#but it will have actual vw. eventually.

[orcelito]

FANTASTIC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i finished & posted the ITNL 14 re-edits, WHICH MEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm officially done with my re-edits project!!!!!!!!!! :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ive been thinking a lot today about my plans for ITNL 15, AND i have tomorrow off, so if all goes well i'll be able to start writing again. TOMORROW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and if the chapter grips me like i expect it will then... hehehehehe

could be an update in as little as a few days, depending. i'll keep u guys updated

[piratefishmama]

Thinking abt Steve and Robin, Robin and Steve, two people who look so alike, who act so alike, who are basically siblings, who could actually be twins separated at birth if not for the age gap

(let's ignore that gap, or claim Steve skipped a grade cause he was a 'gifted' child that stopped being 'gifted' as he grew up in that typical neurodivergent experience kinda way).

Imagine it, Robin Buckley, an accidental pregnancy from a romp in the back of a VW, imagine if the Buckleys had twins but could only manage to take care of one, putting up the other for adoption because no matter how much they love the little bean, they can't afford two.

Now imagine The Harringtons, rich and influential and desperate for a child of their own (even if it eventually turns out that they'd never be completely ready to be parents) but... maybe something was wrong. maybe Mrs Harrington couldn't, or Mr Harrington was shooting a few too many blanks to make it work and no matter how many times they try... it just doesnt happen for them.

And then this little boy is born to a couple in Hawkins, a surprise extra alongside their little girl. A deal quickly struck, the Harringtons pay for everything, all the medical bills, and give the Buckleys enough to get them started with a house and enough money to start a college fund for their little girl, as long as they get the little boy before he's adopted by someone else.

And then one day, shortly after the mall burns down, Robin brings home this boy who she claims saved her life. This impossibly beautiful boy, covered from head to toe in pretty little moles and big, beautiful hazel eyes like Mrs Buckley, with Mr Buckleys strong jaw and broad shoulders.

Their little boy has come home, and it takes everything they have to not pull him into their arms and into their home all at once, so it happens gradually, he's invited to dinners, to holidays, he's welcome to stay the night, he has first dibs on the guest room, even has clothes in the closet there, he and Robin are inseparable, they're siblings, without a shadow of a doubt they're siblings. they found each other despite everything.

They might tell him, or they might not, it doesnt really matter.

Their little boy is home, and he's GOING to get all the love he missed out on even if it kills them.

[myuminji]

I don't have much to ramble about but having 4 reincarnation aus on the go is so real, trimax -> tristamp reincarnation au drives me insane on the daily. begging to hear about the other reincarnation aus pretty pls

(also your art is so charming and lovely!! I love your comics hehe)

UOHOHOHO I SEE WE THINK ALIKE ANON 🤝 reincarnation AU ALWAYS drives me insane too!!! Trigun especially is giving me too much power for me not to waste em yknow?😩😩

(heads up: there's LOTS of rambles, and they're all VW-centric)

Timeloop/Reincarnation AU where Vash reverses the time every time he fails to save Wolfwood, despite having the guilt of knowing Wolfwood will have to go through everything again had Vash chosen to loop the timeline again...

Shouldn't he let him finally get his peace? Isn't it cruel to make him suffer yet again through this horrid nightmare?

(Have you ever imagined if his "I can see it in his eyes" or "all I see is a man forcing himself to play the devil while his heart cries out" is because Vash knows he's actually not like that? That the man he knows has been kind, kind to him. But will also fear what will happen to him if he pushes his belief upon Wolfwood... Would he rather see the Wolfwood he'd known from his past? Or would he let him kill; a cold murderer, befitting of his title as 'The Punisher' in favour of his survival? But could you still call him the same Wolfwood he's known from before? Should he even try to reverse the time again? Hadn't he suffered enough?)

Reincarnation AU trimax VW but focusing on reincarnated! Wolfwood instead, chasing after Vash at every cycle of his life so he can protect, and ultimately, save him from his misery.

(He fails, quite a lot of times. But Vash doesn't need to know how many times.)

Everything was all white. And before he knew it, it was dark. Wolfwood wakes up again in a different place than he used to live in. But more than that, a different body (It was confusing at first, but he's quick to connect the dots when he finds a familiar face he could not mistake for others, now in a wanted poster, spanning across the walls of the buildings: "Vash The Stampede" it says. Wolfwood remembers: it was the man who greets him every time he enters the shop; him donning an apron as he serves other customers and he in his working outfit, back from a job he can remember no longer...)

Star-crossed Lovers where Wolfwood eventually realised he only dies because he tries tp save Vash. He could've lived a long, normal life, even stop his loop! But he didn't. Wolfwood who'd rather live short lives and die countless times just to save him... and the closest he's been with him relationship-wise is where his death is mourned the most...

(whether he thinks it's shit or not, Wolfwood still doesn't know. But had he known it'd be the last time he sees him, he'd have at least pulled him into a kiss. Say sweetheart, how about a thank you kiss?)

Reincarnation AU (trimax->tristamp) but this time both of them have bits of recollections of the past they never told each other they know.

Vash being more deadset on stopping Nai and now EOM as his main objectives, passively avoiding visiting orphanages at all costs in his travels,

Wolfwood as a kid who knew what will become of him when he's selected by the EOM but still joins and persists through his experiments with the thought "This could help the spikey his memories seem so keen on remembering" or an "I could only meet him this way, protect him this way"

Imagine the panic that settles when the timeline doesn't line up with their previous life, "what do you mean I met the gang before the July incident, and who is this old man??" Wolfwood

Eriks going missing for 2 years as written, thinking he should really, really avoid Wolfwood for good before he gets dragged any deeper, maybe he should run away from everything this time?

And Wolfwood desperately searching for him for the whole 2 years, even though he knows he'll find him again, fearing how he gets closer to the time because "what if something is different this time and I can't meet him?" or "What if I'm not supposed to be by his side this time?"

The last one is the one I talked on prev post! Reincarnation AU (trimax->tristamp) but it's only Wolfwood who remembers, and it's mostly a "trying to move on but failing miserably because you can never say no to your (reincarnated) partner"

Wolfwood reminiscing how similar yet so different this life is... thinks how "the ticket to the future is blank, and it led me back to you"

[randomnameless]

what do you think about people saying unicorn overlord's worst point is its plot?

Hmm...

I'd say plot or not plot, what matters the most is execution.

You can have the grandest and brightest idea ever, if your execution is lacking, no matter what the plot was supposed to be, it won't lend which makes you wonder what the frick did you actually play.

However, if you have a vanilla plot but a good execution, while the story will seem to be milquetoast, ultimately you will have spent a good time/neutral time playing through it.

UO's plot is kind of simple, blue lord is ousted of his kingdom and must retake it by making allies all around the world, to gather all of his friends and forces and get rid of the usurper red emperor. Vengeance being empty, the blue lord must learn the reasons/greater plot behind the red emperor's, well, rise and while not giving him a pass because they can walk together, blue lord eventually defeats the evil sorcerer who was behind the red emperor.

But the execution? Is why I really like this game!

In the same vein, Baten Kaitos (1) is also a story about finding mcguffins to prevent an evil god from being resurrected, but when it is you must gather allies and rely on the friends you made through the game to defeat it, after/while learning that there's more to that evil god than first thought (that's BK2!)...

It's pretty standard JRPG wise, but it still works because of the execution.

For the lowest/weakest/worst aspect of UO to me it'd be, without any contest, the fanservice.

Sure, the devs designed Linharagos with exposed legs to make him "sexy", but compared to the elven fencers it's... like saying you're eating sesame, when you're only eating a burger with sesame seeds on the bun.

The M!Mercenary and Landsken-Landsknecht sprite has huge muscles that would make some people from the FEH redshit uncomfortable, and yet, they can't be compared to Scarlett or Celeste's jiggle physics.

I know fanservice is VW's bread and butter, and yet it still makes me a bit upset that for all the praise and enjoyment I derive from this game and its goodies (the artbook!), ultimately I know the reason why Aramis wears pants when Melisandre doesn't, even if they are in the same class.

[pondslime]

Curious as to what you’ve said “haha what if I jokingly shipped them/headcanoned this ironically” about……… please do tell. If u are so inclined 👀 (but no pressure ofc 💜)

uh OH!!!!!!!

under the CUT bc a bitch sure can TALK

SHIPS:

gonna start off w/chainshipping. NOT bc I started shipping them as a joke. bc no. I've been deathly serious about them from the JUMP. tragically!!

but chainshipping...............in the context of this stupid ass princess bride au. it WAS a joke. it was a fun time. it was playing dolls ALONE in my ROOM.

and now................I'm actually thinking I'm gonna publish it for other ppl to potentially read & suffer thru.

ACE. I made a lil fic graphic the other day:

.....................it's so Over.

(knives out/the menu) I SAW THIS GIFSET and now I'm a marta/margot truther. they're dating. in my head. I cannot shake this. it's canon to me. I never crosspollinate characters from vastly separate media!!! except I do. in this case.

(saw ii) amanda/addison/laura!! I have an unfinished wip in my drafts for them. that I luv v much. it's a kinda-dreary/kinda-warm n cozy/kinda-contemplative/VERY gay lil piece.

bc what if they all made it out of the nerve gas house together?? and what if they holed up in a dumpy lil apartment?? the medicine cabinet is full of nail polish and makeup that laura steals from riteaid. addison is constantly unclogging the shitty fuckin tub. amanda has a drawer full of knives in the bedroom. the front door is firmly bolted but that's never enough. so, they sleep in shifts. laura sandwiched in the middle. and they argue and scrape by. eat takeout and kiss. none of them are normal.

I'll finish it eventually gdhfshgfhdsghfds

HEADCANONS:

(midnight mass) father paul in the vw bug on his way 2 abercrombie & fitch. to buy skinny jeans w/the church credit card. re: my deranged tags on this gifset.

this is SO canon to me. as far as I'm concerned, it was featured in the show. it wasn't. but it was.

(saw) strahm having played baseball in his youth.

this is all bc I stumbled upon the knowledge that scott patterson actually did play baseball in his 20's.

and he looked rather scrumdiddlyumptious while doing so. my bread and butter is research born from [insert whorism here].

this hc was further exacerbated & cemented by one of many unhinged late night convos w/@visceravalentines about the guyfreaks. we're both v convinced @ this point that strahm has a baseball-related old sports injury. it occasionally flares up when he shoots. definitely had to go to work-mandated PT bc of a particularly bad reaction to recoil once. and he hated every second of it.

additionally, strahm being a u2/goo goo doll fan. he just IS. to me.

(house of wax) litcherally ANYTHING I have EVER said on here about the sinclair's. especially boseph. y'all should've locked me up & thrown away the key YEARS ago. using this post as an example.

^ ofc, these are just the thangs currently @ the top of my mind. like bubbles on top of a carbonated drink. if u dive into that glass..............well. radiation. poisoning.

[bees-tornado]

hello stranger! I will ask you some questions! 6, 9, 26, 32!

thank you for the numbers stranger I owe you my life

6. Which route is your favorite?

I’m very biased towards Verdant Wind, largely because it’s my first route, but also because Claude is there + the way it explores and uncovers the game’s lore + it has the best final battle IMO. I really really like Azure Moon’s story though so it’s a close second.

9. What is your favorite scene in the game (can be in the main story or a support convo)?

Okay because this question is sort of open-ended I’m gonna do main story AND support convo.

As for animated cutscenes, I have two favorites. One would have to be the VW final fight, I won’t describe what I like about it in great detail because there’s a certain someone I know who will probably be reading this and still needs to finish VW cough cough, but it’s just a really cool sequence and I just think Claude really gets to shine in it. Two would have to be the Blue Lions’ Flame Emperor reveal because. Yeah. Uh. Wow. That was really something. The laugh? The shot of the spear flying by Edelgard? The way it really showed Dimitri’s monstrous strength for the first time? Very good. I had been looking forward to seeing how Dimitri cracks in that route and it did not disappoint when I finally got there.

As for supports, I’m not sure if I can pick just one, but a moment that really stayed with me was a Sylvain line from his B Support with Annette:

“There's just one thing I want you to remember. Guys like me who hate hard work and sorta get by on our wits? It all falls apart eventually. I'm smart enough to know that. So I respect people like you. I mean it.”

It’s a line that really personally resonated with me, and that was probably around the time I realized how much I liked Sylvain as a character.

Some of my other favorite support chains include Bernadetta/Sylvain and Bernadetta/Yuri, but it’s been so long since I’ve seen some of these supports that I’m sure I’m forgetting a few.

(Okay, I’m gonna try to reel myself in with all the text from this point on, because if I don’t I’ll never finish answering this ask lmao)

26. Who is your overall favorite character?

I love both Bernadetta and Sylvain very much but if I had to choose my overall favorite (looks nervously at merchandise on wall/shelf/etc.), I would have to go with Bernie. She was actually the first student character besides the house leaders that I knew about before the game came out and I knew I would have to recruit her.

I’m not sure how well I can put it into words unless I write a whole essay about it (that might be its own post one day), but I see a lot of both my gf and myself in her, and there are a lot of things about her character that are just really charming.

She caught me a little off guard early in the game because she had a lot more going on than I expected, but just like Sylvain, I think there was one moment when Bernadetta really captured my heart, that being when she showed up at the graveyard in Chapter 10. Not only was she (iirc) the only person to explicitly leave flowers for Jeralt, but she left her room and went all the way across campus during exploration hours for the first time to do it. She has several moments like this, where she goes above and beyond on her own volition despite her anxiety. I dunno, I just think she’s neat.

32. What is your favorite post-timeskip character design or outfit?

I love so many of the post-timeskip character designs, but there are two characters in particular that really blew me away when I saw them for the first time after the timeskip.

First of all is Bernadetta, they just made her soooo pretty for no good reason. I love her hair, her bow, her earrings, her pauldrons, her outfit, her color scheme, and how they kept her silly little bicycle shorts. Rip to the hoodie, but she has this sort of yellow cloak-like piece with the clasp that sort of gives off the same vibe.

Second is Lorenz, they took away his haha funny academy haircut and made him downright majestic. I also love how the rose is incorporated into his armor.

Anyways THAT’S IT! I’M DONE

[semi-imaginary-place]

I Beat Verdant Wind New Game Maddening but Claude was Level 1 Until Part 2

I play a lot of maddening but I like collecting skill levels and what not so I've primarily been playing on one continuous file that's like 900+ hours long, so I finally decided to do maddening ng and collect the golden title screen but just doing ng seemed boring so additionally I decided to never use Claude during part 1 aka a Lord-less White Clouds run. I did have dlc because i hadn't seem the Abyss VW dialogue yet. I started this back in like 2022 and then put off finishing it because of the part 2 doldrums so it took me until june 2023 to finish this run.

So all the way until Hunting by Daybreak Claude was level 1, from the first chapter all the way until then Claude never faced an enemy or gained exp, and then during that map he gained like 20 levels and i forgot to screenshot it. The screenshot above is Claude at level 45 right before the final map, I threw all the stat items (minus mag) onto him before the final fight, and he got pretty close to some of his stat caps, 2 off max str and he could have gotten max hp but my last item was a +5 so instead of wasting 4hp hilda got that item instead.

I haven't done a more optimized run in quite a while (usually i'm running joke builds like brawl Marianne) so this was quite fun. Let me know if you want to know the builds or have any questions. I might edit this and ramble some more later.

edit1: NG Maddening wasn't that bad for me. I usually play on NG+ but that's just for collecting skill levels I never use the gameplay benefits of NG+ anyways so minus some grinding NG was the same difficulty that I usually play at. The biggest difference this round was resisting the urge to make another wacky terrible build and instead do things more optimally for once. Which is partly why I challenged myself to not use Claude in part 1. Early game was very hard as the game is designed for the player to rely on Byleth and the lord as power units. In early game most of the Golden Deer were just starting their builds and not very useful, and not only was I down a lord unit but I had 1 less deployment slot to work with. Part 2 was pretty easy as all the characters settled into their builds in advanced and master classes and I got a stronger Claude back so to keep things interesting I didn't actually use any of the stat boosting items until the final battle. I played with the idea of 1-turning the final boss but couldn't get the movement to work out, so I 4-turned the final map. I am S support grinding so maybe I can still shave time and turns off the final map. S support grinding was another reason I used this strategy in this run. So I did this all for 3 reason: maddening is boring otherwise, faster final map for S support grind, and lastly I did it for Claude.

edit2: Builds

Claude: bows tutoring focus, wyvern master. I mostly used Claude as a player phase unit but he had an enemy phase alt build that I used on the last map. I also picked up +1 movement for some more versatility. Also crit KING, I'd put a killer bow+ on him and have like 90 crit. Because of the White Clouds challenge Claude didn't start his build until part 2 where I picked up death blow. Was considering wyvern lord but wasn't worth it.

Byleth and Hilda: darting blow + death blow wyvern lords. Hilda also picked up alert stance+ and is one of 2 enemy phase dodgetanks. These were my 2 axe users this run, by the end they would sometimes 4x hit with a brave axe.

Seteth, Ferdinand, Sylvain: swiftstrikes wyvern lords (yes I had like 6 wyverns). Ferdinand was the other dodgetank besides Hilda and I gave him the Spear of Assal/Ochian shield to augment his personal. Seteth and Sylvain eventually picked up alert stance as well but I only used that on a couple maps. Ferdinand spent early game as an axe user because axes have higher might. Sylvain gets his relic easy so spent most of the game as a mixed lance/axe user. It's only once they got to rank A lances that I changed their builds to be lance focused. The builds of these 3 were pretty fluid depending on what I needed for the map like if there were a lot of sword enemies I'd use a swordbreaker lance build, if I needed enemy phase units they could all reasonably dodgetank, if there were a lot of lance enemies I'd use a lancebreaker axe build.

Leonie: bow crit machine. Leonie was very good. I swapped between sniper and bow knight depending on how much range/hit and run I wanted. I tend to use a lot of decentralized (no dancer or healer) hit and run guerilla tactics in my maddening runs. In some maps sniper was better like the final map.

Yuri went a similar route to Ignatz. He was my pick for this run's sword user and a dancer candidate. And like Ignatz I eventually gave up on swords because sniper is too good.

sooo yeah without my usual joke builds I ended up with a team of wyverns and snipers -_- maddening has such great balance huh /s. Above was my main team and then I'd usually have a few of the following characters to fill in the remaining deployment slots or replace someone if they needed exp.

Felix: brawling war master. What's more to say, high atk high speed high damage high survivability, crits like half the time. death blow + fistfaire + brawl crit

Ignatz picked up poisonstrike and spent a while in assassin. I considered keeping him assassin but sniper was just too good. He also made a good bow knight sapper/saboteur between poisonstrike, break arrow, or he'd just crit and kill them anyways.

Marianne: magic sword with high avoid, duelist blow, fiendish blow, sword avo. Marianne was the dancer and sword user of this run. She went down mage/bishop and her final class was mortal savant but she spend a lot of time in gremory for growths and trickster for duelist's blow. This is the most useful I've ever seen Marianne. I don't really use healers/mages, most mages can't double in maddening so don't have the raw damage, don't have the move to keep up with my guerilla tactics, and are too squishy. I didn't use Marrianne as dancer very often because I don't use dancers much, why field a dancer when I can have another wyvern, and I didn't want to tank her mag too much. I hadn't used Marianne in a long time and she wasn't MVP like Ferdinand or Hilda or Claude but she could hold her own on the front line and this is the most damage I've ever seen out of her. She was my only sword user by the end so Marianne got to have all the nice swords I'd collected all to herself.

Lorenz: frozen lance. I'd never done a frozen lance build so I decided to try it. Lorenz ended up good in the midgame but his early and late game were meh. He went up the mage line for mag+2 and fiendish blow. Early game suffered because he was a mage with a stick. Once he got into paladin and lancefaire Lorenz was doing very good, high enough damage to OHKO most enemies and canto made for a useful Lorenz. But staying in paladin made his mag growth inconsistent so his damage started to lag in late game, so he spend increasing time in dark knight which traded the power of lancefaire for the versatility of magic. With Thrysus Lorenz is probably the tankiest mage in the game.

Lysithea, Hapi, Constance: the mages. The standard mage build: monk, mage, bishop, gremory. Had them also take a detour to valkyrie for uncanny blow to fix their accuracy issues. mag+2 + fiendish blow + faire + range+1. Hapi didn't spend a lot of time attacking, she was probably the most healer-like unit of the game. Lysithea and Hapi also got dark knight for the faire.

Raphael and Balthus: brawl/axe war masters. I didn't use them quite as much since they get doubled on enemy phase sometimes. I had them using both weapon types for a lot of the game since sometimes a single strong axe hit was better for the situation. I mostly compensated for accuracy with batallions/rings instead of bothering to go archer.

Flayn, Anna, and Hanneman were there too. Flayn was healer when the other mages got over-leveled. I was building up Anna as a sniper but I always had too many units. Alois was built like Raph but kind of got dropped because I had more than enough better units.

edit3: don't know when I'll start another playthrough but I was considering a maddening AM no healing (no hp goes up ever) and no Byleth run, or maybe I'll get my final S supports on SS.

When Claude autoclasses into Wyvern Master he gets a massive stat boost so even if his numeric level is low his stats are on par with a much higher level character (this is also why he is more spd but less dex than a normal Claude since his unique classes have more speed growth while the archer line has more dex growth). My Byleth was on a wyvern so they could have soloed the map I had Byleth frontline, dodgetank, and soften enemies for Claude to finish. Because he's so low level Claude leveled up with every kill and got like half a level just for attacking so he gained levels fast on that map. Between Ashes and Dust and cleaning up after Byleth's leftovers I was quickly able to get Claude to like level 10 or something at which point he was one rounding enemies with Failnaught. I leveled bows flying and riding on him so with alert stance his survivability on that map was also very high. Lastly I invested in all the Golden Deer so they could all take care of themselves and didn't need to be saved.

All promotions are reclasses, Three Houses is very sandbox like you can put any character into just about any class. In maddening there's a sharp exp curve but the enemies are also higher leveled and I had dlc auxiliary battles which had higher level enemies. That said I took a break in the middle of this palythrough so I don't actually remember what level everyone was at the start of part 2. I might be remembering wrong and maybe Byleth was a wyvern rider.

[butwhatifidothis]

Have you ever considered, once you finish sporking that fic, washing the taste out of your mouth by taking a look at fics in the fandom you like/think deserve more attention?

Even one of my favourite sites, Cake Wrecks, does a feature on Sundays were it's cakes they think are really nicely-decorated so it's not all downers.

😭 i think i need to clear up something lmao

I already read fics that I enjoy - reread old ones, look out for new ones, write a good few myself (here's two of them lol). I read my trashy little otome isekai villainess manhuas that I love to death. I play the shit out of Hades. I play DnD with irl buds every Wednesday. I'm watching - and rewatching - episodes of the new Bleach anime, and am eagerly awaiting for June to come around to give more. I play Smash Ultimate with my big sis and lil bro. I replay VW every now and then. I play BBS and hope to finally pull the last couple Valentine's/Academy Momo's I need to have fully completed all the Momo's in the game (so far).

I already do plenty of things that I thoroughly enjoy doing - I talk about the fic a lot here, but y'all don't have to worry; I do, in fact, do things I enjoy doing lmao.

But! I do want to give some attention to fics I really enjoy! I've already talked about most of them before, but it never hurts to do it again lol. Most of them are dmcl so if that's not up your alley, well, rip, but if it is then yeah!

Princes of Silver and Gold is sooo good - and very meaty! It deals with Dimitri and Claude getting bopped back to the prologue after the events of Saving Derdriu, after a mysterious spell seems to ambush them during a moment of peace. It's has a lot per chapter to take in - 4 chapters, +129,000 words, a very dense read - but imo it never feels like too much. I've reread this a good few times actually! There's a lot of 3H's lore that's played around with and given more oomph to it that really makes the fic feel alive, which is always nice.

Be Not Proud: an absolute downer for sure, can't ever get through it without snivellin' and snottin', but it's a really touching look into Nader and Claude's relationship. It revolves around Claude's last moments on a CF run where he isn't spared - very sad oneshot, but very memorable imo.

Everyone Leaves Eventually: an interesting oneshot about the Black Eagles leaving Edelgard's side one by one as she gets more and more aggressive with her war, from Hubert's POV. Granted, Hubert is more than a smidge OOC for it to work - he's given a good bit more morality than he's shown to ever have canonically - but as a concept it's interesting, and it's a neat read all around. If you're willing to accept that this Hubert is less like canon!Hubert than he ought to be, I'd definitely recommend it!

Survivor's Burden: another one that's kind of a downer, but with a much happier ending than Be Not Proud. Revolving around the idea of Claude and Dimitri surviving SS Gronder, with Claude doing his best to keep him and Dimitri alive in the woods. It's a bit long for a oneshot - a bit over 30,000 words for one sitting - but! It's definitely worth it imo. Plus! It was part of the dmcl Big Bang that happened a couple years ago, so this one also has great art to go along with it at certain points!

to this vow, i hold fast: yet again this is being recommended by me lmao because it is beyond amazing. It's a slow-burn dmcl political-marriage AU of post-war Fodlan, and it's just a joy to read through. The one thing I'll say about this one, as much as I love it to bits, is that, hm... you can tell the author also ships Dimi///leth. Understandable what I mean by that once you read it, and it can be quite a bit annoying to see it imo, but also imo it doesn't take enough away from the quality for me to ever do anything but recommend it lol. This multi-chapter fic is actually almost complete, from what I understand! So there's that too.

seeking humanity: a dmcl AU where Claude is a traveler and Dimitri is (seemingly, anyway) the god of death, and they make a pact: Claude either gets Dimitri to like humans in half a year's time, or he gives up his soul to Dimitri. I am a huge fan of how the characters are, well, characterized in this fic; everyone is just a joy to read through! Even characters I don't care that much for (especially with how they tend to be written in fics), like Leonie and Lorenz, are just great. And the mysteries this fic has in it are also really fun to think about, with all the crumbs the story lays down to try and follow.

please give them a shot!! If they're up your alley anyway lol

[the-firebird69]

and he says to add the it's not the centenario. It's the other one that sounds like that. And it is the saline. and to make modifications. and to run the saline line except for the truck. These are good ideas and going up the street with this. A great idea. And we have eateries and wineries and all sorts of things that match each and some of our facilities are not close to the water, but they will be and for now we can ship things. and have an assembly facility near the water for yachts. And we're looking to talk to the big wigs. who would be running it out there and the big wigs working with them. They say they don't get along with they sort of do But they would have these places because of the agreement. So we're getting going on this stuff. These are great ideas that were coming up with here. And he's doing it to make a larger. approach and for a lot more people and we probably need it. Yeah. So we're gonna try and get going on it. And he says to grab those factories and stick them out there. And we're gonna add them to the plan. And it's a great idea. and we should have thought of it but we thinking we're just gonna make production cars and it's not gonna cut it. up. We had a spot for it, but yeah, this is a better idea. And to have the upscale office areas and things. And actually. selling up scale vehicles and eventually. will make a production car out of them like the saline company. was and we will start doing that pretty quickly. There's really no kit car with that company and that'll become a Mecca for high performance vehicles and we know where it is. This is a good idea and I'm gonna put it forward to Olympus right now. and he says don't forget motorcycles and light cycles and electric motorcycles would be somewhere around there. And it's true. And all wheel drive works for us.

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues Hera and bja shut up damnit

He's right, too, the lower end stuff would be like Lamborghini and such. They could have a really low end and it'll probably be across town. And It would be for people like our son, who can't afford anything And it would come from the Midwest, and they're saying there are people and Tommy F was looking to do it.

Thor Freya

and we do this and i say im his people nd ahahah need a big one and ok fun

tommy f and see it too the lambo is nice. i liek it too. and yeh ok the cart and wasnt ok but ok there are soe like it no. the kart is german. and a german top. vw and eyes a kit kinda not made for it and i found a top tht is a l ot more elegant yes. and after he raced around with it. german design so porche i t hink yup most likely. so we ck soon y es yuup good

Olympus

[ravenspeakrp]

Welcome to Raven’s Peak, Brees, we’re excited to have you! Willow Chamberlain (Emily Browning, human) has been accepted. Please be sure to stop by the CHECKLIST for the follow list, tags to track, and other reminders.

IN CHARACTER 

FULL NAME: Willow Chamberlain SPECIES: Human AGE: 32 DATE OF BIRTH: June 2nd GENDER IDENTITY: Cis Female NEIGHBORHOOD: Trailer park in Cherry Heights OCCUPATION: Waitress WORKPLACE: The Golden Spoon POSITIVE TRAITS: Accepting, Caring, Clever NEGATIVE TRAITS: Sarcastic, Cynical, Withdrawn LENGTH OF TIME IN RAVEN’S PEAK: 3 years FACE CLAIM: Emily Browning

BIOGRAPHY

TRIGGER WARNING: addiction, domestic violence, hospital

The life that Willow was born into was one of privilege and esteem. She was a Chamberlain. Anything she could have wanted or needed at her beck and call. This life came with certain expectations on her part, however. The years that her parents had spent building their empire were regularly thrown in their children’s faces and her family’s reputation had to be preserved of course. She was a Chamberlain. The fourth of seven children, it was very easy for Willow to fade into the background. Quietly going about her business.

In high school, things changed. Her older siblings had started working for a financial firm her family owned when they got to high school and her father determined it was time for Willow to join them. It was time to learn the family secret. They were hunters of one of the oldest families. They had been aware of the supernatural for generations and they did their best to rid the world of the virus.

This was also the same time that she started popping pills. It was an accepted practice in her world, for the most part. There were pills for anything you wanted. To keep you awake, to make you sleep, to make you happy, to make you fuck. Anything you could possibly want. The side effect being a deep addiction that was neither acknowledged nor addressed.

For her 18th birthday, her family had a large party planned. Celebrating her acceptance into a prestigious college after her father made a rather large donation to their alumni fund. Willow never showed up. She had decided to go out with some friends instead and ended up passed out on someone’s couch in a part of town that her name should never have been in. The beating that her father delivered when she finally went home landed her in the hospital but it was all carefully covered. They were Chamberlains, after all, and she was held to a certain standard.

Secretly, Willow purchased an old VW van that was outfitted as a camper. She had it hidden in storage along with everything she considered important to her. Which was very little. Once she had healed enough that her father deemed her presentable enough for the public, he allowed her to start school. She actually took her van and started driving west.

It took her a few years before she made it to California where she figured she could get into acting. Occasionally she reached out to her siblings but as far as her parents were concerned, they now only had six children. Her older siblings seemed to follow in that lead but the younger ones would sometimes give her updates. It didn’t bother Willow much. She had moved on. The hard work and long hours that she had come to know working for her family served her well. She was able to work odd jobs for cash and earned enough to eat and live, her van serving as her home.

The big break she expected never came. After a few years, she decided to travel again. Willow made her way across the country eventually finding her way to Raven’s Peak. She took a job as a waitress temporarily and figured she’d earn enough to move on. She never did. The job was good and the people were friendly enough hidden among the very people her family detested. And most importantly, she was left alone. No one expected her to do or say anything. That invisible world that had protected her as a child was finally back. Though the loneliness that came with it proved much deeper as an adult.

[max--phillips]

FOR THOSE WITHOUT SPARES !!!

If you drive a used car, there’s a chance a previous owner took the spare out and there no longer is a spare in your car. If you are among the luckier of us and happen to be driving a newer model and/or a sports car, your vehicle may not have a spare.

Notable brands I know for a FACT do not put spares in some of their cars anymore include Chevy (sedans & Corvettes), Audi, and VW.

So, what’s a person to do if they have a flat?

Well, if you’re in group A (used car that just doesn’t have a spare anymore), I highly highly highly recommend going out and getting yourself one of these

The brand is Slime, and it’s a kit that will (TEMPORARILY!!!!!!!!!) repair your tire and inflate it should you get a flat. There are instructions inside, and they’re pretty easy to follow. These are pretty affordable, I think around $35, and it’ll get you on the road.

This is a temporary fix, though: you will need to take your car in to a shop to have a permanent repair done on your tire. You should be good for a while (I’m talking weeks) but it is not meant to be a permanent fix, and will eventually give out again. Most tire places will do them pretty cheap (if you’re in the Indiana, Belle Tire is known to do them for free on occasion). Just go in and say you need a tire patched, and that you used a slime kit to do a temporary repair.

If you’re in group B and have a fancy new car that just didn’t come with a spare, chances are the car manufacturer put their own brand of slime kit in the back. Make sure you can locate it! Instructions should be with it, but will also most likely be in your owners manual. If you’ve already used the kit that came with the car, and you’re somehow out of the slime (they give you way more than you actually need), you can just buy another slime kit like the one above.

ALSO! If you have a spare tire in the back that’s a “donut,” meaning it isn’t a full-sized tire and is in fact smaller, you’ll probably see a sticker on the side that says something like “50 MPH” (or whatever the KMH equivalent is. 75 I think?). YOU SHOULD NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE OVER THAT SPEED WHILE YOU ARE USING THE SPARE. Seriously. They are not designed to go faster than that. Driving faster than that may make that tire blow too, and then you’re SOL. It’ll also probably fuck up your suspension & alignment, if the alignment doesn’t get fucked up just by using the spare at all (easily fixable though, you should get an alignment check regularly). If you drive a pickup truck, an SUV on a truck chassis (Suburban, Tahoe, Escalade, Armada, etc), or a jeep with a tire on the back (and probably the gladiator, though I guess that’s technically a pickup) you probably have a full-sized spare and won’t need to worry about this, but still check.

Anyway. Get your oil changed every 5,000 miles, get your tires balanced and rotated, if you find your car pulling to one side while you’re driving straight you probably need an alignment, and make sure your tires are inflated to the right psi otherwise they will wear wonky and not last as long.

in the same spirit as those posts reminding you to drink some water and take your meds:

if you have a car, when’s the last time you checked your spare tire? because i know at least two people who’ve recently discovered that they couldn’t actually access their spare because they’d misplaced the necessary tool or some other thing. check your spare tire!! make sure you’ll be able to use it when you need it!!!

[orcelito]

The longer I spend in trigun fandom the more sure I am that it makes me happier than p5 fandom. Like I vaguely thought about making a discord for fans of my p5 fic but did away with the thought bc I did NOT want to deal with all the bullshit of interacting with the fandom so directly

But I've had a trigun server for 2 months now and I like it a lot actually. It's so nice! I love my server a lot!

And genuinely, trigun fandom is not without its faults. I get skeeved out so much by That entire part of the fandom, but I've generally made it manageable by blocking anyone who makes me see that shit in the tags :p. Within my pairing of choice, it's almost peaceful! Still not without fault, but most of the worst shit I generally see is bad mischaracterization. It's nothing like the worst shit I've seen with akeshu fandom.

So like. Vashwood vs akeshu. I love both pairings very much. But holy fucking SHIT vashwood fandom is so much more tolerable than akeshu fandom. Oh my Fucking god. Yeah there's some very good reason aside from general hyperfocus stuff as to why I've been playing around with trigun so much more than p5 lol

[greywoodrpg]

𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕒𝕚𝕟

she was born thirty-two years ago, is a human and lives in white oaks as a waitress. she looks an awful lot like emily browning.

"I’m not starry eyed, and I’m not money crazy."

tw: addiction, domestic violence, hospital

The life that Willow was born into was one of privilege and esteem. She was a Chamberlain. Anything she could have wanted or needed at her beck and call. This life came with certain expectations on her part, however. The years that her parents had spent building their empire were regularly thrown in their children’s faces and her family’s reputation had to be preserved of course. She was a Chamberlain. The fourth of seven children, it was very easy for Willow to fade into the background. Quietly going about her business. In high school, things changed. Her older siblings had started working for the financial firm her family owned when they got to high school and her father determined it was time for Willow to join them. It didn’t take long for her to discover this was not what she wanted to do with her life. It was easier to stay quiet and bide her time. Continuing on with the plans her parents made for her. If nothing else she was earning money to get where she wanted. Though she wasn’t exactly sure where that was either. This was also the same time that she started popping pills. It was an accepted practice in her world, for the most part. There were pills for anything you wanted. To keep you awake, to make you sleep, to make you happy, to make you fuck. Anything you could possibly want. The side effect being a deep addiction that was neither acknowledged nor addressed. For her 18th birthday, her family had a large party planned. Celebrating her acceptance into a prestigious college after her father made a rather large donation to their alumni fund. Willow never showed up. She had decided to go out with some friends instead and ended up passed out on someone’s couch in a part of town that her name should never have been in. The beating that her father delivered when she finally went home landed her in the hospital but it was all carefully covered. They were Chamberlains, after all, and she was held to a certain standard. Secretly, Willow purchased an old VW van that was outfitted as a camper. She had it hidden in storage along with everything she considered important to her. Which was very little. Once she had healed enough that her father deemed her presentable enough for the public, he allowed her to start school. She actually took her van and started driving west. It took her a few years before she made it to California where she figured she could get into acting. Occasionally she reached out to her siblings but as far as her parents were concerned, they now only had six children. Her older siblings seemed to follow in that lead but the younger ones would sometimes give her updates. It didn’t bother Willow much. She had moved on. The hard work and long hours that she had come to know working for her family served her well. She was able to work odd jobs for cash and earned enough to eat and live, her van serving as her home. The big break she expected never came. After a few years, she decided to travel again. She’d seen quite a bit of the southern half of the country and decided to see the north. Willow made her way across the country eventually finding her way to Greywood. She took a job as a waitress temporarily and figured she’d earn enough to move on. She never did. The job was good and the people were friendly enough. And most importantly, she was left alone. No one expected her to do or say anything. That invisible world that had protected her as a child was finally back. Though the loneliness that came with it proved much deeper as an adult.

“what power did she attain when settling in greywood?”

Hear the thoughts of people she touches. As a result, she tends to avoid touching people since she thinks it’s rude to intrude on their privacy.

penned by... brees

[omgcashforscrapcars]

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[acertainmoshke]

WIP intro: City of Frost (Cold Iron #2)

This book takes place almost 40 years later, in the early 90’s. At some point Shaka and Kris gave up living in the subway and now live in an old VW bus on the road. Kris has discovered that he kind of likes making friends, and there are more inhuman beings out there than you would expect, though most of them are not Fae. Some humans have turned out to be cool too and now their main network is aging queer punks they met 20 years ago. They’re in their mid-70’s now but Shaka is still physically (and mentally) around 27 while Kris is around 35. That’s enough of a difference that he’s realized he ages faster and is finding an equation about it. He also realized he likes math. Too bad he never got to go to school.

Everything has started to feel pretty repetitive, though. Sure they save the occasional person, but like the heroes they used to read about in comics they stole (incidentally during the Golden Age of comics), they don't change much. Plus they just got to take Cassie on another week of adventures and without her everything seems quiet and depressing. So, Shakatra decides to make a change.

A while back they met another changeling much older than them named Althea, and she became kind of a mentor and a calming influence. Though an excellent fighter she had gotten bored with that and become a bartender in Anchorage. Her pub is also the base for the local branch of the Veil Guard, the human sorcerer army tasked with keeping the Fae out as much as possible.

The army is almost entirely human, but they do seem to make a difference, so Shaka decides to join up. Kris hates the idea--every time they visit the guards treat them like spies--and goes off on his own adventure in the Alaskan countryside. As expected, Shakatra is not welcomed by most. The local general, however, is fairly chill and takes a liking to them and sees their value to the fight. Althea is there, though they are seen as less threatening and mostly ignored while Shaka is outright feared. Shakatra shares their room. Most of the other soldiers live in a nearby barracks--the training yard and briefing/planning rooms are at the pub--but there are a few bedrooms there. In one of them live Jacob Naktan and his son Aaron.

Jacob is like no human Shakatra has ever met before. He doesn't even blink at them, and quite aside from looking horribly inhuman they generally carry a scowl that by this time intimidates most lesser Fae. He is not deterred, just polite at first, and slowly they become friends. They play cards and he invites them drinking with the others and pointedly includes them in socializing. They start going on late-night runs. At first Shaka wonders if this is what Kris was describing as his crushes, but eventually they decide it's just that they've never had a new friend before. He's funny and he thinks they're funny and they go do fun and different things they've never tried like the movies.

And then they meet his son, Aaron, and a lot more starts to make sense. Aaron is an 8-year-old changeling. His mother refused to touch or care for him when she realized her real child had been taken. She spent years bargaining with the Fae to get him back and then left with him when she did. But Jacob renamed Aaron and loved him as few other changelings are loved. Shaka becomes the fun mentor for him. He's a quiet kid but struggles to control his magic, which tends to manifest as fire. He loves seeing what they can do and looks up to them and it helps his self worth.

There's more actual fighting than they expected, too. Admittedly, what the VG thinks is a mounting invasion is mostly just a wild scramble of lesser Fae being opportunistic, but Shaka has no issue forcing them back. There are too many of them here already.

And then the worst happens and it stops being fun and suddenly they're on the run for something they didn't do (for once) with a kid who no longer seems that keen on their advice. They can't even figure out where Kris went, so they're on foot.

It's a weird feeling, wanting to clear their name. But someone is going to have to love this child.

And when they do eventually find Kris, he has some surprising news following an adventure of his own.

[sarah-dipitous]

Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 135

Amy’s Choice/The Man Who Knew Too Much

“Amy’s Choice”

Plot Description: When the Doctor returns to Amy’s life after five years, she faces an impossible choice

This one has one of the most heart wrenching lines

Oh god. Rory’s ponytail

The “Dream Lord” couldn’t give either of them a job? Anything? To give them more of a life? Make it more convincing? I dunno…especially considering the eventual twist (I think)

Nah. Doc, sometimes you CAN tell it’s a dream when you’re in it

Amy really gets the short end of the straw in this whole episode. She can’t run for half of it because dream her is extremely pregnant, we don’t have a job for her in the dream world yet (Rory gets to be a doctor), AND she’s the one this whole thing relies on

The sweater that old lady put on the Doctor is actually kind of goals. I want it

Oh. I love her putting the Doctor in his place. Yeah, this town is SUPER DULL, but you don’t get to say that shit when you’ve been yanking a very very pregnant woman around all day

“Nothing bad could happen here” as the Doctor examines the piles of dust that used to be this town’s children

Doctor Who can make anything scary: today? Old people in large groups. They’re a far cry from Wilf’s seniors group

The competitiveness between Rory and the Doctor is a really tiresome plotline that…god, does it ever end??

This VW bus full that the Doctor just keeps picking up every relatively young person in the town 💀

It’s kind of funny that Rory’s grand gesture is cutting off his ponytail 💀

Oh no. I don’t feel so good, Doctor

“This is the dream because if this is real, I don’t want it” 😭

You never told Rory you love him?? You two are getting MARRIED IN THE MORNING!! (Whenever morning ends up being) last episode he said it was a crime that he hadn’t said he loved her in seven hours

Oh shit, I forgot they were BOTH dreams

Wait. So he saw the Dream Lord again in his reflection, but…do we actually see him again??

“The Man Who Knew Too Much”

Plot Description: The wall comes down in Sam’s mind and all hell breaks loose while Dean and Bobby are powerless to help. The battle for heaven comes to a head.

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: well, no one died. Sam doesn’t know who he is, but that doesn’t mean anyone’s dead because of it

I can’t believe we’re at another season finale already

God bless this bartender. She’s way more patient and understanding at the end of her shift than I have EVER been

Sammy, you are much more than just some guy. You are one of god’s…..or the devil’s specialest little boys. I know you don’t know that right now, though

This girl does not have a self-preservation bone in her body if she’s going to go into that room alone with Sam while it looks like that and he just broke in…

Remember how I said I’m always a Castiel apologist? Yeah. Well. Professor Milf just died so…there is one thing I can’t forgive him for. He blames Crowley, but she said it didn’t get bad til the angel arrived

Wait…this whole time he’s been asleep? Or knocked out? So HOW MUCH OF ANY OF WHAT I HAVE WATCHED HAS BEEN REAL??

Why are we in so many dream scapes today??

So like…who’s this girl supposed to BE? What does she represent? Because she’s a figment of whatever Sam’s brain has cooked up

I know he’s in distress but “it was night and now it’s day” is a really funny line. Very “if there’s a lock, there must be a key” from The French Mistake

This Sam vs Sam thing I’d gonna be so anticlimactic. Wait… there’s ANOTHER ONE? Is it Lucifer!Sam??

Oh shit. Soulless Sam killed that bartender during a hunt. Like KILLED killed her, not failed to save, not couldn’t turn her back to human. Something was holding her hostage and he shot her to get rid of its leverage

See, BALTHAZAR has self preservation. He’ll betray when he thinks it’s the right thing to do but he’s only going so far

I………both do and don’t wanna know why Crowley believes Cas is “the bottom in this relationship.” His exact words. Castiel is gunning to be the next god or next to god. He’s the one renegotiating the terms so you get zero souls. He’s the only one who has ever SET any terms (I know there’s a difference between dom/sub & top/bottom, and I’m really describing the former rather than the latter here. I’m ace, not stupid, but it does feel like the writers Crowley forgot.)

I do like Cas giving him the ultimatum of flee or die

Oh…the next piece is the piece that remembers hell 😭

He’s not the next one, he’s the last one. That also feels anticlimactic, especially for a finale…BUT I GUESS THAT’S HOW IT GOES HERE SOMETIMES

Convenient that it’s right after Dean and Bobby leave that Sam gets the last bit back

Oh no. Should I be saying my goodbyes to Balthazar now? Does Cas know he betrayed him?

Rip Balthazar. Cas, I love you, but this isn’t you, babe. I know this isn’t your heart 💀😭💀😭

Yeah. So, like…if you’re in a war and you HELLA betray your temporary ally, maybe don’t be surprised when they team up with your enemy? Especially when your old temporary ally is not known for being a good person and is in fact the KING OF HELL

How many times does Raphael die??? Rip Raphael. Even though you were my boy’s enemy, if it weren’t for wanting to kickstart the apocalypse again, you would have been real cool

Castiel is entering his villain era and I am here for it

I’m not proud of what my feelings are doing as Sam literally stabs Castiel in the back with the angel blade, which doesn’t work, and Cas tells them it won’t because he’s no longer an angel, he’s their new god.

“Been On My Mind…”: they had me goin with that bartender for a while, but after six seasons…three more than it was supposed to go