#✦✧ everything to win ↣ answered.

[lady-raziel]

because there is nothing to lose the people saying biden should resign now so kamala can still be the first female president are absolutely right but why stop there? inauguration day is 70 days away let's make "president for a day" a real thing. say "fuck it we ARE going to do the arbitrary quota DEI bullshit you accuse us of" and speedrun first [category] presidents. revolving door type thing.

first female president. first openly gay president. first transgender president. first president who has been to space. first president gamer president. first mime president. just play president bingo and hit as many categories as possible while we still can. make all of trump's #47 merch unusable by forcing him to be the 115th president instead. who cares anymore let's peacefully transition power but do it in the most chaotic hot-potato way possible

[markscherz]

There is a happiness no-one else knows: the feeling of mud between fully webbed toes; the caress of a breeze on your moist shiny skin; the warmth of the sunlight that slowly soaks in; the gentlest hum of a thought far away, as you sit and you soak and let time tick away.

[crustyfloor]

I've noticed the new art of Sua looks just like Ivan dropping to the floor, very similar look in posture

Yeah...I've been pondering over it for a minute now, and it's just sad I want to cry

[heretherebedork]

So the real answer is OabWanKluer, right? That's the real answer. The real answer is poly and always poly.

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

How come this blog is still called "ask-whitepearl-and-steven", if you're the one doing the talking?

(And the title reads: Ask White Pearl and Steven(Almost) Anything!)

Because you guys keep asking me questions.

[verflares]

i miss her so bad (botw/totk zelda)

[lady-quen]

Hello Guild Wars 2 community! A new poll has dropped! 🐦‍⬛

(At least, hopefully new, lol.) I'm curious, which blessing did your Commander get on their first/canon go through the Raven Sanctum in the story mission "The Invitation?" Choose and tell me in the tags why they made their specific decisions :)

Compiled explanations from the wiki below for ease of access:

The trial choices in order:

Save the wounded man or save the healers

Save the spell tome or save the historical record

Save the queen or save the prince

Blessings:

Blessing of Daybreak

"When the fear of beastly claws and a child's pain is made sharp by the knowledge of elders, we make no mistakes. But do we grow?"

Healers -> historical record -> prince

Grace of Dawn

"When wisdom is favored in all things—a healing hand, a text of old, a beloved queen—we lose the sharpened sword of the truly bold."

Healers -> historical record -> queen

Consecration of Morning

"We seek to destroy monsters with sharp claws and icy breath, but do we protect ourselves from the beasts shaped like us, who prey on the young and vulnerable, who seek to rule us?"

Healers -> spell tome -> prince

Invocation of Midday

"When we flee from the things we fear most - the teeth of beasts, the storm of a dragon, a change of power-we risk running backward."

Healers -> spell tome -> queen

Supplication of Midday

"We favor the skill of healers and the wisdom of elders over the uncertainty of the future. But the young take chances, and the young push us forward."

Wounded man -> spell tome -> prince

Consecration of Evening

"We long for the comfort of a healing touch, an ancestral word of wisdom, a leader we know and trust. But comfort is fleeting, and with it comes inertia."

Wounded man -> historical record -> queen

Grace of Dusk

"We sacrifice so much—safety from the claws of death, knowledge of the ages, a steadfast reign—to propel ourselves forward. But if we move too fast, do we risk the inability to stop?"

Wounded man -> spell tome -> prince

Blessing of Twilight

"We try so hard to do the right thing. We heal, we protect our people, we preserve stability. But we cannot control how the winds of fate may shift, and a tight grip can sometimes hurt more than it helps."

Wounded man -> spell tome -> queen

[numberonetacostan]

thinking about how taco and the rest of the s1 contestants would react to finding out she was practically made to win. like mephone visits the hotel post-finale talking about how he thinks they deserve to know what he planned for them to be like, and literally everyone ends up staring at taco when they hear about it. she probably wouldn’t even believe it at first. and then to think that she must have done something to ruin it for herself??

i also personally like to think that taco may have been one of the first ii contestants to break away from her programming and become her own person, even if she didn’t realize that’s what she was doing

Hello there :D!!!!!^^ Welcome, and thank you for sending in your hc!!!!! :] XD

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE THE MOST RIGHT EVER. FINALLY A REASON TO TALK MORE ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH ANON!!!! (also sorry because I have been thinking about this a lot a lot a lot so i might deviate a bit more from your ask than i usually do). SHE. WAS. BUILT. TO. WIN. BUT SHE DIDN'T.

A little tangent before I go into Taco finding out, I think the reason she lost despite having been supposed to win is actually because of Bow. Now, I've mentioned before how Bow is literally the reason that Taco lost- Taco getting attacked by her is how OJ was able to catch up and beat her in the final footrace. But on a more meta level, Bow disrupted the original plan for the season. She wasn't part of the original cast. Mephone was forced by A.D.A.M. to let her in the show after she appeared halfway through the season!! Her inclusion was not in Mephone's plan. Her showing up threw things out of whack, culminating in her influence causing the intended winner of the season to lose.

Taco having been the planned winner actually makes season 2's existence make more sense, too. OJ won and built everyone a big shiny hotel to live in, they had a happy ending and everything they could want! Had Taco won, though, she (most likely, I have thoughts on this but I won't go on a tangent for the tangent) would have left with the money!!! The rest of the cast would have been left with squat, and without even a winner to celebrate since Taco ditches them. Perfect reason to start another season, right there in the same spot as season 1 took place!!! Give someone else the chance to win after the last winner got her prize and dipped. I can see her taking on her "iconoclast" role even better here, too. She won, but she isn't happy. She accomplished her goal, has everything she wants, but she's alone. So she goes back and works behind the scenes to try and put a stop to the game that pushed her to such extremes. She sees how it impacts and hurts everyone involved, and wants to put a stop to it. She allies with Mic more altruistically, to try and help someone being hurt by the game as she works to put a stop to it!! Truth or Flare can still happen relatively normally, even, with Taco desperately trying to convince the contestants to quit before they end up like her! Having won the money, but really ended up with nothing. Her redemption arc comes as her trying to fix her wrongdoings by preventing others from making the same mistakes she did. She can apologize to Pickle, explain herself, and they can be friends again!

But that's not how it happened. The other "meaner" characters get their redemptions as planned. Knife in season 2, Nickel in season 3, even Silver apologizes and gets to continue to have a relationship with Candle after he punches her flame out, even if it's a but strained for some time. But Taco? Her programming couldn't properly execute. She was built to win, but she didn't. So Mephone no longer had a planned redemption for her, or any plans for her, really. In Truth or Flare, in which Mephone had his memories back, he is surprised to see Taco show up. He did not realize she was still around. Still running mostly on her old programming despite her hating herself for it, and trying to break out of it, because the previous conditions to begin her redemption arc were never met. She had to get to "winning the game, but losing what really mattered" in a different way, that way being winning immunity for Mic in episode 14, but losing her most important connection because of it. Once that happens, she can finally really begin to change and be better, because the condition has finally been met, even if it wasn't quite how it was intended to be.

OH RIGHT YOUR ASK IS ABOUT HOW TACO AND THE OTHER S1 CONTESTANTS REACT TO FINDING OUT. UH. OOPSIES. I AM SO SORRY. GETTING TO IT NOW.

I honestly hadn't though about Mephone telling them outright!!! It would be some good growth for him to be the one to decide to tell them something important like this, that they have the right to know. He'd probably have to leave again soon after though. I can't imagine Taco taking it any sort of well. You're right that she wouldn't believe it first, she wouldn't want to believe it at first. That all this? Everything? The years of suffering? Because she was defective? Couldn't win, even though she was made to? Was it all for nothing? Even if she had won, she still would have been alone? Pickle could have forgiven her, if only she'd been able to fulfill her purpose? Augh, that's all so scrambled, but that's how she'd be thinking, you know? She would be so overwhelmed, shocked, in despair, mourning, heartbroken, all at the same time wrapped up into one little Taco. She'd just be quiet and just staring at Mephone and in the littlest voice she's ever spoken in says she needs to be alone. Goes to leave, Mephone steps towards her and asks her to wait, because he does feel bad and wants to apologize, but Taco is so not ready for that. She's been trying to heal and be better after the events of the finale- but every single wound has been violently ripped open with new ones torn into her, and she just can't do it. She would give that sort of raw scream you can only give when you have so many feelings that they need to get out through your mouth and make it clear that she needs to be alone, now.

And then I think she would sob her little heart out. The messiest, most brutal breakdown you've ever seen. Panic attacks, scratching, shouting, sobbing, breaking things, you name it. They'd leave her be for a bit, but Mic would get worried hearing all the crashing, and go to check on her. Taco has destroyed whatever space she is in and is still sobbing and scratching and breaking down, and Mic gives her a hug. And Taco sobs more, but she's being held and she can squeeze Mic and cry into her shoulder. It's a bad day for everyone, all around. OJ is having a bad time too, but is taking it a lot better than Taco, and also this ain't about him. She has a lot of healing to be done from here, truly.

I'm going to stop here, because i think this answers your ask and i have been procrastinating on an assignment that i really do need to get done now, but I can talk more about this if anyone has questions or just wants to hear more!!!^^ please ask for more this is so so so much i love it so very much please i want to talk about it more please ask questions anything please please

[luxurybrownbarbie]

Isn't it funny how Katie Ledecky does insane, superhuman things every single year and she's never accused of being a man, but WOC beat white women every once in a blue moon and there are international headlines and demands for testing every 5-7 business months?

[spinnysocks]

kiburi x ushari but specifically doomed kiburi x ushari. more than anyone else in the army they believe with full sincerity that scar's plan HAS to work because they can't succeed without him

[team5ds]

the worst part is i can't even say he's wrong. they certainly did figure out how to contribute the city by joining the wrgp. but like. this is one of those things where it literally does not make sense. this is insane levels of logic. "we're not sure how to contribute to the city. we think entering a magic the gathering tournament will help." like. imagine saying that fr when your parents ask what you're going to do after you graduate college. "idk. thought i'd play card games and figure it out, man"

[insomnya777]

rip ethoslab you would have loved dti lana lore 😭🙏

[ohitslen]

vash and wolfwood kissing either side of kuroneko-samas cute lil head

Kissy for the kitty 🤏✨���

[xcziel]

has anybody else thought about how jk could easily manage sofia's parts of slow dance or is it just me?

[nixie-deangel]

Hey Nixie darlin'

For you to write about:

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💐 serial killer Jake - hangster

"Ya know, honey," Jake starts, shifting awkwardly where he stands, head flicking up to the run down building Bradley's been calling home the last two months, "I could help move you into something better. Safer." Pausing, Bradley swallows down the immediate urge to snap about handouts and how he doesn't need any—despite the major fact he fucking really does—and takes a moment to breath deeply before releasing it slowly. "Jake. Jake while I appreciate and love that you decided to help with my, my debt. I don't. I don't want you to think that's what I want from you." Jake shifts till he's still, staring at Bradley with a furrowed brow. "I know that, darlin'. I know you ain't with me because you want something besides myself."

😎 win a date with jake - hangster

"Oh god, oh god," Bradley whines, tossing the calendar as far from him as he can before making grabby hands to Dex. "Drink. I need a drink now." Snorting, his friend slides the bottle of tequila towards him as he asks, "The hell is your problem now?" "My godfather's in there," Bradley whimpers as he upends what's left of the bottle and chugs the last of it, hoping it'll banish the sight of Mav half dressed as he leans against his plane.

🦇 vampire jake/human bradley - hangster: Here are a few snippets from different points in the story!

"Sweetheart, there is not a thing in this world I would not give you, if you but asked it of me," Jake quietly promises, as he stares down at where Bradley is huddled on his couch. "But you cannot ask that of me. Not now, my love, not...not when it is such a struggle for me to give in." Pausing, Jake moves to settle gently next to Bradley. "You are barely out of high school, and you have your whole life ahead of you, Bradley. I...I do.." he trails off. "But you don't want me. Don't want to bite me," Bradley whispers brokenly as he turns his head to stare down at his feet. "You don't need to make excuses, Jake." "I want you more than I have ever wanted any before," Jake swears, hand moving out to carefully grip Bradley's jaw and turn him so that Jake could look him in the eye. "I am the damnation of my kind, Bradley. I am the thing vampires fear. And you, my love, you are my light and my life. I could not bear to be a thing you come to regret because I turned you before you had the chance to live."

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Jake stumbles, falling down to his knees as he clutches at his chest, struggling to draw in a breath he doesn't need as it feels like his soul, his heart, is being ripped from him. "Wha...whats gon'....?" He tries to mumble out before the world is suddenly dark as the pain intensifies past the point he can tolerate.

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"One day, honey, one day I'll be with you again," Jake murmurs, hand reaching out even though he knows it's just a dream. That he only sees Bradley there. Will only ever see him there again. Snorting, the man laughs as he swats Jake's hand away, "Man, I think you've had just a bit too much to drink tonight." Jake squints because his dream Bradley has never talked back like that to him before. Dream Bradley only ever tells Jake he can't wait to be reunited, that he loves him. Dream Bradley doesn't call him man. Only calls him sweet pet names. But… but that man sounded like his Dream Bradley did. Sounded like his Bradley did when he breathed and lived.

Make Nixie Write This Weekend!

[madaqueue]

HIHI QUIN!!! you're so real for that "i’m going to **** his **** and **** his ***** *** in that outfit" tag on the recent gojo art u reblogged. because dude SAME.

he needs the best ******* ever. i'm talking ******* and ******* on it!! UNTIL THE ROOM ****** AND WITHERS AWAY. until he's the shell of a man he onc— [CAR CRASH] [GLASS SHATTERING] "GOOD LORD!" [GENERAL COMMOTION] [BABY CRYING] "WAAAAH WAAAAH" [YELLING] [POLICE SIRENS] WEEWOO WEEWOO [HELICOPTERS] "WE’RE REPORTING LIVE-" [EXPLOSION] "MY LEG... MY LEG..."

yeah... just... yeah. in other news how are you☺️

HAHAHAHHAAHAHA ARTEMIS IM LITERALLY GIGGLING AT THIS CKSKCKSKKCKD but no you’re so right someone needs to **** his ******** until [gunshots]

hehehehehe i’m good though how are you my love 🥰🥰🥰