#Speculation Corner

[roystartt]

All this 'bee' talk about s8 and then something about the fact that Tommy flies helicopters or otherwise known as 'birds'

The birds and the bees

Bucktommy sex scene s8 premiere confirmed

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

It is funny to me how much arguing there was between people trying to speculate on Ryoko Kui’s sexuality and people saying it’s literally none of our business. Then she uploads art where she draws a bunch of elves from video games and refers to multiple of the of the elven women as “her wife” or “fell in love at first sight”. And yet in a twitter thread about it I still saw people saying that referring to women as your wife could be straight woman behavior actually (???)

[aeriona]

Some various races and species of Khalodnan people (not to scale) + a map I cooked up in Agzaar's fantasy map generator

Most of the Frenator population is nomadic so the examples above are very derivative, and more often than not their race won’t represent where the person is from, but rather their heritage.

Out of the five Frenator races, the Eltalyans are the oldest originating from the deepest glaciers of southern Khalodna, where they spread out across the continent and diversified over thousands of years.

Khalodna from coast-to-coast is roughly the same width as Australia, only it's much, much colder with a good portion of the landscape being covered in glaciers and frosty tundra.

The map shows the (very rough) "urban" distribution of the four peoples of Khalodna, although it doesn't account for wandering nomads which actually make up the majority of the Khalodnan population. Most of the country has few resources/food to go around, so many people have to travel to stay fed and happy.

It wasn't always like this, there actually used to be MUCH more people in Khalodna with actual kingdoms and stuff, but that was before a war happened that essentially collapsed anything resembling organised society. There's ruins of castles and towns all over the place BOTW-style.

Apart from the people of Khalodna, there are also various creatures that call it home! Namely two types of dragons, feathered serpents in the northeast, wooly rhinos, sea monsters and a very wide array of marsupials spread out across the continent.

[sidequestsinlife]

so it just occurred to me that even if they do realize that the rpf tourney wasn't just one poll, the other ships they were up against were all, iirc, living people who are not and never have been in any sort of public relationship (and let's be real, dnp are in a public relationship even if we all play along with their bit and pretend otherwise lmao). some of them are publicly straight men being shipped with other publicly straight men so speculation about them is also speculation about their sexuality. (jesus and judas are obviously long-dead if they were ever real and the actual sexual orientation of these long-dead possibly-real people does not matter.)

and after feeling at some point like some of this was legitimately invasive to their personal lives, we've chilled, they've chilled, it's all cool now with them, but they also probably still don't want to really contribute to public speculation about anyone else, not knowing how they might feel about it. and after coming to that conclusion it would actually surprise me a bit if they ever do acknowledge the earlier rounds, even if they continue to brag about winning until the end of time (which let's be real they probably will).

[unordinary-diary]

Remi and Swimming

Why can’t Remi swim?

That’s a genuine question. Why does Remi, at seventeen years old, not know how to swim?

After some quick research, I found that being unable to swim is actually way more common than I thought. Still, I want to speculate on Remi’s reason.

The Red Cross lists fear as the top reason people cited for not learning to swim. Other reasons I can think of for not learning to swim are: couldn’t afford lessons, didn’t live near a pool or body of water, disability, or simply never made time to learn.

However, in Remi’s case, I think it’s much more likely because of her ability than anything else.

It could be because her parents wanted to wait until she had better control of her ability before putting her in water with other kids. This of course, raises the question of why she didn’t learn before her ability developed. It could also be that someone in her family had an incident in the water, and the family was very cautious after that.

I personally like to believe that Rei had an ability-related incident when Remi was quite young, and her parents wanted to keep Rei out of the water until he could control his ability better. Because it would be mean to take Remi swimming and make Rei stay behind or on land, Remi’s lessons got put off indefinitely until they were forgotten about.

Of course, this scenario also means that Rei never finished learning to swim either.

I also like the idea that their mom was the one who had a swimming accident, and was somewhat traumatized by it and therefore extremely paranoid about putting her kids in the water. This explanation would also mean that Rei probably couldn’t swim.

I will now kindly place here for my own enjoyment, a reminder that Blyke was the one who taught Remi to swim and it was cute as fuck:

♡

[eligejtor]

imagine opening up S3 with the scene of Crowley's fall

[ kinda similar thing they did in S2 with them together in space ]

and then it could cut to credits or a scene where Crowley's drunk and miserable in some pub or something

i think it would be a killer scene both visually but also (and mainly) emotionally, i need some ANGST. (also i've heard how good & heartwrenching David scream is and im a bit of a masochist)

and then, later in the season aziraphale sees it (the fall) in some heavenly archives or something... i feel like its very important for his character to know not only why crowley fell (but its still like 50/50), but also HOW it went 🤔

i mean its important to see how "the Fall" went exactly, for the main bois, the audience and for the story

[friendsdontlieokay]

I have this sort of lingering feeling at the pit of my stomach that Nancy is going to sacrifice herself for Mike.

[so-3i3]

honestly kinda glad i didnt rlly interact with NILFRUITS fandom stuff until earlier this year just because. okay so context i am Allergic to wikis/ other peoples explanations of things at times. so mid last yr i went Hmm i am going to figure out the story of the two Series that i forgot the name of (one has traffic jam/ironina/haine&kleine the other has heaven dope/tricologe/yomi from memory). & let me tell you it was fucking ROUGH. no one needed to see that live

[yulgurr]

blorblo bleebus :]

she forgor

[void-tiger]

Okay so like.

I don’t think Viktor and Jayce are actually dead/gone. We don’t get any explanation for how Arcane-Touched!Viktor is even going through realities with far more control than Ekko (who’s Thing literally time travel) or Heimerdinger. We only know he’s apparently the Mage who saved Child!Jayce, then shows up again when Jayce is flung into An Even WORSE Ending Reality.

ANYWAY!! Point Being.

Meljay Lives.

(As does the messy QPR Jayce has with Viktor.)

[novlr]

Writers have tons of creative ideas, but most of us aren’t scientists. So, how do we make sure that we get the science right in our fiction?

Even if you write speculative fiction or fantasy stories, there’s still some thought that must go into making sure there’s an internal logic to your worldbuilding. A sense of cause and effect. Readers get lost if they can’t easily follow or make sense of your big ideas, but this is especially important when discussing real-world science, and how it might affect our future, or manifest on other worlds.

In the Reading Room today, you'll find a list of books that are perfect for science-fiction and worldbuilding research, to keep you grounded, and give you a great basis for building out sci-fi, fantasy, and future worlds.

[orcelito]

I bought a chair and a sword today

Wahoo!!!

[juustozzi]

okay I gotta share something I've been thinking about a character from victory road raimon

I won't be sharing images from the gallery but I did take screenshots and edited it so there's some basis, and...

you know the dude with the long sea-like hair and freckles and a big smile? and how you can see just a tiny bit of the first and last letter on the back of his uniform?

I learned that if you cut n paste letters from other raimon players' names on their uniforms, the sea dude's tiny letter bits align pretty perfectly with "tsunami"

cool surfer dad tsunami???

[the-weeping-dawn]

Another htank you to Lae'zel for being the character whenever I need someone to need to ask exposition questions which would be more obvious to the rest of the group.

[3-aem]

You don't have to reply to this, but, I've always disliked king Chris for some reason and I could never put my finger on it. It's not that he's more annoying or cringe than other anime content accounts, just some reason I could never identify made me viscerally dislike him. Like, I cannot stand the sight of this man's face or his voice and I have no idea why. Now that he's reposted someone's art and made NO effort to credit I can kinda be at ease because I have a concrete reason, not just a random feeling for disliking him lmao. I scrolled and scrolled his comments and he even commented and didn't credit. I saw one comment only crediting you on Twitter from someone else. You'd think such a big creator would understand crediting but I guess not since his face is plastered all over his content.

im not about to pick beef with king chris.

tbh i think my anger about this goes a bit deeper and at the end of the day has nothing to do with king chris

the one video praising my work being exposed to millions doesn’t have my credit listed.

[dirtbra1n]

it’s always when I have things to be doing that this happens but it’s like. I don’t know I’ve gone so far into weird love territory and I’ve been here so long that when I go back and really look at canon it’s like it’s new to me. because like do you ever think about how hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club. like it wasn’t a recommendation or anything that decision was made. and absolutely if tashiro genuinely GENUINELY didn’t want to do it nothing bad would have really happened, someone else could have done it, sure. you know? but at the end of the day tashiro, in the midst of his running away, had that thought, like. not in a thought bubble but in a b Hold on

in the narration box. like it’s not a fleeting in-the-moment thought like the whole poor shmuck thing. I’m not explaining this well. it’s just you get the impression that tashiro thinks about things a lot and also tangentially kind of thinks about his hanzawa senpai a lot and that realization of burden is so significant to tashiro that he takes on the position of captain

and he doesn’t look him in the face when he does it, and I love it. I love when things are indirect and subtle and sort of reluctant because it’s human and speaks to sincerity and tashiro’s grounded…ness that he isn’t unflinchingly happy to do it. he still doesn’t really want to do it. but he will. and he’ll do it WELL. because and this so matters hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club because he knows tashiro and has been watching tashiro as a fun kouhai who he likes a lot and who makes him laugh like literally no one else in the world, and he knows that he would be a good president because he is, amongst other relevant things, a good person. the right kind of good person! he wouldn’t have forced tashiro to do it because frankly he couldn’t REALLY force tashiro to do it, tashiro has a way of getting around things (pudding head….) but he decided tashiro would be captain, because he knows tashiro, and tashiro decided to take that on, because he sees hanzawa. he decided that tashiro would be captain, and tashiro decided to accept that decision because hanzawa decided correctly.

and tashiro cares, and encourages his senpai to rest, and we get the FUCKING.

that just speaks VOLUMES. hanzawa masato who notoriously stays busy for at least one of two known reasons that sound a little contradictory but aren’t actually is resting right now. hanzawa masato who is so weird and so unknowable to his juniors is wearing a small smile that, unlike so many of his other ones (ominous as they are, usually), shows for only contentment. he’s resting right now. like the tashiro gonzaburou hanzawa masato dynamic IS so weird I’m not delusional for that. but my favorite thing that I think I do a really bad job of showing is that their exchanges go back and forth and are so much fun for the both of them, and it’s exactly like PING PONG. well matched and silly and hanzawa masato knows tashiro gonzaburou and if tashiro gonzaburou doesn’t know hanzawa masato he sure as hell sees him, and wants to know him, just a little at least, and it’s all so much. I’m resting right now. fuck. anyway