#i do mma and it's like

[peridot-tears]

Love how Steven Piovesan (Shay's VA) is like, "Lol, Shay's in love with Hope Jensen a hundred percent, but she doesn't feel the same, and it's similar to Edward Kenway's simping feelings for Mary Read," because yes, what a fantastic interpretation.

It is very cute to think of Hope being Shay's first serious, knee-softening crush. I know he'd been around by the time the game starts (he and Liam talk about the Galway girls, these boys were def getting pulled), but his feelings for Hope might've been the first to grow out of constant proximity to someone he actually gets to know long-term.

Also, he just likes strong authority figures Haytham.

[stubz]

"Hey Fenrir? What's the protocol on roughhousing?" asks the human looking up at the busy orc. Polishing his newly crafted warhammer.

"Headshots are okay for those older than 10 but no aiming for the eyes. No biting or hairpulling or hits below the belt. Keep the fighting on the field. Stop at first blood or when the other says 'stop' or they give up."

"Got it!"

"If you need anything check the shed!"

.

"Hey Fen, where's Max?"

"He's out training with my siblings and cousins." He looks at the steel, his reflection looking perfectly back at him.

"Training? Like running?"

"No, sparring lessons. He seemed quite excited about it." He leans down to nuzzle the much smaller human.

"Fen."

"Yes love?"

"What exactly did Max tell you he was doing?" the orc looks at her bemused.

"Well, he asked me what the rules were for roughhousing, which I told him, and then he left to go spar with them. Oh and I told him where the sparring weapons are."

"...Fen, roughhousing is play fighting for humans. Not sparring. Just play wrestling. Not actual training with sparring weapons."

"...oh shit."

..

They arrive just in time to watch Max suplexing Fenrir's younger brother to the ground. The teenage orc slams to the ground but is quick to wrestle out of the human's grip.

From opposite sides comes two other teenage orcs. Together they body slam the human while he's still on the ground.

Kim sucks in a breath through her teeth wincing. Fenrir takes a step forward.

The human waves him off though. For he had managed to capture one of the twins upon impact. She was stuck in a headlock and now being used as a meat shield.

From there he managed to stand up with her but was soon overpowered once again.

...

By the end Max was the last one standing although barely. He had just stayed up a second longer than the twins.

Together the human and orcs laid there in the field covered in bruises and dirt. All of them satisfied and rather pleased at a well done sparring session.

"Well it's a good thing they wrestled."

"Are you sure roughhousing doesn't mean the same here as it does on Earth?"

"Eh still no? I mean we do wrestle but don't use weapons."

"Love, Max just used Nyx as a weapon against Echo and Baldur."

"I still don't know you did that." muttered Nyx.

"Yeah but that's normal!" sputtered the red faced Kim.

"He threw my sister at me! Threw her on top of me!"

"We're like the exact same height as him.." Echo was still trying to figure out how a species weaker and smaller than theirs was able to do that.

"In my defense, Kim's family taught me that one."

"Yeah but I never thought you'd actually do it! It's made for short people against tall people, not humans against orc children!"

[museaux]

thinking about bf!toji who makes his partner train so that they are able to protect themselves in case they were to be attacked and he wasn’t around (which wouldn’t happen because even though he hates it when you point it out, he acts as though he’s your bodyguard, joined at the hip; ready to protect you with his life, always).

[supersecretmetalocalypseblog]

How fucked up is it, that everyone in the prophecy knows they're in the prophecy, except for Magnus and The Assassin? Like, Salacia knows, obviously, DK, Charles, The Water God, everyone. By the time everything starts coming together, everyone else is gearing up for like... a fight for the world. The whole world! They're fighting to stop the apocalypse.

And the whole time, Magnus and MMA are like ":3 Yay!!!! I can't wait to get my revenge!!! Yipee!!!! There are no higher stakes then vengeance! NOTHING else is at stake! Just revenge!!!" as the literal end of the world looms on the horizon. And they're both supposed to die. That's their role in the prophecy. They're just some regular, mortal guys, I think? They don't realize that they're VILLIANS in an ANCIENT PROHPECY (I mean, I guess Magnus gets to know about this for a total of like, 5 minutes before he offs himself, but if anything that's worse cause then he dies as the self-loathing, regretful villain)

and idk I always thought that would be so, so scary. Not to over sympathize with The Revengencers or whatever, I just think that'd be just so upsetting. "Hey, btw, according to the prophecy you don't know about, your life has to suck, you're gonna be angry, mad and hateful your whole life, everyone you like is gonna die or leave you, and you get to fucking DIE horribly. Have fun buddy :)" and they have NO idea the stakes. They're just mad at DK, like regular people (regular in quotes, obviously). They're not magical, they don't get to come back from the dead, like they're just some guys. The most supernatural/unusual thing about them is like, MMA is really strong? that's all I can think of.

I think that's super scary and sad.

[tj-crochets]

I would like to both thank and blame tumblr for the phrase "turn slow tigers into fast tigers with this one neat trick!" Like, I am grateful for it as a mnemonic that stuck that reminds me to go punch the punching bag* when I get too stressed out and can't function well from acute stress, but also I can no longer refer to it any other way because when I get that stressed I have trouble with words Which means today I was putting on my wrap gloves and my brother was looking at me like "what are you doing?" and all I could say was "turning slow tigers into fast tigers" *I think the original post was about taking a short run or tensing all your muscles and then releasing them? But my response to stress is very much not flight lol

[ask-lu-wild]

Oh dear. Sky, some cans of worms should not be opened...

[statementlou]

Sigh, some people still insisting that Louis couldn’t possible like mma. “He’s a twink and gays don’t like mma”🙄 these people need to live in the real world.

lmao okay weirdos

[starryluminary]

An unforeseen consequence of being a Noco fan while Sierra exists is that I can draw her really well from memory. What a twisted consequence

[martyrbat]

“did i ever tell you about rose wilson?” | the titans (1999) #33

[ID: four panels focusing on Rose Wilson as she works out. She's sweating as she punches and kicks a suspended punching bag and listens to Argent talk. She's wearing a white sports bra with a red band, the Titan's logo displayed in the center of her chest. The logo is a giant yellow circle that's enclosed with a red outline and has a red outline of the letter T in the center. She's wearing grey sweatpants and has fingerless black gloves on and has her long, white hair down. END ID]

[streetfarterturdstrike]

The more I stare at this picture the more unnatural Ken looks in it, and not just because of the current story

The way he’s crammed between Luke and Li is making me think of 2 possibilities

First he looks like he was added after the other four were already drawn based on the spacing making me wonder if it was the artist decision to include him or they were asked to

Secondly I don’t think he’s actually there eating out with them and Ryu’s imagining him…..

[51lver]

i hesitated to get into this sport bc of the injury risk and gotta be real these crashes are not reassuring me to the safety

[ooops-i-arted]

@innerfanartisanzonk said: Oh snap. Ah, the Black Widow thighs of death.

Cara Dune could actually do it, too. Okay it's calves but still.

Actual footage of that guy who broke Brizsa's heart if Mama Cara ever found him again.

[cheetour]

I finished my Save Everyone playthrough with Evening Tavernsong. Now it's time for something different:

EVIL TAVERNSONG

[depresseddepot]

finally FINALLY finished watching the legend of korra. it only took me LITERALLY ten years

[tariah23]

My sister is moving in today 🥺

[polygonate]

cage fighting is NOT as homoerotic as tumblr led me to believe