#ANYWAY ignore me

[satancopilotsmytardis]

For as much as I talk about wolf/bunny Shigadabi, I can't believe I've only used it in 5 full fics

I have a sneaking suspicion, I'm also going to return to Apisnea demons at some point as well, either with Shigadabi or with OCs. That's just such a fun species of demons to play with. Like man, a fucked up dynamic where the human demeans the shit out of his pet demon until he's begging for a drop of cum? Excellent. A dominant honeybee who knows his human is desperate for his honey to the point of it rivaling an addiction and using that to keep him on his knees for hours before he takes his meal? Delicious.

[fiona-fififi]

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[maharellasa]

keeper marethari: may the dread wolf never catch your scent

me: nawwrr may he catch it please

[tixdixl]

Ever since I noticed the different ways Vil signals her gender identity and gender presentation in the original Japanese, the more and more I wish that there was a way for us to get a complete revision of Book 5 where the nuances of Epel's cultural identity, Vil's gender presentation, and the ways the two clash in cultural understandings and ideals are ACTUALLY demonstrated in the localization for English only readers. Because they aren't. Vil's gender presentation and Epel's cultural rootedness are both watered down and erased from the English. And what's worse is watching both turn into superficial charicatures of their intended design, in order to accommodate an uninformed Western audience.

With Epel's very specific rural understanding of masculinity and feminity, and Vil's urban, gender-nonconforming understanding of masculinity and feminity, we have an incredibly nuanced and intersectional conversation about self-realization. And English only fans get to see none of it.

Of COURSE Epel is rejective of Vil's expectation of embracing feminitiy. He's a cis male who grew up likely in the rural country side, with hints of rural, possibly rural Osakan dialect in his dialogue. Of COURSE his expectations of masculinity and feminity clash with Vil, a femme non-binary person who is both an idol/celebrity and who has lived her entire life in urban settings. He likely has deep seated misogyny that he has to contend with. He likely has deep seated transphobia that he has to contend with. It's not that he himself is dysphoric; it's that his expectations of masculinity, his tate shakai, and his understanding of collectivism reject and clash with a sub-culture that permits and encourages the exploration of self expression, and views those forms of self realization AS maintaining the collectivist status quo, rather than violating it. When his understanding of self-realization dictates he must be and act a certain way as to not break the collectivist status quo, of course, Epel looks at Vil and thinks that what she is asking him to do is uncomfortable.

Of COURSE Vil sees Epel's rural world view and wishes to challenge him on it. Of COURSE she also FAILS to understand his perspective and find it irritating and uncouthed. She ALSO has biases against rural cultures, as indicative by her dialogue and Tokyo dialect. It's not that she wants Epel to "become girly", but rather that she wants to see him fit in and join the mold of Pomefiore. Because in Pomefiore and in the idol world, ruralisms and a rooted rural identity clash with the status quo. Her understanding of the collectivist culture and mindset within the dorm and within her culture dictate that HE is the one stepping out of line... all while he believes SHE is the one stepping out of line.

There are just so many layers here, and without any help from the localization, nor cultural understandings of the values and norms that inform the writing of this game.... of course. Of course Book 5 is watered down.

[siobhanbooks]

just remembered that out of all of our important characters, at the end of iron flame, we don't know if bodhi or Garrick are alive.

I don't have my copy to hand do this is being do entirely from memory so if it's not 100% right then I apologise

but after the battle ends we know that brennan, mira, sloane, aaric/cam, Violet, and xaden are all alive. vi speaks to dain and then she speaks to Rhiannon who gives her a run down of the squad. sawyer is in the infirmary with jesinia and ridoc, imogen, and quinn have all been injured but nothing is too serious. I think the fliers are all fine as well because they were more involved with the infirmary and evacuations at the end.

but there is no mention of bodhi or Garrick.

and we don't know if there's a dead green dragon like I've seen some people say. I actually remember this part really well for some reason. vi says that there are dead dragons - does not specify colour - then says she doesn't recognise any of them. she's spent way too much time working on revolution stuff with Bodhi not to recognise cuir I would think

[proudsnackeezowner]

I wish I would have thought of having some kind of valentines day related event/activity for us to do (like the masquerade/gift exchange/phookbook) sooner, bc that would have been fun, but it's so close to the day now it's too late 🥲 and ig it is also a pretty busy time for people so participation probably would've been low anyway

[definetly-human]

Did i only buy this outfit because it reminded me of Shen Qingqiu? yes. yes i did.

[bizarrelittlemew]

wdym it's the "first day of autumn" it's been autumn for 22 days here already

[codenameregnar]

Ok wait im actually spiraling over the implications that red dwarf and trek exist in the same universe. I might have to write a fic about it. I wanna see garak be a cunt to cat so so bad. Hed be so condescending and cat would just openly insult him. Rimmer would try so hard to get into opps and sisko would have to curve him in the most polite ways he could until hes had enough and then rimmer would be so hurt over it and try to join the dominion. Odo would really dislike rimmer at first and then grow to be the only person who feels bad for him other than dave. Kira would want to kick his ass so bad tho. Everyone would love kryten so much (especially dax) and lister would join in on whatever miles and julian are playing in the hollosuite. The despair squid would show up somehow

[softdefault]

just saw a cc hair that may single-handedly revive my hyperfixation on the sims

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Look I'm not saying that Dragon!Tomura in his black leathers with his legs spread on the throne and his pants open showing his double dicks and prince Albert would make for extremely exquisite horny fanart. But I'm also not NOT saying that

[itspileofgoodthings]

adult wins, adult anxieties and fears and frozenness.

[believe-in-alderaan]

Working on a fic and all I can think about while writing the outline is “how many whump tropes can I stick in this thing”

[orangechickenpillow]

Big fan of the way Jacob carries Maisie around like a sack of potatoes. Even bigger fan of the way Maisie grabs hold of Jacob's forehead when she gets nervous

[cottoncandysprite]

I relate to Guillermo because I too am gay, goth, and insanely loyal with terrible taste in partners

[queerofthedagger]

finally finished the main editing round of this 30k fic and turns out now it's only 23k words long which like. i love deleting shit when editing, truly, but that's 7k words. can we not try and be concise the first time around like girl pls