#have no clue how to respond

[enchantedlandcoffee]

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[gumm1defloor]

Vox can understand Velvette just fine. They don't necessarily need to get along all the time, but they have a mutually beneficial contract that guarantees her support in the most efficient way possible, just how they both like it, short and strict and to the point. Vox does not understand Valentino. It drives him unimaginably, disgustingly insane. He knows how to handle him, make no mistake. Valentino is a never-ending powerhouse that wrangles out content from his employees like there's no tomorrow. He's proven himself to be Vox's most lucrative investment yet. He is resourceful, well-connected and most importantly predictable enough to rein in. Because he listens to you, because he needs you.

He is also, undeniably, out of his goddamn mind. Yet you've already invested too much in the corporate empire you've built together and there is no point turning back now that you have him so close to your side. It's OK however! He couldn't possibly be stupid enough to throw away the best partnership deal he's ever had just for the sake of something petty cause -oh, wait - he genuinely might just be that stupid and you never would've guessed because he's so cocksure of his bullshit that 80% of the time it ends up working in his favor anyway.

Fuck his life indeed. The kicker for this of course is that Valentino, genuinely does believe he has struck gold with Vox. Valentino is a clingy, possessive, immature, perverted, sadistic, egotistical man-child with severe rage issues and zero impulse control. No he is not aware of this at all. No he does not know why nobody is able to tolerate him and why every single person he gets close to hates his guts with every inch of their burning rotting souls. All he knows is that hell has now given him a flat faced prince in shining liquid crystal armour, riding on a cash filled horse with promises of power and luxury, who's practically handing him success on a silver platter. Doesn't mean that Val trusts him, doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy seeing him lose his shit. But at the end of the day vox has his back, and as long as Val keeps calling for him, he'll eventually turn up and make everything better. Cause hey if Vox hasn't left him yet for this long he must be doing something right. Right?

[spoonmoment119]

I have no clue if we can request something non-minecraft so I'll just sent two:

Can I request a character from the Mandela Catalogue? (Preferably Mark but I'm not picky)

If not then I'll just have a Scott in any flavour

[ask-the-nine-links]

Dear Chain, as a reporter for Hyrule Vogue, we’d like to know about how your love lives are going, or if your heart is set on someone whenever you are out there fighting for your land.

Legend: The fuck's Hyrule Vouge? And how do they know we exist?

Wind: And why do they want to know about our love life? That shit's nasty.

Sky: But just the other day-

Wind: No.

Sky: No?

Wind: N o.

Time: As much as we appreciate your curiosity, we would love to keep most of our love lives private for various reasons.

[one-eye-olya]

Olya I think Nikita is pregnant with Smirnov.. I don’t know what to do.. /j

@nikita-slash-unreal

[chialattea]

My Inky pre-conclave + some doodles hehe

[decarabiandivorce]

(FFD au) I wonder how deca adopting nb would change the course of the rebellion. it’s obvious that there would be disruptions, but would nb escape/leave/be “saved” and the rebellion would pick back up again, the course of events being the same except pushed back a few years? or would things have been changed too much, perhaps the rebellion would dissipate, or it could have a new leader, or something else entirely? In the end, would deca, amos, and nb still end up dead or would they prevail somehow? would venti become the anemo archon, or would someone else get that title? Would deca ultimately show the same compassion towards the citizens of (old) mondstadt as he does towards nb, or would he remain just as cruel?

The rebellion dies the moment Carmen falls into Decarabian's hands. As soon as the announcement goes out that Deca has a kid and that kid is Carmen, then he might as well have a bounty on his head from angry and betrayed rebels.

They don't know him. They know him as their leader, but he never talks about his past life. He never shares anything with anyone (like a certain RHW), and he dose it in such a way that you never question it. It's like how present-day Venti doesn't get asked on where he is from. The people of Mondstadt don't look into their friends that well and in this case it's biting them back.

Imagine being them. Having hope and dreams all fueled by this rebellion. And the person that whispered and tempted you to fall is the KID the PUPPET of the tyrant? It's heartbreaking! And the kid has stopped denying it!

There is no other option for them. They were lied to. That kid is probs telling Decarabian the home addresses and family locations of each and every member!! He is a threat to the remaining rebels.

Someone needs to take out the threat.

Thus after centuries, (My hc is that the gods can make people long-lived (except when killed) (like a certain water person)(as long as it's a curse- the person is suffering from it) ), Decarabian becomes the anemo archon with his loving family right beside him

Okay so what does this do :

Lets say that FINNALLY after so long of asking Deca lowers the wind gales now he has the gnosis.

Sunny skies are back in Mondstadt, but the mountains are still rugged and harsh

Deca also caused a lot of wolves to...... There is No Way is he co-ruling with his ex Andrius

The sky is so blue but to NB its as grey as the stone walls. It's not special anymore. He is tired. So so so tired...

Big change to the world of Teyvat : No wind gliders

yeah since that is a Venti Staple, there are no wind gliders and probs a whole bunch more adventures being .... oof.

Dvalin only lives because I think it would be funny if NB and Venti were excited over a DRAGON and Deca was like "fine. >:/ "

The witches circle challenges Deca and he might die. Alice proceeds to make out sloppy style with Amos and makes Venti the new anemo archon /hj

[fluorescent-if]

Me 🤝 you 🤝 your characters

Neurodivergent

Ayeeee 👏 (pretend it's a high five or smth)

[lazuliquetzal]

i want to hear the sports anime manifesto

Okay short version:

My life was a sports anime for a bit, and watching sports anime makes me nostalgic for those days.

Medium version:

The typical shonen sports anime deals with themes of camaraderie, ambition, and the intersections of camaraderie and ambition, which ALWAYS hits me right in the chest.

I'm not an ambitious person by nature, but--you know that one poem floating around on here, the one about the moth that wants nothing more than to fly into the flame, and how it would be nice to feel that kind of all consuming passion? Yeah, that's the feeling I get from sports anime.

And often, for the Team Sports anime, you'll get characters who have nothing in common except that they Love the Same Thing--a friendship/rivalry/(romance) formed on the basis of a shared interest. That's sweet as hell!

And they're super predictable and low stress for me. Very easy to watch! Total popcorn shows. Also I like listening to people infodump about their passions. Someone loved their Sport so much they wrote a whole-ass story about it, so yeah, eat that shit up.

Long version:

The Socioeconomic Inequalities of High School Sports

In high school, I was on a crappy underfunded soccer team (with a healthy dose of sexism) and due to [sports league division reasons] the schools we played against were almost exclusively private schools.

I cannot describe how existential it is to be wearing a hand-me-down formerly white-turned-disgusting-gray uniform that's at least five years old when playing against a team that gets brand new windbreakers every season.

(If you've read AAB, YES this is where my obsession with the windbreakers comes from.)

(Hilariously, the guys team got windbreakers but we didn't.)

(I am not over the fucking windbreakers.)

But anyway, when you're constantly losing to private schools you get this fucking complex about it.

This should come as no surprise but like. People with the time and resources to practice their Thing get good at their Thing.

Playing pick up soccer at the park is practice. Playing rec league soccer is organized, repeated practice.

Playing competitive club soccer is all of that, plus a coach who knows How To Coach and What The Sport Is, plus you get morale-boosting uniforms and the chance to play with and against other skilled players. So you're exposed to a lot more, and thus, you learn a lot more.

Competitive club soccer is also Expensive. Rich kids get good.

There's a reason why the "Powerhouse School" is a thing in sports anime, because it's a thing in real life. People with leisure time and money get to invest in their sports development, and everyone else gets left behind in the dust. It's basically a microcosm of capitalism.

The underdog sports story is (quite tragically) bootstraps propaganda. All you have to do is be really good and work really hard and have A LOT OF PASSION to get good at your sport! The cream rises to the top! This is a meritocracy! Let's ignore all the other factors that go into an individual's development as an athlete!

(My brother got scouted for club soccer as a kid. He actually went to tryouts and got offered a spot and a scholarship and everything, but there's SO many hidden fees after the initial registration. Uniforms, equipment, travel and accommodation, tournaments, plus like, the time sink, so we never signed him up. And equipment-wise, soccer is one of the cheapest sports you can play--just imagine the price for something like baseball or hockey.)

In sports anime, there is no reform. There is no revolution.

But sports anime isn't really about that. It's about the narratives we create when we convince ourselves that we deserve to win.

(You know what I mean. Every billionaire is convinced they're some sort of heroic underdog. The same exact kind of 'working your way up' narrative.)

Sports anime is like, the uncomplicated power fantasy of playing the game. It's a world where you are rewarded for your hard work, because it's narratively satisfying. It's a world where it's safe to want things, because you have the exact same chances as the private school kids.

I used to be an obnoxiously competitive child. Then I got all my competition beaten out of me by 3 straight years of constant losing in my clownagerie of a high school soccer team (affectionate). I am going to admit that experience made me a better person and I would not trade it for anything, but I also had to like, relearn how to want things. And maybe real life is not as equal opportunity as the world of sports anime, but I think it's good to want things.

Of course, the winner-loser dichotomy makes sense in sports because of the inherent nature of competition, but it doesn't make sense in stuff like society and economics because that's like, competing over the right to live. That's where the capitalism metaphor ends,

Does sports anime actually go into the socioeconomic inequalities of sports? No. Of course not. Giant Killing never got a season 2.

But it is something I think about when I write sports anime fic. Even if it's not the point, it influences my characterization. The ego of a prodigy character in a shitty sports program is different from the ego of a prodigy character in a rich kid sports program. I am obligated to my amateur attempts to capture the complexities of the high school sports environment in my fanfiction because I am fucking insane I had a specific high school sports experience and they do say to write what you know.

[dia-smthidk]

For me your transformed sona look cute

I mean he wasn’t meant to look cute but uh-

thanks though 👍

[ophthalmotropy]

It's the end of the semester for your girl and she somehow pulled through with zero non-passing grades; please clap and cheer.

[optiwashere]

I've gotten two or three asks to this effect over the course of the month, so. People are very pleasant and well-meaning when they say things like, "don't feel bad if you stop writing for the fandom!"

But you also don't know how deep my fixations can run.

Hope ya like Shadowheart.

[kamyarm007]

Am here to hookup what your location

Uh…I don’t even know how to respond to this…

[lunar-fey]

oh yeah not sure where we're at w money btw. we might be able to get some of it back but we wont know anything concrete until friday

[theharddeck]

question: what do yall do with envy pls not gratitude exercises, i am grateful for where i am and what I have I’m talking envy that i know is self centered and yet cant stop

[mossy-paws]

WHY DID YOU SHOOT ME WITH THE TWINK LAZER MK.3?????? NOW I LIKE MEN INSTEAD OF BEING A LESBIA,N???!! YOU MADE ME STRAIGHT.!!!!!!

I WILL BE SCREAMJNG AND CRYING FOR THE NEXT 20 MINS (/j)

Sorry I didn’t mean to press the trigger in the radius of other people, anyways enjoy ☺️