#some others tbd

[sassygirl579]

For the fic writer ask game: 7. What’s a trope you love to write?

Definitely friends to spouses🥰

[morganadismay]

unexpectedly spent the majority of this christmas break progressing on my quest of writing my terry pratchett style gay little arthuriana stories

[enden-k]

speaking of language, ppl noticed how differently aventurine speaks to his child self yes but have you also noticed he speaks differently to ratio compared to the rest? more natural, all excited and bubbly (or insecure when he was shrunk) like a little kid, not as mischievous (?) confident? sly (?? i cant find the right words but uknow what i mean) he usually speaks with others. showing more of himself to ratio (the most, personal info we learn about him outside of his sequence is through his scenes with ratio!) the way his tone darkens when the doubts creep in and he thinks ratio wasnt acting and actually does hate him, and the way he lets out this relieved laugh when he opens the handwritten note of ratio, ridding him of his insecurity and showing him he does care, that he wants him to come back alive

(and speaking of ratio, how he indulged aventurine when he was in the sandpit. how his face had changed throughout the entire scene w sundays plan for aventurine, how annoyed he was w him and thats why he turns away whenever he cant keep his face straight when aventurine is abt to get hurt. the concern he showed afterwards. smn end me)

[royalarchivist]

I got a lot of cool / fun clips from the early days of QSMP to share tomorrow, but I need to apologize in advance because, despite several different creators being featured in the clips, 90% of them are from Phil's POV. I'll try and intersperse some other clip reblogs between them.

[r-h-e-t]

Edge-Lord President | Taliesin Jaffe in Eric’s TBD RPG

Ten minutes and forty-eight seconds. There were eleven minutes and forty-one seconds between the time the tea shop called to let me know that you were on your way to my house, and the time which you knocked upon my door. In that time, I spent fifty-three seconds putting the kettle on to boil and setting up a tea service. Can you imagine what I could do to ensure my safety with the remaining ten minutes and forty-eight seconds?

[galedekarios]

i wish ppl would stop making every boundary gale sets for himself about mystra or his perceived insecurities from his relationship with mystra

[stevethehairington]

okay so it wouldn't be like a DIRECT au of it, just like a heavily inspired by, but BUDDIE TWISTER/TWISTERS AU:

so. buck is a storm chaser. he's got his team, him and a few others, and then abby, his girlfriend. they're working on trying to find a way to tame a twister — to get it to stop before it can start enough to do it's damage. they think they've finally got it, only when they go to put it into test there is a horrible accident and buck loses the whole team, except abby. the two of them are the only survivors. and it is DEVASTATING, but buck is like at least abby and i can lean on each other in our grief, we can get through this together. only abby quits. she quits stormchasing then and there and she leaves, just disappears, leaving buck alone with his grief. (if we want to be Extra Angsty, perhaps she even leaves with some sort of comment that implies she blames him for what happened).

so buck quits too — only it's not a permanent quit, of course. his sisters boyfriend, chimney, is a stormchaser, and when bucks home visiting maddie one day, chimney is there and he's talking about his teams plan (maybe his team was also after the same sort of twister tamer thing — maybe even based off of bucks teams initial research) and he's asking buck about it and buck hasn't thought about this stuff in a while (lies; he's thought about that incident every day since it happened.) but like enough time has passed that talking about it with someone else who's enthusiastic about the research rather than just interested in the tragedy of it all, starts to excite him a little too. and chimney tells him he should come with, when he and his team head out in a week. and after some Thinking and some encouragement from maddie, buck agrees and goes with chimney.

and so buck joins the 118 — consisting of chimney and hen and bobby (and maybe ravi too bc i love ravi okay). and it's good. they're a great team, brilliant, and they're all about helping people too. like, yes, their research is important to them, and they're fighting tooth and nail to achieve their goal, but they're put that on pause if there's even a chance for them to go help people evacuate or find shelter or clean up in the aftermath — and that's something buck really loves about the team. bc that's all he wants to do, help people. so buck fits right in with them and it's. it's fun, again. he did miss this.

and, of course, the 118 has a riiiiiival team — another group of stormchasers who are ALSO trying to find a way to stop the twisters before they can do their damage. they're both close, so it's kind of like a competition between them, which team will capture success first? but this team (not really sure who it'll consist of yet) but im undecided on if eddie would be the leader of the group or if he's just a team member, but. eddie dia,z with his sweeeeet texan twang, and his big cowboy hat and his flashy belt buckles and his charm, he's there. and their team is popular in the stormchasing world, and everyone's eyes are on them too.

but like it's always those two — the 118 and eddies team — at the forefront of it all, they're always chasing the same storms.

and both teams are on the cusp of a big storm, but the 118 catch wind that there's a small town in the path of this one, and they decide instead of following the twisters they're going to head to the town to help the people there. and they end up veering off the path and eddie notices and then HE finds out about the town and he tells his team they need to go help too but his team is like dude NO we gotta get to the twister, the 118 are gone so this is our chance to be the ones to test our tornado tamer solution, WE could beat them. and like eddies team has clearly lost the whole point of all of this — to save people. but HE hasn't, so he goes rogue and he heads to the town instead, where he finds the 118 and they're a bit wary of him at first bc it feels out of character for someone from his team to be here doing this rather than chasing the storm, but at this point im thinking buck and eddie have already had some conversations (MAYBE eddie has actually saved buck once already too so like that trust between them is already built) and buck just immediately starts shouting instructions and eddie falls into line with them and the two of them work flawlessly together and the rest of the 118 is like yeah okay he's good people and they welcome him in too.

and maybe eddies team runs into trouble too and eddie catches wind of it (he's still connected to their radios maybe?) and he's like fuck we gotta help them too so he and buck break off to go help that team (bc even if they're the 118's rivals and even if they're on the verge of the breakthrough the 118 has been chasing too, that doesn't matter rn. what matters is saving as many lives as possible) so the two of them break off to go help and they DO but eddies teams solution DOESNT work, but they took the 118's truck that was loaded with THEIR solution so buck and eddie let that loose and THAT DOES end up working and so buck and eddie save eddies team AND the town AND each other.

and, OF COURSE, through all of that buck and eddie fall in love, and in the end eddie ends up joining buck's team, and they chase storms together, and when they have bad days, when they have close calls, they're there for each other and they're not going anywhere, and they ALWAYS have each other's backs <3

[shepcdr]

reflecting today on if my psds/edits obscure the fact that yishai shepard is indeed a brown person. to Me he has non-white features but i am not sure if this translates to everyone else's view

even if his family history leaves it ambiguous as to what he is at best. and though mass effect lore attempts in the books to highlight that humanity is becoming more "homogenous" like other alien species (which is just a lil silly way to try and excuse having the same game models for every NPC alien... with bad science... trust me it's ok lmao, the player knows and doesn't need an in universe explanation to distinguish that gameplay ≠ actual lore/world stuff) and that being mixed isn't really all that "unusual"(??) anymore. and despite the clear avoidance of talking about human race/ethnicity/identities and the focus instead on alien-human relations. mixed/brown shep is still my beloved

[thanatologie]

you know what, tho, i think i actually hate the fanon idea that i've seen cropping up that emmrich is...honestly i can't think of another way to put this - domineering in private like we don't literally know what he's like in private? like we don't literally see that exactly?

is he putting on his best manners at first? yes! because he's getting the side-eye from like 90% of the veilguard just because he's a necromancer. does he have a dark side? literally everybody has a dark side, we call those flaws.

but this is a nerd who gets himself so wound up and flustered and excited and ahead of himself he manages to go from whatever smooth casanova he can pull off to stumbling over his words, unable to form a coherent sentence (more than once!). who thinks "i've been up for an hour," at the ass crack of dawn is some weird flex. who tells you about ghost vapor booze and how he won't table top because there are too many rules and miniatures. he's a dork who is so damn besotted he watches his love interest sleep like they hung the sun and moon. who leans into soft touches like he's been starving for it his whole life.

who does this shit when he gets frustrated:

where's that rizz now, huh. (side note: he's so damn tall, and taash still manages to make him look so damn tiny, and i live for it tbh.)

my point here is sometimes people are just nice. being nice doesn't mean never being frustrated or angry, it doesn't mean that if they finally do show being frustrated or being angry means they're secretly hiding some whole other...disposition for some? reason?? it means they have these things called emotions, and they show them sometimes, and it's the nice ones finally getting fed up that's always the pin drop moment.

please stop trying to make emmrich volkarin edgy, literally the only thing edgy about this man at all is his life goal to become a skeleton.

[enden-k]

i offer one of the bunch of sketches i did but got tired to finish

[elliscousland]

twirling my hair thinking abt the threads tht i have in my drafts tht have taken months to get to

[crystal-grotto]

???? what does trollstink smell like?

This is a factor that can vary from one species to another.

To non-sensitive noses or those who do not know what they are smelling the most common form of it can manifest as a type of not-petrichor. It is an musky smell (sometimes with peppery undertones or very bold by itself), analogous to that of wet dirt to humans, to signal to other trolls that an individual is willing to mate.

Sturm's scent is an earth-musk layered over top of with metallic-sweet ozone due to his magic. If he gets really worked up, it has potential to shift to a bit of a burning smell.

[rainbowtvz]

*grits teeth*

i do not want to discourse here or anywhere anymore but it does kind of affect me as a transmasc bi person when i see shit that indirectly misgenders me and implies that bisexuality is an icky no good word and identity and you have to be bi and gay and bi and lesbian and bi and straight at the same time or support them or you're an evil stinky stinky terf like... hello where am, i

[moved-to-thanatologie]

every time i see someone using that mustache-less emmrich mod i swear i lose ten years off my life.

but that's not what i'm shitposting about, instead: how do we feel about corpse stones and corpse paths.

[theharellan]

To give some context to this fic and this thread I've been writing:

The evanuris each had an inner circle/inner court consisting of seven aspects of the original nature they spawned as, in addition to a greater court consisting of lesser aspects (and later elves wholly of flesh). These aspects would also often represent crossover between the greater evanuris (that is to say, the ones who survived for us to hate them by their names). Ingenuity would have as much a place in June's court as Ghilan'nain's, for example. As you could imagine, Solas (Wisdom) had a lot of crossover, contributing to him establishing ties to many of the evanuris, greater and lesser (and later cast out - such as the Forgotten Ones).

[magnusthemes]

so life update i presented at some conference in salt lake city over thanksgiving break and absolutely bullied tf out of my PI so in retaliation he said hey while you cook up some new ideas for your next research why not you not only help completely redo the lab website but also completely redo the website for our machine learning data repo

now fast forward a few weeks i am now back in sg on vacation and my PI is still none the wiser about where my web design magic coding skills came from aka magnusthemes but if anyone wonders where i've been for the past few months when i promised new themes this is the answer