#sorry :'3

[starfilled-galaxy]

Help I'm trying to come up with a good name for an AU but I can't figure out what I wanna name it

It's uhh it's an OMORI AU where everything with Mari and Sunny's fight and stuff goes the same as canon, but almost a year later when Hero yells at Kel, Kel dies in the same way Mari did (Whoopsies! Hero pushed him down the stairs) (no faking suicide tho >_>) and Hero is left with immense guilt and depression over 2 of his loved ones being dead

[derang3d-and-insan1ty]

I just realized, whenever I hug @nillimi-theartist (sorry for the ping) I always do that disney princess spin thingy. Like the hug that goes

[teal-bandit]

My (unsolicited) thoughts on Auraki

Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on Jeanne-Marie, and am going solely by what I've been able to glean from her Wiki and what comics I have read

So, let's start with the obvious: these two as a couple were shoehorned into a comic that was filled with ableist, biphobic, and racist rhetoric and done so in a way that was unnatural for both characters, arguably because the writer didn't understand the characters she was writing (other members of the cast were touted as being ooc by their fans, and I trust the fans over most comic writers). For this reason, as well as reasoning regarding Akihiro's "redemption" through a romantic relationship (esp. a het-passing relationship with a white woman), I can understand why fans may not like the couple, or may be wary of the ship as a whole. I was one of them, but the more I learn and the more I think about it, I feel like they do have potential.

Regarding the two as separate characters, they have a lot of similarities that would build up the relationship in a more natural way than the (unoriginal) "I find you attractive" route or the "I find you attractive and I'm going to show you I'm dedicated by becoming an accomplice in murder on your behalf" (Which is a much more Daken thing to do, but clashes with his characterization through the rest of the series).

Both Aurora and Akihiro have struggled through abuse, parental neglect/absence, loss or skewing of a sense of "self" due to their upbringing, attachment insecurities, and a strong, if sometimes rocky relationship with their sibling(s). While I would much rather have a relationship borne of an interesting dynamic between two people, I do feel like these shared experiences would help the two of them relate to each other on a deeper level than what you might get otherwise.

In x-faqtor, their relationship read as very surface-level, which wasn't aided by the short duration of the title. Looking at a cast of people with a lot of trauma in their lives, the overall tone of interaction between the characters was one of apathy if not outright hostility--something I'm seeing repeated in other X-titles by Williams. By all accounts, the two shouldn't have ended up together at all, except that both have been known to make uninformed or hasty decisions in their other relationships, but even with that acknowledgement, there really wasn't any lead up into it at all. Through his time on the team, Daken was largely distrusted, teased, and unvalued up until the last third of the series. Aurora hardly had any characterization at all; we got no sense of who she is as a person, what sort of role she fills on the team, or what her role within Krakoa is outside of the team. Outside of physical attraction and the fact they were on a team together, there was no reason at all for the two to even talk to each other; Daken had more on-panel interaction with Jean-Paul and David, who were both openly hostile to him through the first several issues.

Williams shows glimpses of understanding how abuse changes a person--referenced by the sequence of the other team members talking about the isolating mental and emotional abuse Siryn was experiencing at the hands of the Morrigan while showing the mental and physical abuse the Morrigan was dishing out on Akihiro. As sympathetic as Aurora has been written recently by writers like Orlando, I have a hard time believing that she wouldn't be drawn to him, or at least be one of the members of the team to treat him like a person and not a collection of problems to be solved.

I feel like it's also worth mentioning that these two characters have been repeatedly and extensively ostracized and shamed for their sexuality, and have even (at the very least canonically in Jeanne-Marie's case) had people completely ignore their desires and dignity by being seen as hardly more than sexual objects. Seeing both of them in a (semi-) healthy, happy, consensual relationship with someone who understands their vulnerabilities and respects their autonomy is a bit of a breath of fresh air. I enjoy how they're being written recently quite a bit better; you get a better sense of their dynamic with each other and how much they care about each other.

Which brings me to another point: Akihiro being written as ignoring his sisters in favor of Aurora.

Not only do I think this is a huge misinterpretation of his character; he went to Manhattan with a defective healing factor to support Laura during her fight with the Kinney Virus and gave a part of his soul for Laura to have protection against the Muramasa blade. That does not, in any way, read as a man who would sacrifice his relationship with his sisters for anyone, lover included.

Not only do I see that as a misinterpretation of Akihiro, I also see it as a misinterpretation of Aurora. I realize that she and Jean-Paul have had their share of problems, even in relatively recent comics, but I don't see Aurora allowing Akihiro to ignore his sisters in favor of her. She, of all people, has to realize how important having family is, and as I understand, would probably be Akihiro's biggest champion in spending more time with them (not in seeing him as a bad influence on them, but more in seeing them as a positive influence on him).

In short, while the relationship between these two has it's issues and continues to grow from the practically non-existent roots it had in x-faqtor, I enjoy seeing them together, and think they have potential to be a power couple in their own rights. There is something inherently romantic in the recognition of the self through a partner, and learning to be gentle with yourself through them.

[gerudospiriit]

[I want two things, and only one I can do on my own.

Nabsgan. Or even just non-ship interactions with a Ganondorf. I CRAVE it because their dynamic is just so interesting to me. I can write it on my own but rrrRRRRR. Energy, time, attention span, etc. etc...

Just...more interactions in general. With anyone. Stuff that's more than just "Hi, how are ya?" introductory stuff. It makes me want to start a dis.cord server or group RP here with some kind of backbone adventure/D&D-esque type framework to just...do something more than kick the tin can of "hi my name is ____" over and over again. Like don't get me wrong: I like to get things set up. Get muses acquainted with each other. But I just feel like that's as far as anything I've done gets. Which is absolutely my fault because I'm bad at keeping track of things BUT. You feel me? You feel me.]

[pawl3ss]

We need to know your opinion:

✨️Raczki team 🦞 ✨️

or

✨️Kukułki team🐦✨️

(Is about the candy)

Listen... this might disapppoint you but...

I never tried neither of those

[spinaroos-47]

Rainworld question, if you've played the dlc, hooow much harder is it than base Survivor game? Wondering if I should get it after I finish the base game

I actually never played the dlc

I did buy the game like, a week ago but my brain did not agree with the controls

But from what Ive seen, theres harder enemy spawns but im not so sure

[kurolini909]

Okay, sending pretty much all my mutuals a little message to start the year with ... Y'all getting hit with love today. There's no escaping it.

[pouletpourri]

"You just have to look closely."

[laurasimonsdaughter]

Perhaps they ought not to have eaten the dragon. There had been people objecting to it at the time. Surely such meat was poisonous. Perhaps it was even an affront, an insult to some intangible order of nature they ought to honour.

But the city was starving, the siege had gone on too long, and the king's troops were still a week's march away. The scorched earth would be fertile again in time, but right now it was barren. Right now there were mouths to feed. So they changed their crossbows for butcher knives and got to work.

None of the royal commanders asked any questions that could not be answered. After all, their aid had come shamefully late. The dragon's horned skull made a noble gift, a fitting tribute from a triumphant city to its humbled king. Who would have thought to question them?

And none of the townsfolk spoke up, when the first golden-eyed babes were born. Children who grew up barefoot and fearless, clambering over the city's patched and rebuilt roofs like they had no notion of falling, with a strange glitter to their skin when the sunlight hit it just so. No one breathed a word about dragons.

Because soon enough there were deft, young hands taking loaves straight out of the oven, heedlessly lifting iron from the forge, plunging into boiling laundry water. And some of them more wondrous still, wild, warm-skinned youths, with inexplicable knowledge and peculiar remedies.

A blessing, their families said proudly. A blessing after so much hardship. Which it was, in its way. This city would never fear dragon fire again.

[blursbian]

Deadpool & Wolverine Honda Odyssey fight slowed gifset

[deityofhearts]

consider sending me $10 before adding an unnecessary comment on my post

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[ayo-edebiri]

[fallen-goldfishcracker]

Wyll is so fucking funny and no amount of acknowledgement about this could ever be enough. He's literally walking around being so casually hilarious completely under-the-radar. He calls Halsin a "thick hunk of an elf". He once accidently implied that he was fucking an ogre instead of killing it and then proceeded to absolutely stumble his way through explaining. He gets excited by Lae'zel talking about carnal pleasures. He canonically tells his pessimistic thoughts to shut the hell up. He volunteers to babysit Shadowheart's hypothetical werewolf babies as long as she gets him gloves. He tries to give Gale a hero moniker like his own. He jokes that his father, the Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate, can't spell. He calls Astarion "Mister Fangs". He makes up storybook chapter names for his own fucking adventures. As a child he got chased by the Flaming Fist for stealing fruit, nearly drowned trying to find mermaids in the harbor, and almost successfully broke into the Counting House. He reads monster erotica, and is not ashamed to tell you about it. He ranks eating pudding among life's greatest moments. He will, without shame and completely unprompted, meow at you. He is 24 years old.

[basketobread]

yes.

[jay-wasstuff]

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Bonus: the old man (+insp)