#Primary Universe

[nando161mando]

This is happening in Louisiana.

[calypsolemon]

my little headcanon is that despite all the possible negative associations he could have with it, Steven still goes out of his way to wear the color pink because it reminds him of the overwhelming self-love he felt when embracing his seperated self. He might have originally worn the color in a passive attempt to emulate his mother at first, but now it's a reminder of how much he isn't her, and how desperately he wanted to be himself when he fell apart. A comforting thought when he is otherwise feeling self-doubt.

[bandtrees]

side note i love those pretentious ass posts that are like "autistic people name one special interest of yours that's not 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️MEDIA🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️" because they have complexes about being on the fandom website. because how do you define media. am i still a cringe fandom blogger for being autistic about commercials. those are media. am i an uncool brainrotted autistic who needs to stop watching steven universe and watch real grownup shows like house md because mark gill is my wholesome 100 blorbo babygirl

[screamingcrows]

Modern AU prof!Dottore x postdoc!Celeste - short first meeting under cut but it got too long for me to leave on dash without cut so hdgjkasdhg

"Twenty minutes early for the morning lecture," the man by the lectern shook his head, unusually crimson eyes barely sparing Celeste a glance, "take a seat and be quiet. And don't expect any goodwill from kissing ass."

Celeste crossed her arms, taking a deep breath to not snap at the man who had to be her new boss first thing in the morning. Keeping her expression carefully neutral, she ventured into the auditorium, relishing the evident frustration from the older man when she turned to him and not the seats.

"What a pleasure to meet you physically at last," she reached out a gloved hand, undeterred by his indifference, "we spoke on call, remember? I couldn't get my webcam to work for the interview?"

She almost wanted to grin as recognition flashed through the man's, Zandik's, eyes.

"You are Dr. Beauregard?" The question was laced with not quite condescension, but close enough that Celeste retracted her hand before he continued, "You barely look old enough to be starting a PhD and yet you're claiming to be the new postdoc? Very funny, now stop interrupting my preparations and take a damned seat miss."

This time, there was no amount of deep breaths that could have prevented Celeste from hissing, reaching forward and slamming his computer shut. "Listen here and listen well, you have exactly one minute to apologise or I swear I will have every student of yours filing complaints about this course by the end of the semester."

His wry chuckle caught her off-guard, "Dr. Dottore, and the pleasure is all mine." Celeste glared as his demeanor changed in an instant, his lips quirking up in a dangerous smile, "I believe we will make an excellent team."

[wisteria-lodge]

Hey there! I was wondering if you could help me with a writing quandary I'm coming up against currently? Do you know how to write a badger primary protagonist so that they're not.... kind of boring??

For a bit of background, I have a character in a story I'm writing who I've decided is a badger primary, but when I try to write about his moral reasoning, it all just comes out as flat stock phrases. I've never really known a healthy and kind badger primary (though I did grow up around a lot of authoritarian badgers who I was absolutely on the receiving end of dehumanization from - part of the reason I'm writing him as a badger is to challenge my own experiences there), so I'm falling back on the whole "Overly Ideal Hero" thing and it's just not working. When I try to add more complexity to this character's actions, he either ends up being a bird primary (like me) who has a very badger looking system or if I try to lean more heavily loyalist, he ends up being a snake primary (like my younger sister who's also my best friend) who has a broad definition of his people.

Basically, how do you write a badger primary who's not crying over puppies and kittens and doing the whole "why can't we just get along like in middle school?" speech from Mean Girls constantly, while also not having them veer into being a bird or snake? Thanks!

There can be a kind of fascinating sadness to a Badger primary. They draw their personal strength from their chosen community, even when they know their community is flawed - the same way a Snake sticks with their Person even when they're wrong and failable. Badgers are romantics, and Badgers are patriots. They are loyal to this almost spiritual core idea of what their county ought to be - and can sometimes bring the ideal and the reality closer together, through sheer willpower.

I had a fantastic time writing Elim Garak, a incredibly morally gray interrogator/spy from a sort of sci-fi West Berlin. The tragedy of him is that he believes the propaganda, so when he sees his country stray too far he defects, in order to save it from itself. But he never stops being a patriot, and a lot of his conflicts revolve around whether he is able to adopt a second community and/or forgive himself for potentially betraying his first.

Clark Kent is absolutely a puppies-and-kittens Badger primary, but what's wonderful about him is he still feels loyal to his original community (Krypton) - which he cannot be a part of because it no longer exists. He loves his adopted community (Earth) with all his heart, but because he is a Badger, he is so conscious of the fact that he is an outsider - and specifically an outsider with the potential to be a gigantic threat. So he is hyper, hyper aware of the power dynamics surrounding him at all times. It gives everything he does this weight, because he is just. so. careful. Spock is another torn-between-two-incompatible-communities Badger, which is always a good premise, and his sparring partner Dr. McCoy is a Badger... constantly running into situations where he can't save everyone. But he just keeps getting back up. (complaining the whole time, or course.) I'd put Mad-Eye Moody in that same category - just wrote a fun thing with him.

Draco Malfoy actually has a very loud Badger primary, in contrast to his Snake primary parents. He actually believes all that stuff about the continuity and importance of the Malfoy name, and it's not okay for Voldemort to undermine it even if Draco himself would personally benefit and get a lot of power out of the exchange. I do have a big huge fic about post-war Draco coming, and one thing I really enjoyed was the way Draco needs to adapt the tradition and family history that gives him so much power and stability - into something that can still exist in a post-Voldemort world.

Universal Badgers are great when they're interacting with something the majority of their world doesn't consider a person. I loved writing Eddie Brock because... of course the homeless lady is a person, and so is the security guard, and the cashier at the convenience store, and yep the black goo monster symbiote, he's a person too. So when Venom gloms onto his head, and learns how to relate to humanity through Eddie, that's the lesson he learns, and Eddie becomes Venom's equal partner.

Contrast him with the villain of the first Venom movie, the very Elon-Musk coded Carlton Drake. Drake's issue is that he fundamentally sees people as expendable, so when he gets his own symbiote... of course Riot learns that people are expendable. So Drake becomes merely a body that Riot controls. Which, in the end, is why they lose.

[hekate-brimo2]

forgive me, I’ve just rewatched Steven Universe

but I think I have an idea. I think Pink Diamond is an Off-Color, probably the first. In the season/series finale “Change Your Mind,” White Diamond speaks about the diamonds as though they are a color-scheme. Yellow’s impurities don’t allow her to absorb blue light, and Blue lacks warmth because of hers. Yellow, Blue, White and Pink aren’t a recognized color-scheme though, at least not as far as I’m aware of, you know what is though? Yellow, Blue, and Red, the primary colors, the ones all other colors come from? Pink should’ve been Red, she was the first Off-Color, the first Gem of all Gem-Kind to come out “Wrong.” No wonder she was so small compared to the other diamonds, no wonder she couldn’t do anything right for them, they knew she was wrong from the moment she was made.

[elavoria]

WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @sylvienerevarine, @sheirukitriesfandom, @theoneandonlysemla, @dirty-bosmer, and @madam-whim, thank you all! I tag you all back for next time as well as @nostalgic-breton-girl, @vervayyn, and @illumiera~

Having Unselm gently tease Isanna is one of the easiest things in the world for me to do, so have a little of that while she’s standing guard over him while her teammates clear the way for him:

“If anything happens,” she said, watching him carefully, “I need you to get behind me.” His mouth twitched into a smile as he looked back at her, and he said, “I have my bombs, you know.” His smile faltered as she continued to stare, and he heaved a sigh and added, “They won’t help me if I have a seizure. You’re right.” “I won’t risk your life, Unselm,” she said, her voice soft and serious. “I promised Lady Heidmarch to see you back safely. If that means shielding you with my own body, then so be it.” He regarded her for a moment, then smiled again. “It would seem you chose the right profession,” he remarked. “You’d be the most intense cleric I’ve ever met, otherwise.” It was her mouth’s turn to twitch upward into a wry smile, though she couldn’t fault him for the assessment. “I asked my first mentors far too many questions about when it’s appropriate to smite people to be a cleric,” she admitted. “That in addition to what you’ve already experienced of my… interpersonal manner. I’m too analytical to help people in a more traditional way, but I can still protect them from evil.” “With a little adventuring on the side,” he said, gesturing at the broken doors leading into the Crow. “Who knows what evil might be lurking in these ancient places,” she returned gravely. “We already know the shards are cursed.” “Exactly as I said,” he said with a smile and a twinkle in his eyes. “Very intense.”

[severussnapemylove]

World building question: Where do wizarding children go to primary school? Muggle children go to standard school like Harry and Hermione, but what about kids like Ron and Draco? Is it homeschool and tutors? Is there any standardisation? Everyone appears to read and write at a similar level when they start Hogwarts.

[kinneys]

jason and marie: touch

[kyartzz42]

Okay, seriously, somebody. ANYBODY. please talk to me about the hgttg radio show PLEASE!!!

[madeinjapan-thailand-blbambeyond]

MADE IN THAILAND

Series: My Golden Blood

WAY-AR SANGNGERN

[Nickname: JOSS]

GAWIN CASKEY

[Nickname: FLUKE]

[skyward-floored]

do you have any hcs on the chain + Malon grieving a really close loved one? for no particular reason at all? 🙃

- hero-of-the-wolf

well. cough. this comes up in one whumptober fic a little. two, sort of. But for now, I think a lot of the Links probably grieve pretty similarly, with some exceptions. I honestly don't know about Malon... she'd handle it better than the Links though. She and Time would lean on each other a lot through it.

All the Links though, ahhh... I feel like I'm bad at explaining things like this lol.

like I know Legend would go to anger first, and then shut down with angry tears when he realizes he can't change anything, and that Four would be fine until something snaps and he's sobbing his eyes out and yelling angrily at the same time and hating himself for being so emotional, and Wind would want to spend his time crying so badly but he'd hold it back and try to make the others feel better, and Sky would just turn away and cry in silence and try to keep his grieving private while acting mostly fine around the others, and Twilight would just collapse at the reality of losing yet another person and fall into a pit of grief, and Warriors would hide all of it away and act like its all fine until it explodes out of him with an enraged wail that he desperately muffles into his sleeve while Wild just goes dead silent with brief bursts of emotion that are quickly silenced again and Hyrule seethes with an enraged sort of grief and refuses to give up even when there's no chances left, they're dead, and then Time...

Time would pull the ocarina from his pocket, and sigh wearily as he tries again. again.

again.

[savage-rhi]

Kinda funny magenta.

[ppilotco]

leila midsweet (before she goes through a total makeover)

[imbucketfish]

Not artfight related! I was experimenting with an hs-like style and, drew some of my fantrolls! Left to right- Maliri (Moishi) Nekros, Ceceli Mirmyr, Amaris Momoko and Kandii Amalie! Closeups/Singles under the cut.

Kandii - No Alts

Amaris - Makeup/Clean Face

Ceceli- Shades/No Shades

Maliri - Dyed/Natural Hair

[academicelephant]

Universities and such count as schools too!