#Some of the concepts here are based on their ideas

[jackalgirl]

If you can't replace a word like "women" or "men" or "autistic people" in a statement like this with just "people" and have it be meaningful or have it stop promoting the concept you're trying to promote, there's a problem, imo.

For example, instead of "autistic people can't work" or "many autistic people can work", try:

"People can't work" or "Many people can work!"

The statements have lost their meaning; therefore, the original statements are abelist. You just cannot apply a statement to a broad class of people based on characteristics out of their control like this, and have it not be -ist in some way. This is a core concept from Equal Opportunity (which of course I'm sure is going to be the next thing to go). Note that here, "work" means "a regular job you do for someone else for which you receive wages". This doesn't even touch on the idea that there are many forms of actual work that are useful (and necessary) but for which people generally don't receive a set salary or wage. This kind of labor is almost always "forgotten" by people who are outright claiming (but more often implying) that a person's worth to society is based on whether or not they're in a position to earn a wage or salary from another person or company.

Yes, many people can't work. Many of these people can't work for perfectly legitimate and reasonable reasons, and the people you may be thinking of as "lazy" or "not working for unreasonable reasons" probably would enjoy working if: o they could get some help overcoming barriers they're currently facing o if people would broaden their concept of "work" o if people could accept the concept that their perspective is not universal.

(It really bugs me when people say, essentially, "well, I can do this, and it's easy (for me, always left out), why can't you?" Because I'm not you! Your perspective and experience is not universal!)

It's our duty as a society to look out for one another, and the relief we provide for one another can take many forms: outright charity, sure -- but also education, access to resources, or a combination of these (and probably some other things I'm forgetting right now). I think this can only be effective, however, if we are willing to listen to one another and meet one another where we are (on the level).

I fucking hate that the general response to RFK Jr's eugenist take on autistic people is "autistic people do pay taxes, autistic people do work, autistic people do date!"

Some autistic people don't and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life. Some autistic people do need constant help and support and that shouldn't make them less worthy of life.

Once again we're falling in the right wing trap of :

They make a hateful, fascist statement

Instead of focusing on the fact that it is hateful and fascist we try to show them that they are factually wrong

We throw our own allies and the most vulnerable of us under the bus in the process

We legitimise an only slightly less hateful, fascist view as we go

They have completed their goal of making us accept the still hateful, fascist second version, hurrah. What a victory.

Right now what we're getting to with that is that autistic people who can work and pay taxes are okay, and the others aren't. Fuck this shit.

Same thing happens with the people who are being deported ("they have a visa!", "they didn't even have a criminal record!" -> even if they didn't have a visa, even if they did have a criminal record, deporting them and detaining them in what's essentially a concentration camp wouldn't be okay, you absolute tools of fascism.)

[louisupdates]

faithinourlouis LIVE IN THE MOMENT, THE ALBUM CONCEPT!

I’ve been teasing this for a few days now, but I finally started working on my own LT3 concept. It’s all based on Louis saying his next album will be "sunny with a sprinkle of chaos" and that stuck with me. I started by imagining the cover and back cover, and from there, I just couldn’t stop.

The title Live in the Moment felt like a natural step after his previous work. It even matched one of his old bios, so it kind of felt like a sign and I went with it. For LT2, Louis made it pretty obvious the title would be Faith in the Future, but this time he hasn’t given us much to go on, so I had to get creative. I wanted something that didn’t feel cliché or overused like "369" or things like that.

And before anyone asks, yes, I made up the release date and the entire setlist. Nothing here is real, just me having fun with the concept!

I imagined this album as something more personal in terms of visuals. Since we all love those random photo dumps Louis sometimes posts on Instagram, I thought it’d be a cool idea to design the booklets as his personal gallery. Maybe even with some little doodles from him here and there.

Not gonna lie, I’m really proud of how this turned out. I tried to make it feel like something Louis and his team would actually release, even down to the kind of videos they use to present the different formats. Hope you guys like it as much as I loved putting it all together 🫶

A creatively imagined Louis album concept by a fan, faithinourlouis!

[chibishortdeath]

Goodness, these doodles were all staggered in a way on the pages that made it really hard to take pictures of them and get everyone in there (>< ).

Explanations for all of it under here ⤵️ :3

I drew my Ratchet!!! My little guy!!! I’ve looked him up and he’s a little like “authentics” line one. He’s got really loose joints and his knees don’t bend hahahahsjdksjsjk, but yeahg. Tbh the big outer shells kind of design goes hard. Ratchet could benefit greatly from having shields on him, second doodle is a demonstration of those being used lol.

Hehehehehe he’s so fucking cute oh my god how did they make this one robot design to appeal to me specifically I’m gonna die— he’s sitting there so pleasant and polite :3.

This is an attempt at a Ratchet design that combines a bunch of other ones! I was trying to pick out stuff that I liked (big collar looking part, massive tiddie window with the ECG display, G1 as a base because G1 Ratchet is so aaaoiugauaugoihghgghhgh), but eh idk. I’m gonna go through a couple revisions of this design before I decide on one. Cause I did like uh start writing a fan continuity 💀💀💀. Like deadass I binged two seasons of G1 and was already so hooked and hyped that I started making OCs and plot lines and shit LMAO. The transformers hyperfixation got hands fr. Also, next to him is Starscream and a little very not finished Drift for size comparison :).

The largest Ratchet here was my first attempt at drawing him! I spent an unreasonably long amount of time trying to get his legs correct 💀💀💀. Directly next to him on the top is a little doodle that says “usagi ringo” and it’s comparing his forehead chevron to the style of cutting apples to look like rabbits of the same name hehe. And next to that is a bishoujo figure design because oh my god it would be so easy to make one of him and so peak— more on that later cause I’m proud of the design so it’s on here twice XD. Below those two: doodles of Starscream getting shot! 💀 There’s a lot of context behind these, but shortened version is Megatron got mad and shot him 💀💀💀. Any other explanation would be getting into continuity ideas I have not finished nor finalized yet lol.

Guys hear me out it would be so easy— he’s already got a boob window— and the red section of him looks like a bodysuit— it would be so so easy and so so peak please bishoujo line figure company— I would pay an unwise amount of money for silly anime girl pinup hahahajdkskkdksjskdkdahsj. Also smaller not skirt version as well if they wanted to go full “the red section looks like a bodysuit” lmao

Megatron!!! I tried to incorporate a lot of details that the original toy had like the chest decals and the gun elements :3c. The g1 toy is so funny holy shit dude, he’s so top heavy and has like teeny pencil legs it’s so dumb I want one 😭😭😭. Next to the ref image of him, there’s one doodle that’s like a shitpost of this stock photo of a guy drinking while watching TV, an unfinished doodle based on a pose ref from Pinterest, and an even smaller shitpost with him and Starscream and their shirts say “I’m high as fuck and have a gun in my backpack” and “cunt era” hahskdjkssj (X X).

Another Starscream practice and some other characters that require a lot of explanation— So, this big combiner guy that’s in this and the next photo is a combiner named Modulus and I found out about him in a very goofy way. A friend of mine saw a figure of a little known character (Medix) at Walgreens, didn’t get him, looked him up later, and went down a rabbit hole on the wiki, finding out this guy is part of Modulus, a combiner who… doesn’t exist??? 💀💀💀 Modulus only exists as a concept that was included in the instructions of one of his components and NOTHING ELSE HAHSJDKSHSJK. It is the most batshit insane thing, tiny wiki article and everything X,,,,,,D. But what’s really WEIRD about him is that— HE KINDA FUCKING FITS WITH AND TIES TOGETHER A BUNCH OF LOOSE IDEAS I HAD FOR CONTINUITY STUFF 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀?????????????? Idk it’s so scarily close it’s like as if I willed this guy into existence LMAOOO. Anyway, members of Modulus include: Scattershot, Medix, Ratchet, Starscream, and Rook. Two of these characters are like replacement members for other combiners that were basically created just so random games could function. One is the leader of another gestalt, BUT he’s also been in a TON of other ones. And then suddenly Ratchet and Starscream??? And in the original incarnation of the character, it was SG Starscream too????????? It’s not gonna be in my continuity (I have ideas—), but lol they just dropped the guy from another universe in there what 💀. Insane, deranged, maybe peak even. Why the hell did I end up latching onto the combiner that isn’t real help me (ToT ).

Above Modulus, there’s some doodles of Ratchet, Cliffjumper, Mirage, and Bumblebee, BUT these aren’t just those guys, oh no, it’s something worse hahahahahhasjsksk. My raised on undertale dumbass got plagued with the cursed idea of “huh, if Shattered Glass is like the Hasbro official swap au— F e l l A U” and uh… this exists now 💀. Fell AU (name pending) is basically just “the thing but edgier”, so in this universe the Autobots are still like The Good Guys™️, but they’re stuck in bad conditions. For that to happen, they’d have to not have access to renewable energy, meaning either humanity did not welcome them with open arms, there’s some kind of general crisis happening on Earth, or some mixture of both. So Fell (name pending) Ratchet is basically G1 Ratchet, but wayyy more stressed out cause they’re always short on things and barely scraping by. He’s visibly missing parts and damaged and he just does whatever quick temporary fix about it because his focus is on everyone else over himself; he lost an optic, a hand (that he’s replaced with his main tools), he’s got a crack in his screen, etc etc. Procedures are always messy and painful cause he’s just using what he has and the whole time he’s apologizing and trying his damndest to do the best he can— He’s a sweetie still, but man he could use a break (he will not get one alas). Cliffjumper is even more high strung and tempered than usual, he’s also got a nose ring and sharper horns for the edge lol. Mirage has his darker mask like coloring from the toy and typically is invisible far more often. They used to really fight a lot, but they’ve since gotten to a point where they’re the two each other trust the most. Cliffjumper does a lot of reckless shit and gets injured a lot (_ _ ). Then there’s Bumblebee. His colorscheme is still yellow and black, but they’re reversed. The reason for this is Edgy™️ but the in universe is that darker paints is just what they have. He’s also not the plucky rookie at all, he’s already gotten pretty jaded and hardened by everything, which makes Optimus really sad— he does get some rare moments of lighthearted antics because of Spike though. Idk it’s a funny AU concept and I might do more about it simply cause I think the Ratchet design goes hard lol XD.

[bosskisbae]

So, I just rewatched the pilot for The Gaslight District and a thought occurred to me. During Ken's confrontation with Temperance, the audience is specifically led to believe that the secret the Virtue is keeping for Ken directly relates to Mel and her being the prophesied human, but I don't think it actually is. Like, obviously there is some connection there, but there are signs throughout the episode of Ken's ongoing animosity to the Virtues that feels to me like it's more than just him being protective of Mel. Obviously, that could be chalked up to his (possible) torture at their hands in the Inferno, but then why would they intentionally make the scene so weighty and mysterious. Mel's secret is known to the audience basically right off the bat, so there's clearly more to what's going on and I think I might have figured out what. I think...and stick with me here...Ken IS a Virtue. Sort of. There're those weird flashes of color whenever he gets uncontrollably angry, where half of his brain is highlighted. That's got to be more than just an aesthetic choice, right? Why the mystery of it all if it's not important. So, my theory is, that the version of Ken the Butcher we see in the Inferno, is not fully him. Not yet at least. I think that a Virtue replace half of the Butcher's brain with its own. It makes a certain amount of sense; the Virtues are basically just brains after all. Now, why would a Virtue do this, why would one of the seeming leaders of Paradise Lost physically bond themselves to the body of a rotling, which they all seemingly have nothing but disdain for? I think it has something to do with the rotling's immortality. The Virtues don't appear to be immortal in the same way, not based on what we've seen so far at least. I also think the reason might have something to do with which Virtue Ken might have gotten his half-brain from. I think it was Kindness. Not only is it the one that fits most closely with the name Ken, but I think it really fits with his personality too. You can tell how much he cares about people; not just Mel, but everyone. Everyone except the Virtues that is. It also sort of works narratively. All of the other heavenly virtues could easily be corrupted into concepts related to purity, duty or other sort of authoritarian ideals, but you can't really do that with true kindness. It seems pretty obvious to me that whatever the relationship between the Virtues and the rotlings is, it is clearly the Virtues who hold most of the power. I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be responsible for the apocalypse of the distant past (there is some obvious biblical symbolism there with the flood and the whale), or even the Black Hand and the rotling's horrific immortality. I imagine the supposed embodiment of kindness itself would have a hard time going along with things at that point, especially if the Virtues were then planning on wiping all of the rotlings out. It might even drive them to take drastic action. I think there's something poetic about the idea that Kindness is engaging in such cruelty as we see Ken perpetrate in the show in order to prevent something even worse from happening. I also definitely think that Temperance was the one who performed the surgery, hence why they knew the truth of everything. The butcher's knife, possibly the entire butcher persona, is there to explain away the headwound that would never really heal on a rotling body. Speaking of bodies, I think that what's left of the original Kindness, the other half of their brain and what not, is what is inside the pseudo-egg thing inside of the laboratory that Temperance is seemingly keeping alive for some reason. Thoughts?

*Small edit because I was wrong about the knife being there in the flashback scene

[utilitycaster]

Any tips or ideas for GMing the end of the Age of Reclamation? I want to be sure to get all the ramifications of the Divine Gate falling, and of the different social movements that come from the loss of the deities, but most of all I’m curious what someone as invested as I am in the narrative cohesion of Exandria would like to see in it.

Honestly? I don't really have tips - I don't GM anything in Exandria that will touch on it (Netherdeep game scheduling has been rough and I don't run any other games) and while I very much enjoyed EXU Divergence and Wildemount Wildlings I didn't really have much in the way of like, theorycraft/worldbuilding concepts in mind based on them.

Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but one aspect of why I think Campaign 3's plot struggled so mightily is that divinity and organized religion in Exandria were never very well laid out - @the-littlest-goblin has a post about the former, and I know I've touched on the latter a few times. Vasselheim is the cradle of civilization and a religious hub for the prime deities, but there doesn't appear to be any centralized power (Fy'ra and Morrighan do not seem to go through Vasselheim to be named champions) - and why would there be, given that the gods can communicate around anyone who claims to be a mouthpiece? The reality of the presence of the gods was, again as the-littlest-goblin pointed out, not really explored well within the text (and I include any of the texts). I think Matt is rightfully lauded for worldbuilding in terms of political structures, history, geography, and even new systems of magic; but actually, the specific role of religion has always been a weakness that we simply did not see until the role of religion and the gods became a major focus and the narrative infrastructure to support it was simply not there.

So anyway with that in mind: I actually wonder if we'd see Vasselheim actually become much more like our real Vatican/catholic church now that there is no divine voice of say, The Stormlord available to everyone. The idea that pre-Catatheosis Vasselheim was akin to the Vatican was very much not supported and entirely, in my opinion, projection from people who struggled to imagine something wholly unlike our world; but now that Exandria doesn't have gods that can simply talk to you (especially during the decade-plus period at least before the gods are found again), I think more formally organized religion and more authority among religious leaders than previously would feel realistic. I also suspect there will be perhaps increased religiosity in the world - if you cannot feel their presence, you may seek out religion for ritual and community instead. Ironically, I think Exandria might go from a very "religion as personal journey" almost modern attitude to a rather more medieval one.

I also think that false prophets/people claiming to be gods will be at minimum a cottage industry, especially a few years after; I'm unsure if the demons as we saw during the campaign will come back or if the bloody bridge/leylines were part of that problem so you can do whatever fits your particular campaign for now; and I think that some people will lose faith.

It's not all scams and the development of Fantasy Catholicism, though; I think the positives are going to be that the Accord will have established some degree of international cooperation and eroded the isolationism we saw in Campaigns 1 and 2, and of course Ruidians and access to Ruidus itself will open up entirely new perspectives! I think there will be leaps in biological research particularly, given that was the focus of Ruidian science. I would like to think that surviving members of the Grim Verity and the reveals of Ruidus's nature, not to mention the fact that vaulting everything up didn't stop Ludinus, will lead to an opening of said vaults and perhaps even an increased focus on Exandrian historical research; the perspective of the Kryn, now less isolated, will be incredibly valuable here. I also would like to think that the Empire being in some degree of turmoil will resolve, but with the dissolution of the Assembly. My guess is it will just continue in the Dwendal line, but if you want to focus on Wildemount I think you could make an argument for the Empire to follow in the footsteps of Tal'Dorei's relatively recent transition to a council (or for upheaval or even a civil war to lead to that transition). Either way I expect the Clovis Concord and Dynasty to develop more of a relationship and more power on the continent.

I also wonder if the international community will focus again on Aeor (now that Ludinus isn't trying to control access) and if there were be redoubled efforts to address the corruption of the Savalirwood. (Man, Ludinus REALLY fucked Uthodurn over as collateral in multiple ways, huh). It really might be something of an industrial revolution for a world that was already on the cusp of it.

Finally, think about all the sealed things or long-running enchantments that failed - what happens with them? Some might be cool, Umudara; others might be violent require further cooperation to address, like Desirat. This could be a great hook for adventures you run.

[thevoicefromanotherworld]

"LET ME TAKE CARE OF YOU"

SOOO I WROTE A FIC WITH X2 LOGAN BASED ON @c0smic-coral IDEA 🖤☝😌

I hope you like it!

WARNING: EXPLICIT SMUT UNDER THE CUT

Logan knew you had feelings for him.

It was obvious, given the blush that crept onto your cheeks every time he spoke to you and how every time he tried to look you in the eyes, you looked away, focusing your gaze somewhere other than him.

If you had been like the other girls he'd met, Logan would have already invited you to have a few beers with him, and you probably would have ended up in his room at the X-Mansion in the wee hours of the morning.

But you weren't like the others.

Logan was having a hard time figuring you out.

You were like a puzzle designed so that he was the only person who could put all the pieces together.

So he waited, talked to you kindly, helped you with your homework, and sometimes taught you how to let your powers not control you.

You weren't very good at it yet; that was the main reason the professor had brought you there, to teach you.

Patience wasn't Logan's strong suit, but he forced himself to have it with you.

It was a Saturday night, the day Charles let students out of the mansion for fun, provided they returned before 11 p.m.

Logan decided that since the mansion would be kid-free, he could enjoy a cold beer while reveling in the silence that filled the air.

Of course, when he got out of bed and went to the kitchen, he hadn't planned on running into you.

You were wearing black pajamas with white moons printed in different places on the fabric.

Logan forced himself not to stare at your bare legs for too long, for fear that you'd catch him doing it and think he just wanted a house from you.

I mean, he'd be lying to himself if he said he didn't want THAT thing from you, but he'd promised himself to take it slow with you.

He gave a half-smile when you looked up from the bowl in your hands.

"Logan," you muttered, almost choking on your saliva, "I didn't expect to see you here."

"I was going to say the same thing," he murmured, opening the fridge so that his broad back, covered only by a thin white tank top, was facing you. "Are you listening to me?"

You blinked distractedly as he leaned against the now-closed fridge, a beer in his hand.

"Sorry… What did you say?" You cleared your throat, slowly composing yourself.

"I was wondering what you're doing here." He took a swig from the bottle. You frowned.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, this is the only night of the week Charles lets the boys out to have fun," he shrugged. "Why aren't you with them?"

"You could say their concept of fun isn't the same as mine," you replied, making him smile.

"I see," he whispered. "So what's your concept of fun, then, Princess?"

You were used to Logan calling you that, but for some strange reason, the way he did it felt more personal this time, more… intimate, if that made any sense.

"I don't know," you blurted out nervously. "I don't like going out to parties," you confessed. "I feel… exposed," you whispered. "I feel like everyone's looking at me, and I don't like feeling that."

"Maybe they're looking at you because they like you," Logan suggested, moving a little closer to you. "Is that what bothers you?"

"Don't be silly," you snorted. "No one's ever going to like me."

Logan's eyes widened, surprised by the coldness of your response.

"Why do you say that?" "—he murmured, watching you firmly.

"Because it's the truth," you insisted. "No matter how many boys I know, they all see me as that friend they call to ask them about their homework, or any questions related to classes," you complained. "I'm never anyone's first choice, and I…" You swallowed hard, blushing violently at the same time. "I'd like to feel something sometime. You know? To feel like I matter to someone not just as a friend, but as something more."

Then Logan saw his chance.

He slowly began to walk towards you, like a wolf stalking its prey, his bright green eyes fixed on you with equal parts delicacy and intensity.

"What would you say…" he began, "if I told you I didn't want to be your friend," he whispered, "that I wanted to be something more than that?"

You took several steps back due to his proximity, and when your back hit the wall, you realized you had no escape.

You were trapped between him and his body.

-I'd tell you you've got the wrong person- you muttered- I mean… I-I've seen the way Jean looks at you, maybe you should tell her this…

-I'd tell her if she's the person I'd want to be with- he whispered- but YOU are that person, y/n

-Logan- you whispered- you don't know what you're getting into, I… I'm not an easy person, I have a lot of problems and I'm not what you'd call normal

-Well, normality is overrated- he smiled- and besides, I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm not exactly easy either- he said- we all have problems, some worse than others, but the most important thing is learning how to deal with them

"You sound just like the professor" you joked, making his smile grow wider

He was succeeding.

He was getting you to relax in his presence, to slowly open up to him.

"Baby, if you keep smiling like that, I'm going to have to kiss you," he whispered, reaching for your hand. "May I?"

Logan took your subsequent nod as a small victory.

He ran his thumb over your bottom lip, memorizing the curve of your Cupid's bow with his touch.

When you opened your eyes slightly, he gave a lopsided smile.

"I know you've been watching me for a while," he murmured, as you listened intently. "I know because I've been watching you too," he whispered, holding your face in his hands. "Let me tell you, you're the most beautiful woman in the entire mansion."

"It's not true," you blurted out quickly, unable to believe the compliment that had just come out of his mouth.

"If you don't believe me, what do you say if I prove it to you?" he inquired. "I know you'd really like that, Princess." He smiled. "I can smell your arousal and hear your heart beating faster in your chest," he whispered. "Your body is betraying you, darling. Are you like this for me?"

"Yes," you answered without giving it much thought, because what was the point of lying?

"I knew it," he murmured, giving a lopsided smile. "How about we go somewhere more… secluded?"

Logan could see the conflict in your eyes at the question. You were deciding what would be best when, unable to stand it any longer, your body betrayed you once again, you leaned in to place your lips on his.

He hadn't expected such a sudden action, but he wasn't going to complain at all.

You placed your lips firmly against his, and instantly he claimed your mouth, as if it were his own, as if this were the place he was meant to be.

The kiss intensified, causing you to wrap your legs around his hips.

He lifted you easily into his arms and walked with you to his bedroom, all the while continuing to kiss you.

When he arrived, he gently placed you on the bed and paused for a moment to look at you.

“After all these months, you’re finally here,” he whispered, positioning himself on top of you. “God, you don’t know how long I’ve wanted this moment to happen.”

“Logan… I… I need you,” you panted, connecting his gaze with yours for a few moments.

“I know, princess,” he whispered, reaching for the waistband of your pants. “Let me take care of you.”

You nodded, letting him know that was what you wanted.

He quickly got rid of your pants and underwear and placed his head between your legs.

His hair tickled your thighs as he moved closer to brush against that spot you so desperately needed him to touch.

He placed kisses on your inner thighs before connecting his gaze with yours.

You thought it was probably the sexiest thing you’d ever seen, Logan’s light blue eyes shining with desire as he looked at you like that from between your legs.

“This is what you wanted all along, right?” "You wanted me between your legs like this, didn't you?" he repeated. "Answer the question, princess."

"Yes, this is what I wanted," you gasped, moving your hips so he'd touch you at once. "Please, Logan…"

Hearing your pleas, Logan wasted no time.

He held your thighs in his hands and ran his tongue over your most sensitive lips before tugging at your clit between his teeth.

You writhed against the bed as he continued his attack between your legs.

You never thought you could stretch them as far as they were at that moment, but you figured there was always a first time for everything.

You tugged at the strands of his hair between your fingers when you felt a familiar pressure on your lower belly.

Logan groaned against you, proof enough that he knew you'd orgasm in just a few seconds.

Minutes later you were lying on the bed, your breathing ragged and your legs shaking, while Logan licked the remains of you from the corners of his lips.

[coldgoldlazarus]

I would love to hear more about the "Towers of the Archipelago" project, it reminds me of the Heroica games

Sure! And yeah, I can definitely see the resemblance, with this sorta "overworld" style map at least ^.^

I did have a more detailed version of the lighthouse island and the adjoining one, from last week, but I kinda got bogged down in details and cheating geometry to facilitate that, thus the switch to an even more reduced scale for the time being.

Towers Of The Archipelago is definitely still in the early sorta "vibes-based" stage of the idea, but it's also a coalescence of a handful of different fragmented ideas that have been floating around my head for the past several years, so there isn't a whole lot to talk about just yet, but I can still give a rundown of what there is so far.

It's pretty strongly inspired by Moon Rhapsody, a gorgeous but unfinished zeldalike game I found on itch.io a year and a half ago, (albeit without the nsfw stuff that one has,) though somehow the recent release of the first chapter of ENA: Dream BBQ had a hand in making my angle finally coalesce lol.

Probably mainly just because of this specific area in it, plus making me want it to be a first-person-adventure game for the vibes.

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Anyway, yeah, so as the big map and the name imply, picturing a big archipelago connected by bridges, where most of the islands have small villages on them; but every village has to have a big tower of some sort (lighthouse, radio tower, weather reading station, pagoda temple, factory smokestack, harbor crane, etc.) that kinda defines that town's role, in the big trade ecosystem they all have going on between them.

Lots of youkai and monsters and stuff just casually living alongside humans, (can swap between cute humanoid and full cryptid forms at will, picturing a kasa-obake being a major character) tech level is like, kinda random but leans more toward oldtimey industrial revolution level but with some like, 60s/70s computation stuff in the bigger towns?

And there's a spooky island further off from the rest that only appears at night; its village is completely empty, and its tower is a Numbers Station.

Also something something about the moon and sun being alive and watching people? Like big Luna and Celestia vibes, but more as deities than as rulers, though still don't know exactly what I wanna do with that. They'd be tied to an observatory tower and a heliography tower, respectively, though; in the big map here, the heliography tower is the one just a couple islands away from the southwest lighthouse, while I'm imagining the observatory being more toward the northwestern part of the archipelago, atop a more mountainous island.

In the more detailed map of the lighthouse and crossroads island, I included a wrench piece looping around a diagonal stretch of bridge, just to cover a gap between the pieces, but that led to the idea of like, there being these big ancient magic gates around the bridges, normally open by default, but which automatically close up as a defensive measure.

In general, the concept for the setting (islands all with their own towers) has been bugging me for A While, but I didn't have anything to do with it yet.

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But thankfully I do finally have something of an actual premise now, even if it's still pretty basic. A big storm with a tinge of something supernatural rolls in, making the normally-placid sea routes unsafe from turbulent waters, but also triggering all of the bridge gates across the entire archipelago to close at once; cutting off the islands from one-another completely.

The protagonist is a girl from the small southwest lighthouse village, and somehow she has a way to make the gates reopen even before their lockdown ends, so she either gets sent, or decides on her own, to go head out and try to get to the bottom of what's going on, and reconnect all the towns as she goes.

The real trouble with this is that I don't know what "the bottom of what's going on" entails either; I just figure in classic quest tradition it's something way over her head that she has to work her way up to meeting head-on.

Though it's probably something unrelated to the spooky disappearing Numbers Station island I mentioned earlier; that I see being just another feature of the islands, eerie and inexplicable as it may be; whereas whatever the storm brought is an outside factor.

Also given what I mentioned about youkai earlier, kinda wondering if it would be interesting to make the protagonist herself one, though I haven't settled on anything for sure yet.

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Just kinda picturing an animated cover or titlecard thingy, with the main character in the center, mostly in shadows but holding a storm lantern that's illuminating her face and part of her body. Then the silhouette of the lighthouse behind her in all black, except for the windows at the top; and then more distant silhouettes of some of the islands and the other various towers kinda spread out on either side of it, also all in black except for the blinking red air traffic lights on top of those. Very razor-thin crescent moon up in the sky, surrounded by clouds in the shape of an eye.

Comfortably spooky, I think that's the phrase for the vibe I'm going for.

So yeah, it's a thing. :)

[hamtigers]

Most of mine ARE the AUs

As in... Most of them are based on pre-existing OCs refitted to fit XIV

And even then, almost all my FFXIV chars have both an RP version and a WoL AU version

And on top of THAT some of them have further AUs

Oh and I have a general "everyone is here" AU I play with where they all are there as scions at once, so they're basically sharing the WoL spotlight but only one is allowed to actually be Azem there and I haven't decided who yet.

Tl;DR if you don't wanna click the read more:

Most of any of these exist primarily in my head tho.

Kalith has the most! Or at least the most based on her XIV-self. Cause that's my gurl and I love playing with her concept lots

She's originally a FFIV after years fanchar

I am contemplating an AU of that version of her where her father never fucked off

She has the XIV version built for RP

Her WoL AU

"everyone is here"

A WoL AU where Ysayle lives solely so that I can make a polycule at the expense of Estinien's sanity.

An AU where her mom gets hired by Godbert to work at the gold saucer so she becomes a chocobo jockey instead and also her parents get back together sooner bc Uldah is actually where her father fled to after being branded a heretic.

A secret extra AU for a tabletop campaign where I played with the idea where her parents were never separated to begin with(spoilers she's not an only child anymore) and also I made her full elezen bc I thought it'd be funny to have the original human, hyurezen, and elezen versions.

A uhhh modern mashup AU that blends the cast of IV and XIV together. Bc it's just fun lol.

To go down the rest of the List:

Izumi: one of the few that isn't based on another OC! Outside of "everyone is here" Izumi just has her RP version and her shared WoL AU with her husband (I don't have it in me to give her a solo AU)

Draelkiith:

Original OC version

He has a Steven universe version(loosely based on the original)

XIV RP version

WoL AU

"everyone is here"

I know I made a tabletop version of him at one point but it's also based on the original, not XIV

Iekka:

Also a rare one not based on a previous OC! Her name comes from my personal avatar but isn't based on her, Izumi is the one physically based on the original Iekka bc of a silly chain of events. But Iekka fits the vibe of a Viera name better than Au Ra anyway so it all worked out.

(Basically, Iekka was originally physically what Izumi is, but I transferred her to a different server. When I replaced her bc I couldn't transfer her back in I renamed and fantasia'd an alt and I decided to make her lore-ready since I was starting to take an interest in RP so that's how Izumi was born. Then Viera came out and I decided to pop a fantasia on Iekka to differentiate the two and when the data center split happened I got to move her back to my main server for free)

She has her RP-ready version

Her WoL AU

"everyone is here"

And a WoL AU where Haurchefant lives so that she gets to have three whole boyfriends bc we love polyamory in this house

Samir:

Original OC Version

RP-ready version is almost done being reworked, I'm mostly waiting on the Arcadion arc to finish out so I can resolve the fact that there is no way he doesn't have !¡!¡!¡!¡!SPOILERS FOR ARCADION RAIDS psychonekrosis SPOILERS!¡!¡!¡!¡!

WoL Au(under heavy rework while I decide how far I want his WoL self to deviate from his new RP self)

"everyone is here"

And technically, we can count the scrapped RP and WoL versions from before I reworked him thanks to dawntrail if we want

Kohaku:

Originally made for a tabletop thing

Became a full-fledged OC

RP version

WoL AU

"everyone is here"

Seral:

Is one of my oldest still active OCs, so he has a LOT of variants

He was originally a Sonic OC but in no particular order, from what I can REMEMBER, he has gotten:

A Human AU when I added him to the roster of "human OCs to slot into whatever setting I want"

A TWEWY AU

A Lunar Knights AU

I think I used him in a OHSHC RP on Gaia once

A Naruto AU

Two different OC-centric RP world vsrsions

XIV RP-ready version

WoL AU

"everyone is here"

Legit I probably missed some. This man has been dragged through so many fandoms kicking and screaming. I mostly stopped bc I stopped getting so... Obsessive about every piece of media I consume. I'm sure if I rly wanted and dredged thru the depths of my old DA I'd find more variants. But I'm not doing that.

Ryota:

He is loosely based on an OC but does not actually share his name with said OC.

That OC has gotten a tabletop version

That OC has a Monster hunter AU!

He is used in XIV RP (Izumi's father)

And he does not have a WoL AU but is like, a supporting NPC in any AU Izumi is in!

My other alts I don't actively use and aren't rly fleshed out into fully fledged chars in XIV so I'm not gonna bother listing them.

4/15/15

do you have an AUs for your wol(oc)?

[stuckygeekevents]

Stucky Historical Fiction: Mini Bang 2025

I’m so excited to finally share the schedule for Stucky Historical Fiction’s very first bang! 🏛️✨

A huge thank you to everyone who filled out the interest form—it was incredibly helpful in shaping the event. While we’re still not 100% sure we’ll be able to pull off a full bang (depending on artist participation), we’re going to do our absolute best!

And no matter what happens, everyone who signs up will still receive a custom fanfiction cover, just like in previous years.

Also! Since we’re drawing a bit of inspiration from Thunderbolts (and older, possibly grumpier Bucky), we’re opening the door to time travel for the first time ever in this event! ⏳

That means you can bring modern or post-canon characters into historical settings or pull historical versions forward in time—whatever suits your story. Just make sure history still plays a big role in the fic!

DATES TO KNOW

Sign-Ups Open: May 2

Sign-Ups Close: May 16

Join Our Discord (required to participate): by May 17

Prompt Suggestions Open: May 2–May 20

Brainstorming & First Writer Check-In (idea summary or WIP snippets): May 20–June 10

Claims Open (for artists to claim summaries): June 15

Claims Close: June 19 (optional, gives you a day to finalize)

Teams Announced: June 20

Artist First Check-In (basic idea, vibe, or rough concept): June 30 (alongside writers)

Custom Fanfic Cover Collaboration (Writers will be contacted by a mod to create a fanfic cover based on their summary!): July 1–July 31

Final Art Due: July 31

Posting Begins: August 15

You can check out our previous runs here. And join our Discord!

RULES

❌ DON’Ts

To keep this event respectful, fun, and inclusive for everyone, please do not:

Include incest or explicit underage content in your story or artwork.

Set your story/art in a fantasy kingdom or world that isn’t based on actual history or mythology (historical fantasy based on real time periods is okay!).

✅ This Year Only Exceptions:

Time travel is allowed!

Modern-day settings are also permitted—as long as they include a historical connection (e.g., time travel, flashbacks, or historical research as a plot element).

✅ DOs

Your work should:

Be complete by the final draft deadline.

Be beta read before posting (we'll help you find one if you need!).

Be informed by historical context, events, or figures—some research is encouraged, but remember, it’s fanfiction, not a thesis. Do your best and have fun!

Be respectful of the cultures, histories, and mythologies you’re engaging with.

Meet the minimum word count of 5,000 words. You’re more than welcome to write beyond the 5,000-word minimum if you’re feeling inspired—we’ve always loved long fics! But please don’t stress. Whether it’s 5k or 50k, do what’s realistic and fun for you.

For artists: submit at least one complete piece tied to a story or the event.

🏺 Acceptable Time Periods:

We welcome stories and art set in any of the following timeframes:

Prehistoric

Ancient Civilizations (Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc.)

Viking Age

Medieval Era

English History (Tudor, Regency, Victorian, etc.)

American History (Revolutionary War, Civil War, etc.)

World Wars I & II

1920s – 1990s

Cold War

Modern Day (only for this event!)

💬 Community Expectations

Hey @everyone — we know you're here because you love history and stories just as much as we do. We encourage thoughtful discussion and debate—but let’s keep it respectful.

History and mythology often carry deep personal and cultural significance. Everyone brings their own perspective and background, and that’s something we want to honor.

It’s okay to share your opinion.

It’s okay to disagree respectfully.

It’s okay to interpret history or myth differently.

Please remember: we’re here to tell stories and have fun doing it. Keep conversations kind, inclusive, and open-minded. There’s room for everyone at this table.

💙 With love, —The @mods

[training-trio-irl]

Pokémon AU, anyone?

[eddiestommy]

wait so apparently some people get mad if someone else writes fanfiction based on headcanons they shared on tumblr??? so now i got to ask

[girl-lostconnection]

CW: period, graphic description of menstrual products, blood and everything that the concept of period sex entails

He comes home to find you pouty-lipped and curled with pain, aching of it radiates to your thighs, aching of it knots your back until you are miserable and needy.

You are in his lap as soon as he sits down, hands of yours wrapped around his shoulders, face hiding in the crook of his neck, breathing a little shallower than usually. John can hear that you are in pain. John can smell it too — rich scent of your blood, making him nestle your hips closer to his, making his fingers slip under the hem of your shirt. Long calloused fingers of his rubbing circles, slowly working through the tension, satisfaction blooming in his chest when you shakily exhale and sit down on him properly.

That’s it, love. Good job, let him take care of it. It’s going to pass, he will make it better.

John who murmurs “Hurts today”, not even asking but saying, because he can feel that yeah, it really does. He can feel you holding onto him, pressing your forehead and breathing deeper when he rubs your lower back. Easy now, sweetheart, breathe in and out, nice and deep. He got you. It’s okay.

You are warm and soft in his arms, well loved and pliant, gentle press of your belly to his reminding him of how much of a good job he is doing providing for his lovely spouse.

Your throat works when he rubs your thighs up and down, rubbing warmth in, soothing the ache. Making it better.

So sweet of you to let him do all of that, for you to come seeking comfort to your husband. As you should, love, that’s his job to take care of you, to make sure your sides are rounded from a meal and your belly is soft, to soothe the aching and the worry.

To love you like you deserve it.

John slides fingers under the waistband of your shorts, rubbing the base of your spine in slow deliberate circles.

Holding you close and kneading your muscles until you breathe out like someone pulls the plug draining you of discomfort you and melt into him.

Here we go. A little better now, isn’t it? Just needed some loving here and there.

John Price who cuddles you, holding in his lap, letting you warm up on him, letting you do whatever you want. His palms now resting on your lower back, holding it and therefore holding you close. Pliant and relaxed and his. So good for him, so perfect.

He hums quietly when you mumble something in his neck, tilting his head to the side to coax you out of your hiding spot. You gotta say it in his ear, love, he is old man, bear with him.

You are embarrassed and needy when you nose at his cheek (John isn’t going to interrupt you, but the flutter that this small gesture sends to his chest is tender and sweetly aching), quietly asking if you can have him right now, please.

John kisses the left corner of your eye and then the right one as he pulls a blanket off the back of the couch, draping it over your shoulder so you aren’t cold when it happens. God knows your cold feet make his heart ache.

He pulls your shorts and underwear off, pad of yours soaked in blood making him nose at your temple now. Second day of the period really takes a toll on you, doesn’t it?

John who slides you down on his cock, thumbs of his rubbing dimples on your lower back as he eases you to take him to the hilt. Just like that, sweetheart, relax for him.

Takes him a lot not to bottom out because your pussy is slick with blood and need, heartbeat of yours thumping against his chest, your voice cracking when you mewl “John”.

Sweet thing, you have no idea what kind of effect you have on him, do you?

John who coos at you, pulling your shirt off and leaning to wrap his nipples around your nipple, sucking it in his mouth — his fingers sliding to your fat pussy to spread your folds, to rub your swelling clit. He will take care of it, sweetheart, just sit back and relax.

John Price drooling all over your tits, rocking you on his cock, his fingers rubbing your clit, his fingers gliding over slick sensitive flesh of it. Perfect fucking spouse, he should come home more often if that’s the reward of him being good to you.

John is not biting — your skin is too sensitive for that and frankly, his fingers alone are enough. Should be enough, he knows that some more and you will be whimpering and shaking. But hell, if his needy spouse wanted to be stuffed full, who’s he to tell them no?

He lets you roll your hips into his, slow and sweet, your skin sweaty under the heavy blanket, your head swimming when he doesn’t stop playing with your pussy, his tongue giving your tits as much attention as he wanted to. As he was thinking about all day at work.

John Price barely letting you raise your hips off of him, because why would you go anywhere? No need to move that much, love, just stay seated and he will rub your pretty pussy to completion. And then again, and then some more.

John who tugs you down to lay on him, only then getting a hold of your hips to pull them up and then back down, fucking you on him when you are nice and comfortable, whimpering “don’t pull out” in his neck.

Your voice making him groan in your hair, sound low and hungry, his fingers gripping your hips harder before he forces himself to relax. The things you do to him…

John Price who fucks you on his cock like it’s for sustenance and you should know that there is no rushing a good meal, love.

Your body splayed on his, head tucked under his chin, hips lazily rolling into his — clash of waves, gentle lapping of the seas that lick into coarse sand.

John Price can feel his own pleasure dripping down his spine, spreading low and hot, your breathy “stay inside, wanna have you inside, John” is almost enough to make him come undone.

Dangerous games you are playing, sweetheart. Few more sweet pleas like that one and he is not letting you off his cock until the next morning.

Can’t say no when you ask this nicely, after all.

Thinking about period sex with John Price, his palms warm on your lower back, just holding you closer, every motion honey-slow and careful.

[hauntingjasper]

We need candy Marshall and vampire Gumball!!!

Waow okay anon imma give you a lil concept, sorry for making you wait too long 🥹

My current takes on Candy Prince Marshall Lee and Vampire King Gumball

[assumedcryptid]

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Been seeing a lot of other people's takes for Flatlander Bill cross my dash, and I thought I'd dabble a bit with some of my own potential ideas for both him and Mina.

[mad-hunts]

here comes a list of the different levels of friends that you can be with barton, because i said that i would explain what being a ' level 2 friend ' to him would mean and i fully intend to keep that promise! so here we gooo.

level 1 friends: you're the type of friend to barton that he would wave to whenever he sees you. he would also complain about his work with you, but NEVER about his second 'business.' ( his organ trafficking && dollmaking. ) and in turn, he would let you complain about your work to him as well, or anything that might be bothering you. barton isn't really serious about your relationship emotionally, but he will encourage you and praise you for accomplishments / achievements. you two also may share a few interests, which barton enjoys talking with you about.

level 2 friends: you're the type of friend to barton that he is now moderately emotionally invested in. barton will DEFINITELY share his number with you at this stage, so expect him to call you if he needs something, or even if he just wants to talk with you. he also trusts you to a medium level and will help you reach your goals without ever being asked for it. barton does subconsciously have the expectation that you are willing to do the same for him, however, which is really neither a good thing nor a bad thing. you two go beyond just having similar interests... you share certain values with him and/or ideals, and because of that, barton sees you as someone he can depend upon. he would also save you in an emergency situation, BUT i can not say for sure that he will be willing to die for you.

level 3 friends: barton is now FULLY emotionally invested in you, so don't expect to be getting rid of him anytime soon! because you're stuck with him now, MUAHAHAH. barton will do things like raising a toast to you just because you're friends and will reach out to you himself whenever he sees that you're struggling with something. barton also lets you take a glimpse at what's really going on in his head sometimes, and in return, he'll be there for you as well whenever you need him. at this stage, literally, all you need to do is be around barton to make him smile. expect him to feel safe enough to be as silly as he wants around you and do things like give you unprompted hugs + allow you to cuddle with him. barton trusts you with his life, and he would put himself at risk of dying to protect you. so, yes, he would be willing to die for you.