitive clone with a predisposition for precognition that he doesn't recognize as anything else other than "gut feelings". He's a fun guy who doesn't have one mean bone in his body, and who's predictions have earned him both his name and a bit of infamy among other clones, since he mostly seems more attuned to "guessing" less than positive events to come...

I'm not entirely sure what happens to them post Order 66...

[REDACTED]

Before Fox became the Marshal Commander of the Coruscant Guard, the title belonged to Sturm... His predecessor who was met with a terrible fate for caring too much and trying to investigate things he should have averted his gaze away from...

Lets just say there's more than one reason why Fox keeps his mouth shut about what goes on on Coruscant, and Sturm's unfortunate fate is one of those reasons.

Order 66 doesn't much matter in this case. Sturm was already doomed from the start.

Finally we have Mythos Squad, a squad of clone commandos who deserted the GAR after their Jedi General (Vikerius Kwinde) was killed by Grievous.

In order we have Dragon (the defacto leader), Komainu (the designated medic), Basilisk (the sniper), Gremlin (the designated technician) and Kerberus (the demolitions expert).

There's not much to say about them because unfortunately Kerberus is the last one standing post Order 66. He was deafened during torture, so while listening to the GAR radio chatter the others heard the order being called out while he could not (thus they attempted to terminate him for disobeying the order, and he had to kill them in self-defense, something that will never stop haunting them).

[bitegore]

I would love to hear of your combiner blorbos. Anything about them you'd really like to talk about?

okay okay like so i am like. literally foaming at the mouth about motormaster all the time lately. for like the last two? weeks ? something like that.

anyway i love this fucking truck so much. he is awful and he sucks, and for some reason this is deeply endearing to me personally. I llove him. I have feelings for and about him. I am going to kill him to dead with my own two bare human hands and he can't stop me. because I love him.

anyway one of the things that makes the stunticons as a whole interesting to me is that they're very young, relatively speaking! they have very little life experience. they're like the terrans in earthspark (fucking psyched to see that by the way) in that they have never seen prewar cybertron, they have never spent any time outside the decpeticons on earth, and they don't really know anything about their past, their culture, their history, or, frankly, anything else. You learn from experience and most of their experience is being kind of ignored and left to their own devices when they're not being ordered to do stuff for megatron. Who's gonna teach them shit?

and like motormaster SUCKS but at least in part because he's like if you gave a 25 year old a giant sword, told him he was meant to be in charge of other people by nature, and then made sure he had zero experience socializing with anyone ever. Like they come out of vector sigma knowing how to fight, but they are not functional people. they suck and they are useless and Motormaster is in charge of them and also the worst, because he's technically an officer so he doesn't have to learn to play nice with the rank and file the same way the others do, and he also doesn't have to work with teammates to avoid getting in trouble like the others do.

Like okay listen. listen. He's stupid as fuck and he's very naive and the Decepticons say their thing is might makes right even though it's really not just might makes right and i hit you if you don't listen, right? They run around lying and cheating and stealing through most of g1 but might makes right. okay sure lord megatron totally. whatever. but this man is ten minutes old and smart as a brick. of course hes gonna buy in. Do you think he has the necessary level of experience to say "my authority figure is lying to me"?

and, like, living on might makes right alone under the thumb makes it really obvious how much of "might makes right" is nonsense, actually. Where under "might makes right" is "hey i got something you want and ill swap it to you if you cover my ass when motormaster asks who broke his cd player", you know? So much of human interaction and simple basic behavior does not fit into the paradigm and its pretty obvious IF YOU ARE UNDER IT. But Motormaster is not under it. And motormaster has no fucking friends.

like. it rots the fuck. it rots your brain. it rots your ability to relate to people when you're classing them "i could beat you" vs "you could beat me" and not "we are both people on the same side who want the same shit". it fucks your ability to socialize when everything is a power game and anything that isnt a fistfight is a prelude to what is obviously the relevant social posturing, aka, a fistfight. it fucks up your ability to even have a normal conversation when you need to hide all your insecurities so you stay on top, and make no mistake, motormaster does not even see an option outside staying on top.

like

like.

if he were older and had a little more going on under the hood id say he were afraid of not being on top but i dont think he's even grasped that that was an OPTION like. i do not think he understands what might makes right MEANS. i don't think he understands that if someone gets the better of him that he's now down under the thumb with the rest of them. I don't think he has ever thought about it. Why should he? He's stronger and they're weaker and that's the natural and correct order of these things, when would that ever change?

(When someone gets a gun, historically speaking.... not exactly a challenge for a fucking decepticon......)

like a lot of these thoughts are really so complex that i cant even communicate them properly in words i have to write fic about it to pin down what i mean. when i say i write fic instead of meta this is what i mean. the relationships the stunticons have are all like. they genuinely clearly care about each other or they would have fucking killed each other within ten minutes of experiencing each other's company i am fucking telling you. breakdown or drag strip would've done it, they're the ones with the most obvious stress lines that motormaster and the others are always pressing on. so there is some reason they haven't done it. and they all seem to really buy into the Cause and the Decepticon Line and for the most part that means they buy into might makes right. whoever strikes the first felling blow wins.

BUT IT DOESNT like the ritual fucking combat between Megatron and Starscream is clearly like

I. I don't know in g1 the violence they do on each other is actually really pretty low-key all things told. more people and more eloquent than i ahve talked about how weird it is that megatron "lets" starscream live but if you assume its pageantry for the troops to remind you that Leader is Strongest(tm) or whatever and Starscream, the only one willing to strike out against Leader, is bold enough to be second in command. when starscream really gets bold about it megatron really escalates too but that's rare for them. they don't do that often. you can sort of put it in as a ritual, it seems like it is, like it's real combat but it's a game. they're not really meaning it every single time. and its clearly on display for a REASON or starscream would just poison Megatron and be done with it. He's probably got his name in the will, you know? SIC inherits if Commander dies unless something is UP.

And we see it with TFTM too. When Megatron is dying and the Decepticons start arguing over who should be leader its couched in terms of strongest-

BUT THEY DON'T ACT LIKE THAT

THEY DON'T THEY JUST DO NOT ACT LIKE MIGHT MAKES PROPER RIGHT. THEY DO NOT. so it doesn't make SENSE to say that the whole army is like that. but its how leadership is transferred and i think it IS reasonable to say that the stunticons don't really get the pageantry yet. So they think Motormaster has to die, and it's sort of allowed, like it's not really but its how it works. And they haven't killed him yet, so there's something else there, like, despite everything they actually give a shit about this stupid idiot truck in charge of them

and i think there's another side to it, too, which is that he understands what his job and the expectations he's meant to meet are very clearly. he is in charge of his team so he represents his team. if his team fucks up that means HE fucks up. If command wants to take it up with anyone they can take it up with HIM (even though he'll go back and take that out on all four of his subordinates because he's mad and hitting them really hard is a convenient outlet. he sucks). His job is to be the guy who Command gives orders to because he is the strongest and he is the guy who Command gives punishment to because he is the strongest. He is the guy who is supposed to defend and stand up for the rest of the team because he is the strongest. Like, he definitely sees himself as like, 'earning' the right to beat the shit out of the other four by defending them from being beaten on by anyone else. If anyone tries to hassle HIS dumbfuck cars they get to fight HIM and he will hurt them until they will not do that ever again. Because that is his job. Because he is the strongest.

I think the other four know this, but like, they still resent him for the rest of it. It's not worth it. At least if they were being picked on by the rest of the faction they could lock them out. Motormaster lives with them. He's inside their heads. There is nowhere for them to go when they need a break unless he decides they deserve one. As you may imagine, no one is happy with this situation except Motormaster

except like he's NOT

he's not happy with this EITHER like you can SEE it he's so fucking unfulfilled and he thinks it's because his team gets in his way and they aren't respected enough and that might be part of it but i really don't think it is. he has no positive social contacts. He has his team but they kind of hate and fear him more than just about anything else, even if they do care about him somewhere in there. He's too busy being competitive and keeping his spot on the pile to have friends outside the faction. And he's too conscious about who lives underneath him and is a subordinate and a target to have any friends in the rank and file. He has cut himself off from every possible angle of positive social feedback and he is too fucking naive and inexperienced to see it because as far as he knows this is just his life! this is how it's always been! why should he want different? what even is there to change?

and the answer is, like, a lot of things, but nothing he thinks is important, you know? Friends is an autobot thing, that's for losers, and he doesn't need anyone anyway. he has his team. and they have him... right?

and then the like. the other bit that gets me is that like. he has no choice. he is this way because he is, not because he chose to be. So it's hard to know what he'd be like if you gave him options. But I don't think he'd choose to be any different now that he's gotten a taste. he likes being on top too much. The minute you concede that might doesn't make right, he loses a lot of the position he has, because he has to admit that the people under him have some kind of right, too, and they can get to him and if he fucks up they can fuck him up even though they're superficially physically weaker. He's got reason to maintain these beliefs. He likes being on top of the pile and I don't think he likes feeling like there's anywhere else he might be.

anyway i am going to eat him like a fucking candy bar. i love him. he sucks.

[writtenbyevie]

✨slumber party tag game✨

I want to have a sleepover with my mutuals and this is my compromise. no obligation to participate if tagged!!

what pajamas are you wearing: either a big ass t-shirt with shorts and fuzzy socks or my onesie with my name embroidered on it (my family all has matching christmas onesies because we’re That White Family™️)

socks or no socks: fuzzy socks everywhere except to sleep

favorite midnight snack(s) : cheddar ruffles or anything chocolate

blanket fort or floor pile: blanket fort with high top chairs as support so we can still see the TV

what movie(s) are you bringing: the adam project, about time, and daniel sloss’s comedy specials

card games, board games, or video games: board games (love Clue especially)

hot cocoa or wine (or other beverage) : hot cocoa!! I also drink like two cups decaf coffee every night so that too

how far are you making it in the pillow fight: i will organize the troops and lead them into battle, but would definitely get my shit rocked, top 4

two truths and a lie: I helped catch a murderer when I was 5, I nearly got murdered on a film set when I was 19, my almost godfather was arrested murderer three days before I was born (accidental homicide theme)

hair braiding, face masks, or makeovers: face masks, specifically the sheet ones with weird designs. like the animal ones

confess one thing about your crush (or partner, squish, or blorbo): he’s got this super soft laugh that takes up his whole face and it’s so contrasting to how he normally looks (super fit and all broody) and it’s adorable

late night daydream song(s) : inevitable by anberlin or cristofori’s dream by david lanz

do you believe in ghosts: kind of, like the scientific version w/ time and space folding in on themselves not like vengeful spirits or possession

what about aliens: oh yeah, with as big as space is, it’d be more unlikely for aliens NOT to exist

have you ever slept talked/walked: I slept walked the night I turned 13. got all my friends and family up and said something bad was gonna happen and freaked them all out. I randomly woke up in my living room and remember none of it rip

what would be your superpower: telekinesis!

what mythical creature are you: I’ve been told I look and act rather fae/nymph like

what position do like to sleep in (plus pillows and blankets preference!) : comforter, two blankets, a gravity blanket and literally nine pillows bcuz I am touch starved. I start on my side w/ a pillow between my legs and always end up on my stomach holding one under my head

three things you like about yourself (no skipping!! this slumber party is about self-love!!) : my intelligence/creativity, my face, and my determination

how late do you stay up (current time): midnight!

I would like to invite to the sleepover (no pressure tagging):

@mrs-nubenueve @homosubtext @i-am-suffer @perpetual-trashcan @kirakirabluemoon @haikyuu-brain-rot

luv to you all ✨

[annikuh]

was going thru photos for world theater day yesterday and found pics from a workshop of the play Portia Coughlan that I did when I was 16. & unfortunately it’s blorbo city.

literally abt this woman whose twin brother drowned when they were kids, & she’s never been able to get over it (and iirc, it’s kind of her fault to some degree; in our production, she straight up left him to die) and it’s like ruining her entire life. like she’s emotionally distant from everyone; she’s hearing him talk to her; there’s a ton of incest-y, sexual feelings there; and she just is aching that her other half is dead, like he’s rotting inside her.

one line was, "don't know if anyone knows what it's like to be a twin. everything's swapped and mixed up and you're either two people or you're no one" & another was “he was mine first” like shut the hell up, you know who tf that is. thats’s my man Panathir, cmoooooon, you gotta be kidding me.

& the costume design is a funny coincidence too, bc I played the younger version of Portia & me and the guy playing the ghost of the brother had dark gray makeup all around our eyes LMAO I was like oh there’s my nepherits.

honestly might buy a copy of the play bc it was really cool & I never got to do the full production. in the meantime, it’ll provide a lot of drawing inspo.

anyway look at this pic from it, it’s so funny. tumbleweed ass. (all of our flashbacks to the brother’s death were dance sequences, which was really cool, but didn’t photograph fantastically LMFAO)

fuck it more pics under the cut bc it was cool

[careful-pyromancer]

happy blorbo blursday! no particular question, just an invitation to ramble about your vampires :D the worldbuilding around them is super cool and I'd love to hear any facts you care to share!

Hehehehe thank u I've just calmed down from a panic attack so sorry if there are any weird mistypes hehe

So basically vampires are only really a thing for the people chosen by the Goddess of Nature. Her name is Ravana and she was a seelie faerie who ascended to the heavens after being a bad ass and protecting her home from inside and outside threats. She rules over the domain of summer and is generally pretty competent

UNFORTUNATELY there's a guy named Isaiah who was chosen by the ruler of the Gods and went mad with power. Everyone thinks he's dead and he's not. He was cursed to rot for eternity but because of faerie bullshit he swapped names and now his vibes decay things, including Ravana's drive to protect her family

So with this guy putting the most rancid vibes out and he's got a whole gay thing with Castien bc he abducted his aunt and now she's possesed by a demon forever basically BUT

This all ties in because Ravana is using her magic on HER and not the ones who've been relying on it for eons and she basically cuts communication with every chosen including Castien amd Wednesday with one last direction

"If you need my grace it runs in your blood. Any good beast will hunger for it" or something to that effect so Castien amd Wednesday who are already basically married shrug and start biting the shit out of each other. Faerie blood is a good conduit for magic bc it lacks iron, humans who know magic Note that their blood is a bit sweeter. Very cool!

So there were some. Side effects. Like being able to meld into one person for a while and hearing/seeing/tasting/smelling/feeling the other person's thoughts.

There are other chosen who are fucked up like the Goddess of life and the Goddess of death chosens being able to talk to ghosts and exorcize demons (Goddess of life ppl also exert their life force to heal people so they slowly get closer to the Goddess as she replaces their life force with her own) ((side not the Goddess of life and her sister the Goddess of death have been stuck in time loops before)) and they're basically looking on in horror like

"None of them waited did they????? They didn't even hesitate??????"

So yeah! Bc the vampires are all chozens of ravana they r considered holy. The vampire thing happened many eons ago when ravana got tricked by the god of mischief and fell asleep for 5 months

[dasagoo]

Beckett headcannons? I got the Becky boy brain rot

oooh I got quite a few! You're feeding my Beckett delirium. This will likely be long because I don't get to spew this shit often. putting it with a read more to keep the beckett deniers tame :3

I like to think Beckett has a few tattoos. A few eagles and probably a few really sloppy ones he gave himself or that others gave him (probably when drunk). He isn't covered with them but has quite a few, mainly around his arms, chest, back, and one or two on his thigh.

Beckett would also be chunky. Lots to love. Plushy man boobs. You know! Pillows on his front. Beer gut. Tall and big! I like to think around 6'1. I also like to think Beckett's appearance is a little terrifying and he still looks like he is a raider who could kick your ass when he probably could not nowadays.

He would use "love" or "my love" as petnames. He also finds PDA a little awkward. He is just an awkward guy in general around romance things. His charisma is high. He is a lovable guy and loves to interact with strangers at his bar. When it comes to love... he's a goof.

He is very bisexual and has had flings with both men and women when he was still in gangs. Nothing romantic. Sexual (while likely high and drunk). I know he is bi in canon too, but thats just Bethesda not writing sexuality so it doesn't count lmao.

Beckett is actually his last name, (again, also canon to an extent). His first name would probably be something stupid or embarrassing and that he preferred his last name over his first name, so it stuck. Only his brother would know his dead name.

Beckett isn't trusted by a lot of people - especially within Foundation and Crater. There are those who still see him as a Blood Eagle, so visiting Foundation or Crater is a gamble. The people who visit his bar are either oblivious to his past or dismissive over his history. Being a Blood Eagle is a blemish he can't exactly scrub off.

Beckett would snore 😴 ....loudly likely.

Goofy smile. GOOFY SMILE. CUTE GOOFY SMILE. BEAR HUGS. PICK ME UP!!!!!!!!

I like to think he doesn't just sell drinks at his bar but also items the Vaultie finds that are valuable. He also worries sick about them while theyre gone on their trips. It's like the spongebob episode that says "I dunno, what do you normally do while I'm gone?" "Wait for you to get back!"

alright lmao thats enough for now. Funny enough tho I have a private passworded tumblr where I keep headcanons for my blorbos. A lot is... uh... deeper *wink* than this surface level if you catch my drift. Also a lot that goes with my Vaultie and how he is with them. maybe I'll give it out one day. maybe lmao

[blarfkey]

For the Blorbo etc fandom questions, do Star Wars?

Ok so I meant to do this a long time ago and couldn't find the post with all the questions on it and it showed back up on my dash (lol, dash) so lets do this!

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): PADME AMIDALA. I saw her at nine in TPM and lost my shit and have never been the same. I love everything about her, even though they basically character assassinated her in the last movie. I am very picky about how she is done, though, because I don't think she's this perfect angelic kind soul, I think she more do no harm but take no shit and she's incredibly intelligent and the original idea they kicked around for ROTS where she lured Anakin to Mustafar to kill him bc it needed to be done is more true to her character than what did happen.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Does the Tooka/Loth cat count? bc I have an obsession. If not, currently its Baby Leia in the Obi Wan show bc dear god they did her perfectly. And also grogu but I think grogu is everyone's scrunkly

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): So many! First off, Rose got such a shit end of the stick. I adored her character so much and she would have been so great with Rey if they had been able to share any screen time. I also really love Ahsoka even though a lot of the fandom kind of shit on her, I never felt like she ways a mary sue or boring, she was a greatly developed character and she fit right in with Anakin and Obi-Wan.

I also kind of fell in love with Chirrut in Rogue One and I wish I saw more of him once the hype for that movie died down.

Lastly, Cid from the Bad Batch Show. She's a grumpy, crotchety old lady alien who saves their ass and makes them pay for it and we never see those types in Star Wars. I even based an OC on her as a background character in one of my DA fics.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): Riyo Chuchi! She was such a kick ass character in TCW and we barely got to see her. Also love all the handmaidens for Padme, but especially Sabe. I love Captain Tarpals from the Gungans. And weirdly enough I really like Max Rebo and the two headed announcer from the pod race.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): I am an unapologetic villain lover so obviously Kylo Ren/Ben Solo. I think his character is really tragic and the fandom at large either completely demonizes him or they completely woobiefy him and I like it in the middle. He did some really really shitty things that he shouldn't be off the hook for, but neither do I think the fact that Snoke manipulated him since basically birth and he's never been alone with his own thoughts and his own influence in his entire life until TLJ should be swept under the rug.

I really loved Hux in TFA and the vibe of like stepbrothers who hate each other and compete for Dad's approval with Kylo Ren over Snoke was hilarious. He seemed ruthless and cold and calculating and all of that is very sexy and then . . .they ruined it lol. I have my own version of him in my head that I keep and coo over.

DJ from TLJ is also that perfect mix of kind and self serving and chaotic and I desperately need more of him in any capacity, also Benecio Del Toro is unbelievely attractive.

And you know what, I'm gonna say it: I like Jar Jar Binks. I thought he was funny as a kid, I loved him in TCW especially those episodes with him and Mace Windu and I don't think he deserved quite the level of vitriol he got, he was clearly a fun character for children and the adults can fuck off. Also I quote him all the time

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Probably Hux. I think it's fun to see him lose his cool, like he did with Poe in TLJ. And I am enjoying seeing Obi-Wan a bit of a wreck in his show.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): When I was a kid it was Qui Gon Jinn, haha. If you read the Obi-Wan apprentice books he was such a dickhead, and even in TPM the moment he met Anakin, he just tossed Obi-Wan aside, even his last words were about Anakin, and you could tell it hurt Obi-Wan even though he was supportive of it.

Now it's Bastila Shan from KOTOR, I think she is an incredibly arrogant bitch and I definitely enjoyed turning her to the dark side and then killing her.