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Does anyone else in the whump community watch Brave Wilderness, orâŚ.
#whump#I donât usually do irl whump; but considering that his stuff is part nature channel part daredevil act I donât mind#Itâs a controlled environment with lots of precautions being taken; and it shows people how to survive if it happens to them#Fun dude too; I love his vibe#I kind of do something similar#Iâll see something and go âdamn it would suck if it happened to me; gotta be prepared for thatâ#so I do what I saw to myself in a controlled environment with everything I need to fix it#It usually works⌠Itâs not fun but it works.#All my self-sabotage stems from wanting to practice and perfect my knowledge#I can and WILL cause problems for myself if I think I can learn something from it that might help someone#or help myself⌠I may be my own pet whumpee but I still count as âsomeoneâ#lol#So itâs reassuring to see someone like myself on YouTube doing what he does best: fucking around and finding out (affectionate)#(Iâm a hands-on learner; can you tell?)#I try everything at home#(I do not recommend or condone my lifestyle đŤ )
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For the twins in time AU, I genuinely wonder what kind of people the young twins grow up into because of Stanâs/Fordâs influence. Especially if it takes years for the portal to get fixed.
(Sorry if it seems like I already sent this question, I donât know if it got sent the first time I asked)
I havenât fully fleshed out how Ford grows up in the past but I do have thoughts on Stan presently
#heâs still his goofy brash self as well#but I do think he gets an outlet for all that through monster hunting and trips and stuff#he does get comfortable here thoughâŚ#Iâm thinking we have something play out thatâs similar to the science fair#where they get close to being able to send him home and he breaks something or maybe even purposely sabotages itâŚ#and I think he sneaks out a lot too#maybe he uses the secret identities in that way like when heâs in town heâll pretend to be Pinley pinington#and thatâs how he develops his scammy/improv skills#FORD ON THE OTHER HAND#I think he might actually be MORE emotionally stunted because Stan tries so hard to protect him#that it goes the other way#they kind of become reliant on each other in a really unhealthy way or maybe Stan sort of steers ford away from his smart stuff#to prevent the future from happening#not maliciously but yk#like I said I havenât fleshed his story out as fully yet so I will get back to you#but there are some interesting possibilities#my art#ask#gravity falls#twins in time au#Stan pines#Stanley pines
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("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)
#svsss#bingqiu#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#lbh#sqq#i've been working through the series of unfortunate events and somehow that series has paired really nicely with svsss#the themes of cycling violence and what's justified and what isn't and what can possibly be done differently#and how trying to bring love and honour into the midst of it really changes nothing but also changes everything#it's just *chef's kiss*#i don't know how i can quite do my thoughts justice but i've spent the past few weeks quietly going between the two series (and mdzs and tg#as well if we're being honest they all hit similar questions and themes) and just reveling in the pain and ambiguity of it#everything is interconnected and it means you can never know what trauma and pain and necessity has shaped a person#each story goes too far back to ever ever EVER possibly see the full extent of it#at that level even communication itself is nearly impossible.#and because of that it's almost impossible to change anything. beat yourself apart and the outcome is the same#and yet ATTEMPTING to change things ATTEMPTING to do the kind thing the honourable thing is absolutely critical#because while you can change nothing you also have the capacity to change EVERYTHING#aaaaaaah i don't even know what i'm saying#but i read the beatrice letters today and the love letter just. killed me.#(obviously i cherrypicked some lines because it's three pages long but those ones felt right)#''i love you like a corpse loves a vulture's beak'' i just. can't get over that line.#to be completely changed. altered. destroyed. redeemed. purified. desecrated. reduced to nothing yet entirely necessary for another's life.#what a FUCKING line#anyway i was either going to blow up from thinking about it or else i had to exorcise it via art from an entirely different series#i've already done svsss and discworld why not throw a series of unfortunate events into the mix#i'll be honest folks i did not expect svsss to be the mxtx series that would fuck me up the most about the main ship#bingqiu is something else. i don't even know how to begin to approach my feelings on it. impossibility and necessity all at once#bizarre#my art
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what else would you expect a literal blood machine to gift you besides a coin lodged directly into your chest. happy holidays
#ultrakill#v1#gabriel#gabv1el#i know its a funny comic but oh i do really think v1 would offer up something like this in a gesture of romance or something similar#theyre a blood robot. they run off of blood. if they offer you something that could keep them living for Days purely because they want to..#they are attached to you so sorry. your robot to deal with now#gore cw#kind of#idk#gen art
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Based off this post by @cheer-nympho
I thought it would be a silly drabble, but I made the mistake of sleeping on it and, well, here have some very nearly canon compliant demon Steve
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Eddie woke up to pain.
âWhat happened?â he asked, not opening his eyes. If no one answered, he could go back to sleep.
âSteveâs a demon.â It was Hendersonâs voice. Fuck, it was good to hear the kidâs voice. If Dustin was here, talking to him, it meant the kid was okay. It meant theyâd made it.
âNo shit,â Eddie answered, and then slipped back into unconsciousness.
It had been a joke, the summoning spell. Eddie had been bored, maybe a little high, and hadnât believed any of that bullshit, anyway. Not demons, or satan. He hadnât even been particularly confident in god.
âOh, itâs real. All of it,â Harrington had confirmed, sitting cross legged in the chalk circle on Eddieâs bedroom floor. Only the red flames where his eyes should be differentiated him from the archetypal teenage jock. Well, the flames and the fact that he was in Eddieâs room to begin with. Eddieâs room was generally reserved for fellow freaks and nerds. âTimeâs ticking on this summoning, Munson. Do you want to deal or not?â
The next time Eddie surfaced the pain was less intense. He was able to peel open his eyes. Wayne was there.
âWhat happened?â Eddie asked again. Wayne smiled, and squeezed Eddieâs hand.
âThink youâre gonna remember it this time?â he asked instead of answering.
âNo idea. Tell me anyway?â
âYou said that last time, too.â Wayne chuckled.
What Wayne told him didnât match what Eddie did remember; obviously the mysterious government suits had provided a cover story. A shitty, ridiculous cover story that was only slightly more plausible than the truth. Still, one that cleared his name, so Eddie probably should be grateful. And, cover story or not it was good to know Henderson was fine aside from a mildly twisted ankle. Sinclair and Lady Applejack had gotten a few bruises. Red had a way too many broken bones for anyoneâs liking. Something had happened to Robin and Wheeler the Elder, though neither girl would say what. HarringtonâŚ
Harrington had fucking vanished.
âWhatâll it cost me?â Eddieâd asked. He wasnât normally a cautious guy, but heâd read enough stories about deals with the devil to know they were tricky.
âDepends on what you ask. I mostly deal in small favors. You know, a girl who turned you down gets her period early and bleeds through her pants in class. A fire alarm goes off just when you were about to take a pop quiz. And I take something of similar value in return.â Harrington had frowned at him then. âShit like making sure I end up team captain, or always get the good drinks at parties. Itâll be a little harder to get something useful from you.â
âRunning the DnD club doesnât count as recruiting souls?â
Harringtonâs laugh could only be described as a cackle.
âWhat makes you think I care about recruiting souls?â heâd asked. âBut no, it doesnât. If I wanted souls, Iâd do better with basketball. One soul per college scout.â
âWhat if I want something big?â
âWhat happened to Harrington?â Eddie asked Dustin the next time the kid visited him.
âI donât know.â The others all said that, too. Swore up and down they hadnât seen him since theyâd split the party to fight Venca on multiple fronts. Henderson was the only one Eddie didnât believe.
âTell me what you do know.â It was a demand more than a request, and Eddie felt guilty making it. Dustin had to be missing his surrogate brother.
âAfter the gates joined, Nancy went through at the Creel House, but Steve and Robin came back for us. You wereâŚumâŚI asked Steve to save you. He said he would. Then he went all demon-y, and asked Robin if she wanted anything while he was at it. She asked him to get Vecna. He must have. Because weâre all alive, and when El got here she said that One had been killed.â
âBut how?â
âI donât know! Demon stuff, probably,â Dustin snapped. âSteve carried you and me out of the gate, he put us in a car and told Robin not to worry about being a bad driver, just to head towards Hawkins Memorial and weâd get there safely. I didnât see him after that.â
A deal with Dustin to save Eddie. And a deal with Robin to save them all.
âYou and Nancy Wheeler, trying to shoot for the moon.â Harrington had shaken his head almost sadly. âShe couldnât meet my price. Tried her hardest for nearly a year. But even the hope of bringing Barb back wasnât enough.â
âI donât want anything as big as a resurrection.â Eddie had been thinking more along the lines of getting the house back. Or freeing Wayne from his fatherâs debts.
âOnce weâre talking about anything of real significance, the exact size doesnât matter. You see,â Steve had leaned to the edge of the summoning circle, like he was inviting Eddie into a confidence. âIâm not exactly supposed to be here. If I do anything too obvious, something that couldnât happen without demonic intervention, I get dragged back to hell. So the price is the same regardless.â
âAnd that is?â Eddie had been through a lot more in his life than prissy Nancy Wheeler. He could stomach what she couldnât.
âLove me.â
Robin didnât visit Eddie in the hospital. She didnât visit him at his uncleâs new trailer when he got out. Eddie had to track her down at work, pretending to need help finding a horror movie to watch on the VCR he didnât own.
âI need to know what the terms of the deal were,â he whispered, leaning close as Robin tried to push him back with a copy of The Exorcist. The power of VHS compels you. âThe one Dustin made with Steve, and the one you did. What was the price?â
Robin relented.
âSteve told Dustin the price of saving you was losing him as an older brother.â Damn. That was harsh.
âAnd Dustin agreed to that?â The kid looked up to him, sure, but Harrington had been his hero.
âDustin thinks heâs smarter than he is. And he didnât know about the whole-â Robin made devil horns with her left hand â-thing. He probably figured Steve was just being a jealous bitch, and heâd talk him around once you were stable.â
That made more sense. But, âHenderson never tried to make a bargain before? Even by accident?â
âYou have to ask to make a bargain,â Robin pointed out. Which, fair enough. Dustin did tend to give orders where other people would ask politely. Harrington might never have had an opportunity to offer Dustin a deal. âI donât think it was really a deal. Steve was just telling Dustin the truth; that once he knew he wouldnât be able to see Steve the same way.â
Eddie wasnât sure he bought that. Steve wouldnât have saved Eddie for his own sake. It was a nice thought, though, that Harrington was capable of caring about Dustin enough to do real magic for free.
âWhat about your deal?â
âPaid in advance.â She scowled at him; if Eddie hadnât already known the price, heâd have been afraid to ask. âHow did you know about-?â
She made the devil horns again.
âI, uh, accidentally summoned him once.â
Robin lit up.
âYou know how to summon him?â she asked, bouncing on her toes. Eddie nodded. âI know his name. His real name. After Starcourt, the Russians, when I - I can bind him. Eddie, we can bring him back.â
âYour price is sex and youâre trying to tell me Wheeler didnât pay?â Gossip put Wheeler and Harrington in bed together a full year prior. Even if word of mouth had run a little ahead of reality, âI call bullsh-â
âMy price isnât sex,â Harrington had interrupted. âSex is cheap. There for the taking whether I want it or not. Fun but worthless. My price is love. Romantic. Platonic. Familial. Doesnât matter. But it has to be love. Do you know how valuable that is?â
Eddie hadnât.
âItâs almost time for me to leave, Munson. Is it going to be a small favor? Or do you want to try to earn something big?â
The summoning went a lot easier with Robinâs help. Or maybe it was being sober when he set it up. Either way, the candles flickered and inside the once empty circle stood Steve Harrington. A little less human looking: tattered wings, blood stained claws, and just barely noticeable fangs were added to the flaming eyes. But he was still recognizable to Eddie. And to Robin, who threw herself across the lines of protection theyâd carefully drawn less than an hour ago - smearing them into uselessness - for a hug.
âI missed you, too, Rob.â The voice was the same.
âOh, right, quick, put this on.â She handed him a ring. One of Eddieâs - she hadnât wanted to wait until they could find something a little more fitting of Steveâs image. âI bound you to the ring. I figured itâs portable, so you can take it with you if you want to leave Hawkins. You can wear it on your hand, or on a chain if you donât want it visible. Just donât lose it. If someone else takes it, theyâll be able to drag you around places. But I thought that was less of a risk than binding you to something you couldnât move-â
âBreathe, Rob,â Steve reassured her, hugging her tightly. âItâs fine. Better than fine. I didnât thinkâŚI never expected to see you again. Either of you.â
âWell, that was real dumb of you, Harrington.â Eddie grinned at the demon. The boy. His savior and possible friend.
It wasnât possible to look intimidating with Robin Buckley clinging to him, but Steve gave it a good shot.
âYou looking for another dirty magazine, Munson?â
âUh, I guess I could use a new skin mag? The one Iâve got is starting to fall apart.â
âCheck your mail tomorrow. Oneâs going to get misdelivered. You owe me one.â Harrington had smiled, smooth and perfect. Heâd disappeared when Eddieâd blinked.
The next afternoon, Eddieâd found the newest issue of Blueboy, meant for delivery in Chicago. Pretty impressive; Eddie hadnât even told Steve heâd needed gay porn. A week and a half later there was a note in his locker, telling him to pull the fire alarm at the beginning of third period.
And that was the end of it.
âNot this time.â That had been the end of it, until Eddieâs freshmen sheep turned out to be demon worshipers. Until Chrissyâd been murdered, and Steve had jumped in to help without asking anything of Eddie in return. âThat used to be my ring.â
âI figured.â Harrington glanced down at the snake now wrapped around his middle finger. âIâm not giving it back.â
âGuess youâll owe me one.â
âGuess I will.â Steve stepped out of the circle, out of Robinâs arms. âAre you doing Friday night? Come to mine. Iâll make you dinner.â
âYou asking me on a date, Harrington?â Eddie was pretty sure thatâs what Steve was doing. âItâs going to take more than one date to pay me back for that ring.â
Crazy how fun it was to tease a demon.
âI sure hope so.â
#hahaha i did not mean to do that#between trying to picture how canon could stay similar while steve was a demon#and the idea that hell was simply the absence of love (kind of perfect for steve's motivation)#i accidentally fic'ed#platonic stobin#steddie#(though i think it's a bit more stobin than steddie)#eddie munson#steve harrington#robin buckley#stranger things#if i post this to ao3 too i'll have to figure out something with formatting#color and tense should do for here#my fic
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So i remember an ask mentioning your mortal enemy, Felis Atra and their cats, and i thought it'd be fun to draw what Felis Atra's version of your italian dogs would be.
I think they would be called Butter Knife and Flamengo! Butter Knife is not his real name, it's an nickname given by his peers because of how harmless he is. I choose Flamengo because that's the name of Vasco's rival football team here in Brazil, so i thought that was the perfect name :)
Cat Machete was slightly inspired by the Oriental Shorthair cat because of their long noses and thin head shape.
Cat Vasco was inspired by the Scottish Fold cat, because FLOPPY EARS. I gave Flamengo longer ears and orange fur to make him more like his look-alike.
The last doodle is a reference to this ask (https://canisalbus.tumblr.com/post/728923918314946560/me-i-am-machete-ear-fan-number-1-those-ears) and contains the tumblr ask stand-in dog, whose cat version was inspired by the American Curl cat! They have round ears that are slightly floppy outwards.
Final notes: I know cardinal clothes don't come in vibrant blue, but i was ADAMANT on switching Machete's and Vasco's clothing color patterns. I would draw the rest of Butter Knife's and Flamengo's clothes, but i suck at designing cool outfits.
Speaking of outfits, for Machete's iconic void outfit, i figured it would be fun to make it more baggy for Butter Knife, in contrast to Machete's, that looks very tight-fitted. I think it's cute, it kinda looks like a sweater. Also i can't imagine a Machete doppelganger without high heels boots, so those HAD to stay.
Oh, and just to be clear, i'm not like, claiming ownership of these guys or anything. I just thought it would be a fun exercise. Hope you like them!! I love your art and your characters.
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#imagine if Vaschete but CATS and REVERSED -> Butter knife ;_; and Flamengo <3#this ask is from last year and I'm sorry I've allowed it sit in my inbox for so long ´m`#but I've been thinking about it intermittedly#the context was that someone said that somewhere out there existed my mortal enemy (felis atra = black/dark cat)#and they had frenzied cat ocs instead of melancholic dogs#first of all they both look so darling I'm getting radiation poisoning just from looking at them aaaaaa#and the fact you put so much thought and effort into this concept is making me go absolutely rabid#extremely strange seeing Machete with big pupils and Vasco with tiny pinpoints#Butter knife purring like a fluffy jackhammer is instant serotonin I love him#and yes if you turned Machete to a cat he'd probably be something resembling an oriental shorthair#especially one of those really exaggerated ones with giant bat ears and roman nose#and I keep visualizing Vasco as a scottish fold as well but it's kind of giving me sad bad feels personally#I can't look past their painful and debilitating health issues#the same mutation that causes the floppy ears also destroys the cartilage in their joints#it's such a shame because they're a terribly cute and charming breed#and in this case they really do have those similar rounded friendly shapes that Vasco does#if I ever draw them as cats myself I'll probably have to think of some other breed for him even though it would be such a perfect fit#also I think it's funny how you can swap everything else but Machete's heels have to stay :'> don't separate the crinkle and his boots#thank you so much! this was such a cool ask to receive I love how you designed their cat forms#gift art#dingergum#Machete#Vasco#own characters#Vaschete scenarios
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Buttercups and Golden Flowers
#i drew this mostly because i noticed that a lot of people mistake buttercups and golden flowers as being the same thing.#so i wanted to try drawing them like. distinctly different in the same image.#it's not a big thing but i do think the fact that they're different has some significance. or at least like. symbolic meaning.#my art#undertale#chara#chara dreemurr#safeutdr#something about the fact that they both look similar at least in color but one of them is poisonous.#the way golden flowers are clearly a positive symbol throughout the game and clearly heavily associated with Chara.#contrasted with the very negative connotations buttercups have. with asgore getting sick and chara using them in their plan.#you never see buttercups in the game. which makes it even easier to mistake the two. because we've only seen one kind of#golden/yellow flower. who's to say 'golden flowers' aren't just referring to buttercups? well.#why would there be golden flower tea if they were poisonous? why would chara want to see the golden flowers from their village if they're#the same kind of flower? they clearly have buttercups in the underground.#it feels almost intentional the way golden flowers are so easily mistaken for buttercups. or at least that the difference is so subtle.#it goes well with the way they're associated so strongly with chara who's also a very subtle yet important part of the narrative.#from a surface-level perspective the flowers that took their life and the one's they actually like/are important to them are the same thing#but when you pay closer attention to the narrative you can see the different symbolic meanings.#well. uhh I've thought about it too much don't mind me.#see i think about it from the perspective of chara being super adamant about them being two different flowers#and frustrated when anybody gets it wrong. because clearly. CLEARLY they're not the same.#'STOP confusing buttercups and golden flowers. i literally used buttercups to kill myself do you think i would still like them after that?'#'do you think i want to be associated with them? they're not the same!!'#<number one golden flower enjoyer number one buttercup hater.#i need a badge that says 'i have strong opinions about chara dreemurr because i kin them. i apologize for the wall of text' at this rate.
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if u like listening to music while u work but find urself getting distracted fiddling with queueing stuff/finding The Perfect Playlist/etc my recent hack has been just throwing on youtube videos of dj sets
book club radio is a good channel to start w bc they usually have the overall Vibe of the set in the title (i.e. "dreamy pop mix", "energetic techno mix" etc) so u can pick the general tempo or w/e u want but then it just kind of blends into the bg and u can set it + forget it
any time i put my own playlists on i'm just too familiar w what could be coming up and i end up wasting so much time skipping/scrolling 2 look for specific songs and stuff. dj sets are like putting a post-op doggy cone on me. it;'s out of my hands
#also youtube videos of dj sets are just fun.#it kind of has a similar vibe to sitting in with a streamer while u work? the ones i watch have video feeds of the parties they're at so it#Feels ambiently like hanging out w people. like putting on coffee shop ambient noise.#anyway speaking of streaming + dj sets i've also recently really been enjoying playing risk of rain 2 on easy mode just to loop endlessly#and selecting the perfect dj sets to put on the in bg based on the character i'm playing#(ror2 obviously has an EXCELLENT soundtrack already but i play it so much that sometimes i just want something different)#and anyway i'm excited to come back and do some vibey ror runs w handpicked dj sets in the bg. it's a nice time and i think u'll like it to
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This oneâs name is Coral (not to be confused with Queen Coral, but she was named after her) Sheâs Bayâs younger sister and an animus. (Her and Bay are friends with Hourglass because they go to a small school of animuses and hybrids. Bay just came with his sister. They have three more dragons in their friend group but who knows when Iâll draw them.)
#My art#my OCs#oc: coral#seawing#seawing oc#wof seawing#WOF#wof art#wof oc#wof oc art#wings of fire#wingsoffire#wings of fire oc#seawing wings of fire#animus#seawing animus#Her down-pointing horns (and kind of scale pattern and fin shape? Not as much though) were inspired by HoneyBeestâs Turtle design#HoneyBeest is only on insta and twitter and stuff though so I canât @ unfortunately#anyways she was fun to draw. VERY similar looking to her brother- mostly just slightly lighter and less saturated#yâall freaked OUT over Bay- heâs got like 260 notes as of me writing this- but Hourglass conversely has like 20 something notes. So idk if-#-tumblr users just like seawings or what but I guess weâll find out with this one wont we#I should do a lineup of the top sides of all their wings shouldnât I⌠maybe at a later date
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loop and mirabelle. That's it that's the ask
DAY 84: enrolled in the gossip wars
#codacheetah#isat#loop isat#mirabelle isat#isat spoilers#vaguely. mostly for the tags#i think it'd be sooo funny if like. loop and mirabelle postcanon.#loop has rejoined the party somewhat recently and they are not at all adapting. to be honest. reunion probably happened too soon#bc they are a siffrin which means they are disgustingly sentimental. their ass is not taking the time to discover themself as a new person.#do you really think loop is gonna take their own advice.lol.#lmao even#Ok so anyways i think the party and loop would have a weird thing going on#like theyre all extremely grateful to loop. and they trust loop through the general basis of theyre apparently very dear to siffrin#but fucking nobody knows what to make of this bitch. odile knows they are hiding Something but she has no certain evidence to pin it down.#isabeau can't catch loop alone for more than 5 seconds. has the distinct sense they're avoiding him and he does not know why#bonnie....well tbh i think they'd vibe with loop. bonnie win.#mirabelle. i think she wouldn't really like loop? not at first anyways#do you remember in sasasap mirabelle telling siffrin(loop) that for a long time she thought they were a callous sort of person#bc they never took anything seriously at all. like the whole journey didnt mean anything. until they took an eye for bonnie#i think mirabelle would catch a similar vibe towards loop(lol.) bc like#like loop's main presence in the group is negging siffrin and being weird and dodgy around everyone else#i don't even think they'd be mean to the others but they would do everything in their power to throw the party zero bones#so all mirabelle has to go on for loop is that they're kind of a dickhead to her friend and that they're not receptive to normal group#social activities. i think being on the receiving end of mirabelle's kindness would make loop kind of sad and she'd pick up on it#but like. loop is inexplicably important to siffrin. she doesn't know the details bc neither of them want to talk at all about the loops#and i think siffrin would be especially dodgy abt talking about loop in the interrim between them rejoining and them being Presumed Dead#so mirabelle tries a new strategy to bridge the gap between her and loop. the power of Mutual Haterism#more specifically i think mirabelle would get the impression of loop as being much more of a bitch than they actually are#due to the aforementioned siffrin negging#so like. maybe that's just how they socialize maybe they'd be down to talk about hot takes and gossip a bit
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Niche politics tip: If you start dissociating from politics so much it starts feeling like each side is akin to a football team or a game, you might need to take a step back in order to recuperate.
When you're so caught up in politics that you need to dissociate from the humanity of it in order to engage with politics, that's not a good sign. It's especially not a good sign when we are talking about human rights
#politics#it's especially weird when people treat your human rights as a game to 'win' regardless of how it affects you#there have been so many trans allies i've come across who treat trans rights as a game or a bargaining chip. and that's. kind of scary#this doesn't solely apply to trans rights but it's something i've encountered before#but i think a lot of people are so... desensitized? unaffected by horrible things that they genuinely dissociate from it#that's not a good thing though i think#in the long run it's for the best if you try avoiding this defense mechanism as much as possible...#...you are not the spawn of satan for stepping back to ground yourself back to earth...#...have you ever been on a plane where they tell you that in the event the plane goes down you put YOUR oxygen mask on first?...#...it's a similar principle when applied to politics...#...how exactly ARE you going to help like you want to and how others need when you are ground into dust?#and no this isn't 'be complicite!!!!' if people read it like that...#...this post is saying 'do not view people as a game to win because you are so desensitized to the horror around you'...
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I'll always be there for you...
"...every time you see the starry sky"
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Well, I've been thinking about this since I saw the Tails Starboy AU that @0vergrowngraveyard created (one that almost made me cry...)
If ya don't know about it, it's about what happened in the bad ending from Sonic 2 when ... Well Sonic fails to save Tails and he just appears in the stars at the end.
#Rdjdraws#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#tails the fox#miles tails prower#starboy#sonic and tails#I wanted to do this in my usual digital style but I kind of missed traditional painting so I tried something similar...#Yeah I was the one that asked the other day
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Connecting dots tonight (didn't connect shit, I've connected them, etc) because of this post about item descriptions to do with Sampo I saw a few days ago and! I feel like there are so many interesting things that could be implied from this!! Because the recipe for the High-Tech Protective Gear is given to you by Bronya (before the IPC invaded Belobog!), who says this little interesting tidbit about it:
This is an item from before the Eternal Freeze, 700 years ago. Even to the rest of the universe, it would be SORELY outdated. It cannot be made in Belobog anymore due to the loss of entire eras. It is effectively useless; this recipe had to be somewhere gathering dust, kept around solely for archival purposes. There is no reason for Sampo to know about this item or have any idea how it works and yet. AND YET. He's just running around selling knock offs!!
He shouldn't even know how to make these, but the fact that he does means Sampo either
had the blueprints from off-world before he came to Belobog (most likely but also most boring answer)
broke into Qlipoth Fort and copied down the blueprints (completely plausible - he's possibly shown doing exactly that in his splash art)
found another copy out in the ruins of the old world (also completely plausible - Sampo is astoundingly resilient against both the Fragmentum and the cold, as noted by Lynx haha)
Meanwhile, the Inferior Protective Gear recipe comes from an NPC in the underground, and when she gives it to you, she talks about building robots and the robot fighting scene sorry about the quality I didn't have screenshots for her dialogue so I had to use wiki
Which makes me feel like it's safe to say that the inferior gear is mostly being used in the underground, especially by the vagrants and their robots for fights, because...well, who else would use it? Cocolia has made it illegal to explore too far into the Snow Plains, and besides, it's way too dangerous for most civilians even WITH gear. The Silvermane Guards are funded by official sources, they have no reason to rely on Sampo for armor. So it makes sense for an underground mechanic to know the recipe; there's probably not as much market for it up in the overworld.
And if you look at the descriptions, you can see why this probably wasn't something that could be made in Belobog anymore; it requires a charging system of some sort.
We know it's not a problem with the basic materials because all three ingredients can be found right in the administrative district. But the underground only has two of them; somehow, despite being in the planet's crust, and literally crawling with robots...there is no metal down there. It isn't found anywhere, sold by anyone, or dropped by anything. And metal just so happens to be the one ingredient Sampo replaces in his knock off version.
The Inferior Gear uses trash instead, something which, going by the words of that same mechanic, is MORE than abundant in the underground- any good quality parts are extremely difficult to come by down there.
Anyway, all his shadiness aside, I love the implication that Sampo is smart enough to be able to take this item that no one else on the planet probably knows anything about, and was able to figure out what he could replace, and how, and with what, in order to make it easily accessible to the people of the underground, even without access to overworld resources. Because his version DOES work! It literally gives you the exact same amount of defense boost as the IPC one!
Someone should absolutely still knock him around for it, though, world's most slappable face fr fjkdsjfdkjafk
#hsr sampo#hsr sampo koski#sampo koski#honkai star rail#hsr#belobog#he's such a slimeball fjklsdajfkld#I feel like there is something to be said though about the fact that if anyone in the underground is buying this shit armor off Sampo like.#it's either his armor or it's nothing. the overworld isn't exactly sending them a lot of protective gear.#And I'm sure they'd rather have cheap armor they can make and afford themselves than nothing at all.#I wonder if Wildfire would be one of his customers for this stuff or not?#like I think Sampo would be a lot more upfront with them if they were- he's not stupid enough to bite the hand that feeds him.#And Natasha is probably his most important client. We already know Sampo smuggles weapons and is her arms dealer.#It's canon that he brought Seele her scythe-#-and I wonder if it's coincidence that Natasha uses a giant weapon that looks similar to the Silvermane hand canons.#I could totally see Sampo trying to sell his armor to ring fighters to fix the matches in his favor though FJKDLSJAFDKLJ#we already know he bets on the fight club from his About Luka line and his dialogue from the Cyrille the Fool quests#so I'm sure he'd be gambling on the robot fights out by Svarog's encampment too haha#do you think they have penny bets for the kids for that kind of fight#crying imagining Hook tagging along and betting single credits on the fights alongside Sampo's much heftier bets#she still wins more than he does JKLDJSKLAJDS
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ngl, "I'm the only one who understands [x] character" or "only ten people actually get [x] character" is like the #1 biggest red flag to me that a person probably will have an inaccurate interpretation of a character. because if you've decided that you understand that character in a uniquely objective way over others, you inherently wall yourself off from alternate opinions by deciding they're wrong on the basis of simply not being the exact same as yours. if you can't incorporate or even just ponder other people's perspectives, people who have lived different lives and are approaching the content through different but potentially very useful lenses, you might miss out on some extremely enlightening and fascinating interpretations. building yourself an insulated echo chamber is probably the worst thing you could do when assessing a character like that
#this is not about anything in specific it's just something i've been thinking about for a while#because I do see this kind of rhetoric come up more commonly than i'd like#like god even with veth i'd never say i understand her more than anyone else does. that's so stupid. and untrue#plenty of people probably understand her better than me even if just by a life experience that is more similar than anything i share w/her#when someone makes an inaccurate assessment of a character it is almost always because they've not actually taken the time to get it right#through interacting with and striving to understand what canon is saying#someone who actually puts in the energy and time to think and gather legit evidence for a thoughtful opinion?#that opinion is worth considering even if you won't always agree#but someone who's just like ''i'm the only one who understands them'? they will rarely show you the receipts for why that is#anyway#just thoughts
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When I see Pav's design I see a guy who really does not care about his rank or appearances (other than the boots rant towards Levi, but I personally like to think that's him showing some amount of concern towards a younger soldier, or to annoy him like the other character exclusive interactions in an attempt to distance himself from your party). Pav's shirt and coat are unbottoned down to the point where they don't even look like they fit him, his chest and and his bullet scars are exposed, he has unkempt hair, and seemingly has a very casual/sloppy posture which implies a lack of respect for the army he's supposedly been indoctrinated in. This contrasts with the image of how most soldiers are expected to be disciplined - to be orderly, clean cut, and tidy, especially higher ranking ones when displaying rank/status. Overall, Pav comes off as messy and possibly not even in his right mind from the beginning. When considering his true purpose for being in Prehevil is to kill the Kaiser, He's practically on a suicide mission.
And this can be further backed up by his attitude towards failing to kill the Kaiser, being saved, and taken to the train. What was the point of joining the same army that killed your village, rising up the ranks through whatever horrible means you had to go through and very possibly willing to do onto others what was done to you in order to get close enough to the man that you deam responsible for everything that has gone wrong in the world, only to find out that he was a indestructible monster beyond your powers? After that, it's either start from square one again, wait to die, or live your life on the run from everyone. Pav had kept a facade for possibly most of his life up until that moment, but as soon as he's cut down the mask breaks apart and he breaks down in train mad at you for giving him a few more moments of life.
To summarize, I'm intrigued by Pav's portrait because it gives us that hint on what kind for person he really is underneath the Bremen "disguise". He can't wait tear the damn thing off himself.
Is he a Bremen pig? Probably not. Is he still a pig? Yes. Or... rather something more feral hiding in the styes that he's trapped himself in, waiting to start a rampage in until he's put down himself. (Hmm. I wonder if that's would actually be a good Moonscorched idea?)
#Pavel Yudin#pav fear and hunger#Fear and Hunger#fear and hunger termina#Fear and Hunger 2#spoilers#fear and hunger spoilers#It took me a while as I was typing this that I realized he kind of reminds me of Char.#I've barely watched Gundam tho so pls do not @ me unless the comparison is accurate enough...#My only concern is that because his design is based off of World War II uniforms it's hard not to associate Bremen it with na/zis#- even though the developer stated that they were intentionally avoiding that...#any way i'm most interested in him possibly having more dialog with Levi or Karin since they (ironically) have somethings in common with Pa#and August since Pav's agenda is very similar to Ragnvaldr's in the 1st game.
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Kinktober Day 16 - Begging
pairing: pete âmaverickâ mitchell x f!reader
cw:Â established relationship, unprotected sex, teasing, begging, penetration
word count:Â 1623
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18+ ONLY | MINORS DNI
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You knew Maverick before your relationship blossomed. You knew the kind of man he was. You had known his peers more, had heard their stories about his arrogance and his ego. That was all before heâd finally approached you one night at the O Club, a smirk on his face like heâd already swept you off your feet from the first hello. It was proven to you instantly, how much of it was true. He had been so sure of himself that night, so convinced he was gonna take you home. And he had. There was nothing you could do to prevent yourself from liking him.
Youâd expected your little fling to last maybe a week or two, had it already set in mind that heâd probably play you and then immediately move onto the next girl he laid eyes on at the bar. Or according to Slider, maybe replace you with Iceman, what with all the weird eye contact and all.Â
Maverick was good looking; had a sweet, crooked smile and sharp eyebrows and the biggest green eyes. The kind of face that just drew you in. A lot of people looked at him. It wasnât like he was gonna be yours to keep.
Except he totally was.Â
And, as the weeks passed, you came to realize how much of his demeanor was simply a facade. Maybe not entirely, but to a certain extent.Â
Frankly, Maverick was just extremely well-guarded. As he told you more and more about his pastâyears and years of foster care, not getting into the Academy like everybody else, his ongoing grief for the family heâd lostâyou understood very well why he behaved the way he did. His defiance was freedom, invincibility. Something he could hold onto.Â
He had you now too.Â
With you, Maverick was able to let his guard down. Easily. He confided in you in ways you wouldnât expect. He preferred your company over the San Diego nightlife. Skipped out on volleyball games and nights out drinking to cuddle on the couch watching shitty rentals and eating pizza with you. Simplicity went a long way for him, and you quickly grew accustomed to that side of him.
Maverick was still Maverick, however. Unfolding himself for you didnât mean that that mischievous little glint ever left his eye, nor did it mean heâd let you off the hook when it came to his games. He was the sweetest, most attentive boyfriend in the world, and somehow the most frustrating, too.
Itâs almost humiliating, how desperate you get under his touch. He relishes in the excitement that courses through him every time you murmur a please. In fact, he loves it so much that heâs made it tonightâs little game; heâs not gonna touch you unless you beg him. Out loud, everything you want him to do to you. You nearly doubled over and groaned in frustration at his stupid demand. Maverick simply grinned at your exasperation.Â
âIâm not begging,â you retort. âThatâs humiliating.â
Maverick tsks with a slight tilt of his head. Theatrical. Toying with you. âLooks like we got naked for nothing, then.â
Unbelievable.Â
Your clothes are indeed discarded on your floor. Maverick pretends to reach down to grab his shirt, and you stop him. Pulling his arm, you manage to roll him towards you. He hovers over you, a tantalizing smirk on his face.Â
You pout and try to bat your lashes at him, hoping he takes pity on you.Â
âYou want me to pass you your clothes, dear?â he mocks instead, ignoring your pleading face. He wants words.Â
âOh, for fuckâs sake,â you groan. âMaverick, please.â
He raises his eyebrows. âPlease what?â
Your hand wraps around the back of his neck, and you eagerly pull him down for a heated kiss. He lets you, moving his lips against yours with enthusiasm that only deepens your desire for him. You almost think youâve got him as the kiss escalates, lips turning into mouth and tongue and teeth too. Youâre wrong though, your eyes opening mid kiss when you feel the fabric of his shirt against your bare torso. Heâd reached for it in the midst of the kiss, bunched it in his fist so that youâd feel it and then feel compelled to actually fucking beg before he pulled away to slip it on.
You push at his chest, lips disconnecting. âMaverick,â you whine, reaching for the shirt.Â
He grins again, moves it out of your reach as you squirm around trying to grab it.Â
You reach and reach and he moves it, up above your heads, to the side beyond your grasp. âCan youâstop it!âÂ
He tosses it to the ground again, leans down closer to you. âAll you have to do is tell me what you want.â
You stare at him. Fuck.Â
Fine.
âPlease,â you whisper. âI want you to fuck me.â
You watch the intrigue in his eyes. He responds at an equally soft volume, âHow bad?â
Your desire pools in between your legs, a small buzz beginning in the pit of your stomach. âBadly. Now.â
Maverick complies immediately, arm reaching in between your bodies to grab his cock in his fist. He squeezes around himself, groaning slightly at the feeling. Your hands gently cling onto his arms, but your nails dig into his biceps when he rubs the tip against the slick of your folds.
âTell me again,â he hisses.
âPlease,â you reiterate. âI need you now.â
âHm.â He shifts to his knees, palms on either side of you, dog tags dangling above your face. He reaches down to stroke himself a few more times before aiming his dick against you again, pushing in slightly with a shallow thrust of his hips.Â
You groan, eyes closed, feeling him stretch you open just an inch.Â
You expect the sting to increaseâthere hadnât been much foreplay, which was fine; you were aching for one anotherâbut it doesnât come. You open your eyes to the sight of him staring down at you, lips parted in shallow pants. Waiting.Â
You exhale, frustrated. âFuck me.â
Another shallow thrust of his hips, stretching you a bit more. He halts again, his other palm returning to the mattress on the other side of you.Â
The buzz inside of you heightens, your breathing growing heavy. âMaverick, please. Please.â
Content with your pleading, he moans, allowing himself inside of you another inch. You canât wrap your head around his persistence; how heâd gladly deny himself just to toy with you. Heâs aching to fuck you hard into the mattress, but heâs taking his sweet time instead just to hear you beg.Â
âPlease, please,â you murmur under your breath, both hands squeezing around his arms.Â
âOkay. Okay, sweetheart,â he breathes, pushing his hips forward in a swift motion to bury himself inside you entirely.Â
You cry out, nails digging into the flesh of his arms again. âOh, fuck.â
He leans down to capture your mouth in his, kissing you languidly as his hips meet yours. You inadvertently grab at his dog tags, keeping him close even when he pulls apart. Forehead to forehead, he hisses again, your tight heat enveloping him sweetly. Your legs come up around his waist to trap him there, to make sure he doesnât back away and torture you further, but you realize he still wants to hear you when he remains situated inside of you, unmoving.
âYou want it?â he asks.
âYes,â you gasp, hips sputtering. An attempt to feel him move. âSo bad.â
He moves slightly, eliciting a little happy sigh from you. Your body feels frozen from his relaxed, unhurried pace, and anything, any movement, feels like a burst of flames inside of you.Â
It sparks a restless urge in you, and you suddenly remember his demand to know your every want. How that alone will fulfill you.
âNeed you to cum inside me,â you blurt out, strained and shaky, back arching off the bed.
Maverick moans, your words edging him on, and he responds with a sharp slam of his hips.Â
That does it, and he can hardly hold back anymore. Sudden hard thrusts take you by surprise, your heels digging into his lower back as he makes it his mission to give you what youâve asked for.
You cry out again, and more and more as he fucks into you with the fervor heâd been holding back all along. Heâs got his own limits, after all.Â
He leans down entirely at one point, off his palms and onto his forearms instead to cup your head in his arms and kiss you. His mouth is sweet against yours, tongue prying at your lips to slip inside. His tongue against yours only adds to the overwhelming parcel of sensations coursing through your body.Â
When he feels himself close to the edge, he grunts against your mouth. âWhere?â he pants. âWhere do you want it?â
He knows. He just wants to hear you say it again.
You whine, loud and unstable. âNnghâinside,â you wail. âPlease.â
Maverickâs sounds get stuck in his throat, and the sight of his flushed, dazed face pushes you over. Itâs when he cums too that a string of repeated moans and whines spill next to your ear, intensifying your orgasm. Itâs shaky and feels incredibly overdue, your body releasing tons and tons of tension from the torturous prolongment.Â
Your throat almost feels dry from having begged and cried for him, but the glowy aftermath leaves you content.Â
Maverick eventually pulls out, his release dripping out of you. He takes a 2 minute breather, collapsed beside you with an arm thrown over your waist, and then gets up to clean you up.Â
You smile warmly. You love both sides of him.
#love how kinktober is supposed to be a fun little time and here i am writing abt mav's background and past#telling y'all again i do NOT know how to write short fics#also don't know if it's just me or if this one is kind of giving similar vibes to the last one#if so i apologize but i do love this one way more#alsoooo something about younger mav calling u âsweetheartâ..#top gun#top gun: maverick#top gun fic#top gun: maverick fic#top gun fanfic#top gun: maverick fanfic#pete mitchell#maverick#pete maverick mitchell#pete mitchell x reader#pete maverick mitchell x reader#maverick x reader#maverick x you#tom cruise x reader#top gun 1986#top gun headcanons#kinktober 2023#*#mav
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