#if you notice

[your4local4geek]

'03 Mikey- he's literally incredible and literally me

I want to start drawing '03 more often

[missowo]

im sick. I'm gonna post these random doodles I didn't post. also. I play dusttale games. I can't stop laughing at him. I just wanted to bully him.

[hopelessromantic5]

Alright.

This is a Masters of the Air snippet of mine. Just a small one. I’ll probably post most of the longer ones on ao3.

This is Buck and Bucky, post-war, in Wyoming.

Gale spends a month in Wyoming after the war, with no word from Bucky.

Marge visits, though they called off the wedding long before he left the Stalag. She stops to make sure he’s…well, alive. Brings casserole dishes that Gale can’t find it in himself to eat until he’s dizzy with hunger.

It’s a quiet, early summer morning when Buck hears the rumbling sound of an engine, and tires on the gravel road.

He freezes, an instinct any time someone ventures down his road.

He’s the only one still living on this particular dirt road, rest of the houses long abandoned and dilapidated.

Marge was supposed to be in Mills with her parents all week.

Who else knows-

Oh.

There’s only one other person on Earth who knows or cares where Buck is.

The realization almost sent him running down the road to greet him. Instead, as his breathing picked up in adrenaline and excitement that always accompanied John, he smoothed his hair back and ran a hand down the front of his button up shirt, hoping he didn’t look horrible.

Of course, John had seen him at his absolute worst, but logic really wasn’t in the cards just then.

The sounds got closer just as the single cab blue truck came into view.

With some kinda trailer on the back?

Buck would ask after seeing Bucky’s face on American soil for the first time since they left Texas years ago.

Then he was there, like he never left.

“Hell, Cleven, you never told me you lived in the middle of nowhere.”

Bucky grinned, slamming the truck in park and climbing out of the drivers seat before he had the chance turned the engine off.

Buck caught him when John launched himself into his arms. They were both gasping, like neither had breathed real air in a month.

“What took you so long?” Buck whispered into his shoulder, eyes closed, absorbing Bucky wherever he could. The smell of his aftershave mixed with lucky strikes, the span of his broad back under Gale’s hands.

“Had to get something first.” Bucky leaned back just enough to smirk at him, hands not leaving Buck’s waist.

“Go have a look.”

Buck furrowed his eyebrows in confusion,

“What-“

Then Bucky moved out of his line of sight, and he finally caught the movement of something in his peripheral.

He zeroed in on the trailer attached to Bucky’s truck, and found that something was alive in there.

Was that a-

“Bucky! Is that-“

“Yes, it is.” There was soft grin on John’s face, but it was still shit-eating and proud of himself.

Gale almost kissed him on the spot, but he would never ruin a moment like this with his impulsiveness.

“How in the hell did you manage that?” Gale’s feet were already bringing him closer to the animal hovering by the slats.

“Saved up for a while, and the extra check they sent certainly didn’t hurt.”

“Why? Why buy a horse?” Gale asked, looking back at him.

John furrowed his own brows, looking at Buck like he was crazy.

“Why did I- Buck, she’s yours. I bought her for you.”

“You did what?” Gale must’ve misheard, surely.

John chuckled, shaking his head. He stepped closer to both Gale and the horse.

“Let’s start over.” He said. After clearing his throat and effectively avoiding his eyes by focusing on the filly.

“Buck, considering that you’re letting me freeload in your ginormous house and bother you frequently, and as a partial thank you for getting me through the worst time in both of our lives, I bought you a horse. This is Blue. Named because, while she has a grey coat, in certain lights, it looks blue, like a stormy sky.”

Gale didn’t know what to say. He couldn’t speak.

So John, added a post script.

“Not that this will ever come close to evening our score. But I thought it might help. I remember what you told me, about your first horse. And how nothing was ever the same. I wanted to at least give you the chance at something like that again.”

A tear fell from Buck’s eye before he reeled Bucky into an almost bruising hug. Holding him so tight, Bucky thought it might leave a mark. He wanted it to leave a mark. He wanted to remember this moment for the rest of his life.

“Thank you.” Buck whispered. “No one’s ever done anything like this for me before.”

“Get used to it.” John quipped back, softly, causing Gale to laugh into his neck.

[teecupangel]

Abstergo made very edited games of the assassin ancestors. What if the assassin's made the true version of what happened available to the public?

That was always an option so I did think of why they wouldn’t want to do it.

The biggest one I could think of is that it would go against the third Tenet “Do not compromise the Brotherhood”.

Secrecy is paramount to the Brotherhood and even the Templars keep the Isu stuff a secret.

The Brotherhood is probably worried of what would happen if those in power learn about the POE considering what those in power have done according to history.

The narrative is putting them into an antagonistic light with the Templars being crowned as heroes but, as they say, they ‘work in the dark to serve the light’.

They’re used to being seen as ‘evil’ or murderers.

This is just the 21st century equivalent to it.

Also, they cannot be certain that showing the true version would be better.

Not only does it include information about the POEs and the Assassin Brotherhood as a whole but…

Well…

Abstergo is a large company with far-reaching influences.

What’s to say their version wouldn’t just be ridiculed and treated as ‘fanwork’ or the insane edits of disgruntled employees/Assassin stans.

The Assassins work in secrecy and it’s because of that secrecy that they can still protect the world, both from the Templars and the POEs.

The only way a true version would be ‘leaked’ is either through a ‘fuck it, let’s see what happens’ Assassin who did it without the approval of the mentor or an incident in the database (a bad update that uploads it to the public or a hacker who got lucky and got a copy of it).

Let’s be honest though…

In the AC world, there’s gonna be fans who stan the bad guys. They’ll probably think that Assassins are so cool and the Templars are kinda boring (Abstergo risks making the Templars ‘bland’ by removing the bad parts of their lives that will incriminate them and the Templars in general).

Like, remember how Berg sent the Assassins a heavily edited copy of Shay’s memories in the end of Rogue and how it was a footnote later on that the Assassins were like “cool story bro, obviously edited, go fuck yourself” and nothing really happened with it?

If that’s how the Templars edit the stories as Templar propaganda then it’s not… Abstergo has a history of making good premises but mediocre to bad execution XD

The Assassins have a better chance of having someone write for them a fanfic of the games in a kinda ‘novel adaptation’ format and put the real version in that one. It won’t get them as much exposure as trying to pass it as real history BUT it will make it easier to stay under Abstergo’s radar and, even if Abstergo sees it, the fanfic is protected by “this is fanfic, why are you bullying someone writing what they want for free in their own free time, Abstergo???”

[that-guy-sleepy-miles]

Pikmian and Kylchi!

Self care is drawing your OCs as pikmin characters but not captains just the weird little things you find. Pikmian and Kylchi are gonna go find some treasures and keep them for themselves aiowefioewf

[francisforever2014]

it actually really doesn’t matter at all and everything will be okay forever

[shesmore-shoebill]

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

[inkskinned]

she's singing in another room and my dog is asleep at my feet. my grandma asked me why i haven't found a man yet and i laughed. oh, you know. i like my house clean.

my girlfriend is also my man is also "my partner" if i'm in a professional setting. yesterday we went to a ren faire and a man mimed at me - you're together? and at my delighted nod, his baffled, you're gay? made me laugh. a woman with rainbow hair said i love the two of you together. you're both so beautiful it's absurd.

my dad introduced my partner as my "..... friend. or whatever" the other day. he knows we're dating. in the same way, i was never able to get my sister's husband to stop saying that's gay like it's 2008. he still uses the word fa***t, and my sister's defense of him has always been well, he's just kidding.

my lover and i dance to old music in a tiny kitchen. we judge new music together and take food critique very seriously. we watch love is blind before we fall asleep and agree that if they had a queer season, it would be bloody but also make for excellent tv. of fucking course queer people would know someone for only 2 weeks and agree to get married. what are you saying.

at a bar with friends, a man puts his hand on my wrist. got a boyfriend? and yes, i do have a boyfriend, she's amazing. i am texting her while i wander around a gas station named after geese. i am visiting a swing state for a wedding. in the candy aisle i overhear: she's actually like a lesbian it's disgusting. two teenage girls with packaged sandwiches in their hands, giggling. no literally, like. i'm not, like. okay with her being there while we're all, like, naked and changing.

my girlfriend and i tailgate, drink gin and cider out of cups. from the frat group beside us, a man corrects himself with one of his friends: bro, i mean, nonbinary entity, and it makes everyone around him laugh, myself included. he razzes his friend the same way i would have killed for at 19 years old - like nothing happened, he continues: you apply sunscreen like an alien. he does a little sassy (and fairly accurate) dance interpretation of the motion. his friend is laughing so hard they're crying.

i am lucky, i live in a safe neighborhood in a safe state. my masc passenger princess comes up from DC. i drive her for an hour to where all the leaves are a violent arrangement of color. we walk along the trails, letting autumn into our blood. in this part of the state, there's a lot of pickup trucks and trump signs. when we chastely kiss before getting into the car, i accidentally make eye contact with a woman holding her child's wrist. she looks disgusted. she looks fucking pissed.

two hours later my girl and i are eating dinner on a patio, soaking in the last warmth of new england sun before the chill of winter sets in. we are giggling and trying to talk through plastic vampire teeth. at another table, i see a young woman sit up straighter. i watch her watch us. she blushes and takes her partner's hand from across the table. shy, like the taste of evening has just become something deeper.

it's worth it for this moment, i think. my lover is still humming the same song she's been singing for four days straight and i don't want to kill her for it. her guitar is beside my bed. her toothbrush is in my bathroom. in a few moments i will make us lunch. we are lucky enough to have found each other. it is lucky enough to be in love.

[wren-kitchens]

tbh i would have loved a minecraft movie where the world was visibly updating around steve and alex as they explore. like, the first couple days have the old textures and their movement is laggy etc.

it takes a little while for the audience to notice, but as the days go by, there are more mobs and new trees and the movements of everything is smoother. and suddenly everything is so much more colourful than it was before and now the oceans have life, and the villages are huge, and the nether is full of biodiversity and the caves are enormous and theres something lurking at the bottom

and throughout the movie, you can see the odd character in the background of youtubers that started playing during whatever version it is at that point, and when we reach 1.20 all of a sudden alex and steve run into this group of people and its all the new character skins that were introduced at that point

idk its a shame we get something that visibly didnt have much thought put into it aside from 'lets make jumanji again but this time its minectaft' when there are so many possibilities that have so much more interest

[snakesinsocks2005]

Oh hey it happened again

Here ya go, champs

[millidew]

his change in career has captivated me

bonus:

[lovelenivy]

mouse bites™

[teecupangel]

Help, I’ve fallen to deep into infamous crossover hell and now I’m wondering what kind of powers all the playable assassins would have? Like, I don’t think they’d be as strong as Des is power-wise , but they’d still be an entirely new kinda hell on templars ( as for how they got powers, idk, maybe the Eye transported them through time when Des used it and gave everyone powers?)

So I’m going to try and incorporate their skills or any ISU bs they had to suffer from.

I have a feeling these need to be balanced but, honestly, their powers should probably be highly specific to make sure Desmond is more powerful lollol.

Altaïr

Considering just how much mastery he has over the Apple, it’s hard to think of what kind of power he should have. In the end, I’m gonna suggest he have a power that starts off as a noncorporeal illusion and then later becomes a corporeal illusion that can attack and kill (similar to how he summoned ghost Assassins in ACR to fight off the Mongols).

Ezio

For Ezio, I was thinking of a power based on maybe one of Leonardo’s war machines or based on ACR’s bombs. Maybe both with the bomber? Instead of actual flight, Ezio is able to jump off the ground using explosions of his ‘bombs’ and use the same explosions to maneuver himself on air (very, very similar to Bakugou from MHA)

Ratonhnhaké:ton:

His power would be based on the animal-shifting abilities he gain from Tyranny of King Washington DLC but, to make it more interesting, he can shapeshift to any animal as long as it’s an animal that he had eaten. Also, his animal forms will have a similar power as in the DLC (ex: being able to glide as an eagle) and it’s hinted that his power is actually body manipulation and not just shapeshifting. By manipulating his body, he can manipulate how strong or how light he is.

Aveline:

Perhaps we can change her different personas to the ability to blend into any crowd? Like, unless you’re looking for her, you can’t actually see her as your brain is telling you that the pretty woman in the corner is an aristocrat's daughter or the girl behind you is just one of your slaves, ignore her.

Edward:

I mean… it would be easy to make him have a water-based power. Pretty much something like water bending. Or… we can go down the route of the Observatory and make him able to track anyone he knows. (If we’re going to be more closely based on the Observatory, make him only able to track people he had drank the blood of. Not like vampire level, just a few drops is enough).

Shay:

… Let’s make his powers connected to his trauma XD. Earth-based power but focusing more on tremors and vibrations. Earthquakes and sudden creations of quicksand would be his main skills. He can also create spiky pillars at higher levels.

Arno:

Based on his ability to see his targets memories instead of having the white corridor for the final words, Arno’s power would be to see memories of other people. It’s a touch-based power and it starts off with him seeing only glimpses but, given enough practice, he will be able to see a specific memory of his choice.

Jacob

Jacob’s exclusive skills aren’t exactly all that flashy so we’ll let him have a power similar to his student, Jack the Ripper. He has the ability to change, heighten or lower one’s emotions. Good for calming crowds or riling them up. It starts as a one-target power but its most powerful capability is an AOE that Jacob could pick which emotion he wants to heighten. Now, if he was like Jack the Ripper, this would mean he could inflict unbearable fear to an area and make it easy to pick them off. But this is Jacob so he’ll probably mostly use it to pump up his Rooks.

Evie:

Based on her exclusive Chameleon skill, she can turn invisible. It starts off as her being only able to turn invisible if she’s stationary and if she doesn’t breathe. Then she becomes able to be invisible while moving but she mustn’t breathe. The higher state of her power would be that she can turn whatever she touches invisible as well (which will be foreshadowed by how her clothes and weapons turn invisible with her).

Bayek:

We can give him the ability to hijack a living thing’s senses. At first, it only works on his eagle, Senu. Then, given enough time, he can hijack a person’s senses but cannot control them. The highest form of this one would be being able to control a target’s body for a limited amount of time. A drawback would be, if he’s hijacking, he cannot move his actual body.

Aya:

Since Amunet is mostly known as the one who poisoned Cleopatra with a snake (which isn’t actually what happened in AC lore), maybe something poison or snake related?

Kassandra:

For Kassandra, we’ll let her focus on the Hunter skill tree with something similar to telekinesis. All of her projectiles always hit their mark and, as her power grows, the more projectile she can use at the same time to set up different attacks (like a bullet version of Rain of Destruction)

Alexios/Deimos:

Alexios/Deimos’ personality would be more in line with the Warrior Skill tree and he’s just a dead ringer for Ares Madness which is more in line with strengthening one’s body for super strength and super defense.

Eivor:

We’ll make use of her connection with Odin and make her power similar to Gungnir in AC Valhalla. She can activate a forcefield around her (like a shield maiden hehe) that is hard to destroy. The forcefield is also capable of hurting others as touching it felt like being stabbed. The more her power strengthened, the larger the forcefield she can make and she can even tag people who will not be harmed but will be protected if they remain in the forcefield (and, in higher ranks, would be able to project it elsewhere to protect something or someone else).

Since you want all playable Assassins (I added Shay as a freebie), we’re still missing:

Adéwalé

‘Lo Sparviero’

Shao Jun

Nikolai

Arbaaz (I was thinking something connected to the Koh-i-Noor)

Basim

[luxevamp]

Quick throwback bc sometimes I forget how cool my headphones are

[corviiids]

my top bit of advice going into the new year: compliment people. especially strangers. literally everyone you interact with if you can. when you buy coffee in the morning compliment the barista's tattoos. when you're chatting with a coworker tell them that by the way you like their outfit. always find something they've chosen to do on purpose. nail polish, jewellery, tattoos, hair colour/style, statement accessory, outfit, etc are all good bets. things people hope will be noticed. things that aren't too personal so it doesn't make them uncomfortable (eg probably not their physical features). i've gotten into the habit of scanning everyone i talk to for something about them that i think is cool so i can tell them. it's a great habit because it makes me notice people and realise just how many neat little details there are in people's presentation of themselves that might pass me by if i wasn't paying attention. and it brings out so much joy. you'd be surprised how much it disarms people to receive an unexpected compliment from someone they don't know. it is the most sincere smile you will see all day long. it feels nice to make people happy but it also means you win the social interaction. establish dominance by complimenting a stranger's earrings and disappearing into the fog

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.