#and your patience

[justmeinadaze]

If you can share, or give us any hints ;) what are some of your plans for Don't be so hard, or have you not thought that far ahead?

- Cherry 🍒

[rindemption]

If someone was impersonating them, what would friends / family ask or do to tell the difference?

What simple activity that most people do / can do scares your character?

What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell?

What’s a simple daily activity / motion that they mess up often? For both Nathan and Vito mwah just some nice regular questions that anyone would ask :) <3333

Oh my god I'm sorry this took so long I couldn't figure out how to answer them 😭😅 You picked hard questions. But thank you, it gave me a lot to think about!

From these questions here:

11. If someone was impersonating them, what would friends / family ask or do to tell the difference?

I think with Nathan the easiest option would be just to wait and see if his behavior is off. Otherwise, Valen can simply ask him questions regarding the early days of their relationship and he'll know pretty quickly.

With Vito, honestly just ask him to shift. If the impersonator is human, they won't be able to, and if they're a werewolf they won't physically be able to shift the same way Vito does.

(Disregarding the fact that both Valen and Vesper would know because of the fact that they're vampires and Nathan and Vito are their bonded mates. The impersonator wouldn't feel or smell right.)

22. What simple activity that most people do / can do scares your character?

I'll be honest I've been wracking my brain since getting this question and cannot for the life of me think of an answer. Both Nathan and Vito have their fears and insecurities, but none of them fit into "simple activities others can easily do". They don't fear driving or social settings or even making phone calls, anything like that. So the honest answer is: nothing.

37. What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell?

Nathan keeps to himself when someone tries to flirt with him when Valen isn't around. He shuts any advances down as soon as they happen, and he's not worried about Valen thinking he's cheating. But he knows if Valen was aware of it he'd potentially get aggressively possessive, and as much as Nathan likes that about Valen, sometimes it's easier to keep the peace by keeping things to himself. Unless it reaches an uncomfortable extreme, or Nathan doesn't feel safe, then he tells him immediately.

Vito, he'll likely never tell Vesper exactly how painful shifting can be. He's done it for so long and so often, he's gotten very good at getting it over with quickly and ignoring the pain. But tendons and muscles and bones shifting and changing will always hurt. It's a part of him, the wolf trapped under his skin, and giving that up isn't an option in his mind. So rather than worrying the man who cares about him, he just grits his teeth and keeps the aching to himself. Like how people who live with chronic pain have a different baseline for pain levels.

57. What’s a simple daily activity / motion that they mess up often?

Neither really have that problem, not long term at least. Nathan's issues lie in his memory, so messing something up tends to stem from forgetting, while Vito often just has to overcome usual learning curves. Both are in their own way adept at adjusting to their situation, and willing and able to make changes to their routines or how they do something to accommodate themselves if needed. At worst, Nathan might forget to grab something before leaving the house if it's not part of his routine, and Vito might accidentally skip lunch if he's busy. But they don't often mess up the simple things frequently.

[blakbonnet]

as i grow older and age in fandom especially, i have waning patience for 2012 style fandom wars. i don't have time for the type of person who goes "why is this the 2nd top ship on ao3 when it bugs me", i don't have the energy to be friends with people who go "i specifically expressed dislike for this ship and people still write it?" and i have absolutely no time for someone who goes "this very personal trauma i have projected onto this random character and ship should be recognized and agreed by everyone else, otherwise they're bad people"

[slothmonth]

I agree that "in Germany your boss legally has to provide you with work while you're at your job" is a bit funny considering the German stereotype. But I am really annoyed at people who act like this is some horrible hypercapitalist thing on that post about pushing people out of their jobs by just not giving them anything to do. When really it's very basic worker protection (within the context of German emplyment law.) Because under most circumstances you can't just be fired from your job. Your employer has to provide a reason for firing you if they want to get rid of you. You also have a right to specifially the work you were hired to do.

So your boss having to give you appropriate work makes illegal any of the following:

a) Making you clean toilets instead of (or in addition to) the clearly defined office job you agreed to do

b) Not giving you work and then firing you for not doing your work

c) Waiting for you to crack under the intense boredom of having to stay on one place with absolutely nothing to do for eight hours a day while your coworkers are roped into it to shun you (or hate you because for some reason you're the only one who doesn't have to do any work) until you quit "voluntarily"

or d) waiting for you to crack under the aformentioned pressure until you do what the people in the notes said they'd do, like watching movies or doing a second job instead which is something you then can be reprimanded and fired for

[corydonart]

gee way must blood

[mroddmod]

finally introducing my Cadet Batch AU, in which the batch are all raised together :)

[angualupin]

One area where I feel like modern storytelling has let us down is this:

Sometimes you have to choose between evils.

I'm not talking about "situations in which it is unclear who is actually the villain" -- IMO there are too many of those stories recently -- but stories where it's clear that the good guys have no good options. Where the only choice you can make is the wrong one, because all of the choices are wrong, because not choosing is also a choice. Where the best you can do is to choose the lesser evil, or maybe, the greater good.

Because the preponderance of stories in which the hero, through virtue of his heroism, manages to make a good choice appear when the narrative has set him up to fail leads people to have little or no framework for making such a choice.

Because -- and let me be painfully clear about this -- in life there is often no good choice. The best you can hope for is the lesser evil.

But too many people have a moral framework wherein only bad people can choose a bad option, so when only bad options present themselves, people...... don't choose? Which is also a choice, and usually a worse one. Or they insist that if people only try hard enough, are "good" enough, then a good choice will present itself.

Most of the time, that doesn't happen. Most of the time, you have to choose harm reduction over harm abolition, and wishing the world were different, were better, means the world just gets worse while you sit around waiting.

[gotchibam]

Shiny Haxorus and Charizard ko-fi doodle for xPvnk! 🔥

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Stargazing, at the edge of the unknown.

[zeldalizzy]

January: Snowy Shenanigans 🩵

[r-aindr0p]

Mini-rollo invasion : Diasomnia

Anypov :

Heartslabyul - Savanaclaw - Octavinelle - Scarabia - Pomefiore - Ignihyde

[stil-lindigo]

the fields.

a comic about sheep.

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creative notes:

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[spicymancer]

Winner of the poll was NOAH (they/them)! We've been asked about the Puppet Archetype for a long time in Rumble. Here they are! Honestly I'm still working out how they fit into the cast dynamic of the game but I'm pretty happy with the design.

[starbun-ikarys]

🥁🥁🥁Drumroll, please! 🥁🥁🥁

TA-DA!!!

I hope this wholesome moment was worth the wait! The entirety of it was inspired by @kyri45's ShadowPeach Bio-Parents AU! Nearly a hundred layers later this wonderful SpicyNoodle moment is done!

The flowers are intentional :3 though it was a brief search of info so it may be a tad inaccurate

[peace-hunter]

important context: they found him moping over a picture of him and d-16 at 1AM :/ gotta lay down some of that collective wisdom when needed and they're Not enabling bad taste ://

haunted au

[wxnter-rain]

Perceptor and Brainstorm, Simpatico 🔭🪐