#but I can’t draw books apparently so use ur imagination

[dollarstoreartsupplies]

It’s them! Will they kiss after this! Yes! Is this technically descendants au art but I realized pretty quickly it’s also just regular gals art! Yes! What are they looking at! Yes!

Also just Richie below because I like how she came out

#fem streddie #descendants au #sort of #streddie #fem richie tozier #fem eddie kaspbrak #fem stan uris #all that really makes this the descendants au is Eddie has short hair which implies good parents #who allow her bodily autonomy #they were gonna be looking at a book cuz I think Stan tutors Richie and Eddie Attends to be a Nuisance #and then they fall in love #as a group #but I can’t draw books apparently so use ur imagination #my art :)

[ejm513]

FAIRY TAIL NEXT GEN CHILDREN-GRUVIA EDITION

 NALU

1-I know there is now a cannon child for edo Nalu and edo Gruvia with names and everything. I also know that Gajeel and Levy have twins and Levy is currently pregnant in 100 Years Quest.  I love it and their names and everything about those precious babies-but I’ve had these ideas and characters and backstories growing and developing in my head for years so I’m being the stubborn Taurus that I am and sticking with it.

2-Also please forgive any misspellings and grammar mistakes as I am dyslexic and my school failed us at teaching spelling and grammar. I did my best.

Hello my lovelies!! 

So I’ve spent most of the day working on the first two ships and editing everything so I figured why not just post the second one right away. 

And the next ship we’re doing on this crazy journey is my personal favorite my OTP to end all OTPS 

GRUVIA!!

Ah yes people... I’m in my happy place. 

THE FULLBUSTERS:

  Nicolai Sliver Fullbuster- Nicknames- Nick, Nicky, Nicky Bear (gotta love little sisters)

Birthday: March 15th, 797 (Bonus points if anyone gets the reference :P)

Magic: Ice Make Magic

Appearance:

-Height: 5’10 (same height as Gray)

-Hair: Dark and thick like Grays, slightly wavy curiosity of his mother.

-Eye color: Dark blue and large like he’s mother’s.

-Built like his father.

-He and Gray are the closest to clones.  

IMPORTANT FACTS:

-Gray doesn’t want his boy to deal with the consequences of being a demon slayer… so he doesn’t teach him how to be one. At least not completely. He does pass on some techniques and skills but nothing more.

-For example he teaches him Ice Make Sliver. 

-He got the name Nikolai Sliver from both of his grandfathers-I chose a Russian name because I have this idea in my head that in the real world Juvia would be Russian and nothing can convince me otherwise.

-Though he got over it eventually poor thing hated the cold and having to strip in the snow.

-He too got the illness Ultrear had, and while he didn’t get through it as easily as the Dragnell children he got through it in the end.  

And before anyone ask yes… he stripes.

Personality:

-Kind

-Loyal (but maybe not to a fault)

-Laid back like his father

-A little moody and temperamental at times

-Can be a bit reserved but more or less wears his heart on his sleeve like Juvia.

-Very imaginative like his mother… which sometimes lead him to being a little ditzy and spacy.

-Very loving

-Very protective of those he loves

-Definitely inherited Juvia’s possessiveness-when his sister was being introduced to the guild for the first time after she was born he grabbed hold of her little blanket, stood in front of her and said

“No! She’s MY baby sister!!”

-Gray QUICKLY helped him get it under control

-A huge romantic like Juvia…like MAJOR romantic. He even enjoys reading her romance novels (but don’t you dare tell anyone)

-He also enjoys drawing, doing anything in the snow and ice

-Very intelligent and did well in school-given his magic he was particularly skilled in art. No one understands how he managed to do so well in school because his note books are covered in doodles

-In general just a much more open and expressive person than his father or sister, much more like his mother.

Relationships:

-Extremely close with both of his parents-the Fullbusters are known for having a very close knit and loving family.

-Like almost every boy in this generation he is a total mama’s boy and you better not call him out on it.

-Also idolizes his father and wants to be just like him

-Absolutely adores his little sister is very gentle and sweet with her. He’s extremely protective of her  and one of the only four people he can be a little possessive over (the others being Lila and his parents).However, she can get on his nerves because like most little siblings she follows him everywhere and wants to do everything with him. Plus they can both be temperamental and stubborn. They are also so much alike yet express themselves in such different ways that it causes clashes.  As a result, they bicker the most out of any of the siblings in the next gen-but their fights never, EVER turn physical. But the bottom line is they are exceptionally close-so close in fact they are one of the only pairs in the next gen that can successfully pull of a Unison Raid.

-Real he just wants Eliza to stop calling him Nicky Bear… in public at least.

-The first of his two best friends is Simon Scarlet. At first it was a matter of convenience because he was the only boy in the guild close to her age, but it didn’t take too long to become genuine friends. They love to bond over their love of sweets. The other of course is Lila.

And naturally Happy… Happy is everyone’s best friend

-He has loved Lila pretty much his entire life-before he even understood what that feeling was. When he learned what the concept of marriage, he knew right away she was the one he was going to marry. As stated before he constantly referred to her as his wife as children and when they were older (like almost 20 or older than 20) he would say “You know I’m going to marry you one day Dragnell right?”

Elizaveta/ Eliza/ Liza Ur Fullbuster

   Birthday: November 23rd, 801

Magic: Water.

Appearance:

Height: 5’2 (a couple of inches shorter than Juvia who is 5’4 according to the Wiki)

Hair: Long, thick and wavy like Juvia’s, dark like Gray’s

Eyes: Juvia’s shape but dark like Gray’s

-She has the same gifted build as Juvia, but somehow a little more fragile looking

-Has her father’s smile

-Yes that beautiful beautiful smile 

-Has heard from Gray that despite her strong resemblance to her mother something about her reminds him of his mother

IMPORTANT FACTS:

-Elizaveta or Eliza Ultear got her name from Juvia’s mother and obviously Ultear. Eliza is what she goes by and only those closest with her call her Liza

-Eliza was born five weeks early and this caused… problems. She was extremely sick as a baby. She ended up becoming dyslexic. Finally, it messed with her powers. She has water powers like her mother, but because she was born so early they are technically incomplete because her body isn’t completely made of water like Juvia. This means she’s not impervious to physical attacks, but she makes up for it in other ways.

-Due to being born early and being a little sickly, when she got that infamous illness all the children in the next gem see to get Ultear’s illness (I have no idea what else to call it) she got hit the worse. She actually came close to dying and Gray and Juvia were told to expect the worst.

-Because of this, despite obviously being a skilled and well trained wizard, Eliza is more known for her emotion strength and endurance rather than her physical strength (at least until she was almost an adult)

-Is definitely no ice wizard and can’t stand the cold, but did learn some tricks including how to freeze her rain into snow or freezing rain.

And yes… she is absolutely forbidden to strip under any and all circumstances unless she doesn’t want to see the outside world until she’s 30 or until Gray is dead… which ever comes first

Personality:

-Massive, huge heart of gold

-Very sweet

-Very shy and introverted

-Extremely reserved, keeps everything close to her chest like her father

-Appears laid back but is a ball of emotion and anxiety and occasional bouts of depression

-Comes off as an ethereal, sweet, Mary Jane type of dainty princess when she is anything but

-Actually, has a very snarky, sarcastic sense of humor a la Gray and is just funny like her mother.

-Is never willing to start a fight but if you push her enough she follows the same line of thought as Lila;

-Is very stubborn, moody and temperamental at times

-Very ambitious and always smiling despite everything that’s happened to her.

-Is quiet laid back with her language when she’s older and has been known to swear.

-Is also great at impressions.

-Has Juvia’s quiet astounding imagination and is definitely a dreamer.

-Is a HUGE romantic, openly reading her mother’s romance novels. Otherwise she’s very good at hiding it… mostly.

-Exceptionally smart but struggles with math and is a slow reader because of her dyslexia. She excels in history and music.

-I have a head cannon that Juvia can sing because of all the hydration she gets from having a water body, mermaids/sirens luring sailors with their voices and because apparently Juvia’s voice actress can sing. So Eliza inherited that gift but never sings on stage for the public.

 RELATIONSHIPS:

-Because of how sickly she has always been, and because she was the first girl born to the guild a string of boys, and because of how bad she’s treated by kids at school, Eliza is utterly spoiled and a little coddled by all. No on one minds though because she never acts spoiled. She just loves having such a safe and warm space to fall.

-Like her brother is super close to her parents.

-Juvia is her rock and the pair are inseparable.

-She is also daddy’s littler girl though don’t you ever get her to admit it. They love joking around with each other and just talking.

-She adores and idolizes her big brother-her Nicky Bear. She always wanted to follow him around and do what he did-which after a certain point would get on his nerves. She also sometimes get annoyed with how protective he can be. They can both be a little possessive over each other and their parents.  As mentioned before they have many of the same personality traits but express them in different ways, so they bicker a lot. But in the end she would be lost without him.

-Like her mother Eliza was unfortunately bullied badly by kids outside the guild and even more unfortunate a few kids in the guild. So her three closest friends are Lila Dragnell, Hazel Redfox and much to her chagrin Iggy Dragnell.

-Iggy is the only person who can flare her temper on the daily and who she has fought with-he never fights with more than words but from time to time she will blast him with water just to get him to leave her alone. He is more or less the annoying younger brother she never asked for but similar to her own brother would be lost without him.

-And before you ask no she has not and will never have a crush or any romantic feelings for Iggy… but Simon Scarlet on the other hand….

-Has a love hate relationship with Happy after he was flying her around ounce and dropped her from pretty high up which gave her a fear of heights.

 All right my lovelies!! That is it for this round! I’ll be back soon... hopefully with the next ship!!! 

GAJEELX LEVY!!! 

#fairy tail #fairy tail next generation #gray fullbuster #Juvia Lockser #Gray X Juvia #gruvia #Headcanon #ocs #super long #this is gonna take forever

[ari-auguste]

⌠ LUKA SABBAT, 22, MALE, HE/HIM ⌡ welcome back to gallagher academy, AREN 'ARI' AUGUSTE ! according to their records, they’re a SECOND year, specializing in DRIVER'S ED and they DID NOT go to a spy prep high school. when i see them walking around in the halls, i usually see a flash of (oversized knitted sweaters & flannels, chipped nails too short from biting them too much, colorful themed bandaids even when he doesn't need them). when it’s the (taurus)’s birthday on 4/30/1998, they always request their SHAMROCK SHAKE from the school’s chefs. looks like they’re well on their way to graduation.

pinboard xxx

@gallagherintro​

about

he’s from georgia, the land of peaches, and yes. they’re his favorite fruit.

ari’s life was kind of a normal one. he had an older brother who was his best friend, a mother who loved him and a father who spoiled them every single day.

(tw death, gun violence) on ari’s twelfth birthday, his parents took him to the zoo, his favorite place on earth, and he remembers that day as both the best and the worst of his life. on their way back home, their car and a few others got caught in between gangs’ trouble, and with a round of bullets, everyone in ari’s car was killed except for him, thanks to his brother who used his body to cover him, thus saving him from harm. he was found by the police still underneath his brother’s lifeless body and immediately put in the foster system.

a part of ari’s brain simply blocked what happened. he knew the facts, and as trauma specialists treated him upon his arrival to the station, they realized that ari’s way to assimilate what had happened was seemingly too mature. they waited because they knew there was a lion inside him, ready to pounce and duel, but he never did. instead, ari retreated, became a shy, yet charming young man, with pretty distinctive interests. he threw himself fully into art, music, and books, everything that could keep him busy.

he never had his heart set on being actually adopted. he knew he was too old for that, and he didn’t stand a chance against other younger, cuter, less traumatized kids, but he was never actually bitter about that. instead, he enjoyed the change from foster family to foster family, and even came to love his foster siblings hard and fast, like he would with blood relatives.

despite it all, ari seemed to be a happy guy. he never skipped a therapy session, and even though school wasn’t his strongest skill, he went by, and soon enough, he turned eighteen, thus freeing himself from the system. but he had nothing.

it became apparent then that survival was ari’s strength. he was witty enough to get money (in mainly legal ways, although there were a few stolen pennys and twenties, maybe a wallet or two out of drunks in the streets). he played music in the streets, sold his art on special markets, he got by. it was when he got tired of georgia and wanted to try a bigger city like new york, that he committed his first big crime, his first big mistake, and yet his biggest blessing.

ari stole a car. it was a relatively easy task for him, which surprised him at first, and then simply just drove away. the adrenaline of the moment settling in his stomach, turning into pride as he got further from his hometown. two days later, there was a police alert on him and the car he was driving, so he stopped in the next station and got on a different model and drove away, until he crossed the entire country all the way to LA. this was the greatest adventure of his life, and even though he knew the cops were on his heels, he didn’t stop. if he was going to go down, he would go down fighting, the adrenaline in his body spoke. 

it was a few weeks later when he was finally chased down somewhere in LA. some neighbor had said something and it seemed to be all over for him, but he did what he knew best and took said neighbor’s car and attempted to drive away, if only for one more taste at the adrenaline. it was all over the news, the chase that lasted hours. he managed to dodge the police in ways nobody had ever seen before. it was better than any movie, and the sense of pride he felt as he listened to the narration of his own chase on the radio as he sped up through the highway was something he never felt before. the high he chased all his life. but it could only last so long before he fucked up the brakes of the car and ended up crashing against a dumpster in the middle of nowhere. he lost consciousness in the car, and next thing he knew, he was in jail.

his life was over, it seemed. it had been a good run, but he hadn’t been smart enough. he couldn’t afford a lawyer, he was guilty of charges. there was no way out. except one day a strange man showed up, someone he never saw before, but knew too much about his life, his reasons and his need to be free, and exchanged his freedom, for his admission  and loyalty to gallagher.

miscelaneous

he’s got too many tattoos all over his body. all of them with some sort of meaning nobody knows. it’s passages from his life in art designed by himself.

he likes to draw people, but he appeals to the essence of people. what they look like to him in his head, not exactly portraits, but something more abstract.

there’s always a pencil on him. stuck in his hair, behind his ear, in his pocket– anywhere, really.

he’s always drumming on tables, his knees always bouncing. he’s rarely ever quiet, he’s always humming a song as well.

he loves comic books? he dreams to make his very own graphic novel, and he’s very passionate about those.

he disassociates a lot, but has an odd capacity of attention. his brain just catches little details even when it seems he’s not listening.

he’s charismatic, although shy, but that’s where his main charm lies.

he laughs like goofy.

if he has the option, he will not wear any shoes. he hates them. but he loves funky socks. they’re the best present someone can actually give to him.

very detail oriented. he will remember what you dressed, what you smelled like, what your hair looked like, and very specific words people said. he quotes them a lot.

he loves making lists??? idk. he wanted me to add that. idk why it’s relevant. he likes order.

he loves ducks. he has a rubber duck collection in his dorm (sorry roommates). 

wanted connections

people he met in LA people he met in atlanta someone with a crush on him (he wouldn’t even imagine) people he’s had/has a crush on (he’s timid when it comes to relationships, he’ll just simp) stoner buddies art hoes comic book nerds  exes  that one ex who was his first everything on his first year friends someone who can’t stand his chill and pseudo self acceptance rants someone who takes advantage of him anything your heart desires and ur mind can imagine

#gallagher:intro #intro #i added some stuffs for people who read his intro already #if not....... u kno what to do hmu

[radiantmists]

rhythm of war part two thoughts

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa  (spoilers through the second interludes under the cut, and at the very bottom some comments based on what i have to assume is a major spoiler for the entire book, or close to it, though i'm warning again beforehand.)

well, last things first: taravangian's working against odium! i'm super excited about this, and very happy about the support for the concept that Taravangian's compassion isn't his curse, it's just the division of his intelligence and compassion that's sthe problem.

so we've been able to talk to the sibling, who is mostly trying to help despite genuinely feeling that what navani is doing is wrong. except now they're locked away, and navani is under the direct scrutiny of rabaniel and messing around with her is going to be risky. that being said, we're on our way to some very interesting revelations about how investiture works on roshar:

the stormfather is purely of honor. the sibling is a mix of honor and cultivation. the nightwatcher is purely cultivation

the sibling should not be able to function on pure stormlight, because it's purely of honor.

lift may not run on stormlight at all-- we already knew she can't pull it from spheres.

adhesion, which is somehow a fake surge and purely of honor, is not totally cancelled by whatever rabaniel did to the sibling. from lift's interlude, neither is regrowth when she uses it, which if i had to pick is the surge i would choose to be purely of cultivation.

as far as we can tell, people can still draw in stormlight with no issue, they just cant use it to power surges.

windrunners, who bond honorspren, are less affected by the fabrial: this applies especially to kaladin and syl, and we know syl is different from other honorspren, older. my money is that she's in some way more fully of honor than the others. lift, who's been hugely modified by cultivation directly, is also immune. the edgedancers as a whole are not immune and apparently are reacting as badly as anyone else.

...syl notes in the last set of interludes that she's different from other honorspren, mentally. is this a byproduct of whatever she did to sneak out of shadesmar, or of her being older? interesting.

To me, this all implies that whatever rabaniel did interferes with how cultivation and honor interact. lift, who seemingly only uses cultivation's investiture, can power the surge that seems most directly associated with cultivation; kaladin, probably closest to honor, can do the surge that seems to be entirely honor. the regular edgedancers aren't immune at all because they run on stormlight; the windrunners are somewhat but not fully immune because they're almost fully of honor, but cultivation likely had some hand in the way honorspren were made after the shattering.

Regrowth really is a very odd surge, compared to the others, which seem to deal with much more fundamental physical forces.

the fused do have access to regrowth while powered by voidlight, though. interesting.

speaking of: did navani's weird sphere contain some kind of... cultivationlight? or maybe it's some kind of combination, and that's why the sphere exploded right around the time of rabiniel's experiments (or the sibling was drawing on it somehow?)

on a more immediate level, the current tower resistance is as follows: navani, under constant monitoring but she has the best chance to figure out how to fix this shit. kaladin, who's a mess, being hunted by the pursuer, and who's about to start getting suicide-baiting nightmares from odium, but he does know how to fight! lift, who's amazing and knows how to sneak around the tower but is being hunted by someone who i assume has to be mraize. and rlain, masquerading as a singer (im so worried about him i hope he's okay).

if this somehow ends with kaladin killing mraize to protect lift before he can give shallan answers, i'm going to fucking SCREAM.

speaking of frustrating things: lirin turn on ur location i just wanna talk. Kaladin was actually rebuilding himself until this whole invasion thing, and i don't understand how lirin can look at a man who's that committed to doing good, sees exactly what it is that drives him to kill, and then calls him a monster.

I loved Kaladin's efforts to deal with mental health care! He's in the unique position ofhaving way more political power than any medical professional, darkeyes, or mentally ill person could ever have hoped to have, and I really want to see him come back to this once the world is burning down a bit less again, especially because it genuinely seemed to be helping him.

navani's plots have sorta been subsumed into this whole plotline, but i enjoyed what we got-- the little episode with the other scholars taking bets on whether she'd use tomor's fabrial was adorable, and i also liked how clear it is that they look to her to make things work.

moving on, uh... shadesmar stuff.

adolin's making some progress at waking maya! she doesn't talk but she shows a clearly unusual ability to learn and make independent decisions. i love it.

...also the thing with notum's horse implies that ryshadium are sentient enough to imagine spren. that's fun, and also terrifying.

adolin offering to stand trial for the crimes of humanity is fascinating, but all i'm thinking about is the episode of avatar where he agrees to stand trial for kyoshi, except in this case we already know that humanity did actually do the thing he's in trouble for. it would be unjust to punish adolin for it, but... i worry.

especially because there are, apparently, new deadeyes. this isn't extraordinarily surprising as syl was two skips away from death (though, im curious, does it work differently if the spren's never been a blade prior to dying? or are there just deadeyes wandering around who aren't tied to blades?) but it is very alarming.

and then there's the other thing: pattern is lying to shallan. i frankly don't think it's as simple as him being a spy for the ghostbloods; we saw even here that he's a terrible liar, and to have concealed this he'd have to have been pretty impressive.

on the other hand there was clearly some shit going on between shallan, her family, and the ghostbloods when she first got pattern. he's admitted that he has more exposure to humans than most spren. it doesn't look great, honestly.

i also appreciate that brandon is acknowledging how fucking weird shallan's timeline is. hopefully we get some answers about this.

adolin and shallan's relationship continues to be adorable; the sequence with the starspren is lovely and i totally get why it's brandon's favorite chapter in this part. between this and part one, he clearly enjoyed how the shadolin came out in this book and i agree. the fact that his romances continue after the marriage, with issues beyond just jealousy, is one of my favorite things about sanderson books.

venli's whole set of pov's this part was about walking up to urithiru. i really do want to like her, but she spends a ton of time just following more dynamic characters around and observing in these first two parts, and if not for the juicy secrets rabaniel's been dropping, it would make me just want to get back to other characters. hopefully that'll change in the next few parts.

i was going to make a comment about how we havent even had flashbacks yet, but i just glanced at the POVs for the next part, so I guess those are coming. I do wonder if these eshonai flashbacks will be info venli knows, or what.

she did kill someone for the first time, and attuned the rhythm of the lost for the dead man. the whole incident disturbs her, and i appreciated that as the rest of our viewpoint characters are extremely accustomed to death. i'm interested in seeing how this affects her going forward.

the epigraphs are so exciting! sazed is writing to hoid again, but this time he's gotten his bearings and spoken to some new shards... ones we haven't heard from before! also he asks hoid to say hi when he's on scadrial, which, fair enough tbh. i dont remember whether hoid shows up much in mistborn era 2 but for some reason i have the feeling he is not going to oblige this request.

the epigraph where sazed mentions he wants someone who can both preserve and kill immediately made me think of kaladin. (i think this is what he ends up trying to do with wax, but shhhh) he and sazed would agree on a lot of things philosophically, i think. (omg au where kaladin ends up working for sazed?? i have no idea how this would work the idea just fascinates me.

...where are the heralds? did dalinar take them with him, or are they in the tower? if the latter, are they also passed out? probably not, since they're not radiants, right? although whatever they are is very investiture-dependent so who knows. vasher's probably alright.

why is odium afraid of nightblood? is he worried it could eat him?

lots of POVs for the next part, but no shadesmar crew, so i guess we'll find out whether adolin gets executed by honorspren later. i do wonder why so many pov's from the battlefront; i guess something more is going to happen along those lines than i'd really expected. crossed fingers for some actual insight into renarin, finally.

in light of said spoiler: holy god i hope that division (between taravangian's intelligence and compassion) doesn't continue, though I have the horrible feeling that it will. This puts sazed's discussion of the intent of a shard combined with the cleverness of its vessel into a terrifying light: a godlike being who is at his smartest when he's a complete sociopath is like, the worst case scenario,  not even taking into account that the odium shard is uniquely suited to make people act on impulses. this is so bad.

but i can't know the full extent of that until i read the context, so let's move on!

#row liveblog #row spoilers #holy shit

[steveharrington]

thots on the 100 1x10 i am become death

•so i remember being scared of this episode when i was 14 bc the thought of a super contagious virus freaked me out. haha. anyways, day ?? of quarantine let’s watch this

•i know this is the episode murphy comes back baby

•this is so funny because literally everyone is mad at finn like absolutely no one is on his side

•”they even gave us a bigger tent” like the implication that monty and jasper just live together and everyone knows that

•anyways harper and jasper flirting is so funny knowing that she’s gonna have a child with monty and name it after jasper

•MURPHYYYYY <333

•he is Not looking good

•BELLAMY JUST TRYING TO SHOOT MURPHY IN THE HEAD ??? right off the bat ??? while he is Covered in blood ???

•his fingernails were torn off omg steve harrington tease

•insane that these kids go to comeback in an argument is literally their version of “kill yourself”

•”maybe you should find somewhere else to sleep” monty and jasper are Literally breaking up that’s not an argument that two bros have

•why am i SCARED to watch this episode omg it’s the rona

•this virus is mad confusing why is clarke like pretty much fine but this one guy just dropped dead within two minutes of getting it

•lincoln’s drawing of octavia like i hate to break it to u man but that is Not octavia

•this makes no sense like why would clarke be examining everyone also she’s not wearing anything to cover her face like this is very improper pandemic response protocol

•octavia saying screw you clarke....absolutely no sympathy ugh queen

•LINCOLN BEING LIKE DW OCTAVIA I KNEW YOUD BE IMMUNE UR STRONG <3 SKDJSNX

•this is so GROSSSS i hate this episode getting murphy back is not worth it

•murphy don’t give her ur fucking hammock king she doesn’t deserve this. also that’s so funny bc like he’s gonna kill someone pretty soon so i think it’s funny that apparently he’s only holding grudges against the people who were involved in hanging him and everyone else he’s not only cool with but like kinda sweet to

•i’m sorry just the way finn talks grates on my fucking soul like why does he say things like that idk how to explain it but it’s heinous

•so funny that there’s a plague and the grounders are en route to attack and the c plot is just jasper and monty being bitchy to each other

•mmmm the jet fuel looks like koolaid yummy

•raven and bellamy have the potential to be the most powerful duo on this show unfortunately finn exists

•bellamy’s like trust me jasper i wouldn’t give you this important job if i didn’t absolutely have to but unfortunately you are the only one not puking up blood

•BYGONES ……. BY VOLCANO CHOIR!!!!!!!!!

•”i won’t let anything happen to you” “that’s what i said to you the day you were born” “i know you told me that like 1000 times” this shows dialogue is unparalleled

•DJDJDJ NO ONE HAS ANY FAITH IN JASPER STOP ITS NOT FAIRRR

•raven is so hardcore she’s literally just gonna blow herself up

•the way jasper would have just gotten everyone killed if it weren’t for him being gay

•clarke shut up stop quoting oppenheimer ur such a loser i want to shove you into a locker

•this episode rlly makes murphy look innocent as if he isn’t gonna murder someone tomorrow

•just. imagine choosing clarke over raven. i’m sorry like i can’t fathom it

•ITS OVERRRRR FINN YES PERIOD also so funny that murphy is sitting two feet away while this happens

•oop murphy is gonna murder someone TONIGHT

•why skxndcn why does he do these things murphy you were good you were IN!!!!

•assessment of this episode: 7/10 honestly pretty good once again any episode without the ark is a solid episode in my book, plus finn finally got dumped, plus murphy came back!!! loses some points for being gross and scary

#rewatching t100

[mini-pretzel]

alright dude yea EVERY NUMBER FOR SWEETHEART ASKS

… what have i signed up for?

//cracks knuckles

grab a juice box, grab a snack.

we’ll be here for a while. what have i gotten myself into

1. Talk about your first love. 

oh jesus. i actually recently found my old journal lol

from way back when. 2009 i think? i was 13 or some shit. jesus. ok. so my first love was actually over the internet.

yeah, i know. nowadays we’re spoiled with tinder n shit, but back in 2009, all we had was myspace and msn and i met this fucker on skype.

i was so ahead of my time.

anyway, it was october 25, 2009.

here’s a snippet from my journal entry:

well i met a guy on skype. he’s a month younger cause my b-day is on oct 14 and his is on nov 18. but i don’t mind it.

yoooo i was into younger guys even at 13, jfc hahhaa //kill me jk hmu

and then on the next page hahahhaa omg

december 2, 2009

well me and ___ are no longer together. well we never began. he broke my heart two times already. going in depression. please don’t bother. first love, ha!

omfg damn, two months. yeah, that lasted long. also old me: ur so dramatic lol

also i was a feisty lil fella, jeez.

2. What’s the most beautiful songs you’ve ever heard in your opinion? 

this one

3. How’s your heart feeling right now?

a lil stressed. im like, hoping i can get through all of these questions without my computer crashing. pray 4 me.

4. What kind of self care is your favorite to do? 

ok, first thing to note, i fucking love self care. like, too much if im honest.

baths with bubbles and nice smelling scents, lotions, a face mask, taking my time with washing my face and hair and putting on the cutest clothes after. also snacks, always snacks.

when im feeling like spending money: massage. full body. best thing ever. i treat myself to it at least once a year for my b-day.

5. What’s your skincare routine? 

ok so i just got a new skincare line. it’s from nature republic. i have a cleanser, a toner and a moisturizer. it’s fairly simple (unlike 9 steps in korean ahhahha, but like i’ll probably get there in time) also i have a peel mask that smells like bananas that i put on twice a week to get rid of dead skin cells. oh and sometimes i do korean face masks, too.

6. How did you get to be so beautiful?

answered that q here

7. Do you have any stuffed animals?

NO! //hides them all away

8. Best trip you’ve ever been on?

thailand. my parents took me w/ them on their honeymoon.

lol idek why either. trust me.

i was just there for the swimming, riding elephants, getting food poisoning and downing two banana splits in one afternoon. good times.

9. Favorite thing about your room? 

i live in a jungle. but also in an art gallery cause my mom buys paintings online and resells them, but it’s become such a habit for her they are literally EVERYWHEREE I CANNOT.

also sorry mom i keep forgetting to water the GAZILLION plants THAT YOU HAVE MOVED INTO MY ROOM FOR SOME REASON. they’ll be dead by the time ur home. srry ilyyyyy.

also tae hmu if u want some paintings. i got way too many.

10. Opinion on love? 

dude. idk. i mean. it’s definitely not something one can describe easily or fully grasp.

im still waiting for my big love to come along, so like, we can talk about that when we get there.

otherwise, i’ll say this quote that i heard in a song:

give your heart, but keep your head.

11. Are you affectionate? 

with certain people. im weird.

with some people im like no, don’t touch me pls. i bite and scratch.

and with others you cannot get them out of my death love grip.

12. Who do you look up to? 

i look up to bts a lot. they’re doing a lot of good and they’re very respectable artists.

but i also look up to a lot of writers on here because i want to create worlds and writings like them. i won’t tag them cause rip them trying to find why i tagged them in this long ass post haha.

13. Favorite poet? 

@psycho-slytherin

lol sorry bae

ur gonna have to scroll to find out why i tagged u. and then go red and yell at me. hahah.

i also like silentium! by Fyodor Tyutchev

also everything by pushkin (esp ‘i loved you’ fuck that one gets me every time). seriously. that man isn’t called the golden poet in our country for nothing.

i actually don’t read a lot of poetry nowadays unless its my own or my friends’

but im open to recommendations

14. Song that makes you happy? How about one that calms you down when you’re in a bad place?

answered here!

15. Do you play an instrument?

lol no. i was almost taught the piano (lol rip me, i wanna kill my younger lazy ass self) and i dabbled into learning the violin. but that’s like a whole story and a half hahahaha.

16. Do you do art? Using what (pencil, watercolor, etc)?

i used to pencil draw, nothing special tho. a lot of naked ppl lol. butts n boobs were my fave. also pecks whoo.

17. Do you dance? What style of dance? 

i don’t! but i want to. i’ve been looking into dancing schools. i might do hip hop n stuff. see if i have the rhythm, i can’t tell from just jumping around my room lol

18. What’s your zodiac sign? Do you believe in astrology? 

im a libra yo. diplomatic and indecisive af.

i kinda do? there’s some sense there, but it’s too vague. i think ppl need to look into their charts to really grasp their character.

and for some it may not be true at all, so like. idk. we’re all just doing our best here.

19. Favorite old film? 

a russian film that i always watch over the new year. my mom would always joke that the new year doesn’t start till we watch it lol

the irony of fate

20. What’s your hairstyle? 

idk

u

tell

me

21. What weather is the most beautiful, in your opinion?

cloudy but warm. so there’s not too much sun but u can enjoy a nice walk outside without getting rained on.

22. What upsets you most about the world? 

i only have two hands but there are so many cats and dogs. i cannot pet all of them.

23. Are you in love right now?

answered ;)

24. Do you have a crush? If so, talk about them!

here u go

25. Do you have pets? Talk about something sweet about them! 

i don’t! but i wish i did i would shower them with my love.

but @the-trth-untold dogs are the cutest and @psycho-slytherin cats make my day. pls spam meeeee. also i love @paristae cat too.

26. Do you have a lucky number? 

yup. 22.

27. Have you ever wished on a star? What about on a fallen eyelash? 

i’ve never seen a fallen star, so no.

but i’ve wished on a fallen eyelash, always.

28. Do you believe emoji spells to work? 

emoji spells??

bruh i’ve never even heard of it till this ask wtf is that shit

bruh i mean if it works for ppl all power to them??? idk i never tried it

29. Do you believe in magic in general? 

i believe in magic tricks. but magic died for me when santa stopped existing.

30. What’s the most beautiful thing in life, In your opinion?

here

31. Opinion on the color pink? What about baby blue? 

gorgeous colors. i quite like mauve pink and deep dark blue tho.

but baby blue looks amazing on some folks. oof.

32. What instrumental sound is your favorite? 

piano. always.

33. Do you like the sound of wind? What about the sound of rain? 

answered :)

34. Who makes you happy? 

bts and all of my mutuals

35. What makes you happy? 

sleep, food, music, writing, cuddles. and forehead kisses.

also more listed here

36. Imagine your ideal life, the life you wish to make, what will that look like? 

i live in a nice apartment. doesn’t have to be expensive, just nice and clean with wooden floors and spacious windows.

i have all the necessities that i need and im never lonely.

i have also touched countless hearts by my books and am able to live comfortably just from my works.

haha. you said ideal, right?

also have someone to spend it with. someone i’d write poetry about daily. a bestfriend first and foremost before a lover.

37. Do you wear makeup? If so what’s your favorite type of makeup or specific makeup product? Favorite store to buy makeup?

answered this fella here

38. Do you wear dresses? If so what’s your favorite dress you own? 

i used to have dresses. but not anymore.

i liked the long sleeve sweater black one i had with a low cut. it was gorgeous. i dont have much of boobage but i always felt like i was sexy in it.

39. Ever been heartbroken? How do you deal with it? 

yep. you just kind of take it one day at a time. some days will be better than the last. some days you’ll cry a little harder and some days you move on a little further. it takes time. make sure you have good people around you so you don’t fall into depression.

40. Who’s your closest friend? What do you love about them? 

ah, to be honest i don’t have a closest friend. i’ve always been the kind of person that always had friends around her but never anyone too deep. and i kinda wish i did. i just don’t know who would come to fill that spot. people always leave, so i kind of gave up assigning that spot. i think the people that want to be in that spot will show themselves and tell me. otherwise i will not assume or assign.

41. Introvert or extrovert? 

introvert. but i have my moments. i can be charming and friendly when i want to.

42. Do you like MBTI? What’s your MBTI? 

i had to look it up cause i forgot what it was lol

i took the test a while back: im infp.

there’s not a lot of us, apparently. which is cool. shout out to all infps out there!

43. Would you be a fairy, a mermaid, a vampire, a siren, or an angel? 

hmmm. what kind of fairy tho? lol

maybe vampire? idk i’d be a sexy immortal lady that’d bite innocent boys and girls that just want to have a good time lol

44. What’s the best song a friend has ever introduced to you? 

this oneee

45. Parlez-vous français? 

no~

46. Most beautiful place you’ve been to? 

butchart gardens

47. Where/when do you truly feel at home? 

here

48. Does smiling put you in a better mood? Try it right now, you’re smile is gorgeous! 

kdjfalkfjdlkdsaf //hides

this ask is flirting with me…

well that’s as much action as im going to get this new years eve lol

49. Favorite shoe you own?

my sweet rose gold kicks, yo.

50. Can you walk in stilettos? Do you like them? 

lol no. i cannot. and i do not. im not made for heels. im tall enough as it is.

51. Do you feel loved? 

every time i talk to my mutuals yes //cry

52. How do you express love to those you care about? 

by saying cute words and by clinging to them like a koala.

53. Favorite term(s) of endearment? 

sweetheart, dear, idk im just like anything honestly. love, baby. go crazy.

i also love mean terms like idiot and stuff. or nicknames that hold inside jokes, something between the two of you only.

54. Most romantic thing someone’s ever done for you? 

hasn’t happened yet. so yeah. any takers? lol

55. When is the happiest you’ve ever been? 

reading a good book for the first time. or just experiencing something new that i end up loving for the first time. nothing can replace that first feeling.

56. Are you happy right now? 

happy im almost done hahhahahahaa. ha.

no but srsly i am

57. What makes you smile? 

stupid jokes. puns. someone laughing and showing themselves fully.

58. Do you laugh a lot? 

i mean. i think so? i try. i make jokes a lot and laugh at myself if that counts?

59. What’s your favorite kind of aesthetic? 

ughhhh comfy bf aestheticcc

60. Do you want to marry for love or for some other reason (like money)? 

i have a sour view on marriage. so only if i love someone hard enough. but even then i don’t know if i’ll do it. it hurts too much to think about marriage and wedding rings for me.

61. What would your dream wedding look like? Do you want to get married? 

see above.

62. Favorite flower?

orchid.

63. Favorite artist?

claude monet.

64. Favorite music artist?

bts lol

no surprises there.

65. How kind do you think you are? Is kindness important to you? 

its not something for me to decide. i try to be kind to everyone, but how it is interpreted is different for everyone. i’d like to think i’m kind.

and yes, very important. especially being kind to yourself.

66. Ever made a playlist for someone? 

yes i have. i love making playlists for people. i don’t get asked that enough.

67. Do you have anything you do to physically comfort you when your sad? Such as a favorite blanket? Or a relaxing bath? 

music. music always helps. and tea.

ideally i’d love for someone to massage my scalp, but hahah no one’s been able to do it the right way. when it’s done right i melt and forget about everything.

68. Early bird or night owl? 

night owl.

moonchild, lol

69. Morning routine? 

wake up, look in the mirror, look away from the mirror, go back to bed.

70. Night routine? 

SHOWER N NICE SMELLING LOTIONS. AND SKINCAREEEEEE OOOOF.

also fresh sheets.

71. What is the most lovely quality a person could have in your opinion? 

answered here

72. Do you cry often? Does crying help you get the emotions out? Do you feel better after? 

i only cry when i watch or read something. and it does help. i always feel better after. but i tend to keep my emotions hidden away, the negative ones at least.

73. Do you like hugs? 

i love hugs. come hug me, bro.

u must smell nice tho.

74. When was the last time you kissed someone?

august.

75. Are you small or tall? 

tall. 175cm.

76. Do you like wholesome memes? 

answered

77. Favorite thing about the past? 

cd players. chia pet commercials. flip phones. mom jeans.

78. Do you ever wonder about the future? 

all the time. esp mine. i have no idea what the fuck im doing.

79. Have you ever lived in a different country than you currently live in? 

yep. i’ve lived in america and canada before. and traveled a lot.

80. Do you like plane flights? Airports? 

i don’t mind flying. and depends on the airport. some are better than others.

81. Sunrises or sunsets? 

sunrises. every day is a new day~

82. The beach or a forest? 

bitch- i mean beach. :)

83. What time of day do you tend to be in the best mood? 

any time i am eating. or sleeping. or reading.

im so close to being done omg. this is fun tho.

84. Do you push yourself to act together and in a good mood even when you aren’t? 

always. ain’t nobody gonna deal with that baggage lol

85. Favorite kind of tree? 

japanese maple tree

86. Do you care about the health of the Earth? 

i mean i don’t even care about my health that much tbh, i need to work on that.

87. What did you like most about your childhood, if anything? 

that i got to travel and learned english very young.

88. Do you read a lot? What’s your favorite book? 

answered here

89. What are you most nostalgic for at the moment? 

old school disney

90. What’s your favorite personality trait you have? 

answered this bad boi here

91. List at least ONE thing you love about your appearance. 

eyes. have to work on my ass tho. squats baby.

92. When was the last time you truly felt calm, without much of anything to worry about? 

after a massage.

93. Do you worry a lot? 

eh, i worry enough, i suppose. there’s just some stuff you can’t control.

94. The dazzling lights of the city or the relaxing countryside?

dazzling lights of the city. especially in the evening. and in the winter. ahhhhh. someone hold my hand and walk with meeeeee.

95. Ever changed the shoelaces on one of your shoes? For what reason? 

no i haven’t had that pleasure, lol

maybe next year

96. Favorite pastry? 

BUTTER. CROISSANT.

97. Do you like doing little acts of kindness? 

yes. uwu

98. How’s your day/night going? 

well im finally done with this ask holy shit, and i need to resume writing my namjoon fic so… fantastic. i also have noodles. whoooo.

thank you for reading this whole damn mess of an ask.

ily

#ask #asks #the-trth-untold #klsfjflksa #omg i can't believe i did all of that #holy shit #lkdsjflkda #about #seriously

[tsukkiyamaheadcanons]

A single dad and a single librarian au

ok it’s almost 10 pm but i got this

actually it 10

anyways

basically tsuki and yams don’t know each other

UNTIL NOW

sorta

like yea tsuki is a single dad

his wife ditched him or something

poor dude

left him with yachi who’s like in second grade maybe first

pure child

anyways tsuki gots to work pretty hard and sometimes late at night

bc his ex wife was a bitch and took a shit ton of money

maybe not a shit ton but a good amount 

so bc he doesn’t really trusts babysiters tsuki signs yachi for this afterschool reading thing the librarian has

it’s really only once a week but on those days tsuk can work overtime

more money

so one day yachi comes home and she’s like “!!! the librarian was amazing and he let me borrow so many books!!”

anyways yachi just becomes a huge fan of the librarian

everyday tsuki hears librarian this and librarian that

from what he knows the librarian is male, pretty young, has freckles and lets yachi play connect the dots with them, and makes great story time voices

so tsuki goes to pick yachi up one day and

she’s not with the kids in the yard where you pick them up?

so of course tsuki is worried

yachi means the world to him

and he’s like “yachi? yachi where are you?”

and some kid is like “oh she’s still in the library”

and tsuki’s like thank goodness

and he goes and yachi’s there trying to pick out a book

and tsuki’s like “yachi wyd”

and he hears a “oh hello! yachi your father is here”

and dAMN

the librarian is stuNNING

so they introduce themselves right

and yachi pickes out some book and they say goodbye

but after that

tsuki goes to talk to yamaguchi

adult talk ya know

now they’re friends! from talking and they both generally like the same things

ya know now they’re friends

they talk to each other via text n shit

that good stuff

one day they’re talking while yachi si picking out another book (indecisive as shit same yachi)

tsuki is like “i gotta find a babysitter,,,, they’re having some thing where i can earn more money if i work overtime on a day,,”

and yam’s like “oh i can do that! i finish my librarian work (do they have more work idk) at home or here anyways”

so look at that!

a babysitter tsuki can trust!

but yam’s is so pure and yachi loves yams vv much

so that’s planned for next week

but in between yachi comes home with a drawing she’s proud of

what a pure bean

and she’s like “daddy!! (i stg if any of u make daddy jokes i’ll scold u and then join u bc i make daddy jokes with everything ;)) look what i drew!!”

then tsuki’s bout to say “oh good job sweetie” but

it’s a drawing of tsuki and yams holding hands with a rainbow (;))))))) and a heart above them

and yachi’s like “ur face is red when u talk to mr. yamaguchi sometimes... and you talk to him a lot!!”

“i told my friends and they say you probably like him!! do you??”

and tsuki’s like

“yachi why”

but he just pets her head and says it’s a pretty drawing

so then she hangs up the drawing on the fridge bc that’s what you do

so baby sitting day comes!

and then yams babysits and he sees the drawing and he’s like “yachi,,, what’s this?”

and yachi says the same thing

and yams oh the small bean he gets all red

and stutters

bc it’s obvious yam’s likes tsukki ;)

and yachi gets all excited omg just imagine it

young yachi get really excited!!

cute bean

then tsuki comes home n shit

so you know, tsuki is about to pay yams bc that’s what u do with babysitters

but yam’s like “nono it’s alright”

but tsuki is kinda ?? but i need to pay?

but yams waves it away and says “i enjoy hanging with yachi. besides it’s fine, my job pays me enough”

but tsuki shoves some money in yam’s hands bc he won’t accept this

but guess what!!

tsuki’s job sees potiential,,,,, and tsuki needs money,,,

so they give him more shit to do

as a test or whatever to see if he’s good enough to promote

idk i’ve never had a job like that

so that means more overtime,,,,

and yams babysits ya know?

and it’s all good

but one day like some friday

tsuki is just chilling

bc he finished his work n shit

and he gets a text from yams and it says

“ohjesus tsukki please help i’m pretty sure i heard gunshots in my neighborhood???”

and tsukki’s like “whAT PACK YOUR SHIT I’M COMING FOR YOU”

yam’s sends back like “ok hurry i’m p sure the people who shot them are breaking in to people’s houses”

and tsuki’s kinda ???? where do u live???

so he gets the address and straps yachi in and bOLts there

and turns out yams lives on like the border of a bad neighborhood

got them thugs

bc idk america doesn’t have strict gun laws so

guns for everyone !!

also the black market ya know

so yams packed some clothes, money, his electronic shit

basically valuables and basic stuff he needs

so he crashed at tsukki’s!

and tsukki’s like “i got a mat bed thing for you,, we don’t really have a guest bedroom”

bc his house is kinda small

2 room, 1 bathroom, kitchen and dining room is combined, living room is vv small

bc a big house wouldn’t be practical for a 1 kid family was what tsukki thought when he and his ex wife were buying a house

she wanted a big house but tsuki's like “no”

so yam’s like you’re too kind

yam’s is also looking for another apartment btw

somewhere farther and safer

and tsuki wakes up and yam’s is cooking apparently

yams is a good cook let’s all agree on this

and so yams made som scrambled eggs and pancakes!!

idk what ppl eat for breakfast

he made some for yachi and tsuki

and it’s really good

yams offers to go get groceries 

and he ends up doing it even tho tsuki’s like “nah it’s fine”

basically yams is crashing but also acts like a vv nice mum

this continues bc everyone in the bad neighbor became vv scared and left

apprently they knew bc there was a rumor

but yams didn’t hear

so they left

and now some apartments are kinda full

SO tsukki knows he’s def liking yams

but

he falls hard like

what a man yams is perfect

like his heart just starts pounding sleeping in the same room as him,,,,

and one day the mat is taken by yachi

yachi’s like “i need it for my stuff animals they have a very big party today!!”

and she won’t budge to give it back

so tsuki offers to sleep on the couch while yams sleeps in his bed

but yams kinda says the opposite

so at this point they pretty close

by pretty close i mean vv close

so they sorta say “the bed is big enough for two people,,,, how bout we share”

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

they don't bang tho

;)

ok back to the thing

so i haven't covered the weekdays

basically yams takes yachi to school bc his little car was being borrowed by a friend

so there’s 2 cars

so stuki goes to work and yams takes yachi to school yea

and so it’s a pretty good system

but it’s a friday again

and they’re sleeping and yachi’s shouts bc the stuff animal party is lit

and tsukki’s about to get up but yams gets up before him and says sleepily “i’ll go, get some sleep”

and tsukki’s sorta

“why does this sound like we’re married”

“i mea that’s a good idea”

“us married”

“wait kei what are you thinking sTOP”

and yams comes back and crawls back in the bed

so the day continues and someone’s at the door?

so tsukki opens it and surprise!

it’s his ex-wife

the first thing tsukki says is “pay child support”

but she comes in and is like “i came to check in,,,,” but she just here to brag about her and her fiance or something

but she sees yams and is like “oh a boyfriend?”

“can u get out”

“invite me to the wedding”

anyways she bragged but also said she’ll pay child support 

and she leaves

what a bitch

basically some time passes, yams gets an apartment of his own

but you know, they’re practically in love let’s be real

they also are kinda,, touchy,,,

like they enjoy hugs and some hand holding

but as friends!!1!

maybe  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

but anyways yachi becomes a therapist for tsukkiand yachi just sorta says

she’s like “daddy when are you dating mr yamaguchi”

and tsukki’s sorta “!!! idk how to ask”

well he did

not really

it was more like yams came over to hang

and they were playing with yachi

like one big family they could be

and yachi just sorta says “mr yamaguchi my daddy likes you very much!! please date him he’s very nervous”

and both of them are !!???!?

tsukki is very embarrassed and doesn’t know what to say??

and yam’s like “,,,,,do u wanna date?”

fuck yea tsukki says in his head

but he can’t cuss in front of his kid no way

so now it’s official!

and they’re vv happy

all this happened when yachi got into 3rd grade

and they’re dating all the way to yachi in 6th grade ish

they’re so in love

they stay up foREVER talking

tsukki litterally will drop everything he’s doing to go check on yam’s if he’s sick

yamaguchi makes the cutest shit ever and constantly comes over

and tsukki doesn’t mindman they love each other so much

and yachi is sorta like “hell yea hooked em up you go yachi”

so in 7th they’re like “lets make it official?? let’s get married!!”

they buy cute rings

don’t have gems they’re a little simple at first glance

its like a mix of gold and silver band

like imagine the rings victor and yuri have

and imagine it’s ying yang ish but gold and silver

like one side is gold and the other is silve but it mixes together when they meet

and in the gold side there’s silver stars!!

ok this band isn’t that thick but you can see vv small stars

in the silver there’s gold moons!!

like imagine this but with everything i said

wait ok that’s one kind of rings they can get OR

they get this but tsukki’s has the gold ring with a silver star instead of the gem and yam’s is a silver ring with a gold moon 

goals ;)

the wedding is more like eloping bc they don’t want something big

so they get it official, they rent out some resturant to eat eat and party!

nkinda

but then yams ditched his apartment and moved in

and now they aint single! bc they married each other

and tsukki did get that promotion! and he doesn’t have to work overtime now since yams also has a j:)

and yachi calls em both dad bc theyre her dad now

they’re just vv happy :)

~mod ao

#this was long #tsukkiyama #haikyuu!! #au's #while making this i was listening to rap monster's mixtape and it helped a lOT #except it has a different vibe but whatever #mixtapes are lit #let them be happy #leave feedback if you can!! i'd love to know what you think!! #love ya

[ciathyzareposts]

Star Control II: Why Can’t We Be Friends?

Home planet encounters make it clear that you’re not getting on the ground without going through a lot of combat first.

           Star Control II is easily the most information-rich game that we’ve had so far. The two Starflight titles were well above the average RPG, but even they didn’t have half the dialogue and lore of this one. That’s good for me as a player, but not so much as a blogger–and perhaps not so much for you as a reader. I could describe what I did in the last six hours in about two paragraphs; what I discovered will take many more, and I’m not sure if you want entries that long. You’re going to get this one anyway, but I welcome your feedback on whether it’s too much.

Imagine when I get to the modern era and a game like Skyrim. The simple act of entering a dungeon, reading two skill books, killing a draugr, and finding a shrine to Clavicus Vile might take 10 minutes of game time, but I could get 10,000 words out of that with the associated descriptions and lore. As the genre has a whole becomes more information-rich, it’s going to be difficult to determine where to draw the line.             

Even with the dialogue summaries the game provides, you have to take a lot of screenshots.

          But I have no complaints as a player. One of the finest moments I’ve ever had with an RPG came with Morrowind about 15 years ago, the first or second time I’d played, before there were wikis all over the Internet that spoiled plot developments. One of the great mysteries of the game is what happened to the dwarves, whose ancient ruins dot the landscape, and I found myself more interested in solving that riddle than progressing with the next official quest. I looked at the map that came with the game, identified every little dome that even hinted at a Dwemer ruin, and started to explore them systematically. And the amazing thing is, my explorations bore fruit! The developers rewarded this kind of “side-curiosity” with enough evidence among the ruins that you can basically piece together the story (although you need some plot-related events to make it 100% clear).

Most of the time, your effort in an RPG rewards the character, which in turn rewards the player somewhat vicariously. When you have a curious player, however, and you reward that curiosity with information, you are directly rewarding the player. This is something that Bethesda does exceedingly well and, in my opinion, does not get enough credit for doing. Whether you like Fallout 4 for its RPG mechanics, you have to admire how information-rich its world is. Every building has a story to tell. You’ll stop by one building and read a computer log about how they were expecting some kind of shipment on October 23. You know that’s the day the bombs fell. A few hundred yards down the road, you find the remains of the truck carrying that shipment. It clearly ran off the road into a tree. There will be a skeleton a couple dozen feet beyond the tree, as if ejected from the cab of the truck. If you just tromp from quest to quest, blowing through all the areas in between, you’re cheating yourself out of a world of detail. 

  Star Control II doesn’t quite reward random exploration this way. Particularly given the time limit, I don’t think you could solve the game by simply visiting random systems. You have to follow some kind of quest track. And I suspect that most of the information I’m discovering will turn out to be necessary, not ancillary, to the plot. I also prefer my plots a bit more serious than Star Control‘s. But even with all those limitations, this game is a welcome relief from era titles that are nothing but combat.

A recap is in order. I am a young starship captain in an era when the human race has become “fallow slaves” to the squid-like Ur-Quan, confined to Earth under a red shield that prevents off-planet travel. The Ur-Quan give conquered races a choice between “fallow slavery” and “thrall slavery” in which they fight for the Ur-Quan Hierarchy as battle thralls. I grew up off-world, son of a marooned group of scientists studying the ruins of an ancient race called the Precursors, and I’ve been able to stay alive because I’m flying a Precursor ship. Now based out of a starbase in orbit around Earth that the Ur-Quan mysteriously abandoned, I have been collecting advanced technology, improving my star-ship, and finding allies to throw off the yoke of the Ur-Quan.           

My starmap has been annotating various territories as I discover them.

         I originally assumed those allies would come from races that were part of the old Alliance against the Ur-Quan, but it’s becoming clearer that all races–including Ur-Quan allies and non-affiliated races–are up for grabs, partly because the Ur-Quan have been distracted by a distant war. This is the rundown of the races I have so far:

              Androsynth: Old enemy of Earth because they had once been Earth’s slaves. They seem to be gone now, destroyed by the Orz who now inhabit their system.

Ariloulaleelay: An old Alliance race that mostly disappeared after the Ur-Quan victory. Classic “little green men” who may have been responsible for abductions and experiments on Earthlings in the past. Current whereabouts unknown. They may not live in regular space.

           In fact, as we’re about to find out, they do not.

          Chenjesu: Crystalline beings who originally drew Earth into the old Alliance against the Ur-Quan, now trapped on Procyon under a “fallow slave” shield, along with the Mmrnmhrm.

Kohr-Ah: Some new race that the Ur-Quan are currently fighting, distracting them from my attempts to rebuild the Alliance.

Ilwrath: Cruel spider creatures, allies of the Ur-Quan, whose only weakness seems to be a fanatical belief in their gods. The Umgah are currently exploiting that weakness.

           “Subtlety” does not translate well in Ilwrath.

        Melnorme: A neutral race that trades in information. They’re responsible for half my clues.

Mmrnmhrm: Robotic species, member of the old Alliance. Now trapped with the Chenjesu on Procyon under a “fallow slave” shield.

Mycon: Fungoid race allied with the Ur-Quan. I haven’t met them yet in this game, but they’ve apparently taken over Syreens’ old system, and I suspect they had something to do with the destruction of Syra.

Orz: Weird yellow fish-flowers who come from the same alternate dimension as the Ariloulaleelay. Seem to have destroyed the Androsynth and taken over their space. They appear to have allied with us, but it’s hard to understand what they’re saying.

Pkunk: An unknown race currently being attacked by the Ilwrath.

            The Pkunk end up being somewhat weird, but no more than most of the creatures on this list.

        Precursors: An ancient race within whose ruins the main character grew up. Members of the “sentient milieu,” Their technology built my flagship. Probably extinct.

Shofixti: Cat-weasel warriors given advanced technology by the Yehat. Destroyed their own star to avoid surrendering to the Ur-Quan. One lone male warrior with a thin hold on sanity still keeps a vigil from orbit. A group of females are possibly in the hands of a VUX admiral.

Slylandro: New to the galaxy, this race has sent probes all over the place. The probes, after first claiming to be on missions of peace, are attacking everybody. In the last session, I got a clue as to where they might be coming from. One of their damned probes is almost always on my tail when I sail through hyperspace.

         Captain Chester has lost all hope when it comes to these probes.

         Spathi: Race of cowardly mollusks who surrendered to the Ur-Quan despite having decent ships and technology. Now serve them as battle thralls. One of them was assigned to monitor Earth but instead joined my crew early in the game.

          The Spathi have a particular outlook on life.

          Syreen: All-female race of buxom sirens. Joined the old Alliance after their planet, Syra, was destroyed by what they thought were natural disasters. After they surrendered to the Ur-Quan, given a new homeworld called Gaia. Accepted fallow slavery (red shield) and unwilling to break their treaty.

Taalo: Another member of the “Sentient Milieu,” a cooperative of ancient races. Probably extinct, though I had this theory that they’re the “Talking Pets.” I have one of their artifacts, a stone that blocks psychic influence.

Talking Pets: Little frog-like creatures who do all the communicating from the Ur-Quan because the Ur-Quan feel it’s beneath them to speak directly to lesser races. Unknown if they have their own history or world.

Umgah: Blob-like creatures with a cruel sense of humor. Allies to the Ur-Quan. Lately amusing themselves by impersonating the Ilwrath gods with something called a “HyperWave Caster.”

             These guys turn out not to be the likeable kind of jokesters. They’re just jerks.

           Ur-Quan: Putative enemies of the game. They want to conquer every other race in the galaxy. They’ve been around a long time, as they were also “Sentient Milieu” members. Willing to let conquered races live out their own destinies as “fallow slaves” under red shields, and demand that the decision be put to a popular vote.

VUX: One-eyed, snouted race allied to the Ur-Quan. Humanity apparently insulted them the first time we met, leading to an enduring hatred. I hadn’t met them yet when this session began.

           The VUX are maddeningly vague on the nature of the supposed insult.

           Yehat: Race of pterodactyls who chose to be battle thralls under the Ur-Quan.

Zoq-Fot-Pik: Cooperative of three small races from one planet. Caught in the crossfire between the Ur-Quan and the Kohr-Ah, glad to ally with us in the last session.

                  I’m going to relate what I found this session below, but as I do, it’s important to keep in mind that I usually only had a constellation, sometimes a star, as a hint. This means that for every encounter, I might have had to explore several stars and dozens of planets before finding it. Naturally, I mined those planets that had minerals and took life forms when I found those, but those tasks have become so rote and procedural at this point that there’s no point narrating them. I still haven’t found a “Rainbow World” yet.           

I’ve learned to prize heavy “biological” worlds as much as mineral ones, as it gives me more to sell to the Melnorme.

          As this session began, I had “to do” items related to almost all of these races, if only to make contact and find out where they stand. Because I was sick of spending so much money on fuel (I hadn’t even had enough money to purchase the “Fusion Blaster” the Melnorme gave me), I prioritized the locations closest to Earth, at least at the beginning, which is how I found myself in the Giclas constellation, looking for a rumored other neutral race. It turned out to be the Pkunk, a race of hippie birds who believe in reincarnation and positive energy and all that New Age stuff. My negotiations with the first ship I encountered went well, and they directed me to their homeworld.

The Pkunk are aware that the Ilwrath are only attacking them because someone is impersonating the Ilwrath gods. They didn’t seem to mind much. They happily agreed to join my Alliance, gave me an artifact called a Clear Spindle, and also gave me four ships (with crews) for my fleet. (I’m going to have to stop using my flagship for every combat.) Before I left, they predicted my future and said that the Ariloulaleelay would give me the ability to summon dimensional doors and travel in a way that’s even faster than hyperspace.           

Well, that sucks.

          The “other dimensions” thing gained even more traction with another visit to the Melnorme. I sold them the bio scans I’d made since our last contact and used my credits to buy plans for some kind of laser defense system for the Prydwen plus some information. One of the things they told me is that there is a “weakness in the division between dimensions” that manifests itself in between the Chandrasekhar and Columbae constellations on the 17th of each month (we’ll just ignore the absurdity of that).

My next trip, again based on proximity, was to the VUX (no idea why that’s always capitalized) worlds, hoping to find the Shofixti females and otherwise gauge their status. Conversations with the ships were mostly futile; the captains refused to explain the specific nature of the offense we gave them, only that they hate us forever, and even if they didn’t, they’d destroy us because that’s what the Ur-Quan want. One of them did mention that if I wanted to meet a “friendly” VUX, I should try Admiral Zex at Alpha Cerenkov. VUX encounters inevitably led to combat, so I didn’t stay in their system long.           

Maybe I’ll just skip those planets.

           At Alpha Cerenkov, Admiral Zex proved to be an affable, if perverted, member of the species. A hero of the earlier war, he retired to a hedonistic lifestyle years ago and seems to fetishize other races. He was willing to give me the Shofixti females if I could bring him some animal from a planet that “basks in the yellow light within the eight-star constellation of Linch-Nas-Ploh,” which he translated as “the snake-like creature who has swallowed the elephant beast.” Studying the star map, I think this probably refers to Lyncis, way up at the “north” edge of the galaxy.            

Unfortunately, I think he means that last part literally.

           I next went to the Yehat space nearby. When I finally encountered a Yehat ship, they were surprised to see a human outside the red shield around Earth. The crew of the ship I encountered was reluctant to kill me because of our former friendship, but their desires were at odds with the mandate from their queen to follow Ur-Quan orders. They seemed to respond when I told them that the Shofixti were still alive, but they demanded proof that I didn’t have.             

At least they feel bad about it.

           Around this point, I returned to starbase, where Captain Hayes told me that they’d received a distress call from the Zoq-Fot-Pik, whose home planet was under attack from a “black destroyer.” I bought an extra fuel pod, fueled, up, and headed for the ZFP homeworld.           

While at starbase, I was able to buy the “Fusion Blaster” and “Point Defense” upgrades.

           On the way, I encountered a Spathi ship in hyperspace. They said they wouldn’t attack but begged us not to tell the Ur-Quan that they’d let us go. Conversation with them solved one mystery: why they, as cowards, accepted “battle thrall” slavery instead of “fallow slavery.” They said they’d meant to do the latter, but the Umgah had interfered with the voting as a joke. I still have to visit the Spathi homeworld.            

The Spathi and Tyron Lannister would get along.

        The first major surprise came when I arrived at the ZFP world, encountered the black ship of the Kohr-Ah, and found myself speaking to an Ur-Quan! (Or, more accurately, to his Talking Pet.) It turns out that the Kohr-Ah are a faction of Ur-Quan, not a separate race. They call the regular Ur-Quan the “Kzer-Za,” and the two sides are fighting over “supremacy of Doctrine and possession of the Sa-Matra.” “We cleanse,” the captain explained. “You are the filth.”

When I asked why they were destroying us, he gave me a big info-dump of Ur-Quan history. It basically went that their species is hostile and territorial by nature. Even civilization among their own kind came late to them, and only with great difficulty, and it was even worse when they started to explore the stars and meet other races. Their only friends were the rock-like Taalo, “the only people we could stand with, or talk to, without the hunter inside us screaming, ‘Kill the interloper! Rip out its life!'” (Their description of the Taalo as sentient rocks makes me wonder if I don’t have a Taalo, rather than a Taalo “artifact,” on my ship.) Eventually, a psychic race called the Dnyarri wiped out the other “Sentient Milieu” races. They enslaved the Ur-Quan and used them to destroy the Taalo.           

The Ur-Quan goes through his history.

            Twist #2 came in further conversation. The Dnyarri are actually the Talking Pets! (At this point, my Taalo=Talking Pet theory was completely debunked.) They kept the Ur-Quan as slaves for thousands of years, experimenting on them genetically and splitting them into two species: green (“effete scientists and bureaucrats” and black (“the builders, the fighters, the doers”). The green became the Kzer-Za and the black became the Kohr-Ah. The Ur-Quan eventually discovered that excruciating pain could block the Dnyarri influence, so they created devices called “excruciators” to wear and thus maintain their independence.

Once the Ur-Quan achieved victory over the Dnyarri and enslaved them in turn, they decided they’d better destroy all other life in the galaxy to avoid ever being enslaved again. The Kzer-Za faction insisted that they only enslave or neutralize (i.e., fallow slavery) other races, while the Kohr-Ah demanded that they kill them outright. The schism led to the Kohr-Ah fleeing the galaxy until just recently.

The captain attacked when he was done with his speech. The huge Kohr-Ah ships fire giant throwing stars, which linger until something hits them. But you’ll be happy to know I was able to destroy the dreadnought with the BUTT missiles of the Spathi ship. I’ll talk more about combat next time, but suffice to say that I’m starting to get the hang of it.          

The Ur-Quan dreadnought spams giant iron swastikas.

          The ZFP were grateful for their rescue and gave me several more ships for my fleet. My flagship now has about as many escort ships as I think it can accommodate.

When the battle was over, I checked my notes and found that I was pretty close to a few other “to do” items. I started with the Umgah. I don’t know what I was expecting. Clearly, I wasn’t going to have an encounter in which they just handed me the HyperWave Caster with instructions on how to use it. Instead, in about six encounters in a row, they laughed at me and attacked. Each battle involved multiple Umgah ships. Their primary weapon has a limited range, but they have a special weapon that can suck you into proximity. I got pretty good at destroying them with the Spathi, but eventually the attacks became too much and I fled the system.            

BUTT missiles home in on the Umgah ship while his weapon fires in vain.

           The 17th of the month was near, and I was near the weak point in space, so I headed there. Sucked through it, I found myself in a place called “quasi-space.” Time passes there, but it doesn’t seem to use any fuel. The map showed a bunch of small blobs and one big blob. The small blobs were portals back to hyperspace, but the big blob was a portal to a planet.             

Beyond hyperspace.

            The planet turned out to be the homeworld of the Ariloulaleelay. The representative who contacted me explained a bit about the history of our two species, which came across as less sinister than I expected, although of course I was hearing his side. He suggested that the Ariloulaleelay had been guiding human development for a long time, and that they made themselves known, and joined the old Alliance, as a way of protecting us against other hostile species. When they were no longer needed because humanity was “safe” under the red shield, they disappeared for a while. I’m the first human to reach their homeworld. There was this chilling sequence, which may be the best RPG text so far in my chronology:            

Part of what we do on Earth is for your own protection. There are parasites. Creatures who dwell Beyond. They have names, but you do not know them. They would like to find you, but they are blind to your presence, unless you show yourselves. The Androsynth showed themselves, and something noticed them. There are no more Androsynth now. Only Orz. Ignorance is your armor. They cannot see you now. They cannot smell you. Much of our work with your people involved making you invisible, changing your smell. If I tell you more, you will look where you could never look before, and while you are looking you can and will be seen. You do not want to be seen.

        Traveling in quasi-space is how the Ariloulaleelay get around so fast. The alien said he’d give us a “portal spawner” so that we can use quasi-space, but we’d need to find a warp pod first. He suggested we’d find one on the wreck of an Ur-Quan dreadnought at Alpha Pavonis, not far from our current location. He mentioned that the Ariloulaleelay had recovered a Talking Pet from the same wreckage and had given it to the Umgah for care. He wanted us to stop by the Umgah and see how it fared.

We returned to hyperspace, sailed to Alpha Pavonis, visited the right planet, and got the pod.            

My lander crew loots the wreckage.

           At this point, I noticed that I wasn’t too far from Vega, which was one of the possible sources of the Slylandro probes. It actually turned out to be nearby Beta Corvi, but I found it. The Ariloulaleelay had said that the probes came from a world with no surface, so I hunted for a gas giant until I found the right one.           

This looks promising.

          I was surprised to find myself talking to a friendly group of gaseous creatures named “Content to Hover,” “Joyous Lifting,” and “Sullen Plummet.” They explained that they hardly get any visitors since the “Sentient Milieu” races were destroyed eons ago. (They went on for a while about a race that used to visit them called the “Shaggy Ones” that seemed worried about something and seemed to be seeking something.) Lonely and unable to leave their planet, they were excited when the Melnorme visited and sold them a probe.

In further discussions, it transpired that the Slylandro had mis-programmed the probe. It was supposed to seek out life forms and communicate as its top priority, but somehow “self-replicate” got set as the probe’s top priority, which means that it sees every ship that it encounters as a source of replication materials. Horrified, the Slylandro promised to try to recall the probes. In the meantime, they gave me a self-destruct code to use if I encounter any more. I thought these probes were the main quest, but it really just turned out to be a side quest.            

The Slylandro reach a horrifying conclusion.

           I end here, poised to swing by the Umgah (though I’ll probably just get attacked again) and then return to the Ariloulaleelay. I might need to use that portal spawner immediately because I’m running pretty low on fuel. I have three questions on my mind:               

When I joined the Orz to the Alliance, did I give some unspeakable evil from another dimension access to Earth?

Are the Melnorme necessary? Meaning, are the clues that they offer exclusive to the Melnorme, or do they exist largely as a kind of backup in case a player spends more time randomly visiting planets than following the initial clues? It feels like most of the things they’ve told me have been double-confirmed in later encounters.

I’ve mostly been diplomatic in my encounters with other races, but there are also some very aggressive options. Is there a more aggressive path through the game? If I was better at combat (and enjoyed it more), could I be subjugating the other species? Could I beat Admiral Zex into submission instead of doing his quest?

                     Captain Chester briefly considers a different path.

         The game began in January 2155, and Earth is scheduled to be destroyed in January or February 2159. It is now November 2156, so I’m about halfway through my available time. I’m hoping this portal spawner allows me to accomplish more in less time. We’ll soon see!

Time so far: 21 hours

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