#it would certainly be...interesting

[lostrealities0]

Rowan (she/her)

Story: still hasn't been named 😭

Assyrian (he/him)

Story: The Last Human

[andstuffsketches]

Maybe not Impulse, But I think she would date Cissie

a glimpse into a possible future....

[lizardbrainlabs]

man, you gotta leave the guy alone

(bonus under cut)

[oleryn]

alicent hightower has been giving me brainrot for days my BABY

we saw so little of young her as queen. what were her first days like? her wedding night? did she tell rhaenyra she was with child herself or did viserys take the news as his own to tell? do you think she ever tried to make connections with her handmaids? Did she ever have a friend other than Rhaenyra?

young queen alicent trying her best in an impossible situation she was forced into against her will they could never make me hate you

[andorerso]

rebelcaptain + the hunger games au

When Jyn Erso was eight years old, her mother died and her father left to become a gamemaker for the Hunger Games. Adopted by Saw Gerrera, her mother's friend, she became Jyn Gerrera and was forbidden from ever revealing her true identity to anyone. Ten years later, it's Jyn's last reaping. Saw, the forgotten victor of the 32nd Hunger Games, had rejected every reward the Empire offered him, preferring to live as a recluse at the edge of the forest in District 12, as opposed to the luxury in the Victors' Village. It's been decades since anyone in the district even recalled that Saw was once a victor himself, but he had made sure to teach Jyn all he knew of self-defense and combat training. It's the only thing she has of him left since his passing two years ago. Now, Jyn just wants to get through her last reaping and survive. But when she hears the name of the young girl she trades with sometimes, Jyn doesn't hesitate to volunteer in her place. She has nothing to lose, except her life, and every reason to believe that with Saw's training, she has a chance at winning the games. A chance that 12-year-old Kerri Andor wouldn't have. Things get a little more complicated when Kerri's brother is picked as the other tribute. Jyn is good at surviving, but Cassian, with his quiet cunning and surprising talent with a bow and arrow, could be a threat. Not to mention that Jyn knows he's the sole provider for his young sister and aging mother; a family who needs him. Who may die without him. Nobody is waiting for Jyn back home. When their mentor's plan to make them seem like star-crossed lovers triples the attention and sponsors they receive, Jyn is forced to play along with the scheme and pretend she has feelings for Cassian. Worst of all? She's not sure where pretending ends and where genuine feelings begin. The gamemakers say they can both go home if they're the last two tributes standing, but Jyn knows better than to believe the pretty promises of the Empire. Soon, she'll have to make a choice. Will she do anything to survive? Or will she let Cassian Andor go home to his family - even at the cost of her own life?

[kelocitta]

Can we see the rat king boggling

Heartwarming: Reach your whole arm inside the Rat Pile for no real benefit to yourself!

[theprettylightsinger]

"His mother … he’d kept some details, irrelevant and utterly personal, to himself."

-Lucien, Chapter 24, ACOWAR

Am I delusional If I say this might indication that he's aware of his heritage?

[qoldenskies]

Donnie parentification? I have not thought of this before? Curious? Please explain?

i specifically refer to instrumental parentification!

donnie built their home from the ground up-- although not all of it is laid out, there is no one else in the family that could have constructed the lair in the way that donnie did. he's solely responsible for upkeep on more complicated things, because even if splinter tried his absolute best, nothing would make him a carpenter lolol.

// gestures at the background of this frame (not the model planes, the other half; he was probably building their home from a very young age!!)

raph was parentified in a more emotional sense, having to take the role as their protector and psuedo father figure, but donnie took on similarly very important responsibilities. it would have made raph's job a lot harder if he hadn't. they'd probably be suffering or even dead without him with no heating during the winter.

it's not a thing as heavily elaborated on in canon, but that's what fanfic's for! i also do think it informs his character well and his fear of not being "useful"; that's all he's ever known how to be. he knows they're dependent on him, and it wouldnt be surprising if they didn't notice because it's just been a given all their lives (that is made very apparent through the way they act about his tech. they're excited but its not new or revolutionary, donnie does this all the time!).

i also like to interpret that splinter was very active in their lives when they were very young, but after the lair was built and they were finally in relative safety he just kind of Crashed when he came out of survival mode. it'd explain a lot and be kind of understandable tbh

[crystallized-cheese]

Meet Pretty Lady ! She's based on a moth I raised from a caterpillar, and I put her in a D&D setting :]

[pushing500]

Kwahu is not as good at recruiting prisoners as Ivy is, it seems.

That's alright, we'll just get Ivy to do it then! Alistair had already made a bionic eye that we were going to give to Tokori, but I think I'll give Lansa two bionic eyes and Tokori no bionic eyes. I want to have at least ONE Jones boy that I can still draw both eyes on. I like their eyes.

Lansa was tended to by our lovely paramedic mechanoid, Tink. I'm sure he'd be annoyed that his brothers couldn't be bothered performing the operation, except that robots are cool as hell.

Oh, look at that! Visitors from Arwell! I wonder what they're doing here 🤔

And visitors from Arno as well?? How curious!

Hello, visitors! There are new Jones boys for you to meet!

Melissa's creepjoiner unnatural healing is... it's sometimes not as useful as you hope. Come on, Melissa, the resurrection sickness wasn't his main issue!

Never mind, though. Two bionic eyes and one healer mech serum later, and Lansa is back on his feet! He is also, for anybody curious, the only Jones boy who is not addicted to caffeine. He lost the addiction while he was in jail because I forgot to give him coffee. So that's something. Good for him!

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[mcytegg]

i wanna post my yaps abt how the stickler-empire alliance is upheld by hopperclock and dualities friendships alone simply bc the empire only recognizes the sticklers as allies bc of minute and mapiccs individual alliances w jumper and ro—

like even that is tenuous at best bc mapicc doesnt care much for rek or jumper at all to the point that i think that theres most definitely a world where he kills them for a heart or smt if anything if he was caught while crashing tf out

while minute seems to mainly trust and want to work w jumper when given the chance while kind of seeing rek and ro be allies by proxy of them being her teammates. like even w ro offering to take pentars interest in him to help kill mane, minute still sees it as him helping mapicc SPECIFICALLY and not as him helping the empire as a whole (which is most likely true, in his defense!)

but like i cant articulate all of my thoughts and opinions in a satisfying way to MYSELF bc i have much to say and a few examples to help explain what i mean but the yap braincell isnt yap braincelling so all i can do is post this which is like...basically my yaps but on sale. discounted. not at full value.

[forgetful-river]

It's sad but I'm not really into Homestuck right now. I've been more interested in my physical art and writing recently and I don't want to abandon this blog to be updated once a year for 4/13 but I also don't want to just shove my original work on people who follow me for Homestuck content.

[camellcat]

I had a dream that buffy died by being impaled on a sword during some big battle, and her spirit leaped out of her body and looked like a giant orange tiger made of flames. and spike was so devastated he followed her, and he also had a spirit for some reason and his was a lithe blue buck made of stars. and then their spirits intertwined as tiger-buffy pulled them up towards the heavens together. idk what any of this means but it was pretty cool

[bayetea]

I think that something to keep in mind about hazel is that in her first life sammy was the only person in the world who has shown her kindness. her mom was only ever nice to her when she was providing her with income. hazel is living in a society that considers her race subhuman and even members of her own community hate her because of the rumors about marie. she isn't just ostracized at school she's explicitly stated to have experienced violent bullying from other kids and yet she still protects them from being harmed by her cursed gems. she was neglected and abused by her mother and she still gives up elysium so that marie doesn't have to suffer in the afterlife. the very first time hazel retaliated against abuse was when she fought back against gaea - and her retaliation got her killed. her character is so effusively kind in a world full of hatred and injustice because she knows that she can't let herself succumb to bitterness like her mother

I think those months after her birthday when she was abducted to alaska are genuinely the absolute worst of her life specifically because she lost sammy, and his absence etched a crater-sized hole in her chest where his kindness once was. she can't get that from anyone else anymore. the alaskans don't welcome her and pluto can't reach her there and her mother is dying slowly right before her in an evil plot to destroy the world that she feels complicit in. genuinely her only option in this situation had always been to run away so that she couldn't be used as a pawn anymore, which she considered during those horrifying months but couldn't because gaea would retaliate against her mother. so hazel does what she always does: allows herself to suffer for people who have treated her poorly

and this post isn't about frank or percy but I think that this is something to contextualize as it relates to frazel and the percy&hazel dynamic. the foundation of her relationship with them is simply the mutual kindness and trust that they're able to develop in such a short time because they very quickly recognize the good inside of each other. hazel puts herself in harm's way to save frank and percy numerous times and it isn't one-sided like things were in her past life, they emphatically do the same for her as well. frank and percy show her how they care for her in ways that are so earnest and vehement (frank saying "we're not going to let you die again," percy saying "we're not letting anything happen to you", etc). as characters for whom the past is a source of conflict one way or another (hazel's blackouts and intense feelings of guilt over gaea, percy breaking down over his lost memories and getting triggered by things that conflict with his understanding of the world i.e. the evil centaurs, frank redeeming his ancestor's besmirched legacy and figuring out how to use the family gift), they readily offer kindness and understanding in the present without asking each other to suffer for it

and this is especially true of frank: by accessing hazel's blackouts and experiencing the events of her past life, he is sharing her heaviest traumas and burdens so that she doesn't have to experience them all alone. this burden-sharing is transitory; frank gives her his firewood, which is literally his life - and his life is the thing that finally grounds her. his life anchors hazel so that she doesn't get blackouts anymore (and he forfeits the weight of his heaviest burden to a person he can trust to take care of him). this thread of frank preventing hazel from being overtaken by adversaries of her past continues numerous times throughout son of neptune, most significantly when he shapeshifts for the very first time to save her from alcyoneus and when he comes up with the plan that gives hazel the chance to finally defeat her old enemy - and that's when she kisses him for the very first time. I consider this the very essence of their romance: reciprocation. it's not "you make me whole", it's "I love you and trust you to care for me as I care for you", it's "in being with you, I discover new depths within myself", it's "knowing you has given me the strength to grow"

so that's basically my favorite thing about son of neptune and I think a lot of people forget how intense the emotions in that book managed to get. it's not the most popular pjo novel but I don't think any other book in the franchise has evidenced how deeply three people who have literally just met (frank only knew her for 3 weeks pre-son) can touch each other's hearts by virtue of simply being kind to each other. like those boys LOVE hazel and think she's a wonderful person and express that repeatedly and I think that's just so sweet because she finally gets to have this in her second life. she really deserves to be cherished like that <- my longwinded way of saying that hazel was the gem all along, just like her mom finally realized in her last words before they died

[repurposedmeatlocker]

This scene....

[54625]

I do sometimes sit and wonder how things would have turned out if the QSMP eggs had been removed after a month exactly as originally intended. So much would have been different . I wonder if the QSMP would have still been around?