#it's a very good way to deal with things ok

[utopiastri]

hiiii!

soooo i read and reread all your f1 fics.

since they are all so effing amazing, well written, funny when needed, you must have a great taste in fics. sooo do you maybe, perhaps have any landoscar fic recommendations??

have a mega day!

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hi 💫 anon!!! this was. the absolute loveliest ask to wake up to this morning so thank you SO much for sending it 💕💕💕💕💕

you are so kind and please know all of these compliments have absolutely made my day!!!!!

and GOD i would LOVE to give some landoscar fic recommendations, there is nothing i love more than talking about authors i adore

i very much started rambling about these fics so i'm putting my recs below the cut!

ok immediately we're off to a rogue start because i'm going to recommend a fic that isn't posted yet but @1425fivefive's upcoming fic Learned Behavior is just honestly going to be one of the best things you will ever read - i have been honoured to receive SO many wonderful snippets from it and every single one is just as amazing as the others and i am SO excited to see the full thing

i am legally and contractually obligated to put three-sixteenths by @ipleadbritney on here because i am actually three-sixteenths' biggest fan and as part of that it is in fact my job to make sure everyone has read one of the most DELIGHTFUL magical realism fics of all time, one that fills me with such joy every time i think about it, let alone read it

by love remembered by @lellabellas is just. i LOVE fairytales so much and the way this is such a gorgeous homage to fairytales whilst also being one of the most wonderful fanfics you will ever read is honestly just. a sign of talent of truly the highest degree!!!!

brevity is the soul of wit by a_new_anon because i absolutely have to recommend one of the absolute CUTEST texting fics i have ever read. i grinned my entire way through reading it and i cannot recommend highly enough oh my GOD

the devil in me by @its-all-papaya because who am i as a person if i'm not constantly Obsessed with the idea of jealous oscar piastri. GOD this fic has everything - including one of my favourite final lines of any fic like. ever

AND on top of all of these, because i am a firm believer in showing love and affection to tumblr drabbles as well, please have a few of my favourites of those as well:

I'll Wait (I'm Sorry) by @wanderingblindly because liquid reblogged this again recently and this version of landoscar has NOT LEFT MY BRAIN SINCE!!! i reread it and had to sit down lest i faint. concept of all time i fear!!!!!!!

fireworks - prompt by @foggieststars because every so often i think about what landoscar will be like when they're no longer teammates and then i remember it doesn't matter because i can just think about one of the Sweetest drabbles i have ever read about lando and oscar dealing with oscar leaving and i am calm again

immortal - osctober prompt by @nyoomfruits because sad immortal vampire oscar has actually been haunting me for the last month and i am still SO SAD ABOUT IT (but like. in a good way obviously)

ok i will cut myself off there but !!!!! anon thank you so much for allowing me to ramble on about all this writing i love so much!!!! and thank you again for the kind words 💕💕💕

also if anyone would like to not be tagged, please let me know!!!

[teecupangel]

OK, I know we got a few Star Wars crossover AUs here already, but like

What if Desmond gets reborn into Star Wars as a Zabrak? Specifically a female Dathomirian Zabrak. I say female cause the female Dathomirian's learn force stuff while the males are little more then slaves and do not learn force stuff- they're more warriors though.

Let's have Desmond be younger the Obi-wan but Older then Anakin here.

Desmond was old enough to have remembered his time in Dathomir, learning the very basics of Nightsister's magic and culture before, for some reason or another, he was taken off planet, and not long later, gets taken in by the Jedi due to his force Sensitivity. So about older then 3 but younger then 6 cause, if I remember, 6 years old is the oldest they may take a child in or af least the species' equivalent to 6.

I mention Desmond learning basic Nightsister magic cause, among the things Nightsister's are able to do, they can conjure up spirits of ancestors and other night sister's and such. And with Desmond being Desmond, despite only being taught basics, let's say he's oddly adept in spirit conjuring without even needing the Ichor Dathomir has. Meaning, Desmond summons his ancestors from his previous life, and their presence in general would cause confusion and chaos among the Nightsister even, maybe warrant Desmond being sent away? Unsure how or why he's away from Dathomir.

Least to say, the Jedi having to deal with a child born with Dark Side influences with their clearly Force Ghost they can summon- which, none of them can even understand them but can see the fact they are a good influence and, very reluctantly, do not do anything about Desmond's ancestors as he calls them.

Just- The Force pushing Desmond to interfere with the future events of the galaxy, first being him befriending Obi-Wan around the time Obi-wan is still new to being a Padawan and Desmond's on his way to obtaining his first lightsaber. Maybe they meet at the Archives cause Altair insisted Desmond to read as much stuff as he can.

We might have to mess up the timeline a bit but the reason Desmond was pushed out of the clan could be because the current Mother, Talzin, realized that Desmond is too rigid in certain ways.

They have no qualms with a sister who prefers to be called ‘he’. He was more gifted than most and, whatever he lacked, he makes up through sheer willpower and guile.

His moral compass isn’t black and white but there are certain aspects to it that do appear… impregnable.

It’s because of Desmond’s moral compass that the mother knew he would never agree to siding with Darth Sidius.

In fact, Desmond would absolutely lead them to a civil war if he learns of what Darth Sidius had done just to stop the clan from assisting the Sith Lord and then he’d definitely try to kill Darth Sidius himself.

Talzin knew the child enough to know that he would destroy the stability she was preserving if he remained with them.

But…

Desmond was also one of her most precious students. An orphan she had taken in and nurtured, answered every questions and trained personally.

She cannot kill him even if she knew that it was better than he died here, before he could reach greater magic than she herself could.

So she banishes him, made up some pathetic excuse.

And he didn’t call her out to it.

He didn’t try to plead his innocence.

It was unnerving.

The child knew that he was being banished by the one person that raised him as her own.

And it was like he was expecting it.

No.

That wasn’t right.

It was like…

He didn’t know it was going to happen but, now that it did, he wasn’t surprised by it.

As if it was a given that his mother would leave him.

They sent him in a merchant ship that would tell him about each planet they’d visit and he can leave at any time.

If he wanted to, he can work for the merchant ship and learn the trades.

Talzin believed that he would do well, whatever he turned out to be.

So when she heard of a nightsister wearing the robes of a Jedi…

When she saw a hologram of Desmond, older and composed…

Melding the Force and their magic fluently to destroy all who stand before him with the calmness of a Jedi and the merciless of a Nightsister.

She knew…

It was only a matter of time before he returned to them…

To pass judgment upon the people who abandoned him.

[moonesaiky]

Your reverse falls AU looks so amazing I've been so obsessed, I'd love to know more about it so this is me on my knees asking for a little lore drop🧎‍♀️‍➡️🙏

How about we talk about how Will got to Earth? This concept is a bit confusing, so the text is going to be a bit long, I doubt you'll read it all but I'll post it anyway!!!

First of all, it's important to inform you that Ford, just before this, manipulated Will into a deal where he would take his soul “ok, Moone, how?”

here's a text from my pocket demon (co-creator) with the explanation!

“He couldn't trick him like that, it was too daring. So he was going to trick that angel back. Revenge. He was already obsessed, so that angel, his Muse, would definitely be his now.

He would prove to be smarter than a creature like that. So he came up with a good line, saying that he actually agreed with William (and in a way he did) but that he needed some time to finalize things. In the meantime, Gleeful began studying forbidden rituals on how to manipulate a contract.

Then, on returning to William, he said that he needed a helper who wasn't human. He mentioned whether William had any friends, and lucky for Gleeful, William mentioned his gang. Talks came and went, and the scientist said that he wanted to choose one of the gang members, and William agreed, thus making a contract. But it was never said that there were exceptions.

So it's obvious that the chosen member was William himself. That blue devil posing as a fake angel felt more than foolish for falling for such a low trick.” (And yes, this is inspired by Dipper and Bill's Puppet Opera deal! Yay)

Now that this concept has been explained, let's explain what exactly happens to the Portal in this universe.

Stanford Gleeful has always been very stubborn about the portal, refusing to lift a finger to make it, but he wanted it, he needed it for his great human liberation. Will now in possession of Forrd couldn't complain, not in a way that could hurt Ford, and he insisted that he would do it one way or another in the most perfectionist way he could. That's why the portal took 30 years to make, with various tests that may have affected Gravity Falls, but didn't give away the location of the portal.

Okay, where does Will come into this? Well, it's no mystery to anyone that Ford is obsessed with Will, and having him in his possession without being able to have him completely (physically) made him think. Okay, maybe an interdimensional creature really was useful for building the portal, and having him there too… that would be curious… that was around the beginning of the 90s.

At one of the portal's openings, Ford forced Will to enter by pulling him by the chains, a very unpleasant situation for William. Especially as he had to dress up as the Maid :P

[hi-i-just]

Fuck it I'm gonna be a shameless Starscream glazer here but let's not fucking trust D-16's words here lmao since a.) he's young and running on high emotions so to him anything less than suicidally charging for the kill is cowardice and b.) he's a very strong bot even while cogless, but he doesn't have any experience nor great talent, wisdom, nor intelligence to make the claims he does unlike other iterations of Megatron (esp IDW Megatron, whose cunning is even greater than the average bot even as a miner)

I'm gonna be fr, but like D-16 successfully killing Sentinel is based on other people's successes and not his own. D-16 may call Starscream a coward, but looking at it objectively, he's technically being pragmatic. Like, let's look at their situation:

1. They witnessed the Primes fall. Meaning they've likely arrived just in time to see Sentinel standing over their corpses and the Quintessons still present.

2. Not long after the Matrix disappeared, the energon stopped flowing.

3. Sentinel is able to take over Iacon with the Quintessons backing him up, meaning the High Guard is not only unable to return home, they're also cut off from any resources from sustenance to weapons and transportation. They're confined to the surface.

4. The Quintessons occasionally scout the surface. The surface is also hazardous with its own dangers as its not tamed to be rife wirh civilization — that means they're in the wilds. And Sentinel is ALSO hunting them, with the Trackers outnumbering your team, with Airachnid in tow — a bot, who if you see her coming, means you're already dead.

You're stuck, likely with casualties, on the hazardous surface that's constantly shifting far from any safe place nor civilization, you've got enemies hunting you above and below, with that's especially good at hunting and killing, all the while having very little to none at all access to energon. These are some pretty bad fucking odds!

And you know what actually surprised me? Is that the High Guard is actually still functioning, not only are they still functioning, they're also actively fighting back! They've managed to survive all these years! "Oh but why didn't they invade Iacon then??" they can't! That's suicide! The movie literally tells us how crucial Elita sneaking them in via train and Orion and miners providing them a way inside!

"Oh but why bother with guerilla tactics??" because if you're outnumbered that's the most logical thing to do — think about it, it's not unsound either; you can't face Sentinel head on, BUT if they sabotage Sentinel's deal with the Quintessons by either occasionally raiding the trains or taking over the mines, it'll anger the Quintessons enough to take out Sentinel.

"Oh but that doesn't solve anything bc the energon crisis is still an issue bc the Matrix of leadership is lost!" YAH that's also a problem Orion and co also had and he didn't have a solution at that time either! The priority was taking down Sentinel, which both groups share. It was only by everyone's luck Primus chose Orion to be a new Prime and get the Matrix!

As for Starscream being a shit leader — well I think he's a shit person, but a competent leader — because if he IS incompetent, he'd be dead, either by the members tearing him apart or his own stupidity but that's not what happened.

Ok ngl the bar for Starscream's leadership and general reception among Decepticons (or proto-Decepticons in this case) is so low that tfone Starscream is passing with flying colors. Like, let's look at a couple examples — IDW Starscream, had to step up bc Megatron is out of commission and they're ALSO strapped for resources/in hiding, but no one listened to him bc they don't respect him, and as a result the group was in shambles and the members started cannibalising each other within three years. Three years.

What about Skybound Starscream, whose odds are actually slightly better than IDW and Tfone? There's many sources of energon, they have access to a ship that helps maintain them, and the members still somewhat listen to him, but still somehow, in a record-breaking speed, managed to cripple the already badly crippled Decepticons within what, like three days bc he prioritised his own sadism and shortsightedness. And boy did he pay for deaely, because his own shitheadednes earned the rest of the Decepticons ire and they're all cheering when Soundwave was tearing him apart piece by piece.

And tfone Starscream? Who has plenty of members to lead around and feed while having very, very sparse ways to get resources, all the while having enemies seeking to annihilate them? He lasted 50 cycles (assuming cycle is a year). And during those 50 cycles, they've evaded surveillance and capture, built a base with barricades, the members, while likely not very well fed and def kooky for being isolated w the same people for so long and surviving less than stellar conditions, all look intact and healthy. Sure, they were cheering when he's getting punched in face, but they also all shut up when the cannon comes out bc ultimately, they're looking for entertainment, not straight up murder. Maybe some of them liked Starscream getting taken down a peg, but it does seem none of them actively wants him to die (which is saying a LOT, bc the same cannot be said for other Starscreams).

Then let's look at D-16 — he's my favorite character and I love him lots, but GOD he IS short-sighted. His cannon shot to the sky after his rousing speech?? It's what gave the base away to Airachnid to find them. D-16 isn't even really winning against Sentinel, and it's by sheer luck that Orion and co was able to get the Evidence uploaded in time to distract Sentinel from killing him, and D-16 is only able to cripple him (which allows him to kill Sentinel) because Sentinel's guard is down. Megatron is a strong bot, who can speak very well, but this guy doesn't have the power of insight like Orion does nor the experience that Starscream has — heck, he doesn't even have peer connections since he's technically still an "outsider" to the High Guard: they may have accepted him as leader, but these people have fought and bled together far longer before he was even online. I don't think he's even politically savvy — Megatron, is best described as a big gun going haywire who got lucky to be able to make a killing shot at Sentinel.

Tl;dr: Starscream can get his head out of his ass to be competent enough to keep a group alive for years.

No seriously what the fuck was the high guard doing for 50 years out on the surface

[songofwizardry]

i love how still my primary way to deal with or process an experience, emotion, or situation, is to go “ah, i must read a Story that has this in it and then i will understand what to do and how these feelings work”.

[arsenicflame]

since we all appear to be talking about izzy 'calling the police' on stede id like to offer my silly little two cents:

its not like the navy wasn't actively looking for him anyway??????

at most, izzys actions sped up badminton catching up with stede, but its made very clear that badminton wanted Stede dead well before this, and was willing to use whatever he could to find him- whos to say jackie wouldnt have cut a deal on her own? that any other pirate thats seen them being unsubtle in a port wouldn't take the opportunity to make a quick buck over a guy who is Nobody and holds no influence that could lead to any consequences for them?

in reality izzy is probably the only person who would receive negative repercussions to selling out stede, given his personal connection with ed- any other pirate would probably have gotten away unscathed, anonymous. they likely wouldnt have even been present like izzy was. izzy had personal stakes, anyone else would have taken the money and ran

the way i see it, with or without izzy the events of episode 10 probably would have happened in some degree, izzy just expedited the timeline

[jakeperalta]

my period literally ruins my life I can't believe half the population never have to experience it like imagine how free it would feel to live without that constant burden

[jabeur]

ok i got a little emotional bc i have gotten so much better at putting on nail polish and it's 😭

[oozeandgoo-art]

everyone is sooo in love with vakori on account of le is so cool and smart and deeply pragmatic and is also completely batshit insane

[ankhisms]

can i be emotionally vulnerable with you all in the torture dungeon

[1roentgen]

hmmmmmmm

[talkorsomething]

want to cut my hair again like you wouldn't believe. What are the possible consequences of going bald

[trainingdummyrabbit]

i do miss using my funy lil replycons tho, as self conscious as i get sometimes i really do just gotta

[toxooz]

also GOOD NEWS turns out the One Week Until Eviction scare was just a false alarm and surprise surprise ✨lack of communication ✨ where as i texted her back for clarification but she said everything is fine and i aint being evicted bc she lied to the higher ups??so fuck it we ball ig its good to know she rlly does have my back to some strange extent so im still girlbossin here for another year and will have more time to build credit and look into the science of buying a house sksks

ALLL THAT BEING SAID i will start the next comic section later this week 4 SURE

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[gensymscribes]

grumbling and kicking rocks down the road as i continue sulking about rasputin