#Bend the rules a bit

[whumporama]

"Actually, that's not realistic-"

Okay but it gives me whumperflies so idc

[novuit]

I couldn't stop thinking about @kittspirals' highschool au for MONTHS.

[squoobest]

this pleasant étoile shows up at your door

[corvus-frugilegus]

Man it really just hit me that if the Shadow Dragons existed in a modern our world city just how fast the magisterium and mass media would be out there propagandizing and pushing the narrative that the Shadows are dangerous terrorists who want to overthrow the state (and probably speculate that they intend to implement all kinds of terrible reforms that threaten only the powerful should they succeed). The plight of the resistance.

No doubt the Magisterium on the whole and the Venatori ARE pushing a narrative like that across Tevinter. Probably what your Average Antivan or Nevarran knows about the Shadows IS the propaganda. (Dangerous, Looking to impose their own views on the People of Tevinter by force).

Part of the struggle for Resistance Fighters IS how consolidated and interconnected systems of power are and what that means for how people understand them. Even the Shadows Allies like Dorian or Legatus Mercar aren't doing so openly. The Shadows are dangerous to be affiliated with. The heat Rook takes on the Nesus job probably got them branded the lore appropriate equivalent of domestic terrorist. There is undoubtedly a price on Rook's head in Minrathous. The stakes for any Shadow in getting identified are Very High.

I think if we really saw much of Minrathous outside Dock Town the reaction to the Shadow Dragons would be very different. Rook would probably be very on edge about being recognized.

Rook is infact probably very politically inconvenient for the Mercar family, even if the Mercar's agree with them entirely because of how much resisting oppression from within a system of power is a game of optics.

[bbcphile]

Last Line tag game

Thanks to @yletylyf , @cheetahing, and @the-surreptitious-albatross for tagging me!

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like).

On Xiaobao’s fourth anxious circuit past the bed, Li Lianhua took pity on his floorboards. “Come on, sit down while we wait,” he said, patting the bed next to him, “before you wear a hole in the wood.”

Tagging @eirenical @howdaretrashships @momosandlemonsoda @xthelastknownsurvivorx @evolutionsbedingt @la-muerta @a-memory-a-distant-echo @peridot-tears @nutcasewithaknife @the-wintry-mizzenmast @thesilversun @athenasdragon @rose-tinted-vision @enbysaurus-rex @kingsandbastardz @wuxia-vanlifer and anyone else who wants to join in! (And no pressure if you don’t want to!)

[wonkasposition]

pLEASE tell me abt your au please im on my kuh nees begging mon cher per favoreeee pleasepleasepreaseplease

HELPPPP okay okay i got u chat trust.

So like. It takes place after mighty med but like middle of Henry danger cuz. Yeah idk that’s what I want.

Basically, mighty med doesn’t blow up like EF says it does bc uhm no!!!! And Oliver and Kaz are still working there for a while with their powers after successfully detaining Oliver’s mom. (Horace becomes Oliver’s legal guardian because plot reasons idk I make the story I make the rules)

ANYWAY. So w Henry and Ray and the other crazy guys, Henry keeps almost DYING and Ray is like “wow. That’s not good!” And they can’t take him to any superhero hospitals because for whatever fucking reason the closest one to swellview IS mighty med. and that’s all the way in Philadelphia.

So he calls up mighty med and is like “Hey pookies could we get like a personal doctor or something so my sidekick doesn’t die after every battle 😊😊😊😊” and mighty med is like “okay!” And they send over silly little Oliver.

At the same time that Oliver gets shipped off to swellview, Davenport industries is like “hey lmao let’s start a superhero team!” So they request to have Oliver, Kaz and Skylar join. Unfortunately, because the hospital wants Oliver to go to swellview (and partly because Oliver’s not so sure he wants to be fighting villains again after the whole thing w his mom), only Kaz and Skylar go, splitting them up 👎

So he’s just kinda there now, working under both Ray and mighty med as just, a personal doctor. He’s very not okay because he’s away from his bestest friends in the world and he still isn’t fully healed from the whole evil mom thing.

That’s. Pretty much it. It’s just Henry danger but Oliver is there helping out sometimes :)

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

déjà vu

[thedawningofthehour]

I love the Rise Splinter version so much, that even with the posts and fanfics centered around it I feel like it's not enough is not enough.

I mean, the chapter where they travel into his mind is one of my favorites and whenever I watch it I think about how much I would have loved it to be double length just to see more of his memories.

He is just so interesting.

Just as I would love a trapped-together chapter between Leo and Draxum for this fic, I would have loved an equal one for Draxum and Splinter for their stories in general, the closest we got was in the divorced dads episode, but I would love a situation where they could really open and adress the living weapon situation and its consequences from someone who was raised to be one to someone who thinks it's for the best. I always wondered what would have happened if Draxum had gone with them on the trip to his memories, because as far as we know, Draxum only knows him as Lou Jitsu, he has no idea how much he really had to go through. Sorry, My baronjitsu Brain just don't let me out.

Man, I really need more Splinter Fanfics.

Sadly, for this fic specifically Splinter would strangle Draxum with his tail if they were within six feet of each other.

I don't really get into shipping (Donnie's vague 'somewhere on the ace spectrum but idk where' thing is absolutely projection on my part) but I doubt Splinter would ever be cool with Draxum enough to actually date him. They're both such stubborn assholes, they'd be the type of couple that screams at each other every time they go grocery shopping. Maybe coparents-with-benefits, but that's about it. (honestly, fits with my headcanon that Draxum is mostly aromantic) They're a lot better if they just dad together instead of trying to make a relationship work. They might butt heads a lot, but they love their boys far more than they annoy each other. They're willing to let a lot of things slide if it helps them parent together more effectively.

Unless of course what they're fighting about is parenting. Draxum is a very much an authoritative parent, bordering on authoritarian at times, while Splinter believes in permissive parenting. Draxum's parenting is very structured, even as babies he wants the boys playing with only educational toys and is obsessively monitoring their growth and milestones, he only feeds them nutritious food and doesn't allow dessert except on special occasions, he starts off their training and schooling at a very young age and expects a lot out of them-not unrealistically, he takes their ages and individual ability levels into account, (Donnie is eventually moved away from combat training to focus on his academics, for one) but pretty much every moment of their day is plotted out for them all the time. Splinter on the other hand is like "let them play with the box, aren't you the one always saying that's how kids learn?" He thinks having plenty of unstructured playtime is best, and he's not just saying that because he wants to take a nap while they draw. And he's totally fine with ordering a pizza every couple nights so he doesn't have to cook, or promising his kids ice cream after dinner if it makes them shut up and eat their vegetables. Usually Draxum's will prevails, (it's his house) but when Splinter is watching them he absolutely does not follow any of Draxum's rules.

What makes matters worse is that Bella, Pax, and the gargoyles all agree with Splinter. Which incenses Draxum because he literally has degrees in this, he knows he's right, and Bella and Pax know he is too but they still sneak the kids cookies and let them want non-educational TV programs.

[19catsncounting]

Hey does anyone still think about the thematic differences between Supernatural and the Wayward Sisters and how self-isolating male hunters are compared to community-building female hunters and how this was shown from the Harvelles to even arguably Missouri Mosely and even Samuel Campbell who is his daughter's father almost more than a man himself (especially in Season 6) is not immune to this?

And how the Wayward Sisters could have been built not on sacrificing yourself to this singular all-consuming relationship with your brother and sacrificing yourself for the world second or in name only, but instead on what it takes to cut yourself into useful and digestible pieces for the sake of keeping your place in that community because you're almost certain that it's This Community or Solitude Forever (Alex you can never escape the life no matter how much you don't want it you've gotta pitch in do you want your family to die on this hunt Claire you know you'll never find anyone to love you unless you make yourself softer and then are they really loving you are you even worthy of love anymore Jody your husband and son would still be alive if you listened and learned you can't lose another child in every sense you can't quite let your children be defenseless children either and you know so well how sick this fear makes you and how you're dealing with it the wrong way your son got to be a child but your daughters can't be that vulnerable Even Donna you have Your Role to play here you're not good enough as a hunter but you're funny and happy and you don't take up that much space so that's exactly how much space you're given to exist in).

And yes, a lot of these things are echoes of Kripke Supernatural but instead of too-intimate and dark and quiet confessions that the Winchesters share and know that no one else could ever have the context to fully understand it's Community it's All Our Problems the humiliation and shame is all-encompassing because there is no privacy Everyone Sees You Everyone Knows You Everyone Wants To Fix Help You.

[stellasolaris]

brandon! 10, 16 (and 17-18 too, because why not!)

10. Describe the character in one sentence paragraph

charming and caring and loyal to the core. calm and collected, rarely loses his cool, but can slip into a rampage of words and fury when angered or frustrated. extremely honest and patient with an innate ability and willingness to listen and understand. has a strong sense of duty and clearly defined moral principles. can read the room like no other and is quite good at mediating conflict. appreciates all things fitness and fashion and can be a bit vain. does not conflate failure or disappointments with his self-esteem or self-image. ruthlessly teases his friends, mostly sky but riven is a close second. enjoys all kinds of sports from swimming to martial arts and everything in between. if flirting was an olympic sport, brandon would win every single time.

16. A childhood headcanon

brandon once lost a bet with a school friend and had to sign up for a ballet class. although he only attended one class, he came to appreciate the art form to the extent that he began to incorporate his own version of ballet leaps into his workout routines, as depicted in season two, episode eleven.

18. How do you think they were as a kid?

very easygoing and exuberant. could effortlessly talk himself out of any situation due to his natural charisma and sense of humor. had a deep understanding of who he was and what he wanted to become from a young age, which gave him a sense of direction and purpose in his life but also forced him to experience a series of setbacks and mature quite fast.

character ask game

[pkmoth]

i made sprites for the twins :D

[amiibo-king]

idk if anyone remembers me promising to make a list of choices in last legacy that affect side character relationships but i wanted to quickly apologize for not getting around to that. i have been working on something a bit bigger w fictif (and the arcana) that takes a bit of priority

which is to say, the arcana and fictif are built in unity and i dont trust dorian to pay the fees to keep them running after the unity fees go into effect. they might migrate them over to the dorian app but theres no way in hell im downloading that garbage. and even if they dont sunset the original apps, those apps (especially the arcana with the way it gives u 3000 dorian ad popups every time u open it these days) are kind of annoying and glitchy to use recently

im not going to go into too much detail abt what it is im doing bc i dont actually know if its legal or not. lol. but know this. i will not let these games die

[bmpmp3]

also guess which complainer about cevio/voisona's supposed lack of vocal dynamics controls finally Looked Up. and Discovered.

[morgandekarios]

Re: Drow-specific Halsin Dialogue - Oh man, my Drow was not only too happy to kill Minthara, she actively made sure to do the deed herself.

While she's normally on the good side, she takes killing other Drow very personally: she will personally do it.

@hybernating-bear

My Naviidi was on the opposite side haha. He's a cleric of Lolth and had history with Minthara so he was hesitant to kill her, but has the common sense to determine that Halsin, someone who had studied the tadpoles from an outside perspective and knew the local area/area around Moonrise well, would give them a better shot at learning more about the tadpole and gaining favour with the local druids than blindly following a tadpoled former comrade who was not in her right mind, even if she was a woman and his superior.

A quarterstaff to the face and a feign death spell does wonders to make your party think someone's actually dead.

[angelictactics]

as the resident bird nerd it's so funny to look at these levels in rhythm doctor. like most birds can't carry much. owls can carry at most one third of their body weight. birds can't digest lactose and even if this ice cream didn't have any i'm still like STACY GIRL, WHAT ARE YOU FEEDING THEM

maybe its the ice cream that gives them the strength to carry samurai.

[druidberries]

these two are officially homeowners 🥳

I was having such a hard time building this house for some reason. I redid it so many times and eventually just ended up basing it on this house by neexcle. apparently i have a very hard time with micro homes