#bc I fully did not realize I was supposed to. just off in my own world. THEN I LOOK AGAIN LATER AND IT'S FINE AAAA

[moonshynecybin]

thinking about pool boy Marc at the ranch, world where he only does MX but never met the right sponsors so he has to work to be able to pay for competitions / the repairs on his bike

and like, this is supposed to be about Marc working shirtless and Valentino looking™️ when he shouldn’t be and Marc noticing and enjoying it way more than he would ever admit (32 yo Marc is way more confident than 20 yo Marc but whatever, details) but cue a scene where Marc ends up staring at the bikes where they’re stored (was initially looking for something for the pool / something was wrong with the pump / anything to get him there and distracted at the view), his hands maybe hovering over one, and Valentino finding him there (and obviously offering him to ride)

OOOH yeah i think its interesting if like. we tip a toe into a scenario where marc is attempting to subsidize his racing hobby (diplopia set him back maybe? its hard when hes such a goddamn prodigy but maybe his family didnt have the cash/sponsors fell through/bad injury timing. some unlucky little thing) by doing some modeling/odd jobs all with a theme best described as “BABY SLUT” and hes tearing upppp the MX amatuer classes but maybe still isnt. quite financially liquid enough to stop working his modelling jobs. and then vale is drunk and horny and bisexual SOMETIMES ! and books this sorta. comical sex kitten pool boy thing to work a party that hes throwing at the ranch as a bit. and it comes down the wire contracted out to marc's modeling agency and he looks at it. and is like is that valentino fucking rossi's house. and then before he can blink or think to call alex he puts his fucking BID INNNN and hops that comped flight to italy #yay

flash forward to this eurotrash ass tacky (vale djing like a noodle bent over the booth) shindig where marc is like. idk hes in a speedo casting his psycho killer big brown eyes around the ranch serving canapes covered in glitter. classy stuff. looks fucking GOOD and he knows it. freshly waxed ass insane abs cut smile HUGE. b-lines over to serve vale (hes a go getter. it’s that marc thing where his oblivious sorta. no malicious arrogance comes off as charming) a fucking. caviar scallop carrot reduction thing and vale FULLY double takes like what the fuckkkk because as we all know marc is his exact physical type AND as we've all been reminded fairly recently he is VERY comfortable in his own skin and in this scenario in a speedo where you can see 3/4 to 4/5 of his entire cock and balls through the fabric. so safe to say vale is distracted.

the OTHER thing about marc is that while we’ve plopped him into this slutty ass cinderella story, he is also NOT shy whatsoever so he’s just like hi :3 and they flirt cheerfully for several minutes (vale: how is life as a poolboy? marc: oh you know. we have fun jajajaja) but after a sec marc gets pulled away bc hes literally at work lmao and then immediatelyyyyy vale sucks down the rest of his negroni like a whirlpool and is like okay well. goodbye everybody ive got to go suddenly and mysteriously get more scallop caviar carrot bites because ive decided that i love them specifically for no particular immediate reason ! (cruising for penis) and they have a nice little horny talk/makeout/yap session/maybe some light over the pants stuff in the back room of the party while marc’s supervisor is like where the fuck did that kid goooo…. but then the clock strikes midnight and marc has a race in the morning so he booked the red eye back to spain and hes gotta leave !!!!! so he peels off the speedo and puts on a hoodie, and maybe he doesn’t get to say goodbye to vale bc he’s running late and he ran outta time but he walks outta that place fucking FLOATING all the way to the airport and wins his race not realizing that vale spent the rest of the night harassing staff members to get marc's information on the DL by being like ahhh i think he would be a good match for my friend she is a nice girl. and all of marc's coworkers are like dude hes gay. and vale’s like well he would be a nice match for my other friend he is a nice boy.

and then when that doesn’t work vale books the service again. and finds out somehow that marc has his motorcycle license (but not that he does MX. ignoring the huge scab on marc’s elbow i guess). and offers to bring marc out on one of his bikes for a cool lap around the track you know. just for fun. vale voice i'll ride with you it'll be safe :) and THATS when things get interesting

[katamarei]

I'm so paranoid that I'll clench my jaw too hard and accidentally remove/crack/etc my temporary filling for absolutely no reason. it literally can't happen it's sunk in pretty well, I've pulled my lip back and my top tooth barely even touches it like girl. relax.

idk why I'm like this!! it's not even the actual dental work that bothers me it's just all the taking care of it after where I'm just AAAA it feels like so much can go wrong!!

[thehoneybeestings]

𝐯𝐢 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬

𝐯𝐢 𝐱 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

Word Count: 545

Content/Warnings: sfw, gn reader (no pronouns used), a little bit of angst just bc poor Vi has never caught a break in her life

A/N: so while i finish up the dancer!vi x dancer! reader smut... i wrote this up super quick last night in bed while my girlfriend was genuinely sprawled on top of me pushing me off of it but awwww my shayla ANYWAY, here is a short headcanon about what I think it's like to share a bed with Vi! enjoy!

𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞, 𝐁𝐞𝐞 ୨ৎ

୨ৎ Vi, who feels the safest when she's as small as she can get while she sleeps

୨ৎ Before you two began sleeping in the same bed, she'd try to go to sleep with her limbs outstretched- be it on her side, her back, or her stomach- but every morning, without fail, she'd wake up with her knees tucked into her chest and her arms wrapped around her own waist

୨ৎ After the two of you began sharing a bed, she'd start out curled into herself, cradled in your arms, and wake up starfished across the entire fucking bed

୨ৎ Vi, who I fully and wholeheartedly believe sucks at being the big spoon

୨ৎ As much as she'd like to feign that she's all big and tough- that she's supposed to be the one holding you- she sleeps the best tucked against your back, covers pulled up to her nose

୨ৎ (When she does try to big spoon, she burrows her head so far into your back that you end up turning around to hold her anyway)

୨ৎ Vi, who-despite pulling it right up to her nose before she falls asleep- always manages to kick the damn comforter off the bed in the middle of the night

୨ৎ She runs so hot at night that it doesn't matter; anything more than the top sheet and you'd sweat through your pajamas

୨ৎ Vi, who sleeps naked apart from her underwear (plain cotton hipsters; there's no way boxers are fitting underneath the tight ass jeans she wears like i’m sorry)

୨ৎ Vi, who hates waking up alone; in fact, she's terrified of it

୨ৎ You learned your lesson about leaving bed unannounced when one morning, you woke up before she did and decided to sneak off to the kitchen to make her a surprise breakfast

୨ৎ You're busy scrambling eggs when you hear her call your name from the hallway leading to your bedroom 

୨ৎ She rounds the corner to the kitchen, eyes wide and wild until they land on you, and she finally exhales

୨ৎ “Hey baby! I thought I’d surprise you with breakfast in bed; you like your eggs scrambled, right?”

୨ৎ “Yeah,” she'd breathe out. She still looked like she'd seen a ghost. 

୨ৎ You'd furrow your brow, worry creeping up on you. “You okay?” 

୨ৎ “Y-yeah, sorry. I’m good,” she'd reply, unconvincingly.

୨ৎ Your eyes wouldn't leave her as you moved the eggs off of the heat and made your way to where she stood with a hand on the wall to support herself

୨ৎ “Baby,” you'd coax, reaching out to tame a stray tendril of fuchsia; and she'd envelop you in her arms, holding on like you'd disappear if she let go

୨ৎ “Please don't leave without waking me first, okay?” She’d plead, her voice breaking.

୨ৎ And your heart would shatter as you realized just how terrified she was of losing someone else

୨ৎ From that point on, you'd never leave bed without a gentle shake to her shoulder and a quick kiss on her forehead as you alerted her that you were leaving, but that you'd be back

୨ৎ Vi, who still has a hard time comprehending that she has a soft bed to sleep in at night, a fluffy comforter to abandon when she gets too hot, full nights of sleep without nightmares, and most of all, you to share it with

──˚₊• 𝐄𝐍𝐃 •‧₊˚──

[justabeewithapen]

Twiddling my thumbs. Would Doey draw bella and Lucas on the walls of safe haven, perhaps

This actually made me realize that in the in-game Safe Haven art the two bigger heads right in the middle look an awful lot like a Bobby and a Kickin

Lost Files AU Canon?!?!?1?!? (Silly!)

Anyway ehehe

Yes, he would, but not apart of the main mural. Up above the area are office spaces, not particularly useful supply wise and not nearly as protected, but generally empty and left alone. He has a corner up there where he keeps his sadness.

Even before becoming the only caretaker of Safe Haven left, Doey was always very quiet and secretive(?) reclusive(?) with his mourning. In a sort of "selfish" (put in quotations bc obviously it is very nuanced) he does not want to share these memories, particularly this sadness with anyone else. Not many things are *his*, not even his own thoughts or feelings. The wounds are so raw and fresh when Safe Haven is established and anyone those he might have learned to entrust this with disappeared/died off one by one (like everyone in his life). A few bigger bodies did know, even just sorta, and a few toys probably were vaguely aware of Lucas and Bella, but it wasn't something ever talked about. Then of course Safe Haven became his responsibility, fully, and obviously he can't put that on anyone else!

I'm having a hard time articulating it almost, my poor boy who has so much going on in that doughy body,,, As he gets comfortable in Safe Haven he becomes willing to share his feelings with everyone, but they aren't always real or full. He'll be mopey or grumpy, heck I'm sure some of the snark leaks through, but they're like... one note if that makes sense? The depth of his feelings are kept to himself.

I don't think it is particularly different from how we see Doey act in game, I think about he talks about Poppy's plan and there is a level of casualness that feels so controlled...idk! I suppose one advantage of his botched creation and being trapped in an even more dire position of responsibility for a decade is he is very aware of what is going on inside and he has a very tight leash on it. Mm maybe I got off topic a bit, I have to get back into the groove of explaining my thoughts again ^^;!!

[svltzmans]

jealousy, jealousy (part ii) - h.m.

a/n: hi! i got a request for a jealous hope fic and i thought i'd continue the one i posted a while ago that i really had fun writing! i hope you all like it <3

warnings: smut (18+), dominant! hope, edging, rough sex, just some kinky stuff ok, forgive me for i have sinned 😭, also platonic reader and lizzie bc i love her, i didn't edit this so hopefully there are no mistakes?

y/n and lizzie sit across from each other at a table in the library, both engrossed in a biology textbook.

with exam season fast approaching, studying became top priority for almost everyone around them.

through conversation, lizzie and y/n had realized they both could use a study buddy.

y/n never considered herself to be close with lizzie. she always viewed the witch as an acquaintance. a classmate.

but ever since the two had started studying together, they developed a genuine friendship.

a friendship that involved hours in the library after class, laughing and talking despite the subject matter they were supposed to be reviewing.

y/n didn't feel the need to tell her girlfriend, hope, about her budding friendship with lizzie. hope wasn't the type to worry about y/n's friendships, and their relationship was built on trust.

however, when hope walks into the library and sees her girlfriend and lizzie laughing together, her blood suddenly runs cold.

maybe it was because another girl was making y/n laugh so much, or because lizzie was conventionally gorgeous.

either way, she felt the jealousy growing in her lungs.

before she can act on her feelings, she leaves the library, making her way back to her own bedroom.

hope springs up when she hears a knock at the door, and a smile creeps across her face when she realizes it's y/n.

"hey," y/n leans in for a kiss on the cheek, bringing an instantaneous blush to hope.

hope steps to the side, gesturing for y/n to come in.

once y/n is inside and the door is closed behind her, hope takes hold of her wrist in a way that makes y/n's heart drop to her stomach.

"hope, what's up?"

"what's going on with you and lizzie?" hope replies, blankly staring into y/n's eyes.

"lizzie? lizzie saltzman? hope, nothing is going on-"

hope cuts y/n off with a kiss, threading her fingers through strands of her hair.

y/n pulls away momentarily, a puzzled expression on her face.

"what was that for?"

"it just seems like you need a reminder that you're my girl."

"what, i can't study with someone els-"

hope cuts her off again, gently pushing her toward the bed as they kiss.

when hope lays y/n down, she makes sure her hands are wrapped tightly around her wrists to restrict her movement. she hovers above her girlfriend, their lips still attached.

y/n instinctively spreads her legs as her and hope continue to make out, hoping for any kind of touch from the girl above her.

as soon as hope notices, she moves her knee to y/n's still clothed core, putting more and more pressure until she earns a loud moan against her lips.

"mmph, hope, more," y/n mumbles between kisses, trying to grind into hope's leg.

"more, huh baby?" hope taunts, pressing harder with her knee.

y/n can't believe how close she already is, considering that her and hope are still both fully clothed. yet, the pressure in her stomach continues building until she feels like exploding.

"oh my god, hope," y/n practically screams, grabbing onto hope's shoulders.

just as y/n is seconds away from falling over the edge, hope pulls her leg away.

y/n can't help but whine at the loss of contact, and she looks up at hope with a pout.

"you didn't think it was gonna be that easy, did you?" hope teases, pulling y/n into another rough kiss.

hope moves to undo y/n's pants, running her hands up and down her legs slowly.

something in hope wanted to make this as tantalizing as possible for y/n. she wanted to see her writhe and beg, completely at her mercy.

but she also desperately wanted to fuck her.

and that desire only skyrockets when y/n is bare in front of her.

"so wet, y/n. just for me, huh?"

"god, yes hope, just for you."

y/n is growing desperate, and her first denied orgasm wasn't helping. she was flushed, lightly sweating as she continued to sink into the sheets below her.

hope gently rubs y/n's clit with her finger, knowing that she wasn't doing nearly enough for her.

"harder, more, please hope. want more," y/n arches her back, trying to encourage hope to apply more pressure.

it's then that hope effortlessly slides two fingers into y/n, the girl above her letting out a guttural moan.

"fuck hope, just like that baby," y/n praises, her hands both tightly gripping the blanket under her.

"this is what you wanted, huh pretty? you wanted me to fuck you with my fingers?"

y/n can't help but loudly whine at her girlfriend's words, growing dangerously close once again.

"gonna cum on your fingers, hope, so close."

when hope hears those words come from y/n's mouth, she stops moving completely.

"please don't stop hope, please. please make me cum," y/n begs, making eye contact with her girlfriend.

hope's eyes are dark with desire as she looks back at y/n, her finger lazily rubbing circles on y/n's clit.

"please, hope. gonna be a good girl for you."

with that, hope continues fingering y/n at a quickening pace, determined to finally bring her over the edge.

"right there hope. my god, please let me cum."

"cum for me, y/n. you've earned it."

y/n's whole body shakes, her hands desperately trying to find something to grip. the intensity of her orgasm wasn't something she had ever experienced before, the new sensation making her shamelessly scream in pleasure.

when y/n comes down from her high, hope has moved to lay next to her.

"you look so pretty," hope coos, tucking a strand of y/n's hair behind her ear.

"hope, you know there's nothing going on with me and lizzie, right?"

"i trust you, y/n. wholeheartedly. i love you," hope smiles, resting her hand on y/n's cheek.

"i love you more."

before hope knows it, y/n is peacefully asleep next to her.

she wraps her arms around her girlfriend, pulling a blanket over the two of them.

"goodnight, my love."

[dangerdazee]

descendants: rise of red james hook x morgie le fay one-shot, in which hook stays back to keep watch with morgie

i ship them so so so bad. also while ur here go check out the edit i did for them bc i couldn't help myself

"Morgie, honey, you keep look-out, okay? If you see Merlin coming, give a signal." Uliana says.

"Should I do a wolf howl? Or like a dog howl?? I can do different dogs!" Morgie shows great enthusiasm, but it comes off annoying and childlike and far too perky to Uliana.

James Hook, knowing this, leans over to whisper to Uliana.

"Do you think it's the best idea to leave him out here by himself?"

"Good point. You stay with him. Maleficent, Hades, with me. Let's move." Uli, Maleficent, and Hades trudge through the wet, slightly muddy grass towards the school.

Morgie turns around and starts climbing the tree that Hook was in a minute ago, and even though he just got down, Hook climbs up after him. The two boys sit side-by-side on a thick branch that seems sturdy enough to hold them both.

The drizzling rain adds to the ambiance of the night. There's something peaceful about it.

Even though their friends are currently sneaking into Merlin's office to steal a forbidden cookbook... out here in the tree, on a rainy night, with the soft lights of the school exterior barely illuminating their surroundings, it's nice. And they both definitely enjoy the company here as well.

"Did you really think I shouldn't be left out here on my own?"

"Yes, but not for the reason I let Uli think. It's dark and we aren't supposed to be here. I didn't want you to be left alone in case anything happened. Not to mention, it's rare that we can find time alone."

Morgie smiles.

Morgie knows he's viewed as the weakest link of the group. Evil still, yes, but he's not as dark and brooding and serious as the rest of them. The others, especially Uliana, tend to look down on him for it. They end up treating him like a kid sometimes.

Hook never does, though. Hook's always treated Morgie as an equal, no matter how non-villainous he acts sometimes. That was one of the first things that really drew Morgie to Hook. (After his hair.)

Hook is also a bit protective over Morgie, hence the hesitation to leaving him outside the school alone during this whole mission.

Even under the tree, the drizzling rain still gets them. Their hair grows damp and dark spots of water scatter their clothes.

The two move their hands towards the other's, like a magnet is pulling them. Morgie's hand ends up more on top of Hook's, but their fingers naturally weave together in an uncoordinated but perfectly comfortable manner.

Morgie is heavily focused on his job. Uliana told him to keep watch, and that he is. Hook looks over at the boy, his strong focus and the rainwater dripping slowly from his hair. A small smile grows on Hook's face as he watches the other, and Morgie looks over at him upon feeling the stare.

"What?"

"Nothing. Do you see Merlin anywhere?"

"No, I-"

"Wonderful."

Hook shifts his weight to the hand between them and leans on it, being careful not to fall as he brings his face to Morgie's. Ever since Hook and Morgie started... whatever this relationship they have is, they've realized how little private time alone they can find. Much less, opportunity to kiss. So when the opportunity is there, at least one of them is usually quick to jump at it, and this evening it was Hook.

Their relationship is complicated. They haven't labeled it; they've hardly talked about it. It simply is. To the average on-looker, they mostly just seem like good friends. Really good friends.

Maleficent and Hades have figured out that something is going on (then Hook fully spilled all about it to Maleficent, as friends might do.) Uliana hasn't. She kind of couldn't care less either way, though.

Morgie wants a label. He wants something more solid and serious, but he knows that just isn't the kind of person Hook is.

Morgie's willing to take what he can get. He'll compromise for Hook. Secret kisses, affectionate moments, a closeness slightly more than qualifies as friendship. It's hard sometimes, but Morgie says he'll do it for Hook. He just assumes that's what Hook wants, even if that's not what Morgie wants.

Hook doesn't love it, though, but he doesn't really know how else to navigate it. He's talked with Maleficent about it before, but even with the advice of his in-a-committed-relationship friend, Hook still feels clueless. Morgie hasn't said anything, so he just assumes it's up to him to make it real.

He only hopes his cluelessness won't drive Morgie away before he can figure things out.

Maybe more communication would do them some good, but villains aren't exactly known for their emotional maturity and communication skills. They're both starting to get a little tired of it, though. Morgie especially.

Rustling leaves interrupt the kiss, causing both boys to jump a bit and look around. Neither of them see anything.

"Must have been the rain or something." Morgie says.

The two look at each other and slowly smile, laughing lightly with that bit of embarrassment that comes from such an occurrence.

"I hope Merlin didn't get by just now. Uliana might kill us." Morgie says.

"No, no, something worse. Like a chocolate pie."

They laugh at the jab at Uliana's plan with this forbidden recipe. Morgie nods, agreeing.

As the laughter dies down, Morgie debates in his mind if he should ask what he wants to ask. It could go wonderfully, or it could go horribly, and he's really scared of that second possibility. But, they're alone and he has an opportunity. He figures, much like a kiss, this chance shouldn't be passed up.

"Let me take you out."

Hook's heart just about stops and he quickly turns to face Morgie.

He's been so nervous about not knowing how to do this. He never fully considered that maybe it didn't have to be him who progressed things. He could be the askee, not the asker. Funny enough, that only makes it slightly easier.

"What?"

"Let me take you out. Like, on a date."

"You want to go out together?"

Morgie nods with hopeful eyes. Every second of silence from Hook makes Morgie's anxiety over the situation grow stronger. He feels his hope diminishing.

"I mean, maybe not. Or, no- I want to! But if you don't want to, then just forget it. I mean, I do want to, but it's not a big deal. Unless you also want to, then it's a big deal. But if you don't, don't worry-"

"Okay."

"Okay? Okay to what?"

"Okay to the, uh... the date. Yeah. We can go out. I think that'd be nice."

"You do? Really?"

"Morgie, you're acting as if you don't already know that I like you. I just kissed you. I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed!"

"Yeah! Yeah, I know. I'm just... happy."

"Yeah. So am I."

[lazywriter-artist]

I have a very important question!

I have met the prince of paints, but I would like to enquire about Nurgle, how is he in your universe, and what is his relation to Isha?

In my head (for your AU) they are like the mythos of Hades and Persephone, like an actual couple despite starting off badly

So what's the actual thing, if you ever thought about it ?

Nurgle mention!!!!!! Love that guy-

He’s a goofball in my au 🥰, eldest ‘brother’ of the chaos gods he’s probably been around the longest and it shows. Even still he has his own flaws and doesn’t to everything right forever but he’s trying and that’s what counts! Big family man naturally, he’s father to one billion children who he loves and cares for and gives all sorts of plagues! He’s great..he sometimes gets a bit angry and I wouldn’t wanna be near anywhere but in my bed curled up and warm when that happens but he tries to control himself (mentioned later why-) lest he fuck something up

Tbh I’ve infact thought about it a lot!! Being one of my favorite chaos gods I have him very extensively thought out I just haven’t yapped yet X3 Tbh you’re pretty much right on the money on how they work w/ the Hades & Persephone route! The two are naturally a lot more wholesome, comes with my Aus territory =w=!

If I had to put it into words nurgle is kinda this boy fail single dad (once you get to know him, outwardly he can be a bit intimidating on account of the whole rot and death thing-) trying his best to raise his huge family and Isha is his girl boss baddie he pulled by being a dumbass—

It’s also in my heart of hearts where Nurgle’s duality comes from, extra amounts anywya, he was always god of plague and death & a life and death cycle! it’s just kinda always been that! Plague death, and things would grow from that! The circle would begin again and he could sort of facilitate it, he could grow deadly fungus and beautiful decomposers to help his rot! Which in turn helped life blossom and bloom which allowed more rot! If you did too much rot then nothing would grow back to get sick and rot again :( so he always just kinda had the self control and the wisdom to be careful, know when to take things and such. He wasn’t perfect! He screwed up and took too much life and would have to take a step back to allow things to recoup much like how real nature isn’t perfect! But that’s how things sorta were, just a cycle he could facilitate other aspects of from his own. Until he meets Isha!

What started off initially as an overbearing nurgle trying to navigate this new relationship and setting, being cagey and uncertain bc up to this point he honestly hadn’t even fully realized there WERE other gods kinda like him— it’s just been him and his two fuck ass brothers and his one billion ill children for the last— Ergh since the beginning of time-ish! And now there’s a pretty lady he had to save from heat death of her pantheon?????, culminating in him slowly realizing that keeping someone couped up really isn’t fun, huh? And well- he wouldn’t like it if he was her…so he apologizes and together they work through it, she sets some boundaries with him, lets him know some things where he did cross the line! But at the end of the day he’s well meaning and just wanted to make sure she was safe, and his cooking isn’t what she’s used to but hey! We can give things a go one could suppose!

And slowly she kinda, changes his perspective! Even being one of the more open and laid back of the four chaos gods, nurgle still had a pretty narrow view of things! It was his dozens of children, his rot, his plagues and that’s about as far as his forethought extended. Other things lived and became rot and sometimes begged him to take the rot away, which he could oblige to if they asked really nicely! But that was about as far as it went, and again it really wasn’t a perfect science, sometimes he just couldn’t fix things he made plague ridden or didn’t want to- he worked hard on the plague! So you’re gonna get some >:(. But, being more centralized & well- of healing and growth and life and nature (nurgle & her share this trait in my mind-) Isha would gently take him by his claws and show him the little families the mortals had, the joy that the beautiful world brought them, a world nurgle helped to make with his rot! Because there can’t be life without death, it’s a fact of the universe. Slowly she kind of chipped away and showed him things he’d never even considered before, showed him the beauty of the cycle he took part in and kind of opened his eyes to those effected by his actions! Maybe not to change his mind about making plagues ofc, but to just show him the wider cycle and teach him all sorts of aspects about his powers he’d never even thought of.

This of course lead to her showing him all sorts of things about his garden he’d never even realized, showing how some of the plants which grew could be used medicinally, and often when he makes a new plague she tests it and writes a cure for it, so they can keep the cycle going! there may always be more life and rot, as they are one and the same, hand in gentle hand!!

TLDR: They love each other very much 🥰🥰🥰

Behold, a messy shit sketch of nurgle and his darling wifey, he brings her pretty flowers because she loves them and they remind him of her….

I’ll show off a better example of her design later dw dw

[acourtofthought]

Listen being in the fandom, and observing this shipwars made me realize how much I have always been a golden retriever girlie. I would take them over the toxic “dark brooding” men anytime, any day. That’s also another reason why I changed from being unsure about Elriel or Elucien to completely loving Elucien. Coming out of the books I could not for the life of me understand the obsession with Azriel, I legit skimmed past him in the books, he was just there, nothing more nothing less. Yes he did some stuff, but he was still just there, he never moved me compared to Lucien or even Rhys and Cass, who could also be considered dark and brooding. However, after reading his BC when he gave Gwyn the same necklace he bought for Elain, or when he was talking about Elain like she was a property??? I was like yep that’s it for me. I just didn’t care who he ended up with any more, I was wondering why the girlies were still obsessed with him then I realized what his prototype was and it made sense why I didn’t care for him.

It’s a big thing in the romance world as well. The girlies only like the dark men. Whenever I tell my friends that I don’t like dark and brooding MMCs, they look at me like I am crazy, and tell me how boring golden retriever men are, but they just don’t get it.

Anyways, anytime I see a Lucien lover, I just know they are a golden retriever girlie. We are in the minority but we most definitely get ittttt. This is another reason why I became firmly an Elucien, because there is no way Elain is not written as a golden retriever girlie, I SEE HER, the dark and brooding can be intriguing but in the end the golden retrievers are just it. And Elain might not know it now but in the end she will get it and I can’t wait.

A friend and I were talking about something the other day, how the Shadow Daddy MMC is starting to feel a bit overplayed at this point and how Sarah has a chance to usher in the next big thing with a MMC like Lucien.

It's not that Sarah was the first to introduce us to Shadow Daddy's but she was the first to make them a super popular thing and the market is now oversaturated with them, with others trying to capture their own success because they believe that's what readers want. And she wouldn't be the first to write a MMC who breaks that mold, one who is sly and cunning but does not have the dark haired brooding thing going on, but is instead just a genuinely good, emotionally mature guy however she could be the most popular author to give that archetype mass appeal.

I don't hate Az but he kind feels like a Rhys knock-off with less emotional maturity and that makes him undesirable to me in terms of a book boyfriend (he's a Wirkin compared to a Birkin). At least with Rhys, despite his own issues with his own self-worth, he still set aside his problems to be there for the girl. With Az, he kind of makes his problems with himself everyone else's problem, where they all have to be aware of what sets him off and tiptoe around him (confirmed by Mor) so it becomes "me, me, me" instead of "her, her her". And he doesn't even have a bond with any of these women, can you imagine what he'd be like in Lucien's shoes? If he had a confirmed mate who was ignoring him?

I don't know, after marriage and kids and realizing all the work that goes into putting the needs of little people first over your own, I've found I have less interest in reading / dealing with men who need to be babied. You start to see the difference between someone who actually doesn't have the ability to fully process things and behave a certain way as their frontal lobe is still being developed and someone who should know better because they are supposed to be the mature adult.

That's not to say Az won't be an interesting character to read about but he's definitely not someone I would want to date or find fictionally romantically appealing.

But Lucien? He reads as a MAN. He's struggling but he's not making it anyone else's problem. He's out there respecting everyone despite the way they treat him, making himself helpful even to those who don't think much of him. He puts Elain first, walking away so she can be happy even though we see it's a physical and emotional struggle for him. He stays away because he believes it's what she wants despite how much it bothers him. Az stays away because he is putting his own feelings first, not because it's what is best for her.

I think the fandom is so divided on Lucien because people allow certain characters opinions of Lucien to sway their opinions rather than realizing that those characters opinions are pretty biased. To realize everything Lucien has been up against since book 1 and how he's never done anything but the best he can with the limited power he's had so far while putting the needs of everyone else over his own.

I do hope when Sarah gives him his POV in a book, everyone will finally see exactly why he's always been one of her favorites.

And you're right, Elain is 100% a Golden Retriever girl and the only reason she was drawn to Az in the first place is he's pretending to be one around her though that's the furthest thing from the truth.

[asapphiccrow]

"Would you wanna be together?"

A/N: This is just a short little thought I had about Hobie and spider!Reader finally confessing their feelings for each other. Don't think I specified pronouns, gender, or race so can be read as whatever! Reader was bitten by the Portia Spider (bc it's my favorite spider)

Fun fact: the Portia Spider, also known as the fringed jumping spider, is said to be the most intelligent spider. (if you like spiders I highly recommend looking it up bc it's so cute)

W/C: 872

Hobie Brown x Alt!spider!Reader

You and hobie met during a spider meeting where Miguel introduced you to the team.

Off the bat he thought you were pretty cool (super cool actually but Hobie would never admit that).

He would often make little comments on your clothing, calling it punk (even if it wasn't). Even asking for DIY advise

We all know hobie is pretty smart (a lot of the spider people are) but you were the techy one (and arguably smarter than the majority of the spider people simply bc of the type of spider that bit you). He would still offer to help with new gadgets and gizmos and even take over when you just didn't know what to do.

He was in awe when he saw you in action the first time. How smart you are and how quickly you were able to apprehend the bad guy with some new gadget you whipped up with the crap around you.

At times when you were so absorbed in your work to notice really anything around you, headphones blasting, Hobie would just watch you. Before you guys were friends you thought it was a bit weird, but soon as your friendship blossomed and grew you found his silent presence comforting.

Neither of you two knew you guys liked each other. The other spider people did -even miguel- but no one said anything. There was definitely a bit going on for how long it would take either of you to realize your feelings. Now you guys have known each other for a year and a half when Miles Morales is fully accepted into the spider society (let's pretend spider-man into the spider verse didn't end the way it did and he joined the spider society ok).

You are sitting on a chair fiddling with whatever new project Miguel has you doing, Hobie is sitting next to you -very closely- playing with his guitar. Miles, Pav, and Gwen walk in and catch you and Hobie literally in each other bubbles doing your own thing. 

“You guys are so cute” Miles says as he walks up to you and Hobie.

Pav and Gwen stifle their laughters at how fluster you both become

You nor Hobie speak up, both at a loss for words. Miles is just standing there so confused, he genuinely thought y'all were a thing but now he doesn’t know.

“Hobie and I aren’t together” you responde, finally able to find your words.

Miles, ever the awkward soul, just says “oh” then walks away making up some half ass excuse on why he has to leave,

Gwen and Pav can’t keep their laughter in anymore, bursting at the seems they turn into two hyenas. Then they too leave following Miles

You both are now sitting there, still very close, flustered with an air of awkwardness surrounding you both. You try to get back to your work, after all Miguel did give you a deadline and we all know how Miguel gets when things don’t go his way. Though Miles inaccurate assumption of you guys did awake something in Hobie -in you both

A feeling Hobie wasn’t really aware he felt. 

Building up the courage Hobie speaks softly, a volume that is only meant for you to hear, “Would you wanna be together”.

You aren’t sure if you were supposed to hear that because of how soft his voice was and because of how anxious he sounded. Hobie never cared much about other opinions of him and was very confident about his actions and himself but the way he spoke

sounded sacred and truth be told he was. Hobie never had ever really felt this way about someone that's probably why he pushed these feelings down. But now here he was soft spoken and lacking his usual nonchalant demeanor. 

You took off your headphones slowly resting them on your workbench. Turning slightly in your chair to better face Hobie. Your faces mere inches apart, eyes staring into each other, souls opening for the other. 

You too worked up the courage and at a tone matching his you spoke, “Hobie”, you began, “would you wanna go on a date -with me”. 

Hobie smiled softly, his aura turning a soft shade of pink that was still so very Hobie. He let out an airy laugh, pushing away some hair that had fallen in your face he responded, “I’d love to Dove”

Slowly that same hand cupped your cheek ever so gently, his soft brown eyes fell down to your lips. Your eyes traced his features then following his eye line you realized what he wanted. So you lifted your hands up to cup both sides of his head then leaned ever so slowly in, giving him a sufficient amount of time to back out if he wanted, your lips met. The Kiss was short lived but filled with love and a promise of more. You both pulled away small smiles painting both your features and soft giggles escaping both your lips. You knew that harboring feelings and pushing them down was never good and it would always feel better to just express them but gods you never thought it would have felt this good.

A/N: If you guys liked this let me know if you'd want a little story of what their date would be like or anything I wanna write so more for Hobie.

[beesmygod]

What are some of your favorite pieces of art/ art that has made you think a lot?

this is such a cheesy cop-out answer, but there's a lot of things that im going to struggle remembering because of 1. how situational the experience was (as in, the context in which i experienced the piece) 2. how wide the word "art piece" is. 3. the great fortune to have been born to parents with strong artistic sensibilities and a love of travel/education. so these are like. really weird and specific but maybe thats the way it should be:

let's start with the most overly dramatic: st. paul's cathedral in london has guided tours where they take you into rooms and let you mill around before moving to the next one. my family took a trip overseas as a really, really big special vacation to celebrate my sister and i graduating from high school (we're not twins, we just combo'd it after she graduated) that i was too brain-broken and teenage to fully appreciate. its a beautiful cathedral but i was in my edgy internet atheist stage and refused to be impressed by it until i stood over a grate in the floor. through the grates you can see the crypt that you visit next. but standing over the grate, someone below started to sing something hymnal and very catholic. and i realized i was the only one who could hear it because of the crowd chatter. and it made me feel, in the moment, so special and so lonely in a way that i still think about, a lot. it was for me only. divine providence.

a date with adam to a place i had no idea existed but he had been to before: the bad art museum, which is split over like 3 different buildings in a bizarre way. we only went to the one where you have to buy a ticket to a movie as entry and it was some truly lovely bad art and made me sad how inaccessible it was but resolute about my love of the nuances of uncelebrated anti-art masterpieces. then we watched "assassination nation" and it was fucking terrible. great date.

reading the theory regarding the "venus of willendorf" being a self portrait as a 20-something year old and running into the bathroom to take my clothes off and look down at myself and having my mind blown. not just by how much i instantly understood it, but because of the tugging feeling on my heart when i feel that strand of history connecting women artists driven by that unknown compulsion to create for creations sake!

similarly, seeing artemisia gentileschi's work next to her fathers and realizing how much she outclassed him in every single way and feeling the tugging feeling again, but this time with a dark woe of realization of how history minimizes achievement and talent when it eases a narrative

reading jane erye's descriptions of herself and her approaches to her plights and for the first time feeling like someone had walked a path that i currently found myself lost on.

reading 1984 as a middle schooler and becoming so angry at the ending i threw the book across the room (something i had never done before and never did again in my life) and stormed out of my room to complain to my mom lol. IT REALLY UPSET ME!!!

reading les miserables for the first time and weeping piteously for days after the ending and having it impact my brain so hard it re-wired how i think about the concept of "legacy" and what it means to matter in the world and how love is nothing without the courage to stand up for it. and that mercy should, and will, always supersede unwavering justice (hard lesson to remember, maybe im due for a re-read)

sneaking into my parents room to read the books i wasnt supposed to yet as a really little kid lol. my mom used to get "dykes to watch out for" in a newsletter she was subscribed to! but i didnt read those bc they were dumb relationship comics for grown-ups. i wanted to read about opus the penguin and lee iacocca, as if i knew who that was. my mother's comic collection was the single most influential constant in my life. knowing that i was exposed to bill watterson's commentary about his own work via the big collections my mom owned probably explains a lot about what's wrong with me. but she also had a lot of berke breathed before he fully wussed out

the general experience of playing a video game that you arent supposed to/when you arent supposed to is probably one of the most freeing means of meaningless rebellion as a kid that everyone should experience. i used to be up playing pokemon past my bedtime under my covers with a huge heavy rubber flashlight i stole from the kitchen and had to replace every morning without getting caught once i was done with it. god, the days before backlit screens we had to get really fucking wild with it. in high school i would wake up at 5:00am, sneak into the computer room where the ps2 was and play an hour of FFX bc its the longest fucking non-persona game in the world, stop playing before my mom woke up at 6:00am and sneak back into bed. if i hit a part where i couldnt save i would just turn the screen off and come back to it tomorrow lol. secrets......

reading the "pictures for sad children" arc about paul, who is a ghost, finally losing it and going on a rant about how it has never mattered how thin a computer screen is. they were right and reading it helped me articulate and understand a growing feeling of restless frustration at the world around me that i felt singular and alone in. im glad that last i heard that artist is doing ok. i hope they recognize the incredible value in their work as imperfect as they perceived it to be. i do not think they would be happy to know that their old work was impactful, but i hope they realize that what people are able to tease out of their work is meaningful, at least to me it is. ill transcribe the comic rather than repost it i think: paul [while smashing electronics]: "have i told you about [bam] how nerds destroy the world take conspicuous consumption as a lifestyle choice and combine it with early hardware adoption and you have great swaths of gadgetry out of stock because they're incrementally better than the last model and there are landfills full of functioning electronics wasted time, resources, money, etc. the best part is that these things were never necessary it has never mattered how thing a computer is." [smash]

this is too long. i like art.

[cashmoneyyysstuff]

Please tell me about your ocs!! IM HUNGRY GRRR

helloow omg ! im so honored you want to know more about my ocs aaahhh!! :D my moot @kovu-bunnbunn also wanted to know more so i figured i could do it now !!

i have a bunch of ocs but I’ll just talk about my main oc ryoko right now !!

her full name is ryoko ‘007’ aizawa. I’ll explain the 007 in a minute !! she’s aizawa’s adoptive daughter.

her parents (her dad more specifically, her mom was more of a bystander) are both from very wealthy families and merged. Her parents had an arranged marriage and after some chatter to get to know each other they’re conversations take a little bit of a turn..and inbetween bonding about their favorite movies oop! A lil comment about how the world would he better off without heroes..oh you think so too ? Well look at that, we have so much in common!! long story short they both decide that the want to create something that will be able to take down all might and the entirety of hero society and it’s restrictions,,and I’m pretty sure you can guess what that something was ! nine months later ryoko is born yipeee…!

during her entire pregnancy ryokos mom went through some quirk experiments (sponsored by doctor garaki 👍) because they knew that with both their quirks alone they wouldn’t be able to create a super weapon. (ryokos dad has an overhaul type quirk, and her mom has a healing sort of quirk) so they did some experiments hoping something would change in the womb, and when she was born the kept on doing experiments until she started manifesting a quirk w no attributes from her either of her parents and manifested a fully different quirk than she was originally meant to have,

since she had those experiments done ryokos body adapted to be able to handle her quirk, but it’s not perfect unfortunately.

heres a simple little chart of how it works ! (BTW I DO NOT DRAW LIKE THIS ANYMORE THIS IS OOOOLLLLDD😭😭😭😭)

her quirk is a lot like neijires as in she uses her own energy and converts it into power ! The amount she uses shows in her hair :3 ryoko tho, unlike neijire can do multiple things from sending blasts, to powering herself up to make parts of her body stronger, to making it hard objects like stepping stones she uses to navigate and weapons like dual swords or chains to restrain ppl !! she can also drain other peoples energy (and from her surroundings, but thats only in 100% mode ! ) because of the fact that her body had been modified, ryoko can carry more energy into herself than regular people which is why she can drain energy without any major drawback to a certain extent ! However, her drawbacks are way more severe, overusing her quirks makes her sleepy and drowsy, it gives her nosebleeds and very worse case scenario if she were to have too little or too much energy she could die :0 !!

(ALSO !! I lil extra tidbit: ryoko is capable of sensing peoples energy’s if she concentrates hard enough, it works better if shes seen them before, but she can sense all the energy in humans in her surroundings or if she has a picture, tho it’s slightly weaker and is limited to one person at a time. This is a form of remote viewing that i gave her bc of my obsession w stranger things i had !!😭)

its a pretty powerful quirk that her parents and other scientists knew they could use well, but unfortunately for them ryoko ended up liking heroes (she was barely educated, so she had no idea that she felt admiration for heroes and especially all might, she was alsovaguely aware that she was taught to do the wrong things, because she’d be forced to use her quirk on robots/ small animals in some cases.)

her parents weren’t supposed to feel any affection towards her so they decide to just give her a code name 007 :D which i realized a little too late was the same as james bond..woops😭

anyways fast forward to the biggg “earthquake” incident, shes rescued by a group of heroes, eraser head included :D unfortunately shes detained in tartarus since her being in a constant state of panick set her quirk off and she couldn’t stay in a regular hospital so ryoko has canonically been to tartarus as a inmate at the age of 4 😭! Oh forgot to mention this, but ryoko got her quirk veryy early due to the experiments done before her birth and after.

since ryoko cant control her quirk an aizawa can cancel them, they’re a pretty good matchup !! Fast forward some more and shes living with him ! he adopts her and lets her go to school, where she meets izu n katsuki and they quickly become friends because. Of COURSE. My main ocxcanon ship is a CHILDHOOD FRIENDS TO LOVERS ONEEE😭😭😭😭will i ever stop. raise your hand if you’ve ever seen that one comin

lmk if you want to know more about her or other ocs ! I didn’t wanna ramble TOOO much so this is all the basic info!! plus some drawing of her

two of them r completely credited to horikoshi cus i used ochaco n hagakure as a base !! I accidentally have two in normal mode and two in 100% or overdrive mode as she calls it (tho one of them is a soul eater au :3) ! Both made by me :3

Much luvvv xxxx!!! And thank you Sooo much for your ask again💗💗💗💗

[camellcat]

I'm tryna think back on who I shipped during my first casual watch of the show, and I feel like I got shit all backwards lmao

I mean I started off with coffy. cordelia was literally introduced and I was GONE I have zero explanation to give you I just. I don't know man. they just clicked in my head. I'll tell you I didn't let go of them until cordelia left and I realized they were never gonna do more with her character on that show. she should've been a proper scooby man she bit a vampire I feel like she deserved to be one of them instead of constantly on the sidelines. it made me very sad. her and buffy could've been SO good

getting more realistic to me, I enjoyed bander. tbh I didn't REALLY want them together but something about them always seemed like it could've been really fucking sweet if xander ever chilled the hell out. he's her buddy, y'know? her partner in crime. he'd follow her anywhere even if he gives her a hard time about it. and she deserves someone she can be silly with. they r best friends!!!! once I hit s7 though? y'all oh my GAWD bander bander ily ILY BANDER

bandillow is the reason I couldn't fully enjoy bander on their own, bc it would've felt terribly wrong without willow as well. I was shipping these three HARD and keeping to myself. didn't post about them didn't talk about them, but I wanted them so so soooo badly. I wanted them all together so very badly. I think I robot you jane was the catalyst for this and my love for bandillow only grew stronger the longer I was watching the show. I wanted them to be endgame even if I knew they wouldn't be

bangel was... oddly didn't care one way or the other? they were okay. I rooted for them bc the show wanted me to and I wanted to be into the vampire romance, and they definitely had their moments that had me liking them, but for the most part? ehhhh. liked them cause they were there. honestly I enjoyed watching angel with willow more than him with buffy, but that never turned into full fledged shipping. I'll also admit I missed them FIERCELY when angel was gone and replaced with riley however. at least bangel was entertaining

ohhhh, and here come my loves from s2. my loves my loves my loves. sprusillaaaaaaa. they came on screen and I was HOOKED I was so fucking hooked holy shit. I was in the background watching buffy beforehand. I was paying attention but I was also playing mahjong and bubble shooter with enough concentration I was missing shit. I did not miss shit when these two came on screen. I adored them I ADORE them. fucking fantastic these two

now, you'll be expecting me to say spuffy, right? WRONG it was DRUFFY BUFFSILLA WHATEVER I didn't care about SPIKE drusilla and buffy were sharing dreams!?!? they're parallels of each other as angel's marks, one soulled the other not!?!? they share the same birthday!??!?! I still don't know if the dream sharing thing is an entirely accurate way to put it but holy jesus I wanted them to interact SO badly you don't even know. you don't even knowwww. my favourite daydreams to indulge in are about these two still even after finishing the show. I needed themmmm I need them to interact more!!!!!!!!

willoz!! willoz you r so wonderful!! I really liked these two oz charmed me greatly and I want my best friend willow to be happy. they're very sweet to me. I wish they could've made it work damn the both of them for cheating on each other

fuffy. hmm. thing is, I DID ship them, but I never ever wanted them in a serious relationship. I enjoyed them having fun together as an idea, and even before I went into the fandom online I fully believed they were going to and should've kissed in enemies. I shrieked when they didn't I was so shocked it didn't happen. I liked their dynamic, and I REALLY wanted more from them. pairing them as a couple just seemed the obvious way for that I suppose since they made sense to me if that had happened

tillow! now THIS was interesting to me. I kept thinking like no WAY they're gonna since they didn't with fuffy y'know? I thought I was going crazy watching these two bc whaaaat??? what is going on???? are they really...? they don't got the guts! and then they had the guts!!!!! tillow become canon!!!!!!! I was SO excited omg I love these two. I love them so much. especially once we get to s5 they love each other so much oughhh fucking hate s6

alright we hit s5 and I'm finally on the spuffy train. I see it I get it I'm HERE. I think slowly falling with spike helped me enjoy this ship perhaps more than any of the others, barring bandillow. definitely helped that spuffy are my favourite characters after all. like ofc I wanna see them as much as possible. and hey I'm a sucker for a bad guy who's in love with the heroine. fucking classic that is. these two quickly became my favourite pairing

spuffsilla..... spuffsilla....... now that I'm into spike as well, this was just like the obvious way to go. duh. hello crush you insane episode. I think druffy should've laughed at him and buffy realizes she doesn't despise dru actually. I think dru should've stuck around bc it's her sweet spike and he clearly needs help winning the affection of this bright slayer. I think buffy should've been annoyed at another vampire but makes spike promise to watch her or she'll stake them both. I think dru should've started craving buffy's warmth just as bad as spike and buffy slowly let both of them in as they help her simply live through all the shit she's gotta deal with. I think—

interestingly, s5 is also when I started really falling in love with wuffy. I'd lost most of my care in bander sometime around s3, and while I was still captain of my bandillow ship, wuffy alone really began to appeal to me. ESPECIALLY once we hit the weight of the world. I think it's incredibly important that it's willow who brought buffy back and it sparked an obsession with wuffy in me that's yet to burn even the slightest bit dimmer

also fancied a bit of tara/spike/buffy if I'm being honest. I get tara's a lesbian but they're also all fictional characters who I am able to do whatever I want with, and I like THESE three. very very much. they make me so soft make me melt. I want only good things for them I think they'd all be incredibly good together and good for each other

I took a break between s5 and s6, in where I fell deeply in love with anya, so if you're curious as to why NO anya ships have been mentioned thus far, there you go. to rectify this, coming into s6, I fucking ADORED xanya ohhhh my goddddd xanyaaaaaa. s6 was not a good time to get so attached to them. what a miserable experience. xanya was never going to be healthy if they went the way they were going, but NOOOOO MY XANYA HOW COULD THEY SPLIT YOU UP LIKE THAT?! like THAT??? s7 was no better s7 was fucking CRUEL to me. teased me with xanya crumbs only for her to get goddamned sliced. fucked up

off the top of my head that's my entire journey since it's not like I ever wrote any of this down before. I stopped liking anything new after xanya and mostly just focused in on spuffy hardcore. I'm not into anything particularly out there and while I have rare pairs they're not like THAT rare I don't think. I mostly go with what is shown to me on screen. I just feel like the when and the level of enjoyment with some of these ships is so random compared to how I think I SHOULD'VE been with them

[apomaro-mellow]

Okay, let's talk about Gladiator 2 and why parts of it fell flat

As soon as the movie started and we see Lucius' wife with the biggest death flag ever, I wondered if women WOULD have a larger role in this movie but honestly my hopes weren't high.

The monkey cgi wasn't distracting, I think it was fine. What WAS distracting was how they were all rabid and murderous but as soon as Lucius takes down his the rest just. Stop? And it's not even in an "they saw him kill one of their own and backed off". They just basically disappear.

Alright so now for the actual plot. I'm all for political intrigue but when you do that it needs to be made clear what each faction is and what their endgame is. It takes a little too long into the movie for this to be established. I get that Acacius and Lucilla want to overthrow the emperors and restore power to the sentate, making Rome a republic like what her father and Maximus wanted. It takes a bit too long to be revealed that Macrinus simply wants Rome to fall and dissolve completely. And Lucius's motivations and goals change throughout the movie, for good reason, but his development feels lacking.

I feel like I'm going in a bunch of directions, so let's focus on this character by character instead, starting with our main.

Lucius has the seeds of a great character and clear motivation but he never feels fully fleshed out. At first his main goal is to kill Acacius because of the death of his wife, so it seems mostly personal and like Lucius has no real stake in Rome, despite being a prince of it. But then in the cell scene with his mother he apparently resents her for seemingly moving on with her life and never coming back for him and like-my friend, HOW? The film shows that Lucius was essentially wandering and lost his protective detail through the years, how was she supposed to find him and bring him home? She probably thought he was dead! I don't think he had to lose his wife or have the revelation of his real father to want to fight against Rome or for it. The fact that he would have seen Rome taking more and more lands and killing people either in search of him or in their pursuit of domination should be enough. Also, he only ever showed ferocity when fighting or that one scene with his mother. I think if he was really filled with rage, they should have found more opportunities to showcase that.

Lucilla's only fault is being a female character and thus the narrative doesn't know what to do with her besides making her do the exact thing she did in the last movie which is not watching what she said and where she said it. I can believe that she was frazzled from her meeting with Lucius and forgot to check her surroundings but this is literally what happened in the first Gladiator. So you're telling me she learned nothing after her lover was killed and her son went missing??? There's really not much else to say about her character.

Acacius was actually pretty fine for me but that's mostly because it felt like he had the least amount at stake? IDK, his motivations were clear. He's in love with Lucilla, so of course he supports her plan, he even has the means to do it. I guess he hesitates to help Lucius but it's not obvious how long has passed from when he finds out the prince's identity and when he's next in the arena. I don't know how he was supposed to help Lucius anyway. He understood his role in Lucius pain and was ready to die by his hand. He might be the only character fully realized in this movie.

Macrinus was a treat and that's not just bc he was played by Denzel. He's making moves from the beginning and it's entertaining to watch even when you don't know exactly to what end. But as I said before, I feel like it takes too long to know what that end is. Especially when his acquiring of Lucius is completely on accident. At first it just seems like he wants power just to be on the senate, then it seems he specifically wants to puppet the emperors. I really do like the progression of what he did, I just wish we knew more about where he came from and how that colored his opinion of Rome and wanting to destroy it. But he basically won, so that's another point in his favor.

Geta and Caracalla are the last ones I'll talk about. I'm biased bc I'm currently enamored with Joseph Quinn's acting but I still feel like more could have been done with their characters. The twins are supposed to be tyrannical but they seem tame compared to Commodus so let's put their deeds up side by side.

Commodus: 1. killed his father. 2. tried to execute an innocent man after framing him. 3. burned and crucified that man's wife and child 4. has at least been trying to sexually coerce his sister to the point where her son is rumored to be the product of incest 5. fatally wounded Maximus before meeting him in the arena

The twins: 1. changed a 3 round punching match to a battle to the death instead. 2. One murdered the other

The movie wants you to do a lot of fill in the blank when it comes to them. They're Roman emperors, so of course their morals are low compared to the average person. But that's not enough. Commodus' personality permeated every action he took and each one, whether towards his sister or Maximus was antagonistic. Saying that either of the twins do anything to propel the plot until the latter half of the film is being generous.

There's also the fact that nothing they do is personal. Hardly anything that happens in this movie is.

Acacius isn't the one who kills Lucius' wife. It's a random Roman soldier. Macrinus has nothing personal against anyone in this movie, he was branded with Marcus Aurelius. I'm trying to remember a scene between Lucilla and the emperors BEFORE her betrayal is found out and I'm coming up with nothing. Now that I think about it, does Acacius even know that Lucius was at the siege of Numidia?

I still give this movie a 7/10, it's perfectly enjoyable, perfectly watchable, those colosseum scenes - especially if you see it in theaters. I could've watched hours more of Macrinus and the twins. But they could've done more to strengthen the characters.

[fazball]

I want to talk about fights in Unstable Universe! How they work both within the story and from the perspective of a group of people simply playing a part. Before I start I do want to note that despite being really into the game almost since release I am not exceptional at any aspect of the game and that includes things like PvP which I will be talking about in this post, so I may miss something or not fully understand something.

I want to start with the fact that when a fight happens they don't actually want to kill anyone who is not supposed to die, they are simply telling a story, but they are still using actual fighting strategies and their own personal skill is accounted for as well. They use potions, cobwebs, ender pearls, and many things that the average player (as in someone who is not a PvPer) would never even think of. When I first started watching I was baffled by the idea of holding onto stacks of XP bottles to heal your armor mid-fight. And when there is someone meant to be a powerful force they make sure to either choose someone who is exceptionally good at PvP (like Clown) or they have so many people dogpile the person they're fighting that it's almost impossible to win (like Zam or Ashswag). With Zam and Ash its not completely based on dogpiling as they do have higher ranked fighters, like Zam with FlameFrags and Ash with MinuteTech, but most of the time their teams are dependant on dogpiles.

So how do they determine a winner if not by death? It's all based on whose materials can last the longest and who has to run first. By materials I mean literally everything, totems, gapples, armor, pearls, sometimes even rockets. Of course with it being rp we don't fully know if the intent is actually to get someone so incredibly low multiple times OR if that just happens bc the fight is just supposed to last that long. I think my favorite example of this is in Parrot's "It's Impossible to Find this Player," specifically the fight with Boofser, Kier, and Dev. They so obviously lost, almost all of their armor had broken and they literally flew away multiple times just to come back then fly away again because their armor and gaps could not keep up with the damage. Another example I like is from Spoke's "I Got Hunted by the Minecraft Mafia" where he tries to fight the mafia with MinuteTech, realizes this is not a fight he can win and has fly off. Actually this is seen with all 3 POVs, a lot of the time they have to run instead of actually fighting so it simply becomes a situation where they fight, fly off to try and lose them, dig underground, and repeat. It goes differently in Wemmbu's "The Minecraft Empire War" where him and Zam both lost almost all their items, all their armor was breaking neither of them had anymore XP, they had both run out of rockets by then and I truly think the only reason one of them isn't dead is because of Clown stepping in.

Final notes and comments! I have such a terrible memory so i'm sorry if I got anything wrong, it's not my fault :(. When I was talking about XP bottles I used LifeSteal as an example since I don't watch any other PvP series or creators, but since i'm not caught up at all, nor do i interact with the community, i'm not sure if I should consider LS a reliable source for PvP info. I know it's become a rp-ish server as well, but as far as i'm aware they are actually intending to kill/get someone off the server during fights. If anyone would like to correct me on that feel free! And yes, I am aware that Zam had apologized to Wemmbu before Clown stepped in, but I truly don't think he meant it. Maybe he did in the moment, but I feel justified to think it wasn't 100% honest as once they got into the prison Zam immediately tried to kill Wemmbu again. You could try to excuse it with the fact that this was a dire situation and he was distressed, but not once has Wemmbu been the one to strike first. He is simply not a reliable person, especially in relation to Wemmbu. I'm not sure why I wrote this honestly, anyone who's watched UU probably knows this and anyone who hasn't seen UU probably doesn't want to. Maybe i'll send this to an oomf and lure them in.

[toastywatchesstevenuniverse]

S1 E43

Maximum Capacity

Okay so this entire episode just made me feel like....uncomfortable? Like the entire time I just kept feeling so off. Like my brain was going "okay this is way too weird, why do I feel like there's gonna be some horrifying plot twist?"

Then it fucking happened & I felt like a psychic. Like holy shit it wasn't just me, this episode was purposely uncomfortable on purpose & idk how the fuck they did that but WOW the entire episode made me feel so uneasy & it was legit for a reason.

Also ngl Amethyst....kinda just super fucked up to do that- Like I haven't LOVED Greg as a character so far (he's there but I mean him lying about his leg, good intentions or not, was a pretty shitty move & also he's just kinda not that great of a dad but I also understand that's literally the point so I'm not gonna just toss aside his character because I'm assuming he's supposed to get better as the show goes on. For now: I just kinda feel nothing strong towards him character wise), but oh my God this episode just made me feel so bad for the guy. Holy shit like this dude just misses his wife. Fuck. I'm surprised how much he kept his cool here. Like he didn't blow up at Amethyst or anything he was like super quick to forgive her despite the fact that he kinda would have been super justified in being upset for this. But I like that this was how it was done. No scene of them fighting or yelling, Amethyst just chooses to do something to make up for it without Greg having to lecture her. In that regard: it actually made her seem way more sincere. Like she had to make that choice via her own genuine remorse. I'm wording this badly I think but like I think that it made her seem like she really was trying to attone for it & that she really did regret what she did.

And honeslty after On The Run? With the knowledge that, knowing how severely fucked up Amethyst is mental health wise, yeah her lashing out at people like this? And saying/doing extremely shitty things because she's upset & she doesn't have the capacity to hold herself back & only realizes how badly she fucked up until its too late? Yeah as someone who has that kinda mental health shit as I said in my post about that episode?....yeah, that's pretty accurate tbh. In my experience that's something I can confirm does happen. So yeah it actually makes sense why she did something so extreme out of fucking nowhere.

I have said a lot of really regrettable shit to people that I'm friends with (Sometimes idk how I'm still friends with them after bc I still feel bad about it yet they seem to insist I'm forgiven) during times where I was really fucking upset. And it's only until RIGHT after it happens that I fully go "oh shit that was a really bad thing to say & I made the situation significantly worse" Yet just like irl, they forgive. *cries*

Really well done character focused episode. They did fucking stellar character writing here.

OH WHAT YOU THOUGHT I WASNT GONNA GO INSANE GOBLIN MODE ABOUT PEARL????? TOO BAD PEARL TIME

OH MY GOD SHES IN A SWEATER AND SHES DOING HER BEST YES PEARL YOUR VOLUME IS PERFECT YOURE DOING AMAZING AAAAAAAA SHES SO CUTE AND HUGGABLE LOOK AT HER SHES THE CHARACTER OF ALL TIME !!!!!!

[teddybeartoji]

mickey i am kissing ur brain so gently i literally just woke up but i saw the bi!toji post ……… 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 REAL & CANON BTW but for some reason the first thought that popped into my head was. uni au….. janitor!toji/professor!reader…………….. hear me out.

toji who just stopped working as an assassin and is trying to get his life together, who just happened to land a job as a janitor at a prestigious university that he takes fairly seriously…. (i just knowww he hates littering students with every fibre of his being. catches them in the act and reaches for his gun out of old habit LMAO) and there’s this nerdy little professor who always arrives at the uni first thing in the morning, without fail, and always gives toji a cheery little greeting when he does. wearing his cozy sweaters and vests and scarves and smiling all bright and sleepy. and for some reason he almost always takes his coffee breaks conveniently close to wherever toji is cleaning… so they can chat a bit….. even though toji usually just listens and grunts every now and then.

and at first toji feels kinda Threatened by this pretty boy bc ???? whyyyy is he interrupting my precious cleaning time. is he trying to supervise me? show off his fancy degrees??? …. reader has the fattest crush on him but toji genuinely doesn’t realize bc he’s wired to always mistrust others :// meanwhile reader is watching him clean internally going what the fuck what the fuckkk why is he wearing a compression shirt it’s literally fucking freezing??? is he teasing me???? does he know?????? they’re both losers actually. big romcom vibes

BUT YEAH i just picture professor!reader being a sleepy but cheery little guy….. who loves loves loves teaching and talking about his subject of choice and toji starts to really enjoy their talks bc reader’s eyes shine soooo brightly when he’s chattering away… all excited and gleaming….. and toji kinda hates teachers but he decides to make an exception this once. maybe starts to initiate conversations of his own every now and then… who knows…………….

OK THAT’S ALL PDHJDDHJF 😭😭 this came to me in a vision and ofc i had to share…. imagine me at a board meeting pointing at my little graphs and powerpoints while u sit in a big ceo chair overlooking the city… pondering janitor!toji and the future of this company…... mickey ur posts genuinely make me fully insane i hope u know that. bi!toji is real and loves you specifically btw <333333 I HOPE U HAVE A LOVELY DAY MWAH :3

ARIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I NEED TO KISS U RN!!!

LIKE THIS ISN'T OKAY BY ANY MEANS HOW DID YOU COOK THIS UP AND WHY IS IT LITERALLY PERFECT AND ALSO HOW IS IT SO IN LINE WITH WHAT I HAD IN MY HEAD?????????????? HOW???????

OKAY FIRST OF ALL WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT PROFESSOR!READER KIND OF BEING LIKE TAKEDA FROM HAIKYUUUU??????????????? LIKE THAT'S IMMEDIATELY HOW HE POPPED INTO MY HEAD AND NOW I CAN'T STOP IMAGINING HIM LIKE THAT I ALS OCAN'T TAKE OFF THE CAPS LOCK BC I'M GENUINELY SO INVESTED IN THIS FUCKING AU IT'S INSANE

but yeah he's always wearing the comfiest fits just like u said - sweaters, vests, a button-up shirt and a colorful tie sometimes (he was super nervous about wearing the tie at first bc he thought he'd look stupid but he got over it and now he has a rule of wearing a tie at least once a week)(canon). when it's cold he's wearing an oversized coat and an equally big scarf and toji thinks it's very cute i mean what who said that.

another thing just popped into my head when u called him a sleepy guy..... what if it's already like afternoon and all of the students are gone and the professor was supposed to be grading their papers or smth but when toji happens to walk by his class he's just sleeping on the table............... PLSSSS I THINK IT'S SO CUTEE i can see it so clearly in my head the professor's glasses are really weirdly on his face and his mouth is open with a bit of drool spilling out lmao and at first toji just shakes his head like damn this guy is stupid but then he realizes that he's smiling? that his own lips just curved into a small smile all on their own and he's kinda freaked out about it and leaves really fast hasgahsaghshgagsha HE'S A LITTLE AWKWARD SOMETIMES OKAY even big scary teddy bears have their little love moments yk

my immediate thought was that toji would actually be the one to develop the crush first btw................ and he'd be a little like ???? maybe this is his first real male crush? and the reader is just kind of oblivious to it like he thinks that yk toji seems like the straighest guy on the first glance lmao and he thinks that he doesn't have a chance but hehehehehe he's very wrong IDK WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT i wanna know

DON'T GET ME WRONG THOUGH I DO REALLYREALLY LIKE the reader kind of thirsting over him hihihihihi he's so real for that AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF TOJI EVENTUALLY STARTING MORE CONVOS!!!!!! FUCK OFFF HE'S SOO SWEET AAAAAAAAA i love him so much have i said that already

who do you think would take the step to go further though? IN YOUR SCENARIO I MEAN it would obviously take time. a lot of it. bc toji is well... like he is and the professor is nervous and he's kind of afraid to overstep even though he likes him sooooo much... okay i kinda feel like toji would....... and it almost makes the poor professor have a heart attack bc WHAT? hihihihiihi stoppppppppppppp i can see them both in my head soooo clearly and i'm so fucking in love with them they're so cute aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

also got this idea of the professor breaking smth in his class idk like he sits on the chair and one of the legs breaks or smth lmao and he goes on a lookout for smth to fix it with (??????) and he finds toji!!!! and he comes to his rescue, teasing the professor a little bc how the hell did he break the chair you know. and maybe he professor blushes a little..................... IT'S TOJI C'MON EVERYBODY WOULD BLUSH A LITTTLE and then maybe the professor brings him a pastry or something the next day as a thank you and now it's toji who's..... cheeks are looking a little pink?????? and he's grumbling that it's my job. no need to thank me. but the professor just dismissed that immediately and just presses the pastry into his hands and waves him goodbye with a smile. AAAAAAAAAAAH I CAN'TTTT I'M SMILING SO BIG RN MY CHEEKS HURT WHAT IN THE FUCK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ARI. MY SWEETEST LITTLE ANGEL. CAN I USE THIS IN THE DRABBLE I STARTED? LIKE I'M GONNA LINK THIS IN THERE TOO. i just started the drabble based on one of the asks i got - toji just smiling while he's listening to his little bf ramble about his day but i'd love to sprinkle this in there. like maybe he taught a class on smth he really likes so he's just so excited about it. excited that the students were loving the topic or whatever. BUT I DO NEED YOUR PERMISSIONN!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU FOR INDULGING ME YOU ALWAYS DO I'M SOOOO GRATEFUL FOR YOUUUUUUUUUU<33333 i can't believe you just cooked it up are you actually gordon ramsay btw? i know you are don't lie to me ari. BI!TOJI LOVES US BOTH THAT'S WHY HIS TITS ARE SO BIG HE'S STORING HIS LOVE FOR US IN THERE!!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE YOU HAD A REALLY REALLLY GOOD DAY MY LOVE MWAH MWAH MWAH<333333333