#I annihilated that cube

[delphiniumarchangelmoon]

Unfortunately I don’t have bunny anxiety I have horse anxiety it’s exactly the same except k cause mass amounts of property damage and injure people whenever I am scared (which is most of the time)

"you have an anxiety disorder" it's actually called being a bunny and it is perfectly normal and healthy for me to be like This !!

[memo-blogs]

THIRTEEN HORROR FILMS THAT SCARED TF OUT OF ME Grave Encounters

Alien (1979)

A Quiet Place

28 Days Later

Midsommar

Annihilation

Don't Breathe

Barbarian

Antlers

Train to Busan

Cube (1997)

Evil Dead

Mama

Feel free to list your own!

[gayhoediaz]

nieeeee. i literally cannot stop thinking about of solace and amelioration. like. i've read it three times and i always skip to the end and cry because buck and tommy are. so full of love for each other, it literally makes me Ache. and. the little details you wove in there about tommy's backstory? just.. annihilate me. do you have any more tommy/bucktommy headcanons to share pls 🤲🏾🥺

jaaaack my loveee 🥺🥺🥺 yess of course anything for you!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

tommy spent a lot of time alone growing up so he can solve a rubik’s cube in like absolute record time. for some reason buck finds this just… so hot. he loves it when his man is capable and confident. (and he loves his hands.)

tommy doesn’t necessarily mind being alone because he is so used to it - spending christmas alone, watching love actually and cooking just for himself doesn’t make him sad. he’s certainly not someone who feels sorry for himself. but when he does have people around him? oh god he loves it so much. he loves taking care of people he loves loving people and he loves it when he gets the same right back.

buck is not a huge fan of muay thai either but he still learns a little bit - mostly because he likes seeing tommy all hot and sweaty (and capable) in as many situations as possible (and yes it always ends in sex, in fact i think eventually “muay thai” stops meaning muay thai altogether. it’s just code for dicking each other down.)

buck loves running his fingers through tommy’s hair and tommy loves it when he does it. after a bad day, he’ll just walk in through the door and drop himself on the couch with his head in buck’s lap.

a few years ago tommy went to the animal shelter to maybe get a cat cause he was a little lonely, but he came home with an irish wolfhound and he named her keira because bonus hc: keira knightley is his favorite actress. (buck and keira take to each other immediately, and since buck does more cardio than tommy, he takes up a habit of running with her whenever he has time - usually in the morning, dropping a kiss to a half-asleep tommy’s temple as he tells him he’ll be back in a bit.)

tommy loves buck’s ass (what he sees, i don’t know, there is literally nothing there) but by the time they’ve been together for a few months, he’s comfortable enough to stop holding back, and he’ll just fucking live down there. often it’s sexual but sometimes it’s also not - sometimes they’re having a sick or lazy day, watching the tv in tommy’s bedroom, and buck is fully dressed in sweatpants and a hoodie, and he always ends up on his stomach so tommy can use his non-existent ass as a pillow.

they shut keira out of the room when they fuck, but when they’re done they always let her back in to sleep in bed and she takes up 85% of the space but that’s okay ❤️

tommy meditates and buck tries too but his brain moves too quickly it doesn’t really work for him. when meditation doesn’t work for tommy either - he smokes. it’s a terrible habit left over from rebellious teenage years and stressful time in the closet, and he’s done a good job kicking it, but sometimes buck kisses him, and he can smell it on his breath and he just. sighs. and runs a hand through his hair and asks if he wants to talk abt it.

the longer they’re together the more “cracks” start to show in tommy, i think he’s a lot better at hiding it than buck is - but he struggles not only with ptsd, but with depression and anxiety and he has worked on himself and continues to do so, but he still keeps a lot of that stuff to himself - it takes a while but when buck starts opening up more, tommy slowly starts to do the same, and evan is the first person he feels he can truly rely on and trust, and he’s never really had that before, never felt as if he can be all of himself with someone - not like this.

tommy is plant dad. he has so many plants and he takes such good care of them, and of course, since buck loves learning things, it quickly becomes a shared hobby. their monstera is their pride and joy.

tommy drinks his coffee with so many extra shots of espresso that buck usually makes a little bit of a face when he kisses him right afterwards.

tommy has a lot of small skills he’s kinda good at but not really but kind of (usually, again, born out of boredom and/or loneliness) painting, baking bread, playing the harmonica. he knows how to do these things, but whether or not his own results will be great is… a toss up. however combined with buck’s love of learning and adhd brain, they learn a lot more small skills together. kind of. for a while. until they drop it and move onto the next thing.

tommy is really good at playing the guitar and the first morning buck wakes up in his bed, he asks him about it, and he plays for him. until buck wrestles it out of his hands and puts it to the side because his boyfriend is even hotter now and he needs to get dicked down again thanks. (when they’re done, buck asks tommy to teach him and they end up doing the classic “hands over hands” move and it’s very cute but tommy keeps pressing soft little kisses to bucks shoulder and telling him he’s doing so good and it’s hngggggg… very distracting.)

tommy used to be on the swim team in high school.

tommy is indeed abby’s tommy cause i think it’s funny. it throws them both off a little bit but then tommy says something so smooth that buck forgets all about it. it doesn’t matter. they are each other’s now, fuck her. (i think tommy ended things w her amicably probably cause he was figuring out he’s gay and doesn’t have any negative nor positive feelings abt her, but when buck eventually tells him how she ended (or didn’t) things w him, tommy decides that he does have decidedly negative feelings about her actually.)

[acn97414]

Some doodles

Corrupted Squares

Annihilate ver. and TIO ver. Cube

A new AU of Square (it's a tyrant) However I need to update my clothing library lmao

[desceros]

Can you do a Bay!TMNT X reader that doesn't have an accent normally but when they get upset that shit just appears outta thin air and they can barely understand them? Thank you!!

egads, something has upset the dear sweetheart. :)

tmnt x reader; i say fuck but otherwise it's G, GN!Reader

Leonardo

immediately, he’s focusing in on the fact that you’re upset. whichever brother is closest is on call to handle that issue while he takes care of you. big bug? donnie, annihilate. scary dude? raph, if you please. bad news? mikey, go into the kitchen and bring that box of cookies we all pretend not to know we’re dipping into.

once he’s got The Issue under control, he goes to you to check and make sure you’re okay. before he’s even talking to you, his eyes are going head to toe to make sure you’re fine. only then does he ask.

leo: what happened you: [fdalsjflksjflsakjfas] leo: …………what

he’s so, so patient about not knowing what the fuck you’re saying. gently, he’ll put his hands on your shoulders, pulling you a little close, blocking everything else out, giving you a safe bubble, softly murmuring your name until he has your attention.

“breathe. match with me,” he’ll say, taking one of your hands and pressing your palm to his plastron so you can feel his lungs work. in, out. in, out. in, out. as many times as it takes before you’re calm again. 

“okay?” he’ll wait for you to nod, or give him some indication you’re good to go now. then he’ll find out what upset you, if it wasn’t already obvious, and transition to fixing it mode.

later, while meditating, now that the scary moment has passed, he’ll think it’s kind of cute—only to immediately get annoyed with himself, because no, it’s a problem, what if something seriously wrong happens and he can’t communicate? ok but it is kinda cute he makes a mental note to work with you so he can understand you in case of emergency in the future.

Donatello

the second donnie sees that you’re anything other than sparkling with joy, he has a split second of what do what do before the boy is on it. he’s in your space, cupping your jaw, making sure it’s not something physical that’s the problem.

donnie: what happened?! are you okay? you: [ladjflaskjfklasjf]!! donnie: …huh. ok. not exactly helpful.

still, donnie knows the value of a good ramble. once he’s sure you’re not hurt, he just cups your nape with one hand and lets you talk. does he understand a word you’re saying? nope. does he care? nope. he’ll let you work out the whole thing in gibberish first, get all the hyper-aroused emotion out of your system, and once you’re calmed down enough to where you can speak normally again, then he’ll get the details.

sliding his thumb to your pulse to make sure it’s at a normal level again, he’ll ask once you calm down. “okay, that’s better. now, what happened?” 

if something’s spooked you, he takes care of it. (bug? annihilated.) if someone scared you, he takes care of it. (bad dude? he looks at raph, who just grins a little ferally and handles it).  if it’s bad news or something of that ilk, he pulls you into a hug and slowly rubs your back, keeping you pressed against his plastron so you can focus on the feel of his scutes instead of your problems.

later, in his lab, he’ll be sitting at his desk fiddling with a rubix cube, not really solving it, just sitting there burning bc oh, it was so cute, oh it was so cute, you’re so cute and he’s kind of dying a little just thinking about all the ways that you’ve completely, irrevocably charmed him

Raphael

oh. so someone has decided to die today. 

raph sees you’re upset and the first thing he does is check and see if someone else is involved. if yes, they’re about to have a bad day. he’s got pointy weapons and a short fuse, and you’re a hot-button issue on top of that.

if you’re alone, he grabs you and tosses you over his shoulder to get you somewhere private so you can let it all out. he hates showing weakness to his brothers and he won’t make you do it, either. his sweetheart gets privacy for their meltdowns. once he drops you, that’s when he asks.

raph: the hell happened? you: [fdlsafjlsakjflsa]— raph: whoa, whoa, i ain’t catchin’ what you’re sayin’. start over. you: [fdljsafklasjflkasjf]!! raph: ……nope.

the poor guy has no idea what to do, so he tries to think about what he can do to get you calmed down enough to make some sense. you enjoy sitting in his lap on movie nights, so he sits on the nearest surface and plops you in place, rubbing his hands down your arms like he knows you like. 

“give it a minute, then try again,” he says, probably a little too rough to be considered gentle for most. still, it’s sweet, for him, and he’ll keep up the pets until you’re calm again and can actually explain.

bug is squished. bad guy has found god. if it’s bad news, he keeps petting you, letting you take from him what you need. if it’s his, it’s yours. 

later, he’ll be lying in bed with a pillow over his head, so fuckin’ mad bc you’re so cute and it’s so annoying how easily you get under his skin. 

Michelangelo

first thing mikey does is grab your biceps, getting your attention immediately.

mikey: what’s wrong?! what’s wrong?! you: [orijdklsjfsa]! mikey: …aw, nuts. DONNIE. LEO. help?!

after his brothers tell him that no, they can’t understand you either, he groans and squishes your cheeks with his palms. 

“babe, i know you’re freaking out right now, but it’s gonna be okay, okay? now you gotta start making some sense or else i’m gonna start freaking out, and we really probably both shouldn’t be freaking out at the same time.” 

behind where mikey is doing a stellar job of absolutely not solving anything, leo and donnie take care of the issue, if there is one. bug is squished. bad guy is informed of his need for life insurance. leo slaps a hand on mikey’s shoulder, then the two of them leave, bc they know you’re in good hands. 

(you are in the finest of hands)

despite not knowing how to fix, he knows how to help. he pulls you close and smooches you all over your face, loud smacking kisses that either annoy you into being distracted from what’s bothering you, or that make you laugh bc he’s such an idiot how could he possibly think this would work. (and yet it works.)

only when you put your hand in his face to push him away does he stop, sending you a sunshine grin that acts as a tether for you to become stable again. grabbing your hand, he invites you to tell him what was the problem, twining your fingers together and keeping you calm. 

later he’ll be thinking about your exasperated face when he couldn’t understand you and laugh until his stomach hurts bc you’re so, so adorable and he is so, so glad that you’re in his life and his. 

[em-harlsnow]

I wanted to do another speed write, so here it is.

They're sitting in the living room, and for once they're all together.

Together, except not, because each of them is off in their own bubble and it feels like when they were kids. When they could just be around each other without reason or need to talk or have a purpose to be there for.

Ian and Mickey are beside each other on the couch, watching something from Ian's phone. Debbie absentmindedly braids Franny's hair as she watches some documentary which is playing. Carl is playing a seemingly very intense game of draughts with Lip across the living room table. Liam pours over his homework on the other end. Tami is messaging one of her coworkers in the armchair.

The only one missing is Fiona, and the loss is acute but bearable.

Lip cheers as he manoeuvres his piece to take three of Carl's at once. Carl huffs and rolls his eyes, clearly losing but choosing to continue playing anyway.

It's then that Liam closes his maths book and opens up his backpack, placing the completed homework inside and pulling out a coloured cube.

"Lip." Liam states, tiredly.

"Mhm." He's focussed on the board, trying to absolutely annihilate his brother.

"Can you solve this?" He asks, holding up the Rubik's cube in one hand, staring at it like an enemy.

Lip turns and looks at it, frowning. "No. Why?"

Liam sighs. "If I can bring it in solved my teacher said she'd give me extra credit. We all got one."

"Just move the stickers around." Lip advises.

"I already thought of that. It doesn't have stickers, the colours are just on each piece. It's a fancy one."

"Liam, your teacher's scamming you. Those things are impossible. The only people who can solve them are magicians or just really lucky." Lip tells him.

"They're not impossible." Mickey snarks, rolling his eyes. "Give it here." He makes a gesture at Liam.

"Why?" The boy asks skeptically.

"I can solve it." He explains, like it's obvious.

"Really, Mick?" Lip says with a voice full of doubt.

"Yes, asshole. Now hand it over."

Lip raises his eyebrows but Liam tosses it to Mickey.

"You can solve a Rubik's cube?" Ian questions.

"Yes." Mickey replies as he starts shifting the sides and the middles, turning it around in his palms to figure out the patterns. His tongue pokes out of his cheek as he focusses. "It's been a while, I'm rusty. So it might take a minute."

Lip snorts. "Just admit it's impossible."

"Shut the fuck up, dick."

The rest of the room goes back to their own devices, momentarily entertained by the conversation but ultimately disinterested. Only Ian continues to watch as Mickey plays around with the colours, slowly building the cube to completion. Even Liam turns away, choosing to start on his English homework instead of watching something he doesn't think will yield results.

It's clear no one thinks he'll actually be able to do it.

Ten minutes of clicking pieces ensue, and Ian returns to his phone.

After another ten minutes, the cube is slammed onto the table, six perfectly neat and completed sides displayed clearly.

Ian glances up to see it, and has to double take. Lip looks stunned, and Liam looks at the cube like it's his greatest enemy.

"Woah." Carl states.

"How did you do that?" The youngest Gallagher rages. "I've been trying all day!"

"I learnt ages ago. Found one of 'em in the back of a car we stole. Got bored and used YouTube to learn it. I could probably do it in less time now that I've figured it out again." Mickey shrugs, and Ian looks fucking awed.

"There's no fucking way you just solved that. You didn't mix it right, Liam. I'll make it really messed up, then I bet he can't." Lip challenges, messing up the solved puzzle again.

Mickey shrugs again. "It ain't about how 'hard' you make it, Phillip. It's a system."

Lip ignores him, then presents him with a thoroughly scrambled product a few moments later.

"Solve that." He says, smugly.

"Easy, bitch." Mickey smirks, then starts again.

Ian watches with extreme interest, this time and the rest of the Gallaghers are just as transfixed.

He completes the white side first, slowly building the red, green, blue and orange, then working on the yellow. At a point, it looks almost done, only the yellow corners are out of place. Then, Mickey messes it all up.

"Don't do that!" Ian shouts. "You're messing it up again."

Mickey's attention never leaves the coloured squares. "Fuck off, I know what I'm doing." And he keeps turning the faces until suddenly it all comes together again. "See, Lip. Doesn't fucking matter."

Lip looks horrified. "There's no way."

"That's cool, Mickey." Debbie chirps, grinning at Lip's reaction.

"That's so cool." Carl's eyes are sparkling. "Even Lip isn't smart enough to do that."

"Shut up, Carl." Lip rolls his eyes, kicking at his brother playfully. "It's a kids game."

"Yeah, a kids game you can't do." And then the two are tussling light heartedly.

But Ian's attention is completely on Mickey, who seems absolutely calm about the whole thing.

Later on, they're lying in bed together and Ian won't stop staring at him.

"I can feel you looking at me, man. What's up with you?" Mickey asks, thoroughly unimpressed.

"Solve it again." Ian orders without explaining, extracting Liam's (again messed up) cube from the nightstand to his husband.

"Why? You don't believe I can do it?" Mickey counters, prepared to prove him wrong.

"No, I think you can. But-" Ian leans in to whisper into his ear, "-I wanna see you do it again."

Mickey raises his eyebrows. "Coloured squares turn you on, Gallagher?"

"Mmm. Hot husbands who know how to solve the coloured squares turn me on." Ian grins down at him salaciously.

Mickey laughs and Ian shoves at his hands where they're clutched around the cube.

"I'll suck you off while you do it." Ian tells him, moving down his body.

"I like the sound of that." Mickey drawls and starts moving the pieces hurriedly.

Ian smiles.

Okay, I don't know what happened to this, it wasn't meant to get smutty but my brain went to kink and I obey my brain.

Either way, I hope you enjoyed.

This may or may not have anything to do with how proud I am that I can solve a Rubik's cube.

[junlordofeggs]

CW: Machine and Human gore Someone suggested an Annihilate form for Cube so I drew Trist if he were Annihilate'ed.

Is he laughing? Crying? Screaming? All three at once? Regardless, please, I beg someone to put him out of his misery.

[melishade]

Attack on Prime New Age Anthology: The Discussion

Main Story

Explanation

Nightmares

Hospital

Wheeljack and Bumblebee are in a bit of trouble right now.

"Wheeljack," Ultra Magnus began, staring at the Wrecker with contempt and concern. Meanwhile, the Wrecker was seated upright in a chair, his wounds almost healed for the most part. He merely stared at the Commander with a neutral expression.

All the Autobots were in the interrogation room aboard the Nemesis, Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack being in the spotlight. Bumblebee couldn't help but shuffle nervously next to a stack of energon cubes. Ratchet stood behind Ultra Magnus, glaring at Wheeljack. Bulkhead looked at his friend with concern from Ultra Magnus' left while Knockout just examined the edges of his claws against the wall.

"Well hello to you too," Wheeljack teased.

Ultra Magnus sighed. "Listen, I am grateful to see that you are alive and well."

"There's a but," Wheeljack assumed.

"That does not excuse what you did!" Ultra Magnus emphasized, "Wheeljack, you assisted Megatron! At the behest of a human! That is treason! Have you lost your senses?!"

"Did you report it?" Wheeljack asked.

"No-!"

"Then it's not an issue," Wheeljack proclaimed.

"The council is aware of both Optimus and Megatron's status," Ultra Magnus informed, "They might question why Megatron is even alive in the first place given his condition."

Wheeljack couldn't help but roll his optics. "Aren't you looking to have him alive in order to stand trial?"

"Many would want him dead," Ratchet seethed.

"Wheeljack, I know that you have always acted recklessly, but I've accepted it was for the cause and for your comrades," Ultra Magnus began, "But this is beyond my own comprehension."

Wheeljack placed his arm over the back of the car. "I don't know what else to tell you. This planet...it changed him. Megatron is not the same guy that he used to be."

Ratchet scoffed. "Please!"

"Doc, I don't like lyin' too much," Wheeljack told him, "And I wouldn't be lying about this. Megatron's not the same. He helped save humanity from annihilation."

"I don't know. Megatron's done that before with Earth, but he only wanted to save it so he could rule it himself," Bulkhead retorted.

"When's the last time you heard of anyone defending him?" Wheeljack reminded, "Because humans, bugs, were willing to come to his defense and beg us to save his life!"

"That's still-!"

"I've heard that two openly came to his defense: Armin and Erwin," Wheeljack listed, "Erwin: the human I built the cybernetic arm for, has been working with Buckethead for years, willingly to help protect the island. They worked together to stop the sabotage of the military."

"Wheeljack has a point," Knockout dryly commented, "Soundwave would probably be the only Decepticon that would come to Megatron's aid or defense willingly. For everyone else, it was out of fear and obligation to serve him."

"Also, why the frag aren't you on Bumblebee's aft? He helped Megatron too." Wheeljack pointed at Bumblebee.

"That's a good point," Bulkhead agreed with Wheeljack, "Bee, he killed you. Why would you help Wheeljack get him help?"

Bumblebee noticed all optics were on him and sighed. "That human....Armin...he begged me to save him. And Megatron has every need and want to kill me, but...he saved me. Megatron saved me from getting killed by Eren. Megatron in the past would have let me die! I-!" Bumblebee rubbed his optics. "Scrap. I don't even know."

"How many people did Buckethead save?" Wheeljack asked Ultra Magnus, "We have Bumblebee, the humans helping stop the Rumbling, humans in the crossfire of the Rumbling. Megatron's sticking his neck cables out for humans with no incentives, and for the Bot who killed him."

"Are we forgetting what Megatron has done and what he's capable of?!" Ratchet exclaimed, "And you're insinuating that after four years, Megatron has somehow managed to become a decent person! Someone like Megatron cannot change! Especially in that short amount of time!"

"Well this planet made him change," Wheeljack retorted, "It made Optimus change too. Both of them are completely different. You ever seen Optimus emote and act flustered?!" Wheeljack raised his servo. "I have! You ever see Megatron have an emotional breakdown that causes him to flee to the moon!" Wheeljack raised his servo even higher. "I have!"

"We would need to also ask Arcee for her account, but she is currently recovering from her injuries," Ultra Magnus recalled, "We would also need to interrogate those humans that have interacted with Megatron and Optimus to get the full story. Where are they located?"

"They're most likely on Earth getting quarantined with our gaggle of humans," Knockout answered, "Jack will probably send over the information he's collected once he has the chance."

Ultra Magnus sighed before turning his attention back to Wheeljack. "Wheeljack, what you are proclaiming is unprecedented, but can you say with absolute certainty that there has been a change in Megatron's character?"

"Yes," Wheeljack answered automatically.

Ultra Magnus' mouth formed a thin line.

"Ultra Magnus, we can't be considering fairness to Megatron!" Ratchet reasoned, "We should be putting him on trial! Have him executed-!"

"Not going to be that easy now," Wheeljack proclaimed.

"What are you talking about?" Bumblebee asked.

"The humans on this planet, at least the ones he's aligned with, aren't going to let you take him that easy. I can guarantee that," Wheeljack explained, "They'll find legalities. Loopholes. Scrap, they will snitch on you to Optimus once they have the chance, and from the looks of it, Optimus and Megatron reconciled."

The Autobots were stunned at Wheeljack's proclamation, but he continued. "If you guys want Megatron, you're going to have to fight for him."

(Next part of the anthology will be cutting back to the humans. Jack, Miko, and Raf will get their tech back and they all are going to get to know each other a little better.)

[nyazhis-jsablr]

BotB - C1 Voting Period!

“Welcome back to the Battle of the Blixers! A very merry Christmas to everyone, by the way!”

“With that said, it seems everyone successfully submitted an entry to the first contest and successfully demolished all their dummies! Although it was mostly through lasers, it was still a spectacle to watch them all demolish their worst enemy! … wait what’s that? … most of them were in good terms with their cubes? … ……oh. i shouldve made it their cyans”

“Anyways, time for the voting period to begin!”

Click to view each Blixer’s entry, then vote for your favorite one!

Blixer (blixersupremacy)

Valekyr

Blixer Kunzite

Blixel

Blixter (starwlf)

Blixer Eclipses

Blixter (zim-card)

Corruptix

Blixer (the-corrupt-matrix)

Moxir

@blixersupremacy @anonymously-night @woahtriangle @fim-and-echo-co @starwlf @jsabaddict @zim-card @robotwithanr @thecorruptmatrix @appri-dot

(ps: to you guys yall can share/reblog but pls dont tell ur followers to vote for you cuz it might rig the votes TnT)

[thevanillerose]

MEMORY | 9S x 2B | NIER:AUTOMATA

~ WRITING COMMISSIONS ~ ~ PATREON ~ ~ KO-FI ~ ~ NOVELS ~

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I do not own anything except my own writing. All properties belong to their respective creators.

“The black box...it's ready.”

How did things come to this? 2B looked up at her silver-haired companion, whose artificial face was already littered with crude nicks and slight smears of black oil. The air was damp, carrying with it the smell of the sea that surrounded them.

And it wasn't the only thing that surrounded them. On all sides, great mechanical beasts stood. Rusty, giant, sentient oil rigs. Goliaths They had been sent to track down one. They had been confronted by four. Three now remained, steadily walking closer, shifting slowly through the grey waves below in order to reach them and growling as they did so.

This is it. She took a breath. There was no other way out of this besides doing what 9S had just suggested. If they detonated their black boxes then the Goliaths would get caught up in the blast, and they would be destroyed too. Technically...their mission would be a success.

However... However, it was unlikely that they themselves would survive. Impossible actually. They would be at the heart of it when it happened. If the blast had enough of a radius to annihilate the massive robots around them, then it would completely obliterate that which was right next to it. And that would be...the two of them.

Death was an interesting concept to consider. For androids it was different of course. Not only did they lack the same emotions and considerations that humans had, but they also had a back up. Literally. Their memories, their bodies, all of it could be restored if necessary, provided it had been prepared in advance. Which it had been.

If they 'died' here, they'd just come back again up at The Bunker. Really, it was nothing. But still...

Grunting, and letting out a strained cough which he stealthily covered with one slightly shaking, black gloved hand, 9S held his box up with the other. “...Right.” 2B brought forth her own.

“Requesting...destruction of enemy hostiles via black-box-” 9S stopped. He didn't finish his sentence. Something made him stop. Something made him choke. “9S?” 2B questioned, a little 'panic' rising in her throat. Looking around quickly she could see that those malevolent robots were only drawing closer and closer. “-We don't have much time.” she stressed, though kept her voice level. Shouting, worrying...it would be wasted effort in a scenario like this.

“I...I know.” 9S tried to speak again, but he was unable. “Initiate...re...”

“9S...”

Why am I hesitating? I should have been prepared for this. The male android gripped the slightly textured cube even tighter in his hand. He'd taken the necessary precautions. What was most important was that 2B's own memories were backed up. Sure, she'd be wiped out down here, but up there she'd come back and it would practically be like nothing happened. She'd miss a few minutes at worst. However, in his case it wasn't quite the same.

Sure. YoRHa had his model on hand. Yes...he'd come back. And yes, memories would be there too.

But he wouldn't be the same.

This was so silly. It was just a simple, singular memory. In the long run it would do little to benefit him. It certainly wouldn't help him become a more capable unit. Yet why did he feel so protective of it?

That little moment they'd had...together...

…

“Look at this place, 9S.” “...Wow...it's...breathtaking...”

Melancholy. If any word could sum up the sight before them succinctly, it would be 'melancholy'. The Earth...abandoned, broken, overgrown. Yet strangely beautiful in its own damaged way. Once grand skyscrapers now lay toppled like grey mottled dominoes, their windows spilling with lush green vines that grew and trailed down to the moss ridden ground. The sky above was a sad sort of blue, slightly clouded. The air was warm yet the city felt so empty...

Just the two of them, standing there atop one of the many abandoned buildings, taking in the grand sight before themselves. 9S didn't feel so lonely with 2B standing there next to him. He ought to never feel lonely at all given what he was, but the feeling still came and went.

Colorless eyes scanning the scenery behind a shadow, they settled upon something that most would consider rather small and insignificant, but to him stood out. Perhaps it was because it had such vibrant color. The flower's petals were a bright shade of magenta, which contrasted starkly with the cracked gray ground it was growing from. Curiously, 9S approached, crouching down and examining the plant.

He pulled it free from the soil and held it between his fingers, staring at it for a moment. Those same seemingly cold eyes then drifted over to the girl who stood at the opposite end of the rooftop, no doubt already making plans in her head for how to scout this area. 2B almost looked picturesque in her own way, her slender, stern figure standing there against a canvas of greys and blues.

With resolve on the mind, 9S straightened up again and walked over to the girl, taking her hand and giving her the flower without any alert. 2B didn't jolt, but she did look at him through her combat visor, and noted the little gift he had given her. Though she didn't assume it was a gift at first, when she raised it to her eyeline and gave it a good examination. Glancing at him again, 2B questioned:

“Do you want this to be submitted for analysis?” “No it's...” 9S trailed off. If that were the case then he'd have looked into it himself.

“-It's a present.” “A present?”

2B spoke the word as if it were foreign to her, even though she of course knew what it meant. She was an android, not an alien. However, androids had little use for 'presents', certainly when they were programmed to do missions and little else. Though 2B didn't reject it. Instead, she drew the little offering to her chest and held it there for a while, raising her head again and looking out over the city once more.

It was a simple gesture. 2B chose to keep it, but perhaps she had only done so out of politeness. Still. It meant something to him.

…

The last time I backed up my memories...was before that happened. There's no time now...

“9S-” “I'm fine.”

He tilted his own box towards hers, shifting a little closer to his fellow android. “Requesting destruction of enemy hostiles...via black-box reaction.”

“...Request accepted.”

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[danwhobrowses]

One Piece Chapter 1132 - Initial Thoughts

And we are back!

3 weeks is a long time but thankfully Oda's in good health now so One Piece returns for another chapter, hopefully Saul also fares in good health after the last cliffhanger. Loki has an indecent proposal and the rest of the crew are reaching Elbaf too, let's see what will unfold

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Yamato's sadly boring cover story remains boring, after all that chasing they're in Udon - which is rebuilding its castle - but no sign of the perpetrator

We continue with the Longboat as the Giants announce their arrival to Elbaf's borders

Oh hey it's the bartender and giant kid Shanks met before he annihilated Kid!

The kid is called Colon, I don't think Oda means the anatomical sense

They call out for the longboat to see if they're coming to the bar to party, but Brogy signals no - they're going straight up

The still unnamed mother bartender notes that if they did they'd drink for 3 days straight so for the best

It seems the upstairs of Elbaf is called the 'Sun Realm' or 'Realm of the Sun' if we're following the same style as 'Realm of the Dead'

She's packed a basket for Colon to take, it's full of food for a character called Ripley, and some food for Colon's father

Colon's excited to meet Luffy, after Shanks hyped him up

Hajrudin spots the longboat too, and there's a rainbow!

Oh it's Bifrost time here, though the rainbow looks like a Care Bears style rainbow XD

The Post-Alabasta Crew - with fringe Robin remember - Lilith and Bonney marvel at the rainbow

Seems rainbows are a tool for Giants, they can 'draw' them with a cube called a Sun Stone Painter - I wonder if that's similar to what Hajrudin was lacking with hunting the moose, that's two Sun Stone objects after all

The Giants tell the group to brace themselves, as they're surprised to find themselves go vertical and ride the rainbow

Franky and Robin (and a scared Bonney) wonder how it's possible but the Giants just laugh it off that 'Rainbows are meant to be crossed'

Jinbe at least mentions how Luffy's gonna flip when he sees this, which is ultimately true this is right up his alley

Bonney being happy makes me happy, she continues to see more of the world's wonders - where's Kuma though?

Hajrudin parks up next to Dorry and Brogy asking if Luffy's with them, they get filled in that they're gonna catch up later

But no moose for Dorry and Brogy, the moose is for the Straw Hats they can have leftovers (and this is Luffy so that means no leftovers)

The big rickety bridge the Alabasta Crew were on turns out to be the bridge between the Realms of the Dead and the Sun

From above though Luffy has catapulted himself above Gerd and Goldberg, noticing the Sunny the latter is carrying

Gerd catches Luffy and proceeds to admire him, she likes tiny humans too and thinks they're cute - but insists not in a creepy way like Rodo since she doesn't trap them, she just wants to be friends

So yeah we all love Gerd right? Yup, thought so

Luffy however is only partly keeping up with the fact that she's roasting Rodo, since he never saw him unmasked

Goldberg asks Luffy why he was in the Land of the Dead, but that causes him to be stumped

Luffy! I mean we all knew you're gonna try and free Loki but you were so close to not being fooled!

Loki also made him swear to secrecy, which puts him in a pickle since he cannot lie for wealth, fame or power

Fortunately, Luffy's struggle is treated as discomfort and the giants let it slide

Back with the rest of the Alabasta Crew, Rodo has caught up to Nami and Chopper and launches at them

And then gets a face full of tree, thanks to Zoro cutting and Sanji kicking it down at the right time

Nami notes how it was an obvious trap, but Usopp thinks they maybe overdid it

Luffy, Goldberg and Gerd however catch up with them, but Rodo - who's just delusional in general - asks if Gerd is here to save him, in a lovey voice

Gerd and Goldberg instead crack him on the head

Sanji of course goes into simp mode as Zoro notes that Usopp's prior mention of overdoing it is now moot, before the crew spot Luffy to confirm that they're friendlies

Gerd introduces herself and Goldberg to the crew, noting themselves as Hajrudin's subordinates, and promises to make it up to the crew for Rodo's imprisonment

Luffy however is hasty to reach the village, urging Usopp along too (though since Loki's cuff keys are in the village there may be two motives)

Gerd shouts out some directions for Luffy, Usopp and Chopper while grabbing Zoro, Nami and Sanji to give them a lift

At the same time, the longboats reach the arch of the rainbow, with the village appearing in sight

As we figured, there are multiple realms, but in Elbaf there's only 3; the Realm of Heaven, Realm of the Sun, and the Realm of the Dead

The Realm of the Sun is named because it's where it shines, not much has been said about the Realm of Heaven yet

Massive page for the Elbaf village which looks stunning

Luffy and Usopp remember their prior promise to go to Elbaf, with Usopp now in tears

Most of the remaining crew also look in awe with Bonney and Lilith, except for Sanji who's content in Gerd's bosom

The crew reunites as the longboat passes the clouds Luffy and co are on

And as expected, Luffy, Chopper and Usopp freak out about them riding on a rainbow, and want a turn

A giant sun bear for the Realm of the Sun, but also what we expect to be that silhouette guy at the start of the arc is wandering across the panel

Through all of this there has been a scroll narration describing the wonder of Elbaf, noting how it would be amiss for adventurers to skip it, however there is a warning - do not stay here for long

Louis Arnot? That's the guy who wrote the book about giants Nami read in Little Garden!

With that it feels like the Prologue of Elbaf has finished, we're here, plot points have been sprinkled over it and we're ready to get into business.

It was a light and fun chapter, with only the sinister undertone that Luffy has been persuaded by Loki to ensure his freedom, curiously Oda hasn't told us what Loki offered Luffy in exchange - which he won't honour anyway since he intends to kill him.

You couldn't have Norse myth undertones without the Bifrost bridge, but Elbaf does look very pretty and Nordic, I am curious about how the Realms of the Sun and Heaven compare too, is the Realm of Heaven only for the royals or 'gods' like the Upper Yard was for Skypeia? With the crew reunited and Hajrudin's crew meeting them it's likely that we're gonna need something to interrupt the big banquet they have planned, and Colon visiting whoever this Ripley is has to play a part. Plus with Saul's status still unknown there are a few mysteries here and there to learn about still.

But we may anticipate the rest of the crew to get Elbaf fits next chapter, and this silhouette person is still a curious one, with a warning not to stay too long we should definitely strap ourselves in and see what Elbaf properly has in store for us

[starwlf]

Here’s a small height chart for JSAB: the power of three that I made due to one of my friends being gay

Also hooray! More annihilate !

Also cubes the shortest of all the caretakers even with his little cat boy ears

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

Hot entropolic summer masterlist

Closing ceremonies! Only a month late! Will the wonders ever cease.

Anyway! This one-off event for PJÕL's big day was a smashing success - I was crossing my fingers for ten works tops and we got thrice as many, and with so much creativity?? Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and for all the beautiful works posted! I hope we all had fun. And if anyone's still working on something, just whistle to be added!

So, without further ado:

@ambrosiussaintmiro (your excellency...!): happy 10 years (art, collage, Zigi, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper, ibex)

@brennisteinnexe: FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE KILLED IT AND THEN KILLED HIMSELF (webweave, the end of the world)

@citronellals: easy there, tiger / it's a meat grinder (art, Tereesz, Vidkun)

@hopelessandcalmless: Turquoise, violet and orange (friendship bracelet, Iilmaraan flag)

@ignitingthesky: Ann-Margret Lund also sits there somewhere in her kitchen, in the middle of the pale; (art, Ann-Margret)

@kaktoherovato: Please, tell me who you are... (art, Khan)

@kala-mies: In honor of today, here's the trio! (art, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper)

@kala-mies: It was a popular vacation area just outside of Vaasa that swallowed the four Lund girls. (art, Lund girls)

@kitkat-cafe: Jesper's cube-ish tea set (art, Jesper's designs)

@muitosmezaninos: Decided to use drugs and remember things yesterday / Tonight I had a nightmare and I woke up but I did not cry (art, Khan, Målin)

@myfriendfaust: I’m making you into a cretin, ya feelin’ it?? (art, Tereesz)

@parasolemn: ADD NUKE TO REVACHOL (art, Harry, Sunday Friend, Ambrosius, Khan, Jesper, Tereesz)

@parasolemn: the Lund girls in the pale (art, Lund sisters)

@permablu3: personal take on portraits (art, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper, Linoleum Salesman, Målin, Ulv)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: Aspects of the void. To a crumbling future. (art, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper, Lund sisters)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: Esteemed entroponauts & plot derailers extraordinaire (art, Zigi, Nilsen)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: The only revolution they have left is that the world keeps turning (fic, Nilsen, Rodionov)

@revacholianpizzaagenda: fellas is it bisexual to- (shitpost, Rodionov, Voronikin)

@ritual---impulse: the pale as Michael Biberstein's works (webweave, the pale)

@ritual---impulse: book fanmix (fanmix, PJÕL)

@runfreebirdrun: what if i was a decaying rock star and you were the memories made cytoplasm of a communist revolutionary and... (art, Zigi, Nilsen)

@smellslikegeraniums: "The Farewell Song", sung by Andrei Mironov (song link, PJÕL vibes)

@smellslikegeraniums: Khan’s popular-science dream (art, Khan and the ancient satellites)

@tereesz-machejek: Discord emojis (emojis, assorted items and symbols)

@theinklingofcats: Station Annihilation (fic, Harry)

@turianhumanclient: Revachol '74 (art, the bomb)

@yarrowdraws: “They are no longer there. But I still see them.” (art, Målin)

@yarrowdraws: I held Graad gently, like an architect holds districts of panel-houses… (art, Nilsen-related symbolism)

@yescking: nihilism and absolute innocence (art, Ambrosius, Lund sisters)

@yescking: down under the water im pale blue (art, Khan, Tereesz, Jesper)

[alfhawerewolf2020]

I got Big ol Spoils coming yall way!

1) Annihilate’s Remake ^<^

2) Nightmare Minty(the 3rd child of my Blix & Cube in a horrific form)

3) some dumb animation wip of Blix(probably won’t color it cus too much work..)

4) ..FUNK HOLE…

& 5) Cosplay chaos as Blix in cos ^<^

All Art by meeee!

(Bonus) we got some new smol sillys…

[jack-in-the-dark]

Jack Builds Spaceboats: The Rally Vincent, Part 2: Akira-class, My Beloved

Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert at this game and the information I present may be erroneous.

I love the Akira-class. I cannot overstate that. Ever since I first saw the beautiful USS Thunderchild and her sisters at the Battle of Sector 001 in Star Trek: First Contact, I have been in love with this ship.

I love that way she looks. The way her design makes her swoop. I love her lore. I love that she's basically what you get when Starfleet decides to throw subtlety out the window. I love how she's sleek and aggressive while still maintaining that Starfleet feel.

So here comes an autism rant.

The development of the Akira-class starship started after the Battle of Wolf 359, where an entire fleet of starships was annihilated by a single Borg cube in a matter of hours, if not minutes. It was a massacre, and a wake-up call. It was a reminder to Starfleet that having fighting ships, while frowned upon by Federation ideals, is an absolute necessity for the peace and safety of the Federation.

So the engineers got to work, and designed four new classes of ship designed primarily with kicking Borg ass in mind: the Defiant, the Sabre, the Norway, and the Akira. While the Defiant, Sabre, and Norway were more compact and smaller designs, the Akira-class was a full-fledged cruiser at over two-thirds the length of the massive Galaxy-class explorers.

She also had a truly massive hangar bay that ran the full length of the saucer section, allowing her to carry an unheard-of amount of support craft.

What truly set the Akira-class apart, though, was the fact that she is absolutely fucking covered in torpedo launchers. Most Starfleet ships have, at most, four torpedo launchers - two fore, two aft, with phaser arrays covering the ship (the Galaxy-class, for example, is considered a battleship with two torpedo launchers and over a dozen phaser arrays). The Akira-class has three phaser arrays. She has fifteen photon torpedo launchers. Four facing forward in the weapons pod, three on each side covering the aft port and starboard quarters in the mission pod, one in the saucer section just above the deflector dish and, most unusually, two photon torpedo launchers on each side of the saucer section facing directly port and starboard.

A big part of why I started playing Star Trek Online was because I wanted to fly an Akira-class. I longed for it. So naturally, I pounced on the opportunity the moment it presented itself.

You can imagine that it came as a bit of a shock when I learned that the torpedo-heavy cruiser-carrier I loved was, in game terms, an agile glass cannon designed to use dual cannons.

I exploded. A lot. So much so, in fact, that I straight-up swore off flying escorts almost altogether and started flying cruisers instead because they could take a goddamn hit.

I was angry, I was disappointed, and even a little heartbroken.

But as my knowledge of the game grew, I kept going back to the USS Rally Vincent, re-evaluating and tweaking, and eventually even making a ship that I felt actually worked with what an Akira-class should be.

Then, in 2022, I started seeing rumors around the STO subreddit: Cryptic was working on a Legendary Akira-class. Now, "Legendary" variants are typically only for "Hero" ships, those that served as the focus of a series (like the various Enterprises, the Defiant, and Voyager). The idea of a Legendary Akira-class was... curious, but also very very exciting.

So I immediately started saving up, and holy shit am I glad I did. When Cryptic announced the Legendary First Strike Bundle and the stats of the ships it would come with (the Legendary Multi-Mission Command Carrier and the not-talking-about-it-in-this-post Legendary Temporal Ops Strike Wing Escort Warbird), it was like Cryptic had read my Christmas list and decided I'd been such a good boy this year that I was gonna get everything I wanted.

This was finally a frame that could be an honest-to-goodness Akira-class. Still nimble, but not a dogfighter, able to take a few on the chin, packing enough firepower to make a Klingon blush, and full Command specialization seating primary and Miracle Worker secondary, giving her access to some fantastic Bridge Officer abilities and arguably the best torpedo-buffing BOFF ability in the game, Concentrate Firepower III.

It was truly an evolution of the Rally Vincent's build, going well beyond mere improvement. The advent of the Advanced Hangar consoles elevated the build even further, making her one of only a handful of ships I have capable of dealing with Elite content despite her decidedly off-meta build.

I genuinely wish I could give this ship a hug. She really is a dream come true for me.

[justshapesandaus]

(OH HO HOOO MYYYY, I get it~ also ah, how are there two blixers at the same time by the way?)

Actually theirs four of them. In this au the tree split Blixer up into his 4 selfs so they are still Blixer but at the same time they arn't. Fresh, Boss, Goopy, And Annihilate all make themselfs at home with Cube as hes still trying to deal with the fact he isn't doing alright and his health is getting worst.

But on the bright side I can make dumb shit like this.