#recomms

[juniorectobiologist]

what's that phrase again?

[iceclew]

HOSHIKAFWEEK2025

Day 1: DOMESTIC

After a rough day - having someone to catch you and all that weight you carried around. Sometimes that's the most important part of a home.

it became rather angsty again, but still meant for them to be wholesome <3

Maybe sometimes things just don't work out. Some rookies get into crossfire during a kaiju attack or smth and get hurt or worse. Sometimes things don't escalate the shonen way, but ..just go wrong... And while Ashiro is trusted with killing a 100 meter high honju, guess who is and feels responsible for all the people out there... I'd like to think shit happens, and it bites away on our Vice-Captain as well sometimes. But he's not used to show or admit it, and now it's sometimes pretty overwhelming...

Oh YOU thought about cozy stuff, didn't ya?

*slaps table*

SORRY, I'M A HURT AND COMFORT GIRL.

[fuctacles]

For @st-loveconfessions , reccing my favorite artists.

@blasvemous i can't believe they picked my silly circus/freakshow au and made gorgeous art for it and now we're besties, good things like this don't happen to me 💚

@otternil i love the themes in his art, every piece is a hit and it resonates with me. Bear Eddie? Little Vampire AU? Transgenderism and monsters? Yes please

@alicetallula is always there for all the silly events i come up with, always with a fun ship or au or outfit, and they mix so many mediums, where do you find the time, man

@hawkinsleather has unique style, silly and clever ideas, and gives us trans Eddie. With bits out. Delicious. Also, pink

@rambamthxman silly muppet men. What else could you want from life?

@safk-art the demo!Steve design does things to me that I don't want to adress. And I think that's the real power of art

@2jihiir0 idk what to tell you, the dark themes just do it for me. Their art is just hot

@getlost0p the artist that feeds us t4t steddie content and glorifies Stevie's curves at every possibility. Just. Soft and hot.

[etsicetaitmavie]

Ça recommence.

Ma fille n'est prise nulle part sur parcoursup enfin si pardon elle est 1034e sur liste d'attente à la fac d'histoire qui était son choix par défaut.

Pour l'instant on cuve et demain on verra et surtout il va falloir la remotiver pour les épreuves du bac qui arrivent dans 15 jours.

[theresattrpgforthat]

How about any TTRPGs set underwater that aren't horror themed?

THEME: Underwater Games.

Hello friend! I am so sorry that your asks got eaten - I'm glad to have them back! (It looks like Tabletop Trick or Treat unearthed a few gems.)

Now, let's see what kind of underwater games I can fish up for you!

Deepwater Enclaves, by kiryas.

Just plain old air pollution? A failed weather control experiment? Or more sinister forces? Nobody will know for sure why earth cooled below a dark mantle of clouds in the 1980s. Agriculture could not adapt fast enough and when conventional battles for the few remaining natural resources close to the equatorial line erupted into full-scale nuclear war, humanity was on the brink of extinction. Less than five hundred thousand mostly malnourished, freezing humans were left, when the year 2000 began.

This game is about venturing from a safe Community into the unknown. At the core are taking risks for your loved ones; sometimes this is at odds with your individual motives.

Deepwater Enclaves is a Rooted in Trophy game that contains a number of roll tables with evocative choices, and a community creation that involves the entire table. As players, you play both your character and a member of the community who is important to someone else. You play through a series of scenes, structured in a similar way to the way you might set up a scene in a tv show.

To participate in a scene, if you are not one of the original characters set to play a role, other players must spend a token. These tokens are also used to affect outcomes from when you roll, as well as reduce risks that may pop up as you play. You need two different colours or shades of d6’s for this: one colour will represent regular dice, while the other will represent “dark” dice, which raise the stakes whenever you roll with them.

Overall, I think this game is about exploration and survival. I think it has the potential to be a horror game if you want it to be, but you can also alter the tone to redirect the story towards something more dramatic, perhaps centring the game more on your community, and awarding the players with enough tokens to give them the ability to pull themselves out of danger.

Carcinauts!, by Hessan Yongdi.

Carcinauts! is inspired by a famous British children's animated TV show that takes place in and around the sea. You play animal explorers, scientists, and rescuers. Joined by your many friends and helpers, you seek to learn more about our fascinating oceans. Make the world a better place for the animals who live in and around the Great Blue Sea!

Based on the prolific Dominus system created by members of the Brazilian RPG community, Carcinauts! is designed to allow for quick play without a game master. This makes it idea for a solo session in the Sea or a team adventure, using the tables to build out your story. Its simple rules based around d6s and largely non-violent topic materials also make this game child-friendly.

Carcinauts is a two-page game that feels a little bit like a kid’s show; you are all underwater animal explorers, going on missions and solving problems. The resolution of the game is called the Dilemma oracle, and is fairly simple. You must determine two possible outcomes or answers, and then roll 1d6. On a 1-3 the first option is true, on a 4-6 a second option is true. These outcomes need not necessarily be “success” and “failure” either. They could be “left” and :right”, “up” and “down”, or “true” and “false”. This resolution system also makes the game friendly to solo gamers or GM-less tables.

If you want a light-hearted game about underwater explorers, which generates a lot of story ideas for you, maybe check out Carcinauts.

Deep Love, by Bully Pulpit Games.

You’ve come to this paradise to drop a two-and-a-half ton iron ball off the side of a ship and lower it almost a kilometer into the abyss. 

You’ve come to crawl inside that iron ball and go down with it, to see what there is to see down there. 

You’ve come with three other brilliant adventurers, friends, and lovers, and you’ll all get a chance to descend and risk your lives in exchange for seeing things no human being has ever seen.  And maybe, in the inky darkness and cold silence, you’ll find a measure of happiness and fulfillment.

Deep Love has a fond appreciation for old naturalist drawings of various fish, and uses those drawings as the art for the game. You play four characters, possibly pre-generated, on an expedition to the deep waters of an island for a geographic expedition. You all have feelings for each-other, and you’ll have to spend some extended time in a bathysphere to sort this out.

This game looks like it’s equal parts emotional conversation & role play, and, on the other hand, discovering the wonder of the ocean. According to the designer, it looks like you can modify how much you want to experience the former, and how much you want to experience the latter. If you want a game that gives you the tools to explore both your character’s internal emotional landscape as well as the strange underwater world around them, you might like Deep Love.

Submerged, by Arcane Atlas Games.

SUBMERGED is a solo journalling game of undersea exploration.

In this game, you take on the role of a daring explorer aboard a submersible. You have been charged with venturing into the depths of the ocean, to find something wondrous and undiscovered, hidden deep below the waves.

This one is for the solo gamers! It’s based on Carta, which uses a deck of cards to explore a map or series of locations. The player draws a number of cards and lays them face-down in a grid. Each turn, you move to a new card, flip it over, and come up with a journal entry based on the prompt the card gives you. The four suits represent four elements of the game: the Lost City, The Creature, the Wreckage, and the Signal. All of these elements play into the themes of mystery and exploration that this game seems to be about, but I don’t think any of it is necessarily horror-focused.

24XX The Deep, by Chaosmeister.

ONE DAY THE OCEANS DROWNED THE WORLD. Humanity survived below the waves. The sea birthed leviathans. Your crew owns a dingy old sub. Odd jobs, salvage, leviathan hunting and a few merc gigs keep you afloat and breathing.

24XX The Deep is a game about underwater survival and it’s also a drama. As a 24XX game, it’s only a few pages, but those pages distill the necessary parts of the game into a few things: customization for your submarine (aesthetic and mechanic), character options, and roll tables for pieces of the world, such as the factions that your crew might have to work with or work against.

The designer for this game says that 24XX The Deep isn’t necessarily meant to be a horror game, but it can still be a little creepy in tone when you consider the ways the natural underwater environment can raise the stakes for your players.

Aqua Squad, by Em.

A Tunnel Goons hack of aquatic and aquatic-adjacent adventure, created for the Saturday Morning Cartoon Jam. 

I think this might be a fairly safe bet considering it was submitted to something called the Saturday Morning Cartoon Jam! As a Tunnel Goons hack, this game is fairly simple. You follow the Submarine crew of the Cuttlefish, as they go for adventures underwater. Players pick character types, which kind of act like characters on a tv show, and fill in a few pieces of information to make those characters fit their play style.

The resolution mechanic involves rolling 2d6 and adding a relevant ability, and adding +1 for any relevant item you might have with you. You must meet or beat the difficulty score to succeed. You start with 3 items, and 10 HP. There isn’t much in terms of GM tools for adventure generation however, other than what appears to be episode title names. These titles can be evocative: you roll two words and put them together, so the GM may have an interesting time designing a “ghostly volcano” for the squad to investigate, or trying to figure out what the title “Vacation Megalodon” might mean.

Signals From The Deep, by Aaron Goss.

SIGNALS FROM THE DEEP is a tense, ocean-floor setting and scenario made using a no dice, no masters roleplaying game system Tiny Tokens.

This scenario takes you and the rest of your old, sentient, deep sea research robot team SEA-4 on a shared voyage, exploring deep sea wonders as you seek out the source of a anomalous signal detected way down at the bottom of the ocean. What awaits you in the depths?

Signals in the Deep is a mystery game, but it’s not necessarily a horror one. The game is small, meant to fit on two double-sized poker-card-sized cards. It’s easy to pick up and carry, and doesn’t have too many rules. Your core goal is to figure out the source of the signal; but what exactly that source is will be up to the GM, at least from what I can see.

Also Check Out…

Octopus Shipwreck Explorer, by SassWrites.

Bones Deep, by Technical Grimoire Games.

Odyssey Aquatica, by Old Dog Games.

My Mermaids TTRPG Recommendations.

The Sea Calls Recommendation Post.

My Coral Recommendation Post from last week.

[your-astro-mami]

For anyone wanting to get back together with an ex:

The period between November 21st to December 5th will have a Venus-South Node conjunction which is very plesant for reconnection, focus on past relationships, giving an old relationship another chance. However it will be making a square to Pluto so if the relationship was previously unhealthy it could lead to more damage. Proceed with caution

[christiangatattack]

Goku Defeats Recomme | Dragon Ball Z | Episode 280

[escespace]

I have something very serious to ask the author... What planet do you come from? Cause THIS FIC THIS IS OUT OF THIS WORLD

What an experience it has been to read this. It's a mini tribute to the fandom, truly beautiful!!!

Arthur being all simp for Merlin is never going to get boring and I think it's because it compensates a bit for the feeling of imbalance compared to what we see Merlin doing in the series.And let it be all whippedd by Merlin if it was satisfactory, it was perfect to make me kick my feet like a schoolgirl

Then we get to the sad part and the explanation that Merlin gives to Gwaine MADE MY EYES WATER How dare you? Merlin speaks to the reader there, I swear, we have been with him in his worst moments and we know all the pain in his heart.

It has been the perfect combination of anguish and comfort With a big and beautiful amount of fluff I'll read it a dozen more times I'm sure

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Merlin (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwaine & Merlin (Merlin), Lancelot & Merlin (Merlin) Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwaine (Merlin), Lancelot (Merlin), Knights of the Round Table (Merlin) Additional Tags: Everyone Knows About Merlin's Magic (Merlin), Court Sorcerer Merlin (Merlin), Everyone Knows Merlin/Arthur Pendragon are in Love (Merlin), Good Friend Gwaine (Merlin), Good Friend Lancelot (Merlin), Mutual Pining, Pining, Not Actually Unrequited Love, Love Potion/Spell, Boys Kissing, Boys In Love, Love Confessions, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Light Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Long-Suffering Leon (Merlin), merlin is trying to break a spell, while arthur is head over heels in love with him, merlin just wants some peace and quiet Summary:

"Merlin!” He said, smiling brightly with eyes wide. “Merlin, my love!”

“Oh Gods and Goddesses, please save me,” Merlin mumbled to himself as Arthur scrambled off the table and ran to wrap his arms around Merlin. The sorcerer groaned and looked over his shoulder at Arthur.

“But it hurts to be apart.” Arthur whined, proceeding to unceremoniously drop all 180 pounds of himself onto Merlin’s lap. “It hurts deep in here.”

Arthur grabs Merlin’s hand and rests it over his heart. Merlin just looks at him with a deadpan look as he wrestles his hand back and tries to shove Arthur off.

~~~

Or Merlin believes Arthur has been hit with a love spell and has to deal with an insanely clingy Arthur for two days while he tries to figure out how to break it.

A talk with the druids leaves him thinking about his supposedly unrequited love (and how it might not be so unrequited)

[fuctacles]

2024 fic year-in-review

In 2024, I joined Bang events for the first time, and worked on 4 fics:

Creature Comforts Come in Fours (Billy/Steve/Chrissy/Eddie), written by @kallisto-k with art by me

Simple as that, an Elumax fic based on art by dragon_chris (wc: 5431)

Sex, Drugs, and a Haunted House, with art by @penny00dreadful (wc: 27972)

Murray Bauman's Fantastic Freakstravaganza with art by @blasvemous (wc: 25659)

I also took part in:

Steddie Microfic with 13 fics

Lex's Spicy Six Winter 2023 with In Love and War (wc: 6890)

Steddie Love Month with Positives Attracts (wc: 1383)

Sub Eddie Week with 7 fics (3 with transfem Steve) (wc: 11675)

Steddie Spooktober with Bonding Activity (wc: 1429)

And three Steddie Exchanges, two of which ended up Soulmate AUs:

Secret Exchange with Learning the Ropes (wc: 2363)

Summer Exchange with Dices & Dumbasses (wc: 10861)

Winter Exchange with Dude, that's My Ghost! (wc: 9064)

Then I fell neck-deep into Transfem Steve tag, started @stevieweek, and my Stevie collection has 14 works so far, which include:

the 5 fics and 2 arts for Stevie Week

Late Bloomers written for Steddie Holiday Drabbles  (wc: 2443)

Witch Hunt for Stevieween and Steddie Spooktober (wc: 2568)

Twitch streamer Stevie or the failed attempt at Stedissy (wc: 7616)

I also wrote:

a crack fic: Just like Cinderella (wc: 3367)

BigFoot!Steve: Eddie Munson's Elusive Lover (wc: 2562)

Corroded King: A boy worth getting trampled for (wc: 856)

And Started:

The Crazy Cat Lady Stevie (wc: 14208+)

Wereshifter Steve (wc: idk lol)

I also filled one event with art only and managed to close the Valdangelo doors and finish oh my gods, they were roommates! which has been trailing after me since 2021  (wc: 29905)

And so much more! Damn, being a part of a popular fandom for once is very motivating XD 

2025 plans include:

Running @stmonstercalendar and @genderthings

Writing the last one of my first Steddie ideas, hopefully (two got already turned into Bangs!)

Speaking of, expanding the universes of my Bang fics

Continuing Cat Lady and Dog Boy and expanding some of my one-shots

Dusting off the wips I've avoided mentioning here bc i'm ashamed

Dipping my toes into Dead Dove (don't worry I have a separate blog and Ao3 account so if you're into that, hmu, if you're not, you don't have to worry that you'll get jumpscared here)

Steddie and Four Or More Bingos

More polyamory and qpr ships

Thank you all for being here in any capacity, and the mods for organizing all the events, and just being a fun community to be a part of.

If reading about other people's shitty life makes you feel better about yours, here is my personal life recap.

[corpsentry]

i have derailed myself. down terrible for shaoshang xinghancanlan lltg and speedrunning both parts as fast as possible with my mother. we um. binged 30 episodes in the last five days………….. me when the hetero period drama is treated not like a trashy ya novel where everyone has big eyes small face (listening to 银河漫漫盼归期 on the bus to jb like a weirdo) it is hard to put into words the sheer kind of resignation i have approached the xianxia/wuxia/general chinese period drama genre with for the past few years as after cql and woh we watched love between fairy and devil and til the end of the moon and who rules the world and dawg that shit made me Cry…. after much thought i have come to the realization that i have a personal vendetta against stories that only progress because there are 1) evil characters and 2) stupid characters i.e. there is blinding frustrating cheek gnawing cruelty askance but that shit just keeps looping because the protagonists are sooooo nice — that is to say, STUPID AS BALLS— and don’t assert themselves. xinghancanlan (and the drama we finished just before, xihuazhi (blossoms into adversity (dogshit english localized titles, i sob)) is so incredibly fucking refreshing on a basic storytelling level because it doesn’t linger. no misery porn (see: love between fairy and devil, til the end of the moon), no dragging out the jealous cousin who keeps torturing the protag and co, instead the plot! just! keeps! moving! it’s got places to go! and it motherfucking goes to them. god i want to eat til the end of the moon’s flashbacks alive anyway (separate story, very long) xinghancanlan also does so many levels of character storytelling and it does it like HELL the amount of care given to each parent child relationship in particular lord i haven’t seen a parent child relationship written with such nuance and care in a long time, if ever, as the one between shaoshang and her mom there is no villain!!! everything is terrible!!!! art imitates reality. and then you get her and her dad, ling buyi and the whole situation going on over there, the emperor, even wang ling’s family— these are not archetypes. they’re people. and that’s so nice. that the homies over there produced a show that lingers not on the agonizing nail ripping sobfests but on how hard it is to be a person

and then there is the fact of the production itself. not to fist my own ass or pat this one’s but this show approaches scene writing and transitions the way i approach my own writing and i have never seen that in any tv series let alone a chinese period drama where girl meets guy and it goes so FUCKIN HARD. i give example. character A and B gossip about character C for a brief period. “C is such a whiny bitch,” B says (this is a close-up shot). cut immediately to a close-up shot of C whining to D, and then one of D replying. just like that we have transitioned between place, time, and characters with this kind of fun witty filmography and writing that makes it feel like this scene is a continuation of the last due to the same style of face to face interrogation. but we are in an entirely different place

or, abruptly there is a scene of violence and brutality yet unseen in the show. it fades to black, and character H shudders awake at her desk. “i just had a terrible dream,” she says. but the scene after that is a continuation of the violence and brutality of earlier and we come to realize that this is very much a real moment in the story. the audience has been played by an inverse ‘it was just a dream’. it was not just a dream. even though it was shocking and gruesome. the story is moving to new places now

and more generally, the score reminds me so strongly of beijing opera with the way the music describes and foreshadows minute gestures; shifting eyes, a tic in the left hand, the slightest drop of one’s shoulders. there are new and interesting, relevant, thought provoking transitions in each scene. the framing of shots emphasizes specific character emotions and mental scapes. and shanjian is an emotionally repressed loser. it’s just so. so. (howling for 85 years). fucking dazzling to see a piece of art that has clearly been made with such care, my guys. and also is fun to watch. and is obviously having fun itself. i am reminded of the ways in which art can save people’s hearts as this saves mine. and shaoshang makes me want to cry, is such a hot mess and not at all one, gives so few shits and altogether too many, is just learning how to hold the love that others give her without trying to call it something else-/ she is so tender. i’m throw myself off a cliff right now. all day i have been wandering around jb muttering to myself about the beautiful and good things in the world. it can change your life to see someone smile even if it is fictional character cheng shaoshang from xinghancanlan. cannot stop thinking about this damn show. thank u for listening

[project-sekai-facts]

Will the removed songs get replacements do you think (like, recommissioned) or is it too late for that?

They didn’t say anything about recommissioning donketsu, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did, mainly out of fairness to Rui lol. It was a 2dmv so it’s not like they need to throw away loads of resources on remaking a 3dmv or anything either.

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Matin ⏰️🆕️🎂❤️

Santa 🎶 Recommence-moi

[la-nuit-je-mens]

CLIO - T'as vu [CLIP OFFICIEL]

Salut, ça va?

T'as vu, j'suis là

Je suis rentrée chez nous

Ben t'es déjà debout

Tu t'es inquiété

Mais j'avais pris les clés

J'étais pas bien loin

Et je savais bien

Que je reviendrais

Voilà, c'est fait

Salut, ça va

T'as vu, j'suis là

J'ai fait des tours autour de la maison

Fumé beaucoup

Mouillé mes joues

Touché le fond

J'ai shooté dans tous les cailloux des environs

Et j'suis rentrée à la maison

Salut, ça va

T'as vu, j'suis là

Ben sois pas fâché

J'ai fait du café

J'ai pris des croissants

En bas, en passant

J'ai fait mon petit tour

De trois fois rien

C'était pas fait pour

Que t'aies du chagrin

Salut, ça va

T'as vu, j'suis là

J'ai fait des tours autour de la maison

Fumé beaucoup

Mouillé mes joues

Touché le fond

J'ai shooté dans tous les cailloux des environs

Et j'suis rentrée à la maison

J'ai fait des tours autour de la maison

Fumé beaucoup

Mouillé mes joues

Touché le fond

J'ai shooté dans tous les cailloux des environs

Mais j'avais chaud dans ton blouson

Salut, ça va

T'as vu, j'suis là

Oui mon téléphone

Il était ici

J'aime pas quand il sonne

Je l'avais pas pris

J'faisais pas la gueule

Mais j'étais bien toute seule

J'étais bien toute seule

Allez, ça va

J'suis là

J'ai fait des tours autour de la maison

Fumé beaucoup

Mouillé mes joues

Touché le fond

J'ai shooté dans tous les cailloux des environs

Et j'suis rentrée à la maison

J'ai fait des tours autour de la maison

Fumé beaucoup

Mouillé mes joues

Touché le fond

J'ai shooté dans tous les cailloux des environs

Mais j'avais chaud dans ton blouson

Plus jamais ça

Mais t'as cru quoi?

Que j'allais pas rentrer

Que j'allais me barrer

Que j'allais en aimer

Un mieux dans la rue d'à côté

Ben non, t'inquiète pas

Y'a pas mieux que toi

Y'a pas mieux que toi

J'ai fait des tours autour de la maison

Fumé beaucoup

Mouillé mes joues

Touché le fond

J'ai shooté dans tous les cailloux des environs

Et j'suis rentrée à la maison

J'ai fait des tours autour de la maison

Fumé beaucoup

Mouillé mes joues

Touché le fond

J'ai shooté dans tous les cailloux des environs

Mais j'avais chaud dans ton blouson

[p4r4no1danarchist]

Does anyone know any discord Ninjago fanfic writer groups I could join?

[iceclew]

"My recommendation: Monster, monsterfighting Exceptional protagonists! A must-have for every action-fan with a big bunch of humor :)"

Stopping what I do, to apprechiate this local employee at the bookstore who not only took the time to write a personal recommendation for the manga, but also put in the effort and got all out for the scribble there!!

10/10, employee of the month

[sotiriabellou]

και πολύ τότε σφίχθηκε η καρδιά μου

ήταν το πρώτο τρίξιμο του ξύλου μέσα μου

μιας νύχτας που εσιμωνε ισως

η φωνή του γκιωνη

κάποιου που είχε σκοτωθεί

το αίμα γυρίζοντας πάνω στον κοσμο

είδα, πέρα, μακριά, στην άκρια της ψυχής μου

μυστικά να διαβαίνουνε

φάροι ψηλοί ξωμαχοι Στους γκρεμούς τραβερσωμενα κάστρα

Τ' άστρο της τραμουντανας Τμήμα Αγία Μαρίνα με τα δαιμονικα

Και πολύ πιο βαθιά πίσω απ' τα κύματα

στο Νησί με τους κόλπους των ελαιωνων

Μια στιγμή μου φάνηκε θωρούσα Εκεινον

που το αίμα του έδωσε να σαρκωθω

τον τραχύ του Αγίου δρόμου ν' ανεβαίνει

μίαν φοράν ακομη

Μίαν φοράν ακομη