#because it’s me

[aqlstar]

Tatting is such an underrated hobby; I can make as many things as I want and I still go through $0.25 of materials.

Every other fiber/textile related hobby is so expensive.

[chheese-mmmhh]

fine i’ll say it…i think bucktommy is fine but him solely calling buck “evan” is a little blech to me…and that’s mostly just from a storytelling perspective because before this “evan” meant something… it was either used by his parents to show they don’t understand him or by maddie to show that she’s seeing him as her kid brother in that moment or by eddie just to show that he sees him and the conversation is important…and even then it was used very sparingly so the name didn’t lose its meaning but now we hear it so often it just seems like it doesn’t have as much meaning as it used to

[teecupangel]

It would be very funny if all the Assassin's just turned into FNAF Animatronics and just terrorizes all the Templars lol

I feel bad but when I read this ask, my immediate idea was:

Numbskull is the new security guard and has to go thru the horrors of the first FNAF game with Melanie taking the role of the phone guy who is either trying to downplay the horrors Numbskull is seeing for the sake of the company or is trying to keep Numbskull calm because there’s really no other option for the both of them.

Okay.

So before we give each Assassin an animatronic to haunt, our initial setup would be that Abstergo Entertainment has become haunted. No matter where they move, even if they leave behind lots of shit, the moment they are set up (maybe a month or so), people would encounter the creepy animatronics that they specifically left in the last location.

They can’t destroy them because they’re company property and, well, Abstergo wants to make money, not lose them.

If they hire unsuspecting cannon fodders, the Animatronics would just ignore them and start destroying other equipment.

But Templars?

Oh, they would focus on terrorizing the Templars, playing some sick game (like that game which I cannot find the name of where the other ‘players’ move if the ‘it’ is not looking at them but will freeze if the ‘it’ is looking at them) which… usually ends with the Templar being so scared that they would need therapy.

So yeah, Templars were being used to keep these animatronics from destroying expensive shit but… Melanie was freaking sure that they were getting more animatronics the more memories they look at!

The Animatronic-Assassins:

Altaïr: Chica (Chica’s a chicken which is a bird. Altaïr’s name means ‘flying/soaring eagle’ which is a bird. Altaïr gets the yellow animatronic chicken with the pink cupcake because I kept giving Altaïr the bird motif ones so yeah.)

Ezio: Bonnie (By the rule that the main four original haunted animatronics will be Desmond’s four ancestors (and technically the four main protagonists of the AC games), this means Ezio gets to be the blue animatronic rabbit)

Ratonhnhaké:ton: Freddy (Ratonhnhaké:ton can use ‘bear power’ in the DLC so he gets to be the animatronic bear. And I think it would be like a slap on the face if Ratonhnhaké:ton gets to be the main ‘mascot’ haunting Abstergo since Abstergo spent sooooo many years ignoring him.)

Edward: Foxy (Foxy’s the pirate, seems a done deal)

Desmond: Golden Freddy (only appears rarely and seems to be the most docile of the animatronics… although his appearance is said to be a message that this would be the Templar’s last night as all other animatronics becomes more vicious once he makes his appearance)

Arno: Either Circus Baby or Ballora, although I’m leaning more on Ballora mainly because of the blue color scheme. Also, the Minireenas can be considered as a reference to the coop mode avatars and Arno can use them to mess with the Templars.

Evie and Jacob: I feel like it would be fun if they were like the Sun (Jacob) and Moon (Evie) Daycare Attendant. They share one body but, instead of Jacob being a more or less harmless animatronic, Jacob is loud and focuses more on scaring Templars thru sounds and the impending doom because he can walk slowly even with lights on (very very slowly though) while Evie will be the silent and fast stay-in-the-shadows type. It’ll be easier to figure out where they are by keeping the lights on to keep Jacob as the main ‘personality’ but that means he’s pretty much the decoy that can easily empty batteries or short circuits the electricity if the Templars are not careful.

Alright, if you want Haytham or Shay in this AU, they’ll be the one trying to help the Templars survive… as Helpy and Wet Floor Bot.

[charliesinfern0]

it’s gotten so bad

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[aqlstar]

Moving away from specifically the US-

Al Assad’s Syria is the world’s largest narcostate.

The regime runs on profits from an illegal drug trade that dwarfs Syria’s annual GDP.

Every time a country allows drugs from Syria to cross their borders illegally (including the US) l, they are allowing their country to be used as a fundraising platform for a terrorist regime.

That is not fair to the people of Syria, who are deprived of the chance to elect a legitimate president.

@andthemoonsingswisely

@travelbasscase

[everythingwasnormalhere]

pls rb if you think cuddling doesn't have to be s3xual

im tryna prove a point to my bf's mother help me out

[teecupangel]

From @saberamane

Had an angsty Desmond plot bunny jump into mind today.

People pretty much always head canon that Desmond got his lip scar while at the Farm, typically from Bill. But what if, that training ‘accident’ left more than a scar on Desmond’s lip? What if it was such a horrendous slip up that somehow Desmond ended up blinded. 

That would mean Desmond wouldn’t run away from the farm, he couldn't see. Bill, in trying to make Desmond the best Assassin, ends up basically ’ruining' him.

And if Desmond doesn’t run from the farm, Abstergo wouldn’t have as easy a time as getting him for the Animus. So they’d need someone inside to get Desmond. Lucy. 

So here’s Desmond, having spent the last nine years blind (he didn’t get the eagle vision until the Animus, so he couldn’t use that.) and basically dependent on everyone around him. So after having been kidnapped from the farm, he’d cling to Lucy, seeing her as another victim of Abstergo. 

Through the Animus, Desmond would unlock his ability to use the Eagle Vision, so he could finally see again. But it came with draw backs. Using it too much caused headaches, and pushing even farther, migraines. 

So the first three games play out nearly the same, only Desmond has a harder time navigating, and has to depend a lot on his hearing to determine people’s intensions from their tone of voice rather than how they move or their facial expressions.

And in the end, Desmond is still marched off to his death in the grand temple. Only now, Bill doesn’t try and talk Desmond out of it, to 'find another way’, because to Bill this is Desmond’s only use now without his vision. The Eagle Vision can only substitute so much after all.

So Desmond expects to die. He activates the eye, burns from the inside out, knows he is dying, feels Juno free herself from the Temple.

And then he wakes up. But he’s not in the Temple any more.

(Cue Desmond figuring out where he is, and ending up a kickass assassin anyway. And the ancestor(s) finding out Desmond is blind and still a Master Assassin.)

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Additions from teecup:

This would make Lucy’s betrayal sting all the more. Lucy had been his support ever since he got captured and he still can’t forget the warmth of her hand and the gentleness in her voice. But now, they were tainted by the fact that she had done all of that to get into Desmond’s skin.

And she did.

She had been crueler than William Miles, using his loneliness and weakness to manipulate him.

At least William Miles had been ‘kind’ enough to not lie to him.

Or…

That’s how Desmond began to see it, especially after he began watching Ratonhnhaké:ton’s memories.

He thought he had a place to belong but he didn’t…

He never did.

Not on the Farm…

Not with the Assassins…

He didn’t belong anywhere…

And that was why it had been easy for him to accept his fate, to become the sacrifice so this cruel uncaring world would continue to exist.

Minerva had tried to appeal to his self-preservation, tried to make him understand just how dangerous Juno was but Desmond…

Desmond was so tired…

He was tired of doing what William Miles wanted.

He was tired of pretending to be alright.

He just…

He just wanted everything to stop.

The world?

The Assassins?

Desmond didn’t save the world.

He just…

Gave up…

………

So when he woke up in a place he didn’t recognize even after suffering through the effects of using the Eagle Vision too much…

He felt an almost bitter anger towards Juno and Minerva who promised him the cold embrace of death.

And he has no idea where he was…

So he started walking towards the nearest city or settlement his Eagle Vision had pinged and tried to gather intel without being seen.

Just because he couldn’t see didn’t mean he wasn’t observant. William Miles demanded he be useful, after all.

So it didn’t take long before Desmond realized that he wasn’t in his time anymore.

He had returned to the past.

And his ancestor was still alive around this time.

So Desmond…

For the first time in his life…

Ran away from the Brotherhood.

Unorganized Notes

I think in this scenario, it would be interesting if Desmond loved his ancestors but he was also jealous of them. They were everything he could never be. As much as he loved and wished for them to have a happier ending, he still can’t help but be jealous of what they had. Of what they see and could do.

That jealousy makes Desmond hate himself because he believes he’s a ‘bad person’ for having such feelings.

It’s because of that Desmond doesn’t want them to see him, to even know about him at all.

If he was in Altaïr’s time, I think it would be interesting if he got kicked into the timeline while Altaïr and Maria were having their sorta-world tour. This way, the Levantine Brotherhood would be in a sorta-kinda peaceful era and Desmond wouldn’t even realize that Altaïr was in some random marketplace not in Levant because why would he? So, in this scenario, it would be fun if Maria was the one who notices him first and accidentally grabs him because she thought he was Altaïr and Desmond just booked it, because, holy shit, Altaïr was here, run! And that only makes Maria and Altaïr be unable to resist being curious. (This would also be more on the side of Desmond getting dragged along on their trip and experiencing new things with them. Something nice and without the baggage of the Brotherhood)

For Ezio, Desmond getting thrown into Brotherhood would be fun and then we can have the recruits be the ones to find him first and report back to Ezio about the strange man who keeps slipping away from them. In this scenario, Desmond would not announce himself as ‘Desmond’ because he knows Ezio knows that name by now. Maybe he’d even use the name Kenway or something. Ezio knows there’s a lot of things Desmond isn’t saying but he’s not going to push. Not yet, anyway. For now, he would observe and get to know Desmond more, maybe offer him a place on Tiber Island. Seeing the look of pain in Desmond’s expression as he says that he doesn’t want to be an Assassin would only serve to make Ezio more curious but also gentler, stressing that he doesn’t have to be an Assassin but he would be safer in Tiber Island than roaming the streets of Roma under Borgia rule. Maybe Desmond would find a place as more or less the caretaker of the Tiber Island headquarters?

For Ratonhnhaké:ton, I kinda like the idea of Desmond finding himself in Davenport Homestead by accident and realizing that this was just a month or two after Ratonhnhaké:ton learned his tribe had left without informing him. Desmond knew he should stay away and he did try. He did. It’s just… he couldn’t help but gravitate back towards Ratonhnhaké:ton and the lonely manor he stayed all by himself and, before he knew it, he was sleeping in what used to be Ratonhnhaké:ton’s room before he took Achilles’ room and the people of the Homestead already knew him by name. He and Ratonhnhaké:ton aren’t close (yet) but… he knew Ratonhnhaké:ton appreciated him staying all the same.

Regardless of where he ends up with, Desmond doesn’t believe he has the skills of a Master Assassin and thinks that people are exaggerating. His ancestor would notice it and feel anger for Desmond’s sake because it’s clear his low self-esteem is rooted into a more complicated deeper pain that he tries to hide. So they try to show to Desmond just how good he is even if they have their work cut out for them. 

[courtjestersanonymous]

If a felon is president, every felon needs to be able to vote immediately from this moment forward

[ameba-from-space]

[glfry]

Hi guys

[lesbxdyke]

I could think of no better way to share the news than this!

So when I was 17, my cat went missing and I'd given up hope of ever seeing him again.

Until on Monday, 27th of May, 2024, my friend sent me a FB post asking 'isn't that your mother?' about the person named on the microchip.

Here he is! 16 years old, and found safe, twelve whole years after he went missing!

Yesterday (Tuesday the 28th of May, 2024) I went to the rescue that had him, and I reclaimed my boy, renaming him Artie! (He'd originally been called 'Cat' because my mother and I couldn't decide on a name)

He's home safe with me now, currently inhabiting my bathroom and purring up a storm every time someone goes in there!

I'll be doing slow introductions between him and my current cat to give them the best possible chance of living in harmony!

Here's some pictures of Artie once we let him out of the carrier: