#becoming a jackal

[wormthing]

i danced with the jackals

[birdofalltrades-design]

Songs As Book Covers #1: Becoming A Jackal

(Note: This is not a real book! It's a mock-up of a book cover done as fan art for a song that I love.)

[katsinspats]

Tragic: Guy you based your entire villain backstory on doesn't even remember you

[erebusfin]

"I am... Infinite!"

ft. closeups and alt

top ten ways to tell if an artist is in love with a charact- (phantom ruby.sfx)

[amiserableseriesofevents]

*laughing hysterically* I'm fine!

[crabs-brencil]

the jackal

[flyingwargle]

bokuto's word of the day: trivet

one day, bokuto is struck by a realization: he’s not very bright.

“you’re emotionally intelligent,” keiji tells him during their nightly video call. bokuto lifts his head off his desk, lips shaped in a pout, to blink at his boyfriend on his screen. “i never met anyone who has such a high degree of emotional awareness as you. that’s even more important than academic intelligence.”

“but keiji,” bokuto whines, “i want to be able to use big words like you do!”

“well, how about this? i’ll introduce you to a new word each week, and you can try to incorporate it in your daily speech. the more often you use it, the easier it’ll become part of your lexicon.”

“okay!” he has no idea what that means, but if keiji says it, then it should be good, right?

--

the first word is trivet. “you’ve seen them before,” keiji tells him. “i’ll send you a picture.”

his phone goes off a second later. “oh, it’s these things!” bokuto exclaims. “why do they have such a weird name?”

“i don’t know, but that’s what they’re called.”

“it’s kind of a boring word, keiji. i was thinking more like…superfluous, or something.”

“if you know what superfluous means, do you really need to improve your lexicon?”

‘well…” his cheeks start to warm. “i heard sakkun use it before, but i don’t actually know what it means. i think he said it to tsum-tsum, something like, ‘be quiet, miya, you’re being superfluous.’” he mimics his teammate’s deadpan tone.

keiji coughs to hide his laughter. “that certainly sounds like sakusa-san. next week, i’ll send you an adjective, so long you use it properly. i wouldn’t want you to accidentally insult your teammates.”

“i’d never do that!”

they talk for a while longer until keiji hangs up to attend his last meeting for the day. bokuto is already home, lounging in his dorm room, waiting for dinner. atsumu is cooking tonight – out of everyone in the shared house, he makes the best curry, which makes an appearance once or twice a month, so not to stray too far from their individualized diets.

eventually, the scent of curry lures him and his roommates into the kitchen. hinata is setting the table, and inunaki is scooping rice onto each plate for sakusa to place on the dining table. bokuto and adriah sit with drool at the corners of their mouths, eyes shining as atsumu carries his pot of curry over from the stove. “i used my ma’s family recipe fer this one,” he boasts. “it’s gonna blow yer socks off.”

“how is it different from usual?” adriah asks.

“i ain’t spillin’ family secrets. ya’ll just hafta figure it out yerself.”

he’s about to lower the pot directly on the table until bokuto suddenly shouts, “wait, tsum-tsum! you forgot the trivet!”

the pot hovers mere centimeters above the table. atsumu stares at him, confusion in his eyes. adriah, too, is speechless, hinata and inunaki glancing over with curiosity. only sakusa is unfazed.

“he’s right. get a trivet before you add another burn mark to the table.”

“i, uh…okay?” atsumu glances at hinata. “shoyo, go get a…trivet?”

hinata stares back. “i don’t know what that is.”

“it’s this thing!” bokuto grabs the nearest trivet – round and made of cork – and slides it across the table. adriah catches it, positions it directly under the pot. “it’s called a trivet!”

atsumu lowers the pot. “i always just called ‘em coasters.”

“same,” hinata chirps, taking his seat. “i didn’t know they were two different things!”

“coasters are used to protect a tabletop from condensation.” sakusa places the last plate of rice in front of bokuto before sitting down. “trivets are used to protect a tabletop from heat.”

“i mean, if yer drink’s hot, yer still usin’ a coaster,” atsumu remarks. “ain’t like yer gonna deliberately get a trivet fer it, so they work the same way.”

“well, you use trivets for pots and stuff,” inunaki points out, glancing at the stack in the corner. “coasters are for cups, so they’re smaller. plus, they have cooler designs.”

adriah starts ladling curry onto his plate. “now that i think about it, my mom has a really fancy trivet that we use for family dinners and celebrations. we always just called it a potholder.”

“i can’t believe we’ve been using these without ever knowing what they’re called,” hinata comments. “how did you know, bokuto-san?”

the ladle comes over to him, and he scoops a generous portion onto his plate. “keiji told me! i asked him to send me a word every week to add to my lexicon. soon, i’ll be just as bright as sakkun!”

atsumu snickers. “yer always brighter than omi-kun. just look at him.” the wing spiker is currently in all black, compared to bokuto, who’s wearing a gray sweater and baggy pants.

“maybe it’s you that needs a word of the week,” sakusa retorts.

“hey! no insultin’ the chef, or yer not allowed ta eat!”

in the days following that night, the trivet becomes somewhat of an inside joke – from drinks placed on the counter or table (“put a trivet under that!”), throwing them across the room (“eat a trivet, dipshit!”), or as legitimate reminders before putting dishes down.

“check this out!” hinata summons everyone into the kitchen one night. he takes out an iron trivet shaped like an owl from his shopping bag. “i found this while grocery shopping! cool, huh?” after that, their collection of trivets grows, to meian’s utter bafflement, staring at the drawer stuffed full of them when looking for a trivet to place under his baked spaghetti pie.

“keiji! it’s working! i say trivet all the time!” koutarou reports back at the end of the week. they’re video calling each other again, except this time, they’re on their respective beds in anticipation for a movie date.

“that’s good. i’ll do my best to find appropriate words for you, then.”

“yeah! i can’t wait!” he can be both emotionally and intellectually bright. no one can stop him!

--

why trivet, you may ask? well...

[inspiteofganon]

Ganondorf to me is like a fairytale princess except instead of naturally charming charismatic woodland creatures, he has a way with monsters, vermin, and criminals.

[nb-hedgewolf]

Wips doodles and Sketches i may not finish [1/?]

"Sometimes I wonder how I taste lol" "I could help with that" but Infidget

Sonfinite fanchild!

Mobian Omega

[grimxark]

thinking abt my sonic forces au again

[majorpepperidge]

stumbles out of cave, delirious and gibbering, shoves these down, stumbles back into cave, echoing cries of 'HORSE!!! MORE HORSE!!!!'

[proshippers-against-censorship]

Fun Fact: outside of Omegaverse AUs, there are no canonical and fanon spells to give cis men the ability to get pregnant in Harry Potter

Well obviously we must fix that.

[vuliyshenanigans]

My partner's worgen Atuun is a serious fella who keeps getting badgered by one of the oxen calves while he's trying to work. He acts as one of Florian's herding hands.

[l-art-stuff-l]

idk if i can really articulate this well but infinite not having a canon age is really interesting in terms of character

if you interpret him as being around the age of sonic and friends everything is just. so so fucked up. this teenager is a mercenary and all his friends died and he got manipulated by an adult and given so much power and he only ever uses that power for bad. and at the end it all amounts to nothing. the world is saved he’s defeated and he’s just. gone. pulled into the very thing that gave him power. and he’s a kid the whole time

if you interpret him as being an adult it’s still really fucked up but also kinda funny. this grown man got his shit rocked so bad by a 15 year old he went and tortured another 15 year old about it and helped take over the world

and both interpretations just make me think about how in sonic’s universe the adults of that world are constantly failing the kids. obviously there are outliers (rouge, vanilla, vector) but the vast majority we see are either unhelpful or actively detrimental (going by the games) saving the world is up to the kids. i know it’s like that because it’s a franchise targeted towards children but i still think it’s really really interesting and it’s fun to think about how that would affect them

[iseathegalaxy]

I loved the battle of the dumpster, enjoyed every second, every frame, cried from the second it started. I am so, so lucky to have seen it on the big screen, what a pleasure.

having said that, we can all agree our perfect haikyuu ending would've not been movies (obviously).

perfection for me would've been the following:

(spoiler warning for the manga)

season 5 would've been like S3: shorter in length but completely dedicated to the match.

nekoma would've been given the shiratorizawa treatment with 10 episodes dedicated to only the match so that nothing from the manga (or at least very little) was cut.

fukorodani's match would've been an ova, I love them so much and would love to see their match animated, just don't see how they could've done it within a season and not cut most of it.

s6 would've been like S4: split into 2 parts but opposite now.

instead of pt1 being chill and all about growth (camp and japan youth) and pt2 the match (inarizaki), S6 wouldve been pt1 the match (kamomedai) and pt2 chill and growth (graduation and time skip, focusing mainly on hinata in brasil).

finally, after those two beautiful seasons and ova we would get to the main event, the culmination (or first of many) of all their hard work: a movie in cinemas lasting no less than 2hrs for the entire black jackals v adlers match, seen on a big screen as the universe intended it.

bonus points: the credits roll and there's a post credits scene, and we see all our faves getting ready in front of their tvs and then we cut to a court and we see hinata, kageyama, atsumu, kiyoomi, bokuto, wakatoshi, hoshiumi, kiryu, yaku, aran, motoya, suna and iwaizumi and kuroo with their official uniforms for the japan national team entering the olympic court and opposite them the argentinian team with oikawa among them.

that's my dream

[iamnmbr3]

Your post about harry being a lion animagus was so interesting. What are your thoughts on draco's animagus?

Oh thank you! (Post anon is referring to is here). I'm not really sure about my answer here. I don't have as clear an idea as I do about Harry.

My little darry heart kinda likes the idea of a jackal bc they follow after lions and like hang around their kills and often come pretty close to them and aren't intimidated by them (kinda like how unlike most people Draco is never scared of Harry or intimidated by his glares - even when his friends are). Lions also tend to tolerate jackals around their kills a lot more than other scavengers. though sometimes there can be tension between them which kinda mirrors the push and pull of Harry and Draco's relationship. Jackals are also associated with being clever and cunning and know how to look after themselves.

They have a reputation for cowardice too which is actually exaggerated - they defend their territory vigorously and often take on prey much bigger than they are - which kinda parallels how Draco can seem cowardly and self serving but he also is able to rise to the occasion and be brave when he really has to be. Jackals also seemingly don't hunt in packs which kind of mimics Draco's relative isolation. And they have kind've long, pointed features like Draco does. Apparently they also mate for life which I like for drarry reasons and because I think Draco is actually very loyal to the people he truly cares about (refusing to give Harry up at the Manor, being devoted to his parents in book 6 etc.)

The other option for Draco that I can imagine is a wolf. I like this because of the loyalty to his pack inner circle that I mentioned above and because the animagus form represents the inner self and although Draco can seem cowardly and undisciplined he's actually a formidable fighter in his own right (he holds his own in a duel against Harry - who is extremely good at fighting - longer than Voldemort does, and probably could've beaten most other opponents) and can also be very brave when he has to be in defense of those he cares about. Also a wolf is a little nod to the Black side of a heritage (since the Black family crest has dogs on it). Plus I like the aesthetic of him turning into a pale white wolf.

I actually think I like the wolf option a little bit more. Especially because the concept of the "lone wolf" kind've symbolizes how Draco comes into his own and has to look after himself and make his own way in the world. Ultimately he turns his back on his Death Eater ways and his parents to protect Harry at the Manor and decides to forge his own path after the war. So it reflects his intelligence, courage, capability, ferocity, and independence - and also his will to live and how against all odds he is a survivor. But yeah. I like both concepts.