#cringefail even (lovingly)

[nis-talks-qsmp]

Philza: Fighting with the monster

Missa:

[groovysins]

I think it's time .

[mrstsung]

I love how in one vid people say mk11 shang tsungs dialogue is kinda flirty. And im like only if you see it that way. -_-

Because to me the only flirty pre battle dialogue that i noticed was with skarlet. Maybe sindel. Jacquis was pointing out how rare female characters show up in the game despite being staples. And it's kinda crap we only get a few from earthrealm.

Sonyas was just a stupid nod nostalgia bait for the 95 movie which is grossly (Emphasis on GROSS) misinterpreted. As he only said that crap to get her to fight him so he can take her soul. There's no actual feelings let alone anything remotely of interest other than a means to and end. And anyone with HALF A BRAIN can see that.

What could come off as flirting is just shangs natural charisma and charm. But it's just a means to an end. Honestly irl guys who are like that,if they honestly like like you,from my personal experience. Tend to be dorks in love. They stumble,cringefail (i mean this lovingly ok?),kinda shyish ,and are more subtle. Like shang i hc is bold but he's not stupid. He cautious in love. So his ACTUAL flirting would be the same. Reserved,cautious,courtly and gentleman like. But CONTEXT SENSITIVE PEOPLE! if this is mortal kombat,and it's a tournament,and people are dying. More likely that man isn't here for a date. He's here to hunt. For souls. Your on the menu. DUH!

Again im not saying there aren't exceptions. (Reader is the exception. I dont make the rules! Im non share but like hell im gonna have him be done dirty and wrongfuly characterized canon and fanon alike in a love situation. Because we haven't seen that in canon and honestly i feel its due to racism but that's just me. But yeah sorry not sorry my sorcerer hubby in love isn't some horndog with no sense or a callous evil man. He treats his honey right! Bute me nrs and bite me misinterpreting fans. )

I feel for the most part the signs that shang likes likes you,is into you,is interested in a romantic sense is so subtle and based on context and environment. That it's a blink and you miss it. But here's MY PERSONAL OPINIONS ON HOW MY HUBBY ACTUALLY FLIRTS!:

He makes a B line out of everyone else,even his enemies. To talk to you. All of raidens warriors are chopped liver compared to you my dear.

He dresses up a certain way. He always dresses good,and smells good. But he smells a certain way,and is dressed up a certain way. That you take notice. It seems to be catered to your taste a bit. How does he know?....well....thats a secret. (Surprise he read your soul or just read you. He people watches for sport so he doesn't necessarily need soul magic for that hun)

His conversations with you are extra polite but not in a condescending way. His manners are top notch. He's a gentleman. He means what he says,and says what he means. But unless you catch on this one is tricky. Only people like raiden would know him for sure if he's for real in that. (And if he is,which he would be,raidens poggers shocked bout it. not in a bad way but in a "holy shit he's in love?! Bout fucking time!")

He starts to trust you. And how do you know he trusts you? Well he puts you through little "tests" to see if you're worth his time. They are simple. Tests of loyalty,interest,etc. But nothing to invasive,nothing to grand. He doesn't wanna scare you off. One big test is helping putting on his armor/clothes and or helping with his hair. Anything in close proximity to this man done in a respectful manner. Helping him bathe or something like that,is also a way.

When he flirts he's like gomez. But he has a certain shang tsung(tm) way of expressing himself. But he'd only flirt with you if he WASN'T in a tournament or fighting. Down time is another story,but come on y'all. Shang tsung wouldn't send his goons after someone he's ACTUALLY interested in. So that boat scene in the 95 movie? Yeah bullshit,he was only getting a soul and a means to an end. Because he knew this made sonya uncomfortable and when she is,shes violent,and he knew that's a way to get her to attack and entice raidens warriors to attack him. Plus in the 90s they made every villain sleazy. Ugh it's worse when its poc/moc ugh. But ya know. Anyways. Yeah he's not stupid,he knows what he's doing. If he actually was interested he wouldn't be sending sub n scorp. He wouldn't be fighting YOU. He doesn't want to fight you he wants to disarm you. He wouldn't poke n prode to piss you off if he's actually in love or interested romantically. Not on purpose at least.

Lavish gifts. Both anonymous and upfront. Expect to get those. Gift giving is a surefire way to know. But not just tye act. No it's the type of items,it's the way the items are arranged,it's the quality. Like it's subtle differences between that tell you if shang is using flattery to a means or actually flirting.

If all else fails. Shang tsung is not afraid to be straight up forward and say. "I like you my dear. I've taken interest in you. Would you like to join me for dinner?" Like damn man. Shang tsung i just feel is that kinda guy that if GENUINE flirting doesn't work. He'll straight up ask you out or tell you how he feels. Because he's not the one to play around in love and with feelings towards his lover. Im sorry,not sorry. My mans got integrity.

Im not saying he doesn't play mind games,as he would at least in the beginning of his courting you(im saphosexual and very much into an intellectual person and conversations so im in trouble with him. Lol) . But it's very specific,context sensitive like i said. That you actually have to use your deduction skills. Plus if all else fails. Just asks him and it's dealers/writers choice. At that point you're at the mercy of plot. So i wouldn't have a problem with that. But if you're gonna play lovers games honey,ACTUALLY PLAY THEM! dont half ass that shit to me. Full ass all of it! Give me romance,give me actually a chase. Bruh wtaf. it's SHANG MOTHERFUCKIN TSUNG!

But yeah most of this pre battle dialogue intros for shang being so called "flirty" wasn't really flirting. More so backsass or sarcasm if anything. So yeah.

Like i have more but i think that gives y'all a good idea.

Look again im a non sharer but god forbid i will tolerate people getting my dude wrong and misinterpreting his tone and context of dialogue.

Like he hates raidens warriors. All of them. As defult. So....im just sayin y'all.

Anyways. Shang tsung,he deserves better. On god.

[blackcatanna]

Streaming Disco Elysium again tomorrow (in the evening UK time, after I get back from COCKTAIL TRAINING) on Twitch. I streamed for the first time on Friday, but failed to record a single bloody thing, so I am going to restart!

I'll be doing a HARDCORE (TO THE MEGA) playthrough (as far as I can get) with minimum stats, to maximise that compelling Harry Du Bois cringefail loser charm, and also to increase the temptation to do druuuuugs.

There will be spoilers; there may be some light kink talk! My Tweeetch is VampirePriestessAda (that's the online domme persona I'm creating for myself), so come along if you want to witness me getting banned for (lovingly) calling Jean Vicquemare a cuck (I don't fully understand what you can and can't say on Twitch yet... I feel like a gaming site should let us call people cucks! It's part of our culture) ❤️

[queerkuro]

jordan you can't just say you have more kurosuga thoughts and then leave me hanging... i want to know your thoughts please :lookingrespectfully:

:p hehehe

i'm so particular about my kuroo ships on account of the i love him (autistic about him) and i never considered kurosuga but WOW what a good pair

i don't even remember what i said in your tags i'm just gonna talk. kuroo calls him suga-chan and all of nekoma breaks their necks looking at him crazy. kuroo is so down bad and he tries so hard to be cool around suga but he's kuroo so that's impossible. he wants to look so cool and smart and suga just laughs and is so enamored because wow kuroo is goofy

suga is a little (a lot) mad about how tall kuroo is. he does not hesitate to take notes from his bestie yaku on how to deal with tall people. kuroo also gets very stressed about things and is very familiar with suga karate chopping him (lovingly of course, you know how suga is)

we all hate sugamama i know, however, kurosuga give me parental vibes. like i just know they're scary good with kids. they're a perfect mixture of responsible and silly and i think they like to take care of their friends! but like. in a silly dad kinda way

suga is so aware of kuroo being cringefail and also he is losersexual. kuroo is so. and suga loves it. and kuroo is just mindblown that he successfully got suga to like him and he kinda has an ego about it because it's suga! and while kuroo is bragging about him suga is like :) he makes me laugh

suga is also down bad for kuroo and kuroo does loserboy things and suga is giggling and twirling his hair you know. suga gets made fun of by daichi and asahi

i have this vivid image in my mind of them still in hs and they're in the gym and tanaka finds of suga likes kuroo and tanaka of all people is like 🤨 him? really? and he wants to tease suga but also wants to be respectful of his senpai you know. so he's just like *side eye* if that's what you're into

i haven't had much time to thing about them so i'll stop here but i'm sure i'll have more

[dcwnthercbbithcle]

God, ASDHASHD brainrotting shipping hours because Billie (@coastercrushed) is awesome and enables me with Mapplethorpe and Doe in the Murmaid AU

Mape isn't a mermaid per the AU, saved by the fact that he's not one of the Entity's guaranteed catches. Doe? Damned in almost all verses to be caught and captured by the Entity at some point as a food source. But Mape only has one or two instances of this occurring, so it was a coinflip as to whether he'd be a fishman or a human and it landed on human!

Mape, rather than living on a small town located inland (at least relatively given Australia) resides on the coast, and being a semi-outcast kid that he is, spends much of the time wandering the beaches and surfing. Though surfing is far, far from a beast even comparable to skateboarding, and he's (lovingly) quite the cringefail when it comes to it.

Wipeouts are a 50/50 occurrence, and though they've never been more than a mouth and nosefull of saltwater, a feeling of intense disorientation and a sudden burst of adrenaline and riding the waves to be pushed back towards the surface.

Mape may be a cringefail when it comes to boarding, but he knows his safety and what to do when he inevitably falls.

Though in one circumstance as he fell, passing through the storm of bubbles into the calm beneath the waves, he caught sight of murmaid!Doe at a distance, watching. Fins and nets on full display and a look in her eye he couldn't place, but it didn't seem predatory, more excited.

Now, murmaid!Doe, as we all know, she's not a strong hunter given her young age and not having a pack to rely on to secure difficult kills or protect her. She was, in that instance, watching Mapplethorpe, excitedly hoping that he wouldn't be able to surface, that he could drown and she could make an easy meal out of him.

MAPPLETHORPE DID NOT KNOW THIS, likewise, with a brainrot of helpful mermaids in pop culture drowning out a long storied history of mermaids existing as malevolent entities... he uh, he did not see the writing on the walls. Instead, in his mind, he saw that murmaid watching him as a sign of interest, or friendship or maybe Disney channel-esc love, waiting to save him in the case he drowned; not drag him away to his death like she truthfully intended.

And well, it stuck in his head! He never thought to confide in most, I mean, on some level he KNEW how unbelievable it would sound. A mermaid watching him with intent, Felicity would be worried, had he hit his head? Lost too much oxygen in his plunge. Chester would just laugh though, this is what happened to those sailors that hadn't seen women in years, Mapplethorpe, they started seeing sharks as women. But Mapplethorpe KNEW, he wasn't delusional, he saw what he saw. This murmaid, his Ariel as he started to call her. The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to know everything about her.

Why was she alone? Everything about mermaids in media had them traveling in groups. Had something happened? That would explain why she was covered in nets, fishing line and with decidedly unnatural pieces sticking out of her. Was she hurting? Did she need help? Like those videos of men rescuing sea turtles and untangling them. Had she been waiting to help him so he could help her? Clever, through deduction and healthy tempering of his ego by his insecurity, Mapplethorpe deduced this MUST be the explanation for her watching and waiting.

So Mape decides, he will have to help his Ariel! He waits for the next week of his boarding, floating on the water rather than attempting to work himself up a wave, waiting, expecting the mermaid to show herself and ask. She never does, she is there, he confirms that much sticking his head in the waters and coming face to face with her. But she never works up the courage, maybe she's afraid? OH HE WAS SO STUPID! OBVIOUSLY she'd be afraid, she had a harpoon embedded in one of her thighs! Humans did this, she probably feared them just as much as she knew she needed their help! He'd have to earn her trust.

Doe meanwhile, is EXCLUSIVELY hunting him and becoming more and more ballsy when it comes to approaching him. In the past, she'd had a circumstance when she tried to grab a surfer, she'd closed around his leg when he pulled out a knife and drove it through her hand. Since then she learned the hard lesson that surfers weren't easy victims and hesitance needed to be taken. But Mapplethorpe, he seemed to know exactly the ways to disarm her worry. Had Mapplethorpe been trying he could have been an excellent murmaid hunter, instead, he only wanted to help, to know her, to bridge that gap.

When the day comes that murmaid!Doe finally has the courage to poke her head above the surface and to peer onto the board, Mape is so happy he could explode. He doesn't know how much he is dancing on the line, but in true Doe taming fashion, he pulls out a snack, gummy worms to share with her and it's... baffling. Murmaid!Doe loves them, obviously, gummies are a weakness of hers, but its strange, the food is feeding her but not out of fear. She's just as starstruck as Mapplethorpe is!

The next weeks become a ritual, snacks, a little waterproof radio and his board. Murmaid!Doe is interacting with him proper then, in her feelings are tingling, but it's pod based. Is he trying to introduce her to his pod, become a part of hers? But Mape is just living it up, his cool and awesome mermaid best friend!

There comes a day when friendship and nature comes to test: Mapplethorpe decides to swim with her, he WANTED to, jumped off the board with excitement. But in such deep water, his swimming wasn't as strong, he did his best without fins, letting her swim circles around him. But she could feel it, deep in her core, that predatory instinct, his fatigue, he'd lose his fight soon. He was perfectly suited for her to drag him down, she wasn't hungry, but he was open for the taking. A hunk of meat left in front of a dog. YET, she couldn't bring herself to drag him down, no... he was pod to her, he wasn't like her, she couldn't explain but he was pod. She wouldn't betray him, not like that! When his strength weakened and he felt that split-second panic when he didn't have it in him to push himself back onto the board. Murmaid!Doe made up for his weakness, lifting him. Mape's misunderstanding realized and now grounded in reality.

From the date of their swim, the situationship grows, Mape is coming to visit Doe just as much as he does Chester and with each visit, he's luring her closer into shore. He will rescue her from the garbage stuck to her.

Eventually, he manages to convince her to beach herself with him, riding a wave on her belly, her joy, coming in pulsing vocalizations and joyful whistles is so sweet. It's a terrible contrast to the fear that immediately follows, as she begins to turn and pivot in the sand. She's stopped, Mapplethorpe is saying a phrase she knows well: 'hold on' and grips her under her arms and struggles to pull her back onto the beach. Doe's fear grows then, struggling and gnashing her teeth in an attempt to bite. But she runs ice cold when she sees it: Mape has a knife, a fish knife.

So, so long had she considered him prey then pod that she never stopped to consider if he could be predator. She struggled more violently in the sand, attempting to drag herself back to the sea. But when that came to success, she just, froze, waiting a bite and the pain, but instead all she felt was relief.

Mapplethorpe didn't try to cut her throat, she never felt the kiss of the blade, instead, with a cold pinch, she felt him push the blunt edge against her raw scales and cut through the nets and lines and she breathed a sigh of relief she never considered she'd been holding for so long. He freed her from the weight, then he turned to pull out the old blade and pieces of a broken off harpoon. Mapplethorpe was no medic, but his help was more than she'd ever had, and all the edge and worry faded fast as the pain faded to white noise.

That moment in time, his helping her even in such open and overt weakness and vulnerability, it changed things between them. Set the road to the poly fish husband Mapplethorpe we all know and love. With Doe now more freed, she took to hunting with more vigor than she ever had, first with fish then seals but quickly escalating. Mapplethorpe noticed the disappearance of swimmers but he never brought it to Doe. He knew on some level, but he didn't want to be confronted with the fact that he'd saved a monster.

Doe is adopted into a new pod after her recovery from the wounds and Doe introduces Mapplethorpe to her pod, it's not an easy transition at first. Doe seems snappish and Mape chalks it up to Doe not wanting to share him but really it's Doe asserting she's in charge and that Mape is not allowed to be eaten. He IS a part of the pod even though he isn't one of them!

The other murmaids of Doe's Pod warming up to Mape and starting to see him in the same way that she views him, realizing the poly fish husband Mape transformation as he gets to know all of them in his own way, bringing a waterproof radio and letting them pick out and listen to music. Going with them for swims, following with them to explore coves and generally chill out and bond!

DOE AND THE GIRLS SWIMMING WITH MAPE AND LEARNING THAT THEY CAN EXTEND HIS TIME UNDERWATER BY PASSING OXYGEN FROM THEIR GILLS TO THEIR MOUTHS AND KISSING IT OVER TO HIM TO BREATH!!

Mape slowly going into the darkside but in a very productive and somewhat sweet way as he takes an interest in Marina Biology and Zoology through them and comes to not only turn a blind eye to their man-eating but even enabling and taking part in it in order to protect their identity and the odd little family they've built for themselves!

MAPE GETTING TO SEE AND TAKE PART AS THE GIRLS BECOME MORE POWERFUL MURMAIDS IN TIME, Doe going from 5ft tall barely and a wave rider, to 7ft and a wave breaker and eventually 10ft as a wave maker but she still loves him all the same and wants to cuddle like how they could when he could straight up lift and carry her out of the water

JUST THEEEEEMMMMM!!!!

[icharchivist]

I hope the vkei bishie is cringefail

me too.

he would be even more dreamy if so *sighs lovingly*

and tbh the fact that the thing he has in his hand looks like a microphone styled after his axe..... that's a bit silly ngl.

hypnosis mic crossover by borrowing from Jyushi in particular or something. which means big Cringefail energy. mark my word.

[mamawasatesttube]

by the time tim is robin and kon hatches, lois already knows clark is superman. so yeah he's fully aware! they're married and he's expressed a very mild amount of concern that maybe the amount of coffee she goes through is contributing to her stress levels (i forget which issue this was in but it was in an issue i read yesterday).

it's a game. lois sends tim to try to sneak past clark (enrichment for tim. timrichment, if you will) and clark surreptitiously superspeeds to swap out the usual coffee with decaf just to see how long lois takes to notice. this is how clois flirt. tim is just in the middle going hehe sneaky time.

kon is like dude they are Using you for their cringefail flirting and tim is like ... but i get to be sneaky 👍 obviously i can never fool superman into not noticing me go past his cubicle at all, but if i can trick him into thinking im going to the restroom or i have to talk to jimmy or even im going to the break room but NOT for coffee, then he might stop paying attention to me so i can succeed. also if i can get jimmy to turn on the coffee machine while im in clark's line of sight, especially if im talking to mr. white, clark will disregard my involvement in the coffee process. and if i--

kon, lovingly interrupting: you're insane.

i just think lois lane should put tim drake in her purse like a little dog. a scrunkly little companion who's even better at picking locks than she is, which is saying something. a nosy little freak after her own heart. the rubber duck she uses when talking her thoughts out loud to put clues together. her coffee gofer. her purse ferret.

[rottingraisins]

hi huhu just getting into scp what do u recommend i read esp since i love ur clefdraki art …

Hi thank you :] and first of all godspeed scp is fucking massive and confusing and can be hell to make sense of but it'll reward u with some of my fav writing on the internet if you persevere. I'd type something up for u myself but John lovingly put together this rlly solid getting into SCP masterpost that does a far better job at giving you an idea than I could and that, save for the absolutely criminal omission of the Antimemetics Division Hub i think hits all the broad strokes!

In addition, you can make use of the site's steadily improving tagging system, everything from characters to groups of interest, anomalous entities, canons, and even just certain keywords has a tag cloud these days. I recommend you jump in anywhere that interests you, and while finding your footing may be a bit tough at first, as soon as there's a part of the lore you like, branching out into other parts of canon gets easier and easier. Despite, y'know, my sort of apparent fondness 4 certain parts of scp on this blog I do very sincerely recommend reading a little bit of everything if youre up 4 it bc sometimes some of the most emotionally affecting shit you'll ever read will be hiding behind some obscure little goi format or tale series.

(though. if you specifically are looking for tales focusing on clef & kondraki and their horrible infinitely complicated cringefail relationship w/ each other I already sort of put together a few of them here, though (and words cannot express the bizarre combination of fondness and anguish with which i am pointing you in this direction), there certainly is more)

[jubilantscribbler]

Let's hear about Rod! 🍓🍪🍩

My SON!! My beautiful, beautiful cringefail SON!!!!

🍓: Does your OC have any particular scents they like? Or hate?

He adores smells typically associated with baking and fruits. Pies and baked bread really put him at ease, and he adores the smell of fresh fruit.

🍪: What is something that's sentimental to your OC?

He's got an old book his cousin bought for him when they both went to an aquarium together. He hid it under his mattress as a child to keep anyone from taking it away from him, but nowadays he displays it proudly and lovingly in his personal bookshelf.

🍩: What's a crime your OC is most likely to commit? What's a crime they're most likely to get arrested for?

He's willfully committing tax evasion (though whether or not he makes enough to even qualify for filing taxes is another question).

Hilariously enough, he's more likely to get arrested for trespassing on private property. He gets horribly lost far too often.