#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

[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???

[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

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Erik: hey Charles, what do you call raw chicken that walks?

Charles:??? What?

Erik: Francesca

Charles: >:(

Charles: she isn’t raw chicken Erik! I’m putting her on your cape and making it oily now

gettin chicken grease all up i n eriks cape is FOUL work on charles end 😭😭

[sunfloweraro]

Sneak peek!

Aka more Pink Bunny AU!!

Ravio reaches his breaking point.

@thatonecrazysidekick as promised >:)

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First, Link had stopped speaking. Then, he had stopped being Hylian. Now, he was refusing to eat, too.

What was Ravio doing wrong?

“Please,” he begged, pushing the bowl closer to Link. “Eat something. It will help you feel better.”

Link turned away again.

And something within Ravio snapped.

He slammed his hands on the kitchen table, tearing a flinch from Link. “Please eat something, Link!” Link turned to him, alarmed, but Ravio couldn’t make out his expression when his vision went blurry with tears. “Come back to me already, I miss my best friend, damn it!” He clenched his hands tightly, nails digging into his palms. “What—What’s wrong with you?!”

Silence rang out between them, as it had for months now. And then—

Link whimpered softly, a terrified little thing that had Ravio’s breath hitching.

What had he done?

“Link, I—I—”

Another whimper when Ravio reached for his friend, and then that blur of pink darted away from him. Ravio scrubbed at his eyes, vision clearing in time to see Link dart out of the open kitchen window and into the snow. A gasp tore from his throat and he raced to the window, leaning out as desperation swelled within him. But Link was already gone.

Link was… gone.

What had he done?

Another sharp gasp, which turned into a hitch of his breath. Ravio turned back to the kitchen. He should go out there and find his best friend. He should apologise for being so awful, for not being enough. He needed to fix this.

Instead he leaned back against the wall, slowly sliding down the old wood. His vision blurred as hot, sticky tears dripped down his chin. He dropped to the floor, gazed down at his shaky hands, hands that his best friend had flinched away from. With a choked sob, Ravio buried his face in his hands, curling up on the kitchen floor, alone.

This was all his fault.

[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

[framesdump]

Doomed blood. Carrie (Brian de Palma, 1976) x Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)

[donsdailydiary]

Most absolutely insane instance of ableism up next guys. Buckle tf up.

During weightlifting (which I am forced to take in order to graduate on time in May), we were walking/jogging. Whenever he tells us to change from walking to jogging, I pick up my cane and jog to the best of my ability. No big deal. Never has been before.

But yesterday, some stupid freshmen preppies thought it would be funny to antagonize me. First I heard them behind me asking questions to each other doubting if I "even need" my cane (I do), and they were giggling at each other. Whatever. Stupid fucking kids. Eventually though, they started passing me by and purposely lingering a few feet in front of me, constantly looking behind them to see if I was still looking at them. They started to slow down to the point I had to practically stop jogging. I eventually went around them, and passed them by.

They fucking made a game of running full speed past me when we jog, slow down to a crawl when we walk, I pass them, and they sprint right past me and slow down in front of me. They looked behind their shoulders and chuckled every time. I didn't want to cause problems for myself (my school is super ableist), so I just stopped completely and glared at them with the fury of a very, very fed up cripple. Even when I continued to walk with the group, no matter how far ahead they got, I fucking glared. Their smiles were wiped for a minute, and I eventually just went back to doing the normal exercise. But alas. They slowed down too much for me not to pass them again.

This time I wasn't gonna just let it happen. When she jogged past me, I help out my cane to the side for her to run into. I told her "Oops! Sorry, it slipped... Next time don't be an asshole."

But of course, it just had to be a huge fucking deal and she immediately went to the coach who DESPISES me for being trans and disabled in HIS class. Throwing around the whole "[He] hit me and called me an a-hole" little privileged dumbass type shit. When he asked me I told him I did not hit her, and continued walking and going about my business.

She stopped doing that shit, and eventually just kept far ahead of me. I would stop walking/jogging entirely every time she got too close.

But OF FUCKING COURSE, it was just TOO FUCKING FUNNY for her to settle at that. From a far distance ahead of me, she slowed down and I fucking watched her take a goddamn photo of me. Who the fuck do you think you are? Literally what kind of idiotic numb-headed fucking privileged little shit do you have to be to think that's funny AT ALL? I tried to tell the coach she photographed me, and he immediately sided with her and said if she took a photo of me and they "see me hit her" on the cameras, we would both be expelled. I have a lot more to lose personally, and I know this school would fail me. Especially if Mr. Bigot told the principal about it instead of me. So I just told him it's not that big of a deal and I could just cope. He tried interrogating me about it, asking why I wouldn't want him to tell somebody if I didn't hit her. I didn't bother trying that hard to explain and I just gave up. I'll talk to the vice principal about it later, but I'm sure she will deny her obviously disgusting behavior. I put up with it too long in my opinion, and honestly I wish I could've swung my cane at her knees and made her fall. Stupid fucking prick. I'm not one for violence, but she better fucking watch out because I will not be as lenient next time.