#i might as well go and get all of them tbh. complete the collection

[muses-of-teyvat]

so uh. guess i have Clorinde now? at like. 30 pity when i was just trying to get two Lanyans

(this is the second Fontaine 5-star in a row to do exactly this to me)

[tubatwo]

txt scenario: perfume shopping with them

summary: the adventures of perfume shopping with your boyfriend

pairing: gn reader x ot5

genre: fluff; 0.6k words

a/n: hi all! long time no see! currently testing out bullet points for my shorter works, so scenarios will be bullet points and reactions/fics will have more dialogue. asks might also change depending on my schedule. let me know which format you guys prefer!

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yeonjun:

tries to convince you to get the most expensive ones

do not bring him if you are trying to save money… he wants you to pick everything you want

“jjun, are you crazy?!”

“i’ll get it for you baby… wanna smell it on you”

gives you lots of recommendations based on brands he tries

kisses your wrist whenever you ask for his opinion on a scent

which makes you blush everytime and scold him

tbh I think all the nice scents start making him dizzy and he just wants to go home and smell you LMAO

“try this one tonight?”

his hand never leaves your waist as you browse the store… coffee in one hand and his lover in the other

soobin:

usually too lazy to put on cologne if it’s a quick trip, but will skip scented body oil that day so he can be your extra tester

tried to offer his leg as extra space once until you slapped him on the arm playfully 

prefers soap smells, so he’s not much help at first if you like bold scents

that is, until you spray it on yourself— then he can’t stop sniffing you in the back of the store

“soobin! quit it!” 

starts to get a little bored if you take long tbh but he lets you drag him around

you always give him small cheek kisses as an apology

then suddenly he’s got pep in his step again

starts making extra plans for the rest of the day

“smells good love… wanna get takeout from that new place tonight?”

beomgyu:

if you also like sweet smells he might try to steal your picks tbh

“do you think this one will irritate soobin hyung’s nose?”

“gyu, this is for ME”

very good at giving recommendations though

completely blunt and will make a face if something stinks lol

gives you back hugs with his head on your shoulder while you examine bottles

softly hums with the music playing in the background

another one who sulks if you take long… please kiss him and ask him to wait a little longer

“:>”

takes credit for whatever you pick later… tells everyone he did a great job

taehyun:

purposely chooses not to wear scents to be your tester

doesn’t say much, just lets you do your own thing unless you ask him a question

knows when you’re running out of room, so he holds out his arm before you even get to ask

“can– oh, thank you hyunie”

holds all of your bags and your drink as you browse. when i’m at a gentleman contest and taehyun is my competition

uses all the discount points he collects on tour on you

starts adding offers in his head LMAO

“hm, well if you add this one darling then it’s an extra 10% off”

whatever you get, you will smell like home to him

don’t even think about pulling out your wallet he will look at you like you’re crazy

hueningkai:

another one too lazy to put on cologne for the trip. a free tester and he couldn’t be happier!

“huening I ran out of room :(“ 

“oh! don’t worry, just use my arm okay?”

then he blushes at how softly you hold his wrist

asks you to test every fruit or lavender scent because it’s his favorite and his favorite person smelling like his favorite thing makes him happy

gets kinda sulky if you choose something too different from your signature scent

“but I love when you smell like strawberries :(“

please comfort him and tell him you’ll still wear it just for him

follows you around like a puppy

thinks everything smells good once its on you

[moki-dokie]

there's been a bit of a Hot Topic going around bsky (and twt too i guess) about why my age group (particularly in the US) doesn't cook at home much anymore

and there's been a whole lot of takes ranging from dogshit to good and intelligent to total confusion from folks in other countries. neat stuff right. decided to throw my 2 cents in from my own perspective as part of the demographic.

the tldr of it being: there are *several* factors that make it not worth it nor cost efficient anymore where it once was. obviously that isn't gonna be the case for everyone, but it is the case for an overwhelming majority, me included. and this isn't even including, you know, a whole population of disabled people who are physically unable to cook for themselves but I sort of figured that was a given. but maybe not, considering...

then this absolute genius comes in

thank you buddy for having no reading comprehension and missing quite literally every single point i made that it isn't strictly about the dollar amount of the meal itself. like. okay??? good for you i guess.

sure, there will be some meals where that is very true. I could make a bigass pot of ham and beans that'll last me a whole week for about $10. hence why i added there will always be some meals cheaper to make at home. but that completely disregards every. other. point.

it is not, and has never been, about the direct cost of the meal itself. that's just one of a handful of reasons that factor into the whole conversation. there are going to be times that eating out will be more expensive price-wise, but when it checks off like 5 different boxes i couldn't fulfill myself for whatever reason, that price balances out. and we really are in an age where we're having to negotiate the worth of every action we take and every minute we spend on something. i don't know why thats such a hard concept for people to grasp.

legit nobody is arguing it *should* be this way. it shouldn't. we all recognize this. in the ideal world it would be both worth it and affordable to make every meal at home and leave eating out for special occasions, as was the case when i was growing up. and i totally get it that our parents, many of whom raised us by their lonesome, managed to do it fine so in theory we should be able to as well. sometimes, yeah, it really is a matter of sucking it up and doing it no matter how exhausted you might be. that's true for all facets of life tbh. but it shouldn't be that way all the time every time.

and, i don't know about the rest of you, but for us? it really was a whole fucking To Do to clip coupons and plan Shopping Day. I'd spend a couple hours clipping from a few different newspapers and the mail fliers we collected. then we organized them by store. then mom would plan out which stores we would go to for which items,the route we'd take since sometimes it meant going outside of town, the timeframe for everything since it was typically an all-day event. like, a whole day of planning and a whole day of executing JUST to grocery shop, and that was back in the 90s/00s. Inconvenient, yes, but still actually worth the trouble. couponing saved SO much money back then, especially if you knew the stores that would double them. coupons like those don't exist anymore. period. now the ones that do are like, pennies off or bogo deals and otherwise it's app this and app that for any sort of savings - which even then might only be like a meager 10% off the purchase. in no way is it worth my time and effort today to do the same thing we did when i was young.

anyway. so yeah. for a hell of a lot of us, sometimes going out to eat or ordering in is in fact the most worthwhile way, and sometimes even the most cost efficient way, to feed ourselves anymore.

[variberry]

question for the tts famdom:

am i alone in thinking that quirin kinda sucks?

- i mean first and foremost we have the destruction of Old Corona due to the black rocks. given that he’s been a part of the brotherhood since its inception, Quirin is 100% fully aware of what they are. Frederic is an ass but what was Quirin hoping to achieve by lying to him about the rocks? it seemed like he was fine with letting Old Corina be completely destroyed and just moving everyone somewhere else, which he knows WILL NOT WORK because the rocks will continue to chase the sundrop until they reunite!! what was he thinking??

- then we have the withholding information from Varian. i know he’s a kid, but from what the viewers can tell, Quirin is under no orders to keep quiet about what the rocks are. it would not kill him to be like “hey, the rocks are powered by a stone with the power to decay, so maybe don’t mess with them until we collectively come up with a definitive plan of action.” there is so little effort put in to keeping Varian in the loop that it borders on stupidity. of course he’s going to take matters into his own hands if you’re acting like nothing’s wrong

- lastly, and this isn’t necessarily Quirin’s fault (*side-eyes Chris*) but there is no way in HELL that long ass note he wrote to Varian before getting encased in the amber just said “i’m proud of you.” there’s no way. throughout the episode, there are obvious allusions to what Quirin might want to share with varian— 1) the zoom in on the family portrait signifies that it might be something to do with Ulla’s implied death/disappearance and 2) the repeated appearance of the brotherhood symbol on the chest, helmet, and marking on Quirin’s hand, alluding to his role in the current situation. and we see him write a literal scroll of text. there are several close up shots on the letter, so we, as the audience, assume that it’s important and will mean something to Varian later on. fast forward to the season 3 premiere where Quirin is finally freed, and the note disintegrates after Rapunzel uses the decay incantation. well, shit. but now Quirin is alive to explain everything! hooray! but when varian says he needs to know what was in the note, Quirin pauses before simply going: “i’m so proud of you, son.” HUH??!? no. there is simply no way. it’s implied in the finale that Varian is kind of aware of the brotherhood, but there’s no explanation as to how on earth he found out. Eugene even has to remind him that Quirin was a part of it! Varian then gets upset at the idea of his father being affected by the talisman like Adira and Hector, implying that he doesn’t really understand how the brotherhood is connected to the moonstone. he can’t know and not know at the same time. if i’m missing something, please lmk but from what I gathered, Quirin has not explained anything to Varian. it’s implied that he wrote it all down in a letter he assumed Varian would read after his own death, but for some reason, when given the chance to, he doesn’t explain a thing. why? why was Quirin content with Varian finding out in the event of his death but not while he’s still alive? did Chris forget what he wrote???

- extra random gripe, but how old is Quirin? in the present, he looks a little older than Fred tbh but in the ‘25 years ago’ flashbacks to the Dark Kingdom, he looks the same! is the gray streak in his hair just part of his design? idk why this bugs me but it does

in conclusion: Quirin just pisses me off

anyway, lmk what you all think. thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[moldypoff]

God, I want to make a fanfic where you kill (accidentally or not) Jimmy after you find out that he assaulted Anya and the crash doesn’t happen but now you have to deal with the consequences.

Even if you do the “morally right” thing everyone’s gonna hate you (they won’t say it but they’ll think it).

With the way Pony Express operates I think Curly will have to severely punish you. Either A. Lock you up in a secluded space for the rest of 8 months or B. Kill you, as per policy because you’re mentally unstable and at risk of harming the rest of the crew.

Besides the mental strain that’ll be on just you for the next few months, everyone else has to bear the consequences as well.

(Elaboration under the cut)

Explaining the situation to the company and cops is going to be hell for Anya, because when you explain that you did it on Anya’s behalf they’re immediately going to assume that she may have been an accomplice/and or orchestrated the attack. Not even that but you’ll permanently stain her already half-baked resume since this can be seen as her being an ineffective healthcare provider since she’d clearly misjudged your mental state during psyche evals.

What’s worse is that Curly might not get that promotion because of you since he failed, as Captain, to settle the dispute. Not only did you kill his long term friend but you ruined his life and now he has to deal with keeping everyone calm and Jimmy’s rotting body on the ship.

Daisuke? Considering you’re probably the closest to him out of everyone in the crew because of his friendly personality he’s going to feel so betrayed on top of stressed from living in the environment you created for the next few months. Again, rotting body. Next, everyone’s going to have to decide on how to collectively come up with a solid strategy to get out of this somewhat or completely scot free WHILE continuing to perform their usual tasks on the Tulpar.

Swansea’s probably furious right off the bat. Not just because he already know’s there’s going to be so much work when you all get to your destination (too which he will simultaneously be unemployed), but because he thought you were better than this. Jimmy’s an asshole and rapist, but you? Adding to their troubles of already being laid off and traumatizing them at the same time just because you felt like playing hero? You’re almost just as bad as Jimmy.

Of course they didn’t know how things would play out if they kept Jimmy alive, but is this really any better?

They’re filled with impending doom, they need to keep the smelly, rotting crime scene untouched to prove their innocence, and worst of all they probably still have to take care of you, if you’re alive, AND take over your tasks for your role on the ship as well as Jimmy’s.

Inspiration + Reflection:

Tbh I feel like this is a good reflection of how society treats heros. I remember hearing about this dude who had his daughter SA’d and out of pure rage he killed her abuser, and upon realizing that he was going to jail he went on a spree to kill as many predators and rapists as he could.

That man will never see freedom again but he saved countless young girls and women from being taken advantage of.

It’s also interesting to think about the families and friends of the predators and rapists. Did they even know about what their friend, brother, or husband was up to? Do they comprehend the sheer capacity for cruelty at which this person they trusted operates themselves at? And are they sad to see them go? Are they mad at the person who took them away? Are they willing to accept the fact that they were a bad person or do they desperately cling to the memory of them when they were ‘good’?

I’d really like to explore these topics with multiple endings. Writing a whole fanfic is hard man- I’d rather just get to the important stuff, I’m sorry 😭

Speaking of, I have a couple in mind.

Endings:

Estimated reader satisfaction: # / 5

Bad Ending: -1 - 0 / 5

Everyone dies under the pressure of it all.

Mini Bad Ending: 0.5 - 1 /5

Curly kills you.

Neutral ending#1: 1/5

You live, everyone’s alive (except for Jimmy, duh), all of the expected consequences occur, you’re in jail, you all go your separate ways and struggle like hell. (The most realistic ending.)

Neutral ending#2: 3/5

You only kill yourself. Everyone else is proven innocent and gets to live a somewhat “normal” life, but is forever haunted by your sacrifice.

Good: 5/5

Pony Express is sued, and you all (well… maybe except for you) are awarded a shit ton of money in compensation. You all live happily ever after (you’re actually in jail but the others can easily bail you out). <- Very unlikely, kinda vanilla if you ask me, but fix-it AUs do go hard tho, I just wouldn’t write it myself.

Side notes: Did I remind you that Anya’s pregnant this entire time? Also, this can serve as justification for Curly for his ‘inaction’. If this were him instead of you it might be two times-ish harder on him to be honest.

[snipersfucker]

Hcs for mirage and make it spicy too 😈

yall so down bad for that robot dick smh (me too)

its nsfw (mirage x human!reader) stuff here so mdni even though i know yall read that 18+ shit anyway but imma just put it here. also, i am a grown ass woman and was still blushing while writing this so. warning: its hella fucking long

mirage headcanons

let's start with something that just popped up in my head:

when he's the dom, he praises you a lot but also i feel like he's the type to slightly tease/mock you? hear me out. "aw, you're gonna cum? yeah? you wanna be good for me and cum?" while slamming into you and ridding you of any thoughts

and while subbing, he's so whiny... like, whimpering, begging you to let him finish (in general or inside you cause i have a breeding kink) but also, he's being a big fucking brat, literally provoking you so that you'd go harder, be meaner to him

loves edging, loves doing it to you, loves watching you squirm and turn into mush with that cocky smile on his face, only using his hands on you

he definitely likes being edged, too. definitely. imagine him with his wrists tied behind his back, you not letting him touch you/stop you from torturing him, him complying even though he could easily break free..... he's a good boy and lets you do anything you want. (whimpers)

overstimulation as well, he just loves seeing you in that state, begging, crying in pleasure, moaning, whimpering, whatever. really.

he loses it when you overstimulate him though, definitely overheating and not being able to do anything other than beg you to stop, even though he's so fucking into it

12 inches. at least tbh.

i don't even wanna imagine what his cum must taste like, it's either washer fluid, gasoline or fucking rainwater he collects inside him so that you wouldn't have to swallow the first two things idk

back to pleasant things:

he'd definitely take you on rides where he just tells you to touch yourself for him in the driver's seat so that he could watch and hear everything

if you're a bold person (me) and came up with that idea first? like, he's driving around, talking with you through the radio, the mood is already slightly sexual, teasing and all (you know how he is), and then you decide to win the war and begin slowly undressing and touching yourself.... i feel like he'd either go completely silent for a moment or be like "damn... didn't know you had it in you". and expect him to literally ruin your insides when you get back to the garage. the positions he'd put you in.....

speaking of positions. he's big. i really like to believe your human body would be able to take him (i definitely would) but i am not entirely sure. do i care, though? no.

so his fav one is cowgirl. you straddling his lap while he's sitting, his servos on your waist/hips, them not moving you up and down but only staying there, allowing you to do anything you want (he doesn't wanna hurt you as any normal person)

missionary, too. mating press when he feels like ruining you in the sweetest way possible.

he'd try most things you'd ask him to do. he's a whore tbh. but. choking is a no, slapping and any other thing that could potentially cause you unwanted pain due to his strength and size is a no for him. wrapping his fingers around your throat just so that you'd feel them there? hell yeah. actually applying pressure? you might die

doesn't mind your hands on his neck, though. he knows you can't do shit to him, he'd let you hold a knife to his throat if you wanted to tbh, he couldn't care less (turns him on)

he looks like he fucking enjoys roleplays and the cringe ones, too. like, police officer stopping him for speeding, him acting all innocent and then he has to get punished for breaking the law or some shit. he just has that face that looks like he likes these things

he'd be so bratty as well. "no, ma'am, i am sure i wasn't speeding. well, you could always handcuff me if you think otherwise....." in that fake innocent tone....

size kink, breeding kink (just pretend his cum is normal like, potential gasoline inside me is a turn off for me personally tbh), bondage... he'd tie you up but again, he doesn't wanna hurt you, he'd prefer if you had complete control over your limbs and all. but loves it when you do it to him as i mentioned earlier

he's gotta prep you real good before putting it in, again because of his size. fingers, lube, your spit, anything. he needs to make sure you're stretched out enough to take him

he'd definitely steal your panties to jerk himself off with them (will be writing a whole fic about it someday)

speaking of masturbation, he's a horny fuck, everything about you gets him going and there aren't enough occasions for you to actually have sex, so he just uses his own hand, imagining you in various positions, even the impossible ones just because.

i don't think they have involuntary boners that show and they have to transform a bit to get their dicks out so he just does it to get rid of the unbearable tension inside him, not because anybody would see him with a hard-on

he cums a lot. the fluid literally never stops coming out of his dick when he finishes. breeding kink goes brrrr once again.

once came up with a funny safe word and told you to use it every single time you feel anything else other than pleasure

his digits are so big, he could easily use just one and make you crumble for him with just pushing it in and out of you

his aftercare probably consists of him holding you after sex, although he's aware that the metal body might not be the most comfortable thing ever. he'd definitely offer to take you on a joy ride afterwards. oh, and praise, too. but would also probably playfully make fun of you for saying horny stuff you'd normally never say to him if your mind wasn't clouded with lust

he's so confident in his bedroom abilities, too, as he should tbh.

i want him to manhandle me but also make him my pet.

[echantedtoon]

Father To Be P2

In a since, some of the upper moons reaction to holding their child(ren) for the first time. Plus how they react to their birth.

Warnings for pregnancy/birth mentions

All art found on Pinterest and not mine. Doing the rest of the male Moons. Couldn't find any relevant pictures for Yahaba or Hairou.

KAIGAKU:

*He's already not prepared to be a parent let alone go through the entire hardships of labor. So when you go into labor he either faints or he's freaking out yelling at everyone. You, the doctor and midwife, himself, and even the baby(ies) despite them not even being present yet.

*He's not really moving out of the room. Whether it's because he's genuinely worried about you or because he's frozen in fear is unclear, but he's completely frozen as you destroy his hand and arm.

*Once he hears the baby(ies) crying he's still frozen solid. Not numb or yelling. Just..still. Staring off into space as his brain is blue screening. He's still that way as the doctors are taking care of you and even when they congratulate him before placing his child(ren) in his arms.

*He still sits there for a few hours just staring off at nothing holding them to where it starts to concern you. "Hun, are you ok?" ".....Yeah. why?" Give him a few more hours. He's still trying to process the entire situation he's in and trying to figure out a good excuse to tell Muzan for why he's bringing a diaper bag to the next few meetings.

GYOKKO:

*(for the Gyokko fans) He's probably not going to be too present for the birth tbh. His appearance alone would scare away any doctors and he wants you to have a safe experience. So it'd be safer to just stay in his nearby pot and agonizingly wait a few hours as the doctors worked and then left.

*trust me it's not a delightful experience for him to do nothing but wait for hours on end as you screamed bloody murder. But it was worth it when you both were finally able to be alone and he has a moment to look over his child(ren).

*They look surprisingly normal except for a few specks on their arms and legs that might be scales and purple hair. Surprisingly they aren't afraid of him despite his appearance.

*He suggests making them a pot large enough to use as a cradle for them but you shut that right down.

ENMU:

*Is very unnaturally calm during the entire process. He'd probably suggest to you that maybe he'd be the one to help you during labor but as he wasn't a real doctor he'd later change his mind. Much like Kokushibo, he'd rather have this be as safe as possible so he'd just silently offer encouragement to you as you murdered his hand allowing the doctors to work, real doctors too.

*He's just calmly smiling throughout the entire process even when you curse him out for putting you in this situation.

*When the deed's finally done and everything is calm, he's not waiting for the doctor to hand him his baby(ies). No he's holding his arms straight out EXPECTING them to hand them over. An excited smile on his face as he chirps away with happiness.

*Speaking of chirping good luck on getting any rest that night. He's going to be non stop talking all night to and about his baby(ies) to the point you are going to have to either throw a pillow at him or tell him to shut up and let all of you rest.

*He's taking care of you and your baby(ies) really well during this time aside from the talking however so you can't complain too much.

KYOGAI:

*He's panicking of course when you first go into labor. But he's a collected freaking out. By that I mean, he's freaking out while taking his time to carefully move you to a comfortable position or quickly getting what you need with shaking hands and his teleporting skills.

*He's still freaking out however despite how much he seems calm on the outside- "It's alright. Deep breaths. In. Out. In. Out-" "Kyo. I'm fine." "I know. I was talking to myself."

*Steadying himself on his knees, he's holding both your hands shaking and trying to mentally calm himself down as your practically screaming in his ears.

*Almost falls over himself once he hears his baby(ies) cry out for the first time. He's watching in complete awe as the midwife handles the tiny crying being before he's handed a whimpering little bundle(s). He's shaking so badly as he slowly accepts the tiny being(s) in his arms, trying not to shake as badly as he is.

*He's so scared as he looks at his child(ren)...and then he melts seeing their chubby chunk cheeks and chunky little body(ies). Holy cow. We're they supposed to be so small and squishy? He's in love at first sight and just holds the squishy little bundle(s) in his arms gently. May or may not have cried.

HAIROU:

*He. FREAKS. Out.

*The moment he knows that he's about to become a father he's overwhelmed by a symphony of fear, panic, anxiety, worry, and frustration(not at you but because he's not prepared for the situation). Excuse him for just a few seconds. He has to run into the woods to clear his head before he can steal himself to come back and help you with a clearer mind.

*Nevermind that he's still shaking like a wet cat in winter as he runs around and tries to help you. Key word tries. His anxiety gets too much that he has to leave the room at your insistence and wait outside before he decides to 'clear his mind' in front of the doctor and freak him out too.

*Had to step outside to have some breathing room before he becomes overwhelmed again to that point. Doesn't go back inside until all the screaming has stopped and things are calm for everyone's sanity. Eventually he'll walk back in to you holding the baby(ies) and offering to let him hold them.

*He refuses at first but eventually you convince him to hold them carefully putting them in his arms. He freezes up seeing them... before tears build up in his eyes and he cries from the rush of emotions. Give him twenty minutes. He's just a bit overwhelmed by pride and joy.

YAHABA:

*He refuses to hold them when they're born. He's gonna stay while his child(ren) is delivered to make sure you're but he's not holding the baby(ies).

*You won't be seeing him. Like at all. Bro disappears and stays ten feet away at all times whenever he bothers to stop by to just check up on you both.

*Man's a germophobe and while he'll reluctantly watch the baby(ies) and make sure nothing harms them, he won't bother coming close or making physical contact beyond making them take a bath or until they're a teenager(s) because he doesn't like the messes that comes with little kids and babies.

[ansu-gurleht]

do you have any mod recommendations for morrowind?

i don't use an awful lot of mods tbh. i highly recommend using openmw instead of the base engine, first of all. but here's some mods i do use:

1.) all the official plugins

2.) check out the pb mods, they're all pretty neat

3.) true lights and darkness to make torches and stuff like. not useless

4.) some kind of backpack mod for extra carrying capacity! i use "adventurer's backpack" which does unfortunately use up a shoulder slot but it's worth it imo

5.) juniper's twin lamps for a revamped (ie more complete) twin lamps experience

6.) hospitality papers expanded, which makes it actually necessary to get the hospitality papers to do stuff in sadrith mora

7.) "dark brotherhood attacks once - delayed" is a MUST HAVE for me tbh

8.) book rotate for if you like decorating and hate the way books place!

9.) a mod that increases the store chance on projectiles (basically whether or not you can pick up your arrows/bolts/throwables from bodies or not). i use one that increases the chance to 100% but there's a lot of options

10.) blight bounties! you can collect rewards for killing blighted monsters/animals at ghostgate! you might also want "blighted animals retextured" to go along with this, so you can tell them apart better

11.) bloated morrowind! actually adds bloat plants to the world; in the base game bloat is only an ingredient that you can buy, not gather

12.) solstheim rumor fix (akin to the dbh attacks mod), it restricts how often "latest rumors" will tell you about solstheim. i think it restricts it to certain npcs or something, you'd have to look into it

13.) diseases restored! it fixes some inconsistencies with which animals carry which diseases and what they do etc

14.) oblivion style vampires for a more forgiving mw vampire experience

15.) julan is a great companion mod!

16.) gnisis arch replacer! it puts one of mehrunes dagon's arms hanging from the arch in gnisis :3

17.) red wisdom is a fun ashlander themed quest/dungeon mod!

18.) skyrim: home of the nords is great! and you might also try project cyrodiil, which i hear is also great!

19.) there is a texture replacer called watercolored morrowind, which i really enjoy! it "muddies" the textures a bit to look more, well, watercolored. it still matches the vibe of the og textures but gives it a more stylized spin

20.) there should be a mod that changes plants from containers to simple pickups like it is in oblivion and skyrim. i think it's called harvestable flora? i don't see it in my content list but i know i have it installed, weird

21.) zesterer's volumetric clouds and mists for openmw is a GAME CHANGER esp if you use a higher view distance (openmw supports pretty high view distances, although you might have to fiddle with some .ini files to unlock them)

that sounds like a lot but it's really not. no huge gameplay changes or even graphical ones (aside from the volumetric + view distance). i prefer a pretty vanilla experience tbh.

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

Anti-destiel Wank (sorry but I have to)

If you hardcore ship Destiel, please just scroll on by. Please.

Ok, I'm gonna get myself in trouble, I'm sure, but I gotta get this off my chest...

Destiel may be a perfectly fine ship,

but,

IT'S JUST A SHIP.

In the actual context of the show there IS NO ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL TENSION/RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEAN AND CAS.*

Full fucking stop.

Subtext can be interpreted in ANY WAY YOU WANT. It is subjective. You will find whatever you look for in it. Please stop waving subtext interpretations around as if they were objective facts, they aren't. Subtext, by its very definition, relies on implied meaning and understanding, this means it is a subjective interpretation of the media that varies from viewer to viewer. The inherent variations are what make it fanon/headcanon instead of canon.

If you see tension of that sort there and it makes you happy to postulate the what if, then go ahead, that is what fanon and head canon and fan fiction is all about. But if the fact that the tension you think you see isn't being addressed in actual canon makes you grumpy, maybe you need to take some of the fanatic out of your fanning. If you are beginning to think the show creators are actively trying to repress Dean's "true sexuality and feelings" because they are evil, you might need to consider that you've dug in too deep.

Because, like I ship wincest. Yeah, I said it. But I am aware that canon doesn't actually include any level of sexual or romantic (in the modern sense) relationship between Sam and Dean. Wincest is not canon.

Now, are Sam and Dean the real "love" story of the show? Yes, yes they are. That has always been 100% the entire point of Supernatural, the great love story of two brothers struggling to save the world together. It's about family and everything that means, but at its heart, it is about Sam and Dean WInchester. Not all kisses and cuddles and sex kind of love, but love nonetheless. Full stop.

Now, the fact that Destiel is such a popular ship is not surprising to me in the least. Jensen and Misha are two gorgeous guys who share a lot of chemistry on screen and off. And, it is canon that Cas loves Dean. That has been evident since Lazarus Rising (4x01) when Cas was introduced. Castiel's love of Dean Winchester has been his character's main motivation all along and culminated with Cas sacrificing himself to save Dean, after telling him that he loved him in Despair (15x18)

But Dean's main motivation has always been to watch out for his brother. And though Castiel became Dean's best friend, he still comes second to Sam. Nothing against Cas, he just isn't Sam.

So why are so many people so absolutely convinced that Destiel is so real within the context of the story?

Well, I'm pretty sure that it is the same reason that they are so opposed to the idea of wincest.

As we all know, incest is bad, mmmkay? Incest is probably one of the biggest, strongest, cultural taboos we have. So it makes perfect sense that the idea of two blood-related brothers having sexual or romantic feelings for each other is considered icky. It's so off putting that it is a complete no go for even fantasizing about for most people. And that's probably a good thing, tbh, incest should be taboo. But where does that taboo spring from? Why is it so deeply off limits? There are several reasons, but the two main ones are:

That incest can lead to inbreeding.

That incest too often involves molestation or rape of children.

Both of these are seriously bad enough that we all pretty much collectively agree to avoid incestuous relationships. But, do either of these two reasons really apply in the case of Sam and Dean?

The short answer is no. Primarily this is because they are fictional characters that are being played by unrelated actors. But to humor the objectors we'll look at it closer.

We can take the first one right off the table. As two cis men, neither of them is capable of becoming pregnant, so outside of the mpreg (male pregnancy) or gender bending subsets of fanfic tropes, this is not applicable.

The second reason only becomes an issue when talking about the characters earlier in their lives, pre-show or flashbacks. Weecest or teencest, or whatever, are things, but these typically have separate ship names for a reason, because even when dealing with fictional characters this squicks a lot of folks who are otherwise down with the wincest ship. So most content is tagged or labeled as its specific flavor, so anyone can find it or avoid it. But wincest that involves adult Sam and Dean (the specific pairing I'm referring to in this post) doesn't apply to the second reason listed above.

So there really is nothing morally wrong with Sam and Dean having sex with each other. I know that statement is going to bother a whole lot of people, but it is true. Just because something is taboo does not automatically make it morally wrong. Being gay used to be taboo in our culture, and is still taboo for way too many people, even though there is nothing morally wrong with homosexuality.

Now, I wasn't in the fandom back at the beginning of the show, but I've heard tell that the very first Sam/Dean fic was posted just a few hours after the pilot episode aired. A few hours, that's all it took for some highly motivated fan to type out a story where they were more than just brothers. The story is called Reunion. If you watch the pilot, even with your anti-incest goggles on, the chemistry between Jared and Jensen is palpable throughout. There is a reason the show lasted for 15 years, and that reason is that Sam and Dean just work on screen so well together. So if it only took one episode for that ship to be born, what did all the future destiel shippers do? Well I imagine they felt somewhat uncomfortable for the first 60 episodes.

Flash forward to season four and the introduction of Castiel. Finally there was another male character for fans squicked by the notion of sweet, sweet brother loving to focus on! Cas was clearly fixated on Dean more than Sam, which followed the plot since Cas had been instructed to rescue Dean from Hell. As it would turn out, the brothers were destined to be the meatsuits that Michael and Lucifer wore to the big prize fight to determine the fate of the world. Prepping Sam for Lucifer involved him consuming demon blood, which made most of the angelic host view him as an abomination, a factor that Cas had to learn to get past in his relationship with the younger brother. But Dean was ready to go right out of the box, no assembly required for Michael. Castiel, and many of his angelic brethren, as well as a lot of Demons, seem to be drawn to Dean in a way that they just aren't drawn to Sam. Is this fair? Hell no. But I mean, look at him! Jensen has sexual tension with literally everything he comes in contact with, people, food, his car, the man oozes sexual attraction. Don't get me wrong, Jared is a sexy fucking ball of sunshine, and our Sammy is a damned attractive man, but he tends to be more repressed and less openly sexual than his brother, so it is what it is.

Where was I going with this? That's a good question. I got a bit distracted, sorry. Oh right...

At its root, destiel is a reactive projection. There is undeniable tension between characters in the show. Since all of the main cast are male, that tension is highly homoerotic. The two main characters, who are undeniably emotionally enmeshed and co-dependent with each other (a very well established canon fact btw), happen to be blood-related brothers. Oh no! Where is all that tension coming from since we cannot admit or accept that it's coming from them? Ah ha! Here is a new male character that we like, yes, it is obviously coming from his interactions with one of the brothers, even though he wasn't in the first 60 episodes. Yes, it all makes perfect sense now, all that tension was merely foreshadowing.

I've read through all the destiel subtext posts. I've gone back and watched all the scenes they reference multiple times with the express purpose of finding destiel. I'm telling you it is just a fanon ship. Which is 100% fine and good, ship that ship, just stop declaring it more canon than canon, because it's not.

And if you don't like fictional incest, cool, cool, you don't have to. But the underlying sexual tension existed in the first 60 episodes prior to Misha being cast on the show, so it was coming from somewhere. And it'd be cooler if you learned how to scroll past people shipping wincest, like I'm sure you do for all the other weirdass, squicky shit that people post all over the internet. But if it makes your heart beat a little faster to imagine that Dean and Cas have eyesex but that Dean and Sam don't, that's fine. I think it's delusional because neither ship is actually canon and both are 100% A-Ok in fanon, and honestly Jensen doesn't seem to be able to control his eyes, which is not something anyone should feel bad about (it's fucking marvelous) but you do you.

*Castiel does love Dean. He confessed as much, but Dean did not reciprocate. What I am referencing is a mutual romance or attraction, which does not exist.

[ofherpinkways]

Hyper Fixation

Cod characters x horror fan reader (GN bf/gf :) )

Summary : they ask one small question horror movie sending you into a complete hyper fixation and happy rant about all your favorite scary movies

(A/N: tbh this is mainly for myself so I can finally spill out my bottled up horror movie rants,plus this is based off interaction I just had with a friend on Snap. Our babies will be referred to as "they/them" since i wanna include everyone 🤍🩰🧸 might do a pt2)

You loved horror movies and let it be known to all. Everyone at the base knew it and it was what you were known for even to those who didn't know you fully . Often referred to as the "Horrorjunkie"

Your dorm was filled with horror movie posters,props from iconic classics and of course you had a bunch of those mini polaroid posters of all your favorite horror movies. Your body is covered in horror movie themed tattoos of all the well known villains and other scary themed things. Your left hand was covered in one giant tattoo that made it look like you were a skeleton. All of your causal/civilian clothes were the Steven Rhodes t-shirts and hoodies.

God forbid anyone lets you pick the movie during movie night . It was gonna be scary obviously. This night you picked Sinister (2012) forcing everyone in the common room. It only got worse when few of your teammates confessed they've never seen it. There you sat grinning wildly knowing the whole movie play by play. Having the ability to mentally time each up in coming jumpscare in your head laughing and smiling to yourself prepared for each scare ,glancing up at them wanting to see their reaction. The infamous lawn mower scene had just happened causing everyone but you to jump and yelp a little , instead you laughed and smiled happily at their reactions finding the whole thing amusing.

Fast forward weeks later,you were sitting on the couch scrolling your phone with " " (This is where you insert whoever you want lol). You both got bored after a while, you move and lay your head onto their lap "wanna watch a movie?" you ask looking up at them "I'll pick" you sang dragging the words smiling . They laughed smiling back "and what horror movie has the honors of your picking today mmph?" they remarked . You sat up and playfully huffed with fake offended expression on your face , putting your hand to your chest "Now who said it was gonna be a horror movie ?" you replied holding back a giggle

"you get called "horrorjunkie" for a reason " they said with a chuckle. You crossed your arms smirking "Touche", you grab the remote and start looking through the horror movie collection on Netflix " How about The Strangers ?" you ask looking at your partner . "Again ? we've watched like ten times already,why do you like it so much?"

you gasped "how could I not love it? its's such a classic !, and the timing of its release ! It was something never done before ! it scared the shitout everyone making them fear being in their own homes,making them worry when answering their door and the simple fact it was based off a true event?!?! absolutely sickening" you explained in a fast and excited manner.

And that's how you both spent the rest of your night and ranting about each of your beloved scary movies along with the cast,the directors ,the lore,the meaning and messages behind them, the remakes and sequels all of it

Going on about Scream 1996 flapped over and changed horror forever

Going on about Radio Silence was doing a great job on honoring Wes Craven on his creation of the Scream movies , as they keep the franchise

Why the Evil Dead franchise was so loved

Breaking down and explaining all of Jordan Peele movies, explaining the meaning,how their connected in way,why Jordan writes the way he does, why it's better to show and not tell

Giving off examples of movies that were clearly inspired of Peele's work

Talking about Ethan Hawke is perfect for horror movies

How his performance in The Black Phone shocked and scared everyone

Even though they may not get horror movies the way you do. They love the way your eyes lit up,love hearing the excitement in you voice, loving how animated you became when talking about horror movies. They enjoyed how happy the movies made you so they sat smiling up at you the whole time as you talked for what seemed like forever but they didn't care

[marshmarrows]

the jay marshmarrows divorcesteal lore summary

(SEASON OVER divorcestealers can now look)

okay. this is going to be LONG. so. So.

origins - ang & jay vip day:

back in... october/november? my friend ang (starspeckler) and i were invited on as vips by harv harvsbian bIuejay27. we got married at the church, spent a ridiculous amount of time looking for a plains biome for sheep and flowers, got a piece each of cmyk (cyan magenta yellow black) wool, and built a house.

well. ang and harv built the house, mostly. i got bored. now. for this next part, it's very important to note that i come from a speedrunner background. more specifically, i speedrun an unofficial category called "half death" that involves dying in 15 unique ways. i won't explain it all right now but send me an ask or something if you want to know more i guess?

anyways. at this point, i was. pretty bored, yeah. and i decided. hey, what better way to go out than to run half death on divorcesteal! now obviously i didn't have enough hearts to completely run it, but i did the closest thing i could and died 9 times.

and then i stood in front of my dear wife ang starspeckler and asked her to ban me. so that was the end of me on divorcesteal... right?

well. first. it's important to note that half an hour or so after ang banned me, she withdrew all of her hearts and hid them in the area before telling harv to ban her. this will be important later.

revival - joining for good:

one particular divorcesteal rule is that if you get banned, you can get /revived after two weeks on seven hearts if no one uses a beacon during that time. so when i came back, i was revived on seven hearts. yay!

when i came back, i respawned in the house ang and harv had built and was hit with the realization that i was. alone. harv wasn't banned (still isn't), sure, but they don't... play. and ang was gone for good.

but leoonine... teammate of my husband... leoo offered me a team. very quickly, i might add. no one else offered to help me or anything, as i recall.

i wanted to stay on my own for a bit, but i. got scared. i had nothing and no one. and so i accepted leoo's offer and hid in my grave. so yeah, leoo quite literally came and dug me out of my grave, gave me gear, a home, and a team.

i was infatuated. there's no other word for it.

leoo, harv, and the hunt:

the three things from my early divorcesteal days that i had secrets related to. that's them! keeping this short, i had a crush on leoo and owed it my life, and i resented harv for leaving me alone. i trusted leoo to be able to save my life far more than harv.

i made a secret room about this in the old atlahua base. shame it's chunkbanned!

anyways. yeah. leoo. and harv. new years eve, i asked harv to log on to show him ang's grave. leoo was also on and wanted to show us signs at the guardian farm. arch spotted us leaving the base which. led to it being found!

the signs at the guardian farm were. interesting. i didn't have much of an opinion on them at the time tbh because, again, i was infatuated. but leoo talked about how, while he was worried about atlahua as a team and our alliance with legion, he was more worried about his own place in their lives. (context for this is the blue arrow cannon that killed harv.) again. didn't think much of it at the time. funny to look back on now!

and... the hunt. so this is funny. because i've talked about being on the hunt a lot, and i tend to use it as just. an excuse to be ominous or whatever now.

it wasn't that originally. remember those hearts ang hid? yeah, i spent a long time looking for them. spoiler: i found them eventually, but they were NOT in the place ang had told me to look!

anyways. i collected the hearts and hid them in the grave i dug for ang underneath my own grave. (it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that i could echest them but i like the symbolism of hiding them in ang's grave still. and hey, it's not like anyone found them!)

why didn't i equip them? it felt a bit wrong, honestly. plus, i liked being at seven. i liked being able to craft up hearts if i died! it felt like death had very few consequences for me. and. well. i liked dying a little bit, honestly.

trial chambers and pantheon/pathogen:

ah, the days before pathogen was officially a mega team... this is where um. a lot of things started to change for me?

first of all. i decided to run trial chambers because it gave me something to do and i'd never been in one before. and. um. yeah i got a bit addicted to doing them, admittedly. buttttt that's not the important part here! the important part is that doing trial chambers let me trade with nara. the start of a very important relationship in my divorcesteal life!

the really big thing here, however, is the big group trial chamber that. literally changed everything for me?

i don't remember the whole group of people involved but. i know at least some of pathogen where there, ham hams were there, nara was there, aster died immediately, and van was there.

that trial chamber... pissed me off. pathogen were hoarding all the keys and van and i were constantly getting left behind and having to beg and it SUCKED. so, on a whim, i messaged van asking him to run away with me. and he agreed and we ran away to the area i had chosen to build my graveyard.

we talked for a bit, complained about pathogen's behaviour, and then dug around for another trial chamber because there was one in the area. it took forever, but we did find it! eventually! and discovered that there was a way more accessible entrance! (funny note here: this was apparently the trial chamber sin and betty got engaged in months later!)

anyways. yes. this was the start of vanjay. and the start of... well.

betty and deaths:

now, important note here. betty had previously messaged me asking if i'd died since i got revived. i was a little evasive about it but all betty wanted to do was... say she hoped i stayed alive for longer? she'd talked about being the person to last the longest about dying and. yeah. she hoped i'd last longer. funny!

she'd also previously messaged me asking about pantheon. and i was curious and also very annoyed after the trial chamber. so i asked betty to talk.

i chose an ancient city nara had given me coords to as the meeting place and we had. an hour long conversation or so. the important part about this is i offered help to betty - if she needed anything, she could ask for help.

that's not all that happened that day though. and while a lot of people would know about some of this, i have not told many people the full story. harv is the only person on the server that knows it, and even then it took months for him to find out.

i died in the void that night. for context, there's an obsidian farm in the end. and if you fly a little east from the end island, you load in wither skulls that have drifted over there and lag the hell out of the server.

i was unaware of this. and the shulker farm is east.

i wanted to go to the shulker farm to get shells in order to store supplies to give to betty and i didn't want to use materials from my own team for something that went against their interests. and i didn't want to give away my location. so instead of going through an end gateway, i flew east.

funnily enough, i survived the first time. i managed to make it to the shulker farm and everything! and then i very stupidly thought that if i could make it out there, surely i could make it back.

i was at about y -7000 when i died.

this was terrifying. and painfully ironic. before this moment, i hadn't feared death. not even a little bit. it was familiar to me. comforting, even.

the void was cold and frightening.

i died again a few days later in a trial chamber. betty offered to help me get my stuff back and i gave her very convoluted instructions on how to find it. and then i ran in and died again because i was worried about everything despawning.

the atlahua base is very difficult to get out of by yourself if you don't have a backup set. so i messaged leoo - who was online at the time - asking for help. twice, even. he never responded.

remember when i said i trusted it to be able to help me over harv? i messaged harv on discord and harv logged on. ironic, huh?

a few days later, i jumped into the void on purpose. i needed to stop being afraid of it.

the villager plan and betrayal:

not much happened until close to the end of february, really. i continued to work with betty and nara, never told my team about any of this, and grew. frustrated.

i'll admit that betty and nara's views on leoo did affect my own, to some extent, but really... it was always doomed to be this way from the beginning. i had a view of leoo in my mind from day one. and when he inevitably failed to live up to my expectations, i was resentful. and that festered.

it was poor timing, i guess, that i had grown so close to betty and nara during that time. maybe it would've been different otherwise.

whatever the case, i... started leaking information to betty and nara during this time. specifically things that impacted them (leoo asking all of atlahua to use our friendships with other people to spy) and then, eventually, the villager plan.

now, the villager plan was something i had been onboard with initially, back when i first joined atlahua. (the plan, for context, being to kill every non-base villager on the server to scare everyone else into realizing they can't hide.)

i only leaked the details of the plan when pathogen got involved with it. and when i realized it had changed from killing every villager on the server. including the ones in bases.

i got leoo killed that day. and myself, but that was a staged death. and according to leoo, this is when atlahua knew for sure i was betraying.

but i stayed on the team. not for too much longer, though. because pathogen wanted to control when i left and i didn't want to change my life to fit their every whim.

and i was sick of lying. especially to people i cared about.

so i left via discord message and took a break from the server for a week.

the end plan and atlanta:

the thousand suns alliance was officially formed while i was taking a break, but i came back and was immediately invited to join. as well as run away with them to the end to get away from pathogen.

i accepted, but on one condition - i wanted to tell van. i didn't want to be away from him, but i also knew... he wouldn't want to leave jest. and i couldn't blame him, really.

so i resigned myself to leaving without him.

but the longer i thought about it, the more i... wasn't sure if i really wanted to go to the end. what would i even do there, after all?

not that it mattered. i woke up the day of atlanta and the end escape and all of the end portals were broken. and atlanta, the torment nexus designed for my (former) team was area banned.

we still ended up doing atlanta on another server, sure, and. the books written were. very interesting. to say the least. i don't agree with their characterization of me but i don't care that much.

no, what really bothered me was... atlanta was built over my old base. i called that place home, once, and now i could never go back. the book i shared with vio was stuck there. and the end was gone too. no more safe haven, no more new place to call home.

i considered banning myself. i considered destroying my graveyard. i considered putting withers at spawn. in the end, i didn't do any of those things. only because i didn't want to hurt van.

so. yeah. summary of events in my life so far!

the only thing that has happened since atlanta is that van and i got jumped in my graveyard. and then van got jumped again later. but. yeah. that's about it. idk man. i feel aimless now. there's no winning so all i can do is go through the motions. build my graveyard, i guess. try to live?

yeah. mcrp does sick shit to the human mind.

[chthonicgodling]

the Taki Fuego shitpost collection! 🩷💚🧡

Since last November-ish I’ve been steadily sitting on this growing pile of memes & poses while busy drawing meaningful Canon Convos and like, Røkia, aaaaaaaand I just finally now got a chance to amuse myself by completing these INCREDIBLY stupid doodle jokes😛 behold! this trio will nnnnnnot leave my head im SO SORRY EVERYONE,, commentary track beneath the cut::

💖Pic 1: yes he is.

💖Pic 2: yknow I continue to have no actual idea what the back of anyone’s outfits look like but this bow on Maci’s choker-scarf is immediately incredible to me & might be retconned into existence forever now?? Anyway,,, squishes him

💖Pic 3: it’s Maci’s shenanigans that Tory enables, now with somehow EeL trapped between this. make no mistake despite the pouty puss he does love it 💅🏼 just gotta keep up appearances

💖Pic 4: DGDKGGK PLEASE?? Now you may be looking at this going “🤨 And… Maci????” & tyvm I DO know what I’m implying here and. well. YEAH, the answer IS, 🌈the gods can do aaaanything🌈 didn’t you know??😇

Also Re this one— tbh it was just really funny to me to put EeL sincerely in that shirt as if he’s ever given anyone a moments peace in his entire life, but the second I finished this I realized i have missed an incredible secret meta joke that only like 4 people would really understand by not putting Tory in the shirt…….. OH WELL. well, after this picture was taken they all switched em all around I promise

💖Pic 5: NERVOUS LAUGHTER UMMM this is like as close as I can get to spicy art without ME becoming skittish & this. literaly isn’t anything at all 😅I did try to draw this with clothes on & it seemed too OoC soo. stripped em....... yknow whats cute though is this is accidentally a parallel to this drawing here but less, yknow, massively pregnant!!!

💖Pic 6: 🥺 Maci & Tory & their biggest wettest…. Um, eyes. they're IRRESISTIBLE! [text post link]

💖Pic 7: THIS TEXT POST THIS POST AAAAAAAAA this is QUITE LITERALLY what we’ve been doing with these morons the whole time oh my god????? HELPPPPP😅😭 catch EeL up all night terrorizing himself while (checks notes) Maci&Tory squeeze him as tight as physically possible betweeen them basically every single night. clueless!!!!

💖Pic 8: zoom to this "we saw you across the bar palace and really liked your vibe"ass couple- fdhfj tbheyre SO,

and pics 9-10: refs & pose originals by @albanenechi and @mellon-soup [x] [x] [x] [x] !!!!

phew! im sooo glad to get these out of my system im tryyingnggnggg to get EeL to stop haunting me but its been fully unsuccessful so fsar im sO sorry im sure fenixe wants to kill me adkfkfjg. ENJOY these that i created as purely self indulgent hilarious slop!!! tell me your fave xoxoxo

Tory belongs of course to the hiatus'd @fenixethekid, Maci is mine, EeL is.......... [coughing fit],

[slowd1ving]

this is like a random and weird question but i need to know,,, who is older, isekai reader or sunday? i need to know if reader is the younger top that puts bottom older sunday in his fucking place or if reader is older and likes to degrade younger bottom sunday either way im eating it up but still,,,,, it eats away at me

🐈‍⬛ anon

that is a very good question and I really had to think about the nitty gritty logistics of it... like isekai reader's got that experience in work that just causes him to be disillusioned and shit, but also the way I write his dialogue is brash and informal... ooh now this question's gnawing at me too.

I mean he's lived two lifespans to reach this age so I was thinking like around 23-28 in his old life, accounting for a degree and some corporate years + enough time to harden into a more cynical person...

reincarnated, reader's around 20 or so currently cuz he prioritised that levelling up EARLY... honestly idk if it counts to add it onto the past life since it would've taken time to fully become conscious again?? idk does the mind redevelop with a completely fresh slate??? no clue how soul logistics should work, does his past life count as memories or part of this life??? idek

as for sunday... figuring out his age is a lot more difficult since idk if halovians are a longlife species but since it's a rofan might as well have a more supernatural character since duke yingxing is keeping his longevity. So for the sake of that, let's say they are to fit in with the whole angel thing he's got going on. However, I'm still lowkey gravitating to the notion of both of them being very similar in age with sunday being like a year older since it really puts into perspective the stark differences in how they were both brought up and their experiences... also it's just really funny to me having reader act his age and still being more immature while sunday's desperately trying to seem older and wiser as befits his position, but it all falls apart miserably when interacting with reader who gets on every last one of his nerves..

so in this world reader's in his early 20s and sunday's in his early to mid-20s tbh... there's something about having someone your age seem more collected, not necessarily in a physical but more of emotional sense, and sunday's all in denial about it while also reverting to an immature persona of his own whenever he's around reader. idk the idea just tickles me for some reason. something about having both parties be almost exactly equal in age makes the battle between personalities all the more entertaining tbh. sorry I couldn't be more helpful it's the first time I'm figuring this out for any of the things I write😭😭

[bromcommie]

case of attachment

seventy years of silence v1.2 alt

I would love to hear about BOTH of these, but if you'd rather pick one, go ahead!!! <3

Hiya, thanks for the ask! I'm nothing if not yappy, so you get both <3 1. case of attachment — this is one of the AO3 Tag Bingo ones I started a month ago but never ended up submitting, and now I'm kind of glad I didn't 'cause I want to work on it more. The prompt was Ghosts, which is nothing if not rife with potential considering who I'm writing about. Because I seem incapable of writing full-scale AUs, though, I didn't take it literally, but the fic's also not...completely devoid of supernatural elements, I guess? I'd call it bordering on magical realism, maybe. It follows a couple of episodes throughout Steve and Bucky's lives through the lens of spirits and the various mythologies surrounding them (as well as the individual and collective fears/hopes they're usually inspired by), because that's a 3 am rabbithole I tend to fall down frequently. There's also something fascinating to the idea that the fear of possession is a fear of loss of identity or personhood or control, but also that possession has historically been used as an explanation for aspects of an identity that are unacceptable being actualized or apparent (mental health issues, behavior not correlated to someone's place in society, sexual desire, etc.) I’m not summarizing this very well, but there’s a hell of a lot of fun to be had with the meaning of ghosts and spirits, is what I’m trying to say.

The name itself sort of comes from the word dybbuk, which from what I understand is just a noun derived from the Hebrew word for 'to cling', but was translated specifically as 'state of attachment' on Wikipedia, and I just found that to be a somewhat strange and clunky but really interesting phrase. Not to mention fitting. Every love story is a ghost story and all that, and every ghost story is about the inability to let go.

In any case I feel like I'm on a roll with this one, so I might even publish it soon!

2. seventy years of silence v1.2 alt — Okay, this is the first script the mockup posters series spawned, so pardon the incoming word vomit as it is my baby—and it kind of ties into the previous one in the sense that it's supposed to be not entirely linear nor lucid in segments (hm, it's almost like there is a pattern starting to emerge here...). Anyway: (more or less) solo Winter Soldier movie, here goes.

I just couldn't stop thinking about how there's a whole goddamned movie missing between Winter Soldier and Civil War in more ways than one, and also about just how great it would've been to see Bucky as the WS (but tbh also just as Bucky) explored more as both the vessel for American Cold War anxieties and the ghost—ha—of their horrific consequences, as well as a storytelling conduit for observing several periods of 20th century history, cosidering he's supposed to be a key player in much of it yet is essentially a complete outsider to the world as a whole and (superficially) to the human experience of it all. I just think it'd work well as a lead up to the politics-adjacent events of CW, too. So on a background level I guess that's what I'm trying to do here via flashbacks that piece together the long road so far, as well as what continuity there is to Bucky pre + post-fall.

On a primary level, it's more or less a classic post-CATWS fic in content, if not form: Bucky post-DC trying to stay out of shit but caught between unwillingly retracing his history when Plot Events keep happening, figuring out how to both get the government off his ass and make sure his captors don't get to him without it becoming an outright revenge spree, figuring out who this Steve character is and if he even wants him to find Bucky (although for the time being I'd say present day Steve features less heavily than usual and is not necessarily the explicit focus, which is not to say that he doesn't play a role and that it's still not gay as all hell), and just figuring out what the fuck is going on in general and how to survive. I also loosely borrow from a couple of the comics runs both with the Department X/Red Room stuff and in order to set up an intro to the Superhuman Registration Act/Sokovia Accords, because I fucking hate how CW handled all that. (Surprise, surprise.)

So basically there is...definitely too much going on there. I've put it on hold a little these days until I figure out what exactly I want to do with it and because it keeps breaking my brain, but I still work on it here and there, so there's still hope.

I've already written way too much, but here's a snippet for the hell of it since I was actually just editing this yesterday:

[thankskenpenders]

How do you feel on the whole Misadventures arc of IDW? You touched upon it briefly, but I'm still curious. I myself found it frustrating since I despise "everyone trusts the newbie first" plotlines, and TBH "Silver and Whisper just stake out Duo and then attack him once confronted" felt like a frustratingly stupid way to resolve things. The pacing of the four issues, with how it felt like little happened, honestly made it feel like a collection of stories meant for an Annual that never came out.

I disagree. For one, I've found the pacing really refreshing. Even though this is a "breather" arc after all the stuff with Surge and Kit and the Eggperial City, it feels like we've had a lot of meaningful developments for the supporting cast in a short amount of time. Instead of spending 4+ months exclusively on one idea and one set of characters, we're hopping all around and getting these shorter stories from a wider variety of characters. But they all feel connected, primarily due to the background plot of Clutch and Mimic trying to undermine the Restoration. It feels like a whole lot of pieces are being moved into place for whatever's in store, whether it's getting Knuckles off of Angel Island more, having Silver and Blaze finally become a team, or establishing new threats for the Restoration.

And, yes, I'm even here for the silly backup story about Rough and Tumble messing up Cream's house. That stuff's fun! I've never been a person who thinks that everything has to be plot, plot, plot all the time. I love heavily episodic series. I like seeing what happens when you mash together random characters who haven't interacted before.

I kind of see why this might feel like the sort of material that's usually saved for the Annuals, but his was the norm during the Archie days. We didn't have Annuals, we'd just have backup stories about the supporting cast, or one-off issues that weren't necessarily part of a four-issue arc. That's something people have been interested in seeing from IDW from the very start, and folks like me were excited to see them finally give it a shot.

As for the stuff with Mimic/Duo: that's actually been my favorite part of all of this. I think it's made for some extremely juicy drama. Yes, it's a story about a suspicious new character showing up and people immediately trusting him, but, like... forget about the trope for a second and step back. This is just how the Restoration works. They aren't an exclusive club, they're a humanitarian volunteer group that's constantly welcoming in any help they can get. Every new character who decides to join the Restoration has immediately been welcomed in. The HQ is constantly full of randos. Amy put Jewel in charge of the whole operation after one conversation. Lanolin in particular has barely known Tangle, Whisper, or Silver any longer than she's known "Duo." She went on literally one mission with Tangle and Whisper before all this. The villains are observing the way the heroes work and taking advantage of it.

I also disagree with the claim that Whisper and Silver were being stupid in trying to confront Mimic. Well, okay, they kind of were being stupid, but it feels completely in character for them. Silver's always been a little too eager to act without thinking first. This is one of his defining character traits going back to '06. The irony here is that for once he was RIGHT, but the villain he accused of being a villain made him think it was just another case of Silver starting a fight for no good reason. And Whisper's acting rash because she ALWAYS acts rash when Mimic is involved. Any time Mimic has been a threat, Whisper has decided to go all lone wolf out of a fear that Mimic will kill Tangle like he killed the old Diamond Cutters. It's a constant struggle for her due to how deep that trauma is. It was the whole premise of the Tangle and Whisper miniseries!

But really, I just think it's so deliciously evil for Mimic to be playing the Restoration like this for so long. To me, it'd be a crime NOT to do something like this with Mimic. It's such a perfect use of his nature as a deceitful master of disguise. Whisper IMMEDIATELY figuring him out, only for Mimic to pit Whisper's allies against her, gaslighting her into trusting him and thinking that she fucked up? That's great! Well, I mean, it's terrible for her, but I'm here for the drama.

This is all a ticking time bomb that's going to impact so many characters when it goes off, and I can't wait to see how that plays out. How much damage will Mimic and Clutch be able to do to the Restoration as an organization? How will Lanolin react upon realizing her grave mistake? How will Whisper, a character who already has massive trust issues, respond to having some of her worst fears come true? She already left Restoration HQ once out of a fear that Mimic would target her friends, and then almost immediately after coming back THIS happens? How will Tangle respond to being caught in the middle of all this? And now Surge and Kit are apparently getting thrown into the mix as unexpected wild cards next issue??? This is the kind of drama I really eat up with these characters!

(If I have ONE small nitpick, though... it's that I initially misread the issue with the confrontation, and thought that Mimic really did break his own arm in his fight with Silver to help maintain his cover. I was like, holy shit! That's messed up! Mimic's messed up! But then I realized he was faking his injury. I kinda like my initial read better, but it's, you know. A kid's comic. That probably would have been a bridge too far lmao)

[drdemonprince]

genuine question, I get why blaming people who have just caught covid for it is some fucked up victim blaming bullshit, and highly analogous to shaming ppl who've gotten an STI, but is it okay to assign blame/responsibility to people who *give* others covid? it seems to me that just like with STIs (particularly HIV and HSV bc they're not curable) its your responsibility as like, a person who has sex and isn't a total asshole, to do a reasonably good job of knowing whether you have these things, and then either give people who might catch it from you the ability to consent knowing that, or only interact with people in such a way that transmission is highly unlikely. In other words, having or getting an infection is morally neutral, but failing to break the chain of transmission isn't, especially when that failure results from complete inaction/ignoring the problem, as opposed to *attempting* to break it and failing due to factors outside your control. I've seen people saying that beleiving this is the same as slut shaming people who get STIs, and tbh that seems ridiculous to me, but what do you think? is "if you have covid and pass it on to someone, especially by going around in public without a mask, you are morally responsible for the harm the disease causes them" incorrect/going to backfire in some way I'm not seeing? I do get how the same statement about HIV is not good, but also you can't give someone HIV by eating in the same restaurant, so it seems like there are some important differences.

The passage on moralizing HIV transmission in Sarah Schulman's book Conflict is Not Abuse is a real stand-out passage in an otherwise (to me) highly underwhelming tome -- because Schulman has been involved in AIDS activism since its early days and is very conversant in the laws that have been used to incarcerate gay men and others for having the virus, and for supposedly passing it along to other people.

We can philosophize all we want about how wrong it would be for a person to knowingly go about infecting other people, but when we're actually dealing with how such matters go in the real world, it's not a useful moral or practical question. How do we know that someone knows they have the virus? Do we consider a person morally culpable if they have the sniffles but brush it off, not realizing it's something more serious? What about an Autistic person or trauma survivor with alexithymia, who is not closely attuned with their body states? If I can walk around with a bleeding gash on my leg for hours or a bloody UTI and not know it, I can have a mild cold and not know it. Am I too blame for spreading the virus then? What about someone who does know they have COVID but has no legal protections in their workplace and no financial support and determines they have no choice but to do a shift at the grocery store, because otherwise they'll be fired and at risk of homelessness?

These might sound like extreme examples, but we're talking about collectively millions of people's everyday experiences here. If a person is at fault for any disease that they spread, what then? What logically follows from that declaration? Should we make knowing transmission illegal? We've already seen in history how such a policy is used to terrorize and oppress gay men. It's an impossible thing to enforce, because someone's knowledge state is impossible to fully know or surveil, especially when we're not, you know, providing tests to anyone in any kind of systematic way, and in fact our government and most of our employers are actively discouraging us from testing or knowing too much.

Of course, I doubt that you actually want any kind of legal policy like that very much. I'm certain what you are really asking about is what responsibilities we should reasonably expect individual people to hold. And the answer is, well, look at how they are holding them now! Clearly people do not have adequate support at the moment to even be cognizant of their status. It's not a useful question. It just isn't. If we were providing free tests every day at major public access points and legally protecting people's rights to call off sick whenever they did test positive, and paying them lost wages, then we could talk about people being irresponsible and knowingly spreading a disease out of malice or laziness. but we don't have any of that, so we can't.

The solution to a population failing to take the "right" actions is always to look at the external factors that makes taking the right action hard. And right now? Being responsible surrounding covid is very, very hard. We can condemn every person who spreads COVID (or HIV) to another person morally all we like, but it's not going to save lives, and it's going to harm a lot of vulnerable people in the process, so why do it? Why not instead ask ourselves what we can do as a society to help make it easier for a person to behave in pro-social ways?