#just doing a bit of an inversion

[lucabyte]

So does anybody else ever think about how Loop felt the need to demonstrate that the party's deaths wouldn't have any effect on the loops. I know I do but that's besides the point. Anyway I don't think Loop actually needs to bathe, they just like to feel included.

[rowanthestrange]

In Which We Examine An Event In Hindu/Vedic Mythology For The Blorbos.

In Verse.

Brahman is everything, one, with an ‘n’. Beyond all beginning, surpassing the end. Brahman is represented by divine trinity, Brahma, and Vishnu, and Shiva make three.

Brahma’s the creator, of time and of places, Holds never a weapon, just knowledge and Vedas. Representing activity neither good, bad, or both, Of passion, and ego, and of movement and growth.

Then there is Vishnu who protected what’s new, Vishnu preserves things and Vishnu is blue. For balance, and cycles, eternity, peace, And battle when needed for evil to cease.

Finally Shiva, the destroyer and death, To enable the end and to start from what’s left, For family, demon slayer, patron of arts, Chaos, destruction, and drums as he danced.

(But it has also been said in quiet by some, Though the crescent of Shiva and Vishnu’s bright Sun, May appear to be different, they’re identical too, Vishnu’s greatest form’s Shiva; and Shiva’s Vishnu.)

And sometimes went further beyond like Brahma, Who took on the avatar of the moon god Chandra, The lord of stars, night, and herbs that healing could be, So to be born from parents and birth Mercury.

They have hundreds of stories of glory and strife, But what of the origin of the Elixir Of Life, The Samudra Manthana was put into motion, Or in English the tale called ‘Churning of the Ocean’.

The Asuras were a breed of superhuman Lords, Most power-hungry cheaters, and the enemies of gods. The half-brother Devas were masterful sorts, All playful game players, and mostly good sports.

There were great many battles for many domains, And the Asuras took over multiple planes. The Devas went to Vishnu to ask for help in defiance, And he suggested to them that they make an alliance.

That all of the beings cease their brutality, Churn the ocean for elixir of immortality, So that all of them share it and so never die, (Though not really the Asuras, and Vishnu would lie.)

But the churning released something else from the sea, A poison of Death to destroy all is, was, and could be, The surviving fled to Brahma, the store of all information, Who said to stop death requires the purest cessation.

To protect all the realms Shiva swallowed the brew, And his wife grabbed his neck to stop it passing through, And Shiva survived, but an unfortunate hue, As his neck was now painted an odd sort of blue.

And now other treasures started being produced From the ocean all sorts of strange things now were loosed, Including Kaustubha, a divine ruby gem, That the Devas gave to Vishnu for his helping them.

Then the wish-giving life tree, of tales of its own, From when Shiva was forced to send his daughter from home, To protect her from The Darkener’s war til was done, (Not quite Asura nor Deva was also their son) But that’s a long story and isn’t this one.

An umbrella, some earrings, animals odd as can be, The crescent of Chandra that Shiva pulled free, A conch shell that rang of creation; then surged, Vishnu’s avatar the doctor, the vaidya emerged.

In his hands was amrita, the life-giving food. And unsurprisingly quickly the fighting ensued, The Asuras stole it and immediately fled, And the Devas went to Vishnu and immediately pled.

So Vishnu took the form of a beautiful female, Who took it back from the Asuras who were quick to avail, She sat them in two rows, so alone she could choose, To immortalise good, and the cheaters would lose.

Down the Deva row she spooned her nectar from the pot, And each of the Devas immortality got, Except for an Asura who snuck in their line, Chandra found out Svarbhānu but not quite in time,

Vishnu cut off his head but the man spoke from live lips, Immortal in two, they represent the eclipse. And Asura and Deva now resumed their fight, While Vishnu flew away and fled into the night,

And twins, pairs, and counterparts fought all the more, Until finally the Devas had succeeded in war, And they exiled the Asuras to underworldly domain, And the higher dimensions fell back under their reign.

[returnerfop]

behold the cousins

[bluebowser]

I know this is something that a lot of folks have said already, but Young Link in Smash Ultimate REALLY should've leaned more on the Majora's Mask stuff moveset-wise rather than just doing Ocarina of Time again.

[doctorweebmd]

Anna what is your opinion on the BEAST timeline?

All we really know is that it’s been 4.5 years since the ‘BEAST’ version of heartless cur. Do I think they’re all just 2 years younger? (Akutagawa being 18 and Atsushi being 16?) do I think their ages are inverse? (Atsushi is 20, Akutagawa is 18?)

Simple. My opinion is that the events of heartless cur happened 2 years after they did in canon - when Akutagawa was 16 rather than 14 - and everything else remained the same.

Because I think BEAST!Dazai orchestrated everything that happened in heartless cur. Because he’s seen it before and he knows just which cards to play to break Akutagawa completely.

[delcat177]

I keep thinking about how kind of mean and hopeless the Harry Potter books were in worldbuilding

Harry Potter is set up to be poor and miserable and have nothing, and to have all of that "corrected" by finding out he's a wizard and his family is rich and he'll never want for anything again

Ron Weasley is set up to be poor and miserable and have nothing and suffer forever for it

Like, I grew up in the extinct middle class that was between lower-middle and upper-middle, just middle-middle, but it was an economically depressed town in an economically depressed state, and my economically depressed friend fucking HATED Ron

I also hated Ron, everyone hated Ron, but it was more the past few days I've really been thinking about the difference, that if you're poor, you get to be poor as a wizard, you get this representation but it's as The Ron, and for the entire time that the audience is supposed to be going along with Harry on this new, magical journey...your MC role is to be *nice* to poor people as your defining characteristic of this dynamic, because oh, look, being poor sucks ASS and everyone will hate you and make fun of you.

JKR just...didn't worldbuild for shit. Like, she made all these pretty, silly, wacky things, but under the cozy Wonka-esque trappings of "oh what a lovely place I wish I could live there", life is unreasonably hard and unreasonably unfair for an Earth where magic is real.

"If Muggles knew about magic, they'd want it to solve all their problems all the time" yeah Christ forbid you solve problems, you can't even get student loans running you senile old fuck

[bijoumikhawal]

also re: transfemmes and gay men draw a sharp delineation between each other, i didn't mention this last night but it means a lot of like. Nonbinary people who are exploring gender as effeminacy are treated REALLY badly by both specifically if they can't ultimately be put in one group or the other, on top of usual effemiphobia. I've seen multiple nonbinary people get subject to brutal public harassment over this, including one person who publicly was like "i might be transfem, i might want to use she/her, I don't know yet, but being treated so badly by other trans people for existing where im at now isn't fucking helping me figure that out". Part of this isn't just about this particular community divide, it's also about how many LGBT people have the idea that someone's lived experiences can themselves be offensive, and that that person therefore harms the community by existing. With trans people in general, there are a lot of people uncomfortable with ambiguity in gender because of worries about how cis people perceive us. There is, again, a particular disgust applied to effeminacy on this front.

[astrumocs]

🗣 oda and seifer >:3

Main Characters: Odarem Mortis (His POV) & Seifer Sanaca Side Characters/Mentioned Characters: Vrikoh Havlok (Odarem's official fleet general) & Seifer's Fleet Captain (Armand Buleis) Setting: Seifers' Newest Fleet Ship, some 2 or so sweeps back CW(s): Mentions of Blood and allusions to a murder

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You step off of the small transport vessel that had ferried you to your new assignment, the scent of blood hitting your nose immediately, causing you to raise your face mask into place. Well, you’re actually catching two distinct blood trails coming from different directions, but one is a lot fresher… You can’t help but find this curious, as the murder you’re meant to be investigating happened two days ago. Despite your curiosities, your outward demeanor does nothing to show that as you approach to meet with the captain of the ship.

“Doctor Mortis… good to see you’ve finally arrived. I’m sure I don’t need to waste my time briefing you on the situation at hand, do I?” The seadweller raises a harsh brow, tapping his cane to the floor in obvious impatience.

“Not at all, Sir. I read the report on the way, with permission from General Havlok to take as long as required.”

He studies you, perhaps bothered that he can’t see most of your face to scrutinize your expression for not being respectful enough, given the eyepatch and mask you wear. “I give you free rein of the main floor to investigate and find the culprit as you must. If, for whatever reason, you require access to another floor, my Lieutenant will see to you and handle it from there. I expect this dealt with in the next two hours or less, cusp-blood.”

“Just for you, Captain, I’ll have it done in one.” He may not know you’ve got a smarmy little smirk on your face, or that you would’ve winked there as you give your ‘to attention’ salute, but you know, and that’s what really matters here.

After getting that asshole off your back, you don’t waste a second before you’re turning toward the fresh scent of blood, slipping your mask down as your nose twitches and you head towards it. You’re careful to listen for any footsteps or other noises following after you, but hear nothing besides your own boots hitting the floor.

This isn’t a scent you’ve encountered in some time, you think, puzzling over what it could be, when the scent of something distinctly unfamiliar clouds up the mix in your head. This is peculiar, it wouldn’t match up with the killer's profile at all, as far as you know. This drives your curiosity ever higher, and you walk quickly and with purpose… until you come to the end of a series of shoebox-style rooms for the military grunts and reach a… repurposed supply room?

You lean close to the door, listening in, but only hear a grunt and the creaking of a bed. Perhaps an isolated soldier with some kind of odd illness? Why the blood? Why no medical staff nearby? You can’t help it, you know you’d be able to track the murderer down in 20 minutes tops, so you have some time to spare.

With that, you raise a gloved hand to knock gently on the door and speak only loud enough to hopefully be heard by whoever’s inside. “Hey in there, I’m here under your captain's orders. My name is Odarem Mortis, may I come in?”

There’s a long pause where you wonder if they even heard you, until a rasped voice answers you, hesitant confusion lacing their tone. “What…? You... no, leave me alone...”

You’re really not one to push, but your curiosity and concern for this individual push you to ask once more. “Are you sure..? I won’t pry, but I’d just like to check and see if you’re alright, if I can. I won’t cause you trouble, swear on my last good eye.” Shifting your weight slightly from foot to foot, you await their answer through another pause.

“There is nothing to check…”

As the voice trails off, you’re readying yourself to respect the refusal when the voice interrupts your line of thought.

“But you may come in if you really wish to…”

You open the door slowly, your other hand up in the air passively as the tired-sounding stranger comes into view. The shade of violet he possesses immediately ticks your box for a likely mutant, and your gaze gets a little more sympathetic than it already was. You can’t help but note the dried blood on his clothing, that you must’ve caught the scent of to lead you here. He looks at you warily for a moment before hanging his head, as though hoping to avoid any judgement and conversation.

Still, you can’t help but want to converse with him, shutting the door and moving away from it so he doesn’t feel trapped by any chance. “Are you hurt?” you ask softly, trying to be forthright and genuine, to hopefully ease that heavy tension you can tell sits in his whole body like a rock.

His fins flick, but you can’t tell if that’s good or bad yet. “I have no injuries…” The violet refuses to look at you as he answers.

Cautiously, you approach to sit on the far end of his bed and he tenses, though he relaxes a bit more when you don’t make any further movements.

“Can I ask about the source of the blood?”

Immediately his fins flatten and his head turns a little further away from you, indicating that this was the wrong question, so you quickly supply more to follow it up, “You don’t have to tell me anything, your privacy is your own… it would be nice to know your name though, if you’re feeling adventurous?” Your tone is playful at the tail end; non-threatening.

Something about your response eases a lot of the tension he was holding, and he finally turns to look at you, even if his body language remains closed and curled in on itself.

“Seifer…”

The seadweller, Seifer as he’s told you now, studies you- though unlike his captain, his gaze is like that of a prey animal rather than a bored predator. You feel a bit of pain in your chest at whatever put this man in such a state, though instead of showing that, you smile at him brightly. “Nice to meet you, Seifer. I’m Odarem, though you probably heard that through the door already.”

Seifer gives an affirmative sound, eyeing you with a bit of curious interest of his own now as you continue.

“I’m here on work, so I can’t stay long, but… did you want some company? I’ve got half an hour to do something other than my job, give or take, and you seem like you’d be good to chat with. Handsome too, if it’s not overly forward of me to say.” The smile on your face remains relaxed and easy, keeping the pressure as low as possible.

At the compliment to his obviously disheveled appearance, he blushes, fins twitching again. You note that the twitch is probably a positive sign at this point.

“I… y-you can stay, if you would really like, but… I cannot promise I’m good company.”

“I think you’ve done a fine job of it so far, Seif, I’m already having a nice time. And well, you seem like you could use some good company, yeah?”

There’s some hard-to-read look in his ringed eyes like he’s almost in disbelief at how kind you’ve been. He leans slightly closer in your direction, though you suspect it to be subconsciously. You can’t help but wonder if the fact he let you nickname him so quickly and is no longer moving away from you means anything… is he that starved for kindness here? You suppose that you shouldn’t be surprised, given the state you found him in, and the fact he doesn’t even have a proper room- along with the sour attitude his commanding captain wears.

Cautiously you reach a hand forward, stopping when you see him stiffen a bit, though not fully retracting your reach. “Apologies, I should ask… You seem tense, is all. It isn’t my place to ask you why-- though given this place I don’t blame you.”

He seems put at ease by your casual insult to the ship, though, and he doesn’t lean away from you, so you press a little more. “I can loosen up those knots in your shoulders if you’d like. Might make the place a little more bearable? And don’t worry, I’ve got a degree in easing tension.” You joke, keeping it light.

Seifer fiddles with his necklace as he seems to consider your offer, another slight blush dusting the tips of his ears behind his fins, though you’re not sure exactly which part of your words prompted this. 

“Go… go ahead,” Seifer mumbles, looking away from you, but not moving as you shift closer now, slightly behind and beside him on the bed and lifting your hands to hover over his shoulders.

“I’m going to place my hands on you now, just a heads up, Seif.”

He makes a low, appreciative grunt of acknowledgment, and you gently place your hands down on his shoulders, easing into pressing your thumbs into the muscle to work them loose. A little bit of time passes as you feel him melt beneath your hands, giving sounds of approval when you break the tension spots up.

You lean forward to ask him how he’s feeling, right as he seems to turn his head to say something to you, and you nearly bump foreheads as both he and you still. Seifer looks a bit wide-eyed from what you think must be out of surprise until his face darkens with blush once more.

Speaking without thinking too much you ask, “Can I kiss you? I’d be gentle.”

Violet fins flutter even harder than they had before, though this time they remain more upright. Your question seems to do nothing to assuage his blush, though he appears too stunned to answer, so you speak again. “You can say no, of course. If that went too far, I can back off--”

“N... no, I--” He seems surprised by his own sudden protest, eyes glancing downward as he forces out the rest “Please do…”

You smile softly, brushing his lip with your thumb to catch his attention. “Of course.” And when he looks up, you kiss him gently.

[sysig]

Rosawatts, from memory (Patreon)

[cherrykitkat]

For the 'guess something about me' thing imma guess............

Stealth is your second favourite Thorpe coaster

False actually! It's Nemesis Inferno

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than sickness

Lost Caverns of Ixalan is coming out on Arena tomorrow and I've avoided looking up any spoilers, aside from a few individual cards I stumbled across that didn't have any reminder text, so I have no idea what the new mechanics are. I looked up a list of the NAMES of the mechanics on the mtg fandom wiki, and I decided to make mechanics based on those names to see how close I get and also because it's fun.

Also I made this card for the descend mechanic at first but I didn't like the mechanic. How dare WotC make such a parasitic mechanic, they should really hire better designers smh. Also I realized that craft would probably be more interesting with artifacts that have tap abilities.

[inverse-problem]

lmao can't believe I forgot that people will just take jokes to their obvious conclusion here and also that not everyone is used to just being able to walk 2 minutes from where they live and stand beside an active construction site (this is re: my robot sex construction site joke post lol). I mean obv lots of people are also joking but I sure hope people don't think I'm literally recommending people to just wander onto a random construction site. because uh, don't do that. stay outside the barricades, they're up there for a reason

for context there's so much construction where I live that I walk right beside at least 2 active construction sites on my way to work. because I live in a densely built-up city area, it's literally impossible to avoid. obviously I stay outside the barricades and I do not linger if they're doing something loud because I value my hearing. but sometimes I get to see cool shit like when they use an excavator with a drill attachment, or when a crane lifts something big up onto a skyscraper, or when there's a huge hole in the ground, etc. it's cool when you gradually see a building go up in a place you pass by regularly and then suddenly there's just a building there. that catches me by surprise sometimes

there was one year where I was woken up every weekday at 7 am by the noise of reversing trucks and the like because there was a large active construction site directly beside where I lived. now for a few years there's been a construction site directly beside where I live, but thankfully on a different side of the block, so at least that one isn't audible to me when it would be bothersome lol. so anyway I guess what I'm saying is if you want to hear construction noise then try to visit your nearest moderately-large or larger city (if there's one in your area) because then you can walk by plenty of construction sites (safely outside of whatever barricades they've set up, for fuck's sake). or just watch some videos online

[eri-pl]

Oh. Oh. Mhm, not to me, but I appreciate it. Thank you for tagging me!

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

[strawburrymeadows]

people will tell me “ew why would you want to major in something with math?” but then act surprised when i not only solve the hard bonus challenge my calc teacher gave us, but also called it fun

[but-a-humble-selfshipper]

Y'know something I feel in the need to confess and wait hang on.

^ this is me talking this this is like a teen.girl talking to her crush. Ok? Anyway,

I have SUCH an issue bc Hoffman makes me SO insane like he's so fucking hot and also just beautiful and I really like him but... I cannot bring myself to see him in such a relationship w Lil Luly.

And NO Can isn't an option either ! ! Can is way too, weird. They don't fit here + he's a good person and would try to stop them and etc. But like it's just so silly bc it does show how strong the difference between R.L. and L.L. .......

Though who knows what the future could await . . .

[moonyvvamp]

been thinking a lot about Rumi being quirky because of the demon dna and highkey feel like she does adorable shit because of it.

Like we know the demon teeth thing and all that but she probably has that trademark autistic ass smile, and looks like toothless trying to imitate hiccup a lot. Jinu probably got practice looking hot but Rumi's been learning on the go, homegirl doesn't know how to smile, she has to take classes.

Whenever the girls need something found, she finds it because she can track their scent using enhanced senses, she uses heavy duty headphones because her ears are really sensitive.

Accidentally breaks things a lot, whenever they need a jar opened or anything Rumi opens it for them. But when Zoey or Mira make something for her she's extra careful about her superhuman strength.

she also appears out of nowhere a lot, jumpscare queen alert, no one can win in hide and seek against her. Their haunted house bits go hard because half the time Zoey is screaming with Mira trying to calm her down because something touched her and it's just Rumi on stealth mode

Rumi can't go to a lot action movies because the stimuli sends her demon genes into overdrive and she just starts seeing everything in 4D and it gives her headaches. With fancy stages it's cool because she knows the elements that go into it, she's focusing on the honmoon and she has her inear to guide her. But what is she supposed to do in a stuffy movie theater in the dark? she kind of freaks out because she can't focus enough to tell the difference between demons and humans there and the girls have to escort her home.

She probably also whispers in their ears a lot. Mira and Zoey are just sitting and here comes Rumi out of nowhere blowing air into their ears and whispering " Let's finish a tub of ice cream " Like a very adorable devil.

And considering the fact that demons are all literally starving and most of their soul portions goes to gwi-ma some part of her is also hardwired to fight tooth and nail for food, especially when she's really hungry. She instinctively pulls bowls closer and stares unnervingly when the girls reach for it and they have to verbally assure her that she can finish it.

On the inverse I think she also gets very protective, like someone talks shit about the girls and Rumi's there with a scary glint in her eyes going " Take it back or else " She isn't sure about the else yet but she looks terrifying enough that they do take it back and beg for forgiveness.

And this is just plain adorable but I love how they confirmed that Rumi is the type to puff out her chest and stand there like a kindergartener who just managed to colour inside the lines. She probably does that a lot too.