#enjoying these asks greatly

[aromanticannibal]

silly silly aaaaaa silly silly silly

so very silly

[hoshiina]

pairing: hoshina soushirou x short!gn!reader (no prns)

request: i’m loving your works omgg sooo i have a request for vice captain hoshina! can you do one where soshiro and reader are holding a training session together and they’re sparring rookies and they’re both just staring at each other cause damn why’s my s/o so fine while fighting? fem reader who’s a captain or higher rank would be so cool hehealso bonus points if the rookies ask soshiro and reader to spar against each other and they do! 

warnings: rather small and short reader, i had written it with a fem reader in mind like you had mentioned but i realized there were no actual fem terms used (or prns) so i tagged it as gn! however the reader is described to be rather short with a small build, TYSM FOR THE REQ !! so sorry it took so long to get to !!!!

wc: 1300

It wasn’t like Hoshina to space out during work, but he knew this would happen the moment they assigned the two of you to help with sparring trainings together. Watching you spar, he just wasn’t able to take his eyes off of you— it was truly beyond his control, unfortunately.

“Uh, Vice-Captain,” the next one in line said, trying to get his attention. It was Iharu.

“Oh, sorry,” he said, snapping out of it finally and focusing on the officer in front of him. “Alright, whenever you're ready.”

Now, once he had started sparring, his full attention was on his opponent. He would never spar with anyone distracted if they wished for it to be serious— not even a kid. He'd move quickly and swiftly, precisely hitting Iharu wherever he showed any openings. When Hoshina sparred, it was usually over before the opponent knew it. Iharu would be on the ground and Hoshina would have his arm by his neck to show what would've happened if he had a sword. It was beautiful, to say the least.

Iharu’s eyes were wide in shock— he knew Hoshina was strong, but he thought he'd be able to do a little more.

“Iharu, you need to calm down a little more,” he said.

“I know, I need to think a few steps further and I just—,” he started to explain.

“No, I can tell you're trying to think ahead. However, you're stressing out over that way too much. I’m sure you're trying not to move only by instinct, which is definitely a good idea, but sometimes I think you can trust your gut a little. Calm down, I'll guide you a little more next round,” he said.

“Thank you,” Iharu said, grateful of the feedback and quickly moved to the back of the line again.

Now, his eyes were on you again. They always were. You were going against Aoi, and it was truly a sight to see. You weren't all that tall, rather short if anything compared to all these tall men, and definitely far shorter than Aoi, but that wasn't going to hold you back. Not one bit.

The way you'd move swiftly but confidently always made him beam. It wasn't like you were doing anything flashy, or insane, it was just every move you did had a purpose. With absolutely no unnecessary movements, your every move was precise.

It was rather obvious that Aoi had subconsciously let his guard down from the difference in your builds, even if he didn't mean to at all. Though that only lasted a few seconds. Immediately, he knew you were leagues above him. You'd observe so carefully— predicting his next move, watching for cues, reacting on time. There was so much thinking you did while you sparred, but it worked so well for you, and when you succeeded in such a method, it truly looked like magic from afar. Quick and precise dodges, a jab in the slightest opening, a swift hit where it was least unexpected (or rather, seemed impossible for do).

And Hoshina loved watching you spar. Because you looked so thrilled doing so. You seemed to be having just as much fun as he was excited to watch you fight. Of course, he loved the pure skill in your craft that you had acquired through loads and loads of effort, but he loved how you looked so excited sparring someone new. How you jumped around in seemingly glee and not just the calculated steps you made. 

You were so attractive when you sparred, he was afraid all these new officers would fall for you after this.

Your sparring with Aoi was over soon enough, and he finally realized how long he was spaced out for.

“Sorry, I'll get it together,” he said to the next officer in line, but they were all looking at your match too. Just watching.

Perhaps it was mesmerising to see someone with a smaller build show absolutely no disadvantages you faced, even if there probably were many. Or rather, inspiring, might be the word.

“It feels like I watched a magic show on one end,” Reno said to Hoshina. He was next.

“Doesn’t it?” Hoshina replied, rather smug, which perplexed Reno.

“Entranced by me, over there?” you teased from the lack of, well, sparring happening in Hoshina’s line.

“Bullseye, I fear,” Hoshina replied, to which you blushed a little. He wasn't one to reply so genuinely with so many people around.

“Oh, shut up, get to work,” you said, immediately feeling slightly flustered. “Next!”

“Is that how you talk to your Vice-Captain, Platoon Leader (L/n)?” he asked and you jutted your lips out in frustration. So now you were Platoon Leader (L/n).

“Apologies, Vice-captain,” you said.

“Hmm… what should I make you do,” he pondered out loud. You didn't think he'd actually make you do something. “You should spar with me.”

You blinked. “You could just ask normally, you know?”

“Shut up, you're no fun,” he said.

“Alright, I'll spar you later,” you said.

“Woo-hoo!” he said and that made you laugh. You were feeling rather ‘woo-hoo!’ about sparring him too. It's been a while since you had done so.

He was actually far more excited than he'd like to admit. If there was one thing he enjoyed more than watching you spar, it definitely had to be sparring against you. As soon as the training was complete and everyone had the advice they needed, it was finally time for you.

“Would it be okay if I watched?” Reno asked, and you grinned.

“Absolutely,” you said. “Make sure you go spread around that I absolutely beat his ass later.”

“Beat who now?” Hoshina asked, but you just smiled.

After all this time working and sparring with him, you had only actually beat him once. Perhaps today would be your second.

“Whenever you're ready,” he said and you sneered. You got the first move. You stayed low, keeping yourself small. Hoshina specialized in going against smaller kaiju, but they were all still larger than him. Even when he sparred, he wasn't the tallest nor the largest, so it wasn't often he sparred with someone smaller than him.

After a few seconds you jumped right back. You remembered to breathe. Hoshina was a horrible opponent for you because you centered your moves on openings you could observe, but Hoshina hardly had any openings to begin with, and the ones he did have were far too fast to deal with. You'd have to focus more than ever. You took another deep breath again.

“Okay, I'll go ahead then,” he said. You had to force yourself to relax. It was just human instinct to stiffen at the sight of him coming at you. Relax, but stay focused.

He knew you'd stay low so he kept his body rather low too, but everything was terrifyingly fast. However, as time went on you found yourself focusing better and finally you managed to land a hit on him. You both took a step back, catching the breath you didn't realize you had lost.

Again, without a word, the two of you started to spar again. This went on and on until finally your knees hit the floor and you didn't seem to have the strength to stand.

“Ugh,” you said, frustrated. You flopped onto the floor and lied down, the exhaustion immediately catching up to you.

There were still a few around who had stayed to watch, but it was as if he didn't remember. Or didn't care.

“Love,” he said, crouching down by your side to face you. His eyes were wide and he had a smile he couldn't hide. He looked absolutely in love with you, to which you had to blush at. “Wanna go again?”

You laughed. You could hardly even stand.

“Absolutely.”

[botanyshitposts]

just needed you to know that I think about H I G H E R Y I E L D basically every day and it is one of my favorite videos. It's in my core reference materials for my puppet show about the Green Revolution lol

>green revolution puppet show

my man. this is you and me righ tnow

[hdra77]

just realized i havent doodled him as much so uh have some more disarray fp doodle!! aswell as handing out some fresh crumbs of lore :D

[sideblogdotjpeg]

they need to invent an ask game where i can play without having to answer asks

[kojitheopossum]

sirens song reminds me of the mugwump.. mugwump etho.. ough..

I'd never heard of this before but after some digging I assume you mean the folklore that's basically Canadian Nessie? In that case hell yeah absolutely, that actually reminds me of the creature of the lake, you should check that out if you want some good lake monster etho content

[leftneb]

They have constantly made that same pit strategy and it keeps causing unnecessary problems for their drivers. It accumulated in the big mess up on Sunday but there are several times they have pitted Oscar first when Lando is ahead too and it only leads to team order messiness. I don’t understand what goes through their heads but the biggest fallback this season has been their questionable and indecisive in-race strategy calls. The team needs to get it together or they will never successfully challenge for the championship. After Hungary it seems clear they are more concerned with the constructors championship than the WDC but imo that’s kind of a slap in the face to Lando. I am very unimpressed with the team lately. I feel like they keep letting Oscar and Lando down. It making feel discouraged like I want to stop watching. Which is sad cause I just want to see them do well.

well fucking said. in silverstone as well they SO could've won that race if it wasn't for the shit pitstop strategy. personally I'm hopeful that the win in hungary wasn't a one-off and that they actually did learn something from previous mistakes. I hope the same will apply to this mistake (if it doesn't and they truly have no idea how to handle two drivers capable of winning then we're actually fucked but I prefer not to think about that)

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

So much dickriding in my asks, where are all the people calling me a cunt?

[idiot-mushroom]

I wish to make your turtles some good hearty soup. lotsa veggies. Dumplings. Meat. tasty broth. I want them to eat and be happy.

And then as a reward for eating healthy i have snack cakes for desert.

they’re eating albóndigas soup <— only nutritious soup i know

[prince-liest]

I… oh my god. So much. Has happened. Bear… bear with me. This time i KNow its gonna be a long one. First of all, oh my GOD. THERE WAS NO BAD NEWS IN UR LAST ANSWER. HOLY SHIT. I see how i read into ur previous answer, that val is the only dumper, but yes what you described is EXACTLY the same flavor as what I was describing. It also works SO MUCH BETTER, OH MY GOD! “Vox managing to be the one to break things off at any given point in time hinges on him being able to frame his rationale as "anger" rather than "upset," the latter of which just gets brushed under the carpet of Emotions That Are Not Taken Seriously. [...] anything that makes him feel vulnerable or, ah, let's deliberately and pointedly use the word hysterical, is a pre-existing internal struggle that Valentino knows how to manipulate to his advantage. [and vox does not break up with val when he feels as such]” PRINCE IM RIPPING MY FUCKING HAIR OUT!!!!!!!!!!!! THTAS. THATS EXACTLY WHAT TF IM TALKING ABOUT. You just clarified that extra layer of “oh my god this is fucking perfect.’ also. ALSO. them getting back together being sappy makeup sex…. Oh my god. Oh my dear god. If it wasnt clear, i am a Heathen for voxval, too. If you ever feel inspired to write a voxval fic i promise you my firstborn. 

OHHHHHH  MY GOD IM SO HAPPY MY RAMBLINGS HELPED YOU WITH THE FIC!!!!!! TBH IVE RARELY BEEN THIS OVERJOYED. LIKE I COULDNT STOP GRINNING AND GIGGLING WHEN I SAW IT. FUCKKKKK. Also im fucking cackling that my actual impact was bringing vox to severe distress instead of a more angry and annoyed disposition. Like yeah,,.. Im here to make you suffer, baby. LOVE YOU VOX! 

Im gonna leave my thoughts for actual fic for another ask bc… yeah. I will spare you. - 🌓

Do NOT spare me, I enjoy these immensely. >:) Proof:

Very genuinely, I had kinda been squinting at the actual scene in question with dissatisfaction for a hot minute, so I was very pleased when your ask made it click to me what the fuck felt so wrong about it. So thank you!

Staticmoth is definitely percolating in my brain and I want to write something for them because, like you, I am also indeed deeply invested in them (they are my favorite ship very much alongside radiostatic, which is probably not obvious given I haven't written anything actively centered around them - but they're like the fucked up, evil version of MHA erasermic for me in this fandom because they Must be present in the narrative and also I love them). I haven't had any specific ideas good enough to turn into a fic yet, but I might just mash them all together at some point or, y'know. Go the Good Olde [insert wanking hand motion here] route!

[thegreatyin]

do you like Kirsten Wright

do i like kristen wright, laika kinnie extraordinare, professional ethics ignorer, lady who pretty much stars in the best event arknights has ever written, a character who plays such a significant part in so many other operator's stories while also so persistently clinging solely to saria while also being the worst ever while also caring for her so very very very much, thus tying back into the consistent rhine lab theming of emotional connection vs the presumed absence of it, doggirl currently drifting asleep through space for presumably all eternity as we speak because of her own hubris

yeah i think she's pretty okay

[maxlovespigeons]

Hey, you like COTL, right? Could you help me figure something out?

Why do people ship Narinder and the Lamb?

YOU ARE ONE OF TWO PEOPLE IVE MET ON THIS SITE THAT HAS ANY FORM OF RELATION TO THE GAME THAT SEEMS TO NOT SHIP NARILAMB!

And I'm not even sure about the other one

Oh I do ship them! I suppose from what I've seen it started out as like a very common joke? How most of the players that spared Narinder after defeating him ended up marrying him

Plus there's the whole mini quest series you get from him in post game where it seems he warms up to the Lamb and even ends up thanking them, I think that's pretty cute :] even if you don't ship them you could probably see them as unlikely friends at the end of it.

Then there's the domino effect of the ship being popular: people enter the fandom, see the ship is popular, then start shipping it as well because why not? Shipping is one of the biggest fandom fuels, so it's rather not surprising that the fandom latched onto something like that!

And, in the end, the creators seem to encourage the ship on Twitter a whole lot! They retweet art and interact with the community a lot in that regard, even having made some jokey official art with the two in a position where they'd be seen as a couple (as Mary and Joseph in a parody artwork for Christmas).

Nothing wrong if you don't enjoy the ship in the end, as long as you're respectful to the people that do! (Which goes both ways, of course.) The game has a lot to offer and the relationship between the Lamb and the One Who Waits is the one we get most of, so I don't think it's overall very surprising people choose to focus on them a whole lot!

[umblrspectrum]

if uzi is like part murder drone now d’you think the regeneration would rebuild her with MD parts

[moonhuit]

CAPTAIN Janeway: You're sure you want to do this? ADMIRAL Janeway: I always assumed it was a one-way trip.

[lockley-spktr]

Hi! I just followed you after seeing your post about Moon Knight where you said, “I find the treatment of Marc Spector by fans and even the people who worked on the show kind of strange.” I’ve seen what you mean with the fans but what do you mean about the people who work on the show?

Hi! Thank you so much for following me. I appreciate it. 🥺

I don't know if you watched Assembled: The Making of Moon Knight, but in it, I can't remember who it was, but someone said that had they started the series with Marc instead of Steven, they'd be fighting an uphill battle the entire series.

I don't love that comment for a couple of reasons. It makes it sound like they viewed Marc as a difficult character, and I don't think that's true. It also makes it seem like they're sort of out of touch with their audience. I'm not saying you should pander to your audience, but you should be aware of what they connect with. Some of the most loved characters in Marvel are characters are those who have experienced some sort of trauma and struggle with it. For example, Loki, Bucky, and Wanda.

I understand that Steven is "easier" to connect with throughout the show because we are experiencing everything the way he is. He's confused about what's happening, and so are we as an audience.

Also, it seems like there isn't the same amount of love and excitement for Marc as for Steven. I get it, Steven is a very different character than we've seen in the MCU. He's also a very different type of character for Oscar. So, I get the excitement, but Marc is deserving of the same excitement and love Steven has and continues to receive.

I think there is a bigger issue with the men who write for Marvel when it comes to their male characters who have experienced trauma. For example, the whole idea in TFATWS that Bucky has to atone for his time as the Winter Soldier as if he isn't the victim in that situation. And how Loki is doomed to an eternity alone at the end of Loki even though his worst fear was ending up alone.

This is more than you asked for, but I wanted to elaborate. Also, this is just my perception of things. I'm not saying it's fact. It's just how I feel based on everything I discussed.

All of that being said, my point is that Marc, Steven, and Jake all deserve love. One of them isn't better than the other, etc. These characters are so complex and compelling, and Oscar does one hell of a job playing them.

[moft-man]

a bit of stanley, if you will?

aka I FINALLY finish Stanley's reference sheet!!! so after WAY too long, here's my boy<33

as always, click on the image for better quality bc tumblr likes to tear my resolution to shreds

(ramblings/details and closeups below the cut!)

a couple little things I didn't stick on here!

-he has a gap in his front teeth and one of them is chipped!

-his eyes stop being that same yellow as Narrators once Narry stops monitoring him (I believe i elaborated on that part a while ago, I'll see if I can find it)

-he just loves hideous socks. I'm talking neon purple with lime green stripes. bright red with emojis. ones that look like bananas. just as awful and gaudy as it gets. him and Narrator made it into a sort of inside joke where every time he reloads Stanley's model into the game, he gives him a new pair of Terrible Socks, usually worse than the last pair.

-I couldn't figure out how to put this into the drawing, but he is. so so so very Autism and ADHD (he's just.like me fr)

-the clicking sound we hear when you press a button on ur keyboard (or the 'a' button on console) is Stanley! if he were to try to talk, that sound would come out instead of words

-hes mostly nonverbal, he chooses to communicate typically through ASL or BSL, or just letting Narrator see his thoughts (which he usually prefers bc its a little easier to convey what he wants). He does make a LOT of sounds though (he makes the clicking sound mentioned above almost constantly). like. he can "mhm" "nuh uh" "uh" "hmm" "huh?" "ohh". yknow. all the sounds!

uhhhh yeah! I can't think of anything else in particular atm, but here's some closeups!