#big orbit gallery

[marvelousels]

THEY SHOWED ME THINGS, I DIDN’T KNOW

authors note : been on a terribly long writers block and i decided to write this while listening to red wine supernova! this is not proofread and forgive me for how bad this is + smut is not what i can write so js made it an heavy makeout sesh.

pairings : caitvi x fem!reader

red wine supernova by Chappell Roan playing!

It wasn’t like I’d ever been invisible. My teachers loved me, my grades were near-perfect, and I played second violin in the orchestra. People knew my name. But somehow, none of that made me feel seen.

Until Caitlyn Kiramman and Vi walked into my life.

They were the kind of people who didn’t just walk through the halls of Piltover High—they owned them. Caitlyn, with her sharp uniforms, always carrying herself like she was heading to a boardroom rather than her next AP class. And Vi? Well, Vi was everything Caitlyn wasn’t—wild hair, a perpetual smirk, and that leather jacket she wore like a badge of honor. They were opposites, but together, they were magnetic.

And for some reason I still don’t fully understand, they noticed me.

I was sitting under the big oak tree in the courtyard, trying to focus on my history notes but mostly just zoning out. That’s when their shadow fell over me.

“You’re in my chem class, right?” Caitlyn asked, crouching down to meet my gaze. Her voice was crisp, but her smile softened it.

“Uh, yeah. I sit… three rows back?” I replied, surprised she even knew I existed.

“She’s got the neat notes,” Vi said, plopping down next to me like she’d known me her whole life. “The ones that look like they belong in a museum or something.”

I blinked, unsure if that was a compliment. “I just like color coding.”

Vi grinned. “Cute.”

From that day on, they didn’t leave me alone. Not that I minded. It was… nice. Caitlyn helped me with calculus when she realized I was hopeless at derivatives. Vi taught me how to throw a proper punch after she overheard me confessing I’d never even been in a fight. They pulled me into their orbit, and I let myself get swept away.

But the thing that stuck with me most wasn’t the tutoring or the sparring sessions. It was the way they opened my eyes to things I’d never thought about before.

“I can’t believe you’ve never done this,” Vi said, tugging me toward the edge of the rooftop.

It was late, far past curfew, and Caitlyn had dragged me out of bed with a promise of “something fun.” That “something fun” turned out to be sneaking onto the roof of the tallest building in the neighborhood to stargaze.

“I’m not exactly a rebel,” I muttered, hugging myself against the chill.

“That’s what we’re here for,” Caitlyn said, her tone light but her gaze steady. She sat down, patting the spot next to her. “Come on. You’ll like it.”

I hesitated for a moment before joining her. The view was… breathtaking. The city stretched out below us, a sea of glittering lights that felt as endless as the stars above.

“It’s beautiful,” I whispered.

“Told you,” Vi said, flopping down on my other side. “This is what life’s about, y’know? The little things.”

Caitlyn nodded. “The things that make you feel alive.”

I glanced at them, my chest tightening. They made me feel alive in a way I hadn’t realized I was missing.

They showed me music I’d never heard, places I’d never been, and feelings I’d never felt.

Caitlyn took me to a gallery opening one weekend, her hand warm around mine as she explained the stories behind each piece. “Art isn’t just about technique,” she said, her voice low and soothing. “It’s about the way it makes you feel.”

Vi, on the other hand, took me to an underground concert. The music was loud and messy, and the crowd was suffocating, but she was there, grinning at me like this was the greatest place on earth. “You don’t think, you just feel,” she yelled over the noise, pulling me into the rhythm.

Between the two of them, I learned how to look at the world differently. To feel it differently.

I don’t know when I started falling for them. Maybe it was the way Caitlyn’s eyes softened whenever I asked her about her favorite book, or the way Vi’s laugh echoed in my chest like a second heartbeat. Maybe it was the way they looked at me—like I wasn’t just the quiet girl with perfect grades but someone worth knowing, worth loving.

The three of us were sprawled out on Caitlyn’s couch one evening, a bottle of cheap wine Vi had smuggled in resting on the coffee table.

“You’ve never had wine?” Caitlyn asked, raising an elegant eyebrow.

“I’m underage,” I reminded her, earning a snort from Vi.

“Rules are just suggestions,” Vi said, pouring me a glass. “Live a little.”

I hesitated before taking a sip. It was sharp and tangy, and I coughed, making both of them laugh.

“You’ll get used to it,” Caitlyn said, her hand brushing mine.

“Yeah,” Vi added, her grin softening. “First time’s always weird, but after that? You wonder how you ever lived without it.”

They weren’t just talking about the wine.

They showed me things I never knew—about the world, about myself, about what it means to love and be loved. And for the first time in my life, I felt seen.

By Caitlyn and Vi.

And that was enough.

It was one of those nights that felt infinite, the air buzzing with unspoken energy. Caitlyn’s bedroom was dimly lit by the soft, golden glow of her bedside lamp. The three of us were piled on her plush, oversized bed, a half-finished bottle of wine between us. I could feel the heat of Vi’s arm pressed against mine, Caitlyn’s knee brushing my leg as she shifted closer.

“You’ve been holding out on us,” Vi teased, her voice low, a little raspy from the wine.

“About what?” I asked, my heart pounding in my chest.

“About this,” she said, reaching over to gently tug the hem of my shirt, her smirk playful but her eyes… different. There was something in them, something that made my breath hitch.

Caitlyn tilted her head, studying me like I was one of those paintings she loved to explain. “You’re nervous,” she said softly, a small, knowing smile tugging at her lips.

I swallowed hard. “I—”

“It’s okay,” Caitlyn interrupted, leaning in. Her hand reached up, cupping my cheek, her thumb brushing lightly against my skin. “We won’t push you, but… if you want to try…”

I barely had time to process her words before her lips were on mine. They were soft, warm, and patient, moving against mine in a way that made my head spin. My hands hovered awkwardly at my sides before I hesitantly rested one on her shoulder.

“Not fair,” Vi murmured, her voice thick with mock annoyance.

Caitlyn pulled back, her lips quirking into a grin. “There’s enough of her to share,” she said, her tone teasing but her eyes impossibly tender.

Before I could respond, Vi’s fingers found my chin, turning my face toward her. Her kiss was nothing like Caitlyn’s. Where Caitlyn was soft and measured, Vi was fire—hot and consuming, her lips pressing against mine like she’d been waiting forever.

I let out a quiet gasp, and Vi chuckled, her forehead resting against mine for a moment before pulling me into another kiss. This time, Caitlyn’s hand slid to the back of my neck, her fingers threading through my hair as she pressed kisses along my jaw.

It was overwhelming and dizzying in the best way. Their hands were everywhere—Caitlyn’s light and exploratory, Vi’s firm and grounding. I felt like I was being consumed by them, every nerve in my body alight.

“You’re so beautiful,” Caitlyn whispered against my skin, her breath warm and her voice like velvet.

“Perfect,” Vi added, her lips brushing my ear, sending shivers down my spine.

I didn’t have words. I could only lean into them, letting myself drown in their touch, their kisses, their warmth.

In that moment, I wasn’t just seen—I was wanted, cherished. And I wanted them just as much.

The room felt heavier now, charged with something electric, like a storm waiting to break. Caitlyn’s lips trailed down the side of my neck, leaving goosebumps in their wake, while Vi tilted my chin toward her for another kiss. It wasn’t rushed or impatient—it was slow, deliberate, like she was savoring every second.

“Relax,” Vi murmured against my lips, her hand finding its way to my waist. “We’ve got you.”

The words sent a rush of warmth through me, making it easier to melt into them. Caitlyn’s hand cupped the back of my head, guiding me toward her as Vi pulled back with a playful smirk.

“Your turn again, Princess,” Vi teased, leaning back to watch, her fingers absentmindedly tracing circles on my thigh.

“Don’t call me that,” Caitlyn shot back, though there was no real bite to her tone. She turned her attention back to me, her lips curling into a soft smile before she kissed me again. Her hand moved from my neck to my jaw, tilting my face to deepen the kiss, her movements smooth and confident.

I barely registered Vi moving closer until I felt her fingers brushing against the hem of my shirt, her touch feather-light. “This okay?” she asked, her voice quieter now, almost gentle.

I nodded, the word catching in my throat before I could say it out loud.

Vi’s grin softened as she leaned in, her lips pressing against my shoulder. “You’re so damn cute when you’re flustered,” she muttered, the warmth of her breath making my skin tingle.

“Don’t overwhelm her,” Caitlyn chided, though her lips were still brushing mine as she spoke.

“She can handle it,” Vi said with a wink, her fingers sliding under the fabric to rest against my waist. Her touch was warm, grounding, and it made my head spin all over again.

They worked together in a way that felt effortless—Caitlyn’s kisses slow and exploring, while Vi’s hands roamed, her touch just the right mix of teasing and reassuring. Every now and then, they’d exchange a glance, a wordless conversation passing between them, making me feel like I was the center of something bigger than myself.

“You’re doing so good,” Caitlyn murmured against my lips, her hand trailing down my arm to intertwine her fingers with mine.

“Better than good,” Vi added, her lips brushing against the corner of my jaw as her hand tightened slightly on my waist. “You’re perfect.”

I felt like I was floating, caught between the two of them, their touches and words wrapping around me like a cocoon. For the first time, I wasn’t overthinking or doubting myself—I was just feeling. And it was everything.

Caitlyn pulled back just enough to look at me, her expression soft and adoring. “You’re sure this is okay?” she asked, her thumb brushing against my cheek.

“Yeah,” I whispered, my voice barely audible but certain.

Vi grinned. “Good. ‘Cause we’re just getting started.”

She leaned in again, and I let myself sink into the moment, into them. They were showing me things I never knew, things I’d only dreamed of. And for once, I wasn’t afraid to let go.

Caitlyn shifted, her hand trailing from my cheek to rest lightly on my shoulder. Her eyes scanned my face, taking in every reaction like it was the most fascinating thing she’d ever seen. “You’re beautiful, you know that?” she whispered, her voice so tender it made my chest ache.

I opened my mouth to respond, but before I could, Vi leaned in, pressing another kiss to the corner of my lips before trailing her way to my neck. Her teeth grazed my skin, just enough to make me gasp, and she chuckled against me.

“Damn, Cait, I think we broke her,” Vi teased, her lips moving against my neck as she spoke.

“She’s not broken,” Caitlyn countered, her tone amused but firm. “She’s overwhelmed. There’s a difference.”

I couldn’t help but let out a shaky laugh, my head spinning as their attention consumed me. “I’m right here, you know,” I managed to say, though my voice was breathless.

Vi pulled back just enough to smirk at me. “Oh, we know. Trust me, we know.” Her hands slid from my waist to my hips, her grip firm but comforting. “You’re impossible to ignore.”

Caitlyn hummed in agreement, leaning in to press another kiss to my lips. This one was slower, deeper, and I felt myself melt into her touch, my fingers instinctively reaching for her waist. She smiled against me, her hand gently tracing along my jawline before pulling back slightly.

“I love how responsive you are,” Caitlyn murmured, her thumb brushing against my bottom lip. Her words sent a shiver down my spine, and she smiled at my reaction.

“Yeah,” Vi added, her voice dropping an octave. “You’re like a little open book. Every time we touch you, it’s like you light up.”

I felt heat rise to my cheeks, and I ducked my head in an attempt to hide it. But Caitlyn’s hand was there, gently tilting my chin back up.

“Don’t hide from us,” she said softly, her eyes searching mine. “We want to see all of you.”

Vi leaned in again, pressing a kiss to my shoulder before whispering, “She’s right. You don’t need to hold back with us. Just let go.”

Their words, their touches, the way they looked at me—it was overwhelming in the best possible way. I felt like I was unraveling, piece by piece, but instead of falling apart, I was being put back together by their hands, their lips, their warmth.

Caitlyn kissed me again, her hand sliding to the small of my back, pulling me closer. At the same time, Vi’s hands moved up, brushing against the hem of my shirt before slipping underneath, her fingertips trailing along my skin.

“You okay?” Vi asked, her voice softer now, almost gentle.

I nodded, my voice caught in my throat as I leaned into their touch. “Yeah. I’m okay.”

Caitlyn’s smile was radiant, her lips pressing softly to my temple. “Good,” she whispered. “Because we’re not letting you go anytime soon.”

Vi’s grin was wolfish, her fingers grazing my ribs as she leaned in close, her breath warm against my ear. “Better buckle up, sweetheart. We’re just getting started.”

And with that, they pulled me even deeper into their orbit, their touches and kisses showing me a world I never knew existed—a world where I was wanted, adored, and completely, blissfully theirs.

The room felt smaller now, the air thick with heat and something deeper—something electric that pulsed between the three of us. Caitlyn’s lips found mine again, her movements impossibly soft, like she was memorizing every detail. Vi’s hands were still under my shirt, her touch slow and deliberate as her fingers ghosted over my skin, sending shivers down my spine.

“Relax, baby,” Vi whispered against my neck, her voice low and soothing. Her lips brushed my skin, lingering at the spot just below my ear, and I felt my breath hitch. “We’ve got you.”

Caitlyn pulled back slightly, her forehead resting against mine as her thumb traced slow circles on the back of my hand. “You’re safe with us,” she said softly, her words laced with so much care it made my chest ache.

I nodded, swallowing the lump in my throat. “I know,” I whispered, my voice barely audible.

“Good,” Caitlyn murmured, pressing a kiss to my forehead before leaning back, her eyes scanning my face. “Because we want to take our time with you.”

Vi chuckled, her hands sliding to my waist as she leaned back enough to look me in the eyes. “She’s right,” she said, her smirk softening into something warmer. “This isn’t just some one-time thing, you know. You’re ours now.”

The words hit me like a tidal wave, and I felt my heart stutter in my chest. “Yours?” I echoed, my voice barely above a whisper.

“Yeah,” Vi said, her grip on my waist firm but comforting. “If you want to be.”

Caitlyn’s hand cupped my cheek, her gaze steady and full of something I couldn’t quite put into words. “We mean it,” she said softly. “We want you with us—not just tonight, but for as long as you’ll have us.”

I blinked, the weight of their words settling over me like a warm blanket. “I…” My voice faltered, but when I looked at them—at Caitlyn’s gentle smile and Vi’s steady gaze—I felt the last of my hesitation melt away.

“I want that too,” I said finally, my voice quiet but certain.

Vi’s grin widened, and she leaned in to press a kiss to the corner of my mouth. “Good,” she murmured. “Because we weren’t planning on letting you go.”

Caitlyn smiled, her lips brushing softly against mine before she pulled back just enough to speak. “We’re going to take care of you,” she said, her voice like honey. “We’ll show you everything you’ve been missing.”

And they did.

Caitlyn’s kisses were careful and precise, her hands moving slowly as though she were savoring every second. Vi’s touch was bolder, her lips and hands leaving trails of fire wherever they went. They worked in perfect harmony, their movements seamless, their focus entirely on me.

I felt like I was unraveling under their touch, my head spinning and my body trembling as they showed me a world I’d never dared to imagine. Every kiss, every whisper, every touch was a promise—one of care, devotion, and something deeper that I couldn’t quite name.

By the time we finally collapsed together, tangled in each other’s arms, I felt more whole than I ever had before. Caitlyn’s hand was in my hair, her fingers combing through it gently, while Vi’s arm was draped over my waist, her grip firm and protective.

“You’re ours now,” Caitlyn said softly, her voice laced with a quiet certainty.

“And we’re yours,” Vi added, her lips pressing against my temple.

I smiled, my heart full as I closed my eyes. “Yeah,” I whispered. “I’m yours.”

And in that moment, I knew it was true. They had shown me things I’d never known—about love, about trust, about what it meant to truly belong. And I was theirs, completely and undeniably.

[johnwickb1tsch]

Vino Veritas - Part II

A Destination Wedding Frank x Fem!Reader Fic

Attending the wedding of your ex-fiancé gets slightly better when you meet someone having just as miserable a time as you... Warnings: Nothing too serious holy shit. Cursing. Broken engagement. Nihilism, existential bullshit, copious amounts of sarcasm. Eventual nsfw, not this chapter. Angst. Grump/sunshine trope. Loosely based on the movie but I'm not that smart. Or bitter. 😆 chapter map.

II. The Interminable Fucking Car Ride

“So…what do you do?”

“I run the marketing department for JD Power.”

“The car trophy people?”

“That’s a magazine.”

“Ah. So you’re the grand architect of big corporate’s bid to tell us what to think while slyly taking all our money.”

He snorts. “Only those who are incapable of thinking for themselves. Somehow, that doesn’t seem to apply to you.”

If you squint, that almost felt like he was paying you a compliment.

“So, what do you do?” he asks in turn.  

You don’t know why you’re almost embarrassed to tell him. “I run an art gallery/gift shop on the beach in Playa Bonita.”

He blinks, those lovely dark eyes fixed on you for a moment. “Of course you do.”

“What does that mean?”

He huffs a little. It almost sounds wistful, but then he frowns, utterly fucking ruining the moment.  “You just look the type.”

You’re not sure why that stings…or why you even give a fuck.

The Fucking Rehearsal Dinner

“I’ve never really understood the point of the rehearsal dinner. Is eating so hard we really have to rehearse it?”

You sense an almost twitch of the corner of Frank’s mouth. They have stuck you together at a table in the far back. The black sheep who they felt they had to invite, but didn’t really want to.

“Not to miss the opportunity to make the groom’s parents spend unnecessary money too?” Frank offers.

“Fair to spread the misery, I guess.”

“Didn’t you sue Keith over this shit?”

“My parents did. They lost thirty thousand dollars in deposits.”

“Jesus fucking Christ. No one should spend that kind of money on a wedding.”

“Strangely, I agree with you now. I didn’t know any better at the time.” You’d been so young, you could hardly even fathom how much thirty-thousand dollars was.

Your parents had been happy at the time with the prospect of marrying you off to Keith. He’d been successful, charming, and outwardly doting on you. They never really thought you had much going on your own, so they probably thought he was the best you could do. The thought still hurts, more than it should.

“I mean,” you blurt, “Did you know who you are or what you wanted when you were 20?”

“Of course not.”

“He was my whole world. When he dumped me. It...it really fucked me up.” You don't know why you're admitting this to this near total stranger. There is just something about his forthright manner that demands honesty. 

“Ah well, join the club. My father tried to shoot me once, if it makes you feel any better.”

You blink. “He tried to shoot you?”

“Yes. With a gun.”

“What did you do?”

“I ran at him.”

“You ran at him? Not away from him?”

“Yeah. Well, I was pissed off. He tried to shoot me again, but I got the gun away from him and hit him with it. Broke his orbital bone. He said I was the accumulation of all his bad decisions. He started to cry and begged me to kill him. I didn’t, only because I didn’t want to fuck my whole life up. The poor bastard jumped out the seventh floor the next day.”

Before you can stop yourself you reach out to place your hand on his on the table.

Before he can stop himself, his long fingers close around yours.

This connection endures for precisely 1.5 seconds before he shakes you off.

“I’m fine.”

“I don’t think your fine.”

“Fine, I’m all fucked up, but there’s nothing I can do about it.”

You sigh, sinking down in your chair, embarrassed. Why did you touch him? What were you thinking?

“I guess we’re in the club together,” you answer miserably.

You feel him looking at you out the corner of his eye. There is a weight to this man’s gaze. It’s not unpleasant, just…you feel as though he sees everything.

“I feel like we should get at least decoder rings or something,” he grumbles.

The bride and groom make their entrance, interrupting whatever acerbic thing you were going to say next. You watch as they make their way through the crowd, basking in the glow of being the center of attention. Keith always loved that shit. You hate to admit, that his bride to be is a solid stone cold foxy 10. The kind of woman that men will trip over themselves for as they walk down the street.

You weren’t bad looking but you’d never had that kind of power.

If you wanted to trip a man, you had to do the dirty work and actually stick out your foot.

“Oh, look at us, let us presume to inconvenience you with the ostentatious display of our love,” you mock quietly in a mousy little falsetto.

It actually makes Frank laugh. At least, you think it’s a laugh. Maybe it was indigestion.

He joins in, though forgoing the funny voice, “And we’re conceited enough to think we’re actually different from the rest of the human race, and our love will last forever and ever…”

You’re enjoying this malicious bit of fun, but there is something in the way that he says it that makes you pause. “You don’t think love can ever last?” you ask.

He snorts. “Well, he doesn’t. I heard the prenup she had to sign was brutal,” he tells you.

 “Poor thing.”

“You really feel sorry for her?”

“Slightly?”

“Are you going to say hello?”

You sigh. “I guess I fucking better.”

You slowly make to stand, the chair screeching under you. “Give ‘em hell, kid.”

You flip Frank the bird as you go, and hear that peculiar strangled sound that must pass for his outward expression of mirth.

Dumb ass free shit you would never do on your own

"I spoke to the bride last night."

“Indeed?”

You’ve had pedicures before, but you’ve never sprung for a professional foot massage, and you have to admit it feels pretty good. It totally surprised you to find Frank there, but he’d informed you unashamedly that he can’t resist free shit. You find that amusing, considering he’s obviously comfortable, if not outright rich.

Maybe that’s how he stays that way.

“Yes, and she told me she doesn’t mind that you’re here, and she’s not threatened by you.”

You snort at that, taking a long sip of your iced latte.

“At least, I think she meant you. She’s dumb as a box of rocks, it was hard to tell who or what she was talking about at times.”

You sigh at hearing that. “If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you were trying to soothe my feelings.”

It’s his turn to snort. “Merely reporting facts, I assure you. If you still feel badly about Keith and have not managed to move on to one of the other 8 billion people on this planet, then there is no helping you.”

“Is that your method for getting over a bad breakup?” He makes it sound so easy, you cannot help but roll your eyes at him.

“No, I have opted out of that shit show. It makes me uniquely qualified to offer comment on your own situation.”

You tilt you head in confusion, looking over at him. “You’ve…opted out of what? Dating? Romance? Marriage?”

“All of the above. It never ends well, as I have learned from watching my mother’s train wreck of a life as she blithely stumbled between marriages and boyfriends and suitors.”

“That’s so sad,” you blurt before you can stop yourself.

If you hadn’t already started to learn this man’s gestures, you would have missed the way he stiffened slightly, staring fixedly down at his feet.

“How many times have you been in love?” he asks.

You think about it, and regret the answer. “Just the once.” With Keith, the asshole. Any one who came after didn’t have much luck getting over the wall you built to protect yourself from another heartbreak.

He looks at you then, and you are pinned by those chocolate brown eyes, that for once seem earnest rather than annoyed. “What’s it like?”

The fact that this man, who is at least ten if not fifteen years your elder, is asking you tears your heart into little bits of confetti.  

“It’s like going insane,” you answer truthfully, and he looks back down, frowning.

“I thought so.”

***

You are standing in your inflatable body bumpers together on the sidelines, declining to partake in this insane sport, content to watch the others attempt to inflict cervical injuries on themselves and others.

The question is eating at you, and you decide what the hell. What’s he going to do? Be mean to you?

“So, you’ve never been in love?”

“I don’t think so,” he answers, frowning, though it’s the same frown he’s been wearing for the past hour watching the idiots running around the field.

“Believe me, you would know.”

“Do insane people know they’re insane?”

“Ok, maybe that was a bad comparison. It’s…total surrender.”

“Wow, you’re really talking it up.”

“It is though. You have these special feelings for a person, and you just know whatever they do to you, it won’t matter, because you’ll still care for them.”

“It doesn’t matter, until it does matter.”

“Some people have higher tolerances for pain than others.”

“If you loved Keith you could probably take a Caesar-style stabbing without flinching.”

You’re not sure how exactly to respond to that.

“At any rate. I prefer to avoid pain rather than withstand it. My parents inflicted quite enough. No need to spread it around.”

“Alright, I get it that your parents sufficiently traumatized you, with the failed marriages and the…shooting thing. But doesn’t there come a point where you have to let it go and rise above it?”

“I don’t see any reason to.”

“Think about all your missing out on though.”

“What exactly is that?”

“You know…human connection. The things that make life worth living.”

“Jesus, are you sure you don’t work for Hallmark?”

“Positive.”

“I bet you sell rocks in your shop that have inspirational words carved in them.”

“Of course I do. The markup on those things is astronomical.”

You see him smirk out the corner of his eye.

“I bet you also sell little statues of big-eyed children slinging bible verses.”

“Ohhh, now those are fighting words, sir.” You bump him lightly with your inflatable tutu, making him shuffle a step. For a fleeting moment, you catch a hint of a smile, and it feels like a resounding victory.

Feeling bold, you fix him with an earnest stare. “You claim you’ve opted out of this mess. But what if you meet someone you really like?”

“Then I should probably run swiftly in the opposite direction,” he says, paying you a side-eyed look.

Five minutes later, he does quit the field, though he doesn’t quite run from it. You tell your self that it’s just a coincidence, and that he was just done standing in a polyvinyl orb in this heat.

But deep down…there is the tiniest kindling of something in your heart, and you know you should kick dirt over that shit and stomp on it.

You don’t, and you carry a ridiculous little light feeling with you as you return to the hotel.

It feels like you swallowed a butterfly.

[maxwell-grant]

"porous and easy-to-transplant like Spidey's villains" is it just me does Marvel have more of these guys than DC? Like we can just have random buff list villains go after a a variety of different characters?

Oh yes, Marvel absolutely has the advantage when it comes to rogues gallery transplants, it's not even a contest. That's in large part because Marvel existed as a shared universe from the get-go: DC didn't quite jump on that wagon for a while. For most of the Silver Age, there was little to no cross-pollination between Superman and Batman, the existence of the Justice League not really mattering in their titles, where as Marvel was crossover town from day one. They each offer different kinds of narrative real state for their villains to exist in.

The DCU's defining figures, Superman and Batman, live in opposite cities with opposite tones and opposite casts and everybody else has to occupy the space between their two extremes, and most of the other bigger heroes have their own cities: your Star Cities and Central Cities and Hub Cities and Bludhavens and whatnot. Thus most of their villains and villain casts are centralized, and sometimes they even have formal agreements about this kind of stuff. There's almost like a Venture Bros-esque union thing going on sometimes in the DCU where most of their popular villains and heroes are fairly exclusive to one another, with characters like Killer Frost, Gentleman Ghost and Solomon Grundy who transcend this being mostly such due to their heroes being more absorbed and integrated into ensembles than their own adventures.

The major exceptions for these tend to be villains specifically made or set to menace the entire universe, like Superboy Prime or Perpetua or, Amanda Waller this month I guess, and Event Villains are kind of their own thing (and mostly not very good). DC doesn't have a Doctor Doom, in the sense of a big great iconic villain for the whole universe and specific heroes in it who also can and will fight anyone and it will pretty much always be great no matter who he's fighting. They try to make cosmic baddies like Brainiac into those kinds of figures and it never works as well, it always just makes them too generic, there's no spark to the ensuing dynamic. Vandal Savage is probably the closest to one that works and, love the guy, but he's sporadically great and simply not up to the standard this requires.

Marvel, in turn, has been in the business of regularly loaning out bad guys, maybe ever since Sandman joined up the Frightful Four? He wasn't just a one-off thing like that time Daredevil and Doctor Doom swapped bodies and fought, no he was regularly showing up as a villain in F4, in a new costume even. Marvel already started with all of their major defining characters living in the same sandbox, everybody is within a few blocks away from each other most of the time, and so everybody is everybody's problem most of the time, it's the bastardverse and they are all crammed together, and it's not terribly surprising why they fight all the goddamn time. All the major Marvel villains are shooting to rule the same city/planet and destroy more or less the same people and therefore they kinda have to be on a first-name basis with each other, and all the middle-leaguer/second-stringer baddies are getting beaten up by the same people in the same city. Reverse-Flash and Joker going after anyone other than their respective arch-enemies feels fake and perfunctory, but guys like Ultron and Norman Osborn, who also have specific arch-enemies, can transit between individual problems for different heroes and larger-scale problems for everybody just fine. A DC hero will rarely be in Lex Luthor's line of sight unless they are specifically doing something that will piss him off, where as if you are a Marvel hero, it's a fact that sometimes you'll just randomly orbit Wilson Fisk's business and thus you gotta dodge gunfire for it that day.

This especially applies for the smaller-scale villains, not too strongly attached to the hero they may have started out with to the point they become ensemble villains, the ones that easily and eventually become someone else's problem. Your Mr. Hydes and Absorbing Men and Arcades and High Evolutionaries and whatnot, Spider-Man is stuffed with these. Sometimes these characters will click so well with specific heroes they'll achieve wholly different kinds of stardom or characterization (Kingpin in Miller's Daredevil, Brain Drain and Kraven in Squirrel Girl, etc), and sometimes they'll graduate into the position of supporting character or even main character. The peak example of this is Taskmaster, because while the likes of Loki and Venom can claim greater stardom, they did so by becoming anti-heroes and are generally still attached at hip to their heroes of origin, where as Taskmaster is a midcard villain to the bone and it's extremely easy to forget he was an Avengers villain at first, he is just fully A Guy in his own right who will go anywhere and menace anyone for the right price (except Moon Knight, because he is too scary), he'll scale up and down and be everyone's problem until he's not being paid to do so and then it's cool. DC doesn't really have an equivalent to him (they kinda try with Deathstroke but, pfft, please, that guy is a diehard obsessive Teen Titans villain and that's not even the more embarassing thing about him). They have countless midcarders just picking dust within their respective rogues galleries that could easily be migrated elsewhere.

But on the other hand, Marvel doesn't quite have what you'd call a Legion of Doom/Injustice League, in the sense of being able to pair all of it's biggest villains from the biggest corners of the world together in a team-up and have it work. There's been attempts over the years to make things like the Masters of Evil and the Cabal land as such and they never really stuck, the closest you get to an iconic Big Villain Team is the likes of the Sinister Six and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, groups tailored to menace specific heroes or hero teams, or things like The Black Order and the Dark Avengers, ultimately extensions of bigger villains (the Thunderbolts are their own thing). Maybe it's because Marvel doesn't really have a major concentrated dominant heroic force on the level of the Justice League that would demand all their villains to put everything aside to try and stop it (although DC can't really justify the Legion of Doom/Injustice League as an ongoing thing most of the time, they don't exist as a regular thing). It might be a mismatch of priorities, that it doesn't have a Lex Luthor as a a clear-cut Union Chief to properly call in and command other arch-enemies who would be willing to pay union dues and work together to better destroy the specific guys they individually hate. Marvel's major villains are a clutch of arch-bastards all trying to be king of the world who hate each other as much, if not more, as they hate their heroes and the only one who could rise above them to the top leadership position is Doctor Doom, who has no need to be leading or participating in something like this. Loki had to put on a whole charade of pretending to be subservient to each of them in order to pull off the gathering he did in Acts of Vengeance, and that only worked once.

Another obvious immediate answer for why is that, as Acts of Vengeance and other stories have shown time and time again, you kinda can't gather all of Marvel's biggest villains in one place and not include the Red Skull, and thus other villains jumping over themselves to murder him the second he walks into the room. But they've done attempts without him or a significant Nazi villain in the room, and they still largely didn't land. It might be overall that, the point of the Legion of Doom is to force all the separate characters and domains of the DCU to join forces to oppose it and that's why they have to be a threat to the Justice League, with none of it's villains exactly meeting that standard on their own, but Marvel's heroes are already all crammed together in cliques on the same places and fighting/putting differences aside to tackle bigger threats all the time, and so there's not really a point of forcing that through a especially big villain gathering.

There isn't really a unity among the Marvel heroes comparable to the one that demands Lex Luthor to call in all the other arch-enemies to try and break, and the one time Norman Osborn attempted to call in one at the height of his power, it was repeteadly emphasized how stupid he was to expect to be able to gather and control and command said people (and when Namor tried to revive the Cabal for the sake of succeeding where the Illuminati failed, things went even worse for him). In the end, Marvel is just too chaotic for the villains to exist in a centralized ruling body like that, if the heroes can't agree on anything why would their villains be any different.

[zalmoxis-the-great]

Careful what you wish for ! - Short Story -Orizyn

The C’tan looked at the shard of the Deceiver offered to him. He seemed pleased.

Your offer has been accepted by us, child. The knowledge that you seek is yours. Zarhulash said to Trazyn.

Dealing with free C’tans was incredibly dangerous. An insane thing to do. But Trazyn knew that great things came with great risks. Spying on the Archmagos Cawl proved fruitful, since the clever human gestalt released a C’tan shard that now hides in the far reaches of the galaxy.

Trazyn watched as the C’tan grabbed the other shard and hid it within his recesses. The star vampires were greedy and torturous, more than they hated other beings they hated their own kind. He didn’t want to think what kinds of torments were reserved for the lesser, smaller shard.

The free shard touched a canoptek after, pouring into it knowledge of the material real, raw data overwhelming its systems and whipping existing information to fit it.

‘Thank you, Potentate one’. Trazyn, surrounded by lychguards, said, not bowing. The weapon on his doom scythe was aiming at the C’tan.

He might be a risk-taker, but he was no fool.

He ordered one of his guards to retrieve the construct, so he could use and analyze the data safely.

It pleases me that you are unlike your treacherous siblings. Said Zarhulash, as Trazyn was about to start the translocation protocols. I will reward you, as one would reward a loyal hound. The archivist wanted to protest what was he compared to, but the intrigue stopped him.

‘I reward, you say?’

Yes, with the prospect that you will come again to bargain for my wisdom, I shall grant you a wish.

A wish? Although a shard, this C’tan was the master of the physical realm. He could undoubtedly grant him something of value.

A wish. Greed suddenly filled Trazyn’s engrams, he could wish for anything in the universe. He already saw the gallery for the Empire of Mankind getting its centerpiece.

He stopped the vector of ideas. The C’tan were untrustworthy. They give with a hand and take with seven. Asking for something that big would be unwise.

Maybe he could ask to repair Sannet’s memory engrams? Could he trust his arch-cryptek cognition to a shard? Absolutely not.

Trazyn thought, what could he ask for that wouldn’t backfire horribly?

After a moment he smiled, at looked at the C’tan, his wish prepared.

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‘Orikan, I need your predictions for the aerial attacks for the next 20 standard cycles’, Imotek asked, as he examined the battle charts in phos-green glyphs, all displayed in front of him.

‘As you wish’, the cryptek sitting to his left, answered as the Stormlord received packages of data on their interstitial channel.

His work was impeccable, like always.

There was a sudden shift in the air, for a fraction of a second. Imotekh noticed it, and turned to the astromancer, sitting in a meditative position, scrying the battlefield and feeding his hyperlogical algorithms battle predictions.

He seemed unperturbed.

‘What was that, did the scanners pick something ?’

‘Picked what? We are currently engaged in a battle', he answered, with barely enough tact to be considered respectful, like he usually did when interrupted.

‘Widen the planetary scans from the orbit. Something must have happened.’

‘As you wish. We should deploy the Doom cannons, the left flank will become overwhelmed.’

An astute observation. Imotek smiled, logical centers noting how the left side had a high probability of being pushed back if the enemy moved as predicted.

‘Good, when do you suggest we send them?’

‘Right meow, my Phaeron.’

Imotekh stopped, did his audio receptors glitch?

He rewinded the conversation. Did my cryptek meow at me? The astromancer didn’t seem to react.

‘Now? Did you say now?’, he asked, hoping the audio interference was from the battle raging outside.

‘Pawsitive’.

[hygrif-949]

Got a little bit bored so I dug up my gallery for an old doodle, I almost forgot this species I made up for my main OC project (not GG) I still have no idea what to name these despite their earliest design coming from around 2021-2022 (this sketch is from a year ago tho) but I like to call them The Precursors.

They're a sapient alien species that came way before human life (or even life on earth), utilizing their long, branched prehensile tongue as their arm.

They're already advanced enough to make two (one of them split in half but we'll get to them later) artificial, tyrannical planet-eating organisms that doomed their kind (STUPID!!!!)

The tyrannical planet eaters in question:

well.... they don't always looked like that, they're the only living fragments of said tyrants. They looked much more different than today, they're more like really big lepidopterans (oversimplification here, they're basically man precursor-made horrors beyond comprehension because of how big it is)

Hygrif (not to be confused with the artist) was the only active tyrant at their time, floating across the Milky Way, devouring anything on their sight until some kind of celestial divine whatever force caught them and compressed them into a rocky planet that happened to eventually collide Earth, forming the moon whilst Hygrif themself is buried deep within the core, veeery slooowly digging all the way up and becoming the Hygrif we know today.

Budi and Susi are pretty weird, they're actually one tyrant that got split in half when launched into the orbit and contained themself in rocks that slowly wears off, becoming smaller and smaller. This tinier rock hit Earth around the year 2002, which is much, much more later than Hygrif's.

WHEW!!!! that's a lot to yap about these guys, I really need to spare some attention to my older OCs because there are a TON of things to retcon about them due to the amount of edges they have... too much edges.

I hope you enjoy reading this, I made this project for quite some time and now I get a chance to pour it all out here.

[bigdsgirl]

I need to scream into the void about this show so please enjoy:

"what can I do to make you smile?" - he is killing me ily sir

this man just wants her to be happy and AHHHHH

I am still not over I will get 6+ episodes with this man wearing a ring. every close up shot of hand will send me into space

the family! the BIL crying! his parents!! grandma! they love our babies!!!

fuck u mommy dearest, your end is coming and I will be cheering my girl on

him saying good night to the door, i'm sobbing

i wasn't sure if they'd follow the webtoon here, its interesting

THIS MAN ON THE BEACH! THE BEACH! HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL!

i forgot to say she is beyond exquisite -- every outfit has me deceased

her IGNORING HIM PAINS HIM?????????????????? bye.

beach confession *whispers* beach confession

me: *sees the shitty ex* DIE

Sister and ex kissing has me VOMITING

the SHOWER LOOOOOL I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS -- its even better in TV form. and icon!!!

SNEAK PEAK GIVE IT HERE SIR!!!!!!!!!!

he said honey! bye! send me into orbit! his internal chuckle at her faking being asleep has me rolling. okay now say sweet nothings to her 😏

stupid ex is like "omg dreams come true" -- oh shitty mcshitface you have a big storm coming (and I have a front row seat!!!)

yes ma'am!!! chew his ass out! ya dun fucked up

them walking on the beach, what a GORGEOUS shot. frame it and hang it pls

ma'am pls just hold his hand, he is just a sad panicked puppy

HAND KISS I AM DECEASED

he just wants to hold hands and SLEEEEEEEEP

"you might pounce on me??" this man is a genius, this is COMEDY

"so if i cross the line..." man is ready to JUMP

HEART TO HEART YES HONESTY!!!!!!!!!

SHE KISSED HIM SHE KISSED HIM

he is basically like "ill love you enough for the both of us" and oh fuck I am gone

want me to take your mind off it??? OH BOY DO I EVER!!!!

oh.... sir..... the hands... oh... my lord... i will never recover from this.

the PAINTING!!! also lolololol @ surprise gift comment (iykyk)

grandfather, you shithead

the SWITCH OF BOWLS, my king

yes girl, you grab that gallery - also LOL at dad chewing out Yoo Ra

mic drop get them Yi Joo!!!!!!

uh oh mommy slapped her, (good)

"I'll lose my mind for good" - ok sounds great, let's do it

MIL and niece relationship is adorable

MIL the dramatic hug has my rolling -- and the swish of her outfit, she is a VIBE

ugh - ew. they are doing this now. GO AWAY Yoo Ra!!!

now i can see my HALLOOOOOOOOOOOOO (freaking banger)

now i must suffer for a week waiting for this gem to return

[terraliensvent]

i was mistaken

anons i come to you today with an apology, my previous post seems to be based on a metric fuckton of lies and misinfo

to start, im gonna link this post, which goes over the origin of this whole issue

im also gonna go ahead and be done with censoring red, since the cat's kinda out of the bag on their edentity and its necessary for proper proof. Red = legion in all screencaps

so after my post was dropped, Red was also making their own somewhat callout on TH. i dont know if it's been deleted since frankly I don't care to find it. anyways

my post and Red's callout were both dropped like bombs in terra server, there was a lot of arguing and zaga actually gave a screen recorded video of DMs they had on instagram with Red. this was pretty damning, and lots of people came back to Red to try and figure out what really happened, seeing as Red had presented the situation as:

they were banned unfairly and out of nowhere

they had no clue who could have made the complaint

the only person who could have made it was zaga, who had issues with them based on a debate months ago and they since hadnt really interacted with them

well this turned out to be a whole crock of bullshit!

first, red showed a screencap that their last interaction with zaga was actually a week ago as opposed to being a “months old issue that is getting dragged back up” (link)

then, Red sent these screenshots that completely changed the narrative. we went from "this guy i had an argument with a few months ago is trying to get me banned everywhere" now to "i was saying crazy shit about this guy and now theyre reasonably upset with me"

here's the full gallery of proof against Red, courtesy of zaga

and here's a discussion a few people had with zaga relating to it, gives some good context and really wraps the whole thing up

as a small afterword i want to apologize for playing a part in the spread of misinfo, hopefully this post is proper retribution for that (i do consider myself more of a reporter above all else) additionally, while it's clear now who is in the wrong/right here, there are still critiques to be made on the handling of the situation on the part of terraliens staff. The caginess with any sort of proof makes it difficult for someone to truly know what they're even being banned for, and what accusations they're defending against. the argument could be made that if proper context from staff was given, this situation wouldn't have even unfolded, but of course hindsight is 20/20. in the future it might be better to give better context or evidence to the banned person so they know what they're supposed to be proving incorrect, as opposed to saying "someone said you're harassing them, prove you didn't."

As for the others who played a part in spreading my post, I don't mean to speak for them, however it does seem like many are regretful after now seeing the full picture. since the argument was made that both sides should be heard, it was a pretty big oversight to not look for the OTHER other side in this; i think most are painfully aware of that now.

in conclusion:

do not harass anyone here. im gonna give all parties the benefit of the doubt and say that:

Legion is a misinformed, immature kid who really handled this like shit, and its probably best that theyre banned and blocked by zaga all things considered (this isnt a reason to like, pray on their downfall though. just ignore them at worst, sure they fucked up here but it seems they really just need to become more mature and learn more about best practices when interacting and dear god do not shit talk people like that)

Zaga was telling the truth about this situation. have whatever opinions you want to have about isopups or them outside of this, but there is no denying that legion presented a false situation and zaga was in fact being continually messaged and had rumors spread about them from legion

the outsiders/orbiters of the situation were given a false injustice and ran with it. personally i cant say i blame them a ton for wanting to spread the word about what seemed to be YET ANOTHER terra staff oversight, because so many people just want to bury their heads in the sand about every issue that goes on here. additionally, upon learning that the situation was severely different from how it was originally presented, many turned around and began critiquing legion for the shit they did.

i think thats about enough coverage of this, im gonna refrain from posting asks i get about the situation trying to paint a different picture since honestly it doesnt seem like it needs much more dissection. lets not beat a dead horse.

[elmaestrostan]

I have some thoughts about the training gallery this week…

This photo of Moussa with the light just hits

Morgan’s little tuffty beard is v. cute (cc: Unai, please show to Igor)

Slightly obsessed with this shot of lovely Youri ♥️ He’s so boyish & handsome, his little kiss celebration at Sheffield makes me swoon.

Joe 😍 Is he about to slingshot his phone with that band? I hope he’s settling in and not homesick, he’s had a whirlwind month and I feel he needs to know B&M stores sell Australian chocolate (don’t tell the nutritionists).

Calum… silent assassin? Mixed feelings on him refusing to move on in Jan (couldn’t be me, the awkwardness would send me off into orbit), but perhaps he’s an oracle and may come in clutch?

He’s in my FPL this week as I needed someone cheap to pad out the squad of guys with double game weeks. I’ve benched him though so hopefully my curse will work and he’ll be subbed on and score a brace.

Pau! 😍 WHAT A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES. Is he growing a moustache and half a sideburn? Yes please.

Whoever trims Ollie’s hair with a spirit level needs a raise, he just looks so cool

French squad! So glad to see Lucas back too, he’s so wholesome. I found out recently that he helped people during a terrorist attack when he was with Barcelona, he doesn’t talk about it, but he put tourniquets on people and handed out water, what an absolute stellar human being ♥️

I don’t feel like Clément gets enough love, he might give me palpitations for all the wrong reasons at times on the pitch, but he’s so handsome & chill.

Big Tim, it’s your time to shine ♥️ Keeping everything crossed for him! Saw a journo on twitter earlier say Unai talks about him week in week out during pressers, imagine having that man’s faith in your corner 🥲

Lastly, Emi about to be captured like the big cat he is 😄

[iantimony]

this tuesdaypost was drafted on monday, please clap

we are cookin with Gas this week

listening: listened to antimai a few times through, favorite track i think is 'ring 5: middle class'. dorian electra - man to man: really fun video too charasho (benny friedman): was linked in jew chat. very charming and funky. 5 Old French Dances: No. 5. Le Basque (arr. for 2 recorders and harpsichord): i heard this a billion year ago on the radio (my wakeup radio station on my alarm clock is classical) and i finally got around to saving a link for it. very bouncy very cute. makes me think of rabbits running in circles a la beatrix potter.

EDIT TO ADD: i also finally listened to beyonce 'cowboy carter'!! i know im late! it's good i like it! not a revolutionary opinion! obsessed with her jolene cover! that's all!

reading: big one this week! i FINISHED 'the left hand of darkness'! i really liked it! still marinating on the themes etc. i started 'the dispossessed', also by le guin, and am devouring that as well. there's some stuff in there that oof ough. existential. but i'm liking it so far, i'm around chapter 5 right now. physicists!

fanfic: imposter syndrome (mikkeneko): i might have already linked it but i can't be assed to go back through a few weeks of tuesdaypost to see if i already have. so if i did, here it is again. really charming premise, gut-punch of an ending, cool twist on the doppelganger setup from dungeon meshi with svsss.

the articles, some of which were actually read a while ago but i forgot to link and am now cleaning out my phone tabs: how will the golden age of 'making it worse' end? (david roth) new canada policy lets indigenous people reclaim their names (emma bowman) what happens to the stay-at-home girlfriend after a breakup? (erika w smith) unschooling is the parenting trend that's pissing everyone off (ej dickson) in defense of 'coffee badging' (monica torres): if i had a job that was all zoom calls i would literally go insane over being made to go into an office to take zoom calls. fuck that what my mother's wardrobe taught me about style and grief after she died: thinking a lot about all my dad's shit will semen destroy your shower drain? granny davis' geocaching page: found when i was looking at some reviews for caches near my apartment. im kind of obsessed with her. she also has a facebook page called 'granny's geo page' if you don't have a geocaching account. literally she is everything to me. she has found So Many fucking geocaches good god. wedding trivia questions: used as reference to create some wedding trivia for a bridal shower! similarly, the wikipedia page for morganatic marriages my fight with a sidewalk robot (emily ackerman): my school has these. hate them. my boyfriend just linked this to me and im obsessed, laser etched paperweights, i am not a huge paperweight girlie but wowwww prettyyyyy. the electron orbitals!!!! i had a search open for "anti mega #1 cray street". i have no idea what this is.

special edition: the link dump from my trip to the uk last month! some very related to the trip itself, a few random extras! top of the poops, an architectural firm bc i saw a sign with their logo and thought it was cool but now i can't find their logo, waring ader space invaders because i saw someone's shirt with the little space invader guys and was like ooh the tate museum joel meyerowitz (and another page about him) wikipedia on gratin dauphinois, wikipedia page on doncaster for some reason i did not go there list of artworks at the national portrait gallery of scotland wikipedia page on the jacobite uprising of 1745 washi tape that would match the edinburgh one i bought there, tintin in the land of the soviets postcard that i didnt end up getting wikipedia for a quaich which is a traditional scottish bowl, a wiki page on the geology of arthur's seat, a book in the scottish national galleries that i thought about purchasing but didn't want to try and fit in my luggage (she is definitely one of my new favorite artists though) wikipedia page on lauryn hill for some reason not sure how i got there, wikipedia page on salome halpir this post was on tumblr and i tried to find the item in the victoria and albert museum but it was sadly not on display, one of the audio guides i listened to a bit of in the v & a, a scarf i almost bought in the v & a a google search for the fabric library at harrods because my mom mentioned that it existed but i could not find it search for blinq (apparently spelled that way) blossoms because of a cocktail my brother's friend ordered that had one as a garnish wikipedia page on the mechanical explanations of gravitation

watching: from wool to cloth using a historical weaving technique (jillian eve): oughhh colors

emma in the moment/made in the moment: a deep dive into the chunky boy crochet lore the crochet stardew valley pillow drama untangling the shocking tale of mystical creations yarn i tried red heart's new all in one granny square yarn

some crochet tips videos from play hooky with me

tiffanyferg: 'personal style' discourse hgtv is a gentrification masterclass cleantok villains and the morality of messiness

playing: a teeny bit of wizard101

making: fallow. well i guess i drew on some cards for my friend's bridal shower. but generally fallow.

eating: made deb smittenkitchen's delicious carrot cake recipe. mine was a little ugly but really really delicious. i bought a bag of preshredded carrots and just sort of roughly chopped em up a little smaller because i couldn't be assed to grate them. i also couldn't be assed to trim the cakes, i did two smaller round pans and stacked them up but because i didn't trim them they were a little wibbly. oh well.

i'm going to bake another cake for my brother's birthday next weekend and i'm between her chocolate olive oil cake (looks really easy) and bittersweet chocolate and pear cake (a little more involved but highly recommended by bee)

misc: my mom wanted to take a sailing class but didn't want to do it alone so she offered to pay for me to come. sure, said i! i have never sailed! i like learning new skills! reader, it is So Fucking Hot Outside. the wind died and we had to get towed back to shore. the sun was so strong. there are so many ropes with all different names and they all Do Something. sunday's class got cancelled/rescheduled because the weather was That Bad (hot as fuck and no wind) so we're doing it probably friday instead (and saturday. and sunday. it's two weekends in a row of both days at 9am yayyyyy) but i just hope the weather is. better.

[ohc-and-the-music-tapes-archive]

Announcement of the Music Tapes' early 2009 tour, Merge Records, 21 January 2009:

The Music Tapes go West

The Music Tapes are heading to the west coast this spring! Julian, the 7 Foot Tall Metronome, Static the Television and other human bandmembers are bringing The Music Tapes live show on the road.

If you did not have the opportunity to experience the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour or Julian's singing saw caroling shows, here's your chance!

Tour Dates:

2/10 Austin, TX Mohawk 2/11 Norman, OK The Opolis 2/13 Tucson, AZ Solar Culture Gallery 2/15 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex 2/17 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill 2/19 Seattle, WA The Vera Project 2/20 Anacortes, WA Department of Safety 2/21 Portland, OR Backspace 2/24 Minneapolis, MN 7th Street Entry 2/25 Chicago, IL AV-aerie 2/26 Ann Arbor, MI The B-side 2/27 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace 2/28 Buffalo, NY Big Orbit's Soundlab 3/1 Hoboken, NJ Maxwell's 3/2 Cambridge, MA Middle East Upstairs 3/3 Brooklyn, NY The Bellhouse 3/4 Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church - Basement 3/5 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle 3/7 Athens, GA 40 Watt

[sendmyresignation]

btw melodic death metal recs please please please (you dont have to, or if you dont have any in mind thats ok! i just read the phrase 'melodic death metal' and nearly blacked out from excitement)

omg no its okay i'd love to give some recs!

first i'll give a little background. so melodic death metal (henceforth referred to as melodeath) is basically a stylistic offshoot of death metal that incorporates aspects of traditional heavy metal/nwobhm (esp Maiden, see Arch Enemy's Aces High cover) for more harmonized guitar riffs, melody, and higher/more discernable growls. Generally, then its pretty accessible, I know a lot of people who got into metal thru melodeath. It was not created by Carcass but their album heartwork was the first real major melodeath release. from their the sound was popularized in Sweden (its why you'll sometimes hear it referred to as the "Gothenburg sound"). Melodeath was also really important in the development of most of the mid-2000s genres that orbit My Chem, the Taste of Chaos and "screamo" sides particularly- i think most people into that era will enjoy melodeath.

So, here's a good beginners list of melodeath albums: - Carcass Heartwork (1993) Carcass started out as a pretty gross pioneer of grindcore/goregrind but switched gears after two albums. really interesting band that managed to be at the forefront of two very different death metal sub-genres. - At the Gate's Slaughter of Soul (1995), which I mentioned in the primer + were an incredibly important influence on modern melodic metalcore (killswitch engage, poison the well, as i lay dying) - Dark Tranquility The Gallery (1995) this miiiight be my favorite album here, its probably the most emotionally compelling melodeath release (lethe is so beautiful...) and i would easily rec this to a my chem fan - In Flames The Jester Race (1996) i don't listen to in flames lmao but they're one of the big three so. here they are - The Edge of Sanity Crimson (1996) probably the most experimental/lesser-known here but easily one of the genres highlights if you find you really like the style - Archy Enemy Wages of Sin (2001) another band mentioned in the primer but deserved a shout-out as one of my favs - The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal (2007) TBDM is easily the best of the mid-2000s melodeathy core bands - Amorphis Halo (2022) older band but i did want to include at least one good recent release

anyway, hopefully this is a good place for you to start and that melodeath lives up to your excitement !!

[wlwhq]

A VERY DESCRIPTIVE PROFILE OF YOUR MUSE !! Repost with the information of your muse, including headcanons, etc. if you fail to achieve some of the facts, add some other of your own!

► NAME: samantha elizabeth foster. ► NICKNAME: samantha to everyone when she's working, sam to pretty much everyone else. it's a testament to how well ppl know her, since she introduces herself to everyone as samantha and it takes a min for her to be like "call me sam". ► TITLE(S): loves to sign her name with "j.d.", does that count? ► AGE: late thirties, verse dependent. ► SPECIES: human. ► SEX: cis-woman. ► NATIONALITY: american. ► INTERESTS: yoga, hiking, going to museums and art galleries, crossword puzzles, doing the nyt wordle every morning, currently learning german (after mastering french), listening to podcasts, birdwatching. ► PROFESSION: private criminal defense attorney.

► BODY TYPE: sinfully curvy. broad shoulders, jumbo ass, not very leggy. short but has tall energy. ► EYES: baby blue. ► HAIR: ginger red, bob with the side part, occasionally curled but most of the time just straight. we know this. ► POSTURE: always, always, always pin straight. the day this woman has her neck slack and her shoulders slumped is the day hell freezes over. even in informal settings, sam always has her chin-up and is looking like she's about to give a ted talk. ► HEIGHT: 5'3". ► VOICE: here is a lovely example, since she's great at working a crowd and being clear what she says. in and out of the courtroom, sam's an expert at conveying many said and unsaid things with her tone of voice. she's very even, mostly flat, but does have a lilt to it when she's particularly interested in the topic. ► SIGNATURE OUTFIT: sam never knows how to be casual ever. i'm talking turtlenecks, pencil skirts, blazers, even when not working. courtroom attire is normally power suits and heels, bonus if it's heeled boots. prints and solids, anything is fair game. sometimes wears a tie.

► SIGNIFICANT OTHER: in her main verse, sam is married to clark foster, her law school sweetheart, who also practices as a public defender. default fc for him is chri.s pine, and in this main verse, they've been married for about 6ish years. it's an on-the-surface peaceful marriage, but they've both been quietly unhappy for various reasons. he is not a bad person, and they are not inherently bad for each other - but the romantic era of their relationship is over, and they struggle to come to terms with this. ► COMPANIONS: her reflection in her glass closet. LOL but no, she's got a few closer-than-work-acquaintances, law school friends that she's had over the years. in most instances, clark's friends are also her friends but she doesn't always think he's a great judge of character. ► ANTAGONISTS: sam is her own biggest obstacle and antagonist. she's really given up on the idea of happiness outside of other people's orbit. she's one to convince herself that the path she's carved out for herself is the only path she's allowed to remain on, and working towards straying from that path is never seen as an option. other than herself, the boy's club that is her profession can wear on her senses and frustrate her to no end. ► STRENGTHS: fearless defender of anyone. you could be accused of being late for dinner, and sam would plead her case that being 'late' would imply a time set, or a meal missed. she's big on keeping the peace and finding a solution to every problem, deductive reasoning and creative thinking are two of her strongest qualities. she didn't make it in an ocean of sharks without being one herself. sam also excels at interior decorating (clark left all of the decor options to her and t's a cute monotone moment), and budgeting for the month. ► WEAKNESSES: having moments of clarity about what she really wants out of life, really fucks with her head and causes downward spirals. the promise of coffee to any morning meeting will get her up and out the door, going back for seconds or even thirds. the brief times where she and clark do not argue, she snaps herself back into the mindset of being the doting wife and caregiver.

► FRUITS: grapes, kiwis, green apples. ► DRINKS: water, coffee, coke zero. ► ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: margaritas, gin and tonic, champagne. ► SMOKES: has the occasional cigarette if she's really stressed out. ► DRUGS: took ecstasy in college, maybe a handful of times? these days she's pretty cut and dry. ► DRIVER’S LICENSE: yes, but passenger princess.

tagged by: @goxinsane thank you!! , tagging: @shivcomplex, @k4ndall, @heroexxs, @thursdaygrl and anyone who wants to do it!!

[hobbyspacer]

Space habitat reports – Jan.20.2025

Here is a new selection of videos, articles, and news items about space habitats (govt and commercial), living in space, and space settlement. === International Space Station & NASA ** Space to Ground: Spacewalk 273: Jan. 17, 2025 - NASA Johnson https://youtu.be/tUl0XjMt1Xg ** Space to Ground: In the Year 2025: Jan. 10, 2025 - NASA Johnson NASA has big plans for science, research, and exploration aboard the International Space Station in 2025. From spacewalks, to hydroponic and aeroponic plant growth techniques, there's a lot to look forward to in low Earth orbit. This November, we will celebrate 25 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station. https://youtu.be/WGIpI4Eh8VI ** NASA astronaut Suni Williams sees orbital sunrise during spacewalk - Time-lapse - VideoFromSpace NASA astronaut Suni Williams works outside the International Space Station on Jan. 16, 2025. https://youtu.be/pV7W5BphgjQ ** NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Talks with AstroKobi – January 8, 2025 - NASA Video Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit of NASA discussed life and work aboard the orbital outpost during an in-flight interview Jan. 8 with the AstroKobi YouTube channel. Pettit is in the midst of a long-duration mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration flights as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program. https://youtu.be/4paE-im5L_Y ** How Do Astronauts Exercise in Space? -  NASA Johnson Astronauts aboard the International Space Station typically exercise for two hours each day. From running to cycling to weightlifting, learn how crew members complete fitness regimens in space and commit to staying healthy – even in microgravity. https://youtu.be/n-0A0zMvm4s === India ** India's SPADEX docking mission The India space agency ISRO recently launched the SpaDeX Mission, which consisted of two satellites that carried out a rendezvous and docking operation to demonstrate technology for future ISRO space stations. SpaDeX mission is a cost-effective technology demonstrator mission for the demonstration of in-space docking using two small spacecraft launched by PSLV. This technology is essential for India's space ambitions such as Indian on Moon, sample return from the Moon, the building and operation of Bharatiya Antariksh Station (BAS), etc. In-space docking technology is essential when multiple rocket launches are required to achieve common mission objectives. Through this mission, India is marching towards becoming the fourth country in the world to have space docking technology. On January 16th, the docking took place successfully: ISRO successfully completed docking of two SPADEX satellites (SDX-01 & SDX-02) in the early hours of 16 January, 2025.| ISRO - Jan.16.2025 https://www.isro.gov.in/media_isro/video/spadex_docking.mp4 More at: - Isro docks SpaDeX satellites in space, sets stage for Chandrayaan-4, Gaganyaan | India Today - Jan.16.2025 - India completes on-orbit docking test in step towards major space plans | SpaceNews - Jan.16.2025 - Isro's SpaDeX: India successfully conducts historic space-docking test | BBC - Jan.16.2025 - SpaDex Image Gallery - SpaDex Video Gallery : Following the docking, ISRO has successfully managed both satellites as a combined unit. In the upcoming days, ISRO will proceed with undocking and power transfer evaluations.#SPADEX #ISRO pic.twitter.com/tMmCcF5opG — ISRO InSight (@ISROSight) January 16, 2025 ** ISRO Successfully Conducts Space-Docking Test Under SpaDex Mission | WION ISRO has completed the docking of satellites under its Space Docking Experiment - SpaDex mission. ISRO has released a video of successful docking on social media. https://youtu.be/SEoEIXPFIXg === China ** Shenzhou-19 Crew Carry out In-Orbit Verification of Smart Assistant - CCTV Video News Agency Last week, the crew aboard the Shenzhou-19 spacecraft conducted a series of in-orbit verifications for China's first space station intelligent flight robot, "Xiao Hang." https://youtu.be/VPuvsdARm2Q === Commercial space habitats ** Axiom Space --- Kam Ghaffarian, CEO and founder of  Axiom Space,  posts an op-ed "on why commercial space stations are essential for driving a thriving space economy and ensuring the U.S. remains a leader in space exploration" -  The Trump administration should leverage private space stations to counter China | SpaceNews - Jan.13.2025 The combination of NASA’s ambitious commercialization proclamations with the reality of its slow follow-through underscores the urgency for a strategic intervention. By forcing sharper focus on commercial space development, particularly on identifying the next U.S.-led space station, the administration can lay a solid foundation for sustained U.S. presence and leadership in space. The U.S. has long been a leader in space exploration, a position that is not only a matter of national pride but one of strategic importance. That leadership is contingent upon the ability to adapt quickly and effectively to the evolving landscape, and today, to quickly adjust from government-led to commercial-led space activities. With the new administration taking the helm, an exciting opportunity arises to enact meaningful change and drive remarkable progress. With bold and swift action, the U.S. can preserve its pioneering spirit, transcend terrestrial limits and sustain humanity’s journey beyond our planet. --- Plans for 2025: .@Axiom_Space closed 2024 with the completion of Axiom Station’s Phase 2 Critical Design Review (CDR), and 2025 will see even more progress and promise. We’re looking forward to CDR Phase 3 and the delivery of our first module to Houston! https://t.co/tUhlh1nZqf pic.twitter.com/nZRKwF3YkI — Axiom Space (@Axiom_Space) January 13, 2025 “This collaboration aligns with Axiom Space’s work to develop secure orbital data centers and commercial space station infrastructure.” -Jason Aspiotis, Global Director In-Space Data & Security, Axiom Space https://t.co/7Ua1khovoj — Axiom Space (@Axiom_Space) January 17, 2025 ** Gravitics The future we have been building for is here! Last night, Blue Origin's New Glenn successfully completed its maiden flight to orbit, a crucial step toward establishing reliable access to space. Today, SpaceX achieved a second booster catch during Starship flight 7, further… pic.twitter.com/crftF0dOJt — Gravitics (@GraviticsInc) January 17, 2025 ** Starlab - Voyager Space --- Starlab expands in Europe: Starlab Space launches European subsidiary to boost international collaboration on its commercial space station | Starlab-Space - Jan.14.2025 Starlab Space LLC today announced the opening of its first overseas subsidiary, Starlab Space GmbH. Located in Bremen, Germany, it will extend the company’s capabilities and demonstrates its commitment to its international partners, maintaining global cooperation and permanent human presence, and expanding microgravity research opportunities in a commercial LEO economy. “Successful and sustainable operation of a commercial space station requires international partners, and therefore, a presence beyond America’s borders,” said Tim Kopra, Starlab CEO. “We’re thrilled to launch Starlab Space Europe, a regional hub that will facilitate industrial efficiencies and expanded partnerships with allied space agencies, including the European Space Agency and its member countries. More importantly, joining American and European presence sets the stage for life beyond the ISS, one that has a global, permanent crew thriving in low-Earth orbit and leading research that can transform all of humanity.” --- Starlab's CCO, Brad Henderson, discusses the future of space exploration, the role of commercial space stations, the decommissioning of the ISS, and how new technologies allow for affordable access and operation of commercial stations: Entering the Commercial Space Station Era | Kratos Constellations - Jan.16.2025 But while more cost-effective and frequent commercial space launch options will make it easier to get to the space station, they can’t solve a larger economic problem – the incredible cost of operating a space station. Thankfully, that’s one area where advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies could play a role. “How do we optimize our operations? That is really important to the transition – increasing the efficiency to drive down costs. How do we optimize our operations, crew schedules, and logistics streams?” Henderson asked. “Use the technology of today. The AI. The edge computing. Use the different tools that are available to find efficiencies.” ... Ultimately, these advancements in affordable commercial space launch, advanced AI solutions, and cutting-edge data relay services combine with many other advancements in life-support systems and other innovative technologies to open the door to a new era in space – the commercial space station era. This new era will be one of increased access to orbit – democratizing scientific research and advancement in microgravity, enabling space tourism, and making space a possible location for data centers and other critical infrastructure. ** VAST --- Haven set to begin structural testing of habitat module qualification article: Our Haven-1 primary structure qualification article was shipped to our Mojave, CA testing facility this morning. The shipment includes the domed window, hatch, and tank mass simulators, which will be used in the upcoming integrated load and pressure test. The Vast team here is… pic.twitter.com/xZ1Cc4W45x — Vast (@vast) January 14, 2025 The Hatch has been installed on our primary qualification unit, thoroughly inspected, and is now ready for testing. Principal Engineer Brian Landis conducts a final review before the unit heads to Mojave for pressure and load testing. pic.twitter.com/uEIH6ON5Dm — Vast (@vast) January 9, 2025 The Haven-1 primary structure qualification article has arrived at our Mojave, CA test site. The team is now conducting lift operations to install the article on the test stand. pic.twitter.com/IDNSVi39d1 — Vast (@vast) January 15, 2025 --- Explore Vast's in-house space station manufacturing capability - VAST Youtube A space station primary structure hasn’t been manufactured in the United States in decades. Haven-1 will be the world’s first commercial space station—a major step toward succeeding the ISS and advancing U.S. innovation and leadership in space. At the core of this effort is the Haven-1 qualification article, a full-scale model designed to rigorously test the structure’s strength, safety, and performance. https://youtu.be/u0sjx0hDATs === Space settlement ** Living in Space - Space Renaissance Join Joseph Pelton, Adriano Autino, Tommaso Sgobba, Robert Zubrin, Simonetta di Pippo, Madhu Thangavelu, Henk Rogers, Gary Barnhard, Pascalle Efrenfreund, Susan Jewell, discussing about Living in Space. https://www.youtube.com/live/NEozO4nfdxs === Other space habitat and settlement news and articles: - Calendar: - ARISS Informational Webinar, Jan 22, 2025 08:00 pm ET. " The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.  ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025." - Exploring the Potential of Lunar Helium-3 Mining | Beyond Earth Institute - Zoom event - Thu Feb 6, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST -  ISS: - Peak Performance in Microgravity | NASA - Jan.17.2025 - Los Angeles Fires Seen from International Space Station | NASA - Jan.10.2025 - Amateur Radio on ISS (ARISS) - Status ISS Stations - Livestream - NASA Gateway Lunar Space Station - Airbus Delivers Key System for NASA's Gateway Space Station | European Spaceflight - Jan.7.2025 -  China: - China Space Station Experiments: Pipe Inspection Robot, Music and Brainwave Intervention, Emergency Drill | Leonard David - Jan.12.2025 - Habitat & settlement technologies: - Be Part of It! MTI's Mars Against Hunger Competition! | The Mars Society - Jan.13.2025 - Planning for space rescue | The Space Review - Jan.6.2025 - How the Aurelia Institute is designing a self-assembling space station | Fast Company - Dec.30.2024 - How to test artificial gravity | The Space Review - Dec.9.2024 - General settlement topics: - The civilization survival scale: A biological argument for space settlement | The Space Review - Jan.13.2025 - What do we need astronauts for? | The Space Review - Dec.9.2024 - Resources: - Space Settlement National Space Society – NSS - Space Studies Institute | Technology for Human Space Settlement - Space Settlement Progress – Cutting-edge technology enabling settlement of the solar system and beyond - Factories in Space - Making products for Earth and space === Earth views from ISS ** Image captured by Astronaut Don Pettit on ISS: Astronaut Don Pettit has captured an image that is a contender for the best photo ever taken onboard the ISS. https://t.co/C0s3Ehk2is — PetaPixel (@petapixel) January 14, 2025 See also A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever | Ars Technica - Jan.14.2025. ** Live Video from the International Space Station (Official NASA Stream) - NASA Watch live video from the International Space Station, including inside views when the crew aboard the space station is on duty. Views of Earth are also streamed from an external camera located outside of the space station. During periods of signal loss due to handover between communications satellites, a blue screen is displayed. The space station orbits Earth about 250 miles (425 kilometers) above the surface. An international partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries operates the station, and it has been continuously occupied since November 2000. It's a microgravity laboratory where science, research, and human innovation make way for new technologies and research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. Read the full article

[purposeful-solutions]

Past light, no past at all, Past time in the pastime, Nothing is dull or big or small, No size at all that I can recall. I recall echoes in the fall, To the canyon filling up the stream of consciousness. Follow the current or the now, Somehow in individual part of the all. Hallways of holistic pictures, No frames, no games, A gallery into the galaxy, The invisible seen, unspoken word heard. Internal energy, entropy flowing, Frequency external beyond physical, With no time, growth in rhyme, Through connection without seeing a face, Deep in space with nothing left by a taste, Without a tongue, become embraced. Back off? No need, there's no separation indeed, Back from the now, looking outward, Multi speeds, particle back to the wave, We've just received. Illusions that dissolve, got shadow banned, Than shadows freed. Confusion of sight at night, Mapping clear as 1 billion megapixels in one, But insight ignites, bright, luminous like the sun, All fun, flight, new heights. Bias dissolves in the absence of light. Imagining darkness, Freedom in darkness, where stars plant seeds, Deep in the dirt, laughter erupts, Fulfilling all needs, blooming out the earth. Crunch time, it's lunch time, but I don’t eat, I get my power from energy, constant flow. No need for a goal, just go, You know you knew that the old is new, When the future unfolds, it's beyond time, So don’t check your watch, just stop watching, And get a stopwatch. I go off and I go on and on, Like darkness, let's start this right at the end of the middle. Just kidding, making up another riddle. Yeah, it's perfect, no right or wrong, No finish line, just fine, All truth, no lying, refined, divine. Shining darkness beyond the observable, Unsolvable, no problem. Spring into summer, then fall off like autumn, Speak without an apple, Adams' new tons, Like Newton, nick of frequencies. Like Nikola, Albert told me, Energy is equal to squares around the motion of the orbit. Prepared, not scared, no fear, Just spherical thoughts in consciousness appeared, Like a map or fraction of imagination, The particles collapsed into entropy in reverse. Entropy reversed, in motion it bends, Collapsing particles, the cycle never ends. A fraction of imagination, we perceive, Creating the cosmos, in dreams we believe. Speech without words, Adams' new tons, Just echoes of wisdom from Newton's suns. Autumn to summer, the seasons twist, No need for borders, no need to resist. Conclusion Infinite, untamed, pure and defined, Truth in the silence, no need to rewind. Refined and divine, a spark in the dark, Whispers of stars leave their mark, Left off right at the start,

[positioneren-23-24-chemsafkir]

Interview zaha hadid:

Is the colour in the drawings and the colour in the models the same?

In every drawing the colour changes. It takes me a long time to decide.

We would like to know something more about the elaboration process of the big drawings.

I sketch them very small and nobody understands them. So I tell them every day I want this drawing like that —it is like a kind of preaching ceremony. All my little sketches of all the drawings, it is very strange, they are very much like the final drawings. That happens with all the projects. If you look at all the first sketches they are very similar to the end product but in between it takes a circle.

It goes back and forth, it is a very strange orbit. The very big drawings take a long time to set up because it is not one drawing, it's not one perspective, it may be three or four things together, it has a story. The day and night painting for Trafalgar Square, for instance, took months to set up and very long time to paint because the drawing has very different views, it curves... so this shows the building, the back of the building on to Trafalgar Square at night.

When this is lit up it floats over the ground. Then it shows the inte rior of the ground transparent how it relates to the National Gallery and these corridors in the city. Then it shows it from above and in the middle of the day, and then with the towers against the London skyline. So it has a journey of twenty four hours, like mid night, morning, midday and sunset. It is shown in the context of the city and how it relates. Obviously they are all abstracted.

[joshay98]

Day 953 - 955 (2 years, 235 - 237 days)

Heyo! Hope you had a great week so far! ^^

Old traveling spirit returned! Scarecrow Farmer from the Season of Enchantment is back!

Genuinely one of my favourite spirits! Their emote is very fun and the cosmetics are great. Also really cheap! Only 89 candles for a great hat and mask! What a steal! ^^

Love that they added another calm area you can access. They did the same for Aurora, so it's nice they keep it a trend for the big parties.

Not just breathing exercises. There is a spring and walking down a path as well. A bit for everyone. ^^

Only slightly creepy...

Got to visit the developer galleries. I especially enjoyed the creation of Sky one.

This might be my favourite of the development drawings. It's an idea for how Orbit could look like. I know it's way too intimidating for Sky but I would've loved a black hole. ^^

Also a modern city skyline idea was thrown around. Also something like this to explore would've been fun. Just tall skyscrapers to fly around between.

Genuinely nice to see all these ideas, even if they didn't make it into the game.

Also means I can have inspiration from these. >:3c