#look at these two gremlins i love them dearly

[sheepbunmonster]

someone please tell me i'm not the only one who thought this when nimona turned into a whale

[hugsandchaos]

Here’s an AU! Or a joke of an AU? It’s based off a joke. Basically, Vlad wasn’t affected by the portal like Danny was and is still human, Danny isn’t a Fenton and still had to run with Sam and Tucker because his parents, who are also ghost hunters, found out and didn’t take it easy, and the three somehow crashed in Vlad’s lawn. About forty days later…

During a video call (because I said so!)

Jack: It’s been amazing speaking with you after so long, Vladdie!

Maddie: Say, do you have kids?

Vlad: No, I have three freeloaders.

Sam in the background: Wow!

Tucker: Dude, you’re letting us stay here!

Danny: And I’ve been fighting ghosts off your property for the last two hours!

Vlad: Send parenting tips. I beg you.

Maddie: We were so excited when we were planning for Jazz. A little stressful at times, but we got through it and now we have a beautiful daughter studying psychology! We couldn’t be prouder.

Jazz: I love you too!

Vlad: These three freeloaders crashed on my lawn and acted like feral gremlins for the first week and a half. They test my patience like no one else, but if anyone dares to do something to them, they will pay dearly for it.

Danny: Ha! I knew it! The fruit loop cares for us!

Sam: I got that on camera. You can’t take it back now that you’ve admitted it.

Tucker: If you weren’t stuck with us before, you definitely are now.

Also, Vlad defending Danny from Jack and Maddie. In subtle ways at first. When Danny accidentally came in still in ghost form, Vlad acted like it was normal and addressed him as “Phantom”. He walked up to him and thanked him for dealing with other ghosts. He told him to go lay down, and Jack and Maddie were very confused and a bit on edge.

The next day, they saw Phantom again. He was slowly reaching across the table and trying to grab Vlad’s coffee. Vlad was reading the newspaper and gave him a stern look. Phantom glared back, but slowly pulled his hand away and started to leave. Then he came right back and tried to swipe it, but Vlad was quick enough to grab him and scold him for trying to take his coffee. When they came into the room, Phantom freaked out and left. Vlad was displeased.

He was having quality “getting on each other’s nerves” time with the ghost kid who haunts his mansion and protects it from other ghosts! Quit scaring him off with your ghost hunting tech! You know what? New rule; Leave the ghost weapons at the door.

Also, Jazz warms up to him first. Both because he’s surprisingly lovable, and because it gives her a chance to study ghost psychology.

Jack: Vlad, don’t freak out, but your house is haunted.

Vlad: I’m aware. The little badger stole my second cup of coffee this morning. *turns around* Butter biscuits, he just took my fifth!

Phantom: *drinks coffee faster*

Maddie: Be careful! Ghosts are evil and unfeeling!

Vlad: Liar. Phantom takes great pleasure in draining my coffee supply and getting on my nerves. He also appreciates me for letting him turn one of the old rooms into a mini planetarium. Therefore, not unfeeling.

[colourstreakgryffin]

Biltzo x hellhound!trans male!reader headcanons?

Ooh! More fun with Blitzy! Yaaaay! I love this unhinged gunslinger little gremlin~! To be honest. This is kinda short since us being trans male and a hellhound only changes a bit in a relationship with Blitzy-boo

Blitzø- All the Same to Me

Right off the bat. Blitz really doesn’t give a fuck— and what I mean by that is that Blitz is a hardcore pansexual, he loves all holes with no discrimination and all inclusion so when he begun playing with a attractive male Hellhound. He didn’t suspect much from him but when said man revealed to Blitz that he is trans, all Blitz said was

“Ah. That’s cool, Bae”

In normal circumstances, Blitz wants his partner to be liked by Loona but with you, a Hellhound, he especially wants you to bond with his daughter and pushes it a lot. You’re both Hellhounds and you both even look a bit similar. He’ll be especially happy if Loona likes you and views you as a possible stepfather

Really. Blitz is actually really accepting about sexuality and gender identity, and he doesn’t mock it. He won’t mock it, he doesn’t mind at all. You use to be a woman and now you’re man, that’s it and that’s how he views you. You’re his man, he is your man and whilst you use to be a woman, it doesn’t sway him and he’s all for pursuing you… in his own way

Blitz has seen the interesting boob removal scars on your chest and feels over them, just to let you know that whilst you’ve lost your breasts, you don’t need them at all. He lets you know that whilst he sees them,

Blitz, though he doesn’t really care much about what gender you use to be and what gender you are, does ask questions about your trans transformation and asks what changed in your view in your body. He’s curious, he’s doesn’t really see that many trans males, more trans females

Blitz knows you are a man and he is completely fine with that but your current body is smooth and voluptuous like your originally assigned birth body, and he absolutely loves it. You’re a bit insecure about how curvy you are, he makes sure to drop love rain after love rain to let you know it’s so hot. Even if it’s girly

When you finally showed him that you haven’t really gotten both of your reproductive organs changed, Blitz encouraged you to help you feel better and suggest that you actually keep… the bottom part since whilst it’s not manly, not what you want. You can give him children. Yes, Blitz is THAT cocky and convinced you two will be together forever!

Blitz furiously defends you from anybody who calls you a woman crossdressing or anybody who proclaims you’re just confused about your gender identity. You have curves and a… well, vagina but you’re still a man! You’re a man and Blitz will argue with whoever dares to willingly misgender you. Who you are matters to you and therefore, it matters to him

Blitz loves playing with your tail, so soft and fluffy. He loves Loona’s fur and touching it so with yours, he is basically sleeping on your tail, clung on your tail, brushing your fur with a dog brush. He is sinking in your fur and he doesn’t regret any chance he may end up just hooked on your back like an imp backpack. It’s worth it for the fur

You know that Blitz has those edible ‘treats’ for Loona? He has those same treats for you. You’re a doggy like his daughter so when you’ve done good, he’ll offer you a treat and whilst you don’t often take it, he can tell you appreciate him wanting to give you some semblance of praise after helping him

Blitz loves being buried in you when you both go to bed. You’re much bigger and taller than him so he gets to enjoy being carried around, gets to enjoy being smothered by your soft fur and gets to enjoy such a warm comfy goodnight sleep every single night. It’s just perfect to him

Blitz is quite attached to you and he views his set of personal circumstances as perfect. He loves his Hellhounds: his boyfriend and his daughter. He has two big dogs he loves dearly and he’ll dote on both of them till the day he dies

Blitz, our Pansexual king, got us one of those dog collars plus leash for naughty times~!

“Bae. You ‘lright? … oh for fuck sake, not again. Forget that asshole, ‘kay? You’re not what he says, you are who you are. A man, not a woman. You have these hips but that shit doesn’t make you a lady permanently. You’re a man, my man. Never forget that”

A/N: Alright. Lemme make this clear: I don’t know much about how the trans changing works and I apologise if I am wrong about something like the body or the body parts! I just imagined it that we only had money for one body part but not enough to fully change. I hope it’s not offensive, thank you!

[fatuismooches]

I BRING FOR THEE SOME JOLLYFULL DOTTORE FLUFF....

I wish I could celebrate christmas with Dottore and his segments ommmggg.... IMAGINE all of the segments fighting to have their gift to you opened first 💀💀 full on brawls (while theyre all fighting Zandy comes up to reader and gives them his present LOL sneaky mf)

OG Dottore using the pufflings as ornaments for the christmas tree 💀 reader is NOT amused. All the segments eyeing their presents from reader and having to hold themselves back from pouncing on the wrapped gift. augugushisohobskbbkds

Reader getting them all the dottores theur own personalized gifts, each one unique and they're all so happy and yippeful!!!! 😭

(side note I cannot wait for winter break omg.....) - 🐓

AHH YES!! HOLIDAY SHENANIGANS WITH DOTTORE AND THE SEGMENTS!! <3 Ah you would have to be the one to convince him to do all this stuff... honestly, he considers the holiday spirit and traditions rather a waste of time and doesn't see the point, but, you look so happy and excited! And you've gotten little Zandy on your side too, telling him all the stories and sweet things people do on Christmas. So now he has two gremlins begging him for just a little bit, the tiniest touch of Christmas decoration. Fine.

Admittedly, gift-giving is not one of the segments' strong points, their idea of gifts is rather... well, very Dottore-like, if you know what I mean. But, you still treasure anything they give you, so they don't have that much of a problem! (Though you probably shouldn't answer their question if they ask you what you want. Because then you'll end up with like a dozen different copies of the same gift.) Also, they're very competitive when it comes to this. It's like a battle to see whose gift you liked the best, so please try to love all of them equally because you don't want to deal with an overly gloating segment. (Bb Zandy definitely does that!! Clever little boy taking advantage of the chaos to give his favorite person their gift! Ahh he probably did something handmade like a storybook for you and was worried that it wouldn't be as good since it has no monetary value but, you reassured him you love it dearly.)

NOOOO Prime being mean to the Puffttores as usual!! He picks the lil guys up by that strand of blue hair and hooks them to the tree... and watches as they miserably fail to get free... you immediately unhook the poor babies. If you think about it, your gift is probably like, the first gift they've ever received before. So they are ANTSY about what possibly it could be. One segment was caught trying to open his gift and you gave him a swift scolding. (AHH the image of you carefully wrapping all of their gifts and adding their name tag to each is sooo!!)

Mistletoe traps are a must as well. The minute you jokingly tell them about the tradition of kissing under it, suddenly they are placed in the most random areas of the usually grim lab. You brought this upon yourself.

You also bake some different sweets for them on Christmas morning as well! You leave the trays to cool for a few minutes but when you come back, everything is already gone. Sigh.

[callme-littlesunshine]

Roses for you

I got inspired by the picture where Sodo hast he roses in his hands. So I thought, why not making something cute out of it.

Sodo x reader

 

The last time I saw him was when he was leaving fort he Tour. I missed him, I mean he called,

always when the time was there. Even when the time was different between us. We always found time to talk. I missed him dearly. He never showed it but I saw it in his eyes, or heard it in his voice. He also missed me.

We were together for a long time now, almost two years, the time I arrived at the Ministry. Sister

Imperotor was not fond o f it form e to join, i don’t know why but she didn’t allow it. It was fine the first few weeks but when time passed, it was harder form e to fall alseep. I slept in his room so I could predent he was here, it worked for

a few nights but after that it was harder than before.

I want him back here, here with me. I missed his warmth, his fell of wood and cinamon. Right

now I was talking to Alpha, he was always here form me, when I needed someone to talk when Sodo was not here  Alpha was a former Ghost Member, Alpha knew Sodo so it was easy to talkt o someone.

„You know, Sodo has changed aound you, you know that?“ I looked at him after hearing those

words. „He did? He is always this way when he is with me“ I smiled playing with my hair. „I never knew he could be gentle“ grinned the former lead guitarist. Everybody warned me about the little gremlin named Sodo but I wanted to see it myself. I never judged him, I wanted to get to know him. Well from get to know him, our

love for each other was born. I was glad that I was not listening tot he others.

„I really miss him Alpha I hope he returns soon“ I sighed while sitting back, my back leaning against the wall in front oft he Church. Since a few weeks, I was waiting in front, hoping Sodo will arrive sooner or later. I knew he would call me when they left their last concert but I wanted to wait in front when he forgot. I knew how stressful this can be. Alpha told me so much about it. Sometimes Alpha joined me, bringing Omega and Mist with him. I like them, even Terzo joined one time, he was flirting with me. But I knew he was kinda scared of Sodo, so he

would do it when he is not around. Sodo almost chopped of his head for flirting with me in front of him. It was kinda funny but I felt guilty for it. It wasn’t even my fault but well, he never did it in front of him. Sometimes he tried to

flirt with me but I never paid attention to it.

A few days later I was in front again, this time alone with my thoughts. Today was Friday,

Wednesday was the last time Sodo and I was talking. I missed his voice. Did something happen to him? Is he returning? I hope he is okay. I grabbed my phone, writing him fort he 10th time today, hoping he would answer me. I leaned

my head back, closing my eyes. The sun was hot on my skin but I didn’t care. I felt tired, I slept horrible I would sleep everywhere.

I wasn’t aware oft he fact that I was sleeping. Half an hour later, I heard I heard an engine,

opening my eyes only fort he sun to blend my vision. I raised my hand in front of my eyes to turn out the sun. Thats when I saw the tour bus. Tour bus..? Ghost… Sodo! He was coming back. I jumped up to stand only to almos fall but steading myself before crashing.

When the bus came to an stop, the door opened and everyone came out. Coming up to me, to greet me with hugs. I missed them. They left quickly but one person was missing. My

little fire ghoul. Where is he?... I felt my heart sink at the thought that he wasn’t with them. I was ready to leave my spot with a broken heart, but then I heard his voice. „My beloved where are you going?“ I turned around, only to see Sodo with rosed in his hands, smiling. My heart melted away at this sight. He is here. „You’re back“ While whispering this words I made my way to him hugging him tight. Letting my tears fall. I missed him so much and finally he is back by my side. Next time I will join him, I don’t care what Sister Imperator is telling us, I want tob e near him, I need him and he needs me. „I’ve something for you darling“ After he let go of me, he gave me the roses in his hands. „Sorry

for not calling or answering, I wanted to surprise you, I hope it worked.“ He smiled. Looking at the roses I nodded, eyes filled with love after looking up. „It definitely did“ it was. I never felt so much love like right now. He never brought me roses. This means more than everything else to me. It says so much.

„Thank you my fire ghoul“ with that I got on my tip toes, kissing his lips without a care in

the world. He is finally back now.

[fanfic-obsessed]

Chaos Gremlin and they Know it

Walk with me for my next bit of madness.

What if…what if…What if between Obi Wan and Qui gon, and later Anakin and Obi wan, Obi Wan was considered the more chaotic one. Like the reason that he hadn’t been knighted is because the council is honestly a little afraid about what they would be unleashing on the galaxy if he no longer has any supervision (Rancis Oppo secretly had a study done, any mission that Obi Wan undertakes without Qui Gonn there every minute is 25% more Ridiculous, capital intended, over all). And the council is concerned about giving him Anakin to raise, but not for the sad(barely knighted, watched his master die, trauma) reasons but because no one knows what will happen with two like Kenobi.

Just picture Mace Windu finding out about Anakin’s secret relationship, his violent tendencies, and his slight instability and he drops his head into his hands and goes ‘Thank the Force, he takes after Qui Gonn’. Also picture Mace Windu hearing about Ahsoka Tano getting herself captured and hunted for sport with other younglings and somehow rescuing them all and just bursting into tears because ‘Fuck, it skipped a generation.’ 

When they landed on Tatooine, Qui Gonn Jinn very deliberately left Obi Wan behind. From hard won experience he knew that if Obi Wan set foot on a planet with as much as a single slave ring he would immediately be abducted by a slaver. Then he would somehow start no less than four slave uprisings, rescue some endangered or unknown creature, break at least 3 bones, and then find, make worse, and fix the only blood fued on the planet.  And frankly Qui Gonn does not have time to deal with restructuring a planet's economy after his little chaos gremlin collapses the one that was based on sentient trafficking, not today. Not again.

By the way, Anakin is the 4th ‘Chosen One’ that Qui Gonn has brought home in five years in an attempt to get the Council to knight his Padawan.  Qui Gonn loves his Chaos Goblin of a son dearly but he’s tired, he wants to start going on missions that don’t end in ridiculous again. Or be hyper paranoid when they go normally. 

Half the Jedi were confused or resistant to the fact that the Sith were back. Until they heard who was on the mission. Then they all went ‘That tracks’ and moved on.  Anakin thinks that he is being watched for ‘Chosen one’ reasons. He is not, the Council quickly realizes that he somehow is also a mitigating influence on Obi Wan (the amount of ridiculous and chaos in the mission drops by a full 75% with Anakin, this however does not drop it down to even a solar system's distance to anything normal).

Mace Windu is deeply, deeply impressed by Anakin. And it is mostly due to the fact that he has spent more than three days in constant contact with Obi Wan without turning strange, or a cult leader.  Mace Windu, personally, knows about 6 cults throughout the galaxy dedicated to Obi Wan Kenobi. Three only exist on their own planets (one of which is the entire planet’s religion.), two involve multiple planets in specific sectors, and there is one down in a particular section of level 37 on Coruscant (Anyone who enters it comes back a little strange).

Look, I am not saying that this Obi Wan is an Eldritch Horror wrapped in a Disney Princess, but… this Obi Wan is an Eldritch Horror wrapped in a Disney Princess. There are scattered reports that the three of the last beings that tried to mug Obi Wan blinked awake 6 days later, having reevaluated all of their life choices, and now in contact with some heretofore unknown long lost relative that they desperately need to help.

It should be noted that Palpatine abjectly hates Obi Wan, not just because he is Anakin's master.  It is also because he can sense that if Obi Wan even hinted he wanted more power it would be given to him, no questions, plots. 

Every couple of months the Council debates sending Obi Wan to work in the Senate for a while, just to see what would happen.  It always boils down to the fact that they may actually need that building at some point. As an excuse it gets weaker all the time.

And Anakin is kind of in the dark for most of his padawanship. He thinks the council hate him, they do not. He thinks that Obi Wan is the perfect Jedi. If he had said that to anyone in the Jedi Order at any point (including Obi Wan), the Jedi in question would hurt themselves laughing. Palpatine tries to use that, to some success, until Palpatine uses his influence to get Anakin knighted young.

Through some hand waving series of events Anakin brings up to Mace Windu that the Council didn’t want him knighted because they don’t trust him. Windu just blinks at him for a really long moment before telling him that it was not him they were concerned about. He goes onto say that yes, that without a war and in normal circumstances the council would like to give Anakin a few more years of missions with other masters, so he could see what actual normal missions look like (Frankly no one was surprised when Obi Wan went looking for a bounty hunter and managed to find a clone army) and he is a little younger than the average knight but that is offset by how well Anakin has handled having Obi Wan Kenobi for a Master. 

Anakin just goes ‘What?’ very quietly.

Windu sighs. ‘Do you understand how impressive it is that you have spent the last 10 year in almost constant contact with Obi Wan Kenobi and haven’t developed some weird ability (Bant Eerin, Quinlan Vos, Reeft), accidentally rediscovered a lost darkside faction to follow you around clucking (Garen Muln), develop a habit of finding the weirdest Force artifact in any given location (Luminara), or have become a really obvious cult leader. And if you have become a cult leader I thank you for being discreet.’

‘Cult leader!!?’

Windu shrugged, ‘Current official count is 6 cults dedicated to Obi Wan specifically, though I’ll eat my left boot if the 212th doesn’t become the 7th within the next six months, I am already prepared for the fact that it will spread to the entire GAR in a year’

Then he hands Anakin a piece of flimsy, telling him that this was an official approval of his marriage by the Jedi council, on the grounds that the marriage was clearly ‘The Will of the Force’. While Anakin gapes at him, Windu clarifies that this covers Padme in case of pushback for marrying a Jedi. She would be considered as part of the Order under a religious exemption.  She may have to recuse herself from Jedi matters in the Senate (that was up to the Senate Ethics committee) but it also means that the next time she gets a death threat, they could deploy all of their resources instead of just whatever the Senate approved of. 

‘The Will of the Force’ Anakin said weakly.

Windu smiles, ‘you have no idea how much joy it gives me to be able to write those words on an official report to the senate. The pedantic bastards can’t argue against it because of the treaty with the Jedi Order. You have my thanks for that alone.’

Overwhelmed Anakin blurts out what happened on Tatooine, with the Tusken village. Windu clicks his tongue absently, “Hmm, I had wondered why your aura had become a bit darker, but I thought it was because of Geonosis. I’ll get you set up with my therapist, they handle most of the Shadows as well. Once they sign off, we’ll get in touch with the Tuskans to see if there are any reparations you can make.”

And Anakin is just standing there, Absolutely flabbergasted because the Chancellor had him completely convinced that those two secrets would be the WORST things that he could admit to.

Wnidu throws out another deep sigh, ‘Do you think that you are the only Jedi to act in anger with huge consequences? I created an entire lightsaber form because I had so much anger that I needed somewhere to put it. Half the Shadows have actively fallen, some multiple times. Your own Master was abducted by slavers at 16, two hours later their ship landed on an inhabitable world, they unlocked the cages, and the entire crew committed ritual suicide. To this day we have no idea what Obi Wan did to them. We preach self control so much, Anakin Skywalker, because Force users have the potential to do massive amounts of harm in a very short timeframe but because such small slips have such huge consequences we have a rather…different view of what is unforgivable.’

Two months later Anakin’s 501st is in battle with the 212th. He thought his men were a bit unhinged (and liked it like that, everything is better with the proper application of explosives) but then Grievous kicked Obi Wan into a large stone/small cliff so hard that it rattled Anakin’s teeth. 6 troopers immediately stopped firing to sprint through blaster fire to Obi Wan’s position. Anakin could have sworn that the blasters bolts simply passed through the 212th’s medic, Fizz, without slowing. At the same time three companies of the 212th, led by Cody and Ghost, roared and dogpiled Grievous, with his four lightsabers, and the 30 battle droids that he had with him. They also stopped using blasters at about that point. Anakin had not known that the clones were strong enough to rend metal apart like that. 

The 501st can only stand and watch in befuddled awe and horror as the enemy is decimated by a suddenly feral 212th. The carnage only stops when there are no more enemies and the medics declare that Obi Wan will be ok with some time in a Bacta tank.  

It is not long after that battle that Obi Wan finds out about decommissioning.  He is on Coruscant, in the council chamber itself, but the atmosphere on planets, moons, and planetoids (both inhabited and not) across the galaxy begins to tremble. For a brief moment residents of Coruscant would swear that the sky turned 212th gold. 

Shaak Ti reports that decommissioning is written into the contract that the Republic/Jedi have with the Kaminoans. That it is not something that the Kaminoans can just stop. 

Obi Wan decides it is time that he speaks with the Senate about this. The Council effectively gives him a thumbs up, shoves him out the door and are very very glad that they do not have to deal with any of this. 

There is no recording, nor any true recollection, as to what Obi Wan Kenobi says to the Senate that day. Only at the end, the Kaminoan delegation (along with nearly 6000 other delegations) is crying with shame at their actions, Palpatine and a good half of his closest supporters are bleeding out of their facial orifices, and a bill has been passed giving the clones rights, pay and backpay, and a planet of their very own. 

[kaseyskat]

okay in honor of the little snippet i posted of this au yesterday, here is a little guide to the parent trap au! i don't plan on doing much else with it so i wanted to share in case y'all are interested hehe

-no faerun/magic, mercedes is on a longform journey of self discovery when she meets hen- the child of an infamous politican, who has spent his entire life stuck under said father's thumb. they connect pretty instantly!

-(also, they are both trans <3 and while mercedes has already socially transitioned, henry has not </3 it's one of the things they connect about)

-after a couple years of mercedes sticking around LA and dating henry in secret, the twins are born! unfortunately, this is also when barry discovers the relationship and. very much disapproves. his kid having even ONE child out of wedlock (let alone two!) is something he does NOT want for his reputation, and since henry hasn't left the house (not by his own volition), he's forced to reluctantly end the relationship with mercedes.

-mercedes leaves to go back to her brother's place in colorado, but not before her and henry agree to each take one of the twins- a reminder of their relationship. mercedes takes sparrow, henry keeps lark

-after a few years of raising lark quietly under his father's thumb, henry finally gets a job outside of his father's influence and is able to escape- mostly because he feared for lark's wellbeing. he gets his own place, cuts ties with his family, and strives to ensure that lark grows up happy and free.

-meanwhile, with the help from her brother, mercedes opens a witchery! she sells crystals and does tarot readings, and when sparrow's old enough, he starts helping.

-growing up separated means the twins are not nearly as similar as they are in canon. lark is quieter and more withdrawn while sparrow is cheery and affectionate. both of them make friends pretty easily though, and sparrow takes after mercedes in more ways than one- it wouldn't be a nyx au if sparrow weren't some flavor of trans and in here, where sparrow grows up with mercedes alone? yeah.

-when the twins are both thirteen, henry and mercedes send them to the same summer camp! it was something they had talked about when the twins were born, though neither one of them realized the other would REMEMBER.

-at the camp is when the twins really grow into the mischievous gremlins we know them as in canon. when they meet, they bounce off of each other's energy, causing mayhem and destruction wherever they go <3 my beloveds, truly

-towards the end of the camp is when they actually talk about how much they look alike, and their respective upbringings. lark complains about how his father's been flirting with a coworker and bringing him and his annoying son over for dinners, how henry is annoyingly overbearing and a pushover. sparrow, meanwhile, loves her mother so dearly! but she's always wanted to meet her father. it would be solving two birds with one stone to reconnect them, they both realize: sparrow would get the father she wants, and lark wouldn't have to deal with darryl and grant OR be the sole recipient of henry's affections!

-so naturally, they decide to switch places.

-lark cuts sparrow's hair to match his, sparrow teaches lark enough spanish to be passable with mercedes. they exchange tips for how to be each other- mostly for funsies, though, since the plan to get henry and mercedes back together doesn't really require them being each other, it's just part of the fun!

-the camp ends, they go back to the other's place with henry and mercedes both none the wiser. lark finds himself a little overwhelmed with how much mercedes immediately loves him and respects when he wants to be left alone, and though the witchery isn't his style, he finds his uncle fun to be around, and it's a little embarrassing, how easily he fits right in.

-sparrow, on the other hand, has such a hard time pretending to be lark. she finds henry's jokes to be a genuine delight - to the point that she has to hide her face in her sleeves to stop herself from smiling - and thrives under the affection he lavishes onto her.

-so naturally, she cracks first, spilling to henry after a few weeks that she's actually sparrow and that lark is with mercedes. as my little snippet shows: it's a very teary confession.

-the only way to switch back now is for henry and mercedes to meet up! with sparrow and lark negotiating with their respective parents, henry and sparrow end up going to the witchery themselves- mostly because at this point, mercedes still doesn't know about the swap (lark thought it would be a nice surprise for her, having henry and sparrow show up on her doorstep)

-and what a surprise it is! sparrow's happy to be home, lark is surprisingly happy to see his father, and henry and mercedes - now both in a position where they can actually rekindle their relationship and be with each other without fear of outsiders - instantly reconnect.

-plus, lark and sparrow make a strong case for how they're better off together and really shouldn't henry and mercedes try to do SOMETHING to ensure they can see each other?

-(and, as a bonus: lark and sparrow DO TRY to ward off darryl once henry and mercedes are back together in the form of what happens in the movie! but. well. polyamory exists <333)

[qqueenofhades]

Ask and ye shall receive - how about a prompt around spiced winter drinks? Dealers choice on the fandom, maybe Dreamling or the Ren/Grey/Vargo ot3?

It’s one of the bitterest nights of the dwindling year, the canals glazed with ice and the pale stone warrens of Nadežra filled with eerie curls of mist, and even the altans and altas most dedicated to nocturnal misbehavior are generally inside, bundled up by warm fires or tucked in warm beds, and while Vargo certainly doesn’t have a philosophical objection to either activity (indeed, far from it) it unfortunately happens that he has to fucking work. It seems impossible that the piles of paper on his desk should have sprung to twice their original height in the last three days since he looked at them, but that’s the thing about political independence; it’s decidedly a double-edged sword. On the one hand, you get to arrange your own affairs. On the other, you… have to arrange your own affairs, and since Seterin has sat up and taken sharp notice of all these Vraszenians suddenly running around and exulting in their freedom, it heralds other possible conflicts down the line. That, Vargo supposes, is where sleeping with not just one but two legendary outlaws is likely to come in useful. If nothing else, they do have practice at this sort of thing.

A reluctant smile twitches his lip as he dips his pen and reaches unhappily for the first stack of correspondence. He misses Alsius – well, he always misses Alsius, but more than usual, who would absolutely love the boring nuts and bolts of this stuff, whereas it makes Vargo want to put his own eyes out with a hot stick. He scribbles and mutters and adds up figures, makes note of new requisitions and trade tariffs, ordinances of the freshly expanded Septerat; he doesn’t like it, but of course he didn’t rise to his original position by accident. The candles gutter low into waxy gremlins, and he thinks about drawing a numismata to keep them up, but that would suggest he will in fact be stuck here all night, and that’s a little too depressing to think about. Somebody’s got to do the ordinary grunt work while his dearly beloveds are running around the city in their silly costumes, but by the Lumen, why does it have to be him?

Just then, as he’s massaging the ache in his hand and thinking of some really good curses, Vargo smells a wisp of cinnamon, hears the faint creak of the floor, and turns halfway around, just as Ren leans down and presses a kiss into the side of his head. Voice rich and low with promise, she remarks, “Grey and I both perhaps feel we are being neglected.”

“This is your fault, you know,” Vargo grumbles, without heat. “Making me be the respectable one. And can’t you two entertain each other?”

Ren gives him another slightly wicked smile. “It’s more fun with you.”

Yes, Vargo agrees, it is at that. He vainly attempts to pretend that he will be doing paperwork for a few more moments – then, at Ren’s insistent tug, gets to his feet and lets her lead him down the hall, toward his private quarters at the back of the villa. Halfway there, a terrible thought occurs to him, and he stops short. “Is Arkady here?”

Ren bites a smirk. “She’s asleep. Upstairs. Even formidable knot bosses have to get their beauty sleep.”

“I very much doubt that,” Vargo mutters, since it seems unlikely that the newly-minted Alta Arkady Bones Vargonis has ever thought about beauty sleep in any capacity. But he’s glad to hear that she’s out of the way, after one too many moments when she nearly caught the three of them in flagrante delicto, and if Arkady knows a juicy secret like that, there’s no chance she’ll keep her trap shut instead of gleefully spilling it, if nothing else to see him squirm. It turns out, Vargo reflects sourly, that even without blood relation, his adopted daughter is very much like him in the hellraising department. In fact, far too much so. After all for the Nadežrans, blood is incidental, and secondary to whether an individual is inscribed in the family register. Arkady is, and that makes her as much his own, heir to his means and methods and moods, as if he did sire her in the ordinary fashion. Ažerais help them all.

He feels a sudden warmth on his face as they step into the lowlit sitting room, and gratefully spots the fire – which Grey Serrado is presently stoking, on his knees before the grate like a common scullion, which is possibly one of the less glamorous tasks ever asked of the great Rook. Still, it gives Vargo a certain glow, an inner warmth not just from the fire, and he strides inside. “Well, you two degenerates got my attention. What is it?”

Grey gets to his feet, brushing the soot off, and gives Vargo a ferocious stare that silently remarks he has the hells of a lot of nerve calling anyone else a degenerate. Still, he shrugs, crosses the carpet, and brushes the ghost of a kiss against Vargo’s cheek, while Ren cheerily shoves him onto the settee. Vargo is opening his mouth to ask what exactly they are intending to do to him, now that they’ve lured him here by bribes and trickery, but Grey forces a cup of hot spiced wine into his hand, and Vargo blinks at it. “Ah. What’s this?”

“Drink it,” Grey orders him, with the steely tones of the former Vigil captain, and Vargo fights a traitorous urge to salute. “You’ve been working too hard.”

“I thought you two were going to – ”

“Maybe later.” Ren perches on his other side and gives him another smile – still tinged with dark and wicked promise, the Rose’s thorns, but wistful as well, softer, and just wanting the three of them to have this quiet moment together in the cold winter night. “Drink.”

Far be it from him to refuse an order from Alta Renata and Grey Serrado at once, Vargo thinks, even without their alter egos. And is that not the reason for all the trouble he’s gotten himself into, either in past, present, or future? But there is nothing else he would rather do, and no one else he would rather be with, in all this city of Faces and Masks. He lifts the cup, grins into the brim with a tenderness that seems impossible for his heart to bear, and drinks.

[raventroll80]

I don't actually know, like, anything about your oc's. Give me a primer on 'em so I can start forming silly little headcanons about them?

Thank you so much for the ask!

I have a few ocs from a couple different things so I’m gonna organize them by the thing they’re connected to. (This is going to be a really long post, sorry)

The Troll Doomguy Au

(honestly I need to think of a proper name for this lol)

Things are a little messy and all over the place time wise as I didn’t originally plan for this to become a full on fic.

Slayer (the aforementioned troll Doomguy)

Roughly 15 feet of angry troll who also has a habit of eating the demons.

Cropped his ears at some point to make them look vaguely human, almost docked his tail but chose not to after seeing some now probably extinct species of demon use their tail as a weapon.

From the events of 2016 and prior he had the Meathook on his tail but put it on his shotgun after the attachment was ripped off by a certain grudge holding Cyberdemon.

In the events of Eternal it’s been replaced with a mace and has a more limited range.

He’s pretty smart despite what most people think, it’s just that a lot of his problems can genuinely be solved with Incredible Violence.

Has a very hazy recollection of the events of Doom 1993 and anything before that is even more hazy due to him repressing those memories.

He did have a wife and kid (stepson) who he loved dearly but lost them during an “accident”

Despite all this he’s actually pretty chill!

He tends to get easily attached to people who aren’t as easily afraid of him.

Considers Valen as family despite Valen himself not really knowing.

Mim Digsby

In the events of A Beast on Mars, Mim is the last human alive in the Mars Facility.

5,4 gremlin of a person who likes to take apart machinery in their spare time.

They’re a miner and mechanic who usually works with excavation equipment, and has clearance to work with mining gloves.

Started the trend of saying thank you to VEGA whenever one of the drones did something helpful or brought supplies. (This is also what got them their mechanic training after VEGA did some light string pulling)

Has punched a foreman for trying to make people continue mining in an unstable tunnel.

Used to be in a relationship with an Elite Guard prior to their “promotion” but things didn’t really work out after, but the two are still friends.

Is on Mars as part of a “criminal rehabilitation program”. Their license expired on their way moving back to Massachusetts and got arrested after getting into a fight with some rich dude at a bar.

VEGA (my take on Vega at least)

Plant enthusiast, he thinks they’re neat. Slayer was more than happy to give him a section of the greenhouses for his own personal garden.

Didn’t like Slayer at first due to how aggressive he seemed to be towards the equipment of the facility and was worried he’d end up harming any possible survivors.

Quickly found out he truly means best for the survivors of the invasion and also feels sympathetic towards Slayer after finding out the little bits of memory he does have regarding the UAC.

He’s pretty sure if he was capable of getting headaches he’d be getting them daily from Slayer trying to do something stupid i.e trying to fist fight a demon twice his size.

Keeps a list of all the things he’s caught Slayer eating that he probably shouldn’t be.

This list includes: excessive amounts of demons, Gore Nest remains, garbage from a cafeteria, an unidentified Argenta plant, dirt, Hellgrowth, and “mystery meat”.

Derrin Willams (Troll au Intern)

Used to own rats, but they passed away prior to the invasion.

Tech support for the ARC but also just helped out wherever needed.

Liked reading about the Slayer and Argent D’Nur and found him fascinating and was genuinely ecstatic to meet him. (He really wants to see a withrin)

Still gets spooked by Slayer from time to time, but has managed to spook him back.

Surprisingly good with a gun and can at least hold his own against zombies and like a singular imp scout

(Not really a personality fact but his last name comes from my blind ass mistaking the numbers on his uniform as the word William or Willams)

There are other characters and ocs I plan to appear in the au but I haven’t gotten there and burnout is making things hard in general, oof. I’ll probably do up a bigger one of these specifically for the troll au in the future.

Stowaway Mer au

I’m doing the Mer au version of Stowaway mostly because there’s significantly more stuff for it (see nearly 30 drawings and like 6 chapters for one au). But honestly it’s pretty far removed from Doom and I might rework it into its own thing… which means redesigning nearly 30 sea demons….

Em Barbatus

5,3, Former Canadian

Ace

Loves horror movies and practical effects.

Lived with her “aunty” Nihm in an apartment in Port Murlow prior to moving into the Old Taggart house with Flynn.

Works at a bait shop and Mr. Grimmar’s Occult Shop.

Training to be a mortician at the mortuary the Mr. Silas Grimmar owns.

Owns some homemade ghost hunting equipment and occasionally mucks about old abandoned places with her friends looking for ghosts.

Occasionally helps out at the local theatre’s costume department

Has committed the third least amount of crimes out of the main cast of the mer au

Hobby of beach combing and diving for junk in Taggart Bay.

Seth (technical Seth Willams in regular Stowaway)

The token mer of the mer au lol

Looks like a mix of leopard and Port Jackson shark and is from the Indo Pacific and southern Pacific Ocean (he is very fucking lost)

Needs glasses but can’t exactly get any as he’s a fish man.

Has a fear of the open ocean and orcas and does not enjoy long travels between the reefs an kelp

Has a fascination with human technology and history and enjoys exploring shipwrecks with his siblings. Though after a bad experience with some humans he is somewhat distrustful of them.

Has no clue how the hell he ended up in the Atlantic.

Has committed the least amount of crimes… so far

Flynn Taggart

Looks intimidating but is actually pretty chill

Moved to Port Murlow following his discharge from the military for various reasons.

Has many fond memories of his visits there when his grandfather lived in it, though he still doesn’t like the basement even now that he’s older.

Starting to show signs of selective mutism and is learning sign language because of it. He also isn’t a fan of eye contact anymore after the mountain incident.

Has a picture of Daisy in his wallet and is looking into getting her certified as an emotional support animal.

Recently gotten a job on a fishing boat and already doesn’t like his boss.

He inherited the house from his now missing grandfather Keen.

Doesn’t like being alone in the house

Tied with Vega for the second most crimes committed in the au (this wasn’t intentional I realized how many of the characters have committed crimes in this like halfway through the month)

Speaking of Vega

Vega Triton

Has a degree in marine biology and is currently studying a newly discovered species of bioluminescent algae he named Vegastella scriptorseintillais

Vega is the second oldest person living in the Old Taggart house.

Used to work with Dr. Hayden and Pierce but after an accident that left many researchers including Olivia dead Vega and Samuel had a dispute which left the two very bitter with each other.

He blames himself for the aforementioned accident.

Vega moved into the old Taggart house after realizing that living on a cave connected to another cave containing hallucinogenic algae is not good for his mental and physical health.

Nihm Barbatus

Freelance security guard and one Em’s mentors.

Met Em during one of her contacts on a cargo ship that had left Canada.

Made friends with Flynn when he was briefly a freelance security guard, and was the one who told Em that Flynn was looking for roommates.

Friend of the Grimmar couple.

She also has a large extended family and plans to bring Em with her to the next family reunion.

Silas Grimmar

Port Murlow’s goth grandpa

7,3 and build like a coffin

Been happily married to his husband Hiram for many, many years.

Runs the local mortuary and an Occult shop

A jovial old man who often volunteers at the local theatre.

Graduated with a degree in mortuary science and occult studies from Miskatonic University.

Tea drinker

Hiram Grimmar

Silas’ husband and owner of the antique store across the street from Silas’ occult shop.

Has an archeology degree and is a retired archeologist.

Met Silas when his team needed to consult someone on some artifacts they had dug up.

Coffee drinker.

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Bracket 3 Semifinals 1

Pricetag & Bandit vs Simon

PRICETAG

also named price in another submission

shes fat shes a terrible bitch and shes the love of submitter's life. they dont technically know her breed but she looks like a calico kinda. white and black and brown all over. their favorite spot to kiss her is the little brown diamond on top of her head, but she has all kinds of pretty markings. she'll cuddle submitter but not their parents and hisses at anyone else. hence the bitch. its SO funny. she doesnt "meow" so much as she chirps and yells. u touch her n its the worlds loudest MRAP. submitter leaves for work and they go "bye price!" and she goes "meep" and they say "i love you!" and she goes "mow" and it always makes them smile because she rarely does it to anyone else. shes so fat. she has a big ol premidorial pouch because shes 100% indoor and u can hear her claws go clicclicclic on the floor because shes so heavy. she likes to climb on peoples back. she chases moths but no other bugs and likes to make friends with neighborhood critters. she hates bellyrubs from everyone but submitter. if they leave their door open at night she creeps in and lays in the worst possible spot and makes it impossible to sleep. she makes the best bread loaf. shes so fucking round. SPHEREICAL. submitter love her more then anything ❤❤❤❤❤❤ (here submitter said that i can shrink it if i want to but no fucking way i am shrinking things abt a cat aside from their name maybe)

shes named after a canadian hockey player. submitter hates hockey. thanks uncle C dhsbdjjsjsjsjs

PROPAGANDA

THATS MY FUCKING CAT!!!!

GO VOTE FOR MY CAT!!!!!

how could you possibly vote against this face 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 shes the roundest, bitchiest cat in the whole world and shes my best friend. stealer of cream cheese and hearts.

heres a small collection of price pictures where i think she looks exceptionally round

vote for price orb. shes practically a perfect circle. what more could you want

also look how polite she is

BANDIT

submitter's sweet baby boy. He passed away recently, and submitter misses him dearly. He was the softest cat they'd ever pet, and that's not just them being biased. His fur was silk. He was the friendliest cat too, and when he heard new voices he was always up to come meet people. He also enjoyed being around people, and you could always find him in a room with the family. He enjoyed terrorizing the family dog whenevr he got riled up (dont worry, she enojoyed it too), and he loved to bother submitter's parents when they started working from home. Any call submitter had with their folks, he would always make a background appearance, yelling quite loudly. He also had some of the loudest snoring theyve ever heard, and they're so lucky to have a small audio recording of him sleeping. Submitter had him since they were 8, and he was nearly 17 years old when he passed away. Submitter tries to sleep with a crook in their knee so if he's ever lonely, he can come cuddle.

SIMON

he's two years old but still looks like he's six months old. he also recently cost his father and submitter 4k because he likes to eat random stuff off the ground :) luckily he's adorable, loves to beat them all up in the morning to wake us up, and his little meows sound like, "ba-hoo!"

PROPAGANDA

he is scared of everything that is not his mom, dad, or brother. everything else is to be treated as an very scary, dangerous enemy

he once cost us over 4,000 dollars in vet bills because he loves to try to eat random stuff off the ground. my fiancé and i both work minimum wage so you can imagine how happy we were

he went missing for 15 hours once because he pushed through a window screen and jumped. he is the last cat who would ever willingly go outside so wtf simon ....

he is a gremlin who thinks the world revolves around him (it does)

he loves letting me dress him up in hats, dresses, and shirts!

he loves to lick my fiancés face at 5am and will dig up the covers to get to him

he helps himself to any glass of water left out, even if you're also drinking it

he doesn't understand why people aren't always willing to share their food with him- he wants some!! give him a lil taste!

he also sat like this once ?

anyways i reached the mobile photo limit i hope you like my boy!!

SIMON SWEEP

[fenikorg-talks]

I have a weird relationship with One Piece ships. Because, it’s like, I love that they are a found family and it’s practical that no one has a romantic partner, but at the same time I can see them all in a romantic relationship. idk

Ok, so first we have Luffy who I really can’t see him with anyone, he loves his family they’re all important to him. Then again, i see how he sometimes acts like he’s married to Nami and I think maybee???? Then I read Punk Hazard and Dressrossa and i was like with Law????? and then i found this thing called lusan by the great fedyth on twitter and was like they could be??? and then WCI and i they can bee!!?? then again i always remember at some point of zoro’s loyalty and that their best friends and out of nowhere my brain is like they look cute??? before watching or reading one piece i had seen some ship regarding luffy and robin but after seeing i can’t really see the appeal, like i love that luffy is robin’s reason to live but i can’t see them together together. the same with usopp and luffy, they’re just best friends in my eyes. i have seen a lot of other ships but these are the ones i can think at the moment (if you know more let me know) i still think that luffy is a person who loves way too many people in so many ways that he would’t chose one to stay with forever.

Zoro’s case happens to be similar to luffy’s because he doesn’t gets interested in just one person either. he’s very loyal to luffy, yes, and he’s his first and best friend, yes, but i can’t think in a case where those two end up together as romantically. i was thinking in people closer to zoro, starting with tashigi. i like this one very much because tashigi resembles kuina a lot and zoro had so much mixed feelings when they met. i also like to think that when zoro was little he had a little crush on kuina hence her death was even more hurtful than it actually shows and only by sheer willpower he hasn’t been in love again and then i think about sanji and is like the only one capable of getting the swordsman mad just like kuina used to. no one else makes him so mad like sanji does, and they trust each other a lot, and they understand each other like no one else understands them, and and and well i think that somehow they could get together at some point. of course, later i think all the other possibilities open in the table: there is perona, but i see her more of a little sister to zoro than a partner, there is robin who i actually shipped with zoro for a while, but then figured they had like a silent treatment to protect chopper at all costs. there is hiyori, but i can imagine all the drama it could have if it was a one sided love from her. personally i am a zosan fan, so i don’t have a lot of knowledge in zoro’s ships, tell me more if you know.

Nami’s turn. its difficul with her because she doesn’t trust people easily and doesn’t show her true feelings if they aren’t the strawhats, but that doesn’t stops me from shipping her with whoever i want. first things first, namixmoney. second, luffy and nami were, like, my first one piece ship so i will never let that down, they are very cute together and they act like a married couple just as much as they act like gremlins. another one that can easily surpass luffy is vivi, because well they’re girlfriends alright. idk, i love dearly their relationship in alabasta and all their adventures together. i did have seen that some one shipped her with tashigi, and i can see the appeal but personally i dont enjoy it as much as with vivi. i had seen her with sanji too, and personally that’s one of my favorites too, i just know nami can do whatever she wants with sanji and he will allow it. and even tho he’s a perv he will treat nami right. if you know more ships let me know.

with usopp the think is easier because for some reason he doesn’t get shipped with many people??? for example, there is usopp and luffy, that even though i said  that they were just friends, from usopp’s side they could be??? idk if im explaining right. i mean, in luffy’s case it isn’t a ship, but in usopp’s it is. ???? i dont know. a ship that i see very often is usopp x sanji, that personally i can see it and i like it a lot, but don’t think about it way too much. the ship that is like predetermined for me is usopp and kaya, like, they WILL get married alright. then again, hadn’t seen any other ship, let me know please

and here is sanji, who i ship with almost the entire cast of one piece.

instead of explaining i will give you a list, is faster:

luffyy

zoro

nami

usopp

robin

law

pedro

pudding

kinemon

cocodrile 

jin

killer

bonney

carrot

ace

djfalsdjasdjfiwjflajdf (i had a list somewhere down my posts in what now is “x” (i hate it) and that thing wont let me see my posts)

anyway my mind went blank. i know there are more but i just cant remember. you know the drill. let me know more

i will leave it at that cause my god there are a lot of characters and i already feel exhausted just remembering all the ships i’ve seen. amazing how you can consume a massive wave of media in an instant.

[gessshoku]

Context, a lot of friends are going ape shit over my cursed gods AU for sun and moon. I’ll be turning it into a fic so have one out of the many shorts I wrote to satisfy the hunger of these gremlins:

Granny: “I didn’t know Gods could be cowards too.”

Eclipse jolts from his meditation session but was really going down a rabbit hole of what he did wrong and beating himself up “….What.”

Granny settling into their chair they always seem to have: “You’d think a powerful being like yourself wouldn’t be afraid of apologizing.” She begins to start knitting

Eclipse: “What do you know.”

Granny: “More than you in these kind of situations.”

Eclipse let’s out a lowly growl

Granny: “Intimidation and hiding away won’t get you anywhere. You know well that what you did was wrong. Very wrong. Especially to them.” She messes up a line of her knitting and begins to unwind it to start over “They didn’t deserve that..”

Eclipse: “I know…” he sighs and breaks his meditation stance to cover their face in frustration and guilt

Granny: “There are two things that can happen. One, you continue hiding and feeling bad about yourself and Y/N will never see you again. Or two, you could stop being a coward, get off your guilt train, and apologize.”

Eclipse sharply looks to granny in a swift motion: “They don’t want to see me! They’ll cower in fear by my mere presence and hide behind the other two!”

Granny sharply looks back with the same intensity: “Those “other two” have names. Use them.”

Eclipse sighs: “… Sun and Moon….”

Granny successfully fixes her mistakes in her scarf and continues: “No amount of gifts we gave you made you as happy as Y/N did just being there. Are you willing to give that up over a mistake? Are you willing to be stopped when in the face of your brothers, whom you love so dearly?”

Eclipse clenches his hands tightly: “Like they would ever let me apologize, let alone near them.”

Granny shrugs: “Then I guess you’ll have to apologize to them too.”

Eclipse shakes a bit but managed to suppress it. He takes a big deep breath and lets it out: “…. okay……”

Granny: “I suggest you let go of that look you have.”

Eclipse: “What look?”

Granny motions to him with her stick before going back to knitting: “Your extra arms, your glare, your extra rays. You always had them out to display your power and dominance. You have no need to display it all, not with them.”

Eclipse stares and thinks for a moment before his rays stop floating and connect back to him, his two sets of extra arms disappear and he relaxes his gaze to be more soft, closing them finally.

[aurora-313]

⭐⭐⭐⭐!!!

Or, send in a ⭐star⭐  to have the author select a section they’ve been dying to talk about!

Thanks for the ask~!

Lets play this as one scene per star.

⭐ #1 - Black and Blue - Chapter 29

I would have to say Ukitake and Kaien's physical reunion is one of the scenes I was most looking forward to (across all my projects tbh).

I have @yakittydraws to thank for how that scene played out because I was at a genuine loss about how to proceed at the time. Figured it out with a spitball session with them. Lovely conversationalist.

See, its one thing for Ukitake to intellectually know that Kaien was alive. They'd spoke on the phone after all. Exchanged a bit of banter and seemingly slipped back into old habits easily. However its quite another to actually see the man in the flesh. Thus emotions are on full display.

On Kaien's side, he's eager yet nervous and hesistant because of how much he's changed. He's half-hollow now, and the last time he saw his Captain, he was dying impaled on Rukia's sword after Ukitake failed to decapitate him. Unpleasant memories for everyone involved to be sure.

On Ukitake's side, he's eager but also racked by disbelief, sorrow, and regret, followed by relief and joy mixed with clear paternal affection and determination because 'my errant lieutenant and protégé and son is alive and well and I'm bringing this boy home'.

⭐ #2 - Black and Blue - Chapter 31

Not so much the scene was the character interaction. Rukia, Ichigo and Kaien's phone call at the start of this chapter is a little snippet of a dynamic I desperately want to explore. I dearly want these three in the same room because we all know the resulting shenanigans would be glorious.

Especially if Ukitake's there as the long-suffering parent trying to reign these three idiots in.

Kaien was and is bad enough, Ukitake was lucky to control him on a good day. Rukia follows his example because of course she would, making matters worse. Add Ichigo's particular brand of chaos into the mix? Well, thank god Ukitake is already grey.

⭐ #3 - Black and Blue - Chapter 31 (again)

Rukia and Ichigo crashing Kaien's date with Lisa. I love this scene because its fun, its light-hearted and Kaien is a troll, through and through. Lisa encourages it and only wishes she had a camera because that would've been amazing blackmail material.

To coin a BioWare term, Kaien and Lisa's relationship is best described as a rivalmance. They bring out each other's worst chaotic gremlin tendencies in the best ways. So naturally when the sprites were in the vicinity, they got a-trolling.

HOWEVER. Like with Isshin the very next chapter, karma will bite them both in the rump big time. I don't know how the conversation exactly will happen but I have no qualms revealing Rukia will unwittingly mention the incident to Ukitake (who will tell Kyoraku if he's not present).

As you can imagine, karmatic shenanigans will ensue, ultimately ending with Rukia and Ichigo having the last laugh while Lisa and Kaien squirm.

⭐ #4 - Once More To See You Again - General

Shaking things up for the last one. For simplicity, I'll refer to reincarnated Kaien as 'Neo!Kaien'.

I stopped writing this version for two reasons:

I realised that I was just following canon with extra steps and I felt like I could've done so much more with Neo!Kaien in hindsight. There are so many facets there I left unexplored.

I was rushing to have Neo!Kaien meet the Shibas, Squad 13 and Ukitake (I have mountains of variants for that scene alone, its not funny) and damned the consequences.

I couldn't salvage what I had so I've decided to re-do it. Such is the joy of fanfiction.

With this revamp, I'm giving Neo!Kaien a more complex layered character. Exploring his thoughts and feelings towards Masaki and Isshin, towards Ichigo and his sisters, his own name, the supernatural and so on.

I'm expanding on why its such a bad idea to associate with a loved one's reincarnation, why such a harsh penalty is in place, the tight rope Rukia (and Isshin) have to walk and general consequences of a perfect hybrid like Ichigo having a sundered soul (in cases its not obvious, Aaroniero has a chunk of Kaien's soul in his possession).

Addition to that, I had a far darker variation on how Neo!Kaien was prompted to unlock his powers. For the purposes of the revamp, I will proceed with this original version since it brings a lot of character drama. Which I thrive on. While functioning as a fierce cautionary tale about why its a bad idea to screw around with spirit magic like is a bloody sports game. **glares at Ishida**

I plan to write Neo!Kaien recognizably as himself yet fundamentally changed his human life, the experiences he's faced and so on. For one major difference: by and large, he views honour as vainglorious bullshit. A view emphasized and reinforced by the aforementioned cautionary tale.

[squigglywindy]

Squiggles Ranks the Chain

It's time to rank the chain.

I don't know why I did this. I really don't. It was hard. I love them all. And my favorites in general don't align with my favorites to write and this list is changing every day but here it is anyway. I've told a few people I was going to do this eventually, so here it is. The List. Go ahead, come at me. But do so understanding that I love them all dearly. But, I love some just a little bit more than others. Or, at least, relate to them and rotate them in my mind with more frequency.

Proceed at your own risk

@triforce-of-mischief @silvercaptain24

9: Time. Oh, Time. My guy. The old man. The tired Old Guy surrounded by youngin's. I relate to him in my soul. I love him, I want to hug him, I wish him all good things al the time. I love his dynamic with The Boys, his entire thing with Malon, all of it. But somebody had to be last. And at the end of the day, it's Time. Although my least favorite Link still occupies a bigger piece of my mind than any other fictional character ever, so there's that.

8: Twilight. Twi. My Brother In Y'all. My lil country wolf boy who I love so much. I wanted to put him higher; it was a struggle. Maybe it's because he's been dying for a year and we haven't gotten as much content to love him for; I dunno. Either way, somebody had to be number eight. I'm sorry my lovely Wolfie.

7: Legend. What a legend. (Hah, couldn't resist). I hated him for a long time. Yes, I was projecting my frustration with ALttP onto the poor guy, but still. I was stuck in the game when I started reading still am but that's not the point, and then there he was. And I was just 'ah no. It's him'. And then he seemed like a jerk, and I was just like: 'figures'. And then??? Whoooo boy this guy can fit so much character development into him! He's so sweet. He's so soft. He took me out in Sunset 13 with his lil face.

6: Hyrule. The fluffy lil dude. He's like a human puppy he's stinkin' adorable. He's my Swiss Army Knife when I'm writing; my guy has a tool for every occasion. He's just so soft and sweet and has magic hands??? Very cool. I don't have a lot of coherent thoughts to say about him but I love him very much.

5: Wild. Ah, Wild. The man I thought would be my blorbo. BotW has my heart, and naturally, I thought he would do. And he does! He's a little chaos gremlin. He's also Dramatic and I love him for that. I have so much fun writing him because literally anything goes and somebody out there will be like 'yeah. Classic Wild'. What can I say that hasn't already been said about this controversial lil guy everyone seems to either love or hate? What a maniac. Respect.

4: Warriors. I didn't have a whole lot of feelings about him before I started writing, ngl. Hadn't played HW, didn't really know who he was, all that jazz. And then I started digging in and oh my gosh I can't go two stories without beating him up I love him so much. He's my go-to projectee. I love to hurt him and look at him and I love the dynamic he has with everyone. He is Very Cool.

3: Four. He's just the whole package. A nice lil mashup of someone who has never done anything wrong in his life ever, and someone who has definitely killed someone with his bare hands. Not to mention he is Smol. Like lookit him it's almost like he could be a backpack (shamelessly references my own absolutely unhinged story). And? And??? He's chronically miserable I just wanna give him a hug.

2: Sky. I just love him. He's sweet, he's squishy, and he's just so darn relatable. Standing there. Left in the dust, because running is hard. Just chillin', watching the world pass by from whatever random spot he's chosen to exist in. It's like looking in a mirror. He just loves his brothers and wants them to be okay and he's just wonderful.

1: Wind. I know many of you probably didn't see this coming. I hope you braced yourselves for the surprise. Number one, Blorbo Prime, my number one scrunkle, The Windy Boy. Where to even start? He's just an absolute terror, hacking up the bad guys with the big boys. And his lil face? It's so smooshable. He is babey and menace all wrapped up in one. The child that I wrap safely in my trench coat until it's time to torture him again. He lives on a pottery wheel in my mind, spinning around at unimaginable speeds. The blorbo ever.



[thewickedkat]

i have been tagged

@vcaudley tagged me and i am just now getting round to this, apologies!

A scent you love: - sandalwood. i could be in the saltiest, shittiest, most tin-foil-chewing mood and upon smelling this, i would relax from grievous homicide to involuntary manslaughter. which is a very tortured metaphor but it's a weird day for me. suffice to say i love sandalwood.

What's something you're looking forward to this week? - i would dearly love to write this weekend. been wanting to actually get something actualised before the weather starts thinking of hoodies and pumpkin spice lattes. also i need to go to the library because i need new music; mine's getting rather stale.

What's a book you're currently reading? - i am so very sorry to say that i have not read an actual book in *mumblemumble* amount of time. a few years back i had sort of run dry on books that i was enjoying, and my tastes changed; i dove into fanfic and haven't really looked back since. it is still scratching that itch that i can't really describe. to be quite honest i think the last book-book i read was the latest Dresden Files instalment--and before anyone comes for me, yes, i am quite aware of Butcher's...uh. writing tells, let's call them. man's become a pastiche of himself, tell the truth.

What's a game you're currently playing? - The Outer Worlds, for, like, the fifth time. love Parvati; that woman can do no wrong in my eyes. tried doing a Board-bootlicker run a while back and then she looked at me all disappointed and my contrition knew no end. and i adore Felix wholeheartedly because that Labrador of a boy is the purest of heart and dumbest of ass and he makes me smile. ...also, i'm just killing time until next week when i can get my narsty little gremlin hands on Baldur's Gate 3.

What's the most recent movie you watched? - Nimona. if you haven't seen it, drop what you're doing and watch it immediately. now. go. why are you still sitting there? go watch it! okay, no, seriously--why aren't more films made like this? it doesn't talk down to kids or families (or anyone else for that matter), it is wholly unashamed of its emotions and finds joy in showing them (even the messier ones), the art is beautiful and vibrant and isn't half-arsed and crap CGI stitched with hand-drawn; it has a fantastic message, and when Ballister said 'I see you, Nimona,' i sat here and fucking bawled.

Are you watching anything on TV or listening to any shows? - i recently finished S3 of The Witcher on Netflix, and...well, i think i'd have to watch again to really start to pick at it and why it didn't particularly vibe for me (the nonsense with Radovid and Jaskier aside; i mean...Radovid? really? blech). i haven't read the books but i am familiar with the lore, but the writing seems to be so uncertain of itself this season, all over the place and muddled. and with production on pause (not just for TWN, obviously), i'm more than a little uncertain of Liam Hemsworth's stepping into the very big boots Cavill's leaving behind. the bar has been set pretty high; i'd say this of any actor, frankly. as for podcasts, i am sooooooo far behind on listening that i think i would have to start many over. i had been listening to Bahumia Two: Electric Boogaloo on NADDPod but that was months ago. my problem is that i have to be in the mindset to listen to pods (side effect of the ADHD), and right now the mindset is 'put on youtube vids or Japanese lo-fi and read fic in your downtime.' how long this will last is anyone's guess.

Favourite season? - autumn, by far. and i don't mean the soft Pinterest moodboard aesthetic type; i mean the frost upon the windowpane when you wake up in the morning but you don't turn the heat on yet because by noon it'll have warmed up enough kind. i mean the mixing of baking bread, strong coffee, herbal tea and the faintest whiff of cigarette smoke. the knowledge that the wind is just on the edge of turning biting and that its teeth will only grow sharper in a month; when you swap out your summer clothes for woolen blankets and soft pants; when you dig out the thicker yarns and the puzzles and rearrange your spooky house bric-a-brac to take pride of place. that kind of autumn.

What's something you've learned recently? - i have learnt factoids and things that would serve me well at pub trivia, but nothing that would serve to make an interesting infodump. not really. all the stuff i infodump about lately is fandom-adjacent and makes my husband's eyes glaze over.

Have you had any water lately? - yes! i drink water on the regular, interspersed with Baja Blast since summer is hanging on by a thread.

i'll support anyone who wants to do this but specifically tag @gadzooie @deacons-wig @totally-not-deacon @wildwildwasteland but no pressure if this isn't your bag!

[pangzi]

rules: post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.  

tagged by @forerussake, thank you for tagging me and making me expose my embarrassing amount of wips... I’ll put them under a cut as well because I have way too many dmbj wips... I’m starting with the non-dmbj ones and then we’ll dive into the mountain that is dmbj wips...

tagging: @hils79, @s1utspeare, @ohyka (tell me about your art wips i’m begging), @ibenholt, @phantomhydeoftheopera, @river-sludge, @englishbunnyrocks, @qinghe-s everyone who sees this, yes you!

Chastitea - a Nielan fic for my dearly beloved Celeste.

Seducing Chifeng-zun - Nielan

The struggles of lusting after your fake boyfriend - a Weilan fic I started writing exactly two years ago (wtf) with hobo, it’s at +30k and so nearly done. I’ve always wanted to finish it but dmbj possessed me.

Zhao Yunlan: Ace Detective. There’s Room For Two Aces In This Department. - Ace Weilan AU based on a book I read.

this man is pathetic, which is very hot part 2 - heihua, sequel to my heihua fic with the same name

t4t pangxie - something i wanted to write for the last day of pangzi birthday week but never got to it bc i got burned out and discouraged... in which i project all my transmasc non-binary experiences onto pangzi.

3 times Xiaoge got himself off + 1 time he let pangzi help - ace!xiaoge my beloved finding relief and comfort around pangzi and pangzi being very good and lovely and accepting about it.

“mirf’s panghua week” aka me attempting to spread the my panghua and pangzi polycule agenda as i post a 7 chaptered fic in a week

5 + 1 Kan Jian - this one would be for my beloved ohyka. Kan Jian gets to be the horny bastard he is as he casually sleeps around and the one time it isn’t casual

Blowing off steam - Zhang Rishan/Xie Yuchen

Mouthful - Pangxie smut

Love Languages - simple ways in which Pangzi’s partners show him he’s loved (currently this is 5 fics under one title)

Wu Xie’s Best Man Pangzi - pangpiaoxie

Fridge Gremlin Xiaoge - Iron Triangle

Attention, please - Pangxie

The sunlight on your skin - Pangxie

In your bed - Pangxie (smut)

Happy Ending - Heihua (smut)

In a heartbeat - Pangxie

Bed wrestling - Pangxie

All you have to do is ask - fuba (smut)

You wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid - Pangsang

“do you have the cure?” - pingpang (you know the scene in tlt2, but pangzi panics a bit at the possibilty of xiaoge flirting with him)

pangzi’s story about xiaoge in a dress in tlt2 - pingpang

mmmmmm people flirting with xiaoge? in front of pangzi’s salad? - pingpang

Pangzi turns the iron triangle into a line (this one will make many people mad probably oop)

Two guys making out in a hot tub because they don’t like each other - heihua

xie yuchen grabs ass - heihua

tlt2.2 is NOT REAL - iron triangle

useless bottom wu xie fails to prove he’s not a pillow princess - pangxie

5 times wu xie convinced himself his actions were completely straight + 1 time he realized there’s nothing straight about him - pangxie

Wu Xie is confident in seducing Pangzi yet doesn’t expect to succeed - pangxie

You’ve waited long enough Pangzi! Stop rejecting him! - pangxie

Erjing’s revenge, but better - Panzi/Erjing

Jia Kezi’s stamina - Li Jiale/Jia Kezi (smut)

divide (ershu's legs) and conquer (put a baby in him to take over the bloodline) - Jingbai

You’re never too much and always enough - Iron Triangle (Pangzi is loved)

who needs prompts, xiaoge takes merpangzi’s dicks - another late merpangzi fic pingpang week

Where he belongs (Merpangzi’s arms) - another late merpangzi for pingpang week

Suddenly Seventeen - Pangxie

Wu Xie is incredibly inconvenienced (they ran out of his favourite tea) - pangxie

hey it ended up less than I expected! which means i did a good job a while ago weeding out everything i don’t actually want to write anymore