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[athina-blaine]

I think the reason your labru fics managed to keep me hooked when i normally don't like a lot of fan content about them is that it's reciprocal. Laios and Kabru both look out for each other and take care of each other, when normally a lot of content for them is focused on Kabru being there foe Laios without much focus on the reverse. I love, love, love Nourish especially, with Laios not really understanding what Kabru's talking about but trying to engage and pay attention anyway, making him a tasty meal so he'll sit down and let himself unwind, and just showing how he cares about people

Thank you so much! You can assume whenever I'm writing from Laios' POV at any given moment I'm beating back the urge to spoil Kabru rotten. I want to give him a wardrobe of full of nice clothes. I want to make him dinner. I want to find him falling asleep at his desk and carry him back to bed. If there are 0 Kabru simps, I'm dead. The threat of complete and utter derailment looms large with every fic I write and I must tread carefully 😤

It doesn't surprise me that a lot of labru stuff focuses more on how Kabru supports Laios than the other way around, since that's how it largely manifests in the series. Laios, being the main character, has a lot of plates he's spinning in the air, but Kabru is uniquely focused on Laios and how Laios relates to his own goals. I'd be curious to count up the panels that has Kabru referring to Laios, both verbally or mentally, and compare it to other characters outside the main party, because I think the results would be quite funny haha

But while there is a disparity, the scenes where Laios reciprocates this support, in my opinion, are arc-defining. Laios, with zero prompting, realizes Kabru would be hungry after his resurrection and makes him something to eat with his own party's supplies. It's Kabru's aversion to monster cuisine that factors into his emotional bid to Marcille, in that you can't make a perfect menu that looks the same for everyone. And, crucially, Laios promises to share a meal with Kabru that doesn't include monsters. For the entire series, Kabru wanted to know whether Laios could be interested in people as much as he was interested in monsters, if he could prioritize people over monsters, and this is where he gets his answer. This is what convinces him to put his trust in Laios enough to help him escape from the Canaries and to let him try and talk down Marcille. Because Laios demonstrated he was capable of taking people's i.e. Kabru's wants and needs into consideration, even if it had nothing to do with monsters.

Labru appeals to me because of everything they have to offer each other, yes, but mostly because of everything Laios has to offer Kabru. Here you have this character who is routinely seen to have a suppressed appetite, who makes himself smaller in order to be more appealing to the people around him, who makes space for and services everybody but himself, and here you have this other character walk right up to him and say, "You look hungry. Let me make you something to eat."

[teruel-a-witch]

After they fell into bed together, Steve woke up afraid that they'd done something they won't be able to take back, even though Danny was everything he'd wanted for years. He was scared Danny was going to regret it, and he decided to sneak out before he woke up so they could pretend nothing happened. Having already put his shirt back on, he couldn't resist looking back at Danny, watching him stretch sleepily, before it was too late Danny woke up.

When putting it like that, it seemed ridiculous, how could he slink away in the middle of the night as if they did something wrong when nothing ever felt more right?

Danny knew Steve well enough to know it was just his instinct to flee when things got real, leave them before they leave you, that sort of thing. He knew he had to grab onto Steve and not let him go for Steve to know he was wanted. He wasn't about to let him slip away when they finally got to this point.

Steve couldn't help but smile, Danny knew him so well. Knew him and accepted him and wanted him to stay. He was being stupid, they would be alright as long as they are together they will figure things out.

As Steve shrugged out of his shirt and wrapped himself around Danny's body again, Danny murmured 'There, isn't this better? Don't forget you promised me morning sex, you better be up to task'. Steve chuckled as he kissed his cheek softly. 'Anything for you, sunshine'.

[aroaceleovaldez]

my notifs recently got me thinking about the very random concept of "what if there is a second, secret CHB. directly below normal CHB." and i ended up brainstorming it in the discord.

context for how this originated: one was just a random notif on my post talking about the tunnels under the Hephaestus cabin, and the other was some tags from @drksanctuary on my fake readriordan article mentioning the idea of a chthonic demigod camp.

so. my brilliant (read: "smashing my 2 brain cells together") idea: the elaborate and seemingly infinite tunnels under cabin 9 are remnants of an abandoned underground CHB that exists directly underneath camp. It's basically just normal CHB except in a big cave system, probably connected to the labyrinth somewhere and has the separate tunnels, and instead of the Olympian cabins it has chthonic cabins. there's probably also some infernal nymphs and etc down there too. since all chthonic demigods can learn to shadow-travel they probably used that to get down there, and a lot of chthonic demigods probably have geokinesis just by nature, ergo the tunnels (for when they don't want to shadow-travel, or can't).

in brainstorming with the discord we decided it could be cool if some of the cabins lined up with the above-ground cabins, either for thematic purposes or associations or whatever. Like there's maybe a Hermes and maybe Poseidon cabin in the chthonic CHB too that just link to the above-ground ones, but also like Persephone cabin lines up to Demeter cabin because of course it does. and maybe Hecate cabin lines up to Cabin 8 cause Artemis is sometimes 1/3rd of Hecate. Maybe Angelos cabin is beneath Cabin 1, and Zagreus cabin is beneath Cabin 12. Things like that.

The other ones i thought of were either Hypnos or Thanatos cabin lines up with Apollo, because twins, and the other is just right beside it (because twins). And Charon's cabin is beneath Cabin 9, ergo why the tunnel system connects to it (because Charon. Ferryman. Surface access. It makes sense in my brain).

[best-u-of-pheoenix-program]

BS in Communication

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MA in Education/Secondary Teacher Education (Arizona)

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[significant-narratives]

you guys. please stop saying you want b*st*n. i promise you that you do not, in fact, want that. they are literally this team’s kryptonite, they are exactly the kind of team the leafs struggle against the most.

[prozach27]

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[glaiveprime]

i cant be fucking writing a paper dawg i see my pookie is fucking 3 days

[stunt-lads]

I want bepis, but why? I don't even drink pepsi

[storybounded]

That's right, I need to make a new main that separates Lisa and her horse from SSO and practically make them adopted oc's LMAO.

[idnull]

( @tewwor is being bartered with! | ♡ )

ender doesn't want to fucking be here.

that's probably a bit of an understatement, given that, actually, ender would rather be doing basically anything except his job, but it gets the point across.

he's standing in a sweaty, yelling crowd and "watching" a fight, but really he's subtly scanning the room for the person he's supposed to make contact with, managing to blend in despite towering over most people at 6'6". he starts to move towards the edge of the crowd, further into the building, slinking between bodies.

[dracolunae]

I’m gonna flunk that exam tomorrow so hard o(-(

[itslookingback]

oh my god

[ruinouslore]

cant wait to get a magic book AND KILL WITH THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE 💪 ✨

[problemswithbooks]

There's a few minor characters in a later One Piece arc that disprove your theory re: inheritance of fish-like traits, but your world-building speculation is really interesting!

Actually one of Big Mom’s young sons looks fully Fishmen. De-Chat.

Got these two asks so I looked into it a bit more.

Something I find really interesting is that Big Mom's kids, De-chat and his mermaid sisters look nearly the same as full-blooded fishmen and merfolk. Big Mom is interesting because she doesn't really look human due to her size but is apparently just a little to short to count as a giant. It might be possible that she has giant ancestors somewhere in her past--but also who knows, she could also have fishmen or merfolk ancestors as well.

Again, this is just me trying to make sense of One Piece biology that was never supposed to make any sense. Oda only designs characters based on how they look and fit into the story. He's not going to limit his artistic talent to reality or make world building rules that might also put restrictions on what he can draw.

But for me, how I'd make sense of Big Mom's kids looking so much like their seafolk fathers is to say that somewhere in her background she has a fish-person or merfolk parent. Given how Oda says their dna works, with it remembering any secondary species (like whale shark, or goldfish) it makes sense that human hybrids generally get more human traits because one parent lacks a secondary species to pull from. Meanwhile, both fish-people and merfolk are human, so the genes have more ways of combining in a way that emphasis human traits.

But if someone has seafolk ancestors their dna would still carry that secondary species, even if they themselves do not have any fish traits. If they then had children with a fish-man or mermaid that child could have a higher chance of inheriting fish traits. This could explain why Big Mom has such pure looking seafolk children.

Meanwhile other hybrids we see like Sapi look nearly entirely human except for a fin on his head. Dellinger is interesting because he looks almost fully human as well, but most of it seems to be because he can hide those traits. He can choose whether or not to have human teeth, or hide his fin.

I'm no expert on dna or genealogy so my head-cannon is probably nonsense, but to me seafolk kind of feel like eeve in a way, where they're dna is kind of unstable. Whenever they have kids what they look like is a complete crap-shoot, where anything is possible. On top of that it doesn't seem like their abilities or size is always determined by their fish traits. Some of them look nearly human, except with non-human skin tones, while others look extremely inhuman--like Zeo or Hammond.

Which again is very purposeful on Oda's part. He's drawing cool characters. The reasons why they look the way they do doesn't matter to him at all. I just try and come up with reasons because I find it fun.

[mumintroll]

being obsessed w romance is the worst way to live yr life but its just like ingrained within me now im trying to change it and care more about work and friends and hobbies but idk my brain was shaped by falling in love when i was 15 and i feel like i cant unshape it now

[plushpyromoved]

can someone tell me if its more woth trying to buy weapons u want on the market or is it better to try and get the materials to craft them on ur own???