#making waves finally!

[cafefiorentini]

kriselle comic

[eraenia-era]

Zani

[garden-of-rambles]

Some Odysseus/Odypen headcanon ramblings that have been on my mind while writing my fic:

So one of the tags on my story is ‘Odysseus is touched starved’ and for me it feels like such a natural conclusion about his character in general, and the way he interacts with Penelope.

Like, he became King at thirteen, when his dad was in the process of losing himself entirely. He had to "be the man of the house" and take care of everyone else around him, even those that originally would have taken care of him, like his father, or his mother who was preoccupied helping care for her husband/and would know that Odysseus had to step forward as a man sooner than he should have. And of course his younger sister was always someone that he helped take care of, not the other way around.

He is never just Odysseus after that, even among those who are considered close to him. He is King. He is Captain. He is the one who leads and looks after those in his care, and if that means there's no one to do that for him, well...he just gets used to it. He ignores the longing for it that remains, crawling beneath his skin and twisting in his stomach. It's not like he has a choice. That doesn't mean his family or friends didn't try to help, but once Odysseus took on those roles he couldn't be the one seeking comfort, the one needing care or instruction. So many of the comforting and loving touches he had received during childhood just lessen and lessen until they hardly happen at all. He is the man of the house. He is King. He is Captain. He is the one who offers assurance, not the one who needs it. Sometimes there are pats on the shoulder, or brief embraces, but he is usually the one giving them. And it's nice, always, that momentary contact, but they're not ones he wants to linger in. The idea of anyone else reciprocating is...uncomfortable, like clothing that chafes, because this is his role, who he is, what he must define himself by.

Then, of course, he meets Penelope. And the desire for touch is utterly overwhelming. Not just in a sexual way -- though there certainly is that -- but in every way.

The first time, it's such an incidental moment, perhaps only a second or two of contact. They had been talking at night beneath their olive tree -- a name he had already begun to call it by in his mind after just a few meetings -- and he had been in the middle of saying something, telling a story, likely just to make her laugh. But he couldn't say what he'd been talking about, because while he's mid-sentence -- without thought, as if it were the most natural thing to do -- Penelope reaches over, and pulls a twig with some olive leaves from his hair. He hadn't even noticed it caught there, but the barest brush of her fingers makes him speechless. He forgot whatever he had been saying, even as Penelope eyed him in confusion, waiting for him to finish, but he can't, because the only words that would come from his mouth would be him asking her to do that again.

It gets worse after that, but in a way he doesn't want to stop.

He craves it. More than food or water. Maybe even more than the air he breathes. Wanting to touch her he understood, and it was an equal desire that left him constantly stopping himself during the early days of their courtship, when touching where others could see would only get them in trouble. Still, his hands itch to move toward her, to guide her arm or thread her fingers through his, to hold her and kiss her and then do far more indecent things. But how much he needs her to touch him is the surprise, and one he is not prepared for, cannot be prepared for. As they grow closer and it happens more and more, it's as if his need only increases, and it's so strong he doesn't know what to do with it except try to hold it back, as if afraid that somehow this craving would consume them both if he let it.

Penelope notices, of course. She notices everything. It was one of the first things he loved about her.

When she asked if he didn't want her to touch him, for a wild moment he wanted to laugh and cry. Thousands of words get tangled in his throat, all of them inadequate to describe how he not only wants her touch, always, but needs it.

"I want it," He finally can manage. "More than you know."

She nodded, and when she looked at him again with a little smile and a cunning glint in her eyes, he realized her first question had been meant only to reveal this. To get him to admit it.

She tricked him. It left him stunned, dizzy, awed. Somehow more in love with her than he had already been.

"Then do not deprive yourself," She replied, smiling wider. "Or me."

He couldn't, after that. And never was able to again.

sooo uhhhh being touched starved definitely didn't get worse after being away from his wife and son for so long, no no why do you ask??? Its not like the ache of being away from the only people he feels he can be vulnerable around feels like it's actually killing him some days, nope, definitely not.

Anyways, this is something I'm really trying to get across in my own fic, because it just feels so true to his character for me, so I had to word vomit about it for a bit.

[road-hauler]

A very fed up concorde for your eyeballs

[theguyinthemathexamples]

Silly idea me and my friend had with sagau, sahsrau and possibly sawuwaau(??)

But like, what if, due to your consciousness essentially merging/being connected to the MC more, sometimes stuff gets a lil funky and you start seeing things you shouldn't

Like yk, ghosts 😇🙏

I recommend strapping in because these are gonna be three flash fictions into one + having lots of talking lol

(more utc‼️)

For example, in a fic style:

"Hey, are you gonna eat your food, Traveler?" Paimon asked, looking worriedly at the distracted visage of her friend. "Something on your mind? You can always tell Paimon what's on your mind!"

They shook their head, eyes looking at the person who stared at them and their companion. Eyes unblinking, appearance overall disheveled and aged.

"That guy's been staring at us the whole time we've been eating," they replied, eyes switching over to Paimon in a barely contained distressed fashion. "It's almost worrying me."

"What guy?"

Paimon silently asked again, "What?" when her friend looked at her so incredulously.

"You don't see him?" they asked again, now worried beyond belief. The last time Paimon saw them like this was when they fought Arlecchino.

"Traveler, I think that's a ghost we're both seeing," the voice inside his mind pointed out, trying to calm their mental state. Right, they forgot the Creator was a part of their mind now.

And as the voice just predicted, one blink and that figure was gone, the Traveler seeing its shadow scurry into a corner of the restaurant.

The door chime rang out and in a cyan and a blue haired boy entered the restaurant, another blue haired girl following right after. Right, Chongyun, Xingqiu and Xiangling.

The ghost must've scurried off when it sensed Chongyun nearby. Well, at least that put an end to their distress.

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LIKE THE AMOUNT OF DISTRESS WHEN THE MCS SEE A GHOST FOR THE FIRST TIME

it'd be so chaotic, especially hsr's mcs bc good god they're already so adhd coded

You could think of them going through it like:

"Woah woah, what's got you all terrified, Trailblazer?" March 7th asked, a worried Dan Heng embracing them when they accidentally bumped into him trying to run away from something.

The Astral Express were quickly informed by them personally that they've been seeing ghosts and all sorts of spiritual apparitions that don't normally appear physically like heliobi, but seemingly living people that were doing normal things or otherwise.

It all started around the time they also figured out that the Creation's consciousness had somehow taken an interest in the Trailblazer, latching onto their body and making the Stellaron inside them a bit restless, unstable.

"It's... I saw Cocolia at the Administrative District," they said, panting from exhaustion. The story sounded so unreal, with how impossible it sounded, but with how broad the Creation works nothing was truly impossible.

"She was looking at Bronya shopping and talking to the people, always un-staring." March patted their back in assurance, joining Dan Heng in sitting them down onto the red couches in the Parlour Car.

"When I came closer to see if she was real, she whipped her head around so fast with the scariest look on her face!—"

"It's okay, Caelus Stelle Trailblazer, she can't reach you here," the choir of voices erupted in their mind, the chirping of birds and clinking machinery in their tone momentarily calming them down by a substantial amount.

"Well, it's a good thing ghosts can't get into the Express because that means she can't hurt you here!" March exclaimed, Dan Heng having to resist rolling his eyes at the obvious but letting her reassure them nonetheless. Dumb, dumber and dumbest— the trio wouldn't be complete with one of them missing.

Then, the cabin's speakers erupted in an all too familiar voice. "Attention, all Astral Express crew members! Dinner is ready, so please hurry over to the kitchen cabin and join me and Welt to eat here!" The Astral Express's Conductor excitedly exclaimed over the mic, never failing to make the three smile from their infectious enthusiasm.

"Well, we were supposed to find you and Himeko for dinner but it looks like Pom Pom beat us to it again," March said, jumping up from her seat with her hands on her hips.

"Last one to reach the kitchen cabin is a rotten egg!"

"Hey, no fair, you got a head start!"

Dan Heng sighed at the two's shenanigans yet again, slowly getting up from his own seat as the two raced over to the cabin. That Aeon truly knew how to control and manipulate the emotions of a being to THEIR liking, and he even felt it wash over him earlier.

He'll need to observe it more before adding another entry into THEIR dedicated part of the Archives.

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This one was a little confusing to make into a scenario but it's what my eepy mind came up with on the spot :p

Now for our dearest Rover, it's a bit difficult to make it make sense, yk? Mostly because Tacet Discords shapeshifting into people is canon (if people actually paid attention to the lore), much less actually fitting the lore of this seemingly interplanetary eldritch being into the world of Wuthering Waves in the first place lmao

Maybe we could be the galaxy eye we see in the first cutscene, as well as the one when Abby (the lil echo that appeared after the Dreamless fight) and Rover being together

But this is all me yapping about a whole other subject— related, but not the one we're diving into right now

Getting back into the subject though, this is how i think it'd go:

It was another bright, sunny day at Panhua's Restaurant, the scent of delicious food wafting through the air as always. Rover, Yangyang, Chixia and Jiyan all sat around a table, with Abby floating around all plump and full.

"Say, Rover, didn't you say you had something to say for us today?" Chixia inquired, stacking and overall making the empty dishes look cleaner and neater.

"Yeah, just a strange sighting I saw near Desorock Highlands," they replied, putting a deft hand on their chin as if to think back on the memory.

"Me, Jiyan and The Black Sun were conversing like usual when we came across groups of people near the Tacet Field where the Thundering Memphis usually dwelled," Rover recounted, unconsciously pulling the leash that was attached to Abby's collar closer. "Some were laughing with eachother, acting as if most groups weren't crying out in agony."

"Aren't those just Tacet Discords that have absorbed lots of human frequencies?"

"No, there was something more... alive to them, besides the fact that the General himself couldn't see them," they replied to Yangyang, letting the leash go as Abby went back in their Tacet Mark with one last burp.

"Even when I went closer to them, they didn't attack me, more or less ignoring me entirely."

"Wait, who's this 'The Black Sun' you're talking about Rover? Is there another echo inside of you?" Chixia jumped up to ask, startling both Jiyan and Rover.

"The Black Sun is what you may have seen when you first found Rover and ventured back to Jinzhou, just as I did so as well," the General explained, waving over to Rover's direction in an attempt to explain this name to both ladies. Yangyang nodded and Chixia let out an "Oh," in understanding.

"I will admit, seeing them not react to us at all looked a lil' unnerving," the voice inside their mind stated in a breathy voice, unclear like a cloud of smoke.

Though the voice had no body and claimed that they weren't an echo like Abby, only really being able to be heard clearly when they're dreaming, it often provided support whenever it could— unlike a certain someone.

"I've already sent the proper human resources over to investigate the matter, the only thing left to do is to wait for results," Jiyan said, already standing up when he saw the bill arriving.

The three simply nodded in thanks to the General, knowing full well he'd insist on it till his last breath. And when he came back to the table the subject had already changed into another, more or less silly one.

Well, at least everyone was enjoying themselves.

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I didn't have much for the last part like i said, and it's more filled with dialogue, but it's better than nothing

Please do tell me if I missed anything or said something totally wrong!!

Now, is this an excuse to push my sahsrau fic more? ... mmmmaayyybbeee 😇

[stcries]

❝ there will come a poet, who's weapon is his word... ❞

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[mysticalcats]

i made another cats oc there is no saving me

some more notes under the cuttt

. one of the younger cats. he hangs out with the kittens mostly, and good friends with tumblebrutus

. tumblebrutus just kind of drags him everywhere. ellipsis didn't even choose to be friends with him, tumble just went "yeah i like that one"

. likes to nap on the shelves at the library

. also likes to hang around jenny and jellylorum. he helps them knit (holds the yarn because that's the best he can do)

. i imagine he HATES foxglove. he just thinks he's annoying. he'll never tell him but he's thinking it really hard. foxglove doesn't notice he'll keep talking and talking at him. also foxglove keeps showing him bugs for some reason and he doesn't like it

. him and alonzo get along. they just sit there

[demodraws0606]

People complaining about Tsukasa5 already are pissing me off, because like, it's so unbelievably obvious what this event is trying to do and the fact that people are so hung up on "urgh dur tsukasa strong why can't he do a wall climb".

Like, first of all, a lot of Tsukasa's strength has been used as comedy before and also it's never been said that Tsukasa could specifically do a wall climb before so people calling this a retcon or a stretch is really dumb to me.

Sure we can make jokes about it, but this is not like a serious writing problem or anything.

Also are we just gonna ignore the fact this event is literally just a reference to his 3rd event in a silly trenchcoat. Or the fact that this is obviously meant to be WxS's downtime and training arc to prepare them to face the loose plotpoints in the future?

His inner dialogue when chasing the ninja is very clearly a reference to the whole Pheonix thing, how he can't reach it no matter how hard he tries.

The wall climb is like an extremely fucking on the nose metaphor to him climbing over his issues as an actor.

THERE IS ALSO THE WHOLE THING THAT HINTS THAT TSUKASA CAN ONLY OVERCOME HIS PROBLEMS IF HE HAS HELP FROM OTHERS (AKA tsukasa would've literally BEEN INJURED, if it wasn't for the fact the troupe's leader was there).

In fact this literally followed an event aka Tsukasa 4 where he FAILED to do his role correctly.

It's almost like this event is meant to be a transition point between Tsukasa 4 and 6, where Tsukasa builds up the knwoledge on how to face his problems.

But no this is just mid event because it's very silly and "wow plot is stupid why can't tsukasa wall climb".

WxS fans are slowly just turning into VBS fans in terms of how whiney they're being i swear

[eraenia-era]

Jiyan

[cryingpariah]

(The incredible Sneak-Wave Pirates belong to the equally incredible @inzendino !)

Jackie: Hello Hello!

Rein: If you weren’t a living compass, I’d be concerned you were something of a stalker.

Jackie: Oh I’m much too busy to stalk anyone, though I admit, I've been dying for an introduction to be made with your newest member.

Hati (bursting through door to the deck): Captain! I smell another person on board!

Jackie: Y'know, if it wasn’t for the Mink's uncanny sense of smell I’d be offended by that statement.

Hati: :0! You sound like the nice lady from the phone! Are you really here this time?

Jackie (sitting on deck to be at eye level): Live and in person. Nice to meet you Hati. May I ask what exactly you were smelling before?

Hati: You just don’t smell like anyone else on the ship! You smell like *sniffs* the wind, paper, ink and *pause, then sniff Jackie's bag* this one smells long.

Rein (staring at bag): Take this as a sign to clean your stuff more Jackie. Nothing in this world should smell long.

Hati (touching his snout): Maybe my nose is broken??

Jackie (patting Hati while sending a playful glare to Rein): Neither of those things are true. This bag is no ordinary bag so it lacks an ordinary smell. It’s eaten the Bottom-Bottom fruit and has become a Bottomless Bag. It can carry infinity.

Hati: :O!! That's so cool! Doesn’t that get heavy though?

Jackie: It is very cool! And not to worry, it’s also light as a feather regardless of its content. It’s quite literally the perfect accessory for a girl on the go and no Rein, it is absolutely not for sale.

Rein: Kohoko, am I that obvious! Just thinking about all the beri I could take with me…

Jackie (laughing): You have potentially the world's stealthy ship and a robot hand with almost half a thousand uses and you still need this bag? Does your greed know no end!

Rein: KOHOKO! OF COURSE IT DOESN’T!

Jackie: Hate to crush your dreams here but even if you could take it, you wouldn’t be able to use it anyway. The bag doesn’t open for anyone but the previous owner, who is dead of his own volition, and me.

Rein: Can’t believe you're presenting a master thief something that’s never been opened and not expect me to go for it.

Jackie (standing up) : I’m fully expecting it, just don’t want you to get your hopes up. Here are the ground rules: You have until I finish my lunch break (hour and a half) to open it, you may get assistance from your crewmates and weapons/DF abilities are allowed but if you rip the leather I’m charging you for it.

Rein (nodding along): All fair. What happens if I do the impossible?

Jackie: Guess we have no choice then to fight to the (not) death for it. *pulls out lunch from bag and hands it to Rein* Have at it big guy.

Rein: Mono! Sol! Jolene! Need you on the deck pronto!

[Mild time jump]

Rein: …And we have until she finishes her lunch so let’s give it all we got!

Jolene: Sorry kid but we're definitely taking the infinite booze bag!

Sol: SHIKIKIKI! YOU MEAN THE INFINITE WEAPON BAG!

Mono: C-can it really hold anything anything like.. *gulp* people?

Jackie (unscrewing thermos): Could probably fit a giant in there but I have no idea if there’s air so I haven’t tried. Also your time start 27 seconds ago.

Rein: Alright, let’s do this!

[Montage of the Sneak-Waves trying to open the infinite bag while Jackie and Hati chat and split Jackie's lunch.]

Hati: Thank you for the food Miss Jackie!

Jackie: Not a problem, I’m just glad you liked it. Here *passes over a brownie* something sweet for after dinner.

Jackie (loudly speaking): I do believe your time is up!

[Jackie walks over to the now disheveled Sneak Waves and gently takes the bag, looking down to see Sol hanging off it with her teeth.]

Jackie: Kinda need this back now.

Sol: *indecipherable shouting*

Rein: It’s alright Sunny, we tried our best. *carefully wrenches Sol off the bag and into his hand*

Jolene/Jackie: 😏😏/👁️👁️

Sol (red-faced): SHIKIKI! STOP LOOKING AT ME!

Rein: I guess that’s it. My dreams of the infinite money bag are over…

Hati: *patting Rein's leg* Sorry Captain.

Jackie (putting thermos back into bag and walking off): Who’s to say really. If you were to get me another great story like Grand Tesoro, you might catch me during another lunch break.

Rein (perking up): Kohoko! You’ve got yourself a deal! Prepare for stories that’ll blow your mind!

Jackie: Counting on it Captain.

[yutamayo]

Remembered how Yuki Kaji lost his voice recording Eren's scream in that insane scene (s4 part 2 ep5) and came across an article about how Kaji cried over Eren's story/character...

Then went down a thought train of how Junya Enoki, Yuji Itadori's VA, must be emotionally rekt from that scream in Shibuya Incident. Like. That scene traumatizes me every time I think ab it. Fr that scene gave me another mental illness.

I'd like to just send a small prayer out to the vocal chords and psychological health of all Japanese VA's.

[lovecolibri]

So you're telling me that Amanda took a bullet to the fucking CHEST and we're ending the season on "she made it through surgery, the next 48 hours are critical" on the "everyone's lives are The Worst and so much is happening to them at all times" show, meanwhile on the "hope, second chances, and everyone makes it out alive show, Bobby died from a non-airborn virus after a whole goddamn season that told the audience to be watching for fakes, and tricks, and a whole lot of time spent on a meta storyline about a tv show where the captain "died" but came back because the audience loved him so much, and the whole thing was treated kinda like a joke so the audience kept waiting to be let in on it only to end the season with him still dead.

Because that makes sense 😒😒😒

[asooffa]

hey soof who's your favorite character introduced in dragons rising

i dont know what the first guys problem is but he pisses me OFF

[pennamepersona]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me paying for Fate so I could get these all in the same day!!!!!! Me complaining about the Marrow grind because I chose a really annoying one!!!! Me getting Supreme in luxury even though I already had spouses just because I thought it'd be cool!!!!!!

NOVELLUS IS A PARAMOUNT PRESENCE!!!!!

[wackywatchdotcom]

Hey. Remember that Metamorphosis fanfic you linked me when we were talking about Queenie? Yeah I finally read it and it destroyed me. FUCK YOU (THANK YOU) ((IT WAS SO GOOD)). A Kinger/Queenie centric fanfic was exactly what I needed and I wish there was more

HEHE HELL YEAHHHHH im so glad my recommendation could prompt someone else to read it!!!!!!!!

its my FAVORITE tadc fanfic (arguably one of my fav fanfics just In General), if u saw that like 600 word comment on it that was me LMAOOO, it has SUCH good pacing and character interactions and has one of THE most interesting examples of a cognitive change in the main character that ive seen in a fic. im still in awe of how he managed to do that, cus conveying a gradual shift in how a characters comprehending memory and the world around them without it seeming abrupt or borderline nonexistent is EXTREMELY challenging. that the reader can tell whats going on as its happening is SOOOO cool!!!!!!

that AND just. the charaacter interactions. i love how queenie interacts with everyone. the scenes w gangle make me collapse into dust. i love gradually hearing each of the characters get mentioned in their own ways its kind of horrifying. "he doesnt think queenie got better" makes me want to bawl, and the shift from "queenie hasnt been feeling alright lately" [repeated] -> "queenie really hasnt been feeling alright lately" -> "he doesnt think queenie got better" -> " queenie is dead" -> "kinger hasnt been feeling alright lately" makes me. .augh. aoughhhhhh. "the first player to never know queenie" fucks me UP

anyway. point being i LOOOVE this fic so much i NEED to reread it again bc its been WAY too long since i last sat down to read it, though i genuinely do regularly think about it HAHA. for anyone reading this post that hasnt read it, u can read it here!!! worth noting the author of this fic IS also on tumblr and his acc can be found here!!!

i do think its funny like i havent searched thru tadc fics in a Minute but all the ones i remember REALLY loving had to do w kinger HAHA i think something about that man just brought out the fic authors who like to write like... grounded and vaguely-to-very sad things which i DEEPLY enjoy. one i remember being especially fond of was Just Hold Onto Me!!! which i think has a fun grasp on the series silliness but with enough emotional sincerity that works REALLY well imo!!! i need to reread it again too its also been far too long, ive spent so much time on tumblr nd yt i forget to come back...

i need to get back into looking around for rly good tadc fics, im truthfully quite picky with fics so i dont read them verrrry often, BUT its always SO fun finding really REALLY good ones, and one day i really gotta try to find some pomni ones

[yoccu]

I’m having a straight up terrible time drawing two environments for Dyskrasias AMV but I’m being really brave about it!