#and perhaps... it could also be YOU!

[seeyouonsaturn]

WHOC TIME

Whoc hours because they won't leave my brain (also Whoc is the official ship name now, congrats. Silly word.) Nobody asked for this but I do not care. I am throwing this at you. Flinging it, even. Oh was I supposed to reblog the ask game and hope someone takes pity on me? Nah bro, here's the Entire Thing.

Havoc my darling can be found here. She's shipped with Whirl, after approximately 5 million years of slow burn because, well, it's Whirl. Honestly in his terms that went pretty fast. We love an utter disaster of a romance. They're everything to me. RIP you idiots.

ask game

1. Who would ask “would you still love me if I was a worm?” and how would the other(s) respond?

I could see Whirl asking. He heard it somewhere and he never misses a chance to fuck with people. Havoc just sort of stares at him with an unreadable expression for a moment, processing what the fuck he just asked her, then responds with a deadpan "It'd be an improvement". He loses it.

2. Who comes up with the best date night ideas?

It ain't me that's for sure

I'd say it really depends on your definition of best. Havoc likes a romantic and intimate atmosphere, Whirl prefers to do something that involves action, and none of that mushy stuff. Most of the time, he wins out (Havoc is happy enough to go along with his plans as long as they aren't too wacky, and she knows he's not that comfortable with intimacy). But on some rare occasions he'll go out of his way to plan something romantic for her. Don't ever tell anyone about it though, he'll deny everything.

3. Who’s better at carnival games?

We all know it's Whirl. He fucking slays at the shooter games especially (and Havoc gets a giant teddy bear as a prize).

Havoc is banned from Whack-A-Mole because she whacked too hard and broke the board (but she did technically hit the mole. Whirl got into a fight with the owner about denying her her rightful prize). But you know that game with the hammer where you gotta hit it as hard as you can to ring a bell on top of the pole? Whirl saw it and YANKED Havoc over there. She broke that too. Whirl also got a giant teddy bear. He gave his a makeover. But he also kept it, which seems like a good sign.

4. Who drags the other(s) onto a rollercoaster?

Definitely Whirl dragging Havoc. He's so used to wacky flight maneuvers that a rollercoaster is nothing to him. Meanwhile Havoc is not having fun. She's not made for speed. Why would you make her do this. Why did she agree to this.

5. Who does the most chores?

Havoc. Rip. It's not that Whirl does nothing, but Havoc's spent long enough as a medic to be a bit particular about organization and cleanliness, while Whirl honestly doesn't really give a fuck. So if she wants their habsuite to be in some sort of order, it's on her to upkeep it. She does make Whirl patch up the holes he puts in the wall though. After patching up the holes he put in himself in the process.

6. Who gets drunk the quickest?

Despite her size, Havoc's actually quite the lightweight, mainly because she just hardly ever drinks. She's not against it or anything, but she's constantly on-call in case there's a medical emergency, so it's very rare for her to let herself get intoxicated. She needs to be able to drop whatever she's doing and perform emergency surgery at any point. There are no vacation days.

7. Who watches the most reality tv?

They both do this for date night. Just put on whatever dumb shit they can find and then spend the whole evening dunking on it.

Havoc at some point gets really into human medical drama series and comes out with a very skewed impression of human medicine.

8. Who insists their way is better even though it’s objectively the worst way?

Probably Whirl, considering his problem solving methods usually involve multiple guns. Have you ever considered rational thought? He has not, and he is offended by the very notion. Havoc is so tired.

9. Who believes in ghosts?

Unironically? Neither, at least not the funny spooky kind. Whirl might get into it for the bit (and Havoc might support him for the bit if they're messing with someone else).

The spirits of their countless fallen comrades haunting all those that still live? Yeah, that feels like a thing, but it's, like, normal at this point. You learn to live with it. Don't worry about it.

10. Who texts the most memes to the other(s)?

Do I even have to say Whirl. The moment he realizes the possibility, he'll start communicating exclusively through memes. After being on the receiving end of this for far too long, Havoc in turn is now aware of every meme known to man and mech. And she does know how to use them, though she uses this knowledge so seldom, no one ever sees it coming until she drops one in the group chat and everyone goes wild. Whirl is so proud.

11. Who makes the most typos/autocorrect mistakes?

Both. Havoc needs to keep autocorrect on because her fat fingers make it difficult to hit the right keys on the tiny keyboard, and she usually pays attention but sometimes things slip by.

Whirl meanwhile can't type for shit with his claws but he also gives zero fucks about it. He would NOT bother with autocorrect. You get what you get. Good luck deciphering that shit.

But if Havoc sends one word wrong, she will never hear the end of it.

It's probably easier for both of them to just give each other a call instead.

12. Who’s a more nervous flyer?

Definitely Havoc. Whirl's an aerial bot, he's obviously made for all that, but Havoc's a whole tank. Do not put her in the air. Big ships like the Lost Light are obviously fine, but dear Primus do not lift her up or anything crazy like that. She does not like heights.

13. If they have matching pfps, are they cute, funny, weird, etc?

Oh you know Whirl would do the silliest fucking thing he could think of. I can't even give you an example because he's funnier than me. Havoc humors him, and is kind of touched he wants to match with her even if it's for a joke (but she's not doing anything obscene, please, this is a professional account).

14. Who’s better at writing professional emails?

Surprisingly, Whirl. If he bothers to sit down for it and do it properly at least. Which he usually doesn't. Havoc's never been that great with wording stuff, and though she's gotten a lot better over the past couple of million years (a good few million years of practice do make a difference) she still prefers to have someone proofread her writing. Preferably someone like Ratchet though. Whirl might edit it to make it worse on purpose.

15. Who steals the other(s)’ food?

Whirl just straight up sticks his face in there and vaccuums it up before Havoc can stop him. If she holds him back at the shoulder he'll manage to elongate his neck somehow. He's worse than a cat. Menace.

16. Who’s more willing to commit murder for the other(s)?

Whirl's always down to commit murder, it's hardly even special. Sure, he'd commit murder for Havoc, but he'd commit murder for a corn chip. Literally just "I'd kill for you. Please ask me to kill for you." / "No, Whirl."

Havoc would kill for him too if she had to, but only as a very last resort. She hates killing so much. She has centuries of trauma. But if it was that or losing Whirl, she wouldn't hesitate. She does still have the old instincts, however buried they may be.

17. Their child is chanting “McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!”, who says they have food at home, joins the chant, or buys a single black coffee and leaves?

Whirl is chanting. You know Whirl is chanting. There isn't even a child present. Havoc is the one who insists they have food at home.

If there's other guys with them, Whirl could also be the one who gets a black coffee and leaves, though he might also get himself a Happy Meal. And not share it. He just wanted the toy, and maybe some nuggies. Havoc can have one(1) nugget, because she's special.

Not if it's Sparky wanting McDonald's though. Sparky would get her McDonald's. Hell, Whirl would get her a whole guy if that's what she wanted to eat. "Whirl. Put down the gun. We have food at home."

18. Who uses more slang?

Whirl uses the worst slang terms he picks up from god knows where specifically to piss people off. Tell me Whirl wouldn't say skibidi rizz if he knew what that meant. Or even if he didn't. Look me in the eyes and tell me he wouldn't.

Havoc has no idea what the fuck he's talking about but she just sort of goes with it.

19. Who uses emoticons?

Havoc somehow gives me the distinct vibe that she'd use emojis like an old lady. Probably has the fucker saved in her phone as "Whirl 🚁".

Whirl just spams them indiscriminately and with abandon. It's like hieroglyphics.

20. Who would absolutely slay at the met gala?

No idea what either of them would be doing there, and honestly I think Havoc makes a bit more sense for this... but my heart says Whirl (probably the other kind of slay though).

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Out of sight, out of - wait.

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[nidbaesenpai]

Paper flowers seem beyond you now but you can always go back to the basics, paper cranes are easy enough...

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about not only the specific people lucanis pulls in to represent the 'locks' in his psyche, but the storytelling that happens in the structure/order of them. the underlying ideas are presented something like:

the lucanis who went into the ossuary never came back out again; he died down there (the boy caterina raised is gone forever) -> you're putting yourself in danger doing this (by being close to me), you should leave because I can't bear it if you get hurt because of me -> it doesn't matter even if we do try this, it won't work anyway (again because of me) ('you know what he's like, you can open the door but he won't walk through it' :'( oofie doofie) -> what if the real secret is that there was never anything but the monster in here from the beginning. you should leave, there was never anything here worth saving in the first place. (implicitly: what if I deserved what happened, all along.)

it runs pretty cleanly from outward-oriented attachment anxiety ('caterina won't even want me back like this, she won't recognize me (the same way I no longer recognize myself)) and gradually deeper inwards until we reach self-image and self worth. or you know, the harrowing basic lack of it lol.

"careful -- they'll know we're not right," spite says in one of their first scenes... but clearly, some very deep part of lucanis has feared or suspected for much longer than that that there's something inherently not right at the core of him, way before any demon entered the picture. and the voice he gives those lines to is the person who should know him better than anyone in the world, who he has loved more than anyone in the world -- and who deliberately chose to hurt him so horrifically anyway. 'It's better if I'm just a monster and deserved what happened than it is to allow for the idea that the brother I love doesn't really exist and maybe never did'. it's better if he's fundamentally flawed in some way that needed fixing to help him survive, and that's why caterina chose to hurt him again and again -- out of love. (this one I think he might have a very sad wakeup call on one day if he ever ends up with the responsibility and care of a child of his own in some way and realizes just how alien the idea of ever intentionally hurting them for any reason is to him. oh buddy. also interesting that he keeps caterina as the outermost lock -- there IS a distance he keeps there that he hasn't with illario. he doesn't resent her 'anymore' he says, but he also keeps her carefully further away from his deepest self.)

as far as I could tell the only note in the mind prison that's fully hidden and needs to be uncovered is the sad painful helpless stupid little truth that even after all this, even knowing what happened... he still loves his brother. is there anything illario could ever do that would make lucanis completely stop loving him, do you think? sometimes the trouble with unconditional love is that it is, well. unconditional, even when some terms and conditions probably would have been in order haha.

that's the pattern you see there again and again; he would rather destroy and abandon and imprison himself at every turn than let go of love, even when it's just scraps, even when there's only ever enough of it to hurt him. it's only when rook shows up and as it were takes his hand and walks along with him that he can entertain the idea of changing the story of what walking out the door might mean in the end.

[weaselytedious]

New TGAA headcanon: Ryunosuke was actually a victim of multiple assassination attempts for leaking all those government secrets, but he never even noticed because they were carried out via poison and he has the Naruhodo Immortality Gene (shared with Phoenix)

[the-bitter-ocean]

Hi isat fandom. Points at the sign.

[egophiliac]

he's coming

I'M NOT READY

[limeartichoke]

if you're wondering yes this does in fact happen AFTER tim punches skully in the jaw after introducing themselves with brian's face

unedited under cut!

[northstarscowboyhat]

Day 1: Missing Poster / Favourite Character

Day 1 for the UTYversary! Drew this guy, I guess he's cool.

[liorlen]

something long dead

[tatangadragon]

benny gecko is a mexican man made to larp as a pre-war gringo by mr house and frankly i think thats fucked.send post

[aroaceleovaldez]

I was reading a post about CoTG and I realized: Rick has seemingly started to write every character pairing with the exact same dynamic, and he's not good at writing that dynamic and it doesn't make sense for 90% of the characters he writes it for.

It's that very specific dynamic of one half of the pair who is almost aggressive to the other party - "teasing" them constantly/insulting them, affectionately punching/judo flipping/maiming/etc, seemingly almost always exasperated with the other - and said other party usually just accepts this treatment or blanketly views it fondly, and may generally be framed as more incompetent than their partner and a little bit of a doormat (particularly relating to being insulted/teased/etc by their partner).

We start seeing this dynamic in HoO with Percy and Annabeth, as a sort of semi-inconsistent twist on their rivals-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic from the first series. Then the dynamic pattern develops further with Leo and Calypso. Then Magnus and Alex. Then Nico and Will, particularly in TSATS. And now in CoTG, it's Percy and Annabeth again but even more in this direction.

I know people have talked about Nico and Will's relationship over the series rapidly being shoehorned into Percabeth Two™, and it's extremely apparent in TSATS that Rick's doing it on purpose (including directly quoting Percabeth scenes but minorly tweaking them to be Solangelo). But recognizing it as an overarching trend in Rick's later books honestly reminds me a lot of how Rick started trying to apply the "Percy Formula" so-to-speak to nearly every protagonist in HoO (and then try to replicate similar character archetypes with Magnus and Apollo's narrations - moreso Magnus in being jaded and sarcastic, very much trying to be first series Percy. He only sounds unique because Rick failed at making him Percy 2. Apollo is more akin to later-series Percy characterization of being goofy and incompetent. Apollo [and Zeus] even got retconned to give Apollo a more similar backstory to Percy's). Rick seems to have decided that he thinks the audience wants this specific dynamic but 10 times over, except he's not good at writing it the first time because it's a bastardization of the time he did a different thing okay.

And Rick also seems aware of that too! Because he retconned Calypso and Leo at the end of TOA, probably because he realized how absolutely awful it was reading when they were written with that dynamic of Calypso just functionally hating Leo and constantly being aggressive towards him! The only time Rick's actually made the dynamic even semi-successful was with Magnus and Alex, because it actually fits within their characters, their dynamics with each other, and their environment. Alex beheading Magnus on the regular works out fine because there are no repercussions to that in Valhalla, Magnus will be fine, so it does genuinely come off as humorous. And Alex has been effectively established to be abrasive at times but have her genuine feelings shine through regularly, and that meshes well with Magnus' jaded-and-aloof-but-quietly-very-empathetic character. And Magnus has been established to, yes, not be great at combat, particularly compared to Alex. They are the only time that flavor of dynamic in that form was effective and cohesive.

Percabeth is no longer rivals-to-friends-to-lovers badasses on equal levels with shaky pasts who finally found some form of permanence with one another. Now it's super smart doting and affectionately aggressive girlfriend and her silly goofy 50%-of-the-time incompetent boyfriend who she judo flips/pushes off cliffs/etc - but affectionately~! Solangelo is trying to riff off of the early series "Poseidon & Athena are enemies" dynamic that Percabeth had but with Apollo & Hades being "opposites" but learning to accept each other, except it ends up with Will just coming off as a huge asshole and Nico being retconned to a complete doormat about it - when prior to that those characterizations would be completely contrary to their established characters (even just from TOA!). Calypso in HoO gets retconned from her PJO characterization to being snooty and aggressive, and Leo's false persona gets merged into his just normal personality except he just also becomes a doormat but more goofy than Nico with occasional haha-dark/depression-humor! Which Nico also got. Which was also a bastardized Percy trait that got redistributed.

It's exhausting. Rick write more than one relationship dynamic you can do it I promise

[ganondoodle]

so, i read your comments and really liked the idea of the glowing mane only when hes attacking- though i have changed it to only be when hes using magic instead, especially longer charging and large range ones, plus i added the details (though the attack examples are still missing)

however .. i still cant decide on which side i like which color best .. (meaning darker upper half and pink on the underside and vice versa)

heres both examples, with dark braids and with glowing ones, of darker on top and red on the underside (version 1)

here it is with red on top and darker on the underside (version 2)

(botw2 project, aka totk rewritten, beast form ganondorf/ganon concepts)

[nattikay]

[the-king-of-lemons]

I know a lot of people on qsmpblr use Tumblr mobile, but if you do use browser Tumblr then I would recommend the Simple Translate extension. Because Tumblr doesn't have built in translation like Twitter, there's less fans posting in their native language, instead most people just use English.

Simple Translate is an extension that allows you to translate text that you highlight into a target language. (It uses Google Translate API, but so does Twitter so the translation quality is pretty much the same).

Firefox Extension | Chrome Extension

When you highlight text in another language, a translate icon appears, when you click on it a panel containing the translation of the text appears.

You can also change the settings of the extension so that the translation panel automatically appears when you highlight text in another language.

Here's some more examples using the official QSMP Twitter accounts, you do not need to change the settings of the extension to translate from different languages into your target language.

(All of these match the translations given when using the "translate bio" button on Twitter directly.)

You can also access a translation box using the icon in the toolbar, any text you enter can be translated to the language selected in the drop-down menu (meaning you don't need to open a new tab to use Google Translate).

Some settings explanation and other stuff under the cut. Not super important but I figured I'd add it anyways.

There is an option to use DeepL API as opposed to Google Translate (it's another translation tool, there is free access to the API with a limit of 500,000 characters/month, and a pro version for unlimited access).

Whatever the target language is set as is what text you highlight will be translated into. There is another option for a second target language, I'll explain that further down.

This option changes how you view the translation panel, the first option (default) has the icon appear when you highlight text (as seen in the first image of the post), the second option has the translation panel appear automatically when you highlight text, and the for third option the panel and icon won't automatically appear, but can still be accessed by right-clicking the highlighted text and selecting "translate selected text".

The checkbox below these options means that if the text you're highlighting is already in your target language, the translation icon and panel will not appear, it can again still be accessed by right-clicking what you've highlighted and selecting translate.

This option appears twice, in both the Web-page section (for translating selected text) and the Toolbar Popup section (for the translation box in the toolbar popup).

The web page option, when toggled on, means that when you select text that is in your target language, the translation panel will translate into the second target language that has been selected. If the checkbox for "do not display if translation is not required" is toggled on, you can only view the translation from Target -> 2nd Target by right-clicking to translate selected text.

The toolbar popup version of this option is used to automatically switch the language in the toolbar translation box when you input something in your main target. (ie. second target set to French means that when you input English text in the translation box it will switch the translation setting from "(detect language) -> English" to "English -> French").

There are also settings to change the style and size of the translation button and panel.

Side note: Mixed language messages (not containing your target language) will only translate one of the languages, you can work around this by highlighting the different languages separately.

Links again if you don't want to scroll all the way back up

Firefox Extension | Chrome Extension

[claraoswalds]

It's racist, my dear, to be blunt. People come from outside, they think we're all witches and druids. For God's sake, child, you walked into a piece of string!