#also also on the note of the baking/cooking plot bunny

[00fairylights00]

*clears throat* HIGH HUMANITY P FINALLY BEING ABLE TO EAT AND SHARING ALL KINDS OF WONDERFUL TREATS WITH HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my god Bloodbrown you are reading my mind ahhhh!!

I bet he would love baking so much, and he takes it so seriously when you tell him the best kind of treats are the ones made with love! I actually have a plot bunny about teaching P how to bake and cook floating around in my notes that I’m excited to get some time to work on.

Okay okay!

The growl of a stomach and the pang of hunger had initially concerned P, who tugged on your sleeve urgently. As you turned to face him his stomach rumbled again, you laughed at his mounting concern and explained that it sounded like he was hungry.

“You know, like how when I wake up I always have something to eat? Like that.” You soothed, the worry lines in his brow settling. 

This was something normal, something human. 

He was now very excited about the prospect of a new human thing he’d be able to try, and eating was something he’d been longing to do, watching you eat tended to be awkward and everything you made looked so appetising.

“I think I have something in the pantry you’ll really like.” You beamed, dragging him into the hotel’s kitchen.

You swung open the pantry doors and rummaged a bit, P looked over your shoulder curiously. The pantry wasn’t filled to the brim but what was in there he wasn’t familiar with at all, tins, cartons and baskets full of food and ingredients he didn’t know the name of.

“Ah hah!” You cheered, pulling a white, metal box from the pantry. “I promise you’ll love these!”

You popped off the lid and inside where multiple yellow discs with brown pieces scattered throughout them, he tilted his head and you waved the box in front of him,

“Try one! They’re homemade.” You coaxed, not that he would take much convincing when it came to you.

“Home… made?” He took a disc, the paper surrounding them crinkling, you also took one for yourself before placing the box on the countertop beside you. 

“It means it was made in the home, I made these ones myself. Some people believe the best kind of food is made with love, which you get plenty of in homemade cooking!” You explained, his eyes widened owlishly, throughly impressed once again by your abilities and your knowledge. You’d said before that they weren’t exactly difficult skills to pick up but he didn’t know how to make a… wait what is this thing?

“What… is it?” He questioned, turning the disc over in his hands. 

“It’s a chocolate chip cookie.” It was solid in his hand but the surface had a bounce to it, he brought it up to his mouth and was even more eager to try it now that he could smell it. 

You watched his reaction closely as he bit into the treat, any hesitance was quickly replaced with pure joy as he rushed to finish the rest of the cookie. 

“You like it?” You asked, and you got an enthusiastic nod in response, a giggle bubbling up from P’s throat boyishly. “Would you like another?”

“Yes!” He beamed, you held the box back out to him and he took another cookie for himself but stopped short when he noticed that you hadn’t done the same.

He frowned, looked at the cookie and then back at you before splitting the treat down the middle and offering one half to you. “Love should… be shared.”

You couldn’t agree more.

[argisthebulwark]

Pie and Pumpkin for the October ask game if you haven't had those already! Hope life's treating you kindly <3

thank you!! every day gets a lil better, thank you so much for your kind thoughts <3

🥧pie: let's talk about food in your wip. are there any special recipes or traditional meals? do any of your OCs cook or bake?

i don't think saryn would cook very well, she's the type of guy who eats for sustenance. like a gym bro who eats plain chicken breast and rice, she eats cheap, nutritious food that keeps her going - but she'd go nuts for a silly little dessert. i think she'd commit crimes for a chocolate cake.

🎃 pumpkin: do you have any favorite brainstorming techniques? how do you like to gather ideas for your wip?

a lot of my brainstorming comes from music! i take my dog on long walks and put in my headphones and try to ponder The Character. sometimes i get amazing ideas that turn into fics, sometimes i get garbage lol. i have a very long note on my phone of ideas i've had that i don't want to forget, lots of them come from the late night half asleep daydreaming about character time.<3 i also have a corkboard in my little office area where i've scribbled quotes or ideas, i often find that ideas branch and become new plot bunnies when i'm working on other fics.

[hardworkandguts]

Macross 7

マクロス7

(Anime + ova + film)

Mecha romance musical by Shoji Kawamori

Era: 1990s

Rating: S

Plot: Around 30 years after the developments of SDF Macross, humanity and their new allies, the Zentradi, are expanding their reach to outer space in the Macross 7. There, they meet the a new enemy - aliens who seem to feast on the life force of their victims, first on the pilots defending the spaceship convoy, and then on the city onboard the 7 itself. As this happens, Basara Nekki, vocalist of rock band Fire Bomber, with Ray Lovelock and Veffidas Feaze and new bass player and female vocalist Mylene Flare Jenius, daughter of Max and Milia. He also mysteriously has a custom VF-19.

Length: 49 episodes, 2 OVA and a 2 films

Thoughts: Ah, if Plus was a bit "what if we made Macross but made it unlike Macross", this is probably the quintessential Macross experience. Does it have variable fighters? Yes. Is there an aspiring music star in a love triangle? Yes... kinda. Is their music connected to protoculture? Buddy, not only that, it becomes the main weapon. Does it have tension between the civilian side and military side (who can't be trusted) of the Macross? You're not going to believe it, but there's even two aspects to it. So let's start by that. Because they likely learned a few lessons over having the civilian and military together, the 7 has a combat module similar to the original Macross that can detach itself from the civilian module which can turtle itself during combat, and in charge of both are respectively Max and Milia, now estranged after maybe too many tossed babies. Our boy Basara is a pacifist firm in his conviction his songs, not fighting, can move a mountain and change the universe. He butts in anytime there's a fight between the forces defending the 7 and the attackers by dodging every attack and firing speaker pods at their enemies, to the annoyance of Gamlin, the ace pilot on board. What he (and even Basara himself) doesn't know is that it all is part of a secret program Ray and Max cooked up, trying to develop an attack that mimics Minmei's years prior, this being the main driver of the first half of the story. While at first he seems more an annoyance, we get the first hints of success and why they're being attacked by the "vampires", who need Spiritia (or life force or whatever you want to call it) and their leader dreams of regenerating Spiritia, allowing them to stop hunting other species, and while attacking a musician, they see the effect Mylene and Basara singing has on the recovery of her levels, and later kickstart the recovery of a captured pilot, and even make Sivil, one of the Protodevlin behind the attack... uuh... feel things and make faces that were probably not seen before outside something you could only buy from a mail-order catalog that only advertised on magazines sold behind the counter, and later the full weaponisation of Fire Bomber as Sound Force, setting the stage for the later half of the season, focused on the fight between the Macross 7 and the Protodevlin. The love triangle is never exactly resolved, which is a good thing because, you know, jail, but it's questionable if there really was one to begin with as Basara is interested in one thing only, and it is to make people listen to his song.

This idea that music can change the universe is baked into the franchise, and the way it is taken literally here is Macross taken to the most Macross it can be, and putting it in writing makes me understand it can be very ridiculous and why some might not like it. The characters are also very fun, but quite one note throughout the story, beyond Gamlin taking the broom out if his ass, and it feels some of them, like Rex and her gang or the bridge bunnies could have had a bit more time for them. Visually it's very much a solid mid 90s show, although it's not the pure spectacle of Plus and recycles *a lot* of animation, the music sequences are on a level probably not seen outside magical girl transformations.

So, 49 episodes are enough to tell the whole point of the show: finally allowing the long-suffering Flower Girl to give Basara a bouquet, but given its success there's more to it - first was The Galaxy Is Calling Me, a 30 minute movie taking place in the later third of the show, where Basara crashes into a struggling mining planet due to a Fold disturbance while chasing a powerful voice picked up by their monitoring systems who turns out to be a familiar face to some of the characters (B), same with the Encore OVA, with three stories taking place around midway where we get to see a TV documentary on the lives of Ray and Basara before forming Fire Bomber, very inaccurate re-enactment included, a very sick Milia tries to marry Mylene to Basara, and an old acquaintance of her comes across the 7 with her fleet of still rogue Meltrandi. All three fall more on the side of light and funny and they all have pretty good moments, be it Mylene singing Minmei's songs, the Meltrandi meeting deculture, or Milia going on what she thought was her final trip (A), followed by the Dynamite OVA, adding 4 30 minute episodes after the end of the show where Basara decides to wander around to the edges of the galaxy for a bit, and saves the (space) whales. I like the setting and new characters but... I kinda feel they could have done more with Fire Bomber struggling with Basara buggering off trying to find something to sing for, and what they did was, you know, that. It gets some nice colorful visuals and space battles and obviously new music, in general, neat, but a bit underwhelming (C). There is also 7 Plus, a collection of very short omake material added to the end of some episodes in the home releases, things like a videoclip for an acoustic version of Love Heart, other for a couple of unused songs, and for a live version of Planet Dance by the real Fire Bomber in 1995, Gamlin's time at the academy, how the bridge bunnies are all infatuated with Max or the first contact with the Protodevlin. Fun, but nothing special (C), and many years later, FB7: Ore No Uta Wo Kike, a full-length movie recap set in the timeline of Frontier, which I'll get to in due time.

Recommended to: People who want to hear his song

Plus:

Well, it's not, but it's peak Macrossing.

Fire Bomber has some bangers in there.

Predicted playing Ace Combat with a GH controller.

Minus:

Action feels a bit flat compared to the rest of the franchise, particularly after Plus, and it recycles a lot of animation.

Decision to mostly have Fire Bomber for music makes this incidental music fan a bit sad

[distortedataraxia]

If requests are open, I hope it's okay if I request a matchup 🥺 I'm a bisexual transdude. I'm a pretty big introvert, if I go to big social things, I will need like a full day to myself at least after it or else I will have an emotional breakdown from being burnt out. Despite that, I'm a childcare worker and I adore my kids so much, little ones are my specialty. It's my dream to be a dad one day! I'm a very domestic person, my hobbies include cooking, baking, and drawing. I'm also super into fashion and like looking good whenever I go out. A malewife, some would say /hj.

I'm a big people pleaser with social anxiety, so I tend to be reserved and overly polite when I first meet people. This also tends to make me a bit of a doormat. If you mistreat me, I'll of course be upset, but I'll bottle it up and won't voice my complaints because I hate confrontation. Plus I'm an angry crier and I hate crying in front of people. I constantly have the attitude of "I'M TIRED OF BEING NICE. I'M GONNA GO APESHIT." But I never go apeshit because I need everyone to like me so much all the time.

I'm super loosened up around friends though so I can be sarcastic, teasing, and cuss quite a bit. I tend to have a bit of dark... Dazai-esque humor sometimes, it's a habit, not as bad as it used to be. I'm also pretty dirty minded lol. Also, if my loved ones need something, my anxiety will go out the window, I'd fight anyone for them.

aaaaa this is getting long so I'm so sorry, I'll just state a few more facts

- I love anything horror. Movies, video games, haunted houses, esc.

- My cats are my babies and are at the top of my Favorite People list. I like all animals though!

- I'm punk-eque I guess with a love of rock n' roll, motorcycles, and tattoos. I am my father's son lmao.

- I have a big weakness for anything cute. I have impulsively spent $20 on a bunny plush. Help.

- That being said, I'm usually super cautious with money and encourage others to do the same.

- One time I cried after killing an ant bc I put myself in its shoes and "Oh my god, he was just walking around and living his life. And now it's gone. He's just suddenly DEAD. Oh my god."

Ummm I think that's it. I really enjoy your writing and you seem really nice and I hope you have a good day ❤️

Author note : Hello !! I'm so so so so so sorryyyyyyy for the time i took to work on your request - I haven't been active at all and i don't feel like i have any valid excuse, just me being emo/20 lol. Anyways I'm sorry this is rushed and i'll doubt you'll see this but i'll do it anyways,- still sorry ! You have a good day too and take care ! 💜also i didn't know if you wanted to be paired with a girl or a boy so i just did whatever came to my brain as other people are waiting - I'm sorry this is completly my fault TT-TT If you wanted to be paired with the other gender you can request to me again that won't bother me! I won't make you wait months-long this time... I think 🥲

I pair you with.....

Ranpo!

I can already see you looking at horror movies with him with A LOT OF FOOD- Ranpo also likes cats so i'm sure you'll take care of some together - Ranpo likes to play video games too as he plays some with yosano, i'm sure he'll find a lot of time for you and him to play together ! if you go to Haunted houses together, i'm sure he'd be amused by your reactions as he already figured out where everything is and what will happen.. Or maybe he can be taken by surprise..? Who knows - that's for you to imagine ! As he is really smart no shit sherlock he will probably figure out when something is bothering you so you won't even have to say it ! I'm sure this man will beg you to bake or cook things for him and then will eat almost everything in the blink of an eye - Goodluck with that! Ranpo will be careful with you, i can already imagine a dramatic plot where one of your loved one is in danger and it's too dangerous for you and he's gonna save them but you find out and he tries to stop you from going there and then idk boom drama and- yeah -

[pokemon-legends-and-legacies]

PostwickShipping and/or SoulSilverShipping for the ask meme pls

Send in two (or more) names and I’ll fill all this out about the ship!

PostwickShipping (will just note here that in this verse, Victor becomes the Champion while Gloria becomes a researcher under Sonia alongside Hop)

General:

Rate the Ship -   Awful | Ew | No pics pls | I’m not comfortable | Alright | I like it! | Got Pics? | Let’s do it! | Why is this not getting more attention?! | The OTP to rule all other OTPs

How long will they last? - Endgame

How quickly did/will they fall in love? - Once they both started working for Sonia after the events of the SwSh plot, they began developing feelings (though there might have been some even beforehand). They start dating about a year and a half later, both in their mid-teens.

How was their first kiss? - A bit awkward, but very sweet and earnest.

Wedding:

Who proposed? - Hop

Who are {Hop's} groom's party? - Leon, Sonia & Bede (who claims he only did this because Victor asked him but really he and Hop have become friends by the wedding even if neither will admit it)

Who are {Gloria's} bride's party? - Victor, Marnie & Bianca (who she'd become close friends with during an study-abroad she did in Unova under Prof. Juniper)

Who did the most planning? - They did their best to split the load evenly!

Who stressed the most? - Hop

How fancy was the ceremony? - Back of a pickup truck | 2 | 3 | 4 | Normal Church Wedding | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Kate and William wish they were this big.

Who was specifically not invited to the wedding? - Rose, though it was a given at that point

Sex:

Who is on top? - It's a tossup, but Gloria a little more often

Who is the one to instigate things? - It's pretty mutual

How healthy is their sex life? - Barely touch themselves let alone each other | 2 | 3 | 4 | Once a couple weeks, nothing overboard | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | They are humping each other on the couch right now

How kinky are they? - Straight missionary with the lights off | 2 | 3 | 4 | Might try some toys | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Don’t go into the sex dungeon without a horse’s head

How long do they normally last? - Maybe a little shorter than average, but they usually have a longer foreplay

Do they make sure each person gets an equal amount of orgasms? - Mutual satisfaction is the main goal, but if they can they will

How rough are they in bed? - Softer than a butterfly on the back of a bunny | 2 | 3 | 4 | The bed’s shaking and squeaking every time | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Their dirty talk is so vulgar it’d make Dwayne Johnson blush. Also, the wall’s so weak it could collapse the next time they do it.

How much cuddling/snuggling do they do? - No touching after sex | 2 | 3 | 4 | A little spooning at night, or on the couch, but not in public | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | They snuggle and kiss more often than a teen couple on their fifth date to a pillow factory.

Children:

How many children will they have naturally? - 4, a son named Neil, then three daughters named Caelia, Tania & Annie

How many children will they adopt? - 0

Who gets stuck with the most diapers? - Hop

Who is the stricter parent? - Gloria

Who stops the kid(s) from doing dangerous stunts after school? - Both. It's usually Neil who's doing something ill-advised and they've both had to deal with the aftermath before so prevention is key.

Who remembers to pack the lunch(es)? - Hop

Who is the more loved parent? - They're equally loved!

Who is more likely to attend the PTA meetings? - They usually go together, but Gloria's more likely to forget or end up accidentally scheduling an important meeting at the same time.

Who cried the most at graduation? - They both were in FLOODS.

Who is more likely to bail the child(ren) out of trouble with the law? - Gloria

Cooking:

Who does the most cooking? - Gloria

Who is the most picky in their food choice? - Both will eat most things, so they mainly have to deal with the kids (especially Tania) being picky eaters.

Who does the grocery shopping? - Gloria, she's the queen of getting the best deals, finding everything she needs in record time, and knowing all the best quality ingredients.

How often do they bake desserts? - Pretty frequently! Hop especially likes to bake with the kids. There's usually home-baked cookies or brownies in the kitchen at any given time.

Are they more of a meat lover or a salad eater? - Meat eaters! They both love hearty comfort food.

Who is more likely to surprise the other(s) with an anniversary dinner? - Hop, since Gloria usually monopolizes the kitchen. He'd like to show off that he can cook, too.

Who is more likely to suggest going out? - Hop

Who is more likely to burn the house down accidentally while cooking? - Gloria, while trying out something complicated she saw on the Food Network or experimenting with some new fancy cooking appliance.

Chores:

Who cleans the room? - Hop. Gloria handles almost all the cooking, so Hop does most of the cleaning.

Who is really against chores? - Gloria is not the biggest fan of cleaning.

Who cleans up after the pokémon? - Both look after their own pokémon, but Hop is usually the one who looks after the lab pokémon (while Gloria focuses more on field work.)

Who is more likely to sweep everything under the rug? - Gloria

Who stresses the most when guests are coming over? - Both of them, unless it's just family visiting.

Who found a dollar between the couch cushions while cleaning? - Hop

Misc:

Who takes the longer showers/baths? - Gloria

Who takes the dog legendary wolves out for a walk? - Both of them like to visit Zacian and Zamazenta frequently and go on walks in the forest with them (as the wolves went back to the Slumbering Weald after the game plots). Sometimes the wolves will come visit the lab though which always causes a stir in Postwick and Wedgehurst!

How often do they decorate the room/house for the holidays? - They always decorate as much as possible! Seasonal festive garlands and wreathes, figurines in the windows and garden, the works.

What are their goals for the relationship? - Encourage each other's goals, discover new things together and always be a team, build a warm and happy family and home together.

Who is most likely to sleep till noon? - Hop

Who plays the most pranks? - Gloria (she's teamed up with Neil and Caelia to prank other family members on more than one occasion.)

[falling-forever-upwards]

Might I ask about 'Eyeball Madness', and if I may request a second 'Mechanical Hearts'?👁‍🗨

hell yeah!

eyeball madness is my general catch-all tma plot bunny note, so have a few summaries for fun!

raspberry lemon, chocolate and cream

Sasha teaches Tim to bake, with mixed results (ie. Sasha is a bad teacher and Tim is a horrible cook and they have a lot of fun but very little is learned)

fog white, silver love

Jon gets marked by the Lonely at 8, and when he wakes from his coma, the Web has taken residence in the Institute. (Several butterfly effect changes throughout the show and also a great deal of Annabelle Cane because I love her. feat. Web!Martin)

modern problems, etc.

Hey so what if the Magnus Institute developed an app for people to submit statements? And Elias decided to foist this responsibility upon Jon during mid s3 for exactly no good reason? (Of course, real statements won't work on digital software. Elias knows this. Jon knows this. The institute donors know this. This entire thing is a massive waste of time and Jon has a clown apocalypse to be stopping, thank you very much.)

the many facets of fire

Three original domains playing around with fire powers as manifestations of fears other than desolation. Specifically, hunt, corruption, and slaughter.

mechanical hearts

longer title; mechanical hearts fall apart in time

This is my mechs!Jon sandbox. I wanted to write a version of mechs!Jon that felt true to the world of TMA while also not infringing weirdly on the mechanisms fandom space (as someone who is also in the mechanisms fandom space). There's a few oneshot ideas in here, and also a chatfic, which. I'm not sure why I started, because I have no patience for writing chatfics, lol.

Regardless, this one I've pretty much abandoned, though I do want to write out my idea about Lana Billings (the woman who got her voice torn out by Nikola) being the Toy Soldier, and Jon's subsequent emotional fallout when he gets that particular statement at Georgie's, because that's his friend who died three years ago.