#considering doing a 'the boys' au

[heademptie]

many thoughts. no write.

been staring at the doc for an hour.

(Fic ships in order: Ghoap x reader, Price x reader, mostly Ghoap with some x reader)

[trashpuppyy]

i got @wolfbeestudio's plushies and they're super cute!! i love them so much ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ i also drew a little fanart of crossy and killy, they sit together on my desk (cross looks constantly pissed at killer, canon accurate)

they have awesome designs and r so fun to play with and make little stories... you should totally buy one for yourself if you can ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

also killer cat in bow (as is custom to initiate a new killer plush) + bow version of drawing!! and also the inspiration pic for art!!!

thank you for the plushies wolfbee, i really love your work :3

[gracebethartacc]

@annymation hiiiiii I had to draw the villain reprise scene it was haunting me like a ghost (+ doodles to figure out how to translate them to my style but I already showed them to anny in dms lol)

[fizzytoo]

"...but baby watching you blush/ some of us, we just gotta ride"

[bloomingbluebell]

since playing twilight princess again i cannot get behind the lu fandom characterization of twilight and wild i'm sorry. like i think twilight would be an overprotective big brother figure towards wild, absolutely. but wild doesn't take that sitting down. he doesn't like being coddled, and it's pretty clear (side note: i do really appreciate the analysis posts about wars and how hard he's been on wild potentially pushing wild closer and closer to a rather big memory. you can sort of see how twilight is not happy with how warriors is acting, but he's not saying anything right now. probably because it's not his place to, and also probably because wild wouldn't want him to right now).

i think that twilight and wild have a very different relationship to what most of the lu fandom thinks. they're close - that much is obvious from how they react when the other is hurt, and how twilight pushed through the rest to get to wild during the memories comic. but i think that a lot of the time, it feels like wild only exists around twilight, or he can't be left without twi otherwise he'll "do something stupid" or whatever. wild doesn't exactly appreciate twi's protectiveness or his advice all of the time, but he still looks up to twilight. despite whatever went down when they first met, wild worked to gain twi's trust in order for them to be so close. they're equals - just like the rest of the chain are equals. and yes, wild does a fair amount of dumb things and he's impulsive about it, but i would like to argue that twilight also does a fair amount of dumb things (in game and in comic)

(i think it also kinda feeds in to how wild is sort of infantilized by the fanbase. he's already not exactly trusted by the rest of the chain (legend especially, for some reason), and i think i'd like to explore that and how his relationship with legend formed. they seem to think he's sort of a loose cannon, especially after the previous arcs. wild hasn't seemed to realize it yet, but i do think something is coming, especially with him and warriors)

[yuwuta]

months post the rat’s death (s*kuna) and yuuji is healing from the fight’s trauma you guys have your first “night” together and it’s the most relief and pleasure he’s ever felt in his life like the shudder and gasps he’d be letting out walk with me

i’m walking with you…. it’s probably one of the few times he actually finds himself speechless and he’s oddly embarrassed about it, he feels like he should have something to say, should probably have the words to tell you how he feels when he’s balls deep inside of you for the first time, should probably open his mouth to ask you if he’s doing okay, if it’s too much, if you’re uncomfortable, he’s never really had his dick inside anyone before but it probably could hurt—but he can’t. he doesn’t have any words, he’s literally never felt such intense pleasure before in his life and every time he opens his mouth to say something, anything, only moans spill out, every time he has a single breath of clarity to form a coherent thought he’s overwhelmed by the reality that you’re underneath him and he’s inside of you and you’re alive and it all amounts to a mush and a gasp and he doesn’t realize how hard he’s holding on to your wrists or how raw your skin is from his biting to stop himself from moaning or how bruised your lips are from kissing and biting and sucking and the only words yuuji has probably been able to say all night is how he needs more 

[tennessoui]

Sneaking in another chapter increase for “weeding out our wildfires” 🙃 I see. I love them so much 🥳

lmao i think im walking real quietly and then yall are like 'who is loudly stomping around'

check back in like 30-45 minutes, im editing the format/doing a final read through of chapter 3

[crimeronan]

possibly the funniest outcome of this drama-filled amity-thinks-luz-killed-hunter alternate princess AU timeline is all three of them being fine and together and safe, and hunter being like BLIGHT. you tried to MURDER LUZ????

amity: I THOUGHT SHE'D KILLED YOU!

hunter: .....I DON'T APPRECIATE THE CONFLICTING FEELINGS I'M HAVING RIGHT NOW,

[the-wizard-dipper]

Masters' Academy AU: Student Extra.

Art by @okkennymay

[ravelqueen]

I LOVE your Dom!Kim ideas, and it actually reminded me of the scene where you talk with Joyce about the Pale. Kim is insistent that Harry doesn't learn more about the Pale, and actually steps away when you talk with Joyce about it.

I like to imagine Kim is very privately angry at Harry for putting his health at risk and learning more about the Pale (even when he told Harry to stop), but he knows that he can't demand Harry to just stop learning about it, nor would he rational or reasonable for him to get so angry about Harry going against his advice and learning more about the Pale. But he just can't help but get angry so he has to step away.

I like to think he's proud of Harry in a dom way when he returns and Harry is fine. Sorta like in a way doms are when their subs tough out a difficult scene.

ahhh omg thank you sweet anon! The image of it did not leave me alone so I'm glad at least it's resonating!

And Yes! Being adamant about Harry not learning about The Pale fits right into "I know better and should be making your decisions" sort of mindset this version of Kim would have hhh - I like to think that in this instance the Authority check is more of a reality check aka YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN JFC KIM KEEP YOURSELF TOGETHER

Well I think in the version of Kim where he's yk ... functional and not also deeply fucked up he'd be totally proud of how well Harry managed to process it!

However, since my brain worm liked to latch onto the version of dom!kim that is Deeply Not Ok Actually he'd probably just have to get over his instinctive rage by calming himself down with the fact that despite Harry going explicitly against what he said it's not like he hurt himself with it so I guess that's mitigating circumstances.

Followed by long staring across the ocean about how he's an absolute monster and in fact Harry is a human being with agency and what the fuck is wrong with him actually

[pencilofawesomeness]

I rarely post sketches but this man is ruining my life :'D

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Gambling Apocalypse Tenma AU

As I rewatch Kaiji I inevitably end up wanting to combine show I like with other show I like and stuffing fav characters into show. So here we are.

This was uh going to be a short summary type thing but I accidentally wrote a novella about it sorry

This AU starts off with a much more depressive Tenma. After Tobio's death, rather than immediately pour his grief into developing a robot version of his son, he recedes into himself, psychologically paralyzed, likely turning to alcohol to drown out his anguish.

His mental state is taken as an opportunity within the Ministry of Science to have him ejected from his position; Tenma was never the most well-liked director, and there were those with ambition to usurp him that would jump at the chance. Not that he especially cares in his state.

He's eventually dragged out of his stagnation by Ochanomizu - who, inadvertently, becomes the very catalyst pushing Tenma to develop a robot replacement to his child. This was not what he meant by encouraging Tenma to fill the void left by his son.

...But, well, he is no longer the director of the Ministry of Science. His access to limitless government funds and resources for "scientific research" has been cut off, and this is a project he cannot finance on his own. He can't ask Ochanomizu for help, but...interestingly...a representative of a certain shady organization known as the Teiai Corporation reaches out to him, offering to finance and support his project. A sane and well-minded Tenma might think better of it, but grieving and desperate, Tenma accepts their offer and is able to create a robot in the image of his beloved Tobio. For a while, there's joy in his life.

But the bill, as ever, comes due: Tenma must pay up, and the very resources that had been at his disposal will certainly ensure that he will, or else. Of course, he doesn't have the money; instead, he is given a choice. He can relinquish the robot Tobio in order to wipe out his debt - the child is a sophisticated and powerful robot, after all - or he can participate in a certain illicit event hosted by the Teiai Corporation.

It's nothing major...just a four-hour gambling cruise with a collection of desperate, damned souls that were also swept into debt with Teiai. The conditions are simple: Those who choose to participate are given a chance to clear their debts wholesale should they win. And should they lose...?

Well...no one really knows what happens to the losers seized by Teiai. It's said that they labour away their debts under Teiai's watchful eye and are freed once their work has covered their debts, though it's rumoured that most perish before they reclaim freedom.

There's only one answer Tenma can give, of course; he's not willing to lose Tobio again.

Thus is Tenma's debut into the Gambling Apocalypse, where he must become cutthroat in order to survive; if he wants to see his son again, he must make choices that will doom the hapless to miserable servitude, with a nonzero chance it ends in their death.

He survives the cruise, but of course, it was hardly enough to clear his debt; the cruise was never going to be the end of it. Teiai doesn't let go of its victims that easily. He will be called on again: this is a weight that hangs over him, all while he returns to his son Tobio. The same hands that have pushed innocents into hell must now be the hands that can embrace his child.

He wants to protect Tobio from the truth and enjoy what peaceful moments he's allowed with his son, but it's difficult. It's difficult to be the parent of a child who cannot understand the danger that looms ahead; this "happy" home is not to last. Tenma angers quickly and easily. He turns that anger onto Tobio.

As Teiai's games become more and more vicious and unrelenting, as his conscience holds onto the last vestiges of thread that remain, Tenma even threatens, once, to give the boy in: it would all end, then; the debt would be clear and no longer would he have to endure Tobio's childish annoyances, his ungratefulness.

The next time that Tenma is beckoned, Tobio takes matters into his own hands. He does understand, now; and he would have, if only Tenma had bothered to explain sooner. If it's a debt that needs clearing, he will work. He will help his father clear his debts however he can. Of course, it's difficult to find work as a child; but a circus troupe finds amusement in the idea of a child robot, and takes him in. He is whisked into a certainly unpleasant working situation, but he remembers his father, and what he must be enduring. Tobio, also, will endure.

When Tenma returns, Tobio is gone.

All that held Tenma back from becoming something monstrous has disappeared. All that kept him going has disappeared. When he is called upon by Teiai, there is no knowing what sort of person might come out the other end; whether a monster clawing his way to freedom regardless of what actions he must take, or a desolate husk surrendering defeat.

There is still a light, however dim: Found by Professor Ochanomizu and rescued from the circus, Tobio - now Atom - is able to shed light on the situation which Tenma took great pains to keep hidden from his old friend. With time running out, Ochanomizu and Atom must do what they can to save Tenma - from Teiai, and from himself.

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UHHH and that's a wrap!!!! I couldn't quite decide which way Tenma would go after hitting Rock Bottom in this AU, and tbh it would really depend on the kind of mental state he's in at the time. On the one hand I like the narrative of Ochanomizu and Tobio racing to prevent Tenma from crossing a line (actual outright murder probably) - or having to pull him back into humanity (and yknow, his ensuing penance)

But on the other hand having him get sent to Teiai Evil Hell Prison would be interesting because a) there's a lot of narrative potential having Tenma faced with what Teiai is doing with the people that lose the games and b) need him to decimate the foreman at chinchirorin Kaiji style

Tenma's whole character is definitely a much different guy in this AU, he starts off pretty sympathetic, the guy you wanna root for, he just ends up having an inverse character arc where he gets worse instead of better. His conflict with "Tobio" is also kind of reversed, less about being unsatisfied with Tobio as a son and more not being able to handle the fact that he probably has intense PTSD now and isnt capable of coping with it in a way conducive to being a parent (or like, coping at all)

Anyway that's gambling apocalypse tenma!!!

[raiiny-bay]

considering making yet another AU with the boys....

[hawkogurl]

I get a kick out of making post sm3 Peter, the chonic avoider of unpleasant emotions that he is, in some capacity develop a heavily idealized and watered down, stripped of all the most complex and painful parts of himself version of Harry that he has in his head. Either like, making up things Harry would say in situations to feel like he’s not gone and just hear in his head or have that version be something he dreams of, etc. Always as a way to avoid having to deal with and work through his unpleasant feelings.

[dont-offend-the-bees]

Can't be bothered to write it but Doctor!Edwin x Rose!Charles with a little Jack Harkness!Cat King would be a fun time

[deafeninggardenerpanda]

a new kirby light novel has been announced! this ones based off of the samurai kirby subgame from super star. and yes this means ancient japan themed kirby novel. this is an alternate universe just like the dreamy gear book!

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4046322233/

kirby isnt actually a samurai in this one though, hes just a swordsman while meta knight is a samurai (presumably this means kirby won’t use copy abilities in this book either, like dreamy gear). according to the synopsis, the two of them will be working together to retrieve a secret sword technique scroll from a corrupt nobleman named rakuemon using it for evil. they have to break into their fortress (or castle) full of traps to retrieve it

other notable things revealed in the synopsis however!:

- elfilin is an entertainer in a traveling performance group im calling the Animal Troupe, presumably this universe’s version of the beast pack

- dedede is stated to be some kind of boss or kingpin, similar to how he was a boss/manager in dreamy gear

- waddle dee is mentioned as a 手ぬぐい which to be honest i have no clue what that means. the only definition i could find for it is those japanese hand towels that you wrap around your head, but presumably he still works under dedede

- magolor is here! hes a sweets merchant

all four of these characters are stated to get wrapped up in the plot at some point, but the focus is on meta and kirby this time around

some translation specific stuff for you nerds, this novel is called 「星のカービィ 刹那の見斬りで悪を断て!」

刹那の見斬り (Setsuna no Mikiri) is the original name of the subgame from super star. it means slash at a split second’s glance, which describes the game very well. that said the title for this book is kinda hard to translate, especially because the localized name for the subgame is simply “Samurai Kirby” and i can’t use it to go off of, but if you put that and the rest of the title together, it roughly translates to “slash and eradicate evil with a split second’s glance”. also notable is the scroll playing a central part of the story is called the “setsuna” scroll, so split second’s/instant technique scroll