#i'm literally bluescreening right now

[hollow-keys]

ID: An edited four panel meme comic showing someone say "Oh Star Trek: Lower Decks, I'm just feeling real low." Their TV replies "canon" while showing Garak and Bashir kissing on screen. The person gets up from the sofa and says "Oh shit, for real?"

Garashir nation???? We're back???

[yuri-is-online]

(Some more bread crumbs for the Aceyuu birdies) Ace enters Ramshackle, where everyone is already gathered in the guestroom, Yuu's in the middle of talking about something when he walks in. Yuu: And I mean, I guess I feel a little guilty about it, but I'd say the one I miss the most back home is Toby!

Ace bluescreening, internally he's asking: WHO TF IS TOBY?!

Epel: Well you did say he was super affectionate with ya, Yuu

Yuu: Haha, exactly! It would be soooo annoying sometimes I'd enter a room and suddenly he's ontop of me, just whining and licking everywhere until I wrestled him of off me!

Ace shaking: Am I having a stroke? Is this what a stoke feels like? I can't feel my legs and I'm blacking out man.

Yuu, sighing defeated: Aw, but then he'd look at me with those big sad brown eyes and I end up letting him do it all over again.

Deuce, laughing: Who knew you had a weakness for puppydog eyes

Ace: EXCUSE ME?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! THAT'S ALL YOU GOTTA SAY?! YUU! I EXPECTED MORE OF A BACKBONE FROM YOU! WHY'RE YOU LETTING HIM GET AWAY WITH THAT KINDA STUFF?!

Yuu, beweildered, genuinely didn't realise Ace had arrived: Who? You mean let Toby...the boxer?

Ace, momentarily doing the quick maths about his chances against a boxer: I don't care what his job is, you can't be letting guys do stuff like that to you! I don't care how good looking you think they are!

At this point, the boys begin cracking up a little, which only pisses Ace more. Even Yuu looks like their trying so hard not to laugh at him, their eyes a mix of pity and adoration (he hopes that's what he's seeing, at least) before they explain; Toby the boxer, as in the boxer breed of dog. Yuu was talking about their family pet(s) back home. Ace tries to cover for himself, saying how he totally knew that but Yuu isn't even listning to his excuses anymore because now it's Grim throwing a tantrum about how could you miss a mangey mutt when you have the Great Grim sitting on your lap?! But don't worry Ace, the guys will make sure nobody forgets this little outburst.

OR something, after we had to put our dog down a few years ago, my dad's finally in a place where he's looking for a new one so I'm just thinking about dogs now uwu

This ask is old but I hope everything went well with the search, it was my roommate's dog's birthday today so this ask as been on my mind for a hot second. Toby is such a cute name for a boxer it's literally perfect.

Listen, this is all your fault, that's going to be Ace's stance on this. If you weren't such a headache to look after, then he never would have thought that you would let someone do something like that to you and he would have automatically known it was a dog. Really now what do you take him for?

"Jealous." You're smiling as if you find the thought amusing. "It sounded like you were jelous."

"Oh please," you have him dead to rights, but he's not going to say that out loud "only Grim would get fussy about you having a dog." Because really he's not jealous of the dog. If anything he thinks it's cute, so the prefect is an animal person; just like a proper beast tamer, look at you!

No what makes him jealous is the thought he can't give you any of that back no matter how much he wants to. His family doesn't have any pets, but from the way his classmates talk about them he knows that's not a bond you can really just replace. And he wouldn't want to, Ace wants what you have to be unique to the two of you and not a replacement for what came before.

Guess that means he'll have to learn about how to take care of a dog huh. He can do that... just not when the guys are around they're already giving him a hard enough time.

[galexibrain]

So, my DB/Z obsession from 20 years ago reawakening after years of being dormant has some side effects.

As a teen I didn't have the knowledge and experience to recognize trauma, much less explore it (fanfic or otherwise), nor did I have access to fandom spaces in a way that I could connect with other fans to see their takes on characters.

So, in the past, I never actually realized what Vegeta went through and that there's a whole fuckton of trauma between Planet V's destruction, Freezer and his death on Namek.

Yeah, up until ... three weeks ago I never looked at Vegeta as a character with trauma.

And now I do. Now I look at "watched his entire species and planet die as a kid", "was forced to do Freezer's bidding as little more than a slave for 25 years", "learned it was FREEZER who killed his people and planet", "lost all hope at defeating Freezer when he realizes just how outmatched he was" and I fucking bluescreen in horror.

This doesn't make early Vegeta less evil or less of a prick in any way, not at all. What it does is ADD SO MUCH MORE to his character than I was ever aware, and I already loved him more than anything.

I'm okay, this is fine, everything's alright.

And I always wondered why he just stayed on Earth and moved into Capsule Corp. and ... what fucking else should he have done?! There was literally no place in the universe he could go, not a single person waiting for him, nothing, absolutely nothing left of his old life. He was utterly taken apart as a person by Freezer just a few hours ago, then he died, and then he's alive again but for WHAT?

And Bulma saw that. Not that he cared about her at the time, but she looked at him and realized "oh what's that guy going to do? He doesn't look like he has an agenda right now" and decided fuck it, I'll take him in, he needs a shower and a large pizza ASAP.

And I think even if you're Prince Fucking Vegeta, who cares about no one and nothing (who would want him to, even?), being offered a shower and a bed and a large pizza after losing everything will have an effect.

Yeah I'm good, nothing to see here, move on lol

[lu-sn]

if you're still taking prompts, I'd love to hear you talk about Macau seeing through Pete at times when no one else does

PETE AND MACAU MY BELOVEDS!!!

the nice thing about macau is that he's in the mafia and related to vegas and therefore very accustomed to weird mafia shenanigans -- but he's also, like, normal. (relatively speaking.) so he sees pete get up to just-deranged-mafia!things and none of it even registers, but that also means he can cut through all of that mess to pick up on some of the more, ah, normal problems that pete has.

(vegas is not nearly as good at this as macau, because vegas is not normal in the slightest.)

for example. pete doesn't... make choices? he does when he really needs to (e.g. when the alternative is literally killing himself) but he's generally content to be handed things instead of choosing them. for instance, i don't think we ever saw him choose an item of food to eat in canon.

vegas knows this and has probably decided it will be his life mission to deduce exactly what food pete wants at every moment in pete's day without so much as a peep from pete. he will make pete taste-test everything under the sun and will analyze the most minute of pete's microexpressions to death, and then he'll add a pinch of lemongrass and try again. it's a point of pride for him to guess what pete wants correctly and then provide it.

macau, on the other hand, listens to pete go "we can go eat wherever you want, macau," and "i'm happy with whatever you order" for the fifteenth time and goes "dude. you're allowed to say you want something, you know."

(pete immediately bluescreens.)

macau examines him for a bit and then goes, much slower this time, "you're allowed to want things. it's, like, healthy, bro."

idk! i just have the feeling that macau has an uncanny ability to point at a particularly funky peteism and go "phi why are you like this. you really don't gotta be like this." and pete has Never Considered These Things Before, Ever.

macau is going to catch pete deflecting and retort with a "we're talking about you right now, not me." and he's going to watch pete bow and fake-smile at a bitchy authority figure and say "you can just tell him to fuck off, you know. you don't have to put up with that shit."

other people see pete doing these things and it doesn't even process for them as something odd. vegas knows it's odd, and sometimes can't figure out exactly why, and will definitely waffle about getting pete to talk about it. but macau is going to spotlight pete's issues with no remorse. he's gonna look pete in the eye like the blunt teenager he is and say, do you know you're human, too?

[rubra-wav]

Entry #7 : Vox and Blackouts, Connection, etc.

A/N / Disclaimer : Fanfic is fanfic, and people are allowed to make things as OOC or just in their own image as possible, so I'm not shitting on that at all. Everyone has the right to make whatever tf they want and explore concepts and stuff.

This is just me vomiting ideas that have been plaguing me for a while.

If I'm proven wrong by the show, then I'll eat my hat and apologise for this one, but for now I'm trying to think about this stuff like - as logically in the frame of what's canon as possible.

It's funny to say that when this is the topic but yeah haha 💀

Ah yes, theorising about the goddamn TV Man again.

Cw: SFW to NSFW/18+ (below cut)

- So, let's establish some things before I begin to truly dig into this haha.

- Vox is not wireless, and thus does not get effected by things that are not directly connected to him. This is seen with him directly plugging into his set-up before being able to control all the TV's and devices connected to the main-frame.

- This would most likely mean that when the whole system goes down, he isn't affected by it and vice versa if he's not directly plugged into it. So yeah- if he blue screens or glitches out like he does just casually while not plugged in, then the whole city most likely would not blackout.

- An anon asked me about whether he would just go offline if the WiFi was down or if he would be just fine and yeah - he'd be just fine if he wasn't plugged in. If he was, however, then he'd most likely lose reception. He'd probably blackout/shut down.

- For an example: if he's plugged in and it's storming outside and lightning hits the main tower, then he'd probably be pretty injured because his system would be fine. But if he wasn't plugged in he'd be absolutely fine.

- I also could see his face dropping to low resolution and voice doing the blocky-glitchy thing audio over calls does if he's plugged into the system and the reception goes to absolute shit.

- Think 180p quality display and audio Vox lmao.

(Here's the other post as well)

- Having said all that, I also don't think that there wouldn't be any effect at all on surrounding technology if he starts glitching out.

- If he's near things like phones, laptops, lights, etc. Etc. He'd likely effect them, but on a way smaller scale then what most people seem to write about.

I'm gonna start going into directly NSFW below the cut

- So yeah, if you're just casually fucking Vox really hard and he starts glitching or goes to the point of bluescreening while coming, the whole of Pentagram city isn't going to experience a blackout because he's not plugged into the system.

- However

- He would most likely start effecting the direct surrounding technology.

- Think lights blinking on and off or getting brighter and then dimmer to the pace you're screwing him at. Think surrounding devices turning on and off.

- Think light bulbs and phones and clocks in the room - anything electrical or running on batteries - exploding into shattered bulbs, being destroyed, getting fried, etc. When he comes.

- Bro basically starts doing what ghosts/poltergeists start doing to mess with people lmao.

- The trope of him causing whole city-wide blackouts when hes fucked so hard is funny as hell in theory, but going off of canon that wouldn't happen that way.

- And maybe you're saying 'okay - but what if Vox is plugged into the system' That would also not happen.

- Yes, if you did screw him into bluescreening while he's hooked up to everything then yes it would most likely happen.

- but, it goes against literally everything we know about Vox to have that ever happen.

- He is all about appearances and looking perfect 365 days 24/7 to the public.

- I keep seeing these fics where that happens and he's all embarrassed and cute about it, but if that ever happened with what we know about canon Vox he'd be mortified and fucking pissed as all hell around it.

- I feel like if you're in a relationship with Vox, the first thing he'd make abundantly clear is how important his image is to him.

- So if reader was riling him up in his office while he's around all the machines and stuff or actually directly plugged in - he wouldn't be going 'no, stop it' as a kind of bratty thing, he'd be seriously telling you to stop.

- Like, to push him to causing a city-wide blackout by having sex would absolutely in my mind based on all we know about Vox; be violating his boundaries to one of the highest degrees there are.

- His public image is everything, and you would be let know that from day one. Hell, dude would probably jeaprodise/push your relationship to the side if it fucked up his image. Thats how important it is to him. The boundaries around doing something to fuck his image up would be set in stone from the second you enter his life.

- So doing that and causing that to happen wouldn't really be?? Like the cute fanfiction trope it is, he'd be rightfully angry as fuck that that's happened because it's what not to do 101 to not screw up his image.

- The 'blackout' you'd be able to cause and not have him absolutely hating you afterwards would be with your house, hotel room or wherever you're doing the do.

I'm way too passionate about this, i know, but like I see it so frequently, and it just makes like absolutely no sense to me at all, haha. I liked it the first time i saw it but after actually thinking about it I just find myself raising my brows and cringing each time I see it in fanfics because it just feels inaccurate asf 😭

[suzukiblu]

Tim bluescreening every time Kon unintentionally says something that hits him right in the horny is so funny to me. And Kon being so busy trying to be good he doesn’t even know what he’s doing to him. Man.

I am not gonna lie, I have taken great, GREAT enjoyment in writing Kon being just absolutely fucking oblivious to how incredibly thirsty Tim is for him in this fic and ESPECIALLY in how incredibly thirsty he is MAKING Tim, hahaha.

Kon, internally: oh no what if I'm not a good enough boy for Tim and he doesn't have a good time :(

Tim, internally: oh no what if I literally spontaneously combust before I can fuck Kon as good as he deserves :(((

Bernard, internally: yeah I now desperately want both a pet and a pet rock

[salternateunreality2]

MDZS/The Untamed/SephZack, Episodes 24-50 aka the end

Because I got too excited and barely paused long enough to scream at frens.

LOOK AT THE PRECIOUS BUNS

Spoilers ahead:

After Red Lady finds Zack and begs for his help rescuing Cloud:

I WAS SO RIGHT ABOUT WEN NING BEING CLOUD He was stabbed through the middle and is now in a weird coma after being rescued by Zack. Peak Cloud right there. Just watch, homeboy is going to have an identity crisis/memory issues. BB CLOUD IS ALIVE!!!

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After the midnight rescue and pivotal point where Sephiroth stands aside, allowing his beloved to pass with the remnants of the Wen clan:

THE BABY HAS ARRIVED. He is a CHONKER and needs ALL THE SNAX. AND HE RECOGNIZED HIS OTHER DAD OUT OF EVERYONE!!!!!!! FEED HIM WHATEVER HE DESIRES.

Baby A-Yuan supremacy. I can't even think of a parallel for him in FF7 because I'm too busy wanting to pinch his chubby little radish cheeks.

Maybe he's Nanaki. An expert at getting grown-ups to share snacks with him, who grows up into a surprisingly competent teenager due to all the ~trauma~.

Anyway, market scene in a nutshell:

Child: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Sephiroth: ...😐

Child: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Citizens: are you his dad? Do you not know how to sooth your child?! Are you an idiot?! Do you need HELP?!?!?!?!?!

Sephiroth: *bluescreen* *error.png*

Child: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Zack: trolololololol buy him something

Sephiroth: uh, ok

Child: *magnetized to Sephy*

Sephiroth: *equally as horrified and confused as when child was crying* *he literally never imagined himself as a dad* *but has been forcefully adopted*

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Cloud: *violently emerges from his coma*

Zack: EYYY! SPIKE!!! MY DUDE!!!! *hi fives, shoulder bumps*

Cloud: I cOuLd HaVe KiLlEd YoU?!

Zack: False, I brought Sephiroth!

Sephiroth: ...

Zack: *shows Sephiroth around his hovel like it's paradise on earth*

Sephiroth: *looking at Zack like he's paradise on earth*

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Red Lady: *gives Zack enough poison to tranquilize a bear*

Zack: Don't you fuckin dare go off and self-sacrifice!

Red Lady: Bitch, that's rich coming from you! Also, are you made out of pure red bull and spite?! How are you still awake?!!?

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Things I am still not ok about:

Cloud being made into a puppet to kill Jin Ling's dad.

The one hundred holes curse. Just. Ew.

The remnants of the Wen clan ALL turning themselves in.

Grandma Wen dying.

Jin Ling being orphaned.

Zack thinking he needed to die to stop himself.

Sephiroth crying.

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Sephiroth: *gets drunk*

Zack: This is the best thing ever.

Sephiroth: *proposes to his boyfriend by giving him chickens*

Zack: Look at this adorable city boy, not even knowing how to hold a chicken. I love him so much.

Sephiroth: *goes hog wild and does...GRAFITTI!*

Zack: PFFT! Y'know what, I'll carve my name too <3

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Zack with his juniors aka ducklings is like a border collie intensely guiding them in the right direction as they bumble along.

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Lan Wangji's sword is named Bichen, because he has serious resting bichen face.

Also I heard that he has a long wang, so Long Wang-ji seems appropriate too!

The Lan clan should be the Lan, meaningful glances clan. There is so much staring deeply into each other's eyes. And the eyes of their crushes.

(I'm 49.9% sorry)

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Best Hurt/Comfort boyfriend/husband angst moments:

Jin Ling getting stabby with Zack.

Zack making himself bait as if this was FF7 canon.

Everything that happened on the top of that cliff with the bloodbath and Zack's death.

Sephiroth giving Zack a piggyback.

When they visited Genesis and Zack's internal injuries caught up to him.

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It was so heartbreaking to watch Zack gather himself to be the sacrifice yet again, huge "heh, the price of freedom sure is steep" vibes 😭😭😭

Then Sephiroth jumps in with a "No. No, you're not doing this alone this time." And Zack is so relieved and surprised and you really have to be looking, but his whole body just relaxes and lights up at the same time, like the weight of the world he puts on like a backpack is suddenly halved and 😭😭😭😭

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Wen Ning/Cloud's arc is so wholesome. After all the, y'know, mind control and death stuff.

So proud of him for separating his identity from Zack's in the end, but never letting go of the loyalty. He recognizes and adopts A-Yuan like Cloud does with Denzel.

He's strong with Zack and becomes strong alone.

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I do NOT feel as bad as the series wanted me to feel about baby-face incest filicidal murderer McGee. Sure, Angeal loved him, but Angeal was severely misled. If Angeal wasn't such a good guy, I'd feel completely delighted that McGee's boyfriend was the one who killed him. His good qualities were *checks notes* remembering one guy's name and not physically abusing his boyfriend or accepting his boyfriend's offer to die with him. Wow.

He can go kick rocks and stub his toe and get a major infection and die.

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Genesis being a responsible uncle, lol:

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Re: that scene with Bichen that's NOT in the live-action drama, but apparently is in the books...

THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS TO "USE PROTECTION".

Also, I now realize that the comment about riding one's sword was a translation CHOICE, not an accident.

[malakaie]

mr. malakai please look away, we're being sickos over here

terrorizing and then adopting an heir (julia) is something that can be so personal, actually. and yes, the blurred kayfabe is what makes it work so well! i think she's the youngest wrestler on the roster, and the fact that the House took her in has undeniably given her career so much life and longevity. With the varsity blondes, she was quite literally just a cheerleader most of the time, and the fact that malakai could see past that degrading routine to unleash her? that he saw how good she could be if she had the support she needed (the base, to use a cheerleading term)? perfection. he sparked the anger in her that was there all along. and he made her a princess, the Empress.

i know less about aleister and murphy together, but yes i was absolutely referring to the seth rollins thing. another layer of that whole dynamic is how buddy is, very notably, not one of the kings of the black throne. he is not put into power the way brody and julia are. but despite not being misted, despite not having the incentive of power, despite that fraught relationship, buddy is unceasingly loyal to the House. Like you said, he's best when he's under someone's thumb, and isn't mal so kind to bring his hand down? no need for scritches, buddy's made for funishments when he's been good (tit torture? that's where my mind goes, bc i'm a pervert and have you seen them thangs?). malakai always gives the house what it needs

the sheer versatility of the dog metaphor is why it will always be famous, and delicious. one of my favorite fights was when willow and julia had a match and willow starting copying brody's bark with the crowd. after bluescreening for a moment, all i could think was: brody has a playmate? i feel like julia would have a blast orchestrating that. willow's obviously much nicer than brody (except when it comes to julia), but i'd love to see them go tear someone apart with their teeth.

(and if we look at the whole mess happening right now with the bcc targeting darby and orange, i would kill for a brody and willow v. claudio and marina match, esp if it's actually intergender.)

one of the youngest, yeah, i believe! i know nick wayne is younger and i think billie starkz is as well though i believe she's mostly on roh. i understand why julia reached for the cheerleader gimmick at first - she's talked about this as well, it was something she was familiar with and thought she'd be successful/comfortable in, but over time realised it was kind of getting in her way - but i definitely think the role she's in now is a much more natural fit and one that really lets her shine and perform. and that translates into kayfabe, doesn't it? if the house is less an entity that manipulates - although they certainly do that to their enemies - and more a vehicle or vessel for the truth of a person's soul when you strip away all the noise and expectation and need to comply with what other people want you to be, you come out stronger and something really beautiful can happen.

i plan to put together a lore post eventually breaking down the overall history of the faction (ideally including the jump from indies to wwe, and then from wwe to aew), so keep an eye out for that if the seth/buddy/aleister history interests you! it'll probably take me a while but it'll go in the relevant wrestler tags when i'm done. i think the "kings of the black throne" name was probably come up with before there were contract discussions with buddy, but again, it's created a fun implication for kayfabe as it now stands - buddy doesn't have a title. he's not the "best kept secret" anymore - malakai's brought him in the light to be seen, to be known, and is quite keen on getting buddy to increasingly stand on his own two feet now that he's proven himself loyal to the things the house represents - but he also doesn't have a new name. he's just buddy matthews. the semblance of hierarchy within such a tight-knit unit has so many fun implications to play around with.

(i have seen them. why is he so fucking huge for. like bro those look heavy do you need help holding them up. someone should definitely bruise them until he cries a little.)

there are also at least a handful of times where malakai has slapped buddy across the face in the ring, usually to get his attention when he's going off track or losing sight of what matters/what the purpose is, which i'm just... enthralled by. like what do you mean they're just doing that and i didn't have to make it up.

i'd loooove willow and brody to run it back some time. i think brody is not very easily impressed but he was by willow and so willow/brody is like. lowkey a stealth ship i have. a confident and competent and beautiful woman who can and will cannonball brody king makes me feel insane tbh. the things they could also get up to if they actually saw eye to eye and had the same goal? oughgh. yeah.

huge agree re: the intergender match - i just want to see marina wrestle period but i would be even happier if it was in that kind of intergender setup. my gut feeling right now is that i don't expect HoB to get super involved in mox's storyline until the new year, but man. if and when it happens it's gonna be so good.

[selfshipgushing]

If I KNEW the consequences of me mentioning giving my f/o a fursona I would have mentioned it sooner!!!! (/hj) It's hard to apply him in his canonical appearance to... literally any f/o prompt things ever. Yay SEVERELY non-human robot f/os. so that's 90% of why I draw us as anthros instead (the other 10% is honouring my fur artist roots 🙏)

ANYWAY. ON THIS TOPIC. SO WE HAVE THIS KID TOGETHER, RIGHT. EXCEPT SHE ONLY HAS A HUMAN DESIGN ATM AND I HAVEN'T QUITE GOTTEN AROUND TO GIVING HER A DESIGN TO MATCH THE FUR VERSIONS. SO I'M DOING THAT. AND NOW I'M ABSOLUTELY BLUESCREENED JUST THINKING ABOUT US AND OUR KID AND AND WAWAWAWAWA I HAVE BEEN DRAWING US AND HER TOGETHER NONSTOP (that's a lie I stopped to help run a club BUT I WAS STILL THINKING ABOUT US SO) drawing our daughter over silly cat memes. No, May, you CAN'T eat plastic. May stop biting your other dad. Screaming because you aren't allowed in the dryer WHILE IT'S RUNNING is not acceptable, young lady. Chaotic lil corsican cat-fox daughter. The silly.

— (I should probably also make a version that fits within canon at some point. That's for later ig. Won't namedrop my husband, too nervous, but I'll sure give out every identifiable feature of our shipkid. Shfhsjf) 🍊⚙️

dw anon u can namedrop your husband I wont tell (it'll be posted to the entirety of tumblr)

[trilliath]

Hello Dr. Trill, how are you? I'm just leaving you this ask because I have not been on Tumblr much since January, but I found out today that you joined me down the slippery slope of 911LS and 911 fandom (though I stopped watching the latter a couple of years ago and am only reading fics) and it's just nice to know that we still share the same criteria for finding potential in a ship, it feels nostalgic! :P Would you like fic recs or are you good?

Ciaooooooo tesoro mio! It's been too long.

Oh my gosh yes I'm so deep down this rabbithole now, I'm writing so much garbage fic over it. I love that we're still on that overlapping wavelength - so funny how over more than a literal decade we can still go - yes, this. YES YOU GET IT!

Carlos and TK own my whole heart right now, oh my gosh. I'm obsessed. I'm about ready to make myself a supercut of the show where it's only scenes that are relevant to them lololol but I won't because I still love everyone else so much too like Nancy is my girl and jfc we get GINA TORRES I'm dead. Bur Carlos and TK dear god, I'm so deep in writing fic about them I'm literally forgetting to eat some days. I'm scouring scenes for background details. I'm writing stupid meta over clothing choices reflecting Carlos's emotional state. So ridiculous but honestly so fun.

And the whole Buck/Tommy thing took me OUT man, it's so fucking funny, I know I'm a late join to this fandom but I didn't even know it was coming. I just heard people talking about how they were excited Buck was bi, and I saw a few Buck/Eddie gifsets and genuinely assumed that was the canon ship. More interesting to me was all the talk about how we were missing out if we didn't already know that Hen was a hot badass lesbian firefighter so I was like - shit I'll check that out just for that part actually. So I did, and of course I adore Hen and Chim and Maddie and - ok just everyone - and was casually like, yeahh I see why people ship Buck/Eddie, does not vibe for me but I see it, that's nice they got their canon ship... and then I get to S7 and TOMMY shows back up and meets Buck and I bluescreen for a while because ohhhhhk yes, this is the chemistry for me. Yes.

So yeah, in the end I don't ship Buck/Eddie like... at all really. I feel the way about it that I do about Steve/Bucky which is basically... the way I feel about my childhood best friend who is also queer and who I love profoundly and intimately and not like a sister but also not like a lover y'know?

But I will always take recs my darling! Even when I don't ship it, I love all the characters so much regardless so if it's great I'll read it. And tell me what you love about your favorite characters and fav ships! So nice to hear from you and I hope you're doing well!

[grigori77]

Critical Role, Campaign 3 Episode 55

I WILL get a,look at Midst eventually, guys, I promise ...

Creator Clash! Yes! I saw it! It was crazy! Marisha you rule, it doesn't matter if you didn't win, you were still awesome anyway and we're all SO PROUD of you!

And then there's Ashley, once again making us wonder just how secretly kinky she really is ... O.O

So yeah, are we FINALLY back with the endangered trio? PLEASE?!!! Aaaaaah, bollocks ...

Never mind, I'm really getting to like Deanna and FRIDA anyway, so ...

So IS IT a real marriage, or just like a symbolic thing. Oh boy ... the "banged it out" conversation ... yeah ...

Ah yes. Planerider Ryn ... yeah ... we can hope. It's really all we CAN DO right now, clearly.

Oh yeah! The wounded girl! Nice to see her up. Oh wow, Deanna! Wow! That's so sweet of her.

Yeah, I did wonder if Chetney was gonna raise eyebrows. 27! Nice Deception, Imogen! Even if it wasn't REALLY Deception. Well ... okay, he did rip them off, but still ...

Yes, good point, Chet ... no sticky fingers, Fearne!

Sponsorship ... oh boy.

Fancy dude! Who was that? Hmmm ... history check? Nope ... oh gods, here we go, Fearne being Fearne ... Lord Desavon Kevash? Hmmm ... oh boy, and he is just SMITTEN ...

Dear gods that is an abysmal joke ... clearly the guy has a very rudimentary sense of humour. Oh here we go ... 26? Fuck ... Nice, beard ring. Cool.

The King and Queen! Oooooh ...

Dwarf Queen is a CUTIE, I like her already. Elf King is ... interesting. Like elves tend to be, I guess ... and also old. REALLY REALLY OLD ...

Oh yes! A favour! Nice ... just what they need ...

Royal Insight Check? WHISPERS!!! YAY!!! Now ASHLEY'S doing the WizzKids plug ...

I'm sorry, WHAT?!!! Is FRIDA making s move in Letters?

Oh boy, a bull ... interesting choice, Chet. Glad it works, at least.

Ooooooh, backstory for magic bull statue! Nice ... oh, so it WAS a kind of protector? Cool. Wait ... MORE?!!! Intriguing ... oh, corrupted forest? Hmmm ...

Deanna: "So you know about the Applebee's Soulcycle?" Wow ... everybody starts laughing ... Travis: "Long may it reign." Matt: "Sorry, you just Bluescreened me for a second ..."

Crap ... so teleportation is ... OFF?!!! Crap ...

Yeah, Chet, ASK!!! ASK!!!

Wow ... okay, just giving it ALL away ... here we go ...

Sam: "Is the Queen checking Chetney out?" Travis: "Well some things you don't NEED to check."

30 on an Insight check? Fearne, HOW?!!! Holy fuck ...

Oh yeah, BOONS ...

Drixlix! Yes, FUCK that guy ... screw him ... sell him down the river. Yes! Give them the evidence! FIST PUMP!!!

Ah, Ludinus, here we go ... oh SHIIIIIIIIT! Wow ... oh, that is DARK ... oh, so the god hatred was ALWAYS there, was it? Great ...

MORE BACKSTORY!!! SWEET!!!

Oh shit ... Ruidus AGAIN!!!

Aramond Turestral ... hmmm ... sounds like a bad man already ... oh boy, is this a quest setup for later? Lovely ... in a really foreboding way ...

Wait ... Chetney's just ... fuck, is getting right? HAS Ludinus done this before?

Oh fuck ... the Solstice is STILL HAPPENING?!!! Shiiiiiiiiiiiit ... yeah, the Tethered Moon is a REAL THING then ... fuck ...

Yes, the temples ... oh yeah, the Changebringer maybe, get FCG there ...

Oh so they ARE going to go to Molaesmyr ... okay ...

Yay! Another MAP! Sweet ... cool ... oh ... nuts, no map? Bummer ...

Awwwww ... lost love ... sweet gay memories for the Elf King ...

Crap ... Shadycreek Run ... lovely ...

Aww, bless ... LITERALLY. Deanna blesses the Royals ...

Ooooh ... fancy armour! Sweeeeeeet ...

Whoa! FREE TAILORING!!! AWESOME!!!

So what's the plan? Shopping? Stuff? Lore hunting? Tailors?

Wow ... is Deanna JEALOUS of the vibing between FCG and FRIDA?

The Duskmaven? Hmmmm ...

Whoa, here we go, is Aabria gonna be able to capitalise on Calamity insider knowledge?

It's official. FRIDA is crushing hard on FCG ... and Deanna's trying to be supportive? They're so sweet ... awwwwwwwwwwaw ...

Deanna: "We only get the one life. Unless you're ME." XD

And she's still so protective of them ... :3

Okay, split up time ... allowed for shopping, that's not a problem.

The Vellum Steeple. Here we go.

Okay, what was Sam's flask nonsense this time, I didn't get a good enough look at it, that wax a VERY quick flash ...

An Elven mile Troy Baker? Hmmmm ...

Kinash Serovoldin? Okay ... sounds more like an elvish Brad Pitt to me, remember when he was in Legends of the Fall? A bit like that ...

Deanna: "Are they weak to anything? Other than gruff charm, I mean."

XD I'm loving it, Deanna is totally crushing HARD on Kinash. Aabria: "That's it, I'm out!" Travis: "Are you horny on main right now?"

AABRIA gets a Whispers ... oh cool, beanie plug! So cute ...

Nuts ... the Ludinus dossier is THIN ... not good ... The Eve of Crimson Midnight? Hmmmm ... oh, Ludinus, you SNEAKY FUCK ... evil dude ... Gildhollow Tower ... okay ...

Matt really is setting Ludinus up as a total Exandrian Palpatine, isn't he?

Meanwhile, at Jaquoby's ...

Oh yeah, this us totally a tech head's workshop all the way ... meanwhile the flirting begins ... :3

Wow, FRIDA is SO BAD at this ... oh boy ... and the FCG backstory is SUCH a mess in context ... wow ... "killed the Pussy" ... yikes ...

Holy fuck! THE KISS!!! THE KISS!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! OH MY GODS!!!

Matt: "THERE'S NO TONGUE!!!"

Jaquoby Macyl ... oh, I like him immediately.

Wow, he is LITERALLY giving FCG a mangled kettle to eat instead of a cup of tea. XD

Suspension ... FCG: "If it gets uncomfortable then I can hold FRIDA's hand." AWWWWWWWW!!!

So cool ... FCG is armouring up! Sweet!

"Faithful Care Giver" ... oh yeah! :3 that is ADORABLE!!! Everybody's losing it with cuteness and so am I ...

Time for a break!

Gathering at Catlyn's ... but first a heart-to-heart between Imogen and Chetney ... hmmmm ...

Heavy stuff ... oh boy ... Insight versus Deception ... a draw? ROLLIES!!! Wow ... Imogen OWNED that one ...

Payphone cable ... oh yes, blast from the past indeed ... many Millennials and later may not get that reference ... I am SO OLD ...

WTF just happened?

FCG: "I feel like I'm gonna be a little bit stealthier. By one point." XD

A chocolate box assortment of exotic scrap metals ... I love it!

Aha! Temple if the Dawnfather! Cool!

Aabria saying "Bless you!" to Sam when he sneezes makes an interesting change to Ashley telling him to "Stop it!" XD

So other priests and clerics are CUT OFFfrom their deities? Hmmmmm ... so Deanna's one of the lucky few ... that's so worrying.

Catlyn's Clothier? Sounds fancy ...

Oooooh, snobbery ... and THAT puts you in your PLACE, little miss arrogant! XD Nice one.

Deanna is apparently BLACKING OUT through sheer excitement at the fashion possibilities ...

Chetney wants a VELVET TRACKSUIT?!!! Oh gods ... and the eternal question as posed by the Incredible Hulk, how to deal with the SUDDEN SIZE CHANGES!!!

Imogen is going practical but also totally BADASS ... essentially she wants Arctic Dark Phoenix vibes ...

FCG's all shiny now ... they want a dark blue duster coat? Cool ...

Deanna is build like a Pixar mom ... "dumptruck ass"? XD ...

Whoa ... just FIXED FRIDA's coat on the spot?

And Fearne is just GOING OFF totally ... ooh, corset ... poofy sleeves ... lots of leg ... and she's getting Deanna to knit her something ... yup, cleavage, business as usual for Fearne ... "Go to town!" Yes indeed ...

Deanna: "Can I have BIGGER UGGS?"

Oh, the little embroidered bull for everybody is such a sweet idea ...

Oh yes, get something for Laudna too! Perfect ...

Fearne wants something from the Willow TV show's wardrobe, apparently ... :3

Oh, so the bots are making it official, but not mzking a big deal out of it ... I love it ...

Chetney's tracksuit STRETCHES ... AND it has a custom hole on thd butt for when he grows his tail? Dear gods ...

Eisselcross? Oh, Deanna and FRIDA backstory ...

Stick together, guys! All together in the morning ... off to Molaesmyr ...

And now they're all shitfaced on champers ... XD

Oh, Fearne is TOTALLY doing crimes ... no, she's SPECIFICALLY going go the Temple of the Wildmother! Cool ...

Genuinely enchanted little place ... cute little statue too ...

Fearne tries praying to the Wildmother ... and she is REALLY BAD AT IT, too. Ye gods ...

Perception check? Hmmm ... 23? Okay ... nothing ... oof ... probably not a good sign ...

Wow ... Fearne wants Chetney to make a move on Deanna ... and now he's going dien a really erotic memory lane ...

Oh, so FEARNE is gonna make a move instead? Blimey ...

Ah, so it's just a girl's night slumber party? That's fine ...

Aabria: "Laura Bailey!" Travis: "No chill!" XD

Schrodinger's Tongue? Matt is hating it and I love it ...

Oh boy ... they are so cute and a little NAUGHTY too ... they are playing the others SO BAD with all these noises ... oh ... gods ... what? The wheel? Where the fuck is this GOING?!!! Aabria: "What is the MOISTURE?!!!" LOL

Morning hangover? Not with Lesser Restoration ...

Weavepiercer Gloves? Ooooooooh ...

Ah yes, Clmponrnt shopping, always important for mages ...

The Matron of Ravens' Temple ... and it's closed? Not a good sign ...

Goat shopping time, then ...

Whoa ... BIG goats ... cute, too, apparently.

Deanna gets a sweet and chubby one ... Gerry? Yup ...

Of course Chetney has to get the BIGGEST one. Wow ... like SUPER RIPPED ... bulldog walk? XD He is perfect. Musky. Yes. Of course he is.

FCG gas chosen a PRETTY one ... Fabio? SNORT ... of course ...

Imogen gets the veteran ... Bell? Cute ...

FRIDA picks the "Shaggy" (as in Scooby Doo) of thd herd ... Patchwork? Awwww ...

Fearne just wants z literal wooly SPHERE ... red panda coat? Awww ... Dornie Boy! Cute ...

Off towards the Savalirwood, then ... and that's it for tonight! Okay then ...

Nice place to stop.

But I really do hope we FINALLY get back to the lost trio next week! Seriously, guys! Please ...

[tfw-no-tennis]

csm ch 145 liveblog !!!

ayyy let's go

damnnnn so public safety fucked up the csm church that fast huh.

and they're conscripting all the teens from the church into their ranks as interns vhbhaduhfsuaif literally stealing the cult's child labor forces lmfao

oh damnnn they know about yoru

oh damnnnnnnn they know how her powers work

I gotta say I have been wondering where public safety has been in this part. we haven't seen much of them until now...I did kinda miss them and their weird kinda scummy wildly varying vibes

'the devil name consultant' wtffff that's cool as hell please tell me more

them already talking abt the csm church in past tense makes me hmmmmmm...I feel like they aren't dead yet. specifically barem, he almost certainly has something more up his sleeve

DENJI SIGHTING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

barem bluescreen lmao

the way he's just getting arrested in broad daylight at this amusement park after he tried to orchestrate the killing of a bunch of children. I have to laugh

sexual assault-chan trying to recruit him lmao that seems to be the #1 way public safety gets employees these days.

or like, ever, honestly

oh damn oh shit I feel like barem is for sure up to something. hhhhh

justice devil is to csm part 2 as buggy the clown is to one piece. shows up early on then just keeps showing up, improbably

oh what the hell this is so cool...the etymology of devils!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yesssssssss so fucking interesting

the implication that there could be (is?) separate fairness and equality devils....suuuper cool oh man

oh shit so the chainsaw man church is somehow breaking the rules of how devils/devil powers/devil contracts work????

are they saying that someone in the church had a justice devil contract and summoned the justice devil/used its powers, despite it having been killed not long ago??? oooh

oh??? NOT the justice devil??? hmmmmm

either that's true and there's another devil afoot (fakesaw man??? where's he at. what's the deal) OR they were right initially and there's some OTHER flavor of fuckery going on

ASA SIGHTING FUCK YES WE ARE WINNING

looooove how even tho asa looks cool as fuck on all the posters and while hunting devils, she's still truly a failgirl bc she (kinda accidentally) became the poster girl for a cult 😭😭 love her sm

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE FUCKING DOOR GODDDDDDDDDDD STOP THIS I have such bad door PTSD in csm only

OH FUCK ITS PUBLIC SAFETY (PROBABLY) !?!?!?

asa yoru fight scene? please? please? maybe? please?

OH FUCK ASA FUUUUUCK YES

asa beating the failgirl accusations (for now?)

SHE HAS A PLANNNNNNNNNNN and yoru plays a part ooooh oh man ooooooh

LOVE the agency asa has taken regarding her powers. so so cool thematically I wanna talk abt that some time

yoru is like fuck. that's cool. asa is cool. fuuuuuck

yesssss fuck god I love asa and yoru's relationship ngl. so interesting and I really have no idea where it's going. they could end up fighting each other to the death, or fighting someone else to the death FOR each other. time will tell

OHHHH ASA SO COOL

YOSHIDA??????????????????????????????????????

AND ITS YOSHIDA WITH THE STEEL CHAIR GIANT TENTACLE

barem singing kumbaya while getting arrested is SOOOO cult leader of him ngl

denjis like ok that was weird. whatever lets go home. King

sexual assault-chan just staning there like :D? lmao

OHHHH THIS IS SO FUCKING OMINOUS GOD.

him singing kumbaya over the sunrise. SOMETHING IS UP I SWEARRRRR or its tension-building misdirection. either way....

YOSHIDA CUTTING ASA'S ARM OFF???? HELLO????

is yoshida singing kumbaya too???? I'm 99% sure it's just barem's singing over the panel but that scared me for a sec thinking yoshida was involved w/that

FUUUUCK ARE WE GONNA GET YOSHIDA VS ASA. DAMNNNNN

HYPE AS FUCK HOLY SHIT.

okay but really I think there is more to barem. idk, I think he's the villain of part 2. that might be bold to say but that's the vibe I've gotten since he was introduced

I dont thiiiink it's fami, we havent seen her in a while and her motives are still...hmmmmm....uncertain

also I think that would be too similar to makima. I mean they're very different character-wise, just similar powers-wise I guess, w/them being sisters

barem is so creepy and I think there's a lot going on w/him that we haven't seen yet. plus him being a major villain would be SUCH a cool thematic continuation of part 1 - chainsaw man as an idea rather than a person/devil/person-devil, and how that can create a villain even without denji or pochita or chainsaw man doing anything

idk barem has the same vibes as makima in the sense that thing are happening as he wants them to - like he's in control

but also YOSHIDA WTFFFF WHAT IS YOUR DEALLLL

I love yoshida as a character SO much he is SO mysterious and fascinating. I still love the idea that he's kishibes nephew or something

god I want a sitcom of kishibe, yoshida, and quanxi all living together and fighting devils together and occasionally trying to kill each other. PLEASE it would be top tier excellence

anyways yoshida remains an enigma...I mean we did know he doesn't seem to like asa and told her to stay in her lane. and like, can we assume yoshida is with public safety, cause he was hanging w/sexual assault-chan a few chapters ago?

that doesn't necessarily confirm he's a member but still.

so was that him at the door telling asa to come out, or is yoshida a third party who busted in?

it looks like he busted the door down to get in so it was probably him knocking too

also barem getting arrested feels like in the movies when they capture a villain a little TOO easily and the villain is like oh darn u got me. and then they're in jail like ohhhh I'm in jail darnnnnn and u just KNOW they're gonna pull some shit

I MAY BE WRONG but based on Vibes Alone this guy is fuuuucked up

my GOD i'm so hype for more okay. phewwww

[swervesbootycall]

Literally anything with riptide, man- love me my ocean man

//. Cybertronian Ex-Autobot neutral reader. Hope this is something.//

“I haven’t been held hostage in a while,” Riptide sounds almost impressed, “I didn’t think you would really go through with it.”

“I guess that explains why you practically volunteered,” you mutter.

It was work to move forward keeping Riptide’s gun pressed firmly against the spot marksmecha like yourself referred to as the “point of no return.” There were cranial injuries, even near complete destructions, that the right mechanic could bring a bugger back from, but you had a long, solid habit of never inflicting them. One shot: one less Decepticon. That had been your modus operandi from the moment you’d been forged up until your—

“The deserter!” Some bot or another yelps on finally spotting the two of you enter the ship’s main corridor.

“Your ship’s security is awful,” you grumbled to Riptide, “I assumed the alarm had been sounded back in the brig.”

“Red Alert was re-stationed a while ago, that’s probably why.”

“No idea who that is, but at least the name’s unsubtle enough to guess,” you raise your voice, “yeah it’s the deserter. The assassin. Tell Ultra Magnus to get a pod ready for the nearest waystation or you’re volunteering for next example.”

You jab the gun a little harder against Riptide and he winces, making you wince. You want to apologize, but the ruse is too important. Too much on the line. The bot rushes off to sound the alarm. You stick to the wall.

“I think they would let you go, if you just explained the situation. The war is over. And Ultra Magnus is-“

“Still running the place on military rank and code. Everybody’s still got their badges,” you mutter, “and it’s not like I haven’t racked up a body count on both sides. If you were serious about helping, just. Keep quiet.”

Riptide looks at you, concern in his faceplate, and you look away with a cough.

Very quietly you add, “please?” --- You spend the flight to the waystation pacing while Riptide sits and watches you.  "What are you worried about?" "Who says I'm worried?" "You're biting the paint from your hand?"

You exvent and face Riptide. "It's not easy to relax with," you gesture to the Lost Light, which lazily follows your small craft. "You really think they would have shot you down without me?" "I don't know what to think." You check on autopilot again. Check your weapons. Check your comms. You're so busy checking things that your don't notice Riptide until his arms are around you. His chin rests on your shoulder. "I'm glad I got to see you again, if that helps." What it does is bluescreen your processor. "Riptide. I'm not. It's not good that we... reunited."

"Huh." "Huh?" "Just huh." Slowly, you set your gear down and, cautiously, hug him back. "I didn't think you would really go through with the hostaging," Riptide finally says, "because we both know you can't lie for scrap." "...Well. Good thing we were the only ones who did." "Hah, yeah." You don't mean to kiss him. You really don't, but another thing you can't do for scrap is resist your feelings for Riptide. You've never been able to. You didn't mean to find yourself under him for the brief time you were stationed together, and you don't mean to now.

And just like then, he knows this somehow. Riptide doesn't escalate, he lets the two of you slide to the floor and just holds you- careful to avoid your scratched out insignia. "You want to focus on finding your brother," he says half to you, half to himself, and ten percent to no-one. "I'm sorry." "It's okay." "It's not. I owe you so much, Riptide."

"Okay, then just try to stay alive so you can pay me back. Hey, maybe if you find him we can capture both of you! Then you won't have to hostage anyone." "...That's...that's an idea. That exists. Thanks Riptide."

"You can kiss me again if you want."

--- You bolt the instant the pod touches down, transforming for maximum speed. Riptide watches you go ant touches his faceplate. At least you got to say goodbye this time. He wonders if you'll forget him. Maybe that's okay. Maybe it's best to try and forget too... not that he was able to before. He smiles. Nah. He has to remember you. Otherwise, how would he explain all the new paint transfers to Ratchet?

[cyrusstarchaser]

Ok, I just have to tell someone this cause I can't stop thinking of it so sorry every one. Ok, so I have two statics: My ulit group and my savage group. My ulti group is made up of my friends and peers and, because this is FFXIV, is made up mostly of POC and/or queer people. It's actually been ages since I raided in a group that was majority cishet white man, I would wager the last time was Stormblood. Also for non-FFXIV players a static is a raid group, static is just our word for it. Well all that said my current savage group is pretty heavily weighted towards cishetwhitemenness, but, well, that is part of my current problem.

Now, I play FFXIV themed DnD with some people from a past ulti group. One person (who I have never raided with but is friends with some of my friends) heard that I needed a savage group. (The reason I needed a savage group was because my friends had a lot of irl issues so we flew solo for savage and I also had my bottom surgery coming up) ANYWAY, this miqo'te woman was like "Hey Niam, my FC has a casual group that is looking for a phys ranged" and when I talked to them they were ok with me being gone for surgery and also playing with one arm, so I joined up. I'm still with them even though I've healed because A) it's not like I have an open invitation to a better group and B) I mean...it was nice of them to let me join even knowing that I was going to be playing one armed and drugged for months.

Ok, SO: We're playing DnD and the miqo'te woman is asking after the static and I'm trying not say that I am leaving the first chance I get but also sorta making it clear that this will be my one and only tier with them.(literally if this post gets a single like I might start just being all 'dear diary you'll never FUCKING believe this' because these guys are fucking WILD) She brings up the samurai player in the savage static. For context the SAM player has never, to my knowledge, used a mic. Real chatterbox in text, but I've never heard her speak.

So miqo'te woman asks me what I think about that and I say my piece in regards to like, ya know. I can think of a dozen reasons why someone wouldn't use a mic. I've raided with people who had accents or lisps they were ashamed of, I've raided with people mid transition, raided with people with loud families. Hell, the savage static said that the SAM had Tourette Syndrome and I'll be honest: I don't know if they were pulling my leg but...it's not my place to doubt that. The SAM is refereed to as a woman and that's final. ANYWAY, miqo'te woman goes "My partner and I have a rule: If you never speak in discord, then you're a man" and I was so flabbergasted I think the DM sensed it through the mic and tried to change subject at mach speed.

Yall...I'm trans, the miqo'te woman I was talking to is trans and I am like 80% sure her partner is also trans. LIKE??? How you gonna say that? How are YOU gonna say THAT about HER, ya know??? And she's like "Yeah, no, all that stuff you said but like...she's a guy right? Like c'mon" and it's like GURL. Bless my buddy the DM for understanding I was about to go off on this catgirl, bless. Hanging out with those Gamer Boys has CLEARLY rotted this woman's brain I stg This woman out here trying to get me to play Gotcha Gender with her, like I'm gonna be down for that wtf

Anyway this is why I can't socialize cause people will say some real Dumb Shit and then I'll bluescreen.

[alittlebirb]

Some vicarious victories from the MCC 23 Orange Ocelots!

Quig for some reason believing Aqua Axolotls wasn't a team this MCC, suggesting that perhaps NoxCrew switches it up every so often??? Sir???

"Considering I've looked at a monitor my entire life, I might need glasses. But if I never go to the eye doctor, I'll never know!" -Quig

Quig talking about how he likes taste tasting energy drinks like the gamer he is

Martyn detailing how he's at a disadvantage for half of the games in this event, and Eret reassuring him last time she didn't even watch the video before playing MD and her team ended up winning!

Eret asking Quig if he'd like to be an honorary British person for the event, and Quig replying "Um...I don't know."

Eret designating him British because he's part Scottish and Quig asking for sadges in the chat

The three of them having an extended talk about accents

"I have a mute button, so I can give that a quick press every time I'm coughing up a lung." -Martyn

"I may have destroyed our team morale, because I met Finn at Twitch Con the other day and absolutely destroyed him at this weird shuffleboard game, so I don't think we're on the best of talking terms right now." -Martyn

Eret mentioning how they used to watch Martyn when they were 10, and Quig also saying he used to watch Martyn as a kid, and Martyn being hit with a wave of ohmygodI'vebeendoingthisfor11years

"I'm all for being bossed around, feel free to use my ears." -Martyn

Finn not unmuting until they're literally a minute into the decision dome

Everyone agreeing cakes are The Strat in SG

Quig talking about how he was sent an orange ocelot by Mojang a while ago, and Eret being taken aback at the flex

Finn and Eret joining forces as the crop top wearers

Martyn complaining Finn said he was going to cosplay him, he stole half of his clothes at Twitch Con and everything!

Everyone being disgusted at the Mike Wazowski skins Lime have on, although Quig acknowledges how impressive it is they got a skin for Antfrost so quickly

Everyone bullying Finn for looking like Vector from Despicable Me

Eret reflecting on how the rule about continuing the event if a player takes too long started because of that one time he bluescreened during SOT

"Thank you for killing Elaina for me." -Eret

Eret and Martyn gaslighting Quig into believing British people say 'evelator' instead of 'elevator'

Quig making sure that Finn is very clear on the fact they have to activate the elytra in AR now

"Listen, I don't know if you need a carry on this one, but not to brag, one time I got 38th." -Finn

Martyn getting mistaken for Phil many times during Twitch Con, to the point even Fundy mistook him at one point

"Oh, I've fallen." -Martyn

"And I can't get up? :D" -Quig

Quig noting CPK got first place, and Martyn predicting that'll be in his All Things MCC highlights video

"How tall are you Quig?" -Finn

"Six foot." -Quig

"...Okay someone else go." -Finn

Everyone weird dunking on CPK's team when Quig goes straight for him

"I got the dunk and I knew what I needed to do." -Quig

Quig mentioning his girlfriend is knocking everything over, and Eret taking no prisoners and asking if his girlfriend's a cat

"I'm not that lonely, Eret! Jeez!" -Quig

"Jeez, I'm not that lonely! It's a dog." -Martyn

Quig mentioning he has 4 dogs, Eret saying that's too many dogs, and Quig saying actually, that's ~four~ many dogs

"Does Sapnap's skin have nipples?" -Martyn

Martyn discussing the his pattern of dodgebolts, as he's been in dodgebolt twice before, both times on Orange, both times he's lost, and both times a teammate did a wildly improbable shot

Quig removing his shades, which then prompts Eret to demonstrate how she can transform into Herobrine with a single click of a button

"I'm being gaslit this entire MCC, I thought I was supposed to trust me teammates!" -Quig

"Have you ever played in this event before?" -Martyn

"A- almost all of them!" -Quig

Finn explaining that he keeps muting because he's just screaming and doesn't want to ruin their streams

Eret's stats reading that they eliminated 0 players and 1 teammate in SB

Quig inadvertantly killing Finn in the next round by placing a block, and Martyn dying to his TNT later on

"Man, we are great at team killing!" -Eret

Martyn being disappointed at the lack of employees manning the Burgers But Fast stand, and asking "what are we not paying the NoxCrew for?"

Martyn giving his dark unhinged theories on Spongebob's crabby patty recipe

Eret pointing out a fan with a L'Manburg skin for being outdated

Orange winning against Red in PKT in a stunning bit of foreshadowing

"Something possessed me today, I've never played like that in my life." -Martyn

3 OF THEM MAKING IT INTO THE TOP 5 PLAYERS

Martyn saying he's beginning to Covid Crash and Quig advising him to get his wife to get him a 5 hour energy

"Ever since I took my glasses off, we've been doing great!" -Quig

Finn comparing his eyes to a "creature", and calling Quig's "uncanny valley"

Eret doing breathing exercises to calm themselves down for RSR

Quig saying if they follow him on the bridging TGTTOS maps, they'll get the team bonuses...hopefully..."knock on wood. *knock knock knock*"

"I'm on the struggle bus, boys." -Martyn

Eret seeing Elaina struggle to finish and typing <L> in the chat

Elaina seeing Eret struggle to finish and putting <L> in the chat

"Follow Bedwars man!" -Finn about Quig

The slowly building realization that they could actually go to DB!

Quig repeating the whole way through that communication is where it's at! Communication is what we need!

Finn constantly having wardrobe and technological malfunctions throughout MD

The incredible communication during MD, with Orange winning two rounds in a row!

Everyone letting out a harmonized "woo!" after the second round

Quig shaking in fear when entering the coin room and asking for someone to hold his hand

"Come on Antfrost, I love you buddy but you gotta lose!" -Finn

3 of them ending up in the Top 5 players again!

The SCREAMING when they realize they're in DB!

"The rags to riches story!" -Finn

"Already, I feel my pulse in my throat." -Martyn

"I'm out of breath, even though this is Minecraft!" -Eret

"I've got cold sweats and goosebumps, and I'm not sure which one's Covid!" -Martyn

"Covid symptoms remarkably similar to Dodgebolt nerves." -Finn

Finn hurting his hand from how hard he clapped when they won a round

"Thank you very much for the vibes today boys!" -Martyn

Eret and Quig saying they had to help their childhood hero win

"Is this just calling me old, we have to help the old man with his Zimmerman up the stairs?" -Martyn

"It was payback for the years of entertainment." -Quig

Finn running past the team in the Hall Of Fame while they stand in front of their statues and everyone screaming at him that they're right there! Right here!

Martyn clarifying that it was not his wife who ran in screaming happily, he has Covid, she would not do that

Martyn planning on buying a "thicc chain" to put the MCC coin on

Quig deciding to put the coin on his Orange Ocelot stuffed animal

Orange Ocelots finished MCC 23 in 1st place!

[lakesbian]

this is a post i and i alone care about but sometimes we have to make posts like such. as bedtime stories for ourselves. anyway if he didn't die due to they never go to behemoth fight it'd be like

normal bestiefriendship for extended period of time but like. ft their brand of absurd amounts of physical intimacy and secret-sharing and gay little 'heehee i'm putting my feet on the table in front of you' 'heehee i'm pushing them off' flirting

aisha 'impulsive' laborn randomly kissing him one time when they're hanging out bc she was feeling Particularly Well Perceived or Teenage Hormonal or whatever the fuck and then just immediately resuming pretending absolutely nothing happened and theyre having a completely normal time watching this movie together. which alec goes along with because he emotionally bluescreens and his response to any sort of realization that he's having Feelings, Of Any Kind, is to play it cool calm and casual

alecs attempt to convince himself that he's calm cool and casual and doesn't even care and is absolutely not going to make things Weird or Uncomfortable for his Exceedingly Flighty Best Friend Whose Traumas And Approaches To Interpersonal Relationships He Is Deeply Aware Of fails within 48 hours tops because he keeps laying awake rotating the kiss in his mind and being like. doyou think she would do it again. not that i care. would she though. for longer. does this mean she likes me. do i like her.i guess i like her probably. not that its a big deal. i mean i dont care that much. would she sit on my lap. What if she hates me forever and we're not friends anymore. ok no i should just go to bed. and subsequently he caves and starts a conversation to ask where the hell they stand. while being like "if i ran into the street right now that semi-truck probably wouldn't be able to stop in time to avoid hitting me" the entire time in his head

comically enough theyre Literally Canonically the only undersider pair thats even remotely functional about communication and subsequently said conversation is awkward and both of them hate being in it but they survive. mutual conclusion is both of them think the idea of a relationship with anyone sounds awful due to the horrors. which does not change that they still patently like each other and overcompensate by spending the next 1.5 weeks being cartoonishly stilted w/ each other. out there standing 3 entire feet apart while talking. actual sitcom for lisa. brian finds the entire thing very suspicious but can't pin down why. and hes mad bc lisa won't snitch.

they eventually get back 2 their normal equilibrium. and then like 3 weeks later kiss again anyway. and this time they put their brains together and come up with the genius solution of "woagh....if we're Both severely traumatized teenagers with zero interest in or readiness for the idea of a traditional relationship we can simply do whatever we want all of the time forever without making it a Thing." but like in less direct words.

2 straight years of unlabeled meandering until they realize they're more or less for all intents and purposes dating and may as well not bother Refuting The Accusations anymore. but they still go around calling each other dude and fistbumping and glaring at anyone who calls literally any attention 2 their whole deal. this isnt to say that couples calling each other dude or fistbumping is notably out of the ordinary just that they would start gagging if they even Thought about doing anything traditionally romantic. irony-poisoned little shits. they would be cute though. like if alec was there when aisha is being scared of heights during the cauldron base invasion he would yank her down so theyre sitting together & hug her from behind and be like "now when we fall and die they'll find our skeletons together :)" while patting her hand and she would be like Dont Say That Dickhole. but still not move an inch until they got 2 the ground. and most importantly he would engage in highly academic debate regarding the nature of dragons genitals with her.

if alec doesn't die because they never go to behemoth fight in the first place he and aisha have a relatively pleasant and normal time and are kind of sort of ambiguously dating in a genuinely functional and reparative and cute manner 2 years down the line. if alec doesnt die because he tries to kill himself but god or whoever intervenes for the sake of watching him continue to do freak behaviors they become the worlds first strained dead bedroom married couple with children to have never dated at all. brian style. and because aisha has never actually had the "havent said wowzers for a while probably due to grief" inducing experience of her best friend and only confidant killing himself in front of her at the age of 13 she is entirely un-sobered and like 45% worse at herding the heartbroken. it also doesnt help that one of her toxic traits is if alec kicked a baby into traffic in front of her she would be like Lol hes so silly and that includes if that baby is one of his own siblings. miserable for everyone involved butv ery funny. give it 15 years and they can all laugh about it. maybe.