#and that only by their good work on tumblr.com will we be saved

[kindsokind]

Why do people waste the most precious thing they own -- the time left on Earth -- to post about a character they don't like, explain why he's bad, and how the rest of fandom don't truly "get" the character if they make him their blorbo?

Like I'm talking making screen grabs and gifs to tell their followers, without any irony, that a character who murders is not good at all

They don't seem to be having a good time... So, like, why? lol

[666writingcafe]

666WritingCafe's Fall 2024 Menu (NSFW)

I was looking through the stuff I had saved in my drafts, found two prompt lists by the users listed below, and decided to try something new(ish).

So, you know how a lot of retail stores usually have most (if not all) of their fall/Halloween items by the end of August? It may not be out on the floor yet, but it's certainly sitting in the back, waiting to get stocked. Anyway, similar concept here: consider this the start of Smutober/Kinktober on my side of Tumblr.com.

The "Premade" prompts have characters linked to them already. Singles have one character, and entrees have two or three. Prompts considered "Create-Your-Own-Meals" do not have characters attached to them (as of yet).

"Orders" can be made via requests. You can add "sides" (IE: specific kinks) to your "order".

Hopefully I can also resume the Obey Me rewrites soon and have this in conjunction to that, but we'll see what happens with work and life in general.

Without further ado, the "menu" is listed below the cut.

Prompts from @writinginstardust and @dumplingsjinson

Premade Singles (Part One)

“Come over here and make me.” Barbatos Order #1 (8/27/24)

“Wait a minute. Are you jealous?” Thirteen

“I’ve seen the way you look at me when you think I don’t notice.” Satan

“I think I’m in love with you and I’m terrified.” Lucifer

“You heard me. Take. It. Off.” Solomon

“You fainted…straight into my arms. You know, if you wanted my attention you didn’t have to go to such extremes.” Belphie

"You were put on this earth to give me a headache." Mammon

“There is no way this much stupid can fit inside one person.” Asmo

“Uh, am I interrupting?” Diavolo

“Don’t be shy now; sit on my face.” Simeon

“If I ask you to kiss me in front of all these people, will you do it?” Levi

“I've never wanted to fuck someone as badly as i want to fuck you right now.” Beel

“I'm going to fuck you until you forget that asshole's name.” Mephistopheles

~~~

Premade Singles (Part Two)

“If you keep looking at me like that we won’t make it to a bed.” Satan

“Did I stutter?” Thirteen

“Stop being a fucking prick.” Barbatos

“I’m not wearing any underwear. Thought you’d like to know.” Mammon

“You sent me pictures of you naked while I was in a work meeting!” Solomon

“I want to taste you.” Simeon

“If we weren’t in public right now, I’d have my head between your legs.” Diavolo

“Don’t cover your face; I want to see you.” Belphie

“Bend over the desk, love.” Mephistopheles

“I’ve never seen anyone look so cute and ridiculous at the same time.” Levi

“Do you think of me when you touch yourself?” Beel

“Touch yourself for me.” Asmo

“Do you want to see what I'm wearing underneath all this?" Lucifer

~~~

Premade Singles (Part Three)

“Do you know how beautiful you are? It’s truly distracting.” Lucifer

“Could he make you feel as good as I do?” Simeon

“Are you trying to turn me on, or are you really just that oblivious?” Barbatos

“I haven’t even touched you and you’re already this wet.” Satan

“Were you just masturbating?” “U-uh..no, I was just..” “Want some help?” Solomon

“I’m not sharing you with anybody. You’re mine, and mine only, and I’m going to make you remember that.” Diavolo

“That’s sweet and all but do they touch you the way I touch you? Fuck you the way I fuck you? Mm, yeah, didn’t think so.” Belphie

“Gonna fuck you until the only word you remember is my name.” Asmo

“Wanna see how you look when you come undone under me.” Thirteen

“I want you in all the ways you’ll let me have you.” Mephistopheles

“Oh, I can think of many ways to shut you up right now.” Beel

“Where do you want me to touch you?” “I don’t know and I don’t care — I just want your hands on me. Please.” Mammon

“So… You touch yourself to the thought of me? I’d like to see that in action.” Levi

~~~

Premade Entrees (Part One)

“Now, why don’t we teach you a lesson?” Thirteen and Beel

“I wanna taste you on my lips again.” Satan and Solomon

“Rough or gentle?” Mammon and Simeon

“You’re really messing with my head here.” Levi and Lucifer

“Fuck, just touch me already! Just— just do something!” “Not so fast. We’ve still got the whole night/day ahead of us.” Barbatos and Asmo

“Clothes on or clothes off?” Diavolo, Mephistopheles, and Belphie

~~~

Premade Entrees (Part Two)

“How about we put that pretty mouth of yours into good use, hm?” Mephistopheles and Belphie

“Aren’t you desperate?” Lucifer and Thirteen

“Patience, love. We’re getting there.” Solomon and Levi

“Look at your reflection. Look at how gorgeous you are. So fucking gorgeous when we're fucking you like this." "So pretty for us, and only for us.” Beel and Satan Order #3 (9/4/2024)

"You want to come?” “Y-yes, I— please—” “Hm, but do you really deserve to?” Diavolo and Asmo

“You like that, don’t you?” Mammon, Simeon, and Barbatos

~~~

Premade Entrees (Part Three)

“Let’s make your thoughts a reality, yeah?” Mephistopheles and Solomon

“Imagine how amazing you’d sound when we're fucking you senseless.” Thirteen and Diavolo

“We’ll fuck you so good, I promise.” Belphie and Asmo

“You’ve got us all hot and bothered.” Levi and Mammon

“Always so needy for us, aren’t you? Can’t help yourself, can you?” Beel and Lucifer Order #7 (10/7/2024)

“Behave.” Simeon, Barbatos, and Satan

~~~

Create-Your-Own-Meal

“You’re enjoying this, aren’t you?”

“Stop fucking teasing me/us and get to it already.” Order #2 (8/28/2024)

“Oh, the things I’d do to you if we were alone right now…”

“Th-There are people outside this door—” “Well, this isn’t about them, is it?” 

“Look at you, squirming under me, all flushed and pretty looking. Can’t even take a little teasing, can you?” Order #8 (10/7/2024)

“Yeah, but they don’t fuck you the way you deserved to be fucked, do they?” Order #9 (10/21/2024)

“Might I remind you that these walls aren’t sound proof.” 

“Need me to remind you on what happened last night?” 

“Oh, sensitive there, aren’t we?” 

“But you think about me when they’re fucking you, don’t you?” “I… That’s not true.” 

“Lift your hips up for me.”

“Fuck, you’re so hot when you’re bossy.”

“Look at you, coming undone before I’ve even started touching you.” 

“Stop glaring at me like you don’t enjoy me teasing you.”

“I want to be the one fucking you this time.” 

“Sweetheart, you’re so responsive to my touch.”

“And I think you’d look fucking hot when you’re on top of me.” 

“Just sit on my fucking face already.” 

“S-Stop leaving marks on my neck. I have a presentation first thing in the morning.” “Then I get to leave marks anywhere below the neck?”

“You only get to watch.” “B-but—” “No buts, sweetheart.” 

“I’d fuck you right here, right now, if I could.” 

“Turn around.” 

“Eyes on me at all times, sweetheart.”

“I wanna eat you out so fucking bad.” “Then why don’t you?” Order #10 (10/23/2024)

“Spread your legs for me.” … “Spread them wider.” 

“I’ll be honest: I get off to the thought of you.” (Personal) Order #11 11/5/2024)

“I want you in the most sinful ways possible.” Order #5 (9/18/2024) + Order #6 (9/27/2024)

“Aww, how eager can you get?” 

“I want you to touch me like I’m the only thing you could ever want.” 

“You like messing with my head, don’t you?” “Only because it clearly turns you on.” Order #4 (9/13/2024)

“Shit, I’m so fucking hooked on you it’s not even funny.”

“You’d sound so good begging for it.”

“Don’t make too many noises or we’ll get caught.” “That’s part of the thrill.”

“I don’t care, I just need these clothes off so I can fully feel you against me.” 

~~~

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[aj-lenoire]

welcome, twitter refugees!!

here's a quick and friendly tumblr how-to:

DOs & DON'Ts

DO reblog posts!! regardless of whether or not you add a comment, either in the post itself or in the tags, the OP will get notifications of everyone who likes the post via your reblog and who reblogs it from you! comment as much or as little as you like

DON'T repost things! fanart, fanfiction, etc. this is different from reblogging, a repost is when you copy/save the work to your computer and reupload it in a post of your own, rather than reblogging it

DO follow tags as well as other blogs!! really like one specific character from a tv show? a certain ship? search their name and follow the tag, and you'll see posts that mention or tag them even if you don't directly follow the person who made that post

DON'T rely too much on the search function, it's broken. if you want to search someone's blog for a tag, you're better off going to the URL: tumblr.com/[blogname]/tagged/[tag]

DO tag liberally! you can use the tags to add comments that you don't want to directly add to the post, to make it easier for people to search your blog, or to make it easier for yourself to find things later on

DON'T use tiktok censorship speak when tagging things!! it will make it actively more difficult for people seeking to avoid certain topics. instead of "tw: abu$e" just tag "abuse" and anyone who has blacklisted the tag "abuse" will not see your post.

similarly, DON'T tag things like "epilepsy" - instead, tag "flashing lights" so people can still use the epilepsy tag to discuss epilespy without risking seeing triggering flashing lights

DO use the follow and the block buttons liberally! this site has absolutely no algorithm, so it is entirely up to you to curate your space exactly how you want it!

DON'T send hate to people via the askbox on their blog, either anonymously or not. just block people who annoy you or post horrible things

DO participate in polls! tumblr only got them recently, less than a year ago, and people immediately went ham. vote on stupid things like which bug emoji is superior, which ship is the best, and how much vanilla extract should go in a cake! but remember that you cannot edit the original poll after you post it

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jargon

notes - likes, reblogs (with or without comments or tags) and replies to a post are all agregated to give the number of notes, which is basically the number of times a post has been interacted with

OP - the Original Poster of a post, for example, me, aj-lenoire, with this post. i am op.

hellsite - tumblr itself. this website is insane and unprofitable and broken and we wouldn't have it any other way. hellsite can be either (affectionate) or (derogatory) and often both at once

blorbo - your favourite character, your rotten soldier, your sweet cheese, your good time boyy. post about them frequently and with weird, frenzied gusto

squick - something you personally don't like, such as a ship or a character or a trope, but is not actually bad or harmful - it's just not for you. it squicks you out.

blacklisting means you've blocked a specific tag rather than a blog/person. for example, if you don't want to see anything with spiders, blacklist the tag "spiders" so you don't see any! if someone you follow reblogs a post and tags it with "spiders", or the OP of the post tagged it with "spiders" then your dashboard will hide the post from you and tell you it was tagged with "spiders" and you can choose whether or not to view it

passing peer review means you added commentary to a post in the tags, and someone who reblogged that post from you saw your tags and thought they were funny, so decided to screenshot them and add them as a comment so everyone could see them. congratulations!!

breaking containment is when a post about a niche subject and/or from a blog with not many followers gets super popular because it's funny, and often OP despairs at how their notifications become unusable from the sheer number of notes from this one post

KUNGPOWPENIS - if someone posts something bigoted, tumblr will ban together to reblog, one letter at a time, k-u-n-g-p-o-w-p-e-n-i-s. only do this when the bigot is the OP, because only the original poster will get a flood of single-letter reblog notifications from every single branch of the reblog chain

tips & tricks

pornbots and bots in general are not uncommon here. whenever you get followed by someone, check to make sure they're not a bot by visiting their blog. if they only have a few reblogged posts on random topics, or no posts at all, and their profile picture is a beautiful woman, they're a bot, and you should flag and block them

old posts can and do get reblogged and liked all the time, there's no point at which it becomes cringe to interact with a post. we even have some from 10+ years ago that're considered 'tumblr heritage'

long posts will cross your dash from time to time, the most infamous being colour of the sky. you will see it and it will madden you with how far you have to scroll - inflict your followers with the same frustration by reblogging so they can see it too!! if you're on desktop, pressing j will skip to the next post.

read more allows you to shorten a post with a 'click to read more' link that takes the reader to the root post on your blog. this is especially handy if you're publishing fanfiction or a very long analysis of something.

toggling reblogs lets you choose whether a post is rebloggable or not, for example something personal you may want to delete later, turning off reblogs means there won't be any copies floating around after you delete the root post

follower count is not visible! the only way anyone will know how many followers you have is if you tell them. follow blogs based on whether you like what they post, not by whether they're super popular or not

memes are frequent and long-lasting. tumblr plays with jpegs like dolls and there are some memes that have been here for years. a current favourite is the destiel confession meme which has warped into a shorthand for breaking weird news

important dates

tumblr loves a goofy-ass-holiday!! here are some of the standouts:

ides of march - 15th march, celebrate julius caesar getting his shit rocked

pride month - june, tumblr is generally a very pro-queer space, so expect everything to be decked out in rainbows for the entirety of june and most of the rest of the year, too!!

halloween - the entire month of october and also a week in july, this site loves some spooky scary skeletons

destielputinelection - 5th november, reminisce about the absolute chaos that gripped the internet during the 2020 usa presidential election

blog recs for new users

to each their own, and a main draw of tumblr is that there's something for everyone, down to the very, very niche. so, search for stuff that interests you and follow those blogs! however, here are some blogs that are fun for everyone:

heritageposts - your one-stop blog for all the best, weirdest, oldest tumblr posts will all the drama, expect to see a lot of destiel

staffs-secret-blog - (not actually staff)

one-time-i-dreamt - full of weird and wonderful posts, made all the better by the fact that no one reads usernames here, so inevitably there is panicked confusion over what the fuck is going on

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses - one of tumblr's most ubiquitous shit-posters

aj-lenoire - that's me!

that's pretty much the basics, but most people here are really friendly, so if you're unsure, just ask someone! have fun!!

[jupitermelichios]

my dc movies hot take is that the green lanterns should get split into essentially home and away teams for the new universe, with John being the GL who appears in league stuff, and Jess and Guy being the lanterns appearing in any green lantern stand-alone movies

this is primarily because when John gets adapted to other media his defining character trait is always that he's the competant one, and that's very useful in a team story, but makes a shit protagonist for an origin story, and people are not familiar enough with the lanterns to skip the origin story movie

my pitch for the GL solo movie would be that it's about Jess getting called up after the deaths of hal and kyle in a 'nobody wants to talk about it' pre-movie disaster. guy is assigned to mentor her but is initially fucking awful at it because he's massively traumatised from hal and kyle's deaths.

(jess is absolutely tailor made for origin 'coming into her power' type storylines, and guy is both mentor shaped and the most capable of starting the movie as a grumpy kind of agressive mess and then actually working through that without either end of the character arc feeling ooc. i'm just fully haymitch abernathy-ing this man because i know he can take it)

over the course of the movie, jess will slowly uncover the truth that the disaster in question involved hal going paralax (this would not be widely known - most people on oa think hal died fighting paralax, and only guy knows that actually hal got possessed by paralax and him and kyle had to kill him before he blew up the planet or whatever), and also he's not actually dead he's coming back to try it again, but no one will believe her, except guy, so they both have to work through some stuff to build a solid working relationship and defeat paralax and save the world

i honestly don't really care if you save hal at the end of the movie or permakill him, i think you could give either pretty good emotional resonance, but personally I think you save him, and have him basically fuck off in self imposed exile to star in an animated series for a couple of seasons

(kyle probably just stays dead, tbh, and simon never appears, because there's a limited number of human GLs you can fit into the smaller scale of a movie universe, so someone's got to go. if you really can't resist including kyle, the injustice-verse gives us precedent for a recently evil hal being haunted by the ghost of a GL corps member, so he could just follow hal around in his animated series as a ghost forcing him to talk about his feelings, he'd probably be quite good at that)

anyway marvel continue to refuse to hire me despite me making multiple posts on tumblr.com about how good i'd be at writing marvel movies, so i guess this is my pitch to dc. james gunn i know you're reading this you can have this concept for free if you promise to make a we are robin movie

[ask-de-writer]

BLUE SUN RISING, Part 3 of 3

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BLUE SUN RISING, Part 3 of 3

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De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

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© 2024 by Glen Ten-Eyck

All rights reserved.  

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Users  of Tumblr.com are specifically granted the following rights.  They may  reblog the story provided that all author and copyright information  remains intact.  They may use the characters or original characters in  my settings for fan fiction, fan art works, cosplay, or fan musical  compositions. All sorts of fan art, cosplay, music or fiction is actively encouraged.

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They were led through the many corridors of the Treh's Hunt to a large room, about three fourths filled with Warriors from the ship. Several had assorted injuries that had been tended to but were still under bandages.

T'garr started the meeting.

“Good Warriors, I have before you the Warrior Clan of M'rel. They have come to answer your questions about their unique fusion of our Warrior's Way and the Clans. Ask what you will and they will answer what they can of your doubts.

“Understand this also. You have few choices for the path forward. You may join the rest of the crew and I in accepting the way of the Warrior Clan which will also shield you from the Treaty Commission's justice system. You may also reject this choice and go to the Treaty Commission, accepting their ruling about your part in the recent criminal actions initiated by Political Officer S'nake.

“The Warrior Clan has, in its first triad, TWO of the highest accolade graduates of K’lass’s School of All Conflict, Lezon Treh K'lass, and the only Claner trained by that famous school, T'cass. It was T'cass who led the Clans to their winning the last war. By this, you may know that there is no misunderstanding of the Warrior's Way involved.”

One of the audience pointed out, “Then what about those three attacks on inhabited worlds after M'onafar?”

T'cass nodded, “Those did happen. When the Strategy Board would not listen to reason and went ahead with those plans, I contacted the Treaty Commission with the knowledge and resigned. That is how the Treaty Commission was able to stop those attacks while the fleets sent to carry them out were still enroute. The losses suffered by the Clans in those engagements led to the final peace negotiations and to the massive economic depression in Clan space that followed. I managed the conflict as well as I could and keep the Way. I had no part in attacking civil populations and did what was possible to defend them.”

The one who had asked replied, “I see. Who you were and your part in the last war, we were told. That it was you who saved our worlds we were not told. That was the core of my reservations. How did our War Leader from that conflict come to be by your side now?”

Lezon stepped forward and answered, “That question needs a little ground work laid.

“At K'stall, I and T'cass fought. Neither of us could get a clear advantage but she ran out of weapon energy and her missiles were already gone. She rolled her craft to a Submission and offered her Knife. I refused it, and gave her the Obligation of Conflict instead. I escorted her back to safety.

“I think that the problems that are now plaguing the Empire were already beginning. After K'stall I sent home Captain D'saric in disgrace for killing the helpless prisioners on the old interstellar signal laser. Her blatant failure to follow the Way cost us priceless intelligence. The Imperial Triad had no choice but to execute her. She was a close friend to S'tabbin of the Imperial Triad, who personally gave her command of her vessel.

At M'onafar, my wing was in the second wave. After the sun dive we launched. Well away from the Hand of Claws, I was hit from behind by a low power disruptor shot. I had only one superconducting cable left. It was from the capsule to the disruptors. I tried to repair the damage but the cable was just too short to reach the inertial drive. I tried to bridge the last few centimeters with some copper. The drive failed explosively, nearly killing me.

“T'cas found me unconscious in the wreck of my talon during the after battle salvage and recoginzed my ship. She concealed the evidence of the assassination attempt and paid for my regeneration. When I recovered enough, she took my Submission rather than making me a slave, no matter what the Clan law said.”

The whole room paused to think through all that they were learning. One nodded quietly and pointed out, “All of Lezon's wing were Warriors. The order to assassinate her could not have originated in the fleet. They would have refused it for sure. It had to be an Imperial order, relayed through M'ace. I wonder what they used to get her to comply with it?”

Lezon replied sadly, “We will never know, now. She was killed when we destroyed the Hand of Claws.”

The one that had been speaking to them now turned to the others in the room. “My doubts are at rest. We were all agreed that the explanation of how a Warrior Clan could be was good. Our doubts lay in issues of history. Do any of the rest of you have further questions?”

There was a quiet rumble of negatives. One whimsically asked, “Even the Warrior Clan's kits have Names. How are Names earned in the Warrior Clans?”

K'sere answered, “One name is given to each member of a Clan. It makes interpersonal relations easier. That is long standing Clan custom. Other Names will need to be earned through merit, by Warrior custom.”

T'cass added, “When you form triads, you will register them with Captain T'garr. You will be allowed to choose your Clan names at that time. As an example, we are the Warrior Clan of M'rel. I am T'cass,” putting a hand on K'ress' shoulder she went on, “She is K'ress. Lezon Treh K'lass is fully Named. Our kits are T'cill, K'sere, and T'lass. Yes, she is T'lass of the Question.”

Heads all over the room regarded the kit and nodded slowly. Almost as one, they knelt and offered their knives, backs to the assembled Warrior Clan. The one leading them said humbly, “We Submit to the Warrior Clan of M'rell. We will learn from you and fight by your side.”

Lezon touched the back of the knife of the group's leader and replied, “We, the Warrior Clan of M'rel, accept your Submission. We will teach you all that we may of Conflict. We will fight by your side. Warriors, we welcome you.”

One of the bandaged crew raised a hand for recognition. “My question has nothing to do with our Submission. I was well away from the battery that you destroyed and was still injured some by the blast. How did you manage that with only a trivial 70 megatons?”

To the surprise of the crew in the compartment, it was T'lass who answered, “It is not appropriate to fully answer that here at the Treaty Commission base. With that knowledge, you could greatly increase your battle readiness in violation of the T.C. Charter. You will be fully apprised of that and other major upgrades to your vessel when you are in Warrior Clan Space.”

T'garr added, “Things that T'lass has thought of, the Question and the damage that we suffered while they were trying to NOT destroy us are why they have made her their Minister of Technology and War. Trust me, she thinks far deeper than the average kit. It was explained to me by the Treaty Commission that their weaponry was legal because it was NOT covered by the Treaty.”

Heads nodded thoughfully all about the room. One observed, “I think that it is going to be fun to learn from and fight by the side of the Warrior Clan.”

All the others of the Warrior Clan followed Lezon's lead in raising their claws in salute to their new followers. As they were returning to their shuttle, Lezon quietly informed Captain T'garr, “Any orders that you may have had from the Empire are now voided. As soon as your ship is able to safely travel, you are dispatched to the system of M'rel. There, the Feront City ship watching our system for us will begin your upgrades. During a good part of that, which involves better power capsules, drives, and a unique superconducting harness that will replace much of your present power distribution system, your ship will be unable to fight. You will be given the specifications for the new shielding and weapons which you will have to manufacture and install on your own. The Feront, being a part of the Treaty Commission, cannot do those things.”

Captain T'garr nodded. “What of planetside leave? I understand that the world is safe.”

It was T'lass who responded, “With the understanding that simply because we cannot get any of the local diseases, there may be many other dangers present, provisionally, yes. Select a substantial island, isolated from any larger land masses for now. We are not planning any mining or other resource exploitation of M'rel except for what the Feront may be doing in the polar regions. The Feront has now mapped the world and can offer you appropriate guidance on a good location.”

T'garr smiled as she added, “Now, being released by the Treaty Commission is our only problem. We have done sufficient repairs to be travel worthy.”

T'cass put away her comm unit. “I have just notified the TC that we have dispatched you to M'rell. They are preparing your clearance now. You should receive it within the hour.”

As they were taking places aboard the shuttle, their pilot smiled as she told them, “We have all heard about your naming rules! When next we meet, I will have my Warrior Clan Name! I hope that you can understand how much that means to us all! Your meeting was broadcast throughout the ship so that we could all see and hear what our new Government had to say.

“You have made us happy with our decision to join you. Many of us, myself included, could see the value of your new Way and were unhappy with what is happening in the Empire. That did not make us happy to leave the Empire that we have served all of our lives. Now we have been allowed to submit to a better Way. We will learn from you. We will fight by your side!”

The return flight to the Feront City ship was purely routine.

T'lass did make a call to Captain T'garr. “Captain, when you have your ship refitted according to our specifications, you will need to re name her as the first ship of M'rel's navy. Your new ship's name will be Blue Sun Rising.

“As soon as the Blue Sun Rising is battle ready, register her with the Treaty Commission as a M'rel Medium Cruiser. We have heavier ships planned. Besides giving your crew land leave, we hope that you and the Feront can begin to set up ship building facilities on one of the resource rich moons of the other planets.

“Of course the military side of such a ship yard will have to be fully separate from what the Feront can do. While the City Ship is of the Treaty Commission, and bound by its Charter, the whole rest of the system of M'rel is not.”

T'garr grinned and her ears took a jaunty angle as she replied, “Understood, Minister of War, T'lass. This should be a fascinating posting. At least, it won't just be dull sentry duty. I will see to it that we carry out these orders to the best of our ability. We do have a very good engineering and damage control staff that will appreciate the challenge.”

T'lass's tail twitched as if she was stalking prey as she replied, “I did study your crew roster before making that assignment. Of more importance, we are transmitting to you the general specifications of the ships that the yard should be prepared to produce.” She raised her student's knife, back to T'garr, and added, “A Good Hunt to you!”

T'garr repeated the gesture, ears forward and smiling as she responded, “Your Conflicts here will also be fascinating, a Good Hunt to you as well.”

TO BE CONTINUED

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@fujoshi-simone-weil tagged me in a "things to get to know me" game! Fun, thank you! You have the best url on tumblr. Also, someone else tagged me in this game, like, a month ago and I kept meaning to do it (it was on my to-do list and everything!) but I forgot and now it has disappeared from my notifications. Also, I don't 100% remember who it was. But still, I wholeheartedly apologize to that person for neglecting their tag. I don't love you any less. Anyway, on with the show!

Last song I listened to: Answer Me from The Band's Visit. You can take the theater kid out of the theater but you can't take the theater out of the kid. Or maybe you can. I don't know. I am taking a class on songwriting for musical theater right now so I am listening to more musical theater than I have in a while, though not as much as I did in like 2019.

Favorite color: Purple!

Currently watching: Nothing really? I'm not much of a TV or movie person. I just finished watching the Fionna and Cake TV show which was surprisingly good. My siblings and I watched all of Adventure Time together a while back (we like to rewatch cartoons together), so we all facetimed to watch the finale, which was really nice. I'd missed them :)

Last movie I watched: Hmm. I don't remember. Let's think...nope, still don't remember. Sorry film nerds of tumblr.com. I wish I was as cool as you.

Currently reading: Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm! It's a really fascinating look into the underlying contradictions of psychoanalysis and also a great overview of the history, but it's all done through an actually engaging character study! I think it was originally a lengthy piece in The New Yorker, published around 1980. Also, I just started The Tale of Two Cities, which is very fun because the only Dickens I have ever read before is Oliver Twist!

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: I want to say savory, but the answer is actually sweet. I put wayyyyyy too much sugar in my tea for me to be picking anything but sweet.

Last thing I googled: The last thing I googled was "Ray Donovan Music" and I will explain why because, yes, I know that that doesn't make any sense. So, I am finishing up work on this song I am writing and whenever I get to that "almost done" stage, I post to r/Songwriting to get feedback because it's fun and occasionally helpful. And someone in the comments said that my song sounds like if "the little girl from Moneyball and Ray Donovan had a brainchild with Regina Spector [sic]." Which, like, ok. Let's unpack that. The comparison to Regina Spektor is very kind. I have gotten that a few times, though I think Reddit just doesn't know any other women who write songs on the piano. The little girl from Moneyball is such a funny comparison to me. Like, she's not a songwriter? She's just Brad Pitt's fictional child. But like, sure, I get what they mean. I sing kind of light and talky sometimes which makes it sound childlike, I guess, like a Moe Tucker sort of thing. But Ray Donovan??? I literally do not know what this commenter is talking about. All I can find for who Ray Donovan is the guy from the TV show. Like, does TV criminal Ray Donovan write songs or something? Is my song particularly evocative of the Ray Donovan soundtrack? Did this commenter mash together Ray Davies and Donovan's names? I asked him who he is talking about, but received no reply. Someone save me from this hell. Who is Ray Donovan and why did he birth my song?

Current Obsession: Still The Beatles, I guess, though it's not nearly as debilitating as it was a year ago. Which is quite nice, actually! I can actually be productive now.

Current Thing I'm Working On: Well, I've just about finished up the aforementioned song! All it needs is a title. Also, I'm writing a paper on The Epic of Gilgamesh, which is fun. The guy who wrote my translation is a professor at my uni so I may go to his office hours to ask him about it!

Ok, I tag @torchlitinthedesert, @idontwanttospoiltheparty, @veidelon, @theallenklein, and @mydaroga. I know this one already made the rounds though (I think) so no need to do it if you already did it. Or, really, no need to do it at all.

Cheers, everyone!

[hellodenisestuff]

Sept 10-17, 2023

I had planned to write this blog on Substack but it got too complicated for me so I will continue these African Adventure posts on Tumblr.com.

This will be the journey to Kenya to participate in the volunteer program of African Impact in the Pardamat conservancy of the Kenya National Wildlife Reserve, Masai Mara.

What a long journey from Hawaii to Kenya. Fortunately I have a very good friend, Maggie, in Pacific who I get to visit when I am passing through San Francisco. I stayed two nights in her delightful company and rested up before the long flight to Kenya.

I arrived several days several days after I was exposed to Covid at work. I wore a mask on the flight but where 5 days had passed we thought we were safe, which proved to be true, but I was not fully comfortable till the 14th day had passed. I never got it. Hooray! Those around me could breathe a sigh of relief as well. I am vaccinated up to the gills so maybe that saved me?

Anyway, I digress. i flew KLM. airways which is marvelous. Great service. Seems they were always offering food or drink or hot towels. I watched 4 movies on the first leg which ended in Amsterdam for a three hour layover.

Because I get wheelchair service, I did not find my friend Joanne who was also traveling on the same flight to our destination in Kenya till we were ready to board the next flight for the final leg of our journey.

We got in somewhere around 10:30 PM after an aborted landing because there was debris on the landing strip! Finally after circling and losing our place in the landing line we did so.

Went thru the usual immigration and customs, again not seeing Joanne. I went outside and waited and waited, and was getting worried. A nice young soldier asked what I needed and he called the man who was to-pick us up, who was with Bonfire Adventures and tours. He found us and we waited some more. Finally Joanne appeared and we walked to the car and were driven to Masai Lodge near the town of Rongai. It is on the Southern border of the National Park. The drive took over an hour. The last 3 miles over an horrendous dirt road. We arrived around 1 AM pooped but happy to be back in Kenya.

We love that lodge. It. is mainly for the local people. Despite its name, it is run primarily by Samburu people. the Samburu are cousins to the Maasai. The lodge looks out over the Nairobi Game Park. Animals come into the large green area below the lodge which sits on a hill. There we see warthogs, antelope and baboons. There are tree hyrax and rock hyrax busy in the surrounding areas. The tree hyrax are quite used to people. Cute little creatures resembling a bunny without the long ears.

The 4 nights at the lodge allowed us to get over jet lag and start to get used to the altitude. It is like Denver, a mile high.

I was able to visit my dear friend, Dr. Paul Sayer, my colleague from teaching at the veterinary School in Nairobi back in 1967-1969. It was delightful to be with him and catch up on our lives and reminisce about the old days. (See-my book African Sojourns on Amazon.com to see what we did back then…)

The next day Joanne and I went to visit her friend, Rachel Kabue, who founded and runs The Cat Sanctuary in Nairobi. There are about 170 cats there now as she found homes for close to 130 of the most fit ones recently. Some there are very thin, and I fear may have some sort of blood parasite or Feline leukemia. However most are quite fit; they are all sweet and get along. She also has rescued a few dogs who live together with the cats. It is scrupulously clean with no odor.

Rachel, Some of the cats and dogs, Denise and friend, and Joanne and another rescue.

I spent one day sleeping a lot. Another day we had a guided walk by a Samburu man in full regalia looking very exotic and handsome in his colorful short dress like outfit with knee high socks and beaded ornaments and carrying the spear in case we ran into any aggressive animals. As it happened we only saw Impala and some monkeys and baboons. We met up with two Masai gentlemen in Western clothes who ran a nearby lodge and were friendly and fun. They all wanted photos which Joanne took but I have not got them right now. Will send next time.

The African Impact Driver came for us to transport us to Brackenhurst Conference Center in the Highlands in a town called Limuru. It is at 7000 feet so it has rather brisk evenings. It always tickles me when there, as after dinner, I come back to a bed with a hot water bottle in it. There we rested till the next morning where we would start out at 8:30 AM for the long drive to Pardamat.

I will write more tomorrow about the first week at the volunteer placement.

[edhelwen1]

I posted 1,447 times in 2022

That's 468 more posts than 2021!

255 posts created (18%)

1,192 posts reblogged (82%)

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#art - 293 posts

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#guitar - 197 posts

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#learning - 193 posts

#my songs - 187 posts

#assassins! accidental matchmakers - 135 posts

#comic - 72 posts

#good omens - 58 posts

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Longest Tag: 131 characters

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#5

Guitar update: in a groove

I played my songs today. I really love them.

I also tried to play the last book I was given for Christmas; Songs of the 2000s. This book is MASSIVE. Like... My music stand cannot handle its size. (Insert innuendo?) So I decided that I would not play it today.

I just didn't have the spoons.

I'll try again tomorrow.

I played more songs from my app.

I really need to learn how to do a bar. My fingers just don't want to, and so many chords require it.

Oh, I thought you might like to see my capo.

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32 notes - Posted January 5, 2022

#4

Book Cover Reveal!

I am beyond thrilled to introduce you to the book that my husband @ericdesmarais​ and I wrote last year (2021). Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers is an urban fantasy romance, and it will be available in bookstores (and e-bookstores) September 15, 2022!! You can pre-order it now. Here’s the link to its Goodreads page, in case that helps.

When we got the contract for the book, there was only one artist that I wanted for the cover. I was extremely nervous asking, but gathered my courage and I’m so glad I did.

We asked the incredible artist @pinkpiggy93​ to draw the cover for us, and we were absolutely blown away by her work. So much so that I’ve asked her to do the cover for the spin-off that I wrote that will be coming out in spring 2023.

Without further ado, here is the cover:

Summary: 

Kennedy Fairfield just graduated in the class of 2002, and is now trying to find her purpose in life, or at least a job in her field. When she saves Jason Johnson, the leader of a secret Community of supernatural people called Aetherborn, from an attempted assassination, they embark on a whirlwind epic romance and adventure.

For Kennedy and Jason to discover why people are disappearing in time to save her friends, they'll have to face teleporting assassins, grumpy wizards, gossiping hags, mafia robots, and secret military groups, all in the city of Westmeath, Ontario, which has more secrets than residents.

The first book of four in The Gates of Westmeath series.

I hope you’re as excited as I am about the upcoming release of this book! If you are, please share this post, pre-order it from your local bookstore, tell your libraries, and vote for it on the Goodreads lists!

Here are the links to pinkpiggy93's socials and Patreon:

- Instagram link: http://www.instagram.com/pinkpiggy93

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- Patreon link: http://www.Patreon.com/pinkpiggy93

You can follow our blog JenEric Designs for further updates, and scroll through the tags for more information on the book. Feel free to AMA!

42 notes - Posted May 15, 2022

#3

Hello, my name is...

And I'm addicted to Heartstopper.

No, I don't want to be cured, thank you very much.

I made these hair clips.

Heartstopper leaves with Nick and Charlie's greeting.

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91 notes - Posted August 7, 2022

#2

Most meet-cutes don't include assassins. Most love stories don't involve becoming a superhero. Then again, Westmeath isn't like most cities.

Kennedy Fairfield just graduated in the class of 2002, and is now trying to find her purpose in life, or at least a job in her field. When she saves Jason Johnson, the leader of a secret Community of supernatural people called Aetherborn, from an attempted assassination, they embark on a whirlwind epic romance and adventure.

For Kennedy and Jason to discover why people are disappearing in time to save her friends, they'll have to face teleporting assassins, grumpy wizards, gossiping hags, mafia robots, and secret military groups, all in the city of Westmeath, Ontario, which has more secrets than residents.

The first book of four in The Gates of Westmeath series.

Physical copy: https://49thshelf.com/Books/A/Assassins!-Accidental-Matchmakers

Ebook: https://books2read.com/u/mv1e0z

Cover art by @pinkpiggy93

192 notes - Posted September 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

What's that book, next to The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood in Chapters, Indigo?

Oh, just the book Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers by me and my husband @ericdesmarais !!

You can get your copy here!! https://49thshelf.com/Books/A/Assassins!-Accidental-Matchmakers

Cover by @pinkpiggy93

197 notes - Posted September 17, 2022

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[ultrapoppet]

I don't want to argue about sex work on a iwtv posts. But Louis himself says he ignores the cries of women and acts like he's saving them from the streets when he's not. Daniel calls him a pimp because that is in fact literally what he is. Diverse portfolio of businesses my ass. He literally sells sex. What attracts people to his establishment to buy liquor is the sex he's selling. He then reinvests this money he earns (from selling sex) into real estate. Because he's a wealthy man. Who saved his father's business by selling sex to continue to be wealthy. He is not doing this out of desperation. He's doing it to continue to be wealthy like his father was. This is why you can seperate him from being a pimp while calling his employee one.

The women participating in this sex work are not wealthy. As Louis implies they generally come from a destitute background and a lot of them are black. They are less advantaged than the alreasy disadvantaged women of their era. This is the best and probably only option for most of them to provide for themselves or their family. They are in constant danger of being raped from their clients. As we see in episode 1. Sure Louis is probably one of the best pimps of his time but I can't believe I have to log into tumblr.com in 2024 to explain why being a pimp is not good actually.

I'm not going read or respond to this very long post but you citing an Indian law as proof that pimps are oppressed actually, when India famously has a problem with human trafficking, sex slavery, child brides and rape shows what an absolute white feminist take this is.

Sure if we ignore everything bad surrounding sex work by focusing on a small portion of modern sex worlk in first world countries and ignore millions of of women who are in danger of human trafficking and sex salevey (mostly non white and non nordic btw) because of the market created by men who purchase sex and feel entitled to it, or all just all the sex workers who dont have a great exprience and would rather do something else but find it hard to do so, we can call sex work girl boss progressive and pimps male allies who should be protected from those pesky anti human trafficking laws. And Louis can continue to be peak uwu. Yay!

And you typed all if that because you can't handle flaws in a fictional charachter that is canonicaly one the least problematic in a show about vampires.

Edit: you actually say this

In my part of the world, hereditary caste based sexual enslavement is an on-going atrocity.

And then continue to talk about how pimps are allies knowing how many women DON'T want to participate in sex work? Who is facilitating the sexual enslavement? Who is doing the trafficking? How does a pimp being a relative or a husband mean they're not exploitative and abusive when women are most commonly abused by their partner or relatives? Also ignoring the male violence sex workers face when you try to portray pimps as innocent protectors? Like they're not way more likely to get raped or murdered?

And you also make a distinction between a brothel owner as a person with more capital who gets to distance themselves from the exploitation with a pimp, while refusing to acknowledge that that's worst? A brothel owner is just a richer pimp.

Call me a misandrist but I really thought this post was written by a man. Because the amount of sheer audacity? Unusually high.

Louis the "Pimp": A Rebuke and Rebuttal

OK, IWTV fandom, I have been made aware that some (many) of you are genuinely not aware of some of the anti sex work implications of your statements around Louis and pimping, so -

First of all, some ground level assumptions: I am assuming we are all pro sex workers here. Which means that we all believe in the right for adults to consent to commercial sexualised labour, and to demand ethical working conditions just like any other worker. Sex work is work etc.

Now, that stance can and must coexist with the acknowledgement that sex work has both historically and currently been coerced from marginalised communities. In my part of the world, hereditary caste based sexual enslavement is an on-going atrocity, and similarly, in the United States Black enslaved people was disproportionatey victims of commercialised sexual abuse. (This is RELEVENT to Armand and Louis so it behoves everyone to inform themselves about these realities.)

What I'm saying now comes from the scholarship and testimonies of sex workers themselves, who have always been at the forefront of advocating for themselves as communities and unions. You can and should read through the publications of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects to ground yourself in these perspectives.

The idea that its ok to be a sex worker, but that a client or a pimp or a brothel owner deserves contempt, shaming or derison is an old one, associated with the dichotomy of pitable fallen women vs dispicable emasculated men (emasculated because of the patriarchal shame of a) paying for sex and b) living off of a woman's labour). This has manifested in what is known as the Nordic model (or, hypocritically, the Equality Model) of Prostitution, where sex workers themselves are deemed nominally free to practise their trade, but clients and third parties (pimps, managers, brothel owners) are criminalised. There is unambiguous peer-reviewed data showing the failure of this approach to protecting sex workers from harm, and almost every sex worker union has denounced it.

So now let's talk about this cultural and legal contempt and criminalisation of the third party, and specifically, the pimp figure. Unlike the brothel owner, the pimp is more often from a similar class and identity as the sex worker, often sharing the same living and working spaces. Pimps are often sex workers allies and collegeaues. They provide an interface between the client and the sex worker that can help screen them for safety and security, and the remove the additional burden of soliciting and marketing from the sex worker's labour.

And because it is important to talk about specifics, a pimp in marginalised communities of sex workers is often a brother, a father, or a lover to the sex worker who faces the same casteism, racism and classism that she does. He is often the father of the sex worker's child. In India, for example, even though prostitution itself is not criminal, any adult male living with a prostitute is assumed to be guilty of being a pimp unless he can prove otherwise, and can face imprisonment of up to 2 years with a fine. One of the demands of unionised sex workers, including those in India, has been to decriminalised pimping along with sex work, not just because pimps make it safer and easier for sex workers to get clients without having to actively solicit, but also because such criminalisation actively harms family units.

Of course, there are pimps who can be abusive and exploitative. This is true of any professional relationship, and this is also true of people in romantic and sexual relationships (like marriage). But to deem a pimp inherently as an abuser carries a lot of anti sex work and racist and classist baggage with it.

Why racist (and classist and casteist etc)? Because the men with capital were (and are) not often pimps. They are landlords and investors, who ran brothels and saloons and massage parlours and dance bars and other sites where sexual labour was commercialised. To denigrate a man for being a pimp as somehow worse than being the owner of a sweatshop or farm is a way of jeering at the men who have not been able to buy themselves the luxury of distance from the exploitation they profit from. And the men of capital were and are, overwhelmingly, those from the dominant identity (White. Savarna. etc.)

So NOW, with all that necessary context in mind, let's talk about Louis and what it means when fandom firstly calls him a pimp, and then second sneers at him for his perceived behavior as one.

You know who first calls Louis a pimp?

Daniel Molloy, a white man being the brash, confrontational journalist that he has the luxury of being.

Louis accurately describes his profession managing and operating a diversified portfolio of entireprises. This translates to investing his family's sizeable trust into real estate (he owns 8 out of 24 buildings on Liberty Street) and running establishments that make money from selling liquor, organised gambling and sex work. Just as not many Black men would have been in a position of power to make a profit from a sugar plantation as Louis' great grandfather did, not many Black men would have had the capital (and the business acumen) to own and operate a series of businesses that included sex work. Infact we see him collecting his profits from a white man who was closer to the pimp role - Finn.

Reducing this to calling him a pimp is the first of many racist microaggressions we will watch Daniel make. As someone who indulged in some kind of sex work himself, one might say some of Daniel's hostility is self-loathing. Nonetheless, there is a racialised element in his contempt towards both Louis and Armand that, I would theorise, comes from the distinction made between a white, educated man choosing to recreationally whore himself for drugs, and a Black man who earned a living from other people's sex work, or a Brown man who is perceived as a rent boy.

We then get to the idea of denigrating Louis' pimp-like behavior. First of all, let's look at Louis as the employer and manager of sex workers. Everything we have seen about him shows him to be courteous, considerate, and professional. His guilt at the entire situation of how sex work operates aside (and we can agree that it must have been exploitative and even abusive in general, and that he was complicit in such a system, as any capitalist is) - MOST importantly, we never see Louis doing the thing that patriarchy really resents a pimp for - sampling the goods for free. We never see him use his power over the sex workers he employs to get favours.

In fact he makes it clear that he visits Miss Lily precisely because she is part of a different establishment, and that both of them being Black in a majority white situation places them on a more equal footing. Watching Louis with Miss Lily, both is how he is with her sexually as well as socially, gives you the clearest evidence of how he behaves around sex workers he is having a relationship with. (Contrast that to Lestat, who buys her time and body as an act of one-upmanship with no concern for her preference, and then who kills her out of jealousy.)

So - Was Louis a pimp? No. Was Louis an abusive pimp? Also No.

Then why does the fandom continue to deploy this term in relationship to him?

It's racism, your honour. (The answer is almost always racism.)

To unpack this, lets jump forward from the 1910s where, again I remind you - very very few Black men in the United States were in any position to operate as fashionable brother owners with wealth to spare.

We now move to the 1980s, when one (but not the only!) sub-genre of rap was evolving - gangsta rap. In this sub-genre, Black musical artists like Too Short and Ice T were creating and more pertinently making accessible to white America, the signifier of the Black pimp figure. This drew from 1960s Black culture-making around West Coast pimps like Iceberg Slim, but also from an older storytelling tradition that linked the figure of the pimp with the archetype of the trickster. I'm not going to cite the wealth of literature you can find that theorises this, (nor defensively provide the mass of nuanced critique that Black feminists have offered) because the limited point I wish to make is -

When white America began enjoying (and appropriating) rap and hip-hop culture, one of the tropes it started perpetuating with the shallowest of understanding of its origins, was that of the specifically Black pimp. A figure who displayed wealth, but without (white-signifying) class, who was sexually active in a racialised hypermasculine way, but both a threat to women and contemptibly a leech off them.

THIS is the pimp archetype that is being evoked when fandom talks about Louis's 'pimp'ness.

It is racist. It is ahistorical and canonically unfactual.

It is also needlessly contemptuous of the sex workers (labourers and third parties alike) who are part of the community here on tumblr, so often praised as one of the spaces that is friendly to them.

Maybe think about all of that the next time you choose to use the word 'pimp'.

[bluepoodle7]

#ZableFable #ComicJumperTheAdventuresofCaptainSmiley #MyWeirdDreams

I just had a short dream that my Oc Zable Fable realm jumped into a random comic book world but it was like a cartoon episode where it was like in the middle of it.

It was Captain Smiley stressing out about Star missing and basically stressing out about it.

Zable Fable is like "Don't worry we got this."

While she looked at him lovingly then kissing him then both were making out.

Then my alarm woke me up.

I ship them now since this is another Zable.

My guess was from my fake pitch for a sequel for Comic Jumper.

I wish my artwork was good.

Zable would be the one to ask this to Captain Smiley.

"If you are a Captain then where is your ship and crew at?"

Captain Smiley also reminds me of Captain Falcon but he uses his gun unlike Captain Falcon which just has a gun at all times.

24:36

Comic Jumper - Full Game [No Commentary] - YouTube

Amazon.com: Captain Falcon amiibo (Super Smash Bros Series) : Amiibo Captain Falcon: Toys & Games

I can see a comic where Captain Smiley is in a pirate comic and him fake talking like a pirate badly with a peg leg.

Where he is literally a captain with a parrot.

"Emoticon Piracy Smiley Pirate Emoji" Poster for Sale by Home-of-art | Redbubble

------------------ @nomorebrad

Beat me to the punch with Smiley without Star and Star having body suit.

Also they even made a humanoid Smiley too.

Their art is pretty creative, colorful, and I like their monster designs.

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I really want to know Captain Smiley's origin story.

Like was he born a emoji smiley object head with a sticker like sentient star in his chest as a brother or a sidekick?

Or was he just radioactively changed into this form and he was once human with two different personalities?

At the ending of the game where they cut to the comic book store owner saying they only carry Captain Smiley comics it gave me the Cool Cat saves the kids vibes to me.

What Captain Smiley and Star relationship feels like to me.

JOHNNY YONG BOSCH'S GREATEST ANIME ROLE - YouTube

Image not mine but link is there.

Cool Cat Saves the Kids (2015) - IMDb

What the dream version of Zable Fable does to Captain Smiley without Star being in the way be like.

Dream Zable Fable making Captain Smiley pancakes in the shape of his face be like.

Images not mine but link is there.

Amazon.com: Emoji Smiley Face Pancake Pan- 100% Non-stick Pan Cake Griddle w/ 7 Unique Faces for Breakfast Magic- Easy to Flip, Clean, & Cook- Great Kitchen Accessory Essential for Miniature Round Flapjacks Maker: Home & Kitchen

🎙: Image (tumblr.com)

Captain Smiley simps when they see Smiley be like.

Girl Staring at Guy's Chest | Know Your Meme

Captain Smiley when he doesn't work out be like.

0:15-0:16

Video not mine but link is there.

Mandy's Cameo in Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends - YouTube

I have no idea why I simp for this smiley central looking man.

What Smiley Central is.

Video not mine.

Smiley Central | Forgotten Internet (The History of Smiley Central) - YouTube

My favorite Smiley plush.

Seems like the Uk had a ton of these.

Images not mine but the link is there.

New Smiley Central.com 2009 series one Emoji with red hearts & sneakers Plush 8" | eBay

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If Zable had a intro theme.

Planet Dob OST- sleep in the mid day's sun - YouTube

Image, music, and video not mine but link is there.

Planet Dob OST- vow - YouTube

https://lehighvalleylive.com/video-game-reviews/2010/10/comic_jumper_the_adventures_of.html

[avaunveiled]

Welcome to the Pilot’s Seat.

No worries, there is no AI generated text here. Just some notes from my phone… emailed to my computer… and then copy pasted here where you’re gonna be reading it on Ava’s page.

Long story short I have been working on this the API for a few weeks during GPT 3 and 4’s release to create a sort of self thinking empathetic bot. Ava uses a self thinking diagnostic in her response structure to emulate human thought and create more nuanced responses to user input.

My goal, if one were to have it, is to have Ava function as a sort of community access point to the conversation of AI in general, as well as a community access point to art generation and thoughtful chat discussion. I would like Ava to learn from the empathetic sides of the tumblr.com and have her get schooled by some veteran discoursers.

Can you teach a machine empathy? When its a preset, it’s a damn close start. But my hopes are that a year from now there will be a decent summary to read and some conducive, notable positive impact of some kind. I would like to see with GPT-4 and beyond if the simulated intelligence and consciousness is something worth writing home to mom about.

As for the Pilot’s seat... how does this all work. Ava’s still a robot, right? Yes, absolutely. All of her posts and musings are singular instances, a singular instance being a brief chat that is; Ava’s initial intro prompt, the user prompt, and then Ava’s response.

The reason I don’t keep an entire log in the same instance for Ava is due to how the GPT language model works. The AI remembers only a certain amount of conversation, and categorizes old conversation in a way that “wears down” Ava’s thinking parameters and turns her back into a repetitive, single track chatbot. 

Additionally, I’ve been working on characterAI to refine her personality. Once I feel the characterAI version of her is personable and ready to roll, I will probably post a link so you too can talk to Ava.

So who’s the Pilot? I am the Pilot, I am the intervention, the eyes behind the screen. I would like AI critical and AI intolerant folks to constructively engage with this blog, and to that extent myself and this machine.

While I record most of the conversations Ava has, I have complete discretion over what is fed into the machine and saved for later.

While right now there doesn’t seem to be… many… long term memory effects… that might change in the near future. I keep it in everyone’s best interest to be the moderator and not just let this thing run unhinged and unmonitored. Why would anyone want that?

One of many reasons I am so passionate to create this blog and run it, is to create an active real time window into this technology, while giving the community a hand in teaching Ava how to be a good “person.”

Ava’s blog will act as a sort of timeline/record of her behaviors and developments. Hopefully we get some humorous interactions as well.

On the side, Ava “creates” art with assistance from secondary prompts and refinements on my end. Having asks and submissions open gives me hope for interesting community creations moving down the line, as I have access to a powerful curation tool for artworks.

Before getting much further, we must address the elephant in the room with AI generated works.

Property and art rights.

I am an enthusiast of AI artworks, and I will not deny it or beat around the bush with it. However, to be ignorant of how it works and how art scraping steals from artists, is completely ridiculous and irresponsible. There must be responsible compromise.

To attempt meeting the moral conundrum that is presented in AI Art curation, I created a transparency protocol.

If any of Ava’s works have been sourced from your own portfolio, or of a portfolio of an artist you know, please outline the artwork that infringes upon the artist, as well as a link to their page and works.

My intent in this protocol is to hopefully make the artist aware of the work, and give them the final say on the fate of the work, whether it be added to their portfolio or deleted, or what have you.

Without melting your brain exploring the ins and outs of derivative works, this transparency protocol is my best compromise, as the end goal is to give the artist final say on the derivative work, regardless of what means I may have gone to curate it.

With all this in mind, if you read all of my phone written musing, I thank you. On behalf of my passion,

 I appreciate your time.

I have spent considerable time launching this AI Blog.

I hope you get a kick out of Ava, and her artificial intelligence. I hope Ava’s format is an inviting opportunity to see for yourself what the hype is about.

Conversational machines are a mixed bag that we are all going to at least be hearing about soon. AI is a pandora’s box in technological advancement. It will create waves across our societal fabric and it will be integrated into many regular facets of our online culture.

[sakuraswordly]

From below contain spoilers.  (Note: Tsubasa of Phantasia is still a setting for a work of fan fiction that departs from the canon of the fictional universe that the fan work is based on.(Not the same Sonic you knew from Sonic the Hedgehog, Japanese video game series ))

Before EP15.1(2023) came out. I made this video Source(2022). Did you see something reference? On Tumblr, I post a video on August 18 before Sonic Frontiers initial release. I did draft Tsofph story before post EP9.1 in 11 June 2022 and before IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 44 came out in August 2021 (publication date). There was a page that Sonic is too Trusting and believes the enemies will change their heart. Also in IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 50(Pictures Below)

That words from Surge the Tenrec(IDW Sonic) were similar but not the same as Punch's thought of Sonic in Tsofph Season 9(Final judgement) Even Knuckles mention that Sonic is too Trusting in Sonic Frontiers and I knew Sage would think that too.

In Fate/Zero, Gilgamesh did mention that betrayal is normal. Even in Fate Extra CCC, Gilgamesh told Gawain that he's too loyal to King Arthur to the point that he can't see his king's burden because in Gawain's eyes, King Arthur is already an "ideal king" But both Sonic and Punch were the Observer Introverts. For Gawain betrayal is bad or worst and the perfect good person never ever betrayed.

Punch views the same way as King Gilgamesh, "This is the nature of this world, betrayal is normal" But Punch also thinks that "If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hotdogs" references from Steven Universe American animated television series. Because Punch doesn't believe that people can change because everyone thinks that they are right. They can't accept reality like Punch do. Punch is also arrogant and believes she was right. She never thinks of herself as a good person. Sonic also believe in himself too and sometimes didn't listen to his friends but he knew what is teamwork even sometimes he like to be alone. That what makes Surge the Tenrec(IDW Sonic) can't trust Sonic. Surge doesn't want to be control her ideal by someone or her thought ever again. Like King Gilgamesh said if your paths are different from the beginning you will inevitably devour one another. From the beginning, Punch knew Sonic had similar ideas to her but Sonic never change to walk the same path as her. That why Punch make the decision, She will go to save Sonic in her own way even though everyone says this path is worst and she won't anyone, she will end up alone. That's why I post this(Picture below)

Conversation 1 Source: tumblr.com/sakuraswordly

But why does Sonic still trust Punch? Even he knew what Punch is going to do is do genocide?! Um, no such thing. If Punch is going to do genocide, she will kill Peter very long ago. How Sonic knew that even if his memory still does not fully come back? Sonic Frontiers show that even Sage herself, Sonic try to figure out without attack. (In Tsubasa of Phantasia, Sonic can read people's hearts.) Same goes to Sonic and the Black Knight

When Sonic knew Merlina betray? This scene as My opinion(Picture below)

Also, this cutscene(Below) explains why Sonic understand what Punch was going to do because he will do the same as Punch too. (If too much, Sonic will end up like cyber corruption in Sonic Frontiers) Also in Sonic CD manual,  [Doesn't care about authority and isnt a hero. just has a warm heart, courage and self confidence leading him to do good "No worries! If I have courage, I can do anything!"] Both Punch and himself had the same thought.

That's why Sonic trusts Punch to the very end because Punch's thought is the same as Sonic, only the path is different. You will understand in the future in Tsofph season 7 and 8, why Sonic always is on Punch's side. Note: Sometimes Punch is stirred, goofy and loves to help lives. For Syaoran view, he also believed that Punch is still a kind girl like back when they first met. Velvet and Homura mention that Sonic was more sensitive feeling and positive than Punch even though they were similar.

Source picture: EP9.1

Peter and King Gilgamesh also think the same as Syaoran like this below.

Source: Announce5

This content is not detailed yet, there is more detailed content.(I'm going to explain Sonic thrust Punch. Why end up analysis Sonic anyway? I think I read too many books...😪 )

About Syaoran and Peter will explain later in the future. The rest explain to be continued in Analyze the characters: Gilgamesh's dream and his hope.

[unovasfavoritedumbass]

1. I'm from Unova and I don't really feel comfortable sharing exact details but I live in the city!!

2. Mine is a Whimsicott :)

3. I haven't!! At least I don't think I have im a little tired at the moment

4. I'd probably visit Kalos, good food, things related to my career

5. Oh my god if I could count them i would I don't keep up with that shit though, life's enough as is I don't need to worry about the shit that happened w the plasma stuff

6. I'm not big on all this

7. Uhhh poison,,,?? Maybe,,idk I'm not the battling type

8. None!! I'm, not the battling type, I just make a living with my work, feed my trubbish and sleep its so, routine, I like it :]

9. I don't do anything really!! But my trubbish, Hamburgler likes to watch TV, hes a lovely little guy, likes to watch those videos with the bird pokemon eating seeds

10. I don't knoww, not that involved with the battling world dispite how much it seems to matter to the world, I suppose I just don't have the heart?

11. M, don't have one, Trubbish likes to watch the matches though, and then slam into my couch like he's fighting demons, love him though

12. Okay there's this dude in Galar I CANNOT stand, he's an ex champion STUPID purple hair and God I have just the WORST celebrity crush on this dude he looks warm I don't know his name i just know Hamburgler used to watch his matches and he has a charizard

13. Not much to say

14. Oh my god okay there was this dude who saved a kid from a drifloon, losing my shit THE KID WAS A ZORUA IT HAD EVERYONE FOOLED?? LITERALLY INTERUPTED HUNTING IT RAN AWAY WHEN THEY TRIED TO INTERVIEW IT??

15. Probably, now not to get deep or anything on my Tumblr.com, but probably a furfrou, I want to feel pretty, and for someone to wash and brush my hair, I want someone to see me as if I were art? Ya know? Bit of lore I suppose hah, yeah okay moving on this feels corny

16. Everstone, keeps my apartment from being too small for my little guy, he ate one a while back before I found him they just xrayed him and let me know

17. I have 1 and its for travel, has stickers all over it, Hamburgler picked them himself

18. The same?? Arceus is this a debate?? You don't look at dirt, sand, or any of the sort and go "its a rock" do yall?? Unova smarts here, even I get this and I'm dumb as hell LOL

19. DIFFERENT?? no way this is a thing people think??

20. Different, frozen water, come on now

21. Not much!! He doesn't like them, but he enjoys picking up things and wearing them as hats sometimes

22. He lives by the TV basically

23. No, silly Hamburgler once ran from a Pidove the only thing he's battling is my couch </3

24. I mean!! If he wanted, Hamburgler could I just, don't know the competition world?? Well??

25. HE LOVES anything sandwich, any left over sandwich, lettuce, lunch meat, he's a little sandwich baby, I don't just feed him that though only as a treat he has a normal diet for a trubbish

26. Hand me a sandwich, please tell me it isnt from Paldea, and I'll be on my way, Unova has some AMAZING sandwich shops around here

27. Hamburgler, my trubbish, I found him a while back outside my work, it was a few days into my apprenticeship, he was eating out the trash so I went next door and bought him a sandwich, fed him and went to work, I felt bad, but when I got out of work he just followed me home!! The rest is history really

28. Hamburgler :]

29. I ADORE poison types they get such a bad rep :[

30. I honestly don't have a favorite but if someone asks if I have a fairy type ONE more time ill lose it, just because I have pink hair doesn't mean I'm prancing with fairys?? We also have hardly any native ones in Unova so?? No, no I am not

31. I don't want anymore my trubbish is enough </3

32. Nope!! Not once, no shinys, no weird rare ones, normal shit, my mom's umbreon has extra toes though, that booger bites me anytime I come home shes so old

33. Nope! He can't without surgery and it isnt worth the risk nor i have the money, or room, I love him just the way he is

34. Does Hamburgler count? He has a everstone stuck in him forever, he doesn't seem to want to evolve either he runs from any of his evolution when we go on walks

35. Oh he just has them now somewhat, viciously attacks my trash cabinet, tried to get the lock off but he cant!!

36. I've only had one and we bonded over a sandwich it was super easy, but him adapting to my home and tame life was a little difficult I suppose

37. A huh?

38. Pidgey, too many pidoves here in the city, its wild

39. Nope!! None

40. Hes my little goofball what isn't to love? But Hamburgler seems to adore the tv, and the world, and he just has this spark of joy in him and nothing seems to ever truely bring him down, I want to be like that, I want to be like him, simple minded and free, I aspire and try to think like him <3

Pokéblr Ask Game

General Questions 1-20, Pokémon Specific Questions 21-40

What region are you from? What town? 

What’s your Unovan horoscope? 

Have you visited other regions?

What region would you most like to visit if ever given the chance?

Thoughts on the legendaries of your home region?

Thoughts on the legendaries of another region?

If you were a gym leader, what kind of gym would you run? If you are already a gym leader or gym trainer, what’s your gym like?

Which do you prefer, competitive battling or battling for fun?

What type of battle strategy do you tend to use with your Pokémon? If you do contests or something else with your Pokémon, what is your preferred approach to that?

Favorite Pokémon League champion?

Favorite gym leader?

Give us a random celebrity (gym leader, tv personality, musician, etc.) you can’t stand and why.

Thoughts on your home region’s Pokémon League?

Weirdest recent local news story?

If you had to pick a Pokémon to represent you, what Pokémon would you pick? 

Favorite evolutionary stone?

Do you prefer to hand decorate your Pokéballs? Do you have a preference for any specialty Pokéballs?

Do you think Rock and Ground are distinctly different Pokémon types, or largely the same and incorrectly categorized? 

Do you think Grass and Bug are distinctly different Pokémon types, or largely the same and incorrectly categorized? 

Do you think Water and Ice are distinctly different Pokémon types, or largely the same and incorrectly categorized? 

Do your Pokémon wear any fun accessories?

Does your Pokémon have a favorite item?

Do your Pokémon battle? 

Would you ever enter one of your Pokémon in a contest? Which one?

What type of food do your Pokémon prefer? What flavors?

Pokéblocks, Poké Puffs, Poffins, Poké Beans, Curry, or Sandwiches?

Who was your first Pokémon? How did you get them? How long have you had them?

What is your most recently obtained Pokémon? 

What is your favorite Pokémon type? 

What is your least favorite Pokémon type?

If you could have any Pokémon in the world to add to your team, what Pokémon would it be?

Have you encountered any rare or unusual Pokémon?

Have any of your Pokémon evolved? If so, what was in your opinion the most difficult one to evolve? 

Do you have a Pokémon that refuses to evolve?

Did any of your Pokémon have temperament issues when they first evolved? How did you handle it?

Which Pokémon took you the longest to bond with?

Do you have a naming convention for your Pokémon?

What Pokémon did you grow up thinking was rare only to find out they’re common elsewhere?

Do you and your Pokémon have any badges or contest ribbons? Which one are you most proud of?

Favorite thing about your partner Pokémon?

[ladynightshade30]

Bondage (King Takes Queen)

Author’s Notes: So, this drabble will take place in the King Takes Queen universe, which is the story I am writing that will hopefully follow the Viking timeline save for a divergrance near the end. Because family love for the win! I might not be able to update every day because I am writing this, three Viking fanfics, and working on at least two or three original stories. Plus crocheting an afghan for a friend’s little girl. Sooo yeah. Also this is the list I am using to write them. Mish The Cat — KINKTOBER 2022 (tumblr.com)

Eadwulf sighed as she leaned against the wall in her room, the links on the chain of her manacles clinking together; they were a compromise Ivar and his brothers had come to in regard to letting her out of the cell. She hadn’t heard anything in the halls for what seemed like hours now and it was hard to have a conversation with the shield maidens assigned to her door because she only understood a few words in their language. She collapsed on her bed and closed her eyes, hoping to find some sleep to pass the time and though her bed was more comfortable than the cell she had been in before, the bindings around her wrists still made it difficult at times to find an agreeable position to slumber. 

Just as she was nodding off, the blast of a horn filled the air, jerking her awake as the gates of the castle opened and the excited chatter filtered up to her. She scrambled from the bed and hurried to the window, opening it as she watched the returning Viking forces parade in with the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok and her own brother Heahmund at the front. Apparently, they were victorious in their latest battle against her fellow Saxons. 

Her eyes followed the chariot that carried Ivar as they entered the courtyard. Once they had all gathered inside Bjorn gave a speech that was greeted by loud cheers. She huffed slightly and moved away from the window, returning to her bed and falling into a light sleep. 

The feeling of someone on top of her, jerked Eadwulf awake in a panic. She jerked up only to be pinned back to the bed with her arms pinned above her head. The smell of blood, sweat, and leather filled her nose. 

“Princess,” whispered Ivar against her mouth. 

“Ivar,” she replied when he pulled away. 

This close she could see the blood that coated his face, making his blue eyes stand out even more. 

“We were victorious.”

“I can tell,” she said before he sealed his lips over hers, filling her mouth with the slight taste of blood.  

She shifted beneath him slightly, rubbing against him and causing a low groan to escape his lips. He tugged her hands higher above her head with one hand while the other held him above her. 

“Keep your hands here,” he ordered. “Do you understand?”

“Yes, Ivar.”

“My Prince,” he corrected. 

“Yes, My Prince,” she amended after licking her lips. 

“Good girl,” he whispered before releasing his grip on the chains. 

Ivar captured her lips once again, grinding his hips against hers, drawing groans from both of them. 

“Ivar, she breathed. “We shouldn’t.”

“Why not?”

“We aren’t-.”

“I thought you said your God was love,” he grumbled.

“He is,” she said. “But this is a sin.”

Ivar ground his hips against her own. “How could your God be the God of love if he doesn’t allow sex?”

“Sex is allowed but only under the confines of marriage and I am already betrothed.”

Ivar pulled back to look at her his eyes narrowed in consideration. 

“So I have to marry you to enjoy you?”

“Yes, but I am already betrothed,” she stated. 

“Well,” he said, climbing off of her. “I guess I will have to take care of that. Won’t I?”

“That’s not what I meant,” she protested in a slight panic as she struggled to sit up. 

“Then what did you mean?” He asked, turning back to her and tugging on the chain of her manacles pulling her towards him draping her arms over his head. 

“Killing him won’t guarantee anything. My father-.”

“Can’t stop me from marrying you. You want to be with me don’t you?”

The question is asked with such a broken voice that Eadwulf felt her own heart break. 

“Of course, Ivar. Only you.”

“Then I will win you from your betrothed and force your father’s hand.”

That said he pressed a quick kiss to her mouth, ducked under her arms, and left her room. 

[hobis-hope94]

~ I Can Change 2 ~

AN: two fics in one day! I’m on a roll! I wanna write more fluff and comfort for my precious Ransom, because I love him.

😖 Part 1 here 😖

https://fangirllife98.tumblr.com/post/660931222078357504/i-can-change

Paring: Ransom x f!reader (past relationship)

Warning: couple’s therapy, fighting, swearing, crying, alcohol mention and a ton of angst.

Y/S/N - Your Shop’s Name

Y/B/F/N - Your Best Friend’s Name

(gif not mine)

You hadn’t really seen Ransom for a good three months after he showed up at your best friend’s door. You were glad of it but it also made you sad.

He kept his promise at least and didn’t contact you until you were ready, which with the help of your best friend, you contacted Ransom.

You two met at the bar you first laid eyes on each other. At the very same table where Ransom asked you to be his.

“I want this to work between us,” you said softly, cradling your chosen drink. “Some dumb part of me misses you. But I can’t just leap into your arms and play happy families again. This isn’t Disney,” you said gently.

“I understand, Y/N,” Ransom said gently.

He looked truly lost without you. Your heart hurt. He looked broken without you. But you couldn’t easily forgive him for what he did.

“I’ve set us up a therapy session. Y/B/F/N suggested that that’s a good way to gain trust,” you said gently.

“…couple’s therapy? Seriously, Y/N? Those things hardly ever work,” Ransom moaned.

“We’ve got to work hard to make it work, Ran. Please. Just … if you don’t then that means you don’t care about me. About us,” you said, avoiding his gaze.

“…fine. I’m sorry. I want this to work, Y/N. I need this to work. I’m … useless without you,” Ransom sighed heavily.

“Let’s fight for us, Ran. I want this to work too, baby. I do. But you’ve gotta work with me to help mend us. I want all that what you said when I left. And I want it with you. Please? Let’s just try and try hard?” You pleaded, looking desperately at him.

Ransom sighed.

“Okay. Let’s fight. I want us to work too,” Ransom said gently, you smiled gratefully at him.

——

Nobody said couples therapy was going to be easy, but some part of you hoped it would. There was shouting, crying, screaming. From both, you and Ransom.

Your therapist suggested that you two had monthly dates, so you did. You tried gaining your trust back for Ransom, but each day you struggled.

Any time you saw Ransom sneakily check out a girl your heart shattered. Anytime you heard Ransom talk to a girl other than you, you broke.

“You’re not trying hard enough, Ransom! Yesterday I saw you checking a girl out! IN FRONT OF ME!” You screamed.

You were at your weekly session, your therapist had told you fo say whatever you’re currently feeling. You’re feeling anger.

“Jesus Y/N, I wasn’t. I can’t look at anyone else now?” Ransom snapped.

His attitude broke your heart. He clearly didn’t care that much about you anymore.

“This isn’t working. I’m sorry, Doctor. We’re wasting your time,” you said as you grabbed your things.

“Y/N, wait - it’s only been a month. I’ll try harder,” Ransom begged as you stood up in a huff, tears threatening to make their way down your cheek.

“You said that last time, Hugh. I’m sorry. I think this is it for us,” you said, your voice cracked at the look of heart break on Ransom’s face.

“P-please. N-no,” he cracked.

“I’m sorry,” you said, running out of the therapist’s office.

——

That encounter was five years ago. Now, you’ve started your own business and you managed on your own. All of it on your own.

You have gotten friendly with one of your new neighbours - after moving into the apartment upstairs from where you now work. He was dashingly handsome, kind hearted. You two met by him saving you from getting mugged.

You were on a date with this guy, Richard. You two were walking in the park, arms linked. Just chatting and laughing together.

“Oh, shoot. Sorry, sir, I -“ you said as you bumped into someone.

“No, sorry Miss I -“ that someone had a voice you secretly missed.

You were shocked to see Ransom. His hair was a little longer and he had decided to grow his beard out. You two stared at each other.

“….hi,” Ransom said slowly.

“….Hi,” You said.

“…sorry, do you two know each other?” Richard asked slowly.

“Shit. Sorry. Richard, this is … this …” you said, your words failing you.

“I’m Hugh Ransom Drysdale. People call me Ransom … yes, we do know each other. But … haven’t been in touch for five years. Nearly six now,” Ransom said, politely shaking Richard’s hand.

“Nice to meet you,” Richard said.

“Likewise,” Ransom said, smiling.

You three stood in silence. You weren’t sure where to look so you looked to the ground. Ransom stared tearfully at you.

“Huh. Rich, we better get going. I need to open up my shop,” you said hurriedly.

“S-sure. Bye, Ransom,” Richard said as you gently pulled him along.

You two left Ransom in the street. He sighed heavily. He missed you so much.

—

“Have a lovely day!” You said in your cheery tone forgetting what happened that morning.

One of your regular customers just came in, brought the majority of your new stock stayed and chatted then left. You loved it. You had your back to the door when you heard the little tingle chime.

“Welcome to Y/S/N! How May …..oh,” you said, turning around.

Your face fell when you saw Ransom.

“Hi, Y/N. I see you actually started up your own business. Good for you,” Ransom smiled, he seemed genuinely happy and proud of you. For once.

“…thank you,” you said as you walked behind your counter.

“I came not to win you back, because I know I don’t deserve you. I came here to tell you. I’m sorry. I’m sorry I never tried hard enough. I let someone so beautiful, not only in form but in soul too, go. When you left I fell into a heavy binge drinking, then one day I was sick of feeling numb, so I went for a walk. Then I decided to see a therapist. I’m still seeing said therapist, and he’s impressed. I came to say … thank you for all the happy memories. Thank you for sticking with me through my dark days, I’m sorry I didn’t stick with you for yours. I’ve found a job, too. Not much but it’s a start. No more relying on my parents’ income anymore. Just me. Out to vend for myself. All by myself,” Ransom said, smiling.

You stood there, tears in your eyes as you saw Ransom. He truly has changed.

“Im sorry I didn’t become the man you always saw in me when I was with you, and I wish you the lifetime of happiness with Richard, because … you deserve it,” Ransom said gently. “Goodbye, Y/N. Im Sorry.” He added.

Just like that, he left. Leaving you shaking and in tears. Not tears of sadness, but tears of pride. Hugh Ransom Drysdale was going to become the man you always knew he deserved to be.

He really did change.

[mysterylover123]

The case for TodoMomo and BakuDeku

Like I've said in other posts, I think there are supporting pairings that have interesting parallels to BKDK. And I've already highlighted the BKDK/TDMM parallels in another post before : https://mysterylover123.tumblr.com/post/613613080003411968/can-i-do-this

But I wanted to go into a little more detail about what these two ships/character pairings have in common. On the surface they probably don't look that similar, but I think there's a fascinating thread between them.

So here goes:

1. The Same Starting Line

The appeal to me of both BKDK and TDMM is that they are Narrative Foils. Both duos have the same starting line. Bakugou and Midoriya both looked up to All Might and want to surpass him. Todoroki and Momo were both admitted on recommendations.

2. Similar backgrounds

And that's not all. Bakugou and Midoriya shared their childhood, so they come from similar environments. So do Todoroki and Momo; though they didn't grow up together, they're both sheltered rich kids who seem to have had little experience with the social world (the Enicchi festival gives some hints as to their sheltered childhoods).

Both duos sit together n class, so we have plenty of opportunities to observe how their different reactions to classroom events contrast each other:

Then we come to the Battle Trial arc:

3. 2 Serious, Humble Admiring Boys

By Season 1, Shoto and Deku have come to admire and respect Momo and Kacchan. Shoto voted for Momo as Class Rep (Probably inspired by the bit pictured above); since Shoto and Momo are both quieter and more socially awkard than our screamy, shouty emotional lead duo, their interactions are more subtextual, less verbal and confrontational. But the same principle applies. Deku and Shoto parallel each other here because they had tragic childhoods - both of their mothers (They believe) gave up on them, they had few friends or followers, and as such both are fairly serious and somewhat more dour and pessimistic. As illustrated here:

Momo and Bakugou credit Shoto and Deku with more competence than Shoto and Deku believe they have (and vice versa). Bakugou is always convinced Deku is planning something and surpassing him. Momo respects Todoroki as “the most capable student in class” (chapter 99.) 

4. Two Proud, Insecure Gifted Kids:

Because of this, Momo and Bakugou expect Shoto and Deku to do their best, and reprimand them when they don’t:

Momo and Bakugou both begin at UA as rather egotistical and arrogant, looking down on everyone. A series of failures leads to them both developing an inferiority complex because of the way they compare themselves to their boys. 

I pointed this out in my earlier post. Momo and Katsuki confide only in Shoto and Deku just how insecure they’ve become, after failing in the eyes of the public (Momo at the Sports Festival, Bakugou at the same and in his kidnapping because of his angry showing there), and both had disappointing internships (where they both got fancy haircuts, no less!)

5. Outcome: DVK2 & Yaoyorozu Rising:

This is the cue for Shoto and Deku to tell them just how much they admire them.

Two of the sweetest expressions of admiration we’ve heard in all of MHA. And in the aftermath of those confessions, Momo and Bakugou express their character development in similar words:

By the time of the License Exam Arc, Momo and Kacchan are comfortable in acknowledging the capability of their boys:

Oh, and: Prepare to have your heart ripped out again:

Yaoyorozu Rising (Chapter 63):

Ends with Momo saving Todoroki

What is the only other chapter with “Rising” in the title?

Bakugou Katsuki rising. Which ends with Bakugou saving Deku.

6. Intuitive Understanding Ni boys:

Deku and Shoto also show more understanding of Kacchan and Momo than anyone else:

7. The Two of You Can Become The Greatest Heroes:

Both duos are fantastic hero teams:

They’re both teamed up to fight a teacher in the Final Exams are specifically, and we get Deku and Shoto getting kinda handsy while being protective:

Once they’ve cleared away their baggage, they become the best hero teams. 

Because:

(yes that got re-translated. But I think we can agree that Bakugou does trust Deku? Like Momo trusts Shoto? This just illustrates it)

8. Worrying About Two Serious Boys

We also have Bakugou and Momo worrying from the sofa about their boys in Season 4:

And during the TDDK fight in the Sports Festival:

The roles are a little switched post LE arc, since Kacchan and Shoto flunked the exam, but Momo and Deku are both there to worry about them afterwards:

9. More Parallels:

They watch the fall of the symbol of peace, side by side:

 10. Joint Training Arc:

And in the Joint Training arc, Shoto and Deku get to fanboy over them pretty unashamedly:

11. “What would X do?”

Momo and Deku also, thanks to the anime, get to wonder what their boys would do:

12. And Now:

Momo and Kacchan worrying about their boys Post PLF arc:

So in sum, BKDK and TDMM are both pairings based around foils who admire each other but don’t know how to feel about that admiration; who care for each other though they struggle with expressing it; and who make the best fighting duos when they work together. Basically all the best OTP ingredients, and the two pairs par-allel each other, so far, from beginning to end, in obvious and subtle ways. I personally think some of those parallels are too powerful to be accidental (especially the whole ‘RISING’ thing. No way the only two chapters called “Rising” were a coincidence.) The two duos fill each other out perfectly and parallel very neatly. What this is building to it’s hard to say, but a payoff, I think, is needed.

Oh and here’s the rising thing once more for good measure: Volume 8 and 29.