#i mean all the others as well probably but this is just where i‘m at rn

[sentaluise]

[redstarwriting]

the clash | i. hey, ho! let’s go!

hobie brown x goth!reader

word count: 1.1k

genre: enemies to lovers

warnings: language, insults, hobie hating you, you hating hobie

a/n: it’s here 😎 no but fr, i proudly present a new series focusing on hobie brown, loml. i‘m trying to make it gn, so if you spot anything that needs fixing lemme know. i also did include a bit of a description of what you look like, but it’s mainly just to affirm the gothic spider-person look. and if you don’t like it, you can just pretend it isn’t there, my character designer brain just took a hold while explaining lol. enjoy y’all, there’s more where this came from 👀

now reading: i. hey, ho! let’s go!

next chapter: ii. time bomb

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In theory, the two of you should have been great friends. Best friends, even. He’s called Spider-Punk, and you’re called Spider-Goth, this alone made Miguel assume the two of you would get along better than all of the Peters. Unfortunately for Miguel, he was dead wrong. It was fine at first, a good introduction. “Spider-Punk, meet Spider-Goth,” Miguel says, motioning to the two of you. You simultaneously turn your heads towards him, “Don’t call me that.” You look at each other, seemingly sizing each other up after speaking the same words at the same time. In reality, the two of you were checking each other out, but no one needs to know that. “Fine. Hobie, meet (Y/n). (Y/n), meet Hobie,” Miguel says as Peter B. Parker hops next to him, excited to see the two of you interact. Your gaze first fell on his many piercings, which suited him very well. Almost as well as the spikes coming out of the shoulders of his tattered denim vest. “See somethin’ you like?” you hear his thick cockney accent, and you shrug. “The constant changing makes it difficult,” you say, causing him to shrug. “I hate consistency,” he says, staring you up and down. “I like the guitar,” you say, and he nods. “Everyone does.” You raise an eyebrow, and he takes in the way your heavy black eyeliner makes the expression look more exaggerated than it is. His eyes go down, taking in your outfit, which seems to be varying in different gothic styles, but overall is all black with silver studs, spikes, and charms sticking out everywhere. He notices the two of you share a liking for combat boots, and perhaps his favorite thing about you are the intricate and all black spider-web tattoos on your hands crawling their way up your arms. Hobie clicks his tongue. “Goth, eh?”

“Yeah. Is that a problem with you or something?”

“Feisty for a goth.”

“Instigative as all punks are.”

“What… is going on,’ Peter whispers to Miguel who shakes his head. “I thought they would be best friends?” Peter suggests as he places a binky in Mayday’s mouth. “I did too…” Miguel says, “Maybe this is just a way these types of alternative people talk?”

“Tal vez tengas razón… Hobie does love to be abrasive for no reason,” Miguel concludes, and Peter shrugs and they zone in on the two of you again. “...I don’t suppose there’s no reason we shouldn’t get along,” Hobie suggests, raising an eyebrow at you. “I agree. We probably think similar things… for the most part.”

“For the most part, huh?”

“Just that we have similar ideas, but most likely not the same,” you respond, and he crosses his arms, his guitar moving loosely behind his back. “Opinions on anarchy. Go.”

“It’s the ideal society—”

“Good start—”

“But completely unrealistic.”

“Excuse me?” Hobie looks at you with a glowering expression. “Humans are inherently assholes. Selfish, shitty, assholes. As amazing as it would be to have anarchy running rampant,” you shrug, “It’s unlikely it will ever happen.”

“You can’t actually believe that,” Hobie says, exasperated, “I mean you actually think that we can’t achieve it? You get enough people angry, and they rebel, they push for anarchy. I’ve seen it happen; I’ve led a rebellion.” You roll your eyes. “And do you live in a perfect anarchical society now?”

“Not yet, but we’re gettin’ there,” he clenches his teeth, and you sigh. “I admire your blatant idiocy disguised as an ambitious dream,” you say, and he huffs. “Would you just talk like a normal fuckin’ person and stop usin’ these dumbass words and shitty poetic language?”

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me, or are you as deaf as your ideologies?” This time you scoff. “I don’t have the time to be berated by someone who lives in their own delusions to try and feel the slightest bit less angry at the world for giving him the shitty cards he was dealt.”

“And I don’t have time to listen to the rubbish ramblings of a miserable twat who digs desperately into their black hole of a heart to try and feel somethin’ when the truth is they don’t even know what they stand for,” he fires back. You glare at him. He glares at you. As if on cue you both flip each other off before you web away. Peter’s voice cuts through the silence.

“Well, that went horribly!”

Miguel punches him on the shoulder, resulting in a soft ‘ow’ and a tiny angry noise from Mayday. “What the hell was that Hobart?” Miguel nearly yells and Hobie snaps his head towards him. “Don’t call me that, neither! They don’t get it. It’s not enough to want to make a difference in the world. You need to take action. Goths love to sit on the sidelines and lament instead of playing the offensive,” Hobie explains, a deep frown on his face, “Watch out for them. They might not be able to do what it takes when it counts.” Miguel sighs and pinches the bridge of his nose. “Hobie, you’re supposed to show them around—”

“No, fuck that. I’m not goin’ anywhere near that gothic monstrosity,” Hobie says shaking his head in defiance. “We made a deal. You would show all the younger spider—”

“Yeah, well you can shove that deal up your fuckin’ ass, mate, I’m not doin’ shit for them!”

“Okay, okay, calm down there, man. Why don’t you just ask Gwen to help you? Maybe Miles and Pavitr too? That way you fulfill your promise, 'cause I know promises are important to you, and you won’t have to talk to them!” Peter reasons and Hobie looks over at him. He furrows his eyebrows. That would help the situation. And maybe he’d be able to help you see just how garbage your take was with Gwen on his side. “Fine. But I’m not doin’ it cause I need help, and I’m not doin’ it because you told me to. I’m doin’ it cause it’s the last thing that they’d want,” Hobie says, pointing at Peter while saying it, flipping Miguel off, and then webbing away. Peter looks at Miguel who is clenching his fists… and his jaw. “You seem stressed, but don’t worry about it. Not all of us need to like each other, I mean there’s so many there’s no possible way we all could and look at you, you hate Miles even though he’s awesome and—”

“Shut. Up. Peter,” Miguel growls, stalking away while mumbling various things in Spanish. Peter looks down at Mayday. “Tough crowd,” he says as she giggles up at him.

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[human-encounters-diary]

Day 4

I do not believe in luck. It is not something my species is familiar with. We believe in science and logic. I was not even aware of the concept of luck or faith until I left the planet my species populates. So I do not  believe that it was a coincidence when during this cycle, the human was assigned to work with me. I did not see the Terran during my cyclic meal intake, and was immediately called into the main machinery room without a sight of it.

The Vitrichl appeared shortly after with the human in tow. Vitrichl eludicated that the human had proved to be a skillful worker and was now officially assigned to my unit unless the Vitrichl explicitly stated otherwise.Vitrichl left to attend his other duties, leaving me with the human.

I turned to the control panels covering the walls, and speaking into a small microphone, I introduced the Terran to the machine. "This is human Quinn. It is officially part of my unit and will assist me." 

"It‘s 'she', mate.", the human corrected. "Excuse me?", I asked, careful not to be impolite. "She. My prounous are 'she‘, not 'it'.", she explained. "I apologize. I did not mean to upset you." "It‘s alright, mate. I‘m not upset, just correcting you for future reference.“ "Thank you", I decided on the safest route.

"So, a mechanic as well? Cool.", she folded her fingers into her hand and extended it to me. I was not confident how I was supposed to respond to this gesture, so I once again, did nothing. Eventually, she retracted her hand and let it disappear into a fold in her clothing which appeared to be a pocket. 

Clothing, I noted. Not many members of the crew of the SIIR Noxos wore clothing on a regular basis, apart from their space suits. This obviously raised even more questions: Why did she wear clothing? Was it out of religious or cultural reasons? Out of personal comfort? Did all Terrans wear clothes or was she a special case? Did specific clothing symbolise specific things? These are all questions I hope I will be able to find out the answer to one day.

"Soo, like…what am I supposed to do around here? Do I have like, a specific task or…? Cap didn‘t mention anything." Cap. That was a word the translating device wasn‘t able to translate. "Cap?", I questioned further. Her face muscles contracted in a manner that made the patches of hair above her visual organs move closer to each other and the skin above them fold.

"The captain?", she said. "Of course, I apologize. The translating device did not recognize that word. I call him Vitrichl."

"Oh, is that his name? He didn‘t say anything." "No", I reassured. "It is simply the word "Captain" in my species‘ language." "Ah okay…", she said. "Well, what about my task?" "Of course.", I assigned her a simple task, showing her where to work and what to do. We then continued to work in silence. I did not object, because it gave me plenty of time to observe the human.

Humans, or at least this one, seemed to have rather random patches of hair on their head. Attached to the protective skin over their eyes, in a line above the eyes and on the top of the head. In human Quinn‘s case, it grew down, barely reaching her chest and was of a deep brown colour, just like her eyes. 

The muscles in her face never seemed to stay still, always contracting or smoothing while she worked. It was probable that facial expressions played a big part in human communication.

She still stood on two legs, upright and used both of her arms to work. For some inexplicable reason, she usually held a piece of technology or something similar in only one hand, but seemed to keep switching sides in a rather random matter.

I‘d have to ask her about it, but it did not seem like an appropriate time.

After working for some time and me continuously observing her, she set down her equipment and spoke: "Y’know, you‘re probably not aware of this, but humans consider staring rude." She turned around on her feet and faced me, seemingly watching me process this information. I quickly responded, careful not to irritate her further after having done something so insensitive. "I apologize. I was not aware of humans‘ stance on this behaviour and it was not my intention to be rude or make you uncomfortable. If I may ask, though, I have been watching you for some time now and I did not notice you ever turn around to face me until now. How were you aware I was watching you?" 

"Well, I could just kind of…feel it. I sensed your gaze in my back. Kind of like a sixth sense, you could probably say." I blinked. Sensed my gaze? Sixth sense? What were the other five then? 

I voiced these questions: "What do you mean you sensed it?" 

"Well, I just kind of had this feeling of someone watching me. Don‘t you ever get that feeling?" Flabbergasted, I said no.

She raised and lowered the part where her arms and chest joined once again, similar to the gesture she offered on the second day. "Well, I guess it just must be a human thing." "I suppose", I agreed, and with that, she turned back to the control panel she was commanding and we continued to work in silence, although now I was keenly aware of my every move and careful not to let my gaze linger on the Terran for too long.

She left before I did, apparently to take in another of her daily meals (something that was not necessary for my species). Soon, the cycle was already over before I encountered the human again.

I have made great progress during this cycle and I believe that if the human continues to work in my environment, it will be easier for me to discover more information about humans. 

Perhaps that is why the Vitrichl put the human into my section. Perhaps this was his plan all along. But I do not draw conclusions. I simply propose theories.

[nnnyxie]

I‘m bAaAaAck

One other thing I’m an absolute sucker for is comfort🫶🏻 So imagine jealous!izu x reader

jealous!Itzu would probably just become quiet and insecure and withdraw himself from reader if it‘s extremely bad…in the begingen he‘d step closer…hold reader just a little bit tighter

Poor boy gets so nervous he just starts spewing random facts about reader to prove he knows reader better, like

„Did you know when you smile you have a dimple on your right but not on your left cheek?? And your nose crinkles right there *he taps readers face* and and your eyes squint and your cheeks go all rosy and-„

poor baby is just a stammering mess :(

reassure and love him :c

#𖢥 izuku anon

JEALOUS IZU!!!!!!!!!!

thank you izuku anon omg

i feel like izuku isn’t the type to get jealous easily, yk??

not unless he feels ‘threatened’

he’s not the type to like,,, ‘puff out his chest’ and ‘mean mug’ the person but— he is the type to hold some part of you. maybe your hip?? or put an arm around your shoulder??

though— there are times where he gets a bit insecure,,, so he just leaves.

he only stops when you say his name and ask where he’s going. he mumbles an ‘i don’t feel good’ and you cut the conversation with the person.

“you didn’t have to do that. you can go keep talking to them.” “no, you said you didn’t feel good so we’re going home.”

he sighed, now he felt guilty. he let his jealousy get in the way of your conversation.

when you reach home, he airs it all out. he tells you that he felt jealous, and that he feels guilty for making you leave when you were having fun. he told you how he felt like he was being a bad boyfriend for acting and feeling like that.

you tell him you were glad he told you the truth instead of keeping that lie and that you’re happy he’s able to communicate this all to you!! (we are all abt communication here folks!!)

“jealousy is a natural emotion and it’s something everyone experiences. i’m glad you told me. do you want to assess the situation?” he gives a nod. “okay, could you tell me why you felt jealous?” “i guess i just thought that they were… you know… more interesting and… i dunno, better? than me… and i got insecure about it…” you gave an understanding nod, “it’s okay that you felt that way izuku, your feelings are valid. but, please, never think that for one second, there’s someone better or more interesting than you.”

you laughed a little, “after all, you had to eat hair to get to where you’re at. i believe that’s the most interesting thing i’ve heard in my life.”

the talk went on for a bit, you discussed the times you had gotten jealous as well, and discussed any insecurities you both felt.

it was a very relieving and reassuring conversation, on both ends.

but yk he’s still gonna feel jealous from time to time.

again, it’s a natural emotion! even animals get jealous!!! especially house pets, they’re very territorial.

with that reassuring talk, he’s doesn’t really withdraw anymore. instead, he makes direct eye contact with the person. not necessarily trying to intimidate them but,,, more so to show he’s very aware of the conversation and what the person is trying to get at.

the only times he’ll ever get like,,, overly(???) jealous is when the person brings up old stuff about you that doesn’t really… align(??) with you anymore. to him, it feels like they’re tryna one up him. ykwim???

so then he’ll go on a cute tangent about how you don’t really like that kind of stuff anymore or you aren’t like that anymore. he’ll go on a rant about your new favorite things/activities and how you are now.

he’ll wave his hands around to emphasize his points, and when he’s trying to remember a thing you told him about a show/book/movie— he’ll begin to mumble into his hand. it’s very sweet but, you’ll have to stop him because, the person just ends up excusing themself— they were kinda off-put by him.

but, it’s okay!! that’s just another reason to love him!!

IZUKU <3

[devilzeyez]

I'm so envious and happy for you that you went to the Ateez concert in Zurich! You don't have to, at all, but anything you want to share about that experience - from getting the tickets to what it was like, your favorite moment, anything at all - would be wonderful for me to hear about. I hope you had a wonderful time!!

First off, I‘m so sorry it took me this long to respond, I‘ve been a little busy, but ofc I‘d love to answer sour questions! I‘ve been listening to Ateez since 2018, but never actually managed to go to any of their concerts, so when they announced this tour I knew I had to go. I actually live in Germany, not Switzerland, so when the ticket sales were announced, I was going to try for Cologne tickets. But the german presale was a complete shitshow (at least for me) and I didn‘t get Cologne tickets. I did, however, score standing GA tickets for Paris. I didn‘t originally want to go to Zurich, even though I only live an hour from the city because Zurich/Switzerland is a lot more expensive than Germany and I also had a different concert planned the day before Ateez. But when I saw that there were still Atiny and Sector VIP tickets for sale around christmas, AND then I got a huge bonus from my job, I couldn‘t resist and just bought the tickets for Zurich. Fast forward to last week, I got to the venue around 7am, got in the queue, talked to other fans, made some new friends, the usual. They started letting the VIP people in around 12:30 and we got in at about 1pm and then spent the next four hours waiting in the foyer of the hall. They let us in, everything was really well organized, no one was pushing during the walk or anything, and I ended up in third row with one my of my new friends. The concert was INSANE, I honestly feel like I still haven‘t fully recovered. I don‘t even know how to put it into words, it was just so incredible. My bias is San, and maybe I‘m delusional (I mean, I probably am, but that‘s part of the fun isn‘t it?) but I felt like I got a ton of interactions with him, like he completed a heart with me and reacted to my Sandeoki lightstick cover. Also, they all look so good in real life it‘s crazy. Like to the point where I, a lesbian, texted my friends that I was questioning my sexuality during the concert, and I was only half joking. I was really surprised by San, because he looked so tiny? Like not short or anything, and his shoulders are really wide but his waist is so tiny.

Also, I‘ve always said my bias line is San because he‘s just so adorable, Seonghwa because I really like his voice and Yeosang because I relate to him being a little confused 90% of the time, but Mingi really got to me during the show like that man is so good at performing.

I think that was all I had on my mind, sorry that this is so long and probably not fun to read, I just wrote down my train of thought honestly. Thank you for asking!!

[galaxygirl-katie27]

Mizael Redesign

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-Okay so first of, he/she/they Mizael. Mizael is above something as human as gender. They just represent as whatever they‘re feeling right now. Wasn’t different in his past life, he was raised by a dragon. I think Jinlon told her to be whatever felt right for them.

-I also headcanon Mizael as Androsexual, so only attracted to men. Specifically to Kaito

-And it was already canon that she was Chinese, so I just kept that.

-Now, if you didn’t know, Mizael was actually first designed to have black hair, so I did that for their past life. But then I thought, how did it suddenly change to blonde? Well, it didn’t! He just decides to dye it blonde, hence the black roots. His Barian form still has blonde hair, but Vector‘s hair also changes from orange to grey, so I don’t think this’s too much of a stretch. The curls are also not natural, he uses a hair curler. This is also not his default hair, she always wears different hair styles, I just really like curly haired Mizael. They also braid their hair for the night, so sometimes the curls stick in the morning.

-Mizael is already a tall bitch, only the second tallest Barian, because Girag is such a hunk. But they always wear heels anyways, because they like to tower other people. It makes him feel superior. And yes, she can run in them.

-They are the fashionista of the Barian household. You will never see Mizael going out of the house looking anything other that gorgeous.

-I made his Barian necklace smaller, because I did not realise that it was a necklace in the first place. Now it actually looks like it.

-She has painted nails, because the Barians (Rio) invented a self care day and everyone joins in, because they all actually feel better after it . Very refreshed and mentally in a better place. He and Rio always paint each others nails.

_Also Mizael is a good cook and baker. He wasn’t at the beginning though. She always has to make his own food, because they need 3 warm meals per day and the other Barians just don’t need that, so he learned to cook for herself and with time he got really good after multiple cook books and courses The baking part is where Kaito comes in, because in this house we ship MizaKai. Since I think Kaito and Haruto both have a sweet tooth, Kaito more so than Haruto, Mizael would learn to bake for both of them, but he only gave them her first perfect result. The Barian household had to act as her taste testers and it took a while for them to not be scared that someone is going to the ER because of Mizael‘s baking.

-Mizael was just born to serve cunt, but the directors were cowards to give us actual cunty Mizael. Fine, I‘ll do it myself

-OK. PAST LIFE.

-I know Mizael canonically used a sword, BUT THAT‘S BORING. Almost every other Barian also uses a sword. I can accept Nasch, Merag and Durbe, but those are IT. I actually thought about giving him a lance at first, but then I realised: How tragic could I make this? Bow and arrow. Imagine, that Mizael was a really skilled archer and I mean REALLY skilled. She is such a natural at archery, never once in their life has he missed a target. But then Mizael and Jinlon were killed by arrows. And now Mizael can’t even bring himself to even lay their eyes on a bow, because the feeling of being pierced by hundreds of arrows always comes back to him and she’s just so traumatised by it. If there was another season, I would write a character arc for him, where they could learn to overcome their trauma and use his skill again (In a very dangerous situation where a loved one is in danger probably and she has no choice, BUT THAT‘S FOR ANOTHER TIME)

-Mizael’s hair was also long af in their past life. I‘m taking down to her knees at least. I’m thinking if maybe his hair was forcefully cut off, before his execution, to explain why he has shorter hair again as a Barian and human, but I think I‘ll leave that up to imagination for now.

-I also added the golden dragon to the clothing in honour of Jinlon.

[rhiannons-bird]

okay so I‘M FINALLY READING SWORD CATCHER AND I HAVE THOUGHTS

I‘m only about halfway through but I need to rant

- it‘s incredible how well cassie manages to lend a unique voice to each of her characters every single time. she just doesn’t miss does she?

- lin caster is the awesomest girl. i just love her because she reminds me of other cc girls in the way that she is kind of a very typical heroine on the surface but you can actually feel her emotions and she’s very believable & flawed & human and you just can’t help rooting for her + i love her friendship with mariam

- everyone is bisexual & it’s completely normalised i love it here

- lin & conor??? apparently they are the flagship which I know because I took a peek at the tag after they had two scenes together because the ENERGY OMG

- ahh yes, conor 😌 another pretty man with issues who’s in a lot of trouble and likes to cover it up with sarcasm, pompous behaviour, fancy clothes & vanity- you just can’t help but love it

- but also he‘s the biggest prick and i want him to have some sense beat into him by everyone around him

- like he qualifies for a huge growth arc but it could also go downhill and turn into sth ugly

- anyone had a weird sense of déjà vu about him and lin after that one little excerpt about adessa and suleman? like, she’s an ashkar with probably immense magical potential let’s be real i see where this is going and he‘s a prince (future king) with marivent blood 🤔🤔🤔

- conor‘s frat boy posse make my blood boil- especially with the way they talked about antonetta in that one scene 🤢🤮

- falconet is the nicest one by far but he‘s sus as hell i know he’s up to sth 🤨 but i rly wanna like him 😭

- the ragpicker king is just a cool dude who dresses emo and has people murdered on the regular i guess i love him. he’s hot. - kaz energy but also very different at the same time. can‘t wait to see more of him. and there’s def more to him.

- also no, andreyen, i don‘t understand either what people mean about ji-an having an off putting manner i‘m pretty convinced she‘s never done anything wrong in her entire life 💗except for the murder what murder

- kel can only be described as a calmly unhinged cinnamon roll. he reminds me a little of james (especially with his „mask“) but if you orphaned him & janked up the loyalty & sluttiness by a hundred

- like fr he is so confused just running around threatening and/or kissing people wtf 😭✋🏼 he just has chemistry with everyone he interacts with lol

- kel & conor remind me of matthew & james but if there was a big power imbalance and a everything is a little more fucked up 🙃

- generally the way power & power dynamics are portrayed and handled is very interesting i like it

- antonetta has my entire heart ❤️

- I need more of her but as an individual not just through kel‘s pov, so far i’m not very big on whatever is being hinted at with her and kel

- I adore merren just like everyone else, he‘s kind of giving a weird mix of christopher/matthew/wylan and I‘m here for it. plus: autism coded character yeass

- also nice to see some jewish rep. (i did not know cassie was jewish before lol) the ashkar are really interesting (& as far as their treatment by the rest of the world goes at times infuriating😤) to read about and add a lot of depth to the world building.

- i love how we see the complexities of their culture portrayed through lin who on the one hand is deeply ingrained in it and holds/has received a lot of love & care for/from her own people while also having been wronged & ostracised by them and how both can be true simultaneously

- as someone who‘s very familiar with multiple romance languages the languages in this book are incredibly entertaining to me

- SO MANY SECRETS & political intrigue hehehe rubbing my little hands together can’t wait for all this to escalate (because it most certainly will) 😈

bottom line

I’m really glad i finally started reading this.

it took me a while to get into it & I’m still holding out on a final judgement since it seems very slow but i’m a patient reader and i appreciate a good setup.

also I want a creepy black crocodile pool in my house now.

[xxnghtclls]

idk...i feel like sukuna could be asexual but also i can see him as being very picky about it to the point where he forgets about sex cuz there is nobody really worthy of him and he wont spend his time playing with someone boring to him. he got some high standards...i mean he even went without it for 1000 or more years...but his sus comment about nobara and his question where are the women? made me think about him in this way. would he really just force someone cuz he is in the mood for it? cuz his character is all about self pleasure? the ego basically. what do u think about this :D

Oof this is a hot topic. I wondered when I will be asked about this. I like how you say it made you think cause it made me think as well.

On twitter the Nobara thing was a shitstorm oh lord 😆

Well. I hope I don’t get cooked, but my current thoughts to that are:

For one: I think its stupid to put a headcanon out as a fact like this (him being a rpist) because it‘s not explicitly stated anywhere.

But second: I think it‘s also not really wise to think that he ever asked for consent for anything… ever. He eats people and I doubt he asked for consent there too. - that‘s just my opinion. He‘s a evil mf and I doubt he asks nicely for things (when its not a binding vow like he did with yuji but he kinda went cruel there too lol)

The comment about „where are the women“ was 100% about he wanting to eat them tho, cause he says that he got sick of eating curse meat.

When I saw the Nobara scene for the very first time, I admit that my first thought was too that he meant… the other thing.

However, we learned a lot about him since then and honestly, I think this whole situation can‘t be answered, because we simply don‘t know.

For me it‘s more the question, like you said, if he was interested in sex at all. He describes humans as insects, kinda questionable if he was interested in them sexually. Someone posted the panel where he fights Yuji and says „That Kenjaku did the grossest things“ which can be an argument that he finds sex disgusting even, especially because he thinks he‘s standing above humans.

Sukuna says on one hand he never thought of anyone to satisfy him, but on the other hand that he just takes what he wants and plays with it, „eats“ when he wants to eat (although in his case I‘m sure it‘s meant literal 😆), shows for me that he literally just does what he wants. And I think thats a big ass character trait of him in general.

For now I think we have to assume he wasn‘t interested in anyone.

However I think it‘s stupid for people to put the Yorozu panel as proof, saying he didn‘t flinch at a naked woman… like bro it was a public event don‘t you expect to have him some self restraint? What was he supposed to do? Get a nosebleed? Go crazy and fuck her on that podium? Sigh

ALL IN ALL: We don‘t know. And we probably never will. I wouldn't argue strongly for or against it because I think theres a lot up for interpretation and imo there are stupid arguments in both sides.

So this whole discussion is shit anyway imo because FOR ME he wouldn‘t be someone worse or less worse if he did stuff or not. He‘s just evil. Living the hedonistic life. And he eats people. That's all we need to know.

[dontyouworrydaddy]

Hi hi !! Love your cod hcs!! And I apologise if I spammed them.

They pretty much made me smile today since ive been binging on them. If it's okay can I ask for some of the cod boys comforting a medic reader and their new employer is just a dick. Where reader works so much over time(even during sick days), maybe the boys get worried because reader's body is just basically telling them, they need rest?

My job has been kinda crappy lately and I've considered finding another clinic to work at because some staff get treated like shit while others are put on a pedestal.

ᙖᥱttᥱɾ Ꙇᥙᥴƙ ᥒᥱxt tɩຕᥱ

Task Force 141 + gn! Reader

Hey Love! First of all, thank you so much for helping people that need you. I wish you the best and I hope you find a clinic that gives you what you deserve. Please don’t forget to also take care of yourself <3 I love you!

And thank you so much 🥺 This literally means so much to me <3 Spam as much as you want, I literally don’t care. In fact, it always makes me happy 😋

I hope you like this<3 LOVE YOU💖💖💖💖

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You were working in the infirmary for the Task Force 141 and other units. You had proven yourself to be an indispensable asset to the team, healing their physical wounds and bringing warmth to their hearts. You were their favorite. They knew they could come to you running and you would catch them with open arms. Always having a smile on your face and shining brighter than all the stars combined. They were lucky to have someone motivated and happy medic like you.

However, it wasn't long before the demands of your new employer began to take a toll on your well-being. The team noticed the exhaustion etched in the lines of your face, the dark circles under your eyes and the way you pushed yourself beyond your limits, even working during sick days. They noticed how you slowly lost your smile as each day passed and you started to look like you hadn’t slept for weeks. This started to worry the boys since they weren’t used to this side of you.

Kyle was the first to speak up, concern lacing his voice. "I think that you've been pushing yourself too hard. It's okay to take a break sometimes, you know?" he said softly.

You attempted to brush off his worry with a smile, but it couldn't hide the weariness in your eyes. "I'm fine, really" you replied, trying to convince yourself as much as you tried to convince him. He looked sad and you could read it off of his face. You healed his wound and told him to not overwork himself. Oh how bad he wanted to say that you shouldn’t either. But he didn’t. He didn’t want to provoke you.

It didn’t take too long until Simon entered the room. You turn to look at him and give him a smile but he couldn’t feel your smile to his heart like he usually would. Whenever you smiled at him, it felt like the whole world was smiling at him. But today he didn’t feel like the whole world was smiling at him.

Simon leaned forward, making it hard for you to not look at him, yet his voice gentle was stern. "You're not fine" he said, his piercing blue eyes meeting yours. "We can see it, I can see it, and it's not worth risking your health for us" you couldn’t look at him any longer so you looked down, not answering him. From outside, you and Simon could hear the new employee yell at you to come and do something instead of just sitting. Without looking back, you turned around and got out of your room, leaving Simon alone. And he was holding him back from snapping at the newbie to fuck off.

John Price, the wise captain of the Task Force came around a day later and greeted you with a warm smile he had saved. Just for you.

"How is my favorite medic?" he asked and you gave him a warm smile. Or let’s say you tried. "You lost weight, Y/N. I‘m worried you’re not doing fine. Anything you wanna talk about?" he stated, causing you to look at yourself and then back at him. "No sir. I‘m working out at home. That’s probably why." you reply, desperately trying to close the conversation but he doesn’t let you.

"What’s with your eyes then? Why do they look so tired if you’re okay?" he hits a spot in your heart and the tears are threatening you to fall any second. "I watched a sad movie last night. Still hurts. That’s all. Anything else captain?" your voice id trembling. You hope he says no and leaves because if he doesn’t, he will get to see you cry in front of him. And you don’t want him to see that.

"Come here" he opens his arms and hugs you tightly. You can’t help but let the tears fall down your eyes and ruin the makeup you put on to cover the dark circles around your eyes. "It’s okay. You just need a rest. Please take a few days off, for yourself. You need to rest Sweetheart."

You hesitated, torn between your dedication to the team and the need to care for yourself. But you know that if you leave, you’re gonna have to work harder because of the new doctor around here.

As the days passed, the team grew increasingly worried as they saw the toll that constant work was taking on you. Your body was showing clear signs of exhaustion and the concern in their eyes intensified.

Again, kyle entered the med bay, a determined look in his eyes. "Y/N" he said, his voice unwavering, "I know you've been neglecting your own well-being, but we won't let you do it anymore."

He revealed a small cut on his arm, deliberately made. "If you won't take care of yourself," he continued, "I'll have to take care of you."

In that moment, the weight of his worry and love for you became too much to bear. Tears welled up in your eyes as you nodded, finally allowing yourself to accept their care and concern.

With the help of the team, Price had a conversation with your boss behind your back and reported what’s going on and ensured that you were given a few days off to rest. The boys rallied around you, bringing you snacks, food and making sure you stayed hydrated.

Simon spoke up with a grin, "Hey there doc." he said playfully "have a whole team to take care of you now."

A genuine smile graced your lips as you felt the warmth of their care surrounding you. "Thank you" you said softly.

Johnny clapped you on the shoulder. "We're a team" he said, his voice filled with camaraderie "and can we take care of our own. And of you. That’s the least we can do"

In the days that followed, you finally allowed yourself to rest, your body and soul. The boys were there every step of the way, ensuring you got the rest and care you needed.

You were thankful to whoever was listening to you. They were family to you and whenever you needed someone, they were there for you. It’s the least they can do and pay off the times you overworked so they were doing fine. And now they are taking care of you until you stand up again and send them to bed to rest.

[stardiveatnight]

Okay so a few hours have passed since I watched season 3 and I want to collect my thoughts

(Also it is 9am and I haven‘t slept so bear with me)

First of all I wanna say that the performances were amazing. I rewatched the scene where Wille confronts his parents at least ten times because it‘s just so intense and I love Edvin‘s performance in it.

I‘m glad Micke returned, but I‘m also glad that there won’t seem to be a happy ending for him. I felt like Sara‘s and Simon‘s relationship with him needed a bit more exploring and closure and I felt like they did what they could do with the limited amount of time and so many plots to wrap up.

While I felt like the first three episodes were quite slow, it all paid off in episode 5. Such a good episode, I can’t say it enough!

Never thought about Rosh and Stella being a thing but, even though I know they won‘t actually end up together, I quite enjoyed seeing them together.

I found the revelation about the hazing and all that very interesting and didn’t see Erik making a comeback like that at all. But it fits the theme and makes sense, because if everything is not as it seems, then so is Erik. Also, it added depth to not only August, but in my opinion to Nils and Vincent as well.

I very much enjoyed watching Felice‘s struggle with getting over Sara, because I‘m pretty sure we all can relate to that pain and it felt refreshing having it dealt with in such depth.

Simon and Wille being happy together! Being out in public!! That was nice to see, albeit short.

I reblogged a post about this too, but I loved that some of the more heavier subjects were finally addressed out loud. It felt so satisfying to watch after all that buildup and hinting in seasons 1 & 2 (e.g. the racism Felice deals, I really liked her talk with her dad, August‘s eating disorder, and probably other things that my sleep deprived brain cannot think of right now)

I don‘t understand the problems people have with Simon and Wille, or especially Simon‘s behavior at the end of episode 5. I feel like it was pretty careless and ignorant of the palace to expect Wille to explain Simon all the rules he will have to follow now that their relationship is public, and for Simon to follow them all without batting an eye. I mean, he is 17 after all, idk what they were thinking. And to me, it was pretty clear that Simon was anything but happy in their relationship, especially after realizing that due to Wille being a prince, his needs will always somehow mean a little more, have priority, etc. etc., and Simon will have to get used to having to take a step back more times than not. I totally get not being okay with that, and I���m not trying to say that Wille‘s problems especially towards the end of the season are not bad or valid — they definitely are. But I don‘t think we can fault a 17 year old who is being thrust into this world he doesn’t understand and that is not welcoming to him without any help by his side to think that maybe, this is not the life for him. I guess he could have waited until after his birthday? But that’s just me.

My heart is breaking for Wille, though. He really cannot catch a break, but I was surprised to see that he was seemingly on board with being the crown prince again. I guess anything as long as August doesn’t get what he wants.

I do have to say though, I did not like the music as much as I did in the other seasons. It was alright, and I‘m excited to see whether there‘ll be another iconic song at the end of episode 6.

I mentioned it earlier, but I felt like episodes 1-3 were a little bit slow. I understand why, but at times it was a bit dragging.

I‘m very curious to see how they are going to wrap everything up in the last episode. It sure is a lot for just one more episode, but we‘ll see! I‘m optimistic it‘ll be great.

[doodles-with-noodles]

*I hiss and scamper up a tree and throw rocks with my questions painted on them through your window*

Songs you associate with any of your characters? You know like the thing where you listen to a song and make up an animatic in your head?

What's everyone's favourite colour?

What do the museum archives people do in their free time?

Are any of your characters scared of storms? For no reason in particular.

Opinions on tea? (From the characters) (I mean you can say yours too if you want)

Are there any other metaphors?

What would happen if the main character(s) from all your stories met each other?

Is there anyone in specific the mind burglars are working for or is it just, like, highest bidder?

Similarly, what happens to the stolen memories? Do the victims still have them? How difficult is it do steal a memory? What makes one memory different from the one that happens after it? How many can you steal at once? (This one is like 5 questions badly concealed in a way too small trenchcoat)

Cats?

Alas!

AHHHHHH anyways

Some have more soundtrack feel but:

Jules: Mayonaka no Door/ stay with me, Charlie: Murder on the dancefloor by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Malik: Good-old-fashioned lover boy by Queen

Ed: Got my mind set on you by George Harrison, Anthony: Rocket Man by Elton John, Norna: You’re my best friend by Queen, Cecil: Long Away also by Queen, Maura: Killer Queen ALSO BY Queen, Roscoe: Don’t bring me down by ELO

Mathildis: Rowing, Cavendish Lab, Collapsing Inwards and A Spacetime Singularity by Jóhann Jóhannsson. All have a very nice science feel and kinda follow in the tone how Mathildis changes I think.

Treeve: Restless by Abel Korzeniowski and The Moon Will Sing by the Crane Wives

They both also have a song together ig? which is Your Blood by Aurora

The Kilmoores have I‘m Dying Mother, Cian has a more soundtracky song named QKThr by Aphex Twin which I think kinda fits (although it sounds a little more peaceful) because it sounds kinda disjointed and heavy. I had a really weird thought recently where I thought that sound design from Cian’s pov like in cinematic format would sound super neat.

2. I don’t know everyone‘s. I think Norna likes orange, Cecil blue, Ed purple, Jules like a burgundy red and Mathildis green.

3. They live in a city so. city stuff I guess. But they also hang out with each other and go pet animals at a shelter. Stuff I‘d like to do ig. They also listen to music a lot?

4. Malik maybe because he can’t hear that well when it’s stormy. It’s a little scary to him.

5. Tea‘s good with milk and honey (mine). The museum archive guys are indifferent. Roscoe is trying to push tea because it’s a little less strong than coffee that has his team all jittery (looking at Norna and Cecil). The science guys drink it if they want to be fancy. The Kilmoores drink tea like, all the time even if in crisis it’s only little ugly dried leaves. Maybe with a shot in it or smth.

6. Huh, idk honestly. The mind burglars have kinda this thing about how abuse (even if only emotionally) fucks you up. The museum archives look a lot at death and grief. Baldur‘s death is how people were manipulated and trained by politics during the war and what that leads to. Kilmoore is about how the war fucks people up directly. Yanno.

7. They‘d probably be confused as hell and try to stick together. Especially Cecil, Mathildis and Cian would be puzzled as hell at each other because weren’t they in different situations, they’d probably think the same. Roscoe wouldn’t like Treeve probably. Ed would try to explain communism to the Baldur’s death and the Kilmoore guys which is a bad idea because they’re alternate universe wartime people.

8. The highest bidder. They be doing it for the cash. Usually it’s corporate shitheads.

9. „Steal“ is more like „we remember the information and submit it.” There’s also overwriting, where you alter a memory to influence a person, but if done wrong, it can cause the person’s sense of self to deravel. Victims do still have them. Complete removal is impossible.

It’s difficult as heck, not only do you have to get past the person’s brain and manipulate them without noticing, you also sometimes come across some pretty fucked up shit in their minds and have to get through to get deeper, and you have to go deep a lot of times. A lot of times you need to keep the person unaware and make them feel as if they’re still conscious, which is why you need a team to tweak stuff. It’s not like you’re rifling through records; it’s like you’re in a place. Steal at once is difficult- the distinction between individual memories is not black and white, and as you go through you see and “steal” a lot of stuff. Fun fact: Cecil has trouble with his memories deraveling later in the story. Say Yipeee to traumatizing slow memory loss!

10. Cats are great. Most of them probably lovee cats.

[planet-dusk]

Hi princess anon!

So, we actually ended up not going, him opting to rather rent out a fucking hotel suite instead because he couldn’t be bothered to drive for half an hour to get his hands on me and we proceeded to play for 14 hours straight (when I tell you that man is SPOILING me)

But: the one I‘ve been to before was a goth themed party, so with dress code, but it really just said please come at least dressed in black, this is a goth party after all, but within that range from black formal wear over fetish gear and lingerie all the way up to naked was totally acceptable and I actually did see everything from full black suit all the way to only wearing a pair of small underpants. There’s been a bar and dancefloor, smoking lounge outside, and the playrooms were open, meaning there is a huge space littered with opportunities to play and watch others play. With that, there’s the whole range of possibilities. I‘ve been strapped onto the stretching bench and whipped with several devices by my partner. She even covered my eyes. Later she told me people were watching, but I didn’t know at the time. I also saw people tied to a St. Andreas cross, hung from the ceiling, and being led around on a leash. There’s also an extra room full of benches where you can go to actually fuck. But the details always depend on the place you’re visiting.

The one we planned to attend was an afterparty for a conference here in town, so it probably would’ve been relatively tame due to „civilians“ in the facility. If the playrooms were opened, the play would’ve been restricted to that area, and there was no dresscode.

I‘m planning to go to another event in two days at the same place, but it’s more like a workshop rather than a party. We’re going to learn about bullwhips and hopefully I get to experience some as well. The bar will be open, but there’s not really a dresscode, because it’s not a themed party.

I hope this helped, I‘m always happy to answer questions :)

~🤍

ty for sharing i hope princess anon sees this :)) sounds like you had a great time i'm so happy for you bby <33

[sinosauropteryx--prima]

Life in the Cambrian

(row 1: Pikaia, Hallucigenia, Opabinia; row 2: Wiwaxia, Anomalocaris, Cambroraster; row 3: Olenellus, Marrella, Nailiana)

About a month ago I started to make these little collages about prehistoric life and honestly, all that I want is to talk about some of the cool and weird creatures that used to live on our planet. So I‘m just going to make this all of y‘alls problem and infodump into the void for a moment here. I‘m sorry and you‘re welcome.

The history of our planet actually starts about 4.6 billion years ago. Back then the earth was of course a flaming hot ball of lava that got constantly hit by rocks from outer space. One of those rocks was even big enough that its collision with us created the moon. Overall not a great time to be alive (also, as far as we know there wasn‘t really anything “alive“ yet). It was so bad, that this early time is called Hadean, you know, after the greek god of literal hell.

But after a while (like about 4 billion years ago) things chilled out a bit. This next time period is called the Archean, which is greek for “beginning“. The planet cooled down, we got some water and a real atmosphere, although its composition was very different from the one we have today, which would lead to the sky having all kinds of weird colors (maybe orange-ish). We also see the first life in the forms of single cell organisms. Some of those organism would have started to do photosynthesis, creating oxygen and releasing that into the atmosphere. One interesting hypothesis I came across btw is that it is believed that those early organisms didn‘t use chlorophyll to do their photosynthesis, but other molecules. You might now wonder, why that would be interesting in any way. Well, chlorophyll is the thing, that gives our photosynthesis-doing plants today their color. The organisms back than might have had a different color, most likely purple, and there is a good chance that their presences would have dyed the oceans purple. So imagine this barren world, with no visible life, orange skies, purple oceans and an atmosphere that would probably kill you. It‘s a beautiful image, isn‘t it?

As those silly little single celled organism did their photosynthesis, they steadily realized oxygen into the atmosphere, which turned out to be a problem, because when you change the composition of the atmosphere, that will massively affect live on the planet (totally not what‘s happening right now, no, we‘re fine). So at the end of the Archean there probably was a mass extinction where a lot of life basically suffocated itself. This “Great Oxidation Event“ happened about 2.6 billion years ago and marked the end of the Archean and the beginning of the Proterozoic (meaning “early life“), during which we see the first complex life forms.

Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic are all eons, which is the biggest measurement in the geologic time scale. Sometimes they are also just grouped together as the Pre-Cambrian (I will get to the actual Cambrian soon, I promise). The last eon, and the one we‘re currently living in, is the Phanerozoic (“visible life“) eon. Because it is the most recent and we have a lot more detailed knowledge about it, it usually gets divided into smaller parts. Eons are divided into eras (insert Taylor Swift joke here) and eras are divided into periods. Think of it like how a year is divided into months, and months are divided into days, and those are again divided into hours.

The first era of the Phanerozoic is the Paleozoic Era (“ancient life“) and the first period in that era is the Cambrian, which started about 540 million years ago. You might now wonder, why geologist have decided that that is the beginning of this last eon. In geology things usually get divided when there is a big change happening. The Great Oxidation Event was a pretty big deal and the world was changed afterwards, so we give the time before and after different names, to highlight that. It is similar to how we divided years into BC and AD because the birth of Jesus was a pretty big deal for the western world and we use it as a reference.

The thing that had changed at the beginning of the Phanerozoic eon is that suddenly there was A LOT of life. As we have just discussed, there was some life before this point, but it was rare, small, very primitive and the fossils are very hard to find. In fact the shift between older fossil-free rocks and then all the fossil-filled rocks of the Cambrian was so obvious and so sudden, that for a while paleontologists thought that life itself must have started in the Cambrian.

Today we know that that is not true. However during the Cambrian life diversified very rapidly and by the end of it, the earliest members of all animal lines were present. This includes for example arthropods (insects, spiders, etc.), chordates (everything with a backbone, like us), molluscs (snails, octopus, clams, …), cnidaria (jellyfish and corals), and many more. This diversification is also known as the Cambrian Explosion, which is quite the catchy name. It is however not completely clear, why this happened and why at this time, but there are some theories:

One idea is that something in the environment changed. Maybe the oxygen content in the air and water increased, allowing the animals to grow to bigger sizes. Maybe it was the temperature or something else. Another theory is that it had to do with the animals themselves. Some of them might have evolved something that then forced everyone else to also step up their game in an evolutionary arms race. The thing that‘s usually brought up here are eyes (because yes, at some point, eyes were the hot new thing). It would make sense, because, believe it or not, if you have eyes you can actually see things, which means that you can hunt things, or avoid things that hunt you.

Most of the Cambrian animals were pretty small, only a couple cm long. One of the biggest ones was Anomalocaris (whose name literally translates to “weird shrimp“), which measured up to 60 cm long. Imagine you‘re a little Cambrian creature, just going about your day, swimming in the sea, feeding on plankton, as suddenly a shadow falls over you. A giant beast swims above you. Its long arms are reaching for you as you desperately try to escape the monster.

Anomalocaris wasn‘t actually a shrimp. At best, it was very distantly related, as it was also an arthropod. It, as well as its cousin Cambroraster, belonged to the radiodonta, which was very successful during the early Paleozoic, living a variety of lifestyles and making up some of the biggest animals of their time. The five-eyed (yes, five-eyed) Opabinia was also closely related. Another group of arthropods were the trilobites (like Olenellus), bug-like creatures living on the ocean floors.

As alien as those creatures might seem, there were much stranger ones out there. Wiwaxia for example, which wikipedia just marks as “Mollusc (?)“, which sounds about as confident as a student that didn‘t study for their exam. But the title for the weirdest one should probably go to Hallucigenia. It was most likely at least somewhat related to arthropods and it did puzzle paleontologists for a long time (I mean, they named it Hallucigenia for a reason). When it was first discovered, scientists thought that the long spines on its back were actually its legs and they also switched its head and tail in reconstructions. So not only did we mess up its back and front, we also got it upside down.

In terms of our own lineage: one of the earliest known chordates is Pikaia. The family resemblance isn‘t really there yet, but you have to start somewhere, I guess.

I‘m done with rambling for now. I hope at least someone found this slightly interesting or learned something or whatever.

Art by:

Anomalocaris - Luis R. Blanco

Opabinia, Pikaia - Jose Antonio Penas

Hallucigenia - Qbliviens

Cambroraster - Christian M.

Wiwaxia - Julio Lacerda

Olenellus - Nobu Tamura

Marrella - Ntvtiko

Nailiana Xi Liu

All the info is just a combination of wikipedia pages.

[aldi-spice]

Retirement home anon again: I’d like to get your opinion on this (if you have one), it’s gonna be long sorry 💀

I bought Story of Seasons: A wonderful Life for the Nintendo switch which is a remake of the 2003 harvest moon a wonderful life.

I’ve bought other harvest moon/story of seasons games for the switch as well and honestly… I’m disappointed.

The character design lacks, they all look so dead and emotionless I don’t know how to explain it. The whole world looks like it’s straight out of Cocomelon. You also start with a gifted Cow and other things, that you’d normally not get in the originals and tbh it feels like they stripped all life away in all the newer versions, made it way easier in the beginning and tried to up the cuteness to a maximum which resulted in it looking like a kids show. The dialogs also turned so soft imo.

In harvest moon ds you straight up start with the mayor of mineral town insulting you and then the character (you) proceeding to try to kill him/punch him with an axe, a hammer, a scythe, even a watering can and in the end your dog bites him in the ass in a blackout screen.

It’s like how they took the sass out of the animal crossing characters with time and it just makes me sad. The new versions of the characters feel like lifeless copies :/

I‘m still hoping for more remakes and I’m still a big fan of the harvest moon/story of seasons franchise. But fields of Mistria honestly gave me the exact feeling I had when I got harvest moon ds on Christmas as a kid and started it up for the first time. I literally had a bit of a teary eye playing the demo and then the EA version of FoM 🥺

That’s also why I like FoM so much - it’s funny, it has innuendos, it’s made for adults/older teens despite it being cutely designed, the characters look and feel like they’re adults as well.

I‘m not trying to be mean to the newer games and I understand people enjoy playing them, hell I still buy them because I love the series, but they leave me hanging. ://

YESSSS I get it OMG it's so boring I have about 100 hours in PoOT (pioneers of olive town) and although I controversially found Harvest Moon One World better than Olive Town (I loved the open world concept and Jamil in particular), it was still kinda boring compared Stardew Valley which I bought as my first game for my switch back in 2019.

That day, I played SDV until 4 am, it was summer break and I just graduated highschool and it was magical playing SDV for the first time, I could barely put the game down for long enough to take care of myself lol.

And I get that exact same feeling again playing FoM, that kind of magical feeling where you're completly transported into a new world. I don't think ConcernedApe made SDV with children as a primary audience in mind, if he did he probably wouldn't have added depressed alocholic in there and I love it, I love a good story and good characters, inperfect characters with flaws, they feel way more real and more likable than the boring nice, polite ones we were getting in newer HM/SoS games. All I remember from PoOT is how claustrophobic the town feels, and how hard it was to decide who to marry because none of them was interesting enough, even Damon, the edgy biker boy, felt like he was taken straight from the Disney Channel. I want characters that I can call bastards, I want mean characters, they're the funniest to learn to love.

As for making the games way too easy, I'm not sure, I just remeber struggeling in older games but mostly because I was a child when I played them. I'm pretty sure you also could get a free cow in Animal Parade and in the tale of two towns but I could very well be wrong.

I'm not gonna lie, I never played Harvest Moon DS but that sounds hilarious, we need more of that back, and less Ned Flenders neighbors. That's another reason why I love SDV so much, Pam and Shane are so mean to the player at first (hell even Sebastian is kinda cold) but that's what makes them more compelling characters than the cast of PoOT, where frankly only the non-marriagable characters were interesting.

I think that's why I'm so obsessed with FoM right now, while yes the characters are so so nice, they're not boring and I don't even remember them by their niceness, Hayden is a super polite farmer, but I'd say his distinct traits are loud, open and so very passionate wbout farming, even his dialogue about being a good neighbor and lending you sugar is so much more memorable because he's so forward about it. I feel like most characters in this game can be described with a positive and a negative trait, which is what newer HM/SOS games lack, the balance between baby boy baby and bastard. And the dialogue in general is soooo good, I don't feel like I'm being talk down to, it feels like a normal conversation between adults, not between a child and their caretaker.

Laslty, thank god (NPC Studio) for the older characters, I feel like farming game fans are not in their teens (13-15) and more like in their twenties and up. We don't want to romace teens, we want something that doesn't feel illegal lol.

I totally agree anon, I love FoM so far and it has also made me super emotional playing this game. Ugh I can't wait for more content, I need to fall for this game harder.

[avirael]

FFxivWrite 2023

Day 17 - Sunset

"I wonder what Rael‘s doing now…", A'viloh said twisting a straw of dry savannah grass in his hand.

Thancred, who was sitting beside him on the ground, pretended to feel hurt. "You know, you can tell me if you’d rather spent time with Rael instead of me!"

This had not been what A'viloh was trying to say, he gladly spent time with Thancred, especially if it meant that he didn’t have to work alone. The question had been more a desperate attempt to make conversation while they waited for their target.

It was weird how quickly A’viloh had grown accustomed to Rael and their… unique attitude. He couldn’t help but wonder what teamwork between them and Yda and Papalymo would look like. Minfilia had decided to send Rael back to Gridania together with the two Scions to keep an eye on the Ixal. Meanwhile she wanted A'viloh and Thancred to investigate several suspicious robberies and disappearances around Camp Drybone in Eastern Thanalan. So now the two of them sat here waiting for something to happen…

A'viloh chuckled nervously feeling a little embarrassed. "No, I think I like it better here than in Gridania. Thanalan‘s my home after all…"

"And the company is a lot more friendly, right?", Thancred suggested, self-confident as always.

A'viloh laughed and shook his head. "That’s not nice, Rael can be quite friendly as well when they want to…"

Thancred furrowed his brow. "Excuse me if I find that hard to believe. All they ever do when I‘m around is glower at me…"

A'viloh nodded with a grin on his face. "I know too well how you feel…"

"So… you’re from around here? Where exactly?", Thancred asked.

"Oh, not really here.", A'viloh shook his head. "I lived at the Silver Bazaar before going to Ul'dah."

"The Silver Bazaar?", the Hyur asked in disbelief. "I don’t remember ever seeing a Miqo'te there, let alone one so striking."

A'viloh was a little too busy wondering if this had been a compliment or not to make a up a convincing lie, so he answered honestly instead. "I didn’t live there longer than a year maybe. I actually grew up in Southern Thanalan at the Forgotten Springs."

"That’s Drake-tribe territory, isn’t it? How come they tolerate boys from other tribes there?", Thancred asked correctly but A'viloh couldn’t help but feel a little interrogated.

"I was actually born in the South Shroud but that’s a long and sad story I‘d rather not tell right now…", he said and looked to the ground. Nothing from his gloomy past seemed exactly suitable to have a nice conversation about.

"Oh, I‘m sorry.", Thancred answered. "I didn’t mean to pry. Force of habit, you know?…"

For a while they just sat there silently waiting for their target. A'viloh slowly started to get impatient and the silence between them felt awkward to him. Thancred however didn’t seem bothered at all and just attentively observed their surroundings.

After another moment he seemed to notice that the Miqo'te was getting a little antsy, so he cheerfully exclaimed. "I thought I looked a little stupid in this disguise.", he gestured at the ragged, old clothes both of them were wearing. "But I have to say, A'viloh, you look great even in that!"

Certainly not used to such compliments, or any compliments at all for that matter, A'viloh didn’t really know how to react. He felt his face heat up a little and hoped that he wasn’t visibly blushing. "Don’t worry, you don’t look that stupid either.", he replied and secretly thought that Thancred would probably look good no matter what he wore.

"That’s very kind of you!", the Hyur laughed and then added winking at A'viloh. "Somehow that outfit really brings out the pretty color of your eyes."

This time the Miqo'te was sure his face turned red as a Rolanberry. Why did Thancred say things like that? A‘viloh couldn’t help but feel teased and embarrassed. "Now you‘re making fun of me!", he exclaimed.

"Just a little…", Thancred chuckled. "It‘s too funny how easily you get flustered."

"Haha yes, very funny indeed.", A'viloh replied but didn’t find it funny at all.

"I’m sorry!", Thancred said and then pointed towards the horizon. "Look! Maybe this will cheer you up."

A'viloh followed his gaze towards the horizon, where the bright warm sun of Thanalan started to paint the sky in different hues of orange, red and purple. It looked truly beautiful...

He sighed sadly as he remembered how in Little Ala Mhigo Laqa and him often had spent the afternoons under a gnarled, old tree outside of town and watched the sun set over the ruins of the ancient Belah‘dian temple nearby. In a town such as Little Ala Mhigo, where privacy was a luxurious good none could afford, it had been one of the few precious moments with just the two of them alone.

It felt forever ago and just like yesterday at the same time…

"Why so sad? It‘s pretty isn’t it?", Thancred asked as he noticed the Miqo'te‘s face.

Quickly A'viloh tried to blink back the tears, that had started to form in his eyes, and put on a forced smile. "Oh yes, it’s very pretty.", he said but even to himself his voice did not sound very convincing.

Thancred eyed him skeptically for a moment but didn’t say anything and then returned his gaze to the horizon. A'viloh glanced at him and noticed how the setting sun gave the Hyur‘s white hair a warm glow and made his tired face seem a lot healthier than he looked recently. Usually this situation would be quite romantic but right now A‘viloh only felt horrible and treacherous for even noticing things like this.

Then he heard Thancred sigh and saw that he was looking at him again. "Don’t look at me so! I really didn’t mean to make fun of you earlier!", he said apologetically. "I honestly think you look-"

Abruptly he fell silent and listened carefully. A'viloh with his Miqo'te ears could easily hear it too. He knew that someone was approaching them by the sound of his footsteps alone, even before he turned to see the hooded man that walked towards them.

[kendrixtermina]

Space Babies

I did not like the overly silly & unserious beginning sequence, but once they landed on the spaceship it got solid, & there’s an actual sense of exploration, mystery, sensowunder & familiar thematic beats since the persistence of humanity, the solving things by talking („just creatures you haven’t met yet“), the Doctor as confident, enthusiastic & very experiened.

Ruby just had more emotional reactions in 2 minutes than all the Chibnall companions did in the entire opening two-partner. She’s woved by space. She’s showing concern for the Doctor. She’s awed at seeing humanity’s survival. She’s guessing & thinking.

UGH im just so glad.

Like she manages to seem like a person while continuing to be established as someone who rolls with crazy very well, as in the previous episode. It’s the little subtle reactions & questions that still make her seem like a person / functional audience surrogate.

That opening dialogue is a good summary of the Doctor as an explorer.

Ovsly they’re expositioning a lot of the lore of the Doctor’s backstory for any new fans who are only starting to watch wth this ‚era‘, but they’re also showing us where he arrived at as a character after his time with Donna.

He’s still rushing from place to place & being a tad blunt at it, he’s still glossing over heavy serious stuff by saying it lightly, but he’s come a long way since Martha had to forcbly drag the backstory out of him, and found a renewed sense of joy & purpose.

I love how they’re doing his reactions of being excited by the weird. Like, there’s the character I like again! (I suppose run with RTD’s patchup of explaining 13s OOC-ness with burnout, I don’t think that’s what Chibnall was doing, but it’s the best they could do & an unboring concept. I kinda wish we could just ignore the timeless child nonsense completely but I realize why that’s not possible, at least they’re actually showing him having an opinion about it. (‚the adopted one was the one to survive‘)

Like they’re actually trying to give it some meaning & have the character say what it means to him (exactly the thing Chibnall just never did with the twist for the sake of twist) & tying it into some celebration of diversity, which like strikes me as how the Doctor’s character would react to such a thing. They’re steering it away from ‚specialest little boy‘ & having him still identify with the culture he grew up with. (it probably lands better than it could have otherwise because they’re having someone from an immigrant family like Gatwa perform it. Like he’s got other roots but probably also sees Britain as his home & part of him? More sort of how many immigrants in europe tend to see themselves rather than the US American culture = genes nonsense. ‚In Germany I‘m the Turkish kid but when I go to Turkey I notice I’m very German’ type of thing. )

I still hate the timeless child thing with a passion & still wish it didn’t exist, but this is probably the best way to salvage it.

It’s telling that they’re not even using the fancy mary suey title „timeless child“ but having him say he was randomly found & no one knows where he cae from etc. that’s a different framing/flavoring less eviscerating of the character & less invalidating of all the previous stuff.

Well. I got the time jigzaw line, im grateful for it, its explicitly ambiguous what the og backstory was.

Especially in the context of the current arc with the rewritten universe, it does make sense that he doesn’t even know what his original backstory was, he’s kind of outlived not just Gallifrey, but his OG timeline, his OG version of the universe, sort of a unaligned unmoored chaotic existence. Theres some pathos to that, and you can see Ncuti channeling a bunch of his own feelings into it.

Though this makes me wonder how they’ll handle the Master when he comes back, if he’s now the one that did it in place of the Daleks. )

A speaking baby is unexpectedly funny, especially since they move their lips XD

I also love how much Ruby & the Doctor are obviously having fun together and acting like actual friends.

I keep being excited over low bar things but, like, UGH Chibnall traumatized me.

Still, they ARE actually doing a good job at showing Ruby & the Doctor behaving like friends, especially in the way they’re making jokes & gesturing.

They comitted to the ‚kindergarten meets space accident‘ aesthetic…

I love how Ruby immediately kicks into Big Sister Mode. The last episode we mostly got to know her family but there wasn’t so much on Ruby herself so in these episodes we’re probably going to focus on her.

The babies act like a mix between serious astronauts and actual babies xD

I love how sucinct & archetypical the answer of „The Bogeyman“ is. No uneccessary Fluff.

And though he’s warmer & more open, the doctor is still distinctly his a tad insensitive, big ego self.

So that’s the reveal.

I like this. This kinda miscarriage of justice situation and a random accountant who doesn’t know how to run anything being the one who stayed behind. „they won’t stop the babies being born but won’t care for them“… badum tsch.

Ohh, ohh the refugee line. That’s SO on point. That’s all the shit I’m mad about in current european politics. That’s not pulling punches.

I love how Ruby is the one to piece together the fairytale logic.

Like the Doctor’s excited to be learning the ‚new physics‘, but he’s the physicist. Ruby is kind of a fairytale protagonist, crazy number of siblings included.

Erics’s little toy sword :(((

Ruby’s actress NAILED this one. Like her concern & everything.

(oh thank fuck there are feelings in this show again)

RTD was rather good at world building, wasn’t he? Like making unique little one-off settings. Yeah, he had his flaws with the resent button endings & overblown pathos at times, but I always thought he did worldbuilding & flavor text pretty well. I like Joycelyn.

So yeah, we’re definitely getting to know Ruby in this episode and she’s pretty proactive & rolling with the punches a lot. Like she improv’d the distraction, she decided she was going with the Doctor etc. like, a lot of companions would have stayed with the babies (for different reasons), or gone with the Doctor mostly out of worry for him and have an emotional moment here, but Ruby’s like, just casually deciding here. She’s very ‚cool‘.

And she's embroiled in some kind of never-seen-before phenomenon. But after Donna, Amy & Clara that's just average tuesday for the Doctor at this point. Unknown Phenomena go Brr!

Must be wild for Ruby that this super-experienced time-traveller guy can't explain her.

Like I’m already getting a sense of ‚what would Ruby do if you throw her at a given situation‘ which fucking Chibnall couldn’t give us with 3 seasons and 3 characters to contrast off each other.

I love how they save the monster, too. I love the TARDIS key scene and how the Doctor’s actually excited to have Ruby on his team, & actually asking her. (war flashback to that compilation of prev Doctors inviting their companions enthusiastically except for the very awkward chibnall scenes or how 13 barely showed any emotion when any of them left)

it’s fucking Doctor Who again. The HUMANIST THEMES! The xenophile eccentric nerd protagonist. The friendship & humanity & shit.

It’s the show that I used to like that I didn’t fucking recognize in Chibnal’s trashfire except for, like, the one stray good-ish ep per season.

I’ll take it. I’m like, the Dad from ‚the Prodigal Son‘ today.

I lost it & it came back, I’ll take it.

Love also how this time the Doctor has the 'no undoing the past' convo right away to pre-empt a repeat of 'Father's Day'.