#the shit that sticks w you from cg...

[tacticaltechs]

Me, spotting anything that looks weighty and long enough to be somewhat balanced:

My brain: spin it

[starsurface]

Hello I hope you don't mind another request is it possible to have a platonic thingy for CG Hanzo Hasashi and Regressor Takeda Takahashi ? Either headcannons or a one-shot fic totally up to you I really like your content

Yes!!! So sorry for the time it took!!! <3 (this is also on my AO3 if you wanna check it out!! :D)

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CG Hanzo w/ Regressor Takeda (Fic)

When Hanzo saw his Chujin, the boy seemed frustrated, upset.

Hanzo hadn't espect to see him this upset. Normally Takeda wasn't a hot headed individual.

But when he came back to spend a few days with the Shirai Ryu, he seemed cold, irritated by the smallest things. Blinking back tears as Hanzo hugged him.

Takeda wasn't supposed to stay for long, just a few days before heading back from Special Forces. Had something happened on base? Or did him and Jacqui get into a big fight?

Hanzo had sent Takeda to his room so he could unpack his things. Making some tea for the two to share, and maybe speak about what was bothering Takeda.

"Chujin?" Hanzo knocked, letting himself into the room after a moment. "I made us some-"

Takeda snapped, snapping his head towards Hanzo, "What?! I'm unpacking, what could you possibly want-"

Takeda took a step as he turned, knocking his side into the corner of the his old desk.

The corner, to be exact.

And he hit it hard

He winced in pain, holding his side as he stumbled slightly. Hanzo grimaced, knowing this would only irritate the boy more.

What Hanzo hadn't expected was for Takeda to punch the table.

"Fuck!' Takeda yelped, holding his wrist as he backed into his wall. "Fuck, fuck, fuck! Shit that hurt!"

"Of course it did, you punched your desk," Hanzo gently scolded, placiing the tea on the desk. "Let me see it. Your wrist was bent and your punch was sloppy. . . It doesn't look broken, nor did you make a mark. Are you okay?"

"'M fine," Takeda looked at the ground. Feeling ashamed of his childish actions. "Didn't mean to hurt the table."

"It's okay. Can I see your bruise?" Hanzo asked, Takeda pouted. "I want to know if it needs any ice or treatment."

Takeda nodded, lifting the side of his shirt. Hanzo frowned at the forming bruise. It was a bad one too.

"Alright, I'll send someone to get some ice-"

Takeda hiccuped, finally letting his tears flow. His side really hurt, and his wrist hurt too.

And there was his entire month. It had been so crappy, so irritating. Setting him in a bad mood when he left the base and followed him here. he felt so tiny and small when he got home, and right now wasn't helping.

Hanzo frowned, kneeling slightly so he could see Takeda's face, "Chujin? Tell me whats wrong."

"Hurts," Takeda mumbled, holding his side. "Hurts, Papa."

Hanzo was slightly taken back by the Papa title. Normally Takeda called him Bubba. Unless he felt smaller, or was upset.

"I know," Hanzo sent a quick text to one of his higher members to bring an ice pack to Takeda's room. he then opened up his arms, "Come here."

Takeda looked slightly suspicious, "Hug?"

"Hug," Hanzo confirmed.

Takeda rushed into Hanzo's arms, breaking down immanently. Hanzo wrapped his arms around Takeda, rubbing his back and swaying them. It helped Hanzo when he was upset. And it seemed to work on Takeda.

Takeda squeezed him harder, choking slightly. He had been so stressed all month, and it was all catching up so quickly.

He felt so small and tiny in Hanzo's arms. His mind felt fuzzy too, and he knew he was regressing very fast.

Takeda cried in Hanzo's arms for a small while before pulling away. The poor boy rubbed his puffy eyes. hiccuping softly. A small knock was at the door, and someone asked if Grandmaster Hasashi was inside.

Hanzo quickly grabbed the ice pack, and Takeda sat on his bed. Hanzo knelt in front of him, and Takeda lifted his shirt slightly so Hanzo could put the ice there. His side hurt badly. And his bruise looked like it was going to stick around for a bit.

"You know, Takeda, we can't hit things when we're upset," Hanzo said, pressing the wrapped ice against Takeda's side. Takeda hissed slightly at the temperature. "I know, bub, it's pretty cold."

"S'okay," Takeda mumbled, rubbing his eyes. "'M sorry for hitting the table, Papa. Was naughty of me."

"A bit, but I understand that you were frustrated," Hanzo ruffled his hair. "But next time we can't hit things when we're angry, okay? Is that what we do when things get stressful?"

"No," Takeda shook his head.

"What do we need to do first?"

"Breathe?" Takeda asked, looking confused. "Sleep?"

Hanzo held back a laugh, "Both very good answers. But we need to communicate about why we're so upset. Otherwise we could hit others."

Takeda nodded, "And that's not nice."

"Your very smart, Takeda," Hanzo praised, ruffling the boy's hair. Takeda's eyes lit up at the comment. Although his face went sad and almost pouty.

"Am I in trouble for hitting the table?" he asked.

"Well. . . This behavior isn't very nice nor acceptable," Hanzo said firmly, receiving a small nod. "However, I think we can let some things slide-"

"Really!" Takeda smiled, kicking his feet slightly.

"If," Hanzo continued, receiving a sheepish giggle from the boy, "you tell me why you were so upset. Rarely do I see such a fire from you, young Chujin."

Takeda frowned, his feet no longer kicking. He held his ice pack so hanzo could sit beside him. Hanzo put an arm around him, pulling Takeda into another hug as the boy began to cry again.

"Long month," Takeda finally said. "I- There's so much to do, Papa! It's been mission after mission, and when there's free time it's just training!"

Hanzo wrapped his arm around Takeda's shoulder, gently shushing him as Takeda began to cry again, "Let is all out, young one. When was the last time you slipped?"

"A month? Two? Didn't mean to, just didn't have any time!" Takeda frowned. "Want my Momma, Papa."

"Shall I call Jacqui?" hanzo offered, receiving a small hesitated nod. "I can still stay, young one. I won't leave if you don't want me to."

"Want cuddles and tv," Takeda looked hopeful. "And facetime Momma. . . On the tablet."

"Ah, Skype," Hanzo nodded. "We can do that."

". . . Love you, Papa," Takeda mumbled, rubbing his eyes. Although there was a small smile on his face

Hanzo smiled softly, "Love you too, Squirt."

Perhaps he should call Johnny or Sonya and tell them off.

. . . Okay, he definitely will, but Takeda didn't have to know that. . . yet.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Hey!! If anyone knows what Papa/Dada and Mama/Mommy are in Thai, could you tell me? :3

I wanted to have Takeda call them thar instead, since Shujin was Thai and it'd make sense for him to know it. <3

[corvusternion]

HeHe Be CareFul AccusIng OtHers. You OnLy Seem JeaLous Of LusMut.. Do You Wish "Path" Was Your QuadRant Mate InStead

> ok^y ive seen ^ lot of f^lse conclusions ^bout this recently. time to cle^r it ^ll up.

> first of ^ll, im not interested in filling my qu^dr^nts. i ^lre^dy h^ve ^ wonderful moir^il, ^nd th^ts ^ll i c^n ^sk for. you dont know me offline. you ^re not the judge of who i h^ve feelings for. besides, rel^tionships t^ke ^ lot of effort. im not equipped for new ones ^t the current moment bec^use i just b^nd^ged up my leg ^nd currently c^nt even think str^ight from how much this shit hurts, much less worry ^bout qu^dr^nts. (cg, im fine. dont worry ^bout it.)

> second. i ^m well ^w^re th^t my posts m^y come off ^s pitch to m^ny trolls ^s well, but it simply is my w^y of typing. being p^ssive ^ggressive is ^n ^rt form, ^nd i ^spire to become the best of the best. is th^t s^rc^sm, or ^m i being genuine? youll never know. one of the be^uties of this sort of typing.

> the joke post ch^in w^s ^lso very unintention^l. i h^ve no intentions of p^iling. in f^ct, i dont like the ide^ of it ^t ^ll. its not my sticks and stones. or not my cup of le^fw^ter, since th^ts wh^t the origin^l s^ying w^s.

> third. i ^m not je^lous of cc. i h^d minim^l inter^ction with him before this, ^nd will unfortun^tely most likely meet him ^g^in in this hellsite. i just find the possible rel^tionship ties between cc and ta ^re too obvious not to point out. though i didnt expect them both to be so surprised. (•^•)> oh well

> th^ts ^ll i re^lly h^ve to s^y on the m^tter.

[mlobsters]

supernatural s12e16 ladies drink free (w. meredith glynn)

s12e16 / hannibal s2e9 shiizakana

okay so it's kind of generic dead boy and girl in snow but the fur on her jacket and the positions and the grunty growling presumably werewolf just made me think hey it's a way less gory version of the hannibal scene

MICK My report to the home office ran long. We've had our hands full since... (Dean and Mick look down at a blood stain on the floor) Well, best not to dwell on that. DEAN Wow. That is some world-class repression. You are British. MICK We prefer to call it a stiff upper lip.

you're one to talk there, dean

SAM Wait a second. You killed them all? Even the ones that weren't hurting anyone? MICK Sorry? SAM I mean, werewolves aren't like most monsters. Some can control it. I mean, we – we have a buddy got bit. Nothing but beef hearts ever since. MICK And you trust him? Well, killing is a fundamental need for werewolves. And monsters don't just stop being monsters. DEAN Well, Garth did.

was wondering when this would come up

poor sammy. but dean's too excited for free and fancy shit. thanks for throwing us a bone, meredith

so old mick here lied about the girl being bitten, actual crisis of conscience or setup for having to kill her later to prove his point or...

(yay it's claire/kathryn keeper of my favorite hair on the show)

CLAIRE So, your foreign exchange student is totally lame. DEAN Yeah. He's Sam's best friend. (Sam sighs deeply) They're like nerd soul mates.

you jealous, dean-o

why is the moon literally being erased by cg, forgot to make the cloud?

secret third option, return to the hospital to kill her quietly before she's even turned. but he's sorry! oh how convenient she turned right as he was about to kill her so he had to fend off her attack

CLAIRE Sam, no offense, but who do you think the kids are gonna wanna talk to? Me, or some old skeezer?

skeezer lol

DEAN Yeah? I used to think the same thing. Well, here's a little tip. Things aren't just black and white out here.

took a minute but he came around

should have seen her getting bitten coming but i 100% didn't

SAM Mick, you killed a kid. We're not angry. We're done!

he gonna stick to that?

there's something about the way she said "unless i break out" that really worked. and the music was appropriate and far enough behind the dialogue it wasn't obtrusive

MICK The subject died in agony. Sorry. CLAIRE Yeah. Maybe second time's a charm. DEAN Hey, no, no. You don't get a vote in this. CLAIRE It's my life. I get all the votes. DEAN Sam, you wanna back me up here? SAM It's her life.

of all people, sam's gonna back her up on this topic 24/7

dean really in full-on protective dad mode this episode. i must have learned this little werewolf lore tidbit in fic and didn't realize because i honestly thought we already knew this sire business, or made some inference from the vampires 🥴

kathryn newton is so good as claire

they remembered to put the moon in a spot that vaguely looked like it was obscured by clouds, good job team

very special episode where mick learns things aren't black and white, after all

CLAIRE Right. Eat me, Teen Wolf.

lol tell him, claire!

BARTENDER It's not like I want to do this. My pack, we were happy. We didn't hurt anyone. And then hunters with weapons that I've never seen before, they show up and... take out 20 of us, just like that.

ha ha so bmol is to blame for it all because they went after the veggie wolves, i snorted. hammering us over the head with their point again

and the very special episode where claire learns again she's loved by her family and not in fact better off alone

always laugh this show makes blood draws happen in any old place, just slam a needle in, bing bang boom done

wish they'd leave her hair what i assume is her natural texture (wavy), whenever it's overly Done like this it doesn't really vibe with what she's usually got going on. was gonna bitch if dean didn't get a hug goodbye from her :p

really glad they didn't kill her off. feel like if this was in the early seasons, she would have died for the manpain of it all

[baeshijima]

in fucking tears rn.

[spoilers for artems second anniv story UTC !!]

[also, heres the link to the tl !! once again ty jin for ur services that make me sob every time ;w;]

I JUST READ THE SECOND ANNIV CARD FOR ARTEM AGAIN AND IM SOBBING ITS SO EMOTIONALLY TOUCHING AND HHFSDGFJLSKDFGADKJFSLKFJ 

THE FACT HE SAID HE STARTED BECOMING OBSESSED BC OF THE LACK OF REASSURANCE THAT MC HAS OTHER OPTIONS WHILE HE WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY CHOOSE HER EVERY SINGLE TIME WITHOUT FAIL AND THE FACT HE ENGRAVED THE GERMAN WORD FOR YEARNING - SENHSUCHT - ON THE ENGAGEMENT RING IS JUST SO???? SO !!!!! SO <3333333

ALSO LOOK HOW FUCKING STUNNING CELESTINE IS LIKE BRO IM SO HAPPY FOR HER AND JEREMY WTF IM CRYING EVEN MORE AGAINDHFDS 😭😭

AND PLS I LOVE THEIR INTERACTIONS SM

AND HERE !!

I SOBBED SO LOUD WHEN THIS CG POPPED UP LIKE HYV MY G WHAT DO U THINK UR DOING WITH THIS HE LOOKS SO GOODOJFDBHS 😭

AND THEN THEY PULL THIS

SIR I WOULD SAY YES IN A HEARTBEAT I HATE U

AND THIS PART IS WHAT I MEANT WITH THE OBSESSION

Artem: “Y/N, I am deeply certain that I will not love anyone else other than you. But in the depths of my heart, I would still subconsciously think, that you will always have a choice, and yet forever, I… will only choose you.”

Artem: “As this thought progress along time, it caused my... sense of reassurance to gradually decrease, and led into an obsession.”

Artem: “People are always very greedy, and upon confirming each other’s feelings, I wanted to be on a more intimate terms with you… So I was obsessed with the change in identities, it’s as though the change of way of addressing each other can allow us to become even closer.”

mc, literally after tugging on his tie to pull artem closer to her in the elevator: “Artem, you said earlier that you wanted us to be on an even more “intimate terms”... Then is the intimacy you wanted is just something of this extent? By merely a switch of identities?”

artem, after regaining his fucking composure: “No… How could it possibly be just these… What I wanted, is no longer just these since long ago.”

Artem: “I’ve said this in the past, that you’re someone I could encounter but could never ask for, and I will always be waiting for you just one step away [Artem mutters as he sticks close to me, that his scorching breaths pours onto me, causing a turmoil in my heart.] But I regret it now, I realized that rather than waiting passively, I wanted to proactively make you mine.”

Artem: “Y/N, I yearn for everything of yours.”

MC:”……”

 MC: “There's no need to stay somewhere a step away anymore… If there’s something that you want, just ask from me all you want.”

THE WAY SHES ENABLING HIM SMDBFDKJSDFL

Artem: “Can I push my greed a little further?”

sHUT UP. SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

u little shit.

artem, right after biting her fucking neck: “Promise me, to only gaze at me from now on… Don’t let unimportant people be in your mind, I’ll be sad. Don’t leave me forever, and remain by my side.”

INCHORRENT SCREECHING I HATE HIM SO MUCH

also this is him talking abt the ring and why he designed it the way he did and !!!

Artem: “I've purposely designed the shape of this moon, it forms into a meaning where the sun and moon are in each other's company. It means... we are just like the sun and moon that rotates on our own, but we are also uncontrollably attracted towards each other.”

literally shut up u cant just switch like that after the evolved card cg and say cute shit like that. why are u so cute gdi i hate u sm /affectionate, unfortunately ;w;

ALSO THIS

Artem: “The size of the ring is something I've secretly measured while you were asleep. There were quite a few times I was worried that you would wake up halfway, it's even more thrilling than my first time in court.”

THIS WAS SO FUNNY TO ME I KEEP CRYING OVER THIS HES SODBFJDH ??!??!”£?£$”?£%

overall, 8-turned-ninety-degrees-so-its-infinity/10. i would pay for this card but unfortunately have to wait a year. revisiting youth temmie, ancient china temmie, android temmi and second anni temmie i will have u at any and all costs that dont require money bc i am broke hahahdghs <333

[advernia]

around june of last year, i decided to revive my writing blog as one of the many potential stress-relief methods i could think of.... i didn’t think i’d be able to keep it active for long since work + family duties keep me preoccupied most of the time, but eyyy!!! so far i haven’t lost the motivation to keep going back to this blog, and i even managed to keep it afloat for half a year!!! amazing!!! (•̀o•́)ง

and now here we are halfway through 2020!!! it’s waaaay overdue but here’s a big T H A N K  Y O U  V E R Y  M U C H ! ! ! to everyone and anyone who dropped by this blog last year + all them likes, comments, reblogs...... please know that i’m still i n c r e d i b l y grateful for the support & interest in the content i’ve posted up!!!! tbh my activity’s still hella sporadic so it’s really amazing for me that i even gained new followers.... i’m very honored to have all of you stick around my blog despite my irregularity!!!!!!!! (༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ)

it’s also overdue, but i slowly managed and finally cleaned up the blog like i’ve been meaning to do + changed the blog name to match my ao3 handle for consistency!!! i make no promises to be super active... but i’m sure that i still want to continue writing & keep this blog alive!!!! 

again, thank you all for your time + reading my works!!!!!!  ∩( ´∀` )∩ work commentary on the rest of my works last year follows under the cut!

oct 1 // hero’s journey

a drabble on blanc + oliver about the alices... now that i think of it, calling the first alice first alice is kinda funny considering that alice is really her name... or is it? 

i do hope blanc’s route talks about her a bit, haha! i mean, i wish cybird remembers that they’ve been dropping the occasional background tidbits about her... like for example, her pocketwatch (that she gave to blanc eventually) having a magic crystal engraved into it.... her potentially leaving a fucking globe in the black army’s possession (like... wow... u fell with that thing????????)....

plus, i just find it interesting that she was remembered by cradle as a heck of a troublemaker lol! it also makes you wonder who among the main cast met her, blanc aside... though it’s not stated when exactly she fell into cradle, so maybe only blanc had the opportunity of meeting her...

so does blanc speak of her fondly bc she’s a woman, or is there something else??? has he been frequently visiting the land of reason pre-game??? has he found the first alice’s antique shop / met her again??? does he still try to figure out the reason why there’s a magic crystal engraved into the first alice’s pocketwatch????? hmmmmm......

on another note, it would be hilarious if cybird pulls a peter pan 2......... since we can’t pull off a mother-daughter relationship like wendy & jane’s, what if alice the second is somehow actually related to the first alice?? and while she’s completely different from her predecessor, blanc finds himself falling for alice the second........ just like he fell for the first alice? drama!

that’s just a random thought but kidding aside, i do hope blanc’s route is hella interesting bc i think he’s our mr. exposition for knowing more about cradle itself lol

oct 1 // fair (?) ladies & phony (?) enchanters

a result of going manic a few days after seeing harr’s trailer + route release.... ahaHAHA I’M STILL WILLING TO PLAY UR ROUTE IN JP HARR (if i actually had time to sit down and translate gET REKT)

i liked writing these drabbles and i think they’re cute but tbh they did nothing to ease my curiosity about harr’s route.... if anything else, it became even w o r s e  haha........................

if i think of blanc to have a cradle-centric route, i do hope harr’s route is magic tower-centric! naturally it will be since he’s got history there, but i hope a lot of my questions about the magic tower will be answered.....

will harr’s perspective of the magic tower be in the eyes of a test subject or a disciple???? he was scouted by the magic tower, but it wasn’t stated what he was doing exactly..... going by hints + loki’s & zero’s routes, it’s more of him being a disciple, so there’s bound to be guilt.......

hopefully alice’s characterization in his route is good + we get a fun group dynamic with loki!!! their potential.... the most(?) notorious criminal of cradle, a sought after test subject, and that one girl who nullifies all magic; a renegade trio lurking around the forbidden forest.... what an odd bunch!

oct 4 // god is a five minute hymn

a religious themed fic with lancelot & alice - tbh i don’t even know why religion was the first thing that came into mind when liz and i were talking about cultural differences, lol.

on that note though! i personally like thinking that if ever cradle had a semblance of a religion, it would be polytheistic & nature-centric, and not strictly practiced - the stratocracy of both territories i’d like to think makes it harder for religion to have a voice, much less have one that is practiced by the general population. the only thing general about it is that the religion centers or has magic crystals as an important factor... or something. yeah.

that aside, i think i specifically chose lancelot in this piece for the sole reason that his canonically stated lack of common sense, in my opinion, gives him the curiosity of a child sometimes - there’s no sense of malice or doubt, just the pure innocence of wanting to know something....... religion does that to kids, especially when introduced to it at first.

rereading the fic makes me think of the instances where when faced with dire or unsettling situations, people turn to faith as a life line.... well, i’m not sure if i had that subconsciously in mind when writing alice, but that does give a spin to it....

oct 6 // flow like the river nile

a spontaneous red army-centric fic! it certainly turned out better than i expected... i liked the formatting i used for this one!

if cybird can give us more about the pre-game suitors it would be great, tbh! and while the stuff about them in school is interesting, i’d like to see more about when they assumed their positions + combat scenes! the neutrals are special cases, but knowing more about their living conditions + daily lives is also a treat...

i was thinking of adding one last snippet about lancelot in the eyes of the reds, but i scrapped it out and switched it to alice & lancelot’s conversation about duty - it could’ve worked better if i stuck to using the what is your duty? question, but i scrapped it eventually too. ah well. it does look good enough as it is. 

oct 7 // seeking out phantoms

a mandatory(???) odd one out aka content that’s not ikerev, haha! i missed fe:a all of a sudden...

i never got around to writing properly for this fandom tho, what a shame - i’ve got some bits of pieces in my drafts that looked interesting and easy enough to pick up, and this was one of them.

robin investigating more of their plegian heritage could’ve been a good subplot tbh... i still wish there was something like a paralogue or dlc about it, bc honestly the valm arc goes a bit slow until you get to the future past revelations. ah well.

and gaius bc first husband for the win.... not like i actually had the guts to marry anyone else in my other save files lololol

nov 7 // push me off a bridge (to catch me as i fall)

my longest project of 2019, holy shit! i didn’t know i still had it in me to write something past 10k... i need more of that motivation + energy....

there’s nothing much to say about this since i blabbed about everything in the post-reading notes, but as much as i fought myself to get this done, i really enjoyed writing a long fic again! hopefully i can get myself to write another one this year...

nov 18 // beloved, beloved, let me be clear

18 sentences on zero & alice + macross frontier references! man, when i really got to the point about the earrings i was thinking of sheryl a lot....

kept it in sentences cause i didn’t have enough time to put up a decent ficlet! but i really wanted to get my screaming out of my system....... i used to do sentences + three word sentences challenges before, and doing one again was pretty fun!

but really.... zero’s route kept me happy for days???? their buildup + dynamic was something i was totally w e a k for, no joke..... thank gods the collection event was going on, bc i really made good use of my stocked chapter tickets lolol!

i was especially excited come the ball scene, and that cg..... a h a h a.... i need more of those pretty cgs where i can see alice’s face + costume change....... 

nov 20 // coloring inside the lines

jonah + alice + makeup!!!! tbh this was really fun, i enjoyed writing this one - if i remember, this was a fic that i managed to continuously work on the day i thought it up!

jonah may not be my best boy but tbh i find writing him very easy - i guess it’s because i’m very fond of characters like him!!! those uptight nobles who are as prideful as hell but can definitely live up to their name + are more capable than their bragging suggests... idk if there’s a general trope name for these doods, but i especially like analyzing their motivations + convictions!!!

i liked how i ended it, but i apparently i made an actual ending that’s now a snippet in my drafts - jonah & alice head to the ball, and somewhere along some bystanders’ flow of conversation someone drops a comment about jonah’s lips looking... quite more luscious than usual, lolol. so t h i r s t y. upon hearing this, alice can’t seem to stop smiling for some reason..... 

nov 27 // blue fields, verdant skies

a practice drabble set centric on a ray/alice development that i liked so much i made it into a series - plus, it’s black army content and honestly i need to write more of them! my red army bias is showing whoooooops

it’s a feudal + arranged marriage au, with the latter... being quite spontaneous. it’s those types of marriages where neither have even met - not even once - only to face each other come the wedding... so it’s a given that audiences from both parties are rather curious how this will turn out.

since i had the theme of fate in mind, ray was the automatic pick for the male lead. the rest of the black army is a given and for kicks, i added dean and dalim! i actually want to write about them + mousse, but since i’m still unsure on their characterizations i’ve been holding them off.... but i gave in anyway.....

alice is again named for word count convenience purposes since it’s in actual 100 words aka drabble form! i have planned scenes + an ending already in mind, but going there is pretty hard bc.... i still have to write the scenes in between + resist temptation to expand further on other scenes, haha....

initially i was planning to keep it updated here as well, but any more updates of this are on ao3 instead! the formatting looks better there instead of my blog tbh, and it also gives it a sort of muted tone to the story that works with me!

this is also the 31st fic in this blog, marking an end of the challenge liz bestowed to me lolol - since i brought this blog back to life around june, i was dared that by the end of the year, i should’ve posted more than 15 fics to add up to the initial 15 i had already posted before, thus the numbers on my fics back then.... now that i actually succeeded, i can stop counting lololol!!!! tho hopefully i can still be pretty active this year....

dec 22 // duck, duck, bullet

oliver & fenrir on guns... this probably wins as the most spontaneous idea i had on my head - tbh, i wasn’t even sure where i was going with it at first! but i’m sure i was suddenly thinking about that one detective conan movie.... then it became kid!oliver with a gun.....

i wonder if he tests the bullets at night, when he’s in adult form.... then again, kid!oliver with a gun still works.... say that because he’s a genius inventor, he made some models to serve as his shooting targets.... but another thought that amuses me more is.... blanc does the bullet testing for him!?

lololol i already thought about blanc being oliver’s live target, but i also find blanc with a gun very interesting.......... i mean, blanc certainly doesn’t look like he can fight, but who knows??? i mean, mousse is the former ace of hearts, but i still can’t imagine him fighting..... appearances can be deceiving....

the two aside, i wonder how fenrir even met oliver and got him working on his bullets........ was it through blanc or other connections???? how long have they been seller and buyer???? does anyone else commission anything from oliver?????? hmmmm.....

dec 23 // terms of surrender

i’ve been told by liz + luci + other friends that i needed to practice writing more.... cheesy fluff. i’m not sure if this sirius/alice piece counts, lol. in fact, i think it’s my definition of fluff i see here - and it translates to not exactly fluffy at all!

tho if you want me to be honest about it - when i write suitor/alice stuff, how alice was characterized in the suitor’s route is still my basis for how i’ll write her, and sirius’ alice................ haha......... i think she’s the alice that’s honestly easy to write but i choose to avoid.......... 

i don’t dislike the sirius/alice dynamic per se, tho. i do find it cute, especially if cybird stops emphasizing the issue of maturity in the relationship on alice’s side. i understand - i really do - that it’s a potential issue in the relationship, but...... that’s not the only problem you can possibly have as time passes, right?????

on another note, it’s funny that only sirius gets to be harped about the maturity due to age difference issue - setting aside blanc, who heavens know how old he is, lancelot’s 29 and since alice is presumed to be around ray + fenrir’s age, you could say that she’s 24 or even 23 to be safe.... so that makes a 5 / 6 years difference but it’s never brought up, lol. but i guess it’s because unlike lancelot, the black army’s been making sirius’ age a running gag....

anyway, this piece is pretty decent! i was thinking of something along the lines of mornings between a “married couple”.... there were two scenarios i had in mind, and i opted to write this one out first.... maybe i’ll have the second one posted up here another day.

dec 28 // a chain of black thrones

pre-game!sirius & ray and bc i was thinking a lot about the previous chosen, the former jack of spades!!! i wonder if the armies have a set age for retirement lolol... it would be awesome if there was still a chosen who’s already past his 50s or something, haha!

since sirius was constantly badgered to take on the role of king, i was also wondering about how long the black army was ‘king-less’... i mean, if the tension between both armies was really as great as they say, having no king puts the black army at a precarious position... i also thought that ‘nah, maybe there was a king or something but maybe the black army didn’t like him or something so they insisted that sirius take it instead’ but sirius’ 1st anniv. epilogue says otherwise - there really was a period that the black army had no king, wow. how the heck did they deal with that???? surely the red army saw this as a display of vulnerability....

can the black army’s chosen choose to leave their posts when they feel like it??? when they’re defeated by a challenger, what happens to them - a demotion, or do they serve under the ‘new’ chosen??? does the black army’s chosen change constantly because of their meritocracy + challenger system??? like, how do they deal with that, and do they announce their changes in chosen each council meeting??? each new question just snowballed my curiosity, whoops...

there were so many angles i thought of but i decided to settle for addressing the king-less state of the black army... through the eyes of a veteran who’s probably served many kings throughout his time of service as part of the black army’s chosen.

i gave this jack of spades character a name, actually - garret folner. maybe someday i’ll write him again, bc i actually enjoyed thinking about the present + past chosen interactions - maybe i’d think about that for the red army, but this time i find the black army’s side more interesting for this situation.

dec 29 // steadfast tin soldier

a zero/alice piece for zeroweek - i was about to post pt. 1 as a standalone, but then i just thought about how.... zero bought alice a gown.... but never got to dance with her at the day of the ball..... so i rushed to add pt. 2 haha!

with the addition of pt. 2 it looks cut short tho - i did think of putting a scene in between, but no good ideas came into mind bc i was too fascinated with the dancing scene... i swear at some point i will find myself writing a fic or a part of a fic that’s a dance scene for the rest of the ikerev suitors + alice....

this is the kind of fluff i live for, actually... i’m totally fine with the steamy content cybird throws during events + bonus stories, but if i were to be honest i say.... where’s my non-sexual intimacy????? the simple, wholesome stuff?????????????????

man, i feel hilarious for typing that out..... but well, i guess it’s a matter of different strokes for different folks, lol!

[ramrodd]

The New Marine Rifle Squad

COMMENTARY:

The first thing I was taught in ROTC tactics was that the basic unit of the military organization is the squad. That's doctrine.

The basic unit of the Roman legions was the 8 man squad, which trained, lived and fought as two 4 man teams. You can see this organization in Mark 15, when Jesus is brough out, in Matthew 28 and the Gospel of Peter reflect a 17 person guard mount: two 8 man squads, I centurion/Gunnery Sgt. Unlike the military organizations in the rest of the world, the Roman legions, like Latin were put together like Lego blocks and the centurions represented the inspector general function the USMC centuriate performs horizontally and uniformly across the Corps. The Praetorian Guard was the functional core of the Roman republic, which continue to operate as a republican structure arising from the rule of law and the centurions of the Praetroian guards (or the Italian Cohort indentified in Acts 10) were the prototypes for the rest of the legions. Once Constantine disbanded the Praetorian Guard and adopted the verticle (and, necessarily, decadent) structures of the theocracy, it was just a matter of time until the Empire fell apart for pretty much the same reasons the Articles of Confederation were abandoned and replaced by the US Constitution.

However, this squad organization, which perfectly reflects the group dynamics of Kurt Lewin's research and the natural law of the Ennlightenment, was abandoned as near as I can tell, formally, by Frederick the Great's manual of arms developed to optimize firearms. This system is based on the private soldier as the basic unit of the military organization and this doctrine persisted in the American US Army until 1947, when S.L.A. Marshall's "Men Against Fire" provoke a change of doctrine to the squad paradigm based on lessons learned from the Wehrmacht.

The US Army Ranger School was created to proliferate this new model of small unit leadership throughout the US Army community. This goal was achieved when Colin Powell became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. My dad was one of the people involved in the creation of the Ranger School when Joe Collins was Army Chief of Staff.

Now, the reason why the Marine Corps is reducing their 13 man TO&E to the 12 man squad and consolidating the three 4 man fire teams to two 6 man fire teams has to do with the relationship between economies of scale and index of scale in small units. The perfect size for an intimate dinner party is 8 persons and it has to do with face time and collective resources I associate with the process theology of individual and organizational high performance. The 13 man squad reflects the structues of Jesus's "A" Team, but, for various reasons, it's a clumsy operatonal construct. For one thing, what actually happens in sustain combat operatons, you end up with a squad leader and, maybe, four or 5 guys, and 3 of them could be buck sergeant Team Leaders. The Army's organization begins with that assumption and the Organization Effectiveness people in the USMC could measure the advantages to the Army model. And it goes back to the Roman legions for the same reasons: natural law/process theology.

I'm an Army brat. Unlike you, I dedicated myself to a military vocation after listening to MacArthur's Valedictory in 1962. You should listen to it if you haven't recently done so: in response to the slander that opens this video, who wouldn't want to spend their life with men such as these? As I 've written in the Quora War Elephant, I figured I'd take a burst of 40 years in the Green Beret and retire as the CG of Ft. Monroe VA. That was Plan A. One of your War Elephant contributors scoffed at the idea of a 40 year military career,  because most of the people on your forum are dumber than dog shit and the only difference between them and the guy bad mouthing the military in you video is their willingness to kiss your ass for a little stolen valor. I've been dealing with assholes like this since I got back from Vietnam in 1971, but, if they pony up for your War Elephant Patreon cash flow, hey, get it while you can. I just don't have much use for the Swift Boat slander patrol who I associate with Ollie North and other lifers like Michael Flynn who are fellow travelers in Newt Gingrich's plot to overturn the verdict reached at Appomattox by political coup arising from violent revolution because they think it's the only way to do business.

But that's another story. Went through ROTC from June 1965, just before the drafts for Vietnam began, until 1969, after the Police Riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. I went to college to get an ROTC commission, but I had to carry an academic load, so I majored in English Romantic Literature, Epistemology and German literature. As a hard-wired Eisenhower Republican in ROTC and military ambitions, I was caught between anti-war, draft-dodging self-righteous Fascist liberals like Sam Seder and pro-war, draft-dodging, self-satisfied crypto-Nazi white supremacists like Tucker Carlson. At the time I started college, the Tucker Carlson crowd were the Big Men on Campus, Greeks and athletes and controlled campus society missing no opportunity to mock and generally harrass the independent Fascist liberals. By the time I left, the independent Fascist liberals had won the cultural warfare and were, in effect. controlling campus politics and who became Homecomming Queen. That's why right wingers my age, like Newt Gingrich, Roger Stone, Bill O'Reilly and Pat Buchanan resent all liberals: the liberals had become the "in crowd" that the conservatives had dominated until the GI Bill opened up the campuses to a new source of student too poor to join a fraternity and, in the 60's, identified with the white Freedom Riders and didn't expect to inherit daddy's business or work for IBM as a legacy executive.

So, I've watched this shit for a long time and the people you're associated with are like all the assholes in the GOP that returning combat vets had to deal with in finding work, because they all avoided the draft, like Trump or Dan Quayle or W, and got on with their business careers and were two or three years ahead of you if you had been a draftee and had two years and a wake-up on active duty. And you reminded these people that they were scared shitless of going to Vietnam, like John Bolton, who had a 4 year ROTC deferment, like me, and then went into the Nationa Guard because he, like the rest of them, was scared shitless of going to Vietnam.

These are the people at War Elephant. In 1981, I was put on a Reagan White House black list by Charles Z Wick for being a Vietnam "Loser" and for doing business with the Soviet Union in line with Nixon's diplomatic and domestic agenda and people like Tucker Carlson and on the War Elephant made it stick. I haven't had a corporate pay check sine 1981: at one point, I couldn't even get telephone calls returned.

When I say that Newt Gingrich employs a political strategy based on Trotsky's process for social disorder leading to a political coup arising from violent revolution, I know what I am talking about. You probably heard about the violence the Proud Boys brought to BLM plaza yesterday in DC: that's one symptom of Trotsky's processes. The late election reflected the structural polarization the Gingrich/Trotsky processes are designed to create: it's how he became Speaker of the House.

He's an Army brat. We were living in Stuttgart at the same time and he knows exactly what he is doing with Trotsky's formula for violent revolution: Politics is the continuation of warfare, which I am sure you recognize as the inversion of Clausewitz's "War is the continuation of political intercourse by the intermixing of means", which defines the relationship of the US military to the US Constiitution. Gingrich is engaged in treason and most of your stakeholders are useful idiots in his agenda.

It's unclear what your participation in Newty's plot represents.

Did you ever hear the squadie version of the 23 Psalm: "The Lord is my First Sergeant, I shall not want."  I've forgotten how the rest of it went. If you remember, post it on the War Elephant.

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Andy Richter's Parenting Tweets Are Hilarious

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Andy Richter's Parenting Tweets Are Hilarious

Andy Richter knows this to be true. Best known as Conan O’Brien’s sidekick, the comedian has a 17-year-old son, William, and 12-year-old daughter, Mercy.

Richter frequently tweets hilarious musings and anecdotes from his adventures in fatherhood. Below, we’ve rounded up some of his funniest and most irreverent parenting tweets from over the years. (Warning for the pearl-clutching sort, he gets a little profane.)

I would say that the hardest thing about being a parent is these goddamned kids

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) April 28, 2014

I know that as parent you’re supposed to listen to your kids but most of what they say is such horseshit

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 22, 2013

Pretty sure that my deathbed scenario will just be me & my kids taking turns telling each other to get off our phones

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 21, 2017

When my kids and I have a water fight it still takes me at least two full minutes to remember to not ruthlessly dominate

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) June 26, 2015

Daughter: “In that Xmas song where they say ‘mom & dad can hardly wait for school to start again,’ do you ever feel that way?” Me: “Yes.”

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) December 12, 2016

My wife is an excellent mother, & I try to be the best father I can be because fuck her she’s not going to beat me at this

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) November 11, 2014

I cannot stop myself from insulting the shitty you-tube tween star movie my daughter is watching. Other than that, I am a perfect father

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) August 21, 2016

If you’re wondering if you’re cut out for parenthood, you need to ask yourself “am I ready to have all my shit fucked with forever?”

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) July 1, 2017

I think my children have wasted 85% of all their lifetime beverages

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) February 17, 2014

Can’t decide what to call my parenting book. Either “Everyman Father” or “These Fuckin’ Kids Should Kiss My Goddamn Feet.”

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 4, 2013

Some parenting news from the outlet mall: you CAN just tell your crying toddler to shut up. It doesn’t work, but it can be done, apparently

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) June 11, 2012

Sometimes get impatient w my kids’ forgetfulness & then I recall I was in my 30s when I figured out I should get a towel b4 I get in shower

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) May 12, 2017

Nice thing about living w kids: if you need quick sip of something to take a pill or whatever, always a warm half-drunk bev within 2 steps

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 10, 2015

A parenting discovery I made that I still haven’t completely wrapped my head around is that you really don’t have to be a dick all the time

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) December 24, 2012

Best part of Parent Trap is how nobody ever calls the parents who kept twin girls ignorant of each other “selfish monstrous pig people”

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) July 20, 2014

Playing team sports is a great way for kids to experience getting yelled at outside of the home

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) October 10, 2015

Had Parent/Teacher conference. Seems the only issue is my daughter’s inability to focus, but I had sorta zoned out, so I can’t be sure.

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) November 28, 2012

“Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad.” – from upstairs, my son the hint-taker

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) September 24, 2013

Look, just because I have kids doesn’t mean I’ll compromise my belief that erotic birthday cakes simply taste better

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) June 1, 2014

My wife & daughter apparently were so inspired by seeing the movie Ladybird yesterday that they are upstairs now improvising a scene based on it

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) November 20, 2017

Netflix is an absolute bonanza of incredibly shitty knock-off CG-animation children’s movies & my daughter has found every one

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) July 16, 2014

Asking my children to go get something for me is basically asking them to go to another room and forget why they are there

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) April 22, 2015

“Dad, teamwork never quits!” – my idiot 7yo daughter when I wanted to stop building her stupid puzzle

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) August 13, 2013

The ad guy who had the idea for the new dad in the Taco Bell ad to indignantly insist that a stranger hold his baby has never had children

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) November 3, 2016

If my daughter cries in the night & I go to her & say WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT I’M THE ONE WHO’LL BE DEAD IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) September 21, 2016

Finding out that, while I love my daughter very much, I guess I don’t sit-and-watch-her-play-Minecraft love her.

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) December 27, 2016

At my son’s school & walked past grp of high school boys & it was like having an Old Spice deodorant stick smeared on my upper lip

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) September 21, 2015

Cashier, when I said no to my kid re: candy: “I’m bad at telling my kid no” My daughter:”I ask for so much stuff he’s gotta say no sometime”

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) March 12, 2017

When my wife & daughter discuss packing for camp it’s like eavesdropping on a marketplace scene from a Bible movie!

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) July 7, 2017

At mall. My mom repeatedly panics & asks where my daughter is (she’s 10 ft away). Want to yell 7 YEARS & I HAVEN’T LOST HER YET but I don’t.

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) March 25, 2013

ADVICE FOR NEW FATHERS: Nobody likes raising kids, so just shut up and pitch in.

— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) March 1, 2014

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