#incredible. so good. I am very normal about my interests (lying)

[himemeika]

Reacting to vam/pire media like professionals react to content about their jobs

[runespoor7]

I mean obviously I’m am going to ask you about chengxian, for the ask meme

What made you ship it?

It was the most interesting relationship in the book. I'm a sucker for childhood friends with broken promises, for grief, for misunderstandings over loyalty and love, and for relationships whose resolution in canon is bittersweet.

It still took some time and effort before I started really shipping it. I was theoretically open to shipping it but I hadn't yet read fics that really sold me on it (this was in 2019, I think). Then as an experiment I put a WWX-inspired character in the setting I was GMing for the JC and JYL NPC stand-ins to have him to play off of. Turned out I did ship them.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

😬

*wide, helpless, expansive gesture*

It's never simple with them. It's always fraught. They love one another but they also resent one another. Hunting demonic cultivators is about WWX still maybe being alive. Maybe JC can bring himself to kill WWX this time, or maybe he can find a way to bring WWX back home and forgive him. WWX promises to be with JC but he ends up promising that he won't stay ("like my father served your father") but he didn't mean it with an end. the mess that is the fraughtness of WWX's liminal space when it comes to his social rank.

love hurts, what hurts is love.

the fact that the one 'leading' is WWX, not JC, going against the accepted social order. (tbh, if that wasn't the case, I probably wouldn't be into the ship.) it paints such a picture of WWX being so charismatic, and JC being so taken with him, that JC falls into being WWX's sidekick. no wonder YZY was awful about it.

JC keeping Chenqing like a mad dog and keeping Lotus Pier WWX-safe. I. god. JC rating WWX's attention >>>>>>>>>>>>> JC's self-respect every time, in every way. Amazing.

it's incredible to me how WWX asks JYL about love in a scene framed in a manner to make it subtextually point in the direction of LWJ (it's mdzs; the canon pair in mdzs is wgxn; there are no - explicit - love triangles in mdzs; and yet even WWX's original crush on LWJ is, uh. informed by JC and how WWX is with JC and the fact that LWJ is New and Not The Son of WWX's Benefactor. this is normal.), where it's apparent that WWX is scared of being in love because it changes how you act, it's a limit, it's a cage, you're limiting yourself for someone else - and then WWX does something for JC that is everything he was scared of.

and it does ruin him! it's terrible! so his romance with LWJ is everything his feelings for JC weren't. He's not the one doing the protecting. LWJ doesn't question him. There are no expectations of anything, no discussions of the future, no thoughts of society. LWJ is just such a comfort, just a good thing WWX gets because he wants it. Also LWJ isn't emotionally taxing af (this is a big one). (WWX kinda ends up YZY-ing himself at the end of the book but I'm not thinking about that.)

WWX's utter toxicity toward JC. not a iota of respect for either JC or JC's boundaries to be found, except when convenient for WWX.

they both really, really believe that WWX is better than JC in every way. it's very cool

look. i'm a simple person. arrogant genius jerk/grumpy dutiful tsundere otp.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

I love the joke that chengxian isn't incest but both of them wish it were, but I think the only time one of them wished they were brothers was JC when he decided to sacrifice himself for WWX and he was lying in bed making morbid jokes. At least sacrificing yourself for your brother who is the better cultivator and can lead the sect would be simple. Forgivable. Good.

I also think they might grow to think of one another as brothers at some point post-canon, that's a sort of reconciliation that might happen, but to me it's key that during canon they don't know what they are to one another, they just know they're scarily, terrifyingly important, and there's no word for what they are to one another.

JC refused shixiong-shidi (in a shocking reversal of their normal dynamic, I think he forgot he did that and spent roughly two decades feeling insecure and weird that WWX doesn't call him shidi) and they can be nothing else, socially speaking. The love that dare not speak its name, if you would. And at that same time post-canon they could also decide that what they're to each other is that WWX used to be in love with JC, and maybe JC still is, and they're not brothers. Or maybe both! The point is, the definition of their relationship is uncharted waters and they never thought of each other as 'brothers' (much less called each other that).

2) WWX is incredibly bitter and resentful of giving his core to JC and that colors everything he thinks and says about JC afterwards, including after he's returned to life. Basically, he gave, and gave, and gave, and felt there was no gratitude, and he's unable to live the life he wanted, unable to reap the promises life made him, and JC isn't any more agreeable or tractable than before (less so, in fact!). It's not fair.

[starlightswordfight]

rescue corps headcanons because I'm insane

(there are many)

– mirror pronouns pom

– that's all I got

– man!!

– Bernard started TALKING in this specific MANNER for the BIT years and years back and now he can't STOP he is STUCK someone HELP him

– he ALSO might be doing it to try to put EMPHASIS on the words he believes should have it and sometimes HE DOES not succeed

– he reads as ADHD coded to me but it might be because I also talk like that so take that with a grain of salt

– "HEY GIRL. I MEAN ANY PRONOUNS"

– Bernard had the most normal home life by far. No contest, won by default. I have a GREAT relationship with both of MY parents because they LOVE me

– he is incredibly observant. alarmingly so. will sometimes act out of the loop on purpose, if he thinks things would just be easier that way. accidentally learns everything about everyone, the guy's an information magnet and he doesn't know how to feel about that

– do you guys think Russ has made a spacesuit with the doc ock arms because I think he has and that he actively uses it on missions

– occasionally jumpscares people and giggles about it. he got the tendency to do this from his mother, who can smell fear

– while I doubt Russ would do things "for the bit" he would ABSOLUTELY act on impulse in the name of the scientific method. this has gotten him hurt before. it's fine

– does not make coffee he just eats the fucking grounds. "it's a Giyan thing, you wouldn't understand" this is not true at all he is LYING

– Russ and Yonny get into frequent arguments (light banter) about literally everything and I mean Everything. They could work together they'd be really powerful that way, but they don't

– Russ has so many genuinely funny science puns that he makes and no one ever gets them and it devastates him

– except for Yonny, who is too busy searching for ethics guideline loopholes to acknowledge that he understands the joke

– Yonny has the most HORRIFIC life stories and will drop them CASUALLY. thought they were funny, is only now beginning to realize that it does in fact make people concerned and uncomfortable when he does that

– prefers paper books to digital because he's prone to headaches!! cites "phone bad book good" as the official reason but that's not the reason

– nonbinary and evil. presentation tends to "default" as masc but switches up often! hey girl I mean any pronouns

– knows like a hundred million dead languages for absolutely no reason

– makes art in his spare time because murder is wrong

– Shepherd sleeps with a nightlight, or at the very least can't rest well in complete darkness!! she's just like me fr !!!!

– "she snores" thank you duncan for your contribution. honk shoe

– also I think she might be autistic I can't fully back that one up do not ask me to but look at her. she cares about dogs the way I care about fish

– prone to coming across the wrong way, tone wise. very very good at giving backhanded compliments that were meant to be fully sincere and just got horribly lost in translation. this keeps her up at night. she feels AWFUL

– big fan of karaoke!! not exactly GOOD at it but we love her initiative

– as afraid as she is of the pikmin, their voices and funny little words are very catchy and she does find herself repeating them often. she will not admit this. it is embarrassing

– Collin is also autistic. I could make an entire separate post on this I'm being so goddamn serious, I have so much reasoning, I am fully confident that he is, and that he masks REALLY hard, and it enormously fucked him up

– special interest in machinery (NO ONE saw THIS coming)

– transmasculine. his name is a pun on "call in." heard the phrase and realized he had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

– we only hear about his grandfather, and not even from him; no other family is mentioned at all!! went no contact with like everybody else, above points might be why. people with normal childhoods don't stand like that

– adding onto the canon sleep talking with sleep movement! a LOT of it! has probably kicked someone before!!

– "he wakes up upside down" thank you duncan

– i think maybe Dingo might still have glow stick light up bones. will rediscover this one day during an expedition mishap and it will be an Experience

– not a hc but Dingo is the type of guy to get bit in a zombie apocalypse and not tell anyone until the literal last second

– "he would also say "fuck my stupid baka life"" thank you duncan

– would fight by rolling up his sleeves and jumping around cartoonishly. he would more likely talk like he's winning the fight when he is in fact actively losing. "had enough yet? (on the floor)"

– definitely games and he wins the competitive ones by button mashing. "I'll never tell you my strategy" he prays that's the strategy

– his sleep schedule is NOT normal. it's so beyond skewed. he either gets like 2 hours of sleep or he wakes up the following night not knowing what year it is

[underwaterbanshee]

I love your post about Tula, I just finished the latest ep of burrows end and I am SCROUNGING for theories.

What do you think she was ‘fundamentally lying’ about?? I’ve seen a couple posts floating around:

- one was how maybe Geoffrey could’ve been a bad husband and Tula didn’t save him because of it (maybe killed him?)

- Another was, maybe the Blue (radiation?) is killing her to use it?

- Another good one, was maybe Tula isn’t their (Jaysohn and Lila’s) bio mother.

I don’t have a very good or original educational guess, but I don’t think she killed Geoffrey. I do think she knows what did, and she’s lying so her children aren’t vengeful. She doesn’t want her children chasing power, to avenge their dad, or getting caught up in what he was deeply in.

I think it’s been said before, but in some of Geoffrey’s art he has a little grass belt, and the only other stoats we’ve seen have tools/clothes, was in Last Bast. (I can see the connection there, but we’ve also seen Viola have ‘accessories’, so it could just be a red herring.)

I think maybe Tula knows more about Last Bast (or humans) than she lets on, possibly from Geoffrey (if the grass belt is a connection.) I think Geoffrey saw something, or knew something in Last Bast, and ran. Eventually, he found the red Warren, fell in love, and started a family.

Now with an invested interest to keep his family safe, he’s using what he learned in Last Bast in the Red Warren, which somehow got him killed. (By a human? Maybe? The humans that saw Thorn seemed more interested than expressing a want to kill him - maybe humans want to test the stoats for radiation sickness, or something like that?) it’s giving watership down meets Chernobyl, the natural world clashing with human disasters.

Just some thoughts! I feel like there’s so many clues and pieces on the board, but no lines connecting them. There’s an allegory that I’m not catching, and it’s driving me NUTS.

What do you make of this? :)

(sorry for the long ask! Just excited!)

omg this is my very first ask and I'm trying to be normal about it

So, it's been a few days and I've been going over this in my head and here are my conclusions to your lovely, lovely ask <3

The lie is probably something incredibly mundane.

Adults lie to children all the time. Lila is going through what every child goes through as they become a teenager--she's starting to see the cracks between reality, truth, and the fictions adults use to process an unfair world.

I think it is entirely possible that when the lie is revealed, an adult audience might go, "Oh, that's not a big a deal," while Lila overreacts with betrayal.

It's entirely possible Geoffrey is from Last Bast.

The only thing I'm basing this on, besides character art, is that Tula is based on Mrs. Brisby from Secret of NIMH and Last Bast is giving me Rats of NIMH vibes, not secret authoritarian cult vibes (which is an entirely different post that I'll probably never write). I mean, the Rats had magic and electricity.

Also, Brian might be analogous to Jenner, the power hungry Rat, the First Stoats might be like Nicodemus, just like Bennett is probably Justin.

Did I want Bennett to be a fuckable version of Justin for Tula? Yes. But that's only because my childself wanted Justin and Mrs. Brisby to end up together. Baby Banshee didn't understand why that wouldn't work. She wanted love to win.

Anyway.

Based on how much the Red Warren Family popped off against Last Bast during this episode, I don't know if there will be more Secret of NIMH elements playing out. It's possible Tula could bring up Geoffrey and get confirmation on that but I don't think it's important to our stouts anymore.

But wouldn't it be interesting if Tula knew about Last Bast before they arrived? Didn't someone say something about lies of omission?

Mrs. Brisby's character arc is about having enough courage to move her family while her son has pneumonia. She confronts an owl, a cat, and a power hungry rat who deliberately puts moving the mouse family's home in jeopardy, in order to keep her family safe.

During most of the story, her children are in the dark about what she's doing to keep them alive and protect their future.

What an amazing archetype as Tula's touchstone.

One of the great things about the d20 campaigns is not only the mashup but how the players resolve the mashup after making a mess. I might be seeing lots of NIMH being laid down, now that the Watership Down portion is somewhat resolved but I'm prepared to be totally wrong as maybe our vicious varmints take us in a new direction.

Like I said--obsessed with Tula =^_^=

[queenshelby]

Yes! Mr Murphy (Rewritten)

PART 20: HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY

Pairing: Cillian Murphy x Reader

Warning: Angst, Age Gap, Teacher x Student, Fluff, Smut

The following day…

Today was the day of your 23rd birthday and this, in itself, made you a little nervous for two reasons.

The first reason was that Cillian had organised dinner and drinks at one of the local Dublin bars and, since you were keeping your relationship a secret from everyone else, being seen together in public was worrisome. Not only was Cillian a rather famous actor, but also was he still your lecturer for another six weeks following your two-week mid-semester break, which was due to commence next Monday.

Thus, if you were to be found out, it would be a disaster for you both and, for some reason though, Cillian did not appear to be concerned about this in the slightest.

Cillian had invited your friend Emma, as well as his friends Dermont and Connie to attend, thinking that, at least this way, you would not be alone. If you were to be seen together with other people, you could have both been there by chance and, due to the busy nature of this particular bar, you could have shared a table for convenience, especially since, at this venue, bookings for less than four people were not permitted.

Emma, of course, concurred with Cillian on this matter. He clearly had some experience in avoiding attention, given his status, and he most certainly was invested in protecting you from any adverse actions by the school’s principal.

The other concern you had about tonight however was a little more nerve wrecking for you as Cillian still believed that you were turning thirty today whereas, the truth was, that you were only turning twenty-three.

You had still not told him about your real age and felt incredibly guilty and nervous about it, knowing that he would be rather upset if he found out. You were worried that he would break up with you if he knew that he was almost exactly twice your age and, this, you did not want to risk.

“You know you have to tell him at some point though, don’t you?” Emma reminded you as you got ready for the evening, wearing a pair of black jeans and a white blouson style top, the draped fabric of which was giving the illusion that your breasts were a little larger than they actually were.

“I know Em, but I am worried that he will just break it off” you told him as you looked into the mirror, wanting to look good for your boyfriend even though you knew that he really did not care about what you were wearing.

“He said that he loves you, so I doubt that he would break up with you over your age. You have spent almost every night with him in the past three weeks and, honestly, for an actor, it is not a big deal to be with someone much younger. Look at DiCaprio. He always dates women half his age” Emma teased while adjusting your top so that the neckline of it fell softly along your collarbone, showing your soft skin. You could just see the outline of your bra under the silky fabric and had to admit that, by designing this blouse, Emma had done a good job.

“Cillian isn’t like that though Emma. He is quite normal, I suppose” you tried to explain, seeing that Cillian hated his celebrity status and so did you. It was not something of interest to you and Emma was very well aware of that.

“I know” she thus said as it was nearly time to leave. “But either way, the longer you put it off, the worse his reaction will be” she then pointed out and, of course, you knew that she was right so you decided to do it today, when you were alone at his house, after your little birthday celebration.

You were going to tell him your real age and see what he had to say about that, hoping that he would forgive you for lying to him.

With that in mind, you took one final look in the mirror and sighed while Emma had a quiet chuckle.

“With you wearing this, he is not going to care about your age. He will just think about having sex with you instead because you look so hot in my newest creation” she then said proudly as she watched your curls bouncing around your shoulders, complimenting your outfit.

“Well, let’s hope you are right” you told her before you finally tossed your hair over shoulder and reached for your jacket.

Twenty minutes later…

Several minutes later, you arrived at the bar Cillian had chosen for your birthday celebration and, when you walked inside, you realised it was rather fancy.

The lobby alone looked like something out of a movie, with high ceilings and impeccable surfaces. There was a DJ on stage and several high tables scattered across the dimly lit ballroom. There even was a dance floor and a large bar on one end of the room where you spotted Dermont fetching some drinks.

Dermont too spotted you almost at the same time and waved a little too obviously, causing you to chuckle before walking over towards him with your friend Emma in tow.

“Emma, right?” Dermont asked after wishing you a happy birthday. He vaguely remembered your friend from the pub where you had first met Cillian a few months ago, which was way before he was your lecturer. It was the night that changed everything for you.

“Yes” she said before greeting Dermont who was just about to place his order with the bartender.  

"We've got a booth over there. What are you drinking?” he thus said quickly and, you both of ordered a gin and tonic before you walked over to the table where Cillian and Connie had been waiting for you.

"Look at you. This top looks amazing!" Connie exclaimed while standing up and wishing you a happy birthday before introducing herself to Emma while, at the same time, you gave a Cillian a brief and somewhat friendly kiss on the cheek.

“You look absolutely stunning” he whispered into your ear and you smiled at him nervously before there was a chorus of “Happy Birthdays” for you.

“Thanks guys” you then said with blushing cheeks, hating the attention, before sitting down by Cillian’s side and, as soon as you took your seat, his hand came over towards your lap, which was something that took you by surprise.

“Is this why you booked a booth?” you whispered at him teasingly while only Emma could see what he was doing, namely holding your hand secretively beneath the table.

“Absolutely” Cillian smiled before the entire group watched you somewhat awkwardly until, finally, Dermont broke the silence.

“So, how does it feel to have hit the next decade of your life?” he asked before pointing out that one would have expected you to want a big party.

“Uhm, yeah it feels alright I suppose and I always hated parties so this get together is perfect” you told him in response before seeking to change the topic and asking Dermont about his radio show and his upcoming interview with Cillian.

“Interviewing your friend must be weird though, right?” Emma asked as soon as you brought it up and this gave raise to an interesting conversation which allowed you to learn a bit more about Cillian’s friendship with him.

Just as the conversation kept going though and Dermont shared some funny stories about Cillian’s youth, thereby embarrassing him slightly, a familiar face appeared in the crowd and approached the table.

“How funny seeing you here, all together” Cillian’s assistant said as she approached you, wearing an elegant black dress and a pair of matching high heels which was an outfit more suitable to a place like this than yours.

“Huh, what an interesting coincidence” you responded, swallowing harshly, and looking at her with some confusion.

“It is, isn’t it?” Kit lied, having been there on purpose. “It’s your birthday today, isn’t it? I remember Cillian telling me about” she then pointed out and Cillian too looked a little confused now as he had no recollection of telling her.

“I did?” he wondered whereas, the truth was, that Kit had looked at the schedule on Cillian’s iPhone to which, as his assistant, she had access.

As such, his dairy marked your 30th birthday as today and, when he booked a table for this venue online, the booking reference popped up on his calendar as well.

“Yes you did” Kit said nonetheless, causing Cillian to shrug his shoulders while she continued on. “But, I didn’t know that you were celebrating it here. What a cool place” Kit then said before asking you whether you liked the venue and, of course, you nodded while, secretively, you just wanted her to leave. You always had a weird feeling about her and knew that she was interested in Cillian in a romantic or sexual way. You could simply tell by how behaviour but did not want to sound like the jealous girlfriend so remained largely silent about it.

“It’s really nice. Cillian picked it. He did a good job” you thus told her while leaning against him, seeking his attention which was something that made Kit cringe.

“I love this place. I am here for a friend’s 35th birthday party tonight” Kit told you nonetheless before bringing up your age. ”You are turning thirty, right?” she asked and you reluctantly nodded again before, finally, one of her friends came up and pulled her towards the bar.

“Jeez, Kit looks like she’s up for a big night” Dermont chuckled as he watched her wander off and grab a shot of tequila from the tray handed to her and her friend by one of the waiters.

“Looks like it. She’s been a bit sad lately so she probably needs to let her hair down” Cillian told Dermont who wanted to know what was going on.

“Sad about what?” he asked, knowing that, just a few months ago, when Cillian ended it with Danielle, Kit also left her long-time boyfriend Oisin.

“Not sure. I don’t usually ask her about her personal life” Cillian responded before reaching for your hand again, this time more obviously that before.

“You are good boss then” you winked just as, somewhat suddenly, the music stopped and the DJ who had been playing for the past hour picked up the microphone in order to make an announcement.

Being a Tuesday night, the venue was not as busy as usual and, when he congratulated two of the other guests on their achievements, you were not really surprised by it.

These announcements related to a work function that was being held in one of the set aside areas and everyone cheered for the strangers who, after several years, were finally promoted in whatever position they were in.

“We also have a couple of birthdays here today” the DJ then went on to say and, unfortunately for you, this was something you did not want to hear about.

“Cill, please tell me that you didn’t make this a big deal” you thus whispered to Cillian who shook his head.

“No, I didn’t. I know you hate the attention babe” he reassured you, holding your hand, while the DJ congratulated Kit’s friend on her 35th birthday before, finally, moving on to you.

“Oh, for fuck sake” you sighed quietly, thinking that he was about to wish you a happy 30th birthday, but this was not at all what he had intended. He knew how old you were and someone had to have given this information to him.

“And we have another birthday girl here tonight, turning a tender 23 years old!” he thus said before calling out your name and offering you, just like the others, a glass of champagne on the house.

TO BE CONTINUED. PLEASE COMMENT AND ENGAGE.

[xerith-42]

OKAY NOW BASTARD MEMORY BRO HWADCANONS (im foot anon) GEME GENE GENE GENE IIOSUSGJSGGSHS <- SUPPER DUPER NORMAL 🦶💥 they make me explode

You know you keep acting this feral about Gene and it's gonna be pretty obvious who you are, Foot Anon. I'm just saying.

Anyways for Skinny Jeans size L, I'm just gonna get this out of the way, MCD Gene is bisexual and you can pry this headcanon from my cold dead blood encrusted hands. Before the whole Shadow Knight thing, he was flirting with basically anyone. Dante didn't see if because he was really careful to make sure his brother didn't know what was going on with him.

In fact, Gene hid a lot from his brother. He knew that Dante saw him as a role model, and despite being the worst role model ever of all time, he at least tried to hide his nefarious behaviors from his younger brother. It didn't always work, but Gene got very good at climbing in and out of windows, he was an incredibly fast runner, and he was very very good at lying his way out of sticky situations.

All of this made it easy to become the head guard. He barely even tried. Gene is always looking for a challenge. He does stupid dangerous shit because life is so boring, so monotonous, he has to find some way of making it entertaining. And he has the magic to literally fuck with people's memories, why not have fun with it?

This is why he doesn't actually mind being a shadow knight too much. He didn't fight the calling because he was waiting for an excuse, and he pushed Dante to his breaking point because he wanted a challenger that would be motivated enough to finally beat him. Might as well make it interesting and make it his own brother, amirite? Gene likes the extra power because it means he can explore more fucked up ideas, but it does have the downside of making things even easier for him than they were.

Gene is the strongest out of all the Shadow Knights. You will not be changing my mind about this. While Gene and Zenix fight a lot, half the time they don't even finish the fight because Zenix is clearly losing and Gene spares him, largely to piss him off. Gene likes fighting Zenix because Zenix is one of the few people who makes Gene's mostly still heart start beating, he makes him feel a rush of life and adrenaline, he loves fighting for his life so much.

Like I said in my SK headcanons post, I think Sasha is one of Gene's favorite people. After so much lying, killing, and manipulating, it's hard for him to connect with people. Hell, he actively fucked around with Sasha's memories, but she doesn't hold much ill will towards him for it honestly. Neither one of them care much about it in the grand scheme of things, and more often than not Gene will think of Sasha very fondly. When she escapes from the Nether, he actually kind of misses her and their long talks.

Gene and Sasha fucked, is what I'm saying.

(I just realized you said memory bros... And I kind of fixated on Gene. Oh well, guess Dante will have to wait because I am way too proud of how this post ended)

[dopscratch]

possibly controversial medic post incoming

remember i am within the belief that people can interpret characters the way they want to and i respect any other interpretations even if i find them very far from canon! and i totally accept that some people will find MY interpretation as super far from canon and thats ok too!

that said i will cherish anyone who agrees with me because i find it so rare that people characterize medic the way i do in fan material

there are a couple different breeds of medic fans and i'm of the (unpopular?) opinion that hes a sadistic egotistical maniac whos managed to manipulate everyone into thinking hes charismatic- but he truly cares for no one (except his birds). and i absolutley love him for it. because this makes him incredibly interesting to play around with and examine like a little bug on my windowsill

i dont seriously mind other interpretations but man is this the real medic to me (also why i dislike ships with medic! i headcanon him as not romantically interested in anyone ever plus the characteristics he has making things incredibly toxic (the comment about his wife by demoman is either demos drunk ramblings or some poor one sided relationship or a convenience marriage)). i always strive to make things as close to canon as possible and this is just the interpetation i've gathered after examining the canon materials. i will gladly provide proof of my beliefs whenever

yes he brought sniper back to life but that's for the science! he mentioned smiling because he was happy to see sniper while sniper was already shot and bleeding out because he could smell some human experimentation coming! meaning he was happy to see sniper DYING! (or he's just flat out lying!! which he totally would do!)

hes pretty much out ONLY for himself and only works with others for the services he wouldn't have access to otherwise. he acts charismatic because people are more likely to let him do what he wants if hes pleasant. and also hes just sort of silly by nature which a lot of people find endearing

the second opinion shows both the evil zombie face and NORMAL HIM have a united desire to murder all of his friends. he doesn't because it would be inconvenient. the fact he AGREES with the second opinion but shushes it anyway shows he wants to APPEAR like he doesnt want to kill everyone which is certainly a manipulative behavior

anyway theres more but thats where i shall cap it for now. i will certainly answer any questions anyone has about my interpretation of medic though :)

i just love how medic has been characterized through all of the materials valve has so graciously given us and it makes him such a horrific specimen. it's so rare to see a genuinely terrible person who is also a protagonist and i feel like watering that down to make him more palatable or likeable is a tragedy. because terrible people as characters are underrated. and a character doesn't need to be "actually a good person, guys" to be a compelling and interesting character. i love absolutely screwed up self-centered uncaring wild and silly medic and i hope at least one other person out there does too.

[princesscolumbia]

Pride Month 2024 - Day 11

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the single most controversial thing I've ever written:

🄳🄴🄰🄳 🄳🄾🅅🄴, 🄳🄾 🄽🄾🅃 🄴🄰🅃!

🪦🕊️🔞"BAMF" or "Ranma is Fucked"🔞🕊️🪦

(Looking for a link? Keep reading)

This is a "dead dove" fic. If you're unfamiliar with the concept, it's based on the GIF of the guy finding a bag in the fridge labelled "Dead Dove, Do Not Eat!" He opens it and finds...a dead dove, and upon the discovery of the very thing the bag was labelled for, he says, "I don't know what I was expecting."

Yeah, that one.

A 'dead dove' fic is one where the author has chosen to dip into some pretty problematic stuff. Maybe it's something specific to the fandom, the genre, the age group of the target demographic...whatever the problem, they've properly identified it as a dead dove fic at the outset, usually be either putting something in the title, the tags, using a warning system if one is available, sometimes all of those and more.

Basically, it's the author putting a big-ol "DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT!" on their fic, so at that point if someone opens the bag and discovers that there is, in fact, a dead dove, that person has nobody but themselves to blame.

Getting it yet? This is a dead dove fic. Last chance to keep scrolling before getting into problematic stuff that might trigger you. Still with me? The rest of this post is below the cut:

"BAMF" or "Ranma is Fucked"

Summary:

The day after Ranma (pretending to be 'cousin Ranko') is seduced by/accidentally seduces her mother, she gets to face the world with the knowledge that she is, indeed, a mother fucker.

First off, yes, this is based on another fic, a oneshot from an author who admitted they don't do well writing long-form, so it was a concept they thought of and dropped the (very, very good) short story and moved on. You can find that fic here if you're so inclined, but even BeehiveCitizen has acknowledged that I've built on their work so much reading their story may not be necessary. In fact, my most recent glowing comment on "BAMF" confirms this:

I shouldn't like this fic. It's main theme is a major personal squick. I don't usually read Dead Dove fics. I'm squicked by most incest play and the terms Daddy or Mommy or Babygirl in sexual settings are quick turn offs. There are lots of good reasons why I shouldn't like this fic. I'm not even sure why I chose to read it. I've spent the last week reading or rereading every single trans Ranma story on this site, but normally I'd still skip a Mother/Daughter fic. But some whim made me decide to give it a shot. I shouldn't like this fic. But I fucking loved it. I loved every fucking scene Nabiki showed up in. I loved watching Ranma discover and then embrace her own sexual nature, while still struggling with gender identity and her relationship with Nodoka. I loved seeing Ukyou embrace gender fluidity. Akane's lesbian realization. All of the characters in this story felt like realized characters, albeit ones that keep making incredibly poor choices and can't keep their hands off each other. Which, granted most of the characters are teenagers so that follows. The humor was amazingly hilarious. So much of the fic left me actually giggling out loud, from the first scene on. I am giggling right now just remembering parts of it. The drama was heart wrenching. Watching Ranma struggling with her gender, her fears and self loathing over lying to her mother about her identity. The end of chapter 5 where Ranma has her moment of anguish followed by how hard she spirals at Nodoka's flinch was so heartbreaking to read, yet so well done. And the part at the end where Ranma falls into depression... That hit me hard. I've had my own struggles with depression, and your depiction was viscerally familiar without being triggering. I absolutely loved Ranma's drunken breakdown to Konatsu. Konatsu was always my favorite Ranma side character, and I would be so interested in seeing her POV in that scene. The sex scenes are damn good. I'll admit I didn't really get anything out of the Ranma/Nadoka scenes. Major squick and all. But they were done so well I never thought about skipping or just skimming them. And the rest of them... Fucking hell that's good smut. My favorite must have been the Ryoga scene. The whiplash from Ranma's gender breakdown to drowning her issues with sex was perfect. And I also love me some well done Ranma/Ryoga. I love this fic. I came home at almost midnight from an extra long shift at work and discovered it while lying in bed looking for something to read before sleeping. I didn't sleep. I could not put this fic down. I spent all day today at work with it buzzing in my head. I'm considering making it my next ficbinding project so I can have a nice hardback copy of it. I read your extended notes on Tumblr about it. I'm at work now waiting for my relief to get in while writing this essay of a comment. I am eagerly awaiting that promised sequel. I'm an old school Ranma fan. I've been reading Ranma fanfic since I was a teenager in the 90s. I love Ranma fanfic. It was Ranma fanfic that first cracked my egg, even if I spent 20 years after that trying to glue it back together. So I've read the works of the old masters. And let me say this, hearing this story described as the Dark Mirror Universe version of Kenko's Girl Days hit me in the head like a lead pipe and left me dazed and seeing stars.

When I started "BAMF" I was in the middle of reviving Fission, grinding on LLW, and chunking out "Return to Sender" and "Afraid to Ask." I didn't anticipate actually spending that much time on this; a chapter or five, probably short form to keep from straying off into the weeds, then done.

I shall now quote my girlfriend's reaction to the end result:

"You wrote a 110-THOUSAND word incest smutfic!!!!"

Which is, strictly speaking, true. One cannot deny that there's a lot of smut in it, a good chunk of it is incest smut, and there are, indeed, over 110,000 words in the thing.

But what I didn't expect was to wind up crafting one of the damned finest transfemme Ranma pieces I could even imagine.

Of course, it came with baggage. I'm pretty firmly no longer welcome in parts of the fandom. Like, at all. Certain authors and community members have proactively blocked me on the socials and there's a handful of fics I can't leave comments on because some people have conflated, "You wrote this" with "You endorse this." Which...no, that's not how it works.

(Not going to rabbit hole the whole "pro/anti-shipping" discourse because it's dumb and stupid and it should be obvious which side I think is phenomenally dumb and stupid)

Also, I don't know many erotica pieces you know where the author put in, "This shit's fucked, if you're experiencing any of it IRL PLEASE seek help!" in their fic at regular intervals. Which, you know, is something I did. Because sometimes people are deep in the shit and don't know it until they read their lived experience and someone points out that no, relating to that character is not a good thing.

A gentle reminder that the behaviors and actions in this fic are not to be normalized or accepted. RP is fun and enticing, actual incest, abuse, and suicidal ideations are not.

Suicide Prevention Hotline

For the U.S.A.: 988 Hotline

For the U.K.: SPUK

Resources for your country: psychologytoday.com/Suicide Hotlines and Prevention Resources Around the World

Reporting Domestic Abuse

Identifying and Reporting Domestic Abuse in the USA: Wikihow

For the U.K.: UK.gov

Resources for your country: International Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Abduction of a minor

For the U.S.A.: Call 911

For the U.K.: Call 999

For your country: Call the Emergency Police line in your area

Resources for abducted children: International Center for Missing and Exploited Children

If you recognize the behaviors in this fic in you or the people you are in relationships with, get to a place of safety and seek help as soon as possible.

[mx-anthony-janthony-crowley]

SEASON TWO TRAILER RAHHHHHHHHH I AM SO NORMAL RIGHT NOW /lying

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IM ALSO SO VERY REALLY NORMAL (visibly shaking) djhfvbdhbvjdf (TRAILER SPOILERS BELOW!!) there's just!! so much!!!! good shit!!!!!! -i'm so intrigued about this lightning thing that's going on with crowley, i can't quite tell if he's controlling it or if it's being inflicted on him?? so that'll be interesting -i feel like maggie and nina have a significant role in the plot that's being kept from us so i'm also incredibly excited about that (plus sapphic rep by the sounds of it WOO) -NAKED GABRIEL JUMPSCARING CROWLEY IS THE BEST HJFDHJDFHJ -i also think it's so <3 that crowley walks into the bookshop and almost immediately takes his glasses off like... is that where he and az are at now bc <33333 -AND THE CANDLELIT DINNER?? AFTER THE FUCKING BLITZ SCENE??? WITH THAT LINE 'YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL BUT YOU'RE TOTALLY CERTAIN THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU WERE JUST NEAR ONE PARTICULAR PERSON' AAAHJDFBVDFHJ ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??? aziraphale is like WHAT ARE YOU A COP I DON'T KNOW ANY DEMONS WHAT i love it oh my god.... i'm really seeing the 'soft gentle and romantic' there hhhhhhhhh.... -"and his grumpy friend mr crowley-" "AUURUGHGHJH" 😭😭 -muriel is so autism i love them already they're SO PRECIOUS -this is such a small thing but AZIRAPHALE'S JACKET LOOKS SO SOFT..... HE LOOKS SO LIKE IDK HOMELY I LOVE THE VIBE <3 -i have literally been thinking about angel crowley NONSTOP since i saw the trailer. i can't stop looking at it. it's BEAUTIFUL in the most horrible way. what the FUCK is he wearing. i want to watch him wearing it for like 10 hours straight. he is such a disaster,,,, the zip up jacket, the PINK GLASSES?? the gold bedazzling.... it's all just so goofy in the best possible way i am so excited for any shit!angel!crowley scenes we get -THE RETURN OF MAGICIAN!AZIRAPHALE...... FUCK YEAH <3 i hope crowley is forced to be his assistant dfjbvfdjhbvfd -EVERY DAY IT'S A GETTING CLOSER 💃💃 GOING FASTER THAN A ROLLERCOASTER 🕺🕺 LOVE LIKE YOURS WILL SURELY COME MY WAY 💞💞

[dairy-farmer]

Would you mind sharing your top 5 favorite Tim getting knocked up scenarios?

ABSOLUTELY !!!!!!!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

forced pregnancy- either on tim or both their behalf. either mind control, magic, some kind of fuck or die scenario. with unwilling pregnancy i really like scenarios like 'how to breed better livestock' where ra's is using old magic to make it impossible for tim to get rid of the fetus. or maybe tim's held captive and can't use any way to prevent a child from being carried to full term. but with magic i love the idea of a ritual taking place where tim absolutely needs to get pregnant in order for it to happen. or a somnophilia kind of thing where tim gets impregnated without his knowledge and it's not until he's showing that he figures it out and by that point it's too late. just tim getting pregnant and having to carry the child.

'i didn't know i was pregnant'- okay but lowkey i loved this show as a kid. (that and monsters inside me and deadly women were my bread and butter). actually timpreg on twitter brought it up in their tweets and it's all i've been thinking about. like tim's uterus is maybe just a bit further up in his body and his baby is just born small. and tim is fond of weird food combinations and if he's a little moodier sometimes that's fine? he gets stressed? tim's not menstrating? well lots of vigilantes don't menstruate, amenorrhoea is surprisingly common among them and lots of elite athletes. so tim's just going about life as normal and then one day he just feels...off. there's this odd ache in his gut and a pulsing pain in his lower back but that happens somtimes. odd body aches come with the job description. but hours later and tim is seriously thinking of skipping patrol because...there's just something wrong. he can feel it and he doesn't know what it is. his heart is beating so fast and then there's a strange shift inside him, a pressure. bruce goes up to tim's room because he hasn't come down to get ready for patrol and everyone else is waiting only to stumble across the sight of tim's bed drenched with amniotic fluid, blood, and a crying baby cradled to tim's chest.

surrogacy. i love the idea of tim being pretty, like very very pretty. he's also incredibly intelligent and talented, he has his awkward moments but on the whole people do like talking and interacting with him. so in high socitey, i'd think (which is backed up by it's frequency given how many celebrities do it) there'd be not a small amount of wealthy couples and even single women/men who offer tim substantial amounts of money to be their surrogate. i tweeted about this before here and i still very much am in love with the idea!!! i think tim would be more open to so long as it's not his egg being used but that's alright because couples and women usually want to use their own men and single men already have an egg donor they just want tim to carry the baby because he's such a cute package to wrap around their gift. and who knows? maybe some of those looks and smarts will leak into their kid. and honestly tim's not particularly interested but is the guy who pretended he couldn't walk for more about a year and went to fake physical therapy. if he needed to do something drastic to keep his cover he'd definitly accept someone's offer. he'd be getting paid, someone would attend to his every need, the kid wouldn't be his so it's not like he'd be in charge of raising it. what tim wouldn't be expecting is just how much his family likes seeing how sweet and rounded with a child.

secret child. tim not wanting his child endangered because so many enemies know his identity and they could use his child as leverage. it's likely an accidental pregnancy so no one knows or suspects and tim has always been good at lying. so good he even lies to the rest of his family because they...they've let him down before. not believed him on something he desperately needed them to, betrayed him, lied to him, tried to kill him. there's not a single person who hasn't fucked tim over or helped in fucking him over- not even alfred. bruce even released his identity to stephanie, something she immediatly weaponized against him when she hired people to ruin his life. tim can't trust them to not...ruin this. he can't trust them not to ruin this for him, discourage him from this, or try to take this over (bruce is controlling, he'd try to speak over and stamp out any and all of tim's parenting decisions). so when tim gets pregnant he just...tells people he's going undercover and has his baby in peace under a fake name in a hospital. tim knows he can't hide it forever but he's already been so distant from the family. tim can't retire, can't just hide away forever because he's seen how well that works he knows that if someone really wants to find him they will. so he goes back to work, and he acts like everything is fine. he requests to be able to work from home and aside from some jabs that he's becoming even more of a hermit they leave him alone. they leave him in peace. no one has any idea. no one ever asks him where he goes, no one inquires about his life or if he has anything going on in his personal life, and no one comes over to his house. it's not until tim is horribly injured as a civilian and hospitalized. he's in a coma, this might be when they're hit with the realization that he really might not pull through, and bruce is in the chair beside tim's bed, fists clenching and agitated and stressed as the rest of the family paces or sits silently. when a social services worker walks in and they're confused because tim is no longer a child? he's over the age of 18? and they're like no we know we're not here about him, we're here about mr. drake's child who has no appointed guardian and may enter the foster system if one is not found for him. and they're just....silent. and they're introduced not to a baby, not to a little child, but to a fully 5 year old articulate child that looks so much like tim.

virgin mary situation- i find the idea of tim being a pregnant virgin absolutely hysterical. like maybe he had a creepy enemy who saw tim passed out and happened to have a cup and pipette on hand. or even better, tim has a break with reality while bruce is disappeared and impregnates himself with some sperm bruce had on ice and people are horrified to learn he's pregnant with bruce's child and bruce just...stays gone because tim is too pregnant to go looking for him and ra's never succeeds on his own. so bruce's legacy is just he was a good mentor, a good friend, and apparently he fucked his son but we don't talk about that. or maybe tim has a brush with a god who takes a liking to his quick wit and abilities and is like 'ur cute, i will reward you with my spawn' only they don't fuck him they just knock him up by rubbing his flat little tummy. just pregnant timmy sitting there all knocked up knowing they're the consequences of sex he never even got to have. the jokes would never end.

[kyluxtrashpit]

Okay so. This is going to be a ramble no one cares about but I just have to get it out lmao. I’ve been watching gundam witch from mercury because I’m both a lesbian and a huge gundam fan, so the prospect of a gundam series WITH lesbians is like. What you’d put in my lab experiment reward bottle lmao. That sounds amazing

Thing is though… I want to like the show. I do. I really do. Especially because I just know there are fanboys out there pissing on it immediately cause how dare there be women and gays in “their” show. But. I just. I don’t love it. I find it frustrating to be perfectly honest. I will say season 2 so far as improved GREATLY on season 1 (wtf was the point of 10 episodes of weird high school slice of life drama in a gundam series anyway, it was incredibly boring). But I still am not loving it and if season 2 doesn’t deliver by the end, I’m gonna give up on it

However! I have devised what I would consider a fix for the show. And I’m sure people who actually like it, were they to stumble across this post, would be very unhappy with my fixes lmao but. I stand by them and I’m rambling them here solely so they’ll stop rolling around in my brain. So here we go (spoilers below)

So. First off, gonna really commit to the shoujo-ai/yuri vibes by going full strawberry panic. If we have to have a school, I’m making it an all girl’s school. There are no men there. There is now 0 percent chance of even the slightest hint of heterosexuality among the students. Men can still be like in the political stuff, dads play a big role in this show, but why do we need male students? We don’t. I’m making them all girls now. This will be important later and it's not like it's uncommon in anime, especially in the femslash genre

Second thing: my main issue with this show is Suletta’s lack of emotional reaction to… fucking anything. She’ll be sad for like 30 seconds when something genuinely devastating happens and then it’s over, she got hungry, a friend acknowledged her, she watered tomatoes - boom, she’s cured. Being abandoned/rejected the 3 most important beings in her life in like a week span left her sad for a couple of days (which we didn’t even see - there was literally one like 5 second shot of her lying in a bed and that’s it), sure, but as soon as she gets hungry and her friends say 2 words to her, she’s 100% back to normal. That is insane. That is not how human emotions work. I don’t know whether it’s her character itself or the way her character is written that irks me so much, but I have never seen a less engaging protagonist character like… ever. And I almost never like anime protagonists so that’s impressive. I don’t even dislike her character, I just find her immensely boring to the point where I feel nothing about her except the frustration of what a waste her character is in this setting. If she died in the next episode, all I would feel is surprise, not sadness. It’s like the narrative has no ability to affect or change her - what the hell is the point of her then??? Guel, previously most obnoxious and hate-able character in the show, was made interesting by the narrative, yet the protagonist remains unaffected by it and therefore remains about as interesting as paint drying. Why????? It’s such a waste. But anyway

So if Suletta does not behave like, you know, a person, what does she behave like? Well I would say she has the exact emotional depth of a golden retriever. Bubbly, highly social, a bit anxious, wants to help and be a part of everything, never stays sad for long - that’s a golden retriever right there. It's not good writing, but it's precisely what the writers have done here

So, what if she was literally a golden retriever?

So. Everything’s the same except it’s an all girl’s school now and Suletta is now literally a dog. World’s first mobile suit piloting dog. They send her to the school as sort of a test, to see if this dog can outperform the ace student pilots there. A dog would also still want to rescue Miorine at the start, so this stays intact. Highly social dogs like to be helpful

So. Guel is a girl now and gets her ass kicked by a dog - this is even more humiliating and drives her spiral just as well, if not better. Miorine is also now stuck engaged to a dog, which further cements how dehumanizing and humiliating this marriage arrangement thing is for her and further shows what a piece of shit her father is. The rich spacians would also be super insulted by even the idea that a dog could be a match or better than them, so she'd still end up with the earthians and all that. So the plot remains exactly the same, literally no change

“But KTP, dogs can’t pilot mobile suits!” You cry. But the thing is - the dog isn’t actually doing it. Eri is, because Aerial is sentient. We don’t even know if Suletta as a human is actually any better than average at piloting because of that - she doesn’t need to be, so she probably isn't. So the dog doesn’t actually need to be good or even at all capable, just throw some buttons in there that make it look like the dog is piloting and you’re good. That’s all you need. No one, including the dog, would know better except Eri and Prospera

Prospera - she’s the dog’s owner/trainer. Her grief after losing Eri makes her pursue this. Maybe Eri loved dogs, was obsessed with them, so Prospera got her a dog - even in her current form. And then the plan was born

And because Suletta is a dog and people like dogs, the care she inspires in Miorine and others honestly makes more sense. Of course they want to protect this dog and make her happy and let her be free of these complicated plans and things. She’s a dog. Dogs should be playing and getting belly rubs and being happy. So Miorine, Prospera, and Eri/Aerial all agreeing that Suletta should be set free from their machinations before shit gets real also makes WAY MORE sense. Because it’s both good for the dog AND everyone else cause the last thing you'd want involved in all this is a dog

And, because we made everyone girls at the start, Miorine could go into a romance with literally any character and it’d still be the lesbian gundam except now there’s just also a dog there who behaves identically to human Suletta except for not being able to talk. Because if your protagonist is so much more a plot device than a character that you could replace her with a literal actual dog and the plot remains completely unchanged like. That’s an atrocious and insulting way to treat a female character, especially a queer one, so why not just actually do that and have an even more unique story concept and let all your female characters feel like actual people?

They could also, you know, just make Suletta a compelling character with a real, developed personality instead too, but that would involve more radical changes to the plot (which I also think would likely be an improvement but) lmao. However, when doing these 'fix it' concepts, I always aim to change as little as possible as a challenge for myself. So that's what I've done here

And with that, my job here is done, and now I just know I’m gonna be even more mad at this week’s episode cause this even gayer, more dog-filled version I’ve made up in my head is already better than the actual show lmfao

[jmflowers]

Cataloguing this life again cause I kind of can’t believe it’s mine. Sometimes I feel as though I haven’t done enough, or I’m not good enough, or like people are lying when they say I’m worth anything. But then I have days like today and it’s an oh. I’m capable.

So, todays project was called a “White’s Day”. My Cinematography profs make it happen at the very end of the final semester for students in my program at the college. Basically, they get a bunch of cinema quality gear for us to work with and give us a day to execute a short film shoot, adhering to a schedule of their making. It’s designed to be exhilarating and stressful and just a lot of fun. Tons of learning.

We got our script a week ago and broke down four scenes across a bunch of different teams - there’s about 40 of us in our final semester. I missed the production meeting, but a classmate reached out and asked if I was interested in joining him on the direction team. So, I was given a scene and had to break down how I wanted it to be executed.

Planning for it involved working through my pages - my scene had “3 7/8” (which means just under 4) pages - and deciding what sort of moments I wanted to emphasize, where tension could be added, and how I wanted the scene to feel. From there, I sat down with my co-director and we talked through the logistics of the blocking; where characters needed to be and why and how they would move through the scene. I wrote all these notes into a shot list and took them into a meeting with my DP.

DP, DOP, or Cinematographer are all just names for the person in charge of making the visuals happen for the director. I hand picked my DP because he’s a classmate I’d really been wanting to work with and hadn’t yet (and he has such an incredible eye with a camera). That was one of the best choices I made. He helped me transform my logistic vision into a storyboard and then into some of the most beautiful shots I’ve ever been a part of.

We brought that plan onto set this morning. I’d begged the production team to shuffle our schedule and put my scene first, as it was the longest, so we started the day in our location. It took a long time to get set, since we’re a team of students trying to corral each other. As director, I basically had to stand back and watch as they figured out the dolly and set up lights and all that jazz - director isn’t allowed to touch a thing. I was, however, allowed to watch the clock and see my allotted time ticking away.

In the industry, overtime happens a lot. You learn quickly that you must adapt as fast as possible. So, as time ticked away, I started mentally going through our planned shot list and began cutting what we wouldn’t need for coverage. This is where I was so glad to have a DP who was comfortable working with me; our rapport is good and so we pivoted quickly as a team (which can’t be said for other teams, who argued when in similar positions). We stripped our plan down to what was necessary and would allow us to still do the couple of shots we just knew would be fun to execute.

I also was doing all the normal director stuff we think of when we hear that word: communicating with actors about what I wanted, calling action and cut, choosing which shots I wanted and how to frame them. Lots of staring at a monitor and then giving instructions.

And we managed to wrap our scene on time. Despite not rolling until 27 minutes after our plotted start time. Despite a hold for some sound interference. Despite some elaborate dolly moves. I am so impressed with myself and my team because we pulled it off!

I am so grateful that I had the people I did working with me. I am so glad that my co-director is a kick ass focus puller and that he stepped up into that role at the last minute - I don’t know anyone else who could’ve done his job at the F-stop we were at. These guys made me look soooooooo good and our scene looks amazing and we all had so much fun doing it.

The final product of this is something I am going to be so proud to have my name on. I feel like I proved myself today, to my peers and my profs and myself. I am capable. I can do this.

And I can have the time of my life doing it!

[karsussfolly]

since i don't have anything else up yet but my promo, i thought i'd just share this starter i wrote for my bestie on discord as an example. note: my starters tend to get long but my replies don't usually stay this long, don't worry. i'll try to get some actual starters up soon!

Far be it from Gale to be one to complain about humid weather as a Waterdhavian in normal conditions; alas, these are no normal conditions. This is a godsforsaken swamp. Even in Uktar, the River Chionthar is far enough south that it's only a little chilly, but the air here is so heavy with water that his robes cling to his skin in a way that surpassed uncomfortable days ago. And it's hard to complain about a little discomfort when it feels like a cavern is hollowing his chest from the inside out, and when there's a constant itch behind his eye from an unwanted passenger, but isn't that just one more delightful little unpleasantry? Speaking of unpleasantries, there's something more important than all of these matters that demands his immediate attention: the death of the Gur, Gandrel. There are many foes and fiends to be found in this swamp, of that Gale is absolutely certain. He is not certain that Gandrel was one such creature, or anything more or less than a potential ally at that. If the man was a monster hunter as he and Astarion had said, and a competent one, would it not have been of interest to have him on their side? When going up against threats such as devils and illithid, one with experience in such matters would be an incredible boon. So what had spurred Astarion to stab the man in that outburst? Astarion's claims were that Gurs were dangerous themselves, and a threat to their safety—that Gandrel would surely find them in their bedrolls and cut their throats. That would be one way of dealing with their tadpole problem. If only he could allow someone to do that without the weight of his unfortunate and inevitable Netherese detonation on his conscience. So if that were true, then yes, fine, kill the man. But there was no evidence of Gandrel being a threat to them. What was it that the Gur had said? Gale flips the page of the book in his lap, but his eyes are staring straight through it, unfocused. The Gur had said he was hunting a vampire spawn, hadn't he? He tries to remember what he knows about the Gur. The amount is admittedly very little, but he has no reason to believe Gandrel was lying. Thus far, he has much reason to believe Astarion is lying, or at least being deceptive in other ways. He doesn't like the answer he comes up with, though. It doesn't fit. Astarion might be a bit fairer in complexion than most, yes, and those red eyes are impossible to ignore. But a vampire, or vampire spawn, walking in daylight? Unheard of, at least in any of the tomes or scrolls Gale has come across. Admittedly he's not a scholar on vampirism, but he's read enough to know that's simply not possible. Of course, that's what he'd said about the fact that they'd yet to undergo ceremorphosis with the visitors hitching a ride in their brains, as well. So it's decided, then. Astarion must be a vampire? There are a few ways to find out. Getting on the wrong side of a vampire or its spawn might end poorly, but the way Gale views it is like this: if Astarion is a vampire, and Gale has a Netherese doomsday device locked away inside his body, then he has a guaranteed way to keep them both very much alive. Or, alive, and undead, he supposes. When the fire is burning low, and the others have just climbed into their bedrolls, Gale figures it's as good a time as any for a quiet confrontation. He slips away from his tent, as silently as he can, until he finds himself in Astarion's. "Not interrupting, am I?" he asks softly, arms folding across his chest. "I've noticed you're a creature of the night—rather, that you've a tendency to stay up quite late," he quickly corrects. Oh, you're doing so well, he chides himself. "Just thought I'd come by for a chat."

[nataliesnews]

2nd day 9.10.2023

I can't believe that Friday night I was having supper with friends at the American colony after a particularly violent demonstration at Sheikh and saying to them I am just exhausted mentally. I want to get out of here for a while. They told  me that they were going to do a trip down the Rhine and even though I swore that I would not go to Germany....I had gone for Ayal and Uta but thought that was that and I found myself sitting there and thinking ....what the hell and thinking what the hell. What we are doing here .....I told them to send me the particulars and even though they said that it was a very expensive trip I thought I have to get out. I have to clear my head. Little did I know.

 1973  Six days   Yom Kippur started terribly but after a few days the feeling was that things were under control. But this time we thought it would  be over in a day and here we are the third day and fighting on many fronts. And for the first time I have a very bad feeling. For the first time tonight I will go to bed dressed and I have packed my rucksack with water, a snack and warm clothing. Up to now I have not gone into the small shelter we have or sat in the corridors but I prefer to be prepared. The two sirens today....we heard the rockets landing but the second one was definitely closer though it is really only on the outskirts. I am terrified that Netanyahu whom I truly believe is not normal and held up by people who are even more so does not care if Israel is reduced to small areas of opposition. I remembered that years ago I sat with a Moslem friend.....when Hamas was just starting out and the government was supporting them...... and said that I thought that they would be a dangerous enemy and he said that they were only interested in religion.   I thought often that the villages in the occupied areas would rise up against us but thought it could not happen. Now too the army has closed up all the exits to the villages. But if they really want to get out and don't care how many get killed? But I never thought it would come from Gaza.

700 dead.   Have their families been notified? The speaker for the army says that there are no more Hamas in Israel.  I do not believe him.  He says there are bodies of terrorists lying all over the show.  Not a peep from our prime minister . We are told that we are winning. I am so sick of empty bombastic threats.  It   reminds me of the song in My Fair lady. Don’t talk of love.  Show me. Now we are told that two areas in the south are still under attack. The spokesman can’t even get his lies straight.  Have I told you that the main door of Nofim is kept closed and we have been told to lock our doors.   The one sad and funny story was a rocket near Jerusalem.  The lady was wounded but her dog was also treated by a veterinarian.   My friend, Sarah Sherman, asked me to come to her retirement home to speak to two of her people. I did not feel like going but felt worse to refuse so I spoke to a Palestinian lady of 100 in my broken Arabic and to a Russian lady who was an English teacher. 

 Now the good news for the families of those kidnapped. The government evidently does not intend to enter into any bargaining. Does this mean that we will eventually return bodies for bodies. I wonder about the pilots who said they would not serve. If now they are amongst those bombing Gaza.   I don’t envy them the decision. We are now told on the news to start hoarding enough food and water for a few days.  They should teach their grandmothers to suck eggs.  I already started doing that yesterday.   I have two emergency lights. There is already a lack of bottled water in the stores.  In the meantime I have enough beer, vodka and tonic water.  I Ann sick if hearing that we are at war. What all of a sudden are they telling us to hoard food, etc.  What are they hiding from us. And now the incredible story of a restaurant which sent 2000 portions of food for soldiers and were not allowed to give it to them because there was no diploma of kashrut.  I hope that in the yeshivot those parasites will enjoy their foods. Already people are hysterically going to the supermarket.   And I added a little bottle of vodka (not too little) to my escape bag.   A friend phoned when the siren went off and asked where I was.  I said on the toilet but all  the shit was in the Knesset.  I believe Netanyahu has managed to stop holding the hand of his blond bitch and is going to address us so before I go into ecstasies of admiration I will send this off

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[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

I listened to Alun Cochrane’s episode of the Comedian’s Comedian podcast yesterday, and it’s still bothering me. It was a good episode. He was a really smart guy, he always had interesting things to say. And I really like some of his old comedy routines. Observational comedy for people who think most observational comedy is too bland. Observational comedy but going pretty dark for observational comedy, asking more questions than he answered but asking them in a really funny way. The persona of the guy who’s just being really frank and straightforward, the conversational style. I like his stand-up enough to even enjoy the parenthood bits sometimes.

What I heard yesterday wasn’t his stand-up, it was him talking about his stand-up, for an hour in 2012. It was one of the first Comedian’s Comedian podcast episodes ever recorded, episode number 9 out of the over 400 that now exist. He and Stuart Goldsmith played off each other so well, got interesting stuff out of each other. Goldsmith was the interviewer so they weren’t really supposed to getting stuff out of each other, but they were clearly good friends in real life, enough so that episode felt more like a conversation than an interview, and interesting stuff got said on both sides. Thoughtful, analytical things about the comedy industry. He was so smart. Alun Cochrane was so smart, it came through in stand-up and interviews.

I might be overstating it a bit. I wasn’t, like, some massive Alun Cochrane fan who was incredibly disappointed when he went right-wing. It wouldn’t be like if Andy Zaltzman suddenly announced he’s doing a gig on Comedy Unleashed. Alun Cochrane wasn’t one of my favourite comedians, it’s wasn’t that level of disappointment. I just like him, or I like the pre-2017-ish versions of him. Even time I hear him, I’m reminded of how very much I like him. How he was good in general, but also specifically a type of comedian I really like.

What a fucking waste. That’s what I got me, over and over listening to that podcast episode. What an absolute waste of talent and intelligence and a good perspective and decent comedy, with what Stuart Goldsmith called quality control. What a lot of good stuff to throw away.

I'm doing, you know, fine and everything. But I am currently lying awake unable to sleep even though I have to work early tomorrow, and being annoyed about Alun Cochrane seems like a better use of my brainpower than my other current options, which are worrying about whether I have cancer and worrying about how I think I've lost my wallet.

So instead I'm being annoyed about that podcast episode I heard yesterday, and I decided to re-watch that compilation video I made late last year. I know exactly what day I made it, actually. December 1st. Which I know because I broke up with my girlfriend on November 30th, and the next day, I was in a very normal mood and decided to spend all day making a very normal thing that was definitely not a permanent record of an emotional breakdown.

Spending an entire day collecting all those clips and putting them together felt very:

I hate a waste of talent. Looking back, I maintain that the radio show was great, but it's possible that as an actual comedian, Russell Howard was never anything all that special. I did enjoy a lot of his stuff over the last few years, but if you listen to his stand-up while not already liking him, you realize pretty quickly how much he used likeability as a substitute for good material. Not all the time. But definitely sometimes.

I'm annoyed that I can't enjoy Alun Cochrane's stuff, though. Some of that is funny even though I don't like him, which might be a way to know it was actually good. What an absolute waste of a perfectly good comedian.

It's fine, I will at some point go to sleep.

[hanazuma-inactive]

Hi, I love your writings ❤. I really enjoy reading them.

Um, can I request Oikawa Tooru with virgin!reader who is (sub, bottom); (praise kink, but doesn't know he has and kinda shy when he knows it); (has shy, soft, and really submissive personality) (3rd year student) ? Reader with Oikawa is a couple of lover, and a roommate. They usually do some cuddles in their bedroom that always started with Oikawa teasing the reader. One day, when cuddling, Oikawa asked reader if he wants to do something more intimate than cuddling and really feels good.

Sorry if that is too much. Thank you

king and his prince, (nsfw) oikawa x bottom!reader

pronouns: he/him (FEMALE ORIENTED DNI!!)

warnings: creampie, praise kink! flirty oikawa

a/n: oikawa is probs my least favorite character in haikyuu, im pretty sure i hated him at one point cuz of his personality. i later found out from many website i am unfortunately a oikawa kinnie (even tho i dont really think so but idk) explains all the self hatred lmao, again for the anon that requested it im sorry for the bad quality cuz i stayed up to write this at 6 am so undoubtedly there will be some mistakes

:(

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"y/n, my dear prince~ doesn't it feel good like this?"

"t-tooru…it feels good, i-it really does!" you said, messy hair and looking directly at your boyfriend.

"you look so beautiful when you enjoy it, keep up that pretty face won't you?"

oikawa tooru was too popular for your comfort at school. everyone liked him and they all had a good reason to, and that doesn't make you any different. you were shy and didn't catch a lot of attention so you were incredibly surprised that someone as popular as oikawa even wanted to talk to you.

you were smart and in fact smart enough to compete with oikawa. in fact the first time you caught his attention was when you corrected an answer, making him embarrassed in front of the class. he wanted to "settle this" only to find you harmless. later on he talked to you more and more. the contrast of personality of you two complimented each other pretty well. a cocky bastard who doesn't know how to shut up and a shy boy who likes to listen. inevitably the two of you grew closer as friends, so much to a point where you moved into the same apartment unit.

you didn't mind getting closer to oikawa, emotionally or physically with him being your crush and all so this was pretty much what you wanted, you just didn't think he would be the one to offer instead. being enclosed in a space together made oikawa get a lot more comfortable with you. random hugs here and there, maybe a little head pat, and sometimes leaning on each other's shoulders. it was practically a dream come true and you didn't think this could possibly get better until the man pulled something else out his sleeves.

one day you fell asleep watching the tv in the living room. the weather was a little chilly so falling asleep without a blanket near you wasn't the best idea. oikawa came home to find you shivering in your sleep so of course like the genius he is, he didn't decide to throw a blanket or carry you back into your bedroom and instead cuddled with you on the couch, leaving you wrapped around his arms basically unable to move when you woke up.

both of you would be lying if you said you didn't enjoy it. therefore, this whole cuddling session became a regular thing between you two. oikawa being the big spoon and you being the small one. it went on for a while until both of you realized this might not have been the most normal thing that "friends" did. at this point you're pretty sure oikawa had feelings for you, or else he wouldn't have done a lot of the things he has. after a lot of urging from his friends, he finally decided to confess to you. despite him being the playboy he is, he was quite nervous this time, due to the fact that he had to say it to someone he actually has feelings for. so just like that, the relationship between you two finally became official.

another day you guys during your normal cuddling session, oikawa proposed an interesting idea, and to be honest you saw this coming.

"babeeeee, why don't we try something more interesting this time~?" oikawa said, staring at you with his arms around you.

you knew exactly what oikawa meant, you weren't stupid, but you know that he likes it when you act all innocent so you decided to do just that.

"hm? what do you mean tooru-kun? i don't think i understand?"

"oh…baby boy i know you know what i mean alright~" just as he said that the brown haired man grabbed you in for a kiss.

your tongues started to intertwine immediately. this was very much oikawa's style, aggressive and dominant, but soft and caring when he wanted to. the kiss was generally messy but you could tell that oikawa was putting effort into this with all his tiny and intricate movements. a string of saliva connected you after he broke the kiss. leaving you panting and gasping for air while he's on the other side with a sly grin.

"you ready for the next part now?"

"t-there's more ah-!" you gasped as your boyfriend pulled down your pants at once, leaving your hard cock to bounce out.

"of course there is~ we have to tend to this guy don't we?" he said, holding your dick and positioning himself to suck your dick.

yet again attacked by oikawa's mouth you just couldn't keep it for long anymore. it's like his mouth is heaven made or something and it will continue to turn you on and make you cum without fail.

"a-ah! tooru..i'm gonna cum! mmghm!" you said, shooting all your load straight into your boyfriend's mouth, which of course he gladly swallowed right after.

"t-that's it right? i don't think i'll be able to handle more, you know…" you said out of both fear and excitement.

however all you got in response was a smirk from oikawa as he slid off his shirt to reveal his perfectly toned abs.

"almost done, pretty boy."

something about that word, made your half flaccid cock immediately rise up and become as hard as your boyfriends again.

"heh? what a strange reaction, could this mean…" oikawa leaned in closer, enough so that all the hair near your ears would stand up and said,

"my prince likes to be praised?"

you've heard about this so-called praise kink before but didn't exactly think you'd be into it this much. your face turned redder than they already are and you just wanted to cover your face and run away.

"aw, c'mon, it's cute! and if you like it-' oikawa said, spreading your legs open, exposing your asshole and angling his cock head to the entrance of it.

"i might just praise you a little more than usual, hm?"

your boyfriend was hot but this was undoubtedly the most attractive he's ever been. towered over you whispering praises in your ear as he prepared you with his fingers for something bigger that's about to come next. without a warning oikawa began to inch his way into your ass, moving and adjusting his cock to fit your tight asshole.

"you're taking me so well baby...keep doing just that alright? i know you're so good for me aren't you?" oikawa said, leaning closer at you.

at a loss for words due to how flustered you are, you could only give your boyfriend a little nod and covered your face with your arms while flashing a little red on your cheeks once again.

"y/n, my dear prince~ doesn't it feel good like this?"

"t-tooru…it feels good, i-it really does!" you said, messy hair and looking directly at your boyfriend.

"you look so beautiful when you enjoy it, keep up that pretty face won't you?"

the praises that he showered you with were too much. you were already so sensitive since it was your first time and all. now with all these lustful words turning you on, you couldn't hold it in anymore and came onto your stomach while your boyfriend continued to make slow but deep thrusts onto your prostate.

your head was still a little fuzzy but you could still feel your boyfriend jerking his hips faster and faster, ending with a long thrusts at the end which wasn't hard to assume that your boyfriend came inside you, just like how you wanted it. before passing out from bliss, a hand cupped your cheek followed with a gentle kiss on the forehead.

"you did so well baby…i know you're tired so rest now, i'll be here alright."

you couldn't be more happy, with such a loving and caring boyfriend. that being said, you fell into his arms once again and slipped into your dreams even thought they have already become reality.