#corvidcorgi

[u3pxx]

For puns for Ysa's dad -- Ethan Laive (eaten alive) (is that also too gruesome) (I was imagining something about lions but if it's a spoopy themed case then maybe werewolves) (or the twist is, Max Galactica style, the court is prepared to prosecute someone who has declared themself a wolfman for the sake of their stage career but who is not actually capable of turning into a real wolf, but the murderer just used a regular lion)

i'm not sure, let's ask the audience FDGHJDK

but also LOVEEE that angle with the wolfman/someone refusing to give up their schtick bc that is also INCREDIBLY ace attorney-ish lmao the name

ethan laive is making me laugh so hard but also there is something so funny about a character's name alluding to something that might happen to them and then we find out that he just got, i dunno, stabbed with a knife DFGHDJK

[fahye]

Just finished the audiobook of A Restless Truth, and it was great! A Power Unbound isn’t available for audiobook preorder yet, at least not through Libro.fm, but once it is I will be there with bells on. PSA to anyone who enjoys audiobooks—the narrators for both AML and ART knocked it out of the park. I’m so excited for what’s next!

oh, wonderful! I'm not an audiobook afficionado myself but I was asked for my input during the selection process for narrators, and listened to some samples, and I was confident they'd do an amazing job. we're about at the stage of narrator-choosing for book 3, now, which is very exciting.

[anneapocalypse]

Happy birthday!

Thank you! 💙

[rnanqo]

fav character showdown

tagged by @tief4tief ! rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite

mercymorn art by @decemberiste !

tagging @anstruthers @sobekcrocodile @urban-sith @eviefrie @corvidcorgi @darlingofdots @blackanchorite AND if u see this and want to do it consider yourself tagged

[booksandchainmail]

tagged by @apollo-cackling to shuffle my general listening music and post the first 10 songs. I went with all music instead of my "music" playlist since I haven't updated that in a year or so

Saudade, Saudade by Maro. This was Portugal's entry to the 2022 Eurovision, where it came in ninth, presumably because although it sounds very nice the staging was just a bunch of women sitting in a circle and clapping

Best of Wives and Best of Women by Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton (Unknown Album). I ripped the entire Hamilton soundtrack from youtube back in ~2015, then kept it as a playlist since I couldn't figure out how to sort songs from an artist

Banks of Newfoundland by Ewan MacCoil & A.L. Lloyd. This is from a playlist of sea songs that @thoughtsformtheuniverse put together, and one of my favorites on it. I tend to use this playlist as background music while working/chores, and this song is excellent for washing dishes to.

Giant Woman by Steven Universe. Not one of the best songs from Steven Universe or one I listen to on it's own, but it does a good job setting things up early

Ode to High Heels by Seanan McGuire. This is off of Creature Feature, which is I think my least favorite of her albums: there are some really good songs in it, but most of the album I have no impression of. I think partly this is because it riffs a lot on horror/slasher/monster movie tropes, which are not really genres I know. This song is mostly lost on me, and I don't like the musical style either (in general I think her comedic/parody songs are weaker)

Natsume Yuujinchou Opening 3 (Boku ni Dekiru Koto by HOW MERRY MARRY). So I have the opening theme downloaded for every anime I watched between 2012 and 2019, and this sure is one of them. It's honestly not great, and suffering from the fact that the first two Natsume Yuujinchou openings were really good, so this is just bland in comparison

Ragnarok III: Strange Meetings by The Mechanism (DTTM version). This song is like 90% talking and instrumental, but it's very good at that. This is probably the emotional core of the album, the dialogue would do very well over an angsty image set. I do prefer the studio version though.

Oray Sujon Naiya by Boarding Party. Also from the sea songs playlist, though not one I listen to frequently, it's a bit too slow/acapella for doing things to at a reasonable pace. An internet search says this is a Bengali folk song for rowing downstream.

Underworld Blues by The Mechanisms (DTTM version). Ulysses Dies at Dawn is one of their more uneven albums. This is one of the good ones. I love a song where a bunch of people get their own individual verses, and Ashes kills it as Hades. I like the contrast between Ulysses and Heracles gravelling their way through their verses, and then Orpheus drifting way up high. I mostly don't listen to this specific version, I prefer studio to live.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Opening 4 (Period by Chemistry). Now this one slaps. I think this is considered one of the iconic FMAB openings alongside the first one, and if it isn't it should be.

tagging (if you feel like it) @thoughtsformtheuniverse @overzealous-panda-yak @eldritchwyrm @tanoraqui @coraniaid @corvidcorgi

[yuusaris]

🎶✨when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 🎶✨

Songs i actually listen to gshdeofgasgfsd

1) Ahh I have been addicted to the Urusei Yatsura theme the song fucks and the opening itself is flawless, a visual love letter to a Rumic classic. Gods perfect idiots have never looked more flawless. [Here's the full version if you want it]

2) on principle I have to say Shayfer James is one of my favorite musicians right now, he's a pure fucking poet and a masterclass in Villain Songs, especially his earlier stuff - I love Counterfeit Arcade a LOT, Villainous Thing is my FAVORITE - but the song I'm picking is more recent, Good Life. It has been non-stop in my brain.

3) Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad is the title of that Cornered fic I posted, I've been listening to it nonstop the whole two months I spent writing it. It's a Meatloaf song, it's a sad love song, it's recommended to me forever now.

4) Don't ask me why Shoreline Senorita is a Zorc song. It just is. I know because I have many Zorc songs. Ask me sometime.

5) ROUND TWO OF ALIEN STAAAAAAAGGGEEE. Please Watch Alien Stage, I am begging everyone to watch Alien Stage, it's beautiful original art from the Youtube's Lesbian-Horror Retro-Style-Animation queen VIVINOS and killer-ass origioonal music to go with them.

As for tagging - I don't like the word favorite. It gives me bad vibes. @tepperz, @justapalspal, @millenniumringg, @fourdollarwords, @ninjam117, @pyropelove413, @corvidcorgi, @smokedoutcoldstar, @nightingalejune, @ladymdc, @sadistikitteh and Viewers Like you.

[booksandchainmail]

@corvidcorgi

also today I told my neighbour I'd carry her bags upstairs because somehow the oldest ladies buy the heaviest shit, and so she went up first, and I of course being the stubborn goddamn mule had to commit to One Trip Only mentality, and so it took me some more time to get to her floor, but I did manage and won my unwounded pride in return, and so I happily huffed and puffed my way to her door and they got opened. by a fucking turtle. just a straight up trutle opened those doors

[copperpieceharlot]

Bud I’m sorry to swing into your inbox uninvited like this but my soul is having an OOTS renaissance thanks to your content in the tag and did you say Leverage AU

haha holy SHIT this got Long. but yes. i’ve been. Thinking. (also literally Never feel like you have to apologize for sending me messages. i was Hoping someone would ask me about this. now i have an Excuse to share EVERYTHING ive written abt it :3)

Obviously, Roy is the leader/brains of the outfit. He grew up having some Strong Opinions abt what’s Legal versus what’s Right due to tragic backstory involving the death of his little brother which was definitely SOMEONE’S fault for negligence but since there technically wasn’t any illegal behavior, there were no consequences for it. Also he’s still angry at his dad bc he thinks his dad is also partly culpable (and also also just a dick). He’s the Moral Backbone of the team (alongside Durkon, more on that later) in basically the same way Nate was in og Leverage. He’s actually not the best at figuring out what people want (that’s Haley and, shockingly, occasionally Elan), but once he has that info, he is the absolute best at figuring out the ideal plan of attack to use in any given case.

Haley is still a thief. I mean she maps to Parker almost PERFECTLY. Her dad was a thief & a conman, her mom wasn’t but knew about it and mostly accepted it, but she died tragically in a mugging gone wrong or smth, which made Ian crank the paranoia WAY up and taught Haley to do the same in the name of “safety”. Let’s keep the “Ian is in Trouble and Haley needs money, Fast” which is why she signs on to the first job in the first place. She’s less acrobatic than Parker, tending towards finding (or making) weak spots in security, but she can still make a tumble check when she needs to.

Elan is the grifter who is somehow an Idiot but also not???? It baffles everyone. When he’s playing a part for a con, he’s FLAWLESS, but then the rest of the time he’s just. No Thoughts Head Empty. He probably gets lured in initially because he’s decided to try his hand at being part of a full team, rather than the two-man cons he’s been running that invariably end w his partner conning him as well and stealing half of his take. Also he likes the idea of being Crime Friends. He’s that tweet where it’s like, Roy: “after the heist is over, we split up and never communicate again” / Elan: [about to unveil his Crime Buddies Forever Friendship Quilt Puppets]: “never?”

Vaarsuvius is the hacker/gadget person. They have a Vaguely Snobby Yet Unidentifiable accent, dyed(?) purple hair (nobody has ever seen their roots) and nobody knows who they “really” are or where they came from, but they’re good at what they do so everyone just accepts the mystery. They probably got suckered into the team by their initial employer (who I’ll get to Eventually, lol) framing it as a challenge to their intellect, like, “oh, I see, you’re not smart enough to make this team work for you...” to which they were like Fucking Watch Me and also melted his computer. Anyways. They are joined (digitally) by their Intrepid Friend And Co-Conspirator (his words, not theirs), a fellow hacker known only as Blackwing, or, on certain forums, Blackwing_Bird. (In the first season, V only occasionally references him when saying they’re “calling in extra help” or smth for a particularly complex hack job. He starts showing up a little more in s2 and eventually by the start of s4 is a regular & established presence, but only appears as actions in a computer interface or output.) Elan is convinced he’s an AI, Belkar doesn’t think he actually exists, Haley pretends she doesn’t think he exists, and Durkon and Roy try not to think about it too hard, as long as B and V still get the job done.

Belkar is the hitter. He is on the team bc their initial employer got him out of jail for it. He doesn’t have a tragic backstory, he just likes doing violent crimes. As the series progresses, he grows some empathy & stuff, but really only for people who actually deserve it. Assholes still get decked. It’s all very touching. (Also he has dwarfism caused by achondroplasia. It doesn’t actually bother him and is useful in fights bc his opponents frequently have no fucking clue how to approach him, but he likes Pretending to take offense at stupid things just to see how far he can go with it.)

Aaaand last but not least, Durkon is the least involved member of the team. He’s actually a career criminal and Roy’s mentor, and wasn’t a member of the initial team that [redacted, I’ll tell you later, PROMISE] put together for a couple of reasons, the main one being that he’s Officially retired in order to spend more time with his family, which consists of his mom, his friend (not girlfriend) Hilgya, baby Kudzu, and a truly stunning number of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Roy frequently calls or visits him for advice and he Occasionally shows up to help out on local jobs, but generally he avoids doing crime if he can (as part of a deal with Hilgya, who is also a career criminal; basically, they’ve both cut back on the crime in order to provide a more stable home environment for Kudzu. But sometimes, you gotta do a little crime, and in those cases, Sigdi enjoys spending time w her grandson.)

NOW. THE BIG REVEAL YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. Who got the team together in the first place?!

The answer: Lord Shojo (or whatever Normal Person Name you want to assign him). Now this is where it gets tricky: he had them do a thing that they thought was good, THEN they thought it was BAD, but then when they confronted him he revealed that it Appearing to be bad was actually a test of character and would they consider working as basically internal investigators for him? But then he had a heart attack, so, rip. But THEN it turned out that he’d left them a bunch of money anyway and they were all feeling kind of Inspired so they formed the Order of the Stick, LLC (which, no, i am not coming up with a new name, actually, because I just don’t care. someone else can come up w a justification for that name, tho, i’m sure it’s possible). Also Miko was there and was unhappy abt their actions, and also their general existence.

Moving on. Villains!

Redcloak is the Sterling replacement, because that DEEPLY amuses me.

Xykon is a season-long main villain, probably one that Redcloak finds himself working for but then “teams up with” (read: blackmails) the Order to bring him down bc even Redcloak finds Xykon distasteful. That’s season 3, let’s say.

Tarquin is another season villain, say season 2. Nale probably shows up pretty early in s1, actually, as another recurring antagonist like Sterling but uh. Less good at it. Anyways the s2 final 3 eps deal with them (accidentally) discovering that Tarquin runs some Evil Empire Company, then trying to outplay him and take him down. Idk if Nale still dies in this version tbh.

Tsukiko is a one-off s1 villain who returns briefly in s4 alongside Miko, who has gone well and truly off the rails.

Season 1 finale has to do w Roy finally getting Vengeance for his little brother.

The vampire squad is the s4 finale villain who do smth terrible to Durkon and then get the Mother Of All Revenge served up to them by the Order.

I envision the show as being 5 seasons (like og Leverage) but I’m not going to sketch out s5 because I think it should be based off whatever happens in the current story arc, possibly involving some legacy of the OotSquiggle.

Other stuff!

The Order of the Squiggle is a legendary criminal team from the 60s who stole a BUNCH of famous shit & then proceeded to legendarily implode. This has no bearing on the plot I’ve sketched out, I just think it’s fun.

The Sapphire Guard members should probably be reworked as FBI. I don’t care about most of them but I do think that Lien and O-Chul could be like, FBI agents who Choose to look the other way while the Order does their very-much-not-legal-but-still-fair Justice Crime, and maybe even help them out on occasion.

So, the Final season-by-season outline, based on everything I’ve written so far:

s1 e1: getting the team together, doing a con for Shojo, then at the end he dies and the gang is like “dang what now?" and intend to split up except then they Don’t.

mid-s1: Nale shows up and tries to trick the Order, but then gets beat like a drum.

late s1: Tsukiko is an underling of the Villain Of The Week, winds up in police custody. But She’ll Be Back.

s1 finale: Roy’s Vengeance: The Vengeaning. also we meet Redcloak as an antagonist.

s2 e1: the truth abt Haley’s father comes out

early s2: The Two Live Crews Job but it’s the Order vs the Linear Guild and the Linear Guild ARE all bad guys.

mid-s2: Redcloak returns. ugh.

late s2: the sapphire guard FBI makes its first appearance, hello O-Chul and Lien.

s2 pre-finale: once again they’re in conflict w Nale over smth, he spends the whole episodes making Cryptic Remarks, they basically beat him (like a drum!) but then the stinger at the end is that Tarquin reveals himself and Elan is like “Dad?!”, roll credits.

s2 finale, part 1: Elan is hanging out w Tarquin bc he’s DEEP in Denial, the Rest of the team tries to take Tarquin down, but it doesn’t work.

s2 finale, part 2: Elan finally gets a clue and they manage to beat Tarquin. still haven’t decided if Nale dies or not, but I’m leaning towards yes. also they rescue Haley’s dad.

s3 e1: fuck dude idk.

early s3: Redcloak shows up, AGAIN, everyone groans. he has blackmail on them, he wants them to take Xykon down.

mid s3: The Rashomon Job but it’s about stealing the Talisman of Dorukan and it turns out that Nale was there too (“oh!” Elan says. “I was wondering why I looked so weird in all those mirrors! But it wasn’t my reflection, it was Nale’s!” “Sweetie, that wasn’t Nale’s reflection,” says Haley. “Huh,” says Elan, “so the mirrors were broken?”, cue eye rolling from everyone else.), and the Successful thief was Hilgya, who’d nabbed it from the owner before it even went on display.

s3 finale: they beat Xykon, actually factually, because he deserves to get his ass Thoroughly kicked, even if only in AU form. Lien and O-Chul are there, so are some other less helpful FBI people. There’s a bit where O-Chul Exact Wordses his way out of telling his superiors about the Order’s less legal activities without technically lying. King shit.

s4 e1: doesn’t really matter. maybe smth to do w some legacy of Tarquin’s company to set up the drama w Malack & Durkon later.

early s4: Durkon gets SENT TO PRISON. Malack approaches the Order abt this because sure they have Different Ethics but they’re still Friends. (Roy is surprised and a little hurt that he’s never heard of Malack, but he ignores that in favor of Let’s Get Whatever Fuckers Did This To Our Friend.)

immediately after that: Miko and Tsukiko return as a Team, preventing the Order from working on the Durkon situation

mid s4: Redcloak makes another unexpected & unwelcome appearance but he’s maybe a little less of a dick? the Order collaborates with Malack & his Crime Buddies (hello, Vector Legion) to pull one over on him tho, because “less of a dick” does not mean “a pleasant or decent person”, and also he was mean abt Durkon being in jail, so he totally deserved it. he still gets whatever he wanted tho, just takes a blow to his pride. also prevents the Order from helping Durkon. they’re having a LOT of setbacks wonder why that could be, not to make sure the season fills its whole length or anything, no sirree

s4 finale: something something taking down the organization, headed by Hel (yes that’s her real name), which framed Durkon for their Big Crime. Durkon goes free and Extra Firmly retires, For Good, He Swears, but says he “met someone new” who might be an asset.

s5 e1: minrah joins the team! and the episode is set in like, somewhere really snowy. that’s all i got.

the rest of s5: don’t know, don’t care, it’s open-ended until the comic finishes up.

[writevale]

NEW KANE AND FEELS???

THIS IS THE BEST PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT I HAVE EVER RECEIVED

THANK YOU

[pechebeche]

I’d like to second what lowqualitycleric said, and add (with the disclaimer of — please don’t push yourself, take care of yourself and pay attention to your needs) that over the past year I’ve been so impressed with how you’ve listened to yourself and set your boundaries, and I know how much work it’s taken and how hard it’s been. And I’m glad to see that there is a possibility, however faint, that you might be able to take joy in D20 again, and that that hasn’t been robbed entirely from you. Seeing you create while keeping a firm eye on your comfort level has made me so happy for you, and — if it’s not presumptuous — very proud. 🥰💟 PS I’m so pumped that emojis can be in asks now because you deserve to receive them

yall are truly gonna make me cry thank you so much for this, i was feeling kinda stupid abt 'i can make fanart for x show again' being a Big Step for me and the validation is. really truly incredibly helpful. im so glad that me learning to be a human being again has had any sort of positive influence on you, its really an honor to be on the receiving end of so much kindness ❤❤

[thebibliosphere]

how did you make that chore chart? it looks so neat and cool, but it's also at least a little personalized -- it has oppy on it!

It was a basic template that ETD found for excel (would also be easy to make in google docs), and then we just went down the list and added in our own chores that needed to be done each week.

Let me see if I can find it...

Okay so I had to text ETD lol, but apparently, he found it by going into the Excel templates and searching for “chores” and it gave him a bunch of free options, and he picked one of those, and that was it. If you google around, you’ll also find some pretty similar ones that would work without Excel :)

[u3pxx]

sorry to do this but i think your stream graphic may be a little off wrt time zone conversions? i’m writing this to you ~1.5hr after you started streaming, and it’s 4:30 am pst right now. did you mean est? (sorry if someone’s already sent this message)

yea now that you pointed it out i did get it wrong 😭 did mean est, whoops!

[callmearcturus]

corvidcorgi replied to your post: i know i have complained about this before but jfc...

I haven’t listened to it personally, but Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services is about a queer urban witch, and I’ve heard awesome things about it

i tried that one a while ago and utterly bounced off the sound design 8C

[rnanqo]

each wip gets 3 sentences per vote. thank u @eviefrie for tagging me! im tagging @notaficwriter @mercyisms @corvidcorgi @darlingofdots @crown-him-with-many-crowns and ALSO anyone else who sees this who wants to do it

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

i’m glad you’re feeling better, and i want to let you know that you rock

thank you!!! i am feeling better, and you rock too!!! 💕

[villadiodatis]

for the ask game, three off-axis choices for you: gertrude robinson, ultimate gmilf; timothy stoker, absolute bicon; peter lukas, a burlap sack full of fog and beard hair

let’s do this

Tim Stoker

How I feel about this character: love of my life, my sun and moon and stars and the air I breathe, would die for him

All the people I ship romantically with this character: I’ve been super into timsasha recently but I’m not opposed to some martim or jontim (or jonmartim), and the Road to Damascus series sold me on Tim/Oliver Banks.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Just about everyone I ship him romantically with I also vibe with platonically

My unpopular opinion about this character: Not sure I have one? I do get upset when people reduce him to the happy jokey guy we saw in s1.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: I mean. Not dying. Or at least having one last full deep conversation with Jon beforehand.

Gertrude Robinson

How I feel about this character: Fascinating character, terrible person.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Agnes definitely, and honestly Gertrude/Mary Keay has some potential.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Gerryyyyyy but like. In a world where Gertrude is a little less yikes because Gerry deserves good things.

My unpopular opinion about this character: Also don’t think I have one?

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: I really want to know how she would react if she found out her entire life’s work, everything she sacrificed her humanity for, was pointless.

Peter Lukas

How I feel about this character: Step away from the Martin and no one gets hurt.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Absolutely no one. Lonelyeyes is funny but only very ironically.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Getting a fucking life. Capitalism and loneliness isn’t everything, loser.

My unpopular opinion about this character: idk, I get his meme potential but I think he gets too much focus in the fandom.

One thing I wish would happen/had happened with this character in canon: I wish Martin had gotten to dunk on him for six hours straight.