#she definitely fucks them all up a bit

[catgirljaneway]

if there's one thing Kathryn Janeway is gonna do, it's look at her employees like the 🥺🥺 emoji

#star trek #trek thoughts #girlie put them big ass eyes away #it's the looking up that gets me #girl u look like a kicked puppy #“pwease for me???” vibes #love her but GIRL #ok it's really sweet ngl but I have to make fun of her!! #it's also funny when u remember they r TECHNICALLY her employees #ofc they are also her found family she's given mommy issues #but that's another thing #god she loves them so much #she definitely fucks them all up a bit #but you can't deny just HOW MUCH she really loves them all #except maybe neelix because she's not looking at him in any of these #I jest #I promise! #i love neelix #it's just funny #captain janeway #janeway #voyager #star trek voyager #kathryn janeway #st voyager #voy #star trek voy

[evilkitten3]

team minato modern middle school au where kakashi is the annoying genius who skipped like two grades, rin somehow lives in a hospital (no one's sure which nurse/doctor is her parent but. it's one of them. right? it's gotta be. no way did a bunch of worked-half-to-death medical staff accidentally adopt a baby someone forgot about. definitely one of them is her parent. her birth certificate is around here somewhere i'm sure look i'll get back to you once my shift ends in six hours), and obito is the class clown who lives with his awful anarchist stoner grandpa and calls his house "the cave"

minato is a former student of kakashi's dad's friend and he's their carpool driver bc no way in hell would that man be allowed to teach in real life

#naruto #naruto shippuden #team minato #team seven #hatake kakashi #nohara rin #uchiha obito #uchiha madara #namikaze minato #hatake sakumo #jiraiya #nobody knows who kakashi's mother is. his dad isn't sure he has one. he doesn't know where the kid came from but. the dna tests are clear #obito thinks it's the science teacher. y'know the one with like a bajillion different weird animals. only in this case they are all snakes #kakashi thinks that's dumb bc mr orochimaru is definitely a man probably #also bc when he asked he just got creepy laughter and a lecture on how to clone humans #i'm not kidding about rin btw no one at the hospital has any fucking clue where she came from #none of them are going to be the first to admit it tho #they tried to run a paternity test for her but the only match in their system was a man named nohara isobu. who's been mia for like 30 year #and yes being raised by an ever-changing stream of people none of whom had enough time for her did mess rin up a bit #on the bright side. she is easily the most medically proficient seventh grader in the history of anything ever #and she'll have recommendations for days when she applies to medical school #gai and his dad are also there but they're pretty much the same

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Hey yall im back with Fig and the Cig Figs professionally produced Freshman year album (formally known as Detention) track list:

Detention

Bad Kid

Dragonslayer

Sk8er Gurl (yes it is basically just a fantasy version of Sk8er Boy by Avril Lavigne)

Burn Towns Get Money

Pit Fiend

Corn Cuties

Disguise Self

Closed Book

Infodump

Seven Maidens

Every Album Needs A Bonus Track (yes that is the name of the song)

Here’s the Junior Year Track List in case you wanna see it!

#just to be clear most of these song titles weren’t figs decision at all #like she would not choose that as her album title but because this was made when she was signed I wanted everything to feel a bit more #clinical compared to the junior year one where it was just fig and gorgug and the other bad kids having fun fucking around #that’s also the reason why the Junior year one is so much longer and totally not because I struggled coming up with song names on this #the main issue is I had to channel studio filtered Fig and not just straight Fig so I couldn’t include like #the ballad of lunch lady Doreen or fuck you coach daybreak #<—— #also she would definitely release these as ‘from the vault’ songs along with her Junior year album #I do think she fought hard for every album needs a bonus track burn towns get money and Sk8er gurl #I think the song fig hates the most is bad kid because it says literally nothing about any of the other bad kids only about her #she fucking loathes it but the label was so obsessed with keeping up the image of a teenage rockstar cool kid #if it were up to her she would have talked about the party a lot more but as it is there’s only vague references to them in detention #autism (mads) speaks #fantasy high #fhfy #dimension 20 #d20 #fig faeth #fig and the cig figs #fantasy high freshman year

[variousqueerthings]

three just karate aikido-dropped three security guards and honestly id like to see some other doctors get into a fist fight occasionally, i wonder how they'd do

#doctor who #dw #im watching classic who #im watching the green death #im watching the third doctor #one woul feign a knee injury and then chop someone in the throat when they came over all worried #two would do silly flappy hands and be generally useless -- that or smack someone over the head with his flute #four would fight so dirty but also so badly -- hairpulling expected #five would espouse being above this and then kneecap someone with a cricket bat #im torn between six or seven as most likely to commit an actual murder based on what ive seen of them #but definitely six would throw an actual hard punch square in someone's face + scratch and claw #while seven of course uses a cane to devastating effect (with a bit of one and four tactics) #eight would be useless in a fight in the movie but far more capable later on BUT i think also least likely to fight someone physically #nine is a bitch-slapper ive decided. she's actually very unhappy with the idea of a proper fight but a humiliating slap yes #ten WOULD fight but would also lose and spit blood while acting like they're winning #eleven also does flappy hands but far more effectively than two and when you're not taking him seriously punches you in the face #twelve i think is most likely to win an honest fight through old-school fisticuffs but on top of that is also a bastard cheater #thirteen ive decided is most likely to have remembered some of three's martial arts but silly style -- gets halfway through a correct move #fucks something up and says *hold on i swear i used to remember this stuff now is it over the hip or shoulder...* before getting knocked ou #fourteen from what we've seen so far holds up their hands going *now wait a second-* and immediately gets knocked out

[themyscirah]

This is technically a Diana's age poll but I framed it partially around Julia's rescue because that's the event I need to contextualize and whether or not Diana is a thing yet is p important for my purposes. I would keep the Pérez run and postcrisis continuity in mind when answering this bc that's when this is relevant but I'd keep in mind that even though Diana is very young there (like early 20s) we don't know I don't think if she ages differently as a child (esp as a themysciran AND being made from clay) and in some versions she is older than she looks and was made earlier

Edit: I accidentally logic-ed this out in the tags lol 🤦‍♀️but feel free to still vote however you want. Going to publish this anyway bc I think I made some good points later in my tags

#blah #the 45 years is a guesstimation of julias age w her being in her late 40s #bc she has a middle school aged daughter which would make you lean a bit younger but shes also highly respected prof at harvard (is she the #dept head? i think so. and has a career that would suggest older. and shes also drawn middle aged so 🤷‍♀️ #i would say late 40s early 50s for her honestly. but i moved it down a lil bit bc of vanessas age #wait shit i may have contradicted logic here bc wasnt the diana trevor stuff supposed to have happened before dianas birth. and that was #wwii. which would be btwn 42 and 45 years. BC PÉREZ!TREVOR IS OLD I FORGOT THAT #okay so actually there still could be a question of what happened first the timeline would just be much shorter #but then wouldnt julias family be boating during wwii? that makes no sense #im definitely thinkimg too hard about this probably. logically it would make the most sense if diana was like 20smth in reality. but thats #its own basket of worms honestly. like what do you mean hippolyta only had like 20 yrs w her daughter out of a lifespan of thousands of #years. what do you MEAN she became champion and ambassador so young like #like also thats the point though. she had to wear a mask in the challenge for a reason. her inexperience with men is what makes her the kind #of ambassador they need. and her youth and relation to hippolyta and role as the baby of the amazons is one of the things that makes her #ambassadorship SO important is bc she fulfills that role in an ancient sense. where it would be a sign of great trust and respect to send #someone close to the crown as an envoy bc it shows you mean business and arent going to reneg on whatever the deal is. bc if you do they #shoot the messenger #god anyways i very much answered my own question here in the tags like 100%. esp in regards to the pérez canon bc he very much laid this out #and i was trying to weasel my way out of it. only that didnt work and the decisions he made he made for a reason and they have huge #narrative importance. damn. okay then #i always write the shittiest posts and the best tags and then have to keep the post to keep the tags #i rlly need to make these tags posts ugh. anyways keeping this up bc of my tags abt diana and ambassadorship #also sidenote I LOVE HIPPOLYTA #just though id mention that. i love how much shes motivated by love and i also love when she makes fucked up decisions bc of that and has to #live with them. woman of all time FOR REALS #god this is making me want to reread historia again lol bc its the one ww comic i own. also its fire. and hippolyta gets to make shitty #decisions motivated by emotion and live w the consequences. and the comic is actually good unlike when that happened in the messner-loebs #run. which was the other instance of that ive read rlly. 10000% sure there are others but i havent fully gotten there yet. #i mean ive read other comics where she makes painful decisions thats like her whole deal but there are different vibes to those than the two #i mentioned. like the exile thing in ww year 1 or rlly anytime she has to send diana away

[toytulini]

i made an oc thats at least nicknamed "Stupid" and im constantly thinking about what a power move that is tbh

#toy txt post #i miss it i should play w her more often but it was going to be for a dnd thing that ive all but abandonded bc i feel like #i cant. do that but it sucks bc i had some cool fun concepts and characters but it was hard enough back then when i was just insecure and #knew nothing about dnd and was intimidated by the mechanics but wanted to try dming for some reason but now i just straight up dont know #what to do but i really enjoy those characters. i should just unlock the secret channelsand scrap the dnd game idea for now and keep the #concepts and im sure i could come up w something if i ever actually learned anything about that shit #anyway. my point being. im obsessed w my character i made up and you should be too cos its good shit #toxic anarchist half dragon demigod with authority issues whos an alloaro clown named Stupid Cupid. #i think her pronouns were whatever but also it/she? when i say toxic i mean it did have a bit of a Clown Cult. #Cupid i think is possibly its given name and Stupid was her clown ass addition and yes i do know of the song and yes it is on its playlist #obsessed w all the stupid overpowered characters i made in that universe. they were such good concepts. gulliver obviously. charybdis #silas (cupids father + previous (now deceased) god of chaos) #cupids mother who i dont think i had a name for yet but she was supposed to be kind of a neutral lawful (in a rules lawyering way) #moon paladin who hatefucked the god of chaos after failing to kill him which she was trying to do out of devotion to the moon #and she supposed to have what i can only describe as chainsaw powers? and she destroyed every gun in existence and killed anyone who knew #how to make them until there were no guns left bc silas kept being annoying w guns and was trying to use them on the moon. for reasons #so she really pissed him off and impressed him before she finally got to him and tried to kill him. and if she was even a minor god instead #of a 'mortal' it wouldve worked and thats the only reason he didnt die from her. and then her child. stupid cupid the clown #grew up and had issues and started a clown cult and wandered around usurping warlords and dictators before putting her aim on silas #and trying to kill him. but failing not bc she was mortal but bc he outsmarted it. but he couldbt bring himself to kill it so he had her #put to sleep for a thousand yrs until someone else killed him(he pissed off a stupid seagull druid who lured him into the path of Charybdis #who he'd ALSO pissed off and Charybdis mega killed him and then the gull druid was made the new god of chaos just to have someone fill the #roll but then they kind of suck at it? they did not want that much responsibility altho the immortality is nice. when they took over they #released cupid whos a bit of a legend but then the vibes are super weird bc cupid Definitely wants to usurp and take on the mantle of #chaos deity and gulliver idolizes her but doesnt feel great about just handing that over to it? and cupid has to grapple with not being the #one to kill silas. almost everyone she knew is dead. her mom isnt. the world has changed a lot. she finds out her cult is still going and #gets excited? but they have Changed. it disgusts her now. they are not the radical clowns she intended. the vibes are weird. she denounces #that and tries out piracy. she manages to get the moon paladin living chainsaw power? #despite not being aligned w their ideology at all. wow nepotism. then it was going to spiral into some fucking meta galactic shit and have #well. ran out of tags. anyway i miss this character i should figure out what im doing w this universe cos theres no way im dming rn 🙃

[goldiipond]

something i really really like about ray and isabella's relationship is that ray is never expected to forgive her at the end. it makes sense that the younger kids would all forgive her after she used her position to help them in the return to gracefield because at the end of the day, she raised them in a warm and nurturing environment and did truly love them. ray didn't really get that same treatment though.

im sure ray's feelings about her at the end are complicated to say the least, he understands the horrifying position she had been in since she was 12 and probably relates to that at least a little bit. i like the way he tells her to get over it and come to the human world with them because if he couldn't use death as a way out, he definitely wasn't going to let her do it. (this would have been much more impactful if she didn't proceed to die anyway a little later on but. gently pushes that aside <3)

i don't really think ray's 'no one is holding any grudges' line necessarily means he forgave her though? the kids know that the sisters are all victims of a horribly abusive and oppressive system, and none of them are going to hold that against them even if some can't bring themselves to forgive them for whatever personal reasons. in ray's case specifically as a victim of abuse, i do not think he owes isabella anything. it was the system that forced isabella to raise children for the farm or face death, but her actions against ray specifically were her own, and he has every right to feel a little differently about her because of that.

kill the trope of characters forgiving abusive family members because 'they had no choice'/'they're still family' give me more ray 'i know you were hurt deeply by things beyond your control but that doesn't excuse the pain you caused me' tpn <3

#skye's ramblings #ACK these two are soo fucked up theres so many layers n complicated feelings to their dynamic and it is soo fun to pick it apart. explodes #ihope this is as coherent as i wanted it to be i saw a post talking abt them that bothered me a bit and all my disorders activated. heart #i wouldve loved to to analyze how their relationship might have changed in post canon (thanks SHIRAI) but like #i think at least in the context of canon i cannot see ray forgiving her for a LONG time if ever #and ray had every right to think she deserves to live and heal too while also deciding that. he personally doesn't want to be involved w he #speaking of which i think the other 4 main kids' feelings abt her would almost definitely be complicated to a lesser degree #like isabella was never forced to break emmas leg. i think emma has a right to give her a place in their lives while also #-acknowledging the way she treated them during the escape arc was. fucked up #there would almost definitely be a period where don has a hard time looking at her without feeling a bit of resentment for conny's death #i just think it wouldve been cool to explore at least the main 5 kids' feelings about her a bit more. but its ok bc now I get to do it <3 #abuse mention

[lynxalon]

HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTT THAT CRITROLE EP WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! im SO glad we had the set up of the last one so we could have the big thrills of this!!!!!!!!! this had everything!! it had ira's bad (and good!) decisions! it had sam's out of pocket wacky can shenanigans!! it had deception and sneaking! it had badass plays and some.. eye-catching talents 👀 it had gross shit that's kinda actually sad if u think about it! it had walking (running) away from explosions (NOT a sunglasses moment this was a loserfail) it had .. terrifying parents. it had imodna momence !! :D it even had some unprecedented wins for our typically fighty/flighty adventurers!!! i will ABSOLUTELY be watching that again come monday!!!!!!!!!!

#lynx speaks #cr spoilers #now to expand upon these!!! i am THRILLED that there has been a more overt notice of orym's hex 😏 #thats what i've been excited for for aaaaaaages i adore orym esp when he gets a little more fucked up #what can i say im a bit of an angst fan myself :D #fcg gave ira SUCH a bad time tho like CMON BBYYYYY 1 MINUTE ?!?!?!?!?!! yall r LUCKY yalls r cool af #also tho.... ira actually saving fearne like 👀 i see it!!! i think simply everyone likes fearne and everyone would save her 😎 #and team infiltrate i loooved imogen's use of that damn .. what was it called ? the damn static bomb that was sick as hell!!! #and hey!! both teams got in and out without anyone catching on that it was bells hells helping! #is that a first for bh? cause it sure feels like it TBH like the feywild malleus key stunt did NAWT go this smoothly #even with the bumps they had they did terrific frfr #esp with imogen setting up oryms badass fighter play and launda and chet setting each other up for success #and it does FEEL like imogen is more powerful on ruidus just from the plays she makes like the static spell and how it set Everyone up #to protect them all and keep their enemies in bad positions so that bh had good positions #they barely got hits and orym and chet took the brunt of it #they got out everoa and themselves without too much hassle and i'd say team mcfuckin 'splosion did pretty fucken well too #more damage on their side but. thatssss not their fault thats mainly on ira (and fcg 😂) #gosh. goshhh. what a good fucking episode. and sorrowlord zathuda. and liliana. fuck bro. #zathuda is SCARY #and liliana i meaaaaaaan. hun what did u THINK 🧐 imogen meant when she told u to run?? 🤔 'did she know' u know the answer to that. #i was definitely excited cause. we knew the volition were gonna fail in killing liliana. but i felt in my heart that she was gonna #feel betrayed by imogen. despite creating the scenario in which imogen must 'betray' her. #i LOVE fucked up mothers cant waaaaait to see what happens next !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilargeicontradictmiself]

I don't think we've talked enough about how iconic it was that the flash got both Wentworth and dominic to play partners, ice and fire, with wentworth the one making the plans. Like the first episode he appears in they don't even show dominic, you hear him say "yeah buddy im in" at the very end of the episode. They gave them whole ass brotherly partners they started in the flash then moved to legends and all that after the first run of prison break, like they knew the power they had at that point. Fucking iconic.

#i watched a little bit of the flash again tonight #the flash #arrowverse #prison break #i forgot how much i love it the universe all of it #the gave playing wells is still oneof my favourite things about the show he's fucking iconic #first time i watched it i didn't like westallen at first i did see caitlin and barry going somewhere and while i love westallen now i stil #love Caitlin and barry and im convinced they wanted to at least do more with them in the future they just kind of neglected them like they #short of neglected caitlin for a big part of the show #i do know how to read though and they were definitely setting them up for a connection they saw each other's grief and related to that she #tried to protect him she couldn't protect ronny and he helped her with what she was carrying because he understood and they set that up and #a tension from ep one ep three centers around them quite a bit like they were going for the connection whatever that was going to be #i love iris in ways i didn't when i watched the first two seasons now like i would die for her #on other news i missed them all (even though i didn't say something specific about joe and Cisco (<3) ) everything excites me i missed #everything i want to be there when they were airing figuring out my schedule according to what day the different arrowverse shows come out #with my siblings again

[ajdrawshq]

8 days until the 8 game ................

#new octopath game means new octopath world and new octopath and new octopath story and new octopath music and new octopath characters and #incapable of being normal abt this . sorry #trying to set up what main team id use so when all the cutscenes are inevitably uploaded on yt i can watch in the 'right' order #n replicate how id play as much as possible #i know id start w Throné. Temenos is definitely 2nd. no fucking idea who to have as the other 2 tho #maybe Castti........ i wasnt sure id be interested in her story but after reading abt what happens in her chapter one and wha shes like . #that woman has things wrong with her and i need to witness that. #Hikari also seems interesting tho i have no idea what his personalitys like.. #Osvald . lots going on with that man #and scholar is one of my favorite octopath jobs . tho that could always be a secondary job on someone else in my main 4 #i do like Agnea n everything going on w her so far #hm. i just realized i havent heard anyone mention if travel banter is still a thing or not. thats a bit worrying #i wonder if itd be better to keep each team as 2 of the pairs that have stories together.... Throné n Temenos are 1 so thats easy enough #but then its Hikari n Agnea.. Castti n Ochette.. n Paritio n Osvald.. #maybe id have Hikari and Agnea in the main 4 and leave the others as team B #that Does guarantee a healer in both teams which is always nice #and Castti could be my 'leader' for team B :] i think shes neat #not that u can change ur mc until later anyway but its the thought that counts #and i have No idea whats going on w the secret jobs. how do u even get them in this game since theres no shrines (presumably) #all i know is the inventor is one of em and has something to do w items unlocking ur skills ..? #and it looks steampunk as hell apparently. neat #then what could the other 3 be since they arent using the octopath 1 secret jobs...... #im so fucking excited to read up on this stuff once everything comes out istg #i wanna see all the job sprites too.... #and then the Lore. good lord what is happening <3 #all i know is the religion is weird. weird shit going on. per usual octopath stuff #what the fuck is gonna be the true end. are they gonna make boss rush hell 2.0 + worlds worst boss to put at the end of it #god i hope so. i sincerely hope they do it again bc thatd be hilarious #yknow what. i hope its Worse. octopath bosses are like hot sauce to me #i wonder if the religion being similar but different to octopath 1 is like. a final fantasy situation or if theyre Supposed to be the same

[plushiehamuko]

if i ever write persona 5 fanfiction it will be about my extremely elaborate Kosei Kids (and shiho) plot that is so clear in my mind that i will now infodump about in the tags

#squishy talks too much #squishy plays p5r #ok so like. #it starts off with shiho transferring out of shujin #and she NOW GOES to kosei. crazy coincidence #i think no matter where she transfers. there’d be rumors #i mean the kamoshida thing went viral. people know #so she’d definitely be getting bullied a bit when she first arrives #but yknow who would tell them to absolutely fuck off? #YUSUKE. so he stands up for her and they become besties #there’s a shihoann side plot going on this whole time btw. #they eventually end up girlfriends #OK OK BUT OFC IF WE ARE AT KOSEI #WE CANNOT FORGET MY GIRL HIFUMI #so her confidant arc happens after shiho and yusuke have already become besties #in this timeline. #so like all that happens #and obviously she is gonna get bullied at school for that #like. the whole internet is making fun of her #so akira brings it up and shiho and yusuke go out of their way to offer her kindness #AND BAM. now they are all besties #gay weird autistic kids of kosei. BFFS #and shihoann happens. #might also find a way to incorporate hifumi dating the makoharus………. #yk. if i feel real silly with it #anyways thanks for attending my infodump i hope to write this fic one day. it really combines many of my ideas of how i wish things happened #about yusuke <3 #about shiho <3 #about hifumi <3

[ithoughtitwaspronouncedgeralt]

Having some yenfri thoughts...

#this is nowhere near cohesive enough to write out but I'm just going to vent fractions of thoughts #first: the power struggle bc they both tend to lean more dom BUT they both also enjoy fighting for control #like it's very normal for them to have lots of dynamic shifts during their foreplay ex. the one being more physically restricted (held down #/ laid on / being carried or held in place / etc etc) deciding nah they want a turn in charge and adjusting their positions as they see fit #and sometimes if one of them is particularly needing the other to be gentle they'll give in easily and make it clear they want to be taken #care of and guided #can also definitely see either but especially renfri keeping the physical position of less control but taking charge through actions #ex. unexpected biting or teasing by holding back etc etc #also: this paricular bit is seared into my mind so allow me to share #yenfri pillowfort night w lots of blankets and pillows #heavy makeout session ensues things are heating up and whatnot #maybe earlier in the day yen was teasing renfri about her not having smooth moves or something #anyway the part that's seared in my head is: all in one continuous motion renfri grabbing the blanket yen is sitting on while tossing a #spare pillow behind yen then renfri yanking the blanket towards her causing yen to fall back AND as she's falling renfi leans forward and #catches herself with the hand used to toss the pillow with her face inches from yen's #can you imagine the shocked (and incredibly turned on) look on yen's face and the (fucking devastating) smirk renfri would throw her?!!! #'what's that about me not being smooth?' or some other snide comment #like... save me from my own thoughts (but also don't) anyway i love them #idk how to even tag this?? #yenfri #posted

[ace-malarky]

I am intrigued about soul magic please expand maybe :)???

hm yes hi Trade I can very much expand on that!!!

caveat that a lot of this info is very possibly stuff I made up literally this month bc I only had the vaguest idea of how soul magic worked before starting on this particular story (ie the box for it in the twinery thing where I keep all my worldbuilding legit just has the world it comes from in it and nothing else lmao ^^; )

The vague in-text explanation we get is thus;

“Users power their spells with their lifeforce,” Jasper said. “Its main applications are healing and interrogation, but it can also be used to create locks and the like that are fine-tuned to a specific person.”

which is very rough but honestly it covers the basics. Jasper knows what he's about

When he says locks, I'm meaning like... biometric kinda scans only I couldn't remember the word when I wrote that. I may go back and write that in actually.

The other thing it can do that is like. the main part of the plot of this story is that the mages can use it to control other people! They're getting other people caught for their crimes!!

Mostly when a soul mage uses their magic, they're relying on their own life to power it. So many soul mages burn out early because they don't get the exchange right, or they just use their magic too freely. If a soul mage is old it means that either

a) they don't use magic a lot

b) they know the best exchange rates for spells (eg smaller spells will take less life)

c) they largely use it via aids such as gems and older spells that have been sunk into items for general use

or

d) they tie their spells to someone else's life.

d is why soul mages tend to have a pretty bad rep amongst the wider mist worlds. They're not as bad as green witches in general but hoo boy.

sometimes!! sometimes tying their spells to something else is useful. This is how you get the healing; you convince the hurt person's body to heal itself gotdamn quicker and if they maybe get a year or so knocked off their life in the process they probably won't notice. Can they siphon off other people's lives to extend theirs? uh. technically. yes. that's the plot of another story (sort of)*.

This is how you get the biometric locks and other fun trinkets that non-mages can use; you set the spell into the lock or the item or whatever and give it a trigger phrase or motion which can be used by anyone. Biometrics will ofc only work for like the one person, but anything else is just dependant on the person knowing the phrase or the motion. Using an item with soul magic in it is obvious - Solaris likens the feeling to a sudden weakness at one point and doesn't like using it. You can fully faint while using soul magic if you're not used to it sort of thing.

This is how you get the interrogation; no one likes having their soul poked at ok. it feels gross. they can and will rifle through your memories. Sometimes they ask for consent first (it could also be a therapy tool, I guess) but holy fuck it's tricky to do without damaging anything. Weirdly this is a fine-wire one that tends to fall more on the mage's life being the one used up because they're still the one using the magic. They could tip it the other way, but then they run the risk of like. killing the subject before they get anything useful.

The controlling-other-people part of the magic is less well known which is why everyone is so fucken stumped by the shenanigans that start this story. It's like. fairytale kinda nonsense. "the soul mage made me do it" to the tune of "the boy who cried wolf", you know?

But that one is tied to the victim's life and can be set as intricately as the mage likes. Most people never know they've even been controlled, although they'll have li'l missing screeds of time where they've just blanked the fuck out and then come to, maybe in another place with no knowledge of how they got there

noticeably it does not work well on fully bonded ferals bc they have two souls and not everyone knows this. The mage that goes after Jasper fucks up by just suppressing his human soul to make him lose the fight and uh. well. buddy's got a lynx soul in there as well, and the lynx has access to fire. That one may have backfired (lmao) on the mage that set the spell, but I'm not sure yet

The other fucked up casefile I have is Elise who is the target the soul mages are trying to get ahold of in this story bc she has a green witch sharing her body who fucked herself over by attempting to use soul magic when she was already dying. There's a timeshare going on. The soul mages stabilised them and would like the experiment back, thank you very much, but because of the stabilisation thingy-majiggy, soul magic no longer affects them. Elise would like the timeshare broken, the green witch is fairly sure she'd die in that case and Does Not Want that, no thank you. They are however both agreed that they're not letting the soul mages get their grubby little paws on them. The soul mages would like her back because literally no one can work out how the fuck she managed to make that happen. like. the only other beings that have two souls are fully bonded feral mages and uh. demons. I think is how Skilkran is classed anyway. but yeah Elise is decidedly neither like damn she's just a girl who turns into a witch when night falls.

(soul magic probably could affect them, the parameters of the spells just need to be set properly but no one's actually thought of that yet. or maybe they have but it's been since they escaped so they haven't had a chance to test the theory)

anyway! yes! soul magery! it was uhhhh it was born out of a dumb joke with brother#2 because the first time I wrote it the magic was set in the saxophone of a dude who was playing um. soul music.

that scene still exists within The Soul of the Party because there are no depths I will not sink to for a dumb joke.

*this is Mint of Red String, they may have had a bad break up with a soul mage in their youth and the soul mage reacted by uh. cursing them to drain the life of whoever fell in love with them? That gets broken with the power of polyamory and also maybe necromancy because fuck yes the gays are winning this one.

#soul magic #mist worlds #do I want to set a soul mage on skilkran just to see what would happen? maybe #we all know the answer is probably a godawful fucktonne of fire but you never know #I have yet to say anything about sole-the-fish #or sole-the-shoe I guess #maybe I can... shoehorn them in ayyyyyy #anyway I'm going to shove this into the twine file and pretend it was there all along #we love world building on the fly #definitely will find notes that contradict this tho I betcha #hopefully that is readable and also makes sense #I have been staring at a laptop on and off all day so I think I'm a li'l bit fried right now #I should probably do something else for a bit #(sleep. I might do sleep) #lisetta (the green witch who timeshares with Elise) is also an interesting one bc she legit should not have been able to use soul magic #which is possibly why they're so fucked up. like she got her hands on a healing item and went #''ah yes I shall twist this to my purposes'' although it ended up being a very heat of the moment thing #pff heat of the moment they were rolling about in a stream? having been hit by a bucket of water balloons? #I possibly need to go back and recheck that #... not the point here #that got long #hopefully it is understandable? #I fully could save this to drafts and recheck it tomorrow #but alas then i would forget it exists #no one needs that

[hecksupremechips]

I just finished watching Abbott Elementary (or all that’s come out so far aaa) and the way that every single one of these teachers are people my gay ass would wish were my parents as a kid

#the klock keeps ticking #abbott elementary #the school itself reminds me so much of the catholic school i went to #very small very under budget everything is old and broken #except the difference is that the teachers in this show are all good and not monsters #they just. they just love the kids so much you know 😭 #my favorite character is barbara shes adorable and also like the best teacher #she just works so well with her students and believes in them and does whatever she can to help them 🥺 #they all do really its like aaaaaaaaa #janine is the type of teacher that you kinda need to protect cuz you know shes really stressed and trying so hard #and she makes cookies and you look at your classmates like listen here dickweeds you better eat these fucking cookies #melissa is one id definitely wish was my mom shes very tough but caring #she has the energy like shed beat the shit out of some incompetent adult but always makes sure to treat the kids like angels #you need to give her flowers #jacob is the teacher whos very nice and passionate and he tries a bit too hard to make the kids happy #that hes very bad at discipline and ends up letting the class get too out of control #so you kinda gotta help him out sometimes by telling everyone to be quiet and pay attention #definitely a teacher i wouldve eaten lunch with and i would draw him a ninja turtle and hes probably cry #gregory is the teacher i wouldve lost my shit over like on the first day youre really nervous hes gonna be scary #cuz hes kinda being a bit short #but then you realize he was just really exhausted and really really nervous and he like would make a really bad pun while teaching #and youre like OH okay so i gotta do everything for this man i see i see #like all i can imagine is that he for some reason has to do something really weird like ride a tricycle one day #and youre like YESSS GREGORY OMG YES PLEASE GET IT KING YESSSS #he just drops really weird bombs occasionally like he reveals that hes a talented juggler one day and youre like please adopt me please #you gotta give him all the drawings and cookies #this is my deep thorough analysis of these teachers thank you very much

[shrunkupthejams]

WIP Intro but I have too much ADHD for this Edition: Of Sea Jewels and Great Lords 

(Finally my favourite one!! (kind of))

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About title: So, for this I wanted to tie the meanings behind the main characters' surnames into the title while invoking a sense of certain colours and adventure, kind of? It's honestly a bit misleading.. one main character's surname is Bijoux, which is literally just the French word for jewel, and I associate them with indigo, so I put sea jewels in the title. The other main character's surname, Meredith, means something like lord/great lord, so I threw that into the title, too. It's a fantasy adventure story, so I wanted that to carry into the title, and I think it does, but the characters don't actually encounter sea jewels, or great lords; it's mostly just mountains and learning to navigate each other. 

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About: So, in recovering bewitched lost villagers for the village of Nomen, magician Geo Bijoux is saddled with the responsibility of depositing Chad Meredith under a mountain in return for the missing villagers that the local dragon has been protecting. In their reluctant travels in search of a good, uninhabited mountain, Geo learns more of the reason for Chad's eternal imprisonment, and the two, against their wishes, grow closer through their adventures and the unavoidable shenanigans that come with a pair of young magicians traversing a continent. 

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Setting: So I lied when I said Giselle & Darius is chronologically the first story that happens on Dirt; this actually happens 200-300 years before that. (I don't have exact numbers yet,,) Also, it's set all over Astelle, but mostly south of the Heart of Astelle, which is a big mountain.

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Featuring: the gays; healing from trauma; moral grayness; questioning morality, motives, and life choices; riyals to lovers (in a way); getting sick of the person you're roadtripping with, as is wont to happen; competitions of basically who can be the biggest asshole; lots of homesickness; learning to follow your heart. 

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Do I have a playlist for it? OH YOU BET I DO :)

wip stuff taglist: @multi-lefaiye

#ps.txt #wip: of sea jewels and great lords #wip intro but i have too much adhd for this edition #hi sorry #i am SO HYPED to share this one bc my brain is just buzzing about geo & chad rn and i've barely talked about them yet :/ #but i read the most recent wip i have w/ them today (the one i posted the tantalus line from) and it was good i want to work on it!! #there was some creation myth stuff entwined in there that doesn't work and im going to mame into its own thing but!!! this wip is such new #territory for them!! (*coughs* vulnerability) and like thete are so many feelings being allowed to happen #like it's a TURNING POINT. THIS is where they start getting to a point where they're on equal groubd and can start developing feelings #for each other <3 bc they've spent the rest of the story being bitches to each other honestly but i mean chad's NOT dealing w/ his feelings #about the dragon damning him. and geo just doesn't care about chad at all so why would he be nice? there's literally like nothing in it for #them. but yk travelling together and only spending time with each other for like 9 months will change that.. #**why would they be nice #i frequently fuck up geo's pronouns ughh #they use they/them but i debated using he/him (too) bc i started this wip as a short story for a gr 10 english assignment and got attached #but i was debating bc like anxiety and what would my teacher think? (which: she was literally the theatre teacher so??? what was there to #worry about??) so yeah i get mixed up a lot #ig geo's a bit masc too? more androgynous so yeah #and chad is just he/him but he definitely has tboy swag even tho this is theoretically taking place in some sort of medieval times #but gender works really weirdly in astelle so it works <3 #god these tags better not be longer than the post ive been going on for too long aaagrhfhhdh #also omg i love the header for this it's perfect <3

[phantomrose96]

Okay I have a story.

So my birthday is this Sunday (May 26th). My mom ordered some presents for me but one of them (an Etsy purchase) was seemingly stuck in transit and might not make it on time. I tell my mom all good, no worries. She gets in contact with the seller. After a long delay in response they get back with "Right we'll fix it!" It ships, tracking label and everything, good to go! ETA May 22nd (yesterday.)

During the work day I check the tracking and it says it's been delivered in/at mailbox! I double check with my mom "hey, is it mailbox size?" because if not, I don't want it sitting at the front door where anyone walking by could snag it.

She says "it's definitely NOT mailbox size." Okay. I text my neighbors in the building "Anyone seen a package delivered? It's a birthday gift from my mom and I wanna make sure it gets inside!" Success! Floor 2 David (not to be confused with Floor 1 David) had brought it inside. Inform my mom. All good!

I stop by home briefly around 4pm, because yesterday was hot-hot and I just installed my window A/C that morning in the living room, and according to my cat cam my stupid cat hasn't spent a single second in the climate controlled living room and is, instead, voluntarily baking herself elsewhere so I'm like "great" and hop on my bike to go home (10 minute ride) to check on her.

I get in the building door. Patches is crying from the top floor because she heard me. I maneuver my bike in the front hall. The ugliest fucking 6-foot-tall cat tree(?)/totem(?)/statue(?) I've seen in my entire life is just. Standing there.

My first thought is "What the fuck is that." My second thought is "Oh fuck that is for me." I look around at the floor in case there's perhaps anything else that might, in fact, be the gift.

No. Me and Cat Pole.

It's taller than me. I turn it around to face me and its face is painted and this is, in fact, uglier than it looked from the back.

Um.

Patches is crying. So I just haul it up to my level. MAYBE it was supposed to come with twine that I wrap around it (and hide its face from the world) for Patches to scratch. Maybe this is a prank. Maybe this is an inside joke, because when my mom moved into her current house the neighborhood gifted her some ugly-as-hell totem that apparently, by tradition, each newest-comer to the neighborhood is required to have and display in their window so maybe this is a very good riff on that.

Patches rubs against it. She's not afraid of this horrid facsimile of her kind.

Great.

Meanwhile SHE'S fine and the condo is a little toasty but totally liveable so I'm like "Good, cool, you're not baking. You're having a good time. Enjoy your new sister, I guess, I'll see you later."

I go back to work because this is a problem for later me.

After work, after my run, after whatever, I get home and it's like 8:00pm and Patches is so happy to see me and the totem pole is still just. There.

I text my friends like "so a bday gift is here from my mom and it's the Biggest Ugliest cat pole I've seen in my life. Is this a bit? Did my mom go 'that's so ugly haha! send!' Maybe she genuinely found it cute. How do I navigate this." My friend Sarah has the good advice to maybe text my mom neutrally like "Got the cat pole!" and feel the waters whether my mom is like "Isn't it ugly? 😂" or "Hope Patches likes it! 🥰"

My mom goes to bed early so I don't do any of that yet. Problem for tomorrow me.

This morning, Patches wakes me up for breakfast. I get her situated and I'm staring at the fucking Cat Pole again. I wonder if my Mom's been wondering all night what I thought of it.

I take a picture. I text her.

Okay.

I get on call with my mom. I ask for clarity that the ungodly horrid thing is NOT my birthday gift and is in fact a mix-up from the seller who sent me this instead of my actual gift. She's wheezing between words. She thinks I'm being too charitable for the amount of Absolute Fucking Ugly this is. I have to gently talk her out of using the word "monstrosity" while messaging the seller asking what the hell happened here.

I tell her I need to apologize for harming her dignity with Floor 2 David, who thinks this fucking thing is my mom's idea of a great birthday gift for her to-be-28-year-old daughter.

My heart goes out to the poor soul who did actually order this cat totem and is lacking it on this lovely day.

#chrissy speaks