#nothing suspicious about me!

[slimeybastard]

just read back through my own blog and i posted about NBCs hannibal for the first time on january 19th 2022 and i think that is beautiful

[fairsweetlonging]

thinking about crowyuan saving liu qingge from his qi deviation and disappearing before he can fully wake up so he won't be recognized (him being a demon and all), but it causes liu qingge to accidentally mistake him for shen qingqiu.

there is a massive fight during the next peak lord meeting, with liu qingge accusing shen qingqiu of saving his life and not taking responsibility for it as if it's a war crime, while shen qingqiu keeps denying he had anything to do with it and if he had saved liu qingge, he'd be rubbing it in his face every chance he got.

it escalates and escalates until liu qingge, red with embarrassment and anger, points at shen qingqiu and says "you were cradling me in your arms!" and shen qingqiu explodes.

mu qingfang tries to calm them down by saying that perhaps liu qingge hallucinated, which is not uncommon for a qi deviation, but that sets off some of the other peak lords who now start teasing him for "dreaming of shen qingqiu coming to rescue him", and of course that only makes it worse.

liu qingge refuses to let it go and starts bringing shen qingqiu his victories to try and pay off his debt, because he is an honorable man and he will not let shen qingqiu get away with this!!

meanwhile shen yuan is watching it from a distance wondering whether he made it better or worse by stepping in.

[juniemunie]

"Why am I still doing this?"

"Don't you get it?"

"This is all just a show... and we're playing parts~"

[not-the-living-ghost]

i really need to stop looking at dead boy detectives content in public, because i've truly lost track of the number of times i've been scrolling on tumblr looking at fanart and someone has gone up to me and asked what i'm being so smile-y about

[non-newtonian-id]

this is complete insanity on my part because i thought about PIDW!Shang Qinghua a little too much but

he and PIDW!Mu Qingfang were in love. to me.

they never actual got together before og!sqh died but there was mutual pining happening

trust, i spoke to airplane himself (<- guy being delusional about two double fictional characters (characters that are fictional within a factional setting))

[harmonybarmy]

Ben coming back to the cabin to see yet another cannibalistic ritual

[royalarchivist]

Forever: Wow so, the vanilla eh, don't have the- the Eggs with a glock?

Phil: Yeah they don't have Eggs with glocks, yeah.

Forever: Yeah yeah yeah, that should be a- a nice addition.

Phil: You know, I was thinking that, and I might pitch it, I might pitch it to Mojang. Hey Chayanne you can get out with this. There you go.

Forever: What do you think about, like a baby zombie with a glock?

Phil: [Sighing heavily into his microphone] I would hate that. I would hate that so much.

Forever: [laughs]

Phil: YOU KNOW I WOULD. You know I would! Stop mocking me! [laughs]

Forever: I don't know what you're talking about! What's your problem with baby zombies? They're so fun and cute.

[Phil cracks up and Forever cackles]

Phil: Chat, that was literally the equivalent of, "Haha you're so funny and sexy, haha."

[bitterseaproduction]

I don’t know how much this lines up with canon, but I love interpreting Joker as noticing the pancake thing and consciously suspecting Akechi from Day 1, then slowly talking himself out of confronting it as he gets to know him.

Rank 1: “Hmm, this guy’s suspicious, but also interesting. I can humor him while I feel it out.”

Rank 2: “I mean, he clearly has to be that Black Mask guy Madarame mentioned since he can hear Mona, but what does that mean? What was he doing? He’s so hard to parse.”

Rank 3-4: “…He isn’t NECESSARILY this Black Mask person. Maybe he overheard something in Momentos. It’s more likely he found that place than some random palace, right? And was Kaneshiro even talking about the same person? If there are at least 2 parties in the Metaverse, why not 3?”

Rank 5-6: “So, he ISN’T the Black Mask, right? He isn’t… Except, he has to be. BUT, even if he IS, how do I KNOW he’s out to get us? Unless he does something UNDENIABLY suspicious, there’s no reason to assume the worst—”

Akechi lies at the festival: “…Well, shit.”

[kategorema]

hey jade, jade hey, my guy my dude, how about, and hear me out i know it didnt cross your mind, you take someone with you as you traipse through the creepy ass wood to get to the creepy ass bottle tree how about that??

[hiko-the-teacup]

HELLO I'VE JUST BEEN EXPOSED TO STUDIO INVESTIGRAVE AND IM????

INSANE????

im???? so insane???? for this guy??? AND ALL THE OTHER CHARACTERS???? HELP

[mccoyquialisms]

do you think kalina told them "ragh barkrock" because she was trying to remind them that he witnessed jace stardiamond talking to arianwen and kalina at prom

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Ngl, reading the words "we'll continue to support workplace whistleblowers" is a buckwild thing to hear any political party say in a world where the current Dark Capitalism Joke is "well, I'm not a Boeing whistleblower, so my survival rates look great"

[toxintouch]

Leander: Breadcrumbs

Relationship: Leander/Unspecified MC, relationship dynamic up to interpretation.

Rating: All | Content Warning: implied financial control/manipulation.

Slowly, the work starts drying up.

It’s not that you don’t have skills and it’s not like the skills you have aren’t marketable. You do odd jobs for odd people and odd pay without complaint but no one lets you stay on staff for long.

The amount of time it takes for them to kick you to the curb varies but the moment you walk in, hopefully seeking a day’s work only to see that look in their eyes… You know you’re being asked not to come back.

People are direct about it, at least. It’s as close to politeness as you’ve come to expect in Eridia.

You're lucky, honestly. Your former employers always hand over any pending funds you’re owed without a fuss. You've tried to refuse, even, but regardless of how you bargain, the results are the same. There’s no work for you anymore.

And Leander is always there for you at the end of it. There with a hot meal and a sympathetic smile. A shoulder to lean on, a hand to hold–if you want to, that is.

You just can’t figure out why this is so difficult, you gripe, wondering if it’s the fact that you’re an outsider or if it’s…

Maybe there’s some…intrinsic wrongness to you that people can sense. You smooth the wrappings of your bandages, a scoff on your lips. Maybe you can’t even blame them. You offer the thought up to Leander when you’re deep in your cups, drunk on free drinks and a cheap sense of self-deprecation.

There’s nothing wrong with you, Leander insists passionately. Money is tight for a lot of people in Eridia, Leander placates. You shouldn't think that way about yourself. He certainly knows how amazing you are, what you’re worth. He can even offer you odd jobs with the Bloodhounds, if a little freelancing would make you feel better.

(“Nothing too dangerous, though, alright?”)

But of course he’s here for you no matter what you decide.

And look on the bright side–this means the two of you will get to spend so much more time together.

[riacte]

the way blue bats 9 started off being slept on by reddit while the hermit fans staunchly believed in them only for the reddit to now staunchly stand by the blue bats while its impact get ignored by a section of hermit fans lol. hbomb wasn’t lying when he said they all slept on the blue bats xhdhfjejfj

[impernaway]

train spring cleaning + trish or any of cooler passione?

The Train...Is big. This is a fact that is so obvious that it becomes easy to overlook, right up to the point where it becomes an issue.

Because the Train. Is big.

The Casino Car still needs internal repairs. The Caboose needs internal and external repairs. Al is dead. There's more damage all along the place, cars that need minor repairs, cars that need major repairs, cars with things like Jason saying there's some kind of car? With an arm monster thing in it? That one is pretty up there in Trish's list of priorties to try and do something about, so long as they can actually figure out which one it is.

Then there's that library car with the giant spider where they met Fugo. Trish gets the feeling that that one is technically working as intended, but also if they hadn't met Fugo there to free him and he hadn't had the option of falling back on Purple Haze then he probably could've died in there, so. That's another for the list of "Cars that need to be decomissioned". Which means prying information out of the Amelias about how to do that without it becoming yet another conflict.

Then there's the question of what they're even going to repair anything with. She's seen the outside. There's nothing there.

(Is there nothing there because of the Train? She doesn't know. She has no way of knowing.)

Somewhere behind her she can hear Jason and Shoka arguing over the list they've been putting together. Either they've gotten quieter or the painkillers Shoka produced for her from some other car with a gentle smile have started kicking in.

She slumps a little in her chair, her breath coming easier at the thought. She's the Conductor now. This is her home now. She's got to do right by it. But she has friends she can trust to help her with it, be it for a short while or longer if they choose to stay. She doesn't have to figure it all out on her own.

Many hands make light work, and God only knows there's a lot of work to be done.