#and also i ship jori with him

[miss--river]

your friends are happy to talk to you until you start openly thirsting over jason voorhees in the main chat

[kerubimcrepin]

Liveblog: Wakfu Season 1 (episodes 1-9)

NOTE: I will be doing rewatch liveblogs of multiple episodes per post, because the focus of this blog isn't on the Wakfu cast, and I am not as well versed in their characterisations, so I won't even have much analysis to show you. Sorry ^^;;

Episode 1 - The Child from the Mist

I promise not to get sappy, but seeing season 1 after all these years does make me quite emotional. Ah, how the time flies.

Thank god I'm not a Yugo lore blog. I'd have to translate this too, as if I didn't go through enough psychological trauma. 💀

The sheer Bitch Olympics that would happen if Ruel opened a restaurant and you-know-which-three-men entered it, would cause at least 5 casualties.

I need this so bad. You have no idea how much I need this.

Episode 2 - Yugo the Eliatrope

I hang onto every mention of Bonta like a lifeline. I know Ruel might be lying, but imagining him having some marginal connection though like, Ruel's buddies knowing some people who know buddies of Jurgen-Crepins, is making me giddy.

Remember this tree. It will be important later.

Episode 3 - The Black Crow

Guys I think Ruel likes Bonta.

Anyway now I'm imagining the Bitch Olympics that would happen if he tried to haggle with Kerubim. Pangaea would explode.

I like to imagine this is the sort of life that would await Kerubim, had Lou not been smart enough to flee from the relationship.

[remembers Joris canonically does cartography as a hobby] I think I hauve covid.

Also yes, this episode is the return of the one and only Grav'Mar'Av.

Episode 4 - The Ugly Pageant

[linguistics major voice] It's just that y'know I really wonder what Ecaflip tongue is like and and. Personally, I think Joris is fluent in Ecaflip tongue, but can be a bit rusty at reading and writing it, while—— [I am forcefully taken off stage by the police]

Episode 5 - The Magnificent Five

One of my life dreams is writing a fic that's set during the Wakfu manga, or shortly after it, with Joris on the ship from the manga, or with the Wakfu cast being quests at his home.

The reason I want to do this, is that political discussions between Evangelyne and Joris would go so hard, whether they agree or disagree. They're both the sort of person who can masterfully turn every innocuous topic to Ogrest's Chaos/Monarchy/Climate Change/War. That, and I am a big believer in Evanglelyne&Joris&Amalia friendship (since Amalia and Eva probably had known him as kids, due to politics.)

Episode 6 - Vampyro

I think everyone who wears an enchanted cape to look cooler is a bit of a try-hard edgelord. Sorry not sorry, but this applies to Julith as well.

Episode 7 - Poisonous Beauty

[approaches mic yet again, more haggard, obviously beaten] Rabies confirmed to exist in Krosmoz.

Episode 8 - Xav the Baker

This moment is so important to me. You have no idea how important it is. Yugo and Eva both know that there's not much that he can do to bribe her. And its hilarious.

[puts on tinfoil hat] We know that Chtibrout Town and Xav the Baker are in Amakna. This means that this town is very famous for its baking — enough for a foreign king to be interested, and for a person from Bonta to come to compete here.

That, or this line of thinking is just a sign of my declining mental state.

Episode 9 - Ruel's Bag

The map lore deepens.

A third underwear pervert has hit the pentagon.

[cocogum]

There is no safe place for mortals in the krosmoz.

Why being born a twelvian is already a death sentence.

I once came across a post of @phosphorus-12 talking with vinillain about a topic I incredibly became focused on.

The post where they were talking about Yugo never seeing his friends again.

I read their conversation three times, and each time I reread it, it became increasingly clear that Yugo’s situation is not worth being deemed worthwhile or even incredible.

Yugo's experience of death differs from that of his friends. Even the deaths of Dally, who is an ex-god, were considered normal in comparison.

We all know by now that Yugo has a death cycle.

No matter how many times Yugo dies and comes back to life, it will undoubtedly be a painful experience to see. Repeatedly facing death and returning to a life where he no longer remembers his friends can be a distressing ordeal. His recurring history of losing people and then losing the memory of them may stem from his purpose and role as one of the primordial eliatropes. Born to serve his people as a protector, Yugo’s original goal was clear, but now that he has experienced something new outside of his original home, the endless cycle feels futile, especially because he found something unrelated to his people that he grew to love.

If for whatever reason he gets told about his past life by someone who's been there, chances are, Yugo will literally say: "Well that's not me anymore, that was one of my past lives. I don't remember doing all of that with them." He'd respond so nonchalantly.

And the worst part about this is that WE KNOW HE WILL SAY IT LIKE THAT.

We've seen his and Adamaï's reactions when they went to Mount Zinit in the Wakfu manga (between season 2 and the ovas) and learned about their people and SAW THEIR OLD ROOM AND SHIP.

Upon seeing what was left of their past, Yugo and Adamaï do not express any bitterness or distress in the slightest.

This reaction confused me and slightly weirded me out because I expected them to have a more negative response, considering the life-altering nature of the event and the fact that they are now in a different world. Typically, one would expect some level of negative emotion upon returning to one of their gravesites, even if they don't remember their most recent past life.

Not only that, but Yugo even talks about his old reincarnation as if he were another person. When he saw the recorded message his past self tried sending to Adamaï, Yugo just addressed himself as "he" and not "I."

Even in this last panel, he had trouble considering and saying out loud that "that man" was him. Look at how his first instinct was to say "he" and not "I." It was only after a quick correction that he finally gave up and spoke with the knowledge that the man was indeed him.

Another thing I should mention about the manga is that @kerubimcrepin talked about volume 4 in this post and mentioned Yugo and Adamaï's cycle by comparing it to Joris. The line that especially hit me was this one, and I quote: "It's especially horrifying and off-putting because of how casual Adamaï and Yugo are about death and forgetting. Joris has always valued memories — they may as well be all he has of some of the people he loves, at this point. It's the reason he gifted them his fishing rod — in a way, it is a memory of Khan."

If he and Adamaï can respond with such nonchalant attitudes about the challenging and tragic events of their past lives, supported by visual evidence, then there's a possibility that he will also react with indifference in his next life to the news that he once had amazing friends in his old life.

So again, their reactions to seeing Mount Zinit and their old ship are incredibly eery and disheartening.

By the way I incredibly urge you to read what @kerubimcrepin said about volume 4 in the post I shared above, they absolutely killed it.

We know cameras exist in the World of Twelve thanks to Season 2. The Brotherhood of the Tofu went to an island to help an ecaflip rescue his fiance. At the end of it, and during the mission, we saw the male ecaflip using photographs in his flashbacks to explain what happened to him.

So if photographs and cameras exist in the World of Twelve, the least Yugo could do is capture his memories in pictures. His boufbowl matches back in the day are already engraved in history, but his memories with his friends had to have been kept in a photo book as well.

Despite not seeing Yugo capture any moments, I can heartedly believe that he'd be the type to capture those moments to keep them to himself secretly.

I headcanon that he keeps those photos in a safe box and stares at them when he's all alone.

To be aware that your life's experiences with other people means nothing to your cycle because you're going to forget about it all in the long run anyway is tragic and trauma inducing. Yugo will have to keep on living and living and living until there's no meaning behind living anymore. Life and death will have no meaning and no concept. Even if he can't remember his past lives like Qilby and Shinonome, he could someday be left wondering why he's even here anymore if all he's done is keep repeating the same life and death cycle for millennials.

I genuinely wonder if Amalia ever thought about Yugo's case at all. She's his wife now, so I'm curious to know if she thinks she's unintentionally giving him more burden on his shoulders or doesn't like to think about it, so she shuts her feelings away. The closest thing we've come to seeing her talk or even hearing about it out loud (despite already knowing it) was when she overheard Yugo talk to fake Ruel, aka Sipho, in the Enutrof level of Oropo's tower.

Yumalia has always been doomed from the start and I still don't know if it was worth it or not lol

But regardless, the reason why I even brought Yugo's immortal case into this is because despite having a very cursed cycle, there is at least one thing that his primordial status gets him saved from: being a mortal. At least a twelvian mortal anyway.

Back then, I initially assumed that if you were a mortal in the World of Twelve and died, you'd only go to a realm called Incarnam.

For those who don't know, Incarnam is a floating island that's located on the back of a giant stoned dragon. It's cut off from the rest of the world, but we can catch a glimpse of it at the beginning of Season 4 when we zoom in on the Brotherhood of the Tofu in the Inglorium.

Like the name Incarnam suggests, you reincarnate again and let the cycle of reincarnation run its course. Even if you die again, you'll still go back to Incarnam and repeat the process. You'll become someone else entirely and will have another different life. You won't be yourself anymore but your soul will be the same.

This process is actually a much more graceful way to tackle the cycle of reincarnation, unlike Yugo and his siblings' where they stay the same and act the same and look the same in every cycle.

But Incarnam has a catch to it. And my god, it's so dark.

If you were to ask me what the scariest thing about the krosmoz is, it would be the fact that mortals not only have a shorter life span than demigods, but their souls eventually cease to exist.

And by that, I mean the mortal souls literally expire...

The place where expired souls have completed their entire repetitional cycle go to is called Externam.

Unlike Incarnam, you can never leave from Externam.

Externam is the realm of the dead.

According to Externam's wiki, this is where souls who have completed their cycle of reincarnation are expelled from the krosmoz. There is a portal connecting the World of Twelve to Externam, and it is located in Frigost at Ilyzaelle's Belvedere, under the guard of the latter, who ensures that the souls found there do not escape.

Externam also happens to have a special section created to the side called "The Hall of the Brave" which is a place meant for the most rewarding heroes of the World of Twelve.

This dimension is led by the queen and creator named Thanatena. (who, by the way, is a direct child of the Great Dragon, which makes her and the council of twelve half siblings)

The left picture is her younger self, and the right picture is when she's older.

I can't imagine having your soul stacked away forever after you run out of chances and being kept there by some immortal whose job is ensuring you don't leave.

So what can you do to prevent this?

The solution? Become immortal.

If there's one thing that you DO NOT want to be in the krosmoz, is being a mortal. Despite having an afterlife where your soul gets to be kept in Incarnam for quite some time, it will eventually be in a state we never want to be in if you're not an adventurer: its expiration date.

I say it like this because if you were an adventurer, your soul would stay in "The Hall of the Brave," but who's to say it'll feel better than what Externam has in store for general mortals?

So when you think about it, when the time comes for the Brotherhood of the Tofu to die, they will all leave each other.

Dally, Eva, Amalia, and Ruel are all heroes at heart, based on everything we've seen them do, so they'll be put in the "Hall of the Brave" and tucked away forever.

Meanwhile, Yugo will die, get reborn, and forget absolutely everything that he came to love about this world and how he got to meet his very first friends, went on many different adventures with them, fought off demigods and other powerful foes, saved the world and risked it a couple of times, got married, and ruled a kingdom together with his wife.

He'll never remember them all, and when one of the very few people from his past life who could still be alive tells him of his past self, Yugo will shrug it off and wish the person luck.

THAT is exactly why Yugo would be doomed living among mortals and why Grougaloragran didn't just keep him at Oma Island. He knew how much Yugo had a big heart and would easily be capable of caring for mortals, who, again, have a very shitty life span and afterlife.

So, not only are Yugo's relationships lost causes, but the general system of life and death for mortals is terrifying.

This is why vinillain's response in the post I shared above hurt so much. Because Yugo is aware that he will react like this, he will respond indifferently in his next life if he ever finds out about his friends. It's already too late for him to distance himself from them.

[gayferrari]

lost days of June director’s commentary pls! fic that lives in my mind rent free

lost days of June. Carlos/Charles, alpha/alpha, hate sex

“I’ve never done this.” Carlos presses his lips to Charles’s throat and licks the skin there. He doesn’t bite him again, but he could. “Never met an alpha who was enough of a whore to beg for my knot.”

omggg Jo thank you!! that fic was so breezy to write. I was feeling high on the drama of Spain 24 (which. in hindsight. was the moment that made me a full-on charlos shipper ops) and I saw the kinkmeme prompt and it just came together in like 2 days.

Title from Evening by Joseph Brodsky. We are wholly alone in the evening gloom / And my fingers are warm like the lost days of June.

I was (and still am!) so stunned at the reception this fic got. Authors I admire commented on it and I started talking to so many people because of it, and I'll always be very fond of it because of that.

More thoughts under the cut!

Prompted after Barcelona 2024. Bitchin. After a bad race, charlos have a fight in private. Somehow, this ends with Carlos fucking the annoying out of Charles.

The prompt made me RUN because I think non-traditional omegaverse dynamics work so well for so many F1 ships with the push/pull of their vibes. charlos have that in spades. I'm very a/b/o orientation agnostic (I could buy any combination of alpha/omega/beta for most of my ships) but there's something about, "they are both alphas and they fuck about it" that immediately went to my brain. It's So reflective of all the things I like about their RPF dynamic

BITCHING (omegaverse au) — the moment when an alpha bites an alpha or alpha-like beta; usually causes instinctive submission/appeasement in the one who was bitten.

I've said this yesterday but F1 was my first time writing omegaverse at all and I still struggle with it because so many of the tropes don't come naturally to me — the amount of times I reread my own fics like "they are supposed to smell each other! write more smells!!" — and somehow, that made it easier to write all the dirty talk. Is a/b/o bitching real? Does getting bitten change you fundamentally? <- none of that matters they're just talking shit and getting turned on and having nasty sex

He looks at Joris again. They’ve barely exchanged five sentences since the season started; they all started with ‘Charles says’.

When considering AUs where charlos are fucking on the down low I'm always like. Do their respective entourages know? What do they make of it? Not that Carlos cares here. Hiiii Joris. Bye Joris.

Rereading this now, I'm not sure I got the post-Spain charlos vibes right, even filtered through omegaverse smut, but I definitely got the fandom vibes right. It's one of those fics where if anyone finds it 2 years from now they'll be able to tell exactly when it was written, down to the week on the race calendar, and I think that's kinda cool.

Also rereading this: I think I nailed the vibe I was going for! My idea was, like, that moment when you're in a push-and-pull kind of vibe with someone and it can be fun and sexy, but then suddenly the friction becomes nasty (teammate says mean things about you in the press) and all the things about that person that you used to find charming become absolutely fucking unbearable. That's what Carlos's POV is like in this fic. He's reached a saturation point and now they're fucking and sucking and calling each other names.

“Well?” Charles says, impatient. He’s looking at his nails. “Say what you have to and be on your way. I am sure you have things to do. It is your home race, after all.”

You can TELL I had so much fun with their shortly-lived bitchy beef <3 Week of all time. I cannot be blamed for making it into porn where Charles gets bitten and turns into a sexed-up horny mess

or maybe he's just roleplaying at it to have an excuse to go along with something they both want while pretending he doesn't. Same for Carlos's "tell me you're into this or I bite you and who knows what'll happen next?" <- probably nothing. They're both aware of it. But they're into pretending it does :3

In better times when they're not actually angry at each other they're gonna do SO much alpha/omega roleplay. This is so important to me. Charlos dynamic where they're both alphas and play around with omegaverse designation roleplay in a very inexperienced gross raw way is THEE a/b/o fuckbuddies evolution of their whole vibe

There's a lot of dialogue in this fic that makes me go "ok maybe this was a bit too much" but HEY, I am writing tropey porn, and it was so fun to write that I stand by it wholeheartedly. Seminal lines like

“A little bitch like you, have you ever been fucked?” Charles’s face is red. Like this, out of sorts and horny out of his mind, he can’t deny what he really wants. “Yes,” he spits out. “What, did you want to be my first?”

that make me go. WOW. Marie Kondo I LOVE MESS.gif.

Anyway. Carlos after will tell himself that Charles was lying. Charles is not lying. They will have jealous sex about that too.

The ending of the fic where they're like. Oh this hate sex was so gross. We should totally do it again <3 <- that's romance. To me.

THANK YOU for making me revisit this fic, it was so much fun! Happy halloween <333

[whywasthissohardtomake]

Okay so, i was worried that jason & sophie were headed towards a relationship, especially with how belinda acted when humphrey brought up the princess of hurricaines however!! With clive talking to sophie & belinda about not just punching jason when they feel like it, i feel better about either option of there being romance between them or not. I like their current dynamic & if they were to get together itd be wayyyyyy down the line, so im less upset about it (do i ship jason with anyone? Ehhhh idk. I kinda want him to be alone forever?? Which feels mean. He needs some deep friendships and more cuddles. Thats my opinion. No one hugs jason enough).

okay. Unrelated to that, clive talking to belinda & sophie not one but twice?? About how he doesnt like how theyre acting with jason?? Soooo cute!! This man is looking out for his friend & i love him for that. Hes so sweet. Also farrah (idk how to spell anyones names. Im listening to the series so no like visuals sorry.) telling clive to keep an eye on jason?? The fact that its the two big magic users who both want jason to succeed & see his potential who also get him on a deeper level?? The parallels. The parallels im dying. Its so sweet. And i miss farrah 😭😭😭

also also. Sophie & belinda should date. Yes belinda & jory are cute. But belinda and sophie have so much history. Theyre the only one the other can trust wholeheartedly. I need them to take each other on dates & feed each other chocolate covered strawberries!!!

first installment of liveblogging into the world!!

[saxspielercaderface]

MIDRA AND NANAYA FOR THE ASK MEME

YEE OK

favorite thing about them

Midra: Sad old man who becomes an absolutely sick-ass Lord of Frenzied Flame who basically dances as he fights. Also his theme music plays on repeat in my head. And I love the tragedy of him having the hubris of thinking he can commune with the Frenzied Flame but then getting infected by it. OOF the tragedy. It's tasty.

Nanaya: My/our headcanons about her sjgsdffjhgsjhdg, I love her and how much she loves Midra and how much he loves her.

least favorite thing about them

I love them so much there really isn't anything to put anything in this category.

favorite line

Midra: "Enough. I have endured enough." The moment of him letting go, of giving in to the Frenzy after however long of holding it inside. It's so incredibly chilling and the perfect intro to the explosive 2nd phase of his fight.

Nanaya: I'm crying she doesn't canonically say anything besides "Endure" unless you're like me and interpret the torn journal page as written from her POV. So I'ma say the part where she slapped his staff aside. Like, she took no shit from him, no threats.

brOTP

Midra: There must have been someone in the Manse who was his prime student who he'd discuss/debate theories with until the wee morning hours, or the Haskil to his Sheogorath conceptually. That person's his brOTP.

Nanaya: Does Nanaya and Marika count? Like, them being friends before their imprisonment, and them escaping together? I'm counting this.

OTP

YOU KNOW I SHIP MIDRAxNANAYA FOREVER :))))))

nOTP

Either of them with Inquisitor Jori or Shabriri. Inquisitor Jori for obvs reasons and Shabriri because I'm a "Shabriri is the son of Midra and Nanaya turned avatar/harbinger of the Frenzied Flame" truther.

random headcanon

Midra: He drinks so much tea he's had multiple instances of kidney stones throughout his life.

Nanaya: Nanaya planted/upkept all the flowers around the Manse in that one painting.

unpopular opinion

Midra: Midra did nothing wrong, human hubris aside.

Nanaya: Given how popular Vaati's takes are is (and don't get me wrong I love Vaati's content) I might put "Nanaya is not Shabriri or an extension of the Frenzied Flame at all and she and Midra genuinely loved each other" in this category.

song i associate with them

favorite picture of them

God, any picture of them cuddling/kissing/hugging I AM WEAK

[geographer746]

I like spikes with Joris be it Joris/Goltdart or Joris/Adamai (who ships them besides me??)

BUT I also really like Joris/Lilott

so I imagined what their child

would look like I present to your attention Luka/Lu introduces himself to strangers as Ben (how hard it is to come up with names, ehh help, maybe you have ideas on what to call him))

A little about him:

Huppermag

slightly taller than Atcha, long nose, blue eyes, fair skin and white, I would even say long curly hair (all like my grandfather🤭) Yes, he wears a fur jacket and shorts like his dad

random facts or something

Darndakal wants him to be his guardian when mom is not around, swear through the word

draws on stickers for tags (is that what they call it??, (photo 4))in short, he draws cats, these stickers are on EVERYTHING, be it Joris’s log or a random place in Bonta

sometimes I imagine him as a chibi cat like Mao Mao from The Pharmacist's Monologue wears high-soled shoes to appear taller

I found a tie in Kerubim's trash and drew eyes there

seems very aloof and not talkative but is actually very chatty and friendly

hates Usha🤬🤬🤬

likes to tease Joris about the fact that he is taller and generally cool in magic

I also came up with a fem version of it, but that’s later

I don't know what else to add maybe there will be more posts about him later

and forgive the clumsy translation, it's all Google

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мне нравится шипы с Йорисом

будь то Йорис/Голтдарт или Йорис/Адамай(их кто то кроме меня шипирет??)

НО мне так же очень нравится Йорис/Лилотт

так что я представила как бы выглядел их ребёнок

представляю ваше вниманию Лука/Лу для чужих представляется как Бэн (как тяжело придумывать имена, эхх помогите может у вас есть идеи как назвать его))

Немного про него:

Хуппермаг

чуть выше Атча,длинный нос, голубый глазки, светлая кожа и белый я бы даже сказала длинный вьющийся волосы(весь в деда🤭)

да он ходит в куртке с мехом и в шортах как батя

рандом факты или чо

Дарндакал хочет чтобы он был его хранителем

когда мамы нет рядом мат через слово

рисует на наклейках для тэгов(это так называется?? , (фото 4)) короч рисует котов, эти наклейки есть на ВСЁМ будь то бревно Йориса или рандом место в Бонте

иногда я представляю его как чиби-кота как Мао Мао из Монолога фармоцевта

носит обувь на высокой подошве что бы казаться выше

нашёл в хламе Керубима галстук и нарисовал там глазки

кажется очень отстранёным и не разговорчивым но на само деле очень болтлив и дружелюбный

ненавидит Эша🤬🤬🤬

любит подкалывать Йориса тем что он выше и вообще крут в магии

я так же придумала его  fem-версию но это уже потом

хз чо еще добавить

может потом будет ещё посты про него

и простите корявый перевод, это все Гугл

[morganlefaye79]

First Lines

I was tagged by @fereldan-kestrel, thank you for the tag! 💜💛

I was tagged to share the first line of my last ten published works or as many as I’m able and to see if there are any patterns!

One last time - Cyberpunk 2077 - Kerry Eurodyne/Johnny Silverhand “C’mon already, we’re late!”

What's wrong with me? - Cyberpunk 2077 - Vicco Dorn (oc) - For a pride month event Vicco always did nearly anything for money, he didn’t care what it was, but since he worked as a joytoy he had moments of thoughts that made him wonder.

Someone to stay - Dragon age Inquisition - Alistair Theirin/ Cullen Rutherford - For an exchange Warden-Commander Clarel had ordered Alistair to go to the Korcari Wilds to see if there are still signs of the blight, or more precisely, if it might be that another one is rising. For weeks he stumbled around in the swamp, he must admit, he hadn’t missed it one bit.

Out of the Dark - Cyberpunk 2077 - Valaire Dercks (oc)/ Kerry Eurodyne … I'm running, chasing someone in front of me.

Rumors - Cyberpunk 2077 - Valaire Dercks (oc)/ Kerry Eurodyne “Mr, Eurodyne, is it true that you and your bodyguard are in a relationship?” One of the many reporters bombarded Kerry with questions. Valaire, who is officially his bodyguard, had a hard time to keep everyone at bay.

Only your kiss can make this even better - Cyberpunk 2077 - Valaire Dercks (oc)/ Kerry Eurodyne - For a Valentine's event Kerry had promised to be back for Valentine's day. Valaire had returned to Night City a few days earlier because he had some things that needed his attention.

Forever not yours - Cyberpunk 2077 - Vicco Dorn (oc) A universal truth is, however long ago you move into your home, you will always have a few boxes left that will never be unpacked.

Who am I? - Cyberpunk 2077 - Vicco Dorn (oc)/Joris Dercks (oc) Joris was woken up by the warmth of the sun on his cheek. He kept his eyes closed to cherish this moment.

Conquerer of basil - Cyberpunk 2077 - Nibbles Nibbles is a cat, but not your usual cat. Nibbles is special.

Snow - Cyberpunk 2077 - Vicco Dorn (oc)/Joris Dercks (oc) Vicco was impatient. Joris had told him they would go shopping for a special occasion, and patience had never been one of Vicco’s virtues.

I always try to start my fics in a different way, but I end up mostly with either explaining the setting or with dialogue (when I don't know how to start). I didn't realise that I already had that many Cyberpunk fics tbh. As of patterns, I prefer to write m/m relationships and I can't even explain why. They are far mor appealing to me. For Cyberpunk this was always like this. For Dragon age however I had m/f ships too but also more f/f or m/m ships.

@retrowondergirl | @thedastrash | @charlatron | @a-shakespearean-in-paris | @isk4649 | @charmcity-jess | @lavellanvibes | @amarmeme | @spooky-daggers | @silvanils | @inquisitoracorn | @author-a-holmes | @ghostoffuturespast | @gloryride | @wanderingaldecaldo | @jaymber | @cinnamon-mey and everyone that's want to share their first lines as well. As always no pressure! :)

[jorisjurgen]

do all of them.........................................................................................................................................

OHOHO THANK YOU

the character everyone gets wrong

OH BOYYY DO I HAVE ONE.

Asriel Dreemurr/Flowey the Flower - I don't even know what to say, when I've said it again and again and again for the last 8 years

Here's one of my unhinged rants.

a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

joris jurgen is unfuckable. he is so aromantic he repels people. he tried dating once or twice and then was like ouuugh so this is like spending time avec ma famillie but worse and fucking boring. and then he gave up 3 days into the relationship. i think he went through a comphet phase as a teenage boy but he is so aromantic he was in misery trying to hold a girl's hand.

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

if i speak up i go to jail. undertale fandom in general though...

worst discord server and why

i think all of them are bad. the worst ones i leave immediately, and the others i tolerate until i cannot anymore.

which ship fans are the most annoying?

I no longer do shipping (lying. not lying. lying) after becoming a crepinjurgenite platonic relationships connoisseur. But anyone who harasses people because of ships is annoying to me. Or anyone who demonizes female characters about it.

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Chara undertale. I love them but I hate them.

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Chara and Asriel are not siblings, and neither are Frisk and Asriel.

worst part of canon

the entirety of wakfu and everything else in that franchise that isn't THE HIT FRENCH CARTOON "Dofus : Aux Trésors de Kerubim", featuring the titular characters Kerubim Crepin and Joris Jurgen, which you can watch on Ankama Launcher, sometimes Youtube, Various Free Yet Dubiously Legal Streaming Sites, AND other sites!

worst part of fanon

undertale aus.

number of fandom-related words you've filtered

unspeakable.

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Flowey the Flower AKA Asriel Dreemurr if this is about characters that are actively hated by the fandom (I already spoke about him so this is self explanatory) and Atcham Crepin if this is about characters nobody cares about. My whole blog is an argument to stanning Atcham. don't you love binguses. don't you love batshit insane implications of abuse and bullying.

worst blorboficiation

replied to this one with an essay.

that one thing you see in fics all the time

n/a for the most part but ehh, I think it annoys me when kh fics about roxas and axel don't have xion in them, post kh3. she is their bestie and should be included. also fics that turn flowey into asriel and it makes everything better.

that one thing you see in fanart all the time

n/a. fanart is a gift from outer gods.

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

woobifying characters, villainizing characters, I don't know how people end up taking the opposite away from a character so often. it's not even the same character, by then.

I also don't really get oc/canon and selships, but it's not annoying, just something I literally don't get. But a lot of art with that is pretty, and I dig it, so I hope people have fun.

there should be more of this type of fic/art

flowey/asriel content about his mental health + joris jurgen fics about his mental health and family. I am on my way fellow Flowey Fan Club members, one of these days i WILL finish that one fic that's been sitting on my hard drive for like five years now.

it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

flowisk. flowey x frisk. I had been it's fan for 8 agonizing lonely years and all my mutuals have since deactivated. it's death out here.

my explaination of what i see in it, bc i don't know what to say that i hadn't yet said.

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

IF I SPEAK UP, I WILL GO TO WAKFU FANDOM JAIL.

But people who were in my twitter circles know.

part of canon you found tedious or boring

rewatching wakfu when i could have just rewatched THE HIT FRENCH CARTOON "Dofus : Aux Trésors de Kerubim", featuring the titular characters Kerubim Crepin and Joris Jurgen, which you can watch on Ankama Launcher, sometimes Youtube, Various Free Yet Dubiously Legal Streaming Sites, AND other sites! twice instead.

part of canon you think is overhyped

wakfu because it's not THE HIT FRENCH CARTOON "Dofus : Aux Trésors de Kerubim", featuring the titular characters Kerubim Crepin and Joris Jurgen, which you can watch on Ankama Launcher, sometimes Youtube, Various Free Yet Dubiously Legal Streaming Sites, AND other sites!

your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

THE HIT FRENCH CARTOON "Dofus : Aux Trésors de Kerubim", featuring the titular characters Kerubim Crepin and Joris Jurgen, which you can watch on Ankama Launcher, sometimes Youtube, Various Free Yet Dubiously Legal Streaming Sites, AND other sites!

ship you've unwillingly come around to

i have never come around to a ship before in my life. if i had then i promptly forgot about it.

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

shipping morality discourses.

NEVER quit the grind! you will consume that fiction in such a god honoring way, that you'll go to heaven immediately. fiction is reality makes people commit murders, break vases in search of gold, and raid ancient temples. So we should forbid burn this shit asap.

common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

people asking others to draw or write more of their favorite characters, because the character a person likes is "overrated". This was a big thing in AHIT fandom, where I was, for once, lucky enough to be the fan of the most popular character, lol.

Even if I am a little bitter hater, I square up, and draw or write about my favorite characters myself. I don't think people in fandoms owe it to you to draw your favorite character or ship.

[miss--river]

Ahem Jason stomping around the woods using his big knife to cut flowers 4 u and he comes home so proud of himself.

GODDDD YES!!!! especially after a long work week or just a hard day and just feeling so unappreciated and then here comes this big cutie with a handful of pretty flowers! 😩👌💐

[kerubimcrepin]

Liveblog: Wakfu Season 1 (episodes 13-18)

Episode 13 - Calm Blue Sea

It might be hard to believe now, but when I first watched the show, my favorite character was Nox.

I don't think about him often anymore, but I still really like him. This episode is one of the first ones where we get glimpses at his backstory, which is fun.

(Geez, I'm predictable for liking characters who are over a hundred years old and care a lot about their families...)

Another reason this episode is big is Soft Oak's death. 1. He's a lore character, I suppose, and 2. I like to headcanon that this is the reason Joris went to Sadida Kingdom.

It's just a silly little headcanon but to elaborate (and sadly, go a bit forward in terms of episodes):

Soft Oak was the friend of the tree of life.

2. Nox seems to have been a bigger issue for the world than shown in the series, considering the fact that Yugo says he's ravaged countries/other reasons.

Bonta and Sadida Kingdom seem to be on good terms — so it would be reasonable to assume that if Nox began going after great tree entities of the world, it would pose a threat to Sadida Kingdom. This opens the possibility that Joris was sent there for this reason, at the time of episode 13 or later.

The timing would also be appropriate — Joris arrives in Sadida Kingdom just a bit before the Brotherhood of Tofu. Though we do not know the route he took.

Chopsticks spotted...! At this point, I'm beginning to believe they're just very common in this world, and as widely used as forks and spoons.

Episode 14 - Moon Island

[guy who is mentally ill about fishing in this franchise voice] guys imagine Kerubim, Atcham, and Joris on a ship. Competing against one another in fishing.

I really like knowing all the various superstitions in this world because, y'know, Ecaflips love those doubly.

My honest reaction to this moment, as well as all moments involving the night sky and cosmos, in this franchise:

[guy who talked too much about this fucking fruit in previous liveblogs and is now obligated by law to mention it voice] This piece of dialogue tells us that this fruit is actually kinda on the expensive side.

Your daily reminder that Joris has canonically been to Kanniball island and the only things he had to say are "nice locals. don't stay for dinner."

Episode 15 - Adamai

Do you think Adamai's bond with a crackler makes him more or less likely to fucking hate Joris in Waven times.

Rare "Eva Taking an L" moment. A real "You still believe the earth revolves around the sun at your age?" sort of line for her to say.

Episode 16 - The Eliacube

Adamai forgot to account for old man stupidity.

Even though I have issues with how his arc of descent into batshit insanity and subsequent redemption were handled, I do want to say that I have always thought that this + Grougal's death was when the darkness began to grow within him.

Episode 17 - Grougaloragran the Eternal

No commentary. This is a legendary episode.

Episode 18 - The Brotherhood of the Tofu

Please don't throw rocks at me, but I'm not the biggest fan of how Pinpin and Eva's relationship was handled. They're cute together, but the decision to give them drama the second their relationship became canon was a bit... jarring, on the first viewing.

[teamnick]

One of the funniest things about all of this is joris comment on the post also tagging Ilies. Maybe we can think about a f1 side ship named jolies 🤭

Anon...I'm a firm believer of ship and let ship, but also...jolies is a no from me.

I'm sorry, its all ilies' fault, but when he's looking at pierre like a happy puppy 24/7, I cant and wont ship him with anyone else. 😌

[sophia-sol]

2022 yuletide rec time!!!

For yuletide this year my author did the SWEETEST thing and got their hands on a copy of the out of print children's book I've been wanting fic for for.....decades possibly, and I finally got my fic about Beth! now I just want more fic about Beth lol.

Anyway I have finished going through the entire yuletide archive, reading every single fic that caught my attention! AWW YEAH I continue to win at Completing Yuletide. As always I'm sure there are fics I might have loved that I accidentally missed, but I am proud of my accomplishments nonetheless. And now, before the anon period is over, my recs of the 10 fics I liked the best, in 10 different fandoms!

you could cut ties with all the lies (that you've been living in) Nirvana in Fire, Lin Chen/Xiao Jingyan

The one where Lin Chen goes to the capital under the name Mei Changsu to enact MCS's plans on his behalf, so tht MCS could rest and recuperate! Genius premise, enacted with perfection, and it's also 26k long and yet I spent basically the ENTIRE THING screaming silently to myself in my head because everything was so incredible and perfect and delightful. Holy shit.

my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more Hench/Ask a Manager crossover, Alison Green

Once upon a time I spent a LOT of time following the Ask A Manager blog closely, and this fic is a PERFECT pastiche of the style, with spot-on advice, in a hypothetical post themed on questions from henches working for supervillains. Incredible!

The Soul Selects Her Own Society Jane Eyre, Jane & Helen

In which Helen's spirit continues to follow Jane and protect her, after Helen's death. And Bertha can see ghosts! I loved it.

bury me as it pleases you Hamlet, Hamlet/Horatio

A short look at Horation's pov. The prose and use of language and wit felt just right, and Horatio's adoration too!

Paris, in some unknown region of space Petit-Cénacle RPF/Star Trek crossover, Théophile Gautier/James Kirk

It's the one that ships Gautier with Kirk, and like, does its VERY best with that premise. The sheer French Romanticism of it all! Gautier is so unphased by everything, and is just here to be delighted by it all! What a brilliant thing to exist in this world. No idea how this would read to someone who doesn't know about Gautier and French Romanticism, but one of my mutuals on tumblr loves Gautier so I am part of the correct audience :D

The Scarlet Cloak The Eagle of the Ninth, Cottia/Esca/Marcus

Post-canon, and ahhhhh and the complexities of the relationships between the three of them as they navigate making a household together despite the huge gaps in their understandings of each other is SO good!!!!

Heuristic Analysis The Murderbot Diaries, Three

It's about Three working hard to figure out how to make decisions as an independent person, and what it wants, and doing a great job of it! and I love the ending! What a good.

Addendum Homeward Bounders, Vanessa Macready & Joris & Helen Haras-Uquara (& Jamie by absence)

Three letters to Jamie left on various worlds by his friends for him to come across. Each letter has the PERFECT voice for the character in question, and each world is also a stealth crossover (I knew two of the three and they were amazing, but you don't need to know the crossovers to appreciate the fic!). And I love the implications towards trying to find a fixit for Jamie as well!

Time Enough Vorkosigan Saga (Ethan of Athos), Cee/Ethan

A lengthy and in-depth look at what it's like to live on Athos, and the depth of cultural knowledge you need to know when moving there from galactic space, as Cee and Ethan work out their relationship with each other. I loved the worldbuilding and I loved the growing trust and intimacy between the two of them and the very understandable issues that they need to learn to talk about!

The Rose Realizes she is an Instrument of War Arm Joe/Les Miserables, Cosette/Marius

An absolutely incredible mashup of the conceit of the fighting game Arm Joe with the story of Les Mis, it's perfectly integrated in a wonderfully Hugolian way, the worldbuilding is AMAZING and I love Cosette and her experiments with her power. A perfect fic????

(and two runners-up, because if the Lin Chen fic hadn't existed, there are TWO other NiF fics that could have made the cut for top 10: wish we could turn back time ft lin shu/mei changsu in a possibly-a-dream, possibly-time-travel scenario, and From Moth Back Into Caterpillar, ft mei changsu becoming an amnesiac lin shu for a day.)

[skrunklybf-archived]

Rory tell me about your self ships

oh lordt i'm just gonna pick a few bc i'm a sloot and i have like 34 fictional s/o's

jory <3 me & jean k on that friends to lovers shit hardcore. my favorite trope for my favorite boy 😩 he's my househusband bc i can't cook for shit and he loves feeling useful by making me breakfast every morning 🥹

MAMMORY bc it's honestly the best ship name i've ever been a part of but also mammon is such a wet kitten i can't help myself. the chase was real bc he likes to pretend he ain't a massive fucking simp even tho we all know the truth

& finally i'm settling on ruuji bc yuuji is such a puppy dog boy i literally cannot stop smiling around him. big goof energy. grips my depression by the throat & moonwalks away with it just to make me smile 🥹

[true-blue-sonic]

At the Efteling today and now i'm thinking about what sonic characters would do if they went here and i need to hear your thoughts

(For non dutchies the Efteling is like disneyland but dutch folklore themed and probably every single dutch person has been here at least once)

Bc i know for SURE that if sonic and knuckles were here at the same time they would discover joris en de draak - a huge wooden rollercoaster with a blue cart and a red cart that race to the finish - and they would do nothing else the entire day than riding this roller coaster in the carts of their respective colors counting the scores of who won the most times

Team chaotix goes to the theme park for an investigation or something but charmy gets them kicked out for trying to eat the hanzel and gretzel house

Hmmm what would silver (or any other characters) do here

Oeh, the Efteling! I can confirm that at least I have been there once in my life, haha. I hope you had a nice day there, anon!🍀

Considering how high-speed the Sonic cast is, I think the rollercoasters have their attention most, haha. At least, I doubt any of them are afraid of high speeds, twists and turns, sudden drops, etcetera! I can see Cream and Charmy have fun in the playgrounds for the smaller children as well, and everyone also gets dragged into the haunted/cursed house. Lmao, I can imagine Espio is the one who can quite accurately predict when scary things will occur and by what mechanism (Vector can too but he doesn't want to ruin it for the children, also because I can imagine he likes it when Charmy gets spooked lol), so anyone who is frightened just needs to go to him to get their nerves calmed. But what kinda attraction Silver would like, I can't really say. I doubt he'll be too impressed by all the high-speed attractions or the ones where there's a lot of movement, like the wild water course or the swinging ship. But for him, perhaps the vibes and the colours of everything is more important? I think he'll have a lot of fun if he can spend that time with his friends!

[letterstojori]

7.3

Dear Jori,

I’m in Portland rn visiting my brother. His son is so adorable and lively. Last time I saw him he was a grouch but apparently it was cause he was sick.

I’m recovering from Saturday. I went to Rattleship, it was a rave on a fricken battle cruiser lol. Amy was there and apparently Jwang was supposed to be there too but I guess we’ll never know. I didn’t even get a chance to look cause I ended up blacking out. I was feeling myself cause the Rocketship company event and Tiffany’s birthday I had a pretty good time drinking so I thought okay it’s a long event I’ll drink first and drop later. But yeah ended up too hot don’t remember much AND I lost my favorite tank :(

Saw Bchow from Davis and Curtis from Davis also. And met up with Amy for a bit. And Francois mostly took care of me. I remember low key making some friends in line and then seeing them in the ship. The boy was kinda cute haha.

How was AX? Weren’t you supposed to stream the other day? I’ve stopped checking your twitter and you streams. But I still see your name pop up on the side. Yknow it’s kinda funny, before you I used to say I was a pretty big Soju fan but I never went on twitch. I was just a YouTube frog. And now I have all the streamers to watch and they’re up all the time as background noise. Which made me think, what made you want to get into streaming? Was there someone you really liked? That inspired you to start? And it also would explain why you always had twitch open, since it was something you really liked.

It’s about one month to leaving now. I’m excited. It really is about to be a whole new chapter / adventure. I wish I could talk to you about it. Well I guess I am. But it gets a little lonely talking to someone that doesn’t talk back.

Oh I’ve been climbing in TFT too. I’ve made jt to GM and lost all the LP and then made it back to GM. I was in a game with Toast and Hafu and I said “Omg Hafu and Toast in the same lobby my knees are buckling” to which Toast said “silence you nobody”.

What I should’ve said was “the ‘it takes two’ dynamic duo at it again playing TFT” or something haha.

I still miss you.

-bearbear