#I think that’s all whoof

[skyward-floored]

You’ve mentioned including Spirit and the tfh Links in The Incredibles AU and although this is probably a bit spoilery to ask; could you tell us a little about them?

FOR SURE :D *gently holds all four of them* I just think they’re neat

...And you’re right that it’s a bit spoilery, but I’m assuming that since you’re asking you don’t mind terribly much about that? Here’s your spoiler warning anyways though! A lot of after-movie stuff here.

It’s also really long XD

So you’re aware of the small timeskip in the Incredibles after they defeat Syndrome (a couple months I think? Two? Three?) yeah? Well since Sky is finally home after being missing for more than a year, he and Sun take the time in the skip there to just take it easy so he can rest and heal, maybe even get away for a weekend for a little vacation or something without Aryll (who’s about three or four)

And somewhere after that, Sun finds out she’s expecting again!

Triplets! 🎉

...Sky promptly faints.

They’re not born until after the second movie would happen (...I think, I might have to check my timeline) but their names are Crimson, Azure, and Sage (thank you Tellie for talking about me with names <3)

They’d all be blond if not for the influence of their powers (kinda like Legend with his pink) but if any of them ever didn’t use their powers for a long stretch of time, it’d probably fade a little.

Crimson is the oldest of the three, and got his name from his shock of red hair (he looks like Malon! How did that even happen?! Legend yells) but also the superhero names of his father and grandfather. His power is simply a super powerful punch (think like the tiger miraculous from ML) but uh... sometimes he forgets how strong it is. Oops. He can be a little dumb, but he always means well, and is fiercely protective of his brothers.

Azure is in the middle, named for his eyes, but also his hair that’s allllmost blue if you squint. His powers are basically “plagued by visions” 🤣 I thought it’d be nice to reference sksw Link’s visions he gets, and also lean into powers Zelda typically has (since Azure is blue and blue is wisdom), so he often has visions of the future when he’s asleep (and as he gets older, when he’s awake too), but he can also create shields a lot like Hyrule’s. Think Nayru’s love from oot. He’s the quietest of the three, and also the smartest.

Sage is the youngest, named for his unnaturally green eyes (and his grandmother’s maiden name) and I’m still conflicted about his powers honestly XD Courage doesn’t have very many specific “powers” attributed to it, so me and Tellie have batted ideas around a couple times. She suggested maybe he can imbue things with courage, objects so they can help him, people so they can get past their fears. Despite thinking about this for months I’m still not sure if I want to go with that, so his powers are still a little up in the air.

...I did have the thought that maybe I could lean into the dragon aspect of things and have Sage’s powers be lightning-related like Farosh from botw (would also make a cool superhero name) but once again... still haven’t decided XD if anyone has ideas or anything I will not complain.

Now for Spirit! I don’t have as much on him yet as of now but I’m working on it 👍

Spirit is Warriors and Artemis’ son, born after years of trying (and not succeeding) to have kids. He’s born either right after the second movie or during it (...once again, I’ll have to find my timeline) and his parents are both ecstatic.

Wind promptly decides he’s going to be the same kind of uncle to Spirit that Warriors was for him, so the two of them are really close, and Spirit looks up to him a lot.

Spirit’s powers I haven’t specifically thought out, but I’m pretty sure I’m going with just seeing ghosts? That seems a little plain so maybe he’s got something else too, but I haven’t thought of anything good/better. Suggestions and/or comments are always appreciated :)

[quenthel]

i have been replaying origins and honestly the armors in the game kind of suck so i tried to design/redesign some iconic fits for the companions based on concept art/the more charming elements of the armors in origins....

bonus: my wardens surana and brosca

[kirdoodl]

so in your relativity falls au did euclid and scalene burn down their dimension too? btw loving ur interpretation of the au SO much!!!

Thank you for the ask! And I'm glad you like this so far :D (if you want the short answer, yes, they did)

As for the long answer... In terms of Bill's backstory playing into my interpretation? I haven't figured it out yet, I have a couple of concepts but I'm not really interested in exploring that part of the narrative (even in gravity falls) as much as other parts and character relations 💔

I'd like to think that Bill or even the concept of him doesn't exist in this au, so the destruction of his home dimension wasn't at all connected to him, but maybe Scalene and Euclid still managed to cause a tear in their dimension by other means.

As far as I know in tbob the destruction itself is kept vague, and lemme tell ya I am NOT creative enough to fill in those gaps in a way that is satisfying, especially in this scenario, but...

My personal headcanon is 2 lesbian triangles find out about the concept of z by seeing something from a perspective that would be impossible to them and then accidentally exploding their universe.

Slams hand on table, there ya have it!

[july-19th-club]

first time i watched 'no exit' i was 100% in jo's corner like oh great it's sexist dean time . wheeee let's all watch her learn a lesson about hunting and he can be 'right' in a factual way but he'll be as obnoxious as possible about it the whole time . now i think what's happening here is that he has pretty much instantly samzoned her, as a college dropout from a hunting family who has a contentious relationship with her one surviving parent. EXCEPT that she's a five-foot-something twiggy barely-out-of-her-teens woman who has a crush on him and has never been on a serious hunt before, and he's dismissive/over-vigilant enough with the actual sam, a powerfully-built man with clairvoyant powers and over a decade of experience. bearing that in mind, his behavior towards jo is barely outside his normal realm of bossy and overbearing, and since he knows a little something about how sams will respond to direct orders, he still tells her mother she's not on the hunt with them so as to avoid the fallout until it's over. basically i think the whole dean thing, his most consistent characterization over the course of fifteen years, is his tendency to express even genuine protectiveness through the medium of 'bossy older sibling', and this makes him come off like the worst person on the planet. he frequently IS, but it's actually because of other things and has nothing to do with that habit in specific

[rukafais]

Reading pulp fantasy and understanding how it shaped the fantasy genre is extremely fascinating because its like "oh, that's why every Strong Female Character heroine of the 80s-90s fantasy boom was Like That, huh"

[the-insouciant-scientist]

Finally, after long last, I'm done! A character lineup for @the-dye-stained-socialite's fic Take a Bow, written during the Fallen London Fic Swap! I got very inspired by all the descriptions of characters and costumes and went uh. A little nuts. Can't say they're all accurate as historical stage costumes go, but I think they look cool as hell, so!

Characters and who they belong to under the cut! Because there's quite a few of them.

Jamie Awnings, @thedeafprophet

Elias Leroux, @the-dye-stained-socialite

Rook, @moonstruck-stormy

Irving Merritt and Harper Faraday, (me)

Jules, @thedandy-detective

Orsinio Elderwood, @house-of-mirrors

And finally,

The Ex-Disgraced Academic, @alexis-royce :-)

[realmikedirnt]

w's for the day:

Facen't

.... by which i mean i got the radiator assembly off of the mini on my own. got a couple other things off as well, and i've been keeping everything labelled and recording how things go together. recording and labelling is probably making it all take half again as long, but fuck me if it wont be good to have later.

my cousin helped me find + assemble the engine hoist and stand, which are both fuck off heavy as hell and were tucked in the back corner of one of the garage bays bc of course. it's so strange that he's 15 now.

my syllabus for enviro chem got posted !

annnd finally we found a fill for all of my raid days that i'll miss yippee

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Oh ho ho what a highly interesting question, anon👀

(Answered under the cut because it's a bit long)

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Before I give my proper answer, allow me to explain a bit of my interpretation of Tails. I actually see him as a sort of naturally jealous person with some innate possessive tendencies who has grown used to curbing these tendencies of his, which he had to do due to a number of factors.

One major reason is due to Sonic himself. To me Sonic has always had a complicated relationship with different kinds of love or attraction (and I do see him as on the aro/ace spectrum). So, when absolute strangers (or those he doesn't particularly like) obsessively pursue him for clear romance/possessive reasons, he tends to react with strong rejection or indifference, in contrast to how he welcomes ego stroking and praise from those who can be merely categorized as "fans" (or those he does particularly like). To me, Tails' initial admiration and pursuit of joining with and becoming like Sonic very well parallels how Amy Rose began to admire and pursue a romantic relationship with Sonic. Even if we consider that Sonic did save Tails that one time from being bullied (according to Sonic Prime and a new animation for Sonic 2 present in Sonic Origins), his pursuit of trying to work together with his hero (which is detailed a bit more in the jp manual for Sonic 2, and includes Tails going so far as to follow after Sonic everywhere and modify Sonic's plane) really isn't any more "normal" than how Amy begins to pursue a romantic relationship with her hero after Sonic saves her from Metal Sonic. The only real differences here were that Amy was explicitly pursuing romance, and that Sonic rejected Amy's advances but eventually took Tails on as his sidekick/little buddy.

This is also not to mention the implications here and there in what we can find of Sonic and Tails' backstory that Sonic would continue to run away and pretend he did not care, while secretly keeping an eye out for Tails.

And beyond that, as one of Sonic’s oldest friends, Tails gets to spend a lot of time around Sonic, and gets to see firsthand how he reacts to romantic prospects, his complicated relationship with "love" as a concept, and is present as Sonic’s group of friends steadily grows.

With all of that, I at least see Tails learning to deal with his innate jealousy and possessiveness so

Sonic doesn’t reject him

Because he doesn't want to keep Sonic from pursuing relationships with others

And for the sake of one's image/being a good person

If Tails has learned that confessing and making his romantic intentions clear could lead to Sonic rejecting him or it ruining their friendship (since he's seen first hand how Sonic has reacted in certain cases to love confessions or overt romantic affection), it makes sense to me that he would try to hold his feelings back (both those that are not squarely platonic and are explicitly romantic and/or sexual). And when it comes to Sonic, there's a guilt factor and an impossibility factor when it comes to keeping him from other people. Not only would Tails feel at least a little bad for restricting him, but Sonic does not respond well to being controlled. Now of course, how he reacts does depend on the time of his life and who it is, but there is nevertheless a futility in trying to control Sonic "I have no master except the wind that blows free" Hedgehog. And finally, my view on both Sonic and Tails, well... I believe that image and visual alignment is a big thing for these two, and that the two are secretly more...in the gray (or at least, that they're surprisingly immoral so to speak). In their origins to me, Tails is just a kid, minding his business, who does not inherently seek to hurt others (though his faith in those around him does matter), and Sonic is just a kid, free as the wind, who doesn't particularly care about being a good guy, but loves the attention. Essentially, though he does save some people on whim, the idea is that Sonic originally fights Robotnik simply because the Doctor, his machines, and his pollution have such a negative effect on his home. So beyond this point, he fights as a hero both out of interest of having his home intact/being alive, and because (simply put) he likes what comes from being considered a hero (all the praise and perks). And so because Sonic is someone that Tails admires, because Sonic has to uphold a baseline image or reputation so he can still be considered a hero/good guy, Tails becomes accustomed to doing the same. That's a bit of an oversimplification (how I see them and why is the subject of a proper essay about that), but the point is that Tails is also conscious that trying to overtly control or manipulate Sonic would not objectively be considered "hero or good guy behavior", especially if it goes too far.

And so with all of that plus the fact that Sonic has never seemingly accepted anyone's romantic inclinations or dated anyone, Tails curbs his natural inclination towards jealousy and possessiveness so he can be content enough to be at Sonic's side. Perhaps there are more friends Sonic is going to get, people he's going to show an interest in, but Tails can put stock in the fact that it's unlikely that Sonic will date anyone. Plus, even if that somehow does happen, Tails is largely fine as long as he's guaranteed to be by Sonic's side no matter what. So as long as he can be with Sonic forever, no matter their relationship, he's as content as can be.

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But then Sonic starts dating Nine, right?

And hahaha don't get me wrong here. Tails is pretty practiced. He's not gonna blow up or anything.

But once he gets past the initial shock of that being true, I think he just feels jealous and conflicted by default. I mean, he's just been accepting that there's no hope of ever being in that kind of relationship with Sonic. And not only has someone gone and done it, it's not just anyone.

It's a version of him.

And if a version of himself managed to do it (a version of himself who once lashed out at and fought against Sonic no less), then what does that mean about him? Does it mean that there's something about Nine Sonic likes better? Does it mean that he's had this entire situation wrong? Does it mean he lost his chance and he'd been so afraid for nothing? Does it mean that he could have had that this whole time?

And that's not to mention navigating this. Even if I believe Sonic is very very capable of having multiple best friends or even partners, it's only natural for Tails to get a little afraid of being replaced (especially if he learns that Sonic also considered/considers Nine as a best friend also)

But Tails is the type to not want to burden Sonic with all of this while becoming increasingly more worried. And although he would naturally have a complicated relationship with Nine, I still think he would generally like him and not want to take out his feelings on him. So with that being said, I think he'd sort of try to hold it in and act normal while really not acting all that normal, because though he could hide his feelings better if he wanted to, he still kind of lets it slip because he kind of does want to talk to Sonic about it or let his feelings be known.

I think that whenever Sonic eventually does see that Tails is acting a bit off he'll eventually talk to him about it or try to get him to, but, honestly, even if Sonic could say things (true things) that would make him feel better, I don't think Tails could be as content as he would be if it was idk... Knuckles or Shadow or what have you. Because if it was anyone else, Tails could be more content knowing that his relationship with Sonic is special and that he'll always be by his side, even if he's dating someone else.

But with the fact that the person that Sonic has chosen to date is another version him—a version of him which Sonic has also kind of clearly developed a similar "best friendship" with? I feel that even if Sonic tries to reassure him, Tails will forever be plagued with bitter and jealous feelings. Even if he'd never force Sonic to stop dating anyone, much less force him to date him, I don't think he can even really feel content here unless Sonic chooses to date him also if that makes any sense.

So, yes. That's my answer. Tails would try to be really good about it, but he's still bitter and annoyed and jealous and wondering if he's enough or has been doing something wrong. He's wondering why it couldn't have been him. And he won't be able to just be content at Sonic's side if he can't also be with Sonic. So while I can't say how long it will take, something will have to give eventually. I think at some point in their future, Sonic will have to tackle his specific feelings for Tails and they'll have to talk about their specific relationship, especially if he's dating Nine right in front of him.

[echthr0s]

allegedly there's a storyline in here somewhere but right now I'm enjoying "Finally After Like Nine Years I Can Take High Definition Images Of My Boss" Simulator

[devilcroc]

hypnospace is a good game. i will never forget how dylan merchant made me feel when i beat it for the first time

[blackjackkent]

Ask prompt fill for @astreamofstars for this ask meme: Prompts for Ordinary Things That Feel Intimate Rasaad/Jaheira - [ carry ] after receiver falls asleep in an inconvenient place, sender carries them to a bed and tucks them in Set around 1400DR. This turned out to be mostly just a rambly sort of character exploration, but you'd expressed interest in hearing more of Rasaad's perspectives and I wanted to play around with exploring them, so here we are. :D Hope you enjoy!

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They call it the Night Stalk.

It is, Rasaad has always felt, a rather ominous term for a ritual which carries such meaning to so many Selunites. Then again, “night walk” sounds counterintuitively mundane, so perhaps there is no winning, in the end.

A pity it is not so simple a thing as either name suggests. He sighs, pacing slowly along the cobblestones, trying and failing to settle his thoughts.

It was easy once, of course, when he was young. In Calimport, the monks honored the full moon by meditative circuits around the wide courtyard at the monastery’s center, bathed in Selune’s light and lost in prayer to her radiance. As a boy, Rasaad looked forward to these nights - the crisp fresh air of the desert after sunset, and the goddess’s light binding them all together.

That was before everything fell apart. His brother's death. His vengeful quest for Alorgoth. The shattering apart of his brotherhood with the Sun Soul. For many years it became difficult to see himself as worthy even of prayer, let alone a more intense communion.

It's only in recent years that he has come back to the practice, cautious and uncertain. As much at Jaheira's urging as at his own will, he's started to watch for the full moon again on their journeys. It's simple enough on the road, at least, to wander away from camp into the darkness, just far enough that the light of the fire fades, and relinquish himself into the moonlight. 

And now I am here, he thinks ruefully, kicking at a pebble and watching it skitter along the battered cobble. Trying yet again, in yet another place.

This is his first stalk since he and Jaheira purchased the small house near Baldur’s Gate’s harbor. Even though they’ve now owned it for nearly a year, their stays here are intermittent at best and have never coincided with the full moon until tonight. And in spite of his anticipation, he's already finding that attempting to commune with Selune on a city street is a far different experience than in the dark of an empty forest. The light of the moon, full and bright as it is, is nevertheless dimmed and muted by the flaming and flickering lamps that line the street in front of the house. 

His eyes narrow in frustration and his step quickens, taking him around the corner and behind the house into the shadows. It’s slightly better there, shielded from the street; he relaxes, coming to a halt, and watches the silver light glint off the water of the small creek that runs down towards the shore. Better. For some minutes he simply stands there, unmoving, drawing slow breaths to the count of six as he was taught as a boy.

It's a strange business, this return to city life, more so than he expected. Jaheira’s work with the Harpers was bringing them to the Gate more and more often, and Rasaad initially thought himself pleased with the development. It would be nice, he felt, to have a place that was theirs, a place that was home. He will never return to Calimport, but it was home for many years of his life, and he has missed having an anchor point to which their journeys could be tethered.

But it has not been quite so simple in practice. He did not, perhaps, account for the way that coming to live in Baldur’s Gate, even for these intermittent periods, would touch much older and more primal memories. Cracked stone streets and the shouting of merchants, the smell of coal fires and the sea, and the furtive movements of rats and thieves and lonely children in the shadows. Such things recall to him his very earliest years before the Moonmaiden entered his life, and while the memories are not unpleasant, it leads to a… jumbling of his thoughts, a feeling of all the chapters of his life pressing in on him from behind.

All the more important to take these times for meditation. Slow breaths. One… two… three… four… five… six. 

Calm returns, and with it, the sense of Selune’s presence, undimmed by lamps or anything else. A soft hand on his shoulder - and a gentle chastisement for his irritation and strain. I should know better, after all I have seen, he thinks ruefully. Every place has its own challenges, and the moon follows everywhere, city or field or forest. A good reminder.

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His tension eases as he surrenders himself to the meditation. But even so, eventually he cannot hold himself still any longer. Solitude and contemplation do not come as easily to him as they once did. Not after all he has been through, and not with Jaheira waiting for him inside. 

He pushes open the back door of the house and steps inside, feeling the welcome warmth of the dying fire in the fireplace compared to the late fall chill outside. With a heavy breath out, he begins to trudge towards the stairs, shedding his outer robe and tossing it over the back of one of the kitchen chairs - and then halts, hearing the subtle sound of movement from the study.

“Jaheira?” he calls softly. He’d assumed she went to bed long since, but pushing open the study door, he finds his wife slumped in her chair, head resting on one arm on the desk. Her other hand is gripping a pen, which is slowly dripping ink onto the corner of a report of Harper activities in Waterdeep. Occasionally she twitches, scraping the nib of the pin against the desk, and mumbles a few inarticulate sounds.

Rasaad smiles. Moving to her side, he places a hand gently on her shoulder, and she stirs at once, a quick jerking motion like a frightened animal. Her eyes flutter half-open, and then, seeing Rasaad, she relaxes. “Hmmn…?” she says drowsily.

“You are up late,” he murmurs, rubbing his fingertips in slow circles over her back and shoulder.

She mumbles something else barely audible; he barely discerns the word “reports”. 

“They can keep till morning, surely,” he says. 

She doesn’t respond. 

He can guess at her thoughts; he knows her well enough by now that he does not need to force her to say them aloud. If Rasaad is perplexed by the re-entry into city life, Jaheira is a thousand times less comfortable. The house feels strange and dark, too new and too enclosed and too large all at once. She can rest here if he is beside her… but when he is not, the walls and the city rumble press on her too fiercely. She saw no point in lying alone, staring at the ceiling; better to work, to chip away at the neverending set of tasks she lays for herself, while he prowled the night outside.

“I am here now, my sun,” he says softly. “Shall we go to bed?” 

He runs his fingers through her hair, and she rolls her head into his touch. “Mmm,” she agrees sleepily. 

At this assent, he crouches down and lifts her carefully into his arms. “Come then,” he says, and dips his head to press a kiss to her temple.

Her eyes flicker more fully open as he begins to carry her up the stairs. “Mmph. You spoil me, foolish man,” she mumbles dryly, her voice still thick with sleep. “Take care I do not become too used to this…”

“Would that be a bad thing?” he murmurs.

She chuckles hoarsely, turning her head to press her face into his shoulder. “I will not have the city make a soft thing of me, Rasaad,” she says after a while, the words muffled into his shirt.

Ah. He pushes the bedroom door open and carries her inside - but does not take her to the bed, instead letting her down onto her feet so she stands pressed against him. At once she wraps her arms around his torso, turning her face now into his neck.

“I would not ask it of you,” he murmurs. 

As he folds his arms around her, he feels her start to relax into him, and there’s a long silence while he presses another slow kiss into her hair. Her embrace feels comfortable and familiar and safe. There are no questions here of faith or past failures or city smoke; there is just her and him.

“This is a strange place for us both, is it not?” he asks quietly after a while. 

“To put it mildly." She's coming more awake now, but doesn't pull away, her fingers fisting into the back of his tunic. "I am glad we will be on the road again before long. I cannot imagine what it would be like, to live in such a place unceasingly.”

“I did not turn out so badly for it,” he points out, raising an eyebrow with the flicker of a smile.

She snorts a low laugh against his shoulder. "Perhaps not." She pauses, shifts to settle more comfortably into him, and lifts her head to kiss his jaw. “I am glad you are here with me,” she adds in a low voice. “If this is to be our home.”

He’s quiet for a little while, then tucks his fingers under her chin to lift her face to his. “You are my home,” he answers. “This place is only a place that is ours.” 

She smiles at that, and he feels her relax fully against him. “Then what have I to complain of, hm?”

[astro-inthestars]

hOLY SHIT IM BEAT i am SO lucky we dont have schoolwork anymore and we're only left with musical practice, but I just had to walk to the market to buy myself some boy shoes and a black tie for my Musical costume (win for the boy community tbh), and just walked back HOUGH i am TIRED

but then i still have to make a diy binder (<-IMPULSIVE DECISION BTW), create a keychain for my friend's birthday tomorrow (can someone help me with that-) AND try to bake brownies for the same birthday. oh my god...

[infizero]

so thats the end of the session then DAMN. all that and they didnt even succeed their task. fuckkkkkk

[waterbearable]

oops! every one is down bad for wink and I wasn't really trying😂

[a-little-monotonous]

man it's genuinely nice to rewatch su without all the. gotdam drama in between waiting for new episodes

[scruncheduppaper]

to elaborate on this — i don’t think any ships within this chart really work without referring to the others or at least acknowledging them (with the exception of fiddlestan bc they havent actually met the way people portray them as in canon LOL)

starting from there, fiddlestan stands on the basis that fiddauthor existed, at least a very unrequited version of it — and to acknowledge fiddauthor means also to acknowledge billford and how that affected their relationship. billstan doesnt function without previous existence of billford, and billford is better when grounded by the existence of fiddauthor.

and also every single one of these relationships is painful LMFAO

i cant take it anymore i cant do maths anymore