#pre no way home

[yukiwhitetm]

Edit: Apologies, I didn't realise Jason was only 2/3 years older than Tim (who is eternally 17)! I have never read the comics, sorry, my only exposure to most of the BatFam at this point was Spiderman&BatFam fanstories where the ages were much more skewed. But I've recently read many, many more BatFam fanstories now so I've finally worked out all their ages (except for Duke's, how old is he?). So, if Peter is 17 and Jason is 19, then it's OK for you to ship them - just don't have them do anything until they're both legal. (Technically speaking, I'm British and the legal age of consent here is 16 so they'd both be legally consenting in my country but, since I am aware the vast majority of readers are American and Peter and Jason are American, let's stick to the American age of consent at 18.)

But definitely do not ship Peter with Dick!

Fanstory Prompt

Short prompt:

Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth is Peter Parker's great-uncle and, after Tony Stark and May Parker pass away in the aftermath of Endgame, Peter is sent to be under Alfred's care.

Peter Parker's Genealogy:

Alfred Pennyworth & Peggy Carter (marries Steve Rogers) - Howard Stark (marries Maria Stark née Carbonell)

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Tony Stark (marries Pepper Stark née Potts) - Mary Parker née Fitzpatrick (marries Richard Parker) & Ben Parker (brother-in-law, through Richard Parker) - May Parker née Reilly

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Peter Parker & Morgan Stark (half-siblings, different mothers)

Long prompt:

Seventeen-year-old Peter Parker, secretly the Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man of Queens, New York, has lost family and had to restart his life more times than the average kid (even one with superpowers!).

His parents Richard and Mary Parker died in an aeroplane crash when he was five. His Uncle Ben, who - along with his Aunt May - had taken him under his wing in the aftermath of his parents' abrupt passing, was shot and killed right in front of him when he was only fourteen. His Aunt May had a young stroke and passed away during the five year gap where Peter was busy being dusted (thanks Thanos!). And Tony Stark, who had only just found out he was Peter's biological father the year before Thanos attacked, when Peter was sixteen, but hadn't wanted to disrupt Peter's civilian life so had left him with his aunt, sacrificed himself to save the world, but more importantly Peter, in the final endgame battle against Thanos.

Now, Peter has blipped back into being five years after being dusted only to find he has lost family and has to restart his life all over again. This time with a great-uncle he hadn't even known existed! (Most likely due his not knowing Tony was his father and so Peggy was his grandmother until a year - six years? - beforehand.) Worse still, Peter has to move away from his friends and everything he's ever known to the world's most dangerous and crime-ridden city, Gotham. Who is Alfred Pennyworth and how has he ended up as a butler slash pseudo-grandfather to so many young people? Why do those very same young people keep on disappearing and then reappearing hours later from inside Wayne manor? What's up with those vigilantes hanging around Peter so much?

And why does everyone say that Batman has such a problem with mutants (also lesser known as metahumans) like Peter? He can't not be Spider-Man, even in a new and dangerous place like Gotham, so is Batman's prejudice going to be a problem... Or will Peter find himself an unlikely new family in the shape of bat and bird themed heroes as he builds himself a new life in Gotham city?

Prompter's note:

Lately, I have read a lot of Spider-Man&Batman crossover stories where Peter ends up in the DC universe - even ones where Dick Grayson was Richard Parker (adopted into the Parker family) in the Marvel universe before dying - which is fun but I wondered what would happen if it was somehow the same universe? Let's say the Justice League existed longer but were quieter than the Avengers and then the Avengers came crashing in, loud and proud as can be, and they refused to have anything to do with the Justice League, who they saw as nothing more than vigilantes. That's why the Justice League has never involved themselves in Avengers battles. Only now, my thought process went, the prompts above start pushing the Avengers-Justice League status quo when Spider-Man starts superheroing in Batman's city (particularly because a lot of the Avengers are gone). And the batfam find themselves unwittingly adopting a lost and lonely Spiderling.

P.S. I think Tim/Peter would be cute! They're both smart, compassionate, overly hardworking heroes; I think they're a perfect besties-to-boyfriends couple. Or an aged up! Damian/Peter could be a fun enemies or rivals-to-lovers storyline. If neither of those work, go ahead and do what inspires you instead, just don't couple him with up with Dick or Jason (which I have seen) because minor/adult couples are never cool. A better idea would be to ship Peter with no one at all!

I know I set a lot of this story prompt up for you already but that's just because I had a lot of thoughts on it. Feel free to make it your own!

[talaok]

Movie night

Summary: Peter's coming over for your weekly movie night, and you’ve decided you wanna confess your feelings for him, but as it turns out, he has similar plans

Warnings: Smut| unprotected p in v sex, praising, soft!Dom Peter

a/n: thanks to this request I might go back into my Peter Parker era honestly. Also, @wtvbabes (this is not the person that made the request)

It was time for the weekly movie night with Peter, 

You had been doing it for so long that you didn't even remember how or when it started, it was now simply a part of your routine.

Every Friday night, at 6 o'clock you went to whatever house was free, ordered pizza, and watched a movie each of you had chosen.

It was routine, so you shouldn't have been nervous... except that this time, this time wasn't gonna be like the other times, this time you had made a promise to yourself that you were finally gonna come clean, that you were finally gonna confess your feelings.

You had been keeping it a secret for way too long, and you were tired... god, were you tired, it was exhausting pretending like you didn't want more, like you didn't wanna kiss him and hold his hand every time you were together, and perhaps it was the holiday spirit surrounding you, or perhaps it was the fact that Gemma, your other best friend, had given you a 30-minute talk about how you should just "stop being a little bitch and tell him already" after you had started your usual ramble about how perfect and great Peter was,

But you had made peace with yourself, if this was gonna ruin your entire friendship, if you were gonna lose him forever, then so be it, because at the end of the day, if you couldn't have him like you really wanted to, then there was no point in having him at all.

And just then, when you were repeating your script to the mirror for the thousandth time, the words coming out of your mouth not even making sense anymore, he knocked at the door.

For some reason, a gasp fled your throat, but after the familiar "hey, it's me" from the other side of the door all you could do was take a deep breath and fix your dress.

It's all gonna be ok, it's all gonna be ok

"hi" you smiled, opening the door

Your anxiety must have been all over your face because the way he frowned at you told you everything you needed to know.

"hi" he said, coming into the house as he inspected your face "is something wrong?" he asked "Please don't tell me your sister changed the password to her Netflix again"

You forced a smile to your lips "no, no everything is fine- let's just... sit down"

"ok..." he frowned, following you as you sat on the couch "did something happen, or-"

"no" you shut him down "I-I just wanted" You shook your head as you regretted your choice of words "no actually, I need to- uhm- to tell you something"

You watched his eyes widen slightly, but out of all the things he could have said, he chose the only one that made you even fucking more anxious.

"Really?" he smiled "That's funny 'cause I do too"

You swore you felt your heart stop beating.

What could he ever need to tell you?

"w-what?" 

Your voice didn't even sound like your own, it was just fear and stress finding a way to come out of your body.

"yeah" he nodded, watching you closely "so... you wanna go first or..."

"no, no, you go first" you spit out, making him chuckle

He still didn't get why you were acting so weird, but to be perfectly transparent, he was kind of freaking out internally himself, so he didn't really have the brain capacity to investigate further.

"Alright" he laughed "I'll go first"

His eyes focused behind you for a moment as he prepared for whatever was coming, and just then, did you notice that perhaps you weren't the only nervous one.

What is it?

Did something happen

Oh god, did he find a girlfriend?

Your heart was beating out of your chest and then just like that, he came out and said: "Y/n I like you" with a hopeful smile on his face, while yours completely stilled.

Actually not just your face, you as a whole went completely still, frozen at the words that had just come out of his mouth

Did I just imagine that?

Am I dreaming or something?

What the actual fuck is going on?

That was supposed to be my lin-

"y/n are you there?"

He was talking to you, you realized.

"w-w-what?" your eyes were wide open in shock 

"I know" he smiled, scratching the back of his neck, "I know it's out of the blue, and I really really hope this won't ruin anything, but... I've been feeling like this for a long time about you, and I just- I needed to tell you"

And then you could do nothing, absolutely nothing but throw your arms around him, hugging him so tight he probably couldn't breathe.

"y/n?" he murmured, hugging you back, but before he could say anything else you leaned away, still holding onto him as if he were a life jacket, and smiled like an idiot.

"I like you too Peter-" you grinned "I really really like you"

The smile on his face now matched yours, as his eyes sparked with joy

"you do?"

"of course I do!" you almost yelled from the excitement "that's-that's what I wanted to tell you! I can't believe this"

You looked into each other's eyes, both incredulous and unbelievably happy altogether, 

you were so close, but an inch between your faces, that what happened next was inevitable.

His lips were on yours, 

his lips were on yours and they felt every bit as good as you had spent hours and hours imagining.

And then for a moment, you both leaned away, looking at each other as soft silly laughs fled your throats.

"i can't believe this is real" he breathed, melting your heart right into a puddle

"I can't either"

And then his lips were back on yours, but this time... this time he was hungrier.

His tongue was exploring your mouth, and his hands were one holding your face, while the other started roaming your body, pulling soft whimpers from you as your arms remained locked behind his neck, your left hand gently playing with his hair,

And then in no time, without a clue of how or when, you were lying on the couch, and he was on top of you, his legs parting your thighs.

And you didn't need to know when it had happened, because all you knew was that you liked it, god you really fucking liked it.

His whole broad and strong body was engulfing yours, his scent was all around you, his hands were everywhere, and his mouth... his mouth was simply heavenly.

As embarrassing as it was, you couldn't control your body as you started grinding down onto his leg to try and relieve some of the need pooling between your legs.

"please" you pleaded, whimpering softly into the kiss.

"I like it when you beg, sweetheart"

And if you wanted him before, you now needed him

His lips moved to your neck, starting a slow trail from just below your ear, down until he found your shirt as an obstacle.

You didn't need to be told twice and helped him take it off of you in a second.

Your bra wasn't far behind.

"god, you're so beautiful" he praised, making you blush 

he bent down to take one of your nipples into his mouth, sucking on it while his other hand played with the other one, making you lose your goddamn mind as you shut your eyes in ecstasy.

"oh my god" you moaned, one of your hands going to his hair as he switched up the breast he was taking care of.

Your panties were completely drenched

He continued his work as his hands traveled underneath your skirt, caressing your thighs in a way that was turning you into a putty mess in his hands.

His fingers gripped the edge of the fabric, and with the help of you raising your hips, only the sheer fabric of your panties divided him from where you begged for his attention

"Peter" you called, stopping him as he had seated himself in between your legs

"yes, sweetheart?"

"I-I've only ever done this once"

His features softened and one of his hands traveled to your face to cup your cheek as he left a soft kiss on your lips

"don't worry, I'll go slow," he promised "I'll take care of everything, you just relax, ok?"

"ok" You nodded softly "I trust you"

He smiled at that, kissing you again "Thank you"

And no more than a few seconds after that, you were completely bare before him.

"you're perfect sweetheart" he murmured "fucking perfect"

He left a kiss on your pussy, making you moan, before his lips were on you again, and you were more desperate than you had ever been.

Your hands gripped the fabric of his shirt, frantically trying to get it off of him.

"Peter please take this off"

He didn't need to be told twice.

His shirt was on the floor with the rest of your clothes in no time, and then came his pants.

He went back to kissing you, the kiss now a heated mess between your moans and his hunger.

"baby please" you whined, your hand going to his boxers 

"what do you want sweetheart?"

"you, please, all of you"

Your voice was so thin and so breathy it was almost incomprehensible

"what about me?" he asked, his mouth next to your ear "You want my cock sweetheart, is that what you want?"

"yes" you moaned, as his hand played with your clit "I'm begging you, please, I need you inside of me"

He freed his cock from the confines of his briefs, as he kept kissing your neck

"you're gonna be good?" he asked, his tip now collecting all your juices and making you squirm uncontrollably "you're gonna be good and take all of it?"

"yes" you breathed "yesplease, yes-"

And without so much as a warning, he had started to push into you

"told you I like hearing you beg"

You moaned so loud you surprised even yourself, and then he retracted his hips and pushed another inch of himself in you, and you were just about ready to die.

"O-oh my god, P-peter" you moaned

He made the same motion again, and you couldn't help but look down at where your bodies were meeting, and that's when you noticed,

"fuck you're so big" you breathed, watching as he thrust only half of his dick inside of you

"it's ok" he purred, kissing your neck sloppily "Just be a good girl and take it" he ordered, pushing in again "Take it all inside this tight little pussy"

A high-peached moan fled your mouth again, as your pussy stretched around him,

"just like that," he said, his hot breath fanning over your skin "That's a good girl"

He was now fully inside you, by some miracle, he had made himself fit, and he felt absolutely perfect.

"fuck you feel so good" he groaned, picking up his pace "so tight" he grunted, feeling your walls squeeze him better than anything ever before "like you were made for me" his thrusts somehow felt deeper now, resulting in even more moans and cries coming out of your mouth

"O-oh god" you whimpered, feeling him hit and hit and hit again that perfect spot inside of you.

"You're taking me so well sweetheart"

The couch was now shaking with each of his movements, while your brain had stopped working and all you could do was cry out as he brought heaven to you.

"look at you" he murmured, kissing your mouth "So beautiful" he praised "so fucking pretty" he groaned, as your walls tightened around him "squeezing me so good" 

His thrusts were so fucking deep you could feel them in your belly, and your orgasm was inevitably approaching

"such a good girl"

A louder moan left your throat at that, and he definitely noticed

"you like it when I call you that?" he asked, smirking devilishly "You like hearing that you're my good girl?"

Again, another cry, followed by a frantic nod now.

Your ability to talk had been lost a while ago.

"It's just what you are" he purred in your ear now "You're my good girl y/n, only mine"

And that, that sent you definitively over the edge.

A series of cries and moans resembling his name came out of your mouth as the best orgasm of your life took over your body completely.

He waited for you to come down from your high before he pulled out of you, spilling his seed all over your belly not a second later.

"fuck" he muttered, his head falling to the crook of your neck

You stayed there for a moment, waiting for your heartbeats and breathing to calm down,

And only then, only after you spent five minutes in the most comfortable silence, did he lean away to look at you.

"I love you, Peter"

You couldn't stop yourself from saying it, it was just the truth

And not a beat had passed, that he had already answered

"I love you, y/n"

[turtleblogatlast]

Every day I’m haunted by the fact the boys happily swim in sewer water

Even if it’s filtered somehow there’s no way it’s not still nasty 😭 Bet they can defeat any of their villains just by accidentally giving them diseases I swear

[thisisnotthenerd]

in the vein of my last cr post

i started watching critical role with bells hells. my first live episode was the halloween episode of 2022, so we're coming up on two years. i know i haven’t been here that long, but having seen them grow from their first major death to now, i have some thoughts.

marquet campaign? what marquet campaign

i wish they had more grounding in marquet. one of my favorite things that i’ve found about exandria is that the places feel so lived in. part of what made it so compelling in c1 and c2 was that the characters were so bound to the places and people even when they were adventurers. the players got to invest themselves in making their hometowns fit the characters.

bell’s hells has barely any touchpoints in marquet. laudna, orym, dorian, fearne, chetney, bertrand, fcg, and braius are not native to marquet and have only spent a few years at most there. even in their homes, most of them don’t have strong ties, at least not those we’ve seen.

laudna was a woods witch/phylactery/cryptid in the pale forest.

chetney had ties in wildemount, but many of them have passed, and he spent a lot of time traveling.

fcg woke up a few years ago and then went murderbot a few months ago iirc.

braius was a refugee and then was expelled from his home in zadash.

orym has strong ties in zephrah, but was notably traveling after the death of his father and husband.

fearne has strong ties to morri and ligament manor, but only to them, and minimally to her parents due to them leaving her there.

for those that grew up in marquet: imogen and ashton aren’t really tied to place or people. imogen was notably isolated from gelvaan, and estranged from her father. ashton landed in bassuras without memories and grew up an orphan before relocating to jrusar with the nobodies. neither of them has any particular knowledge of the variances in culture.

they weren’t filling in the gaps in the world that made places like whitestone, nicodranas, and zephrah feel lived in. it’s all narration. not to knock the narration, but it’s harder for the places to have an impact when the characters/players don’t remember them well.

more under the cut because this got long. it has been edited for clarity.

timeline considerations

also, think about the time they spent in each given place. BH has been in campaign for 97 days. 65 were pre-solstice. 40 of the 65 days pre-solstice were spent with at least part of the day in transit. 13 of those 40 days were ground travel, while the remaining 27 was via airship.

overall, they've spent 57/97 days in transit, 40 pre-solstice, 17 post-solstice. on either end, that's more than half of the time. post-solstice travel days isn't even counting the days with teleports, just their ground travel. numbers are a little fuzzy around the party split, since they spent different days traveling and had the time dilation.

in terms of actual time in each place, they've spent:

pre-solstice:

17 days in jrusar

3 days in heartmoor

7 days in bassuras (includes calloway hideout)

1 day in whitestone

3 days in the gloomed jungles of aeshanadoor (included in their ground travel days)

2 days in yios

2 days in the feywild

1 day in gelvaan

1 day at the tishtan excavation site

post-solstice:

2 days in uthodurn (team wildemount)

1 day in molaesmyr (team wildemount)

2 days in hearthdell (team issylra)

1 day in irriam canyon (team issylra) [time dilation wrt team wildemount can stretch this number. they played one day in irriam canyon with hevestro]

2 days in jrusar

2 days in zephrah

1 day in yios

2 days on slival (included in travel time)

2 days on kalutha

3 days in whitestone

4 days in feywild (time dilation days included)

2 days in ria'doin

1 day in razora (ruidus)

2 days in kreviris (ruidus)

1 day in zadash

1 day in aeor

1 day in rexxentrum

3 days in vasselheim

this doesn't precisely add up; they were in some of these places for the majority of the day and left at night, or stayed overnight & left in the morning. there are a few one-offs that i didn't mention for the sake of time. but the point is that they've spent a lot of time moving around. they've spent 70 days out of 97 in marquet (64 pre-solstice), but 39/70 were just transit days that passed quickly. post-solstice, they've spent 5 episodes on marquet, out of 60. they've spent 6 episodes in the feywild post-solstice.

in the post-solstice, they’ve spent a lot of time bouncing from place to place, and tend to have an absurd amount packed into certain days. even pre-solstice this was a tendency. there’s a few i’d point out:

Sydenstar 17: reunion with the Calloways, the Dusk/Yu reveal, Ira fleeing with the Moontide crown, reveal of the divine lattice around Ruidus

Sydenstar 18: FCG goes murderbot, Artana Voe attacks Paragon’s Call and BH try to get Treshi, only to be ambushed by Otohan. Fearne, Orym and Laudna die, and the latter cannot be resurrected with the resources they have available.

Sydenstar 24: After Imogen & FCG go into Ashton’s head the preceding night, they meet with Keyleth, go to Whitestone, have an audience with Percy, resurrect Laudna / defeat Delilah, and Imogen dreams of Eshteross dying

Fessuran 8: They start the day getting attacked by Shithead, go to Ebenold Kai’s house, only to go to the Fire Plane and get the Predathos reveal, then return with Planerider Ryn’s aid, get attacked by the Ruby Vanguard and investigate Tuldus, meet with Ashton at the Seminary, meet Kadija Sumal only for her to be Feebleminded by Ludinus, and then they Planeshift to the Feywild, where they trek out to get to Ligament Manor.

Fessuran 20: The Battle of the Red Center / Apogee Solstice. I don’t think I need to explain this one.

Quen’pillar 4: The parties reunite in Jrusar, then split, with the guests going to the Starpoint, and BH headed to Zephrah. They further split, with Imodna going canon and seeing the Ludinus projections, FCG and Ashton find Milo, and Chet, Fearne, and Orym have an encounter with a bounty hunter and then have a vision in the Duskmaven temple. FCG scrys on Liliana and finds her on the moon.

Quen’pillar 8: BH teleports to Yios to find Dancer and get attacked by Shithead. They teleport to Bassuras where they attack and kill Ratanish to save Imahara Joe. They then make a deal with the All-Minds-Butn to plant it on Ruidus. Then they transport to Slival for the night.

Quen’pillar 9: they meet the Dolabos and Jirana, who gives them the compass. They then interrogate Ratanish and summon the Crimson Abyss, after fighting their way aboard, they liaise with the crew and Fearne gets her boon.

Quen’pillar 12: they hike to the center of Kalutha and go spelunking. they find Evontra’vir and get answers. Then they go into the Chynes Maw where Ashton and Fearne get the shard of Rau’shan out. Ludinus simulacrum & Reilora fight. they then teleport to Whitestone where they get the harness back and agree to scout out the moon.

Quen’pillar 14: in the wake of Shardgate, they decide to go to Morri’s house. they go to the Feywild and undergo all three trust trials, and then plane shift back to the same day. They meet at the encampment and decide on the plan. they sneak through the Malleus Key and get through the Bloody Bridge. they go to Razora and meet Dono and Barthie. they fight Willmaster Edmuda. FCG and Fearne run into Otohan. they travel towards Kreviris, and on the way find the rift leading to Ria’Doin.

Quen’pillar 16: day of the Volition’s sabotage attacks. they succeed in their missions and start leaving. they meet the Weave Mind and Liliana in quick succession. Final Otohan attack. FCG sacrifice. they make it the Bloody Bridge and get back to the Malleus Key encampment.

Quen’pillar 17: Fearne meets Zathuda and is attacked by her shadow forms. They meet Essek and go to Zadash where they interrogate Astrid. they shop for clothes and magic items and meet Pumat Sol. Swordgate.

Quen’pillar 18: Failed Teleports to Aeor. find Ruby Vanguard members who died to Dominox. Call Teven and meet Braius. battle with Dominox and Ludinus. Occultus Thalamus shows Downfall. Delilah is triggered, fought, and ritually sealed in the soul anchor.

Quen’pillar 21: They plane shift to the Feywild and go to the Manor. the cross the Amethyst Gulch Sierras and ambush the Unseelie party there. Party meets the Arch Heart. They kill Zathuda and take him back to the Manor where Morri turns him into a tapestry that they then interrogate. Fearne tames Gloamglut.

while they’ve been more frequent in the late campaign, it was still common for them to be passing days in travel and then suddenly do a lot of fighting. it’s the nature of the game, but i find that bell’s hells really dealt with this issue in particular. they’re literally having the same conversations every day even if they’re episodes apart.

they spent the longest in jrusar, where they were mostly doing low-level jobs and engaging with various patrons (bertrand, eshteross, jiana hexum). it's not really home to any of them, unless you count laudna and imogen staying with zhudanna, which i don't really. 2nd by time is bassuras, which is where ashton grew up, but it was mostly a basis for them to track treshi, meet with the calloways, and get killed by otohan. 3rd by time is the feywild.

the built up places

the only places that have had the lived-in aspect to them have been ligament manor, with ashley-as-fearne’s influence, zephrah, informed by liam-as-orym and marisha-as-keyleth previously, whitestone, with taliesin-as-percy & laura-as-vex's influence, and honestly uthodurn, having deanna and frida and chetney. four places, across the campaign, and none of them in marquet. i feel like we’d get the vibe from the silken squall with how robbie has filled in some of the gaps, but c3 hasn’t had reason to go there.

the above examples excepted, bell’s hells doesn’t have homes to go back to. many of them have found their sole companionship with the group and their part time allies. they are almost entirely internally focused, and it’s led to a lot of repetitive debate and retracing of patterns.

it also means they don’t tend reach out to their short-term allies or try and get different perspectives on their views. they've contacted keyleth multiple times, but they never tried to contact deanna, frida, and prism again, even though they were explicitly doing research with the cobalt soul. how hard would it have been to send a message once they were functional again.

i know the vibe was npcs at character creation. but at least npcs have a sense of connection to the spaces they inhabit. and the people they interact with.

personal opinions

some tweaks i’d make that i don’t think would irreparably change c3

probably go wizard laudna as i’ve previously talked about. i’d make her a student/researcher at the starpoint conservatory, and give her both a grounding in arcane research and a base knowledge of the major factions and powers of marquet as a result of her time there. you could do it while maintaining delilah; have her encounter vex earlier on in her time in whitestone, and have vex encourage her to live her life and harness her power by learning about it. the lady of whitestone is generous. i bet she’d do it for the woman who was sacrificed in her image. i’d make at a point where it’s not obvious that laudna is dead and that delilah’s living in her head—it makes going to whitestone to resurrect her just that much more angsty. the added bonus is that she’d probably have higher int, which would fix a lot of my personal issues with the campaign not having people who know anything. late campaign it would be laudna and chetney sniffing out things to look at, but getting multiple perspectives instead of just visions and identify spells and items going in the harness. travis and marisha’s bread and butter.

have fcg start with a little bit more divine connection. ngl i loved their journey, and i cried so much when they died, but having that anchor earlier would have given a little more divine influence to this campaign in a way that i think would have made the god debates a little less frequent. honestly i think it would have been cool to see them go polytheist cleric. avandra for the path ahead, moradin as patron of the mechanical and created, erathis as the lady of law and civilization guiding their hand in learning about the world, etc. it would be a different take on a cleric and faith, and as evidenced by braius, sam can play a faithful character with split ties. admittedly i’m biased because of my own religious inclinations, but in a world with many gods, wouldn’t it make sense for a little aeormaton who was created without their influence to explore many different aspects of divinity in exandria? and it would fit for marquet, which has a lot of indian influence.

have imogen be aware of the apex war and otohan’s role in it, as a child growing up in the taloned highlands. tie liliana leaving to the war and whispers about the ruidusborn causing destruction as part of the war. make it clear that she wasn’t just a hot deadly set piece, but a person of faith, who came from a mercenary background to make big swings during the war, and in the aftermath have suspicion of them ramp up, especially with their disappearance. maybe a missed opportunity; otohan passed through gelvaan and met liliana early and imogen heard about it.

have dusk/yu know about fearne being zathuda’s bio daughter and have the moontide crown be a ruse to grab her and birdie (if possible) for zathuda. maybe not a full reveal, but enough to plant suspicions early and make the fey key sabotage a little more fraught.

maybe not give them a cycle of patrons. they went from eshteross's employ to hexum's, then were basically sent out by keyleth. during the party split, they got support to got to molaesmyr from the king & queen of uthodurn and also abbadina and hevestro. the most time they spent pursuing their own ends was when they went to yios and stopped in aeshanadoor on their way. i think this contributed to a lack of independence that took away from their decision making capabilities. if it wasn't a patron, it was based on individual interests and less group decisions. now they're continually circling because they have the same arguments over and over.

alter the teleportation/communication/resurrection magic breakdown. just personal preference. i get the purpose that it served, but it just meant that they weren't communicating as they went through teleportation mishaps with the staff. also idk why imogen didn't just take teleport at level 13. it would have freed up the attunement slot with the staff and dealt with the psychic damage issue. she hit 13 post-quen'pillar 4, which is when they got transportation via plants working again, so it wouldn't have been a huge change.

[aquanutart]

I absolutely LOVE the Squirtle/Wartortle illustrations by kantaro in Pokemon 151!

The Squirtle jumping so joyfully from the rock into the ocean, the colors are STUNNING! I love the contrast of the Squirtle's aqua blue framed in the vivid orange sky, the soft bit of blue reflecting in its shell and its tail just catching the sun, how little and squishy its body looks as it launches itself towards the water with such tremendous excitement!

The lineless style of the background gives me the feel of a travel poster and I sense the tropical environment around it from the rocks and trees framing the corners, the waterfall splashing with as much energy as the Squirtle!

The layered blues on the surface of the water and the bubbles rising at the corner make me FEEL the liquid rising to meet the Squirtle--I can just feel how the next moment it's going to break through and be immersed in a cool island swim!

And the Wartortle running along the sunset beach, this is somehow everything I always imagined for Wartortle! I adore the way the rich purple melts into the warm red/orange sky, the matching purple clouds and shadows in the foreground, and how the dimming sunlight glows red on Wartortle's deep blues!

I love how the yellow and orange of the sky illuminate the lapping waves, I can just feel the gentle motion of the sea at dusk. The aqua color of the ocean matches Wartortle's ears and tail and sets off the red-orange sand, I just love how the colors are here!

Wartortle looks so round and squishy, I love its happiness as it goes frolicking through the shallows, chasing the bubbles caught in the setting sun! The shine and deep shadow on its shell give it an almost jewel texture like real tortoise shell; I love the silhouetted splash Wartortle leaves as it goes running across the shore. It's so full of energy and delight at the end of a gorgeous day! The colors in these are SO vivid and harmonized and the style is so cute and bursting with energy and joy. I just LOVE it (also Squirtle is my starter)

[gorgynei]

more molly and yasha because i cant stop thinking about them. theyre everything to me

[onesnoopyaday]

Snoopy #33

3/11/2024

[magpie-to-the-morning]

Eeeee you guys! I have a cubicle of my own! I think! I’m nesting so hard right now but I’m trying to chill out until I confirm whether or not to share it with anyone else.

[guinevereslancelot]

applied to a bunch of jobs! 😅🙏

[sonknuxadow]

just suddenly got a call from an unknown number and it scared me so bad because nobody ever calls me for anything and i reluctantly picked it up and it was just gamestop reminding me about my preorder .. why did they feel the need to call me over that theyve never called me before .. scary

[glittergoats]

I'm home.

[hey-scully-itsme]

discovering facebook marketplace just as i had four days off in a row was. well. perhaps it would be best if someone restricted my access to that website

[norwegianvisagecrusher]

I'm going to my first fiber fest tomorrow! Help me pick out patterns and decide what to buy!

I've been crocheting for about 3 years now and feel like I'm at a solid intermediate skill level now, which means I'm going to treat myself to some fancy yarns! I've done some looking online at hand dyed yarn and am feeling quite overwhelmed honestly. There are so many dyers and yarn bases and color combinations, and I have no idea what will look good crocheted. Most of the swatches of hand dyed yarn are knit and crochet eats up so much yarn that I have no idea how the yarn would look in a crocheted project, so I'm feeling a bit lost! Should I go for stripes? Speckles? Gradients? Tonals? I just don't know!

I'd really love to make a shawl/wrap in hand dyed wool, but am struggling with finding a pattern so I know how much yarn to buy tomorrow. Does anyone have any crochet shawl patterns that will look good with hand dyed yarn? I'm open to working with anything from fingering to worsted weight and feel pretty confident with most stitches. I would prefer something that doesn't have large sections of open work or lace, but I will conquer crocheted lace if there's a pattern out there that would shine with a hand dyed yarn. I'm also pretty confident with Tunisian crochet and have been eyeing a few shawl patterns from TL Yarncraft recently.

Any recommendations for yarn or patterns is greatly appreciated!

Here are the patterns I've been considering, but I cannot for the life of me decide which one to buy for. Please help!

[zefforuins]

God I wish we knew more about what specifically was going thru Jason’s head after his fight with Bruce, because essentially his entire worldview has been collapsed. He’s spent the past however many years believing that Bruce is ultimately responsible for the pain that he feels, that the entire Batman thing does nothing but harm others, and that the only way he will “get better” is by killing Bruce.

Finding out that he was apart of Jokers plan all along, and that no, Bruce actually DOES care about him and regret what happened, and actively WANTS to make it right by working together with him has to be insanely difficult for him. By the time he shows back up in game to paint the red hood symbols and get ready to save Bruce, he’s figured out that Scarecrow is going to finish the plan and kill Bruce and that he actually…doesn’t want that. And from there on now Jason has to spend time trying to figure out who he is again.

Not only did Joker put ideas in Jason’s head, but Jason also has spend the past few years with one goal in mind, kill Bruce. As far as I know he hasn’t spent any extra time on a side gig or playing some video game that he likes lol. So he needs to find himself again and figure out how to trust his thoughts and ideas and try to free himself from the joker.

[quietwingsinthesky]

for the ship ask game, have you ever thought about simm!master/eleven? would you like to?

would i ever!!!!!!

this was the basis of one of my posts about little amy so long ago. a hypothetical s5 where the master sticks with the doctor after he regenerates. but like can we talk about how insane that dynamic between him and amelia, the literal eight year old, would be. look at me. one of the defining things of eleven's run is that the first face he saw was amy's. seared onto his hearts!!! now, imagine that happens in a world where the master did everything right to be that person, and it was still amy. the tardis crashed, and the doctor went one way and the master went the other, and by the time the master drags himself soaking wet out of what was the swimming pool and into amelia's garden, the doctor is already having dinner with some random human child.

things simm!master is not above: being a little bitch to amy about this. yes, even when she's eight. (amelia pond with her stories about her magical raggedy doctor!! ...and the trash rat who crawled out of his time machine after him and threatened to eat her. wait okay hold on i know im getting distracted here but aslkjdalkjsd rory who amy makes dress up as the doctor vs mels who insists on dressing up as the master because she craves violence and an excuse to bite people.)

ANYWAY. god. eleven who is this bottomless well of grief and rage. and the master who is so much like him in this incarnation. silly goofy guys who burn too bright, burn up everything and everyone around them. what is simm!master if not a version of eleven untempered by kindness. i wonder what the master would have to say about a version of the doctor who is aware of how scared people are of him and uses it to his advantage. who scares the rest of the universe so much that they try to lock him away and kill him and do anything they can to get rid of him. when they lock the doctor up in the pandorica, does the master give him the final shove into the chair or is he a few feet away, just barely restrained, impotently snapping and snarling to prevent this?

but never looking at it directly, right? neither of them would be able to. not at what's between them, not at what came before. if you don't talk about that time you both saved each other, then maybe you can pretend it didn't happen.

i think the master would make eleven worse, no doubt about it. i think eleven might just make the master a little better, and he'd hate that but that wouldn't stop it from happening. they might find some sort of equilibrium, just this once, a little willing to bend in the aftermath of the events of the end of time. that part of the master that will be missy one day wakes up. the part of the doctor that was once the time lord victorious gets a last glorious breath. they can have that, together.

okay. okay. one last thing. gets ill thinking about eleven who is so physically affectionate being that way with the master. with mr 'im going to kiss my wife i married for political gain like im starving'. with mr 'time lord telepathy does not require physical contact but if we don't touch foreheads right now ill die'. with mr 'fuck u but also im gonna die in your arms, don't leave or let me go before everything falls quiet.' thinks about eleven touching him and hugging him and kissing him and- thinks about the master recoiling from it, hackles raised, or shoving the doctor away when he does. thinks about the doctor not stopping. thinks about the master getting accustomed to his touch, taking it greedily. (thinks about missy kissing the doctor to greet him later.)

yeag <3

[put any ship in my ask box and i’ll give my brutally honest opinion]

[fluffypotatey]

Fun part of imagining the start of macaque's devotion to wukong that it could be anything from saving his life to wukong smiling at him

or Wukong accusing him of following him because he saw through Macky hiding in his shadow or Wukong punched him in the face on reflex when Macky when to introduce himself or when Macky saw Wukong show off to humans that he can speak their language and was so fucking giddy about it or—