#but anyway his is probably a bird so. bird

[oh-no-its-bird]

Doing an oc's house layout map sounds really fun actually. Fucking hate drawing anything other than people tho, so

[lc-birdie]

The Pitt: Cuddling Styles

includes: Michael Robinavitch, Jack Abbot, Dennis Whitaker, John Shen, Emery Walsh, Samira Mohan, Mel King, & Trinity Santos

a/n: I'm experimenting with some things look wise and also I think i prefer writing more in this format. I'm trying to find my niche ig. Anyway feel free to request more ideas or thoughts. Inbox is always open 💓

dividers by @strangergraphics

Michael Robinavitch

this Softie™️ just needs love (also probably a weighted blanket) so I see him as the type that would want you to lay on him completely. legs on either side of him as you settle down against him. nestle your face into his neck and wrap your arms around him. it'd be heaven for him.

Jack Abbot

Eye Contact always lol. he needs that comfort and grounding that comes with laying down with your person, legs intertwined, and nearly resting yalls' foreheads against one another's. gently playing with his curls as he traces your features. seeing you. having you within his arms, undeniable before him makes him feel at home.

Dennis Whitaker

He would already worship the ground you walk on so he would have to have you curled into his side, chest to chest. you against him. where he can wrap you completely in his arms. where he can place kisses on your forehead and along your face. where he can tuck you under his chin and protect you from the world.

John Shen

Touchy boy. he's already going to be touching you 24/7 and that's definitely not gonna change when yall cuddle. he likes spooning bc it gives him the chance to bear hug you and smoosh you against him for extended periods of time. arms locked around your middle keeping you from scooting away from him.

Emery Walsh

she's very confident and touchy so she seems like the sort that would be laying in bed or on the couch already and she just opens her arms to you. ushering you into her warmth and touch. def leads to playful kisses and tickling. all bc you're the most calming part of her day.

Samira Mohan

the best and most intimate way to spend time together. decompressing and debriefing after a long day. playing with each other's hands with your legs linked together. cheeks squished against the pillows as yall smile and commiserate about the day past and the days to come.

Mel King

Spooning but with her as the lil spoon. holding her close and talking into her shoulder as she has her eyes closed focused on the soft droning of your voice. or in silence letting the ambient noise of the fan or the birds outside filling the space.

Trinity Santos

her affection is all consuming. she's very sure of herself all the time but I think there's moments she'd benefit from being given the attention that she wants. there's an underlying insecurity that she's able to cover most of the time but having someone who shows that they want to be with her is what she needs. someone who will collapse onto her and hold her and show her the affection she needs.

[inbabylontheywept]

minor update to the twerk-thineself-to-god, the-silence-is-the-answer post:

last week's sesh was the party finally entering the temple of a long dead dragon god. i basically just threw all of the weird esoteric symbolism that i know at them. everything in the temple was colored in alternating bands of black, white, red, black, white, red, with the black sections always having bas relief imagery of various afterlifes, the white images having intaglio relief images of the physical plane, and the red images showing hybridizations of the two.

like, the black section migth have flies buzzing over a field of slaughter, and the white section might show birds flying around a field of ripened grain, but then the red section might show horrific birds with fly eyes, or fly wings, or flies with bird wings and birds. just unsettling stuff like that. with all the fly parts jutting out of the stone, but all the bird parts being carved in.

idea was references to the alchemical processes nigredo, albedo, and rubedo, and the general dialectic processes of thesis, anthesis, synthesis, being applied to life and death. make something that isn't alive, or dead, or undead.

i didn't have a plan for this at the time, i just think it's neat and sets a very unsettling atmosphere.

boss arena was just a giant laboratory. the boss was a divine/arcane type caster that was trying to assemble a dragon shaped flesh golem about of hundreds of scavenged corpses. dragon golem was huge and a different motif i'd thrown in earlier to the campaign were these parasitic red crystals that they'd find growing off some corpses in the wood. sometimes partially harvested. sometimes found in living things that were insanely aggressive. again, no real plan, just creepy shit for its own sake. they'd kill people infested with the crystals and they'd babble about how it had made it too quiet to think. how good it felt to be able to think again, outside that silence.

anyway, i said the crystals were being used as scales for the false-dragon and they were all like AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

cue boss fight. still trying to figure out what to do with the silence thing. one of them gets downed. they're unconscious but they're not dead. cues my idea. i tell the unconscious guy he wakes up in a sort of silent pocket dimension. between life and death. and that there is something there with him. something huge.

so i had run like crazy around the purgatory space, trying to avoid the living-god dreaming-death mystery thing before it eats his soul, while the party fought the priest of that thing and killed it. then they could give him a healing pot. first thing he did after regaining consciousness was start babbling about the the silence and the dead god. they almost killed him again because they thought he was getting possessed or something. might come back to that later. it's a good idea to have in my pocket.

anyway, that's how flying by the seat of my pants is going. next session is loot divvying and heading back to town for R&R. the wizard in the group is super interesting in making golems, and the lab is like. perfectly set up for making flesh golems. so mayhaps i will try to lead him down the path of evil mayhaps. i think wizards think about the idea of rebuilding an avatar for an evil dragon god the same way that physicists think about building nuclear bombs, namely that it's neat, and probably unethical, but also, not the kind of thing one passes up the chance to do.

[zeke-fanfucs]

I love her so much. Wildfire should be a Canon character. Please @goodboyaudios!!!!!!! Let her be one! You made it a point Devlin moved on from Faith and found someone!!!! So let it be Wildfire!! Here you go @solzticesoulz! I had so much fun writing about her. She’s a beauty!

Two Pyros, One Gun

Wildfire x Devlin | Featuring Albus & Faithful | Chaotic Romance + Workshop Shenanigans (<- did I write it right?)

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“You can’t just cram a combustion chamber next to the regulator, Wilds!”

Devlin’s voice cracked halfway through the sentence, hands flailing above his head like the laws of physics were personally offended.

Wildfire grinned, goggles askew on her head, flame-bright hair glowing just a little too much. “You can, baby, you just don’t want to. Big difference.”

“That’s not how science works!”

“That’s exactly how science works—if it doesn’t explode, you’re not pushing it hard enough.”

Devlin stared at her, jaw open, grease on his hands and soul-deep regret in his heart. “Why are you like this?”

Wildfire beamed, stepping over the mess of tools and half-melted scraps. “Because you love me.”

“Tragically.”

They had been arguing for an hour—about wiring layouts, thermal dispersal, and whether or not fusing a mini-reactor onto the side of a multi-shot plasma rail was a ‘sexy upgrade’ or a ‘damned war crime.’

Wildfire called it the Love Cannon. Devlin called it no, seriously, we’re going to die.

They were still arguing when a high-pitched whine rose from the prototype between them.

Wildfire blinked. “Did you set the coolant delay?”

Devlin blinked back. “No. I thought you did.”

They both looked at the weapon.

Then they looked at each other.

“Oh—”

“SHIT—”

A HISS of steam exploded from the side as the Love Cannon began to overheat, glowing ominously orange.

“IT’S GONNA BLOW!” Devlin shouted, grabbing the whole thing and sprinting out the workshop door, Wildfire trailing behind and cackling.

In the yard, Albus sipped a beer from a chipped cup, squinting at the commotion. Beside him, Faithful leaned against a railing, eyes closed like she was praying for patience.

“Should we help?” he asked, watching as Devlin hurled the sparking weapon into a sandpit where it finally fizzled out in a puff of smoke and sparks.

“No,” Faith said without looking. “They’re bonding.”

Albus snorted. “He’s gonna marry that woman and she’s gonna burn his tools outta spite.”

Faithful smiled faintly. “He’s into that. Somehow.”

Back in the pit, Wildfire tackled Devlin to the ground and laughed breathlessly into his neck. “We almost blew up the workshop!”

“I noticed,” he wheezed. “You chaotic bird.”

She kissed him—messy, fierce, probably singed his lip a little. “You love my chaos.”

“Why is this my type?” he muttered, pulling her tighter.

“Because I’m loud, explosive, and extremely hot,” she said smugly, flicking a spark off his collar.

He groaned. “You’re lucky I’m weak.”

Albus called from the porch. “WRAP IT UP, LOVEBIRDS. YOU’RE SCARING THE COW.”

“There’s a cow?” Wildfire blinked.

Devlin sighed. “Don’t ask.”

They kissed again anyway—because the Love Cannon may have overheated, but this love? Burned just right.

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[ohseumi]

JAY 🐦‍⬛ RILLA GO!

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

[fantasykiri5]

Guy who is Bonita ‼️

[marivanilla05]

My favorite scenes from The Odyssey (books 18 to 21)

Odysseus fighting a random beggar being its own book was not something I expected to enjoy this much when reading The Odyssey, but here we are.

[wellwatersurprise]

they never really acknowledged it, but i know in my heart he missed his wings.

(inspired by thunderbird by they might be giants)

[sunnyashe]

part 1, part 2

*conversation wherein Jazz starts needling Soundwave, resulting in him trying to use Megatron's defection as leverage*

[skeletalheartattack]

have you posted about gelato before :o ?

honestly, every mention ive made of Gelato in the past month or so has just been through the tags of some posts ive reblogged on here, it's only been until now that ive gotten around to showing him off!

this is Gelato, a Flamingo/Secretarybird mix that my friend @meetthehelper put together!

for a while, i've been wanting to figure out a bird fursona for myself, and i wanted one that had a similar silhouette to that of Scratch (i.e. Scratch & Grounder), and the bird that seemed to make the most sense to me was a flamingo. it was Helper's idea to mix him with another bird species, and i really like what she ended up with :)!

[orcelito]

I've been working on Finally finishing Naruto Shippuden (after being a Naruto fan for nearly 15 years), & I just finished episode 420. And I have some THOUGHTS about the "Naruto is the reincarnation of Ashura" thing. This started as just me rambling for my normal liveblog posting, but I had a LOT of thoughts about this actually, so I am presenting them to u all Now.

So. Naruto meeting the Sage of Six Paths! Cool!!! I'm finally learning about Naruto being the reincarnation of Ashura, which... honestly is not a choice that I like very much. Narratively speaking, I mean. The Point of Naruto's journey was that he was the underdog, the bottom of his class, the orphan that everyone hated and made fun of. Through hard work and perseverance, he managed to drag himself from being a complete social outcast to someone generally really loved and respected. That's compelling!!! It means a lot!!!

But then the show is like. "Oh...actually, he's the son of the fourth hokage. And Also, he's the reincarnation of the son of the literal creator of ninshuu aka the precursor of modern ninjutsu." I mind him being Minato's son less as a narrative choice (for reasons I will get into shortly), but making him Ashura's reincarnation?? I've got Several things that bug me about that.

So First, for him being Minato's son. It's not like that's ever Actually given him any sort of status (since most people don't know), & Minato was also kind of just a random guy?? Just incredibly skilled, enough so to become the 4th hokage. And then there's also Kushina, descended from a very successful and very Feared clan that ended up almost entirely killed bc of that fear. Naruto being an Uzumaki means great power, huge chakra reserves (not even including the extra chakra he gets from Kurama), & some innate skills (that Naruto mostly didn't inherit, but one can play pretend sometimes). BUT ALSO, they were almost entirely killed off. He's a survivor of his clan's genocide that happened well before he was even born, and he doesn't even REALIZE it yet. So even though being Minato's son means he's the son of a very influential person, it doesn't give him the same leverage as being a Senju or Uchiha would. And the clan he Does belong to bc of Kushina does not give him status either, bc they're almost all fuckin Dead. And we know that Minato is a Namikaze, but as for what that actually *means*.... it's basically nonexistent. There is no mention of a Namikaze clan. Minato was just a prodigy in his own right.

SO.... All that is to say that while appending Naruto's orphan story with a "well, Actually, his parents were very powerful and well respected" does discount it a little bit, it's still not Especially unique in terms of what other people in their world may experience (there are other descendants of current and/or former kage + Many other powerful clans running around) OR in the benefits that it gives him (essentially nothing, outside of his physical strength and the inheritance of Kurama himself)(which inheriting Kurama did grant him access to IMMENSE power, but it also was the source of So Much of his suffering growing up, so I think it balances out).

The "reincarnation of Ashura, son of the Sage of Six Paths" thing tho... that one really kinda does. At that point, Naruto is no longer just the orphaned son of two respected shinobi & the current jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi (something special, but not entirely original, given that there are Other jinchuuriki who are descendants of powerful shinobi). He is now something that NO ONE ELSE ALIVE can be. It is saying that He, above Everyone Else, is special in this way. Outside of Sasuke lol, but I'll touch on that in a moment.

It just feels kinda cheap. It's cool I guess, but at this point it feels like we've completely lost the Plucky Orphan who works hard to overcome his circumstances plot. It's saying that he was Always one of a kind, he was Always destined to become Someone Special (or that he was, in fact, special the whole time). It removes the importance of his hard work in the equation. It makes it so that this is no longer something he earned for himself, but rather something that was a Given, since he is, of course, Ashura's reincarnation.

Cheap. It's cheap. And I don't like it.

Then we get into Sasuke being the reincarnation of Indra. Which I haven't gotten to that yet in the show, but I know from seeing it around. I do enjoy the sun and moon aesthetic between Naruto and Sasuke (so SO much, in fact), but. Making Sasuke the reincarnation of the Other son of the Sage of Six Paths is... frustrating? In several ways. There is of course the fact that Naruto and Sasuke have such extremely gay vibes (and Always Have), so making them the reincarnations of brothers so late in the story feels like an insult to anyone who reads their relationship in that way. Which to be fair, we do see Naruto mention at a few points that he thinks of Sasuke like a brother, but it's only a few points + feels like a kind of narrative cop-out. Sasuke himself said he doesn't think of Naruto in that way (though that could also be his self-denial speaking & it could change. Haven't gotten that far yet.), & I think there are much better choices for Naruto's "brother" figure (primarily Iruka, but people like Killer Bee and any of the other konoha 12 would be fitting too). Personally, it feels like Naruto was trying to put a name to his very strong feelings for Sasuke, & since he doesn't realize being gay is an option (since Kishimoto is clearly homophobic & made this ninja society to reflect that), he settled on Brother. But Sasuke is like "what the fuck? No, my only brother is Itachi." Instead, Sasuke has called Naruto his best friend. Which also doesn't fully encompass their relationship, but it's still closer than Brother.

So here we are, Kishimoto saying around 555 episodes into the plot (only 80 more to go) that they're actually the reincarnations of brothers. And not just any brothers. THE sons of the Sage of Six Paths. Incredibly influential, incredibly powerful, two sides of the same coin and very historically significant figures. Sasuke always had the "descended from an elite, yet disgraced clan" thing going for him, so in my opinion it doesn't hold the same kind of insult to his story that it does for Naruto. But it still feels like an insult to THEIR story.

Naruto and Sasuke were just two orphan boys. Their moms were best friends, but they didn't know that. They died when they were too young. But Naruto and Sasuke still gravitated towards one another. Understood each other like no one else. And got on each other's nerves like no one else. But that irritation stemmed from their genuine admiration of each other. They wanted to be able to beat each other. They became Rivals. And it was on their own terms. No one else pushed them together. Outside of them ending up on the same team, their entire relationship was fueled by their recognition of one another, Jealousy of one another, and the simple enjoyment of being around one another. They were the ones to decide the importance of their relationship. Sasuke recognizing Naruto as his closest friend & thus thinking he was the one he had to cut off to achieve power, and Naruto recognizing Sasuke as his first peer that acknowledged him, a precious bond he finally made, and thus someone he had to cling to FIERCELY. That was all them.

But here we are. They're a reincarnated set. The sun and the moon, but Officially. One could say soulmates in a way, in a non-romantic kind of context (considering the first iteration was a pair of brothers). While this is cool from a story standpoint, it really takes some significance away from their relationship to me. It makes it less of something they chose for themselves and more of a given. Pretty much just like Naruto being Ashura's reincarnation cheapens his own story, it cheapens their relationship too.

I dont want a story about two boys who were destined to be important to each other!!!! I want a story about two orphans who just happened to become important to one another thru a series of coincidences and personal choices. In that way, their relationship gains greater gravity bc it's born from their own hearts Alone. It's Naruto moving mountains for the sake of this boy he loves, and it's Sasuke finally coming back around bc of the force of Naruto's dedication. It means so much more than the implication that they were always meant to be a pair. So I really don't like this narrative choice.

[birdmenmanga]

dude this was so fucking cunty why didn't I finish it lol

[thepandalion]

yknow

one of my favorite tropes is casual use of OCs in fanfic

like. the guy goes to a convention and makes some friends and they're all OCs. or the guy goes to a new school and all his friends there are OCs. or. any number of things like that

and it sucks that usually the connotation of "OC in fic" is actually about self inserts of the author (which... is fine? typically has bad connotations of being cringe or whatever but I'm currently technically co-authoring a reader insert fic so yknow. cringe is dead) and that the only OC in those types of fics is the self insert. gimme more fics where there's like a dozen OCs seamlessly integrated into the canon characters' lives

[not-kamenx]

Beyblade X Ep 34: A Rainbow Guest

GES SJACSLSVWJEVEJEVENEBB BC LABJEBWEVD KB VEJEDV WHAT IN THE OMINOUS SPINNING DRAKE IS THIS EPISODE

Okay, first off, I WAS SO DISTRAUGHT AFTER GETTING HIT WITH A FOUND FAMILY EPISODE THEN WE GET HIT WITH JAXON’S TEAMMATE, SIGRID NANAIRO AND HER REALLY BLUNT ATTITUDE TO EVERYTHING EXCEPT SUSHI. Okay I’m gonna be honest, I did get spoiled that she was Multi’s sister BUT LEGITIMATELY I’M STILL SURPRISED

She and Jaxon are similar but not at the same time??? I mean they both love Komaba Sushi (I figured ever since Memories of Sushi ep because the bigger set was given to her while Chrome was too busy focusing on Jaxon and getting fed blah blah blah and yeah) AND THEY’RE PRETTY BLUNT but Jaxon seems to prefer choose his words while she prefers to choose her actions

The way Robin went to grab the mask and practically suffocated Jaxon had me giggling, LIKE DO THEY JUST HAVE IT ON STANDBY???

Like he was so happy to see her and now he’s getting choked by his hair in the mask

Anyways when Robin was surprised she knew him I figured he’d put two and two together, since in the first ep he knew Jaxon was part of Team Pendragon and so was she? Mini plot hole I suppose

BUT YEAH I noticed throughout the episode Robin kept defending Multi from Sigrid even though he keeps getting cut off which, GAHHHHHH AND EARLIER DURING THE VOTES SHE TRIED TO COMFORT HIM they’re adorable honestly

anyways the reactions when Robin and Jaxon find out they’re sisters 😭

THIS IS THE MOST HORRIFIED EXPRESSION IVE SEEN JAXON EXPRESS IM CRYING WHY DOES HE LOOK SO MORTIFIED

and later on we get a look at baby Multi and Sigrid, WHICH OMG I WANNA DRAW MULTI WITH SHORT HAIR NOW

and…. Babadudum…. You guessed it… why I’m immediately posting my reaction to this….

We get a lovely momentary session where Chrome is slowly continuing to lose it over Jaxon in the corner of a room while Sigrid sits there like the bestie who has to hear about her friend’s relationship problems

CHROME YES I WANTED TO SEE YOU BUT NOT LIKE THIS, HAVE A DAMN SLICE OF LIFE MOMENT OR SOMETHING HELP

and thennnn some shady shit just casually breaks into Komaba Sushi and steals the bey plans Multi had. Hello, how does no one spot this THEY HAVE TWO HUGE ASS BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THEM???

[wildtornado-o]

Frequently thinking of how Forthing tried to offer Temeraire some comfort after Laurence's "death" despite how he had been treated by him all the time prior. I think it just says a lot about him as a person idk