#Fun tho

[inbabylontheywept]

Want Better Things

“You thought that was a bioweapon?” 

The translator broke down for a second as the creature did a sort of broken exhale. Connotations were all that came through. Vague implications. Pity, the software flashed. Disgust. Anger.

A pause as it decided.  

Sadism. 

Valta was already backing away. The final decision didn’t change his behavior, it just made the hall feel far, far too short. 

“I didn’t order it deployed. I didn’t make it.” 

The thing was staring at him, and he couldn’t look away. The two eyes moved in such perfect tandem that he didn’t think it was conscious. It only had binocular vision because it only needed binocular vision. Always the predator, never the prey. 

And now it was moving in on him. 

“Oh, but what if you had? Then I could tell you all the things that were wrong with it.” 

One of its hands - a sprawling, five fingered  spindly thing - traced carelessly along the station's walls. 

“No incubation period. Symptoms arrive within 40 minutes of exposure. No time to spread undetected. Minimum should be one week. Embarrassingly low.” 

The pressure the thing was putting on the wall increased, the gentle glide turning into a buzzing scratch. Humans were strong, but not strong enough to cut through metal like this. The suit had to be powered and clawed. 

“Spread through contact. Limited waterborne. No airborne. Intended mechanism of infection is viral load being put on hands from scratching, and then passed into the environment. Pathetically inefficient.” 

The translator was working, but the thing was overeunounciating each word. The meaning was being passed along by a clean, helpful voice in his suit, even as the sound was being passed on through the environmental speakers. And the sound was dreadful - clicks of ceramized bone jarring against each other, wet muscles modulating air into something sharp and rasping. 

“Mechanism of death? Lysis overload. Could be dangerous if it was transmitted into the lungs, but since the initial load tends to be dermal all we wind up with-”

It took its helmet off. 

It took its helmet off. 

It took its helmet off it took its helmet off it took its helmet off in a biozone it - 

It looked a little pink, actually. A little scratchy. It lifted a delicate, taloned hand and rubbed its face against it for a moment before finishing. 

“-is a rash.”

Valta’s prey drive had glued him to the spot. It was too close. The stupid, stupid part of his brain that still thought he was grazing on Duranga hoped that if he stood still long enough, it might not notice him. 

The human paused a moment before continuing. 

“Do you know why they sent me? Alphonse Ericsen, PhD, MD, civilian doctor, here to speak with you?”

Valta’s snout twitched. The suit translated the gesture for him. 

“No.” 

“Because one of our grunts is a dumb fuck,” the human said simply. “And he spent two days fighting on your station with his helmet off. He got infected that way and brought back your stupid, itchy plague to our carrier ship, and now we’ve all spent the last 8 hours scratching ourselves raw. But the jokes on you, because when we were treating that guy you know what we found? That he was in the asymptomatic phase of a COVID infection. So if this-”

It gestured to its pink face with a snarl. 

“-is your idea of a bioweapon, then COVID is going to be your apocalypse. But if you work with me, and shut everything the fuck down for the next three or four months, I might be able to save most of you.” 

Valta unstuck at that. He’d spent weeks down here, worrying about nothing more than the next skirmish. Now he was looking at a genuine existential threat. 

“...What? Why would you help us? We wanted you to die. All of you. I wanted-”

The human cut him off with an exasperated wave of his hand. 

“You wanted something stupid. Doesn’t mean I have to join you. Best I can do to fix you is keep you alive and hope that you feel ashamed later. That, I genuinely look forward to. Now come on, you’re going to be the one explaining to all your friends what’s at stake here. My bedside manner is so bad that they limited my patients to virology slides and USMC marines. I think that’s actually one rung below the guys that just dissect cadavers.” 

Valta would’ve made an amused hum at that, but something already felt scratchy inside his throat. 

[niinnyu]

Bodies and Souls- part 2/2

(Part1)

A little explaination below

This is based of the theory that Yuuji's cursed technique is the ability to swap souls (therefore swapping bodies, hinted in chapter 222(?) when Yuuji and Kusakabe seemed to have done so while training).

Yuuji uses this to swap souls with Megumi to get him out of there, and takes control of Sukuna's body because his soul is stronger than Sukuna's body (shown in the story previously with Suguru taking over Kenjaku momentarily, and Toji taking over that Grandson dude's body when brought back, both in S2).

Just incase it didn't make sense the person in page 3 is Megumi in Yuuji's body after the swap and the second last one is yuuji's soul.

Oof I've had this theory literally since jjk222 but wasn't sure how it'd play out but now it clicked so I'm glad I was able to make this heh

[doodle17]

Tag two blokes who do fuck all

I was bored, had a mechanical pencil and freedom so here they be

[raeb33s-art]

Yay almost done

[sloaners]

I made a poor life choice and started playing genshin

[khalliys]

Pondering melancholy, a gouache study of Yasha

[housewifeswag2]

i made a housewifeswag community on here but idk what that means or how to use it 🤠

edit to add link: https://www.tumblr.com/communities/housewifeswag

[hulloitsdani]

Found family game night is highly competitive in the FEH household. People die. Careers are ended. Any action causes an equal and opposite *Anna Will Remember This. This a battle to the death and no one is safe.

[anonymous-bastard]

do u think gotham has bad urban planning?

- @underworlds-favourite

I'm not from Gotham & I'm not there a lot so I'm not super informed about the situation.

That being said, here are some pros and cons of Gotham Urban Planning.

I've started putting in cuts just because these are getting quite long.

Pros

The Wayne Foundation does a lot of good work, transforming the Urban Landscape into something better, getting affordable housing build, improving infrastructure, building third spaces, etc.

They are ridiculously good at rebuilding their cities, oftentimes improving it at the same time

In theory one of the best public transport networks in the country. In Praxis, it desperately needs more funding, modernization and it suffers from the frequent Arkham escapee attacks, same as the rest of the country. But it is still pretty good!

Gotham has less Urban sprawl than most American cities, and more high- and mid-rise buildings as opposed to just going straight to suburbs.

Decent rent prices for a city this size (more on that later)

Cons

The corruption in Gotham does not stop for Urban Planning. They don't hesitate to raze poor neighbourhoods into the ground for dick-measuring projects.

Bike and pedestrian infrastructure are still SO BAD in many areas of Gotham.

Compared to other cities, it's really lacking in terms of green spaces.

While housing prices are pretty great, the cheap housing is often complete and utter shit.

But as much as I hate to say it, Gotham's problems for the most part won't be solved through Urban Planning.

In general, a lot of the problems Gotham faces can't be solved with good urban planning. It can help mitigate symptoms, bad urban planning certainly can make things a lot worse...

[lastweekscoffee]

I'm gonna try watching this new show, I don't know if I'll like it though

*Watches the whole thing in two days*

[zachhh]

my introduction to the doom franchise & it's doom 3

[sapphosdickandballs]

Two can Play your game, friend. And I choose to play on a ground most familiar to you. Let me challenge you.

Red (TIHYLTTW). Blue (TIHYLTTW) (be mindful of spoilers ig). And for some others, because these will be rather short-

Masha (toh)

Janis (mean girls)

Signed,

Yours truly,

-kiekebe

Lmao okay

4 reference

Red-

I don’t like her as much as blue but I do think her letters are very like. They’re catching. I want to talk with her for hours and see what she has to say, what her mind spins up. She’s captivating.

Blue. Likewise for Blue, she gets shipped with Red. The only ship that matters. Purple ftw

Er. Are there even other characters lmao? There’s garden and commandant but screw both of them. Uhhhh idk. No answer for this one ig

I haven’t interacted with fandom much for TIHYLTTW but ig I’d say she should’ve known that Blue was gonna do what she did. I mean I knew it and I’m a dumb bitch. Like I feel like she should’ve expected that. Maybe she did cause she wrote the letter but clearly not enough to do anything about it. Tho what would she have done? Idk.

Literally cannot answer this one publicly if you want me to avoid spoilers lmao o7

Blue -

She’s so eiaijosoekskfkwj got me barking like a dog istg. That’s. Yeah. Need her to say some of the things she says to red to me cause like damn. Lemme think w my head for a second tho uh I do think she’s simultaneously a dumbass for what she did and also very brave. Very thin line between stupid and brave I fear.

Okay onto the ones I can actually talk ab in detail

Masha -

Fantastic character who was ROBBED. They deserved an hour more scenes and a spin off cause they were ROBBED. I think they’re great I also think if you make a character nonbinary I automatically love them (blowing kisses at raine)

Vee! Veesha is the goat absolutely.

I feel like them and luz would’ve gotten along great. I can’t remember, did they really interact much? I don’t think so. So I’m going off vibes

I feel like they recognized vee when they saw her come in to the shop they just didn’t say anything. Basing this off vibes and nothing else (or maybe I saw a mark comic about it)

Veesha, ofc. Want it to be canon, wanted a season just about them, etc. Fuck Disney

Janis (2004 one)

Hooboy. Okay guys. Pls don’t hurt me 4 this one. I’m not a big fan of her in the 2004 movie. I really think she’s a dick. Which everyone knows. But I think she also doesn’t really redeem herself in my eyes? Like idk I just wasn’t a big fan. Is she an icon? Yes. Do I like her? No

Literally her and Regina I fear. They can be toxic together ❤️

Her and Damian are incredible he makes her more likeable 4 sure (ily king)

I don’t ship her and cady. I just don’t see it idk why. Also the aforementioned dislike of her

Consequences for her fucking actions

[meduseld]

Right so. On Templar Werewolves.

First, a prelude. Lycanthropy is essentially an infection that can go well (makes you a werewolf that can shift shapes at will (well, after practice/time/depending on natural aptitude) but they are compelled to shift under the full moon. IF you have a lot of time/practice and a LOT of will you might manage to not do it for a portion of the night or all of it, but you will feel like you got hit by a truck. They do have an idea of having a "wolf" as opposed to themselves but it's not a wholly separate entity that takes over, it's like the baser/instinctual form. Think of it like a fork in a tree: it is one trunk/entity but a sort of splitting off. The more time/practice/work you put into it the more you are in tune and feel more like one. Beyond those types of environmental factors, others influence your wolf. It's more like hulking man with wolf head/fur/ability to run on two or all fours claws/fangs etc than traditional wolf. But if you get turned in like the depth of winter you're a bulkier furrier wide pawed Artic wolf type, if in the desert a light sand colored coat etc.

So basically someone got bit but had the mentality for it (instead of treating it like a traumatic event they chose to see it as a gift from god to fight evil/a blessing etc. Might be faith, might be autism. You decide) and like the correct physical constitution that it worked out. That person founded the whole Holy Wolf Order thing, which takes on initiates and the decides who is worth putting through the bite trial. Now, they are kind of accidentally proving themselves right about this being a good and righteous thing because delivering the bite in a controlled, clean environment with a mentally and physically prepared person does in fact lead to better outcomes of the infection and the biter is like. Experienced so unlikely to go into a blood frenzy and maul the candidate. Add to the fact that they have a sort of feeling about who would be a good fit (picking up on biomarkers in scent etc) they are in fact picking candidates that are likelier to take for genetic reasons and such they just don't know that. They are praying on it in their mind and getting the nod from God. They are also guaranteeing an existing and stable pack bond with enough hierarchy from the human church/military side that they don't get pulled into power struggles. They are also all male bc they self select, women of course can and do get lycanthropy and can handle it but they are an Order, so.

So with that in mind, these are my Templar Wolf Bros

The Hardcore Believer, unnamed yet, who looks like Mr. Bullface Himself Sergio Peris-Mencheta. I might name him Paris just for the bit. But anyway he is the current Captain guy, not the top of the order but really well ranked, probs their best sword/proven battlefield commander atm. Taken in by the order very young as his family/village were taken out by the sort of ghouls/demons/vampires/"bad" werewolves the order hunts. He has deep true faith and prepared/prayed for this since he was a child. Thus he is very, very skilled at controlling his wolf, extremely in tune. Unfortunately makes him very inflexible, a bit of a zealot, and he has trouble helping people who aren't as naturally apt for it as he is because *he* never struggled so he can't relate. Has, of course, a messy and complicated relationship with the Anakin who is dead but haunting the narrative and him, specifically.

The Anakin. You knew this was coming. Grew up in the order with Guy 1, but never really bought into the teachings or vows they took, wanted power and a family pack, so he split off and began biting willy-nilly to make his own army/pack and more brutal hierarchy. As you can imagine, this was considered both treason and blasphemy and they were exterminated with extreme prejudice. He was also a well sized dark furred almost pretty wolf that looked like a twin to Believer's wolf, so woe and angst over that too. They were turned at the same time by the same wolf, too. There is a bond generated through that, generally, and they were lowkey obsessed with each other so. It's still an open wound.

Mr. I Don't Want to be Here (and his brother) is one of the few survivors of Anakin's doomed army of lunatics (do you get it?) since most of them went crazy over being brutally attacked and forced into lycanthropy and servitude. Mr. I did not want this and hates it, so he has a very hard time dealing and reconciling HOWEVER he was able to keep his sanity for his little brother, who was his only family and biggest responsibility in life and that kept his head. They are some kind of minority/oppressed group in this setting so there are extra levels, and he is not About True Believer's brand of fanaticism/faith. That being said, the reason they lived is his brother was badly hurt in the assault and Mr. I was ready to die to defend him, but instead of just setting the pack on them, Believer shifted back to human skin at great risk to himself in what was still a mostly active combat zone, recognizing his rationality and said if he stood down/shifted they would be spared. The religious justification here being that they were Deceived and were offered clemency/mercy to repent and join the fold. The brothers are among the few that took them up on it/actually stuck to it instead of trying a mini coup and getting killed. Protecting their brother is about the only thing he and his wolf agree on since he is at odds with himself. Able to do some really hard stuff like shit back when surrounded against instinct but has trouble with things the others consider basic like tapping into enhanced senses in human form. His brother is easy-going, blithe and fairly submissive in a pack sense so he is vibing and actually deeply enjoying this and their abrupt rise in a social sense. Which generates tension. They're one big mean slavering wolf (elder brother) and a smaller, swifter greyhound type (younger brother). That leads us to two other guys.

Records Guy: Imagine a giant, book loving nerd, now imagine he's a monk from the time they just like. Copied and illustrated manuscripts. Now imagine he has been doing this for the magical knowledge of the church and meticulously keeping wolf bloodline records. That's this guy. Young, sweet, excitable, deeply knowledgeable, terrible at reading the room. Never *meant* to be a wolf, he was part of the monk support crew/magical relics guarding sister Order, but fell terribly sick and his Abbott asked for his turning to safeguard his incredible mind/recall. Stoked to be here! Ascended fanboy! Delicate wolf! Naturally very close friends with Younger Brother.

The Weird One. So this guy does have a visual, it's basically Daemon Targaryen only he has Matt Smith's mohawk braid from shooting Caught Stealing (the braid, not the actual mohawk). His wolf looks like a sickly, washed out, grey, fucked up Maned wolf [yes I know they aren't "true wolves" shut up, just leggy and weirdly proportioned and such]. Kind of a loner even in the pack structure, excellent scout, voice of reason, truth teller, math lover and supplies genius. Functions as a steward/seneschal/Believer's accidental right hand. Doesn't like chitchat. Thus he spends as much time as he can in the basement/lower level/cave like basement alone as he can, second most in tune with his wolf but like in the opposite direction. Believer makes a Man of his Wolf. Weird is the Wolf made Man. Mr. I starts spending time with him/hiding in his personal lair bc he can sense this guy also does not buy into this higher calling bullshit/does not seem to Love This Shit like they all do. Eventually Weird reveals he Also Did Not Want Or Ask For this. He was a normal officer mostly at the rear with the gear when his group was attacked and decimated by demons and he lived (barely) and was laying dying when the wolves came upon them. They decided to bite him for information/mercy on the premise that if God let him live and take the bite he was Meant to Be Among them. Hilariously it was Anakin like fuck it bite him, it's like. God's call, no? But he isn't Mr. I's bite brother bc Anakin did not actually do the biting. Mom did. It worked, they got revenge, but now he's stuck here.

The Guy Who Has Been Here Forever, aka Mom. Played by Mark Bonnar with his dashing white hair and normal Scottish accent. His wolf is like invitingly Fluffy and Round and Warm looking. The longest serving in the order of all of them, extremely even tempered, calm, and not power jockeying for a wolf. Very, very good at being the one to deliver the bite, but like Weird quite uninterested in taking power for himself. Turned Believer, Anakin and Weird, loves them like his own children, more maternal in attitude than paternal, has a complicated relationship with God and belief, especially after so long and so many loved ones lost, but loyal to the Order and its Principles itself, and these boys that he loves. The only one to openly speak about grieving Anakin and his loss and trying to get Believer through it. Weird never liked or got along with Anakin, shrugs off his attempts to mother him. The others eat that shit up with a spoon though.

[sparklyoats]

Just realised Charlie is almost 1. I remember you telling us about that one hookup you had during NY celebrations 🥹 wow! Time flies. He is so precious. Bless his lil heart ❤️ give him cuddles from my side. I bet he is a cuddle friendly baby

Time really does fly! Its crazy🥹 honestly its been the longest but quickest year of my life idk how to explain hahah but truly i made the right decision, no doubt about that🙏🏻 we are celebrating my mom today (its her birthday🥳), and next friday its lil man (aka Charlie) 😍 neither my mom or i realised until this week that their birthdays was so close hahahha wild

[themosthatedbeingg]

He’s crawling from his mounds of paperwork .. he did it .. it’s done .. he did his work he’s going to go die now and he deserves some damn BoBa tea !!.

[hugsohugs]

I BEAT STARS AND TIME!!!!!! holy FUCK that was long