#and we're back to the asks

[tomahachi12]

I got a question about the Virus AU

After being infected, can Disassembly/Solver Drones still speak despite their feral thoughts? Or is it ALL feral?

It's mostly all feral.

No thoughts, heads empty.

When they're infected with the Virus, they can't talk. They still understand some words if someone if talking to them, but they can't answer, at least not coherently.

It's all barks, meows, growls, hisses, squeaks and whatever other noises they make.

They can sometimes repeat words, but it isn't very clear. N does this a lot when Uzi talks to him.

J is the most vocal out of all of them. She can mimic voices to repeat words or phrases, but that's all it really is, just a repeated audio playback.

When she's not mimicking someone's voice, she communicates with tweets, chirps and whistles, like a songbird.

[cor-lapis]

"If we must fight, Sethos... I shall defeat you with the power of my friend group of employed adults who miraculously have regularly scheduled meet-ups, and also my daughter!"

[redesigns]

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[inkskinned]

love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

[rocketbirdie]

face value

[sunnylolli]

More of the lad from the wild west, when cowboys were king (Cowpoke by Colter Wall)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

anyone else get cuteness aggression whenever they see james mcavoys charles….. like i have to pace around the room everytime i see him (your art is not helping. /pos)

i can think of one (1) mate who also gets cuteness aggression

[askdrakgo]

"Send us questions, or else!": Ask a Question

[louminouz]

Do u like genderfluid spy in a dress

Because i think that's something to think about

ohhh dont even joke lad,,

[eeriedragone]

Monomonomom

Lurien

Herrah

by request of @thethrillof

[o3o-lapd-o3o]

(part ???? of this ongoing thread/universe/au?) (part 2 & part 3 & part 4 & part 5 & part 6 & part 7 & part 8 to this!)

there's a masterlist now!

(will be two parts as my brain wouldn't stop coming up with more nonsense as per usual) (future/present me: it was not just two parts)

*not long after telemachus met his dad's enemy 'friend', the god of the seas poseidon, for the first time*

*poseidon has fled (gods don't flee they briskly walk away) left to go back to the sea*

*odysseus, penelope & telemachus are having dinner*

telemachus: *smiling while retelling the meeting to penelope* -and he was so nice! father is so lucky to have him as his friend-

odysseus: *slightly chokes on his food at poseidon still being referred to as his friend*

telemachus: *looks at odysseus* -father are you ok?

penelope: *who knows odysseus' real relationship with poseidon*

penelope: *hasn't had much entertainment in 20 years*

penelope: *wants to stir the pot some more* ignore your father my dear, please continue telling me all about his friend

odysseus: *looking at penelope*

odysseus: *under his breath* penelope why?

*dinner continues with poseidon being the subject much to odysseus' dismay*

telemachus: *enjoying the family dinner*

telemachus: *gasps*

odysseus & penelope: ???

telemachus: we should have a big family dinner! father you can invite lord poseidon! i'll invite athena!

telemachus: *happy with himself for thinking of such an idea*

odysseus: *doesn't want to shoot down his son's idea, but also DOES NOT WANT TO SPEND ANY MORE TIME WITH POSEIDON*

odysseus: *scrambling for an excuse* son, he's a god and surely is very busy an-

penelope: *with a devilish grin* -and i'm sure will make time for his friend! what a wonderful idea telemachus! i'll let the palace cooks know!

penelope: off you go dear husband~ go and let your friend know~

odysseus: it's evening-

penelope: first thing tomorrow then!

odysseus: *sighs in resignment* yes my love

telemachus: great! i can't wait to tell athena-

*athena appearing out of nowhere*

athena: i heard my name and came.

odysseus: athena?!

telemachus: athena!!

penelope: oh lady athena!

athena: *smiling whilst looking at telemachus* what would you like to ask me telemachus?

telemachus: oh yeah! we're going to have a big family dinner! father just needs to invite his god friend-

athena: *confused as she's odysseus' god friend* but i-

odysseus: *panicked* wait-

telemachus: -lord poseidon!

athena: *wide-eyed in shock*

athena: *slow blinking* did you say odysseus' friend is p-po- my uncle?!

telemachus: *nods and smiles* yeah, i thought you knew!

odysseus: *wondering how he'll explain this whole situation to athena*

odysseus: *under his breath* well now she knows...

penelope: *laughs to herself*

(to be continued!)

(okay i know i said in the reply to the ask i'd post the dinner scene, but my brain wouldn't stop throwing stuff for me to add in the run up to dinner. so there WILL be the dinner scene, but that will be in another post... tomorrow? -depending on how my work day goes-) (future/present me: it was not just one more part, nor did i upload it the next day)

[mikonez]

I’m playing with your Oscar and my Arthur like dolls and I’m making them kissy kiss (technically no sweeter innocence fanart but also I just think it’s funny we picture each other’s Oscar while reading it lmao)

Mikonez and Potatolord crossover blindfaith moment

OH MYGO D SEEING OUR GUYS TOGETHER FEELS LIKE I WON THE LOTTERY ON CHRISTMAS

he!! could do!!!! dinner!!!! 🗣🗣‼️ @lighthouseshepard look what you have done to us

naturally I read it again for the *cough* time and this time only pictured your guys (for enrichment) and.

big fan >:)

[lelelego]

I STARTED PLAYING NEW VEGAS AND I FINALLY GOT BOONE AS A COMPANION AND I. I GET IT NOW. I JUST GOT THE “Heh. I knew you’d be the death of me.” LINE AND ??? OH MY GOD???

yeah. yeah. yeah yeahyh heayh yeahhyea

[meanbossart]

DU drow rolling in whatever discarded clothing Astarion wears like a dog rolling in some random nasty ass smelling shit they found on the ground-

Alternatively deeply inhaling the bedding that astarion has sweated all over when it's hot.

Man's DISGUSTING and I ADORE HIM FOR IT love a feral man who loves his partners stinky.

You know, I'm realizing that I ironically I made them both into each other's stink but for the opposing reasons 😂

Anyway, if you guys think he hasn't taken Astarion's undergarments off and given them a loud whiff right in front of his face, I have news 💀

[ckret2]

Do you have any headcanon about why during the event of Weirdmageddon, the invisible barrier around Gravity Falls and the surrounding area created by the Natural Law of Weirdness Magnetism, had become a physical barrier that prevented Bill and the Henchmaniacs of leaving the town? And why a equation would be able to collapse the barrier?

Yeah, because they were too weird.

If somebody has like 1 Cuil worth of weirdness in their body, then the weirdness magnet would exert 1 Cuil worth of force dragging their body into town. ("What's a Cuil?" it's a unit of measurement we're appropriating because there AREN'T any IRL units to measure weirdness, just roll with it.) The weirdness of an irregularly shaped jelly bean is like, 0.1 Cuils; so 0.1 Cuils is a strong enough force to counteract the force of gravity on an object that weighs as much as a jelly bean. Ford's weirdness is like, .5 Cuils, so the force dragging him toward Gravity Falls is like,, the same as the amount of force that it would take to make 5 jellybeans roll uphill. Enough to feel a small tug but it's not gonna physically drag Ford into town.

Bill has trillions upon trillions of Cuils worth of weirdness in his body.

The force dragging him into town is like unto the force of a black hole, and the barrier is its event horizon. Bill ain't escaping that event horizon.

As long as Bill's in town, his weirdness is adding to the "mass" of weirdness in town dragging everybody in, so it's sucking like a black hole on everything. Ain't nobody escaping that event horizon.

People take "there's a simple equation to collapse the barrier" too literally.

If I told you "there's a simple equation to halve the amount of cookies this recipe produces," that doesn't mean "if you write a mathematical equation on a piece of paper, this will somehow cause half the cookies to disappear." It means "you take your recipe and its ingredients, you divide all the ingredient measurements by 2 (a simple equation!), and now the recipe will make half as many cookies."

An action (unknown) needs to be performed to collapse the barrier. There is an equation to calculate the (force, direction, weight, duration, wavelength, temperature, whatever) of the action, and maybe even to narrow down what kind of action it needs to be. Ford knows what that equation is.

[shanastoryteller]

Happy Birthday!! 🎊🎉 🎊 Can I have something for MDZS please?

a continuation of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Lan Wangji hears that Wei Ying is missing and it takes everything in him not to abandon his people and his family to go searching for her.

Xichen glances at him, concern shining plain on his face as the scout gives the rest of his report, but he does his best not to let any of his longing show on his face. He knows that his brother doesn't understand or approve of his relationship with Wei Ying but that doesn't mean he's ignorant of it.

After, when they're alone, he says, "Wangji, you can't-"

"I know," he says. Cloud Recesses burned and there's a war to be fought and he is the Second Jade of Lan - he has a duty to his clan that he does not have to Wei Ying, no matter how he feels for her. "Jiang Cheng will find her."

She's his fiance and his best friend and his other half in almost every way. He won't abandon her.

And if he takes too long, Lan Wangji can use that time to construct an acceptable reason to slip away and join him.

In the end, he barely has any time to worry before news of Wei Ying at the Jiang camp makes it through the grapevine.

Of course, it's accompanied by the ridiculous rumor that she and Jiang Cheng are going to attempt to sneak back into Lotus Pier to retrieve Sect Leader Jiang and Madame Yu. He doesn't believe a word of it until he finds out who else is currently residing at Lotus Pier.

Wen Qing and Wen Ning.