#i still might write it someday

[stingrachelmha]

You were meant to finally rest in peace

[lyculuscaelus]

Telegony isn’t real unless it’s made of cloud—just consider the possibility where Circe created an image (eidolon) of Odysseus using cloud and they had a child (or three children) together. But Circe soon found this Odysseus somewhat lacking so she sent him away, leaving their child (or children) here on Aeaea. Cloud!Odysseus (or should I say Clodysseus) then roamed around in Italy before dropping off in Epirus where he found himself a new wife Callidice, and fought a war against the Bryges. Eighteen years later the death of Callidice reminded him of a home so distant that he never felt he had but now realized he needed it so much so he decided to go “back” to Ithaca. Meanwhile the half-cloud half-divine Telegonus went to search for his father and landed in Ithaca too. And upon seeing the Clodysseus who had just came to this island he mistook him as a guard and had a fight with him and stabbed him with that poisonous spear. Then Clodysseus dissipated after Telegonus realized that he stabbed his father, who only had the chance to give one glance at this home that would never be his.

Meanwhile the real Odysseus was suffering from trauma until the eighth year came and he got back to Ithaca and had his revenge and then went through the oar quest and once again returned chilling with his Penelope and Telemachus for the rest of his life, maybe going back to gardening or something, and somehow caught all of the drama in 360P that happened on that day, in the tenth year after his return.

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

[deoidesign]

just to inquire, what’s your favorite thing you sell in your shop?

i love your comic!

Oh thank you!

And my favorite thing... That's hard to answer haha

I like selling prints because I get to use my nice printer (which I love to do) and I especially love selling custom panel prints, because then I get to see people's favorite panels from my comic, which is double nice...

The most fun items to pack are the merch bundles which are themed with my books, I LOVE coming up with packaging design like this so much...

But my favorite design has gotta be one of these... Probably the patch, there.

It's really hard for me to pick!

I actually genuinely just am really passionate about product design and merch themeing, it's not only extremely fun for me but it also just really engages my brain. I love coming up with items that fit a theme, and there's no theme I love more than my own comics haha

So there's not much I could enjoy more! That's why I chose to do a merch club on patreon, it lets me get out my merch-y feelings but without overloading my storefront... Plus it's just really fun for me! I get to experiment, make little packages, and enjoy making new things.

Thank you for asking!

[ardentpoop]

is it too much to ask for a j2 fic that explores the shift in character focus on the show + the increasingly abusive dynamic btwn sam and dean bleeding into jared and jensen’s on-set relationship and causing interpersonal issues that affect the direction of the show in turn 😔 must I do everything myself

[not-cool-enough-to-scuba-dive]

actually I would quite like to hear your thoughts on gender philosophy in omegaverse worldbuilding? :3

hm. anon, I fear this is a far larger can of worms than you probably anticipated. I'm going to spare you the worst of it by only giving you a short version, but be careful what you wish for.

I'm also hiding it under a cut because even the short version is embarrassingly long.

I'm hardly a connoisseur of omegaverse content, nor would I consider myself anywhere near an expert. I don't want to speak for all fics as I've admittedly not read many. I did do my master's diss about legal gender recognition, so this is more about gender and philosophically sound worldbuilding than an indictment of any particular writing or story tbh.

the short answer is I find omegaverse worldbuilding really interesting, but I've never fully been able to enjoy it due to the way a/b/o identities tend to have a biological determinist slant to them imo, and tendency for a lack of real world implications of what the omegaverse does to gender and character interactions anywhere outside the bedroom. I'd love to figure out a version that's more inclusive and philosophically/ideologically consistent, both with itself and with my own views on real life gender (basically, I want to make it make more sense, have less biological determinism, and be more inclusive of the wider range of human experiences). this is a big task, and ngl I haven't achieved it and don't anticipate doing so any time soon. I have like, a concept in my head, taking apart all the key pieces and putting them together again but different, but to make it thorough enough would require more effort and time than I have because I'm like, employed 😔

I feel like someday if I ever get invited to a powerpoint night though, this could be It.

[lialuvsaven]

Dr ratio is kind of really interesting to me bc I feel like there's quite a bit going on w him too- I'd love to write about him someday but I'd rather figure out how I characterize him before that

[fresh-and-funky]

unsure if ive ever put this out into the void but there needs to be an umbrella academy au of IT. Like were the characters of IT are lowkey the umbrellies (without the raised as siblings bit)

Richie- Klaus. (The energy, the most comedic character)

Eddie- Viktor. (Repression much)

Stan-Ben (gone too soon)

Bill- Luther (team leader)

Mike- Five (pulls them all together, cryptic af, stuck in time)

Ben- Diego (self-worth issues lets be real)

Bev- (desperately chasing a future that's not possible)

[biscuityskies]

a couple of knights on the road

"Who knows?" his brother says, cuffing Cody sharply on the shoulder once before heading back towards the castle. "Maybe married life will suit you." Cody? Commander of the Armies of the Krayt? Supposed to just settle down and call it quits as a soldier, cozy up into his new life as a married man to a spouse he never picked, let alone met even once? Yeah, right. As if.

this is perhaps my goofiest title. my most whimsical creation. what the heck happened here. anyways here's day three of @codywanweek, with prompts arranged marriage and there was only one bed

[afniel]

I am, for whatever reason, back to thinking real hard that I could take a necomimi or similar EEG toy and slap a Bluetooth module in and get it talking to an Arduino with a few Spotify API commands and a little driver to interpret the input and then I could skip songs without even having to get my phone out but like, why. Why is that what I want to do. I could do anything (okay, no, the list of things is technically short, though very flexible if you're creative) with an EEG-to-BT thingy and yet I'm just like, what if I could just skip songs and turn the volume up. With my BRAIN. Obviously that's the most useful reason possible to have shit stuck to your head, right?

I still do not need to spend $300+ on it though so it's still not happening, but I am thinking it real hard, which would possibly be visible on an EEG.

[ikkaku-of-heart]

I think I made Ikkaku a bigger person (5'10") because God didn't make me the bigger person (5'2") but I constantly have to BE the bigger person in my life so she gets to live out my dream of being tall and petty.

[lamuradex]

Actually, following that update, I wanted to talk a bit about the losing story Skinwalker a little bit. I'm glad the other one won, but I think this was a neat idea.

The basic concept was this:

A V-Tuber is streaming for his audience when there's sounds over the stream, confusion, and a gunshot. It sounds like there was a struggle, only for the V-Tuber to come back, as his avatar starts moving, and continue the stream. However he switches off the mic and only communicates via the chat. From there, basic idea was going to be that the Chat are slowly realising, or immediately knowing, that something was wrong. The V-Tuber is acting strange, and the dawning realisation is that someone else is at the controls now, most likely whatever home invader they heard breaking in. The Chat try to keep the intruder talking, but no one knows where the V-Tuber lives to call the police, and they're trying not to say anything alarming in the chat to alert the intruder. The situation ends with the mic coming back on and sirens, the intruder running, with the V-Tuber avatar left on screen stuck in an unsettling grin.

The ending, and the little bit of a twist, would have been that of course the V-Tuber is found dead, and a funeral held online for him amongst some fellow V-Tubers (perhaps a silly idea but I think we can all see it happening). The narrator however would then realise that The Intruder had known certain details about operating a V-Tuber avatar, and that it could even be one of the ones attending his funeral.

Honestly, it just sounds a bit like a Black Mirror episode, doesn't it? It was a bit inspired by the episode of Elementary that focused on online gaming (S5 E14 - Rekt in Real Life), which features something a bit similar, a guy killed on stream by an intruder.

It was also going to include some thoughts on clown faces.

Wait, hear me out!

In the clowning world, what there is of it, clowns can only use their own make-up pattern. It is against every rule to use another clown's design. They make it official, painting their designs on eggs to keep track and keeping them as records. Faces can even be passed down, as long as no two clowns are using it at once.

And I feel that could connect to V-Tubers. The use of another's face. What it would mean to use another V-Tuber's avatar. The idea of being another person because you were using their avatar.

I dunno though... The main problem is I don't actually watch any V-Tubers, and I am not doing that kind of research just to write a short horror story.

So yeah, I'm glad that Lucid and Dreaming won that poll. Look forward to it on Oct 31st. Happy Halloween, everybody!

[britneyshakespeare]

Let slaves in mind be servile to their fears;

Our heart is high instarred in brighter spheres.

Fernando, IV.ii of Love's Sacrifice (1633) by John Ford

[kyonkyonson]

A while back, during one of the many times I think about Kamen Rider, I thought it would be cool to have a version of the original story where Hongo doesn't start with the famous scarf; he puts it on later as a sign of his rebellion against Shocker, to show he's still human.

AND GUESS WHAT ANNO CHOSE TO DO

[umbreonix]

wooooowowiwee may we hear more about this youtuber thingy🥺 like i know you don't want to give spoilers but... <3

oooooweee gawsh 🙈🙈🙈🙈

HmmmmMmmmm let me tell you more about Revali's condo building. Dead in the center of the city he's immediately in the most posh/vibrant area of downtown as soon as he's out the door.

There are only two penthouse condos (The Medoh suite being one of them) so he gets three directions of city views. All three outer walls are like, 90% glass so you really feel like you're soaring above the city skyline.

The main area of his apartment is open concept so the kitchen, tv area and dining room are all in the same large space. It makes the kitchen a very central spot in the home. Very convenient if you're someone who practically lives in the kitchen. Revali isn't but... maybe a future lover will enjoy cooking.

I collected reference pictures for funnies a while back:

Revali is ABSOLUTLEY the kind of guy who feels COMPLETELY at peace taking a bath in front of a massive window overlooking the city. (He knows that he's a work of art and has nothing to hide).

This open-view bath to me is the most important element to the whole apartment XD Hylian/Human Revali just strikes me as SUCH a bath person. He's luxurious like that.

[patchwork-crow-writes]

61 - Counterfeit

I've always tried to be whatever you need of me... to be the friend and confidante you've always wanted. Everything about me, right down to the way I look, has been designed to foster your trust, to reassure and comfort you in the best way I can.

...but you've already made up your mind, haven't you. It's in the way the lights in your eyes die when you're alone with me, the one-word responses spoken with such barely-disguised scorn. It's as if I were a bitterly-hated intruder, rather than your nearest and dearest friend...

Lesser. Inferior. Unworthy of your time and your grace.

And that's... just how it should be, right? Next to his radiance, I am but the merest of shadows cast by a flickering candle, the smeared reflection of something almost familiar in a mirror shattered by rage. Store-bought cocoa can never match up to the homemade one, no matter how sweet it's made.

It's little wonder that I never stood a chance with you... isn't it?

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The Dark Menagerie No. 61

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