#atrocious polycule

[coolsketchablestuff]

this is 100% canon (source, me)

[apheliia]

um uh ummm ancient cookie polycule. post now

[bucket-of-amethyst]

etho really brought his ex to the polycule meeting huh 💀 ties were NOT impressed

Way to go Etho. Arrives late to the polycule meeting dragging in the ex who has custody of both his children. AWKWARD MAN! READ THE ROOM!

[whiskingskin]

FINE geez I'll write a fic about them 🙄🙄 I can't believe yall are making me do this

I think Juno/Mauga/Venture is slept on. All crazy in different ways. The kind of throuple to plan a date to an amusement park and the instant they get there, they all run in different directions

[doodler16]

The thing about this whole discourse is that… I do agree with Vivziepop is that it’s silly to be upset when villains get merch. Yes even romantic Valentine’s Day merch. I don’t think it’s problematic if it’s between two characters in a consensual relationship, even if one of them is a vile piece of shit.

HOOOOWEVER….. the way Vivziepop is handling this is fucking horrible. Accusing survivors of not caring about survivors because they don’t like the merch you’re selling is fucking horrid. You can’t out-traumatize people. She also keeps tripping over herself. You say the Vees can’t be separated and that’s why Valentino is always included and yet Velvette is often missing from the merch (why aren’t they polycule??).

There’s also the very blatant Valentino favoritism that people are quickly picking up on. You made Angel Dust’s entire character about his rape. Valentino being a serial rapist is played off as comedic. While Angel dust being abused by Valentino is sad, Valentino violently raping and assaulting other women is played off s comedic. The fucking playbill was 50% Valentino art. It’s also baffling that Angel dust was excluded in the Valentine’s Day merch but not his rapist? There’s no way one of the most popular characters wasn’t added in Valentine’s Day merch, which sounds like she flat out does not care for Angel Dust or forgot about him.

There’s also, the fact that she openly hates Stella fans and makes fun of them. You don’t get to do that and then throw a fit when people don’t like Valentino.

Forget official VoxVal Valentine merch, one day Anon that moth will get an official plushie and Youtooz product. Shit will hit the fan when that happens. 😂

But yeah, Vivziepop handled that atrociously, this is the top 5 worst response from her I’ve seen so far. This is one of the rare times she should’ve said nothing or if Vivziepop does want to clear the air, make a professional comment and then wait for the drama to die out.

She was arguing with multiple people, blocking, deflecting all on bluesky off all places. At this point, go back Twitter. The favoritism is very clear with Valentino. I’m glad you mentioned Angel Dust being an accessory to Valentino, Anon because recently in Ayy Lmao’s comment section (about the Valentine merch drama) I found this baffling comment about Angel Dust.

Which proves that some fans do see Angel Dust as an accessory to Valentino unintentionally or not:

Of course, she makes fun of Stella fans. Regarding the merch here’s what Morgana said about it because she is in charge of it.

The reason why Huskerdust didn’t get Valentine merch is because right now they aren’t a canon couple yet.

[ckret2]

bouncing off that anon's ask, who would you ship Bill with *outside* of Gravity Falls? Literally any media go ham with it

Invader Zim for exactly one reason: their voices would be sooo annoying together. Imagine it. Imagine the dirty talk. Absolutely atrocious.

This isn't a ship but I think he should hang out with Team Rocket. I mean I guess it could be a ship if you wanna find a way to fit him into the polycule. They've got plenty they can relate to each other on: complicated relationships with parents, being special in your species in a way that makes you a freak/outcast, seeking family via criminal gang, trying to accomplish ONE evil task for like a billion years and somehow no matter how many people you try to manipulate or how clever your cover stories and creative your plans you just canNOT do it...

But mainly I want him to give them terrible advice and horrible help on their criminal ambitions while trying to get them to build him a portal. They waste 50 episodes on 50 different portal-building schemes while Bill gets progressively more irate, and in turn they get equally furious at this annoying talking Ghost-type they can't touch or make go away. Poké balls work on him but he immediately pops back out even madder, which does nothing to help him persuade them that he's not a Pokémon.

Anyway within a month they'd all die for each other. In a very emotional moment when he thinks they're about to be killed and there's nothing he can do about it, he'd tell them they would have made fine Henchmaniacs; and then when they inevitably survive he immediately takes it back.

I think Bill and Unicron would hook up and I think Unicron would make Bill worse. I think he's one of the only beings in existence that could make Bill worse. Bill's got a self-destructive streak a mile wide and Unicron would exacerbate it. They'd break up cordially and then slowly grow to loathe each other more and more in retrospect. Bill would still booty call Unicron when drunk and Unicron would accept.

this isn't necessarily a ship but imagine if bill and getaway teamed up

The Princess in Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer. Bill would promise her a diamond the size of a star and she would build him a portal in less than a week. Bill would compliment her interior decor sensibilities and she might actually compliment his appearance because he's very bright, and that would be enough for them to decide they're besties. They'd get champagne, trash talk their enemies, and bully the plebs like a couple of high school mean girls. They'd make out while completely wasted and deny it when they're sober. Each of them privately thinks the other one is their pet.

Grendel from Grendel. Bill would initially hook up with him expecting him to be the monster equivalent of a party frat boy and then they'd talk philosophy in a dark cave for 18 hours straight and mutually feel like they're not alone for the first time they can remember. They'd make each other worse and then fix each other and then Grendel would die in battle and Bill would get worse again.

I think he could have something with Frankenstein's monster, too—original novel version, not movie version. Similar reasons to Grendel: strong sense of alienation from parents and of isolation from everyone else in the world; feeling of having been created as something totally singular, feeling of having a perspective no one else shares; self-identification as the monster in the narrative of their own life... Plus with the monster Bill's also got "life inevitably culminates in killing my own dad." Bill met him because he was actually trying to get Frank to build him a portal—he's like the first scientist trying to do major projects using electricity—but then ended up more fascinated by the science project than the scientist.

[passions-and-pupils]

Wait so if Shang Qinghua married an extreme Shen Qingqiu (emotionally repressed but pretty) , and Shen Qingqiu married an extreme Shang Qinghua (obsessive crybaby)…

Does that make Mobei Jun X Lou Binghe a possible ship here?

Why not polycule with Cumplane Bingqiu mobing and moshang all happening at the same time?

The communication would be atrocious but it would be fun to watch

[not-lupus]

I've been bingewatching house for the last few weeks and I'll be honest finding your blog is such a delight. That being said one of my top tier takes is that House, Cuddy and Wilson should all get together in a polycule to either fix themselves or commit medical malpractice so atrocious they'll have to overhaul the constitution

hold on let me co-sign this

[whats-she-gonna-post-next]

Me again

Zombiewood, any season idm :3

Hi, hey, how are you. I'm so sorry this took so long! I had so much fun doing it, but my god, I had trouble getting started for some reason. Their dynamic is a personal favorite of mine, so my fear of fucking that up probably played a factor in that. But regardless, I did finish, and I'm actually really happy with it. I hope you like it. 835 Limited Life Zombiewood. I will admit I was self-indulgent in the martyn exposition at the start. I hope that's ok! Also I will fully admit to sprinking in some Mean Gils that could be read romantically if wanted, I am obsessed with the interconnected web that is the life series polycule.

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Martyn stared across the water to where he could make out the Clocker’s tower just beyond the lightly swaying sugarcane and bamboo that made up their makeshift walls. When they swayed just right, Martyn could just make out the shocks of bright orange that stabbed him ever so slightly in the chest each time.

Things between him and Cleo were… weird… after Double Life. Maybe not weird, but strained? Tense, perhaps? Martyn didn’t know what to feel about it. Before Double Life it wasn’t as if he disliked Cleo, they were undoubtably stunning, and the confidence and bloodlust only every added to the appeal, but during Double Life it had been racked up to one hundred. He had thought that maybe it was the shared life that had send him into the tailspin when Cleo had declared that she and Scott were choosing each other and rejected him and Pearl - after all, as the first two games had show, Martyn was already somewhat obsessive and single minded in his loyalties when he got invested, a man doesn’t just swear loyalty to a king and start a red winter for him to be anything but loyal and single minded, but this devotion had seemed beyond even that.

There was anger, of course, and a hurt that he’d buried under said anger, and a passion that burned far brighter than anything else. The last few days, when he’d actually gotten to work with Cleo, spend time around her without open hostility, was the first time he’d felt he could truly breath.

And then they’d died.

And suddenly Martyn didn’t know how to act around her, not when those feelings hadn’t gone away even slightly.

He watched through the swaying vegetation as bright cyan joined the bright orange and finally, he turned himself away. Even with Scott being his partner this game, he couldn’t stop the instinctual fear in his chest when the two of them were together. If anything, being partners with Scott made it worse, as if they’d take both of them away from him again, as if he had any right to think about Cleo like that still, any right to worry about Scott like that.

He spent some time busying himself with meaningless tasks around the island, tending to the cows and chickens, organizing chests that he wasn’t sure Scott wouldn’t just rearrange when he got back.

"Martyn, are you here?" Speaking of, Scott's voice carried across their little island with ease, the musical quality that had been budding since the server lore took effect growing stronger each day. Martyn made his way out from the storage area to meet with Scott.

"Yeah, I'm right-" He froze. Standing just beyond the door was Cleo, the neon 80s jumpsuit jaxpositioned against the grey green of their skin and the bright orange of her hair in a way that should have been atrocious, but somehow worked. She gave him a smirk that should have been overconfident, but was instead perfectly in place on her face - he knew that whatever she had planned would be knocked out of the park with their skill.

"Hello Martyn," her voice was just as he remembered it, it flowed over him as easy as waves, his mind short circuited slightly.

"H- hi- hello- hey- uh-" He stammered, trying to get his thoughts in order. Martyn had been steeling himself against every interaction he'd yet to have with Cleo, he'd been extra vigilant to minimize running into her unexpectedly, even if it was a possibility every time he stepped off his and Scott's island. He had not expected this. "What's- what's up Cleo?"

"See!" Scott exclaims, and Martyn flinches some, having forgotten that Scott was there for a moment, "This is what I was telling you about! Now, I'm going to go and bug TIES, or see what the Bad Boys are up too, or something! You two! Sort this out!"

And then he was gone, diving gracefully off the edge of the island and quickly making his way to shore.

Martyn swallowed, turning his attention back to Cleo, who had made their way closer while he wasn't paying attention. Gone was the self confident smirk, replaced instead with a contemplative look as she searched his face.

Slowly, her hand came up to cup his jaw, a soft look coming to her eyes.

"Oh Martyn."

Before he has time to even try to disact her tone, she pulls him to his chest. He goes easy, ear pressed to the odd hollow quietness in their chest that lacked a heartbeat, something that had become a comfort in its constant. Martyn began to shake. Not quite crying, but his body trembled all over in their hold, falling apart and knitting together all at once.

They'd talk later, about Double Life and the soulbond, about them, what they were how they worked. But that would be later. For now, he settled into the hug and let himself exist, just for a few moments.

[kaiserposting]

dog walking verse got more interesting to me after the leaks🥲

Don't let the atrocious godawful dialogue and the fact that I'm not taking it seriously when I write it distract you from the fact that the horrible polycule series is about a mildly disturbing psychological power struggle

[coolsketchablestuff]

UPDATED SHIPPING CHART FOR THE POLYCULE BE UPON YE

Happy valentines day!!! (no text and just text below)

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 1, Poll 3

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave here.

Geordi La Forge-Star Trek: The Next Generation

Qualifications:

He is blind, canonically, and also [has] chronic headaches as a result of the visor he wears. He was actually originally conceptualized as gay, but never written as such because every Trekkie's nemesis, Rick Berman, took over the production of TNG after Roddenbury left. Every single heterosexual romance written for him is atrocious, and his closest non-familial relationship is with a man, Data. Said relationship is often interpreted as romantic or queerplatonic in nature by fans.

He is blind (uses a VISOR that lets him see the electromagnetic spectrum) and was intended to be gay before one of the producers decided not to let him be (thousand curses on Rick Berman)

Propaganda:

He is so wonderful and I love him so so so much. OK. Okay. So Geordi's main traits are that he is an incredibly dedicated and talented engineer, a ridiculously friendly and charismatic person, and very loyal & stubborn when it comes to the people he loves. He has, on two separate occasions, successfully made friends with a member of a hostile alien faction just by spending a few days with them (Hugh, Bochra). When his mother goes missing and he starts getting communications from an entity claiming to be her, he disobeys orders and puts himself in danger in an attempt to save her. Similarly, in The Most Toys, when Data is kidnapped by Kivas Fajo, he refuses to believe that Data made an error in piloting a shuttlecraft that resulted in his death, and through rigorous investigation, finds out what really happened and is able to get the Enterprise to rescue him. (This episode bears incredible similarity to an episode in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, wherein Keiko does the exact same thing when her husband Miles is falsely reported as dead, so in that parallel, Geordi and Data are directly analagous to a married couple). Geordi's disability is presented in one of the best ways I have seen in media from the 80s-90s. His disability is a part of his character, but never his defining trait, and in several episodes he stresses that he doesn't resent being blind, as it is part of who he is. In fact, there's even an episode where he is placed in direct thematic opposition to a eugenicist society that terminates all disabled zygotes. He was originally conceptualized as gay by Roddenbury, but was never written as such (partially due to Rick Berman's influence). However, all of his canon heterosexual romances are unspeakably terrible, and his closest onscreen relationship is with Data. This relationship is interpreted by many to be romantic or queerplatonic in nature.

He's so cooool!! He's the chief engineer on the enterprise, he's so kind, and his relationship with the android Data is one of the best on the show and is my favourite in all of Star Trek

Anything else?:

The actor who played him, LeVar Burton, is a vocal ally and has expressed support for his gay daughter in interviews :).

Geordi is awesome

Submitted by @convenient-plot-device and @autisticiantojvnes respectively.

Saki Tenma-Project Sekai

Qualifications:

Saki is canonically disabled and also is probably in a polycule with the three other girls in her band (the polycule is unfortunately not canon)

Propaganda:

Saki Tenma is Canonically Disabled (although her disability hasnt been named) and oh my god is she amazing disability rep i was not expecting a Hatsune Miku rhythm game to get me so attached to a character to the point of crying but here we are!!!!! methinks her and the rest of Leo/Need are definitely dating each other they were childhood friends who played music together until middle school but ended up drifting apart for different reasons after Saki is unable to continue going to school and must stay in the hospital but when Saki comes back in high school they eventually become close again and continue playing music as a band!! a part of Sakis arc is learning how to rely on her bandmates and be able to ask them for help when she needs it Saki often pushes her limits to the point of causing harm to herself because of how much time she had to spend in the hospital away from her closest friends while growing up due to her being disabled and how much she wished she could’ve been there with them instead but now she has them there to cheer her up and to remind her that even when she does end up having to miss out on events because of her disability that they will always be there for her no matter how ill she gets

[theherosvillain]

Co-Parenting (Crime Polycule AU)

As narrated by Loren Bruce, husband of the year.

I knew Axton was at the end of his rope when he said it. He’d been in meetings all day, had a headache, and Wren was throwing a tantrum over something or another and wouldn’t cooperate for any of us. I tried to help with the kid issues, but I shouldn’t have been surprised when Axton shoved me out of the way with a curt, “You’re not even her parent.”

I shouldn’t have been surprised, but it still managed to cut me anyway. I took care of the kid just as much as he and Vivienne did, if not more, and still—I wasn’t her parent?

Okay. Then I wouldn’t act like it.

That weekend, all of us were expected at a large dinner at the home of some business partner of Axton’s. Vivienne was still touching up her makeup, and since I had conveniently disappeared after getting ready, Axton was tasked with getting Wren dressed. Normally, I would’ve offered to help, but this time I lounged in the living room, listening to the sounds of infuriated child-screeching and fatherly pleading floating down from upstairs. I flicked lazily through one of Vivienne’s magazines. Not my problem.

Rapid little footsteps pattered down the stairs, and Wren blurred past me, wearing remarkably little clothing. Axton followed close behind, but he couldn’t quite keep up. The kid was fast. I was starting to wonder whether her power might be superspeed. Both of them disappeared from sight, and I heard the door to the laundry room slam, followed by Axton saying, “Wren, please.” I almost winced in sympathy. Almost.

Axton trudged back into the living room, notably without his child, and I kept my eyes on my magazine. This season’s fashion was looking atrocious. “Loren.” When I failed to look up, Axton sighed. “Could I have a little help, please?”

Even after four years of Axton humbling himself enough to ask for help with his kid, the novelty hadn’t worn off for me. Still, I merely hummed, thumbing along the magazine’s glossy pages. “Why don’t you ask Vivienne?” I said innocently. “Since she’s Wren’s mother and all.”

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw him check his watch. “Loren, we’re going to be late.”

“Well, you’ll just have to tell the hosts that you were busy wrangling your child.”

He sighed again. Paused. Contemplated. Finally, he said, “If this is about what I said the other day … you know I didn’t mean that.”

Quick on the uptake, but not quick to apologize. Classic Axton. I kept my eyes on the magazine. “Mm-hmm. Sure.”

There was another pause. Axton shifted from foot to foot, and although I would’ve loved to watch him squirm, I didn’t look up. “I appreciate everything you do for Wren,” he said, sounding as though he was choosing his words very deliberately, “and I … apologize for implying that your contributions mean less than mine or Vivienne’s.”

Finally, I closed the magazine and looked up. “Better. Anything else?”

He stepped closer, his fingertips grazing my jaw. “You’re Wren’s parent, too. I shouldn’t have said otherwise.”

“Thank you.” I tossed the magazine aside and stood to give him a kiss. “That’s all you had to say.”

He tolerated my affections for a moment before checking his watch again. “We’re still going to be late,” he reminded me.

I shrugged and started toward the laundry room, where Wren was hopefully still holed up. “Having a kid is a good excuse for all sorts of lateness. I’m sure even your wealthy business partners understand that.”

In the end, it took me about five minutes to coax Wren back upstairs and get her into suitable attire. It turned out that the dress Vivienne had wanted her to wear was itchy, and she was more amenable to going to “a grown-up party” when she learned that there would be other children there, a detail that Axton had apparently left out.

When I came downstairs with Wren balanced on my hip, her wearing a reasonably nice dress, Axton looked both relieved and amazed. “I don’t know how you do it,” he murmured.

I shrugged. “I’m the child-whisperer.” (I was more open to compromise, but I didn’t think Axton was ready to wrap his head around that part of child-rearing yet. Maybe someday.)

Soon after, Vivienne came downstairs, and I let Wren down so she could go hug her mother. “Oh! What happened to the other dress?” Vivienne asked.

Wren pressed her face into her mother’s skirt, her voice becoming muffled. “It was a bad dress.”

“It was itchy,” I clarified.

“Oh.” Vivienne looked vaguely disappointed as she smoothed down Wren’s hair. I couldn’t understand her preoccupation with trying to make Wren look “nice” for these sorts of events; the kid was four, for God’s sake. She’d probably get the dress dirty anyway. “Well, I suppose there’s no time to change.”

“No, there isn’t,” said Axton. I caught his eye, and we exchanged a knowing glance before he started herding us all toward the elevator.

We arrived at the dinner half an hour late, which was much later than Axton would have ever been on his own. The first thing I did was approach the hostess, holding Wren’s little hand in mine. “So sorry we’re late,” I said, laying the apology on thick. “You know how it is getting the little ones ready.”

“Oh, of course,” said the hostess, waving a hand before turning her eyes on Wren. “And isn’t she just the sweetest little darling!” Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Axton breathe a subtle sigh of relief. But I’d have to save the I told you so’s for later. We had a dinner to attend.

[limetimo]

RRAB fics I read (September 15)

Downfall - Year 1 by Lunarde Walburga is abusive, Sirius has a lot going on, and Regulus investigates.

Compass by star4daisy Journalist James gets to interview his favourite band - turns out Regulus Evan and Barty are in a poly relationship and would really like him to join them!

The Stars Welcome Him (with open arms) by Regisdrowning after the Prank Remus finds sanctuary with Regulus and his friends

Stay in your Lane by Regisdrowning swimming au! Regulus has to deal with rooming with JAmes, the bestie of his estranged brother :D

Underdressed by Thzebr Unspeakable Draco gets yoinked into his 1995 body, messy stuff ensues, Regulus makes a benavolent appearance in like, chapter 29, but his cameo is really cool

The Black Days Are Over by SagaEllen Regulus is a Seer, copes badly, then gets his ass in gear. BAMF Dorcas

enchanted (to meet you) by muchmoreclever Disney's enchanted Wolfstar AU!! Sirius as Giselle! Like the lore behind this thing--

The healing journey of Regulus Black by LupinsChocolatePraline As he leaves for college, Regulus gets the chance to start healing from his parent's atrocious parenting, religious abuse and autoimmune disorder he didn't even know he had. Good thing his boyfriend Evan is here to help!!

heartbeat on the high line by alarainai for damagecontrol modern wizard AU, James is doing a project on muggle cinema and decides to recreate love scenes from famous romances. His co-actor? Regulus Black. What James doesn'T know is that Regulus is harboring a massive crush on him. It has everything.

The Missing Link by Keysie needs no introduction. regulus is adopted by the lupins and falling for james, wolfstar is going strong

blue and yellow skies by alarainai jegulus quidditch rivals to lovers real neat

working title: padfoot regulus au [evil author's day] by coincidences CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE CUTE

Late by cassiopeiablack1994 too fucking late do James and Sirius realise that their feelings have always been mutual. Nasty break-ups with their married spouses ensue. Future Regulily is promised, though Prongsfoot takes the stage

Do Not Go Gentle by AsILayDying Hermione has an oopsie and ends up in 1976ish(?), enrolls in Marauders year, butts heads with Regulus and locks him in a book club relationship, dates Remus, tho the endgame is Hermione/Regulus

Brighten the Dark by skeptique for onbeinganangel regulus falls out of the Veil for no reason whatsoever, looking circa 26ish and insisting on living in HIS house which is HArry's house now actually. Turns out they're really good roommates,,, (oh my god they were roommates! ♥)

Cowboy like Me by calamitoustide for inevitablestars Lily and James are both in the "seduce them and rob them (and kill them)" business in the wild wild west, and they both set their eyes on the same target (Regulus). I really enjoyed this one!

stars will fall by calamitoustide crying screaming throwing up, Regulus' health is shitty and he knows he's dying at a faster speed than aother people but he refuses to let that stand in the path of his brother's happiness

I know you want me, I (don't?) feel the same by Fallingfromthestarss marauders are in a band, slytherin skittles are in high fashion, Regulus is mean and James is a simp

A Violent Kind of Spin by Cassiara James and Regulus fuck in a muggle gay bar, it changes the course of history

treat me soft (touch me cruel) by damagecontrol james is horny for regulus, sirius is not a fan

oh, my, love is a lie! by artiest for Amethystx_22 regulus goes to queer therapy, makes some friends, and James has a sexual awakening

holding all this love out here in the hall by calamitoustide James is dating Remus AND Regulus but feels like he should not mix them together? Turns out he shouldn't have worried. Love me a good QPR in a polycule

The telephone box by LadyOlive (Leoberry), Leoberry regulus calls for help

Let the Light In by calamitoustide for malakiwis JAmes is in love with the idea of love; this is him realising he's aroace, ft aroace Regulus' insights who's a tiny little ahead in figuring things out.

Best Part of Waking Up by starling011, TemieTem They fuck nasty (Sirius/Regulus and later +Remus) but there's also a lot of plot chapters

should've been a cowboy by calamitoustide James is horny for Regulus in cowboy stuff

aim for my heart (go for blood) by calamitoustide jegulus were in love, got married, had Harry,,, and then something went wrong and they fell apart and came to despise each other. After 9 years of living in 2 separate households, Harry devises an evil master plan how to get his dads back together. things got worse before they get better.

All the Fools Sailed Away by enbysiriusblack Peter is playing 5D chess with the war and I kinda adore him? Jegulily

sunset in the maze by damagecontrol jegulus sexy times

Past Zero Hour by anonymsly CURSE BREAKER REGULUS! THE RISKS HE TAKES ARE CALCULATED BUT BOY, IS HE BAD AT MATH!!! ♥♥♥♥♥

Little Star (How I Love You Like I Shouldn't) by fairies_withspirits they fuck nasty

Little Star (How I Love You In All The Wrong Ways) by fairies_withspirits they fuck nasty but in multichapter muggle au, with plots

I'll keep you safe by Fenrir13 werewolf regulus!!!

The Quest Of A Ginger Cat by Krummbein regulus is crookshanks...

What We Do Today by Moe64 a really good take on the "Marauders read HP books trope"

Wild World by Calypte band au! A lot of Regulus angst and lyrics, estabilished wolfstar and slowburn jegulus

Can we find the light by MusicDiva2003 James is straight up not having a good time

the golden king by maladaptivewriting once upon a time Regulus was in love with JAmes potter, so when the cave spits him out in 1991 looking 11 he rolls into hogwarts to keep an eye on harry.

Captain of the Waves and the Month of Death by Funkita Regulus haunts Grimmauld place, only Sirius can see him.

The fire is swell by Funkita regulus is straight up not having a good time, goes suicidal

The water will drown by Funkita regulus is still straight up not having a good time but this time he has Cardacor Deadborn in his corner

Operation Walburga's Arbitrary No Kissing Ever Rule by courfee 10 things i hate about you Jegulus AU, the villains are Walburga nad miscommunication

I'm not tired (never of you) by thestarsforus Bartylus besties to lovers, somebody give Evan a hug

My Liege by lord_m0th Regul sis sent to assassinate james, accidentally saves his life instead. medieval au

[ventruevitae]

What made Mitchell interested/curious about Beckett first? How did her first meetings with Anatole go? What does she like best in a potentially long-term relationship? How does the polycule handle fights or disagreements (about actions or politics or whatever)?

In the kindest way possible, Beckett is a Whole Freak. He is just so unbelievably goddamn weird and so very much himself, there was an almost uncomfortable air of authenticity to him that Mitchell just kind of naturally gravitated towards. She's also just super fucking bizarre and doesn't bother to change herself up much if other people don't like it, but that doesn't mean she enjoys the judgment she gets for what are just harmless quirks of her personality. Again, none of that with Beckett.

He was also literally the only person in LA at the time who was speaking to her like she was an actual person and not just some Camarilla lackey. They communicate in a very similar tone of "kind of sounds like an asshole but they usually aren't intentionally, however the delivery of whatever they're saying is atrocious so it's a common mistake." If you listen to the two of them speaking with each other, on the surface it just sounds flat-out rude 80% of the time lmao.

She also hung onto the fact that he was actually fairly openly concerned for her well being right at the end of Bloodlines, which is again, something no one else was really concerned about at all. Of course, it still didn't stop her from edging dangerously close to death, but y'know, the sentiment was nice.

With Anatole, she was... honestly maybe more nervous that she wanted to admit? Which in hindsight was a bit ridiculous, but it takes her a whole to get comfortable with people. There was some slight fear of being replaced, or worse yet, she was just a stand-in for Anatole. This dissipated within ten minutes, if even that. They clicked almost immediately and spent most of the night going back & forth in conversations that were only half comprehensible to non-Malkavians. Aside from Anatole, her only other solid experience with her clan had really been Therese and Jeanette, and that relationship is neutral at best. They also very quickly discovered a mutual love of playfully torturing their shared Gangrel lmfao, not even just in bed just like. They generally get a kick out of teaming up against him for extended elaborate bits. Beckett suffers.

Mitchell's biggest thing is the ability to feel comfortable. Give her space she needs and take a genuine interest in listening to her, that sort of thing. She doesn't consider herself high-maintenance, she just needs to know she's still valued. She's been in relationships in the past where she was just 'tolerated' and can't stand the idea of going back to that, so while boundaries are fine & expected, she won't stick around if she's being made to feel like a burden. You might struggle a bit to be with her if you need to hear a lot of verbal reassurance, because she's more a physicality/'thinking of you' gifts partner. She likes coming back with small trinkets whenever she travels, which is pretty frequently. Oh, and that's another thing. She can't stay in one place too long. Yes, she's got a little home base apartment that she mostly uses to store things, but otherwise, if she's not travelling with Beckett, she's out & about in her van. She was absolutely doing #vanlife before it was a trend lmao and her set up is extremely comfortable + functional.

Honestly I don't think they fight... super often? Not in a group, anyway. Mild disagreements are usually just solved with some space and an adult discussion when everyone has cooled off. & as much as I hate to say it, I don't even know how strongly any of them feel about Kindred politics. Mitchell is pretty over it after everything that happened during Bloodlines (which is largely why she doesn't stick around with the Anarchs even if she agrees with the moment in principle), Beckett is more into his research, VV has her club, God knows what Anatole is usually up to, and Agathon is technically a missing person according to the New York Chantry lmao. No one is really getting into any heated debates here tbh, it's probably just an unspoken "why even go there?" rule.

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Golden Analyzes 2002 Nominees “Ice Age”

*Have Seen Prior*

Starting off the 2002 Oscar Nominees, we’re going in alphabetical order.

We JUST have to watch the first one for this. We don’t have to watch any of the atrocious sequels. THANK GOD.

I’ve seen all the movies. I’m pretty indifferent to their existence. But in terms of objective quality, the sequels are quite shit. BUT the first one I remember being fine.

And I am predicting of the five we have to watch, this one will be the weakest. I mean, when competition is Lilo & Stitch, Spirit, Spirited Away, & Treasure Planet… yeah.

And by the way, unlike last year, I have seen ALL five of these movies before. (My GF hasn’t seen the two spirit movies)

Let’s get going…

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Bold is my GF’s words

“I like how the streaming service title screen has the squirrel front and center, which makes me think Scratt is the main character.”

“Oh look it’s the main character!”

“I was always confused why he’d want to put the nut in the ground. Don’t they do that in the spring?” “It’s Ice Age. THERE IS NO SPRING.”

“That’s not how ice works”

“He has nature itself targeting him. Op, you broke our land, now you suffer eternally… Ice Age is secretly hell.”

“They never see him either. He must be a god.”

*You can play extinction later!* “So they’re playing dead?” “That didn’t look like they were playing dead that looked like they were swimming in… not gonna say.”

*Animal falls off the cliff and dies* “How did that get past the censors?!” “Died of stupidity.” “How did that get scripted and animated and no one said ‘hey maybe this implies something and we shouldn’t have it’”

“Oh yeah I forgot about this” “I always feel so bad for Sid. His family abandoned him and does not love him. They came back in the fourth movie just to drop off his grandma cause they didn’t want her either. It’s so messed up.”

*Isnt there anyone who cares about Sid the Sloth?* *Nope* “That’s depressing.”

“I survived Shrek. I watch Total Drama. It’s grosser than this. I can manage.”

”He’s just like me.”

“Kicks him off.” “😂”

“This is literally just Shrek again.” “Yep.” “Im not saying they’re ripoffs.” “Yeah, considering they get another guy and a baby and theres no women.” “😂 There’s no women?!”

“Oh, Manfred? I thought it was Manny for the longest time. I didn’t know he had a full name.”

“These humans models do not hold up.”

” I just feel so bad for Sid. His family abandoned him. They tied his hands and feet and barricaded the cave door and covered their tracks so he couldn’t find them- THAT IS MESSED UP!!” “…I was just focusing on how he wasn’t even covered by the rain.”

*Scratt Appears* ”Oh hey it’s the main character.”

“Nature HAS to actively be against him. This is secretly Hell. Ice Age takes place in hell.”

*Jumps off the waterfall* “…they’re both dead.”

”They also tame wolves, I don’t think these humans are the good guys. Don’t hurt animals.”

“Because we’re so much more complex and capable of doing whatever, we tend to make a lot of bad choices. Cats for example don’t have existential crises. They just want to roam around and nap.”

“I’m sorry, we’re you expecting me to jump off a cliff?!”

*you’re an embarrassment to nature, you know that?* “😂”

*You two are a bit of an odd couple* *There is no us* “😂 This movie is these three forming a polycule. That’s it. That’s the plot.”

“I just realized how many fat jokes they make with Manny.” “He’s a mammoth. He’s supposed to be that size.”

”Oh this is hell right here.” “Yep.” “Ice Age is hell.”

“This is me with babies. Everyday.”

“…I think I would die if that happened to me.”

“We always quote ‘the last melon’ in our house. All the time.”

“I thought dodo birds were a seventeenth century thing.”

*dodo casually dies* “WHY ARE THRY SO CALM ABOUT THAT?! A DUDE DIED!!”

“This is how the dodos went extinct.”

*unison* “The last melon.” “The last melon.” “😂 I’m sorry I had to.”

*Dodo bites Manny* “I DONT REMEMBER THAT. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!” “What?” “The flipping bird went up his anus!” “…he bit his tail. What are you talking about?” “Didnt show it!”

“And then he smashes it.” *smashes it* “Yep.”

“Actually, that was the best thing he could’ve done with that melon.”

”A tree is better than you Sid. A TREE is better than you Sid.”

”Hey look it’s the main character!”

“They CAN see him. Who would’ve thought? Or is it ‘Huh, this invisible force is wrestling my face!’”

“Thats how I sleep.”

“Ooh the eyes.”

“…what?????”

” I don’t like how those lady sloths look…”

“🫣” “WHAT?!” “Excuse me, what?!” “You want to make babies with a guy you just met?!”

*You just keep marinating and I’ll be right back* “🫣” “MARINATING?!” “I don’t want to be here anymore…”

*It’s hard to find a family guy* “THIS HAS TO STOP. How many movies are gonna break me?!”

”Two bros chilling in the hot tub five feet apart cause they’re not gay.”

“Just breaks his neck and kills him.” “Yeah.”

“Wait is he actually gonna kill him?!”

*I don’t eat junk food* “OOOOOOOHHHHH” “That’s actually a great roast.”

“Why is there a gizzard in the Ice Age?”

*I don’t care who started it I’ll finish it!* “Me and my family in a nutshell.”

“Hey look it’s the main character!”

“If that’s all it takes to cause an avalanche of that size…”

“Oh it’s a museum… a museum of corpses.”

“Uuuuuuhhhh… what??? It’s the Ice Age. Excuse me?”

“Reminds me of something from Ninjago Season 5.”

“Hey look it’s the main character!”

“That looks painful! Grinding your nails on the ice… UGH…”

“Hey look its the main character!”

“That doesn’t look like tag. That looks like something else. And I don’t want to finish that suggestive sentence.”

“Why is that the best scene in this entire movie?”

“I think they completely forget about this in the sequels and never bring it up again. It’s part of the canon that Manny had a wife and kid that were killed.”

“How is there snow if there’s hot lava? It’s hell. There’s no other way. Ice Age is hell.”

“Three bros chilling in the lava, five feet apart cause they’re not gay.”

*Why don’t you make it realistic?* “Why are there so many fat jokes in this movie? My gosh.”

*Hey lovebirds* “😂Come on…”

“Oh god it’s moving. It’s coming to wreck havoc on us all!”

“Hey look it’s the main character!”

“It’s an acorn. How does that work?”

“I think he just killed all of them…”

“Uh… I think that tigers dead since he can’t get out of there.”

“OH… that’s actually a brutal death. We all talk about how gruesome Disney Villain deaths are, but never anything else…”

“…you know that if there weren’t any more sequels, Diego would’ve stayed dead. This was so fitting to end off his story.”

“You just see a giant mammoth holding your baby and you’re just like ‘okay’.”

*I got nine lives* “Yeah, sure. I like you and I wish you were dead.”

*Global Warming* “Yeah! We’re in hell!!”

“Hey look! It’s the main character!”

“I’m sorry, WHAT? Two thousand years?! How’d he even get in ice? What?!”

“How long does this take? How does he not DIE?”

“Okay, I can get it when it was ice, but ROCK-it’s a cartoon, what am I saying?”

“And that’s your confirmation. Ice Age takes place in hell.”

“I can’t believe the main character was barely in the movie. SMH.”

Review:

Ice Age The Movie’s main setting is HELL and I will not be convinced otherwise. This is THE TRUTH BEHIND ICE AGE.

BUT HEY, THSTS JUST A THEORY-

During this movie, me and my GF made these two running jokes. One was that the movie took place in hell, and that the main character was Scratt. Because the main streaming service page where we watched this heavily advertised THE SQUIRREL as the main character. It was funny.

Idk why this squirrel is even in the movie, he serves absolutely zero purpose or relevance to the story at all, but you know what? He is epic and that’s all that matters.

Ice Age is known NOW as the franchise that won’t die, and I’ll bet in ten years it’ll give The Land Before Time a run for its money.

Btw, if you want my opinions on the sequels: I stopped after Collision Course and didn’t see anything after that. And all the sequels are atrocious dumpster fires that add NO value.

Can we go back to the days when this was just one solid film?

Subjectively, as someone who hates babies, I am naturally bias against this movie. I’m kinda half joking. But other than that, this movie is just a very simple story about these three animals trying to get a human baby home, and along the way becoming a polycule-I mean found family.

That’s all it needed to be.

And without all the irritating characters from the sequels, the movie can focus solely on its meme worthy comedy and it’s central characters.

The comedy’s kinda a mixed bag for me personally. You can tell Shrek had some inspiration. It’s that way for a lot of movies. Some bits are memes for a reason. Others kinda had me scratching my head.

“Yeah! Global Warming! We’re all gonna die!! We’re in hell!!”

There’s A LOT more jokes about DEATH than I remembered.

I mean, I never actively cringed at anything like I thought I would, so that’s impressive.

I also think this found family dynamic works. It helps that the movie takes its time to explore all three of these guys and their distinct personalities. I totally buy that they’d bond the way they did.

Diego’s probably my favorite character in the movie. I mean if you don’t count the ironic side of things (SCRATT ALL DAY BABY). I think his redemption was very natural and well built up to, and his sacrifice was decently touching.

If there weren’t any sequels, you know he would’ve stayed dead.

Or not. Kids movie. Idk.

Sid just very casually has this really F’d up backstory and family life and it drove my GF insane a couple of times.

At least in this movie, while he’s not a top tier comic relief character, he was never awful or irritating. I can use those adjectives for a bunch of other comic reliefs.

There really isn’t too much to say about a movie as simple as this. With other movies, there’s more of a psychological thing to talk about in either it’s theming or characters. But this movie’s simplicity is just that blatant. Not saying it’s a bad thing.

And the animation is… well… it’s 2002, whatcha gonna do?

The animation is the ONLY thing that is superior in the sequels. In this first movie these are some very blocky models and some really bland backgrounds. The humans do NOT look right.

The scene where they animate the cave art to tell Manny’s backstory is the highlight of the movie for a reason. At least for me.

Very well done scene where the art style and animation tells the story. No dialogue. No words. You see it and you understand it.

It’s nice when a kids movie respects the kids and understands they can pick this sort of stuff up for themselves. Kids aren’t stupid.

It’s BAFFLING to me that the sequels completely forget about this very vital backstory of Manny’s and never being it up again. BUT I DIGRESS.

What? Is taking death seriously crossing a line? Don’t wanna make the kids sad. That’s not the brain rotting mush you want in sequels.

This first movie is actually a lot darker when you think about it for more than five seconds.

The story is about these starving sabor tooth’s that want to eat a human baby, and then the mother of that baby falls to her death to save him. We witness the dodo’s extinction. And quite possibly one of the most underrated villain deaths in an animated movie in terms of gruesomeness. Like DEAR GOD…

It’s not very chill.

But I appreciate a movie that doesn’t shy away from death as a concept. Again, respectful to the kids who shouldn’t be treated like morons.

I really appreciate this movie’s existence and what it’s done. And I feel SO BAD for Blue Sky.

BUT WHAT ABOUT SCRATT?! THINK OF SCRATT!!

Anyway, continuing with 2002, Lilo & Stitch is our next movie.

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