#you Know he's monster-inspired

[peach-sea]

Cringetober Day 3. Unnecessarily Complex Fit

#kyo! :) two of him because he'd be so long on the dash. I hope mobile doesn't stack them #you Know he's monster-inspired #this one took so long because I totally started over with a different idea than what I was doing. this fits better and I like it more anywa #I'm alternating working on the days everything's out of order #kyo vocaloid #zola project #kyo zola project #zola project kyo #vocaloid #cringetober 2023 #october 2023

[feroluce]

So I spoke somewhat about my thoughts on Emanator Sampo here, but I never really thought of it from a design point of view or what kind of powers he would have until just recently. But I actually kind of love leaning into it from a "stage hand" perspective?

Because like. Aha's body in THEIR official art is completely black, giving attention to all the fun brightly colored things around THEM. And that's so fitting for Sampo! He usually prefers to be a side character. He likes to act from the shadows. His is a much more subtle hand.

So I wonder if as an Emanator, a lot of his clothes are actually very dark? Not necessarily plain, still extravagant and needlessly detailed in things like cut and quality with lots of different fabrics and textures and ornamentation, but dark. Or maybe even his skin itself becomes blackened further down his body; his hands in particular are dark, as a sort of sleight of hand reference.

The motif of a lot of straps wrapped around him like in his canon design is still present, but they're all loose and flowing off of him like paper streamers now instead of restraining him or holding him together. He is no longer contained! Or maybe they're still a bit more rigid/heavy, but just draped more like red stage curtains!

And this is like. Fully self-indulgent, but I love inhuman designs, and there's nothing in canon to say I can't do this, so screw it! Go for broke!! Maybe it's not visible to normal people, but Sampo having a second set of arms would be really cool, as further sleight of hand reference. One set is almost normal looking, but his hands are a bright, attention-drawing white, and the other is dark, set almost in the shadows of the first arms, to act less noticeably.

He also has something of a broken heart design to him in canon (the front of his black shirt with its jagged shape down the middle; his coat looks like a full heart shape in the back), and I actually like him keeping that element as an Emanator, because I think it suits him. Sampo says his taste in aesthetics and views on Elation involve human dignity,

and the story he helps create in Belobog involves the long and winding road of resistance and survival and eventual triumph in the face of some very adverse, oppressing odds. (I'm pretty sure I heard he once called Wildfire "artless" though, plus the man acts like he thinks Shame is some kind of dessert, so like ndkdjzjskkd) But the point being!!

I think Sampo is someone who can appreciate heartbreak and angst and tragedy in a story, because it makes the victory at the end all the sweeter. And this would be another thing he shares with Aha, because I think THEY did bless the Mourning Actors partly just to be a little shit, but also because Aha does recognize tragedy as part of THEIR Path, too, and you can see it in some of the game. So a broken heart motif can still suit him, and I like him having elements of both comedy and tragedy. Like his clothing having a happy sun/sad moon (like the moon in Aha's art) or him having both of the traditional comedy/tragedy masks in his design.

And as Emanator, Sampo can maybe play with the stage settings environment, too. Like lights sometimes behave strangely around him, appearing blindingly bright to someone or dramatically dark. Sampo wills it and suddenly there seems to be a metaphorical spotlight right where he wants everyone to look. And when he doesn't want to be noticed, his face seems to be cast in shadow, he seemingly just fades into the background, no one notices or recognizes him and he sneaks away easily. He can create smoke or fog literally out of thin air without his bombs now, too, the air will just suddenly thicken until his stage is obscured, and Sampo can set the scene as he pleases or disappear without a trace.

And in line with being a stage hand, Sampo can direct attention like no other. He was already extremely good at this as a normal mortal, and becoming an Emanator only took it up to 11, past human limits. Sampo points, and all present feel compelled to follow his fingertip. He looks away, and they all follow his gaze. He can even affect the mood of an audience; he can influence everyone to be calm and placid or he can whip them into a feverish frenzy. Sometimes a crowd will start to become unsettled, agitation stirring until it boils over, until it incites a full on violent mob.

And in the middle of all that chaos will stand one perfectly calm figure, face cast in shadow, until they quietly slip away out of sight.

#sampo koski #hsr sampo #emanator sampo #hsr sampo koski #honkai star rail #hsr #they were talking about Emanator Sampo designs in the Sampard Nation server one night and somehow THAT was what got my mind going fjkdaljfk #there was also talk of him making monsters explode in confetti or making their heads pop off like a jack-in-the-box (my contribution hehe) #which is hilarious but just wasn't super relevant here jfklasdj #(I miss bouncing around ideas like that...if anyone knows another sampard server or even just a sampo-dedicated one hit me up!) #(i would love to join and would probably even have friends to bring!!) #but anyway yes I love Emanator Sampo being stage hand themed haha it's very fun with him #I have a lot of screenshots so I wanna try to use them for things like this more! #I think its in SU where it says Aha isn't as powerful an aeon as some of the others like Qlipoth or Lan or Nanook #so I like Sampo's powers being less direct and not just pure destructive power like a lot of the Destruction Emanators #it lets you get real creative with it <3 #maybe next I'll bring over my thoughts on his mask design? Ooh but I wanna talk about Geppie too... #Geppie protecting his soldiers from Cocolia or the actions he could have taken or his very sweet relationship with Bronya- #-or him being inspired by Serval or his HILARIOUS relationship with Pela... #Decisions decisions...

[tainted-esau]

Lmao??

#tboi #tboi fanart #israel au #tboi au #tboi four souls #needless to say i was. inspired #don't ask about whatever tf happened with what this card does i have no idea but all you need to know is i wanted to make it worse #there were originally going to be two hp boost events. one from monsters and one that added +1 heart for each item controlled #and originally i was going to have it so Israel players could protect this card with their own items so they could reap the benefits #BUT THEN I REALIZED THE CYCLE WOULDN'T END #which i mean. kinda fits for Israel as a character given he's technically. y'know. omori. #anyway i feel like +3 treasures isn't enough compensation for the bull this card is capable of throwing at you #idk you tell me i don't balance cards for a living i just draw lol

[soloavengers]

Sparrow was born outside the two nations we know, he showed great promise in magic, and was raised by his mentor. When he was yet a child, Sparrow got too proud of his abilities and went too far in an attempt to show off to his fellow young sorcerers, summoning a beast, he grew up chasing it until finally he defeated it. Not without getting scarred physically and emotionally.

He’d spent years traveling and using a limited amount of his skill to help, the skills of a sorcerer from his land is a lot different than of those we see in Vermund and Battahl. Sparrow perfected a spell that kept the brine at bay, and with it he had managed to sail away from the island he grew up in and to Vermund.

Becoming the Arisen terrified him, for surely he would need to summon all his strength to defeat the Dragon, and who knows what would happen then? The Dragon and Drakes had only bothered his homeland in ancient times, and are almost revered now for their intelligence and use of magic. Enough of Sparrow’s pride remains that he believes his magic can rival that of the Dragon’s, but not its brute strength.

His new journey is a second chance, a chance to learn and grow out of his timidness as a magic user, he decided that perhaps he would not make the same mistake from his youth if he strictly kept to the skills of the mages and sorcerers of Vermund and Battahl.

When it was time to summon his loyal pawn, he willed into this world an already existing pawn, seeking one who deserved a second chance, one of brute force —

Came Thorne, who was abandoned by his former Arisen in the rift who knows how long ago. Thorne’s creator had lost a brother who helped him seize a throne, an obedient brother who cared for little but the thrill of battle. Thorne is much the same, and he helped the Arisen seize more land, especially after he caught the Dragonsplague, especially upon transforming. The havoc he caused weakened a large kingdom up for the Arisen’s taking.

He doesn’t remember these events, and believes his former master had simply gotten busy and forgot about him. (He was abandoned because the Arisen believed Thorne grown powerful enough to consider killing him for the throne.) However he isn’t as nonchalant about all the bloodshed the Arisen had made him spread, and so he’s almost as watchful of his own power as Sparrow.

#dd2 #sparrow & thorne #don’t want to call them oc’s when they’re unsubtly inspired by two of my favorite fantasy book characters #ged from earthsea. and young dalinar from the stormlight archive. my beloveds… #it’s only the backstories and they’re heavily tweaked #little sparrow’s magic scared away the brine so It fucked with him. there’s nothing too special about his magic. the monster was brine made #just me casually adding a nation that has magic that kind of. lowkey. i think. repels the circle and allows them to live in peace #then he had to leave and become arisen bc of course #and then. and then. yeah they get done for when. you know. #sorry sparrow #my bad this is shittly written i should be asleep. just glad i managed to summarize it so easily

[canyoureallycallthisablog]

Waiting for them to be back

#deltarune #deltarune ralsei #ralsei deltarune #ralsei fanart #deltarune fanart #dr chapter 2 #ralsei my beloved #I just remembered that ralsei knows how to knit #and isn't that #neat? #haha u get it? #I like the hc that ralsei feels time the exact way we do #as in he's waiting for another 3 years for chapter 3 #just like us fr #that's just how time works when you develop a parasocial relationship #this drawing was inspired by temmie's old sketch of toriel #i just love goat monsters #anyway here comes the boy #hello boy #there he is #he is here

[sketching-shark]

In Canon (JTTW) Wukong shows any romantic/sexual interest towards anyone?

Not Even Slightly fasfgrewdf. Going by Wu Cheng'en's version it's Zhu Bajie who's the romantic/libertine of the pilgrim group, while if memory serves correctly the main emotion Sun Wukong shows towards romance and sex is irritation. The Monkey King does have real affection for his monkey family and later on for Tang Sanzang, but it's the affection of an asexual communal grandpa lol.

That said, this characterization in Xiyouji is a big change from the monkey's presentation in the earlier play Zaju Xiyou Ji. Here, the simian in question, Sun Xingzhe, not only had a wife that he kidnapped in traditional Chinese monkey monster fashion, but apparently spends most of his time telling crude jokes, ogling other women, and acting as a rowdy clown.

I've now seen a number of pretty valid points about how it definitely pays to look outside of Wu Cheng'en's version of the westward journey to see what other people have made of it throughout its history, and I'd definitely agree that seeing what else could be considered part of JTTW "canon" in terms of the wild variety of ways people have told and retold this story is a really fascinating thing!

That said, I do think that coming at it from a western perspective one miiiiiight want to be a little more cautious of how one approaches the question of a Sun Wukong romance/sexual interest, given the long history in this part of the world of not only viewing and presenting monkeys as hyper-sexual beings/ man's poor imitation, but also using that perception to bolster a lot of horrible stereotypes against certain groups of humans, including against Chinese people. As is--and while in China itself Sun Wukong has been presented as everything from a devoted and helpful deity to a lecherous and destructive warlord--at this point there definitely does seem to be something of a preference in western depictions to emphasize the destructive and "stupid monkey" potentials of Sun Wukong's character rather than for example his love of family or his intelligence.

#anon answered #journey to the west #jttw #jttw retellings #sun wukong #monkey king #I know the anon was asking about something else #but man I am once again asking wtf is up with western creators making swk illiterate #but anyway #in regards to this swk actually seems to be something of an outlier in terms of having 0 interest in sex or romance #given what I know about stories concerning other monkey yao in Chinese folklore #& even in other versions of the monkey king #but that's a post for another day #or you could see what journeytothewestresearch has said on the subject #if memory serves correctly he's done a good summary on potential inspirations for the monkey king #including some of the more lecherous monkey monsters in Chinese folklore

[blacksurvivalnostalgichanges]

i want to say this because it left me in stitches

i felt the sort of need to write, didn't feel like writing for my original thing, and i want to rethink the plot/lore of the fic so it's less based on stranger things. the attachment to it completely kills it for me. i got into the magnus archives because i was hoping to find the right inspiration, currently hoping i find other good horror. anyway, not important beyond my feeling of having to update on this

and i dug deep into google docs wondering if there were any things i wrote or started writing that could help

i, apparently, had this isbs drabble doc? that was entirely ideas for writing. i wrote a little on one, but it's too weak on the ground and i never finished it

one of the ideas involved the premise that yuki is calm, and ergo capable of mediating. like, he ends up allying with hyunwoo and isol because i liked those three as a group, still do albeit differently. and he'd help make them fight less

i'm gonna be real with you

i don't think i understood yuki back then at all

#not a quote #i am not afraid to say i did not understand the characters #if you ever read any of my older shit and went 'thats not him' #trust me. odds are i agree. there are only a handful of things i stand by from my older interpretations #but this one is tickling me because. yuki is NOT the calm mediator let's be real #either those two people don't need mediating or he is not a calm mediator at all he's a 'get me out of here' mediator #it is infinitely more likely for him to sit there like 'how did i get myself in this mess' #oh. right. listening to tma is kinda working to get the inspiration in #i think i can definitely keep a lot of the core concepts. but i can insert a thing or two #luckily i was already trying hard to be original. so if i lean more into the actual lore in isbs #and take inspiration from a few concepts that tma did that would definitely enhance my own thing #i think i can make it at least be divorced enough to not irk me #luckily i already half separated it by design by making the monsters references to other things #did you know that its name is grimegash because it's inspired by greg crypt? GRimEGash

[boughkeeperdain]

It's kenzo tenma appreciation day

Just look at this man and tell me he isn't incredible

#okay my child now #kenzou tenma #monster #naoki urasawa's monster #pls this man deserves so much love #the effort he put into helping people #he helped peoole even when he didnt want to #and he prioritised all that over being on the run #the fact he just let dieter come along with him and was like #i love this man so dearly #pls love him #hes my favourite disney princess #even people in canon know how great he is #when he got caught and you saw the scene of how hed inspired people? absolutely magnificent #hes so pretty its unfair

[kyliafanfiction]

Is there anything more annoying than Tolkien stans going after GRRM?

Well, yes, but still.

#Rolling My Eyes #Fuck off the whole lot of you #Ya'll are BORING #LOTR is good ASOIAF is good GRRM's comment about the tax policy is misunderstood and you can say reintegration or the orcs wasn't important #and I can say fuck that I want to know about that #Martin wasn't dissing Tolkein just discussing specific personal issues with LOTR's ending when compared to the kind of story he wanted to #tell/was telling #Kylia Writes a Novel in the Tags #But ya'll acting like GRRM is somehow the worst worldbuilder ever or that there's no history informing his storytelling or worldbuilding #he's also never gone around calling himself completely historically accurate just that it's inspired by history WHICH IT FUCKING IS #You don't like ASOIAF Fine but stop acting like he's uniquely some awful monster writer #He's neither unique nor actually that bad #he's just not for you and he's no more responsible for his most unpleasant fanboys than Tolkien is for you

[naggingatlas]

i think people's takes on jev being this like thousand year old creatura are fascinating and fit even my interpretation of his character and place in the story (as like. a representation of the setting at large. an archaic force being shoved into a simulation/loop/machine. cosmis horror kinda shit) but i also think it's 1. funnier 2. scarier 3. more emotionally scarring to imagine him as like. a 30, 40, 50 year old man. just a quirky little guy. he had a childhood, maybe he got picked up by seam as an urchin and they were a travelling magic act and clownery and judy n punch duo and they stole apples from the market and he climbed trees w his little paws before someone made him wear shoes. he was a brash teenager and he played the accordion and kept all of his trinkets in a little chest he used to sleep in. seam made his suits, from his own crayon drawings. he was a middle aged man disenchanted with his work and he sought shelter from the boredom in bothering others. and he ran away so many times and he slept outside and he helped seam make their own beer and mead and they still played the accordion and the hurdy-gurdy together. isn't it scarier to make him a normal man? who turns into what we see? doesn't that hurt more doesn't that make his character even deeper. he was just like you and this means That can happen to you too, grounding stuff like that is like one of the basic rules of horror. and then he just goes to jail they straight up lock a mentally ill guy with all those horrors in the basement - not an old-as-time-itself demon, not a savage beast, but. a man. jevil russian sleep experiment au.

again im not calling anyone out its just an interpretation ive NEVER seen anyone else come up with and i genuinely wonder why and if my other jev readings continue to be weird as fuck to other people

#jevil #its kinda like. a reverse dc joker situation. the jerker does get like. INSIDIOUSLY scary and mind-fucky when #you turn him into. i wouldn't say satan himself that takes the edge off. but something completely unknown. #im casually writing a batman script in my own continuity and i could never keep up w All The Lore cuz thats not what batman is abt to me #and i took most of my inspiration from a serious house on serious earth and. those intermission strips in snyder's endgame #where people from an asylum or a nursing home i can't quite remember that had encounters w joker #describe him as all sorts of things but not human. and not in like oh he's a monster but like That Is Not A Homo Sapiens #and they're not listened to because they were all suffering from delusions and hallucinations before that but #yea. i hate jerker origin stories i hate them with my whole entire heart. make him the unknowable. not even a demon not satan #nothing of folklore or religion not even a lovecraftian something-something. just an entity. maybe not even an entity. he's an scp to me #not even a character. just a concept with a design. an apparition made to teach humans a lesson #you dont know how he got here you dont know why you wont ever know when he'll be gone. #give me judge holden but even more amorphous and. not scarring me for life. but u get the idea #im tryyyiinnnggg to write joker like an apparition of a schizo psyche like my dreams. #my favorite song to 'write' j to is freefall by rainbow kitten surprise. and he's just a figment of bruce's imagination here #just a little more tangible. vague and wrong but it's j. probably. and it's bruce's pov. it's a couple lines of dialogue #that's j. jevil is the opposite.

[ofcourseitsafurry]

The(3)main player characters

Aka my main monster prom OC and his friends along with their drinks to help describe their personalities or aesthetics

First Sparkles Glowbright,ex-prince of Villa of Monocerotem, a very magical adept White Unicorn

Sparkles is my main monster prom oc. He's calm, collected, and goes with the flow(Yes, like Brian.)Unlike Brian, he's more energetic, he enjoys dancing, walking, and magic tricks with physical requirements. He's also much more thoughtful than most of the monsters in Spooky High, resorting to murder less, more education-focused, and less sexually interested preferring to take it slow. Sparkles, despite(hopefully)what a lot of future art shows isn't actually in Spooky Academy, his reason for being there along with his actual school is to be discussed later for his backstory.

Next is Draco Lung, the son of a Western fire dragon and an Eastern lightning dragon(also the brother of an Eastern water dragon).

Draco, short for Draconic, is a stereotypical greedy dragon, he doesn't steal damsels and force them to marry him as he finds that sexist and weird. Unlike Vera, Draco is lazy, stealing from shops, kingdoms, and even fountains for his fix of money obsession. (Hell, that last one was how he met Sparkles in the first place.)Another example of his laziness is his obsession with sleeping, likely due to the energy of being such a huge beast. While he isn't a complete jackass he's rude and just as quick to violence as several monsters threatening to fight someone if they annoy him enough.

Next up is Feng Xuang, a FENGHUANG not a PHOENIX or a VERMILION BIRD

Feng is the one I have the least plot thought out for. He likes astrology and astronomy due to the real-life monster corresponding to Celestial bodies and beings. He's obsessed with fire, not like just an arsonist, he likes playing with it, eating it, looking at it. Fenghuang mating rituals have two Fenghuangs doing a mating dance of death that combines both parents' personalities into one egg making Feng an orphan. He hates to be referred to as other similar mythical bird species. He's cheery and upbeat but a general everyman who enjoys preppy culture.

Last but not least, Mh'athra.Deity of Sacred Secrecy and darkness

Mh'athra is technically canon, but I'm giving her a non-canon design. Sparkles became a mortal contact for Mh'athra when he snuck into one of the cult headquarters on his way to Monstropolis and read a book that allowed it to come into the monster realm with his magic. Mh'athra is an asshole, she’s extremely dismissive of Zoe and her choice of becoming part of mortal kind, like the carnival mirror event, unlike the mirror event Mh'athra is actively cruel and even dead names Zoe while alternate Z'gord is dismissive but tries to talk her into rejoining her "purpose." While it's evil, it's not actively malicious, not currently into recreating the Nothingness.

#Monster roadtrip #Monster prom #monster prom oc #tw deadnaming #(Mention but still) #Fun facts! #Sparkles is Pan(his mane colors out of universe is intentional but in-universe its the natural mane colors) #His story is connected with the Vanderbilts #It will have some Miranda slander(I don't love the character)but it won't just be blind hate #He has practiced several spells(which is common for his species)and knows a lot of attack spells #Yes he was inspired by Whiskey #If they met Whiskey would act as the teasing older brother even though they aren't actually related #Draco's color scheme is based of of Maleficent and his mother is a completely unsubtle expy of her #He can spit out both fire and some electricity #So I know there's a dragon in the modtool of the game that's apparently canon #So some of you may wonder why she's humanoid while he's completely animal like? #Fuck you that's why #(I don't know how to draw humans) #Feng is completely immune to fire damage so the dumpster fire one is non canon(but still funny) #Mh'athra can change change her number of eyes to the pictures shown #The first one is inspired by COTL while the second one comes from the cultist's mask during the dinest event #(Also I know the perspective in the darkest timeline looks awful. I'm sorry)

[musical-chick-13]

I love being nit-picky about canon until it's a character I hate. Then I love intentionally interpreting every single thing about them through the absolute worst lens possible. Because I hate them. And I love hating. Hope this helps.

#when I say 'hate' #I mean like. actually genuinely wish-did-not-exist #there are four (4) characters in everything I've ever read/watched who qualify for this #(okay we'll say four and a half because another character like. I don't think I hate the character I hate what they reflect about fictional #trends & what they inspired in fandom. but that's...not really on the CHARACTER you know. so I feel like saying 'I hate them' is not fair) #you can probably infer from context at least like. some of them. #(number one is raul ctrlz btw. I mean not that he needs ME giving him bad-faith interpretations he already does the work himself) #(like genuinely he's just like that. that being said I DO take delight in his suffering and not in a My Blorbo™ kind of way) #(you want to bring out the worst side of me show me a character within that particular archetype who is incredibly popular) #(I become a raging beast of a monster. my braincells take on lives of their own and become the embodiment of amorphous toxic ectoplasm) #(okay I really am just Saying Words at this point I'm going to go eat something because I haven't eaten anything today GOODBYE)

[camping-with-monsters]

“There there, now…”

Man pictured with her is the Jack of All Trades (who actually belongs to @methum-mint! He was made specifically for this story!), a supposed legendary individual with many stories to his name. Stories of slaying giants, climbing great heights to the clouds, surviving cracking his head open, leaping over open flames, bringing the winter when it refused to arrive on time… they get passed around like the plague. Oddly enough, whenever he’s asked of such feats of strength, he never confirms anything. Usually passes it by with a smirk, or even a glare if he’d rather remain unbothered. However, he’s never really denied these claims to his fame either! It’s all up in the air, really.

Seems for now, he’s been caught in the crossfire of Einin’s harrowing battle with life (and more than just her’s) and death. He can’t help but pity her misfortune. But hey, if slaying giants is on his record, how much different could a giant goose monster that wants to eat this supposedly unassuming woman really be?

#she’s hurting :( #poor girly’s going through it :(( #Doing all of this drifting for her own survival probably isn’t ideal for her physical state #((honestly Jack might be a little bit of a drifter himself on the occasion)) #but it’s not like she really asked to be in this position though #she’s gotta go wherever she can just to live. Jack really pitied that when really meeting her #He’s usually somewhat cold mannered #but can you blame him for seeing someone with all the bad cards dealt and actually feeling bad? #he might as well use all of those legendary feats he’s racked up to her advantage right? #pregnancy is so mean sometimes ((tbh I wouldn’t know but like. I ain’t stupid)) #even meaner when it’s the reason a monster is coming after you #Einin honestly needs some direction because she doesn’t even know what she’s doing anymore #she’s just trying to survive man #Maybe people like Jack and some of the other individuals she’s met can provide insight…? #god. the birdbox inspiration really shows more every day I develop more of Duck Duck Goose #Einin #Jack of All Trades #Duck Duck Goose #Ocs #original character #original stories #The Kiwi Draws

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

One of the best pieces of writing advice I can give someone is forget characters, you are not writing a character, you are transcribing something a person is doing or saying. Like you gotta ask yourself what makes sense for that specific person to do here, not what you want to happen. Is your character a coward? Maybe don’t start with them thirsting for moth man or something right away then. Is your character totally reckless and stupid? Maybe don’t put a life or death situation in front of them and then have them go no thanks. You have someone who isn’t super out there and takes time to warm up to people? Love at first sight probably isn’t the direction to go here.

If anything doing this makes it funner and last longer! You might want coward and moth man to hook up, so now you have to BUILD that. Why does this character spend more than five minutes with moth man? How do their interactions build?

You can write fan service stuff sometimes, it’s fun, but it shouldn’t be an all the time thing and you miss out on a lot of fun if it’s the only thing you do.

#inspired by no one understand my fics and keep suggesting ideas 🙄 #yes after being possessed by this guy he didn’t trust for months he’s not gonna fall in love and it will be awkward #no a scary monster who is someone you barely know beaming the future when you’re romantic together isn’t actually likely to make you hook up #no they aren’t going to talk and happen to figure out they both have these pieces bc the other people don’t know that #like I know what I’m doing. some stories people won’t fall in love #or it’s open for interpretation #or it’s something I know the character could do to get out but the character wouldn’t. i also thought of the thing leave me alone

[moregraceful]

kasper do you have any thoughts on the seattle kraken. matty beniers/shane wright specifically can i sell you on a narrative that's not fully there but basically cool calm collected future captain and his train wreck future A motivated by spite

oh i love the seattle kraken, my hockey in laws! any team that gives jared mccann his forever home and allows him to thrive has my whole heart. also love whatever the fuck is going on with chris driedger and philipp grubauer, particularly in that video where they are shirtless on a boat. i do not pay attention to team umich and do not care to beyond what my friends tell me, however i do feel very fond of matty benier, like a cool rock you find on a beach and take home to put on your shelf. and i think shane wright's angst is very funny but wish to see him under a better coach (hakstol 🔪🔪). i am following their developing narrative with great interest and i think in a couple of seasons we're gonna have something good! future fic abt them would be delicious 🧐

also i am sure you have read this but to everyone else reading this, i recommend bropunzling's "one-two punch". it is a good slice of horny dev camp with absolutely perfect tension and a great shane pov!

#ofc my recommendation is as always to just wholesale make shit up if the narrative is not there #gimme that love in the time of climate change arena future fix u know #i have a lace seattle kraken christmas tree ornament #one of two corporate franchise inspired ornaments allowed on my tree! #(the other is cookie monster) #tl;dr yes. love the krakene. wish to see them have much success and happiness #ALSO I THINK. now that i'm on a roll. there's a great story to be told in jordan eberle watching shane and matty and being like #damn i should call taylor maybe. these guys kinda remind me of us :( and then he doesn't bc that time of his life is over #there's a lot of interesting things you can do with the vets in that room and the ways their rookies are developing around them #i find it a very interesting locker room bc it's a bunch of guys that everyone kinda counted out last year + plus andre burakovsky #and then their rotating cast of rookies and guys percolating in the ahl (hello joey daccord i love u joey daccord) #i think there's a lot you can do with that idea of- we're creating a future for this team. we're the start but our work is to set the stage #for guys like matty and shane and joey but also like kole lind and ville petman and all their dozens of draft picks #there's a lot there about creating a future #a lot abt setting these kids up for success by creating a strong locker room and good relationships with the fanbase and a strong identity #with the city #and i think a lot of their older guys are really aware of that #anyway. yes. love those squids #cage replies #anon #another banner day in the kasper birdcage tags i see

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!!! Finally found my Eccleston-Tennant box set (it was exactly where it was supposed to be I just didn’t think that box was That Deep for some reason) so now I can actually write that Shakespeare Code commentary fic!!!

On the other hand not looking forward to the nostalgia-pain of the Harry Potter love fest, but due to the nature of Dream’s inquiry they do need to tell him about the high before the downfall anyway. I’ll probably just project really hard onto Johanna about it all. (Would project on Hob too but he’ll probably be too busy reminiscing about actual Love’s Labours Won/taking Robyn to the Globe when he could)

#already-dated new who my beloved #due to the constraints of real life everyone used bricks but I doubt Jack would’ve stood for that shit #and then the doc would’ve acquired smart phones for everyone out of habit after #(except Mickey which is partly a teasing thing and partly a ‘do you know what a security nightmare those things are?’) #I think the headcanon I have implemented to explain his enjoyment of HP despite the 2020s #is that the TARDIS just…deliberately has never let him see that. cuz he loves the books so much and it would devastate him #on the other hand that headcanon is quite flimsy cuz when would she ever coddle him #may or may not end up writing stuff for other episodes too may depend on engagement #I would *love* to examine Hob disliking the Professor Yana episode #cuz he doesn’t like the idea that he will eventually be pushed into outlasting literally everyone else or accepting Death #also Johanna realizing Dream is a dumbass who didn’t tell Hob about Burgess #so she uses her own Issues with the Nestene as an excuse to skip the Pandorica episodes #only for there to be something else in a different episode maybe a gunshot or too much focus on reflections or smthng #haven’t decided if I’m even going to acknowledge the Clara thing yet #may give jo my dislike of Clara for the lulz #also at some point matthew will join #and suggest supernatural as something else he should catch up on #…..just realized Dream may actually be inspired to go make that horrific combo monster - #of the Angels the vashta narada and the misprogrammed nanogenes