#falcon vibes? lol

[virusymbiote]

Lute chilling is rly cute

[bloodysicario]

Phoenix and Black Shadow are so fun to draw.

God this app crashes on me constantly.

[mikeisthricedeceased]

Maybe I should do ask prompts again

I’d need to figure out which characters I’m vibing with lately

One word prompts were pretty fun, that little bit of direction to see where my mind goes

I want to start writing again because the ideas haven’t stopped, I just haven’t been putting any words down

I’ve even come up with new original ideas, and so much fanfic

[okartichoke]

i do not have a name for this au yet but, hey ! look ! listen ! i drew some more :3

(gregory is a red kite too, forgot to write that in)

next set will probably be about DL-6 (more manfred with that one too) and how it is different in this universe. cuz like, a bunch of cases change if (almost) everyone can fly, and i’m real excited to dig into that

link to masterpost || explanations below cut

okay i didn’t know how to make this concise, so i wrote an essay ���💀💀

Explanation for kestrel Fran: (to clarify first: i went off the behaviors of an American kestrel, but the coloration of a banded kestrel because it fits her better)

Originally, I planned to have her as a peregrine falcon because of her whole “speedrunner” vibe, but peregrines have to really commit to their dives yknow? franziska commits but she can adapt and retry faster than a peregrine, so i switched it (but as always i’m indecisive as hell and everything is subject to change LOL)

i liked the peregrines pattern for her though,, the banded kestrel looks pretty similar. also kestrels are small and i think that’s cute sue me :3

i also struggled a lot (A LOT) to come up with something i liked for Miles, but i ended up pretty happy with the kite ! ( not all prosecutors are birds of prey btw, these 3 just so happened to be lol )

thanks for reading if you got this far :33 hope you enjoyed my ace attorney bird wings au ted talk

[malum-forev]

First Trimester

(This is a short drabble I couldn’t get out of my head, idk what this is lol)

Bucky kept his head in his hands, eyes closed tightly. His breath ragged.

He could hear Steve’s loud footsteps pacing the room while Sam stood rooted in place. He could hear his friends’ heartbeats thumping rapidly.

“And you two-“ Steve couldn’t get the words out.

“That’s usually how that happens.” Sam retorted sarcastically.

Steve’s hands shot up. “I’m just trying to understand how this happened!”

“Looks like I should have had the birds and the bees conversation with both of you.” Sam rolled his eyes.

“What am I going to do?” Bucky croaked, his throat dry and scratchy. The question was mostly for himself, wondering just how he would manage everything happening in his life.

“You aren’t going to do anything.” Sam ran his hand over his face. “Before you go into crisis mode like a chicken running with its head chopped off, you need to make sure it’s yours.”

Bucky’s eyes snapped open.

“Sam-“ Steve’s cautious tone only made the Falcon more angry.

“Here’s what we know,” Sam’s voice was firm. “You two have got super soldier serum running through your veins, it changed your bodies drastically. Which obviously means your swimmers were altered, doctors told you the probabilities of you two getting someone knocked up are zero.”

“Close to zero.” Steve corrected.

“Whatever,” Sam rolled his eyes again. “Now- this one goes around the tri state are area banging anything with legs.”

Buckys cheeks burned red.

“Two months later, someone comes around saying they’ve got a super soldier baby brewing- does that not sound shady to anyone else?”

Steve rubbed his hand against his chin. “When did Dr. Cho say she could get a paternity test?”

“Two weeks.” Bucky whispered.

“Then these are going to be the most stressful two weeks of your life, kid.” Steve slumped his shoulders.

She hadn’t let the crippling nervousness seep into her body, work, friends and exhaustion had been great distractors. But now, as the steel gates of the Avengers compound opened she felt it.

She was the one who had encouraged a paternity test when she knocked on Bucky’s door weeks ago.

She hadn’t thought twice about missing her period the first month. Long hours at the art gallery we’re to blame, right? But as the days turned into weeks and the strange knot in her throat tightened, she decided to take a test.

Not thinking anything would pop up except the not pregnant label on the plastic test, she left it on the counter and forgot about it. That is, until a three minute timer rang and the scariest word ever written was staring at her. Pregnant.

(Y/n) waited a full week before visiting a gynecologist. Some gel, and ultrasound and some probing later, she was pregnant and that was that. She didn’t even register the bean sized blob on the screen. A muffled sound replaced the cheery doctor’s voice.

“Is Dad excited?” The young doctor smiled. Dad, fuck there’s a dad that needs to be notified.

(Y/n felt as if she’d stuffed a handful of gravel down her throat. She nodded weakly and lied. “He’s ecstatic.”

What she should have said is: he’s terrified.

When Bucky saw (Y/n)’s text on his phone, he’s ego shot up. He whistled as he prepared some eggs that morning, thinking highly of himself.

I don’t usually go back for seconds but I guess I can make an exception. Bucky thought as he shaved his face that morning. He wore a pair of grey sweatpants and a tight shirt, a combination he’d read online was the bee’s knees for getting women riled up these days.

But there might as well have been nothing underneath those boxers he was wearing because the shocking news killed any kind of vibe he had been feeling.

(Y/n) rocked backwards and forwards nervously as she stood in his living room. She didn’t even want to come in but he’d insisted. Now, Bucky was slumped back on his couch with his eyes set on the floor.

“I know this sounds strange-“ she swallowed. “But I don’t usually do what we did, I don’t do one night stands. I love relationships which is why my friends convinced me to sleep with you- not that I needed convincing you’re like so hot but you know what I mean. Well, I guess you don’t know what I mean because you barely know me, barely know I exist.”

“You love relationships?” Bucky’s eyes widened.

“I-well- shit- I shouldn’t have said that. It sounds-“ You sighed deeply, trying to collect her thoughts. “What I’m trying to say is that, you’re the only person I’ve had sex with in- a long time. And I want you to know that I’m not telling you this to make you feel like you have to be involved- that is if we decide to keep it. I just thought you should know that I’m pregnant.”

She tried to make her voice sound firm and confident but her whole body rejected the idea. There was nothing she was more afraid of than this. This life altering decision.

“And you’re thinking of keeping it.” He whispered, blue eyes staring back at her.

(Y/n) nodded slowly then shook her head. “I don’t know. Yes, maybe. I have a stable job, pretty decent insurance and a nice apartment downtown so, I’ve got the basics covered. I’ve always wanted children, not now but- I don’t know.”

“I’m also aware this is insane news so, I understand if you need time to process or decide if you want to- be involved, I guess.”

Bucky slowly nodded. She wrapped her cardigan closer to her body and his whole body jerked up, standing from the couch.

“Ar-are you, showing?” Bucky’s curious tone made her lips tweak upwards.

“It‘s been like two months and it’s the size of a bean so, no.” She tried to lighten the mood.

“You’ve been to the doctor?”

She nodded. “She told me I could have a paternity test done in a couple of weeks, if that’s something you’re interested in.”

Paternity test- paternity. Those words didn’t even seem real to Bucky. It had been such a distant thing that the thought hadn’t registered in his mind yet.

“I’ve got a couple of doctors that would probably know how to handle that-“ he said pointing to her stomach. “With the whole, serum and everything. Would you mind if I talked to them?”

“I don’t mind, whatever’s better for bean, right?”

Bucky’s body was enveloped in a foreign feeling. So different than anything he’d felt before, an unsettling feeling in his stomach that brought goosebumps to his skin.

“The bean?” Bucky furrowed his eyebrows.

“Not the bean. Just, bean.” Her cheeks burned and a smile developed on her lips. “The doctor said it’s going to be a while until I can find out the sex so, I’ve been calling it that. Bean.”

“Bean.” Bucky repeated quietly, fighting from letting out a smile. He couldn’t let himself get involved, not before a decision was made. Did he want to be in bean- the baby’s life? Was he even the father?

(Y/n) and Bucky walked through the white corridors at the Avengers med bay in silence.

Both of them stopped at an opened door.

“You sure you don’t want to come in and check I don’t switch up the viles, rig the paternity results?” She regretted the joke as soon as the words flew out of her mouth. Bucky’s blue eyes widened. She had tried to lighten the mood but the only thing she succeeded was to make Bucky uncomfortable-

“Good thinking,” Bucky’s lips twitched upwards. “I’m sure having my old ass sperm in there was your plan all along.”

She couldn’t help a giggle escape her mouth. Bucky placed his hand on her lower back and lead her into the room.

He held her hand through the procedure and followed her back to her car after everything was done.

“I guess I’ll call you once the results are in.” Bucky bit his bottom lip as she nodded, the tired look on (Y/n) worried him. “I just wanted to say, again, how grateful I am you’re being so cooperative.”

(Y/n) saluted him. “Anything for our troops.”

Bucky tipped his head back with laughter. “Please let me know when you get home safe.”

—

Her feet ached, scratch that, her whole body hurt. (Y/n) usually worked a double shift on Sunday’s to get double pay since that was the day rich people usually liked to shop at the gallery. Even though this was routine for her, she felt extremely tired this time. Pregnancy was starting to take a toll on her body.

(Y/n) heard the rain patter intensify as someone opened the glass doors.

“H-hi.” Was all she heard.

“We’re closed.” She called out but no one answered.

A sopping wet Bucky stood at the front of the gallery.

“Looks like you need to buy an umbrella.” She smiled.

“I’m going to be a dad.” The words came out stuttered, like he was trying to stop them.

Bucky stopped talking the second he received the email. DNA test result came back positive. He was the father. A father. That word echoed through his mind all day but he didn’t tell anyone a single thing, not until he could figure out how to manage the information. Steve would try to find solutions, Sam would freak out, Nat would laugh and Tony would probably ignore him. Each and every one of his friends’ reactions would stress him out more than he already was. He had no one, no one to talk to about this. Except her.

(Y/n) sighed deeply, taking her heels off and walking towards him. Without saying anything, she wrapped her arms around his neck and brought Bucky close to her. The tension he felt between his shoulder blades disappeared the second he was in her arms.

She softly held his face in her hands. “I haven’t decided anything and we still have time to figure out wether or not we want to keep bean-“

“Bean, oh God bean.” Becky’s eyes met hers. I can’t let bean down. He thought.

“I understand if you don’t want to go through with this.”

“Look at me.” Bucky’s voice was hoarse. “I need you to know that I want this- I want bean so much you have no idea. The thought of me having a kid was so lost but you’ve- I- I am forever grateful and indebted with you, you have no idea.”

(Y/n) smiled. “So we’re doing this? We’re having a baby?”

“Let’s have a baby.” He said.

Part 2: Second Trimester

[panlight]

anon this time please!!!

anyway, hi hello! i think i saw you mention somewhere that you're a librarian and have read a bunch of vampire books (I think I also remember seeing you mention it as the reason why you were disappointed with the vampire elements in twilight, bc you expected it to read more as a vampire book than a romance iirc?)

So, i got curious with a few posts mentioning Alistair (one of those background character vamps in BD) and his backstory?? SHEITTT I'm a sucker (pun not intended) for that tragedy angle. Because of that, and because SMeyer really just gave all that and shafted it on the main story bc "they're not pretty things to write 🥺" I want to ask if you have any vampire stories/books to recommend that get into that tragedy? where the protagonist or at least even one of the main characters gets turned (likely against their will given the context) and deals with the horror of their transformation, goes through some Stages of Monster Grief trope being "What did you DO TO ME?!" (feel free to add in stories you know that do the whole I hate you vampire dad trope where they're bitter at their creator for turning them bc mmmm that's fun angst too lol!)

No Vampire Chronicles since I've seen them (though I like the existential angle of it all) Louis's experiences and Claudia's tragedy in Interview with the Vampire are great but I've read it already XD

thanks in advance!! 🥺🥺

You. You get it. That's the vibe. That's what I want in vampire stories, and why Breaking Dawn was just the opposite of everything I like about them. "Whee I'm so happy I was born for this" is maybe a neat subversion of "what have I become?!" but it was, for me, also boring. But the backstories, ugh, so many of the backstories were SO GOOD. Alistair's whole thing with his horse breaking its own neck in its attempt to get away from vampire!Alistair, his beloved falcons now being terrified of him, like SM went SO HARD with this backstory and does . . . nothing with it. It's just in the guide. It's so grim and tragic and devastating and for me, about 1000 times more interesting than anything that happens in Breaking Dawn.

And Carlisle!! I know I've harped on this before, but Carlisle's backstory is like 85% of why I kept reading the books after the first one, I LOVE it. The son of a monster-hunting pastor gets bitten and hides for three days in silence despite the pain because his knows if discovered his father will have him burned alive. Then he becomes a vampire and tries to destroy himself, but fails, so opts to banishing himself to the woods to starve. Mmmm. Delicious. Bring me 10 more stories just like this.

Regrettably I have not found many books that scratch that itch. So much of vampire stuff these days is romantasy and that's not what I'm looking for, I want to wallow in the dread and the horror and the angst and the crushing weight of eternal thirst, please and thank you.

If you haven't read Dracula yet, do give it a try. There's definitely dread and horror and angst over transformations. I really liked Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian but it's more like, spooky than horror but it's sort of like Dracula meets the Da Vinci Code but better written (and it has vampire librarians!). Stephen King's Salem's Lot is a pretty traditional vampire novel but it's been awhile since I read it and I don't remember a ton of wallowing in the angst, it's much more actual horror.

I do remember really enjoying some vampire anthologies when I was doing my marathon read. See if you can get your hands on some sort of short story collection of vampire tales. I can't remember what the ones at our library were called, but there was one story that I still remember about vampire who was a photographer and was obsessed with trying to photograph the sunrise . . . which posed the obvious problem.

If anyone has read a more recent vampire novel that's not a romantasy and DOES wallow in the existential angst, please please let us know!

[gunnrblze]

Good to know you're fine with birds! B‘:D

I wanted to draw harpy Ghosts but first I need hcs of what bird they fit and the only fitting ones I know is Hesh as an owl and Keegan as a raven/crow

What do ya think about the others?

This is sooo fun to think about, loving the animal anon asks today lmao

Hesh- I could def see him as an owl too, one of those white ones with brown detailing lol. They’re intelligent and oftentimes represent independence too which is very up his alley. But also on the flip side of that, the loneliness/abandonment/bad luck that comes with their symbolism (poor baby)

Logan- Falcon, they’re birds of prey that have good hunting skills, and are very fast and intelligent. Logan gives me that quick witted smart vibe that they have. He also just gives me penguin vibes? LMAO in a more playful way which I like to think he also possesses

Elias- Hawk. They’re associated with strength/freedom/power which is fitting, but also gracefulness, which in an unexplainable way feels right for him? Also birds of prey, and very keen. They’re essentially larger versions of falcons, which gives me the father/son vibe with Logan being a falcon lol

Merrick- He very much gives me blue jay energy, that immediately came to mind for some reason. They’re also known for representing confidence/intelligence/communication and I think that’s fitting. I could just see him being a little blue jay lol

Keegan- Also see this guy as a raven/crow, definitely fits his dark/brooding energy lmao. Very mysterious and often associated with morbidity/macabre type shit, but also intelligence and wisdom

Kick- Getting toucan vibes from him tbh. A little playful/funky energy which I like to think he has. Veryyy intelligent/clever and they also have a great deal of dexterity which Kick seems to possess in the little amount of gameplay he’s in (wahhh, give us more of him)

Rorke- This is fucking hilarious to me but he’d be a bald eagle LMAO BECAUSE yes he’s bald and has that aggressive rah rah American energy (at least pre-fed that is), and they symbolize that freedom/strength/authority too which is quite fitting

[lily-alphonse]

for the rarepairs:

hear me out, Haley x sandy, they just have so much potential omg.

also another ship that has been on my mind is robin x Haley, I don't even know why.

After getting this ask I edited my masterlist post to specify only one ship at once bc these posts would be way too long otherwise, so Im glad someone else asked for Haley x Sandy so I could answer both of these! Check that one out here for the first part of your question.

Haley x Robin

Making Haley a homewrecker smh lol

I'm wracking my brain rn trying to think of when they would literally ever even cross paths, Haley doesn't even go to the saloon. They have no reason to speak to each other. Haley doesn't hang out with Seb or Maru. She wouldn't need Robin to build anything.

Ok mind is taking me to Robin's friends. The aerobics class. And they gossip outside all the time in the square. Ok ok ok getting somewhere, I think.

Haley has another fight with Emily about not pulling her weight and how she has to grow up and do something with her life. In an effort to prove that she can be mature she joins Caroline, Robin, and Jodi outside to chat thinking its gonna be boring as hell but it's NOT.

It starts out that way. Boring and awkward because the women aren't sure how to be around her at first. Jodi asks Haley if she's doing anything for work and that goes about as well as expected. But Robin asks about her photography and Haley lights up, talking about how she got a new lens that can take macro photos of flowers and insects and she's having a great time with it.

Things are less tense then, and the ladies end up gossiping, and it's actually kind of fun. Robin is the coolest of the bunch, Jodi talks the most but she's so judgemental (which can be fun in small doses but gets old) and Caroline is the quietest and most high-strung. They invite her to aerobics class and she gives a noncommital answer.

But she keeps joining them outside to chat, and it's nice. She doesn't always have much to say but Robin at least always engages her, and she finds herself gravitating towards her. When Caroline brings out teas for all of them, she feels really included and adult.

She joins them for aerobics and its the first time Haley starts to consider she might have a thing for Sebastian's mom. Not only is she fit as hell (those carpentry arms go crazy) but she's silly and fun and gets Haley dancing around without doing any particular moves and just vibing. Haley's got heart eyes for her by the end of it. Watching her leave, she decides to jog up next to her, asking if they can walk together since she could go for a walk in the fresh air to wrap up the workout. Robin obviously accepts and they finally have a moment to talk alone.

When Haley asks her where she learned to dance like that, Robin laughs. She got around in her day. It turns out, a young Robin was quite similar to Haley. And it's easy to believe. She's still gorgeous, and has this sort of effortless cool girl energy that has only gotten mellower with age.

Conversation flows as they talk about their exploits, and the walk ends too quickly. The lake near Robin's house is beautiful, and Haley suggests she might have to come take some pictures up here sometime. It's only a little stretch of the truth...

Haley continues to meet with the women of the town, actually beginning to feel more mature. She's inspired to start looking into college courses. The aerobics class is the highlight of her week, because she gets to let loose. Afterward she makes a habit of walking Robin home, sometimes even challenging her to a race, and Robin even feels a little younger for it.

Sometimes she comes across her when she is up on the mountain taking pictures, and Robin invites her in for lemonade.

On one occasion taking pictures of a nesting falcon by the lake, Robin storms outside, slamming the front door behind her and stomping into the woods. She doesn't see Haley at first, and crouches behind a tree with her head in her hands.

“Robin?” Haley approaches hesitantly, stowing her camera.

Robin starts with a sniffle, quickly wiping her face. “Oh! Haley! Hi, you surprised me.” She clears her throat.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh,” Robin shakes her head and waves her away, “Nothing, I’m being silly.” She sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. “I don’t suppose I can convince you to just forget you saw this?”

“No, what’s wrong? You know you can talk to me.” Haley sits next to her in the grass, giving her an encouraging smile when she looks at her again.

“No, it’s… adult stuff. Nothing I should be telling you.”

Haley is a bit hurt at that. Robin has always treated her like an adult, encouraged her even, when she felt like she wasn’t mature enough to handle what life through at her. “Are you saying I’m not an adult now?”

But from Robin’s perspective, how are you supposed to explain you can’t vent about marriage trouble to a girl your son’s age. It wouldn’t be right. She sighs. “No, Haley, that’s not what I’m saying, I’m sorry. You’re right, and we talk about adult stuff all the time, this is just… this is personal.”

“We talk about personal stuff all the time, too,” Haley encourages.

Robin looks down at the grass for a beat, thinking. “Just… marital stuff. Marriage… shit. Arguing.” She growls and put her head down on her bent knees.

Haley scoffs. “Boys.”

It makes Robin laugh and lift her head again. “Except not, since, you know, adults.”

“Boys never mature,” Haley shot back snidely, to Robin’s amusement.

“I’ll give you that!” And then she’s quiet again, chin resting on her knees now to look out at the lake in reflection. “Don’t get married, Haley,” she murmurs. “And don’t get stuck here. You’ve got your whole life ahead of you.”

“And you don’t?” Haley asks right away, catching Robin off guard.

She lifts her head to look at Haley again. “Well… no, I don’t think so. I’m stuck.”

“Um, excuse me, who are you and what have you done with the badass woman I know? From where I’m standing I feel like you could do anything you wanted.”

“That’s really kind of you to say, Haley,” she responds with a sad smile.

“I’m not kind. I don’t say things to be kind, I say them because I mean them.”

Robin’s smile widens. She’s always liked Haley’s spunk. “I know. Thank you, anyway.”

“Why did you get married?”

She sighed again, her smile dropping. “Being a single mom is so hard. Don’t do that either, by the way. I actually… I would’ve been happier, I think, if Demetrius was alright being my boyfriend instead. I didn’t want to get married again, but image is so important in small towns, you know? And especially with young kids it just makes life easier.”

“You don’t have young kids anymore. And you don’t actually strike me as someone who gives a fuck about her image, no offense.”

Robin is quiet again for a while, mulling over her words. “You’re right.” She stands and Haley follows suit. “Sorry again you had to see this.”

“Don’t apologize.”

“Okay,” Robin huffs a chuckle. “Thank you?”

“You’re welcome.” Haley smiles, and Robin suddenly reaches out and hugs her tightly. She smells like sweat and pine and wood shavings and Haley wants to burn the feeling of her flannel into her skin.

Haley wraps her arms around her waist, her face in the crook of her neck, and squeezes her close, and suddenly the air has changed. It doesn’t feel like a platonic hug anymore. But neither of them are letting go and it’s gone on a second too long.

Haley clutches at the back of her flannel. Lifts her head to be level with Robin, cheek to cheek. She can hear Robin’s shallow breathing.

“Haley…” Robin says hesitantly. Almost a warning, if it wasn’t dripping with a breathless lust.

Haley pulls back, just enough to kiss her.

Nyaha chew on that lmao pls note I do not hate Demetrius/Robin in any way I think theyre good together but you see how the asks force my hand! I only do what the little anon faces ask so nicely for me to do

Send me any Stardew Valley rarepair and I will tell you how I would make them work! (Even non-marriage npcs) If youre lucky you may get a mini fic out of it. Check the list below to see if Ive already answered yours

Rarepair Masterlist

[yki-dolls]

Huh look, it is Ninjago. Why not I suppose lmao.

This is a post apocalyptic au I kinda came up with with no idea explanation (definitely was a bit inspired by This fic on AO3)

Idk whether I'll write it or ever draw anymore of it ever but I like the designs so I'm posting it goddamnit.

Also I love the idea of Zane being fucking tall as fuck and Kai being... Less so, but hair included, being the same height as Cole. He gains like 4 inches just through hair gel lmao.

I could have made Lloyd tall, but he gives off small vibes. I just think it'd be funny for him to magically grow up and gain like... 5 inches max and still be the shortest.

This is making me realise that maybe a few too many of my design decisions are based on what I think is funny...

This au diverges at some point before Zane blows himself up at the end of s3, and is set several years in the future past that, except several things that happened afterwards didn't. Because it's MY au and I get to choose what traumatises them.

Also, I tried to sort of mix their og designs and their newer designs.

(And Jay gets an eyepatch because I loved when he got one in Skybound and I am sad he didn't keep it, honestly. Even though I know why he didn't.)

Anyway, closeups, ect:

I realised that Zanes arm is the perfect height to rest on Pix's head and I couldn't stop laughing lol (He's posed like that so his Falcon can land on his arm but the idea that he's posed like that to torment everyone he knows is objectivly funnier lol)

There's an odd number of them so Cole gets to show up twice <3 also he's got his tits out because he would do I take no criticism.

Pixel art Commissions

[nightfury-2001]

More art and lore/ideas for my cringe fantasy universe 💚 (I promise I'm working on more dragons stuff but I'd really like to start branching out more and drawing other things more often!)

Trying to figure out how to draw humans so that I can actually make a design for Arnar that isn't just a vague concept....not sure if anyone even really remembers him LOL but that's okay since I've changed things anyway. The biggest change is that I've decided to give him the ability to use a form of magic. Specifically I imagine his magical alignment/abilities allow him to properly work with ingredients/things that have magical properties to make unique and powerful concoctions and special equipment/items/etc.. Basically a magical crafter sort of thing. I also kinda like the idea of him having some sort of magical trait/ability that allows him to more easily befriend and/or communicate easier with the more magical creatures of the world but idk.

Anyway I imagine he still ends up living in the woods and befriending the creature™ and all that but this post is already getting a little long soooo...!

Worked a bit more on Apex's design too, instead of going with the peregrine falcon inspired markings I'll probably just make his wings dark with subtle lighter markings because honestly I think it looks better + it has those NFury vibes lol.

Also kind of a relatively big change but....! What if bigender AFAB he/she Apex....? Could tie into how I imagine her species is generally pretty accepting of nonbinary genders and how many hedgehog-bird-people societies might have many different gender roles. Like idk, I want to have a diverse cast of characters in my universe and while they may be such a silly meme idea I'm attached to my hedgehog-bird-critter-people and want to make them actually interesting and not just *insert irl culture here* with one minor change or just fluffy humans with an animal behavior/trait or two slapped on lmao

[bthump]

A kind of silly question but what version of griffith is your favorite? More so appearance/vibes wise i guess? 90s anime griffith is the weirdest to me, he looks and moves weird idk how to explain it, he just doesn’t give off the same vibes as manga griffith. As for the manga, Neo griffith or GA griffith?

Golden Age manga Griffith, definitely. Griffith circa about chapter 32 is peak, the art is just perfect imo, especially for him, and the vibes are immaculate. I love NeoGriffith and he looks amazing during the Millenium Falcon arc, but human Griffith will always be my fave, and even with how impressive the MF art is, I think mid-late Golden Age is actually my favourite era in pure visuals.

As for adaptations, I'd have to go with the OVAs. I think they messed up Griffith's character a lot, but they nailed the character design for him imo. I like the animation style of the 90s anime a lot, but I'm not a huge fan of Griffith's chracter design there. He's just not pretty enough lol. And I've barely seen the 2016/17 anime but from what little I have seen it's probably the worst imo.

Thanks for asking!

[crazylittlejester]

Fun fact about peregrine falcons: since falcons are such high energy birds, they're always like vibrating and shaking with energy and I feel like that fits Wars' vibe lol

- hero-of-the-wolf

SKJSNKSJNS oh definitely

[bonefall]

Clanmew warrior cats oc name translation time again? Yes.

Coalfrost- Kitchiki (hot coal-frost)

Dewlight- Pesooane (dew-ray of light). I chose ane over shayu because Dewlight was named for being optimistic and outgoing, kind of like a ray of sunshine... or a ray of light!

Eveningcloud- Piarrwifha (evening-thin cloud). Went for thin cloud over fat cloud because Eveningcloud is chill but not in a lazy way, more in a they kinda vaguely don't care way.

Foxcloud- Aowaohai (fox-fat cloud). Now THIS is a fat cloud cat. Chill but because they're lazy lol.

Falconscreech- Yassganyaolr (raptor-yowling) No word for falcon, so just used raptor! For screech, I was torn between screaming and yowling, but I chose yowling since it gives more of the this cat is really loud vibes.

Fireflydawn- Ahaigioochawhaf (glow-bug-dawn). In the absence of a word for firefly, i figured combining glow and bug would do.

Heatherbounce- Ssnibpipip (heather-bouncing). I picked the present tense mostly because she is always in action haha.

Maplestream- Hwooqshush (field maple-stream). Making use of the new word for maple here!

Moorstride- Kiyyrpaohao (grass-travelling). Struggled to translate this one, but it's where i ended up!

Softsnap- Wuffgnamna (soft fur-biting). Chose bite over snap just because in the absence of the alliteration, bite has more, well, bite to it.

Sparrowchirp- Qeeyanaya (sparrow-singing). No word for chirp, so I figured singing would do well enough.

Spiderbite- Skegnamnag (cobspider-bit)

Weaselsight- Byrrirpipo (weasel-sight)

Hydrangeadawn- Meyfuhawhaf (violet-dawn). No word for Hydrangea so I picked an approximation.

Pinefoot- Nyyp'pwyyar (pine needle-foot)

Songspeckle- Errarriwoowoo (song thrush-spotting). Chose the bird over song itself because I think that's fun.

Swanstep- Hchomssappap (swan-walked)

Tideshred- Saossassrapssen (current-shredded). No word for tide, figured current was the closest thing.

First submission to use the new Maple word award! I appreciate the use of thin-cloud for Eveningcloud, fat-cloud is the popular choice so it's nice to see the underdog get love lmao

Words for you;

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) = Pree

Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo) = Yowpiu

Moor = Hwayao NOT JUST A GRASSLAND. This is the equivalent of "Forest" to "Woods." When Clan cats say "moorland" they are referring to an entire biome, encompassing heaths, grasslands, tors, and dales.

Heath = Afwa The "woods" to moorland "forest." This is a particular parcel of the moorland, an area with acidic soil that needs to be managed through fire or grazing, lest it success into sparse woodland.

Chirp/Note/Beat (Word is used interchangeably) = Bwi The same Clanmew terms for various songs are used for birdsongs. A Bwi is a single beat of the larger song of a bird, or just one word in a speech. When combined with another Bwi, you have a Tune. Put Tunes together and you have a song.

Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) = Arke Clan cats don't have hydrangeas, so I went and found a plant that looks a lot like them! Hawthorns have fluffy clusters of flowers and grow with big, strong, thorned bushes. Feel free to translate as 'haw' or 'hydrangea,' however you'd like. If you want to keep the 'exotic' feel of a domestic plant, feel free to play around with the words for domestic rose, or fuschia.

[perotovar]

I saw your writing challenge, and it looks like so much fun! I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind choosing a P boy for me? I was gonna choose, but I'm like no I should leave this up to fate! You can base it on what you think I vibe with most or what you think would match my writing style or whatever.

catch ya later, ♥Puddles♥

puddles!!! i'm so happy to hear you wanted to be included that i went and put together an extra god/boy for you! look at you getting special treatment lol kidding, i just want everyone to have fun!

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Idun [Iðunn] – Marcus Pike

Name translates to “Ever Young”. The Goddess of Eternal Youth and sacred apples. This suggests that she may be protecting some sort of sacred “tree of life”. (wonder where the Christians got that one *cough*). Wife of the Skaldic poet, Bragi.

She’s said to hold the power of the Gods’ immortality within her apples.

She’s tricked into being kidnapped by Loki, who promises her there’s another tree of apples she may be interested in. Instead, when she gets there, there is no tree, just a Jotun that can transform into an eagle named Thjazi that snatches her and takes her away to his lair deep in the mountains. The Gods’ start to age and of course they get angry at this, so they question Loki about it. He promises to bring her back if Freyja let him borrow her cloak that allows her to transform into a falcon, and go to Jotunheim to get her. Freyja agrees, so when Loki finds Idunn left alone, he transforms her into a nut, and takes her back to Asgard. Thjazi notices and chases Loki out of there, but the Gods notice the chase, so they shoot Thjazi down and celebrate the death of the Jotun, and Idunn is brought home.

The most we get out of this story for Idunn herself is how she reacts to Loki’s trickery. She jumps at the opportunity to compare these new apples with her own, suggesting that she could be associated with general curiosity and observations. Therefore, a valid reading on her could be that she’s interested in science and hypotheses.

The other major time we see her is in what is probably a terribly awkward Thanksgiving feast. The Gods have been invited to Aegir’s hall beneath the waves and Loki starts to insult her husband Bragi, calling him a coward. They argue for a moment before Idunn tries to get her husband to lay off, so Loki turns his insults to her, calling her “man-crazed” and accusing her of sleeping with her brother’s murderer. (We’re unsure who either of these men are today, but still.) She has no interest in quarreling with Loki, so she decides not to engage and stays silent, except to declare her love for Bragi.

This tells us that she knows when to pick a fight and when not to, and that she’s not easily affected by insults. The other gods fight back against Loki’s insults and Idunn is the only one to not engage or give him the satisfaction of a reaction, forcing him to move on to someone else.

There’s one theory that suggests it’s not her apples that give the Gods their immortality, but Idunn herself. Therefore, she wouldn’t be the guardian of the youth of the gods, but she herself is the youth of the gods. This is why the gods are terrified when she’s kidnapped by Thjazi.

This suggests that she could very well be an ancient deity, maybe even older than Odin. But, given the nature of who she is, she will remain “ever young”.

Associations:

Youth, but also antiquity. Apples, obv. Science. Plants. Curiosity/theories.

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and your moodboard:

[foggysirens]

Lol, don't ever worry about long answers on my account. I love the chance to talk about fun crossovers and AUs, and that one definitely gave me some great ideas to mull over to make my shift go faster. For example: Luke running interference whenever Dean and Han get into it by asking Dean something about Baby (what is Baby here?) This frequently leads to the two of them indulging their greasemonkey sides on someone's ship while Din and Cas look on having the weirdest convo ever that consists mostly of one word comments and grunts because they're understandably distracted by the view. (Some of this may be inspired by a video I saw about putting a Ferrari motor in a tractor, and my first thought was "that is so Luke and Anakin coded." XD )

ohmygod yes luke would be doing his damn best to try and keep dean and han from getting into a full on fistfight every other day because that is the last thing the rebellion needs (sam, the little shit, would just be watching from the sidelines, just glad it’s someone else arguing with his brother for a change) and so their friendship would totally start as just this odd kind of thing where luke just pops up from nowhere and asks dean about his opinion on different engine models or for his help finding the right part to fix this super sudden malfunction that x-wing has been having, as you delightfully mentioned, talking to him about Baby

now, this ask promptly sent me down a rabbit hole trying to find what ship i think dean would fly in a star wars au and after an evening of scouring different reddit threads, wookieepedia pages and a random book from the 90’s - i settled on Baby taking the form of a Kazellis-class light freighter !!! was i initially drawn to this ship because of the Impala’s KAZ license plate? yes, but the ship itself turned out to be perfect (imo) for the boys - it’s a little flashy and isn’t all that inconspicuous, but it’s also gorgeous and fast as all hell with decent shielding and weapons range that can (and absolutely would be by dean) modified quite easily! there’s not a super lot of info on the model, what with it being a legends ship and all, but i did want to keep with the theme of rebels flying light freighters (han and the Falcon and hera with Ghost) and from what we do know it is a rare make (do NOT ask me how john would have gotten one in this universe i have no idea /j lol) which i think fits with Baby’s vibe as well !!! (the Kazellis Corporation that produced the ship was shut down by the empire after making only a few hundred according to the web pages i found, however there isn’t really any more information on the company than that, so we can just assume that they were around for a while (?) pre-empire and possibly even during the clone wars era and if so (and for the sake of this au we shall) we can place the ship in a timeline where john gets one (somehow) races around the galaxy raising dean and sam, and passes it along to dean in time for he and sammy to join up with the rebels) (also completely unimportant but the ion drive system being a bit more advanced on the Kazellis-class than other models is also something that drew me to it cause it made me think about cas and how ion drives/rockets have this blue-glow to them that reminds me a bit of angelic grace in spn, and so perhaps then in this star wars universe cas would maybe perceive the force as this glowing blue light that rests just outside his feild of view, hovering around him, and whenever he sees the flare of ion engines it makes him feel a little closer to it and so whenever he sees the glow of Baby’s extra ion lights it just settles him in a way other ships don’t and that fact drives dean absolutely wild with this deep satisfaction and he and cas spend a lot of time pressed together just looking out the ships windows and watching the engines as they fly)

anyways, all that to say Baby is a beautiful ship and is why dean and han fight about who has a better ship almost constantly (cause while han keeps the Falcon grubby to keep imps off their tale, dean keeps Baby spotless so he and sam can run infiltration and espionage missions) but it is also why dean and luke get along so well because they end up talking shop more days than not (i love the idea of them just finding comfort in finally meeting someone else who loves the mechanics of ships just as much as the flying) and with Baby being such a rare model luke takes every chance he gets to pick deans brain about her different quirks and modifications and dean get so excited to show him every time and ultimately it always ends with them guts-deep in Baby’s engine or tuning up lukes x-wing, covered in grease and chatting away like two peas in a pod

i do like the idea of din and cas meeting at some point as well and both just watching their partners jargon at each other with extreme fondness but it also did just make me think about how hilarious their first meeting would be because cas would absolutely just walk up to din ‘what is a star wars’ djarin and say something like “the lack of sensitivity you have towards to the living force is quite astounding given the depth of intimacy in your relationship with skywalker” completely unprompted and din would like “huh?” and the cas would just nod and be like “dean and i share quite a profound bond due to our connection in the force” and then they’d just stand in silence for however long until luke or dean break away from whatever they were doing and drag them off, but yeah din and cas end up having having this strange sort-of-friendship arrangement where they hang out and watch luke and dean work and cas will occasionally talk about force stuff that din doesn’t really understand (cause cas and luke interpret the force very differently) or they’ll sit down and compare notes on different weapons and fighting styles that they both know and maybe spar a little for fun

(a Ferrari motor in a tractor sums up the skywalkers wonderfully !!! gotta love a high-powered farmboy)

[tarisilmarwen]

8, 11, and 14 for the AO3 writer's wrapped ask game!

8. What’s your favorite work you posted this past year?

Probably Starmaps And Hyperspace Eyes, I did love a lot of the work I did for Whumptober but everything just came together so nicely on this one back in June, I struck all the Vibes I was going for, the imagery evoked exactly what I wanted, it fit the song that was its inspiration, it was beautiful and heartwarming, and I even still managed to sneak in some little juicy bits of Ezra peril.

11. Do you have playlists for any of your fics/wips?

Unsurprisingly Little Wooden Lightsaber Boy was written while listening to the Nutcracker Ballet so several cues from it fit certain scenes perfectly lol.

14. Give us a sneak peek of one of your upcoming works!

Okay so this is from the crack!fic that's been giving me headaches (finally made it past the trouble chapter so hopefully things'll be downhill from here) where the Falcon, the Ghost, and the Mantis all descend at once on the same Imperial facility. I'm mostly happy with this section so it's probably not gonna change much when it's eventually published:

Yavin IV - Massassi Temple - Office of Mon Mothma - Mission Debriefing 8.4 hours after "The Incident" There was a dull pressure pulling at the undersides of Senator Mon Mothma's forehead, as she carefully set her freshly-brewed cup of hot Chandrillan herbal tea on the desk in front of her. (Extra strength tension tamer, an expensive blend.) She sank into her seat with a weary, kind of bone-tired exhaustion. The kind of exhaustion she used to get back in her Senate days when Palpatine called them all into the chamber for one of his long dramatic speeches to "motivate" them to vote for his latest pet tyranny measure. (By the galaxies could that shriveled prune drone on and on!) The kind of exhaustion she'd felt after laboring twenty-six hours (by herself, with no medication thank you so much, Perrin, you were a big help) giving birth to Leida. That kind of exhaustion. Exhaling heavily, she spoke. "All right," she said. "Let's go over everything again, just to be sure we have it all straight." She glanced up at the three sheepish-looking women seated across from her: a green-skinned Twi'lek pilot, a young, composed Alderaanian princess, and a lady in plainclothes of varying browns and tans--who all seemed in that moment much less like the brave and competent Rebel leaders they were and much more like juvenille delinquents having a conference with the principal to discuss the terms of their detention. The three exchanged chagrined glances.

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