#and they're all mostly already outdated :(

[kiss-dumbbunnies]

finally got my main guys' refs done for this year. not in order of completion

and nessa, for some reason.

edit: forgot to add delila :(

[comicaurora]

A bit of a strange question, but if there were any of your videos you were to "remake" today for any reason (ex: you feel like you misrepresented the original text or spread misinformation), which would it be and why? None of them is a perfectly valid answer

Again: bit of a strange question, but I've been thinking about my own creations and how I could have done so much better with some of them, but I also know that is a sign of my growth and constantly chasing "what if I did this instead" isn't always healthy for nurturing a creative mindset, and I was wondering what your opinion might be as a Creator of Things with a bit more experience than I

There's been a few trope talks where I've thought later of other angles I could've explored that might warrant sequels or part 2s, but I don't dislike any of the summaries enough to justify a rework.

I always find "I could've done this better if I made it now" to be a bit of a fallacy. I'm only better at making things now because I made all those earlier things. If I knew everything I'd learn from making a project before I started the project, it wouldn't come out the same.

I think when it comes to the "rework remake perfect" instinct, it helps to zero in on what the impulse is really grounded in. In my experience, more often than not, it's not actually about making the art better, except incidentally. It's usually about showing that you are better. It's demonstrating your competence and your higher standards and your skills, and more importantly it's overwriting the proof that you were once less than perfect. If people look at your old work and think that's all you're capable of, they'll be judging you poorly!

If that's the motivator, it's a very unhelpful one. You can't control for being harshly or incorrectly judged. It's a fruitless effort to stave off potentially upsetting outdated criticism, and it's not even going to work. Fear of critique is an unreliable and untrustworthy motivator.

If it really is about making the art itself better, perfecting your magnum opus with your newly leveled-up skills, that's a little more solid. But from where I'm standing, it's always better to use those skills to make something new instead of polishing something old. The older, unpolished work has already acquired its audience that finds it appealing for reasons that might never occur to you. Trying to bury or overwrite it just deprives that audience of the thing they like, and maybe makes them feel bad for having liked it in the first place. Also, usually when you look back on the older work, you'll conclude that the problem is everything and it'll need to be torn down and started from scratch. I know when I revisited the first three chapters of the comic, when I let my critic brain spin up, it wasn't shading or lineart I wanted to fix - it was panel composition, overall pacing, the entire structure of the chapters as a whole. I would've had to make them all over again to be happy with them, and they wouldn't be the same story by the end.

I've been thinking a lot about the Discworld through this lens lately. It ended up over 40 books long, but everyone agrees that the first two are not what you should start with, because they're the worst ones. They're entirely parodic, purely referential of at-the-time major fantasy series, and borderline mean-spirited in places. If you haven't read Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser and Dragonriders of Pern, you're not gonna understand like a full 50% of The Colour Of Magic.

It's clear that when he started in on them, Pratchett was entirely focused on taking the piss out of a genre he found mostly shallow and unimpressive. But the Discworld wouldn't leave his head, and everything he made fun of he clearly eventually found himself overthinking. He'd make little one-off jokes in the early books about Dwarves having no women and a hundred words for gold, and then twenty books later he'd have a Dwarf gender revolution make waves across the Disc, and then he'd write Thud!, a book that delves deeper into the nuances of Dwarf societal structure than Tolkien ever did.

If you look for them, there are continuity errors everywhere in Discworld. In his introductory book, Carrot defused a dwarf bar full of rowdy brawlers by guilting them all into writing to their poor lonely mothers back home. Shortly thereafter, Carrot will be outraged at the mere concept of an openly female dwarf. Pratchett even eventually wrote Thief of Time, a book that loosely explains that the Disc makes no sense because history has been broken and put back together incorrectly twice, and therefore any continuity errors are because of that.

He's the writer. He could've gone back and fixed it, edited the reprints to be less disruptively discontinuous with the later books. Instead he continuously moved forward and allowed the world he made to grow without cutting it off from its roots. And because he didn't bury his older, far worse work, we have the privilege of following the Disc's evolution from the very start, and seeing how this shallow, stock fantasy world parody became something incredibly rich and complex without ever pretending like its early installments never happened.

Anyway, that's why I think it's better to move forward. You make more good stuff that way.

[bnhaobservation]

The Todoroki family in Ultra age and other disappointments.

Just in case someone doesn't get it from the title, this isn't a phraise-filled post so if you don't like to hear criticism just skip it. Now...

After litterally jumping in an inferno and managing to rank among the 100 most voted characters worldwide this is all the space Rei, Fuyumi and Natsuo get in the Ultra age book.

No, of course they don't get a full page for them, this is just a tiny box in the Enji section, to point out how they're his victims.

It's vaguely more than the Shimura, as they didn't even get a sentence but the sentences are so meaningless since they don't absolutely say anything new since they're basically OUTDATED to the point they would fit more the second fanbook than this one.

I just can't believe they had a FULL ARC with an HEROIC MOMENT and they get less space than these guys.

Rei never got a profile in the manga, contrary to minor characters or to other characters who got 2! The fanbook was a chance to get info about her and it's wasted.

Should I also go on how the fanbook in the profiles doesn't reveal Geten's true name, Tomura's original Quirk, Touya, Himiko, Jin and all the Villains' bloodtype, birthplace and their likes. or other things that now there's no point in hiding?

They didn't even bother giving us Ectoplasm's real name or Kido and Onima but we need a box for Astro!

Even the timelinse is a mess, we jump from October to March!

It's a FANBOOK PRINTED AFTER THE MANGA ENDED AND ALL THE VOLUMES WERE PRINTED! Give me extra material don't just parrot what the manga said! Instead the fanbook ignores the last chapter printed in the volume only and focuses on summarizing what the other chapters said/showed for pages and pages.

Yes, there are some new info here and there but there's so many wasted chances that really had no reason to be.

Which difference would have made to give to nameless characters a name, to give the Villains their bloodtypes and likes and so on in their profiles? Was it such a big deal?

Okay, I'm ranting but really, this feels SO MUCH like a wasted chance. It could have been information filled and instead it's mostly summary filled of things we already knew. Honestly it's a shame.

[bluerosefox]

Friendships Between Realms (YJ and Danny Shenanigans Being Peek Friendship)

So the 90s YJ group got into a lot of shenanigans tbh. Like a lot and mostly without their mentors knowledge. And whenever I think of YJ I think of the Core 4 (mainly cause Tim is my fav, and the Core 4 is just so amazing together) anyways I honestly wouldn't put it past them if they had accidentally summoned or were being sacrificed by some cult, or meet Danny who accidentally fell into their world via a random portal in someway. (In this DC and Phantom universes are not on the same world, fyi)

Like Danny, still new to being a hero but getting the hang of it, meets them, learns some things from them, and actually gets along with them to the point that when he has to leave Robin gives him a communication device to keep in touch (and Robin Tim would, despite being the second most paranoid of the Bats this boy lies to Batman to his face and had hidden an entire Batmoblie cost in the Batarang budget and keeps it with YJ) and Danny does.

It's nice to have hero friends who understand the struggle of balancing hero and normal lives. Don't get him wrong Danny loves Tucker, Sam and Jazz but sometimes they just don't... fully get it. The danger, the stress, the anxiety, the relief when things are solved or saved, etc etc that comes with being a hero or at least try to be one. They don't understand the urge he gets at like 3 am to go patrol Amity Park just to make sure everything is safe. YJ on the other hand does.

He talks to them about his problems and they help out and Danny in turn helps them out too when he can. Like they needed help with Secret, call up Danny see if he knows what kind of ghost she is (he turned to Clockwork and Frostbite in that case) and Danny in turn talked to them about Dan (they told him about them having to face their own future evil self to at one point). Danny talks to Conner when Dani came into the picture, he wants to make sure he doesn't screw up like Superman did towards his clone's feelings and self worth. Etc etc.

Point is, despite being dimensions and Realms apart, YJ and Phantom are friends and have been in touch. He's friends with all the YJ at the time and keeps in touch with them all but is very close with the Core 4. (Danny was the one that reassured Tim when Bruce was thought to be dead. Couldn't find his soul or ghost in the Realms and Clockwork was being 1000% more crypticd about Batman when Danny had asked if he was lost in time, Danny (or CW) couldn't do much to help due to certain rules but Danny could tell Tim "He isn't dead. Just lost. You're not insane Rob I promise."

So imagine a few years later, DCverse is under heavy near world ending supernatural danger and it gets to the point someone in JLD suggests they may have to summon the Ghost King in order to stop it (maybe its an old ancient ghost/spirit someone foolishly unleased). Of course there are some that strongly advise not to, that summoning him would spell the end of everything, but someone else points out they're already close to that edge they already got no other choice.

So they try and it fails and everyone is confused.

Bart, because of course it's gonna be Bart, returns from helping evacuations takes one look at the summoning circle and says.

"Why are you using those outdated sigals and symbols? That'd like trying to call an out of service number." Bart says before he speed texts Tim, Conner, and Cassie to come over.

Tim, RR, takes one look at the circle and asks who they were trying to summon. When told they were trying to get the Ghost King, him and the Core 4 look at each other before Tim pulls out his communicator and texts Danny.

It takes less than a few minutes before RR tells Impulse that Danny was cool with the summoning and to bring him in. Impulse nods and quickly runs around and changes the old summoning circle around with new symbols and sigals. Then RR turns to most of the JLD members and says sternly.

"You all better not memorize this, this is Phantom's personal summoning line and he only wants friends to know it. He gave us permission."

And with Superboy (Conner) and Wonder Girl agreeing with nods.

Before any of the JL or the JLD could really ask or even interrogate what that meant Impulse was done with the preparation. the Summoning circle was changed around with constellations and other signs of stars, there was a bag of fresh burgers and three milkshakes in the middle of it, and under it was a stylized symbol of a D and a P.

Its Impulse who starts the... chant and raises his hands up. (its actually the dumbest song anyone can think of. Danny wanted it to be funny and the Core 4 totally encouraged it) the candles shift from red to green fire, the star symbols start glowing before flying around on the floor in a circle like shooting stars, the area starts feeling like a cold winter wind beginning to blow, and the stylized symbol is glowing green before...

Danny pops up in his Ghost King form (flaming crown, galaxy cape, looking more ghostly than human but still a teen), finishing up the song and laughing. When he spots his friends he's grinning and waving hello to them, all of them greeting him back.

The JL are confused as heck but noticed how shell-shocked most if not all the members of JLD as their staring at what has to be the Ghost King...

Basically. I want Danny to be one of the people/things the 90s YJ did/meet during their insane shenanigans that most of their mentors most likely didn't know about. They all kept in touch and if they knew, and were later invited to the coronation, of Danny becoming the new Ghost King and later needs to bring out the big guns against a supernatural entity and stuns everyone else that they have a friend in a very high place well... yeah.

[ask-lab-rats]

can we see the designs? (If this has already been shown please link it because I wanna see em all)

Here are the ref pages I used. I made them before I actually started posting here so their a little outdated. Mostly non-canon now

As an added bonus: they're babies in the small pics

[yanmuffins]

Glad you getting better muffin! I just wanted to ask if you could show the style of clothes that teen!vampire!reader wore and when she become adult after and before the biting thing please?

context &. context.

anon i love you. i hope your crops are watered and your harvest is bountiful. i'm really excited that i get to talk about this!! disclaimer: i know a lot of people aren't too keen on inserts being too characterized or specific, but i hope everyone will enjoy her fashion style! i promise it's relevant and i had a lot of fun with it.

so. where do i even begin with this post?

it all begins, of course, with vampire! reader's coming to the wayne manor as a child and the circumnsances behind it. that was a huge shift in her life. she was very little when it happened, long before damian could even dream of being concieved. media was going insane over this bastard wayne child that appeared out of nowhere, hoping to catch a glimpse of her to stamp on next day's newspaper and magazines. and as guarded as she was from the public eye, public appearances were inevitable, even if they were minimal at the time. so it was very important for her to dress and behave very proper and put-together.

but damage control wasn't the only, or even the biggest reason she was dressed like that. we have already established vampire! reader's fashion sense was greatly influenced by alfred, yes (and it still kind of is) — but also the new (fancy, upper-class) environment she found herself in. alfred mostly dressed her in whatever he thought was fitting for a wayne child, and although his choices might have been a bit outdated, no words of complaint were uttered. little vampire! reader's outfits were the least of bruce's problems at the time.

but all in all, it was alfred wanting to welcome her into the family and make her legitimate, providing the best of the best, donning her in the best fabrics from the best seamstresses and the best boutiques. he would show her old pictures of her grandmother, martha wayne, how she dressed, would show her the jewelry that were her heirlooms, and let her take a look at martha's old clothes that she could use once she was old enough, if she so desired.

now reader's fashion choices walk hand in hand with her upbringing, with the education she recieved. she takes being a "proper wayne lady" very seriously. it was a choice of mine to only have vampire! reader wear darker, more somber colors. it overall fits thr wayne/gotham aesthetic as well as emphasizes her upbriging, her blending in to the point of not being noticed. darker colors are also heavily associated with vampires, so there's that too!

onto the outfits. now, teen! vampire! reader is a bit more laid-back and experimental than her child self. but... not really. she begins to coordinate her own outfits without alfred's help, but his influence is far too ingrained in her brain for her to truly distance herself from it. she has certain luxury brands she will and will not buy from, seamstresses she contacts when she wants a piece custom-made.

the excessive formality of her childhood outfits dwindles, but doesn't completely disappear. it gives place to looser silhouettes, a pop of a brighter, non-muted color here and there, a shorter (gasp!) skirt if she's feeling daring, cashmere cardigans and (gasp!) a pair of sneakers here and there. she will go for more formal outfits here and there, but they have a certain joviality to them. the mary-jane shoes are still there, and so are the ballet flats, but now they're joined by loafers and oxfords. of course we have the fancier, tailored fits, with the tweed jackets and such, but they're mostly reserved for fitting occasions. heavy on the usage of long black/grey skirts, usage of pants or shorter bottoms pretty much non-existent.

this is somehwere around the time she convinces bruce to ditch the homeschooling and let her attend high school.

now, as vampire! reader reaches adulthood, the laid-backness of her outfits take a backseat. she leans onto more mature options, martha wayne and alfred's influence back with more force as she adds plenty of her grandmother's belongings into her own wardrobe. with some adjustments, that iconic black dress martha wayne wore to that charity ball fits bruce wayne's daughter like a glove at yet another charity event at the manor. and so many 50's-inspired outfits. her skirts are long, pleated or circle/swing for a more voluminous look with the help of some peticoats. full of neat gathers. usually plain dark or grey in color, but sometimes there's a plaid or a pied-de-poule to add a bit of fun to the outfit.

and that's when she starts wearing martha wayne's jewelry, too, so vampire! reader is getting fancy old money points not just for wearing expensive designer items like they cost $99 cents, but also because a lot of her wardrobe has extremely valuable, genuine vintage pieces that she inherited from a family member.

(can you tell i'm having fun leaning into the nepo-baby aspect of this? because i am. this reader is emotionally neglected but broke she is not.)

here you don't really have the loose sillhouette anymore. there's a lot of things reminiscent of her teenage phase, but now we have puffy skirts with a snatched waist — but nothing too form-fitting, either! no such thing as pencil skirts in her wardrobe, elegant as they may be. sometimes you might get an off-shoulder moment, but that's about it. we have a lot of fur (from martha's wardrobe), wool, velvet, etc.

(most of these are for fancier occasions!!)

but although she wears a lot of vintage or vintage-inspired outfits, there are fits that very much modern. get this: vampire! reader wears pants. jeans, mostly, and not very often, now that she's gone to college, but still. ironically, the sneakers are pretty much out, with designer slingback heels taking their place. designer heels, in general. lots of bags.

vampire! reader also... kinda flirts with the color red here and there, before being turned into a vampire. just a little pop of red here and there, maybe it's a more daring choice of dress she wore. just eyeing the color red sheepishly one time or another. hehe.

and, of course, her style of dressing is very much related to her upbringing. shaped by it, actually. she does enjoy the way she dresses, but i do think it portrays well the overly-posh, demure and modest image she maintains even uncounciously. always safe and never daring (as in she will stick with the outfits she deems proper/appropriate and will not deviate from them, at least not too much), always aiming to honor the family name.

but! onto the more modern outfits that i put together myself:

these are outfits vampire! reader wears on a daily basis! at this point she goes out a bit more often, to go to class, go shopping, a stop by a nice restaurant for lunch…

now here's some more references that i found on pinterest:

now you must be asking yourself: what about haute couture? does vampire! reader purchase those gorgeous, straight-out-of-a-dream dresses? and the answer is no. not often, at least. again, she keeps a very muted, elegant, somber style with no room for sequins, rhinestones, intricate or unconventional designs, anything too flashy in general. in those occasions she’s invited to fashion weeks she might stare at some of them longingly, desperate to find a plain enough dress she can wear to one of those few public appearances in she’s allowed to make. this is all before vampire! reader... well, being turned into a vampire. but i will say that the changes start some time before her transformation. her gradual changes and ultimate style as a vampire are still a work in progress, i'll admit. but.

dresses get more fitted, at first. the necklines get lower. skirts get a tiny bit shorter. the outfits more playful, more risqué, more assymetrical. there are corsets, deep red and green velvet, delicate laces, sleeveless tops with no white blouse underneath. it's cunty, that's all. and honestly? this is once again vampire! reader being influenced, this time by her sire, as she goes out with them into the night. the confidence isn't really there, lots of outfits she hasn't really picked and isn’t comfortable wearing.

(jason, duke and damian are first to notice it, and it makes a few alarms go off in their heads.)

i have some references and inspo, lots of them from 90's and early 2000's fits. she’ll lean more into haute couture then.

but i’m still deciding on vampire! reader’s style once she gets turned. this is the overall gist of it, though. a femme fatale kinda vibe — sexier, cuntier and absolutely powerful once that confidence kicks in and she starts wearing what she wants.

so that’s it for now I guess?? thank you for the ask anon, this was super fun!! ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡と

[bonny-kookoo]

I freaking adore 'Unstable'. 😵‍💫🩷

Can we get a Drabble where Mc is knitting small little animals (like a dinosaur) and they are all over the ship? Or JK has one attached to him? And of course he denies being soft for her and liking the small plushies😮‍💨

-> Masterlist

They're hanging everywhere at this point.

At first you worried that Jungkook might get annoyed with them- but he doesn't seem too bothered as long as you keep them in places he doesn't need to work at. So you hang the different knitted little animals on the screws at the large windows, or on hooks originally meant for coats. Jungkook has mentioned that the ship was originally property of an entire crew- but it got too old, most of the software and parts long outdated, so the crew sold it to be scrapped.

Jungkook bought it a few years later, and repaired it mostly by himself.

"What's this one?" He asks you, as you finish another little animal in your lap. It takes you a moment to realize that he's genuinely talking to you- something he only recently started to do more often.

".. a goat." You croak out, voice still horribly scratchy and painful to use. It causes his eyes to warm up quite a bit, as he sighs, reaching for something near his chair, before he waves you closer.

You do so, taking the little grey-ish goat with you. It's a round shape, and the horns are a little crooked, but you're quite proud of your progress. It's not that hard to learn for you.

Jungkooks hands kind of clumsily sit you down on his thigh before he shakes the inhaler Yoongi gave him, before he puts it to your lips. "Breathe in." He commands, and you do- flinching still a bit when the inhaler clicks and releases the medicine. "Hold it." He tells you next, removing the plastic device before he looks at you for a moment.

You've risked your life to help him get his ship fixed, and he's not sure if you did it for yourself, or him. You're human, after all. And humans sometimes do odd things for no reason at all.

"..good job." He mumbles, as you take it as a signal to finally breath again. You cough a bit, before you can clear your throat, medicine already soothing quite a lot as you watch him take the little knitted animal from your hand.

And then, he rips the little loop apart, much to your wide eyes. You're horrified at the prospect of him being this evil for no reason to tear apart your hard work-

But instead, he uses the two ends of the little loop to tie it onto the Keychain with all his different types of keys and keycards.

He didn't break it. He wants to keep it.

"Gotta get you some other colors." He mumbles nonchalantly, leaning back in his seat, not urging you to get up from his leg at all. "Grey's boring." He huffs, watching the main control display for anything out of the ordinary.

And somehow, this little act of softness of his makes you feel bold. So you swing your legs over his other leg as well, and lean against his chest, waiting for his reaction, but all you get is his hand on your waist, arm keeping you secure as you decide to rest a little more-

Noticing just how warm he is.

[watching-spn]

spn s6 bingo card update!

okay so i made this bingo card before starting s6 and now i wanna take a moment to talk about it after finishing the season. for some of them i'm not totally sure whether i can cross them out or not, but yeah, let's try:

"dean wanting to bring sam back from hell" -> yeah, dean admits to have tried to bring sam back in that one year between 5x22 and 6x01, because he didn't know sam was already back. and after he finds out that sam's soul is still in the cage, he does everything in his power to get it back

"michael isn't dead and he's very pissed off" -> yeah idk, i guess this one's also true because he's just in the cage, so not dead (as i understand it, angels are only dead when they're actually gone? like, neither in heaven nor hell or whatever else, so i'd say he's still alive, just not free). and i think you could say he's pissed off, considering the damage he did to sam's soul in there

"dean and cas hug" -> well, no. we were robbed.

"chuck is either god or in danger" -> yeah lmao no chuck in the entire season, guess he's just useless now that the whole prophet-thing is kinda outdated with the free will/no apocalypse thing, so maybe he just vanished because his purpose is gone? idk, kinda wanted to know why the fuck he just disappeared into thin air but okay thanks (i mean there are still more seasons, so maybe he'll come back. not counting on it though)

"bobby being absolutely done with the boys but helping anyway" -> lmao always, we even got a whole episode of this

"time travel" -> yup! the whole titanic thing of course, but i'd say the most prominent time travel ep was the one where they visited samuel colt

"dean gets slammed against a wall" -> i mean, he's been beaten up and probably been smashed against walls often enough, but i only count the ones that have at least a bit of homoerotic tension, so sadly none in this season as far as i recall

"bloody cas" -> oh yes. 6x19 where the jefferson starship attacks cas and dean just cuts its head off from behind and splashes cas with blood. yeah

"dean dies again" -> yeah (6x11 when he wants to talk to death). when doesn't he?? i think that's the only thing one can be sure of when watching this show

"sam at the very end of 5x22 was actually lucifer" -> ok no

"dean praying to cas" -> yeah like all the time. but somehow i want it to be more intimite (?), yk as in him being alone and sincere about it and not just "hey castiel... could you come down for a sec?", i want him on his KNEES

"sam fucking a monster" -> surprisingly not. cas does kiss a demon though

"really powerful cas" -> oh i cooked with this one. wasn't thinking about god level power but damn yeah

"dean crying" -> i think so? i think he cried when lisa almost died. i could be wrong though

"adam is dead" -> since he's not alive, i guess he's dead, yeah. not saying he can't also come back, but yeah, dead at the moment

"god dies" -> still don't even know who/where he is, soooo no

"sam having trauma" -> not at first, but the second the wall to his memory of hell breaks down this boy is nothing but a big ball of trauma

"dean and lisa break up" -> yeah, i was pretty sure he would lose her and ben somehow :(

"archangels being assholes (raphael??)" -> ha i called it! i figured since michael and lucifer are in the cage the next one who was gonna fuck up their lives would be him

"hell flashbacks" (not flackbacks lmao, sorry for the typo) -> mostly just sam on fire but yeah

"cinematic showing of cas' wings" -> yesss 6x15!!! love it

"lisa dies" -> almost, but fortunately we have cas and his healing powers!!

"crowley kissing more guys" -> i'm certain he did, but we didn't get to see it :(

"more intense destiel eye sex" -> in my opinion jensen and misha can't do a scene together without their characters doing that. so yeah. it was there

so in conclusion: bingo!(?)

this was actually fun so maybe i'll do this again for another season!

[bekolxeram]

Unfortunately, I don't have the means to donate this time, (Stupid expensive health issues🙄) but I'd still like to express my gratitude to Bucktommy and this fandom for the occasion.

Not that my life has ever been sunshine and rainbows, but 2024 has been particularly difficult for me. I started the year the sickest I've been for years, then one of my uncles passed away in February. He was 88. He had been slowly succumbing to dementia for quite some time, so almost everyone agreed a cardiac arrest was a blessing in disguise.

I wasn't close with him, but my mother was, and naturally, I had to spend pretty much the entire March accompanying her to all sorts of traditional ceremonies for the dead. All my uncle's children, my cousins, came back from abroad as well. They enjoyed hanging out with me back when I was a toddler, but then I slowly grew up into this weird, moody kid of few words, and we kind of drifted apart from there.

Family reunions were never awkward despite my gloomy existence though, they had their fun aunt who never ran out of things to talk about. To them, my mother's the life of the party and an exemplary woman, who went through tragedies in life but still manages to come out stronger on the other side, who unfortunately had to re-enter the workforce later in life to support her physically ill husband and her mentally ill teenage daughter.

What they don't know, is that while she's a fun aunt, she's not a fun mother. She was dealing with the stress and frustration so well because she always had an outlet at home. Someone she had total ownership over, officialized by a piece of birth certificate. Someone she could do whatever she'd like to, emotionally and physically, because in my culture, it's simply an alternative, maybe outdated method of parenting, not a crime.

I've had time to process my messy relationship with my mother, I've come to (mostly) accept it for what it is. Watching my cousins all rushing over to my mother with open arms to console her, watching my cousins' children playing around, having fun with her, while my existence was barely acknowledged, was actually more triggering than I expected. It acted as a sobering reminding that not only do I have merely a handful of friends since I left church, I in fact don't have any family left either. They're all my mother's family, not mine.

It was probably the most lonely and isolating experience in my life. It's like I was trapped inside of my head, my head that was gradually turning into a bottomless pit of nothingness.

Then Tommy Kinard drove through cross town traffic just to clear the air in person. He expressed how much he wanted to be a part of a family. Then he took his shot and got the boy in the end.

I just felt... understood. Watching Bucktommy's story play out on screen gave me some rare moments of joy and much needed hope. I felt like if Tommy could find happiness later in life, maybe it wasn't too late for me either.

If you've had experience with depression, you'd know how sometimes getting out of bed, brushing your teeth feels like an uphill battle already. Motivation is precious and hard to come by. I was so motivated creatively by Bucktommy and people in the fandom who resonated with the story just like me, that I wrote series of posts analyzing every scene in S7, I learned how to make gifs to illustrate the humor I found in all of us, I figured out how to edit video especially for my vision of a Brad-nado, I even wrote and posted my first fanfic ever.

And I just love how we refuse to give up hope, even after the breakup. We cried, we whined, then we doubled our effort writing fix-it fics, continuing their story on our own terms. Now, we even manage to raise thousands of dollars for charities in 24 hours in the name of love.

Sorry for the wall of text all about myself, I hope I don't come across as a self-absorbed jerk. I always thought I would never make it to 30, it started feeling like a real possibility in March. What happened instead was that my 30th birthday came and go because I was too busy screaming about Buck batting his eyelashes at Tommy when he was receiving a medal.

I'm sitting here, typing this out, looking back at my 2024 at the end of the year, only because Bucktommy happened and I had the pleasure to cross path with you all. I know, it's stupid, it's just a TV show, but I can't really imagine how my life would turn out if I never had Bucktommy, where I would be right, or even if I would still be at all.

So, thank you, for making life worth living for me again.

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

hi! can i request ken x (male) reader who’s from texas and breaking ken’s idea of the patriarchy (mostly the realities of cowboy life lol) thank you!!

"Now what're you supposed to be, a cowboy or somethin'? Because it looks like you're goin' to a fashion show upstate."

Blinking owlishly, Ken spun around on his heels, coming face-to-face with you. He looked at your clothing up and down, noting you had a hat similar to his, along with ripped jeans, cowboy boots, and a buttoned plaid shirt.

His eyebrows furrowed with confusion, not seeing an apparent difference.

Nevertheless, he realized you were another human male who was trying to talk to him, and he was excited! This was his big chance to learn more about the patriarchy of the Real World!

But he didn't wanna let his eagerness show too much, so he leaned against a nearby pillar, keeping the books tucked against his side.

"Nah, I ain't goin' to no fashion show....partner..." He made a poor attempt at mimicking your accent, which he noted was heavily Southern, and it took all your willpower not to laugh your ass off.

Yet you couldn't help chuckling anyways, which made the blond pout as he adjusted the brim of his hat. "Awh I'm only teasin'." You shook your head. "I will say it does fit ya pretty good. Haven't seen anything like that back in Texas."

"...oh really? Thanks!" He put a big smile back on, trying to sound cool and casual. "Sounds like a fun place. I'm just here..seeing what this world's all about...getting accustomed to the patriarchy. Man, I wish Barbie told me about-"

"Hold on..." You stopped him in his tracks, being perplexed by several things he just said. "What about the patriarchy? You act as though it's a lifestyle-"

"Is it not? Because I see it all around us!" He spread his arms out. "It's incredible! Everything's backwards but yet...I'm just amazed! This world caters to us men!" Then he stepped closer, showing you the books in his hands depicting studies of horses and patriarchy, a sparkle in his eye. "Look, these books have already taught me so much!"

You blinked, taking one of them and frowning as you recognized the barcode as being from the school your cousin attended. "Ya realize you stole these from a school library, right-?"

"Back in Barbieland, we Kens had none of this stuff!!" He ignored your remark, yanking the book from your hands as he continued to babble on and on and how "awesome" the patriarchy is while pointing to a nearby horse statue.

He's acting as though this was the first time he's ever heard of it, firmly believing that it's all about men and horses.

That would've convinced you that this guy was either insane or living under a rock all his life....had he not mentioned "Barbieland", "Barbie", and "Ken".

'As in...the dolls my little cousins played with?' You pondered. 'Well it would certainly explain the outlandish outfit..and how it doesn't look like any lights are on upstairs...'

"So.." You cleared your throat, he was quick to shut up and let you continue, blinking as you offered your hand. "Before I forget...the name's [y/n]. A pleasure to meet ya."

He studied your gesture intensely, before putting forth his manliest handshake possible, his eyes lighting up when you laughed and complimented his strong grip. "And I'm Ken, the pleasure's all mine."

"Yeah, I figured."

"Well, [y/n]. You seem to embody everything a human man is, so...you got any advice for a fellow man who only just recently learned of all these great luxuries?" He raised an eyebrow.

You thought about it for a few moments, letting his hand go as your gaze went back to the books tucked under his arm. "Yeah, uh..for one, ya seem to be holdin' onto this "idea" that patriarchy's all about the horses. I hate to break it to ya....but it ain't that simple."

"....wait, it's not..?" He blinked in bewilderment, looking to the books and frowning. "Are you sure? Because these books told me-"

"They're outdated an' used for history projects at school. They don't accurately showcase modern cowboy culture, which is what ya seem to be enthralled with."

"...these don't???" His voice became higher-pitched, becoming utterly devastated that he was lied to. "But if it's not about horses..then...then what about the statues, hm? And those officers riding them?!"

"Ken..in this world anybody can ride a horse if they wanted to. You just happen to see more guys than gals doin' it."

"Oh..."

"Look, it's true that more men are in charge of stuff here in LA, but the patriarchy is really just a messy system that harms both sides." You frowned slightly. "It ain't somethin' I'd wanna idolize."

"...but why?"

You sighed, unsure of how you could possibly dumb it down for him even further. "'cuz it's turned some of my own friends and family into vile dirtbags who think the world owes them everything. I'd hate to see ya fall down that same pipeline."

He nodded in slight understanding, but seemed rather sad as he hugged the books to his chest, feeling like his dreams were shattered just as he began to realize them..

"I thought it was just like Barbieland..."

"Ya'll got a matriarchy there?"

"...I guess..? They write all the constitutions and stuff."

"And...how do they treat ya?"

"Like we're accessories." Ken huffed, eyebrows knitted together in frustration. "They aren't terrible, but...I only have a good day when Barbie looks at me..which...hasn't been happening lately. I was thinking if I could show her the cool horses and stuff...she'll see me differently. See me for the man I can be."

You never expected for this conversation to derail into you trying to resolve a doll's identity crisis, but it's clear he was holding onto the misconception that the "Real World" was just opposite of Barbieland--where men had it all here and ruled without flaw.

That was far from the truth.

"Now changin' yourself for a lady isn't what ya wanna do, son." You patted his shoulder, causing him to look up at you in astonishment. "You're good enough as you are. But I take it that deep down...ya just care about the horses?"

He nodded again.

"Then..how about instead of reading this misleading garbage--" You tapped the binder of one of the books "--ya talk to someone who's lived the authentic cowboy life? Somebody with experience?"

Looking all around, he seemed confused for a moment, before his gaze returned to yours. "Like....you?"

"Yup."

"Isn't being a man and wearing this not enough?"

"It's a wee bit more complicated than that. It's hard work. But if you're interested in that sort of life, I can tell ya all about it." You offered, smiling as you watched the grin return to his face.

"I'd love that. Now if I don't need these stupid books, then I'll just--" He went to toss the stack into the nearest trash bin, but you were quick to intervene.

"Hey, hey, hey! Ya can't just throw away school property like that!"

"...but you just called this "garbage"."

"It's a figure of speech, Ken." Sighing, you just shook your head, taking the books off his hands. "You'll learn a lot about that here. Let's just go return these and I'll tell ya all about my life back in Texas. Whatever ya wanna know, I'll do my best to answer."

Ken's eyes shimmered at the prospect of hanging out with another guy..like all the other humans he's seen. That's all he truly wanted, really--just to bond with someone and not be in some aggressive rivalry unlike what he had with the other Kens.

He's lucky he ran into you.

"Can I ask something now?"

"Sure..if it's less than ten words." You humored him.

"Do..you..own..horses..? That's four." He grinned, counting on his fingers just to be sure of it.

"I do. Poor things couldn't take the dry heat of Texas, so they came along with me in a truck. I'll show ya pictures after we return these books."

Ken nodded eagerly, unable to hide his excitement as he followed you back to the library, ready to learn more about your culture.

[aristidetwain]

Hiya! Been re-exploring your Master theories and posts the last couple of days, as I do from time to time, and, even thought there's lots of in-depth stuff on the War Chief and the Man with the Rosette/Magistrate/War King, there's nothing much really about the time between the Academy and War Games. So what do you make of this era? Do you have any headcanons or canonwelds about researcher Magnus vs law enforment Pavo, The Dark Path's Koschei, the inventor incarnation.. Any theories on the order?

Ah, well, the Rosette/Magistrate/King stuff is probably outdated, I'm afraid, though I'm honoured you find worth in rereading it! Nowadays I do most of my canon-welding in the welding channel of the main Doctor Who Discord server, which you're welcome to join, though I really ought to remember to post more here. (Assuming the entire website doesn't go under, but… eh, we've done this doomsday dance before.)

As for the Young Master of it all… You can't weld everything without sacrificing some details, but presently it sits in my mind thusly:

Incarnations #1 through #4 were field researchers on Gallifrey, as per FASA's The Master reference book. My notes have Flashback's ‘Magnus’, who is, as you say, also a researcher, as the fourth of these, mostly because I am a steadfast believer in the Morbius Doctor, and it's silly enough as it is that the Master would only be on his fourth body while the Doctor, being Hartnell, is already on his ninth. FASA claims #1 through #5 all looked exactly alike, but we needn't worry about such things.

Incarnation #5 is, per FASA, forcibly retired from field research in the aftermath of the Morbius Crisis — which only makes sense, since, as @corallapis is fond of pointing out, the Imperator was, after all, the Master's cousin, above and beyond the crackdown on anyone with interventionist leanings that results from the ousting of ol'Morbs. #4 failing to strike it big with the Flashback experiment can't have helped, of course…

He is forced to take up a position as a professor at the Academy, but, as per Birth of a Renegade, decides to repay this vote of no confidence by starting a monarchist student revolution which forms the background to both the Doctor and himself being run off the Homeworld. (Birth illustrates him as looking like Anthony Ainley at the time, which we really don't need to worry about.)

Incarnations #6 and #7 are the ones which FASA hopelessly identifies as two identical versions of the Meddling Monk; but hold. We just established that the Master ran away from Gallifrey at the same time as Hartnell, in disgrace. How could he be a "truant officer" hunting Dr Who for a Renegade by the time of Time & Relative? And anyway, why would the C.I.A. files (as which the FASA sourcebooks usefully present themselves) mistakenly believe the Monk was Masters #6 and #7?

Here, far from contradicting the rest of our material, the two ‘Pavo’ incarnations in The Black Hole come in handy. They're working for Chapter Nine, you'll recall — the Time Lord secret police, distinct from both the C.I.A. and the official Chancellery Guard. I believe that, very shortly after the Master left Gallifrey, he was made an offer he couldn't refuse by Chapter Nine, and became their agent in exchange for continued freedom. On the principle that poachers make the best gamekeepers, they tasked him with hunting down other runaways as per both Time & Relative and The Black Hole, which happily was more or less what he was planning to do anyway, at least as concerns one particular runaway in a blue box.

Anthony Keetch and Janet Dibley's ‘Pavos’, then, are the two lives the Master spends in service to Chapter Nine. Their very existence is top-secret, and therefore, it's not so surprising that a rival intelligence agency would find a gap in the Master's life-cycle, and wrongly assign reports of a disguised Time Meddler in 1066 to the missing Master… Perhaps evidence to that effect was even manufactured by Chapter Nine to help blur their tracks.

Incarnation #8 is the ‘Koschei’ of the late and regretted Dave McIntee's The Dark Path. Although he looks like Delgado, he is very definitely not the same body seen on television. Koschei's status quo at the start of Dark Path tracks pretty well with what we established above — except that it's the C.I.A. he cites as allowing him to travel freely within certain limits (and who are, through Ailla, monitoring him more closely than he suspects). No doubt the counter-intelligence politics which led to the Agency 'stealing' him from Chapter Nine are fascinating. There is precedent, of course: the C.I.A. spent Season 6B making use of an asset whom the Division would certainly regard as rightfully ‘theirs’.

In any case, the Master falls into the Darkheart and loses three lifetimes to it before emerging in a new incarnation who is the first to take on the name of ‘the Master’. Clearly these lives weren't a complete washout, but they may explain why, in Dicks's Save Yourself, the Edward Brayshaw War Chief's immediate predecessor carried a vial of Elixir of Life from Karn on his person as a precaution against regenerative dysfunction; and why, in Dicks's Timewyrm: Exodus, his unplanned regeneration into Delgado aborts midway through and leaves him stuck in a horrid hybrid form until he can restart it. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Incarnation #9, in my head and in my head only, is a little complicated, for reasons too silly to discuss here. But for practical intents and purposes, this is as good a place as any to put the green-eyed ‘Koschei’ seen in Cwej: The Series, entirely out of sequence with the Time War-impacted Homeworld he interacts with there. This is, unfortunately, the only pre-Brayshaw Master for whom I can give you no visual reference at all. Usefully, the Cwej Koschei is noted to have imitated his mythical namesake and torn out parts of his biodata to conceal them in certain objects, which is said to have resulted in his timeline being a little unstable and contradictory.

Incarnation #10 must thus be the 'Inventor' Master played on the Big Finish audio tracks by a certain despicable individual whose name rhymes with "making a lot of fuss", and on the cover of Blood of the Time Lords by a clever Photoshopping of Anthony Ainley's goatee onto an image of George Pravda from The Deadly Assassin which still manages to beat the aforementioned voice actor for human warmth. We know from The Home Guard that this Master comes directly before the War Chief, which handily means that we now where he dies, as per Save Yourself: rotting away in a Trastevarian jail.

Which gets us all the way to Edward Brayshaw (#11), Felix Kriegslieter (#11.5) and Roger Delgado (#12).

Frankly, given how none of these pieces were ever meant to fit together, I'm amazed at how well it all hangs together as an overall life-path, from the idealistic but arrogant researcher and activist, to the hotheaded revolutionary, to the reluctant government asset on an ever-tightening leash, to the drifting amoral renegade, before finally settling as the galactic supervillain we finally meet on television. Canon-welding at its finest, if I do say so myself.

[cruyuu]

Now, that JJK is over, what do you think are Yuuji and Sukuna’s greatest personality strengths and weaknesses? Why? What do you love about their dynamic? Since when that you start shipping them? What are your favorite headcanons of them? What is your fav SukuIta (canon) moment? Do you have any fav ships (from any fandom) that the dyanamic remind you of their ship? Sorry if I ask too much....

Hi anon!

What do you think are Yuuji and Sukuna’s greatest personality strengths and weaknesses? Why?

Yuuji's strength is that he's the most compassionate person ever and that he's able to empathize with anyone, no matter what they had done. This, however, is also what I would call his weakness (a savior complex).

Yuuji needs to realize that not all people need saving or to "be better". Sometimes, they just love being the way that they are. Sukuna is the greatest example of this.

As for Sukuna- His isolation is both his strength and weakness. Strength mostly because he's totally independent and doesn't need anyone (as he had said himself). When I say "his weakness is isolation", I do mean specifically "isolation from Yuuji", because Sukuna had never paid anyone else that much mind like he did to Yuuji. All it took to spark that "hate" (interest) was the idea that he's more of a cage than a vessel, btw, which... really says something about Sukuna (that he's a fake idgaf-er).

What Sukuna fails to realize is that everyone gets lonely and longs to find someone who understands them rather than pities, envies or whatever else. Just someone who understands.

Why have you started shipping them? + Since when do you ship them?

To me, chemistry is important more so than if the characters look hot. If two characters do not have an engaging (or unique) dynamic, or if they barely even interact with each other, they'll be boring and hence I won't really invest myself into them to ship them. I hate overrated ships. Sometimes I do get behind them but only if I grow to love those characters first, but I usually attach myself to ships that have an interesting story behind them.

As for "why them really?", I already talked about it here in greater depth (although this answer of mine is a bit outdated considering a lot has happened since then). All in all, these two have a very interesting dynamic in canon and there's just something delicious about them being obsessed with each other so much so that it overshadows everything in their lives. Also; the lying, saying one thing and doing the other, the fact that they started off as complete opposites yet ended up becoming the same... and a lot, lot more.

I started shipping them right at the beginning of the story. My obsession solidified itself further at the end of the Culling Games arc, when Sukuna switched vessels.

What do you love about their dynamic?

You have two "people" who are complete opposites and are enemies. Yet... these two enemies seem to understand and read each other better than all others do. You're conveniently shown that throughout the story- just how much these two do belong together. Yet because they're enemies, they bicker and fight and will never admit it out loud. What's there not to love about two people who are in deep, deep denial that they care about each other because no one else can compare to their other? They will never admit that "that other" checks all the boxes to what they're looking for tho.

It leads to hilarious (contradictions) moments such as:

Sukuna calling Yuuji boring one minute then turning around and saying he improved a lot (with glee). ???

Yuuji ignoring Sukuna at the beginning of the story only to drop the most mind-blowing romantic confession of "being together forever" in 268. ???

Sukuna- who btw hates Yuuji- indulging him as they go through memories together. They also dance! ???

Sukuna apparently losing all that intelligence he once possessed and being in close range to Yuuji despite the fact that he claims to himself that his punches need to be avoided. ???

Yuuji "I will never be like you, Sukuna" cannibalized his half-brothers which is... clearly a Sukuna thing. ???

Since we're on that matter tho, he specifically did it to (and I quote): "Kill that creep." Why is he confessing he can live with him and asking him to come back to him again and again? Does that mean he lied to Choso back then?? Lied to all sorcerers?? ???

Mahito and Sukuna are the same. They're both terrible curses that live to cause suffering and who had also mocked him. They need to die. Mahito nearly meets a brutal death with stone-faced Yuuji chasing after him yet Sukuna... gets cradled lovingly? Gets paraded around Sendai? Gets "Let's try again"? Gets to dance with Yuuji who's happily smiling? ???

And more things. I have to re-read jjk and make an actual list lol

What are your favorite headcanons of them?

Oh, I have a lot of them.

That they cook together, that Yuuji buys Sukuna flowers which he says he'll throw away (but never does) and that Sukuna secretly writes Haiku to Yuuji.

What is your fav SukuIta (canon) moment?

Shinjuku battle 1v1 where Sukuna learns Yuuji can use Shrine is still my #1, but I recently started appreciating the divorce a.k.a the moment where Sukuna awakens in Megumi's body, saying "Remember that I said we'll see something interesting, brat?" and the fight that follows. Considering we know now how jjk ends, it's just... so confusing lol Yuuji's anger feels more like it was because he left him rather than because he overtook his friend's body.

Do you have any fav ships (from any fandom) that the dynamic remind you of skit?

Hannigram from Hannibal and Dracula and Agatha from BBC's Dracula. Like I said I'm a sucker for ships where the characters have back-and-forths, tease each other and behave like everything except like enemies (in the latter's case).

[mikunology]

hello! really love this au!!! i was wondering if u have any documentation on how the CVs’ mechanics and such work? like schematics or something? i also wonder if there is any artwork of what it looks like when they’re charging or shut down or related robotic tendencies. it really fascinates me and i love to see if there’s any lore u had in mind for that!

hello, thank you for checking out my work ;v; oh gosh...tbh, I kiiiinda did have some notes about the Cryptons' schematics once upon a time but they're more than likely outdated X'D

I have a general idea of their mechanics and stuff, but I never wrote it down since I'm really bad parsing out science-y stuff and I get really indecisive...and it already took me 10 thousand years to finally nail down the superpower lore X'D so. (this is not making me look like a good worldbuilder or storyteller in the absolute slightest)

To answer some of your other questions, though: in regards to how they look when off or charging, when charging they usually just look like they're asleep! Which they kind of are, mostly. It's easier and quicker to charge when they're in sleep mode. When they're shut down, however, especially when it's unexpected, it's kinda like this:

Their eyes and all of their accessories (headphones, sleeves, etc) go dim, and of course, they no longer move. (It's kinda bizarre seeing them like that when you aren't used to it.)

I'd mentioned it on this blog before, but I guess for a little tidbit about their mechanics: the large button on their headphones acts as an ON/OFF button, and their sleeves/the panels in their arms act as control panels, status displays, and contain some other functions like holographic video call. Both areas also have jacks where they can plug into other devices.

Lastly, I did have this old doodle of Meiko with Miku when she was still unfinished:

And since I'm on a little break, take a new doodle of the twins in the maintenance room.

[armitagehuxsleepschedule]

wait omg okay hold on i just saw your post about headcanons for like population growth, birth rates, family & marriage stuff in the first order and since last week i have been trying to compose an at least vaguely comprehensible question about stuff related to that bc i was super curious to hear your opinion on it so i guess this is my sign to just send this ask now even tho my question is not fully formed (i hope that’s okay!!)

first, please share all the headcanons please like i would LOVE to hear them like this stuff is so fascinating to me 🙏 🙏

second, my question was going to be about first order cultural ideas around family, marriage, and parenthood if you have thoughts on that! again, i apologize that these ideas are not fully developed, but i’m so curious what the cultural norms are, esp among officers. bc like, of course many of the stormtroopers are taken as children, so that’s like a different situation entirely, but what if you’re born to like a high-ranking ex-imperial? family name and legacy seem pretty important, so it feels like there would be at least some connection there, but it also doesn’t seem like the most nurturing environment. do the kids mostly get raised by nanny droids and then sent to the academy as a sort of boarding school type situation when they’re old enough?

and also on the marriage thing, do married couples share quarters? it seems like almost everyone in the first order has a military role to some extent, so i doubt there are many ‘stay-at-home spouses’ or spouses living planetside or something. is it like common knowledge when people are together? how do you even navigate that sort of relationship when there is no exterior ‘home’ space to return to, bc everyone is always participating in this military organization that extends to every aspect of people’s lives?

okay whew i’ll be done now!! truly no worries if this is like way too much or if you don’t have thoughts on this! i thought i’d go ahead and ask but absolutely no pressure to answer!! ☺️☺️

(also hello hi this is will-wonders-never-cease ☺️🧡)

(rubs hands together evilly) boy do i ever have specific thoughts on this front >:) this is gonna be long lmaoooo. and quite possibly incoherent.

so i'm gonna preface this by saying most of this is based on absolutely nothing but my own imagination, and not actually supported by canon. i be makin shit up.

in my hc the first order has a policy of mandatory sperm & egg donation for all staff (regardless of rank). they use some kind of artificial gestation machines to actually grow babies from these dna samples, though, because efficient operation of the first order requires all the staff to be in working order regardless of sex/gender, so making the female staff put up with pregnancy and childbirth is just impractical. most younger staff would find the idea of getting pregnant and having a baby the natural way laughable & outdated at best.

and of course for those silly individuals who do somehow against all odds manage to get pregnant and have a baby the natural way, there's no parental leave. it's not your commanding officer's fault you were stupid enough to do that, now get back to work!

kids who are successfully born in the first order aren't told who their biological parents are. the nuclear family is not a thing in the first order, all the kids are being cared for by either droids (in infancy) or training staff (once they're old enough to walk), so the logic is telling the kids who their parents are (and/or telling the parents who their kids are) is unnecessary and could lead to the kids getting unequal treatment.

(they also don't believe in doing nuclear families because they worry that loyalty to a family unit or to a specific relative could compromise loyalty to The Cause TM.)

families were more common in the early first order, when most staff were people who already knew their relatives when they joined or were conscripted, but it gets less common as time goes on and they get more into the baby-kidnapping business. and on the topic of baby-kidnapping, extremely low birth rate is a big part of why they do that in the first order. even with artificial fertilization and incubation, most first order citizens are mostly or completely infertile due to living in space so it's still rare for healthy babies to be born on the ships.

(brendol hux really pushed for them to use cloning instead because it would be easier, but this was shot down because clones aren't a practical way to sustain population growth in the long term. you can use clones for an army whose only purpose is to die in a few years, but you can't use clones to populate a country.)

marriage is something that does happen in the first order, and it is legally recognized, but because they don't have any civilian citizens and don't place much importance on the idea of "family," it's regarded as kind of useless. it's more like a "i mean i guess if you really want to??" situation. especially since the average first order citizen doesn't have any money nor any use for money, so there aren't any financial/political reasons for an average citizen to get married either.

the actual process of getting married is just kind of.....file the requisite paperwork during your break shift. get this paperwork approved by the officer whose job is to approve these things. boom, you're married now, congratulations, get back to work. most married couples in the first order are older staff who were not raised in the order. most younger staff regard marriage as a sort of silly thing old people do. that said, married couples can request to be housed together, and these requests are almost always granted because it's not seen as a big enough deal to be worth fighting about.

you couldn't really have a nice wedding ceremony in the first order because of austerity measures. they're not gonna give you more and/or better food rations just because you wanted to add a layer of official-ness to your silly little romance. there's a war on!

younger staff who romanticize the idea of getting married and having kids are usually basically using it as shorthand for "when the war is over and there's no longer a need for us to dedicate every waking hour to the war effort." it's not uncommon for young first order citizens to have some idea of what they'll do with their lives when the war is done, but it's typically more symbolic than something they genuinely deep-down-inside believe they will get to do someday.

the generational cultural divide is wayyyy more obvious among the officers than among the rest of the population. the overwhelming majority of stormtroopers are first-order-native child conscripts, whereas the higher up the ranks you go, the more the ratio starts to even out then eventually skew in favor of older staff who already had a life before joining. so when you do see first order citizens still adhering to the ideas of marriage and family practiced by most human states in the galaxy, it'll almost always be people who rank higher than a major or a lieutenant-commander.

and finally, just because Blorbo From My Shows must be brought up, you know the imperial boomers go full conservative grandma interrogating her queer grandchild at thanksgiving when it comes to armitage hux. he has heard the "WHY haven't you found someone yet at your age, what's wrong with you?" spiel way too many times. he's part of the "marriage is useless and outdated" generation, though, so his response is typically to roll his eyes and explain for the zillionth time that he's married to the cause.

[headslikekites]

omahgah \ ( ~ O ~ ) /

I didn't want to be creepy or weird so I've been avoiding spam liking and commenting but please know that I felt the same way a teen girl would at witnessing Elvis when I first saw Peregrine.

[ What is she based on? Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children? The Peregrine? Please I need to know if I have to read up on the lore of the peregrine the bird to understand her ]

( Is she a part of a faction or mostly rolling by herself? )

[ Bsd intro info! Age, likes, dislikes, and stuff ]

( What's she like in terms of personality? Any miscellaneous things about her that isn't all that important to plot or lore, but still there? )

[ Is there anything you want to/already do/want others to associate her with? Like a song, quote, style, philosophy/mindset, color, flavour? ]

Please don't mind the colored brackets/parenthesis; I got a little mad when the white text felt like they were melting into each other. If I may be so insolent, then maybe you could bless her with some colors? Please, I need to know if she has any pere-green (hehehe) Anyways, she's really cool (and so are you) and anything about her would be really cool

ok I'm answering that last part first because the rest is going to be loooong her final design doesn't have any green but she can wear a little as a treat sometimes (she'll get a full proper ref soon probably,, especially with artfight approaching)

the rest will be down below the cut because I love RAMBLING!!!!!

1. [Inspiration] my BSD ocs are actually based off old/abandoned story concepts ! peregrine is based off an animatic I envisioned in my head while listening to Monster Town by Go! Child like 5 years ago. it involved two kids getting lost in a haunted themepark one night, wherein one gets possessed/bodysnatched by a ghost and the other tries to save her. I consulted The Archives to try & find old sketches ↓

her name is Peregrine because the way I name my ocs is by going to behindthename and scrolling through names of the first initial I want until I find something that fits to me. a friend once told me I name my ocs like victorian children and I had no defense because it's lowkey on purpose

2. [Faction] former guild, flying solo now after its disbanding. I imagine she wasn't actually with the guild for that long, and mostly kept to herself for the time she was there.

3. [Intro/Info] Peregrine R. Paisley! 19 year-old private investigator and anonymous magazine columnist. also lesbian

Ability: House of Mirrors- Allows the user to see the spirits of the recently-departed in any reflective surface. Likes: Bright colors, cats, asking questions, skateboarding Dislikes: Prolonged quiet, receiving questions, cops Birthday: June 15th

she joined the guild at age 18 following the murder of her ex-bestfriend/non-reciprocal situationship (ignore the notes they're a little outdated)

4. [Personality/Misc.] outgoing, but very surface-level. she's not one to form deep personal connections, but enjoys keeping a wide network. she learned sign language to communicate with mirror ghosts but most of them don't know it so she ends up just playing charades or writing notes. her favorite color is yellow. every time someone asks about her middle name she gives a different answer.

also she's besties with keaton and I could go on a whole other ramble about that because they way they mirror eachother and bring out certain buried aspects makes me soooooo normal

5. [Associations] she's like playing early 2000s edutainment games with plastic-looking cgi at your family's antique solid-oak computer desk adorned with old photos and various knickknacks. but for more general things she is so very arcade carpet patterns to me. also mirrors.

song-wise. I am limiting myself to one because I don't want to be here all day. Crushed Out on Soda Beach by The Scary Jokes. the bright, crunchy instrumental backing melancholic/mournful lyrics is so very her.

thankyou for enjoying her :)

[puhpandas]

Can I just say, as someone who hates the mimic (sorry mimic lovers) this shitshow stings so much more. Like there's a lot of small nitpicks I have with Gregory and his story (tbh I didn't like GGY for a while but your writing and theory analysis made it grow on me and now I'm a GGY defender) but this just sucks because now not only do we have to wait longer for Gregory content so the damn mimic can have a turn but when we DO get Gregory content its...this.

I hate you is basic. I hope your favorite character is misunderstood by a majority of the fan base and almost all of his content gets shat out by the author with no real thought put in is real. Its devastating. It happened to me.

thank you so much man I'm so glad to hear that my stuff helped you enjoy that part of Gregory's character :) I can totally understand disliking it as someone who was a Gregory fan since sb. he was my favorite when his whole deal was being a homeless kid who got dragged into everything, so I'm lucky that I love ggy bc it changed his entire character majorly

but yeah it just. really sucks as someone who's been a fan since the beginning for 3.3 years and it's still like this. I think the point you made about "so the mimic can have a turn" doesnt even encapsulate it right.

the entire thing about this that sucks is that Gregory (and co like vanessa) never even really HAD a full blown 'turn' like the mimic. the mimic is having everything about solely it explored in this game and ruin was mostly about introducing it and they immediately utilized parts of its character (its mimicing, using Gregory's voice and (probably) framing him for the elevator), making all of its fans eat good

but for us, so much of security breach is untrustworthy and outdated and there wasnt even that much there to begin with. it literally feels like we're somehow getting less content for Gregory as time goes on because they keep disproving old things about him and never talking about the new things. that's why it stings. is bc mimic is getting so much love and good content and time dedicated to it when Gregory has been waiting for years and they refuse to fully delve into him

I'm really hoping that changes the next steel wool game bc of how MUCH scott is pushing ggy but like. I love ggy but he isnt Gregory in the same way vanessa isnt vanny. I really hope they give him some love soon bc I think weve seen enough at this point of ggy being crazy. now show how Gregory REACTS to remembering ggy. that's what they did with the mimic. they took the book concept that's always been canon and when finally putting it in the games immediately utilized all of the aspects about it it has. ggy needs to be shown in how it affects Gregory as himself, because any other content like showing how ggy got freed is more LORE, which would introduce even more things that we would want to see talked about that probably never would (like his relationship with whoever would be freeing him and how that affects things), instead of actually realizing potential about where it could lead, like they're doing with the mimic. I trust steel wool to realize this difference because they already did with the mimic, it's just even more WAITING which is what sucks so bad