#I'm completely onboard with this headcanon

[decepti-thots]

tarantulas/mesothulas for the headcanon meme?

Headcanon A:  realistic

i assume that the actual period in which mesothulas and prowl worked together was substantial, but not that long. i think by the time Sins happens, it has been longer by far since they saw each other than they ever actually like... worked together for. when prowl throws him in the noisemaze, they're still on cybertron, and more to the point there's clearly still major settlements of civilians on cybertron. (it's the inciting incident, in fact.) we know mass evacuations started about four million years prior to canon, if my timeline is in order, after which things increasingly moved offworld. anyway, i think they worked together from about the start of the war through to somewhere before the million year mark at most, so mesothulas(/tarantulas) has had a very, very long time to stew over the version of events his brain has settled on when we see him in Wreckers. which... well i'm sure that was very healthy and fine probably, look at him, he's a model of emotional stability.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

i do think the concept that he's sort of lying about never even trying to join either side because of his Aloof Neutral Objectivity is. a little bit of a lie. is very funny. he briefly tried to join the decepticons for purely pragmatic reasons (shockwave had a very fancy lab) and shockwave was like. hm. no. massive liability. and now mesothulas is like "oh i would never even BOTHER WITH THOSE IDIOTS nope i am far above all that actually". seems like the sort of thing he'd do.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

i am increasingly convinced of the idea it works to have the original impetus for tarantulas to make his time travel device be some kind of plan to go like. take ostaros out of the timestream before anything ever happened and start again with him. (presumably erasing springer in the process.) it strikes me as completely unrealistic he'd never have even considered it when coming up with that idea. so him not doing so makes the most sense to me if it's an idea which (having watched, and grown attached to, springer as he currently is) he actively abandoned.

i think he's telling the truth that when he abandoned this idea he was 100% onboard for all the 'fuck around with the specimen' stuff, but his original goal being an aborted one to go get ostaros fits fine with that.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

do i think the relationship mesothulas had to shockwave was supposed to be senator shockwave? no, obviously it's supposed to be post-shadowplay evil amoral scientist shockwave. do i think it is way too fun to imagine pre-war shockwave as mesothulas' benefactor despite all those red flags i'm sure were visible from ten miles away, because, well, senator shockwave was a little morally dubious and mesothulas was very good at science? absolutely. 100%. you'll pry it out my cold dead hands.

[roxannepolice]

Rant 1/waiting for the department head to open his bloody e-mail/TDF doesn't work, really

The Doctor Falls is literally the highest graded Master episode on IMDB, and I'm not denying that it's a good episode, and also know that for some it is there that they like the Saxon Master best, but tbh for me it just doesn't work. Or perhaps works, but in that weird way where a work meant to send one message gets celebrated in a completely contradicotry way, Don Quixote style. Yes, Simm!Master's fans have been critcising it since 2017 as erasing his story in s3-4 (and tbc, I am pissed at the the way in which the Blasting of Rassilon was framed by Twelve, also bad at driving? the guy who repeatedly went back and forth between the end of the universe and 2007 UK? coming from the "oh I might have missed my mark by a few centuries" guy?), to which it is questioned if he really had a development, to which others ask if Missy had an actual development, and so on and so forth, but to me the problems go way, way deeper. At the same time, I always welcome pointing out if I missed something and general criticism (consider it a practice in waiting for the comments from my supervisors)!

First off, a simple question: did the Doctor have an actual plan that involved the Masters, or he was just expecting them to happily turn his sacrifical suicide into an expanded one for no practical reason??? Like, his only plan is "and then someone stays here and blows up the entire platform so Cybermen can't get higher up, and that's gonna be me because I'm dying and tired". So did he want the Masters to "stand with him" to, what die too? Leave with the colonists - and then what, live as retired alcoholic gunmen farmers, Clint Eastwood-style? Because the part where the colonists get away was achieved anyway! I guess they could get up to the Doctor's TARDIS all the way up and then even go fetch him, but I suppose that would elbow the sacrificial part away. Also, the option where at least some of the colonists pack themselves into those lifts and everyone gets onboard the Master's TARDIS is like. There. And wouldn't those guys know where more lifts were, like that's how they got to the level in the first place???

I'm not saying you can't headcanon an alternative plan that the Doctor had, but it sure as hell wasn't communicated to the audience, which, to clarify, I am focusing on here, like I'm analysing the episode as a work of fiction that someone was in charge of, not a documentary of strategic mistakes done by people under pressure.

Second: Missy just had to, had to, keep her plans a secret from the Doctor. Why???? I don't even have much to elaborate on here, I just could never understand this, and a more serious problem here is:

Why did Missy have to kill Saxon in the first place??? Like, seriously. Why. Do you really look at this guy and think he would have thought twice about running away on his own if he got to the lift and noticed she wasn't there??? Oh yeah, but "he's worried about his future!". Well everyone would be if they saw their future standing in awe of the protagonist doing exposition for ten years of your own timeflow, but frankly I just can't see this guy as not prioritising the here and now of his own (very nice) ass needing to run! Like, was he actively STOPPING HER from staying with the Doctor? No, he just strolled the fuck away without turning back! Oh, but maybe Missy knows he has to die now to regenerate into her, so it's all about keeping the timeline going. Soooo, she does remember these events after all? The Master went out of plot timeline overlapping induced memory loss at just the right moment to realise he's dying of a stab wound on a Mondasian colony ship, but also to already be onboard the TARDIS? Very convenient. Again, I wouldn't be raging if this was actually communicated, but it wasn't.

Which finally leads me to Missy's "sacrifice". What sacrifice? No, really, did her death actually change anything, because that's like the definition of a sacrifice? Leaving aside the whole problem of whether or not the Masters staying with the Doctor would have changed anything, Saxon was letting her get away until she started talking about her reasons for staying. Which she did because?... Like, again, it's not like either of them is going to remember anything of this. Yeah, but it needed to be communicated for the audience. Ok, then this is exactly when bad writing steps in. Like, if you need the characters to do something incredibly illogical for the audience's sake then you didn't write it in a way that would be naturally incorporated into the story.

Missy didn't sacrifice herself. She died of character exposition. She crashed into the fourth wall like a bird into glass door. She's shuffled off her screentime coil, run down the literal curtain, and joined the bleedin' incidental music orchestra invisible. She's not pushing daisies only because BBC's budget didn't include them.

Ok, I railed myself up, but really, the fact that Missy's death is usually framed as a sacrifice is one of those moment where I literally wonder if there are some glaring version differences between the episode I watched and that watched by everyone else.

But you know, I get it. As the Doctor explicitly laid out in his speech (which is its own can of worms on whether it's logically solid, that I'll get down to while waiting for my principal to open his bloody e-mail), this is not about winning, this is about doing the kind thing. Which is where the actually interesting interpretation of The Doctor Falls comes in. Which is the clash between deontological and utilitarian ethics.

Crash course: deontological ethics relies on viewing certain acts as good or evil by their very nature, while utilitarianism wages moral value in reference to some specific goal, which is not neccessarily "gain", but for example, preserving the lives of as many people as possible. To use the trolley dilemma (which is a thought experiment! it's meant to illustrate things, you're really not doing a "gotcha!" by asking about mass transport quality and regulations, though I appreciate this as a rethoric device), a deontologist will say reverting the train to one person instead of five is wrong, because at this point it becomes murder, while an utilitarianist will say reverting is right, because more people are saved than killed. To use a less cliche and reconfigured example, is it moral to blow up a planet if that's the only way to stop a war that's literally warping time into nonexistence? I've argued elsewhere that the deontology vs. utilitarianism is also the contrast made by John Smith vs. professor Yana. Yeah, I know the usual reading is "oh, look, the Doctor can be kind of a dick and the Master a good person!", but if you scratch down to the bottom of things, it's more the case of "the Doctor will focus on the values of people they identify with and the Master will focus on a goal; should they land in an environment where they will respectively identify with bigots, and have only one goal left in the universe and that's preserving life, they will be how they ended up being". Self-sacrifice becomes a matter of calculating yourself as the most expendable party.

In TDF, the Doctor is placed on the deontological side of the dilemma by everything he says during his speech(tm): it's kind. It just is, by its very nature. And to clarfiy for the pissing on poor website: I am not denying this! This is a very, very soild point! What I do argue is that Saxon Master isn't just being very bad because he never heard the music uwu, but that there's an ethical standpoint to his actions too! He's an utilitarianist, as the Master's always been! Why, just why is it wrong to mind control people if they clearly can't make the right choices on their own? Why is absolute power evil if individual will keeps going astray? Why is it wrong to body posses people if this saves my own life? Why shouldn't I change history if there are very good people in need of saving? Why shouldn't I run away if the only plan to save others will include me dying and no gain in return?

Again, the Doctor's speech is its own can of worms, but arguably the biggest leap done there is jumping from guilt vs. shame to "to thy own self be true" arguments. When you think of the Master as a utilitarianist... it's Saxon who fell where he stood. He stood on the side of "This is a pointless endeavour and I reject pointless. And if I'm to become someone who goes for pointless, then I won't be myself anyway and I might as well die." Absolutely not the intended reading, but death of the author, baby.

[rebornologist]

♡ Misc. Varia Headcanons ✧ 1 of 2

✧ Belphegor is fascinated by the dentist office kid's toy. He thinks its an absurd little contraption, but he really enjoyed something akin to mouse trap as a child and the structure of moving blocks and balls reminds him of that silly little game. It's where he began training his brain to set up traps. He would have also been a Lego kid and enjoys a good 3D puzzle. Unfortunately for him, he also had a very traumatizing childhood and is not the best at tuning in to and soothing his inner child, so you won't necessarily find him building a little miniature saw trap for fun.

Speaking of the dentist office, he built up a very meticulous routine with his dental health and adheres to it pretty well, despite being fairly lazy with everything else. It's just a part of his morning and evening routine, so he doesn't think much of it at this point in his life. Compared to the rules and to-dos that he had growing up, this is the most lax living situation he could be in.

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✧ Lussuria is a notorious shower singer, it's like he has whole entire pop concerts in there. He will go through Lady Gaga's entire discography if nobody stopped him. He may not always have time for it, but hell, he will make time because there is nothing better for him than a little Sunday reset everything shower. He has a similar routine prior to missions as well.. gotta look and feel his best for his fabulous job, clearly.

He's an enigma for how packed his schedule is and how he has time to do so much. He has missions to complete, physical training and conditioning, so much paperwork to fill out, and is actually in charge of a lot of the Varia "onboarding", if that makes sense. Part of it is because he does see them as a family and wants everyone to be welcomed appropriately to the team. A lot of the underlings really like Luss for that reason, he's the most warm and welcoming, as odd as he can be. A number of Varia members don't even get to see their boss in the flesh, mostly hearing about him.. or hearing his outbursts and being too scared to approach and find out what happened this time... as a result, many are most familiar with Luss and Squalo as the representative leadership.

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✧ Levi loves a good affogato, and would rather die than let the word get around that he likes ice cream in his coffee. He does not like black coffee at all, and sometimes is secretly, on the inside, extremely displeased when that is all they have available. He's got too much of a tough guy exterior to keep up to bring it up, though.

He uses a ton of alarm clocks to wake himself up, and it's fine until they are working from outside of their usual base and the walls are any less soundproof than the ones at their mansion. He's a heavy sleeper, and he falls asleep fast. Like, flop down into bed and start snoring within 90 seconds type of fast.

Y'all is it so obvious that I'm so work-brained right now.. why am I thinking about Varia onboarding procedures... I love Luss so much can you tell. I was going to continue with the other members but I got sleepy... gn xx

[axnewxera]

// I've been in a big shipping mood lately so here's some headcanons I have for Rufus and how he'd be in a relationship!

I'm gonna touch on some NSFW material so there's your warning!

Quick disclaimer, this is just how I personally see Rufus and how I will be playing him as my muse. Any and all interpretations of his character are absolutely valid and I'm not here to tell ANYONE how they should view or write the character!!

So like, first off, I really more or less see Rufus as bisexual. But I myself am a gay male, so I'm inevitably gonna be A LOT more onboard and passionate about male/male ships. I'm sorry! Though honestly, with how much Rufus openly flirts with Cloud in the Remakes, I think he does have a preference toward men anyway.

Rufus ALWAYS has his guard up. It's gonna take A LOT of work and effort to break those walls of his down. He is pretty much THE most famous, influential figure in the world and he cares GREATLY about his image and how people perceive him, even if he sometimes claims that he doesn't. He'll flirt all day long, but as soon as things start sounding more serious or vulnerable he will likely shut down unless he is completely trusting and comfortable toward the person.

I do very much see him as a Dominant, both in and out of the bedroom. That's something I kinda struggled with for a while. I think it's pretty common for authority figures to secretly be more on the submissive side in bed, as it's their way of letting go of control for once and getting away from their responsibilities. But Rufus worked REALLY HARD for those responsibilities and seems to genuinely relish the opportunity.

"You're a SOLDIER, aren't you? Which, of course, would mean that I own you."

I think the guy definitely has some fetishes, and is highly into dominating people in the bedroom and holding personal, intimate power like that over someone.

But, weirdly, I think he would also be very sweet and nurturing toward his partner?

Dude's got mommy issues AND daddy issues for days. But since I also view him as a Dom, I think those issues manifest more as being the authority figure he always WISHED he had in his life. He's almost maternal toward his partner. He nurtures them, he cares for them, he cheers them on.

And although he isn't submissive, I think he does also want to be nurtured and cherished in the same way. He'd never ASK for it or say he needs it, but he totally needs it.

Rufus is a Soft Dom: he treats his submissive with respect and dignity, he rarely yells and punishes, but rather nurtures and rewards. He pushes boundaries (and is definitely into some kinky shit), but is respectful about it and makes sure his partner is comfortable before he continues.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk!

[loneamaryllis]

HMMM in a hypothetical follow up to The Sweet Burn of Venom, how would Snape react to Harrie being rushed to Hogwarts after her heat had started and yet mysteriously ended sooner than it should have? In a kind of reversal to Harrie and her Alpha, how would Snape react to Voldie getting to her first?

And also to Harrie blocking out her heat/being in ABSOLUTE denial about any signs of pregnancy? At least, that’s what I would assume she’d do; what do you think the aftermath of Voldie’s visit(?) would be for her going forward, regardless of whether it was a dream/vision or not? 👀👀👀

Weeeeell I do have plot for what would happen next regarding this oneshot, but I have so many fics to write I'm not planning on continuing it.

Here's what would have happened:

Harrie shakes awake from her dream, is completely feverish and disoriented, but still coherent enough to understand it was a dream and Voldemort isn't here. She's also in heat. She scrambles downstairs, probably falls down the stairs actually, wakes up half the house. Her friends are worried, Harrie is NOT WELL, shaking, whining for an Alpha. She tells them she needs Snape (her Omega instincts trusts him and she does have a small crush on him at this point).

No one is onboard with that idea, but there is no other Alpha available, and in my headcanon A/B/O universe, an Omega going through a first heat alone could die. So in the end they call Snape, and he immediately grabs Harrie and tells everyone he'll do what's needed.

Snape Floos back to Hogwarts with Harrie, who's begging for him to fuck her. Except Voldemort has already marked her as his, and if Snape touches Harrie, he knows he's dead. So instead he brings Harrie to Voldemort.

(But it would be told from Harrie's POV so she doesn't know his reasoning and just feels utterly betrayed.)

Voldemort fucks Harrie for real, and claims her, and breeds her. He keeps her in his bed for the duration of her heat, which is one week. Once that time is up, he lets her go. Summons Snape, tells him he can bring Harrie back to Hogwarts, and that he'll see her soon or some other vaguely menacing promise.

Harrie is FURIOUS. She probably tries to kill Snape right there, or claws him and leaves a scar, or something. Snape brings her to Dumbledore's office, where they explain the plan they came up with.

Now that Voldemort claimed Harrie as his Omega, and also because she's pregnant, he can't hurt her, and he'll be compelled to please her. So their plan is for Harrie to lead Voldemort by his Alpha dick, finds his weaknesses, *become* his weakness, and end the war like that.

Harrie goes along with that reluctantly. She's half at school and half with Voldemort, and she's also still attracted to Snape despite everything (it doesn't help that he cares for her while she's at Hogwarts, brews her potions for her pregnancy, and protects her from all threats because Voldemort has ordered him to (and also because he loves her)).

Anyway, they end up fucking at some point, a hate fuck from Harrie's POV while Snape hates himself (a self hate fuck, if you will). Voldemort finds out, and Harrie watches while Snape gets punished, or punishes him herself.

Then I hadn't decided how the fic ended. Either Harrie decides life as Voldemort's Omega is tolerable if she gets to influence him enough to not be such a tyrant once he wins (bleak ending still). Or she flees somewhere with Snape and they raise the baby together (bittersweet Snarriet ending). Or she goes scorched earth on both Voldemort and Snape (and Dumbledore), and once they're all dead, she lives a happy life with her baby.

That's about it. :D

[designtheendless]

Hello! I'm not sure how to start this ask. First let me tell you how amazing your art is and how I'm in love with all your AUs, even the one I don't know of!!!!! You give us so much beautiful content so thank you forever!!!!!!!!!

I've seen your recent Titanic AU art and it was chef's kiss as always!!! Hob getting dream to feel like he's flying zazedffgggdfrffggfggh!!!! I'm also very glad to see this AU with them because I've been thinking about it too for quite some time and I'm taking on the opportunity to tell about it because I really really want to get it out (hope you don't hate me for this please please don't hate me!!!)!!

Basically everything happens like in canon up to the 1900s (Hob and Morpheus first meet in 1389 and their 1889 meeting ends with Morpheus stroming away because he certainly isn't lonely and doesn't need friends and doesn't need hob and so on...).

Only, in this AU, Roderick Burgess captures Dream somewhere between 1900 and 1910 and - is it due to the ceremony itself or to further magic Burgess used to try and get Dream to obey him? - Dream ended up losing all his memories... At first, it pissed Burgess pretty bad (first this guy turned up to be the wrong Endless and now, even if he ever was to cooperate, he doesn't even remember how to anymore!!) but then he found a way to take advantage of the situation.

See, I've got this headcanon that if Burgess didn't use the ruby to its 'full potential', that's because he understood how dangerous it could be to humans...except now he's got an entity powerful enough to wield it and whose mind has gone completely blank (and thus ready for him to reshape) at hand! So Burgess tells Dream he's his master - the powerful magus Dream came to in hopes of a fresh start. That he used to be in trouble, a minor magical being that had angered the wrong entities and ended up on the run. Burgess accepted to protect him, erase his memories and offer him a new life. Of course, there was a price - every now and then, when Burgess would ask, he would have to put on Burgess' ruby to grant him a wish - not much compared to what Burgess did for him but something Burgess couldn't easily do on his own.

Flashforward to 1912, when Burgess embarks on the Titanic, probably accompanied by his son(s?) and, obviously, by Dream who's still completely amnesic (I've also been thinking that Burgess might make him wear some special artefact or tattoos, supposedly to help protect him, but really to ensure he doesn't start instinctively using his magic).

Now guess who's also onboard? Hob of course! He's probably just faked his own death or something and is yet again about to start a new life (therefore he might be travelling in second or even third class in spite of him having enough hidden money?).

When Hob first sees Dream he can't believe it. Why would his stranger be on this boat? With Roderick Burgess? Acting so...strange?? (well another strange that his usual strange!). It can only be an uncanny resemblance but also...how could anyone ressemble his stranger?! How could he ever mistake him with anyone else?!! It must be him!!! But, hey, his stranger has a right to have a life of his own after all, and, though he hadn't imagined he'd spend his time with one Roderick Burgess, well, that's none of his business! It's not been 100 years yet and, anyway, his stranger had been very clear about the fact that he didn't want to hear from him ever again!

Still, Hob soon comes to notice something feels...off. His stranger doesn't only seem to accompany Burgess, he appears to be his subordinate. To obey him. To bow down to him?? Just looking at it makes Hob feels sick in his stomach and he knows he has to do something, to check if his stranger's alright.

Which won't be easy, first to find a moment to speak alone, then to convince Dream Hob's a friend - well, at least someone who means well - despite not even knowing Dream's name...let alone that a part of Dream might not entirely whish to get his memories back. Burgess of course won't be helping, pretending Hob's only after the ruby and probably getting him arrested (given his experience during the 1600s, being handcuffed to a sinking ship must be quite a nightmare to Hob).

Aaaaand that's what I have for now I think!! Anyway, sorry for being so long and thank you for having given me the opportunity to talk about this AU!!!

(oh, on a side note? I'm indireneedofsleeeep on tumblr for all sandman related things usually so this is the name you may spot on my reblogs but you can't send asks with a side blog sadly so...)

Have a good day 🥰

Hello! I really appreciate you reaching out and being so nice and supportive. It means a lot! (Also I know the pain of side blog limitations lol I wasn't aware of them until I made this one😅). And no hate from here! A hate free zone! Thank you for sharing this, it was an interesting read ! 💛✨

[hesawifebeaterdanusethegun]

Sillys and all aside, I hope your doing well today and have a silky ask!

What's your thoughts on like...fruity Ace Merrill? ....saying this because- (have you seen that shirt he's soooo???) HES! ...fruity you know?✨️

Honestly tho, kiefer just had that affect, being gay and gender if you ask me.

Oh I'm totally onboard with gay Ace Merrill, I can picture it totally. I have another headcanon that Ace is, well, ace. I just can't picture him being completely straight, ya know?

[rhea314]

Saw this Perihelion hoodie by @souldagger in the midst of my recent fall headlong back into murderbot feelings and loved it so, so much.

Some of my favorite warm layers are from the onboard gift shop when I worked on a research vessel. They have the profile image of the ship on the front with name, designation, and home port, and the one with print on the back has '[Ship Name] Science'. So I'm now headcanoning Peri with a gift shop where research assistants, student interns, etc can feel more like part of the regular crew. I made some modifications to the design to match with that vision (I am so not a graphic designer). The ship image I based on the Latvian cover art for Artificial Condition.

43 plus hours of hand-stitching later I've completed it! I re-listened to all the audiobooks and some of the audiodramatization for this project (I like the Kevin R. Free audiobooks better, but wanted to be listening to murderbot the whole way through so continued into dramatization when I ran out of the former).

Working on the back took me partway into Network Effect which thankfully is a long because the front took more time than I would have expected, possibly because the university name is single thread satin stitch which was an absolute bear to do, but I'm pleased with how it turned out!

Thank you to @souldagger for coming up with this wonderful design and inspiring me. This was a great project for being in all of my murderbot feelings!

some mostly-handmade murderbot merch i wanted to share! :] (designed them myself + embroidered the Peri hoodie by hand)

[enderwalking]

re: endersmile, i'm very much in the belief that things like the community house, handing over of the book, and keeping of the disc were trust exercises in a way, both ways. they're both very guarded people, so it'd make sense that they'd need to test each other out before committing to the larger portion of the plan. if enderboo was the one to suggest the community house like you pointed out, then that'd be dream risking something dear to him, the largest symbol of the server's past 1/7

His past, the symbolic Commitment to the plan, lose the past for their shared ideal future. meanwhile enderboo handing over his book is like him baring his neck in exchange, back then the book was the only lifeline ranboo rly had w the everchanging politics/relations/events, to lose it would be losing himself. and i think the traitor reveal was planned, a way to distance them in the server's minds, fully knowing the risk of execution (one that dream and punz could easily stop like hog hunt, and we know ranboo's opinions on dying for a cause he believes in, especially if petty bc jfc he hated how nlm was). the supplying of tnt was likely as simple as "i want this place Gone, let me help" from enderboo, bc we hear from ranboo how he was onboard w its destrunction, that it was inevitable and was likely for the best. the disc holding is described by the voice as a secret exchange in the nether, one of them having gotten the disc from skeppy beforehand(happyduo is very involved in their shit at key points, its interesting), and this one For Sure is a trust exercise since dream could've easily hidden it elsewhere or had it in his e-chest but instead he gave it to enderboo to hide until he needed it back, and after retreiving it he even left a lil thank you note. ranboo's main concern when finding it was the horror of doing so unknowingly and not wanting to believe it, but then it was feeling in danger from Others finding out, not dream, he was worried for his, phil, and techno's safety bc he knows the lengths people(tommy, namely) will go to for the discs, for the power they hold on some people. i think from then on they had their bond Solid, dream letting enderboo into the disc finale rehearsals and all, enderboo quickly visiting prison over and over, dream and his clock tantrum arc and wanting to send a message to ranboo above even george, enderboo's eager response to the message in a way that seemed to mock his forgetful self. not to mention how i think that enderboo was expecting to have a big reveal in disc finale(-points at Mask of My Own Face-), but dream being dream chose to protect him instead(an ongoing trend of his that i hold dearly) by taking the community house blame, which confused enderboo as shown by the staring and his notes from the finale. i care they and their fucked up plans that they Somehow keep getting away w -Soul (apologizes for the sudden ask essay lmao, i have terminal endersmile brainrot its a problem -Soul)

DO NOT APOLOGIZE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS IN FACT terminal endersmile brainrot is a constant on the lei enderwalking blog and i am delighted to share it

i completely agree wrt the whole trust exercises thing, and that is such a fantastic take on my mostly-silly theory/headcanon about the community house explosion that i'm adopting it immediately omg. i think the only thing i don't fully agree with in this is that i really don't think that ranboo was ever meant to be revealed in the finale? i've talked before about how ranboo's alliance with dream is one that is played extremely close to the chest, like i don't think there was any way that he would've exposed that in front of 90% of the server. in my mind, the eye contact was something very different, it was more about an unspoken signal like, "this is all according to plan, you know this. we both know what needs to happen next."

only semi-related tangent, but it's interesting the context in which dream does finally reveal information connecting himself to ranboo, i.e. to sam in the prison. dream told sam about ranboo in the midst of attempting to destroy sam's entire worldview, and it was a very spiteful, targeted reveal of information, like he was saying, "this is the person you wrote off as just a meek hostage, as just collateral damage, and yet this is the person who shook the control you so desperately grasped for. what does that say about people? what does that say about you?" and yet even in revealing ranboo's actions, he still holds back. he doesn't give any details as to why or how the prison tnt happened, he doesn't give any context to why or how ranboo is working with him, it's just an isolated bit of information, given only after dream has already made sure of the limits of sam's knowledge on ranboo overall. and this is speculation, but just based on how dream is and on the nature of his and ranboo's relationship, i don't think dream would have revealed anything if he wasn't fully confident that there would be no chance of sam retaliating against ranboo in the future. obviously at this point ranboo is already dead so he was less at risk, but more than that, i think it shows that dream was absolutely Determined to intimidate and break sam down to the point where he wouldn't dare.

[strawberryybird]

12, 13, 22 for the FE16 ask meme! 💖

💖 oooh these were very fun qs, thank you!! 💖

12) Favourite final map? ashen wolves!!! i fucking LOVED the final map. it was the only map in the dlc i absolutely stormed, to the point i beat monster-mum before she used her special ability lmao, i was so confused as to why my brother got so frustrated!! i went back and did it a couple more times to play it properly and i had SO much fun playing that map!! it was my kind of challenge!! also Thematically, the whole retroactive foreshadowing for the ends of the other routes with the whole body-horror-monster-autonomy-free-will-devotion-dragon-mum-in-a-church-and-we-killed-her-with-other-thematic-buzzwords content. Now That's my kind of story. i fucking Loved ashen wolves, it might get the edge for my favourite route overall!!

13) Favourite song in the soundtrack? Oh it simply must be Colour of Sunrise. it's absolutely colour of sunrise. i love that track completely unironically, it's just marvellous on every single level to me. not only for the Fire Emblem Emotions it instills in me, but i'd also probably listen to it if it was on spotify. honerable mentions go to; Chasing Daybreak (rain) for the emotional decimation it wrought upon my ears when the timeskip turned all my little students into hardened war criminals; A Promise bc it, again, heavily tied to my favourite moments of the game; Broken Routine because i didn't expect the MUSIC to mourn jeralt as well. literally the music from this game is so, so good. i love how cohesive it is.

22) Unpopular or rare ship/support you really like, and why? ohohohoo well. my 3H otp is hubert/dorothea/edelgard/byleth. and ferdie too, why not. any combination of those 5, really. I saw the found family trope in the eagles and went 'is someone going to add romance to that' and did not wait for an answer. poly eagle rights. 'co-dependence' feels a little.. like a damnation, but when it comes to shipping, i very much enjoy those complex war-weathered relationships that are too entangled to separate. (sidenote: that's not exclusive to my fire emblem fanning. i see a fucked up group of fictional friends and i start making polycule onboarding jokes.) The other ship i'm ride or die for that counts as rare is dorothea/hubert!! I'm obsessed with their no children by the mountain goats vibe. their canon end card is probably one of my favourites, and honestly i just think they have some Discussions^tm to have with each other, which is why i crave their ship content lmao. my other otp that i do not think gets enough love is leonie/ignatz!! mostly based in my own headcanons about them, but I love them very very much. I think they'd have such an interesting post-war dynamic (as archers, as 'commoners', something something their utility to the deers/world in a post-war ceasefire environment flipped, both grapple with the idea of debt - to jeralt/her village and to his parent's wishes/raphael) and honestly i would sell off the remaining inch of my soul for more of them. i love them so much. I've been chipping away at a deers post-war!au fic about exactly that, but i lost a solid few months worth of work on it and now i'm so unmotivated to finish it :') i'm also SO on board for Edelgard/Ingrid as (and idk if it's rare or unpopular, but) most of the work i've seen for them has been absolutely class, and the very, very niche (to the point i'd almost consider it a crackship) Edelgard/Leonie. but that one's purely self indulgence <3

[keiscait]

hey, may i please request a bedroom matchup LOL 😏

she/her, bisexual (men over women (unless it's a big tittie goth gf)

sagittarius sun and virgo rising

ravenclaw 😏

sexual: i like being the top. call me mommy LOL. i also like being topped, i have a major knife kink 😏 im in charge most of the time, however it can change every now and then. when i'm the bottom i want my partner to spit in my mouth 🧎‍♀️ neck and ear bites plz 😏 i'm very vocal 👹👹

things i look for in a partner:

-LOYALTY!!1!1!2!2'

-has to have a good sense of humor

-chill

-very understanding

personality: i'm very outgoing and friendly to most people, but i keep my friend group small. i'm the loud friend of the group and i'm always trying my best to make my friends laugh. i say really weird things at the most random times and i often look really high so people think i'm on something. i'm a good leader though and take charge in the three sports i'm in. (i'm varsity captain in one of my sports!!)

appearance:

plans for future: i'm currently a senior in high school and i plan on going into the national guard or air force when i graduate :). the military will pay for college and i plan on either going into the criminal justice field or information technology field :p

music taste: literally everything except for country. you can catch me listening to dr dre, schoolboy q, blackstreet, and kendrick lamar one minute and then queen the next. i also love my female rap artists 👏👏 90s rock and rnb are also a must. i listen to 00's club music on a regular 😏

Hello and welcome, my dearest Bri! AND ADVANCED HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Wish I could bake you a cake, but all I can do is send some love (੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* Let’s get right to it then! ٩(◕‿◕���)۶

Look who we have here, hon!

Suna Rintarou! (Runner up: Kageyama Tobio)

Suna here has a really cold and icy demeanor, which I think has to be balanced out by outgoing people (like the Miya twins). He likes to act like this dark and brooding person, but deep down, he’s actually just a little gremlin like most of us. 

- Okay okay, I know what you’re thinking. Yes, I already know that you’re a Suna stan, but I genuinely could not think of anybody who matches your personality description better, the two of you would just be *aggressive chefs kiss*

- I’m kinda getting an enemies-to-lovers-ish vibe with this dynamic, but also like a partners-in-crime-to-lovers type of deal. Either way, it’ll start out a little bit chaotic

- Has a crush on you immediately, I just KNOW it, but he won’t realize this until later on, and may even totally deny it to himself

- He doesn’t really know when exactly he starts catching feelings for you, but the realization probably hits him when he sees you going about your daily activities

- You could be doing any of your extra curriculars - basketball, track, or marching band - and he sees how much you enjoy it, or maybe even after you just said one of your random thoughts. Whatever makes him feel like he’s getting to know you a little bit better

- it’s when you laugh right after, and suddenly he feels like he’s just been spiked a ball in the face, and he just audibly goes “ah shit.”

- Has no fucking clue what to do at first KDHFKSJHL someone pls help him!!!

- He ends up being a little awkward when he tries to do anything about it, and it’ll all just feel so unnatural HAHAH

- “Let me carry your bag” “No Rin it’s fine I can--” *pries your bag from your hands with way too much force*

- in his mind he’s like “Ah yes that went perfectly ��”

- he tries to communicate his feelings in little ways like this, hoping you’ll catch on

- No, Suna Rintarou, poking fun at someone is not a declaration of love, but nice try!

- he’ll get so frustrated if you don’t catch on (or maybe you do, and you just want him to say something first), and eventually will straight up yell tell you how he feels

- once you two are together, he’ll still try to act he’ll try to keep up his icy exterior, but trust me, he’s completely whipped for you

- SHARED PLAYLISTS!!!!

- Appreciates that you keep your friend group small, because at the end of the day, he’s still a pretty reserved guy

- Admires your leadership qualities, and will not be insecure and toxic about it, despite what other people believe. He honestly wishes he could be more like you, in that sense

- He’ll be your # 1 fan in everything you do. Will support whatever it is that you want to achieve, and will cut any bitch who tries to get in your way

- boy is in LOOOOOVE

- If he ever gets mad or annoyed at you, just give him the smallest peck on his cheek, and he’ll be all putty in your hands again

- Likewise, I think he’d be so good at making you blush too. It’s not all the time that he does this, but when he does, it’s 1000000% effective

- A FRICKING TEASE SKJDHFDSJFGLSGJ CHANGE MY MIND

- Honestly I love this dynamic so much that I wanna make him your bedroom matchup too, but I feel like that would be a cop out 

~

You were exhausted.

It was never easy juggling all the activities that you took part in - each of them was truly a labor of love. Today was particularly draining because it was, after all, your birthday, and it just HAD TO fall on a weekday. You plonked on your bed and started scrolling through your phone.

Your tight-knit group of friends continued to send you birthday wishes, despite having already done so when you saw them earlier that day. They had sung to you and let you blow out a birthday candle - it was all they could do, given your busy schedules. You looked forward to the weekend you had planned with them and your boyfriend, Rintarou.

Speaking of Rin, you thought to yourself, as a message notification from him popped up.

- You’re already home, right?

- Yeah! Just got here. So tired

- That’s too bad. I was gonna ask you to open the door for me but I guess I’ll just go home

You ran to your front door faster than you expected you could manage, and there stood Suna, a balloon and a box of pizza in hand. He pretended to walk away slowly, making you giggle before you grabbed him and dragged him inside.

He pressed a soft kiss to your temple. “Happy birthday, babe.”

You were giddy, not expecting him to show up. “I thought we were gonna wait til the weekend for my celebration??” 

“Do you not know me by now?” he chuckled. “As if I’d let today pass without doing anything about it.”

You smiled and looked at him for a few seconds. He rarely looks so sincere, and so warm, and you just wanted to drink up every last drop of this moment.

He teased, “But y’know, I guess if you’re too tired, I can totally scarf down this pizza by myself.”

You groaned before dragging him to your room and setting up the playlist you guys worked on together, getting ready for a night in.

~

I hope that was alright, bb! Let’s make our way to the bedroom now ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶

For some private time, I’ve invited over...

Oikawa Tooru! (Runner up: Suna Rintarou)

Despite how other people believe he’s a dom, I think he’d be a switch, at best. I think in the bedroom, he’d love to let his partner take control, just as much as loves having his way with them.

- What really gets this fucker going is pleasing people - and who would he love to please more than his s/o?

- He loves how your confidence translates into your bedroom behavior

- I headcanon that he easily falls apart in bed, and would gladly do so for his partner 

- He is s e n s i t i v e. Touch him, kiss him, grab him EVERYWHERE

- LOUD, but a lot of it is trying to get his partner to be even louder

- How does this man have both a praise kink and a degradation kink? Idk but I’m so sure he has both

- Would be totally onboard with your knife kink. He’s super into sensory play

- Speaking of which

- BLINDFOLD HIMMMM SKDJHFSDJFK THAT WOULD BE A SIGHT TO BEHOLD

- Once you ask him to take charge, I think he would still be a service dom

- Knows all your sensitive spots. Made sure to take note of them so that he can get you back for all the times you hit his sweet spots

- Loves mouth stuff. His mouth. Your mouth. Putting stuff in them. Tongue stuff. Loves all of it

- Great at aftercare, just a bit flashy with it. Kind of makes a show of what he’s doing but in the most adorable way

- Delicate with how he handles you after. Or if you’re the one giving him aftercare, would praise you the whole time

- Will hold you til you fall asleep 🥺

~

As a little extra gift, I wanted to give you a dressing room matchup too! 

I think your gorgeous face would look SO GOOD with...

Miya Atsumu! WHAT AN INSANELY GOOD LOOKING COUPLE YOU WOULD MAKE

~

That’s it for now, darling! I hope that was worth all the waiting you did. Thank you for being such a wonderful housemate - don’t hesitate to chat with me anytime. Advanced happy birthday again! (੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭*

Thanks for stopping by! (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

[words-writ-in-starlight]

the untamed is on netflix, right? i think i've seen it. i'm enjoying your posts about it and my mom would love if i watched a chinese show (it looks chinese, i might be wrong though) but i'm kinda short on time so please pitch to me why i should watch it so i will be convinced and look past the lack fo time

Anonymous asked:

ok the untamed looks cool af how doesone watch it 

A L L R I G H T I’m finally going to make a rec post, I’ve put this off long enough.  You’ve definitely already started to watch it, clever, so please forgive me for using this as an excuse to pitch this show.

So, for starters, Anon, The Untamed is indeed on Netflix!  It is in Chinese!  If you (like me) do not understand Mandarin Chinese, the Netflix English subbing is…fine, it’s fine, but I recommend poking around in the fandom because every single form of address is changed to the character’s full name.  And maybe I just spent too much time doing translations for my old Spanish and Chinese and especially Latin classes, but I think there are some things that, A, shouldn’t be translated or, B, should be translated awkwardly over being translated incoherently.  

I digress.  My thoughts about maintaining forms of address in their native language for the sake of clarifying levels of respect/etc are not relevant here.  Chuck a note in my inbox if/when you get confused about everyone’s three names and I’ll write/link you a guide.

POINT IS.  The Untamed is an adaptation of the novel Mo Dao Zu Shi, which is generally translated as “The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation,” and my quick pitch for it is: There’s a plot, sure sure, it’s the story of Wei Wuxian (his fall from grace to Most Hated Person In Magic!China, and then his resurrection and efforts to solve a murder), and if you like character-driven fantasy narratives you Will Like This

B U T

You know that post “but is he…you know…your narrative foil?”  That’s this show.  If what you crave is “one character committedly pines over another for twenty years even when the entire world hates that person,” please let me interest you in Lan Wangji, the love interest.  They have a kid together.  It’s a great romance.  Literally what else do you want from me.  I love a narrative foil, I love a tragedy, I love an epic love story, I love a found family.  And good GOD do I love a character who self-destructs in an effort to do the right thing.

Wei Wuxian isn’t evil.  He’s not even especially malicious.  But when the chips were down and he needed to survive, and to save people, and to figure something out, he took the only avenue left to him, and it was—it was inevitable, really, that it make him the villain of the piece.  He saved a lot of lives.  Everyone except Lan Wangji hates him for it.  He’s already thoroughly despised by the time he starts actually doing things that are objectively bad.  Talk to me about it forever.

My usual list of free-form associative Things I Like That You Will Probably Also Like under the cut:

Wei Wuxian!  I know he’s the main character but I love him so much that he gets a bullet point!  He’s the kind of lighthearted goofball who’s perfected the “I Would Honestly Die Before Showing Emotion To Anyone, How Dare You Imply That I Am Not Sincere In My Perpetual Good Humor” mask, and it hits like a sledgehammer when that mask cracks.  I would watch this actor flip between smiles and homicidal rage all day.  He gets a hug from Son Boy in the last episode and I almost cried.  50000/10.

Lan Wangji!  A great love interest!  Noble to the core!  Incredibly bitchy!  I want five more just like him!

This is where I mention that China has strict censorship laws, so, despite the fact that they kiss and have sex and get married and the whole nine in the book, the show is all Intense Staring And Love Declarations Where They Never Say The L-Word.  But like.  Please trust me, it’s actually So Romance.  If anything I think I like the  romance in the show better.

Wen Ning!

I don’t have anything else to say about him, I just love him so goddamn much.  He and his sister Wen Qing are stars and the rest of these sinners don’t deserve them.

COMPETENT. VILLAINS.  I’ve spilled a lot of ink on this one lately, but I love competent villainy, I love villains who have Goals and plan to Achieve Them and actually pull it off.  Jin Guangyao, the big bad of the “present”(the part where Wei Wuxian is resurrected and kicking around trying to solve a murder), is actually phenomenally good at his job and I support him even though I enjoyed watching him go down in flames.  There are enough villains in this show for everyone to have their preferred type of villain, from Devoted Right Hand Man to Megalomaniacal Overlord to Freewheeling Engine Of Death.  GREAT villains in this show.  Which brings me to…

YI! CITY! ARC!  I’m not going to tell you that much about it, but it’s dark and tragic and features my very favorite villain in the entire show, Xue Yang, who is just.  *chef kiss*  A horrible monster of a man.  An unapologetic, cold-eyed shriek of a villain.  The very best at what he does, and what he does is absolutely horrible, and I would watch an entire series about this five-ish episode arc.  Also, I’ve adopted Song Lan/Xiao Xingchen from the Tragic Ships Shelter and someone should toss me a headcanon ask for them.  Any AU your little heart desires.  I love them.

THE MAGIC!  I know it took me a long time to get here, but it’s a very character driven show and I am a very character driven person and I just wanted to yell about characters for a minute.  But anyway, I’m told that the Untamed is a great onboarding point for this genre of Chinese fantasy novel, because they do a really good job of making the necessary points accessible.  I had no familiarity with wuxia/xianxia/etc when I started watching this and everything about cultivation made sense to me, or at least enough sense to be going on with.  It’s very lovely and fascinating and it’s where they put their Entire Non-Clothing Budget.

This is where I mention that their effects department clearly used their entire funding for, like, cool sword stunts and beautiful clothing.  The wolf puppet in particular is just.  Almost adorably terrible.  If that’s going to severely impact your enjoyment, Idk what to tell you, man.

Related to the above, I love plotlines about characters losing control of their magic.  That’s all I’m going to say about it.

Unreliable narrators, baby! They set up a lot of concrete facts about Wei Wuxian in the first two episodes that become obvious as complete bullshit as you go on, and it’s very satisfying to watch!  See also, Nie Huaisang, the most unreliable narrator of them all, whom I adore.

Beyond all those things…it’s just got a lot of great relationships in it.  It’s hugely driven by the affection people have for each other, or the places they feel they’vebeen deprived of that affection.  It has a lot of iterations of the same relationship in wildly distinct ways, if that makes sense—offhand, there are maybe four major sets of siblings, five if you count the Jins, and they are all radically different and insanely compelling.  The basic structure of Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji, the “black cultivator/white cultivator on a crusade to change the world” thing, appears a lot of times, and goes horribly awry in a slightly different way for all of them.  That kind of in-universe repetition of themes, doing the same thing over and over again looking for the Right Path, is one of my favorite things to appear in a story—see also, the Kencyrath (twins, Dreamweavers, Knorth lords, loyal Kendar, etc), the Animorphs (warrior teams, deaths on the field, etc), any number of other things I yell about.

TL;DR: The story is great and the cultivation is fascinatingand the schemes are elaborate, but