#hypothetical Copy Ability

[pinkestmenace]

Galacta Lance

Hmmmmm... What if Kirby had access to Galacta Knight's lance?

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

No one:

Me: Okay, but what if their relationship has nothing to do with Sonic and Tails? What if Metal literatally just saw Eggman working on Tails Doll and assumed without proof that they were created for him? What if Metal quite literally attached to Tails Doll through this assumption and then their partnership progressed naturally? What if the inorganic creations fell in love as an unorthodox power couple and just so happened to resemble a famous partnership?

[kabr0ztrousers]

fem reader finds a mysterious book that summons different monsters or creatures that takes care of human needs and reader chooses to summon the demon and they have sex and make out thats all-

ima be butterfly anon 🦋 so you know that it's me as I will be requesting more in the future.

You can absolutely claim 🦋 if you like, and I do love an opportunity to make another demon. Now without further ado, here's

Kabr0z Writes Episode 33: The book

Find the rest of the Kabr0z Writes anthology here!

CWs: Excessive cum; demon summoning; long preamble; monstrous genitalia; butt stuff

A/N: This is the last ask at time of writing, so if you have an idea for something you wanna see, or just want to call me a perv, please reach out! I feed on engagement, after all

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Antiques filled your flat. Mostly worthless tchotchkes, the odd chair or end table missing the rest of some hypothetical set, one particular lamp constructed mostly from a taxidermised heron. You loved them all, but most of all your carefully climate-controlled bookshelf. Your collection wasn't particularly valuable; there weren't many first editions amongst the ranks and what you had were in pretty uniformly terrible condition. The spoils of estate auctions and charity shops.

This time was different. You weren't going to be in Bristol long, so decided to stroll down the alleys of the older parts of the city, far from the university students and the train stations. This shop was barely a hole in the wall. It was only about twice as wide as its own doorway, but it went deeper than made sense. Crowded on all sides with stacks and shelves of books, mostly well-thumbed paperbacks with peeling spines or the odd book of fairy stories from the 60s or 70s, more penguins than you could shake a stick at. One in particular caught your eye. Leather bound, stained a deep royal purple, and with an embossed sigil on the spine. 'The Book of Creatures and Calling' You hadn't heard of this work, and couldn't find any author or attributions on the first few pages. It looked handwritten, a flowing looping hand filling the work in neat, dense rows of text and painstakingly drawn diagrams.

You put it atop the pile of volumes you carried and bought your haul. Vintage copies of Grimm's Fairy Stories, Robin Hood, Tales of Arabian Nights, and that book.

You got home and put away your haul, minus the oddball. That you set about reading, googling passages from it and trying to get some inkling on who wrote it, was it published, or did you just wind up with a random manuscript?

The internet, predictably, produced nothing of use. The book seems never to have been published, or at least nobody had put any parts of it on the web. It was fascinating at any rate. Step by step directions for calling forth all manner of creatures, even organised by difficulty with simpler rituals at the start, and the more daunting ones near the end.

You opted for a simple one to start. A brownie. You drew the circle and left out offerings and a worn-out pair of shoes then went to bed.

When you checked the ritual in the morning, the offerings were gone, and the shoes were as good as new. Better, in fact.

You realised what you had. An honest-to-god grimoire. And you've successfully summoned a faerie.

You checked the book again, making sure to read and re-read every sentence. The compact was simple, the offerings were to pay the faerie back for coming and fixing a broken thing. You didn't owe it anything more, and a pair of shoes was specifically recommended as an example of 'a broken thing'. You sighed in relief. The last thing you needed was to owe something a debt.

Over the next few weeks you tried tougher summons, and got more confident in your abilities. You called forth a dryad who gave you some fruit in return for a song, a walking broom who cleaned your flat, even a golden goose once, though it didn't lay anything for you.

The day you really found the potential of the book came later. You'd been drinking pretty heavily, your boyfriend had just walked out on you. Wine and ice cream wasn't cutting it, you needed something more substantial. You reached for the book and turned to the last summon. An incubus. For the low, low price of a sliver of your soul, you could get the best fuck of your life. You shrugged and finished your wine. Worth it.

The ritual was much more complex. Carefully tracing sigils within sigils, lighting candles and incense, making sure that the protection and binding spells were perfect (It would be disastrous if they failed) before using a kitchen knife to cut a slit into your fingertip.

A single drop of blood welled up from your finger, then lifted off it, drifting to the centre of the ritual. A smell of iron joined the sweet incense and paraffin in the air. The candles flickered for a moment, and he appeared.

He was tall, brass-skinned, and well dressed. He wore a pair of tight black leather trousers and a black silk waistcoat, covered in brocade embroidered in fine gold thread. His feet, each toe tipped with a knifelike black claw, were bare and in a pointe stance about an inch above the floor. The burnished metallic skin of his arms and face reflected the soft candlelight, sending fluid reflections across your walls as he took in his surroundings. Atop his head were a pair of black horns, twisting out, then in, then straight up. His hair was the same metal as his face, a coif of impossibly thin brass wire. His eyes were the only part of him that wasn't polished metal or charred bone, black scleras surrounded glowing red irises and horizontally slitted pupils.

"A professional job, well done young summoner" His features twisted to a smile, revealing silver teeth and a forked silver tongue "I can see you know your craft"

The book had warned you about this, that he would try to beguile you, twist you into agreeing to something you didn't want. You wordlessly proferred a scroll to him. A contract. It was carefully worded: no verbal contracts would be binding for the rest of his time with you, he would give you an evening of carnal delight, and in return he would get a sliver of your soul equivalent to an hour at the end of your lifespan.

The demon read the document, and laughed "I'm not used to you people being so well prepared. Very well. An hour of your life, taken from the very end, in return for my services for the evening. This ought to be fun." He bowed deeply "I am Kamilik, lesser demon in service to Simizel and denizen of the Ashen Pit"

You told him your name, being careful to phrase it as how he could address you, which only made him chuckle further.

Once you had both signed the document, you led him to your bedroom. Your hands shook as you started to undress for the creature you had invited in to your home. He touched your waist, and stroked your hair. He must've been able to smell the wine on your breath as he pulled you towards him, easing off your top and expertly unfastening your bra, casting the garments into the corner of the room. He sat on the bed and pulled you on top of him, one clawed hand on your back, the other cupping your face before he drew you into a kiss.

His breath smelled of metal, and his skin was hot, but his lips were soft as you melted into his arms. Sat on his lap, eyes closed and running your hands through each others hair, feeling one another's bodies. You unfastened his waistcoat and he pulled it off, keeping one hand on you, then the other, never breaking the kiss.

It was like making out with a radiator, if the radiator was soft and receptive to the touch. You pushed your tongue into his mouth and he gently sucked on it, the heat even more intense, but never painful. Then his tongue entered your mouth, the forked muscle flitting in, tasting like how a 9-volt feels. You gasped with surprise at the sensation, but relaxed into it as his needle-sharp claws drew intricate patterns on your back. You pressed yourself against him, feeling your tits flatten on his burnished chest and enjoying the warm wetness spreading between your legs.

You pulled away, and knelt off the side of the bed. You yanked his waistband down, before he cut a slit down his trousers and they burned away, leaving him nude on the bed in front of you. His cock was fleshy and vascular, red veins criss-crossed pale flesh, coming to a gentle point at the end. You admired it for a moment, before taking it in one hand and jerking it. You heard him sigh as your hand pumped his shaft, even more so when you started to lick and suck on his balls. You felt a drop of precum start to leak from him, getting on your hand. You pressed a fingertip against his brass asshole, intending to gently work it in, but his eager butt swallowed it up to your knuckle with no resistance. You curled it up and touched his prostate.

You heard him groan and felt his cock pulse in your hand. He was cumming already. You felt drops of hot liquid on your face and pulled away, watching him pump a fountain of golden cum into the air. Eventually the pulsing stopped, your hand was coated in the hot, sticky gold liquid. He wasn't going soft

"I'm a demon. We're done when you say we are"

You smiled, this is going to be fun. You reached into your bedside drawer and produced a toy, long and curved, designed to seek out a man's prostate and press against it mercilessly. You pushed it up the demon. As soon as it found its mark, he started spurting again. This time you were ready.

You pushed the cock into your mouth, gripping his pulsating balls in one hand and rattling the toy inside him with the other. He filled your mouth almost immediately, and you gulped him down.

Your cunt was starting to tingle in anticipation, but you wanted to indulge yourself a little more like this. You bobbed your head, taking in the warming cum and the demon's moans and gasps as pleasure turned to pain and back to pleasure. Every few dips you'd push his tip into your throat, causing him to spurt harder and cry out louder.

You eased up on the toy, the flow slowed but didn't stop as you pulled his cock, twitching and leaking, out of your mouth. The demon was already lying flat on his back, hands either side of him, clenching his fists against the shaking. You straddled his cock and started rocking back and forth on it, adding his cum to the lubrication on your pussy before pushing him in.

He felt bigger on the inside, the pulsing mass of flesh pumping cum into you already. You started to ride him. Every rock of your hips spilled cum out of you. You leant forwards to work his frenulum inside you. His face screwed up as he grabbed you. The sharp nails on his hands marking your skin, but not cutting. You couldn't reach the toy pressed against his orgasm button, but that wasn't stopping him now. Every thrust into you, every roll of your hips, every touch of your hands on his skin made him spurt more and more into you until it was flowing out of you and onto the bedsheets. You pushed a hand between your distended belly and his twitching one, pressing against your clit for only a moment before you gasped and realised your oen climax.

You bucked harder against him, your abs pushing and pussy clenching. He came even harder, cum squirting out of you. He released you and you leant back. His cock was against your g-spot now and still spraying that hot cum into you. You grabbed the toy and fucked his ass with it. He screamed as you punished his rear, riding his cock into you and you orgasmic clenching redoubled as you came again. Your belly bounced on him almost comically, full of the golden semen he seemed to have an endless supply of.

You pulled out the toy and slumped forwards onto him, spent.

He kissed your lips again, and you kissed him back.

You grinned "Give me ten minutes, then round 2?"

He chucked "Whatever you want"

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Post script: Once again, my ask box runneth dry! Please, oh reader, toss an idea to your Kabr0z and something will likely come of it!

[moggycatdocs]

002. SQUIRE

no drawings, hypothetically mobile friendly file > make a copy, do NOT ask for access do not remove credits

here's a new doc, heavily inspired by esquire magazine! there's space for basic information, personality, appearance, backstory + a writing sample & a place for abilities/to talk about symbolism, a moodboard, space for headcanons and a place for connections! please feel free to DM me if there's any issues with the doc, or if you have any questions

thank you all so much for the attention on my first doc!!!! its been really nice to see! i'll be back with even more docs for sure!

[secretsnowclub]

This is the Berserk TTRPG You Need!

The purpose of a tabletop roleplaying game book is to make you want to play it. That’s rule number one. All else can go out the window for all I care. Forget layout, forget gimmicks, forget ad-copy, forget poetry. I don’t care how you accomplish it. The book should ache to be played. If its claws aren’t pulling me from the pdf to a discord group chat and forcing me at gunpoint to type “hey, is anyone free for a game soon?” then I’m afraid it’s not doing its job.

I had to sell all the pretty things on my shelves several years ago to avoid losing my home, and at the moment I sold a beautifully destroyed copy of Berserk Issue 1, I stopped giving a damn about having something cute to put on my shelf. I desire that which demands play.

It’s rare in the realm of one hundred plus page books to find something that does that. Too often you’re inundated with blocks of text describing to you the thing you’re reading. Entire pages detailing the promise of the book instead of, you know, the actual contents of the book. Waxing and waning about hypotheticals. “This book does blank. This game creates blank.” But rarely does the book do either of those things, it just promises you that it will.

Whip pan to Rookie Jet Studio’s “Red Giant.”

Expletive, expletive, expletive. This book makes me feel alive.

It’s fitting as I’m rereading Berserk right now (slowly buying the beautiful, black-leather omnibus editions as a way of healing, I think). Reading Red Giant made me think back to that beat up copy of Berserk, and to the used bookstore I sold it to, and the power of that made me want to buy a physical copy of Red Giant on the spot. If only it wasn’t print-on-demand. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but I believe the book deserves better.

The layout done by Emanuele Galletto features many deep blacks and cursed reds. It’s clean and elegant, framed perfectly by Juwan Yi’s brutal illustrations. There’s not a chance that Drive Thru could do the colors justice. This is a book that demands. And for printing it demands a professional printer. It demands its own black leather. It demands an embossed red moon on the cover. It demands Corey Burns name in foil on the spine for the excellent world building and mechanic’s-driven writing. Even if he decided to put snobbish philosophy quotes throughout.

Even in that regard, the ones Burns chose to feature within the one hundred and twenty pages add to the bleak sobriety of the world. You’re diving head first into Castlevania territory. You get quotes from Baldwin, Nietzsche, and Sartre. It gave me hints of Kingdom Death and the blood-filled streets of Yarnham. This is a world where deep-voiced narrators talk about hopelessness and nihilism. It’s an edgy, gothic nightmare. The kind of anime you’d love if you were fourteen again.

The system is where the game hooked me though. It’s where this worldbuilding shines through—not in lengthy blocks of lore text, but in the character creation itself. It’s a simple, four-stat system. The kind you’d be familiar with if you’ve played any other game (video, board, or ttrpg). Along with Health, Spirit (mana), and Sanity (which functions more like Insight from Bloodborne than it does, say, sanity in Call of Cthulhu).

The archetypes are where this takes shape. Stats are assigned to you based on your archetype, and each one comes with its own special skills, much like any dungeon crawler. But it’s the packaging of these things together and the limiting of skills that makes these feel truly special. Harkening to the role-infused Troika! backgrounds, Red Giant prescribes you a piece of the world with each archetype. Simple yet evocative names that range from the kick-ass-driven Slayer to the strange-and-mystical Aegis. You might get the ability to sing a song that controls the weather, or early access to the keyword-based magic system.

Regardless of which you choose, it feels like you’re reaching into a grab bag of Red Giant’s influences and pulling out the silhouette of a legendary character. It ditches the vagueness present in a lot of modern, anime-inspired games and trades it in for specificity. And in that specificity, the world blooms.

Afterward comes my favorite section of the text: the Exchanges. These are bite-sized special traits, like feats or class abilities, that you can choose from. Each one framed as something you can just do. Without rolling! Or any other outside influence on your success! However, each one has its titular exchange. Trading abilities for health, sanity, or spirit. Some limit your exposure to daylight. One turns you into Guts Berserk himself in the fatal heat of combat.

I’m jealous of the Exchanges. I wish I wrote them. It’s a Good Idea. It is the answer to the premise the game promises you. Crafting a strange, devilish world through mechanics. Even if the first few pages tell me what an RPG is and how to roleplay and what Red Giant is, the character creation alone backs it up. It walks the walk where the intro talks the talk.

I can’t continue to only praise the game though. There are several Exchanges where their mechanical ties are weaker or missing entirely. These are easy fixes but still fixes that hold a good idea back from being perfectly executed. The character advancement feels tacked on, and the text even suggests tossing it out the window, which, if that’s the case, then it should have been tossed out the window and not left in the book.

There are several moments where the text struggles with strong language and opts for weak sentences that mosey around ideas instead of making definitive statements. The advantage and disadvantage mechanics feel like a vestigial limb, added simply because the same thing worked in other games. And over all, the rest of the mechanics outside the character creation feel like cobbled together bits from other OSR-adjacent games the writer liked. Which, if that’s the worst thing I can say? Then you’re doing a helluva job. We are a tapestry of our influences.

I need to take a moment to give a nod to the game’s use of Sanity too. It suggests you “roleplay the effects” of your depleting Sanity, but it doesn’t specify negative consequences. And in that there’s a cartoonish respect. In other games that try to use Sanity as a measure for horror, you’re often confronted with ableist language and outright disgusting mockery. But Red Giant uses it as another health pool that depletes dramatically as you face Horrors and replenishes slowly afterward. Despite any negative connotations in labeling it “Sanity”, I’m willing to forgive it for the sake of atmosphere when it doesn’t turn its nose down at me.

If you’re picking this game up, you’d be able to run it tonight. It comes with two adventures (called Scenarios) that are at least serviceable, though I would love to see a more fleshed out version of a Red Giant adventure. A Castlevania-esque dungeon crawl, perhaps. And the book boasts plenty of wonderfully horrific monsters for you to pluck out and throw at your weird, little adventurers.

Overall, Red Giant is a good example of what one writer and a very small team can do. Rookie Jet Studio funded this as their second project on kickstarter, raising thirty-thousand dollars. To its benefit, it seems like the book deserved it, and maybe even more.

You can find Red Giant here.

To support writing like this, there’s my patreon or my substack (where you’re reading this). I’m on bluesky as well, for less-words and more-posts.

[mr-blue-eye]

quick question

hypothetically

if i met a copy of myself

and the copy has Abilities i don't have

should i be concerned

[thrown-away-opinions]

Stop Being Retarded

All the drama blowing up around Stop Killing Games is making me hate the whole fucking movement, because it seems like every talking head in charge of defending the movement is deadset on mugging for the camera, overreacting, and neglecting to actually clearly explain what it is they want, because they're too busy putting on a big, poorly acted song and dance about how outraged they are at some other youtuber.

To be clear, I do support the general ideas behind SKG. Delisting and forcibly shutting down games, or otherwise making it impossible to keep playing something people have already bought is objectively an awful thing to do. Game preservation is a good thing. Giving consumers the means to revive and maintain online games after they've been shut down (like with many MMO private servers) is great. These are all good things. I support these ideas. I think companies that try to put in "you own nothing" clauses into their EULAs and TOSs, like Nintendo just did with everything to do with the Switch 2, including the ability to perma-brick your console if they feel you've broken the contract in some way, is abhorrent.

However, I'm not convinced that "make the EU write new laws so they can punish people for us" is the silver bullet solution. I don't think they can actually do that for a lot of reasons, largely because this whole issue of games being "destroyed" (which is not the best word to use) is very multifaceted. The ways and reasons that many of these games are shut down isn't something that can be fixed by just having a law that says "you can't do that" or similarly, by demanding that all the code is turned over, or just putting the game in a playable, but offline mode.

Again, I support many of these things in concept, and think they would be amazing. Being able to make these dead games effectively public domain in any way they possibly can be, turning on private server access, handing over server hosting utilities, whatever. That would be great... But it's not that simple, is it?

Which brings me to Thor/PirateSoftware, who has become the primary target and scapegoat for why the SKG movement has lost steam. I don't really care for the guy and I will agree that he's gotten a lot of things wrong about SKG and their stated goals. He has a habit of confidently talking out his ass without really thinking about what he's saying. I don't think he even really made this point as well as he should have, but there's a valid argument against SKG that if any interpretation or potential execution of this "make it illegal to destroy games" proposition is crossing any other legal lines, then the entire thing will likely fall through.

PirateSoftware said a whole lot of dumb shit over the last few months, but I think he did initially say that he had doubts that the SKG idea could be as easily executed as Ross/AccursedFarms believed it would be in all cases. That there are aspects and complexities to this that favor the publishers/studios more than the consumer, and in those cases, the EU may not have enough authority to enforce a generalized "no destroying games" laws.

For instance, the idea that a game being shut down should just be "turned over" to the players is not as simple as just tossing out a download link to all their files because some people purchased the game at some point. The code, the assets, the serverside utilities, and everything else are the company's property. Buying a copy of a game doesn't entitle consumers to that property, nor does it give them the right to demand that these games be made open source, public domain, shareware. Again, would be fucking nice. Copyright law is a fucking nightmare and I hate it. But what I'm getting at is that those niggling little details, the copyright, the proprietary code, the sensitive internal documents and so on, could outweigh the hypothetical consumer protections that SKG is fighting for, or they could be a strong enough argument against SKG's goals to block any further policymaking.

For a lot of games, the always online, publisher-controlled servers would likely not be that hard to switch over to private server access or peer-to-peer servers. There'd probably be some malicious compliance involved, where people would have to create their own means of replacing matchmaking server, or whatever, I'm sure, but it is doable. There's also the possibility that "not destroying" a game just takes the form of the game staying available, but with no functionality so all you can do is practice matches with bots, or if that's not a feature, the ability to access the menus and look at your inventory, or whatever.

There's another big issue, though. What if a game has crossovers and collabs, licensed music, celebrity likenesses, and shit like that? Once again, copyright law saying "it is against the law for us to continue to distribute or have any hand in spreading this licensed content after our contract expired." and that can twist the arm just a little more so SKG cannot get its way. Copyright laws are not on the side of consumer protections or consumer rights. Should that change? Absolutely. Will a balding youtuber seething about some twitch streamer change any of that? Probably not.

Youtubing drama aside, I think the SKG website just fucking sucks. It doesn't say enough and it doesn't have enough answers. Their FAQ addresses some ridiculous questions, but it doesn't provide a clear blueprint of what this looks like for a wide variety of the different cases of a game being shut down and made unplayable. It's just a lot of hyperbolic "won't this ban [game type]?" "No!" or "Won't this cost a bajillion dollars?" "No!"

I don't think it comes from total ignorance of how games are developed, but it's not exactly as clear and obviously actionable as Ross and others youtubers are insisting it is. It really should be and it should not require that you slog though a few dozen hours of youtube videos instead of just seeing the whole fucking thing just clearly laid out on the website. What does this look like for a live service game? What can devs do right now to avoid these problems? What overlooked practices are leading to these issues that major publishers can take steps to prevent?

Lay this shit out. Contact game devs and get their insight on the matter. Don't just whine that there weren't enough signatures because some other jackass ran his mouth. Showing up now and telling everyone it's over, and then spending the rest of your time complaining and then having other e-celebs jump in to complain on your behalf about all the dumb things some dipshit said has just turned this into petty e-drama, which will undermine things further and still doesn't actually get anything done.

[malk1ns]

Tbh I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear exactly what the Pens were promising Geno. Maybe even bringing Mario in to assure, reassure, and re-reassure Geno's people that Sidney is 100% an untouched virgin.

Anything to get Geno's breeding rights of course

of course!!!

Zhenya sighs as he drags his cursor over the screen, copying the email text and pasting it into the translation software he sprung for a few years ago.

He can speak English just fine. Has to, after all the people he's dealt with. Reading and writing, though, is an entirely different beast, and one he's not all that interested in dedicating much time to.

He just wishes the Penguins would bother to translate their little notes before sending them along.

Technically, they're not supposed to be sending him communications on the side at all. Zhenya's agent was very clear about that up front, when the Penguins front office first reached out—if Zhenya were to consider uprooting his entire life all for one omega, even one as exceptional as Sidney Crosby, everything was to be negotiated above-board and by the book. That means running everything through layers and layers of legal channels before anything gets decided.

Zhenya doesn't have much patience for that. He has hockey to play and other appointments to keep, and this whole hypothetical could drag out for years.

It appears that Mario Lemieux feels the same. He'd started emailing Zhenya on the side as soon as Zhenya's agent indicated he was interested in exploring the opportunity, straight from his personal email account. Sometimes he'll loop in other high-ups within the Penguins organization, but frequently it's just him, sharing footage of Crosby and tantalizing little details that are obviously couched to pique Zhenya's interest.

It bothers him that it works. Crosby is beautiful, of course, with big eyes and a plush red mouth and the ability to put together places on the ice that seems almost otherworldly, but Zhenya likes to think of himself as a professional, not one to have his head turned by an omega more than a decade his junior.

Mario, as an alpha himself, would know exactly how to push Zhenya's buttons. Zhenya would resent the consistent reminders that in the end we're all no more than our instincts, but he has to admire the persistence.

Today's letter, it appears, is about Crosby's experience. Zhenya had responded to Mario's last email with a crude sex joke, one that was frankly below him, but he'd been on his way to an appointment with a particularly well-paying omega, so he'd been bricked up and horny for days in preparation.

Sidney is no virgin, he'll be the first to tell you that, Mario's response starts. He's perhaps less proper than some of the European omegas you're accustomed to; you must understand that he's been through a lot in his career, ever since he was a little boy, and he's used to standing up for himself. He's enjoyed a robust social life since he's been in Pittsburgh— Zhenya snorts —and he's not ashamed of it. Nor should he be. If that's a deal-breaker, you should let your agent know now, because we have no intention of hiding that from you.

Zhenya raises an eyebrow. It might just be the translation software, but this is a slightly more defensive tone than he'd expect Mario Lemieux to take over a team asset. Then again, there was a rumor that Crosby spent time living with Mario's family when he first entered the league—perhaps there's some fondness there beyond what a team owner feels for a high-performing player.

One thing I can promise, though, is that Sidney has never been with an alpha. This has been something that was worked into his contract since his days in junior, and he's always been diligent. He avoids being around alphas when he's cycling, including me—and he's a son to me, there's no risk there. He takes that element of his chastity very seriously. I can assure you that when it comes to alphas, Sidney is entirely unspoiled. He would be yours first, and potentially for longer if things work out.

Both of Zhenya's eyebrows go up at that. It's true that omegas in Russia are generally expected to behave in the traditional fashion—demure, modest, chaste. Zhenya grew up believing that too. But he's a grown man now, he's traveled the continent and been to all sorts of cosmopolitan places and met all sorts of sophisticated people; it didn't take long for him to realize that an omega's worth doesn't necessarily lie in how virginal they've kept themselves.

Sidney Crosby is special, though. Zhenya's watched enough of his footage to know that. Any get of theirs would be extraordinary. And the idea of being the first to have Crosby that way, the first to awaken his instincts like only an alpha can in an omega...it's more tempting than it should be, considering how long Zhenya's been doing this.

He doesn't bother reading the rest of Mario's email. Instead, he sends a note to his agent requesting an update on the negotiations with Pittsburgh, as well as a copy of his current contract with Metallurg. He wants to take a look at the termination clause, so he's ready when the time comes.

He wants to go to Pittsburgh.

[clairewritesfanfics]

greetings writerclaire , sorry if this comes across as a request , I just wanted to leave this idea to you since I had just read ur water bending reader and wanted to ask what do you think of a focalor like reader for the invincible variants where she sacrificed herself inorder to save earth because of a prophecy similar to the one with fontaine and she left her counterpart furina behind .

Like do you think they would hate furina (why would they I mean she's amazing) because she is the only thing reader left behind . Or they would discover her plan and try to stop her. What would they think about her ideals and dream (to be a human ) .

Like I just been thinking about it for a while now and have no one to share this with .

Listen closely, anon, Furina is my queen. No joke, no exaggeration; playing through her story gave me hope to live during a very dark time in my life and her character gives me light during my darkest moments even to this day. She's my pfp on AO3 and she's the only character I have that is C6.

So congrats, you've released my inner simp. Be prepared for a speech.

I'm currently preoccupied with other requests and my own personal projects, however, I love Furina so I may make a more dedicated fanfic post about a Furina!Reader in the future.

For now, I'll give you my initial impressions, opinions and headcanons on the matter.

Firstly, I need you to understand that by default, my version of Mark and his variants are green flags towards the Reader. They can be assholes and monsters to everyone else; their mom, their dad, their hypothetical half-brother that apparently only exists in one reality despite the fact that that isn't how infinity works (*eyeroll* sidenote: I still think Angstrom's a fucking idiot with limited inter-dimensional teleporting ability because there is no way there are so few good Marks and only a single copy of his brother across INFINITE timelines), Cecil, Eve (that homewrecker /j), etc. but they adore the ground that Y/N walks on and if anything, the Marks are the Reader's pets in my fanon, always yearning for her/his/their approval and affection.

This default character setting for the Marks means that they cannot hate Furina in my works, because Furina (Reader) is a part of the person they love. For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to refer to Original Reader as Focalors, Reader as Furina, and use she/her.

They will all be heartbroken but some are going to handle the pain better than the others. Main Mark, Head Cap, Mohawk, Maskless and Prisoner will remember Focalors but they will hide their tears from Furina.

The others are convinced that Furina and Focalors are one and the same. I'm not saying they're wrong, there's an argument to be made there depending on how you view the Holy Trinity but we aren't discussing that now, but the way they interact with Furina causes confusion for her because they still think she has her past self's memories. This group will include No Goggles, Full Mask (?? I'm still unsure whether I should put him here or on the well-adjusted group), Shiesty, Flaxan, and Viltrumite.

The last group will be holding onto some resentment, and while they try their best to push it down because they do love Furina, their true feelings can overflow (pun intended): Omni-Mark, Target, and Sinister. That doesn't mean that they don't want Furina around, after all, they would rather have traces of their beloved instead of nothing at all.

If you've made it this far, thank you for reading.

I love Furina and Angstrom is an idiot with weak-ass powers.

[starflungwaddledee]

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Just in case if I didn't put in the right ones, it's "if your character had a copy ability in KAFTL what would it look like" "If your OC was in the anime, how would they work" and "has your oc been possessed before?"

Thank you and keep up the amazing work!

hey there hyperz0ne!! these are really fun ones, thank you! i went a little overboard for the copy ability upgrade one, so i'll answer the anime one in another post; but it's coming up soon! from this ask meme!

11. 🐾: If there was a Forgotten Land copy ability upgrade themed after your OC, which ability would it be for? What would the hat for it look like and how would it upgrade the base ability?

this is SUCH a cool question!! i LOVE hypothetical game mechanics, especially forgotten land copy ability upgrades and designs. took my time to think through this one good and proper! i've previously hinted that if starstruck gave an ability it would probably be crash, so continuing off that i think she would give a third evolution to the crash ability, following on from Time Crash, called Supernovic Crash. it would be unlocked at the end of the game, when starstruck shows up in waddle dee town to hang out with her friends.

i've also previously described a moveset she might have as a dream friend, and i think this one would have some similar caveats. > in each new stage in order to power-up the ability kirby must find four collectables. prior to this he can inhale and use star-bullets as usual, but cannot discard the ability except by going back to town, or dying. > once he's collected the items, the Supernovic Crash ability gains its silly little hat. after that it has unlimited uses of its first attack, "star shower", which summons a rain of starspears across the entire screen which will 1hKO most enemies.

> after powering up the ability, kirby can get rid of it by activating its second attack, "north star guide". opening a portal, kirby pulls through a massive star-shaped meteor, which he can run behind. so long as he keeps up, it'll clear the path for him until the end of the area. once the star explodes, the ability vanishes like normal crash

> lastly, if kirby reaches 0hp while the upgrade is active, a third secret ability called "dark gravity" activates. the dark sphere on top of his crown explodes outward, filling the screen with black. when it clears, all on screen enemies are gone, and kirby is left alive with 1hp and no copy ability

22. 👻: Has your OC ever been possessed or mind controlled? If yes, how did it happen?

i know this was an extremely popular theory early on, but she has never been possessed. and i'm not even sure she ever could be.

[fanonical]

Did you ever get my ask? I asked about what to do when a child loves something by a problematic author. How do you go about telling them if they’re too young? SHOULD you tell them? I’m talking about current 10 year old HP fans and children who like the Coraline movie. What do we do when it’s them and not adults? We forget about the target audience too much when we talk about things like this as if it were exclusively childhood nostalgia of Millenials/Gen Z

For fuck's sake, I didn't want to rise to the bait here, but this is making me mad because it's such a straw argument, so fuck it, I'm taking the bait. For context, this is anon's first ask:

Anon, first off, you are responding to a post that is five years old and about a subject that we pointedly do not post about anymore, and that alone makes me think you're not responding in good faith, but whatever.

Look, I work in a fucking library. We have HP books. If a child comes up to me and asks 'hey where's the HP books' I am not going to a) kick them in the face, b) tell them they're an idiot or c) refuse to answer. I am going to tell them where the fucking HP books are. I don't put them on displays I make, but I don't censor them, because we are legally not allowed to censor books in the library.

But I guess you're asking more if this is a kid who's in my life, as opposed to a kid who I just kinda come across. So, okay, I have a 9 year old neighbour whose family are friends with mine, we play video games together occasionally when her mum and dad need someone to watch her. And this kid reads books! And this kid reads fantasy books.

If I was seriously talking to her about the HP books, I might tell her about JKR! I would say something like 'I used to like the HP books, but then I learned that the author said some really nasty things about trans people like me. Now I don't like them so much any more.' And we could have a conversation about that, you know! I've talked to this kid about transphobia in terms that are appropriate for her age. We've had discussions about gender before. I think she'd listen to me, and form her own fucking opinion about it! 'I don't like the author of the HP books because she has said some nasty things' is a concept you can communicate to a five year old.

But also like. You're kind of acting like by taking away HP from this (hypothetical in your ask) kid they don't have any other books. Which...isn't true? If all copies of the HP books disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow, kids would be reading other stuff, as they are currently reading other stuff! My 9 year old neighbour is a huge Jacqueline Wilson fan, she loves the Daisy Meadows rainbow fairy books. I want to introduce her to the Morrigan Crow books. We could get retro and start introducing kids to the Edge Chronicles, I fucking loved those books. Artemis Fowl. A Series of Unfortunate Events. There are so many other book series for kids in this world. I work in a fucking library! I can tell you that the kids are into Tom Gates, Dogman, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Percy Jackson, Babysitter Club, Dork Diaries, and (exasperated sigh) David Walliams books, based on a sample size of every kid I encounter at work. I get asked for all of them far more than I do for HP, actually.

I don't think you'd be ruining every kid's lives by taking away One Series from them. (Particularly not one that's losing some relevancy every day - and I mean that in the sense that it's not an ongoing series, the last book came out in 2007. Nearly 20 years ago. For a nine or ten year old, that's almost double their entire life.) And I don't think you necessarily would be taking it away from them to say 'hey this is the reason I don't like these books'. I trust your average ten year old to be able to have a reasonably mature conversation. You're making it sound like they're all Oliver Twist holding out their gruel bowl saying 'please sir I only read one book'.

Anyway. All this to say, I think kids have the ability to have conversations about media. And there are other books in the world. So, no, taking HP or Coraline or whatever away from kids is hardly snatching candy from a baby. Kids are smarter than you think.

[pinkestmenace]

sending a few more in!!! i most like to hear about olympea, but if you want to answer for someone else feel free!!

1. 🎶: What is a song that you associate with your OC, and why do you associate it with them? (i know you have a lot of really cool and thoughtful playlists, you could share more than one song here if you like!!!)

24. 😴: If your OC could pick one of the Star Allies Dream Friends to go on an adventure with them, who would they pick and why?

11. 🐾: If there was a Forgotten Land copy ability upgrade themed after your OC, which ability would it be for? What would the hat for it look like and how would it upgrade the base ability?

Ask game

Alright. *Cracks knuckles* ∥Ξﾛ(-ÒᴗÓ- )ﾛΞ∥ Here we go!

1. 🎶: What is a song that you associate with your OC, and why do you associate it with them?

My Olympea playlist unfortunately isn't as developed as my 4.5 hour Galacta Knight playlist. (Spotify only recommends me metal anymore. I'm not complaining, but it does make finding other genres difficult.) But I do have some songs in mind!

Power Of The Beast (Beast In Black)

This one's kinda funny. I first misheard the lyrics as Power of the Pea. And while not all the lyrics are relevant, I think the somewhat bombastic style mixed with bright sounds and Eurobeat influences is close to how I'd like her armoured battle theme to sound.

Feel Invincible (Skillet)

This one is more for the four heroes together from Galacta Knight's perspective. Even when he feels down and out they're on his side. Especially this part:

You make me feel invincible Earthquake, powerful (Olympea) Just like a tidal wave (Aegle) You make me brave You're my titanium (Castor & Pollux)

Sideshow Duckling (Mili)

Olympea and Galacta Knight. Who is the performer and who's the partner I'll leave ambiguous. Galacta (So swan-coded to begin with!) buckling under the pressure of always having to perform and look perfect, yet never feeling authentic? Olympea secretly feeling like she'll never be good enough even when her friends praise her, until she sheds that self-doubt? It could be both, really! Also: tentative voice claim, at least in pitch. Although she would be quite a bit louder!

24. 😴: If your OC could pick one of the Star Allies Dream Friends to go on an adventure with them, who would they pick and why?

Olympea: She would go with King Dedede. Strong hammer buddies! Wrestling liker! Receiving strange vibes that may or may not be either precognitive or "normal" zoning out and daydreams! High jumps!

Castor & Pollux: Cyborg and mech aficionado that he is, Castor would be very interested in Susie's Business Suit! Whether he and Susie get along is another story. They might enter a feedback loop of trying to passive-agressively outpolite and out-shoot each other. Pollux is definitely not jealous. If it was sentient. (Which it totally isn't.)

Aegle: They would like to meet Magolor and Marx. To talk about magic, sure, and to investigate Marx's vines. I'm sure Magolor would be very interested in what they have to say about Halcandra as well. But they have a mischievous streak, too. The three of them would rile each other up! Woe to anyone in their blast range!

11. 🐾: If there was a Forgotten Land copy ability upgrade themed after your OC, which ability would it be for? What would the hat for it look like and how would it upgrade the base ability?

Sticking to the existing abilities in KatFL, it would be:

Olympea: Hammer! Except it'd be her club and helmet. It would probably be a little unwieldy like Wild Hammer, though.

Castor: This one's hard! There's no Mech ability, and Homing Bomb already exists. He could turn the bombs into missiles, of course. Or maybe Ranger. A bit like Space Ranger, but with a fighter pilot helmet and a flying drone that helps you. Or Cutter, or...

Aegle: Ice! It's a snow cloud with floating icicles that home in on the enemy when you attack. Its shape resembles their mage hat.

[jojo-schmo]

Question bout the roleswap au… since the upgrades still sorta exist for the abilities, just for the Kirby Cup

what happens to the Masked Hammer upgrade?

Fantastic question!!

So this is from an older post, but I think the arena mode would have to work differently in the Roleswap AU. So blueprints collected along the journey are still used to upgrade Kirby’s copy abilities- but since he’s not the main protagonist and is instead protecting Waddle Dee Town in the AU, blueprints would unlock new more difficult tournaments instead! The more abilities he has, the more Dedede and Meta Knight would learn and gain by fighting against those in a friendly challenge!

But yes, I have given some thought as to how the ability upgrades in this AU would work differently!

So in the Roleswap, Masked Hammer wouldn’t exist anymore. Dedede’s hammer would be the ultimate upgrade for the Hammer ability. It would have a few different moves than the canon Hammer or Masked Hammer ability but revealing any details on that is a massive comic spoiler, sorry! When the time comes I’ll explain.

I guess that also means I’d leave out Wild Hammer from the upgrades. But I’m not that mad about it hahaha. Toy Hammer has some unique moves AND that cool flying glitch anyway so I just like it more. Sorry, Wild Hammer fans :’O

So to balance those removals I’d add the Spear ability back in the picture! Then Primal Spear (aka the Prince’s scythe hehe) would be obtained after that in-game boss fight. I revealed this design a long time ago so I don’t consider it a spoiler anymore! I just can’t talk about the circumstances of that in-game or hypothetical battle in the comic’s story….

But by adding Spear’s evolution line to the equation, I think it would only be fair to make its final evolution themed after the wielder of one of the most powerful spears we’ve seen in-universe as of this post…

In conclusion, Dedede Hammer would be the ultimate version of the Roleswap’s Hammer ability. But then to keep things fair I wanted to make Meta Knight Sword the ultimate version of the Roleswap’s Sword Ability……

…..so I did. It just feels symmetrical and right to me.

I can’t talk about what happens to Morpho Sword ability in the AU at all. Part of the reason is so I can keep the trend of the two third-level ability evolutions after similar bosses, but there’s story reasons I can’t reveal. Very sorry. I’ll try to make the wait worth it for that answer.

But at least the Sworn Partners can have equal bragging rights now!!

They are secretly quite honored to be considered such adept users of their weapons, no matter what they choose to show on the outside. <3

There you have it! Roleswap ability swaps! :D

[championofravens]

I do unironically think season 3 of Reacher may be taught in tv and film writing classes in coming years. A total masterclass of story progression, pacing, and tone. I can't get into it simply very well but I can try to explain really quick my favorite aspect of it-

A typical tv show or movie nowadays will give you the plot and points of conflict. Usually, these points of conflict are new things being brought into the story as unforseen aspects or information the main character was not privvy to or had no way to be privvy to.

For example, if a story's plot is about someone sneaking into a building, once they get inside the building the story may bring in new points of conflict- a janitor is working there, or there's an office party. The story may do this as the creator realizes they don't have enough conflict to make breaking into a building interesting or engaging on it's own. The plot's conflict then shifts: now it's about not getting caught as opposed to breaking in. We see this a lot in movies: you see the trailer conflict is about X but you watch the movie and X is really just a vehicle for Y and Z to happen.

This new conflict might be good, by the way. It's not inherently bad for stories to do this. But this new point of conflict brings about new tensions, new vibes, and lots of tv shows don't know how to marry the original conflict and the new one. Maybe the quiet tension of the careful break in is destroyed by the bombastic explosive finale for example. Or maybe you were just really interested in seeing how this dude gets inside that building and now you have to care about something brand new for 7 episodes.

But Reacher season 3 does something much simpler with it's story conflicts and to much greater effect. If the plot of the season is Reacher getting into a building, that is also the only source of conflict. Everything draws from that. The story is deeply interested in itself, its characters, and the core conflict. This is helped immensley by the directing style as the first three episodes, excluding one flashback, follow our characters hour by hour, or minute by minute. And that plays perfectly with how they've decided to focus the main conflict.

Let's compare it like two writers writing the mentioned break in story. The first writer gets going and thinks "Well there's some good tension in a few places but once our protagonist gets the car, gets the key, and turns off the alarm it's over. Too easy." and they reach for other elements to bring in.

Reacher's writers say "What if the car stalls? What if it's tolled parking with a security guard? What if the key copy breaks in the door lock? What if you steal the right key for the second door? What if the alarm code changed last night? What if the building needs to close an hour early? What if the man you bought the car from recognizes it on the news after you break in?"

And sudden things happen- characters suddenly show up when they weren't supposed to, new info is dropped into laps with no pretense, we still get moments of shock. But unlike the first hypothetical example I gave, these all work in tandem with the existing conflict. They are also things usually within our character's ability to deduce or prepare for. One time, Reacher is sneaking late at night and suddenly someone appears to nearly blow his cover. But instead of being a moment devised just for the purpose of adding tension to a sneak scene, you learn that new character has appeared directly as consequence to actions Reacher took earlier. In the moment of the scene that difference may not amount to much but it makes the overall story so slick and streamlined. It becomes more realistic, the way it balances consequences and bad luck. And it gives you so much more freedom to give your characters little moments of good luck when you make bad luck a player too.

I guess what I mean to say most of all is that I really love a contained, grounded story these days. Fully realized. Not a cool premise that changes midway. Not the loose idea of a story you already know. An actual honest to god story with thought in it.

[moggycatdocs]

003. OMENS

no drawings, hypothetically mobile-friendly file > make a copy, do NOT ask for access do not remove credits

CW: HORROR THEMES nothing blatant, but there's some scary eyeballs/mouths in the background and a photo of a mannequin, so be careful if those upset you <3 thank you all, again, for all the likes and reblogs!!!!! i shouldn't be saying this on every post, but its just so nice to see!! here's a new doc, inspired by analogue horror and the VHS aesthetic!! all the images were run through Tooooools.app which is a free & really useful website! the poem is The Ghost by Richard Jones there's space for basic information, personality, appearance, backstory + a writing sample & a place for abilities/whatever you want, a space for headcanons and a place for connections! please feel free to DM me if there's any issues with the doc, or if you have any questions

[artbyblastweave]

RUO: M. Night Shyamalan's trilogy 'Unbreakable, Split, and Glass'

Failing that one...RUO on the 2019 Watchmen show

Independent of the actual quality of the films themselves (I haven't seen them, but my understanding is that they were Not Good) I've spent the last five years totally enamored with the conceit of the Unbreakable universe; namely, that superhuman abilities exist, but are universally subtle enough in their operation that it's a low-overhead endeavor for the powers that be to enact an ongoing coverup. And they've all got a signature color pallete. When I was younger and dumber, I actually participated in an official OC creation contest on DeviantArt that the producers did as a cross-promotional thing with the release of Glass. I never ported any of the designs I did for that to Tumblr, because the art's not great and I'm frankly a little embarrassed I was dumb enough to do free marketing in that way. But in line with the above guidelines I created what remains one of my favorite supervillain pitches to this day- Throng, a self-replicator whose gimmick is that he can only create copies of himself in spots where they hypothetically could have been lying in wait before the rampage started- inside lockers, air vents, in heavy foliage, crawlspaces, the trunks of vehicles, and so on and so forth, so there's always plausible deniability that this could just be a really well organized flash mob. Furthermore, the "duplicates" are actually only dressed like him, wearing whatever he was wearing when he activated the power- unmasking the dead "copies" in the aftermath of a big engagement would just reveal a hundred totally different people wearing the same suit and hockey mask, which bumps the weirdness of the situation down to true-crime-podcast-fodder rather than obviously supernatural. (IIRC, one of the characters that actually won the contest was Double-take, a teenager whose power is that she could always execute any action perfectly the second time she attempted it. You see what I mean about powers that are maddeningly difficult to prove!)