#it's still just me (berry) though dw!

[theyluvlyss]

𝐬𝐨, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞...

I literally just came up with this little drabble, and I'm sorry, but it's funny to me, so-

but anyway, two more shazam fics are on the way pretty soon (one freddy, one billy), and then I got a stranger things/mike wheeler request after that, so be on the lookout :) !

𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝

《 ♡ 》 oneshot/crack-fic

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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭 :

reader loves it when billy showcases his power. billy loves showing off to his girlfriend. it's a win-win situation, to be honest.

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 :

fem!girlfriend!reader x billy batson - she/her/hers pronouns!

𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞 :

post shazam!: fury of the gods

𝐓𝐖/𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 :

yelling/screaming (in a good way, dw) - lots of begging from reader lmao - billy being easily swayed bc he wuvs you🥰 - dang, this is kinda crazy sounding outta context, huh? - anyways - this whole thing is just very berry cute, methinks - good vibes only, supa good vibes only✨️ - shrek reference

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ...𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

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"Do the thing!"

It was a sudden squeal, almost as if you'd been holding it back for a while. Not to mention, the walk back to his place had been comfortably silent the whole time before, your hand in his with both stuffed off in his coat pocket in order to shield them from the cold, winter weather.

Although, the squeezes you would give occasionally should've been somewhat of a warning sign. Billy just figured it was a silent, "I love you" of some sort, returning the action every time with butterflies in his chest that kept him warm.

He never would've guessed them as a sign for an incoming fangirl moment. And so, to be sure...

"What thing?"

Not that he wasn't genuinely confused, of course.

"Ya'know... the thing that I like?"

He looked down at you, met with your beaming smile back up at him that brought on one of his own. Still unsure, though, merely repeating the words you had jingled to him all of the sudden back to you in a tone of skepticism.

"The thing you like?"

"Yeah!" You chriped, waiting for him to catch on excitedly, only to be mildly disappointed when that moment never came and he shook his head in dismiss.

"...I don't know, I'm still lost."

"Billy, noo..." You whined, nudging him a bit with your side as the walk continued. "Pleaseeee?"

"What thing?!"

And before you could fully explain yourself, you saw a look in the emerald of his eyes that told you he was faking, the boy having caught on by this point and leaving you to huff and turn away.

"...Stop, you know what I'm talking about, you're just being mean."

Deep chuckles came from his chest, Billy nodding to himself in amusement after you had realized he was teasing you. And, because it was in his nature, he continued to do so until you would ask properly.

"You're right, I do know. I just wanna hear you say it."

"Mncht." You clicked your tongue but didn't give in to the vexing feeling of your boyfriend complicating the process, keeping strong at your pleads in hopes to simply just wear him down.

"Billyyy...please do the thing? Please?"

"C'monnnn..." He urged, nudging his shoulder with yours, and was satisfied with the roll of your eyes and his implied directions followed.

"Hmff... Can you pleaaase say the word? Please?"

"You want me to say the word~?" He repeated, this time with a tone of flirtatiousness that you willingly succumbed to, snuggling up to his arm almost too cheesy for your own liking as you gave an eager, "Yes!"

"Mmm, I dunnooo'..."

This boy and his need to taunt, you swore, would be the death of you...! And yet, it was charming enough for you to let it slide.

No, he was charming enough for you to let it slide. Shaggy brown hair and gorgeous green eyes and those cute dimples whenever he flashed you that winning smile...

Plus, you had been on the verge of geeking out the whole day out with him. Your boyfriend is a superhero for Christ's sake! Of course you'd want to randomly see the magic of it all from time to time! And it's not like you ever knew him to shy away from amazing you whenever he could. So...

"Please-please-please with a lot of maraschino cherries on top?"

Billy laughed at your specifics, already in the midst of guiding you towards a secluded area away from crowds and bystanders.

"Okay, okay, but only because you asked so nicely."

"Yes, yay-yay-yay...!!"

Your cheers and giggles of excitement went hushed by your own hands, waiting in anticipation as Billy took some safety steps back away from you and gave one last look around the area. When he was sure he was in the clear, he granted you your wish. Did just as you asked...

He said the word...

"SHAZAM!!"

...and with a thunderous crash of lightning and a blinding light for only a moment, he was transformed into his older, super-self, and you were laughing wildly through jagged gasps of amazement.

"AHAHAHAHA!!!"

A little bit of a crazy laugh, you'd admit later, but not the point-

"Yeah? How was that?!" Billy-... Shazam asked, his arms spread wide open as he walked closer to you.

"Super loud and scary!" You squealed, hopping around like a little girl who was seeing a fireworks show for the first time, the glowing emblem on his chest casting you and the entire alleyway in gold.

"Yeah?!" Shazam nodded in confirmation with a grin just as wide as your own.

"But it's so hot!!"

"Yeah, it is...!"

Billy's ego? Boosted.

Your fangirl levels? Off the charts.

Hotel? Trivago.

"Okay, now do it again, but back to you-you." You demanded requested, doing a small spin move with your index finger while Shazam dropped his arms to his side.

"Dude-"

"-Please?" You cut before he could provide any light scolds or reasons as to why he shouldn't. You were his girlfriend, and you were so cute looking up at him, expecting to see her boyfriend, now, and not some grown man version of him she... liked... but didn't truly care for.

"...Okay."

"Yay!" You clapped, moving yourself back this time to avoid a second lighting strike.

"SHAZAM!!"

And with that, he was back to himself, your Billy Batson, standing with his arms still open in hopes he'd impressed you the way you had assumed he would.

And god, did he go above and beyond.

"AHAHAHA, YOU'RE SO COOL, I LOVE YOU!!!" You nearly screamed, voice rasping over from the sheer amount of pressure you were putting on your throat.

"I love you, too! C'mere...!" He laughed, admiring your excited figure and the way you were already running towards for him to catch you in his arms in a warm hug.

It lasted for longer than you both expected, but was clearly needed as you enjoyed each other's presence and touch.

"You know what you reminded me of, lowkey?" Billy murmured, no need to be any louder when he was right by your ear.

"Hmm?" You hummed, face pressed into the crook of his neck, cold nose tickling his skin.

"...Do the roar."

You pulled away very slowly. Your face went about as cold as your feet were right now, staring deep into Billy's eyes with a look of pure disbelief.

He stared back. Grinning, head nodding as if to say, "Yeah? Right?" like a puppy.

"You know what?" You hummed gently, returning the smile softly while your vision trailed his features and then down to his chest.

"Yeah?"

You pointed directly to his heart.

"You...are amazingly talented..."

":D!?"

"...at ruining nice moments between us."

":0..."

You nodded, satisfied with yourself at the light tease.

"Mhm, yeah :)."

𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐢𝐬-...𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭...𝐢𝐬- 𝐈-...

is it obvious I have such a BAD crush on billy, and this is lowkey shamelessly self-indulgent, or nah🧍🏽‍♀️?

you said nah?

awesome, cool, thanks /ᐠ-⩊-マ.

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ...𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ...𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭

𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 :

me🤭

𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 :

1,132 words

𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 :

none :(

[fruitymocha]

Bloody Daydreams

Retro High School/Yandere Reader AU

Chapter 2: Sweet Berries

Masterlist

Featuring: gn!Reader x Aether, guest starring Lumine, Paimon, Diluc, and Noelle (Scara will get his time to shine soon dw)

Warnings: very slight yandere tendencies (only really towards the end of the chapter), reader is still a pessimistic insecure loser (but less obviously insecure in this chapter), reader drops an f bomb (not at anyone)

A/N: wassup guys. So I guess y’all kinda liked chapter one, so here’s chapter two, finally! Yeah, I know Scara isn’t in this chapter, but don’t worry, he’ll be back for chapter three. Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this chapter :)

Only the sweetest of berries in your desserts

Everything after home room was largely uneventful or straight up annoying. No one likes having to do “ice breakers” or introduce themselves. I’d honestly rather be alone, and I’m sure some other students share my sentiment.

In any case, my day isn’t over yet. Somehow I was able to fake it until I made it by acting suitable enough for my part time job at the local diner, Stardust Diner.

Obviously I’m not the only worker from Teyvat High. My co-workers from Teyvat High are Diluc and Noelle. Noelle does a lot of the heavy lifting in the back but also does table-waiting when we’re understaffed. Meanwhile Diluc specializes in drink making. The milkshakes he makes are always delicious. No wonder everyone in Teyvat High comes here to hang out every day of the week.

As for me? I’m a waiter mostly, but I sometimes go to the kitchen and make the desserts. Sundaes are a classic favorite, as are cake slices and pie slices.

I was helping Noelle with our recent shipment of berries when the bell rings. After placing the last box in the back, I went to see if anyone I knew had come in, and lo and behold: the three new kids. Lumine and Aether, along with the middle school genius who skipped to high school, Paimon. All sitting on the booths. Lumine, however, decided to come to the bar and made eye contact with me.

“Can I help you?” I asked, doing my best to hide my awkwardness.

“I remember you from home room. I didn’t know you worked at Stardust Diner,” she said coolly.

“How else am I supposed to earn my own money?” I shrugged.

“Fair enough. Anyway, we’re ready to order,”

“Will do. I’ll just get my notepad…” and before I knew it, Lumine had hopped off the bar and got back to the table where Aether and Paimon sat.

She’s cool.

Definitely cooler than me.

But I couldn’t let that distract me. I grabbed a pen and notepad, and mentally prepared to take their orders.

When I approached the table, I put on my best smile, though it still probably looked awkward.

“Welcome to Stardust Diner, what can I start you out with this afternoon?”

Lumine went first.

“I’ll have a cola,”

regular cola

“I want a chocolate milkshake!” Paimon said excitedly.

choc milkshake

Aether, meanwhile, seemed to struggle a bit.

“Um, I’m not really sure what to try. Do you have any recommendations?” He smiled shyly

My heart skipped a beat, and I had to refrain from smiling too much over this.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally freaking out in my mind, but this is work for crying out loud. Professionalism.

But I only really had one drink in mind that wouldn’t leave me alone

“Well, I don’t know your drink preferences, but my go-to is always the root beer float. It’s a classic,”

“Then I’ll have a root beer float,” Aether nodded.

root beer float

“I’ll be back with those drinks” I said, nodding shyly.

Sure, I was at work, but I couldn’t help but let Aether occupy my thoughts. Even if only for a moment.

And then I got to the back and found Diluc.

“Hey Diluc, if you’re not busy, I got three drink orders. One cola, one chocolate milkshake, one root beer float,” I said. The redhead simply nodded and went to find the vanilla ice cream in the fridge.

Everything went as normal, and I served the drinks.

“Thanks,” Lumine said

“Wow it looks delicious!” Paimon said.

“Thank you, Y/N,” Aether said with his sweet smile. I watched Aether sip the root beer float, and he seemed to enjoy it. You were happy.

“You’re welcome. Are you all ready to order?”

~*~

Everyone ordered burgers, and they seemed to be enjoying their food. Meanwhile, one of the bullies of Teyvat High was getting on my ass because the jukebox was broken. So I tried to see what was up.

While I was troubleshooting, the jukebox chose a song, but kept looping on the word “love”. I could hear a chuckle from behind me. It was Aether.

“That’s a funny word to loop on, isn’t it~?” He lightly teased.

“Stupid jukebox, trying to be lovey dovey…” I grumble shyly, trying to stop the loop.

“What’s wrong with being lovey dovey?” Aether chuckled. Oh archons, his laugh is so sweet and silvery…

“I-…well…it’s cheesy,” I said lamely.

“Well, personally, I think being lovey dovey is sweet,” Aether looked right in my eyes.

“…hopeless romantic, huh?” I asked him, still working on the jukebox.

“Maybe just a bit,”

“…I don’t blame you,” I said. Soon I got pissed at the jukebox. “Why won’t this work?” I grumbled.

“Can I try?” Aether asked.

“No, you’re a customer,”

“Please? It’ll be quick,” he pleaded with me.

“I can’t allow it,”

I saw Lumine walk over, a firm look in her eyes.

“Alright, get out of the way,”

“Lumine?! what are you-?”

She fucking kicked the jukebox on the side, and it started working again.

“What the…”

“I’ve dealt with broken jukeboxes before,” Lumine said, as if she didn’t just attack the jukebox like it had insulted her bloodline.

“…You can sit back down now,” I told them both, still in shock.

“And I will be enjoying every minute of those cheesy love songs,” Aether lightly teased.

“Alright…let me know if you need anything,” I said, defaulting back to my customer service lines.

Aether nodded, sitting back down. Lumine approached me, however.

“…maybe we can…hang out sometime?”

“…yeah, I’m free on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.” I said.

“Cool. Meet me after school on Wednesday. By the courtyard.”

“Sure thing,” I agreed.

And so, I went back to work, amazed by this new development. I’m making friends…

~*~

After they finished their meals, they opted for a round of dessert.

“Let’s have some ice cream” Lumine suggested.

“I want chocolate!” Paimon said excitedly.

“Vanilla for me” Lumine said coolly.

“…I think I’ll have strawberry,” Aether said sweetly.

I took note of it and went to prepare it.

I scooped chocolate ice cream for Paimon, drizzling chocolate sauce on top and putting a maraschino cherry on top.

I did the same for Lumine.

With Aether’s, I got a little creative. I picked out the most delicious looking strawberries and mixed it in with the ice cream, put the chocolate sauce, and chose the perfect cherry to put on top.

“Only the sweetest of berries for you…” I whispered to myself. Then I snapped out of it. I’m at work after all. I walk out there and deliver the ice cream to the trio. When I put Aether’s ice cream on the table, he looked up and smiled at me.

“Thank you, Y/N,”

“Of course,” I said, as is appropriate for my job. “Enjoy,”

And then I went back behind the counter to help my fellow coworkers.

~*~

The rest of my shift was uneventful, but I felt inexplicably joyful when I thought of Aether. He was so sweet and precious and…yes, pretty too.

Was this love? If so, it was exhilarating. I want more of it. I want more of this feeling. I want to be closer to Aether… I really do.

And I can’t wait to see him in class tomorrow.

[hypertonicplague]

Obey me hcs 4 me, myself, I

Things 4 my head n also cuz im still rlly into obey me but it’s all in my noodle lol

PROBABLY GRAMMAR N SPELLING MISTAKES IDC IM EEPY 🫶

So in order from Oldest 2 youngest

Lucifer

- actually drank sm bitter coffee that it messed up his stomach completely (hell coffee, magic can’t heal everything) he has to take medicine for the pain lol

- still doesn’t care n will drink coffee n eat spicy things (45 minutes later he’s in his room either on the floor r in his bed clutching his stomach sobbing)

- hidden mole on his scalp in the bck of his head, nothing extraordinary but he’s kinda embarrassed abt it n if u touch it he’ll flinch n scowl

- bad habit of slipping forms when he sleeps (the beginning of the night starts out normal but when u wake up there’s gonna be feathers in ya mouth n a 9ft inky demon snoring cuddled completely under u)

- once he catches a chill it’s rlly hard for him to warm up, he hates the cold

Mammon

- vapes 🗿 though he used to smoke cigarettes, once MC arrives he stops (Devildom cigarettes r basically fiber glass for humans 😭 he’s quitting for u MC 🫶)

- another one w a bad habit of form slipping but it’s not just sleeping. U have him a lil kiss? Wings n horns. He can’t get the math right in his head? Wings and horns. He rlly rlly rlly likes the food he’s eating atm? Wings n Horns. Doesn’t care will slip wherever

- weird but he enjoys fishing, despite him having adhd n the tizzums it’s the one thing he can sit down n enjoy (he started fishing cuz of Barb btw)

- blends vegetables into Levi’s “gamer” fuel

Levi

- again abt the forms n slipping but if I’m being completely honest levi rarely used his human form. Even when u first came to the Devildom he stayed formed out so u wouldn’t talk to him lol

- has a secret motorcycle he’s working on n putting together (it’s sea theme n he’s die if anyone found out abt it. Though cuz he loves u 🫶 u can see it)

- doesn’t know how to ride 🗿 he’s too embarrassed to ask lmaaaoo he just likes fixing it up

- forces mammon to make his “gamer fuel” smoothies to shave off some of his debt (its just berries, a ton of sugar, veggies he doesn’t know abt, n energy drinks) don’t drink it

- when u piss him off he’ll slap his tail on U n mark u up w a stinky slime. It’s like his defense?? Rlly slimy n stupid stinky

Satan

- also has an airpod (or devildom version of air pods??) in his ear at ALL times. He will attack u if u try to take them out no matter how close y’all r, r how much he loves u. Respect his boundaries MC 😦

- doesn’t like form slipping infront of u n if he does that’s it. He’s done. He’s getting even more pissed n punching whatever’s near n going to his room to trash everything. Won’t let u go around him n will tell u to leave him alone (don’t matter how close ya are, man’s is extremely emotional) but dw it’s just for a day r two!! After that he’s touch starved n his head hurts from crying. Just pamper him

- that’s another thing, he LOVES being pampered. To the point you’d swear to god himself he was a blonde Asmo. Pet him, bathe him, feed him, give him all ur love (behind closed doors tho) love up on him

Asmo

I don’t have a lot for Asmo, he’s my fav!! But I’m drawing blanks rn 😰

- another form slipper lol but he takes it a step further n will slip to form 3 outta 5 (human, demonic, demon, 1st true form, complete true form) kinda scary when he’s like that but he’s a lil cuddle bug

- will force u to brush his form 3 wings (they look leathery but they got a ton of lil thick hairs lol, clean the dust out MC!!)

- also once y’all become closer he starts a bad habit of kicking u r chewing on ur fingers/shoulder/whatever doesn’t look awkward at the time n he can put his teeth in (also this is in a non seggual way, it’s more of a stimmy way!! He’s stimmin on ya MC 🫶)

- also don’t call him out on it, he knows, he understands it’s a lil weird, say anything abt it n he’ll stop immediately n never do it again (positive or not just don’t talk abt it 💀)

Beel

- real quick beel isn’t good at expressing emotions so he uses!! His fashion!! He has a lot of lil charms, rings, plushies, ect around him 24/7. In game Beel doesn’t exist here >:^( it helps him

- plz don’t push his boundaries, even as a joke if u try he’s gonna stop both trusting and liking u 🫶 even if y’all inlove. Tizzy beel 💪🏼 (lol throwing myself into characters loooolll)

- wuvs u mc wuvs u sm he’d give u a hairpin 🫶 (that’s a lot to him, only his family n luke have a hairpin from him)

- also does drag (this one was influenced by Melpho)

Belphie

- another form 3 slipper, n another that’ll make u comb his tail AND clip his horns lol

- does pottery, mostly to make Beel new hairpins but also sometimes to make horrible cups n guilt Lucifer to use em (Lucifer adores his ugly coffee cups 🫶)

- cuz he sleeps all day n is awake at night he loooovveeesss pranking u while u sleep. Will crawl into ur bed n hold u n change his voice to sound like Mammons, Levi’s, whoever n trick u into saying silly things. Also loves pretending to hunt ur room, knocking stuff over while ur trying to sleep, grabbing ur toes, even making death noises, man is a menace 🗿

- he wuvs u sm give him a lil kiss

[bunny-rambles]

i did see the huge follower spike! oh well i'm glad :3

i hhhh have a few news?? first of all, i got albedo!!!! i am so so happy because i've wanted him for a long time, and he's so strong even with the worst artifacts ever ;;;; i love him 💕

also, today there was like a cosplay event in my city, and a friend of mine and i went there as xiao and scara (i obv was scara lmao :)) it was so much fun!! met a kokomi cosplayer so pretty i am now in love! also there was this lovely couple cosplaying as zhongli and tartaglia and they were both so hot ;-; thankfully we managed to strike a friendship with them lol

tartaglia the tartaruga oh my God. cutesy tiny turtle with tiny water blades ;;;; i'm thinking abt my turtle with a pretty red scarf and i am crying omg thank you for the image (also the lil albedo drabble was so cute pls don't worry about self indulging yourself eheh)

also, today's word is fotografia. it means photograph, and we took lots of them today :'

bye bye bunny! i hope you too have been well, and that you still are :3

ti voglio bene!

- 🍓

P.S. we were all "stealing" lil paper cutouts of genshin boys today (we had permission to do so tho lol). i got alhaitham and then all my group decided unanimously that he's the hottest man in genshin, followed by like, cyno i think. anyways, that was fun :'

YOU GOT THE BOY YEEEESSSSS !!

I hope you have fun with him, if you’re having difficulty building him, let me know and I’ll help because I think mine is pretty decently built !! And I’ll help you with domains, you have my UID hehe

Berry as Scara? Oh I need to see that OTL I’d have to give a hug and not let go, and maybe give your friend a few head pats because it’s xiao :,) omg I would’ve probably fainted at the sight of a hot Childe cosplay;;; if I ever went, I’d have to go as Nilou or Diluc so I can skip out on buying a wig ehehe

He deserves a nice scarf :) (and thank you, I’m just glad it didn’t annoy you)

Maybe one day we can take a fotografia together (scara or not, both would be nice💞)

I’m not really doing well, I’ve had a strange feeling these past few weeks and it’s not gone away. But it hits at night when no one’s awake so I guess it doesn’t matter much. It’ll probably go away. Dw about me though, no matter what happens, I always manage to get back up when I fall - both a blessing and a curse

ti voglio bene berry 💞

[dunkshotdreaming]

URL CHANGE!

hamjjisbabygirl -> dunkshotdreaming

*October 10th, 2018.

Masterlist edits in progress! (Will edit this when masterlist editing is complete!)

☆Layout/theme changes coming soon as well!

[ask-fantasy-sanders-sides]

(block DW) Logan, we are talking about a fruit that sorta looks like an eyeball when pealed. Size of a marble, and they have a red Peel. What do they do?

Logan: Ah, I believe I recognize this species. Give me a moment,

(Logan takes the dark blue book bound to his side, snaps his fingers, and it glows for a moment. He opens the book, and what was notes about their travels the last time you looked, is now notes about plant and animal species Logan has encountered or studied. He turns to a page towards the middle, and points to a small sketch of the same berries you saw in Virgil’s bag,)

Logan: Yes, right here. Sorbilis fruit. They grow on vines in poisonous swamps, like those found in the Underdark or in black dragon territory. They are not exactly legal, as they are potentially incredibly dangerous, but powder ground from the seeds and mixed with a neutralizing agent can be sold in small amounts by medics, as a powder to put in teas. 

Logan: It is typically used as an ‘alertness’ medicine, putting off feelings of tiredness, and/or as a meal supplement to encourage weight loss. It is known to be used by spies and other ‘shady’ types during stakeouts, to stay awake and push back the need for food, but it is hard to acquire – and, frankly, unwise to use. The potential side effects largely outweigh the benefits: It easily causes insomnia, nervousness and restlessness, nausea, vomiting, over-stimulation of the heart, tremors, delirium, and addiction, if used regularly. 

Logan: This is much more potent in it’s raw form, which you should never consume under any circumstances – consuming just around ten of them within a span of three days could kill you, if you were a healthy adult. They are highly poisonous, and the eye-like seed possesses a caffeine content more intense then any coffee or tea you will ever drink. This is even more dangerous for those with heart conditions or anxiety disorders. Still, this overwhelming likelihood of overdose doesn’t keep many denizens of the Underdark and acid-blooded dragonborn from grinding the powder fresh with their sharpened teeth…

Logan: All in all, they are simply unsafe, though milligram amounts of the dulled powder stirred into medical teas is a common treatment for bedridden patients who cannot eat regularly.

[oohlovergirl]

Being Best Friends with Roger Would Include:

Pairing: Roger Taylor x Best Friend Female!Reader

Word count: 956

A/N: THIS WAS SO FUN TO WRITE!!! THANK YOU TO THE ANON WHO SENT THIS REQUEST (your messages really made me smile too!). I hope this fulfills your request! I’m probs going to write a part 2 to this since I have so many ideas. Also also: I’m still working through some of the other requests, so if you don’t see yours, dw, I’m writing it!  

You guys became friends in high school.

He was the outgoing, popular boy, and you were more of the “I hate everyone and everything in this school” kind of girl.

“I don’t get this,” he drawls with a smirk, flashing a wink to the girl sitting in the desk next to him. That was the fifth time he said that during the class period.

“Maybe a) you should stop flirting with Cindy over there b) pay attention for once and c) get your head out of your ass, and stop distracting the entire class. Then maybe you’ll start to understand the lesson,” you snap from your seat across the room. 

The whole room goes silent, and the teacher scolds you slightly (she was secretly relieved someone said something).

He whips his head towards you––and smiles. A real genuine smile. You roll your eyes and go back to doodling in your notebook.

After class, he catches up to you as you walk down the locker hallway.

“Hey, I don’t think we’ve talked that much––or even at all––but I’m Roger. Roger Taylor,” he introduces with an outstretched hand.  

Ever since that afternoon, you’ve been best friends (and inseparable) as you guys meshed surprisingly well together. 

You guys went to the same university together (where he met and introduced you to Brian).

SO MANY PRANKS ON THE OTHER BAND MEMBERS

Mostly jump scares 

Brian threw his hairbrush at you two once. (It hit Roger in the eye, and then he accidentally smacked you in the face while he reached up to clutch at his own face) 

You scared Deacy once, and you both swore to never do it again (you guys just felt so bad afterwards). 

Freddie never gets scared (it’s a bit unnerving to be honest). 

Him protecting you from the douchebags after shows.

“Hey if she said to leave her alone, leave her the fuck alone, mate.” 

“Oh––uh––I’m so sorry,” the guy stutters, not knowing you were friends with the band members. 

“Thanks, dude,” you say with a relieved grin and hug as the guy slumps away. 

You do the same for him when he gets stuck talking to someone he doesn't want to, but he doesn’t want to seem rude.

(He stares at you with pleading eyes from across the pub).

“Hey Rog, Brian told me he needed help…with something,” you say once you walk up to him, grimacing at how horrible of a liar you are. 

Roger says a quick goodbye to the now pouting girl who is now also sending you death glares as you guys walk away. 

“For someone as smart as you, you are a god-awful liar,” he snickers once you’re both out of earshot. 

“Hey! At least I got you out of there,” you say though a laugh, bumping his shoulder with yours. 

If a girl that he’s interested in/dating doesn’t like you, she’s out. 

Late night movie marathons

During Freddie’s parties, you two would hang out on the grass in the backyard and smoke. 

“Do you think penguins feel sad that they can’t fly?” 

“No….No, since they’ve never really experienced flying, yeah? So it’s not like they’ve already known the feeling of flying and suddenly lost it, right, which would make them sad…but then again, they always look like they’re trying to flap their wings…so do they want to fly???”

He doesn’t answer, already moving on to another high/drunken ramble-question, “If you were to date any type of car…which would it be?”

“What the fuck Roger.”

Always getting McDonald’s fries and chicken nuggets after every party. 

Being each other’s wing people !!! 

Always sleeping over at his house after every party.

Unless him or you brings someone home for the night. 

You guys give each other a thumbs up while the other one gets into the cab with said someone. (You roll your eyes when you see him with two big thumbs up and a goofy grin while wavering a little on the grass he’s standing on). 

Then, the morning after, you two would meet up for breakfast and talk about it. 

“She took all my briefs from my drawers before leaving!” 

You howl with laughter in the small café, causing the other patrons to glare at you over their coffee mugs. 

You visiting him on tour, shrieking when you see him and jumping into his arms at the airport. 

You guys gossiping catching up on all the new things going on in your lives while you eat room service in his hotel room. 

You guys ALWAYS having brunch the day after he comes back home from a tour, going to your guys’ favorite coffee shop near your house. 

You always get the waffles (with extra whipped cream and a side of berries), and he always gets the full breakfast fry up. 

You always having to give him advice with girls.

“For someone who has such a reputation with girls, you really are clueless,” you say with a scoff. 

After a particularly nasty breakup, you call him immediately, and he comes rushing over with sweets and snacks before cutting your now ex completely out of his life (he knew them, too).

Him sleeping over because you don’t want to be alone. 

The tabloids always mistaking you two as a couple.

Queen’s Roger Taylor Eats Lunch with a MYSTERY WOMAN: WHO COULD IT BE???

Both of you loving all sorts of board games, you two get especially heated when playing Monopoly. 

But then you help each other cheat when you play Scrabble with the other band members.  

Him buying you all sorts of knick-knacks/souvenirs from all the different countries he’s traveled to. 

Lots of “Roger, don’t do that”’s.

Permanent taglist: @thefirstkillerqueen @hysterical-queen-trash

[dreamsinger-rose]

The World of Trolls - Biology and Technology

I assumed at first, from the 1970′s hippie vibe we get off the movie that the trolls would be vegetarians, but DJ accidentally swallows some kind of lightning bug and is lit up from within without harm. I guess the trolls do eat meat or she’d be freaking out, wouldn’t she? (BTW, fireflies are poisonous. Don’t let your pets eat them.)

Where do the people of Dreamworks come up with their freaky-cool ideas? Cooper poops cupcakes that are apparently safe to eat. Glitter trolls’ bodies make some kind of organic glitter both outside and in, and they can control where they spray it, but it apparently doesn’t smell, nor does it cause bacterial problems  - they even eat it in TTBGO with no harm that we know of. In the Holiday special, Branch was even going to take a sip of coffee that surely had glitter in it, and since we know he worries about harmful things, he obviously doesn’t consider glitter harmful. What’s it made of, super-shiny keratin (like your fingernails)?

It makes me wonder if anything that comes out of a troll is benign. For sure, if eating trolls causes “happiness” in bergens, trolls must have some super unusual chemical activity going on in their bodies, which throws off a lot of the rules of nature we humans have settled on over the centuries!

That’s not even counting their ability to change not only their own colors/going gray, but to change the colors of anything that touches their bodies (at least their clothes). And their bodies appear to be stretchable to some extent, too, as we see with Poppy getting her arms stretched by the birds and later swelling up due to the berry she ate (so there are things that can make them sick, as we also see Satin having a cold), but suffering no real damage.

And as for troll hair; they can move it, and they can stretch it. It’s prehensile, can change color, and can generate light, as so many creatures in their world can. It’s also something that can be injured, if we assume TTBGO is canon. And they all have nice thick, strong, sturdy necks that can safely take the weight of their bodies as they swing around. I don’t expect troll hair to be overly sensitive, either, any more than our hands are, or they would have a hard time using it as a third hand. I wonder how much fine control trolls have - can they move individual strands? 

A fascinating departure from our knowledge of physics is how troll hair apparently negates the weight of anything carried within it, no matter how large, and can contain objects much larger than the troll who carries them. Some kind of magic pocket or bubble, as it were. I can’t help but think of a micro black hole, but since they carry their babies in their hair that’s not a parallel analogy, since the babies stay safe. I wonder, though, if a group of trolls were in a hostile environment, could all but one retreat to the last one’s hair and be sheltered from heat, cold, injury, etc? It couldn’t be airtight, though.

Kate699 has posted a fascinating idea that trolls can use their hair as power sources, like batteries, for things like Branch’s electric guitar and amplifier. I’d bet their Hug Time bracelets run off troll hair, too.

For lighting, bioluminescence is commonly used – mushrooms, glowbugs, and even their own hair. Poppy’s bedroom in the series has some kind of chandelier with glowing white puffballs – fungus, maybe?

The trolls also use animals for things like transportation, such as with the caterbus and various bugs.

Why Branch did give Poppy a jolt of electricity? She had apparently already recovered from the berry she ate, but was still unconscious. Maybe she was just asleep - she didn’t sleep the night before, after all. I’m more impressed that Branch apparently heard a faltering or slow heartbeat through the ball of webbing.

Or maybe he couldn’t, and assumed she was dead and needed to be revived. Either way, I’d love to know where Branch learned about electricity. I’d guess the trolls took a lot of knowledge with them when they escaped from Bergentown.

Now, the Bergens have technology that I would say is meant to represent 1970’s human-world tech, such as pay phones, TVs, treadmills, music keyboards and hand-vacuums. I have not seen any computers or cell phones, which indicates to me that DW is probably going for a time when people interacted more with each other than with electronic devices. Their industrial town, likewise, looks dirty and polluted vs. the trolls’ clean, nature-based village, which has to be a nod to the environmental concerns in our world. Too bad we don’t have a renewable (hey, they can always grow more, right?) clean energy source like that, huh?

I wonder how much of the trolls’ tech was learned from watching bergens from the troll tree or (probably) exploring Bergentown. We have no idea how many years they were imprisoned there, after all.  

I’m on the fence as to whether Branch learned his awesome mechanical engineering skills from other trolls, or if he’s just an incredibly smart cookie and used books and trial and error to invent his own tech. 

[chameleon-cryptid]

Munday meme: get to know me better!

(If you’re not comfortable doing this then dw. Copy and paste, and be sure to add in your own answers and tag some friends!)

general info:

♡ preferred name: Bex...I guess. That’s what most people call me here. ♡ age: Look, that night Jesus was born was SUCH a party. (37) ♡ pronouns: I only discovered gender fluidity, nonbinary, and agender were things in the last..like..five years. And suddenly I was like OMG IT ME. Any pronouns are fine. ♡ sexuality: BACK IN MY DAY I was bisexual. I still say bisexual. But really I’m pansexual.. ♡ height: I am nearly 5 subway sandwiches long.. ♡ hair colour: Dark brown. ♡ relationship status: Married.

favourite things:

♡ favourite colour: Red ♡ favourite song: Depends what we’re talking about. Instrumental: Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity by Gustav Holst and Ode to Joy by Beethoven. Popular/modern: It changes a lot. Currently listening to Kimbra’s Top of the World a lot, Panic at the Disco’s Death of a Bachelor and Casual Affair, Billy Joel’s The Longest time ♡ favourite band / artist: Panic at the Disco, Kimbra, Ed Sheeran, Billy Joel, Mika ♡ favourite youtubers: I’m pretty sure I don’t have one. ♡ favourite food: Mexican food in general, anything with jalapenos, various salads, fruuuuuit, chinese food ♡ favourite family member: My minion ♡ favourite bird: Penguins are fucking awesome. ♡ favourite animal: Cats, dogs, horses, chameleons, aardvarks, red pandas, otters ♡ favourite celebrity: Brendon Urie ♡ favourite time of day? Lunch time. Or dinner time. You know..food time! Except breakfast. I love breakfast food. But..only when it’s not in the morning.. ♡ favourite holiday(s): Christmas, Bonfire Night (in the UK), Halloween and Independence day (in the US). ♡ favourite season:  Autumn in the US and Spring in the UK- but not this spring. ♡ favourite fruit: Raspberries or grapes, maybe pineapples. Apples, too. I like blueberries and black berries. Oranges and various orange-like citrus, PEACHES. OMG I like most fruit. ♡ favourite flower: Blue Columbines. They used to grow in our  backyard. They don’t anymore though :( ♡ favourite emoji(s):   I dunno..mostly..:D I guess. That’s the one I use the most anyway. ♡ favourite app: Discord is the one I use the most, followed by Reddit, Tumblr, and...my banking one. ♡ favourite hobby: Playing in orchestras. Going to the middle of the moors like I’m going to take a hike but only walking a short distance before deciding to turn back and go to the closest pub for a pint (it’s like hiking but less painful and tiring), gaming, roleplaying ♡ favourite country: I was born in the US and have lived half my life in the UK. Both countries are pretty special to me. I really enjoyed the Netherlands and Germany when I was there, too.  ♡ favourite weather: I loooove thunderstorms. We don’t get nearly enough in this country (UK). ♡ favourite element: Carbon (someone’s a nerd, clearly) ♡ favourite language: As a speaker of English, it’s assumed that I only speak English and that I expect everyone else to speak it to appease me. So I have to say English. (Actually, Spanish.) I also enjoy listening to Dutch people switch between Dutch and English because when they speak English they sound like they want the world to BURN and when they switch back to Dutch they suddenly sound happy and carefree.

name of:

♡ name of your crush: I don’t have one. ♡ name of your pet(s): Dizzy. She’s a cat. ♡ name(s) of your best friend(s): I hate the ‘best friends’ question. Like okay. @missmeela. obvs. But I try to not to rank my friends outside of t hat. There are ones I spend more time around. @thebaileymail has the joy of putting up with me a lot. @vila-tadmhe is a good egg. But then there are people like @rhysart-blog who I’ve known for over a decade. Nearly everyone one in my FC’s LS is a friend (and the LS is full). @sham-ffxiv was the best host ever when I visited him in the Netherlands. 

this or that?

♡ introvert or extrovert: extroverted I think? Do people disagree? ♡ nerdy or sassy: WHY NOT BOTH. ♡ tall or short: I am NEARLY 5 SUBWAY SANDWICHES TALL. Everyone is taller than me except for children. And even some children are taller than me. Siiigh. ♡ looks or personality: Personality, probably. An average person can look better if they’ve got a great personality, but no amount of hotness can erase out someone’s shit personality. ♡ homesick or traveller: I rarely get homesick. Occasionally, I’ll want a certain food from back in the US or ...weather. But I don’t really get homesick. I often miss people from the US. But I would be perfectly happy with them coming to see me. I don’t need to travel ‘home’ to see them. So traveller I guess. ♡ musician or artist: I have played the viola since I was 8. Though I wish I could draw too. I know, I just want the MOON ON A STICK. ♡ woods or city: FUCKIN’ BOTH. I love the city. Love the energy and all the different people and shops and architecture and history. BUT. I grew up close to State Forests in the US and I like being close to forests. The smells and that coolness from all the tree coverage. Unfortunately in the UK there aren’t a lot near where I live. ♡ tv or youtube: Youtube. Or Netflix. Or Amazon Prime. Who uses tv anymore? ♡ phone or computer: My phone is a tiny computer. So both. ♡ family or money: Family. Though I wish I had money to give to my family. ♡ books or movies: Movies. I mean my attention span makes it hard to sit through a movie much less read a book. Though if it is a good book, I end up finishing it in like...one night. ♡ food or sleep: FOOD

Tagged by: @ooc-llorne Tagging: Whomever wants to do it.

[riverswillow]

Thing I don't get about the new Ruroken arc: Shouldn't Kenshin like, not be able to use Hiten Mitsurugi moves at all at this point, going by what Megumi said at the end of the original manga? I mean, what gives? Did Watsuki decide to retcon that?

I mean I think he really wrote himself into a corner with that, because he was trying to tie up the series and the best way to do that would be to explain that Kenshin would soon never be able to fight again and has to live a ~normal~ life and whatnot. I was kind of surprised he did set the series in the 5-years-later epilogue and not like, a year after Jinchuu or something to counter act that.But I mean, it's his story so he can retcon that. I sort of expect it'll go one of three ways, either A. oh well it's been progressing slowly so he's still a pretty good fighter B. FULL RETCON LOL C. ~magical deus ex machina trip to find a magical berry to restore his fighting abilities~ or. Whatever.I personally hope for a combo of A and C, assuming C isn't the dumbest plot ever. A full retcon would annoy me, but he can't really have a series called Rurouni Kenshin where Kenshin doesn't fight. He has already retconned a couple things from the epilogue though- well, mostly Kenshin's appearance, his hair is as long and his scar as vivid as we're used to, so I think that was an active decision to just, ignore that part since the audience would be more used to the Kenshin that they knew. Also tbf it was a dumb fucking hair cutSo yeah we'll see? But it was only ever a plot point written in to really give the series closure so it's not like it can't be undone. (I would argue this with people in the Doctor Who fandom so often, whenever I said I was waiting for the time lords to come back and they'd be like THATS IMPOSSIBLE THEYRE ALL DEAD, and I was like- ... how many times have the daleks been Super Dead Forever? They can write or I write whatever they want guys. But DW is also waaayyyy looser with canon than RK is. Or than. Anything is lol.)

[angevon]

LIST YOUR TOP 5 FAVORITE FICS AND/OR ART PIECES THAT YOU’VE DONE SO FAR AND TAG OTHERS TO DO THE SAME

Tagged by @birdsknight. Oh my gosh, I love talking about my fics, thanks!!! You tagged me like years ago but I kinda left this in my drafts and kept putting off posting it ;;;;;

1. Nanako Explains It All [AO3, ffnet, DW]

A couple years ago I found this adorable souyo prompt on the kink meme. It was essentially: Yosuke babysits 6-year-old Souji at Junes when teen!Nanako brings him there one day, and Souji has a little crush on him. I wrote a whole 6000 word one-shot for it (currently unposted) and showed it to @herrdoktorat who said that he needed more of the sassy Nanako I had written for it. We joked around a bit and a few days later I wrote the first chapter of Nanako Explains It All. And then he wanted more and...

And now I’m still writing it. OTL. (and I roped him into being co-author)

We didn’t originally intend the fic to be so, hmm... sexual? Perverted? haha. It just sort of happened. We wanted Nanako to be open-minded in a closed-minded society, and somehow that resulted in her being pansexual. Apparently some people think I’m pansexual because of this, but I’m definitely not. And now the running joke is ‘Everyone is gay in Inaba’ and you know what? Why not?

I know the fic is not everyone’s cup of tea and I don’t blame anyone for not reading it. It was originally intended to ‘correct’ some issues herrdoktorat and I have had with canon P4. We also just wanted to have fun with it so we changed a bunch of things around. It got a bit out of hand. And it really has been a lot of fun, though I wish we’d get more reaction from readers. 

"Hi. I'm Nanako Dojima. I'm from Tokyo. I'm—"

"Tokyo, huh?" Morooka interrupted. "So you've come all the way here to ogle our last few innocent boys and ruin them with your perverted big city ways?"

"I won't ogle any boys who ogle me first," she promised, flashing teeth. "Which pretty much eliminates everyone in this class."

(Huh, maybe Mr. Morooka is why our Nanako is like that...!)

2. Days Without Nights [AO3, ffnet, DW]

Another one that came from a kink meme prompt. This is my most popular fic on AO3. The idea of Yosuke getting divorced was just too captivating (and so sad!!! haha). I wrote the first draft of the fic entirely in secret, didn’t tell herdoktorat until it was done because I wasn’t sure what he’d think. I kinda regret that now, I think I should’ve collaborated with him from the start, but I’m happy with how it turned out.

I kind of want to write more for it, maybe just little vignettes on the family life after the story ends, but I have trouble writing stuff without any sort of plot, so it’s not likely to happen anytime soon.

"Do you know why we named him 'Kichirou'?"

"'Lucky son,'" Souji murmured.

"Lucky parents..." Yosuke sighed. He wiped his face and looked at Souji. "I love him more than anything, really... Without him, I'd just die." He smiled without humor.

(Naming Kichirou was actually pretty difficult. That wasn’t my first choice, but the symbolism ended up working well!)

3. Burn My Regret [AO3, ffnet, DW]

This is my love letter to Persona 3. Everyone’s got headcanons about what Souji does after the end of P4, right? What if he goes to Gekkoukan High and learns about SEES and everything that happened there? 

I’m not entirely happy with the fic’s ending. I’d planned to write another part to it, but I honestly ran out of ideas. 

Souji gingerly took out the dagger. If it came right down to it, he supposed he could use this. The gun, on the other hand... no. He closed the lid on the gun and locked the briefcase.

He left the dagger on the coffee table while he put the briefcase behind the counter at the dorm's entrance... somewhere safe and out of the way. But when he went back to the coffee table to decide what to do with it, the dagger was missing.

"What..." he began.

Koromaru?

He found the dog lying on his cushion next to the TV, the dagger resting between his forepaws. When Souji tried to take it from him, the dog skillfully picked up the dagger in his mouth by the handle, stood up, and waved his head around as if practicing his swing. He emitted a low growl of excitement.

(Souji panicking about Koromaru’s dagger is still hilarious to me)

4. One More! (Murder) [AO3, ffnet, DW]

This is my first Persona fic, and I think it still holds up after all this time! Though it’s a little funny to go back and re-read now; back then, I didn’t seem to realize that I didn’t have to explain who all the characters are, hahaha.

I really love seeing what people think Souji’s TV World dungeon would look like. There are some really great ideas out there! I also love the one I wrote in this :> It’s quite haunting!

My only regret is the title is a bit silly.

As if on cue, a cheerful voice rang out, saying, "Topsicles for everyone!" and Teddie appeared in his red-and-white striped bear costume. He skated towards them quickly, carrying far more Topsicles than his stubby hands should be able to carry. He stopped suddenly at the table, his big oval eyes becoming disappointed. "Nana-chan already has one? No fair, Sensei!"

"It's all right, Teddie," Souji said. "I'm sure Nanako-chan can have another."

"Are you sure, Sensei? We don't want Nana-chan to get a bearly-ache!"

(probably my best-written Teddie scene haha)

5. One Summer Day [AO3, ffnet, DW]

It was difficult to choose a 5th favorite! I mean, I do love Truth In Someone Else, but Days Without Nights kind of eclipses it. One Summer Day is just really, really cute. It was written entirely with love.

"Ken, come on, we have somewhere to be!" Akihiko suddenly picked Ken up and sat the boy atop his shoulder. He hefted up the white dog under his other arm. Koromaru whined in protest and waggled his legs to no avail.

"A-Akihiko-san! Put me down!" Ken demanded. He tried to climb down but the bare-chested man held him in place.

Akihiko grinned into the morning sun. "This'll be great for my training."

Tagging: @berrys-sketchblog, @zipchan, @thievishly, @yuutfa, @arctic-urpo, and anyone else who wants to! (and please don’t feel obligated to do this if you don’t want to :)

[jurgan]

Consequences of Time Travel: Why Greg Weisman is a  Better Writer than Steven Moffat

             Time travel stories are hard to write.  A lot of them have been done at this point, for one thing.  It’s kind of funny that something completely fictional has such well-known tropes. There are at least three different types of time travel in fiction.  Type A is that you can go back in time and make changes, and when you return the world will be different than when you left.  Type B is that history is set in stone, and if you go back in time you will simply fulfill a pre-existing role, also known as a stable time loop.  Type C is that when you go back in time, you create a new universe affected by your actions, but your home universe is unaffected (these are ordered based on the order in which I learned them growing up- once I assign letters or numbers to things, they stick that way in my head for life).  Back to the Future is firmly Type A.  That’s why I think the Chuck Berry scene is commonly misinterpreted.  Marty inspiring Johnny B. Goode is a Type B rule, which isn’t compatible with that universe.  I assume the other end of Marvin’s telephone call was Chuck saying “How the hell did that kid steal my song?”  Type C was used in Dragon Ball Z.  Type B was used in the first Terminator movie, though the sequels were extremely confused about their rules.  They were also used by one of my favorite shows of all time, Gargoyles.  Ninety percent of the time, I hate it when series that aren’t about time travel introduce time travel midway through. Sometimes it’s just an excuse to go different places that have nothing to do with the plot, like in Animorphs. The bigger problem is that time travel is too powerful and can overwhelm the story if it’s not restricted- certainly Harry Potter characters could do something more useful with time turners than help an overachiever take more classes.  Having them all destroyed in book 5 was overly convenient, but it was probably the only way to keep the plot going.

             Gargoyles is one of the only series I know of that introduced time travel midway through and managed to integrate it well.  Partly this is because most of the trips in time were to places that were related to the characters’ backstories (the only exception was “M.I.A.,” where Goliath visited the Battle of Britain, and it was probably the weakest of the time travel stories).  Another reason is that Greg Weisman mandated very strict Type B rules. No one can go back and undo something that has already happened because it has already happened, and anytime a character goes back in time they simply act out what already happened.  They have agency in their actions, but the time stream already “knows” what choices they will make.  So there’s no going back and saving the dead from dying.  Or is there?  After all, in M.I.A. Griff was supposedly dead, yet Goliath saved him by grabbing him out of time and bringing him to the present.  Who’s to say they couldn’t do that again?

             This is where Doctor Who comes in.  I’m not an old school DW fan.  I started watching with the Ninth Doctor and went forward. I’ve seen at least one story with each of the first four Doctors and listened to a Sixth Doctor audio drama, but I know more about the new series.  However, I eventually quit watching after Capaldi’s first season because I got sick to death of Steven Moffat’s writing.  One of his biggest flaws as a writer is that there are no permanent consequences for anything.  This is where a comparison to Gargoyles is revealing.  Gargoyles and the rebooted Doctor Who started in a very similar place.  Both the Doctor and the gargoyles were the survivors of a massacre and (apparently) the last of their species.  Both fought a wide variety of villains while trying to find new purpose in life.  And both dealt with survivors’ guilt. Christopher Eccleston put a lot of effort into making his Doctor a character haunted by PTSD and his own failure to save his people (from himself, it eventually was revealed), while Goliath and his clan were adrift and without purpose for a full season.  But they ultimately dealt with the tragedy in totally different ways.

             The Time War was the brain child of Russell T. Davies, who rebirthed Doctor Who in 2005.  Had he stayed in charge, it’s hard to say where things would have ended up. However, the show was eventually taken over by Steven Moffat.  Moffat had done well writing a number of one-shot episodes, most notably “Blink.” I personally think the two-parter “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances” is better, but it’s hard to deny Blink’s impact.  It introduced the Weeeping Angels, for one, and it also was the first time Moffat wrote a stable time loop, or “Type B rules,” as I designated them above. Doctor Who is not a show with strict rules.  It basically is allowed to do whatever suits the episode.  The danger here is that it can be easy to avoid consequences for one’s actions, and the writers had to come up with reasons why the Doctor can’t save everyone.  Some writers use the rule that the Doctor can’t cross his own timeline.  Others used the idea of “fixed points in time” that cannot be altered no matter what.  Moffat, though, basically says anything goes as long as it seems clever.  This can work in small doses, like the time loop in Blink, but over time it’s been abused to the point where nothing that happens to the Doctor matters, because he can undo it.  People saw him die in season six, but The Doctor dodged that by replacing himself with a robot (I’m probably going to get some details of these examples wrong, forgive me).  The best example of the Doctor’s new omnipotence, though, is “The Day of the Doctor,” a.k.a. the fiftieth anniversary special.

             Most people consider this a good episode, and I like it on its own (save for turning Queen Elizabeth into a dopey fangirl for The Doctor).  Like I said, Moffat is best in small doses.  However, when he writes over a long period of time the episodes start to contradict each other and tension tends to build up and then fizzle out.  The whole point of Day of the Doctor was to confront The Doctor’s actions in the Time War, where he’s forced to slaughter his own people to save the universe.  Moffat said he couldn’t imagine writing that scene, so he had The Doctor come up with a solution.  The solution was very silly- make Gallifrey disappear into a pocket dimension just as the daleks are firing on it and they’ll all hit each other.  It sounds like a Looney Tunes gag.  Then the War Doctor gets amnesia just as he’s regenerating, so the Ninth Doctor still thinks he killed everyone and still has to deal with his guilt.  It’s a perfect stable time loop, but it demonstrates how even with Type B rules time travel can be abused.  I had no problem with the idea that the Time Lords were still alive, or at least some of them.  But saying that none of them died means all of the sacrifice we saw before was for nothing. All of the Ninth Doctor’s angst was over a fake memory.  And from then on, nothing that happened, no matter how big, could be trusted to be real. Any consequences could be unwritten, and if there are no consequences for the characters’ actions then there’s no story, just a string of cool moments.  Sure, the Time Lords were still trapped in a pocket dimension, but only because the author said so.  There was nothing stopping him from bringing them all back, because there were no rules.  I would have liked to find some Time Lords who were off planet at the time and were trying to rebuild their society (The Master survived, for one), but saving the whole planet was cheap.  Similarly, the gargoyles did eventually find that other members of their species had survived.  However, there was never any chance of saving their own clan.  If Moffat had been writing, someone would have gone back in time to the morning of the Wyvern Massacre, replaced all of the stone gargoyles with identical statues, and brought them all back to the present. Suddenly Goliath has his family back! Hooray!  Except that would undercut the whole point of the show.

             Greg Weisman said once that he wanted Gargoyles to be about repercussions, so he made the time travel rules so strict that they could never be used to circumvent repercussions.  The rules of time travel aren’t the point, though. The point is the agenda of the author. Moffat is actually less careless with the rules of time travel than some other writers, but he can still undo anything if it seems cool.  This is even true in his non-time traveling series, Sherlock, where the main character can jump off a tall building to his death in front of everyone and then just pop up alive later with no explanation.  Life is all about cause and effect, and all stories reflect that by being about how characters react to their circumstances.  Steven Moffat doesn’t care about cause and effect, and he doesn’t care about characters changing over time.  He cares about cool visuals and badass moments whether they fit the story or not.  Nothing is real because nothing can be counted on to stay true.  When anything can happen and no one’s actions have any consequences, that’s not even really a story anymore.  It’s just a mess.

[bunny-rambles]

hmm i know what i'll do tonight then 💕

i know how it feels picking up writing after a while — heck i went back working on a piece of mine and it was so hard getting everything back in pieces — but i very much trust you, it's gonna be great dw <3

also about the whole replying to people thing, i don't think you should fret too much. sure, it's nice that you feel like replying to people, but at the end of the day a good friend won't mind that it took you a lil bit longer to reply i think :)

with this i'll catch all the good vibes and go back to my books ahah

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Aw,

Thank you strawberry, that means a lot to me :,)

I honestly just wanted to write for Xiao a little more, he is criminally under written by me for being one of my first loves in Genshin. I still very much hold a soft spot for our tiny adeptus, and it’s grown 10x bigger after that archon quest

Ah I don’t think anyones mad at me, but I think some people misunderstand it as me ignoring them which upsets them, and i hate making them feel that bad. But I’m just really not that social of a person anymore, even over text. I have a short attention span and forget to reply, or I run out of energy, leave the chat and forget to reply then. I do hope they understand though :/

Enjoy your books berry, I hope you enjoy what’s about to come in a few hours !!