#some perminantly

[redeemed-wren]

Thought too long about Hermoine daughter of Meneleus and Helen and got sad

[fucked-shrimp]

regulus "long, deep groans" black

james "loud, shakey moaning" potter

remus "quiet shivering and grunting" lupin

sirius "all of the above" black

evan "no noise" rosier

barty "whimpering mess" crouch jr.

peter "doesnt get the chance to find out" pettigrew

check out the tags for mountains of more info

[my-wildflowergirl]

Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Retain and grow our creator base.

Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up. 

We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.

Actions & Next Steps

Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.

Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.

Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.

The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.

Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant. 

Actions & Next Steps

Deliver great content each time the app is opened.

Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are. 

Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds. 

Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.

Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.

Actions & Next Steps

Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.

Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs. 

Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.

Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread. 

Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads. 

Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed. 

Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.

Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.  

Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.

The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.

It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.

Actions & Next Steps

Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it. 

Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.

Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.

Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.

Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.

Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.  

Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.  

Actions & Next Steps

Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.

Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.  

Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages. 

Test what the right daily push notification limit is. 

Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.

Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.

The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.

Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.

Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users. 

Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.

Conclusion

Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.

[raindrop2401]

What if the reason the vision of the future instantly kills you is because there is no future beyond this point. Everything loops back just a few moments after this fight. The last thing the party sees is some incomprehensible merging of the past and future, and seeing such a thing causes them to die from simply being exposed to something so reality-bending. It also explains why Sif can tank it in act 5. Even though they don't realize it, they're about to break the loop soon. They can see the future properly, and living with their actions perminantly is less painful than looping again.

Or maybe there's an explanation in an obscure piece of text that I missed idk

[brittle-doughie]

Hey Brittle! Sorry for looking like i'm impatient and Tumbler ate my ask so I'll repeat it here. How about a scenario of y/n cookie spliting into three versions of themselves because of an accident (they were visiting alchemist cookie but a potion fell on them) one being the emotional side, the second one being the logical side (despite this one being the logical side they have an ego) and the third one being what's left of a living being that lacks emotion and logical thinking, the instinct and struggle to survive (this one isn't always going through the struggle of trying to live btw but they do lack some ability to rationally think, they will act now and ask later. This also leads to unfiltered thoughts that are sometimes said outloud, this ranges from very random to very concerning.) The other cookies (specifically the ancients, legendaries, the beasts, and dragons[wow that's quite the group of cookies]) found out about this and go to Alchemist's location to see if they're alright, unfortunately for them the emotional and logical sides hate eachothers existence and will consantly argue with eachother which quickly escilates into a physical fight between them with the third half desperately trying to stop both but because of them acting now and ask later thing, it leads to them picking the worst way possible, especially when into more time of their existence the other two get to the point of trying to kill eachother accidental or not,leading the other two to get horribly damaged in the long run with the emotional side getting perminantly blinded and further into their existence the logical side's vocal chords get ripped out and now they have a voice modulator, leading to the third becoming quite suicidal(an attempt was made in the progress which failed cuz of the other to interfere.) And when they finally become y/n again they held one fourth of each of their injuries, slight rope burn marks on the neck, slight blindness on both eyes, and throat (do cookies even have throats and necks?) has slight injury causing their voice to become a little horse, all of these injuries are caused by the three sides that they split into and are permanent, the worst part about this being y/n misses the comforting black void without to worry about other cookies wanting to be or stalking them ect. Which leads y/n back to alchemist cookie's lab, steals the potion, goes back home, and drinks some of it, causing the other three sides to go back to hating eachother and back into existence and y/n now peacefully in the black void as the their three sides are now back to square one, which after becoming y/n again will worsen their injuries and their condition. Can we have their reactions to this situation? (Sorry for how long this is and take this as a reference to an au crossover i'm making lol) Sincerely- CCCC Anon

Literal wall of text, pls put spaces between paragraphs next time going insane aaaaaa-

Since there are three sides to Y/N Cookie, there will be a split amongst the group of cookies on who they’d likely take the side on. Emotional, Logical, and Instinctual are all still Y/N in their own ways.

But the overall situation would be Y/N wanting to escape their situation of having the cookies crowd and stalk them and want to just hide away for as long as they can.

Cookies that are attuned to your Emotional side like White Lily and Pure Vanilla Cookie would feel horrible that this is all happening because you’re wanting to escape the stalking, the constant attention, it was a horrible thing to hear that this side of you had been blinded. This side of you lived up to your part, unable to control your emotions as the two watch you break down..

Your Instinctal side…that’s something in the Dragons’ side of things. Longan would want you to do what came natural in your general nature as a cookie. Pitaya would want you to just go with what the first thought in your head was to do. For them, it was to fight! Even when you’re all put together as one, they’ll still tell you to just follow your first instinct as a cookie. Crumbling yourself wouldn’t be their answer though…

Some of the others may align with your Logical side. Ice Queen would advise that you should let feelings cloud important judgement on things. Shadow Milk Cookie is more blunt, he was the former Virtue of Knowledge after all. Why should others’ feelings or instincts change the facts, use your head and come to your own decision, and make sure no cookie change your choice. Yes, even if it did result in your voice faltering.

[claireborowski]

I am..feeling too many horny thoughts tonight. So many idk if I can list them all honestly but uhhh guess I can try to.

I want someone to tie me up perminantly till my body keeps me from moving, being fed and fucked and used whenever they want. Body becoming all blobby and squishy.

Maybe never being allowed to leave ever again from wherever I am, everything decided by you on what happens to me. Cleaning, bathing, walking, clothes, how much I eat and drink, what I eat and drink, getting relief.

Maybe this all happens when we meet up sometime, seems super innocent enough. Just some food and a few drinks somewhere. You're getting me really fucked up, I ask for no more drinks but they just keep coming. Then you take me back to your place. Then it's all over.

People will start asking about me, people will start wondering where I went. Guess I'll just be your dark secret. Your little...pet. Your little project..toy..object. Whatever gets you off.

You'd get my body really fucked up, basically torture on how little I'm treated well. Never cleaned, never allowed relief, constantly filled to the brim, brainwashing me, making me forget about any life I had before this. This is just what it's always been.

Maybe..you'll push my body to the limit...maybe you'll let me go. Maybe you'll take me put and force me to be shown off in public. Just to torture my legs and body cause by that point, I'll be barely mobile.

But you don't want anyone else to have me do you? You want me all to yourself. You've always wanted a prized pet to yourself huh? And you'll do what you please won't you?

No need to hide your intentions from me. No need to keep them a secret. Embrace them. Why don't you just talk to me about them already. I've been waiting for you to talk to me. Just embrace your fucked up urges. And indulge~

[thelemoncoffee]

IMMA BOUT TO FUCK Y'ALL UP WITH THE SWEETEST SHIT

So catch this, something my ma always told me is that your lover should never just be your lover, they should also be your best friend too. a strong friendship with your lover makes a strong bond, and being someone's love doesn't mean you aren't friends anymore.

imagine Shuichi's uncle told him this growing up. imagine one day post relationship start, Shuichi calls Kokichi his best friend, and when Kokichi asks about it he recites this advice to him.

imagine Kokichi's never thought about it that way, never really saw romance and friendship going hand in hand like that before. but now that Shuichi's brought that concept to light it, changes everything. it just hits Kokichi that Shuichi doesn't just love him- he sees him as that one fun freak he can be a dumbass with, the friend he can wail his woes at, the guy who is going in his pocket.

and he's so very soft about it too. up until now he never felt a connection like that with anyone he's dated. he always took love as this super special thing that you have to act a specific way to achieve, something he struggles to do. but then Shuichi comes in and shatters that made up wall by calling hm his best friend, and suddenly love feels different- less restricting- more fun.

That one interaction perminantly changed the way Kokichi went about being Shuichi's boyfriend. he started to relax around him in ways he was afraid to do and open up a bit more. it wasn't a quick change, but being called best friend definatly triggered a part of his brain that usually only DICE and his siblings could trigger, and it allowed for him to take some barriers down that he was holding up to "not fuck up this relationship"

idk, i just think Kokichi's the kind of person who struggles to find proper connection with his lovers because he puts love up to this impossible standard he was socially conditioned to believe, and i think Shuichi breaking that veiw would rewire his brain and make him feel a bit more free in the relationship

[sionnisaweirdperson]

I challenge you

To talk about your AU

GIGGLES!!!!!

okah so the concept came to me in a dream,, jk it came to me in a science class lmao

So I was just sitting there, teacher was talking about how gemstones can have liquid and solid states sometimes, and I went: "huh... isn't there something in the wiki about determination having a liquid form..??" And I looked and YEAH.

"Injecting" implies that it was a liquid of some kind, so I went "lol what if souls were crystal determination" and then i thought a little harder and made a comparison to something like carbon. Carbon can take many forms, most of the time solid. But it has been proven that in the earth's core, carbon can take a liquid form. So I thought a little harder. What if, with enough pressure and heat a soul could be crystallized further, like the process of carbon turning into diamonds.

So what if these gems which are pure determination could be used by a monster like some sort of power up to increase the amount of power they have??? What if they had other properties???? And then it all started branching out from there.

So from my thoughts, I've created a few conclusions:

When a monster with a high enough already LV (like for instance, Flowey) tries to combine a number of souls together, the heat and pressure generated causes them to fuse together into one full gemstone.

Said gem can only be used by one person. Once that person, weither it be a monster or human, uses the gem for anything they are bound together perminantly. The gem creates a link between the soul and itself, and if that bond is shattered so will the user's soul.

The gem can change the user's body perminantly and harshly. This will be important later. (foreshadowing)

The gem changes the user's LV, as if they had absorbed all seven human souls. But without the unfortunate effects of your body melting from having too much determination. Though if I bet you use it too much, that could definitely start happening :33 like an overheating laptop.

The concept for the actual AU after I had figured that all out was "oh golly gee I wonder what the hell would happen if sans somehow got ahold of that thing???" Because of course we gotta have our boney boy being the main point in this situation. And what if the energy from this caused a explosion that destabilized the underground and what if sans was stuck down there alone trying to figure out how to do something, anything with this gem that is now a perminant fixture in his existence????

So: Pacifist route, everything's going fine and jolly until the final fight against Flowey. He manages to kill/fatality injure all the monsters and kill Frisk. He tries to combine the energy of the souls together, fucks it up, ends up creating the gem. Everything explodes, and the gem gravitates towards sans as he's the one with the most HP left. He somehow manages to get a hold of the gem, manages to stumble his way back to the edges of Snowdin, passes out in the snow. But because he has the gem, it activates. It puts sans into a THREE YEAR CRYOSTASIS under the snow while it slowly heals him and modifies his body. Because that's just what it does. And the rest I have yet to theorize about. BUT WHAT I DO HAVE IS DESIGN IDEASSS nevermind I dontt have any photos of them atm. SOON. TRUST.

Anyways this has been brewing in my brain for months and i am shaking in my boots now that I'm actually talking about it,,,,,,, commentary, suggestions, and addendums are all welcome in rbs/my askbox :33

BTW SOMEKNE TOLD ME TO NAME THIS SANS CRYO BECAUSE OF THE CRYOSTASIS THING AND SO THAGS WHAT HIS LIKE FUNNY LITTLE MULTIVERSE NAME IS. NO IDEA WHAT THE AU IS GONNA BE CALLED YET SEND ME SUGGESTIONS.

[leafgun29]

ok that's it i am going feral. in sonic prime when shadow is falling into the void and sonic just stares at him for a sec. it's. I'm going insane ok bc bro was probably having fucking flashbacks to the ending of sa2 (where shadow falls from space and is presumed dead for quite some time) and like. bros genuinely terrified. he thinks shadow is gonna leave him for a second time and maybe perminantly this time. and just AUGH

[attackfish]

the “shifting quagmire of rising and falling states” au (Aang died in the iceberg, but at his canon age.) to zoom in a bit, did katara ever learn water bending and if so who taught her? Alternatively, how did Iroh and zuko’s travels go?

Continued from: [Link].

I don't think Katara remaining perminantly without waterbending training is a tenable situation. She is going to go north at some point. And this becomes even more urgent when she finds out, as we know from the comics, that there are other waterbending children, much younger than she is, in the south, who will also need to learn waterbending. And I think that her journey north will coincide with her reaching adulthood.

Unfortunately, she doesn't know about the swampbenders, so her goal will in fact be the Northern Water Tribe. And once she gets there, especially because there are other young waterbenders in her tribe, and she's going to feel that profound need that she's going to have to teach them, she is going to feel that she has to be all kinds of waterbender to all kinds of people. Just learning healing isn't going to cut it. And the Northern Water Tribe and Master Pakku still aren't any more willing to teach her any other kind of bending than healing. So she goes to a former student of Pakku's and weasles training out of him. They're caught, Pakku wants her kicked out, she fights him, he sees her necklace, he agrees to train her. She becomes the first of the new waterbenders at the South Pole.

Before I talk about Zuko, let's talk about Azula, because Azula is dealing with the reality that no matter what she does, at some point, her father is going to stop seeing her as his favorite child, and start seeing her as a threat. This is true because at some point, hes going to notice that she's separate person from him, with her own opinions, and he is not going to be able to cope with that. But it's all the more so because he, after all, is a man who came to this throne by killing his own father.

And by considering her a threat, and treating her as such, he, of course, makes himself a very real threat to her. This is going to be incredibly painful for her and hard and nasty, and it will shatter her illusions and make her feel scared and alone and miserable, and eventually she will figure out that she needs to deal with him as a threat, and I'm putting my money on Azula, because she is a lot smarter than her father.

So Azula takes the throne the same way her father did, through murdering her own father. But Ozai is not an old man on the verge of death, so Azula has to be that much more careful. She slips a small amount of slow acting poison into something he drinks every day, something he keeps in his room: his tea. Because Ozai might have mocked his brother for decades over his fussy tea drinking ways, but he drinks almost as much tea, and is almost as fussy about it. And Azula slips in the poison right before leaving for a year long tour of duty handling insurgents in the Earth Kingdom.

It takes almost three weeks for Ozai to even begin to feel the effects, and another month to become seriously ill. Azula is called home as she knows she would have been, and as she relied on, because after a certain point, he was going to get too sick to make himself tea. But once she's home, she can keep making it for him.

Azula carefully researched the poison she used, to find one that would mimic the symptoms of a natural intestinal issue, and the physicians are none the wiser, nor is her father. As he grows weaker and weaker, as he lays dying, they reconcile. Hes scared, and he wants his golden child there again, who adores him and believes in him. And it's all very sweet and heartfelt, and Azula feeds him his last dose of poison before he slips away.

Almost as soon as he's dead, she sends for her brother. But who is the Zuko Azula sends for?

Already at sixteen, Zuko is perceptive enough and brave enough to tell Zhao that his father is a fool if he thinks rest of the world will follow him willingly. He's drowning in a whole lot of fear, pain, anger, and self deception, but it's not like he's incapable of perceiving the harm the Fire Nation is doing, and how the rest of the world feels about it. Without the Avatar, and going back to the Fire Nation, and the series of events that happened in canon, it takes him longer to realize what a shit his dad is, and how his dad doesn't love him, or want him home, or think he can find the Avatar, and how about he, Zuko, didn't deserve the way his dad treated him, and how the best thing he can do for the world is work against his father and the Fire Nation's imperialism, but he gets there. He is in fact there for about a decade before his father dies.

His exile is boring. That's the thing, whatever internal changes he has come to, he spends most of his time sailing around, on a perpetual journey, designed to keep him away from his father and the court. Once he comes to the realization that he was never really supposed to find the Avatar, he's left adrift with little purpose. It's almost a blessing that his ancient ship is pretty much always falling to pieces around him, especially after the first five years, and he and his crew are chronically underfunded, so he is forced to find ways to make up the shortfall. At first, this mostly means running errands for various naval officials, but especially after the fall of Ba Sing Se, it means smuggling.

Zuko and his crew actually ran his sister's blockade around some of the cities she is besieging, because they were harboring insurgents, to bring food and supplies, and she was none the wiser.

So when she calls him home, she expects him to be biddable, scared, angry, but desperate for acceptance, love, and family connection. And yeah, when he first comes home, he is pretty biddable. He and Mai, uh, renew their acquantance, (Mai was waiting for Zuko, but not altogether willingly. Once Azula decided that her brother was going to be doing the whole. Making heirs thing instead of her, she quickly decided on Mai as his future wife. When Mai attempted to date a guy when she was nineteen and recently returned from Omashu, Azula shut that down fast, and made it clear to Mai that it would not happen again) and Azula basically ignores him and their uncle while she starts ruling the country.

And here is the part where Azula's pragmatism versus her father's self-aggrandizing stubbornness come to the forefront, because Azula, as mentioned in the previous post, is capable of realizing that she can't hold onto all of the Earth Kingdom. As much time as she has spent in the field, trying to deal with insurgency, she's very well aware of this, but she also has no intention of losing all of the Earth Kingdom colonies, just the ones she has to, just the ones that are much more expensive to keep than they could ever get out of them.

But just because she is being pragmatic, and doing what is the most self-interested thing the Fire Nation can do, that doesn't mean that there aren't people who are going to lose here, or who are afraid they are going to lose here, and the most dangerous time for any autocratic regime is when it's trying to reform. All it takes is one colonial governor afraid that he is about to lose his position, or people who used to live in the new colonies, coming home to the Fire Nation, unhappy about it, for someone to plot and assassination, and Azula might be very good in combat, but there's not a lot she can do about a bomb thrown at her palinquin.

And just like that, a few years into his sister's reign, Zuko, newly married and with the kid his sister wanted to be her heir on the way, takes the throne in the wake of his sister's grisly assassination. Azula is remembered as a martyr for the deconnization that her brother would forge ahead with, much further and faster than she ever would have. Certainly not a fate she ever would have chosen for herself.

[tucaneggs]

Updated my old Xephos headcanons after catching up on the new Jaffa Factory series! Feels good to be back (and the teasing of lore?? Christmas came early!)

Main changes from my old headcanons are greying hair + scars. Scar map: 1. Fell on head one too many times, perminantly scarred. 2. Eyebrow, sustained from another player at some point. 3. Assorted scars and marks across face. Usually from creepers. 4. minor cuts from his ears getting caught on branches, nicked by arrows, ect. 5. arrow wound and sword slash on neck. 6. Not pictured: Many scars across torso.

[lol-jackles]

https://www.tumblr.com/lol-jackles/729572938237558784/i-cant-give-a-link-but-its-been-said-several

This sounds familiar. I can’t help out with a link because there have been too many cons this year, though I think this was said during the writer strike, but before the actors strike. But, I Remember a J2 panel where Jared mentioned something like this. But, I didn’t get the impression that he and Jensen couldn’t, or hadn’t thrown around some ideas for a revival privately, but rather they can’t officially talk about it with writers or producers, etc. To me he didn’t imply they (J2) couldn’t talk about it, but rather they couldn’t move forward with anything official right now.

Actually, this just made me think of something. If Jared and Jensen really do plan to do a reboot/revival, but they know it would be couple years at best before it could be released, Jared might see it as even more important to take this time right now (or 2024 anyway) to do more cons on his own and get his name out there without it being attached to Jensen’s while he can. Because if they DO shoot another short Season SPN, they’d surely go back to sharing a lot of cons to capitalize on the show, promotion, etc. That’s a lot of years of being perminantly tied to another person, even if they are your friend, without any break in between.

Or, Jared is just calmly backing away from CE, SPN, and constant-affiliation with Jensen with no true intention of brining SPN back in any way, but trying to let the fans down easy with revival talk. Though, he and/or Gen mentioned Jensen at least three times in their Fan X panel last weekend.

Okay that makes sense regarding the conventions + strike.

Both of your hypothesis can work, though I'm more inclined to think Jared is not backing away from SPN entirely. He returned for the Gilmore Girls revival for just one scene in part because GG is still going strong nearly 20 years later, especially on streaming, and he wanted to make sure his character's arc is wrapped up on a positive note in the minds of veteran and new fans. Jared will return to SPN to at least make sure Sam Winchester and his completed arc doesn't get retconned into something unrecognizeable and taint his legacy.

[prettykikimora]

Do you think conspiracy is so popular because its easier to attribute some vast conspiracy of conscience evil doers manipulating world events rather than accepting that we're ruled by a social class that's only interest is profit and they couldnt give half a shit about you? Does it make it more interesting? Does a specific intention to poison people with chemical plants and train derailments make it more evil than just pure profit driven negligence? You're not even a spec on their radar. You're a fucking ant to them. The bourgeois will sell your organs out from under you and then charge you for it, they dont do it because they're all nosferatu. I think it's easier to think of them like they're soul sucking vampires, literal undead creatures of the night rather than accept that another human being is capable of maintaining the daily horrible atrocity that occurs in the open. Laboring for your life is a daily atrocity. Being forced to live in the shadow of a chemical plant that's shaving decades off your life is an atrocity. Having your blood poisoned by microplastics and heavy metals in the soil growing the food you eat is an atrocity. Theres parts of my town that are perminantly soiled with cyanide and nothing with a deep root can grow there.

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

Isekai’ed to the west featuring my oc Nikki Santos, 

A short Filipina 23-year old woman who barely restraints herself to turn Pigsy into lechon. A lover of frying pans and knives, she usually hides any weapons she has in hidden pockets of her outfits.

some trivia about her

she knows how to shank a person and plans to castrate pigsy if he steps out of line

knows where to cut to hit the major arteries of the body as well as which muscles to target to paralyse her enemies

has watched enough true crime and murder investigations to know how to properly dispose or hide a body

studied art and anatomy which is why she knows how to do things listed above

has been trained how to do first aid since the age of 9

looks like a cinnamon roll but will kill you given reason

made tripitaka question himself if she needs the same circlet as wukong

there is no thought behind her eyes but violence and food

she always smiles unless she’s angry

she distracts the beings who kidnapped her with telling them stories, which where basically fanfic ideas she had but tweaked to seem original

loves cooking and sewing

loves to debate and argue with tripitaka about wukong’s punishment due to how she loves to point out that since wukong is mostly familiar with the culture and structure of society for demons and celestial beings and doesn’t even know which constitues as right or wrong in the eyes of morality for humans

has given very shady advice to the empress of the kingdom of women on how to perminantly remove the jerk immortal guy on male undoing mountian

she and sandy are besties

has plotted the demise of pigsy a few times but hasn’t figured out an alibi to not get caught

thinks brushing ao lie’s mane and tail or wukong’s fur is a great stress relief

that’s all

special thanks to @skittlescripts, @semisolidmind, @rennsdeaddoves, @thesexydancingcrepe, @rainyriu, @ritzhasmonkeybrain and @theweepingegg

[izmaddieyt]

I was born extreeeamly small about the size of those small baby dolls with the plush bodies but squishy plastic limbs and heads, so i had to stay in the hostpital after i was born for multiple days in this little clear box thingy because i was too tiny

I have a so far perminant scar from a sparkler fire work that you hold from when i was 4 because for some reason it went back and hit me and left a perminant burn mark on the underside of my wrist

And i have a perminantly slightly raised spot on my lip from being bit by one of my dogs when i was like 3 or so, he didnt mean it tho

it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore

[thesopwithcamel]

1 headcanon for (some) characters in a hat in time (retail, cut content and ARG)

Retail

Hat Kid is a bit of a gun nut and after the events of Rush Hour she 'aquired' a rather large shotgun for 'ship defence'.

Bow Kid is a vastly better fighter then Hat Kid and is very adaptable, surprisingly she wasn't at times end but if she was she could probably whoop Mustache Girl's behind if she was at times end (Mu would be in pieces in the aftermath).

The mafia are actually very inteligent, just in certain topics such as the speed and velocity needed to punch old people but some also know fireworks and other stuff.

Mafia Boss exploded during the boss fight because he earlier had mafia cooking and fucking exploded, no wonder why a certain cat switches out the food.

Cooking Cat's real name is CiCi.

Goofy Mafia basically has the A Hat in Time equivalent of Pinky sense, it does lead to many of his fellow mafia either being injured or dying.

The Conductor's only venture outside of train based Westerns before the events of a hat in time lead to his only loss against Dj Grooves, it was a noir detective film so boring that Dj Grooves' entry was considered better (somehow).

Dj Grooves' nightclub was once used as a speakeasy during the prohabition era, it is also where the 'basement' of it came from and what Dj Grooves uses it for.

Snatcher does still deep down have some feelings for Vanessa despite even him agnologing just how bad the marriage was going to go.

Vanessa is Vanessa

Mustache Girl legally cannot enter the FUB under threat of arrest following the events of times end.

The Seals on the cruise ship are trainees.

The Captain is the only person who could outdo Tempus in a chainsmoking competition and its by a narrow margin.

The Metro Cats live with 2035's technology unlike the Penguins and Owls which use 1980's tech and the Subconites are stuck in the medieval era.

The Lazy Paw are a Nyakuza offshoot which fled the metro instead of fighting against the rampant anti-union laws which exist in the metro which is what Empress and the Nyakuza did.

The Empress is related to CiCi

Cut content, the prototype/alpha story took place years before the events of the retail game:

Beta Kid is a sentient doll and as such can't speak or grow in size, they are perminantly attached to their body.

Timmy's alighnment is lawful chaotic, he has a strict moral code but nobody knows what it actually IS (he's a chaotic gremlin).

Sam the Detective is on Tim's pay roll because finding timepieces does include massive amounts of dirty tactics.

Tim the CEO of time, despite his immense power, can barely hold a candle to his predecessors since he spent little time studying in his youth and more time messing around with Thor, Sam and Oldster when they were young

Thor's inventions have occasionally been used in military operations, retail Hat Kid was once able to mount an M2HB onto a Sand Mobile to fight the Nyakuza entirely via drivebys. He hates this though and that HMG came straight off once Hat Kid was finished with it.

The Mafia originated from a fish factory but had to move because of 'circumstances' (they were forced to move due to reasons beyond just wanting a vacation), Mu's home island was just there and they took over out of convenience.

The Mafia boss of the cut content was retail Mafia Bosses brother who was killed in the fight with Beta Kid.

The reason why Moonjumper isn't in the retail version is because Beta Kid (with help from Snatcher) killed him, Snatcher exploited the resulting power vacume for extra power and also absorbed MJ's old soul and some of his abilities.

Shapeshifter is chill, a little murderous but chill (still hates Beta Kid though).

TV head has a posh English accent and has a tea obbsession.

The Worm's business is failing but badge seller does help him out, he now works under badge seller for good pay.

ARG, the ARG lot appearing was an accident involving Hat Kid, alcohol and a slight but very entertaining trip into underaged drinking:

Fuck you chainsmoker Tempus is still around, she can also tank multiple RPG rounds to the face and not give a damn.

Puella and Cavus are illiterate (Somehow, Tempus forgot to teach them how to read or write).

The first thing Puella did when she got a smartphone was to order a therapy apointment...don't blame her.

Cavus is also on perminant life support after his two bouts against Hat Kid and as such must be kept in a drinks cooler, he is about the size of a basket ball currently.

Aggripa forever curses Tempus for this as he has to dictate to the pair what something says.

The Founders were the subject of a shadow folk song along the lines of that one variation of Colonel Bogey March, Hat Kid rediscovered the song during a trip to alpine skyline and the collective karaoke that transpired was described by Puella as "bloody gorgeous".