#definitive rankings

[flufflecat]

thinking about ford "human blood tastes better" pines

ford "i have been desiring blood more than usual" pines

stanford "was bitten by a fruit bat but still wrote the sentence 'i have been desiring blood more than usual'" pines

[mashithamel]

My Psy-Changeling couples ranking:

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Cause why not? From the bottom!

Just the worst:

22. Dev/Katya: the very moving part as he prepares for her death does nothing to redeem him or this terrible relationship.

21. Nate/Tammy: omg, stop giving me a stomach ulcer and just treat her like the love of your life like she deserves

Snooze-worthy:

20. Aden/Zaira: I tried so hard to like this one and failed both times. Just boring.

19. Kenji/Garnet: the only thing that saves this is the shower scene at the end

18. Max/Sophia: the ending with the serial killer and Kaleb just jumping in is almost enough to save the story

These just don’t quite work for some reason:

18. Bastien/Kirby: could be great, but loses the plot with too many unsexy details later on

17. Emmett/Ria: cute, but not hot

16. Vaughn/Faith: I like them as individuals, but not so much together

15. Vasic/Ivy: he *falls to his knees* when she sends him nudes, but the back half is boring and goopey

The middle of the pack:

14. Walker/Lara (novella): I love a Silent Psy figuring out skin privileges. The plot is fine.

13. Clay/Talin: these guys get on my nerves most of the book, but I do end up rooting for them, and I love a romance that starts in childhood.

12. Dorian/Ashaya: a solid couple, good chemistry (and Vasic and Aden do cool stuff!) just not my favorite

11. Lucas/Sascha: a good start to the series, just doesn’t stand a chance against my favorites

10. Drew/Indigo: sexy, fun; just feels like a filler episode waiting for Hawke/Sienna

9. Riaz/Adira: annoyed me too much in the beginning, but I love how two people who lost at love get another chance for something real

The solid reads, worth it beginning to end:

8. Mercy/Riley: 🔥🔥🔥chemistry, liked this one much more the second time through, they are a great couple

7. Felix/Desiree: a sweet, fun little romance

6. Judd/Brenna: I adore everything Judd, and so enjoy his story. Plus Brenna’s pretty great, and the non-romance plot is good.

My inner angsty teen is in love:

5. Hawke/Sienna: surprised by how much I loved this one the second time around. Angst and longing and everything. Plus, a really nice Lara/Walker

4. Kaleb/Sahara: it’s dark, compelling, angsty, powerful, and sexy. Nothing I don’t love about it.

Best of the best:

3. Zach/Annie: just the perfect first date. I adore them so much.

2. Stefan/Tazi: Stefan, my beloved! Their story sweeps me off my feet everytime.

1. Cooper/Grace: nothing crazy from the main plotline, but such a sweet, sweet love story and lots of lovely foreplay. Let me go read it again…

I had so much fun doing this. Gonna take a break before getting into the Psy-Changeling-Trinity books (I am so looking forward to a reread of everything bearclan! And Alpha Night! And Ivan/Lei!). But this has been so much fun I’m considering doing it for Kit Rocha’s Beyond series too. Cause why not? 😊

[violent138]

The Batfam sometimes say a verb in another language and then add the English-ing ending to it and it's weird to everyone but their similarly multilingual, many mental tabs open at once siblings who are well versed with the specific linguistic idiosyncrasies that Dick Grayson introduced into the family's vernacular.

[livwritesstuff]

Middle-aged Steve, Eddie, Robin, and Nancy definitely have a group chat once Apple introduces it. They actually love it because it makes it way easier to stay in touch while Robin and Nancy travel.

Steve and Eddie's three daughters are usually the main topic of conversation.

As is the case one morning in October 2013:

Steve: Which one of you got my children to call froot loops gay cheerios

His text is accompanied by a video taken in their kitchen that starts with Steve, behind the camera, asking, “Wait - what did you guys want for breakfast?”. Robbie and Hazel giggle from their seats at the counter as they respond, “Gay cheerios, please,“ and “yeah, gay cheerios.”

Steve's long sigh is cut off when the video ends.

Nancy: Not me.

Steve: I know

Eddie: definitely not me

Eddie: Apple Jacks are way gayer than froot loops

Robin: ???

Robin: in what world are Apple Jacks gayer than Froot Loops?

Steve: Okay so it was Robin

Steve: Great work team

[ahappydnp]

you ever have those specific moments/clips where you're reminded dnp are just some dudes bc this is mine

me (only child) back in the day seeing them (both grew up with brothers) rough house all the time and being like D:

[bunnieswithknives]

hey in ur peri animatic: (https://youtu.be/OCqlRuDaXYU?si=K52WDu_vw9rg7chz) that I have been permanently obsessed over since today and have watched about 20 times by now so much that I have drawn & posted stuff based on it what was that partial bug form peri had?

I haven’t watched either of the show btw so if it’s explained in the show please tell me plsssss

OK, SO the bug thing is not technically canon to the series. It's based on my own headcanons for fairy biology, but i do have justifications for it!! Fairies have very strong shape-shifting abilities, so it would make sense that the form they show to humans isn't necessarily their true form(not to mention extreme that mimicry is very common in insects). And you want to know the visible traits almost every fairy has in common? Being very small with Insect-like wings.

The fact that their humanoid form isn't their true form in actually confirmed in the show! Cosmo and Wanda are revealed to look like biblically accurate pseudo-angels in the museum episode. (I say pseudo angels because the Flaming Sword of Eden is only debatably sentient and I don't think is considered an angel. Ophanim are also debatably not angels because they don't have wings (sorry for the angel tangent I like angels))

So wouldn't their true forms be angelic then? Well, yes. But I like bugs so. Also I have more headcanons to justify myself. I like to think that they have both a true-true form (incomprehensible to the human brain, probably exists mostly in a dimension invisible to us, that looks how we imagine biblically accurate angels), and a fairy form (which is visible to humans but is naturally very insect like and tends to scare people). So, in order to interact with humans, they have to learn to shapeshift into a humanoid form but will occasionally slip if they get too relaxed/aren't careful, hence the mandibles coming out when he yawns!

The reason they struggle so much more with human forms than the animals or objects they typically turn into is that, well, they aren't trying to convince those animals or objects. The more human they try to look, the harder it is to keep up convincingly. If you turn into a really uncanny squirrel, only other squirrels will notice. If you turn into a really uncanny human, they form a lynch mob and burn you at the stake.

[marimeeko]

After the fifth time that Katsuki pops up at UA, surprising Izuku with Bento for lunch, calling him "sensei" in a cocky(affectionate) tone, Kouta just stops at Izuku's desk on his way out of the room and asks him point blank,

"So are you and DynaMight actually dating, or what?"

Izuku sputtering and dropping all of his paperwork and avoiding the question out of sheer dumbfoundedness.

Then, the sixth time that Katsuki barges in, as he is thrusting the bento into Izukus hands as usual, Kota raises his hand, and stands up from his seat and yells out,

"DynaMight, sir!! Pardon me, but are you dating Deku-Sensei??" And the whole class gasps and whispers. Katsuki appears just as dumbfounded as he looks wide-eyed at Kouta and the students.

"Kouta!" Izuku balks, but then Katsuki suddenly grins mischievously. Izuku doesn't trust that look...

"Well, brat, maybe I SHOULD date him, then I could make sure Sensei doesn't forget to eat every day, right??" Katsuki looked entirely too pleased at the louder gasps and chatter that came from the students. He has a wicked grin as he turns his sharp red eyes back to Izuku.

"K-Kacchan, what are you doing?!" Izuku stammers, beet red and grabbing his arm. "This is not the time for--"

"If you don't want me disrupting your class, then stop leaving your Bento in the fridge!!" Katsuki scolds Izuku before swinging himself back out of the open window. There was a fresh wave of gasps and excited murmuring at the insinuationthat the two lived together. "We're ROOM MATES, OK?" He adds hastily, pointing his finger at the noisy classroom of kids.

He drops out the window and blasts off.

Izuku is left, stood at his desk, hands planted and hanging his head, trying to collect enough of himself to quell the riotous theories now flying around his classroom.

Kouta stands at his own desk amidst his unruly classmates, eyes narrowed as if he had just realized something, "I knew it!" He hisses.

"You're the worst," Izuku texts Katsuki later.

"I know" katsuki replies.

"Now eat your fuckin food or I'll stop making it for you."

--

I think I was inspired by this art post ^^;

[lime202]

A name turning from a curse to a blessing.

[absolutebl]

It is WILD to me that GMMTV is fielding OffGun AND TayNew in the same quarter

That Last Twilight is airing AS WELL

That they optioned 3 JBLs

That The Sign is up there licking kicking ass and taking names (and Saint is behind it!)

That there's a high heat omegaverse BL staring Pavel

That there are 20 BLs airing right now and none of them Korean.

With 5 VAMPIRE BLs announced for next year

Thailand legit looked at 2023 and thought "yeah but we could make it worse better weirder"

[canisalbus]

When did Machete realize he was gay? Was it only when he met Vasco, or was it earlier and he just repressed it?

If you asked him, he might admit that in retrospect he must've had a vague inkling earlier (thinking of all the times he let his gaze linger on a painting of some handsome nobleman a little longer. Which almost makes it like... a 16th century equivalent of having a secret fictional crush). But I think it probably would've been more of a detached, aesthetic attraction than anything he recognized as distinctly gay, bad and worth of repressing. It's not a sin to quietly appreciate art and the beauty of the human form.

I'd say Vasco, his best friend at the time, was most likely the first real person he had actual feelings for. The realization was so distressing he stayed in denial about the whole thing for a good while.

[schellis]

One last stand.

[somehowmags]

drew some comfort characters

[nonexistentirl]

Headcanon: Jiwoo accidentally refers to Kayden as dad once in a conversation with his mother and she's extremely baffled.

Jiwoo: "Dad told me not to do that"

Mama Seo: "who- when- what- ???"

[rumisgf]

the mha equivalent of kendrick lamar dropping meet the grahams was dabi’s broadcast on live tv. everybody was in shambles and there had to have been so much endeavour discourse all over social media.

[ethobslabbin]

thought it would be fun to put together a bingo card for the upcoming S6 playoffs!! very much an outsider looking in when it comes to mcsr but hopefully this is at least kind of balanced lmao

(sorry for crunchy quality im too lazy to fix it)

more details on the refrences/how i plan to judge each square below the cut:

hackingnoises boat craft(tm): will count any miscraft made by hax but bonus points if its actually a boat. this is a reference to how much hackingnoises has struggled to accurately craft his items especially last playoffs. for an example, watch the first fulham analysis from his finals against doog

scariest opponent selected early: the season 5 and 6 playoffs are structured so that runners with higher seeds get to select who out of 4 lower seeded runners they want to play. will count if anyone makes a +100 aura pick. last season bigbigmongey chose to play silverrruns (ranked season 1 winner) during round 2, shocking literally everyone. it was based as fuck. (he then lost 0-3)

feinberg strays: will only count if casters audibly/visibly react to the number of strays feinberg gets. this is a refrence to feinberg often getting incredibly lucky with the stray blazes that spawn in his fortresses. strays can greatly increase how fast a runner can get all their rods, and are one of the only things not standardized between runners in ranked.

LCQ player wins set: LCQ player is in refrence to the 4 runners that made it through the last chance qualifier. they are typically seen as underdogs, and an LCQ runner beating an auto-qualified player in a best-of-5 is pretty rare. last playoffs none of the LCQ players made it past the round of 16.

ALERT: will only count if fulham circles something and then draws an arrow towards it during an analysis segment. this is a refrence to the ALERT emote, which is of a flashing red circle with a red arrow pointing towards it. fulham uses a drawing tablet to underline and emphasize his analyses.

muted: will count if feinberg, nerdi, or fulham speak without realizing they are muted at any point during playoffs.

rowl luck: will count if 7rowl gets extremely unlucky OR his opponent gets extremely lucky during their match

runner misses stronghold: will only count if the runner completely whiffs. getting caved/hitting but needing to dig down or up to actually hit starter will not count

HBG vs HBG: feinberg, dandannyboy, silverruns, and doogile are all members of HBG. will count if any combination of these four face each other during playoffs.

repeat winner: will count if any previous playoffs winner wins again

new player introduction video: will count if a player who has not given an interview for playoffs before gives one. feinberg doesn't count.

[pacey-bunce-loves-joey]

tragically, we were not in fact getting punk’d