#*low whistle*

[gracegrove]

Was anyone gonna tell me how damn pretty Christopher Walkin was in the 70s? No?

[sunderwight]

Bingliushen scenario. Was thinking about how funny it would be if one of the few times SQQ flagrantly utilized his sway over Luo Binghe, was in defense of Liu Qingge.

Like if some soap opera-esque series of contrived situations from the backstory arose and some god or something descended from the heavens like "actually I have a Plot Contrivance that says I can take Liu Qingge" (readers choice if that's in the sexual sense, the murderous sense, or the indentured servitude sense), and Shen Qingqiu upon hearing the matter through just snaps his fan shut and is like.

I see.

Binghe?

Unmake this fucker.

The emotional clusterfuck that would ensue. Luo Binghe does it immediately of course, like he's so incredibly into this but also it's only happening because of how much his shizun cares about Liu Qingge, which is infuriating but also he's kind of into it? But on a level he's struggling to define even to himself. Honestly it would be a lot simpler if he was just experiencing normal jealousy, but 0.2 seconds before Shizun told him to nuke that dude the idea had actually already occurred to him.

Then there's Liu Qingge's end of it. Furious. He's not a damsel in distress! Although actually despite his reputation as a war god, he probably wouldn't have been able to handle this alone. Which just grates even more. Except that it as Shen Qingqiu who so instantly and ruthlessly defended him. But he did so through Luo Binghe, who is currently dismantling the problem with the kind of sheer power and ruthless efficiency he rarely gets to show off, and Liu Qingge, despite everything, is not unaffected by the display. In fact he's so not unaffected by it that several things he's been trying to repress for a while now are becoming impossible to ignore.

In fact the only person who is being normal about this is Shen Qingqiu, who is just pissed. The non-pissed part of his brain is too busy thinking about the logistics of a war with the heavens to focus elsewhere. Yet.

[ravensroleplays]

Harvesting souls huh...well, looked like he and Asgore had something else in common...

Snatcher didn't say this part out loud though, instead offering a thankful smile.

"Well, I'm definitely glad to have made such open-minded friends." The specter shrugged, a bit of a mischievous smirk crossing his features. "You can stop by Subcon Forest any time!"

Truth AND Consquences--Open AHIT RP

Snatcher blinked a little in surprise at what the person before him had said.

He'd sensed a new soul enter Subcon Forest and had popped up as soon as they fell into one of his traps, starting to go into his usual spiel...only to stop as the person, with a smile on their face, started talking about how they set off the trap INTENTIONALLY, specifically because they wanted to talk to him.

And that wasn't all.

"Huh? You wanted to know 'the truth about me'?"

[velveteen-vampire]

the whistlerrrrrrrrrrr

[mikkeneko]

Wonder if anyone has yet done a bit where Xie Lian wanders into a town and attempts to set up busking only to bump into the very peculiar radish seller on the corner next to him

[just-trying-my-best-everyday]

I find it so hilarious when people forget that cenz in Amestris do not work like their country's currency. I just saw a fic say "1000 cenz" as if it were a lot of money when we know for a fact it isn't. When Mustang gives Ed 520 cenz, he calls it "pocket change". So no, 1000 cenz is not a lot of money lol.

[circusgoth-dotcom]

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Gabriel Torrance: My The Shining s/i. A descendant of one of the original founders of The Overlook hotel, Gabriel does all sorts of odd jobs at the hotel, mostly because Ullman won't let him have a managerial position. (Always full of excuses...) When the freshly divorced Jack Torrance is hired as the winter caretaker, Gabriel is assigned to work with him. Through the season, they strike up a bond that ultimately saves Jack's life and grants him a second chance at romance. Gabriel also has The Shine and is decently familiar with the hotel's spirits.

Corey Coca: Before the apocalypse, Corey was just another nobody. He stocked shelves at a grocery store and navigated life as best he could with his particular mental cocktail. If it hadn't been for Sweet Tooth, he probably wouldn't have become who he did when the world went to shit. Through trial and error, Corey reinvented himself, putting his love for sugary soft drinks and clowns at the forefront of his persona. He lives for the thrill of the new world and for every time someone says, "oh shit, it's that clownfucker!"

[sarcasticsra]

HE COULDN’T THINK OF ANY FACTS.

Hyperfixation and passion got married and are taking care of all of the interests! Elias’ brain is just absolutely flooded with dopamine right now, it’s the BEST.

“A strong sense of pleasure slightly tempered by conscience sounds pretty fun.” Trapp is always 100% correct. My god this man is so quick and talented. More Trapp on D20 2kforever.

Conscience understanding the place self-loathing can come from and shrinking it back into more helpful “you fucked up but you’re going to fix it” guilt, accountability. Goddamn seriously self-loathing evolving from guilt Brennan you’re a goddamn genius.

Impulse and hyper vigilance have gotten divorced and remarried 17 times at least already, you can’t convince me otherwise.

Way to go, Elias. I knew you could do it, buddy.

[flyingsliceofpiart]

Kashi as a black whistle delver on the fourth layer

This is her form going into a mid-level pf2e campaign set in The Abyss

She's still a herbalist champion/druid hybrid, but I reworked her build a little for the remastered ruleset

[abirddogmoment]

A little bit about CKC pointing field trials (puppy stakes) in general for those who are interested in how they run.

CKC has its hunting dog events broken out pretty specifically. CKC is restrictive in which breeds can run which events (e.g., only CKC registered approved pointing breeds can run pointing tests, other breeds are excluded even if they technically could complete the exercises. Rory can only run pointing events, she couldn't do a retriever test or a spaniel test).

We also have a distinction in trials vs tests, as most other venues do.

Trials - you are competing against other people and being judged against a standard. You run in pairs. Top 4 dogs get placements, once you get enough points you get a field championship.

Tests - you are running alone and being judged against a standard for a qualifying/non-qualifying runs. 3 qualifying runs gets you a title.

We are currently running CKC pointing field trials.

CKC pointing trials have two main distinctions within them - puppy stakes and senior stakes. You can enter whichever stake you're ready for, with some exceptions (like age) - you don't have to run puppy stakes before running senior stakes.

Puppy stakes are a little lower pressure because they judge puppies' potential. Within puppy stakes, there are two main types of runs.

Open puppy stakes: any puppy *of eligible breed* between 6 and 18 months old. No birds hidden in the field, no gunshots on the course, 15-20 minutes running.

Derby stakes: any puppy of eligible breed between 6 and 27 months old. At least two birds hidden in the field, puppy needs to point birds if encountered, gunshots, 20-30 minutes.

We run open puppy for now. Here's how this goes:

We are randomly paired with another puppy and handler (this pairing is called a brace, the other handler and dog are our bracemates). We walk up to the start line together (usually the entrance to a big pasture) with our puppies on leash. Two judges (on ATV or horseback) give us a quick overview of the course we have to walk. The course is usually through a big open field with medium cover (think knee high grasses and shrubs, some wetlands, some hills but no forest) and typically avoids fencelines or roads. They tell us to release our dogs at the same time, so we let the dogs off leash and start walking (very fast, and I'm a fast walker to begin with). The course is usually huge, much bigger than we could possibly walk in 20 mins.

Usually the puppies play a little bit and then get to work. The judges are looking for puppies who can ignore the other dog and handler, judges, ATV, horses, and spectators, hunt independently, cover lots of ground (move fast and steady across the terrain while still sniffing), use the wind to follow scent, and respond to their handlers' directions. If the puppies want to play too much, the judges will ask the handlers to split up a little bit to encourage the puppies to work independently. Usually you stick within about 10m (25ft) of your bracemate. Puppies can range anywhere as long as they stay visible and ahead of their handlers. (Puppies are often about several hundred metres/yards away from their handlers depending on breed. Rory ranges about 50-100m in real life and about 75-300m in field trials. It is an exhilarating exercise in trust in my training.)

The judges follow behind us and then spectators can follow behind the judges, if they want. We have to keep up a very fast pace to encourage the puppies to cover as much ground as possible, not at a jog but pretty close.

In puppy stakes, you want to keep as quiet as you can. The judges are looking for instinct and basic potential, so you don't want to ruin that by giving your dog tons of directions. If your puppy follows directions, that suggests they need directions to function. If your dog ignores directions, that's unresponsive and also bad. Ideally you shouldn't say much during your run unless there's danger (if a deer runs out, you would recall your puppy) or evils (if your puppy is eating poop, you could recall or redirect). You are allowed to chat with your bracemate but you have to hustle fast so it's usually friendly but minimal.

One important piece of open puppy stakes is that there are no planted birds in the field! There may be wild birds, but it's unlikely. Many people "over train" their bird dog puppies on live birds, and then the puppies get really frustrated that there are no birds in the field after they search so hard. This causes puppies to slow down or give up entirely during their run, so this is something that judges look for. In real life hunting, there's no guarantee of birds so it's important that puppies can work through frustration without losing enthusiasm.

The judges kind of shout directions (go left, head for those trees) from behind to keep us on course. In the best courses, the judges make you walk a loop, but sometimes your time ends in the middle of a field. When your time is up, the judges will thank you and tell you to leash your dog. We recall our puppies and put them on leash and walk them back to our cars for water and snacks.

That's the whole run for open puppy! It's very low pressure. The puppies basically just follow their hearts and do what they were made to do.

Derby is extremely similar, except there are birds planted in the field. The puppies don't HAVE to find birds but obviously its preferable that they do. If they find birds, they must point (stop moving and stand still staring at the bird). They don't have to be steady to flush or shot (they can chase when the bird flies or when the gun goes off), and only blanks are shot in derby. The course is a little longer but everything else is the same.

In open puppy and derby stakes, the judges are just looking for potential. They want to know if your dog would be competitive in the senior stakes, so they're looking for lots of independence, lots of bird drive, lots of stamina, things like that. Because they're judging potential, younger puppies may be judged a little easier than older puppies.

I think that's the gist of puppy stakes in CKC pointing field trials! Send me a message if you have questions about our experience so far!

[millenari]

behold. madrid 2004 bombastrap dance.

[outofthiisworld]

MEANWHILE ... !!!

ᯓ🐰˖° Like many others tuned in to the local news, Rabbot saw the broadcast live— and a part of him wish he hadn’t.

It was at his favorite bodega, while the cottontail crimefighter waited for his usual order: four hoagies, two juices and a jug of water. Yet, his lunch order would be placed on hold as breaking news blasted on an old television behind the register. 

The scene of two street-level supers held everyone’s attention in the small shop, all except for a mother and her son (who was pleading for not one but two candy bars). Rabbot tilted his head to get a better look as the owner turned up the volume.

When the fight first started and fists flew, Rabbot checked in with the ATLAS emergency comms, but everything seemed fine and all under control … hold on, wasn’t that @schattenmagier? He met her not too long ago.

Dispatch told him over the line that it was ‘just your run-of-the-mill squabble between street level amateurs.’

Until it wasn’t.

It took less than a second for Schatten to slaughter the first villain victim. Just enough time for Rabbot to rush over and cover the kid’s eyes. Both him and the mother shared a look, even behind the opaque rabbit’s helm, and then turned their attention back over to the television screen (the kid whined ‘no fair!’ and that he wanted to see, too!!!)

Rabbot didn’t know the grim gunslinger, but he knew the hero. Talked to ‘em a couple times in passing; nothing substantial— but enough to know they didn’t deserve that kind of death.

Neither of them had.

✦˖° • °˖✦

ᯓ💜˖° Somewhere else, Peekaboo saw it too. Though not dressed in her signature sparkles, but instead dolled up in a backstage dressing room of some hole-in–the-wall lounge. She comforted another artist with a stomach far more queasy than hers ever could be, and helped touch up his makeup after the shock wore off.

After all, not everyone was so accustomed to death.

It was a quiet night much after, with only a few murmurs whispered amidst the crowd while watchful eyes paid far closer attention to their shadows than before. Even up onstage and under the spotlight, Ophelia’s voice sang like a haunted lullaby for her restless crowd of regulars.

[coffee-at-annies]

Well this post crossed my dash again and my brain was like what if I went on another unhinged rant/infodump about how baseball and hockey are different? And well gestures here we are.

Today on these two sports are different, we are going to talk about game flow and we are going to talk about offense and defense. The original post was for hockey fans unfamiliar with baseball. I’m gonna try to make this coherent for people who aren’t familiar with either but who knows it’s the xkcd average familiarity comic.

So in hockey you’ve got a standard sized rectangular rink separated into two zones with a goal on each end. The zone with your team’s goalie is your team’s defensive zone and the zone with the opposing goalie is the offensive zone. This means that at any point in time depending on where the puck is your team may be on offense or defense and game flow transitions between those two states. Teams can often get stuck in their own [defensive] zone or things like power plays can lead to a lot of [offensive] zone time. Keeping up with the play requires fans to be aware of what zone the puck is in. There’s the neutral zone which is just the middle of the rink and isn’t important at this time except for like extra rules and the blue lines re: zone entries and offsides. Not important here.

So for hockey you’ve got a continuous game flow of offense to defense to offense etc. It’s not always back and forth that explicitly but at any point the puck can take a bounce out of a zone and shift the flow of the game.

Baseball isn’t like that. Baseball is played on a diamond shaped field divided into infield and outfield. The infield is a dirt portion of the field consisting of 4 bases that make a square with 90ft on each side and a pitcher’s mound in the middle. The outfield is covered by grass and is considered everything between the two foul poles extending from the infield square up to the outfield fences. (Fun fact there’s no standardization about outfield sizes just minimum distances that aren’t even enforced that much).

You may be asking yourself is the infield the offensive zone and the outfield the defensive zone and the answer to that is yes both and neither. To explain that, I have to explain how baseball game flow works. Unlike hockey, where the game is broken up into three twenty minute periods and the game ends if there isn’t a tie at the final buzzer, baseball is divided into nine innings. The innings are then further broken up into half-innings called the top and bottom of the inning. The top of the inning (first half) will see the visiting team batting (offense) and the home team pitching/defending (defense). The bottom of an inning will see the reverse. A half inning ends when the team on offense gets three outs, thus each inning requires six outs. Idk how to define an out. There’s dozens of ways to get out and I would end up in the weeds trying to explain.

Also worth noting, unlike most major league sports, baseball doesn’t have a game clock. A half-inning takes however long it takes to get three outs. That can be two minutes and three batters or it can be twenty minutes and ten batters. It depends on who gets on base and how. MLB instituted a pitch clock to cut down on pitchers taking their damn time between pitches to force the average length of innings down.

Going back to game flow, there is a back and forth, but it’s dictated by the inning and the outs, not who has the baseball (the defensive team always has the baseball). So when a team is on offense they are batting. There’s no transition and putting pucks on the net. It’s all just batting. Players stand at home plate and try to hit the ball into play and then make it around the bases. In play is defined as between the two foul lines thus everywhere in play is the offensive zone for the batting team and the defensive zone for the defending team. Offensive players have to touch the bases to be considered safe on a play and the ball can go out of play in a couple scenarios (ground rule double, home run) and still be considered a fair ball, but that’s some basics.

I’m doing a bad job of explaining putting the ball into play because honestly most at-bats end up with an out. That’s the defense of it all. It starts with the pitcher, trying to throw the ball such that the offensive player (the batter) can’t hit it. I could get into the anatomy of an at-bat with balls and strikes and what the defense does if the ball is put into play, but I don’t know if that would be interesting when you can watch a baseball or softball game.

So I’ve talked about game flow and a little bit about offense and defense. What that looks like for baseball and I’ve kinda glossed over it for hockey but if you’ve got any passing familiarity with hockey or soccer/football then it’s probably familiar. The ways it’s different are the edge cases and I’m not explaining offsides or icing the same way I’m not explaining fouls vs hits. It’s not worth it.

Time to talk about offense and defense and what that means for players. In hockey, positions are split up into three categories, forwards, defense, and goalies. You can have 6 players on the ice at any time, generally in the configuration of one goalie, two defensemen (a d-pairing) and three forwards (a line). You can only have one goalie on the ice at any time but any combination of forwards and defense. At any point anyone on the bench can sub in for anyone on the ice (called a line change) so long as you don’t go over that six player maximum otherwise it’s a penalty (too many men on the ice). Baseball rosters are split into pitchers and hitters. Pitchers are split into the starting rotation and the bullpen. Hitters are usually divided by position but mostly it’s just what nine players are in the batting order for this game and whoever is currently pitching. In hockey, anyone who is on the bench can go into the game and everyone else is out of luck. This is good in that anyone can sub in at any time, but bad if someone gets injured during a game as the team will be forced to just play on with one less person. There’s exceptions for goalies and the ebug and we’re not going there. For baseball there’s nine positions on the field and nine spots in the batting order and that’s it. Technically since we don’t force pitchers to bat anymore there’s nine or ten active players at any time — pitcher, catcher, four infielders, three outfielders, and the designated hitter (who can be the pitcher but isn’t usually - Ohtani georg is an outlier). You can sub in someone from the bench/dugout at any time but they have to play the rest of the game. This is nice in case of injuries or if you gave your best hitter a day off and now need him to come in and hit a game winning home run.

The most common substitution in a baseball game however is the pitcher. Throwing balls well is hard. It can fuck up your elbow like nothing else. Baseball has a surgery named after a player because this specific elbow injury and resulting surgery is so common. As such, pitching is a committee job. A starting pitcher will usually pitch between four to six innings (throwing sixty to one hundred pitches) and then the bullpen will take over one inning (three to four outs, usually about nine to thirty pitches) at a time. A team’s closer is their bullpen pitcher who is the best at getting outs and usually pitches the ninth inning. Hitters all have a defensive position on the field except the designated hitter (DH) whose job it is to bat for the pitcher. I think I’m getting into the weeds of specifics again.

So going back to the original post that was complaining about picking up hockey players and dropping them into baseball. Pitching is a defensive-only position that is frequently done by committee. Hockey forwards are generally on the ice to make plays and score goals. They do backcheck and play defense as a matter of game flow but they are primarily on ice to score. Thus it does not make sense to cast prolific goal scorers like Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, or Connor McDavid as a pitcher when pitchers do not even play offense. It’s worth talking about what type of defense they play on the ice and how that would shake out to a defensive position on the field (or as the DH because they don’t have to play defense — that’s where I’m putting Ovi) but it requires an understanding of how an inning functions regarding defense and different play styles at the different bases. Your best forward is going to put the team on their back and score. Your best pitcher is going to put the team on their back and defend. Pitchers can get shutouts the way goalies do. It is a purely defensive position.

So yeah, you can compare shooting styles to blaseball pitches but it makes way more sense to compare shots to hitting styles than it does pitches.

Ummm @guentzel tagging you since your post was first. Feel free to ignore.

[dirtyoldmanhole]

have a menagerie of gunter/dragon!corrin sex headcanons. :P

heads up for some dead dove ~

he wears his armor 95% of the time when fucking corrin's dragon form (partly because she needs to be manhandled a little in said form to feel anything through the scales as a natural armor and he needs a complement not to get banged up while she's writhing around. also partly because he's a little insecure about his old human fleshy body even when she all but worships him. it's a little easier for him to deal with that in the cover of darkness when they have a human bed.)

he consistently tops when it comes to dragon!corrin; non-negotiable there.

a good chunk of the foreplay for them here is essentially "taming" her (stalking her, wrestling until she submits, pinning her head down with his clawnets, corrin scenting his meat with her forked tounge) before he mounts her.

post-coitus corrin's usually exhausted enough that she unintentionally shifts back into her human form; which's more than fine by him for some cuddling on some sturdy fur pelts that they've thrown in the back of a remote cave for this reason.

one of corrin's favorite platonic things for him to do is scratch her soft/itchy spots with his clawnets or the sharp points of his armor. he's caught her rubbing up against his armor a few times to relieve an hard-to-get-to-itch (which is slightly annoying for him because he has to go and polish/sharpen it again lol) (....which makes it a good excuse to give her a punishment wink wink~)

the only time gunter calls off a scene entirely/genuinely thinks he's gone in over his head is when dragon!corrin gets a little too close to looking like she's going to bite his meat clean off when nuzzling/mouthing his dick and getting a little lost in the sauce with her needle fangs, lol. it only happens once.

(metatextually: i think the above is hysterical. he does not.)

watersports is more consistently a Thing with the dragon!form, much to his glee~~

dragon clits when engorged are larger than human ones so he's slightly amused to realize that stimulating them is not unlike a dick. makes it a little easier for his mammalian monkey brain to figure out logistics when lost in the sauce.

for him, he gets off on the challenge and the primal aspect - there's less need to hold back physically when she's a lot more durable in the dragon form. if anything, he's the slightly frailer one, but the armor and dominance helps in that regard.

gunter's genuinely fascinated at how different dragon mating is and takes great pains to understand how corrin ticks; frankly, he understands it better than she does at times, often noticing body language hints of when rut's coming up before she does. (a sudden increase in cat-like nuzzles is the biggest tell.)

personally i'm taking a little from snake & deer reproduction -eg, "rut"- just to have some natural basis to go from since that's what the fates' dragon form reminds me the most of.

also relatedly - (rev spoilers) given all of this is post-rev, anankos possessing him ironically gives him a better instinct of what dragon!corrin wants in a naturalistic/biological sense compared to anyone else (given anankos also was at one point a dragon). he ... tries to not think about the familial implications involved.

[bloodfueledmachine]

day 28

[magicalnaps]

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