#ask pangaea

[ask-mother-pangaea]

So are you like…

my great grandmother? 🤔

Hm. . . . I think that's right! I'm your ancestor basically, everyone came from me though some people don't believe that 😔

[circi-chirps]

I WILL (long post)

so this "girl" named Amber lives in a coastal city with two kids, Eliza and Star. Amber's on the run from "bad people" but wont specify why. well one day, on her day off, she goes to the store with her girls and on her way back, one of her coworkers (whos a major DICK) starts tryna pick a fight with someone bc he thinks him and his kid are Buveé (theyre not) but his friend and their niece are. Amber jumps into the fight and tells him off and defends the other four from the coworker when the guards show up and everyone scatters (bc fighting is illegal) the person he accused's friend trips the coworker as they run and hide in an alley and he gets caught. Amber and the other four sneak into the cafe that was part of the alleyway they hid in and find Amber's girls safe and sound. the cafe owner even gives all of them free lunch. after lunch, they all part ways. Amber and her girls go home, the two who got accused (Blue and Neptune) travel to the next town over, and the last two (Luna and Sevy) try to catch a train home. At Amber's house, just as the three sat down to eat, theres a knock on the door. its the guard (she thinks) and they tell her they have a witness placing her at an illegal fight in town. Amber tells them,"no i work there, today was my day off" and one of the guards replies,"why dont you come into the the guard's office for some questioning, just to be safe?" She tells them know andthe guard says,"C'mon, we wouldn't wanna keep the boss waiting, now would we?" so Amber clocks him in the face and shoves the other guy down the stair and slams the door. she yells at the girl to grab their emergency bags and leave out the back door. they do so, and wait for Amber to grab her sword, pick up Star, grab Eliza's hand and RUN. Amber stops at the Cafe she works at and makes some quick food for the girls, and when theyre finished, they get ready to leave for the train station. not before Amber steals from the cash register and is confronted by the owner. Amber apologizes but the cafe owner just makes sure its enough for three tickets and sends her off with a weird box (its a dodecagon with arrows and turn dials on each side) and the girls make it to their train

the girls get there in the early hours of the morning and find a hotel which (THANKFULLY) has free breakfast. on the way back up to their room, the elevator stops to pick someone up and its... Blue and Neptune? theyre very awkward in the elevator but Blue thanks Amber again. Blue ends up asking what Amber and the girls are doing in Cadence and Amber confesses that she and the girls are on the run. Blue offer's their sympathy. just as theyre about to leave, Blue offers to show them the city. Amber is hesitant and the girls insist ("PLEEEEASE AMBER PLEASEEE???") so Amber gives in. they spend the day checking out the city of Cadence. Blue invites Luna and Sevy to join them and they arrive the next day. they all check out more of the town and stop to sit in a park for lunch. Eliza's been trying to figure out how to open the box that the cafe owner gave Amber but she hasnt figured it out yet. Luna asks to try and Eliza hands it over. Luna turns a few dials then gets an idea and turns all the dials on a specific number and... it opens! Eliza asks,"howd you open it?? I've been trying to open it for the past two day!" Luna replies,"i just tried the Fibonacci Sequence. its probably the only thing i dont hate abt math" inside the box they find a veryyy old photo and a weirdly shapes key. they assume the key is for the building in the photo. Neptune mentions that he saw a museum and they decide to take the photo to the museum to see if someone there can tell them where the photo is. unfortunately, the museum is a music history museum. BUT! one of the workers there is a history nerd and tell them that it looks like the ruins of the Temple of Samael in Coral Village "but its in pristine condition! this photo must be worth a lot of money!" the group decided to travel on foot to Coral Village to find these ruins. everyone was just too curious and the further away Amber was from when she was last sighted, the better.

traveling on foot took way longer. they had to camp in the woods and sleep in shifts but trains were just too expensive for the seven of them. none of them minded too much. they found a small town called Antique Orchard and everything about screamed "RED FLAG!" everything looked... retro? there were vaccine reminders and missing persons flyers everywhere, but they needed food and a bed for the night. so they stopped at a family dinner and ate lunch, which was rudely interrupted by "the towns crazy lady" screaming,"THEY TOOK MY BABY!!" she was escorted outside. everyone went back to their meals but the group was very on edge and they looked over their shoulders on the way back to their motel. Amber got one room for her and the girls, while Luna and Blue split a room.

in Amber's room, Eliza and Star have convinced Amber to build Fort Eric! and ofc, Amber complys and builds the fort and the three fall asleep in each others arms.

In Luna and Blue's room, Neptune and Sevy are fast asleep, and Luna and Blue are catching up and having a blast! Theyre so happy to see each other again! Luna says, offhandedly,"I'm so glad we ran into each other again... i missed you" Blue doesnt respond and they sit in uncomfortable silence. Neptune stirs from his slumber and Blue soothes him back to sleep. "i missed you too..." the two go to sleep with tension. the next morning, after Amber almost stabbed Blue for banging in her door, the seven set back off to walk to the next town. that is, until the town's crazy lady jumps out and grabs Blue by the shoulders. the lady, Natilie, cries out,"They took my baby! they killed her and this damn town is too brainwashed to notice!" Blue warns Natilie to let go and she does. Amber urges Natilie to explain, and she does.

the group splits up, Amber and the kids go to Natilie's house where Natilie reveals a messy journal of information on the recent missing persons and deaths. Amber is astounded, there must be over a hundred of funeral notices cut out of newspapers in the journal. Amber is sickened

Luna and Blue walk in tense silence back to the dinner they ate at the day before. Amber instructed to the two to "act like a couple looking to move". easier said than done. Blue,"ya know, we're going to have to talk about it" Luna responds,"...i know." Blue pressures Luna to explain why they ghosted him. Luna stutters and stumbles over their words and Blue just keeps pushing. Blue shouts,"WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?" "BECAUSE I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU!" Luna retorted. Blue burst out in laughter. "What the hell?? you pressure an answer out of me then laugh at my confession??" Blue speaks through laughter,"No! its not that-! its just- Luna, honey, you're so dense!" "What?" they ask. Blue catches their breath and replies,"I was in love you too. So was Indigo! We both loved you, still love you. And if youll have us, we wanna be with you?" Luna stared at Blue with their mouth open, in shock. "Luna honey, you look like a goldfish." They kiss and finally make up after months of conflict. which helps in their acting! they make it to the dinner and talk to the server that served them yesterday and he tells about The Great Tess Family! the founders of this quaint little town! they run in the mayor's office, the local doctor's office, the local mortuary, the local funeral home, and even in the dinner! its very clear that the Tess Family is up to something, but the two keep up a smile until theyve asked enough questions and leave.

they meet up back at the motel and everyone shares their findings. The Tess Family clearly controls the town and must ve responsible for all the recent deaths, but why? what do they gain in killing people? nothing. that is, unless youre harvesting their organs for trafficking...

thats as far as ive written!

i wanna infodump abt Pangaea so bad

[c-g-ricks]

SPEC-EVO DEITY

Anything is possible when this entity gets invoked. Born from the collective brainwaves of those seeking to visit alternate worlds, it is empowered by the mental energies created when speculative evolution topics are processed by minds. It dwells upon the theoretical future continent Neo-Pangaea, a realm where reality is indistinguishable from maybe (also home to the dinosauroids, squbbons, tua-chutto, etc). This deity has the power to harness impossible yesterdays and countless futures untold, altering mortal flesh by exploiting hidden potentials as well as conjuring beings from worlds that may never exist. Sought out by those seeking arcane insight for predictive models of the future, those wishing to understand the intricate patterns of the past with a bit of mystic extrapolation, and those who never want to ask ‘what if’ ever again. Displease it and you run the risk of being transformed into a morlock. Or worse, an eloi.

Its name can only be speculated upon, but it is also known as:

AFTERUS

BABY NEW YEAR *

ESQUALIDUS

FLISHER KING

GREASONS

HIYÌK HEK SYAY **

LEON TROUT

MEGA VENUSTOISE

PUP TENTACLE

QU BANE

SHUDDA-CUDDA-WUDDA

TENG KETENG ***

* It gets a power boost every January thanks to the raw potential in the air from the oncoming year

** Na’vi language: “Strange, strange fate”

*** Esperanto: “Same Difference”

[snowywolf1005]

GEAR 5 LUFFY X MOON GOD FEMALE READER 🌙

THE SUN AND THE MOON

Warning: blood, curse

Luffy was defeated by Kaido, and now Kaido is attacking everyone. The strawhat thinks Luffy has died, as for you .

You were injured, badly injured so bad, you just passed out while luffy asked Law to put them in a better place.

You were with Nami, marco, and tama. "Luffy dead!? Now, way! That's ridiculous!" Nami cried. "When he says he's gonna win, he'll definitely win, at any cost!" She yelled.

Then Nami began to cry, "So stop lying, you disgusting snake! Luffy, I know you can hear me! Please don't make (Y/N) cry!" She yelled. "Keep your words as always!"

Luffy lay on the ground, and his heart started pumping, playing music. So, as you, your heart starts playing like shamisen.

Zunesha heard the sound of bumping and the shamisen. "momonosake," he said, "what? Zunesha!?" Momonosake asked.

Then the drum started playing in music. "Momonosake! I can hear them!" Zunesha yelled.

"It been a while..." he said, luffy hand start twitch. Momonosake looks confused, "you can hear them? It's been a while? Zunesha, what are you talking about!?" Momonosake yelled.

Luffy body started steaming. "I can hear the drum of liberation. I'm hearing them for the first time in 800 years! I'm positive that they are here!" he yelled.

"wh-who's here?!"

"Joyboy, luna... has returned!" He screams. Luffy hair turned white, and his body started jumping. Red and white lighting flying everywhere.

Luffy lifts his body. "What happened... to me?" he said, standing up and trying not to fall. " How come I can still stand up?" He asks, then Luffy starts smiling.

" I lost the battle," he said, smiling. "But this is getting fun!" He laughed, falling to the ground. As for your body, it started moving a little.

"Joyboy! Luna!" Momonosake yelled, "luffy and (Y/N) is joyboy, lunala!" Yamato yelled. "Is that what zunesha said!?" Yamato question.

Luffy laughed, rolling on the ground, and couldn't stop laughing even more. "This is getting fun!" He said, his clothes turned to white, his eyes turned pink.

In the performance floor. Everyone was shocked to see on above, "What? Is that straw hat man?" Said hyogoro, then he smiled.

"Straw hat!?" Said marco, he turned to Nami and tama, who were hugging each other and you too. "Hey! He's still alive-yoi!" He yelled.

"Luffy's not dead?!" Nami yelled, crying. "Big bro's still alive?!" Cried tama, "That's great!" They said crying. "(Y/N)! Luffy is alive!" Nami cried, hugging your body.

Luffy laughed, jumping.

In the mary geoise, pangaea castle, the hall of power. The five elders were in the meeting.

"Sacrificing one of our best agents... only to enrage kaido is like putting the cart before the horse," said warcury.

"But what if it's better than the alternative? It's better to eliminate a risk factor." Said Saturn.

"The world government... has always tried to get hold of the gum-gum fruit and the shape-shape fruit, but it never came into our hands. For 800 years!" Said nusjuro.

"It's as if... the fruit is evading us... That not entirely implausible," said Mars. "Zoan type devil fruit have a will of their own." Said Peter.

" Furthermore, that devil fruits bears the name of a God. Another name for the gum-gum fruit and shape-shape fruit is..." said warcury.

"The Zoan, human-human fruit, mythical type, model... 'nika' 'lunala'. They say that his body had the exact properties of rubber, as for lunala. She can shapeshift and illusion. They fought as they fancied and made people smile." Said Peter.

"The warriors of liberation and the moon queen, also known as... nika, the sun God! Lunala, the moon, God!" Peter yelled.

"Awakening it is said to give its user's rubber body and the shape shifting body even more strength... and freedom. I heard that it's the most ridiculous power... in the world, " said Peter.

Luffy jumps in the sky, jumping on the ground, clapping his hand. "I can do everything I wanted to do! I think I can fight a little bit more!" Said luffy.

Jumping around, dancing around. "My heartbeat sounds funny!". Luffy jumps high, "This is our peak! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Luffy laughed.

"This is it! Gear five!" Luffy yelled, letting out all lighting go nuts around. And you, you opened your eyes and it full of red. 'What going on?' You question.

'How come I can't feel anything pain at all? What is this?' You keep questioning yourself. Then you hear drums, 'what that sounds? It sounded familiar? Why can't I remember?'.

Luffy jumped around, clapping his hand. Smiling, bouncing, dancing. Being all goofy all that stuff and started laughing.

As for the bottom, everybody was shocked to see full lightning. 'What going on? What happened to luffy?' You question, luffy grab his tumb and stared blowing on it.

His arm became bigger and bigger. "Hey, what going on?!" Someone yelled, "someone's color of the Supreme king?!" They yelled.

"Where is it coming from?!" Someone yelled two, kaido looked above and saw someone outside above. "What's that on the roof?" Kaido said. He looked a hole on above, then a huge hand burst out and grabbed kaido.

"L-luffy?" You said with a lower voice, luffy pulled kaido up, Law and kid was surprised. "Straw hat?!" Said kid, "is that luffy?!" Chopper scream.

Luffy pulled kaido way up, kaido scream. Then luffy pulled his pruple rope on his waist and became muscles. "Muscles! Muscles! Muscles!" Luffy yelled, luffy flew to kaido face.

And punching him, luffy jumps back and grabs kaido body. "Here we go!" Luffy yelled, luffy spin kaido body around, then slamming his body on the ground.

Luffy keeps slamming kaido body on the ground. You, on the other hand, are still injured. You can see Nami, tama, and marco taking, "l-luffy," you said.

Nami turned around to see you, talking. "(Y/N)! Aaaaaa!! I thought you were dead!!!!" Nami cried as she hugged you. "Luffy, I got to help Luffy," you said, trying to stand up.

"(Y/N), you have rest!" Marco yelled, and then you finally opened your eyes. Nami screamed, Marco and tama looked at you and was shocked.

Your eyes turn to red, "(Y/N)?" Tama asked, then you stand up. Your skin turns white, and pruple lightning comes everywhere on your body, and a pruple smoke sorm around you.

"(Y/N)?!" Nami yelled, your body turned to blue, then you transformed into a gaint shadows monster.

Like this:

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" Nami and tama scream. Then you fly up, everybody looks at you in horror, "What is that!?" Someone yelled. You look up to see a hole lend to outside.

"Luffy's," you said, you go through the hole and make bigger holes. You looked to kaido turn black.

Like this

And luffy laughed when luffy looked at you.

You flew over to luffy, and you turned to your human form. And luffy was shocked to see you alive. He put his hand on your cheeks, "(Y/N)!!!" Luffy laughed, and he hugged you tight.

He started kissing you all over your face, and you kissed him on the cheek. "So you're alive as well?" Said kaido, you look at him and transform your monster form.

You and luffy V.S kaido, let see who wins.

PART 2 COMING RIGHT UP!!!!!

If you want more, just leave a comment below!!!!!

[kostevysen]

HETALIA ASK BLOG DIRECTORY (PART 2)

CREDITS TO @cafekitsune FOR THE DIVIDER! (Please let me know if you want it removed!!)

THE BLOGS (In Alphabetical Order | P - W + The Ancients, Others)

Philippines 🇵🇭

— @ask-the-pearloftheorient

— @ikalawang-perlas (2p/Secondplayer)

Prussia

— @ask-the-awesome-prussian

Portugal 🇵🇹

— @aph-portugeese-of-wine

Poland 🇵🇱

— @ask-polandhetalia

Pangaea 🌎🌍🌏

— @ask-mother-pangaea

Russia 🇷🇺

— @askhetaliarussia

Seychelles 🇸🇨

— @askseychelles

Sweden 🇸🇪

— @ask-hwssverige

Sealand

— @im-arealcountry1

Spain 🇪🇸

— @asktheoyabun

Singapore 🇸🇬

— @ask-hws-singapore

South Korea 🇰🇷

— @aphsouthkoreaofficial

Thailand 🇹🇭

— @ask-thelandofsmiles

Taiwan 🇹🇼

— @ask-hws-taiwan

Wy

— @wy-am-i-here

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

— @askcymru

The Ancients 🏛️📜

Ancient Greece

— @ask-ancientgreece

Germania

— @magna-libera-germania

Rome

— @grandparomeaskblog

OTHER

Russia (s) 🇷🇺

— @ask18thcenturyrussia

— @ask-young-russia

Creatures of Hetalia 🕊️ 🐻 🐦

— @creaturesofhetalia

Mochi! America 🇺🇸

— @lettuceismydaddy

State of Louisiana (US)

— @askmisslouisiana

State of Florida (US)

— @the-real-florida-man

19th Century England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

— @ask19thcenturyengland

Vida

— @ask-vida-in-the-hetalia-world

Faroe Islands 🇫🇴

— @ask-ms-faroe-islands

Gibraltar 🇬🇮

— @your-favourite-llanita

Bermuda & Caribbean Islands (British Overseas Territories 🇧🇲 🇲🇸🇰🇾🇹🇨🇻🇬🇦🇮)

— @ask-thecaribbean

Molossia’s Dog 🐕

— @ask-molossias-dog

Nekotalia (?) 🐈

— @ask-hws-nekotalia

(If you want to be added to or removed from the list, please contact me!)

[POST 2/2]

— Navigate to Part 1 (A-N)

[ask-mother-pangaea]

You have a disappointment as a son? I'm sorry to hear that 💔

Rich people? That's amazing, do they have plenty of copper and gold??

Germania! :DDD How's the family?

- @ask-mother-pangaea

Bad, I dont know what's gotten into Germany recently.

Other news is that Prussia has two boyfriends, Luxemburg is dating Korea, Not sure what Austria and Switzerland are doing...

Also theres 3 rich people in my family.

[meguwumibear]

A Night Out Dancing

Tomorrow your party will reach JuLai. Tonight Wolfwood wants to dance.

thank you @/firein-thesky for commissioning this piece for the @ficsforgaza collaboration

The sky above No Man’s Land is inky and starless. The air stale and still. Despite the hour, the world around you is oppressively warm and dry. Nights in the desert are usually bitterly cold. You’re not sure what’s gotten into the weather today.

Vash at least doesn’t seem plagued by strange temperature, but then Vash can sleep through anything, including Meryl’s jerky driving, so the comparison isn’t fair. Meryl’s fast asleep too, tucked neatly into the driver’s seat. You watch her toss and turn for a while, wondering what she dreams of. Someplace nice, hopefully. Somewhere lush and flourishing and green.

Even Roberto seems to have found sleep, albeit at the bottom of a bottle. He’s snoring gently in the passenger seat, mouth wide open, empty liquor bottle still clutched tightly in his hands.

Seems everyone’s immune to the hot desert night but you.

There’s a chance it isn’t the heat keeping you up. It’s possible you’re making excuses, blaming the external world around you for your insomnia so you don’t have to turn inward, so you don’t have to confront your building anxieties about what the future holds for your little traveling party. It’s going to crack and splinter apart, isn’t it? Like that land mass you once read about in a book that spoke of some far away planet called Earth. Pangaea. A supercontinent forced apart by shifting tectonic plates.

Tomorrow, you’ll reach JuLai, and everyone will drift away from you. You’ll spend the rest of your life trying to remember what it felt like to be whole.

Fuck it. If you’re not gonna get some shut eye, you may as well make yourself useful.

Wolfwood is perched on a sand dune, resting against his cross shaped gun, lit cigarette in hand, nearly burnt down to the filter. He takes one final drag of it as he sees you approach, then snubs the thing out in the sand.

“I’ll take over the watch,” you tell him, eyes drawn to the little ‘o’ shape his mouth makes as he lazily releases the final dregs of smoke.

“Not your turn yet, sweetheart,” he replies. “Go back to sleep.”

If only you could.

“Haven’t been able to. Too much shit on my mind. No sense in my staring at the back of my eyelids when I could be doing this instead.”

Wolfwood stares at you through tinted shades he hasn’t bothered to remove despite the darkness of the night. The glasses are a part of his costume, of his carefully crafted mask that even after months of travelling together he’s still hiding behind. He told you he’s an undertaker, but he dresses like a priest. On a runaway Sandsteamer, you learn he is an orphan. You’ve learned nothing since.

“You should take better care of yourself,” he says, as if caring for yourself is easy.

“You’re one to talk,” you reply, eyes giving him a quick once over. It’s been a few days since you’ve spent the night somewhere with a working bathroom. Without a mirror or razor, the stubble on his chin has grown more and more pronounced. The hairs suit him, you think. Your fingers itch to run along his jaw.

“You’re staring,” he observes, mouth crooking into a smug grin because the undertaker or priest or whatever the fuck he is knows how handsome he is.

“Am I?”

Wolfwood stands slowly, brushing beads of sand off him as he does so. You try to keep your eyes on his face, on the slope of his nose, the dimples on his cheeks, but they wander anyway, along his broad shoulders, down his tiny waist. You’ll miss him when this is over, you decide.

“Wanna dance?” he asks suddenly. The question throws you off kilter. How long has it been since you’ve done something so mundane? Will you even remember how? Is it appropriate to dance given what tomorrow may bring?

“What about-”

“Needle-noggin and the lot are out like a light. No one will notice if we steal a few minutes for ourselves.”

He closes the gap between the two of you and links his right hand with yours, fingers interlocking. His hands are large and calloused from lugging around that heavy gun of his. Briefly, you wonder just how strong the guy really is.

 “But there isn’t any music,” you protest weakly. Wolfwood is frustratingly good at sapping away your resolve.

“Don’t need any. We’ll make our own,” he insists, slipping an arm around the small of your back and pressing you close, closer, and closer still.

This close to him, you can see deep into his eyes. There’s fear in them. Sadness too. He’s trying and failing to mask the emotions with a smile, with this dance. It must be so exhausting, you think, always having to pretend.

“One dance,” you surrender, relaxing into his embrace. He smells sharply of tobacco and nicotine, though you note hints of something a bit earthier underneath. Sweat, probably. It’s been a while since any of you have showered. “Then bed. Unlike you and Vash, some of us need our beauty sleep.”

A lopsided grin swims across his handsome face.

 “Aw, think I’m beautiful, sweetheart? That’s nice.”

There’s a biting remark on the tip of your tongue that never fully forms. Yeah, actually, you do think he’s beautiful. You’ve thought so ever since Meryl slammed the news van into him all those months ago. The impact should have killed him—it would’ve killed you—but Wolfwood simply rose up from the sand as if rising from an interrupted slumber. Beautiful, even with rivulets of blood trickling down his face.

“Shut up,” you hiss, cheeks heating as you think a bit too intensely about his sturdy body which is now pressed flush against your own. Has Wolfwood always been this tall? This large? His giant frame engulfs you as the two of you sway together, in tandem with Wolfwood’s quiet humming.

You rest your head against his sternum, listening to the sound of his heart beating quick and urgent like the wings of a bird. His chest vibrates as he hums his tune. You can’t seem to place the song. Likely, he’s making it up as he goes, the tempo slow and somber like a dirge.

“Where’d you learn to dance?” you ask him, conscious of the way your two left feet have nearly tripped him up twice. Lucky for you both he’s not just a hulking lump of muscle. He’s got a great center of balance too.

You chalk your awkwardness up to the loose, shifting sands and not to the odd sensation forming in the pit of your stomach. More unfamiliar than unpleasant. You swallow a few times in an attempt to settle it.

Wolfwood shrugs, spinning the two of you round and round in circles. “It’s not all that different than fighting.”

There’s truth to that, you suppose, remembering the fight on the Sandsteamer. Wolfwood refused to talk about the stranger you all watched disappear into the open maw of the sand ocean, but it was obvious the man once meant something to him.

“You’re thinking too much,” he says. “Just follow my lead.”

So you do. You let him whirl you around the desert dunes for what feels like hours, grinning up at him through thick lashes when you manage to step on his toes. Again. He laughs, a little too loudly, and you have to remind him that if he’s not careful he’ll wake your sleeping companions.

“What are you going to do if everything goes well tomorrow?”

For the first time all night, it’s Wolfwood who stumbles. The misstep is small, slight, if you weren’t so entangled, you may have missed it, but you are entangled so you feel everything. You feel his feet stall as the question leaves your lips. You feel the rise and fall of his belly as he takes a deep steadying breath.   

His hand travels up the length of your spine, coming to rest at the nape of your neck. He thumbs across your vertebrae and you recognize the ministration for what it is: a silent plea for you to let the topic drop and just enjoy this moment the two of you managed to carve out for yourselves amidst all the chaos of the world.

You let your head drop once more, tucking it beneath his collarbone, right above his heart, still rabbiting in his chest. He isn’t humming anymore. There’s nothing to help the two of you keep time as you continue to sway together, now gliding across the sand like worms.

Around you, the clouds begin to clear and bright, twinkling stars start to peek out from behind them. A soft breeze kicks up around you, and the sand particles scatter with it. Wolfwood—Nicholas—keeps you pressed against him as the temperature mercifully begins to drop.

Your mind still wanders from time to time, curious what tomorrow may bring.

Who cares, you decide. It doesn’t matter.

Tonight, you’re content to dance.

[vamprisms]

is it a straight relationship if an agender person dates a pangender person?

it's been bugging me for the past 2 years because technically they're opposite genders right and it's straight if it's the opposite gender.

I've never met anyone in a relationship like this so it's not really important BUT IT STRESSES ME OUT I NEED TO KNOW???!!?!?!!??

.. is it like... the gay cousin of a straight relationship? or is a gay relationship the gay cousin of a straight relationship?

also it kinda sounds like the Pangaea agenda... so does that make it like... gay dinosaurs instead????

(I'm so sorry for the weird ask.. you just seem like a queer authority figure to me)

the wise old dyke king leans back upon their throne. silence grips the lords and theydies of her court as they await his decree. quoth the dyke king 'idk'

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

AA: 0kay i asked my pr0fess0r h0w l0ng until all the c0ntinents f0rm int0 0ne big c0ntinent again and he said like eighty t0 a hundred fifty milli0n sweeps and i said "s0 if i take en0ugh gummy vitamins i may be able t0 see it" and he g0t really quiet f0r a wh0le minute and l00ked c0nfused i think he th0ught i meant it 0h my g0d

AA: what is it ab0ut me that makes it s0 easy t0 believe im a dumbass

AA: is my delivery just that g00d?

TA: iim WHEEZIING

TA: ii thiink he ju2t thiink2 youre phy2iically capable of achiieviing iit through gummy bear2 alone.

AA: y0ure right. he wasnt c0nfused. he saw the truth 0f what i said and he was afraid. d0nt underestimate h0w badly i want t0 be ar0und t0 name the next superc0ntinent

TA: pangaea part two: the gang2 back twogether

AA: pangaea tw0: tect0nic b00gal00

[mac-ann-cheese]

Again with fur coats

I'm sorry for irregular posting, I've been snowed under with my uni work lately ( Ó⁠╭⁠╮⁠Ò )

Nevertheless I'm always grateful for your support!!!!! ( ⁠＾⁠ω⁠＾)

Under the cut lots of thoughts on current manga arc (I've got no one to talk about it,...)

I like to imagine that in gangsta au they still use flip phones. But it got me thinking about how that universe works,... Are there any transnational corporations? Is history in general the same just with criminal elements?? Like there should be some sort of grand gang bang I and II if the United Districts organization exists (the analogy to the UN, of course). And the Big five is just the security council.

Moreover, in the same strip, the fall of the USSR is brought up as the permanent members of UD discuss whatever they should keep or kick out newly formed Russia (or district 7. It's cute that they call each other after the first number of the nation's phone code. One thing bothers me with this fact. What were the districts called before the invention of telephones? Countries received permanent telephone codes only in the mid-20th century. Or in terms of au the actual number of the district isn't connected with phones and just a number?? Another bit of useless info: Kazakhstan also uses +7; will they be [I doubt that they would make an appearance in au, but let me DREAM!!!] also a part of the whole district 7 like NA bros with district 1???). Buttttt I was talking from the perspective of our history being pulled over on the lore of gangstatalia, cause we don't have those events described in canon, which IS interesting!!!!!

Also, the sputnik was mentioned, which means the whole cold war (or at least the space race period) had happened... Um. Do districts own nuclear weapons? It's just a theory. a MANGA theory!

Considering in that the characters aren't probably immortal anymore (well, I can make that conclusion only from the panel with young Alfred literally saying, "oh so you're the representative of the 86th district? I'm the new representative of the 1!", it means... that there was someone before him ruling the district.............), the timeline of parallel events shortens.

Therefore, the events are closely packed together; there aren't gaps of decades between them, but more likely a couple of years.

How does this world work? Judging from the map, the districts are on a Pangaea-like continent. Or are they districts of some bigger country...?

Is there a ruler over all districts? Who is it then? Flying mint bunny? Tony? GRANPA RO-

Was there always the gangster's paradise in the regions, or was the government more authoritarian before??????? WHY IS CRIME THE NORM? Why did they decide to regulate everything with the help of playing cards?

And lastly. The electric collars. How? How did the idea even cross Alfred's mind? If I'm not mistaken he is, well, not the creater, but the person who suggested wearing them. "Let's fry our brains to crispy nuggets!!!" Haha. Fun.

And others in the big five agreed to it. Like that isn't totally bucknutty. Not at all. Electric chairs would be much better...

Oof my head hurts just thinking of it

Maybe I'm not the first one to ask these kinds of questions, but still. I need answers.

[refigiowen]

Process Of Ruin

Chapter 1: Dirty Magic

My eyes are blown wide open, the ringing of my alarm fills my ears and i feel as if i had not slept for even a minute.

I turn off the alarm and reach out to turn on my lights but immediately realize that my room is lit up as if the mid day sun was shining. It is 4:30 in the morning. The giant billboard outside my window was much like a second sun, one that never stops shining. I despise it, truly i do. I stand up and take a look around the room: Trash, empty food containers, bottles of liquor, various juices that i cannot name, the dark green walls and the filth. Yeah, that is my home. A one room apartment that those poor bastards out in the outskirts would kill for.

I grab my suit, which i used as a blanket last night because my last blanket was infested with cockroaches, and put on my shoes. I would like to mention that i am dirt poor and would never be able to buy a suit like this if it wasn't a rule for every worker to be gifted one upon joining a corporation.

Upon stepping outside my apartment i am met with the door of my neighbour being open and his corpse laying on the floor. Clean shot in the head - Briah Security Force. Poor guy must have pissed off some big corpo for BSF to actually do their job (that being fighting criminals).

I turn to my right and am met with a mixture of scents and smells. Blood, vomit, a hint of piss and the smell of trash that has been set on fire to name a few. I take in the smell and can't help but smile. Not that i like the smell, quite the opposite, but i cannot help but see it as a sort of friend. I mean, it greets me every morning whether i like it or not, it's there for me when no one else is. Is that not what a friend should do? Either way i walk down the stairs and out into the streets.

They used to describe the cities of the future as these big, beautiful metropolises in the old world - in movies at least. I wish i was living in one, but sadly, i live in a shithole of a city called Eden.

The continents were mashed into one giant landmass called Pangaea and all nations that existed before that no longer exist. Mankind lives in a mega city called Eden where Corporations rule the world and a single central government called the Pale Garden helps them, at least that's what it feels like. Eden is divided into countless districts and areas such as Erewhon District, the place i live in. The closer the district is to the center - The Pale Garden - the less depressing and disgusting they are.

Sadly, i live thousands of miles away from the garden.

All humans are linked to something called the "NeuraNet". Long story short: a tool used by big corporations to either A: keep you alive for all eternity. Or B: to kill you or your friends and family with the press of a button.

It's basically impossible to escape NeuraNet as it's implanted into babies directly after they are born. Those who manage to unlink themselves are hunted down by the Pale Garden's Claws and basically every corporation in Eden.

The NeuraNet ensures that someone lives for as long as they are useful to whatever corporation they work for. The person becomes essentially unkillable through natural causes such as organ failure or aging. Oh yeah, they can control your mind as well by the way.

But hey, NeuraNet has its good sides though! I can order food with just my mind and stuff. I think thats neat.

I take in the smell of the street and begin walking to my job. What i work as and who i work for you ask? Like i mentioned, i live in Erewhon District and was lucky enough to get a job at Erewhon Corp., a corporation that specializes in.... electric guitars. Yeah, this district sucks. But i get paid enough to have my own apartment and to buy food. No one said the work life is fair. And once you're in it, you're not getting out of it. Few are lucky to be able to climb the ladder of the corpo life, with how little you get paid some can't even afford a roof above their head. Well, the buildings blocking the sky kind of serve as roofs but you get the point.

I walk into the building and scan my ID card.

"Caiden Jiang, 25 years old. 186 centimeters tall. Erewhon Corp. employee."

My job is to just check the guitars and distribute them to buyers. Ocassionally i get to look at some real goodies, like the guitar used by Mitch Mickleson the famous guitarist from Grovestreet District. Besides that it's just the usual paper work desk job that makes you want to blow your brains out. Whenever i can i look out the window and gaze down onto the streets.

Bloodstains, murder, gunshots and the filth of the city paint an almost beautiful yet twisted picture below me. In this chair on the 10th floor i feel like im above the city, in an empty sky, not chained by the gods of the city. And yet in reality im not even off the floor yet. I sigh and avert my attention from the window and continue staring at the screen before me.

Something i have not told you yet is that i am on the brink of getting a once in a lifetime promotion. Yes sir, you heard me right, a promotion. Getting a promotion in a corporation is as rare as finding a four-leaf clover in a field of roses! It's basically a free ticket to a better life, a decent wage and so much more. I had to hold myself back quite a bit from kissing my boss on his hairy cheek when he told me that i was gonna get promoted soon.

And with that knowledge i walk home, and for once, with a smile on my face. It has been, i don't even know how long, since i last left work with excitement for the next day in my heart. Truly, it has been forever since i felt anything other than sheer melancholy.

And so i walk down the streets of Erewhon district, occasionally looking down into the depths of Eden: "The Metro". No one quite knows what is beneath the city, apparently not even the big corps know anything about that place. I don't really care myself but i would be lying if i said that it didn't intrigue me. A place so mysterious that no corporation in Eden wants to go down there? Well, i for my part am more interested in that nice, nice promotion of mine. I know i am repeating myself but it is truly something special.

I continue walking home, around me are faces of sorrow and grief, sadness and terror. Oh yes, these people suffer. Oh yes, this city is terrible. And oh yes, i am sure the devil is looking down at us and feels lucky to not be down here with us. And as such, i feel as though i should embrace this chance at living a better life as much as possible. Look at these people, living on the streets, in dumpsters and slicing each others throat over a rotten artificial fruit. I live alongside these people, almost as a brother of sorts. But i decided to join a corporation and sacrifice my freedom for a chance to live a life that is worth living. And if i fail i still have my apartment and this suit that has not been cleaned for months. Freedom is something that i can live without. It doesn't let me pay for my healthcare and doesn't protect my wellbeing by sending Briah troops to my location should i ever be in danger. So what use do i have for all that free time when i can use it to work for a better life?

I walk into my apartment and look at my bed. Then my closet and then that godforsaken billboard outside my window. I sigh and smile once again, knowing that this all will soon be behind me.

The next morning i get notified about a Representative Corporation going out of business on NeuraNet. That kind of thing doesn't happen often, not around here at least and so i take a closer look at the article.

"The Representative Corporation of Erewhon District, Erewhon Corp., has gone out of business due to poor performance and low demand of their products. The contracts of every worker will be terminated and a squad of Claws has been dispatched to announce the next Representative Corporation."

"The Fuck..!?"

I begin to run, bumping into a person here and there. "This cannot be real", i think to myself, "they never mentioned any of that shit, they fucking lied - the boss lied when he told me about my promotion!"

And so, after running for at least a mile, i stand before the building, gazing up at the logo of Erewhon Corp. I feel betrayed, fucked with, and lied to.

They promised me a promotion, a better life. No.. they did that on purpose. To give me hope, that fucking bastard wanted me to feel HOPE out of all things? That smile on his face, how i want to rip each of his teeth out one by one. He had the choice of either telling me nothing but the truth, or feeding me poison. And now i stand here, promotionless, jobless, and with nothing to look forward to. I almost took a step forward in this sorry life, but once again, no, i still am at zero.

I can't even feel angry. I am more so... disappointed that i thought that i had a chance. After all, you either work till you die and get fed crumbs, or you die on the streets and get eaten by your neighbours.

And as i stare at my former company's logo, i am pulled out of my misery by the squad of Claws that the article mentioned.

And in an almost comedic manner i feel a woman's hand on my mouth and she pulls me away into any alley before the Claws could see me.

[ask-mother-pangaea]

Mutti, you have to get facebook.

- @magna-libera-germania

Son. . . .

You have opened my eyes. Panthalassa has to make an account too!

. . . . . . Mn 👍🏻

[whetstonefires]

what's your map advice? genuinely curious🤔

Oh look at this! Asks got bottled huh.

I think I remember what this was about. I don't have a specific set of Map Advice but I maintain that 'take real country borders and frankenstein them together, then invert colors and declare that pangaea-bloc ocean to get a realisitically greebled coastline for your made-up planet' is wildly unhinged methodology.

Like. It works fine! If efficiency and realistic invocation of the coastline paradox are your priorities, this is an effective strategy pretty much.

Although you have a pretty limited pool of countries to work from since in like, Africa the inland borders tend to be draw-a-line-on-a-map straight, and there aren't enough large peninsulas and isthmuses (isthmi?) in the world for you to put one of those in without it being fairly obvious you stole myanmar, and so forth.

Except of course because of the inversion trick you would instead wind up with a body of water shaped like myanmar??? And lakes are not really distributed like islands. And so on. The realism is very subject to breaking down.

Basically it answers a very limited set of the needs for which a fictional world map might be sought, and I think there are online tools to generate random maps that will serve most of those purposes already, so it's just a very specific trick to recommend as a general mapping technique. good for ttrpg setting time-saver if you don't like any of those free online tools?

i think it's cool that the creator came up with this very funny way of meeting their own map needs, but also lol.

I think if I had to give Making A Fantasy Map advice it would be, start with a basic childish diagram of the relative position of the major features you already know about, and then add things at a steadily smaller scale as relevant, and don't try to make a nice draft until you've worked out the gross spatial situation because you'll just distract yourself.

But this advice won't work for everyone either, it depends on your needs and your drafting process and so on and so forth.

[ask-mother-pangaea]

Mother is sorry 😔 Anyways! Would you like me to cut up your food?

You always used to whine about how hard to chew the big pieces were, aw I even remember you breaking a tooth once trying to bite a large chunk of meat!

GERMANIA MY BOY You've grown up so fast, my little mushroom 😭😭

It feels like only yesterday you were crying to Panthalassa about how sad you were that your robes were on backwards 🥲

- @ask-mother-pangaea

Mutti, do not bring that up. I beg of you.

I've been humiliated about that by Rome enough.

[ask-hetalia-germany]

I heard you were a disgrace to the family

- @ask-mother-pangaea

Who in the fuck are you?

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I know this is a dinosaur themed blog, but what do you get up to when you're not thinking about dinosaurs? Any hobbies? Favorite books or games?

Thank you for asking!

so a truly alarming part of my life is dinosaur themed. it's not just my job - I have pet birds (which is a Whole Thing, the Pet Bird community is huge), tons of dinosaur toys and games, and I just have a Special Interest ya know

but! I do have many other interests

I'm extremely interested in Judaism, and my Jewish life is the second biggest part of my life after dinosaurs/prehistory/birds. I practice rooooughly trad-egal (masorti), and I do lots of Torah study every Shabbat with my spouse. I am, however, bad at not using the internet on Shabbat, which is something I wish I could commit to.

I am a lifelong anarchocommunist (parents were socialist-democrats and most kids go more left than their parents, not much more left I could go) and politics and social justice have always been important to me. From a very young age I took on equality and justice as things I believed in and I never stopped fighting for them. and this is more than just me being multi-queer and multi-disabled. So a lot of my life is fighting for "tikkun olam"

I love music, I'm a very musical person. Specifically I enjoy punk and alternative, though Jewish music is awesome and there's a lot of obscure rap hip hop and electronica I enjoy. Google told me my music taste is "deep cuts" and I am proud of that, honestly. I can play lots of instruments and I was in choir for most of my childhood! I'm a decent singer, I'm just shy about it. The spouse and I enjoy playing Rock Band as well!

I used to be a much more voracious reader than I am, mainly because being in academia is a one way ticket to not reading for pleasure anymore. That said, my favorite book is probably still "Ishmael / My Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. I also enjoy the works of Suzanne Collins (hunger games, gregor the overlander), the Green Brothers (sue me, Looking for Alaska was very important for Teen!Meig), and Shakespeare (yeah, I read Shakespeare for fun. What can you do.)

I loooooooooooove computer games. Love. Ever since I was little. I played tons of point and click games, especially educational ones, as a kid. I love tycoon games, most of all zoo tycoon, and jurassic park operation genesis was one of my favorite games as a kid. I play a ton of them now and my Steam account is overloaded. I often use mods and stuff for accessibility, but I enjoy many different games

I also love playing board games! My spouse Max and I have an extensive collection of board games including all of Wingspan, Holotype, and this cool game we found about the Permian period called Pangaea. We have many others, too, of course! We've just been playing Wingspan and Holotype a lot lately

I enjoy crochet, but I only learned it last summer. I also enjoy origami, though I haven't touched it in a while. I like swimming and hiking when I'm able to, disability kind of gets in the way sometimes. I also enjoy riding my bike, though see the former again. I am quite good at baking, but lately I haven't been doing it as much :/

I love my friends. I am extremely loyal to them and center them in my life. My spouse is included in this, but also my best friend from childhood Taryn, my best friend from college Carmen, and all of my wonderful dinosaur-community friends who are too many to list.

so yeah! I'd say the biggest things are Judaism, Music, and Computer Games, but I have tons of interests and lots of fantastic friends and loved ones, so my life does have a lot going on outside of dinosaurs and birds ^_^