#questions would be neat

[merverelli]

"you just feel yourself let go."

still thinking about this episode. man. 💪💥

[hasty-hintless]

(slams the post button with 15 min left to the end of the day) HAPPY LUKE LUNES!!!

I liked this conversation! thought it was a shame that it's the only notable one between these two. That said, sometimes I wonder if Luke has "please mess with me" written on his forehead or something, bc like... it seems to be a recurring pattern...

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[iiinkos]

me: i don’t think martin had a lot of time or money to dedicate to his hobbies, nor do i think he had this many

artist braincell: but like. martin with hobby. prettyyyy

me: damn right you are let’s get this boy some yarn

[starlingfawn]

will there be a space for my soul in space?

[vaguely-concerned]

just for fun this time during 'sea of blood' I counted out all the venatori corpses I think we can be pretty sure were lucanis' handiwork before we show up (not including the ones he kills in his initial cutscene, and with an assumption that he's been at work mainly up and down in the areas we move through until we find him, not behind the locked door -- I think that's mostly the work of rampaging undead and other venatori-hoisted-by-their-own-petard suchlikes). can thus happily inform you lucanis has killed at least 32 venatori before rook and company get there. at least one of them he's impaled on their own weird crystal spike things the venatori mages cast as an AOE attack and that they're trying to keep him contained with when we find him. so he's clearly been keeping busy lol. that's my boy dispensing poetic justice and claiming some enrichment in his enclosure while he's at it good for him!

[radioroxx]

headcanon that people of the islands sleep schedule is like, four hours later than average.

they wake up at mid day, and sleep well past midnight. kids begging their parents on weekends to pleeaaase please let them step up just a little longer to watch the sun rise. early-riser visitors / tourists having to adapt to their horrid schedule because stars forbid theyre up and about at 10:30.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

"I think this is the most inhuman; and human, that I've ever felt.." MUCH CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR. IN FIVE YEARS. A DECADE. imagine how much can happen in a century. just ONE (1). How will you grow? what phases do you find? even in 5 years, you will find patterns.

[shiveagit]

Kissies!

I like Vassago towering over Alastor. My hc of them meeting is when Alastor was taking out overlords left and right when he arrived. He was about to strike Vassago but cleared the confusion when Vassago said he's not an overlord (this is a nod to the pilot) and that he was just messing around in the pride ring for fun. Alastor spared them although its questionable if Alastor would be able to even kill them. He later learns Vassago is a goetia and they've been friends keeping in touch ever since. Lucifer does not approve of their relationship as Vassago is a good boi and shouldnt be hanging around with a freak like Al. (or he wants Al all to himself)

[memorys-skyscraper]

characters who have genuinely good intentions and motivations and care about their friends/companions while also lying to those same people with nearly every breath are like playdough to me- you can squish and stretch and shape them infinitely bc the question of "where does the lying end" can be applied to so many things and go so many ways and has basically infinite answers, so every time im presented with such a character i feel like a dog that's been handed a bone bigger than its head

[wh1msycat]

Crk oc because I can do whatever I want

[a-most-beloved-fool]

If Spock and Jim merged into one being (no euphemism here lol) like Tuvix, what do you think the personality of the new being would be like? What impact do you think that would have had on the lives of both of them after they separated again? I love your headcanons, thanks for the answers!

thanks for the question!! <3

Hmmm... I think they would work pretty well as one being, actually. I'm thinking about all of those quotes from Roddenberry about how Kirk and Spock were supposed to represent two halves of a whole person, so I have to assume that they would be quite content. Though, disclaimer as I continue: I have not yet seen any of Voyager - there might be aspects of Tuvix's combination that I don't take into account because I don't know they exist. If so, uh, sorry. My bad.

For the sake of avoiding confusion, I'll call the merge Kirok (after the name Kirk chose when he lost his memories in The Paradise Syndrome). (Also, I fear that calling him "Kock" would have... deleterious effects on the readability of this post... for no reason at all...)

I do think that Kirok would, overall, have the best parts of Kirk and Spock. Combined, they are tactically fearsome. With Kirk's intuition and understanding of people and Spock's knowledge of statistics and science, Kirok is brilliant. However, I do think that Kirok would be a worse captain in practice than if Kirk and Spock simply had a mental bond. Part of the brilliance of Kirk and Spock as a command team is that, while they very much respect one another and take the other's opinion into account, they do also. regularly ignore each other's advice. And this is usually to their benefit! They each take risks that the other wouldn't, and, often, it saves them (in part because they always back each other up, even when doing things they don't agree with. Spock will be like "this is unwise" and Kirk will say "maybe, but I'm doing it anyways" and Spock will just... go with it.). But, if they were one person, I think that impulsiveness would be tempered. The Kirk part would have a brilliant idea, the Spock part would say "wait, there is too much risk, we can make a better plan," and then Kirok would lose his chance to act. When they're separate people Spock is ride-or-die for all of Kirk's decisions, but when they're one person, the Spock half won't always allow those decisions to be made at all (and also won't necessarily be able to tell when he does need to rein things in a bit). (Also Kirk and Spock both tend to be reckless, and then rely on the other to save them - as Kirok, who would back him up when he needed it? Bones would, but he's a medical officer. He simply can't do everything they would have. And, no matter how good of a first officer Kirok got (probably Sulu?), they couldn't be that good.)

I also think that Kirok wouldn't be quite as at ease with his position on the ship as Spock and Kirk individually were. The Spock part of him loves science far too much to just abandon it. He wants to spend time in the labs! He wants to make discoveries! Likewise the Kirk part of him can't truly be anything but a Captain. So, Kirok stays a captain, but he's less passionate about it (or, rather, more passionate about things that aren't it). This doesn't actually affect Kirok's satisfaction - it just affects his performance and relationships with others. He might spend off-duty time working on science experiments (which he can no longer do during shift, due to captaining) and neglect forming bonds with his crew, and he might place more focus than usual on scientific discovery missions.

As for the crew... Well, it's not as weird of a change as they expected. As expected, Kirok is less outwardly friendly than Kirk, and more outwardly friendly than Spock, but he's - cohesive. He still feels like their commanding officers. His humor tends to be a bit drier than Kirk's was, but he's a very compassionate and reasonable captain. (Tbh I tend to think that Kirk is actually more of a hardass than Spock (people just assume Spock is worse due to being Vulcan), so some crewmembers are surprised when Kirok is more lenient about certain things than Kirk would have been. Not lenient about cruelty or anything genuinely important to the safety of the ship, but about other things.) But, he's still not as good at making personal connections as Kirk was, and he's still inclined to spend too much time in the labs, so things aren't perfect.

Really, I think that the person having the worst time of things would be Bones, lmao. He'd have to deal with his Best Friend suddenly being the same person as The Guy He Affectionately Antagonizes (totally not a friend no how could you even think that). I think he'd be more lost than anyone else about how to address Kirok. Is this Kirk, his old friend, who he can be truly comfortable with, or is this Spock, who he snipes at and who snipes at him in turn? Who can he turn to, when the man he normally approaches for comfort is now the same being as one he doesn't want to seem too weak in front of? Does he turn to anyone else, in the meantime, or does he weather it alone?

Kirok himself, though, is actually pretty okay with the change. The different parts of himself simply - mesh well together. It's very satisfying for him, if not for his career and those around him. There's some minor bits of tension, especially regarding changes in biology and telepathic status, but, for the most part, he's doing well. The things you might expect to be major points of tension somehow... aren't. They compromise remarkably easily. (No meat, yes logic, no emotional suppression, yes casual touching, no casual relationships, yes meditation, etc.) And the Kirk and Spock parts of him both enjoy the closeness, the sense of knowing they now have for one another. They're one person, and know themself completely as they've always longed to know each other completely. (he does miss playing chess against someone who could beat him, though!)

Now, because I am Spirk-brained, I also think there's potential for Kirok to have Very Confused Feelings about discovering that the two parts of himself each had secret feelings for the other prior to the merge. There could be this odd sense of loss - like, yes, they are now technically one with one another, but they also completely missed out on their shot at a romantic relationship. They mourn what they could have had. The Spock part, especially, mourns the potentially for a telepathic bond (because with how smoothly they've integrated with one another, it surely would have been a strong one). So, as much as Kirok does enjoy existing as Kirok, I think he might be more willing to attempt separating back into two parts than I believe Tuvix was.

And, when they're two separate people again, they both feel like they're missing some part of themself, even once they've begun their new romantic relationship - but quickly discover that a mental link between them fills that hole. (And then, of course, because they are hopeless and in love, the "medicinal mental link" very quickly just becomes a marriage bond. They're like "well, we've already been one person and liked that well enough... a marriage bond is hardly anything different!" To Spock's endless pleasure, they are highly compatible and have a remarkably strong bond.) The mental link also allows them to have the same quick reaction times and combined brilliance of Kirok without the negative side effects of their own individual strengths being tempered. (they're also like. annoyingly codependent for a bit after Kirok's separation. oh boy are they always touching. "it gives them emotional security." bones looks at them in disgust (he loves it).)

Or, if we wanted to be McSpirk-brained... I'm enjoying the imagery of Kirok (who both had crushes on Bones as well as on one another) just directing all of that missed romantic potential onto Bones, who is... like, he's not not into it (Kirk was hot, Spock was hot, ergo Kirok is hot), but he also misses and loved his Original friends, and so he is very torn between accepting Kirok's advances and trying to find a way to split them apart again. (Flustered Bones, flustered Bones!! I do love flustered Bones!! He is blushing and stammering and having multiple ethical crises all at once. They never covered this in Starfleet Medical...) He also doesn't quite know whether Kirok's feelings truly belonged to both Kirk and Spock or not, and doesn't think that Kirk or Spock would truly act on it if they were in their normal state, so a small selfish part of him wonders if that's the only chance he has to be with them (even if it's not quite the same 'them' he fell in love with). And then, of course, there's the fear that trying to get back the original Kirk and Spock will actually just kill them! Yeah, poor Bones has a rough time of things. But, when everything is fixed, he does still wind up getting two boyfriends out of it. It all works out in the end?

[teyrnacousland]

When we find out that the elves were spirits there's a whole debate about whether or not we should tell people. Why don't we do that when we find out that some of the core beliefs of Andrastianism are a lie?

[artbyblastweave]

I know this might be sudden but I would really like to know your thoughts on my Ultimate Kamala pitch

So with the caveat that I'm really not a huge authority on either Kamala (Civil War II made me dip out of marvel for a couple years and I haven't caught up with her status quo in a bit) or the backhalf of the Ultimate Timeline post-Ultimatum- This seems like a really deft on-point way of hybridizing a lot of the dynamics that make 616 Kamala fun with the ambient deconstructive cynicism of the Ultimate Setting- she's still a cape fangirl but that means something very different in the Ultimate Universe, and with that comes the underlying bleakness of how bad your life situation needs to be for the Ultimates brand of torment-nexus superheroism to look like a plausible escape. I also think it's thematically fitting that you're using Cataclysm as the introduction point- Kamala being to me a very distinctly 616-flavored character in ways you have to negotiate if you're bringing her in, so an incursion by a 616 threat seems like a great time to bring her in as a ripple effect. Neat pitch overall

[telesodalite]

...thinking about the whole concept of transformers being an agender species, and how that implies they have pronouns in their language that we as humans could never comprehend

[deerspherestudios]

How would Mychael act if I introduced him to my MC's friend? She told her friend that he won't hurt her. Her friend is still a little scared and weary of him.

Definitely wary of her too. He kinda trusts you, but can he trust her? He's met his fair share of humans; not a lot of them were as accepting as you.

[freaky-flawless]

I'm genuinely curious as to how you think Wydowna should be written, considering either the lackluster amount of attention she gets or being a background character for the most part

Even outside of the Ghoulfriends books, just in general, what do you think the writers should've focused on more with her?

Tbh, I would completely disregard the Ghoulfriends books altogether. She was so poorly portrayed, and the way the narrative treated her was criminal lol.

The only media she featured heavily in was the Power Ghouls comics, but I think her wiki page describes her pretty well. "Nerdy, sassy, and mischievous" is plenty to build off of, and pretty much matches up with how I see her. She loves fashion and comic books in particular, but is also known to multitask to the point where she's regarded as "the most productive student at Monster High." I think it could be fun to expand upon that, that not only is she good at multitasking, but she also likes to try all sorts of hobbies out. I bet she's an unbelievably fast typist as well lol.

I also imagine her love of fashion and designing clothes partially arose from necessity. She's a rare monster type, and I imagine she has a hard time finding clothes to accommodate all of her arms, so she most likely had to learn how to alter/ make them herself. If we take the Power Ghouls into consideration, it's fair to assume she has a strong sense of justice. I think her appearance must be a shocking to some monsters given the rarity of her species, and I'm sure she's had to deal with some shitty comments from time to time. She's very clever when it comes to comebacks though, and doesn't let their words get to her. She knows she's an stunning and talented ghoul.

Apparently Garret Sander himself stated that he wanted to make a Power Ghouls movie with her as the main, and I think that would have been excellent. Granted I personally always saw the Power Ghouls as an AU of sorts, but even still, it would have been a perfect opportunity for us to see her character shine.

I love that she's beasties with Clawdeen and Ghoulia. The idea of the three of them hanging out together is so cute to me. I can also see her getting along with the Ghoulfriends, Venus in particular, Twyla, Jinafire and Skelita.

She has such a striking design, I will never understand why she was never featured more in the media.