#she was LASO mentioned

[kindaasrikal]

The ninja think Lloyd has a twin brother after seeing an old photo of a pair of blonde and brunette teenagers in an old album.

They completely forgot about the fact that the (really old) picture held two teenagers and is a photo they don’t remember. And that Lloyd didn’t become a teenager under the most normal of ways.

After theorising for an entire night after sending Lloyd on a random mission, they came to the conclusion that Lloyd’s long lost twin must be living on the streets, like Lloyd once was. And since Lloyd was evil on the streets before living with the ninja, only to then become the most good person alive, then by magical twin logic Lloyd’s twin is the actual evil one with a traumatic backstory.

In hopes of not letting Lloyd remember (they assume he either chooses to hide those memories in pain or he has amnesia) of his evil and having left him behind family member number 2 (3 on the second one) they go out searching for a brunette teenage evil whose trying to take over the world in a random village.

After a whole week of searching they found squat and Lloyd and Wu got tired of it all, and cornered them to spill the truth. Shockingly enough, it was Zane who was feeling the most pressure over the secret and blurted it out with a little of pressure. Before crying out apologies over not finding his evil twin brother and saving him from the “DARK VISCOUS PATH GARAMDON WAS FORCED DOWNNN IT WAS ALL OUR FAULTSSSSS” as he sobbed.

Wu and Lloyd, rightfully confused, and very concerned because to be perfectly honest this would be expected of their family after Morro was hidden from them (Wu please don’t have any more secret hidden children) and how they are in general, call Misako and Garmadon.

Garmadon screams and Misako is very much prepared to murder everyone, because she can remember her own pregnancy thank you very much. Until, well, she remembers the family she joined. And the job she has. And then when the Ninja are convinced something is up, and even Lloyd is nearing the same state his father and Zane are in, with Wu questioning he should actually go through that old scrapped plan to kidnap Morro from the Departed realm if this random twin is also dead, Misako yells at them all to be quiet and wait for her and Garmadon to show up. Harumi can be heard cackling in the background when they all end the call.

When Misako and Garmadon arrive, the ninja and co are found completely silent. Misako is already sick of it all and Garmadon look like he might strangle the ninja for answers, so she just straight up asks them what made them convinced Lloyd has a twin.

Lloyd, Wu, Garmadon and Misako all stare at the ninja, who in turn sweat. Slowly, Nya gets up to grab a book off the shelf they hid it between.

And when they opened it to the page the picture was in, they were all silent as they absorbed it all in.

Then Wu snorted, and it became chaos after. Garmadon was both laughing his ass off and cussing them all out. Misako was muffling her own snorts behind her hands, shaking as she struggles to hold herself up on a wall, the ninja are staring completely baffled as Wu is giggling into his hat, and Lloyd is glaring confused between the two people in the picture, before slowly looking up and asking “is…is this?…”

The ninja are even more confused and even a little offended by that, and Kai starts pointing at it all like “Its your evil twin! I swear it!! Who..ahem, looks a lot like a certain old classmate right-”

And Wu just gets up, grabs the album, looks at Garmadon, and says “Lloyd really does look similar to us, doesn’t he?”

And Garmadon, who was wondering if he should stab the ninja after giving him such a huge scare, scoffs and says “Of course he doesn’t, he looks exactly like Misako!” And then looks at the picture and says “…Though, he does have my amazing hair, and your ugly eyebrows.” Lloyd takes zero offence and believes it a compliment when it comes to him.

It takes a second more of silence before Misako begins snorting again at the ninja’s faces when they realise.

Jay’s jaw is dropped, Cole is staring between Garmadon and Lloyd, Zane begins scanning the photos with Wu and Garmadon’s face, Nya is trying to ask for an actual explanation, Kai is frozen, and Lloyd.

Lloyd literally falls on the ground in relief. He’s had enough family drama to deal with, no more is necessary.

[emmcarstairs]

Okay, is it me or are the bloody fingers/sewing/stiching fingers strangely reminiscent of a red thread of fate??

Not to mention that she's caught in his laso during these scenes.

[popculturebuffet]

Finally for the Nickelodeon live action originals, favorite character from the Nickelodeon live action originals from 2007-15 (the last set you saw before leaving live action Nick): iCarly 2007, True Jackson VP, The Troop, Big Time Rush (where the more cartoonier vibe can be attributed from being created by Scott Fellows, who also helmed Ned's Declassified which was also a cartoon but in live action), Victorious, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures, How to Rock, and Bella and the Bulldogs? And as a bonus, I’ll throw in Fairly OddParents Fairly Odder and iCarly 2021 (which thankfully has no involvement from Dan Schneider this time so there’s a much safer environment for that era of the franchise) due to being based on an older IP (only didn’t mention Sam & Cat since you confirmed you never saw it) despite both being on Paramount Plus instead of Nickelodeon.

Okay so I haven't seen fairly odder. Heard it blows and we're better off with new wish. Also haven't seen how to rock, forgot to omit that one. And I did see sam and cat. So.. be ready for that

ICarly (Original): Spencer. Jerry Trenor is genuinely talented and gets to show it off even more now he's in the main cast of a show instead of a shouty weirdo on the side. I mean he's no less loud, but spencer also gets depth being both a good guardian to carly and a relatable adult as someone who also works in a career with weird hours and dosen't have many irl adult friends.

The show itself is pretty good early on, and was one of the few live action shows I watched reguarly after leaving nick behind rather than just because it happened to be on. Being the succesor to drake and josh with what younger me THOUGHT was less crutely helps. I mean there's way more than I remembered as I found out watching Quinton Reviews massive look at the series, but it's a bit more measured. Except with Sam. But while Sam's cruelty's a bit much the cartoony nature of the series helps me mostly look over it, and the timing is well done with a talented young cast.

And.. yeah like Drake and Josh it's hard to go back to. Not as hard as quinton's long retrospective exists, but Janette McCurdy's book, which I still need to read, was covered in the last part of his look at sam and cat and was so horrifying it took him a while to get that part done. The short version is janette had an abusive overly religoius stage mom that gave her a severe eating disorder and body dismorphia. The book is really good from all I hear and worth buying. Schinder was laso a nightmare on set, implied to be creepy with Janette, and had a lot of creepy weird sexual content in the show. So while the show ITSLEF isn't terrible it's hard to go back to knowing one of it's main stars suffered so horribly. Just to keep this out of the way she went through the same on sam and kat, being denied directing an episode and wasnt happy to be there to begin with.

True Jackson VP: I didn't see this one often, though it was okay.

The Troop: Wish i'd seen this one more as what I saw of it was a solid monster of the week show, mixing ghostbusters with high school angst. Always a good move

Big Time Rush: Carlos. Carlos Pena Vega is a wonderful man, and a great comedic actor. I only saw this one on and off, but I did seek it out and even once got ribbed by my sister when she found out I watched it on amazon prime back when it was on there. And it's for the reason you went out of your way to point out: it's from the same creator of ned's declassified, has the same vibe and thus it's like catnip for me. The quality is kept up, the goofiness ramped up since the new setting means our heroes have less restirctions and not being a teacher their adult figure can shout at them more and call them dogs. It even coined the term swifted. Or if it didn't it told me it exists. It's pure fun. I like ned more for it's slightly deeper cast and nostlagia's sake, but big time was a more than worthy followup with it's own talented cast that thankfully also didn't involve child abuse.

Victorious: It used to be robbie but now i'm not so sure. I do like his actor though who now throws nick themed raves and seems like just.. the most awesome guy. Another one of the quinton reviews trinity and this one I saw more of but never really glommed onto. I like the cast once again and i'm happy most of them are doing pretty well, but I never really got into this one.

Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures: Aloe their arch enemy who reminds me of Ben Stiller's roll in heavyweights, and discount ben stiller mixed with lars from the same movie is a good time. This is one I remember mostly just for being so bad it's good to me. It had all the tropes: two idiot heroes, girl one of them's into whose roll is basically just girl, douchey rival, wise mentor, that sorta thing. It's so cliche and stock it wraps around to being hilarious.

Sam and Kat: Goomer. He's the best. I saw a few episodes back in the day, and it was... just not.. good. At all. And given the mess behind the scenes, how thrown together it was it was... yeah. You can tell on screen. This should not have existed and Nick shoudl've known better and i've noticed less spinoffs after this. Danger Force is the only one I can think of and at least seems to wrap up the NSU on a high note.

ICarly2021: Spencer. Again. Forever and always. I haven't seen a ton of this but what I saw I liked, a decent reboot that brigns the series back in style and does it's best to fill the void janette left behind (not that I blame her as her decision was entirley for her own perosnal health and leaving acting was a good thing for her) with new characters and a solid update. I wish it hadn't ended on a cliffhanger and hope someway we get a reunion movie to fix that. Otherwise it seems like a more than worthy addition to the canon and a way for the cast that did return to take ownership of their biggest roles back.

[sassyabbs]

Smut headcanons: Harry Potter.

[Notes: Well here´s the next one, gotta love this man]

TW: NSFW CONTENT!, Bdsm, dom/sub relationships, Dom! Harry Potter, degradation kink, somnophilia, nudism, cock warming, sensation play, bondage, blindfolds, sex in semi-public spaces, marks and hickeys, aftercare and mentions of BDSM clubs.

BDSM is a yes for him.

He didn't believe that it would make it for him, it sounded like the worst type of torture.

But when he started to go to clubs, accidentally went into a BDSM club, where he saw his first scene.

That made his dick harder than a rock, of course, but he laso couldn't stop watching how the little sub was making a big effort to not cum and how they reacted when their dom praised them.

He wanted that, to hold someone like that even when there was no touch between the two of them.

Harry discovered a whole new world again, he witnessed an endless amount of scenes, read several books, different newspapers and the more confident he was, the more he dared to try.

It was the scariest thing for him to hurt a sub, so he had an insane amount of anxiety the first time he had an scene.

But he's Harry Potter, the scene went great, a little slow but it was a great start.

He has many fixed kinks, and some that if he didn't dislike, he would do them just to please his sub of the moment.

Of course that when you too met, it was the perfect match, even before sex. You two talked and moved around each other as if you were an old married couple.

Somnophilia was one of the most prominent kinks, after the war his sleep was always light, and when a sub of his told him he could have whatever he wanted while she was asleep, he had no turning back.

"Shhh go back to sleep, love, I just came homo from a mission. I didn't meant to wake you up."

It was the best way to wake up, him pounding you from behind, his ragged breathing trying not to wake you up and when he notices your eyes open, his thrusts deepen until you both come.

Blindfold his sub is one of his favourite things to ever do. He feels so powerful everytime that his sub let him blindfold them.

He knew how vulnerable it was for them, and something inside him warms up with appreciation for the trust his subs give him.

Sometimes he would blind fold you for the entire day, he would go on with his day, with the exception that he could look up at any moment and see your pretty figure waiting for him.

"You are the most beautiful decoration that I own."

Other times it would be only in the scenes, keeping you tied in a star shape while playing with your sensations, passing feathers, ice, ropes or whatever comes to mind at the moment.

"Don't move , I'm not done with you yet."

Other times he would take you in front of the mirror, just to pull your hair and remove the blindfold at the last minute and say "look how pretty you are when you come."

Another of his problems was that he loved skirts a little to much, specially the short ones. Leather, pleated, flared, latex, all of them.

He also when you were wearing them for him with no underwear.

And those that if someone looks a lot at your thighs they might see some of the love bites that he left behind.

It drove him crazy to see you walk in skirts, to see how your thighs rubbed against each other and how your hips move with every step you take.

That mixed with his impulsiveness often led both of you to get off in the street, with him leading you to an empty alley and crushing you against the wall.

The adrenaline of doing it in a public place also turned him on, but it was not something you two did regularly, with Harry being the boy-who-lived it wouldn't be strange that a photographer is following you all the time.

However "You would love that right? that they photograph us with my cock buried inside you so that they see that you are only mine, wouldn't you? Sure you would, look at you, you're soaked just thinking about it." Harry would say against your ear.

Being naked in the house was another of his favorite things, he could see you all he wanted and you could do the same with him.

However, if he wanted you to know he's angry, he would put some clothes on and order you to stay naked.

He could see all the marks that he had made on you throughout the week, the love bites on the lower part of the breasts, the mark of a rope on your ankle that rubbed you too much, hickeys on your neck and collarbones, everything.

"Come here, I want to see that ass from a better angle."

He would come home from work and you will greet him naked, because there are no longer any 'house clothes'.

Clearly he had to take action for that, the fireplace was always closed even for Ron and Hermione, only you twl could appear inside the house and the windows were enchanted so that you couldn't see through the glass from the outside.

In the same way that Harry liked risk in public, he also liked to push you against a window and threaten to remove the enchantment so everyone could see you surrender to him.

You know that he really wouldn't, he tries to hide it, but you know he loves being the only one who sees you like this, and wouldn't want to share you with anyone else.

He hates having paperwork to do at home, so you often help him from under the desk, keeping his cock warm.

"Stay there, I'm almost done and we can go to dinner later. "

The aftercare was one his favorite parts ever, holding you against his chest telling you how good you were even if you weren't.

He would get you clean, while playing your hair and kissing your forehead.

"Thanks, love that was amazing."

[rvb-is-gay]

ok so now that the final episode of rvb0 is out for everyone, lets get into some discussion about it! please note that post isnt a topic of debate but rather just my personal thoughts about everything, so dont go arguing in the replies

(fair warning ahead of time for any fans, this is mostly criticism and negative feelings about it, so keep scrolling if you dont wanna read it)

When RVB0 was first announced, I remember everyone was first upset that the Reds and Blues weren't in it, including me. But now that I've watched the whole thing, I can say with confidence that my only issue with RVB0 isn't the lack of the Reds and Blues, but rather everything. the dialogue, some of the animation, the characters, the delivery, the pacing, the ridiculous amount of clichés, etc. I don't dislike RVB0 just because there's no Reds and Blues. I dislike it because I just found the entirety of it bad.

When I first started watching it, I went in with an open mind that maybe this season could actually be really good. I’d also be lying if I said that there wasn't a single scene that I liked. There were actually a few, but they still didn't make up for just the overall badness of the season. But please note that I don't blame the voice actors for any of this or even just Torrian Crawford for the season coming out a giant mess. Many people worked for this season and always had the opportunity to improve or change things but didn't. But anyways, let’s get into some of the criticisms I have for this season.

1. Smaller and more opinion oriented criticisms

This isn’t really criticism or anything important, but rather just a few things I found a bit weird to me personally.

First, the term “ragtag team of misfits” was used to describe Shatter Squad (and was even actually said out loud by One in the last episode, which sounded just so cliché and dumb in my opinion). I don't think this describes them at all?? Everyone has, at the very least, decent relationships with each other (save for One and East who were competitive with each other (which I also fucking hate in RVB that all the girl characters are always competitive with each other)), but that still doesn't really fit the term ragtag) and they all fight very well. I think ragtag fits the Reds and Blues more than it does Shatter Squad; they're bad at fighting, they argue and fight all the time, they're idiots, and that's why we love them. If they had just stuck with “a team of misfits”, that would've made more sense, but again, this is more of a personal opinion than genuine criticism.

Second, I don’t really like the aesthetics this season had. Everything felt a bit too neon and bright and then some stuff just felt like it came straight out of World of Warcraft or something. It didn’t really feel like RVB.

Third, my feelings about Carolina constantly calling Wash David can be summed up by what Michael said in the first episode of Halo 4 LASO: “Now we’re just gonna throw his name around all willy nilly. It used to be a secret.” When someone is called by their real name in RVB or just any story in general where everyone goes by code names, it’s usually a big deal and indicates something serious. Carolina wore out Wash’s name the first time she said it and it just got more and more irritating from then on out and lost its value.

Fourth, who was the blue and purple soldier in the first teaser we got? Was that One? Did they decide to change her armour colour? I don’t know, I just randomly remembered that and thought it was weird but I guess it must’ve just been a colour change.

Now, onto the more serious criticism.

2. Animation and dialogue

The second thing I wanna talk about is the animation. Don't get me wrong, the fighting animation is probably the best compared to everything else and it was pretty good to watch, but the talking and idle animations and gestures were..... kinda yikes. I know that it could be chalked up to “well we’re not used to seeing animated gestures since all of RVB usually has everyone just holding their gun and using the regular Halo models” but there were still some pretty bad parts.

Take the scene from Encounter at 3:26 as an example (I uploaded the scene to YT to put here, but obviously it was blocked for copyright):

This scene is probably one of the worst when it comes to not only the animations, but the dialogue, pacing, and delivery. When I first saw this, I honestly laughed. Here's a list of my problems with this scene and what made it so laughable:

The overexaggerated hand gestures. I get that because everyone's in armour and a helmet, it can be hard to show expression, but this feels like a bit much. Especially when One says “what? You’re pulling us off the mission? You cant do that!” I think that one scene in season 15 when Grif stays behind on Iris while everyone leaves and it slowly zooms in on Simmons’ visor somehow does a lot better at expressing feelings than this.

East immediately making the connection between Axel and Zero feels weird. I don't know if its just me who feels this way, but I think it should've been a little bit longer before she immediately is just like “you know Zero don't you”

Axel saying “I... I do... I did”  also sounds weird and like he was trying a bit too hard to sound dramatic. I don't really know how to describe it its just such a weird delivery of the line.

The way they all immediately start yelling at each other.

One saying “Axe, I trusted you” right after saying “tell us the truth”. Girl, you gave him no opportunity to explain and just immediately jumped to not trusting him anymore. Speaking of which, I don't think this was ever really mentioned again and had no meaning or importance to it.

The echoing of “I trusted you” also feels cliché to me, but this is more of a minor thing.

I think this one comment on one of the episodes on the RT site that says the dialogue “seemed acted rather than natural. It didn't really sound like how people normally talk, more how actors talk in plays” is how I feel about all of the dialogue in RVB0.

3. The villains

Zero and Diesel both felt like they didn't really have any motivation at all for being villains. Phase is probably the best when it comes to this. She was essentially abused by her father as a child and forced to undergo being experimented on. This is an actual good and understandable motivation.

Diesel we know basically nothing about, and then on the other hand, all Zero wants is power. But for what? Why? I can understand that power is a pretty common thing for people to want, but it still kind of felt like there wasn't really anything there.

Some previous good villains in RVB include:

Temple: Temple witnessed his best friend be brutally murdered right in front of him by 2 soldiers who didn't give a shit and just left him to die, especially right after he told him he was having a baby. Of course it’s understandable that he has a hatred of Freelancers after this. Any normal person would.

Felix: Felix was probably the best villain of all of RVB, to be honest (right beside the Director). He was just somehow so likeable and had so much personality, despite being an asshole. His ultimate motivation was money and being rich, which is another thing I can understand; the more money you have, the more you can essentially do whatever you want and live in luxury. I mean, even so many people in real life do horrible things just for money. I don't even have to give examples for this. Felix in general is also just a psychopath.

The Director: The whole reason the Director did what he did was because he lost the person he loved most in the world: his wife. He was willing to do literally anything to bring her back, leading to all of his actions in the Project Freelancer saga. You can find many examples of movie/TV/book/etc characters/villains seeking vengeance as a result of loss of a loved one and grief. Despite being a horrible person, the Director actually managed to be a villain you could even sympathize with, making him even better.

Sharkface: Although a bit of a more minor villain, similar to Temple, Sharkface is a villain because he wants revenge on the people that killed his team, the people he considered to be the only family he’s ever had.

4. Tucker & the swords

The fourth thing I wanna talk about is the whole thing with Tucker and the swords. I always found it kinda weird how both Tuckers sword and now Locus’ sword in the chorus trilogy were the same, but then in RVB0, Zero’s sword looks and acts completely different, but that might just be a little nitpick of mine.

As for Tucker, it was so good to see him. Although I don’t know if it was just me, but he seemed a little OOC. What I didn't like about seeing Tucker again was that he did literally nothing the entire episode. He was useless. He said “I can fight” at one point but then all he does during the battle is get held at knife point, run away, and then get stabbed and have his sword taken. Tucker isn't an amazing fighter, but he’s definitely a lot more capable than just this. We’ve seen him in action many times and I just feel like he could've done a bit more. It almost feels like he was purposefully nerfed and tossed aside just to advance the plot.

Another thing that I and probably a lot of people are upset about is the fact that Tucker might not even own his sword anymore?? When East stabbed him, he apparently died and the sword was rebound to Phase, but it wasn't very clear that this was the case. Although the beginning of the next episode starts with hospital beeps and a flatline, I don't think it was still really clear enough that Tucker actually died long enough for Phase to reclaim the sword because I saw a handful of people confused in the comments and, like me, even thought it was just bad writing at first and that the writers completely forgot about the rules of the sword established over several prior seasons.

When in the hospital, Wash tells Tucker that he almost died. Although I actually liked this scene because it was nice to see wash and tucker bantering again, I think it could've been made better and made the plot clearer if instead of saying he almost died, Wash said something along the lines of “Tucker, you died. Your heart stopped, but they were able to bring you back thanks to their advanced medical tech” and then in response Tucker freaks out because that means his sword will now work for Phase and now they know how urgent the situation is.

I really really hate that Phase just has Tucker’s sword now and nothing is even said about it. If Tucker was to give his sword away to someone, I think many people would prefer that it was at least someone close to him, like Junior for example, but instead it goes to a random girl he hardly knows.

5. Pacing

The fifth thing I wanna talk about is the pacing. This season was definitely a lot shorter than normal and I think that’s one of the things that really prevented it from being good. The entire story just feels rushed and while I understand that it can be really difficult to build a good story and characters in such a short time, I think there’s still ways you can do it without it feeling like there’s so much missing. I think the long intros and outros are also responsible for less time and maybe they should’ve considered cutting them to give more actual episode time. Here’s a few things that were poorly done as a result of bad pacing:

The final battle against Zero: The whole battle just somehow felt like a typical video game boss battle that ends super quickly to me. Shatter Squad didn’t even defeat Zero, he just up and got disintegrated or whatever from Black Lotus.

Shatter Squad giving up on their mission: After receiving the silly deep voice filtered message from Zero, everyone on Shatter Squad just immediately gives up on finding him.

One’s speech: One’s speech wasn’t awful or anything and I didn’t really have any problems with the speech itself, but rather just how quickly the team went from “we can’t do it.. it’s over..” to “you’re right! I’m in! Let’s go get them!” Compare this to Doc and Sarge’s speech to the Reds and Blues after Church and Carolina leave in season 10 episode 20. It just felt a lot more genuine (this is probably because the Reds and Blues had a lot more time to be developed, though) and was only given after some time passed rather than 2 seconds later. The scene and context also transitioned well into it and at first, nobody was on board with what Doc was saying, which is more realistic in my opinion. People’s minds won’t just instantly change, they’re still gonna think about it and maybe have a few doubts at first.

Phase and West: During their fight, West talked a lot about how he regrets giving Phase away to Starlight, that he won’t hurt her, and is even willing to die for her. Their scene together ends with Phase punching him in the head and then leaving to join the others and nothing else about them is mentioned. We don’t know if Phase forgave him or not, we don’t know how West feels, etc.

Tucker’s sword: Phase still has Tucker’s sword and like the scenario with West, nothing about it is mentioned. We don’t know what she’s going to do with it, if she’s going to keep it, if Tucker’s gonna do anything about it, etc.

6. Clichés

Clichés aren’t inherently bad and can be really impactful and good if done right. But when it comes to RVB0, it’s jampacked with clichés that aren’t good. Here are a few examples:

Everyone gives up until a speech is given: All of the points for this are the same as above, but I wanted to include this scene as a cliché as well.

Every female character is competitive with each other: RVB falls into this a lot, like I mentioned earlier. It happens again with East and One, although luckily they seem to resolve it, but not until literally the end of the season.

West’s fit about East: All of the lines and delivery in this scene were just atrocious and cheesy. I think West’s dialogue just could’ve been a bit more original, but instead we’re given this boring predictable “I won’t lay a hand on her. I promised her. I promised her mother. I promised she’d be safe” spiel that has no emotion to it in his voice.

The whole “I got this, you go ahead” thing: This isn’t like a super cliché thing, but I found it pretty interesting how it happens twice in the same episode.

I think this is pretty much all I can think of at the moment. If I think of anything else, I’ll add onto this. Overall, I think RVB0 would’ve done a lot better as just an RVB spinoff so that it could have more episodes and seasons dedicated to developing characters and a good plot. I’m really disappointed with this season and I hope whatever comes next is better than what RVB0 was. I hope the team that worked on it can learn a few things that come from the good and valid constructive criticism given to them. And if I had to pick, I think I’d say Raymond was my favourite out of all the new characters. He just felt the most relatable and realistic to me.

[pineapplesquid]

These idiots were not my clients. (Yes, I know, Mensah kept trying to have conversations with me about how she and the others weren’t my clients anymore, not really. But I didn’t have another word for it. I knew the one that she wanted me to use, but it was just—no. Last time I even thought about that, my performance reliability dropped by 2.5 percent. There was a pandemic going on, and this wasn’t the time for me to be anything less than my best, so I hadn't been thinking about it since).

So they weren’t my clients. And I didn’t care if they got sick, not really. But if these humans did get sick then they could give it to other humans, who would get even more humans sick. The longer that went on, the higher the probability that my clients would come into contact with someone who had it. And that was my problem. I know I wasn’t officially their security anymore, but that was just because most of the time they didn’t need one, not here on Preservation. But this was a real security threat, and I wasn’t about to let my one opportunity so far to do my job go to waste.

I’m not trained for working in public health, of course—humans do most of that, the planning parts anyway, and MedBots take care of the rest of it. It’s not like the Company ever gave me any education modules on epidemiology. Up until the last couple of weeks, pretty much all I knew about it was from watching a historical series set back before MedBots were as sophisticated as they are now, where a heroic team of human doctors and researchers was going around the galaxy trying to save people from a new and terrible plague, risking themselves in the process.

But at least the humans in the show were doing it for a good reason. These idiots that I could see, some out of my window and others through the station feed, were doing it because they were bored. Or because they missed other humans, or because they were restless, or whatever. I had been enjoying staying put in my rooms—I’d never had a chance to watch so much media, uninterrupted, at least not in any kind of comfort—and I really didn’t understand why they were so desperate to talk to other humans face-to-face, but then, humans do a lot of things I don’t understand, and I was used to chalking it up to their irrational brain chemistry, which wasn’t regulated as well as mine was.

Or, at least, as well regulated as mine was supposed to be. I had my suspicions that it had gotten a bit unbalanced, but the last thing I was going to do while I was with the Company, or especially once I had gone rogue, was let someone, anyone, mess with my brain chemistry. Not even ART, not even at the end. I’d been telling myself i was going to talk to someone trustworthy about it, if I could figure out who that would be, but then all of this happened, and it stopped being a priority.

I didn’t need to know much about epidemiology, though, to know that what these humans were doing was stupid. And, more to the point, they had to know it too. The public feed had been repeating the same safety alerts every fifteen minutes for the first several days, and on the hour every hour since. And every piece of media that you downloaded over the station feed now had the warning appended to the beginning of it, not to mention the feed alerts that they must have been triggering every twenty feet or so the minute they walked out their doors.

I’m used to humans being stupid, but these humans were being really, really stupid. Like, let’s order the SecUnits to stay in their cubicles at all times so that we don't have to look at them and then accidentally set the habitat on fire. Three times. (Yes, that actually happened. No, I don’t want to talk about it). And while they could be stupid on their own time, this time they were putting my clients at higher risk too. I didn’t have access to a MedSystem anymore, but I knew that Pin-Lee’s medications weren’t ones that you took if you had a healthy immune system. And while as far as I could tell Mensah wasn’t old, even for a human, I didn’t think she was young, either. Humans being stupid and having a party in one of the parks, like I could see in the feed from the central atrium (no, nobody had officially given me access to the station feeds. Yes, I had all of them anyway), or just wandering around looking for any shops that were open (which were none of them, because Mensah wasn’t an idiot and had put out orders to close them days ago), were making themselves into security threats for the humans I did actually care about.

They don’t have Sec Units on Preservation—aside from me, anyway, and my official label is a bit complicated these days, between Mensah insisting that I don’t need to work security and the legal gymnastics that Pin Lee pulled to let me stay here—so I couldn’t do what I really wanted to, which was put on my armor and go out there and tell them they had to go home, with the unspoken but very clear understanding that if they didn’t, I would make them.

What I did have, though, was a bundle of fabric that had been in a package that Pin-Lee had left behind in my rooms several weeks ago. She had done an ok job of acting like she’d simply forgotten to take it with her when she left, but reviewing the footage showed her eyes flicking back towards it several times as she walked out the door, which meant that there had been plenty of opportunities for her to come back for it if she’d wanted to. I’d waited until all of the humans had left, and then opened it up. It was a full set of the uniforms that the humans who did the low-level security for Preservation wore—people who would be called Station Security or Station Police elsewhere, although here they only had a subset of those duties. I’d put them away in the bottom of a drawer. The last thing I actually wanted was to go out and talk to  humans I didn’t know, but even I had to admit that the uniform might come in useful some day.

So I put it on, only wishing a little bit that I could have worn my armor instead. I compromised by getting out another gift from one of my humans. Well, one of the humans I knew, anyway. Gurathin had given them to me as a joke, I think, but the large mirrored glasses were actually the closest thing to an opaqued faceplate that I’d seen humans on Preservation wear. They weren't common on the station, but they laso weren't unusual enough to attract attention when I wore them, and as long as I remembered to set my pupils to be slightly more dilated, they didn’t impede my vision either. I didn’t like to thank Gurathin for anything, so I didn’t, but I did wear the glasses.

I slid them on and took a second to check myself in the room’s camera feed. The uniform worked. I’d pass for one of the humans, but unlike them, I wasn’t at risk of catching the disease. Or spreading it to anyone else. I don't have an immune system, but I also don't have most of the bits that pathogens actually infect, and it's not that hard for me to make the parts of me that are cloned tissue inhospitible to outside microorganisms. I washed my hands, carefully timing the 25 seconds I took to do it. Then, for the first time in days, I opened my front door. Time to make some stupid humans go home.

[arthurs-wife]

Cleopatra - 1/?

tigerlilywine said to arthurs-wife:Hey, been reading your drabbles. I think you capture Arthur real well. M!reader and all. You've ever thought of a... future au? They are still cowboys but they jump to worlds instead of areas. Bounty hunters in space. Reader is royalty of one alien species (close to humans) and gets kiddnapped. King hires the gang to save em? (Fluff is a must but smut is optional, though I'm sure you can work it!) It is an idea tho lol keep doing what you're doing!

A/N: because i’m extra as hell, i wrote a ton of lore for this and wanted to throw this up to see if theres interest because I can go on and on with this future shit.

Pairing: Arthur Morgan x M!Reader Words: 1.7k Summary: Working for the agency of Lemoyne Department of Defense Services in the year 2149, Arthur Morgan and his gang struggle to complete as many jobs as they can before the Terran Bureaucracy can dissolve it completely. With the promise of one final, multi-million dollar job, Arthur Morgan is sent on a mission to rescue the kidnapped hybrid child of Tavantis’ human King and angel Ruler, going head to head with the Bureaucracy itself. 

If Arthur could change one thing about this bureaucratic hellscape it would be the Jump Queues.

Ten minutes to get to the damn thing, twenty minutes in the queue, another ten while the nice pre-Mars lady checked your license and asked about you and how’s that nice boy doing? What was his name?

“Lenny, ma’am,” Arthur said, hand over his eyes.

“When is he going to come back up here and visit me?” she tittered. The sounds of a mechanic keyboard could be heard in the background, painfully slow.

“Whenever I can rip him from his computer,” Arthur shrugged, staring blankly out of the cockpit’s windshield.

“And where are you heading today, Mister Morgan?” she asked.

“Chantakor,” he read from his console, “the Tavantis continent.”

Another five minutes to punch that unfortunate name in.

“Three jumps,” she declared, “the credits will be taken from your account.”

Arthur grumbled.

“You’re good to go Mister Morgan, jump safe!”

“I will, ma’am,” Arthur promised and sat up straighter as the portal ahead of him turned bright hot-purple and his engines were taken out of lock.

He cut the comms channel and another message came through immediately, buzzing in his ear like it couldn’t wait another five god damn minutes.

“Arthur?” Hosea blared through, “are you there yet?”

“Yep,” he said, pushing up on the throttle and sending his LASO into the portal. The comms cut out, but that was to be expected when you jumped through space beyond light speed.

First jump through and Hosea was back, Arthur turned his ship to face the next portal.

“You said you were there,” Hosea deadpanned.

“And I lied,” Arthur shrugged, speeding up, “you better get to your point before the next one.”

“I just wanted to s-”

Second jump and Arthur blasts through.

“You know Arthur, you’re a real piece of sh-”

Third jump and thank goodness, any more and Arthur’s head would be spinning.

“I’m at Chantakor now, Hosea,” Arthur said, powering down his drives and folding out the secondary wings.

He had never been to Chantakor before, partially due to its royal status in the Galactic System and damn was it a fine sight to behold.

Arthur leaned forward to peer out of his windshield at the whirlwind of activity near the main gate, thousands of LASOs, Chantakorian ships that dwarfed even the largest transport LASO. Humans were good at many things but apparently not at making decent ships. The Chantakorian transports gleamed in the light of the binary suns, making them shimmer like waves.

He almost missed his stop, the heavily guarded gate above the Tavantis continent that would lead him directly to the King’s quarters.

“Are you done being an asshole?” Hosea clips in. Arthur can just hear his arms crossing.

“Yes I’m done,” he said, fiddling with knobs and allowing the Chantakor fields to pull him in carefully.

“Alright listen,” Hosea started, “the King is expecting you any minute now. All you have to do is get in there, get his information on where his child is, and get the hell out of there.”

“His-” Arthur did a double take at nothing, his LASO stopping at the zero-G gate, “his what now?”

“I probably should have mentioned this is a kidnapping bounty,” Hosea said apologetically.

“Who’s the asshole now, Hosea?” Arthur blurted, tapping on his console. Apparently long queues were universal.

“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you, son,” he said, “but it’s a lot of money and you’re our best.”

Arthur grumbled again.

“I will be getting the largest cut of this,” Arthur pointed threateningly at the comms, “and I will be taking the longest vacation afterwards.”

“Whatever you need to do, Arthur,” Hosea said, “but we need this. This job could get most of our systems back online.”

Yes, yes, the fabled systems Lenny and Karen had been working on since… forever it seemed. Arthur was ushered into the planet’s atmosphere and he banked down, heading to the private landing zone of the King himself. He couldn’t muster up any amazement.

He hit a button and the LASO unfolded its wheels as it touched the ground lightly and rolled along the tarmac towards the stupidly ornate building he assumed belonged to the King.

The angels were never a race that Arthur had been acquainted with either. The angels had a proper race name, but they had been dubbed so by the god-fearing human race due to their strikingly similar features to biblical angels. They were tall, gender neutral, majestic pillars that humanity had no business dealing with but dealt with anyway.

The LASO came to a stop in a hangar and Arthur powered it down, clambering out of the seat with some difficulty and opening the hatch. Chantakor was temperate and mild, almost a boring sort of weather if Arthur wasn’t used to the dramatic patterns of Earth.

He was met by two seven foot tall angels who ushered him to the main gate and the halls within the King’s palace. At this distance he could make out more features of the angels, they were all some variance of blue or green or grey, they had feathers all over them, and great big feathery wings that folded up neatly behind them. Their legs were like bird’s legs without all the scales and they were covered in feathers too.

They mumbled something in their native tongue, which sounded like trills and whistles, occasionally glancing back at Arthur. They reached a set of silver doors and turned to face him.

“You’ll see our Ruler now,” the taller one said, their great blackish-purple wings bustling behind them. Arthur held up a thumb to show he was ready to go, in true human fashion.

Also in true human fashion, the angel rolled their eyes and opened the set of doors, letting him in the room. All of the ceilings were cathedral style, towering up over them at almost 20 feet tall. It looked like the angels were just as fond of showmanship as humans were, as the entire room was festooned with colorful curtains and lights. In the far center was who Arthur assumed was the Ruler.

They stood a whopping eight feet tall, taller than any being had ever stood in front of Arthur, and they were bright. Their wings were massive and unfurled to their full extent, shining gold and green like old bronze in the sun. Eyes set wide in a dark face, they blinked several times and scrutinized the dirty man in their throne room.

“Howdy,” Arthur said unceremoniously.

“Are you Arthur Morgan?” they said in the same clipped accent, settling back in on their nest.

“Yes, uh, your Grace.”

“Thalia will do.”

“What’s this about a kidnapping I hear?” Arthur said, supremely indifferent to the angels and their customs.

“My kin has been taken,” Thalia mused with a face so indifferent that Arthur wondered if they actually cared or not, “and my world has shattered.” Of course they cared, Arthur, what’s wrong with you?

“When did this happen?”

“Twenty cycles ago,” they answered.

Arthur counted on his fingers for a moment to add it up.

“Alright so a couple nights ago,” he said, bringing out his comms pad and typing something in, “any ideas at all about who may have taken them?”

“I think my partner may have more information than I,” Thalia turned back and whistled something in their native tongue. The door behind them opened and a tired looking human man strode through and noticed Arthur. As he got closer he extended his hand and Arthur took it.

“I assume you’re the man here about my son?” he asked and Arthur nodded. It was the first time he had heard someone refer to an angel with a pronoun. Then a whole other set of questions popped up in his head. As if he read his mind, the King nodded and waved a hand, gesturing for Arthur to come sit with him.

“Are you familiar with the Llinovan?” he asked and Arthur sat down with him, thinking on it for a moment before realizing the Llinovan were the angels’ proper species name. He shook his head. “When humans first met the Llinovan many years ago there was an initial power struggle. Since then we have lived in harmony, myself and my wife included.”

“Does that mean…?”

“Yes,” the King nodded, “it means my son is part angel and part human.”

Arthur thought about the implications of this.

“You mean to tell me,” he started, “that humans and angels can have kids?”

“Yes,” the man replied, “and it’s not just us. There are thousands of hybrids now, all in hiding. Since they’ve grown in numbers, the human ambassadors on Chantakor have noticed, and they don’t approve.”

“I can imagine.”

“That’s who has taken my son,” the King sighed, looking straight at Arthur.

“I’m not,” Arthur stuttered, holding up a hand, “I can’t go toe to toe with the Terran Bureaucracy, that’s suicide.”

“Even with such a handsome reward?”

“Hosea never told me how much.”

“60 million credits.”

“God damn!” Arthur blurted out before hushing himself quickly. Several of the angels and the Ruler had turned to look at him. The King finally let out a little smile.

“It is my understanding that your community needs the credits,” he went on, “I intend on rewarding anyone who challenges the strong arm of the Terran Bureaucracy for what they’ve done to the human race.

Arthur thought a moment, mulling over the state of Earth, the constant rebuilding of the communities, the lush paradise of Amazonia that only the richest could afford to step foot onto.

“Alright,” Arthur nodded finally, “alright, where can I find these people?”

“The higher ups won’t have gotten their hands dirty with this,” the King said, standing up, “they’ll have sent their versions of bounty hunters to claim him and take him to another world. My guess is Niston, just a jump away.”

“I’ll get right to it then,” Arthur nodded and stood up with him, moving towards the door.

“And Mister Morgan,” the King called after him, “I’m very sorry to hear about LDDS, they have done very good work for us in the past and I’m angry to see them go.”

“Yeah, me too,” Arthur grumbled and tried not to think about it.

[camish-and-the-oc-gang]

TELL ME ABOUT THE UNDERTALE AU SOME MORE CAMILISH- SPILL YOUR HEART OUT OF THAT WONDERFUL AND CREATIVE WORLD YOU'VE BUILT

I already know a lot but give me more!!!!

HI

Ok so for starters I’m still trying to fully decide on a name for it, I wanted to go with oracletale but apparently that’s already been taken. Maybe harbingertale? Underherald? Still lacking a bit of pizzazz. I’d also like something that described frisks abilities better but “seer-of-parallel-universes-tale” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue.

Ive laso started to figure out how I can have some good dadgore in this because as much as I love toriel she isn’t that interesting as a character to me and I wand frisk to acquire a goop dad and a goat dad.

Goop dad aquisition is easy cause I’ve already built a system that enables frisk and gaster to interact a lot. Gaster gets to be part of the main squad. Asgore is gonna get to interact with the squad through letters.

Basically frisk, in an effort to entirely skip over the neutral run asgore fight, starts sending asgore letters to try and befriend him early, originally with flowey as an excuse. They just go “heyyy I just found a weird flower and I’ve heard you’re good with flowers can you give me some advice?” And just go on from there.

Asgore proceeds to get violently attached to this random (orphan ?) kid that’s traveling through the underground all the way to new home and giving them updates in the meantime.

Frisk doesn’t mention they’re the human until like, either the last letter they sent before meeting him or right as they meet him, haven’t decided yet.

[intheseautumnhands]

so my morning started with me coming out of the bedroom crying because i had already slept late enough that going to the insurance place wasn’t a reasonable idea anymore and despite that i was still drop dead exhausted.

also with the discovery that i’m menstrual again after like a week’s break.

my mother is trying to be helpful now that this has driven me to the point of sobbing which is not something i do in front of her often -- and also pointed out i’m getting paler in places that usually signal the anemia’s creeping back, so i’m going back on iron and that might help the sleep issues -- but also said she didn’t know it was this bad which like.

first of all i didn’t even go into all the mental health stuff so baby you think this is bad you should hear all of it. all i mentioned was my wrist, my sleep issues, and the bleeding.

second. how. how does she not know this is bad. when i’ve been saying for weeks i need help. when i’ve been saying for months how bad my wrist is. when i said like two months ago that if she wants to get things done in the house, the absolute best thing she can do is help me get to the insurance, because if i get to a doctor and hopefully can get some suggestions both for pain relief and for adhd coping skills, i will be so much more able to help out in the house, a thing she agreed with an d then never actually tried to help me with. i keep saying i’m upset that i keep oversleeping. why does that not apparently matter until i’m no longer able to keep any control over my own breakdowns.

anyway i went back to bed barely got two hours sleep and woke up to find out my brother hadn’t checked the hose was off despite repeat reminders yesterday, the hose we bought two weeks ago burst, and everything is awful, and laso i’m still so tired my head is killing me, so yeah. that’s my day. now i have to get food and work and then tonight i have to try and fleatreat the whole house, a process that will probably be 90% on me, so that i can be slightly less miserable and so can my cat.

i just want to sleep. god i just want to sleep so badly.

[nyamcattt]

In case you didn't know, one of the randomized conversations in Mementos is Yusuke saying he's being commissioned to draw a doujinshi, that he doesn't know what it is, so Futaba quickly chimes in saying she knows and can give him examples. Now keep that in mind and remember Futaba laso mentions Ann's "bouncing"

futaba probably definitely keeps so many yuri/yaoi doujinshis in her room. she’ll show yusuke soon

[tehreems-portfolio]

Photography for the Preliminary Magazine Cover

As we’ve recently finished up our work for the magazine cover and the content page, I’ve found my experience wholesome and worth sharing. After we’d looked up on our inspiration for the cover page, it was our turn to put our skills to the test and do the practical ourselves for our first ever magazine cover page. For this task, my class fellows and I were given a span of a week to do the photography on campus for the theme ‘Student Life’ while keeping in mind the guidelines of a cover photo and the framing itself.

As per my teacher’s instruction, we were required to finalise three photographs and to have them transferred to our computers before class, and so we set out. A point to be noted as well was that although my mind was brewing with splendid inklings, my school did not exactly provide students with a state of the art Oxford Library. Meaning by, I improvised.

Photograph 1:

My newly made friend at LGS 1-A/1 was more than eager to help out once I told her about my assignment and we had spent an hour or so, trying to find a unique location while discussing the pose and the framing that I wanted for my cover photo.

While the I liked the picture itself, it failed to meet the requirements of a cover photo for the following reasons.

The background had to much detail. Although this detail would look rather nice in a profile picture, it would complicate the magazine. This issue could have been fixed by the polygonal laso or simply the blur tool however, in the end fearful that the result would not have looked as presentable, I opted for another photograph,

Too much headroom. Again undoubtedly this problem could be fixed by the cropping tool but the background detail would made readability of masthead difficult,

Originally I had considered this photograph but after taking several more shots, I realized the lack of direct contact with the audience kind of ruined the look of the magazine that I had made up my mind of

For the above mentioned reasons I chose to go for a different photograph for as my cover photo.

Photograph 2:

For this photograph, I experimented with Digital Concepts’ 0.45X/43mm Wide Angle Lens Adaptor that my best friend gladly lent to me and paired it with my standard Canon Kit Lens (18mm-55mm). I was quite pleased with the fringing and how it made the model and colours pop out.

There were a number of flaws in this photograph undoubtedly e.g.,

The background could have been blurred out with the blur tool or be replaced by the polynomial laso tool for a sharper and clearer perspective 

The framing could have been straighter up a bit more and the pose of the model could have been adjusted to properly fit the shot.

The presence a slightly uneven colour pallet in the lower half of the photograph etc.

All imperfections aside, however, I ended choosing this one because I quite loved my the smooth colour of the background in contrast to my friend’s outfit and the vivid green in the lower half of the photograph. Her expressions were quite alluring for me as she had struck a really good balance of her expressions and set her pose just the way I’d asked her to. The direct eye-contact with the audience really gave it a strong and impactful look while maintaining a suitable framing for the placement of the masthead and the cover-lines, hence I chose this photograph as my cover photo.

Photograph 3:

Personally, I liked the contrast of colours in this photograph but again the same issue presented itself before me; too much unsymmetrical background. While I absolutely loved my friend’s expressions in this its background just didn’t cut out to me. Even after taking several shots in our all-time favourite lecture room, I wasn’t quite satisfied with the lack of symmetry.

Granted, that the shot would have been better if it had been taken from the centre-aligned seats, but this one stood out to me as her calm and collected smile really gave an alluring look to the photograph. Sadly, it failed to meet my criteria and hence I ended up going for the second photograph.