#In my interpretation buddy is just fucked up genetically.

[otiksimr]

Reposting from the Main blog. Feel like there are definitely some followers who are into Kaiju's here.

[sburbian-sage]

Hey, our session's Mage of Light has gone fucking crazy. He's taken over the frog breeding because he thinks our Bard of Space was being lazy about it, and he keeps doing all kinds of weird stuff to the frogs to try and "perfect" them. He says that it's our responsibility to make sure that they result in a universe without the problems of our own.

To wit, he's trying to make it so that all life in the universe is immortal (somehow without all the problems that would obviously cause?), trying to make computers in that universe run faster, trying to make it so that any planet that plays Sburb will have developed a meteor defense system ahead of time, and so on (he had a really long list, it was all like this).

A lot of his ideas sound kinda good to me, but our Space player says that it's not possible to just make changes like that, and that any fuck-ups would be catastrophic.

But our Light player is our only god tier, and none of the rest of us seem even *close* to ascending, so we can't really overpower him, and he's just not willing to listen to the Space player.

Since it's not likely that any frog he makes will be viable anyway, I guess we could just deploy new copies of the breeding equipment, but he took all the stuff the Space player *had* done already. I don't know the details, but the Space player says he'd basically be starting over more-or-less from scratch, and we're not sure we have time before the reckoning- especially since the Space player legit *is* kinda slow and bad at it.

Basically our Light player an overpowered control freak with a god complex who refuses to listen to the one person in the session who actually knows how to do anything with frogs. I mean, what the hell are we supposed to do???

This is pretty bad. Your Space player is absolutely right in that most of what this Mage of Light is trying to pull is genuinely impossible. I have no idea why he thinks he'll be able to dictate the technological progression of a civilization that doesn't even exist yet, just because he's creating the universe the civilization will eventually exist in. And that's putting aside the fact that most people who get into making the Perfect Frog concern themselves more with fixing the bug that forces replays, and not dicking with the game's progression system like he is. If anything that would cause more issues, but he doesn't even seem like he's intentionally trying to break things.

To deliver an armchair diagnosis that isn't just "he's insane", which to be fair he kind of is, I can see a few possibilities here. Light Players deal with probability, mainly in terms of good luck and favoring good outcomes. Normally a fine thing, however this constant fixation on guaranteeing the most favorable outcome can often manifest itself as a desire to force the 100% best possible outcome to come to pass, which leads to perfectionism and short-sightedness. To speak of Classes for a second, Seers sometimes act like this, as do Sages with less mental fortitude than I. However, he's not a Seer or even a Sage, he's a Mage. Cryptical classes are intended to act in bewildering ways in order to reach favorable outcomes, with the passive Mage prancing around like some sugarplum fairy, leaving "triggers" for the other Players to activate without knowing that they lead to positive outcomes.

My initial read of this is a man who, out of fatigue towards playing and replaying SBURB (join the club, buddy), is now taking direct control of the situation, abandoning his role as a Mage and abusing his aspect of Light in order to genetically engineer some sort of utopia. Between his acting like a nutter and the fact that he isn't a Space Player or even a Time Player, this frog venture is doomed to end in failure at worst and mega-cancer at best. This being said, a second possibility did dawn on me as I analyzed this. This might be part of the plan.

If he is a Mage, his role is to interpret mysteries relating to his aspect and "pass it down", so to speak. Taking over Frog Breeding and making the dumbest plans is pretty inscrutable, it's safe to say. I would say "you're weird and disconnected from reality in an unwholesome way" which is basically what Mages are meant to do. So it's possible that this is meant to provoke the other Players into action, and this action will advance his plans and the plans of the session as a whole towards a favorable outcome. I would believe this further if there was a Player whose role aligns with stopping this scheme (like a Protector or Champion), or if his fucking with the Frog-Breeding equipment leaves the Space Player in a more advantageous position once they recover it. If this is the case, then he's still bonkers because in addition to this being very straightforward behavior for a passive class, the crux is acting antagonistic and setting himself up as a "villain" to be taken down. If you do end up killing him, it could very well qualify as Just. My purpose in pointing this out is to say, you should still treat him like he's unstable, but keep in the back of your mind that he might be operating on a level higher than yours.

The nonviolent solution is to stage an intervention, of course. I would advise against the Bard of Space leading, as the Mage of Light seems to have a low opinion of them in general. But the following are threads to hit upon.

We all despise SBURB and its brokenness and its shittiness, but this is essentially trying to fix the game by hacking it. That never turns out well.

If he's still willing to listen to reason, point out that attempting to influence technological development via the Frog is flatly impossible. Liken it to planting a garden and expecting a pumpkin seed to grow and be able to speak. Once you create the Frog, things are "hands off" at that point. AND ALSO THAT CREATING IMMORTAL LIFE IS CLASSIC "hubristic bad guy" STUFF.

Whether or not he can listen to reason, let him know you all are there for him, and while you're willing to help him, he needs to listen to you as well. Basic therapy stuff, really, this might just be a very grand lashing-out.

If you strongly get the impression that this is some kooky Mage scheme, then call him on it and point out the self-sacrificial bullshit nature of acting so antagonistic. This might end things instantly if the "mystery" gets solved.

Mages are anti-explaining, so don't at any point try to make him explain why he's doing what he's doing. It might be worth re-iterating this if he tries to initiate an explanation.

If the nonviolent solution doesn't work, then you might need to try something more forceful. The fact that he's God Tier and you're not does complicate things, but the truth is that he's a Light Player. When you can manipulate luck, direct combat is doomed to fail. Your guns will jam, your swings will hit allies in the face at complete random, etc. I do know that Light-based luck manipulation doesn't generally stop oneself from getting hit in the face with a newspaper, since you don't need to be particularly unlucky for this to happen (and it's not that serious), so follow similar logic. Wrapping him up in a big hug is corny and awkward, but as long as you don't turn it into a suplex or whatever, this gives you room to talk. You could try a smash-and-grab to just take the Frog stuff away from him. In general, be thankful that Light generally lacks offensive capabilities, their main "attack" power is [Flare] and it's very inefficient at what it does. However, the luck manipulation is still strong. If he buffs his luck and starts shooting at random, he's going to score headshots. So if you're going to try and fight him, be tricky, be indirect, don't even "fight" him necessarily, but save it for Plan B if anything.

A final note, but your Bard of Space has got to get her shit together. I don't know whether or not Mage of Light's "lazy" judgement is sound or not, but by all accounts it seems like she's slow and somewhat incompetent. Combined with the fact that you're running up against the endgame when this clown took over, and it's just unacceptable. If you need to babysit her to make sure the Frogs get bred, so be it. And if she is going to take part of negotiations, it might be worth it to have her show signs of improvement or otherwise vow to set things straight, so the Mage of Light doesn't feel like they need to hijack breeding duties.

[ohkate]

M8TE by gallawitch. ABO fic but not tacky. Ian and Mickey meet on a dating app just for a one time hookup during Mickey's heat, but it's ends up meaning so much more. Love this fic. You Are my Wednesdays by ermete. Ian is still an EMT but he also became an escort on the side to try and pay substantial bills. He's taking care of Liam full time and trying to cover the mortgage. Mickey is a rich CEO of a security firm who is dealing with some family and personal demons and hires Ian for what was supposed to be just one night... This is one of those stories that... it has some grammar/spelling issues and a lot of cheesiness that can sometimes ruin a fic for me because it's SO out of character. But I love this fic so much that I honestly don't care. It's one of my favorite stories. I read the whole thing like once a week. 2. This motherfucker right here. This is so good I'm angry I didn't make it. 3. Mickey being a great piano player. That his mom was in a band and that's why she was never around. She was a drug addict. The last time she was clean he was 9 and she taught him and Mandy to play. Mandy didn't really care for it and lost interest but Mickey soaked it up like a sponge. He was a real prodigy. She fell off the wagon and died, and he kept her keyboard. It was all messed up from years of travelling. She'd painted a few of the keys with nail polish. He loved that keyboard. It was all he had left of her. And he played every night until he was a teenager. When he was 14, he had detention and had to meet his teacher in the auditorium. She was late, and he started playing the piano. She recorded it and sent it to a friend of hers who was a scout from Julliard. He told her he was one of the more naturally gifted players he'd seen. She went to Mickey's house herself to try and talk to Terry about letting him study it but of course he thought it was 'faggy' and wasn't going to lose his little criminal cash cow. The next day he pulled Mickey out of school. And then Terry pawned off the keyboard. Mickey doesn't play anymore, and doesn't talk about it. Maybe Ian finally gets him to play again. 4. I think this is cute. Ian teaching Mickey to swim. Sorry I have no idea who it's by. 5. More music videos. I've only done one because fuck me they're time intensive. 6. I've never liked AU fics in any fandom I've ever been in until now. So far they tend to be my favorites here. I read a story called Flower U Up where Mickey is a flower shop owner. Now this in something that my pre-this-fandom brain would not normally let me even contemplate because it's so ridiculous. But turns out I actually like AU when it's done well. 7. Well written mpreg fics. I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea. I tend to read ABO because there just aren't enough mpreg. But I don't want anybody pooping out a baby. A genetic mutation some men have to justify non stop smut is enough for me. c-sections are fine. Nothing crazy. No man boobs. No fucking twins or triplets- just fucking why?? ABO fics can be fun but also can really go off the goddamned rails. 8. Seasons 10 and 11. I do agree with a lot of criticisms about them, though. I didn't like the buddy cop relationship the writers sort of made them into to avoid any intimacy/romance. But I loved that they were married, finally. 9. First, that Terry was raping Mandy and no one seemed to care. Second, that the Alibi was never cited or shut down for giving drinks to minors. Many, many minors. Literally all the time. 10. What I interpreted as Ian's suicide attempt on the bridge and the cries for help leading up to it. 11. I couldn't choose. There are too many. 12.I'd like to think Mickey eventually realized he wanted a couple of kids and they were able to do that. That their business took off and their doing well financially. They've learned how to fight like adults and also be more open about how much they love one another, making their insecurities about that fall away over time.

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[everythingisgaynow]

Awe fuck yea i posted this at like midnight right before i went to bed the other night so i completely forgot about posting it but I've somehow gotten One (1) person to respond and that 's above the minimum required for me to elaborate on this shit so HERE WE GO!

Suichi Minamino is trans my friends and here's why

Yoko Kurama was, approximately, as humans would understand (i have a whole other diatribe about yu yu hakusho apparition genders and sexes but that's an egg for another day's omelette), a cis male. But then he got injured and almost captured and shit happened and yeet yeet time to hide in a human fetus and wait to get his powers back. Except the thing is he's not gonna be out here looking through ultrasounds and test results to find a pregnant lady who's specifically expecting a boy. No, he's desperate and close to dying, he's gonna yeet himself directly into the first unborn womb nugget he can find and has an approximately 50/50 shot of getting it right and he

Didn't.

Oopsie poopsie wtg Kurama u landed urself in a dfab bod. Rest in pieces I know the feel buddy. But it's still Kurama and he's still (mostly) Aware and (mostly) Himself. And he still understands himself as A Dude. So then when everyone starts treating him like Gorl that's not. Great.

So then he spends hella time trying to figure out how to explain to everyone that he's in fact A Dude and keep the misconception from happening again. Having known he was Boy, Not Girl, from a young age because of Magical Psychic Demon Reasons he clearly had a massive jump on the rest of us, so even at his average in canon age of 15 its a lot easier for him to "pass" than it is even for even a lot of adult trans folks, even with his long hair. But it wasn't always that way! Every image we get of Younger Kurama actually had him with short hair, back when other secondary sex characteristics wouldn't have been as much of a factor in random peoples' gendering of him and most folks. Even though I think the demon fox would've preferred to keep the long hair he was used to through his entire human adolescence, at younger ages having long hair got him misgendered far more than was tolerable, so, chop that shit off. :') Tbh I think he started letting it grow and wearing it long relatively recently to the canon when we first start seeing him, because he finally has both enough of a reputation amongst his peers and the others he interacts with on the daily that they recognize him on sight as that really smart Boy Suichi, and is at an age and level of his physical development where even random strangers don't necessarily assume long hair=girl, because things like his manner of dress, bearing, and apparent lack of tid are more significant now. Even though he still gets categorized as a "prettyboy" a lot, people think that's the extent of it; he's just a soft spoken boy blessed with fine, almost androgynous facial features and large, pretty eyes, like any number of popular male idols and celebrities. And he's good with that. How much of the fact that he didn't develop super femininely is because of things like going on puberty blockers/t, how much is Magic/Psychic powers, and how much is just convenient genetics is. Questionable and up to interpretation. I think it's a combo of the three but we can't know for certain.

But I do think it is a significant portion of the reason he tends to dress so much more modestly than the other members of the Main Fighter Four of the series. We see Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei shirtless several times a piece, but the closest we get to shirtless human form Kurama is the dark tournament fight with Toya, where, fighting for his life, he tears open the front of his shirt somewhat in a desperate bid to rub away the cursed markings Gama had put on him in the previous round.

To my knowledge, outside of that one situation, human Kurama is never caught in anything more revealing than a crew neck t-shirt. Personal opinion, he's hiding exceptionally small, but still noticeable if completely exposed, tiddies (or possibly top surgery scars but I find this less likely considering the age of his human form within the canon timeline).

'But echo,' you might say, 'his outfits are merely a visual cue of his more reserved and cautious personality as compared to his teammates'. Then why is it that when he takes on the form of Yoko, Kurama's original cis male form, even when he keeps the particular personality traits he picked up in his life as a human, he's wearing This:

Those collarbones. That cleavage window tho. Them arms

And we can have a whole ass discussion about visual symbolism and shit about how this is him taking the kid gloves off and moving past his reservations somewhat and I can follow up with how that actually ties in and parallels with the trans narrative and how with less dysphoria and more gender euphoria comes more confidence and the ability to throw some of those reservations to the wayside. But that's a while tedious thing my adhd doesn't feel like doing more than vaguing about so we're not gonna do that.

There's also a whole ass discussion about the twisted facets of the narrative implications of a reincarnation that remembers a past life as a cis person who is now in a bode not fitting with that identity, making them trans, or vice versa (a conversation that also applies to a lot of trans yugioh headcanons that i like but that's a whole different deli meat), but again, adhd brain too tired, this whole post has probably gone on long enough and I'm honestly mostly just procrastinating doing my dishes at this point.

/sidles on in here

Anyone want some Trans Kurama headcanons?