#i might be grasping at straws but

[nebuladreamz]

So are we not gonna talk about how for even the first few seconds we see of DCA/Eclipse, they're aggressive, ripping open the doors and moving swiftly

But the second the light shines on them (or at least appears on their face)-

They soften. They immediately become friendly and seem to beckon you/Cassie in. A new friend.

[glo-shroom]

Hey guys. So, between bomb threats in dozens of polling locations across several swing states, burned ballot boxes, an uncounted number of absentee ballots being contested and rejected, voter purging, PA with thousands of mail in ballots that need to be re-scanned as well as Elon Musk literally paying PA citizens to vote, and the second highest record voter turnout in the past century but yet currently still 15 million less blue votes compared to the 2020 election (granted counting has not finished yet), there's been a lot of call for a recount and investigation, which I personally feel like is absolutely worth doing. So anyone who can, I direct you here to make your requests on this ASAP

edit: I'll keep my original text here but since some of this is already quickly becoming outdated and I'm now seeing much better posts than mine circulating, I'm turning off reblogs, here's a good post to check out

[acaptainbyanyothername]

One of my favorite themes Midst is exploring is what it means for a person to become an idol, a symbol. How they and the narrative deal with that is FASCINATING.

Obviously we have Lark. Clara Mire was shoved into her symbol at a very young age— she became the poster child for Caneum, the boogeyman under Trustee’s beds, the universal villain. She has spent her entire life running from that symbol, adopting an alias and jumping from place to place. But her tragedy is that in running from her symbol, she has had to partially become it. Lark is TERRIFYING, and leverages that all the time, against Fuze, Phineas, even Tzila. Lark became dangerous to run from her symbol of Dangerous.

Then we have our buddy Tripotentiary Moc Weepe. Upon his transformation, he becomes the symbol of the Trust. He literally and figuratively makes the Trust translucent to show off its diseased, rotting insides. He is the true Trust, inside and out. No wonder everyone hates him.

Jonas Spahr is forced to be this golden idol— don’t show weakness, put on a media-ready smile, not a hair out of place and it’s showtime. He groomed to be this way like one of Costigan’s plants, and she’s snipped away all of his natural humanities. He is golden and perfect at the cost of his personhood, and it’s killing him.

Contrast that against Phineas Thatch. Phineas tries to become that golden idol, Spahr tries to cull his imperfections, but it doesn’t stick. Phineas is too messy, too human, he can’t become the untouchable symbol. So he’s rejected and abandoned by his idolatristic society.

I think even Hieronymous Loxlee could count as a symbol— if Weepe is the Trust, Harry’s the Breach. Secretive, in disguise, hidden in plain sight. It’s a heavy burden to carry though, causing him to have to make decisions as a symbol rather than as a person. He needs to maintain the Breach above his own personal relationships—drop the moon on Midst if it saves the Breach, even if it dooms his loved ones and his own daughter. He can’t afford to be a person, he has to be the symbol.

But then Midst episode 15: Breach comes and says they’re just people. Lark is just an old woman. Jonas Spahr is just a man. It’s a clash of these various symbols and ideologies and inflated idols but they’re all flesh and blood that can die in an explosion. Anyways

[housederiva]

Wait hold on am I the only one who thinks the Caretaker is somehow an aspect of what remains of Felassan’s sprit? I guess my thinking stems from the fact he was the last being to leave the Lighthouse and how he acted as sort of a caretaker for it in the end

[nevertheless-moving]

Stormlight AU 17B Part Two

Continued from Here

Kaladin takes the honorblade because Syl insists it’s too dangerous to leave, collapses on the way back because holy shit exhaustion and injuries and also it's draining his stormlight a bit.

(There’s some interference between Syl Bond/ Honorblade Bond that takes time to sort out.)

When the storm starts dying, Kaladin and Szeth are found laid out like a Rosharan Renaissance painting.

Kaladin’s sprawled on the palace steps, still clutching the blade. There’s probably a single beam of light streaming down from a break in the clouds, illuminating Kaladin’s artistically devastated and storm soaked body with golden light, because of course there is.

The Assassin in White has dagger wounds in his heart and throat. Wounds from a darkeyes weapon. A LOT of witnesses to that messy aftermath because people are too freaked out to move either of them until Dalinar comes downstairs

When Kaladin wakes up he's injured. Syl isn’t answering. He’s surrounded by lighteyes and a handful of his men. The shardblade is on a pedestal.

Unfortunately this hits right in the incredibly specific trauma.

Adolin wasn't exactly sure what he imagined would happen when the bridgeman woke. No, that wasn't true. Over the last two days vigil, he had had plenty of time to think.

A haughty sneer, maybe. Or maybe a victorious smile, gloryspren, stormfather knew he deserved glory. More likely shock, surprise at even being alive — his body must have been devastated, he couldn't have expected the blade to heal him after he won, could he? A suspicious part of him had considered the idea of an attack, some form of betrayal, but not...

Whatever this was.

Prince Adolin Kholin stood in full shardplate watching bridgeboy — bridgeman — the Captain who killed the Kingkiller, face him down. Kaladin stood in a corner, one hand outstretched towards Adolin, wielding a scalpel like a dagger.

That arm was the only part of him that wasn’t shaking.

His eyes were feral, terrified. Storms, he had seen the man tackle the Assassin in White out a fifty foot drop with less fear. Shudders wracked his body. His other arm was gripping the one armed Hardashian that had been tending him, pushing him behind, protecting him.

Protecting him from Adolin.

Adolin took a hesitant step forward, hands held placatingly in front of him, feeling abnormally overly large and clumsy in his shardplate, like a chull, or a chasmfiend.

Captain Stormblessed finally spoke. "No," he said.

No, he didn't just say it, he begged. Adolins jaw dropped with shock. Before that moment, he would have laughed at anyone who claimed that the proud man could lower himself to plead like that. It felt...wrong.

"No," he said again, and almighty, were those tears in his eyes?

"Just let my men go. They won't say anything. I won't say anything. I don't want it. You can have it. I don't want it. Don't hurt my men. Please."

He was babbling. The proudest, most taciturn man on Roshar was babbling, pleading. Fearspren writhed sickly around his chest.

Adolin felt sick. He...must have been wounded in the head. That would be the most singularly cruel injury he could imagine. Worse than rotspren taking a hale warrior.

He glanced helplessly at his father, but he looked just as disturbed as Adolin felt.

Or — could the blade be doing this? It was impossible to miss the way it glowed, pulsing in time with the bridgemans gasps for air. Could it be cursed? Granting power, somehow healing a shardtaken arm, a body shattered from falling, but stealing the mind of the man who bore it?

"It's alright gancho," the hardassian said softly. "The fights over, eh? You can put it down, see, we're all friends here?"

"You have to run Hab," Stormblessed whispered, audible in the too still room. "It's a trap. They're going to..." he was barely able to stay on his feet, but he pushed at the smaller man, making sure to stay in between the Kholins and the uncertain bridge four guards.

More fearspren choked the air. Stone faces too — almighty above agonyspren too? Those hadn't even shone up when light had flooded to his shardtaken feet, and that couldn't have been comfortable.

The hardassian frowned. "Gancho, I'm getting the feeling you ain't completely with me. Surely you remember the Lopen? One armed hardassian? Irresistible to women? Your favorite wall decor?"

The Captain didn't seem to hear him, eyes glassy and unfocused. "No," he whimpered, looking at Adolin and Dalinar. "They're not a threat." He pushed the Herdassian further back. "I don't want the blade."

Adolin was glad his helmet was off, because he was pretty sure he was going to puke. This wasn't...he had tried sometimes, to put the darkeyed Captain in his place but storms...it wasn't right. The memory of his own behavior made him sick. Did the Captain really think so badly of him? That he would kill to steal the blade? Or was it just the delirium?

"It's alright Kaladin," one of the guards — Moash said, stepping forward. "It's not going to happen again. Bridge four is guarding the hall, just a shout away."

He glared at Adolin. Storms. Their entire guard thought that little of them?

Kaladin shook his head in Moash's direction, tears falling freely now. "We cant take them all, Coreb," he rasped. "We — you — you have to run."

His father finally spoke. "It's alright Soldier. I'm not Amaram. You're not there. You're safe. You're a hero."

Adolin and Kaladin stared in confusion.

Amaram? What in Damnation?

"I —" Stormblessed's voice cracked.

Father looked... hollowed out. He took a deep breath, then stepped toward the pedestal that held the sword. Moash, incredibly, lowered his spear at him.

Kelek's breath, Adolin knew that his men were loyal to their captain, but...stormfather.

Dalinar ignored him, lifting the sword, cloth wrapping the hilt, stepping forward.

Stormblessed's whole body was shaking now, scalpel barely staying in his grip. Still, Adolin barely restrained himself from stepping up to protect his father. On one hand, he could hardly imagine Stormblessed in a less threatening state. On the other hand, the Assassin in White might have thought the same.

Kaladin pushed Moash back, eyes fixed on Dalinar's approach.

"I am not Amaram," he repeated. "You know that soldier. Do you remember our conversation, after I exchanged the shardblade for you and your men?"

The captain blinked, scalpel still brandished in warning.

“What is a man’s life worth?” Dalinar asked, calmly stepping forward.

“The slavemasters say one is worth about two emerald broams,” Kaladin mumbled, frowning.

 “And what do you say?”

“A life is priceless,” he said immediately, blinking hard.

Dalinar smiled, then knelt down holding the blade in front of him, still not touching the hilt directly. Moash sucked in a shocked breath, and Adolin couldn’t help but agree with the sentiment.

“Coincidentally,” his father said. “That is the exact value of a Shardblade. Two days ago, you saved the four lives I hold most precious in this world, not to mention countless other priceless lives across Roshar. There is no treasure great enough to serve as payment for such a deed. If, as a start, you would be willing to accept what you have already earned, I would consider it a bargain.” He extended the sword, holding it perpendicular to them both.

“I…” Stormblessed blinked down at Dalinar in confusion. “Sir…?” 

The scalpel slipped through his fingers and landed on the floor with a clatter. Adolin exhaled in relief. I mean, the man could probably  do unreasonable amounts of damage with his bare hands but — still. One less thing to worry about.

The man blinked harder, eventually turning away from the blade to look at Moash.

"Syl," he said fervently. "Something's happened to Syl."

The lieutenant's eyes widened — he clearly recognized the name. Did bridgeboy have a girlfriend?

"It's alright Kal," he said soothingly. "Syl's tough, right? She always comes back."

"She always comes back," bridgeboy said, squeezing his eyes shut and swaying on his feet. Moash and the little Herdasian both moved quickly to steady him. "She has to come back," he whispered.

Dalinar rose smoothly, stepping back. "Perhaps it would be wise to allow the Captain more time to rest before discussing anything further."

"Of course brightlord," Moash said, nodding respectfully, as if he hadn't leveled a storming spear at his Highprince minutes ago. "Come on Kal." The three started moving slowly back to the bed.

Perhaps they were all going to pretend the last ten minutes hadn't happened. That seemed like a good plan to Adolin right now.

Upside of all this, Dalinar is pretty convinced about the Amaram accusation.

Funny conversation with Zahel because yeah fair enough you didn't need shardblade training but also because of that you definitely need shardblade training

REALLY funny conversation with Shallan because the boot stealing incident already happened, Kaladin's getting feasts and parades, and she's like oh. oh i done goofed.

Don't worry Syl's fine, it's just a tight fit until Kaladin's soul adjusts. She maybe even gets a nebulously defined sick power boost (ability to hold honorblade in physical realm perhaps?!?)

Kaladin gets ordered to go master his new powers and is just like. Ok. But i'm doing it because i want to, not because you told me to.

comes back a day later like Ok I can stick rocks together wahoo.

Comes back three days later like "I CAN FLY!! GUYS, GUYS I CAN STORMING FLY!!" it is the first time any lighteyes in camp have seen him smile and might cause several minor sexual crises

Learning to fly and getting to joyfully share it with bridge four right away because why not :)

Happily swapping the blade around bridge four giving a bunch of lighteyes aneurysms, though Syl insists on always taking it back after a bit because she's maybe sort of also bonded with it and its uncomfortable for it to go too far for too long

Incredibly resistant of new titles/lands. It becomes a thing.

Whitespine Uncaged except its like, 20 guys because it's a desperate trap for Kaladin specifically, trying to get him before he masters the honorblade and becomes the Blackthorn's unbeatable champion and the rest of the world get washed away in a river of blood.

...People are kindof freaking out about the blackthorn having a personal magic assassin

Adolin gets a little more beat to shit but they still manage to wreck everyone. I think Renarin also gets the honorblade for a hot minute and gets to go to town since this one doesn't scream. Possibly more of bridge four gets involved.

Absolute epic clusterfuck of a duel. 'Duel' is really the wrong word for 20 shardbarers trying desperately to kill a minor demigod and two pissed off kholins.

Dalinar and the King actually end up giving back a bunch of the shardblades and plate after the Kholin win because keeping all of them would be it's own political nightmare

i mean the 'duel' was already a painfully obvious metaphor. it's Kholins v Everyone Else time and the odds are not looking good for the everyone else side.

Kaladin gets his boon and duel with Amaram but of course it doesn't go how he wanted. Was there ever even a best case scenario here?

(Amaram desperately wants to become a radiant)

(Amaram has also accurately judged his likelihood of victory against the OP darkeye who has gotten even more OP since the last time he saw him to be approximately zero)

(Amaram sees the writing on the wall for house Sadeas now that Kholin is on the rise)

Amaram surrenders completely, throwing himself at Kaladin's feet, swearing over his lands and all that he owns, swearing eternal service to Kaladin in repayment for his sins. Kaladin really really really wants to kill him in cold blood but FUCK he's got morals that's like his whole thing

Kaladin: oh god does this mean i have to deal with Amaram all the time now

Dalinar: i mean he's yours to do with what you want. you could lock him away forever without trial.

Kaladin: oh god why is that even an option

Dalinar: ...the more politically expedient thing to do would be to keep him on as an advisor, at least until you get a better grip on his lands

Kaladin: oh GOD

Adolin kills Sadeas so now the other highprinces are REALLY freaking out

Actual radiant status gets hidden by glowing sword clearly giving Magic powers.

Like. The crabcat is out of the bag on the magic and flying but the sword is VERY CLEARLY GLOWING so. Fun sideways reveal.

TREMENDOUS number of assassination attempts because i can not stress this enough — this sword makes you unkillable and also gives you the power to fucking fly.

Oh! Forgot to mention: Shortly after waking up/bonding the blade he attends the meeting with Stormform!Eshonai, still dissociating slightly, because Syl is high on honorblade and extremely attuned to cognitive realm. Ends up helping Eshonai get rid of stormspren and bond her own light spren. End result for plot is this:

Rumors filter out that one of his powers is making people Radiant, so that's definitely adding to people going wild over him/The Blade/Dalinar's weird religious midlife crisis

new uneasy partial detante with Parshendi because at least one of them has superpowers now (thanks for that)

the desolation gets pushed back another year (tbh mostly because I want more time to explore plot device/political fallout of Kaladin being an absolutely overpowered freak amongst normies)

Stormlight AU Masterlist

[coochellati]

Let’s talk about that lacy piece Bruno is wearing under his suit jacket.

What exactly is it? The JoJo’s wiki claims that Bruno is wearing a “lacy top,” like it’s a tank top he’s layering underneath his jacket. Is it really a lacy top though? I say no; it’s lingerie, and I have indisputable proof.

Let me ask you folks a question: have you ever seen it get bunched up? Like, once?

Shirts get bunched up when you wear them because the edge isn’t pulled down by anything. Bodysuits wrap around your crotch and pull the fabric taut.

There’s probably some people out there who think that the idea of Bruno wearing a one-piece lace bodysuit is weird. They may ask, “What if the fabric is stiff and his top can’t actually bunch up?”

Nope, this panel right here shows that this lace piece is capable of bunching up. That means that for the majority of the time in Golden Wind, It must be pulled taut as if it was in the shape of a bodysuit.

Okay, so now we know for sure his “lacy top” is actually a one-piece bodysuit. As for it actually being “Lingerie?” Come on guys…. what else does it look like?

Here’s a screenshot of google image search results for “lace bodysuit”

(Bodysuit vs lingerie… what’s the difference? I guess for this post I’m going with a logic of “not all bodysuits are lingerie but some lingerie are bodysuits” and separating the two by the fact that all these are tinted darker so you can’t really see the skin underneath. They’re definitely still sexy tho)

Here’s a screenshot of google shopping search results for “lace one piece lingerie.”

(I didn’t choose google photos because all the lingerie was being modeled and I’m not sure how much of you want half-naked women on your screen. I mean, I would, but I digress…)

Which category does it look like his lace one-piece falls in to you???

I rest my case. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[freaky-flawless]

Something that's really irritating me about the Off-White doll is that when you look at the concept art, she has 0 monster features aside from her green skin. Her monster type was such an after thought, and that's why its so poorly reflected in her design. Like she's supposed to be a fish (I think) where are her scales? Where are her fins? For such an expensive doll, I expected more than just a reused face mold, and a very easily recognizable one at that.

Her concept art really looks like a pale Casta Fierce. And honestly, I would probably like her more if that was the direction they took. Instead of being completely new, lazily designed characters, they could have done something like "Casta Fierce modelling for Off-Fright" or something, and added a witchy twist to the actual Off-White look. I mean, it would still be grossly overpriced, but I guarantee she'd sell better, especially considering Casta only ever got one doll. And it would've been SO PERFECT for an October Friday the 13th release.

[bludpudding]

I need all of my minions to get together and consider the untapped potential of corinthian x destruction

they have had a total of one (1) interaction but that will not stop this vehicle I will turn this goddamn car around if I have to to get your attention

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

the thing about chilshi is that i see it as super one-sided on chilchuck's part and that's some shit he's bringing to the grave with him

[butchtwelfthdoctor]

Ok so um. I have a theory. About the Beginning and the Fall.

I was thinking about the dynamic between Crowley and Aziraphale in the season one / book beginning, on the wall of the garden of Eden could be a lead on from their Before the Beginning first meeting and um. it spiralled.

Obviously when book (at least) & s1 were written, their meeting on the garden wall was their first proper meeting (I think), but I reckon that with the developments of s2, you could say it was their first proper interaction after the Fall.

Aziraphale is nervous/awkward because the last time he saw Crowley was as angel just before the fall - either Aziraphale didn’t see Crowley’s actual Fall, or he heard about it happening and was too late and never forgave himself (but I'm sure he'll try and find out when he's archangel),  or he *did* see the fall and his memory of it was wiped. Because he had too many feelings for Crowley. And  AND IT'S PART OF THE PLAN THE FRICKEN INEFFABLE PLAN CROWLEY HAS TO BE A DEMON AND AZIRAPHALE HAS TO STAY AN ANGEL FOR THIS WHOLE THING TO WORK GODS BEEN PLANNING THIS THE WHILE TIME SHE NEEDED HIM TO BE AN ANGEL AND CROWLEY TO BE A DEMON WHAT IF.

WHAT IF AZIRAPHALE WAS GOING TO FALL WITH CROWLEY.

SEEING CROWLEY FALL WAS AWFUL FOR AZIRAPHALE AS WELL BECAUSE AZIRAPHALE KNEW CROWLEY WAS RIGHT. HE WAS A DEMON BECAUSE OF IT BUT HE WAS RIGHT - Heaven aren't always the good guys. Crowley was cast down for asking questions, never gets the answers, and Aziraphale has always doubted heaven, and he was beginning to wonder too, to, ASK QUESTIONS, HE WAS PREPARED TO FALL

WHAT IF HE WAS PREPARED TO FALL WITH CROWLEY BECAUSE HE KNEW HEAVEN WAS WRONG. And what if heaven either prevented him from witnessing Crowley’s actual Fall, or erased his memory of it because he needed to stay an angel for this whole plan to work. Ineffable. Neither of them had any say.

And that’s why their meeting on the wall has very first-meeting vibes - Crowley is still working through *remembering* what happened Before the Beginning, and the Fall and the whole Asking Questions thing - AZIRAPHALE HAD A QUESTION. ON THE WALL. IT HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM IF GIVING AWAY THE SWORD WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO OR NOT. CROWLEY WAS NOW FREE TO OPENly question, being a demon, and hearing him say it was a little reassuring that it wasn’t just him wondering if what he’d done was right or wrong. And Aziraphale had to ask who Crowley was because he was sure he knew him from somewhere but maybe couldn’t remember yet (he probably hadn’t quite worked out the whole looking where the furniture isn’t stuff yet). but also they act familiarly because they ARE familiar, even if they can only half remember why. And of COURSE OF COURSE THE NAME WAS BECAUSE HE ONLY KNEW HIS ANGEL NAME, NOT CRAWLY. Even though he bangs on about ‘you were an angel once’ HE KNEW THAT HE WASN'T TALKING TO THE ANGEL ANYMORE. SOMETHING HAD CHANGED AND IT HURT HIM TOO BECAUSE HE HATES CHANGE. In a way it was their first meeting - they were both different people to who they had been Before the Fall. Aziraphale loved Crowley right from the very first moments, FROM WHEN HE HELPED HIM - DOING A NICE THING FOR HIM BY HOLDING THE SCROLL - from right when ‘look at you you’re gorgeous’ and seeing angel!Crowley’s love for what he had created and wanting to protect it . Just as he was now trying to protect the first of the humans they would both come to love.

[akkivee]

once again thinking about my ideal 3rd drb match up and how it’d stack up with plot beats and so far all i got is

🔴💥⚪️: true hypnosis mic opponents, maybe jakurai ends up on a side for further development to save yotsutsuji and that’s against ichiro’s current goal

🔵💥🟠: haven’t quite figured out why, but rei vs samatoki is the angle i’m thinking about

🟡💥🟣: all plot stakes division vs no stakes division lol idk really but i’m leaning towards a bonds angle or if hypmic wants to be real freaky, the side effects angle 🤔

[hallowpen]

I'm still not over whatever is happening with The Sign's Special Episode... Doubly so, because it seems as if the universe just does not want me to see it 😩😩😩

My cousin invited me to go with her to the "Lost in the Jungle Fanmeet" the first time...but I had already bought tickets to "Prem's Private Space" Concert that was happening on the same day, so I couldn't go. That one's on me...fine

Now, after waiting too long for news, I've already booked a flight back home for the summer... but my flight leaves on the 29th, three days after this Encore Event...

The only thing giving me hope that the episode will eventually become available for fans who cannot attend the event is the fact that they are using The Sign's Special Episode to link to their newest GL series, Cranium [X] in an effort to establish some sort of IDF Multiverse

Sorry for the rant, I'm just frustrated...in a frustration born of my own making kind of way

[roughentumble]

This is your own fucking post dumbass

https://www.tumblr.com/roughentumble/770421818611892224?source=share

At least fucking remember what you post

is saying "hey man" casually in the same tone as "hey buddy" or "hey guys" or "hey folks" now Violent Transmisogynist Misgendering?

the only dumbass here is you.

[kc5rings]

Arknights is very close to making a full maid squad viable and I respect that for the maid enjoyers, lovely and cultured people that they are

But I need them to give me the ability to run Nun Squad, it’s important for my health

[endious]

roommate jeff who jerks off over your sleeping form. it was so easy to unlock your bedroom door and sneak in without you ever realizing. the sight of your frilly panties as you kick the blanket off yourself in your sleep makes him squeeze his cock tighter in his hand imagining it was your tight pussy instead. and in the morning you’d never even know your roommate had done such a thing in the first place and you’d sit on the couch and question why the guy you went on a date with last night has suddenly disappeared is seen as missing on the news.

[tragicclownwrites]

🤡