#ARMY BOYYYY

[witchexia]

Military Simon Glass

[tomcat-tapes]

“What a waste, Army Dreamers”

-Kate Bush

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[ericgold42]

Thankful Br0 💪🏼!

Whatcha stuffing ur face with br0? Heh

[velvetprvsley]

excuse me sir, is there any space left for me????

[anthonys237thfreckle]

If you could date any Anthony Ramos character, who would you choose?

OHHHH BOYYYY

okay, so the first characters coming to mind are John Laurens (Hamilton), Philip Hamilton (Hamilton), Eladio (In Treatment) and Frankie Espinoza (Summer days, summer nights)

though i love all of them, john and frankie are the closest contenders.

john laurens

of course, and i cannot stress this enough, john laurens was a real person who lived a real life with a real wife and a real daughter.

so i’m always always going to refer to the musical’s portrayal of the role, not the person himself. that man did not get killed in a gunfight to deserve this.

i love how anthony portrayed him in a playful, passionate and headstrong manner, really reflecting the real person. but this passion and strength can be seen in his other characters (usnavi, javi) and playfulness (mars blackmon, frankie) in others. so i really like seeing a more ‘serious’ or ‘unique’ version of that. it’s not everyday a man looks good in late 1700s army uniforms.

and plus, though the real john laurens shared this, the portrayed john laurens wanted to create the first ever black military regime, and in a time where people owned slaves and looked down on the coloured, i think that’s honestly beautiful. he could have done so much, if only he had time.

and i will never forgive that part of the hamilton fandom to turn him into an ‘uwu smol turtle boy’ - his favourite animal was birds. say it over and over again so it doesn’t disappear.

2. frankie espinoza

personally, i am the commitment/ date to marry type of person, and none of anthony’s characters stood out to me as those type of people, with the exception of frankie.

he is a hopeless romantic for god’s sake. what could be better than that?

i really loved how easygoing frankie was in the movie, and how genuine the character was, and i feel like it was a bit of a turn in another direction for anthony to play it, but i’m glad he did. anthony really brought into sentimental aspects and played frankie really well.

plus i wanna know what it feels like to be in his car.

so if i had to pick one…. i’d say john laurens. BUT I LOVE FRANKIE TOOO

[joltai-showa]

okay it's way too late to continue working on chapter 6 of FQTP and I can't really pull an all-nighter cuz I got medical check-up in the morning for my unexpected job (my ao3 writer notes are gonna be fucking insane), so i'm gonna be rambling about the random stuff that i've been doing today

i finally started doing the natlan archon quest and GOD THE PRIMAL FEAR THAT I FELT IN MY SOUL when Ajaw spoke for the first time

for context i play genshin with japanese voiceover and with the new region we got a number of new characters (welcome to gacha world) and two of them are Kinich and Ajaw who are always attached at the hip but also argue a lot. and whoever is responsible for casting decisions in the japanese department really loves doing silly funny little things, thus Kinich is voiced by Sugiyama Noriaki, while Ajaw is voiced by Takeuchi Junko.

Yes, we've got Sasunaru in Genshin Impact.

This is not even the funniest thing that japanese dub did here. Half of major characters in Fontaine arc were literally voiced by people from the Attack on Titan's cast. Ono Daisuke (and his most famous role is arguably Jotaro from JJBA) voices Wriothesley there. Only in japanese dub Wrio does the "ora-ora" thing. It's insane and surreal and I love every second of it.

anyway, back to the original point, Ajaw appears and he sounds excatly like Naruto. my soul started to leave me when i was confronted with the idea that Kinich is seconds away and can sound just like Sasuke. thank god Sugiyama did the less bitchy and more calm pitch, otherwise i would have been bouncing off the walls screeching like a vulture.

also there was an absolutely hilarious explanation on what a piligrimage in natlan is. close enough, welcome back chunin exam.

at least after the piligrimage your god will resurrect you if you actually die fighting in the war. after a chunin exam the leader of the village will give a pocket knife and, if you are really lucky, a pat on the back. oh, the enemy village is dropping an damn entire cave on your head? gotta pray that your moldy ancestor and his army of undead cacti is somewhere nearby, grandpa hiruzen is too busy smoking that pipe🚬😎🚬😎🚬😎🚬😎

after that i read the latest chapter of csm and HOOO BOYYYY WHAT THE HELL FUJIMOTO

that shit was absolutely insane.

first of all, i am crying from the fact that fuji is capable of writing incredibly complex and realistic female characters, but can not draw them for his life. like lmao what even is that.

anyway, this is the least interesting thing that happened during this chapter, BECAUSE HOLY MOTHER OF LORE BOMBSHELLS WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT

YORU HAS BEEN A MOTHER THIS ENTIRE TIME? MOREOVER A MOTHER OF TWO? THE FANDOM'S BEEN CALLING MAKIMA MOMMY FOR YEARS AND NOW WE LEARN THAT THE REAL MOMMY HAS BEEN YORU?

ALSO HER CHILDREN? GUN DEVIL??? THE SAME ONE FROM PART 1???? THE SAME ONE THAT TOOK OVER AKI BEFORE BEING KILLED BY DENJI????? HOLY FUCK DID MAKIMA REALLY SPEND AN ENTIRE PART MAKING UP BEEF WITH HER NEPHEW?????

(also on unrelated note it's always such a jumpscare/reason to lol whenever there's a sudden reminder that soviet union is still a thing at the end of the 90s in csm lore. thanks pochita)

anyway yoru ate and left no crumbs holy fuck. happy motherhood reveal day i guess, being a terrible mother figure likely runs in the family.

but also it's so funny how the devil family tree is getting to the point where we really should be doing the infographics like JoJo fandom has. for now we certainly know about the Horse(wo)men of Apocalypse aka Conquest (Makima then Nayuya then ehhhh good luck Denji), Famine (Kiga), Death and War (Yoru) and War's got babies in Gun and Tank devils. hopefully in a few years the entire plot devolves into a gigantic family drama i will die from crying of laughter.

(also fuji is so fucking real for making the four of the most powerful devils to be all women. my man.)

but the implications of this chapter are fucking insane, cause are Gun and Tank the only Yoru's kids? Did the Weapon Hybrids use to be her children? Is it possible for Chainsaw devil to be born of her as well? Nuclear Weapons devil is supposed to be inside Pochita and Yoru refers to them as her comrades??? Anway holy shit just what a chapter.

(but also Makima's monologue about getting rid of death, famine and war sounds very reasonable rn cause wtf those insane bitches that happen to be her sisters are birthing into this world)

i am also so insanely hyped for Death Devil, because she is bound to be absolutely fucking insane, like horror beyond human comprehension. also i feel like she has to not only be one of the Horse(wo)men, but a Primal Fear as well like Darkness and Aging (I believe that's what the most recent one was supposed to be)? the entire devil classification system is so confusing lmao

(also i remembered my shock at chapter 167. like. i wrote the finale for LTFG about a month before it was released and then i read it and was like. do i and fujimoto go to the same astral plane where the voices are whispering to us that we must do a handjob in a seedy alley scene? lmao)

[le-agent-egg]

oooo more ideas with mondus. scratch what i said earlier, chihiro and sayaka were *close* and both made music as a hobby, but chihiro and mondo were bunkmates, homies, worked in the same branch, mondo just as a regular soldier and chihiro as an elite. they were besties. after the whole octavio fight, plus mondo’s failed sanitization, they ended up forgetting almost all memories of one another. they didn’t immediately kill each other in the whole octo expansion plot because they were like “hm i know you from somewhere .__.”

also, ok so. yeah the diamonds were a rebellion group, again, led by daiya. i think what i’ll do for michi is actually make him an inkling who was working as a sort of double agent- he joined the squidbeak splatoon (or whatever the equivalent will be) so he could get access to data and weapons for the diamonds- he would also disguise himself as an elite octarian bodyguard (eh? see what i did there?) to get insight on the octarian mumbo jumbo. is this kinda making sense? to summarize he’s an inkling who’s pretty much pretending to play for both sides, but in reality is playing for neither, but rather a rebellion group.

not sure what ends up happening to him, but he doesn’t die don’t worry!!! he’s alive and well :)

another thing i was thinking about would be to make taka old agent three, but. this could get a little messy. my original idea was to have taka as the grandson of the octavio equivalent (in this case, toranosuke) but. idk it doesn’t work that well in a few regards! first off, would he be an inkling or octoling? because my gut is telling me inkling and that he’s just an outcast in inkopolis, but that doesn’t work since. the whole point is that he would be the grandson of the big bad *octarian* leader. but on the other hand, having him be the one to fight mondo with the inner agent three fight is metal as hell.

there’s one other problem with making taka agent three: i’m pretty much dead set on making junko and mukuro the squid sisters. come on, they fit perfectly. and taka and those two?? don’t have that big of a canon relationship?? obviously it doesn’t need to be fully canon, since i’m already changing a lot of story elements to this but. whatever

and this is totally ignoring the fact that i have absolutely no idea who captain cuttlefish would be. ugh

currently as it stands, what i’m thinking for the splat one campaign is to have junko and mukuro as the idols, who are actually working as double agents for the octarian army to a) take it over and b) yada yada despair. taka is, some way or another, the grandson of the empero/leader, so he’s a perfect recruit for all that juicy insider information. splat one campaign happens, but at the end taka is like “you know what this is shady as shit” and defeats octavio equivalent himself, returning the great zapfish which, who would have guessed, was also stolen by the squid sisters. peace is restored or something and junko and mukuro get put in the timeout corner. idk maybe someone replaces them.

here’s where things get really messy: i have absolutely no ideas for the splat 2 campaign. absolutely none. i kinda like the idea of j + m learning the error of their ways or whatever and kinda, co-hosting with another group? and still having the callie vs marie splatfest (obv junko vs mukuro), with junko ultimately losing and getting kidnapped and doing a little trolling. but idk what else to do for a plot!! idk who to make agent 4!! my gut is telling me makoto and to make marie in this mukuro, but idk. i’ll figure something out. maybe

then i already yapped about octo expansion you know the drill mondo gets lobotomized and chihiro and leon are gay. who woulda thunk

then oh boyyyy splat 3 campaign. ughhh. this needs to be sorted out when i figure out who in thh is a good fit for deep cut. i am very open to suggestions (<- BEGGING ON MY HANDS AND KNEES)

and then side order happens which i also already yapped about! mondo isn’t lobotomized sayaka hates it here and chihiro and leon are still gay

i love splatoon

finally did a bit of doodling for a danganronpa splatoon au that i’ll post in a bit but. i wanted to yap since i have some epic ideas and shit

so. this is mostly for octo expansion and side order, so maybe spoilers? idk. btw i’ll be using octavio as the villain but that is subject to change once i figure out who agent 3 would be

first off chihiro takes the role of marina (chihiro goes by she/her in this pwease no discourse)

chihiro was an elite octarian soldier/head engineer back in octo valley, mainly working on big scary machines and shit. in her free time she made smaller, more personal projects, as well as did the occasional thing with vocaloid. that spiralled into making music as a side hobby, with another certain octarian in their base (sayaka, will elaborate on this further)

additionally, chihiro and mondo were colleagues, though they didn’t have much time to interact daily. more like people you would say hi to on shift, maybe grab some coffee together.

now, during the final showdown with octavio, chihiro ended up running away after hearing the calamari inkantation, yada yada you know the splatoon lore. she moved to inkopolis square, starting up some previous projects, as well as trying to get on the music scene.

mondo takes the role of agent 8. before you get all excited, nope daiya is still dead. lmao. the diamonds were an undercover rebellion group against the octarian government thingy, lead by daiya and mondo. both of them were frontline soldiers, though daiya was an elite soldier. daiya, while preparing to fight back against octavio during the fight with agent three, was caught by a lower class soldier, and splatted on sight. everyone else was found out pretty quickly after that, some got splatted, some escaped.

mondo was one of the ones who managed to escape, hiding in the deep sea metro until things blew over. he ended up running into the telephone/tartar, who promised that he would be able to escape to the surface and reunite with the diamonds.

anyway he ended up getting sanitized-

the sanitization process actually ended up failing because of a power shortage (the zapfish getting stolen, power cut out, sanitization machine thingy stopped working) so mondo got out harmed but not fully sanitized. most of his memories got fucked up, plus patches of his skin were that icky green colour. then yada yada octo expansion

ANYWAY MOVING ONTO LEON leon my friend leon. obviously he takes the role of pearl i would be executed on sight if he didn’t.

mkay so. leon comes from a very rich, very skilled family of professional ranked players; obviously he got roped into it as well. he’s the captain of two different teams, playing a professional match every day, sometimes multiple in one. and he fucking hated that shit. there’s only so much rainmaker a person can take, and since he’s the best and literally never loses, it got boring really, really quick. plus, everyone on his teams kinda hated him, thinking he only got to be a captain since his family is filthy stinking rich. idk how kanon plays into this, but. unfortunately she has to. sorry guys

once on a late night fucking off in inkopolis square, he ran into a short octoling with her face buried in a computer. obviously scared shitless of an octarian, he immediately ran away, but said octarian ended up chasing after him to explain herself. that octarian was chihiro!! she was like “augh i’m sorry for scaring you, please don’t tell anyone :((((((“ and. well, he caved and listened. chihiro’s really cute yanno?

they ended up kinda trauma dumping on the curb together, chihiro about her time in the army and leon about how much he despises being a professional player. this lead to chihiro mentioning she was making music, leon being intrigued, and boom that very same night their band was born. (i’ll call it off the hook for now, but again, subject to change)

leon ended up running away from his previous life, cutting off contact with his family and teams. he and chihiro bought a shitty little studio apartment and started making music together; they were basically an overnight success, almost immediately being asked to sign onto different contracts and managers and stuff.

they started subbing in for news reports in the square, but after the previous hosts quit, they got promoted to full time hosts. chihiro was nervous about being recognized as an octoling, but nope everything worked out a-ok.

then octo expansion happens - leon and chihiro on their commute to the office hear a familiar song playing from a blocked off underground station, call in sick (leon’s idea) and go to explore (also leon’s idea)

they see mondo, half passed out on the floor. chihiro is all “you look really familiar, but i don’t know from where…” and leon is like “??? you’re just trusting this guy??????”

yada yada octo expansion stuff i haven’t figured out yet i don’t even know who captain cuttlefish would be but anywayyy world is saved octolings and inklings live in harmony yada yada

idk how splatfests will work but. leon and chihiro go on tour after. something. chihiro continues to develop a program she was working on to help with restoring the memories of sanitized octolings (cough alter ego cough project memverse cough) and boom splatshit 3 side order happens. haven’t figured out the plot but sayaka (acht/dedf1sh’s role) returns and fucking hates it here. side order is just “leon and chihiro making out in an elevator for an undefined amount of time feat. two lobotomized octolings”

trigger splatty havoc ammirite fellas (gets booed off stage)

[kcrclrezni]

@sniperwithasmoke​ said:  “   i  can  feel  you  staring  at  me .   ”

the art of domesticity starters - accepting 

A Grisha hiding amongst the First Army - improbable, but certainly not impossible. It seemed Nikolai was hearing more and more of children who had originally failed testing exhibiting power years later. Though, he never expected to find a Grisha within his own regiment. 

The first time he’d seen it was in the heat of battle. He had been thoroughly distracted by a Fjerdian with thing for battle axes. Though, out of the corner of his eye, he’d seen Moran raise his hands and his opponent... just drop. 

Ever since, he’d kept an eye on him, watching for a repeat show. He could almost swear he’d seen him trying to practice on a particularly annoying soldier in their group, but it seemed Basher was smart enough to be sneaky about it. 

“My apologies,” Nikolai responded, though his words were anything but apologetic. “I was picturing you in a kefta. I can’t decide whether red is your color or not. Or if a kefta would look good at you at all, for that matter.” 

[fieldsofbone]

"Biersack still is philosophically wiser than most people twice his age, with a charisma quotient three times as bright. Neither hard guy nor doormat, proselytizer nor pundit, he takes what he does very, very seriously."

Photos by Jonathan Weiner for Alternative Press

[pochiimu]

[balerios-blog]

if I did decide to add a post got verse, EVERYONE IS F U C K E D

[c-u-at-midnight]

*waits patiently for a GQ party fic*

[tomcat-tapes]

“What a waste, Army Dreamers”

-Kate Bush

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[blorbologist]

I adore Galdric and Vex's relationship in Sorrow is absolutely incredible, can we get any more thoughts or hcs about our favorite wolf boyyyy?

YEAAAAH my boi

I like to think he and Purvan's bond was really a classic sort of 'lone traveler and his dog' type thing, on the outside. A Ranger devoted to a very, very new goddess (Patia! knew! her! in! life!) in a world prizing mage-magic above all else, they really had to rely on eachother. I think Purvan really threw himself into it (even in Calamity we see he prefers to go by Champion) and Galdric just... he's a wolf. What can he do but follow?

He absolutely chased the Matron's ravens initially - because they're Scavengers and Irritating and tend to pull at a wolf's tail and otherwise heckle them - until Purvan got him to stop.

If Purvan survived the Calamity (I don't think we know exactly when he died?), Galdric would have provided some really service-animal like support for the PTSD this guy surely suffered. Likely during the Calamity, too, keeping him comfort and allowing him to sleep safely knowing Galdric was on watch.

(This dog is absolutely fucking traumatized, too, though. Infernal will set him off. Giant footsteps. Marching armies.)

I've touched on this a few times in One for sorrow, but imagine being an animal. And your master dies. You know he's dead. You wake up years later to some upstart punk with a passing similarity wearing his armor. Trying to command you. I'm very surprised it didn't go straight to combat tbh. I believe he really dislikes Vax and Percy and only initially behaved because of Grog and Keyleth, and then because he just... had nothing better to do.

(But, for a split, split second, I think he saw Vax and saw Purvan. Because their descriptions are *nigh identical*. What a cruel trick to play on the poor boy.)

There likely would have been a wolf pack or two living near Whitestone during the Briarwoods reign - easy livestock pickings with the humans so desperate, and zombie giants are easy to outrun. I bet they all scampered and fast when Galdric showed up (unfortunately for him, I doubt he'd get accepted into a pack easily - raised by a human, his wolf manners are likely all off ;;).

Galdric is old. He's tired. He's outlived his master, and yet he continues to live in Whitestone in canon and can be a Warlock/Cleric patron, suggesting he has some form of divine magic. I'd like to think this is a glitch in the Ranger magic - Matt says Trinket will live as long as Vex lives, yet Galdric's Ranger is an unliving sort of Champion to the Raven Queen. So... does that make him immortal, too? I hope it's this and not a deliberate immortality on the RQ's part. Why the Raven Queen would deny this guy some rest is beyond me - babe you're all about death being okay, yet this wolf has already outlived his natural lifespan (likely by several times depending on when Purvan died during/after the Calamity)?

I really, really love the idea of him taking an interest in Wolfe de Rolo just because a) funni name matches b) it's a fun Raven Queen connection just. right there, outside of Whitestone, waiting to give Vex grey hairs.

I think he resents the Raven Queen. A lot. Again - her service killed his master, had him buried with him, had some new punk wearing his owner's clothes, killed this kid too, and now it has him living alone near Whitestone. He can't even pass and rejoin Purvan. He's a *wolf.* A wolf needs his pack and yet he's alone but for the ravens.

He's absolutely taken up chasing them once more. I hope he's his own power, now. Not a minor idol subservient to her, but his own thing.

[backjustforberena]

Thoughts about Marcus Dunn.

In my opinion, Marcus, for better or for worse, was a “normal” bloke. He wasn’t exceptional, he wasn’t awful. He was good. Good at his job, good with his kids, good at being a husband. Up until his divorce, there was likely a bit of coddling from his mother and we know he had a sister as well. The life of privledge probably came from his side of the family. They lived in Cheltenham when the kids were growing up, and I bet that was swanky (I’ve lived in Cheltenham and if you’re rich, then boyyyy you’ve got some nice houses to pick from). It was safe, secure and utterly without hardship.

All in all, decent guy. Had to be, for Bernie to marry him. And although having a wife in the army wasn’t part of the plan, it likely attracted him as much as being a kind and decent man attracted Bernie to him. They were married for 25 years after all. What interests me is that Marcus thinks he knows everything about Bernie. He’s right, to a point. He knows what it means when she stamps her foot, can tell what issues might cloud her judgement, knows when she’s scared. He could probably set his watch by what it was like when Bernie was on tour and when she back home. There was a routine to it, a “mode” he could slip into, run his time by the fact that he loved his wife, but that she was away.

Bernie was the “bad cop” parent. She alludes to this in the divorce proceedings, saying that Marcus always induldged them when she was on tour. It shows again when Cam is admitted to AAU in his first episode, where she has to ask about the possibility of drugs and we have multiple references of Bernie trying to impart lessons on her kids and teach them the value of things. Ergo, Bernie was the one to impress. Bernie was the one who was emotionally distant (because she was far more used to the role of commanding officer than mum and she’s also a mess). Marcus was easy. Just easy. Bernie was the one away and being a hero, whether she actively sought that label or not.

Marcus Dunn knew his life, knew his wife, knew his kids. He had been unchallenged for all of his life, he was good at his job, garnered sympathy for parenting solo whilst Bernie was away. Humble. Modest. Marcus. 

Then came the divorce. And Marcus doesn’t get it. He doesn’t want it. Has no clue that his wife is a lesbian. Bernie is wrapped up in herself, in what she did with Alex. He finds out. Finds out, and it’s not the affair that breaks him (though that hurts), it’s that Bernie keeps clinging to a moral high ground. Don’t talk about it in the hospital. A hospital he doesn’t even work at. He hates that it wasn’t her that told him. Had wondered about affairs before, never confronted it though. I doubt Marcus confronts much. But when he does, his main issue is that not that she’s gay but that she lied to him and to the kids. She hid it, even after talking through their marriage, after deciding to divorce. (“But I thought... she would tell me, would Bernie. She’d tell me the truth.”) 

Everything that had happened previously, as upending as the seperation was, Marcus could trust in the “world” they’d built together and the life they shared. Then this happens and suddenly all of that, to him, is shattered. He can’t trust anything about it. (“There’s nothing standing here, Bernie, you’ve torn it all down. But then that’s what you love to do. You people. Heroes.”) - That’s the violation. That’s what he recoils again. His world being shattered, and undeciferable.

And honestly? I think that’s exactly what happens when Bernie dies. It’s easy to blame her again. Easy to latch onto the idea of Bernie being a hero and blowing it all apart again. Easy for him to take charge. After all, he probably always imagined it. Imagined holding his two kids in front of Bernie’s coffin after being KIA. Doesn’t matter if they’re divorced. Doesn’t matter that it wasn’t on a proper commision or that they didn’t get a body properly. He can play the war widower. Barring Serena Campbell just meant that he didn’t have the face the truth that he lost Bernie years ago. She spoils it. And I think that Marcus never stopped loving Bernie.

What happens next? Oh, yes, Cameron becomes a serial killer and his ex-wife returns from the dead. Once again, a man who had spent so much of life coasting along has his world shattered and he doesn’t cope very well with it. Again, normal reaction. Human. Not great for a parent, but you can’t paint him as villainous. He’s not the murderer. And he has to cope with it on his own, and protect Charlotte, all the while they are all still grieving Bernie in thier own way.

I think he disowns Cam. Or as good as. I also think, in his head, Cam just has too much of his mother in him. Charlotte was the golden child anyway. It also explains why Bernie is the one fighting for Juliet, rather than there being any kind of united front. Marcus just doesn’t want anything to do with it. He can’t. He’s got no drive, but Bernie does and Bernie does want to be a part of Juliet’s life.

Ultimately, it was a good and decent man who expected perfection in a good and decent life and when life didn’t go to plan and Bernie was at the the centre of all that, he got angry and lashed out. He’s a good dad, but Cameron’s acts were too much for him and he had Charlotte to protect.

[echsellentlizard]

I just noticed in the Salvation Army tv commercial, when they mention people getting evicted, the scene with their “solution” is showing a bunch of adults sitting in a classroom with a PowerPoint that says “Budgeting 101”.

hoOOOO BOYYYY