#just me rambling into the void

[the-witchhunter]

When talking about DnD and TTRPGs, the thing that immediately tells me I should not take someone seriously is if they say something along the lines of "typical 5e player behavior"

say what you want about 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons, it has some problems, all systems do. I really like playing other systems myself and think learning multiple is fun and can be an enriching experience, but talking about typical 5e players is such a bad faith take

Mostly it's just "not like other girls" or i guess "not like other Table Top Player" reactivism to the popular thing. But also it always seems to be about stuff I've literally never seen a normal 5e player do. Like, the concept of the "that guy" has been around for ages. This isn't a new thing or limited to 5e, the only reason you see so many is that idiots are loud and noticeable and 5e is incredibly popular.

rant over, yes there was a post and some of the replies prompted this, no it was not even about 5e DnD yet people were commenting about typical 5e player behavior. Sometimes a bad player is just a bad player

[inastarlesssky]

I just read a Dramione fic that left me a little 👀😶.

I think I decided dark!Draco/Hermione is not my cup of tea.

[sickofthis666]

How did periods even ended up as a joke? I know, I know it's MenTM and women always being the butt of the joke but indulge me.

I mean, rationally, even if all women were cranky on their periods, wouldn’t they have a very good reason to be? Why would you mock someone who's bleeding and in pain? In what other scenario would you ever mock someone bleeding and in pain? I can imagine mocking someone for a minor nosebleed, but even then, the reaction is usually concern.

It's one of those senseless things everyone accepts that makes me feel crazy, like body hair being dirty on women but not on men.

[lackpenny]

a broken man's last effort, all for nothing

[killerpancakeburger]

Oblivious!Human!Reader x Smitten!Werewolf!Soap 🐺

Soap, pinning them against a wall, in a growl: Y'drive me bloody mad, y'know tha? (sexual) (bc Reader has been missing all the hints he drops)

Reader: Oh... sorry (interprets "driving mad" as "annoying")

[the-bi-fangirl-biatch]

what if something happens to yelena in doomsday and that causes bob to crashout and turn into sentry/void again WHAT THEN

[chalkrub]

thank you for a great art fight! here's some of my final attacks. had a blast, already missing it - see you next year!

[fryday]

I think it's been generally accepted that the simplest answer to people asking if dnp are a couple is, "well they built a house together, so make of that what you will" because that's the only really concrete fact we know of that speaks to their current relationship status. but sometimes I think - damn, is that even just an important *clue* to the status of things? or is that kind of *it*? is there anything more you need to know about two people than that, at the end of every day, the only people they'd want to completely let their walls down around is each other? that only the two of them know what the other looks like first thing in the morning, still in their pyjamas & before coffee; or at the end of a rough day, cranky and stomping around and eventually tired and soft enough to say goodnight; or frustrated to hell over the menial tasks needed to keep a household going like doing the taxes or getting the right groceries..... I could keep going on. we might really never know whether dnp call each other husbands or partners or boyfriends or best friends or housemates, or if they're exclusive or open, whatever. but what we do know without any doubt is that they are It for each other. they are each other's no. 1 most important person. and that is most indisputably shown through the fact that they built a house together. they chose to create their own little world within the world. the place where they can be 100% who they are, 100% of the time. and they want to share that place with each other.

what more is there to know?

[astergore]

context: i interpret inspekta as having Known that he was eating cappy's heart but in the context that he Didn't know i think it would be ridiculously funny

[thistlerock]

As I try to think about and write combat scenes with the Bad Kids I notice Fabian and Riz might be the most compelling duo for me to write even when I try not to be insane about qpr stuff. Idk they work well together, not just chemistry character wise but also just. Like. Narratively? Fabian demands attention in every space he enters no matter if he opens his mouth or not, and he gets that attention, especially now with his battle master manoeuvres and general bard demeanour. Riz works the most effectively when no one is looking at him. People are often happy to overlook him, but sometimes they zero in on him for all the wrong reasons. The bigger Fabian's presence is the bigger the shadow he casts becomes and Riz so comfortably works hiding in the shadows.

Very simple and obvious but it's a nice dynamic to fall back on. Be it oh fuck I concentrated too much on the really loud guy stabbing me and forgot to even try to look for the guy that just got a 27 on stealth or okay social encounter Fabian's doing a lot of talking because he's so charismatic and makes people let their intellectual guard down and Riz is quietly listening in and properly absorbing information to draw conclusions Fabian couldn't come to because he's not the most insightful guy

[cent-scratchnsniff]

hoptal

[midnightfrappe]

i've been pondering lately,,

[madamemiz]

votv is really clever in how it makes you care about dr. kel as a protagonist despite that he barely has a tangible presence in the game

for the first few days, aside from a name in an email, you don't have much to go on. there are what appear to be fun/nerdy stickers on his suitcase and he brought emergency toilet paper and a plushy with him to his solitary job in the middle of nowhere. so he's maybe a bit practical, a little quirky, but those are just crumbs of information, and these sort of first person games tend to lean a little more on the self-insert side anyway. without much else to go on, the next handful of quiet days proceed with you easily slipping into his shoes, forgetting he exists as the protagonist. you're doing the job, you're cleaning your base, you're getting creeped out by every random noise. you live here now. the game is clever about making you care about the base too, but that's a post for another day

time passes, and little by little, you notice small details that add up. the strange and specific nightmares about work and drowning and mannequins. the roaches you can eat with no ill effects that give you a food boost to boot. the clumsy tendency to trip and fall over pretty much anything, the pickiness over food

you save up enough to get a kerfur, have the bright idea to check their camera while they're in the room with you, and there you see it in the camera; not you, but him. maybe he looks the way you imaged, maybe he looks completely different, but suddenly you're very aware that dr. kel exists

then you start to get a glimpse of how other people perceive him--croissants snuck on the drone for him by a friend who brags about her cooking, sushi snuck to you by another friend who calls him an asshole and says she misses him, both of whom are presumably his colleagues and both of whom seem worried for him. the smiling plushie of him the arirals gift if he gets on their good side, their note calling him cute attached to it along with an ominius offer of help in bad times. kerfur calling him a dumbass if he makes them do the reports twice, but also leaning down to his eye level to happily get pets

he's endearing in an odd sort of way, and people in-universe care about him. you start to care about him, which makes it all the more troubling when he makes pained sounds when he falls from too high, or starts coughing out of the blue. makes you wince when he falls off the radio tower or gets launched from the atv. makes it downright horrifying when he's caught by a wisp and torn apart limb by limb while you as the player can do nothing but watch

you find yourself wanting him to succeed, to be safe, to get out of the situation he's found himself in. or at least, i do. there isn't a ton to go on aside from some environmental storytelling and a breadcrumb trail of personality tidbits, but I personally find that trail to lead to an interesting and compelling character with enough wiggle room for further interpretation. i'm very excited to see what else we learn in future updates

[maryymaruu]

Big yawn

[divine-misfortune]

Void please do you have any more thoughts about the bitch breaker?

Oh boy do i!!!

I just...What could break Dew's heat better than Aether's cock?? That fat fucking knot?? There's a reason it's called that-

Dew's first heat, he was so out of his mind with it he almost wouldn't let Aether, or anyone, touch him at all because there were too many sensations assaulting him at once. Trying to deal with it on his own, frustrated, angry at this stupid vessel he's still not familiar with, Dew was baring his teeth at everyone who so much as looked at him despite the fact he looked close to tears and his knees were practically knocking together. He was impossible to be around - even his demeanor aside, Aether struggled to just be around him because any room Dew entered instantly smelled of sex and water ghoul pheromones and it made his mouth water, made it a little hard to think clearly if he stuck around it too long.

And Aether hadn't wanted to push the matter. He and Dew weren't mates at the time, and a ghouls heat can be a very vulnerable time, but Dew wore on his patience. The constant bitching, the attitude, the fact Dew was practically humping anything and everything like a dog while still clinging to some sort of pride he thought he had. It got old very, very quickly.

Day four was as far as Aether let it go. Who knows what set him off, but something did.

He took a handful of hair and practically dragged Dew into his room, ignored all the spitting and hissing Dew tried to fight him with but he certainly never tried to pull away. Dew cursed when he was forced down onto the bed, continued doing so even when he was manhandled into presenting himself. It wavered a little when Aether got his fingers inside but it didn't shut him up entirely.

But oh....Oh, Aether will never forget the way Dew's body went boneless when he popped the head of his cock inside him. The way his scratchy little 'fuck you' trailed off into something breathy and whiny. Dew was practically drooling before he'd even taken the full thing - and yeah, sure, he and Dew have fucked before, but not when Dew's body was literally screaming to be fucked into submission, not when Dew's instincts begged to be mated with. It was different, like Dew was feeling him for the first time again.

Aether knew it, knew that all Dew needed to start acting right was a cock inside him, and the stubborn thing had denied it out loud but with the way Dew's body practically welcomed him in and held him like it never wanted to be empty again? Well, Aether's a bit smug about it.

And after he'd gotten the whiny little water ghoul caught on his knot, the imprint of his teeth carved deep into the crook of his neck, Dew's sweet as can be. Fucked like a bitch in heat deserves. Left so perfectly pliable that even to this day Dew would do just about anything for it, goes a little dumb at the promise of being broken in on it again and again and again until there's not a hint of that pesky attitude left.

[killerpancakeburger]

Currently in an angsty mood.

On top of the xmas fic, I have one about a fat, insecure Reader who hates their body but deals by mostly ignoring it. Until they start dating Johnny. They plan to hide their body from him until it's not possible anymore and, when he inevitably breaks up with them after seeing them naked, they'll just have to suck it up.

Spoilers but not really: Soap ends up seeing them nude by accident, but there's no way he's leaving. (Plus, you’re even more mouthwatering than he imagined) He can’t believe you find yourself ugly. First of all, how dare you. That's his partner you’re talking about. Second of all, he's a very persuasive man. He'll change your mind.

I also want to write about Soap losing his mind over Reader wanting to break up (for bad/bs reasons) with him. I want him to not be able to picture a future where they're gone. I want him begging on his knees for Reader to not leave him. As some fucked up way to demonstrate how much he cares about them, how much they means to him, how viscerally he needs them.