#(the sparrow doesnt have his own tag)

[apricot-the-apricat]

Old doodle that I decided to fix up and add a background to so I could use it as an example in my commission sheet :3

The water gave me so much trouble but I think it looks good enough now

[kaseyskat]

being both a sparrow apologist and a normal enthusiast is so difficult sometimes I am sitting here imagining them bonding and crying over canon and so few people truly understand me

[spotsupstuff]

I love NAE and I know he is a bit (well, more than a bit) of an antagonistic cretin, but it feels like his anti-social personality might be a coping mechanism for personal issues and insecurities he is struggling with. I could be completely wrong and he's just simply a bad person, but I feel like it's more than that. Either way I think he needs a therapy animal.

hoyly hell you've just given him characterization shots in so many directions that i don't know where to look first GJDSKLMCL

he's not exactly antisocial or anythin! antagonistic cretin he is, but that's just how he rolls, lil bit of a douche- have you seen that one vid with a guy walking his Emu hold on here- he embodies this in most situations

on one hand NAE is a lil shithead but he's a Fun shithead. cursin' up a storm is kinda just what some people do/how they interact. heavens know that when i bring out the curse n nasty words it means i'm havin a nice chill convo with someone

after this

he went and notified his own Admin/Mechanic about it so she could've go and help out Sparrows with things

if he was just Plain asshole stuff like this wouldn't happen

these two hang out, Euros gets a rise outta him by bringing up something painfully stupid, NAE calls him a fucking idiot with an apocalyptically low count of neurons and then they continue their hang out

he's neither a bad person or coping with his own issues/insecurities! he's just a tiny ball of rage who's rolling through life wishing he had one more finger so he could flip people off. bastard is prolly the best off outta the dramatic tragedies that are most of the Eo iterators

guy is guying 🤷‍♀️

n honestly he'd... probably kick an animal sooner than take one on for therapy reasons, he would Not have the patience

[daryfromthefuture]

fic author self rec

tagged by @bg-sparrow!! thank you :D

also this was like FOREVER ago and then i forgot about it so apologies for the delay hfdjsfgdhjfasj

share five favorites of your own work, then tag five fic authors to do the same - okay, let's go

Until Get Home

When the train plot goes horribly wrong, Marty McFly and Doc Brown are stranded in 1885. How will they manage to adapt to a time so foreign to their own? Will they be able to preserve the space-time-continuum? And, most importantly: How will their adventures in the past impact their relationship?

you know this HAD to be the number one. i cannot pour my life and soul into a 100K word fanfic and not have it be my number one LMAO. but seriously, this fanfic means a lot to me. it helped me get through my first months in a foreign country, connected me with awesome friends and had me gain a massive appreciation for bttf part 3 (i love that part even more than i already have and watching it reminds me of this fic). i am also proud that this story carries some valuable messages and developes doc and marty even more. it was wonderful writing this, and it's also my first major story i finished. this is a love letter to bttf and bttf 3 in particular in form of a...well, book.

2. Most People Were Silent

Marty McFly had been stranded in the 1940s for a year, living with the younger version of his best friend, Emmett Brown. When Doc unexpectedly gets invited to join a secret scientific project, Marty and Emmett move to a small town in New Mexico. After meeting various new people and making his own acquaintaces while Doc works, Marty learns how vital it is to stay quiet - for the sake of everyone's safety. But not everyone has the same view...

is it wrong to put a not-yet-finished work on this list? maybe, but i, quite frankly, do not care because i adore this story. it had me come up with silly little ocs and throws me into a setting that interests me (i am a major history nerd and a way to connect it with my favorite character? YES PLEASE). and just wait until you see what happens next - you will definitely get why this is on second place >:)

on a side note, this universe is getting an expansion and becoming a trilogy, which i have titled "the trinity trilogy". writing this will kill me but i am so ready

3. In The Shadow Of The Mushroom Cloud

this fic doesnt have a summary, but it's my part of the "Stuck Through Time(lines)" - collab project we did in the discord server! once again a manhattan project doc fic with a different basic concept than my main one. this one was SO fun to write. i poured out those 12k words in like five days. i want that kind of motivation back, please. also i get to do what bob gale only dreams of and blow up the delorean

please also read the other contributions to this challenge!! all of the authors are so talented and i love their work :D

4. Winter of '84

Doc takes Marty to the doctor when Marty comes down with the flu.

i love me a good bttf prequel fic, and sickfic is one of my favorite tropes, so i was super shocked when i found out that the bttf fandom had like. zero of those. before winter of '84, there was november, but that's a post-trilogy fic, so it doesn't count lol. i'm proud of this one because it's just a cute piece of slice of life fluff, and i think it captures doc and marty's friendship super well.

5. Double Visions

Marty and Doc return from 1931, but Doc doesn't know half of the story.

a bttf: the game fic holy shit

i had wanted to write something of this kind ever since i first played the game in february 2021. as you can see, it only took me like, two years, but i did it! and i think it's great in the way that it covers everything i had in mind for this scene while not stretching itself. i loved writing the dialogue and emotional stuff for this story and like rereading it occasionally :)

i would like to tag...everyone who hasn't been tagged before. i have lost track.

thanks for the ask bg!!

[theconfusedartist]

I was gonna respond to the reblogs with the tags on the post, but I wanted this reblog to be the one I use going forward bc. The meta. Juicy. Didn’t wanna leave it behind, it’s soooo good. The William drag, how his terrible legacy is continued in the further games, how even with thinking about his situation his actions have altered Desmond in a way that can’t be forgiven (not that he actually gives a sincere apology). Ideas on how the assassins operate. Just. Mwah!

Sooooo tags!

@leonspardas​

#yeah he didn’t like waste his life. he was living the life he wanted to live#which was a normal one

 @benewhorian

#yeah!!#and ok. but isnt his totally neutral outfit the perfect costume.#as well as hiding in nyc among millioms of people. being a bartender. a profession as far from being an#adsassin ad possible 

@the-babbling-brook​

#I love Desmond#bro deserved sm better#assassin’s creed#desmond miles#reblog 

@mandrake-does-art​

#THIS#ppl need to appreciate Desmond more#i miss the present day assassins 

@desmondmilesdefensesquad​

#EXACTLY#meta#desmond 

@kingbob2-0​

#desmond miles#asscreed#william miles#bill is an ASS  #Poor Desmond#Bill was most certainly not a good dad

@teecupangel​

#all of this#yeeesss  #yes he is

@fanworldbuildingfun​

#Assassin's Creed#Desmond Miles#Yeah#Even the game (cough Shaun cough) treats Desmond like he just...#Let his training waste for who knows how long?#Except no - he clearly made use of it#honestly with wjat little we know about hia life between Farm and being caught#I would almost say that Desmond just... Used his talents as a dai/informant would? 

@beepbeepwhatdoyouthink​

#the lack of understanding and acknowledgement of these facts breaks my heart like#desmond is good#both a good person and a good assassin before the animus#and i get game mechanic reasons like it has to make sense for the player to learn alongside the pc#but desmond is so so much more than his ancestor's memories and think it's very ironic#that we as fans do this to him just like the narrative does#assassins creed 

@thedragonqueen1998​

#all of this#yeeesss#<previous tags#yes indeed#and this will be meta#but theres nothing wrong with wanting a normal life#not becoming a superstar#or an astrophysicist#or a doctor#doesnt make a person “lazy” or “dumb”

@princesslikesfanfics​

In conclusion, BAMF Desmond is truly canon  (not a tag but I wanted it to be here too)

@sparrow-in-boots​

#I HAVEN BEEN FUCKING SAYING!!!!!#screaming off the rooftops even!!#assassin's creed 

@alex-mercer

#POINTING AT THIS#he's smart and skilled as hell!!! william is just a dick#assassin's creed#desmond miles 

@mirrorthoughts​

#I really really don’t like Bill#I’d like to punch his teeth in for how he treated Desmond#Assassin‘s Creed#Desmond Mile 

@raett97​

#yeah i have. problems with Bills character#kinda. my take is capital C complicated#but also my frame of reference is only up to AC3#but like. he was a bad mentor and worse father#i could do my own break down analysis interpretation but thats too much effort rn#it boils down to the fact he prioritise the shit out of the Assassin's as a Brotherhood#and the Assassin's as a cause#and not the Assassin's as people#and Desmond suffered most from that mentality bc while other Assassin's would have had family to turn to#Des was left with nothing#no support at all#and like. i get it#Bill. the world was literally going to end#but you can multitask. you dont have to be a complete dickhead to get things done#i could go on. but i wont. (please do)

@acelike​

#assassin's creed#he succeeded at escaping master assassins at 16#desmond defence squad 

Ok, to all the people talking about how shit Bill was YESSSSS fuck that guy! That’s why he dies in the rewrite! I’m sorry but why did the game open up with Desmond telling his own story in the Ezio trilogy after all the time we spent with him in game only for Bill to basically open up AC3 shit talking Desmond? Like? It was already kinda weird how the game downplayed the shit out of Desmond (their MAIN CHARACTER) but then?? They go the extra mile and show that Bill, the man that Desmond talks about having a bad experience with, not only shit talking him but then treating him like shit in game, physically and verbally abusing him and no one else ever addressing it. Not the game, not the characters, not the narrative, no one ever says shit about the fact that Desmond is actually being abused and it just. Gets brushed under the rug.

And then! Desmond saves Bill and this still doesn’t change anything! Not how Bill treats him, how the game should’ve been forced to acknowledge that Desmond is a master assassin (even if they wanted to invalidate him, they should’ve put some respect on his name and skills but no), or the fact that the Templars that once were stringing him along and Desmond feared being captured for the Templars to be getting cut down. So much goes on, in the actual game, to prove that Desmond is a BAMF but instead of it having a turning point in the story where the narrative is forced to acknowledge his skills, they just keep on going. Then Desmond dies and it’s Bill that carries the story.

....Bill. Really? Shaun and Rebecca are in the later games but then in Mirage it’s looking like he’ll be the one in animus? What has changed for Bill as a character or the assassins? Nothing. NOTHING! I don’t like that man or what he does to the Assassin Order, I’m just. Hm. He can be the one that doesn’t return to the series.

Also, as other people have mentioned, wanting to be a normal person isn’t wasting your life away. I mean! Ezio’s whole story accumulated to the point where he laid down his blades because he was tired of bloodshed, Altair traps himself in the library hoping that someone would eventually track down all the keys, finally getting to rest. These are the two best assassins in the history of assassins and they chose to either rest or live a normal life. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to get away from bloodshed. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to live around people normally, and the fact that Desmond literally escaped from a compound that survived the Purge with master assassins is just never brought up. But when it’s phrased like ‘Desmond escaped a top secret, high security assassin base with Master assassins and the Mentor of the Assassin Order at 16 years old and managed to escape and evade the Templars and Assassins for nearly 10 years’, suddenly it doesn’t sound like some flight of fancy that the game tries to make it seem.

It’s an act of conviction and determination to choose how he wants to live his life (which is also why I write that Desmond takes care of Elijah bc wtf Ubisoft, Desmond would never leave behind a child that would possibly be vulnerable to the Assassins and Templars, fuck off with that) and he made sure that he stayed free! He stayed out of their clutches until Abstergo used their incredibly vast resources to track him down, and even then, they sent in their best agent Daniel Cross because they knew to send the best to bring him in.

This is stuff that I didn’t make up, this is just in the game text, but the game just???? Refuses to show that it’s impressive and does it’s damndest to make it seem like Desmond is whiny (because he wanted breaks from a machine literally destroying his sanity and wanted to be treated with respect) naive (because how dare he choose his own life, when that is literally the most important things that Assassins fight for), and only being worth something once he got into the animus (which is fucked up that Desmond losing his mind and being used as a tool is ‘better’ than fighting to make his own choices about his life). The game narrative paints Desmond with a less than impressive brush when they have an incredibly interesting character that was also so selfless that he chose to die in order to save the world, and even then! He’s shown to the audience getting cut the fuck open like his story didn’t fucking matter! Like he didn’t matter! AGH!

Sorry, that particular thing about the autopsy is great when I incorporate it into the ProtoCreed rewrite, but in canon they left Desmond behind without burying him or anything to be scavenged and have his body disrespected by Templars that then use his DNA for video games. Like that is so fucked up to do to your main character and then never mention him until a literal decade later, like what the actual fuck. Glad he’s back as the Reader, because it gave me hope for Desmond’s story and fueled me to start writing the ProtoCreed AU but like holy shit bro.

Anyways, I love everyone’s tags and it always made me smile when I saw this post getting y’alls opinions in the tags and reblogs. Thank y’all!

y'know something that annoys me about assassins creed?

they always make it seem like desmond wasted his life away after he left the farm to become a bartender, that he wasn't fit to be an assassin until he was training in the animus, and that he didn't have any ambition (as said by William in the AC3 remastered opening)

but like. none of that is true. at all

I mean I was just looking at the wiki to see Desmonds accomplishments and bio and apparently it was Daniel Cross that brought him into Abstergo. which. kinda puts Desmond skills in perspective

Daniel Cross was considered the most successful Templar member and, before Desmond, had a really great track record with his missions. Save for the ones that involved PoEs

they had to send him in to get Desmond

also Desmond managed to stay hidden from the assassins AND templars for 9 going on 10 years, since he was kidnapped on like August 30 brought in for the animus September 1, and the only reason he got taken in was due to them getting his fingerprints from the DMV

like. That sounds stupid but think about it. If he was going to the DMV he had to have an entire false identity in order to use a license, bc you need proof of birth, SSN, and multiple legal documents

he just. had that made on the run. Like that actually takes skill or connections or both to be able to effectively be in the system without being found with fake legal papers

And he DID have ambition: he wanted to live normally. Yeah its not some big dream or anything but he managed to stay hidden from two secret shadowy organizations that is all over the world in order to make it happen. that's determination and he only got caught due to his fingerprints being matched

and he easily fights off the abstergo agents in the opening of the first game. I'm not saying that Desmond was near as good as Ezio or Altaïr or Connor at this point, but he can clearly defend himself very well. at the end of AC2 he has no qualms with killing, he just does so with the hidden blade.

look, all I'm saying is, at the very least Desmond had to he quite skilled even before he started using the animus

[maque]

Modern Yakuza Verse: Information

PLOTTED VERSE┊(blessed by a bitch from a bastard's seed. pleasure to meet you, but better to bleed.) (arc.modern yakuza) PLOTTED WITH:  @ADVERSITYBLOOMED​

TRIGGER WARNINGS: Dark Themes will be present, due to the fact that this is the Yakuza verse. Please note that there will be sexual themes involved, blood, murder, drugs, drinking & other themes involved.

  Viewers discretion is advised ( rarity don’t worry i promise to tag it for you <3 )

BASICS:

NAME: Shimada Genji

NICKNAMES: Kōjaku ( Sparrow ),  Kōj,  Otouto, Daddy ( from mulan) 

WHAT TO CALL HIM:  Chances are you aren’t going to know Genji by first name unless he has a personal relationship with the given person or trusts you deeply. He often uses his nickname of Sparrow. Yakuza Clan / Group: Shimada-Gumi. Place Of Operation: Hanamura, but over the years the group has made it’s name known with Tokoyo and other parts of Japan & China.

AGE: 20

PROFESSION: Genji is the other head of the Shimada-Gumi. His elder brother Hanzo deals with the more business side of things, while Genji’s nature is in the street fighting districts and the use of drugs and gun selling. He handles more of the illegal side of things that require less paperwork and more movement. For money he street fights and is a well known name in the rink.

SCHOOLING: Degrees in business from college, among with being taught at a young age how to street fight and use a sword.

FATHER:  Sojiro Shimada (father, deceased)

MOTHER: A/N ( mother, assumed dead ).

BROTHER: Hanzo Shimada ( elder brother)

APPEARANCE:

HEIGHT: 5′7″

WEIGHT: 160lb

HAIR: Genji is known for his green hair. It has been a trademark of his since he was a teenager. He prefers it to be the color despite being easily found from it. His reputation is connected to him having the moss hair, and it doesn’t bug him at all. 

ATTIRE: He often wears whatever fashions are in but he also can wear high class clothing in a heartbeat. Don’t let his childish appearence fool you, he knows exactly what he is playing at. He almost always has his jacket with his dragon symbol on it.

it should be noted, the traditional jackets they have a dragon symbol etched into them. the dragons are a symbol of their yakuza clan as a whole and people know a shimada by the fact they carry that.

┊he has a very charming aura. he is the polar opposite of his brother. genji can come off really friendly and warm almost over exicted and childish at times. there’s an innocence he knows how to play. he can however be ruthless when pissed off.

┊he’s thin and lean but don’t let that fool you. he’s had years of learning how to fight with a sword and fend for himself. his tattoo stretches over his left rib of his left side, it is green and black as far as coloring goes.  The piece is a massive dragon piece done in a traditional Japanese style and was finished completely by the time he turned twenty.  The ink is not seen by anyone that is not yakuza, or exposed when he is in the rink fighting,  that is the only time it is exposed and Genji knows a great deal how to cover it up when needed to.

PERSONALITY:

Genji grew up raised in the lifestyle, and upon reaching a certain age he was introduced into the world of the yakuza. genji has an extremely close bond with his elder brother. he had stopped an attempt on hanzo’s life twice, and genji himself has nearly died saving him. he comes off warm and a flirt and charming to most.

┊ Genji is an underground fighter and arms dealer.

┊ He knows how to small talk to get what he wants. He is not afraid to use money or desire to trick someone into giving him what he wants.

┊Threaten any of the head family, and you are dead. If Genji doesnt kill you his brother will.

┊ Genji’s anger is not something you want to witness. People have fled rooms when he has been angry, it’s not a violent anger, but cold and that is more dangerous because it means he’s dug up more dirt on you than you know existed.

DESCRIPTION:

Genji Shimada. A name celebrated to his father when he was born into the world. Genji comes from a world were violence and blood lingers under high class and a clan that has it’s name known in the streets of Tokoyo. The Shimada do not play games when getting what they need and protecting thier own. Their city of Hanamura tends to be a place tourists flock to due to the cherry blossoms and the hot springs. The town is run entirely by the Yakuza grouo, the city is loyal to the Shimada and you won’t find anyone in the city that opposes them. Within Tokoyo, Genji begins to make his voice known. A chance meeting leads him to become entangled with w young woman by the name of Hua Mulan.  By the end of the night he has her eating out of the palm of hand.

HEADCANONS:

THIS VERSE DESICRIPTION IS FOR THE MODERN VERSE ONLY / Not to be mistaken with my overwatch main verse.

┊ Genji is the oyaban of the Shimada along with his elder brother, after his father was murdered. He had been the head since the age of nineteen. His father had him complete the ceremony of passing before his death for both of his sons. He had known there was going to be an attempt on his life.

┊ There have been a total of three attempts on Genji’s life. 

┊ Mulan ends up becoming almost a right hand to him when their relationship becomes serious. He often has her wearing his clothes, or pieces of him if he is in an area were he knows he is well known as a form of protection and stating that she’s HIS.  

[ao3feed-mythology]

An Excellent Judge of Character

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by secace

Things continued that way for a few weeks, with Brangaine feeding her new horror stories every day- Gawain threatened Gromer with a knife, Gawain made out with his cousin, there's a girl whos so in love with Gawain she has a shrine in her dorm room, Gawain's little brother set fire to the west wing of the library, Gawain hooked up with Sparrow on the side of the road under a giant cross, Gawain owns a horse, Gawain only passed his bio class freshman year because he blew the professor. Gawain personally knows the Pope and he set off greek fire in the Vatican.

Words: 4408, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 5 of Caffè Arturiano

Fandoms: Arthurian Mythology

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Gawain (Arthurian), also malegaunts sister but she doesnt have a tag, Brangaine (Arthurian), A bunch of others, briefly - Character

Additional Tags: POV Outsider, based somewhat heavily on the only college class i liked, shoutout to my wgs professor whomst i turned into an author of medieval lit, College

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