#her claws are scary

[hairupintheair]

The colors are so bright and vibrant! I love it!

"SING, YOU BEAUTIFUL IDIOT!"

Guess who finally watched the movie? Twas me! I went in with middling expectations and left pleasantly surprised. It's nothing groundbreaking obviously, but definitely a good time!

[beebfreeb]

*shaking a little* unposted Akizets

[stressfulsloth]

Cannot stop thinking about Ruby and how brutally Klaasje fucks her over despite everyone in Martinaise's clear affection for her. How everyone seems to like Ruby and her 'gruff charm,' how she gets passionate about radio technology and loves movies from the 20s, likes 'a beer on the beach to watch the sunset'. She's an 'old lady whisperer,' Isobel likes her and even defends her, the

Hardie boys are clearly very fond of her. Even when you're being blasted by her pale latitude compressor, it's hard not to like her at least a bit. She tested it on herself first! The Half-Light reaction of sympathetic fear to Klaasje's accusations, and then Drama cutting in to point out that the fear isn't to do with Ruby, it's the fear of being arrested that Klaasje is feeling. Her first response, out of fear of the RCM and the Moralintern, is to use the presumed biases and homophobia of these RCM officers as leverage to pin the blame on Ruby, even as nearly every other scrap of information you can collect describing Ruby's personality contradicts it.

[marlynnofmany]

My poor cat is Distressed and Upset because she saw a raccoon for the first time last night. It was on the other side of the sliding glass door, and not only did it startle her by being there without permission, but it didn't even have the good manners to act afraid when she yelled at it, in her most terrifying yowls and hisses.

It pawed at the seam of the door to see if it could come inside and bother her without glass in the way (that's a hard no), then it ambled off into the darkness again.

Now it's a bright and sunny afternoon, and the cat is pacing in front of the door with suspicion in her every move.

As far as she's concerned, there was a monster in her territory, and it could come back at any time.

[rxttenfish]

while aaravi remains firmly within "yeah miranda has a difficult personality and isn't very easy to get along with + has many rough edges which are slowly being worked on but still going to be an issue" after having been very much so within the camp that miranda is a Vexing Bitch upon first contact/getting to know her, she DOES go from "miranda is unpredictable and dangerous as a merfolk and large macropredator and her emotions are inscrutable and random" to "merfolk aren't very hard to understand or predict and it's very easy to stay on the safe side if you keep basic rules in mind and don't freak out the second something unexpected happens"

[vullcanica]

Characters baring a mouth full of sharp fangs as show of aggression is top tier but can we talk about how sinister a flash of smooth square omnivore teeth can be. The implications therein? The difference between facing a carnivore vs a member of the terrifyingly, aptly named 'opportunistic eaters'? The fear of being on one's menu, the knowledge that you are on the other's - no matter what you are. The inherent danger of a threat display where there are set rules to avoiding harm turning into a hunt on a dime.

Anyway, thinking about Nikodemus and how beautifully all of this translates into his supernatural setting...

[lowpawly]

one of the things I like about csm when it comes to makima and denji's relationship is that to a viewer everything about it screams "oh fuck oh my god she is going to fucking kill him" but to denji because of a combination of his age and difficult life and lack of adults who can tell him about the trap he's falling into he is blissfully unaware. it genuinely feels like a predatory animal slowly luring in its prey and the whole series you are waiting for that inevitable killing lunge

[blueberry-bar]

she’s not sane <333

[rush-the-stars]

cici…….. your tags … lioness!tao and lamb!reader….

AMIRA WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS TO ME OH MY GOD.

lioness!tao and her little lamb….her little lamb that she protects. takes care of. sort of stalks but really she’s only playing….she just sorta likes when your heart gets going…..likes to curl around you all lazy.

[sunrisevariant]

ill stop reblogging chimera falin when i stop wanting her to kill me. Which will, coincidentally, be never

[yvaltiel]

we survive

[barbatos-sama]

when they fuck mikhail shapeshifts to be smaller because uhhhh minette would fucking die if he tried to stick it in her at that size obviously AJDJFJF but minette demands he stays big until absolutely necessary bc her size kink having ass is not about to pass up Huge hands all over her lmao

[royalreef]

(( As a kinda silly OOC thing: I like conceiving of Miranda (and her connections through the Merkingdom) as being an anti-OP muse.

As in, I like the thought of, the more OP someone or something else is, the worse of a time they have being able to do anything to Miranda. She is, very intentionally and within the logic of her own universe, designed to be able to handle those with extreme power and authority and to be able to undermine everything they can throw at her and counteract anything that they try to do.

She's already a royal, next in line to her throne! She has to be able to fully handle other people in similar positions without risking any damage to her own, and this is something that she's dealt with her entire life. She very much knows all the risks associated as a part of her job, her title, her entire reason for being born, and she's well-trained in the formal and informal methods of striking down anyone else who might even come close to a position to her own.

Which, of course, means that muses that very much aren't OP, that are just normal people or much closer to it, are much, much more capable of threatening Miranda and the Merkingdom both as a point of intention. This is something that I very much want and very much want to encourage. Especially because the reason this is such a problem is the way that the Merkingdom and, thus, Miranda, entirely overlook and ignore such threats and treat them like non-issues. The fact that most Merkingdom royals, upon actually encountering a landfolk, have a range of responses from discomfort to dismissal to ignorance, is one that is very purposeful here. The ones that they're most likely to pay attention to are the ones in the most danger, and the ones that they aren't likely to care very much about beyond petty malice and as another means to inflate their own egos. And, as it is, the ones they're most likely to pay attention to are those that have decided to pose a risk.

And it's a thing that I've been dealing with from the beginning too. From the start of this blog I was very bothered by the idea that some OP character would decide to singlehandedly "fix" or destroy the Merkingdom from a position of equal or greater authority. Which is not to say that I didn't want it to be changed or that there weren't ways to dismantle it. But rather, I wanted it to be more organic, and I wanted to deal with the actual question of how that even happens, and I wanted to ask the question of what could measurably improve this situation and Miranda's life both.

Which meant that, yeah, the more OP a muse is the more intentionally destined for failure they are, and the closer they approach "some guy", the more they'll be able to achieve. Which is not to say it won't be difficult or hard to do, or that there's not the possibility for failure (again, even at her most basic, Miranda is a macropredator that can easily maim someone, but more typical "normal" muses are more likely to possess caution and try to read her body language before pressing her), but the fact remains, very intentionally, that they are the only ones who will be able to do it.

[phagodyke]

on the floor praying next to my bed: next time i open ao3 and search the miguel ohara tag pls let there be one (1) femslash au ty

[celestialtrolls-moved]

"I think it's cute that some kids dress up and go around their neighbours to ask for candy every sweep... I think I would have liked something like that when I was younger..."

"I can't even be the adult handing out sweets, I don't live in any sort of populated area, and even if I camped in Rennra's apartment while he's at work, I don't think any kids are going to be wandering around a building mostly reserved for fleet members..."

"I think it would be fun to decorate the outside of a house with all of the pumpkins and fake cobwebs... But it's no fun if no one sees it..."

[springthings]

thinking abt all of the spooky monsters allie loves and loves and loves and loves