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iskratempestmadness · 3 months

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A few facts about the characters of "Baki the grappler"

Characters: Baki, Hanayama, Katsumi, Jack, Retsu.

Baki

Food

- it may seem that he prefers something simple, but he doesn't mind trying unusual food combinations. According to the type of ice cream with French fries.

- traditional Japanese cuisine on weekdays and fast food on weekends. He likes to treat himself to a big burger on Saturday night. Although he will have to work hard afterwards to get himself back in shape.

- has a neutral relationship with alcohol. He can drink during the holiday, but usually tries to abstain.

Leisure

- you can't tell from him, but he reads quite a lot, although he can't be called a bookworm. He definitely likes manga and comics, as well as something light from Japanese classics. He reads to relax, so he doesn't want to strain his brain.

- he likes to play board games. He is quite experienced in them, but in some cases, fortune does not favor him.

- walking in the fresh air. As I said, he just wants to relax, so contemplating nature is perfect for that. He likes the prospect of going somewhere to the countryside and staying there to live.

Moment:

It was early in the morning, when the city had not yet had time to wake up. The young man was sitting on a bench in the park, which was close to his house. Despite the fact that summer had already arrived, it was quite cool outside, but the young man did not seem to notice this. Hanma has been visiting this place quite often lately. Perhaps it was here that he could fully relax. His thoughts were confused, like the thoughts of a man who had just woken up, he was thinking about everything and at the same time about nothing. However, he noticed all the peculiarities of his environment. For example, he noticed that the birds were calling to each other today more briskly than usual, and also that this morning was warmer than yesterday, but it was still a little cool for summer... He liked it... And he also liked to have such a carefree time... This is the kind of environment he wants to spend his life in...

Hanayama:

Food

is mmmm... He loves Japanese fast food. You know, quick fried meat in batter with vegetables and various sauces. Or udon in a small but cozy eatery. But he needs really big portions.

- he also likes traditional Japanese dishes, but he prefers not to eat them too often.

- Alcohol? He is an expert in this. It may seem that he drinks only strong drinks, but he is also very well versed in the lungs. Hana also belongs to the type of people who drink and do not get drunk.

Leisure

- naturally, he spends a lot of time in bars. He knows all the bars in Tokyo. And he wrote a review for each, all the pros and cons of the institution were taken into account. He finds this way of spending time very entertaining.

- he likes to play billiards when he has free time. And he's pretty good at it. Despite his size, he is adept at this.

- fishing. Ohhh, he's a pro at this. And how else can you call a man who went to a shark with his bare hands? But even in less extreme conditions, he finds pleasure in fishing.

Moment:

A hard day. This is perhaps the most plausible description of what happened today. There are so many issues that need to be resolved "urgently", so many people who do not understand what they want from him... It exhausted him. His head was throbbing violently, preventing him from concentrating...What was he thinking about? Yes, there's nothing to talk about.Hana was in the very state when a person's mind is filled with various short memories that have no connection with each other...And he didn't have a single sensible thought in his head. He lit a cigarette as usual. And he himself did not understand how he ended up where he is now. It was one of the idzkai he frequented...Heh, perhaps this really was the best option to relax. The young man sat down at the counter and waited for his order... and for some reason, he was already feeling better now. My head didn't hurt so much anymore, and there was no annoying carousel of memories. Hana waited for his order and to his delight, the food really helped him. In some cases, even such small things can make you feel better.

Katsumi:

Food

- HOMEMADE FOOD. To give Natsue her due, she cooks beautifully, so Katsumi's favorite food is homemade food. He doesn't even have a preference, he just loves it and he'll eat whatever they give him.

- he also likes strange food combinations. He is always ready to try something new, but he already has his favorite combinations. I can assume that this is watermelon and feta cheese or popcorn with hot sauce

- relationship with alcohol... Well, he only drinks on holidays, but Katsumi doesn't know the measure. If he drinks, he gets completely drunk. He doesn't know the measure at all.

Leisure

- bowling. He just likes this kind of leisure activity. And he became almost a master at it.

- he likes to sing and not only in the shower. Therefore, one of his favorite ways to spend time is karaoke. He might not be a brilliant singer himself, but he puts his whole soul into it.

- cooking. In this, perhaps, it cannot be said that he is a great master, but he really likes to learn this. He was already delighting himself with a couple of simple dishes. However, it should be noted that his dishes are a little overcooked.

Moment:

He decided to put himself under stress again. There was no other way he could have called it. Of course he liked cooking, but what was happening was terrible. The heated oil splashed in all directions, he spilled something on the floor, broke a couple of plates, and a mountain of dishes in the sink was waiting for him. Is it not a horror? Nevertheless, Katsumi was determined that he would cook this dish. Why didn't he go the easier way? Why didn't you just order what you wanted? After all, he could have asked Natsueh to cook this dish, why didn't he? There were several reasons. First, he liked it. Yes, despite what was happening, he still enjoyed cooking. And he didn't expect a good result at all, he just enjoyed the process. The second is his stubbornness. Is something wrong with him? So what, he will do it as many times as it takes for a decent result. It's a challenge for him. It's a tough call. He had to sweat a lot, but... God, he was really glad... The food was good. But as usual, it is slightly peppered.

Jack:

Food

really has no preferences. All that can be eaten is food for him.

- however, he highlights the Canadian cuisine. After all, this is his native kitchen. One of his favorite dishes is cream cake and "nanaimo"

- attitude to alcohol? Mmmm... Given his lifestyle, we can say that he does not drink at all. But sometimes when he can't sleep, Jack will drink a glass of tincture, but no more. Most likely, he will be able to put tinctures.

Leisure

- He likes to swim. This is an ideal way for him to practice and relax. Besides, he is fond of diving. (So it's ideal for him if he lives somewhere near the sea or a deep lake. This is one of his dreams.)

- he can play the guitar. Despite the fact that he trains almost all the time, he also finds time to practice it. His game is at the amateur level, but it's also not bad.

- What is it? Just like Bucky, he can't be called a bookish character, but he has a couple of bookshelves. Jack prefers little-known works by popular authors. And his favorite genres of books can be called detective and fiction.

Moment:

Quiet. It's late in the evening, it's about one or two in the morning. The noise of the city is no longer audible, only the quiet rustle of leaves and the occasional rumble of water. The atmosphere is wonderful... However... The young man had not been able to sleep for about two hours and it began to bother him. Instead of lying on the bed, he could have done something more useful with a light... well, or at least interesting. Reading was perfect. Jack sat up in bed, turned on the lamp, picked up a book lying on one of the bedside tables and plunged into one of those most amazing worlds that are considered fiction or a fairy tale, and call it fiction. Hanma was quite picky about literature, although he didn't read much. But this book was really interesting to him. Why? Perhaps it was an interesting plot, or curious descriptions of the area, or dialogues of the characters, or... Why guess? Jack liked this book because he could use it to distract himself. There was no hint of the real world in it. Not once in the entire book has there been a hint of problems that were in the real world. And the young man didn't think it was a bad thing. On the contrary, he liked it. It brought lightness, calmness and calmness to his life... Perhaps... A little bit of happiness...

Retsu:

Food

is Chinese cuisine. To say that he loves her will not be enough... He RESPECTS her. He respects her all. From dishes in street eateries to home cooking.

- Japanese cuisine is in second place after Chinese cuisine for him. However, he is extremely critical of her. Retsu tries to eat right, so he carefully monitors what he eats.

- does Retsu drink? Exclusively on holidays. But if there is an opportunity, he will refrain from doing so. He really doesn't like alcohol.

Leisure

- cooking. And he's a pro at it. He has been cooking since childhood, he has a wealth of experience and his knowledge in cooking is still being replenished. He read a lot of books on cooking and watched a huge number of programs on this topic. He is completely enlightened, as it might seem. However, he claims that he still has a lot to grow.

- reading. But he can be called a bookworm. He read everything from classics to manga. And this made him extremely selective in the collection of works. For Retsu, the book is needed not only to relax or distract himself, but also to rethink life. The book is a source of wisdom for him.

- he is fond of photography. And in this he is at the beginner stage. But he learns fast. He likes to photograph animals and plants. He also likes to shoot landscapes.

Moment:

"Yes, this is what we need... This kind of view definitely needs to be captured." This was the first thought that came to Retsu's mind. And the scenery was really spectacular. Mount Fuji. The height is 3776. And it's amazing. The young man was really happy despite the cold and the long journey. Taking out his camera, Retsu started taking pictures... huh... Amazingly... But the camera did not transmit even a tenth of the landscape... However, the footage was amazing. Retsu didn't have much experience in photography, he was still a beginner. How did he come to this? Why photos? Everything is simple. There have been changes in it. Let's just say his mindset has changed. The young man seemed to rethink his life... And I made a conclusion. He needs to slow down. Pay a little more attention to his environment. Watch the world more. That's why he chose photography. With his help, Retsu had the opportunity to forever contemplate what he had captured.

I don't think I'll pull part 2, heh.

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unorthodoxx-page · 1 year

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Hi. I know that you are currently on hiatus with your ROTTMNT X ATLA , but I wanted to tell you that I'm huge fan of your fic.You took Rise's characters and on their personalities wave them into a different story without much clashing with the original plotline.And you not just cleverly adjusted them to the lore of ATLA, but you also created some of your own (the JiaMo deal is great idea,it creates new subdue stake and I love it).I'm huge sucker for ROTTMNT and even thought I don't like Avatar that much,this makes me want to watch it.That's how great it is.But to not make this post just about praise,I have some questions too:

1)What does the JiaMo sign look like exactly?You mentioned it looks like as a lotus with elemental symbols with different colors on each turtle,but that is,without offense, really bland description.I just can really imagine it.Can you describe it in more detail or even better,draw it,please?

2)How did Leo found out what happened to the Air Nomads?Did he asked the gang,did someone from North Water tribe told him or did he figured it out on his own?How did he react to it? Because it's clear from chapter 2 thet he already knows it.And do Raph and Mikey know it to?

3)Did Mikey ever crawl into his sheel during the trip with Zuko?Or is it just about to happen eventually?

4)Will characters explain their world's words and their meaning?Like,what is apocalipse,bat,Agni kai,Kyoshi warriors and going into full Kyoshi mood😂 etc.

5) Where did get the idea on this fic?Did it just puffed as idea in your head or did you take inspiration from somewhere?I ask cause I saw some cartoon rewievers compare Rise to the Avatar,so if it is coincidence,then it's really a big one😳.

6)If someone wantedy to make full comic of your fic,would you be pro or against it?Cause I peronally think it would make it more popular.I also saw some comic of your fanfic on youtube and I wondered,is it you or someone else.?

Of course,if some of these questions can't be answered without big spoilers, I understand.I hope that you will start writing it again soon.Also sorry if there are some gramar problems(english is not my first language).

So, I'm going to try and keep this short. Only because I can get a bit longwinded lol.

I've actually drawn this out before and posted it, but it's probably buried deep in my Tumblr at this point. I'll look for the post and/or find the file. Once I have it I'll update this post with the picture. I will say though, I cannot describe a symbol to save my life! It was so hard!! I seriously wasn't expecting that lol.

2. So this is one of those organic conversations that happened off-screen. I will say it's something he learned while behind the Northern wall. I originally had a whole chapter or two dedicated to everyone's arrival, but they didn't make the cut. Leo's and Donnie's arrival specifically spoke to the more political landscape of the Avatar world.

For example, there was more arguing in the North about who 'gets' the spirit. It was during this time that Leo would get a small breakdown of the war. He's horrified by it and likens the Fire Nation to the Kraang, to be honest. It's partly why Leo was so rough with Zuko. He knows, instinctively, that the world will have to work something out with the Fire Nation, but he's not really giving them the benefit of the doubt at the moment.

Side note: there was originally supposed to be more Ozai and Donnie before he left with Azula, but I couldn't make it work. I think if I were to give it another chance now then it would work, but there will be time for that later.

3. He hasn't actually! We'll see it later in Ba Sing Se....for various reasons.

4. Yes, they will explain words along the way. Mikey already knows what an Agni Kia is (another off-screen moment) but the other turtles will learn what it is soon enough.

5. It honestly popped into my head lol. I don't remember anything about a comparison of the two before writing. I remember that I was in the middle of the last two chapters of Recoil when the idea hit. Sometimes I'll just think of fandoms and see if they would cross. Like, I had this idea for a Stargate x Xiaolin Showdown oneshot simply because I think the Stargate people would believe Chase Young was a goa'uld. I mean....He drinks a dragon soup (with the only image being a tail in a bowl), then his personality changes and his eyes turn gold...... that screams goa'uld all the way!

6. I'm all for it!! Any comics you see on youtube and/or Tumblr aren't by me. I love seeing them though. It really makes me feel good that people like my writing enough to draw for it. So if anyone wants to make a full comic then you have my full blessing! Just tag me so I can see it and reblog it!

Let me know if you have any other questions!!

#rise teenage mutant ninja turtle #avatar the last airbender #atla #atla fanfic #atla fic #crossover #crossover fanfic #fanfiction #question #question and answers #a tale of spirits #rottmnt #tmnt #ao3 #ao3 fic #ao3 fanfic #teenage mutant ninja turtles

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absentia-if · 11 months

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I don't think this has been asked, and if it has feel free to ignore this 😅. how would the ros react to mc disappearing for an entire day leaving a note for the ros that says they would be gone for the day but without a reason, and then comes back the next day with a special gift that the ros may have mentioned in a previous conversation?

Kade/Kara: They barely pay attention to the gift, thoughts already swirling back to the note you had left them. It wasn't enough, it'd never be enough, not when they didn't know why you had gone so suddenly-- not when you had been gone for as long as you had been, without contact or any indication of where you could be. "Don't disappear like that again," they say, hazel eyes shimmering with unshed tears. "I appreciate that you were doing something for me, and I trust that you're able to take care of yourself, but I couldn't handle it if something happened to you and I didn't know. Again."

Michael/Margot: The sight of you causes various emotions to swirl within their chest: rage, tinted with relief, happiness, poisoned with bitterness, and joy that's wrapped in a bundle of fear. Azure blue eyes darken to a stormy cobalt, reminiscent of the ocean after a hurricane, and an expression you couldn't quite name contorts their elegant face. "Did--" M cuts themself off, a bone-deep sigh leaving them before their arms quickly wrap around your body and pull you tightly against them. "Did you think I wouldn't worry?" they whisper, voice thick with pain. "Did you think that a note would suffice? We always say goodbye, MC. That's our rule. I-I wasn't able to say it the last time you were taken from me. Please don't make go through that again."

Blaine/Blaire: Happy Birthday is plastered all across the wrapping paper, it crinkles slightly in their hands as they turn it over, but B, despite everything, couldn't help the frown that furrows their brow; nor could they forget the worry that had made a home within their chest for the past day. "You didn't have to do this, MC.” They gently place the wrapped gift on the coffee table before they take your hand. "You being safe, you keeping me company, you being here, is more than I could ever ask for. I don't need anything else for my birthday except for you to be right by my side as I celebrate it. Just like you always have been."

Wren/Wynn: "Do you not understand how foolish it was to do this?" They hiss, a snarl etched across their face, while dark brown eyes look almost black due to their rage. "Did you not think that I wouldn't worry? That I wouldn't think something happened to you? For a day, for twenty-four hours, I didn't know if you were okay, I didn't know where you were, and I didn't know why you left. I've worked cases exactly like this before, MC. I've seen what it can do to people. I couldn't bear it if it happened again to you or your family. Not after everything that's already happened." A soft sigh leaves their mouth then, tension leeching from their shoulders as they slump forward. "I appreciate the sentiment of the gift, I truly do, but I appreciate knowing that you're safe even more."

Nicholas/Natalie: "I-I thought something happened," they sob, hands desperately clawing at your back, tightening their hold on your hoodie. Logically they know you're safe, they know you haven't disappeared, but that doesn't make the pain, the grief, work its way out of their system any faster. They had seen what your disappearance did to their best friend, to your parents, even if it was only in passing, and they couldn't imagine how they had been able to live with it; they had thought you were gone for only a day and the pain had almost been overwhelming. Dealing with death, dealing with the grief that came with it, was commonplace in their life, but they never wished for it to be when it came to you. "Please don't go somewhere that I can't follow."

#absentia #wrote some of these before i saw the mc left a note #my bad #asks #ask #turgpickens #kade lewis #kara lewis #margot steele #michael steele #blaine ellis #blaire ellis #wren cassidy #wynn cassidy #nicholas paxton #natalie paxton #scenario asks

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thothxv · 6 months

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I really don't want to talk about the present AO3 controversy (I have opinions, I think anyone paying attention does, but I'm so. Very. Tired. And the internet chews up tired people with opinions and spits them out for fun. So that's not happening).

HOWEVER!

I see many people out there championing Squidgeworld as an alternative to AO3. If you don't like AO3's staff or leadership and want to go somewhere else, this is actually pretty reasonable. The Squidge folks have been doing this a long time, they know what they're doing. They are a smaller team, hosting on smaller infrastructure (a dog knocked over their server once, apparently), but they seem up to the task of running an archive.

However. I also see people talking how Squidgeworld's policies are better than AO3 in various regards. And I want to address this because it's... mostly wrong. There are some differences in the TOSes, but for most of you they will be the same.

First thing, top of the list: Squidge's TOS is much smaller and vaguer than AO3's. A whole ton of rules around tagging in the TOS are just... not there. There's a bunch of information in AO3's TOS about how complaints are treated, that's all gone, any specificity about how Squidgeworld defines what they do or do not consider acceptable behavior is just... not there. In their place, we have Wheaton's Law: "Don't be a Dick". You might thing that covers it all, but a good TOS that makes it clear what is and is not allowed gives a lot of piece of mind. Nothing is worse than waking up to see that you've been given the boot because you and the mods disagreed about what the TOS meant. It sucks, you don't want that. It probably won't happen to most people, especially if you're not an asshole, but it is a thing.

The next thing in the TOS is the CSEM clause (the technical term for most of what people refer to as child pornography), and this is what I heard a lot of people talking about. I have heard people say that Squidge "actually bans child porn". However, the only difference between AO3 and Squidge's policies on CSEM (which is, to be clear, they they do not permit it) The only difference is this line: "This includes anything deemed pro-child sex or child-sex advocacy symbols." The thing is, that's subjective. A fic that involves this kind of content is not necessarily pro-child sex. Yes, even if it's RPF. And no, RPF is not CSAM. Nor is RPF CSEM, which is a broader umbrella term. At least, not under US law or US definitions, which is what both AO3 and Squidge operate under. I have done my best to get the official definitions for these things: RPF isn't covered. This has nothing to do with my opinions on RPF, it's just fact. In short, if you're upset at AO3 for not banning sexually explicit RPF containing real-life minors, Squidgeworld doesn't ban that either. Whether or not it takes down a fic with that kind of content in it is basically down moderation staff opinion on whether it might be advocating for child sex.

Now here's the juicy stuff. Squidgeworld prohibits links to any kind of fundraising... except in the case of original work. So, if you are a writer who posts original work to fic archives and wants to link your Patreon... you can do that on Squidgeworld. Just don't do it on fanfics. Or in the comments or in your profile. Standard AO3 rules everywhere else. Honestly, unless squidgeworld takes off on a scale that is frankly unlikely, this probably won't matter, but for some of you, this is a good thing, and it's worth bringing up.

Squidgeworld, unlike AO3, does not allow AI-generated fanworks. Now, I'm sure a lot of you are very happy, but this does actually present some problems: Specifically, you can't always tell AI generated and human work apart. Sure, a lot of the time it's pretty easy, but you can mask it, and sometimes the output could be confused for real writing. More importantly, real people's writing could be confused for AI writing. I could easily see fic authors being attacked with accusations that their work is AI generated, or co-written with an AI. I don't know if that will happen, but... well, some people are assholes, and fan communities are often drama-laden. It could happen.

Squidgeworld prohibits web scraping for the purpose of use with AI. AO3 basically has the same policy, and they've taken more technical measures to prevent it now that we're aware it's a thing that happens (the first time AO3 was scraped was pre-ChatGPT, people just weren't paying attention to this stuff. I imagine squidgeworld takes similar anti-scraping technical measures, although I don't know for sure). I think people don't think AO3 does this because in the post where they explained this they also said they allowed AI-generated fics, and they went on to say that they couldn't make it impossible for someone to scrape the site and feed that into a machine learning model. That's something Squidgeworld can't do either: if you really want a website scraped, that website can be scraped. This is why AO3 went on to say that archive-locking your work would make it less likely for scrapers to catch it, and that you could do that if you were concerned.

So yeah. I think broadly that these policies shake out mostly the same as they do on AO3 in terms of content. There's more vagueness and subjectivity and more things that malicious users could potentially abuse to waste staff time and attack other users, but... well, you can always submit false reports. That's a problem on AO3 too. Same as it ever was. And hey, at least there won't be any blatantly AI-generated fics over on squidgeworld. Mind, I haven't seen any in any of my fandoms anyways...

#squidgeworld #ao3 #thoth.txt #god i am so tired

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riddlerosehearts · 5 months

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okay, the other day i watched a playthrough of the emperor's new groove video game for playstation 1. a game which, for various reasons, i have never actually played myself. but i wrote down a lot of things about it that i'd now like to share. this is basically a combination of my own thoughts on the game and a summary of all the insane things that happened in it:

the game begins after kuzco has already been turned into a llama and pacha is saying he can't help unless he builds kuzcotopia somewhere else. in the movie this is the scene which leads into kuzco going off into the jungle by himself, but the game has you start by exploring the general area of the village around pacha's hut, where his kids hang out and teach you the mechanics. kuzco also knows from the beginning that yzma is trying to kill him and encounters her as a boss multiple times in the story.

it's fully voice acted, and this is the first time that j.p. manoux had voiced kuzco. he would go on to voice kuzco in the emperor's new school and in various other projects, and while it would've been nice if they could've gotten david spade for these, i think he does a good job. pacha's voice actor is different from either the movie or the show--it's john goodman in the movie + season 2 of the show, fred tatasciore in s1 of the show, and brian cummings here--but he's not too bad either.

pacha: "don't take the villagers' coins!" kuzco: "the villagers are MY people, so those are MY coins."

tipo: "by pressing your action button, you can smash these red pots" kuzco: "good, i feel like smashing something!"

i'm kind of obsessed with the fact that these sort of standard mechanics that you don't normally think about, like keeping money you found on the ground and destroying people's belongings in order to steal their money and items, are explained in this game by the protagonist being an entitled asshole. also obsessed with tipo encouraging kuzco's destructive behavior.

chaca: "this pad raises the columns to form steps! once they're triggered, you better be quick before they lower again." kuzco: "uh, ever thought of making them stay up for good when you press the pad?" chaca: "uhh... no." kuzco: "don't tell me, you got the brains in the family."

KUZCO DON'T BULLY A CHILD AKJDSFHHDJSKGSG

there's a mechanic where you can continue playing from your last checkpoint after dying as long as you've collected a wampy. what's a wampy? it's the name of the funky looking plushie that kuzco has as a baby in the first movie and then again in kronk's new groove:

the above screenshots are from the emperor's new groove, kronk's new groove, and the video game respectively. this is a bit of a tangent, but something i find interesting is that in the emperor's new school kuzco secretly carries a plushie named wampy around everywhere for comfort and that plushie has the same basic design but completely different colors:

and the purple wampy is never seen in the show, so i can only conclude that kuzco keeps multiple of these plushies that all share the same name. maybe he leaves the purple one at home so it doesn't have to endure the horrors of high school.

anyway, back to the game--every time you collect a wampy kuzco hugs it and says things like "awww, it's my wampyyyy" in a cute little baby talk voice. fucking dork <3

there are several little scenes during the village section of the game where chaca and tipo keep showing up to give tutorials and he just keeps making snarky comments at them and asking why they're there and if they don't have anything better to do.

in one of these scenes, tipo shows up to teach kuzco how to open doors and kuzco just goes "how did you get here so fast?". to which tipo replies that this is a game. another time, when chaca explains to kuzco how the wampy mechanic works, he asks how she knows all this and she goes "i don't know! beats me!"

there's a part where some random villager tells llama kuzco to stay away from his statues and kuzco goes "i'm the emperor! open the door or i'll smash your statue to pieces!"

the guy runs off screaming "DEMON LLAMAAAAA!!" and then tipo suddenly shows up to teach you how to smash the statues. i think chicha may need to keep a closer eye on tipo in the future.

SPEAKING OF CHICHA. SHE'S NOT IN THIS FUCKING GAME. if i were actually playing the game and doing a proper review of it i would automatically have to dock points for the lack of chicha.

at the beginning kuzco breaks some kid's llama bike and then the kid keeps showing up in every single chapter with a new bike and challenging kuzco to races. he somehow manages to show up everywhere from the top of a waterfall to the middle of yzma's roller coaster and never once questions why this llama is such a jerk or why he can even talk. also, toward the end of the game you race him one last time and his bike breaks for the millionth time and he says he learned a valuable lesson. that lesson? that these llama bikes suck and he needs to stop buying them.

kuzco hates being touched so much that anytime a guard, bug, bird, etc touches him he says "no touchy" and then loses health.

at one point kuzco gets turned into a turtle and kronk shows up and asks if he's there to enter the annual village race. he refuses at first but then it turns out kronk has an item that kuzco needs to progress, sooooo you have to have turtle kuzco slide on his back down the hill and try to beat kronk in the race.

kronk is voiced by patrick warburton again btw. eartha kitt also returned as yzma for the game. they both returned for each season of the emperor's new school as well, and i believe eartha kitt in particular loved voicing yzma so much that every time they needed her, right up until her death, she showed up.

kuzco cries if you lose the race against kronk, which is understandable considering that losing means he has to climb up to the top of the hill as a turtle again.

at the end of the village section you have to run from yzma as she throws bombs at kuzco and once you manage to get away, kuzco says "you call yourself an end of level boss, yzma? you're rubbish! toodles!"

after this, kuzco ends up going into the jungle despite pacha's repeated warnings that it's too dangerous. and now instead of chaca and tipo, a talking bug trapped in a spiderweb appears to teach him additional mechanics.

when the jaguars from the movie show up kuzco says "time out" and then the frame freezes while he explains to YOU, the player, what you'll have to do to save him.

during the waterfall section chaca is somehow there AGAIN, at the top of the waterfall in a pink llama pool floatie, and is like "oh wow, another llama tied to a log!" (apparently one showed up the previous week) but does not react at all to her dad also being tied to a log. she just explains to them how this level is gonna work and then leaves.

she pops back up again a little later (still on the waterfall. they stretched this part of the movie out a lot) and calls kuzco "kinda short for a llama".

speaking of the game stretching things out a lot, pacha literally says during the waterfall levels: "this scene was much shorter in the film".

there's a whole other jungle section where kuzco spends an extensive amount of time having been turned into a frog. tipo randomly appears to help again during this section.

there's another race with kronk in an icy area that shows kronk to be an excellent ice skater. i would probably be terrible at this if i played the game.

when they finally get into the city kuzco tells pacha he knows the streets like the back of his hand and pacha replies, "but kuzco, you're a llama, you don't have any hands!"

when they separate and kuzco sneaks on his own into the palace, he gets confronted by a naked guy who's conveniently being covered up by a peacock and says the peacocks stole his clothes. he's blocking a path we need to go through so we are forced to find his underwear for him. this guy also does not question wtf is up with the talking llama.

when you get him his underwear back he, uh. well. he uses his magic sparkly underwear to fly away:

what is this guy, the incan version of captain underpants? kuzco then says in a deadpan voice, "this has gotta be the weirdest day of my entire life". can't argue with that!

i've gone way too long without mentioning that this game is primarily a platformer, which is a genre i kind of suck at and don't play often, but appears to have a lot of variety in its gameplay that makes it look pretty fun! the races with kronk, the part where you guide pacha and kuzco down the river, the part where you have to run from the jaguars, the stealth sections, and the various parts where kuzco is transformed into non-llama animals all have different types of gameplay to switch it up. the city is also huge and full of puzzle sections.

when kuzco defeats yzma in his throne room and then meets back up with pacha, they have to take the roller coaster down to yzma's lab and there's a level based on this as well. you have to control the roller coaster and turn it at just the right time to collect coins and avoid falling to your death. this looks like it could be a lot of fun to me.

tipo somehow shows up on the roller coaster to give another tutorial and kuzco tells this 6 year old to make him a sandwich and then insults his haircut 😭 kuzco i love you but why are you like this

before the final battle against yzma she says she's gonna drink a potion to turn herself into a hideous monster and rule the empire forever. and kuzco says "are you sure you didn't drink it already, you old bag of bones?"

there's this huge dramatic buildup to her drinking the potion. and then. it turns her into a cat like in the movie. and that's the final boss battle. you have to race against cat yzma to get the last potion to turn back into a human.

just from the video i watched, this race seemed very short and easy and therefore anticlimactic? but idk, maybe the person playing was just really good at it.

the final scene of the game immediately following this is kuzco visiting the village as a human again and we see scenes like kronk playing jump rope with chaca and tipo, the incan captain underpants guy flying around the roof of a house, bucky the squirrel chasing cat yzma, and kuzco + pacha's family all having a dance party while fireworks go off.

again i must reiterate that this game is missing chicha's legendary and iconic presence. my assumption is that since the characters seem to know they're in a video game, she didn't wanna have to help give kuzco tutorials because it would put too much stress on her while pregnant. still, though, it would've been nice to see her in at least the opening or ending sequences.

in conclusion: as i mentioned, i've never played this game, and the main reason for this is that i didn't know it existed when i was a kid--but even if i had i still most likely wouldn't have played it because i didn't care much about the emperor's new groove back then. the only reason i looked up a playthrough of it was because my autism brain suddenly told me i needed to learn about all of the official emperor's new groove media in existence. however, it really does look like fun and the playthrough i watched wasn't even 5 hours long, so now i kind of wanna give it a try someday? the writing is hilarious. not as hilarious as the actual movie, of course, but it was just so bizarre in such a great way and was very faithful to the movie's complete lack of a fourth wall.

also: this game has the best "game over" screen of all time. whenever kuzco dies it literally just plays a clip of the funeral scene from the movie, all the way through the "he ain't getting any deader, back to work!" bit.

#OKAY. here is my way too long post about the emperor's new groove video game for playstation 1 #which i found out is also available on PC. neat!#the emperor's new groove #disney

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I'm showing a picture of this post instead of reblogging because I don't want to distract from OP's point, but the various comments and reblogs all seem to have a common thread of "how did this happen? Why don't people seem to care?"

My personal theory is widespread compassion fatigue. It's finally ingrained itself fully into our collective psyche. And I'm not just talking about recent events either.

I'm 47 years old. I've lived through the end of the Cold War, two Gulf Wars, one major terrorist attack on US soil that upended literally EVERYTHING about everyday life in the US, the rising threat of climate change, a once in a century pandemic, multiple boom-and-bust economic cycles, the rise of the internet and with it the rise of accessibility of both information and MISinformation, multiple smaller conflicts around the world, the change in corporate attitudes from "we serve our customers our products faithfully and loyally" to "fuck you! That's our money in your wallet and we're not even going to pretend we thought of you as anything else anymore," the creeping resurgence of fascism as a political ideology in the US not seen since the 30s and early 40s,* rapidly rising inflation and wage stagnation without any sort of action to mitigate it for most of the population. and literally hundreds to thousands of people online yelling at each other for not "doing more," "doing better," or for not supporting/believing/doing the right things in the right way.

I honestly think the compassion/empathy tank is not just empty in the US, it's burned through the fumes and is now bone dry.

Being as generous as possible with the timeline, ever since 2001**, what we laughingly call the news in this country has served us a 24/7 diet of crisis after crisis, with no respite. It's ebbed and flowed, of course, but the general message has been "everything is getting worse, nobody is going to save us, we can't solve the existential threats of war, disease, famine, climate change, racism, and lethal prejudice that exists everywhere." And while collective action has garnered several significant victories, the attitude is still "this won't work because everybody has their own ideas of what needs to be done and how to do it and spend more time arguing over the details rather than doing anything***"

I think we don't care because we just CAN'T anymore. Even the things we would normally use to recharge ourselves aren't working. The food doesn't taste good, the entertainment is turning into forgettable sludge by the rapid rise of streaming, and it seems like you aren't allowed to be anywhere in public without spending money, and if you aren't required to spend money to be somewhere, odds are if you stay there for too long you'll have somebody giving you the side eye and demanding an explanation.

And online? Anger, dehumanization, and the constant cry of any sincere expression of joy or excitement is "cringe."

22 years of being constantly told the world is shit, humans are awful, you only have as much value as your bank account has digits, your employers don't respect you or the customers who get affected by their boneheaded decisions, leaving you to take the bullet, and constant reminders if problems which are too big to be solved in our lifetime.****

We're all tired, and we're beaten down, and we just don't have any more fucks to give about the latest crisis created by those in positions of power for what we are realizing are the most petty and stupid reasons.

There isn't a one size fits all solution here. But that's pretty much what I think has happened: the people of the United States in general have reached a point where we don't have the emotional capacity to deal with any more of this seemingly unsolvable shit. And I honestly think it's going to continue to get worse before it starts to get better.

Try to take care of each other out there, okay?

*For younger readers: oh yeah, during Hitler's rise to power until Pearl Harbor, there were PLENTY of people who thought Hitler was just swell.

** I'd actually argue the trauma cycle started with Vietnam, but it really accelerated with the 24 hour news cycle, the increase in internet speeds, and the events of 9/11.

***On a related note, be EXTREMELY leery of those online who won't accept anything but full-scale revolution as a remedy. Most of the time, these people have no plan for what comes after or seem to think that when society collapses, they'll be on top of the pile, ready to be the boot.

****The kinds of changes that would be needed to wipe out war, prejudice, and many other systemic problems are probably going to take decades, if not centuries. And because of the always on demand nature of society right now, a lot of people seem to have a real problem wrapping their heads around that. Change for the worse happens immediately. Change for the better takes a LOT longer.

#compassion fatigue #state of the world #united states #cannot wait for the shitshow this post is going to start

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x. PINNED POST THING

FIC MASTERLIST:

marginalia

WIP. 273k/? E. Canon-divergence dystopian AU. Wolfstar, side Dorlene and eventual Jily.

history books forgot about us

Complete. 25k. E. Ted/Andromeda prequel set in the marginalia verse.

ocho kandelikas

Complete. 11k. T-E. Hannukah anthology of 8 standalone one shots in various timelines and verses. Wolfstar, various side characters and ships.

until our ribs get tough

Complete. 4k. M. Prequel Remus and Lily friendship slice of life set in the marginalia verse.

twentieth century boy

Complete. 3k. E. The Sirius-on-a-leash fic. Wolfstar.

the verge

Disconnected one-shots. Mainly Wolfstar.

SOME TAGS:

x marginalia blogging x mwpp in shorts agenda x lesbian wolfstar x trans remus lupin hours x drabble tag

FAQ:

Can I bookbind your fics?

Please read this so, so carefully, because it's important. If you are designing, printing, and binding the fic yourself for the purpose of keeping it or gifting it on to a friend, then yes. Absolutely. Nothing would make me happier. Fandom is punk and community-oriented and exists outside of the capitalist economy, and I would love nothing more than to see the results of your incredible craftsmanship. But if you're using Lulu or another for-profit printing company to do it, if any money is changing hands at any point in the process, then the answer is a resounding fuck no. If you're confused by this policy, I'm begging you to take the time to read on here about why this trend is such a danger to all of us who write and read fanfiction.

Can I translate/record a podfic of your fics?

Ask me first, but I can't imagine a reason I wouldn't say yes. Just so long as they stay on AO3 and link back to the original fic where you have the option to pick This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another work. Please don't upload to Spotify.

Can I put your fic on Wattpad or another fic hosting platform?

No.

Can I put your fic on Goodreads or StoryGraph?

Absolutely not.

Can I feed your work to ChatGPT or another AI?

No! What's wrong with you?

Do you have an update schedule?

No. My current WIP is usually updated once or twice a week, but sometimes the wait is longer than that. I have a job and health issues and sometimes even a social life, and I do this on my own time because it brings me joy.

Can I write fic/draw art/create something else inspired by your fics?

Yes! And I hope you understand what a compliment that is! Like I said before, fanfic is punk and community oriented and this is a folkloric tradition. You actually really don't need my permission to do this, but I would ask that any fic stay on AO3 and link back to the original fic where you have the option to pick This work is a remix, a translation, a podfic, or was inspired by another work. For anything else, I'd love to see the results of your creativity, and would just ask that due credit and a link back to the original fic are clearly present somewhere.

XO ZO

#what's that? a proper pinned post?#it's more likely than you think #wolfstar fic #remus lupin #sirius black #my fic #zo chats

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mlmxreader · 3 days

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latest prompts (20/05), 250

please do NOT use for your own writing/inspiration, this list is specifically for requests to be sent to @mlmxreader.

rules & guidelines

song fics (ongoing)

aid for Palestine

prompt list rules: rules: you can send more than one prompt per request and mix and match them as much as you like! prompts can be used until (basically) i get bored of them!

Various Dialogue (50)

"Did you actually think that would work?"

"Come here"

"When I tell you to run, you fuckin' run!"

"This is important"

"What happened?"

"Easy, easy, it's only me"

"Can you not climb in through my window? You have a key for a reason"

"Sit down, we're taking it easy today"

"Yeah, motherfucker"

"Hurt him, you'll wish you were having a nightmare"

"Must we do this every time?"

"Quit it!"

"Just... stay there a second"

"You're bleeding, for fuck's sake!"

"I will fuck you up"

"Please, I don't wanna fight"

"Say it with me"

"You look really good, what else can I say?"

"What's the matter? You jealous?"

"It's just a little fun"

"I never meant no harm"

"We're gonna die here!"

"Can I come in?"

"Did you ever think we'd end up here? With all this?"

"I will always protect you"

"You're all I want"

"I think I've waited long enough to say it"

"You're gonna get us both into shit"

"I can tell you like me because you keep staring"

"I could use someone like you"

"Here, take my jacket before you freeze to death"

"What? He had it coming!"

"Don't go starting fights you can't finish"

"I didn't kill him! Gravity did that for me"

"I'm going with you"

"Wherever you go, just be sure it's somewhere I can, too"

"You fishing for compliments?"

"You weren't there, you would've done the same!"

"You're such a cunt... I love you"

"Cigarette?"

"Get down! You'll get shot!"

"Where is it?"

"Close your eyes and hold out your hands"

"Lie down for a bit, get some rest"

"Don't worry, I'll still be here"

"Please don't leave me alone tonight"

"You're back!"

"I should, but I can't stay away." "I don't want you to"

"Here, I'll get your coat"

"Take it you had a shit day"

Heavy Metal Lyrics (50)

bands used (10 each): Slipknot, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Warrant, Amon Amarth

"I can handle anything, even if I can't handle you"

"Don't you fuckin' pity me"

"What the hell am I sayin'?"

"Fuck this shit, I'm sick of it"

"Something about this, so very wrong"

"Did you never give a damn in the first place?"

"Are you scared of me now? Then you're dumber than I thought"

"Lot of bullshit, not a lotta the truth"

"I can't see from here, but I can smell your fear"

"I don't need this"

"You gotta learn your lesson"

"'Cause there ain't nobody here to defend your heart"

"I'm in love, so in love"

"Now give them back, boys"

"I can't believe that you need my love so bad"

"You come sneaking around"

"They pay me the money and I do the job, I got a contract on you"

"A gun, lump sum and then I move on"

"I do what I do 'cos I can't do nothing better"

"I'm the best that there is"

"Do what I want and do as I please"

"You'll be afraid of when I call out your name"

"Everybody's got their vice"

"You can take my honest word for it"

"You're packing your bags, you're coming with me"

"If you're gonna die, die with your boots on"

"But on this battlefield no one wins"

"We get so near yet so far away"

"We won't live to fight another day"

"You don't say but it's in your eyes instead"

"Keep your mouth shut, that's what we're going to do"

"I don't think I'm gonna love you anymore"

"I'm not sure that I'll be fine, I never thought it would end this way"

"But at least I'm someone to lean on"

"Darlin' I know you're sleepin', but there's something I've just got to say"

"Thanks to you now I know, all my dreams can come true"

"Sometimes I hear your voice, calls out to me makes my heart bleed"

"Smokes and spits and drinks and fights, and his friends all look like trouble"

"Inside your arms I found a place that's warm and dry"

"Lick it off my fingers, taste it on my tongue"

"Ride to meet your fate"

"Your destiny awaits"

"As long as one of us remains here, none of them will ever pass"

"We're outnumbered ten to one here, still, I love the odds"

"Hold the line don't let it break"

"There's no time to run or hide"

"Draw the weapon from your side"

"It feels like spikes with every step I take"

"I don't fear the setting sun or the twilight that it brings"

"I've missed the breeze of my home shores"

AUs (50)

Werewolf!reader

Werewolf!character

WW1

Pre-ww1

Post-war

Love Affair

Bounty Hunter!reader

1940s Noir

Private Detective!reader

Bodyguard!character

Journalist!reader

Childhood Friends to Lovers

Bank Robber!reader

Shape Shifter!reader

Ghost!reader

Ghost!character

Con Artist!reader

Criminal!reader

Vigilante!reader

Soulmates

Famous!reader

Medieval

Wild West

19th Century

Gangster!character

Gangster!reader

Domestic

University

Roommates

Rugby Player!reader

Arranged Marriage

Assassin!reader

Character Lives/Doesn't Die (eg Arthur Morgan)

Scream (1996)

Sellsword!reader

Hired Gun!reader

Mercenary!reader

Spy!reader

Farmhand!reader

Cowboy!reader

Gunslinger!reader

Rodeo Cowboy!reader

Sheriff!reader (Wild West only)

Medic!reader

Fighter Pilot!reader

Submariner!reader

Navy!reader

Fisherman!reader

Dragon Tamer!reader

Royal Guard!reader (only for medieval AUs or fantasy settings, eg LOTR)

Scenarios (50)

Only One Bed

Fake Relationship

Snowed Inside

Locked Inside Until Morning

Person A getting jealous over someone flirting with Person B

Person A getting into a fight to protect Person B

Person B stealing Person A's clothes

Person A getting injured and Person B panicking and confessing how they feel

Camping Together Somewhere Isolated

Roadtrip

Spending The Night Watching Horror Films

Hunting Trips

Person A realising they love Person B over something small

Hurt/Comfort

Person A helping Person B after a bad breakup

Person A showing up at Person B's place in the middle of the night

First Kiss

First Confession

Waking Up Together For The First Time

Person A getting possessive when someone gets too friendly with Person B

Playing Seven Minutes In Heaven

Going To A Party Together

Hidden Relationship

Relationship Leaked On Social Media/News

Date Night

Museum Trips

Staying Up All Night Together

Waiting For Them To Come Home

Person A seeing Person B in a suit for the first time

Patching Them Up After A Fight

Marriage Proposal

Person A gets sick so Person B takes care of them

Spending The Night In An Abandoned House

Getting Lost On The Way Somewhere

Playing Twister

Playing Strip Poker

Lost A Bet

Person A drags Person B along to meet their family

Person A's enemy turns out to be Person B's best friend

Smoking Cigarettes On A Rooftop At Night

Person A asks Person B to move in

Person A collects little things to give to Person B as gifts

Best Friends Realising They Love Each Other Romantically

Person A worrying when they can't find Person B

Person A standing up for Person B

Lazy Mornings In Bed Together

Person A stealing Person B's hat/coat when they aren't looking

Their Friends Have To Tell Them That They Have Feelings For Each Other

Unreciprocated Reciprocated Love

Having To Pretend They Aren't A Couple

NSFW below the cut, minors do NOT interact

NSFW (50)

Biting kink

Choking

Spanking

Hair pulling

Free use

Thigh riding

Dry humping

Breath play

Knife play

Anal fingering

Daddy kink

Sir kink

Bondage

Whipping

Chained up

Blindfolded

Temperature play

Hot wax

Sparring turns to sex

Oral sex

Hand jobs

Roleplay

Making a sex tape

"Punishment"

Handcuffing

Collars & leads

Spit as lube

Marking the other with bite marks/hand prints/etc

Outdoors sex

Sex on the floor

Shower sex/bath sex

Car sex

Gagging

Morning sex

Fully clothed dom & completely naked sub

Dom/sub

Uniform kink

Rough sex

Vanilla sex

Doggy style

Riding

Sofa sex

Sex against a window

Sex in public toilets (cottaging)

Public sex in a secluded field (dogging)

Crying during sex because they've missed each other so much

Overstimulation

Edging

Jealous/possessive sex

Threesomes

rules & guidelines

Palestinian aid

song fics (ongoing)

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rayshippouuchiha · 1 year

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My opinions on who can and cannot cook in Reborn, regardless of canonicity. It’s just the Vibes.

KHR characters that can Actually Cook, IMO; Tsuna (it’s the tired mom vibes), Kyoko and Ryohei (I feel like they’d bond over it-), Takeshi, Hibari (for some reason?), Squalo probably (it’s the tired mom vibes again), Skull, Colonello

KHR characters that can’t Actually Cook, IMO; Hayato, Hana, Bianchi, Mukuro and Chrome (one is organless and the other is a melted freezie pop), Lal Mirch, Reborn, Verde (I refuse to believe he eats anything other than instant ramen cups)

Tell Me Your Thoughts

If we're going just Vibes instead of Canon? Well this ended up being way longer than I intended but:

Tsuna - I do feel like he could cook (Tired Mom Vibes like you said) if given the chance in the kitchen with no one around bothering him but most of the time wouldn't bother if it's just him.

Kyoko & Ryohei - I feel like they both think they can cook but in reality everything they make is fucking odd ala Orihime from Bleach

Takeshi - For him the vibes are the same as canon for me - he can make any sushi you can think of but if it's not in sushi form or cup ramen he struggles

Hibari - No one knows because cooking is a herbivorous activity he'd never be caught doing unless it's a freshly caught and skinned animal over an open fire in the wilderness somewhere. Plus he has people for that and/or takes the food off people he bites to death like they dropped loot.

Squalo - can cook out of self-defense/an attempt to herd the Varia and has some of the wildest but most stunningly precise knife work. Can't bake though, he's too Him for that.

Skull - I will always headcanon him as someone who can unexpectedly throw down in the kitchen and he has a wide range of recipes from various cultures because of all the travel he did as a stuntman. But not many people know that cause they just assume he's incompetent.

Colonnello - He can make exactly 3 dishes and only 1.5 of them well

Gokudera - Can't cook and has a complicated relationship with food because of trauma. Prefers packaged food that no one else has touched unless he 100% trusts the cook. But could absolutely bake if he attempted to because he's more science-minded and baking is more precise.

Hana - Normal person levels of cooking but she doesn't enjoy it

Bianchi - Can technically cook but doesn't really matter

Chrome - Can't cook but high-key wishes she could so she could make cutesy bento boxes and cakes

Mukuro - Probably had an incarnation that could cook and as such refuses to cook. Steals food instead if necessary.

Lal Mirch - Tries but constantly gets frustrated because her dishes never turn out right

Verde - Doesn't cook but probably could if he tried but it's a moot point because he's developed a nutrient slurry/pill that gives him everything he needs so he doesn't have to waste time in the kitchen. Makes a bitching coffee though with enough caffeine to kill a lesser man

Reborn - Can cook because he has a chef cosplay and he can't help but commit to the bit. That being said he generally prefers to mooch off someone else. Also low-key has a soft spot for peasant food/dishes when no one is looking.

#RayRambles #KHR #Katekyo Hitman Reborn

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thefreakydeaky · 10 months

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You're No Good (Part 5)

Negan Smith x Reader

Various TWD Characters x Reader

Modern AU

Summary: Your husband came up with a way to keep you away from trouble but trouble just won't stay away from you.

Warnings: Angst

Negan texted you to meet him at a bar he'd been told about across town. Eager to get out of the house, you freshened your make up a bit, changed into a somewhat nicer outfit and left home.

You pasted the address Negan had given you into google maps and without really looking, selected the first option to pop up. Twenty minutes later when you arrived at your destination, you regretted not paying closer attention. You knew The Tap, knew it so well you had made friends with the bartender. Lots of cops liked to hang out there, Shane among them. You texted Negan about going somewhere, anywhere, else, but he didn't read your message.

You found a place to park as soon as you could and prepared to go in. Surely it had been long enough that your face had been forgotten.All you could think to do was go in and drag Negan out.

The Tap was an old place. It hadn't been updated one bit you noticed, your eyes going over the familiar honey wood bar and red vinyl bar stools. You could almost swear the Christmas lights they had up were the same ones from over ten years ago. You shook your head and focused on getting to the tables in the back, where Negan said he'd be. You made it almost to the end of the bar when someone called your name.

"Hey! We've missed you around these parts." The bartender told you. "How've you been?"

"Hey, Gavin. I'm good. I'm doing good. How are you?" You replied.

"The kids are good. The wife is happy. I can't complain." He reached for a glass and went to work making you what used to be your go to drink order, an amarretto sour.

You thanked him and picked up the glass.

"You here with someone?" He asked as he refilled someone's pint.

"I'm meeting my husband here actually." Your eyes scanned over the nearest two tables.

"What's he look like?"

"Tall, kind of on the thin side, dark greying hair..." You took a sip of your drink. "Wearing a suit."

Gavin nodded.

"Last table on the right."

"Thanks, Gavin." You smiled at him and went to meet your husband.

Negan stood up when he saw you.

"Hello, Baby." He greeted you. You went into his arms and gave him a kiss.

"Hello, Handsome." You couldn't help the warm grin that spread across your lips. "How was work?"

"It was a good day and you know, this is a pretty great place." Negan commented. Pulling the chair next to him out for you.

You didn't sit.

"I'm glad you've been enjoying yourself, but we've got to go." You tried not to make it sound too urgent, but still to convey the importance that you leave.

He raised one almost perfectly shaped dark eyebrow.

"Come on, Baby. You just got your drink and I haven't finished this one just yet." He patted the chair beside his.

You frowned.

"I'm serious, Negan. We have to go."

He released a puzzled chuckle.

"You came all the way here just to tell me we have to leave? I've only had two, Babe. How drunk did you think I'd be?"

"No, it's not that. It's-it's..."

"I'm not ready to go yet. Let's sit here and relax a while, hmm?" He tried to reason with you.

"Negan, please. Can you trust me on this? It's important that we leave be-"

"Well don't go on my account." Shane retorted over your shoulder. "Cause I am perfectly comfortable with you being here."

You cringed at the sound of his voice.

"We were just leaving." You told Shane. "Come on, Negan."

Shane stuck out his hand.

"Hey, Negan is it? I'm Shane."

Negan shook his hand looking between the two of you as if trying to work out who he was to you.

"You another one of her affairs or are you the husband?" Shane shot off.

You winced. You couldn't bring yourself to look at Negan.

"Look, I said I was sorry. I am. I'm sorry, but as I was saying-"

"Do you know, she didn't tell me she was married till after?" Shane spoke directly to Negan, ignoring you. "During she was telling me she missed me and she loved me, but after," He laughed a hollow humorless sound. "After, she tells me she's married. Do you think that's right? Cause I don't think that's right."

You glared at Shane.

"I never said that," You grit your teeth. "All I said was that you were a good lay."

Negan stood then. You watched him, worried. The expression on his face gave nothing away, but you knew how he felt. You had felt the same way when you received a phone call from the woman he slept with. He went around you, straight to the bar to pay his tab.

"What? You don't have anything to say?" Shane prodded, following behind him.

Negan signed the receipt, took up his card and put it back in his wallet.

"What she does while I'm at work is her business."

Shane turned to look at you, disbelief and anger in his eyes.

"You're an adult and yet here you are trying to what? Tell on her? Get her in trouble? Grow up." Negan responded in a tired voice and left the bar.

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"Negan?" You came into your house through the garage. The whole drive back home you had been worrying yourself about what Negan was thinking. How shitty he must be feeling. You didn't know what you would do if he left you.

"Negan?" You called again walking down the long hallway to the back of the house.

He didn't respond. You checked his office and finding it empty went to your bedroom.

Negan was in a pair of sweats and a white undershirt, sitting in bed watching basketball.

You let out a breath of relief. You had thought up a scenario where he would be packing up and leaving.

You sat at the edge of the bed by his legs.Your gaze was on the hardwood floor.

"I'm so sorry." You took a deep breath. "I never said I loved him. He was just trying to-"

"I don't really wanna talk about this right now." He told you.

"But-"

He said your name in a stern tone. "I said, no."

You faced him.

The way his jaw was set, his eyes filled with emotion, you knew he was hurt and so you left it alone for the time being.

#negan x reader #negan smith x reader #shane walsh x reader #twd x reader

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simplegenius042 · 4 months

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Ask meme!

Thank you @lulu2992 for tagging me! I quite enjoyed how you worded yours, as well as @glowwormsmith (to do so twice for the funsies) and am curious to see how well I do on mine.

Rules: Spell out your URL using song titles that can describe your muse/OC/pairings, then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL!

Tagging @cassietrn @chazz-anova @voidika @thewanderer-000 @titiagls and @onehornedbeast + anyone else who'd like to join. Also you don't have to do what I did. You can read my best attempt at this Ask meme below the cut:

"Some Nights" [Fun.] I just stay up, staring at my roof thinking about the characters, the fics I wrote, and the thing is, "I Can't Decide" [Scissor Sisters] on who to talk about first, because there is so many options, each imbued with "My Kind Of Love" [Leon Else - 13 Reasons Why] in various forms. There's the protagonist of The UnTitledverse, Joaquin Cobalt, who's personally a "Part Of Me" [Katy Perry] in some ways but very different in others, especially for his search of identity as he grows up. Silva Omar is the de-facto "main protagonist" of Far Cry The Silver Chronicles, especially with her motivation for living in Hope County, which is to move on from the past and her repetitive status as being the "Last One Standing" [Skylar Grey ft. Polo G, Mozzy, & Eminem - Venom: Let There Be Carnage]. Haoyu Anabuki is someone I find as an interesting protagonist in Life, Despair & Monsters, as unlike Joaquin and Silva, who do have good intentions but often times go to the extreme with those values (Joaquin's methods are more merciless while Silva's is brutal), Haoyu would rather hold onto their selfish intentions than help anyone, but actively learns to care about others and works as a significant foil against his "Enemy" [Imagine Dragons ft. J.I.D - Arcane League of Legends], Sir Enigma Malvolio, who's good intentions are condescending at best and severely warped at worse causing his methods to be unethical, uncaring and selfish.

There's also other series I've developed such as Wings And Horns and it's spin-off trilogy that develops, as well as the Fallout series A Radioactive Calamity of Love, Bombs & Gore, all a "Glorious" [Macklemore ft. Skylar Grey] exploration of the past that happened before The UnTitled Ventures saga, which is the kickstart of the other three series plots. "Everywhere You Look" [Carly Rae Jepsen - Fuller House] is a strange and fantastic journey, which both original and canon characters have to endure and overcome through because what we (and I) get seems to be "Never Enough" [Loren Allred - The Greatest Showman] for our passionate hearts, so we write our own stories and build upon it. "I Gotta Feeling" [The Black Eyed Peas] that The UnTitledverse, Far Cry The Silver Chronicles, Life, Despair & Monsters and the other series and the characters in them, are going to be phenomenal, which is a very bold statement but hey, I've had these building up in my head like an "Unstoppable" [The Score] force for years and I really, really want to finally write them all down so at least they are out there, somewhere, and who knows maybe it might "Shine Through" [The Stupendium] someone else's vision and inspire them to write or make their day a brighter.

One can hope it lasts "4ever" [The Veronicas], and I'll do my best to be along for the ride. And will still be writing even "28 Days Later" [John Murphy - 28 Days Later] after this.

(I have no songs I like or know that start with 0)

And mixing things up, here's how I worded my URL from Wattpad and a little bit from fanfiction.net based on gloworm's style.

Meant To Be - Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line

"Maybe we do / Maybe we don't / Maybe we will / Maybe we won't / But if it's meant to, it'll be, it'll be / Baby just let it be (Sing it baby) / If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be (C'mon) / Baby, just let it be (Let's Go) / So won't you ride with me, ride with me? / See where this thing goes" for my ship of my shapeshifting, meat-eating alien Mario Emmet and Charlie Emily, the android who didn't realize she was an android for years from the FNAF novels.

Impossible Geometry - The Stupendium ft. Chi-chi

"Never in all of history before / Has cardio been such bliss to perform / But beware of the risks / As you twist and deform / Or you might just put / Your fist through a wall / The Earth is a stave / And you're surfing the waves / As the sound of the blades / Lay waste to the shapes / Stay braces for the pace / Get a taste for the race / There's grace to embrace / When space is your playlist / I feel the music moving through every part of me / I see the beauty blooming out of every passing beat / I'm flying straight towards the light and there's no stopping me / I live my life through impossible geometry / I found a place where my playlist lays a rhapsody / Where my heartbeat and the bass can weave a tapestry / I'm flying straight towards the light and there's no stopping me / I live my life inside impossible geometry" for Silva Omar and Paul Yellowjack, at the highest peak of Third Eye activation and use. In a way, it describes the kind of environment one sees in this state of mind.

Slide Into The Void - The Stupendium ft. Cami-Cat

"Breaking the first / The second / The third / The fourth wall / Fifth wall / No floor / You fall / Earworm humming in a dream / Baby, baby, baby yeah / Just plastic / You want to listen / You want to dream / You want to smile / You want to hurt / You don't want to be / You want to listen / You want to dream / You want to smile / You want to hurt / You don't want to be / If you can't place the pin / Where patterns end and you begin / Follow the Director / Else you're gonna slide into the void / But should your towers fall / Free your mind and heed the call / Go to the projector / Load another slide into the void" for the Ruins of the Midnight Rise (a science organization/cult that includes the Director, Sir Enigma Malvolio, a collection of the worlds greatest Third Eye users called "The Unity" or "Uni" for short, Malvolio's sopping wet bodyguard Denise Redwood, their primary enforcer Inviticus, his mecha-hound Impulse, a deranged Eden "Evie" Jackson Bloodleech (hint, hint), and Frederick Rosemary who shouldn't be anywhere near children).

The House Always Wins - The Stupendium

"You can hit them, you can fold them / Stack the deck and weight the dice / All that glitters isn't golden / Cash that check, you'll pay the price / Might be safer in the desert / Only dust to judge your sins / But those who wager aren't so clever / 'Cause in heaven / Well, the house always wins" for Mr. Robert Edwin House's condescending hatred towards one Marissa "Ress" Bishop... who returns the feeling 100% tenfold.

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush

"And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God / And I'd get him to swap out places / Be running up that road, be running up that hill / Be running up that building (He-oh) / Say, if I only could, oh-ooh / You / It's you and me / It's you and me / It's you and me / You won't be unhappy / Oh come on, baby / Oh come on, darlin' / Let me steal this moment from you now / Oh come on, angel / Come on, come on, darlin' / Let's exchange the experience / Oh-ooh-ooh" for Silva's survivor's guilt and grief over not being able to save her daughter Persephone.

Epoch - The Living Tombstone

"Everyone makes mistakes / I've had more than my share / But it's OK 'cause O'm gonna repair it / They say there are no retakes / But I just don't agree, no / This show / Is of my own making / Take it back to the start / I've had a change of heart / I know we can make it better than it ever was / I know we can make it better / I know we can make it better than it ever was / I know we can make it better" for an unlikely duo between Stranger Things Jim's older brother, Alfred "Jeff" Hopper, and Joaquin's older adopted sister Lisa Cobalt, both have nothing in common except for the fact both are repentant of their past mistakes and actions enough that they are willing to put a stop the world-ending Occult to save the people they want to keep alive.

Set Those Sinners Free - Dan Romer (Far Cry 5)

"Well, the Devil's friends hide in the dark / They've laid their plans and they'll make their mark / We pity the souls that they have claimed / They won't be saved when they're up in flames / The sinner's world is full of hate / There's so many lies that you can't keep straight / But when they finally meet their fate / There's no wait and see, there's see and wait / Well, you can sing all through the night / Preach till the mornin' light / But some cannot tell wrong from right / Jacob's gonna come and set those sinners free" for Alexander Khaos pretending to buy into the prophecy/religious aspect but going all in for the survival aspect that Jacob's set up.

Shameless - Camila Cabello

"So many mornings I woke up confused / In my dreams I do anything I want to you / My emotions are naked / They're taking me out of my mind / Right now I'm shameless / Screaming my lungs out for you / Not afraid to face it / I need you more than I want to / Need you more than I want to / Show me you're shameless / Write it on my neck, why don't ya? / And I won't erase it / I need you more than I want to / Need you more than I want to" for Silva Omar and the Apostles of Zachariah (human incarnations). Hates them but they're so traumatically impactful that she can't erase them from her mind and body (the scars and Persephone's absence being a reminder) which allows their memory to be constantly alive and haunting her. And compared to most people she fought and fights, she's subconsciously established them on this pedestal of what she wants out in a fight (as Paul taught her that "to fight is to prove you're alive").

Spotlight - CG5

"You really think I want to kill? The ink you see can't be distilled / I can tell it's not your day / Well, too bad! / I'm here to stay! / Our surprise is your demise / Close your lying eyes / Play that old song / In the night / Right under the spotlight!" for Calvin Dearing and his Narrator who hates his guts in A Blast In The Past and The Dark Awakening.

Pompeii - Bastille

"Eh, eheu, eheu / Eh, eheu, eheu / Eh, eheu, eheu / I was left to my own devices / Many days fell away with nothing to show / And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we love / Grey clouds roll over the hills, bringing darkness from above / But if you close your eyes / Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? / And if you closed your eyes / Does it almost feel like you've been here before? / How am I gonna be an optimist about this? / How am I gonna be an optimist about this?" for the duo Isiah Popov and Gemini Teal as they prepare their "finest" heist in an adapted Ketterdam in the present-ish modern-ish day but still stuck in its crooked ways.

Lost In Paradise - ALI ft. AKLO (Jujutsu Kaisen)

"Tokyo prison / I'm going to relight your feeling / Night and day are fading / I'm going to relight your feeling / Light up every last one of them / Ooh-ooh-oho, give me your love / Ooh-ooh-oho, access to your love / Ooh-ooh-oho, oh yeah! / Lost in paradise / Night and day are fading out / When time gets rough / Access to your love / Lost in paradise / Night and day are fading out / Keep on dancing now / Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey" for Hoayu Anabuki's journey in a Japanese high school trying to make a connection with their half-sister Monika without letting her know they're her sibling and a half-interdimensional being.

I'm So Sorry - Imagine Dragons

"No lies and no deceiving / Man is what he loves / I keep trying to conceive that / Death is from above (No time) / I get mine and make no excuses / Waste of precious breath (No time) / The sun shines on everyone / Everyone, love yourself to death / So you gotta fire up, you gotta let go / You'll never be loved till you've made your own / You gotta face up, you gotta make yours / You never know the top till you get too low / A son of a stepfather / A son of a, I'm so sorry / A son of a stepfather / A son of a, I'm so sorry" for the first major antagonist of The UnTitledverse, Edward Carmine, a 45-year-old Robotics Industrialist who doesn't take the hint to stay dead and tries to become God because of his superiority/god-complex much to everyone else's chagrin.

NEATH! A Fallen London Musical - The Stupendium

"See them scurry as the rat within the maze / Puzzulary and yet how they fascitate / Insignifiportant, if cacophocordant / Hunting for a heart to cherishisffectionate / Could they only see serendestiny / Death and broken dreams, hellish chemistries / Their apocacylsm spawns a clockanism / Requessary beyond their fathometry / Every infatuation, each glance of gladoration / Toothsome cogs upon our grand enmachinations / Each soul impassioned, heart's stole or lacerated / Each tale impaled by the quill tip to the pages / As the ink bleeds, how I drink these / Narratary little sips of histories / Every skipped beat now to drip feed / Something buried deep in enigmystery / All ends / Swords, pens / Foretent / Phenomonition / Court then / Torment / Love's bent / Definition / Cold and unprepared, wholly unawares / Chronologging their enhidden love affairs / There's a currency more poitiont underneath / And darker yet beyond that missing sun of theirs" for Evermond Scowlzka... going on about some poor lads he kidnapped picked up to run some unethical science upon.

They'll Find You - Griffinilia/Fandroid

"Find the mascots / Check your blind spots / Put the mask on / Turn the lights off / Wind the toy box / Check the game clock / Shun the dark thoughts / It's a long shot / They'll find you / They'll find you / We will find you / Terrorize you / And ensnare you / In a bear suit" for the animatronics against Lillian "Lena" Elliot as she tries to survive against them with a flashlight and baseball bat without damaging them too badly.

East of Eden - Zella Day

"Pink toes pressed against the carpet / Show your face and finish what you started / The record spins down the alley, late night / Be my friend, surround me like a satellite / Tiger on the prowl / East of Eden / Comin' for you now / Keep me from the cages under the control / Runnin' in the dark to find east of Eden / Keep me from the cages under the control / Runnin' in the dark to find east of Eden / To find east of Eden (Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh)" for Silva, and maybe Ezekiel (given the "tiger" reference), against both her bio father and adopted father, Adam Omar and Paul Yellowjack in Silva's Hope and Old Dusk respectively.

Royalty - Egzod & Maestro Chives ft. Neoni

"Say I'm cold hearted / But I'm just getting started / Got my eyes on the target / Now, now / Till the battle's won / Till kingdom come / I'll never run / Best to give me your loyalty / Cause I'm taking the world you'll see / They'll be calling me, calling me / They'll be calling me royalty / Best to give me your loyalty / Cause I'm taking the world you'll see / They'll be calling me, calling me / They'll be calling me royalty / They'll be calling me royalty" for the Court King, a third-generation reality bender thought have perished in the Exterminator Purge War trillions of years ago. Only for him to find a puppet in Corvus Targaryen, adopted son of King Viserys the First.

1950 - King Princess

"I like it when we play 1950 / So bold, make them know you're with me / Stone cold, will you miss me? / So tell me why my Gods look like you / And tell me why it's wrong / So I'll wait for you, I'll pray / I will keep on waiting for your love / For you, I'll wait / I will keep on waiting for your" for Silva Omar and Faith Seed.

#ask meme #the untitledverse #far cry the silver chronicles #life despair & monsters #wip: wings and horns #series: a radioactive calamity of love bombs & gore

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secretgamergirl · 3 months

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All people are equal... well, except for Sally of course.

I walked in late on a conversation somewhere on civil rights somewhere and this one sentence jumped out at me somewhere in it: "Neurodivergent queer computer engineers aren't being chemically castrated by the state in my country anymore." I always feel guilty quoting people at random like this, particularly when I agree with the overall point they're arguing, but the specific wording here really struck me because, well, I'm a neurodivergent queer computer engineer and I was totally chemically castrated by the state in my country. Now I'm not sure what country the person saying this lives in, but I don't think its true of any of them.

From context, this seems to be specifically referencing Alan Turing, for reasons I assume you know or can easily look up, and that would suggest we're talking about the U.K. and WOW is that country not an exception here. If I recall correctly there's at least one other country that will full on accept refugees from the U.K. with how badly they're persecuting queer people. And like, yeah, obviously what we're invoking here is a law, at the time, in the place, where being gay was illegal and this one cool nerd who wrecked Nazis' stuff accepted "chemical castration" in lieu of a prison sentence for it, and what I'm thinking about are the hoops trans people have to jump through getting medical treatments they don't need or want to get proper legal recognition and protections, but that's not comparing apples and oranges, that's comparing like... apples and red apples.

I have a larger point than this, but I'm gonna need to take you down a quick rabbit hole with me. I was just about to start going off about how "chemical castration" is a particularly emotionally charged term for testosterone blocking medication, then launch into how those get pushed on trans women to access a lot of medical treatments and rights even when they actively don't want them, and frankly they have really awful side effects for anyone taking them, at least at that dosage, and the more I look into things the more support I see for the idea that we should maybe just give trans femmes various estrogens and trust that if their T levels are too high they'll come down just from that, without having to deal with a powerful diuretic that trashes energy levels and causes other issues. But I like to be accurate, so I double checked, and holy crap what they actually forced Alan Turing to take was diethylstilbestrol. Functionally speaking, that's synthetic form of estrogen which used to be what they'd give trans women (and menopause sufferers, and everyone else who takes it) instead of estradiol, but stopped because it was kind of an extra strength version with more serious side-effects. So turns out, and I'm sorry, there's really no other way to put this- They force-femmed Alan Turing. That's far worse than what I thought he was put through and what I thought he was put through as already pretty monstrous.

But yeah, point still stands. While there's plenty of trans people who can't or don't want to get HRT, for all sorts of reasons (it not working on them, health risks for some people, the point I was going to make about T blockers making people feel awful, potential sexual performance and/or fertility issues, that stuff ain't free, the only options being to push the hormone sliders to absolute extremes of testosterone or estrogens at the exclusion of the other, which doubly sucks if you're nonbinary and actively avoiding that very choice, etc.) it's generally a formal requirement to go pretty hardcore with it for years before you can have anything else done, whether we're talking about other sorts of medical care, or basic legal recognition. Actual literal surgical-removal-of-gonads castration is also required for any sort of legal rights in decidedly more places than you'd think, and plenty of trans people would very much like to keep those before even getting into what an ordeal that sort of surgical procedure is to even access, if it's even possible for a given person.

So yeah, if you're looking at stuff specifically from the perspective of a cis guy who's gay or bi (or from any of the various demographics who'd never be in such a situation) you can look at what happened to Alan Turing, and go "wow what horrible bigotry-soaked times we used to live in. I couldn't even imagine that happening now. We sure have made some progress." And OK, sure, but like... seriously I personally know at least a hundred neurodivergent queer computer engineers who don't have to imagine that happening now, because it's an actual fact of life we really do have to live with, on top of this whole other thing where the horrible effects this had on Turing's body and mind being basically what all trans people have to live with for significant percentages of our lives jumping through hoops for decades to access what we need to correct weird endocrine issues causing that crap to happen "naturally."

Now I'd hope most of us would agree that this crap is horrific and nobody should have to do with it, with this big cognitive divide between people who sincerely believe nobody HAS had to deal with it for decades, because that's what they learned in school, and people who deal with it, and would very much like to stop doing so. And this causes big huge arguments between people demanding basic equality and people who don't comprehend that we don't actually have it and think people must be asking for something else... but you know, there's also bigots. Who not only don't agree that nobody should have to do with it, but were in the room when the sort of laws that ruined Alan Turing's life were struck down (or not actually struck down but we all agree not to enforce them, for now, until they gain enough power to start doing so without too much fear of reprisal), specifically digging in their heels to get some sort of weird compromise where OK they'll give up on making some of these people's lives a living hell, but only if some exception for some smaller group specifically gets carved out so they still have someone to bully and firmer grounds to rationalize it.

And the thing of it is, this pattern is all over the whole civil rights movement. And you know, legislation in general really. OK, we can have government health care for the ultra-poor, but only if we can really screw over people in SOME income bracket, and also sabotage the whole thing with weird arbitrary restrictions. We can give people financial aid, but we have to make the application and renewal processes a full time hell job with a ton of triggers that get it pulled, including getting their feet partway under them financially.

There's been a whole thing in the past 5 years where people are shedding light on how it's not really true that women in the U.S. were categorically given to vote when the 19th amendment passed, pointing out various sub-groups who still couldn't vote, and what sort of legal reforms it took for each to be able (and honestly, there's still plenty who can't for various reasons). And then we have further conversations on how it's not like all these loopholes weren't being discussed within the suffrage movent. People were quite aware, but white supremacists and people who wanted not to alienate white supremacists pushed to exclude all these other people and focus the whole movement on white women specifically.

And hey, speaking of amendments that didn't actually do what we're all taught they did, you ever actually read the 13th? Here's the actual wording:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

That is a HELL of an exception in the middle there! Slavery is totally illegal... unless we send you to jail first. Oh by the way, we're hiring all these now out of work slave-catchers to work as cops and building more prisons than any other country in the world and having those prisoners do a bunch of manual labor for which the owners of those prisons get paid.

Anyway, the real obvious take away to all of this is that bigots will always cling to keeping some group of people they can kick around no matter what, and efforts to compromise with them will always involve sacrificing people to that sick desire, which is morally indefensible and should never been done.

The less obvious takeaway is that we all collectively turn a blind eye to that because we keep teaching these sanitized "arc of history bends ever towards freedom" success myths rather than be honest and point out how these exceptions get carved out. Pretty sure we'd be in a better place politically if we actually taught kids things like "so that slavery thing the civil war was fought over didn't even actually stop after that. It's still being done today even, because the horrifically evil pro-slavery managed to get this loophole carved out to keep doing it." Let's test my theory or something.

#civil rights #13th amendment #slavery #19th amendment #women's suffrage #alan turing #trans rights #bigotry #they force femmed alan turing #I'm really sorry if your name is Sally I didn't mean to single you out you deserve equality too I just needed a random name

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anghraine · 1 year

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I have a long P&P post somewhere about Darcy's and Elizabeth's responses to each other's physical appearances/physical responses to each other's presence.

In the book, Darcy's response to Elizabeth's appearance is pretty straightforward (he doesn't find her attractive and then he does, for various reasons that only partly relate to her actual appearance). But Austen is pretty cagey about Elizabeth's awareness of Darcy's appearance until she blushingly agrees before their meeting at Pemberley that she knows him and he is "very handsome."

Shortly thereafter, she thinks to herself that his sister isn't as handsome as he is (despite pretty much everyone else, including Wickham, describing Georgiana as attractive and Elizabeth's own good impression of her). Her responses to him in this last third of the novel repeatedly have a physical component like blushing, her eyes shining, etc.

The thing that's interesting—beyond my general enthusiasm about my ship, lol—is that Elizabeth seems to already consider him good-looking before encountering him at Pemberley. But the earlier references to his appearance tend be displaced onto other characters (like Bingley) or dialed down into implication (as with the introduction of Colonel Fitzwilliam, which does not quite say that Fitzwilliam's combination of plain looks and good manners is the exact opposite of Darcy, but pretty obviously implies it).

So Austen avoids linking the descriptions of Darcy's appearance to Elizabeth until Darcy has become essentially "safe" as a love interest and emerged as the final one. I think this is most likely a) because she's dodging cultural baggage/censure since Elizabeth loathes Darcy through the first half of the book, or b) an indication that in-story, Elizabeth only finds him attractive once she doesn't think he's a bad person.

B does make a certain amount of sense, given that her parents' marriage ensures that she knows exactly where attraction without actual liking or respect leads. Her attraction to Wickham is based in both his general handsomeness and the "appearance of goodness" he trades in (it is this that Darcy lacks), not a draw towards "bad boys." She doesn't know he's a bad person at the time and the knowledge of his character pretty clearly kills any lingering attraction.

Relatedly, I got some responses of various kinds to my original post that could basically be paraphrased as: I like to think that Elizabeth is conscious of Darcy's personal beauty because she has eyes, but she does not feel any attraction to him until she respects and likes him as a person.

Like I said, it's not at all difficult to make that kind of interpretation fit with her history or characterization. But, personally speaking, it just ... does not work for me.

I think partly that's because I'm allergic to it for female characters in general. I am very accustomed to the narrative that attraction for women is defined and constrained by personal attachment. Men care about looks, women care about personality, and—yeah, no, I can't even pretend this is something other than reactionary gender essentialist, usually heteronormative garbage.

It's true for some individuals and that's one thing. But as a general narrative, I hate it with all my soul. And I don't think it's well suited to Austen in general, given that it's hardly uncommon for female characters in Austen to make poor decisions out of attraction to some good-looking disaster area of a human being.

It's not that egregious for Elizabeth specifically. But I don't like it, and I don't think it's the only way to read her.

I think it's equally possible that Elizabeth feels so offended by Darcy's perceived neglect and reacts disproportionately not because she secretly likes him or whatever, but because (consciously or otherwise) she's physically attracted to him. His intelligence and force of personality make it difficult to laugh herself out of it, which amplifies all her reactions to him, and is something she either buries or finds deeply annoying because she dislikes him.

It could also be part of the reason she's so eager to believe Wickham and overlooks the sea of red flags—but part of the reason is that she's attracted to Wickham, too! Yeah, there's the angelic appearance of goodness, and that definitely affects her, but so does the fact that he's just very pretty. And Colonel Fitzwilliam may not be handsome like Darcy and Wickham, but you know, 18 CHA goes a long way, too. She's also attracted to him.

Tl;dr my preferred headcanon is that Elizabeth is seriously attracted to three different men simultaneously and I love that for her.

#anghraine babbles #long post #austen blogging #austen fanwank #elizabeth bennet #otp of otps #meanwhile i notp both elizabeth/wickham and elizabeth/fitzwilliam but i love elizabeth getting to be attracted to them too #goodforher.gif #anghraine's headcanons #general fanwank #gender blogging

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jeannereames · 5 months

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The Importance of Space

Sometimes where we work matters. At least it does for me.

When my sabbatical was approved for spring of 2024, I assumed I’d do it where I’d spent most of the pandemic: my couch with a rolling laptop desk, and my kitchen table. I have an office at the uni, yes, but have never worked well there. As a grad student, I got used to research in my home space, and I never successfully transitioned to an office somewhere else. I have colleagues who can't work at home, for whatever reason, but I work best at home (even when my son was young).

For some time, I've planned to renovate my upstairs into an office after my son graduated and moved out, for “when I retire.” In fact, I bought this old (1936) house because it had a lovely open floor plan in the finished attic that just SCREAMS library/office. But it needed a split-AC to better control the temps, and serious updating. I’d even had thoughts of adding a little half-bath. I started saving up for all this as soon as I moved in, but it would cost a lot, so it became what felt like a “unicorn” long-term goal. My work for the ATG Netflix docudrama was to get additional funds towards that renovation sooner than “some day.”

This past summer, I finally had the split-AC done. Nothing else could move forward until that, replacing windows, and the potential half-bath. Yet estimates for the last were out of this world, post-Covid, so I decided to jettison the idea.

THAT meant—around August/September—I realized I might be able to get all the updates done in time for sabbatical.

You have no idea how much this recognition thrilled me. To have My Own Home Office (again), and make it just the way I wanted it (albeit without a half-bath). So, bids commenced. I had a GOAL, and a timeline. My sabbatical would begin January 2nd, 2024. And by golly, I was going to have my office (mostly) ready. That a retrograde Mercury would turn direct the evening of January 1st (my time zone), made me all the more convinced that it was the right date to begin.

Ergo, on top of the crazy teaching load, and editing for the Macedonian collection, I scheduled renovations. I just had to survive through December! It was sometimes anxiety-inducing, and half my library (non-academic) was up there. I had to pack all the books (c.1000+), move them downstairs, then move them BACK. Upside? I’ve been recording them with Library Thing as I unpack and reshelve, so I’ll finally have an accurate list of everything I own, at least at home. I’m also slowly using those same (emptied) boxes to bring home books and files from my uni office, for research. And for Christmas, my dear son made me a pair of custom sized-for-the-wall-space bookshelves, 5 feet by 5 feet. I’m tickled pink.

I even managed to find, after much searching, a desk and office chair that are low enough for a short person (The Struggle Is Real). They arrived just in time to be assembled before Jan. 2nd. It really did feel like FATE.

Oh, yes…best part. My office is inspired by Chefchaouen, Morocco’s famous Blue City, with bi-colored blue walls, white ceiling and accents, and a terra-cotta toned carpet. The various installers thought I was nuts until they actually saw it complete: ‘Oh, yeah, this really works.’ Um, yes. Yes, it does. Sun-yellow cushion and blue-yellow-white sheer scarf curtains complete it. Plus a beautiful blue-and-white bowl a student brought back from Morroco for me—the first décor I set out along with my reproduction of the gold sarcophagus from Royal Tomb II at Vergina that Beth Carney bequeathed me.

Eventually, once all the bookshelves are in place, I’ll decorate with photos from Macedonia. My dining room features photographs I took in Rome + a little Greece, the living room is mostly Greece…but my office? That’ll be Macedonia. Virtually all the pictures in the house (with a couple exceptions) I took myself.

There's still a lot more to do; less than half the books are unpacked. My white board isn't up yet, some furniture is still downstairs, BUT.

Today, I unpacked the Loebs I’d brought home, onto my new desk, and started organizing my research. 😊

#Jeanne Reames #home office space #sabbatical #Hephaistion-Krateros monograph

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