#i decided it could use an update

[theminecraftbee]

Grian holds his wing out to be examined, trying to sketch out various schemes for his base with colored pencils while Scar runs his hands through his feathers, carefully preening spots Grian can’t reach. It’s easy to get distracted by how good Scar is at it, how nice it feels to be in contact with someone else for long enough to get his wings cleaned up. (It’s almost embarrassing, getting distracted by it; preening is like, an activity he has to do really regularly, and he normally gets someone to help, it’s a bonding activity or whatever. But still, every time, he finds himself almost surprised by how much the small display of physical affection affects him.)

“You know, I’ve always wondered,” Scar starts. Grian puts down a pencil.

“Yes, Scar?”

“The, the eyespots. I looked it up once, you know.”

Grian rolls his eyes. “We’ve been over that I don’t know what kind of bird I am, Scar. This is a conversation we’ve had repeatedly.”

“Yeah, yeah, but like... the only birds I could find with them either used them to show off to mates or -”

Grian chokes. “I’m sorry Scar, what?”

“Yeah! Peacocks that have their tails pruned so they don’t have as many eyes don’t get as many mates. Don’t worry though, Grian, your weird fake eye spots are very attractive. Why, I’d even say they’re adequately so!”

Grian flaps a wing back to smack Scar with it. Scar yelps. “Hey! See if I keep helping you!”

“You have literally never turned this down,” Grian says.

“I could,” Scar says.

“Sure,” Grian drawls, injecting as much sarcasm into it as possible. Scar huffs.

“Anyway, I looked it up. The other bird I could find with them was an owl that had them on the back of its head to trick predators. And I looked them up in a lot of other animals, and they’re to make predators think they’re stared at. Scare ‘em off.”

“So?” Grian says, settling his wing back into place so Scar can go back to preening it.

“So that’s weird, right? We don’t even know what kind of bird you are, and you have like, spots to scare off predators! What kind of thing even eats a bird as big as you?”

“Nothing, I would hope!” Grian yelps.

“Yeah, but you’ve gotta have the spots for a reason,” Scar says. “And...”

Grian tilts his head and waits.

“...there are things out there, you know,” Scar says, and this time, it’s in the voice of one of those sorts of people who is far too connected to the magic of the world. “I worry.”

“Well,” Grian says, suddenly feeling somewhat uncomfortable. “Well. I have the spots; I open my wings at people when I’m frightened, anyway. If they really are for scaring people, that would scare them off, right?”

Scar is quiet. He cards his hands through Grian’s wing, and Grian resists the urge to shudder into it.

“Right,” Scar says, finally.

“Besides,” Grian says. “What are the odds of finding out why I have those things? Basically none, right?”

“Grian. Grian. Please don’t say that.”

Grian cackles before saying, slowly and cheerfully: “But Scar! What could possibly go wrong!”

“Grian, no, don’t say such cursed words around me! No! Fiend!”

The conversation moves on. Grian doesn’t quite forget about it.

[tmos-time]

okay here he is; the most dangerous eridan is the kind who secretly knows hes got a cute look going on

[front-facing-pokemon]

[danothan]

I like to think of halbarry as two gay men who haven't come to terms with their sexuality and complete denial bc of their trauma and bullying

like what you said in flashpoint paradox where in that timeline he got the support system and no trauma I think

I think it makes sense to me them being gay than bi/pan. etc

oh this could not have come at a worse time, i’m drawing the most bisexual halbarryisms in the world rn 💔

[hakiarleon]

tiniest hakizana

[tennessoui]

I've seen you get a bunch of shit for WIPs and I just wanted to let you know you don't deserve that. You are an amazingly prolific writer, and a very creative individual. Anything you chose to write is a gift, and fandom is owed nothing from you. <3

aw this is so so kind of you to send!!

i do think every ask about wips is very much sent in good faith and i do keep that in mind when i read them and think about them.

but they can be jarring to get. the last thing i want to do is spend hours of my very real life on a hobby and then feel guilty for not spending those hours correctly on a slightly different aspect of that hobby. you know. like.

i could be learning how to crochet instead or boulder or do peloton classes or something if im gonna feel guilty either way for what im doing in my spare time you know

so thank you for the affirmations <3 they're great to get and read <3

[shirogane-oushirou]

working on my pinned and looking at my f/o tags, fighting between "combining my winter crew, tsukiko, and tsubasa tags into just the winter crew tag -- like how brave vesperia is all in one tag -- would be SO much more convenient" and "i like tsukiko's and tsubasa's tag names, and i want people to listen to their associated songs" :'(((

[rohirric-hunter]

Me: Can I put a second hard drive in my laptop?

My dad: No, they don't leave space for that in laptop cases.

Me: But I have two hard drives in my old laptop.

My dad: :| Your old laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad. It's basically not even a laptop. You can't be judging other laptops by that standard.

[arsenicflame]

me writing headcanons for obscure media that's already been dead for years? its more likely than you think

Avengers Academy Loki primarily identifies as female, and even when she is presenting male, she is pretty feminine. Shes always been secure in her identity, but the first time she ever felt truly accepted and loved as who she is was when Jan offered to make her feminine clothes without a seconds hesitation.

[atwas-gaming]

Wow. I have got to figure out how to run old games on my shiny, modern gaming PC, because the new Carnivores remake. SUCKS.

[doli-nemae]

behold the most useful thing in the world

table with timeline and my characters from SWTOR

[ragnars-tooth]

Playing a bw soullocke with the bestie rn and I found a shiny patrat and within 30 minutes it was dead

[mimi-cee-genshin]

I guess Genshin is making up for the previous lack of male catalyst characters. lol.

[wellknownquest]

it really says something that tumblr on a mobile browser is a better experience than the app

I bet it’s better than a desktop browser these days too

[krimiqueer]

Experiencing the new layout. I'm baffled by how bad the UX is.

Having the For You tab first, and locked, is horrendous. Also, when there's new posts on Following, clicking on it doesn't update the dash, but clicking on Home to update Following...leads you to For You. I don't even talk about the fact that they display a notification bubble on Following, which in good UX would tell you "click here to see what's new", but no. Click on Home on the left, to go to For You then go to Following. Where we displayed a notification bubble. To tell you you have new posts there. But you have to click twice on other links before getting there.

They really fucked this up. I don't even know what they get from pushing For You onto us since we're not interested and will switch to Following immediately.

[space-ninja-fashion-show]

The reason i say overguard is causing Multiple issues is bc it's not just the CC thing (which imo the devs have no excuse for not fuckin fixing considering the content of the update)

It's also that it's ridiculously inconsistent

Iron Skin still functions as normal in terms of protecting from all procs, not just knockdowns, whereas Kullervo's overguard doesn't protect him from standard procs, only knockdowns/staggers and enemy CC

Both of them show up the exact same way on the HUD

Despite behaving completely differently

Despite not being the same thing in any way, shape, or form

Because that makes sense /s