#the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

Doing his best Ulquiorra impression, voice flat: ❝ Trash. ❞

#[ YOU'RE DOING AMAZING NNOI lmao ] #[ he's probably talking about ME ] #[ bc i'm taking 200000000 years with finishing our drafts ] #[ LISTEN NNOI ---- i have no excuses lOL ] #[ thank you for your patience guys!! ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[morally-grey-girlbosses]

Bracket update! Round 3 matches will begin going up tomorrow. Matchups are in text form under the cut.

Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once) vs. Almalexia (The Elder Scrolls)

GLaDOS/Caroline (Portal) vs. Helen Richardson/The Distortion (The Magnus Archives)

Lady Barbrey Dustin (A Song of Ice and Fire) vs. Jennifer Check (Jennifer's Body)

Artemis (Greek Mythology) vs. Shego (Kim-Possible)

Morgana Pendragon/Le Fey (BBC Merlin) vs. Nimona (Nimona)

Ianthe Tridentarius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Lady Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil: Village)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck) vs. Galadriel (Lord of the Rings)

Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond (Steven Universe) vs. Yūko Ichihara (xxxHolic)

Granny Weatherwax (Discworld) vs. Starlight Glimmer (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show) vs. Empress Phillipa Georgiou (Star Trek)

Dr. Pamela Isley AKA Poison Ivy (DCEU) vs. Reagan Ridley (Inside Job)

Marcille Donato (Dungeon Meshi) vs. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley (House MD)

Han Sooyung (Omnsicient Reader's Viewpoint) vs. Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do In The Shadows)

Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa) vs. Vermouth (Detective Conan)

Asuka Langley Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion) vs. Anthy Himemiya (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

O-Ren Ishii (Kill Bill) vs. Harley Quinn (DCEU)

Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Eve (Biblical Canon)

Marina (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas) vs. Halea Haumea (Phantomarine)

Wu Zetian (IRL History) vs. Miranda Pryce (Wolf 359)

Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time) vs. Harrowhark Nonagesimus (The Locked Tomb)

Catra (She-Ra and The Princesses of Power) vs. Jasnah Kholin (Stormlight Archive)

Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) vs. Any Female Praying Mantis (IRL)

Veronica Sawyer (Heathers) vs. Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Noi (Dorohedoro) vs. Rat God (Mad Rat Dead)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) vs. Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd)

Lady Eboshi (Princess Mononoke) vs. Princess Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Samantha Groves AKA Root (Person of Interest) vs. Raphaella la Cognizi (The Mechanisms)

Yennefer of Vengerberg (The Witcher) vs. Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Gertrude Robinson (The Magnus Archives) vs. Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Romanadvoratrelundar (Doctor Who) vs. Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Aubrey (OMORI) vs. Dr. Olivia "Liv" Octavius AKA Doc Ock (Into the Spider-Verse)

The Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2) vs. Lucretia (The Adventure Zone: Balance)

#poll #tournament poll #round 3

[shylittlefrogg]

I know you saw they Shadybug special, what are your plans for Shady Firebug and Tabby?

Honestly, the fact that I already have plans and a separate file on this is really something.

About the special itself, I really like the pacing and how they did it, so I would keep the sequence of events pretty similar.

I'm mainly here with the Shady!Tabby and Firebug stories. I haven't really thought about names but I'll think of something (thinking a little about making Firebug a kind of praying mantis aesthetic)

Now I'm moving towards the stories and because my two children are emotionally stunted.

A note from TW earlier, I would say that child neglect and abuse....yes, Alt!verse is bad....

Roger is... a father, he's not good but he's not bad either, he's done things that have stunted Sabrina's view of the world, but he cares about her and lets her be her own person, hanging out with Chloe and Adrien. Now imagine that Roger is worse than that, he doesn't let Sabrina go out, the only way for her to hang out with other people is at school, the rest of the time she is locked in the house and has to study twice as hard because it is safer inside than outside.

She has no one... For a child she would be too much and if we add that Roger is almost never at home... The teenager Sabrina is so full of loneliness, exhaustion, hatred.

This Sabrina is almost a parallel to Adrien but she is more angry with the world, with her father. She doesn't even remember her mother so she's never met anyone who cares about her.... Sabrina, Our Sabrina, can't fully understand her, but she does, because she remembers the time when she didn't know Chloe yet and She was alone and stayed at home because what else could she do??? She doesn't fully understand her, but she does, she understands her pain.

Then we have Nathaniel, I haven't really said it but his mother and father in my canon are separated for some reasons related to domestic abuse.

It's okay, Nathaniel is fine now, he was more worried about his mother than his, but that situation has been going on for a while and everything is better now.

But if that hadn't been resolved....Shady!Nathaniel still has his family together, at the cost of his own safety and that of his mother. He can sometimes protect her, sometimes he can be the hurt one, he can be the one who yells and makes her father angry so that she doesn't get hurt.

He hates him, he hates more that he cannot kill his father with his own hands just because he is one of the people under the command of the supreme.

Not to mention that Nathaniel broke off his friendship with Alix because she was being annoying, she was having rebellious thoughts and he...he doesn't really want to hurt her...so it's better to stay away, pretend to hate her...

Alt!Nathaniel usually wears a lot of makeup, much more than just the scars from the powers...

yes, the redemption situation with Nathaniel will be the most difficult

Okay, this has already weighed on my thoughts.

anyway, here's a little sketch of my alternate introverts ideas

#miraculous ladybug #ask introvert power au #introvert power au!

[whereistheonepiece]

Fuck-Marry-Kill

Buggy, Shanks, Zoro, Sanji and Law

Robin, Nami, Hancock, Big Mom and Hiyori

Never done FMK with 5 names before. Hope I answered okay.

For the men: Fuck Law, Marry Zoro and Shanks, Kill Buggy and Sanji.

For the women: Fuck Nami, Marry Robin and Hiyori, Kill Hancock and Big Mom.

Lol the men were kind of difficult to answer because while I do find all of these men attractive, I just can't help but think of reasons why marriage wouldn't work out between us. I don't see Law and I making it to marriage, but Shanks and Zoro seem a little more likely, and yet I still feel like both would end in divorce. And I'm sure it'll surprise people for me to Kill Buggy, but setting aside the fact that I picture him as gay 99% of the time (look I'm just very fond of him and Alvida as a ship so there are verses where I picture him with her), I personally wouldn't choose him as a sexual partner lmao. And Sanji... Sanji is attractive but my god does canon give me plenty of reasons to not Marry him or Fuck him.

The women were easier to answer. I don't see myself marrying Nami. Of course I'd marry Robin. Hiyori seems like she'd be a great wife. I was going to put Hancock under Fuck but then I remembered that she canonically fell in love with a seventeen year old and I. 😬 And I'm just simply not enough woman for Big Mom. She might also eat me afterwards, like a praying mantis.

#asks #anonymous

[avatar-news]

Book Two of the Avatar Kyoshi series will be titled The Shadow of Kyoshi

Kind of confusing naming... So at first when the series was announced as being two books, it wasn’t clear whether The Rise of Kyoshi was the name of the first book or the series. Now we know that Book One is titled The Rise of Kyoshi and Book Two is titled The Shadow of Kyoshi! So the series doesn’t really have a name, if it is still only two books long.

For Book Two, there’s no release date yet, but we can estimate it’ll be about a year from now in Summer 2020.

Meanwhile Book One, The Rise of Kyoshi, comes out in a couple weeks on July 16th! The author, F. C. Yee, recently shared what the physical book looks like without the slip cover:

Very slick.......

He’s also been doing a countdown to the release with a bunch of cool fun facts:

“Working with Mike DiMartino on RISE OF KYOSHI was not only a deep-dive into the lore of the Avatar-verse, but also a masterclass in storytelling. I’ve come out of this a better writer than I was going in from his notes and feedback.”

“Secret bonus of working with Mike - I got to ask him questions about power levels between Avatar Kyoshi, Toph, and Bumi like the total nerd I am”

“It is now official canon that in her youth Kyoshi once picked up a grown man by the neck with one hand and made him cry”

“While outlining I proposed an earthbending sub-discipline that made everyone working on this project give me side-eye over the phone on a conference call (it is not in the book)”

“Since this was a prequel, I had to be mindful of setting worldbuilding precedents. For example, I may have inadvertently pre-explained how Zuko has his Book One hairstyle 👀”

“Just like Toph's unique personal bending style draws on Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu as an inspiration, someone in this book has Choy Li Fut Kung Fu as the base of their own unique bending style.”

“It was not my intent, but once #riseofkyoshi comes out, all of my published novels will have a scene that takes place in a dumpling restaurant. What happens in the restaurant is wildly different though”

Last but definitely not least, you can also read a really REALLY cool excerpt of Book One, Chapter Seven: The Iceberg here.

#kyoshi series #the rise of kyoshi #the shadow of kyoshi #chronicles of the avatar #news #fc yee #title #michael dante dimartino

[barrygaudy]

First Rapper To Die From Old Age December 31st #frtdfoa FRTDFOA has so many lyrical gems and double entendres that we begin to get a glimpse of what hip hop could look like if we stop using it to sell guns, drugs, alcohol, credit cards and poverty in African American/Youth cultures. With bass by @londrel and mix and master by @littlepioneerciderhouse this self produced classic addition to the canon of Ohene's catalog gives us all we need from music and more right now; a Head nodding beat, masterful metaphors, and an outro that could be a song on its own. PRAYING MANTIS Artwork x @vybzdealer January 1st #PRAYINGMANTIS @DeucEELLIS handles the bulk of the production work with Colieon, and Ohene himself putting in some action behind the boards. Ohene croons, waxes poetic, and spits flames as Christian Baxter lends some soulful colors and Deuce drops a verse and a hook or two. The 5 track opus boasts Vibes suitable for the bedroom, late night drives, and early mornings in the gym. Artwork x @ian_cinco #Texas #LastLove #insidertrading #lastlovechallenge #texaschallenge #Ohenethingispossible #doitbigchallenge #rolex #secondfunniestcomedianintheworld #ohenecornelius #thelatebloomer #wittybeingdumb #TheCoverBoyTour #globalmusicambassador (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrsYRJZlvI0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=190kdmsflsbdg

#frtdfoa #prayingmantis #texas #lastlove #insidertrading #lastlovechallenge #texaschallenge #ohenethingispossible #doitbigchallenge #rolex #secondfunniestcomedianintheworld #ohenecornelius #thelatebloomer #wittybeingdumb #thecoverboytour #globalmusicambassador

[despairforme]

*baps you with my kitty paws*

-1hp

*baps you with my kitty paws*

-1hp

*baps you with my kitty paws*

-1hp

*baps you with my kitty paws*

-1hp

Keep it up! Only 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999996 hp left!

#[ WHY IS THIS SO CUTE ] #[ -1hp ] #[ t-t adorable ] #[ thank you for sending anon!! this made me go “awww” T-T ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

Tesla has that "it don't bite" energy about Nnoitra, when he absolutely bites

He absolutely bites !

#[ “it don't bite” we say about him as he's cannibalizing 2 people at once ] #[ NNOITRA NOOOO ] #[ but i mean why else does he have these teeth ] #[ THEY WERE MADE FOR EATING ] #[ CHEW CHEW ON TREATS ] #[ thank you for your ask anon! ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

Nnoi, you said that you’ve fucked a lot of guys before. Is there any guy you wouldn’t fuck? Specifically among the arrancars?

❝ Didn't I answer this already? ❞ He might have. He didn't remember. He got quite a lot of these sexual questions ( which he didn't mind ). With his high sex drive, it went without saying that YEAH, Nnoitra had fucked a lot of guys - and chicks. He was pretty sure it wasn't long since he'd ranked the Espada in terms of how fuckable they were. So, were there any of the Arrancar he wouldn't fuck? Not that he could think of on the top of his head. Nnoitra was shit with names and if someone wasn't fuckable, it was even LESS likely that he'd remember them. ❝ Nah, can't think 'a anyone. ❞ That's what happened when you had a bad memory, and no standards.

#[ 8)))) i mean ??? he's got no standards so he'd probably do any and all of them LOL ] #[ he's good like that ] #[ or bad ] #[ depending on how you view it ahahaha ] #[ thank you for sending anon! 8) ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse. #suggestive //

[despairforme]

@cinghialefedele ,, continued.

It wasn't like he expected Tesla to turn him down. He hardly EVER heard his Fraccion tell him ' no '. He wouldn't have minded if he did in this case. If he didn't want ANYTHING for his birthday, that was his choice and his problem. Nnoitra would consider them even. He looked surprisingly STUNNED at Nnoitra's offer. It was almost funny, drawing a small grin from him. His teeth showing. How could he say that shit with such a straight face? What a slut. Again, Nnoitra didn't mind.

❝ Alright then. ❞ Since this WAS a substitute for a birthday present, Nnoitra should PROBABLY give Tesla some influence. Otherwise it would just be himself getting off (which, would not be a bad thing, but that was not really a present for Tesla, was it?). This was not how Nnoitra usually got laid. He'd usually just drag some random Arrancar with him and do whatever the fuck he wanted with them. ❝ Where do ya wanna do it? ❞ And when? Tesla probably had preferences. Nnoitra would let him have some say in it.

#cinghialefedele #[ HE TOOK AN OPPORTUNITY AND RAN WITH IT GOOD BOY ] #[ nnoitra is like: i better be nice-ISH ] #[ YES NNOI U BETTER BE ] #suggestive // #despair for me. ╱ in character. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

Ok so i just learned hollows dont celebrate valentines day but despite that, what if tesla asked you to be his valentine? Would you accept? *stands on tiptoes holds up mic*

UHM, Valentine's? Which one was that again? Humans had SO many fucking stupid holidays. Wasn't Valentine's the one where girls gave guys chocolate? - Didn't seem that way from how the question was phrased though.

❝ I dunno what 'da fuck bein' someone's Valentine's means. If it's a hassle, I'mma pass. ❞ What Nnoitra would refer to as a "hassle" was literally anything. Anything at all that demanded the slightest effort for him. In addition, he was not the easiest person to work with. Often, he'd just answer ' no ' to any question or suggestion, without even thinking it through. So, probably, if Tesla asked him to ( what the fuck? ) - be his Valentine's? Nnoitra would say no. He didn't like the thought of being someone's ANYTHING.

#[ oH ahahaha good ask anon ] #[ i wonder if tesla would have the courage ahaha ] #[ nnoitra is like wtf ] #[ LOL ] #[ thank you for sending! ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

"Been behaving while I've been away?"

❝ FUCK NO. ❞ He had not behaved, nor WOULD he ever behave. His presence made absolutely zero difference. Why would it? She was nothing. Just some weak ass female Arrancar. Because she, like him, was an insect, he did feel a strange sort of kinship with her ( not that he'd ever admit that ), which was the only reason why he'd allow her to get away with saying shit like this. He took it with humor, which was not his usual approach. Lucky for her.

#venenorita #[ I actually think he has behaved ?? somewhat LOL ] #[ fjfjf is she gonna try and make him behave? GOOD LUCK ] #[ she is fav tho like i love how you write her ] #[ thank you for sending! ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

He's had the feeling something is wrong for a while but now he knows what it is. WHERE THE FUCK ARE ALL THE OTHER ESPADA AND ARRANCAR ??

#[ HONESTLY YES ] #[ WHERE ARE YOU GUYS ] #[ NEED THE OTHER ARRANCAR ] #[ WHERE ARE HIS FELLOW ESPADA ] #[ also hello guys !! i'm leaving in an hour ] #[ to go to my first ever volleyball practice uvu ] #[ the beginning of my haikyuu life LMAO ] #[ hope you're all doing good! ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

Dont be a grump you need the happiness beam 💫🌟🌟⭐🌟🎉🎉⭐🌟💫✨💫🌟💫🎉🎉💥💥⭐🌟⭐⭐🌟🎉🎉🎉❤️💛💙🩵💜🧡💜🩶💙🩷🧡❤️🤎💚💚💫✨💥💜💫💛✨💚🩶🎉🎉⭐⭐💛💥🌟💜🤎💙🌟✨

. . .

#[ omfg xD ] #[ i got this ask and immediately thought of this con that i hardly ever use ] #[ happiness beam for him !!!!! ] #[ thank you for sending anon xD it made me laugh ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

You should go look up who Naoya Zenin is. He makes canon Nnoitra's misogyny look like a JOKE

❝ Well shit, I didn't know I was signed up 'fer a fuckin' misogyny competition. ❞

#[ uhmmm okay? xD ] #[ thank you for the tip anon but i'm not really? interested in misogynistic characters ] #[ also not sure why it's suddenly a competition xD ] #[ but i SHOULD watch/read jjk at some point! for sure! 8) ] #[ hope you're having a wonderful end to the year! :D ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.

[despairforme]

I just wanted to say you're beautiful. Not in the feminine way, in the handsome elegant manly way. You're just gorgeous.

❝ Ya 'n Tesla in 'da same fuckin' fanclub, or wha'? ❞ His voice was calm, perhaps there was even a slight hint of humor there. This did definitely sound like something Tesla could've said to him. Maybe with a slight flush on his face, embarrassed to confess something so weird. Calling someone beautiful straight to their face was just STRANGE. Clearly, this stranger knew that Nnoitra would've taken offence to being called "beautiful", because he associated that with femininity, which he HATED. He wondered how someone could be beautiful in a manly way, but ey - he'd take the compliment, since it was so tailor made to him. Not that he gave a shit about how he looked. It didn't matter to him what people thought about his appearance. It had nothing to do with his strength, which was the ONLY important thing.

#[ this was so sweet t-t ] #[ like YES anon !! nnoitra has very manly beauty !! he's SO stunning like i can't even deal ] #[ LOVE his appearance forever ] #[ thank you very much for sending him such a nice compliments t-t <5 ] #despair for me. ╱ in character. #talking shit. ╱ answers. #the praying mantis. ╱ canon verse.