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[ooliecat]

someone put a whole list of portal prompts in my inbox and one of them was robots making a cake. i had this script idea for a good while and decided to take it out for the request.

also whoever put that whole list, thanks. there are some really good ideas there. i'll definitely be doing more.

[guesswhoisofftheirmedsagain]

Fic idea - Tim swap

Tim, while out as RR, gets hit with a ray gun of plot. He gets all glitched out, and is rushed to the league space base bc plot reason. Batman and the whole fam all rush in with Tim like “wtf is wrong with him” and literally most of the league is there bc plot. Anyway, Tim detaches himself from Bruces death grip on him and stumbles to the middle of the room, saying he think he’s about to explode and to get away from him. Anyway to he keeps flicking in and out, one second he’s there, the next second there’s…. A shirtless guy? It’s Tim? It’s shirtless AND MASKLESS TIM WHAT THE HECK??? (Jason ends up giving him his leather jacket to cover up with like immediately, Tim comments on the type and grade of leather and Jason’s like ‘why do u know that??’ And Tim’s like ‘oh I got a custom leather jacket for my bf for our anniversary last year, I did my research and got my moneys worth.’)

Meanwhile:

Tim is Red Robin, famous YouTuber and live streamer. Powers are a thing of fiction here. His anniversary with Conner, or better known by his stage name Superboy (the world famous punk singer and songwriter of the band Young Justice), is that night. They are having a great time, and end up watching movies on the couch. Long story short, things get steamy, Tim’s shirt is gone, bit marks and hickeys all over his neck and collarbone, the works yk. Suddenly he flicked, and the next thing Kon knows is that one moment he’s kissing his lovely boyfriend, and the next thrown half way across the room, slamming into the wall. Looking up he sees Tim, at least he’s assuming he’s Tim? In some weird… cosplay get up? wtf??

Streamer Tim freaks tf out, thinking he was killed and this is a weird after life, or that he actually ate 30 edible cookies instead of the normal cookies again.

Vigilante Tim is calm, only internally freaking tf out, and he immediately goes detective mode to figure out what happened. He lowkey kidnaps Kon and demands answers and Kon is discovering things about himself atm.

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[peculiardiction]

I have had. A hell of a time. But now it's time to start posting my ghouls and gangs colabs--

Cold Currents- by Die_Erlkonigin6083 on ao3

I did the sketch and lines and @wandixx coloured and shaded! Big thanks to @die-erlkonigin6083 for writing the fic! It's very tasty- highly recommend 👌

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OC Waru I love Halloween

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How it feels to be an IRL in this fandom

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naruto was the hokage but shikamaru was the one running konoha all the time, so it was like naruto wasn't really the hokage but the face. he was there to fight and play the hero but never to run anyone. he would just say “put the police at my house on watch” but nothing else (he's the ninja with the best sensory abilities in the world but the poor guy couldn't handle it).

a hokage needs to be someone outside to protect the village like the trump card. no one chooses a weak hokage no matter how good a leader he may be, he needs to have some defensive skills. that's why they even have two assistants/advisors. for naruto it was shikamaru the main one and then shizune who lived for two reigns, but shizune was removed to put her as sakura's assistant instead.

a hokage needs to be a konoha shinobi and needs to go through all ninja stages genin (beginner), chunin (team leaders above average ninja) and jonin (military large scale leaders and elite ninja). naruto left, he's good a talk-no-jutsu and he wanted to surpass the other kage and be acknowledged and he did.

shikamaru, sakura, rock lee, neji (rip), temari and hanabi, the main konoha jonin have these skills. team ebisu too but they're frauds who are very weak.

shikamaru made it to jonin which means he's cut out for military level leadership, so hundreds and thousands of people. he is made to lead others to victory, to save people if his friends help him with their combat capabilities. that is why he is an excellent advisor, he relies on others while he's the mastermind.

idk if you read boruto but having a weak hokage is the reason why konoha is doing so extremely bad right now. shikamaru is an amazing leader, the best in konoha, but he is physically weak and in real combat he is useless unless he already knows his enemy's abilities and has some good teammates to help him. he should have stayed as advisor and have the hokage be kakashi again or better sakura, who has the most powerful defensive ability in the world with katsuyu (the village will be destroyed pain level).

sasuke is a good choice. he has been a good leader of taka, he's the strongest shinobi in the world next to naruto and he's also leader material but only in battle. sasuke doesn't have the patience to talk to daimyo or do business, inaugurate a building, take pictures, etc. he fights for others but he is not cut out to lead an evacuation without jumping right into the action. he's not cut out for a chair either, neither were naruto or kakashi for that matter (kakashi always begged to leave his office). they're men of action.

he would be great if he also wasn't too haunted by his previous ideals of what hokage meant and moved forward (kishimoto's sasuke would move on) but he's also the kind of man that wouldn't do it alone unless it's with naruto or his teammates, like he does now as shadow hokage.

and while sakura is also a woman of action, she's more cut out to be hokage. not just because her two masters are hokage, but also because her training and her lifestyle are more suited for combat and office duties. she's used to working in a hospital since she finished her training with tsunade and was already vaunted as the top 3 as a teenager, to handling tsunade's paperwork while she was hokage, to being present in the office when important matters had to be discussed and giving her opinion, she founded her own mental health clinic so she knows how to handle for the public, etc.

she also made it to jonin, the only k12 with shikamaru and rock lee, which contrary to her chunin comrades who lead small teams of 4 to 5 shinobi, the three are military leaders. sakura is one of 4 (counting temari) who can lead and protect a village. they're large scale leaders and sakura was already aiding shizune handle the several injured in her camp, and when she was promoted she was already leading teams of medics she chose on her own. she's currently the head of a whole department and a hospital full of people. she's leading a mini konoha inside the walls of the hospital, inside her office but also acting on her duties herself.

also, kishimoto said of team 7 sakura would be the best instructor.

I’m gonna assume that this is a response to my post about Naruto not being a good leader and that you sent this as an ask because you wanted a response of some kind. If not, feel free to ignore this.

Here are my ramblings about the Hokage and what I think makes a good one.

Just to make my thought process easier to understand, I’m gonna do a quick rundown of what I interpret the responsibilities of the Hokage to be. (Keep in mind, I’m taking this from the Naruto manga, a little from Boruto, and nothing from the novels.) Because I’m American and this is the easiest way for me to wrap my head around how the village works, I think of the Hokage as being a mix of the shogun from when Japan had shogunates and the president. So, basically: they have full or mostly full control of the military, they (theoretically) answer to the daimyo, they don’t make or pass laws but they play a large role in enforcing them, they aren’t diplomats but they are expected to maintain relations and support major political alliances, they are public figures both to represent Konoha/the Land of Fire and to act as deterrents to war (and thus can’t be pushovers in skill or personality), they decide how dissenters are dealt with, they’re responsible for maintaining national security, they command forces during war time, they stay in the village to protect it against threat, etc. etc. etc.

TL;DR A good Hokage is someone who’s good at politics, a skilled military commander, and isn’t someone people want to fuck with.

For the most part, the Hokage fit this well.

Hashirama is a charismatic leader who was commanding the Senju clan for who knows how long before building the village, and he’s so strong that he can get away with his goofball antics. Plus, we know from his fight against Madara at the Valley of the End that he is not a pushover, knows when it’s time to get serious, and is absolutely not afraid to be ruthless.

Tobirama is Tobirama. He’s far from being a pushover, seems like a Lyndon-Johnson-esque political leader who’s willing to step on a few toes and use intimidation if he deems it necessary, has about as much experience as a shinobi as Hashirama and likely acted as a general during the warring states era, and even if he isn’t as strong as his brother, he’s still smart enough and has enough variety in his skillset that most shinobi aren’t gonna want to fight him.

Hiruzen is liked by the people of Konoha (and probably the daimyo) and is strong enough to protect the village in case of an emergency. However, it also seems like he isn’t a good leader and doesn’t bring the intimidation factor a Hokage should (at least from what we’ve seen, this could’ve been different when he was in his prime). I think he got away with lacking in those areas for three reasons: 1. Konoha had many jounin/rising shinobi who were more competent leaders than him (the three sannin, Sakumo, Minato, Fugaku, Shikaku, etc.) who could cover for his failings on the field. 2. Hiruzen was following Hashirama and Tobirama (two stronger and much more intimidating Hokage), so villages would’ve been hesitant about messing with Konoha even if Hiruzen wasn’t a walking deterrent like they were. 3. Danzo covered his weaknesses (say what you want about him, but Danzo was the head of anbu, knew how to get what he wanted, and had enough of a presence that even Tsunade didn’t want to get in his way too much).

I think I’ve made my point enough that I don’t need to get into Minato and Tsunade, so let’s get back on topic and talk about the characters you brought up.

I’ve already mentioned that I don’t think Naruto would make a good Hokage. He’s definitely strong enough that defending the village/intimidating other nations wouldn’t be a problem and with some more maturing I can see him being able to act as a political figure, but I’ve already said that he isn’t much of a leader and I doubt he’ll ever not get restless being cooped up in the village doing the day-to-day work.

When it comes to Sasuke, I think that he could be Hokage since he meets all of the requirements, but he wouldn’t be the best because of his personality. I think he could be a reasonably good public figure and handle the more tedious parts of being Hokage fine, if he thought they were important. If he thought they were necessary or would have a positive impact, he could do all of those things fine; but he probably wouldn’t bother with them at all if he didn’t see the point. There’s also a problem with what he would find important because, like Naruto, he tends to treat important matters as personal responsibilities. That’s fine if he’s off wandering the world alone or if he’s on a small team, but that doesn’t work if he’s supposed to be running an entire system’s worth of people.

Shikamaru and Sakura would make bad candidates for similar reasons. Yes, they both meet certain requirements and I can see why people think they’d work—both can be very charismatic when they need to be and they take charge when the situation calls for it or they’re personally motivated to, Shikamaru is probably the best strategist in the series, and Sakura has the strength and skills to protect the village in case of emergency—but people also tend to overestimate how much charge they actually take. Shikamaru only acts as a leader when he’s ordered to and when Asuma died; Sakura only acts as a leader when nobody else can or will. They also both tend to abandon those leadership positions as soon as someone they think is more qualified steps up to the plate. Basically, they’re both too much of pushovers to act as Hokage (hence why I think they work much better as enforcers or advisors). If either were to be Hokage, it would have to be a Hiruzen situation where they have someone right next to them to cover their blind spots.

(Also, I’m not sure why you brought up Kishimoto saying that Sakura would be the best teacher of team seven because that’s a fundamentally different career path.)

As for Kakashi, I’d actually say that he makes a damn good Hokage. He has years of experience working closely with previous Hokage and leading different teams, he has the notoriety to act as a deterrent, he has the skill to protect the village, he knows how to get (very important) people to listen to him, he knows when and how to make difficult decisions, he takes charge at a moments notice, he maintains self control and levelheadedness under pressure, he asks for second opinions and knows when he can/should rely on others, he is stubborn in his beliefs but he still knows how to compromise, and he’s incredibly smart. He knocks it out of the park in all categories, even personality. If I had to choose someone to be Hokage in Naruto’s place, it would be Kakashi. The main issue with him being Hokage is that he doesn’t want to be the Hokage.

[rainbowolfe]

Rethinking the meaning of the sword/reverse cross symbol. "First Gods" or "Descendants of the First Gods" was the first conclusion I came to. But maybe not.

I always refer to the symbols are crosses, but that's not really what they are. They're swords. And that's why a downwards-pointing sword is so rare to see.

One dash is a Vessel, two dashes is a God, three dashes is a Great One/First God. That's why even fully ascended, Lamb is only ever gets two dashes added to their cross.

A downwards sword is mercy, creation, life. An upwards sword is vengeance, destruction, death.

Light and Dark. Blessed and Damned. Creation and Destruction. Giving and Taking. Mercy and Vengeance.

These are the parallels this world runs off of. The two sides to many coins. Things that should co-exist, ebb and flow. Like the Sun and the Moon.

So naturally everything went off the rails with the death of the Moon.

[skyward-floored]

You’ll do scenes from Incredibles 2 as well? 👀 Ooh

Ok idk if you’ve done this one already (i don’t think you have but forgive me if I forgot) but I’d love to see the scene where Helen tricks Bob so she can put the glasses on him but with Time and Malon? That scene is just evil lol

Gotta hand it to Pixar they did whump and angst very well in their heyday XD

I’d forgotten about that scene!! (...I really need to watch the movie again). And you’re right they really did didn’t they XD I hadn’t done anything for this scene yet, and I got so excited writing it I did basically the whole thing 😂 So... I’m just gonna share the whole thing because, well... it’s fun, hehe.

I used Screenslaver here as a temporary name. I’ll likely change it for the long run, but nothing came to mind so that’s why it is what it is. Those darn hypno goggles...

...

“Malanya’s in trouble.”

Cia’s words rang in Time’s head as he finally reached the ship where Malon was, heart in his throat as he met with up Cia. That was the only information he’d been given over the phone, and if anything had happened to Malon... he’d never forgive himself.

“Fill me in,” Time demanded as he practically ran down the hallway, Cia jogging to keep up with him.

“Well, good news and bad news. We found her,” Cia began, and Time exhaled a little in relief. “She seems physically fine, but she’s had an encounter with the Screenslaver and she’s acting kind of strange.” They reached a large door, and Time’s stomach twisted as Cia opened it. “In here.”

Time walked inside the darkened room, lit only by the light from the hall behind, and a faint blue shine. He blinked as his eyes adjusted, and he looked around, hair standing up on his neck. He didn’t see Malon anywhere.

“Strange how?” he asked, then felt something slam into his cheek.

Time reeled backwards as pain exploded up his face, and he stared in shock at Malon, standing in the shadows with another blunted arrow already strung on her bow.

He leapt out of the way as she shot another arrow at his face, the fletching grazing his chin as he tried to regain his wits.

Malon, what on earth—

Malon put away her bow as he tried to figure out what to do, and began throwing some of the chairs by the wall at him, Time throwing up his arm to block them. He muscled his way towards her, ignoring the wood splintering into pieces around them, and Malon rolled out of his way as he jumped, aiming a series of kicks at him.

Time struggled to avoid her quick attacks, his wife’s moves faster than his own. He finally managed to grab her leg, and shoved her over, grabbing her shoulders and looking into her goggled eyes.

“Malon!” he gasped, trying to figure out what was wrong with her. “Malon, what are you—”

Malon kneed his gut, slipping out of his hold when his grip loosened. Time lunged in an effort to grab her again, but she nimbly twisted herself around, jumping on his back.

Time grabbed at her as she pulled her lasso from her hip, and before he could stop her she’d gotten part of it around his neck.

She pulled and Time choked, struggling to get his hands around the rope or somehow loosen her grip. Malon didn’t budge however, no matter how he struggled, and Time felt his vision start to blur as he struggled to get in any air.

He didn’t notice Cia, still standing in the doorway, put a hand inside her coat.

Malon’s grip loosened just a bit, and Time practically threw her off his back, heaving in a gasp as he somehow managed to grab her again.

“Malon, it’s me!” he shouted in a desperate voice, and her struggling paused, her shoulders lowering as she stared at him.

Time heaved for breath as she looked at him, and all of a sudden she surged forward and kissed him. After a moment of shock, Time returned it, relief making his knees weak.

Behind him, Cia quietly slid a pair of goggles across the floor, the device stopping next to Malon’s foot. Malon hooked the toe of her boot around it, then silently tossed them up, smoothly grabbing them all while she continued to kiss Time.

Then she pulled back and slammed the goggles over his face.

Time’s vision went white, swirling with squares and patterns that he couldn’t identify. Betrayal slammed into him as he recognized the beginnings of his mind being taken over, and he tried desperately to resist the way his thoughts began to blur.

He’d faced mind control before, but not against himself, not in such an intense way that bored into his vision and rapidly overtook his thoughts, twisting and squeezing and pulling him into its depths until all that was left was...

Was...

Malon...

Time stilled as his mind went blank, tension leaving his body.

Cia smiled, walking into the room between him and Malon. She looked at the two of them as they moved to stand at her sides, and her smile grew as she waved for them to follow her.

Both of them silently obeyed.

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theres a long long list of submissions we need, so i'll add a link to another tumblr post (so many links... apologies)

edit: HERE IT IS

[pichiflu-draws]

I still love this one! It's myself (at the time) as an eurasian magpie harpy!

I wanted to use a very dynamic pose and fit it to the square paper. I was still trying to get used to colouring and using markers so I underestimated how much they bleed.

I would like to redraw this one and try again, either digitally or traditionally!

[screamingallium]

it feels really weird that they would do messages in batches, but it also makes perfect sense to do so from, like, a story standpoint. i wonder if the eggs can only send so many messages at a time before whatever they're sending the messages through corrupts or powers down, they're on a time limit- hence the shorter messages and the inability to send more. and it would make even more sense in that case why signs for dapper, leo, pomme and richas didn't end up anywhere.

i feel like tomorrow or over the rest of this week we're going to see at least a bit more about the eggs and their whereabouts, or at least know that they're still alive. idk it might just be part of me holding out hope that these signs and corruption like areas are them

[thegreatyin]

"but yin what about if we don't play stardew v-" you do now. follow your heart. pick what calls out to you in your soul.

[sakura-rose12]

A new commission with a fic to go with it!