#exe project stuff

[aroaceleovaldez]

the dynamic of demigods thinking which other demigod is the most powerful is always amusing to me because. like, we know the big 3 kids are all the most powerful. That's just a fact of their universe. And then we know nearly every character views Percy as the strongest demigod, and most people are very rightfully intimidated by him.

and you look at the powers of the Big 3 kids and there's Percy, but then you realize Nico is just kind of objectively more powerful than him but simply chooses to hang out in Percy's shadow like he's Percy's scary dog privileges. Like, the two of them are pretty equally capable of causing multiple different apocalypses. Nico just also has like four different instakill powers and it's not like he doesn't use them. He very much uses them! Not infrequently, even! And they don't seem to take a significant amount of energy from him! And other demigods are pretty intimidated by both of them! But Nico makes a conscious point to keep his cards close to his chest and not let on exactly how dangerous and scary he can be if he wants to. People are already scared enough of him without knowing anything about him and he doesn't like that. Percy doesn't think about that nearly as much, and so usually just goes in guns blazing and that's part of why he's considered a wildcard. And then Nico himself puts Percy on a pedestal, so those who do know more about Nico's abilities then presume Nico knows something they don't about Percy that implies Percy is even stronger than him.

And even on a meta level Nico's narrative role requires him to be functionally more powerful than Percy, because he very often serves the purpose of getting Percy out of situations he can't handle on his own. That's just part of his function as a character! But also narratively he can't overshadow Percy so he just takes a backseat of his own accord and that's very amusing to me.

[latenightsundayblues]

This idea came to me in a dream and it impacted me so violently i had to sit down for a while

Diana being ADAM'S daughter instead of Lawrence's. Financially struggling single father Adam. Trying-his-best father Adam. Can anybody hear me

[gaybd1]

Zuko def started realizing how his dad and the Fire Nation fucked him up towards the end of the war, but I love to imagine that he had TIME to process/deal with it away from the FN before he had to go and be Fire Lord

Like there’s the abuse angle OF COURSE which takes time to recover from

But it’s also during that time that he also starts to realize just how… brainwashed he and the other FN citizens were and that is an Awful Realization to have because it makes him feel so used and there is an entire aspect of his identity that he has to rebuild/rediscover.

He doesn’t even understand his reactions at first, but for a while he’s so ashamed to even be considered Fire, and he has a LOT of animosity towards his whole nation. He panics when he sees the colors or the symbols because, justifiable or not, he just feels like such a victim and that’s so embarrassing and he wishes he could just stop it all…

It’s at this point Iroh realizes he needs to Step Up and take the throne— at least for now— so Zuko can just Be A Kid and deal with his trauma. Zuko and Sokka get a place in Ba Sing Se and slowly… slowly… Zuko is able to come to terms with what happened to him and with his identity.

And it’s the fact that he knows the pain and the recovery and everything in between, and his love for his people, that has him crowned Fire Lord 10 years after the war is over, ready to lead his people into a new era.

[sweetvalentinescandy]

struggled a lot with tweeks pose unfortunately. love how kenny turned out!! if only it was their week but its NOT!!!

[transmechanicus]

I’m allowed one (1) vent of the colossal amounts of pressure my body and mind are under per month and i usually do my best to bury it in the early hours of the morning, so now that i’ve provided this valuable and important context:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[prettyboykatsuki-moved]

TELL US THE LORE????

dkjfhsdgj ITS KIND DERANGED LMAOO. sorry for yapping about her backstory but its relevant to their insane dynamic lmao

my self insert / oc is basically like. disillusioned software engineer. shes based off edward snowden. she's from the planet of talia (which is desert wasteland) and she's an orphan and was raised with other bandit gangs lol. she learned how to write software and engineer thru trial and error. she's an orphan and doesn't really have any family with the exceptions of like two people she considers. but no blood. no idea who her parents are lol

she gets picked up by the ipc when she's in her teen years because she gets caught trying to steal from them using some phishing software she made. they offer recruitment instead of jail-time bc her skillsets are valuable and she sees it as a good opportunity.

she quickly finds out the ipc is crazy corrupt and she gets really like. she wants to get out but the contract is insane. so she basically. like. steals a bunch of money from the ipc and then goes permanently on the run LMAO.

she finds refuge in different planets but the ipc is everywhere. she keeps stealing from them though and interrupting their business models. very robinhood i guess. she has more of a moral conscience than other inserts i make she's really upright.

her personality is really like super antisocial and paranoid. complete loser forreal. after all that jumping around, she ends up hiding in penacony bc its huge and even with ipc presence, it's really easy for the blend in

this is where her relationship with sunday starts. he's really into her because he doesn't like the IPC for one, but also because he finds her to be benevolent (and she is to her credit she's really morally upright). he offers her like . complete refuge and protection in exchange for being part of the family.

she. adamantly refuses this proposition (he will keep asking though) but offers to work for the family as a contractor in exchange for protection. sunday agrees, she's an important and valuable asset with tons of insider information but also he feels weirdly comfortable around her.

they have such a weird relationship LMAOOOAOAOA. sunday develops this very possessive feeling about her and is really coercive and manipulative to her in general. he comes and goes as he pleases but she's not allowed to stray too far. quick to tug her leash basically. he has a really complete control over her and he's paranoid about her trying to leave him. always pulling her into corners and being kind of humiliating and controlling about how she dresses and acts etc

THE INSANE THING IS THAT SHE'S KIND OF. FINE WITH IT. she's really aware that sunday is crazy and manipulative and batshit. but she has HELLA abandonment issues because she has no "home." sunday constantly breathing down her back to stay with him and be his possesion gives her a comfortable sense of belonging and she doesn't think of him as evil - so she's weirdly content with him and just wants to be with him

SOMETIMES. WHEN SUNDAY IS IN A GOOD MOOD. he'll ask her what he wants and he's always expecting her to like beg for her own freedom but she never does. always asks for like intimacy like bathing together and cuddling. and it always shocks sunday LMAOAOA because he's convinced she secretly depsises him but its like dude. Lol.

they're genuinely so in love. this is deranged im aware but they really genuinely love each other and feel understood by one another. but its insane by all accounts

[fudgecake-charlie]

[musclesandhammering]

Loki deserves to have an active role in the multiversal war. He deserves to fight alongside the Avengers. He deserves to save the day, he deserves to use his new time powers against a big bad, he-

[bwobgames]

I probably should've said this sooner but there has been a change of plans!

Current Beeb game will be a stand alone game with the events of the comic and the other routes will be sequels/spin offs

Routes as in, the different options presented at the office starting place, the current game will still have multiple endings.

Why you say? well

It will take less time to produce

It's easier to code and manage one story at a time

The final product will NOT weight like 40 GB, i have like 2/5s done and it's already weighting more than expected.

Gives me more freedom to work on the other routes at my own pace, for better life/work balance

[snixx]

i wish there was a way to filter all amatonormative bullshit off my dash

[ecstarry]

the amount of stuff from my relationship that i projected to my fics is actually insane

[spark-circuit]

local ex-B Corp employee has never experienced joy and whimsy. mods get him.

[riisume]

Honestly. I feel like Zander's so fucking stupid and insecure that he'd feel threatened by Shiloh at first when it came to Maeve.

Obviously he'd have nothing to worry about cuz they're siblings and nothing more, but he'd see the way they interact and probably get hella jealous.

Shiloh and Maeve have a good relationship despite being half-siblings. Maeve often dotes on Shiloh and tries to bring him out to places when she comes home to visit. Try to get him to meet some people, make friends, provide moral support, etc.

Zander would get better at learning how to share Maeve and overcome his insecurity and jealousy, but him and Shiloh would likely NOT get along at first. And it would put Maeve in a really awkward spot.

And Shiloh's not good with dealing with other people and their emotions (especially negative ones). So he gets easily flustered when people present him with conflict. So when Zander can't keep his feelings inside and blabs them to Shiloh it... Wouldn't go well.

Shiloh probably looks really stoic on the surface, but people, their emotions, and conflict scare him.

Maeve would go all protective-mode and probably tell Zander to get his shit together or else they'd break up (assuming they were together at this point in time). She'd be open to helping him work through whatever he's feeling, but he HAS to leave Shiloh out of it.

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Really feeling this song right now.

[wolfeyedwitch]

13?

13. Have you ever felt insecure because you enjoy whump? How did you overcome that insecurity?

I actually haven't dealt with any insecurity in.... actually, I'ma take that back and give some background first.

I got to whump from fanfiction from hurt/comfort. I noticed that a lot of the fics I read on Ao3 that had fantastic hurt/comfort were tagged as "(fandom character) whump", and from there I looked up what that was. And then I was hooked. I started with fandom stuff, with whump and hurt/comfort being major tags I searched through in my fandom of choice at the moment.

Then it came to Whumptober 2021. I was originally going to write in a fandom, but it just wasn't coming together. I had started looking at some whump tags and writing prompts on tumblr and seeing a lot of hero/villain stuff that I enjoyed, so I got the idea that I could just... make it original characters rather than a fandom. Nothing in the rules said it had to be fanfic.

I had a fantastic response to my writing and ended up reading a ton of original whump works that October, and I've been here ever since.

As to the insecurity? Yes... somewhat. I started with what I'd call chai spice vanilla latte style whump: not vanilla per se, but definitely not hard core. No gore, no nsfwhump, no bad endings. And having a lot of other people enjoying the fanfics I was reading with the "whump the cinnamon roll" trope really took away any strong feelings of insecurity there.

The insecurity came up when I started writing original works and projecting onto my characters. That gave me some pause. I actually ended up talking with my therapist about it, and she basically said, "Hey, wonderful coping mechanism! I'm happy for you!"

Because I could give these characters the kind of devoted, attentive caretakers that I wish I had. I gave these characters my problems, and people noticed that they were problems. The emotional hurt was validated in these stories. The things that are too often overlooked or glossed over IRL were examined in depth and given weight that I wish my problems were given.

And even though I prefer happy endings in my writing, that's not to say that sad/bad/unhappy endings aren't their own form of catharsis! You don't need to justify your enjoyment to anyone. So go forth and enjoy, whump enthusiasts!

[fingertipsmp3]

Ughhhhhhh I hate writing and I hate not writing and I hate myself