#:cracks knuckles: here we go

[dividedsingularity]

The subject of a Hello World beach episode was brought up and I pulled @cookieclover into a quick collab where each of us drew a few of the characters according to @phasedsun's descriptions of their outfits :3 I'll put the who drew who under the cut if you'd like to have fun guessing first!

me: CJ, Fana, Firran, Andia, Sek&Ser, Jay Cookie: Mayko, Lohe, Dante, Picce, Giran

[treppi]

happy new earthspark everyone :] i drew this while rewatching season 1

^ little closeup. they are in a video call :]

[critter-covenant]

tryin' to get along

singin' a little song

[filbosstalker]

3 am doodle dump idk I kinda blacked out tbh

Ok goodnight chat 🫡🫡

[the-mcyt-crackships-brackets]

/!\ The symbol "&" is used for platonic ships, there are therofore no romantic ties between the characters in said ship!

[eaudecrow]

Sorry I didn’t respond to your texts haha I was facedown in the bog

[buttercup-barf]

The Character.AI subreddit offered to pit my last six chats against each other, where the top three would protect me against the bottom three. I can only imagine the consequences.

[whereismyhat5678]

HERE’S WHAT Y’ALL’VE BEEN WAITING FOR‼️‼️

Drum roll please 😌✨

🥁🥁🥁

TADA‼️

@neuro-toxinnn for Beebs from Monkey Wrench!

@shiftyyyy for Baroness Von Bon Bon from Cuphead!

@noodletime for Po from Kung Fu Panda!

@komalatea for Steamboat Willie from…..Disney(?) (I’ll just say that but thanks!)

@alaskacoolkid1 for Hatsune Miku from-….sorry I also don’t know what to say here- 😅

AND @moon9931 for Yoshi from Super Mario Bros!!

I hope I did these characters justice, and I hope you like them!!

And Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions, it was a really tough discussion to make but I hope you like how it came out still, have a wonderful day guys! <:] 💞💞

[verygoodbeastarsfaces]

damn bro you got the whole squad laughing

[shalbef]

Bnha×HP AU

Sorted students!

Gryffondors:

Kendo, Tsunotori, Tsuburaba, Tetsutetsu, Tokage, Fukidashi;

Aoyama, Ashido, Kaminari, Kirishima, Sero, Hagakure, Bakugo, Midoriya;

Hufflepuffs:

Awase, Komori, Shiozaki, Shoda, Honenuki, Bondo;

Asui, Uraraka, Koda, Sato;

Ravenclaws:

Kodai, Shishida, Yanagi, Rin;

Iida, Ojiro, Shinso, Shoji, Tokoyami, Mineta, Yaoyorozu, Hatsume;

Slytherins:

Kaibara, Kamakiri, Kuroiro, Monoma;

Jiro, Todoroki;

So, fun facts I guess;

-The hat took an hot minute to decide where to put Monoma, it was very very conflicted.

-Bakugo could've gone in either Gryffondor or Slytherin, but Katsuki was VERY adamant he'd go in Gryffondor, and the hat is too old to be torn to shreds because of an hissy 11 year old.

-Hatsume was sorted into Ravenclaw the second the hat touched the tips of her hair, Malfoy style.

-Todoroki was sorted into Slytherin because you should picture him how he was at the start of the series. He chilled out afterwards.

[ongreenergrasses]

do you think all the victors know who’s being trafficked? i go back and forth a lot and sometimes i wonder if they all even know it’s happening at all? it feels more plausible to me that everyone who attends the games regularly would have the general knowledge that some of them are being sold but not be able to give a complete comprehensive list of who they are but do you think it’s more obvious than that?

short answer? no. I don’t think they all know who’s being trafficked.

logistics wise, the victors only see each other once a year. it’s heavily implied that almost all of them go to the Capitol for the Games, even if they’re not mentoring, so yes they’ll be there, but it seems likely that the majority of the victors are not going to see victors from other districts outside of that. this is important because one of the main ways that any of them could suspect that something was wrong is through behavioral changes, and I don’t think the majority of the victors know each other well enough to notice any changes like that.

there are some behaviors that they have that are telling! Finnick and Johanna act extremely provocatively and struggle a lot with social interactions outside of that, which absolutely are things that can manifest in survivors of sex trafficking and sexual abuse. I think conceivably someone could put two and two together and realize that Finnick and Johanna are being trafficked because of the way they’re acting, but that would require a lot of background knowledge and context. that’s also not the only way people’s behaviors can change, and for all the Finnicks and Johannas, there’s more victors whose behaviors aren’t changing in such blatant ways. if someone’s becoming more withdrawn instead, that’s a) probably not out of the ordinary for some of the victors anyway and b) it’s not a telltale sign of trafficking in particular.

I also want to emphasize that it is very difficult to tell if someone is being trafficked specifically, as opposed to just reacting to trauma or experiencing another type of abuse, by just watching the way they act. Everyone reacts differently to trauma, and the victors all have bucketloads of it, so their behaviors could be stemming from a thousand places, and on top of that, many people are able to hide things like that relatively successfully from the majority of people in their lives.

The only reason I have any of this knowledge and the ability to look for warning signs is through education, research, and a combination of work and life experience. These are things that district people would probably not have access to and have no frame of reference for, as evidenced by Katniss’s reaction to Finnick’s disclosure. The trafficking itself is probably a concept that the Capitol would be the one to introduce to the victors, and I don’t think they even tell all the victors about it, because if someone’s not going to be trafficked, it wouldn’t make sense to tell them. so while I think maybe someone like Haymitch, who is incredibly intelligent and perceptive and probably was also trafficked for a time, or at the very least certainly made aware of it because of the way his experience is used as a threat, would be able to start to guess at who was being trafficked based on his experiences and people’s behaviors, I don’t think that’s the experience for the majority of the victors.

[edenvinity]

ranking the f1 driver pairings as amazing race teams

me and my family have been watching amazing race for years so you KNOW i had to combine my interests !!!

amazing race is basically a show where teams of two race all around the world and preform a series of challenges rhat can range from physical to more mental, and the team that reaches the “pit stop” last is eliminated. plane flights + transportation around the country is also often up to the teams, having to buy their own plane tickets + hailing their own taxis + driving themselves around a country which works against one team dominance

KEY:

detour - teams can choose to complete one of two challenges

roadblock - one person in the team completes a challenge (one person cannot do every roadblock)

express pass - by doing an extra challenge, one team can get this pass that allows them to skip any one challenge

teams are ranked based on how far i think they would make it in a fictional all-f1 season of amazing race :)

10. pierre & esteban

sorry you KNOW they would be a dumpster fire. like the couples who go on and are like “i love my partner so much :))” and then immediately implode the second aomething goes wrong. would start off polite enough before the first detour where one of them is like mildly slow and the bickering starts. they would start rushing in an attempt to catch up and leave an important item behind (passports, clue, etc) and thats just the nail in the coffin for them

9. lance & fernando

tbh i could see them making it maybe 1 or 2 legs more depending on the challenge but. nothing against lance but hes a rich kid. the challenge would be like “find all the items on this shopping list at a wet market” and hes LOST. fernando gets 3/4 of the list AND has to find lance who is desperately looking for duck eggs (it was at the first stall) and then they get back and lance bought regular eggs anyways for a massively jacked up price. sorry but as entertaining as it would be they are doomed to flop

8. alex & logan

SORRY WILLIAMS BESTIES they would be such a silly team and fan favorites but respectfully i dont see them being very good 🥲 i think they would have a very good dynamic but other then that based on the pumpkin carving/drawing challenges,,,, they would not go far 😭 they would get a challenge to deliver something to several different locations (without map) and eventually get lost and be so far behind that when they get to the mat its like. nighttime. but they would be very cheesed and happy still !!

7. yuki & daniel

THE FUNNIEST PAIR EVER can you IMAGINE the dynamic when trying to navigate or drive a stick shift car. one of the friendlier pairs, willing to help point other teams in the right direction at challenges. also between the two of them they have a pretty decent skill set so i think theyd do pretty well at the challenges, plus be able to get around the city well enough. theyd eventually go out on a leg w more physical challenges just by virtue of the remaining teams being better but they have SO MUCH FUN and SO MUCH banter

6. kevin & nico

solid guys overall !! could see them maybe making it another leg further over the next team. definitely one of the most chill teams, sightseeing/enjoying the travels more (not to say that they arent competitive tho) and overall having a great time !! i think their experience with raising children would also factor in well (patience/calmness) and thus would keep them from making little mistakes and stay consistent. would eventually go out in a leg where they start from a lower spot and cant manage to find any earlier trains/flights and thus cant make up any ground and end up going out

5. lando & oscar

they are the most unstable team LMAO they (lando) always take big gambles with challenges to try and get ahead and as such always end up gaining/dropping tons of places in each leg. impeccable dynamic tho !! oscar is def the grounding force and keeps them on track, navigator to landos driver, while landos creative strategies often help them gain places where they might otherwise be stagnant. would eventually go out on a leg where lando insists on trying to catch an earlier train but ends up missing the connector to their destination (setting them back) and they cant catch up, eventually resulting in their elimination

4. valterri & zhou

i actually cant really explain this one guys its just a gut feeling. like i know that valterri is reasonably fit from biking a lot and zhou could help them get around more reliably in asian countries but other then that i dont have an explanation. theyre chill and like just kind of cruising/enjoying themselves. theres a roadblock where they have to name several different types of beer by taste and valterri crushes it. theres a challenge where its watching this person dancing and having to recreate the entire outfit that zhou kills. they go out right before the final because theyre beaten in a footrace to the mat

3. lewis & george

these guys are EFFICIENT. lewis somehow manages to get them on the earliest flights possible. george reads the map once and immediately find the fastest routes from place to place. they are reasonably good at most challenges. their downfall is challenges requiring them to work together closely, which happens in the final where they are required to learn a traditional wedding dance and preform it and they just cant sync up, costing them major time, and the entire experience just leaves them irritable which eventually leads to them claiming third

2. max & checo

similarly to lando & oscar, max is the competitive force with checo grounding their team. highly competitive (though not to say they dont enjoy themselves), always going for express passes and valuing efficiency. their strategy works for the most part, with them racking up the most leg wins. their downfall ultimately came during the final challenge, where they had to match moments from previous legs with their locations, and neither of them really remember LMAO. just barely misses out on first which goes to…

1. charles & carlos

impeccable dynamic. gets one express pass and uses it strategically. very supportive of each other during challenges. they are just a generally overall solid team but not outstanding, never really winning and just beats out valterri/zhou for the third spot in the final. but in the final leg they are just incredibly in sync which allows them to complete the challenges efficiently, and at the end challenge they have memories tied to each place and are able to figure it out faster then max/checo and beat them to the mat to take the win !!!

okay thanks for listening to my rambles ☺️ maybe a part two of this later ranking old driver pairs OR an f1/survivor ranking

[delucadarling]

First thing my girlfriend did this morning upon waking me up was to tell me, "The demo's up"

[tthelady]

Finally let's go

[vampyredefender-a]

closed starter for @dvlishkol

lexi had found herself pacing through the dimly lit alleyways of the town, discovering everything she could about the place. it was a distraction of course, one she'd taught stefan centuries ago to help him understand the importance of humanity versus bloodlust. to learn about the homes human's had built for themselves, the people who made the place one to enjoy. the sound of her boots echoed against the brick walls, a peaceful noise until she realised it was not just her own echoing.

instinctively she turned to find the source of the sound, concern in her eyes. there, bathed in the shadows stood her sire, a man she hadn't seen in centuries. the concern in her eyes quickly melted away into anger, an animalistic snarl coming from the blonde. in a flash she was beside the male, a manicured hand moving to grasp at his throat, slamming him into the wall nearby.

[the-jordas-trials]

finally got my scug designs all in a nice row. Teehee!!!