#some kind of modern au

[luckyreds]

For the five sentence fic!

"I didn't expect to see you here."

so it turned out a bit longer than five sentences but this is what I came up with! It started with that first line but now it's somewhere around the end of this snippet. oops.

Bill was already behind the bar when Babe walked in, holding up his bandaged hand like a trophy.

"Bill! Look at this! I had to get six stitches!" Babe announced, wiggling his fingers dramatically.

Bill barely glanced up from pouring a beer. "with the mess you left the kitchen I would've thought yer hand wasn't attached anymore, dumbass."

"Well I nearly did lose a hand slicing an orange."

Joe, stacking glasses behind the bar, snorted. "How did you even manage that, Babe?"

Bill grinned. "Do you need to ask? This idiot could find a way to hurt himself in his sleep."

Babe slid onto his usual stool, dropping his arm onto the bar with a sigh. "I’m serious! The doc said I’m lucky I didn’t hit any nerves!"

Before he could launch into his dramatic retelling the door swung open. A gust of cool night air swept in, carrying the smell of rain and street pavement as Eugene stepped inside, shaking out his umbrella.

Babe nudged Bill, lowering his voice. "That’s him."

Bill raised an eyebrow. "Who?"

Babe flicked his eyes toward the door. "The hot doc I told you about on the phone! The one who stitched up my hand."

Bill gave him a slow, unimpressed look. "Jesus Christ, Babe."

Joe just whistled under his breath. "Well, he’s pretty looking."

At the door, Eugene took in the warm glow of neon signs, the clinking of glasses, the easy hum of conversation. He spotted Babe, who gave an awkward half-wave. Gene raised an eyebrow, amused, before making his way over.

"Heffron. How’s the hand?"

Babe grinned, holding it up. "Told you to call me Babe. It’s just a bit sore."

"Lemme see."

Gene’s voice was low, smooth, just like it had been in the hospital. He slid into the seat next to Babe, and before Babe could protest, he gently took his hand, cool fingers cradling it as he unwrapped the bandage.

Bill snorted behind them. Babe knew his ears were burning red.

"Soooo, I didn’t expect to see you here."

Gene raised an eyebrow. "What, a doctor ain’t allowed to drink?"

Babe blushed. "No!" He scrambled to correct himself. "I mean- here, at the Shindig. Never seen you here before."

As soon as he finished, he caught the amused smile playing on Eugene’s lips, and Babe blushed fiercely. 

“It’s all looking good Heffron, just keep it clean and dry alright?”

[pokemonblack3white3]

Figuring out where I want to slot everybody in the modern pla au

[blue-bird1967]

they listen and they DO judge💅🏻💚❤️

oh who would have known that naruto brainrot would hit twice as hard the second time, i thought the first time was bad T_T

t-shirts refs down here

[zivazivc]

Since you’ve shown Liv’s parents will you Show flea’s mums?

Here they are, the babes!

They are life partners as well as business partners, in fact they are the founders and organizers of Fusion Fest! (the big festival that celebrates all troll genres coming together (also the festival Leslie hatched at))

They're both extremely social, Ruth being especially high energy, and they are both passionate workaholics that keep busy 24/7. They're good loving moms but you can easily guess why Flea peaced out and decided to go to uni all the way in Vibe City - they can be very intense to live with.

The album Que Pasa by Babe Ruth is the inspiration for their sound and design. I own a CD of it and love blasting it when I'm alone. 💃

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Obviously you might have varying opinions for specific fandoms but generally if you think across many of them which do you prefer?

[sualne]

your body isn't your own

[vikary401]

fancy date

[canisalbus]

Since the modern Machete and Vasco are reincarnations of their former selves, do you think they might occasionally experience remnants from their past lives in the form of things like vague memories/dreams or feelings that they can't quite explain?

Such as how maybe Machete wouldn't be able to watch stabbing scenes in shows/movies without getting a faint ache in his chest, or an imaginary metallic taste in his mouth. Maybe Vasco would tend to get especially clingy and oddly concerned about Machete's well-being during a particular time of year(around whenever the previous Machete was assassinated).

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[pininghost]

u know speaking as a poc who lives in a country that still mostly believes in superstition I had a thought. the modern equivalent of labru's (one-sided) beef with each other is that laios is some weirdo who likes cryptids and ghost hunting while kabru grew up taking those things seriously. like. do you see the vision. laios would go cryptid hunting or find abandoned buildings in the woods while kabru is the type who wouldn't even look upwards the treeline in a forest at night.

[theylovevenus]

I missed drawing my 2000s au Shikamaru, you can now tell him apart from all my other Marus bc of his eyebrow piercing

[alackofghosts]

vierapril day 15 - alternate universe

[ribbononline]

Howdy just wanted to let you know how much I love your fantasy AI and how cute the designs are!

Assuming you meant Fantasy AU haha- Thank you! Ive admittedly been playing with their design a little in the background (And it hink I posted some sketches before? though im unsure if I tagged them) since some of them looked. a little too human ((sorry archie i LOVE selkies but untransformed it truly is just a fur coat. which. isnt great for a more tropical setting)) but the core of it has never changed lol I love modern fantasy

The designs are half inspired by Pokémon now, though not tooooo intensly.

Max is still mosty faun, but leant a little more into full furry for him I guess. Cope old man.

Archie has been changed from selkie which HORTS but alas i lacked the skills to draw him cool. He's just a general mercreature now. He has legs but he's half fish in design he can breathe underwater. You get it

Others I've had thoughts on:

May gets to be torchic in harpy form. She's a rare case, as she can naturally do some magic! She can Breathe Fire. Very fun for her parents. She can't fly, but she can kind of flutter- which is great for parkouring around! Active kid. Due to lacking arms/hands she uses her legs/talons for most things instead

I want Courtney to be Meowstic inspired, probably with some/devil/demon inspo for the monster part? But I admittedly haven't thought of a design Im happy with yet. She also has some natural magic! Again, not supposed to be very common. She can levitate stuff and throw around psychic shockwaves if she's mad. She tried studying to be a witch for a little while, but she didn't really like it.

Lisia is Mostly Just Regular Lisia except the cloud fluff on her outfit is part of her lol. She's a combination of Swablu inspired and a full on wind spirit. She looks normal most of the time but if a strong wind catches on her physical form literally temporarily blows away into clouds. She can control the condensation in the air around her- which is almost entirely useless, except she can use it to create rainbows behind her. Great idol trick

Zinnia gets some fun dragon traits, and also lives up to her Lorekeeper title. While there's plenty of common spells written down and going around, Zinnia has access to and protects a lot of more powerfull forgotten stuff. Most imporantly Delta Magic, which... Functions via Totally Not Mega Stones, and allows the user unlimited access to type magic for as long as it's active. It's pretty draining, but it's the only time that actual world changing magic can be made to happen, rather then more mundane or minor stuff

[lynx-doodles-indie-games]

despite not being super touchy-feely, hornet is the one who indulges moss' requests for uppies the most

[andromeda3116]

Your blorbo posting dragged me into watching The Apothecary Diaries, and it's amazing. Thank you!!! Maomao is amazing and I really like how the episode plots tie into and build on each other. I was expecting most every episode to be stand alone in the detective style and I really like the exploration of consequences, foreshadowing, and long-running plots that the connectedness allows.

(I may have just binged the first dozen or so episodes)

Isn't it fantastic? I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I started watching it, but I am now feral. I love that it's more than just a bunch of random Things happening, that it's all building into a wider story, and everything about, like you said, the exploration of consequences. Not as just a "one thing leads to another" kind of thing, but in a specific "what this means in a rigid society like this" kind of way. I love how acutely aware Maomao is of those potential consequences at every moment, how she knows exactly how quickly everything can be stripped away for saying or doing the wrong thing (by whose definition of wrong, which may be capricious or over-wrought), while other characters - even the more savvy ones - aren't as aware of the danger that being smart - being noticed - puts her in.

But she also can't not speak up? She doesn't have it in her to just keep her mouth shut when people's lives are at stake. It's one thing to go "not my problem" about things that she desperately does not want to be involved in, but when a baby could die? And she has the power to save them? The only question is how. Even though she knows that this puts her in danger. Her moral core is dangerous for her, her desire to just be an apothecary and help people is dangerous for her, it all puts her in a position of having to do a political dance that she has absolutely no training for, except what she can adapt from the pleasure district's lessons. Gyokuyou says in the first episode that ignorance is a sin, but she's unaware of the consequences of knowledge. Maomao, on the other hand, is constantly aware of them. It puts her placid face and care with reactions and words into context: she cannot know certain things, and if she knows them anyway, no she doesn't.

It's very complex and fascinating, how it deals with this rigid society and the "renegade" who defies it, so so so differently than everything else. Like, Maomao defying the social structure and rising so high as "merely a servant girl" is incredibly dangerous for her! It's not something she's doing because she's So Cool and Better Than Everyone Else, it's because she couldn't hide her intelligence and people in power have dragged her into their machinations where she is forced to tapdance on a high wire of social expectations and keeping the right people happy. It's funny on the surface how she's the queen of staying in her lane, and how we as the audience know that she's not in as much danger as she thinks she is, because those people in power are head over heels in love with her, but it's absolutely terrifying from her perspective. She has to always be doing the right thing, all the time, or she risks having to choose her preferred method of execution. We know that half the Rear Palace and Inner Court would throw hands on anyone who would hurt her, but what she's aware of is how precarious her circumstances are and what she is perhaps not entirely wrong about (remains to be seen) is how fragile those affections can be. After all, she's seen top courtesans lose all of their value in a flash, or have the chance of freedom dangled over their heads and ripped away by the fickle "love" of a man. She knows that relying on the affection of others to protect her is a dangerous gamble. Maomao is such a complex and fascinating and adorable and funny and clever and heartbreaking character, I love her your honor.

And all of this doesn't even start on how positive the show is about sex work! That's also a massive breath of fresh air that totally took me off-guard like holy shit a show that treats sex as a completely neutral act? Like it's a thing people do with their bodies, either for fun or procreation or work, and none of these carries any moral weight. It doesn't pretend that sex work is not without danger or always chosen by the people doing it - but it's explicitly held up as a mirror to the Rear Palace, where women are also often in similar danger and not always there by choice. I don't know of any other show that treats sex like something completely neutral that has no moral weight, either positive or negative, and sex work as just another form of work, where the workers are framed so positively.

I binged the whole first season on Netflix and then jumped to Crunchyroll for the second as soon as I discovered that it was there, then promptly got my best friend to start watching as well, and she is also rapidly becoming feral about it too. I'm glad I caught another one in my frothing at the mouth over it!

[cafulur]

Modern / College AU Labru Snippets:

- Laios and Kabru meet as classmates who get paired together for a project, and although they initially clash at first, through the assignment they find themselves clicking in the most unexpected ways.

- After the project is finished, they still keep texting each other. Laios sends Kabru a photo of an opossum that was lurking right outside his bedroom window late one night. Kabru later texts him a picture of a fluffy stray cat that won’t leave him alone every time he walks up to his apartment. He initially acts as if he doesn’t like the cat and that it’s bothering him by always following him home, but Laios constantly enthuses over text about how he would love to meet this cat someday. Suddenly Kabru is sneaking this cat little pets and treats in hopes it’ll stick around for when Laios may eventually (hopefully) come over. Before he knows it, Kabru has formed a soft spot for the stray.

- Both of their friend groups mesh and the two find themselves wondering each day when they’ll get to see each other next. They instantly attach in group settings without a second thought, and everyone notices the spark they have going on but them. Laios is excited in a ‘wow this is the coolest, nicest, most interesting friend I’ve ever had!’ type of way, while Kabru recognizes & reconciles with the fact that he’s crushing pretty early on.

- Toward the end of the semester, Marcille hosts a house party, and there’s actually a moment where Kabru sits with Chilchuck on the rooftop ?? It’s an extremely rare occasion and odd for them to ever be alone together, but Kabru had wondered out onto the second floor balcony for some fresh air + a moment to think, and spotted Chilchuck smoking a joint by himself atop the roof shackles to the right of him, just beyond the balcony.

- They watch Laios and a few others down below do something stupid and party related, like chug a drink or eat something fast in one go. It’s mostly quiet between the two up top, save for the few awkward hellos in acknowledgment when Kabru first shows up. Until Chilchuck, of all people, decides to finally break the silence between them. 

“I’d just be straight up with him at this point, if I were you.”

Kabru jumps a little at the unexpected suggestion, glancing toward him with wary eyes. He does his absolute best in every interaction to present himself in a very particular way. Had he been that easy to read all this time?

“Straight with who?” Kabru questions as innocently as he could pretend with a smile, brushing a curl behind his ear.

Chilchuck takes a drag and blows smoke up toward the sky, slightly annoyed but not trying to bite this time around. “Laios. It looks like you want something so bad, but you’re holding back or something. He’s not going to pick up on anything unless you spell it out for him, y’know.”

Kabru covers one of his ears as he feels them burn, looking down into the plastic cup barely filled with beer in his hands. “It’s not— I don’t…” he starts, but feels dumb finishing any semblance of denial. Surprising himself, he caves in, swirling the drink. “It’s just… I don’t want to lose this. His friendship has become pretty important to me.”

“Does Laios come across as someone who would make things awkward?” Chilchuck asks, snuffing out the nub of his joint into the roof and turning to Kabru. Kabru furrows his brow at him.

“Not typically, but I somehow can never figure him out when it comes to things I’ve never tried with him before. Risks with him are truly unpredictable.”

He hums in disagreement, watching the last of the smoke escape the joint before it completely fizzles out. “Eh, I don’t know. Think about it like this. If he doesn’t reciprocate the feelings, do you think he’d have trouble still being friends with you? Laios, being the way that he is, I mean.”

Kabru thinks about it for a minute. Laios really was different from other friends he’d made throughout his life. He didn’t waste time putting up fronts just to save face, and he can’t really pick up on things being awkward for either party. If Kabru confessed and got denied, it would hurt himself mostly, but it wouldn’t rapidly change the air between them. Laios probably wouldn’t want to stop being friends or need time apart just out of awkwardness, which is what one would normally expect after rejection. “I think I get what you mean. I suppose not.”

Chilchuck put the burnt out nub into his pocket to save for a final short smoke later. “I don’t know exactly what all goes on in that guy’s head, but being an observer, I’d think you’d notice by now when he’s actually looking back. I guess it’s easier as a third party.”

Kabru takes a sip of his beer as he carefully considers Chilchuck’s words and watches Laios down below. In that moment, Laios happens to look up and catch Kabru’s gaze, immediately smiling and giving him a friendly wave. It feels like it’s just between them, save for the audience member right next to Kabru witnessing the whole thing. Chilchuck sighs and stands up, dusting his pants off.

“You guys do you. I barely understand my own feelings and how to go about them these days, but if you already know yours so confidently, then there shouldn’t be much stopping you from sharing them. Bottling up seems a lot more painful. It’s hard to watch, anyway.” He stretches before crawling down from the roof shackles onto the balcony. He offers a small wave as he passes by to head inside. Kabru turns to watch him go, saying a soft “Thanks Chilchuck,” as he disappears into a hallway, presumably toward the stairs.

When Kabru turns back around and glances down, Laios is in fact still looking up at him. His face heats up a bit, unsure what to say or do in response, and then Laios is grinning brightly and motioning for him to come and join them. Kabru nods, downs the last of his drink, and then hurries inside, heart pounding in his chest.

[canisalbus]

Telepathically beckoning you to give Machete's brothers names full designs full backstories and actually make them the main characters /silly

I know I should TvT

Not make them main characters I mean, but come up with names and full designs for them. This goes for Vasco's parents and two sisters as well.

And I still haven't made up my mind about Ludovica's girlfriend either aaaa.