#it's good to have SOME restraint

[yume-fanfare]

*hits you with a magic school shoujo beam*

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

almost punched my laptop Full Force bc i thought the cursor was a mosquito

[sugarsnappeases]

thank you for the tag @fxreflyes this is so cute, except the format is trying to hinder my propensity to ramble, so i’ve rectified this in the tags lmao

i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

no pressure tags for @static-radio-ao3 @inevitablestars @itsjaywalkers @carniferous @orbitfalls @transsexualpriest @futurequibblerjournalist <333

[fictionadventurer]

I thought that it was stupid that Brandon Sanderson had the narrator of Tress of the Emerald Sea call all the unnamed sailors "Dougs" when he could have just called them, you know, sailors. But then I started using the term. Turns out having a word for "yes, we know that realistically all these individuals have unique identities and personalities, but they're not the focus of this story so we're going to treat them as faceless background characters" is surprisingly useful.

[darcymariaphoster]

would it be too predictable for me to suggest punk den x nerd nor? lol. no pressure if this isnt enough of a prompt!! 💕

Sorry for the long wait, but I hope you enjoy!

Somewhere in the back of his mind, Lukas can still hear his grandmother admonish him with a “Don’t stare; it’s rude” as he glances quickly back down at the novel he’s trying to read. 

After a few hours of studying indoors, he’s decided that a change of scenery is in order and headed outside. For the past few months, as the weather has started warming up, Lukas has taken to going out into the courtyard of the university to take breaks. His favorite thing is that the campus is across from a strip of older stores-- his favorite used bookstore, an antique store, a record and vintage music shop, and a coffee shop on the corner that he could spend an entire paycheck on weekly. But it’s also where Mathias seems to like to spend his leisure time, outside of the vintage music shop with his friends. 

Maybe it’s because of his strict upbringing, but there’s something so attractive about the stupid way he does his hair, all the piercings in his face that glint in the sun, and the tattoos that he shows off through the summer months. They’ve sort of known each other, or at least of each other, since grade school. One of the many “benefits” of living in the same city for his whole life, he supposes. It’s just that they’ve never quite made it to being “friends” in all the time that they knew each other. They’d been partners in some projects in school several times, they had mutual friends, and they’d bumped into each other at different parties over the years. 

But once graduation hit, they’d drifted even more. Their friend groups had gotten more distant, and while Lukas had decided to go to college, Mathias hadn’t. From what Lukas had managed to ascertain over the past couple of years, Mathias had taken off to travel for a while -- old friends that he seemed to keep in loose contact with saying that he’d been in Spain, Scotland, the Czech Republic, and Brazil at different points. It seems that his being back is more recent, and it’s definitely made the view better for Lukas. A persistent crush that just won’t go away.

This time, it seems that Lukas’s staring was definitely noticed, as he can hear the heavy footsteps of boots approach him. He resists looking up until he hears a voice above him say, “I don’t think I have a single memory of you without a book in front of your face.”

Damn. Lukas scowls up at Mathias, tapping the pages of the book in mock irritation. It’s hard to keep himself from blushing at the idea of Mathias having memories of them that he thinks on any sort of often. “Too cool for school still, I see?” 

Mathias snorts as he sits across from him, folding his hands onto the table. “Never found anything that interested me.” He pauses and, in a more thoughtful tone, adds, “Not academically, that is.” He emphasizes his words by looking Lukas over, taking his time until Lukas can’t suppress the blush that paints the tips of his ears. 

Lukas rolls his eyes and picks his book up, propping it in front of his face to block the view of Mathias’s amused smirk. “You’re so full of it.” But he doesn’t mind Mathias’s flirting, despite any of his weak protests. “Then maybe you weren’t looking hard enough.”

Resting his elbow on the table and his chin in his hand, Mathias makes a thoughtful humming sound and Lukas peeks over the top of his book at him. His nose piercing glints in the sun as he wrinkles his nose. “Nah, I looked pretty far and wide. I’m pretty confident that academics aren’t really my thing.” He smiles at him, and it’s the sweetest thing to see from a guy with half a dozen piercings in his face. “You know… You’re more than welcome to try and change my mind.” 

Lukas would very much like to ignore some of the implications in that suggestion, but he finds himself lowering his book to study him. “When was the last time you read a proper book?”

“When was the last time you listened to some good music?” Mathias’s smile grows and he reminds him a bit of an imp. “I’m sensing a trade in the works. Maybe a date.” Closing the book and setting it on the table, Lukas pushes it towards Mathias who raises his eyes in surprise as he really gets a good look at his face. “Oh, you got brave. Little nerd Lukas got a new piercing, hm? Looks good on you.”

He’s referring to the little nose piercing that he’d gotten last year, in some feeble attempt to “improve” his image. Lukas feels as though he’d never outgrown his high school look, which had primarily been made up of clothes that his grandparents had picked out for him. He’s been trying to work on his own style, but he keeps feeling like he’s falling a bit short, not exactly sure where to start. So he started with a new piercing, inspired by the only person whose style was any sort of inspiring. Not that he’s going to tell him that. Mathias absolutely does not need an ego boost. “If you can get more than three chapters into this, you can ask me out.”

Mathias picks up the book and flips it over to read the back, his eyebrows furrowing a bit. “This sounds pretty dry. You read this for fun?” When Lukas gives him a sort of soft sound of affirmation, he shrugs and points at him with the book. “I’ll be back tomorrow -- same time, same place. Dress up a bit. I have a place in mind for dinner.” Grinning mischievously, Mathias stands and flips open the book as he walks away. “Always nice to see you, Luka.”

Taking that as his cue that his break is over, Lukas takes his glasses off to rub his face with one hand before replacing them and standing. He grabs his bag and beelines back into the building to go hide in the library until his next class. If Mathias is serious, the view might have just gotten exponentially better.

[forevermore-lost-in-space]

Bus drivers don't break my chair challenge

[unexpectedbrickattack]

wait does... does this mean that drunk peppino can say ily to pepperman as well? 🥺 i mean I'M STILL NOT SURE BUT... dear gods, that would be so sweet......

If pepperman was nearby at any time peppino got drunk then yes absolutely. Pepperman is weird and a bit of a freak (affectionate) but NICE (to him at least) and peppino will always remember nice people saying nice things about him 😊

[byanyan]

i've decided that byan has been admitted to a psych ward once. it was at 14, an involuntary hold after their overdose, and it contributed heavily to their fear of hospitals and distrust in doctors & nurses. after all, if they were kept against their will once, who's to say it won't happen again?

[snackugaki]

a return to square 1

now that we’ve all been thoroughly blasted by the Rise movie I can take another stab at being more thoughtful in designing Venus for Rise. 

first, a refresher:

prologue | part 1 | part 2 | part 2 ½ | part 3 | part 4a | part 4b (ish?)

supplementary doodles: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

just gonna go full AU divergence, let whoever Big Mama’s Assistant be whoever (after thinking it over, it does sorta seem to more likely it’s Jennika), still gonna keep her start as an initiate, acolyte-adjacent, monk-ish kid running around in the Hidden City, ward to the crow yokai who adopted her as a foundling. 

We never saw who Draxum’s bodyguard was, they were alluded to during a crew discussion only (unless I missed a design reveal somewhere). in the same vein that me and a bunch of others I’ve seen that think Assistant is Jennika based... pretty much on those claws at the end of her hands, then the bodyguard could be mostly likely be Venus. i’m basing that theory on the very very VERY scant information we have from the show, 1) Draxum is adept at the mystic arts from magical item manipulation to summoning to.... I dunno, what do you call it when he set up the memory dive into Splinter’s mind? he can draw magic circles and operate them as seen when he had to move the boys to another memory.

2) dude wears Venus’ signature cyan post-team switch, can’t scream foreshadowing louder than that

3) Draxum straight up opens a portal to another plane to let the Hamatos go in and snatch up sword!Karai, original Venus taught the boys how to dreamwalk and guided them through a dream plane, ehh? ehhhhhh? *eyebrow waggle*

4) to me, the most record scratch, eyebrow quirking part: he uses armored bees just as Venus did in the original Next Mutation show. Venus’ armored bees and Draxum’s both were used to ensnare and trap opponents. though to concede, Venus’ exploded into a sticky goo, Draxum’s apparently auto-dug into the ground and sprouted as vines

the trip up for me in designing is what exactly “Draxum’s bodyguard” means. the first time I thought about it I had imagined as Draxum taking a younger Venus under his wing, teaching her (give or take realizing she was one of his anti-humanity soldier experiments), becoming his protege of sorts, prrrobably committed to his cause, becoming adept enough in both her mystic and physical prowess and takes it upon herself to protect him.. just real wuxia tropey about it.

but like... Draxum’s cool with hiring muscle, re: Garm and Freki so why wouldn’t he also just hire a bodyguard. it would make more sense this way but it depends on some characterization I’m shaky on for Draxum. he believed in his cause enough to go to Optimus, Arcee and Megatron (I forgot what those giant head characters were called only that their VAs voiced those transformers sry kids) for support. after that, I thought that maybe he’d be a little more discerning about who he recruits to bolster his plans which would be a little more lenient to my original idea. 

...

fuck it we ball au divergence, wuxia tropey protege > disciple > adamant protector pipeline it is.

[lustbcrne]

There are times when Kaeya does deliberately do or say things to genuinely aggravate someone he is sleeping with, all with the very intention of having them really put him through the ringer, particularly when he’s extremely upset about something or the ache in his body is beyond a tolerable level and he desperately wants something to distract him from it

[labyrynth]

it’s always “harassment is bad” and “wishing violence/death upon people is terrible” until it’s someone y’all don’t like or think is Bad. then it’s “they deserve it” and “they can’t take a joke”

[jamiesfootball]

👻 trick or treat 👻

(Pretend to be surprised I’m back begging for more)

And I am delighted about it- you can have as many as you'd like : )

“One day,” his tía announced, “You will not be so lucky. You will do what you always do, and the universe, it will pull the rug out from under you! The consequences, Dani, they will come for you!” Her bit said, Tia Ely turned her show back on. The subtitles danced along in bright yellow at the bottom of the screen, but everything else the castle and the people marched dully through the world. Dani did not understand why mama and Tia Ely liked Downton Abbey. It made the world seem so gray. After what felt like an hour of sitting contritely, but was likely around fifteen minutes, Dani quietly excused himself from the room.

[baalzebufo]

i finished the last al-cana today (and put together a Big Post with all of them) and i am now going to sleep for seven days and seven nights. i will never draw again i have reached my peak. take me away boys

[keeps-ache]

this might have been the baby brain that helped form this opinion but i'm pretty sure the best thing i've ever tasted was some tomato juice in an aluminum can when i was prolly 3-4 years old. literally the most amazing thing on the planet but i could Not tell you what it actually tasted like

[dragimal]

look, I understand the desperate need to rip into bad takes/media-- I regularly waste my time writing thousands of words abt bad media for the fun and joy of it all. I get it.

but sometimes y'all gotta learn to pick ur battles. it's one thing to rip into some multi-billion corporate conglomerate's cash-grab, and another to rip into Some Guy's awkward attempts at a story. like ok, ur points are prolly valid, but that's also just some schmuck on the internet. could u have maybe kept ur complaining to dms or something, instead of blasting the guy for the whole world to see

[pallases]