#misc: aged up

[lockwood-fic-recs]

When All is Said and Done

by buggybugs on ao3

Rating: G | Category: F/M | Relationship: Lockwood/Lucy

After their engagement is announced publicly, Lockwood and Lucy are invited to take part in the television show Top Chef as celebrity judges, with the intent to feature their wedding on the next Wedding Wars episode. But it quickly turns into an absolute disaster. What did you expect when you agreed to get married on live television?

[galedekarios]

[during the main quest on tearstone island, hot on the heels of two elven gods about to blight the world] rook: mercenaries again. they have mages! emmrich: what ragged spellcraft!

emmrich criticising another mage's spellcraft while we're trying to hunt down ghilan'nain and elgar'nan is so funny.

he really was like

[itz-pandora]

Scruffy scruffy teenage Tails

[misc-obeyme]

I think it’s super funny to imagine the cast with an MC who uses Gen Z and Gen Alpha lingo/slang just to be annoying and silly

beel: i’m hungry

mc: i went to hungry town and everyone knew you

beel: what

mc: bro is hungrymaxxing

beel: what

It's okay, Beel. I'm afraid I share your confusion. I am but a humble millennial.

I definitely think Beel would just be confused lol.

For some reason I see Levi, Asmo, and Belphie being the ones who actually understand what it means. I suppose because Levi and Asmo seem like they're the ones most plugged into the internet where they are more likely to come across such lingo. And Belphie I can't explain. Maybe because he's the youngest? Or I feel like he just learns everything through osmosis somehow? I really don't know.

I also love the idea that Luke knows the slang. Just imagine him and MC sitting there chatting away with all that and Simeon's sitting there like ??? Raphael shocks everybody by knowing it, too.

Diavolo wouldn't know it, but he'd be thrilled to learn it. And then he's gonna be like that "hello fellow kids" meme where he tries to use it and he's not using it wrong, but it sounds hilarious.

Lucifer stubbornly pretends that none of these things are happening.

[rockpaperscissuhs]

Hispanic Heritage Month + Band of Brothers

For the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 - Oct. 15), I rolled up my sleeves to do some research on Latinos who served in Easy Company.

Here's who I found…

Antonio C. "Tony" Garcia

Here's the bio & gif set I made for him:

Ynez M. "Tito" Mendoza

Ynez was born September 22, 1925 in California. His parents, Jose and Carlota, were both born in Mexico and had immigrated to the U.S.

He enlisted in Los Angeles in January 1944, and joined Easy Company as a replacement. In October 1944, he was wounded in the lower leg by artillery, but returned to the line December 1944.

After the war, he married and had 3 children. He died on June 30, 2011 at the age of 85.

Wiliam S. "Guillermo" Metzler

William was born and raised in Naco, Arizona. His parents, Francisco and Julia, were born in Hermosillo, in the Mexican state of Sonora. They married, and later immigrated with their first two sons to Arizona, where William and his other siblings were later born.

He was living in Los Angeles when he volunteered for the U.S. Army in August 1942. He was one of the original members of Easy Company and trained at Toccoa.

He was killed in action in Normandy on June 24, 1944, at the age of 22.

Sergio G. Moya

Sergio was born on February 24, 1921, in San Francisco, California.

In February 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was one of the original members of Easy Company and trained at Toccoa.

He was on the C-47 plane with Lt. Meehan that was shot down over Normandy by German anti-aircraft fire on June 6th, 1944 (D-Day). He died at the age of 23.

Joseph "Joe" Ramirez

Here's the bio & gif set I made for him:

[alaskan-wallflower]

how the fuck do i get mistook for both 12 and 21 at the same time like cmon

[valeovalairs]

My moms making me go ask for a job in person wish me luck

[columboscreens]

Whenever I see silver-haired Columbo I feel like a feral cat

gee. wonder why

[msharmonycobel]

not to be like "does anyone else *insert really common thing here*" but...

several posts going around about how everyone focuses on men in fandom and most fandom content and attention gets churned out for m/m ships and male characters, and I'm not saying they're incorrect but there is no phenomenon on this earth that I understand less. you have to drag me kicking and screaming to watch something with no prominent female characters. you have to drag me kicking and screaming to read contemporary fiction written by men. and I'm not, like... a radfem separatist. I'm not even a lesbian. I know and enjoy men in real life! I enjoy several men on the television but usually in relation to a woman, and their presence will never compel me to watch a TV show or ship a ship.

[pennyserenade]

there’s nothing the united states government hates more than angry protesting college students and that’s how you know they’re powerful

[apostaterevolutionary]

After some discussion elsewhere, I want to test a theory of mine

[lockwood-fic-recs]

let your heart be light

by RainShadow07 on ao3

Rating: G | Category: F/M, M/M, Multi | Relationship: Lockwood/Lucy/George

“What’s this?” Lockwood says, laughter in his voice. “What are you up to, George?”

“Not me this time,” George swears, his eyes sparkling behind his glasses, though of course, Lockwood can’t see.

“Not Lucy, my heart,” Lockwood says, mock scandalized. He’s blindfolded, sitting placidly in the library despite the ribbing he’s giving them.

Lucy and George have some Christmas gifts for Lockwood.

[butchriptide]

genuinely really frustrating that people will like. choose to accept the age mistake made in assassin as canon for deathbringer when it actively contradicts older material. like. sorry idk if this is me being unfair here but genuinely like. why would you think it's intentional when deathbringer is described in main series as maybe a year or two older than glory at most, and can canonically not be any older than 9 due to stated timeline facts in the main series.

like. I get not liking glorybringer, i really do. no ship is for everyone. hell, even if assassin specifically makes you feel weird about it, so be it, to each their own. i can undertsnad that too. and yes, the glorybringer fans who think the age gap are canon are also in the wrong. they're being really gross, i don't think it's necessary to disclaim that, that feels given, but like... that only comes to my point still of like, i really don't understand taking a spin-off as canon over the main series. i don't really understand prioritizing later content as canon as opposed to the main work over spin-off as canon. why should a spin-off take jurisdiction just cuz it's newer? i feel like the older the canon is, the more likely it is the newer stuff will make mistakes. to me, in the case of a contradiction, the main series should be taken to? a spin-off is meant to supplement the main series, so shouldn't it only supplement canon that doesn't contradict?

like also, i get being frustrated it isn't fixed, but also. like. i obviously have not worked with a publisher before, but if I was writing for fucking scholastic books, no matter how well fucking beloved my series was, I don't know if I could risk being like "hey. can you pull my books from shelves and e-stores for me so that I can edit one line?" Like. I really don't think there's any reality in which I can make a corporation agree to that kind of thing, no matter what that one line may fuck up about my main story. like it's not even the only mistake she makes in the winglets. she calls deathbringer a rainwing in the flip book, but we're not hailing that as canon in retrospect, right? I don't know. I think it's unfair to presume that she's choosing not to fix it as opposed to it being an improbable to downright impossible thing to ask of a publisher. like yes tui is an incredibly successful author but i really don't know if we can presume she has that much actual sway on her publisher.

it's just really exhausting as a deathbringer enjoyer to feel like if I want to talk about and enjoy his character, and yes, that includes context given in the assassin winglet once you ignore the timeline error, i feel like I constantlyyy have to be saying "yes I think the timeline error is an error. no i don't think deathbringer is 13." like. every time i bring him up. i'm a riptide fan I'm used to it but also it's sooooo tiring to go into a character tag for a guy i like and be swamped with hatred for him and it's so much worse for deathbringer than riptide because in the deathbringer tag I have to deal with being actively accused of excusing gross shit for liking him instead of people just saying that my blorbo is boring.

[troublcmakcrs]

//i love how i was like "i gotta get more active on my dashes" and then immediately got lost in the sims 3 sauce

[masterskywalkers]

So I did Emmrich’s first companion quest today - the one where he shows Rook around the Necropolis gardens - and I ... am very pleasantly surprised at how much I am enjoying how his personality is not what I expected. I mean, I was already interested in his character because, well, necromancer (always will love anything tied to my gothic horror roots) for one and also Nevarran! But from when I first saw inklings of his character design pop up I expected him to be a sort of a nod to old classic horror movie actors in the vein of Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing. And whie he definitely does still feel like a love letter to those people - I definitely see Peter Cushing inspiration in his design - Emmrich’s character is just so refreshing ... nice.

His backstory as to why he got into the occult in the first place is so real and yet something I haven't really seen in much media before. He has such a care and respect with the dead and their souls, and while there could have easily been a sense of lonlieness to his character ... there isn't. He seems content and happy to be around the dead, and with the history of his parents and his own fears of death, it's clear that he finds comfort whilst working with spirits. I mean, just with how he handles Manfred, how he treats him like a son almost with how he teaches and encourages his curiosity, you instantly get an image of how he cares.

I expect we'll see some of the usual tropes for necromancy and undead pop up in his story -- as soon as I saw the slide about the Hand of Glory my mind was instantly like 'oh, so that's the Hand of Vecna for Dragon Age universe. Alright then' - but please, no spoilers as I'm still exploring the game for myself. I've just been very surprised by his character so far and I'm really liking it.

[ladyjmontilyet]

listen, i'm very sorry to be a cunt but i saw a very funny post and the last line of it is just sending me:

"[imagine if] dao had an elven god come down to us and grant us the power to slay the archdemon. it's bad!"

DAO is a game where the elven goddess Mythal saves you from certain death in the Tower of Ishal, gives you treaties that grant you the power to establish an army, and then sends her daughter to do a ritual that saves your life and cleanses the god you're going to fight. The post also completely ignores that we have been fighting gods since the very beginning - the archdemon Urthemiel is a god who was actively worshipped.

like, how can you end your post with that line when that's exactly how it happened lmao