#.i have been thinking about this SO much ngl

[therobotsarestuckinmyhead]

ngl I want to see more cyberverse optimus prime x readers their is only one rn I need more x readers of him he is so handsome <3

♡ “FAR TOO LONG” — Optimus Prime [TFC]

i am so sorry for the extended time i took with your request! i apologize if this is short but i couldn't think of any other way to continue this

scenario: you're Optimus’ partner and he's been waiting for some relaxation like this for years, you start sweet talking him.

setting: after the peace treaty between Autobots and Decepticons in S3, post-Megatron death.

Finally, finally. After thousands of millennia of fighting, of violence, of death, Optimus can finally rest knowing that it's all over— That the war which consumed their planet is no more! Optimus feels better, so much better. The treaty was signed, the Decepticons are docile now that… Megatron was… terminated.

Optimus rather not speak about that though. He still had mixed emotions. It was late at night too, he wanted some quiet recharge so he collapsed onto your shared berth. His finals perks up when he realizes you're sitting there reading a datapad right across him on the berth, you put it down and slowly make an effort to sneak up on him but it's futile.

Cycles of war have made his motion sensors rather keen. He can tell you're approaching him and doesn't flinch when your servo gently traces the back of his helm, it's a gentle affectionate touch. It reminds him of a time before with you. He slowly looks up and a soft smile curves up his dermas as he sees that affectionate look in your optics.

“Tired?” You ask softly, the gentleness of your servos soothes whatever possible sourness he could've had from this day.

“Relieved. I feel relieved for once.” He replies, his voice firm yet gentle— unquestionably hopeful that it was all finally over. Optimus’ blue optics return the affection you look at him with, as if it was a mirror reflecting the warmth of the light that falls upon it. And that warmth seemed to flow out of his vents too, still so easily flustered…

And there's that smile on your face, relief.

“Me too. Now I can make sure you're taking proper rest for once.” Your servos never stop their actions and it's making Optimus melt under your touch, his frame relaxing. It's a rare sight, he's always been so visibly stiff and upright, as if he were expecting a stray meteor to fall onto him any day.

“I appreciate your concern. However,” Optimus slowly gets up as he speaks, his tone almost playful, sitting right next to you on your shared berth and your servos begin to gently creep up your lover's faceplates. You don't miss the way his optics still subtly widen or the subtle heat from his face but you chose to spare him for now.

It's been millions of years yet it always felt like the first time for Optimus.

He clears his vocalizer, a futile attempt to hide himself from your gaze despite knowing the fact that you've been with him long enough to tell.

“I was planning on… making up for lost time.” You smile wider at that and his spark skips a beat, again. Oh, how he wished he weren't some lovesick fool when you showed him affection.

“...I guess I can put off making sure you're recharging properly for a bit then.” You bring his face closer to his, he leans in willingly despite his own flustered demeanor. His EM field tucked so tightly to himself that it might implode— It's been far too long since he's loosened up. First it was duties with the Autobots, then it was duties to rebuild Cybertron and then it was delegation. It was like he could never catch a break.

But now he could and…

He really didn't know what to do with it.

The Prime's servo awkwardly grips your pauldron as he lets you guide his face to yours.

“It doesn't mean you're off the hook though.” There's barely any distance between your faces, he's so stiff. It had been far too long.. you don't really blame him.

“Relax, dearest.” You place a soft kiss on his dermas, his vents expelling out more heat. The flustered look is almost adorable on the Optimus Prime. But the tenderness of your words and that… look in your optics made his frame relax, a lot quicker as one servo decided to resume its ministrations on the back of his helm.

He's melting under your touch and he can't do anything about it. And he doesn't want to do anything about it. The idea of feeling safe in your servos after being the pillar of protection and guidance for the Autobots was beyond enjoyable, leadership had its toll. You know it will take a while for Optimus to get used to such uninterrupted intimate moments between the two of you but you've waited a whole war, you can wait a few days.

You gently take his helm right under your own, his helm against your chassis and he can hear the quiet rhythm of your spark. Optimus hums, his servos moving to wrap around your torso. His frame leaning against you now, you were sturdy enough to support his weight.

His optics flicker, as if his systems feel worn. He might really need this recharge, you figure. The smile on his face and the way the lights of the room seem to bring out every contour of his faceplates to view.

He's absolutely stunning.

Not in the way he used to be though, there's a slight rugged charm to him almost unlike the innocent look he used to have. Gentle optics even if his faceplates had all sorts of tiny marks and dents from the constant fighting— It was like a distant memory you'd want to lock up and throw away now. But every single dent, scratch and weld mark on your lover's frame had a story to tell. A tale of persistence through the trials of war, standing tall when all hope seemed lost.

A beautiful mech.

And your Conjux.

“You look absolutely handsome.” You say, almost as if the air had been knocked out of your vents; breathless. And he can tell you mean it from the way you're looking at him, the way your field is brimming with all sorts of emotions. But his flustered demeanour at the start has lessened for now.

“As I recall, you used to be more creative with your attempts at flirting.” Optimus chuckles heartily but with his frame relaxed, his EM field is no longer tucked away. You can feel the fondness and affection in the air, it might have overwhelmed any other bot in vicinity but, this sight— these feelings were reserved for your optics and your optics alone. He gently kisses the side of your neck and notes the heat rising to your own faceplates.

“It seems you're not the only one that's gotten old..”

You just hope it goes like this forever from now on.

[ihopesocomicask]

Do you think it's possible to make a main protagonist of a story, who was an abusive person just like Vicious was, be likable? like, keeping the fact that they won't be forgiven by their victim, but at the same time exploring them actually evolving and becoming a better person and creating new healthy relationships. Not to pat abusers on the head, but yk, something like "You can choose to CHANGE". Because ngl I keep thinking about Vicious' future. I know she won't die and thankfully she will get out of Jasper's abuse, but what then? Would she go on a journey to realize her mistakes and act differently? Who knows.

I see a lot of people talking about Bojack Horseman, but I don't know if it's a good example because apparently the point of his character is to be a hypocrite who acts like the victim for everything that happens while continuing to ruin his relationships (I've never watched it so sorry if I might be saying shit lol 😭). I even know that there is a moment where he almost takes advantage of an underage girl, and while I do believe in change and growth, there are things that have limits for me ofc

There's likeable and then there's sympathetic and/or relatable.

Bojack Horseman as a character is relatable to a lot of folks but there has certainly been a crossroads when it comes to people who relate to him excusing his behaviour because x, y or z happened to him and completely missing the point of Todd blowing up on him and then there's people who still relate to him but feel he needs to be held accountable for his actions in order to improve himself.

And they're absolutely correct. A main reason why Bojack failed to improve is because he was stuck in an endless cycle of victimisation and feeling like he was not responsible for his actions for whatever reason. Namely the abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents. Only he's not that child anymore. He's an adult and he's very much responsible for his actions.

Like I will openly admit that I was an utter asshole to people online years ago because I didn't have a very nice home life and I was dealing with undiagnosed autism and mental health issues. I felt powerless and being a confrontational prick online gave me power. Bojack certainly works in a similar manner. His celebrity status gives him the power to act out in ways he never could as a child and whatever regret he feels is purely a sense of apprehension that his celebrity status and the power/respect it grants will be taken away from him. It's very selfish and it's why he didn't grow at all until his actions were exposed. And he certainly would've been doomed to keep things going had he not gone for that second interview. Especially as a college professor, given his history.

I can't speak for everybody who says they wish that second interview hadn't happened and Bojack may or may not have improved on his own but - from my perspective - he would've just used his newfound confidence and power as an 'advocate' for addiction to harm others, especially indirectly. The indirectness already happens with audience members of the show who feel Bojack justifies their problematic behaviour.

And this is something you have to be especially wary of if you wish to pursue this kind of topic: your character being used to validate the negative behaviour of others. Bojack's writers did a great job of making it clear that - while sympathetic - Bojack needed to be held accountable for his actions and needed to improve. People can view that as a negative thing all they want but they are not the kind of people the writers wanted the approval of anyway and they're not really worthy of anybody else's approval either imho.

And we also have to recognise that change doesn't automatically come with forgiveness either. Going back to Bojack again, I feel Herb would've absolutely entertained having a friendship with him once more if Bojack had accepted he was not entitled to forgiveness. It's just the kind of character Herb is. Charlotte, on the other hand, would've been 110% right to have Bojack tossed in jail as a mother. It all depends on the character and the nature of the deed. Like you've already pointed out, there are limitations. And it's also why Vicious will never have access to Hope or Adamant again. - RJ

[bluejayadler]

DBDa NGL - Charles deflects

Ooo...Yes! And no! (Look, never gonna be a straight answer from me)

I think, yes, this is definitely Charles deflecting. That's his natural state of being when it comes to anyone prodding at any of his emotions that isn't just "happy". Its like its automatic script. "Someone getting to close to an emotion! Divert! Divert!" A smile, a cheery reply, an offer of help - especially as he does have HUGE people pleaser tendencies. Given all that, I think it is definitely deflection. A LOT had just happened and he doesn't want to think. The very next thing he does is jump into the huge distraction that is making out with Crystal (they both wanted the distraction). Charles has spent his life AND afterlife hiding his feelings, his scars, and his pain. He just broke down in front of everyone. He's the brawn, the protector, meant to be the strong one, and he broke down. And, at the same time, he revealed his secret, his shame - not being enough. He opened up, albeit accidentally cause it was kinda like he set himself off like one of his "provisions". But, he said more that night than he probably did all of his afterlife AND his life! Charles views his status as "not good enough" as fact and as his great shame - it led to him being hurt in life, it played a hand in his death, and he probably believes that once the others know it and see it as true, that it will lead to him being abandoned or hurt again. Charles has already physically rejected Edwin's offer of comfort - when he shakes off Edwin's hand at the lighthouse. Charles is still riding that wave of vulnerability, and to him, vulnerability is bad. It makes him weak. It means he'll be hurt. He has to be the happy one, the strong one, the positive one. He can't let the mask slip. But he did! It slipped and he's desperately trying to hold it back in place before the other show drops. So, yes, Charles is deflecting.  BUT I don't think that's all he's doing. I don't even know how much he is consciously deflecting versus that's just his instinctive response.

Because the other thing he is doing is placing Edwin's emotions above his own and also trying to feel like he's enough and to get back to some semblance of solid ground that he's lost. To the first point, Charles is a people pleaser, and its implied heavily that he values Edwin more than himself. And something has clearly been bothering Edwin beyond what Edwin has shared with him. He would view Edwin's crisis and emotional needs as more important than his own and want to give Edwin priority processing time. 

To the second point (being not enough), consider what Charles said at the Lighthouse - his entire rant about not being good enough, which included "not good enough to fix whatever is going on with Edwin." There's two things here to unpack. First, that Charles DOESN'T KNOW what is going on with Edwin. Edwin has withheld information about his interactions with the Cat King, and that has set off all the alarm bells for Charles. Because why wouldn't Edwin tell him. Why would Edwin hide things unless he didn't trust Charles, unless Charles failed somehow? Second, Charles assumes part of it is him not being "enough". Part of Charles is waiting for Edwin to finally open up - because while Charles keeps his trauma a secret, I don't think he believes Edwin keeps secrets from him. Considering how Charles has reacted to Edwin simply not giving details about the Cat King encounters, Charles isn't used to Edwin hiding things from him. And if Edwin is hiding things, he has to have a reason. Given Charles's low view of himself, he's gonna assume it's a failure on his part. Charles needs Edwin to tell him the truth and not hide things from him, because that is their norm. I understand that a lot of fans view Charles's reactions to Edwin hiding facts about the Cat Kind encounters as Charles being jealous. I don't see it that way. To me, Charles is in a state of having his world suddenly become unstable. The Cat King is a threat - he has the power to whisk Edwin away for hours to a place Charles can't get to, he has the power to bind Edwin to this place AND the willingness to keep him bound even after knowing how dangerous it is, and SOMETHING ELSE! But Charles doesn't know what that something else is, just that there is SOMETHING and Edwin won't tell him. Charles cannot protect Edwin if he doesn't know what the threat is, and in his mind, the most likely reason that Edwin hasn't told him is that Edwin doesn't think Charles is enough to deal with it (which is probably reinforced by the fact that Charles can't actually deal with the threat he is aware of).

To the third point (shakey ground) Charles just lashed out at Edwin (kinda) after scaring Edwin and the girls. Charles is probably extremely upset with himself and seeing his father more in him in that moment than for a long time - makes sense given next episode when that all comes out. Charles probably feels like he hurt Edwin and is waiting for Edwin to lash out back or to agree with what Charles said on the cliff, that Charles isn't good enough. Part of him is also waiting for Edwin to prove him wrong, to deny Charles's own claims. And again, there's Edwin's caginess about the Cat King and withholding information from Charles. Then we consider the scene that happened in ep 3, with Monty, when they come back from the Devlin House. Again, many fans reason Charles's facial expression towards Monty after Monty rejects his handshake and goes to Edwin as jealousy. I don't. I view it as rejection. Not rejection from Monty, but a small rejection from Edwin. Because everyone SEES what Monty does. The girls pointedly give a look. Edwin would see to. And while Edwin is often out of the loop on modern day things, he knows the current etiquette for greeting and would've seen that for the snub it was. At least, he should've. But he said nothing. To Charles, that could be tacit approval of Monty's behavior, or at least, a failure to reject Monty's behavior. Also, Charles is very visibly off. He hides it, but part of him probably is hurt that Edwin chose to stay outside with Monty instead of coming in with him after such a hard case. The entire foundation of Charles's afterlife is being shaken up in Port Townsend, and he can't do anything about it. But Edwin can, if Edwin would just say something. Charles has handed all the power to Edwin because while he goes to Crystal for a distraction, its Edwin's words that he needs to return him back to solid ground. 

In the scene, Edwin says "you can talk to be about anything." There's a beat. A beat where the audience sees Charles's face, what Edwin sees - Charles's pauses, fixes his expression as best he can, and then says "you can talk to be about anything too mate". Then there's NO pause! The camera shifts to a wide shot of the two and Charles is already turning. And I think the saddest part is that while Edwin opens his mouth, Charles doesn't wait. Charles doesn't expect an answer then even though he desperately wants it. When he says it, his voice is tight. He turns and LOOKS DOWN! Dejected, hurt (gonna point out that Edwin is not in the wrong and has not actively hurt Charles here in my opinion. Neither are wrong. Neither owe the other all their truths. Its just that neither of them learned how to fucking communicate and process emotions!). This isn't Charles is full deflection mode. Full deflection more is up on the lighthouse saying "all I need is my best mate and a case". Full deflection mode is going to Niko and asking about whatever object she is holding she he doesn't have to focus on what just happened. This isn't that. There is no fake cheerfulness. There is not desperate attempt to change the subject entirely. There's just exhaustion and hurt and "not enough". Unstable ground and Charles is drowning again.

So yes, a bit deflection. And a bit everything else...humans are complicated.

[magical-glimpse]

Can you do how bts confess their feeling to a crush or someone they're interested in thank you 🤍❤

Ngl, this one stayed in my inbox because its not my style of readings but i've been feeling such high energy in tarot recently I'm gonna go for it. I'm sorry for the very late answer lol.Might as well do it headcanons style lol For entertainement purposes only

Jin:

Very traditional style. The type to ask you out and pick you up at 6 for dinner in a nice place with a bouquet of flowers.

Probably does need a bit of time to confess because he's on the shier side, so unless arranged dating or meeting it will take him a while to go from gentleman-y friend to anything else.

Might even avoid the friend stage and go from nice acquaintance to first date directly out of a fear of making it awkward.

Becomes fun and silly after the walls came down.

STILL, a gentleman through and through.

RM:

Overthinks.

Overthinks a lot.

Spent more time thinking about the exact way to express it than actually doing it

might actually do it by text or in a way that feels out of the blue ??

like let's say you're visiting him in his studio, you do something cute and he bluescreens and just blurts "hey are you free this saturday ? I care for you a lot and i'd love to take you on a date to get to know you on a different level,what do you think ?"

To you it's random, to him hes thinking exactly what kind of date you would like, he would like, and you could still learn about each other

Yoongi:

Ha.

Bold you to think he speaks.

No but for real, it depends on how vulnerable he feels about it.

if it's chill, it's gonna be chill. he might hide it though. Instead of asking you out on a date or sharing his feelings he's going to invite you over for random things until you're so used to it when he starts holding your hands and cuddling you just don't see the difference.

If he's panicking it's the same but stronger. Suddenly he spent weeks at your place, he knows where every single thing is, he fixed your faulty lights and the bathroom and called someone for the mold growing on this wall behind your kitchen. You love him so much you're the on asking him out and he's like fake shrugs "it's like we are already together anyway"

i think thats more how he wants it to happen than how it is likely to be.

Man is scared.

Hoseok:

This motherfucker eyes speak for him.

Most likely to look like he's going to devour you before even speaking one word about relationships or feelings. (i am writing that before the release of Killin'It Girl fyi)

He's a friends to lovers guy, or at least friendly to lovers guy. Even a One-night-stand or FWB to lovers guy.

Since he's really affectionate in general i think it's jut easier for him to be affectionate or physically intimate first to ease himself emotionally into affectionate or intimate feelings else he could get regretful or avoidant because it's like, some parts of himself are slower to open up than others so being affectionate helps him stay consistent in how he works and who he is as a person than going from strangers to lovers. In way he's the opposite of Jin, it's like he gotta approach his relationships somehow unconventionally to be able to open up and be himself for real.

Overall a very loving person anyway, he just needs his time and his own pace to do it

Jimin:

On a scale of awkwards to flirty, Jimin is the scale

The military definitely changed his confidence in interpersonal relationships so i might have to do this again in a few months.

It almost feel like school boy crush ?? Like a cute confession, flirty but shy, mostly cute

nobodys surprised

V:

Puppy love

before he even confesses everyone notices its easier for him to be his lighthearted self around you

gets excitable, probably goes a cute type of date, cat cafe, flower field, dog sanctuary. Or something both classical but unique ?? Like coffee date but in a realyl specific jazz cafe with interesting recipes and he's happy to share it with you.

A LOT OF HAND HOLDING. Maybe even hand kisses and forehead kisses.

Hes honeslty liekly to facetime his mom if the date goes really really well or send a picture of his date to his parents during the date and they encoruage like "oh theyre reallly pretty !! have fun kids :)" like definitely a familial vibe

Jungkook :

Man is confident

Came to pick you up on a moto

drinking soda on the country side while talking sitting next to his motorcycle

Funny, intense, passionate. He's going all in and all himself, not holding back anything and expect his date to match the energy with theirs.

wont accept anything less than someone giving him the whole of who they are if he is

THIS WAS LONG AS FUCK, hope you like it

[bygone-paramours]

hi so i'll be copy-pasting my og essay from the el noli community to here ^_^ im ngl im proud of myself for the symbolism stuff HAHAHA so im putting this out there (Again. Because im so normal abt this book) so here it is:

Exploring El Filibusterismo's Themes of Violence Vs. Non-violence Through The Use of Color

please keep in mind that this will also dive into my personal interpretations of some events the book!!

the idea first came to me through isagani's poem in chapter 2 (penguin classics translation):

We are water, you say, you are fire, What you want will be done! It’s peace we require, The blazing flame we shun.

But united, by science made sage, In the cauldrons of a fiery beast, Without anger, without rage, We make steam, the fifth element, Progress, life, light, and movement!

i was immediately interested on the use of water and fire imagery in the poem, and the first thing that i thought of how it could be a metaphor for violence/non-violence, especially in the first verse.

second thing i thought of was the fact that the colors of water and fire are coincidentally also the colors of the philippine flag.

so going off with that in mind, i had an idea. obviously, i'm going to explain this the most normal way i can: through a cartesian plane

fig. 1 - What the hell is he yapping about

this is kind of insane to look at but hear me out

on the x-axis is the degree of violence & non-violence through one of the two colors of the philippine flag, red and blue. these two colors also allude to water and fire

on the y-axis is the positive/negative definitions of the meanings of the colors that can change depending on the tone (i.e adding black or white) (this is also my personal interpretation on how the meanings are changed but it is heavily influenced by both noli me and el fili)

okay! so getting that out of the way i'll go through the characters one by one to show you what i mean :-)

Simoun & Juli

simoun i think is self explanatory, he is a man that is completely consumed by his personal desire for revenge. he is in shadow, and the only light that reaches him is the light from the fires (both literal and metaphorical) he's been feeding. his hair is literally one with the flames.

for juli it's important to note that her clothing is blue and yellow, but that deep blue hue is overshadowed by the harsh orange-red lighting emitting from the back. and she looks like she is looking towards the abyss, on the verge of falling (iykyk...sigh.)

these two drawings reference chapters 7 & 30 respectively

Isagani & Padre Florentino

isagani and padre florentino to me are the highest manifestations of non-violence in this story, though in completely different ways. with isagani literally "saving" the philippines, and padre florentino throwing away simoun's jewels at the end of the book.

for isagani, it is heavily implied he regrets throwing away the lamp; therefore, he is surrounded by the deep, dark blue of the lake he fell into. his naïve worldview has been shattered, and is consumed by the abyss. his future looks murky, unclear, and we will never know whether or not he still clings to his idealism. this is why he’s my favorite of mine mostly because of how compelling he is, and how much potential he has for future development (both in a positive and negative way hehe). he is a man full of love both for his nation and his former lover, who has sharp wit and ideals that can truly shape the philippines for the better. however, in a moment where true selflessness is needed, he learns the hard way that idealism will never be enough.

(i actually have a lot of thoughts abt isagani's actions in this chapter. i'm not defending him tho. he's on his own after allat)

padre florentino is also self explanatory, since his entire monologue at the end of chapter 39 is a whole spiel about how greed and violence corrupts revolution, and how only those with good and selfless intentions can succeed. so i don't think i have to say more abt that.

these drawings reference chapters 35 & 39

Basilio

finally, we have basilio at the center, who has both blue and red lighting shining on him. he is caught between the crossfire of simoun’s revenge plot, and the castilian academy’s development. one of the central plots of this book is basilio’s struggle in maintaining a sense of normalcy which comes to a screeching halt after learning about juli’s death, which is subsequently his breaking point. he is then consumed by vengeance just as much as simoun, but in the end, he is still mostly cast by blue light. his bitterness faltered in the end as he could not fully commit to simoun’s violent revolution.

i think it is also important to mention that one of his eyes has been covered in shadow. i also made an intentional decision to cover some of the characters’ eyes (specifically basilio and simoun) to metaphorically represent blindness, which is an allusion to noli me tangere. since title is a reference to the biblical passage john 20:13-17, it refers to the cancers of the eyelid where José Rizal describes it as "…a cancer of so malignant a character that the least touch irritates it and awakens in it the sharpest pains." they are the only two characters in this poster who come directly from noli me tangere. and they are both "blinded" from the events of those books (in a sense that they both have trauma that heavily influences the way they act in el fili does that make sense)

anyways so that concludes my yap sesh on my el fili poster/book cover >_> putting this out again since this work May or May not be displayed at my school's exhibition which will happen at the end of june!! i honestly hope my drawing's gna be exhibited so im hoping for the best HUUUUU T_T

tbh guys i would KILL to make an el filibusterismo book cover oh my goodness

closeups :3

i’ll make a separate post about the composition of this post soon!! (ill link it here) hehehehe i put Way Too Much Thought into it tbh

[striveattemptfail]

a cursed realization: wade and logan are old men. logan especially so.

they MUST have weird old man habits and general body weirdness. and not the endearing shit like preferring to use old school tech, or having a "get off my lawn, my favourite miscreants" kinda attitude, or being unable to keep up in sex, or any of that kinda cute stuff

i mean the unpleasant sweaty old man smell, having walking farts, snoring while awake, their stomachs just making noises for no goddamn reason bc their digestive systems are no longer 30 y/o

all of which they don't even realize they're doing bc they're old and either a) have more pressing things to worry about [at their age]; b) stopped giving a fuck; or c) both of the above

source: i live with two very old men (my dad and uncle). one is a few years away from retirement and the other is already at that age. they are family but they are still gross old men who act like drunk uncles given half the chance

and while neither logan or wade are in their 60s, these habits don't just magically appear once you hit that age. they begin long before that and accumulate over time until the stinky old man package is complete

"but jercy," you say, "they have perfect regeneration!! they can't have any health problems!! they're too self-conscious to be that gross!!"

1: (re: perfect regeneration) that is an even worse argument for wade, who has mega cancer and canonically does not smell pleasant or have a properly functioning body. he'd 100% have old man problems as a symptom of his cancer bc his mutation is physically keeping him in a constant state of dying. everything he does is out of sheer stubbornness and willpower to make a joke out of his life

1b: to play on a popular headcanon: any aromatic, artificial fruity skincare routine he has can easily be used as a reason for him to cover up his old man smell

2: see point B above for logan

2b: see the movie, logan (2017), or the comic, death of wolverine (2014), for the fact that logan can canonically age/die. albeit it's at a vastly slower pace than everyone else, but it means logan WILL eventually have these issues with his body too, if he doesn't have them already

2c: feral/animalistic logan who takes on animal traits would be so much worse bc wolverines are called "skunk bears" for a reason. wolverines (and any wildlife/animal that you can compare logan to) fucking STINK!! they have EVEN GROSSER ANIMAL HABITS!! you just gotta accept it

3: (re: self-consciousness) you got a point there, but once again refer to point B. most folks i know at their age are on their way to or have already stopped caring about what others think of them. and even if wade and logan are somehow the exceptions to this, i'm sure they let loose in private and probably indulge in their grosser habits when they're alone

4: if you want biblically accurate old man yaoi you're gonna have to contend with the fact that it comes with the non-sexy old man problems. i'm sorry i have to break the illusion but this is the reality we must face together

5: suspension of disbelief, friends. do engage with that once in a while lol

in conclusion: i unfortunately have every bit of confidence that wade and logan are not exempt from old man behaviours and bodily functions and i will die whining about it. thanks for coming to my ted talk

[ohitslen]

*Vampirizes your Vashwood*

keep reading for more :)

If there needs to be much closer close-up please let me know!

[sengenism]

wdym if the petrification didn't happen, modern world gen wouldn't know how to flirt with girls while senku would be ur average dude with 18+ thoughts on his mind all the time....... this is just too funny

[valekusanalis]

Yea this is the thing about Zovaal- I don't think even any of the hardcore SL fans enjoy Zovaal's writing, if anything they like the potential he could have had instead of what we got.

Focusing on him, in-game Zovaal does not have personality or backstory at all ngl and the other major problem is he does not feel like a good antagonist at all. Don't even get anyone started on his writing bc he threw years of lore out the window into the bin and set the bin on fire.

There's no intimidating vibes bc he doesn't look scary for the guy that rules literal superhell and you see him in the Maw intro so you know he's just a shirtless guy with a hole in his chest for plot-related stuff, and when he transforms at the end of SoD he's just big-random-maw-guard scaled up. Imagine if Zovaal didn't show his face until like the end of 9.1 or something, it would have given puppeteer vibes with how he was dominating everyone behind the scenes and making a plan that had been crafted over so long come into being.

They tried to give off the vibes that he was playing 5D chess while outsmarting everyone but it ended up being stupid bc in order to make Zovaal look smart the writing dumbed down everyone else.

Also his backstory of being the Arbiter I guess was kinda expected but the way they wrote his reason for betraying everyone being so ambiguous bc what do you mean the 'designs of the First Ones were flawed' elaborate please and then he went crazy -> turned evil and the Eternal Ones chucked him into super hell.

It's never really answered and I just think if Zovaal had been written better in the slightest OR they kept the original version of SL that the Primus was the Jailer people wouldn't hate SL as much

The jailer is literally one of the biggest reasons shadowlands flopped so hard (NOT the sole reason - there were many) which is crazy because if he simply did not exist i guarantee there would be so many more shadowlands enjoyers. He is the reason the WoW devs want to retcon everything that happened in shadowlands and want everyone to forget about it. And I feel personally victimized by this because every day I pray for Denathrius' safety. If the jailer wasn't in the equation,we could've had it all. Redo shadowlands in MY image. I can fix it. If you just give me a chance.

[bonesandthebees]

sigh feeling nostalgic for my old fics/the old community these days. I miss it man.

[starflungwaddledee]

Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)

exactly like that! though she's not the only one...

edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭

[loveme-likeyou]

whats your favorite way to beat the summer heat with your f/o? do you guys like to go out for ice cream, hang out at the pool or the beach? maybe just staying home with all the fans blasting and trying not to melt?

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you? You are still a brat. What do you know? You're only three years older. Like you are any better than me. You're 21, and still a virgin. What are you proud of? I think you can't do it.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 06

[bonetrousledbones]

i am sending this ask to a bunch of people. the reason is that i am curious. here it is.

what is your favorite thing about Papyrus in undertale?

do you think Papyrus will be important in deltarune?

what do you think will be Papyrus' role in deltarune?

what do you think of the "Papyrus is the Knight" theory?

what do you think his age will be? adult or teenager? (kid is not an option cus it would be stupid and no fun)

in what chapter do you think he will show up?

if Papyrus is the Knight do you think he will be nice or evil?

if Papyrus is the Knight do you think he knows what the Roaring is?

you are the fourth person i am sending this to.

well lucky you, you caught me in a rambling mood!

i talked more about this a lil while ago now, but to me the biggest appeal of papyrus is that i relate to him a whole lot, lol. his specific form of loneliness where he's very clearly trying really fucking hard and clearly doing all the things people say you're "supposed" to do to try to make friends, but it's just. not working, for whatever reason. it's a pretty hard-hitting feeling for me and it hits deep, and while it's not necessarrily a good feeling, it's definitely my favorite part of Papyrus if only for how well communicated and "real" it is.

putting the rest under a cut because it's gonna get long lol

when it comes to deltarune, my biggest thought towards it since way back in 2018 has been "i don't have any way of knowing what the hell is going on in that dog's brain." so i don't tend to speculate on the game very much outside of fun hypotheticals! i've honestly never been much of a theorist, i prefer letting everybody else be crazy while i'm just sitting back and letting things play out in their own time.

personally, i'd say it'd be nice for papyrus to have a big important role, but in full honesty i do have some doubts about how likely that actually is. for one, he's very much rooted in being a comic-relief character, so he very rarely seems to be written seriously in general, and for two, i don't think he would have much actual weight?

like, we know him as a character from undertale, and papyrus fans might know how mysterious he is, but most of the fandom doesn't see him as mysterious at all. on top of that, the characters in deltarune have no connection to him whatsoever. he's not one of their classmates, or neighbors they grew up with, or anything like that- he's just the grocery store clerk's shut-in little brother who nobody has ever met.

but, again, that brings me back around to "i don't know what's happening in that dog's brain." maybe they'll finally get to hang out with him & he'll become more involved in the story, or maybe he won't ever show up at all! idk!

naturally, all of that applies to my opinion on knight papyrus, too- it would be awesome and so so so so cool if it turns out to be real, but with the issue of nobody knowing him except sans, my faith in it gets a little dimmed. i do think the amount of hints that could connect him to it have been crazy, though, since most of them genuinely don't even feel like that much of a reach. i'll still be pulling out my cork board and red string whenever i possibly see a chance, rest assured

i really want him to be college-aged, ideally the same age as Asriel. one, so they can be besties obviously, and two, because if he suddenly becomes an underage character after ten years of papyrus fans fighting back against rampant infantilization i am going to fucking lose it

my own headcanon until we get to actually see him is that he's much more nervous, borderline agoraphobic, and much more awkward since he hasn't met any of the people that he very likely gained a lot of his personality from in undertale. considering he spends all his time in a dark undecorated house, the angst-loving part of me genuinely really hopes he's not just gonna be written the same as we're used to, lol

and sadly- judging from the previews we've seen of chapters 3-4, and the fact that they'll most likely take place in kris's house and then the church, i have some doubts that we'll see papyrus on june 5th :(. then again, the light world sections are apparently long enough to need their own save points, so maybe that's a good sign too! i'm personally not getting my hopes up, but it'd be a very nice surprise if we see him at all before chapters 5-7, even if it's just a really quick cameo or something :>

and finally, as for what he would be like as the knight & if he would know about the roaring, i actually thought about this some time ago too! i think he could know about the roaring and even actively be trying to cause it, but i don't think that makes him evil, per se. he doesn't know anyone in this town except his brother, making him even more desperately lonely than he was in undertale, and he's not even trying to overcome it this time around.

so, i think he'd get too attached to the fact that darkners literally have to like lightners and want to be their friends, and he'd want to cause the roaring either to be able to live in a world like that forever, or to then stop it himself and make friends by becoming a "hero." i can imagine him being not evil, and honestly not even all that bad (if you ignore the "casting the world into darkness to maybe make some friends" part), just really, really desperate.

[skunkes]

Redoing my answer for this now that its been 2 months I am kinda step-dad adjacent to her. Snile.

[skitskatdacat63]

Happy One Year Anniversary to Boy King AU!!!! 🎉

Okay wait before I start talking, look at these close ups and the process!! Aren't they so beautiful aaaahhhh

Wow, can you believe it’s really been a whole entire year since my very first post about this AU? Well technically I first started talking about the statuette a day earlier, but the very first sketch was exactly a year ago!! Let us not forget the incredibly prophetic tag on that post: “also in the sense of this au i think the only ship that would work(historically accurate wise) is Vettonso.” Who knew that after that my entire life would devolve into vettonso, this specific period of history, and the lovely combo which is Boy King AU. Also wow this means it’s taken me almost a whole entire year to actually draw a joint portrait of them hahaha. I drew this sketch around the beginning of the AU, but never finished it. It’s fine though because this one is a lot better, and I’m in love with it. Took me a year to draw a couple portrait, and took me almost a whole entire month to finish said piece. 

Okay let me explain this piece, which I am very obsessed with!!! I dragged the process out more than I usually would, but I’m glad, because it was so enjoyable. But also look at that fucking crown, no wonder this took almost a month. Usually I’d write like 50 paragraphs detailing the characterization. HOWEVER! I’ve spent over a month writing little bits of characterization, mostly for fun, but also in preparation for this very post. A lot of the earlier ones, I had this drawing in mind, thinking on how I could expand on the ideas I was drawing. Though there’s definitely some things I could still write about. I’ll probably continue to write more Lore a Days, but yeah, they basically amounted to this drawing where you can actually see the characterization I was talking about displayed. Anyways, here are the explanations of bits in the drawing:

First of all, this is some part of the long process of their wedding. Look at the married couple!! Look at their rings!!!

Okay, but why are there two, almost identical looking pieces?? Because look at their hands!! I talked a lot about how Fernando is the one to give out affection more easily, especially in public, where he knows he can easily fluster Seb. He’s acting all grumpy and out of it, I mean to be fair, it’s probably been such a long ceremony across weeks. But he notices Seb is out of it too, just better at keeping his smile (let’s be honest, even if he’s distracted, he’s super smug.) So Fernando catches him off guard by squeezing his hand. Before that, as you can see, Fernando is just resting his hand on Seb’s outstretched palm, like that one scene from Succession. Very: yes I’m getting married, but I’m not happy about it. The combination of Fernando refusing to even touch him more than lightly beforehand but now going full force, them being in public, and Seb already being distracted catches Seb so off guard he has to try to cover his blush with his fan. He thought Fernando was being super impolite, but now he’s the impolite one!! Getting all blushy and giggly over a simple display of affection, perhaps even ha-

So. Their crowns. Seb’s wearing the crown of Austria, because he is in fact only a king still! Also, because I really wanted to try drawing it after I wimped out of it before in this drawing. Fernando’s a king as well by the point, but the fact he’s wearing only a tiara-like hairpiece is to represent how much of an outsider he still is. At this moment, he’s just Seb’s wi- ,I mean husband, to all these guests. Of course this bitch wears a black veil instead of a white one, to signal that he’s mourning the loss of his autonomy and personhood. Don’t worry too much about his mental state though, considering he’s not depressed enough to be able to resist teasing Seb. 

The fan, oh my god. Back in this era, people would gift/make fans for basically any occasion. To symbolize an event, to celebrate something, to show a story, etc etc. I wish I could have drawn something more narrative, but I think the bull vs. horse is good enough. Also you can see those same symbols on the pendants they’re wearing!! I’m so happy when I can fit irl, modern stuff like that into these drawings, it feels so clever!!

It’s so funny, I wrote a lore a day from a prompt about what they’d be like when doing a joint portrait, while I was already almost through painting a dual portrait of my own! So I got to explain some stuff like their clothing colors and poses before I even posted this. I feel very coy about that still honestly. 

Hmmm what else? It feels so weird to not expand on the characterization, considering I already did it for myself weeks in advance. I can’t imagine what it’s like opening this read more, and seeing more than 10 in-text citations. Happy reading!!!

 Happy anniversary to  this wonderful, crazy AU that makes me download 500pg German papers about 18th century etiquette. I drew a couple pieces of fanart before this AU, but I definitely think it jumpstarted my insanity about drawing/making AUs, and literally is what made me insane about Vettonso in the first place. Remember, if I hadn’t learned about Joseph I/Charles VI, most of my blog probably wouldn’t exist in it's current form. Thank you if you’ve stuck around since the beginning, or if you’re even just learning about it now!! It’s so incredibly niche but I’ve had so much fun researching and building this world and these characterizations, and I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve made in the process. I hope I can draw/write many more things in the future. I think next, I’m gonna maybe open up requests. I’d like to try to either write ficlets or draw chibi comics about specific Lore a Day posts on request. I think that’d be a lot of fun, but also will probably kill me. We’ll see!! Anyways. PPlease enjoy this absolute labor of love, which is a result of a year’s worth of work.