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[lqtraintracks]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Damen/Laurent (Captive Prince) Words: 430 Additional Tags: Kings in Love, Married kings, Post-Book 3: Kings Rising (Captive Prince), Exhibitionism, Roleplay, Sexual Roleplay, Master/Pet, Hand Feeding, Hand Jobs, Public Sex, Public Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Public Blow Jobs Summary: Royalty from the north visits Vere for the autumn festival, and since they would lose all respect for a King with no pet—and this trade deal must go through—Laurent and Damen decide a little play-acting isn’t entirely beneath them. A/N: Happy Smutsgiving/Wanksgiving, everyone! <333

[panakina]

I refuse to let DC reboot their way out of a warped timeline. No explaining it away, lean into it.

Tim drake is a 90s kid. He is seventeen, he grew up alongside computers and listens to terrible rock rap. Jason, one year older than him, is from the 80s and the height of the AIDs epidemic. Dick, maybe six years older than Jason, is from the 40s. Babs, five years older than dick, is from the 50s. The year is 2025. Bruce Wayne has just turned 40.

[vanhn]

judging

[rizsnt]

pull the blanket tight now or whatever the kids are saying

[xiaq]

Writing is so fucking stupid. I had a scene pop into my head and now I’ve spent the last year and 100k words creating the necessary contextual plot/character depth to earn the emotion in that scene. Ridiculous. Absurd. Why.

[yesokayiknow]

my thoughts on bigeneration btw is that i still find it really funny & genuinely don't care in any way. but also i don't think you can complain about the rani being able to do it bc she's literally spent several years watching the doctor post bigeneration and what kind of mad scientist would she be if she couldn't replicate the doctor's findings? if anything i'm surprised she didn't trigenerate

[notbecauseofvictories]

I'm re-reading the Discworld series for reasons, and honestly the most relatable part of reading these as an adult is how many of the protagonists start out being tired, used to their little routine and vaguely disgruntled by the interruption of the Plot. Sam Vimes wants to lie drunk in a gutter and absolutely doesn't want to be arresting dragons. Rincewind is yanked into every situation he's ever encountered, though he'd much rather be lying in a gutter too. (Minus the alcohol. Plus regretting everything he's ever done said witnessed or even heard about fourth-hand in his whole life.) Granny Weatherwax is deeply suspicious of foreign parts and that includes the next town over; Nanny has leaned into the armor of "nothing ever happens to jolly grannies who terrorize their daughters-in-law and make Saucy Jokes"

Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.

............well, that's not quite true. You get the sense that Vetinari knows how much certain people hate the Plot. And as the person sitting behind the metaphorical lighting board of Ankh-Morpork, he takes no small pleasure in forcing the Plot-haters specifically to stand up, and say some lines.

[thieves-never-say-die]

Disclaimer that I don't actually think the Leverage ot3 will go canon next episode, but if it did it would be funny if it happened as:

*the whole team including Harry and Hardison are gathered in their HQ* Parker: Let's go set up the next phase of the con! *kisses Eliot before she leaves* Hardison: Wait up babe! *also kisses Eliot before he leaves* Eliot: *grumbles and blushes but doesn't bat them away* Harry: So how long has that been going on? Sophie, Breanna, and Eliot: *stare at Harry in confusion* Breanna: The whole time Sophie: Don't you pay attention? Harry: *can't tell if they're fucking with him or not*

[needanaccount2readarcaneposts]

They did Sevika so, so, so dirty this act. SHE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A FUCKING SPEAKING LINE PAST EPISODE 4. But I want everyone to know that this magnificent bitch turned up to negotiate for independence (or whatever the fuck that stupid montage scene was) wearing Silco's colours, with an eye motif on her serape.

[shitpostingkats]

Including the turks in crisis core makes everything 100% more tragic but also a little bit more hilarious. Like the first time playing when we're introduced to Reno his instant dismissal of Cloud reads as just hotshot bragging, then you gain more context and replay that section and no, it's literally that if this guy were really 1st class, Reno would have met him, or at least heard of him. He thinks this guy is just a mako junkie lying about his credentials for fun and profit but also that's so low on their list of priorities it's not even worth commenting on.

And then I played Crisis Core and. My guy. You were on the search and rescue team for this guy like two months ago. He's carrying around a piece of very distinctive stolen company property. Cissnei actually saw this guys comatose body. Do you guys secretly know everything that is going on with this little tortured blond ages before everyone else does, or is there just absolutely zero small talk happening in your office.

[3liza]

this is the CGI creature shot from Hysteria! that impressed me so much. what made me sit bolt upright and hit replay like ten times is how the demon uses his wings like an actual animal with bat wings, ie, like arms. notice how he puts his weight on the wrist and then finger joint to haul his body upright, and then if you look closely you can see he's not only using his wings to do a pushup, but his feet then entirely leave the ground and he balances on his wing finger joints (while swaying as he achieves the upright posture, and the leather of the wings sways too) to make his threatening gesture. it's really good, i dont think ive ever seen an animation choreographed quite like this for a winged humanoid creature. i also really like his design, the entwined horns are great, the face is genuinely scary and gross, the dead eyes and so on. he's in the DOOM genre of demon designs, which is correct for the setting since the show is about heavy metal satanic panic. this is only episode 5 and he's shown up briefly a handful of times but this is the best and longest shot of him so far, i really hope they dump more screentime into this guy because the animators were CLEARLY allowed to actually flex, someone who knows anatomy and biomechanics worked on this and put their love into it and it shows. the rest of the show is alright

[lurkinginnernarrator]

It's a pity Yang Yixuan is so neglected in the SVSSS fandom, because a liushen found family au with Yang Yixuan as their feral child would be delightful. I can see it in my mind now, with Shen Yuan's mommy instincts kicking in, and Liu Qingge being very affected.

[tanadrin]

kind of have a pet peeve in popular science and science educational content where the presenter doesn't bother to look up and practice the pronunciation of long, unfamiliar technical terms and acts like it's just sooo impossible to figure out how to pronounce these words properly. dictionaries are free. the whole reason people are viewing this content is because they are interested in the subject. and i think in general the attitude "this thing is possible to learn and get conversant in" is more conducive to the act of learning and assimilating new information than "science is hard, of course you don't know anything, you little ditz you"

[autohavenwreckerz]

You guys like dustin rite

[spooky-activity]

She would also have a Ninetales and a Sinistea thank you for coming to my ted talk

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Not sure if you’ve answered this in the past, but in the Drake’s Spoiled Brat, what age does Tim think of himself as? Because physically, yeah, he’s a 17 year old and his mind, body, and emotions are all probably at the developmental level of a 17 year old. A traumatized one to be sure, but still a 17 year old. So he probably processes emotions in the way a 17 year old would. But he also has memories from a past timeline where he definitely made it to adulthood. Which combined with the memories from this timeline would give him like… late 30’s to early 40’s years worth of memories? Assuming I got numbers correct. So does that impact the age he thinks of himself as, or does he disconnect from it by knowing that objectively, those are very much his memories, but they feel more like someone else’s due to the time travel shenanigans?

Tim both feels and is seventeen. BUT it's in in the same way Konner is seventeen- just to the opposite extreme.

Think of it like a neverending deja vu and mandela effect of memories. Some feel alarmingly famliar as the same song and dance again- but others? They feel so foreign and wrong to what he knows is "true" but it never was

Its not a constant "hes aware of 30+ years of existance" since both his body and mind reset- it was just wisps and chunks of memories that remained