#c;dagger

[kcamberart]

new Dragon Age coming soon, nature is healing

[tangytangy]

i forgot to post this on valentines….

[clarkgriffon]

ALPHABETICAL FAVES ⟹ T is for… Tandy Bowen

[bcneofmysword]

"Some of us don't have good luck in car buying." Bejo deadpanned. Bejo looked at the nepo colleague before sighing in relief. "Thanks." Bejo remarked with a sigh. He sauntered around briefly checked out Dagger before looking at the hood. "Can you teach me how to do that-so I don't kill your eyedrums again." Bejo smirked at his own joke.

"This hunk of junk is your car?" Dagger tried to remark over the sound of the alarm wailing; which had him covering his ears with his hands momentarily. Frowning to himself, Dagger reluctantly removed his hands from his ears and strolled over to the vehicle. Popping the hood open, he glanced around inside - only vaguely familiar with mechanical parts and construction. Finding some wiring that didn't seem like it went to any of the other important-looking things, Dagger gave them a solid tug until they popped free of their housing - and the alarm went silent. "Oh, thank God." He sighed out now that he could hear again.

[neon-mutt]

when you convince an old and tired gang banger to go for a night of mayhem you WILL have to carry his 61yo carcass back home (and he will be scream singing ponpon shit the whole way through), needless to say Dagger is not happy and it will happen again >:)

@wraithsoutlaws

[anghraine]

I saw a staggeringly wrong post (I think from the same source as this take) about how TOS Kirk doesn't experience any meaningful suffering or angst, he just gets frustrated by challenges to his authority/command. The idea of him having real angst is just made up and projected onto him by fandom. Yes, this is the same James T. Kirk who feels the need to log this thought process: "No man achieves Starfleet command without relying on intuition, but have I made a rational decision? Am I letting the horrors of the past distort my judgment of the present?"

It feels almost like cheating to bring up the most obvious counter-examples tbh, but I actually find it really interesting that Kirk's most haunting fears/vulnerabilities throughout a bunch of episodes are so persistent and clear throughout the show as a whole. A major one, for instance, is his loneliness/dread of being abandoned to solitude. Ignoring everything except TOS:

"Dagger of the Mind":

HELEN: The machine wasn't on high enough to kill. KIRK: But he was alone. Can you imagine the mind emptied by that thing? Without even a tormentor for company.

SPOCK: He thought you'd like to know the treatment room has been dismantled and the equipment destroyed. KIRK: Thank you. MCCOY: It's hard to believe that a man could die of loneliness. KIRK [staring into the distance while the camera focuses on his almost blank eyes]: Not when you've sat in that room.

"Conscience of the King":

LENORE: At the party, you were such a brash young man. KIRK: And now? LENORE: Now somehow different. Not a ship's captain with all those people to be strong and confident in front of. You know, you're really very dear, aren't you? In some ways, very lonely.

MCCOY: Mr. Spock, the man on top walks a lonely street. The chain of command is often a noose.

"This Side of Paradise":

KIRK: Except for myself, all crew personnel have transported to the surface of the planet. Mutinied. Lieutenant Uhura has effectively sabotaged the communications station. I can only contact the surface of the planet. The ship can be maintained in orbit for several months, but even with automatic controls, I cannot pilot her alone. In effect, I am marooned here. I'm beginning to realize just how big this ship really is, how quiet.

"And the Children Shall Lead":

KIRK [provoked by the alien's powers into a panicked meltdown rooted in his deepest anxieties]: The ship is sailing on and on. I'm alone. Alone. Alone.

"Is There In Truth No Beauty?":

KOLLOS [through Spock]: But most of all, the aloneness. You are so alone. You live out your lives in this shell of flesh. Self-contained, separate. How lonely you are. How terribly lonely.

"Requiem for Methuselah":

SPOCK: The epidemic is reduced and no longer a threat. The Enterprise is on course five one three mark seven, as you ordered. KIRK: A very old and lonely man. And a young and lonely man. We put on a pretty poor show, didn't we?

[wraithsoutlaws]

"What do you think, Cockroach? Does he live or die...Hm. You are much kinder than I am, friend."

[magato]

Cloak & Dagger

From Marvel Rivals

[baybeered]

The cloak and dagger to alpha flight fan pipeline needs to be studied because what the hell

[clarkgriffon]

ALPHABETICAL FAVES ⟹ T is for… Tyrone Johnson

[neon-mutt]

guard dog in a sense that even the wraiths keep her in a cage @wraithsoutlaws

[anghraine]

It's genuinely kind of baffling to me that Leila Kalomi so regularly is the Spock "love interest" invoked as proof that Spock can't possibly be gay he had an ex-girlfriend didn't you see the episode with his girlfriend he could be straight or maybe bi but definitely definitely couldn't be gay.

Anyway, this is Leila's description of their previous relationship in "This Side of Paradise":

ELIAS: Did you love him? LEILA: If I did, it was important only to myself. ELIAS: How did he feel? LEILA: Mr. Spock's feelings were never expressed to me.

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LEILA: Come back to the planet [with the docility sex pollen spores] with me. You can belong again. Come back with me, please. SPOCK: I can't. LEILA: I love you. I said that six years ago, and I can't seem to stop repeating myself. On Earth, you couldn't give anything of yourself. You couldn't even put your arms around me. We couldn't have anything together there. We couldn't have anything together any place else.

Like. Leila herself acknowledges that Spock would never willingly enter any kind of relationship with her unless drugged into it, even as little as taking her in his arms. And Spock, uniquely among the many people exposed to the spores, experiences physical pain in the transition to artificial happiness/belonging/"love":

SPOCK: No. LEILA: It shouldn't hurt. SPOCK: No, I can't. Please, don't! LEILA: Not like this. It didn't hurt us. SPOCK: I am not like you!

Early in the episode, she is very clear about how much she cares about what Spock would choose while fully functional:

ELIAS: Would you like him to stay with us now, to be as one of us? LEILA: There is no choice, Elias. He will stay.

Spock specifically asks her questions that would reveal the spore effect and allow him to make an autonomous choice. Leila refuses to answer until the spores painfully take him over. And even once she herself is freed of the spores' effects, her approach to Spock and his autonomy doesn't significantly change; it isn't really something she values about him.

Compare this to someone like Eve McMahon even in as terrible an episode as "Mudd's Women," in which Kirk is the one affected by the aphrodisiac and Spock is immune. Eve is strongly implied to be interested in Kirk, and she knows he's being affected by the drug that nobody has explained to the Enterprise crew; he asks her not to come into his bedroom, and she ignores that for a moment to carry out the seduction, but she knows it's wrong and is so horrified that she breaks it off and leaves. The even more ethically ambiguous Helen Noel in "Dagger of the Mind" also has an arc that leads to her insisting "This isn't right" when Kirk's autonomy is compromised, and reminding him of what's real. Chapel ultimately accepts in "Plato's Stepchildren" that Spock's no always meant no and could never be otherwise without some violation of consent that she finds horrifying. Leila is not uniquely terrible (Deela in "Wink of an Eye" is a lot more unambiguously chilling), but this isn't just how all women in TOS behave, either.

There's also an intriguing thread of very distinct mutual hostility and incomprehension between Leila and Kirk throughout the episode, in which neither comes off looking great, but Leila plainly cares quite a lot less about Spock's autonomy. A lot of this is mostly conveyed by performance (Shatner very convincingly bleeds jealousy as Kirk here), but Leila definitely doesn't get the nature of Spock's and Kirk's relationship even as it exists in S1:

SPOCK: Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist. LEILA: Someone else might believe that. Your shipmates, your captain, but not me.

Kirk very much does not believe that, just to be clear. I feel it's worth mentioning that this episode was aired directly after the one that concluded with this—

—and right before the one in which Spock insists he's acting based on logic and probability and of course wouldn't leap into danger. Kirk's response is just this:

That is also the one in which Spock torpedoes all his scientific principles in pure panic over Kirk:

SPOCK: Captain, are you all right? Jim? Jim!

SPOCK: Kill it, captain, quickly! KIRK: It's not making any threatening moves, Spock. SPOCK: You don't dare take the chance, captain. Kill it. KIRK: I thought you were the one who wanted it kept alive, captured if possible. SPOCK: Jim, your life is in danger. You can't take the risk. KIRK: It seems to be waiting. SPOCK: I remind you it's a proven killer. I'm on my way.

Anyway, Kirk is immediately jealous and resentful of Leila and regards her as the problem. He doesn't know much of anything about Spock and Leila's previous relationship and certainly doesn't seem to know how ephemeral it was (Leila's descriptions of how limited it was both occur in scenes where Kirk is not present and she pretty obviously tries to suggest it was a real romance when he is there). So Leila doesn't know what the relationship between Spock and Kirk actually is like and how bizarre Spock's spore-influenced behavior is going to seem, and Kirk doesn't know what Spock's relationship with Leila really was like, so we just end up with this wild uncomprehending mutual resentment between them.

Even before Kirk knows what's going on with Spock, he seems to think removing Leila from the picture would fix things. While it's not quite true, when he does figure out how to break the spore haze, his first priority is getting Spock away from Leila and back at his side. Spock makes it extremely clear what drives his refusal to return to Leila and the artificial happiness of the spores, as powerful as it was for him:

LEILA: I can't lose you now, Mister Spock. I can't. SPOCK: I have a responsibility to this ship, to that man on the bridge. I am what I am, Leila, and if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them.

Like, this whole situation is so fucked-up and puts such an emphasis on Kirk's oblivious jealousy of Leila, her lol what consent possessiveness around Spock (combined with the repeated revelations about how extremely minimal their relationship was and remains without literally drugging him), and the spores affecting everyone in basically the same pleasant but unhealthy way (rather than the highly idiosyncratic and physically painless effects of losing inhibitions in "The Naked Time") apart from it being specifically painful for Spock as he begs for it to stop. The whole interest of the episode turns on the essential melancholy of Spock's position: his only options are a) artificially- and painfully-induced contentment that is his sole experience of happiness but foreign to him or b) the fundamental self-inflicted purgatory of life at Kirk's side that is nevertheless truer to what he really is (I am what I am). It is not remotely difficult to read all this in repressed gay terms rather than proof!!! of Spock's attraction to women.

The thing is, of all the obligatory Spock "love" interests in TOS, there are multiple other ones that you could make an argument for. The most obvious is the Romulan commander; he's in his right mind, she's not the source of the dubcon, they have fantastic chemistry even if Spock's manner is deliberately ambiguous, she's super cool and hot and his age, and he definitely respects her. I guess there's Droxine, too; their interactions aren't even dubcon, just strange and bad and don't go anywhere. Even Zarabeth is only mildly sketchy compared to Leila and has a much better motive. But for some reason, the "well akshually" responses to gay Spock posts always seem obsessed with But His Canon Girlfriend Leila in particular.

[foxboyclit]

oc tag meme

tagged by @arach-tinilith, thank you! art by @selkieflesh

Basic Info:

Name: Iphis Nydalla

Class/Subclass: Warlock/fiend, wizard/bladesinger

Background: Noble

Gender: Trans Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

Pronouns: He/him

Other:

Family: Born to House Kilth, Iphis was born third daughter to Matron Llesyne. His mother grew to detest him when he failed to get accepted into Arach-Tinilith and started crossdressing, leading to an assassination attempt. He was most fond of his older brother, Xashin, until he told Llesyne about the missing clothes.

Iphis has no children, nor any desire to have any.

Birthplace: Menzoberranzan

Job: Patron of House Nydalla, assassin, occasional performer

Phobias: Humiliation, the Surface, loss of autonomy

Guilty Pleasures: Rare cuddles from his Mistress, I know in my heart he would love trashy reality TV

Hobbies: Fencing, painting, dancing

Morals:

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Sins: Pride, lust

Virtues: Magnificence, ambition

This or That:

Introvert/Ambivert/Extrovert

Organized/Disorganized

Close-minded/Open-minded

Calm/Anxious/Restless

Disagreeable/In-between/Agreeable

Patient/In-between/Impatient

Outspoken/In-between/Reserved

Leader/Follower/Flexible

Empathetic/In-between/Apathetic

Optimist/Realist/Pessimist

Traditional/In-between/Modern

Hard-working/Lazy

Relationships:

OTP: Iphis/Minisstra

Acceptable ships: Iphis/Argiope, Iphis/Valztefein (who belongs to @/ustalav)

OT3: (taking liberties with the definition here): Iphis/Minisstra/Zeth'rinn (courtesy of @/space-writes)

BroTP: Iphis/House Nydalla's consorts

NoTP: none in particular

Basics:

Name: Minisstra Eradia Nydalla

Class/Subclass: Warlock/celestial, rogue/mastermind

Background: Noble

Gender: Trans female

Sexuality: Asexual

Pronouns: She/her

Other:

Family: Minisstra did not know her father, and her mother was little more than a distant authority figure. Her sister, Inara, sexually abused and manipulated her for years.

Birthplace: Menzoberranzan

Job: Matron of House Nydalla, assassin, high priestess

Phobias: Earthquakes, losing loved ones

Guilty Pleasures: Bodice rippers, casting sacred flame to light her cigarettes, having Iphis sleep in her bed

Hobbies: Dancing, fencing, embroidery

Morals:

Alignment: Lawful evil

Sins: Pride, lust

Virtues: Patience, ambition

This or That:

Introverted/Ambivert/Extrovert

Organized/Disorganized

Close-minded/Open-minded

Calm/Anxious/Restless

Disagreeable/In-Between/Agreeable

Patient/In-Between/Impatient

Outspoken/In-Between/Reserved

Leader/Follower/Flexible

Empathetic/In-between/Apathetic

Optimist/Realist/Pessimist

Traditional/In-Between/Modern

Hard-working/Lazy

Relationships:

OTP: Minisstra/Iphis

Acceptable ships: Minisstra/Lolth, Minisstra/Inara

OT3: Minisstra/Iphis/Zeth'rinn

BroTP: None in particular (cause I don't wanna say her/Iphis again)

NoTP: Minisstra/Rhynsana

no pressure tagging @space-writes, @ustalav, @lawful-evil-novelist, and @darkseldarine

[wraithsoutlaws]

Distraction

[threadandswords]

C!Niki with daggers/swords, roses, and baking stims (bc I think they fit her :3) for @t4tgempearl!!

Dsmp character requests are open!!

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[andredsen]

ok i did not realize i've been forgetting to post so much stuff here 😭here's some MR fanart i never posted & my emma frost headcanon for when she releases into the game