#(obvious question to obvious answers lol)

[polillamielera]

Meet Tallulah 𖹭

although her backstory is still mostly in progress, one of the many ideas me n' my good friend and sibling came up with was: she's a sort of "backup" created to counter many problems Urbanshade had with the EXR-Ps (oxygen, mobility, reflexes, etc...) but most importantly, Sebastian; she was meant to retrieve the Crystal but let's just say there's a LOT more problems with that

that's about as much as i have on her lore. it might change later, depending on how i want this to go, but we love Tallulah nonetheless

anyways, i have her DNA list ready along with my reasoning for implementing such features:

Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx): Maneuverability, cold resistance, growth rate

Salmon Shark (Lamna diptoris): Endothermy, adaptability, availability

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus griseus): Gills, prehistoric/primitive genes, a sort of "blueprint"

Velvet Belly Lantern Shark (Etmopterus spinax): T-Cells to eliminate toxic metals, photophores, depth adaptation

Glacier Lanternfish (Benthosema glaciale): Low-light vision, photophores, availability, depth adaptation

her design is NOT finished btw, she's still a work in progress :]

[darcymariaphoster]

DenNor 13. 16. 25. <3

Ah, thank you for the ask! Lovely surprise. <3 I am so sorry this took me one business year to answer. Life caught me off guard for a minute there. Anyway. Here we go!

13: What interests/hobbies would they try and get the other into? Would they succeed or not?

I think my favorite newer headcanon about Denmark is that he's afraid of heights, so I can see Norway continuously attempting to get him to go on mountain hikes with him, and usually failing. The only time he's succeeded is around an anniversary, but they never get far before Denmark can't handle it anymore. Pretty much anything requiring long-term patience, Norway will try to show Denmark with varying degrees of success. I think maybe knitting (basics and only in the winter because that makes sense) and reading would be the winners. Hobbies that Denmark would try to get Norway into... I honestly feel like Denmark has stupid niche hobbies, like collecting stamps or coins from around the world that aren't made anymore. Norway doesn't quite get it, and is a little annoyed that he has the patience for that but not to learn to knit a whole sweater? 😅 Denmark also gardens, and is sometimes successful in getting Norway to join him. He also loves to bake. I think I've mentioned this elsewhere before, that it calms him down and grounds him. He mostly has that one to himself.

16: What would they do to surprise one another? This sorta turned more into love language, my bad.

Denmark is a doer. I also feel like he's good at reading people, specifically those he cares a lot about. So when he knows that Norway is stressed or upset, he'll clean the whole house or bring him food so he doesn't have to think about it. He knows when to be annoying to distract, or to back off if he values his life. On the other side of that, I think that Norway doesn't try to surprise Denmark much, so it doesn't really take that much to surprise him. 😅 He could literally just hand him flowers that he picked off the side of the road on a whim and it would surprise Denmark. When he's actually trying, though, he'll do things that he knows Denmark appreciates. And definitely spontaneous cuddles (or what Norway would consider a cuddle).

25: Try and think of either 3 silly or angsty headcanons for them as a couple? Depending on the dynamic of the ship, could be anything at all. If you cant think of 3, thats fine.

2 angsty headcanons:

when they fight, they fight. Big blowout fights, throwing all their past mistakes into each other's faces until one of them leaves. Both of them are stubborn enough that it takes them longer than even Sweden and Finland to recover.

While I feel like, most of the time, they've learned to balance and deal with each other's opposite-ness, there are times in which it is not great. Norway can be emotionally distant and I feel that Denmark has anxiety. So there are definitely times in which their relationship falls into the "unstable" category; times in which Denmark adamantly believes that Norway no longer loves him, and Norway isn't positive (still, to this day) how to convince him otherwise and get him out of his head. [And this often leads to the fighting headcanon.]

1 silly(?) headcanon:

Every once in a while, Norway gets it right when Denmark is having a hard time. I imagine rough nights where everything is going wrong in Denmark's head, so Norway will go to the kitchen and start baking. Naturally, Den will worry about something burning or Nor messing up a recipe and will come downstairs "to watch". He'll inevitably end up taking over, and Norway will pretend to be offended, but he isn't. And he'll sit at the counter and ask questions, talk to Denmark, help wash the dishes. And by the time all the baking and cleaning is done, Denmark isn't as in his head anymore. They have a quiet moment together, before going to bed at 4a and sleeping until noon.

[smoozie]

Okay I want to say, I LOVED this gimmick. It was cute and fun, gave everyone some more resources to prep with and (for the most part) didn't have too deadly of consequences (from the povs I've seen). The most interesting part, however, was just what questions the ccs did and did not know.

I was justing thinking about this the other day, ironically. I think a lot of people assume the ccs remember a lot more of the series than they do simply because they lived through it, but I think the fans in general are more aware of things because we tend to rewatch seasons. And that was proven correct today. Most ccs play through a series and forget most of the details right afterward.

[vaguely-concerned]

*sigh* this is arguably going to be slightly cursed so don't go blaming me if you fail to avert your eyes at this my dire warning. still here? ok let's go. do you guys think kremy could light a post-coital cigarette off of gideon's... let's err on the side of discretion here and call it happy trail. like if he were down there anyway and really craving the first smoke of the day in celebration of a job well done. do you think gideon would mind. probably not right. just impatiently waiting for a cooldown smooch like 'c'mon up here already, the fuck are you still doin' down th -- oh ok, fine. just don't get any ash in my pubes this time alright it gets itchy'

[oifaaa]

I was actively going for Damian and got Tim I feel so attacked--

It was probably my inability to call Batman my dad :(

See I'm not a fan of quizzes where you can obviously tell which answer refers to which character to avoid that I used my own logic so if you actively try to get one character your not gonna get them

[acaciapines]

I hope you realise that your latest fic "like a car off a cliff" is now permanently burned into my gray matter and won't ever go away as long as I live. I mean this in the best possible way of course - I'm probably gonna go back and read it when I calm down a little because oh my word what a phenomenal story you've written.

Anyhow, I wanted to ask a question about the backstory of this particular fic. We know how Kris and Ralsei met in this continuity, and that she was eventually able to escape her home situation thanks to them, but I'm wondering what it was that made them want to try and have a relationship together. There's something about the fact that these two characters, who in this continuity aren't suited to romance at all, were at least willing to try it together that strikes me as very poignant. Essentially I'm asking - what was it you think they saw in each other which made them want to try for that?

Hope this makes sense - like I said, your writing kinda fried my brain a little bit with how good it was, so if I'm rambling incoherently here I apologise! XD

proud for my fic to live rent free in your head forever <3 always feel free to drop an ask about it No Matter How Long It Has Been. i love to yap.

and of course! uh, the real reason is that both of them were sort of like. i guess this is just what you do, and they were closer to each other than anybody else (kris and ralsei meet when they're ~12ish and continue to meet up until theyre 14, which is when ralsei leaves). basically they saw all their friends getting together and talking about romance and crushes and then susie and noelle got together and its like. oh we're the other two members of the friend group we should do that too right. and thus they did. think like the high school dance is approaching and theyre like oh shit hey wanna go together. and this is how it starts njgkdfg

but ALSO in terms of a romantic relationship they're actually very safe for each other lol, bc neither of them really....want any of that? so for them dating was literally no different from being friends, which is why they sort of didnt. acknowledge that maybe they didnt want to be in a romantic relationship for so long. it only became weird in the context of society! but if its just the two of them they're doing pretty well.

basically theyre both aromantic <3 we love this for them.

hope that helped!!! theres a lot of like. backstory thought that i never put explicitly on the page for this one so, uh. feel free to ask more about this 'verse! it was real fun to translate into 'reality' aka without the dark worlds, cause those are so important to how i interpret these characters yknow.

[shima-draws]

👀 Pokemon teams for the Strawhats? Yeah? Yeah??

NJDNSAJDSA omg okay okay let me see

Luffy:

Fighting type expert, his is p straightforward. Also yes Infernape was the (very) obvious choice for him lol

Zoro:

I KNOW I know giving him two starters is cheating a little but like. Sceptile is perfect for him bc it has blades on its arms and is green. And Samurott is entirely self explanatory lol

Nami:

Money related and weather related! (Also Delphox in there bc she deserves a starter, Delphox is perfect bc it's elegant, a fox which are known for trickery, and. It learns Thief)

I will have to do the rest later LOL still brainstorming on them ;)

[the-mononoke-facade]

One of these days I'm going to figure out when 瞳 (hitomi) is supposed to be referring to someone's eyes and when it's supposed to be referring to someone's pupils, because slitted/narrowed eyes and slitted pupils have two different connotations, did you narrow your eyes or do you have cat eyes? This is important information okay

[creepyscritches]

Getting an adulthood diagnosis for something that's been present since early childhood is sooooo fucking 👁️👁️ there's catharsis sure yeah but the struggle comes from trying to forgive your child self for failures you weren't really having.

Anyway shout out to my autoimmune girlies. Who else got shamed for early childhood cavities and expensive adolescent surgeries only to find out as an adult you are full of mouth-ruining antibodies lol. Girlies who else is unpacking their "chronic illness bad teeth = shameful moral failing" buuuullshit? Anyway I'm still trying to save $16,000 to fix fucked teeth I thought I brought on myself, but only discovered in 2023 were due to medical study candidate levels of sjogrens antibodies and severely medically mismanaged sle 🤪

[danothan]

i think above all else, i tie my aro identity to my autism. like sometimes i wonder if i’m aro just bc i’m autistic, and ykw that’s totally fine for me lol

and while we’re at it, that might be the case for my gender too. being non-binary is quite literally rejecting the binary, and being aro basically subscribes you to relationship anarchy, which also inherently rejects societal norms

that’s so peculiar to me now looking back on myself as a child. i knew romance and gender weren’t fake, but they definitely didn’t feel real lol. i wonder if other queer ppl felt this early on too, and if being neurodivergent makes a difference

i remember being incredibly frustrated every time gender was brought up with validity. “boys and girls” was like saying “cats and dogs.” it’s a phrase to communicate an idea, but we all know they’re not the only ones. romance didn’t rly frustrate me so much as it felt like participating in a game. it was fun choosing ppl to have a crush on, until i was on the receiving end. like, we’re still playing, right?

ppl always say autism means you don’t get social cues, but i don’t think i was misunderstanding anything. i think i was just questioning their value

[supermarine-silvally]

Yara, let Ace draw you XD

Yara: "...This is really good, Ace."

Ace: *laughs* "What, you expected me to be as bad at drawing as Luffy?"

Ask Yara (or any of my OCs) anything!

[bikananjarrus]

i'm behind on the andor rewatch but alas, the catchup will be postponed a bit longer bc it's rebels remembered day which means i obviously have to watch some rebels tonight

[raiiny-bay]

oc deep dive questionnaire - dhes edition

tagged by @sikoi (ty you for the tag!! <3)

-what common/uncommon fear do they have? tbh, there's not much that scares Dhes. when he was younger, he feared rejection, but that fear has lessened significantly as he's gotten older & become more comfortable with himself

-do they have any pet peeves? he's pretty particular about housekeeping, so his biggest pet peeves tend to be related to that. but he especially hates when Kelly leaves his shoes lying around instead of putting them away (bc Dhes *always* trips over them lol)

-what are 3 items you can find in their bedroom? CDs (lots of CDs), a tamagotchi (he brings it to work. it never stays alive long), & notes that he & Kel wrote back & forth to each other during class throughout their teen years

-what do they notice first in a person? whether or not they look directly at him/look him in the eyes

-on a scale of 1-10, how high is their pain tolerance? probably 8 or 9

-do they go into fight or flight mode when under pressure? fight - Dhestyn's a fighter through & through

-do they come from a big family/are they a family person? his family is pretty average, size-wise. his family dynamic is very eccentric, so whether or not he's a "family person" is kind of a complicated answer. he's not particularly close with anyone in his immediate family, but he does talk to them & visit them often

-what animal represents them best? a dog - generally, he's very friendly & loyal, but in the right circumstances, he does tend to bite

-what is a smell that they dislike? burning meat

-have they broken any bones? if so, how? several, mostly his fingers & wrists though. he's broken them in skateboarding accidents, during fights with other kids when he was in middle/high school, & by simply making poor decisions due to his reckless nature :-)

-how would a stranger likely describe them? i actually kind of explained this on his character page, but to sum it up people tend to see Dhes as either very charming or very unsavory

-are they a night owl or a morning bird? both! Dhes has a horrific sleep schedule. he'll regularly stay up until 1-2am & he wakes up at 5 o'clock every morning. though if he had to choose one, he prefers mornings

-what is a flavor they hate and a flavor they love? he really likes cinnamon. he's not a big fan of seafood.

-do they have any hobbies? yes! skateboarding, hacky sack, making playlists & listening to music, working out (weights/jogging), fashion (read: "fashion"), & ruining his hair, to name a few.

-boom, surprise birthday party! how do they react to surprises? Dhestyn always appreciates a nice surprise

-do they like to wear jewelry? if so, what is their favorite piece? yes, the man loves to accessorize. his favorite piece of "jewelry" is actually a necklace Kel gave to him when they were fifteen - it's a simple black cord with one of Kel's old guitar picks on it.

-do they have neat or messy handwriting? somewhere in the middle - it's legible, at least.

-what are two emotions they feel the most? love & anger

-do they have a favorite fabric? not particularly, no

-what kind of accent do they have? standard PNW accent when speaking English, though occasionally he'll have hints of a more Mexican-American accent, which he picked up from his mom's side of the family

tagging: @mobwhim, @lynzishell, @vicciouxs, @teddybearsims, & @salemssimblr (feel free to ignore ofc!)

[akkivee]

For the next BAT audio drama I kinda hope they put Kuukou through the horrors, I love Kuukou and all but I want to know what the absolute fuck is his problem. I really hope we get to finally find out what happened to Mama Harai. What I think happened to Mama Harai is something involving the ocean, I always found it ironic that Kuukou dislikes the ocean considering where he lives so I thought maybe that has to do with Mama Harai not being around.

all i want is for kuukou to have fun and live life but yeah, we have reached the point where it’ll be straight bizarre if we don’t get his backstory lol. kuukou enjoying nature to the point he takes solace in it but dislikes the ocean is soooo telling

and so i hope it’s mama harai too lol!!!!! whether the drama is she gave kuukou a reason to hate the ocean, or is the reason he hates smoking and alcohol, or is the reason he naturally turns to self sacrifice, or all of the above!!!!! i would like to know lol!!!!!

[doedipus]

I played some aba in the park today and mostly got washed, as expected, but I feel like I have a bit more direction with labbing

[funkbun]

✏️ ??

✏️: Who is your favorite Grumpus to DRAW?

haven't drawn him a lot recently but, this one, this guy, that one, this one, the green one, him, chandlo, mr funkbun, this guy