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CHILCHUCK IS MIDDLE AGED!

(I can't believe some of the posts I've seen about hafling/half-foot ages seriously ya'll)

By Half-foot standerd, 50 is old. that's as far as most half-foots get.

In other words, near the end of their natural lifespan. okay? A halfling that gets further than that is lucky(healthy) alright?

I want to show you all something cool. 50 divided by 2, is 25.

so if zero is the start (which it is, halflings are definetly born before they turn a whole year) and 50 is considered the end, 25 is the middle. Chilchuck is 29. that is over the middle mark, see? a loose 36 to a Tall-man's 30.

which leads me to another point. something many of the dungeon meshi fandom don't realise: Tallmen aren't us. they are the most similar to Modern Humans (us, the non-fantasy race) that I think many fans forget they aren't Modern Humans.

The current life expectancy is diffrent all over our world, the ages that individuals are considered adults changes because of this too, But for better working systems (where people are actually supported) life expectancy is longer. Where I am I'd say it's 70~80 years, and the age an individual is leagaly an adult is 18-19years.

the Tallmen don't live in our world, they're adults by the time they're 16, and expected to only live until 60. so a Tallmans middle age is 30, where ours is 35~40. they aren't us.

Okay rant over because I ran outta steam but please ask me to clarify if something doesn't make sense.

[icedmatchatae]

Glimpse of Us | KTH (Series)

Pairing: Problematic Idol Taehyung x Grad Student Reader

Genre: Idol AU, Ex-Childhood Best Friends into—, Angst (Hello, welcome to my angst central), Fluff (mainly in the flashbacks), Slow Burn, Eventual Smut

Summary: BTS's V has been living a lavished and successful lifestyle, but underneath all of that, Kim Taehyung is far from the perfect image the media and fans made him out to be. All he wants is to relive the feelings of happiness and purpose in his life, but how can he when he left behind those memories years ago? The same memories, he hopes to see a glimpse of.

Warning: TRIGGERS - Mentions of Drugs/Drugs use, alcohol consumption, violence (fighting), toxic relationships, unhealthy coping mechanisms, infidelity, unrequited love?, mentions of depression and anxiety, brief mentions of social anxiety (oc somewhat has it), descriptions of panic attacks, mentions of death/minor character deaths, descriptions of therapy/scenes within therapy sessions, a ton of flashbacks, financial instability, buckets of crying, the slowest fucking burn you'll ever come across, sexual content (but not too sexy bc this isn’t a naughty fic >:-|) poor OC is caught up in a lot of mess and all she wants is to have a better life,  tae is a bit of a dick and a walking red flag but he just wants to be better :--(, they're both sad in their own ways, each chapter will have their own warnings and they will be presented at the beginning of the chapter

Word Count: TBD (21 chapter total)

Update Schedule: There is none! Posts are sporadic, but I do try to post at least twice a month…however, if I’m busy, I will keep you posted on a possible time frame.

A/N: A little bit inspired by Glimpse of Us by Joji because I couldn't get the song out of my damn head and it’s my top song of 2022 😭. I made my own spin to it, let’s see how well I execute it lol I’ve been preparing this for a while. This is my biggest project yet! I’ve been planning this since the summer even if I’m not done writing the whole thing I’m kinda nervous about posting this

I’ll also cross-posted this originally on AO3 as well! Enjoy~~~

Chapter List

I. Finding Happiness

II. The Story of You and Me

III. Blue

IV. Everything We Didn't Say

V. Same Old, Different New

VI. Why I Love You

VII. The True Reality

VIII. Please Don’t Break It

IX. Hear Me Out

X. You’re All I Need (Coming Soon)

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[11queensupreme11]

Can I ask if Percy can at least put up a fight vs the ror!gods? Like can she at least last a minute or so? 😭✊

ok ok this is gonna be a sorta long and sorta detailed post cuz i don't wanna have to answer any more "percy feats vs ror character feats" asks again (and i also should probably post this on the actual fic too to inform my readers for later arcs buuuuuuut maybe later, i'm too lazy rn lol)

(ALSO credit goes to various reddit posts cuz i didn't wanna personally scour through the manga looking for feats!!!)

percy is physically the weakest/slowest person in ror verse (against the main characters i mean). notice how i say PHYSICALLY. power-wise (as in her water manipulation, etc.), she could definitely take on the human characters (maybe not adam tho)

as i have said before, most book characters cannot trump anime characters from shonens/seinins when it comes to physical feats. shonens and seinens love going above and beyond in making characters physically op.

the pjo verse is very similar to our universe/the Real World in terms of physicality. the pjo humans are very average just like us and while the demigods are more enhanced than that, they are still nothing compared to ror characters. in the ror verse, the human physical potential is faaaaaar higher than the humans AND demigods of the pjo verse.

animes just Be Like That, okay??? it's like sending harry potter characters into sakamoto days. yeah hp characters have magic and sakadays characters have no powers, but they got an old man that can slice through a whole building with one swing of his sword (takamura), a dude that can one-inch punch a hole through people's bodies (gaku), and a dude who moves insanely fast (kindaka); they don't stand a fucking chance 💀💀💀💀💀

so percy, unfortunately, cannot stand a chance against even the ror humans if she's not using any of her powers. if she's sticking solely to her physical abilities (sword-fighting, hand-to-hand, etc. NO powers), she's FUCKED.

and as i have said before, the whole "oh but she carried the sky" thing is not a feat for her physical strength. if she was actually that strong, she would've just become the One Punch Man of the pjo verse and one-shotted every other enemy after that. there is a CURSE on atlas' punishment:

^percy is a hero, that is why she was able to carry the skies, not because she's super fucking jacked 💀

the ror HUMANS alone have the most insane fucking physical feats that percy (or any demigod in the pjo verse) could never even dream to accomplish (sorry my children 😔):

when lu bu was still alive, he was able to split open the skies with a single swing of his spear:

leonidas destroyed the arena grounds with a swing of his arm:

raiden ripping off poor shiva's arms with his bare hands (and his volundr didn't give him enhanced strength either, all thrud did was help him control his muscles; this strength is solely his):

dadam is insanely fucking fast; and he was able to surpass a move that could surpass time:

i could go on and on about the ror humans, but i'm gonna move on to the gods!

as i've stated before, i HATEDDDDDDD how the gods were in the manga. they were more like superhumans!!!! they weren't godlike at all!!!! so i gave them a boost in powers for my fic so they would actually be godlike!!!! if percy can't even beat any of the ror humans in a physical fight, she absolutely does not stand a chance against ANY of the ror gods in a physical fight!!!!!!! or even a fight with her powers! because again, she is a demigod and they are GODS.

(tbh, even if i kept the gods as canon, she still wouldn't be able to beat them because their physical feats are ALSO insane 💀)

but is percy 1000000% fucked???? no. she still has ONE good shit in her arsenal that the ror humans and gods don't have: the curse of achilles. she 99.99% untouchable. she cannot be hurt by them unless their attacks hit her mortal spot, but only three people (loki, beel, and mnemosyne) know of that mortal spot and they're not keen on telling anyone about it or the curse

yes, the characters will absolutely throw her around like a fucking ragdoll (😭) but as long as her mortal spot is untouched, she will live!!!! (she'll be really fucking embarrassed tho, but she'll live!)

she also has insane fucking powers that the humans DON'T have:

AND i am also boosting her by giving her some limited blood/ichor manipulation (again, blood manipulation is not canon; this is a fanon thing that i THOUGHT was canon because many other ppl said it was canon, but it's really not 😔)

she is also insanely smart when it comes to battle IQ and strategizing and the best part is that people underestimate her cuz they either think she's dumb af (beel and loki) or that she's just a baby (poseidon, hades, zeus, shiva, adamas, literally fucking everyone else) or BOTH (cú chulainn 💀)

and another thing that i don't really count as a "pro" but i'm putting it in here anyway: no god is gonna wanna hurt her anyway 💀 she's very widely loved by the pantheons, they wouldn't wanna hurt her cuz they love her (romantically and platonically). same with humans, they're not gonna wanna fight her for the same reason 💖

I WILL ALSO BE GIVING HER A LIL SOMETHING EXTRA THAT YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT IN ACT 2!!!! IT'S GONNA REALLY HELP HER!!! BUT I WON'T SAY WHAT HEHE

so in conclusion:

percy absolutely does not stand a chance against a fight with any god even with her powers; she can last a decent amount of time, but she WILL lose

percy will 100% lose against the ror humans in a PHYSICAL fight (and by ror humans, i mean the ror human fighters ofc. the regular humans she could obviously beat cuz they're just regular humans)

percy has a good chance of winning against some of the humans in a fight with her powers (but she will 10000% lose against adam cuz it's adam 💀)

[wenellyb]

Hey, I always see reblogs from you about sam and bucky. What show are they from and are they a canon couple? Or best friends?

Hi Anon!!!! I don't know how to answer this. Both and neither?!

Wait I know, they're in a situationship!

I guess that the answer is not so easy to answer because it depends on who you ask😂.

I hope this will be short but I can't promise (by the end of my reply you might regret asking this question😭).

So Sam and Bucky are 2 Marvel characters, who appeared in Captain America movies (Bucky was in Captain America 1, 2 and 2 and Sam was in Cap 2 and 3, he also appeared in Age of Ultron)

So they were both Steve Roger's best friends, Bucky was the old one who Steve thought was dead, and Sam his new best friend.

They officially meet in Captain America 3: Civil War (they met before but they were fighting because Bucky had been brainwashed).

So they meet in Cap 3, and only share 2 ten seconds scenes but wow were those scenes hilarious. So some people started shipping them.

It also helps that the actors playing them have amazing chemistry together and became friends while doing press interviews together for Cap 2.

I don't know if you're still following, but back then Sambucky was not a big fandom like the other big Marvels ships but it was still a sizeable fandom, we see them again in Avengers Endgame, where they don't share a lot of scenes together, but again the 2 scenes they share are beautiful. Sam puts his hand on Bucky should to comfort him, and then at the end Bucky looks at Sam like this.

In Avengers Endgame, we see Sam becoming Captain America and what do we learn in the meantime??? SAM AND BUCKY ARE GETTING THEIR OWN TV SHOW???? What????

Can you believe the state of the Sambucky fandom around that time?

So basically the TV show is some sort of buddie cop drama, but there are a lot of scenes that make Sam and Bucky look like a couple:

- Them going to couples therapy and the therapist making them do a soul gazing exercise

- Bucky following Sam around like a puppy

- Bucky showing to Sam hometown and helping him fix his boat The Notebook style

-and eventually Bucky moved to Sam's hometown.

So we got a lot of shipping material, but Sam and Bucky were never confirmed as a couple, but here's the thing... they were never said not to be a couple either.

Whenever the cast members are asked about the relationship they're evasive AF. When asked about it, the director said that "there was no sexuality attached to their characters" which doesn't scream "they're Straight", quite the opposite, same with the writer, who was always giving cryptic answers.

They're alway talking about how Sam and Bucky love eachother ( Kari Skogland and Sebastian Stan), can't leave without each other (Anthony Mackie) and how they're a family (Malcolm Spellman) but they have never said they were friends.

So, you might ask someone and they'll say Sam and Bucky are best friends. And they are.

But if you ask me, I would say that Sam and Bucky are each other's love interest. And with Marvel we know love interests always move at the slowest pace.

You can see it as platonic or romantic. Your pick.

If you're asking me if they're "officially together", this was the ending scene of the show...

... so again it's up to you to decide. But to answer the question, they're not officially together.

The best way to describe it is that they're in a Marvel situationship.

[maithefluffychicken]

Ok, ok, bloodweave is great, but have we talked about Astarion/Wyll? What's that ship's name?

I think that, in game, Wyll is the slowest burning romance that Astarion would hate but that he so needs. Astarion who wants to gain Wyll's favour and protection and Wyll is like: "of course I'll protect you, now dance with me?" And Astarion would be so frustrated, thinking that Wyll is not at all interested in him, that he's losing his charm - and worst, Shadowheart, who can read Astarion perfectly and they're best frenemies, laughs her lungs out at Astarion's antics -, so yes, Astarion is losing it.

Even worst! Astarion starts finding Wyll not only attractive - he is handsome and gallant and proud in this well educated way that is hot instead of arrogant (shut up it is arrogant but we love Mr Darcy, right? Same thing). Astarion starts enjoying their conversations, their time together, gets a little jealous when Wyll starts talking with Shadowheart about the smut they both have read. And Wyll respects Astarion, not only his body but also his mind, asks him for opinion and takes care of Astarion's needs and fears.

Fuck, Wyll treat Astarion as a (ha, I was going to say as a human being but Astarion is not human xD) person, not a pet, not an animal, and not a fucking slave.

So, Astarion befriends Wyll and then fucking falls in love with him, and it terrifies him.

.....

Aynway, what I wanted to ask is, anyone interested in human au Astarion/Wyll where Wyll is the local young hero who helps elders with their lawn and then Astarion watches him thorugh his window how this hottie takes his jumper's off and starts helping Astarion's old neighbour to sod with only his tight white sleeveless shirt and even tighter jeans and Astarion snorts into his red wine because hot damn?!

[ilovecoelacanths]

It’s time for some facts about coelacanths!

I said I’d do this a while ago and I forgot so I’m doing it now because coelacanths are the best and more people should know how cool they are! I did not mean for this post to turn out so long but I promise the facts are very good (how could they not be when coelacanths are so cool)

There are two living species of coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, the West Indian Ocean coelacanth, and Latimeria menadoensis, the Indonesian coelacanth.

This is a West Indian Ocean coelacanth, they’re dark blue and each one has a unique pattern of white spots:

And this is an Indonesian coelacanth:

Indonesian coelacanths are noticeably different from West Indian Ocean coelacanths due to their background colouration being more of a greyish brown rather than blue. Their spots also appear more gold due to light reflecting off them :)

Coelacanths are old! The oldest coelacanth fossils date to more than 400 million years ago, and they were thought to have gone extinct about 66 million years ago, until 1938 when one was accidentally caught off the coast of South Africa and found by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer.

Latimer contacted her friend, the ichthyologist J. L. B. Smith, who confirmed the fish was a coelacanth! Smith was given the honor of naming the fish, and he named it Latimeria after Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer. (Shown below with the coelacanth she found)

After their discovery, people mistakenly described them as the 'missing link' thanks to their leg-like fins, and this myth persisted thanks to the interesting way coelacanths swim, which appears almost like crawling.

Even today they are sometimes called 'living fossils' because of how little they have changed over millions of years. This label is not technically accurate since they are still evolving, but they do have one of the slowest evolving genomes in the animal kingdom, probably because they're already very well adapted to their environment and they don't have a lot of selection pressures affecting them.

Coelacanths can be more than six feet (up to two meters) long, weigh up to 200 pounds, and are estimated to be able to live up to 100 years! They are covered in hard, armor-like rough scales that are themselves covered in tiny spikes called denticles, which help protect coelacanths from rocks and other fish that might want to hurt them.

They also give birth to live young in litters of 10-25 pups and new research suggests they can be pregnant for as long as 5 years! This would mean that they beat out the frilled shark as the record holder for the longest gestation period by more than a year!

(Unfortunately this means that the birth rate for coelacanths is very low, which doesn't help their small populations. The West Indian Ocean coelacanth is critically endangered, and the Indonesian coelacanth is classified as threatened :( )

Coelacanths are what’s called a lobe-finned fish! This means that their fins look more like stumpy appendages than skin that's been stretched over flexible spines. Their closest relatives are lungfish, and that actually means they’re more closely related to us humans than they are to ray-finned fish like tuna or goldfish! Hell yeah!

Coelacanths live in the "twilight zone" which is between 500-800 feet deep. It’s hard to study coelacanths in their natural habitat for extended periods, but they never survive trips to the surface due to the pressure change, so a lot about their behavior is still pretty unknown.

Coelacanths are generally slow moving, nocturnal drift hunters, which means they tend to sort of just eat whatever fish cross their path, but they have a lot of interesting adaptations that make their particular method of drift hunting unique.

First, coelacanths have a hinge in their skull, called an intracranial joint, that lets them open their mouth more than would be possible with just their jaw.

Second, they display an interesting behavior when feeding, where they will float with their head pointed down, almost like they're doing a headstand. They do this while floating along catching prey, and it seems to be working out for them.

Third, coelacanths have a sixth sense! They have an organ in their snout called a rostral organ that functions as an electrosensor to help locate their prey by detecting the electrical signals given off by other animals!

They truly are a unique animal. They even have a caudal (tail) fin with three lobes instead of the two-lobed tail that is common in many fish.

(source for this diagram)

And here you can see the three-lobed caudal fin on a real coelacanth (and also you can have a reminder of how big these guys are. They are not little fish)

It seems coelacanths also have more similarities to their relatives, the lungfish, than we used to think. It turns out coelacanths have a vestigial lung! They have a lung that they don’t use anymore! It’s all shrivelled and wrinkly but it’s there!

They also have a spiral shaped intestine! Some sharks have this too, it’s basically shaped like a spiral to increase surface area for maximum nutrient absorption.

Another way they differ from many other fish is their swim bladder, which is how they control their buoyancy! In most fish the swim bladder is filled with gas, but coelacanths' swim bladders are filled with oil and fat instead!

Coelacanths are also the proud owners of notochords! They don’t have backbones, they’re so old they were around before animals had backbones and they just never got one, they still have their oil filled notochords! Don't fix it if it's not broken, right?

Also, just in case you were wondering, they would not taste good, they are full of all sorts of oils (as mentioned in the above two facts), plus they do have very hard and rough scales. (But also even if they did taste good it would be a bad idea to eat them since there aren't a lot of them left and it's generally considered bad to eat endangered species)

Well, that's the end of my coelacanth facts, so if you took the time to read this whole long post that was just me talking about my favorite animal, thanks for sticking around! Here, have some bonus content!

Coelacanths make a guest appearance in Atlantis: the Lost Empire!

I like seeing them in the movie so I ignore they weren’t discovered when the film takes place in 1914 (easy to ignore) and that they wouldn’t survive the trip to the surface due to the immense pressure change (less easy to ignore but I do it anyway) :)

My friend @thelunarbee even crocheted me one for a Christmas present :’) his name is Milo and I love him so so much

I also drew a coelacanth a while ago, here's where I posted it if you want to see it :) (I mean, I draw coelacanths all the time but those are mostly doodles, this one I actually put effort into)

Alright that's all I have to say, but I hope you liked the coelacanth facts and remember, if coelacanths can survive for 400 million years, you can make it through today. Be kind to yourself :)

[transmutationisms]

any tips for starting running? what worked for you?

well i started-started when i was 4 and not in control of my own life choices lol. i have gone through off-periods with it as an adult and had to rebuild my conditioning, but i was trained so young that i genuinely have very little memory of learning a lot of the basic skills (pacing, form).

if you're starting from scratch i think the headline item is to establish enough of a habit that you build up the cardiovascular endurance and muscular strength that you want. there are no magic universal numbers here, but basically you're going to start by running really slowly (like the slowest pace possible to run at) for as long as you can sustain it. this will depend on your prior fitness level but will often be somewhere between like 1 and 5 minutes. then you walk, briskly but not with a speed goal, until you've caught your breath—usually a minute or two. then you repeat those intervals a few times. for most people a good goal for the first few walk/runs will be like 15–30 minutes total; you can always go shorter but be cautious of going really long right out of the gate because you can easily overdo it when you haven't learned your own limits yet.

this process feels very boring and pointless at first, but if you commit to doing it a few times a week, you'll start to notice it getting easier (in typical populations without cardiovascular conditions, the heart begins pumping more efficiently within a few weeks of introducing new activity). over time you can increase your run intervals (and eventually drop walk intervals), your speed, and your overall time per session. once you're comfortable with the basics, you can decide whether you have specific goals in mind: a certain distance, speed, difficult terrain, casual jogs around the block, &c. there are training plans you can look up for specific races (hal higdon is usually a first rec these days) though personally i don't use structured plans like that, even when i'm race training.

it's normal to have muscle soreness when introducing a new activity (usually peaking 2 days after a session) but if you're noticing other pain, stiffness, joint instability, &c—hold off on running unless and until you've addressed those issues. if you're hurting in a way that alters your form you're risking a really annoying cascade of biomechanical issues. speaking of: everybody's form looks a little different and it's generally best to just stick with what feels good; many problems with form are actually just caused by people trying to run further and faster than they're conditioned for (ie, not building enough of a base). but, you do want to watch out for overstriding (this is different to normal heelstriking, which many people do without issue), and keep your shoulders loose, core engaged, and arms swinging. you can really go down a lot of rabbit holes about 'correct' running form, but my honest advice is try not to overthink it, build up your running slowly over time, and your form will most likely settle however is most comfortable for you.

also don't run in shoes that fit poorly or are so old that the soles are visibly breaking down. most people don't need very fancy shoes, but a basic trainer with the right level of arch support and a good tread will make a big difference in terms of both comfort and long-term injury prevention.

finally i would just say: ymmv (literally), but there's a lot of 'advice' for runners of all stripes that's really focussed on tracking and numerical measures. this is not the only way to engage with the sport and ime it can really detract from your actual enjoyment, as well as your ability to pay attention to how you feel physically and to build skills like pacing. track and measure only insofar as it's helpful to whatever you're actually trying to accomplish; you don't need to shoot for x goal or achievement or time just because someone else did or because the number is there lol

[josephseedismyfather]

Ship Traits!

THANK YOU @inafieldofdaisies, @g0dspeeed, @noodlecupcakes, @cassietrn, @la-grosse-patate

@scorpiosleeps, @3llisarts, and @omen-speaker for tagging me!!! 🥰 So sorry for the delay!

Gonna post for all 3 ships, so it'll be a long one. Will cut it after Harley & Jacob.

Rules: bold/color the themes that apply to your ship, and italicize the theme if it’s one-sided, within your story.

Harley x Jacob

height difference (5'3" vs 6'3") / mutual pining (eventually) / first kiss / wedding / in-jokes / lgbtq+ (Harley is bi) / family disapproves (it's John, he disapproves, poor baby) / would die for each other / would kill for each other / fake relationship / arranged wedding / cuddlers (eventually) / pda friendly / and they were roommates / holding hands / secret relationship / opposing worldviews / getting a pet (Harley gets Boomer!) / have kids / want kids / grow old together / relationship failures / rests head on shoulder/ share a bed / relationship doubts (SO MANY) / they have a song / first date / sharing a blanket / mutual interests / study buddies / bathing together / crash into hello / accidental nudity / laundry / same hobbies / cooking for each other / big fancy gala / forehead touches (rare) / hair stroking / sitting on each other’s laps / sexual tension (like...all of it) / can’t be together / battle couple / Friends (kinda) to Lovers / Enemies to Lovers / Lovers to Enemies / KEEPING SECRETS / love after loss / exes / declaration of love / flirting / love triangle / destructive romance (the most!) / envy / “I Don’t Want to Ruin Our Friendship” / shared values (eventually) / slow burn / does not end well (which time?) / happily ever after (ish) / love letters

Goodness. I got emotional filling this out for them!

height difference (5'9" vs 6'1") / mutual pining / first kiss / wedding (a true event, thanks Joseph 🙄) / in-jokes / lgbtq+ (Evangeline is bi) / family disapproves (Oh look, it's John again. Always disapproving.) / would die for each other / would kill for each other / fake relationship / arranged wedding / cuddlers / pda friendly / and they were roommates / holding hands / secret relationship / opposing worldviews / getting a pet (Evangeline eventually cares for Peaches) / have kids / want kids / grow old together / relationship failures / rests head on shoulder (Joseph more than Evangeline) / share a bed / relationship doubts (never Joseph) / they have a song / first date / sharing a blanket / mutual interests / study buddies / bathing together (he always insists) / crash into hello / accidental nudity (oops!) / laundry / same hobbies / cooking for each other / big fancy gala / forehead touches / hair stroking / sitting on each other’s laps / sexual tension / can’t be together / battle couple / Friends to Lovers / Enemies to Lovers / Lovers to Enemies / keeping secrets / love after loss / exes / declaration of love / flirting / love triangle / destructive romance / envy / “I Don’t Want to Ruin Our Friendship” / shared values / slow burn (the slowest) / does not end well / happily ever after (ish) / love letters

Evangeline x Joseph

Austin x Johnny

height difference (I mean, how much of a difference counts as a difference? 5'10" vs 6'1" [guess who is shorter?]) / mutual pining / first kiss / wedding / in-jokes / lgbtq+ / family disapproves (I mean, come on. Dep is trying to fuck everything up. let's be honest.) / would die for each other (John isn't dying for anyone, sorry.) / would kill for each other (been there done that?) / fake relationship / arranged wedding / cuddlers / pda friendly / and they were roommates (a looong time ago) / holding hands (only when they're all old and shit) / secret relationship / opposing worldviews / getting a pet (Cheeseburger never leaves Austin's side once he finds him) (John *hates* it) / have kids / want kids / grow old together (more like...grow old adjacently) / relationship failures / rests head on shoulder/ share a bed / relationship doubts / they have a song / first date / sharing a blanket / mutual interests / study buddies / bathing together / crash into hello / accidental nudity / laundry / same hobbies / cooking for each other / big fancy gala / forehead touches/ hair stroking (old man shit) / sitting on each other’s laps / sexual tension / can’t be together / battle couple (eventually) / Friends to Lovers / Enemies to Lovers / Lovers to Enemies (listen. they know each other in every stage of life!) / keeping secrets / love after loss / exes / declaration of love / flirting / love triangle / destructive "romance" / envy / “I Don’t Want to Ruin Our Friendship” / shared values / slow burn / does not end well / happily ever after / love letters

Well. Just reminded myself how screwed up all my ships are. Should probably get to writing a little quicker. 🤔

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[misscammiedawn]

"My voice"

Such a simple concept. Most don't have to think about theirs. It comes free with your culture and upbringing. A part of who you are. As sure as any freckle or scar.

It's supposed to be a familiar reflection of the self. As much you as your face or your name.

Most people don't struggle to feel at home with theirs.

But our voice was always the first stranger. Dysphoria before we had a word for it. Before the transition. Before recognizing the dissociative disorder. There was always this wrongness to the words coming out of our mouth.

We've lost count of how many times we have had to "learn to speak".

Our father would tell us we didn't say our first word until we were three. "And you never stopped making up for it" he would joke.

We don't remember early childhood. We know there was a lot of shutting us up. We were late to start speaking. We were early to stop.

No matter how many words we said, everyone preferred we stay silent. Those developmental years. That developmental voice... they were learning to speak. Not to communicate.

Then there was the eternal warring camps. The parents who despised one another and tried to rough out any signs of the other within us.

Our working class cockney dad who wanted us to know we were born poor and we die poor. How he hated seeing us read for fun. How he would order us to stop trying to put on a "refined "posh" voice when we tried to tidy our tone or use words one would call pretentious.

Our mother who put on airs of refinement and elegance in a manner we always admired. Certainly we did our clothes shopping at Primark but we did so with dignity.

He preferred a pint of Carlsberg and she drank a dark and bodied Merlot.

They're why we don't drink at all.

Always punished for speaking. Always doing it wrong.

It's a wonder we learned at all.

But we did learn. We used to record our voice on a crappy cassette player we picked up down the line. Record ourselves DJing between songs we recorded off of the radio. We remember one of the tapes had Jennifer Paige's 'Crush' on it so we were at least 14 years old when we did this.

We stuttered. We lisped. We stumbled over ourselves.

But it was a safe environment. Alone in our bedroom. Animatedly trying to emulate the Geezas and Rude Boys on the airwaves. A kid listening to Spice Girls and B*Witched while trying to mimick the toxic men introducing the music.

It's the little ironies that get you over time...

We learned to perform using words. It weren't conversation or nothing. But it was speaking. And that's how we learned to speak in our teens.

We kept up the habit. Long before the slowest of cows 'invented' Lets Play we recorded ourselves playing Mega Drive games. We even still have a few of them.

Do we have a clip?

[Audio Clip of a late teenage us playing Sonic 2]

It was our mid-20s we learned to speak again.

Moving to America and working retail put us in a position of being criticized for talking too fast. For not pronouncing things right. For using unfamiliar slang and shorthand.

So we learned to slow it down.

We blunted our tone. Emphasized the letters h and g when they hung out inside of a word instead of 'ung a'ght.

Get enough people mocking you for saying "'alf'n'alf" and you eventually learn to say "half and half".

And so it would remain.

Certainly at this time of our life we experimented with tabletop. Tried to voice act at the table. Poorly.

[Insert horrible clip of character lines mashed together in a short clip]

But spare for slipping into our developmental voice when exposed to England, we would have remained like that. Talking carefully. Slowly. Barely recognizable as the cockney brat we were.

But then we decided to come out of the closet and transition to a feminine presentation.

...and we had no idea how to sound feminine.

All of the videos on the topic were US Centric and involved music theory that, to this day, we do not fully understand. What is a "glassy" tone when it's at home?! What is an R1 and an R2 register?

The enormity of the concept dwarfed us and we were going through some shit at the time of our transition. Both the social one where we would switch the mask on and off for safety and the public one where we awkwardly attempted to integrate some concept of what a woman is into whatever the hell we were.

The dissociative disorder couldn't hide under those conditions for very long. Particularly when we were able to effortlessly speak correctly at some times.

And couldn't for the life of us at other times.

2 years into it we had money enough to hire a tutor and she said that we skipped the waiting list because she heard our "audition" tape and realized we would fuck up our voice completely if we were allowed to persist like that.

And so... Seattle Voice Labs took us in with 6 months of private coaching.

Tongue up at the roof of the mouth like you're making a NYYYYY sound. Speak from the diaphragm. Add some breathiness to it. Make it a little nasal.

"When the sunlight hits raindrops in the air."

"When the sunlight hits raindrops in the air."

"When the sunlight hits raindrops in the air."

Repeat until you get it right...

But by this point? What is right?

Our accent is watered down enough by this point that the "SAATH LUNDAHN" has been washed out completely. We just have a "British" accent now.

Do we sound high pitched and youthful or breathy and lusty or quaint and serious?

Do we just work on our BBC Broadcaster voice?

To be honest we never worked it out. Fuck knows it didn't help that we were changing our reflection in the mirror, being called by a different name. Moved states. Moved homes. Friend groups. Careers.

What the hell remains after all of that?!

I... don't know.

I really don't.

But we'll keep on talking. Trying to find out what works.

(If you are listening to the audio version) This recording is not us switching or the different voices we use. Each of us have our preferences. Certain ways we like to wear our face and our voice. But just as there's no "Real Me" there is no "Real Voice" either.

No one version ever quite fits. Even if our gender dysphoria is soothed, there's a certain disconnect between our voice and whichever sense of self feels most comfortable at any given time and we don't hear that discussed in DID support groups enough.

So we wanted to talk about it.

It's good to talk sometimes.

We've spent a lot of time practicing.

[therulerofallpotatos]

Hannigram Fic Rec List

In no particular order, some hannigram fics I recommend

This is in response to @cassyglenn 's post from a few hours ago I just saw.

So Delicate the Bones by unrealshrike

Summary:

After her father's unsolved disappearance, sixteen-year-old Adeline finds herself at the mercy of a new school, serial killers, FBI agents, and an unorthodox psychiatrist. Meanwhile, Hannibal wants to provide Will with a child after the fatal incident at the Hobbs’ home, and who better than his opportune new patient?

Chp 26/26 Word Count: 177,096 Words

So Delicate the Bones is one of those special fics in this fandom that introduces an original character into the main cast that is both genuinely interesting on their own and fits in with the established ensemble seamlessly. The story is riveting and I was sucked into it almost immediately. I highly recommend this. My bookmark notes (which I design specifically for me) were: An absolute epic of a novel. Adeline/Addie/Del

The Voices and the Shadows by darlinghogwarts, MaddyHughes, and slashyrogue

Summary:

“The Chesapeake Ripper? The serial killer? That's a grisly thing to find at the bottom of a drink. Most people say oblivion ...or possibly sex.” Hannibal sips his wine again. “Why are you thinking about a murderer on your birthday, Will? Is it part of your degree?”   “He is a part of my degree by my own choice. My supervisor didn’t approve, but…” He sighs. “I insisted.” AU where Will—a Masters student studying the Chesapeake Ripper—gets drunk on his birthday and meets an intriguing man at the bar.

Chp 36/36 Word Count: 114,625

My personal bookmark note that I wrote in 2017 when I made this bookmark: The sweetest slowest most infuriating and beautiful burn you will ever experience.

In all honesty I read this in high school when I first started reading Hannibal fanfiction. I might've even read this before watching the show. That said, I don't make a note like that lightly. I only ever write notes like these when I want to remind a me years in the future why I bookmarked something in the first place. Some of the best novels I've read were a handful of fics that I'd make that note for. I know that this enthralled me, sucked me in. I was invested. I was glued to it for days. If this were another fandom, I might expect for it to hit softer if I were to reread it now, but Hannigram in particular has a habit of hitting just as hard at 25 years old as it did at 17 years old.

Light Up the Torches by HigherMagic

Summary:

"We need to find out who this rogue agent is," Sutcliffe says. "Right now, I think it would be fair to assume they're one of ours or our allies', since only our enemies are being killed." Hannibal nods. "Hold briefings with all your captains," he tells them. "I want no stone unturned. Tell them that whoever is doing this will not come to harm; I would very much like to meet them."

Chp 1/1 Word Count: 7,197

My bookmark note was: Oh fuck yes

It must have been delightful. I know myself well enough to know this is just a good time to be had.

The Living Doll by Anna_Jay

Summary:

Will is aware of what he's getting himself into when he buys the dreaded Doll House. Because of the cursed doll, no one has been able to stay longer than a month. He doesn't mind. Perhaps death would be kind after everything he's been through. Over the next few days Will finds himself attached to the strange doll he's named Hannibal. After all, it is just a doll. Right?

Part 2/3 Chp 9/9 Word Count: 35,675

The Living Doll is a 3 part series in which part 2 is the bulk of the story. The link above is for the series so you can easily start at the beginning. This is hands down one of my favorite fics. Ever. Like across all fandoms. actually no. it's one of my favorite novellas I've ever read period. I actually wrote my own haunted ball joint doll fic for a completely different fandom because of this fic's inspiration (it is nowhere near as good but I can share it if you're interested I suppose. It's still a very different story). It's creepy. It's romantic. It's intense and classic. It could easily get picked up by Blumhouse Productions and make a very good movie out of it. If you read anything on this list, read this.

Darling, Don't Be So Shy by murdergatsby

Summary: Will is a paranormal investigator with a special gift. Hannibal is a demon swelling with boredom. Their meeting was supposed to lead to a simple exorcism, but Will has a nasty habit of getting attached.

Chp 13/13 Word Count: 34,571

This was also one of my first Hannigram fics I read back in high school. I adored this fic. I'm a big fan of haunting each other/possession/melding each other into one type dynamics and their distinct dynamic in this story drew me in like a moth to a flame. i read it more than once and saved it here for safekeeping. I will likely reread it after finishing this list.

How to Save a Life (The Cannibal-Friendly Handbook) by KittenDiamore

Summary:

There’s a man looking up at Will, who has clearly been distracted from - Oh. Throwing limbs into the river. Human limbs. Lovely, he thinks sarcastically. Then he thinks it again because it actually is kind of lovely. The man looks confident. At ease with what he is. He’s kinda hot, too. Or: Will tries to jump off a bridge but ends up offering himself up to a cannibalistic serial killer...as you do.

Chp 1/1 Word Count: 3,463

For a shorter rec, this is a delightful little one-shot with a different first meeting (I love different first meeting fics). Delightful premise. Delightful follow through. Had this in my bookmarks for years as well.

There is also one more fic I was expecting to find in my bookmarks and now am going to ask anyone to help me find because it isn't there. There was a series that I read early on (probably 2017) that was about Hannibal who had a 10yo son at the time of the show. The story evolved into a series that was about that son and it deserved to be. It was one of those special projects where an original character naturally stole the show and we were reading to see where his story would take him more than anything else. These were novels and they were epic and I would love to get my hands on it again. This child was cunning and devoted to his father and his own personal ambitions. Any help finding this fic and any fics similar to it would be extremely welcome.

Oh! and a link to my bookmarks as well because there are more fics there. I just listed the ones that stood out the most/that I remembered enough to write my own spiel about them. I have not actually read every single fic I've marked, but even those are interesting enough that I saved them for later.

[flyingfabio]

https://www.tumblr.com/flyingfabio/758077191028359168/if-miller-ends-up-at-pramac-im-burning-yamahas?source=share

Jack Miller is so funny like he truly has spent the last two years throwing jabs at an 8 time world champion who ended up 42 points behind him having missed 8 races on a murderous Honda and at a 1 time World Champion who ended up last year in front of him (and who is currently in front of him in the standings) in the slowest most tractor-est Yamaha. He really went and called Marc princess after a very bad highside that had him withdraw from Sachsenring and he really went and said 'other riders are slower and signed for 12 million' and while that doesn't really hold up because you know, he is in front of him in the standings, maybe the reason why that rider is slower is because he's riding the second worse bike lol.

Like I might miss him a Lil,with him being the only Australian and at times really funny, but be for real😭

i think i've already said it but the way his form collapsed just after his princess comment is so very comical... the way motogp works can humble you very quickly and you should remember that!

i've done quite my fair share of jack miller bashing recently, but i do loathe the way ktm handled the situation telling him his place was safe when it very much wasn't (ktm treating their riders like they're disposable stinky old socks, what else is new). that being said, i don't see what could justify him keeping a seat rn. looking back, it's criminal he didn't finish in the top 3 of the championship while being healthy on a factory ducati and his stint on the ktm has been supbar, even considering the bike weaknesses. but i guess we'll see, his personality and passport might very much play in his favor

[episodeoftv]

Round 1 of 8, Group 8 of 8

propaganda and summaries are under the cut (May include spoilers)

The Sandman: 1.06 The Sound of her Wings

TW death, I guess, but it's treated in a very lovely way

Feeling a bit rudderless, Morpheus shadows his hard-working big sister, who offers him advice and encourages him to reconnect with an old acquaintance.

I've watched this episode like 4 times and the rest only one, that's how good it is. It also has the quality of being pretty independant from the rest of the show, so it's easy to only watch this one without rewatching all of them. It's divided in two parts: the first one is Dream following his sister Death as she collects the souls of dying people, it's a very poetic-looking episode, you can see the people embracing her and Death being really nice to them, it's incredibly lovely. By allowing Dream to follow her around, Death is also trying to show him that they exist thanks to humans, and that humans are their purpose and it's an honor to be there for them when they need it. Dream really needed that, because he was in a quest during the first 5 episodes and had a "and now what?" moment that made him a bit depressed once the quest was over. Anyway, the second part of the episode is the slowest burn you've ever seen. It shows Death giving immortality to a man, Hob Gadling, in 1384 (I think?) and Dream meeting him every 100 years to check if he still wanted to live. It's extremely gay, they keep having sex with their eyes (it's not canon that they're in love, though, but it's nice to imagine). Anyway, if you don't want to watch the whole show, I would advise to just watch this one episode, it's really great

The Great British Bake Off: 6.10 Series 6‚ Episode 10: The Final

Three bakers compete in the season 6 finale - baking filled sweet buns, mille-feuille (technical challenge), and a show-stopper "classic British cake or bake" (single flavor - multiple levels - i.e. a battenberg cake)

[gachawolfiebloom]

A Grumpy Troll and A Prince

Chapter 7 ~ Is it a Rescue or Betrayal

Tags: Comedy, action, adventure, and romance

FM skated into his room and collapsed on the rickety, old bed. "Mario thinks the king really likes him!" Meggy nodded and said "Don't you mean he likes FM?" The Bergen of discussion cheered to himself and finally said something. "That was the greatest day of my life!" He turned to the prince and said "Thanks Four!"

Four smiled sweetly at him as FM thanked all of his new, tiny friends. Three looked a little left out so FM directed attention to him and said "Even you I guess..." Three had a little smile, but then hid it back into a frown. He fell back onto the bed on shock, realizing "I just can't believe something like that could actually happen to me and it just did!"

"I'm so excited that I could just scream!" Four sat up and proclaimed to his friends "I could scream too! Tag6 is alive!" All his friends joined in on cheering, but one of their screams sounded more upset than happy. Three noticed they were staring at him and stopped. Four asked "Three what's wrong?" He gave them a look of confusion and said "Nothing? I thought we were celebrating." Mario crooked his head a little and asked "That's Smg3's happy shout?"

He sighed and said "It's been a while." Four shrugged it off and told him "Well you're going to have plenty of practice because we're gonna save Tag6 and life will be all fun and laughter again!" Three raised a hand to signify he wanted a high five and said "Up top!" Four tried to slap it, but Three pulled his hand away like that weird little clown did and said "Too slow." Four was surprised at first, but then he gave a glowing smile to Three, who even returned it. They both blushed as they realized that they actually didn't mind each other's company anymore. Like they were becoming friends.

"Okay everyone! Let's go save Tag6!" They all started rushing to the door when suddenly, FM slammed it and blocked the door. "NO! You can't leave. FightingMario54321 is gonna be the king's plus one at dinner." Three raised an eyebrow and said in sarcasm "The dinner where they're serving troll? Yeah, we'll have to skip that one." FM tried to encourage them to stay by informing them "You have to help me be FightingMario54321! I need you!"

Four said "You don't want to be someone you're not forever!" FM quietly responded "Then how about just for tomorrow?" The prince sighed and came to the truth. "FM, you don't need us anymore. You and the king can make each other happy." FM's expression turned really upset as he shouted "That's impossible! Only eating a troll can make you happy! Everyone knows that!" He pulled off the pictures above his bed and threw them in the trash. "I WISH I NEVER WENT ON THIS STUPID DATE!!!"

He collapsed onto his knees and covered the crying with his shaking hands. Four felt bad as he tried to comfort his friend. "FM..." He burst out "JUST GO! Get out of my room! Leave me alone..." Four tried to get closer. "FM please listen..." The voice of Mr Puzzles shouting from above had stopped him."FM! WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE!?" Three pulled Four to the door and said "Come on. We have to go." He and the rest of the crew left, but Four watched the awful scene, feeling nothing but remorse.

A plate fell on the servant's head as the TV man commanded "Scrub that dish! The king is bringing a plus one!" FM calmed his tears for a moment and sadly whispered "Yes Mr Puzzles..." Four sighed and decided to go after Tag6 like the rest of his friends, glancing at FM in misery before he left.

"We can do this Yoshi!" His pet was sleeping peacefully on the floor while X was decked out in workout gear. "I just have to lose 30 pounds in the next 8 hours." He slapped on some headphones and put his treadmill on the slowest speed possible.

The door slowly creaked open as Four and his friends spotted the broach on the bed. "There it is!" They slowly snuck into the room towards the jewel they were after, but it really didn't matter since X couldn't hear anything over his mix. Three pulled on the latch that they saw X open on the date while Four said "Hold on Tag6! We'll have you out in a second."

Three kept pulling, but it wouldn't open. "Mamma Mia!" Luigi cried out as everyone turned to see Yoshi looming over them. "RUN!" Three and Four grabbed the pin and the rest of their friends all scattered to confuse the dinosaur. He began chasing them around, knocking over belongings and even causing the ceiling lights fall. X was still unaware of what was going on as the music was still blaring through his ears.

Yoshi stood in the way so the crew all hopped into the roller skate that X had saved. Yoshi jumped onto the bed, launching them into the air and out the door, but that dinosaur hadn't given up yet. He chased them through the halls as they ducked around corners. Yoshi was hot on their trail so Four yelled "Luigi! Glitter him!" The green troll took out a ball of glitter and threw it in his face, making him hack and cough.

It seemed to work until they all looked in front of them to a sign in their way that launched them through a window, but Four dropped the broach in the process and it landed right into Yoshi's mouth. "Tag6!" Yoshi kept hacking until he crashed into the wall and the pin flew through the air.

Four gasped and without a second thought, he jumped from the skate and grabbed hold of the pin, then called out "Three!" He immediately got the hint and extended his hair for Four to grab hold of and pulled them back into the roller skate. Just when Four safely made it back, they watched as the skate crashed through a window, lamp, floor, ceiling light, statue, and through a *ahem* questionable scene...

They flew out of the skate, along with the broach, but Four and Three caught it. Everyone gathered around as Four opened the pin and...nobody was inside?

"No..."

Four was horrified. Tag6 couldn't be gone. She had to be okay. She just had to be. Three softly put a hand on his shoulder and said "I'm sorry Four. We're too late." A voice started to speak as they looked up to find Mr Puzzles. "Actually...YOUR TIMING IS PERFECT!" He slammed a cage on them with a devilishly evil look in his eyes. Now that the trolls were captured, he took them back to the kitchen to prepare for the next step in his plan.

As Mr Puzzles put the cage on the counter, Mario was huddled, whimpering in scared Italian sounds. The TV man leaned in close and said "Sorry, but I can't have you all leaving before tomorrow's dinner. A dinner where you are all invited. And when I say all, I mean every troll in the village."

He began to walk away when Four shot back "You'll never find them! Not where they're hiding!" Mr Puzzles stopped and a wide smile graced his screen. "Oh you're right! I could never find them!" He turned around and continued. "But I could with someone they know. Someone they trust." Four was confused. Who could they possibly know that would be willing to help this devious man capture all their friends. 

"Someone...like her." He opened his pocket and pulled out none other than Tag6. Four exclaimed happily "TAG6! YOU'RE ALIVE!" Everyone cheered except for Three. His face showed nothing but suspicion. Then it all clicked. "SHE DOUBLE CROSSED US!" He began strangling her by the neck as Tag6 gasped for breath. Four pulled Three back and cried out "Stop! Three wait! I'm sure there's a responsible explanation! At least give her a chance!"

He pushed Three back as Tag6 caught her breath, but the grumpy troll wasn't going to let it go that easy. He watched with an angry frown as Tag6 picked herself up and said "Thank you Smg4." The prince awaited a convincing argument that proved that Tag6 was innocent, but instead he got "I'm double crossing you." Someone else's hair was soon felt, clasping her neck. Four gripped hard in anger as his friends tried to calm him down and Three watched in pleasure.

Once he finally let go, Four said "You better explain yourself Tag6!" The pink and purple troll took a breath and explained what had happened when it looked like she got eaten. "Just when I was about to meet my fate, I had what I can only describe as a miracle."

~Flashback~

The taco slid down X's throat, but Tag6 grabbed hold of his uvula, shouting "I DON'T WANT TO DIE!" X choked up the poor, dirty troll into his hand as she got on her knees and begged "Don't eat me! Eat someone else! Anyone else! Everyone else! But not me!" Mr Puzzles ignored her pleas and said "But the king wants to be happy now."

"Wait! There must be some other way. I'll do anything..." Mr Puzzles suddenly got an idea as he looked at the troll with a smirk. "Now that you mention it..."

-

Four couldn't say anything. He was speechless. Why would she do this? Didn't she care about her friends? How could she just betray them like this? These thoughts swarmed his mind as all he could muster out was "No. Please don't do this Tag6." She sighed and replied "Believe me, I wish there was some other way where I wouldn't get eaten."

"But there isn't." Mr Puzzles responded while sharpening a knife. Tag6 continued on. "And now I have to live with this for the rest of my life. At least you get to die with a clear conscience." Four's face was mixed with sadness, anger, and perplexion. "So in a way...you could say..." She placed a hand on his check and whispered "I'm doing this for you..." She moved her hand towards his hair, where she pulled out his cowbell. She booped his nose for the last time and that was when any feeling of happiness or...even love for Tag6 had vanished.

All the trolls were still hiding in Three's evil villain lair when a faint sound could be heard. The king listened closely and told everyone to be quiet. "It's Four's cowbell." All of them rushed out into the village cheering.

"Smg4 did it!"

"He's back!"

"Welcome home Four!"

Instead of being met with the prince, they found a pink and purple troll banging his cowbell. "Tag6?" The king asked in confusion. She shrugged and dropped the cowbell, being picked up by a huge hand. "Oh no..." They all looked behind them to see Mr Puzzles and his legion of servants, zipping open bags. All the trolls started panicking and screaming, but it was too late. The last thing seen was Mr Puzzles hand reaching down to capture them all.

Chapter 8: A Happy Ending

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 206 Trivia

Post-timeskip Suika squad! They're all so cute :)

Unlike the new Perseus, the ship going to Corn City is Xeno branded rather than Kingdom of Science: it has the signature zig-zag patterns of the American Colony and Xeno's profile on the side of the boat.

Joel's crushed arm is hidden, however since no one mentions it, it's probably fully healed. Somehow.

Joel's "12" hair strands have also gotten thicker, and the strap on his watchmaker's loupe survived even though his clothes are gone…

…Except everyone is still wearing the same clothes from before anyways. Did Ukyo and the others take off their clothes for depetrification then return them?

I also wonder who's currently in possession of the medusa now.

Finally a Taiju and Yuzuriha reunion! And what's more, progress on their relationship! (Sort of…)

It seems that when they built the new Perseus, a new mobile lab was built to go with it! Judging by the tires, this one is also all-terrain and amphibious.

Has Sai not eaten in days because of his fevered code writing? Or does he deliberately ignore table manners like "don't speaking with your mouth full" as a result of trying to escape his fate in Nanami Corp.?

Holding flags has never held so much personality: Kohaku is extremely focused and lifts her flag completely vertically, very quickly. Suika twirls hers. Gen does his the slowest and is most put-out by the demonstration. Chrome lifts his loosely with one hand, but with confidence.

An XOR (said as "exclusive OR") gate is the job Suika had during the demonstration: lift the flag when Chrome OR Gen put theirs up, /excluding/ the situation where they're both up.

An AND gate was Kohaku's job: both Chrome AND Gen need their flags up for Kohaku to lift hers.

The brief moment of history for the parametron lasted under a decade. Invented by Eiichi Goto, a Japanese computer scientist, they were reliable and cheap, allowing for Japan to push forward with their computers. They didn't last long because transistors simply performed better.

Senku's parametron only requires copper and zinc, but true parametrons use some form of ferrite core. Copper and zinc aren't ferromagnetic, but ferrite is.

The result? Senku's version won't work. At all.

In case you haven't watched the anime and didn't immediately get Gen's Kung Dang Manganese song stuck in your head the instant "800" was mentioned: Gen insisting there'll be 800 of them is a reference to when they made the cellphone, and Gen was tasked with making 800 batteries.

Sai is playing a code block game designed for children. He's probably programming a moveable character on the screen at the top of the container by arranging the blocks in order. This is probably a simplified version of the Gakken EX-150, a device for easily experimenting with electronics.

Doesn't look like he knows the Konami code yet, but I'm sure he will soon enough!

I'm not sure if I'm just getting old or if this is a reference to Senku bringing back smartphones (and not just cellphones), but that isn't what I think of when someone says "calculator" haha

I love Yuzuriha's signature hard-work pose so much :)

==================== MISSING Please help me find my kohai! 🧙 Answers to the name MOZ. Last seen fighting Americans. Might stab you. If found, call Hyoga @ (555) 454 1130. Do not engage. ====================

(Seriously where'd he disappear to again?)

[seramilla]

Hardly anyone has seen Odette be the stone-cold killer like people have described her to be. So people mistakenly assume that she’s weak since she doesn’t actively show her aggression like her mother and younger sister do. So a group of thieves decide to try and break into the carmine estate thinking that would be able to steal some stuff and pawn it off.

They had managed to get past Carmilla’s defense’s around her home and make it inside. They mange to grab some stuff before they are met with Odette who is dressed in her nightwear—and they think they have a chance to win, oh how mistaken they were. She kills the first two via choking,but she decided that method of death wasn’t very fun so she grabs her angelic sawed of shotgun and chases the other three out of the home and into the large yard where she plays a game of cat and mouse with them until she manages to corner them.

Odette's not certain if the thieves knew she'd be home alone that night, or if it had just been bad luck on their part. Either way, somehow, one of them had been smart enough to hack past the security system. Lots of Vox's people are smart, and know how to get around defenses like theirs, so she suspects they might be his. She never thought any of his followers would be dumb enough to think that would be their only obstacle, though. The television man never did attract minds with much common sense.

Odette senses where they are, without even needing to look at the cameras. Not even bothering to get dressed, she's already got her mother's shotgun in hand. As soon as she sees them down the hall, she coughs intentionally, the sound ringing out like an explosion in the long, tall corridors of the mansion. The three larger blokes turn to stare at her; their shorter companions, the one trying to pick the lock of their mother's safe, and the one holding the toolbag for him, take longer to notice. Until their companions tap them on the shoulder, and they also turn to look at Odette -- Satan, but the smaller fuckers are ugly. She thinks she'll kill the little ones first.

The smaller two who hadn't been ticked off by her presence are the slowest, so they're easy to tackle. She chokes them both out, in less than a minute. The final three are more nimble, and have at least made it to the yard. Unfortunately for them, Carmilla had specifically made the yard overgrown with plants, a labyrinthian garden of flowers, vines, and elaborate blooms. Some of them man-eating. Some of them poisonous. She hopes the plants themselves don't kill them before she can; she specifically wants that pleasure herself.

The final three criminals get lost in the garden, screaming and crying, because they can't find their way out. Odette knows the garden like the back of her hand; she and Clara had played there since they were children. She spends the rest of the night, stalking the three weary escapees through the labyrinth, taking her time, and picking them off one by one, gleeful in her ability to track and gun them down with so much ease.

By the time she's finished, the sun is barely peaking over the top of the red horizon. She's standing in the yard, wiping blood off the tip of the shotgun with her nightgown, when Carmilla finally comes home, after another all-nighter at the office.

"Odette," Carmilla says calmly, greeting her daughter like she's not absolutely covered in blood right now.

"Mom," Odette says, finally finishing her cleaning of the gun, before she hands it to her mother. "The alarm went off. You'll need to set it again before we leave later.”

"Good girl," Carmilla says, hitching the shotgun under her arm, like it's any old morning at the Carmine house. "Get cleaned up. You can take a nap before we have to leave this afternoon."

"Good call," Odette says, before following her mother into the house. Odette thinks she might be a little groggy at their overlord meeting this afternoon from the lack of sleep. She'll make do, somehow.

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💜

Hi! What a fun challenge. For someone who routinely despairs not being able to write, I'm apparently actually quite fond of my little stories, lol. In no particular order:

We Live Such Fragile Lives

High school, fake dating AU

I am still working on it! 😭 Despite writing at a glacial speed, I really love this story. I love bringing up old high school emotions and tapping back into being a teenager when every single emotion was the biggest emotion you'd ever felt. This is the slowest I've ever taken a relationship in any story and the ANGST is just so wonderful to work with. I love the dual pining. But I just have so much fun with the setting and their extracurriculars and friends and teachers and all the silly situations they get themselves into. The world is literally so big and open for them.

A Time For Dancing

A Footloose AU

I wrote this fic in about two afternoons one weekend after listening to the song on the way to work. I had so much fun writing about a repressed small town and the big world right beyond it that all of the characters are growing into. I adored the whole cast and each individual relationship, especially Sam and Riley. I also really liked writing about Gideon as this kind of ghost haunting Sam's narrative-- the connection Sam feels to his brother for both being queer and a little bit of betrayal at being left behind, as well as Gideon being this cautionary tale that Sam can't/won't quite reconcile as wholly good or wholly bad. I feel like the writing is fairly strong in this one (no one tell me if it isn't) and I just really like rereading it.

Of Kings and Monsters

Prince!Sam and Prisoner/Rescuer!Bucky

This may not be fair to include/recommend because really why I like this story is the rest of it in my head lol. I just think it's a (literally) steamy short with a fun dynamic between Sam and Bucky. The world is so rich (to me) and I just love the idea of it.

These Ghosts That Haunt Christmas

A Hallmark-esque Christmas fic

Man, I just really love the concept behind this one. I wanted to include more to the scavenger hunt, but I love the bits I did write anyway. I love the growth of Sam and Bucky's relationship with each other but also separately. I really enjoyed playing with their repressed history. I also love the literal ghost in the story. The fact that they're haunting themselves by keeping Steve so close and [spoilers] to move on they absolutely cannot have the last letter. I wrote the fic over the Christmas break and it always smells like hot chocolate to me, haha. It's just cozy. And now I'm kind of obsessed with thinking of hallmark fics.

I Found Something in the Woods Somewhere

A creature/horror fic about monsters and an evil forest and the good man who sees both as they are

It was difficult to pick just one of my creature fics but this is the one that I'm proudest of. I love the world and atmosphere, as well as what a 'monster' is within it. I have a handful of fics that I would expand (or scrub names off and do something more with) and this is at the top of the list

And two non-Sambucky stories because I couldn't not mention them 🫣

No Force Greater Than

A Stucky/Cap Quartet high school au

I love this fic and feel like it kind of got the short end of the stick with how the posting for the event went :/ I love that it's a Cap Quartet fic and I love the personalities for each of the characters. This is another one where working with the characters shared histories was really fun. I just think it's a fun read and love Sam and Nat in this one.

My Heart on the Gas

Blue/Gansey racer au

I love their relationship in this story and I love all the car/racing stuff. I think they're so sexy and in love with each other and life. I also had a FANTASTIC time working with the artist and beta reader, so I'm just thankful for the whole process of working on this bang fic. Fun fact, this is my only M/F story on my page. There's not a part of this story that I want to rework. I just love it and I'm so proud of it.

Everyone should also go check out everything from Cobrafantasies !