#and less importantly:

[altho-arto]

ADVISORS! plural !! Oooh Kabru is definitely staying in the kingdom with the toudens and marcille im 99.9999% sure of it now that chapter 97 is out

I want a hundred chapters of the post-canon silly Kabru&Marcille sitcom "we are trying to rule this kingdom but SOMEONE is not helping" Kingdom shenanigans 💚 (the someone is usually Laios. the older races' diplomats and ex-shadow governors are not helping tho)

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[he-said-irene]

Thinking about all the things people say Moby Dick is about and the time I went to a poetry reading at my library and an older man read an (appropriately really long) poem about marathon reading Moby Dick in like 2 days in college for an assignment. It was really neat because he drew a lot of connections to things that never would have occurred to me to say that Moby Dick was “about” - the Vietnam war, civil rights, other things that happened to his friends or himself that were completely foreign experiences to me, but my immediate thought was “This guy GETS it.” Because Moby Dick is, first and foremost, about whatever happens to be going on in your life at the time when you read it. After that it’s about grief.

[furfurfrou]

I've been thinking about how emmet seems to be more invested in physical appearance than Ingo. Maybe even fashion-conscious, but in a way that makes him the most presentable rather than following what's trendy.

Not at all implying that Ingo doesn't take care of his appearance, but Ingo wasn't even aware that he can't smile, while Emmet likes to talk about his uniform, what it means to him, and the impression he wants to give off.

I've also been thinking about how the very first responsibility emmet lists off with his uniform is "looking cool"

[blitheringmcgonagall]

Canon James Potter on hearing his name is linked to two ships in ao3’s top 20 ships for 2023 (no 8 and no 18):

Canon James Potter on hearing the most popular of the two is him & Sirius’ Deater baby brother Reggie:

[youcallyourselfafilmcritic]

Would die for Jamie to come back to Who while Frazer Hines is still alive and active and it'd work gangbusters as the current Doctor is Scottish. We've seen him in kilts and all!

Obviously that'd work for Capaldi but that ship has sailed

[chirpsythismorning]

“Mike said his life started the day he found El in the woods, which was technically the following night. What he said had nothing to do with offending Will because he went missing the day before.”

[jianghushenanigans]

SVSSS according to things I've picked up from my tumblr dashboard

some guy wrote a webnovel. his name is cucumber

some guy hates on this webnovel. his name is airplane

these guys get shipped as cumplane in the anglo fandom and i think that's the best thing about it honestly

airplane dies because he's a recluse and/or maybe gets electrocuted by his computer? uncertain. anyway he dies

except he's not dead he's in the body of the titular scum villain from the book

there's a 'system' because its a transmigration novel

said villain is the shizun of the main character and the main character is a shizunfucker

does this mean the shizun is evil because he will not fuck? uncertain

they're the main ship as far as i know so presumably airplane stops his character from becoming evil because he lets the main character hit it

he also gives tampons to the only female character i've seen even referred to in the show but i think that's an advert not canon

maybe the female character was also invented for the advert because i've literally never seen her referenced anywhere else

i should have expected this mxtx wrote it

the author of the novel is also magically in the book somehow. presumably he also died

author guy is in the body of a guy who is maybe a hamster and also a secretary? or something. anyway he also gets a boyfriend who is i think the main characters dad or something

as far as plot goes. i'm not convinced there is one. there's fucking

i assume something does happen and it all ends nice and fuckingly ever after the end

also the novel main character is canonically the top and the guy who hates the novel is the bottom this is important for reasons unknown but it is specified

[four-bastard-bustle]

Gee Zelda...

[peri]

I HAVE ACCESS TO MY MEGA PERIDOT FOLDERS AGAIN

[trekkele]

Hello! I've read your Steph and Bruce story piece about them being similar, which lead me to thinking: what do you think of a Batman story of Stephanie being Bruce's first partner instead of Dick, like in The Batman 2004 where they had Barbara be Bruce's first sidekick instead? Well, more like not-quite sidekick because Bruce sure as hell won't approve of a kid putting herself in danger and I'm sure Stephanie does not appreciate being ordered around by any kind of authority figure after her father, but B sure as hell isn't going to let this kid die in the streets seeing that she sure won't be stopping anytime soon, and Stephanie in her first year as Spoiler could use some help to keep her from kicking the bucket too soon. How would YOU write such team-up and reluctant collaboration, their relationship progressing forward, hopefully positively? And writing in Dick and Barbara afterwards, if you don't mind?

Have a good week come to you, eat vegetables and drink water daily.

Oh this is a great great concept because Steph and Dick (and Bruce) do come to vigilantism in a very similar way!! They both decided on their own, they both has their own “costume”, their goals, their motivations for being heroes outside of being heroes, they both keep coming back even when Bruce sends them home!! Steph suffers from the double hammer of Bruce being post DitF and 90s editorial misogyny, so positioning her as the first would be fantastic for her and Bruces relationship, actually.

I imagine it would play out a lot like Babs Batgirl. Babs was, originally, a college(?) student, or at the very least over 16 when she first started, so a lot of the “fuck you you cant tell me what to do” was literal. She also had a living parent and no supervillain parent, which, from my understanding, is why Bruce didnt really get her motivation- he understands she wants to help obviously but she still has people who would miss her if she dies. Contrast that with Stephs living parent (fuck you you cant tell me what to do) and her supervillain parent (clear cut motivation, and, crucial for “the first”, an end point. Bruce assumes putting cluemaster away will get Steph to stop, similar to Zucco. He agrees to help her assuming its a short term thing) and I think Spoiler would have an even better reception then Batgirl.

I think they would work well together. I think Steph would be a lot less impressed with Bruce then Dick was, simply because Dick grew up with heroes in his parents, while Steph is a lot less likely to just assume an adult really does mean her benefit. (Yes Dick would have/had trust issues. Him having a stable home life made those issues a symptom not systemic). I think she’d also be less likely to push back in certain ways because of that lack of trust - Bruce would have to work a lot harder and longer to prove he really is different, and i think a year 2 Bruce would actually be perfect for it.

I think he would push for her to tell Crystal a lot more in this situation. I think hed be a lot more likely to get involved in Stephs home life too. It would be interesting to see if he would try and get Steph placed with him (no. Definitely not. Eligible bachelor fosters young boy is one headline, Eligible Bachelor fosters teenage girl is a completely separate headline) or with someone he trusts. Like Jim. Steph and Babs as sisters but Steph is the big sister?!?!

Steph i think ends up a lot more confident a lot faster. She has always known what she is capable of and i dont think she relies on Bruce to validate her but in canon she does appreciate and want that validation. Which makes sense, her Batman is a legend! This Batman is still just a guy when you peel the layers back. Theres no one for him to pass her off too, theres no one to point to and say “do you want a grave?” Theres nothing stopping Bruce from encouraging her the way he canonically encouraged Dick in the early years. I think Bruce looked at his mistakes and took “damning with faint praise” very literally, but this Steph wouldn’t deal with that.

I think they would work really well together.

And assuming the time line only shifts a little, Dick arriving lets say 2 years in? 10-12 year old Dick and 16-18 year old Stephanie and 18-20 year old Babs???? Gotham will not survive and neither will Bruce lmao

[bisamwilson]

Okay, fun SamBucky ask game!! Send this to five other people to keep it going ✨ Say one of your favorite things about SamBucky, your favorite SamBucky headcanon, or write a tiny microfic. Have a wonderful day!! ���

Sam is proud to say he doesn’t flinch when he comes home to find the Winter Soldier on his couch.

The lights are off, the sun’s gone down, and Sam probably would’ve missed him if he hadn’t noticed his barbecue sauce missing from the top of the fridge of all things.

He should probably ask why the world’s deadliest assassin is sitting cross-legged on his couch, his hair tied back in a low bun and wearing one of Sam’s henleys and a pair of his old army sweats in a way that tells him he’s probably been staying here for a few days while Sam had been out searching the world for him with Steve. Instead he asks, “Did you use all my barbecue sauce? It’s polite to replace things you use if you’re gonna stay at someone’s house, you know?”

The Soldier looks up at him and shakes his head, wrinkles his nose, and Sam thinks maybe he should start calling him Bucky in his own head. “I put it in the fridge. It goes bad when you leave it out like that once it’s open.”

Sam blows a puff of air out of his nose, amused but not willing to laugh just yet. “Are you my roommate now? Any other habits you don’t care for?”

Bucky shakes his head again, just slightly enough for Sam to barely catch it in the dark. “You have a comfortable couch.”

Sam sighs and goes to the hall closet to get him a blanket. He wonders if being the retired fist of HYDRA makes enough to split rent 50/50.

[janamensch]

Knight Xantheus!!! Very gold!! His armor is strengthened by magic runes and is therefore more sturdy than it looks.

[siflooping]

oh fukkkkkk i need to make sure the outfits i have sifloop wear in my crimson peak au are period accurate or ill be fucking killed. BADLY!

[averlym]

" just...come here. just sit here with me" (...that one scene from princess momonoke, click for better resolution)