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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Playdate in peril, the homosexual thoughts be upon ye.

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[serickswrites]

It Takes Two VIII

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Warnings: referenced captivity, referenced torture, referenced restraints, referenced hanging, referenced noose, referenced strangulation, referenced asphyxiation, referenced character death, referenced cpr, hospital, hurt/comfort, hurt/aftermath, hurt/recovery

Smallest Teammate hanging by their neck danced behind Team Leader's eyelids every time they closed their eyes. Smallest Teammate's desperate gasps for air echoed in Team Leader's ears. And the feel of Smallest Teammate's lifeless body beneath their hands as they performed CPR ghosted along Team Leader's fingertips.

It had been that way since Teammate One pulled Smallest Teammate from their arms and placed the on a gurney. Team Leader had essentially stopped functioning as Smallest Teammate was wheeled away.

It was all their fault. Smallest Teammate had been hurt because of them. Whumper had kidnapped Smallest Teammate because of them. Smallest Teammate had stopped breathing because of them. Smallest Teammate had died because of them.

Smallest Teammate had died.

The words still stole all the breath from Team Leader's lungs. And even though they could hear the monitors, could see the lines and numbers on them, that told them Smallest Teammate was still alive now wasn't enough. Smallest Teammate had been dead.

And it was all their fault.

Smallest Teammate hadn't woken yet. The medical team wasn't sure when Smallest Teammate would wake--if Smallest Teammate would wake--no one knew how long they had been without oxygen and what the effects would be. Team Leader hadn't left their side. Hadn't let go of their hand.

The soft whir and hiss of the ventilator should have been a reassurance that Smallest Teammate still breathed. But it wasn't. Team Leader knew that Smallest Teammate could slip away at any moment, that death could steal them once more. And there would be nothing Team Leader could do to stop it.

"I really need you to wake up, Smallest Teammate," Team Leader mumbled softly. "It was supposed to be me. This is should have been me." Team Leader squeezed their eyes shut to stop the tears that were threatening to overwhelm them. "Sweetheart, please. I need you to wake up. I can't go on like this. Not without you.

"I am so sorry it took me so long to find you. I...I should have worked harder. Please," Team Leader sobbed, "sweetheart, please wake up. Stay with me, please."

Smallest Teammate's fingers twitched in theirs. Team Leader's eyes flew open. "Smallest Teammate?"

Smallest Teammate's eyelids fluttered. Once. Twice. And suddenly Team Leader was staring down into Smallest Teammate's eyes. "Sweetheart, you're here. You're here. Please, stay here with me. I need you."

Smallest Teammate's eyes were hazy, but their fingers twitched again.

"You're in the hospital. I'm...I'm sorry it took so long to find you."

Smallest Teammate blinked again, some of the haze clearing from their eyes. Team Leader pushed the call button. "I'm getting them to come help you, sweetheart. But I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to spend the rest of my life making this up to you. I love you. I love you. I love you."

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[batsplat]

wait, is there a dovi/jorge feud???? i didn't know this!! also thank you so much for all you do for this community ❤️

not the only ask I've gotten about this and... look, rather than doing a proper write up that would take forever, I'm just gonna give my top ten fun... facts? bits of trivia. tidbits related to the two of them. quite long tidbits, on second glance. the highlight reel, if you will

(1) that time andrea dovizioso made 14 year old jorge lorenzo cry

the two of them already raced each other before the start of their grand prix careers, competing for the first time in 2001 in the cev when dovi was around 15 and jorge around 14. in riveras tobia's biography, here's jorge talking about their first fight:

I led the way at the start and Dovizioso and I escaped. It was our first head-to-head encounter, the first time we raced each other. My dad had heard that Dovi was a really clever rider and he warned me before the race. But just like in 1998 at Jerez, with Olive, I acted like a dummy and pushed for the whole race. I kept looking behind me to see the bastard still there! It was impossible to shake him off, he was watching me the whole race until the last lap. Three comers from the end I could hear his engine getting closer and I saw his shadow to my left, but he didn't come past. I thought to myself "This guy is going to try something in a second!" I decided I had to on a tighter line and close the door. Sure enough, Dovi went wider through that comer and then dived up the inside. I didn't close the door in time and tried to get in his slipstream, desperately hoping I could get him the next corner, but I ran wide and he won. I came back in tears, I didn't even want to go to the podium, I felt so cheated. I'd been on the limit for the whole race and I felt like I deserved the win more than he did.

so that's a nice and positive start! there's something charming about how even fifteen year old dovi was an absolute menace on last laps

also about that race:

'Jorge beat Dovi in Braga but in the previous race at Most, what a tantrum!' recalls Juanito, laughing. 'He didn't even want to go to the podium, he was crying like a baby! I can still see Dani (Antatriain) talking to him, trying to convince him. In the end he went but he didn't want to look at anybody.'

(2) the photo finish

in 2004, they were rivals in 125cc - a year in which dovi claimed the title and jorge was p4 in the standings. in the very first grand prix ever at the lusail circuit (pretty eventful weekend, you have to say), jorge and dovi crossed the line at the exact same moment

(3) dovi's top three favourite career win

dovi and jorge progressed through the categories at the exact same rate, and after their 125cc rivalry they continued fighting in 250cc. they were title rivals in both 2006 and 2007, with jorge's aprilia winning out both times against dovi's underpowered honda. (the general pattern was that dovi clawed back a bunch of points from jorge in the wet - jorge, with perhaps the exception of a few years in the premier class until around 2013, has never been much of a wet weather racers, while it's always been one of dovi's strongest traits.) for dovi's 300th career start in 2019, he was asked what his top three wins were - and one of his picks was from way back when in 2007

I'd recommend the race! which... well, I did in the race rec post - and I can only reiterate that these two kids do not acknowledge each other, not good vibes at all

(4) jorge's thoughts on young dovi from 2008

Jorge has a lot of respect for Andrea Dovizioso and feels that his two 250cc world titles have even more prestige because he had to beat the Italian to win them. 'You wouldn't label Dovizioso as fast, particularly, but he's much faster than he looks. He doesn't set many pole positions but he is always up front in a race, fighting to win. He is very intelligent and you can't trust him an inch on the last lap. He has been faithful to Honda, he has great belief in them. His negative side is that he tends to play the victim too much. He'll say that if his bike had a better engine or if it was a bit faster he would win. He's even said that if he was on the same bike as me he'd give me a hiding. I think he looks for excuses too often sometimes, but as a rider and a person I don't have a bad word to say about him.'

some dovi traits read as very familiar, from how he's a better racer than qualifier to the intelligence to the last lap prowess. as for jorge saying dovi plays victim too much? well

also this:

ER: Don't you think that Dovizioso wanted to be World Champion too in 2006 and 2007? Don't you think he gave everything to achieve it? JL: He will think he gave his maximum but he will be lying to himself because nobody does that. Nobody gets close to their maximum, not even me. He will think that he didn't win because he was riding a Honda. There are very few sportsmen who will say, I deserve what happened to me and there are no excuses. I didn't know how to do any better and I've done things wrong.' That is the only way to be the best, the only way. People who make excuses don't get to the top. I know riders who haven't made it for just that reason.

plus ça change

(5) jorge's thoughts on young dovi from 2018

when they were doing their thing as ducati teammates (bickering), here is one of the things jorge said about dovi:

dovi's been trying to undermine jorge's morale his WHOLE career... even when they were but teenagers... love it when you can really tell someone's been sitting on something for over a decade

(6) "also lorenzo is not my friend"

both of them moved up to motogp in 2008, jorge with factory yamaha and dovi with satellite honda. dovi had a very strong rookie season and finished in p5, only sixteen points behind jorge in p4 (who after a promising first few races had spent a lot of time that season crashing). after that, their fortunes diverged. dovi did not have a particularly happy time in the factory honda team and needed to do some shrewd negotiating to be retained by them for 2011 in that three-man squad, while jorge of course won the championship in 2010

here's a deep cut from 2011, a season where much of the excitement and drama was caused by marco simoncelli alone. jorge had exchanged tense words with sic in estoril, one race before simoncelli was responsible for a crash where dani broke his collarbone. the crash and sic's subsequent penalty meant that the three-way fight between jorge, dovi and valentino became one for the podium, with dovi and valentino eventually grabbing the two remaining spots behind casey. but during the race, jorge had executed a... questionable manoeuvre on dovi, one that did have some similarities to the sic/dani incident. given jorge's strong previous comments on racing standards, unsurprisingly the journalists pounced on this incident in the post-race presser and ask the podium sitters about it. here is the clip:

in this clip, dovi essentially says it was a dangerous move from jorge, but he wasn't sure what jorge's intent had been and he needs to watch the footage again. valentino (who had been the most outspokenly critical of sic of the three of them earlier in the presser) takes the opportunity presented to him to have a bit of a potshot at jorge. he says that dovi doesn't have the best relationship with sic but jorge had done something pretty similar in the race... at which point dovi goes "also lorenzo is not my friend"

which, you know. not exactly a major incident, but I find it very charming dovi felt the need to clarify that, actually, he doesn't like either of them. valentino also adds that by jorge's own standards, surely he too should have gotten a penalty. not exactly a meeting of jorge's biggest fans hm

(7) mapping eight-gate

well I can't leave it out, can I

so in 2017 jorge switches from yamaha to ducati and does not have a great time of it. a lot of weekends, he's just too slow, other times he shoots to the front of a race at the start (typically not great news for the rest of the field in his yamaha days) and then chews up his tyres before gradually dropping like a stone back through the field. at some point that year it became a bit of a running gag - especially when you saw he was the only big name to be picking a soft tyre and just went... buddy we ALL know how this is gonna end....

while this was happening, his teammate dovi was for the first time in his premier class career in championship contention. an extremely close title fight throughout the year with five protagonists until pretty late in the season, it eventually went to a title decider in valencia between dovi and marc. you know, the kind of year where every point counts. the race where marc put a bit of daylight between himself and dovi was phillip island, with marc winning a great dogfight out front while dovi had a bit of a horror show of a weekend. this meant that a lot would have to go right for dovi to have a chance of still winning the title... and sepang was already a match point race for marc

ducati had not won a championship since their 2007 title, courtesy of one casey stoner. after that year, their bike became steadily less competitive every season, reaching a nadir around the 2011-13-ish period. so by the time 2017 rolled around, they wanted this so so badly - even if they wouldn't have expected dovi to lead the charge. dovi had only narrowly beaten out iannone in the 'who's going to be fired for our shiny new lorenzo hire' contest of 2016, and really it was supposed to be jorge who was carrying ducati's dreams on his shoulders. but, never mind, they were throwing everything behind dovi now... no stone left unturned

which brings us, of course, to the subject of team orders. this discourse really took off at the penultimate race of the season at sepang, but was already brewing before that - and in phillip island, satellite ducati rider redding had been told early in the race to let dovi past

here from marc at sepang:

dovi had been in great form all weekend at sepang - and with his wet weather prowess being what it was, really there shouldn't have been any need for team orders at all. but he got a sluggish start, and the race unfolded from there... until eventually jorge was in first, dovi was in second and marc in fourth. in those positions, marc would have clinched the title there

and then, jorge got a message on his dashboard. suggested mapping: mapping 8. pit boards and dashboards and all sorts of boards will feature various codes during races, most of them completely innocuous - but of course they are a healthy source of all sorts of conspiracies. the timing of this one was certainly... notable, and speculation immediately started about how it might be a way of telling jorge that he should swap positions with dovi

jorge didn't end up letting dovi pass - it is questionable whether he really would have done so with what would have been his first ducati win on the line. in the end, he made a mistake that let dovi through so that dovi claimed the win anyway, keeping himself in mathematical contention in valencia. and jorge did say afterwards he was keeping dovi's title hopes in mind, kind of

jorge also said he hadn't gotten any message indicating team orders, and of course nobody at ducati confirmed that mapping eight did have anything to do with team orders

for what it's worth, this is what dovi said about their relationship at this stage:

lovely! let's see what the vibes are like a few months later

anyway, onto valencia. this race was pretty boring despite being a title decider, but the jorge/dovi bits were just unequivocally the weekend's most enjoyable aspect and rather nicely spiced up the whole thing. dovi's chances were always slim going in, given he'd have to win the race and marc would have to barely get any points at all... but still, you never know, right? marc could always crash (narrator: he did almost crash). jorge plays coy early in the weekend about the whole 'helping dovi out thing', and basically just started putting in place...? ... very specific conditions...? under which he'd help:

so during the actual race, dovi got stuck behind jorge in p5, with marc ahead of both of them. valencia is traditionally not a fantastic track to overtake at... so even if dovi had been faster, it's not like he'd have an easy time clearing jorge and cracking on. but they were beginning to drift further away from dani in p3 as ducati watched on, increasingly unamused by what was happening - and the tv cameras were of course kind enough to repeatedly show the ducati box looking deeply unamused. again, they went for the good old mapping eight message, which, hey, that could mean anything! they sure did keep showing it to jorge though, almost like he wasn't paying attention to it

eventually, they abandon all subtlety and go for a pit board message that does just straight-up tell jorge to swap positions. jorge kept ignoring the messages, lap after lap, and he never ended up letting dovi past. eventually they both crashed and marc claimed the title with a p3 finish, so it wouldn't have mattered anyway, but... still. the feeling was that this might things rather awkward inside of ducati

publicly, ducati was extremely keen to smooth over the whole controversy, saying they totally weren't mad at jorge blatantly ignoring team orders. jorge had, after all, explained to them (and the media, repeatedly) that he had totally been intending to help dovi by dragging him closer to dani

Giving his take on events, Lorenzo acknowledged that he ignored Ducati’s instruction because he felt Dovizioso’s chances would be boosted by having him directly ahead. “Even looking at this [dashboard] suggestion, I keep pushing until the end, because I knew it was the best thing for me, for Ducati and for Dovi,” said Lorenzo. “I helped him to improve his pace by one or two tenths, to be as close as possible to the first group. My intention was, and it was the case, that we arrive at the first group. If he had the option to win, I would have gone wide and let him pass. But unfortunately it was not like that. Maybe in some corners Dovi was close and I slow down a little bit his pace, but in general terms, having my wheel in front of him made him improve slightly his pace. I helped him stayed closer to the front group. “I knew Dovi was struggling, I knew his pace during all the weekend, and I knew he was making the best pace of the weekend just in the race. It was [because of the] help from my wheel. I’m happy because I was not wrong. If I was wrong and slowing him, I would be very sorry. But it’s not like that, my feeling was true.”

which, you know. is it really that easy to tell how much faster you are than someone who's sitting on your rear tyre? who's to say. dovi did certainly seem rather keen to get past

anyhow, of course there were plenty of fun dramatics post-race:

'our rider ignored team suggestions not team orders' is a great line, fairs. there's plenty more of this from ducati, some excellent spin doctoring - and dovi was extremely magnanimous about what had happened:

the whole thing was pretty undignified from all non-dovi parties, but it was also very funny so who's to say if it was bad or not

(8) runner-up-gate

let's check in on them in 2018, the second and ultimately last year in which they were teammates. remember that 'undermining morale' quote from above? those are from early 2018, after dovi says he wouldn't be surprised to see jorge elsewhere the following season. so, once jorge has complained that dovi had been trying to put him down his entire career, comes this:

so that's something. jorge, dovi and dani have a three-in-one crash in jerez, after which some fingers are pointed but it all remains fairly civil, and a bit later dovi says that jorge's approach doesn't work at ducati:

by the summer break, jorge's results had gotten better, but it was already too late to save the relationship with ducati and they parted ways. anyway, here's dovi and jorge having another go at it:

And while a rough patch for Dovizioso coupled with breakthrough back-to-back wins for Lorenzo in Mugello and Barcelona have now left the pair just three points apart in the standings, Dovizioso refused to back down from his claim when speaking to Spanish sports daily Marca ahead of the upcoming Brno race. “He’s won two races,” Dovizioso said. “Winning two races does not solve the problem of a year and a half. Lorenzo was not signed to win two races. Therefore I do not change my mind.” When the comments were put to Lorenzo, the three-time champion offered an ardent retort, stating that Dovizioso's rhetoric was proof of the claim he'd made back in April. “I'm a bit fed up with this situation, mainly because when I had trouble and he was winning, I was down there applauding,” Lorenzo told Spanish broadcaster Movistar. “What I said in Argentina - and the comments caused a big surprise - you can see that I was right. “He tried to undermine me, or downplay what I achieve or just attack me. As you can see, I wasn't lying. He's still doing it and now he says my method is not good, according to him.” Lorenzo intimated that Dovizioso was in no position to criticise him, as the Italian could do no better than runner-up to Marc Marquez in a 'perfect' 2017 season. He said: “I think my method has not worked too bad in my career. I've won three MotoGP titles and have 46 wins.” “In my second year in Ducati I'm usually faster than him, but maybe I should look at his method closer if in his best season, with everything going perfectly, he was second. Otherwise he's fourth or seventh usually. I'd tell him to leave me to go my way and to focus on his own and everything will be better, because when you have an angry Lorenzo it's usually worse for you.” 

fair to say that by this point the pretence at civility has mostly been dropped. I'm rather fond of the "lorenzo was not signed to win two races" line, though "when you have an angry lorenzo it's usually worse for you" is also really strong stuff. dovi tries to restore a little bit of peace:

Responding in turn to Lorenzo's tirade, Dovizioso sought to play down the conflict. “Jorge has his ideas and I think they are based on particular things. I don't think like him, but it's not a problem,” he told Movistar. “Everybody creates their own ideas based on what they see and how they live. “I don't think he has everything clear in his head about what's happened, but we continue the relationship that we started last year with respect, there's no particular problem. If he thinks this way, that's his problem."

so basically the classic 'idk what he's on about but it's not my problem' approach to attempting to defuse feuds

(9) twitter-gate

there's a few more on-track battles where it's nicely obvious how badly they want to beat each other, with jorge beating marc just ahead of dovi in austria and then dovi beating jorge in brno. jorge's season is increasingly derailed by injuries, which sets the stage for their next big spat:

The row was sparked by Dovizioso's comments to Sky Italia after qualifying at Sepang on Saturday, as he was asked what he thought of Lorenzo having to pull out of the Malaysian GP weekend with injury. "I don't know the details, I don't want to get into this, it's a bit of a strange situation," said Dovizioso."It happens often in Ducati or to certain riders, but I don't understand the details and I don't want to get into it and give my opinion." When it was put to him he was offering 'cryptic words', he added: "I leave things there, it's not my problem."

pretty vague, yeah. but anyway, I'm sure jorge had a proportionate response to this

Dovizioso's comments prompted a series of irate posts from Lorenzo on Twitter, with his first reaction being "Thank you very much @AndreaDovizioso! You are a real gentleman!". In his next post, he went on to call Dovizioso "an exemplary teammate", adding: "You applaud him under the podium when he wins and then... (That's right, he does not give his opinion, it's not his problem)." After that, Lorenzo labelled Dovizioso "envious" and described him as "a world champion... in 125cc."

the podium thing really bothered him, don't you think. their ducati in-fighting follows that general pattern where dovi says something... a little shady, a little ambiguous, where his intentions aren't entirely obvious... at which point jorge goes all in at fighting back and has a go at dovi - often not as much for what dovi is actually saying, but what jorge thinks dovi is implying. which is based on his understanding of dovi, the image of dovi he's built up in his head over the years, so that he is... predisposed to think ill of the intentions of the 'intelligent' dovi who always knows exactly what he's saying

again, dovi tried to downplay the argument, while simultaneously not exhibiting much patience for jorge's stance:

After the Malaysian GP, Dovizioso was asked about Lorenzo's responses to his comments, and the Italian accused his teammate of reading too much into headlines. He said: “Why should I talk to Lorenzo? I do not waste time on these things. He makes the usual mistake of giving too much importance to what is written, even without the context. "I have not pointed my finger at anyone and I have no problem with Jorge."

if I were ducati, I probably would've let the whole thing blow over given jorge was off soon anyway. but they decided the whole thing was so bad they had to organise a peace summit

Asked about the situation, Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti admitted to Motorsport.com that the Bologna marque has already planned to sit its two riders on Tuesday in Milan to make it clear what its priorities are. Ciabatti said: “It is clear that the interests of Ducati come before personal problems between riders. On Tuesday we will be together in Milan, for the EICMA [motorcycle show] and we have in mind to spend half an hour to sit and talk to Jorge and Andrea. "We want to avoid similar things to what happened last weekend. "I understand that these kinds of situations can happen. Sometimes riders get nervous during a Grand Prix weekend and on a rainy day, with tricky conditions, sometimes they say things they shouldn’t have said."

god knows how that turned out

(10) wow, you guys aren't gonna let this go, huh

late 2020 and jorge's career is already over, while dovi's looks like it will be... paused, at the very least. which is always a good time to check in with riders on how they feel about their rivals - if they're still being nasty you know that shit was personal. from december:

some quality petty material here. "I can't understand his somewhat peculiar mind" vs "he was envious of me since 250cc, but I wanted to give our relationship a chance". note too jorge talking again about how generous he had been in the face of dovi's 2017 successes, and how he feels like this was not reciprocated at all. jorge's complaints don't stop there:

merry christmas!

not the only rider jorge has beefed with post-retirement, but compare and contrast with how he really hasn't been doing any of that with some of his biggest career rivals. valentino, marc, dani - sure, he still talks about the controversies he's had with them pretty regularly (to put it lightly), and he's hardly free of complaints... but mostly it's a distinctly nostalgic tone he's adopting with these guys. admittedly, it helps that none of those three have gone out of their way to say anything particularly inflammatory about jorge. still, the absolute lack of any sort of rapprochement with dovi of all people is pretty funny

bonus: that time when jorge skittled all of marc's rivals

you know how in catalunya 2019, jorge took out like? all of marc's major rivals in that era including himself in one go? with half a decade of hindsight, this was kind of hilarious, and it did also feature jorge having to eat a hell of a lot of humble pie and go to the three other blokes to apologise. anyway I have a lovingly assembled set of screenshots of all three of them emoting in their boxes after the incident, all suffering some form of an existential crisis. here is dovi contemplating the bleak realities of our brief lives on this planet:

truly one of the world's least enthusiastic waves

bonus 2: another one for old time's sake

already posted this elsewhere, but this from late 2023 made me laugh

"jorge came to ducati and thought he was going to beat everything, but in the end he didn't" uh huh

[miniconsuffrage]

I don't regret changing careers because I need money to live but I there are so many things I loved and miss about being a vet tech. my coworkers and the animals are one thing but there were so many skills I was learning that I will now lose or never get good at because I will never use them again. I'm never going to take another x-ray ever again probably ever in my life

[mitsybubbles]

What do you think Ansbach’s favorite food is? What drink? This might sound like a weird question but I like food so I’m always thinking about it.

I like food too dw ^^ it’s a fun way to characterize characters with details

Hmmmmm as for his favorite food and drink…

I honestly don’t think he likes things that are super rich or sweet, he prefers things that are on the heartier side. I don’t have a clear idea of what his favorite food would be but I feel it might be some sort of a stew that’s warm, comforting, and filling with lots of meat and veggies in it

As for drinks, my heart says he likes red wine the most, smth dry I think (Mohg on the other hand prefers sweeter stuff). He’s also partial to pomegranate juice. And to drinking blood

[red-dyed-sarumane]

i'm glad this is my reputation im a series song enjoyer first and a person second

[c-cocco]

kinda been taking it into my own hands as far as making my own little true form sukuna plushie goes since i'm not really sure if or when an official one would come out (tho, tbh i'm not completely sure how long it'd take me to actually make this x_x)

(more design rambles under the cut)

i kinda got the very general design idea/pattern from my little persona plushies i got (here's the joker one as an example)

the body is a simple front and back piece with separate arms and the head two front pieces (the face/head piece and the hair/bangs) with a little dart on the top center line and at least two back pieces (a third can be layered on top if you're making a character with longer hair), then two extra ear pieces that sewn into the side seams. In sukuna's case, his body would obviously have to be a bit bigger to fit in the extra arms but i feel like that shouldn't be too hard to figure out proportions wise (i know those are kinda off in this sketch, but i just wanted to get the basic ideas down xD;; ...i also forgot about the back two pieces of the head x_x;;).

I'm just not sure about how i want to do the details tho.. like i know that, unlike the persona ones, i want to make the clothes separate (b/c i'm a sucker for making little outfits) but, as stated in the side notes of the sketch, while im a bit more sold on doing embroidery (or embroidery + felt patches) for the face bits, im really not sure how to do his tattoos... im currently less sold on embroidering those and leaning more towards patching them on with felt (especially if i end up using felt for the skin fabric).

most of the fabric for the joker one is this 'felt-ish'/fleece-y feeling stuff that has some sort of a woven layer to it so it's a bit more stable (idk what it's called but i know it's used a lot with plushies) which makes it a good option (aside from knowing where to buy it) but i dont think patching them on would look as integrated. i could piece them in but that would probably be more trouble than it's worth at this small a scale.. i think most of the official plushies embroider them in now that i think of it so i'll probably have to do that unless there's a way i can still patch them on with a thinner fabric 🤔 (perhaps it would be a way to add a different texture too....)

the hair is pretty straightforward in comparison.. the joker plush uses that soft minky fabric with the short pile so i'm probably going to use that (it's just... hopefully i can find that specific shade of pink-beige-ish.. tho pink is still a good plan b if i can't ofc).

i think that's about it with my thoughts on the matter.. i'm also planning out a gojo one too even tho i know there's plenty of small plushies for him xDD i'll probably share those sketches as well since i'm currently messing around with how i want to do his hair and face and may need some help deciding;;; i did have the idea of doing his irises in sparkly seed beads but i may need to do a little test of that to see if that could even work xD;;;; if not there's always sparkly embroidery thread (tho that stuff is tough to work with x_x)

if you read to the end of this ramble o_O thank you. here's an extra sketch of the plush i also want to make of one of my ocs xD

[mus1g4]

Recently you described some of the details involved with an electric chair execution role play. Could you describe what a hanging scene would be like? Thanks

Since hanging is now almost obsolete, we would probably do this old school. The inmate would likely be in denims or stripes. If you chose to do a more contemporary jumpsuit or scrubs, we would likely key the execution to Washington State or Delaware for authenticity.

Much like the electric chair execution, the intake of the inmate would be similar to the other inmates with the exception that heavier and more consistent restraints would be used throughout his incarceration.

On the day of his execution, he would be taken from his cell early in the day and ordered to take a shower. Following the shower, he would be offered a shave and haircut. If he declined, these would likely be forced because he would be seen by the witnesses. If he or his family has brought civilian clothes (a white dress shirt and dark pants for example) he would be allowed to dress in those clothes. Otherwise he would be given a clean prison uniform.

The inmate's weight would be measured along with his height and neck size in order to properly calculate the drop adequate to break his neck.

He would be taken back to the solitary confinement cell where he would be allowed to meet with clergy and his lawyer if he wished. He would be also offered a last meal of his choice. This meal, like electrocution would be served to the other inmates as well as the guards.

Following his last visits and last meal, he would be ordered to go to the bathroom prior to being restrained in the hanging harness an hour prior to his hanging. At the appointed hour, he would be removed from his solitary confinement cell and taken to the execution chamber.

Again, as in the electric chair, I will not divulge every detail because half the fun of these scenarios is the unknown or surprise element!

Question about Role Play Hanging Execution

[swordmaid]

now I’m thinking about half illithid shri’iia more I really like the idea that she feels like it’s not her, or she’s just in her body but she doesn’t feel like the one that’s controlling it. when she speaks, her mouth is moving and she is saying what she thinks but it doesn’t feel like it’s her talking. when she fights she watches herself move but it feels like watching a movie - she is distant. day by day her grip on her own self is loosening, and she feels like she’s getting replaced. but is it so bad to be replaced when this newer version of her is better, and much more powerful? when she’s not restrained by any fear or paranoia, or the lack of knowledge in anything, and her hollow chest and broken oath doesn’t even matter anymore not when she is as powerful as she is now? and she knows she’s barely scratching the surface of this new illithid power. there is so much more she could be if she lets go of all her restraints, and she embraces this fully. if she ascends, and accepts ceremorphosis she’d be better and stronger. the emperor is encouraging her too, and he’s been right about everything so far she was just too paranoid to trust him…

like the ea version of daisy where she’s getting seduced/lured by the tadpole but instead it’s the astral tadpole wanting to take over her. and shri’iia has to work to make herself feel like herself, and to resist that temptation, and remind herself that taking this power was a necessity so they win and not something she actually wanted or needed. (she was always more than enough!!!!)

[malachitezmeyka]

I personally find it very funny that my sister and I are both obsessed with an unfairly attractive long-haired fictional man with a tendency to prance around without a shirt on who would do anything for his autistic daughter... and it's not even the same damn fictional man

"Oh we're so different we will never get along" Blatant lies, we're one in the same and completely incorrigible in what we are

[wolfsbanesparks]

76. Did you have any ideas that didn't make the final cut of Split?

Hi anon! Thanks for the ask!

Ooh this is a fun one! I spent a long time writing Split so lots of things changed over the course of the story. So in no particular order:

I was originally going to have a much more light hearted story featuring Billy, Jon, and Damian just hanging out (but then I was caught up in The Plot). One scene I considered writing involved Aquaman more or less babysitting them while they went swimming. Billy would have been stressed and uncomfortable because he 1: can't swim well and 2: is trans. it would have been a much more casual, low stakes coming out scene. The main reason I didn't include it was because there didn't seem to be a good place to slow down and have this scene when Billy was trying to be a part of the action.

I also almost wrote a chapter from Black Adam's POV, taking place near the end where he gets the message from his scarab beetle that followed them to the Rock of Eternity. Ultimately I cut it because it would have messed with the climactic pacing of those final chapters and it worked better as a dramatic entrance and a fast paced battle. I just let it be implied that it happened.

I also thought about having Tawny's chapter include his trip to the Rock of Eternity, showing the damage and danger before the other got there and giving an idea of the instability that having the Champion of Magic separated like that could cause. I could have made it work, but I wasn't sure where the chapter would go to not interrupt the flow of the rest of the story so I merely alluded to what happened in his POV when he came back to the Watchtower.

I'm sure there were more, but those are the ones that I can think of right now that I thought through and almost included.

[serickswrites]

It Takes Two V

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8

Warnings: captivity, torture, restraints, strangling, asphyxiation, strangulation, hanging, noose, unconsciousness

Team Leader hurried through Whumper's compound. The moment the team had pinpointed where Whumper had taken Smallest Teammate, Team Leader had taken off. They couldn't wait for the team to keep up. Smallest Teammate couldn't wait.

Whumper's compound was strangely silent and empty. It was everything Team Leader didn't think it would be. And still, there was no sign of Whumper. Or Smallest Teammate either. They had to be here. They had to be here. Team Leader couldn't fail Smallest Teammate again.

They tried a door at the end of a short, dark hallway, fully expecting it to be locked. Much to their surprise, the door swung open. What Team Leader saw had them freezing in the doorway.

In the center of the room, hanging by their neck, was a very still and limp Smallest Teammate. Team Leader surged forward without thinking. They couldn't be too late. They found Smallest Teammate. They couldn't be too late.

Team Leader scrambled up the chair beneath Smallest Teammate, ignoring the coils of rope draped around it. Smallest Teammate's wrists were bound tightly behind their back, their chin resting on their chest. "Please, please, Smallest Teammate, open your eyes."

Team Leader tapped Smallest Teammate's cheeks. They had to be alive. Team Leader wouldn't be able to live with themself if they had arrived to late. Team Leader wrapped their arms around Smallest Teammate's chest and lifted.

Smallest Teammate gasped, their eyes suddenly flying open as the pressure on their throat lifted. "Oh thank God," Team Leader sighed. "Hold on, Smallest Teammate, I've got you." Team Leader realized they had no way of getting Smallest Teammate down without letting Smallest Teammate hang again. They couldn't do that. They would have to wait for the rest of the team to arrive. "Hold on, just hold on."

Smallest Teammate stared at Team Leader with heavily lidded eyes as they gasped for air. "R-R-Run," they rasped as their eyes darted to the door.

But as the door slammed with a loud bang, Team Leader realized their mistake. Whumper had Team Leader exactly where they wanted.

"T'm L'r.....r-r-run," Smallest Teammate gasped again.

Team Leader couldn't run. Not when it meant letting go of Smallest Teammate. Not when it meant leaving Smallest Teammate to fend for themself with Whumper. Not when they could take on Whumper now and end it all.

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[incendiorum]

“it wasn't intentional. their magic just tends to burrow into everything that it can, like the persistent roots of a stubborn tree.” I do mean everything, btw. if you’re around io enough you’re getting io magic residue on you.

[moreaujeans]

[ptanalo]

Ah I wanted to rant more headcanons abt neon and her gear as a type of insulators for her powers even tho it’s not that deep

[chaieyestea]

The overwhelming urge to eat wall plaster every time I work with it