#how tf do you align text on here

[kangaracha]

daffodil + chan

a song

the prompt: daffodil (a god bows before a mortal)

read it on ao3

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"You have no power over me."

running through his hands like water, and suddenly the earth is not his to control. The skies do not turn with the twist of his head, lightning does not fork in the air when his eyes, dark as night and yet still lit by some unearthly light, fall upon you, his mouth wide as if to gasp for a breath he cannot take-

And yet, still, it shivers down your spine; the magic that draws you here even as you rip it apart, the prize of your conquest to rip the world into two.

"Take it back," he hisses through his teeth, the ground trembling with every syllable that slides down his tongue. You watch his mouth as it forms the words, the flash of teeth behind thin lips reminding you of the way that the swordsman you'd fought through to get here had smiled at you - the last of his seven challenges, the last of his demons, or angels, or citizens of the sprawling, damned city he claimed as his kingdom.

And here you stood, at the pinnacle of the eighth, and stared him in the eye without cringing away because now you knew the truth. Now you knew that what he whispered in the dark was a lie and what you saw with your eyes wasn't always true, and though he may be a god and a king amongst beings that you could never hope to rival, a god can only hold as much power as you give him. A god can only claim dominion over a beast that bowed to his dogma. 

You see now that you are no beast. You are no believer in any lie he utters to the darkness.

"Take it back," he says again, the note of his voice changing. He pleads, his brow furrowing and his shoulders curling in as if waiting for the final blow. "Take it back now, before it's too late."

"I can't," you tell him, and you watch him fall to his knees, and you know that it's wrong and your heart pounds in your chest and it

like the ground does at the impact of his knees, crumbling into the pieces it was in when you first took his hand, alone on the side of the road with only one thing to call your own. And what was that thing, the little warmth you'd held to your chest in the dark and the cold? What had you traded away for the comfort of the house that crumbled around you now? Why had you destroyed him to get it back, where was it now, why did it not appear within his hands at this, the hour of his reckoning?

"Please," he spits into the cold ground, the dirt and the leaves and the curl of ivy that grows up the walls around you, old and ancient and not yet sprouted from its roots all at the same time. His hands curl in the dirt like he can reach down and pull the earth to him, like he can stop the wane of his power if he just tries to hold on a little bit tighter. "I know what you want, and I don't have it. I can't lose-"

Broken, fragile thing. Small god of limited earth, crouched at your feet like he might worship you instead. You'd thought him all-powerful once, and then you'd thought him severe and his servants and beasts and playthings petty, and then you'd thought him

because he'd smiled at you in the garden that bloomed from his own hands when you expressed your desire for a flower to tuck in the braid of your dark hair, and his hand had been soft in yours, and when he looked out across his kingdom and the clamouring faces of the people he'd brought to live there, he'd looked at them the same way that he'd looked at you.

Beneath your foot, the ground cracks, fracturing outwards like a spiderweb. It's your heart, you realise morosely, sinking from your chest and into the depths of the earth, disappearing with whatever he'd taken from you; and it was a wretched thing and it had betrayed you a hundred times over, but you still mourn at the loss of it and all the dreams it had carried with it. It blooms in your flowers in the corners of the room, embeds itself into the land and sings along with the song of his power, a thing you can hear but cannot touch, a beast once born that now does not belong to you.

"I'm sorry," he says, his breath like mist in the cold air, and even without your heart, you can't bear to see him so cold.

Your hands reach for him without permission, your body kneeling in the dirt before you can stand your feet firm upon the earth and refuse to move. He flinches away, but your fingers are soft upon his chin and the curve of his jaw, gentle when they brush the soft dip of his neck. "I only wanted to know what it was," you tell him with a voice that cannot hold itself steady. "I thought if you loved me, you would give it back." It's the only voice you have - you are not like him, or like Felix, speaking with many tongues. You don't have any power of your own.

"It's because I love you that I can't give it back." His voice is hoarse, every word a knife that he swallows without ever once flinching. "It's because I love you that I couldn't tell you what it was."

"But didn't I deserve to know?" you question. "Doesn't my life belong to me?"

Finally, his eyes rise, looking up at you with a fire that belies the cold of his skin. "Of course it does," he gasps, and his hand reaches up, dirt-stained fingers dragging at your cheek. "That's why I gave it to you, and I never asked for anything else."

"But you wouldn't give back what you took in the first place."

The sudden violence of his voice crumbles the walls and fractures the sky, the clouds blooming te dark colours of a bruise. The absence of his hand on your cheek stings in the cold; his face turns away, screwed up in regret and a pain he won't allow you to feel. You lurch forward before he can disappear, drawing him into your arms; stiff shoulders, spine of beaten steel, slow beat of a heart you once held in your hands. 

He'd stood so tall and unmoving in the morning light, when you'd first walked down this path, and now in the dark of the setting sun and the ending of the earth, his weight slumps into your grasp, his resolve melting into the warmth of your body. "I didn't want you to suffer again," he says to the soft cotton of your shirt and the curve of your collarbone, his breath a whisper against your skin. "I couldn't watch that, when you asked me to make sure it would never happen again."

Surprise comes in the pause of your breath and the still of your arms, the jump of a heart you're not sure you still possess. "I asked you to make me forget?" you question the world behind his back, and into your neck, he sighs.

"You couldn't forget," he murmurs. "She was dead before I found you, and when I took her from your arms - you couldn't forget. There was nothing I could do to fix what had been broken. And then you begged me to let you forget, so I remembered her for you." He pauses, his throat hitching like he's swallowing something down. A sob maybe, or the tears he will never let fall. "I can't give her back though. She's not here anymore."

You push him upright, your hands on his shoulders, his neck, his face. Brushing away the hair that falls in his eyes, wiping at the blood that drips from the cut on his cheek. "Why didn't you tell me?" you ask, because the answer is incomprehensible. "Why did you let me go this far?"

"Because I was scared," he admits, and his teeth clench and his spine stiffens against the urge to hide away from you again. "Because I'm a wretched, evil, stupid thing who thinks they can-"

His words die in your throat; vile, wretched things that you store away to spit out later, into the ground where they belong. He is none of that; he is soft, and hesitant, until your fingers find the sharp curve of his hip and the lines of his back, dragging him closer and his lips open like there is nothing in the world to devour but you and

[datmoongamer]

Massive Golden Age Cayde-1/2 and Micah Abram loredump

TFS spoilers. You have been warned.

Reddit mirror here.

TL;DR: Cayde played cards with Micah when her parents were busy sometime after he shot at her and grabbed her. She remembers. He doesn't.

I couldn't find a video of their full dialogue in this quest online, so here it is. Lotta important stuff regarding Cayde-1/Cayde-2(?), Micah Abram, and how much they remember today.

Bolded text: what you came here for.

Asterisk*: Supplemental lore linked at the bottom.

Video of the full dialogue (minus the quest intro in the Arbor of Light): youtube link

(Didn't record Micah's beginning dialogue about Anwar*. It was about how Anwar was a close associate of the Speaker and that although he was interested in Darkness, he was unflinchingly loyal. If anyone did, please drop a link!)

The Final Shape Looms

Three days before the allied assault.

(Guardian approaches the Pyramid)

Cayde-6: Europa- I ain't even there, and I can feel all that cold in my bones.*

Micah-10: Do... you remember Europa, Cayde?

Cayde-6: Bits and pieces, yeah. I ain't a big fan of numbers lower than six, but there's still pieces of them in here, rattling chains. Haunting.

(Guardian runs into Cabal)

Micah-10: Guardian, my fears were correct. Anwar's signal was last detected inside the Europan Pyramid. Complicating matters, you aren't alone here.

There is a detachment of Cabal that landed a few hours ago. Elsie sent me data on their movements.

Ghost: They don't appear to be Witness-aligned forces. This could be more of Otzot's people.

Micah-10: I'd heard rumors of some fracturing after Calus's death, but... I don't know what to make of this.

Cayde-6: Well, some people feel more comfortable with a leash around their neck... whether it's guiding them to behave, or misbehave.

(Guardian enters the Pyramid)

Cayde-6: Seems as though the Cabal have made it inside the Pyramid.

Micah-10: Scans from Ghost show movement near the heart of the structure and unsettling activity inside.

It's like the Pyramid is reacting to your presence, anticipating something.

Cayde-6: Did you ever figure out who was flying this? Crow gave me a lowdown on the situation, and that part was, y'know, suspiciously blank.

Micah-10: We did not.

(Guardian moves through the Pyramid)

Micah-10: Cayde? Do you remember anything from your first Exo incarnation?*

Cayde-6: Some. Ain't... exactly happy to talk about what I do, either.

Micah-10: Was there a child?

Cayde-6: I think. I don't know. I remember bits and pieces. Shadows of faces. It's all... it's a jumble. Micah. Why?

Micah-10: [sighs] It's nothing. It can wait for a more private moment.

(Guardian enters the statue room)

Cayde-6: Oh, that's one of those big, screamy statues.

A dissenter: What is done must be undone. Your time is running out. Your time is running out!

Cayde-6: Aaand they're screaming here too. Cool.

(Guardian kills Valus Dralgur, the Exiled)

Ghost: I'm having a hard time picking up Anwar's signal. It stops here, at the statue.

Micah-10: Oh. [exhales] Oh no...

Elsie just... found him. [clears throat] Shards of him. Anwar. At the Ziggurat.

Ghost. I... No... He's dead?

Micah-10: We should go collect his remains.

Ghost: We'll go right away. I'm... so sorry, Micah.

Micah-10: [sighs] Me too, Ghost.

Cayde-6: Hey, kid. Why don't I come down and meet you? We can chat about whatever. Anything, your pick.

Ghost: Thank you, Cayde.

The Veiled

Return to the Arbor of Light to discuss next steps.

Micah-10: I've... [sighs] never told anyone this, but I knew Cayde. Before he was a Guardian. Before I was a Guardian.

We were both on Europa, before the Collapse. I found out about it after the BrayTech facilities on Europa were unearthed.

I... know Guardians aren't supposed to go digging into their pasts, but I did. I found my Exomind archive... [takes deep breath] I found myself.*

[sighs] Micah Abram. I grew up on Europa, and even then, I was struggling to understand my identity, in so many ways.

As a child, I was having dreams- visions sent to me by the Traveler. I didn't understand them then, but I do now... It was preparing me.

For this. For loss. For losing people. Like Anwar. Like Cayde.

Cayde was the personal bodyguard of an Ishtar Collective researcher named Maya Sundaresh. He was an Exo before I entered the program.

He... helped me. When my fathers were away on work, Cayde would talk to me. Play cards. Teach me how to cope with isolation.*

Cayde doesn't remember. And... that's OK.

I can hug him, one last time. And remind him that he was missed. That he saved me.

*Anwar: Ghost Stories: Pressure. He and another Ghost, Dejana, search the ruins of Tower North and talk about the Speaker.

*Cayde on Europa: Legacy's Oath Helm. Cayde-6 has a flashback about Cayde-1, who was guarding an Exoscience factory with Knox-4. A kid (Micah Abram) startles him, and Cayde-1 shoots at her (she was a young boy at the time).

*The child Micah asks about: Your Friend, Micah Abram: LETTER 5, Your Friend, Micah Abram: LETTER 6. Micah Abram tries to sneak into an Exoscience factory. She is disturbed by the conversation the guard Exos- Cayde-1 and Knox-4- are having, so she runs, but she's caught by Cayde-1. Cayde-1 shuts down after catching her. Micah escapes.

*Cayde and Maya Sundaresh: Cayde's Treasure Island Book. The journal of the previous versions of Cayde. Cayde-2 (or Cayde-1?) was a bodyguard for Maya Sundaresh, and he was in love with her.

*Micah, before the Exomind project: Embraced Identity. Micah Abram, 17, female.

*Micah's dreams and her busy parents: Your Friend, Micah Abram: LETTER 7. Her parents were busy. She had dreams about being an Exo before she became one.

Micah's gender: She was female when she entered the Exomind project, which means she transitioned before she became an Exo. Your Friend, Micah Abram: LETTER 2 has her saying she'll grow a beard and her father, Wesley, says he has a son in Lost Lament: Locate Dead Exos.

Ace and Queen: Cayde-6 — Mementos from the Wild. Once upon a time, there was probably a real Ace and Queen, but Cayde-6 does not remember them, as per The Man They Call Cayde: Bad Beat. It is likely that his imagined versions of Ace and Queen are based on Micah and Maya.

[thefirstknife]

do you have an interpretation of the Tessellation lore? more references to Unveiling have me Charlie Kelly-ing this with the Witness origin cutscene and other things we know about the Gardener & Winnower

I currently don't! It's a really interesting lore tab. Maybe it requires some extra context from TFS and the space we're going to. For example, the flavour text references a "monolith" which is also the same name used in the showcase for the Witness' big castle in the Pale Heart location:

The monolith is hewn; the monument is built.

It absolutely has throwbacks to Unveiling, but I feel like there's some differences in the tone of it here. Hard to say, as the Witness is known to be able to switch the tone it uses.

Once, nothing became something. There was a game of possibilities. Patterns emerged that could—would—flourish or fail, wax or wane. And in the gaps between, there was nothing.

Either way, this is a clear reference to Unveiling, specifically the bit about the game of possibilities and patterns.

I also felt like this part might be referring to the Witness cutscene and its people:

There were a people of potential and promise, of galvanizing growth. By their tools, their grand intention, the happenstance alignment of infinite years and atoms were as sculptor's clay, that which becomes the finest of statuary. Purpose carved from meaninglessness; the chance generation of the universe crafted into beauty, intentionality. That which served no reason ceased, randomness elided by the sculptor's art.

This part is strange though:

All that dies is only ever transformed, abscised and swallowed by wilderness, returned to infinite metamorphosis. To excise from that rich loam of transformation requires no less than perfect certainty.

To frame death as a transformation is not something I would expect from the Witness. After all, the entirety of Unveiling and the sword logic and everything the Witness represents is about the right to exist and how those that die never earned their right to that existence, and are therefore irrelevant. To suggest that their deaths had meaning through transformation in the grand scheme of things is odd.

The ending sentence is also really interesting:

Here is the secret: a ploughshare and a sword have never truly differed.

This puzzled me until I googled and found that there's a phrase about this:

Swords to ploughshares (or plowshares) is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted for peaceful civilian applications.

Now it still puzzles me, but knowing that this is a phrase makes things a bit less strange to me. I just don't know from which side to read that statement; is the statement in the lore tab meant to tell us that no matter how much we want a sword to be used as a ploughshare, it will always remain a sword (a weapon for killing)? That no matter how much we work on transformation and change, things will always stay exactly as their original single-minded purpose?

Very intriguing! Looking forward to seeing other interpretations and possible context later in TFS!

[kyluxtrashpit]

Oh right sorry, got ahead of myself. No morals just memes anon here. They made another one…

A Laser (SIGHT REMOVER) V3.

These fucking gremlins(affectionate). The worst part has to be that they’re all super smart but all different flavours of chaos alignments

Did you know salmon killer base also insta-stuns fish? I wanted to see if it could be used for its original purpose. Sorta. Didn’t even need the gun part. But I had to get like a plant trident and like a really long stick because well the scope has range. But like, you fish with a line for a reason. How tf did they get the fish last time????? So I asked. I shit you not. They had to do the same thing I did. Knife stick… So prototype blaster rifle. And knife stick. Ahh the duality of man

(The ask section was actually sent second, the text above was sent first, but figured it makes most sense to present them this way lmao)

Sdksdkls well see this is the trouble with smart people with chaos alignments - they have the ability to make things like knife sticks and overpowered lasers, plus the will to actually do it. I feel like everyone you know is extremely blorbo coded ngl lmao

[introspectiveconfessions]

“maybe if I wasn’t so into the idea that I have to be depressed to make good art then I would make more of it.”

a discussion by an anonymous loser girl who can’t decide how to define herself or if she should even try to define herself. 🫶🏽

hello void! Long time, no posts! There is nothing satisfying or interesting happening in my life at this particular moment so I’m gonna try ONCE AGAIN to document things on this godforsaken hellscape of an internet. Maybe texting things out instead of picking up a legitimate pen will help me to journal/blog. “What’s the purpose of blogging?” the void asks. Great question, void. My answer is simple. I DONT FUCKING KNOW. I need to get these thoughts out bc why tf not I guess but also maybe someone else will relate? Maybe I’ll find community? Maybe I’ll just be another data point that’s ignored by everyone? Idk dude. I’m tired and I want to complain. Is that okay with you? No? Who cares. I’m doing it anyways and tbh I never asked for your opinion and even if I did I’m not sure I would care about it until late at night when I begin to think about every interaction I’ve ever had.

Let’s talk about ME

My least favorite but also my favorite subject. I’ve been watching a lot of video essays and thought daughter tiktoks as of late and I’ve come to the conclusion that I think I’m a loser. A girl failure, a femcel, a weird woman… if you will or if you won’t. So the thing is, I grew up adjacent to American School culture but not in it, just an observer of it. This has done wonders for my psyche bc I was able to establish myself as an archetype whenever I wanted but never had the data to back up my validity. Am I poser? Most definitely. I did not have the social standing in my community to fit into a specific group and become defined. There was no status quo for me to chase. It was just me, on the bleachers. I was watching every other child and adolescent close to my age find their social standing and redefine it, get lost in it, or be rejected by society! And I was merely an observer, a fan, an audience member. So now as an adult I am surrounded by individuals who had that opportunity and they’ve moved past the implications of high school. But does high school ever end? I wouldn’t know bc high school wasn’t something I did. Was I jock? Was I a nerd? Was I a theater kid? (I definitely was not a theater kid.) but I never knew and I certainly don’t know now! Is it relevant? Probably not. But I’m having trouble finding an identity in which I can relate to people with, that is excluding my close circle of friends of course. All of this has become a burgeoning thought bc I started a new job, I’m planning to go back to school, and the schools I am entertaining are NO where near my current home. Meaning within a year or two, I will be in an entirely different community and having to introduce myself to strangers as a no name, no identity, no social standing… loser/person. All of which has never stopped me before, but… it’s been on my mind more presently than it ever has before. I have always been fine as an observer. It’s quite exciting to see how people interact with each other especially when they are forced into a situation in which they never would have otherwise interacted with each other.

What do I mean when I say I am a loser? To provide clarification, I don’t mean it in a negative context. I think of myself as an outlier in my community. My thoughts and opinions are somewhat in opposition of the cultural norm. My interests are more closely aligned with characterizations of a “‘morally bankrupt woman”. I call that reality but that’s not everyone’s reality. Here are the facts.

- my screen time is laughably high.

- I’m obsessed with off putting things

- I have no interest in aligning myself with trends

- I’m a big fan of being leisurely

- I like ugly things

This all kind of reads like a loser. I’m successful at keeping a job, I can win at certain things in life. But I definitely have had my fair share of failures. Can I make a friendship or relationship last? Sometimes but my history is kind of… it’s not great. Am i interested in improving those odds? I think it would be remiss to say… nah, I really don’t care. Fuck it we ball. ✌🏽

lol I also can’t even ball. I’m sure if I put in the practice I could be an average athlete but my feet are so uncoordinated they barely walk correctly.

Why am I talking about being a loser so much? Idk it’s been on my mind maybe bc I feel like a walking contradiction as of late. If you looked at me and made a snap judgement, loserdom isn’t exactly the vibe I give off. But I definitely feel like I’m an incognito loser. 🧐

Dude. Upon writing that last sentence… I came to the conclusion I have IMPOSTER SYNDROME. Jesus Christ, how much more of a loser CAN I GET. 😫That’s literally so typical I’m gonna have to commit an action of death agains myself. Character assassination…

More like character: ass of the nation amiright ladies?

Fuck. Someone take me out back. I need to stfu. Anyways that is my headspace will comment more later. I’m kind of invested in this finding Nemo ambiance video I got going on rn. It’s literally sea life with the soundtrack of finding Nemo in the background. I’m obsessed. Brb I gotta drink a coke and play solitaire with this massive vibe I’ve bequeathed myself with.

btw my title is very misleading. I’m not talking about art at all unless you consider me art. My character as a form of art? Bruh. If my character was an art style I just know it would be something so pretentious.

[sorryimanon]

Texting scenarios 1/?

Parings: Bakugou x NB!Reader

AN: just something quick and cute i concocted in a short span of time to help with my writers block

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Let’s be honest with ourselves here. Bakugou is incompetent when it comes to texting. He rarely uses emojis and doesn’t quite understand the complexities of memes. You’ll be sending some from time to time, expecting him to reciprocate with his own, but the man in question is left baffled behind the screen. Wondering why you sent an odd image of a cat making a weird face or a cursed video that’s merely 6 seconds long having nothing to do with the context of the conversation. Katsuki can’t help but to act dumb and ask you “what the fuck did you just send me?”, spiraling into a chain of you sending more memes to confuse the poor guy even more. He soon learns to adapt to your weird ways of communicating and accepts every form of ‘memes’ you send with affection.

Y/N: *sends meme*

Mr.Boom💥: what tf is that

Y/N: it’s a meme babe lol

Mr.Boom💥: what the hell is a meme?

Y/N: a picture that could be used as a reaction or in reference to something funny

Mr.Boom💥: okay and? why are you sending me these?

Y/N: cause they’re funny babe! 💀

Mr.Boom💥: im not laughing

Y/N: *sends video*

Mr.Boom💥: ok that was kinda funny

Katsuki never texts you during work hours. There was an unspoken agreement between you two to not distract each other while on patrol. Emergencies only Katsuki would empathize once you got hired at the same agency. But occasionally you two would check on each other, completely forgetting the mental contract you agreed upon. He’ll never admit to it, but Katsuki secretly loves it when you send pictures of yourself on patrol, hero suit on and everything. It tugs his heart a little knowing you’re saving lives but willing to let him know you’re okay as well. He’ll also send pictures of himself after an endeavor. His hair drenched in sweat while it clings to his forehead, blood dripping from his nose to the tip of his chin and a few scratches littering his face, all of which makes him look so feral and hot. When your schedules aligned perfectly, lunch breaks gradually became the only times where you two can see each other before enduring those egregious hours again. Did I mention quickies are a reoccurring issue?

Mr.Boom💥: what do you want for lunch?

Y/N: you 😚

Mr.Boom💥: that’s not food idiot

Y/N: im thinking im thinking

Mr.Boom💥: well think faster dumbass. our lunch break is only for an hour

Y/N: ik another thing we could do for an hour ;)

Mr.Boom💥: looks like im eating without you then

Y/N: no wait i take that back im sorry

Mr.Boom💥: Noodleshop @1 then?

Y/N: yessir :)

Mr.Boom💥: if we eat fast enough then maybe we can do that thing you mentioned :)

Y/N: 🏃🏻‍♀️💨 omw

Katsuki melts instantly when you send raunchy pictures of yourself. He can praise till days on end at how resilient he is, but not when it comes to you. One quick look at your beauty and he’s on his way to your door.

Y/N: babe

Mr.Boom💥: yeah?

Y/N: can you come over? im bored and i miss you :(((

Mr.Boom💥: i picked up an extra shift so im working very late. won’t be done till 2 am

Y/N: oh so you’re working rn?

Mr.Boom💥: yes

Mr.Boom💥: why?

Y/N: *sends picture*

Y/N: enjoy :)

Mr.Boom💥: ha you little shit

Mr.Boom💥: nvm i persuaded shitty hair to cover my late night patrol. im heading to your place rn

Y/N: yay ☺️☺️

[scribbly-dee]

Inspired by this post

I adore corruption arcs, so I graded how well the non-archivist characters would have damned humanity if they had been the archivist.

Sasha James 11/10, would be an ideal archivist, this plus her height is probably why the stranger monster targeted her before she could peak

I have a soft spot for any au that knows Sasha has never seen a brain cell in her life and that any unhinged!Sasha au is really just a regular Sasha au. Picture it with me. Sasha and Jon have parallel archivist tracks, until Sasha (my beloved show off) decides: you know what would make me more efficient at snooping? Becoming a Human Google. And things accelerate. The Web doesn't even need to bother with subtly magic lighters, it slaps all 14 marks on her at once by pulling up next to Sasha in a windowless van with "free secrets 👍" written on the side.

After the Unknowing, Sasha takes over the institute from Elias instead of Martin and Peter. With Tim dead, Jon in a coma, Martin lonely-snatched, Melanie compulsively homicidal, Daisy in the coffin, and Basira on autopilot, she quickly bonds with Rosie, the ultimate nosiness enabler. Sasha is a fully marked archivist for a good long while, but doesn't start the apocalypse right away because she's eager to read ALL the ominous notes Elias left, so the watcher's crown statement is in her to-be-read pile. When the apocalypse starts (Rosie: "Hey, Sasha, I just read something extra fucked up that Elias wrote, wanna see?" Sasha: "God yes."), she books it to become the pupil with Rosie as her anchor. Mayhapse an anchor-archivist polycule with Archivist Jon and Martin? Mayhapse Jon is just a normal eye avatar here and deeply invested in all of Sasha's eyepocalypse statements, so it's Sasha and her plus-three? Mayhapse it's a race across the eyepocalypse wasteland between Archivist Sasha and Archivist Jon to usurp Jonah and become the pupil?

Tim Stoker 2/10 dude's here for a good time, not a long time

The only way I see this working is if Elias disguises not-stranger clues as circus related so Tim is motivated to investigate. Otherwise, his archival assistants are way more curious than him and disobey his direct orders to 🍹chill🏝. Jon, Sasha, and Martin inadvertently bring marks home to him like cats bring home dead birds. He asserts his agency when he decides the best course of action? Actually? Just blow up the archives. This unfortunately puts him in a false sense of security, and Elias makes him read the watcher's crown statement by cat fishing him on grindr and sending the ritual as a dm mid conversation.

Daisy Tonner - 9/10 archivist, would have started doomsday before she was at the archivist job long enough to use her PTO

Daisy already had a lot of experience hunting down fear-entity-related people in sectioned cases, which means she possibly canonically already has all the marks from just hunting avatars who use their powers in self defense. The reason she lost one point is because she's too much of a jock to read, only nerds are culpable to watcher crown statements, so this would be the only delay but oh what a delay it will be.

Melanie King - 7/10 archivist, points awarded for achieving her breakthroughs by smashing her head against a wall until she literally breaks through, points deducted for doing so in full clown makeup.

If Jon got a handful of marks by just asking anoying questions in the same room as an avatar, imagine how much faster Melanie would get marks by bringing her trademark Chaotic Brat personality on fear entity investigations. The apocalypse would have started in like two seasons: one season to hire her off the streets and establish shakey, complex relationships with her new assistants (Jon and Sasha put in the time with the institute but were passed over on this promotion for some random YouTuber (plus they're tighter with Tim and Martin, so proletarian solidarity against the boss)).

Then a second season to stab every mark and get stabbed in return. Melanie would blitz through all 14 marks because what precious little impulse control she starts with is slowly replaced with slaughter juice. One fun moral ambiguity to explore could be if Melanie tries to use her new, dangerous Eye/Slaughter powers to revive her reputation and platform in the supernatural community now that she can, ya know, identify supernatural things for the first time ever. Does she acknowledge her entire career up to her hospital episode apparently only investigated fake sightings? A better question to ask is whether Basira, Tim, and Jon ever let her live down how Ghost Hunt UK's professional dignity was contingent on the legitimacy of her sCiEnTiFiC gHoSt eQuIpMeNt in those episodes, so the temperature spikes set to dramatic music were well and truly just temperature spikes and dramatic music. Sasha found a clip of that music playing as Melanie narrates "it's a message... from the other side..." and made it as her text tone.

Also, it would be hilarious if Melanie tried to kill Jonah on sight in the panopticon, once again botched assassination attempt number 1,963,538, and then Jon quietly snuck in to finish the job on his first try just like in canon.

Jon: "What, like it's hard?"

Basira Hussain 3/10 archivist, her eye alignment manifests as office gossip, like a normal person

Basira has the most formidable super power of all: the power to nope tf out of any conversation or plan she wants. She therefore would probably take 10x longer to start the apocalypse than any other archivist because her fatal flaw is refusal to directly engage with a lot of personally difficult things (like the slaughter bullet surgery she organized, Daisy In General, etc). The marks will be slow going if she resists putting her safety on the line or invests time in making good plans (which is smart, but unhelpful for dooming humanity). She would for sure still get marked and end the world because once she's convinced of a plan (aka Elias convinces her of a plan), she's ruthlessly efficient. So I'd stay out of her way that last year or two, she marks the entities right back at them.

Martin Blackwood 2/10 archivist, considering a prerequisite for creepy eye avatar staring is the ability to make eye contact.

S1 Archivist Martin would probably dote too much on the employees under him to be hugely susceptible to Elias' isolation-dependant manipulation. Any progress Martin inadvertently achieves toward the watcher's crown goal would have to be contingent on it helping his loved ones, which is perfect fuel for a "corrupted by good intentions" arc. This would be key because Martin has superb bullshit and manipulation detection, making the marks are tricky but not impossible to orchistrate considering Jon can't stay put in a safe corner for 10 minutes and Martin's mother would refuse to stay with him where she's safe from avatar threats.

Imagine the petty drama when Jon and Sasha learn he got the promotion they wanted because he lied on his CV.

Other than that, Martin would be even worse about pit stops on the apocalypse road trip than Jon because his Kill Bill mode would have no off switch. Does Archivist!Martin and his anchor Jon ever reach the panopticon? Eventually, but not until after they lose points for significantly reducing the apocalypse fear quantity. Would Annabelle survive to deliver her cryptic MaCHiNAtIoNs and achieve the Web's goal? Hard No, additional point reduction for neutralizing the multiverse invasion. Points potentially earned back if Martin's Web connection is strong enough to come up with the multiverse invasion plan on his own, though.

Georgie Barker 4/10, as a fearless coward, all the fear she feeds to the entities would be khaki flavored. They'd get their apocalypse, but they probably wouldn't enjoy the meal.

Similar to Basira, Georgie has the super power to Fuck This Shit I'm Out. She would overall be a subpar humanity damning archivist; a major archivist success factor of Jon's is that he has enough affective empathy to be afraid with every statement giver he reads, so when Jon archives a statement, he unintentionally contributes to the fear soup seasoning. Combined with how Georgie doesn't want anything to do with entity drama, so any corruption specific to the watcher's crown would stagnate. Even her casual exposition conversations would go like

Georgie: "I've connected no dots."

Melanie: "you've connected a lot of dots??"

Georgie: "I've connected shit all dots."

The reason she gets one more point than Basira is because Georgie's fatal flaw is the passive observer quality the Eye tried to stoke in Jon. Her level of engagement oscillates between two extremes, impulsive over commitment and judging from a distance. This would probably lead her to geting involved just long enough for her involvement to become irreversible, at which point she would try to cut that shit out of her life after it's trapped her. She'd linger, barricading herself on the margins of this problem as the marks that are targeted at her slowly tally up until boom. Apocalypse is on and she only half understands what's happening.

Georgie would wander around an apocalypse hellscape confused, but vibes and physical health fully intact. Anchor!Melanie would have quite the emotional journey starting with Georgie on that pedestal Melanie placed her, and ending with a slaughter avatar stabbing the person who convinced her to work on her slaughter inclination.

[akshay-s]

Top 10 Data Science Project Ideas For Beginners - 2021

If you are an aspiring data scientist, then it is mandatory to involve in live projects to hone up your skills. These projects will help you to brush up your knowledge on knowledge and skills and boost up your career path. Now, if you write about those live projects on your resume, then there is a very good chance that you land up with your dream job on data science. But to be a top-notch data science engineer, it is essential to work on various projects. For this, it is important to know the best project ideas which you can leverage further on your CV.

Start Working on Live Projects to Build your Data Science Career

To get a sound idea for data science projects, you should be more concerned about it rather than it’s implementation. Because of this, we have come up with the best ideas for you. Here we have enlisted the top 10 project ideas that can shape your future in the world of data science. But to begin such programs or live projects, you need to have a good understanding of Python and R languages.

1. Credit Card Fraud Detection Mechanism

This project requires knowledge of ML and R programming. This project mainly deals with various algorithms that you can get familiar with once you start doing your applied machine learning course. These algorithms mainly cover Logistic Regression, Artificial Neural Networks, Gradient Boosting Classifiers, etc. From the record of the Credit Card transactions, you can surely be able to differentiate between fraudulent and genuine data. After that, you can draw various models and use the performance curve to understand the behavior.

This project involves the Credit Card transaction datasets that give a pure blend of fraudulent as well as non-fraudulent transactions. It implements the machine learning algorithm using which you can easily detect the fraudulent transaction. Also, you will understand how to utilize the machine learning algorithm for classification.

2. Customer Segmentation :

It is another such intriguing data science project where you need to use your machine learning skills. This is basically an application of unsupervised learning where you need to use clustering to find out the targeted user base. Customers are segregated on the basis of various human traits such as age, gender, interests, and habit. Implementation of K-means clustering will help to visualize gender as well as different age distribution. Also, it helps to analyze annual income and spending ideas.

Here the companies deal with segregating various groups of people on the basis of the behavior. If you work on the project, you will understand K means clustering. It is one of the best methods to know the clustering of the unlabeled datasets. Through this platform, companies get a clear understanding of the customers and what are their basic requirements. In this project, you need to work with the data that correlates with the economic scenario, geographical boundaries, demographics, as well as behavioral aspects.

3. Movie Recommendation System : 

This data science project can be rewarding since it uses R language to build a movie recommendation system with machine learning. The Recommendation system will help the user with suggestions and there will be a filtering process using which you can determine the preference of the user and the kind of thing they browse. Suppose there are two persons A and B and they both like C and D movies. This message will automatically get reflected. Also, this will engage the customers to a considerable extent.

It gives the user various suggestions on the basis of the browsing history and various preferences. There are basically two kinds of recommendation available-content based and collaborative recommendation. This project revolves around the collaborative filtering recommendation methodology. It tells you on the basis of the browsing history of various people.

4. Fake News : 

It is very difficult to find out how an article might deceive you mostly for social media users. So, is it possible to build a prototype to find out the credibility of particular news? This is a major question but thanks to the data science professionals of some of the major universities to answer the problem.  They begin with the major focus of the fake news of clickbait. In order to build a classifier, they extracted data from the news that is published on Opensource. It is used to preprocess articles for the content-based work with the help of national language processing. The team came up with a unique machine learning model to segregate news articles and build a web application to work as the front end.

The main objective is to set up a machine learning model that provides you with the correct news since there is much fake news available on social media. You can use TfidfVectorizer and Passive-Aggressive classifier to prepare a top-notch model. TF frequency tells the number of times a particular word is displayed in the document. Inverse Document Frequency tells you the significance of a word on the basis of which it is available on several contents. Therefore, it is important to know how it works.

A TfidfVectorizer helps in analyzing a gamut of documents.

After analyzing, it makes a TF-IDF matrix.

A passive-aggressive Classifier tells you whether the classification outcome is viable. However, it changes if the outcome swings in the opposite direction.

Now, you can build a machine learning model if you have such good project ideas.

5. Color Detection :

It might have happened that you don’t remember the name of the color even after seeing a particular object. There is an ample number of colors that are totally based on the RGB color values but you can hardly remember any. Therefore, this data science project will deal with the building of an interactive app that will find the chosen color from the available options. In order to enable this, there should be a detailed level of data for all the available colors. This will help you to find out which color will work for the selected range of color values.

In this project, you will require Python. You will utilize this language in creating an application that will tell you the name of the color. For this, there is a data file that comes with color names and values. Then it will be utilized to evaluate the distance from each color and find out the shortest one. Colors are segregated into red, green, and blue. Now the PC will analyze the range of the colors varying from 0 to 255. There are a plethora of colors available and in the dataset, you need to align each color value with the corresponding names. It requires a dataset that comprises RGB values as per the names.  

6. Driver Drowsiness Detection :

In order to perform training and test data, researchers have come up with a Drowsiness Test which uses the Real Life Drowsiness dataset in order to detect the multi-stage drowsiness. The objective is to find out the extreme and discernible cases related to drowsiness using data science Skill. However, it permits the system to find out the softer signals of drowsiness. After that, comes the feature extraction which needs developing a classification model.

Since overnight driving is really a difficult task and leads to varied problems, the driver gets drowsy and feels quite sleepy while driving. This project helps to detect the time when the driver gets lazy and falls asleep. It produces an alarming sound as soon as it detects it. It implements a unique deep learning model to determine whether the driver is awake or not. This comes with a parameter to find out how long we stay awake. If the score is raised above the threshold value, then the alarm rings up. Now, you can easily be able to get the related dataset and Source Code.

7. Gender and Age Detection : 

This is basically a computer vision and machine learning project that implements convolutional neural networks or CNN. The main objective is to find out the gender and age of a person using a single image of the face. In this data science project, you can segregate gender as male or female. After that, you can classify the age on the basis of various ranges like 0-2, 4-6, 15-20, and many more. Because of different factors such as makeup, lighting, etc, it is very difficult to recognize gender and age forms a particular image. Due to this, the project implements a classification model instead of regression.

For the purpose of face detection, you will require a .pb file since this is a protobuf file. It is capable of holding the graph definition and the trained weights of the model. A .pb file is used to hold the protobuf in a binary format. However, the .pbtxt extension is used to hold this in the text format. In order to detect the gender, the .prototxt file is used to find out the network configuration. The .caffemodel file is used here to denote the internal states of various parameters.

8. Prediction Of The Forest Fire : 

Both forests, as well as the wildfire, ignites a state of emergency and health disasters in modern times. These disasters can hamper the ecosystem and this can cause too much money. Also, a huge infrastructure is required to deal with such issues. Therefore, using the K-means clustering you can easily be able to detect the forest fire hotspots and the disastrous effect of this nature’s fury. With this, it can cause faster resource allocation and the quick response. The meteorological data can be used to determine the seasons during the forest fires that are more frequent. Also, you can determine the weather conditions and climatic change that can reduce them and bring sustainable weather.

9. Effect of Climate Change on Global Food Supply :

Climatic change seems to affect various parts of the world. As a result, people residing in those areas are also under the wrath of such climatic change. The project mainly deals with the impact the climatic change is having and its effect on the entire food production. Main motive of the project is to determine the adverse effect of the climate on the production of crops. The project ideas mainly revolve around the impact of temperature and the rainfall along with the diversified cause of carbon dioxide on the growth of the plants. This project mainly focuses on the various data visualization techniques and different data comparisons will be drawn to find out the yield in various regions.

10. Chatbot-Best After the Data Science Online Training :

This is one of the famous projects done by the most aspiring data science professionals. It plays an important role in the business. They are used to give better services with very little manpower. In this project, you will see the deep learning techniques to talk with customers and can implement those using Python. There are basically two types of chatbots available. One deals with the domain which is used to solve a particular issue and the other one is an open domain chatbot. The second one you can use to ask various types of questions. Due to this, it requires a lot of data to store.

“ Upskill Yourself Through Online Data Science Courses and Become a Professional ”

The projects discussed in this technical article covers all the major Data Science projects which you need to do if you are a budding data science professional. But before that, you need to have a good grasp on various programming languages like Python and R. If you do the data science online tutorials, then these projects will be a cakewalk for you. Remember, one thing these small steps will make the large blocks so that you can rule the world of data science.. So, go ahead and participate in these live projects to gain relevant experience and confidence.

[aizawaskittenwhore]

headcanon: they have a s/o that listens to a specific female artist

featuring izuku, bakugo, todoroki, kirishima, and our pros before hoes hawks and aizawa lol

words: 1k??

warnings: some slick lil nasty comments (cause when aizawa’s involved i can’t write fully sfw) and language that’s it lol

𝕚𝕫𝕦𝕜𝕦 𝕞𝕚𝕕𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕪𝕒 𝕨/ 𝕒 𝕤/𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕦𝕞𝕚:

the first time he’d ever heard of her was when the two of you went on a drive one night

he’d already liked the vibe of a few of the songs you’d played

and then lullaby came on

man when i say this boy didn’t think he could fall for you any harder until that moment

he was so wrong

hearing your voice softly harmonize with the melody had his heart skipping beats

the street was deserted cause it was so late

and all he remembers is copper streetlamps illuminating your face

left hand out the window, right hand on the wheel while the wind blows your scarf in all different directions

and when happy again plays???

and you blissfully kiss him while you’re stopped at a red light???

while your hand is already holding his?????

izuku is sold

he goes home and downloads all her music

and she becomes “your” artist

“babe wake up umi just dropped music”

he even took you to see her in concert for your birthday lol

𝕜𝕒𝕥𝕤𝕦𝕜𝕚 𝕓𝕒𝕜𝕦𝕘𝕠 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕤/𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕠 𝕟𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕪

now why would you put him on to rico bruh

but in your defense it’s not your fault

he was helping you with dinner one night

and you hated working in silence so you’d asked him to play something from your playlist

he chose “smack a bitch” cause he liked the title💀

and from that point forward he was obsessed

he was already attracted to your no-nonsense, take no shit type attitude

so knowing that you listened to the same kinda music made you ten times hotter

you knowing all the lyrics had his dick on HARD LMFAOOOO

anger management is his favorite album

you fell tf out when he said that cause...have you met katsuki that mf is the poster child for anger issues

secretly likes sugar trap too but refuses to admit it

on bad days y’all will blast all of rico’s aggressive songs and rage

your downstairs neighbors hate you.

𝕥𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕣𝕠𝕜𝕚 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕤/𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕖𝕪𝕒𝕟𝕒 𝕥𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣

okay so todoroki is painfully introverted

which isn’t his fault cause endeavor isn’t father of the year by any means

so i hc him with someone who’s extroverted and outgoing

teyana makes music for bad bitches who work hard and play harder

but have a soft side too and just wanna love/be loved bro

he loves that you can put on such a brave face for the world every day no matter what

he’ll never forget when he knew he loved you

he was getting in pretty late from a patrol that had run overtime

and he’d found you, crying on your shared bed after an awful day n this man’s heart just splinters cause he don’t know how to comfort people🧍🏾‍♀️

but you don’t ask him for much, just for him to hold you and he does

the next day he wakes up to you just bopping to “never would have made it” and you just glow as you pull him outta bed to come dance with you like you weren’t just crying last night which has him confused asf

“you can be strong and still be vulnerable baby.”

that shit hit home for him

lowkey wants to recreate the shower scene from the “fade” video with you now

𝕙𝕚𝕥𝕠𝕤𝕙𝕚 𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕤/𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕛𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕖

y’all can’t tell me this mf don’t be zooted 25/8 and most def has a smoke playlist with jhene on it

so when he finds out that you like her too???

oh baby the vibes here are immaculate

you can’t tell me he wouldn’t have chilombo goin in the background while y’all smoke

and if you don’t personally smoke then he’ll just cuddle with you while he practices tricks<3

will ask you if you wanna get licked too if you stare at him as he’s rollin

the energy here is so balanced it’s crazy

shinsou hates drama and all that other bullshit

so when he’s with you he’s the most relaxed he can be

also he loves that you’re not opposed to deep conversations about your purpose on this earth and how you can feed off other people’s energies

y’all definitely burn sage together on sundays

but don’t get it twisted

cause he knows better than anyone that while you may be chill your hands are still rated E for everybody

been on the receiving end of your anger once or twice and he said never again lol

𝕖𝕚𝕛𝕚𝕣𝕠 𝕜𝕚𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕞𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕤/𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕒𝕝𝕚 𝕦𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕤

there is nothing more attractive to kiri than someone who’s not afraid to take a leap of faith

you’d known each other since second year, and honestly you were itching to change up your energy

you were tired of being the same old, boring, timid y/n

so you started small: you experimented with your hair more, tried out new makeup, and clothes that accentuated your...ahem..assets

sweaters became tube tops, lip balm turned into brown liner with a thick coat of gloss, skirts became bell bottom jeans with the occasional pair of heels

don’t be fooled, you still loved your old clothes, you just needed to branch out

and as your new style grew so did your taste in music

honestly when you started listening to kali you really hit peak Bad Bitch Energy™️

kiri was, in short, enamored with you

the way you woke up one day and decided to be a whole new person was so manly to him

and he loved the way you knew you didn’t need shit from him but still let him spoil you

which only made him wanna spoil you more

and the way you shifted from a goddess who could step on him with a perfectly manicured foot to kiri’s baby who demanded cuddles before 11am????

the duality has wedding bells going off in his head lol

pros before hoes lol

𝕙𝕒𝕨𝕜𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕤/𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕟

“fell too fast for me, now the nigga hurt”

that lyric is your dynamic with keigo in a nutshell.

he’d met you while he was in fukuoka on a “business trip” .....which was code for a booty call🙄

and figured he’d try to get another pyt on his team

...only problem was, you were a whole hot girl coach (with ya own draft picks no less)

you had heard about playboy (and no.2 hero) Hawks from here to the States

so, you’d decided to play dumb, hoping he’d slip up and you’d get another pro on your list

all it took was a few sleepovers and calling him keigo over breakfast in the morning...dude was stuck

this man was trying to run game and now you had him throwin you some money to get your hair and nails done “just because” n buy you birkins....embarrassing 💀

however despite him being a sweetheart you didn’t forget what this was, and he wasn’t the only egg in your basket since you knew you weren’t his

this man saw edgeshot’s name come through with a “you up?” text while you were in the shower and cried to brent for a week straight LMFAOOO

but what did he expect from the same person who knew every lyric to meg’s wap verse...come on baby do better

long story short if you can’t handle a stallion don’t try to tame one.

𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕥𝕒 𝕒𝕚𝕫𝕒𝕨𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕤/𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕫𝕒

whewwww okay the amount of scorpio energy flowing through here is borderline suffocating

honestly if you listen to sza you’re either a scorpio, heartbroken, manifesting, have low self esteem with sudden confidence bursts or all the above don’t lie

in all seriousness shota didn’t see himself getting into a serious relationship due to his pro hero status

that, and he didn’t feel like there was anyone out there that was just...on his level mentally???

but then he meets you and you throw him for a loop though he’ll never admit it

you didn’t just throw yourself at him at the beginning

and while sure you made it known that the attraction was mutual you treaded lightly

he could tell you’d been hurt before and would kill before you let someone get you in a position to hurt you again

pretended not to notice you crying to supermodel when he was supposed to be sleeping

which he understood, for him trust issues came with the territory so there was a mutual understanding between you two

you don’t mind his schedule since you prioritize your alone time and he loves that

you definitely get him into meditation and crystal/chakra alignment

at first he thinks it’s a bunch of bullshit

until it helps him sleep better...mf is a secret hippie now

he loves that you’re trying to heal/become a better version of yourself and he gets to be a part of that growth :,) it makes him a little more optimistic for his personal goals

the sex is elite lol had to say it the vibes are too good here

𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜𝕤 𝕤𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕔𝕙 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖 𝕝𝕖𝕥 𝕞𝕖 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕚𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕘𝕦𝕪𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕤𝕖!

[purplesurveys]

816

Gonna do a before and after of one of the first surveys I took when I was FOURTEEN. Fucking wild that I’ve been doing this for nearly a decade. Kinda my way of celebrating the fact that I’ve just been reunited with my old blog, which Tumblr has apparently changed the URL of. Baffled by the move but still stoked, and @a-zebra-is-a-striped-horse​ is absolutely the coolest person for being able to find it haha. Let’s gooooo 1. Are you registered to vote? No. I still have 3 years to go. < That’s so precious. I’ve been a voter for four years now. I registered the second I turned 18 and I remember being very excited to make it to the presidential elections because only a handful of people from my high school batch were 18 by the time of the elections. 2. When days go by, do you cross them off on the calendar? Only when I’m counting down for something. < This still sounds like something I would do, but I don’t really get to anymore because I have digital calendars on my phone and laptop now. 3. Are you currently counting down to something? If so, what? Summer vacation! 4 days left! < Again, so cute. There’s no countdown that exists because I honestly don’t know when it will be okay enough to go out like normal again, but I am waiting for Covid to go away or at least for a vaccine to be available.

No #4? 5. Ever got injured at work? What happened? Nope. < I sprained my ankle at one of the parking lots in school, while walking to my car. Worst thing was it happened in front of an ongoing rally, and I heard their chants slightly falter when they saw me fall. I tried to play it cool, but my foot clearly felt fucked and someone had to hold my arm as I hopped to my car.

6. What color is your roof? Brown. < Stop pretending like you have a roof, Robyn. The house has always had a rooftop.

7. Do you use MySpace or Facebook more? Neither. < I was still far too young when MySpace peaked so I never did get to participate in its glory days. I definitely use Facebook a lot more, then and now. 8. Last time you sharpened a pencil? When I took a diagnostic test last Monday. < Sometime in 2019 when I was still heavily into coloring and I bought several coloring books and a pack of coloring pencils. I loved coloring and wish I kept it up, but it was just a bit of a hassle for me to sharpen every ten minutes or so. 9. List all the people in your phone under T: Zero, zilch, nada. No phone. < A high school batchmade named Dani, a college colleague named Kate, and a couple of aunts and uncles whose contacts start with Tito and Tita.  10. How old were you when you got into text messaging? I once had a super obsessive text problem when I was 11, I think? < That would be the first time I got hooked with texting, but I got my first phone when I was 7 and was already texting by then. Mostly my parents and grandpa, but still. 11. Do you pay rent to your parents? No. < No. They’ve already told me they won’t pressure me to do so either, but out of gratefulness for taking care of me for 20+ years I have absolutely no problems covering some of the bills when the time comes. 12. What do you think of Obama’s new healthcare bill? I don’t know a lot about it. < Honestly, still same. That’s another country’s politics altogether and we have enough issues in our own nation as it is. I do pay attention to US issues that are more universal like LGBT issues, police brutality against black people, Trump as a person...but not the more in-depth ones like healthcare or student debt. 13. How many icons are on your desktop? 34. < Exactly half of that. 14. Do you spit or swallow? Get outta here!!! < Still can’t relate. 15. Ever wrote something on a bathroom wall? Nope. < Eugh no, public bathrooms are so nasty. I don’t usually touch anything in them other than the faucet. I’ve written on other things though, like the desks in school. 16. What’s your definition of a slut? Uh. < Someone who often has casual sex with a lot of people, is how I understand it. 17. If you use the word “slut”, do you apply it to men who do the same thing as what you listed above? Nah. < I don’t really use the word. 18. Do you dye eggs for Easter? I did once, in a children’s party. < Yeah, just that one time at my second cousins’ place when they were in the mood to paint on eggs and invited me and my siblings. 19. What did you do on the first day of spring? Never experienced spring. < We don’t have spring. 23. Are you currently crushing on anyone? No. < Yes. 24. What color hair did the last person you kissed have? NKSB. < LOOOOOOOOOL I spent like two minutes puzzling over this like who tf is NKSB??? Eventually realized this just meant ‘Never Kissed Since Birth’ oh my god 14 year old Robyn you were SO uncool. Anyway, her hair is black. 25. Do you stand up to say the pledge in school? We don’t have a school pledge, but we do recite our country’s pledge and yes, we stand up every time we say it. < Not anymore in university. Everyone just kinda does their own thing in college and we’re never gathered as one student body for anything, except for graduation. 26. Do you like your eye color? God no. It’s so boring. < I mean yeah it is a bit boring, but we kinda have no choice. Unless you go to West Asia which is nearing Europe as it is, nearly all Asians have brown eyes and black hair. 27. What brand of orange juice did you last drink? Zesto. < That’s the only brand of orange juice I’m okay with drinking, even eight years later. 28. Pens or pencils? Pens. < Still feel the same. 29. Last skirt you wore and why? My school skirt, because I have to go to school. < Omfg again, this is so precious. The last one I wore was my denim skirt, but it’s also been a while since I wore that because one of its buttons has since popped out and I never got around to having it fixed, leaving me with no skirts. 30. Last time you wore heels, what kind were they? A prom I went to. I actually have no idea what kind of heels they are so I’m just gonna say old-women heels. < They were stilettos, you dumbass. I also wore a pair of stilettos the last time I wore heels. They’re my favorite kind, so. 31. Shoes you wear the most? My Keds. < My pair of Onitsuka Tiger sneakers. . 32. Favorite quote at the moment? “YOU DUMB BITCH! I’M NOT HOLDING A MICROPHONE! ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?” - CM Punk < Holy crap, I do not remember this quote at all and had to look it up on YouTube and – no regrets. Watching it made so many memories come rushing back lmao that clip is hilarious; Punk is the greatest. Right now I don’t really have a favorite quote. 33. What was the last magazine article you read about? I forgot. < It’s from the website version of the magazine, but the last article I read covered a viral Facebook post wherein someone had photoshopped the faces of The Big Bang Theory boys onto the traditional graduation photos of my university out of boredom. Article is here for anyone who wants to see how well the pictures turned out lol. 34. What do you think about communism? I don’t know enough about it. < I completely support the progressive youth orgs, especially the ones in my university, that are aligned with communist, socialist, and Marxist ideals. They speak the truth more than any other orgs, so I don’t shy away from defending them or promoting their ideals, especially on social media, even if it puts me in danger. 35. Are you planning on going to college? If so, which one? Of course. I want to study in Ateneo. < CAN WE CANCEL 14 YEAR OLD ROBYN?????? What a disappointment omg. You were always meant to be in UP, you weirdo. 22 year old me takes that appalling statement back lol I can’t even begin to imagine spending my college years in Ateneo. 36. What’s your favorite flower? Ugh I hate flowers. < Peonies and roses. 37. What’s the nearest beach? I think it’s like…600 km away + a 2 hour boat ride. < No it is not. There’s a beach I come back to in Nasugbu and that’s only 100 km away. 38. Ever been to Florida? Nope. < Still nope. 39. How old is your brother’s best friend? He’s probably 9 as my brother’s 9. < I don’t know if he has one and I don’t really care anymore. 40. What type of car did you ride in last? A Kia van. < Sksksksks this was referring to the school bus I used to ride omg :( I was last in our Vitara, when I had to go to the hospital to get some tests done back when I still had a pesky fever. 42. Are you excited for summer 2013? Fuck yeah. < I honestly don’t remember how it ultimately went, but apparently I was excited for it so that answers the question. 43. What class were your parents (ex. class of ‘75)? They’re the same age so batch ‘89. < There we go. 44. Are you in debt right now? For what? No. < Kinda-ish? I promised my sister I’d pay her for helping me out with iMovie (I wanted to make Gab a video for her birthday, but had never done it before), but I haven’t had the chance to do it since I only have big bills at the moment. She’s asking for ₱200 but I only have ₱1000s in my wallet, so I can’t pay her for now. 45. If you’re old enough, do you have a credit card? If you’re not old enough, do you want one when you’re older? I definitely want one. < Yep, still want one. Though I’ll need a crash course on how to use it because my parents never really taught me how cards work. 46. What color is your phone? No phone. < Apple calls it space gray but it’s really just black. 47. Have you ever had someone read a text message they weren’t supposed to see? Yes. < Yes. That person was me, and I accidentally read a text from my dad meant for only my mom when I was 5 because I had stubborn fingers that would click on anything. 48. What’s the minimum age you think someone should have a cell phone at? 10. < Holy cow, that’s a nope for me. I’d say 12 or 13. 49. Would you ever work night crew? Sure. < Yes. I’ve seen my girlfriend’s mom do it and honestly I find it pretty badass, especially because while everyone is stuck in traffic trying to get to work by 9 AM, she’s cruising down the highway on the opposite lane with no problem, to be home by 9 hahaha. 50. How old is the last person you texted? 41. < 22.

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Thoughts on The Royal Heir, Chapter 15 - Apple in the Oven

Alternate Title: Slow down, I’m getting motion sickness from speeding through this pregnancy

Word Count: +/- 6000 I dunno I’m too tired to properly check at this time

Points are arbitrary and happen at random. Recap/personal thoughts after the point review of the chapter. TL;DR version we’re pregnant. pregnant things happen. There’s spicy times in a spa room. Renovating the duchy costs cheaper than a dress and I’m not sure why that doesn’t surprise me. Cronut run calls back to TRR Book 1 and now MC’s so pregnant it’s time for the baby shower.

Things that will be covered in this post:

I’m sick but it’s hitting me how I’ve really got to play these chapters 2-3 times for the responses because even with my replays and watching SIX different YT playthroughs I didn’t get all the reactions because everyone films the same response!

The guys calling themselves “Daddy” is endearing and sexy AF

TRR group chapters make me happy

I’m putting a cut here to minimize the length of this post if you don’t want to read this, and feel free to add #ZaffEssays and #ZaffDigsDeep to your filtered tags so you don’t see this or future posts from me.

I sourced Drake’s playthrough from BizzysChoices, Hana’s from Universal Studio 77/Abhirio, and Maxwell’s from rash rec.

Normal text = Liam route | Italics = Drake/Hana/Maxwell route | Bold = applies to any LI/story as a whole

-1 not-Wayne runs off and we gotta chase him +1 [Liam] using KING VOICE “halt in the name of the crown”... Commanding those around him to stop not-Wayne. +1 [Liam] grabbing not-Wayne BY THE COLLAR hnnnnng +1 *if Olivia takes the lead* Olivia leaping over the balcony to sweep not-Wayne’s leg – THAT’S MY FRIEND AND I LOVE HER +1 [Maxwell] slides down the bannister and tackles not-Wayne +1 [Drake] slams not-Wayne against a wall hiiiiiiii #DrakeRage -1 someone is snitching on MC’s whereabouts and we want to know who +1 STAB THE CAMERA and shock Olivia, heh +1 LI’s planned a spa/massage for MC after the doctor’s appointment +1 [Liam] MC calls him Mr. Perfect (I will link any instance to Henney whenever possible) +1 [Liam] has been getting lessons to become a masseuse JUST FOR MC uuuugh I love him +1 [Liam] with his “these are the finest hills and valleys in all of Cordonia” STAHP YOU’RE ALREADY GETTING LUCKY MAN OK BUT DON’T STOP THOUGH I LOVE IT +1 [Liam] alluding to Drake being the first on the list to babysit and deal with diaper duty +2 [Liam] telling MC nothing’s kept him from her and a tiny baby won’t either; he can hold them both in his arms at the same time HELL YES YOU CAN MY KING +1 [Drake] is becoming more and more submissive to MC…kinda weird but attractive at the same time? +1 [Drake] is a happy man with MC and can’t wait to be a father +1 [Maxwell] has taken a six-hour course on massage and chakra alignment +1 [Maxwell] sings to MC – awwww! +1 [Hana] is already a trained masseuse +1 [Hana] attention is finally lavished on her in a diamond scene -5 Fast fucking forward through 2/3 of the pregnancy here with montage scenes +1 Maxwell does prenatal yoga with MC. He’s the best brother ever. +1 MC x LI feel the baby kick while they’re dancing +1 Drake made a “rocking horse” for the baby with random bits of wood and bless his heart I love him for trying -1 Liam’s not talking about finding out that his mother was pregnant with another baby/has no leads to find answers to his questions +1 boy red panda (Pabu) wants up and Liam calls him a big baby and carries him and my heart is gonna burst outta my chest why TF do I love this imaginary man so much he’s so adorable someone please tell me to shut up +1 Liam offers to upgrade the dutchy with a gazebo and flower garden for MC’s child to enjoy -1 TOO MANY TIME JUMPS ALREADY 0 LIs are having stress dreams during MC’s pregnancy -1 sorry Hana, I don’t think Oswald is on the list of baby names for the future heir 0 MC’s morning sickness has gone away so lets give her gestational diabetes and eat alllll the desserts at once mmkay? +1 CRONUT RUN -1 WHY IS MC DROPPING OUT OF WINDOWS? WHY DIDN’T HER LI TRY TO STOP HER OR AT LEAST HELP HER? +1 Cronut scene is cute even if they recycled some of the dialogue +1 everyone talks to The Belly +1 Maxwell asks Baby to kick in response; eventually Baby does +1 Liam has serious talk with Baby but also mentions abdicating is still an option if Baby *really* doesn’t want to be heir later on +1 [Liam] calls himself DADDY and will look at Baby as his child first, heir to the throne second +1 [Drake] calls himself Daddy and can’t wait to take Baby camping and teach his kid to appreciate nature +1 THAT BEAR RESPONSE THOUGH 😂 -1 Baby shower already? Yeah, we blinked at this pregnancy is straight up DONE. -3 Shady rulers with their shady baby betrothals are already threatening to ruin the shower by arguing over said stupid “alliance” via marriage

T O T A L 8 points for this chapter with Liam as your spouse 8 points for this chapter with Drake/Hana/Maxwell as your spouse

PARENT MODE ACTIVATED: Not-Wayne has snapped a photo of the sonogram, and MC, LI, and Olivia are chasing after him. You get the option to choose who takes the lead – MC, Olivia, or your LI. If Olivia takes the lead, she leaps over the side of the balcony, popping up to her feet and sweeps his leg (SWEEP THE LEG, JOHNNY!) to knock him down. But let’s see what happens when the LIs take the lead, shall we? Drake is “on it” darting after the guy, grabs him by the back of the shirt and slams him against a wall. Hana – well I’m not sure what she does since both Hana videos I watched picked Olivia. Maxwell says not-Wayne “will feel the kraken’s justice” before sliding down the bannister and tackling the dude. And then there’s my man, Liam – he tells MC “(not-Wayne) won’t get away” and employs his king voice, telling the dude to halt in the name of the crown, telling everyone he passes that not-Wayne has committed a crime against their king and queen and – everyone heeds the order of their king! A pair of hospital workers grab hold of the journalist, releasing him to Liam who GRABS HIM BY THE COLLAR and I—if MC weren’t already pregnant, she’d be shoving Liam into the nearest supply closet to thank him, okaaaay?

MC deletes the photos while Olivia starts interrogating the dude. First he says he just wanted a photo to sell to the tabloids – meaning he’s not with the press, or he’s lying. MC points out they were photographed multiple times on the road trip to Texas Hell that no one was supposed to know about, and LI points out it’s more than just a coincidence, wanting to know who’s responsible. Not-Wayne says he “can’t” before chalking it up to dumb luck, only HE hasn’t been following him the whole time (only in Cordonia) so someone is definitely employing more than one member of the press to trail after MC.

MC gets the option to stab his camera / press charges / offer to provide a picture on their terms – with the first option, MC uses the dagger Olivia gave her and shatters the lens – taking Olivia by surprise – and threatens to personally kick not-Wayne’s ass if she sees him again. Press charges and MC and LI talk about the amount of pressure they’re under, and how he’s ruined a private moment for their family; Olivia informs him security will watch him until the police arrive. Offer to provide a picture on their terms and MC tosses the camera back to him, telling him she doesn’t mind being in the spotlight, and a simple request would’ve worked and THEN THEY SMILE FOR THE SUMBITCH ‘fore they couldn’t help themselves (hello Ouiser Boudreaux) and he snaps their photo.

Back at the duchy, LI’s planned a little surprise after the appointment for a very sensual massage aaaand it’s a diamond scene – possibly one of the last ones we’ll get for sexy times before this baby is born, so let’s gooooo. Odd to note that everyone but Drake was wearing a towel to tempt us to spend the diamonds. Even the way each LI entices MC to say yes to the massage is different – Liam wants to pamper his wife and offers time and privacy; Drake rubs MC’s shoulders and offers to massage MC’s tension away; Hana wants to do more for MC and offers to pamper her the rest of the day; Maxwell says the events from the ultrasound are the curse to fame and offers to massage MC from head to toe for “us” time.

MASSAGE WITH A HAPPY ENDING: One of the rooms in the duchy’s been transformed into a spa (umm, can this be a permanent change? Please and thank you). With Drake, MC wants to be carried to the bed so he scoops her up to do just that; MC’s surprised Liam set up so much – and he’s already disrobed so he’s just wearing a towel – who scoops her up into his arms and talks about a deluxe treatment; MC and Hana change into towels together and MC whimpers at the sight of the massage beds, starfishing onto one of them; MC and Maxwell change into towels and Maxwell’s already doing finger stretches to reduce MC to a puddle on the floor.

LIAM: has set up aromatherapy (with safe-for-pregnant-ladies essential oils) and MC can choose to say this is now part of (Liam’s) husbandly duties / I can’t believe you did all this – the first response makes Liam’s eyes sparkle with mischief; with the second option MC calls him Mr. Perfect – which @i-choose-liam kindly pointed out to me while I was still screenshotting my first round, and we fangirled over the fact that, as Asian!Liam, this references our beloved Henney FC to his movie Seducing Mr. Perfect – and Liam will *always* be Mr. Perfect as long as he’s married to MC.  After either response, he confesses that he’s been sneaking away once a week to learn from a professional masseuse, “for the woman who has given me everything” and kisses MC…before suggesting she get completely undressed so as not to stain the towels with the massage oils, lol. They flirt and he admits he’ll steal a glance at her while she lights candles and incense and—baby bean, that’s a LOT of fragrance going on, haha. Essential oils in the air, warm candles, AND incense? MC can flirt and strip slowly / strip fast and help Liam – option 1 leaves MC in her lingerie (uh why? You know you’re getting a massage which usually means nekkid except for a towel but okay) as Liam admires her, “a vision that (I) can’t believe (I’m) about to touch” and MC waits while Liam spreads oil into his palms before approaching her with a knowing smile, asking MC where she wants him to start – upper body / lower body. Upper body starts with a back massage until he starts feeling up his wife, lol – not deviating, mind you, just being THOROUGH – and MC still can’t believe he took lessons. Liam says he wanted to, knowing it’d be a skill he could use again and again, and they kiss, leading MC to ask to make love / cuddle hardcore – I don’t think cuddling is how babies are made, lol. Make love and okay why is Liam ALSO wearing boxers under the towel?? Whatever, he’s only in ‘em for a second before MC tugs them down, and he’s all about building anticipation – DID PB JUST ALLUDE TO THE FACT THAT HE’S GOT A RAGING BONER LOL – before rolling on top of MC, undresses her, and says

GOOD GOD MAN. MC can tell him to roam them slowly / NAO – slow option and Liam says he’ll roam until they tremble and sdkjfhdskfjh and his mouth. HIS MOUTH. All over MC’s legs, belly, etc. without *quite* getting there until she’s ready to explode at the anticipation before he finally devours her. MC can then tell him to get on top / get under her – on top he sets a swift rhythm; under MC she pins his wrists as she moves with deep strokes until FADE TO BLACK. Post sexytime MC calls Liam a piano virtuoso, hitting all the right notes, but he likens it to a concert where HEH multiple instruments were played. He threads his fingers between MC’s and brings her hand to his lips for a kiss, and they talk about how moments like this will become less frequent once the baby is born, aiming to treasure what we get / make our own time – Liam says he’s never stopped treasuring moments with MC with the first response. Then he goes on to say that while he might have his hands full with a screaming baby, he can still wrap an arm around her (because my MC is smol like me, mmmkay?). With the second response he teases that they can set up candles and stuff while the baby naps because he’s a romantic at heart, and if all he can do is steal a kiss while MC’s rocking the baby to sleep or they put Drake on babysitting duty so they can have a night out, he’ll find a way to woo MC. Both responses lead to Liam telling MC that nothing has been able to keep him from her – assassins, foreign kings or queens, royal plots, bullets in the air, or threats to the crown – and a baby will be nothing compared to all they’ve already had to endure. And then he says he can easily hold them both at the same time and I—GODDAMMIT I LOVE HIM SO MUCH – and then he carries MC off to bed.

DRAKE: Offers up that the evening is all about MC and he wants her to have things exactly the way she wants them, unless she wants him to take over – cue first choice for Drake to give orders / take orders. Option 1 (thanks @saivilo !) has MC ask where Drake learned how to give such good massages; he learned how from his physical therapist (!!!) that he saw after he got shot. Option 2 and he admits he’s not familiar with taking orders (really dude? I recall some diamond scenes where you’re a few seconds shy of addressing MC with a “yes Mistress, no Mistress” but okay you’re not used to taking orders…) and disrobes MC, and MC can tell him to get undressed / rub her feet – he shoots playful glances at MC while he undresses if you go with the first option, and then MC gets onto one of the massage beds. He works on her back and shoulders, and by the time he works his way down to MC’s calves, she’s turned into a pile of goo – but not before he kisses her tenderly. MC gets the make love / hardcore cuddle option here, and with the first option they tangle into the mattress, where MC can tell Drake she wants him to watch her / his mouth on her – with the second option he trails kisses down her torso and—OKAY, homeboy is tugging her undies off with his teeth again! I like this move, haha, so that’s in his wheelhouse. MC asks if he’s an animal and he says he’s “proud (he’s) not drooling all over (her)” I had to step away from the computer because I was laughing too hard! So he’s doing his thang between MC’s legs until she snaps from pleasure, and MC has to choose if she wants him on top / under her – under her, Drake’s wrists also get pinned and yadda yadda fade to black. Post Drake times, MC and Drake pillow talk how they never saw their lives being what they are now, and Drake goes into the “I never thought you’d choose me, love me, pick me” – it’s the anti-Meredith Grey/McDreamy moment. MC either responds with now you have me whenever you want / of course I chose you, you’re amazing – with the first choice, he admits that he’s a happy man all the time now. They’re both happy to spend time together as husband and wife, and Drake feels like his whole life has been leading up to being a father, and MC drifts off to sleep, vaguely aware of being carried off to bed.

HANA: Hana’s already got training as a masseuse, and she pulls two bottles of oil from a wooden box in a dresser – one pink, one the color of white wine; elderberry and rose, or sage and sandalwood. MC must choose! Whichever one you choose, Hana spreads the oil on her hands before MC tugs the towel off, and Hana helps remove MC’s lingerie…with her oiled hands…when she didn’t want to stain the towel… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay then. Hana can either go with Shiatsu (alert massage) or Swedish (deep tissue, more relaxing) – Swedish involves long, deep strokes. Hana straddles MC and starts working her magic, admitting she once put her instructor to sleep. MC manages to stay awake, and at the end of the massage she tells Hana she really needed that / will repay her – with the 2nd option, she offers to be Hana’s personal genie, and Hana jokes that she’d like the sunset to last longer. MC says she’ll talk to her manager, and they kiss, leading to we should both be naked / let’s cuddle – option 1 leads to kissing and then flipping Hana on her back, and MC’s sex drive is through the roof, apparently. MC can go with hard and fast / slow and tender – going hard and fast leads to frantic kissing and MC finally(?) lavishes attention on Hana before pulling her hair / kissing her fingertips – and kisses Hana’s neck hard as she winds a hand through her hair, tugging firmly but gently. Hana’s into it and returns the affection by going down on MC. Post Hana-love, she’s all “you’re amazing, I’m amazing, but together it’s crazy what our bodies can do” before MC says little feet will interrupt them soon / can’t wait  - with the second option, Hana says they’ll need to install locks to keep innocent eyes from witnessing what they just did (why don’t the doors already have locks? Did you learn nothing from the whole ordeal in Applewood? LOCKS ON DOORS, PEOPLE). MC teases her a bit and they talk about all the moments they’ll soon have with their kid – bedhead, food splatters, climbing into bed with them and tiny kid voice – and MC nods back to the assassination attempts and paparazzi hijinks will have been worth it in the end. They share I love you’s and uhhh Hana’s Superwoman because she ALSO carries MC off to bed.

MAXWELL: MC’s in a mood, getting snippy at Max for his comment that they can’t mandate the size of the doctor’s office, and he suggests MC get comfy on one of the massage beds because he’s taken a massage course that included some kind of chakra kit. MC can say she needs work on her actual body / on her chakra system – body response has MC slipping out of her towel while Maxwell stops flexing his fingers when he sees MC in her undies. MC insists he start with her feet, and Maxwell opts to use coconut oil to start massaging the soreness away. They both relax and laugh as he works his skills on her, offering musical accompaniment via sounds of the sea / improv serenade – serenade option gets him to croon a sweet song to MC, where she half expected him to start beatboxing. He continues the massage up MC’s body, and she says she’ll make it up to him / this needs to enter rotation – option 1 and MC says he deserves to be repaid for his efforts, but he says it’s not necessary because MC’s the one carrying the baby. They kiss, leading up to the lovin / cuddlin – lovin earns fuller kisses before he MC pulls the towel away and he’s in his squid undies, removing them with a quickness before he resumes kissing MC’s body, and he ALSO removes her undies with his teeth, calling MC *his* queen. MC tells him she wants her mouth on him / his mouth on her – going with the first option he’s rendered speechless as MC does her thang before he stops her and they switch it up, where MC tells him to get behind her / under her. Option 1 and Maxwell grips MC’s hips, setting a natural but frenetic rhythm and yadda yadda fade to black. Post Maxwell, they also go with the little feet convo and the locks, and Maxwell goes on to add it won’t be long before they hear “toots thundering down the hall, and pre-school, and their first car” before MC stops him for moving too fast. Maxwell plants a kiss on MC’s belly and says he’ll be there for them both, always, before exchanging I love yous…and he carries MC off to bed.

FLASH FORWARD, HELLO BELLY: So we jump WAY forward to MC being fully pregnant, belly out and everything. LI tells MC that she looks more beautiful every day and MC can respond with thank you / really? – MC isn’t tired of hearing that she’s beautiful, so LI says they’ll keep saying it; really answer leads to MC admitting that she doesn’t feel like herself because of all the changes her body’s going through, but all LI can see is perfection. MC notes she’s getting used to a new wardrobe, which segues into LI pointing out that they’ve got a present (which should be free but ISN’T, as per usual). LI Liam had the royal seamstress design something; LI Drake reminds MC that Cordonia has a royal seamstress; LI Hana asked the royal seamstress to design an ensemble; LI Maxwell is all “someone say wardrobe?!” – and they present MC with a gleaming white garment box. Liam asked for a dress befitting a queen and mother, Drake asked for something special, Hana asks MC to try it on, and Maxwell asked the seamstress to design something for his “beautiful, radiant, magnificent wife!”

The dress….dammit, it’s cute. The default pink dress is also cute, but FML I like the blue, and the flowers. Liam says MC looks stunning and she’ll be the envy of the world, Drake wants MC to feel as beautiful as he thinks she is in that moment, Hana calls MC radiant, and Maxwell…well the YT user went with the default, but if MC’s happy, Maxwell’s happy.

Several days later and MC’s doing some prenatal yoga with Maxwell, and MC can ask where he learned it / tell him he never ceases to amaze her / doesn’t even wanna know – with the first option, Maxwell tells MC he started researching as soon as he found out she was pregnant, out of solidarity. With the third option, he prefers to keep his air of mystery.

Time jump #3 to a ballroom, where MC is dancing with LI, and they feel the baby kick. Liam appreciates MC’s energy to attend royal functions, thinking it’s a burden in her condition, but MC’s happy to be slow dancing with him. Drake (back to his denim on denim) apologizes for dragging MC to another stuff ball when he wishes they could be relaxing on their own somewhere. Hana’s impressed MC has energy to attend royal functions, and Maxwell also apologizes for dragging MC to a royal function rather than binging something on TV.

Time jump #4 back to the nursery in Valtoria, where Drake’s finished making…something…for the baby. Guys, I love Drake. You know this. I also love that they had him make something with his own two hands for the baby no matter who MC is married to, because I love handmade things/make handmade things/support anyone who takes the time to learn a craft/skill and share that with others. And yes, canon Drake knows how to build barns, but I was DYYYYYING when they said he basically Frankensteined odd bits of wood together (why couldn’t he shape the wood from one source? It’s not like there’s a shortage of trees where they are!) to create a footstool / rocking horse / abstract art – opt for rocking horse and he’s all “duh, what else would it be?!” but if you pick abstract art you get sad!Drake telling you it’s a rocking horse (but so beautiful that it looks like art! Truly!). He gives it a push, but the horse rocks diagonally in a jerky movement, and he says it might need some adjustments before it’s ready to be a rocking horse. MC loves it either way.

Jump #5 and MC and Liam are strolling the grounds of the duchy (all routes) and asks if MC should be walking so much. They’re walking with the red pandas (if you bought them) and he offers to walk with the pandas if MC ever changes her mind, but she turns the tables on him. Liam’s said nothing in the months that have passed about what happened at the first doctor’s appointment regarding his own mother’s second pregnancy. While it’s been on his mind and he has plenty of questions, he doesn’t have many angles on where to look for answers (*cough* ASK BASTIEN, DUDE *cough*), but he IS determined to find out the truth about Eleanor’s death. He brushes off discussing any more about the past, preferring to look at the future, and calls out to the pandas. Girl panda walks alongside MC, while Boy panda rears up on his hind legs and stretches his front paws up at Liam and then—GUYS I’M GONNA LOSE IT THIS WAS SO CUTE. MC reminds Liam that Boy panda likes to be carried, Liam calls Boy panda a big baby and SCOOPS HIM UP. I now have to write something with a scene where my OTP Liam and Trina are with their brood of boys and one of em holds up his arms at Liam, asking to be carried. My heart will burst!!!

Yeah so Liam gestures out at the duchy grounds near the lake, asking whether MC wants to renovate the land to add a garden and gazebo. For 16 diamonds – IT’S CHEAPER THAN THE DRESS WE JUST BOUGHT AND WE’LL GET TO USE IT THROUGH THE REST OF THE S E R I E S – you bet your ass I bought it.

Jump #6 has several more WEEKS passing when the duchy renovations are completed. LI Liam puts a loving hand on MC’s belly and kisses her cheek (he does nothing if you’re not married to him). He tells MC he hired only the best (workers) since the duchy will be in MC’s family (our family if he’s your husband) for generations. Hana invites MC to smell the roses, Maxwell’s in the gazebo, planning to teach the baby how to tap dance because of the acoustics, and Uncle Drake is ready to teach baby how to do things like skip rocks across the water.

Jump #7 and MC’s in bed, not sleeping. She wakes LI out of their sleep because she can’t feel the baby doing it’s nightly gymnastics routine and… why is she fully dressed? Why is LI Liam in his regular suit, Drake’s in his denim, Hana’s in her dress, and Maxwell’s in his black Gucci shirt??? Either way, they’re all having stress dreams.

Soooo… Drake had a dream that he was being smushed by a giant marshmallow (Stay Puft? Is that you?), Hana dreamt they were having a tea party with their baby but was denied lemon curd, Maxwell was having a recurring dream involving a shrimp buffet… and then there’s Liam. Liam’s had a recurring dream from his childhood where he and Leo are eating baklava, but then Liam turns into the baklava and fights off Leo trying to eat his arm. That is A LOT to unpack, no matter who you’re married to.

MC’s concerned she hasn’t felt the baby kick (10 every 2 hours or so) and LI’s all “when’s the last time baby kicked” and MC’s all “I dOn’T kNoW i WaS AsLeEp” so then she can stay calm / talk to baby / PANIC – staying calm means MC takes a few deep breaths and waits patiently for baby to kick. Talk to baby and LI Maxwell starts beatboxing; LI Hana calls the baby sweetheart, asking to feel their little feet; LI Liam calls the baby little darling and adds “please let us know you’re there.” Panic with LI Drake and MC screams, with Drake suggesting that probably woke the baby. All paths lead to LI rubbing MC’s shoulders for a bit, and baby kicks when LI puts their hands on The Belly.

Jump #8 (good lord I’m getting dizzy, or maybe that’s the dextromethorphan in my system wheeee) to a few MORE days later, where MC’s gathered with the Royal Council for a press conference at the new lakeside gazebo, where the press swerves questions to the Council to All Things Baby, linking the renovations to MC’s possible nesting phase, and they start badgering with more pregnancy questions – reading to the baby, pregnancy cravings, morning sickness, etc. Notice that not-Wayne is no longer present, now that he either got a photo of MC x LI at the doctor’s office, or his camera got smashed. Guess whoever’s been snitching on MC needs to hire someone new to do the spying… MC can respond with fans deserve to know everything / NUNYA BIDNESS – indulge the press and provide answers (Goodnight Moon, pickles and cronuts, tbh MC tossed her cookies before the press conference) and they appreciate her candidness, calling her down to earth, before Drake tells them to chase after a pop star. None of your business response (I vaguely remember seeing this somewhere) results in press calling her a mama bear and respecting her decision for privacy (I think). 

Jump #9 and MC and Hana are going over baby names – Hana’s got Oswald, Valentina, and MC’s own name on her list. The intro dialogue is just a bit different with LI Hana – she confesses that she’s started making a list, whereas friend!Hana asks if MC’s open to suggestions. MC can ask Hana to explain those choices – Oswald earns a “think about potentially cute nicknames” response. Valentina nods back to a warrior who fought for a powerful Cordonian queen, and when MC says the name’s too close to St. Valentine, Hana suggests VAL as a nickname (hello ties to TC&TF). Naming the baby after MC makes MC wonder if that’s not too narcissistic, but Hana reminds her that plenty of royals name children after themselves. No matter which name you ask about, MC tells Hana she’ll add it to the potential list without promising anything. LI Hana gets an extra line about cross-referencing MC’s pick against some kind of spreadsheet.

Jump #10 GEEZ SLOW DOWN ALREADY and MC wakes up in bed, jolting their partner awake – and they’re all relatively cool about being woken up at random. MC’s morning sickness has finally subsided, and she can ask for a victory high-five / kiss / dance – and they’re happy to celebrate, one way or another. So now we’re finally in the PALACE, enjoying a buffet of decadent desserts, and everyone’s happy to reap the benefits of MC’s sweet tooth now that she can give in to cravings without the threat of being sick afterwards. The only thing missing is a cronut and—I have no idea what happened but it seems like version didn’t transfer all the shit I bought in the TRR books because Hana says they never went on a cronut run in TRR Book 1 Chapter 6 when I KNOW they did because I wasn’t about to turn down an opportunity to hang out with Liam – and find out that he nearly fell into the rose bushes, or that Maxwell stuffed a cronut into his mouth like a damn chipmunk, but HERE I AM, CRONUT-LESS. If you bought the scene way back when, Hana notes that MC’s feeling nostalgic; Drake suggests they sneak out for MC, and Liam agrees.

And then PB basically uses the same scene over again – MC meets up with Liam, Drake, Hana, and Maxwell later that night, only this time it’s MC that snuck out the window, defending that it was kind of like exercise and only a short drop from the window OKAY MC WHAT THE HELL YOU’RE PREGNANT STOP DOING THINGS LIKE FALLING OUT WINDOWS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. They head to a pastry shop near the beach and there’s a short discussion about breaking rules – Maxwell likes to break them, Hana feels guilty if she does, and MC can say rules are for suckers / stand between us and chaos / can’t keep me from my cronuts – Sucker option gets an enthusiastic response from Maxwell and House Beaumont; second option and Drake is all “good thing the rule maker is here, right Liam?” and Liam decrees the outing to be approved; third option and MC’s determined to get her cronut on, scaring Maxwell (and Drake says MC’s been like this the whole time; WATCH IT, DRAKE).

At the pastry shop, Maxwell’s all sHaKy LeTtErS for the cronuts and MC sits next to LI while Maxwell and Hana get cronuts for everyone. LI Liam puts his arm around MC and she smiles at him; LI Drake gets dialogue – MC asks if he can make room, Drake says “for my family? Always”; Hana just rubs MC’s belly; Maxwell just puts a cronut in front of MC. They’re all happy to be making memories together, with baby for the first time, and this….THIS…is why I keep playing. I love this stupid group of pixels, in all their snark and sweetness. They count to three to eat together, but Maxwell being Maxwell, stuffs that cronut into his mouth, and eventually MC tells them how much she appreciates them being there for her.

Hana mentions baby has ears at this point, and MC can say that’s cute or creepy – I’ll just go with the cute option since that’s what I went with and I’m losing steam and can’t watch all 6 videos to see what they all picked – so MC wants baby to recognize everyone’s voices, and now we get a cute scene where they all talk to The Belly! Hana’s excited to meet Baby, calls MC Mama MC, and (Baby) is already loved by so many people. LI Hana adds that Baby’s already in her heart even though she’s not the one carrying them, and she’s doing her best to look after MC so they can take care of each other. LI Maxwell asks Baby how they liked their first cronut because he’s going to be in charge of introducing Baby to alllll the desserts. ALL OF THEM. LI and Friend!Maxwell asks Baby to kick once if the cronut was good, or kick twice if Baby wants chocolate. LI Maxwell knows that as his kid, desserts will be an important issue and whispers to The Belly again, calling their friends non-believers and to tell Daddy what cronuts are liked. MC can wait to give it a chance, or tease Maxwell – I’m not teasing my brother here, y’all. They wait a bit, and then there’s a tiny kick, followed by two more – so obviously Baby liked the cronut but wants more, heh.

LI Liam gets serious and leans in to talk to The Belly, planting a gentle kiss above MC’s bellybutton and then—I’m about to start crying again I love this sweet bean of a king.

First, he calls himself DADDY. I’m not into the whole Daddy kink, but that right there? HI 😏 He knows his child will face many of the challenges he’s had to deal with, and regardless of the privilege and responsibility that comes with being a royal, Liam hopes that Baby will always remember that Liam will always see Baby as his child first. As heir, he hopes his child will see the crown as a good thing, as a means to make a difference in the world, but he’s already willing to accept abdication if his child doesn’t want to (eventually) take hold of that power and responsibility. The dialogue doesn’t change toooo much if he’s not your LI. He acknowledges that he’s placed a huge responsibility on Baby’s tiny shoulders, but he hopes the crown and governing Cordonia will be seen as a good thing, and notes again that if Baby doesn’t want that on their shoulders, they can abdicate just as Leo did.

Whether it’s his bio baby or not, the kid isn’t even born yet and he’s open to the possibility that this child may not want what’s been laid out for them. That speaks so much more about Liam’s character than anything else, especially compared to his fears of being a just ruler, and following in Constantine’s footsteps. I doubt that Constantine would ever have let the thought that one (or both) of his sons would go through with abdicating; while Constantine knew Leo wouldn’t be suited to rule, I’m sure it disappointed him greatly when Leo dropped that bomb. If Liam had followed suit, in some sort of “if I don’t get to marry for love you won’t have a king” ultimatum, I’m sure there would’ve been hell to pay.

So I know everyone – EVERYONE – gave Liam crap at the beginning of this book for wanting to appoint MC’s baby heir (if you aren’t married to him) – but this shows that it’s weighing on him as MC’s due date approaches. Yes, Cordonia needs an heir. Yes, it’s a huge ask to his friends and to a baby that might not even want to step up. Yes, he hopes that the child will grow into the impossibly large shoes he’s set out for them to fill, but he’s keeping an open mind, even if it creates trouble for the crown down the road. Would he have to appoint a backup heir if Appointed Heir #1 abdicates? Will the country be a target if/when this kid decides to abdicate, leaving the kingdom without a ruler? These are all things that have likely crossed his mind already, and just mentioning the option of a way out indicates he’s ready to deal with the fallout of this extremely odd setup.

*Back to the scene* MC asks Drake if there’s anything he wants to say, and he rests a hand on The Belly, referring to himself as Uncle Drake again (Daddy for LI Drake), and how he can’t wait to take the kid camping and hiking and fishing, in addition to building fires and catching fish. LI Drake wants to teach the baby about all the things he loves, showing baby the good things in the world, and protect them from anything bad. MC can choose from you know it’ll be a few years before that / I can totally see you hiking with a baby carrier / nothing near bears – with the first response, Drake says he can wait and they can start small with trips to the palace gardens. The bears response is the funniest one, where the guys all agree “nope, bears? Never!” thanks to the bear scene from the bachelor party. Drake drops “never again” which makes MC and Hana suspicious, because the guys are weird whenever bears come up in discussion, lol and Liam cuts off the discussion by mentioning they should head back to the palace. They decide to make the cronut run an annual tradition before shooing MC back to the palace to rest.

Jump #11 and now we’re so far into the (end of the second? Beginning of the third) trimester that it’s time for a baby shower WUT. Hana’s been in charge of getting the shower ready and she’s been focused on making the day perfect for MC…with LI as a side thought. LI Hana had to give up control to let the other ladies plan the shower and MC reminds her to try and relax and enjoy the day, since it’s for both of them. They talk about how surreal the whole thing is, but neither of them can wait to meet their baby. Non-Hana routes, the guys are mentioned as afterthoughts – Hana’s ready to celebrate MC being a mom “and to celebrate you too, Liam/Drake/Maxwell.” The guys all respond with neutral thank yous.

And then Kiara appears with good news and bad news -  good news is guests are arriving and there are some lavish gifts for the shower. Bad news? Breadford, Bella, and Amalas have decided to use this gathering to argue about the baby betrothal because they’re all tantrum-throwing five year olds and can’t get through a function like mature, rational adults (and save the quarreling for the end of the event). Honestly? As one of the guests of honor and queen, Trina would tell Monterisso and Auvernal to kindly fuck off with their ultimatums and have them escorted off the premises. If they can’t shut up about this baby wedding nonsense for an afternoon where parents-to-be are supposed to be celebrated, they can suck it.

No other notes this week - it’s 3:30 in the morning, my night time cold meds are kickin in so I’m hoping I’ll sleep in late. Bonus to working from home, I guess. 

Tagging: @ao719 @argylemnwrites @aworldoffandoms @beardedoafdonutwagon @blackcatkita @burnsoslow @custaroonie @dcbbw @gibbles82 @itsstillnotwhatyouthink @katedrakeohd @lolablackwrites @queenmiranda-01 @riseandshinelittleblossom @saivilo @storiesofsass @texaskitten30 @thecordoniandiaries @the-everlasting-dream @the-soot-sprite

[baseballmomlesbiandad]

Okay so I gotta lay this out more for my own reference in the future because sometimes I wonder how my life is real. Who is writing this movie, this lesbian romcom that is my life, it ain’t me!!!

So about a year ago, I basically fell in love with my neighbor at first sight. I had just moved to the neighborhood and was at the local bar when I hear someone yell over to me, “hey, I love your hair!” (Undercut)

I turn to look at her and she’s gorgeous, of course. I blush and say “thank you, I love your hair too!” (Bald) (hashtag lesbians, am I right?)

She leaves and my friend walks out from the bathroom so we head out the door and who is outside having a cig but this gorgeous girl. I wave bye to her and she yells, “bye omg you’re so pretty have a good night bye!” And my friend is like, who tf is that, and I’m like idk but I’m in love obvi.

I text my roommate, “meet me on the stoop, I gotta tell you about this girl I met at the bar.” I meet her outside and before I can get into anything, who walks up but THE GIRL and she says, “omg hey! You live here? I literally live right next door?” I am open-mouthed at this point. She gets to talking to us and is like, my name is Alex, we should all totally hang out, I need more girl friends, I live with two guys, let’s have a movie night, yadda yadda yadda.

She goes home — again, RIGHT NEXT DOOR — and my roommate says, “uh wow, what was going on between the two of you, you kept staring at each other like I wasn’t even here,” and I’m like, “YEAH THATS THE GIRL I TEXTED YOU ABOUT!”

Within the next few weeks, we run into each other constantly, like I’m telling you I saw neighbor crush every 2 days completely on accident. We spend whole nights together talking, she booty calls me to “watch the new Ted Lasso episode with her,” we hook up a few times and I’m like, fuck I liiiiiiike this girl.

Now, it’s the holidays, we both work retail, we’re not really texting each other since we’ve always just talked in person, and we just kinda fall out of that routine with everything going on. We both agree that we’re not in the right headspace for a serious relationship but want to continue…whatever it is we’re doing.

Weeks turn to months, the stars don’t align, we rarely ever run into each other anymore. I’ve started to try and move on from thinking it can ever be more except for every time we would see each other, which would be like once every month or so, the feelings would come back full force and I’d be pining and yearning all over again. It was like an addiction, which I guess love is.

Then, February comes around and she’s still on my mind, I decide, fuck it, I’m asking her to be my Valentine. I make her a handmade cheesy ass middle school fucking heart shaped valentine and left it on her door like the simp that I am. She loves it, says yes, I take her to this candlelit orchestra, we have a lovely night, we kiss but nothing more happens because she’s still trying to get her head right. I try to ask her out on dates many times, most of which she agrees to and then flakes on at the last minute. After the 5th time this happens, I decide I need to move on for my own sanity.

But of course, she’s my neighbor. SHE WORKS WITH MY ROOMMATE. And we still see each other once in awhile, so like not easy to get over her when her very presence intoxicates me, ya know?

Flash forward to now. I’m trying to get myself out there again so on a whim, I reply to a local magazine’s Instagram post about their column that sets people up on blind dates in the city, thinking nothing of it until they write back that they’d love to set me up! I’m terrified but also intrigued and am like, hell yes let’s do it.

They give me no information about the date except for the time, location, and the name of the person — and what should their name be but Alex, the same fucking name as my neighbor crush/kinda ex. OF COURSE.

I’m rolling with it though, the main thing I’m worried about is that it is, in fact, a woman and not some straight cis man named Alex because that’d be really fucked up.

The date comes around, it turns out Alex is a woman, thankfully, but honestly? Looks kinda like neighbor crush. I’m still rolling with it though, we have the date, it’s not really a love connection but it was fun, and we exchanged phone numbers and called it a night.

That was yesterday. Today, I had a whole ass bad day and was brooding on my stoop when who should walk up but the original Alex, my neighbor crush. She sits down, brightens up my day (as per usual bc again, she’s intoxicating and I’m still fucking in love) and I eventually tell her about the date. She’s happy for me, finds it fucking hilarious that her name was also Alex and then looks up her social media, finds her immediately.

Then she says, “wait…I’m pretty sure I know this girl. Yeah I’ve definitely seen her standup and she’s friends with my friends.” Which, like, in the gay community is really not that much of a surprise, BUT STILL.

Anyway, moral of the story is that I tried to get over my neighbor crush/kinda ex with a blind date set up by a local magazine who turned out to have her same name and looked like her, so I’m like 80% sure my life is actually a movie and I’m never gonna not be in love with this girl.

OH AND just icing on the cake, I came inside after social media stalking my blind date with my kinda ex and was telling my roommate and her boyfriend about it, and showed them my blind dates’s Instagram and he says, “you know, she looks kinda like Zoe kravitz,” which made me and my roommate deadpan to each other because that’s the celebrity lookalike that my neighbor crush gets all the time.

Can someone please write me a happy ending here because I’m tired of this, grandpa

[sinkordie]

context for my hurt: because we hadn’t really been spending much time together- i got a new job, our schedules are completely different now, depression, other obligations/plans, the stars didnt align or whatever it may be- and i was looking forward to spending time w yall doing something we had planned like weeks ago! and obvi u can’t plan for cancelling due to sickness or anything like that, but no one even told me until it was over… and like no one is even taking any responsibility for that one initial thing that really sucked!! here is an example to help put it in perspective:

my friend and i are going to meet my mom at the movies to watch (a movie). while driving to meet my mom, my friend feels violently ill or has a panic attack. we decide Lets Go Home because who tf is expecting a sick person to socialize and watch a movie??. we text my mom (who we were suppose to meet) and say “hey, change of plans, we can’t come because my friend is not feeling well”. my mom can then decide what to do w her time!! if she wants to go home too or make other plans, or is she decides to watch the movie alone. (end example)

do you guys see how that was a bit inconsiderate of my time / feelings and could have hurt me? like whether it was intentional or not, it still hurt me and when i came forward to say so, there was a lot of defensiveness

i wouldn’t mention this because ^ i know deep down that they probably actually don’t care? :/ and i don’t need that to be said to my face i think. because that woukd crush me rn.. i think i can go the next few months not having it explicitly said to me that i’m unliked haha so.. idk then i can just kinda leave forever.. i can’t believe i let people fool me again into thinking they really care about me

[captainshazamerica]

Yeah it's the same anon 💜 dude my apologies for the amount of crap I've spewed in your ask box but in my defense no one I know gives a shit about batfam or gotham rogues or Alfred (I've gushed here about alfreds fabulousness too opps) anndd I partly blame you for me falling back into the titans trap cuz s1 was meh I forgot I even watched s2 😅 then I seen some titans stuff on your blog and boom my brain latched onto it and now here I am experiencing maternal fear for my son jason 😢you are 1000% right this jason is PERFECTION as robin like actual perfection I dunno why but I thought this robin was like 16? So I was thinkin how tf is 16/17 yo supposed to be redhood!? It work in comics/cartoon but live action 16 y/o redhood seems meh I kinda want the lazarus pit just I freakin want TALIA but I don't think that's gonna happen I dunno

Tbh (this may be biased) but I think the Gotham tv show is literally the best dc comics adaptation of anything ever! it is superior to all thier shows movies animations and the arrowverse at least in my books lol

Tumblr is my only form of 'social media' and I don't keep up with updates or anything about shows cuz I like to pretend the fiction is real and I don't want reality wrecking that for me like hahahaa so I had no clue about timmy or babs but I'm so happy

DUDE YES this is literally the only time I can see bruce ever killing the joker on screen aww please I want it so bad I mean they probably won't but they should cuz this is the only capacity in which batman can kill the joker live action like if down the line somewhere on another show/movie bruce killed joker he prob wouldn't be dead dead or they'd bring him back some way so the kill wouldn't even matter but old bruce killing the joker because he's finally had enough he's old now, jasons death finished him and he's not gonna be batman anymore it's a nice end for batman and the joker, it's the only way we'll ever get this end cuz like you said they'll never have the balls to permanently kill joker any other way in live action everything is aligning perfectly for this to happen so dang dc just freakin let it happen c'mon

Yo whose your first fav rogue? Is it riddler? I feel like mines riddler haven't really thought much about whose my fav gotham rogue but I'd probably say riddler, I prefer the central city rogues but the Gotham rogues are just pure chaos and I'm living for that hahaa

I'd rather superheros/vigilantes/villians in live action not have relationship drama just put them in a relationship or dont like I came for the action and weird super shit not the ordinary relationship drama thankfully titans seem to be doing okay in this aspect I do quite like dickkory a lot but I mean in the supergirl show ughhh I was like I came here for the flying and the dope laser eyes I don't give a shit about her getting a boyfriend like seriously whyyy

My brain decides to jump about obsessing over characters like one week Kory is my wife next week detective grayson is my husband and I AM NIGHTWING then my brain is like no Barbara kean is wifey just basically fictionally I'm married to everyone 😅

Yikes this was so long sorry girl

Omg, pls don't apologize! I get so dang excited whenever i get an ask, yours always make my day, you don't even know! Like same about no one i know caring about dc/batfam! And talking to someone about it is so much better than yelling into the wind here on a text post that no one reads xD Don't stop sending your asks whenever you wanna dump your feels/talk about dc/batfam omg.

And Im so proud I got you into this Titans spiral xD My work here is done hahahaha. But yes, I feel like his looking so young for red hood over shadows how great his jason robin performance was! Love seeing him get that recognition! But yeah, the age is def off, like I cant remember how old they said he was in the show, maybe 16? but too young for red hood in live action form. Like its hard cause in reality 16 year olds and 19 year old boys typically don't look too different, for the most part, while comics you can get get away with it more. Huh, yeah, it doesn't seem like Talia is gonna happen, maybe just maybe a cameo or something? Cause we also weren't expecting joker but here we are(tho it almost looks like he wont be a big plot point/even see him much, it almost looks like it is just showing how brutal gotham is? But like its just the trailer and doesnt always give the full picture so who knows!)

Omg YES about Gotham! I 1000% agree! Im also biased cause its what got me into batman, again like exactly a year ago! It got me into the world like no other media of dc had before!(well, Shazam did, i guess tech thats the start of my interest in dc/first time i read the comics, but gotham is what really got me into this spiral). I hate how much hate it gets, like yeah its not perfect and they took creative liberties obviously, but i 100% agree that its the best adoption of DC yet! 100%! Its so nice to see the characters and rogues fleshed out more. I feel like it successfully did what Nolan tried to do in terms of making it dark and realistic, but in a way that was more accurate and true to the comics! I wish it wasn’t canceled so early and thus the last season had to be so rushed :(

thats smart, i typically dont look for spoilers and stuff anymore but I just got so hyper focused that I had to look at least what the stars were putting out on social media, but yeah, i use to get so caught up in all that that it took the fun out of seeing it live.

Oh my gosh, that would seriously be the PERFECT end to batman and joker story in this universe omg. Amen about all that! And like it would hopefully show Jason how much he cares? So maybe Bruce would kill him after red hood emerges? It will be interesting to see hat causes Jason to be so dang pissed in this version.

ahaha yes riddler is my fav! (my header gave it away didn’t it xD) I love most Riddlers but ESPECIALLY gotham riddler, Ed is like one of my fav character of all time. Oooh, I don’t know central city rogues all that well(well, way more than Metropolis rogues, I know so little about superman world), like I know some from the first 3 and a half seasons of the flash (I watched a couple years ago but got busy with school and couldn’t keep up and just never caught up/didnt have motivation to finish(plus i forgot so much id have to rewatch everything again), but I saw they finally just introduced Bart Allen, so I have have to randomly jump back in for a bit cause Bart is one of my favsss), and the ones in the cartoons and stuff

Ha! true, i dont mind it when its for character development or if I happen to be super into the ship(like Nygmakins in Gotham omg, I know they are super unpopular but they are like one of my OTPs omg), I feel like it has to be balanced right/not too much focus on the drama of the relationship over everything else. Like a minor subplot is good but don’t make it the focus of the show. And yeah , supergirl never appealed to me cause of that reason! i like drama and not JUST action (I like psychological drama, as long as there is comfort to follow xD) but yea i get what u mean by too much relationship focus . I think, for the most part, Gotham did that pretty well.

omg i love the disaster bi vibes you are giving off xD But omg I feel the jumping around thing so much ahaha. Like right now the 4 robins are constantly on rotation on who I’m obsessing over at the moment tbh xD

Omg mine responses are just as long, don’t apologize!!!! <333333333333333

[fuckitblackcoffeeisfine]

that last addition is on point.

in my case it wasn't the iron curtain but a v static market and not nearly enough purchasing power in the country as a whole to make high end tech importations profitable.

according to this chart I should be older gen z, but according to the descriptions on it I'm an older millennial. I'm not even close to the age people typically consider older millennials to be, but

I did not have cable tv growing up. my grandma did, and she would tape cartoons on vhs so I could watch them at home.

the internet made a Sound. it was Unpleasant. the internet had something to do with the phone (and I mean the landline), and it was Very Expensive. do not touch the internet. (I am young enough to have no memories of using it like this, just that it was a thing)

Gran had cable but not a microwave. lots of people did have one, but at the time not having one was not exactly uncommon. I liked to drink warm milk with sugar and she would heat it in a pot on the stove.

(its bc of this that i was dumbfounded when a few years ago i heard someone on hgtv refer to a dishwasher as a necessity good and that you shouldn't buy a house without one. yes it was one of the hosts of the show. yes i should know better than to listen to dumb shit people say on hgtv

I got my first phone at age 12 and it was a flip phone. I couldn't believe the screen had color. I could do calls, and text my friends, and by no means should I enter the icon that says 'internet' because that is Very Expensive backspace backspace now, and also I hear its great but what does it even do.

I also couldn't believe it when I heard there were now screens you could Touch and they would Do stuff

until I finally had an Actual Touchy Screen on my hands. mom bought it for dad and it was an Event.

we all gathered round when he turned it on like cavemen discovering fire. or magic because to my thirteen year old fantasy fiction obsessed self it might as well be

it was surreal at first. damn its big. look you can Actually Touch it! there is a game and its Not the snake one! you can take pictures?!?! wait how tf do i write on this thing. the keys are so? small?

it was also quickly underwhelming. how long til the flying cars arrive, my brother said.

the non snake game never got old though. (in unrelated news the actual snake game was gold and i cant even remember what the other game looked like)

i got my very own shiny new Touchy Phone at age 14, and by this point things had gotten cheap enough that one could actually make a profit out of buying older models en masse and selling them in this lovely third world country of ours (i was born here, i can say it

ofc in regard to affordable things we only got shit models for a lot of years, but now that stuff has almost completely caught on it would be safe to say my brother, only 4 years younger than me, is definitely without a doubt gen z, which does in fact align with the chart

Still, Experiences Are Not Universal so maybe stop defining things as "actual" and "absolute" or "definitive" and accept people live different realities and as a consequence have different understandings of a concept as relative as boundaries between generations?

we still get shit cars here though

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TC: Because not everyone is going to know the specifics of your career, you played a role in prosecuting Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht and also discovering two corrupt federal agents involved in that case. Is that right?

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