#i have. so many ideas

[knightpetrichor]

zosan childhood friends au where (after that storm on the Orbit) Sanji washes up on Shimotsuki Village instead of the Rock

[the-sunshine-dims]

the urge to draw Vaeh and Cari is so impossibly strong-

[heirbane]

Gaius speaks many, many languages.

While the man isn't fluent in all of them - nor able to truly write in all of them - he is, perhaps, one of the more well-read Legati in the Empire. With some of the Legions scorning foreigners, regardless of their birth location, Gaius - much like Noah van Gabranth - judges his recruits over ability and promise, not form. The presence of a third eye, or lack of one, means naught. (Military ranking was not a birthright, and Gaius was quick to put in paperwork to relocate recruits who believed their third eye made them superior.)

To have foreigners in his legion and not be able to speak with them was folly. Ignorance and lack of communication bred resentment and errors in commanding them. Gaius would not allow such a simple thing to get in the way of leading his legion, and, over the course of his forty summer tenure, he picked up and taught himself the languages of his recruits. The multiple different lilting tongues of Othard and Yanxia; the Huntspeak of the multiple Miqo'te tribes, more body language than words proper; the sing-song way that Ishgardians connected words in a sentence.

He would be the first to say he speaks very little of all of them, and the fact is true. His knowledge is primarily on commands, instructions, and orders, but throughout the years, it has decidedly grown. He is able to have a casual conversation with most, and it is what allows him to masquerade as a simple adventurer post-Praetorium, his sure wording and careful accent securing trust in locals where he traveled, even where his third eye might cause hostility.

[specialagentartemis]

💗 for the ask game!

WIP Ask Game

💗 Is there a scene you can’t wait to write for a WIP?

Heck yeah! Most of my stories have a few key anchoring scenes that glitter crystal-clear in my mind that I want to reach. Though a lot of them would just kind of sound like "Yeong-suk confronts Murderbot and Thiago as they plan to evacuate the planet because they know that the mining union's plan to start their strike by setting off the governor module of every SecUnit on the premises, killing them all, will go Really Fucking Horribly" because they're big Payoff Scenes. One of the reasons these are eternal WIPs...

Another big Payoff Scene is in Change the Rules, where the concept started with two such vividly clear scenes I wanted to write: one was the "which one is the Real Eiffel and which is a VR copy?" scene and the way Minkowski solves it (which I wrote already - inspired by a method of solving that traditional riddle that I've never seen anyone take!), and one is the pivotal scene that gives the fic its name (which I haven't yet.) The premise is that the Hephaestus crew are being forced to play a series of games in VR that are a "team building exercise" but are mostly just psychological torture in a way VR can uniquely provide. The last such "game" is a Prisoner's Dilemma game with punishments that involve rewriting your personality or erasing key memories if you lose.

So Minkowski and Eiffel are set against each other, offered their most selfish desires if they choose "betray," and the other chooses "ally," where their "win" state is that the other person's personality gets rewritten to something more "convenient" to them... and Eiffel goes "Oh wait! I know this one!" and rattles off a whole string of praise for Minkowski, who he's been in conflict with the Entire Time, and how he doesn't want the change that's being proposed, actually.

Minkowski goes ??? and the AI running the game, Eris, goes ???, but, frustrated, offers a different personality change instead. Eiffel confidently says, no, he wouldn't want to make Minkowski change to be that, either.

(Minkowski, whose win condition is "Eiffel's personality gets rewritten so he actually likes being a diligent and hardworking crewmember" and is kinda tempted by that, feels Bad now.)

Frustrated, Eris changes the offer yet again: if Minkowski picks "ally" and Eiffel picks "betray," Eiffel's win condition is that Minkowski doesn't learn his Deep Dark Secret. Eiffel blanches at this, this is the first thing that gets to him... and Minkowski objects to this one, because that's fundamentally changing the rules of how the prisoner's dilemma works! That's blatantly tipping the scales to Minkowski's side, where Minkowski gets a "win" even on the neutral ending! That isn't fair or equitable! What kind of rigged-ass game is this!

Eris throws up her metaphorical hands and yells at them to stop breaking her game and just vote already, why are they so obnoxious. This is what the line in the summary that goes "Eiffel misunderstands what’s going on so fundamentally that he accidentally outsmarts Eris; and Minkowski’s dedication to playing by the rules is what breaks the game" refers to. Someday... I will finish it... because I thought I was being clever and funny by putting a Twist on the whole Change of Mind scenario...

[fairiesthrum]

reader who can’t stand satoru but then he gets hit by a curse that turns him into a cat. you find him, to his dismay, and take him home, only for him to realize how different you are when he isn’t around to pester you.

at first, he causes a lot of trouble. breaking things in your house, tearing up the pillows. he just wants to be a human again, but nobody can understand him! but you still take care of him and coddle him no matter how much trouble he causes, so different from how people treat him normally, as if he were a nuisance (which he kind of was on purpose). and he finds himself falling for you without realizing it.

so he stops being a bad cat, steadily losing hope that he’ll ever be human again. and satoru would be lying to himself if he said he didn’t enjoy how you stroked him while you read a book or let him sleep beside you at night. maybe it wasn’t so bad? so he decided then if he was going to be just a cat, he was fine with being your cat.

the higher-ups had taken note of his absence, obviously, and he only knows cause you’ve mentioned it to him. you had this endearingweird quirk where you’d talk to him as if he were a real person.

throughout his stay in your home as a house pet, satoru finds out a lot about you. you’ve always kept to yourself, but you vent your frustrations out to him while he’s like this, and he offers his comfort the best he can. which you appreciate, rewarding him with kisses that he secretly enjoys.

once he turns human again, by some miracle, his first thought is to go and find you. and when he does, you give him the cold shoulder like you used to, and it surprises him. before he realizes that, ah, he wasn’t your pet anymore. he was gojo satoru.

satoru realizes his feelings for you in that moment. when he feels the ache in his chest from your dismissive behavior, it leads him to starting his most important mission yet—winning your heart once more.

but this time, it’ll be as a person, not a damn cat.

[noodles-and-tea]

Continuation of this

[ruushes]

sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)

plus:

[bookwyrminspiration]

if you all could see all the fanart i imagine in my head and never draw it’d blow your tits clean off

[stil-lindigo]

lighthearted.

if this comic resonated with you, please consider donating to this palestinian escape fund (vetted by @/nabulsi and @/el-shab-hussein) as it is less than $7,000 away from it's goal.

i turn 24 today. To celebrate, I made this comic to be a spiritual successor to lead balloon, a comic in which I talked about the darkest period of my life so far.

A lot has changed since my 23rd birthday and this one. My priorities have shifted a lot, in ways that I think are mostly good. But i think the best part about today is that suicide has gone back to being a far away notion. I'm really lucky, and I'm grateful for that.

[skyefeys]

happy investigations port announcement

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[convexicalcrow]

come back skulk Cub my beloved come back

[blabberoo]

Life's Mockery

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[chloesimaginationthings]

Scott Cawthon’s version of FNAF Burntrap..

[crispyliza]

I've got you all figured out fanartists