#hello askbox

[v0idspeak]

Question about the Cyrin Story- I saw protusol mentioned in a poll, what is it?

Oop- didn't see this question for some reason, sorry about that.

So-

Protusol is a science-and-research company! It's been around for a long while now, and, while under its previous owner, was known for a handful of shady dealings.

Since then, though, its public image has been cleaned up, and it's developed into a pharma/R&D giant. Money flows in and out of the company by the millions (or maybe billions - hard to say), and new advances in pharmaceuticals and Cyrin research trickle out at an incredibly fast pace. It's also one of Havel's main sources of income!

The reason for that is incredibly simple: the company's main shareholder is one Tornis Maurier, the president of the country of Havel. When he inherited Protusol Labs from his father during the most recent war, he saw its potential, sullied by bad handling and, frankly, its awfully-handled PR department.

Say what you will about Tornis, but he knew how to turn a scientific venture around. It took barely a few months for him to cut ties (or did he simply hide them?) with less-than-tasteful contacts and old research facilities. Any of the facilities left on his birth continent were abandoned, or at least downsized considerably, and he focused on his new home instead.

Today, Protusol hires thousands across dozens upon dozens of well-organized research facilities. The company is so intertwined with the government that Protusol and the Corynen are basically synonymous by now - working at Protusol means working for the Corynen, and many Corynen jobs are connected to Protusol, at least tangentially.

The collusion should be enough to attract angry crowds and protests, but, really, the Corynen stopped a war that had been ravaging multiple countries and leaving children alone and hungry; Protusol had developed medicine the likes of which the world had never seen. No one could complain about that, right?

No one had, right?

Right?

Anyway yeah that's Protusol in a nutshell.

@wind-rider Got anything to add?

[sproutwings]

coldflash! (for the ship ask game)

And @holycafe also asked for Coldflash! ❄️⚡️

The Scarlet Speedster and his favorite Rogue! Of course I ship them! 💙❤️

What made you ship it?

I think Tumblr did, actually! I wasn't following the Arrowverse when I came upon GIF sets on my dash that made me go !!!!! because the flirty-enemies-who-sometimes-work-together dynamic is right up my alley and they look so good together. Then I read some fic (I think @coldtomyflash's stories were among the first I read), which got me from being mildly intrigued to being fully on board the Coldflash train (heh. train!). I only started watching the show fairly late, and I started with the Captain Cold episodes only before I finally gave the whole thing I try.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The banter! The puns! Barry trying and failing not to be charmed by Leonard! Leonard trying and failing not to have a soft spot for Barry! That despite the fact that Leonard did actively try to kill Barry early on and stabbed him in the back later during their team-up, there's still respect and some level of trust between them. And "Infantino Street" will forever hold a place in my heart! Barry basically just went and stole Leonard from the past so he could have a kind of goodbye. 🥺

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Ha, yes, I think this is unpopular: I'm not super fond of Barry calling Leonard "Len". I know it's a comics thing, but for the Arrowverse version, I prefer it when he goes from "Snart" to "Leonard" (and I especially like that moment when Barry realizes that he's mentally shifted to thinking of Snart by his first name 😍).

[sproutwings]

I have a writer's block and too many thing to do I'm procrastinating on, so let's try this! Ask away!

Okay here’s an ask game

Send me a ship and I’ll answer three questions based on if I ship it or not.

Ship It

What made you ship it?

What are your favorite things about the ship?

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Don’t Ship It

Why don’t you ship it?

What would have made you like it?

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

[moonshynecybin]

like what was their problem.

[ireallyymissu]

₊˚.⋆ i feel so cute in this, don’t u agree? ₊˚ෆ

[drarrily-we-row-along]

Dolonia

Dolonia is defined as: a state of unease prompted by people who seem to like you too much, which makes you wonder if they must have you confused with someone else—someone flawless, selfless, or easy to understand from a distance.

Potter rolled over, pressing his too hot, too sweaty body against Draco's. And in spite of the fact that he was altogether too hot, that he was sticky, and still breathing too heavy, he couldn't find it in himself to complain.

"That was good," Potter said, trailing his fingers over Draco's ribs, brushing back and forth lightly and leaving trails of electricity shaking through Draco's chest.

He hummed, hoping it sounded aloof and noncommittal, like he wasn't trying too hard and didn't care too much about Potter's opinion, anything to convince himself that that was the truth.

"Do you want to order in some food from the Thai place down the street?" he asked, "or maybe we could go out? There's that diner a couple of blocks away, y-"

"You want to eat with me?" he asked incredulously, because fucking was one thing and occasionally sleeping in the same bed after being too tired to move made sense. But going out and eating together was something else entirely.

"Yeah," Potter said, shrugging like it was no big deal. "I'm starving, aren't you? We haven't eaten since lunch and that case was no easy thing to solve."

"Yes," he conceded, "That's what the celebratory sex was for."

Potter laughed, that bright, delighted sound that made it seem like nothing in the world was wrong. "Sure, just." He sat up, looking down at Draco, eyes impossibly large and impossibly green, "do you not want to get food with me? It's fine if you don't," he added, "just say so and I'll leave you to it."

"It's not that I don't want to get food with you," he said with a frown, staring at the mole on Potter's neck to avoid looking into his eyes. "It's just that you seem to be making this into something that it's not."

"What do you mean?" he asked, fingers carding through Draco's hair and brushing the loose strands back off his face.

He rolled his eyes, trying to make himself seem less vulnerable than he actually felt. "It's like you don't remember who I actually am sometimes."

Potter laughed, "Of course I remember who you are. You're my annoying, prat of a partner, too brilliant for his own good. You're the idiot that I come in to work with every morning wondering what sort of chaos my day is about to hold because even simple robbery cases turn into something that has years of ancestral battles and blood magic tied into it. You have very particular tea habits, and you like everything just so. I drive you mad but you still put up with me in your bed anyway."

"You're a good fuck, Potter," he said flippantly.

With a laugh, Potter leaned in and kissed the tip of his nose, like casual affection was the sort of thing that they did. "I know you."

And that reminded Draco of where this had all started, "right, but it's like you don't remember all the other parts, all of the things that came before."

He shrugged, "Why would I? You aren't that person anymore, you don't believe those things, you've turned your entire life around."

"But I am still those things," he said, shaking his head. "Sure, I don't believe what I used to, but that doesn't change that I was raised in that culture, it doesn't change that I still go to have brunch with my parents at the manor every other Sunday, or that I know how to get my way in the Ministry, or that I'm an expert manipulator-"

"Hey," Potter said, cupping his cheek. "Hey. Relax. Take a breath," he said, lips pressing to the crease between Draco's eyebrows. "You're okay. We're okay."

"I'm don't-"

"I know who you are, Draco."

"But-"

He shook his head, "I know who you are. I remember all of the things there are to know about you. I know who you were, I know all of the work you've done to be different, I know who you are now. I know you," he repeated. "Just like you know me. It's what makes us such good partners in the office and out of it." He let out a soft self-deprecating chuckle, "Please don't think that you're the only one of the two of us who's spent the past fifteen years meticulously watching the other. I know you, Draco."

He frowned up at him, uncertain where this could be going then, if Potter consciously chose Draco with all of his faults and flaws instead of just for the convenience of it.

"I know you," he repeated, "and I want you." He shrugged, "I've just been waiting for you to be ready to hear it." He grinned at him, "So, what do you say? Dinner?"

And how could he say anything but yes?

[emiplayzmc]

now all I can imagine is Rodger giving sprout a death glare that says try and take her away from me and they will never find the body

[Text next to Rodger: 'crrrrrkk... clkclkclkclk']

Words, verbal or mental, aren't needed for Sprout to get the message to back off... at least for now.

(He tried to gently tug her away from Rodger, worrying about what he'd do, and then Rodger started making noises at him. He may not physically be verbal but a whole bunch of mechanical creaks and clicks can sure be menacing when this guy knows how to fry your brain).

Gotta work on some comics for Rehabilitation AU, tbh.

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

So Lady sneasler has adopted Ingo. What would sneasel/sneasler Ingo look like?

like pokefied/pokerus?

Lady Sneasler and her skrunkly son (sneasler!Ingo)

[zukkaoru]

since spotify wrapped is out..

send me a number 1-100 + a ship / platonic dynamic / character and i'll write a ficlet for them based on the corresponding song

[mrvelocipede]

I finished the banana. I think I may have put slightly too much stuffing in it. When it was done, I embroidered a little face on the side, as requested by the person it's for.

I'm especially pleased with the small amount of shaping I did on the stem:

This is probably not ever going to be an official pattern. I know it was 36 stitches around, and that the short rows spanned 2/3 of the stitches, and then there were five plain rounds before the next short row, but I didn't really keep track of the shaping other than that.

[achillesdaily]

#17

you might (or more likely not,) be wondering why there wasn't a post yesterday.

Well, i said that i'd post daily until he arrived didn't i?

and he did!

i won't do daily posts anymore, but i'll still post Achilles whenever i feel like it.

thanks for being here <|: ^)

[hollowflight-propaganda]

Oh don't mind me, I'm just listening to my silly little folk tunes and envisioning lore for my ocs after months of making barely any progress with them

[sproutwings]

@moriavis and @nytephox tagged me for this half an eternity ago

9 people you would like to get to know better

1. 3 ships: Dickstroke, JayTim, Tommy/Bubonic

2. first ever ship: D'Artagnan/Mylady de Winter from 3 Musketeers (I didn't know what a 'ship' was back then! I was, like, 11!)

3. last song: "Timezone" by Måneskin

4. last movie: "Breaking Fast"

5. currently reading: lots of fanfic

6. currently watching: "Found" on NBC, "The Traitors" Canada, "The Masked Singer" US

7. currently consuming: Does backreading my saved Tumblr tags and staring at pretty fanart for my blorbos and ships count?

8. currently craving: Peace, quiet, better health, pasta, and half a million dollars. Possible in a different order.

9 people to tag: not tagging anyone because I've been away so long I have no idea who's already done it, but if you see this and haven't done it, consider yourself tagged!

[originalartblog]

it's a goose picture takeover!!

[triptychofvoids]

I feel so late to the party 😞 but uh, trick or treat? :)

handful of pigeon feathers!

[wizzard890]

Hi Emily! Just a fair warning, this ask is gonna include eating disorder talk so feel free to skip over it and come back when you feel prepared to read it!

Anyways, I've seen on Twitter that you've gone vegetarian because of your objections to the meat industry and honestly, I agree, and I want to do that too, but I have a history of very disordered eating patterns (I've never been formally diagnosed with anything so I don't like to label myself with anything like that which is why I use that wording), and I'm scared that if I restrict myself like that it could lead to a spiral. I know you've struggled with eating disorders in the past, so was this something you faced too? I've thought about slowly transitioning to being a pescatarian before going vegetarian to get used to it, but a part of me is still scared. Do you have any words of advice? I hope you have a nice day and that things continue to go well for you and your wife!

This is a super thoughtful question, and one which also gave me a bit of concern when I went vegetarian. As someone who has dealt with eating disorders in the past, I really didn't want to Count Anything, or focus on things I was cutting out of my diet. But I've landed on an approach that works for me, and I think it'll help you too.

First of all, don't think of it as restricting anything. For me, vegetarianism is a moral choice, and that means I'm intentionally laying something aside, not punishing myself. This is for your ethics, it has nothing to do with your body or your self esteem.

Second, infuse what you're doing with a sense of exploration! I cooked and ate meat for many years, and going vegetarian was an opportunity to branch out into new flavors and foods I'd never really tried before. If you feel at a loss, get some new cookbooks to inspire you - I'm currently enjoying these ones. Disordered eating can make you fixate on lack; so don't let yourself lack. You're exchanging one type of food for another, an absolutely neutral act. Vegetables are really good for you and we all could probably stand to eat more of them anyway.

I think going pescatarian for a while is a great starting point, especially as you get your bearings with a new kind of cooking. Zero in on what kinds of vegetarian proteins sound the most enticing, and find a few starter recipes that look good; focus on those, so you have them in your back pocket if the rest is intimidating. Above all, we want to keep you fed.

You sound self-aware, and that's a good thing to be when embarking on a change like this. Remember why you're doing it, and be at least as kind to yourself as you would be to the humble cow that you're choosing not to eat.