#other things in order of appearance :

[thelassoway]

Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso Seasons 1-3 » T-shirts

[a-most-beloved-fool]

For the writing prompts;

19. For luck - Rom and Leeta

"And then," Bashir was saying - though in truth, Rom was paying only half attention, far too busy thinking about Leeta - "she came right up to me, and kissed me on the lips!"

"Oh, she did, did she?" Chief O'Brien said, scoffing good-naturedly.

"It's true!" Bashir insisted, though he didn't look insulted by the Chief's doubt. He was smiling into his glass, seeming quite delighted by the disbelieving frown on O'Brien's face.

Rom didn't quite understand what was supposed to be so 'unbelievable' about the story. In fact - "It seems pretty believable to me," he said. "Doctor Bashir's always kissing beautiful women." (Including, at one point, Leeta - though not anymore, Rom thought with some pleasure.)

"Yes, but this one was out of his league," the Chief said, batting his hand playfully across the table.

Bashir just smiled bashfully, ignoring the swipe. "Ah, well. You're right about that. She wasn't really interested in me after all. Turns out, she'd just misconstrued the human concept of a 'good luck kiss'".

"Ohh! A 'good luck kiss'!" Rom said eagerly. Then, after a pause, "Uh, what's a 'good luck kiss'?"

The Chief sat back, idly crossing his arms. "Well, it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It's a kiss that you give someone to wish them luck."

"Oh," Rom said, considering that. Luck was always a good thing to have. Perhaps... "Oh! Leeta!" He stood, sending his chair clattering backwards. "I'll be back!" he shouted, then raced from Quark's bar, ignoring his brother's parting shout out dismay.

He needed to find Leeta.

--

"Leeta! Waaaait!" Rom hollered, shuffling through the crowded promenade as quickly as he could manage, chasing after her familiar voice. "Leeta! I need to give you something!"

This would be easier, he thought, if Bajorans could hear as well as Ferengi could.

But, at last, Leeta stopped, turning to find him. "Rom? Rom, what's the matt-"

The rest of her sentence trailed off into a hum as Rom reached up, pulling her down to plant a kiss square on her lips. One of her hands cupped Rom's cheek, soft. Rom didn't really know how long a 'good luck kiss' was supposed to last for - he really should have gotten more details before running off (for example, does it need tongue? Bashir never specified.) - but he thought that this should satisfy it.

He pulled away, grinning toothily up at his wife. "Hi, Leeta," he said.

She smiled down at him, cheeks flushed and lovely as always. "Hi, Rom. What was that for?" she asked, looking bemused and delighted.

"It's a kiss," Rom said, perhaps unnecessarily. "For luck," he added. "It's a hoo-man tradition!"

"For luck? Rom," she asked, laughing, "what are you wishing me luck for?"

Rom blinked. "Uhhh... For your day?"

Leeta beamed at him, and then leaned down, pressing a kiss to his forehead. "Well, I think it worked. I do feel pretty lucky now."

Rom grinned. "Me, too."

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(also if anyone else wants to make a request, the ask game is here. i can't promise they'll get done as quick or be as long as this one is, though!)

[canisalbus]

I noticed you've been making more art of Machete and Vasco after they met again as adults - is this canon? Do they get to rekindle their friendship after all, or is it still brief and bittersweet? (I love your characters and art, btw!)

Thank you! I'm glad you like them!

It's canon, I believe. After their confusing and apprehensive friends-to-lovers involvement ended in their early 20's, their paths end up crossing again unexpectedly in their mid 30's and things gradually grow from there.

[randomnameless]

And another what if where we could have went to Bastorias ealier... but Joseph canonically would have died :(

How's that "as you all guessed"???

Poor Joseph would have died during the Soldraga map, and Alain would have inherited his pony. Damn!

Hopefully Joseph's role in the scenario saved him, but I wonder if the Holonius!Alain thing in Albion - that still makes more sense than Sanatio ! - would have meant we would have had someone else play the role of the Lord (Virginia? Scarlett? Or Joseph himself?) or if Holonius would have hijacked Alain's body, but more Zenoiran stuff would have been appreciated (maybe Holonius would have told Galerius that, uh, that Baltro fuck was the loser who told us to sacrifice an unicorn which resulted in our doom, maybe we shouldn't work with him anymore?).

If Holonius hijacked Alain though, would that mean that he had no ring of the unicorn on him, or didn't put it on?

(Galerius needs the two rings to be exorcised out, but if Holonius is like Theodora when she borrowed Berengaria's body, the ring of the unicorn is enough to get rid of him?)

Alain was supposed to have been jailed in Bastorias, maybe we could have had more Reimann shenanigans, or maybe the devs wanted to cook something with the rat tribe? Given how Yunifi has a lot of concept illustrations, I wonder if she wasn't the "Scarlett" of that beta version, aka the "main girl pushed by the plot".

Also, nice confirmation that, at one point, the scenario was linear! But they dropped that idea - maybe for gameplay purposes? - and we ended up with, well, the game where after saving for Scarlett in Cornia, you can basically either do Elheim, Bastorias or Drakengard as your second chapter.

[moeblob]

Demyx (my beloved)

[dailyhatchetfield]

day 50 - goodnight, kyle

a link to the fic this is based on is under the cut

[sysig]

Damned Masterpost

Original run

ZEX wasn’t there for that, Dex!

Getting started

Kissing Strangers 💋

Captain Dating Sim

If I become lost...

It started with a whisper

Perfect comedy routine

Flowers for you!

ZEX loves wild horse!

Dexter’s first visit

Pivotal bright spot

Sunshine Captain ☀️

But ZEX loves humans!

Uniform ♥

Hard learning curve

Big Guy Teisel

VUXisms

ZEX’s hair <3

Haunted by Kayako

Zelnick has two hands

Zelnick’s gone :(

ZEX’s MU (blood)

Them (blood)

Leaving weird impressions

Last man standing

Wake up somewhere better (blood)

Despite everything, he’s still ZEX

New Daay

DAX profile

DAX Expressions

VUX duo Expressions

Lover’s tiff Expressions

Action heroes Expressions (blood)

Roughed up VUX Expressions (blood)

Too busy flirting

The Little VUXmaid ---

What if DAX was there

DAX’s Special Counseling

Homesick

After ZEX’s MU

Hope we die (blood)

Max’s visit

Karaoke Night

The girlies are fightinnggg

Different sensibilities

ZEX’s hair, again

Protect him, please

VUXémon

The three of them

Wander I mean Dr. Doran

More Dr. Doran

“Wake up” configurations

More VUXémon ft. Larry and Kabu

Dismissed ---

First re-meeting ♥

Chill, Sub-Commander

Each other’s VUX

Pyramid Head fight (blood)

Dr. Vargas

VUX silliness

Therapy went great

Nightly squabbles

You must snuggle

Obeying commands

Locked In

Damned, but make it Osmosis Jones

Wants to fight so bad

Some familiar faces

Drix Uniform

Main three’s profiles

Other

Stanley profile speculations

Max wants out

Crystal Gem VUX

All those missing eyes

2024 Sketchdump

[running-in-the-dark]

I think I need to make a list. not sure of what, but a list would probably help.

[ragdollic]

If I ever seem slow or slightly distant in conversation with you despite throwing myself into chat with a burst of energy beforehand, it's because I'm probably realising that I'm in fact talking to you and my brain struggles with that fact but it enjoys our chat very much I swear

[stairset]

In hindsight it is kinda funny in an ironic sense that Rebels, the show where Bo-Katan is literally only featured in one two-part episode with both parts being 22 minutes long each, still made time to mention her sister multiple times, and then a few years later The Mandalorian Show That's All About Mandalorians Featuring Bo-Katan As The Co-Protagonist apparently can't find time to mention her once in an entire eight episode season where every episode is between 30 to 60 minutes long. Like it's still stupid and frustrating but in a cosmic sort of way it is somewhat amusing.

[chopshajen]

1-5.

Janos’s Disguise Self disguise! They’ve had a few occasions to not look like themself, mostly because they were traveling to a country that had a massive bounty on their head. They disguised themself as a much more luxuriously beautiful tiefling woman, though one who was still short and who still looked kind of severe. They wore a sari-like outfit that was common in Nicodranas, because the disguise debuted there.

This sketch was cooking for a day or two and it was Not working so I nearly abandoned it, but today I rallied and tried to let go a little, and lo and behold, not feeding my perfectionism worked!

[daydreamerdrew]

since I’ve got Geoff Johns writing the Shazam kids on my mind, something that’s particularly frustrating to me about the Shazam! (2013) origin story is that questioning the concept of someone being pure of heart isn’t actually so unworkable, in my opinion, to the existing Shazam mythos, but that the way it’s done ultimately isn’t really based on character.

I think that there’s something there in a modern reading of Billy’s original portrayal where that he’s given the powers because he maintained his moral code despite the hardship he suffered is questionable. that, as a child, Billy shouldn’t have been potentially punished by not being given the powers if he had had to break rules to survive, or that it would be unfair for someone else who hadn’t ever been in his position to be rewarded for never breaking rules when they never needed to.

Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #88

and Shazam! (2013) does this a little bit by having Billy running away from a foster family be shown when the Wizard questions if he’s pure good, which is then reecontextualized when it’s shown Billy tried to take another kid with him to help her when the Wizard asks if he has embers of goodness within him:

but the problem is that this is ultimately so vastly overshadowed by Billy’s personality being changed to make him so abrasive at the time of the story, that the question posed to readers with the reboot becomes not if expecting someone to follow certain rules regardless of their circumstances is right, but if it’s realistic to expect someone to maintain a pleasant personality if they’ve had a rough childhood.

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Everyone is also like, so certain as to why Radahn sealed the stars and yet no two people agree on why and it's so funny.

I do think the theory that he was attempting to keep his own fate in stasis is potentially interesting though. It's said he learned gravity magic so he wouldn't have to abandon his horse, and it's at the end of his gravity magic lessons with the Onyx Lords that he says "Now I can challenge the stars" so...

[dashiellqvverty]

i wanna be into comics so bad but at a certain point, after starting and stopping so many comics so many times, i may have to admit that i am just not a comics guy

[maideninorange]

How would you rank the Len'ens from oldest looking to youngest looking? (Kinda like what I did here)

This is a tricky one! (Mainly because I don't think about this too much; only with characters in relation to each other during a scene when writing.) I decided to give a go nevertheless!

(Disclaimer: This list is very subjective. I contextualize how old a character appears in a general range (ex: "Sukune looks like a kid"; "Kaoru looks like they're in their forties") as opposed to anything ironclad. So please take these rankings with a grain of salt. I certainly am.)

(Putting this under a "read more" in order to prevent painful scrolling.)

Oldest

Yago

Souko

Chouki

Mitsumo

Yaorochi

Hibaru

Kaoru

Tsugumi

Sanra

Saragimaru

Garaiya

Tenkai

Medias

Kunimitsu

Tsurubami

Fumikado

Xeno a

Haiji

Iyozane

Clause

Kurohebi

Kaisen

Tsubakura

Kujiru

Yabusame

Jun

Suzumi

Lumen

Kuroji

Para

Hooaka

Mitori

Shou

Aoji

Sukune

Sese

Jinbei

Terumi

Shion

Youngest

[fitzselfships]

I am waiting so patiently for my package to get here (no I'm not I need it now so I can see if Stretchy actually makes an appearance in it)