#mmmaybe in case i post more

[error707-thatdude]

Anybody want a royalty au with a side of curses and fucked up soulmates..... King Dirk and his personal knight Dave based on rp🫶

- Dirk is cursed with something that has been very creatively called Red Miles

- At 13 Dirk's father (Alpha Dave) died to this curse, leaving him to need to shape up and take the crown (officially became king at 16, was cursed as well soon after)

- The curse starts at the extremities and moves across the body pretty quick makes mere touch very painful. The end goal of the curse is to eventually reach the heart, which obv kills u

- Dirk and Dave are cousins, their dads/bros are brothers

- Bro is actually on a revenge quest after D is killed, just- poof, never heard from again.

- When Dave finally finds out about Dirk's curse (bc the mf hides it) he decides "Welp if you're dying then I'm dying with you🫡" and proceeds to bind their souls together (Dirk is Not Happy About This)

- It's okay tho a cure will be found🫶

- @nintendont2502 hi Milo I finally posted it lmao

[prismaticutie]

If I think abt Ace Attorney too hard I will explode not only is this a threat but a promise

[shinygoku]

Top 10 CSatM Episodes (2/2)

See part 1 here

As a few paragraphs and pictures for 10 episodes in a row makes a rather long, unruly beast of a post!

The second half of my personal preferred picks for a Top 10, though the order they’re being listed in doesn’t correspond to my favour, but the order how I watch them on my DVDs. I still suggest you read the first half of the list before this one, all the same~

Spoilers below the cut, be warned! ✂

Crater 101

So this ep is pretty much a sequel to Lunarville 7, and is followed up with Dangerous Rendezvous. Neither of those made the cut of my list though, and even isolated from those it makes a solid story. The most Space-y of all the episodes and a visual treat, cause while we mostly stuck to the stark accommodations of Lunarville 7 in that episode, here we see the grey grimy gloom of the outside of the Moon, and the sharp, delightful contrast of the Mysteron’s fantastic plastic Complex. Here, vivid marbled colours and flashing lights join inorganic shapes that suggest something of the Mysteron’s nature, but as always, nothing conclusive.

Moving away from the lovely Aesthetics, this is also a strong one for characterisation. We get some sweet interactions with The Lads and for this episode only, the Best Female Character in the whole show. Linda Nolan is the controller of Lunarville 6, a smart, capable woman who had her own cool space mission referenced and in fact critical to the plot. She is also relatable in that she catches feelings for Scarlet, so while she’s barking up the wrong tree I still have nothing but respect for her, hehee.

Eerie, tense, interesting and still somewhat funny, this is another episode that eeks into an even higher ranking list than 10, I could comfortably put it in 5 and mmmaybe 3. Though I’m not gonna be able to say definitively as the best episodes all bring something different to the table, and this may just be the strongest in the uniqueness regard.

Fire at Rig 15

I get the feeling this may be an unorthodox choice, somehow? But yeah, I just really enjoy it. It’s not a funny episode, but it is rather exciting, and contains some lovely new music and a sweet scene at the end. The Mysteron’s plot is pretty simple, but should it succeed, devastating as it would be crippling Spectrum’s operations by removing the unique type of fuel all the craft uses.

In a way, it’s kind of like a dark mirror to a typical Thunderbirds setup; whereas in that show the initial fire would be more likely to be accidental or just maybe some ne’er do well like the Hood, this time it’s as simple as the Mysterons reopening the master valve. When traditional firefighters would eventually retreat to make room for International Rescue, here Spectrum themselves have a rather passive role as a professional rolls in. And of course, said man finds himself very, very dead due to further Mysteron interference (see picture), with Black seemingly hypnotising the poor bloke into standing too close to the explosion.

From there his duplicate half buries his original corpse and later receives direct instructions from Black to suicide bomb the nearby refinery, and it’s en route to this is where the thrilling car chase takes place! Scarlet saves the refinery but the whole SPV he was driving is completely ablaze at the end of it. Like my thoughts on Point 783, I really appreciate the human touch to the last scene, with soft music as arrangements are made for Scarlet to recover from the horrible state we’re spared of seeing. Seeing how his ability to recover from death is one of the cornerstones of the whole premise, I love it when we’re allowed a bit more insight into what the other Spectrum personnel do in the situations, in this case White specifically instructing Dr Fawn to make sure Scarlet is comfortable as the process takes place.

Treble Cross

A notable and unique spin of an episode, where a rather routine Mysteron threat takes quite the turn when their assassinated target is brought back to life! It seems by the 2060′s we’ll have cool machinery to do CPR for a couple of hours as well as doctors ready to play god when they happen to drive by the car crash scene, heheh

Seriously though, this is a really fresh premise, that the villains who have been using doppelgangers for their devious schemes get the tables turned. This time the duplicate gets perma-killed while the original Major Gravener willingly participates in an undercover mission to help draw Captain Black into a trap at last... However, an easily overlooked factor in the driver who was also killed had been duplicated offscreen, so even with this amazing chance Spectrum can’t catch Black. But the World Capital, Futura City, is saved and Spectrum find the Mysterons themselves can’t tell their own copies from the original person, so it’s all in all a net gain!

Also this episode contains the World’s Happiest Clock, so that’s a neat plus.

Flight 104

We start this story on the incredible note of Captain Blue singing in the shower of the Hotel room he shares with Captain Scarlet. Scarlet then orders them both room service for some lunch. And if that sounds like the start of a fanfic plot, it may well be, but it’s also literally right there in the episode, baybee!

Charmingly domestic opening aside, I love this whole shebang. Again it’s the usual Mysterons threatening of an individual who Spectrum are bodyguarding, but the way both our heroes and villains go about this is different from the norm. Scarlet and Blue are trying to avoid drawing attention, so they spend the whole episode in normal clothes (Blue spending 1/3 of this in that comfy bathrobe!), and don’t have their comms. What’s more, they get a pair of reporters suspicious, and the two trail them looking for a Big Scoop.

When I was first watching this, I was expecting the journalists to get killed by Black to be the Mysteron Pawns, but no! They’re both fine from the start to the end! Then we find Black doing ....something.... to the Flight Crew of the titular Flight 104, but they aren’t killed either, just drugged. Instead, the Mysterons remotely pilot the plane on a slow collision course with the Alps, but are undone when an Electrical Plant interferes with their control.

As breaking into the pilot cabin had the side effect of jamming the landing gear, the plane has to crash land at the airport, but almost everyone being unharmed makes this one of the most gentle episodes of the lot... of course, Scarlet himself is still heavily implied to have been killed from the crash, but even his injuries seem pretty minor this time. And yet, it’s not lacking in excitement, as the tension of Spectrum trying to communicate with the two without their Comms and the inability to override the Mysteron’s control until that pre-established Electrical weakness kicks in holds for a while.

Inferno

Those who know of me from Thunderbirds are Go (the 2015 TV series) discussion are likely to know how much I love the episode from Season 1, Tunnels of Time. It heavily features my favourite ship in that show as they explore an ancient South American Temple which is full of peril. The temple is destroyed by the end of the episode.

So anyway, Inferno features my favourite ship in this show as they explore an ancient South American Temple which is full of peril, and tragically the temple is destroyed by the end of the episode! Heheeheheee~

Ok seriously though, eerie parallels aside this is another utterly beautiful instalment, with set design and lighting that really blows other episodes out of the proverbial water. And the pyrotechnic team clearly had fun with the seemingly unending explosions at the end of the adventure. An all-around visual feast!

Main plot is relatively simple, like in White as Snow, the Mysterons kill a Satellite and its crew and steer the reconstructed version towards their target of the week. Unlike WaS, they succeed in the end, a reminder that they’re still not to be underestimated. No human lives are lost, but the important complex and more tragically, the 800 year old temple that’s otherwise intact, get bombed to smithereens. Something something additional cost of warfare on Culture and History.

But while this is the end of my personal Top 10 list, it’s not all bad, because the Scarlet and Blue antics in the temple are utterly lovely and [chef finger kiss] splendid cinema~!

That about wraps up this Two-part post of mine! Picking 10 out of 32 is easier than 10 out of 100, but it’s still tricky as most of the episodes are very good, with only a few I’d promptly write off as a candidate for the list. And in some ways I wonder if I went about this the right way, some eps I only saw once and might feel strong enough to pip one’a the ones I did choose.

I have been rewatching each of the eps covered, and a few that didn’t make it, but my initial choice was made looking at the full list and letting my gut grab a few, having to think over more as the slots filled. Some fan favourites like Lunarville 7 came close, but I hope I’ve been able to clearly convey what it is about this selection that gave them the edge ;3

I will write further posts on Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons in the future, but after this mammoth and also the Notable Episodes list I’d quite like to enjoy it for a while without thinking about points to talk about, haha

[cqlfic]

Wait! Now, I'm curious! Can I ask you not to spare us? I would now like to know your unprecedented amount of Opinion on Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings? Please?

I Awaken *busts in like the kool-aid man*

but also aaa i hope this can meet expectations or at least isn’t too "that’s it??” bc i’m really about to just go on a rambling spree rn!! buckle up babes

(gonna put it under a cut, making a note for stream-of-consciousness writing lol but i don’t ..think i have any particular hot takes? i just have an Opinion flavored a little with Frustration and Curiosity)

so for quick background: when you post something on AO3, you have six (6) options regarding archive warnings that you are required to warn for:

No Archive Warnings Apply

Graphic Depictions of Violence

Major Character Death

Rape/Non-Con

Underage

and the dear subject of my musings,

Choose Not to Use Archive Warnings

as i understand it, the intent of this last option is in case you have a plot twist or something that you don’t want to spoil but is also related to a warning – choosing not to warn for it is an Explicit Decision that is Made. that being said, choosing not to use archive warnings doesn’t necessarily mean there IS something to be warned for! it’s a “this may or may not have something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ proceed however you wish” situation, which is Fine! i think it’s a good idea, i like that creators have this option, it aligns with overall Good Internet Behavior of being in control of the content you consume

my unprecedent amount of Opinion is that sometimes i wonder if authors just go for this last option as some safety catch-all, rather than a strategic decision about the contents of the fic: they’ve put in all the effort to write the fic (🙏), they’re sharing it with us (🙏🙏), why spend more brain on picking through ratings and archive warnings? sure they’re required, but with catch-all options, it mmmaybe makes publishing easier -- fewer variables to worry about, sometimes you just want it Out y’know -- but then i think this might be unfair to authors, so i’m lowkey very hmmm @ myself about this take lol

i just feel like... idk, i’m curious about the full spectrum of reasons that authors would use “Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings” i guess, reasons i might be missing? same frequently goes for authors who choose to mark their fics Not Rated instead of picking from the Explicit/Mature/Teen/General pickings. i’m not a writer myself so there could entirely be something i’m missing, but for example if i see a fluffy slice-of-life one-shot marked as “Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings” i’m just ???? CURIOUS AND A LIL BAFFLED

[glorywaited]

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thank u for enabling me n my daily sole source of serotonin with these two !! ihu cause i love all our millions of verses so.... mmmaybe i’ll throw in some specifics...

Who said “I love you” first : it’s usually eugene tbh -- but iirc cass drunkenly confessed in our canon verse but neither remembered that so does it count idk... n cass tbh probably yells it at him out of frustration in my street raised verse because he is the worst but usually she waits for him n they pine after each other forever because they’re absolute idiots...the smartest idiots... but eugene generally breaks first because he’s him && as far as saying the actual phrase...that’s always eugene because ykno cass has to go through her ‘me too’ phase of just responding with ‘me too’ n actually fully meaning it entirely but terrified to say it dhajmd

Who would have the other’s picture as their phone background : eugene. always. especially with model cass because like...look at her. but honestly any modern cass usually has him on her home screen especially the pic from that one time she tried to take a pic of him peacefully n cutely sleeping n dropped her phone on his face...

Who leaves notes written in fog on the bathroom mirror : both but cass probably started it when they were fwb n he was being annoying after shower sex n talking too much n going to do his usual skincare routine n everything n before he could wipe the fog away she drew on a moustache unibrow n devil horns n now they do that to each other n leave little notes or terrible drawings in the corners of the mirror. for pjo / hp / any teen verse tbh they probably just do that to each other a lot n it’s always way more ridiculous drawings or notes n she probably just writes ‘dork’ all the time so he sees it later 

Who buys the other cheesy gifts : eugene does cause he’s good at cheesy n cass is not but she’d probably buy him things as a joke tbh. generally she’ll give him practical / thoughtful gifts out of nowhere just because she saw it or saw he was running out of something n refilled it for him, things like that.

Who initiated the first kiss : tbh it’s usually eugene or it’s one of those mutual things where they both end up leaning in n before they can really think it through they’re already kissing followed by a soft pull away, look at each other n then going back in because oops they opened a faucet they cant shut off. but every time eugene initiates no matter the verse it always surprises the hell out of cass cause she just does not think he likes her, especially verses where they’re teens n the denial is high but she always kisses back immediately n usually always initiates the second kiss

Who kisses the other awake in the morning : eugene started it but cass really, really enjoys whenever he does. it startles her the first time in any verse, especially our canon verse since she’s so jumpy but she definitely starts doing it too whenever she wakes up first. she’ll brush his hair back gently n kiss him softly to wake him but every so often when she’s being a brat she’ll wake him up terribly by tickling his sides of blowing a raspberry on his neck....n other times she’ll wake him up by kissing his neck n generally attempting to initiate morning sex n she’s not sry about any of it :\\\

Who starts tickle fights : EUGENE. ALWAYS. in proooobably every verse...maaybe not hitman cause he’s edgy unless it’s like deeep into their relationship but :\\\ she hates it n she fights back every single time because she will NOT be the only one to suffer

Who asks who if they can join the other in the shower : cass does not ask -- well, she sometimes asks if he wants her to join him -- but she does like sneaking into the shower with him because she likes showering together but she also likes being nasty so...

Who surprises the other in the middle of the day at work with lunch : i feel like both depending on the verse but i can see them both doing this for each other in most verses ?? in canon its cute to think about eugene surprising cass during her break from handmaiden duties with a small quick picnic tbh because the denial is hilarious n theyre like its just a FRIENDS LUNCH n everyons lke UH HUH THATS A DATE ?? n post series cass absolutely brings him food when hes working as captain. modern cass in like any of the verses she’s with actor eugene / flynn would bring him things to set even tho they have food but she just...wants an excuse to be around him lmao dhbajkmd especially any time model cass is visiting him when he’s filming but i can see him doing the same whenever she has shoots near him ??

Who was nervous and shy on the first date : oh cass is always nervous on the first date no matter the verse because she has intense abandonment issues n thinks shes gonna lose him n doesn’t deserve love so she’s Highkey nervous the whole time until he makes her laugh n calms her down cause he just...notices she’s rly tense tbh n that helps her a lot to just ease into it n have a good time with him. but it works both ways, she can tell if he’s ever nervous n he tends to get in his head a lot so she’ll calm him down too n just place a hand on him n get his focus on her

Who kills/takes out the spiders : cass takes all spiders gently in her hands n takes them outside. however...pjo cass is the only cass terrified of spiders because Child of Athena n eugene definitely takes the spiders away for her whenever she starts to panic n calms her down after n she feels silly for it bhdjasm

Who loudly proclaims their love when they’re drunk : eugene does, he’s a louder drunk than her n it’s way easier for him to yell that he loves her to everyone... but she also has the tendency to accidentally blurt out her feelings for him when she’s very, very drunk. or in actor eugenes case, he confesses to her while SHE’S blackout drunk n won’t remember :\\\

[heartsechoed]

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RUBY OF QUINQUEROI & RAPUNZEL - funny enough, ruby is also a thief in her canon, so mmmaybe we can work something out here? either following tangled more closely or cook up an au for these two!

AMY WILSON & LILLIE - i was lowkey hoping i’d get lillie in this bc I LOVE HER. and ages ago i did make a pkmn verse for amy where she’s doing the gym challenge, so i can easily set her up in alola (or them both being in kanto, if you follow post-canon). amy’s super bubbly and kind of a whirlwind, so it’d be fun seeing her help lillie out of her shell

STEPHANIE BROWN & GARFIELD LOGAN - YES. listen these two would be such good friends, there’s no two ways about it. give me all the interactions for them pls

KAYLEY & PETER PARKER - kayley’s a cop in her modern verse, so it could be fun to have peter always swooping in when she’s working a case. they’ll probably butt heads at first bc kayley’s very territorial when it comes to her work, but i think it’ll make for a fun dynamic

ANASTASIA TREMAINE & MAD SWEENEY - ok it’s been a hot minute since i watched american gods, so i’ll need kind of a refresher on sweeney, BUT i think ana could easily fit into his universe tbh. and they both have this kind of front that makes them look like they don’t care when in reality they do Very Much

[pristinepastel]

I was tagged by @tabris-of-red-jenny (thanks friendo!)

1) Name/nickname: Shannon, Pristine

2) Gender: Genderfluid Demigirl(I switch between being a girl and being genderless)

3) Star sign: Pisces

4) Height: 5’2”

5) Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

6) Favourite animal: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanoimbadatchoosingfavorites

7) Hours of sleep: Anywhere from 0-15. Insomnia~~(sung to the tune of the activia jingle)

8) Dogs or cats: I don’t have that el dorado gif but ye that

9) Number of blankets: Right now, just my fav blanket and a comforter!

10) Dream trip: Mmmaybe to Orlando in florida, for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

11) Dream job: concept artist slash character design!

12) Time: it’s 3:20pm

13) Birthday: February 22nd!

14) Favorite Bands: aaaaaaa again bad at favorites but maybe twenty one pilots or fallout boy(i’m v simple i kno lollo)

15) Favorite Solo Artists: I like a lot of cover artists like Jubyphonic and Jayneycakes, but I also like DMGames- he’s the one who creates fan songs for games like Bendy and the Ink Machine and fnaf!

16) Song Stuck In My Head: It’s from the credits for an anime I haven’t watched. I first heard it in a speedpaint video! it’s from spice and wolf and i don’t kno the name of the song but it’s in english!

17) Last Movie I Watched: Binta And The Great Idea! It’s an indie film I’m watching for my Writing and Inquiry class :^)

18) Last Show I Watched: The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science

19) When Did I Create My Blog: Sometime during january in 2012.

20) What Do I Post/Reblog: Mostly I reblog positivity/animal posts, fandom stuff, and writing/art references! I also post art of my characters and random tidbits about them.

21) Last Thing I Googled: “piano artists modern”. I want to add more songs to my sleeping playlist!

22) Other Blogs: I have a rp blog for overwatch that I don’t use v often called agentpastel

23) Do I Get Asks: Not very often, but when I have it’s mostly been people wishing me a good day or letting me know about something :^)

24) Why I Choose My URL: hoo boy it was originally for homestuck actually;;;;; i was making a trollsona and needed a username with two words in it that relate to me soo;;;

25) Following: 3557(ha.. haha;;;)

26) Followers: 412(i love you all!! :^D)

27) Lucky Number: Maybe 22? when in doubt use the birthday digits

28) Favorite Instrument: Never really thought about it but I can play the flute so i guess... that?

29) What Am I Wearing: I’m wearing my pjs which is basically a soft shirt w flower print on it and yoga pants!

30) Favorite Food: A four way tie between chicken nuggets, general tsos, philadelphia roll sushi, and pizza rolls!

31) Nationality: American

32) Favorite Song: plsstopwthefavoritesquestions;;;; uhh lets go w Warrior by Jackson Gamble for now

33) Last Book Read: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

34) Top Three Fictional Universes I’d Like To Join: dragon age, mass effect, naruto(let me cheer up the abused slash mistreated slash sad children pleeeeease-)

tagging anyone who wants to! also @alienbarbieprincess because i don’t kno why not lollo enjoy roommate!