#etc etc and so forth

[too-cool-for-facebook]

I'd like to apologize for shipping Grimmons. I unfortunately have a horrible track record of my ships never becoming canon

[ihrtmichael]

LRB I FORGOT ABOUT THATvvshsi??2)6272&2&/!/!:

[chloesimaginationthings]

William Afton is a master manipulator in FNAF..

[prismatranslates-cue]

Aya [Look Up to the Sky] Part 1

Kirika: Your assignment for today will be to perform a manzai comedy routine.

Aya: Huh?

Kirika: You’ll work in pairs: Kamuro-san with Hinakura-san, and Yomine-san with Miyaji-san. Please come up with your own original skits.

Riko: May I ask why we’re doing this?

Kirika: The reason will become all too clear. You see, the goal of comedy is simple: Making people laugh.

Aya: (I’m going to be so bad at this…)

Kirika: And yet it is quite a difficult task. Comedians need to be imaginative in creating their own material, which they then also have to perform competently in front of a live audience.

Kirika: All essential skills for entertainers like yourselves.

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Riko: You be the boke, Aya, the silly one.

Aya: Huh?

Riko: I promise I’ll be the best tsukkomi! I’ll jump in with those quips like you’d never believe.

Aya: Really?

Riko: Really. So, with that settled, see if you can come up with anything for now, yeah?

Aya: Wait, by myself? Where are you going?

Riko: Sorry! I’ve got to go for my part-time job. Maybe Manager or someone can help you out. Toodles!

Aya: Why is this happening to me…

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Manager: You…want me…to help you think of material for a comedy routine?

Aya: If you can…

Manager: Like…what are we aiming for, exactly?

Aya: Something surreal, stylish, and original.

Manager: That’s, uh, a taller order than I was expecting.

Aya: But it should still be simple and easy to grasp. Something that’s relatable. Like…hm, maybe a hospital setting?

Manager: A hospital?

Aya: One person will be the doctor, and the other can be an assistant. What do you think?

Manager: Sounds good to me.

Aya: “Okay, let’s begin the operation.”

Manager: (Wait, are we starting already?)

Aya: “The operation we are performing is quite a complicated one. Prepare yourself.”

Manager: R-right.

Aya: “Okay, let’s begin. Kissers.”

Manager: What?

Aya: Y-you’re supposed to say, “You mean scissors?” Yeah. “You mean scissors, right?!”

Manager: Y-you mean scissors, right?!

Aya: It’s my first time, please be gentle.

Manager: Well…that’s one joke down.

Aya: …This won’t do.

Manager: Huh?

Aya: This isn’t good enough. I’ll go back to my room and give it some more thought.

Aya: Thanks for your time.

Manager: (Aya…it’s hard to picture her laughing, never mind performing a comedy skit…)

To be continued...in Part 2

[myrkulitescourge]

oh to live in a world where astarion had made it all the way through development as a tiefling

(gorg tieflingstarion head by @astarionposting!)

[ozziyo]

Terra's post me3 retirement years involve a lot of this and i think it's what she deserves

[hajihiko]

Too bright☀️

[ddeck]

you know. just like with specific terms and nicknames like clanker or shinie, clones must've come up with unique meanings for their armor paint. like with different meanings assigned to colors of mandalorian armor except since the choice of color is out of their control, all the importance lies in shapes and placement

[ave-immaculata]

A man sent to you by God won't lead you away from Him

[justaz]

thinking about emrys, god of life, death, and magic, who saw the atrocities being committed against his people and traveled to the realm of humans to be born to mortal parents and live in the flesh to rescue his people and find what it means to be human. thinking of emrys, now merlin, feeling joy, feeling sorrow, feeling pain, feeling love and marrying arthur to rule camelot together and unite albion. thinking about merlin reclaiming his throne in the realm of the gods and raising arthur’s soul to rule alongside him above as he ruled alongside arthur below. merlin and arthur raising their court to their realm and continuing on their journey now gods rather than mortals

[beauvilliers]

vancouver canucks @ edmonton oilers | october 14, 2023

[sunderwight]

had a thought of what if Airplane had leaned a little more into the self-insert idea for Luo Binghe when he was still at the early stages of writing, with an end result that Luo Binghe actually Looks Like That because he basically looks like Airplane but with long flowing hair and a more idealized figure

SQQ going "why the fuck did you make his face so pretty???" and Airplane bullshitting about plausibility while trying really hard not to blush. twisting his fingers and scuffing his toe like jeez bro he's not that good-looking...

which of course sets SQQ off because how DARE!?! not 'that' good-looking?!?! just look at him! he's xianxia Helen of Troy with a face that launched a thousand harems! like okay sure with looks like that it does make sense that half the female population was willing to timeshare a marriage with him, but it's also totally unfair to SQQ, who has no recourse against those looks either! and who could? that is the most beautiful face ever!

Airplane's getting flustered. tries valiantly to make the case that objectively speaking Luo Binghe isn't that good-looking, it's just that SQQ is biased, but boy does that not go over well. SQQ has hitched the tattered remnants of his self-perception as a straight man onto the idea that Luo Binghe is just so devastatingly attractive anyone would want to hop into bed with him, and he is not letting go of it, so Airplane is just gonna get wrecked with inadvertent compliments

bonus if the Shang Qinghua look is actually the result of several illusions because when Airplane first transmigrated in, he got the same face too, and foresaw potential problems if the half-demon protagonist turned up looking like him. so he used illusions. he doesn't actually look all that different, in fact! the illusions just make it so that when people see him, they get a strong impression that he's unremarkable, so they don't really register what his face actually looks like and their brains fill in the assumption that he must just be kinda plain

oooh ooh double bonus if the system inserted a behind-the-scenes explanation for it too, which is that Shang Qinghua is actually unwittingly related to Su Xiyan!

and the whole thing comes to light post-epilogue when Shang Qinghua's illusions get stripped away by some monster-of-the-week, while everyone except Mobei Jun has a freak out about why do you look just like Luo Binghe?! (Mobei Jun isn't freaking out because he already figured out how to see past the illusions and just assumed everyone else wasn't mentioning it for some human cultural reason or something) and then Yue Qingyuan calmly explains that Luo Binghe's mom is Shang Qinghua's matrilineal cousin. Shang Qinghua's mother and Luo Binghe's human grandmother were half-sisters.

what? how does Yue Qingyuan know? you think that Cang Qiong doesn't check up on the candidates for the peak lord positions before handing off power, doesn't make sure there are no conflicts of interest or divided loyalties to other sects? what sorts of things do people imagine Qiong Ding's diplomats do? (I don't know either but, for the purpose of this scenario at least some of it is tracking down this stuff -- YQY handled most of it personally for his generation's ascension because he didn't want anyone else digging into his and Xiao Jiu's pasts) anyways, the connection could have been troublesome for its ties to Huan Hua Palace, but by the time it came to light Su Xiyan was deceased and there was no evidence that Shang Qinghua had ever even met her. so it wasn't deemed significant enough to matter, was just made note of and then mostly forgotten

so Shang Qinghua is like "oh THAT is why you kept bringing her up to me back then?!" because at the time he'd just been fully in "haha how would I know anything about the impending plot and the tragedies I am both partly responsible for and powerless to prevent haha that's so funny shixiong I KNOW NOTHING" mode, which luckily at the time was easily read as him just not wanting a dead cousin he never met to tank his chances of securing a promotion

SQQ is floored. he is having issues about this. Shang Qinghua is related to Binghe? Shang Qinghua looks exactly like him?! wait. Binghe has human family? still alive? like grandparents and stuff out there, who might want to meet him...?

Luo Binghe decides to step in at that point because he does not want to meet any more relatives! no more surprise relatives! no!

luckily this distracts Shen Qingqiu from thinking about all of the things he's said to Airplane about Binghe's looks for long enough for Shang Qinghua to flee the scene

[artseniccatnip]

suggestion: wandersong guys as bug fables bugs ! OR bug fables guys in the wandersong universe if you'd rather but the bugification beam idea sounded more fun to me so i thought id toss it ur way in case it interested you! (unless youve already done this and i missed it!! sorry if so!)

i've actually never done it! I think I was intimidated with trying to think of bugs that fit but then I decided bug fables isn't always 100% accurate so I don't have to be either lol

anyways here's my designs for them!

[a-total-and-complete-nerd]

Brandon Sanderson: Fantasy vs. Sci-Fi

Almost all of BrandoSando's books straddle the line between the two genres, and after seeing @approximateknowledge's post here, I wondered how they would lay out on that chart. I was also inspired by this fascinating WOB about Skyward's genre. These are just my opinions, so let me know if you agree or what you think you'd change!

[sierradeaton]

LUKE ♡ BOSTON CALLING