#anyways i just think it woulda been neat

[ryssabrin]

i can't stop thinking about what an incredible missed opportunity there was at the end of act 2 actually. so if you let gale blow himself up there's like one line from the dream guardian telling you to stop right? and then the narrator's all "oof. bad ending." and explains how destroying the brain in that way meant that all the tadpoles aren't in stasis anymore and the sword coast will soon get over run by mind flayers. it would make sense for the emperor to know that was a possibility and that's why the dream guardian doesn't want you to do it (and presumably also they would get blown up as well and they're not really a fan of that ofc).

now conveniently there's a whole ass conversation with your dream guardian right after the ketheric fight. so, larian, why doesn't the emperor go "hey good job you didn't let the wizard blow up that would have been the worst possible outcome"? and then explain what would have happened? like it sucks that as the player i can know that from seeing the alternate ending but gale never gets to learn the dumbshit thing mystra wanted him to sacrifice himself for. he does eventually (waaay at the end of his act 3 quest chain) get the idea that she was more worried about the crown than the brain but it could be so much juicier if he's already putting the pieces together at the end of act 2.

[misterradio]

one may even say that movie was so eskovian

just look at this.

[roboromantic]

OKAY movie was really really good. I do have a couple minor critiques and general thoughts below; no real order just whatever I happen to remember wanting to mention

would it have killed them to have Alpha Trion just say "No child of Primus is born without a T-cog." It would've been significantly less clunky than "son or daughter" and more inclusive; it felt like a step backwards from Earthspark :/

I woulda liked to get to know the Iacon High Guard a bit more, we really didn't get much time with them. We coulda had a bit of a teaser of them by having them attack the train that OP et al. were on, which would also show that they sabotage Sentinel

that said I think the whole "we follow the strongest bot" thing and having Starscream actively push Megatron to fight him harder was a nice change of pace from the "Megatron abuses Starscream" narratives that have kinda been the norm since ...Aligned I guess? it does feel like that means they shoulda followed Optimus at the end since he clearly defeated Megatron, but it doesn't really bother me that much

also it's only been 50 "cycles" since the Primes went offline??? surely SOMEONE besides the High Guard would remember how things used to be

It's interesting that the Primes have been kind of downgraded from being made to fight against Unicron to being made to fight Quintessons, but hey I'm all for chucking the CoP stuff out lmao

speaking of chucking stuff — I don't think they ever mentioned an AllSpark. The Matrix of Leadership was what sort of healed Cybertron instead, which was interesting.

did the scene from the trailer where Megatron looked particularly purple get cut or did I just not notice it

using Airachnid's memory to transmit the incriminating evidence kinda felt like it came from nowhere? like yeah she "sees everything" but the idea of being able to just.....wave her head over a table or st didn't have any kind of setup

the synchronized Creation of both Megatron and Optimus. chef's kiss, perfection, and I'm pretty sure Primus pulling in Orion to transform him into Optimus was staged more or less the same as the scene where Unicron rebuilds Megatron into Galvatron in the '86 movie? very neat detail if true. anyway people in the theater were cheering when Optimus flew back out to fight Megs.

ough. the portrayal of the MegOp friendship and build up to enemity was sooooooooo good. was NOT expecting Megatron to actually shoot Optimus and OUGH GOING FROM "WHY DID YOU DO THAT" TO "I'M DONE SAVING YOU." SCREAMING, CRYING, ETC.

I kinda thought the Quintessons would play a bigger role in the movie, lmao. guess that's potential sequel material? sidenote but I think it would be very funny if they just called it Transformers: Two

establishing Bee as a guy who's been working a shitty job alone for who knows how long I think made him significantly less annoying then I probably would've found him otherwise. I don't think he was THAT bad but. yeah

ok that bit near the start of the movie where OP is like "I feel like I could drill down far enough to touch Primus himself!" followed by Elita saying "You don't have the touch OR the power" made literally no sense. it was very obviously just "hey y'all remember the '86 movie?"

I kinda thought Megatron was going to do a whole "You are being deceived" speech to the masses but sadly no 😔

[kittyball23]

Meddling Trolls (a Trolls fanfic)

Summary: John Dory, Spruce, and Branch recruit Clay to join them rescue Floyd

A/N: This was an early version of “Meeting Clay” that I ended up never using. I’d written it back in June, when we first found out that Clay lived in Putt Putt Village. I had kind of wanted them do a Scooby-Doo type thing lol, and figured I still post it as a “Deleted Scene” of mine

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“All right!” John Dory laughed. “Now that is what I call some serious teamwork, ay Branch?” He nudged his brother, hoping that he would be able to see how well they’d worked together that time.

Branch took the words into consideration. It really was kinda cool, the way he, JD, and Spruce had managed to cooperate and trick the awful creature who was after them into getting captured.

But Branch shook his head, shrugging the teal Troll off.

“Not now, John Dory! We have to find out who this monster really is. Though I think I already have an idea…” The creature had stopped struggling in the strong grip of each of their hair. Branch let go so that he could reach forward, grab the rubber mask that was the monster’s head and yank it off. Just as he suspected, there was a Troll underneath. Though his hair was an unruly lime-green rather than yellow, Branch could never forget those blue eyes that sparkled with mischief. He crossed his arms. “Clay!”

The others were surprised, too. “Clay?” They echoed back.

Poppy grinned, a hand going up to her head in realization. “Of course! It all makes perfect sense!”

Clay in the meantime slumped in defeat. “Aw, man! It looks like you got me.”

Poppy flung her hand out to him. “Hi, Clay! I’m Poppy, Queen of Pop Village. It’s such a pleasure to meet you!”

Clay smirked and tugged his hand out of the costume to shake it with hers. “Oh no, Queen Poppy, the pleasure is all… mine!” Right as he said the last word, he thrust his hand into hers, an unexpected electric shock running through Poppy. The Queen yelped, her hair a little frizzed after he’d let go. Clay burst out laughing. “Looks like I got you this time!” he guffawed, holding up his hand to show that there had been a buzzer on it.

Branch immediately showed concern for the pink Troll. “Poppy!” he cried, bolting over to her side and checking her. “Are you all right? Are you hurt?”

Poppy shook herself to rid any extra trembling and nodded. “Oh yeah, I’m good! That was so great!” she giggled.

“No, it wasn’t,” he grumbled, approaching Clay. “What are you thinking, going off and scaring people like that?”

Clay sighed. “I suppose I should explain, then, huh?” He made to get up, and John Dory and Spruce released their hair from around him so that he could. Clay then cleared his throat, and spoke.

“It all started back when I left the band. It was hard to find somewhere I could fit in, what calling I was meant to find…” He paused, looking as though he was reminiscing about the time by himself and who he’d encountered. “But then I found this place!” Clay gestured out around him at the creepy decor. “It’s a real neat attraction, and once I found out that these guys had a spooky-dooky haunted house type thing going on, I knew I had to join in on the fun.”

“These guys?” Poppy asked. “Who are ‘these guys’?”

“Oh, the rest of the Putt Putters, see?” He pointed behind them, where they saw others who were wearing monster masks that looked just like his, too. 

“Ooookaay…” Branch said, looking at them skeptically with a raised eyebrow.

“Yeah!” Clay nodded. “And I woulda gotten away with the scaring, too, if it weren’t for you meddling Trolls!” He pretended to frown, but then he waved his hands. “Nah, I’m just playing, bro. So, what’re y’all doing up in here anyway?”

“Our brother’s been kidnapped,” John Dory quickly explained. “Floyd’s in danger, and if we don’t free him from the two Bergens that got him, then he’s gonna be toast!”

“Bergens? Ugh, I hate Bergens,” Clay grumbled, remembering how they all had to hide when they lived at Pop Village.

“Well, actually not all of them are,” Poppy said, “but I can tell you on the way. I mean, if you’re joining us?”

Clay got right up on his feet. “Uh, yeah I’m joining ya! We can’t just let some weirdos mess with one of our own, now can we?”

“Nope, you got that right!” Spruce agreed.

“Alright then, come on,” Branch said, clapping his hands together once. “Next stop, Mount Rageous!”

[atlantis54]

yo look what i found in the punch out wiki gallery!

i believe this is concept art for title defense. looks official but idk for sure

me rambling about this under cut:

so, first off, minor circuit. kid quick = disco kid again, yeah its pretty much confirmed at this point disco kid’s a redesign. also, he comes before kaiser so maybe the order was going to be different? anyway, next obvious difference i see is king hippo. hes got a lot more tape now. i think around 5 straps? that would have made for a way harder boss fight.

next, major circuit. well… really, major circuit is pretty much the same… ok next-

world circuit time! something i noticed is soda being really glossy for some reason. was he like that before? i dont remember. anyways, bald bull. mans looks like hes gonna explode… is he okay? god knows. 

anyway next is WHEEZE AHAHHAHAJDHDHJSJEHEKNDHSJS WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM POOR MACHO ADHHSJSHSJSJNSHSJ HE GOT SUNBURNED JSJSNSJSJEJKS anyway moving on to WHY THE FUCK IS SANDMAN BALDED JSJSNSJJSNSJJSJDJSISJ WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SHJDNEHJSNSJSJS IM FUCKING WHEEZING

overall? not too much of a difference! i still think its neat to see these kinds of things just to do what could have been.

also. macho epic suntan failure. why did they not keep that it woulda been hilarious

[reagan-calamity]

drew headshots of like half the new cast before realizing it woulda been more convient to do it by team but i didn’t draw em by fav either ,, jus a random assortment of pals. which do u wanna hang out with id go with mk cause she is so laid back n chill and will gladly listen to you and groove out to jazz (she prolly likes hiphop) and would totally give you advice to anything in the book n more and will totally supply snacks she loves snacks she always has sum chips in her jacket (soda too for zee) cause we’ve seen zee drinking not one but two sodas in trailers also I didn’t realize this drawing these but OMG THEYRE the amputee ampuzee if u may but also what if they have type 1 diabetes and has to get their leg amputated as a kid and are allowed sodas to help regulate their blood sugar that would be so neat !!! also I’m still rooting for a character with a lisp I would be so so sooo happy also with axel here I think she’s gonna be a loner type character cause she seems by herself a bunches but maybe it’s cause she has social anxiety OOH and wayne !! my man looks so terrified n jittery alll! The! Time! maybe best friend raj from his hockey team agreed to go with him to help him w it and they bond more n more cause he realllllly gets outta his shell but with Axel she could take a whole diff approach also Bowie I still think is gonna be a total relationship fashion nut but sucks at both oh and let’s not forget Damien bro is swimming with sharks in the trailers!!! and last n not least scary girl bro everyone was worried she was gonna be scarry but she seems so sweeet!! Like a whole Izzy there she’s like the cool alt cheerleader popular girl babysitter you had when you were 7 once who takes you to McDonald’s then to her house where her bf is and you have a whole pop star makeover n you’re just vibing to breath Carolina like she’s totally that vibe anyways that’s my little (big) rant uh if u read this far um you can dm me anything you want me to draw but with the new cast ahee hehe I love total drama

[pinkiepiebones]

Some slippers for @ninjathrowingstork​ and MORE sceencap observations

I’m really sorry, I coulda sworn there was a front shot of ‘em so you can see the design clearer. Hope these help, anyway!

And now some more observations

First, the camera moves so fucking fast and even at 0.1x speed it’s hard to see much of Renfield’s room. He’s got two pillows on a twin bed, this... chest? serving as a bedside table, an old-timey washbasin, a MESS of candle wax... Oh here’s the bug box. I never noticed before but it has a little claspy to keep it shut

Piles of books but an empty and maybe broken? china hutch in the back, can’t for the life of me ID that ceramic doodad- waay too big to be a shaving cream dealie... He’s also got MORE candlewax mess, and just fucking shoved an electric lamp on top of the candlestick? Dude? You okay? I mean I know he very much wasn’t in this scene but still.

And here’s something I never caught before. Look at his lower eyelid in this shot and in the one below.

See that? HIS EYES FUCKING GLOW WHEN HE’S GOT HIS POWER ACTIVE! I never noticed that before?! And the colour comes from inside and spreads out. Like, from the outside of the pupil. Neat!

As I’m going through at 0.1x speed, I’m also noticing, like. The place they’re in is in a state of disrepair. There are bodies, not just of the hunters, scattered around. This is not their first home. I wiiiiish we had a timeline of when they settled in New Orleans, because judging by the amount of bodies and the buckets and the blood throne, they’d been in that hospital a fucking while, so, like, Renfield had to scoop up burnt steak Dracula and coffin him and I guess put shit in storage until he bought the hospital? One of my magazines, Fangoria I think, had the director mention the blood throne being Renfield’s attempt to revive Drac intravenously, so... Did Renfield stow their belongings and his boss, buy the hospital, and then construct the throne and collect bodies before he even moved Drac in? What y’all think?

... Y’all think “shut up, Zombie.” I know. I get it. Anyway.

Drac’s eyes when enforcing his thrall are pale greeny blue,

and black with red around the pupils when he angy. Come to think of it, I wonder if the red in his eyes is the same deal as the gold in Renfield’s, in that it glows? Fuck that woulda been cool to see.

I’ve been laying here capping and typing for over an hour I’m off to get a snack k byyyyyyye

[neeko-system]

SIGNALIS SPOILERS AND WHATNOT~~

finished my second playthrough of signalis, was going for the artifact ending. then loaded my save and got the memory ending. such a good game aaaa

the memory ending made me cry, it was really heartwrenching when ariane said sorry i dont remember, i just crumpled. watching elster be so exhausted was a lot.

not really sure if i understand the artifact ending. i feel like either its really vague (on top of all the other vagueness) or if im missing something. it kind of feels like a burial of arianes memory? like elster dies and we see ariane thikning about her and elster dancing in the wrecked ship? i’m not sure. maybe someone could give me their interpretation of it?

i also found out that theres a difficulty setting and really wished i had set it to survival before my second playthrough. woulda been nice!!! I do have one more ending so i might play the game again but might also just watch it on youtube and play the game again some other time(gotta let it ruminate so i can go back in with different eyes), I wanna get all the achievements anyways.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

all in all i fucking love this game a lot. very rarely do i replay a game so soon after playing it for the first time. its really tragic i’ll never get to experience this game for the first time again, but, so it goes. its such a beautiful game i will be thinking about it for a longgggggggggggg time. ive been wanting to talk about it so badly for so long but none of my friends have played it yet kyaaa!!! >_<

its crazy to me that the game exists the way it does. the style, the mechanics, the story, the music, everything about it oozes so much passion and care and thought. very few games have made me want to stare at every part of it to figure out how they made it look the way it did (THE GAME IS SO STYLISTICALLY RICH LIKE HOIW DID THEY DO ALL THAT) and the game mechanics are so nice to my brain, everything is so tactile and clicky and inventory management and ammo management and horror stratgey and the flesh and rust and death and love and lesbians and robots and anime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

amazing game thank you rose engine, i hope they make more stuff because i really want to see it

edit:(thinking about the first time i played compared to the second. i was considerably less scared since i had a clue of waht was going on but the fear that i felt playing the first time was special to me. i really like games with stories about ‘time loops’ because the replay-ability is baked in in a cool way. especially with how the game throws information at you, viewing things again having experienced perspective shifts from information is really cool. seeing scenes again re-contextualized makes my brain go ^-^(hots quest ding sound) but going in completely blind and being afraid of everything (i especially remember being scared of the dream beach, i had literally no clue what to expect and it was nice) it all had a different flavor than the second time which is cool because i feel like i experience that kind of emotion change *with* elster. (girlie needs a FUCKING cuddle nap)

the way the game balances reality and the surreal i think is super neat. i love surrealist dream stuff a lot and i think that a video game is a super good medium for that kind of experiential stuff that really inspires me to wanna make video games. especially because then theres also this super nerdy sci fi stuff going on about robots and space regimes and magical tech(my favorite) and planetary systems and military systems and all that good shit. i similarly wanna get nerdy about stuff like military logistics while also telling a story about gay robots and girls that keep missing each other just barely in the space time continuum. i love that the game tells you a lot but also is vague and also says fuck you (affectionate) stop looking for answers and just feel it. it explains just the right amount to not feel esoteric while keeping enough vague to leave a lot up to interpretation/figure it out by playing it again/thinking about it. it plays with themes and reality and reoccuring symbolism and all that good shit that makes stories addicting to think about.) ((also one of the endings requiring beating the game once among other things that keep between playthroughs, yummyyy. games that know they are games/stories/worlds that are aware of themselves., thats good shit right there))

[sdyuteiaok]

Got a neat RW deck to 5 wins--I had two Heroic Reinforcementss, plus the RW Ravnica doublestriker rare and even the landfall equipment and the rare equipment that gives +2/0 and flying and even snaps on, to help the double striker get through. He never dealt a single point of damage, though. He woulda won one of my games thanks to haste from my 2/2, but I was one land shy from being able to equip everything and cast him, pretty annoying. But I had some great games--I just needed some removal, I was just mainly banking on winning outright before my opponent can find his legs, which worked out often enough. I'm not sure if it was a trophy deck, though, since I had almost no removal outside of the 4/4 raid shocker and the rare snap-on equipment, maybe one actual removal spell I'm not thinking of. There was one, that one where my opponent was one attack from dead, where I believe I threw the game when I tried to hit the gas by moving my equipment from my token to my actual threatening guy, which woulda made my opponent dead to just about anything in a follow-up alpha. I shoulda just made the token do slightly less damage but force him to deal with it, which woulda exhausted his removal for my actual threatening guys. But I got antsy and he indeed had the removal once I blew all my mana moving everything over. I had a land for the landfall equipment, so the token woulda dealt 5 damage, which he likely couldn't spare, so he either he takes it and is in a super perilous position, or he wastes precious removal on this token, and then my other guys are ready to deal 8+ next turn, which would almost lock him out, barring another removal spell or flying blocker, which I don't believe he had. He mighta had one more removal spell, but in either case, my third, burly guy woulda closed the deal, but instead, I had to rely on the token, which couldn't hold up against his defenses. I only realized this was the crucial turn--the turn I moved my equipment over--after the game concluded, but I'm pretty sure this is the case. I was pleasantly surprised to find Untapped now has game replays, so I could probably study the tape to be completely sure. Anyway, the format is definitely not electrifying, but I like it just fine--it's, like most core sets, a nice change of pace. It does feel a little sluggish, when we often slog to the topdeck war portion of most games--there's not a whole lot of mana sinks or card draw effects, so it really does feel like an set from another era. I did have now my third total 3/3 Angel that draws when you gain life (got two in yesterday's draft), and I literally played half-on gainlands for her, plus two of the 3/1 Dogs that return permanents--one game I bounced two of my gain lands to draw cards, that's how desperate and hoop-jumping we have to be to draw cards in this format. Anyway, happy with 5 wins, but I feel like I coulda squeezed one more win, if I'd been playing just a little more sharply. The next draft is paid for, so looking forward to hopping back in the queue, which has thankfully been firing almost instantly. I'm old enough to remember these used to take forever, especially with the 8th guy in the queue, but for whatever reason, things are hopping. I'm in Platinum now, though, so I gotta stay on my toes, the easy wins are generally over, and we're consistently playing competent players now. Not to diminish the lower ranks, but it's a lot of people clearly trying out draft--possibly even Magic--for the first time or something like that. Which is great, cuz everyone should try Magic, and it's nice to get some easier wins when drafting is so expensive, but it isn't too satisfying beating them.

[survivor-trinidad-and-tobago]

Episode 15: "ACQUIESCE BABY!!!"—Kaleigh

In this round: Everyone acquiesces to Kaleigh's spelling superiority when she wins her second individual immunity; Kaleigh steals Zee's vote; and Zee joins the jury

Zee

Whaddup my name's Jared I'm 19 and I never fuckin learned how to read

Michael

Honestly not much to report! I'm going to try and stay strong with Alex and Kaleigh. Tony left but I'm sure that's a big relief for him, he did great for his first game.

Jack

Hey babes, so I’m SOOO HAPPY to be back and I’m with my hot gurlzzz and I love them. Im so happy Tony got out cause he didn’t vote w me (that’s what he gets 😌). At this point anyone but me, champ, or zee going home is the best for my game cause it’s gonna be a 3-3 tie. IM READY FOR ROCKS☠️😈

Kaleigh

woooooo another immunity win, i woulda been so shocked if someone could beat me at a spelling bee. ACQUIESCE BABY!!! my deranged cobwebby brain is good at one thing and one thing only… and that’s spelling. i’m jk i’m good at other things too but wow lol ok. so i’m immune tonight. zee is asking me and alex to flip on michael, and its just condescending at this point :( like i know what i’m doing babe and idgaf if u think michael is gonna win. i’m fine with that LMAO why would i flip on my allies to be at the bottom of ur 3? like? no??? but i told her it’s a possibility but i think i’ll probably just steal a vote tonight and get zee out. please god don’t let her have another stinking advantage !! also i finished that book and it was extremely good. and it’s my niece’s 4th birthday.

Alex

Ugh, this vote still feels tenuous. Champ said today she wanted to take Zee out last vote (not that it would have mattered, ultimately - I KNEW she had a second idol lol). She's flat out lied to me so many times at this point, but she also knows how big of a threat Zee is. Finding the time to actually talk game with her feels like it will be impossible, though. I finally reached out to Zee last night to compliment her on still trying to unify the tribe like with the game night. She used the words 'icing out' to describe how quiet chat has been between sides, which is fair. I don't know if it was directed only at me, but even if that wasn't what I was trying to do I can see how she felt that way. It just felt like there was not even, like, pretended level of potential to work together and I didn't know how to bridge the gap of "hey even though we won't tell each other anything in-game, how's life?" and have it not seem disingenuous. So I'm glad that came out of last night. The Tony blindside definitely surprised me, and Jack coming back into the game over Colin. It really feels like it's Champ or bust with this vote but if we come to the risk of rocks, I see them possibly flipping. Now that I'm at Actual Final 6 I don't actually want to go to rocks anymore lol. It just feels like if we can get through tomorrow's vote we could get the rest of the way but who knows. If Zee has a third idol I'll lose my mind lmao. The way Kaleigh's still got her steal a vote and idol and I'm sitting over here with my flopped advantages. Sigh. Kind of incredible of her to only have one vote against her so far AND IT'S FROM ME. She's killing it. Wait. Do I have the most votes out of our 3? I do! Well, that's something I guess. Maybe I could have played a more fluid game, and tried to get the majority alliance to eat each other from the inside of it, but there's no point in thinking about that now. I'm at Final 6 and that's very neat.

Champ

I’m running late again for the confession, anyways here for a good time! Not a long time LMFAO

Zee

Haven't heard from Jack all day, Champ messaged once. I'm pretty sure I'm going home tonight

Tribal Council

Zee: LOST VOTE

Champ: Alex (ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS)

Kaleigh: Zee (IF YOU HAVE A THIRD IDOL ISTG)

Kaleigh (Zee’s Stolen Vote): Zee

Alex: Zee (You’ve played SUCH a good game, and for all I know, you could still be here after this vote. It genuinely wouldn’t surprise me lmao. But here’s hoping this works. I enjoyed our pre-swap talks.)

Michael: Zee (you’ve played a wonderful game, sorry we didn’t really play together but that’s how it goes 🤷🏾‍♂️)

Jack: Alex (sorry babes we ain’t working together)

[sylvaridreams]

I think basically she's a cringefail weirdo losergirl. She had the drive and motivation to complete her Wyld Hunt and kept at it for YEARS! And kept going with the expectation that she was nearing her destiny and honing in on how she could kill Kralkatorrik and was heavily involved at Thunderhead Keep and then they failed. They failed. They lost everything. Aurene was dead, Alba was badly wounded, the world was doomed, it basically felt like oh. I did something wrong here. I'm missing some piece, how else could I have failed?

So from there she went to the Crystal Desert to try to learn more, to work out this puzzle she'd spend her entire life trying to piece together, she got there and things started to click, that she was on the right path at last. Years of Priory work and experimental weapons and research into the brand and she thought, just over the horizon, it's the end of my hunt.

And then in the Highlands she found what remained of the proof of Vlast's death, and it hit her like a freight train that this was it. Her wyld hunt was this, the crystalline remains of a dragon, dead in the desert. Her dream had been misinterpreted, her vision of "a crystal dragon" misbelieved to have been kralk--but it wasn't Kralkatorrik she saw herself approach in her dream, it was this dragon that she'd been meant to find, meant to appear as his champion years ago, and she'd failed him. She'd never shown up and he'd died alone, and she'd never get to meet him and fulfill her destiny. She'd missed it without realizing it. She understood it all intuitively as everything fell into place around her; the world made sense, but it wasn't through virtue of her solving anything.

Afterwards she felt listless. Empty. All of her life and time and research and effort had been devoted to Kralkatorrik and killing him. What did she have if that wasn't it; and more importantly what did she have if Vlast was dead and she'd failed. What happens to you when you fail your wyld hunt, your reason for being born?

It felt for some time like she'd ceased to exist.

She learned of Kralkatorrik's death weeks after it happened, and felt empty at the thought. She wasn't even there for it. It wouldn't have made a difference anyway. Alba had done it again. She couldn't even be very bitter about it. It was a good thing.

I think after that she had to do some serious meandering about. Soul searching. Figuring out what she should live for. She had zero purpose left but it's not like you can just lie down and disappear off the face of Tyria. Moping about for a long while. At this point I need her to find someone who drags her out of her pit of despair through sheer force and makes her get back on her feet and keep going. Thinking emoji. 🤔 That guy.

I'm thinkiiiing. Since she would have spent time in the desert at that point. Another character in the desert at that time woulda been Tryllwenn. Who has experience with not *failing* but walking away from a wyld hunt. Maybe has some words of wisdom to impart even if it's just "so you fucked up. Get up anyways." Could be a neat way to roll Tryllwenn back into my "main" group and scoot him towards the Commander’s circle. :3 maybe!

Turns and looks at the wall with my hands clasped behind me. I would love to figure out Aeris and what she's going to do. With her life.

[jfrancium]

So does anyone else randomly get the intense urge to completely abandon all your accounts and reinvent your online persona entirely or is that just a me thing?

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

like, yeah they made you kill ur husband...but they also encouraged you to kill that really annoying hunter who wouldn’t shut the fuck up...

u win some u lose some

[samscompliment]

the thing about season 15 my beloved season 15 is that even if you do take chuck as the reason for all of the bad decisions they’ve made (which i do not do because it’s boring) you CAN still get something out of it. like i just think it woulda been neat if dean followed his line of thought from “nothing in my life is real and everything i’ve done was manipulated by god” to “i LET god manipulate me into hurting the people i love my whole life and even though i pride myself on having a clear sense of right and wrong that i stick to even when it’s hard i don’t have any willpower at all actually.” like i would LOVE to see him blame himself and take responsibility for some stuff but still manage to miss the point. very dean of him. anyway the fallout of him discovering he broke at age 4

[phoenixyfriend]

SW Suddenly-Omegaverse AU: Surrogacy, Worldbuilding, Obi-Mom

Truly the main irony of all this is that everyone considers Obi-Wan the Better Omega but Anakin is the one who's actually 👀👀👀 about pregnancy

Obi-Wan: I have the deepest respect for those who do it, but the idea of growing another person inside of me is weird and gross, no, thank you.

Meanwhile Anakin is like. Immediate baby fever. Someone actually approaches him like "hey... there are forms you can fill out to request an exception for pregnancy, and like... regulations" because he's that obvious about it.

I assume that if they've got safety nets for accidental pregnancies, then they're probably aware that there are people who want to do it on purpose? I feel like in an omegaverse where 'biological imperative to procreate' can be so much more intense, then maybe there's old precedent that stuck around even after suppressants got most of those hormones under better control.

Bit torn. Just know I want Anakin to Make Baby.

"Anakin, what are you--" "Do you think offering to be someone's surrogate would be acceptable to the council as a way to be pregnant without getting attached." "...what." "They'd probably accept that as a way to practice not getting attached, right?" "N...no, that's not... what?"

Anakin approaching Bail and Breha and being like “Do you... still want a kid? I would provide a kid. Do you want one here*?”

* in this dimension

Great way to give up the baby as a parent because he'd still be able to see them once in a while but also like... it's not HIS kid, technically. He can be a cool uncle who happened to give birth, which is distant enough to not be 'attached,' but close enough that his Tatooine-raised 'must ensure family is safe whenever possible' background doesn't flip out. It helps that 'Core World Royalty' is like... a top-tier family to be raised in.

(It would have to be post-war because he probably shouldn’t be risking his life while very pregnant. He needs to be reminded of that sometimes.)

Bail/Breha is an alpha/alpha relationship and while a pregnancy is still possible,* it’s a whole lot more difficult, and that's on top of Breha's canon medical issues that resulted in her heart and lungs getting replaced.

* AFAB alphas can get pregnant, and AMAB omegas can inseminate, but the success rate on that angle is much lower than the 'traditional' alpha/omega roles, as is any attempt at reproduction outside rut/heat. They're low-fertility overall for the non-dominant aspect of their reproductive system, which... ha, Anakin and Obi-Wan try to get explanations for why the senary system works the way it does, but it's a very longform history lesson that comes down to 'idk this got cemented so long ago that nobody really knows why anymore.'

AKA "why do you title these roles male omega and female alpha instead of intersex omega and intersex alpha since both parties have both genitals."

ANYWAY

Anakin: I want to make babies. But I don't want to get kicked out of the order. But I don't want to give up my own babies for adoption. But I can't keep my own babies if I want to stay a Jedi. So basically I want to have someone else's babies? Anakin: ...wait shit that's just surrogacy.

Anakin, calling up Obi-Wan: Hey are the Organas still struggling to have a kid? Obi-Wan: ...not really your business. Anakin: You're friends with Bail again though, right? Obi-Wan: I am, but-- Anakin: Do you think they'd want me to be a surrogate? Obi-Wan: What.

I can't decide if it's funnier for the Order to be like "I mean... technically there's no rules against this?" or if this is a precedent set by at least three omegas every generation because that's just how a/b/o manifested for omegas in a biological and cultural sense.

Bail: Wait, your former apprentice is... volunteering... to be our surrogate. Obi-Wan, exhausted: Yes. Bail: He barely knows us. Obi-Wan: He respects you and you're the closest people he knows that want a child and would be good parents. Bail: And he's just... volunteering? Obi-Wan: Yes. Also, you did say your primary worry was that a surrogate might be targeted for assassination and you couldn't ask someone to risk that, right? Anakin is very much able to avoid assassins, and would be staying primarily in the Temple anyway. Very safe, and not particularly scared of assassins in the first place. Bail: Your words say you approve, but your tone says otherwise. Obi-Wan: Anakin considers me his father. I'm not old enough to be a grandparent. Bail: Ah.

Anakin is a surrogate and enjoys it and everything is fine and then like a year later he's accidentally pregnant with his own and Rex's kid, and nobody knows how to ask if it's actually an accident.

A suggestion from @gelpenss:

OH MAN i.... have to drive home. But I just had a thought about like. I always want to poke at Betas in A/B/O like are they “normal” or different from our standard or.... but ANYWAY assuming they have a pheromonal thing I just think it would be neat if betas had the ability to be the Bucket of Cold Water. Like if caught early enough, and with the caveat it’s not permanent, a beta could arrest a rut or heat in its tracks until a more ideal time. Like. They aren’t birth control. But they are the remind me later button.

Okay done driving I am Returned to bring up why I brought up betas and it’s this: well okay 1. It plays nice with a popular but inaccurate dog breeding urban legend that female dogs will like, delay heat cycles? so that the bitches above them in pack hierarchy have first choice of mate selection. And I think in omegaverse it would be cool if that was a Bio Fact, and also historically enforced by the third designation. 2. It gives me an excuse to have betas have the Most Sensitive sense of smell because it’s their “job” to pick up on things before they go too far to be put on pause. 3. I’m just thinkin ‘bout a beta clone [...] just hovering around Obi-Wan because they found out how much stress his heat cycle causes and they’re like “okay cool I will help make sure it does Not”

I want to like a/b/o verses but betas niggle at me. I want to give them a hat and a Function that woulda helped before modern medicine.

I'm not sure how I feel about betas being able to delay heats, but I do like the idea of them having a more sensitive sense of pheromone smell than most. Most aliens assume it's omegas with the best sense of smell, and betas with the worst, but it's more complicated than that because they all specialize: Alphas are actually less attuned to pheromone smells, but more attuned to things that were useful back when humans were still a hunter-gatherer species. Omegas tend to be heightened towards danger smells like fire or aggression, and pheromones relating to children/care. Betas, as suggested above, are very sensitive to pheromone changes relating to mood and behavior of the community around them.

I like the idea that betas were historically the ones that ended up taking care children, unmated omegas, and so on during people's heats and ruts, because they kept their heads about themselves long enough to do things like cook and clean while someone was reeking of hormones. The checks and balances work out that betas may have lower fertility, but it makes them better able to support the network around them.

It works in with humanity's general collective history of thriving the most when working as a community.

Given that I decided that this is Jangobi, the clones might all subconsciously view Obi-Wan as Mom. Not intentionally, but, you know... Obi-Wan the not-evil stepmother. He doesn't know how he got into this situation, but he sure is here, and he sure as hell doesn't know how to get out.

Obi-Wan "I don't need to get pregnant, I have three million stepchildren" Kenobi

I definitely love "clones all want to make Obi-Wan's heats less stressful" but like in a different way from Whatever The Fuck Anakin's Got Going On.

Obi-Wan using the force to dull the pain in a Shiny's broken leg while the medic works on it and the Shiny just mumbles "Thanks mom" and everyone gets very embarrassed and pretends it didn't happen.

But then it happens again. And again.

Obi-Wan asks for an explanation from Cody and gets a halting response that, since Jango is technically their father, and his scent has been all over Obi-Wan recently... and Obi-Wan puts in a lot of effort to take care of them all.......

Anakin overhears the clones calling Obi-Wan "mom" and just. The most judgmental eyebrow raise.... Mostly in the sense of "You never let me call you dad" "Thought you said you weren't anyone's parent." "Hey, hey, Obi-Wan. What the fuck."

BOBA. BOBA ABSOLUTELY CALLS OBI-WAN MOM WHENEVER POSSIBLE. IT'S DEEPLY FRUSTRATING.

Obi-Wan eventually manages to admit that he's uncomfortable with it at minimum because of the gendering the word has for him, can they at least use the neutral 'buir' instead?

Word spreads like fire, takes like two days max for everyone to switch.

(Anakin demands cuddles as compensation for not getting to call Obi-Wan any true parental term for years.)

[jacky-rubou]

@gf10yearslaterzine day 3 - favorite monster/creature

That's a tough one but I think I'll go with

Shifty, the Shape shifter from Into the Bunker! He's a pretty horrifying sight and I just love how he used his ability to shapeshift to try and trick Dipper and Wendy into trusting him. Not to mention how he's voiced by the one and only Mark Hamill!

But also, how he'd been trapped in the bunker by Ford and toiled away for thirty years until a chance to escape came about is such an interesting backstory for him, instead of just being a simple monster of the week. I've always sorta wondered what woulda happened had Shifty seen Ford's face (since I'm pretty sure Ford was careful about that) and used the real author's form in the episode instead of the mascot on the can... Might've ended up with Dipper questioning Stan since Ford's basically identical to him haha.

Anyway, ramble over. I just think he's neat.