#What We lost in the Fire

[haleingstorm]

Chapter 2 is up!

Team selection happens, nobody is good at being subtle and everyone is having a bad time

[egophiliac]

BIRD SSR????????????

NOOOO I wasted all my keys on Platinum Malleus, HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME

(I do kinda love that this is officially "Raven Jacket" Crowley though) (does this open up the possibility of a selection of future Crowley fashion cards)

[dykedvonte]

Curly not immediately punishing Jimmy for assaulting Anya is something I don’t think a lot of people are viewing in the complex context for Curly as the superior to both of them and closest confidante they had.

Like I am in no way saying he didn’t under react or fail Anya by not being harsh or direct with Jimmy but it really is the case that he really couldn’t. Imagine being stuck in such a confined space with very little areas to genuinely hold someone if they commit a crime. It’s not like this was an event that occurred before they departed or that they have easy communication with The Pony Express to ask for how to proceed when something like this arises. Not to mention, Jimmy’s relative power in relation to Anya as the co-pilot and second in command, he has the knowledge and access to do something to her had Curly directly punished him in this setting.

They were also Curly’s friends. It’s not just the case of him mediating something between his subordinates but people he is personally invested in don’t want to see spiral further in Anya’s case while also not wanting believe his friend go that bad in Jimmy’s actions. They were both suicidal and Curly putting Jimmy’s stability first is both out of bias but also the fact he’s aware at some level Jimmy is a danger to himself and others if not constantly placated. Combined with the fact he was in denial or just not piecing together what Anya said it’s hard to say what he buying time for and what he had treat as urgent. This isn’t even saying he doesn’t care about Anya but he’s not going jump to the worst conclusions about his friends even if part of him acknowledges the evidence saying so. It’s a complicated thing but he’s still human and needed to process it on top of trying to keep a ship that already took on a lot of water from further sinking, metaphorically.

I just personally think that while Curly failed Anya, it was a scenario where there wasn’t much he could do to the best thing by her safely and like Jimmy, we are underestimating what a good leader would do in a very fragile and tense situation like he was in. By the time he may have been ready and had a plan, things were much too late.

[lotus-pear]

regret

[opikiquu]

(disappears for a month and reappears with a slightly obscure hyperfixation) Hey guys

[muffinlance]

Can Sokka’s science tell him which of Katara’s 7 spools of blue thread 🧵 is the right one to darn that hole in his shirt with?

It could if she didn't keep changing her answer

Katara: I AM NOT CHANGING MY ANSWER

Sokka: YES YOU ARE THESE ARE IDENTICAL

Katara: NO THEY'RE NOT

Sokka: I DEMAND A DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY

Katara: I DEMAND YOU GET YOUR OWN SEWING KIT

[hulloitsdani]

DAY 15: Fallen.

OH, SUNLIGHT, DO YOU KNOW HOW THIS FEELS? CAN YOU IMAGINE IT?

DO YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO KNOW THAT SOME COPY OF YOU WON AND YOU'RE LEFT WITH NOTHING?!?

ANNA… ALFONSE… SHARENA… VERONICA…!!!

THEY WERE MINE, THEY WERE MINE, THEY WERE MINE!!!

THEY WERE MINE FIRST!!!

AND YOU STOLE THEM FROM ME!!!

[btstulip]

Are you kidding?!?

While playing “WHO”?!? AND “Seven”?!!! This is getting ridiculous.

If jikook isn’t real, then Bighit is delulu too.

Full video:

THEY SHOWED THEM BRUSHING THEIR TEETH TOGETHER, like a fucking K-drama! IN MATCHING PJS!

I feel like they must be trolling us because not in a million years did I imagine a fucking TEASER like this! I am not okay. I must have snapped under the stress and am imagining things now because this CANNOT be real!!!

Check on your jikook friends because they are not okay.

[katabay]

lmao these are ocs I made wayyyy back in 2021 on a personal blog and I don’t think I ever posted them here, so I’ll do a quick recap!

the guy with the blue hair is marion. he hunts demons! baron is a librarian at a university only because everyone else who was actually qualified for the position died and he really just wants to go home and take a nap.

that’s about it! it was a story I started on because I wanted to draw cool outfits and big monsters after spending a weekend playing DMC5 during the lockdown, but recently it’s been getting some more serious depth as I build up the world.

the original desire to give everyone fun hair colors has remained the same tho, that’s not going to change no matter how serious this story does or does not get

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[hauntingblue]

Rewatching act 2.... yeah ISHA WATCH OUT FOR THE CYCLE ISHA!!!!! NOOOOO

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

sophie should have been a pyrokinetic!!!!!! and i will die on this hill because what do you mean we could have had an arc where the black swan begin to reject her, and grady and edaline grow more distant because of their complicated relationship with fire, and all of sophie’s friends start to fear her after she loses control, and the council threaten another ability restrictor. and then maybe she goes a bit dark and is contacted by the neverseen again, but she’s in such a bad place that they manage to manipulate her and get her on their side and she runs away with them (and then she find out they were the ones who made her a pyrokinetic and maybe she was their experiment the whole time and the black swan stole her and covered it up and maybe she wasn’t the only moonlark???)

[haleingstorm]

So in What We Lost in The Fire(which side note I need to figure out a shorter name for) Shikamaru is basically an member of team 7 at this point. (He thought they were joking. They were not.)

But the question I'm sure you are all dying to ask is why? What changed from canon to this? The answer is both very simple and incredibly complicated. Asuma dies. And Shikamaru avenges him. But he wasn't strong enough to save him in the first place. In one world he goes to his father and throws himself into clan techniques. In another he mourns Asuma but does nothing. In this one he goes to the strongest person he knows and begs for help.

Kakashi really doesn't think he should be a teacher to anybody considering his latest round of fuck ups(looking at you Sasuke) but he reluctantly agrees. And Shikamaru throws himself into training like nobody has ever seen him do before.

And then. And then Pein attacks and it was all for nothing. Shikamaru uses all the jutsu and chakra tricks and nothing works. The village still falls Kakashi dies. And he was useless

So he goes back to Kakashi and practically begs for help. Kakashi thinks for a second and then is like hmmm. There is this scroll.... I'm pretty sure it's a summoning contract. For wolves. I could get you hooked up...

[thevioletcaptain]

I know the ask is about ships but could you make a non ship one with Dean and Carlos from the Winchesters? I can't think of an exact thing for Dean to say, but the first sentence can be what Dean would say for their first meeting. Thank you if you can (*^‿^*)

"I like your hair," Dean says, staring up from where he's clinging to the bottom of Mary's winter coat, and Carlos grins wide when he adds, with all the breathless gravity of a four year old eager to impress their opinions upon a new friend; "It's swooshy and it's pretty like Mommy's hair, and your-- your beads are pretty and shiny and shiny is my favorite color."

"Swooshy and pretty and shiny is exactly what I was going for, so thank you, little buddy."

Even with almost six years between now and the last time he'd seen Mary, Carlos is relieved to find that they still have a good sense of one-another -- can still communicate silently, swiftly, like they used to when it was life or death. He meets her eye, and her face softens, and understanding passes between them before he slides one of his lucky beaded bracelets -- the bloodstone one -- free.

Dean's eyes light up when he takes it.

When he smiles, he looks just like his mother.

[for this askbox game if anyone else wants to send me a prompt]

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

The refugees in Sirion hearing the grind of metal and angry shouts and thinking it’s happening again.

[sunmoontruth-stiles]

I need a completely rewritten teen wolf series with Derek Hale as the main character. I think it would heal me.

[palettepainter]

Amazon: HEEEY!~ Hazbin hotel is getting a second season!

Me: Oh okay, that's cool I guess.

Amazon: They'll be even MORE action this season!! We're gunna focus on Alastor's backstory, and Pentious will be a key character, and Vox is gunna be a more prominent protagonist, and we'll show off more overlords, and Vaggie and Charlie get a "sexy life"~

Me: Uh-huh. And I can only assume that this season has a bigger episode count so that any of those plot points you mentioned have time to breath for more then ten minutes unlike season 1?

Amazon:

Me:.....You're gunna give this season time to breath ri-

Amazon: WE HAVE MERCH AT HOT TOPIC NOW TOO!!~

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(Incase people don't read the tags: The reason this annoys me so much isn't because I hate the show, it's because I want this show to do well. I want this show to make me feel like I should care for any of it's characters and plot points because it's well made, not because it's been created by an artist who is already popular online. I truly believe the animators and voice actors are giving it their all for this show, the voice acting is honestly the best quality in my opinion and everyone nails their roles, but the writing and pacing has so far been a cluster fire.

This is a legit show now, it's being funded by Amazon's money with literal broadway stars as parts of the cast. If season 1 taught the people creating this show anything it's that there needs to be breathing time for the plot points and the characters, and I sincerely hope that season 2 takes this into account. I doubt it with how much they've said they're going to include, but I really hope that, for animation as a whole - cuz god knows Disney hasn't been pumping out good animated movies as of late - season 2 takes into account what season 1 did poorly and improves on it)