#of all kinds of varieties

[aeternallis]

Hi!

I don’t know if you accept character-related asks like this but, I’ll still give it a shot. What do you think is Kim’s biggest naughty fantasy regarding Chay and vice versa?😈

Thank you for the ask, nonnie~

Apologies for taking a hot sec to answer, I had to think about this question for awhile and let it simmer in the noggin for a bit.

Pre-canon, I feel like Chay’s naughtiest fantasy about Wik would be getting singled out in a crowd by aforementioned celebrity and getting the make-out session of his life. Simple, basic, hardly naughty, straight to the point; Chay is definitely all about that PDA, yknow? He’s the type to announce his love with the world watching, I think. Hell, had he managed to keep that once-in-a-lifetime relationship with a celebrity gig going on, he’d be the type to make a big deal out of it when Wik decides he’s not too open with holding hands in public, etc etc.

Post-canon Chay is a bit more complicated, imo. I can definitely see Chay using physical intimacy as a way to desensitize himself to some things, like seeing guns and knives (outside of the kitchen) on the reg. I can see him fantasizing doing it with Kim with a bunch of guns and other weaponry surrounding the bed, or on the bed, yknow? Would they be using the weapons, like as a sex toy?

Well—that depends on how true to life Chay wants the fantasy to feel at the moment. If he wants it to fully reflect reality, probably not, since Kim wouldn’t risk it (unless they take precautions first and like, unload all the bullets from the guns, make sure the safety is on for all of them, the knives’ sharp edges are covered; but this usually breaks the fantasy for Chay, alas). If he doesn’t want it to reflect reality though, then hell yes.

He can picture Kim using the gun on him, or maybe Chay himself is waving the gun around and he wants Kim to suck on it, idk. But I feel like, anything to reframe his mind to better accommodate himself in getting used to his new lifestyle is something he’ll take on any given day~

Again, simple, straight to the point, he goes wherever his psyche takes him and all that~

I feel like Kim would be someone quite similar to Chay when it comes to his naughty fantasies, but then again, this is just me. 🤔 I can definitely see Kim fantasizing doing it with Chay in front of the latter’s friends from the bar, maybe even while Chay is wearing his school uniform or something. None of that outfit he actually wore, because Kim quite frankly doesn’t know how to react when face to face with Chay’s sudden rebelliousness. Lol

His feelings in regards to that night has always been complicated, so like Chay, he’d want to take something already existing in their lives and mayhaps reframe it in his mind, somehow? Maybe he’d imagine himself making out with Chay for all to see, while he’s shoving down the baggie of drugs down that guy’s neck, and then snapping his head in half, something unhinged like that.

Or maybe shoving the entire glass bottle of cheap booze down the guy’s throat instead—booze AND bottle, make no mistake—while Chay rides Kim’s dick. Haha!

Forcing Chay to watch through it all, ohohohoho!

Basically, nonnie—I’m all about that unhinged4unhinged fantasies type deal when it comes to these dorks~

Thanks for the ask! 🥰

[natade-art]

got hit by the sudden realization that i never posted my piece for the moments between zine even though we got our copies in, what, september? looking at it now there's things i'd do differently but that's what makes zine pieces such a good learning experience ^^

[necrotic-nephilim]

jealousy really is the driving force of DamiTim as a ship. love that for them. love how Tim has the Robin mantle ripped away from him and he has to suffer the jealousy of watching Dick and Damian bond. how possessive over Dick Tim can be, to have him stolen by Dick.

even more so though, is the jealousy from Damian. how on earth do you cope when you finally get to be Robin, a role you've convinced is your birthright, and no one really likes you? every prefers the Robin who came before you? Dick regularly reminds you that he can always go and call Tim back when you act out? like the complex Damian has over Tim is unreal. Tim, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had everything handed to him his whole life. he never had to struggle or fight for his place like Damian did. Damian has spent his whole life fighting and proving himself, and yet he can't ever seem to truly claw the mantle of Robin away from Tim. even when Tim lets it go, becomes Red Robin, they seem to share it. Tim can slip back into the role of Robin whenever someone like Dick or Bruce need him to, because *he's* the Robin who they need. he's the Robin who was able to find Bruce. he's the Robin that Ra's wants an heir out of. he's the Robin who even Jason respects. in Damian's eyes, everything Damian has fought tooth and nail for, was handed to Tim.

so of course he's going to react to Tim with violence and aggression, especially after finding out Tim has contingency plans for him. no matter how much Damian proves himself, he's never going to be enough, especially not to Tim. and so his deep refusal to see Tim as family, to acknowledge Tim's legacy is all driven by such an angry jealousy. Tim understands aspects of Bruce's legacy that Damian doesn't, like the need to sweet talk and play nice with the elites of Gotham, even if they're corrupt. they exemplify different aspects of Robin, and the aspects that Tim exemplifies are the aspects that Damian knows he'll never fully understand and therefore holds such a deep contempt for. he wants to fight criminals, not play nice with politicians. Tim understands the side of Gotham that's utterly foreign to Damian. if anything, he represents that side of Gotham, to Damian. a pretty little rich boy who's nothing but a know-it-all and not a real son of Bruce. he can't be a Wayne. he can't be Damian's family.

and all of that angry jealousy leading to unhealthy obsession turned a weird, angry crush from Damian is just my bread and butter. that is how DamiTim should be. to me. Damian obsessed over hating Tim Drake so much he accidentally ends up sort of in love with him and that only makes Damian angrier. because he can't prove everyone right by *also* liking Tim. he can't let Ra's win like that, because frankly why wouldn't Ra's be delighted by Damian and Tim getting together. and it builds and builds with angry passive aggression towards Tim that culminates in angry hate-fucking-that's-not-just-driven-by-hate. love and hate are always viewed as opposites in shipping and i think they're the same intense passion just in different directions. and for the best ships, they're very intertwined. what is DamiTim is not the peak of that. "i put so much of myself into hating you i had no choice but to fall in love with you somewhere along the way" core. love that bleeds into hate and hate that bleeds into love. "you make me so angry i regularly passively try to kill you but not with any real effort because who would i obsess over if you were actually gone" core. murder attempts as a form of courting. contingency plans to take each other out as a love language. they're unwell.

[giddlygoat]

TRADITIONAL TOAD GARB PEACH LETS GOOOOOOOO

[septembersung]

In real life, the traddest men I know: change diapers; do chores; are present and playful with their kids; take good care of their wives; work 50+ hours a week to provide for their families; literally never think about the 1950s.

[sillygoofyqueer]

Ahhh, I love the drama of humans using sapient creatures as cultivation aids, when the MC is one of those creatures.

Based on all the non-MXTX novels I've read, using humans, human souls, and human body parts as cultivation tools is what constitutes demonic cultivation (well, plus some curses, mind f ckery, and involuntary shapeshifting). This is presumably why WWX calls his stuff Guidao or 'ghost cultivation' instead.

But in those same cultivation novels, there are loads of sapient creatures that can cultivate too… yet killing them for glory or using their body parts for cultivation is often just fine???

I adore stories that take pause and point out just how bullshit that all is. Maybe if they aren't a member of your own species it won't corrupt your cultivation, but it's still not okay to murder or harvest parts from a sapient creature (and even sentient ones ought to be treated with care, not dissected alive for improved potency or whatever).

So yes! I'm fully onboard with Heavenly CrowYuan ultimately running into drama from people wanting to harvest him, just because he's not innately human shaped (and possibly human descended) like TLJ's line, or half-human like Binghe.

YAYAYAYAYAY I love the angst that could come from Shen Yuan being hunted down, so simultaneously trying to both help out those in need and differentiate between those who are taking advantage of him and those who actually need his help - desperately. He's transmigrated from being a human, and he's being hunted down by people who don't care about killing him even though he's seemingly the only Heavenly Crow Demon around. Those who want to take his corpse and rip it apart for any possible chance at power from his blood and flesh, the wealth from his feathers and wings. He runs and he hides, and he thinks about those endangered animals he always used to see online, how they were being hunted down for their tusks and furs. Their scales and their meat. He wonders if this is how they felt - they were different, they weren't seen as anything more than things to gawk at or use for another species' selfish whims, and they were hunted down for it.

[trek-tracks]

Well, I've experienced some pretty rough weeks of bad news in my life, but this one's certainly up there. (Nothing health or family-related.) If anyone's inclined to say something nice or kind about my existence making the world a tiny bit better, I would be rather grateful.

[deoidesign]

Thinks about my next series again... I drew the icon for it!

I'm planning to have it launched within a year! I'm hoping for summer 2025. I want to make a prelaunch page before Time and Time Again ends so people can subscribe if they're interested, but I'm worried the series return would be too early...

[thelassoway]

Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso Season 3 » Casual Sweaters/Jumpers

[verflares]

its probably fine to just post this now since i'm not sure when/even if i'm ever gonna get around to finish it LOL but here's a dragon link wip whose been sitting in my files for a while now

[all-pacas]

Enough organization, enough lists, you think you can control the uncontrollable. Fix her meds, fix her clothes, maybe you can even fix her.

(chase's terrible outfits in every episode: the socratic method)

[giantkillerjack]

There is a horror in that moment

The kind that makes most folks look away

That moment

When you realize

The Pain

Will not be stopping.

I'm writing a book in which

The main character goes through the same thing

And I'm stuck because

How do you write a scene like that?

Where do you put it in the story?

When does it finally dawn on him?

Not only the knowledge that

dancing

running

skipping

jumping

walking

fucking

working

adventuring

Living

will never be the same.

But when will it dawn on him that his last day of painlessness was months ago, and he didn't even know it at the time? (didn't even get to say goodbye)

Maybe that's why they say dawn breaks.

Maybe I'm stuck because I've never seen it anywhere else.

(maybe that's why I felt all alone in my mourning)

(maybe that's why I'm writing a book)

I've never seen a story where there were days of pain and days of ease, and then the days without pain got fewer and fewer until one day, it was just

Pain.

And of course my character, he waits

And waits

And waits

And works

And searches

And pleads

And yet the rest of his life

Suddenly stretches before him

Horrifically long, unthinkably long, with the knowledge that, from now on,

Every Day Will Be A Pain Day.

Every second

Of every minute

Of every hour day week month year

For forever

For forever

For forever

For forever

For forever

For forever

For forever

How many scenes do I write

of him mourning?

And - before he finds the acceptance that even allows for mourning -

How many scenes of that horrific slow-sudden frantic-panicked suspicion of the truth?

How does one draw (it's a graphic novel) the face of a man (his name is David)

struck with that kind of strangling grief?that choking half-denial?

That silent scream of horror given sound?

How many people tell him they are sure it will be fine even as he feels himself falling further?

How many of them fail to understand until they are gone from his life?

How many times does he blame himself?

How many times is he right?

Don't get me wrong

It's a hopeful story

Really.

It has a happy ending

And that happy ending happens

On a pain day.

I just hope I can tell my story good enough to show

What that means and

Why it matters.

I just hope we can be seen.

[whumpuary]

i made a whumpuary playlist last year where i picked songs that have the prompts as titles and it was fun so heres one for this january

it's just about the titles so the lyrics might not fit at all, but that could be good for a challenge or inspiration, so feel free to use it if you want! (or just to find new songs, i tried to put in a variety of genres)

[bearotonin-international]

Most of your wet beast posts are standing in rivers and stuff like that, but do you have any rainy day bears?

Got a drizzly bear just for you

[meyerlansky]

it's an ongoing thing that i probably won't dig too much into in anything textually, maybe in cruiseverse and even less likely but still maybe in summertime, but i do have thinkythoughts about how curt and bucky handle being queer in the framework of their catholicism

gale not on the discussion board here because, while he has angst about his queerness and especially what it means wrt his [and others'] masculinity, it is in no way religious and i maintain he is three bad days away from open atheism despite the HUGE social stigma against it at the time. abused kids tend not to be much for religion anyway.

like i acknowledge how i handle curt is slightly anachronistic [though i can cite contemporary examples, don't come at me about it] in that i don't think he's ashamed of ANYTHING. careful, yes, aware it could get him hurt, yes. but he doesn't have a lot of internalized homophobia weighing him down by '43, thanks to growing up in an active queer hub in the 20s/30s AND my decision to make his family, mostly his mom, similarly slightly-anachronistically accepting—see the stuff in this post about mothers in midcentury america accepting their queer sons and encouraging other mothers to do the same. and i think that "toughened by adversity" is particularly relevant in delphia's case because on top of raising a fairly large family through the great depression, she lost an infant daughter AND her husband when all her kids were under ten years old. she did suffer the public humiliations of the depression in sending her sons to live with relatives to ease the burden of SAID fairly large, half-orphaned family. so she doesn't CARE if curt's gay, all that matters to her is that curt is—and all her kids are—alive and healthy and happy. [plus, in "practical" terms, curt has a brother, so if he's not gonna have kids rusty's around to do it, which is a safety net the other guys do not have.]

bucky, on the other hand, is 93% shame at all times. about everything. he covers it with being loud and brash and seeming unrepentant but. c'mon. look at him. he's got catholic guilt dripping off him. he does NOT have supportive family to lean back on and to insulate him from the general antipathy towards queerness in midcentury america—he doesn't even get letters from his mom or sisters in the stalag in canon. plus he has the added angst of like... he's bi, not gay, so he likes women like he's supposed to, does that not make his attraction to men something he just has to Resist, because that's what the devil does, puts shit in your path that you have to avoid to stay good or whatever. if he was exclusively attracted to men—like curt—it might bother him less because he wouldn't have a "choice." so he's got both internalized queerphobia in general and SPECIFICALLY internalized biphobia working against him.

[the other issue i have with thinking about this stuff is i was not raised catholic or even a little bit religious at all, so i don't have a firsthand perspective on rationalizing queerness with faith. i am just WINGING IT HERE.]

but, anyway, i feel like bucky's isolation from semi-normalized queerness just compounds the issue for his whole adolescence/early adulthood, and he lumps being attracted to men in with his other rule-breaking behaviors. he drinks, he gambles, he lusts, it's all getting him sent to hell anyway, so he acts like it doesn't bother him. but i think it DOES bother him, deep down. and i also think that being faced with curt/people like curt, who DON'T see their queerness as an obstacle to keeping their faith, who don't experience the guilt and shame over that as a fundamental aspect of who they are, is... tough for him? and this is why i don't think it'll come up textually in anything except cruiseverse, if that: bucky is not a talk-shit-out kind of guy, and quite frankly neither is curt. but i can't imagine that bucky at some point isn't like "...don't you struggle with it?" and curt's like "nah, if He wanted me to be different i'd be different."

and bucky just kinda has to chew on that for a bit. and this is where i think the gay vs bi tension comes in, because curt CAN be like "i tried to be straight, it didn't work, so god must not want me to be," whereas bucky COULD choose to be in a het-passing relationship, so does that make him worse??? and that's when curt stops trying that tack because it's doing more harm than good, which leads to it turning into "but HOW does it not bother you?" "it only bothers you 'cause you're letting it." cue another blue-screen for a week.

they can't even extrapolate out the concept of receiving unconditional love as one of god's children the way you do from your actual parents or whatever. because no one in bucky's life loves him unconditionally. why the hell would god?

[xerith-42]

I think I'll forever be a little bitter that mcd was never able to get the fandom song treatment. Like. Okay say what you will about the DSMP

But imagine if we'd gotten an Oblivion style song about Laurance's descent thanks to the Calling

Some sweet lullaby cover of Levin's music box that's meant to be sung by Zoey or Aphmau

The rock anthem that could be made about Zenix's journey of self discovery that we never saw but forever rot over

Give Zianna a trilogy of songs that are ostensibly about her sons but also an exploration of her journey with Garte as she had each son

Mellow folk songs that are written by/about Vylad or the Ro'Meave family

Katelyn grief anthem when?

Zane gets awesome evil villain songs to talk about why he's an awesome evil villain

Mystical tunes abound for many of our silly little creatures that inspire whimsy

I can see the song called "Brother's Lament" and it's like a duet song between Gene and Garroth about how they've failed their younger brothers in different ways and the ways in which they cope with it, good and poor

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE ANGSTY ASS SONGS ABOUT DANTE WAITING ALL THOSE YEARS FOR APHMAU?? THERE'S AN ENTIRE ALBUM OF SONGS THAT COULD EXIST CALLED "15 Years" AND IT'S JUST ABOUT EVERYONE'S ANGST AROUND IT