#was HG FUCKING WELLS???

[arbor-tristis]

Hey everyone remember the Eugenics Episode 💀💀💀💀

#murdoch mysteries #james pendrick i expected so much more from you :(( #they really had a ✨eugenics party ✨ #and the special guest #was HG FUCKING WELLS??? #and somehow the episode ended in animal cruelty?????? #early seasons Murdoch was wilding #james pendrick #william murdoch #i will argue that this beats out the alien episode for top spot in weird shit this show did

[kroosluvr]

we'll stand together, even at the end - especially at the end.

#hi i fuckking forgot to upload this fo rlike a week now hi. sorry just had to remind everyone im the most abnormal hmr fan #hamurio #hamuko arisato #persona 3 portable #p3p #persona 3 #rio iwasaki #cele draws #ham self sacrificial tendencies.. yah #also i think specifically theyd love singing together and promise eachother even if they had to compete on stage theyd give it their all #and smth happens where they dont see eachother for a very long time and they just.bring eachother out and theyre both shocked but they rmb #their promise. the thing is rio hates losing right. so does hamuko. but over everything #she wants rio to live. so. they have fun singing together and all is good in the world until well. she lets herself fade out at the end and #loses. #haha..hg

[idlenight]

Thinking about how Hollow Ground had several siblings. And all of them being dead. Of them having a fond enough memory of spending time with one of them at the aquarium that their mindscape is shaped to be a coral reef in reflection of that.

I’m perfectly normal about big sibling Hollow Ground why do you ask?

#how did they all die? #did the Special Directive get their claws on the others as well? #not just the one Sidestep looks like (and has memories of) #(and that kid was caught in Juvenile detention too. how old where they?) #Fuck how old was HG compared to their siblings? #how old where they when the first sibling died. how old where they when there was only one left. #fallen hero #fhr #fallen hero retribution #fallen hero retribution spoilers #Hollow Ground #fhr hollow ground #idle.txt

[sidesteppostinghours]

4 + 5 + 8 + 40 + 34 and I) G) F) for Cyrus Becker my beloved 🧡

afternoon idle!! oh my god questions galore *cracks knuckles* cyrus get your ass over here youre up

4. How easy is it to earn their trust?

Very difficult, and at the same time easier than youd think. he definitely doesnt entertain everybody, but hes not unreasonable. hell hear you out if you give him enough reason to (or if he thinks its beneficial to get to know you. do you see why he gets attached to people hes supposed to be manipulating so often). ortega and mortum required him to establish a relationship, which is how they got so close to eachother so quickly. herald got by because cyrus thought hed be a useful contact in the rangers. chen couldve earned his trust a long time ago, they had to work with eachother a lot back when he still ran with the rangers, but chen squandered it on his suspicions and its been too long for cyrus to have any interest in patching up their relationship. argent has largely flown under his radar, she hasnt piqued his interest more than the passing curiosity of why she wanted the regenerator.

5. How easy is it to earn their mistrust?

the default is mistrust. sorry yall, hes not taking any more chances than necessary. hes a telepath, he knows all too well what secrets other people hide, and hes not interested in giving people a chance to prove his suspicions wrong. but after hes grown to trust somebody? its... embarrassing how difficult it is to lose it. even though his trust is much shakier nowadays, you still need to have fucked up Majorly to get him back to mistrusting you. if you somehow manage to do that,,, uhhhh. what do you want on your tombstone? (ig its technically its possible to not die and even earn that trust back??? ortega managed, but thats ortega and hes statistically more likely to kill you or ruin your life. depends on how badly you fucked up. id say theres a good 5% chance youll survive the experience without the need for intense psychotherapy)

8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child

listen. follow orders. be exactly who we need you to be. cyrus was a deeply rebellious regene, but he wasnt stupid about it. hed go against the mission in secret, and just enough that nobody wouldve been able to trace any problems back to him. that doesnt mean he was never caught, but he was too competent of a regene to be scrapped, which saved him multiple times before. those few times did cause handlers to keep a closer eye on him though, just in case. handlers would usually keep a harder grip on cyrus, hold him to stricter standards. it contributed a lot to his own self talk. SPEAKING OF WHICH:

40. How sensitive are they to their own flaws?

you must imagine me holding him and looking lovingly into his eyes while i dump a gallon of insecurity and perfectionism on him. hes a proud man, he thinks hes better than what other people are capable of, but that arguably makes things worse when he does make a mistake. he of all people shouldnt be like this. add the puppetmaster scar on him and its a hefty load of 'i need to make sure every single step of my plan goes exactly right Or Else." the worst thing about him is that a lot of the petty flaws he thinks apply to him arent correct. AND HE CANT EVEN NAME HIS ACTUAL FLAWS. cyrus you are so smart and walking around with zero self awareness, its the best. please consider stepping into acid.

34. How hard is it for them to shake a sense of guilt? 

hohohohoho. well. the first step is to get him to feel guilty in the first place. traditionally immoral actions arent going to get to him, obviously. the thing that springs up guilt for him most often is themmys death. he has. a Lot of survivors guilt about that. especially because hes convinced himself he couldve done something and *gestures to the ask above*. guilt will haunt him for life if it doesnt get resolved in a healthy way, but hes gotten good at burying his emotions a long time ago. even when he feels like that, he reserves a specific time to think about it, otherwise itll impede on his plans in the long run. that designated time is. usually when hes supposed to be sleeping. his sleep schedule is just a little bit messed.

I) Do you prefer to keep them in their canon universe?

oh dude i Love putting cyrus in aus. its so fun to poke him with a stick and see what happens. the first one i put him in was a band au, it helped me figure out how he would interact with herald. basically cyrus was a masked guitarist (for backstory reasons) for a band daniel happened to be a fan of, except the two of them managed to meet at just regular old work, with cyrus not realizing daniel was a fan and daniel not realizing cyrus was from one of his favourite bands. it led to fun, mlb-esque shenanigans between the two lmfao. the second one i put him in was the becker siblings au, which i still have thoughts and emotionsTM about. that au let me indulge in the 'cyrus is an older sibling' headcanon and i will forever be in debt to it for the amount of protective cyrus i got. third and current au im obsessing over is a 'cyrus survives hb' scenario, where ortega managed to stop him before he jumped out the window. i am getting! so much ortega x cyrus content out of that au! and so much survivors guilt cyrus. cyrus 'using' ortega to forget about heartbreak my beloveddddd. he also says 'i love you' to ortega in this au and canon ortega is SO jealous. also x2, hes an alcohol vice step in this au. heartbreak hit hard and the tequila hits different.

aaaand i still like his canon version better. its just so very much him. out of every step ive got, hes the one i get to stay closest to how i envision based on the choices the game offers. plus he caught me completely by surprise suckerpunching me with an obsession over him and i cant Not respect that.

G) What trait of theirs bothers you the most?

not sure whether this means on a character creation level or as a person, but ill answer for 'as a person' because im overall pretty satisfied with how he turned out! but like. god what is there to not be bothered about. my manipulative little shit of a son. ig the trait that frustrates me the most is his self destructive tendencies. like. Sir. are you at all aware of the fact that people care for you and want you safe? and that you can respond to that concern with something other than "i can use this", "sucks to be them", or, "no theyre not"? sir. sir answer the question. hes so empathetic and also literally a telepath but somehow cant compute genuine concern at him. as frustrating as it is though, i cannot deny that it is deeply funny to watch him fumble so badly.

F) What do you feel when you think of your OC (pride, excitement, frustration, etc)?

normal. the ones where people look at me and think "wow, that is a person who is having (a) regular thought(s) about their character! very cool!" you will never see a person who is more normal about their guy than i am (i am grabbing him by the teeth and shaking him like a dog with a very strong kill instinct).

truly though, thinking of him gets me buzzing. hes like a puzzle, i keep breaking him apart and putting him back together again to see how everything works. i have this thing where ill often think about showing character analysis to the characters themeselves, just to see how they would react, and i undeniably do this the most with cyrus. i want to explain step by step (hah) why he is the way that he is now, like the whole timeline is plotted inside my head and its so!!!!! i am!!!!! chewing on him!!!!!

questions from here!

#herald is a lucky bastard #he messed up twice in a row (asking cyrus about his sidestep days+picking him up without consent) but asking for help training saved him #cyrus was straight up being sadistic about it he just wanted to fw herald after those two times and saw training as an opportunity #it wasnt supposed to lead somewhere #anathema vision wouldve fucked him and his guilty ass Up. good thing cyrus is a bastard and abandoned argentine before they crashed 🫶 #and because i have an excuse to talk about them again heres some things that ive been thinking about lately: #1. it is So fucking funny to me that all three of them are trans afabs in some way #scientists at the farm in charge of the becker sibling batch: wow look at these three new girl regenes! #cyrus (trans man)/fawn (nb)/river (trans man): . well- #2. brother-madds buckley. just the whole thing. im going to start screaming and punching the floor here #3. WHO WAS THE HG SIBLING THE ORTEGAS SAW IN THE PHOTO. was it just somebody that looked enough like the three to assume it was a sibling #or did it happen to look exactly like one of the siblings. or did they find three photos with siblings that looked like each? I NEED ANSWER #cyrus' is very emotionally intelligent towards everybody but himself #when it comes to himself hes wearing a blindfold and earplugs and pretending nothings wrong #the whole time i was answering that last ask i was thinking about my post talking about how many posts of his were in my queue #god bless that man he never leaves my brain #thank you again for the ask idle :DD #cyrus becker #sidestep #fhr #pulp answers #ask game

[villainsidestep]

bad news besties,

#gideon shut the hell up challenge #we're finally Online instead of just being mobile so we were like haha I'm gonna read the txt for the demo! surely nothing bad will happen! #fawn never dives in hg's mind bc they think that is RUDE !!!! so they never see any of this/have these talks. and they do not care to. #but me ??? as an anti-hg girlie ??? ... well. maybe we can be convinced 2 . simply stick to being anti-blaze 😔 #if u introduce sibling feelings into any media u can secretly force us to consume and think abt it for the rest of forever actually #'mildly intrigued'..... @ past me u had No Fucking Idea !!!!!!!

[cephalonheadquarters]

They have no idea what just happened to me

#OKAY SO. I. Well. I got into a new short series and.Theres. A guy. And. He checks all yhe boxes for being a favorite character. And. Well. #I may have lost my mind for a bitJust a bit thogh.Im normal now. I promise.And. Now I cant do anything about this new interest. Because. #People will know. And ill die. Uhuh(Its nothig bad i just feel like people will think its dumb when. it literaly isnt #Help.Help.Help HLEP HLPE HPELP HELP HELP HELP ME HELP HELP HELP.HEEEEEELP #AAAHHJJA JHGGHHGHG HG HJHAHG HG HGAH GHAA AHJHA HHGHH AHJAHAAHAHHHH #HJHHJ #FUCK #DIE #AJKHJHJAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH #Ok. Whatever. I don't care.YES I DO #ITS SO BAD. It's. So. Bad. AND EMBARRASSING. I CANT DO YJIS #HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP #GOODNIGHT. IM KILLINGm

[randmsapphic]

how did they give lee a green tux when that has been the most requested skin for kal’tsit for over a year hg do you really hate kal’tsit fans that much.

#arknights #arknights spoilers #l2d as well hg has to be fucking with kal'tsit fans

[prokaryotics]

there’s no shame in going back and changing your path v. what would you do if you had a time machine

#we always end up having the same conversation don’t we #why don’t you just kill me yourself please #it would be kinder #the fucking shot of the hg wells book #lou.txt #bcs #bcs spoilers

[cescalr]

high guardian spice is to me what sword art online is also to me. better in the abridged version. though for wildly different reasons

#hgs abridged is a pure comedy and it's super fun as this lowkey low budget type deal. it's halfway a shitpost and a labour of love for the #creative medium of writing an actual fucking coherent story #even with all the memes and stupidity inherent to the shitpost abridged show format #whereas SOAA is just. so good like it's amazing Something Witty Entertainment is doing fucking great things for the medium. pls watch it #sword art online and high guardian spice are terrible in different ways. both of them have a couple things in common though; extremely gener #generic and super mediocre #but while hgsa is stupid fun. soaa is like. i wish this was the actual show. level of quality. so i enjoy them for different reasons #also soaa gets like 1 episode every year or two. which. yeah. its worth the wait though #soaa is high art to hgsa's shitpost. and i love that for them #some of hgsa is like. too stupid for me. they used big chungus recently and i was just like... sigh. but other than that it's pretty good. #i don't understand the jojo refrences but like good for them. glad they're having fun #soaa is like. i genuinely don't need to know anything abt soa or anything else to enjoy it. it works as a standalone property #might as well be original work. except it isn't. so the only reason i'm glad soa exists #is so that i can wath soaa #it's just. it's superb. it's that good. there's Some problems with it (I don't always jive with the humour) but the actual like emotional #beats are REALLY well done. you actually kinda like the characters even though they're #objectively worse people than in soa #somehow #it's just. it's fun. i enjoy it immensely #there was a really good choice in hgsa that made me cackle though #and that's the rework of cal's character. that was a great choice #anyway #done rambling... for now...

[tuttle-did-it]

HG Wells speaks the truth

HG Wells on Warehouse 13 Season 3 episode 12 Stand

#fuck guns #guns have no place in a civilized society sir #HG Wells #jaime murray #Warehouse 13

[kyonite]

I know it's truly been like months since I talked abt the hg au sequel but it is alive and well, I just reread catching fire again and did my little beat sheet for exactly how I want things to go down in the arena! so that's fun. most of it was already like written I just needed to go in and make sure I got all the emotional beats from the book in there so that things make sense going forward. next up is a lil flashback scene for *, then the events of mockingjay. :) it's coming together, just slowly slowly slowly

#anyway sav this is a special bonus gift for you since u got me thinking about how kristen applebees names her god cassandra #and how greek myth cassandra has the gift of prophecy as well #fh:sy cassandra predicted her own downfall that's why she protected herself and unmade her name #anyway all this to say kristen sees the writing on the wall in the hg au sequel #and uh #she does Some Things with this gift of foresight #mwah mwah have fun #I won't spoil it but uhhhh kristen's arc within like 1k words is INSANE #god bless saint kristen fuckin applebees etc etc #honestly how the FUCK did I ever get the original hgau done within the time limits for the big bang to begin with #I write at a snails pace lmao

[boring-scifi]

H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897 vs. Flame Tree 451, 2013)

#science fiction #scifi #sff #classic science fiction #stock photo #hg wells #the invisible man #literally the easiest book to make a cover for how do you fuck this up

[macbethz]

hate that i accidentally made a heterosexual Situation because my characters simply had too much chemistry and did that on their own

#like they are not the endgame nor are they healthy in any way #and idk if they would consider what they had a relationship #but yeah hg and jonah fucked #if that wasn't clear #trinityverse #warlock wartalks #kinda funny that it happened bc I feel like they so CLEARLY both read as gay #even tho they are both bi. well Jonah is like. homoflexible. part of their fucked up little relationship is hg is one of his rare exceptions

[keylimejuice]

YOURE TELLING ME THIS LAMP IS FCKIN CYNO IN GENSHIN

#juicetobs #ygo no #noodleys #god fuckin dammit #idhhffjjfkgkgkgkfkdkdk #i made a mistake in collecting the main 4 i made a mISTAKE #I DONT HAVE ENOUGH ROLLS BRO PLEASEEEE 😫 #it’s a leak so i don’t know but HG?!;! #though it is kinda funny how cyno plays the tcg and astral does too but FUCK i am screwed #this is what i get for slackin in genshin hahaaa 🤪 #oh well i haven’t been having fun with it lately anyway i might just let cyno rerun tbh

[akiraofthefour]

Wells was charmed by [Teddy Roosevelt], and ended his account of their conversation with Roosevelt alluding to The Time Machine and its gloomy prophecy of the distant future for humanity: 'Supposing it should all end in your butterflies and morlocks,' he said. Then: 'That doesn't matter now. The effort's real. It's worth getting on with. It's worth it.'

Claire Tomalin, The Young HG Wells

#Claire Tomalin #The Young HG Wells #pretty interesting book although its end does feel rather sudden #oh and HG Wells fucked a lot of it is 'HG Wells was sick and coughing up blood again but all he could think of was doin' it' #still I'd recommend if you don't know much about him and/or you only know his later rep as a curmudgeon #HG Wells #Teddy Roosevelt #kind of fucked up over TR's existential crisis about The Time Machine tho #my man was haunted by that #Emma

[villainsidestep]

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#gideon shut the hell up challenge #smth smth river’s anger towards cyrus over what happened w fawn during the fight actually just pushing him even more into hg’s grasp #bc here is a sibling (?) who has not hurt the other! one who even goes so far as to offer Protection! #fawn accepts whatever scrap of an excuse cyrus offers (literally to the point of he could go ‘okay well y’all were gonna rob me :/’ #and they’d be like oh actually ur right that’s my bad) and maybe it’s bc they forgive him or just to keep the family together who knows #but hg doesn’t want to split your family up. hg wants you all to be even More of one. to join Theirs (in the mob boss sense) #and yeah sure maybe they tried to thread you and that’s fucked up but haven’t your siblings done that to you too? #fawn literally used theirs to try to get you to abandon them !!!! #hg is not giving you orders…. you are So Tired of being given orders !!! maybe it’s nice to be given the Option !!! #fawn and cyrus don’t like them but quite frankly fawn is a coward and cyrus doesn’t like anyone anymore. but you? You like people. #keeping up with the beckers