#But hopefully this is sort of the situation

[chimerical-daydreams]

i like how everytime king and loop are close to one another, the king is negatively affected or feeling negative in one way or another

i honestly kinda feel bad

soon enough they'll react to loop's presence similarly to how canon sif would react to the idea of telling others about the loops

It really isn't as bad as it looks, at first glance.

A lot of the more actively antagonistic and downright mean actions from Loop come pretty early on their journey, but they mellow out as time goes on and they have more of their family around (and, slowly, learn to enjoy Sunshine's company, as much as they hate to admit it).

King, too, isn't just passively taking all of this for nothing; I subscribe to the headcanon that, to the people of the Forgotten Island, stars are much like angels: servants of the greater power that come to guide and aid those in need. If all of this had come from anyone else, King would have bailed on the first week. But since it's from a star, well, they have to know what they're doing, right?

Further into their adventure, though, this compliance out of religious respect is replaced by a sort of recognition; this star, divine as they may look, is deeply and undeniably human. They spite and grieve as anyone else, their actions are no more influenced by the Universe than his own. They're just another person, and a very hurt one at that.

And to hopefully make up for all the negative situations I put these two through, here's some post-actually communicating with each other and finally getting along drawings <3

[ineffableslytherinking]

I've been struggling this week, and realistically, I'm not going to get the next chapter of Prized Acquisition out today. Hopefully I'll be able to get it out in the next couple of days. But here's an unedited preview!

Vox found himself unable to stop smiling as he pulled up the message. ‘I need to see you. Come to my room.’  He blinked and read the message again. Holy shit. Alastor was inviting him over to his space. He’d always been very protective of his own space, reluctant to share it with anyone else. Even when they’d been good friends, they had almost always gone over to Vox’s whenever they went back to one of their homes, despite the fact that Alastor would complain about the environment the entire time. Said that he valued his privacy. So, of course, Vox had always been eager for any glimpse behind the Radio Demon’s walls that he’d managed to get. And that hadn’t changed.  His smile sharpened hungrily, and he condensed into electricity to enter into the phone. It took little effort to make the call from inside the device, and then he rode the wavelengths to his destination. The call was answered on the second ring. “You missing me that bad, baby?” he purred when he materialized in front of Alastor, fixing him with a smug smile as he leaned on the back of a nearby armchair.  Alastor raised an eyebrow at him, unimpressed. “Don’t flatter yourself.” Vox rolled his eyes and straightened up, casting his curious gaze around the room. At first, it was about what he would expect - all deep reds, outdated furniture, and decor that would be more suited for an ancient, haunted mansion. But then he turned around and saw an entire bayou stretching surely beyond the boundaries of the room, but somehow seeming not at all out of place. That was a trick he hadn’t even known Alastor was capable of. How many more secrets did he have?  “Well, what’s the occasion, then?” Vox asked as he turned back to him.  “We’ll get to that in a minute,” Alastor assured, his smile unreadable. “First, allow me to get us some refreshments. Any requests from the bar?”  He frowned slightly. Something seemed… off. With the whole situation, and with Alastor, in particular. There was a sort of nervous energy radiating from the deer demon that seemed wrong coming from him. “You know what I like,” he answered slowly.  “Of course!” His smile hitched a little higher as he inclined his head. “I might be a minute. The risk of being pulled into a conversation at the bar is unfortunately rather high here. Do make yourself at home.”

[agrcn]

"That's what I said. Can you not hear?" It was a rhetorical question, but there was a hint of a smile on his face. To most, it wouldn't even be recognizable. Honestly, he wasn't even sure if Leander would pick it up considering how faint it was. Not that the prince was going to acknowledge it anyway. The point of the question had been to annoy him. A brow rose at Leander's next words as the sort-of-smile faded.

"I wouldn't say tradition is what I'm looking for here." What was so traditional about this situation anyway? Leander was the crowned prince of Lysara and Agron was the Queensguard. On paper, it sounded like a great idea. In reality, he could almost sense what people would say. That he wouldn't be able to do his job and watch the Queen's back if he was too busy trying to watch Leander's. Neither of them particularly needed him to protect them, but that was his duty. If anything happened to them, his honor and their lives were on the line. Alas, that was something he would worry about later. Right now, they had much more important things to worry about. For example, the battle that was still going on around them.

As their lips parted, he paused to look around them. Hopefully they made it out of this to make this official. He'd have to focus on not dying so that it was possible. Same for Leander. "Don't get yourself killed out there," was all he said as he turned and charged back into the fight ahead.

END.

Leander's eyebrows had shot up at Agron's response, his jaw ticking as he took in the calm demeanor Agron always maintained, even when they were ankle-deep in ogre guts. It was infuriating, and yet, it was exactly why Leander was drawn to him like a moth to a flame. His body was tense, every muscle taut and defined under the layer of blood and grime from the battlefield. This relentless slaughter, the loss of Olympians, it only served to remind him of everything that had ever been taken from him. He'd never been a child, at least not that he could recall, and for all that he was he was a man of his word. Leander didn't take this ask lightly, like every commitment he'd ever made the Prince of Lysara was determined to see it through.

"You've always wanted one of these?" Leander scoffed, his eyes flicking to the ring now adorning Agron's finger. His hands were shaking slightly, not from fear or exhaustion, but from the adrenaline and the effort it took to keep from claiming Agron right then and there. Bend him over some darkspawn's corpse while the siege wailed around them - that'd be a sight, something for the whispers to run rampant about. He could see how hairs would gray and mouths would hang agape; Leander Mordecai, more than bedding a strigoi, but marrying one too. It was his life to do with as he pleased and he chose to spend it with the Queensguard who'd sworn himself to him already.

"A better proposal? I'm cock-deep in blight, offering you a ring that's probably worth more than what these soldiers will see in a lifetime. What? You want me to get on my knees, that it? A fucking chorus of vestals?" Leander rolled his eyes, but his voice softened slightly, his shoulders relaxing a fraction. He stepped closer, invaded Agron's space with every inch of him drawn in a tightwire. "If you want tradition then we'll go to the Silverlands, find the oldest fucking tree there, and I'll bind my soul to yours the way the elvhen do."

Leander sealed his words with a fierce, demanding kiss, his hand gripping the back of Agron's neck, pulling him close. Within Leander's lionhearted chest there was a flame that burned, relentless and undying. It was Agron's burden to hold it now, forever. When he pulled away, his eyes burned with a blaze of emotions. Ferocity, aggression, passion - and something more. "Now let's finish this fucking fight."

[commander-diomika]

Whenever I can feel myself getting upset by something that is definitely because of The Autism (morning routine being interrupted, servo not having My Brand of ice coffee treaty-drink), I picture The tbh/autism creature huffing and whickering like a horse about to rear, and I, the gentle yet firm hand on their rein, rubbing their nose and feeding them pieces of apple until the potential-meltdown is averted.

[snekdood]

so uh

for 1. most people are gonna take advantage of black friday and wont see your specific niche tumblr post, I hate to say it

2. the us isnt running out of money for war any time soon, so...

3. this is just antisemitism???????? all we need is some (((echoes))) around the us and israel and then I'd have no reason to suspect otherwise from op...............

[cookiesandcantarella-art]

So I played gore x vigilant and to say I was distraught once act 3 started and terrified all through act 4 would be an understatement

[ID: digital painting modeled after pietro canonica’s the abyss. My Skyrim PC and modded follower Gore embrace each other tightly, both glaring at the camera with fierce expressions. Both are bloody and disheveled, lit by dramatic red lighting. End ID]

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

[cepheusgalaxy]

look guys i very strongly disagree with the "trans men hold privilege over trans women" point of view and i'm finally able to articulate why:

I think trans men don't hold privilege over trans women, because privilege is kind of a consistent thing.

Like, bear with me: I'm an abled person. I have privilege in relation to disabled people. Because, if me and a disabled person are in a Situation where this distinction is relevant in some way...I'm literally never gonna come out with the worst hand. Never. No matter what the situation is. This is a consistent fact.

Now, when we talk about different transgender identities, I think this gets more shady, because the "who has privilege in relation to who" is a relative statement. One example I saw of people explaining why in their view trans man have privilege over trans women is kind of like this: Imagine there are two passing and stealth trans people, a trans man and a trans woman, in a workplace. Then, it comes a coworker, being blatanly misogynist. Regardless of their views on trans people, in this situation, the trans woman is gonna get the worst of it, in relation to the trans man, because he will be viewed as a man.

It makes sense, and I don't think this hypothetical situation is inaccurate or anything, but I'd also like to point out why it doesn't work as a good point to why transmascs have privilege over transfems. Imagine we change about any variable in this situation. Let's say the trans woman is closeted as a guy, and the trans man is openly transgender. The misogynist coworker then would very much target the trans man in their points, especially if they are particularly transphobic. Now imagine both of them are out and openly trans, with the bonus that now both the man and the woman are gnc. Depending on other specifics, the misoginyst coworker might be bigoted to just one or both of them.

Like, do you see? In different situations, the different trans people have the worst hand. So that doesn't mean that because of the first case, trans men have it generally better. Because there are many kinds of trans men, and simply not all of them have privilege over trans women. In some cases, they might even have it worse precisely because they are trans man. So the privilege the trans man in the first example has is not a consistent thing over trans man! Maybe it's common, I don't know, but when we compare it with someone who has real privilege, like me, an abled person, I ain't ever encounter myself in a situation where I'm having it worse because I am abled in comparison to someone who is disabled.

That's why I think trans woman and trans men simply don't hold privilege over one another, simply because it varies. It depends on who the trans men and women are, it depends in what situation they are in, it depends on the people around them, it depends of so much!!! So saying that trans men have privilege over trans women sounds simply surreal!

I think that, also, the different patterns of the situations in which trans woman have it worse are important to be discussed, and that's why we have the word Transmisoginy, to discuss these issues pertinent to the nuanced oppression trans woman face (and on a similar note, that's why it's also important to have fucking words like Transmisogynoir, because a black trans woman's Situations will be different from a white trans woman's Situations and it's important to to recognize that). THAT's why I also think that we need words like Exorsexism and Transandrophobia, to identify the patterns of situations where trans men have it bad precisely because they are trans men and not something else or because nonbinary people have it bad precisely because they are nonbinary.

SO, in short, my opinion on the "trans man have it generally better than trans woman and that's why they have privilege" debate is that trans man don't generally have it better than trans woman, but some trans man in specific situations have it significantly better than trans woman and that in other situations trans woman have it significantly better than trans man and that is basically a case-to-case scenario and that's also why we need the specific words for different shapes and faces of transphobia to better understand these cases and why x happens with y at z situation. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[kirkwallguy]

idk if i feel this way because i love the gross blight stuff but they kinda put their whole pussy in davrin's story and then gave up on everyone else because they knew it couldnt live up. lucanis was interesting because the prison location looked cool but the second i saw him in normal lighting i realized he's just some guy

tbh ive heard that even aside from being kind of plain lucanis' romance is also the one with the least content which i DONT understand....did they not realise how crazy people would go for another crow romance or did they not realise what they'd made was bad.

but im a little bit :3 about davrin's romance being the most popular and apparently the best since he was my first choice... so far i actually haven't encountered anything special or crazy there's just SOO much fun chemistry between him and rook that idc about that

[leieryx]

Feeling Like Shit September Baby

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[motherforthefamicom]

finally got the new desk set up in my room and cleaned out my dresser nd closet (had barely touched anything in there for Literal Years cuz of how much of a mess they were). feels surreal

[flowering-darkness]

I think I might possibly be able to bring back some asks from my previous blog's inbox and answer them here

[seilon]

more and more it makes me kind of uncomfortable (for lack of a better/softer word) to call my own characters ‘ocs’. because like. they’re from a completely original universe and from completely original intertwined stories and all that. so why would i have to specify they’re original in the same way someone would when referring to a character they made for a pre-existing non-original universe/franchise/whatever? by that logic every fiction author ever would be referring to their characters as ocs rather than just. their characters. you know.

[stabbyfoxandrew]

i know you're not entirely happy with what you wrote, but i always love reading your writing no matter what

especially mafia au, i love how you characterize neil kevin and jean

TwT thank you anon i love writing these stupid silly assholes so much but man... i Struggle sometimes :'))

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Do bonds between pokemon and people have to be mage exclusive? I think Adaman deserves to have with bush cat/fox/dog with him and Irida has her ice cat/fox/dog bc They deserve it and Its kinda jarring to think of them without their companions

ok last thought before bed BUT. if adaman does have a bond with his plant cat, that would probably be a thing he points to as No Look No I Can Totally Do Magic Hahaha, i forged a bond with this thing after all! but that was actually a thing done by someone else (mai, maybe, or his predecessor as leader) and he's just pretending it was his own work.

...which also opens up questions about sabi, since she definitely couldn't have bonded with her partner before adaman was leader. maybe mai is the one doing all the soulbond magic, and the whole diamond clan group is just covering for their leader who really is really great! just uh, not in this one specific area.

regardless tho. re: the actual point of the ask lol, i think soulbonds should be more common with mages, but open to pretty much anyone. and the frequency with mages is probably more of a cultural/social thing than a physical one—traveling mages have more opportunities to run across magic fauna and befriend them, and have more reason to want a soulbond since the benefits it confers are probably partially magical. and the bonds also seem most useful in general to like, adventurers, and i think that group is predominantly made of mages. it's not uncommon to see like, your local gardener having some plant-fauna friends, but going to the trouble of soulbonding them is kind of a commitment that you need a reason for, y'know?