#let's put a pin in that 📌

[tex-treasure-chamber]

In expansion of this post introducing the idea of a SDV AU for Tex and Maxwell and as a companion piece to this post of Maxwell's character guide

Spring -> Summer

Autumn -> Winter

Name: Tex

Pronouns: they/them

Birthday: Summer 24

Profession: rancher and (secretly) a wizard

Personality: Helpful and kind if not quiet, Tex is a hard-working person who enjoys spending time outdoors, making friends with the local wildlife, and appreciating nature wherever they can find it in Pelican Town.

Housing: they live on Starfell ranch which they inherited from their grandfather just on the northern edge of Cindersnap forest, in a house surrounded by lots of forestry, land to raise animals and crops, and privacy to practice magic.

NOTE: you must be friends first before you are able to enter Tex's home uninvited. Regardless of your friendship levels with Tex, their bedroom remains locked although if you visit at certain times, you can see Rasmodius or Maxwell visiting with them in the chairs stationed in front of Tex's bookshelves.

Pets: a grey and white male tabby cat named Asher. He can be seen roaming around the farm on sunny days and on rainy days, he lounges inside the house with Tex. In the aquarium are the following: an octopus (Debussy) , a flounder (Bach), a shrimp (Satie), a herring (Shubert), and a crab (Mozart).

Love interest: Maxwell (As the player, you cannot romance them- there are no slots for the hearts required to date/marry). As the player spends time in Pelican Town, Maxwell & Tex's blossoming relationship is meant to be strictly an observable event via walking in on their interactions. They get married in the Winter of year 4 and the player receives an invite in the mail.

Friends are & how they bond are:

Maxwell (wizarding, fishing, science, art, cooking, bibliophile, nature)

Rasmodius (wizarding)

Willy (fishing)

Maru (science)

Demetrius (science)

Emily (clothes)

Leah (art)

Elliot (bibliophile)

Penny (bibliophile)

Evelyn (cooking)

They're usually spending their time...

- working on their farm, spending time with their crops and animals

- foraging in the woods, looking for foodstuff and things to sell, ingredients for potions

- drawing on a sketchpad or painting on an easel (has an animation loop similar to Leah's for the first action and a custom animation loop for the second action)

-down by the beach, the lake near the mines, or one of the rivers flowing through town, fishing and humming to themself (has a music note speech bubble animation floating by their head when humming).

- walking around Stardew Valley checking in on folks & running errands as favors

- going to the library to read

- digging for artifacts around town or in the mines

As for Tex's schedule, here's a working time table I've come up with:

NOTE: Tex spends 6 AM-11 AM tending to their crops and animals on non rainy / non snowy days and 6 AM - 9 AM on rainy / snowy days

- on Mondays and Wednesdays, Tex visits the mines from 12 PM - 3 PM and practices magic inside their home from 4 PM - 7 PM.

-on Tuesdays and Thursdays, they go to the library from 1 PM- 2 PM and then visit with Rasmodius from 4 PM - 6 PM.

- on Fridays and Saturdays they are out foraging in the woods from 12 PM - 3PM; after that they will visit with Rasmodius until 4 PM--- then they're off to go to the bar with Maxwell.

- on Sundays, they go to the beach to spend it from 1 PM - 3 PM staring out at the water and painting/drawing on an easel or a sketchpad. From 4 PM - 6 PM, they can be seen sitting with Maxwell outside his cottage while he is whittling or, if it is raining, they can be found inside his cottage drawing on a sketchpad while he whittles.

Gift Guide

Favorite items:

sunflower

honey

solar essence (for magic)

opal (for magic)

rainbow shell (for magic)

dried starfish (for magic)

mead

eggplant parm

rhubarb pie

vegetable medley

super meal

salmon dinner

pumpkin juice

Liked items:

spice berry

blackberry

wine (any, but prefers spice berry)

dandelions (for magic)

purple mushroom (for magic)

quartz (for magic)

cheese cauliflower

pepper poppers

pyrite (for magic)

squid ink (for drawing)

malachite (for making green paint)

daffodil

Hated items:

banana

banana pudding

coffee

beer

shrimp cocktail

melon

slime

litter & other universal disliked items

Fun facts

Tex doesn't verbally talk to the player until the player has earned 1 heart; until then, they merely smile with a "......." dialogue instead. This is because Tex is wary around strangers.

When finally comfortable speaking, Tex has a clear southern accent by their words. An example of this is when they say, "Howdy [Player's Name]! Mighty nice weather we're having, ain't it?"

Tex is friendly with magical creatures such as the elusive fæ folk, the lonely dwarf in the mine, the shadow being Krobus, the talking bear, the yeti, and the junimos--- regarding the junimos, they often can be found in the old community center bringing them flowers, fruit, and giving them affection. On rare occasion, they even befriend a monster or two in the mines- sometimes, they bring them ores and gems.

When the player get 3 hearts with Tex, Tex sends them a recipe for eggplant parm.

#tex talks #stardew valley oc #let's put a pin in that 📌 #*wraps myself up in this* #one for the treasure chamber

[jude5bellingham]

throwback thursday ౨ৎ trent alexander-arnold

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part two here

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[gamerwoman3d]

What if he's scared to do it cold because...

[Explicit/spicy below the cut 🔞]

He feels like it's on fire as it's literally melting inside you

It's harder and smoother than he could ever be au naturale, and he loves how it glides so effortlessly into you

If he looks down, when it's wet, slick, and glossy, it's clear enough that he can see through it. He'll stare at it, watch how you open up around it. Seeing himself split you open like that, watching your pink insides clench and suck against it, flesh pressed on it like starfish on glass, makes his heart flutter, threatens to draw the L word out of him, makes him choke and gurgle and sputter as he desperately tries to catch and hold that word in his throat.

When you shivver and shudder and scream under him it spurs him on.

The way you cling to him for heat is adorable and he wants to keep you like that forever.

It's addictive and you ironically burn so many calories when he fucks cold. Your internal equilibrium gets a workout, every muscle contracting with violent shivvers to raise your temperature back to where it should be. 30 minutes of it burns 2-4000 calories and puts you at medical risks. But the post-coital sleep is deep, and the hunger when you awaken feels insatiable.

It won't crack inside you: it's magic has it continually reforming. But when you do squeeze hard enough to crackle it, to send tiny microfractures into the core of it, it stings like pins and needles and tingles like nerve endings just waking up after your toes fell asleep in the snow. It won't injure him, just leaves him feeling vulnerable and ironically wanting more. It's one of the only things anyone can do to him that can make him howl aloud.

[Caution: Female anatomy past this point.]

If he stops, if he switches from icy to fleshy, it usually makes him cum on the spot: His cock went from feeling on fire inside you, where you melted him with your heat, to feeling frigid and clammy as his hot fleshy cock plunges into your ice-numbed pussy. So cold around him, threatening to shrink and shrivel him up inside you, you took his icy cock in your pussy for so long that now he feels freezing within you. He can't last, knowing how his icy cock changed you on the inside.

When he spills hot, he feels that heat all over his clammy cockhead, grateful for his own warmth against the shaft, temporarily creating a buffer of warmth between his hot cock and your chilled walls. You feel the warmth too, feel your own cold pussy sucking up the heat. He's speechless when he cums like this; he feels the heat leaving, feels the warmth of his load get quickly absorbed by your inner walls. The spurt of warmth is very temporary, leaves him spent with his cock buried inside a clammy, half-chilled pussy.

He's going to collapse. There's a cocktail of hormones raging inside him, spurring him to cling to you for your warmth, to declare his love, to wife you, and never let go.

He doesn't do it cold for just anyone. He doesn't do it cold if you plead or beg. He does it cold only after he's certain already that he loves you; because if he isn't, he will be by the time he's through.

He knows how it affects him to do it cold. It makes him stupid, fuckdrunk, vulnerable, needy and incompetent. His secret is he's terrified to do it cold. If his iced cockhead touches you, it's too late - by the time he lets that happen, he's in love, and already more terrified of losing you than he is of losing himself.

Scared Stiff

[...The end for now?]

[Need more MK1 smut? Check the pin 📌]

#sub zero x reader #sub zero imagine #mortal kombat imagine #mk1 imagine #bi han imagine #sub-zero imagine #mortal kombat #mk1 #mortal kombat 1 #sub zero #bi han #subzero #mk sub zero #no beta we die like outworld empresses

[fuck-customers]

fuck two of my coworkers, ok. gonna be a long one.

so i’m kind of a floater between stations in the kitchen, originally hired on for pantry (cold apps, salads, and desserts) with occasional training on expo and line. since our old dishwasher got himself fired, i’ve mostly been doing that for the last couple months. for the last two weeks we’ve been having issues with the garbage disposal sink getting backed up and not draining, fucking up one of the pipes in the wall to make it overflow—this has made doing dishes in a timely fashion with one person on that station vastly more difficult.

as a result of the above, the chef (C) tells me last night to come in an hour earlier than my original schedule “so you don’t get fucked on the dishes during brunch rush.” unbeknownst to me, he also tells the main pantry worker (J1) that she needs to ask me for help to make sure she has all her prep done before brunch.

i don’t find out about that until i’ve already been working for upwards of half an hour on making sure all the stations have the dishes they’re supposed to and any leftover from last night have been put away. this includes multiple trips to and from pantry to cart stacks of plates, during any of which J1 could have asked me to help when i get my hands free. instead, it’s the SOUS CHEF (S) who stops me on my way to prep for a weekly cleaning task to tell me to ask J1 if she needs help.

i’m just like, yeah ok sure, and i go to ask her. she’s like “🫤 weren’t you supposed to be over here helping me anyway” and i’m like “…i don’t know, C told me to come in for dishes, i’m just going off of what he said.” and ask her what she needs help with. she puts me on a non-crucial task that ends up fucking us over because we’re completely out of one of our more popular menu items for pantry, and she and the other floater/currently mostly pantry guy (J2) haven’t been getting their prep done right/at all. meaning i have to drop everything while the brunch rush is starting to get everything prepped before i can even make the item for it to be served. (put a pin in this. 📌)

brunch ends, we each get our 15, i come back from break and ask C where he wants me, “so i’m back on the same page as the rest of the kitchen.” he tells me to continue helping at pantry, making filling for deviled eggs. i don’t know the new recipe and he hasn’t written it down yet, so he tells me to plate desserts instead. J1 comes back from break right then and starts plating desserts. J1 does know the new filling recipe. i just kind of sigh and go back to C and ask him to just show me how to make the new filling. C, instead, walks back to pantry with me, and tells J1 to swap roles with me, telling her to make the filling while i plate cakes. she doesn’t fucking hear him because she’s got headphones on and loud, to the point that i have to get her attention three times before she even looks up.

i say, “C wants us to switch.” she straight up rolls her eyes at me and starts moving her dessert setup. we have one working outlet that we can plug the food processor into in the pantry area, where the fuck does she think i’m going? i clarify “no, C wants you to get started on the filling, and let me finish the cakes” and she goes “oh” before moving to start the filling. the food processor turns out to not be working, so she asks me to relay that to C, and i do, and when i come back she’s fucking plating cakes again. i remind her that C told me to do that and she just goes “🙄 i got this, go do one of your other tasks” so i just get fed up with her and her shit and spend the next two hours getting some hardcore catharsis in by sweeping, deck scrubbing, and mopping the dry storage area. the rest of the night with her goes pretty smooth because i’m mostly able to ignore her while i prep for tomorrow. she’s been kind of a cunt since a friend of hers, A, got fired/walked out/i’m fuzzy on the details anyway, so like. oh well. seethe and mald but stop making your problems mine, yk? let me do my fucking job.

📌 circling back now to that pin. the popular food item in question requires sliced cured meat. there was some cut, but only enough for about 3 of them before being left with unservable scraps that C doesn’t want on the plate. so i take a fresh meat log to the slicer, only to find it in an absolute STATE. it looks like it hasn’t been cleaned all fucking month. there’s old yellowing grease all over it and bits of dried meat scraps/flakes caked everywhere on and around it that have gone past dried and starting to turn rancid—like, this shit was turning green.

i am, of course, disgusted and appalled, because making and prepping for this particular menu item was easily 85% of my job when i was focused on pantry, and the worst i ever let the slicer get was getting too busy to remember to clean it before the end of one shift and doing it first thing when i came in for the next. the worst you’d find then was some dried meat flakes that had turned a slightly darker pink. so of course i immediately set to cleaning the slicer before even thinking about putting anything intended for human consumption near it.

C comes back to see what’s taking so long bc i usually have a full log sliced by that point. i’m still in the process of cleaning the slicer, so i point out what mess is left (i had about a third of it done by now; it was Bad) and he goes “oh, that might have been J2” and tells me to hurry and slice just enough for a few more orders, and i can finish slicing after they’re arranged for service.

i come back to pantry, where J1 is now running window to expo and J2 is arranging the non-meat parts of the item. i say aloud for both of them, “hey, just so you know, we need to wipe down and sanitize the slicer after we’re done using it.” J2 straight up says “well, it wasn’t cleaned the last time i had to use it,” which just hits me with such an intense wave of anger that i go nonverbal for a minute while i focus on plating. like. so you agree, you admit it, you didn’t fucking clean it after you were done. J2 has been risking unleashing food poisoning on our entire clientele for god knows how long.

later, after dinner service, i’m helping the temp on dishes—i’m hand-washing mostly pans and other things that won’t fit in the machine in the three-tier manual sink, while the temp is running the machine, and J2 has been putting the trays of dishes away as they come out. as i’m filling the manual sinks i turn to J2 and say, “if you wanna just focus on putting things away, i can knock out the washing here,” and he agrees.

and then he proceeds to completely fucking ignore the rapidly filling sanitizer sink in favor of continuing to put away the machine dishes. even when i move things onto the counter between the sanitizer soak and the “out” side of the machine, taking up almost all of the available space to give myself room to keep cycling through the dishes, he continues ignoring it, simply lifting the dish machine trays over and past the growing pile of waiting manual dishes.

i step away for a bit to cool off, catch my breath, take something for the migraine that has been steadily building since ~11:30am (it is now almost 9pm) from having to deal with J1 and J2 all fucking day. i have been asked to help with trash as part of close. J2 has the gall to ask me “how much longer do you think you’ll be?” at a fucking guess i’m going to be a lot goddamn longer than i would be if you were actually HELPING ME, dickhead.

J2 ended up clocking out after the temps helped him with trash without putting a single manual dish away, leaving me with three full sinks and an overloaded counter. i didn’t get home until after midnight (partly because my ride was helping with after-dinner bar service) and i have to go back and do it all the fuck again at 11a again tomorrow.

i swear, if J2 gets fired and is never allowed to work in foodservice again after tonight’s bullshit, especially the state i found the deli slicer in, i’m converting back to christianity, because i’m taking it as proof that there is a merciful and loving god.

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[hyperfreaksating]

Triple threat

Heya everyone I hope you're having a wonderful day (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ 💕

I have a few hours to kill at the airport so let's enjoy a little bonus post to my fanfiction Never leave me again (check my pinned post 📌) which I could call: Buggy's offsprings appreciation post ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Flash forward to years after the fanfiction timeline: Buggy's triplets are now 12 and they all have inherited traits from their father - which make your parenting journey an highway to hell sometimes. Let's meet them ~

BLAZE

First born of your little clown litter

No braincell - only chaos

He has destruction in his blood.

Very adventurous! Never reluctant to go on a mission.

...Even if you never ask him to come, tho.

Randomly put fires to things, most times by accident.

Golden retriever energy, but a crazy one

He shares his father's laugh

SKYE

Natural born leader, she wants to become captain herself later.

Most cautious of the three. She has destructive impulse like her brothers, she just makes sure the twins get caught and not her.

Has a passion for sea creatures, dream of having one as a pet

Growing with Buggy and the twins she ironically became self conscious about her nose, wishing to have a natural red round nose like her father & brothers.

Her axe is made out of wood - for now, to her great dispair.

Have her father's ego and taste for the grandiose.

RORY

The one of the twins who actually have braincells.

Very crafty and imaginative.

Love to invent, craft and test other Buggy's bombs.

For the moment they are pretty inoffensive : smoke bombs and laughing gas bombs mostly.

He crafted Blaze's gauntlets with rusty pieces of armor he found in the big top's hold.

Inherited his father's grumpiness and shitty temper.

~

As I said some post ago I have the plan to make a little webcomic with them. I have so much fun drawing them ! Hope you like the doodles & stay tuned, next part of the fanfiction is written and I'll post it when I'll have some times. ~(˘▾˘~)

#buggy the clown #captain buggy #buggy one piece #buggy live action #op buggy #buggy #buggy fanfiction

[midnights-dragon]

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[talktomeice]

Frost (Part 1)

Rooster x Kazansky!Pilot! Reader

Warnings: mentions of throat cancer (story begins before the cancer comes back), swearing

Not Edited so there may be mistakes!!!!

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Authors note: I wanted to write something that made many callbacks to the first Top Gun, whether it was a moment or a line. I did it for nostalgia purposes…so you may see some lines from the first top gun or you’ll see a line that was from the first top gun but I changed a word, so keep your eyes peeled…

Summary: Y/N Kazansky grew up, greatly influenced by flying, between her father, her godfather and honorary uncle, Maverick. Even the father of Y/N’s dearest best friend, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw, flew with Mav. Bradley and Y/N were inseparable while growing up, but when Roosters admission papers were pulled from the Naval Academy, Rooster angrily disappeared from her life, and refused to talk to her at Top Gun. Y/N primarily spent her time in DC, but she spent her time teaching the top pilots around. But every path in her life has brought her back to the same place…Fightertown USA.

Y/N’s hair is blowing in the wind, and a large smile etched across her face as her 1973 ice blue ford bronco enters the familiar Miramar.

She let out a content sigh as her eyes trailed to the note securely attached to the dash that her dad gave her a long time ago when she was going accepted to Top Gun.

My dear daughter Y/N,

From the moment you were born, when I first held you in my arms, you were and still are the most important to me.

I remember when you were just 5 months old, you were in my lap while I was making faces at you, and you suddenly bit the air, and that moment only confirmed your moms and my idea that you were truly a mini Iceman.

Now you’re going to be attending Top Gun…and I know you’re sad because Rooster will be there and you two haven’t talked for many years, but please…for your dear old dad, try to talk it out. I know he brought you such a different kind of happiness. I’m so proud of you sweetheart. I love you!

You’ll always be my little girl.

My little Frost.

Love, Dad (a.k.a Iceman)

Though she was very happy to be called back to Top Gun for a special mission and to come back home, her dads was struggling still with the aftermath of throat cancer and it made her heartbreak into a thousand miserable, useless pieces.

The grown woman parked her car in front of the familiar house, leaving her bags behind in her car, sprinting up to the house and nearly eating dirt as she open the door with full force.

“Honey!!” Her mother, Sarah Kazansky jumped at her daughters sudden appearance, but quickly took her into a tight motherly hug.

“Hi mom!” The commander wheezed in her mothers grasp.

“I really wanna talk to you but I know you wanna see your dad and he really wants to see you.”Hearing those words caused a longing smile to appear on the face of the eldest Kazansky child.

Y/N bit her bottom lip with her ongoing smile as she walked through the house quietly towards her dads office on the balls of her feet.

The door she had seen many times before was finally in front of her eyes again. She slowly reaching for the door knob, the contact caused her to let out a huff. She twisted the door knob, as the door gradually opened, and the iconic blonde hair came into view.

“Hey Dad!” She excitedly spoke with a massive grin. She was ecstatic to see her favorite person again.

The chair swiveled around, her eyes meeting her fathers, at which his eyes light up seeing his first born child.

He shakily rose up from his chair, his daughter quickly grabbing him for support. He pulled her into a hug, patting his daughter’s back comfortingly.

They sat down in their respective chairs and the admiral began to type.

My frost, How are you doing?

“I’m even better now that I’m seeing you, Ice Dad.” Iceman smiled wide as his chest slightly bounced with a quiet but hearty laugh at his nickname, “I’m happy to be back.”

How do you feel about the mission you were called back for?

“Though I have zero clue what it’s about, and what’s even happening, I’m happy to go back to Top Gun. It’s going back to my roots…my favorite place.” Y/N spoke, nearly coming to a whisper at the end of the sentence. She also remembers a lot of sadness, anger, and guilt which very much stemmed from, the person who would now be considered as en ex best friend/ex crush, Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw.

Y/N’s father gave her a skeptical look before turning to his keyboard.

I know you’re thinking about Rooster. Is Rooster still angry?

“You know me to well Ice Pops,” The commander laughed as her heart felt lost without her best friend, “He still won’t answer any texts I send, or answer my calls. I don’t even remember the last time I texted or called him…I simply gave up.he never even gave me the chance to tell him that I tried to fight for him LITERALLY. I haven’t seen him for years. It’s better off this way.”

The admiral stared at his daughter, knowing that she truly wishes that it wouldn’t be this way. Her and Bradley used to me so close that he and Bradley’s mother, Carole and Maverick would all talk about how those two getting together and getting married was absolutely inevitable, but now it’s lucky if they’ll even get to face each other ever again.

You seem like you need to relax. You should go visit Penny at the Hard Deck. Plus, you never know what’s gonna happen..

Y/N raised an eyebrow at the last sentence but quickly threw the confusion to the back of her mind, because going to the Hard Deck sure sounded nice.

“You’re absolutely right, Dad.” She leaned over and kissed her fathers cheek.

Frost, you can also take my aviators.

The captains eyes got wide at the statement. Her father kept his aviators from his flying days on display on the shelf.

“Are you actually serious?” She asked, at which her father nodded, and he stood up and gave her another hug.

“I’m proud of you. I love you Frost.” Her father spoke hoarsely, Y/N holding back tears in the process. He then reached over to the shelf and grabbed his prized aviators and handed them over to his daughter.

“I love you too Ice Dad…Iceman…you can be my wingman anytime.” She spoke with a smile as she slid the aviators on and walked out the open door, turning to quickly wave her dad goodbye.

She walked out the front door of the house, grabbed her bags and brought them into the house. She didn’t bother changing out of her uniform because she just needed to get to the hard deck for a drink.

She hopped in and started driving towards the Hard Deck. Her head hopped to the end of Nice To Meet Ya by Niall Horan and she parked her car. She smiled at the familiar sight as she walked in. She noticed a man sitting at the bar, with his back facing her and two men standing near the pool table, facing away from her. Y/N walked over to the bar and sat two stools away from the man.

Penny then suddenly appeared from the back and quickly noticed the young captain and quickly ran over, “Hi sweetie! How are you?” She asks, leaning over the bar and hugging you.

“I’m happy to be back in town.” She replied with a small smile.

“Not even a hello to your uncle Mav?” A voice says next to her, her head quickly turning to the man, to realize it was her honorary uncle, Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.

“Mav!” She exclaimed as they both stood up for a hug. Maverick patted her back before they both pulled back and sat down.

“What’s it like coming back home?” Mav asked as Penny handed him his glass.

“I’ll be honest, it brings a lot of emotions. I’m super happy to see the family-“ “and to get called back to Top Gun” Maverick interrupted, the girl’s eyebrow raised, “how did you know?”

“Don’t tell anyone, and I can’t say too much but lets just say you’ll probably see me there tomorrow…” Maverick trails off causing the Kazansky girl to jump up and down on her stool in excitement like a little kid causing Mav to laugh, even getting a laugh from Penny on the other side of the room, cleaning a table.

“So back to the emotions…also being back home reminds you of possibly Bradley Bradshaw?” Mav looked over at the woman, noticing the mix of anger and sadness on her face.

“And I still feel so bad for playing a part in his anger towards you. All because you’re involved with me, I brought you into it.” Mav frowned, playing with the glass in his hands.

“We may have had a huge argument over it, but I forgave you. I understood in the end what you were doing in the end but I still tried to fight for him.” She consoled Maverick with some pats on the shoulder.

“That’s exactly it. I didn’t want him to hold it against his mom that after Goose died, she didn’t want Bradley to fly, so I had that chance and I took it. He hated me for it in the end, and because we can’t tell him that, he also got angry with you, because it seemed like you didn’t care about him.” Maverick said before chugging the rest of his drink, “you even punched me in the shoulder and the stomach during that.”

“Hey now! I apologized, brought you ice for it and I bought you a new motorcycle. You said it was good after that buddy boy.” I say pushing Mavericks shoulder.

She excused herself, standing up and walking over to the bathroom. The door closes and she immediately releases a sigh as she walks in front of a mirror, pushes the aviators on top of her head, and places her hands in the side of the sink.

She’s known as the girl who keeps her cool, and who is clever and slick. But being back in Miramar…she’s quietly a mess.

She takes a bit to collect herself, her thoughts, and her emotions. Now more cool and collected, she slid her fathers aviators back down and sauntered out of the bathroom and quickly noticed that the crowd has doubled. She notices Penny, who clearly has her job cut out for her, so she walks over to the bar, offering Penny some assistance.

She starts chatting at the bar with some people, having a good laugh, gaining the attention of most of the pilots over by the pool table.

“Who’s she?” Payback asked as almost everyone’s attention was focused on the girl in uniform behind the bar.

“She would squash you like a bug.” Hangman laughed, knowing who the woman was.

“Who is she?” Payback asked again, provoking a sigh from Hangman.

“Well you wanna know who the best is? That’s her. Frost. It’s the way she flies. Ice-cold, no mistakes. She wears you down, you get bored and frustrated, do something stupid, she’s got you…just like her father.” Hangman states, spinning a pool cue in his hand.

“What’s her name?” Fanboy asked curiously, everyone except Rooster was paying attention.

“Commander Y/N Kazansky. Daughter of Admiral Kazansky.” Hangman spoke, while Rooster was still too into practicing pool on his own.

“Yo Y/N, can you bring some cold ones over?!” Hangman shouts over to the commander, causing her to roll her eyes.

She walks over, her aviators reflecting the low bar lighting.

“Heard the speech, Bagman, it’s pretty cool that you’re the president of my Fanclub now.” A sly smile appeared on the woman’s face, earning some ooohs from the other pilots.

“I like her already.” Phoenix spoke, admiring how the Kazansky child could put Hangman in his place. Y/N brought her aviators down here n the bridge of her nose and winked at Phoenix.

Everyone introduced themselves, shaking hands.

“Hey Bradley, you should meet her.” Phoenix said, finally gaining his attention.

“Meet who?” Bradley turned around, finally facing Y/N.

The two froze in their spots. So many different things ran through both of their heads, not expecting to see each other.

Bradley suddenly turned around and went back to pool, causing Y/N to roll her eyes under the aviators.

“Nice to see you too, dipshit.” Y/N snarled, loud enough for Bradley to hear.

As she turned away to leave, she could hear Phoenix trying to get information out of Bradley.

In very short order, she got into her car and drove back off to her home. She began to fully digest that Bradley still holds resentment towards her and that’s were Frost began to lose her cool.

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[abalidoth]

Die a Hainly or Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become the Vilia: Gender, Breath of the Wild, and Representational Sterility

Thanks to @start-anywhere for encouraging me to write this essay!

Major spoilers for Breath of the Wild, minor spoilers for Mass Effect Andromeda and Horizon: Forbidden West, as well as the Tears of the Kingdom trailer and H:FW Burning Shores.

cw: transmisogyny.

"Be careful playing the Gerudo segment," I heard from friends. "There's a transmisogynist joke there."

There's a lot I don't remember about 2017. That year was a perfect recipe for dissociation: I was finishing a very fraught and frustrating PhD dissertation and TAing at the same time, with very little sleep. I was constantly worrying about finding a job after graduation, and moving to a new city sight unseen. I spent the first two months of the year away from Emma for a math fellowship, the longest we'd ever been apart.

And on top of that, I was a closeted trans femme living in Laramie, Wyoming, a town famous for a homophobic hate crime, during the first year of the Trump administration. My gender pressure had been building for years, out to friends online but not to anyone in person save Emma. I knew I wasn't a man but the closest I could come to expressing it was wearing skirts at home, and nail polish on the weekends. (Apply Friday afternoon, remove Sunday evening, repeat weekly.)

But I do remember playing Breath of the Wild with Emma.

Zelda is in the DNA of our relationship -- Emma showed me Ocarina of Time before we even started dating, Twilight Princess was one of the first games we played through together, and I proposed to her with a ceramic replica I made of Anju and Kafei's wedding mask from Majora's Mask.

So, getting to play a new Zelda game -- an extremely good one, at that -- with her, during one of the worst years of my life, was an incredible beacon of light.

So the warning about a transmisogynist joke in the Gerudo segment was disappointing, but I kept it in mind as we played.

For those who haven't played the game, here's a quick synopsis of that quest: Link, our hero, needs to access Gerudo Town, a town of all women. (Sorta. Put a pin in that. 📌) You talk to a male shopkeep outside who tells you that he's heard "a man" has been "sneaking" into town, and he's waiting to catch a peek. Other (Gerudo) characters mention an odd human woman, a merchant, who hangs out on the roof of a bazaar a ways outside town. Up there you find Vilia.

(image source: Zelda Wiki, which correctly genders Vilia unlike some wikis 😒)

If you accuse her of being the "man in disguise" she brushes you off and won't speak to you further. If you compliment her, she'll offer to help you get into town, sell you the Gerudo clothing set (grab another pin 📍) and say how pretty you look, making Link blush. Then the wind will blow her veil aside, which we only see obliquely, but we do see that she has facial hair. Link acts surprised.

Okay. Let's unpack.

First off... Vilia is a trans woman with a beard. I'm just gonna treat that as a fact from this point forward. Everyone who actually interacts with her refers to her as a woman, she refers to herself as a woman, we will set "but maybe she's just a crossdresser" or whatever aside, she's a trans woman. With a beard.

Is that problematic?

A big theme of my evolution as a social justice advocate is that "problematic" is meaningless in a vacuum. The existence of a trans woman with a beard is not, itself, problematic. Otherwise that's pretty bad news for me, a trans femme with a beard.

But her depiction... There are definitely some elements of cultural transmisogyny being upheld here. Stubble is a common feature in popular caricatures of the Gross Tranny. Link's reaction being played for comedy makes Vilia's existence sort of a big joke.

And on a surface level examination, it looks like this is a straightforward "man dresses as woman to gain access to women's spaces" story, straight out of Joanne's Twitter-addled fever dreams.

But other than that, Vilia is pretty well treated by the narrative. All of the Gerudo refer to her as a little odd, but fundamentally a helpful person, and they respect her identity. It's clear when Link runs around Gerudo Town that multiple people clock him, but nobody ever throws him out because they just assume he's a trans woman and therefore implicitly welcome.

Vilia's character model isn't exaggerated in any way I'd consider transmisogynist, aside from the facial hair, and Link in the Gerudo outfit is, well, far from an unflattering portrayal.

And importantly, you cannot progress the main story if you misgender her.

There is no other way to get into Gerudo Town, and thereby the Divine Beast Vah Naboris, if you just say "you're a dude, right?" and don't walk it back. You can technically finish the game without any of the four Divine Beasts, but they make it MUCH easier, and a significant chunk of story is locked behind her quest.

So back in 2017 I played this, went "well that wasn't great but it wasn't as bad as I thought," and went on to wear the Gerudo outfit as much as humanly possible.

Flash forward to my 2023 replay, in anticipation of the sequel. I'm avidly curious to replay this section, given my evolution in my own gender understanding. (The first time around, I id'ed as genderqueer and Definitely Not A Guy but I'm not sure I was comfortable with "trans" yet, and definitely not "situationally a girl".)

Turns out? Vilia fuckin' rules. Gender icon. They hate to see a girlbeard winning.

Ok, I'm exaggerating. (A little.) But there is a reason I'm writing this essay, and I came away with a much improved sympathy for her character and her position in the story. I want to talk about why, but first let's clear a couple of those pins.

📌 The Gerudo are an all-female race. This is historically true in the Zelda games, with the single exception of Ganondorf, an ancient incarnation of evil who is born as the only make Gerudo once in an age. Ganondorf isn't in this game (though he is in the sequel!) so he's not relevant here. There are two things to note here: one, the Gerudo are nonwhite and heavily middle eastern coded. This is something I can't get into, as an Extremely White Person, but their interaction with gender is not without racial context and it would be irresponsible of me to not mention it.

But second, and the thing I will talk about, is that they seldom use the words "man" and "woman", but rather "voe" and "vai". We get these translated for us, but they are just that -- translations. They are gender concepts unique to the Gerudo that get mapped imperfectly to Hylian standards. The Gorons, a race of rock people who all use male pronouns and forms of address, are allowed into Gerudo Town, being "neither voe nor vai". And all of the Gerudo characters treat you differently when you're in the Gerudo clothing, even though it's clear that many of them have the perceptiveness to see through it.

I think it makes perfect sense to interpret "vai" as less "woman" and more "fem presenting". The Gerudo's actions are consistent (arguably, more so) if you do so.

📍The Gerudo armor. There's a few things to talk about here. First, Vilia sells it to you rather than just giving it to you. This seems a bit callous, but there's other similar monetary roadblocks in the game, and she's explicitly a traveling merchant and jewels are (as she says) expensive. I don't blame her.

The Gerudo armor is also, in game, pretty terrible. If you're wearing all three pieces you get a tiny bit of heat resistance, but it has basically no armor and can't be upgraded. There is a purchaseable "voe armor" with similar aesthetics but much better stats, but it can't be used to access Gerudo Town.

This is... Not ideal. I like to run around in the Gerudo armor because Link looks absolutely adorable in it; that was more of a priority back then than it is now that I have my own fem wardrobe, but it's still true. I wish it could be upgraded. I also wish you could just wear whatever armor aesthetically and get a different set of bonuses.

Okay. Now. To explain what it is I actually like about Vilia's portrayal, I want to talk about two other transfeminine characters from open world games: Hainly Abrams from Mass Effect: Andromeda and Wekatta from Horizon: Forbidden West.

Hainly Abrams is a scientist on the planet Prodromos in Mass Effect: Andromeda. In her first conversation with you, you can ask her why she came to Andromeda, and she says she was looking for a fresh start for her transition, and then... weirdly deadnames herself, in a way that feels utterly alien to anyone who's interacted with trans people. BioWare took criticism on this... sort of, and patched that conversation to only happen after you gain her trust by saving her fiance. But it's still extremely jarring. I cannot find information about her voice actress.

Wekatta is a troop leader of the Sky Clan Tenakth in H:FW. Like Vilia, the narrative is actually somewhat cagey as to whether she's a trans woman or not. I don't believe anyone actually refers to her with she/her pronouns, unlike Vilia, and the closest she gets to saying she's trans is

Aloy: And you think he's crazy for trying?

Wekatta: I'm not a fan of that word. When I chose to wear a woman's armor, people called me crazy, too.

Wekatta only shows up for a single minor side quest, and doesn't really get to actually do anything. She is at least voiced by a trans voice actress, Rebecca Root.

Both of these portrayals are mostly free of overt transmisogyny. Hainly deadnames herself in a strange and off-putting way, and Wekatta's portrayal is ambiguous to the point of over-caution, but there's not much that could be read as a transphobic joke like in Vilia's story.

They're also both boring as heck. And neither of them really feels trans.

Both of these characters feel like existing bit-player characters with one "bee tee dubs, I am A Tran" line slapped into their dialog. Sure there isn't anything overtly wrong with that kind of representation, if it's done carefully, but this is "minor character mentions he has a husband" rep, not "on-screen gay kiss with main character" rep. (Side note, though, good for Guerrilla for making Aloy canonically queer in Burning Shores. Haven't played it yet but I'm stoked to. Hell yeah.)

Vilia, as problematic as elements of her portrayal are, feels like a real transfeminine person. She feels more like me. Her gender is kinda messy! She has a girlbeard! She gets to call you out if you misgender her!

And best of all, her interactions with Link (excluding the shocked face at the end, which is pretty annoying) can be read very easily as an older, more experienced trans woman helping a younger trans girl with early transition, giving her her first feminine outfit and complimenting her. There's no wonder why transfem Link is such a popular headcanon. (My personal favorite for Link is some kind of transfeminine genderfluid.)

Vilia isn't perfect, but truly great and realistic trans representation is going to be easier if you start with a Vilia and clip off the overtly problematic bits, than if you start with a Wekatta or a Hainly and try to make them feel more real.

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[xenomorphee3]

A New Mission: Ash to Fire is Complete!

New pinned post! 📌

Wow everyone... it's done. It's really done! 395,000+ words in ~4.5 months. I am SO pleased to be able to mark this story complete. Extra special shout-outs to @quaritchsgirl/@bluekernal and @kings-evil for their incredible art which accompanies and breathes life into the story. (Going to put up a separate post soon collating all ANMAF art)

Story summary:

Miles Quaritch failed his first mission to capture Jake Sully, the leader of the Na’vi insurgency. Now, the RDA and Bridgehead Command have a new mission for him and his surviving recoms, Wainfleet and Mansk—a mission to gather intel and make an alliance with the newly contacted Ash People, a Na'vi clan endemic to a volcanic archipelago. What’s at first just orders will slowly come to change the young Colonel’s life and his relationship with Pandora, his son, and the RDA forever.

Story Links:

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Sequel Info-- A New Mission: Happiness is Simple

This longfic, a true labor of love for Avatar, is essentially an Avatar 3, or post-Way of Water story primarily through recombinant Miles Quaritch's eyes that sees him continuing his parallels with Jake Sully, and with heat and flare! Recoms Wainfleet and Mansk are heavily supporting and developed as well.

It's a slow-build that really expands to a film-sized scope as it goes on capturing many different characters' point of views. It features Miles' existential crisis and also movie era flashbacks. I've done my best to be logical and reasonable with the in-movies set canon and sequel foreshadowing.

I really have tried to write it in the spirit of Avatar and James Cameron (if that's even possible haha) and it includes solid and plausible world-building and lore pertaining to the Ash People and even some for the RDA, is well-researched (regarding things like military jargon, weapons, geology, etc.), and has enjoyable original characters. I think you'll really love the main Ash Na'vi OC. My regular readers sure do :)

Also, if smut is not your thing, there's only a few instances in the entire story and it is kindly written with content warnings to be 100% skippable! I look at the included smut as no less than comparable to what Jake and Neytiri are doing behind the scenes and no more hot and heavy than the Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor love scene in James Cameron's Terminator haha.

Who is this story for? I believe if at least any three of the following five things pertain to you, you'll really like my story! 💙🧡

1. Like Quaritch and find him compelling, attractive, or both and want to see his story arc continue in a grounded way with a love interest component (parallels with Jake!) 2. Wanted to see more from the recoms. 3. Can't wait until Avatar 3! 4. Enjoy the world of Avatar and all of its main characters (Jake, Neytiri, Spider, Kiri, etc. are all deeply respected in my story!) 5. Like long, very visually descriptive stories

Check it out if you get a chance! And feel free to drop me a line or comment letting me know if you enjoy it! 🥰 Such goes a long way for us writers.

Also... I am working on a sequel 😅

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[tex-treasure-chamber]

In expansion of this Tex & Maxwell SDV post

Decided to explore my OC Maxwell as if he were a SDV resident alongside my S/I Tex who's post can be found here. This what I came up with ♡

Spring -> Summer

Autumn -> Winter

I was able to edit on his freckles but couldn't find a way to edit on his white streaks in so we're just playing pretend they're there ^^,

Name: Maxwell

Pronouns: he/him

Birthday: Winter 17

Profession: He's a marine biology professor and secret wizard, conducting research and writing papers on his findings as well as practicing magic in his spare time.

Personality: Although very friendly and outgoing, Maxwell enjoys his quiet slice of the beach where he can enjoy the sound of the waves crashing to the shore and spend his time researching the animals that live in it.

Housing: he is living on the beach in a cottage on the little secluded side to the right of Elliot's cottage-- the space you typically have to earn a bridge repair for to access but in my version, you don't. He has a table outside his cottage with two chairs and owns a little sailboat docked on the end of the pier (The Jolly Sea Holly). If you become friends enough, you can use his boat to go out and fish in deeper waters.

NOTE: you must be friends first before you can enter his home uninvited. His bedroom, regardless of your friendship points with him, is always locked although if you visit at certain times, you can see Rasmodius or Tex visiting with him inside his bedroom in the chairs in front of his row of bookshelves.

Pets: a female chocolate Labrador named Nemo. She can be seen wandering at different times of the day on the side of the beach where Maxwell lives. There is a doghouse and water bowl beside his house, to the right, although it's really for show since Maxwell brings Nemo inside each night. On rainy days, she lounges around inside his cabin. In the aquarium is a squid (Skipper), a sea urchin (Ripley), a mussel (Hadal) an albacore (Pearl), and a halibut (Captain).

Love interest: Tex (As the player, you cannot romance him- there are no slots for the hearts required to date/marry.) As the player spends time in Pelican Town, Maxwell & Tex's blossoming relationship is meant to be strictly an observable event via walking in on their interactions. They get married in the Winter of year 4 and the player receives an invite in the mail.

Friends & how they bond are:

Tex (wizarding, fishing, science, art, cooking, bibliophile, nature)

Rasmodius (wizarding)

Willy (fishing)

Demetrius (science)

Robin (woodwork artistry)

Maru (science)

Elliot (bibliophile)

Granny Evelyn (cooking)

Gus (cooking)

Leah (woodwork artistry)

Emily (open-mindedness)

He's usually spending his time...

- foraging in the woods, which is the farthest he goes from home but brings him in immediate vicinity of Tex's ranch, Starfell. He says he's just enjoying nature's bounty (but really he's low-key looking for magical ingredients)

- down by the tide pools on his side of the beach, muttering to himself & writing things down on a notepad (he has an animation loop just like Demetrius)

- fishing (has an animation loop like Willy)

- going to the library to read

- visiting Rasmodius (if you visit Ras while Maxwell is there, he gets flustered and adamant about how he's merely asking about the wizard's knowledge of the marine wildlife bc he doesn't want the player to know hes a wizard too LOL)

- in his home, drinking water and going over his notes. He's very chatty when he's inside at this time and will happily talk about the ocean or what he's learned that day bout the local wildlife / his theories about them. Sometimes, you can catch him whittling driftwood (he has a custom animation loop for doing so)

As for Maxwell's schedule, here's a working time table I've come up with:

- Mondays and Wednesdays, he goes out on his boat and is unreachable from 6 AM - 10 AM. (He's transformed himself into a manta ray and is enjoying himself as he should). He then will return to fish on the pier from 11 AM - 1 PM and after that, visits Rasmodius from 3 PM - 5 PM.

- Tuesdays and Thursdays, he studies the beach tide pools from 6 AM - 12 PM, then heads to the library to read from 2 PM- 4 PM.

- Fridays and Saturdays he is out foraging in the woods from 7 AM - 12 PM for food and magical ingredients; after that he will visit with Rasmodius and Tex at Rasmodius' place until 4 PM--- then he's off to go to the bar with Tex.

- Sundays, he fishes from 10 AM - 3 PM (usually keeping Willy company) before sitting in front of his house in one of his little chairs to whittle driftwood with Tex keeping him company as they draw. If it's raining outside, he stays in all day and whittles, again with Tex keeping him quiet company.

Gift guide

Favorite items:

wine (any, but prefers crystal fruit)

crocus flower

coconut

tropical curry

mango

banana

pearl

piña colada

coffee

rainbow shell (for magic)

fish taco

lobster bisque

kyanite (for magic)

Liked items:

fish (any)

oyster

driftwood (for whittling)

spice berry

beer

blackberry

dandelions (for magic)

purple mushroom (for magic)

anchor (for his boat)

baked fish

crispy bass

dish o' the sea

quartz (for magic)

aquamarine (for magic)

pizza

bait (for fishing)

Hated items:

fried calamari

carp surprise

vegetable medley

holly

slime

slate

litter & other universal disliked items

Fun Facts

Maxwell is the only character in SDV that can be seen swimming in the ocean during summer months; he swims in the patch of water just in front of his house on the isolated part of the beach

He has a distinctly Scottish verbiage, saying things like "aye" instead of "yes" and "It's a Bonnie day," instead of "it's a beautiful day" for example

Sometimes on the day after a storm has taken place, Maxwell will excitedly tell the player that he believes he saw a green humanoid creature on the south side of the docks before asking, with an apprehensive look on his face, "You believe me, right?"

After the player earns three hearts, Maxwell will send the player a recipe for tropical curry

The player is able to greet Nemo, Maxwell's dog. Whenever this happens, Nemo barks twice

#ocean man • maxwell #tex talks #let's put a pin in that 📌 #stardew valley oc #*wraps myself up in this* #one for the treasure chamber

[curious-sootball]

Some more Deadlands finale thoughts: what happened to the horses? (and how they sorta helped hide the ending plot twist in plain sight from me.)

Customary Deadlands campaign spoilers warning

No, this isn't a Silas-flavoured conspiracy theory. There are five Horsemen in the campaign, but we only see two horses(or three, if you count the one on M.T. Boudreaux's portrait). Where are the rest? I'm personally very partial to @/a-casual-egg's idea that Horses are in pocket dimensions until their respective riders need them. However, that's also what got me thinking about meta things on my rewatch of the campaign - specifically, Victoria asking the main cast if they know what they brought back to her from the train and Andy's introduction of Ben Bellows: "His horse, its a very light brown color, its almost red". He also mentions that Bellows walks with a slight inward step, but it was the horse description and the fact that I didn't give it much thought the first time around that hit me. Let's put a pin in that for now.📌

So, knowing what we know now, it doesn't seem far-fetched that the horse's appearance is an illusion - its made to look as unassuming as it can. Granted, it may just be a regular horse with an unusual coat, but the first idea seems more likely to me - unlike Victoria, Bellows has acess to his powers: going through the trouble of finding a regular horse(s) of the right color instead of disguising the one he already has doesn't sound like something he would do. Could've been a fun bit of foreshadowing if one or more of the town residents mentioned that the only thing that Bellows likes more than shooting people is his horse. Also, assuming this is true - Bellows seems to be the only Horseman who kept their horse around like that and I find this oddly sweet.

There are next to no mentions of horses in Sublimity Falls - there is one that pulls the senator's carriage, and that's it: Daisy has multiple portraits of herself, but none of those have horses on them(which makes sense: she's posing as the director of the sanatorium and a medical professional, having a horseback portrait of herself would be kind of weird). She probably desummoned her horse to avoid disguising it: ironically, she seems to be the least skilled with illusions among Horsemen. She has to physically hide a giant hole in her skull - I believe if it was something she could've hide with an illusion, she would've done that.

Next, dishonourable judge M.T. Boudreaux: he actually has a horseback portrait of himself! Hanged in a spot where every detained person awaiting trial would see it, no less. I admit, I first thought he was supposed to represent Famine(because of green robes and sickles mounted on his revolvers), and I facepalmed so hard when I looked up the atributes of The Horsemen and saw that Death is often depicted holding brass scales. You know, one of the things Justice is also associated with. Interestingly enough, he seems to have changed the most(compared to his poster) out of the Four - both in appearance and most likely in behaviour(not like you'd actually see this on a poster, though): I still need to look up how hangin' judges work, but I suspect they start out mostly competent and then gradually tighten the legal screws until the town they run starts to dread justice. There must be some passive mind control with a set area of affect at play (like False Hydra's song, which has a set 5 mile effect radius and gets stronger over time) - if even a chill person like Nate put two and two together about how bananas is the justice in Fort Parker, there's no way a whole lot of regular people left someone as unhinged as M.T. Boudreaux in charge of anything. Long story short - not sure if he kept his horse around in disguise, like Bellows, but he seems to be distancing himself from how he initially looked, so desummoning his horse may have something to do with that.

Hildegard Unger - we don't get to see her living space, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't have a horseback portrait of herself: she has this "we're all about reaching into the bright future here" act going on, and horseback portraits seem very old fashioned. I wonder how much she believes her own act - remember how she talks about solving the world hunger when Bison Billy, Edie and Delacy confront her? Yeah. The only horses that get mentioned in her episodes are from Bison Billy's show - and his tent has a horse drawn on its roof; interestingly, Hildegard herself isn't associated with horses at all, so I feel confident that her horse is chilling in the pocket dimension. Or - arguably a darker option - maybe her horse can resurrect itself or get resurrected, sort of like Thor's goats, and she ate it, since she's the Famine. (What if the "wonderful product" that solves the world hunger is just that Horse's meat?)

And that's the Horse theory bit done! Now, to the meta bit, where I try to put my experience watching Deadlands campaign for the first time into words and make sense of it:

📌 Of course Bellows has a cavalry man's gait and rides a red(dish) horse, the foreshadowing was right fucking there!

So I thought: why had I missed it the first time? Apart from the rest of things that happened in that episode - first, I mistook it for a short-term foreshadowing, as opposed to the long-term one: I read The Three Musketeers at sweet impressionable age of 13, so when a horse of an unusual color is mentioned,my initial though is "is that an homage to that particular thing?". I thought it would come up in the episode somehow, and then it just didn't. And second: I skimmed the comment section for those episodes as I first watched them, and it was full of people freaking out over Nate dying(understandable at the time) and different people who kept theorising about Horsemen of the Apocalypse - which sounded like a really far-fetched reaching guess to me back then. It all clicked into place when Andy mentioned in the Q&A that The Horsemen are a big thing in the Deadlands lore (and putting actual Horsemen into the campaign was a bit of a canon crime on his part) - I did not know anything about Deadlands going in; You know the saying "if you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras?" I felt like I stumbled into a zebra believer meeting when i first read those comments. And as the campaign progressed and more bounties were hunted down, I got to the point where I begrudgingly went "damn, the zebra believers were right". I dismissed the foreshadowing almost out of spite.

The sad thing is - it would've been way better if people figured out the plotline and the final twist based solely off the hints in the campaign, as opposed to their knowledge of TTRPG tropes and mechanics. Shifty quest giver isn't the oldest trick in the rulebook, but it is pretty well-known and (relatively)easy to logically figure out, so chances of guessing it early are pretty high. And you guessed it, I almost dismissed this too when I saw it in the comments, until i saw a theory with soundest evidence-based reasoning: "The Red Hand gang implies five fingers, and there are only four bounties. There's gotta be a fifth person, and it is most likely Victoria".

That was the theory that got me thinking "yeah, that makes sense". I thought the twist was going to be that Victoria's story was mostly true - she was one of Red Hand members, decided to quit (maybe disappeared with the gang's whole treasury to fund her new quiet life, as a call-back to Blades in the dark; certainly wronged them somehow), so others found her and killed her husband and son in response to that. I assumed bosses were going to be allusions to The Horsemen - people giving into their worst impulses until they weren't even human anymore.

And then the finale happened and I was floored. My expectations were exceeded, I was on the edge of my seat, I actually gasped when Garnet asked who is Victoria's boss. I may have been told the final destination two episodes in, but actually arriving there was a wild ride and I loved every minute of it. Guess it's about a good execution of a possibly simple core idea. (My only nitpick is the considerably shorter downtime - players even put a lampshade on it a few times; the characters don't get as much time to bond as in DnD or even Blades in the dark, and Victoria saying she grew to view them all as friends rings just a little hollow to me because of that).

#oxventure deadlands #oxventure deadlands spoilers #i'm also not sure what would be more fun - horses having symbolic names or regular horse names

[newhope8]

I will be linking this back to my main pinned 📌 organizational post & starting a new collection called “Story Captions”. I’ve done something like this on AO3 already, so I may or may not migrate those over to my Tumblr at some point.

These 2 are watching you from across the kitchen as you eat your evening meal. 😏 You’re only nervous for just a moment before a hidden, playful, bratty side of your personality makes itself known. You are eating soup and prepare to bring another mouthful of the delicious broth up to your lips when you happen to catch Han Jisungie’s gaze. His eyes smolder into yours from across the room and his pupils start to fully fucking dilate. He man-spreads his legs apart, as far apart as his hip joints will let his legs move, and his tight black trousers do not one FUCKING thing to hide the bulge of his dick, which has started to deliciously outline itself against the pathetic material. Really, those damnable pants are in the fucking way, aren’t they?

Your eyes flicker over to Lee Know, Jisungie’s partner in crime. He tilts his head & regards you with a quiet, yet equally sultry contemplative stare. You have the presence of mind to swallow some air back into your lungs before trying to take a slurp of your soup. Yet to be completely truthful, the only thing you wanted to truly slurp on was resting between Jisungie’s legs. And if he didn’t stop massaging his own dick by bringing his legs together at the knees, squeezing his thighs tightly together, then letting his legs fall open again, you were going to literally scream and pounce on Lee Know instead. (Think of how a woman can press her legs together in public and potentially get herself off by squeeze-clenching her vaginal wall muscles then letting her pussy relax, over and over again {{Kegel exercises anyone??}}. Jisungie is doing something similar in this instance with his dick. The dick would be the pussy & his thighs the vaginal walls themselves. Ah fuck, this may not make sense. Forgive me. 🫣

You subconsciously feel your own eyes dilate in response to Jisungie’s movements. Not to be outdone, Lee Know doesn’t man-spread his legs, yet just lightly runs his hands up and down his toned thighs (which are fuckingly enclosed in equally tight trousers). You feel a sudden blotchy red blush creep up your chest and across the tops of your boobs and suddenly decide ok boys … game on … enough is fucking damnit enough.

Breaking your gaze from theirs, you look down at your soup bowl and load up your utensil. 🥄 You bring the spoon up to your mouth. You let the over-filled soup spoon just linger in front of your lips for what seems like a lifetime, at least as far as Jisungie & Lee Know are concerned. The steaming liquid is inches from your mouth. Even before you return your 1/2-fucked out gaze back to theirs, from your peripheral vision, you see them swallow in unison. You look up again, catching Jisungie’s eyes, then Lee Know’s. You have a sudden spark of boldness and open your mouth wide, way fucking wider than you need to, to consume your soup. You think, ah fuck … if this was that well massaged dick instead of my soup spoon. Giving yourself some courage, you do indeed pretend the spoon is indeed Jisungie’s dick as you put the utensil fully into your mouth and tilt the end of the spoon backwards, letting the warm salty liquid fall down the back of your throat. Slowly dragging it 🥄 out of your mouth, you lick the end of it clean and swallow what soup didn’t make it all the way down. The sight that greets your eyes is more than enough reward for your bravery … for the moment anyhow — Jisungie has both his legs clamped tightly together & both hands pressing hard against his fully hard dick. His eyes are glued to your tits, which are now poking painfully against your fucking bra. Why did you decide to wear one tonight, of all nights? Why … for the love of all that is holy and sacred in this world? WHY? 😩 Lee Know is doing the opposite — his legs are fully splayed open (like how Jisungie was mere moments before) and he is running one hand lightly over his dick, just tap-tap-tapping the end of it through his black pants.

You use your voice for the first time since this entire little episode began. “You want some soup boys?” 😏💦🍵

Seriously, go check out this fan artist’s page on Instagram. Her name on there is riya_likes_coffee_. You will NOT be disappointed. 🔥

@channieandhisgoonsquad and @its-hannjisung — let me know if you see a notification from this @ tag. 🙏🏻💕 Thanks lovelies! 🦋

#stray kids fanfic #stray kids #stray kids fan fic #stray kids smut #fanfic smut #kpop fanfic #kpop fanart #jisung smut #lee know smut

[adafruit]

yaaarrr! a Circuit Pyrate is ready to be your best mate on the hacking seas

⚓️🏴‍☠️🤖🔧💻🔗🐍🔋📚💡🔌✨🌐💬📌🔄🔍💼📊

we recently sold out of our stock of Bus Pirates https://github.com/BusPirate/Bus_Pirate and when we booked a reorder we found it's currently unavailable with no ETA for re-stocking. it made us think about revisiting this design, perhaps using an RP2040 instead: with native USB and CircuitPython and PIO it might be easier to add new protocols! we did do a "Circuit Pyrate" draft many years ago but it was based on the SAMD21 and we quickly ran out of space - another thing the RP2040 would excel at.

parsing data is something that Python does very well, and tannewt already has VT100 control code support for the REPL status bar, so we're having a go at re-implementing the UX in native python by instantiating a secondary 'data only' CDC UART endpoint https://learn.adafruit.com/customizing-usb-devices-in-circuitpython/circuitpy-midi-serial#usb-serial-console-repl-and-data-3096590 The default REPL can then be enabled or disabled with the onboard slide switch.

here's our draft that uses the same sizing and header location but of course all different parts. two challenges: the RP2040 is not 5V-tolerant like the PIC24J but it's also not guaranteed for high speeds, so we put a 1K+3.6V zener diode on the 4 GPIO pins that ought to let it work OK with 3 or 5V devices. secondly, the pin mux distribution for I2C and UART doesnt match the same as the original chip so we may have to PIO bitbang those interfaces. we're going to have to do a bunch of pin twiddling to find out the limitations of this design. we add a separate Stemma QT port, NeoPixel, and LEDs for both power outputs. fun fact, did you know that the bus pirate is CC-0 http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate_v3.6#License a rarely seen license for OSHW!

our current pondering is how to best mimic the 5V tolerant inputs of the PIC24J - the 1K + 3.6V zener will definitely do the job but can slow down the IO quite a bit on those high speed SPI lines. because we want full bidirectional support for each pin and be able to enable/disable optional 10K pullups to 3V (internal) or 5V (external) we can't us the TXS0104 series: has built in un-disableable pullups. this app note has a few tips we're perusing https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/chapter%208.pdf - #11 looks like it may work..any suggestions?

#adafruit #electronics #opensource #manufacturing #womanowned #nyc #technology

[prosperdemeter2]

📝 last thing you wrote

🔥 craziest thing that’s ever happened to you

🍋 favorite genre to read / watch / write

🖇️ what are your favorite asks to answer

💌 why did you start this blog?

📌 what is the fic you’re know for

Last thing I wrote:

Shannon was putting in an earring when she appeared, her familiar gaze observing in a way that made Eddie feel, frankly, uncomfortable. She waited and Eddie waited and finally, she huffed, stepped to the side, and invited him. The door latched behind him and Harvey, from where he was seated at the kitchen table, looked behind Eddie with a frown. “No Chris?” He asked lightly.

“No,” Eddie shook his head and smoothed his hands down his thighs. “No, he’s at home.”

Craziest thing that's ever happened to me

Uh... gosh... idk my life is pretty boring 😅. When we were first visiting Ireland, it was during the Dublin marathon and our hotel was the start and end point and literally every street connecting us to it (and to free parking) was shut down. So we parked in a parking garage only we failed to realize that a bank holiday was the next day and, unlike in the US where federal holidays exist but not much actually closes, like EVERYTHING shuts down in Ireland. So the next day we couldn't get the car out of the garage and we had to go from Dublin to Galway (I think?) to check into our next hotel. The hostel guys gave us the advice of being so annoying that they would have to call the cops on us or would let us take our car to just... get us to go away and it worked 😅. We were on the road to Galway just two hours after we were supposed to leave.

Favorite genre to read/write/watch

I LOVE reading fantasy books. Not always big, epic fantasies - but the softer kind that mesh world building in with complex characters. I wish I could write fantasy as easy as I can read it, but, unfortunately, I've always struggled. I usually write more character introspective stories - my therapist calls them "case studies". 😅

What are your favorite asks to answer?

Literally any of them. The fact that people want to interact at all is crazy to me.

Why did you start this blog?

I don't really have a reason 😂 I had one back when I was in high school that I lost the login to (literally it's prosperdemeter on here. I'm prosperdemeter2 because that blog will forever be immortalized as a Dead Blog) and I came back around mid-pandemic. I think I figured out that there's nothing wrong with being an adult in fandom. Finding joy in the world around you is hard, and if running a little fandom-mesh of a blog helps me find it... that's enough for me.

What is the fic you're known for?

Omg I honestly think it depends on the fandom? My fic with the most stats is still Text Me Quarantine. The links are all broken in it, Pintrest has removed so many of the pins I used to make the jokes, but it got me back into fic writing when the world was such a scary place and helped me connect with so many amazing people across the MCU fandom.

Otherwise, in the 911 fandom, the Rewrite series is where, I think, a lot of people know me from.

#ask tag