#no wait what is the actual ship name

[starcurtain]

The Kinda Unhinged Ratiorine Fic I Want to Read

In an (admittedly very contrived) AU situation, Dr. Ratio finds out he's about to be cut out of his (mostly estranged) family's inheritance forever because of his complete lack of interest in continuing the family line. Which, all factors considered, does make perfectly logical sense. Investment of capital should go to the branch of the lineage most likely to benefit from it, and Cousin Tiberius has five sons and daughters already. Let the house and the trust fund go to them.

But the library.

There's absolutely no way Veritas could bear to be permanently parted from the staggering assemblage of paper volumes under his collected family's auspices. Not only would being separated from tomes so full of memories be heart-wrenching, but think of the devastating blow to his research! There are records in those archives that no other mortal eyes have ever gazed upon!

So there's only one solution for it: He needs to pass on his family name, immediately.

(Andddd the rest is under a read more because what is brevity?)

Problem 1: Veritas Ratio is very gay.

Problem 2: Statistically, single men have the lowest chance of being selected for adoption placement, and this Child Welfare Agent is looking at his alabaster head very, very strangely.

Think, Ratio, think. What is the most efficient way to solve such a tedious quandary?

The obvious first step is to increase his likelihood of being selected by the adoption agency, and the quickest way to do that is... Eureka! How elegant a design! He just needs to enter into a (temporary) committed and stable partnership to demonstrate a degree of domestic dedication and home-building prowess!

Problem 3: ...Where in the universe is he going to find a stable and committed man willing to marry him?

Ratio does not exactly possess the world's most endearing personality. He might... never have had any form of romantic relationship lasting past a one-night stand even, because it turns out most people don't like being scored a 2/10 on their technique during intercourse.

So he's probably not going to find a stable and committed man.

But... He might at least find someone willing--for the right price.

Enter Aventurine (stage left). He's as expensive as they come, the greatest reward saved for the highest bidder, but despite his festering ambitions, he's still trapped as nothing more than a high-class escort, owned by a company the IPC has on the books as selling everything but what they actually trade in: Avgin slaves.

Sigonians... The reputation--and sleazy men's curiosity--precedes him, and though he only has to get on his knees for the truly bold nowadays, he hasn't yet been able to make the ultimate gamble, pull the last string needed to finally gain his freedom: the freedom to live his life as he pleases--and to enact every ounce of vengeance he's been storing for decades like cards up his sleeves.

Until now.

Until an absolute madman shows up at the underground headquarters waving around an offer that no average person would possibly make: He wants to buy Aventurine and wed him.

(Because marrying a Sigonian thrall is a safe and sane thing that safe and sane people do.)

The offer is far too good to be trusted: A real marriage certificate but a perfectly fake marriage, a no-fault divorce once an adoption is finalized, and a guaranteed sponsor for his citizenship documents. A year or two of fake homemaking, this Veritas Ratio claims, and then Aventurine can walk away a completely free man, no strings--no chains--attached.

Well, Aventurine of the Myriad Stratagems has always held one skill dearer to his heart than any other: a crystal clear knowledge of when to fold--and when to go all in.

(...Problem 4: Amber Lord help him, Aventurine's new husband is the most irritating man in the entire universe.)

Alas, if only that was their biggest problem. Somewhere between learning to navigate the citizenship process, the adoption process, a truly unacceptable level of systemic racism, and also, increasingly, each other, Ratio and Aventurine discover that the circumstances of their lives might be far more entangled than they ever could have imagined from the beginning, and the same shadowy parties that profited off Aventurine's existence might have a vested interest in parting Ratio from valuable research secrets--permanently.

While struggling to maintain a charming and loving facade and struggling not to kill each other behind the scenes, Aventurine and Ratio also end up having to out-roll and out-plan a particularly dangerous enemy; something they can really only do together.

Or, tl;dr: Dr. Ratio chooses the most efficient but most unhinged method of finding a husband that intelligence could possibly contrive, only to determine that marrying a guy whose track record for unexplained deaths matches his track record for card counting really is the encyclopedic opposite of "committed and stable." Ridiculously enough, the trouble they get into is almost entirely Ratio's fault, the only one who is remotely convincing in front of the Child Welfare Agency is Aventurine, and sometimes it turns out the guy you married for the library ends up being the guy you married for life.

[endlesslytired]

[nocek]

nobody left request at a previous comic sooooo prepare for continued silliness of cannibalism theme (yep, I'm going to leave this statement here like this not linking the context of previous comic. what could possibly go wrong here)

also, contest! take a wild guess at which part of my daily routine I get my comic ideas ;P

[lavenderjewels]

people are reading too much into kenjakus appearance this chapter and should instead be considering it as takaken being canon

[appleartnidongecist]

A lil comic for @fox-quills of her fic Mobius,, part 2 in progress...

*EDIT: part 2 is posted.

(heads up warning,, this fic is explicit)

[not-equippedforthis]

i'm on episode 3 of ds9 and i've formed five main thoughts about garak and julian:

oh my god he's even more homosexual towards julian than i thought. even with all of my knowledge. and expectations from watching tos. what was that.

he's a TAILOR??

this man would be such a fucking dickhead in among us

or go fish

JULIAN'S A LONDONER???

[kipthetgirl]

Imagine your OTP

person #1: *sniffing a flower*

Person #2, whispering: “god I wish I was that flower…”

Person #1: “what was that, (2)?”

Person #2: “I SAID I NEED TO SHOWER BYE (1)”

[pinkrose05]

Boothill and Argenti's ship name should be Guns N' Roses. Send tweet.

[seaquestions]

blake lets him keep it. this is a dire lapse in judgement on his part but they're just gonna have to live with it. (ids in alts)

[grimalkinmessor]

Even as someone who very much enjoys Stolitz if they don't also address that Stolas also failed to communicate properly and gave Blitzø almost no reason to believe he wanted a serious relationship before that episode along with them having addressed Blitzø's general distrust in others' feelings leading him to hurt them before they can hurt him *deep inhale* THEN I CAN BE ALL ABOARD THE FIZZBLITZ TRAIN BABYYYY ✨ BRING IT ON THEY WOULD NOT BE HELL'S FIRST THROUPLE

[seleai]

something something obligatory Ninjago AU

So erm! Yeah! This is what I call my “partners AU” ( ´ ▽ ` ) it’s basically one big ToE overhaul, where Zane is coerced into working with Chen. Since he has no memories at the start of ToE, I think it actually makes for a pretty good Villain Zane setup.

more below ^^

So, about the AU relationships: yes, Zane and Skylor are a couple in this! I’m a sucker for a good rarepair, and having worked on this AU for nearly 5 years now, I’ve grown VERRRYYY attached to them. I also think that their dynamic is SO interesting to work with, especially considering what may have happened before the tournament. I mean, we know for a fact that she came in contact with him due to her having his powers, so what might have happened? I ADORE exploring and fleshing out details like that.

The Digital sheets are currently just rough drafts for the final designs, but I DO know this for certain:

• The scarf is STAYING. Idc if it’s impractical or dumb, I’m literally emotionally attached to it.

•The purple mask and white gi are for sure staying, I really just need to figure out things like harnesses, belts, accessories, etc. Plus, I may squeeze his emblem into there somewhere

So yeah, this is my Partners AU! I’m also working on a fic to go alongside with it, so check me out on Ao3! (Smoked_Snail) :3

If you read this far, for one, WOW. Thanks for listening to my yap sesh. And two, have a nice day/night!

[starcurtain]

Sometimes I think about the fact that we have absolutely no information on how long Aventurine actually spent in slavery.

He fled from the Avgin massacre as a young child, and we didn't see him again until he was a grown adult. I doubt he could have survived entirely on his own at that age and Sigonia's conditions seem too harsh for people to randomly adopt orphans, especially from a rival/outcast clan...

We do know that the master we see on screen was not his only master, because he was purchased from someone else, but we have no idea how many masters he had total before his final one, how many times he could have fled and been recaptured, how many times he was bought and sold...

We do know that Aventurine appears to have been kept on Sigonia or somewhere similarly tribal for those missing years, since his first request to the IPC is for Jade to take him to her "chief," but we don't even know how long Aventurine has been out of slavery. He doesn't look massively different in age from his "trial" with Jade to how he looks in-game now, and he did not rise through the IPC ranks over time like Topaz but won his role directly through his gamble with Jade and then later proving himself on Iymanika.

Basically, all this is leading to a big question: Is it possible that the Aventurine we know is only barely out of slavery? That there may be something like five years or fewer separating him from the wastelands of Sigonia? That he learned all these new behaviors, all this new information about how to operate as a free person in the universe, in what likely amounts to 2-3 years of Jade's guidance and his own hard work?

Man, what an incredible character. Really a standout among my very favorites.

[marragurl]

Suddenly getting the intense urge to rewatch all of the SerVamp anime was not on my 2024 bingo card- but here we are folks

[lesbianlanarcher]

anyone mind if i be slightly delusional for a second? no? okay...

AU where katya saves lana from certain death (wherein lana finds herself in a situation even she, as capable n skilled as she is, can't escape) and they fall madly in love with each other after they're forced to spend a lot of time together since they're on the run, then proceed to say 'screw it!' and elope.

[lavender-temult]

Hey pspspsps gay people c’mere I did another redraw (from this image)

[silvertws]

I'm so far behind in Campaign 3 like, episode 77 I think? But by all the posts online I can see Bells Hells seems to be thriving (except FCG womp Womp) which is lovely.

Imma probably just observe funky clips and posts until I get hyper fixated again.