#especially with q.

[elencr]

ₓ ˚ .   ୭   ˚ ○ ◦ ˚    ―      ㅤ‘ 𝑲𝑰𝑺𝑺  ﹠ ᵀᴱᴸᴸ . ’   | ACCEPTING !

                                               “  a kiss that leaves lipstick stains .… “

* .  ♡             it’s not every time that a kiss will leave elenore feeling ...  light. floaty  ,  like nothing else really mattered.  it was just something about the way @qknows​ kisses. the years that they’ve been  ...  living  ,  most certainly has taught them a thing or two.  pulling away slightly  -  ellie takes a second to catch her breath  -  hands gripping onto the fabric of the uniform that they were wearing  ,  before letting herself fall back down onto the couch.  teeth biting into the corner of her lip  -  she has a rather stupid looking grin on her face  ,  practically zoning out.  happens every time they do this.  until she notices the time.  “  oh shit -  ” she swears standing up  ,  gently nudging Q out of the way  ,  as she stumbles to the bathroom. “ why did i agree to the night shift, ” she grumbles  ,  standing in front of the mirror  -  before sighing suddenly.  there on her face  ,  right over her lips and cheek and jaw and wherever else the omnipotent being had kissed her  -  were dark lipstick stains.  “ is it continuum standard to wear lipstick all the time ? " ellie teases  -  watching them through the mirror  ,  as she starts to wash her face.

#qknows #| * you've reached the voicemail of elenore. answered. #| * floating amongst the stars. star trek verse. #i will always hear you out syd. #especially with q.

[vilevampirez]

by the way, just a quick note because I'm actually not sure if I'm allowed to disclose too much info yet, but if you watched mike's earlier stream today and saw the new emotes... I hope you liked them, bc let's just say that I've been working :D

#vile arts #qsmp #mikethelink #I draw q!mike in a very specific and consistent way (especially w/ his hair) #so I wonder how many ppl recognized I was the artist from that detail alone #many more emotes to come btw

[wiz4rdkiss3r]

Q is one of my favorite characters in tng when he's first introduced and also in later appearances like in ds9 because as annoying as he was he served cunt like his life depended on it

#he was also always draped over a couch wich is awesome #especially in the scenes with picard always laying down with the back arch #i only kinda get it i wouldn't date Patrick Stewart but to each their own #star trek the next generation #star trek #star trek ds9 #star trek tng #star trek deep space nine #q star trek

[lionheartedmusings]

the thing about q!bad recreating the soulfire base basically block by block and planning to surprise the team with it is that it says a whole lot about him, where is was during purgatory, and where he is now.

q!bad spent months trying to burn bridges and push people away, he effectively placed himself in a distrusted position on the island, his children (the only reason that man breathes) vanished in the middle of the night, he was actively torturing himself and kidnapping people. he was a man on a mission, sure, but time and time again he reinforced to us the audience that he wasn't *happy* about what he had to do. his plan — whatever his plan is — is something he deems necessary enough to have been alright with ruining his own life. as he said to q!baghera: "i'm expendable".

suddenly there's hope in egg island, but egg island is actually a hellscape and he's trapped without his biggest support systems — q!bagi, q!baghera, q!foolish, and even to an extent q!forever were the people he had to take down, they couldn't be there for him anymore. and from his team? other than q!tina and q!aypierre, he wasn't close to anyone or was just... directly antagonistic towards them (mainly q!pac and q!tubbo).

and then the funniest thing happened — he found family in hell and in people he never truly expected to be comfortable around.

he grew to respect and care for q!tubbo, he grew much closer to q!tina, his relationship with q!aypierre was tested and strengthened, he found a connection with q!niki and by god, he protected q!pac — who'd once been terrified of him — with his life. even the people who didn't log on often, he grew to see as part of his pack in a way he (and i) didn't see coming.

when soulfire mains talk about them being the perfect example of found family, that's what we mean. slow, careful changes that grew into love and protection beyond belief — enough that when green gay ninjas were split, everyone was welcomed with a warm hug and a cup of tea, now part of the family undoubtedly and forever. just like that.

their family was hitting their stride when purgatory ended and q!bad tanked a nuke to his back to save his son, and now his bookshelves are all knocked over and his memory's slipping. he's dying, he knows he's dying, and he's holding on by a thread for dapper and pomme even if he's aware that he can't just "bear it" much longer. he's isolated again, hiding and lying about his condition, watching the world turn and knowing his clock is ticking... sometimes he knows nothing at all.

and in this moment of pain, and solemn realization of the end of this version of him?

he's spending his time rebuilding the last place that felt like home block by block, talking openly about how he feels nostalgic and misses their base, their god awful spawn, the memories they made. his time with his daughter has been spent down there.

i know we as a fandom have theorized that one of these days, his memory's gonna snap down there and he'll think he's back in purgatory and it'll be a mess. sure. but right now?

right now that rebuilt base means love, and friendship, and family, and safety. it's the last place things were okay, and he felt cared for in a way that frankly your children can't provide.

a group of ragtag mismatched people got put together in a poor man's hunger games and they saw this demon — bloodthirsty, destructive, full of cold calculated murderous intent and a need to win for his child and instead of being horrified, running away screaming from his fangs and his claws?

they loved him. they found the gentleness beneath the blood and guts. they called him their attack dog because he's so full of love and so protective, and would tear anyone to pieces to protect their family.

team soulfire saw q!bad in a way no one in the island had, and they loved him for it — even when he drove them up the walls and they had to hold the leash tight, they loved him.

and now he's remade their home.

#qsmp #q!badboyhalo #team soulfire #;-; #you don't understand i will NEVER be normal about team soulfire #especially when it comes to q!bad #they loved him and he loved them #they accepted him #they ARE FAMILY #long post tw

[plutonicbees]

no but it's actually insane that tommy shepherd was introduced with the lore that he accidentally blew up his high school, and his first public action as Speed™️ is blowing up the UN building, and then marvel proceeded to go "so his power is just being fast, and his twin gets to fuck around with the fabric of reality, and he gets... nothing!"

#i think tommy should get to be more powerful. pretty please. #i think he should be absolutely tearing shit up after the 3rd death of his boyfriend #(2nd death to happen while theyve been dating) #he's so main character he even has divorced parents give him the spotlight give him everything #tommy shepherd is such a good and fucking underused character and sw&q (especially issue 3) has reminded me as such #tommy shepherd #marvel comics #young avengers

[shakingparadigm]

what is the theory that ivan manipulated the event where till and mizi met the wagyein?

It's not a theory, actually! It's confirmed that Ivan orchestrated the whole event. The true reason as to why however is still unknown. The information provides more context to this scene, though:

During the earlier times of ALNST the most rational explanation for this scene was that Till ran after a flower crown (presumably Mizi's) and Ivan followed him in out of curiosity. Now we know that Ivan was conveniently just standing there because he was waiting.

Side note, I find it heartbreaking (and maybe a little funny, sorry) that Till most likely didn't notice Ivan in this scene. That's just like him, isn't it. Always too busy running after Mizi while Ivan trails behind, an ever-present shadow.

I'm not sure how Ivan manipulated the circumstances for both of them to end up there, but it is confirmed that everything was intentional. What strikes me most is how they describe this particular scene:

I can't copy down what they said word-for-word (Patreon info), but they described Ivan watching "creepily" as Till and Mizi are faced with danger. We know that Ivan was familiar with the Cerberus wagyein beforehand, enough to touch its teeth and even to rest himself inside its maw. To Ivan, the wagyein is not dangerous, but to Till and Mizi, it could be. Ivan prepared the wagyein, led them there, and watched "creepily" from afar as Till fell on his knees, seemingly injured.

The closest I can get to making sense of Ivan's "scheme" is that he wanted to see how other children would react in a dangerous situation. Ivan's always been an observer, after all, and he's learned to survive by copying the more "normal" behaviors of his peers. This situation occured when Ivan was still young and had not yet developed his more charming mask, so perhaps he staged this encounter to study a situational response, to learn and mimic the emotion of fear. And what better subjects for the experiment than two of the most expressive and reactive humans of their batch? It helps that he was already fixated on Till beforehand, too. I think Ivan became irreversibly obssessed after this incident, especially since it's framed as a turning point in Ivan's life, comparing Till to the stars.

This is just my attempt at an interpretation, though. It could very well be for another reason. He most likely chose Till and Mizi specifically for personal reasons, not just for reaction. I'm still not sure on the purpose behind the whole thing.

The team wanted to capture Ivan's "dark emotions" through the shot of his stalking, which could relate to his more sinister intentions. His gaze can be read in a few different ways, though. Curiosity, interest, fear, etc. Maybe that's why they decided to redraw the shot in ROUND 6.

I think this better sells the feeling they were trying to convey.

#ivan u fucked up little guy. #also okay i just wanna clear this up #i know i make a lot of posts about ivans darker side and his more problematic traits #but this isn't me trying to villainize him or reduce him down to “toxic yaoi” #I HOPE YOU GUYS KNOW ALL MY TOXIC YAOI POSTS ARE LIGHTHEARTED. #i just want to clarify that ivan was always intended to be a darker and complicated character. even since his debut in round 3 #the way i refer to ivan (“twisted” “creepy” “obssessive” etc) are literally the direct words used by q and v themselves to describe him #but despite that id like to emphasize that i don't see ivan as a villain or a completely bad person. hes complicated #there is no normalcy in this world they are living in. none of the characters know what being truly normal is #this isn't me condoning his actions #but it has to be acknowledged that alnst is fucked up in nature. we can't expect perfect relationships from people who are born to die #plus ivan has a lot more layers past the “dark” parts. he's constantly battling himself and his desires #especially at the end of round 6 where he performs a myriad of conflicting actions (kiss strangle peck smile) #thanks to the r6 production notes we now know that ivan was going through a rapid internal conflict #“sure and unsure at the same time” #there is sooo much to ivan. his low self-esteem. his desire and possessiveness despite knowing till will never love him #his VEHEMENT insistence that till will never love him vs his desperate persistence in trying anyway #uh i need to shut up i think #anyways sorry. just wanted to clarify my thoughts on him in case people think im. yk. #in short. hes a fucked up little freak and he fascinates me. this poor tragic child. i love him. #SORRY I GOT CARRIED AWAY #alnst #alien stage #alien stage ivan #alnst ivan #asks

[ultra-raging-ghost]

God im so excited for him to die

ITS BEEN FIVE MONTHS OF SLOWBURN IM SO READYYYYY I HOPE THEY LEAVE YOUR BODY ON DISPLAY SO EVERYONE CAN SEE WHAT THEY MISSED

#qsmp #q!bbh #q!badboyhalo #ESPECIALLY BAGI BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO SNATCH HIS HOOD DOWN RECENTLY AND I KNOW SHE'D DO US RIGHT!!!!!

[july-19th-club]

one complaint i do have is that ppl will sometimes comment on the fact that house never uses his cane on the proper side as if the show did it on accident when it's mentioned more than once that it's the wrong side, and people tell him this, and he knows it and still does it like that anyway . mostly because he's contrary and will go out of his way to try and prove that his way is better even when it's patently not, also at least partly because he's afraid of what would happen if he wasn't constantly suffering more than he needs to be, because that's the underpinning feature of his life and he doesn't know what he'd be without it. like the episode where he was in that parking space spat with the other doctor so to prove a point he went around using a wheelchair all week and is more or less pain free and clearly enjoying himself (to say nothing of his incredible smugness at having what he sees as extra disability points) but as SOON as the bet/point-proving is up he fucking . goes back to his regular life. with the cane that he knows he could use differently but doesn't and the back pain and the painkillers in excess of safe levels and the etc etc etc. king of learning zero lessons and preferring things to be worse because he doesn't know what to do with better!

#watched that episode the other day and it's not really pointed out or commented on at all #but while in most episodes we see him take a pill at least once or twice. he doesn't in that one for the duration of the week #visual nod to the fact that he's not in as much pain plus his generally pleasenter mood #house md #it's a little nitpick but ppl will talk like the show doesn't know he's using it on the wrong side. no it's character it's deliberate #he's resistant to change including (especially?) positive change and this is one of the illustrations of that #q

[pikmininaplane]

Ok so I waited before posting this because I was hoping for Antoine to write more but it's like 5:30am here and he and Pomme have been losing their minds on his shit towers' roof for the past 2 hours so uh. I don't think he will write anything else today

BUT

Antoine has been getting more into the lore and, following others' footsteps before him, has made a secret room underneath his towers for him to write recaps about the lore and other people in !

It looks like this, and so far the only people in it are Maximus, Baghera, Forever, BBH, Etoiles, Foolish, Aypierre and Mike (the latter two are on the walls to his left and right), but he thinks he'll add some more people once he's gotten to know them

Though the hidden hallway leading to the room could theoretically be accessed by anyone who finds it, the room itself is fully reinforced and the only people that can access it are Pomme and himself ! He doesn't even trust the other French with it and its content, and even left the room when he got raided by Etoiles, but he did make it somewhat visible to outsiders, y'know, to add to the drama.

Also he's begun writing Forever's book !

[FOREVER

Probably the one person on the island that’s most interested in becoming president. Really invested in the island’s lore, though he doesn’t say everything and omits some information. Close to BBH and Baghera. All three of them]

[were acting very weird, though it’s been fading since the beginning of the elections (keeping information, secret meetings). He seems to stray from BBH and Baghera’s line of thought. Wants to be president, but is one of the people who claim they’re « not really interested]

[ in being elected ». His relationship with Cellbit is kind of weird and nebulous. Is building a « safe space » near the favelas, I think it’s mostly in his own interest. People can meet up anywhere, why would they only do it in a place prepared by Forever himself ?]

+ he began writing a fourth page but he's been interrupted in the middle of it

So uh. Congrats on your QSMP fever Antoine, hope you enjoy your stay ✨

#really interested in what he's going to write about Maximus tbh #especially since he's been claiming he fully trusts him and he's the only person in the room who's not a candidate in the elections #qsmp #qsmp antoine #antoine daniel #q!antoine #qsmp forever #foreverplayer #q!forever #qsmp lore #lb originals

[the-yearning-astronaut]

ART just came alive as a character, and it’s so cool when that happens, when you kind of have a character sort of buried in the story. When they actually come on stage it’s like, oh, this is going to be an important character. And the more I worked on [Artificial Condition], the relationship between them became central to that story, not necessarily Murderbot finding out about its past on this moon, but that relationship. So after [Artificial Condition] was done and I was starting to work on [Rogue Protocol], I was really thinking about Murderbot’s relationships with the other characters and thinking... it’s like I really feel like ART is probably the love of Murderbot’s life, even though that’s not how they see it. That this is central, it’s going to be a really important relationship, and in some ways it makes a lot more sense for Murderbot’s most important relationship – I mean, its most important relationship with a human is Dr. Mensah – that it would have a relationship with another being who is more like it than a human is – so yeah, people who see it that way are pretty correct. That was what I was thinking about when I was writing it.

~Martha Wells, in an interview with SmartBitchesTrashyBooks, regarding the writing of Artificial Condition and how Network Effect is an aroace agender romantic suspense novel.

[quote lightly edited by me for clarity]

#the murderbot diaries #Murderbot #a.r.t. #asshole research transport #art (asshole research transport) #perihelion #murderbot diaries #martha wells #mw interviews #interview #network effect #artificial condition #this interview lives in my head rent free #especially since it was talked about again in another q&a right after system collapse came out #☉ #SmartBitchesTrashyBooks #mb+a

[tsukana]

we are literally 3 for 3 on category 5 sugarduo/philever moments.

when he came back after his break to happy pills forever. the gun scene. the everything. forever showing phil the fake richas. phil immediately knowing somethigns wrong and externally affecting him and going along with what he needed to to help.

when forever was getting taken away by fed and to the nether. phil instantly knew something was wrong bc of the shouting and when forever tried to wave it away he was like hm. no. "of course i'm worried. you're my friend."

FUCKING TODAY. finding this out from tallulah. "thats not our forever" getting the tiniest clues and instantly deducing it was the black infection and possessing him and defending the fuck out of him and the argument with tubbo. "we can love the forever inside"

yeah im ok and normal abt them a normal amount wdym.

#tsu talks #q forever #q philza #qsmp #philever #sugarduo #they are SO. #every time qphil uses his observational skills and deduces shit abt his friends who are going thru stuff and ESPECIALLY when its qforever #i am dealt +80 emotions #qphilza #qforever

[dy3rs3v3]

Metallica looking iconic during tba era, St James Club, Paris

#creepy statue lady in the background... #especially ominious in those first 2 shots lol #metallica #james hetfield #lars ulrich #kirk hammett #jason newsted #tba era #90s #metal #q

[ohnothisisathing]

I remember not long ago we couldn’t imagine q!Tazercraft being separated, but it’s been months now and it’s gotta normal for us to only see one of them, and more specifically Pac. Part of that is the meta of everyone knowing the cc’s absence is because they’re out living their best lives instead of playing Minecraft, but in story I can’t help but go back to that feeling of wrongness with them being apart.

Others may not feel it as much anymore. They say Pac is probably with Fit, Bagi knows and trusts Pac and Tina, Tubbo is missing Pac, Forever is looking just for Pac. Pac e Mike haven’t been Pac e Mike for a while when at one point you would say one name without the other. The server has adapted. The only echo of Pac e Mike being the blue and green chairs around the island that everybody keeps the same.

I wonder if it’s the same for Pac? Did the feeling of wrongness ever leave him? Does he say things expecting a certain voice to say something in response, but it doesn’t come? Does he feel dread when nobody else is surprised about the missing voice? While everyone still sees just him in conversation, does he hear an angry grumble in his mind that means as much as words? Does it feel like holding broken glass some days, bloody and grounding and too delicate to let go in fear of it breaking more? In the quiet moments when there isn’t even the sound of breathing to accompany him, does it feel a little like he doesn’t exist?

Does Pac still feel like Pac e Mike even when everyone only sees Pac?

#QSMP #I still have so many feelings about q!Tazercraft #especially this idea that it seemed crazy that they wouldn’t be together #but right now they’re something different #change isn’t bad but that’s one hell of an adjustment

[broughtteethtoagunfight]

Something something, q!Tubbo creation “To right my wrongs”.

Something something, creating a machine out of desperation, out of depression, out of hope, out of fear.

Something something, putting your genuine, literal, blood, sweat and tears into something until your bled dry, praying it works.

Something something, praying to your own creation like an alter, as though it holds redemption and salvation, as though it can save you, as though it can fix what you did, or worse, what you didn’t.

Something something, potentially noticing that it thinks and feels independent from its objectives, but ignoring it because you need this to work, because you need to fix it.

Something something, looking at this grotesque, evil looking thing that you made with your own hands, with the wrench your daughter gifted to you, and begging, pleading at it to make things right. Maybe you can save them this time. Maybe it’s too late for everyone else, but you have one last ditch effort you can try.

Something something, throwing everything you have and more into this, every spare second you have, every ounce of effort you have to give, into your machine, your salvation, your creation.

Something something, if it just works, if you can just get it to work, if it can get itself to work, if something can get it to work, if anything can get it to work, then it all will be fixed. Then you can see her again. Then you can have morning coffee again and play dates again and hanging out again, doing anything at all again, good nights again and good mornings again and you can protect her again, you can do it right this time.

Something something, revering your creation like a god, praying to it’s gears for it to bring your kid, your baby, your girl, your princess, your Sunny. It has to. It HAS to. You don’t know what you’ll do if it doesn’t. You don’t know how you’ll live if it doesn’t.

#idk #was this anything? #I’m currently working on the assumption/head canon-ing #that creation is from a future where all of the eggs died #and tubbo figured out time travel #and made creation to try to save the eggs #this was that #yeah 👍 #also something about praying to a machine (especially one you built) like a god does something to me. idk. #qsmp #qsmp eggs #qsmp tubbo #tubbo #eggs qsmp #qsmp creation #qtubbo #q!tubbo #qsmp sunny #q sunny #q!sunny #q!creation #chattering teeth 🦷

[dappersautismcreature]

excited to see bad go off the walls crazy tomorrow cause most field trips he is relegated to the Only Sane Guy, i want him to leave people behind, i want him to hit and elbow people out of the way, i want him tunnel-visioned and cold. i want to see him selfish.

#oh i could write posts and posts about selfishness not being a bad trait all the time #how needed it is #especially for characters that are so self sacrificing #qbad learns to set boundaries by murdering the fuck outta people teehee #qsmp #q!badboyhalo

[lionheartedmusings]

is there any bigger show of love than someone willing to kill and maim to keep you safe? is it not so very easy to love a monster when it's claws are gentle against your cheek?

#qsmp #qsmp team soulfire #q!tubbo #q!badboyhalo #q!tina #q!pac #those especially #thinking SO MANY THOUGHTS OVER Q!PAC AND Q!BAD