#but he is a twunk to me mostly

[laidback-thrills]

Sorry for blowin yall up tn lmfao

AS MUCH AS I LOVE DRAWING THE STUPID LITTLE ORANGE SPRITE...this is what i think he actually looks like. Sorry y'all </3 he scares me too

[welcometothejianghu]

Welcome to another round of W2 Tells You What You Should See, where W2 (me) tries to sell you (you) on something you should be watching. Today's choice: 莲花楼/Mysterious Lotus Casebook

Mysterious Lotus Casebook is a 2023 drama about a beautiful twunk who just wants to die of his chronic illness in peace, except that neither the dumbass purebred dog of a man who has decided they're best friends now nor the jock begging him for a rematch are going to let him go without a fight (in the latter's case, literally).

Also they ride around in a magical bamboopunk RV.

I have referred to it elsewhere as "the CW presents: Nirvana in Fire," and I stand by that assessment. (I orginally called it Tiger Beat Nirvana in Fire, before realizing that Kids These Days will not get that reference. Shout out to the other elder millennials in the audience!)

There's been a lot of English-speaking fandom buzz about this show, to the point where if you're in these circles, I'm sure you've heard about it before. I know I had by the time I started watching -- which left me largely unprepared for the actual viewing experience, because the parts of the show that fans talk about are not a representative sample of the show itself.

This drama can be a good time. It's fun to watch. It has some hilarious beats and also some emotional moments. It spent its not-huge budget very smartly, and as such is generally quite lovely to look at. As my League of Nobleman rec will attest, I appreciate raw materials, and this is a show that has some fascinating raw materials.

(Or some materials that need to get rawed, take your pick.) (Also, it's not my fault they didn't do a dramatically lit Fang Duobing shot so I could round out the trio here.)

You'll find some people out there who've gone real hard for this show, doing some deep analyses and getting really emotional over it. I don't want my gentle ribbing to give the impression that those silly fans are delusionally talking like the show's a five-star restaurant when it's really just a fast food joint. Not so! There's a reason it's captivated a whole lot of people! And in case you might be one of those, allow me to give you five reasons you should consider watching it.

1. This bitch

The main character, Li Lianhua/Li Xiangyi is probably 50% of the show's appeal all by himself. He's fascinating. He's gender. He's fashion. He's been afflicted with a substance we called "bitch poison" the whole time we were watching. He has many emotions. He cries a lot. He coughs up blood every other episode. Cheng Yi is putting his whole lianhuassy into this performance, and it shows.

I made the Nirvana in Fire comparison earlier, and I stand by it for a lot of reasons, but the truth is that he's actually much more Opposite Day Mei Changsu: Li Lianhua wants all this stuff to fuck off and leave him alone forever. He is not seeking vengeance, nor does he particularly want to Do Schemes, but Circumstances keep dragging him back into the thick of all this nonsense he thought he left behind when he (mostly) died ten years ago.

The thing is, he used to be a real dick back when he was a kid. And I mean a real dick. He was a dick to his chronically insecure adoptive older brother. He was a dick to his girlfriend with the personality of wet tissue paper. He was a dick to the handsome loser who liked his girlfriend. He was a dick to his followers. He was basically just a cocky little shithead who thought he was the best at everything -- and he actually was the best at everything, which just made it worse.

Li Xiangyi used to think everything (especially himself) was sooooo important, and now that life has massively kicked his ass, Li Lianhua had come around to the position that nothing is actually that important, so let's just all chill and grow vegetables. He doesn't want a rematch. He doesn't want to retake his rightful place as the head of anything. He just wants to pay his respects to the dead before he joins them.

Now will everybody please just stop moving into his house.

2. goof-ass jianghu nonsense (affectionate)

As I mentioned earlier, everything I'd seen about the show on Tumblr had still left me absolutely unprepared for what a silly ride it is. Because it's silly. Hoo boy, is it silly. My wife dubbed it "lace front Phoenix Wright," just to give you a metric for how silly we're talking. Ace Detective Fang Duobing never cross-examined a parrot, but I feel he came close.

This show has some serious goof-ass jianghu nonsense -- you know, the sort of stuff that's impossible and ridiculous, except everybody’s going to treat it like it's just a normal part of existence. Here's a short and certainly inexhaustive list:

mind-controlling bugs

other bugs that control the mind-controlling bugs

ex-conjoined twins

a grown-ass man who can compress himself into bitchy third-grader

grave-robbing societies with secret brag language

so much nonconsensual qi-blocking performed by poking people in the boobs, that can't be safe, everybody wear thicker shirts

magical crossdressing powers

a bad guy who looks like this

a princess who can get abducted and sex-trafficked and, like, nobody really notices? huh.

healing childhood paralysis by the power of believing in yourself

a ... hallucination pit? what was that, anyway?

so. many. mechanisms.

the equivalent of the "he's only mostly dead" business from the Princess Bride

a gradually lethal bookshelf

the strange amnesia everyone suffers from where a dude can cover maybe 30% of his face and render himself immediately unrecognizable to long-time friends and associates

The thing is: I think this goof-ass jianghu nonsense is a legitimate selling point. I found it so fun. I turned off my need for show elements to obey little things like the laws of physics, and I had a good time. It can be a very funny drama, in part because it knows how silly a lot of its shit is, and it chooses to go full speed ahead with a sincere heart. If you are down for some shounen absurdity, you are in for a treat.

However:

2.2. goof-ass jianghu nonsense (derogatory)

I'm granting myself a sub-point here, because this is an important qualifier for the previous point.

I'm going to assume, based on what I've seen from fan responses, that many of the people who really like this show actually don't like the goof-ass jianghu nonsense. They are here for the BL vibes (after all, there are three cute boys who alll have some intense emotions about one another), and therefore downplay all the parts that aren't that. I want to make it clear that this is not a bad thing to do. There are many, many properties where I myself fixate on a single element and toss the rest into the sea. No judgment here.

However, since this is a post written to convine you to watch something, I want to make it clear what you're going to get if you dive in. If you're one of those people who skips scenes and/or entire episodes when your ship of choice isn't onscreen, you're probably going to be doing that a lot here. (I mean, I can't imagine doing this, but Tumblr has taught me that fandom is a rich tapestry.) The bones are good, but the connective tissue can be questionable.

The main thing I wish I'd known before starting is that the mysteries are not the selling point. They are the celery that gets the cute boy peanut butter to your mouth. You, the viewer, absolutely cannot solve them; you're never given enough context or information to keep up with the detective lads, much less get ahead of them. Everyone does everything in the most convoluted way possible, to the point of comic absurdity. Finding out whodunnit is rarely that satisfying, because too often the culprit is Jianghu Steve, You Know, That Guy Over There With The Superpower The Characters All Know About But You'd Never Heard Of Before Thirty Seconds Ago.

The goof-ass jianghu nonsense feels like the place where the show I see fans talking about least lines up with the show that actually exists. And I think that's a shame, because I think the show that actually exists is actually a good time! It's just, you know ... silly.

3. Whenever Di Feisheng's not onscreen, all the other characters should be asking, 'Where's Di Feisheng?

This drama gets sold like it's the adventures of three guys together. (Hell, I kind of did it myself in the intro.) This is not the case. This is the tale of two guys who do most of the plot stuff near one another, and their occasional third, Di Feisheng.

This is a 40-episode series and I swear this guy's onscreen for maybe 15% of the time -- and for half of that, he's just off doing his own thing anyway. He disappears entirely for huge chunks of the series, which is a crime, because he is my absolute favorite.

He is the rare grumpy himbo. He doesn't just have resting bitchface, he has bitchface for all occasions. He somehow has bitchface even during the rare moments he actually smiles. He's got a whole traumatic backstory, but the traumatic backstory is not the reason for the bitchface. He's Just Like That.

(Important to note that the actor himself only slightly has a resting bitchface. Xiao Shunyao can look normal and indeed quite pleasant. He has simply leaned into it real hard for this grouch.)

The one -- one -- reason I can accept his being gone for so ding-dang much of the show is how often he re-emerges with perfect, hilarious timing. Thank goodness the show realizes how much comedic potential his character has, because his unexpected entrances are some of the best laugh-out-loud moments of the series. If the show had taken Di Feisheng as seriously as Di Feisheng takes himself, he would have been unbearable. As it is, he's an unmitigated delight.

While you losers were being heterosexual, he studied the blade.

He makes the perfect foil for both Fang Duobing, who's the human equivalent of a puppy trying to gnaw an elephant to death, and Li Lianhua, who just wants to be excused from this narrative. Di Feisheng and Fang Duobing are basically two dogs fighting over their favorite toy, and their favorite toy is Li Lianhua, who really wishes he weren't. Some of the most compelling and fun moments of the series are when these three losers are all together.

And these three losers are barely all together.

This show is Not Danmei. It's so Not Danmei that I had a tremendously difficult time while making this post finding either official images or screencaps with even two of them in frame at the same time, much less all three. It is, however, a Danmei Starter Kit. I mean, the tag on AO3 has, at present, 742 works in it (283 in English). That's just since July! There are years-old c-drama shows that have a fraction of that fan output! And I'm willing to bet a big reason why is how little the very intense boys with ridiculously compelling interpersonal dynamics actually interact onscreen.

But, I hear you asking, why would less of what the fans want equal more fan goo? Well, friends, that's exactly what the fan goo is for: filling in the blanks. And this here show has a lot of blanks. Look, I've made a very scientific diagram (that many people seem to agree with) about how this all works:

The Hump of Compelling Mediocrity is the place where the amount of stuff worth thinking about far outpaces what the show actually contains of said stuff textually. It is the ideal location for imagination adventures.

Di Feisheng and Li Lianhua's relationship in particular lives right in the middle of that hump, what with the huge gaps in their backstory and all. They are a pair made entirely of unanswered questions. What the hell is going on there? What's their whole history, beyond the big fight? Why are they like this about one another? The show refuses to say. Whatever you imagine, you're correct. Now go tell AO3 about it.

interlude: God's perfect dipshit

I feel like I'm engaging in Fang Duobing erasure in the rest of this post, since he's not at the tip of any of the points I'm making, so I'm going to add a picture of him here, because I love him and want to pinch his perfect little cheeks.

You know what I am shocked by? How the MLC/DMBJ reincarnation fics apparently have not taken hold yet. I give it another two months.

4. IT HAS A DOG

FOX SPIRIT, MY SWEET BABY

'You mean the dog gets a whole selling point to himself' yes the dog gets a whole selling point to himself, because he is a very good dog and a very good boy (and his actor is a very good girl)

Apparently he has a whole backstory in the novel that never gets included in the drama, including an explanation of why he's named "Fox Spirit," if you feel like going and reading up on that.

Sadly, Fox Spirit is in the show even less than Di Feisheng is, and that is a crime, because he could have solved all these silly human mysteries in thirty minutes flat, Wishbone-style.

Dogs are so good.

5. One bad, bad girl

Do you like an unhinged villainess? Someone who's been sucking down Crazy Juice since beat one? Because oh boy, this show's got one of those for you.

Jiao Liqiao wants two things: to rule the world, and to make Di Feisheng her pretty little housewife. And whomst among us does not understand these two impulses?

She's not even the Big Bad! She's mostly just Di Feisheng's personal nightmare. She is the type of woman for whom the phrase "he's just not that into you" was coined. You've got everyone around her telling her, honey, I don't even think I've ever seen him look at a pair of breasts, while she's already planned their whole wedding menu and reserved the venue.

She has spent the last ten years of Di Feisheng's extended vacation making sure she's the one who's actually in charge, functioning as the point person for all the other evil schemes going on. Instead of handing over the reins upon her himbo boss' return, she's just going to keep doing what she's good at. As long as he keeps doing exactly what she wants him to do, she's gonna let him do it. If he gets out of line, well, there's always Plan B (the B stands for Breaking all of his tendons and making the world's surliest RealDoll).

I love the fact that she's so obviously evil, and he can't see it. To a certain point, it's not his fault -- everyone who serves under him is pretty obviously evil, so that doesn't make her special. But she's real evil even above and beyond that, and his dumb ass can't stop thinking about Li Lianhua long enough to notice any of the hundred or so knives she's aimed right at his back. He's so uninterested in her constant advances that he doesn't register how wanting to fuck someone and wanting to overthrow someone are not mutually exclusive desires.

(Was I bothered throughout most of the series by how her lipstick should be a little more crimson and a little less coral? Yes, but I'm not going to hold it against her. She's busy doing evil stuff. She'll get over to the nearest Jianghu Sephora and restock one of these days.)

While the show occasionally sidelines or straight-up forgets about a lot of its supporting characters for several episodes at a time, it never forgets to check in on what Jiao Liqiao's up to. Claws out, hair done, she is at all times a constant glorious, scenery-chewing menace with excellent taste in terrible men. Absolute legend.

Bonus: These two sluts

They don't get to be a full point because they're not nearly in the show enough, but just look at them. This is peak male character design. Slutty undone hair and slutty bare forearms, be still my bisexual heart.

Going to give it a try?

iQiyi's got you exclusively, baby.

Have I sounded a little defensive in this rec? Yeah, probably. It's just that I know there's a big and pretty intense fandom out there for this already, and I feel like a jerk coming in and being like "sure, it's fun!" when people are posting about how it made them cry for weeks. I want to be clear that that's not a bad reaction to have, while at the same time also being clear that that's not the reaction I had.

I might not even have written this rec, had I not been nudged to -- not because I don't think it's worth watching (I clearly do!), but because I don't know how much help it needs from the likes of me. There are plenty of other evangelists out there that'll give much more enthusiastic recommendations (like this one).

But the truth is that not every show has to be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius to everyone. I watched the show, and I liked it, and I had a normal time.

I also think there's something to the way I watched it, which was: one episode per day, schedule permitting, such that it took nearly two months for me to finish it. (And before you think I singled MLC out for this, this is actually how I watch most c-dramas.) I bet binging it is a way different experience, one where what rises more readily to the top is the tragic throughline of Li Lianhua's whole deal. If you're inclined to skip things not immediately germane to your points of interest, this is definitely the show to take at a solid run.

I actually paused in the middle of making this rec and made the one for the Blood of Youth, because the two invite comparisons: jianghu tales with chronically ill protagonists, some imperial bullshit going on, pretty boys with swords being weird about one another. Mysterious Lotus Casebook did not grab me as hard as the Blood of Youth, because MLC went for a more understated take on all its nonsense, instead of shooting completely over the top, which is how I prefer my nonsense (as the record will show). If you take your silliness with a subtler flavor, this could be the perfect thing for you.

Maybe you'll wind up being one of those people who gets their whole insides totally ripped out by this drama! But even if you don't, you're probably going to have a good time watching it anyway. And really, what more can you ask for from a show than that?

Peace, nerds.

[megahertzmaroon]

i love the bodytype you draw gabriel with it makes me go insaneobonkers its such a perfect synthesis of fps model masculinity and fanon slashfic softness that twunk could suplex a horse but also squishes when you hug him. the waist. the THIGHS. authentic greek sculpture swagger he is in my thoughts forever

omg try <333 Gabriel seems to get wider every time i draw him, softer too. A lot of his build inspo comes from gianni tbh, mostly how fucking WIDE his shoulders are. but low key should start using greek sculpts as references

[octuscle]

Senior year

Hey there!

I’m a Brown guy in my senior year. I go to the gym semi-regularly but am still skinny-fat. I was wondering if you could turn me into a hunk- and a bonus if my twunk bestfriend gets on his knees for me this winter break.

Buddy, maybe you’re just at the wrong gym. Working out with all your snobby Ivy League friends isn’t going to make you one of the big boys.

That new gym you googled is far from even remotely hip or stylish. An unadorned box in an industrial estate. There are mostly pick-ups and vans parked in front of the building. Your Porsche looks a little out of place. Even in the entrance area, it smells of iron, testosterone and sweat. The Neanderthal at the counter takes your details. Surprisingly, all on a tablet. You would have expected everything here to still work on paper. Your login details are your thumbprint and an iris scan. You are impressed. The Neanderthal welcomes you to the club, gives you a fist bump and returns to his cell phone. You’re still wondering whether you should ask him about the house rules or for instructions on the equipment… But you just take a deep breath, go through the security gate and dive into the world of the big boys.

The first few days of training were difficult. There are basically only free weights. And the smallest weights tend to be at the upper limit of what you were moving in your old gym. You never see a trainer or anything that you can ask for advice. And the sweat-smelling musclemen around you only seem to be able to moan and grunt. Nobody talks here.

Shit, somehow you were hoping that this would all work within seconds. Poof! Muscle man! But that didn’t work, you’re still a weakling… Everyone else here is so big… You tried your best to fit in. You cut your own hair with long hair clippers. But you no longer shave your body hair. And your beard maybe every four to ten days. It just takes up unnecessary time. Just like thinking too much about clothes. You wear compression shorts to the gym like everyone else here, and sweatshorts over them. And a tank top on top. Or a T-shirt. As long as it’s sleeveless. Shoulders and armpits must be exposed. Because of the freedom of movement. And because the musky smell from your armpits is pure motivation to sweat even more. Outside the gym, you then wear a tracksuit over your gym clothes. Showering and changing is silly. You train for two to three hours each morning and evening. And if your job as a courier driver allows it, even during your lunch break. One of your bros got you the job. He also got you a good price for your Porsche. The Dodge RAM suits you much better.

Shit, you know the guy who’s making the delivery you have to make from somewhere. The name means something to you. You ring the bell. “Fourth floor left” comes out of the intercom. Damn, of course the elevator doesn’t work. You’re not the cardio type, you start to sweat. There’s a young, student-looking guy standing in the doorway. Over-groomed. Not badly built, but could do with a few more muscles. He looks at you almost lustfully. You grin and say that you have at least one delivery for him.

Hehehe, this isn’t the first time someone has sucked your cheesy boner. But this twunk is one of the better ones. He reminds you of someone. But it must have been a long time ago.

Pic found @stargazerguy​

[moonshynecybin]

uhmmmmmm rosquez first time. Go

EXTREMELY hard question… if you ask me on different days it changes…

i do think somewhere in 2014…. maybe after a podium. they were spraying each other with champagne like whores you’ve seen the gifs…. marc is a self possessed person and truly i think he gets tired of coy flirty and shows up at vale’s motorhome to “congratulate him” and just. kisses him. and vale’s like hot twunks in my area !! (i’m joking. mostly.) and they start hooking up. and it is. insane. like they are NOT having casual hookup sex but they are acting like it is casual. bc they are conflict avoidant kings. marc is internally like. you could live inside me if you asked. and vale is doing 8 hours of motorcross a day back at the ranch trying to get his little adhd brain not to think about why he misses marc so much

[amalaeus]

This is probably the best I'm going to get with Sydney but oh well, I'll revisit drawing him

This motherfucker took a solid 3-6 times for me to fucking draw, and even then he's still difficult goddamn. Anyway, I like to HC him having coloboma hence the glasses, that and I like to think that the coloboma makes him look like he has snake eyes in his Corrupted! version. Yk, what with the religion he has got going on, the snake corrupting the "pure" Adam and Eve. Symbolic.

I also like to think that outside of the church stuff, he'd be VERY dark academia. I don't know, it just fits to me. That and he'd have the worse eyebags out of all the LI's, he's overworked and trying to be perfect. His physique would be twunk going on hunk, again, this man I don't think even sleeps he'd be decently built with all the priest work. That and a sleeper build fits considering his Corrupt! dialogue-

Unsurprisingly, both Whitney and Kylar were the easiest to draw, only taking me like 1 attempt each to get the vibe I was going for with them-

Maybe he was easier because I'm more used to drawing sharp angled faced men, that and I think he'd have an eyebrow piercing along with his ear piercings. Unlike Kylar though, I'd think he'd keep his piercings pretty tame and mostly just for looks, so he wouldn't do anything like a nipple piercing or prince Albert (Kylar would definitely do the latter for PC, do not @ me)

He's def a twunk going on hunk, doing it both for looks and to forcibly hold PC down.

[songsnstars]

wrow more gemstuck (@chrisrin) art kankri and dirk my beloveds

i have many notes on him and theyll under the cut

(the stuff in quotes are from another person who gave me some ideas)

both of them are already part of the rebellion and thats a huge part of their lives so fusion just bass boosts that

"pen is mightier than the sword" but what if u have both sword AND pen, resistance using the tools given by the system (ex. using access privileges to fuck with shit internally), letting spessartite have access to any electronics is a bad idea unless ur on his side…

intense hate and loathing for bro, if he could snap his finger and bro dropped dead hed do it (this is goes for scratch too lmao) like this shit is personal

kankris idolization for signless is toned down but spess defo still looks up to the late red diamond

earlier we (in the server) talked about how kankri would have force fields as a "weapon" so i think itd be cool if those force fields could now as spess be formed into other objects (like swords)

this guy is incapable of shutting up, loves the sound of his own voice and will mumble to himself constantly (almost dave esque)

if u listen to his mumbling most of it is kinda fucked up, like kinda self deprecating but in a really weird way

top mouth is mostly used for speaking and his bottom mouth is for emoting

hes like surprisingly stable, not much would actually break him unless it was conscience, maybe if there was an emotional disconnect theyd break (smth happens to a person or thing one of them cares about but the other doesnt really)

"bringing people together despite being unable to join them" hes such a loner twunk

"force megaphone? rapping as his weapon? bringing his raps into existence via his force field powers manifesting? two months, one rapping the other beatboxing and being backup vocals their weapon is a microphone stand, and the legs of it detach and float on their own to be shitty katanas" literal rap battles

[readmyfreak]

Logan Howlett ficlet. 18+

Bottom!Logan. GenderNeutral reader. swearing. fingering (logan receiving), spit(a bit), no lube because of healing factor reasons and they’re stupid. this is my first fic like this. please be nice.

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You didnt think that twunk could get any more annoying, but then you had to sleep with him. It was fine before, he’d roll his eyes or make some scathing comment and you’d bite and snarl at eachother until you both calmed down. After a few months of living in the same building together it become obvious how much you and Howlett got on each others nerves and Prof. Xavier had to intervene. It was starting to effect the students.

So Prof. Xavier demanded that you two either fix whatever problem you have with eachother, or you’ll both be on battle simulation duty for the next year.

It started with sparing. Anytime you two got in an argument, the closest X-man would corral you both towards the gyms and make sure it was empty before letting you two loose. This worked for awhile, but then the two of you would start arguing just for the excuse to fight eachother.

Then finally, after being at each other throats for almost 2 years, you both snapped.

It’s that fuckers fault. His short ass was barking in your face about whatever you both were being petty about now and his stupid fluffy hair bounced with every shake of his head. He was angry and feral looking and it was obvious how much he needed to be put on his ass. But his shirt was already off and he was sweaty and in your space and he had such pretty eyes. so you kissed him.

Logan immediately latched on like he was waiting for this to happen, and with the way the fucker was smiling as he bit at your lips, he was. He started backing you up towards the benches near one of the walls of the empty gym and shoved you on your ass, climbing into your lap. He planted himself down and got to work on tearing you neck apart.

“Fuck, Logan. Wait.” you say, head spinning as he sucks hard on your shoulder. He pulls back immediately but already looks impatient. Like it was in his schedule for the day to give you a necklace of hickeys.

“What? Do you not want me?” He pouted at you and honestly, for such a dangerous guy, he looked adorable in this moment.

You grabbed his hips and he grinds down against you for a second before you start talking.

“Believe me, I do. But do you want this? You were about to slice my throat open 5 minutes ago.”

“Yeah, I was flirting with your dumbass, bub. Fighting gets me going. You get me going. Can we continue going before I decide not to let you fuck me?” Logan starts grinding again and you’re not one to turn down such a nice and polite offer, so you pull down on his hips and kiss him again.

You can’t tell how many minutes pass but it’s enough for you both to be mostly naked and panting into each others mouths as you aggressively grind and grab at eachother. Leaving behind hand shaped bruises and small scratches.

“Touch me, c’mon.” He leans back and grabs your hand to shove it behind him and you snatch it back.

“We don’t have condoms or anything and i left my bag upstairs so you’re just getting my fingers. That ok?” He nods aggressively, his hair and dog tags bounce wildly with the motion.

“Fucking, c’mon!” Logan practically snarls at you, his claws popping out as he stabs through the wall on either side of your head. “Use spit, I’ll be fine. I like it. C’mon!”

You shake your head at how desperate he’s acting. Hips moving and arms tense on either side of you. His thick thighs twitching from holding himself up for so long. His eyebrows are furrowed as he switches between glaring into your eyes or down your torso.

“I should’ve known you’d like it hurting a bit.” You stick your fingers in your mouth and coat them nicely in spit before shoving them in his open, panting mouth to gather more. The moan that rips out of him is more of a growling grunt than anything, but it’s the hottest sound you’ve ever heard come out of him.

“There we go, nice and wet for me.” You pull your fingers free the same time Logan rolls his eyes at the condescension in your tone. Finally, if Logan’s look of relief was anything to go by, you reach down between his legs and slowly insert a finger. You push deep in one motion and Logan’s hips finally stop moving as he freezes. His eyes squeeze shut and he lets out a low moan.

“Fuck! It’s been awhile.” He chuckles a bit before he cuts off with a grunt as you start to move. After a minute, thank fuck for healing factors, you slide in another finger and Logan starts moving his hips again.

Two turns to three and Logan’s grinding turns to bouncing and now you have a feral lap full of The Wolverine riding your hand. How the fuck did this become your life?

“That feel good, baby?” You smack wet, open mouth kisses down his neck and over his shoulders. The slight redness they leave behind fading almost as fast as your leaving them.

“Yeah, fuck. Almost.” You could tell he was trying to fix his angle so you spread your knees to spread his thighs so he can sink further down onto your fingers and finally use your other hand to grab his dick. The sob that leaves his mouth will be haunting your wet dreams for months to come.

“Please! Please! Come the fuck on!” You tighten your grip on him and start actively meeting his bounces with your own thrusts and he’s gone.

Logan’s eyes snap shut and his mouth drops open as a long loud groan, and some drool, pours out of his mouth. His cum hits your chest and stomach and it’s immediately smeared against you as Logan falls forward to grind harder down onto both of your hands, his claws scraping deep divots into the wall behind you.

He slows his hips as his breathing settles down, blinking at you through teary eyes. The smirk this fucker throws at you would’ve knocked your pants off if they already weren’t.

“Fucking, damn. Fuck. Your turn?” He raises an eyebrow but you just smile at him.

“Nah, baby I’m good. Seeing that was enough. Let’s get you in the shower.” you stand with him in your arms before he can protest and walk him over to the nearest stall. Setting him down on wobbly legs, you gather soap, rags, and towels.

“You sure? You can use my mouth?” Logan offers in a way that lets you know it’s definitely more for his own benefit than yours and you smile again.

“I’m fine. Save that for your next fuck buddy.” You start soaping up his back as he starts to clean his front off.

“Nah, I’m keeping you. And next time, you’re putting something in me to fuck me properly, yeah?” It wasn’t a question. And you didn’t feel the need to refuse.

[acoraxia]

HI THERE BIG FAN OF YOUR ART Sorry if someone had already ask you this, but what gave you the inspiration to draw your Sun Wukong like THAT? Also Macaque's interpretation too, I'd like to know. Do you think MK and SWK are gonna fight each other in the future seasons? Will Wukong in your Boy Savior return to his mountain?

HI HI!! TYSM!!!

No one’s asked me that lmao this is a nice change! When I first started designing LSWK I.. made some changes to his design that I now regret HAHA. I took away so much of what made him LSWK so, eh, I fixed that a little!

I wanted his fur to stay consistent in a way but also.. not? Considering how many appearances this guy can have I went a “well maybe depending on his emotions certain features change” aspect with his fur and eyes. Gave him longer hair because ain’t no way he didn’t grow his hair out during the mountain. And a lil added features to his face so showcase some etherealness ig. Basically pretty monkey moment

Decided to give him a heavy upper body and strong legs since staff lifting is a strong thing!! And it felt nice to draw him with a lean body with some muscles >:0 (i am also a big fan of him having a tummy when he’s relaxed since yknow that is how muscles work)

As for Macaque’s I went a scruffier route! Normally people give HIM long hair and while I agree I was thinking greasier hair and choppier. I think he’s neatly groomed and everything like SWK but his fur is just a lil more greasier so he has to shower more regularly

I went for a deeper red on his mask and made it clear it’s changed drastically since his reanimation from dying — added more purple to him since that’s his signature color and bam! Macaque! Gave him a more boxy body for silly reasons — I’m a strong believer this man is a twunk at MOST but mostly because after dying he can’t really gain much body mass anymore

And then my ultimate hc that the monkeys’ fur is white/lighter when they’re young and darkens as they age (yes this implies Macaque is younger than SWK since he has so many white streaks)

As for the others:

1) I think QXT and SWK have the chance to give us a HEAVY physical fight at some point

2) yes :)

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for banning my ex from my restaurant?

My boyfriend (26M) and I (27M) broke up about 6 months ago. We’ve split up before, but this is the longest we’ve gone without getting back together. I hook up a LOT in between, & he’s fine with that, but up to now he hasn’t done the same, even though I’d be fine with him doing it too. I made a joke about how he’s too bitchy to land a date with anyone else, and that spiralled into a fight that basically ended things. I think he’s doing the rest of this bullshit to try and prove me wrong.

Other key info: I own and run a small restaurant downtown. We’re not super bougie, but it’s fine dining, and we made a couple listicles last Valentines, so now we have a reputation for being a date night spot. It’s amazing for business, but it’s TERRIBLE for my sanity, because it clearly gave my ex some ideas.

Every single weekend, sometimes even twice a week, he’s turned up at my restaurant with a different guy. I don’t know where the fuck he’s finding them, but every single one is douchier than the last. He’s booking the same table every time, and it’s directly in front of the window to the kitchen, so I KNOW that HE knows that I can SEE HIM!!

I asked the first time, and he said his date picked the venue and he was “above being petty enough” to hurt my margins over “inconsequential personal issues”. Even if that were true, we’re WELL past forty dudes now, and I still have to watch him play footsie with the twunk of the week on the reg.

Cool. Point made, he has game, I was wrong, whatever. I don’t wanna have to see that shit when I’m at work, so I told him to find somewhere else. He said he can eat wherever he wants, and I should be flattered my food’s so good he can “tolerate the meathead making it”. I said I don’t go to his studio and feel guys up, he said I was jealous, I said his dates were all paid actors and it was just for show, he said “Oh, I’ll GIVE you a show” and left.

The night after that, he’s back at his table, only he’s with the guy he dated before me. Who I hate.

I get that I’m biased, but objectively this dude’s a total fucking creep. He was terrible to my ex, and I’m honestly shocked he was even willing to talk to him, let along take him to dinner. I decided I’d take over serving their table, mostly so my staff didn’t have to, but maybe a little bit also because it definitely ruined the date. The creep freaked when he saw me and left early, ex stayed behind to finish eating, and I went on smoke break since the dude was gone already.

My ex came and found me outside, asked what the fuck I thought I was doing, and we yelled about it until something just SNAPPED and he kissed me out of nowhere.

He ran back inside, and by the time I got there he’d already paid and left. The day after he blocked my number, and the day after THAT he didn’t show at my brother’s engagement party (he’s still close with my brother, so even if we told our families about the breakup he’d have been invited, and he already RSVP’d ages ago). My brother was pretty upset about it, and I got pissed enough about this whole stupid thing I texted my staff and said he wasn’t welcome at the restaurant anymore.

It’s been a few days, and I mostly forgot about it, but today he tried to come in for a work lunch with a client and got turned away. The maitre d’ was classy about it, and nobody made a big scene or anything, but he looked really embarrassed and I feel kind of awful, especially since he was on the job.

Should I like, unban him? Apologize? Tell HIM to apologize???

[stormbreaker101]

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I'm Leah, 22, he/him only.

not necessarily a fandom blog, but im here for fandoms and memes more than anything else. main fandoms at the moment are Wizard101, Dungeon Meshi, Epic the Musical, Undertale/Deltarune, Animation vs Minecraft/Animator (tagged as #sticksverse), will rb stuff from other franchises tho.

i am also obsessed with my own independent writing, Corrupted Spiral (a Wizard101 AU). A lot of posts I rb will be tagged #Corrupted Spiral and/or #CCSAU. Feel free to ask me about it. I love talking abt my work, even if i dont like publish it officially.

I have OCs! a few of them have actual bio posts but they may be outdated lol. Their names and little blurbs r below the cut. Prone to updates as I remember more of my silly little guys.

Undertale...ish, the Quotev era characters. (Most of these characters are retired from my writing and don't have active stories but are still dear to me.)

Chancery Hope Gaster - my first ever official OC, Soriel ship child. She's my first and the foundation so I love her. basically 50s.

Renee - an alternate timeline variant of Chancery who became a villain for the majority of her conscious life, "The Glitch". Now a has-been trying to find something to live for. 30.

Shadow Rouge - Chancery's childhood friend turned boyfriend turned husband. Dragon. basically 40s-50s

Flare Rouge - Chancery and Shadow's eldest son, a major protagonist in CCSAU. Balance wizard. 24

Flint Rouge - Flare's twin brother, younger by 3 minutes :P

Spark Rouge - Chancery & Shadow's eldest daughter. 18??

Steele Rouge - Spark's twin sister.

Poacher - A mercenary, big game hunter, and all around tough but cool guy. Also a dragon. 50s but I think this dude transcends time he just doesn't die lol. A very old oc, I don't remember much about him.

Coal - All of Poacher's LV distilled into a separate entity. Not that bad. In fact, he comes off as less threatening than ol' Poach. Anime boy twunk guy. I cannot picture him as anything older than 26 but surely he's older than that. Much to figure out and rebuild.

Wizard101

Nora Gem - my main Wizard, the Scion in Corrupted Spiral who went astray. Now some unholy mix of human, divine, bogeyman, and Lost. Storm wizard. 28. Probably dating Renee.

Sarah Dragontail - Nora's mom, a Wizard who's taken up freelance wandering traveler heroics. Formerly Life wizard, now a Music wizard. 56.

Iridian Fairytail - Nora's adoptive baby sister. Myth wizard, untrained. 10

Emma Titansong - Nora's cousin, Nordic Champion, mostly-retired Life wizard. 20.

Emmaline Stargem, better known as just Star - Emma's twin sister. Death wizard.

Savannah Prismage - Emma and Star's younger sister. Fire & Ice wizard, young pioneer in the study of "Thermancy" (thermo + mancy). 16.

Kiyom - the Nothing, gone on a path unlike Dasein did in canon and so became Something Else.

Para - the Divine Paradox separate from Nora, and the Dreamer given consciousness.

Mauria Kutscherzo - Maulwurf von Trap's mom. 60s.

Malkah Hadas - Queen of Mandoria (the one who had been on the throne before Mandar showed up) and Mandar's wife. Late 60s.

Dr. Clark Savage, Sr. - Duck Savage's father and creator. Dead at 65.

Agnes Chastity-Crane - a crane in Night Forest who begins investigating the odd mana left in the wake of people questing through Lemuria's story. Also accidentally invented guns :D. 20s.

Mark Moonfisher - my interpretation of that one Schismist soldier in Karamelle, Novus, and the Test Realm raid. Because Arc 4 doesn't happen normally in my AU, his story ends up different. Sharkperson (specifically spiny dogfish) who was born to gamer but forced to minor/nonexistent npc.

Pirate101

Ruthless Dirk - my main Pirate, swashbuckler, Karamellian fae disguising emself as a human, grew up in Skull Island. 22.

'Fair' Sarah Paisley - my original Pirate, witchdoctor (with a LOT of creative liberty because KI didn't have sensitivity), grew up in Krokotopia but lived in Skull Island. 28.

Ieronim Masterson - I took an incredibly minor character (Jim Masterson) & gave him more attention than canon ever would. Living with his brother Bartolomeu & the rest of the Magnificent Seven, slowly healing from his time in the army.

[minijenn]

they'd better keep Link as silent(ish) twink. He does occasionally speak to characters, but he's mostly quiet and needs to stay that way. And gods help me if they make him more than a twunk I'ma hurt someone

Idk how I feel about the whole Link speaking thing. I guess it all depends on who's playing him? I don't want him to be a damn chatterbox tho, if he's going to speak at all. Let his words be sparing if he has to speak.

[chenyuvale]

Choose violence 1-25

all in one? ok you asked for it buddy

1) the character everyone gets wrong

- most if not all of the men, even itto he is Not a himbo im sorry hes literally a twunk,, or as much of a twunk as hoyo can make them hes also jus awful in general 2) a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom - my top fave is baizhu and he's 100% a switch hes both at the same time so this is difficult for me to argue-- alhaitham and ayato however !!! paragraph incoming sorry--

alhaitham is 100% a bottom not because he wants to be but because he doesnt wanna put any work into the act, he just wants others to do things to him, others doing the work for him basically dfsfsd so ofc that reflects here ( also flushed alhatiham expression >>>)

ayatoooo isss s s s i think also a switch but i dont think too much abt it sjhdf he could be a service top and a power bottom at the Same Time 3) screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

-- every diluc x fem!reader im sorry they are all so bad and also the unironic use of "yandere!(guy)" is,,, never done right or like,,, isnt good sdfsdf at all 4) what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

-- there was this artist i found bc i wanted to look for more diluc artists, right, as one does ! and then after like a couple weeks of tolerating the chiluc bc it started to get on my nerves, they posted a komi cant communicate diluc au thing, and in the caption they had literally said "i thought it fitting considering diluc deserves to be worshipped <3" liKE DID YOU WATCH THE SHOW???? diD YOU PLAY THE GAME?? ?? ? diluc doesnt deserve that nor Want that and the show character komi has a mental illness that makes it awful its not something to be romantisiced at All and they were romantisicing it AND diluc like aughhhh

5) worst discord server and why

-- main genshin server or the keqing main one bc i think the main one jus is Hoyolab part two (derogatory) and the keqingmains is just meta fighting over numbers n shit orz orz orz

6) which ship fans are the most annoying?

-- any and all popular ships but mostly the popular mlm shippers bc they are,,, practically if not Exactly ,,fujos basically (the popular wlw shippers are either Cis Het Men or also sapphic ppl 7) what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them? -- itto for sure, tho the more i saw abt canon the more i hated him, i jus saw a buncha fanon that i hated so sdfsdf 8) common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about -- most if not all of them, most specifically kazuha/beidou family and zhongli/xiao family i fucking Hate that SO much because WHERE did it come from????? the infantalising short guys bitches??? fucking stop it

9) worst part of canon - ugh too much to fit here it could be a2 hour long video essay atp but mostly the colorism fucking Sucks 10) worst part of fanon -- also a lot, but the part that irks me the most is that No One thinks outside of the box, and im not pretending like im special or anything bc of certain things but like,,, at the mere mention of a rarepair they just go "oh no but i like (popular ship) better!" like ughhhhh stop it think differently 11) number of fandom-related words you've filtered - too many to count on twitter but here ive been spacing it out ;> 12) the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them - baizhu for SUREEEE and like look at the everything about him literally WHY after his release whyyyYyyYyyyYY is he STILLLLL unpopular why is he STILL lacking in fancontent im ehrgehrgeehrgere upsET 13) worst blorboficiation - childe,,,,, who made him a fuckboy 14) that one thing you see in fics all the time - they/them pronouns for baizhu ( not a bad thing but not rlly a good thing im getting sick of it a little bit ) 15) that one thing you see in fanart all the time - diluc with a Bow WHY 16) you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc) - a LOT a fucking LOT mostly ships and the Collective Dynamic of the ships bc aughhh they are so boriinnnnnnggggggggggggggggg g g g g g and again the "found family" that comes out of NO WHERE

17) there should be more of this type of fic/art

-baizhluc 18) it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

-baizhu,,,,,, 19) you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

-,,,,,, tighnari-- and i used to absolutely HATE him bc the voice was so just IRked me so Badly it rubbed me the complete wrong way and ruined the character for me, yes i play in eng and ever since the recasting my view of him is much nicer now he doesnt irk me anymore 20) part of canon you found tedious or boring

-ayatos story quest he deserved better still 21) part of canon you think is overhyped

-,,,,,raiden and yae content 22) your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

-- the fact that diluc is 1) BANNED from snehnyaha 2) got WASTED in snezhnya 3) was part of a secret underground organization WE STILL know NOTHING about??? it was never brought up again and 4) Killed his Own Father out of his misery 23) ship you've unwillingly come around to

-uhhhh is i bad i dont know, 24) topic that brings up the most rancid discourse -- "are kaeya and diluc brothers " and to that i say they are exes fuck both sides of the argument 25) common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

--"genshin fans need to touch grass" "genshin fans are the worst fandom ever" literally look at every other fandom, any big hit anime fandom ,, (ahem mha) are like 100x worse then genshin fans, like yeag we're ruthless sometimes sure and will chew each other out thanks to most of the fanbase being on twitter of all places but we wont put glass in cupcakes

[kimicapucciny]

Your asks aren't open on your art blog so PLEASE tell me more about Zanthe, I love me a buff, long-haired manwhore

OUGH I NEVER NOTICED KDFBJKDSFBJKSDF fixed it now

ALSO EEK!!!! im so glad u like my tit guy,,,, even tho he kinda sucks KJBSDKJFBKSD ive got a LOT to say so ill put it under da read more

ok so Zanthe is the deuteragonist of a story I've got with my other OC Dom, whose ref i RLLY should rework because i wanna work on a small animatic with them KJBFJSDF

(this is him btw hehe)

anyways, Zanthe is an Incubus that, as per my world's lore, awoke with no memories of who he used to be or why he was sent to super mega gay hell. He only knew three things: his name, the fact that he was now a powerful demon, and that he was HOT AS FUCK!!!!!

He mostly spends his time doing whatever and whoever he wants. He's really bad at the whole "stealing human's souls" part of being a creature of the night because he'll just straight up ask for a sex pact with whoever summoned him, much to the annoyance of his boss lmaoooo

Zanthe is very boastful of his abilities as an incubus, and even tho he always focuses on his own pleasure (selfish lover smh) he actually does put his dick where his mouth is (in many ways) and his partners are always left quite satisfied when he's done SDKJFBSKJDFK asides from that, personality wise, hes an asshole LMAOOOO doesnt care for anything that isnt sex or himself, and will act with nonchalance when faced with human's tragedies or love declarations, unless he can use them to his advantage. however, hes not completely heartless, and if someone rlly doesnt wanna lay with him he'll sigh and complain about his time being wasted (not like he does anything importan in the first place smh) but respect their wishes. part of the fun is having his partners sing praises to his name, so doing it with someone who doesnt want to is just plain stupid in his self-centered opinion.

on to the story part of his lore KSBDFKJDSF

Zanthe was "accidentally" summoned by Dom in order to help him get revenge for the death of his sister. I say "accidentally" because Dom was actually trying to summon a powerful demon he could sell his soul to in order to gain the necessary power to hunt down the bastards that killed his sister, but instead got saddled with an glorified dildo KJBDSJFBSJDKF Sadly for Dom, he can't exactly summon anther demon without finishing whatever business he has with the first one (some bullshit rule from hell), and, though he loathes to admit it, Zanthe IS powerful. Enough to be useful.

So Dom decides to make a pact with Zanthe, much to his annoyance and to Zanthe's delight, because as soon as he set sights on the angry twunk he was dying to get his hands on that ass. Too bad Dom refuses to bottom for him LMAO

its ok tho, Zanthe said switch rights, and he has more than a good time whenever Dom takes out the collar and whip KBFJKBSDKJF

Their dynamic is rlly fun for me to work with because we have this big ass demon who looks like he could kill you and CAN kill you but is actually a lazy slut who would rather take part in massive orgies dedicated to inflating his ego, and then theres this angry mass of rage and bitterness who got stuck with this demonic asshole and cant get rid of him because he needs his powers lol

ANYWAYS SORRY NOT SORRY FOR THE LONG RANT AND I HOPE U LIKED IT

[shayminlucario07]

Also (Sorry for derailing OP but this NEEDS to be said), just because a character isn't built like All Might doesn't mean he's a Twink. We have been misusing that word too much for too long and it's genuinely a big problem.

If a man is a Twink, he does not have significant (or even really that noticable) muscle mass. The only muscle definition he has comes from how thin he is. (And they have little to no body hair, but that particular aspect is less commonly misrepresented.) A character is not a Twink just because they're thin. Best example- Link. In almost every depiction where he's an adult, he's not a Twink. At most, he's a Twunk (which, if you don't know, is a combination of Twink and hunk- we've basically forgotten that the term hunk was used in that way, but it was! Know your Etymology, people, this is really important for us queers. Don't let our history die). Cloud Strife is not a Twink- again, at most, he's a Twunk (but if he can swing around the Buster Sword, it's probably just stylization- like how Tifa isn't overly muscular, because the designers are fucking cowards). Most characters in Genshin Impact aren't Twinks- except the ones like Bennett and Mika who are literally teenagers, and like, Gorou and Lyney.

(Also, I'm certainly not qualified to unpack this, being a white person, but there's a racial aspect to this as well- at the VERY least in fandom- because I so often see the lighter-skinned characters being feminized or "twinkified" while darker-skinned characters are hyper-masculinized which... I shouldn't need to say it, but I'll leave that for someone more qualified to unpack. (Obviously the reverse also happens a lot and is equally a problem, but again, someone more qualified, and I just happen to see it less.))

The misuse of this term may seem innocuous, especially considering how many major figures in the queer community misuse it (Trixie I love you but please stop), but it is NOT innocuous. Even independent of the harm done by these terms losing their meaning (mostly from straight people appropriating them) from a queer culture preservation standpoint- misuse of this term is a nightmare for body positivity. I am someone who very much fits the actual description of a Twink (though, if you call me that, I'll punch you), and who doesn't like the way they look. Seeing people who DON'T fit with that meaning get mislabeled as Twinks only worsens my body image issues- especially since the only body types that don't get mislabeled as such are not realistically attainable for me, because of how thin I naturally am. I'll never look like a bodybuilder, like a Bara anime character, because that's not how my body is built- it's just not attainable. The body types that actually ARE realistically attainable (regardless of how much work attaining them may take) being mislabeled with the same term that describes the body I have and hate now, makes me feel like there's no hope- that I'll never be comfortable in my own body, and I'll never like the way I look. I'm not Trans or Non-binary (that I know of yet, at least), so I may be inaccurate here, but I don't think it's a stretch to describe the feeling I'm talking about as dysphoria, or something similar, at least.

And finally, just because someone is a Twink, that doesn't mean they're inherently femme. Body type does not equal gender presentation- you aren't more or less masculine or feminine just because you are or are not thin, fat, or muscular. Twinks are very, very often feminized- in very fetishized and, frankly, homophobic ways, especially with fictional characters (Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Link being the most obvious example)- and I shouldn't have to say why that's a problem, or the many ways in which it is.

*grabbing mlm shippers by the shoulders* guys nobody needs to be the twink. nobody needs to be the sub. nobody needs to be the femboy. they can both be big fat hairy men who bask in each others masculinity or they can both be unspeakable monstrous creatures with inhuman genitalia it’s okay I’m holding your hand. Let me show you the way

[hopefromadoomedtimeline]

{{ ayyyy lookie lookie amigo. It be he! A muse of mine not IMMEDIATELY terrorizing ur twunks for once. A good surprise.

"Hey. You," the man called to the other gruffly. He raised his chin and--although the other man couldn't see Adam squinting through his mask--with the way he positioned his head (he had already given Trunks a once-over, his face particularly focused on the purple something around his waist), it was clear what he was looking at.

"--Is that a tail?"

Clearly, the swordsman (Wilt was safely tucked inside Blush, his scabbard-rifle, which was in the former mode), had never seen a Faunus with such a feature. He himself had the equivalent of what could be considered 'devil-horns'; reddish-brown protrusions that jutted out of either side of his head, which couldn't be hidden. Unlike his former student, he wasn't human-passing.

He normally couldn't go out during the day, either and yet, here he was. Adam Taurus moved his head down, well--tilted it down, since he had to. He was tall too--just under 6'5". If it wasn't the horns or the height, it was Wilt and Blush, and if it wasn't that, it was the mask. Or his hair. Or his imposing physique on top of his athletic frame that made him stand out. No matter what he did, he'd never stop being a target, never stop being odd. That strange other. The only thing that brought his hardened heart any peace was the presence of his people, the Faunii.

He assumed this man was one of them, hence his mostly relaxed yet semi-cautious disposition. "What is your name? I've never seen you before." He knew of one other person with a similar tail, but he hadn't gotten to know her too well yet. The way she explained herself was too strange for Adam to grasp. All he knew was that she wanted something--something only he could provide. In exchange for strengthening the Vale Branch of the White Fang--the protectors of the Faunii--he agreed to provide it. He didn't ask too many questions. He didn't care.

As long as all of the oppressors were dead and gone.

His laser-focus was his greatest strength and his weakness; it produced in him a narrow-mindedness that was dangerous. If he became any more radicalized than he currently was, he'd turn into the monster he'd be fighting against. In fact, it was such a problem that it not even once hit Adam that he wasn't exactly in Remnant anymore.

Despite the muted curiosity in the stranger's voice, Trunks didn't find Adam's horns to be all that notable- Instead, it was the dark and red attire and sheathed weapon that truly drew the hybrid's attention. His tail would instinctively move to wrap around his waist, unsure how what to make of the other's intentions. He couldn't afford to assume the worst here, Trunks was not one to shun or shy away from others, and hadn't been particularly interested in starting fights if he could avoid them all together.

His arms would remain by their side, having decided to try simply seeing where the conversation would go before determining whether it was time to defend himself or not. The stern demeanor of which Adam carried himself lead Trunks to make a few assumptions, mainly the weapon that rests upon the other's hip was not merely for show or intimidation- Whether Trunks would have to engage in a slash of blades against the masked man was too early to tell, but it had felt like the other's question was not for to sate a case of simple curiosity.

"My name is Trunks. And I wouldn't expect you to know me, it's a pretty big world we live in after all."

His voice is calm, but his body language would be tensing up as he spoke. There was something... off about the stranger. He couldn't put his tongue on it, but it was as if there was a certain unease to be had... Not intimidation- Danger? Letting his mind wander now wouldn't do him any favors, especially seeing how it would leave him in a state to be struck down if a fight was truly to commence between the two.

"...You'd be right. I have a tail. Is that an issue for you?"