#shivans

[thereadingaddic7]

[sublimedragontragedy]

Part 2 of shitty CotL memes from Whiteboard

[escortingsecrets]

Starter for @umbral-stigmata-unbound

The Honeybee Inn was busy every night- people usually booked nights with their favourite bees weeks or even months in advance. Or, in the case of Andrea, years. Shivan was a service boy for only a short time, but he had a good roster of regulars who booked weeks ahead of time, starting to go months ahead to make sure they had him for a night. But this client had taken the whole night- not uncommon at first glance, but Shivan had been told that this client was a high ranking Shinra employee and he was to take very good care of them.

Shinra staff usually meant that either Shivan was spending his night giving them every skill he could think of, playing therapist (which, for some of them, wasn't the worst thing he had to admit) or, he was being paid to give them information. It wasn't something he broadcast about- people didn't come to the Honeybee for gossip- but it was something he had learned was a very good income if he could play his cards right. It was all about how he played the game, and he was admittedly getting rather good at it.

The abdomen of the bee costume was the worst part of it. Shivan didn't mind the way the rest of the costume felt but the overly large rear end was a real pain in his ass- both figuratively and literally. He sighed heavily as he stopped in front of the door, putting a wide smile on his lips as he stepped in.

"You're going to make me feel pretty special, booking me for a whole night like this." He purred as he made his way over to the red head. Shivan felt a fleeting sense of deja vu- like he'd seen him before. But he shook it off, swaying his hips in a way that most every other client seemed to adore seeing. "I don't think we've ever had the chance, to meet one on one, and yet you want to keep me all to yourself? Did you find one of my performances that captivating, darling?"

[googlyeyesonmagiccards]

That's some good high quality dragon right there, I tell you what.

[mtgatherercomments]

[axnewxera]

@escortingsecrets

"Wait... is that Rufus Shinra??"

It was typically common courtesy to respect the privacy of other patrons at the Honeybee Inn. What happens at Honeybee, stays at Honeybee. But when the recently-appointed ruler of the world shows up... well, it's hard to ignore. Even if his father was also a regular there.

Rufus had kept his cool, silently wondering if his father had gotten the incessant gawking every time he walked through those doors. But he kept his head held high, and before he knew it, Rufus Shinra, king of the world, was in a private room awaiting his assigned Honeybee.

The host had sat him down, asking all sorts of questions about his tastes and what sort of Honeybee he wanted. Judging by the amount of time he'd been waiting since then, he imagined the staff were frantically trying to find the perfect one for him, the highest of VIPs.

It was a fairly open secret that the great President Shinra inhabited this place fairly often. In truth, Rufus found it extremely distasteful, and he hated how public it all felt. Any peon with a camera could make his presence there global news in a matter of seconds. Rufus silently started to wonder if this might have been a bad idea. Too late now to take it back.

The door started to open, no doubt his Honeybee entering the room. Rufus rose to his feet, ready to shake their hand in greeting. "I'd say 'fashionably late', but the slutty bee look is more tacky than fashionable," he said with a smirk.

[magicjudge]

Magic: The Gathering debuted 30 years ago today at GenCon, so I figured I would offer you all a glimpse back to before then, when Magic was merely an idea in the mind of Richard Garfield and was early in its development.

Obviously, they didn't have the same systems and technology they had today to put playtest cards together, so the cards were photocopies of cut and pasted papers and bits of art from all sorts of sources.

What I find particularly interesting is how early mana costs were rendered: Rather than the system we know today, where a card's cost is rendered in separated out generic and specific costs, instead these playtest cards listed the total cost followed by any specific costs required. Also, activation costs were listed next to the mana cost after a slash (usually). So for example, Dragon's cost is 6RR, but that just means 6 mana, at least two of which must be red mana, and Plague has its B activation listed after its 4BB cost.

I'm by no means an expert on this stuff, but I wanted to share an early bit of magic trivia/nostalgia with you all today.

These Playtest card images are courtesy of The Magic Librarities. Check out the full gallery... there's more information and some weird stuff there, like Counterspell being able to destroy an enchantment!

[ordenyprogreso]

[sometimesrufus]

Continued @escortingsecrets

"Hm. It might be."

"Maybe start with dinner first," he suggested. "Then we'll see how serious I am."

[underworlddreams]

Shivan Reef

Artist: Rob Alexander Set: 9th Edition

[solbound]

@escortingsecrets

Soleil entered the Honeybee Inn from a back door, leading into a hallway. Even back there he could feel and hear the muffled performance taking place on stage. But that wasn't what he was there for. with careful and practiced steps, he wound his way through the hall that acted more like storage, eventually finding the door that opened up into the inn rooms. Specifically one allotted for the Bees to get dressed in.

"It's Soleil, I'm coming in. I got the repair bits." He announced himself before entering. The 'repair bits' was lengths of fabric and sewing tools. He become quite good at repairing the Bee costumes when ever they failed. Though he didn't come around that often. He was mostly filling on for the usual tailor. He didn't mind though.

He even tried to dress up a little. Or, maybe down... he was just wearing black jeans and a black t-shirt. Akin to a security member than anything. The only thing that set him apart from normal security was his artful full face of makeup and long golden blond hair artfully falling over a shoulder in a loose braid. And his belt laden with loops and pouches that held nothing but sewing supplies.

He turned then paused, seeing someone he hadn't seen before among the girls he did know. But then he didn't know every single person that worked there. And it wasn't unheard of other employees or friends of the Bees to hide in the dressing room once in a while.

"Hi, you're a new face. Are you a new Bee?"

[thereadingaddic7]

Welp, just completed Act 1 of Ancient-Shivan War. RIP in pieces, Apesokari, your captain was slightly less insane than everyone else. It’s not quite all downhill from here, but even if this mod wasn’t dead I knew damn well it wasn’t going to have a happy ending.

Once again, if anyone has any sad songs for me to vibe to, I’d love to hear them.

[sublimedragontragedy]

Taking a break from drawing cats to doodle these shitty CotL memes

Part 1

[escortingsecrets]

@moldbreakcr replied "But if you're a dilf you're a dilf."

He's hiding his face in his hands but pauses as he looks at the red head. "If I'm a dilf, then so are you." He shot back with an embarassed huff.

[alphamecha-mkii]

[gurumog]

Blake’s 7 S02E10 - Voice from the Past (1979) Created by Terry Nation BBC Television Dir. George Spenton-Foster

Brian Croucher as Travis Paul Darrow as Avon Jan Chappell as Cally