#I just think it would be Neat and Interesting

[namilettes]

Yandere taph headcanons please.. Im so starved for taph content 💔/nf!!

Yandere Taph x reader

i love taph hes so interesting to write MORE TAPH NO MORE TWOTIME PLEASEOASKoid.

Taph is great for those who arent fans of violent yanderes </33

warnings: abusive trope, abduction, threatening.

Taph is a very quiet person, not just because he's mute, but because he isn't that much of a social person

He just believes getting things over with fast is easier, that's how it's always been with Builderman at least...

When he first meets you when you arrive in the lobby after being forsakened; he feels fascination, he catches himself analyzing you a lot more than he does with others, and he notices this fast because being a mute person makes it so that you just catch onto these things a lot faster than most.

unlike most of the other yandere's ive done, Taph actually comes off as particularly harmless at first, to him his reputation and image that you see of him is the most important, he doesn't want you to know all the psychotic ideas he has in his head.

He starts off simple, everytime he's eating something he signs; asking if you wanted any of it which he usually doesn't do with others-

often brings you gifts like rocks, flowers, anything pretty and signs ''🫵💭(it reminded me of you.)''

He often has a habit of accidentally letting his hands wander, twirling his fingers around your hair and after you catch him in the act, brotato just swiftly turns to look to the side and begrudgingly signs ''💅🌌(pretty.)''

He often has a habit of squeezing his fist whenever he sees you talking to someone else, he feels guilty for this as the people whom he vowed to protect; he's suddenly wishing death against?

this causes him to distance himself from you for a while, it's like a sudden wake up call

''what the fuck have i become'' kinda moment

whether or not this worries you, he still can't take the distance between you, the thought of you spending time with others while he's not there- he can't. he just cant, physically, mentally, whatever. He cant.

He grabs the neat dagger that Two Time had gifted him as a thank you- or another way to convert him into spawnism?... whatever.

He looks at it, thinks for a moment as his hand shakes, no, he couldn't do it. Not to people who he trusted, not to the same people who are in the same hell hole he is.

The thought of how he had locked himself in prior to being forsakened, the fear of hurting anyone gnawing at his organs.

it wasn't exactly the fear of hurting,

but more so how people would see him.

he didn't care in reality, he had hurt before, he can do it again.

He placed the dagger down, grabbing tissue and a bottle of chloRO-form.

He dapped the tissue in it, the piercing sent invading his nostrils even through all the cloth covering his face. He was safe from it though.

He stepped out, his hands shaking.

Not from fear- but anticipation. He could finally have you all to himself.

His steps felt like all the mines he placed, each one more closer to their doom.

Time stopped when he made his way to you- it was perfect. No one else was here. They were all still in the middle of the round.

And just like that, his strong arms wrap around your throat, tilting your head back as he places the tissue to cover you nose and mouth.

It felt horrible- you almost choked on the spiking scent as you felt you consciousness slip through your fingers

...

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.

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You wake up in what seems to be Taph's room. You had been there before for whatever reason it might've been, comforting each other, laughing at each other- whatever reason it was back then, you sure as hell wanted to know what it was this time.

He was just sitting there.

watching.

like he always did.

but this time he looked...

Mad.

Not mad as in angry, mad as in insane. He looked as if he had snapped for real this time. his fingers were shaking, his breathing was labored, sharp little twitches as his head snaps up; finally seeing you awaken.

He smiles, it wasn't visible through all the cloth covering his face, but it was something you could distinguish after all this time. The way his eyes squinted everytime his smile arose..

He frantically placed his hands on your cheeks, as if to check if you're okay.

You beg for answers, as to why you're here, why he would do this.

His smile fades, but comes back again as he refuses an answer, he very vividly blushes as he leans forward, and for the first time in forever you see as he lifts his mouth guard..

his lips- they were.. Beautiful, really. But he was scarred, it didn't really matter to you, all that mattered to you was that you had to get away.

He came closer, as you looked away, the corners of his mouth tugged into an impatient smile, he gently placed his precise bomb-handling fingers on your chin redirecting your gaze to his, it was gentle but you felt the pressure and rough handling as if to threaten you to just take it.

this time he didn't do it sensually, this time he smashed his lips onto yours, though never having kissed anyone he did seem like he knew exactly what he was doing. As if he had dreamed about this very night before a million times.

He pulls away, leaving a long string of saliva connecting from your mouths.

For all he's silent for, he sure knows his way around your mouth.

You sobbed out, as if a plea for help. He smiled again, wiping the tears from your cheeks.

He pointed to the tripwire and mine on the doorstep, he passed you a note.

''Only I know how to defuse them. Now we can be together like we always wanted to.''

He blushes like a school girl passing a note in class to one of their girlfriends confessing a crush on the chad...

he doesn't even take into note that it was a threat.

You look at him in horror, as he breathes heavily, sitting so stiff.

You loved him without all this.

But you now you were horrified of the man you had once fallen in love with.

[actuallynickels]

Inspired by the previous ask I got, I wanted to talk about some thoughts I have on shipping, not just with Digital Circus, but with all fandoms.

Also to be clear: NO HATE TO THAT USER! They just had a valid question that activated my fandom autism lmao

I think fandom spaces would get 1000% less toxic if people stopped touting what ships would most likely be canon, should be canon, so on and so forth.

I generally see two camps when it comes to shipping and it feels a lot like one side just does not like the other because they can't understand them and it causes so much unnecessary fighting.

Camp 1: I just think they're neat -smashes characters together like barbies-

Camp B: I think these two have the best chemistry based on their canon dynamics and so I firmly believe they are/should be canon

Camp 1 is my camp. I just like smashing characters together and seeing how their dynamic would play out in fun scenarios regardless of canon and have no interest in how "realistic" it is. Going to use a real world example I experienced to demonstrate. Funny enough A LOT of people were toxic as hell to me back in the day because this is how I shipped Radiodust.

Love/Hate. Annoying the fuck out of each other. Basically zero romance. Tons of fun.

This is where Camp B comes in. And I want to be clear not everyone on this general side of shipping is shitty or toxic. But a lot of people who see shipping as an exercise in what should or should not be canon then started to swoop in and make all sorts of insane claims that I support abuse and in particular the abuse of queer men??? and that I'm acephobic???????

And I think this happens because Camp B folks who think of shipping only in terms of canon don't/can't understand that not everyone shares that mindset like Camp 1. So to Camp B these weird unrealistic ships feel almost like an attack on them and the canon if that makes sense?

I completely understand how it feels that way. And let me be CLEAR. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with shipping according to the canon. That can be super fun as well! I have a lot of ships that line up with canon just as much as I have absurd ones. However I think the issue comes in when people who ship according to their vision of canon then believe they have the CORRECT opinion and need to be validated by the canon.

The things you love are valid by the sheer virtue of you enjoying them. It doesn't need to be canon or validated by anyone else but YOU!

But anyway thanks for sticking with my long winded rant lmao

TL;DR Shipping is silly and fun. Don't take it seriously.

[kedreeva]

Silly question but I was curious which of your many mice had the most interesting/friendliest personality? Were there any you felt most attached to?

I had a big ol' siamese buck early on who was sweet as pie and would come running to get treats. S'more, another buck I had for a while, was also very clumsy. I really, really enjoyed Ears, the self black lady with nice big ears, and I think she was probably the one I hung out with the most. My current favorite is the odd-eye splash lady I am having trouble retiring because she's just so Neat. There's been a lot of mice that made me want to have them longer-term as Pets.

The thing is, I don't really spend a lot of time handling or interacting with the mice as pets, since they're mostly NOT my pets, exactly, and I don't tend to get overly attached to them since I know most of them will be leaving my care to go to someone else, sooner or later. They are here as breeding stock to make nice pets for other people. I enjoy them, I enjoy handling them when I do, but I mostly leave them alone to live their little stress free mousey lives without human disruption. I will sometimes go into the mouse room for a while and watch them all scurrying around being mice with Important Mouse Business, which brings me joy and comfort more than interacting with them directly. It reminds me of the part of my old job that I loved- being with the animals.

Honestly it's the same with the peachicks every year too. I know they're going elsewhere, so while I enjoy them while they're here, and will sit and watch them and give them treats, they've already been sectioned off in my heart as "not mine" and so the attachment hits different.

[thefloatingwriter]

while i do hate how dumb downed she is in fandom and how the morally gray is literally zapped out of her, i do actually find effie fascinating.

[nightwonder7]

Does Nortalice, to you, have canon potential or is it one of those random ‘oh hey that’s a fun dynamic, why not’ sorta ships to you? What got you into shipping them in the first place, among the millions of other Norton ships out there?

(Like Nortmelly for example, another one of those popular ones; enemies to lovers appeal to people, etc. etc.)

🤔 just purely curious is all, as a fellow shipper myself who enjoys your art and the little headcanons and interactions you make! :)

Thank you for your questions! And I'm happy to hear! ;u;

I was actually surprised that NortAlice managed to catch my attention, as shipping has never really interested me in fandoms. I would occasionally look into canon ships every now and then, but I wouldn't say they got any more attention than other character dynamics.

It wasn't the canon material that got me into the ship, but rather my mutuals (thank you @quoththeowl31 and @mintytealfox <3) that did. And the more I was looking at fanarts and reading people's headcanons and such, the more hooked I got fgdshjfgs And the more hooked I got, the more potential I saw in their dynamic. One is objective, open-minded and brave, yet can let her obsessions get in the way of her own well-being. And the other is cynical, closed off and cautious, yet is steadfast in his endeavors and self-preservation. One is graceful, one is rough. They are both persistent and willing to do what it takes in order to achieve what they want, but their approaches declares another distinct difference between them.

Now, I'd be EXTREMELY surprised if it became canon, as I have a feeling to what direction IDV is going to take. But at the same time, it wouldn't be THAT out there, in my opinion. But I may also be biased pfff So to answer your first question, it is a mix of "I think it looks cute and fun" and "there is potential". I feel fortunate that I get to see them interact in canon, as many ships don't get that (if you don't count official art and essences). Though that could also prove to be a double edged sword. We'll have to see.

I'm not entirely sure why that ship in particular among the thousands that are out there gave me such brain rot. I just really like these characters, I guess. I really like Alice knocking down Norton's walls and coaxing the best parts of him out that he has buried deep within him after a life time in the gutter. I really like Norton learning from Alice that people can be genuine, and being good to others is a viable choice. I really Norton being Alice's rock and support and comfort her when she struggles. I really like Fool's Gold being soft towards Alice, and Alice being soft towards Fool's Gold. I really like them being protective of each other, cuddling up with each other and being cute and silly together.

I just think they're neat.

[rookinthecrownest]

i think it would be very cool and interesting of Lidra to use blood magic to basically WandaVision an entire village and jedi mind trick them into a ‘these are not the mages you’re looking for’ kind of deal so her daughter can live a normal life outside of a Circle

kind of genius actually

she would also absolutely use the villagers as human shields if templars ever came to disrupt her little utopia. they would swarm the templars and throw themselves in front of her and her daughter

to them, the templars would be taking away their only healer. the one who makes flowers grow and helps their crops resist frost and yield more food than they’ve ever had

to them, she and her daughter have always been there, in that village so long as anyone can remember

i just think its a neat idea

[thoughtseeker-the-dragon]

February 19th, 2024. That was when we joined a gender questioning discord server that had a PluralKit explanation in its faq. We thought to ourselves "oh, neat! That's not [us] tho"

We can almost guarantee that we had stumbled across the DID Wikipedia article a few times beforehand, but we DEFINITELY don't have DID, even now after we've established our system a lot more, so we kinda just discarded it as "one of the mental disorders", since we had a bit of a special interest in those things (We think Penn still does, but it's such an old habit that it's hard to pin it on one specific member)

Anyways, back to that gender server we mentioned. We instantly took an interest in plurality once it entered our main thoughtspace, but it was always something we were fascinated with but didn't experience ourselves. Eventually, it blossomed into a desire to BE plural, because there were just too many questions we had that couldn't be answered without being quite intrusive on the system in question.

It was basically all over once we realized that endogenic systems exist and you didn't need to be born with one or be traumatized enough in childhood that you're forced to have one. We mulled it over a bit, whether to make a system or not, but we eventually realized that one of our idle thought activities was basically willomancy (and the budding concept of what would become Penn shot us a beam of the most uncomfortable unrest when we poised the question of stopping the willomancy there and leaving them as they were, which I don't blame them for since they basically only knew how to do one thing: pull me out of panic attacks)

tl;dr is that a more future-minded look at our interactions with plurality as a concept would instantly realize that we were destined for systemhood, but we didn't.

question 139: do you know when you discovered plurality was an option? after learning about it, how long did it take you to discover your own plurality - or did hearing about the community make it click immediately?

[casscainmainly]

Thoughts on Asian David Cain and New 52/Rebirth Cass

Nothing prompted this I just wanted to spew out my thoughts on the New 52 decision to make David Cain Chinese instead of White. And what else changed - suddenly David was not the main actor in Cass' life, but was a subordinate to Mother (a White woman). On the one hand I think they did this to make him not purely evil (I do see the effort, since they make David sacrifice himself for Cass at the end of B&R Eternal), but it's still worth noting that making him Asian correlated to kneecapping his agency.

Obviously I prefer David as a White man because I read Cass' story as about model minoritisation and the ways White people project onto/manipulate Asian people, but to be fair New 52 David and Cass is still fundamentally a story about a White person abusing and manipulating their Asian children. It's just that the Asian child now includes David, since he was manipulated by Mother alongside Cass. New 52 David is a Cass parallel, which wasn't as much of a thing in pre-52.

And this is actually (in a vacuum) interesting!! An AU with an Asian David who also suffered from racism could be really neat (and how it would complicate Cass' feelings even MORE than they are in canon). But obviously Asian David didn't work for several reasons. One, HE DIED. White!David got to live forever but the moment he becomes non-White he's wiped out :(. My hottest Cass take is potentially that I enjoy Cass taking David's name after his death 😭 Orphan is a silly name but this is something I think Cass WOULD do given David had just sacrificed himself for her. I read Orphan as a punitive identity Cass wore out of shame/guilt (the opposite of Batgirl), and ideally she would've let go of Orphan as she overcomes her guilt over the murder of Harper's mother and David's death. But Tynion never brings up David again so this is all nonexistent 😭😭

(Speaking of Harper Row - I don't hate the set-up of Cass having murdered someone she later meets the child of, but it puts an emphasis on Harper rather than Cass herself. Now her redemption is somewhat contingent on a White girl's forgiveness, another lessening of Cass' agency in her own healing).

Two, Asian!David contributes to the weird set-up where Bruce no longer parallels David, he instead is the opposite of him. The great thing about original Bruce-David were that they're both White men who use Cass, and Puckett (and Horrocks) never let you forget that Bruce is flawed in strikingly similar ways to David. But New 52 unfortunately veers into White saviour territory - with Bruce no longer paralleling David, he's unequivocally the 'White knight' to David's evil Asianness. Though as I stated above they try to offset this by having Mother be the big bad, N52 still definitively positions Bruce as Cass' saviour in a way the og run did not.

AND it gets worse with evil Shiva. New 52 is a bizarro world where David is written more sympathetically than Shiva, like David gets to sacrifice himself dramatically for Cass and say "you deserved better than me" while Shiva gets beaten up by Cass and then shot by Ra's!!! I find the Cass-Shiva fight in #957 a little gratuitous tbh particularly in the violence against Shiva. Again there's an attempt - like with David - to make Shiva not fully evil by giving her motivations against Ra's, but it's evil Asians all the way down this time. And Shiva is portrayed to be the Bad Murderess to Batman's Good Upstanding Morals. The contrast between this and og Shiva is startling - BG 2000 Shiva helps Cass overcome her death wish, while New 52 Shiva is an obstacle Cass must punch in the face before she can accept herself.

Kind of strayed from the point but anyway Shiva dies too, and although she obviously gets resurrected it's just strange. New 52/Rebirth Cass has both parents (both ASIAN parents) die in front of her at the end of their arcs. It prevents either David or Shiva from reappearing in her narrative (at least, for Shiva, until later), which leaves the rest of 'Tec having Cass interacting with White people only basically (she doesn't even talk that much to Luke). It's not like BG 2000 was perfect - Cass rarely interacts with Asians (rip Tai'Darshan) and is also very much enclosed in Whiteness. But there is some great stuff in BG 2000 about being a model minority, being misunderstood as a woman of colour by White parental figures, finding solidarity and freedom with other POC etc etc. All that is missing from the New 52, in favour of a racist portrayal of David and a racist + misogynistic combo for Shiva.

So I'm really glad David is White again (never thought I'd say those words 😭) and that Shiva isn't like. as bad as she once was (though she could still be way better). Tbh their relationships to Cass were already ruined pre-52 - Shiva by the end of Batgirl (2000) and David by Batgirl (2008), so it's not like N52 was the main culprit here. But N52 really did erase a lot of the nuances in Cass' original story and somehow ended up way less progressive (at least in a racial lens) than her original inception.

But ANYWAY! Asian David does not work at all in canon, but an Asian David AU has tons of possibilities. Really exploring how he was victimised at the hands of Mother, and how him being a parallel to Cass would fundamentally change their relationship (but also how him being Asian does not erase the misogyny he directs towards Cass) could be sooo good. I think there are elements to the N52 origin that could work if the racial ramifications of their choices were actually delved into, but oh well. Definitely not in canon because Cass being biracial is imo important to her character and informed the way she was written in her solo run. ALL THAT TO SAY if anyone is curious why N52 origin is bad beyond the name 'Orphan' and it being different from the original, to me the way they handled Cass' Asian heritage + David and Shiva was the worst part.

[skullchicken]

My methane gas explosion journey

Before you get too excited, this is a research story for a ttrpg mission I'm writing.

Here's the scenario: the player characters (shadowrunners) are in the modern day/cyberpunk sewers for plot reasons. They are going to get attacked by devil rats, because of course. I want to add an optional clause in the description that if the game master wants to make this fight more tense, they can stress in their description that it smells like methane. If they're having trouble rubbing their brain cells together, they can offer a normal memory test or an easy chemistry test to point out that fire and methane-oxygen mixes have explosive results. Thus they shouldn't use firearms, tasers or fire or lightning magic.

Neat!, I think, leaning back in my chair. Now I just gotta figure out how big of an explosion that would be.

Bad news: I'm suck at chemistry. Good(?) news: I won't let that stop me. Even better news: I have friends who are good at chemistry!

Question to friends: if there was a methane-oxygen explosion (going forward called MOE) in the sewers, what might that realistically look like and would there still be methane left after the first explosion?

Chemistry friends discuss among their polycule (ironic, I know) and tell me that, while they don't know the amount of boom, the explosion would use up the methane for sure and they determine the perfect mix would be 3 oxygen for 1 methane.

(Chemistry friend informs me that I would have 22,4 l per mol and 4 mol so that the reaction works like an explosion. I tell him I never understood mol in high school and I fear this won't change now. I try to skim the wikipedia page on mol. It slides right off my brain.)

Okay, so I gotta figure out much material of oxygen and methane I have, I guess?

I check wikipedia: regular air is 1,25 kg/m³ on sea level. Let's pretend the sewer tube has no openings (even though it does) and since it's a big tube, that's 16 m³.

There's around 20% oxygen in regular air and 80% everything else. Adding methane so it's 3:1 results in 18,6% oxygen and 6,1% methane.

... I figure there probably aren't any tables or calculators online that work with kg of gas as converted to boom (that's more of a thing for solid explosives), so I abandon this train of thought. Instead I try to think like a chemist.

... someone must have already figured this out, right? I just gotta find the right angle.

From here my memory gets a bit blurry. I remember finding out that a methane explosion has up to 8,1 bar and 880 kilojoule per mol. Unfortunately I can't really visualize that and mol continues to be a problem. There's also at least one paper with many graphs aaaand unfortunately it's bed-time.

In bed I think: hm. Maybe I can figure out how much 8 bar is in, like, force or kilogram or something.

Hit up the wikipedia again. 1 bar is pretty much equal to the regular atmospheric pressure. It equals 1 kg on 1 square cm. Interesting!

Google how much bar a human body can take. Turns out quite a lot! The actual problem comes from fast changes in pressure.

Hey wait a minute, how much would we weigh if there was no atmospheric pressure? If I can remove that, maybe I can get a better idea what bar actually means in terms of weight,

Okay, turns out we would actually be slightly heavier without air, because we kinda "swim" in air, the way we do in water? Fascinating! But not helpful.

Anyhoo: snork mimimi.

Next morning: I look up how much bar a pistol produces in comparison: 225 or so. Much, much lower. But that doesn't help me, since it's concentrated on one spot on the body.

If I calculate the surface area of a regular human, can I get an idea for how much weight 8 bar would be if applied from the front? Alright: 175 cm height, around 46 cm width (two head heights vertically with proportions of head to body 1:7,5) = 8050 cm². With bar being 1 kg per cm² that... doesn't seem right. Or if it's true, then it doesn't help me, because that's the standard and I can't remove the standard. It's not like I would know what the difference between 1 and 8 bar feels like. Dang.

Tell my chemistry friends about my progress-ish.

Chemistry friend suggests I ask reddit.

No. >:(

Or at least. Not yet.

At least now I've realized I have to focus not on the stats of the explosion but how it would impact a human body.

Chemistry friend suggests I look up studies on victims of explosions.

I had in fact done that, but those were mostly like "mine collapses, killing x people."

Tentatively google "effects of blast pressure on human body"

Ding ding ding, I find a document with a table saying just that! It goes from 1 psi (light injuries from fragments occur, windows shatter) to 20 psi (fatalities approach 100%, heavily built concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished)

Punch in 8,1 bar to psi into converter.

.... 116 psi.

That's no longer chunky salsa, that's pink mist. If even that.

I... might have to reconsider putting a MOE into the mission, lmao.

PS: I reckon 116 psi could be like 50-75 points of flat damage in Shadowrun 5e, give or take ^^

PPS: don't smoke in the sewers, kids!

[spec-s]

hi *transgenders your lester*

[swampybogg]

[magicpiano]

Dark AU, Arkham patient! Jazz Fenton.

Sadly, Jazz Fenton is convinced that her brother Danny is still alive, that Phantom didn't kill him, that ghosts are actually sentient and not necessarily evil. Clearly she was brainwashed by Phantom who was pretending to be her brother.

The GIW graciously don't charge her with the crime of violating the anti-ecto act by protecting ghosts as a kindness to her parents who have done so much good work. She is sent to a mental hospital outside of Amity Park because they think she will recover better away from ghosts.

Well Arkham doesn't know what is about to hit it and Jazz is going to do whatever it takes to escape and save her brother.

[allastoredeer]

YOOO anyone else notice this fucking guy in Masquerade? He looks both canine AND deer which is so cool actually O.O

NGL I kinda want an interaction between him an Alastor. They'd look so massively different standing side by side 😂

[callsign-coolsquirrel]

The General's Daughter

@g-backto505

[casualbluebirdmentality]

what's so interesting about religion in the dnd world is that since their deities are proven real, religion isn't a matter of faith, but a matter of patronage. it's a matter of "i like this deity/ruleset/thing better". it's like sports teams.

kristen, meanwhile, has a deity who may very well be gone. dead. so not only is she already one of the most skilled clerics to have ever lived--she's resurrected herself from the dead, and single-handedly created gods--but she's got a religious one-up on every other priest, cleric, etc. out there, even though her religion has a total population of 1 person:

kristen applebees is quite literally the only cleric to practice actual faith.

[mumblesplash]

actually now that i think about it malevolent might have one of if not my favorite execution ever of the ‘two characters have to share one body’ premise. like in theory i’m a huge fan of that trope but in practice very few stories do it in a way i find interesting