#one day perhaps

[lu-sn]

for random braindump, chay and macau being classmates in canon and recognizing each other post season 1 at some family function

congratulations you've revived my macau & chay besties 4evr agenda. this is not quite what you asked for but it is what fell out of my brain 😅

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chay is fresh off of baby's first kidnapping, and porsche sits him down in an interrogation room and slides a picture across the steel desk and goes, "okay, this kid. this kid goes to your school. this kid is also the little brother of the guy who kidnapped you. well, kind of. well-"

"hia," chay says, pinching his nose, "i get it. what do i do?"

porsche grabs him by the shoulders. "do not go near him. don't talk to him. don't even LOOK at him. DON'T-"

chay endures this lecture very patiently and then does actually follow porsche's instructions, because the kidnapping completely scared the shit out of him and now he lives with the mafia and his life is legitimately in danger. he's gonna listen to what porsche says, no questions asked.

and then macau, who has literally never spoken to chay before ever (he has no reason to, he's one year younger and he's not studying music) starts popping up everywhere.

"hey," macau says, leaning precariously over the water fountain to stare at chay, who sprays water in his own face as he jumps six feet in the air before immediately sprinting away.

or, chay turns around in the lunch line and macau is standing right behind him, wagging his eyebrows, and chay lets out a small "eep" and then whirls back around and pretends very hard that macau isn't there.

or! chay is walking to his bus stop and macau is standing there looking at his phone, and this is ridiculous. chay has never seen macau take this bus before! so chay throws his hands up in exasperation and books it for the next bus stop, he's not putting up with this bullshit, no sir.

(macau is absolutely doing it on purpose. he's known about chay for months, but is actually on explicit orders from vegas to not bother or spy on chay in any way. he definitely wanted to help, but vegas didn't want macau to be thinking about that kind of stuff at school.

macau is flouting these orders now because vegas has been banished and porsche had something to do with it and he's hoping at first that he can fish information about all of that out of chay. but now he's in it for the trolling 😂)

macau doesn't know about the kidnapping. he doesn't know how personally chay is taking this — until he spots chay under a tree and saunters over to bother him, except. chay looks fucking wrecked. and like he's trying to hide it.

something clicks for macau. he totally gets it. sometimes you have to have a mafia-related breakdown at school, and all you can do is find a quiet place to have it.

(macau doesn't know chay is sad because of kim, but he doesn't need to.)

so when chay spots him, and tenses, and looks ready to bolt — macau halts and holds his hands up in surrender. then he waves, kind of awkwardly. and he leaves.

this very sudden generosity does surprise chay. and it continues to surprise chay when macau continues to wave at him whenever they see each other, but doesn't try to approach him. chay is still suspicious of macau, but chay is also a nice kid, and macau really isn't doing anything objectionable. so chay starts waving back.

this truce goes on for a while. and sure, chay isn't following the letter of the law anymore, but it's not like he's giving away information. he's not putting anyone in danger. and it's kind of comforting to have this shared understanding with this kid he doesn't even know. they're in the same boat. chay might not be able to talk to him, but chay feels a little less alone.

there's a million ways they could start talking after this. maybe macau just decides to take the plunge and plops down in front of chay during lunch and starts rambling about valorant. maybe macau is searching his pockets for change for the vending machine, and chay watches him do this for like five minutes and decides he needs to put macau out of his misery.

or maybe one of them finds the other having a panic attack in the bathroom, and talks them through it. (they're both better at this than they should be.)

or. maybe it's after the coup, and now macau is the one looking horribly withdrawn and jittery, and chay knows macau's brother is in a coma, and chay isn't feeling particularly happy about his own brother or anyone in the goddamn main family right now. so he says fuck it, and goes over to bump shoulders nonchalantly with macau.

maybe it's all of those. doesn't matter. they become friends. they're both lonely, and they're just too similar. too young, too tied to the mafia, too scared for their brothers, too little control over their own lives.

and it's not like they ever actually talk about being in the mafia. both of them know better than to give secrets away. they mostly just talk about gaming and homework and roast each other's tastes in music, and occasionally they allude to not being able to sleep, and sometimes they stutter to a stop to avoid saying something they shouldn't — but they both know to let it go. no need to fill in the gaps with lies, to pretend like everything is normal and okay.

it's nice. they're chill.

later, when porsche tells him they're having "family dinner" tomorrow night, chay doesn't realize that includes the former minor family, and he DEFINITELY doesn't realize macau is going to be there. which means he isn't prepared for macau to spot him at dinner and grin and start walking towards him, BECAUSE MACAU DOESN'T KNOW CHAY IS STILL BANNED FROM TALKING TO HIM.

chay is frantically gesturing at macau from behind porsche, making shh-ing motions and throat-slitting motions and shaking his head threateningly. and macau stops, puzzled, narrows his eyes — sly grin flickering across his face for a split second — points directly and dramatically at chay and goes "what are YOU doing here???"

chay facepalms.

macau puts a hand over his mouth and gasps. "have you been in the mafia this whole time?" then, louder, "i can't believe NOBODY told me."

"oh god," chay mumbles into his hand.

porsche is watching this go down, totally bemused. (vegas is also watching this go down, except vegas actually knows what's going on and is mostly amused about it.)

"chay," porsche says tentatively, "this is macau, vegas's little brother." then he nods expectantly at chay — like chay is supposed to do something now? is chay un-banned??? when the hell did that happen?

chay sighs. "hi, macau," he says, deadpan.

macau shakes his hand vigorously. "you play valorant?" he asks, like macau doesn't roast chay over vc every night.

"i'm gonna kick your ass to the curb," chay mutters, low enough that only macau can hear him.

"maybe when you get good," macau says, unrepentanly smug.

#there is a good portion of this that was lifted straight from my chay fic #coming to theaters near you never #🥲 #one day perhaps #anyway chay's adrenaline is just going down from having dodged the macau bullet at this family dinner when #kim walks in 😂 #rip chay rest in pieces #does macau immediately clock what's going on? probably not #from his perspective kimchay is probably the weirdest crossover ever #thank you for the ask! this was... very long i apologize #kinnporsche #porchay kittisawasd #macau theerapanyakul #does this count as macauchay? i have no clue #macau & chay #mine: asks #rainy day asks

[psalacanthea]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Hircine (Elder Scrolls)/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Female Nord Character(s) (Elder Scrolls), Original Female Nord Character(s) (Elder Scrolls), Hircine (Elder Scrolls) Additional Tags: Porn With Plot, Hunters & Hunting, Rituals, Rough Sex, Rough Kissing, Mating Bites, Mating Rituals, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Outdoor Sex, Size Kink, Graphic Description Series: Part 1 of The Huntsman and the Wolf-Eyed Witch Summary:

Ronja, newly-homeless hunter is left wandering the mountains in the wake of Helgen's destruction, injured and starving.

Kidnapped by witches of her acquaintance who prey upon her vulnerability, Ronja is nearly sacrificed to the Daedric Prince of the Hunt, the Huntsman Hircine himself. But in a twist of fate, the Hunter frees her and bids her run. She's injured, malnourished, and the one who hunts her is a dark god- there's no hope of escape.

Ronja only has one chance for survival: to make the hunt as pleasing to the Huntsman as possible, by any means necessary.

#Fanfic Friday #digging this up out of the vault #I haven't thought about Skyrim in a while so I haven't been inclined to write any more but #one day perhaps #Nord OC x Hircine #Skyrim fanfic #yes it's just smut

[lilacwiine]

i wish i could pick a guy fc to use without getting the ick after 2 days

#one day perhaps #ooc.

[amadwinter]

4 & 25 please?

For this ask game

4. a story idea you haven’t written yet

So many! But based on a d20 roll.... Oh this is a fun one.

Obi-Wan accidentally gets embroiled in Mandalorian affairs. Again. The Jedi Council implores him to continue with this to prevent the possibility of the rise of another Mandalorian Empire. On one side are the Deathwatch. On the other, pacifists. And in the middle is a man known as Skywalker.

Basically, Obi-Wan works to save Mandalore and the rest of the galaxy from a Death Watch plot to start a new Mandalorian Empire, alongside Mandalorian!Anakin, who Obi-Wan knows is Satine's son... but he doesn't know that Anakin is Satine's adopted son and assumes he's Satine's biological son.... and therefore Obi-Wan's biological son. Does he say any of this aloud? No. But he tries to bond with Anakin in what he assumes is a fatherly way anyway. Anakin assumes it's a romantic tension and well. Comedy. Tragedy. Mostly comedy.

25. besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

Drawing (slowly improving that), cosplay (you can see my cosplay tag which needs more pictures tbh), video games (almost exclusively The Elder Scrolls IV+5, The Sims 4, Jedi: Fallen Order, Jedi: Survivor, and Pokémon up to Gen III), and Dungeons & Dragons (plus a few other TTRPGs)

Thanks for the ask 🧡🧡🧡

#q&a #ask game #i really want to write that fic #one day perhaps

[jaybarou]

I want to write a story where the main religion has a god(s) but it is not a worship-based religion but the opposite.

The creation myth says the god(s) created humans by accident and passed on sentience as a mistake. All the religion's rituals revolve around not being seen, and hiding from the god(s) gaze, because they don't know what the reaction might be. There should probably be a festival where they imitate other animals in different ways.

Of course this means the civilization that they build must be very integrated into their natural area, probably nomadic. They will have quiet ways, and talking or singing loudly should be reserved for emergencies.

#My writing #One day perhaps

[kreftropod]

It's been another one of those years ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Got laid off from work. Said fuck it all and moved into a tiny house in the middle of the forest with my cats. Had some Not Fun mental health stuff happening.

But! In more positive news, I finally after years of struggling got approved for disability aid, just in time for the holidays. So I can finally start breathing again.

Here's hoping for a kinder 2024. Happy new year!

#I wonder what happened in october hmmm #look at me getting back out of my comfort zone I'm proud of myself #also it's an hour past midnight here now so #Happy New Year #hope it's been kinder to yall despite all the shit going on out there #and let's hope for a calm and uneventful 2024 #I want to go back and finish some of the landscape drawings I started a year ago and then forgot about #one day perhaps #kreftropod #kreftropod art #summary of art #summary of art 2023 #art summary #artists on tumblr

[lilflowerpot]

What earth animals is the Rhyahl made out of? Now in the, created from way but looks like way

So first things first, here's the (somewhat abridged) description of the castleship's holographic record of the rhyahl as witnessed by Pidge in Perspectives:

She’s hesitant to call it feline, though anatomically it is, even despite the additional set of limbs, but a more appropriate descriptor eludes her. Pidge watches as the creature prowls—and there’s really no other word for it—towards her with a surety to its gait [...] As it draws closer, what Pidge had mistaken for oddly-textured fur becomes apparent as an armor of little layered scales: wine-dark, translucent, and almost feathered at the edges. They ripple over flesh as it moves, fracturing the light and causing the resultant shadows to converge and swell with each step, [...] Five eyes seems an excessive amount, flowering out from the centre of its flat, shapeless skull in a pattern that’s uncomfortably familiar though she can’t quite place it, each one narrow and slitted: a deep honeyed gash with no discernible pupil. [...] When it unhinges its jaw, it does so to release a great lolling mass of tongues; lengthy feathered things that writhe and coil as if they have a mind of their own, [...] those pale, coiling appendages caress her cheek, her jaw, her throat, until she’s all wrapped up in them and the creature is begging entry against her lips with a melodic crooning. - Perspectives: a Little Blade sidefic, chapter 01

To break it down more explicitly I had to work backwards, because when originally conceptualising the rhyahl I was thinking very much in terms of "what would make this alien beastie sound as deeply unsettling as possible?" rather than actively choosing traits from real-world animals to mash together, but I've found that its key aspects can be closely aligned with the below!

In terms of its general physique, I'd say a mountain lion (bottom left) if mountain lions stood 5ft at the shoulder, and on six legs rather than four; much like a mountain lion, the rhyahl was impressively adaptable, hunting its prey—chiefly the galra, but any living thing would do in a pinch—not only across its primary haunt of Daibazaal's vast desert wastelands, but into its craggy mountains and ancient jungles too! It would certainly have had great big paws to help better distribute its weight on the sand, though much like the galra I'd say these were structured with glaring similarities to camelidae feet.

Rather than fur, however, the rhyahl was covered top to tail in that "armor of little layered scales: wine-dark, translucent, and almost feathered at the edges" that Pidge describes, and I imagined these to look very much like a pangolin's (top left) would if you were to recreate them out of red/purple stained glass. It's tail is similar to that of the ground pangolin in particular—broad/flat/scaled—and could be used as a protective measure against severe sandstorms to shield the rhyahl's singular point of vulnerability (its eyes) by curling up into an armoured ball.

Facially, the rhyahl had no visible ears, discrete nasal slits—from which it could expel air to emit a high frequency cry that induced a hallucinogenic state of paralysis—and five eyes that "[flowered] out from the centre of its flat, shapeless skull [...] each one narrow and slitted: a deep honeyed gash with no discernible pupil" that Pidge describes as being "uncomfortably familiar"; though she cannot place it at the time, its eye-placement reminds her of the druid's masks! This is because the both the Diij and the Drui two of Daibazaal's largest religious sects traditionally wore the skulls of deceased rhyahl, and later, after Alfor destroyed Daibazaal and all the rhyahl along with it, took to fashioning masks in the same style (with the few surviving skulls being considered sacred relics in the modern day).

Finally, we come to the rhyahl's most distinct (and horrifying) feature: it's mouth and numerous feathered tongues. As illustrated in my original post on how the rhyahl consumes quintessence, Daibazaal's apex predator had "no fangs to speak of, but rather a rigid calcification that lined its jaw and served to clamp its prey in place without puncturing it and risking too swift a death, allowing for it to feed off its live victim’s quintessence. This absorption of quintessence was a result of the tiny pinprick barbs of the Rhyahl’s feathered tongue—which would be inserted into its prey’s mouth—piercing the vulnerable interior lining of its throat and draining the cells of their very life energy."

As to how this translates to real-world animals, the closest comparison I could find for the concept of the rhyahl having (numerous) feathered tongue(s) was that of the pallas longe-tongued bat's (top right) lingual papillae:

"[Glossophaga soricina has] a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair-like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower [...] the bat’s cylindrical tongue has a mesh of muscle fibers that contract so that the tongue becomes thinner but longer, extending farther into the flower, [...] the same muscle contraction simultaneously squeezes blood into the tiny hair-like papillae. As blood is displaced to the tongue tip, the papillae flare out perpendicular to the axis of the tongue, and in their erect state they not only add exposed surface area, but also width, allowing the tongue to function as a highly effective nectar gathering device."

The above, combined with the rhyahl's capability to unhinge its jaw like a snake, means that the scale of its prey does not pose an issue, and I've specifically chosen the rhombic egg-eater (bottom right) for its likeness due to the fact that they don't have any teeth! Also, the lining of that little guy's mouth being black is just a really cool detail that I've now decided is true of the rhyahl too, as it fits in with my previously mentioned thoughts on the colour black being divine—as, remember, the rhyahl was considered sacred!—while providing a stark contrast against the ghostly hue of those "pale, coiling [tongues]" with white being an especially ominous colour, denoting the antithesis to everything Sa represents.

#I think this is about as comprehensive a description as I can manage without drawing it myself #which i //have// tried to do but those scales were a NIGHTMARE so i gave up lmao #one day perhaps #another longass post because of course it is but at this point do you really expect anything less from me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Ao3 Little Blade #sa screams back #galra history & culture

[bandzboy]

i genuinely wanna get to a point in my life that the only i have is whether i am gonna win a grammy or not

#honestly like... #one day perhaps #tris.txt

[pandora15]

(spoilers for tears of the kingdom below!)

hmmmmmm so I have to wonder given what we know about totk and everything

in the age of calamity timeline where calamity ganon is defeated 100 years earlier because of ✨wibbly wobbly time-y wime-y stuff ✨

ganondorf's body is still held beneath the castle by rauru's hand, right? i have to wonder if the events of TOTK still happen in that timeline, or like.

if it does end up happening over 100 years after the events of age of calamity (we have to assume that rauru's hand would drop after the same amount of time in both timelines) and if zelda and link aren't alive or even just not exploring beneath hyrule castle then,,,,,

idk why i'm thinking about complex time travel and parallel universes when my brain already hurts but. here i am?

also i think this would be an interesting fic idea but alas i'm struggling with writing a simple post-totk oneshot atm so.

#i guess this is my first of many totk posts where i talk about spoilers #but i just thought about this #like what do the events of totk mean for the age of calamity timeline? #i think it would be a really fun fic to write #one day perhaps #or if someone else wants to write it please do! i am a very slow zelda fic writer akfdslasdfkljlaf #i'm also a very slow fic writer in general these days #anyways #pandora's ramblings #tears of the kingdom #tears of the kindom spoilers #totk #totk spoilers #loz totk #loz totk spoilers #legend of zelda #age of calamity #hw aoc

[sucktacular]

Shower good. 👍👍👍

In bed now. Considering making a hot bowl of instant noodles ...

#sucktacular sucks #man i wish i had chicken wings so bad... #id go comatose for realsies after tho and ive got stuff to do later jfjsnfn #also listening to my angsty teen music and just mm 💕💕 #RED i know youre singing about Jesus and stuff but Not To Me youre not. 💕💕💕 #christian rock didnt need to go so hard #but they did and its so hopeless romantic my existence is nothing without you -core #my only regret in life is i never did a Beyond Birthday x L Lawliet slide show/amv yo any RED music #or even The Birthday Massacre #and thats really sad #i failed myself #(<- saying jokingly) #but if i ever do make a new video i def wanna do one for RED or TBM or even Breaking Benjamin #one day perhaps #i dont think ill use fan art unless its painstakingly sourced and i ask the artists permission #but i can def see myself trying to do some kind of still image slide show with my own art #but id have to story board that out and draw it all and thats. so much... #but man i was really inspired by reggi's collab #anyway

[riddleseth]

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#lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk sun wukong #lmk monkey king #lego monkey kid macaque #lmk macaque #lmk six eared macaque #I was going to outline and colors these #but I didn’t want to #so I didn’t #one day perhaps

[johnbly]

have been trying to figure out how to display the norringhat + wig + wizkids card for ages and finally realized i could use this spare wooden block

#i may eventually do something for the wizkids interceptor but she's currently perched on top of the hornblower books #chilly crafts #tho i did not craft the block itself of course #altho it would be cool to know how to do stuff with wood #one day perhaps

[positivelyghastly]

Water and air ghouls with floaty wispy hair that moves on its own. Send tweet

#the band ghost #shitghosting #nameless ghouls #again using my blog to record my 2am character design notes #I am also thinking about un-glamoured ghouls #big demonic monstrous things with many teeth and claws #if only I had the time and the patience to draw them #one day perhaps

[theghostofwilburtheworm]

Sundrop from security breach perhaps? :D (for the drawing requests)

Yeaaaah!!! :D

#i love drawing sundrop sm :] i just havent had the time to make a full drawing of em #one day perhaps #asks #doodle requests

[scentedcandlecryptid]

what I’ve learned over the last few days is that I am incapable of drawing dragons, which is disappointing since dragons are awesome.

#one day perhaps #I am however decent at drawing lizards that we can collectively pretend are dragons #i'll just say theyre dragons #and you all will have to trust me

[fenixburnedarchived2]

god rio & kat mentioning the hellshow just makes me think about how deeply traumatic that experience was for matthias again :)) as bad as the whole time as prisoner was - matthias has a deep love for animals & killing them is perhaps the worst part for him. the wolves in the actual scene are a special kind of cruelty with the reminder of trassel ever present & he'll never truly forget that moment or be over it.

#tbd #i should sleep but i could write a whole meta about how much this hurt him 😭😭 #like we're talking about the boy who chose the most feral wolf pup & let him bite his hand bloody until trassel accepted him :))) #& even from nina's perspective we witness how much he struggled with killing those wolves #i am just very sad #i could also write about how hellgate will always affect him in the way he's sleeping etc #one day perhaps #for now i'm just *incoherent screaming noises* #fuck #tw: animal death #tw: animal harm