#or I do but it's a name I've already used for something else. whoops. :)

[wolves-in-the-world]

grimly coming to realise that there is no good Ao3 tag for just writing whatever the fuck I want to write, kicking it out into the world, and calling after "it's not romantic, though!"

#I've found two drafts I'd forgotten about in the past few days and both of them have this problem #tbh it's okay if people do read it as romantic I'm just not entirely convinced it looks enough like that? #and as much as I could tag it queerplatonic a) I feel like that tag's valuable for more... consciously queerplatonic things and #b) as much as I like the term queerplatonic and find it useful sometimes you just. don't want categories. #and sometimes you (I) have very strong opinions on certain things not having to be romantic or even queerplatonic to be allowed #anyway tags like ''ambiguous relationship'' and ''these specific characters share a bed'' are gonna do a lot of heavy lifting #because if there is a tag for self-indulgently writing relationships however the heck you want to write them I do not know it #this is a very specific line of overthinking and I'm giggling a lot #also. yes. I know I could get away with tagging fics less; will remind myself of that. #don't mind me #the REAL problem is the draft that's closer to being ready to share is one I don't have a name for #or I do but it's a name I've already used for something else. whoops. :)

[t4llhum4n]

So. It's time to fulfill my promise about Porter lmao.

Theory (and spoilers for Vincent and Sam's playlists as well as Sam's bonus scene) will be below the cut.

Well, at least we know now that he isn't Hush's brother.

In all seriousness though, I had no idea how to approach a theory about this guy that hasn't already been shouted from the rooftops on tumblr. So, I started with the bonus scene, and upon relistening, I heard something that I found.. odd.

Why, and how, was Porter the one texting Sam?

Everyone that I've seen is talking about Vincent and Porter's history (which is something I ended up doing too whoops), so with this, I want to theorize about Sam and Porter's (potential) history. Bear with me, I kind of lost interest in the Solaire's storylines in light of things like the Balance and Carpe Deus, so I might mess some things up lmao.

I've seen, and agree with, the "Porter is Alexis' progeny" theory, at least at its basic level. I do think that Porter was potentially turned by Alexis, hence the "Solaire," but I'm wondering if his situation wasn't closer Sam's than we originally thought. Let me cook real quick.

We don't know how old Porter is. We don't know when Porter was turned. Hell, we don't even know if this guy was empowered or not (different can of worms, I'm putting that aside). All we have is that he uses the last name "Solaire" and that he has Sam's contact information. Admittedly, we don't know much about Alexis past her age, but for the sake of this theory, that's all we really need.

If Alexis has been a vampire for over fifty years, and Sam has been a vampire for under twenty, then that leaves a little over thirty years where Alexis' could've been fucking around and finding out. The thing that people (including myself) tend to forget when thinking about Sam's turning is that Alexis knew how to do it. Sure, it was done to her by William, but we know from the timeline that she was badly injured when she was turned, so she probably didn't learn it just from that first instance. Furthermore, considering that she has been described as "difficult" and "a hellion" along with the fact that she was apparently so awful that William swore he'd never turn another person again, I'm guessing that she didn't study up on vampires and how they work.

So, what else is there? Hands-on experience; the best teacher. Enter, Porter. I'm not going to give an estimate of his age beyond "older than Sam," because an exact number doesn't really matter for this. I am, however, going to do what I do best, and point out parallels that I've noticed. Namely, the parallels between Fred and "Bright Eyes'" turning, and Sam's own experience with turning.

Time for a quick run-down for those who aren't too familiar with the Fred/"Bright Eyes" storyline! Basically, Quinn leaves both Fred and "Bright" on the brink of death. Sam sees Fred, turns him to save his life, and then tells Fred how to turn other people so he can save "Bright," which he does. From there, Sam takes on both vampires as his own, seeing as Fred is too inexperienced with, well, everything, to be a proper Maker. He teaches them for a couple of years, and then lets them go off on their own once he thinks they're ready. And at the end of it all, Fred decides to take Sam's last name.

Cool, great recap, but why am I bringing it up? Well, let's look over to Sam's story real quick. He was turned, though against his will, by Alexis, someone who we can infer isn't responsible enough to be a proper Maker. We know that once William caught wind of the full situation, he took matters into his own hands, separated the two, and set Sam up in a cabin on his own, as per his request. Knowing William, he most likely offered more help, but knowing Sam, he probably declined, and opted to live alone comfortably on the edge of the territory. In both situations, we have someone who can't or isn't a good Maker, and said vampire's Maker taking responsibility for their progeny's progeny.

What if this isn't William's first rodeo with caring for one of Alexis' progeny? What if Porter was one of Alexis' first progeny, with circumstances being similar to that of Sam's turning, and William took him under his wing? The difference this time, though, is that Porter accepted William's offer of more help. Now, this could be because William heard about Porter's situation sooner after it happened, or that Porter was unempowered and had no clue about anything -- either way, this next claim stands. What if Porter took the name "Solaire" from William, not Alexis?

If this is true, it would explain two things; 1) why Porter has Sam's number, and 2) why Porter and Vincent were at odds. The first reason is kind of self-explanatory. If Porter heard about what happened with Sam and Alexis via someone else in the clan and he empathized with it, then he probably would've reached out to offer support. What became of him reaching out could be a number of things, but it ended with the two of them exchanging contact information, and that's why Porter has Sam's number.

Now, on to the rockier claim. Let's start with this: I'm going to say that Porter is older than Vincent. If we run with the assumption that what I said earlier about William and Porter's relationship is true, Porter would've seen William as his true Maker, despite William not being the one to turn him. So, when Vincent gets turned, and William starts devoting his time to him, we can assume that Porter might get a little jealous. And that jealousy grew over time, especially because Vincent kept refusing the help that William was offering. He had the privilege of actually having a good and competent Maker, and he was spitting in his face? If what I theorized about Porter's past is true, then it's natural that that would irk him.

He kept it under wraps, though, and it got easier to tolerate Vincent; especially when he put his pride away and stopped being so difficult. But part of him was always stewing with jealousy. Now, I'm not saying that jealousy is the only reason why Porter and Vincent got into a fight that almost resulted in their deaths. I think that there was something that initiated it. Maybe it was something one of them said or did to the other -- I'm not sure. That being said, whatever it was brought all that jealousy to a head, and that's why they fought.

I don't know though! And I'm more than open to other interpretations. I have a few floater thoughts if we look at Porter in a more sinister light (e.g. Alexis and Porter are close and he got the number from her right before he sent the text), but I hadn't seen anyone make him out to be more sympathetic yet, so I decided to go that route! I hope you enjoyed this mess of a theory, and as always, if you notice any plotholes or have any evidence that contradicts this, please let me know :)

#i didn't promise this forever ago what do you meannn?? #at least i did it tho #redacted audio #redacted asmr #redactedverse #redacted theories #redacted sam #redacted vincent #redacted william #redacted alexis #redacted porter #gonna wait until the ea is public before i write my theory about all that #because sheesh #there is so much to unpack there

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for abandoning my homecoming date (who is a senior) and putting her dad in jail?

I (15M) know this sounds bad, and I definitely feel like TA here, but my friend doesn't think so, so I decided to come on here and see what other people think.

So I've had this crush on this girl for a while who I'll call L (17F). We have some classes together and are both a part of the Academic Decathlon Team so I guess you could call us school friends? I mean she isn't really my friend but she knows me—or well she knew me. I'm getting off track here.

I had some after school activities that included this internship with a really big name company, meaning I had to quit all my clubs for it. Now, I've been trying to prove myself to the person who hired me for the internship, T (Adult M). I found something big that I brought to his attention. I saw some criminals doing criminal things but like with this crazy alien tech. So I told him and he ignored me because I'm just a kid and it wasn't that important.

I decided to re join the Decathlon Team as they went on a trip for a tournament so I could spy on the criminals. L was happy I was there. Which already made me feel really bad because I ended up ditching her and everyone else on the team at the last minute.

I managed to find out who the big leader of the criminals were and tried to confront him. Turns out that T had called the FBI on them and did listen to me after all. Whoops. The big boss dude got away and I got scolded... to the point where I lost my internship. I decided to move on and focus on school.

Homecoming arrived and I worked up the courage to ask L out and she said yes! Even after I ditched her earlier... She is honestly so nice and deserves better than me but thats what this is about I guess. I arrived at her house ready to take her to homecoming and met her dad. Who just so happened to be the leader of the criminals I let get away.

Long story short I couldn't just let him go, so when I walked her inside the school I told her I was sorry and immediately left to go arrest her dad.

It was her last year in high school and I ruined her senior homecoming, not to mention was a jerk during the Decathlon tourney. Aaaand put her dad in jail (she doesn't knoe about that though). My friend said I did what needed to be done but I still feel awful. AITA?

#aita #am i the asshole #unreality

[autisticblueteam]

Appears from the ether again, after months of only being present enough to fill my queue up, with some WIP snippets from the gen:LOCK re-write I mentioned before...

And also finally adressing these tags lmao, sorry @thesouppond I realise these are like 3 months old.

#FUCK IM JUST SEEING THIS NOW???#FUCK YEAH 2024 SEASON OF EVERYONE GETS TO REWRITE GENLOCK CAUSE FUCK S2#Ahem anyway hi genlock moot :)))#I love your writing btw! Ive read your existing GL fics theyre great!#at this point if someone can give me a GL fic i havent already met I will forever be indebted to you i am DYING for GL content

We're really out here trying our best to do better by GL than HBO did huh!! I've been loving Reloaded, it was so nice to see someone else pop up in the gL tag after it was comparatively dead for so long. I've been working on my re-write since just after s2 came out and it was lonely in there for a while there lmao.

So I'm glad you enjoyed the couple of fics I've already done! I'm re-using parts of one of them for the actual re-write since I'm going for the 'keep the basic bones of s2 but aim to fix the execution into something less shit/re-work the worst bits' and I didn't want to write that first nemesis fight over again from total scratch lmao...

I want to finish writing all of the re-write before I post it in full, but that does mean it's taking forever whoops.

I'm still not past the introduction of Sinclair as his portion is so involved and I keep getting distracted by other projects/hobbies, but I did finally get to a point where my take on Sinclair is actually fun to write! I'm keeping his boyfriend because I did at least like that Sinclair was made canonically queer and they're actually cute when I'm just doing my own thing.

So since I feel like posting some WIP bits, here's my favourite Chris/Sinclair stuff I've done so far.

“YEAH! Take that you fucked up tin can!” Sinclair winced. The shout was like an ice pick being driven into his skull, but it was also what finally drove him to lift his head. There ahead of him, wielding a large piece of debris in one hand, was a heavyset Asian man dressed in torn clothes and covered in grime. He reared back, and for a split second Sinclair thought that projectile was for him, until he heard an impact, and the last of the humming died. The man brushed off his hands, pride written on every feature, and in that moment he was the most beautiful thing Sinclair had ever seen. “Coast’s clear!” the stranger called behind him. There was movement, but Sinclair didn’t care to look, his attention caught by the man’s approach. “And we’ve got a live one.” Sinclair’s throat was so dry he broke down coughing twice, in the time it took the stranger to kneel in front of him. “I-I’m not Union. I-I know— with the uniform, and the—” Another violent burst of coughing cut him off. The stranger handed him a canteen and a crooked smile. “Yeah, no shit. You’ve got way too much emotion on your face to be even a defector,” he said, and if Sinclair wasn’t so busy chugging the offered water, he might have mustered a laugh. “That, plus, the lack of helmet, the collapsing, and the drone getting ready to turn you into a novelty cheese grater kinda gave it away.” “Christ, I could kiss you right now,” Sinclair blurted and then regretted in quick succession. Fuck. He’d been in near solitary too long, his filter had worn away to nothing and he was making a damn fool of himself in front of the first sane people he’d seen in weeks. Except the stranger just… laughed, good-naturedly. “Close, the name’s Chris, not Christ. And I’d say buy me dinner first, but it’s a bit hard out here.”

AND then a little later...

“What about the refugee railroads?” Chris lowered his beer bottle and wiped his mouth. “Too far.” “Vanguard safe crossings?” “Too far.” “The— fucking Canadian border?” Chris laughed, “Too far. Further than either of the other things. Jesus, dude. You sure you haven’t got a concussion?” “Mostly,” Sinclair said, rubbing his face with his intact hand. “I just— you’re going to die if you stay here. A drone only has to get lucky once.” “And if we go deeper in, we’ll only die faster,” Chris said with a simple shrug. “We already have to pack up and move every few weeks when the line moves. And every time, the Polity border gets a little bit further away. Believe me, man, I want nothing more than to get outta here, but it’s just not happening.” “What if I helped?” The offer fell out before he’d consciously decided to make it, but Sinclair stood by it. Even when Chris looked at him dubiously. “No offence, dude, but you’re just one guy. And two days ago you could barely stand.” “And now I’m fine,” Sinclair insisted. “I’m a soldier. I was decorated for valour after I got my squad out of a run-in with the Union that should’ve killed us all. I was the only one who could even still hold a gun. I swear, I could get you somewhere safe. Are you really telling me you’d rather keep sitting around waiting to die than take a risk?” Chris’s brow furrowed, and he didn’t answer immediately, taking another swig from his scratched up bottle of beer. Sinclair sighed. “Look. I need to get to a Vanguard base one way or another. I don’t want to leave you guys behind if I don’t have to. I owe you my life. And maybe dinner.” Chris almost choked on his drink. “Wow,” he laughed, clearing his throat, “you sure pick your moments, huh?” Sinclair shrugged. “Figure if you’re not actually into it I’ll just blame the concussion.” “That you don’t have.” “Exactly.” Chris rolled his eyes, but he was smiling. “Smooth. Smooth operator. Alright, alright, fine, we’ll talk to the others in the morning. It might be a tougher sell when they’re not the ones getting dinner with a hot soldier out of it, but hey, guess we’ll see.” “Are you looking past the just-got-done-being-tortured chic, here, or is that part of the charm?” “Are you kidding? There’s a whole genre focused on how hot soldier guys look after they’ve been through hell.” “Not sure that’s the intended takeaway of action movies.” “Well,” Chris shrugged, starting to pick at a can of food, “it was definitely my takeaway.” Sinclair laughed. Honest-to-god laughed, in a way he was surprised he was even capable of after the last few weeks. The normality of the moment was like a balm on all the aching parts of him, mental and physical alike. For a moment he could almost forget that the reason he looked like shit was because he’d just escaped the worst experience of his life. For a moment it felt like the fight was over.

Now I just have to actually get through the remainder of my Sinclair set-up and then I'll be only one chapter away from finishing the first half of the fic... so close and yet so far lmao.

#blue is a writer #fic: the only me is me #gen:lock #each part is meant to be like a single season. so part 1 is like a new season 2 and part 2 is like a season 3 #and if i ever actually finish this. i might plan out a 'season 4' #the ending i have planned sets me up for it #i have grand ambitions and so little ability to sit down and just get it done LMAO

[moyokeansimblr]

La Fiesta Tech Dormie Pool

Something new today, I tried my hand at making a townie/dormie pool! Crossing my fingers nobody did this already but I couldn't find it anywhere so I made it.

I play with clean templates so my La Fiesta Tech had no dormies. So I extracted the appearance of & recreated the original 50 (yes, fifty) LFT dormies! 🎉

I gave everybody a cellphone and any information the wiki had on them such as LTWs and Interests if they had them. Names will be randomized when you add the pool but you can change them with simpe back to their originals.

The 15 Secret Society members have the appropriate token, but I did not test to see if they actually are really members whoops. Also, I may or may not have fixed LaShanda's broken face.

Keep in mind they're pictured here with my default skin and eyes.

To use the dormie pool, place the ULFD folder into either

C: > Program Files (x86) > Origin Games > The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection > University Life > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate

or C: > Program Files (x86) > EA Games > The Sims 2 > The Sims 2 University > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate

or if you have your game installed somewhere else, so long as it winds up in the neighborhood template folder of your university EP.

After that, add it like a normal university. After you add it, you can delete it (provided it's not the only unversity) and the dormies will stay. I feel like I explained that terribly so let me know if I'm not making sense 😂

✨ As I've never done anything like this before I highly recommend adding it to a test hood before you add it to your main game. Don't forget backups! 🙏I warned you! 💕

Download La Fiesta Tech Dormie Pool on Patreon (FREE)

But please consider donating if you like what I do so I know! 🙏

Enjoy! Let me know if anything is wrong!

#moyokean #dl:tp #sims 2 #the sims 2 #ts2 #thesims2 #s2cc #ts2cc #sims 2 cc #sims 2 download #download #ts2 download #sims 2 dormie pool #dormie pool #la fiesta tech dormies #la fiesta tech

[queen-shiba]

The Tail in the Walkway

Author's note: Shiba was just bored

@duskymrel @killersweetie @leonistic @vtoriacore @raggstorice @red-viewe

Walking into the botanical gardens, Reign could see the abundance of plant life, all well taken care of.

"Damn, this is nice." She mused as Grim examined everything from her shoulder.

Everything was pretty lax...

Until she felt a little lump under her shoe.

Of course, she kept walking, thinking nothing of it.

A figure sat up from the lush plant life off to the right, clearly in a very... foul mood...

"Hey! You got some nerve steppin' on my tail and just walkin' away!" He called, making Reign stop and turn.

"Oh...! Sorry, I didn't realize. I'll try to be more careful next time." She made an attempt to apologize to him.

"Ain't nothin' worse than bein' in the middle of a good nap and havin' some jerk step on your tail..." He snarled, "And sorry ain't gonna fix it..."

At that, Reign put her hands on her hips, "Well alright, ya pompous bastard. Whatchu want me to do? I said sorry." She nipped at him, "Plus, you're the one who had your tail in the walkway anyway!"

Another rich kid to deal with... just great...

It was nice that she'd used her hoodie to hide any signs of being female from everyone. The hoodie was EXTRA big to hide her bust.

Luckily, she wasn't menstruating either, so he wouldn't know.

"Hm..? Oh.. I know you.. You're that herbivore from orientation who couldn't use magic."

"And what about it...?"

Was he gonna try something...!?

He came in close and began to sniff at her.

Now that... that was too close...

In retaliation, Reign immediately punched him square in the nose, eliciting a grunt of pain from him.

He covered his nose, drawing back from her quickly.

"WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM, HUH!? YOU BARELY KNOW ME AND YOU'RE ALREADY ALL UP IN MY SHIT!!" She snapped at him.

It was clear she wanted him to keep his distance...

A rather jumpy herbivore wasn't she...

Of course, Leona had no idea that was a she.

No one did.

It was a he to everyone else.

"First... you step on my tail... Then.. you have the gall to hit me.."

Looking at his hand, he could see blood was dripping from his nose...

The herbivore hit hard, that was for sure.

"That's gonna cost you a few teeth..."

Reign stiffened, but didn't move back, "Excuse me...?"

Oh, that... that pissed her off...

She immediately shoved him, beginning to speak with anger, "You're the one who got too close while being all threatening! What were you expecting, huh?" She questioned, "Me to roll over like a puppy in training!? Wrong student! It's like every single last one of you are thoughtless ass holes who can't just resolve shit peacefully!"

This herbivore had balls!

No one ever had the bravery to act like this.

It was... irritating almost... but a bit respectable...

He was just about to speak again and give her hell before hearing his name.

"Leona! There you are!" A hyena came running over.

"Heh?" Leona turned

"I knew I'd find you here! We got after-school classes today, remember?" Ruggie crossed his arms.

"Ugh... And now I've got this guy on my tail..."

"Leona, you've already had to repeat one year. If you get held back again, we'll be in the same grade!"

"Oh, put a sock in it already. I'm tired of all yer yappin', Ruggie." The lion huffed at him.

"Look, you think I like always being on your case?" Ruggie threw his hands up, "C'mon, man. You act like it'd be hard for you. You could skate through life if you'd just TRY. Come on! Let's go already!"

"Hrmph.."

They both began to walk away, but Leona made sure to get a few more words in.

"You got off easy this time! But next time you won't be so lucky!"

Reign gritted her teeth, "I shoulda whooped his ass..."

The End!

#twst #twisted wonderland #savanaclaw #twst mc #twisted wonderland mc #leona kingscholar #twisted wonderland oc #twst oc #twst fic #twisted wonderland fic

[sunnytastic]

I’m very very new to the always sunny fandom and I stumbled across a post of yours about macdennis and your prefaced it with saying rob is a loser and people in the tags were agreeing/saying they’re a rob hater and hate to give him praise/credit. My question is, why does everyone hate rob? Is it because of the offensiveness of the show or something else? When I say new I mean like this week new so I really don’t know anything about the actors/creators. Thank you very much for any information you can give me, it’s greatly appreciated. ❤️

omg hi!!! welcome! sunnyblr is by far the best fandom i ever been a part of. i hope you have as much fun as i do.

something very unique about sunny is how integral the creators are to the lifeblood of the show. rob, charlie, and glenn (rcg) are not simply it's creators, they are the show themselves. sunny was born out of rcg's desire to give themselves the opportunities they wish they were being offered. before sunny, none of them had any major roles or been a part of a hit production. and so they a created a show, written by them, starring them with themselves being the target audience. and it has turned into the longest running live-action sitcom on television, with one of the most passionate and involved fanbases (i can not stand the sunny sub reddit but no one can deny their love for the show).

beyond rcg themselves, sunny is an important part of the lives of their closest family and friends. rob met kaitlin olson, the actress who plays dee, on the show and they are married now. charlie's wife, mary elizabeth ellis, plays the waitress, and jimmi simpson, his old roommate, plays liam mcpoyle. david hornsby, one of the funniest people alive and the actor who plays rickety cricket, was very close friends with rob, glenn, and charlie long before the show started and is also one of the head writers for the show.

also, and, this isn't quite relevant to the rest of this response, but if you do continue down the sunny rabbit hole, you will find that six names repeatedly pop up in terms of episode writers: rob mcelhenny, charlie day, glenn howerton, david hornsby, scott marder, and rob rosell. you will also notice that during seasons 13 & 14, arguably sunny's weakest seasons, glenn howerton, scott marder, and rob rosell were absent from the writer's room, which really speaks to how enmeshed sunny and it's writers are.

ok so here is the thing about rob... i've written about this before but rob is both overwhelmingly confident and deeply insecure, which are two sides of the same coin. funny enough, i think rob would be the first person to agree with me on this statement. he's said many times that he knows he walks around with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove. most times, this attitude works in his favor. he is passionate, determined, and persistent, and every person in his life will speak to how great of a leader and friend he is.

but sometimes, I find it very easy to get frustrated with rob because he will say something and I will be hit with how much he has become the hollywood he was originally very critical about. with charlie and glenn, there is less of the feeling that hollywood "got" them. he is also the most defensive about sunny's use of blackface (& other racial caricatures), a decision I already vehemently dislike made worse by rob's attitude of "whoops, just a little mistake we made."

but then again, he has given one of the most nuanced and heartbreakingly real portrayals of a gay man in television, while also still being very funny in the process. in another of his shows, mythic quest, the only romantic pairing in the entire show is a lesbian couple, who get together very early on and avoid the stereotypical catty behavior seen in most tv lesbian couples.

so my feelings on rob are very mixed. on one hand, i am in awe of his creative talent & artistic direction and grateful for his fight for better queer representation. on the other, he can be so irritating i find myself wanting to bang my head against the table.

i hope this answer is helpful! if you have any more questions, any sunny blog and I would be happy to answer them. if you are looking to learn more about the show, i highly recommend listening to the always sunny podcast. rob, charlie, and glenn talk about the show episode by episode, often bringing in other cast members to join them. while they don't always stay on topic, you will definitely see how much this show means to them and how much of their personalities are reflected in the characters.

#another day another overly long response to an ask #i hope this doesn't sound patronizing because that is not my intention at all #isa x sunny #isa x asks #rob mcelhenney #charlie day #glenn howerton #its always sunny in philadelphia

[mrchaosman]

Hahahahaahahaahahahaahaaaaaaaaaaa.

????: Sup, fools.

Susie: Who the hell are you?.

????: Well, I'm known as Creative Evil Empirical Prideful Amazing Brand overall Tyrant.

But........

You babies can call me.....

(Take a bite of the apple).

Creepa-bot (or creepa for short).

Susie: Like Hell we Gonna you that, Creative.......Empirical........

(More monitors with "Creepa" written on it).

Creepa: Creepa, remember that name well.

Susie: well, look "Creepa"

We are not babies.

Creepa: Teenagers are technically a babies but a bit intelligent (and Adults are even more intelligent Babies)

(Two monitors appears, one has "IDIOT" written in the screen and other has "LARGE IDIOT" written in the screen).

Susie: ......... isn't that make a baby too?.

Creepa: Hell Nah, I'm a computer (VERY SMART AND HANDSOME).

Susie:....Wait, WHAT?.

Creepa (flies away): Well, That's Cool and All but I have to go now (goodnight kids).

Susie: Wait, WAIT, Why'd You Captured Noelle?.

Creepa (returns to where he appeared): I also planned to capture you too but I ran out of cages (damn, that's sucks).

Susie: Angry, Why the CAPTURING-.

Creepa: so she become my loyal peon.

For my Plan to Taking Over The World.

Also, I might make her a "Creepafied".

Susie: WHAT, WHY???.

Creepa: Sounds cool.

Susie: well, Forgot it, Man.

No one is gonna turn anyone into a weird-looking robot.

Creepa: That Sound like a good peaceful way.

Susie: HUH??..

Creepa: Wanna a battle, Fatass?.

Susie: YES, YES DAMMIT, YES.

Creepa (flies away once again): ok, Goodbye.

Susie: WAIT, WAIT A FREAKING MINUTE YOU-

Creepa: Sorry, I don't have time for that (I was about to kick Your Ass).

But maybe I have some guys who can play with you.

(The mind-control devices floating above two NPCs before taking over them).

(Battle begins).

Creepa: Have fun (Bye).

Creepa: alright, Noelle, do you accept to be my faithful loyal peon?.

If you do, I'll free you.

Just press the correct answer button.

Noelle: I... I'm Scared.

Creepa: Did You even log in a form like this before (OMG XD).

Noelle: No, it's everything else that's scary.

Creepa: Please fill this list out of the following emotions.

I already told you that being a Peon is really AWSAOME.

Susie: Noelle.

Noelle: S... Susie!?.... Kris!?.

Susie: Don't Worry, We won't let you become robotfied.

Noelle: THAT'S... SOMETHING THEY GOING TO DO?!?!.

Susie: Whoops, though. Uh, You Already know that.

Creepa: Well look at this, You Just Ruined the surprise.

Well Then.

(A rotor appears above the cage and flies away, taking Noelle with it).

Susie: W-Wait---!!.

Creepa: What a mess.

The peon must be "willing" to guide in the World Domination.

If only she had a fellow Peons to encourage her.

Susie:.........So?.

Creepa: So, You "fellas"

Hey.

Are you like.

...

Doing anything now?.

Ralsei: We aren't going to help you.

Creepa: Understood (activating mind-changing protocols).

(A butler falls from the sky with a plate in his hand, he pulls the cover and reveals a giant game console and then leaves).

Susie: a giant game console.

Creepa: I decided to humiliating you in a simple Children's way.

With some striking to your ego.

And then, there will be no way but to Serve me (and only me).

Susie: The Hell?!?!, I never played one of these before.

Ralsei: But Kris is quite good at games.

Susie: oh yeah, Kris, Forgot you were a Nerd, show him.

(You tried to use the console, but you are not tall or strong enough to use the controller).

Creepa: Ego Striking complete.

Activating Laughing mode.

Hahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Ralsei: Uh... ummm... it's ok, kris... err... I'm short, too.

K... kris...!! Wait, I have an idea!.

Kris, if we combine our powers, then...

Look, I'll show what I've been participating.

(A light)

Ralsei: Magical Stool forme R.

Susie: now we're talking.

Alright Kris, Leave it to me.

Put your arms out.

Power Beast Forme S.

Move your arms and I'll move 'Em with You.

Let's go.

(Susie jumps at Ralsei).

Creepa: amazing, your transformation is only left your Weak Points out.

Ego Striking Efficiency 600% and rising.

Activating Virtual Battle.

(After the virtual battle, the game console got destroyed).

Sueie: heh, though you could defeat us?.

Creepa: [robotic evil laugh].

Oh boy that was totally... amazing.

You Earthling(s) are powerful than I expected.

And for this, I'll offer you with a new good and easy-for-babies contract.

Sign in to my Digital-Army.

And there is only a fifty percent chance that I'll resprite you up.

Please pick your answer:

Perish in the pixel doomsday.

Or...........

Accept me as the new leader (sexyman) to your world as well as Accepting the new regin.

(Perish accept).

(Perish❤️ accept).

Susie: (... The Hell did you say that so enthusiastically).

Ralsei: err. Creepa... aren't there any other options?.

Creepa: OF course, there is: Super-Perish.

Susie: yeah. Um, no perishing... bites.

Creepa: You can say it: Super-Bytes.

Susie: Would You get out of here already!?!?!?.

Creepa: got jt: set all settings to "Perish".

(Creepa leaves).

Susie: c'mon, let's go after him.

(After completing the "Accept2All" puzzle).

Creepa: You Just Typed: Accept 2 All.

And Thanks for agreeing 2 this peon release form.

With that being said: are three are officially my minions.

And I can use your likeness for cool sprites.

Susie: and what if we just...don't do what do you say?.

Creepa: in that situation, I'll have no choice but....

Use another guy I guess.

Susie: Uh. Better get started on that then.

Creepa: ok but I'll still going to use your Likeness.

(The water roller thing idk).

Creepa: That’s end of the line, funny babies.

I been acting very nice that far but now it it time for:

Your awful impression (capture).

Drop the cages.

Ralsei: ...err. you missed.

Creepa: That isn't a miss it was a cyber calibration.

Susie:.. so, Uh, are you gonna try it again?.

Creepa: Nah I only have like 4 cages.

OK wait.

For I have a this little plot twist for you.

BEHOLD, MY...PEON.

(Noelle came).

Noelle: u... um... s-sorry, I just couldn't say no.

Susie: Noelle!?!?.

Noelle: H... Hi, Susie. Umm, how are you?.

Susie: umm, okay, I guess?.

Noelle: your... um... roller coaster is, um... I like it.

Susie: uhh... Yours too?

Noelle: Th... Thanks.

Susie:...

Creepa: Welp that's useless, bring in the other one.

(Berdly comes in).

Berdly: Fear not, My Beloved Noelle.

This valiant warrior of brave intelligence.

Will be your knight in the glow in the dark armor.

Susie: Berdly, You Asked BERDLY to be in your team!?!?.

Creepa: nope i didn't.

Berdly: That’s LORD Berdly to you simpletons.

And soon... SUPER Lord Berdly.

Susie:... the hell does that mean?.

Creepa: I have no idea just play along y'all.

Berdly: You See, thanks to our POWERFUL King...

We... Will soon rule the WORLD.

and Turn this land of fools... into smartopia.

A true scientocracy, where the geniuses of the world, can bathe freely in pools of fresh fruit and ambrosia.

No Longer held back by Protozoans like YOU.

And the key to that? Is US. Noelle and I.

Our Power... the "Light Nerd's" power...

Ralsei: You mean... "Lightners?"

Berdly: Um No. Creepa said "Light Nerds"

Creepa (laugh): Sure I did.

Ralsei: Berdly, Creepa's just manipulating you.

Berdly: Heh... that's what he SAID you'd say to me

Creepa (laugh): Sure I did.

Berdly: Now kris.

I must admit l, I feel pity for you.

Unlike Susie, I always saw some potential in you.

Join our side, and I might let you scrub our royal toilet.

(Do Not join).

Berdly: ah, kris. I suppose I knew you would never amount to much.

Well, if You're dead-set on proving your inferiority...

(Pulls his weapon).

Berdly: Allow me to assist you.

(Fight begins).

(After the fight).

Berdly: w-what...?

My coaster, it's...!

Wh... what!? That's not fair.

M... my king... save me...!!!

(Explosion).

Creepa: just in a second, bud.

Hello guys, I have a massive update.

You see.

This roller coaster you in it Right now.

It's not totally.

"Completed" yet.

Susie: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!?!.

Creepa: "Suffering"

(Creepa laugh and flies away as the roller coaster are about to fall).

Noelle: K-Kris!! What are you---

Creepa: ohhh Nooeeeeeeeellle.

Noelle: (Don't let him find me...).

Creepa: Noelle, Where are you (kiddo).

Did ya forget that we are (officially) are team?.

And still have to be my willing and (official) minion.

(Notice Kris).

Creepa:... kris.

Been spotted.

It seems to me that our teammates have dodged on us

... so I see that it has came into this...

In order to find our team(inions)...

...

...

We have to form (unofficial) truce...

(Suddenly, Berdly comes in).

Berdly: Creepa, my greatest king, where are you??.

Creepa: oh crap don't let him find me

(Turns himself into a box near to Noelle).

Berdly: ah. Kris... not the being I was looking for.

... hmm? Where's the rest of the C+ Squad?

Don't yell me you got abandoned!?, HA.

HAHA!! That's what you get for trusting Susie, HA.

H... huh?, Noelle? Creepa?.

They're just... busy retro gaming somewhere!!.

I bet they're waiting for me on the player select screen.

Listening to strangely groovy music!! HAHA, HA, HA.

...

Sigh.

So it come to this.

In order to find our respective teams...

It APPEARS...

we must form an uneasy truce...

Creepa What... The

Who the (Whoops) said you could double trucies?

Berdly: HUH?, did you hear something?.

Creepa: No No don't worry, that's just aahhhhhh...

The sounds from the city.

Berdly: oh okay.

Hmph. Well I'll be ahead. Don't be LATE.

(Berdly leaves).

(Creepa returns to his original appearance).

Creepa: Kris as a part of our truce (you and I just).

Keep Berdly out of our sight and find Noelle.

For you see...

Berdly... He's...

Alright there's no problems with him other than he just annoying as hell.

Toodles.

(Creepa leaves).

(Later).

Creepa (drunk): oh.

Boy.

You arrived.

(Laughing).

I'm sorry kris while I've been looking for Noelle.

I eat like 4 of those weird funny apples.

They are made out of JPNG.

(Laughing and throw the apple).

Don't worry about that, it was safe-to-throw apple.

Look kris.

(The entity spotted got applesauce).

And now, that we are trucies, I start feeling that we both are quite the same.

(Crazy mode activating).

(Creepa held Kris from their head and they are upside down).

Creepa: You got that kris.

You don't have something so ridiculous as "having an opinions".

Or yelling while I kick Your Ass.

Or telling me some stupid-Ass plans for a "smartboys"-themed city and reality.

I CAN'T TAKE THIS GODDAMMIT.

why everyone else is so... Sad.

(Throws another, however this explodes).

Creepa: Sorry, I forgot this one is my BLOWING APPLE.

kris.

All I want is to make everyone happy.

Even if that means i have to destroy everything in my way to accomplish it.

Isn't that bad?.

It's fine.

No Need to Answer.

(Laughing).

You'll answer incorrectly anyway.

But hey Kris... while we're still trucies.

Probably we can sort it out?.

(Another game console fall appears, this one is smaller).

By PLAYING it Out.

Isn't that... cool, Kris?.

Just You and me.

Playing just like brothers (in a neutral way for you).

And best of it: No one can interrupt this (...hopefully).

(Suddenly, a golden statue of Berdly and Creepa's statue looks so small next to it).

(Berdly falls from the sky).

Berdly: King Creepa, I've been looking everywhere to show you this.

A monument to our greatness... together.

Creepa (confused): Wow.

Um, that, wow, ah, what, hahah, ohh, hehe, mhh..

How I can put it straight.

It looks very...

...

Amazing.

So amazing and great you are.

I love it so much.

Berdly; HAHA, I KNEW you'd be enamored. Such perfect taste.

Creepa: Yeah, they are cool.

As I know, specie(s) like don't have... nipples.

Berdly: haha... I will SOON...

in our IDEAL WORLD.

Kris, Feel free to admire our artisanship.

Creepa and I have plans to consider.

Creepa: Yup, that so awesome, I can't wait for it (what the hell am I doing with my life now, bro?).

Mmhahahahahahah.

It's Time go, Buttly.

(Berdly leaves).

Creepa: Keep moving I have to do something... alone (without you you little stinkass).

(Creepa backs to kris).

Creepa: I'm sorry about that, I must plan the hell out of here.

(Creepa leaves, as there is someone wearing a bucket on their head with a funny drawing on it).

Creepa: Cool face.

(Later)

Creepa: Noelle, Where are you (kiddo).

Noelle: (Oh No, Here he comes...)

Creepa: Noelle, please come back home, I have made a delicious PNG Cake.

(Notice Kris).

Creepa: OH, Kris, nice.

(Throw the cake to the ground).

Now kris, did you seen--.

Berdly: My great Crrrreeeeeeeeeeppaa.

Creepa: OH hell no.

Everyone, get into the Creepamobile.

(They got into the car).

Berdly: King Creepa, where did you go??.

I have baked you a gamer's delight.

Hmm... he's not here...

(Berdly leaves)

(Everyone get outside of the car).

Creepa: phew, that one was close.

Hey kris.

Who is the fella behind you?.

My identifying systems dose not able to identify them.

...and yet.

There is something about them that fells

Awesome.

Creepatic Even.

Noelle: (...).

Creepa: Kris, we have to drive find Noelle.

Everyone, get in the Creepamobile.

Creepa: ok, kris, press directions to steer.

But watch out, we don't want hit any cars, don't we?.

(You hit a car).

Creepa: Y'know what?, suck it, hit 'Em all.

So much fun, right kris.

You lightners love traffic, don't you.

You look it up all the time.

Unfortunately for Noelle, She'll love hitting all these cars.

Noelle (in Disguise): umm, Actually, I... she, um, might not, um...

Creepa: NOW YOU BUFFOONS, STOP EVERYTHING.

Kris, catch the apple.

(You catched the apple).

Creepa: Vitamin.

Wait, what, stop the car.

Holy (Whoops) it's so much traffic for today.

It's seems that Dog/cat thing has back selling the flakes on road again.

Kris, be a good child and go press the walk button.

It's over the the other side of the road.

Noelle (in Disguise): umm... I'll go, too...

Creepa: No, You gonna stay here...

Noelle (in Disguise): !?.

Creepa: So we can listen to all my CDs.

Noelle: o-okay.

(Kris... hurry up, please...).

(Here is the part where we met everyone's most wasted [[silly dude who makes fantracks and Arts since 1998]]

I'll link it here, so you guys can read both of Creepa's Saga and Scamcair's Saga).

(Anyway, after Scamcair's first encounter and Fight).

Creepa: Come in.

(You got into the car).

Creepa: Kris, Remember, we HAVE to find Noelle.

(Creepa's signal activating).

(A signal that looks like Creepa's face appeared on the sky).

Creepa: When she see THE CREEPA SIGNAL, She'll came here, sooner or later.

Noelle (in Disguise): W... why do you... need to find Noelle so badly?.

Creepa: What are you even talking about?, this city is dangerous.

Poor, alone in the dark, and very scared and confused.

And suffering from the lack of vitamin.

Noelle (in Disguise): y... you're actually worried about her?.

Creepa: why do you think I'm wasting my time to find her.

Noelle (in Disguise):...

B... but why her?.

Wait, let me guess... is it because...

She's weak enough to make into your peon?.

Creepa: (audience laughs) Nah.

It's completely the opposite.

Because she's damn strong.

Noelle (in Disguise): h... huh? What do you--

Creepa: kris, can you please stop the car?.

Noelle (in Disguise): what's... wrong with it?.

Creepa: Phew.

One more minute and we three will be a dead-bytes (ohhhhhh spooky).

It seems that we have we have to split again...

On foot...

No more cool Creepamobile (crying).

...

Kris, just for reminder, if you saw Noelle

Tell her my ratings of her dancing in ballet is total.

Ohh, and if she asked for evidence.

Use this.

(Creepa's CDplayer was thrown to your KEY ITEMS).

Creepa: See ya.

(Creepa leaves)

(Later, in the carnival).

Noelle: O-oh no, he's coming back this way.

I'll hide in that stall.

Creepa hey you.

Yeah you.

Look at this.

(Throws the ball at the pens, causing them to explodes).

Creepa: Epic, right?.

And now, where is my hard-earned prize.

Noelle (in Disguise): oh! Um...

(Giving Creepa a prize).

H-here.

Creepa: Nice (hopefully it's a pony).

(Before he leaves).

Wait a sac, I actually don't it.

(Creepa give it to kris and then leaves).

(After the gang goes to Creepa's Mansion).

Creepa: Kris, I can't believe it, you brought Noelle right in front of me.

I knew that our trucies was good.

But I'm sorry kris, you found your teammates and mine, that means that our truce is over.

Noelle, come over here, NOW.

Noelle: but I... I...

Creepa: Noelle, I'll say this one time (for infinity)

Get back here Get back here Get back here

Get back here

Get back here

Get back here

Get back here.

Noelle: I... I...

Creepa: are you for real?.

I guess I have no other choice.

How about if you didn't listen to me.

A little lonely bird will take a shower in the lava.

Noelle: b... Berdly.

(That’s right, he was just with us...).

(Creepa must have Captured him while are not looking...).

(...)

(I... I'm sorry kris, Susie... I...).

(I wish I could have stayed with you but...)

(I... I can't let Berdly gets hurt, Y'know?).

Susie:...

Creepa: aww, don't be sad, Noelle

For the remaining parts is the final step.

(Suddenly, Berdly comes in).

Berdly: the amazing Creepa, there you are.

Sorry, I thought I saw in a used game store.

Oh, Noelle, Are you okay?, you look a little funny.

Creepa: Plan B activate.

(A cage appears and captures Noelle and Flies away).

Berdly: h-huh?.

What are you doing!?.

Creepa: I saw how her will must be released by force.

Maybe by making her a Creepafied...?.

Berdly: B-but... you said you wouldn't do that if I...

Creepa: Lie detection is off.

Berdly: We were going to be smart together!!! That's not fair!!!.

Creepa: you want something fair?

Then have it your way.

(Three cages appears and captures Berdly, Susie and Kris).

Susie: H-HEY.

Creepa: Good thing that I have fully updated these cages.

Berdly: You... you said I could trust you.

You said that you were a gamer.

Creepa: Berdly.

Did You know that I hates games?.

Berdly: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Creepa: one of you buffoons is gonna help me in my Plan and it's gonna be Noelle.

And the rest of you.

Go to your rooms.

Hahahahahahaha.

(The camera then points at Ralsei as Creepa victoriously laugh).

Ralsei: wh... what are you going to do with me?.

(Creepa realise that he didn't capture Ralsei).

Creepa: ohh (Whoops)

And you are here... still.

I only have like 4 cages bro.

I totally didn't know that.

(In the top).

Susie: Here he is.

Creepa, STOP right there.

Creepa: Cool, my not-too-much-favourite babies.

Just in time to witness my new regin.

And with Noelle under my control.

This is only a matter of time before Turns this world

And release her true power.

Covering the whole world with darkness.

Susie: Too late dumbass.

Noelle's with Berdly.

Creepa: Ohh really?.

Then who is that?.

(Berdly falls from the sky, this time with a bucket on his head).

Ralsei: b... Berdly?! But he's been...

Creepa: With Noelle.

After I discovered about the bucket mask thing, I decided to "update" it a bit to my advantage.

Making them from just a Disguise to a mind-controlling devices.

Now everyone can enjoy watching this.

(Evil laugh mode activating).

Susie: Wait, then... where is Noelle?!.

(Evil laugh mode overdrive).

I don't know (I know everything).

(The fun gang pulls their weapons)

Susie: enough already.

Creepa: Ohh boy.

To be honest, I liked you three.

It's gonna be a shame to force you to Serve me.

I'll enjoy it to the last.

(Creepa laugh).

(Battle starts).

#deltarune #self-insert #Creepa #Scamcair's Saga is also in the post. #Mercair

[auralina33]

So, you guys remember the little TTRPG AU I posted drawings of once?

I've spent the past 4 days running an interactive teaser in the server these campaigns are being ran, so, to lack of other content, putting them here

Part two

The text that accompanied these as I posted them and the players' answers below the cut:

-Hello, hello, hello, everyone! I'm so happy to see you here!

- My name is Soleil, but you can just call me Sol! I've got new songs all for you!

- How's everyone doing in this fine day?

> Say hello?

-> Say hello

-I'm great now that I get to sing here again!-

-WHOOPS! I need to be more careful about not falling off from here! Silly me!

-I've been practicing even more on the calliope! Been passing some of my flute songs to it.

-Without further ado, let me just-

> Something's not right > Look around

-> Something's not right (Where's your lantern?)

-Yes, yes, the calliope! Circuses use it a lot to draw in an audience! I- -...My lantern?

-Of course I have it with me! I would never forget about it, it's so important!

- In fact, it's right he-

- ...Oh.

- (Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no oh no-)

-Sorry! So sorry, so sorry, I think I'll have to cut the performance early today! I need to go do something! I'll be back later!

(The performer runs off, their breath already fast, their eyes frantically glancing around everywhere. If you want this to go the way it should, they need to find their lantern.)

> Ask if someone's seen it > Try to spot it in the crowd > See if its magic can still be felt

-> See if its magic can still be felt

-I think I feel it... around here, around there?

(The performer spends quite a while wandering around, trying to chase vague wisps and feelings that just don't seem reliable enough, getting to less populated zones of the town, until...)

-(Wait!)

-(I see a glow! Near those buildings!)

-(Is that...)

-(What's someone I don't know doing with my lantern? Is this a misunderstanding?)

> Call out to her > Quietly follow her > Run at her

-> Quietly follow her

-(Ok, ok... I'm following her!)

-(Where is she going...? I don't recognize these streets, I don't recognize these streets at all...)

-(She seems calm. She's humming to herself...)

-(Maybe this really is some kind of mistake.)

> Keep going > Turn back

-> Keep going

(As the performer follows her, she takes a turn down a side street, and- Her footsteps suddenly fasten up as she takes off running.)

-(What? Wait...)

-Wait, no! STOP! PLEASE!

(He can only dash after her, calling out to try and call her attention)

-THAT'S MINE! Please, come back! I need that! I'll pay you for it, I'll give you something else, anything!

-(I lost her- I LOST her! No, I can't have lost her!)

> Follow the lantern's trail > Follow your sight > Follow your hearing

TO BE CONTINUED...

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop role playing game #tabletop rpg #technically not actually dnd asides from dice rolls but this isn't my usual FNAF content and I'm actually proud of it guys please #artists on tumblr #my art #auraart

[draculas-husband]

15 questions/Get to know me!

1. Are you named after anyone?

Sort of actually, haha. As a transman I chose my own name. I sort of named myself after King Richard from the TV series Galavant! (That everyone should watch btw because it is a criminally underrated comedy fantasy musical.) But there were definitely other people and characters that influenced my choice... As well as all the cool nicknames you can use when named Richard such as Dick, Rich, Ricky etc.. etc..

Also the name and nicknames comes with so much pun potential!

2. When was the last time you cried?

It was rather recently.. It was an rp moment that really got to me emotionally, touching me to tears. Though it would be even more recently if we count laughing so hard you cry. Either way I blame @nikyri-ninky for both!~ 😘

3. Do you have kids?

Does my cat count? Cause I call him my son, my baby boi, my sweet child.. If so yes. My fur baby named Major Flumph. I also have fictional children as well as a few friends who refer to me as their dad.

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

I would not say that I do, no. On occasion for sure. Especially if I am teasing my boyfriend. Though that is mostly payback for him doing it to me.

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

I played a bit of soccer, did gymnastics, and played a lot of floor ball (a sport that was invented in Sweden) as a kid. But sport rarely interests me these days.

6. What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

That is a damn good question that I struggle to answer. I genuinely do not know for I notice a good number of things but could not tell you what the first thing is even if I wanted to.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Both. Both is good. If I had to choose however: happy endings. I love me some scary movies but I also struggle with anxiety and stress enough that happy endings are usually more healthy for my mental health in the long run.

8. Any special talents?

My coworkers, parents, partners and several friends would all kick my ass if I didn't mention drawing and painting. Also baking and gift giving (more specifically finding things for people that is based on their genuine interests).

9. Where were you born?

In Stockholm, Sweden!

10. What are your hobbies?

Playing gaymes, drawing, baking, gposing, role-playing, talking with my friends. The list is long hahaha but those are the main ones.

11. Do you have any pets?

Ah whoops, mentioned him already but oh well. Yes! A super fluffy, handsome tuxedo cat named Major Flumph. I've only had him for a few months but I love him with all my lil' gay heart! He turns 1 the same day I turn 28!~ 💖

12. How tall are you?

I am 5'9" / 175cm

13. Fave subject in school?

Art and English.

14. Dream job?

Something where I get to be helpful or creative. Doesn't have to be something super specific as long as I earn enough to live comfortably and have lots of fun. But then again I believe in universal basic income so... I def want a job that mainly allows me to grow as a person while also letting me have fun.

15. Eye colour?

Grey!~

Tagged by: @mirrim-the-moonfaerie and @mimble-sparklepudding , thank you both! 💖

Tagging: @nikyri-ninky , @slumberingslothfully , @elizabethrobertajones , @sosei and anyone else who wants to do it!~ 💕

If anyone would like to get to know me even better just shoot me a dm, despite my name I do not bite! Not at first at least...

#richard's rambles #Dashboard games #hope this properly answered the questions #Get to know me

[raayllum]

Before s4 came out I didn't follow anyone here (didn't know you guys existed) so I was sitting there trying to point out parallels between Callum and Viren and how wild it would be if in a canon divergence au they would forced to work together and how horrified they would be as they slowly realized shit we are alike, and maybe even a good team and all of my friends were like????? Honey, sit down, maybe to watch something else, touch grass outside?

Which, fair. BUT NOW HOWEVER I know I'm not crazy 'cause your posts are in my dash to not only say yeah, those two nerds have their similarities but to point out so much other things I wouldn't have guessed like never, so all this rant to say thanks, now I can go back on my bullshit with your beautiful gifs as cientifical proof I'm in fact so right

Hello & first off, welcome to the fandom, I hope you're having a great time!! And thank you for sending this ask in because Viren-Callum parallels are literally one of my favourite things in the entire show!!

And have been for quite a while (as this post documents, from post-S2 onwards back in Feb 2019 I've been chugging that sweet foils juice and only getting continually more fed), I always figured S4 would majorly ramp it up (just like S2 did from S1) but I am still thrilled beyond my wildest dreams that the foil dynamic is becoming this richly layered / complex / overt, y'know?

I think in terms of personality presentation Viren and Rayla are very similar as well (which I still need to do a S4 update for them whoops) but in terms of narrative weight and arcs and Viren's personality beyond his independence/paranoia? It's Callum all the way down, 100%

Like, they were already tied together as mages with Claudia's loyalty to each of them pit directly against one another (with Viren unsurprisingly winning) as well as brothers to the king (Harrow, Ezran). As Callum lets go of titles and calls Harrow Dad, Harrow insists on Viren using his title formally (which Viren already often did so) and Viren forsakes him as a brother. The plume of Harrow's funeral pyre in 1x04 going into Callum's primal stone transition shot; Viren going to the butterflies to de-corrupt himself while Callum looks at the Star primal on the cube, etc.

I've always been fond of Callum having to work with Claudia or Viren if/when the two mages come back across the moral horizon line, purely because those dynamics are so complicated and tainted, and yet they are also two people who can uniquely understand Callum's headspace and attachment to magic (or perhaps not unique understanding, but like, mirroring, haha?) I've written Callum and Claudia doing so before but idk if I've written Viren and Callum (although I have written them being on friendlier terms in "looking for a way to break in," although it's a very small part of the fic). I may have to write a canon divergence at one point where Callum is taken on as an apprentice to Viren (or Viren's old mentor Kpp'Ar even) but we shall see

Because like, they're both smart and clever and research focused, and just pragmatic enough to not be completely opposed (if they had a common goal) but Callum would have some lines he isn't willing to cross to the same capacity, which would keep Viren in check, and Viren could bring in knowledge/experience Callum doesn't have by virtue of just being so much younger. As well as primal mage (and friend of Xadians) Callum having access and knowledge of things that may surprise Viren and teach him a thing or two in addition

I think what makes me the most excited though is a couple of things stacked on top of each other, tbh

Viren's speech in 4x04, regarding, "I have always been ready to do anything to protect my family, however dangerous, however vile. In the name of love, you may perform acts so unforgivable, you can never forgive yourself" just as Callum finds a new consequence for doing dark magic way back when

We see Callum in 4x07 is later horrified of the possession mostly because "I'm afraid he'll force me to do awful things. Or hurt people I care about" (as Callum has already done, if not vile, then dangerous things to protect his loved ones, notably Ezran and Rayla)

The fact that Viren doing something awful to save Soren as a kid is now working it's way in the show (also in 4x07) of "You would be dead without Dad's magic" to be explored further in S5

Callum also having to inevitably fail to free Aaravos, with all the symbolism behind the idea ("Accidents happen" "On purpose" / "I hope it was worth it to you, putting everyone's lives in danger" / "This doesn't end well for you" / "It's the key of Aaravos, no good will come of it") that he may have more of an active hand in purposefully freeing him under coercion, also possibly in S5

Like if Callum and Ezran start being tested in s5, and Callum saves Ez at any cost (thus leaping over how Viren and Harrow failed each other bc those sweet generational parallels? Gold). Or Viren wanting to save Claudia and not wanting Aaravos to be freed, with perhaps Callum freeing Aaravos in order to save someone like Rayla but

Just having parallels with Aaravos thus far hasn't been the main reason, it seems, to have such an intense foil relationship between Viren and Callum, but there's still gotta be a bigger reason, and it really feels to me like this aspect of Viren might be why he and Callum have been so contrasted with each other

Other posts u can show ur friends if you want to:

My general Viren-Callum foils tag

A pre-S4 breakdown of all the ways they parallel each other season by season

A post-S4 breakdown of how they parallel each other with some bonus foil stuff

#thanks for asking #it was just red #fandom history #anonymous #it's very aang & zuko y'know? the whole redirecting lightning bit #i respect u so much anon only touch grass if u want to

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I wasn't gonna do a reaction post this week for reasons that will probably become obvious but then I was annoyed at myself for not doing one yesterday, because I would have felt like SUCH a smartie pants for predicting that Ed was gonna fish up one of the bottles, and now I just have to hope that you will believe me that I did predict that in the privacy of my own mind (though I owe it all to that one post from weeks ago that was like "what if a fisherman found the bottles" so I can't really take credit but ANYWAY). But yeah thoughts below cut

This got kind of absurdly long whoops. Also I am inevitably going to say stuff that people disagree with but man I am begging you to be gentle with me. I am just trying to work through some of my feelings about the show and other people are going to have different feelings and that is FINE and nobody is under attack here and there is room for different opinions peace and love

Quick disclaimer: I haven't been reading a ton of meta or diving into the tag or anything, so if I say something wildly off about the fandom response at any point, it's based on vibes from what's been on my dash and I may have got the wrong end of the stick there.

I'll go ep by ep for the most part but this point applies to both eps, so I'll dive in first: I seem to be in a minority within the more active parts of the fandom in that I truly do not have strong feelings about Izzy one way or the other. I do personally feel that his characterisation in season two is not consistent with that in season one, HOWEVER 1) I have not expended a ton of mental energy on doing a deep dive into his s1 characterisation, so I'm willing to believe I've missed stuff [not actually convinced of this but don't care enough to put my foot down about it] and 2) it simply does not bother me. I consider Izzy to be a secondary character that they've decided to somewhat retool in between seasons, and I am basically fine with it. You know who else is different this season? Jim! It seems pretty obvious to me that the development of BOTH these characters is due to the influence of the actors, and honestly, that happens in TV. I DO understand people's frustration that a character who espoused views and behaviours that were fundamentally at odds with the whole moral premise of the show has been rehabilitated so easily, buuuut... I don't personally want a version of this show where Izzy's rehabilitation arc is given tons of screen time, either, so I am okay with just accepting it. ALSO, this s2 version of his character--while not necessarily feeling entirely earned--is considerably more fun to me! I'm really enjoying his bitchy little one-liners and his drag act and whatever. To make a comparison, I did see some complaints early on that Oluwande's relationship with Zheng felt rushed, but to me they fully sold it with their performances: it was easy to read between the lines that there had been a growing attraction between them for a while. Point being, I think we need to be okay with allowing some of the secondary character/relationship development to be elided, because it is not necessarily a priority to have it all put on screen in front of us.

Anyway, moving on to ep 6: I don't have a huge amount to say about the bulk of this episode. For the most part I really enjoyed it. I think Ned Low is a great send-up of the monologuing villain with a lot of psychosexual baggage, and I loved the way that was resolved. I'm probably the only person in the world who didn't already know this, but I looked up Hellcat Maggie because the name rang a bell, and she was a member of the Irish-American Dead Rabbits Gang in the 1800s, which was also known as the Mulberry Boys, and their enemies were the supporters of the anti-immigration Know Nothing party. Supposedly she used to file her teeth down to points. I am not making any of this up. [Bob Dylan voice] Go home and look it up on WIKIPEDIA*

Anyway: the party planning/coconut shack date, Calypso's Birthday and the Ned Low showdown all worked great for me. Some of the stuff--Ed shoving Stede behind him and begging Ned to torture him instead--was honestly a LITTLE bit tropey for my tastes, but hey, they're classics for a reason. I kind of think it would have been interesting to see the opposite dynamic (though of course we do see Stede trying to protect Ed in his own way later in the episode): we've already seen this kind of thing from Ed back in 1x09 with the British, so a role reversal might have been a bit more interesting to me (since this season has been so much about role reversal), but like this is a very minor niggle.

I think that Stede's disposal of Ned worked narratively and wasn't inconsistent with his character (I get the vibe that some people think it was?), and I think that Ned's line about Stede being a "pet" and Ed only liking him for his "bumbling amateur status" was some really rich stuff (and a callback to the QAR crew's description of Ed and Stede's relationship back in 1x06). And of course the whole "pet" motif has been running through season two as well: Stede's callback to doggy heaven, Ed's cat bell, even Wolf the bunny. There's something really interesting there, but I don't know if there's enough time left in the season to really get to grips with it?

Moving on to the sex scene: here I seem to be a bit out of step with my own small fandom circle, because I had mixed feelings at best about this. I've seen the argument that the show was obviously framing it as being romantic, with the fireworks etc.; I guess that's what bothers me about it, because to me it was so obviously... off. To be clear, I don't think it was in any way non-consensual or anything like that, and hey, the kiss, out of context? Amazing! But IN context--Stede has JUST had his first real kill, which has been framed by the narrative and the other characters as a big deal. Also framed as a big deal: Ed asking to take things slow in ep 5. Ed comes to Stede to "talk things through", and brings up his own most significant trauma--the death of his father (right after we saw a super quick flashback to some of Stede's own dad-related trauma)--and Stede cuts him off with a forceful kiss. To me, it feels kind of obvious that their first sexual encounter is being linked with violence and childhood trauma in a way that is not, like, fun or sexy or romantic TO ME, regardless of how the rest of the scene is shot and intercut (which is not me making a moral judgment on anyone else's feelings about this scene; just stating my own emotional reaction to it). IF the show wants us to find this hot/romantic, then it didn't work for me and I found it jarring. If the show wanted us to find this kind of destabilising and compromised, then it worked for me but I feel like we deserved better!

SO. Episode 7. I'm just going to be super upfront right at the top: this episode really bummed me out and I didn't like it. Not saying I hated every minute of it or that nothing worked for me, but overall I didn't enjoy it. I saw on the official OFMD Instagram account's stories a couple of days ago some footage from one of those preview screenings they did of these episodes in a cinema or whatever. The MC was like "how about those episodes!" and I remember thinking, "wow, the audience seems kind of weirdly muted". Well now I get it! I would have been too!

I've seen people saying that Ed panicking and running off to become a fisherman is a mirror to Stede panicking and running back to his wife in 1x09, which does track, but I actually think that the symmetry here is multivalent, and there are also echoes of 1x08, which for the record is my most hated episode of season one that I can almost not bear to rewatch--not because I think the WRITING is bad but just because it is a little bit too real for me, in terms of situations I've been in where someone I care about who supposedly cares for me lets the worst person in the world treat me really badly, picks them over me and then acts like it never happened and expects me to just be fine with it? I DON'T LIKE THAT!

So yeah, listen, I always felt like Ed leaving with Jack at the end of 1x08 and then immediately coming back was kind of a double beat, or even a triple beat. We already had him threatening to leave and then changing his mind in the previous episode, and then we have STEDE leaving in the following episode, so I always felt like it sat a little bit oddly for me. I do think it's an important and enlightening episode in terms of Ed's character and in revealing some of the underlying issues in their relationship that they need to address (plus giving us yet another flavour of toxic masculinity), but I don't know, it has always bugged me a little bit even beyond the fact that it is just too personally painful for me to enjoy.

Slight detour here--I'm gonna bring it back--to say that, while I am more glad than sorry that we have had so much BTS and promo stuff for the finale, it does create a little bit of a sense of inevitability to proceedings that undercuts any dramatic tension? Like, I feel like we can fairly confidently put together the beats of at least the first act of next week's episode. Those being: Ed has left, he is in a rowboat, he realises that Stede is in trouble--under attack from the British no less!--and heroically turns back to save his true love. So--basically the end of 1x08 again.

As much as I have been enjoying the narrative symmetry thus far, it's in 2x07 that it starts to feel forced, for me. While I can totally buy that Ed starts to regret the sex for all the reasons I mentioned above (though to be clear I don't think he regrets it until later), and that he's uncomfortable with Stede getting drunk and rowdy and playing into a pirate archetype that Ed wants to leave behind (all of this ALSO mirrors/reverses Stede and Ed in 1x08 btw), the idea that he would decide to leave forever to be a fisherman? This is the same guy who spent the first three episodes of the season totally inconsolable because Stede left him, and regained the will to live because of a vision of Stede? And now he's just voluntarily leaving forever because of one conflict? I... guess this accords with Ed's previous behaviour in 1x08, but again, that's always kind of bugged me. I don't know, man, I know they need to set up the big romantic beach reunion scene, but I feel like they could have had Ed go off fishing to clear his head after an argument instead, and that would have felt a bit easier to swallow for me. Sure, not as dramatic, but more believable.

So, this brings me to something about the show that I am starting to find a little bit disappointing, which is that... I feel like it keeps undercutting moments of tenderness and queer joy! It didn't bother me so much in season one, I think just because the show was such a breath of fresh air in so many ways. But now, having committed to being the queer pirate show and playing into that in the marketing and kind of rebranding the whole identity of the show as being a queer love story (which is always WAS but wasn't initially marketed as), I kind of feel like there's a promise inherent in that. And yet again and again I feel like we're getting the rug pulled out from under us. Like--Stede's beautiful love confession in 2x04 being immediately mocked by Anne and Mary (I know people love Anne and Mary but honestly it was getting a little too close to Calico Jack territory for me at times). Like the sex scene feeling (to me) weirdly compromised. Like Ned Low attacking the Revenge before Ed and Stede can dance together! Like Ed deciding to cut and run, AGAIN, at the slightest sign of trouble. And I know it's going to get resolved next week, and I feel like the release schedule for this season (not to mention only getting eight eps obviously) has been to its detriment. I understand why they felt like they needed to put out episode three in the first week because our guys don't even share the screen until then, but I think 2x07 MIGHT have felt a lot more palatable if it had gone out with the finale instead. I also think 2x03 and 2x04 going out together might have felt like a more natural pairing, and would have meant that I was not overwhelmed with misery after the first three eps (actually I still would have been overwhelmed with misery because of stuff in my real life but like, LESS so maybe). Although getting to savour the 2x03 end scene for a whole week was pretty great, and ditto 2x05, so maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

Anyway. 2x07 felt really off to me, primarily in the characterisation of both Ed and Izzy, but also somewhat in the showdown between Zheng and Stede. I could understand it more if I felt that s2 had done a lot of work to establish that Stede is straying towards playing into a toxically masculine pirate archetype, but I think there are really only two times (prior to this ep) where this happens: the (dream sequence) opening of 2x01 and the third act of 2x06. Otherwise, we've seen him being really good at customer service, embracing the "tender" label from Zheng and fitting in with the Red Flag girls, counselling Lucius, saving his crew after the mutiny despite his heart being broken, bonding with Izzy, serving cunt in a cursed new suit, defusing the situation with Ned (until he didn't)--basically Stede has been really GAY this season? Like I honestly felt like THAT was the way he had swung, not towards performing violence and hypermasculinity. So Zheng's dressing down, while maybe working in the context of the scene or even the whole episode, doesn't feel well-integrated into Stede's season 2 arc to me.

Look, I'm going to leave it there. I know this is long-winded and rambling and I fully lost track of time and missed the window to use my Early Bird chest on Duolingo. I doubt anyone will read this whole thing. I just needed to get some stuff off my chest I guess.

*Anyone on Dylan twitter gets this reference!! There's tons of crossover between tumblr OFMD fandom and Dylan twitter, RIGHT? Anyway it was a thing he said in the outro to 'Goodbye Jimmy Reed' at a concert the other night. It was funny because of his dramatic delivery of the word 'Wikipedia' followed by him immediately running out of momentum and mumbling "Wikipedia" again with zero confidence. It was some nice late-career Dylan stage banter. I went to see him around this time last year and man this R&RW tour is great, even though I saw it in a pretty bad venue. The best time I ever saw Dylan was at the Brixton Academy, he played the intro to 'London Calling', it was electric. The first time I saw him was at the NEC arena in Birmingham and it was kind of a letdown but I have fond memories of it anyway, I went with my dad. I was talking to this bartender the other week about seeing your heroes live and honestly it made me realise that I haven't been to any live music in way too long! I'm happy to say that I got to see Bobby Womack perform live right before he died--actually technically I didn't SEE him, you see I was volunteering at Latitude and the bar was perpendicular to the stage. However I COULD hear him. One time I saw Nick Cave live and a woman standing behind me fainted on me! It was pretty stressful but I'm still glad I can say I saw Nick Cave live you know what I mean? The dream would be to see David Byrne but I doubt I could afford it... maybe it'll happen who knows

#ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #this is nearly 3000 words long and some of it is just about different concerts i have been to #DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT #dear diary today i had a lot of feelings

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Tears of the Kingdom ramble go brrrrr

Okay so goes without saying but this will have spoilers. If you'd prefer not see any spoilers then scram and go watch someone play the game (I personally recommend Quinbobin, dude's energy is fucking immaculate, he's not done with the game yet but he's in the last stretch)

But man I just wanna ramble about TotK, I'm still debating on replaying the game to really soak in more but it's been marinating in me thick skull for a bit and man do I have a bit I wanna say

Oh my god and then in that final tear/memory when Zelda takes it upon herself to swallow her secret stone despite the many warnings from Mineru that if she's to do that, there's no guarantee she'll be able to return to her former self. That takes alot of guts to do, throwing yourself away knowing fully well that you may never be the same after if there's even a sliver of hope that things can turn around and your people will be safe. The buildup was something else entirely, it starts of fairly calm, with it having bits and pieces of the BotW/TotK ost, a little of her lullaby sprinkled in, and then builds intensity as the scene goes on. Kinda like signifying that, again, she's doing this all for her kingdom and for Link. When she finally swallows the stone, it cuts to silence (save for the ambience), which kinda jars you and makes you see that hey, something's about to happen. As she begins to go through the draconification, it starts strong with her lullaby, progressing further and further into sounding more and more sinister, dark, going silent again as she tells Link to protect everyone and holy SHIT if that doesn't give you goosebumps I don't know what will. While I'm on this, I might be just reading into it too much but it almost sounds like her screaming (albeit kinda distorted) underneath her roaring as the dragon that second time she roars. Almost like that was the last bit of her in there, before she finally "lost herself" as Mineru warned her that she would

Tbh just about all of it was god tier imo. The visuals, the characters, all of it. Were there some things that could've been improved? Ofc, there's no real perfect game but fuck did this one come close

I could go on and on about just about anything you throw my way about TotK, but the real star of the show (to me anyway) is the soundtrack and all the little details in everything. I've always believed that the main three things that make or break something is the characters, the plot/story and the soundtrack. I've also always loved when there were these little details that gave whatever media it is a little more oomph. And DAMN did TotK have a banger of a soundtrack and was it packed with details

One of my favorite lil details with the soundtrack is when you're through with the Tarrey Town quest, you're able to make a house for Link, right? Cool cool, you get to do a bit of a Sims type beat, which that in itself had me giving mad props to Nintendo. And folks have been getting hella creative with their layouts, I saw this one person make their house look like the triforce if I'm not mistaken? It was cool as hell, there's a good bit of freedom. But the detail, if you listen real closely, the song that plays when you've got your house up and you're meandering around inside, it's the theme for when you're inside a building in Ocarina of Time. We already knew that there's gonna be lil nods to past games since in BotW there was a shitton already but they really bumped that up a few pegs in TotK

Another one of my favorites is in the cutscene where Rauru uses his power to keep Ganondorf on lock, as he's telling G-Money that eventually Link will come whoop his ass and to "remember his name," the main fucking Zelda theme starts playing which honestly just adds so much more fucking power to that cutscene and it had me tearing up hearing the main theme playing in the background. On that same note, in I think the last phase of the fight against Ganondorf before he swallows his stone, there's a huge throwback to BotW and you get those lil motifs of the blight battles

Yet another, at the end when you're going to catch Zelda after she turns back into her former self, the main theme for TotK is going. Cool, strong, fucking awesome right? As you get closer to Zelda, her lullaby starts playing and oh my godddd I was a mess, but then you throw in the main Zelda theme after as you're prompted to catch her and at that point you can see why the game is called "Tears of the Kingdom." Because it makes you cry, alot. At that point it's like you're coming full circle, before now you'd never failed to save Zelda, you'd always saved her before until now when you failed to catch her in the beginning. So with it starting with you not catching her and then ending with you catching her, it's like you're making up for that failure and I absolute adored that

Kinda on the same note about the soundtrack, I think the other temples (minus the spirit temple) had the same sort of thing going but I definitely noticed divine beast/past champion themes going for the wind temple. It's not that obvious until towards the end when you've got most of the terminals, then you start to really hear motifs to the Vah Medoh theme and Revali's theme

SPEAKING OF I noticed Tulin taking on a very slight Revali-ish attitude, even the npc's had noticed and took note of it. And if you think back to Age of Calamity, in one of the cutscenes, Tulin tells Revali that he wants to be just like him once he's older, while yes I know AoC isn't technically canon it's a cute as hell thing I noticed and can't help but have a huge ahh smile on my face thinking of. Lil Tulin's growing up, and he's starting to take after his role model, fuckin adorable

There's a shitton more lil details and references but I'd be here all day if I were to attempt to mention them all

While there's def a good few positives for this game, there's also a couple negatives imo. It's mostly just personal issues but I'm sure a few folks might agree with me

So first up, why did they have to call them secret stones? It's so damn hard to take things seriously that way. It makes it sound almost like some children playing pretend. Literally anything else could've been good, much better than secret stones. Especially because the same ol phrase gets repeated over and over again when the new champions/sages learn about what happened all those years ago. It gets so repetitive man

Speaking of champions, it seems a bit like they completely forgot about the past champions and the calamity. Like nobody mentions it, save for a couple npcs for side quests, and there's no memorials from what I can tell aside from the occasional stone Zelda dedicated to the casualties, Mipha Court in Zora's Domain, and some other things but that's just about it. I get that eventually life goes on but something about them seemingly forgetting entirely about them just rubs me the wrong way. And the divine beasts, what happened to them? I've heard a couple theories that it was because they were afraid another calamity would take place and they'd get possessed all over again so they took them down, which makes sense but it'd have been so cool to see them just in the background somewhere with the scenery, withering and decaying to the sands of time. Of course they wouldn't have to be explorable, but it would've added so much more oomph imo

And don't even get me started on some of the dialogue. I mentioned the stones thing, but there was some other lines that just, eurgh. Prime example is from none other than Ganondorf himself. At the end when you go to give him a good beatdown, he goes on this sort of monologue. Which is all fine and dandy, he's a villain after all, that's what villains do. But then he goes and says shit like "weak, peace loving cowards" and that "the world should be shrouded with darkness and not bathed in insufferable light"?? That makes him sound like an angsty teen trying to sound cool and edgy, I physically recoiled a bit. Not your finest moment, G-man.

Last but def not least, they really missed out on bringing back malice. I dunno, I just feel like calling it gloom really takes away from the overarching darker tone of the game. Like having it be called malice again would really sell that TotK is a bit darker, malice sounds more life threatening and harmful. Meanwhile it being called gloom just sounds more like you're describing how the weather's gonna be that day. Plus I just think malice spawn sounds much cooler than gloom spawn by a long shot

Overall tho pretty solid game. I rate it an Uncannydorf out of ten

#uni rambles #tears of the kingdom #totk #tears of the kingdom spoilers #totk spoilers #ramble #honestly tho really good game #game of the year #i just really wish they didnt call them secret stones #uncannydorf makes up for it tho its so fucking funny

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for the secrets ask game--mira, for all six, if you want? :D @kerra-and-company

Congrats on nailing exactly which one of my characters would be full of secrets! Mira Silvertail is a goddamn mess of a cat.

(Before we start, I'm gonna add some Actual Backstory things for Mira, since I'm pretty sure my character page is lacking - She's a ranger, and the legionnaire of the Silver warband, and part of Iron. There are also three versions of her that I've thought about and developed in relation to the other members of her warband - each in different timelines, two of which have died in pretty traumatic ways - so I'm gonna focus on the third, surviving one, but all versions of her struggle with the warring loyalties between her warband and her legion.)

(Here, she was kidnapped in LWS1 by aetherblades and sold/given to the inquest as a test subject. Or that was the intention, had the airship not crashed in the Sandswept Isles.)

(There's also a decent bit of charr politics/circumstances in the background affecting this mentality majorly, and intersecting with other charr of mine, namely Ryker, which I'm gonna write up eventually but haven't quite gotten around to yet - I may touch on some of that in here but not go into detail)

(...also slipped into more prose rather than listing. whoops. enjoy!)

1- An Open Secret Charr don't have parents. They have sires, and dams, and they're not supposed to be something that matters.

Except in all of the ways that it does. Charr are also hypocrites. There are few charr who don't know the identities of at least one of their parents, whether from old memories, from their own digging, or from other charr bringing it up, whether to commend, or threaten, or compare. Socially, they're not supposed to admit it, and so Mira never has. But if she happens to be at the Junker's Scrapyard more often than she has proper excuses for, only ever talking to one of the many charr working there, both of them with an uncanny resemblance to one another - Well, that's her business, isn't it?

2 - A secret the people close to your character know Of her warband, she was the first one to learn magic.

She didn't end up the most powerful, or the one who used it most often - That would go to Cadira (though she'd never admit it to his already big head) and Vachel (even if he won't say so, but most of his movement is, quite frankly, physically impossible), respectively. But she was the first to discover it, first to realise it, little feet so drawn to the river and feeding the birds hovering around it, when they would've scattered for anyone else, and one day, gently coaxing health into an eagle's tattered wing with motes of soft green.

She might not be the strongest ranger, but she opened the gate for her warband to explore their own magics - and what she can do is enough. Just enough.

3 - A secret that your character wouldn't really care about getting out She wasn't supposed to be legionnaire.

On paper, that would've, and should've, gone to Nasius - Nasius was by far the better engineer, the better tactician, the better people person. They would've been the perfect choice, if not for the fact that they never wanted to lead. Nevermind that their warband wasn't anywhere near high enough rank to be doing anything important. Nasius actually gathered the warband together at one point and admitted that she didn't want to be in charge. Inexplicably, she nominated Mira. The rest followed.

Looking back, it made sense - of them all, who was the most used to pressure? Who was the one least wrapped up in their own head? She was certainly bossy enough. They all trusted each other - they had to - but especially in this, they trusted Nasius, and trusted in Mira.

Hasn't failed them yet, here.

4 - A secret exactly one person knows anything about. She has nightmares, after being kidnapped.

Not of the actual kidnapping - that would've been understandable, even if she was unconscious for the majority of it - but something about the near-death experience made her drown in dark, deathly detailed dreams, and each morning felt like breaching the surface again.

Awful dreams, sometimes about sending her family warband to their deaths. Awful dreams, sometimes about alternate paths and missions gone awry, about events that had never happened and never would. Sometimes, only memories. Dreams of the Citadel. Dreams of the fahrar.

Relken, the healer who found and hosted her after the crash, is the only one witness to her mumbled sleeptalking, and the brief moments upon waking before she pulls herself together. Sometimes, they can coax her into sharing them. It's a slow process.

5 - A secret nobody knows about, but they desperately want to tell. Mira claims she wants to go back. But she doesn't know whether she actually wants to go back or not. The Olmakhan are... peaceful, and that's nice, for the most part, but it's just nice. She just can't stand the mundanity.

(But the more time she spends away, the more she sees how much she was suffering. She won't, can't, ever hate Iron, but burn her, did it suck sometimes.)

6 - A secret nobody knows about, but they desperately want to hide. Mira's met one of the human gods. In a sense. Maybe two. Depends how she cares to be depicted. Mira knows the Six exist, even if she'll never believe in them like humans do. She can't and won't ever tell anyone.

#kye says #mira silvertail #anyway i'm sure she's fine. she has to be after all. #thanks for the ask!

[rabbithaver]

uh. whoops. idk if this qualifies as a vent post or if it's just me being introspective but either way, it kinda got away from me so now i'm putting it beneath a read more.

usually, when it comes to strangers, i am pretty good at not giving a shit about whether or not i am annoying. it isn't something that bothers me as much as it used to.

what really gets me is feeling like i'm annoying to everyone i know personally. like eventually one day everyone in my life is gonna realize, "oh rabbit is actually really irritating, frustrating, and stupid" and leave. and i cant even deal with this anxiety by being like "that's ridiculous, it'll never happen" because. it has happened. many many many many times. it's happened dozens of times throughout my entire life, in fact, and it has permanently fucked with my ability to form bonds and relationships

so many of my interactions with people now involve me mentally wondering if that interaction will be the final straw, the thing that makes the other person realize, "why do i bother, again?"

because there is nothing about me that someone else doesn't already do better. someone out there is nicer. someone out there is funnier. someone out there is a better artist or writer. someone out there is better at socializing. someone out there has far less emotional baggage than i do.

someone else will always be better than me at everything i am good at and at that point it's like... why even keep me around? i'm not worth the trouble. i'm not worth the annoyance. there is genuinely nothing special or unique about me; people can always get what they come to me for somewhere else that's far less frustrating and pathetic.

so many people have either left or hurt me or both that it colors every conversation i have and every social action i take. it leads to me pushing people away or clinging too hard. it leads to me predicting based on past toxic interactions that something bad will happen in an otherwise healthy friendship. it leads to me misinterpreting signals in the worst way because i want to be prepared for things going wrong.

because they always, always go wrong. and in an effort to deal with that, i became a massive people-pleaser.

i struggle to deal with simple, casual differences of opinion because i am so used to people using those disagreements as a blunt weapon. i am so used to having someone decide i wasn't "normal enough" to be their friend. i am so used to having someone screenshot all our private conversations to use them as "callout post material" later. i lived with these things throughout my entire teenage existence and now i don't know what a healthy friendship looks like. i don't know how to turn off the paranoia. i should be able to, but i don't.

and because of these things i walk on eggshells a lot. i get cagey and weird when there's differing opinions. and it's really really hard for me to take it at face value when people say "no, i'm not mad at you" because in the past, i've had people say that and then turn around and use the thing they actually were mad about as proof that i'm actually a bad person.

and like... i am actually a bad person. in the long run, anyway. when i was active in leftbook, i was really shitty to a lot of people who really didn't deserve it. i participated in a culture of cliques, ostracism, call-outs over minor discourse, and just... it was bad. i was a really horrifically bad person who said some really horrifically bad things to other people in the name of "activism" and being a "good leftist." i was dealing with my trauma by harming other people. i was lashing out at others even when they were trying to help me. i was deeply, deeply fucking toxic.

and as much as i've tried to mellow out over the years since, i'm still that same person. it was still me who did those things. i wouldn't do any of those things now, and if i could, i would undo them in a second, but that doesn't change the fact that there are people who are worse off because of my actions and because of the culture i participated in.

i've been trying to make the trip from "malicious and spiteful asshole" to "socially inept but otherwise friendly rando." it's harder than you'd think when the trauma that caused that negative shift in the first place is still very real.

#rabbit.txt #well! that was certainly a Poast!

[pepsiwriteswords]

🖊 + for whichever oc you'd like to talk about! :3c

!!!! :D

Okay! I thought I wanted to talk about Orym bc I love per so much but. Apparently I can only ramble to myself or in a discord chat. xP So. I'm gonna scroll through my WIPs and just ... pick.

You get: Whatever words come out about Distant Light's minor/supporting characters! (so, way more characters than 1 pen emoji, whoops. xD)

We've got Jax's crew, Serenity's team (assuming I ever get around to naming any of them), and I guess Jaylon should have at least a couple colleagues to mention/think about, huh? xP

So! (going under a cut bc ofc it got long, I decided to talk about so many characters, and didn't even get around to Jay's potential colleagues. xD)

Prism Crew: Erendiz (ey/em or it/its), Yildiz (she/they), Zesiro (he/she/they), and Test_0374 (it/its). ^^ Erendiz & Yildiz are siblings, named so purely because the names mean Jupiter & star respectively & it seemed fitting for sci-fi. xP (also, fun fact: deciding to give Erendiz it/its pronouns is what made me try them out for myself and uh, huh. xP) Zesiro is the eldest person on the ship & has a sibling of their own, though we won't be meeting them in the book. (I haven't even named them or anything. I just know They Exist xP) Test is the ship's AI, and is named Test for 2 reasons: 1) I am a lazy bitch who doesn't know science or technology terms & didn't want to spend a year trying to come up with a workable acronym, and 2) Jax is its creator and they are also a lazy bitch who didn't want to name an AI until it worked, and by the time it did (presumably attempt #374 lol), they were attached to 'test' & it stuck. Erendiz is covered in freckles, knows how to throw knives, can set fire to anything, & is the other computer genius-type on the ship. Yildiz dyes her hair blue - sometimes the ends, sometimes halfway up, sometimes all the way, it varies. But it's always blue. She's the sharpshooter, and she's ace so she might not fuck the cosmic horror but she'll absolutely try to romance it. Zesiro ... might be a cyborg. or something. I dunno, I saw a cool picture & brain said 'ooh, DL' & everything except the Main 3 & the aliens are very malleable right now. xP knows how to use a gun, prefers some kind of sword. bc Cool. nonbinary lesbian, usually playing Voice of Reason bc everyone else is like. 23, max and she is Tired. & Test! I love the idea of Test, but I haven't quite figured out what kind of AI I want it to be. Like. No 'taking over the world/sending all the humans out the airlock' kinda plot line here; we're sticking to the aliens, but. outside of it throwing Shayde & Malle under the bus as soon as they step on board, I haven't got much for it as a character of its own. Also it will probably threaten to start building itself a body to physically make Jax be a reasonable human being, but idk. xD I got Really Attached to these guys immediately after creating them, but then the inability to stick to one project came back around to bite me & the antagonist polycule took over my brain, so like. I've got nothing for them now. ;_;

The Aeris crew! They're a medical team! Funded by the gov't/one of the Main 3's family. This is another area where my knowledge is ... less than fuzzy & I haven't even started on research-type tasks bc I managed like. 2 personal rambles about the Main 3 & my brain went 'cool, cool, you're gonna think about BP now, and ooh, look at that prompt over there!' and what can I do but roll with the motivation? Anyway! I'm gonna say there are ... hmm, what's a reasonable number ... maybe 10 medical professionals total, but I'm only gonna name like. 3. because this cast is already Big & I get attached way too easily, apparently. xD So Imma just throw some names down on here & see what I can come up with. Morana, bc according to this thing it means death/illness & I like the thought of like ... I dunno if any of your teachers at school had you do this, but one of my language arts teachers in middle school had us look up the meanings of our names. I don't remember why. Anyway, I like the thought of this like, 12-year-old seeing 'death, illness' and thinking something along the lines of 'no, I don't think I will' & going on to be the exact opposite. I could probably come up with some very angsty backstory things to justify this name but we're just gonna move on lol Saren, bc I've been looking at names for a long time now & it's after midnight so. Name. Liable to change, except for how it probably never will now bc I said that. XD Went to do medical stuff in space bc ... potentially shady reasons. bc why not. Make everyone shady! Oh wait, shit, maybe -- no, wait - well. Well. Hm. might have a 'loyal to the Wrong Side except for in this one specific case' kinda deal happening here. >.> & ... Chayim. Again, bc I've been looking at names for a While. xP But also bc according to a thing it means life and, well. I have 'death/illness' up there, so why not lol. probably went to space to make First Contact, just to find out someone beat them to it. xD

...Okay. It's after midnight & I am tired. I quite literally forgot about Jay's potential colleague(s) until I scrolled back up to add the read more. xP I hope this isn't terrible-awful-difficult to read; I just didn't want a gazillion-mile long post & the way tumblr does its spacing bothers me T_T I will ... maybe remember to take notes on Reni's team at work later & might even decide on a Jaylon colleague or two xP. Or maybe I'll forget all about all this & try to figure out UWKM stuff again. Who knows? Not me!

Okay, bed. XD

#pepsi talks #ask game #not actually blorbo blursday but #it's blursday & it's about blorbos so #blorbo blursday #thank you for the ask!!!! #Distant Light #gotta note for myself now before I do actually forget: #Saren's whole 'loyal but in this one instance' thing #is NOT the Jax Thing #they are very likely going to snitch on Jax if the system doesn't beat them to it #it's about Adaranth/Rook/Riyor/Karayan #xP #now I kinda wanna work on DL #but also I'm pretty sure I've forgotten how to write so #maybe I'll just sit & stare at my notebook from now until nano #& see if that does anything xP #okay seriously now #going to bed so I'm maybe NOT miserable at work all day #bc sleepy & sleepy = freezing my ass off for no reason #good night!