#so... i just had to find an alternative

[yamsgarden]

omg my beautiful grizzco items finally came in, right for my birthday T0T Please check out the artists <3

Goldden Eggs: ArtByScragster

Grizzco Statue: PlastikUK

[delicourse]

Snake Year

[ki1ldeer]

I’m feeling very uninspired by my ocs rn so I’m reverting to my steven universe phase lol

[gunstellations]

gentle mornings

[bugcatcherkit]

me every single day: guys he didn’t know what a spirit actually was. Guys he didn’t know what an exorcism was

[neptune-scythe]

We as a society do not talk enough about how Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands himself, the Bastard of the Barrel, carved an entire underground tunnel from his club ... To his besties house

There is no explanation for this other than that he is king softy

Like just imagine how much money that would cost, and how much work. Like sure bro is rich as fuck but like be fr, there is no way he would do all that for crime and gang business, it's just not practical. Like take the surface roads it costs nothing and it's probably not that much slower

Like bro fr just wanted a secret short cut so he could drop in on his babes whenever he wants and never be seen by the masses

Got a reputation to uphold after all

Can't have the pigeons seeing Dirtyhands taking another trip to the Geldstraat to visit his favourite boys

[1-800-crscnt]

a hc i have is where Coruscant is still not a very good posting, but the Guardsmen try to make it as enjoyable as possible for the visiting troopers. they scout out good party/relaxation/dining spots for clones, they personally get supplies that troopers normally would never have (usually small things like nail polish, high quality shaving cream, a music box, etc.), and they just like to improve life on the planet in general for themselves and by extension the other troopers, which can add another reason for Fox and his commanders to be so busy & secretive so often (especially if you want to make the ways they make this possible very angsty and/or complicated) and another chance to make all the clones more connected despite their differing views/experiences.

[bumblingbabooshka]

I can't read Janeway/Chakotay if Tuvok isn't there with the same energy of a passenger in the backseat putting his foot on Chakotay's chair and slowly increasing the pressure so Janeway doesn't notice but Chakotay does. Bc. He should have been in the front seat. And Janeway's the one who asked "Do you mind getting in the back, Mr. Tuvok?" and he said it was fine, absolutely fine, and she thought nothing more of it but everytime Chakotay glances in the rearview mirror he can see that man's eyes staring back at him. I know people cast Tuvok as the wingman in Janeway & Chakotay's tragic love story but I think it'd be way funnier and perhaps even MORE tragic if anytime Janeway tried to softlaunch the idea of Chakotay as a romantic interest Tuvok conveniently had a memory about her and Mark Johnson to share. Do You Remember when we all went to the Recreation of The Ancient Olive Garden, Captain? And you said you two were Mates of Each Other's Soul? That just occurred to me for some reason. Anyway, what were you saying about Chakotay? After Mark Johnson is out of the picture for good, Tom teases that Janeway & Chakotay would make a good couple and Tuvok, serious as a heart attack and with a dire warning in his eyes/tone (insulting the captain is a grave offense) says that the captain would Never do something like that. She is a woman of morals. She is a woman who holds herself to a high standard. She would Never. And Tom never brings it up again and Janeway is both touched by Tuvok's belief in her and...something else. Something that feels like being doomed. Tuvok doesn't even dislike Chakotay at this point, it's not about him at all - it's All about Janeway. Like, personally I don't think Tuvok would be that personally invested in Janeway's romantic life one way or another (they seem to me like they'd be uncomfortable talking in depth about that kind of thing) but if he's going to be invested wouldn't it be so funny, so intriguing, for him, as the only member of Voyager who has pre-existing history with Janeway, to represent the Past. The things Janeway wants to return to, what she fights to keep alive - and this is shown to us the audience through Tuvok reinforcing and nurturing her belief that she should NOT become romantically involved with her first officer? Janeway has standards for herself...and Tuvok will Ensure she lives up to them. Because he believes in her ability to do so. They are 'in this together', are they not? They will assist one other, will they not? Like always.

[quibbs126]

You know I kind of want to see a verbal confrontation between TF One Megatron and one of the miners who weren’t part of the quartet, like Jazz or something. Someone who knew D-16, but wasn’t there for what happened to the group on the surface, only being told the important information about Sentinel and such

Because the last any of them saw D was before the Iacon 5000, when he was still their normal co-worker. Now the next time they see him, only a couple days later, he’s violently murdering their former ruler (even if they did just learn he’s a complete monster and a traitor), shooting and dropping his best friend into a bottomless pit, and now trying to basically commit terrorism and violent revolution. They only saw the beginning and end, they have no clue how he got to this point

I want to see one of them ask him just what the hell happened on the surface to turn him from responsible, dependable, friendly D-16 to this violent crazy revolutionary. What could have possibly happened to make him so different in the span of only a couple days?

I could also see some of them maybe being scared on principle to be around Megatron. One part because he’s become so different they can’t really process this enormous change, to the point of fear, choosing to avoid him to avoid thinking about how he used to be their friend, and say Megatron is instead some new crazy guy unrelated to D, at least when they aren’t seeing him. But another part of the fear could also be that he killed and is now driven to kill Orion Pax, the bot he cared about more than anything, the last bot they’d think he’d ever harm. So what are the chances any of the rest of them have that he won’t hurt them? Sure he hates Optimus for more personal reasons, but in their minds, if Orion wasn’t safe, none of them are

Maybe they all just have different reactions to the Megatron situation, and honestly I want to see them. I want to know how they feel about his sudden change. And I’d also be down to see if some other former miners agree with him and go to join him, and what the correlation there is between that and how well they knew D-16. Like are they following him out of his ideals, not knowing the guy, or are they following him because they trusted D-16, and figure he must have a good reason for acting the way he is; they weren’t there on the surface to know otherwise. It just would be really interesting to see

But I also want that confrontation between Megatron and that other miner I mentioned up top. Let’s stick with Jazz, since he seems like he’d have a bigger role in any future things, and on one of the last days they saw D-16, he and Orion had just saved Jazz’s life while breaking protocol, which I don’t think he’d forget for either bot

I both want it so we can see the miners’ perspective on D-16’s turn, but also because I want to know how Megatron would react. Jazz wasn’t there on the surface, he wasn’t one of the group trying to talk him out of his revenge, he didn’t do anything to Megatron (or this is how he sees it all in his mind), this is someone he thinks he’s trying to help calling him out. But he also wasn’t there, he didn’t experience what Megatron did, he just doesn’t understand it. Would that make him just brush off Jazz as not understanding, or make him more compelled to convince Jazz that he’s right, since Jazz is only disagreeing with him because he’s just confused and doesn’t know enough? Regardless of what Megatron thinks, Jazz probably is confused, but I imagine he’d stick with Optimus ultimately; he just wants to know what happened to his friend, and maybe even snap him out of this whole state he’s in, being an outside perspective that he isn’t entirely biased against

[imagineaspen]

Was always surprised that botw brought back Hylia worship because my interpretation of Skyward Sword was that Hylia gave up her immortality entirely to become Zelda, and when Zelda dies Hylia will die with her

[willyhoos]

"shadows are inverted flames" -> wilsons hair is made of shadow -> YOUR BOYFRIEND'S HAIR IS MADE OF FLAME??? PETPETPETPET

also wilson can't leave the throne so he just has to deal with her doing this 24/7

[kkaimmri]

on one hand i feel like none of the bats would do drugs or let themselves get inebriated to make sure their physical capabilities are never compromised and on the other hand i could totally see tim doing meth.

[tj-crochets]

So my little brother and I are not allowed to be on the same team for family game night when we play games like Taboo, because most of the time we share a brain cell and the rest of the family has decided it's an unfair advantage. Today, I was trying to remember the word hummus but completely blanked, so what I said was: "Cabbage. No, hermitage" And my brother guessed "Brussels sprouts?" "No, it's a brown goo" I said, but my brother heard "it's a round goo" "Hummus!" he said "that explains the green from cabbage" "It was hummus, but hummus isn't green????" "Oh I was thinking of guacamole" So like. Even when he and I are thinking of totally different things we can still come up with the same word lol

[carnivalls]

Killing myself a thousand times over. Do I want the setting of Good Intentions to be past based (fantasy greece meets the industrial revolution) or futuristic (fantasy greece meets itself after a stupidly ambiguous amount of years)

[wonder-worker]

Æthelflæd’s authority initially passed to her daughter, a situation presaged by Ælfwynn’s prominent position in the witness list of S225, issued only three years earlier. Shortly after, though, to borrow the words of Henry of Huntingdon, ‘Edward, acting with regard to expediency rather than justice, disinherited Ælfwynn’ (HA v.17). Henry likely borrows his tone of indignance from the Register, to which he had access in some form. In its entry for 919, reporting Edward’s setting aside of his niece’s claim to lordship over Mercia, the Register declares that she was benumen, or deprived, of authority. Undoubtedly, the Register’s statement in the previous year that Æthelflæd had held ‘lawful authority’ was intended to foreground the legitimacy of Ælfwynn both inheriting and exercising that authority and, ergo, the injustice of Edward setting her aside.

As remarkable an event as the successful passing of hereditary rulership between mother and daughter would have been in the history of early England, it is not entirely certain that this was Æthelflæd’s ultimate design. Ælfwynn was likely approaching 30 years of age when her mother died, and there is no evidence that she had married. This situation was not one that engendered itself to stability of succession. Had Æthelflæd intended her daughter to rule over Mercia, it seems probable that she would have arranged a suitable marriage both to ensure her daughter had a network of independent support, and also to secure the continuation of a Mercian ruling family lineage. There is no hint at such a union in the historical record, nor of any attempt to arrange one.

This, perhaps, is where a hint of West Saxon hegemony throughout Æthelflæd’s reign may be found. If Edward had always intended to absorb Mercia under his overlordship, he may have forbidden his niece to wed: a deliberate strategy to extinguish the Mercian ruling family line and its claim to rulership. And Æthelflæd may have been complicit in Edward’s decision to formally annex Mercia to the West Saxon crown following her death, or at the very least accepting of it. The partisan nature of the Register must always be born in mind and, simply because it presents Æthelflæd as a paragon of Mercian lordship, it does not necessarily follow that this is how she viewed herself. Æthelflæd may have had royal Mercian ancestry, she may have advocated for Mercia and won over Mercian loyalties, but she was still the daughter and sister of West Saxon kings. Æthelflæd’s marriage had been informed by West Saxon dynastic politics, her father’s regional overlordship loomed large over her early years in Mercia, and she proved to be an active partner of her brother through the early tenth century.

In truth, Ælfwynn may only ever have been intended as a placeholder ruler. In this case, her political prominence, as attested in S225, would have been a mere expedient, ensuring that any power vacuum that arose in the event of Æthelflæd’s death would be filled until Edward could make his way to Mercia to claim its throne. At this moment, however, Edward was on campaign nearby in the Danelaw, and he made the formal annexation of Mercia his priority. Upon Æthelflæd’s death in Tamworth, the Chronicle A-text states that:

⁊ þa gerad he þa burg æt Tameworþige, ⁊ him cierde to eall se þeodscype on Myrcna lande þe Æþelflæde ær underþeoded wæs; ⁊ þa cyningas on Norþwealum, Howel, ⁊ Cledauc, ⁊ Ieoþwel, ⁊ eall Norþweallcyn hine sohton him to hlaforde. (And then he occupied the burh of Tamworth, and all the nation in the land of the Mercians which had been subject to Æthelflæd submitted to him; and the kings in Wales, Hywel, Clydog, and Idwal, and all the race of the Welsh, sought to have him as lord.)

There are several matters of note in this passage. Firstly, the word gerad (occupied) is an interesting choice by the annal’s author. This implies that Edward was not certain of his welcome in the Mercian burh, and so took a military approach to the town. The tone this sets for the rest of the entry is one of might, insinuating that the subsequent submissions resulted from Edward’s own power rather than from any arrangement with his sister. The A-text of the Chronicle, though, is no less partisan than the Register, and this entry seems to be deliberately constructed to cast Edward’s new hegemony over Mercia and Wales as a personal conquest. This raises the second matter, that of the Mercian submission. It is worth reiterating that, when the 918 entries of the Register and the Chronicle A-text are read together, there is little doubt that Edward, Æthelflæd, and their armies were collaborating in that year’s Danelaw campaign. In which case, as Maggie Bailey suggests, choosing Edward as leader may not have been difficult for the Mercians: here was a proven and successful military leader already known to the Mercian elites and their armies.

For her part, there is no evidence that Ælfwynn had any involvement with Mercia’s military, nor even that she had truly been given any authority at court prior to her mother’s death. It seems probable that the truth of events lies somewhere between the Register and Chronicle account of events, that Edward attended Tamworth upon news of Æthelflæd’s death, whereupon the Mercian elites chose him as their lord.

— Matthew Firth, Early English Queenship, 850-1000: Potestas Reginae

[maliciousalice]

Hear me out (or don't... it's fine I'm just venting and mean) yeah um I don't believe Chakotay was saved in Prod*gy s2.