#but i needed to get the info out there ok

[tales-from-the-blu-team]

As the meeting went on some of the mercs had slipped out or been excused. Only about half had stayed for the extended meeting.

Soldier and spy were there, being the two unofficial but uncontested leaders, they didn't leave until it was all over.

Scout- having been part of soldiers plan was kept behind too.

Pyro had said his piece and left- there wasn't much for him to give reports about except for who was targeting their engineer these days and how they'd both handled it.

He was still primarily on babysitting duty, well, they didn't call it that but it felt like it, for the time being.

Heavy and medic stayed. Heavy, because he'd died with Medic and had killed many that day and needed to give his own info on the Red teams performance.

Medic, because, well, he was there more to give the Blus commentary on their own performance.

Demo, sniper and engineer had left already. Mac had promised to just write them a report if there was anything Pyro had left out. Demo and Sniper had a tendency to be more independent than the others and had given their own info.

Their meeting would have continued for a while longer....

Had no one noticed The vent cover.

"Hey, uh, was that..thing hanging from the ceiling always there?" Scout asked, grateful to have something else to pay attention to.

Spy sighed, wishing for a cigarette but he would hold off until after he had visited The Engineer. " It's likely the shoddy base falling apart again. I'll tell Mac to fix this too."

Soldier sighed, shaking his head.

"I'll close it." John offered as he got up to move towards the Vent. "Someone get me a chair."

Their heavy, Dimitri, cut him off.

"Is ok, I Will get it." He offered instead.

Reaching up to get it, heavy looked around. He wondered if it was some wildlife, a rat most likely who got in. Or maybe a raccoon.

There were an awful lot of them around here.

Eye straining to see into the dark, his eyes saw something. Or he thought he did.

"There is visitor in vent!" He called out.

( tales-from-the-blu-team) Blu engineer, who would rather be known as Mac and back in his old life, came across the cyborg. Eyes taking in the details of this strange figure, he could not help but remark.

" I've never seen you around before? Are..are you a new class? Are we supposed to be getting a tenth teammate?"

Scout. Soldier. Pyro. .. engineer. Heavy. Demoman. Medic. Spy. Sniper. .these were the classes he had grown up knowing and was always destined to work with.

The idea of a new class was...something to get used to

They shrug.

“How am I supposed to know any of that? I’m just here to kill people. Used to be an assassin until I joined RED and my Engie worked his magic on me. Now I’m an assassin but even better. It’s pretty sweet you should try it out.”

He spins around, showing Mac every part of his body, as if to prove his point.

“I mean, if you want your own cyborg, you’re probably gonna have to make em yourself.”

[shadowrunner8236]

@everyone

Tell me your commanders lore in the tags i wanna read

As there are no restrictions for this im gonna warn minors to consider all possible content warnings before reading the tags!

PLEASSEE go crazy pick one to three of your commanders and info dump to me about it all i want to see you guys writing and ik most of you are waiting for some one to ask so heres some propmts to help you out if you need!

Prompts

What drives them?

Whats their personal goal?

How does their culture (wherever they are from in your lore) affect them? [Ie do they go to festivals, miss home, have a grudge with a clan, person, or collage? Etc]

Do they have anyone they love?

Did any of their loves perish, who and why?

Do they have a major regret or loss?

U can make this a therapy sesh for them its ok

A dream they clung to, a hope or goal (if any) that kept them going through it all, or alternatively drove them to their end~

Go crazy go off the cuff! I wanna read so this may get reblogged a few times on my main!

[elmo-f-tree]

hi! hello! are you thinking about watching dragon age absolution but are worried you won’t know what’s going on because you haven’t played the games? i’m here to help! here are some bare bones basics to help understand the series!

-Game order: Origins, 2, then Inquisition.

-Classes: Warrior, rogue, and mage. All are self-explanatory if you are familiar with fantasy in any way.

-Races: There are humans which are just humans. They can act as any of the three classes. You can play as a human in all 3 games. Elves experience fantasy racism and tend to live in alienages inside of cities or in Dalish clans outside of cities. They are slightly shorter than humans. They can also act as any of the three classes. You can play as an elf in Origins and Inquisition but not 2. Dwarves tend to live underground unless their family has been shunned or some other series of events led them to the surface. They are shorter than both humans and elves and usually stockier in build. They have no connection to the Fade so they cannot be mages and cannot dream. They can be either rogues or warriors. You can play as a dwarf in Origins and Inquisition but not 2. Qunari are horned, grey-skinned people from Par Vollen unless they are Tal Vashoth which just means they don’t live by the Qun which I will explain later. They are taller than all of the other races. They can also be any of the three classes. You can only play as a Qunari in Inquisition.

-Creatures: Nugs are kind of like hairless rabbits. They’re all over the place. I’m pretty sure Miriam had a nug stuffed animal in one of the flashbacks. Shades are depicted in the series as the somewhat purple and look like they’re wearing robes. Pride demons are what the spirit of wisdom turned into when Rezaren pressured it into giving information it didn’t want to. Rage demons in the games look like they are made of lava and in the series look somewhat like glowing amorphous salamanders. Corpses are just reanimated corpses.

-Religions: The Qun is everything structuring the society in Par Vollen. It is the religion and the governmental rules. The Chant of Light is generally seen as the primary religion of Thedas (the world). The Maker is the main deity along with his wife Andraste. All of the religious figures of the Chant, except for in Tevinter, are women. In Tevinter, the Divine is a man. Dalish religion does not appear in the series, so I won’t be covering it here. However, it’s important to the games, which you will learn about if you decide to play them.

-Other Figures: The Inquisition was an organization formed during the events of Inquisition lead by the Herald of Andraste (the player character), Cassandra Pentagast, Leiliana, Cullen Rutherford, and Josephine Montilyet. The Herald of Andraste emerges from a large rift in the sky that appeared after an explosion at the Temple of Sacred Ashes (a sacred place to those who believe in the Chant) with a glowing mark on their hand that allowed them to seal other smaller rifts. They later go onto become the main leader of the Inquisition, gaining the title of Inquisitor. Cassandra is a Seeker which is one form of religious knight that the Chantry (leadership of the Chant of Light). She originally believes the Herald to be at fault for the explosion but later finds that is not the case. She worked directly under Divine Justinia, who was killed in the explosion, as her right hand. She can become the next Divine depending on your actions in Inquisition. Leiliana is a rogue, a spy, and a bard who is one of the Hero of Ferelden’s (player character) companions in Origins. She also worked directly under Divine Justinia except as her left hand. She becomes the Inquisition’s spymaster. She can also become the next Divine depending on your actions in Inquisition. Knight Commander Meredith is a character from 2. She leads the Templars, the other form of religious knights, in the city of Kirkwall for the duration of the game. At the end of the game Hawke (player character), is forced to kill her as she has been driven mad by a statue made of red lyrium, which I will elaborate on more later. Upon her death, she turns into a statue of red lyrium. She is the one in the red stone depicted at the end of the series.

The Blight: The Blight is likely the hardest piece of lore to explain to someone who has not played the games. Essentially, it is a disease whose exact cause is not entirely known. There is an explanation for its creation through the creation of the Darkspawn in the Chant of Light. However, it is unknown if that explanation is true. The story goes that Tevinter Magister’s in an attempt to prove their power walked into the Black City, basically the non-corporeal city of the Maker, and were then turned into the first Darkspawn. The Darkspawn are the carriers of the Blight. They’re pretty similar to zombies. The Darkspawn usually reside in the Dark Roads, underground tunnels that make dwarves’ subterranean lives dangerous, except during Blights. During blights they go to the surface. If a Darkspawn breaks skin with any form of their attacks, you will become infected with the Blight. Blights begin when Darkspawn seek out and find an Archdemon. Grey Wardens are people infected with the Blight in a specific way that it isn’t an immediate death sentence so that they can fight Darkspawn and kill Archdemons, ending Blights.

Lyrium: There are two forms of lyrium. The typical form is blue. It can be used by mages to replenish their mana or as an addictive, performance enhancing substance by non-mages. The other form is red. Red lyrium is lyrium infected with the blight, which gives it the ability to drive people mad. I generally think of it as being radioactive. Since only living things can be infected with the blight, we are forced to assume that lyrium is actually alive in some way. This could help to explain why Meredith is alive after the ending of 2.

Congrats on reading this far! You should be able to understand at least most of the lore mentioned in the series! I’m not going to say you will understand enough to talk about it with those of us who have played the games, but I only have so much time. Feel free to add on if you feel I’m missing something important! Or drop an ask in my inbox!

[trek-tracks]

for the next five minutes before there's another crisis

[arsonstatistic]

something something screwtio something something the woes and wonders of a human-robot relationship something something learning from each other as equals something something affection displayed by mental connection sometjing something time passing and the memory of one living on in the other eternally idk idk

[pocketramblr]

What about an AU where Manual replaces Aizawa as the 1-A homeroom teacher?

Oh boy we can fit SO MUCH projection into this one

1- Manual only applied to UA because he was applying a bunch of hero schools, and he didn't think he'd get UA but why not try, at worst it's extra interview practice before he really tries at Ketsubutsu. And then he got only got a job at UA and no other school, somehow. And he can't technically complain because UA pays the best and it's a job he signed up for, but how???

2. He also didn't apply as a homeroom teacher, but they offered it to him anyway and he uh doesn't really say no. He figured he could change positions after a few years already if he wanted to, and planned on it, but then realized he liked this position much better and so kept it instead

3. Actually you know what sure all the projection. His third year he ended up being freshman homeroom team lead, which he's pretty sure isn't supposed to happen- Vlad had more experience but said he wanted a break this year from it and no one else applied so....

4. His third year is also when he gets our beloved class 1A! They do not get expulsion threats, and go to orientation. Then Manual tells them they have an essay due at the end of the week, about why they want to be heroes and what their current plan is, to be completed before any combat training. Several students pitch a fit about writing when they want to learn how to fight, but Manual points out that as part of their training, they'll have to do a lot of unpleasant things. Will they put effort into the record keeping they need to learn as pros if they aren't willing to write a paper? Will they be able to communicate in team exercises if they can't even put what they want as a hero into words? How patient can they be for slow moving cases? The class can see his point even if it's not exciting.

The second day of school, two students hand him papers. Bakugou asks if he can start fight training sooner now since he did the whole dumb essay. Midoriya asks him to look over the first draft if he doesn't mind, because he just had a lot of ideas where to take it and wants it to be really good.

By the start of homeroom the second day, these two are no longer sitting in desks right by each other.

5. On the fourth day of school, while Manual has his class looking over their costumes and getting peer feedback, he realizes that Vlad usually would be sending bragging pictures of his class in rescue training right about now, to see if Manual could get his kids to beat them next week when they went to USJ. He sends a message. It doesn't go through.

He thinks "huh, that's weird" right before robot sentry alarms go off about vines erupting from USJ's roof and throwing students out frantically. Manual grabs the closest non combat adult in the hall to watch his class and runs to help figure out what's going on.

[thedrawnherbarium]

forgot to post this

[deus-ex-mona]

i miss renrennnnnnnnnn

[fandom-blackhole]

My friends, idk how, but im gonna figure out a way to share my final presentation with you guys for a class after I finish it. Because I'll be damned if I'm gonna be this passionate about this thing, do all the research, make a ppt AND cardboard tri-fold, and present this at a "Research Symposium" for 2 hours to whoever stops at my booth during finals week to not share with the people I like most 😤

Basically for the project we have to take a person or event and give background on them before analyzing them through a Social Psychology lense (bc the class is social psychology lol). AND GODS DO I LOVE SHIT LIKE THISSSSS. I will not be sharing what event I chose for two reason: 1) I want ya'll to read and learn about it through my post when I post it 😌 and 2) It's a REALLY obscure event from what I've gathered (like I barely have 5 sources for references and one's ONLY in german) and I doubt many would know what I was talking about.

[lexicog]

traitor to the cause forgets national holiday every year KILL HIM

[1327-1]

i get closer n closer to becoming a car mechanic every time im in the car w my dad lmao

[poolboyservice]

ok but who the fuck in the system decided it'd be okay or even beneficial to put the persecutor (me) as the host????

i don't get it, i really don't. i know every alter has a use and every alter is the way they are for a reason but i've genuinely been pondering and searching for the past 2 months and like?? i still don't know why am i the host !!! does the brain WANT the body to die?? because that's how you get the body to die 😭 how is this gonna help us survive anything

[mbat]

honestly my biggest wonder about yesterdays drama was like... who even was that? not the person being called out, but the one calling them out. like, its one thing to make a throwaway to make a callout post, but to go on anon and try to pull unrelated people into it? this was clearly someone still in the taleblr server since they had screenshots from literally the same day in their callout

this isnt me taking sides because genuinely i have more important things to worry about than all that, but its different when it comes to this person because like... i just thought yall were different than that? maybe we all dont totally consider eachother friends entirely but i liked to think we were all somewhere around there for the most part

theres only so many of us and we all try to stay chill (to more or less success) because like... theres probably less than 100 of us left, and we're all adults by now as far as i know, and i know age doesnt really equal maturity, but its just so immature to try and stir drama by messaging unrelated parties.

honestly even if the person told me in private who they were its not like id make shit worse by posting about them or something because, again, i have bigger things to worry about, im just curious at this point. its not even an obligation for them to come forward, im just admitting that im curious.

if anything all i have to say is be the bigger person and block and move on when you dont like someone or something someone did. i get that you saw stuff that you found gross and you wanted everyone to feel the same way you did, but the rest of us just want to live our lives. plus i think the people that were messaged arent even in the discord so it was honestly even weirder to do that

ive had my fair share of seeing things that made me feel gross to see or read or know about, like, seriously i found out one of my friends was a pedo last year (and i promptly blocked the cunt). but it doesnt do anything to pull other people into the mess and try to start shit.

basically, just be more mature, cause i know yall are better than that. you dont have to read fics that you dont like, and you dont have to interact with people you dont like. your online experience is yours and the best option is always to block and move on. ive had my fair share of drama, and all it does is ruin peoples days, and not much else.

my biggest point, honestly, is that this is such a small fandom and i dont want whats left to come crashing down because some drama makes everyone left hate it here. i dont care whos right or wrong because literally whatever its internet drama, i just dont want this community to die out.

[gibbearish]

so like i want to talk more abt what suicidal means but the problem is "suicidal ideation presents in two general forms, active and passive. the thing most people think of as suicidal is the active version, where the person *actively* desires to be dead and/or is making a plan to get there. the passive form however gets almost no attention in media so many people experiencing it are unaware they are even depressed, much less passively suicidal. some examples: not wanting to experience death but feeling like you wouldn't mind if you didn't wake up tomorrow or just stopped existing; feeling deeply exhausted with just the entire concept of being alive; even feeling like you want to run away, change your name, and start a whole new life; none of these look like suicidal ideation to most people because they don't involve actively doing anything to get from point a to point b, especially the more abstract ones like the start a new life thing - but remember that in order to truly start a whole new life, you have to destroy your current one. it's not suicidal as in wanting to actually DIE die, it's just. wanting something close enough to scratch the itch. but just because you haven't booked the ticket doesn't mean you don't still revisit the 'vacation activities at point b' tab occasionally to daydream, yknow?" is i think very informative and specific, but its also quite long and run on-y so people are v likely to tap out like a third of the way through it, whereas "suicidal doesnt necessarily mean wanting to die" is way shorter and therefore catchier, but is also the kind of nonspecific phrasing that gets you a thousand angry anons about how you said all suicidal people are just pretending they actually want to die or some dumb shit. so it's a fun line to toe

[gregoftom]

oh my fucking god

[vitospaghetta]

Ok I keep kicking this back and forth so I'm gonna leave it up to a poll just to gauge what you guys think.

I would want to approach this in as non-argumentative a way as possible, with the purpose of course being to clear up misconceptions about their canonicity, as well as to give people a better understanding of how media like this exists alongside their source material.

What I've written here would be the foundation of the post, so there would be some overlap, but it would definitely be more in-depth, using examples from film novelizations and video game novelizations that I personally own, drawing comparisons from film clips or screenplays and corresponding cutscenes.