#though different flavors

[pencilofawesomeness]

If I had a nickel for every time I have grown fond of a blond male homunculus who (at one point) wants to make their morally problematic creator proud......

#the owl house #genshin impact #fairy tail #toh hunter #hunter noceda #albedo kreideprinz #larcade dragneel #it's hilarious to me that this has happened at least three times #with the parent issues and everything #though different flavors #albedo is probably the best off #and we don't know *how* problematic rhinedottir actually was #but it's not looking great for her #and hunter has an arc breaking away from belos #larcade never got the chance rip larcade #also they all have similar color schemes?? #gold white and some black #this goes for hunter's golden guard design too #good for albedo having some blue in there #anyway this has been rattling around my brain #so here's my ultra specific content #for me to enjoy lol #idk what albedo is drawing but it's cool #cool enough to get hunter and larcade to sit still and watch at least #all of these boys need a break lemme tell you

[canisalbus]

I just recently started following you so i don't have the full lore of your murderous gay religiously traumatized doggos, BUT, from my understanding, they are Italian and i don't know what part of Italy they are from, yet i can't help headcanoning Vasco as Tuscan, while Machete is probably from some part of Veneto. And as an Italian who has heard Tuscans and Veneto dialet, well it's an hilarious mental image.

Vasco is indeed Tuscan, Florentine to be specific. He comes from a wealthy and influential noble family that has lived in Florence for centuries. He's proud of his roots, and it's usually easy for strangers to tell where he's from. He's a resonably successful politician and has worked as an ambassador and representative of Florence on numerous occasions.

Machete is originally Sicilian (ironically about as far from Veneto as possible), although he was taken to mainland at young age and has lived in several places since then, before ending up in Rome. The way I see it, he exhibits very little local color, his demeanor and (even though Italian hadn't become a standardized language yet) way of speaking are formal, neutral and scarcely give away any hints about his personal history, at least in the 16th century canon.

#I tend to take the easy way out with the various Italian dialects/languages and temper their effect on how the dog world works #even though to my understanding in reality they differ drastically from each other even today and they aren't always mutually intelligible #especially when you compare northern and southern ones #I know at least Sicilian is so different from modern day Italian it's considered a separate language entirely #it isn't the only one but I'm not a linguist and not even Italian so I'm not really qualified to be explaining any of this to you #main point is that my dogs are well traveled educated and adaptable so I'd like to believe that they manage #otherwise making this whole scenario work would become very complicated #language barriers aplenty #Machete is a fast learner with a natural knack for languages so he absorbs/decodes new ones easily #and I can see him acting as an interpreter if necessary #which is a valuable trait for someone working as the secretary of state I'd imagine #a lot of people he ends up dealing with speak at least passable Latin so at a pinch they might perhaps try switching to that? #Vasco might have a Tuscan flavor but Machete is more of a blank slate (at least in public and at work) #answered #fallenoftheromaempire #feel free to correct me if I've gotten something wrong I'm not an expert and this stuff is complicated for an outsider

[l-just-want-to-see]

no let’s talk about cScott’s strategy in the life series being the social game. Let’s talk about how he’ll just kinda play nice with everyone and get to very high placements as a result. Do you wonder if his past allies feel used by him? If they feel like they’re just part of the strategy of his own game? Did you realize how rarely Scott has recurring alliances? Do you think they wonder about if they were just someone Scott could get to a higher result to feel good about? Or someone that could get him the win? Or are you normal

all I’m saying is usually we go on lengthy talks about Scott being nice and sweet and wholesome but this guy (character) is good at the murder game! Really worryingly good! Let’s delve into that some more!

#this is all c! btw to clarify. AND BEFORE YOU SAY CLEO READ THE TAGS #but I think that Pearl and martyn and Jimmy are on the same page of like. Man I did love you. And all you do is win. Was it ever real? #Different flavors ofc #But it’s similar in the sense that Martyn betrayed him and Scott just didn’t really care. Moved on to the next game kept playing. #Pearl and Scott were such a duo in last life and that didn’t matter! #Scott and Cleo have a recurring alliance and guess what. The roomies were taken out first ANYWAYS! #Do you guys remember how Jimmy and Scott were married? It’s all dead and gone now though right? #And I’m not saying Scott IS just using his alliances or that he didn’t really care all that much. Just that there’s some gray area in there #up for interpretation #Before you come at me with the Gem thing I raise you the “Scott is playing his own game” #He’s already won and he’s trying to get his allies to win. But his allies are never recurrent. So is it out of pride? Or genuine love? #I bet they wonder #And I think we should too #scott smajor #smajor1995 #last life #double life #secret life #slsmp #traffic smp #life series #third life #limited life #coral kids #zombiecleo #pearlescentmoon #jimmy solidarity #solidaritygaming #flower husbands

[rubydubydoo122]

Guys, if we make Tim South East Asian, we can have all the boy Robins be Brown. Dick's Romani, a large amount of people Hc Jason as Latino, and Damian is Arab. I'm pretty sure the current Tim hc race is half Korean, but like... I can see Tim being half Singaporean, or Indonesian. It would also be really funny because it would make Damian and Tim look really similar and just imagine a random white lady walking up to the both of them and going "Oh! is this your brother?" and Damian going "No! I'm not related to Drake!" and it happens seven times and ends in Damian begrudgingly saying, "Yes, though he is adopted"

#tim drake #dick grayson #jason todd #damian wayne #romani dick grayson #latino jason todd #arab damian wayne #chinese damian wayne #south east asian tim drake #I can not tell you how many times I've told a random yt person that one of my friend is my cousin even though we weren't related #yt people don't understand that not all brown people are related #at a gala all the waynes standing together #random yt lady who can't tell there are different flavors of Brown #“oh! there you are! my friends and I have been waiting on our wine! while you four continue to just stand here” #they give each other 'the look' TM #Dick I've been adopted for 20 years Grayson #Jason I came back to life and was a big deal Todd #Tim I'm a 16 yr old CEO and have been running these circles since birth Drake #Damian I'm the blood son Wayne #then Bruce comes over and is like 'ah! so you've met my sons!"

[nonbinaryphantom]

sorry i got attached to my roleswap au danny he’s so cringefail he needs to be studied under a microscope

#dp roleswap au #danny fenton #ember mclain #vlad masters #my art #possibly the beta version of rs au vlad. idk how to feel about his design rn #i like elements of it but ooooh it doesnt look right. dont even look. at the colored version #anyways swap danny is like a cringefail villain. like canon vlad but a different flavor of cringe #but he also has ALOT wrong with him. different brand of it though #also he does become friends(?) with ember. but its like she's an awful influence to him #also human rs danny. i thought about giving him eyebags but i imagine he sleeps well in this au cause he dgaf

[themanlykittenkayden]

“We could build with this but it’d look pretty emo. That’s kind of the family vibe though. Look at Tallulah. Hell, look at me and Missa”

1. I love how unwaveringly and unthinkingly Phil includes Missa in everything involving their family and

2. I find the idea of Chayanne being the candy colored pretty pretty prince in a family of emos very funny

#qsmp #I feel like Tallulah Phil and Missa are all different flavors of emo though #I kind of wanna do something with that in some fanart hmmmm

[ursafootprints]

One of my favorite things about Starker as a ship is how many angles there are to approach the ship from! We've got:

Light: minimal to no age-gap angst or drama, no one has a major issue with the relationship, healthy relationship, usually of-age Peter

Gray: moderate to heavy age-gap angst or drama, other characters concerned about the relationship (or it's expected that they would be,) may or may not be presented as ultimately healthy but it's at least a consideration to the characters because they'd like to be healthy

Dark: we all know what darkfic is lmao. Your grooming fics, your villain AUs, most Starkercest though some of those can ride the gray~dark line, outright unhealthy dynamics or your unrepentant characters/settings where the question of "healthy" doesn't even enter into the equation, etc. etc. etc.

They are all beautiful flavors and I've written for all of them, but I'm curious about y'all! Obviously the lines here can be a bit blurry/subjective, but in general if you had to choose:

#starker #polls #now that the poll has gotten off the ground and I'm not worried about influencing results: #I genuinely enjoy all of these flavors but gray is the juiciest to me #esp. for plotty stuff though my taste can run darker for PWP and short plotty things #like I'd classify YNYD as gray and my Starkercest as dark! #but I live for everyone being emotionally conflicted and having to navigate a billion different emotions and dynamics #so even with darkfic I prefer Still That but on the outright unhealthy end #I read and enjoy darkfic that's full unrepentant and gleeful in its darkness but writing-wise I wanna Grapple #and then I love reading light stuff but most of my ideas in that area are like. post-YNYD stuff haha. #so still attached to that gray-er base!

[sesamenom]

Gothmog, Thuringwethil, and bonus Tevildo

i was digging around in my files and rediscovered some really old silm art of mine, including my original angband trio designs (mostly traced off heroforge models lol):

and they're actually pretty cool! thuringwethil's tail is maybe a little questionable of a design choice (how are you supposed to fly with a giant tail flopping around...) but it looks really good on gothmog.

i don't really remember what i was doing with sauron (he looks a little like early curufin for unknown reasons) and idk what the wrist things are supposed to be, but Original Flavor Thuringwethil was actually a corrupted maia of manwe (eonwe's sister?), hence the feathers instead of traditional bat wings. for Original Gothmog i am less sure about his origins but he is possibly a corrupted maia of ulmo (originally a sea serpent, hence the tail and ulmo style ear-fins) who basically dried up into a more stone-based serpent

anyways i think I might keep thuringwethil's face/wing design and gothmogs full design for future use

#silm #silmarillion #sauron #gothmog #thuringwethil #hm now i must go check the other ancient dusty designs #yeah idk why thuringwethil has a tail i think i just wanted her to match the other two #for some reason half my original flavor elves look vaguely like curufin or celebrimbor #idk why they jsut all have celebrimbor vibes #my modern design gothmog is more coal-y #like with black skin black armor magma skin cracks and fire hair #which is also cool but very hard to actually see the details on #so maybe ill use Gothmog the Fair as his default design and Gothmog the Burnt as like an intimidating battlefield design #okay yeah hes a maia he can have two different fanas right? #definitely not keeping the giant pauldrons for thuringwethil though #not sure how shes supposed to raise her arms over like chest level in those things #also unclear how the tattered danglies are attached to her sleeves #are they sewn on for dramatic effect? #2021 me had really cool ideas and a rather poor understanding of how clothes actually work #oh well i can fix that now #ooh maybe ill do an uncorrupted thuringwethil/gothmog next

[commsroom]

it is a little funny to me that zach valenti is a vegetarian and seems generally health conscious, considering that doug eiffel is... not that. the opposite of that, even. eiffel would say french fries should count as a vegetable. eiffel thinks ham & pineapple pizza covers all necessary food groups. eiffel has a meat & carbs & grease based diet, sustained by a quick metabolism and an iron stomach. and he is like aggressively american; eiffel is the guy they make novelty fast food items for. there is nothing in this world he wants more than a burger that is also a pizza. doritos® locos tacos and baja blast. that radioactive looking flamin' hot cheetos mac and cheese? he would eat that. no question. that guy loves koolaid flavors that don't even resemble artificial fruit.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #a little while ago horus captain-lovelace said like. 'guy whose favorite flavors are colors' and that made me laugh so much #literally. men will eat nothing but taco bell and bang energy and still ask for a . well you know #eiffel looks like zach to me with a few key differences and one of those differences is that he does NOT take care of himself #triple white chocolate mocha with whipped cream ... disgusting sweet tooth on that man. he loves the slop #anyway i love that in character AMA zach did but some of the answers are so funny because it's like. don't lie to me #that was a zach valenti answer. doug eiffel has never even eaten an artichoke in his LIFE i wouldn't count on him to identify one #eiffel knows good bbq though and has a surprising tolerance for spice i believe this is true. he is not eating vegetables.

[warriorcatsofficialfacts]

Known carriers of the bloodlust gene

-crystal (the og)

skips jake

-scourge, but honestly socks and ruby are pretty off the walls batshit as kids too

-firestar

skips squilf and leaf

-lionblaze

skips all his fifty million kids

-sparkpelt but then the writers forgot

skips her two. So Far. though nightheart is too busy in his incel4incel love affair to ever bother breaking the cycle and inheriting the bloodlust gene early. and finchlight is a woman and those can't have personalities in warrior cats

it's like poetry it rhymes

#making this post just bc i somehow completely forgot that. Yeah Scourge Is Firestars Brother And Is Also Like This #i forgor!!!! though to be fair it is. different #the thing about fire and lion is that they actively seek out violence and get a thrill out of it #scourge is much more reserved. he's violent in that he's willing to use violence #outside of one targeted instance of revenge it doesn't seem to Do much for him #however. he does count. it's just like dlc #bloodlust gene scourge flavor

[sonknuxadow]

i tried to make another recipe from the sonic cookbook for my lunch today . emphasis on tried because i thought i had more of the ingredients than i actually did and didn't realize how much i was missing until i had already started cooking and gotten excited to eat official vector the crocodile ramen so i just said fuck it we ball and hoped it turned out ok . what i did end up with was pretty good though even if its not exactly what the recipe was telling me to do

#i had the bacon egg spinach and garlic #(though the recipe called for garlic cloves and all i had was minced garlic so i just used that hoping it was ok) #i was missing the scallions and nori and mushrooms. i actually already knew i was missing the mushrooms #but i dont really like mushrooms all that much so i was fine not using them #the other stuff though i thought i had and i would have used it if i did . sad ! #i also think i added a bit too muhc garlic. in my defense i wasnt really paying attention to the measurements in the recipe #because the recipe is for 4 bowls and i was just making one so i was just kinda guessing and doing what feels right. #also out of my stash of instant ramen i had a few different flavors to choose from and i decided to use pork #since bacon is the meat for this it just makes sense in my mind #ive never considered using bacon in ramen before this btw but it fucks hard i will probably do it again eventually #little guy images

[bonefall]

Can you tell us a bit more about your Sharpclaw? Why is he so concerned with loyalty when he likely was on his own before and this whole “being loyal to a clan” thing is probably as new to him as any cat else?

Long ago, Spiderstar realized that her Clan would not be able to survive if they stayed together.

No matter how many times they killed the rats, they would come back. For every warrior lost, it seemed like the hordes gained another. Her cats were admitting taking food from twolegs, always ready to run from the gorge at a moment's notice, looking at her with guilty eyes. She began to wonder if she was wrong for admonishing them, the way a leader is expected to.

The story goes that one day, she observed a web of spiders hatching from their eggs. The mother watched as her children created small plumes, and floated away on the breeze. It hit Spiderstar, in that moment, that this was how they would survive. Connected by a great web, but scattered to the sky, where they could not be found.

BB!SkyClan never fully disbanded. Like a web, they would share news, come to help one another and inform of safe twoleg houses, trade kittens to each other to raise as apprentices.

From Spiderstar, to her successor, and down to Skywatcher, there was always a "keeper" of this information. When Firestar and Brokenstar arrived, Skywatcher simply spread the news on the breeze. His connections told their connections, and soon, a dozen cats had answered the call.

And, of course, Sharpclaw was one of them.

He may be a rogue, lived most of his life on his own, but in his head that just means he knows more about what it's like to not have a Clan. He's happy to work with ex-Kittypets who choose the Clan above their humans... but even them, how can they ever truly understand what it's like to have nowhere else to go?

He's been waiting for this moment his whole life, from the time he was a young kit being told the stories of Old, from the second he was first introduced to old Skywatcher as a child. "And here," He argues, "Are kittypets who see our way of life as a game. The time of SkyClan's Scattering is over, we are upon the days of a new dawn, and these outsiders are clinging to the past. We don't need twolegs, or the kittypets that can't choose between US or THEM. Leafstar, loyalty is the value that this Clan is built on-- we have to be strong without the help of these Daylight Warriors."

"Lol," Leafstar says, "Lmao even"

I'm bit a bit hyperbolic, but that's how Sharpclaw FEELS about her responses. She's not LISTENING to him (because his ideas suck) or TAKING HIM SERIOUSLY (she is, she's just telling him no and he doesn't like that). She has him as her deputy exactly because she is seeking opposing viewpoints, but this doesn't matter to him in his perceived entitlement.

And this is the resentment that Darktail eventually targets, realizing that his pride and ego is the perfect wedge to drive between him and Leafstar.

Leafstar wasn't picked by SkyClan, someone else picked her for you.

She doesn't want to listen to you, you're so correct and she doesn't appreciate you.

She's letting weakness into your Clan, and if you wait too long it'll be too late

PROVE it to her by taking YOUR supporters and attacking her at night. Show her how good of an ally her kittypets are when they can't defend their Clan, safe in their human nests.

Take leadership from her, you will lead your Clan to the new dawn you've always envisioned.

#I disagree with the idea that you can't be violently committed to new ideas though #You don't have to have been raised with something to think it's important #Even destructively so #especially when you're talking about entitled assholes like my version of Sharp #It's a bit confusing to me how many people kinda like... meet the idea of a BB!Skyclan cat being xenophobic #They're very different from Forest Four but that doesn't mean they don't have their own flavor of xenophobia #Being Forest Four isn't the root of all evil and there are other ways of being bigoted #For a heavy handed example it's kinda like being confused at the idea of an american being xenophobic #because the country was built on immigration #bigotry doesn't really Make Sense. It's emotional and reactionary #better bones au

[wizardnuke]

i love dnd..i love playing heavy utility/support/backfield and i love having three to six attacks in a turn and an insane ac. at heart im a support player ill get my hands on whatever we're missing in a group

#looks at a druid a fighter and a bard fighter. okay cleric time. #i LOVE playing cleric turns out. #though abjuration wizard is still super super fun its a different flavor of support #it's not buffs it's 'i am going to transfer literally all that damage to myself and war caster style succeed my witchbolt concentration' #doing insane amounts of damage while taking damage (+ with temp hp and then just a lot of hp. im taking the tough feat as soon as possible) #aabria iyengar was right these abjuration wizards are craaaazy. but war domain clerics also fuck hard #my abj wiz is very much an experiment in 'what if someone who is not at all suited to this life tries to adapt as well as she can' #the point is that she isn't a cleric. do u understand. she's not a cleric and that's the point it's the. hbbbgbfhb. she's out here #functioning as a combat medic on some aasimar features + healing kits/potions + arcane ward. Look At Me #i also really enjoy playing nonreligious characters in these worlds where deities 100% exist not in a 'fuck the gods' way but in #a way somewhere between 'i'm all i need' and 'i called and no one answered' and 'may or may not go on an insane power hungry spiral and #try to get a touch of godhood' which is in part very due to my own agnostic and people-loving heart and 'haha what if i icarused this girl' #a resentful caution towards gods an immense respect towards religious companions and 'when your god isn't here to help. i will be' #anyway REACTION arcane ward you don't take damage im fine. next turn reaction shield ward's back up. the thing is. #she will drive her hp down. the ward isn't much like it goes past that temp hp. it's 14hp that shit goes down and carries to her hp #but it never drops. any leveled spell puts hp back into the ward. a 1st lvl shield puts it at 2hp and she can use it again #she is not suited for these conditions but my god it is fun to watch. i care her. #i explained that subclass feature to a player that's not in that campaign and said. like. yeah she can take damage. when her ward drops to #0 it carries to her. any leveled abj spell puts it back up. and she can use it and drive her hp down again. #do u understand what i am explaining to u! do you get it! she is and has always been a punching bag! #she was a very valuable asset to the army and the group she was drafted! into. because when she's there. people just don't fucking go down #aside from her. aside from her. AAAAH. she's so cool. she is very smart i am still riding the high of critting every turn w witchbolt and #reacting to ward a party member against a crit that would have dropped him by taking the hit herself. and she didn't break concentration #badass

[gophergal]

Behold, the six "unique" roles of Stonevale, one of the colonies in Fading Hollow.

I've been thinking about this setting a lot lately, including all the characters. Honestly, I want to make every cat individual under the hood, but that is slowly driving me mad. For now, here are six of them:

Chief Ra'shira - the leader. Aggressive, irritable, but fiercely loyal to kith and kin.

Deputy Haystalk - her second in command and gentle younger brother. He has spent the majority of his adulthood smoothing over the trouble his sister's temper causes

Raven, the Seer - religious leader and second eldest cat in the colony. A grumpy bastard for the ages. The only company he enjoys is Mera and his sister, Blueshell

Mera Yari-tsa - a lifelong queen who has had a paw in raising every litter in the past 50 moons, earning her great respect. The most knowledgeable midwife in the hollow

Acorn - a senior messenger. He won't retire until his former apprentice, Puff, is ready to mentor another cat to take his place

Puff - a young messenger. He seems empty headed and the wrong body type for his position, but he has a fantastic memory and a knack for social situations

#gopher writes #gopher art #fading hollow #original art #cat art #worldbuilding #original characters #cat ocs #no idea what else to tag this tbh #this setting has basically been divorced from warrior cats at this point tbh. just because i keep adding shit #the more i build it the more i see this less as a warriors fanclan set and more as an individual story that owes a lot to wc #also- most of what ive posted about FH is still canon. the Yari-tsa are basically masters of childcare. this is still post apocalypse #however. new shit has been added. a calendar. strange mutations. ect #i also try to keep to some basic genetics. will have to create a family tree at some point. not looking forward to it tbh. #on the bright side the laws they live by are different. so we can deal #my plan is to make a webcomic of this. starting with a few fun nonlinear comics to give y'all a feel for the flavor of the setting #kinda like a pilot. then start the first arc. wish me luck. still a while before i get to any of that though lmao

[ct-hardcase]

Was thinking about Trilla and her story, and how (very understandably, given her slowburn turn in JFO) a lot of her fandom emphasis is on the fact that she was dragged kicking and screaming into the inquisitorius and focuses on her redemption as a hinge point, with there being a fandom-wide recognition that she's a good inquisitor, but I really want to dive into the meat of the latter.

Even though Trilla was the farthest you could get from a willing inductee, she clearly got good. We don't have much hard evidence of her skill pre-JFO, but she clearly has a presence on the field given how her purge troopers act around her in Dark Temple, and is an intimidating combatant against Cal throughout. However, taking the analysis from this post (a highly-recommended read, since it shaped my thoughts on Trilla and other inquisitors' characterization), she wasn't always that way—and quite the opposite.

The inquisitorius broke Trilla down in order to turn the kind, anxious soul screaming for her master into an efficient and ruthless inquisitor. I'm sure she holds a lot of resentment, of course, but I wonder how Trilla feels about that the other side of her remaking. How, from a certain point of view, there's a commanding presence she didn't have before, how she's not shrinking in the background during a duel fight, how she leads when it's down to her and another inquisitor on a mission.

I also have to disagree that Trilla was looking for an out of the organization prior to JFO—I don't think anything other than Cere showing up and the catharsis of the final duel could have triggered that in her, honestly, since there's a line where Trilla says she intends to use the holocron as leverage to advance in the organization. That sort of determination to be noticed by Vader or Sidious feels more ambitious than Reva-esque, to me.

Trilla's attempted turn to the light is important, and I think it's what keeps so many people coming back to her as a character, but her having been a dedicated inquisitor before that is what makes her interesting idk

#star dorks #sw headcanons #idk why it's yammering season on my blog this week but #inquisitorius tag #was thinking about the differences between trilla and reva #and there's some similarities obv #but for me there's a difference between reva making a deal with the devil and being shaped into an inquisitor though never being truly loya #before pulling herself back from the brink #vs trilla who was forced into it then turned into a loyal inquisitor out of brainwashing and sunk-cost fallacy before almost turning #(and then having that snatched away at the last minute) #like yes there is the turn to the light but they feel like totally different flavors to me

[the-trans-dragon]

t4t4t4t4t4tea (Polycule goes on a date for boba)

#sorenhoots #one day i will get boba with polycule 😈 #it has occured to me that im not sure if ive heard EVERYONE in the polycule ID as trans so i may need to change it to #t4t4t4t4[name]4tea :3 which is a different flavor of joke but equally and Delightfully fun! #unsure though. joke pending!