#Kaiju the service dog

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Kaiju crossed over quite suddenly on the 29th, after having symptoms that we thought were his standard turn-of-seasons cold.

He was the best little service dog ever. The greatest little jester. Mistakenly named Cabbage by one of my friends, and it stuck as his second name.

Kaiju Waiyuu will be forever missed by his family, his adopted sister, and a wide swathe of my little corner of the internet, who loved him deeply.

Kaiju Cupcake the Nutmutt Waiyuu, Chicken Father

Adopted: August 20, 2015

Passed: October 29, 2024

He tried his hardest to give us one last year & one last trip to Disneyland, his favorite place.

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Me with Kaiju. He literally trained himself to curl into the small of my back when I’m in bed fake-wailing “where’s my boooyyy” like he is an inconstant man from an Austen novel.

This fact later helped when I was recovering from a bad seizure, bc I was actually wailing this time and he’s my favorite hot water bottle. 🤣

The nerve!!

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Development blog for the upcoming IF: The Whisper in the Mist. This IF is based on Pacific Rim media (with a focus on the 2013 film).

Asks are welcome (including explicit asks).

Rated 18+ for explicit language, unhealthy coping methods, dark humour, mental health issues, character death, sexual content (optional), violence, blood, gore, mutilation and body horror, and murder and attempted murder. Will be updated as needed.

Setting: Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong (with futuristic elements).

Other IF account: @kalorphic

When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely...I'd look up at the stars and wonder if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction.

When alien life entered our world it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions.

They called it the Breach.

- Raleigh Beckett (Pacific Rim).

It’s funny how quickly things can change.

One minute you’re on top of the world, then the next, your world is crumbling down around you…

Five years ago, you and your drift partner had the highest success rates of any Jaeger pilots. Now, one horrific tragedy and a hasty promotion later, you’re pushing pencils thousands of miles away from the place you called home.

That is, until a Kaiju with stealth abilities like nothing that’s ever been seen before crawls out of the Breach.

Recalled back into service, you’re forced to team up with your once rival under the command of your former drift partner, and the advice of two scientists who seem more interested in the Kaiju’s than your safety. All while someone with more money than sense attempts to undermine you at every turn.

With everything seemingly against you, will you take up the mantle of hero once more or will you let the darkness plaguing your mind consume you?

Customisable MC (including name, pronouns, appearance, and identity). Personality is semi-set (MC uses humour and sarcasm as a coping method for their trauma) for a majority of the time, however there will be chances for character development and therefore more personality choices.

Pilot a Jaeger, fight Kaiju’s, and keep the world safe all while battling your own demons.

Five characters are available to romance. Two are only romanceable in a (triad) poly.

Found family.

RO PoVs.

Befriend (and potentially adopt) a baby Kaiju. Also give your dog lots of love.

Ciaran O’Doherty [M/F] - Hot-tempered and viciously in denial of the love they have for you that has only seemed to grow in your absence, Ciaran is your newly assigned drift partner and self-proclaimed rival. [PROFILE].

Killian Zhao [M/F] - Once a talented pilot and your former drift partner, Killian is now your formidable and highly respected commanding officer with a soft spot reserved just for you. [PROFILE].

Brin Kazlauskas [M/F/NB] - Waspish, fastidious, and someone that no one wants to be on the wrong side of, Brin is a K-Science officer with a wicked protective streak towards Zai and you . Only romanceable in a poly with Zai. [PROFILE].

Zai Oumarou [M/F/NB] - Despite a somewhat anxious disposition around those xe doesn’t know, Zai is a K-Science officer with a lot of enthusiasm and a deep curiosity towards Kaiju. Only romanceable in a poly with Brin. [PROFILE].

Ajax Nikolaou [M!NB/F!NB] - With a twisted determination to be a giant pain in your ass, Ajax is the ruthless CEO of Nikolaou Industries, a company that seeks to make the Pan Pacific Defense Corps completely redundant. [PROFILE].

Ferelith [F] - The baby Kaiju with a sweet character that was rescued by Zai, Ferelith loves cuddles, Lord of the Rings (according to Zai), and munching on Brin’s lab coat.

[brain-of-rain]

Kaiju no. 8 x Godaigo Daigo Crossover

I have some random plot points/ideas ping ponging around in my head but I don’t have the power to write an actual story, so I’ll slap some of them here for anyone interested.

Godaigo Daigo is the only surviving product of humanities kaiju experimentation from 30 years ago. The project was intended to create an immortal soldier by harnessing a kaiju’s regeneration and encoding that ability into suitable humans. Of course everything went horribly wrong and we are left with one giant man, a non zero amount of bodies and an oath to use kaiju abilities only through clothing and weapons.

The existence of Godaigo was somewhat hush hush for the first 15 years of his indefinite employment. However throughout the years as media and anti kaiju tech became more common, he was formally introduced to civilians to avoid future panic.

Similarly to Kafka, Godaigo can use very little of his suits power. In his 30 years of service he’s maxed at 11%

Godaigo is rarely deployed to the field anymore. After all, he is another giant combatant, adding to potential destruction and tech has gotten so good he’s more of a last resort nowadays. Of course he always gets ready anyway.

As after as possible Godaigo will volunteer for local clean up crews, which is where he originally befriended Kafka. Getting out to help never not worth the paperwork.

Because giant heroes aren’t a thing in this world, Godaigo has pretty harsh restrictions. Mostly he remains confined to the defence force base. He’s the chronically underestimated yet sociable old man. Like the forces’ inside joke mascot.

Godaigo wouldn’t stop wearing big pants over his suit so eventually they just made him a pair that matched.

When Kafka finally made with Reno, Godaigo was ecstatic. They would have been friends for as long as Kafka had been working for monster sweeper inc. not sure exactly how long that is but I’m sure he would have witnessed a lot of failed applications.

Godaigo learns the identity of kaiju no. 8 alongside everyone else in the force not alongside Reno because I think it would be really neat if they had time to have a fight while his identity is unknown. The first time the friendly old guy is a real threat. Bro would not hold back if he thinks people are in danger.

Power scaling wise, I know kaiju no. 8 could beat Godaigo so easy, I mean he’s just a tall man. So in this crossover let’s imagine they’re closer in strength. I would prefer if Godaigo is a substantial threat and legit last resort, final boss kind of character in this world.

Ok that’s all for now! Thanks for your time and sorry if the format/language is weird, I wrote this while walking my dog.

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To Love is to Let Go

happy pacific rim year!!

here's Day 1 for @lastdaysofwar aka what Mako does with Stacker's dog tags.

of course i gotta make it sad.

Raleigh doesn’t keep Yancy’s dog tags.

At first, he tells himself it’s too painful. He doesn’t need the reminder, doesn’t want to hear Knifehead’s roar, doesn’t want to feel the Kaiju ripping through his arm, every time he looks at them. Normal people don’t really understand it. Don’t you want to memorialize him? They ask, as if Yancy wasn’t living in Raleigh’s head. Don’t you want to honor his service? Like Raleigh didn’t gain possession of everything else his brother left behind at the PPDC. His dress blues, his medals, his Gipsy Danger bomber jacket. The memory of every Kaiju they ever dropped. After a while, Raleigh gives up trying to explain to civilians. They just can’t get it, and he doesn’t have the energy to run circles getting them to try.

It shouldn’t surprise him that Mako is the first person to understand. After the Kaiju War, after Stacker and Chuck sacrifice themselves to save the world, Raleigh waits for Mako on the cliff’s edge as she holds the Marshall’s dog tags over the raging sea. It’s all that’s left of him, of course, his body incinerated in the blast.

“You don’t wanna keep them?” Raleigh asks, raising his voice to be heard over the wind.

Mako’s brow furrows, the corners of her mouth turning down. “No,” she says after a moment, but she doesn’t let go. The tags stay gripped in her fist, clicking together on their chain.

“Mako.” She closes her eyes, shaking her head. “You don’t have to keep them.”

“I should.” Her voice cracks, and Raleigh can tell she’s fighting back tears. “It’s all I have left of him.”

Raleigh doesn’t say anything. He’s familiar with this conflict, the constant tug-of-war between wanting to do what everyone else thinks is right and wanting to just be rid of the reminders. In the back of his mind, a younger version of himself stands on a cliff in Alaska, a colder wind lashing at his face, ice stinging his eyes. That Raleigh was alone, the only other person he imagined capable of understanding reduced to nothing but memories and two slips of battered metal. Mako mirrors that version of Raleigh now, a few tears escaping down her cheeks as she considers the memento in front of her. Raleigh steps up beside her, toeing the edge of the cliff as he pushes his hands further into his pockets.

“You know,” he starts, shifting his weight, “I didn’t keep Yancy’s.” Mako turns to him, eyes wide. “I couldn’t make myself hold onto any more of him.”

Mako’s hand lowers as she bring the tags to her chest. “I have to. I feel like I have to.” Her thumb rubs the raised lettering. “I won’t have anything left of him if I don’t.”

“You have this.” Raleigh rests one hand on Mako’s head. “Everything you’ve ever done with him, everything he’s ever done, is right here.” He lets his hand fall to her cheek. “Yancy’s been gone for a long time now, but I still see him. Every day. Every time I close my eyes, he’s there, whether I want him to be or not. That’s the beauty of the Drift, Mako. No matter what happens, no matter how much time passes, he’ll always be with you. You don’t need to hold onto anything more than you already have.” Tears are reforming in Mako’s eyes, spilling over as Raleigh talks. He doesn’t have to be in her head to know that she agrees.

“Let the sea have them,” he says, covering the dog tags in her palm with his own. “You can always find him in the Drift.” He’ll realize later that he was echoing Stacker’s last words but to her, but in the moment, all he can think of are the tears on Mako’s skin, her fingers trembling under his, the cold metal warming between their palms. All he wants is for her to feel okay with her decision, like she has something, someone. Like she isn’t alone in this, because she isn’t.

They drop the last remains of Stacker Pentecost into the sea together, watching the tags fall into the ocean until they’re swallowed by gray waves. He doesn’t move until Mako does, slowly turning her back on the sea, on her father.

“It’s not a goodbye,” she says quietly, almost to herself. “I still have him here.” She rests one hand over her heart as she smiles sadly at Raleigh.

He smiles back. “Let’s get somewhere warm.” He puts one arm around her shoulders as they walk back down the cliff, letting the warmth of her against his side chase off the chill of the wind.

In the back of his mind, he hears Yancy’s voice, faint but never fading. You did good, kid.

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Kaiju & now Tinkerbell were/are trained completely with positive feedback, freedom of choice, and minimal correction.

Kaiju’s career as a service animal has seen him praised by strangers everywhere he’s gone. I hope Tink sees the same (she’s still strictly NPF/at home care, right now) when and if she does public-facing service.

Both arrived skittish around men and with issues surrounding food (Kaiju refused to eat or drink, Tink ate as fast as possible and then paced the house looking for anything she could steal for months), both had issues with other dogs (Kaiju fear based avoidance and Tink fear based assertion/guarding), and both were found on the street with physical scars of past abuses.

Nine years on for Kaiju and one year on for Tink, they’re (mostly) completely different than who they were when we met. Kaiju plays in the big dog side of the park and loves it. Tink does a sit-down-speak-wait at meals. Both absolutely ADORE the men & non-women in our family & wider circles. They can eat together out of the same dish, they share bones, they come to us when there’s something stuck in their toes or they can’t puzzle out the solution to un-fucking when their toys get wedged under furniture.

Our domestics can learn so much and work alongside us as *partners*.

Learning anything about marine mammal training will make you re-evaluate so much of your relationship with your own pets. There is so much force involved in the way we handle domestic animals. Most of it isn’t even intentional, it just stems from impatience. I’m guilty of it myself!

But with the exception of certain veterinary settings where the animal’s health is the immediate priority, why is it so important to us that animals do exactly what we want exactly when we want it? Why do we have to invent all these tools and contraptions to force them to behave?

When a whale swam away from a session, that was that. The trainer just waited for them to decide to come back. If they flat out refused to participate in behaviors, they still got their allotment of fish. Nothing bad happened. Not even when 20-30 people were assembled for a procedure, and the whale chose not to enter the medical pool. No big deal. Their choice and comfort were prioritized over human convenience.

It’s almost shocking to return to domestic animal medicine afterwards and watch owners use shock collars and chokers and whips to control their animals. It’s no wonder that positive reinforcement was pioneered by marine mammal trainers. When you literally can’t force an animal to do what you want, it changes your entire perspective.

I want to see that mindset extended to our domestic animals.

[driftwithme]

You know Chuck was right to be mad 'cause he was indeed getting replaced with Raleigh.

Which doesn't mean Chuck had the right to be an asshole to Raleigh, since it was not his fault at all, but he had the right to be angry at how people were treating him.

He is the front runner of Operation Pitfall. He's part of the j-pilot duo that will blow up the Breach, strapping a bomb to their backs in a suicidal run. He's the youngest ranger to ever graduate the Academy, he has 5 years of active service with the best kaiju killing score in history and he pilots the only ever Mark-5, fastest jaeger out there.

But despite what others might think of him, including Herc and Pentecost, Chuck is not asking for fame or fishing for compliments. He knows he's the best, he knows that he is an amazing ranger, okay? He's a bastard in his personality and he sucks in any sort of social interaction, true. That's the problem, isn't it? It doesn't matter how good at his job he is, if he's not charismatic, people would completely pass from him.

That's the fight Chuck had with Herc on the deleted scene. Herc wants him to be a better person and gain the respect of his peers, but Chuck is angry at how people won't respect him unless he's well-likes or behaved. He has an strictly professional view. They are not his family, they are not his friends, all they are is co-workers. Isn't he good at his job?

Why isn't it enough?

When Raleigh arrives, suddenly no one cares about his flaws and even if they do, they can quickly forgive him because Raleigh is that likeable. Golden boy. Which ends up being a nasty lie because Raleigh is just as awkward now, after 5 years of barely interacting with others. But he is openly sad and his smile is soft and he is assertive, won't get no for an answer, gets what he wants even from the Marshall himself.

To Chuck's eyes, Raleigh gets praised over doing the barely minimum under the excuse of his trauma. Praised by Herc himself, who stares at Raleigh like he's very proud, not like he is a disappointment, not like he should be doing better, not like he expects more. Chuck was there during the worst five years of the jaeger program, he killed more kaijus than anyone, made it twice as far in half the time and now, now he is the one who will end it.

So where is the people proud of him?

He arrives to see Pentecost touring Raleigh himself and Herc rushing to shake his hand like a fan and Mako walking next to him like a secretary. Every other pilot are twisting their necks to stare at him on the messhall and his dad is inviting him to their table after going to pick his food tray for him and--

He is the superstar. He was gone for 5 years as they suffered and returned to be the hero.

Chuck is already angry at the spectacle when Raleigh sits to eat with them, but then when Chuck's asks him what he's been doing from 5 years that's so important? And Raleigh just answers "construction"? Chuck's slowly going insane. Everyone starring at Raleigh Becket like he's the solution but he hasn't pilot in 5 years because he was in construction.

Chuck is a professional, if anything else. He's dead serious about his job. In his asshole way he tells Raleigh that the rest the program has blind faith in his ability but not Chuck. And if he is there to be a liability, even if the rest of them want to play the sad dog rescuer with Raleigh, Chuck won't. Either he works or he doesn't, but he's not gonna ruin this chance.

Again, he's being cruel but he's not wrong.

Later, Chuck points out that maintaining the neural handshake is nothing impressive, but the bare minimum needed to fight. It proves nothing. He's still on edge, thinking about the operation. So when Herc snaps at him and tells him to be respectful because Raleigh is an amazing pilot, Chuck gets angry. Herc is correcting him like an insolent child in front of everyone.

His dad is effectively taking Raleigh's side.

Again.

Before the drift effectively collapses, almost killing everyone if it wasn't for the ones who stayed on the bridge. Everyone runs except Chuck, Tendo, Herc and I think Pentecost. Everyone scatters to save their lives, except them. Even if it didn't happen, it almost did.

Chuck is furious. Why can't no one else see how dangerous it is? Why everyone acts like Raleigh can do nothing wrong? Like Mako's not piloting for the first time? Why did they have to wait until a disaster almost happened to see the risks they were taking?

This time Chuck is not making a point but actually picking out a fight with Raleigh. He is angry and confused. Not at Raleigh per se, which he doesn't seem to comprehend, but at how people treat him. Chuck is scared and worried. He wants a perfect mission, to come back alive, to save the world, but it feels like he's the only one considering the importance of the moment.

Raleigh kicks his ass and it might be the first real interaction they have with no one else in between. This time when Chuck accuses him and puts him to the test, Raleigh shows him how good he is. Chuck is mad 'cause he got his ass kicked, okay? But at this point, they are for the first time in equal ground. Raleigh and Chuck both lost their composure in that fight, marking them as equal fools. But it is not an "one over the other" situation. Even when Raleigh "won the fight", it was a way of establishing Chuck on the conversation next to Raleigh.

Then the Double Event came.

And doesn't it speak louder than words that Chuck was cheering for G. Danger when they got deployed? He was not mad, he was not jealous, his ego was totally forgotten. He was happy to see them. For the first time in the movie, he held the same faith as the others. Maybe he was worried since his words were "Kick his ass!", maybe he was asking for them to not fuck it up. But after it? Chuck dropped his anger once and for all.

Herc never spoke for Chuck in the movie 'til that moment. He apologized to Raleigh for the way he raised Chuck, yes, but he never lie about what Chuck was thinking or feeling. Herc says "my son will never admit out loud how thankful he is for you having saving us". But when they show Chuck's face, there is more than gratitude there. If Chuck was the arrogant bastard everyone says, he would have hide or at least put on a respectuful blank face and leave it at that. He didn't tho. He stares intently at Raleigh and looked for his face when he arrived and he lowered his chin, gave him a defeated soft smile, made it clear how he was feeling.

A freaking apology would have been less.

Still, when they went to die, all Chuck got was his boss telling him that he was arrogant and had daddy issues. Chuck was sacrificing it all for the cause. During the Double Event, he had done basically the same Raleigh did with Yancy years ago. Had climbed on top of a jaeger to fire flareguns at a kaiju not even knowing G. Danger was on its way. He was leaving his dad behind, he was going to pilot with a man who wouldn't survive the mission anyway. 5 years of absolute devotion and the best career someone could ask for.

To be told you're arrogant with daddy issues but it's okay, at least you're your father's kid and I am such a good pilot I could drift even with you.

Even when people ignored Raleigh's trauma through the movie in favor of idolizing him (and effectively dehumanizing him by doing so), he got Herc to acknowledge his pain and Mako to listen to him and share his burden.

But what did Chuck get?

Not a friend. Not the respect of his superiors or co-workers. Only an apology from his dad and a reminder he did love him and he was proud of him, given before Chuck was sent out to die. We got Chuck kneeling before his dad and saying goodbye before the shot of Raleigh smiling at Mako and saying he was finally looking forward to the future again.

It was Chuck who in the end was respectful of Pentecost ("It was a pleasure serving with you, sir") and the one who directed the final words between the Hansens (by implying he wanted to do the correct thing so his dad could be proud of him, so he would be and act like his father's son). But that was it.

The only moments of glory Chuck got was at the beginning of the movie and at the end. That is, when people celebrated Mutavore's death and announced for the first time that Chuck was going to die on the Breach that he was going to Operation Paitfall and when he finally blew himself up, finally respected not in life but I'm death, as a martyr.

So while people are celebrating that it is over and Raleigh is alive, we get to see the grief on Herc's face. His son helped save the world as his said he would-- and now he's dead.

You might notice why I don't agree when people points out that he is just an entitled brat who likes to be cruel. Or that I very much think that he was disrespected and mistreated during the whole movie. Because to me, well, the movie is about hope and love and second chances, unless you are Chuck.

[gale-dragon-writer]

Random Fun Facts from Quirks of the Cosmos.

The Tsukauchis are family friends of Yagi Toshinori, so both Camus and Hyouga see Yagi-san as Toshi-oji (an uncle-figure). To the two young Saints, their Toshi-oji is a sweet guy with a few health issues that needs to be protected (😅).

Milo, Ikki, and Shun’s parents are well-known Heroes that have made it to a few Top Ten lists; The Venomous Hero, Sasori (or Kardia to his friends and allies) and The Temperature Hero, Dégel. They also work at UA as teachers, as the Combat and Literature Teachers respectively.

Deathmask and Aphrodite are actually friends with Koda, who they met because of Deathmask’s father when they were 7. They get along surprisingly well despite the obvious personality differences. (And on that note, NO Deathmask and Aphrodite don’t bully Koda. Yes, they tease him occasionally but no bullying).

Shaka has an albino cat named Lotus, who is rather protective of her. Lotus has a Quirk by the name of “Phantom”, which gives him the same abilities as the namesake. Lotus can also be a mischievous little shit to those he dislikes and also has the unwanted habit of following Shaka to school w/o her knowing until he does something. Aizawa is one of the few teachers Lotus actually likes.

Mu has a Pigmy Goat named Kaiju that has the Quirk called “Macro and Micro”, which allow him to change his size. Kaiju doesn’t use his Quirk often, but he is very handy in most situations. Just don’t do anything to make Kaiju mad.

Dohko and Shiryu have two dogs. The first is a service dog nicknamed “Pal”, he’s a rather intelligent purebred poodle. The other is a Jack Russell Terrier named Wishbone. Both have Quirks that developed a year after they became part of the family.

Aldebaran is oddly observant due to his Mum being a Psychologist. His Father works in construction with Ochoco’s family, so he’s been friendly with her long b4 UA. Ochaco’s nickname for Aldebaran has always been “Kuma-kun” while his nickname for her is “Coco-kun”.

Shura’s folks are employed in jobs that oddly conflicts with their personalities yet they’re good at their chosen careers. So Shura knows a lot of “OoC Facts” about those things.

Aioria and Aioros have gotten better at telling their parents apart over the years, but they never enjoy explaining their family dynamics to others. Poor Seiya still has trouble telling his Dad and Uncle apart.

Saga and Kanon get a lot of strange admirers that they like to keep at a distance. Momoma accidentally ends up in that category after the Twins “caught” him with a rather “specific” doujinshi about them. Momoma has been trying to explain that situation to them since then but neither Saga nor Kanon want to be near him long enough for him to try.

Inko is relieved that Izuku has so many friends that care about him even though he doesn’t have a Quirk.

Izuku has been trying to get the hang of his “Wisdom of Athena” Quirk since it manifested. Hasn’t had much luck until a certain event b4 UA.

~}I{~

Until the Story comes out.

~}I{~

[emcandon]

I return from my bg3 stupor with a fresh 2 am question:

was the TAU story and world a concept you were baking for a long time until you had a chance to write it, or was it a more recent creation?

Do you find it easy or hard to build out new story concepts? Like, do you need to sit on them a while until they feel right, or does it just come pouring out of you from the start? Or a secret, third thing?

Just anything about your personal creation process!

lol hi it might not surprise you to learn that i am also steeping in bg3 (i am still stumbling around act 1! i'm not allowed to play until i hit daily sequel writing quota, which is healthy, i'm sure, but does mean i am somewhat behind just about everyone i know who is also playing :P)

(my first Tav is an enormous nb tiefling bard named Faretheewell who is, imo, perfect. very beautiful. very kind. definitely does drag. lying a lot, but mostly just for funsies. has turned astarion into their little purse dog.)

ANYWAY, TO THE ACTUAL QUESTION:

TAU's an interesting case because it was cannibalized from a couple different ongoing projects into something entirely new.

The characters had been floating around in different iterations since about 2013, and their final forms in Archive are quite distinct from the original seed! Imagine Sunai as an exiled diplomat who got involuntarily apprenticed to a cursed king/the last magician in the world; imagine Veyadi as a disowned god-child tasked with murdering the last magician! I'm still probably going to use that world somewhere so I'll mum about it now (it's the one I call "grandma heist.")

((imo that's why you should always yoink characters you like from whatever source you enjoy, be it your own or something else -- they will inevitably change in their new context, often so substantially that they are nigh unrecognizable.))

The story concept also originated in 2013: "Pacific Rim, but the mechs are built out of the kaiju, and pilots must have survived being poisoned by those kaiju." The addition of strange and upsetting AIs of divine power was somewhat inherited from the story Sunai and Adi came from, where divinity was fraught, fractured, and hungry.

Here's a funny. In 2017 I thought TAU would be a nice, simple, clean project. However. I know some folks who turn out gloriously clean first drafts. I AM NOT ONE OF THEM. My brain is a hazardous work environment, very non-OSHA compliant. Basically I do a lot of thought work in the drafting, so the drafts are consequently messy, and there are a LOT of changes from concept to actual workable manuscript.

Which I suppose is to say that story concepts nest in my brain quite often when it is healthy. The frequency with which I land on new and interesting story thoughts is actually a pretty good indicator of how well I am doing ambiently! Right now I'm storing up a lot of them, some of which I am fairly rabid about -- nearly as rabid as I am about Archive, which is the real indicator of a project that is ready to transition from Thought to Work. They are described here as "apocalypse magicians" and other such things. There's one that's going to be kind of an argument with Lovecraftian unknowability via desconstruction of Enlightenment epistemologies + queer identity destruction, and another that's going to be the Le Carré approach to espionage + magic as divinity meets public service + interplanetary empires intruding on your bumfuck planet offering the solution to climate change might still be bad actually. (I want to write that last with my wife and we are making SUCH GOOD FUCKING SHIPS FOR IT.)

How to summarize this? 1) find a story notion/concept about which i can obsess, 2) actually start writing it, 3) mess up spectacularly for a few drafts, 4) finally whittle together something more or less correct, 5) that's my editor's problem now!!

[chitaqua-toast]

I fully feel that scene every time I’m out on the balcony with the dogs.

I spent hours out there today, till they both (dog 1 breed origin: Mexico; dog 2 breed origin: Africa; home: FUCKING PNW) complained about it being breezy, cool, and slightly humid.

Tomorrow, we’re doing it again. I’ll remember to put their matching hoodies on this time.

sitting on the porch is something so personal actually

Like ok look at him. Look at him on the porch of his little house in wolf trap Virginia among the flat fields like a sailor in the ocean with his crew of dogs. Look at him…

[chitaqua-toast]

Ran across a couple pics of Kaiju during different trips to his favorite place… Disneyland. This one was the second to last.

This one was his very first trip.

I have more pics of him there somewhere. He immediately adored riding on Haunted Mansion, decided the Star Wars animatronic cat in the shop was his best friend, and gave Chewbacca The Most Look.

[southerntchiorny]

Kaiju has gotten a BEAUTIFUL vest and patches! I just need to put Velcro on the patches (i don’t know why I didn’t think to order them with Velcro) and it the set will be ready. I thought the space dinos were very fitting for his namesake 😊

Kaiju isn’t at a place in his training where I want to take him to non-pet friendly places yet though so we’re going to work on that first and foremost. It’s not that he doesn’t behave, it’s that he’s a hard headed teenager right now who absolutely LOVES getting attention from anyone who will give him the time of day (and with a 100 lb beast that’s just about everyone). Once we get his focus under control we’ll start doing more PA training in other areas beyond pet friendly places.

Instagram profiles for his gear are

@skoobyandskrappys (vest)

@shepherd.snuggles (patches)

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anime recommendations list

Ted's Big ass anime recommendation list

(probably will update when i remember more) Tv series/ovas: Ghost in the shell stand alone complex(mystery cyber punk/ political thriller/ techno babel simualtior) Trigun(Space western) FLCL(Coming of age/ wacky mind fuckery) Panty and stocking with gaterbelt(comdey) Kill la Kill(action) Fist of the north star(action) Gin Sliver fang(action/ DOGS) Hunter x hunter(adventure/ never ending series) Cowboy bebop (space adventure/sadness) Space Dandy(comedy) Jojo's bizarre adventure(depends on the part okay) Revolutionary Girl Utena (face slaping action/drama) The Rose of Versailles( Drama) Blood plus(vampire bullshit) Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac(action) Tiger Mask(wrestling) Ultimate muscle (wrestling) Lupin III(adventure/comdey) Neo Human Casshan(super hero) Charge men ken(Trash fire/ master class in shitty anime) Getter Robo(mecha) G Gundam(mecha) Yatterman(super hero) Cyborg 009 *The 2000s version i remember more(super hero) Gigantor(mecha) space pirate cobra/Space Cobra(space adventure) Armored Trooper Votoms(mecha) Kinnikuman(comdey/superhero/ wrestling) Golgo 13(manly spy action) Dragonball and dragon ball z(action) Sherlock Hound(furry comdey mystery) Bestars(Furry bullshit) Dirty Pair(space adventure) MD Geist (action) Wanna-Be's(female wrestling/ trash but fun trash) Kaiba(mind fuck/mystery) Ultraman USA(super hero/kaiju fighting) inuyasha( romance drama/rumikos wild ride) ranma 1/2(romance drama) Mad★Bull 34(fun trash) Shin Chan(comdey) Dragon half(comdey/fansty)

Dirty pair flash(scifi action) Iria: Zeiram The Animation(scifi action) Future GPX Cyber Formula Zero(future racing) Slayers(comdey fantasy) Card captor sakura (magical girl) xxxholic(drama) speed racer/mach no go go(racing/fun trash) Berserk(dark fantasy) Record of Lodoss War(fanstay) Steam Detectives(steam punk/mystery) Great Teacher Onizuka(drama/comdey) The Super Milk-Chan Show(comdey) Pokemon seasons 1-4(adventure/monster collecting) Big O (mecha/bullshit ending) Digimon season 1 (monster iskeai) RahXephon(mecha/mind fuckery) Wolf's Rain(drama mystery/ bullshit ending) Fullmetal Alchemist and brother hood(action) F-Zero: GP Legend(future racing/action adventure) Paranoia Agent(mystery/mind fuckery)

Eureka Seven(mecha) Akagi(thrilling drama) Gurren Lagann(mecha/badass) Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor(thrilling drama/) Afro samuri(action) Hellsing and hellsing ultimate(vampire tiddy sim/fun trash) Spice and Wolf(romance/drama/economics 101) Soul Eater(action) Birdy the Mighty: Decode (super hero) Puella Magi Madoka Magica(magical girl/sadness/magical girl Valhalla ) Tiger & Bunny(super hero/dilfs) Inferno cop(comdey/ stupidity) Love, Chunibyo, & Other Delusions(romance/comdey) Parasyte(action horror) My Love Story!!(romance/comdey) SHIMONETA(comdey/dirty jokes) KonoSuba(iskeai parody) Mob Psycho 100(action/supernatural) Yuri!!! on Ice(sports/romance) Made in Abyss*i only seen season 1(adventure/child endangerment) Megalo Box(sports) Banana Fish(crime drama) SSSS.Gridman(kaiju fighting super hero) Dororo 2019 version(action) Ranking of Kings(fantasy adventure/drama)

Movies: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(fantasy adventure) Locke the Superman(super hero) Nora & twinkel rock nora( trash fires/ master class in shitty anime) Ghost in the shell(cyberpunk) Vampire Hunter D(action horror/vampire bullshit) Castle in the Sky(fantasy adventure) Guyver: Out of Control(super hero) Black Magic M-66(action) Grave of the Fireflies(drama/ why am i crying so much em up) Akira(scifi action) The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor(super hero) Kiki's Delivery Service(drama) Only Yesterday(drama/romance)

Princess Mononoke(Drama)

Howl's Moving Castle(Drama)

Spirited Away(drama)

Pom poko(comdey)

Perfect Blue(Mystery thriller)

Paprika(Thriller)

Princess Mononoke(Drama) Howl's Moving Castle(Drama) Spirited Away(drama) Pom poko(comdey) Perfect Blue(Mystery thriller) Paprika(Thriller) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time(sicfi/drama) Redline(racing) Little Witch Academia (fantasy) Marry and the witches flower(fantasy) Promare (action) Belle(musical/drama)

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ive been thinking extensively about that first question and it's the biggest reason i haven't written anything about it yet. the answers i've been coming to are either it depends on the situation, or more easily the Ultras are still interior entities, interacting with the human and daemon both as a voice in their head. there is definitely INTEREST in the idea of an ultra, say, replacing a host's daemon, if the host were revived after dying, but the actual logistics of this idea seem pretty complicated. what would happen to the human once the ultra left? what are the actual, personal consequences of a human losing its soul but surviving- something that is so deeply horrifying in the original text? it didn't feel fitting for the ultraman universe, so i've scrapped it. i do think that it must make ultra-human bonds that much deeper, though, to bond with not one person but two- or maybe even four. poor Ace. im also curious about the more unclear hosts, like ultraman and taro, who never seemed to be sure whether they were human or alien. i'm not certain what i feel would happen to their daemons. maybe they kept the humans' souls, and replaced the men themselves. i havent decided yet!

(on the topic of transforming, i figure the daemon gets put into the same nebulous pocket dimension place the human goes to. big, fragile animals would be a liability in a fight.)

ultras who take on a human form probably separate a little part of themselves off to take on an animal form. if you were to know and pay attention, you'd find that their daemons are unnaturally still, because it's difficult even for such vast creatures to puppet two bodies at once. logically, they might tend to prefer false daemons that are small, and easier to hide, with the added bonus of being unassuming. Dan Moroboshi, notably, had a red-tailed hawk, who was quite infamous among their human comrades for the way she would stare unblinking for minutes at a time. considering Dan's personality, her quiet, intense demeanor made perfect sense. and in a way, i guess it still does. Mirai's daemon is a more difficult question. the easy answer would be the wildcat species Mebius is designed after, but i'm not sure that suits either his personality or the practical needs of an ultra's false daemon... i feel like he'd have a dog, really, despite him being a cat. but very few dogs can fit in a jet's cockpit. (this is probably something widely considered in that universe. you can't fly a jet if your soul is a horse. hunting bird- and dog-daemons are probably the most common in task forces for their serviceable natures and shapes)

the last question is also a really good one. i do think it would depend, although i think it's just as possible for an alien raised on earth to have a daemon from their homeworld as it is for them to have an earth animal. daemon shapes are more about what they represent than the real form they take (although an alien with a non-earth daemon would need a disguise for their soul as well as their own body, and i'm sure plenty of different people have plenty of different opinions on how one should disguise their soul). i think in this universe, it might even be possible for humans' daemons to settle as miniature kaiju or mythological creatures. this would probably result in very poor consequences for the pair, though. humans usually aren't fond of monsters.

i think aliens having daemons would make the whole Alien Thing more interesting. them not having daemons would make them too easy to rationalize as monsters, literal soulless things. and conversely, ultras being daemonless only contributes to their ephemeral, godlike nature. it's easy to hate or idolize something that is so distinctly different from you

the conclusion ive come to about daemons and dust in ultraman is that the beings ultras were before they evolved didnt have daemons but that ultras themselves now are made of dust. just like angels. theyre raw soul

[recentanimenews]

The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc Tops Japanese Fans' Fall 2020 TV Anime Anticipation Ranking

    The fall 2020 TV anime season has arrived! The largest Japanese mobile phone operator NTT Docomo conducted its regular online research survey to ask the users of its streaming service dAnime Store their most anticipated new TV anime in this season. The survey was conducted between September 25 and October 2, and a total of 92,891 votes were cast (voting for multiple titles was allowed) for the 62 titles listed below. 

        1. "The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc" - 7,759 votes 

©2019 Tsutomu Sato/KADOKAWA/Magic High School Production Committee

    2. "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III" - 7,047

©Fujino Omori, SB Creative Corp./Danmachi3 Project

    3. "Is The Order A Rabbit? BLOOM" - 4,355 

©Koi, HOUBUNSHA/Gochiusa Partners3

    4. "Haikyu!! TO THE TOP" 2nd cour - 4,310

©H. Furudate, Shueisha, "HAIKYU!!" Project, MBS

    5. "JUJUTSU KAISEN" - 4,066

©Gege Akutami/Shueisha, JUJUTSU KAISEN Project

    6. "The Day I Became a God" - 3,983 

7. "Higurashi: When They Cry - New" - 3,412 

8. "By the Grace of the Gods" - 2,842 

9. "Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina" - 2,761

10. "Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai" - 2,497

  11. "Golden Kamuy" Season 3 - 2,402

12. "TONIKAWA: Over The Moon For You" - 2,377

13. "Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon" - 2,358

14. "Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World" - 2,356

15. "Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle" - 2,231

16. "Kuma kUma Kuma Bear" - 2,222

17. "Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club" - 2,195

18. "Moriarty the Patriot" - 2,191

19. "I'm Standing on a Million Lives" - 2,135

20. "Mr. Osomatsu" Season 3 - 1,978

  21. "Adachi to Shimamura" - 1,954

22. "Strike Witches ROAD TO BERLIN" - 1,890 

23. "Talentless Nana" - 1,780

24. "Ikebukuro West Gate Park" - 1,666

25. "Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle: Rhyme Anima" - 1,607

26. "Yorinuki Gintama-san Porori-hen" - 1,372

27. "Dropout Idol Fruit Tart" - 1,318

28. "IDOLiSH7 SECOND BEAT!" - 1,115

29. "Warlords of Sigrdrifa" - 951

30. "Assault Lily Bouquet" - 944

  31. "A3! SEASON AUTUMN & WINTER" - 932

32. "With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun" - 908

33. "Tsukiuta. The Animation 2" - 846

34. "Dogeza de Tanondemita" - 775

35. "Guraburu!" - 685

36. "Taisou Samurai" - 679

37. "Maesetsu! Opening Act" - 620

38. "Ookami-san wa Taberaretai" - 561

39. "Please Take My Brother Away!" Season 4 - 511 

40. "EAGLE TALON ~Golden Spell~" - 506

  41. "Rail Romanesque" - 504

42. "Tototsu ni Egypt Kami" - 500

43. "Iwakakeru -Sport Climbing Girls-" - 477　

44. "NOBLESEE" - 473

45. "Akudama Drive" - 472

46. "King's Raid: Successors Of The Will" - 448 "

47. "Fushigi Dagashiya Zenitendo" - 415

48. "D4DJ First Mix" - 349

49. "Otona nya Koi no Shikata ga Wakaranai!" - 345

50. "DoragonS Dogma" - 311

  51. "Seizei Ganbare! Mahou Shoujo Kurumi" Season 3 - 302 

52. "Magatsu Wahrheit -Zuerst-" - 260

53. "Anime Kapibara-san" - 237

54. "Soredake ga Neck" - 114

55. "Eternity - Shinya no Nurekoi Channel" - 110

56. "Ninja Collection" (Yamishibai spin-off series) - 89

57. "Saikyo Kamiz Mode!" - 75

58. "Cap Kakumei Bottleman" - 74

59. "Onegai, Patron-sama!" - 68

60. "Kaeru no Pickles - Kimochi no Iro" - 66

61. "Super Wings" - 55

62. "Kaiju Step Wandabada!" Season 2 - 50

    Male Top 5:

  1. "The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc" - 5,607 

2. "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III" - 5,532

3. "Is The Order A Rabbit? BLOOM" - 3,404 

4. "The Day I Became a God" - 2,844 

5. "Higurashi: When They Cry - New" - 2,329

    Female Top 5:

  1. "Haikyu!! TO THE TOP" 2nd cour - 2,314

2. "The Irregular at Magic High School: Visitor Arc" - 1,994

3. "JUJUTSU KAISEN" - 1,962

4. "Moriarty the Patriot" - 1,398

5. "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? III" - 1,383

    Source: NTT Docomo press release

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

[chitaqua-toast]

This holiday season has been missing something. He loved the time of year between Halloween and Christmas. He passed a couple days before Halloween. Tink has regressed on her training & reverted to resource guarding against Beetle and Bella, but she’ll get past it again with time.

We did our Yule gifts tonight, with dinner happening tomorrow. there was a lot of chaos. Tink and Beetle each got a wicker basket filled with toys & treats. The boys helped Beetle with his, I had wrapped four of the stuffed toys for Tink’s since I knew she already loved tearing up paper.

She absolutely went ham. There was also a massive bag of apple-chicken treats and bully sticks, which she got to have. She also spent some time practicing her “bring” command to help gather everyone’s wrappings for throwing away.

After a couple hours & most everyone heading to their areas to put new stuff away, I realized I hadn’t seen her in a bit.

Idk if she was thinking of him, too (people were saying his name a lot tonight), or if she was just peopled out, but she sent herself to our room. I found her stretched out on the bed, cuddled up with her bottle.

She chilled there while I did some cutting and hand sewing on some ears. Turned around to find her asleep. Poor girl has had a rough few months. We all have. But tonight was such a nice bright point for us all.