#and the entire verse before that !!

[valtsv]

an element of horror that the silt verses does really really really well is establishing how utterly normalised and accepted human sacrifice is in both "civilised" society and counterculture communities. "a god must feed, a god must be fed" is taken as common sense; the idea of questioning it is laughable to most people. animal sacrifice is seen as at best a temporary substitute for the real thing, and not cost-effective enough to maintain. whether lured into traps and staked to posts as offerings to predatory gods, or coerced into signing contracts that forfeit your life to the state by predators in suits and ties and butchered for parts in sterile white rooms where no one will hear you beg and scream for help, sacrifices are treated like animals, seen as less than human. prayer marks to hallow someone into a saint are branded onto the body like those of livestock. a character who will go on to become one of the most progressive actors for change in the show is introduced to us thanking a saint for their suffering (which powers the train which she takes to commute to work every day) because she sincerely believes that offering a meaningless platitude in order to lessen her guilt at her own complicity is all that she can do. not a single character is introduced to us believing in any system but the one that they've always known. the abuses and exploitation that the entire societal structure relies on are baked into the foundations so completely that imagining anything different outside of it terrifies them at first. it's bone-chillingly brilliant worldbuilding.

[lunacias]

She's feeling a swell of an emotion at confessing all of this. She works to get it under control. /// Although he can't understand her, HAYWARD, too, is choking up a little at the sound of PAIGE's voice.

[dykedvonte]

I hate the stretch lines in the front of Curly's uniform because that means the devs rushed to make a model in like a month or so and thought "They gotta at least know he has huge knockers, gotta know he's got back pain." Cause like what is the thematic importance of his tits having overhang?

What responsibility is that representing? Breast reduction? It shows an inherent greed in his character due to the excess and heshouldletmeholdone and that he clearly is blinded cause if he tries to look down his damn ladder all he's seeing is his own cleavage.

[doyelikehaggis]

@glartswap for @mdverse! Merry Christmas!! <3

[fadewalking]

You guys are afraid to make ancient elf characters and it shows.

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE EDEN PRIME RUN -> PART 1/?

Ft. Lt. Cmdr. Dominik Oliveira-Shepard, Cpt. David Edward Anderson, and Spectre Nihlus Kryik With: Gun. Chief Ashley Williams and Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau MIRA'S AU-VERSE CANONS: ME1 AKA: The one where Dom makes it off Mindoir instead. Part 1/? "Anderson, he knows absolute fuck-all about what happened on Torfan! None of them have a clue! 'Grim business'? 'Brutal'? 'Ruthless'? Like it was something I had control over? Thinking he can just... thinking they can just-" "It doesn't matter! None of it matters! If the Council asks for you by name after all these years? After the shit you pulled? You answer the call." Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021)

[calebs-hangout-corner]

Legend of Shadow High I love you so much but you have so many plotholes <3<3<3

[scandals-r-us]

You know how it is with sandia

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[shepcdr]

@teltinsurvivor // plotted for a starter.

normandy's quiet tonight. too quiet, at least for Shepard's taste, though he knows he can't afford to complain. Quiet at least indicates the absence of trouble, and the absence of conflict at any moment bound to break out between the now many and varying crewmates that have settled aboard. The recruits, mostly drawn from the Illusive Man's dossiers, are shaping up to be a colourful bunch... almost more than he's prepared to handle. No matter the Illusive Man's resources, it's difficult to fill the roles of the SSV Normandy SR-1's crew when the majority of them had been handpicked by Anderson himself. And Shepard had followed in his stead the best he could — when Saren's betrayal forced the Council's hand, and the time had come to bring on a few of his own people. To make it his.

( He thinks he did a decent job. They had pulled through, didn't they? ... pity that the Illusive Man doesn't seem to agree. )

... the whole thing has been more hands-off than he expected, actually. Opinions of Cerberus outside the crew provided him are differing, few of them positive. For good reason. But dissent has been rare thus far ( except for one 'Cerberus, Shepard. Really?' from just the man he expected... and just how he expected it said, too ), and those Shepard took aboard have managed themselves cleanly and without much ruckus. They've found themselves corners and niches in which to etch their names and hang up their things, and — even with Zaeed, until now their greatest wild card, aboard — it's been, thus far, smooth sailing.

Until now... or so he thought.

Purgatory was a hell of a place, and a hellish one too, before they left it in shambles. Torn apart and burning from the inside out — serves them right. And maybe Shepard should have done MORE to it before they left. Done worse. Being left a corpse was the most pleasant thing Kuril should have expected when he tried to pull that con.

Being locked away in cryo for however long on a maximum security prison ship — one would think Jack would be itching for a fight. Shepard knows he would be, however and with whomever. But it seems she's been more than content huddling beneath engineering now that she's got access to all the Cerberus files she wants.

( ... maybe he's a little disappointed. Better outcome or not, it's certainly anticlimactic. )

In his search for a place that isn't as dead silent as his cabin, he's made his way to down to engineering; it's the thought of Jack that veers him onto the stairs leading down into the subdeck.

The hum of the drive core on the engineering deck rumbles around him as he descends. It's a welcome contrast to his quarters. Stowing herself away down here — dark, quiet (not too quiet), hard to find — Shepard can see the appeal. It's not unlike the hideaways he might seek out himself if the Normandy wasn't in the picture. Without it, places like this would be the closest thing he knows to safety.

( Without the Normandy. That's not a future he likes to consider, but he supposes something has to come after this mission. If he survives it. )

' You could go pirate. Live like a king. ' Still. It's a tempting thought once the colony attacks are taken care of... once Cerberus is out of the picture.

Either way, the idea draws a soundless huff of amusement out of him and a trace of a smile as he steps down into the subdeck. Coolly, but steadily and with care: announcing his approach long before he's seen.

" It's been a minute. " Not terribly long, but enough that maybe she's unearthed something interesting from the database. If not, fine by him — Shepard can think of at least a few other things to ask Jack about. Just so long as she lets him. " You busy? "

[catwyk]

hiii!! i have just finished listening to the sikt verses and will now be looking through all your art because wowee!!!!! have fun with all my notes lmao

oh my god hi i just sent you an ask saying thanks and are you okay 😭😭 very glad to see ive given you ranerot (rane brainrot) and im smiling so wide at ur tags

[here-there-were-dragons]

i'm seeing three times as many people bitching in the tag about the very idea that someone might not like this breed than i see people actually expressing unambiguous dislike for this breed

[pavlovianpanic]

❝ yeah, my family owns a mountain. well, like, most of it … like, the peak?? heh ... enough to call it mount washington, but it's actually called blackwood mountain — connected to blackwood pines. it's a whole thing. ❞

a whole community, or more it was. some parts thrived more than others, though only for so long — the mines were cursed, the sanitorium shut down in the 50's, and the hotel? razed down to its lowest levels in the effort to rebuild something new, brighter, and more luxurious. his father's greed knows no bounds, a sickness passed down through blood. a curse. we're cursed. i know it.

❝ we have a lodge, actually. my dad built it. heh, i basically grew up there. if you want, i could show you sometime? you might not know this about me, jovie, but i'm actually a wicked snowboarder. yeah, yeah. it's true. you'll just have to see for yourself. there's enough boards for us both, trust me. besides, if snowboarding isn't your thing, there's enough trails and scenic sights to get your fill for life. trust me. so, what do you say? you in? i could gather the gang together, get us all up there ... or it could be a more private trip? eh? just me and you?? come on, @goldcnpeaks, don't leave me hanging. you in? ❞

[hypocriticaltalkingseal]

It's wild watching Orpheus (KAOS) be the way that he is while having Talk Hozier playing full volume in my head because my brain cannot not play it whenever Orpheus and/or Riddy are on screen

[cheswirls]

magi rambling

idk it jus hit me out of nowhere how much i love magi fic and how sinja is portrayed in such. imo THEEEE best magi fic of all time is works cowritten by galiko and daphnerunning, those two were genuinely on galaxy brain mega dimension level thinking full time, but like less abt magi meta as a whole and more on how the characters are so true to themselves and their flaws

it's been so long that in not gonna be able to remember who all did it but i def remember all of galiko's sinja fic that also portrayed sinbad/judal to some extent, that it was made very clear in the text how differently and on different footing both relationships stood. judal especially in their hands was written so well in a way that changed how i viewed the character in canon to some extent and in every other piece of fictional media. like how can you write someone so pathetic and deceptive and a bastard and it's all perfectly in character

I've never been into sin/ju and i don't think i ever read anything w them in fic seriously or w/o skimming but i did sit thru enough to know how the galiko/daphne pair brought them forth and made it very wanton-ly obvious that sin is always just manipulating judal and leading him on to get what he wants at the end of it all, but in contrast, it's clear that he so deeply loves ja'far in ways mere words cannot express

to see the relationship dynamics compared and contrasted in fic was always such a treat because sin treats almost everyone like they're a stepping stone used to further his own objectives, but then he treats his advisor like a genuine person. shows real care and concern, becomes inconsolable when ja'far is hurt, refuses to quell his rage for any reason when someone has wronged ja'far. his advisor truly is his precious person that he can strip down out of his title as king and just be sinbad around.

and this is even further glorified when ja'f knows but insists he doesn't!!! playa it off bc sin is king and this is uncouth!!! only to have such moments of weakness when anything goes terribly wrong and he's suddenly on the brink of death, terrified of leaving sin behind all alone, letting himself have just as long as it takes to recover the bare minimum amount to bask in sin's unending devotion. they truly do treat each other differently in canon and otherwise and it's so gratifying to see and realize each time as someone who loves sinja so dearly

[until-another-one-comes]

I usually don't like having a solid theory on a piece of media before it's finished because I don't want to get my hopes up too much, but at this point I can't ignore this.

More and more people are pointing out and realising that Miguel broke the dimension he was in because he purposely infiltrated a dimension he doesn't belong in and took the place of another version of him, thus fucking up the place and being the real anomaly. His presence there was what caused the dimension to implode.

The real lesson is: Don't fuck around in other people's dimension, NOT 'Don't mess up the 'canon' in your own dimension' but he doesn't realise this (whether purposely cus guilt or he truly doesn't realise it). You can't mess up your own dimension by going against canon. If that was the case, Miles' dimension would've imploded a long time ago if he 'wasn't supposed to be Spiderman' (and if he isn't supposed to be spiderman, then doesn't that mean he HAS no canon to even follow in the first place??). But it hasn't. Miles' dimension is perfectly fine before the Spot came in.

Obviously I have no idea how the next movie is gonna go, nor do they have to follow what a random person on the internet is saying, but this theory makes so much sense. I sincerely hope this will be revealed in Beyond The Spiderverse as the big plot realisation and I hope it will be mind blowing.