#for a lack of a better word

[sorrinslays]

The normal hsr universe you came up with was really fun and interesting!:o

I really like how your brain works!! (I hope this doesn't sound weird to say)

Hehe, thank you!! I'm glad you liked it (and don't worry, it's wasn't weird, just pleasantly unique!)

Honestly, I love answering these asks. I might be a little slow because of exams but it's obsoletely delightful to talk to other people who are interested in the same character I am. If you ever have any other asks, or ideas ya'll wanna share or anything really, feel free to send an ask, I'll try to answer as quickly as possible (that's not just for you anon but for everyone reading!)

[aliusfrater]

when we're both trans innuendos. they could have easily cast a guy to play the character that mirrors sam in this ep. but they DIDN'T

[lucidloving]

Twan Eng Tan, The Gift of Rain // Makoto Shinkai, Your Name // Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star // Pavana // Lang Leav, "Soul Mates" // S.E. Hall, Emerge // Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away // Hafiz

[valtsv]

what on earth could have been so bad about your child self that no one would let you through a vibe check. you didn't sound like you actually did anything

well you see the thing is if you're weird enough some people will want you dead just for existing

[hoofpeet]

Maybe also worth considering, in regards to Marcille's weird gender views, that humans canonically looking really masculine to elves, combined with her being half human means she might be kinda masc by elf standards-- which probably adds to her feeling like an outcast and means she has to work harder to fit into whatever standards for femininity elves have

[yourbuerokrat2]

Okay but this scenario in this AU has the potential to be both hilarious and have a bit of angst in them.

I mean, Q would lose (nearly) everything and he would not know when or even if his family would ever take him back. Besides, with his familys money being gone how would he pay rent. So, just like in Deja Q he would be forced to beg Picard to let him stay once he would realize that he really had no money at all. It also would hard but unexepected for him to see everyone else, meaning anyone he would spend time with outside of his appartment, leaving him or trying to get back at him for something except for Picard. It would be at this point where Q would be forced to see that Picard really is his only friend. Because even though Picard complains and shows no true pity about Qs situation he would let him stay. I mean, in this AU Q has not really caused the death of anyone and is not the Judge of Humanity. He is just a spoiled brat that is his mostly absent roomate and I don't see Picard throwing him out.

I think, there could even be a bittersweet moment where Q gets in Picards bed at night, like he had done at other times. But this time Picard does not react and pretend to sleep. Because Picard has not really been kicked out of his family but he is still no-contact and despite how Q may try to cover it up losing everything and nearly everyone in his life must take a toil on someone.

Considering Q has no real qualifications I am not sure wether he would do Picards job but since Picard is a Captain of a flag ship in TNG maybe he could have a higher position in a company in the roomate AU and Q would need some way to pay his share of the rent at least partly. So, Picard would try and suceed in Q getting a low-qualification job at his company. Far away from Picards office. But Q still comes to bother him.

In the end it could be Picard who could get Q back into his family. Because on one hand having a self-pitying Q who constantly complains about being poor like everyone else and who does zero housework and who would be quite clingy to him since Picard would be the only person left in his life because all of other party 'friends' would pretend not to know him once he no longer has the money to entertain them is all quite annoying. And to also have to not only deal with Q at work but also have to deal with his collegues and team complaining to him about Q being a jerk and not exactly someone easy to work with would be worse.

Honestly, I just love the thought of Picard giving the Continuum, in this AU Qs family, one of his long speeches on morality and humanity while Q is present. Qs family being like 'so, this is.. Picard, the guy you always talk about?' In the end, Q is welcomed back after they are convinced that he 'learned his lesson' because Q has actually been willing to work and Picard was rather convincing. And maybe Picard would succeed in forcing Q to 'grow up' where the rest of the family failed. Also, since Q mostly ignored them in favour of listening and talking to Picard maybe them living together woula also prove otherwise beneficial since as long as Q would live with Picard he would not cause too much trouble for the rest of them.

your q and picard roommate au is so goddamn funny. i keep thinking of this idea like. to mirror the episode where q gets turned human, there’s whole maybe 3 days where he is cut off from the continuum and therefore isn’t sent any money

so of course he makes this picard’s problem and just stays inside the apartment, depressed and talking about how he’s now broke and poor like everyone else and picard’s like “surely you still have some money left, right?” and q just goes “no i spent it all on this” and shows picard a golden fidget spinner with jewels embedded in it. at some point during the 3 days he decides to work the same job as picard and it goes horribly lol

anyway sorry for dumping love your art man keep up the good work 👍

this is so fucking funny i love it. thank you for this

[harrywavycurly]

One Direction brought me to this hellsite and as much as sometimes I truly do not like it here, this place is still what I’d consider a safe space for me because it’s filled with people who just get it, when it comes to the boys and tonight I’ve seen people back on my dash I haven’t seen in months because when news like this hits this is still the main place we come to for comfort and to feel free to let out our emotions without having to explain ourselves because we all just get it.

[plush0fairy]

Wisconsin-ae-Miku

Have to give credit to @thedragonitus for that Culver's cup!

[samwise1548]

Feeling nostalgic for early podcast days

Share which ones if any, or if I misses some (range is some ambiguous time between 2015 and 2020)

[palilious]

Have any of your listener designs become the canon version? And for who if so?

Listeners are definitely tricky as they're supposed to be audience stand ins, BUT there have been a few cases where my listeners have become the VAs personal canon!

First one that comes to mind is Faith Koria from @goodboyaudios Bastard Warrior!

I came to GB with the concept that she had more African features, and he loved the idea and made it canon to his canon! Hence why the official art of her brother is also black! Now that Faith has an official voice, she's more of a character then a listener. So you can consider this art accurate to her character!

Another option would be Raven from @escapedaudios Neon Noir, but that's a more complicated story

I headcanoned that Raven got a Crow tattoo on her back, shoulder and neck to memorialize Crow at the end of the series and going into Neon Wings. Escaped really liked the idea! but my headcanons had already infected enough of that series and I felt bad, so I asked him to not include that one lol You can blame a lot of Ivan's look and backstory on me though! I came up with his birds and their names, his prosthetic leg, and his actual design!

[delulluart]

Thank you everyone who enjoyed the little drawings I shared this month, your nice comments really mean a lot to me! Now it's back to regular art posts. Celebrate the end of October with blissed out Copia.

Full versions here 🌶

Click to see all Ghinktober 2024 drawings

[thelongestwalk]

I kinda wanted Ink5oul and Madame E to become a toxic influencer couple ... imagine the psychic damage they would wreak on the internet combined

[shy-marker-pliers]

me when Charlie said she hasn’t talked to her mom in seven years which is the same amount of time Alastor had ben gone for before he came back and showed up at the hotel

[valtsv]

anyone else ever feel like they can never say what they mean when they talk to other people. like i'm just making noises with my mouth that vaguely resemble what i'm actually trying to communicate.

[mssallsunday]

mouthwashing features a mc who rapes and impregnates a woman and then crashes a spaceship full of innocent people to cover that fact up when the news gets out to the ppl she confides in and the captain tells her her assaulter wouldn't do that because he "knows him" and the mc pretends like it never happened as he is haunted by the images of his lies and deceit and cowardice and the image of his unborn child and the sound of a child's cries and the captain who failed to act cannot move himself or feed himself or speak for himself or defend himself when the mc attacks him and berates him and blames him for every lie he's ever told as the captain loses every scrap of autonomy he has left. but yeah it's about fucking. capitalism and yaoi. whatever i guess

[roukabi]

I feel like when it comes to the Dusthide debate, a lot of people seem to misinterpret the main point of Ancients as both a game element and a product.

A big part of Flight Rising is dress-up. While users can argue on what the sole draw of FR is (dragons themselves, breeding, the Dominance system, etc), it's generally agreed that the dress-up aspect is one with a lot of care and resources put into it, and is therefore very important to site gameplay. Dress-up keeps getting updated with new apparel, and if there is to be a new dragon breed, it needs every piece of apparel re-drawn on it. This takes time. A lot of time. Gaps between dragons (now known as Moderns) stretch for years at a time.

Ancients were initially created as a way to fill in these time gaps between Moderns, and the easiest way to do that was to release dragons without apparel. However, this is a game that puts a lot of emphasis on dragon dress-up. Imagine if Obelisks were released without any coded apparel. You'd just have a naked dragon missing a huge element of the game, and for most players, there's no fun in that.

This is where the second point of Ancients comes in: because the appeal of clothing is gone, there has to be some kind of compromise. So... if Ancients can't wear apparel, then they are no longer restrained by the requirements for apparel (1 head/4 legs/2 wings)...

which means that they can break the modern mold freely! You can have a dragon with no legs, or six. Or with two heads, or no head. And now that you don't have to worry about apparel clipping, the tertiary genes can go wild! There is room for customization that apparel can't fulfill - you could give it extra wings, or a jellyfish head, or giant tree horns, or you could give it nothing at all as tertiary genes are optional, and it wouldn't matter because there's no apparel to be drawn around it!

Ancients are supposed to be a trade-off. There's no selling point to a dragon without clothing on the Dragons With Clothing Game, but there is a selling point to a dragon with, say, 13 legs, no wings and no tail. It doesn't wear apparel, because it physically can't, and it makes use of this function in creative ways. The inability to wear apparel is justified by the Ancient's unique proportions.

And this is where the criticisms for Dusthides and other 'basic' Ancients stems from: if your Ancient dragon is just the 1 head/4 legs/2 wings setup, then is it really an Ancient or a Modern you can't dress up? You could have the wildest, gaudiest, 15-limb tertiary gene on a Dusthide and it wouldn't matter, because tertiaries are optional and aren't a permanent part of the dragon that would inhibit the usage of apparel.

If a dragon doesn't have a justifiable reason to not wear apparel, then there's no reason for it being an Ancient.

No amount of linebreaking tertiaries will be able to hide the fact that some dragons seem to be created only for the first, initial purpose: just to tide people over until a better, 'real' dragon is created.

And that's just disappointing.