#This is literally true love magic

[turtleblogatlast]

One of my favorite things about Leo’s portals is the fact that they’re tangible.

He can throw those like frisbees and hit people with them like?? The boys’ abilities are so fun and magical and even sci-fi-esque but this aspect of Leo’s portals are so distinctly a Looney Tunes flavor of cartoon-y that I absolutely adore.

And sure this aspect of the portals can be used for fighting, but moreover the sheer amount of visual gags this does and can create is infinite.

[3416]

also kyper going so hardcore about 1634 today saved me..... "34 wants 16. he doesnt want 88, he doesn't want anybody else. he wants him." he said it with SO much conviction, it's killing me. like that's how me and the oomfs speak bro, welcome to the club. also the use of their numbers to make it less personal like these guys dont wear their numbers like a LIFELINEEEE......

[akaisenhatake]

we used to be a happy family

[spoiler below]

why did you ruin it for us

[huntquinlan]

there are for sure layers to why Elain has been avoiding lucien but what i can’t help but wonder is if she had a vision of Lucien being mortally wounded on her behalf and is terrified that if she gets close to him, he’ll die and it’ll be her fault

[ominous-faechild]

✦ OC Questionnaire Tag 3 ✦

Thanks for the tag, @illarian-rambling!

Characters from Sun and Shadow: Freya, Crow, and Valyarus Characters from the Arcane Rifts: Gene, Tazin, and Mislav Featuring tAR's children at ages 15, 17, and 17! (Aka mid book 2.)

Questions: - Do you have a tell when you're lying? - What other media genre would you do the worst in? - Are you confident in yourself? from @the-letterbox-archives

Do you have a tell when you're lying?

Freya: Um... not that I know of? I'm not really in the habit of lying? (*remembers that she does, in fact, lie a lot... but mostly through omission of the truth!*) Haha... yeah! ... ugh, okay, um. If I had to guess... (*shifts uncomfortably in place*) it would probably be that I struggle in what to say? Though I kinda do that anyway? Ugh, I don't really know. (A/N: the easiest sign to tell that she's "lying" is that she avoids the subject completely. She'll change the subject or "get distracted". She also fidgets more, but that's something she does a lot anyways because she's awkward.)

Crow: Of course not! I don't lie anyway, so how would I find out? 😉🥰 (psst... Crow...) What? (You're supposed to basically be under truth serum for these Questionnaire posts...) Okay. And? 😘 (So you're telling me that you, a detective, have never told a lie once?) ... (See the issue there?) Nope! 😄 (A/N: WHELP! Uncooperative Crow understandably won't tell you, so I will. They're a very good liar, so it's hard to tell when they do. The best indicator is that they'll stumble slightly in their speech when almost saying something "they shouldn't" or they'll hesitate while trying to come up with a lie. The falters are always subtle though.)

Valyarus: (*snorts*) I would think not. Besides, I'm not in the habit of lying. There's too much magic that can force you into Truth-telling to be able to rely on it--no, best is operating in half-truths and implication. The best method of deception is allowing the one you wish to deceive to come up with the answers for themself. For example... (*slowly smirks, quirking an eyebrow*) I never said I don't lie just now... did I? (A/N: ahhh, our beloved douchebag faerie living up to his species's reputation. In other words: he's a fantastic "liar".)

Gene: I... don't know. I'd... like to think not. Maybe... maybe that I... (*takes a slow, deep breath, collecting himself*) ... I probably act more confident when I lie. I... I'm not confident. And probably don't... stutter as much. Or hesitate... So, speaking patterns? They--they change, I mean. My speaking patterns. When I lie.

Tazin: (*snarls*) I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, you got me? I--I-- (*struggling to lie because of the whole "these questions are answered under basically-truth serum" thing*) FINE! I don't fucking lie because I can't, okay? I avoid the subject! Or I just--I don't know, I just fucking lie??? How am I supposed to fucking know if I have a "tell"??? Don't you think I'd fucking fix it if I knew??? (A/N: he gets avoidant of the subject and/or highly aggressive to dissuade the asker from continuing at the moment... or generally asking again.)

Mislav: Um... this is a weird question?... I guess I don't really--(*remembers he lies literally all the time*)--lie... (*lets out a slow, pained sigh, running his hands back through his hair in frustration*) I don't know? I just--try my best to bullshit it? Try to make people feel better, or avoid giving them the information they want? I don't know??? (A/N: best indication is that he answers too quickly. He usually practices/rehearses his lies before it comes time to actually tell them. Otherwise (if he didn't expect to have to lie/doesn't have one prepared), he freezes up, stutters, and smiles/jokes too much as he tries "appeasing" or distracting the questioner.)

What other media genre would you do the worst in?

(we're going to be implanting Forbidden Knowledge of our Real World genres and whatnot for them to be able to best answer this!)

Freya: The horror genre. (*shudders*) I cannot deal with scary stuff, okay? I think I would be the first to die. I'd scream, or cry, and break down--probably try hitting the monster or whatever over the head with a chair when it turns the corner and, well... that never goes well in those sorts of things, does it?

Crow: Fairy tales. I'd either be the "lesson"--"don't do this or look what happens to you! You'll become Crow!"--or I'd be whatever the horrifying monster or villain is. I mean... (*laughs awkwardly, looking away and rubbing their shoulder feathers*) when you're me... you get used to knowing you're what's wrong with the world. (*beat. They realize what they've just said--*) I mean, romance. I'd probably annoy my love interest to death. 😎

Valyarus: (*fake gags, then with disgust:*) Romance. My only "biological" child was through magic, and I would not step foot near anyone with that sort of intention. I don't understand how others do. Much less why my daughter is so interested in Freya. They just met! (note: he's aroace and is equally disgusted with romance and sex. Also, yes, I know that's not how all aroace people are. I have plenty of other characters everywhere else in the spectrum. This is just where Valyarus is.)

Gene: Um... probably romance. I...'m not interested in it... not really. Be-besides with Mislav, I mean... and I... I don't even know why he likes me? 😅😓 ... people think I'm creepy. They don't say it--not to my face--but I know they think it. And I... I struggle to talk with people a lot. I try to say one thing, but they think I mean another?... I don't understand why. It's hard. And I--... I don't think I'd do well in that kind of story.

Tazin: The kinda thing where I'd have to teach. I don't have that kind of fucking patience, are you fucking kidding me? I think I'd explode on them. Maybe even literally. (*He pauses, considering it... and grins darkly*) Actually, wait--I take it back. I want to try. (I want to tag in and say traditional horror/thriller. I think the degree to which he'd freak out or curse out the monster would be comical and/or break the immersion, haha.)

Mislav: I would not be able to participate in a talk show or be in the news. A talk show? (*scoff*) Regardless of the subject, it wouldn't take long for me to be driven mad by their endless talking and pretending they know everything. The news? Even worse. I think I'd snap their mic in half. And only because I'd be struggling not to snap other things. <.< (read: necks, limbs, etc.)

Are you confident in yourself?

Freya: Ha... no, not really. I act like I am, but... y'know, it's just that--an act.

Crow: What's not to be confident about? I'm the greatest, I've never made a mistake in my life, and every decision I make is the best one I possibly can! 😘

Valyarus: (*poised on a grand chair; sipping tea elegantly with one hand while the other hangs over the side of the armrest. A nail file magically hangs in the air and is filing his nails while he sips tea*) Hm? What did you say? Oh. (*chuckles*) Of course I'm confident in myself. My abilities, my character, my decisions--everything. 😉💅

Gene: Depends what you mean by "myself"... (*goes quiet, looks away, and debates*) ... I... I try my best to make the right decisions. The best ones... that I possibly can. I--as hard as it is to not question them, it's--it's not good to worry about past decisions. I do my best, and that's--that's all I can do. So... (*takes a deep breath, collecting his thoughts*) I'm not confident, but I try to be.

Tazin: (*snarls*) Of course I'm confident. I've gotten this far, haven't I? (*and slowly starting to smirk instead--*) I mean, look at me. (*leans back and gestures at himself with both hands*) I used to live on the streets with Gene. Now I have a girlfriend. People used to be terrified at my name--and they still would be if I didn't have to stop with the whole "Svarog" thing. (*oops, snarls again and leans in close; threateningly*) Look, I don't care what anyone else says, but Gene wasn't the only reason we were successful! He wouldn't have gotten anywhere without my strength, got it!?!? (Is actually less confident than he thinks he is--overcompensates for that by having convinced himself that he's the greatest. Hm... wonder if that fits the diagnosis criteria for anything?)

Mislav: Ha... not at all. (*swallows and looks down at his hands, fighting back tears*) I... one of these days, this curse is going to take over me. Will I even know when it does? Or will it be slow enough that I never even recognize that I've changed? I... (*looks back up at asker*) I worry, one of these days, I'll only know it when I've done something I can't come back from...

Your questions: - Same as the ones I answered!

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Divider from @cafekitsune

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

sorry for only saying this type of shit lately but i kinda wanna drive a car straight into a brick wall at the highest speed possible

[grandwretch]

man I love 90s fantasy so much they did not give a shit about sex in the only way i can get behind. the protagonist will drop two whole lines like "yeah I fucked during the time skip. it was a phase. I have more important things to catch you up on " can we bring this energy back

[aromanticasterisms]

this whole epilogue is just a little treat for me oh my god. "familiar faces arrive in simulanka" does not even begin to cover it

[gayrui]

Man I’m not a solavellan but saying the solavellan ending is bad cause lavellan gives up everything for solas is. A choice. cause like not only is the ending something you have to very actively choose to do and work toward but depending on how you played inquisition she might not actually be giving up that much.

[lord-squiggletits]

"Rodimus is a better Prime because it didn't hurt for him to bond with the Matrix while for Optimus it did" headcanon/theory my beloathed.

One day I'm literally gonna snap and make a whole post addressing why what's wrong bc I'm tired of the inaccuracy and tired of ppl not understanding the Point TM of IDW and its version of the Matrix/Primacy and even more tired of people putting down Optimus in favor of Rodimus by essentially arguing that being unworthy means you deserve to be punished/put in pain bc you just weren't good enough to hold the Symbol of Ultimate Authority

[lesbiansanemi]

I am so fucking sick of living with my roommate and his fuck ass boyfriend. Also watching my roommate burn every single one of his (already rather minimal, I might add) bridges for this guy is also kind of painful but also his relationship with me is one of said bridges so I'm almost past the point of even feeling bad for him lmao

[alltimewhat]

wound dehiscence can quickly escalate to infection or even evisceration

[unproduciblesmackdown]

another day another "applying the concept 'disposability' to 'someone withdraws from a personal relationship, & that wasn't signed off on by the other'" kill me

[thekidsarentalright]

have officially heard my each of my favorite songs from my top 3 fav bands all this year alone <3 magical as fuck thing to have happen to god <3

[always-andromeda]

Hey gang, here’s the moodboard for this morning! 😀👍🏻

[badnikbreaker]

i've talked before about how something that i want to do with my amy is her eventually figuring out how to summon objects beside her hammer / wish other objects into existence. i've also wanted to chat about amy's moveset in frontiers! AND how i wanna put all their talents together in one place. so i'm gonna do ALL THAT and chat about amy's abilities in and out of battle below ye ol' cut.

firstly, to address stuff that's not here — amy can't heal herself, nor can she turn invisible. i translate these abilities as her being a talented medic and better at sneaking than you'd expect, but she lacks those powers in and of themselves*. i want to keep amy's abilities focused and sensible and congruent to her character, versus just being slapped on because sonic team wasn't sure what to do with her. i love when other amys have these abilities! mine, however, does not.

there's obviously the super strength — i've been wishy washy on how their strength compares to characters like knuckles and et cetera, but broadly speaking i think they and knuckles are about evenly matched when it comes to raw strength, though the way he uses his is different than the way they use theirs. when they arm wrestle, amy wins about 50% of them, knuckles wins the others. ( knuckles is far more skilled in hand - to - hand combat, however, so amy still considers him the 'strength' type between the two of them. not that it's dimmed their rivalry at all. ) amy has worked insanely hard to get to that point and works out regularly — they hated feeling like the tagalong kid when they were little, and since they couldn't run the way sonic can or fly like tails or knuckles, they opted for strength.

i've talked before about how amy doesn't have 'powers' the way the others do — no natural flight like tails or speed like sonic or the ability to wield fire like blaze — and the insecurity that often inspires in them. it's part of why they work so hard to be strong! but lacking a power's not strictly true. on the one hand, they have access to 'hammerspace,' which is a technically nonexistent 'place' where amy's hammer is 'stored.' it's hard to describe, but amy can feel it and is aware of it at all times, and losing access to it would feel a bit like losing a limb. i talk a bit more about how her hammer(s) work(s) here, so i won't get into the nitty gritty. but just having access to hammerspace is its own power!

their bigger Power, though, is easier to ignore. amy's original hammer isn't something they built or found or were given — it's something they quite literally wished into existence! it could be said that amy's power isn't just the ability to wield the hammer at all, but to create things just via willing them. amy rarely thinks of this as a power she has, as she's yet to wish anything else into existence. most people she knows just assume the piko piko hammer is a normal, if very big, hammer.

an aside, but the things amy can store in hammerspace are generally limited to things she's wished into existence — though if she has a strong emotional connection with an object she can sometimes turn it wish - like through great exertion of will, enabling her to store it in hammerspace. an example is the cards she uses to fight on starfall islands — or, from past threads, a tails once gifted her an augmented piko piko hammer he'd built, which she eventually became able to store in hammerspace as well. still, they can't, like, keep rocks in there.

obviously the ability to Create Objects Merely By Wishing They Existed is insanely powerful and extremely difficult. this is why she's never created anything else; she isn't sure how she created the hammer in the first place, just that there was a moment when she needed a weapon badly and needed to to be strong, and it was there — and that creating it gave her a hell of a nosebleed and wiped her out so hard she couldn't move at all for a few hours post - fight and had to rest for several long days after. amy wants to learn how to summon other things, particularly shields or armor, but despite her hard work it just hasn't happened. reality is like...a wall, or a weight overtop of her. she can feel it, and it's difficult to overcome, to break it long enough to make something new. she's injured herself pushing too hard in her attempts, though few know that. she can summon copies of her hammer without much difficulty, at least up until a certain number, and so has been focusing on that as a training tool, figuring that if she can build up enough stamina to summon additional hammers it'll increase her ability to do other things as well.

their moveset in frontiers actually stems at least in part from their training with hammerspace! she's managed, through great effort, to turn her deck wish-like, enabling her to store it in hammerspace and use it to fight. while she initially just tested storing the card for the sake of pushing her limits, amy quickly realized that the cards are a faster alternative to her hammer and started using them in combat training. starfall island was the first opportunity amy had to use them against real enemies, and she was pleased with the efficiency. the piko piko hammer will always be her go - to, but she's excited to add another tool to the arsenal. her current primary goal, however, is still learning how to create new objects. she'll get there, but maybe not until there's no other choice. ( i have a drabble about it! )

her cards have a more mundane use, of course — they can be helpful in predicting future events, guiding her actions, or clearing up mysteries. amy uses the cards more rarely these days, but is always happy to do a reading for friends. because tarot is so subjective, she's hesitant to do readings for herself due to a tendency to just see what she wants to see ( or, on the opposite end of the spectrum, to confirm her worst fears or insecurities ).

she does possess an actual sixth sense, particularly regarding those she loves. with sonic and cream particularly, she can often sense when they're nearby or know it's them before she opens a door or call her. she also has a knack of finding things, particular people, and can 'sense' where people may be hiding. she can also often sense others' intentions ( for example, she might have an inkling someone she's talking to is lying to her, even if there's no outward reason to suspect that ) though she prefers to assume the best of everyone and may ignore negative intuition accordingly. this has obvious applications in battle.

an incredible leader; amy has both the big heart to understand others and make them want to follow them, and the tactical acumen required to make good calls. due to a boatload of trauma related to leading or co - leading things worsening their existing self - esteem issues, though, they tend to avoid leadership roles when possible.

aside from all this, there's obviously the bonkers level endurance, agility, stamina and speed required to be somebody who adventures with sonic on a regular basis!

as for skills less immediately useful in battle —

she's a talented artist; she put more time into it when she was a kid, but she still sketches now and again, and has a real interest in sequential art! after stepping down from leading the restoration, one of the hobbies she's trying to revive is drawing — and drawing manga, specifically. they think it might be fun to publish some children's comics particularly. no, they have not drawn themself and sonic kissing. they've tried but they get too embarassed to finish. this hobby has also proved useful as a coping mechanism — vent art, basically, or drawing bad dreams as a way to process them. her sketchbook is funny because it's got the cutest thing you've ever seen next to The Horrors.

they're also an extremely skilled extreme gear rider! honestly, if they devoted themself to it properly she could easily be one of the top performers. it's not a priority, though; just something to do for fun sometimes!

we'd be remiss not to mention her ability to redeem damn near close to everybody, though that's harder to quantify. still, amy's good nature is so obvious and their faith in others so extensive that they really can get through to people others couldn't dream of saving. and she wants to save everyone. their ability to empathize is just as powerful as their hammer. related, but they are taking online classes to get a degree in counseling. it's slow going for obvious reasons, and they're only taking a few hours per semester, but they're enjoying it. "why are you doing that, amy?" you ask. "it seemed fun," they answer, proving that they are a fucking weirdo.

great cook and baker, and a talented teacher in these subjects as well! loves feeding others, and has made or bought personalized bentos for all their friends.

*some of these abilities are movies amy could conceivably gain in super form, though my amy has not ever gone super so she isn't entirely sure.