#he can be a little dense

[jgvfhl]

Ghost: Don't worry. If there's a bad guy within a mile of us, I'll sense it.

Graves: *shoots Soap*

Ghost, running for the hills: May be a little off my game here.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I take back my former Luo Binghe design. Big Buff Binghe is too standard. It's expected. The sillier angle to take is: manifesting his small, needy dog energy into physical form.

[starflungwaddledee]

did you know that coo is canonically lonely? {shipaganza prompt by @veveisveryuncool}

[mrsoharaa]

plot twist!!

villain! Miguel is also a fellow spiderman...just obviously 10x's more dark and twisted (and evil, duh lool). <:3 >w>

[sunbunnyyy]

lan xichen is not a perfect human being. he is an older brother who is Going Through Some Shit by the end of the novel. did he always make good choices?? no!! have you????

[illegiblehandwriting1]

ok ok ok ok OK I SWEAR TO GOD. I PROMISE THIS WILL BE THE LAST FOREST. FOR A LONG TIME. just. holy shit they've been in so many forests. I GREW UP SURROUNDED BY TREES OK IT'S MY NATURAL HABITAT. JUST BE PATIENT AND LET THEM BE IN THIS FOREST. IT'S A DIFFERENT FOREST FROM THE PAST FEW FORESTS. DOES THAT MAKE IT BETTER. this has been a psa

[brown-little-robin]

absolutely dying to find out how people react to the teru vs mob fight. u said it was a lot more brutal and that instead of a barrier, mob just kinda stands there and takes everything and tries not to think about the damage .. does anybody even Know it happened. does he heal too fast for anybody to find out. or does ritsu or reigen worry immensely

!!!! Long story short: Mob's body heals completely, but his clothes do not. He returns home smelling like smoke and chlorine with his clothes both singed AND still wet. Ritsu has no idea what happened, but he also has a perfectly good idea what happened and he's worried sick. Clearly Nii-san was in some sort of fight.

The Body Improvement Club were going to take Kageyama back to their club room to let him dry himself off with their towels, planning to finish their workouts like normal and pretend nothing happened. They're ride or die for Kageyama and clearly No one wants to talk about whatever happened with that other zombie kid. But Mob collapsed of exhaustion on the way to Salt, so they just took him to his house instead. So then Ritsu opens the door to find his brother looking dead on his feet, surrounded by bigger, stronger people. On pure instinct, he yanks Shigeo behind him into the house and slams the door on the outsiders. Musashi yells "SEE YOU LATER, KAGEYAMA!" and trots away with the other guys before Ritsu recovers enough to think of maybe asking them what happened. sad as it is, this is hilarious to me. Ritsu just. YOINK (SLAM)

Anyway, so then Shigeo kind of. blinks back to awareness in Ritsu's kitchen and directs himself upstairs toward his room, barely seeing anything, subsumed in recently-unearthed memories of Dimple all mixed in with confusion and panic and regret about the fight. He's not really hearing anything, so he doesn't respond at all to Ritsu's first call of "Nii-san? Nii-san, are you okay?"

Ritsu lets him go upstairs and shut himself in his room. THEN Ritsu gathers the courage to go bring him a towel, and he tries to ask Shigeo what happened. But by that time, Shigeo's thoughts have crystalized into: this is bad. I didn't kill anyone this time, but I lost control again. I still don't know what I did to Dimple.

So instead of answering Ritsu's questions, he asks why Dimple is gone. He asks what he did to Dimple, and whether he did anything to Ritsu, too, when he was a zombie.

Ritsu was. not prepared for this conversation.

So Ritsu lies. He says Dimple is fine, and they just ran into some trouble on the road and Mob protected Ritsu, and Dimple just—had somewhere else to go. He promises Mob never hurt Dimple.

Mob says nothing. Ritsu excuses himself from the room and flees downstairs and out the door and catches up to Gouda Musashi—there's no working TV in this au—and demands answers about what happened to Shigeo. Musashi tells him that they all got caught up in some truly unfortunate inter-settlement gang violence, and it all turned out fine. Not to worry; Kageyama-kun is fine. Why they all smell like smoke? Oh, there was an accident. Yes, a fire-related accident. Everyone is fine, it was just someone irresponsible messing around in an empty school building. No, Kageyama-kun wasn't particularly involved.

Ritsu then becomes aware that he is acting crazy and drawing way too much attention to his suspicions about Shigeo, and he goes home and sits in the living room with the lights off, staring at the dead television screen.

Musashi claims Shigeo wasn't any more involved than anyone else, but Shigeo looked positively haunted. For a minute, he had looked so directionless that Ritsu had defaulted to dragging him around by the wrist. Shigeo's shirt and shorts were singed, and the rest of the Body Improvement Club didn't seem to have any burns at all.

So, yeah, Ritsu is worried. He thinks someone tried to use Shigeo's unknown-but-suspected ex-zombie strength to fight another town, that maybe they succeeded, and he thinks the Body Improvement are trying to shelter Shigeo from Ritsu by lying to him, and he doesn't want to get Shigeo in trouble by prying any further but also he thinks his brother just nearly got burned alive and he's. he's terrified.

Reigen doesn't know what happened until the next day, when this conversation happens, more or less:

Only, in this au, Mob actually is a zombie. And Reigen knows that. So it's more like:

"Master, if it was in self-defense, would it be okay to cause someone to burn their own settlement's school building, let their hair catch on fire, eat their life force, alienate them from their settlement, and dislocate their hip by throwing them really hard?"

"Mob, what...." (Reigen's courage nearly fails him) "....happened?"

And then Mob explains that he thinks the cure stopped working for a minute, and he doesn't remember exactly what he did, and he might turn into a zombie again, and he doesn't want to be like this anymore. And Reigen assures him that he's fine and it was probably just a state of shock, and reminds him that he does a lot of really positive things with his power, and the matter is smoothed over.

It's smoothed over for Mob, anyway. Reigen is up late that night going ??? ????? ?????? IS HE OKAY. impotently suffering in silence because he can't show how worried is he about this cure situation in front of Mob in case he scares the kid. he can't ask questions he can only observe and hope for the best. this is fine

[not-lock]

I think they have tried that before

I can't remember, they've done a lot of things

why are there creatures in your askbox

I'm not sure, they just appear here

[bisaster-energy]

im not even done my current kuwameshi fic and im already getting ideas about new ones...

[marc--chilton]

(mgv) house sometimes nests outside the cycle if he lets himself + feels particularly upset/lonely. the action of it soothes that mental itch but he also finds it demeaning (only for himself, pitiful self-loathing bastard) so he suppresses the urge usually. likely resulted from his upbringing. sometimes he tears it up afterward like he's hiding a dirty secret, sometimes because it just smells like only him and just magnifies his loneliness. the best ones were the ones he managed to make in secret while wilson was living with him because he would squirrel away some of wilson's clothes -- even his dumb ties -- to weave into them.

[el-michoacano]

Don't mind me, I'm just sat here thinking about Gus doing that possessive asshole thing where he rests a hand against the back of Jesse's neck whenever he can and Jesse just loving it.

[catominor]

This Years Thoughts On Reading. tbh

the past year i read a lot more than i had in quite some time. to be fair, i didn't finish most of the books i started, didn't start most of the books i want to read, and spent most of my time wasting time on social media still (i don't know why i can't stop doing this. i don't even enjoy it past a certain point). i didn't do well in my university classes. but for a really long time i've found it very difficult to read at all, even to read fiction. i read a lot of fiction (by my standards) this year, especially historical fiction set in ancient rome (though i also read some other good books, favorites among which are probably queer by william burroughs, night side of the river by jeannette winterson, and invisible cities by italo calvino. i also read quite a few short stories and a bit of poetry), i read or started /some/ nonfiction, i read or started /some/ ancient literature, and i had a poem and a short story published in my university's poetry journal and newspaper respectively...

but, really, i feel a little in over my head. i don't really feel like i can do this, by which i mean i still don't think i'm trying hard enough at university. i feel behind everyone else, despite the fact that since i've transferred to a different university having done 2 years before, i still have this and another year before i graduate. even though most of the people in my year will be 2 years younger than me i feel like i am behind them (did i mention that i did badly on my exams last year?)

especially before university i was never a particularly good student, honestly (i was like. a C average, though in my 3rd and 4th years of high school i started to try a little harder) and i think i spend a lot of time now fruitlessly wishing that i had tried harder and taken more of an interest in things. i still wish i tried harder. i still wish that passion was enough to fuel me to actually focus on filling out my historical reading. i wish i just didn't feel so stupid sometimes, honestly. sometimes i'll open a book that's a bit dense or technical and it just makes me feel like the biggest idiot in the world. i wish i was better at articulating my thoughts. i also wish i understood literary analysis or criticism. in a lot of ways now i feel dumber than i was a few years ago, and i don't know why.

[lingeringscars]

i think i'm gonna try to do a one article / one reply thing moving forward to give my brain a break and be active but i make zero promises <3

[the-carlos-cow-eyes]

Devon: I like your new pants! 

Jake: Thanks, they were 50% off! 

Devon: I’d like them better if they were 100% off 😉

Jake: The store can’t just give away clothes for free

Devon: That’s… not what I meant

Jake: That’s a terrible way to run a business, Devon

Jake....honey....😭

[gravedigest]

Spins the Deimos dying in that Doing Something short fic and the relationships between him the others. Especially Hank who downright REFUSES to let Deimos die, unacceptable to them and practically in denial about it. Dei pilots Hank and I wonder if that caused some kind of semblance to attachment, from Hank for Deimos. People die, Hank kills them. What’s so different about Deimos dying compared to the rest? Too many resources? Because Doc or Sanford is attached? I feel like that’d be the coverup because there’s no reason to handle Dei’s rig so gently, it’s metal and wires it can handle some roughhousing. There’s no reason to take the rig at all if he’s replacement, another body. There is no reason to plug a cable into it after everything and once again declare that Deimos won’t die, cannot die. And just

They are fascinating to me. So so fascinating and I want to know what goes through Hank’s mind. I adore the harsh, coldness of Hank to Deimos while also tolerating him, their often intimidating interactions with him. It’s all so very interesting and I’m less than normal about them

(All good if you can’t tell bc if spoilers I’m just very very excited)

Pointing at you like a stage magician.

I thhhhink it’s not too spoilery, at least most of my thoughts here are just my own personal headcanons and vague reasoning along with things Krinkels has said.

Like, people have asked Krinkels why Hank actively protects Sanford in 11, to which he answered “Well, Sanford’s useful.”

Which is kind of my general basis for figuring out how much of an asshole to make him.

The more overtly useful something is, the further he goes out of his way to get it.

Or more fun. IE: Reaching for a chainsaw over a gun.

Like, in MPN, Hank humors Deimos. He can’t differentiate between Sanford and Deimos on the spot but he’s marked Deimos as The Funny One. He’s got a sense of humor and he’ll take on Deimos’ race to the top of the tower.

I don’t think I got to go too deep into it in Doing Something since it only takes place over a few days, but that hypothetical death scenario would probably be set further out, theoretically giving Hank time to categorize Deimos as Fun and Useful. He can take the brunt of the technical work off and it leaves Hank with the ability to just enjoy his side of the job, literally just dropping out the moment they have to do something he’s not interested in. The less Hank has to think about things he doesn’t want to think about, the better. And Deimos sure does a lot of thinking for a guy thats head is full of nonsense.

But Deimos is Fun and Useful.

Ergo, by Hank’s very normal and healthy logic, and because Doc has kind of made them each others problem by way of pairing them up in such a fucked up and entangled manner, Deimos is, objectively, his thing he wants to keep. That’s his Touy. No one’s allowed to 💥💥💥 his touy.

And when he does break it’s like a kid bringing their torn doll to their parents and being like “You have to fix it,” to Doc. There’s no room for not fixing it.

I have a set of targets all set up to mash them together further but that’s definitely spoilers and I’m loading Chekov’s shotgun and racking it for later.

[nyankoizumi]

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