#c: Snap

[void-botanist]

For putting characters in situations!

Can we get 4 (Your character has to give a ten-minute speech on a subject of their choice to a room full of experts. What subject do they choose?) with whichever character has been bouncing around in you mind lately?

Thank you!! I've been thinking a lot about the Semilsstroms tbh so let me do a speed round of them:

Snap: he doesn't really consider himself an expert on anything but he'll try to formulate something either about interspecies interactions in the mining industry or his experience backpacking several thousand miles.

Lexie: she can talk to experts about exactly one thing and that is fantasy weed.

Derik: he knows people want to hear about the spaceship engineering thing but he wants to deep dive into opera analysis.

Wylie: navigating interspecies medicine. This is his field of expertise and practice, and there's so much he's never seen anyone talk about.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

love how Solar Opposites started out as a sitcom about two aliens who can't stand each other, stuck with their teenage clones (whom they also can't stand) & a toddler antichrist (whom they view as a sort of self-sufficient free-roaming hamster?) on a stupid planet they can't stand

and 4 seasons later it's a sitcom about a family of genderqueer aliens, headed by a gay couple in a happy & horny open marriage (with a graphic off-screen sex life, despite their canonical lack of genitalia?) teaching themselves to be okay parents to their 3 kids (whose Sci-Fi Antics now slightly-less-frequently revolve around wreaking havoc on human bystanders, and slightly-more-frequently revolve around alien-clone-sibling-bonding*), to the point that the central plot point becomes "We need to provide our toddler antichrist with a stable home environment."

(also the grumpy alien husband is too busy ingratiating his family with their suburban neighbors to even remember whom or what he dislikes. what is this show)

[canisalbus]

Love your art so much. Will you show us cool nature pics from your country? I'm literally so stoned I forgot where you live sorry.

Sure anon, why not. I'm not a photographer so the quality of these is kind of slushy at best. I like nature and wander around a little bit, but I rarely hike properly, so I don't go to that many scenic places. These are mostly from regular walks. Long post warning.

Summers are short but very green, and since we're at the arctic circle we get sunlight around the clock. Some of these were taken at midnight or early morning small hours. Most of Finland is very sparsely populated and covered in boreal forests.

Finland is a very watery country, lots of lakes in particular.

Sometimes you get intense sunsets

And winters are very cold, snowy and last about six months. In summer we have midnight sun and in winter there's the polar night to counter it. Around late December sun only rises for about two hours per day where I live so it's very dark for many, many weeks on end (which is wonderful if you get seasonal depression like I do). But sometimes the weather and lighting are just right and you get this ethereal pastel effect that I love.

[intermundia]

it's fascinating to see that brief flash in obi-wan's grief-struck eyes of being 'prepared to dismantle threepio bolt by bolt' for saying 'the jedi rebellion' lol i wish this had been in the film. ewan makes him look so tired and devastated like... yikes

[artharakka]

💀 *Rat music playing in the background* 🐀🐀

[kitteecassee]

today, extra soft

[mortispoxi]

Seeing Twitter users recommending the People Make Games documentary as a good way to get insight on the issue is so….

I know, I’m always extremely disappointed whenever I come across someone who thinks it’s the end all be all explanations regarding the Studio ZA/UM situation.

Recommending that video always comes with a heavy caveat from me that the person needs to stop around the 40 minute mark since the interviewer shows a very clear bias that’s unbecoming of a journalist.

Regardless, now that more people are finding out about these layoffs, which might take out members of the studio that have been there since the beginning, it could finally help smack some sense into those Twitter users that actually thought, FOR SOME REASON, Rostov, Kurvitz, and Hindpere were lying for shits and giggles rather than seeing what's ACTUALLY going on which is that the investors have a very obvious agenda against the real wronged party. Hopefully this'll also open their eyes to how the People Make Games video fed into this twisted narrative that Kurvitz was somehow at fault/responsible for the theft of his own IP, but that might be asking too much from their concrete brains. Here's hoping though!

[void-botanist]

Nopal I threw this in my drafts the day you posted it, July 13, and then forgot about it forever. So I'll give you some goofy lizards:

Snap believes more in the idea that not keeping a good luck charm given to you is bad luck than in the good luck itself. But he will still attribute his good luck to his lucky charms, which are several tiny random items he has strung onto an armlet. What makes them lucky to him is that someone said they were, so they're infused with that conviction. There aren't that many of them, but most are from his family: a little monopoly-style plastic house, a piece of an old t-shirt made into a bead, a coin with a strange hole punched through it, a weird rock suspended in a wire cage, the cap from a tiny bottle.

Lexie believes that carrying around a lucky charm doesn't make any difference, but having essentially an altar of luck does. Because you're from your home, right? So the basis of your luck is there. She does in fact have a luck altar, which I suspect is a fairly common thing among some nswl but I only just came up with it, so we'll see.

Derik says he doesn't believe in luck at all despite having had some of the most luck-attributable experiences (see: serendipitously encountering and getting back together with his ex just prior to leaving for space).

Wylie doesn't believe in luck as such, however, he counts "memento of someone I love giving me an unexplained boost for an unrelated activity" in the same realm as luck, so he sort of does. In this way, his left forearm tattoos, which were all designed by/represent his family members, are his good luck charms.

Bonus: Rolf (not a swl) is absolutely dead certain that luck exists and they have negative amounts of it. They have tried to shore this up with lucky charms and daily rituals of various kinds but so far the universe is just laughing at them.

my brain is at 2% today but I would still like to hear about your blorbos, so no asks today, have this post instead!

Does your blorbo have a lucky charm? Why do they carry it around? Who gave it to them? What makes it special or lucky to them?

If they don't have a lucky charm, do they believe lucky charms work? Or is it all just a bunch of nonsense to them?

[dapperrokyuu]

Target audience: Me.

Sad version, sorry. :c

[bbubbleo]

can't lose what you never had

feel like my lines ruin everything but </3 spent to much time on it

[void-botanist]

Wrapped Scenelets No. 30: relatable

I'm writing scenelets for (most of) my Spotify Wrapped top 100 songs. Here's number 30, bloodline by Ariana Grande.

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Snap came up to the catwalk and Rolf swung down to sit on per shoulder.

“So, how are things with Dory and Niala?” per asked in Hayokin.

“Well,” Rolf said, “now, I don’t know—I’m from nowhere, you know—but I think they’re so emotionally constipated.”

Per laughed softly as per sat back in one of the swl-size chairs in a corner of the lounge. “And why is that?”

Rolf slid down onto the arm of the chair. “It’s almost painful. They work together, and I think as much as they fuck with me they must do just as much just them. You can practically see the love beams passing between them and they keep saying to me, ‘we’re just business partners’. No, no, you two are clearly not ‘just business partners’ anymore. I don’t even care anymore whether they kick me out. Can they just say that they love each other already?” Before Snap could formulate a sufficiently funny or wise response, they pointed up at per and said, “Well, what about you? Are you just business partners?”

Snap smiled, showing all of per sharp teeth in the process. “Oruga and I were never business partners, thank goodness.”

Rolf giggled. “But how is it?”

“I like them. A lot. And I suppose the sex is…passable.” The tip of per tongue poked out between per front teeth, as though Rolf needed even that much to know per was joking.

“Well, you should try falling in love. Then you can say you’re just business partners. Although…is fucking the opposite of being business partners for nswl? Is that just how it works for all the surfs?”

“Business partners can do whatever they want. It’s the coworkers and bosses that get you.”

Rolf nodded sagely. “Can’t relate. Never had a fuckable coworker.” That was enough to send them both giggling.

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Scenelets wrapped taglist: @kk7-rbs

[chaos0pikachu]

"love sea has no plot" is it not enough for two dudes to give dick, get dick, suck dick in between sharing trauma and the healing power of love and acceptance in an introspective char drama while fucking nasty not enough anymore???

[dsmp-lainey]

listen i’m usually pretty accepting of peoples opinions on media but if you are genuinely STILL a c!dream apologist in THIS day and age i’m gonna start throwing hands.

i’m suspending you over a vat of lava. dropping an anvil on your head looney toons style. doomsday is gonna look like a birthday cake candle after the amount of tnt i’m throwing at you.

cause seriously wtf

[cdroloisms]

A hot take I have is that early c!Dream was acting more as a peacekeeper/server moderator and was slowly losing his mind because the server did not gaf about his authority at all. Like he’s the only mod online ever with 0 vacation days and he just loses his shit at the hotdog van before deciding he’s making his inability to herd cats everyone else’s problem

tbh 'authority' is a funny way of putting it like yeah he was the server owner but any explicit authority over what the actual people were doing is ... ehh not super obvious in character you know? c!Dream is a control freak that saw way too much as his responsibility and subsequently tried to manage shit that often blew up in his face--absolutely attempted at being a moderator/peacekeeper figure, but the dream smp kind of laughs in the face of peacekeepers, etc. while i think it's fair to argue that c!dream felt a level of responsibility over the server and its inhabitants that most people just Did Not Gaf, i would also say that his problem is less that people simply didn't listen to him when they should've (though that is ABSOLUTELY part of what pisses mr. control freak with no chill and a stick up his ass off!) and that things would go the extra step of actively fucking with him, consistently, while he was then pretty uniquely labeled as being Fucked Up if he fought back. it wasn't just that there was a hot dog van that was spouting literal nonsense about making a new server and disrupting shit by saying that any noneuropean isn't allowed in, it was that they then used this as a justification to Start Shit and created a bullshit narrative against him and his friends and looked like they were going to go to war over their nonsense. it wasn't just that sapnap and tommy were causing problems for literally everyone in the pet war, it was that he was getting dragged in and targeted for no good reason when he wasn't involved in the initial dispute and then getting blackmailed and having to fight alone for the right to keep his own items because god forbid he keep a memento of his dead pet. yknow ???

[silusvesuius]

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[machinafulmen]

You look so afraid without your bodyguard to save you.

[ In which Zero is captured by an alternate timeline version of Master X. ]