#the op??? big spicey

[siberat]

how about something with someone finding it difficult to fly with a full belly 😁

Why did he eat so much?

The gathering was good fun. There was a lull in fighting, and the Auto/bots took the time to put together a dinner party to socialize. Swo/op couldn’t resist the urge to grace his presence.

Unlike his other Dino/bot comrades, the flyer didn’t mind mingling even when other mechs didn’t share his enthusiasm. Mind you, they weren’t rude, just relatively short. Sideways glances would be thrown his way as he forced his opinions into the topics of conversation. Some mechs would slowly step away while others humored him momentarily before excusing themselves for odd reasons.

Apparently, Swo/op was kind of avoided due to the ‘ferocity’ his alt mode had.

Usually, the arial dino loved striking fear into his enemies and would take that as a compliment. However, hearing this from his comrades was a buzz-kill. And yes, Griml/ock was quick to say, ‘I told you so,’ as well as the others, claiming this was the perfect example as to why Dino/bots and Auto/bots don’t mix.

Even so, Swo/op felt the urge to attempt to mingle. Tonight wasn’t very successful—sadly, Sky/fire was away on a deep space mission, and the Arial/bots were nowhere to be found. Flyers tended to be more accepting, but none other than Power/glide attended—and Swo/op could only take so much of that mech!

The saving grace was the smorgasbord of food that drowned out the tables. Every type of energy/oned goodies one could imagine seemed to be present! Some of Swo/op's favorites were the mac and cheese loaded with gooey, melted cheese and bacon, French onion soup, cyberfish, and steak, just to name a few.

So, when the conversation wasn’t working, the winged mech simply filled his plate with decadent foods and gobbled them up. Each mouthful brought a smile to his lips. Each swallow made his tummy growl with pleasure. Each plate finished screamed out for another! The dishes ranged from savory to smokey, spicey to tangy, and crunchy to melt-in-your-mouth scrumptious!

Once all the dinner courses were pecked at, the dessert table was visited. The rainbow-colored dishes were so pretty to look at! They were even better to taste—the cherry pies were ever so sweet and contained a hint of an almond flavor. Danishes were freshly baked and very soft, with their icing bursting with acidic citrus filling. The mousse had the best velvety textures, and the chocolates had a rich cocoa flavor!

The food was so good it wasn’t until an angry growl announced just how stuffed he became.

He rubbed his servos over the plump swell, its plating bulging out and feeling extremely taunt. Prim/us, his belly ached as it moaned, desperately working to digest such a massive feast. Sitting back, Swo/op huffed. Breathing became more of a chore. He felt as if he had swallowed a bowling ball! Probably looked like he swallowed one as well.

Overindulging was totally worth it. His taste buds still danced with joy at all the delicious flavors! As his servos pressed at his quivering gut, Swo/op licked his lips, feeling the post-feasting slumber creeping in. Glancing around, no other ‘bot seemed keen on conversing with him. And he was simply too stuffed to bother mingling anymore.

He had his fill. Now, it was time to fly home.

That is if he could get this heavy frame off the ground! The flier frowned. He didn’t think of this aspect, but his cozy nest beckoned, and he gave the party the slip.

Slag, just walking seemed to take up so much energy! His body felt heavy as he dragged himself from the gathering to a clearing. He glanced at the sky—it was clear with only a few clouds littering the way. The freedom of flying was calling to him, and he made his way to transform.

At least attempt to.

His t-cog activated, and gears whined and clicked, but total transformation did not happen. Swo/op tried a few times, but a clunking and grinding sound was heard each time. His belly was simply too big! Furring his optics, Swo/op growled, not believing for one moment he was grounded!

He sucked in his gut- even using his servos to manipulate his flab as he transformed. This was challenging- gears vibrated that shouldn’t have, his frame erratically jerked, and he swore he smelt a faint smoke smell. Finally, changing into his alt-mode was complete, and he stood on the ground in his pterodactyl form. Releasing his breath, he felt his plating creak and bulge: if he had eaten one more plate, he’d probably pop some paneling off!

With transformation out of the way, the next step was take-off, and he knew his graceful ascension into the sky was not going to be pretty. Nonetheless, he waddled to a clearing and spread his wings wide. After giving a final stretch, those wings began flapping. He felt his body slowly rise but did not lift from the ground. Working harder, Swo/op desperately worked his appendages, but it still felt like trying to make a boulder airborne.

It didn’t take long for his wing joints to tire, but a final attempt was made. Crouching down, the flyer madly flapped its wings and leaped into the sky. He was in the air for all two seconds before plummeting back onto the ground.

Sadly, his feet slipped out from under him, and he rolled forward, grimacing as his overstuffed belly took the impact. He then rolled head over feet a few times before coming to a stop. Once dirt was shaken from his face, the bird-former groaned. Longingly, he glared at the sky, but he could not sail amongst the clouds! He was grounded.

With much difficulty, he returned to his root mode- there was slightly more room for his widened frame. He sat on the ground, rubbing a servo over his grumbling belly. Saddened that he could not take to the skies, he did not regret the feast.

He was, however, happy his fellow Dino/bots did not join him, for their ridicule over his predicament would have been unbearable. A smile appeared on his lips as he bathed in the sun’s warmth, rubbing his servos over his swollen belly and reminiscing of all the tasty dishes he had consumed.

Swo/op truly did enjoy the party.

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Sorry this took so long! Sometimes I really get into a slump with writing!!

#chubformers #siberat drabbles

[shrimpella21]

IF DEADLY, WHY FRIEND SHAPED?

SHARDIK // WEREBEAR // wip

-General Info -Likes -Dislikes -Weaknesses -Fighting Stats/Info -Tidbits

General Info

Shardik has three forms - human, bear, and a slightly humanoid bear version. His bear form is undoubtedly his strongest form. The humanoid bear is rarely used unless he needs to reach or climb something that his normal bear form is unable to get to.

Unlike some were-beast creatures, Shardik does NOT shift in accordance to the moon cycles. His transformations occur based on his mental and physical state, as well as his stress levels. If he's having a good day, he can choose if he'd like to shift. On a bad day, he has no choice in the matter.

He is horrible at regulating his emotions, and thus, his transformations can sometimes be unwanted. This is partly why he likes being on his own - there's no accidental exposure when he's all by himself.

The shifting process is the most painful thing he's experienced; it's essentially all of his bones breaking apart and reforming into a bear-shaped thing. Even when he's used to the pain, it sucks. Isn't that fun?

Likes

Sweets

Honey

Wrestling

Scratches

Bone-gnawing

Dislikes

SPICEY

Loud/High-Pitched noises

Rickety platforms

Deep water

Dogs/Pack animals

Vending machines and refrigerators

Weaknesses

-If you run into Shardik and wish to live to tell the tale, your best option is to not shoot. There are very few handheld guns powerful enough to put him down with one shot, and most bullets do nothing but piss him off. Shooting him means that you've put a target on your back, and he'll close the gap between him and you before you can hit a one-shot kill. If he's going down, he's determined to take the shooter down too.

-Shardik is extremely sensitive to capsaicin (pepper spice) in any form. The closest thing he'll get to spice is a bag of chili doritos - anything else will have him running towards the hills. His nose, like most grizzlies, is 7x better than a bloodhound's. That means anything in spray, powder, or liquid form will fuck him up pretty bad. Spicy things make him cry. For him, it's akin to a bad allergic reaction.

-Though the aforementioned shooting might not kill him, bleeding him out WILL. His blood doesn't clot properly, so if too many wounds are open at the same time, he will bleed out fast.

-He is not a fan of loud and high pitched noises, as they drown out his second-most important hunting tool. His ears are sensitive, and noises too loud will cause ear-ringing and/or permanent deafness.

-The best way to render him incapacitated permanently is to break his shoulder and then break his spine. It's harder than it sounds but it is possible with the right gun from far enough away.

-One of Shardik's strengths (his weight) is also a point of weakness. He's unable to climb most trees higher than a few feet, and exploring run-down areas as a bear is a big nono since he's likely to fall through flooring. -Like most creatures he is also vulnerable to strangulation, drowning, and fire damage.

Fighting Stats/Info

Shardik's height is measured as 5'9 at the top of his hump. When standing, he's measured at 8'7. He is very big for a grizzly bear.

Though his weight fluctuates based on season, he weighs close to 1.2k lbs during the winter, and 800 lbs during the spring and summer. His weight depends on how much food he has available. The more food he has, the more weight he'll put on and store. Think of it like a bodybuilder bulking.

It comes as a surprise to most people, but Shardik can run 35 mph! He looks fat and slow but do not underestimate how quickly he can move, and how much stamina he's able to hold. Imagine a bear the size of a car running towards you faster than an olympic athlete. Scared? Good :)

Bears are OP as hell and I fully take advantage of this.

Tidbits

He's a drooler. Sorry neat-freaks.

He enjoys gnawing on bones in both human and bear form.

His weight means it's easy for him to crush things with his paws. Including people.

Getting to know him means realizing he's actually a silly sweetheart who just needs to learn to trust people.

Eating rot and garbage will not make him sick. He's not as fond of the taste of trash as a human, but bear!shardik doesn't give a fuck.

Generally, unless he's just received a bath, he smells like a dog.

He loses teeth sometimes, which grow back after time even if they're adult teeth.

Spring and summer are the shedding seasons, babyyy. RIP to the furniture.

He's the perfect shape to be a snuggle buddy???? Beanbag boy.

#shardik #character info

[zephyrine-gale]

past or future, leave them be

#link click #时光代理人 #shi guang dai li ren #cheng xiaoshi #lu guang #my art #HI HELLO THIS DONGHUA LEFT ME FRAGILE AND DED IN A HEART EYES AND PAIN PUDDLE #the op??? big spicey #the animation?? slaps #hi im in love with the rotoscoping on the tutting take me away #the pacing??? delicious ty for the good food #dive back in time by bai sha jaws lives rent free in my mind #the characters??? hi ily pls take care of urself i am in p a i n #i would like to thank that one random yt video that suggested this bc it has simultaneously ruined my life and activated my art serotonin #brain cells are popping off and i have inspo and ideas i wanna draw im legit shelfing everything else rn adjkfgkjhfgh #this was supposed to be a gif but i added too many colors and now its just a pic adkjfkjg #also the official art for the series is hot thats a very tasty art style i would gladly love to absorb that into my me #anyway the best i can do is. sticky leggy pls watch link click thank u have a good day

[razberryyum]

TGCF donghua Episode 10 Thoughts (SPOILERS for episode and novel!)

The donghua sometimes does this interesting thing with context in that it provides none for certain scenes so they come across differently from how they were originally intended in the source material. Sometimes the end result is better than the original text. Take the scene above for example, out of context it looks like Xie Lian was perhaps getting a little worked up from just staring at the back of San Lang's neck, especially as he was remembering the way his hands felt on his back and knees. When in fact, in the novel, the scene was played off rather innocnetly: he was mostly trying to determine in the dimness of the pit if San Lang was now different, since he seemed taller, his chin more defined. It was simply an attempt at confirming his suspicions on San Lang's true identity, but bless the donghua team for turning that moment into something more romantic and even mildly spicey.

And yet sometimes, some context probably should have been given so the end result wouldn't be so unpleasant. Take the scene where Ke Mo was beating the crap out of Ban Yue. First of all it went on for an unnecessarily long time, imo, valuable time that could have been spent on other people (like HuaLian), but more importantly, despite the fact that Ban Yue technically is no longer a human being, visually, we're still basically watching a big gigantic monster of a man punching, kicking, and strangling a little girl. In the middle of it I actually wondered why no one was stopping him since it got to be a bit much, and that's where some reiteration of context would've helped since in the novel, the reason why Xie Lian let the beating go on for a while is because he recognized that Ke Mo's hatred was justified. Therefore he essentially allowed Ke Mo to vent his anger...until the gratuitous violence became unbearable. In the show though, without that context, the whole sequence just felt really weird and wrong, definitely very uncomfortable to watch.

Especially since Ban Yue is just too adorable. God they could not have made her more sweet looking. Even her voice tugs at my heart string. Looking at her it's really hard to take Ke Mo's side at all. The fact that she had an existing relationship with Dianxia just made it that much harder to feel anything but sympathy for her, even though Ke Mo's anger isn't unreasonable at all.

I mean, just look at that cuteness. Made my heart ache for her, for all the hardships she went through before meeting Xie Lian, and all that she suffered afterwards, even after her death.

Even more cuteness: I loved how Xie Lian looked in that armor. The fact that he kept his usual hairstyle just made the whole look that much more adorable.

My favorite moment of the episode because first of all, Dianxia trying to only remember the good things in life just makes me love him even more, I just want to hug him. Secondly, the difference between San Lang and Fu Yao's reactions was perfection: basically the difference between a man who's in love with Dianxia and one who's not....at least not in the same worshipful way.

But Dianxia's history in Ban Yue..another heartache. How much will this man make my heart hurt for him before all this is over???

Loved this moment too. I gasped when I first read about it--Hua Xie, Hua Cheng--watching it just warmed my heart all over again. I seriously cannot wait for when Dianxia finally finds out how much of Hua Cheng's existence is for him. I'm sure I will cry buckets when I get to that point in the novel, and then cry buckets all over again when we finally get to see it brought to life on screen...which, God, I really hope we do one day. I can't believe next week is already the season finale. I don't even know how they're going to wrap up the Ban Yue arc in just one more episode... they'll definitely have to pack a lot into just less than 20 minutes of runtime (not counting OP/ED). Feels like they could've covered more ground in this episode if they just edited down the Ke Mo beating scene and also the snakes sequence at the end of the episode which also felt on the long side too.

Novel Reading Progress...still in the Yong'an famine...holidays, couldn't get much reading done. But Dianxia just got his straw hat so yayy for that! I doubt I can finish the novel before the season finale next week, so my new goal is to finish it before the special HuaLian episode airs on February 16th. Wish me luck!

#Tian Guan Ci Fu #TGCF #Heaven Official's Blessing #HuaLian

[hellofastestnewsfan]

John Kelly’s forthcoming departure as White House chief of staff is a reminder of an important but underpublicized distinction among those who have chosen to support or work for Donald Trump.The distinction is between those whom Trump has made bad, and those who have been revealed as bad through their association with this man. (There’s also a small “not yet bad” category, which I will get to later on.)

In the first category,“made bad,” are people who in other circumstances might have taken a harder, higher-minded path. They might have chosen to stand on principle, to take the long view, to seek out reasonable compromises, to defend the norms and values of American institutions—and, overall, to behave in a way they’d be happy to talk about later on. Many of these people have actually made those choices at previous times in their life.

The way Trump has made them bad is to put them in a corner where day-by-day they have to choose: Do they maintain their place within his organization, sheltered against his ridicule or wrath? Do they remain, even if it means accepting Trump’s lies, lying when necessary themselves, ignoring the standards they’d apply to any other leaders, and renouncing the policy goals they had defended through their previous careers? For today’s Republicans, those goals would include at least a lip-service interest in reducing deficits, a ferocious opposition to talk of trade wars and tariffs, at least a rhetorical reverence for the military, and an assumption that immigration was overall a plus for the United States. This is to say nothing of the modern GOP’s hair-trigger willingness to investigate possible conflicts of interest or abuses of executive power by the Clinton and Obama administrations.

[Peter Beinart: The “to be sure” conservatives ]

To stay connected to Trump, Republicans have had to turn their backs on their previous lives and values. In being pushed toward that choice, some people who in other circumstance would have been “good”—by their own lights, and the outside world’s—have been made bad.

The most heartbreaking illustration in this category is of course H. R. McMaster. When the original call came to serve as Trump’s national-security adviser, replacing the notorious Michael Flynn, McMaster likely felt honor-bound to accept. He was still an active-duty three-star Army general, and this was his new posting. He could accept, or he could retire and resign. No doubt he also felt that he could serve the nation by applying a buffer of experience and mature judgment to whatever Trump might have in mind.

But as the months went on, before his inevitable and humiliating departure, McMaster had to say goodbye to many of the values that had defined him. In the Army, he had been known for his independence, and his insistence on the need for the professional officer corps to defend its professional values and integrity. Most of today’s career U.S. soldiers have read McMaster’s seminal 1990s book, Dereliction of Duty, written when he was a young instructor at West Point. In it, he argued that part of the tragedy of Vietnam could be traced to ethical failures by the generals and admirals of that era. They knew that President Lyndon B. Johnson’s policy was based on falsehoods and headed for disaster. But they did not stand up to it, or him—even as their troops headed for disaster in the jungle. They should have been more willing to risk their careers to defend their institution, was McMaster’s judgment in the book.

Some young West Point instructor of the future will write about the military relations of this era, and will have to examine the way McMaster accommodated himself to Trump’s fantasized view of the world (for instance, in this op-ed), only to lose in the end both his position and much of his previous identity.

[Conor Friedersdorf: Republicans must choose between Trump and the rule of law]

Sean Spicer? In his previous press-relations roles, he had been known as a staunch defender of Republican arguments, but not as a liar. By the time he was forced out of his service to Trump, the fantasies he delivered from the podium had immortalized him as “Spicey” on Saturday Night Live.

Rex Tillerson? Two years ago, he was a titan of world industry, who ended up part of Trump’s team precisely because the likes of Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates had been so impressed by his sophistication and skills. Rob Porter? (Remember him? Though in his case a public role brought attention to apparently long-standing private behavior.) Or Mick Mulvaney, who built his Tea Party career inveighing against deficits and now is the budget director presiding over a record fiscal hemorrhage?

A harder case: Senator Lindsey Graham. Graham has long been a partisan, but one known for his candor and flashes of self-awareness. Something happened over the past year to make him a parody of the “if Trump says two plus two is five, it’s five” down-the-line loyalist. This may help him in his next South Carolina primary. It has forever separated him from his role model, John McCain. (McCain had his own contradictions, but wouldn’t fully swallow his self-respect out of fear of Trump.)

An easier case: most of the Republican congressional establishment. Paul Ryan came to Congress as an ostentatiously “wonkish” budget expert. He has blandly presided over unprecedented splurges of boom-time deficit spending and expansions of unchecked executive power.

There is no point in listing all the other Republicans who have talked about accountability, constitutional balance, personal probity, and fiscal restraint but now have entirely forgotten those concepts—and that they, especially as senators, have an important check-and-balance responsibility. They know who they are, and they’ll be remembered. (Voters of Maine remember Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican who was the first woman to represent her state in the U.S. Senate—and for most of her career the only woman in the Senate— for her brave early stand against Joe McCarthy in the 1950s. I suspect they’ll remember Senator Susan Collins, also a Republican from Maine, less admiringly.)

[James Fallows: The greatest disappointment of the Trump presidency]

As for the other category, those “revealed as bad”: These are individual counterparts to the effect of a demagogic leader on the population as a whole. Every society has always included its hateful and even violent factions. The best leaders try to mute and discourage those impulses; the worst leaders egg them on.

But how people behave, when they think that all the normal constraints are off, reveals a lot about them. And the people who have revealed themselves this way under Trump include former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, whose rule-breaking and corruption sufficed to remove him from the Cabinet; Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who seems to be on his way out; a handful of other Cabinet members and officials; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, with her disregard for a norm that even her Watergate-era predecessor Ron Ziegler observed (namely, that a press secretary should try not to lie unless really necessary, or useful); the extended Trump family, notably through the combined sense of entitled and self-regard with which Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have approached the world; Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort; and … John Kelly.

Two years ago, Kelly was a widely esteemed four-star Marine Corps general, a former head of the U.S. Southern Command, and all the more respected for the stoicism with which his family bore the tragedy of their son’s death in combat in Afghanistan.

Now Kelly has endured nearly a year of dismissive leaks from inside the White House, as the object of rumorology about when exactly Trump would cut him loose. Worse, he has revealed himself as emotionally in sync with the angriest and most Bannon-esque parts of Trump’s approach to the world—a reflection more of the part of  Boston in which he was raised in the Fifties and Sixties than of the fully integrated and inclusive modern military in which he spent the first 40 years of his career.

[Read: Trump can never go too far for Republicans]

When Frederica Wilson—a congresswoman from Florida who is black—criticized Trump for his response to the family of a constituent who had died in combat, Kelly dismissed her as an “empty barrel that makes the most noise.” In his six months as Trump’s first secretary of Homeland Security, he enforced with extra gusto anti-immigrant roundups by ICE. When protests began about the policy of separating children from their parents at the border, he said on NPR that “the children will be taken care of—put into foster care or whatever.” The “whatever,” including “misplacing” children and the detention camps where others were put, is to the country’s lasting shame. Kelly also said this past summer that “a big name of the game is deterrence,” to keep families from trying to cross the border. Taking children from their parents “would be a tough deterrent,” Kelly said on CNN. Kelly would not have revealed these and other parts of himself in public had he not crossed paths with Donald Trump.

I’ve realized that as I’ve read the news over the months, I’ve subconsciously been making the classifications: Who has been turned into something worse by Donald Trump? Who was that way all along? (How would Rudy Giuliani fit into this model? Alan Dershowitz, in his new role as Trump stalwart? Mike Pence?) I’ll keep applying this filter, and also thinking about the dwindling ranks of exceptions. The main one, of course, is James Mattis, the secretary of defense. He seemed to take a big step in the wrong direction when he approved the political stunt of deploying troops to the southern border, before the election, to fend off “the caravan.” But otherwise he’s mostly been sure-footed, and is the one senior Trump official whose personal and professional reputation is not yet in tatters, compared with the pre-Trump years.

(It’s a long falloff to second place, which may be occupied by Nikki Haley. She hopped off a foundering vessel just before it went down, with minimal lasting damage to herself.)

Of course, there is one person who has revealed the most about who he really is. It should not come as a surprise—the evidence was there all along—but he’s brought a lot of others down with him.

from The Atlantic https://ift.tt/2C0zilc

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