#but there ya go

[sharkflan]

In your 'the girls are fighting' comic I really love Astarion standing there with his hands on his hips watching. Could you upload a zoomed in picture of that? I want to make it my icon so badly

[wabbyhazzy]

Hello! Asking because while I ADORE the wholesome fanart between Adam and Eve, I’m a bit confused because I though Eve’s profile said she left Adam after all his verbal abuse of her? Is the wholesome art basically BEFORE he turned abusive of her and started cheating on her, or is it your own AU where Adam is obviously not a douchebag like he is in canon?

Ah

The verbal abuse happened when Eve and Adam went to heaven. All the other angels kept pointing at Eve as an unfaithful wicked woman who caused all the fall of humanity. Adam was spoon fed these thoughts and ideas to act the same towards Eve like everyone else was. He never wanted to make her cry, but that’s what he did and thus Eve left him. Not really saying she did. She wanted the man she had spent her life with in Eden, and the hundreds of years with as mortals. Not who he was in heaven. “This isn’t the man who I loved back on earth. This isn’t the man I had spent every single waking moment feeling the embrace of. You are not Adam. You are merely heaven”

As soon as she had left him, he felt a piece of him was gone (insert rib joke here). He had hated the idea of talking about Eve like he had to win the praises of higher up angels. So he stopped immediately. He never really thought those things, he wanted Eve back, but knew he didn’t deserve her. He realized he was a bad husband, even his 5 other children, Abel especially, give him crap about it. (Cain doesn’t know so he’s not included.)

This au doesn’t really have the events of Charlie’s hotel. (Not to say it won’t happen yet, but it’s more so not the focus) This is more so just an au of a rekindling love that was burning out due to other people’s talks. A exs to lovers of remembering who they were before they were warped by the status minds. If that at all makes sense. Eve still loves Adam, Adam still loves Eve.

Also for more details, some AUs I do with Eve will have her be with Lucifer instead. So please take that in mind as I have multiple au timelines for Eve

[thatgirl4815]

Friendship

Given that this show is called “Only Friends,” I think it’s interesting to think about all the ways that friendship is a backdrop for everything.

Four friends, each leading their different lifestyles, each with their own history. Looking a little deeper: Ray doesn't just want to be Mew's friend but that's all Mew wants Ray to be. Boston doesn't want more than friendship and casual intimacy with anyone. Cheum and Ray idolize Mew as their friend, but for different reasons.

Sand and Nick become friends who bond over their pathetic attachments and grow closer due to their loser status (affectionate).

Even the couples are tethered to this idea of friendship in some capacity. Boston wants to be friends, Nick doesn't. Sand and Ray claim to be friends, but they know it's more than that. Top and Mew have never wanted to be friends, but Top's cheating with Boston inevitably ruins the core four's dynamic.

Everything either relates directly to friendship, has implications for other friendships, or is a poorly veiled excuse for something more than friendship.

Some characters are only friends. Some were friends but aren't anymore. And others could never have been just friends.

[queenlucythevaliant]

What are your thoughts on Eve? I have mostly positive thoughts/feelings towards her, so I want to know if you have any insights.

Quite honestly, most of the time when I think about Eve it's in the context of historicity of Genesis-type stuff, which I'm guessing isn't what you're after.

She reads as very archetypal, you know? And in some ways she is. She's a type of the church, certainly; the first Church failed by the first Adam. She's a type of Woman in many ways, cursed to bear the effects of sin and suffering within her own body.

I do absolutely love the song "Like the Dawn" by The Oh Hellos (my favorite song by them) and, less theologically, the poem "Eve and Adam" by Bertha James:

I think that Eve loved Adam, first of all, Not in the garden where all things were fair, Not in the sad time when he failed her there, But when they were at last outside the wall And it was night. They heard the night-birds call, And as the sword curved flaming through the air They saw long shadows crouch and leap; their hair Was brushed by unseen wings; they heard rocks fall. Then defiant Eve was caught by fear; Perhaps she turned and reached for Adam's hand And leaned against his shoulder to be near, Not caring that he could not understand, Feeling him marvelously strong and good.

[omgeto]

Incoming… when you have sex with your sugar daddy (toji, gojo, nanami, suguruuuu)

[statementlou]

He goes on a small tangent about merch — isn’t it strange how it’s always the most basic stuff that does well? “There’s been so many times I would like to do things that are a little bit cooler, a bit more artistic,” he says. “The statistics don’t lie: If my face is on it, it sells way better.”

Zayn for Nylon

[eff-plays]

ngl when it comes to fenris vs someone from bg3 i'm dying to know who would win between fenris and karlach since her engine probably makes her immune to his ghost abilities? like, even if fenris can phase through her initially without feeling the heat, he'd never be able to re-solidify it within her without his arm melting off in the process. it feels like their matchup is as close to a 'normal' warrior vs warrior fight as you'd get from either of them.

I ship this ask with this post in my drafts 💖

[cirqueduroyale]

Since Aries use to be a janitor. I’m guessing he inherited the bank from his wife’s family?

Yup!

He also took his wife's last name

Aries came to Clowny Island as a refugee from a small sinking island. His family had nothing so he had to work from a very young age with little down time, for which he resented his 'friends'.

Gemma's family didn't love that she was with someone so far 'below' them, so he felt like he had something to prove to everyone.

In a short time, Aries and Gemma took their small town bank and expanded it to other kingdoms.

[kottkrig]

Do any of your ocs have faceclaims

This ask was in my inbox for like a year and I'm sorry I'm a slowpoke but I compiled some images at last Most of them were unintentional and the similarities weren't realized until after I completed their designs lol

[sylkshe-a]

plopping this down again

the drabble to how ani got the scars on her back in her cult verse

tw: blood mention , body horror , cult stuff , religious themes

i highly recommend reading it while listening to the song in my pinned post!!!!!

[medics-secret-shipfic-folder]

Small question if you’re willing to answer!

What heights are the 4 main guys?

(Also sorry if this is on your page I couldn’t find it anywhere)

This is the right place!

Heavy and Medic are their canon heights: 6'5 and 6'1 respectively.

In the comics its hard to tell how tall Cheavy is in comparison to Heavy, but he appears to be slightly shorter than him. Maybe around 6'3.

I know he's shown to be significantly taller than Medic but heights do unfortunately change between the comics. On top of that, there's a good chance he was only drawn to be taller than Medic to make him look more imposing, rather than that being his actual height.

This is somewhat similar to how Saxton Hale's SFM model is insanely tall, but in the comics he's around 6'7. He's really not that much taller than Heavy. In fact, Saxton Hale is DWARFED by both Vivette and Bloodmaw, who are both upcoming characters in TBTF.

Saxton Hale just looks a lot taller than he is because he's posed that way and because...well, it's Saxton fucking Hale. He's the Big Man of tf2. He's supposed to look imposing, even if he's not that much taller than the other Big Man of tf2.

As for Cmedic...he appears to be the shortest. Maybe around 6'0 or 5'11. Again, its difficult to tell since we only have the one frame from the comics to go by.

[xjustlikeyou]

The TAI/Midtown Aftershow

This is what I wrote when I got home re: the VIP experience of the Aftershow

Feel free to message/ask if you want clarification about anything because most of it is not even full sentences. It was just things I didn't want to forget.

(Also if someone has a better memory than me and has the actual Midtown set list - hit me up)

———

TAI soundcheck -

We were really late going in. Jon posted the pic of TAI soundchecking while we were all still in a line outside and we were all like ???? (Also this venue loved lines. We started in one, then went to another, then went to a third, fourth, and fifth).

We were kept in the venue for a bit and heard all of About A Girl in the stairwell before they let us in.

We walked in to everyone on stage but Will who walked in as we were filtering in and was so fucking bashful. I was directly in front of Will (and somehow survived).

"I left and went to the bathroom and came back and there's all these people here! How did that happen?"

They were all so fucking happy and playful and joking and teasing and complimenting each other which made my heart so happy. I legit never thought I'd see them together again - much less SO HAPPY. They were all so appreciative and I still can't believe it happened.

I think Carden talked the most out of all of them. Partly because Sisky didn't have a microphone unless he stole someone's which he did a few times.

After the first couple takes:

The butcher - “this takes the edge off”

Mike - “yeah!! It should always be like this. Like a soft opening. This is great. I love this.” 

Will - “Agreed. But it’s more, well more like a warm…no. It’s not. I’ve made it weird.”

I’ve already gotten so overwhelmed I forgot all that we saw

I know Big Mess, some of LAX, Bulls in Brooklyn, About A Girl again, Phase maybe? Def one or two from Almost Here. At one point they were going to do verse and a chorus of a song and we and Will kept going into the second before trailing off. Will shrugging and kinda giggling - "well, we all just got so excited - I forgot we were stopping."

GABE WATCHING THEM the whole time.  - Hugs all around and x2 for Will. He's so fucking proud of them. And supportive. Everyone deserves a hype person like he is for them. Jesus. I have so many feelings.

Mike (roughly): "So, uh. We've been rehearsing for this for a week now. It's really good to be doing it for people other than ourselves. I mean, Gabe flew in and sat on the ground and watched - he's actually over there still watching - and he said we were good but...ya know. We're glad you're here."

Will immediately starting to walk towards Gabe to get his hugs and then coming back, "Shhhh, he's not supposed to be here. It'll be our secret, okay?" DEAD. SO DEAD.

Fucking incredible vocals - Will sounded so so so good. They all did but I just. SO GOOD.

Ian being Ian - had his slide and wanted to play fancy things and was adorable

Sisky not having a microphone - "Yeah, why don't you?" "I don't know where it went." "We can get - " "NO NO NO no microphone."

Snakes on a plane - fan try outs - Sisky leading with Carden and everyone ragging on Gabe (who refused to come out but did pretend to take notes on everyone's performance). They pulled 3 people from the crowd to try out for the rap. Completely impromptu supposedly. Mike kept stressing they had not planned on doing this. But Sisky kept saying it'd been 17 years and he still hasn't figured out how to play bass and rap and was not going to try.

Will's panicked little "wait, what mic are they going to use? This one's mine" and cradled it to his chest broke me.

Sisky said it was going to be crowd participation but also sort of chose himself too.

Will had tea and was very precious about it.

“I’m warming up and so are you”

To go from shy and awkward to chills and just pure happiness

THAT MAN BELONGS ON A STAGE ALWAYS. 

The protect trans live pin. I’M STILL NOT OVER IT. 

Legit we all got chills halfway through just because it was so special and actually happening and none of us could believe it. Will literally rubbed his arm in the middle of a song and called it out and just ugh.

At one point, he did this little mic catch, looked at Gabe, did it again, and was just so proud of himself.

Mike constantly ragged on Gabe and it was the best.

Mike: “So I blocked an extra hour for Midtown’s soundcheck because Gabe needs it. You think you need 2 hours of vocal warm-ups? I think you do."

“Is it 7:30 yet? I promised Gabe we’d be off by then.”

It legit felt like a performance minus the stopping and adjusting and it was just so relaxed and so happy and I - it was worth everything I paid for and more.

---

(We start the very slow process of waiting to meet the TAI boys and get to see the beginning of Midtown’s soundcheck) 

Meeting them - all of them were so so so so nice and it’s so fucking overwhelming to have all of them right there talking to you at the same time. I was shaking violently and the security guard was trying to calm me down LOL. "Mike's an ass! He's just a dude. They're all just dudes. It's going to be great. Just breathe." Easy for you to say, sir.

They were all very lovely and immediately tried to calm me down but somehow being circled by them all IS NOT CALMING. I thanked Will for wearing the pin and shared what their music/scene has done for me and DIDN'T CRY. so yay. Success. I felt a lil bad because I turned and had started to talk to Will (to thank him) and Carden immediately turned to Sisky to talk amongst themselves before looking surprised that I was addressing/thanking all of them and they were all so fucking sweet. I can't. I love them all so much.

But it was so fucking overwhelming that I nearly walked directly into Gabe who was still soundchecking out on the venue floor almost 2 hours later. You def can’t say he doesn’t care. He legit moved out of my way and I went to stand back in line and the person I was next to was like "....you nearly took out Gabe, you know that?" FML. Sorry, man. I WAS SHOOK. The person who took photos I thought took two but turns out she takes them the whole time so I have 7 photos and all of them are embarrassing. But I'm glad to have 'em.

We got a TAI...tote with a signed lanyard card thing and a sticker of the new logo and the gabilliam poster.

We got sent to wait in another line which ended up being so long we just stayed and they scanned our tickets and we could go in from there after we got our merch. We got to see Jon soundcheck and some people called out Happy Birthday. That fucker started to play Sins just to see us all whip around and laughed. He teased a few other songs bc he's Jon.

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Jwalk

He started early and people were still coming in. I felt really bad for him because everyone was talking to the point it was hard to hear him over the chatter. I was getting seriously annoyed because he's got a beautiful voice and his songs are bops and it was really cool to see them live.

"I actually borrowed this acoustic from Siska and it has cobwebs in it."

Someone near me aggressively yelled happy birthday to him again and Jon was all "uh, thank you? Happens every year." And moved on.

He played most of his recent stuff and was so good

—————

MIDTOWN

Gabe crediting tyler with midtown coming back and then my chem:

Gabe - “so mikey called and said can you play some shows?

I said we suck, bro.

And mikey said ‘so practice’

And here we are.

Talked twice about not remembering why he stopped touring until he wakes up the next morning and remembers he’s “an old fart with a bad back”

His kid’s roblox - took a picture /video of the crowd with it. "My 3 year old asked me to bring his roblox with so I don't forget him so I'm taking a picture of it with each crowd, is that okay?"

Tyler immediately: "Yeah, none of that is true. He just bought that."

They were so happy and so grateful and bantering back and forth and just so appreciative.

Played over their time by 2 songs - “We’re out of time? Fuck it. Let's keep going."

“On our last Midtown tour - we toured with the academy is and struck up a friendship that will last forever. Like for real. The type of friendship that continues on even after we’re dead. I love those dudes so much.”

DEDICATED TWO SONGS TO THEM. A Faulty Foundation and No Place Feels Like Home. 

“Whose going to riot fest tomorrow? Sorry. We’re playing the exact same set there tomorrow. Deal with it. We’ve only got so many songs. Forgive us.” 

“The my chem tour - 98.5% of the people there won’t know who we are. Obviously you guys are amazing and do know us but we wanted a song that everyone and maybe even their parents knew and could have a good time with so Tyler had written one once and it’s finally time to play it” - Tyler talked about a writing session that went bad then played When You Were Young. 

They were so good!! Gabe's bass broke halfway through. And two songs before the end he said he'd lost his voice and kinda took a step back vocally

Rough set list:

Become What You Hate

Like A Movie

??? (I forgot what came next) 

Just Rock N Roll

Get It Together

When We Were Young

So Long as We Keep Our Bodies Numb We're Safe

A Faulty Foundation - dedicated to the TAI 

To Our Savior 

No Place Feels Like Home (Also dedicated to TAI…)

Empty Like The Ocean

Give It Up 

————

TAI… absolutely fucking incredible from start to finish. It literally felt like no time had passed at all.

GABE. GABE COMING OUT FOR CLASSIFIEDS  - unplanned. Surprise. Will flustered AF.  MORE HUGS FOR MIKE AND WILL. 

AJ and Mike for Attention - hugs after all around.

SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE

Will being so bashful and appreciative and stumbling over his words and I cannot with him.

I don’t understand how they’re not a bigger band. 

They’re so fucking amazing.

I have no complaints. Would have changed nothing besides the fact it had to end.

I hope someone gets the setlist together bc I can’t.  (Edit: They did) 

Set List: 

The Phase That Pays

About A Girl 

Slow Down

LAX to O’Hare

Season

Sleeping with Giants (Lifetime)

Classifieds (WITH SURPRISE GABE CAMEO)

Bulls in Brooklyn

Black Mamba

Very 1st Lie (Cover of Material Issue’s song - a local Chicago band active in the 90s) 

Attention w/ AJ and Mike D

Big Mess

Checkmarks

After the Last Midtown Show

Encore: 

Snakes on a Plane

———

Legit, I will never regret having flown out here to do this. I didn't think the Projekt Rev 07 tour could ever be toppled from my fav concert of all time but this did it. I will never forget this.

[amplifyme]

I agree Mind's Eye is often overlooked. And Oubliette. They are both tear jerkers for me. Although Scully's attitude can be a bit baffling in those eps I can get past it. I tend to like Scully's toughened and sometimes really harsh exterior vs Mulder's soft emphathetic personalities.

Oh, I love Oubliette too!

Just on a surface level it's easy to scratch our heads over Scully's attitude in these and other eps. But we have to remember that she's playing her part. She's being the skeptic to Mulder's believer, and it's what he expects of her because he's got a part to play, too. That's what makes them so good together. As an aside, I think that's also why their relationship moved at such a glacial pace. Both of them were afraid of doing anything other than what they'd always done and been for each other. They were afraid of rocking the boat and jeopardizing the dynamic that served them so well.

I've never gotten the impression that either of them hesitate to call out the other when they've gone too far. Mulder has no problem shutting Scully down when she makes a simplistic connection between a case they're working and his trauma surrounding Samantha, for instance. And though Scully sometimes seems almost apologetic (or nervous, hesitant, or something else entirely) when Mulder crosses a line with her - which is usually when religion rears its head - she still makes sure he knows that he's on thin ice. It's just what they do.

There are some instances when it comes across as out of character or an attempt to create tension where it wouldn't normally exist, but such is the way of procedural shows, even one as remarkable as TXF.

Thanks for stopping by my inbox, Nonny. I love to chat. 😁

[omgeto]

guess who has 6.6k words of a geto fic cooking up for you guys

[overlookedfile]

[smilesrobotlover]

OK. ive been meaning to ask this:

what do your au boys think of cuccoos

Cursed: they hate him, he doesn’t know why but they just do. And he honestly doesn’t like them either

Fluffy: he respects them and knows to not annoy them. Tho that didn’t stop him from messing with a cucco and then immediately getting obliterated by a group of them

Malakan: he’s indifferent. He doesn’t see a reason to bother them or even be around them

Moon: what are cuccos

Real: he loves them. He plays with them all the time and miraculously doesn’t get destroyed by them

Flower: he has a pet cucco named Nitrogen! He loves him so very much! Flower gets along with cuccos the most honestly <3