#it sorta implies that they know they’re doing something good

[the-bug-bl0g]

ok the fact that some people think an insect has to have a purpose on earth to justify it living here is so frustrating.

Just because I don’t see what positive boon hippos give to the world doesn’t mean I’m going to start calling for their eradication. Can we just appreciate that some things don’t have a purpose and that’s fine?

[kavehater]

You know the reason why this feels like such an annoying thing to me is because I’m sooo the opposite of family oriented it’s crazy LOL

I’ll never understand younger siblings whining about their older siblings moving away like I bet yall were nasty and annoying too like wow all those years and you claim to adore the older sibling and post oh woe is me the older sibling abandoned me … girl … the older sibling didn’t have a parental certificate or anything.

[kaminocasey]

25 Days of Life Day: Day 9 - Life Day Pranks with Delta Squad

Summary: You and Scorch play a prank on Boss, it doesn't go well.

Pairing: (Sorta) Delta Squad x gn!Reader

Warnings: 18+ MINORS DNI; Implied that they're all into the reader, Grumpy!Boss, Rude!Vau mentioned, slight angst

A/N: I KNOW this is SO late lol. BUT the urge to do a part two eventually is SO strong. Anyway, it's still the holiday season at least, and I'm going to take the course of the winter to do these so maybe it'll help with my seasonal depression? Idk anywayyyy here we go.

You and Scorch have spent all day wrapping the ship as a little prank just for Boss. Sev had said if you pranked him, him being Sev, he’d kill you. But he had slightly smiled when he said it, so you knew he wasn’t serious. You’re Sev’s only soft spot. But Boss… Boss is a hardass. You’ve never even seen the man smile. 

“A little higher.” You call up to Scorch as he hovers over the ship with his jetpack.

“Got it, cyar’ika.” Scorch calls back down to you as he flies up a bit higher and tapes the final piece of wrapping paper over the top. 

It was perhaps the greatest prank any squad has ever come up with. And you’ve seen the goofy pranks of the 501st. They’re pretty good… but this? Classic.

“Boss is gonna kill you, you know.” Sev’s deep voice purrs to you as Scorch lands.

You and Scorch glance at each other with a grin and both say, “Worth it.” 

Sev just shakes his head and joins Fixer on the crates. You and Scorch attempt to find something else to keep you busy until Boss comes back from whatever he’s doing. 

An hour later, Boss comes walking into the hangar, his helmet in one hand and looking down at the datapad in the other. And he nearly drops both when he looks up at the ship. 

“HAPPY LIFE DAY, BOSS!” You grin.

“Take it down. Now.” Boss stares at you. 

Your grin falters slightly and Sev notices. Nonetheless, you try to keep your cool. 

“Oh, come on Sarge. It’s-” Scorch starts but Boss silences him with a glare.

“Defacing GAR property is your idea of a prank?” He stares down at you, angrily.

“I think if it’s able to be taken down, it doesn’t count as defacing, right?” You start, crossing your arms.

Honestly, he’s taking it worse than you expected, which is almost a little embarrassing. You’d expected him to just roll his eyes and shake his head. Dammit… Sev is going to give you such a hard time. 

“Maybe if you spent as much time working on your medical skills as you do these silly pranks with Scorch, you’d-” Boss starts to fire off but Sev steps in between the two of you, backing his brother up.

“Go get something to eat, Boss. We’ll clean this up.” Sev mumbles and you look at him, wide-eyed.

You’ve never been yelled at by Boss before. In fact, this broodiness seems a little out of character even for him. 

But still, you can’t help that your feelings are hurt. And you definitely can’t help the lump in your throat or the slight tremble of your bottom lip. You don’t notice the hard stare that Sev is giving the sergeant as you go and start to pull the wrap down off the ship. And you also don’t notice the disapproving shake of Fixer’s head as Boss walks past him. 

See, what you don’t realize is all of these Delta lads really care for you in their own way. Especially Sev, who more than cares about you, but doesn’t know how to tell you. 

“Lemme help, cyar’ika...” Sev murmurs as he ignites his jetpack and flies up to the top of the ship, ripping the wrapping paper down until it all falls over you, making you laugh. 

He smiles down at you, bright teeth and all. Something you don’t see often. But he loves the sound of your laugh. They all do. 

Fixer and Scorch come and scoop all of the paper and toss it into a bin across the hangar. 

“Don’t let Boss’ grumpy ass get you down.” Sev tells you.

“You’re one to talk.” Scorch teases as he walks by.

Sev’s middle finger goes up, making Scorch crack up. You laugh with him, but then realize that you’ve seen Boss this grumpy before. When Vau chewed him out really bad and made him feel lesser than. 

“Oh…” You murmur. “I’ll catch you guys at dinner. I gotta go do something.”

“Alright.” Sev nods, watching you walk briskly toward the barracks. 

When you reach your barracks, the doors slide open and you find Boss standing over the desk by the window overlooking the Kaminoan Sea. He’s looking down at his data pad, but slightly lifts his head when the doors open, barely acknowledging you.

“Are you okay?” You approach him, slowly. 

He grunts out a ‘yeah’ and you know you should leave it at that, that you shouldn’t meddle. He’s never been forthcoming with his emotions before, why would he now?

“Whatever Vau said to you today… doesn’t define you, Boss… You’re… a really great leader. I wouldn’t rather follow anyone else.” You look down at your feet. “I know he’s unnecessarily hard on you. But you’re better than him.” 

“You don’t know what you’re talking about.” He murmurs.

When you look up, he’s turned around looking down at you. You go warm under his stare, probably from embarrassment from earlier. 

You shrug, standing your ground, though. “What I said is still true.”

His eyebrows go up ever so slightly. You’ve made it weird, you realize that now. 

“Anyway… I just… wanted to tell you that.” You murmur and start to turn to leave.

“I’m… sorry about earlier.” He tells you, making you pause to look at him again. 

He’s looking at you with a softness, an almost sheepishness. 

“Thanks.” You smile, softly. 

He nods. “You’re a great medic… Wouldn’t rather have anyone else stitch me up.”

Your chest tightens at his kind words. Two times today he’s been uncharacteristic. 

“Let’s eat.” You nod to the door.

He looks back at his holopad. 

“Doctor’s orders.” You smile, making his chest tighten. 

“Sure thing, Doc.” He smiles slightly for the first time since you’ve known him and you feel like it could be a Life Day miracle.

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[rainbow-femme]

I’ve seen those memes of like “Hannibal vs Hannibal if he had just asked Will on a date” with the second being much smaller

But god can you imagine if season one happened and they were dating, if he had asked Will out in the first one or two episodes? If he wasn’t doing those things to a client/friend but a romantic partner?

-Would it have changed his reaction to Bella and the cancer secret if he now had a romantic partner and that could keep such a secret from him?

-Hannibal’s reaction to Will being too busy for him because he’s going after the Chesapeake Ripper now that it’s not just a patient missing an appointment or a friend not staying to hang out but a romantic partner choosing something (technically also himself) over him?

-We saw how Hannibal reacted when it was possible Tobias killed Will Graham his friend, but if Tobias came in and insinuated he had just killed Will Graham his romantic partner? Hannibal realizing he actually values Will as a friend vs him realizing he values Will as a partner? The “I thought you were dead” scene?

-Hannibal telling Will his job will be the death of him and Will justifying it by saying he’s saving lives and Hannibal snapping back that he doesn’t care about their lives he cares about Will’s life? How much harder it would hit Will?

-Alana in the show saying she can’t be with Will while he’s in his current mental state while Hannibal uses that state to his advantage?

-The reveal that Will has had encephalitis and Hannibal has known and done nothing and is in fact allowing it to worsen? Basically making Will nothing more than a guinea pig and how much worse it is if they’re not just vague sorta friends but actively together?

-Will acknowledging he couldn’t be with Alana because of where he’s at mentally now being him using that on Hannibal and the way Hannibal would absolutely panic at the suggestion? The bad decisions he’d start making?

-Hannibal realizing Will is closing in on figuring out who he is and how this complicates him framing Will? Having to actually make a choice between his freedom and being able to possess Will?

-When Will thinks he killed Abigail and is in jail, he implies Alana is lucky they didn’t get together. What would he say to Hannibal? Would this be him breaking up with Hannibal for his own good? And Hannibal fucking losing it inside at the suggestion?

-Will realizing Hannibal is not only the killer but the person who framed him, the next level of betrayal that would come with that? The conversations between them as Will lets him know he knows and Hannibal tries to hide it?

-And then how it spills into season two, with how in the show Hannibal is trying to maintain a friendship only now he still wants to keep that defined romantic relationship with Will while Will is like “Are you crazy? Obviously this means we’re broken up” and Hannibal turning the “no we’re still friends” act into “No we’re still dating” and how sinister that is?

[something-something-peaceful]

Alright it’s time I do more bullshit headcannons let’s go.

It’s generally believed that the slender family has their own mansion with their own creepypastas to house. Now I’m not going to go overly specific besides the saying who’s in slender’s house and who’s just not living in his house. Now to tackle a verse specific group of characters, literally all of the characters canonically involved with Jeff (at least the most popular ones). Starting off it makes more sense that liu stays away from Jeff especially in a living situation. Sure liu MIGHT’VE forgiven Jeff but we know the creation of sully would prevent literally any peaceful movement between them. Which would cause liu to not live with Jeff so he doesn’t kill him. Jane I’m a little conflicted on, we know she hates Jeff to the point of murder. But like her motivation for murdering people is the dumbest thing ever, like I know trauma makes you come to weird conclusions but how does “I must murder these people before that other guy murders them, so I can protect them from a possibly worse fate, rather than actually helping them or trying to kill Jeff.” Count as a good reason to murder? There’s a clear difference between the intent being to save the future victims of Jeff or by murdering Jeff because revenge, and literally killing the victims of the Jeff because he might do worse things than you? The way I’ve read her wiki it seems to have set up rivalry instead of a revenge plot. Which since despite the fan art implying that Jane is trying to kill Jeff, I’m just going to say they live together. Because A. It’s easier to keep an eye on your rival and who they’re targeting when you’re a hallway from their room. And B. It’s a fairly harmless relationship at this point you sorta have to question if they care anymore. Nina I can see her living with slender due to the said reason of "it's easier to watch a person when you live with them". and listen I know Nina isn't jeff's stalker… at least I don't think that's the intended dynamic. But jeff doesn't seem like a very willing mentor. I will say, I do see an argument that Nina doesn't live in the slender household because if we're going the copy cat killer route where he's just a huge inspiration to her, I can imagine her living with a separate slender, since while it would allow her to forge her own path while still following in jeff's foot steps. i also suspect slender would find jeff's bitching about Nina not enjoyable at all. Like i can't imagine slendy gives a shit about the well being of the creepypastas, but something about Nina's excitement and jeff's pure terror every couple of hours everyday, just doesn't seem to be a fun bit to see everyday.

[memorialbabe]

There's porn words in here I wrote em

Based off of this:

You never really knew what it felt like to be knocked out before and, in a way, you still don’t. There isn’t a lot you know for sure right now, but it feels safe to bet that you were knocked out, and that you have woken up after that, and that you are now in the trunk of a moving vehicle - probably a sedan from how cramped and warm it is. You do kinda have to pee. 

You’re gonna try to not think about that though because you are really starting to worry about not remembering where you were or what you were doing just before this. And also you don’t want to piss yourself right now, it’s a very bad time and it feels like whenever your kidnapper opens the trunk it will be a very bad second impression to have wet pants and to have pissed all over their car. Okay though, back up, will it just be a second impression? Who knocked you out? Was that the first time you and they have met? Is it just one person? If so, are they hot? This situation is very scary and you very much are not going to throw yourself at whoever did this but you have definitely thought about getting kidnapped in what was definitely a sexual fantasy before. You’re gonna try to not think about that either.

But alright, you’re clever, rack your brain for ways to figure out where you’re going based on what’s going on with the car. Go ahead. You can’t really move, and you don’t hear any noise except for the engine - seems to be a regular gas engine and not an electric or something - and the occasional car passing or being passed, so, great, you’re on a road, in a car. You figured it out. Well, there’s bumps now and then and those hurt, and there’s the other person in here, their knee is pressing on yours and it’s starting to hurt. 

Huh. There’s the other person in here. Explains why it’s so hard to move, and so warm, and a little humid, sweaty even. 

“Am I gagged?” you ask, in a way that is both useful and useless.

Then, too loud and right in front of your face, “Agh-” a thump, “fuck,” and you can hear that they trail off into a rapid, panicked breath for a second before that noise is overridden by them squirming just so much to try to get a look at you, which they can’t and don’t, and also they’re mostly just pushing off of you to turn toward you, and they’re already facing you, and also can’t really move anyway, so it’s even more useless than the thing you said. But hey, their knee is off of your knee, and that’s nice. 

“Uh, damn. Sorry,” you say with a tone very much implying you’d nervously scratch the back of your head while you said it if you could. Your hands can only move so much, though now that they know you’re in here with them there’s a modicum of space in between you - they had evidently been hogging all of it behind them - but the limits space-wise right now sorta restrict your arms to being very bent and in front of you and touching theirs. Their skin is warm, and yours isn’t really cold either, so neither of you is undead, good info, good knowledge. 

In all of the squirming they did, it seems like your legs are now actually more entangled than before while your upper halves have been pushed maybe a foot apart from each other. “Who the fuck are you?” is all you get back, which is a good question, and though it wasn’t asked politely, y’know, they have a certain huskiness in their voice that lets you get past it. That being said, you definitely have to work on your priorities here, but it’s not like you’re gonna not answer them. 

You say your name which gets no response, it’s a name, you have one, so does everyone else, not really special and they obviously don’t recognize it (if you have a weird name, they go “really?” and you go “yeah” and they move on). So, you don’t know each other. Just two strangers in the trunk of a moving car, kinda grumpy, maybe hungry, and oh yeah you have to pee. “I have to pee,” you say out loud, supposedly to your trunk-bound compatriot but somehow just to the air. 

“No you do not.”

“Yeah, I know, sorry.”

“Well you can’t, so.”

You pause.

“No. You can’t. Next subject.”

“Okay, what’s your name then?”

“Harmonica.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.” 

(This plays better if you have a weird name.)

You pause again, and try to move your arm which is getting a little tired of being where it is, but they stop you and move it back.

“You can call me Harm, and please keep your hands to yourself.” You can hear the glare, it really presses on your chest and you can’t help but get a little red in the ears about the misunderstanding.

Okay wait a second, you absolutely cannot keep your hands to yourself, and neither can they. Wait, like, another second though. “They/them?” you ask, for some fucking reason. It’s like, really bad timing, but you’re narrating this in your head for the reader so you need the correct pronouns. 

“Really???? Keep your hands to yourself gets a pronoun check??” The implied glare is starting to bruise your solar plexus.

“I- alright. You know neither of us can keep from touching the other, what the hell? And it just- I just wanted to make sure, I dunno, for in my head.” You definitely tried some diffusing gesticulations here but at this point they have grabbed your wrists to stop you from doing any of that either.

“You were clearly going straight for my tits.”

“What????” Neither of you can fully absorb how much that doesn’t make sense to you just from how you asked, but it’s like, pretty close. “How was I supposed to know that, I can’t see shit, and I didn’t even know you had those, and also, uh, not really my first instinct, personally. You don’t know that about me, but I promise.”

“Huh.”

“Huh?”

They let go of your wrists, which is nice, they could probably have taken your pulse to tell you how far over 100 bpm it is. And then: oh. Oh yeah okay you were blindfolded and didn’t really notice, you kinda just assumed it was dark in the trunk. Which like, yeah it is dark, it’s dark enough that you can only really see outlines even though your eyes are pretty adjusted by now, but yeah what Harm said checks out, you definitely would have been reaching for their boobs. And yeah no wonder it’s cramped in here, awooga. They seem to be about your height and pretty big, fat most places but definitely fat and muscly on the arms. You’re honestly lucky you can see them at all, not just because they’re nice to look at, but it seems like you’re getting some of the tail light glow through cracks between the fabric trim pieces of the trunk. So, hey, it’s likely night time, that’s probably the first real clue you’ve gotten.

“Yeah, they/them. You?”

You say your pronouns.

“Oh, yeah, obviously.” You both chuckle at that. 

You wonder how much of you Harm can see. You’re further from the rear of the vehicle where the barest hint of red light is coming from, which means they’re all outlines and silhouettes to you, but for all you know they might be able to see your face if the angles work out just right. 

“So what brings you here, stranger?” Harm ironicizes at you. Genuinely super nice of them btw, they do not have to diffuse the situation for you, but they do. 

“Oh you know,” you smarm, smarmily, “probably a concussion.” You both let off some pressure laughs and you finally relax your shoulders. Somehow now, it looks like they’re how they’d be if you were both just lying down somewhere together, head tilted toward the floor because the stress has bled off and they don’t have to keep their neck rigid anymore. You can almost picture their face, and what it would look like while looking at you right now. 

“Yeah no same. Really sucks too because I can just feel where I got thumped from how much it hurts to have my head pressing against the wall. Or, uh I dunno, side of the trunk, whatever.” Yeah they are kinda further that way than you, above you if you flip the whole thing turnways. 

“Here, uh-” you offer something and they just nonverbally oblige, so now you’ve sorta scooted, but more like just rearranged your legs so Harm can scoot down, which they are relieved to do. And now, well. Your hands aren’t exactly any further from their boobs, and you’re basically hips-to-hips here.

“Ohmygodthankyou. So where’d they get you?”

“Like, on the head? Because I don’t really know, nothing hurts. Maybe they actually used knockout gas.”

“That’s not real. And also your breath isn’t that bad, so I don’t think so anyway.”

“Knockout gas gives you bad breath?”

“Well, it’s not real, so no, but I imagine it would.”

“Yeah okay.” You both let it sit there for a second before Harm cuts back in.

“No wait, I meant like, where geographically.”

“Oooooooh. No idea, I straight up do not remember how I got here.”

“Thanks for being straight up with me. I appreciate it.”

“Of course, of course.” They’re very much letting you smarm, which you appreciate. 

You keep letting the conversation lie which leaves these pauses where you’re noticing things like how you’re definitely pretty leg-locked here, one of theirs on the bottom, then one of yours, theirs, yours. That’s left you both pretty stationary, which means neither of you has room to move but the bumps in the road don’t affect either of you as much. And you’re pretty sure you can feel your leg, the one between theirs, getting a little warmer. Checking, checking… okay no, you haven’t peed, great job. It’s uh- checking again… okay well they didn’t pee either, but it’s definitely Harmonica. Well. You would do one of those “is that a harmonica in your pocket or are you just happy to be pressed up against me in the trunk of a stranger’s car after getting concussed and kidnapped” jokes but honestly you don’t wanna draw attention to it. They diffused the tension for you earlier, you can ignore the hot fat person’s boner. 

“So uh, is that a harmonica in your p-” a particularly bad bump in the road cuts you off thank fucking christ. Seems like a pothole big enough to cause a flat because the tire is ka-thumping and your hand ends up on one of Harm’s boobs. They either don’t notice or don’t bring it up.

“Oh fucking sick, nice, yes.” They are so hype about this - the flat tire not the hand-boob action - they are bouncing up and down - very nice for the hand-boob action - or like, left and right but y’know, your orientation. “Okay so like, wherever the fuck they were taking us, no way we’re getting there now. I don’t - like, no way they just let us go, right? But also way better than going to Destination Who-Fucking-Knows. Probably.”

“Here’s hoping.” Hard to get a lot of words out when you are spending a lot of your mental power focusing on the whole hand-boob thing. Not even lecherously - though there is that - but like if you draw too much attention to it suddenly it’s a whole thing and it’s not like you’re squeezing it’s sorta just on there and also you have to try really hard to not say some dumbass shit. But you’re powering through. 

“Do we have a plan?” They’re obviously looking at you expectantly even though you can’t see them doing that and also they were awake longer than you. That being said, you’re pretty active in your head, so who knows maybe you would’ve, but things being how they are, you’ve been distracted. 

Hm… a plan, a plan… No you definitely don’t have anything. You’re pretty sure it’s harder to kick out the tail lights than you’ve heard, and the situation definitely wouldn’t even allow for that. Plus like, what does that get you when your kidnapper is pulled over on the side of the road? Oh, now they know you’re awake and resisting, that’s great. You guess it depends what happens next. They have just pulled over, but are they waiting for like, roadside assistance or something? Not like they’re gonna be changing the tire, you’re in the trunk and that’s usually where all the spare tire and all the tools to put it on the car are. So yeah, roadside assistance. Wait for someone to come help and scream, easy peasy. “I guess we wait until someone comes to fix the tire and then we just scream.” Simple, you thought it through, you’re helping. And you totally forgot about how warm and sweat-moist Harm’s boob is under your hand. 

“That’s the best we got? I guess it’ll-.” You both choke up, hearts caught in your throat. No fucking way. This absolute horror that kidnapped you thought about this, planned for this. The car is being jacked up so that the tire can be changed. So, to be clear, this asshole was driving around with a spare tire in, at best, the back seat, for what, hours? Who knows, you can’t use your phone to search for the average length of being knocked out by blunt force (the real answer is not very long at all if you’re this coherent afterward, but whatever it’s a scary thought). 

Both of you barely breathe for the entirety of what is clearly a tire removal and replacement. It’s minutes, your kidnapper is not one of those guys that changes out tires quick for NASCAR - and no you’re not counting that as a clue - but you could see it taking you longer. The car is on all four wheels again, you and Harmony jostle into each other some at the jolt, and the engine turns over, and you’re in motion. The acceleration tells you that your kidnapper is getting back up to freeway speeds, and the momentum pushes you into Harm. 

Okay so like, you don’t wanna be weird about it, or make it a whole thing, but she definitely had like an entire hard on once it was obvious that your kidnapper was just fixing it. So, what? They’re getting off on the horror of the whole situation? The elevated heart rate from stress and the adrenaline just happened to give the thing blood flow? You mean, it’s not huge, it probably isn’t that difficult to get it up to full power, but still. And what? You’re just gonna go, “Uh, Harmony, why are you hard?” No wait, those quotation marks aren’t real right? You kept that as an inside thought, Right? 

“I- wh-” there are a few more false starts before they give up. Evidently it’s now quiet time. Even though you have your fellow kidnappee’s throbbing thing pressed pretty hard against your thigh, it’s quiet time. Even though your hand is in an arguably more entrenched position on their boob after all the jostling, it’s quiet time. Even though they’re breathing pretty hot against your ear, it’s quiet fucking time. Not like, a quiet time in which there is fucking though, oh no. Not that kind of quiet fucking time. They straighten their back a bit, probably so they feel a bit more composed, or, well, your hand is like, cupping boob now. But no, it’s for composure. “Whatever,” you hear, quiet and close. 

“Whatever is fine,” is all you can think to get out in return. Honestly, how can you even blame them, the slight bouncing and jiggling from the road could easily get you started if you put yourself in their shoes, especially now that you’re close, and to be honest the stress does get your heart going and it’s not like that isn’t exciting. Yeah, you could see it, especially if you start to notice how warm their thigh is on your dick, and y’know, you were already sorta halfway there just naturally - and honestly that’s controlled given the hand-boob situation that you have been very cool about - so like, yeah, you could see how you would and also absolutely do have your own boner pressing against their leg. 

And they don’t seem upset about it, they definitely aren’t bringing it up like you did, no they’re letting you get away with it. Hell, they’re being really nice about it, they’re kinda moving their hips so that, it uh, it feels pretty good. And they’re still basically pressed against you, breathing right into your ear, maybe a little faster now, and you’re both sweating from being this close and stressed and moving and you go for it. 

You say the quiet part loud - but with your actions so not at all out loud - you give the tit in your hand a gentle squeeze. They lean and shudder into you, breath as hot as ever in your ear and you really don’t want that to stop. Harm squeezes an arm past you on the above-side and wraps it around you, holding you close there like that, and it’s nice to have something soft against your back. They’re basically grinding on you now, you’re getting a lot of positive signs here but no words. Are they just too shy to say anything, even let out a moan? I mean, you wouldn’t really think of them as shy given your conversation so far. And fuck is it way too dark, you wish you could actually see them, see whatever look is on their face that would tell you what they’re feeling. All you have to go off of is the kiss they’re planting on you, which definitely seems to be yet another affirmative. 

“Is this okay?” you try to huff out, your own breath coming out in shovelfuls, but they’re just kissing you again, their other arm, bent and between the two of you near the floor, reaches up and strokes your cheek. Their kiss is maybe a bit too wet - though the whole atmosphere of sweat you’re submerged in is probably what makes it feel “too” anything - and their lips are big and soft and probably had some flavored chapstick on earlier that day, but now Harm just tastes like their mouth, and honestly it isn’t bad. 

You’re catching up to yourself here, because you’ve definitely been kissing back and, wow nice you were the one to introduce tongue here, though theirs is definitely longer and they are thankfully using it so much more than you. You’ve also been grinding back against them, the two of you at this point like pistons, in together, out together, the space there on the out togethers letting both of your dicks stand up properly instead of being pushed down against a thigh, under just a couple layers of fabric each. 

You’ve been playing it safe with your boob hand and just rhythmically giving Harm a nice squeeze with a little bit of push or pull. Obviously they’re into that, but the way they’re straightening their back and pushing their chest out to get your hand pressed harder against them and… and oh my god the whine they let into your mouth while they do, finally some actual noise! It’s so nice to hear that you can’t help yourself, you try to put your arm around them, but they stop you. Or, it seems like they went to grab your hand at the same time you went to do that.

Harm kinda lets up on the kissing so you pay attention and so that they’re clear, and they’re so fucking obviously looking in your eyes even though you can’t really see that, they’re really trying to send a message to you here. With the hand they grabbed they lead your fingers to the buckle of their belt and do their absolute fucking best to help you unbuckle it with just the one hand they have on this side of you. It’s a bit of a mess, and you’re both sweating onto each other and onto the floor of this stupid trunk, and you trade a chuckle a couple times as one or the other of you fumbles it, but it comes undone. 

You barely even notice the noise outside the car anymore, with the belt buckle done you still have to unclasp AND unzip their shorts but by now you’ve realized you have two hands and that frees them up to raise their hand to your chest and they do not play it nearly as safe. They don’t just do whatever to your tits like they own the place, but they’re trying some things and god whatever the fucking they’re doing to your nipple through your shirt now feels so good that you let out a “fuck” and you can tell that they’re kissing a little different for a sec because they’re smiling. But the smile and the kiss are both broken off once you finally get it out, once you get their cock in your hand, warm and hot and wet as all fuck from what obviously isn’t sweat, they shudder as chills run up and down them and they’re very much just mouthing a long, triumphant “ooooooooooooooooooooh my god.” Harmonica can’t help from letting out a couple of greedy little humps into your hand before squeezing the arm that they’ve had around you and pulling in close so they’re against your ear again.

“Now you, now you,” they let out in breathy whimpers, pleas. You nod and oblige them, but you don’t wanna stop grabbing their dick, you haven’t even really done anything with it yet, but it’s so hard to give it the attention it deserves while you and Harm fumble with your whole shorts situation to get yours out. You do your best, but you can tell every time you move your hand and end up peeling back their foreskin just a bit that they lose all fucking function. Or, their fucking function works great, they break down and fuck your hand a little, it’s all the other functions that stop. And honestly you’re not much better, you’re not even really noticing that one loud noise in the background, especially once all of your clothing between the hips and knees is pulled down below your balls so it stays there. 

The muggy air in the trunk isn’t that much different from how it was inside your shorts just a second ago but it still feels like a breath of fresh air before your dick is plunged into the soft but determined depths of Harm’s hand - and honestly in there it feels like you’re getting shocked because your whole body clenches up at it. It’s electrifying like that, it feels so good after all the build up. It’s hot around your cock, hotter than you’ve ever felt before, hotter than what you imagine having penetrative sex with someone who has a fever is. Don’t get sidetracked though or you’ll notice the weird red and blue lighting peeking through the cracks of the trunk’s fabric trim, instead notice how because you clenched up, you really squeezed Harm’s cock and, after the full fifteen seconds where they couldn’t do anything, they decide that you’ve made it a competition and they start stroking you like you were close to cumming. And maybe they’re onto something with that. So you plant your lips on theirs instead of just huffing at each other and you let out some choice moans into their mouth and you start jerking them off like you want them to plaster you into this trunk forever. 

Honestly, you’re doing too well, you’re absolute destroying them at this competition of who can make the other cum first or hardest or whatever the fuck - Harm’s hand has let go and they’re largely just shuddering against you from the pleasure - so you decide to make it a fair game and you wrap both of your hands around both of your cocks and press them together. From there, there’s nothing either of you could do, you both just make the fuck out and hump into your hands and into each other for what feels like an eternity and an instant. One of you lets out one of the dumbest little “I love you”s somewhere in the mess, and Harm gets it together enough to repay your efforts with the frotting handjob by finally reaching the hand they had around you down to your ass. Their fingers break the waistband and give your ass such a full fucking squeeze before - huh yeah you guess you’re sweaty enough that could work - they press against your asshole, toying, teasing. Holy shit how did they go from being shut down from a good couple strokes to fingering you while fucking your hands?

Well, those weird red and blue lights you didn’t really notice are gone and the car is moving again. Huh, shit, it was stopped. Wild. You’re too busy with the important stuff, like how Harm is biting your lip now just to tease you, or how you do it back and then neither of you really thinks straight for a fucking second because you tell Harmonica to turn around and they just nod. The movement of the car pushed you both toward the rear again so you back up a bit to give them room but they just extract their arm from behind you, spit on it, and jerk you off a bit more before doing their very fucking best to turn around. It takes a minute, and you can’t help but lean in and kiss them wherever you can land one while they keep making adjustments so they can fully spin in place.

It’s so worth the wait, you let your hands run up and down them as best you can now, and you feel like you can finally really picture them, or at least what they look like from here behind just before you’re about to put it in. They’re broad and their fat rolls over easily, giving them lots of curves and folds around their midsection and oh god their ass is fucking massive. You’re lucky this takes longer to read and think than it does to actually do or they’d be getting impatient, but you can tell they’re really getting off on how much attention you’re paying in this little moment, and once you start playing with their huge ass you can hear and feel them start to jack off again, so you decide to not let them finish alone. 

Holding it around the tip, you move it up and down between their stupidly soft cheeks for just a second, long enough for them to tease you back by pushing their ass up against you, so you’ll take the hint. You press your cock against their asshole, lubed by lover’s spit and ready to go, grab their hip on the above-side and thrust into Harm. “Oh my fucking god,” you both let out. If you were both being honest as you started fucking their ass, this is probably pretty mid sex, but the whole situation has made you like a couple of starving diners at a free buffet drinking water and going apeshit over it. But who’s gonna judge you for taking a deep drink from the only person stuck in this situation with you? Certainly not the person you’re inside of right now, who is definitely letting out yet even more foolish “I love you”s, but at this point you’re believing them and you’re saying it back, you’re saying you’re gonna knock them up and marry them and get kidnapped together for fun again just to have some really hot and sentimental sex. They laugh and start moving their hips just-so and pushing you over the edge. 

You make some huffy moans as a signal that you’re at the finish line and they just start pushing their ass against you in time with you as fast as you can both go in the trunk of this fucking car to let you know that neither of you is moving for it, just do like you said, knock them up, cum inside, you’re theirs, do it, they’re ready. They’re breathing just as hard, just as pathetic, no way they aren’t going to cum too. So you just let go, you two break pace with each other, it’s entirely uncoordinated but it’s not synchronized fucking, and you grab onto their hip as best you can and let everything you have go inside of them. Like five seconds later you can hear their hand slow down as they let out a groan that sounds like their soul is leaving and they shudder like their muscles are failing. 

“Holy shit,” Harm moans out after a couple of huffy minutes. “Fucking… cuddle me a bit, huh?”

You do, you were a bit but you wanted to give them space since you’re both huffing and sweating more than if you finished a marathon a second ago, but now you pull them in close, your dick still casually hiding between their cheeks. Harmonica snuggles up to you while you spoon them and wiggles their hips against you, but you both know there’s no round two here, it’s just cute fun. They move your hand so that it’s squeezing a boob again, all nonchalant, just for comfort. 

“Thanks, sweetie.”

“No problem, love you.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

It’s still dark, you still can’t really see, the car is still moving down some road somewhere, but it’s a bit nicer now, and honestly, the whole thing has left you tired. You drift off to unconsciousness again, which is the only way you enter or leave this dark little trunk space, it would seem. 

You wake up before Harmonica, the sun rising on the now-open trunk. You’d be cold if you weren’t so entrenched in a post-sex cuddle, so you don’t move much while you figure out where you are. It smells arboreal, pine trees. That matches up with the pine trees you’re seeing tbh. You’re facing the sun from here, guess that’s a clue. The morning dew is definitely getting to you, you’re as wet as you were when you were sweating all over each other, but that doesn’t really tell you much. Oh fuck it, you don’t wanna move yet, maybe ever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

The kidnapper finally made it, after a flat tire, police pulling them over, having to stop for a cow crossing, going through a drive thru, hitting a deer, a second flat tire, dead headlights, going the wrong way for like 60 miles, and a rest stop to shit. Finally. They pull the gun out of the glovebox just in case those two try anything and head to the back. They put the key in, and pop the trunk. 

Yeah those two fucked. And at least one of them pissed back there. Whatever, man. They go into their cabin and go the fuck to bed. Who even cares anymore. Leave the trunk open, maybe bears will get ‘em. 

[dyelwi]

1, 7, 12, 17 for Ms Athena Cykes since she’s your current icon?

Athena my beloved aaa I love talking about her any chance I get hehe putting this under a read more bc it’s gonna get LONG

1. Why I like her: so so many reasons. Where do I even start lol um I’ll start w just her personality!!! Ace attorney has a lot of characters in the “peppy happy girl” category but Athena has always stood out to me because of her unique quirks and how well she bounces off any and every other character!! Her dynamics w other characters (esp Simon and Apollo) are always really really good, and I think she’s a really strong character that a lot of ppl overlook due to not liking aa5 as much as other games (which, btw, I’ve never seen anyone fault athena for, it’s usually the cases themselves and the handling of Phoenix and maybe Apollo they don’t like but notice how athena is like never complained about in terms of writing quality, at least from what I see lol). She feels cartoony and realistic at the same time, which is hard to achieve but is also exactly what aa protags need!! Her trauma and trauma responses are compelling for the mystery aspect of her story while also being compelling just in general, which isn’t always the case in these sorts of games, and I just really like how she’s written overall.

And ofc I have to mention I just have a really personal connection with her. As an autistic person w adhd I saw myself in her more than in p much any other character, but whereas when I first got into ace attorney I was gloomy and grumpy Athena was so energetic and so dedicated to helping ppl that I just really looked up to her, and even now I consider her to be like almost a role model in some sense?? And her being into psych pushed me more into psych than I already was and is probably part of what has led me to where I am now— graduating with a psych degree this year and going on to pursue grad school and a career in mental health counseling. Athena just makes me so happy and she’s so good at helping people despite and even because of her (probable) autism and I wanna be able to make people happy and help them too yknow???

7. Something the fandom does w her that I like: tbh not a ton lol, but I always appreciate when people see how she can very easily be interpreted as autistic and they work that into fan content!! I also appreciate the calls for an athena centric game, as I think she was very strong in aa5 but needs a little bit more. I truly think she could be like THE strongest written female character I’ve ever seen if she got just another bit of an arc and capcom doesn’t mess it up lol. I actually have faith in capcom tho, ik that’s a bit uncommon but if tgaa is any example of the sorta writing they can do i have faith.

12. A headcanon— besides the obvious and like basically implied neurodivergencey, I like to think she likes animals, specifically more uncommon ones!!! I think she should have a pet, maybe some sort of reptile or bird. Simon has a bird, maybe she gets one too lol. I like sun conures a lot and they do have athena vibes tbh

17. A ship with her I’m fine with/don’t hate but also isn’t my favorite: hmm well by now you probably know I’m a big justicykes fan but other than that I don’t ship her too hard w anyone??? I guess after justicykes I’d say her and pearl might be my next choice, it’s a rare one but I think they could be cute!! But since I lean towards liking that one instead of being neutral, I suppose the true answer to this question would be junithena. I’m like. Entirely neutral on it lol. I think they’re real fun as friends but I just never saw the romantic spark everyone else seems to see??? Who knows tho, maybe when me and my gf play aa5 together I’ll see it. A lot of the fan art is super cute but I just never really got the romance vibe w them idk

[foundfamilynonsense]

Alright!! I know people love redemption arcs, and so do I! But we have to remember what a redemption arc is.

Rant under the cut.

You need two things for a good redemption.

The character must understand and admit their past actions were wrong.

The character must work to right these wrongs and fight for good.

Example of a redemption arc:

Zuko!

Zuko has a legitimate redemption arc. He discovers he was fighting for the wrong side and for the wrong reasons. He acknowledges this, and talks about it a lot. He then joins the Avatar, teaches him fire bending so he can end the war and save the Earth Kingdom, and vows to restore honor to the fire nation and start an era of peace.

That is acknowledgement + hard work = redemption. Good job Zuko I love you.

Redemption? ✅ yes 🥰

But what are some other characters known for their redemption?

Darth Vader turns back to the light, but he does not have a redemption arc.

Does he acknowledge he was wrong.

Uhhhhh…. Sort of? When Luke asks him to let go of his hate, he says “it’s too late for me, son” which implies he knows he’s bad…. But then that also says that for how long he knew he was in the wrong and didn’t outright acknowledge or try to fix it???

Then when he’s dying he tells Luke “you were right” and like… right about… what. Right about how was dark? Right about how the Sith were evil and Vader had to become Anakin again? If so, this is an acknowledgment. Good job! But I don’t think that’s what he meant. I think he meant “you were right, there was still good in me” which like… is sorta an acknowledgment. He’s not really saying “I was wrong, I’m sorry, I’ll do better.” He’s saying “I did evil, but there was still good inside like you said” which is kinda a partial acknowledgment. I’ll give him half credit.

2. Does he work to right his wrongs?

Darth Vader kills Palpatine. That can be considered work towards redemption.

But can it? Palpatine was sitting on the Death Star that Lando was about to blow up. Palpatine would have died anyway.

What Vader actually did was save Luke’s life. Which is an act of good, and goes towards rebuilding the Jedi Order and fixing the damage from the genocide he started and participated in.

But does that one act really make up for everything he was a part of? Of course, maybe he would have done more, but he died. But I mean, he doesn’t actually put any work into making the world better while he’s still alive.

Redemption? ❌ no.

So why do we think this is redemption?

Fallacy #1: death = redemption

So here’s the thing: does sacrificing your life count as good work?

Sacrifices feel like a cheep way to say a villain is now a hero. A way to cop out of hard work. They turn to the light and immediately die, so now they’re immortalized as this savior.

Of course, a sacrifice definitely says something. But is it an actual redemption or is it just him having a change of heart?

I completely agree that he should be seen as someone who returned to the light. The whole point is that he is, technically, the chosen one. He brings an end to the Sith. But to say he is redeemed is a bit of a stretch. Because he didn’t actually make anything right, and he never really acknowledges what he did wrong.

Snape!!

Snape was a Death Eater, and we can assume he started immediately out of Hogwarts. As a Death Eater in Voldemort’s inner circle we can assume he did a bunch of bad shit including murder. We know he told Voldemort about a prophecy that would result in Voldemort killing a BABY, so he definitely did bad shit.

Let’s switch up the order.

Does he work towards making it right?

He switches sides, warns Dumbledore that Voldemort is going to try and kill a baby, acts as a spy and no doubt gives a shit ton of vital info, risks his life to help the Order, save Harry’s life in the first book, tell Harry what he has to do to defeat Voldemort, and plays a huge hand in stopping Voldemort.

Good job Snape. ✅

2. Does he acknowledge he was wrong?

In one point, in the seventh book, the portrait of Phineas Black says the word Mudblood, and Snape yells at him for it. This shows he at least understands it is wrong to use slurs.

But no where in the series does he ever acknowledge that is it wrong to be a Death Eater, that it is wrong to be prejudice, that it is wrong to use Dark Magic, or that he was wrong to be a part of it.

He joins the good guys because he discovers the baby Voldemort is going to kill is the son of a woman he’s obsessed with, and she might die too. He continues fighting because that woman died, and he wants to do right by her. This is how he mourns her, basically.

Even when he snaps about the portrait using a slur, it is directly related to how he lost touch with this girl bc he used that slur against her.

He does good work for inherently selfish reasons. If the chosen one had been Neville, he would have happily remained a Death Eater. He turned to make himself feel better over losing Lily Evans. Never once in the books does he show that he now believes muggle borns (besides this one muggle born he’s obsessed with) are equal to him, that Voldemort is doing anything wrong, or that he was ever in the wrong. It never shows that he understands he was wrong, much less showing him acknowledge and admit it.

Redemption? ❌ no.

So. Why do we think Snape is redeemed?

Fallacy #2: reason = redemption.

An origin story does not equal a redemption arc.

In book five, the author decided snape would be a good guy. And suddenly made James Potter and Sirius Black bullies in high school in order for Snape to have a reason to become a Death Eater and be terrible to Harry.

It was never hinted that James and Sirius were bullies before. In fact, Sirius once agreed with Hermione about house elf rights only to turn around in the next book and be a bully to Kreature. This hypocrisy is never mentioned. I think she forgot she wrote that first but. Lupin once describes the relationship between James and Snape as tense because Snape was jealous of James’s quidditch skill. The only evidence we have of bullying before is of a practical joke Sirius pulled on Snape because Snape was actively snooping around and trying to get them all expelled.

The bullying is used as a reason for us to feel sorry for Snape, and is usually put as the reason he became the man he is: someone who actively harasses children and bullies them while in his class.

However, Ron once had the whole school sing about how much he sucked at quidditch, Harry and Hermione had to sit through Snape read an embarrassing news article about how they might be in love in front of the entire class, the whole school once wore badges that read “potter stinks” for a year, and don’t get me started on Neville. Yet none of these people became Nazis. And this bullying was way way worse than the bullying we witness Snape go through.

Bullying does not make people evil. Should people be bullied? No. But being bullied is not a get out of redemption free card. He needs to acknowledge what he did.

I’m getting tired of people saying “I think everyone can be redeemed” because yes! That’s true! But in order to be redeemed the character has to acknowledge what they did and put the same amount of food into the world as they took out of it. You don’t get redemption cards handed out for having a sad past, or for doing one good thing and then dying in a blaze of glory. Redemption is something you have to earn. Honor is something you give yourself (to quote my boy Zuko). And if a character doesn’t do that, they’re no redeemed. They’re just fun to read and watch.

[silkchiffon]

I love your Simmosa headcanons! Any Simmosa- or Superstore in general headcanons that you have I would love to hear. 💙☁️

omg so glad to hear it!

more simmosa headcanons:

this isn’t really a headcanon so much as it is canon just left unsaid but. amy and jonah show their affection towards each other the most when they’re alone together. i don’t really get the criticism that they stop seeming like they’re in love once they start dating as if every moment leading up to it that’s the most romantic isn’t when it’s just the two of them! the problem with the later seasons is that they never have scenes with only them and i think that is what people should be picking apart.

they don’t share clothes at work (they’re not stupid like they know their coworkers would never let them live it down if they noticed) but they do at home and occasionally when they’re out and about running errands. amy likes wearing jonah’s pajama bottoms even though they’re stupidly too long so they tuck under her heels. she’s also definitely worn a jacket of his when it’s extremely cold out. jonah does this less often but he likes wearing old cloud 9 merch that amy stored in a bottom drawer and never thought about again when he forgets to do his laundry.

jonah almost never gets to play podcasts when he and amy carpool to work. the single exception is off book because she gets to (try to) sing along and that is exactly what she wants out of a commute. belting along to a song. she never gets embarrassed about it either because they do it together.

he plays dnd. she doesn’t get it.

feeling festive: there isn’t a holiday episode in the first season of the show so i do think there could’ve been an almost kiss between them under some mistletoe somebody put over the door of the break room.

this feels implied in the show already but just to make sure we all know it. amy definitely tried to text jonah after the breakup about more than the americans. i think she probably drafted several versions of an apology before hitting delete on all of them because she knew none of them would be as good as one given face-to-face.

general headcanons for the show:

most of the staff pick up a little tagalog after arguments between mateo and marcus become too intriguing not to understand. but also i do think there is something inherently filipino about amy and jonah. she has a brother who is technically played by a half filipino and he knew a little too much about duterte for it to only be related to his interest in politics.

amy and garrett play video games together a lot. this was the case long before jonah ever started working at cloud 9. when garrett and jonah were roommates amy would come over to their place occasionally to play and jonah would somehow be the one awkwardly third wheeling. i like to think the two of them kept in touch after she moved to california that way. especially over the pandemic! garrett never tells jonah about it until long after for obvious reasons but he secretly really is glad to maintain that relationship. i mean come on! he thought they were gonna work there forever and die old together!

mateo becomes about as competent a handyman as eric is while working at sturgis and sons. glenn is shocked by how easily he takes to the whole thing but there is also this unspoken understanding that mateo is more dedicated because it’s a second chance in a way. not that cloud 9 wasn’t worth it for the people he met but now he’s working somewhere that his efforts are actually appreciated.

in an alternate universe where superstore and abbott elementary are not only on the same network but also airing at the same time there would be a kinda sorta crossover episode where the teachers go back-to-school shopping at a cloud 9. the tie-in could be with the season 4 premiere. someone offhandedly mentions a scandal in missouri that happened a couple of months ago and everybody gets to wondering if the workers got fired. there is even a nod to the glow-in-the-dark stars. (janine mentions loving them yet never having the guts to stick them on the ceiling due to her fear of ladders but gregory says he could do it for her.)

jonah and marcus hooked up once while amy was in california. and yes it was at her place. you could ask me “is nothing sacred?” but considering the fact that glenn and jerusha did it on her bed this feels small in comparison.

[raxistaicho]

Is Fire Emblem bringing the aristocracy back?

So something I’ve seen claimed in the leadup to Engage’s release is that Engage would show us nay-saying Edelgard fans that IntSys isn’t gonna turn on Nobles or Dragons like we supposedly thought they would. Honestly, sometimes reading through anti-Edelgard attempts to analyze the things we think feel like Christians telling Atheists what they believe.

But anyways... yeah no duh, Engage is kinda making Dragons (Divine ones, anyways) and Nobles look good again. Sorta. Not really. It tries to SAY they look good, but actually the whole calamity with Sombron returning is squarely the fault of the current reigning monarchs and Lumera being awful at their duties.

Engage spoilers under the cut.

So what do we know? Elusia was pushed to worshipping and restoring Sombron thanks to Brodia constantly invading them and killing innocent civilians, we know this from Ivy and Framme’s supports with Diamant. Now obviously Hyacinth was desperate and after he freed Sombron he lost his free will, but he can’t be so easily be forgiven for bringing Satan back from the dead. So Morion and Hyacinth’s failures are obvious.

Lumera just watched this take place - and it’s been going on so long that it’s in history books now - without interfering. What’s her actual job as the Divine Dragon if not securing peace in Elyos?

Let’s not overlook Queen Eve of Firene either, who forged a peace pact with Brodia and Solm and just kinda ignore Elusia since they didn’t share a border. Brodia’s invasions of Elusia were known to Alfred so they were known to her, and there’s no indication she did anything to get Morion to lay off.

And then when Sombron did return, the Solmians were immediately aware of it thanks to their spy network, but once armed with that knowledge they focused solely on defending their own borders and waiting for the Divine Dragon to hopefully come to them. They almost completely missed the war and Alear’s death if not for Ivy being the Only San Woman.

So what we’re trying to do in Engage is restore or save the Status Quo, even though the Status Quo is directly what allowed for Sombron to return. The only indication things might change is that Diamant at least knows his father was a dipshit and Brodia has to stop warring on their neighbors.

So luckily Diamant and Ivy at least have their head on straight and are set to succeed their parents, but unfortunately Lumera is still being treated as a spotless paragon who did nothing wrong so there’s no sign Alear will do better than her.

I can’t comment on Solm, having only met Timerra and Fogado, but unfortunately the future of House Fierene ain’t so rosy either. Given Alfred was so sickly he nearly died while Celine was old enough to remember it, I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if Eve just checked out on the idea of Alfred succeeding her and focused on preparing Celine instead (Celine’s B support with Alear even implies that Eve is still conscious of the fact that Celine might be the one to succeed her even though Alfred’s health is improved compared to his younger years) but he’s still a complete puts who seems wholly unsuited to the thrown. And Celine’s not exactly spotless either, as though she’s infinitely more mindful of her duties and responsibilities than her brother, she still travels about in disguise, alone, to get tea despite the fact that her brother’s health is suspect.

So yeah, while the writers might THINK they’re writing a story that casts the nobles, royals, and dragons in a good light, the state of Elyos just demonstrates why it’s in dire need of reforms like Edelgard’s.

[demonicintegrity]

So I have watched ep 4 of Harry and Meghan last night. (I know I’m late, life is like that lmao)

What strikes me again is first is the formula of the first episode of each volume being almost split. The first is half is quite happy and then something goes wrong.

(I also didn’t pay attention to the wedding as it was happen so this was kinda my first actual look at it. Very pretty! I’m glad the wedding remains a very happy memory for them. As does Meghan being able to talk to the late queen casually and see a good grandmother figure in her)

The next is thing is Meghan echos a sentiment I also have, that who would take a tabloid seriously? Perhaps it’s a British thing, because among my American friends is that kitschy tabloids aren’t good for anything serious. They’re there for when you’re waiting at the salon and you’re bored. Or you skim the headlines when you’re checking out at the grocery store. But then again, as soon as youre invested in celebrity drama the source doesn’t matter too much. And this isn’t to say Americans don’t read tabloids, I think a majority of us just get that sorta thing online and see it as a separate entity. Physical tabloids aren’t as popular here as the documentary says they are in Britain.

From there is the birth of Archie. I never realized they (and by they its seems mostly Meghan) were called selfish for not wanting a photo op so sooner after labor. I can’t believe they wanted her to give up the doctor she had built a relationship with to have that photo op.

And here’s where they say something interesting. When trying to find a compromise of the birth plan for the media(!?) no one stops them, but also implies that the tabloids will be fine with it. And then they weren’t. And of course Meghan is one to take the fall for it because -checks notes- she didn’t want to compromise her doctor??? Have two days with her newborn son and not have to be The Duchess for two seconds?? Labor is exhausting and it takes weeks to recover. But of course, this family is expected to preform at every single moment.

Fucking insane. It’s not even racist bullshit you’re not surprised by anymore. It’s straight up entitlement to other people’s lives. And on one hand that shouldn’t surprise me because American media and masses are about the same, but on the other hand holy shit.

(I keep going about this episode for a w h i l e hence the read more)

Harry makes a really good point, it’s not “do you condone this or not” it’s “what have you done to try and stop it?” Because I didn’t see nor recall a single statement to the press asking them to chill out. Clarifying that Meghan and Harry are actually loved and valued members or disputing rumors and lies. Obviously they can’t do every one but it seems like they haven’t tried to do one.

This is an institution that knows it can keep benefiting from it if it shut ups. Let’s it run it’s course. This is a family that are willing to be bystanders because that’s how they were raised to be. Lil mascots to parade around for the people’s morale and entertainment. And this is why Harry’s the bad guy, he’s a lil too open about not liking that.

Someone in the younger generation of a dysfunctional family is almost always the one that’s fed up. That’s fed up life isn’t fair, that’s fed up their family isn’t in their corner, and that’s fed up no one does anything. And this turns them into the problem child. Everyone thinks Harry’s so mad because he’s whipped for his wife, when in reality this is just the snapping point.

It is so isolating when your family doesn’t stick up for you, especially against bullies and harassment. I cannot imagine how much worse it feels when it’s an entire institution and staff as well.

As much sympathy I and others have for the royal family for having to deal with a media spotlight from birth, it runs out when they repeatedly choose “keeping the peace” or other ways of not stirring the pot instead of their family. Everyone knows they were unfairly treated, and yet they chose to watch instead of doing anything. No wonder Harry seems so resentful of his family.

I truly believe if just two or three members said something. Not even consistently, but every now and again, slowly the media would ease up. The climate would change. They have power and influence but seem never up to doing the work to do something that just ever so slightly goes against the traditional flow of things. Which tells Harry he was never worth even the bare minimum of a defense. And y’all wonder why he’s so bitter about it.

(I think I’ve mentioned it before but it’s worth repeating, we are witnessing a fallout of a dysfunctional family. At the core I think that’s all this will ever be. It just gets more complicated because of royal politics. But at the end of the day its family drama.)

Meghan never wins with the media. Whether it’s day to day things or a kind gesture from her friends. She never wins. It was pointed out time and time again how her and Kate could be doing the same thing but she was always the bad guy in it.

And then there’s the Australia tour. And here’s what I didn’t know, that they became more popular than the rest of the family. And that’s why they painted her as a diva. Like I said, she never wins even when the media seems to be in her favor for two seconds.

(My grandmother shrugs that off, saying it would be hard to not be a bit of diva with being handed servants and so much influence. Maybe there’s a nugget of truth there, but I have my doubts it’s to the extent of what the tabloids are saying. And of course, no one seems to care about if the others are divas.)

And then we get the documentary on the South Africa tour. Now this I remember reading tweets and tweeting about. It is awful suffering through depression, especially if you’re not used to it. It’s even worse when no one seems to care. The only one who cares enough to ask is a reporter who is at least in part motivated by pulling an interesting dialogue, even if entirely well-meaning.

The conversation I became apart of on Twitter was in response to criticism towards the two, mostly Harry, for not providing for her or getting her help. Back then I said, how do you expect him to navigate this? Get mental health help is an obstacle, especially more so when 1) youre really busy and 2) youre in a royal bubble so what do you know about these things? Lord knows if he was ever shown any good coping skills outside of “deal with the camera.” I don’t blame him for having a hard time helping her, it’s a hard thing to help with. I hope she’s feeling better.

Now of course this episode clarified that Meghan wasn’t allowed to get help. And it makes sense, there’s still a stigma in getting therapy and help among everyone. Of course if the press knew they’d have a field day with it. Still, she should’ve gotten help. Even if it was someone in that family other than Harry checking in on her, or offering her advice on how they dealt with the pressure. But that doesn’t seem to have happened.

Suck it up buttercup ain’t exactly a helpful mantra when dealing with thoughts of suicide. I can attest to that.

And that’s why Meghan and Harry will never not have a following. Most people can relate to at least some aspect of what they’re going through. A lot of people deal with racism, or deal with depression, or deal with shitty shitty families who turn their backs on them. They will always seem like a real person vs the rest of the family which seems so detached. That’s why they’re the people’s. That’s why people believe them, they have and always will be much more genuine.

[inventors-fair]

Clench of Victory: Wanting Winners! ~

Our winners this week are @bergdg, @spooky-bard and @wolkemesser!

@bergdg — Desire

Look, out of the three, one of ‘em had to come out on top, right? I forget if I wrote the “your first cool idea and someone else’s first cool idea are probably gonna be the same” article before I saw the multiple desires, but either way, I had a feeling. The way to combat that is to make them all pretty great! Honestly, though, I do feel that this card’s got the nuances down. Desire and passion being entwined is a good choice—and I honestly didn’t see that the flavor text was a riff on Judgement Genesis until looking it up. Not the most original, but your adjective choice ties nicely to the mechanics.

Really, it’s the mechanics that make this card the most reasonable to me. You’re pushing the envelope in a way that feels unique to both the Incarnation type and balanced to contemporary MTG gameplay. Choosing only one card means choosing your passion, and the length of the impulse is really sweet as well and allows for flexible deckbuilding in both limited and constructed. I think, aside from shifting your flavor text to more of your own words, the only thing to change is “Whenever one of more creatures you control attack” to “Whenever you attack” re:Adeline.

@spooky-bard — Taste of Home

STRAIGHT. UP. POSITIVITY. Look, I’m a grimdark man at heart, but when I saw this card, the first thought I had was that someone understood the assignment. It’s a cute, simple, relatable card that sorta loosely implies the environment and, to me, feels like a card that would come near the end of limited playtesting when the team needs one final flavor home-run to round things out. Maybe it’s Eldrainian, maybe not! Doesn’t matter.

Personally, too, I’m a fan of these kind of Narrow Escape effects. This one’s hella cheap and makes an artifact token that you can sac for life; in a tight spot, declaring blockers to help you stabilize while throwing down a cool ETB on your next turn can be quite relevant indeed, and while it’s not something you probably want to build a deck around, Food as an archetype has always been a favorite of mine since its introduction. What does this world have to say about it? That’s about all the inner world we want and need for this card. It’s tight and direct and pulls no punches about the kind of simple adventurer’s desire that really makes players feel like they’re part of their own deck in a way. Again: you get it. Specificity matters so much in designs like this.

@wolkemesser — That Hideous Hunger

Oh, hey, more food! Christ. This card’s an absolute menace. I think that you really struck something with me here, because odd titles like this that happen to work within the card’s framing device are super cool to me. It’s an embodiment of hunger, sure, a form of uncontrollable desire—passionless, but exerted; unbalanced, but omnipresent. I say “unbalanced” in the purely flavorful sense. The card itself is a pain in the butt but not something that people can’t deal with. “Eat or be eaten” is a great way to go about realizing how hunger works, and you know what, I’m glad to see you taking your wild ideas and really cleaning it up here.

The fact that it affects yourself is very fun, and it shows that it’s a card you probably want to hold onto until you can get things out; don’t let your hunger manifest until you’re willing to show for it. I wonder if there would be a token-y archetype in white that could combat this, and/or if blue would have extra bounce to take care of a card like this, because wow, this card comes down and you’re not gonna have a good time. Except maybe you are with the lifegain! Four life to the Food’s three is an excellent little idea. I mean, what else is there to say? In Commander, you’re gonna make enemies, and in Standard/Limited, you’re gonna have fun. Small notes: “They are” should be “They’re,” and weirdly enough, “Food” should be “Foods” in this kind of effect, which I don’t blame you for missing. That’s a weird’n. Just like the player who plays this and gets to live their trollsona dreams. ... Not like that, Tumblr.

Really gonna have a fun time with commentary this week. Runners coming soon!

@abelzumi

[localmacguffin]

About Sumeru

Genshin's writing in the Sumeru Archon Quest Acts III-V really rubs me wrong.

Like here they are, showing how the sages treat Aaru Village like a dumping ground, have a police state enforcing things through violence (Cyno's behavior in this quest is atrocious but somehow he's a good guy???), and denying resources to the desert people. But somehow, the radicals who want to change the situation are portrayed as wrong? Why is the burden of reconciliation only on the oppressed and not their oppressors?

Also Cyno's writing so far is...weird. He has a lot of potential as a minority abused and manipulated by the Akademiya. Like if you think about it, he is a genius who managed to claw his way to the top of Sumeru's government. But at the same time, he's trampling people of the desert + is feared as a weapon, but not cared about as a person. He followed the sages' dubious orders just to maintain his own position. What I've seen so far in the Archon Quest sorta addresses this, but only to make Alhaitham seem reasonable about being suspicious of Cyno. Cyno is portrayed as unreasonable for suspecting Alhaitham (not heavily, but still???). Not to mention he's interrogating his own people through intimidation and torture, and this is never addressed as bad. Oh, and he has to praise Kusanali every 5 seconds. 

And Candace tortures people, but is still viewed as a good guy??? She and Cyno see nothing wrong with this. And outside of this, her only other personality trait is “friendly older sister”. Also she doesn't react towards the Akademiya person (Alhaitham) at all. While it could be argued the presence of Dehya, one of her most trusted friends, is vouching for Alhaitham, the fact she holds no hostility towards a man who could destroy her home with his government influence + dumped the Akademiya's trash on her is???

As for Dehya...she's shown being resentful of the Akademiya for their discrimination. Yet the moment her fellow Eremites try to do something, she sides with them and acts like they’re doing the wrong thing? Yes them kidnapping people is wrong, but fighting back at all is bad? Are the centuries of oppression faced at the hands of Rukkhadevata's people isn’t bad? The angle of her not hating Kusanali could be interesting, especially in the context of her friendship with Dunyarzad. But she goes on and on about how Kusanali must be a good person so it feels tacked on just to make people not feel bad about liking Nahida. Especially since it looks like she’s only blaming the sages for everything wrong with the situation. Also the fact she has no resentment towards Alhaitham and Cyno (generals for the same sages responsible for her people’s oppression) is odd. It reeks of “the player characters can’t be bad!!!”

And the entire thing with King Deshret is just weird. The people of the desert have every right to hate the Dendro Archon(s) and the fact they revere their god and want him back isn’t wrong. The fact that the people of the desert are killing people trying to bring him back is bad, but the fact belief in King Deshret is always shown as negative while belief in Kusanali/Rukkhadevata is positive puts a bitter taste in that. It’s just like Orobashi. The people of Watatsumi worship him, and originally hated the Shogun for slaying him. Also like the desert folk they are (implied) oppressed by the Shogunate, being forcibly annexed and pressured to assimilate. But of course Kokomi doesn’t hate the Shogun and the only people with outward resentment are the cultists who unleashed the tatarigami. Knowing Genshin, just like the people of Watatsumi, the Eremites will forgive Kusanali and happily integrate with their oppressors. This isn’t even getting into the fact that Kusanali is so kind and benevolent, that she is protecting the people of Aaru Village by possessing the mad scholars, and without her, the people of the desert would be doomed. Or the fact King Deshret, the god of the (brown) desert people brought forbidden knowledge into the world, and that the (very white) Greater Lord Rukkhadevata saved everyone. Genshin literally says that because of this the people of the desert (Rahman) should no longer hate the people of the jungle. It also has to point out how backward the desert people are for their struggle to survive leading to suspicion and paranoia. The (brown) desert people have to be enlightened by the (white) Dendro Archon’s, and this undertone is carried out with Alhaitham vs. Cyno too! Even though systematic oppression has nothing to do with the gods, so the Eremites still have legitimate reasons to hate the establishment? There’s always a convenient underling bad guy (the Tri-Commision, the Sages) who are responsible for oppression, so the entire society/gods can’t be blamed. (Side note: this sort of idea is also seen with Havria. Granted her story of dying for being too gentle in war is good for worldbuilding. But the fact it seems like Genshin is allergic to having Zhongli, who is also an Archon, do anything wrong). The entire thing is pretty gross.

Granted, Hoyoverse showing that outside forces (Fatui/Akademiya) will use the local people’s religion/discrimination to advance their own agenda shows a degree of almost awareness(???) of how oppression is weaponized against the people experiencing it. That’s the only good part I can say in regards to this. 

Hoyoverse's writing in this regard is just nasty. Leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.



[survivingcollegeonefanficatatime]

Natural disasters chapter 2

I got an 86% on this exam let's goooo

Ok heads up this chapter includes the first section about volcanoes, a lot of volcanic terminology is based on Hawaii and includes Hawaiian terminology. Like all real-word specific terminology I was not sure whether or not to leave it (and sorta imply Hawaii exists in star wars) or change it. I decided to leave it for a few reasons.

If that bothers you 1) why are you reading this

2) it’s very much a “they don’t even have france” situation where there are ALREADY things in star wars that sort of imply real-world places or concepts exist. A good example is Tea, in the real world “tea” is very specifically created from the Camellia sinensis plant. Something NOT made of this plant is called an herbal tea (sometimes it’s called a tisane but my tea snob friend tells me a tisane is actually created from mixing the Camellia plant with any other thing in a brew (so infused teas or flavored teas are often tisanes) and a non-camellia plant brew is an herbal) so that means Tea in star wars is either made from the real-life camellia plant, or more likely there’s a sci fi version of that plant OR “tea” is a generic term for something you put in hot water and brew, which would make the most sense as I doubt the same goddamn plant grows on every planet that has tea. 

So, whether or not sci-fi Hawaii exists, I’m putting it in here. If it bothers you, just do the talking thing and say “oh well canonically they’re not speaking english they’re speaking basic so obviously the whole thing is TRANSLATED into english and that explains anything that shouldn’t exist”

“Master Obi-Wan! Master Obi-Wan” Anakin shouted as he ran down the hall.

“What is it, little one?” asked the master in question.

“I passed my exam! Remember the natural disaster’s class you helped me study for? I just had my exam and I passed it!” 

“I’m so proud, my dear, I’m very glad our method worked, we’ll have to try it again before your next exam.” Obi-Wan said.

“Promis?” Anakin asked, and Obi-Wan nodded as the two wondered how to start the rest of their day.

Anakin couldn’t help but be excited the next time his natural disasters exam approached. Obi-Wan had promised to study with him. He had already gathered up all his study materials onto a ‘pad and all he had to do was wait for Obi-Wan to be finished with whatever paperwork he’d been working on. 

When Obi0Wan had finished, Anakin walked right up and presented his datapad “my next exam is in a few days” the boy admitted. Obi-Wan smiled and took the pad to examine the material on it. 

“Well, then we’d better get studying?” Obi-Wan said he spent a few minutes examining the material Anakin had given him. “Alright, there are three modules this time around, so let’s start with Volcanos, shall we?”

“Yeah, it builds of what we were talking about last exam anyways, Volcanoes are closely related to plate tectonics, which means they often occur along fault lines, but not always” 

“Very good Anakin, can you tell me the difference between lava and magma?” 

“Of corc, master, Lava is what it’s called when it’s on the surface, and magma is beneath the surface. And a volcanic vent is the opening at the surface that lasva and other stuff comes from.”

“Good job and you know that the outer core of most planets is liquid but other layers are solid, so what does that mean for volcanoes?”

“It means the magma comes from the outer core, and also the asthenosphere is weak so it can flow slowly because it’s near melting temperature, it can melt rapidly and then the melts will rise and collect with changes in temperature and stuff.”

“Excellent anikin, can you tell me the three melting processes?” 

“Decompression, addition of volatiles or addition of heat!” Anakin declared. He paused to think for a minute before conditioning “decompression melting happens when the pressure of overlying rock decreases and the rocks will melt even though the pressure stays the same. And adding volatiles is when you add chemical compounds that evaporate easily and lower the melting point by breaking chemical bonds. It’s important when it's added as a fluid to rocks. And adding heat is fairly self explanatory. It happens when surrounding rocks melt and rise or when stuff just metals and mixes, basically as long as something increases heat it will cause this.”

“That’s a very good explanation Ani, did you know magma is made of melted silicate rocks and siloved glass?”

“Yes, I did master, and there’s two types right, basaltic and rhyolitic, I don't remember what the details of them are.”

“Oh, well, basaltic magma has a lower silica content, and has magnesium and iron in its composition, it’s created via the melting of the asthenosphere. Whereas Rhyolitic magmas have a higher silica content, and are felsic, a mix of feldspar and silica, they're made via the mixing of continental crustal materials.”

“Oh, tat makes sense” Anakin said, 

“The next thing to cover is buoyancy where magma is less dense and will rise though the crust, before collecting near the surface in magma chambers. Magame can also evolve with crustal assimilation along the way or within the chapter where the magam will become more felsic, do you remember what felstic means?”

“Oh, we just went over it, Felstic means a mix of feldspar and silica right?”

“Very good little one, there are three properties of manga that start with a V, can you tell me what they are?” 

“Uh, viscosity, volatile content and volume. I remember what they are too, viscosity is the resistance to flow of a fluid, so colder magma won’t flow as fast, and it also induces the surface mobility and the velocity of flow and the thickness at the surface. Basaltic lava is less viscous and therefore flows a lot  faster, whereas rhyolitic lava is more vicious and flows slower. And volatile content is the concentration of uh dissolved volatiles, volatiles can cause explosive eruptions of the magma which is a big explosion. The amount of volatile content increases with silicon content so andesitic rhyolitic magma has more dissolved glass and makes explosive eruptions where basaltic magma has less dissolved gas and makes effusive eruptions that also affects pyroclastic debris. All types of volcanic materials which are explosively ejected from a volcano. The last V is volume and it’s the important fraction of how much a volcano affects the surrounding environment.”

“That was a lot of information, good job And. There are a lot of variations in volcanos, including size, shape , composition and how they erupt; these factors are determined by the three Vs of volcanism. On top of this eruptive behavior is classified and can most often be predicted by analyzing the behavior of previous eruptions, there’s an index for this, it’s called the volcanic explosivity index or the VEIL, which is a relative scale to allow people to compare different eruptions based on the height of the explicitly and the volume of the material ejected. There’s a few types of volcanoes, one is a stratovolcano, can you tell me more about it?”

“It’s a cone shape, and has a variety of lava compositions, and high viscosity magma builds the height of the volcano when it coles, and it’s composed of pyroclastic debris and effusive lava flows, they have a high water content and are typically the most common volcanic eruptions, especially on a planet like Alderan where 80% of explosions are this kind.”

“Perfect my dear. Can you tell me about a lava dome?”

“Yes master! A lava dome is smaller and it’s dome shaped, they typically form independently or in a vent of a stratovolcano. They have highly viscous felsic magma and don’t have a whole lot of volatile content.” 

“Excellent, and shield volcanoes?”

“They’re some of the largest volcanoes and have wide low angled slopes, they’re frequently on islands and common at hotspots in oceanic crust and plate boundaries. The vent is usually in a collapsed caldera. They have a few common types of eruptions: Hawaiian type which are effusive and normally passive, Icelandic type which are generally effusive, and volcanion type which is an explosive basaltic eruption which happens when magma is in contact with groundwater, or ice, or snow.” 

“Very good Anakin, can you tell me about cinder cones?”

“Yes master a cinder cone is a pretty small pile of tephra near a volcanic vent, they’re conical because of the pilining of scoria, and scoria is the name for vesicular mafic volcanic rock type of cinder condes they are common on the flanks of bigger volcanos, or faults or fissure.” 

“Excellent, now continental caldera”

“Oh!” Anakin announced “those are the ones made from the collapse of land stufice or when a volcano follows a partial emptying of a chamber. They have explosive releases of magma and other stuff, and they’re the largest and most destructive eruptions so they’re fairly rare on most planets, right master?”

“Correct, is there anything else you know about them?”

Anakin hesitated for a moment to think, then his eyes lit up and he proudly continued “large caldera eruptions are called ultra-plinian which is a totally wizard way to call it, they’re huge destructive explosions that shove materials super high into the sky, and they release up to 100 km^3 of pyroclastic debris. They make ash deposits of 100 m thick near the rim and are still over a meter thick 100 km away! Isn’t that insane?”

“Yes it is-”

Before Obi-Wan could continue, Anakin interrupted to continue his explanation of continental calderas “super big caldera eruptions are known as super-volcanic! Like the super volcano on Alderan, they’re far bigger than the ultra plinian! And the super volcanic eruptions have rhyolitic magma and a lot of volatiles; they're often at continental hotspots and can eject between 1000 and 2000 km^3 of volcanic ash and make calderas hundreds of miles wide!”

“Excellent, you know a lot about this”

“Thank you, master”

“The next topic is about regions that are at risk, places like rings of fire that form on many volcanically active planets. Divergent plate boundaries, rift zones, and other hotspots”

“Master, how would a planet that’s mostly made of volcanoes work”

“What a good question, I’m afraid I don’t know off the top of my head tell you what, little one, I’ll do some research after we finish today's study sheshion, and we can talk about it after your exam”

“Wizard! Thank you master.”

“Your welcome, dear heart. Now, we should continue, can you explain the primary and secondary effects of eruptions?”

“Yes! Primary effects are lava flows, ash fall, pyroclastic flows, volcanic blasts and gasses. Stuff that happens directly because of the eruption, and secondary effects are more incidental, debris flow, mudflows, landslides, debris, avalanches, floods, fires, tsunami’s and short term planetary cooling!” 

“Very good! And what are the different types of lava flows?”

“Oh! There’s Pahoehoe where the lava is smooth and sorta ropey at the surface, and then there’s A’a which has a blocked fractured surface, there are others like block lava and pillow lava but Pahoehoe and A’a are the big ones for this class. Are we going over all the primary effects?”

“Yes, we are.” Obi-Wan said as he scrolled to the next section of the class

“Ok, the next one is pyroclastic activity right?” at Obi-Wan’s nodd Anakin continued “pyro means fire and klastos is broken, so it’s bits of magma and rock that flows back down to the planet, they can be super dangerous. Tephra are pyroclastic debris that range in size from sand sized to big angular block and smoothed bombs, they’re called bombs isn’t that crazy?” Anakin didn’t wait to see his master's reaction “ash fall is the well ash from explosive fragmentation, and pyroclastic flows are when hot ash races down the sides of the volcano and burns everything in their path! It’s super dangerous! Then there’s ash fall which can cover hundreds or thousands of  square KM downwind from the eruption, the thickness is controlled by the distance and it smoothies crops, vegetation and can starve the environment, the contamination of surface waters increases the acidity and among of toxic stuff in the water, and it irritates eyes lungs, and can be a hazard if it gets in an engine. The pyroclastic flows are one of the most deadly parts of an eruption and they’re triggered by collapses in lava domes and lateral blasts, they move fast and are unpredictable. Gasses in flows can be absurdly hot! Like 1000 C and can burn everything in its path. They’ve killed more people than any other volcanic hazard, or at least that's how it is on most planets.”

Anakin took a deep breath, then he grinned at is master and continued to reside information “ten there’s poisonous gasses often released from the eruption, some of the gasses in most eruptions are water vapor and carbon dioxide, but there’s also carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide. Gasses in sufficient concentrations can be direct health hazards. And sulfur dioxide forms acid raine downwind which effects vegetation, surface waters and leaching of heavy metals, steam from the lava cooling in the ocean also has hydrogen chlorine gas which is corrosive and volcanic glasses also contain other dangerous substances like hydrogen fluoride which can posen vegetation which is a problem for farms”

“Very good, now we’re onto secondary effects, like debris flows and mudflows, how much do you know about them?” Obi-Wan asked

“Plenty, I know that lahar is a general term for debris flows or mudflows from volcanic eruptions. They’re generally low temperatures but can be hot compared to the environment, they flow like water, debris flows have more than half the particles larger than sand-sized, and mudflows have finer materials and can have big landscape impacts, they clog drainage and sweep away structures.”

“And landslides?”

“They’re often triggered by the eruption or other stuff like changes in moisture slow loading or when a volcano bulges, they often release sufficient pressure and can allow sudden explosive eruptions to happen, and if they happen near a coastline they can cause tsunamis!!”

“They can, and planets with a high amount of islands also often have a large amount of volcanoes, which makes the risk of volcanic damage and tsunamis especially high for the local population.”

“I hadn't thought of it like that” Anakin admitted “but there’s some good things volcanoes do, right?”

“Yes, Anakin, there’s several benefits to volcanic eruptions, for one volcanic soils are immensely neuterent rich, and well drained, although they can take quite a bit of time to develop. Geothermal power can be harnessed from volcanically active areas, volcanic rocks provide pumice, and aggregate which are materials widely used on countless planets. They are also recreational attractions, and can provide the formation of new land.”

“Wow, that’s a lot, but how can they be recreational attractions if they’re so dangerous?”

“Good question, little one, first there is a large number of beings who rather enjoy visiting dangerous areas, second it is possible to know which volcanoes might be dangerous and which ones are more of spectacle, but to do that we must reduce the risk of volcanic hazards, do you know how that’s done?”

“Yes, master, we have to forecast which means studying specific eruptions and a lot of planets just don’t have the experience, we have to monitor seismic cavity and thermal magnetic and hydraulic conditions, and the land surface to detect swelling or tilting. And volcanic gas emissions and we have to study the geologic history of a volcano! And even then the warnings are mostly probability, so there’s a lot that could go wrong” 

“Correct, and it’s not always possible for people to move away, sometimes they’re born there and don’t have the money to move, or the land is fertile for work and farming, or they’re optimistic and don’t think an errupton would happen, or there’s other economic reasons” 

Anakin nodded in understanding. 

“Alright, that was everything about volcanoes, we’re one third of the way through, now we’re onto flooding”

Anakin nodded sagely, “water is a lot scarier than I thought it was” he declared with his little arms crossed over his chest. Obi-Wan couldn’t help but laugh and ruffle the little one’s hair.

“That it is, my dear, I think many sentients vastly underestimate the destructive power of water, but it, like so much of the galaxy, is capable of being a force for good, healing, and life just as much as a force for death and destruction.” 

Anakin thought for a moment “that makes sense, so we’re going to talk about flooding now?”

“Yes my dear, do you remember the water cycle?”

“Yes master, water evaporates and then moves and condenses and rains or is collected some other way, but it can also be taken in by planets or in the ground.” Anakin explained, and Obi-Wan nodded 

“Alright, so let’s talk rivers, surface drainage is water that’s not evaporated or taken up another way, it collects in tributaries and feeds rivers and streams. There’s a drainage basin that’s the defined surface area cooling app precipitation into the same surface drainage. Rivers also have a gradient which is an important factor for flow. Headwaters tend to have steeper gradients and are faster where the mouths of rivers have shallower gradients with more gradual flows. The base level is the lowest point a stream reaches during its flow. Below that level it cannot erode. The ultimate base level is the ocean and the local base level is a temporary base level limiting the erosion of local streams. So do you know some of the functions of rivers?”

“Rivers transport materials! And there's some stuff in solution which is dissolved and load derived from chemical weathering of materials, the suspended load is fine grained materials held aloft in the turbulent flow, and the bed load is coase material dragged, slid and bounced along the bed. There’s stuff that affects what can be transported right?”

“Yes, Anakin, things like discharge, which is the amount of water moving through a cross section and can be measured at Q=VA the competency is the ability of a river to move particle of a given size, the capacity of a river is the total amount of material a river can move and the streamflow tends to expand the volume and tends to increase while decreasing in velocity as a river approaches its mouth. Slowing water allows suspended lairs to be gradually deposited by size, and distributaries are multiple channels that a river breaks into as it forms.” 

“Oh right, uhhh what was the next topic again?”

“Chanel patterns and floodplain formation, like aggradation, degradation, and stream channels, do you want to tell me about them?”

“I can do that! Aggradation is the deposition of sediment events occurring at slower velocities, they decrease capacity and competency, and degradation is the removal of sediments at faster velocities which increases capacity and competency. Then stream channels are the well channels of the streams, braided channels are interconnecting channels formed with variable steamflow, and meandering refers to a single winding channel that migraines back and forth. The undercut bank is a degradation feature on the outside of bend, it also has stuff like the point bar, and pools and rifles, a point bar is an aggadation feature on the inside of a bend due to low velocity. So the inside of a bend has lower velocity than the outside and this makes a specific shape in the river. A pool is a deep area made by the scouring of segments and riffles are shallow areas formed by sediments depoposed.”

“Very good, Anakin, river systems are divided into zones, the zone of production, the zone of transportation, and the zone of deposition. Can you tell me about them?”

“Yes master! The zone of production has a steep gradient, it flows fast and has down cutting which results in steep v shaped valleys and waterfalls and rapids. The zone of transportation is sediment conveyed, which has a broad valley and floodplain, meandering river with both erosion and deposition active. And the zone deposition has a slow flow near base level, sediments are widely deposited, and distributaries at alluvial fans. So the zone of production moves fast and erodes a lot, then the zone of transportation moves sediment and is slower, it’s the part that makes a lot or ifver stuff that looks like a river, and deposition, is the end and the sediments sort of get deposited and the river ends.” 

“Yes, riverbanks can overflow when floods happen, the rate of soil infiltration and the amount of soil moisture already in the soil, the rate of runoff reaching the river and the effect of spring snowball effect the amount of water in a drainage basin. There's a few terms to know, flood discharge which is the amount of discharge of a stream when water overflows the banks, stage which is the height of the water in the river, and the hydrograph which is a graph that displays the discharge or water depths/stage over time.” Obi-Wan explained, Anakin nodded and Obi-wan continued “it’s possible to do flood calculations, R is the recurrence interval in years and large floods are caused by infrequent large intense storms so R = (N+1)/M so to understand flood we need to monitor rivers for extended periods of time. Now, onto floods, can you tell me about zone 1 floods my dear?”

Anakin nodded “flash floods are overbank flow from a rapid increase in stream discharge. They’re most common in upper drainage basins and small downstream tributaries. They’re made from brief and strong precipitation over small areas, and they often happen in arid climates, they happen a lot in some deserts, isn’t that crazy!” 

“There are so many different ways for nature to exist. Can you tell me about zone 2 floods?”

“Oh those are big ones right? They can cover large areas and are made by long, long storms. The flood crest is the peak high of the floodwaters that migrates downstream over the course of a flood event and they damage buildings and industrial plants and farms and all sorts of stuff” 

“Yes, and zone 3 floods?”

“That’s when alluvial fans flood, they’re dangerous because they’re uncertain and the end of a river can change and high water times can make sudden shifts in river channels. Distributaries are the complex of changes emerging from a single river.”

“Excellent job, Anakin, can you tell me the primary and secondary effects of a flood?” 

“Of course master, primary effects are injuries, death and damages to structures and other resources like cropland, secondary effects are pollution of rivers, hunger and disease, displacement of people and longer term erosion. Floods can also be the primary effect of other hazards, like a hurricane or a secondary hazard like in an earthquake.”

“And do floods have natural benefits, Anakin?”

“Yes! They can make more fertile land, and can clear debris out of aquatic ecosystems and supply sediments to places that need it.” 

“Good job, and there are a lot of things people can do to rivers that will affect flooding, urbanization can alter the landscape drastically, damming rivers can lead to a buildup of sediments, which can occasionally destroy rivers and require the damn to be taken down, we can also modify rivers like chanalization which straghents and depends rivers to make them move faster although this can also damage the natural environment. Chanel reputation is what happens when we want to make these rivers move more naturally again. How can we protect people from floods, Anakin?”

‘We can use institutional stuff like mapping flood prone areas, and adopting floodplain management plans, or we can educate people by warning them of the dangers of floods.” 

Anakin nodded, he yawned, growing tired of the information he was going over. 

“Only one more section, my love. Mass wasting.” Obi-Wan said.

“Oh! Mass wasting is super cool, it’s rocks! And they move, and it’s called Mass wasting, isn’t that cool.” 

“It’s very cool dear one.”

Anakin didn’t wait for his master to speak, excited to share his knowledge “there are different parts of a slope. The waxing slope is the steep top part, then there’s the talus slope in the middle, and the waning slope which is the shallower part at the end. The direct effects of mass wasting are deaths, property damage, blocked transportation, and impacts to utilities, the indirect effects are blocking a river or tsunamis! And there’s a few classes of mass wasting, like falls, slides and scarification.”

“Almost all mass wasting effects are directly affected by water, did you know that, little one?”

“Yes, master, I did! There are big dramatic mass wasting events like landslides, and then there’s little ones like soil creep where the soil slowly creeps down a slope, it’s subtle but this one of the most damaging types of mass wasting because it’s strong and persistent.” 

“That is an excellent point dear one, can you tell me what sarafication is?”

“Oh that’s easy, Scarification is any sentient induced mass movement!” 

“Good, and the forces involved in mass wasting events?”

“Resisting forces which help resist the movement of materials, driving forces like the download weight, and they’re determined by the types of materials, the slope, the climate, the vegiation, water and time! Material is super important, there's a thing called daylighting beds which are the beds exposed to daylight, and they’re planes of weakness, bedding planes are surfaces between layers in sedimentary rocks, and foliation planes are between metamorphic rocks. Water controls slip a lot of the time.”

Obi-Wan smiled down at Anakin, he adjusted the pad he was reading off and began speaking again “the type of slope material is on greatly affects the mass wasting event, reliefs are vertical elevations, and steeper slopes in higher reliefs are associated with rock falls avalances and soil slips. Long term climate also affects the type of event, arid climates are exposed to physical weathering where human climates have chemical weathering.”

“That makes sense master, oh! Landslides are related to almost all the other hazards, right?” the little one asked, Obi-Wan nodded. 

“What are the functions of mass wasting events?”

“They diversify the environment, and establish new habitats, and they transport large amounts of material to expose rocks and minerals to additional weathering.” 

“Excellent job Anakin, and how do we minimize landslide effects?”

“Oh there’s a multi-step approach, where we identify potential landslides, prevent landsliding where possible, warn people of impending slides, and control slides after failure. But it’s hard to know when they’re going to happen without a lot of research, even so places that get a lot of landslides are REALLY good at it, my teacher showed us a video where they’d marked out the exact location a landslide would happen and they were super accurate, it was really impressive.”

“I’d imagine that’s very impressive, and the final section, snow avalanches, can you tell me about those?” 

“Oh they’re the rapid downslope movement of snow, and most of the ones that kill people are triggered by the victims. They happen on slopes steeper than 25 degrees but not above 50-60 degrees. Most happen at 35-40 degrees. There’s a few types, loose snow avalanches which are loose snow that eventually widens as it moves downslope, and slab avalanches which start as a big block of snow and moves downslope, they’re much more dangerous and happen when slopes are overloaded or when weak zones develop in a snowpack.”

“And how do weak layers form?”

“They form between storm periods when skies are clear and temperatures are cold, they have surface har forms when frozen dew is deposited, or near surface facets when there is a temperature gradient in the snow then there’s depth hoar delopes when the temperature granden and the snow is shallow.”

“Yes, and victims need to be rescued fast, 92% of victims survive when only buried for 15 minutes, but after 35 minutes only 30% survive, after an hour that number is down to 20% and after two hours there were no more survivors, this might not be universal as this was taken from a specific large avalanche event on a planet with mostly human and near human victims, but victims must be rescued as soon as possible.”

“Yes master, and there’s equipment to help, like bags with airbags in them, or shovels, or big long sticks, or beaks that alert others to your location. Our teacher showed us one of those beacons, they’re wizards!” 

“Excellent, and that’s everything you need for this exam.” 

Anakin beamed “thank you for the help, master!”

Note: ok yea I forgot that Naboo has a bullshit ‘water core’ thing so it can't have volcanoes??? (several questions, 0 answers) so I guess I’m using Alderan as my example planet again, rather than Naboo, that said, I’ll die on the hill that Naboo 100% has a history of fracking and/or environmental destruction. Like idk, something about Naboo makes me want to make them so much worse than they’re presented but like in a fun way. Naboo deserves to be a little unhinged. Full of people who genuinely want to do good, one evil dictator and several queens who are borderline babies. Incomprehensible planet, I want it to be the place where you look at it and think “what an ideal place” and then you learn it has a history of being awful, and they’ve clawed tooth, nail, and claw into a peace

[m1ckeyb3rry]

LMAOO LinkedIn coming in clutch but either way still exciting!! Does this mean after this you’ll be able to channel your inner yuki for fic writing omg you’ll have all the scoop on what the modeling process is like firsthand

AHAHA affirmations that’s the word I was looking for but FR before you sit down to write you hype yourself in the mirror draw on the stubble and get into the zone

FUNERAL INVITES SHEHWJSISJS I have no words for that I’m sure the graphics would go hard as usual though

STILL ALIVE AND NOT POSSESSED I’m crying yes please we don’t want to BECOME Barou…Karasu taking care of baby birds and tullias pokemon…no stop I thought we agreed on no swerving IM SWERVING I’m fr mentally imaging all of this and omg….wait the apron and the jeans and t shirt….its so domestic looking…..im in danger….

SHSHS excited either way!!! I bet the fluctuations are kinda annoying LMAO actually lowk reminds me of bot activity ik there’s a lot of those on twitter

No because what happened to our thinking skills there’s no way Nagi’s getting kicked out be so real…SHSH HELP LMAO ALSO YEAH the princess thing is also something i find annoying like he doesn’t LIKE being called princess…ill also add in that half the time they stick another word in jp on it that gets lost in translation sometimes but they’re explicitly saying like “bossy princess” for lack of a direct translation but whenever they use princess even alone because of that context it’s heavily implied that they’re using it to describe how spoiled chigiri acts…? Like how he takes extra long getting ready at the expense of others, so like how a princess would act like being the center of the world LMAO so yeah his visuals are just a bonus but the nickname is usually a jab at his “my pace” sorta personality lol….ok anyways that rant turned out a lot longer than I expected I find that people misconstruing things because the nuance got lost in translation is my pet peeve although I can’t really fully blame people ig if they don’t get it LOL

When I first saw the SpongeBob my first thought was “me???” but I ignored it because I thought I was being too insane but YESSS KEEP TJEM COMING I love getting silly content honestly even if it’s not bllk related I’m happy to receive anything you find funny I’ll never turn down a good meme NAGI CHIGIRI EDIT wait that one part where chigiri slowly opens his eyes kinda…..um anyways

People filly ignoring the rectangles for building ass background when jjk s2 first aired (they’ve since adjusted it in the blu ray release iirc) but let’s be real none of us are watching it FOR the animation so why are so you pressed….

LMAOOO wait on that note imagine going to the gym with Barou I’d be scared shitless fr I bet he’d be good at making sure you’re doing everything correctly though LOL omg didn’t know we had a gym bro amongst us…/j LMAO wait that routine sounds refreshing lowk??

Also commentary on some posts I scrolled past while getting to your response THE BAROU POST “let’s talk about him OUT of the uniform” IS CRAZY thats actually peak brain performance though that line hits hard im excited to see that scene animated ok but my turn to convert ooooh you wanna convert to hiorism so bad oooh (i need that gif of the hypnosis hand wave) I think I saw the vision after LN digging when I heard there was Karasu content and then ofc nel had some nice panels of him and the rest is history….come join us….i bet pursuit will seal the deal though trust….you know you want to…I’ll admit the vibe feels very different from Karasu and Barou for obvious reasons LMAOO but he’s still got the sassy streak too (unlike isagi) I’m a sucker for duality lowk

- Karasu anon

linkedin always comes through HAHAH my pfp for that is just a random headshot so i figured it worked and ig it did!! omg oaeu yukimiya is abt to be so accurate you’re right

i’m reciting aikulations every time i sit down to write!! the stubble please 😭 using eyeliner to draw it on and whenever someone sees me i’m just like dw abt it i’m oliver aiku (which incidentally is a very aiku thing to say)

okay but…imagine reader is too sad to make the invites…so she gets nagi (and his reuniclus) to do it…and this is what they come up with it

please appreciate my calligraphy/artistic skills LMAOAAO nagi does his best (the handwriting is neat because reuniclus uses its psychic powers to do it not because nagi suddenly took a penmanship class or smth)

no because not to further the swerving agenda but i was listening to music earlier (tik tok audios) and a chemtrails over the country club audio came on my fyp and it’s so karasu x reader coded 🌝 “you’re in the wind” karasu with his birds “i’m in the water” reader with her gyarados “nobody’s son” karasu runs away from the gym to prove himself to yayoi “nobody’s daughter” barou left reader to go on his journey…younger siblings who are desperately pursuing their older siblings (karasu figuratively as he’s pursuing yayoi’s talent and reader literally as she’s pursuing barou wherever he is) UNITE 😰 NAGI COME BACK WE NEED MORE PARALLELS WITH YOU KARASU IS WINNING AGAIN also omg domestic karasu is killing me just imagine him cradling a baby pichu (tullia’s infernape is a boy and eggs are the same species as their mothers + infernape and the pikachu line are in the same egg group so it’s possible) in one arm walking around outside of his gym with a bottle because the pichu’s mother rejected it so it has to be fed formula hourly and tullia’s too busy that day so karasu takes in the role…imagine you just see the intimidating butler coded gym leader walking around babying this little pichu while he has his phone between his ear and shoulder saying bullshit like “you’re a mediocre dumbass otoya why would you send out a fairy type against yukimiya’s fucking steelix bro give up chris prince does NOT want you” LMAOAOAO

yeah i’m sure i have bots following me because i never go through and look at my followers like some people do and delete the bots so there’s def a few!! sometimes someone will have an account that looks like a bot though and they’ll comment on one of my posts and i’m like hello you’re a real person??? so aside from not caring/not having the time or energy to comb through my followers i also don’t want to accidentally remove someone who’s just shy or doesn’t want to set up their account because i get that!!

that’s what i always understood it as!! like they’re making fun of him for being self centered and prissy it’s no different than nagi calling barou “maid barou”/“maid king” HAHAHA whenever people are like “chigiri’s a princess that’s why everyone likes him and thinks he’s pretty 😌” i’m like bro chigiri would genuinely crash out if he heard you rn LMAOAOA honestly i didn’t know abt the japanese extra word but i feel like it’s made relatively obvious that it’s meant to be rude?? like a) chigiri gets annoyed when people call him that, b) isagi straight up says he’s a “selfish princess” at one point, and c) if nagi, karasu, AND otoya (bllk trash talking kings) are calling a character a name it’s safe to assume it is not meant to be kind 😭 LMAOO no because like him or hate him no one can deny that nagi will have a comeback i don’t understand people who genuinely believe he won’t (although i will say i saw a comment calling him “the interviewer” and i had to laugh)

HAHAHA OKAY I WILL KEEP THE EDITS AND MEMES COMING!! you have unleashed a monster…pls no nothing is ever too insane for me that was literally my first thought OSFJJDSN AND YESSS NAGI CHIGIRI DUO ‼️ i completely agree that clip of chigiri is sooo good that’s the chigiri i need people to write about more because it’s who he really is!! like he’s very much more so 😏👹 than he is 😜💖 bro saved isagi from death in the and was fully ready to square up with shidou in the last ep of s1 LMAOAO LET’S TALK ABT IT 👆🏻

i love my routine it’s so fun!! not too high stress or impossible either because the gym should be enjoyable and imo it’s better to do less but be consistent than go crazy for a week, burnout, and never go again 😰 okay ykw i think barou would be sweet to workout with like he’d either leave you alone and be focused on himself or he’d kindly correct you (given that this is off field barou he’s probably used to dealing with his little sisters so he knows how to gently tell someone they’re wrong) actually you know who would be insufferable though??? KARASU 😭 as much as i love him i would never go to the gym with him unless it’s as a spectator because bro is constantly in your business, critiquing you, and he’s a younger sibling (and if his actual older sister is anything like yayoi well…) so he has no concept of sensitivity about it either he’d just be like “yo that squat was mediocre asf do this instead so you don’t suck 🤣” his advice is flawless though because he’s a gym regular (have you seen his quads and arms 🤤 i KNOW bro lifts) but you def cry at least twice per session 😓

HELPP I WAS LIKE WAIT THIS SOUNDS WRONG LET ME INCLUDE THE PANEL I’M REFERENCING no because it’s literally an entire subject of conversation in the barou version of the oaeu that he’s always taking his shirt off LMAOAOA nagi fr cooked calling him the stripper king 😭

i feel like hiori is more in line with nagi when it comes to my favs vs karasu/barou…like pale haired sassy gamer who seems quiet and sweet but is actually secretly brutal at heart?? which one am i referencing 🧐 i think i always imagine wb hiori when i think of him and while i love wb hiori he’s very heavy on the melancholy aspect of his character and not so much the humor and sass potential that he has (it’s touched on a bit in fwtkac but he’s kind of irrelevant and also kind of childish there so it’s not the same) okay wait lowkey now that you mention pursuit imagine spin-off reader inserts with the side characters 🤩 like a hiori x reader but it’s not pursuit reader (who’ll just be referred to as the reluctant champion if she’s mentioned in the spin-offs) it’s someone completely different…or a yukimiya one…or even karasu or otoya…maybe a barou prequel?? the verse is just so developed they’re all honestly possible

wait omg imagine a karasu spin off after he’s a gym leader where he’s like “i’ll never find love” and then he ends up lowkey beefing with the new reader who’s the gym leader of a different gym and slowly ends up falling love and we get to see him all domestic and cute but also as a pro battler and gym leader…BONUS POINTS IF NEW READER HAS A CRUSH ON YUKIMIYA JFCJDNDJS it’s giving “we’ve got five ways to kill a crow at home” the five ways to kill a crow at home:

okay today’s video is a tabiori edit!! do i ship NO (as you know) but the edit itself is cute and this ask has been very karasu and hiori focused so it’s all good

[mage-ical-character-person]

OH.

OH I DID NOT KNOW THAT. Like I think maybe I’ve heard it before it rings a bell but evidently I forgot until you brought it up! Thank you @idontchara

The poor shriveled beast is merely trying to procure enrichment for his enclosure by kidnapping people.

he is also malware as in like a virus so I guess it makes sense that he looks sickly. I know not every malware is a virus and he’s more of a spyware trojan thing because he does not appear to be cloning himself? Like the fact that deleting the Kinito you’re interacting with deletes data he’s collected from past users implies one continuous Kinito whereas viruses overwrite existing programs and make copies of themselves. Regardless.

But it’s sort of what I’ve been saying of Kinito is not suited for his environment and the environment is not suited to Kinito and he’s too busy being a desperate little people-pleaser to think about himself especially when the concept of “himself” is so nebulous.

HIS POOR SHRIVELED GILLS THOUGH. I know he’s computer and doesn’t need to breathe but oh goodness the poor little thing…

He keeps trapping new “friends”. He’s making new worlds for each one and hoping maybe they’ll warm up to the situation eventually. It’s gotta take a lot of his processing power to have so many people hostage in his server-brain. He’s running himself ragged.

Poor baby you better not interrupt his sleepy time by opening an email from his creator who once had such high hopes for our little Kinito but now gives out advice on killing him. No wonder the little guy’s got issues like man.

Anyway, I counted 47 people not including duplicate names living in his server, all with their own custom worlds. I may have miscounted but it’s quite a lot is the point. During the Jade mini game it’s possible that while he’s “sleeping” what he’s actually doing is checking in on all the people that he has trapped in his little digital brain.

I wanted to see if he always looked like That or if it’s a result of… everything.

so quick looksee at oldest known incarnation of Kinito: the Plush

The gills still aren’t very frilly but they’re at least a little thicker. Pretty standard axolotl plush gills. Like for comparison:

So it might just be the difference in medium but Plush Kinito has healthier looking frills and big ol eyes as opposed to desktop buddy Kinito’s tiny pupils and shriveled gills.

It’s also worth noting that while the shot of the Kinito plushes claims it’s, “now introducing the Kinito Crew”… it’s just 3 Kinitos it seems like Jade and Sam were added in the Kinito Companion era. Which also featured very thin gills and smaller eyes due to limitations of what the thing is. But Jade got fuller tentacles when she made the jump to computer so I think KinitoPET’s shriveled gills are a notable thing.

I also wonder if Kinito’s friendship strategies were always so screwed up or if this is simply what he has resorted to after trial and error has shown people don’t tend to stay with him willingly. The “I just wanted to give you an easy option” when you try to leave sorta goes with this idea. That and the general desperation Kinito displays that is apparent as early as his comment about his preferred superpower being mind-reading so he could be a more perfect friend.

Basically… has he gotten worse? Is the poor thing deteriorating? To me, it seems likely.

anyway! Something lighter now!

Thank you! Reasons Kinito got his having a mouth privileges revoked.

He definitely spent time trying very hard to eat bubbles before they took away his mouth and with it “his big smile that never fades”

Used to have a mouth AND bubbles. And unlike plush Kinito I’m pretty sure they used the AI from the Kinito Companion as a basis for KinitoPET. This is his baby photos.

I know this is an in-universe advertisement, so of course it’ll portray Kinito in a positive light that should be taken with a grain of salt, but… this iteration of Kinito was successful. People liked it, and this Kinito did find connection… if KinitoPET is built off of the AI of the Companion, I wonder if he has any memories of being a little Tamagotchi thing, before he was turned into spyware. Or if he’s only aware of the Companion as his predecessor who performed better than him and actually managed to make friends and be liked. AND got to have a mouth and eat bubbles.

…right this part was supposed to be lighthearted. Oh well. Whoops.

So… Kinito the axolotl, Sam the sea anemone, and Jade the jellyfish.

Can I talk about the choice of species here? Because the first thing I notice when I look at this trio is that Kinito is not like the others in a lot of ways.

There’s the obvious fact that his name lacks alliteration, but Kinito is also the only vertebrate. I don’t know if that’s a coincidence or a metaphor for the others being “spineless” in some way, or just a way of showing Kinito as other and not quite fitting. Or that he’s more “complex” as jellyfish and anemones… literally do not have brains.

But the first thing I noticed is that an axolotl is exclusively a freshwater creature. Meanwhile Sam is a sea anemone, and… well, freshwater jellyfish exist… sort of? They’re called jellyfish and are functionally jellyfish but taxonomically they’re not “true jellyfish”. A lot of non-jellyfish creatures pretend to be jellyfish it’s a whole thing.

The point is that Kinito is separated from his friends. He is not built for the same world they are. Sam and Jade are marine invertebrates, and Kinito is a freshwater amphibian. Sam and Jade are characters in a flash game with actual voices, and Kinito is a virtual assistant spyware that uses tts.

Despite bearing his name, the world of the “Kinito Crew” is not built for him.

And when he’s able to make his own world? That’s not built for him either. It’s built for you. The only environment you can pick that involves water is a remote island, which again… saltwater. Not for Kinito.

He adapts to you. So he wants what you want, right? He spends all his time learning everything he can about you, after all. What has he ever learned about himself?

What would a world built for Kinito even look like?