#so we dont need to worry

[cepheusgalaxy]

what we have as of now!

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Espa worldbuilding wise i mean. i was supposed to be working on it but I wanted to do a quick recap :)

(No i barely have anything noteworthy yet. Don't matter!) (Forget what I said I got quite the ramble)

The state - The state the story takes place in is a fictional brazilian state located in the Northeast, awkwardly placed between the states of Bahia, Sergipe and Alagoas. No it does not make sense. Proceeding: The name of the state is Ipabara, and its capital is the city of Anaconda. Ipabara's current governor is a guy whose name I think could be really funny if I put a little bit more of thought into, so I'm not gonna say yet, and Anaconda's mayor is Enísio Souza de Góes.

Ciça's town - Ciça, from the start of the story, lives in a small town about an hour (by car) from Anaconda, not exactly in the seaside so there ain't any beaches there. The town's name is Sebastião da Graça and its mayor is [insert obsenely long name here]. Ciça's house number is the 11 btw. The place Ann and Espa, for their mission, are settled on is 129B, a few streets away.

(below, tw for mentions of human trafficking-and very brief forced prostitution-and child soldiers)

The corp - IT DOESN'T HAVE A NAME YET. But it will. What I know is that it's also known as "the Dove". When influent people say "a little birdie told me [important and redacted piece of information]", the 'little birdie' is 100% the Dove.

Their hierarchy is divided in five positions: The leader, their council, the management, the field staff and the servants. The field staff is divided between handlers and weapons, although I should probably give them a better name. The weapons are the child soldiers and the handlers are the ones they answer to. The servants are also victims of human trafficking who are forced into domestic slavery for the higher members of the Dove. They have the least autonomy, but their immediate "superiors", the weapons, don't have it much better either. The weapons don't have authority to order the servants around. Just the handlers and higher ups can.

The weapons have an internal ranking that divides them into "Canaries" (top soldiers), "Vultures" (the hella good), and "Cranes" (average Dove child soldier). It doesn't grant them any privileges or authority to be of a high tier though. That is just a classification of their overall usefulness and value (which, inside the Dove, is very much defined by their usefulness) so management knows which missions to assign them or if they are worth the trouble saving if they get badly injured. Treats and privileges are granted arbitrarily by handlers and the most respected (the closest thing to authority a weapon is granted) weapons are the senior ones who've been there for the longest.

The servants are also the ones responsible for patching the weapons (and handlers) up after missions and cooking their food. Handlers get full meals three to four times a day, every day, but the weapons get a weird gross soup (their 'rations') with the suplements and nutrients they need, with an actual meal being only during breakfast when they eat the same as the handlers. The weapons can't cook for themselves. They don't know how. The higher ups like to keep it that way.

Regarding punishment for the weapons, everything is pretty loose, but there are a few guidelines in place. Every misbehavior on the part of a weapon is classified into four categories: Minor, mild, major, and capital. Severity of punishments is applied accordingly (although the handlers can sort of do whatever they want), with capital punishments being things like 'permanent damage' or injuries that take very long to heal from (which normally even a major rule-breaking wouldn't earn! because the Dove wants them in working conditions most of the time after all!), death, or refurbishment.

Refurbishment is a whole topic on itself, because it's something the weapons are taught to fear and do anything to avoid, a fate they should not get close to no matter what. Its threat keeps them in line. Now, what is it?

Selling them!

The Dove has many partners, including some illegal/unethical brothels and other trafficking ring businesses. When a weapon commits something that is so hedioundous that the Dove will not keep them anymore (like a big rebellion which could be repeated in the future if they don't get rid of them), they throw the problem away to one of them. The weapons aren't 100% sure of what would happen to them if they were refurbished, but they have enough of an idea to know to fear it. Sometimes, if they are just too badly hurt, but not to death, they are sold out too.

Every weapon has a brand as well, somewhere in their body, in the shape of a dove. To signal property. They are branded as soon as aquired and their initial training is over. The handlers also have tattoos (although they are just. consensual of course) in a slightly different shape, to signal they belong with their fellow Doves. I'm not sure what is the brand's design but I'm not in a rush to define it.

The weapons also have three training sections a day (unless their current mission interfers with that) and have a strict sleeping schedule to be maintained in their best form.

The weapons are often referred to, in a more 'veiled' or secretive context, as "company assets".

They also have sort of an uniform that is not very strict, but is all black. Nobody minds it if they customize it. Hence why Espa can wear that bright yellow cape over hers. There is alsoa variation of it that is their "stealth uniform" for when they need to be more subtle, but I haven't gotten around to design it yet. Overall, clothing is not very rigid, and in many occasions they need to be dressed casually to blend in anyways so it's not like the higher ups care.

The weapons are also trained to be able to sleep anywhere.

The Shelfes - The Shelfe family is a powerful one from Anaconda, and their riches come all the way back from when slavery was still legalized. The couple made their money exploiting enslaved Afro-descendants and passed their resources to their oldest son, who started his very own lawyer firm. After merging it with plenty others, it became one of the most powerful of the Northeast and he settled himself as one of the wealthiest people in the state. He married to a Proper, Beautifull woman, and together they had three children. The oldest of them followed his father's footstepts and started his own business (with lots of help), a large cosmetics company; the middle one took over her father's firm and is its new CEO (can you tell I don't know how lawyer firms work. I will search it up later); and the youngest started working as a high executive of a chocolate company and rose up its ranks with his family's influence to become the co-CEO.

Seth Shelfe is the oldest "son" (they are not a boy at all. Not like their mom cares.) of the middle daughter, the lawyer, and has five cousins on their mom's side and a younger sister.

The Shelfes don't like the Dove very much. In fact the main conflict going on is of the family going against the corp. They have ties with the government and it is on their best interest to destroy the Dove. The Dove, of course, crafts a plan to anihilate them first, and that's where Ann and Espa come in. They are the most recent couple of weapon and handler sent in to nearest town (Sebastião da Graça) to subtly meddle with some warehouses the Shelfes own and get into their bank account to steal some good money.

Or that's what they are supposed to do, anyway.

*context (spoiler alert) || also, the masterlist

All this to say. I'm working on it. Praying hands emoji. I'm not leaving it like the others, I'm working on it! And we are getting close the writing stage! Just a few more things on the corp (like its goddamn name. im accepting suggestions if you want to give any) and the shelfes, and we'll be ready to go. I also already have an outline of most of the story but can't share it because spoilers. That's it!

[umblrspectrum]

she was being a bitch so n took a pic from his perspective

[aetsiv]

"wylan almost got away with lying to kaz" this "wylan stood up to kaz" that. WHAT ABOUT MY GOAT KUWEI??! HE LITERALLY ACTUALLY LIED TO KAZ AND GOT AWAY WITH IT (pretending not to know kerch)!! LIKE KAZ LITERALLY NEVER KNEW, THEY ALL THOUGHT HE WAS THE POOR INNOCENT KID WHEN HE'S LITERALLY SO SMART AND SCHEMING!!

[ofswordsandpens]

thinking about how the (greek) big three swore to never sire any more demigod children because those children are just too powerful (dangerous) and also thinking about how the characters that, arguably, seem to have the greatest proclivity for cruelty in the name of justice or vengeance are also the (greek) big three children... there's something there, a connection to be made I'm sure of it

[dotpyenji]

Dragalia Lost Period Tracker

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[daitranscripts]

I was going to wait until 2025, but with all the hype and info floating around, I've decided to announce the Veilguard Transcripts!

@datvtranscripts

We still don't know what the future has in store for patches and updates to the dialogue, but I've been deep-diving into the files and there is already a cleaned up and organized full text-dump (courtesy of @corseque), so I figured I may as well!

Much like DA2, we have all the dialogue lines, but it's formatted strangely. It takes a bit of work to piece together the conversation flows and triggers, so it may not all be 100% accurate. As usual, I'll be striving for utmost accuracy though, so they will be a little slow going!

Don't worry, I'm still working on DA2, but the brainrot got me. I'll probably be bouncing between the games like a madman for a while with pieces of DA:I when I need a break from all the file messes of the other games lol

[tryagainstarlight]

First Contact, a prologue

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[st4rstudent]

he won't be able to get back up btw

[epicfirestormer]

What I love about Hellboy and Abe Sapien's dynamic in the comics is that, if you came into this blind, you'd expect Abe to be the voice of reason or the straight man to Hellboy's impulsive and hotheaded personality. But no, Abe is more often than not the crazy one. Hellboy would deal with fighting evil monsters and bad guys by just sighing and getting it over with, while Abe is going rabid over tearing the creature apart when he does get into a fight. Hellboy acts like it's a 9-to-5 job and will reasonably talk things out with a guy that had nearly killed him before, Abe acts like a madman in a slaughter house and his first instinct is to shoot first kill second and ask third. They're both insane, but on completely different levels.

[alarts]

a more tender redraw of the end kiss.....

[zouisalmightie]

and that’s the thing like tommy didn’t end things with buck because buck wasn’t out. he ended things with buck to give him the space and opportunity to get comfortable with the idea of dating a man without the added pressure of having to think about and worry about how tommy felt. he didn’t want buck to have to rush out of the closet he wanted to give him a chance to truly think about how his life will shift if/when he starts a queer romantic relationship.

[sadie-wolfdawn]

not sso positive, not sso negative, but a secret third thing (adult w a job)

[autisticlancemcclain]

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

[gifti3]

im drawing grim on youtube again cause i dont wanna be left alone with my thoughts

[moeblob]

i have no idea where the compulsion to giver her a pokemon came from ??? but her and her minccino gotta go make sure her husband stays safe.