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[oliversrarebooks]

Questions for you about vampire laws in your universe!

-I assume thralls can be stolen by simply throwing them over your shoulder and running away. What's the penalty for stealing a thrall? Does it depend on the thrall's quality/type? What about a penalty for simply injuring a thrall, or drinking from them without permission?

-Are there any legal limits on vampire treatment of thralls, or can they do whatever they want including unnecessary torture and killing?

-What are the restrictions on creating new vampires? What other laws apply to them that aren't applicable to humans, like letting people see them drinking?

-For crimes that can involve human police, like stealing, do the vampires let the human justice system handle that? What's the justice system for crimes that human police can't handle? Are there vampire cops, courts, prisons?

I am on a plane and bored, expect more asks with a million questions, please don't feel pressured to answer any of them.

Great questions! I'm playing fast and loose with a lot of the worldbuilding in this story, but hopefully I can provide some insight into what I'm thinking here!

Laws in vampire society are probably more similar to rules in organized crime situations than the human justice situation. There are a small number of vampire arbiters in any populated area who are expected to remain neutral and who can be called on to settle disputes in a matter other than force. Going against the judgement of an arbiter, or attacking the arbiter themselves, is strictly forbidden and likely to result in retaliation from other vampires. That being said, it's also common to handle disputes simply through revenge, violence, shows of power, and forcing other vampires into submission.

So when I refer to things being legal or illegal in vampire society, it's generally the set of rules agreed upon by most vampires and arbiters, not something codified into law the way humans might. There are books written on vampire law, but these only exist to describe common practice.

Stealing, injuring, or drinking from another vampire's thrall without permission is one of the fundamentals of vampire law basically anywhere in the world. Vampires are innately possessive of their thralls, even those who hold humans in contempt, and do not suffer this injustice lightly. In particular, drinking from a thrall without permission is considered the height of disrespect towards the vampire who owns the thrall.

Depending on the arbiter, these crimes could be punishable by monetary fines, allowing the wronged vampire to take or drink from a thrall owned by the offender, or even torture or death. Monetary fines would generally be based on a fair market value for the thrall plus additional fees for the defilement. This is also one of those crimes that a lot of vampires would choose to solve with revenge.

(It's also generally considered bad form to attack a vampire's thralls needlessly, even if you're carrying out revenge against the vampire. Leaving them unharmed and claiming them as your own is more acceptable.)

There are no legal limits about how vampires can treat the thralls they own, including torture and death. Probably the biggest divisive issue in vampire society is how humans should be treated -- there's a lot of nuance among individual views, but the broad camps are "humans should be treated as treasured pets or servants" versus "humans should be treated as mindless livestock."

So there are social consequences to mistreating thralls. Torturing your thralls and acting as a sadistic monster will ostracize a vampire from the majority of vampire society, except for those who approve of this sort of behavior. And even among those who see humans as livestock, killing for no reason is seen as a waste and a failure of self-control.

There are no laws around creation of new vampires. Generally speaking, it's frowned upon to sire many vampires, as more vampires equals more competition for limited resources. Vampires are subservient to their sires, so a vampire who sires more than a handful of new vampires is going to be looked at with suspicion and possibly cut down before they can amass a small army.

While there are no laws per se, it is extremely taboo to sire a human who has not yet reached full adulthood.

For crimes that can involve human police, vampires generally prefer to settle them among themselves using arbiters. In most major cities, there are vampires on the police force, but they're mostly invested in keeping the masquerade going and making sure vampire society remains hidden from hunters. It's considered shameful for a vampire to get arrested and put on trial by humans.

[aihoshiino]

half formed and maybe incoherent thought honestly but akane puts it well: ayumi is simply a failed mother who was left alone due to her own terrible treatment of her daughter. she can blame no one but herself (and her ew fiance) but she _still_ ping pongs between victimizing herself and then blaming herself for ai's horrible treatment, as if trying to get rid of the weight of her own actions, while also putting herself at fault, but the blame runs hollow because its just so apparent she never thought of ai as her child as she continously shifts any culpability to ai

side note, about adultification of ai, she was twenty (close to it) when she died but she had been treated like she was twenty her whole life and thats. fuck.

have a good day!

"HAVE A GOOD DAY" SHE SAYS AFTER HITTING ME WITH AN EMOTIONAL GRENADE LIKE THIS </3

tbh I have mixed feelings on Akane's line there. on the one hand, I think @gallantblade's read of it is really good - Akane responding to Ayumi's renouncement of agency in her own abuse of Ai by putting that agency back in Ai's hand, empowering her and disempowering Ayumi. That's an interesting read but I also... don't know that it's Akane's call to make?

(Belatedly realized after typing all the below that this looks like I'm ragging on their take or analysis here which is absolutely not the case!! They drop baller Oshi no Ko takes and I love reading their thoughts, the below is my perspective on that line and its place in the scene in general and not gallantblade's reading of it)

Like, at the end of the day, Ayumi abandoned her daughter. That's unavoidable fact. That abandonment was deeply traumatic for Ai and I don't love the idea of Ai not going out of her way to contact a person who was violently physically abusive towards her and almost certainly emotionally abusive and neglectful in myriad other ways as Ai 'abandoning' her mother. Ai already clearly held a lot of guilt and self directed blame for the fallout of that relationship so I don't think making her at all culpable in their separation is the way to go. An abused child who was abandoned by their parent is not the one with the responsibility to reach back out to mend those fences, especially given that Ai believed – with very good reason!!! – that her mom hated her and did not want Ai in her life.

My most charitable reading of the line & the one I'm choosing to go with to not make my head explode is that Akane is talking about what Ayumi's perspective of the situation is – that Ayumi views herself as a mother who mistreated her daughter and ended up abandoned because of it. That certainly lines up with her, as you put it, ping ponging between self blame and flagellation and then still choosing to put blame on Ai's shoulders regardless.

Anyway, here's a fun note to end on: Do you ever think about how Ai was literally never allowed to be an actual adult in the public eye, in a very literal sense? The infantilization of idols is a process of preserving the illusion of them as eternally pure, eternally childlike, eternally juvenile, virginial and unthreatening and Ai was this as a minor to an absolute T.

The instant she became an adult – on her 20th birthday, just before her first public appearance as a legal adult – she was immediately killed and frozen in time as an eternal child who will never poison her virginial femininity by growing into an adult woman.

FROM COMEDY MANGA WRITER, AKA AKASAKA, EVERYBODY!!!

[aezuliamah]

Hi all ! I'm Aezu (any pronouns), and i've been practicing tarot and a few other types of card divination for around 3 years.

Now, i want to practice dice readings, as well as "runes" (a custom set of casting items largely inspired by a manga).

I have 3 different sets of dice :

Publishing Goblin's Oracle dice (2nd edition),

Les Dés D'Isis, by Joyce Duval and Béatrice Pubellier (i've developped my own set of meanings for this one, it consists of 3 astrological dice with Houses, Signs and Planets, as well as 4 colored and 22 sided dice that represent the tarot Major Arcana influenced by a different element each),

Oracle Dés de Sorcière, Secret d'étoiles ( 5 6-sided dice with well-known symbols, mostly of Wicca influence)

My custom runes are inspired by the manga Alice 19th by Yuu Watase, and the rune-like system of magic it uses.

There are 48 pieces in the set, 24 Lotis ("upright" meanings) and 24 Maaram ("reversed" meanings). The manga shows all 24 Lotis, but not all Maaram, so i've completed the set myself.

I also have a set of Elder Futhark runes, but i only use it as additional stones in readings of other sets.

Feel Free to ask questions if i've been unclear or if i forgot anything ! Or if you want to know more about my methods.

I'm OPEN to doing short free readings : simply ask a question, give me a way to remember who you are if anon (emoji combination / initials / pronouns...), and choose the method you would like me to use. I will cast up to 3 dice or runes.

A few rules for readings :

No yes / no questions (the methods i use can't answer those, i will rephrase into a question that allows nuance and details if you send me one)

No medical / legal advice (or anything that would require years of study and a diploma. you know, expert advice. this includes mental health.) General advice is ok.

No "mind-reading" or "spying" on someone, and No readings on someone else's behalf ex: "how are x's exams going to go?" (if you want to know what someone is thinking or doing, ask them directly)

No relationship advice / No NSFW or 18+ / No future spouse / No twin flame /No celebrities and the like (as an AroAce person i'm poorly equipped to do those and they make me uncomfortable) General love advice is ok.

Please refrain from asking many questions in a row, i'll do 1 question per ask. Let other people have their turn.

Please be patient, i may not be able to get to all questions in a timely manner. If you think your question got eaten or forgotten, wait a week or so before reminding me or sending another.

Please be Respectful, make sure you're following the rules, basic politeness is appreciated, and don't trauma-dump in my inbox.

I reserve the right to refuse to do a reading for any reason, even not listed here. (if i'm not comfortable or just don't want to answer a particular question, or if you're being rude, i might refuse. If this happens, i'll most likely let you send another ask.)

I also speak French if anyone would prefer that... / Je parle aussi Français si quelqu'un préfère...

Shoutout to @/aesethewitch and their Free Tarot Fridays for motivating me to start offering readings ! Go check them out !

Coming soon : Tarot / Lenormand / Cartomancy / Oracle card readings.

[redditreceipts]

I read your pinned post and was wondering, when you say you support dysphoric transitioned people as long as they don't use opposite sex spaces, what are your feelings on trans people who are "stealth"? Either for safety reasons or convenience or what have you. I'm new to radfem tumblr and am still forming opinions myself.

hey :) so this is an interesting question.

I think first of all, there should be some kind of legislation that takes away civil rights from sex offenders. Sex offenders, for example, should be prohibited from going into so-called "vulnerable spaces" like changing rooms and bathrooms (for any sex), places with a lot of children etc. This should also be supervised closely, of course. That would prevent males who are sex offenders from going into women's spaces at all. (Sex offenders also shouldn't be allowed to transition imo)

Secondly, I think that there are two types of sex-segregated spaces. One I would call the kind of space where you can choose to go or not to go, like for example a convention for lesbians, a gay bar for only gay men, a women's only event etc. There is no good reason in my opinion for a transgender person, stealth or not, to go to any of those events for the sex that they do not belong to. You can freely choose to not go to a lesbian's event as a straight trans-identified male, so I would assume that it isn't for you and you can go to another open event instead of going into another person's space.

But there is also the second type of sex-segregated space; the type of space where you can't just choose to not go. This would be things like public bathrooms, prisons, changing rooms etc. And there, I think that we should work on creating third spaces for people who are transitioning, like single-stall bathrooms or changing rooms, or an extra section in the men's prison for men who are likely to be attacked by other men (like gay men or transitioning males). So what should be done in the meantime? 1. we have to work on the main problem here, which is male violence. There has to be a legal system in place that consequently punishes males who attack transwomen because they don't want them in their restrooms 2. there has to be a more realistic concept of "passing". I see mtfs on reddit all the time talking on how much they love passing, but then I click on their profiles and they don't even remotely pass 😭

So okay, after these points have been adressed, I think that a person should use the space that causes the least amount of upset. I don't think that there is a perfect response because in this society, there is still a lot of bigotry and male violence.

[pulchrasilva]

What's an anti-anti? Or an anti for that matter

Oh my friend I am so sorry to introduce you to the shitpile that is antishipping discourse

Anti is short for "antishipper", which is someone who believes certain types of ships are immoral and nobody should ship them or engage with media about them. Exactly what types of ships that includes varies (because morality will always be vague at best and you can't meaningfully categorise anything into "always good" and "always bad"), but people usually take issue with incest, ships involving one or more minors, age gaps, etc.

I consider myself a proshipper/"anti-anti" purely because I think this kind of discourse is extremely inane and potentially harmful.

Antis tend to say "problematic" ships "normalise" harmful dynamics in real life, ignoring that exploring these ideas in fiction is a safe way of engaging with darker topics and sometimes people do so to process personal trauma. Personally I've found that reading fanfiction about dark topics made me wayy more emotionally prepared to handle discussion of them in real life.

And, as I said, it's nearly impossible to draw a solid line between what should be allowed and what shouldn't be allowed. Age of consent is an arbitrary number that's chosen because legally you need a strict number if you're going to enforce the law, but a person 1 year older and 1 year younger than the age of consent aren't actually that much different. Plus the law varies from country to country, but antis tend to choose the US age of 18 because the US dominates the internet. Age-gaps between two non-minor characters get even more blurry!! And let's not forget that a ship between two men is way more likely to be flagged as pedophilia than a ship between a man and a woman. Imo if you can't make a concrete rule about it there's no point in making a rule at all.

Plus it's fiction, and not even mainstream fiction, so it's hardly gonna cause any significant shift in real life culture. These ships get criticised to hell and back in fan spaces and people get properly harassed over it, but there are plenty of professional writers portraying these things in well known media and don't get much flack for it at all - because it's way easier to tear down a fan, your equal, than a creator. It seems to me that the problem isn't really "normalising" these behaviours, because if that was the case mainstream media would be a much bigger contributor than fandom

For some reason, toxic/abusive ships are less commonly criticised despite being objectively harmful to the characters involved, and incest is the one people hate the most despite it being (imo) the one least likely to cause actual harm to the characters. Also depictions of rape and sexual abuse are usually considered off limits but you rarely get the same criticism of, say, depictions of murder. The sexual aspect of the topic seems more important than the actual harm.

AND THEN there's the fact that antis generally only argue against the ships that make them personally feel uncomfortable. Different people have different boundaries for what they consider too far, and I lose my shit every time I see antis shipping something I know other antis claim is the devil. And often the whole thing gets coopted by someone who doesn't like people shipping characters A and B because they ship B and C. ("You can't ship these unrelated characters because they're sibling-coded which makes the ship basically incest" is something I've seen a truly bonkers amount of times)

So yeah. That's the whole mess. Like I said I dont really care about whether or not antis follow me? I'm proship purely because I don't think this is a conversation that needs to be had at all. Like who cares But, go wild, romanticise the hell out of the most repulsive things!! It's nobody else's business but yours. But if I see a mutual who followed me first reblogging "any proshippers who follow me should explode and die teehee ^-^" ONE MORE TIME I might actually explode

[nicohischier]

get to know me

tagged by: @hischiersjohnston thank you bestie

didn't tag anyone* due to my chronic fear of being annoying but pls snoop all you like

do you make your bed? no, i'm simply way too lazy in the morning to make my bed.

favourite number? 8! i was born on 8/8 so i guess the number just stuck out to me lol

what’s your job? i'm currently in that super fun period of being recently graduated with no prospects, no experience, and no network. also a lot of anxiety. i'm working on it.

if you could go back to school, would you? yeah. i still might go back in a few years to do education or something.

can you parallel park? once upon a time i could, but now i don't drive (classic lack of car woes) so i'm pretty comfortable in saying i can't parallel park anymore.

do you think aliens are real? yes, absolutely. i'm not saying i believe that there's a whole civilized society hanging out a few billion light years away, but the category of aliens extends into every living life form, no matter how insentient or microscopic. the universe is simply too vast for me to even entertain the idea that earth is the only planet or other celestial body capable of sustaining plant life or single cell organism or whatnot.

can you drive a manual car? no! tbh at this point it's been so long since i've drove period, that idk if i'm even allowed to say i can drive an automatic lmao

guilty pleasure? i cannot deny that i have spent money on genshin to get characters/weapons and while i fully acknowledge that i've given into the gacha trap, i spend responsibly and never in excess. it's a game i genuinely love and i do believe that adults are free to spend their money wherever they wish. some people buy cigarettes, i buy little anime characters.

tattoos? world's saddest no. i would like to get some tho, i'm just generally the type of person who gets super invested in something for a while and then drops it after a while, which includes tattoo ideas. right now i'm flirting with the cassiopeia constellation (name of my favourite kpop groups fandom), "we don't need the memories" which is a team motto from haikyuu, line art of a cat because i'm a cat person, and some others with personal significance. and some more fandom ones. but fandom ones are finicky so. shrug.

favourite colour? i do dearly love the colour red. also a big fan of taupe, which is. probably the most boring answer i could give. "oh yeah my favourite colour? beige." god.

favourite type of music? to the surprise of hopefully none of you, i'm a kpop fan. i also really love whatever genre of music guys like alexander stewart and lewis capaldi make.

do you like puzzles? yes so much! i got so into a puzzle the other day that i was up until 5am doing it like i fr just didn't notice how long i was doing it 😭

any phobias? i used to have such a bad fear of spiders. now it's just big ones that freak me out or ones that are on me. i'm working on getting over it though. bugs in general make me feel a bit sick to me stomach tho i won't lie.

favourite childhood sport? i used to be a gymnastics kid lol. was super into pro gymnasts for a little bit, but generally it was a sport i preferred actually doing.

do you talk to yourself? yes and it's so embarrassing because i fucking do it in public without realizing. one day i was in the bookstore talking myself through choosing a book to buy when someone turned the corner and was like "oh! it's just you!". that was almost my 13th reason i am so fucking serious.

tea or coffee? tea if it's hot, coffee if it's cold.

first thing you wanted to be when growing up? wanted to be a vet soooo bad. then i grew up and realized how scary chemistry and biology are and figured maybe i would leave that to the science brained people 😭

what movies do you adore? well my letterboxd top movies are inception, les miserables, the outsiders, and the old guard which is. sorta accurate. the first three are definitely true. i could slot miracle (2004), brokeback mountain, legally blonde, kingsman, etc. into my fave movies list over TOG if i'm being honest but. yknow how it is.

tagging: @sportsnet tyler do this or else.

[bronanlynch]

❤ dealers choice 💙 gundam wing

💔 gundam seed, u cannot say lacus

🏳️‍🌈 fe3h 💀 ace attorney

❤: Which character do you think is the most egregiously mischaracterized by the fandom? every day people are wrong abt char aznable on the internet

💙: Which character is not as hot as everyone else seems to think? heero's design is just simply not that interesting sorry. I don't know if people think he's hot but I'm assuming the people watching gundam wing on toonami in 2000 thought he was at least a little bit hot since they wrote enough fanfiction abt him to make gundam popular in the us. also in-universe he has multiple bad bitches obsessed with him so

💔: If you had to remove one major character from the series, who would you choose? you specifically are going to hate this answer but please hear me out, my logic here is that my answer had to be someone who's treated badly enough by the narrative that my frustration with that outweighs how much I like them. so my answer is cagalli, I am setting her free to be in a show where maybe she won't get treated as increasingly incompetent until she's basically written out entirely

🏳️‍🌈: Which character who is commonly headcanoned as queer doesn't seem queer to you? shout out to well-meaning cishet ally ferdinand von aegir, loving and supportive wifeguy to his transfem wife helena von vestra and incredibly earnest wingman to his best rivalfriend edelgard (I do also have queer headcanons for ferdie to be clear, shout out also to bi ferdie and transfem ferdie and repressed gay ferdie who's just really really into homosocially bonding with other man for reasons he can't articulate)

💀: If you had to choose one major character to die, who would you choose? if mia's going to be dead they need to commit to her being dead and actually allow maya the space to grieve instead of dragging her spirit back out every other case to tell phoenix to believe in himself and not adequately dealing with how anyone might actually feel abt that. however if that's too much of a copout then I think characters (especially phoenix & edgeworth) should have to actually deal with the consequences of the fucked up legal system like if you want me to believe that the ~dark age of law is any worse than the other fucked up eras of the law then it needs to have some fucking teeth. what I'm saying is that as much as I like blackquill (genuinely! one of my faves part of aa5! love that guy!) I think it would be interesting if he does get executed in aa5 and everyone has to uh. reckon with that. realizing as I'm typing this that what I want is for blackquill to serve a similar narrative function to genshin asogi but I stand by it

[heliopauseentertainments]

Pairing and 2 AUs: Jazz/Megatron (because I am predictable) or Megatron/Nickel (because it would be fun) - you choose.

Either way for AUs:

(a) fae, or

(b) academia (not a college AU, but the sort of thing where all the focus is on the professorial types - Oxbridge SCR/David Lodge style New Uni struggles/whatever)

I have basically zero knowledge of anything fae-related (it's not a cultural feature here), so by default I have to pick option B, but with the disclaimer that I don't recognize any of the the names you mentioned (beyond that Oxbridge is a portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge).

Also, further disclaimer, as uni admin staff, my feelings towards faculty are... complicated at best.

This one is difficult to assemble.

The trick is finding departments where any of them would come into contact with each other.

I will make the following assumptions:

They are still robots in a Cybertronian cultural context.

We're using a loosely IDW1 continuity.

Academia on Cybertron functions at least somewhat similarly to real-world. I am using the US context because that's what I know, but I realize this is not universal. I.E. I'm using similar positions, academic divisions, fields of study, and issues.

The best I'm coming up with is if Nickel works with some department of Population Health (to keep in line with her medical background) and if Megatron were brought it in from a more statistics-based humanities (what would a Cybertronian equivalent be?) department (demography, social statistics, labor studies, etc.) for a data consult.

Jazz would almost certainly be working with a music and/or dance department. He probably even has a dual appointment.

Finding a department fit for Megatron is very difficult.

The bigger struggle is "who let Megatron into a university? who let him graduate and get a job?" because he would butt right up against the systemic discrimination against working class grad students and likely be forced out via dubiously legal black-balling from faculty not approving projects and/or requiring him to pay for mandatory activities and conferences out of pocket.

In a Cybertronian context, the biases against manual class mechs, even post-Zeta lifting fanatical functionism, would function similarly to the real-world working class bias, along with the black-balling probably actually being more overtly allowed.

I'm also struggling to see him actively choosing to work in academic environments, but the spite of "I am going to go be an asshole and do it anyway" is a good motive for him.

Alright, I've got two options:

Jazz/Megatron - Jazz with his dual appointment and Megatron having a tentative appointment in labor studies doing cross-disciplinary research on music's (and dance's) role in labor movements. This would also allow them to both draw on their strengths and experiences to reach a common ground.

Nickel/Megatron - Nickel requiring outside assistance to set up and account for certain social variables for a new project that is part of a government research grant and the only one available from the appropriate statistical or demographic department is Megatron. The focus would be their struggle to mesh their terse and obstinate personalities to actually work together and complete the project and keep that sweet, sweet grant funding.

Both actually have a lot more potential than I would have thought before noodling it through. It's hard to pick, but I think I'm actually going to choose option 1: Jazz/Megatron.

I think it could be a solid 10k or under one-shot. However, I wouldn't want to actually parallel too many real-world issues, so this is something I wouldn't ever actually write.

Title: Building Bridges

The description is already a good loose summary.

[loopy777]

Whats your thoughts on the way aang, zuko and the earth king who's name i can never recall handled the former fire nation colonies? Cause frankly speaking looking at it objectively, it really does seem like the compromise route and let them become sorta independant was the worst of both sides.

Culturally speaking, like it or not the area had become fire nation dominant, which would be a very strong argument for them remaining part of the fire nation.

On the other hand, the earth kingdom is right that they took the land by right of force, with no casus beli, no marriage ties that bound the fire nation royalty and whoever was the lords of the land together. It was as clear cut a right by conquest and nothing more as you can get.

Finally the independent route seems to have just been a compromise to not allow either side to truly "win", rather than an actual, good solution.

And in the end it ended up with Aang's republic project(good job on being a neutral party aang ;D) ending up as an abyssmal failure, both during his own time as robber barons consolidated power during his reign, and then falling completely off the wayside after he died, then replaced with a just as bad successor after the first election.

While things does seem to kinda be looking up after the last election in the comics, it does seem like aang should have just taken a side, or if he was going to compromise, it should probably have been something along the lines of demilitarize the entire zone on a permanent basis, but allow the Fire nation to keep it. Or allow fire nation citizens to remain but let the Earth Kingdom retake political control(This is what I would have done by the way) over the colonies, with those who remained legally becoming earth kingdom citizens.

Yeah, there were no good solutions, but I feel like there were better compromises possible than what 'The Promise' claimed were the only possibilities. To summarize, here's what those options were:

The colonies go back to the Earth Kingdom and everyone either from the Fire Nation or of at least partial Fire Nation descent is deported back to the Fire Nation forcibly.

The colonies remain under full Fire Nation control and the ruling Fire Nation social class gets to stay on top.

The colonies all become independent, and on a case-by-case basis some of them might choose to hold elections and of those some of them might elect at least one person of Earth Kingdom descent to participate in the local government.

I like your radical and hard-to-conceive-of idea of putting the Earth Kingdom in charge and then not deporting people. Perhaps, in that scenario, we can even reduce the influence of the rich Fire Nation upper class types with taxes on wartime family/clan gains, or something like that. The money would be used to fund local stuff rather than merely inflating Ba Sing Se's coffers.

Or, the colonies could have been made independent, but the Fire Nation is given some kind of corresponding punishment so that it's not perfectly positioned to profit from the situation. Perhaps all Fire Nation residents can be banned from trading with any of the colonies for a century or something, giving the Earth Kingdom a chance to make practical and cultural in-roads. Or, just have the ban last for Aang's lifetime, and now he's the one dodging all the Fire Nation assassins! It would give Zuko a chance to sleep, at least.

Of course, both of those leave plenty of opportunities for cheats and corruption, which is where I presume Aang would have to keep an eye on things and fight the people making a mess of things. That sounds like something more out of one of F.C. Yee's novels, which I would be quite happy with. It's certainly a lot more interesting than having Aang deal with the same Bender Vs NonBender conflict that even LoK couldn't make plausible with twelve episodes and the best voice-acting in the business.

However, I'm not against the idea that the United Republic still eventually becomes a corrupt land where capitalism runs wild, no one believes in spirits, and organized crime is a more effective government than the actual ruling council. But I'd like the steps that lead to that to be framed as the gAang's failures. As it is, all of Aang's adventures in the former colonies conclude with what are presented as happy endings, and things only go wrong when bad people slip in while he's not looking. If Republic City is supposed to be so bad that LoK's happy ending is most of the city being rendered a wasteland, then why can't we see Aang losing when something about the former colonies is at stake? I mean, yeah, the 8-year-olds the comics are aimed at probably would be confused and stop reading, but they probably didn't like 'The Puppetmaster' either, so who cares about them? Give me the 12-year-olds starving for some tragedy in their family-friendly media.

Those are probably the kids destined for careers in politics, anyway, so they might enjoy taxation as a plot element.

[kiisaes]

i found my old gymleadersona from nearly 4 years ago (2018 on the bottom) so i thought i'd redraw it ⚡

i'm a newsboy who doubles as a small-town electric type gym leader! my pkmn help with my deliveries too :) more vain and unnecessary info under the cut bc i am a narcissist

omg min sona lore lol

so here's the deal i'm a young adult who's born and raised in a small town that, outside of the occasional aspiring pokemon champs and travelers, is mostly invisible to most people in the region. this is because literally nothing happens here and there are zero tourist attractions. it is the pinnacle of a passerby town. the only 2 things that are notable here is a post office and the pokemon gym; the post office (named "electro mail") is here because the town is so small, it's an ideal quiet host for mail and other deliveries. and the gym is here because ... uhhh idfk how pokemon worldbuilds its regions, i guess just cause it had enough open space and was in pokemon challenge gerrymandering range ???? dude who knows. artistic license or whatever

anyway since the town is so quaint, there are already very little people living in it, but especially very little pokemon trainers. the only active pokemon trainer family here is mine, and i inherited the gym leader position from my dad. we're an electric type gym because, despite the sleepytown vibe, the tiny community here is always active and enthusiastic. electric is kinda like high energy, eager activity right ...?

my sona works tirelessly at being both a gym leader and a paperboy. when i'm not challenging trainers i'm traveling to nearby towns and even across the region to deliver stuff and collect from mailboxes. you might have to wait a little if the gym doesn't have its final boss. it's lots of work and energy so even though i'm the electric type leader, i always look and act a little exhausted. my pokemon help me on my deliveries tho, and they r my best friends :)

if you fight me, my pokemon's levels will go as follows:

rotom: lvl 36

alolan raichu: lvl 37

boltund: lvl 37

emolga: lvl 39

emolga is my main pokemon and almost all of my pokemon (outside of rotom) know wild charge — if you beat me, you will receive the electro badge and the wild charge TM. idk what kind of gym challenge i would have. i don't really care. i never liked those puzzles in the first place so i probably wouldn't even implement one LMAO

[taylortruther]

I completely agree that you need to be media literate or read or not accept someone's version of events. IPV cases are very difficult to try out, so I'm neutral on this case because I wasn't involved, but I really respect your opinion Ray (if this question bothers you, I understand I promise you don't need to answer!) How do you feel confident that you know more than the jury?

(Again all due respect xx)

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well the whole trial was televised, so we do have most of the information the jury does. that said, i didn't watch it, i read summaries as well as breakdowns of evidence in a few different places. and what i learned is that a lot of evidence that depp's team blocked is imo totally damning: there were texts (blocked as hearsay), medical records, therapy records, etc. where people present in their relationship admitted that johnny hit her on multiple occasions.

this is evidence that is publicly available on the internet (however, it is hard to find unless you choose to wade into the mess) but was not provided to jurors, or televised in any way, and imo it would have changed the outcome. this is the type of evidence i would hope amber could share with a judge if she appealed - but i'm not sure if this would be allowed because you aren't allowed to submit new evidence during appeal; however, i'm not sure if that affects evidence that was brought to trial but not allowed to be shown to jury.

it's also what makes the arguments of "i watched the whole trial, i know what i'm talking about!" fall completely flat to me. the trial didn't include all available evidence. plus, court television is biased - commentators have biases, and networks may rely on viewership to gain money for their parent companies. (court tv itself is owned by timewarner cable.) watching it on youtube or tiktok puts you at the mercy of that youtuber's biases with editing and commentary as well. simply watching the case at home may be unreliable due to that alone.

also, this sounds glib, but i've been part of a jury in a civil case (it wasn't ipv but it was an ambiguous case with lots of gray area) and jurors can be foolish. they can be ignorant, they bring in their biases, and they can have bad judgment, even after being carefully selected by both legal teams.

it's also a well-known understanding that juries are often swayed by the theatrics of court. that's why johnny wanted it televised and also why (i assume) he wanted it in front of a jury in the first place. judges are harder to fool, as lawyers can't do their songs and dances when there's no jury involved.

intimidating witnesses, being nasty/cruel to people on the stand, being dramatic when discussing evidence... this is pretty normal in court cases. and it's far, far worse in ipv cases because lawyers will seek to discredit abuse victims openly in order to sway the jury.

when i was on a jury, the plaintiff won, which i felt was deserved based on the legal facts of the case. but the way they and their legal team conducted themselves in court was really nasty. they exaggerated injuries while in court, had hired scammy doctors to charge insane amounts of money to win in the lawsuit, and their legal team made snide remarks to the defendant, presented evidence in condescending/dramatic ways, etc.

when i brought this up to some jurors (kind of as gossip, like "ugh can you believe how annoying that lawyer is?") they didn't pick up on it. what felt like an obvious, almost scripted theatrical performance, came across as completely genuine to others. it was a total mindfuck.

also, the depp-heard jury wasn't sequestered! that's INSANE to me. it was also not balanced (as it had more men than women)! these things factor in.

[mutants-and-soldiers]

The Proposition (Ch. 1)

summary || You've been thinking about Steve's proposal a lot. Part of you wants to decline but a bigger part of you wants what he's offering.

pairing || alpha!Steve x omega!Reader (Past alpha!Bucky x omega!Reader)

word count || 3,706

warnings || A/B/O, eventual smut, therapy talks, kink negotiation, lots of dialogue — 18+ ONLY//MINORS DNI

notes || I can't get this story out of my head, really! First chapter is all about setting up the smut so I apologize but I believe in talking things out. Thank you to everyone who commented on the first part of the series! I'm going to try and be better about answering comments from here on out! Keep the comments coming, I love hearing from you guys so much!

You can also read it on Ao3. Do not copy, translate, rewrite or repost any of my work, even if you credit me. I always welcome comments and reblogs!

Sequel to Helping Hands: One Two Three Four Five

Divider courtesy of the talented @firefly-graphics

After so many years of going to see Dr. Beta, you were used to the routine when you stepped through the doors. It was late in their work day so you were the only person in the office other than Valarie, the receptionist, who gave you a kind smile. “Good afternoon,” she said, typing something onto her computer. “Dr. Beta’s just about ready.”

“Thanks, Valarie,” you say, setting your bag down to take off your suit.

It had been weird the first time Dr. Beta had demanded you not wear the suit during your sessions. You protested but in the end, she won out. There were a lot of reasons for choosing a female-only office but this was the biggest one. They accommodate you so much just to make you feel welcome and safe in your own skin. It was one of the few places that you could take the suit off and feel comfortable.

The suit was just being zipped up into your bag when the door to the doctor’s office opened. Dr. Beta was a matronly middle aged woman with plenty of laugh lines and crow's feet from years of laughter and joy. She was a kind beta who had done wonders for your mental health and self esteem. Without her, you probably wouldn’t have gone through with the job proposal.

She called your name with a gentle smile, “You ready?”

“Yep,” you smiled, walking over to step into the room. The blinds were closed tight but there were several lamps around the space that allowed a soft light to keep it illuminated. The wooden diffuser was pumping out the soothing smell of lemon and sandalwood. Dr. Beta had always said the lemon helped cut the potency of your powers but you weren’t sure if that was true or if it was something she said to make you feel better.

The two of you settled into your usual spots before the doctor asks, “Anything new since we last saw each other?”

It had been a month since your last session. The milestone of going monthly instead of bi-monthly had been huge for you. There was a time that you saw her weekly, which was when you were at your lowest. You were glad to be where you were.

“Where do I even start?” you laugh, leaning casually back on the leather couch. The cold material felt nice on the bare skin that peeked out from your denim shorts and athletic tank top. “I’ve been meeting regularly with three guys to run with them every Tuesday and Thursday. We also go out for drinks and the game on Sunday.”

“Wow, that’s fantastic!” she gushed, genuinely excited for you. She even sat her clipboard and pen down to lean forward with her elbows on her knees. It was something she only did when you made some kind of...positive choice in your life. The way it made your chest swell with self pride was silly and kind of childish but the woman had always been extra motherly to you. “Clients?”

“One of them was,” you nod, trying to keep the flush of excitement from making you seem too eager. “They’re really nice guys and they invited me to start sparring with them next week after our runs.”

A gentle look crossed the doctor’s face that had you melting. It was a look that she gave when she was proud and the way your name came out of her mouth spoke volumes. “I’m so proud of you,” she said aloud even though you knew it by her body language. “It’s been a long time since you took time for yourself in your personal life. Are they on your level of martial arts?”

“Better!” you said, excited to have a good challenge.

“Better than you?” she laughed, sounding incredulous. “I’d have to see that to believe it!” You join her for the laugh. “Anything else?”

Your mind flutters to a certain blond and his proposition but decide to keep that to yourself for now. It wasn’t good for you to hide secrets from Dr. Beta and you usually didn’t, however, she would definitely encourage you to take him up on the offer. You didn’t think you were ready to come up with reasons (lies) for why you couldn’t do that yet.

“Not really.”

She nods, grabbing her clipboard to flip the paper. “Dr. Noland said you were going to get your heat early this time around. She said you mentioned you might know why?”

Damn it. You forgot how much the two doctors communicated between each other about your health. It was the program you were in and, while amazingly helpful, could be very annoying at times. Case in point, now you need to make a choice on whether to point blank lie to Dr. Beta or just tell the truth. Lying by omission was much more your style.

“Yeah,” you sigh, resigning yourself to the conversation. “The last client I helped had...intense pheromones. I think it may have kicked me into my heat cycle early.”

The doctor’s hazel eyes widened in shock, “Even with the suppressant you took?”

Nodding, you look away for a second. “The client was a super soldier,” you admit, running a hand through your hair in frustration.

Understanding blossomed on her face when she made a guess as to who you were talking about. “Well, that might do it, for sure,” she nodded, making a note. “Still, I’m going to have Dr. Noland change your suppressant just in case it’s not working.”

She stood up, going over to the cabinet behind her desk. She took out a large bottle, tossing it to you, that had heat vitamins in them. Another bottle was thrown your way full of pills specifically for healthy slick production. The last thing she came over with were a few vouchers for omega-centric energy drinks and heat-snacks.

“I know you hate this question but I am legally required to ask,” she chuckles. “Do you have someone you trust to help you through your heat?”

You hesitate. “No.”

Her head snaps up, hazel eyes pinning you to the spot. “You hesitated. You never hesitate,” she points out with far too much excitement. She sets the clipboard down, doing the lean again. “Do you have someone in mind?”

Well, the cat was out of the bag and now you couldn’t lie because she would never believe you now. “I was...propositioned,” you admit, feeling stupidly relieved that you had been honest with her. She had conditioned you so fucking well to feel better when you told the truth as opposed to lying. It had been a ‘bad coping mechanism’ you created during your childhood to gain some control of your otherwise uncontrollable life.

“By one of your new friends?” she asked, already getting the gist of the conversation. “Was it your client?”

“No, not my client but his...best friend,” you whisper, feeling a little embarrassed that you were having this conversation.

Dr. Beta is quiet for a moment, contemplating how to ask the question. “What’s the big deal then? Why not take him up on the offer?”

You cringe. “There are…a lot of reasons but I’m sure you’re going to make them seem like they’re not problems but things I’ve blown up in my mind.”

She laughs, shaking her head. “You know your feelings and worries are valid! I just help you see things in a more logical light. I think you should really talk this through with him but...would you like to practice with me?”

You bite your lower lip but give a heavy sigh when you realize there’s still nearly forty minutes left of your time with her. “Fine. It can’t hurt.”

You sat in the booth twitching with your napkin. You and the owner were good friends from back in your academy days so he allowed you to pay a certain amount for the whole rooftop terrace. It meant you could enjoy a meal with someone without having to wear your suit. You also got the same female server every time who knew your situation and didn’t care.

“Hey, sorry I’m late,” you heard a familiar voice say to your left.

Not really sure why, you stood up when he approached. He was wearing a thin blue zip-up jacket over a blue and white plaid button up shirt that was unbuttoned enough for you to see the white t-shirt he had under it. His jeans were dark and fit far too well around his massive thighs. A plain blue ball cap sat on his head and some fake glasses to help hide his identity. The smile he gave you was enough to make your preheat brain purr.

It took you by surprise when his big arms wrapped you up in a hug that smothered you in his masculine scent. Your hands touched his back, hugging him hesitantly. The squeeze lasted a little longer than you expected, just enough for your head to be perfectly swimming in his pheromones.

You pulled away when he did, allowing him to sit at the far side of the table, facing towards the rest of the area. He had insisted that you come without your suit so it was the least you could do to keep the waitress from noticing his erection.

“It’s okay, I ordered some water for us,” you smile, genuinely happy to see him. It wasn’t often that you saw any of the three men individually. They usually hung out in a pack and you were happy to know that you fit into the group pretty well. “Get whatever you want, Steve. It’s my treat.”

He gave you a look. “I would prefer it if you let me pay.”

Your heart gave a hard thump in your chest. There was something about the way he said it that was just short of a command. You look into his blue eyes, trying to gauge his intent before setting down the menu. “Is this some old-fashioned pride I see leaking through?” you tease, giving him a mischievous grin.

“No, I just figure it was only right that I buy you lunch before helping you with your heat,” he said so casually it made your face heat.

“What makes you think I’m going to agree?!” you laugh loudly.

There is a knowing glint in his eyes that makes your stomach flip. “Isn’t that why we’re here? Alone?” he questioned easily, looking up just as Julia came to the table.

“Welcome back,” she greets you, setting two empty glasses and a pitcher of water down on the table. “My name’s Julia.”

“Nice to meet you Julia,” Steve responded with a neutral smile. It caught you a little off guard because it...definitely wasn’t the smile he gave you. Was it just part of his disguise?

You both ordered a beer and your entrees. It wasn’t until Julia walked away that you focused back on the alpha across from you. He was already looking at you with an intense expression. You feel like he’s basically prying into your soul.

“I...spoke with my therapist yesterday and…” you start, finding it very hard to talk about this kind of thing. It was so easy to soothe your clients but so hard to give yourself a break. “She...convinced me to talk with you about my...worries.”

His expression softens a bit. “I’m willing to work with you,” he soothes, reaching out to take your hand. His fingers curled around yours, warm and solid. “Tell me everything.”

You take a deep breath. “I’m not afraid of hurting you,” you blurt out. “You can take me even on your worst day. I’m...embarrassed to count myself among the small population of omegas that go...feral during their heat. I...fight my partner. Dr. Beta says it's because of the trauma I experienced. Trauma doesn't just disappear during heat...it gets worse. I’m just not the usual kind of docile omega that society seems to exemplify.”

He looks up to alert you that Julia was returning with your drinks. He didn’t speak until she was back inside the building. “Truthfully, I’m actually more intrigued than put off by the notion,” he finally said after taking a sip of his beer. “Do you fight the whole time or just in the beginning?”

It wasn’t a line of questioning that you expected so you gaped at him like a fish out of water for a few seconds before finding your words. “I don’t...know,” you admit sheepishly, sipping your hard cider. “I’ve only been with one alpha during my heat and he had to go to the hospital a few hours into it.”

Something dark and tempting flashed through the blond’s eyes. “How do you feel about restraints?”

Your core throbbed at the simple question. It probably showed on your face because his smile started to widen in understanding. “Yes, that’s fine,” you breathe, trying not to think too hard about the implications.

“Would you prefer to do this at your house or in my suite?” he asked as if you had already agreed to the whole thing.

Your mind screamed at you to say decline. It was dangerous and there were so many things that could go wrong. Your omega brain though had already bought into the whole thing. You wanted this big, powerful alpha to hold you down and take you in the most forceful of ways. You wanted him to restrain you to your nest and have his way with you until the heat fog cleared.

“Wait, wait,” you say, trying to finish your thoughts before deciding anything. “I’m serious when I say I’m insatiable. I don’t have any refractory period between one wave and the next.”

Julia opens the door, alerting you both that she was coming out with food. You both wait until everything is set and she walks away before continuing. The food smells delicious so you grab the burger and bite into it. You always craved red meat before your heat so when the flavors burst across your taste buds, you hum in appreciation.

Steve took a few bites of his own meal before responding. “The super soldier serum makes it so I don’t have any refractory period,” he shrugs casually with a smile. “I’ve never met someone who could keep up with me so...I’m interested to see if you can. Any other worries?”

Heat blossoms across your cheek and in your chest. “I don’t want our friendship to be jeopardized,” you finally admit after finishing half of your burger. You grab some of the fries and eat them while thinking.

“Did helping Bucky keep you from being friends with him?”

“No, of course not,” you sigh, running out of excuses. Dr. Beta had been right, talking with him had definitely made you a little more comfortable with the idea. “Fine, okay, I accept your offer.”

“My place or yours?” he asks with a genuine smile.

You mull over the question for a bit before shrugging. “I have all of my nesting supplies at my house so we can do it at mine,” you chuckle, feeling a little nervous but excited too.

He nods. “Do I need to bring any supplies? Snacks or drinks?”

The two of you continue talking about the logistics of your heat while you finish the food. It makes you feel a lot better knowing you wouldn’t have to go through with it alone. You had already taken the initiative to send a message to all of your clients to let them know you would be out for your heat. You even went ahead and took an extra week just for yourself.

After you pay and you have your layers back on, the two of you stand outside the doors to the restaurant. You don’t want to leave him, truthfully. He smelt so good and you were so close to your heat that it was hard to separate from him. “Thanks for talking with me,” you smile despite the bonnet covering everything but your eyes. “I’ll give you a text when I’m ready.”

“Of course, thanks for lunch,” he chuckles, leaning down to kiss your forehead through the layers. “Here, take this for your nest.”

He shucked his jacket and offered it. Your hand reaches out to take it slowly. “Thanks but this might just push me into it faster,” you laugh brightly, holding the large jacket close to your chest. You could smell the scent of him even through all of your layers. It made your head foggy.

“That’s the idea,” he smirked, turning towards the tower with a wave. “Just let me know when you want me to come over.”

You watch him walk away, eyes lingering on the way his biceps stretched the fabric of his shirt and down until you stared at his toned ass in those jeans. It was obvious how close you were to your heat when sweat started to form along your temples and slick started to dampen your panties.

Once you got back home, you arranged your snacks and vitamins on the counter so they were easy for Steve to find. He might need to feed you for the first few waves because you weren’t sure if you’d be coherent or not. Then you went into your extra bedroom that you used for your heats and started getting it ready.

You pulled out all of your slick-resistant pillows, cushions and blankets from the closet to make a nest on your king sized bed. It was a nice four post bed that had your mind in dark places. All you could think about was being restrained with cuffs around one of those posts while Steve fucked into you.

It didn’t take long before you needed a pad for all of the fucking slick that was making everything so annoying. The nest took a lot longer that you would like to admit because it just didn’t seem...right. You’d never had this kind of issue before but your omega brain wanted Steve to be comfortable and happy too.

Looking back at the closet, you debated on whether or not you wanted to pull out the box of toys. You weren’t sure if Steve would want them or need them or…

“Fuck it,” you mutter, grabbing your phone to send the alpha a quick text. Toys or no toys?

You were adding his jacket to your nest when your phone vibrated in your pocket. Instead of the one or two word answer that you expected, it was...something else.

Definitely toys. I’ll enjoy teasing you until you’re begging for my knot.

Fuckin’ hell! Was this the same blond with the surprisingly boyish face that you had met during lunch today? The same guy that Sam teased about being an old virgin?

You didn’t think the pad was going to hold up to all of the slick that gush from you at the text. How does one respond to a text like that? You grabbed out the delicate pink box out of the closet, wincing at the color because it was the only color that the shop had to store your toys. Omegas were feminine right?! They liked pink, right?!

Laughing at yourself, you set the box on the little table in the room. You opened the lid and set it to the side so you could look at your assortment of toys. It was a collection you started when your first heat hit you at sixteen. You had been a late bloomer because of your constant martial arts training, which stilted your omega hormones.

It had all the necessities and even some extras. You had your typical knot dildo, a vibrator, a clit vibe, a few different types of condoms for when you weren’t in your heat, a bottle of lube that encouraged slick production, a bottle of regular lube, and a few different sized anal plugs. The last few were just because you enjoyed the feeling of being full when having sex.

Quickly you took a picture of the box and sent it to Steve as a reply. It was the best you could come up with. You had never really been good at those kinds of things. Well, you’d never had someone try and sext you.

Happy that everything was prepared, you cuddled under your fuzzy blanket in your nest. Comfort flooded through you as you nuzzled into the man’s jacket, deeply taking in his scent. It was nice and musky and made you feel warm and safe.

The phone buzzed. You’re okay with anal during your heat?

Your pheromone idled brain made you giggle, “Consent is important,” before you could text him back. Yes, I like being stuffed full.

It didn’t even register how inappropriate the text sounded before you hit send. You were obviously a lot further along than you had previously thought. The subtle throb of your core was starting to get worse but you weren’t too far gone to see his last text.

Good to know. Get some rest. Need me to come out and check on you before dark?

You groaned as a cramp hit your pelvis, slick becoming an issue. It simultaneously hurt and felt good. You were so distracted that you couldn’t answer the text message. Everything was suddenly too hot so you threw off your clothing, slipping your hand down to brush against your clit. It was already so sensitive it hurt but you needed relief.

It wasn’t enough and you knew that it would be futile to try and get yourself off with just your fingers but your brain wasn’t working. You groaned helplessly as the lackluster orgasm washed over you. It wasn’t enough, so frustratingly not enough. Sweat dripped down your cheek from your hairline making you kick off the blanket so you could turn over.

You didn’t care how it looked with your ass up because the scent of Steve on the jacket helped clear your head a little. It made your core throb but it also helped you become coherent. Enough so that you grabbed the phone and typed in a one word response that only said:

Now.

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[catboyshinsou]

sick headcanons!

anon request: i love your writing smmm !! 🥺 can i request mha sick hcs where they take care of the reader when they don’t feel well 🥺 you choose who !! <3333

a/n: sorry it took so long <//3

pairings: Kaminari, Kirishima, Tokoyami and Monoma x sick,g/n!reader

warnings: none rlly, mention of throwing up in monoma, slight manga spoilers

can be seen platonically and romantically <3

kaminari:

Tbh i think he’d be quite Useless

Just rlly panicky n stuff bc what the fuck does one do with a sick person???

*walks into your dorm* “hey y-n wanna- WHAT THE FUCK YOU LOOK TERRIBLE”

*you in a blanket and not having enough energy to be offended* “i think i’m dying” “y/n WHAT”

He’d try his best regardless tho

He goes to sato and helps with doing something soothing and welcoming

On his way back to your dorm he passes aizawa and tells him you’re sick in THE worst way

“Oh yeah Aizawa-sensei, y/n is dying-” “THEY’RE WHAT”

Kami would definitely storm into the room with him and be just as worried

What if it was something really serious??? Like the plague?????

They find you just laying in bed, sniffling and groaning

Turns out it wasn’t the plague and just a bad flu

Flu with its whole jazz, you had a fever of 38C and you could barely move

Aizawa got you excused from classes for about a week and left again

Kami just stood there with his soup and went “oh thank god you're not dying”

like i said i think he'd be useless but try his best

he checks up on you every half hour either in person or via text during classes

he brings you stuff like blankets and foods even though you can't taste any of them or have any type of appetite

but! thanks to the fridge in your room you just had snacks for about… forever

he gave you extra attention too

sometimes he'd just sit on the ground and talk about his day and theories while you just laid under your blanket

you appreciated it though

except for aizawa, sato and tsuyu nobody came over and even they just came in every few hours

kami stayed for hours on end and even tried to convince aizawa to let him sleep over so he could “watch over you” incase you “stopped breathing”

it's not like you slept much when he was around anyway, nights were not ideal for a good rest on a sick day

it was endearing seeing him lay on a futon on the floor and poking you when he had to get up for class

he leaves notes and stuff to make sure you didn't get worried

did he do anything to make you feel better physically? not rlly

did he lift your spirits and make you feel less lonely? most definitely

kirishima:

hear me out

this boy is an angel when it comes to caring for people

when he got into the whole essentially self care stuff he also knows what's best for others

he was probably one of the first to notice you being ~off your game~

whether in class or just yknow vibing, he'd tap your shoulder and softly “you okay man?”

he calls everyone dude and man and bro no matter gender or anything he's just that into the manliness stuff

and yes he puts you in essentially self isolation more for yourself than for others

“your body needs to rest y/n! can't properly get better if everyone keeps bothering you!”

he calls you every night tho and he has aizawa bring you stuff when he checks up on you (he's allowed because he's the teacher ofc also as long you're a UA student like one of your legal guardians which is like a dad and dads can see their kids sick right?)

stuff ranges from just bowls of soup to compresses to the handmade ointment against a sore throat to like socks he knitted or something his parents sent in bc he told them you were sick

yes this boy tells his parents you're sick

i mean someone probably told yours but like twice the parents means twice the comfort!

alternatively if your parents are *cough* he'd tell his parents and put you on the phone with them because everyone needs some parental love from time to time (don't act tough about it, he's gonna make you cry and tell you how manly you are for doing so)

when you're back on your feet he probably still treats you like you're about to fall over for like two or three days more

he praises you for how well you did during your essential quarantine and when you say you didn't do anything he says some cheesy stuff about manliness

“bro i'm so proud of you for getting through it!” “i didn't do anything kiri-” “don't say that! it takes so much energy and manliness to keep in self isolation and get better, you did amazing”

tokoyami:

i love birds

also look at baby toko he's so cute

do birds get sick?

anyways

tokoyami is like.. helpful but tries to be undercover about it

he's not gonna ignore you or anything

he's the type to like silently nudge teachers into your area so they could see you were clearly sick and send you back to the dorms to rest

but he'd never actually ask you or tell anyone

it would ruin his whole ~vibe~

dark shadow tells him to tell someone and he rlly does especially if he sees you struggling through it in class but he's also just not great at talking with people so a nudge or “secret note” will have to do

it does work, you're in your dorm right before combat training because mic had sent you up and excused you

mic is sweet he said he'd send aizawa up when he finds him but that you should rest

he also tells you that you have some really attentive friends

you're at this point just letting the sickness take over you so you have no idea what he just said (you heard him but the words just didn't register in your brain)

you get into bed and the first thing you do is sleep through afternoon classes

tokoyami is only at 50% today and so is dark shadow

tokoyami swears he isn't worried, the teachers are capable of taking care of you in an appropriate manner so that you will recover in no time

dark shadow on the other hand is all gittery and doesn't wanna focus on anything but you

off topic but i just think dark shadow is tokoyamis way of showing emotions or well like… like his internal thoughts? not like his internal dialogue but ya know his feelings

so he can act all goth and dramatic but dark shadow is a good way of still giving some of his feelings an output

back to you

so training is over and so is your nap

but you wake up to pillows, stuffed animals, blankets and more pillows surrounding you

half of them weren't yours either

they laid around you like some kind of pillow fortress jusy surrounding you and making sure you didn't hit your head on the wall or fall from the bed

it kinda felt like a nest- oh

you tried getting up, your head almost immediately flinging uoh back into bed but you needed to see if a certain someone would come back in to build the nest

“dark shadow, be quiet we don't want them to w- oh you're up”

tokoyami came in with more stuffies and an extra blanket like it was a siberian winter and your rooms only source of warmth was an almost dying candle

“are those yours?” you asked half asleep, your head absolutely booming

you could barely keep your eyes open, that's how exhausted you were but you made an effort to smile at the bird and his shadow

“uh no, yaomomo-san insisted on making some blankets for you and hagakure-san, ashido-san and uraraka-san gave me all their stuffed animals when they heard i was paying you a visit-” “but the blue star blanket and teardrop pillow are from fumi!! he brought them from home because he can't sleep without them!!” “DARK SHADOW!”

you only chuckled before breaking out in a cough again

aizawa came in some time after and had a hard time finding you under all the blankets and stuffies and even offered to tell the class to stop bothering you

but you just laid there all cozy and told him to let them be

“it's how he shows affection, it's nice”

monoma:

oh so the 1A student got sick??? huh??? I thought 1A was invincible hUUUUUUH??? *manic laughter*

coughs

anyways

so basically the two hero courses are more “in tune” after the joint training

they often have dinners together and it isn't rare to see kendo come over with monoma and tetsu^4

she came over to hang with the girls and tetsu had training sessions with kiri

nobody rlly knew why monoma tagged along though

all he did was spout about how average everything is for the “superior hero course”

he did secretly like the classes growing together more though

he'd sit on the couch with you and occasionally laugh about something else other than his team beating yours during joint training

one day he came in and didn't see you at your usual spot

“ehhhh??? where's the only tolerable person in this course??”

used to his lowkey insults deku pointed you out at the dinner table, head resting on your hand and looking over some homework

“y/n what are you- oh my god you look horrible”

“thanks monoma, you're as nice as ever”

your face was drained of any colour, eyes heavy lidded and you could barely control the pen that scribbled over the paper

he tried grabbing your wrist but pulled back immediately

you were way too hot and the fact that he noticed by grabbing your wrist meant that it was more than just a high fever

“is 1A that incompetent that they couldnt even notice their classmate falling sick??? can you guys do anything but trouble???”

“shut up monoma, we tried getting them to bed but they insisted on finishing up first and there's nothing in the world that can get y/n away from what they've put their head to”, kaminari yelled from the living room space

how were you gonna get anything finished if your head was falling off your shoulders if you didn't hold it up

class 1A really was incompetent

“sato-san, give me a hand”

sato, who was currently cooking up dinner, just held out his hand and some type of chocolate bar which monoma grabbed and ate up

“this is incredibly sweet, i don't know how you do it”

it's become like half a routine for monoma to copy quirks for whatever reason

kiri and tetsu used it to determine which quirk was handier

uraraka’s quirk made cleaning up after a game night easier

it was training for all of them

monoma could train his copy and the others could measure how much they've grown from his reaction to it

anyways

sato’s quirk kicked in and he lifted you up over his shoulder

“monoma!” you could barely lift your voice, faintly kicking

before you knew it he placed you on your bed in your dorm and sighed

“you're lighter than i thought”

“i think i'm gonna throw up”

so you hurled into your garbage can

monoma held back whatever there was to hold back

(he was very much disgusted but even he knew that this wasn't the time to let any type of negative emotion show)

“jolly gees y/n, what did you have for breakfast?!”

you laid in bed as he passed you a water bottle

“you need to drink something, you lost a lot of water”

“awe caring for me, monoma?”

“this is for general health, y/n. i would never as much as care for anyone, especially not a brat from 1A. who even knew that any of you could fall sick huh?! weren't you supposed to be superior to the rest of us??!”

he said all of that while putting a blanket on you and opening the window for fresh air

“god you 1A fools really are incompetent!”

he went into your bathroom and soaked a small towel in water

“i'm only doing this so you don't infect anyone. god you could cause an epidemic at UA and in the end 1b would fall victim to you as well! this is all just for the general well-being!”

you didn't even hear what he was saying anymore

with a half empty bottle next to your head, you slept peacefully

monoma let out a deep breath when he saw you

“i'd never care for anyone in 1A, i'm better than that…”

he whispered those words to himself

(he did care)

[rons-adventures]

FAQ + First blog post

Welcome to "Ron's Adventures"! Come along with Ron,Jacob,and Ray as they set off on crazy adventures! Now before we get started just know that all of these characters legally belong to me.

"Who is Ron"?

Ron is a 20 year old boy who lives rent free with his two roommates, Jacob and Ray. He is the main protagonist and has a love for the sloppy taco restaurant across the street.

"How did you come up with Rons Adventures"?

Well it all started 10 years ago when I was watching my favorite Saturday morning cartoons. In fact one of the cartoons I was watching had a unique style and inspired me to draw. I drew my first comic back in 2015 which I kept for years. I began to practice until I got better and better everyday,and here I am now!

"Are we allowed to make fanart"?

Yes, all fanart is welcome, just as long as you credit this blog and the original owner (me)!

"I have an idea for a comic,can I send it to you"?

Sure! Sometimes we artist go though a little thing called an ✨Art Block✨ so I don't mind it at all! Just as long as it links to the original story.

"What days do you often post"?

Well, depending on the schedule mostly probably Monday's-Fridays and sometimes on the weekend.

"What is your favorite color"?

Personally my favorite color is purple, but I do a join a bit of pink and gold every once in awhile.

"Are you a boy or a girl"?

You know you shouldn't be asking these type of questions on the internet, it's kind of creepy you know?

"Do you support LGBTQ+"?🏳️‍🌈🌈

Yes, always and forever. I believe everybody should have the right to be whoever they choose to be and love whoever they want <3.

"What pronouns do you go by"?

I mostly go by They/Them pronouns.

"Who are Ray and Jacob"?

Ray(the one with the bone in his hair and the gray hoodie) and Jacob(the one with the nasty attitude and the dark gray shirt) are Ron's closest and only friends in the neighborhood. In fact the three planned to move in with each other since they were teenagers.

"What program/tools do you use to draw your comics?

I use IBS paint x. I'm planning on upgrading to a better software very soon. I also like to use a drawing pen, it makes the shading a little more easier.

And that's all for now, have any more questions for me, feel free to ask!

[thunderbirds-are-fab]

9 & 20 with Lee and Kayo

9. If you had to choose one Thunderbird to be a passenger on - which one would it be?

This is such a hard one! They’re all awesome for their own reasons. Rather than just picking the one that has my favourite bro as a pilot (as if I could even make that choice either), I’d probably go for the one that would give me the most unique experience – what could I experience on a trip in one that I’d never be able to get any other way? Initially I’d have chosen Thunderbird 4 because THE OCEAN IS COOL and SEA CRITTERS, but in the end I’d go for Thunderbird 3. It’s a solid combination of supersonic jet and space rocket. If I can only choose the trip of a lifetime once, then why not pick the one that can take me all the way to the sun and back in a day?

20. Send me two characters and I'll tell you which one I think is....

WHOEVER CHOSE THESE TWO CHARACTERS ABSOLUTELY KNOWS ME THEY ARE MY FAVES THANK YOU I MISSED MAKING HEADCANONS FOR THESE TWO SO MUCH

· Most afraid of the dark

I don’t think that either of them would really be afraid of the dark. It was probably part of their respective training for what they do that they can cope with staying calm and functioning without light.

Kayo probably thrives in the dark because she’s an absolute ninja and it would give her a sneak boost. Though probably not afraid, Lee would at least be concerned by the dark, because if the lights go out then he should probably be worried about what else in the space station has lost power and how he's going to fix it.

· Putting off homework/paperwork

Kayo strikes me as the type that always got all her homework done on time, but it took years of Kyrano sitting her down and telling her that she had to do it before she was allowed to go out and play. She probably doesn’t put off paperwork any more because she’s learned not to, and she needs to be a good example to Alan (who absolutely does/did put off homework).

Lee may be an adrenaline junkie flying by the seat of his pants with only instincts aged like fine wine to guide him, but I bet he’d have his paperwork sorted for good reasons.

“Houston, the capacitors in the main circuit have blown and we’re hurtling towards the planet at terminal velocity with only bubble gum and paperclips to make the repairs, but I did put this in the risk assessment so you can tell the legal team that I'm off the hook for this one."

· Going off the grid for fun

Lee absolutely does this, and we’ve seen it in Colony. He’s been dragged back from the moon, supposedly retired, and Kayo has to go flying into a blizzard to find him climbing in an icy crevasses as part of his retirement activities. You can't make this man sit still. I think it’s because he’s based on the Apollo generation of astronauts who were the type of guys who would go hiking and sailing and other outdoorsy adventure activities in their spare time. Because, y'know, it's not like the the day job was exciting enough.

Kayo probably isn’t allowed to do this as much as she’d like for recon because her brothers would get worried if she’s AWOL for too long and come find her and drag her home. She hates being babied.

· Reading Jane Austen in their spare time

I like to think that it’s Lee. As he gets older he probably feels some affinity for timeless classics. Plus he’s probably one of the few characters in the series who has any nostalgia for actual books.

· Going to move off Tracy Island first

Technically this is definitely Lee. One of many small details I’d really have loved to have been confirmed in TAG was Lee’s role in International Rescue prior to the boys being old enough, since it’s implied that he and Jeff may have started it together? Did he ever live on Tracy island in those early days after Lucille died, helping his best friend rebuild his life and ideals? What made him go back to the moon after that? Just little things that would have made these characters and the timeline for the show that much deeper.

Kayo is also mentioned to have ‘been away at school’ when Lucille was still alive in Home on the Range, so I guess she moved in, went away, then came back? Again, the official timeline doesn’t go into enough detail that far back. I don't know if she'd ever leave Tracy island to live elsewhere when she's older. I can't imagine that.

· Secretly replacing Grandma's cooking

Wow, would either of them be rude or brave enough to do that? XD

Lee would probably just make up an excuse not to eat. Kayo would be the only one sneaky enough. Secretly replacing the food instead of refusing it probably fits her relationship with Grandma. We never saw much of them together, but I can tell they mutually care about each other’s feelings quite a lot.

· Taking all the family photographs

I imagine that as Jeff’s second in command, Lee may have been behind the camera on many important occasions. Maybe even taking photos of Jeff and Lucille together in their first family portraits. Who knows? Again, I wish TAG had given us so many snippets of totally unimportant lore and backstories for characters the series barely featured. I guess that’s why we have fan fiction!

· Planning a picnic for the next sunny day

A picnic probably isn’t Kayo’s style, or at least not planning one. Lee I could see planning a day outdoors, perhaps hiking to a nice spot somewhere. The hike would probably involve several miles of trekking and a section requiring climbing gear, but it’s still a walk to a picnic somewhere.

[uncloseted]

what are your thoughts on prostitution ? i'm under the view that while women should have the freedom to make their own choices, that consent cannot be bought and consent that is paid for is not actually consent

I’m for the legalization of prostitution.  Prostitution will and does happen whether it’s legal or not- it’s often called “the oldest profession”.  A lot of sex work is already legal, whether it’s camming, pornography, or stripping. Further, many “romantic” relationships do include a financial aspect that fundamentally changes the sexual power dynamic of the relationship; things like sugar babying, being a trophy wife, or even just not having the financial means to leave your partner because they’re employed and you’re not.  I don’t think prostitution is fundamentally different to any of those activities, and I think we should be trying to protect those who engage in sex work instead of judging them or ostracizing them.

By legalizing prostitution, I believe we can provide more protections for everyone involved, and we can actually give sex workers more ability to consent.  Prostitution as it is is (frequently) an incredibly dangerous profession; in many places, sex workers risk sexual assault, sexually transmitted diseases, and physical abuse on a daily basis.  Sex workers are murdered at very high rates- by some estimates, being a sex worker makes it 200 times more likely that a person will die from murder.  Many people become sex workers because they were trafficked at a young age or because they had no other options, and much of the time they don’t have resources with which to get out of sex work.

In places where sex work is legal, like the Netherlands, it’s significantly safer to be a sex worker.  Brothels are required to obtain and renew safety and hygiene licenses, meaning that sex workers have extremely low rates of STIs, are protected from physical abuse, and are not at an increased rate of being murdered.  Prostitution is heavily regulated, meaning that only women who have chosen to enter the profession are sex workers.  This regulation weeds out the black market and makes it less likely that people are coerced into prostitution or prevented from leaving sex work.  It also means that sex workers are less likely to become involved in other dangerous activities, like drug use, drug selling, and crime, because prostitution is unlinked from crime syndicates.  Further, when sex work is legal, sex workers aren’t (legally) discriminated against in the job search if they choose to exit the profession, the way they are in places where it’s illegal.  And because it’s legal, sex workers are protected by law enforcement instead of in fear of them, so if there are incidents of abuse, the law is on their side.

I don’t agree with the idea that payment inherently prevents consent.  A lot of people think of consent as binary- either it’s enthusiastic, continual consent or it’s rape.  But I think there’s more gray area to it.  I mentioned this the other day, but I like this chart from Emily Nagoski’s blog.  I think it does a good job of breaking down the different types of consent:

By this framework, sex work is willing consent.  (Legal) sex workers don’t necessarily desire their clients, but they don’t fear the consequences of saying no or of saying yes.  Legal sex workers are given the option to turn down clients for whatever reason, including intoxication, suspected STIs or other hygiene issues, violent behaviors, personality clashes, etc., at any point during the encounter (and clients are also free to turn down sex workers).  Without the ability to say no and protection in the event that they do say no, I don’t think prostitution is consensual.  But in legal prostitution settings, I do think consent is possible and usually present. 

Edit: Some resources for if you want to read further on this topic and some statistics because we love facts on this blog:

Per the London School of Hygiene and Medicine, fear of police meant sex workers had less time to negotiate services, tended to work in isolated areas, and rushed client safety screenings.  This increased the vulnerability of sex workers to theft and violence.

In a meta-analysis of 130 studies on 33 countries published in the scientific journal PLOS Medicine, researchers found that sex workers who work in countries with “repressive policing” (where you can be arrested or jailed for performing sex work) were three times more likely to experience sexual or physical violence by clients.  Sex workers in countries where sex work is legal were half as likely to contract HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, and 30% less likely to have sex without a condom. 

In the Netherlands, where prostitution is legal, sex workers work in surroundings where there are cameras monitoring the clients, police patrolling the area, and alarm systems in the event of an emergency.

Another study on the Netherlands showed that legalized prostitution reduces sexual abuse and rape by 30-40% in the first two years, and a 25% decrease in drug-related crime.

A Stanford paper on decriminalized and legalized prostitution with regards to sex trafficking, weighing the pros and cons of each approach : https://web.stanford.edu/~perssonp/Prostitution.pdf

A study conducted by the New Zealand Ministry of Justice five years after legalizing prostitution found “no incidences of trafficking”, and increased reporting of abuse towards sex workers and arrests for crimes against sex workers.

A Washington Post article talking about manipulation and incorrect reporting of statistics concerning sex work.

I also want to be clear that I don’t think legalization will solve all the problems there are with prostitution as an industry.  The laws in place in countries where sex work is legalized still leave something (many things) to be desired.  But criminalization of sex work only contributes to the problem; decriminalization or legalization is a step in the right direction because it allows governments to acknowledge the problems sex workers face and put legislation in place to protect them.  Criminalization does not mean prostitution disappears; it just means worse, more dangerous working conditions for sex workers.  I think transactional sex will always exist- even non-human animals (like penguins, chimpanzees, and Capuchin monkeys) engage in transactional sex.  I think if governments focused on stopping human trafficking, eradicating poverty, teaching gender equality, and protecting children and young adults from sexual abuse, that would solve way more problems than criminalization ever did.

Also- I feel like men and trans people frequently get left out of this conversation.  Sex work is not just the domain of women, and by pretending that it is, we’re ignoring the needs of a lot of people.