#TY FOR THE ASK MWAH

[fullmetalscullyy]

OOH for the fic thingy --

"better not to ask" and "the road left untravelled"

OH OH OH

ok

so

i'll be writing this in note form as i think of it. purely organically. brace yourselves lmao

and its also just for royai just because <3

OK SO.

i'm picking up what ur putting down my beloved MWAH TYYYYY

"better not to ask" - oooooh how about. person a (hawkeye lbr) going unhinged to Protect person b (mustang) for Reasons (its hand wavey~ idk). maybe he ends up unconscious and when he wake up there's discussion, what happened etc, and hawkeye just gets This Look... and is like "...better not to ask, sir"

but he sees The Look in her eye. he gets an Inkling. his gut twists and he feels guilty about bringing such a look upon her fine features, because of him... which is almost a constant with him.

so he does what she requests

he doesn't ask

OR. ON A MORE LIGHTHEARTED NOTE. bc that's always good. what about. a little bit of crack...?

picture this: there's Something, Some Occurrence in the office. havoc, breda, fuery and falman are all ~arguing~ - havoc and breda more loudly than the other two for shits and gigs. but the other two have their wee quips which only subtly fuels the fire bc their banter is still top notch 🩷

there's ~shenanigans~

and roy walks is like bruh. wtf is happening below these ceiling panels. what am i witnessing.

and riza is just like "bro. sir. better not to ask"

LITTLE DID WE KNOW SHE'S THE INSTIGATOR MWAHAHHA and is causing chaos and banter and good times bc yeah. even tho they're going ape, its a good time. good vibes!! and roy grins despite it all in the chaos bc these are His People, His Chaos

"the road left untravelled" - OHHHHH THE THOUGHTS I HAVE THUNK. the daydreams i have dreamt for this moment.

thoughts of "what if...." infiltrating my brain....

like. i mean, i already did a "what if riza never went to war" which was a blast and a delight to flirt with mwah. and related to exploring that road which was untravelled between them - being together, loving each other openly, etc

but... i'm thinking young royai...... - not to take away from his character, but what if... roy didn't pursue alchemy as fully as he did in canon (fr those fanfic.net fics were my lifeblood back in the day <333). what if he still sought it out, but found it worth more to stick around for the master's daughter?

(🥺)

a butterfly flapping its wings and all that

or!

it's late. roy is dropping off/relaying something work related to riza.

at her Personal Apartment (shock, horror)

only for them to travel down.... the road which had always been left unravelled

WINK WONK

[maygrcnt]

hi kam! which season 5 episode was eddie’s pov please? his breakdown?

it’s 5x11! the bar scene (before buck kisses lucy). the scene is in his POV to me because we come into the scene via eddie walking into the bar, when he looks over at the 118 literally no one’s face is visible except for buck, everyone else is relatively still and in a shadow but buck is under the light and laughing with his whole body. not to mention the episode being called “outside looking in” to me that was the show just showing us how eddie sees buck: soft, safe, and bathed in light :)

[jovenshires]

D do you have any of the characters figured out for the hunger games au? If you don't mind sharing, ofc (as in who would be who)

I completely understand if you don't have it figured out yet or want it to be a surprise but like

My best friend and I have been giggling about it on vc for a good 20 minutes

first of all HELLO and hello best friend omg

second of all! we are more utilizing the Universe than the og story for a variety of reasons, BUT i can tell you some of the districts/vibes we've come up with (we being me and @baflegacy im not just talking to myself although it's been known to happen)

(also these are not all intersecting; most of these games are happening at different times. so like shayne & courtney's game are separate from spencer & tommy's which is separate from angela's. does this make sense.)

capitol (EDITED)

anthony - district 1 escort

kimmy - district ?? escort (formerly district 1 escort and got demoted)

tim - district 3 escort

kiana - district 3 designer

jackie - district 1 designer

arasha - district 8 escort

chanse - district 8 designer

district 1 (EDITED)

ian (previous victor; mentor)

shayne

courtney

district 3

damien (previous victor; mentor)

spencer

alex

district 5 (EDITED)

lisa (previous victor; mentor)

tommy

erin

district 8

amanda (previous victor; mentor)

angela

have not figured out what to do with like keith and olivia yet but ill think on it. also there will be other people in these districts for like all the games but these are the current vibes.

[ihatedean]

5 & 23

5. Guilty pleasures?

watching friends, honestly. or like. real housewives..... shitty shows lol also those yaoi series full of cliches and awful anatomy.

23. Do you prefer phone calls, facetime, or texting?

VOICE NOTES. !!! . !!!

im a yapper and i love yapping without being interrupted. i also love love love listening to my friends yap while i just do whatever. if i have to pick between those then probably texting but my real answer is voice notes.

really get to know me

[gingerpeachtea]

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four sentences!! have some braindead fic :3

“Do you…want to put your feet up?” “In the middle of the stairwell?” Gareth shrugged. “If it’ll help.”

(make me write!!)

[iheihairu]

👾 and 🎵 for the system ask? :3

FUNNIEST OUT OF CONTEXT SYSTEM QUOTE

There are... So many... I will literally post a new one for every lil alien I get, we're hilarious LOL! Here's a fave!

SONGS THAT REMIND YOU OF ALTERS

You may potentially be delighted to know that Eminem (though specifically Slim Shady) makes Haise front. Even a fraction of a moment of a song can get him out. He hates it HAHAHA

[littencloud9]

Dunno/can't remember if you've already answered any of these buuut

🧸🎭👗 + Chuuya 👀

hello!!

🧸 A headcanon about their childhood

they can’t remember it. like at all. but i think kid chuuya (in like AUs and stuff) would be those kids with the biggest smiles. grinning with his missing teeth on display. he also loves pretending to be a knight or something similar, and runs around a lot!

🎭 A headcanon about what they lie about

their Feelings haha. despite how loud and open they seem, if you try to dive deeper into what they’re thinking, all you’re going to find is a locked cage. they have a Lot of shit bottled up. he also lies about his health a lot because chuuya places a lot of responsibilities on themself

👗 A headcanon about their clothes

i like to think kouyou played a big part in helping chuuya develop his personal style. they also love wearing leather jackets cause he thinks it makes him look cool (it does)

send me some asks!

[another-corpo-rat]

6, 11, and 20 for Vic on the tech ask meme? :3

ty ty :3c Questions are here!

6. Write out a text exchange between them and another OC. You know i had to drag poor Valentine into this <3 Created using @luvwich's cp77 message thread generator!

11. Are they the kind of person who takes selfies? Oh absolutely. While the volume she takes has vastly decreased since the '20s (she still has a significant portion of these saved, a majority of them having a certain Elvis gemini posing with her and more than a few with Smasher in his Samson frame)

she stills snaps one every now and then, usually mirror selfies. Like is she supposed to not take a picture when she looks so damn good?

20. What’s in their email inbox? To preface unlike a certain someone (me, hi) Victoria has a disgustingly organised inbox - folders upon folders with a system that makes sense to her but not immediately obvious to anyone who might be snooping where they shouldn't be, but as for what you might find;

 a disgusting amount of meeting invites, from 15-min catch ups over coffee to 8hr+ ordeals

 Correspondence relating to the OIZYS project, including notifications on who enters the allocated floor and when.

 A thread started by Arthur Jenkins in '76; marked urgent and strongly worded. Outright threatening by his third response in a way best described as professionally thuggish, following that Smasher was CC'd in.

Smasher's mailbox and calendar, she has Send On Behalf permissions for the former and editor permissions for the latter. Includes a shit ton of gig requests even after her intense filtering that auto-declines those that include key phrases (ie 'no collateral' etc)

Emails between her and Smasher; usually short and dry, typically in relation to gigs and any assigned arasaka business

Requests from Michiko Arasaka for her to help with an assortment of things relating to Danger Gal

Exchanges with Danger Gal agents that seem harmless enough :)

A plethora of (legitimate) offers and discounts on fancy ass shit that is still eye-wateringly expensive even with 15% off.

Multiple newsletters, relating to breakthroughs and updates across a great many fields. Also several on fashionware.

All of these would be organised into folders as i mentioned if not deleted, but the one email that's not and sits almost pride of place in her inbox is from Yorinobu Arasaka, dated 2053, informing her of her re-reinstatement as Smasher's assigned netrunner due to her understanding of how he works and ability to 'keep pace' where the replacements he attempted to assign died trying.

[cryingforcrocodiles]

calling mason white chocolate truffle 😭

YES 🥰 he's my little man. my best friend. my white chocolate eclair. my little cheap valentines day chocolate treat. the ones u get half off when its march 😍😍 wct is his official tag. he's my best friend

[nicomrade]

Talk to me about Kaiji part 4... OR abt something youre currently reading/enjoyed recently idk how up to date I am w that 🐴💕

i almost bonked u for a fave emoji but now i see that horsie :) hehe hi horsie

kaiji part 4 is so one of my favorite death games PERIOD like outside of its kaiji context the arc does something i havent seen anything else do.. kaiji, the protag, isnt playing the game hes forced to only spectate it and comment on it. and so is the calculating antagonist! and that take on the 3rd party commentators is one of the only good examples of it ive seen (usogui is another good example) in opposition to how liar game does it (and everything else that copied it)

CAUSE ok my rules are

1. ur narration should, as much as possible, be from someone IN the gamble. what do i care what someone not in the game THINKS, MAYBE, is the gamblers' motivations? let the gamblers speak for themselves- about each other and about themselves. let THEM lie.

2. if u do have outside commentators, that commentary needs to ADD something and it CANNOT be stuff thats just thrown away later. example: in liar game the commentators will tell u "this gambler did this for that reason" and that turns out to be WRONG. so on a reread u remember thats literally not true and can easily skip the pages and not lose any information. thats very bad.

im OK w narration (from outside and inside the game) misleading you- its the bread & butter of gambling fiction. but that has to ADD something. it cannot just be clutter and lies. theres a great example of the ref lying to the audience in usogui but i cant get into it w no spoilers so trust me i do love it when the narration lies to my face sometime. cuz it adds meaning to a text!!!

AND THATS what part 4 is about. the gambler protag is forbidden from playing (at times literally tied up!!!) and its allllllllll about the biases of narration and commentary. its about kazuya literally FICTIONALIZING this. hes writing a book from this!!!! and kazuya seeing everything through his "friendship is fake" lense, kaiji seein the same thing as PROOF trust & friendship r real... the players backstories being inserted at the most impactful moment, the ways kazuya lies to the players without technically~~ lying and so on. the question at the heart of the game: is friendship more valuable than money? is not even answered properly because of kazuyas manipulation AND of kaijis interference. the commentators are pulled back into the game- they are playing, too. may they want it or not theyre part of this "experiment", of this fiction. you, sir, are a space too- we live in a society.?

and as u pointed out theres an omnipresence of water imagery in the arc and this is kazuya projecting his own subconscious into it. this is kind of like what jigsaw does in saw 1 hes recreating his trauma and putting people in that situation to see how THEY cope so he can know what hes supposed to do too. (cause emotionally he lived his diagnosis like a saw trap. so hes putting other people in this death sentence to, yes, cope.)

kazuya lived his drowning like a choice everyone on the boat made to save someone else instead of him, so hes putting other people in a situation to choose between someones life and something else to see what THEY do. and, of course, they have to reenact that betrayal he felt or his trauma isnt just "how the world is, trust and friendship are fake" but actually something that was wrong with him. the game does not exist without him reliving his childhood through it. theres no story without the spectator, the camera, the voyeur.

& kaiji is reliving his own gambles! "theres no way theyll betray each other" because if trust & friendship arent real then all of HIS betrayals were just him being a fucking idiot. what grace and virtue is there in forgiving the one who stabbed you in the back if it turns out thats just human nature to be selfish. if its not the death game making people act unlike their true selves then kaijis just some mark who got scammed over and over again lol...

like all good death games, the game stands for something. in part 1 its capitalism (and most of the time in kaiji its this, work, money, addiction, class) and in part 4 too you see this rich japanese man exploit poor immigrants for entertainment and thats what the game is, but its also (childhood) trauma. "they wont kill each other because me and the 45ers, me and the guys on the steel beams, we didnt." and "emotionally, this was like being strapped to a chair and seeing my trusted one walk to the button, and kneel, and apologize, and cry, and not release me. and watch me die."

[badlandsdeluxeedition]

5!!!

i know it won’t work by gracie!

[toontowncreepypasta]

gooseberry and miles for character bingo :)

HERE'S MILES!!!! ILL BE HONEST I DONT KNOW ENOUGH AB GOOSEBERRY YET, IVE BEEN AVOIDING SPOILERS! :D I AM HOWEVER FUCKING INSANE ABOUT MILES. I WANT TO BLEND HIM INTO GOO

[satelliteduster]

20, 21, and 30!

hi sorry i got this while i was on the train and forgot about it bc im scatterbrained >_<

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy?

patterns hands and eyes (i oversimplify them bc it makes life easier) BUT i will say the inverse answer to this question is shoes. i hate drawing shoes

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways? highly geometric/near abstract styles (which i often try and emulate), low-to-no lined work that's high in saturation and color (think art nouveau) & high saturation/black shadowed work (more specifically mike mignola's style lmao)

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated?

this one's on me actually bc i never posted it but i thought it was nice to try something different & bizarre

also here's the ask meme bc i reblog shit too much

[lietpolski]

🌍🌻🏠🏛️

🌍 - (which nation do you find to be the truest adaptation of their real life counterpart?): oh mannnn i think i'll say england, he says SOOO many things where i'm like,,, oh. oh i've physically encountered this man at a pub quiz. this is the middle-aged dude who spilled his beer on me while singing the national anthem at the chelsea vs manche united game. this is That One Shopper i encountered at a waitrose. actually horrific!!

🌻 - (if you could change one thing about hetalia as a whole...): i'd go back to the history-focused content i think!! i looove the silly modern-day stuff BUT i'm a little history whore and i miss the pre-world stars era when the manga was 80% history! also give poland his own character song!! how do we live in a world where america has 9 songs about hamburgers and poland doesnt have a single song,, CRIMINAL!

🏠 - answered here! and 🏛️ - answered here! :D

[shuchelle]

Hello friend! May I ask for 5, 8, and 98 please :0 my curiosity compels me

HELLO FRIEND <3

5. Come With Me by Surfaces, salem ilese

8. Somewhere Only We Know by Glee Cast

98. Llueve Sobre La Ciudad by Los Bunkers

[shadow0-1]

ask game numbers 3 and 4 for Jax pls!

3. A song that reminds me of them

Blue sky by Hardcastle

4. How many people I ship them with

Just Graves, although Jax was very close with Kamarov in the Armistice