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ohshy · 8 months

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Apart from Hipercy, what are your favorite punch out fics?

im assuming u meant ships right?? IN AAANY CASE, here u go bro !!

Royal army (von kaiser x king hippo) is definitely up there as my favorite PO ship. I love how it started out as a crackship from a joke in animal crossing but then just delved into Whatever the fuck w/ maber KJDHKSJF.

But seriously though !! they just Work somehow... like you have both of them having royal names (albeit i hc hippos is an actual title he carries, and kaisers more of a stage name bc of his interest in royal n military history). Plus, I think kaiser would b very interested in learning more ab hippos culture n hippo would b happy to indulge him. It's what elevates Kaiser from ''just another peasant'' to Hippo as someone who he's willing to talk to! Not many people take his title seriously as hippo island's fairly unknown outside of the south pacific hes from, so when they first meet, Kaiser's a huge breath of fresh air to him.

Seeing as Kaiser is a polyglot as well in my HC, I like to think he was one of the few people in the WVBA who had prior knowledge of Hippo Island and it's language. Although Kaiser can only speak a couple basic sentences and struggles with the pronounciation, Hippo still appreciates the effort. In turn, Kaiser has also taught Hippo some German, the language being easier to Hippo due to the sounds made.

Totally T4T (tism4tism).

ALSO imagine the hippo island kids n kaiser's academy kids going on some type of exchange w/ one another !! theyd have the time of their lives !! The kids would totally get into an argument over who's cooler too.

They're a lot like opposites attracting as well. Hippo, although he is responsible to his people, is generally a lot more easygoing n defo helps kaiser let loose a bit more like how he did in his 20s (berliner party days baybe !!!) But Hippo learns a lot from Kaiser too ! he really admires his work ethic, and loves how much of a leader n fatherly he is to the kids he teaches. He admires his resilience as well, both having confided much into eachother. His resilicience almost like a... MACHINE?!? Either way, both have positions in which they lead in some way, and theyve both taught eachother a lot.

Also they bond over dead mother figures (hippos who died of illness, and kaiser's who went missing when he was very young.)

As for how they'd butt heads, would be kaisers endless need to seek approval due to his dad being emotionally constipated, and hippos occasional emotional outbursts (poor emotional regulation). also hippos friendly teasing (how he shows affection, aside from physical contact) sometimes strikes a nerve w/ kaiser, esp if it's about his age or career.

One time, after a particularly exhausting match, kaiser just fell asleep on hippos lap as the latter was holding him. Aran walked by in disbelief, w/ hippo going ''heh, jealous? ;)'' w/ aran going ''Nah, not at all''

One last thing.... hippo sees kaiser as a kitten (thank you maber for that idea i am obsessed); kaiser's height n physique r significantly smaller than hippo's, leading to hippo often times patting him on the head n even picking him up like he weighs nothing. Kaiser secretly rly likes it, but he won't tell him directly because yknow... hes got a rep to protect.

^ Kaiser to Hippo

other ships i like include.... Red bull (soda x bull) burnt bread (joe x aran) u can blame charlie for both those (jk jk bro im glad u got me into those ships. But please read his fics, thats how i got into them) and disco kid x heike kagero !!

Red bull is just very neat bc of the whole, in simple terms, sunshine x grump dynamic (and im saying simple terms bc charlie's fics flesh out their relationship A LOT more n its basically the best ok go read his fics), burnt bread bc of how unlikely yet funny it is, and disco x heike bc, eventhough theyve never interacted, you KNOW theyd absolutely be bffs at the very least.

#thank u for the ask jose !!!#hope u guys like long answers bc i got plenty of them >:))))#von kaiser #king hippo #punch out #punch out wii #royal army #monkey brain typing #asks

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soccialcreature · 4 years

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rebels s4 first-time watch liveblogging! (just jedi knight on bcuz i only wanna watch the good eps of this show)

sorry. the hair is bad. maybe dont let a blind man give himself a haircut

kanan and hera r the only too bitches i care about in this house

theyre soooo cuuuute ugh

y go to the fuel depot tho that seems like a recipe for disaster

kanan didnt have to b dramatic about it i think they all cudve gotten away if he had just got in the ship. theyve been in tighter situations before

can kanan b a force ghost tho? just to talk to hera. idc about the others. hera seems rly broken up about this

hera: *crying*. chopper: bur bur. bur bur bur bur bur. hera: *sniffles* youre right

ezra and hera reminiscing about kanan is actually really good and really hits :(

the side plot is stupid. y not just use a bomb-bomb and kill that little grey bitch. a fuckin paint bomb? r u serious?let zeb kill him bitch goddamnit zeb deserves a little murder. as a treat

what the fuck is happening

god fucking damnit dave u fucking furry ive had enough of these fucking wolves

i hate how they talk

EZRA SAID “AHSOKA” <33333

leave hera alone she needs like 5 fucking minutes to grieve her baby-daddie’s death goddamn

FUCK YEAHHHHH WE R GOING BACK TO THE JEDI TEMPLE i love the jedi i miss the clone wars :(

im gonna say it. the loth-cats cudve been cuter

ohmygod dave finally made his dream come true of having his characters ride wolves (bcuz he said he wanted ahsoka to ride a wolf at some point. but these guys riding wolves r fine too i guess. ahsoka makes anything cooler tho... jus sayin)

AHSOKA

this is some force-power-bullshit that i can GET BEHIND. TELEPORTING WOLVES HELL YEAH

WHY CUDNT THEY JUST FUCKING KEEP THE STORMTROOPER OUTFITS THAT THEY STOLE THE FIRST TIME WHY. DO THEY HAVE TO DO THIS SAME BULLSHIT EVERY. GODDAMN. EPISODE

they literally have no asses

who the fuck is this crusty bitch

COURUSCANT lets go there. i miss the clone wars :(

wait wheres rex. is he safe? is he alright?

y does sabine have to b here

good job ezra u got it. u cracked the code. ahsoka is the daughter <3

sorry nothing was happening so i blanked out for a bit but now we are in the world between worlds AND I AM HEARING THE VOICES OF ALL OF MY FRIENDS GOD I LOVE U GUYS OBI WAN AHSOKA ANAKIN I LOVE YALL

this scene is very cool tho

ugh stop can i skip the sabine scenes? i wanna hang out w ezra in the world between worlds

AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA AHSOKA

SO FUCKING COOOOOOOL

she shud do the thing again where she falls onto her back and kicks the enemy away i think thatd b rly fun

hellooooo hottie

ahsoka <3

does she know shes the baddest bitch in the galaxy? i feel like she doesnt know. i feel like sabine thinks SHES the baddest bitch in the galaxy but rly its ahsoka

is it like ahsokas job is to dramatically go “anakin...”

when did she name the fucking bird

ok god complex ezra

ahsokas been through so much shit in her lifetime. she can literally understand any trauma just name it

cud we not have done one more take to have my guy palps say ahsokas name correctly? i mean its not a huge deal but like. was he payed by the second???

“i will. i promise” ahsoka ur so fucking cute

whered it go

how can the entire temple just skrrt away

REX

KALLUS

AHHH MY FRIENDS

WOLFFE AND GREGGOR

HONDO

okay what the fuck is happening y did everyone just show up

ahsoka said “ima take a nap hmu after the finale”

i hate this fuckin grey dude

hondo ily

sorry i stopped paying attention but wolffe just had a line so im back now

OHMYGOSH

BOYFRIENDS

KALLUZEB IN THE SAME FRAME OHMYGOODNESS

oh my fuck this next episode is HOW MANY MINUTES LONG?????

hera in this ep b like ‘am i gregnant?’

kallus ur the coolest bitch in this whole show (minus ahsoka)

go hera <3

yo what the fuck

this episode is 47 goddamn minutes so that we have time for this pig catapulting bullshit?

the whole second half of this show is just the writers making excuses to have thrawn do absolutely nothing while still pretending like he’s a threat

why r there 2 separate animal dues ex machinas in this finale?

yoooo ezra i actually rly like u bro :(((

hey where the fuck is darth vade y did he just dip out of the show. i feel like he cud help the empire out in this situation

very weird that thrawn supports sabines patreon or whatever the fuck

heyyyy palpatine what the fuck

they were rly broken up about kanans death for like. an episode. but theyre chill now theyre over it

y is palpatine into ezra?

can kallus and zeb smooch? just once? please? wud that b so hard?

how is this pig not dead

oh lmao he is dead hahahahahahah

im still confused about how greggor didnt die in clone wars. i thought he died? was i tripping?

palpatine is trying so hard not to saw “dewit” right now

what does destroying the temple accomplish?

HOW R THEY STORMTROOPERS MISSING THESE SHOTS WHAT THE FUCK HE IS A STATIC TARGET

oh so NOW ull kill the little grey bitch

GOD FUCK THE PIG IS ALIVE????? ARGH U AINT CUTE BITCH. JUST DIE

y cant he get out of there tho

bro a bitch is crying

yooo

theyre dating

hera’s makeup

the way i broke down when i saw ahsoka

tears

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sailorvinus · 3 years

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F, R, T !!!

✨ @tsugugo. meme. still accepting!

F : FLIRT. is your muse good at flirting? how do they flirt?

he doesn't have much romantic experience to use as a reference in how to act around the man he has a crush on. and not because he's just a little awkward, but he was locked up in an domestic abuse situation fresh outta high school, never had an interest in sex or romance around that time either, and then never really had an interest after. so at 26 years old, he might be a little stiff when he flirts forreal. his flirting never comes off as flirting gjfsdlgjfd... like he’ll give his crush one of his favorites books with favorite lines highlighted or he’ll just hang out with them like they’re bros. acts of service that can be taken as completely platonic. thats kinda all he got, yo........ like... lol

it makes shit difficult for him. in verses where he eventually does breakdown and confess his feelings, he always has to take on the disclaimer, ‘ i know this seems out of nowhere. ’ because he doesnt rly give any markers or indicators that hes romantically / sexually interested.............. r.i.p........................

i think the biggest flirtatious gesture he has is calling a man by his full name. always the full name. something sacred about it.

thankfully he opens up a lot more when his feelings are returned. then hes just outta control.... touchy and slick talkin’. but before that stage he struggles.... genuinely.

tfw he a billionaire’s son and he cant buy himself some mf’in GAME.

R : ROMANCE. is your muse a romantic or a cynic?

a little bit of both... as mentioned in the previous answer, he was in an abusive relationship and of course that’s gonna make him a little jaded and angry when it comes to romance. his parents are still together and very loving. his mother’s occasional anger issues aside, theyve always been ready to bring dialogue, maturity, and love to each other during disputes... hes very hopeful to have something similar to them, but sometimes he doubts hes stable enough for it. he knows his personality is a little turbulent sometimes and he can’t help it. that’s what therapy is for!!!!

he loves love. just not entirely sure if love loves him back.

T : TRUE LOVE. does your muse believe in true love?

vis always gonna believe in true love!!! its just difficult for him to visualize, sometimes. sometimes his love can be so cold and he’ll be so distant. a lot of folks dont like that, but really he’s the kind that needs his space even when he’s in a relationship. leave him alone for a few days and he’ll come back to you. he has so many things he wants to create and read and work on. his projects will always be a priority, regardless of how much he loves someone.

he’s an acquired taste definitely lkgjklg. so yeah!!! vi believes in true love... BUT DOES TRUE LOVE BELIEVE IN HIM?!?!??!?!

the men hes shipped w.? braver than marines. but also loved better than anyone else so they win.

#( 🌙 ABOUT! A LITERAL MOONLIGHT LEGEND. ✨ )#/ hes struggled but hey....... he finds a way lkgjdsglkf.#tsugugo

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hcneysoaked · 4 years

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💘 eli and seb c:

send me 💘 + A SHIP and i’ll tell you—

where they first met and how iconic meet cute !!!! next door apartment neighbors with seb Nicely asking eli to shut up and eli going “no <3” bc he loves being a menace

how long their ‘flirting’ phase was before feelings got involved the back and forth went for a while, maybe a month or two which absolutely kills them once they realize its more than just messing around and playful flirting

who fell for who first ( if applicable ) seb……. I Think… bc he was the one making excuses to be around eli but eli definitely indulged it bc he was also very much interested. but like, i think seb was at least more conscious of it first??

where their first date was and what it was like mm first “sort of” date was seb picking eli up after class and taking him out to eat BUT they were still playing their little game so i dont think they count it gbdjkfg i think once they start Officially dating then they probably spend the day out doing that cute couple shit

who asks who out and how ( with a sign? spelled out on a cake? just a simple ‘will you go out with me’? ) officially ask out, probably seb again but mostly bc eli has already assumed they’re dating by that point so its more of a formality/clarification than anything else gkjgdfg

who proposes first seb!!!!! if this is like the Actual proposal and not that spontaneous vegas shit i think eli’s pretty content with not making it formal and all as long as they stay together

if they keep / kept their relationship secret or let everyone know right away eli tells his friends like Right Away bc theyve probably been on his case abt seb for ages and im not sure seb has anyone he’d like want to tell right away?? It takes eli a while for him to figure out how to tell his siblings, but he definitely tells them way before his parents who probably just end up finding out on their own anyway gbdfkg

where the proposal happens and how ( kiss cam at a baseball game? on a hillside surrounded by ducks? at a disney park? ) honestl y im not sure bgfjkgd i feel like seb would put a Lot of thought into it and have a whole Plan but also i like the idea of it just kinda Happening :(( like has this plan and everything but maybe theyre just together one night and fuc k the plan

if they adopt any pets together im literally dying to give them a cat bgjkdfg partly just bc i know eli really wants one and he’d absolutely just show up one day with one in tow

who’s more dominant eli def has seb wrapped around his finger but we Know seb has big dom energy and is probably one of the few people that can keep eli under control

where their first kiss was and what it was like :((((( i mean they Like hook up before they really start dating some probably around then but like they have that little moment with the confession ™ and that kiss would be a soft lil contrast to how they’ve acted around each other up until then

if they have any matching couples stuff ( mugs? sweaters? pillowcases? ) probabl y bc they’re gross and cheesy kjdgfdgd but i like the matching sweater/clothes idea :(( eli definitely gets that for them bc he likes dressing seb up so much

how into pda they are very!!!! seb can Lie and say he doesn't like pda all he wants but he likes that eli’s all over him even in public we know how clingy eli is already

who holds the umbrella when it rains probably seb bc taller and eli’s a Brat bgjf

where their usual ‘date spot’ is ( if applicable ) mmmmm damn i kinda like the idea of them going to that first date-ish spot every so often, but i'm not sure how many actual dates they go on that would be super consistent? partly cause free time and also just bc eli loves spontaneity and surprises

who’s more protective I think seb seems more protective on a sort of surface level but they’d be super protective of each other? like they’d both be pretty quick to defend the other

how long it is before they sleep together ( can be as in ‘had sex’ or as in ‘shared a bed’ ) i feel like they might’ve fallen asleep together (at least accidentally) during one of those times eli hangs out at seb’s while he’s working but i dont think they really share a bed until they hook up and eli like purposefully stays the night, and that happens a while after their flirting

if they argue about anything oh definitely, especially at first i think. definitely about eli’s recklessness, about the whole parent situation, if eli feels seb’s being too protective, but they work through all of it <3

who leaves more marks ( lipstick, hickeys, scratchmarks etc. ) not 100% about seb but eli definitely likes marking him up gnjddgd he just likes the idea of seb going to work all cleaned up with hickeys and shit under his collar gkjgfdgf

who steals whose clothes and how often eli definitely steals clothes the most, he likes curling up in seb’s shirts and sweaters :(( i'm not sure that seb steals eli’s clothes so much as eli dresses him up in them gkdfgd just bc their styles are pretty different

how they cuddle ( spooning? facing each other? ) lots of spooning for sure, lots of eli sitting in seb’s lap while he works, also probably eli resting on him if they’re on the couch or in bed

what their favourite nonsexual activity is just hanging out together you know :((( like cuddling and resting together

how long they stay mad at each other I don’t think seb likes staying mad at him for too long, but eli definitely likes to hold grudges and all that, though I think he’d be a little more forgiving?? depends on the situation gkdfng but he’s also the type to just get up and leave when mad so I’m sure that doesn’t really help

what their usual coffee / tea orders are seb…. black coffee man, eli’s likes coffee but he likes it really sweet bgjkdgd

if they ever have any children together :(((( i think……. maybe….. at least one gbfdjkgdf especially after like more people around them start having kids??

if they have any special pet names for each other definitely the standard babe + baby :(( but aside from that…

if they ever split up and / or get back together oo f i’m not sure if the family thing is enough to split them up for a bit, but it wouldn’t stay like that for long they’d definitely get back together pretty quickly, regardless of what it is

what their shared living space is like ( messy? clean? what kind of decor? ) they end up spending more time in seb’s apartment, probably gets a little more put together after eli movies in and he definitely tries to decorate it with anything he finds Neat so it's not the most coordinated gbdfkgd

what their first christmas / hanukkah / etc as a couple was like probably just as overboard as their first birthdays are together gkdfg or maybe more lowkey? they might spend the actual day with family but they’d exchange gifts and have a little thing together afterwards i think

what their names are in each other’s phones eli has him in as babe with little heart emojis and i think seb has him in as baby??

if they have any ‘couple traditions’ ( buying a new mug for their collection every year? baking every friday evening? ) mmmm i feel like they Absolutely would but i’m blanking now gbdfjkgd

who falls asleep first and who wakes up first they’re both late sleepers so it’s just whoever passes out first I think but seb tends to wake up earlier bc Work and eli won’t leave bed unless he really has to

who’s the big spoon / little spoon mmm seb’s probably the big spoon more maybe?? but also wakes up w eli clinging onto him

who hogs the bathroom probably eli?? bc again, Brat, but also i think he’d just take longer getting ready overall

who kills the spiders / takes them outside gbjdkfgd eli feels bad killing spiders so he definitely takes them outside if he comes across them and probably doesn't even mention it to seb

#hc.#&& sebastian.#anyway i would do Anything for these two #fcade

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teddy-feathers · 5 years

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look my problem with the au megamind where Roxanne is the alien and megamind is the reporter is i cant stop thinking about what i want out of that and how its probably not what other people want out of that which should mean 'oh shit i gotta write it' but really means 'in the next couple of months im going to rewatch megamind and be extremely frustrated because idk how to write these people as is let alone in an au'

but here are some thoughts

Itd have to take place on megaminds home world so like. have to develop that culture and frame it as the usual and other things as oddities

metroman still shows up at the same time the baby human does

roxan richie and metromans rivalry is less of a game and more of a metroman one up'd her ome to many times so now shes gotta take him out

its fine not because shes incompetent- in fact her death rays and pointy sticks are ingenious and have 0% public property or civilian causalities - but because metroman is not only impossible to kill, he adapts to anything that gets close (anything that doesnt kill him makes him stronger literally)

i guess this means theres a good chunk of the story that is centered around human adaptability vs perfect hero dudes adaptability

Roxanne Ritchie is actually a noted scientist or something at the local research facility - i figure blue people planet is really advanced and everyones at least a little technosmart but while it doesnt come as easily or naturally to Roxanne her way of thinking is really unique n shiz and shes an asset to every team....

but if you see her in a mask with some project from the lab macguivered into a gun trying to kill metroman well, no ones getting hurt and humans need hobbies and everyone respects the mask desptie the fact shes the ONLY human on the planet so its not like its hard to figure out who she is

she does spend a lot of nights having to rebuild projects and apologizing and such but basically everyone plays the plausible deniability card and asks her questions abiut what went wrong and okay so the masked menace failed after you let them steal our project but lets pretend for a moment the goal was to fix crops how would you say this did? and grumply shed revamp the guns weird side effect into an alien pollinating crop duster or whatever

got carried away when REALLY all I WANTED to say was

Whille Roxanne Ritchie is adaptable ingenuity and gets away at the last minute NOT because no ones trying to catch her but shes just that CLEVER and thinks ahead and shiz....

Megamind is the guy trying to interview her in the middle of a fight like he thinks he's cute - i mean he is but shes chasing after metroman and skids to a stop because this jerk stepped in for a comment. or shes lining up the perfect shot but theres a close up of megaminds reporter bag in the way

the thing is that maybe... blue people arent violent. a natural disaster hit recently and theyre coming back from it and if the two adopted alien kids want to play extreme tag well no ones getting hurt and Roxanne Ritchie will grow out of her competitiveness no doubt caused by just how superior EVERYONE on the planet is by finding her own niche and metroman will grow up and stop bating her because maybe he IS still better than everyone else and thats met with "oh very nice we're proud" but it doesnt really validate him or make him feel special because its just treated as a special thing he can do by everyong but Roxanne Ritchie and once he's found something that makes him feel good regardless of the attention or lack of it he'll stop playing too

but megamind? megamind has an imagination that loves drama and blowing things out of proportion and thats part of why his reports are so popular? like yeah everyones treating this super hero showdown with indulgence but megamind is good at framing theatrics so that this news story is actually a compelling narrative? and also everyone can see the tension is going to have one of these three "kids" confessing live someday

and maybe he gets carried away. one of those 'aw well next time you could do x or y' or has some technological creation that accidentally actually makes Metroman flinch during an interview

and Roxanne Ritchie starts paying attentionto him for the first time.

and minion warns him but he doesnt listen. minion is lower class and is afraid of being replaced like a pet like some people do but Roxanne Ritchie Ritchie doesnt have a minion and even if she did theyre Best Friends not like those other blue people minion uperclass people.

and he carelessly says something unforgivable and Roxanne Richie uses his ideas and actually succeeds in killing metroman

so she goes to prison - a place they had to build just for her because this hasnt happened since stars knows when

and somebody else is doing the camera because minion left just is gone and megamind looks defeated but testifies against her and is quiet and subdued and stpps being a reporter for a bit

and.... idk. i feel like we'll have to resolve the whole class system so minon goes underground and finds other minons who are unhappy with the way of things and if theyre ALREADY rebuilding society after that huge natural disaster that DIDNT blow up their planet thanks TO a minion well ehy cant they fix this too?

so theres a rebellion going on and theyve got a secret weapon to make blue people listen and idk but i feel like it's Metroman

and... how do stories like this go ive forgotten

minion wouldnt tell megamind or he would

metroman would break Roxanne Ritchie out of prison during the first riot of the minion revolt?

they talk and compare why they hated eachother and slowly work together and are actually a great team?

and then they need a reporter to make themselves heard as something other than minions going crazy

and so of course they go to megamind for help getting the story out

something something megamind is minions sidekick for this adventure

"Roxanne Ritchie was raised by the planet and turned against it and instigated civil unrest and killed a person who was also the good child etc etc instead of just growing up to face your problems"

"actually im alive and i finally found my place? helping out the real heros?"

"i mean i did try to kill him, but he forgave me and we're kinda working together because planet of moms and dads that raised us? yall actually are the ones who need to grow up and let go of the traditions that dont serve etc etc"

and megamind does a huge public apology to minion

and... uhhhhhhhhh fuck i really dont know how these storyies go

the blue people start making amends

metroman basically becomes a social worker for minion childern because finding their original families is a bit hard and most of these kids are just going to end up being raised by super dad but at least the rebellion minion families are actually geting to be their own family units and in a couple gens thatll be normal

Roxanne Ritchie goes back to being the token human in the lab and hangs up her super suit and is generally dissatisfied with this

until one night a hero breaks into her apartment to make her answer for her crimes and so for a legit hot second theyre fighting and megamind says something and Roxanne apologizes and then fighting stops being an argument and goes into banter flirting

the worss "where theres evil good will rise up to fight it" peob comes up a lot in this fic in different iterations

anyways megamind isnjust basically like hey wanna do this like. for the rest of our lives dramatic battle showdowns like its entertainment but like no theyre doing this for real?

the answer is hell yeah

and its a polyship and sometimes Roxanne is helping with the kids and then Megamind bursts in to "save" the family from her evil clutches and 90% of the time everything is improve

megamind kidnaps Roxanne to make metromind save her and a good half of the conversation is that hes an idiot for coming shes tried to kill him three times this week and hes bitching because do you know how hard it is to find a sitter for 30 odd minion kids this short notice and they better make it up to him

Roxanne is not superdad but the 30 odd minion kids adore when she comes over because they mob the villain so hard until finally mega comes to save her because hes actually very good with the kids

of course this poly ship isnt complete without minion and at some point minion and mega realize theyve actually been married for years and Roxanne and metro tease them shamelessly for it

minion and his race need a real name obviously

when Roxanne was a... graduate her senior project theses thingy was essentially "im going to go back to planet earth itll be great ive figured out were im from and how to go there in a reasonable amout of time" and everyone had to sit her down and explain that unlike metroman they knew where she was from the planet was just destroyed.

they never figured out where metroman was from because his direction sharply changed to follow baby Roxannes course and mirrored her coding despite very obviously how he had originated from elsewhere

this is important because his race is basically coming to conquer the blue people planet soon - the group finds out - and will download all the survival upgrades metroman has gotten to become unkillable and then just come down to the surface and be unstoppable taking the place over and whiping out the planet like theyve done many many times

a good chunk of the time trying to figure out how to stop them when this planet is REALLY against murder war and violence for good reason and even if they WOULD do that its impossible over looks some alone time that leads to megamind and metroman figuring out how to like kill him so when the bad guys show up theyll go "whelp better not fuck with them" and leave but between roxanne and minion they manage to not only stabilize metroman (Roxanne blood transfusions maybe???) but they manage to scare the aliens so bad they tuck tail and leave speading rumors that these are the scariest mfs in space (go minion)

metroman never lets Roxanne live down saving his life

eventually space humans show up to check the place out

megamind loves everything human despite most of the planet thinking theyre primitive and showing it

roxanne is reluctant to meet them at first but then really relates to them?

for a good long while it REALLY seems like megamind and Roxanne are just going to go on space adventures with the humans leaving metroman and minion - who really doesnt like them and also they kinda rub him the wrong way because he's non bipedal and they kinda make fun of him in a 'we totally dont mean anything by it lighten up' sort of way.

they don't go of course but they may have stolen a lot of atar charts n shit and who hasnt wanted to take a road trip through space with 30 odd childern who will need names and personalities and may be chopped down to a slightly more reasonable number by this point?

metroman loves space karaoke and his natural abilites mean he learns languages fast but no he still cant carry a tune

megamind and Roxanne still duke it out on various alien cityscapes

minion usually breaks them out of jail if theyre not to be let out the next day because nothing was actually damaged that didnt belong to them.

one memorable occasion it was metoman in a fight with megamind and they wont say what its about but both look very put out and minion looks smug

it doesn't matter in the end because Roxanne teams up with the childern to propose to them first

apparantly i had a lot more ideas about this then i meant to? i mean its not well thoughout out and despite the drama a good half the fic is just going to be cute relationship building stuff between the four of them

#megamind #megamind au idea #story idea #fanfic idea #my writing #i hope tagging shit makes it findable but x doubt

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wordsdrippinginink · 6 years

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SIO SIO SIO I HAD ANOTHER OPVENGERS THOUGHT!!!! Ok so in canon, clint ends up lost/in dumpsters all the time. SO! now that theyve made it back to OP world, Clint gets "lost"? (maybe hes really lost maybe its on purpose to get info or whatever) and Runs into the REVS before Ace and Co do? and Just kinda goes with it? Bonus points if he accidentally gets involved with whatever theyre doing because someone reminded him of Natasha or something

“This is my dumpster,” Clint tells the red head that had thrown herself into it. He had even waited for the shouting and banging that had followed her to stop before telling her, he was being polite. “I don’t share dumpsters.”

She raises an eyebrow and Clint feels like she’s judging everything he’s ever done, which isn’t fair! She doesn’t even know him and this isn’t even his home world, she doesn’t have the right to judge him like that.

“I don’t think you can judge me, Miss Running Away from People who Sound Important,” Clint knows that she can’t tell the parts of the name that are suppose to be upper case, but it makes him feel better. “Did you steal something?”

“No.”

Clint is already upset that she tried. That was the worst lie that he’s heard and he’s heard Tony try to lie about how much food he’s eaten in relation to how much coffee he’s had to drink. He think she realizes that because she frowns and looks away from him to peek out the dumpster and ducks back down.

“You stole something,” Clint repeats.

She frowns at him, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. Who are you and why are you in this dumpster?”

“I think that I get to ask the first question here because I’m the one that was in the dumpster first,” he ignores her look. “And if I don’t, I’ll get the attention of whoever is hunting you.”

“That’s a hard bargain. What do you want?”

“Your name.”

“Koala. Who are you and why are you in a dumpster?”

Clint hums, “That’s two whole questions. One at a time, tiny red one.”

“Fine,” she looks like she was trying to be sneaky and it’s adorable because it reminds him of what he thinks little Natasha would have looked like. Even if he knows that face would only show up on her face if she wanted to play him or was so much younger. “Your name.”

“Barton Clint,” the naming conventions are at least simple to grasp. “What are you doing here?”

“I stole something. You?”

“Got into a bar fight and woke up here. I’m probably gonna have to get up and look for my crew soon. If I can find the energy to move,” Clint is tired and doesn’t want to move. Maybe Tony’s tracking chips are still working and they’re hunting him down. “But I’m here. Are you a marine?”

Koala laughs herself sick, “I’m a member of the Revolutionary Army,” she stops and her hand bends part of the rim. “You tricked me.”

“I did not, I stole information. I’m a pirate,” the word leaves a strange taste on his tongue, a mix of nostalgia for a childhood that he didn’t have much of and sheer confusion at the fact he can say he’s a pirate with a straight face and mean it. “Pretty sure my bounty is more than your’s.”

Ace had explained how bounties worked, including the one that he had gotten, raising steadily higher as people started to believe that he was who he was instead of another impostor. Clint’s is going steadily too, enough that he will snag a poster when he leaves to brag about it to Natasha.

“No it’s not,” Koala peers out from over the top of the dumpster. “I’m leaving.”

“Don’t get killed,” Clint calls cheerfully after her, letting his head drop back down just as Ace peers at him from the roof. “Oh, hey buddy!”

“Tony says you can’t come on the ship if you smell bad. Pepper agreed.”

Clint groans, “But you’re the captain.”

“The captain who doesn’t want Pepper to kill him in his sleep,” Ace says shrugging easily. “Come on, we can shower and you can tell me about that red head you were chatting with.”

“How long have you been up there?”

Ace frowns at the sky for a minute, “An hour? There were too many marines to risk it. Were looking for the right hand of the Revolutionary’s Chief, pretty sure that was her.”

“Huh, help me up? I think I bruised my side and I want food.”

#clint barton #portgas d ace #koala (one piece)#crossover fanfic #op fanfic #ace and avengers #meeting koala by accident #i hope this counts #i wasn't sure how to work the rest of it in #but i hope this is good #wordword #minister-of-silly-walks

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vialacteas · 6 years

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@rnyfh I AAAaaaa FINISHED TSOA I started the book knowing almost nothing abt it. tbh I didn't think the author would portray their relationship explicitly, so naturally I got shocked when I realized that tsoa was a love story!!!!!!!! and an epic one... GOD n not to be me but like.hear me out.. so many aspects of patroclus/achilles remind me of spirk n so many other ships..cant help but feel like theyve given name to a very special kind of relationship. theyre It, u know. the prototype of unconditional love tht since then has been repeated in many ways. i rlly fuckign enjoyed seeing achilles' development thru patroclus eyes n i rlly enjoyed patroclus finding himself and earning respect for who he is. "You do not give things up so easily, now, as you once did" as chiron said, followed thru his whole journey.

the final chap absolutely destroyed me but it was so good. “We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”

anyway tsoa was absolutely fantastic rlly cnt wait to finally understand ur takes on it. i tagged u here bc i didnnt want to spam u on twitter/ask box

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jimmycarrhairlinesurgery · 6 years

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hey abby guess what. 1-30

1: Favorite season?

you KNOW you KNOW a softe bitch loves season 5 its just pure and nice and comforting to watch and also has so many goode episodes and macden moments in it... i literally have the url iasipseasonfive saved like need i say more

2: Favorite character?

its mac... like ofc it is ive loved dennis and dee in the past and of course i still have a soft spot for the trash twins esp their childhoods but mac’s coming out arc is just perfect and he just wants to be a happy boye! honestly it might change but my big three are den dee and mac sorry gruesome twosome

3: Favorite cast member?

i kin glennato and like LOVE his weird music taste but i have 2 say kaitlin olson shes so present on social media and the utter reverence with which the other cast members speak abt her is just. beautiful! she’s credited with literally saving the show by making dee just as despicable as the rest of the gang she’s a feminist queen and also managed to cuff rmacelhenney like kudos girl! angel queen gorgeous etc

4: OTP?

it’s mac and dennis honestly their relationship can get my heart pounding and it was the main reason i was drawn to the show in the first place... kings of being repressed sexually and emotionally and honestly i related to that feeling of being repressed and in love w your best friend like not to project on characters that have nothing to do w me but they rlly helped me work through some issues!!! im not as ride or die as before because theyve already done so much but fingers crossed for s14 lads

5: BROTP?

ooooo this is difficult bc i love charmac but mac and dee is the friendship we deserve.... she could help him get over his raging misogyny and he could introduce her to the gay lifestyle how perfect would that be?? also i just feel like when they r alone they could be so nice to each other and i want that for them

6: NOTP?

one of them raped the other, what more can i say?

7: answered

8: Least favorite character?

it has to be frank like i get so angry thinking about how he abused dennis and dee as children he has almost zero redeemable qualities but like.. i could learn to love him if mfhp was a turning point... i just can’t ever get over the fact that he owned a sweatshop the joke stuff just isn’t even funny to me it makes me feel ill

9: Least favorite episode?

uhhhh if you’ve seen iasip ranked you’ll know that we ranked a cricket’s tale and frank’s brother as the worst but i’d also like to put up there the gang goes on family fight bc dennis’ breakdown is painfullll... other episodes that hurt me personally are the gang broke dee and how mac got fat

10: Favorite crack ship?

deetress started off as a crackship but it’s become honestly very serious and i hold it v close to my heart... if you don’t believe me watch one single minute of the boggs ladies reboot.... honorable mention is charden

11: Favorite headcanon?

hhmm i think that one of my favourite ones of all time is dennis is the bar like that was inimitable... also like hc that dee is lesbian bc she is

12: An episode you wish you could change?

all lethal weapon episodes... imagine how iconic they could be and quotable as well if they didn’t include blackface :(

13: An episode you wish you could write?

i want to write a vegas ep for sure.... like imagine also i would NOT do it justice but the episode where mac and dennis first get together, oof actually you’d do a better job of it tbh

14: Favorite thing about the show?

it has to be rcg like what other showrunners would care so much about the fate of the show and adapt it so much as time goes on... as much as i slander them on this website they really created one of the best shows to ever air

15: Least favorite thing about the show?

hmmm aside from all the blackface and the fact that they should have hired black writers if they wanted to address race in the show.... the fact that the gang r being so mean to mac and the whole ddl thing it’s a nightmare why didn’t they tell us what was going on with dennis??

16: Favorite running gag?

charlie’s illiteracy......... iconique also repressed mac was a good gag while it lasted i am glad he is out though

17: Best Mac shirt?

BEAST COAST

18: Best Dennis rant?

hnndg im gonna have to say the whole keeping the skin,, skin glass box thing in season 10 i forget the name of the episode but GOD that kills me every time glenn really went to julliard huh

19: answered

20: answered

21: Favorite end credits message?

idk i never watch the end credits messages! send me your favourites if you have any lads :)

22: A character you’d write off the show?

ngl probably cricket... he really bores me and like a cricket’s tale cemented that i think everything they can do with the character they have done but for longevity they have to keep him so he can supplement the gang’s schemes

23: An actor you want to see on the show (bonus points if you can think of a character for them)?

ooooooooo i’d love if dax sheppard came back on the show!! also i WISH lili reinhardt could come on but as betty from riverdale.. like a 30 second betty from riverdale cameo would be so ideal you have no idea it would be so stupid but like... hh

24: Favorite fic?

Yphrum’s Law by @lesbianfreyja chapter one made me BAWL (andchaos on ao3) and also anything by @macfoundhispride (yennefers on ao3) and also your fics michelle !!! everyone go check her out she’s peraltiagoisland on ao3

25: Favorite promo shoot?

the fuckign ingrid bergman one for season 8 i have no idea why they would do that but it’s incredible..... so niche i feel like it was glennato’s idea

26: Best Waitress hair-style?

sexeyyy episode charlie and dee find love her hair was so pretty long but also i love it now im glad she went brunette again good for her!! any waitress hairstyle is a good hairstyle

27: Fluffy hair Mac or hair-gel Mac?

FLUFFY HAIR MAC ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?

28: answered in GREAT DETAIL

29: Overrated character?

cricket... not to bash cricket again.... but also frank and charlie are overrated imo i can’t understand why charlie is the show’s darling i’ve never been that interested in him

30: Underrated episode?

the most underrated episode of all time is pop-pop the final solution i love it sm.... GOD it’s so good it truly has everything and like the nazi stuff was well executed.. questions abt life and death,,, deception, ryan gosling? i love it also dennis reynolds an erotic life is amazing

this took me like an hour and a half michelle i hope you’re happy!! also if you’re still reading thank you for putting up w my bullshit

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sethkate · 7 years

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caleb x sav for the memes

who in your otp:

drives when they go on road trips? do they switch at the halfway point? does one drive there and the other drive back?

caleb drives!! even if sav ever got her license i doubt she would ever drive. especially not caleb’s car since that’s the 2nd love of his life.

looks over the menu for fifteen minutes before ordering the same thing they order EVERYWHERE they go? does the other half of your ship get annoyed by this, or do they find it endearing?

savannah prob orders the same thing. im sure she and caleb talk about the fact that like ‘oh maybe you should get something healthier?? with a little bit more sustenance??’ then at the last minute she’s prob like ‘NAH ill take the cheeseburger, cheese fries and milkshake pls’ which idk if would necessarily annoy him per say but he would def roll his eyes and be concerned even more for her health :/

is more likely to get arrested?

caleb. probably for fighting tbh.

is afraid of rollercoasters? does the other half of your ship try and convince them to face the fear, or do they take a softer approach and not push them at all?

i don’t think either of them are afraid of rollercoasters?

shows up at home with a dog unannounced despite the fact they’ve already got three/four/however many pets?

sav! once they get one you know… it’s probably gonna open the door for ten more hahaha she’ll get help from the neighbor lady taking care of them all

demands that they do date night? does the other person complain or do they go with it just to see the excited look on their partners face?

savannah demands them since she’s always like?? tried to get caleb to take her out. but obviously she becomes more okay with the fact that it doesn’t need to be anything fancy. just them getting out of the apartment and what not. when caleb’s feeling particularly romantic (if ever) he would pull out some stops just to see the look on sav’s face knowing she def wouldn’t expect it

is the clumsy one whose always tripping up flights of stairs or over their own feet? does it stress the other half of your ship out or do they find it hilarious?

sav would fall more than caleb?? he prob laughs @ her tbh bc i def would too

picks the music when they’re in the car? does the other complain about their taste in music?

caleb probably tries because he says he is the driver??? but that doesn’t stop savannah from trying to change it because she is 100% not about the type of music caleb is

insists on paying for everything when they’re out? do they fight about it?

caleb because his momma taught him well. savannah likely wouldn’t fight him about it either? only maybe if she knew he was tight on money and even then it would prob be a long shot that she would ever have more money than him bc lbr she spends hers on stupid shit

is the one to quietly suggest they get high together for the first time? how does the other half of your ship react?

shitttt i don’t think this would happen in regular verse bc sav wouldn’t want to tempt caleb like that knowing his past? but i can see trashbag au caleb maybe trying to get sav to do shit with him. which she might….at least try it?? but obvs this would be before he like REALLY spiraled because otherwise she’s trying to get him off drugs

is secretly terrified of horror movies and yet watches them all the time bc its something the other half of your ship loves?

neither of them are necessarily terrified of them but sav will watch them because it gives her an excuse to snuggle up to caleb more

talks in their sleep? does their partner record it and call them out, or not tell them and keep it as a secret so they can keep enjoying it?

caleb probably talks in his sleep. and sav would def record it lol. she’s not good with secrets tho so it prob wouldn’t last long

brings up the conversation of marriage + babies? how does the conversation go?

caleb ofc is the one to bring it up lol. the first time it happens… prob doesnt go over well. cause sav is like ‘lol no’ but i think the longer they are together, the easier the convo would be the more it is brought up. once theyve got more stability in their lives and are actually in a decent place to get married and start a family

has to pull the other back by their back of their sweater when they try and do something stupid in public?

i think they both do this sometimes. especially when it comes to the other person?? like even if they don’t want to admit it they both get pretty jealous fairly easily which makes them both confrontational af

is more likely to pick the other up from the airport with an obnoxiously large cardboard sign? what does the sign say?

caleb would be the one to pick sav up from the airport but i def don’t see him doing this lmao. flowers? yes but not a sign that draws a lot of attention to him. i can see him and sav doing this tho when they are both together in boston and darren comes to visit bc sav would have no problem writing obnoxious shit on a sign and holding it up in public for all to see

tries to cook a meal and accidentally almost burns the house down?

savannah of course. caleb is more domesticated than her

deliberately makes a squeaky chair squeak until the other person flips out?

sav when she wants to get caleb’s attention hahaha. prob does shit like this all the time in an effort to basically say ‘PAY ATTENTION TO ME’ without actually saying it

falls asleep no matter what position they’re in + needs to be carried to bed?

they are both probably so exhausted all the time because their sleep schedules are t e r r i b l e that i’m sure either of them can fall asleep in pretty uncomfortable positions? and they’d both probably just stay there rather than carry one another to the bed

is the little spoon when they cuddle?

savannah ofc

hates thunderstorms and needs to be comforted for the duration?

caleb likes them, savannah doesn’t necessarily hate them but she prefers sunshine??? but i’m sure she likes the fact that they make A+ cuddling weather

brings the other breakfast in bed? is it a proper cooked breakfast - or just an old muffin?

caleb prob leaves breakfast for savannah to eat when she wakes up. prob not proper though. maybe a granola bar or a banana to try and get her to eat healthier.

convinces the other to go on a hike? do they love it, or are they absolutely miserable?

caleb convinces sav and she 10/10 doesn’t like it lol. she’s too city to enjoy time outside in the wilderness

can never admit they’re wrong?

omgggg both of them the stubborn assholes

lets the dog sleep on the bed when the other isn’t paying attention?

def savannah. caleb would prob say he doesn’t want the dog on the bed bc of fur and stuff?? but i bet you when sav isn’t paying attention he’s prob cuddling with the dog too lol

uses emojis in replace of words? does it drive the other person insane?

sav would do this to caleb because i think he is Too Cool for emojis lmao. and yes it prob drives him insane bc he has no fuckin clue what she’s talking about

who decorates their house? does the other come home and blink at all the pastel pink and force a smile despite how much they hate it?

probably joint effort, but sav more than caleb. he probably wants to keep things pretty minimal, but sav wants things more cozy. but never in her life would she paint anything pastel pink so i think theyre ok.

is more likely to get into a fight to defend the other?

both of them. but i think caleb would need to defend savannah more.

is constantly spewing random facts about absolutely anything and everything? does it annoy the other person or do they find it all interesting?

savannah bc u know she absorbs all the questions/answers from trivia night at the bar and is pretty keen on telling everyone and anyone who will listen about all the shit she learns

is the lovey dovey drunk?

ew savannah lmao she turns into clingy ass bitch for sure

laughs at their own jokes? does the other laugh at the joke… or at their partner?

caleb prob and he is def gonna be That Dad with all the dad jokes too when they have kids. i’m sure sav laughs at both.

is competitive about EVERYTHING?

obvs both of them

apologizes first when they have a fight?

i wanna say sav bc she hates when caleb is mad at her lol even when she isn’t in the wrong prob :/

makes the other a flower crown? does the other wear it without complaint or beg not to be embarrassed?

neither they are not this type of couple @ all

is more likely to put their fist through a wall when they’re angry?

caleb!!!! which he’s done a hundred times already i’m sure

sends the other memes despite the fact they’re laying in bed next to each other?

savannah. probably when he is reading important shit for work and school and she’s forcing herself to stay awake just cause he is. so that’s how she entertains herself and distracts the hell out of him

wears the others clothes the most?

sav wears caleb’s bc otherwise that’d be weird

pranks the other on a near constant basis? how does the other react?

they both prank darren :))))

comes up with obnoxiously sappy pet names for the other just to watch them roll their eyes?

they prob both do this jokingly like?? to see who can come up with the worst ones

forgets their anniversary?

caleb does in the trashbag au FOR SUREEE and it basically breaks sav’s heart into a trillion pieces !!!

is impulsive and makes big choices for them without stopping to think through what it all means?

savannah lmao everything she does is based on impulse

writes cute messages for the other on the bathroom mirror when they have a shower?

sav

has to do the dishes because the other gags any time they stick their hands in the water?

neither of them like doing dishes but for a different reason?? so they prob take turns so it’s fair

jumps into the pool without testing the temperature, and who dips their toes in first?

sav would jump in and caleb would dip his toes in first i think?

tries to kill bugs in the house… and which one stops them and gets the bug out of the house alive and well?

caleb kills the bugs bc savannah hates them. so in the end all the bugs die lmao

can speak a second/third/forth language and uses it to annoy the other when they’re fighting?

caleb would know more of a second language than sav but i don’t think he would use it to annoy her?? idk if he would even remember much of what he learned tbh

says i love you first? does the other immediately say it back?

sav probably. the first time i don’t think caleb would (since they still havent said it yet…. i hate us, mainly me for suckin but u get it) then after the first time i think he would be more inclined to say it back immediately

wins when they arm wrestle?

caleb by a long shot. sav is wimpy

gets caught singing some old, corny one direction song to themselves?

savannah!! but ofc old school tay swift is always gonna be her fave

is forever forcing the other to take selfies with them? does the other person complain every time?

jesus savannah does this soooooooo much and obvs caleb complains lol but does it anyway

shows up at the others house with chinese food + a six pack of beer when they’re having a bad day?

caleb would do this but not necessarily when either of them were having a bad day? this is just a regular thing for them

sends the cheesy good morning/night texts?

maybe both of them. sav’s would be more sappy tho.

can never admit that they were wrong?

also, both

suggests they send out a christmas card together? does the other go for it, or question when they turned into old people?

savannah does but caleb has ptsd from matching sweaters with his family so he probably is against it

is a morning person and who pulls the covers up over their head and begs for five more minutes?

caleb is more of a morning person than sav bc school and his job but in reality neither of them technically are? because they would both stay under the covers all day if they could

is constantly insisting they won’t need a jacket before they go out… and then has to steal the others when they get cold?

savannah lol esp if a jacket clashes her outfit

is a smoker and has to deal with the other forever showing them gross photos to try and convince them to quit?

they both smoke so???? lmao

decides they need to go on a health binge and throws out all the sugary food in the house? how does the other react?

caleb tries to do this all the time @ sav’s and it never goes over well :/

holds all the important documents when they’re travelling? why?

caleb because savannah would def lose them

hates flying? how does the other help them relax before/during/after a flight?

savannah doesnt like it initially so caleb would help her through it but i feel like after she goes to boston a couple of times by herself she gets used to it?

is more likely to suggest a lil fool around in the bathrooms at a club? how does the other react?

savannah probably suggests it, but caleb isnt against it

plans a night of boardgames for date night, and who plans a romantic dinner at a fancy restaurant?

neither of them are board game ppl?? and i think they say the fancy dinners for anniversaries so

cries watching the news?

neither!!

teases the other one for having a crush on them… despite the fact they’ve been dating for a year?

savannah prob teases caleb about this bc for sooo long they tried to keep things casual but it didn’t work and she was always the one that wanted to make it official so she’s prob still super proud of herself

believes in aliens?

sav more so than caleb

is constantly leaving the lights on in every room in the house?

savannah until caleb gives her shit for running up the electric bill

rocks the seat on the ferris wheel?

savannah

is a terrible liar?

100000% savannah lol

is always reading the other their star sign despite the fact they don’t believe in any of it?

savannah reads them and probably does believe in it?? caleb always tries to tell her that it’s full of shit

who panics when mercury goes into retrograde?

neither

insists they watch documentaries to broaden their knowledge?

caleb lol

is constantly renovating part of their house but not finishing one thing before moving on to the next?

caleb butttttt is it really renovating if all he knows how to use is duct tape? lmao

uses all the hot water?

both of them together!!!

is the shower person? whose the bath person?

caleb is a shower person, savannah is a bath

is most likely to be unfaithful?

neither in regular verse… caleb in trashbag au :/

bonus questions:

what is your otps song?

they have so many i can’t think of any right now bc i suck!!!!

do their families approve of the relationship? why/why not?

no lololol caleb’s parents are not sav’s biggest fans

whose friends do they hang out with more?

caleb’s probably because they are better influences and don’t just wanna go bar hopping/clubbing and use drugs

what do they do on their first date? did they have a first date, or did they just sort of… start dating?

they had a “real” first date loooong after they were seeing each other on the regular

what is their favorite way to spend the holidays? do they go to one of their families houses? or do they create their own tradition by staying in bed listening to christmas music and getting drunk?

probably doing anything just with each other?? im sure they avoid family shit at all costs bc i’m sure it usually comes with a bunch of drama. so they would be happy staying in bed listening to christmas music and getting drunk

what do they name their dog? do the give it a super boring name like allen - or do they name it something like bubblegum princess?

idk but they def need a dog!!! it won’t have a name like bubblegum princess tho that’s for sure

how do they handle emergencies? does one of them crack under the pressure - or do they bicker because they both need to be in control?

savannah probably panics. caleb is more levelheaded under pressure so i’m sure he’d figure out how to handle it

how did they meet? were they immediately drawn to each other?

caleb became her drug dealer once he got his lil bro out of the game!!! in an abandoned gas station parking lot (so romantic) and sav was like suuuper into caleb and he was prob like ‘ya she cute’ but savannah was totes hearteyes from the beginning and would have banged him right then and there if the opportunity presented itself

what do they fight about the most? how do they resolve their fights?

drugs? money? other people???? probably by screaming @ each other lmao :/ sometimes caleb leaves which ends the fight. sometimes they just have angry sex.

#shehasnoears #long post #ship: savannah & caleb #i underestimated how many questions there were lmao

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floralkittygambler · 4 years

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Reposting for reasons

Response to Honest’s post here: Doing this to spread this awareness more as I know theres a bit of a rift in the critical community - plus I really fucking go on. Im PISSED and I do apologise however it NEEDS urgent addressing. I know people will hate me for it but Im used to hate and honestly? Hating rather than helping to solve the issue only furthers my fucking point here. So yeah this is so more people are aware (no offense to any of those involved in said rift either, but this is an important message. Thank you for understanding and if I can do anything to make all sides comfortable, then please message me and I’ll do my upmost.) “ More awareness of this is needed. Even if it’s your favourite, you can’t justify their shit but rally against another’s shit. Have people tell you you’re experiences arent real or invalid because, like Husk, people have - in real life - shipped you with someone you are far from comfortable with but you still treat them like a person. Because you have basic respect. And people force you to accept harassment, touching, stalking, advances for THEIR satisfaction. People use you for their fantasies. But you’re just a ‘tsundere’ for it. Or you have addiction issues but people think being with another addict will ‘save’ you because you’re apparently too incompetent to save yourself. Love isnt some magic fuckin cure so stop romanticising it as a fuckin saviour. It’s gross and fuckin creepy. Get stalked and have someone NEVER accept your no just because you show youre still decent enough to not treat them shitty or any different from anyone else. Try having someone way older or way younger (both in morally fucked up ways) advance on you and people encourage that. People you’re supposed to feel safe around.

People touch you when you pull away or show discomfort. Follow you home. Have pictures of you and wont accept you dont like them like that and it’s not ‘playing hard to get’ or ‘the thrill of the chase’. Fuck. OFF. In fact, Im not only disappointed in the fandom. Im disappointed in the entire team who some should know better from their OWN personal experiences - or at least the bare minimal of being a fucking adult. Im disappointed in especially females (sorry idk whether girl or woman is more appropriate here-) who statistically are more likely to have experienced something similar at some point in their lives think this is a cute gay moment. No. Angel is made out as a fucking predator - Im not saying he is, Im saying that his persistence is very fucking unwelcome like one. People like Husk dont need that fucking invasiveness. They/We need patience and someone on our level. Angel’s I know are the fuckin polar opposite - and some of them I know are very sexually harassing, including unwanted touching. It’s a shitty way to present gay people. Gays are fuckin people. Some are cunts and some arent. It’s a HUMAN thing. But considering the shit theyve been subjected to, presenting a gay as a victim only to also show them as a perpetrator is insulting! And for those Ive seen argue this about how people like AD wouldnt know how to express their love normally and whatnot? His pig. His best friend. He’s in his fucking 30s. There are literal real life criminals who get molested as kids and then go on to molest kids. Not all who grow up like that turn into nonces. Stop just fucking STOP justifying and romanticising this bullshit! I used to see the good in AD but now he makes me fucking sick. Especially with my verrrrrry fucking real traumas and connections. But fuck me, eh? Because this fictional guy matters so much more. Fuck real victims. And whilst we’re at it, fuck AD too when it suits your fetishes! Sarcasm aside, the fans and the team need to straighten up their abhorrent behaviour. Stolas. Fucking clearly having an affair, knowingly fucking up his daughter’s mental health and bribing a guy into sex who only wants the book and nothing more. He even has a fucking warning button over Stolas- Guys, how do you think any of this is cute? Even the team gross me out- I genuinely see potential and talent and it’s all gone to shit to satisfy horny teens, horny adults, and literally everyone who doesnt for the life of them understand being an adult is more than sex, drugs, violence and swears! I REALLY want to keep enjoying HB/HH but it’s getting harder and harder with such ignorant and bordering lazy creators (note: lazy as in wont do the fucking research or actually listen to real criticism and victims), such despicable fans (yeah, some HDers fuckin mocked that they triggered my ED, yet they had the fucking NERVE to support Angel’s potential ED AND laugh and blame me for me getting treated so badly for actually having the balls to call Angel and the teams hypocrisy. I got told to kill myself, that my problems arent real - oh but Angels apparently is! Which... They *are* but AD isnt real so technically only onlookers will suffer and not a drawing - and they just excused their toxic behaviours. These people are like “aww poor angie babey!” yet fuckin INSULT sex workers. All this red in Hazbin yet it feels everyone and they mama colour blind. The issues are getting worse and fans are outright becoming EVIL, VILE, Vindictive little bullies - from kids to adults. You SHOULD be ashamed of yourself if you conduct yourself in such a manner. And you need to readjust your attitudes and behaviours because the only fuckers getting hurt are actual fucking victims. Ever been violated and been gaslit so much you STILL fucking question it’s reality? So you drown that shit out yet somehow it’s effects still hit you? Fetishise it. Make it your uwu gae couple goals, you’re no better than people believing Harley and the Joker werent toxic af. If this shit happened to you, most of you would actually SEE where we’re all coming from. Also, stop making gay a fetish - you’re like those creepy old men in the alley heckling lesbians to make out so they can wank off. Gays, no ALL the LGBT+ are fucking people too. So dont give me that bullshit then start turning everything just gay or just straight to mentally wank off to. It’s degrading and dehumanising. And yes, fiction does effect reality. You crush on a fictional character? Mourn one? Support one? Hell, fuckin jerk off to one - that’s affecting reality. Remember how in fiction all blacks were treated as villians? Look how theyre treated IRL. JAWS, great classic unfortunately their was a spike in shark killings over a fucking movie - the shark in the movie wasnt even real for the most part because they dont behave like that! (Also the animatronic was so shit they genuinely had so many issues - I think they even took to naming each one! Some fun trivia there!). Tiger sharks are more nasty than great whites as tiger sharks will hunt and eat a human. Great whites prefer seals and dislike human flesh, they just mistake us for seals. Hell, theres the toothless basking shark - theyre often SWAM WITH by divers for being so friendly. Yet Jaws made people think all sharks are bloodlusting over humans. Slenderman was created for a fucking contest and that influenced a stabbing (NOT Victor’s fault). Watch a horror movie that isnt based on a real life event and tell me that at least ONE has left you peaking over your shoulder. Stella may be a bitch - we dont know for certain - but try getting cheated on. Y’know what? Try growing up in such a broken home like Octavia. Yeah reaaaaaal fucking cute now, huh? Funny how as well y’all petition for male victims to be taken seriously then laugh when fictional males experience this abuse, further adding to stigma. You can be hit on by the hottest mf on the planet but if you arent interested, that should be respected! Also we’ve all been inspired by at least one fictional character so yeah. Yknow, since I was little Ive been fighting for sex worker and homeless rights. But HH/HB treatment of both leave a bitter taste in my mouth. I’ll still fully support sex workers and the homeless, but that’s the fucking effect this show is having. Bearing in mind I wont ever share everything Ive been through - and I shouldnt fucking have to in order to be believed and validated (obvs proof is required in a legal case but that’s a whole other topic). Why should I share MY fucking pain especially when you fuckers have belittled and triggered it more so? We have our rights to our secrets but fuck ME you lot NEED to start acting appropriately and like decent fucking humans. ‘iTs HeLl’ yeah and welcome to Earth- the team and yourselves live HERE. You obide by THESE rules. And as someone with beliefs (and a LOT of ancient fucking texts and studies on this shit) their Hell isnt even a proper Hell! It’s closer to purgatory and even then it’s not. Regardless, it’s a poorly built world with the lore consistently changing per episode and tweet, with many plot holes, and is apparently easy to get into - even via accidentally watching porn according to a stream. If youre gonna parade youre a fucking expert and research into demonology and use real believed figures, at least get THAT right. In fact, Lucifer and Lilith (and Stolas tbf) are ESPECIALLY risky as theyre a lot more complex than most easy access texts will tell you. Likewise, Stolas’s first introduction and main focus is sex. He’s one of the FEW Goetia demons that dont have some involvement in relationship issues at ALL. He’s known for astrology, crystals and herbs but hes also known to aid MONEY troubles (it’s lesser known but it’s true! HB Stolas is an insult to the Prince). Turning Vodou into something evil is vile considering it’s powerful and liberated slaves. Pentagrams are nothing to do with Satan, they’re magic based sigils. Upside down cross is the symbol of a SAINT. It’s just some edgy attempt to trick people into believing they know more than they do. Also you should NEVER dabble and doodle sigils without knowing the meanings or respecting what they behold. Vox and Val, real fuckin cute way to make them look like a stupid fucking highschool drama instead of a fucking SEX TRAFFICKER (note: real pimps often target YOUNG folks too - aka minors - and groom them into sex work. Theres different types of pimp. Viv has shown barely any understanding of ‘the game’ and its a fucking insult to injury. Yes we KNOW what a fucking pimp and prozzie are! We dont need to see it. We need REAL AWARENESS.) and a fucking scheming bastard of a CEO salesman botman. And yet even THEN lets go a step further and make some yandere wuv on boyfweind aboose! Fuck off- Now I love a good anime but these tropes are getting fucking dangerous now. And unrealistic to real love and relationships. Kids nowadays know fuck all on a healthy relationship (neither did the fuckin 50s tbf) and Im seeing more romaticism and glorifying abusive situations. Like the show ‘You’. Ok, there’s a fuckin bloke online who slaughtered innocents and kidnapped yet people commented how cute he is on his IG and that they want to be kidnapped or killed by him next. Dont believe me? Look up Peter Manfredonia Connecticut and the comments people left him and then tell me why shit like whats being presented in HH/HB ISNT fucking concerning - because it is. For a series about redemption, it’s brilliant at the opposite (Quote from the creator herself, Viv has posted that it’s influencing her bad choices. Even as a joke, proof’s in the pudding). And the overall focus on sex in the way Viv does is so immature and really creepy, and this is from an ADULTS perspective. From one adult to another, Im concerned as to why any of them think this is a normal fixation. Then again they’ve hired quite a large amount of dodgy folks and even a child. Most of this shit gets avoided with a basic background check like most companies run. I DO like Hazbin. Or the premise. I love some of the cast and spite the others. In Helluva, I just like a tiny portion of the cast. And I critique it so harshly because Viv DOES need a wakeup slap, grounding to reality, people who arent going to big her up or kiss her arse for once and shape her up to be the best she can be. The actually reach and even surpass her potential. And to reach where you need to be, there’s a lot of harsh lessons youll face. That’s life. Shes chosen one of the most HEARTLESS industries and if she blocks out critique as ‘hate’ then she’s not strong enough and wont last. It’s just another unprepped YanDev again (except I dont believe Viv to be a nonce. Even with her dodgy past and dodgy present, I think her perspective on sex and relationship with sexuality is FAR from healthy BUT I dont believe she’s a pedophile. Ive bled my fair share and so far, I just think her sex perspective isnt healthy or mature for her age. But there’s little to nothing to suggest actual noncery - dont worry about accusations there. But YanDev is totally a dirty predator. Just clearing that up). Viv NEEDS some harshness and stability if she wants to do things right. And it’ll make her fucking cry but if she loves these projects as much as she claims to, then you’ll sacrifice blood, sweat and tears for that shit. Even the strongest points are mediocre at best when properly observed. She CAN do more, but she’ll have to face the harsh music. Viv wont see this, but if she does, I dont care if it upsets her. Why? Because this is that much of an issue - something she’s cultivated - that she needs to take action and not ignore it or be secretive about it. She needs to grow up and get tougher skin. Im not saying this to cause her pain. In fact, I wouldnt waste my fucking limited time if I DIDNT care. Trust me, I have duties to be met at a certain quota every single day. I say this shit only because I give a shit and care. If we met, she’d fucking hate me. But people like me are good for shaping people up to their potential. And we arent always this ‘tough love’ either. But when someone needs that level of harshness to help themselves, we’re not afraid to lose people or cause upset if the results end up being the best for them. If she ever saw this, she needs to re fucking evaluate her message, her story, and those she’s choosing to welcome into her circle. And all Im seeing is one rookie mistake after the other. Her paid patreon discord. Just like the messages Honest has posted on her side of being harassed (not in Vivs fyi), Ive experienced shit and bullying and even stay silent on their for being attacked for a group I fuckin paid to be in and yet I feel isolated. It’s all arsekissing and ‘thank you viv’ (thats an actual channel-) and it feels like a place of borderline worship and people trying to appease her 24/7 whilst kicking others with different opinions down. There’s so many I love but I aint kissin yer fuckin arse. Ask the closest friend I have - we’re fucking raw and wont just side with each other just because. We’ll call each other out if we think they’ve fucked up and then help each other build themselves up better. Because real fuckin people who actually care wont just want to be adored by you. They’ll care enough to point out your bullshit and help you, even if they upset you at the time. They’re real and upfront with you. People like us arent always the easiest to be close to either because we arent afraid of upsetting someone if it’s in their best interest and to help them. Likewise, we dont go out looking for fights either. Most times, we’re fuckin soft bastards- All this shit listed is the fuckin surface level of the real life hell of this fandom. And unsurprisingly, those who experience little to no toxicity have always been higher on that popularity ‘food chain’ - enough admirers and shared opinions that people wanna arse kiss regardless of their OWN feelings as well as neutral perspectives. I’d say you’re the lucky fans, but you’re not. You’re sheltered, and that isnt always the best way to be sadly. As for the fans. If Ive upset you. Well... I dont care. Because many of you have actively sought me out and weaponised my traumas against me. You never cared about my feelings then. Why should I care about yours? Im not doing this out of malice. Im fed up of humans behaving so pathetically yet claiming to be high and mighty. Most of you have been arseholes to those in and out of the community. The victims and non-victims alike. Hardly any of you considered once my real suffering. You put a drawing over a life. Many lives. You had the audacity to tell me Im full of shit. Some even using my real traumas to make a mockery of me and those Im around with a very similar history. Some with traumatic histories that differ from my own. You hardly ever considered the real lives of those effected. So no, Im not sorry for having the fucking balls to this day to still stand up for our rights and give us a voice that’s long been stolen. Im not sorry for being a fucking victim. Im not sorry for saying what desperately NEEDS voicing. And Im not sorry for not conforming to you or any fandom just to belong. We deserve better than to constantly be your fuckin arse monkeys (well... the trope is butt monkey but yknow-) and to be mistreated, misrepresented and harmed by you. You’re no different to the school bullies who give speeches on anti-bullying day. And I hope every single one of you starts looking into yourselves and improving. PS: Depending on the texts you read, Lucifer is said to have been redeemed or to be redeemed. Fun fact to haunt yalls with~ “

#warning long #long post #hazbin critical #very long rant #important #hear victims voices #just sick of how awful people can treat one another and believe this is acceptable #everyone is accountable #toxic fanbase #Toxic shippers #toxic ships #im literally too fucking old for this #forgive the anger but after years and years it gets so cumbersome and tiring #im happy to be the pariah if it means victims actually get heard and helped

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stonermurphy · 7 years

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For the send me a pairing can you please do Conman/Kleinphy?

hgjasjdhgashjgf kleinphy is such a bad ship name oh my god its perfect for them

proposes - it’s jared and he’s super nervous about it but connor says yes literally the second he drops to his knee,, jared is like ‘i mean i had a whole speech prepared…” “tell me later now just shut up and make out with your future husband” “DEAL”

shops for groceries - jared’s problem is over eating and connors problem is undereating so jared usually takes over shopping trips to try and get more of the stuff he knows connor will eat becus if left to himself he’ll just get what jared wants

kills the spiders - connor and then he chases jared around the house with the dead spider

comes home drunk at 3am - jared is for sure the big drinker,, he goes out to drink away his problems a lot more than he should and always comes home to a very sympathetic connor whos been in the same position high too many times to count,,, they take care of each other always and make sure the other knows someone is there for them

remembers to feed the fish - Jared is the one who remembers but its usually after theyve already gone to bed and he just kinda pushes connor and tells him to ‘go feed the fucking fish’,,, connor will either be already awake and get up to feed it or be dead asleep and shove jared out of bed in retaliation

initiates duets - jared loves to sing and he LOVES connors singing voice so he sings one half of a duet constantly to try to get connor to sing along,,, he didnt for a long time becus he doesnt think he can sing well at all but as time went on and he feel more in love and got more comfortable he started joining in every so often (connor: *sings*, jared: 😍😍😍)

falls asleep first -fully depends on whether connor is manic or not,, if hes manic then always jared but if hes depressive then he probably been sleep for hours long than he shouldve been already

plans spontaneous trips - becus connor would stay inside the rest of his life if possible jared takes the initiative to actually

wakes the other up at 3am demanding pancakes - jared but he doesnt wake connor up,, his two big stress things are drinking and eating so when hes reallly overwhelmed he’ll wake up in the middle of the night for either a beer or some food. connor almost always notices hes gone and wakes up to go see whats wrong,, jared usually makes enough for two for this reason and they spend an hour or two eating together and talking about whats bugging him

sends the other unsolicited nudes -connor for sure will send like jokey nudes just to fuck with jared (like nothing below the belt with rly silly captions) but unbeknowest to him jared saves every single one becus he honestly thinks its hilarious and he loves his bfs sense of humor (when hes feeling down he’ll scroll through those pics and other texts hes saved from connor that make him laugh)

brags about knowing karate even though they never made it past yellow belt - JARED ADSHKJAKJD he acts like he could kick your ass but no fucking way the boy is a chickenshit!!! connor doesnt know how to fight either but he’ll actually try to back up his shit talk regardless of skill

comes to a complete halt outside bakeries/candy shops - connor actually hes a big sweets guy when it comes to the munchies and he always tries to get stocked up on the best sweets and treats in town

blows sarcastic kisses after doing ridiculous shit - they both do they almost compete at it and its extremely tiring for everyone else around

killed the guy (also, which hid the body) - connor will constantly joke about straight up murdering somebody and hes just like ‘if i do will u help me hide the body?’ and jareds just like ‘no!!………………okay i mean yeah probably.’

wears the least clothing around the house - jared but only becus connor refuses not to wear long sleeves most of the time

has icky sentimental moments for no apparent reason - jared catches himself getting real sappy real quick sometimes,, he tries not to show it but he usually ends up saying something like ‘you know id do anything for you’ and connor gets really overwhelmed by the sincerity in it and swears hed do the same,,,its real nice they love each other a lot

Send Me A Ship!

#conman #kleinphy #murphy.txt #replies #//#ask game #dear evan hansen #connor x jared #Anonymous

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oreganocactus · 6 years

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glenn?

ANON YOU FUNKY LITTLE BEAST I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I WOULD DIE FOR YOU

Full Name: Glenn! no last name bc. hes Demon Gender and Sexuality: He doesn’t have a gender really, but most often goes with male ! he’s also gay Pronouns: he/him !! Ethnicity/Species: he’s like. a minor demon, he’s got himself some cool black dragonfly-style wings that he has literally never used bc hes a Bitch and teleports everywhere instead,,, no solid ethnicity As Usual but he looks like someone from southern asia !! dark hair, dark eyes, dark skin (and this is NOT bc hes a demon i can promise u that,,,) Birthplace and Birthdate: glenn used to be a tax collector !! born in a place that was starting to turn into a ghost town, died because of poison (hehe can u see how. he and emily are connected)Guilty Pleasures: no guilty pleasures for him. theyre not guilty at all, theyre just pleasures to him (except for hank. heehee)Phobias: he’s afraid of his friends disappearing, he doesn’t have many so he feels really strongly about the few he does have and also hes afraid of spiders ! glenn also gets really worried about cactus juice even tho its like. an actual drink bc he was poisoned while drinking that so bad memories yknow What They Would Be Famous For: he’d be very infamous for a lot of things like fuckin Killing your ass and also stealing from bars and shit. famous for being a shitheadWhat They Would Get Arrested For: theres a whole laundry list for things hoo boi but. murder, manslaughter, theft, tax fraud are the first couple that come to mind reallyOC You Ship Them With: definitely hank. theyve got like. a kind of constant sexual tension about them but they also care deeply about each other and would do anything for the other. theyre the Dumbass ride or die friends while emily looks on from the side with murder in her eyes. they enable each other but also trust each other so much that at one point glenn shot an arrow off of hanks head like william tell bc they were short on cash and hank wouldnt let glenn make money bc “it would ruin our already shit economy, glenn, you fucking dumbass” also they constantly do Soft things like. nap on each other while emily looks into the camera like shes on the officeOC Most Likely To Murder Them: emily is always ready to whoop glenns ass. hes a Dumbass on main. also like the japanese family coming after their ass too ig Favorite Movie/Book Genre: he likes romance novels and those “true ghost stories” that are obviously fake. also reads a bunch of those christian novels and laughs at depictions of demons and also loves sci fi movies (or would if he lived in our time yknow)Least Favorite Movie/Book Cliche: he doesnt like action movies all that much, he thinks its cool but doesnt really care for it. he also hated the star wars scene with “i am your father” so make of that what you willTalents and/or Powers: talented at being a little Bitch. hes really accurate with pretty much any kinda weapon and also is good at talking. hes a smooth talker. uhh as for his powers, he’s got a similar kind of magic to emily !! its a kind of magic that can be shaped to pretty much whatever he needs within reason, and he has a limited reservoir of it. however, unlike emily, he can siphon off other’s magic to increase his own beyond his limit. he’ll start glowing if he takes in too much magic tho. when running out of energy, unlike emily, he’ll suffer physical drawbacks. if he gets too low, he’ll start to feel sick and his coordination will suffer. if he uses it all up, he’ll just fuckin conk out and recharge. emily at least always has a little bit of residue left over to pop herself into a safe place to recharge, but glenn HAS to recharge instantly bc his body is kinda. dependent on it so it just kinda shuts down to recharge. his magic is a blue color, opposite to emily’s red hehe. uhhh he uses it for helping the aim of his arrows, and he always has a slight “sighting” overlay on his eyes during battle! he has mainly defensive magic, he can make a “shield” for someone that can take a couple hits before it breaks (his shielding is MUCH stronger than emily’s lmao) and can use healing magic effectively. in this universe, if you’re not “used” to someone’s healing magic and they try to heal you, your body will experience a huge outburst of pain while it gets used to the new magic. thanks to his years of practice, that pain outburst is lessened decently,, he’s used up all his magic more than once for hank and it fucked him up but thats how it be sometimes when ur a fool in love. his magic has been told to feel like water when it heals u !! he really does not use it much for fighting besides accuracy help, he’s not super into fighting but he does enjoy it when it’s necessary. hes the sniper/assasin of the team !! he uses arrows (that dont replenish sadly, it’s much harder to make that happen over like. bullets) and small daggers for defense if someone happens to get too close. overall, not too strong of a fighter-magic type, suffers physical repurcussions if he overuses his magic, heavily based in defense/healing, and also can teleport randomly/get summoned with a summoning circle. Why Someone Might Love Them: hes fun to be around !! very caring if he lets you in, hes really into small gestures of intimacy that are vy nice. also hes Cool and Hot. glenn is very much ride and die with people who he trusts so he’ll basically do anything for youWhy Someone Might Hate Them: hes impulsive and often drags people into his struggles. also, he gets angry pretty easily (he also cools down pretty fast tho). he doesnt like to talk about his emotions too often ? which can definitely get frustrating. he can be a real asshole sometimes and doesnt say sorry oftenHow They Change: he starts to have actual friends and cares for people, and becomes less of an asshole. hank and emily yell at him so he starts to say sorry more often,,, and he kinda falls in love ho hoWhy You Love Them: hes a good boy ! hes mischievous but so soft with people he likes. hes got a kinda fucked up past and when hes vulnerable hes REALLY fucked up so its cute to see him relying on ppl. hes chaotic good i love him

AGAIN, ANON I LOVE YOU. THANK YOU FOR ASKING ME. I LOVE MY OCS !!!! (and he, hank, and emilhy are all part of the same universe hehe)

#oc #my oc #I LOVE HIM.#fav

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samanthasroberts · 7 years

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Alex Rodriguez is Major League Baseball’s last megastar, and that’s OK

David Lengel: A-Rods fame transcends baseball; plus, Prince Fielder retires, Gary Sheffield demands respect for Tim Tebow and the Mets manager Terry Collins is under fire

All the way to the bitter end, and it is bitter, the fans want A-Rod. On Tuesday night, with Alex Rodriguez bizarrely left out of the lineup by the Yankees manager, Joe Girardi, Boston Red Sox fans chanted his name at Fenway Park, letting Bombers brass know they made a mistake by sitting the slugger who is (for now) set to retire after one more big night in the Bronx, this coming Friday against Tampa Bay.

Can you blame the Yankees for sticking it to their man, even if he was, at least seemingly, provided with a graceful exit plan on Sunday? After all, were talking about player who tried to torch his employers, the league he played in and the union who helped guarantee most of his 10-year, $275m deal during a scorched-earth defense of his role in the Biogenesis PED scandal.

Except this shouldnt be about the Yankees settling scores, this is about pure entertainment. And with the clock running down on one of the most significant sporting careers this country has ever known, limiting the owner of 696 of the most controversial home runs in history to pinch-hit duty is the direct opposite of giving fans what they want.

Yes, they still want A-Rod, a player who cant hit like he used to, but can still light up talk radio switchboards for hours, rattle social media and fill countless pages with pixel after pixel. In an era where content is in demand like never before, A-Rod has been just that: walking, living, breathing, never-ending content. At the next Baseball Writers Association dinner, they should give A-Rod an award for enriching their lives with some of the most colorful, controversial and polarizing stories theyll ever scribble. He deserves it, because another A-Rod isnt going to walk into the sport anytime soon.

A-Rod is arguably, along with his ex-team-mate, Derek Jeter, the most recognizable name in modern baseball times, and not just to sports fans, to everybody. A-Rod has transcended the game in a way almost all ballplayers dont. In retirement, his place in mainstream gossip columns will continue, especially if he sticks with billionaire CEO and co-founder of 23andMe Anne Wojcicki, who was once married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin: know any other baseball players who have landed in Vanity Fair lately?

The NFL has their Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and until last season, Peyton Manning, while the NBA has their LeBron James and a host of strong second-tier stars. After A-Rod, baseball has nobody on or near that level of national, crossover stardom.

Think about all the game-changing talent that is around the league today: Mike Trout, Clayton Kershaw, Jake Arrieta, Jose Altuve, Kris Bryant: the list of standouts goes on for a very long time, but theres no one that moves the needle like A-Rod, who is known by 50% of all Americans six years or older according to Q-Scores. Bryce Harper, who did make a late-night appearance with Jimmy Fallon in May, and is by far the least vanilla young ballplayer around, is the next highest at 20% awareness.

Alex Rodriguez (@AROD) October 30, 2015

Had a blast on my first time on @fallontonight with @jimmyfallon. pic.twitter.com/Gi3HjYu3rR

Every circuit wants to market its stars, who are the one of the main reasons the Big Four leagues are the behemoths they are today. But in todays sports world, MLB operates well despite the fact that their players have lower national awareness than those from other major North American sports leagues.

The league may wish their national ratings for all-star games and the post-season were rising rather than falling, but in MLB today, all of that matters much less overall. Their digital service, 33% of which was just picked up by Disney, is valued at a staggering $3.5bn, while local television and radio perform well. Their biggest issue is finding a way to maintain the status quo when it comes to the billions of dollars in local revenues earned via cable bundling, where many fans who dont watch an inning of baseball have been subsidizing huge rights deals for years and years.

So really, the model of pushing stars to drive national awareness across Major League Baseball has more or less been on life support for many years, meaning that the days of grandiose ad campaigns, as rare as theyve been, probably went out with Jeter.

As for Rodriguez, well, based on ticket sales for Fridays game, which is being broadcast nationally on Fox, hes certain to go out with a bang, whether he swings and misses or hits yet another A-bomb. As always, A-Rod will make an impact, simply by showing up.

Video of the week

ICYMI: Manny Machado: three at bats, three home runs in three innings, single handedly wrecking the White Sox on a Sunday afternoon. Thats one heck of a third of a game for the Orioles slugger who is breaking out from his breakout seasons. Is he your MVP? He certainly deserves to be in the American League conversation.

Manny from Mercury.

Quote of the Week

Take your stupid baseball team and get out.

Documents obtained by AZCentral.com say thats what Maricopa County supervisor Andy Kunasek said to Diamondbacks president Derrick Hall during an April tirade. The county, which includes the city of Phoenix, has denied the D-Backs $65m in ballpark renovations in an ongoing dispute that could threaten Arizonas long-term future at Chase Field. Kunasek also told Hall to go back to fucking West Virginia.

Whos closer to victory: Donald Trump or the Cubs?

Well, you would like to think that in a week that Le Grande Orange alluded to a possible assassination threat to a would-be presidential-elect, that the Trumpster would be farther away from victory than ever before. However, we also know that Trump bounces back easier than one of those 25 rubber balls your kid makes you buy outside the pizza shop: the Dems should limit any embarrassing high-fives.

The Cubs? Well, whatever was eating at them in July, when they were, somewhat amazingly, just 12-16, is done and dusted. Chicago raced out to a 8-0 mark this month, and their July to August ERA dropped from 4.47 to 1.29, while their OPS popped by over 60 points during the same span. That makes the Cubbies easy winners this week.

How did the kids piss off Goose Gossage this week?

The St Louis Cardinals, down 4-0 on Monday night to the Cincinnati Reds, on the verge of a three-game losing streak, got yet another gift from God. After rallying from a 4-0 ninth inning deficit, Yadier Molina stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and brought the winning home run by any means necessary.

Yadier does it again.

Theres only one thing worse than a bases-loaded walk to end a ballgame a bases loaded hit by pitch. Molina didnt exactly run away from Ross Ohlendorfs offering, and so Goose may be thinking that is one bush league way to win. Then again, hes probably thinking what we most of us think when the Cardinals somehow find a way to rise from the dead, and thats not printable here.

Nine thoughts in order

1) Prince Fielder is retiring from baseball after a second neck surgery forced the Rangers DH to call it quits. Aside from the sad news that one of the games most prodigious sluggers is retiring, it now confirms that then Tigers president and general manager Dave Dombrowski made one heck of a deal when he shipped Fielder to Texas in exchange for Ian Kinsler. By the time Fielders deal runs out, he will have been paid $138m for 34 home runs and a .760 OPS over 289 games. The Tigers will have paid $62m for Kinsler up until 2018, which includes a $5m buyout of the final year of his deal, but doesnt count the $30m they kicked over to Texas to help pay Fielders deal. So for $92m total, Detroit have received an .794 OPS, in over 400 games and counting, with the second baseman currently enjoying his best season since 2008. Theres some relief for Texas however – its reported that some $36m of the remaining deal will be covered by insurance. Fielder retires with the same number of home runs as his father Cecil: 319.

2) Toronto Blue Jays starting center fielder Kevin Pillar is out with for at least two weeks with sprained thumb ligaments, and considering the way he routinely bounces around the Rogers Centre outfield walls and dives into its turf, its a real wonder how he wasnt injured sooner. Luckily, GM Ross Atkins, who is quietly patting his own back this week, has an everyday center fielder in Melvin Upton to replace him. Upton is enjoying something of a comeback season, but has been slow to get going in T Dot now hell get his chance to play every day and make that deal look even better.

3) Tim Tebow is going to try and play baseball, allegedly, and as usual, the media are tripping over themselves to cover whatever he does. Personally, I thought he deserved more of a chance in the NFL after guiding the Broncos to the playoffs in 2011, something a whopping 10,000 Denver fans agree with after signing a petition for his return. Baseball? Well, I was tempted to write that its never, ever, EVER going to happen. Then I saw this tweet from Gary Sheffield:

Gary Sheffield (@garysheffield) August 9, 2016

I spent time w @TimTebow in the cages recently, he’s a NATURAL. I absolutley believe in his ability to play in the bigs. Tim has IT #focused

If you read Sheffields recent piece in the Players Tribune, youd have to think twice about Tebow he demands that you do! So, as per Sheffs orders, Im keeping an open mind, for now.

4) On Tuesday some 15,000 Red Sox fans learned theyd be denied a David Ortiz bobblehead doll, just hours before their game with the Yankees.

Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) August 8, 2016

We’re back home tomorrow night and we’re going big with the #BigPapi bobblehead! Get yours: https://t.co/uQuufP0I67 pic.twitter.com/Y5CzCEb5g8

I thought the bobbleheads were an inaccurate portrayal of David, said Sam Kennedy said. To go further, I thought the facial features were racially insensitive. Sox brass later announced that fans in attendance would actually be eligible to receive a more politically correct doll with a significantly thicker neck once a new figurine is made.

5) Heres an admission: my fascination with Ichiro was such that I used to write emails about him to friends before every spring. Mostly they rambled on about certain stats on how he missed just 33 games over his first 11 seasons in Seattle, or that he would have almost definitely been MLBs all-time hit king had his career started off in North America.

The first Japanese player to play the field, Ichiro is without question one of the most intriguing players in the long history of the game, and his 3,000th hit is just the latest statistical wonder surrounding his game. Ironically, after all these years of racking up hit after hit, my fondest Ichiro memory remains his throwing out of Terrance Long in 2001.

Incredible Ichiro.

6) Last month Pete Rose sued John Dowd for a statutory rape allegation the criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor made last year. During a 13 July 2015 radio appearance, Dowd, who lead the 1989 investigation into Roses gambling, referenced Roses ex-associate, Michael Bertolini, who allegedly told him that he ran young girls for him down in spring training, ages 12 to 14. Rose said there was no truth to the statements, which took place before the MLB commissioner, Rob Manfred, elected to not take him off the sports ineligible list in December. Now Dowd is trying to have the case dismissed, a move Roses attorney, Martin Garbus calls a stall tactic. Like anything involving Rose, this latest saga is unlikely to end anytime soon.

7) Yasiel Puigs reputation in Dodgerland continues to spiral. This time the recently demoted Puig was seen drinking beer in a party bus with a bunch of young Triple-A Oklahoma players, some of which were under the legal drinking age, having as much fun as possible inside a vehicle parked in Iowa. Unfortunately for Puig, who is just 25, these completely normal acts, which included singing, profanity and inside jokes, he posted videos of the partying on social media and so now its a full-blown controversy. Management said theyd handle it internally, while Puig merchandise was removed from Dodger Stadium stores. A word of advice to Yasiel: the nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

8) Terry Collins is under more pressure than ever after a shaky week featuring what were, more or less, indefensible decisions. On Saturday, down a run in the ninth and two outs, he didnt pinch-run for the plodding Jay Bruce, who was then thrown out at home to end the game.

Jay Bruce might be faster than anybody on our team for all I know, said Collins. I know he is a good base runner.

Bruce is new to the team, but in the age of information, there is no excuse for Collins: he has to know his players.

Making matters worse, Collins didnt challenge the call at the plate.

Mets fans have been critical of several of Collins moves this season, never mind the fact that he manages a would-be play-off team that hasnt won consecutive games since 7 July. However, few managers have had to deal with the injury issues hes faced over two seasons, and after taking New York to the World Series last season, hes probably safe for the rest of the season.

9) And finally, Clayton Kershaw is still finding ways to contribute in LA, despite being sidelined with back issues until at least 27 August. On Sunday, he led a dugout prank on Alex Wood.

LasMayores (@LasMayores) August 8, 2016

Clayton Kershaw jugandole una broma a Alex Wood. #LasMayores #MLB https://t.co/KK5eI5UkFc

A full video of Claytons stacking seeds on to the back of Wood, narrated to perfection by Vin Scully, can be found here. Rather incredibly, the Dodgers have gone 23-14 without their ace in the rotation, pulling even even with their NL West rivals, the San Francisco Giants, if only for a day. The Dodgers bullpen has played a large role in that success they have the lowest batting average against in innings seven through nine in baseball history according to SI a remarkable turnaround considering the fits LAs relief core caused their fan base over ensuing seasons.

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How Echo Look could feed Amazons big data fueled fashion ambitions

This week Amazon took the wraps off a new incarnation of its Alexa voice assistant, giving the AI an eye so it can see as well as speak and hear. The Echo Lookalso contains a depth sensor thats being used, in the first instance, tocreate a bokeh effect for ahands-free style selfies feature that Amazon is hoping willsell the deviceto fashionlovers, by making their outfits pop out against the bedroom wallpaper, and making themmore eager to socially share.

The Echo Look app is where users can view the style selfies (and videos) theyve asked Alexa to recordfor them (sheindefinitely stores a copy for Amazon too). But the flagship feature of the app isa fashion feedback service, calledStyle Check, which Amazon says will utilizemachine learning to ratefashion choices and help users choosebetween outfit pairs. And ultimately, presumably, givetheir entire wardrobe a score. Albeit, the featureis using(human) stylists too, at least for now, to help train what Amazon surely hopes will beentirelyrobotic style recommendations down the line.

The app will also suggest clothes for users to buy based on their style selections opening upanother revenue stream forAmazon, and one that could prove pretty sticky if Echo Look delivers on itspromise of furnishing userswith a personal stylist whose killer feature isthe ability to shop tirelessly on yourbehalf. This new voice-controlled,Internet connected Echo camerais designed tocondition usersto feedit with the training data Amazon needs to builda fashion savvyAI. As data grabs go, its exceedinglywell dressed.

As I wrote in July 2015, adding a camera to Echo makes perfect sense for Bezos massive fashion ambitions. With an eye to see you, Echo Look promises to contain yourself-image better than a mirror by claiming to knowwhich of your outfits is the fairest of them all. Fashion is often sold as something feel good andconfidence building a way to belong and blend in within a peer-group. But equallystyle can be deliberately different;the essence ofindividual self expression. So whether theres an AI that can usefullycater to all those differentfacetsremains to be seen. But for many shoppersthe primary desire they havefor the clothes they wear can be boiled down to looking good. SoAmazon is positioning Alexato sell that hope as a service.

Buying clothes is a recurring need; both a practical necessity anda way to keep up with changes instyle and taste. Like buying groceries, its a type of shopping without end. Whichis why Amazon is fixated onboth spaces. In order to be a $200bn company weve got to learn how to sell clothes and food, Jeff Bezossaidas long ago asa decade displaying the long term thinking that has enabled the ecommerce giantto slow-grow its business over more than 20 years from an upstart online booksellerinto todays sprawling digital marketplace whose upwardly thrustingarrow declaimsits mission to deliver everything.

From household staples to fashion destination?

Amazon Prime is the membership club that sells a subscription toconvince peopleto lock themselves in to buying more and more from Amazon. Notably, a recentaddition to the Prime perk list is anAmazon own brand mens dress shirt brand, called Buttoned Down. Here the companyis selling wardrobe staplesthat, if they bore a different label, would cost a whole lot more.

And while a fairlyuniform garment like a dress shirt can makean easy recurring purchase, i.e. once youve figured out which size fits you, a lot of fashion is intentionally far less predictable. Meaningtheres a muchgreater need for style-related try ons. Female fashion especially falls into this category hence Amazon heavily focusing themarketing for Echo Look on women

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Amazons vast strength is how its various parts link and pulltogether (like Prime) to build lock-in byembedding more and more utility into the core platform. SoEcho Look which at first glance might seem a bit of a niche product (at least from a male perspective) is designed to lay importantgroundwork for Bezos big bet on fashion. The company has already launched a swathe of its own clothes brands in keymarkets. Now, givingAlexa thegift of sight, opens the opportunity for Amazonto get a far more intimate perspective onhow its customers think about fashion as they try things on in the privacy of their bedroom asking Alexa to be their fashion judge.

At the same time the Echo Look aims to shift how Amazon users experience fashion buying via the marketplace. This latest Alexa-enabledincarnation means Amazon is no longerprimarily a vast, impersonal warehouse thathastobe manually data-mined to unearth threads youwant to buy; rather it becomes a style destination in its own right; an app thatssavvy about fashion trends and understands personal taste so it can do the leg work and shop for you. At least, thats the pitch and the promise.

The ecommerce juggernaut that Bezos controls Amazonsmarket cap is now a staggering $439 billion hasnot merely been growing in momentum and marketshare because of the hugeinventory it aggregates and makes discoverable in myriad different ways. But, at least in key markets, because ithas fixated ondelivering convenience at faster and fasterspeeds buildingdistribution and shipping infrastructure that can all buteliminatethe practicaldifference between buying online vs shopping in store. Its not quite instant gratification but in some cases Amazon ispushing very close indeed with one-hour delivery in some urban areas fora sub-set ofproducts, andeven delivery within 15 minutes viaits experimental Prime Air drone trials(and eveneyeing somecrazierdeliveryideas than those).

Amazons ecommerce imperativeisto work towards excising the middle ground andgoing direct to thecustomer where the most money is to be made. In fashionscase thatnot only means luring consumers away from retailers bricks and mortar stores but, increasingly, moving in on the fashionlabels themselves. After all, manyclothes arent bought principally or specifically for the label they bear, but for the utility or passingcolor they offer. Amazon wants and clearly feels it can dominatethose types of clothing purchases.It has the scale, ambition, speed and data to cut itself a very sizable chunk of the fashionmarket, reckons Tom Adeyoola, founder of UK fashion tech firmMetail which has been working on rethinking theonline fashionbuyingexperience withvirtual fitting room and garmentdigitizing technologyfor almost 10 years.

Not just basics and low cost garments that might otherwise have been purchasedat a supermarket but High Street fashion, glossy catalogue brands, and other online clothes retailers. Amazons own brand ambitions on the fashion front look almost absolute. At this point itsown brandfashion labels include: womens fashion(Lark & Ro, Society New York) and accessories (North Eleven); childrens clothes (Scout + Ro); mens suits (Franklin Tailored) and dress shoes (Franklin & Freeman). Workout clothes are also apparently incoming.

I think the industry has been very complacent because theyve said nobodys going to buy fashion on Amazon, saysAdeyoola. Youll buy cameras and stuff but youll not buy clothes. But theyre forgetting that Amazon thinks in five to seven year timeframes. Theyve got all the customer relationships, and theyre good at data, and theyre good at logistics, and theyre good at inventory management Amazon went from zero [in clothes sales] to number one in the US in four years.

Itsnot hyperbole to say many fashion brands and retailers arefacing a doomsday scenarioif Bezos is abletorealize the scale of his sartorialambitions. After all, the difficulty of being abrand trying to make yourself heard and monetizeon someone elses platform is already writ large in the smartphone space, where big name brands are boxed into same-sizeapps, competing with each other fordiscoverability and diminishing attention returns while the platform mastersits above the fray, controllingaccess and crucially knowingwhat the user reallywants.

Adeyoola says the retail opportunity Amazon is closing in on is the huge wastefulness of the traditional supply chain, where healthy profit margins are squandered with poor inventory management in turn a consequence of afailureto understand the transformative power of big data.

In clothing RRP, in general, the starting point of margin is towards 80 per cent. So manufacturing is only about 20 per cent of that cost. But all of the retailers are making around, at best, three per cent profit. You look at somebody like Asos in the last four or five years, theyve more than doubled sales but their absolute profit number is the same. Theyve added sales for no profit. So Amazon can look at this and say: hold on, youve got 80 per cent profit and you waste it all this is our opportunity. Talk to a manufacturer and theyll say that inventory management and everything to do with data is where the retailers are just lazy. Theyve been lazy for too long. And thats where Amazon is really good. So, in my mind, I look at it and say Amazon could double manufacturing cost, take their standard five per cent or less margin and still be half the price of everybody on the retail market.

Amazon can look at this and say: hold on, youve got 80 per cent profit and you waste it all this is our opportunity.

Even if Amazonsconsumer frontdoor has remained fairly consistent (at least until the original Echo popped up), Bezoshas spend years honing backend infrastructure and tooling up supply chain expertisein the areas hewantsto dominate positioning Amazonto be able to offer a more compellingly priced product than high street fashion retailers andstill make its margin. Sowhile retailers continue to waste money on inventory management, Amazon is aimingto use data to eliminate inventory entirely.

Earlier this month, for example, it was awarded apatent for an on-demand clothes manufacturing warehouse that suggests an intent topush the boundaries offast fashion even further. Amazonsend game looks very much likegarmentsmade on-demand, locally at the point of order vastly shrinking its warehousing and shipping logistics costs in the process. Amazon couldseed data-fed, just-in-time manufacturing hubsin urban centers toservice demand locally, enabledby knowing exactly what itscustomers want, arguesAdeyoola.

Theres just much less friction, he says of theAmazon approach. So sure they dont have a great consumer user journey now, but they will do and in the interim theyve been doing, effectively, what were trying to do, which is digitize the world. Theyve been accumulating all the brands and all the clothes, and getting them onto the system and then learning and understanding where the white space is.

Hepoints tob2b apparel maker theTAL Group, which claims to make one in every six mens shirts sold in the US. But the question is, for how much longer? While its button down dress shirts are priced by retailer partners at $80+, last month Amazon launched their own brand (the aforementioned Buttoned Down) selling shirts starting at$40. Thats calleddisruption, Jeff Bezos style.

Andwhile Amazon has been using data to optimize itssupply chain for years, traditional fashion retail and brands are still saddled managing networks of bricks and mortar stores where theyre seeing falling footfall. These physical locations have arguablyconvinced retailersto view the Internet asjust another sales channel, rather than the vital data pipe needed to overhaul all their business and supply chain processes in order to survive as mobile platforms consume their world.

Again, you could draw a parallel with a former smartphone giant like BlackBerry fixating on its physical Qwerty keyboardas a new generation of app-focused touchscreen devices swept in to change everything. Even if some fashion retailgiantstechnically have the scale andresources to adapt to the big data era, none apparentlyhas the long term convictionto take the plunge which is enablingAmazon to pushin and sew upmarketshare.

I think the trend is very straightforward, saysAdeyoola. In the old days of retail, the battle was for footfall in a shopping mall, footfall on a high street. Now that traffic is time on a phone. So if you think about it in those terms, the channels where retail is going to happen are going to be in those places which have the most time on your phone. So all of the guys who take up the most time and have those customer relationships are going to be those new retail channels so it is going to be Amazon, it has to be Facebook, it has to be Google, it has to be Apple. Those guys are going to be those portals through which youre going to do retail, because thats where you spend all your time. And all the retailers that have been spending their time building their own websites and building their own apps you cant fight You will be like a shop in a shopping mall and the shopping mall is just going to be the Amazon app,the Facebook app. And hence the middle retailers just wont exist. Youre going to have to have a real battle to position yourselves in terms of what are you about.

Plus, remember the Echo Lookson-board depth sensor? Such hardware could be used to size up peoplesfull length selfies, enablingthe AI toautomatically know its owners size and recommend correctly sized clothes to buy. At scale, taking measurements from multiple Echo Look owners, Amazon would start tobuild its own dataset for size and fit to use to further feed its clothes manufacturing efforts byenhancing and better customizing garment fit for its own fashion labels. Even ultimately to offer garments that are customtailored to individual Amazon users, on demand but at fast fashion prices.

Adeyoolas prediction is an entire disintermediation of the retail manufacturing supply chain. A natural end state for me is that somebody like an Amazon can put manufacturing right next to its distribution hubs all of its distribution hubs are optimized for urban centers, you can put manufacturing in those urban hubs, he tells TechCrunch. So if you get enough consumer data then you just create the marketplace for design and you basically make everything just in time, made to order. So you get rid of the inventory problem, you get the stuff made right by the distribution centers to go straight out. And if you had body size and shape data thats what were aiming to produce and deliver at scale you could then basically shrink that time, you can also move towards an end state of made to measure, and you can deliver within a Prime window.

If you get enough consumer data then you just create the marketplace for design and you basically make everything just in time, made to order.

Tailoredfashion at scale is not all thats potentially unlocked by the Echo Looks depth and trend sensing eye. Another technology that could be delivered via this connected camera plus app set-up isvirtualtry ons, with the productbecominga trusted conduitfor Amazon to ask for and receive full length body size measurements, captured from users hands free Echo Lookselfies. With that data it could build anaccurate 3D body model for each shopper, and combined with an inventory of digitized garments the Echo Look app then becomesa virtual changing room where users couldplay around trying garmentsondigitally before theybuy.

Virtual try on could be animportant piece for Amazons fashion ambitions becausebuying clothes isntalways just aboutabout fit especially if youre contemplating buyinghigher priced, more experimental fashionvs wardrobe staples thatpeople canbe comfortable buying without trying. Technology that enablesconsumersto judge whether a just encountered fashion style suits without having to physically pull it over your headis what virtual fitting room startups such asMetail have been working on for years;aiming to remove alast key differentiator for Internet shopping vsbricks and mortar clothes stores. It may not yet be mainstream but the promise is clear.

And with theEcho Look, Amazon mayhave created the perfect arenato slot in this lastpiece to crown its fashion ambitions. Then,with a savvy AI to recommend styles, a virtual body doubleto envisagehow potential purchases look, and local manufacturing that supports very fast shipping the ecommerce giantisin a position toconvince userstheres no practical need to ever visit an actual clothes store.

People are time sensitive, and weve learnt and been programmed now, through the likes of Uber etc, that getting something quickly is possible, adds Adeyoola. With Amazon Prime Now you can order something and it be there within an hour. So then why do I need to go on a busy Tube train, travel for an hour to a high street and get hot and bothered?

Back in the day going to the shopping mall used to be a leisure activity and fun. Its just not that anymore. There are other ways to have fun.

So when does he think Amazon could be ina position to deployvirtual fitting roomtechnology? Adeyoola reckons itcould bring somethingto market intwo years should the companydecide it needs to push into the 3D creation space. For now, he reckonsits not clear they are convinced they need ityet. But Amazon iscertainly paving the way to acquire data that could powerit.(On that front italso boughtanother 3Dstartup focused on fit for shoes, Shoefitr, back in 2015.)

The approach that theyre taking with that selfie Look is a low risk one which is basically to see whether people will buy the product and use it. And the way that the product is coming out is one which is a computer vision way of learning style, so they want people to take pictures of themselves in garments, and then theyll try and use computer vision well, theyll going to use real stylists to start with to rate stuff and then off the back of that work out whether they can basically build an algorithm which can say this is good, this is bad, and then start to use that as a recommendation flow longer term. Which is big, smart value.

They havent thought about going into the 3D creation space thus far. And I think thats because they say, well weve got datasets and well use our datasets to improve as a starting point. So I havent seen evidence of them wanting to make that jump. And I think theyre probably thinking theyre best place to buy it when they feel its tipped over into being a need, rather than still in R&D phase. So, for a startuplike us, having been invited to speak at their European partner conference I think it was a means for them to test where were at and see at what point they might need to either consume or crush.

At the end of the day, if Amazon can deliver on abig data vision of custom tailoredgarmentsin fashionstyles it already knows customers want and shiporders to buyers within a matter of minutes why then, the bedroom in yourown homeeffectively isthe changing room.