#sorry if it's incoherent 😅

[little-peril-stories]

Happy STS, Kate!

I'm running out of questions and brain cells. What is something you want to talk about?

Happy STS, Elli! Thanks for the ask!

Idk what I want to ramble about. I feel like I've been struggling to write lately, but my editing game has been pretty on point. I've also been using Photoshop more, trying to hone some skills, and I've been working on my author website. I've set the date for 'launching' that (aka actually sharing my pen name, links, etc.) and I'm really excited and also terrified. 😅 I feel like I need a little icon of myself or an actually decent picture that looks cool but hides my face, and that...feels like a tall ask. There's a lot happening on that end at the moment, and it still doesn't feel like *enough.*

I'm a little frustrated with the realities of this human existence, because I have the desire to work on all my WIPs at the moment, but not the time or energy! I want to keep up the momentum with TQOL because I'm getting close to the fun rewrite of the finale. I want to delve into tweaking TPOT based on reader feedback. I want to jump into draft 2 of TCOR. And I want to keep reworking Book 1.

Alas, work. Family. Sleep. 😂

But all in all, if I can sum up my ramble...things are good, ya know? Maybe moving slower than my mile-a-minute brain desires. But that's okay. It's part of life. And it's all going to happen when it's meant to happen. 💕

Thanks for asking. 🥰

[qunaricatnip]

Hiiiii it's me the person who reblogged your post about the Cousland x Loghain marriage (this is my main blog but 99% of my tumblr activity is through my side blog queenmelisende sorry for the confusion lol). Lets talk about Ferelden nobility. Their marriage would be an insanely good political alliance -- the two teyrnirs of Ferelden uniting? Cailan should be quaking in his boots. You said she would eat him alive??? I am desperate for more elaboration.

hi!! this is a sideblog too so no worries! but yeah cailan absolutely should be worried but the best part is, at least in my little au, he’s like…. 12 when all this is happening so all he really knows is that uncle loghain is leaving him (and anora) and it’s gonna be a while before they can see each other again :( it’s really maric that should be worried (and is) because he had to make a lot of concessions to the couslands for bryce and eleanor to be okay letting their baby girl go clean up maric’s mess (even if she really wanted it for spite reasons).

Tl;dr siobhan cousland was planning a coup from jump because she was raised to be queen and got told no and then maric dropped the perfect opportunity in her lap with a bow and his blessing, loghain was both collateral and a prize

siobhan in this au was born before the occupation technically ended and so her parents, still in the rebellion mindset of “ferelden first” was sort of groomed to believe that she’d one day be queen of ferelden because she’s the only noble girl within marrying age of cailan right up until anora is born and maric and/or rowan lose their minds. the couslands are Important, second to only the royal family and that shows in siobhan’s upbringing- she’s very politically minded, everything is duty/responsibility/optics with her and that’s something that (imo) would and should drive loghain crazy.

Politically on paper, her and loghain are an amazing match after celia dies right up until we remember that a) the couslands have already married their son and heir to a well known/regarded antivan trading family creating ties to a foreign, unallied country without the crowns express permission right after a war and b) loghain for all his accomplishments is not a man made for politics in any capacity that man is a Follower, he’s the type of person that need to be wholly devoted to a person/cause and c) uniting the only two surviving teyrnir’s is actually a recipe for disaster because oh my god why would you even think that maric that’s giving your subjects too much power and influence even with ferelden’s weird political structure

and siobhan knows this!! she knows that the people of gwaren don’t feel safe or supported by their teyrn and abandoned by their king and she’s also been personally slighted by the crown twice now!! so she graciously concedes to step in and throw the weight of her name around to build gwaren back up to the prominence it once had before the occupation gutted the city all while subtly reminding people that it was the couslands that actually care about the people of ferelden, its cousland gold bolstering the economy, its cousland trading partners bringing ships back into port without even saying anything because she’s a mac tir now after all that would just be gauche to rely on her maiden family name. its siobhan that runs the show and every single person in gwaren knows it, loghain is just insurance in the beginning (before whoops they’re actually in love your honor)

[seaquestions]

i understand that my robot looks like v1 from ultrakill but boy am i tired of hearing it lol

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

💌 just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who’s left such lovely feedback on my latest chapter of four walls. it’s been a weird and emotionally draining week for me, and getting to come back after a long day and read all your kind words has been such a solace. it’s truly hard to put into words how much it means when people connect with something you’ve created (and i’m far too exhausted to even attempt it tonight), but trust me when i say nothing grounds me and keeps me writing through all the difficult stuff more than knowing that what i’m creating means something to people other than just me. thank you so much for your generosity in sharing that with me via your lovely comments and feedback 💌

[acacia-may]

Acacia, since you’re offering, is it okay that I ask for your thoughts on Josele x the Fausts? 🥺👉👈

I’d be fascinated to hear your thoughts.

Of course, Erika! I was actually really hoping you would ask me because, as I am sure you know, I am just obsessed with Nacsele. Sorry Morgen. I love him. How could I not? He’s a total sweetheart, and him and Josele were very cute, but I am unapologetically Team Nacht all the way! I adore their deep friendship and the quick wit & banter that they share, but it's really the angst of that pairing that just elevates it for me. I mean they support each other through their trauma and grief, and then, fall in love?! Even when they believe they're too broken to ever be loved and to be happy again, they show each other that they can be. 😭 I'm going to sob. It's beautiful and is more compelling to me than I have the words to express.

I'm sure it's no secret that I am not much of a romantic, but what you may not know about me is that I do actually have some favorite love stories one of which is a movie called "Return to Me" which is about a man, Bob, who loses his wife in a tragic accident and swears off love forever, but he eventually finds healing and falls in love with the wonderful woman whose life was saved by receiving his deceased wife's heart in a heart transplant. (This is literally all established in the first 5 minutes of the movie so it’s not a spoiler, I promise). The heroine of this film, Grace, is just so incredibly sensitive to his loss and so supportive of him, and one of the main conflicts of the movie is that she cares about him so much that she is heartbroken to learn that even though this transplant saved her life, it caused him so much pain and suffering. The other conflict, of course, is Bob (the main man) coming to realize that even though he truly loved his wife and is always going to miss her, that doesn't mean that he can't love Grace just as much. It's real. It's beautiful, and it's so sincere that it just pulls at my heartstrings every single time. Needless to say, I have an extremely intense passion for stories about finding love after unbelievable tragedy and loss, and Nacht x Josele fit that category so well so of course I'm going to eat that up.

This pairing was just made for me to love. I mean, it also has a complicated brother relationship and they're childhood friends to lovers. Gah! It just has everything. Nacsele is just everything!

I don't think I'm even making any sense right now, but it's so, so good. I find myself just randomly thinking about them like I would with any canon character x canon character ship. I guess that just means they're canon to me. 😁

[windor-truffle]

I finally started making some Jade Dolls so the other party members can roleplay as Asbel, and I noticed something interesting again--- while the roleplayers usually copy the current appearance of the character they're RPing, in Lineage and Legacies, characters playing as Asbel keep his blue eyes (exhibit A, the real one has one purple eye). They still reference Lambda when they use Asbel's Accel mode mystic arte though, even though there's a Lambda-less version Asbel uses if he enters Accel mode in the main story.

Asbel, when roleplaying Richard specifically in postgame, reverts to his heterochromatic appearance to indicate Lambda's presence (exhibit B). By that logic, Asbel should have heterochromia when he roleplays as ALL of his other party members, but they understandably do not. I assume the game devs did not want to make new models for that slim specific scenario, or figure out what colors their eyes should be (would Sophie have some kind of red-violet or just red?).

Strangely, Asbel's Richard RP seems to have 2 brown eyes in the status menu (exhibit C), same as when other characters RP Richard or Asbel RPs him in the main story. I'd love to test if Richard, during the brief window of the main story where he's in the party, would have a purple eye when RPing Asbel, but that would require me to play ANOTHER new game+ and I'd rather wait on reliving this whole game til the remaster drops 😅

[fayesdiary]

actually now that you've finished AM and re: Paired Endings, did you get the paired endings you wanted? I remember when I went in blind and didn't know how the hidden support points system worked in regards to paired endings, I ended up with exactly no paired endings I was expecting or hoping to get, and a few people I knew playing the game at the same time as me ran into the same "wait, how does this work" conundrum bc we all went and got everyone to A or A+ supports with everyone else and therefore had a roulette wheel of paired endings.

also just in general, how did you enjoy AM?

I barely knew paired endings were a thing so I wasn't aiming for any one in particular (although I'm upset by the Felix/Ingrid one. I'm sorry Ingrid, you deserved better).

That said, having paired endings almost hidden from the player if you don't know (I'm guessing it's a selection of the A/A+ support pairs, but if you have multiple it selects one based on which has the highest support points) is... really weird. Why not just have S supports at that point and give the player the active choice of which paired ending they want?

As for Azure Moon itself, I quite enjoyed it! Dimitri's journey is the good shit, his relationship with Edelgard is just tragic and overall it's a really nice personal narrative.

But for the larger narrative, well... I have questions. And they are not the good kind.

Let's start with the smaller things first - Sothis.

Why is she even in the game?

I'm saying this as a huge fan of her- I adore her, I think she's so much fun. That said, if she's barely going to have screentime in White Clouds and is completely absent in Part 2, why even pretend she's going to be a primary character if she barely features in it?

I enjoyed Ch9 and 10 with her because she finally had her time to shine, taking initiative, coaxing Byleth into investigating a bit more and being a little gremlin when she convinces them to eavesdrop on Rhea. She finally has the presence she should have always had, but then she merges with Byleth and... that's it.

Poor Rhea is in an even worse situation in Azure Moon, being completely absent in Part 2. They tell you she has been secretly been imprisoned in Enbarr all this time but they never tell you why (my guess is it has something to do with Edelgard's monster form?), and then when you beat the game... Nothing.

Just a small line telling you she has retired and moved to Zanado.

The poor woman feels like a complete afterthought in this route.

Speaking of things feeling like an afterthought in Azure Moon, the Dark Snakes (the personal name I'm going with for Those who slither in the dark because I hate that name so goddamn much).

In White Clouds? Hyped up as a major antagonist.

In Azure Moon Part 2? Nowhere to be seen properly.

You only get Cornelia and Volkhard who have been very blatantly replaced with members of the cult, and yet no one seems to notice.

Dimitri will say straight to your face Cordelia's whole demeanor changed around a decade prior but never think "hmm, this sounds familiar", despite him mentioning Kronya a few chapters prior.

They appear in the final chapter but only as an extra boss you can stomp to get rid of a bunch of soldiers, and again - barely acknowledged. The rest of them flee when you kill their leader so the Snakes are still around scheming, but this is never addressed in Azure Moon, not even in the endings.

And I am not accepting "it will be explained in the other routes" as an excuse, because if you're going to treat every route as its own game, then the narrative of every single route has to stand on its own.

As it stands, the Snakes in AM only exist to make Edelgard look better by comparison in White Clouds and are almost completely ignored in Part 2.

And speaking of Edelgard - we need to talk about the whole deal with Fòdlan's unification.

This game is... weirdly fascinated with the idea. I can understand why Edelgard views it as an ideal - of course the future Emperor of an Empire would have an imperialist mindset.

The problem is that several other characters and the narrative itself portrays it a good thing, when if you think of it for a few minutes... It's not. The mere existence of the Kingdom and Alliance as well as two of the major wars in Fòdlan being for their indipendence proves that.

And look - Fòdlan has many, many problems. Rampant racism and xenophobia, class inequality exacerbated by Crests, you name it. But it being united under a single banner, especially if by force, does nothing to solve any of the issues and arguably makes them worse.

Hell, as fucked as the status quo at the start of the game is, at least there was a clear harmony between the four powers, and Fòdlan had been at a state of relative peace for almost a millennia until Edie did her, um, thing.

Shamir has a line where she mentions Fòdlan will probably split again eventually, and she's right - it's increasingly clear that Fòdlan being governed by a single power does not work.

Also I know I barely know Claude at this point especially because he's deliberately written as hard to read but I'm sorry- him just giving the Alliance to Dimitri is bullshit. Both because of what it represents, both because I don't buy it at all he would just do this (especially with Verdant Wind existing), and especially because you really want me to believe every single noble would be ok with rejoining under the Kingdom they declared indipendence from two centuries ago?

So the narrative ends up saying "oh it's not that Edie's ideals of a unified Fòdlan are fundamentally wrong- no, it's her methods and the fact that she wants to destroy the Church". And the cynical side me is thinking that in the large scale of things, the main difference between the routes is choosing which war criminal gets to govern the whole continent.

So while overall I enjoyed Azure Moon, I can't help but notice so many warning signs for things to come.

[strangefable]

Being in hospital is such a surreal and liminal experience

[jerejerejere]

I really wish we saw more soccer jere that’s an excellent sport to be short for 😭 😭 😭

Is it? 😅 I know next to nothing of sports. ...It would show more leg though 👀 Which is always always a plus with this man.

What kinds of sport did he do that has been photo documented? Basketball, skiing, hockey of course, football (aka soccer). I'm sure i'm forgetting something. Any sports Jere is a good Jere 😌

[dr-lizortecho]

I have to drop in and say I'm extremely impressed that even after reading all your posts on rnm whenever they come up I have a. no idea what the plot is and b. even less idea of who's actually romantically involved with each other. I feel like that's the truest form of second-hand blorbo experiencing, no thoughts just vibes!

So true though! No plot thoughts just vibes <3

To be fair post season one the plot isn’t worth discussing, leaving only character arcs and dynamics for me to ramble on and on about (which I will probably be doing for an unthinkable amount of time). As for canonical pairings that matter that would be Echo, I’m only slightly insane about them (I mean they’re my icon for everything, including my dnd campaign)

[rubiehart]

Hey there! So I’ve been reading fan fictions on here FOREVER but have never actually sent a request, but I couldn’t resist with your writing style!! I was wondering if you could do a jj Maybank x female reader where they’re getting it on and he keeps praising her A LOT and giving her pet names and the reader whines and suddenly says stop but before he does she squirts all over him and reader is super embarrassed and jj absolutely loves it. Sorry and thanks 😅🖤

when i tell you i screamed when i saw this ask!!

by this point jj’s so pussy drunk he’s mumbling incoherently into your pussy, vibrating through your slick as he circles his tongue skilfully over your pulsing clit, back arched and rutting desperately against his face, fingers laces in his blond tresses, tugging to bring his face back down to reach your peak you so desperately craved.

“jesus, gooood fuckin’ girl. doin’ so good. y’gonna cum pretty girl?” he slurs in his raspy voice, making you whine out, he grins against your soaked heat and brings his pink muscle down to circle your enterance. “my girl, soakin’ my fuckin face, so fuckin’ pretty.” your eyes roll back into your head momentarily from the praise, feeling that white hot burn in your stomach rising, as he brings his attention back to your clit, writhing against the bed as jj wrestles your thighs open, your slick dripping onto the matress and coating his lips.

he feels your pussy clenching and knows your close, taking it as a sign to push two fingers in to your dripping heat as your back arches automatically, slurping at your heat as you whine out. “jj please! please needa’ cum!”

“yeah?” he challenges with a grin. “good fuckin’ girl. my beautiful girl.” he says in a low raspy voice, fingers curling against that spot that makes you scream, shaking his head back and forth against your pussy, dragging his tongue frantically against your clit. “jayj i’m gonna fuckin’ pee!” you let out a borderline pornographic moan, and your vision goes white.

your minds all hazy as you let out a moan as you grip his hair even harder, tugging hard as you squirt your release all over his face, not fully realising it and flopping down onto the bed, tits bouncing as jj’s head pops up from between your legs.

his pupils are dilated and his mouth is coated in your slick, and he grins at you. “never took you for a squirter baby.”

and you’re all embarrassed, covering your face with your hands, he pulls your hands away gently. “hey, that was the hottest thing i’ve ever seen, ‘kay? no need t’ be embarrassed babe. ‘s only me.”kissing you with some kind of new found hunger, lining his rock hard dick up with your clenching pussy, whining when he pushes in from the sensitivity.

“y’gonna squirt again f’me? yeah?” he grins as you nod frantically. “soak my dick. you’re my good fuckin’ girl, yeah?”

[reblogs-from-mushrooom]

Original is from @acetheabnormal ! Go to his blog for more cool art :D

Save me Q!Slime. Q!Slime. Q!Slime save me

[revelboo]

Hello, sorry if I'm being annoying. But I’d love to see something with IDW Ratchet or Tarn if you could write anything with them—especially Ratchet. I just don’t see enough good stories about him. I really enjoy your writing style and can’t get enough of it. Sorry for any mistakes; English isn’t my first language.

Sure, I’ve been meaning to do an IDW Ratchet. Tarn’s on my list, too, but he and Ratchet will likely be the last new characters for a while. I’m currently over 30 ongoing storylines at this point 😅

Feel Like Rain

IDW Ratchet x Reader

• Sometimes it’s all too much. Even with First Aid helping, there’s just not enough medics in the Ark to support so many Autobots. Wheeljack and Perceptor can help if push comes to shove, but even then once the fighting begins again it won’t be enough. He’s never enough. And when he can’t get his processor right, when it threatens to drown him, he goes driving in his alt mode. Feels the sun baking him, the sand and hot asphalt under his tires. No real destination in mind, just trying to calm the panic that’s always there, the worry about what might happen. Driving for hours sometimes in a widening spiral about the Ark. Never going too far in case he’s needed. As he turns, he almost misses the car down in a crevice, only part of the bumper still visible, emergency lights flashing. Not his problem, but he’s still slowing anyway. Because he’s still a medic and someone might be hurt.

• Transforming and sliding down next to the car, he lays a hand on the roof feeling the heat of the metal and knowing it’s been there a while. Leaning to look inside anyway, there’s a human slumped forward against the wheel, broken glass glittering in their hair. Unmoving. Too late, then. Spark constricting, he’s turning away, pushing off the car to make the metal groan, when their little fingers flex and you make a low, guttural noise of pain that freezes him.

• It takes time to carefully peel back the roof of the car, snap the seatbelt and pull the door off to remove you. Feeling how hot your skin is against his servos as he lifts your limp form. Your eyes never open but you mumble incoherently, broken fragments he can’t make sense of. That make him wonder just how long you’ve been here, trapped and waiting to die. Because there’s no leaving you now that he has you in his hands. Carefully transforming around you to carry back to the Ark.

• Wheeljack’s in Medbay when he returns, digging through his tools and looking up guiltily, vocal indicators flickering green before he notices the human. “Haven’t seen that one before. Looks rough,” Wheeljack murmurs, moving closer as Ratchet lays you on a berth, your tiny form looking even smaller in the bot sized space. He’s almost absurdly glad Wheeljack’s there. Even though he’s been trying to brush up on human medicine since there’s so many of them now in the Ark, he doesn’t know nearly enough. Doesn’t know how to help you, but Wheeljack has a human. He has to know something.

• Snatching a scanner to run over you, he frowns at the results. Wrist and arm broken, one leg fractured. Body temperature well outside of normal parameters, dehydrated. Blood pressure off from normal, too. And he doesn’t know enough to know which problem is a priority. Which will kill you if he doesn’t fix it first. “Get your human,” he says softly. Temperature? It’s a place to start, cooling you off. “Now, Wheeljack,” he adds without looking up when the other bot doesn’t immediately move. Using a servo to brush your hair from your face, he can see the glass glittering on your skin and in your hair. “You held on this long.”

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[mustainegf]

hii :)

could I request something where Dave calls reader in the middle of the night all whiny because he can’t get off (him and reader aren’t in an established relationship)? And if you could please avoid the mommy kink? Nothing against it it just personally doesn’t do anything for me 😅

OHHHHH LORD THIS IS GOOD YOUNG DAVE PLS ME NEXT PLS CALL ME DAVE

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐌𝐄 ¹⁹⁸³

The phone woke me with a shrill ring. The clock was glowing 2:13 AM from my nightstand. Groggily, I reached over and picked up the receiver, barely registering who could be calling at this ungodly hour.

"Hello?" I mumbled, my voice thick as sand.

"H-Hey, it's Dave," he replied in a low, shaky voice. Instantly, I was more awake. Dave was one of my best friends, but even with that given, it wasn't common for him to call me at this hour, if ever.

"Dave? What's wrong?" My concern mounted at his answer.

"I… I know it's late. I'm really sorry. I just… I couldn't stop thinking about you," he said, his tone now bordering on desperate. "I need you."

His words passed through me, confusing and exciting all at once, somehow. "What do you mean?" I asked once more as my pulse increased.

"I can't stop thinking about you," he replied, much firmer this time. "Please... I need to get off, and you’re all I can think about..."

I was speechless, utterly speechless as I realized Dave was currently cock in hand. This wasn't the Dave I knew, who joked and laughed and felt challenged by any word spoken to him.

Yet, something sparked under me. "You're serious?" I asked wearily, trying to make my voice steady.

"Yes," he said, catching his breath. "I know it sounds crazy, but I can't help it. Please, I need you.”

The line was heavy with silence. Then, almost involuntarily, I found myself responding. "What… what do you want me to do?"

"Tell me what you're wearing," he begged, his voice dropping to a husky whisper as I could hear a quick shifting of something on the other line.

I looked down at my ruffled pajama top and shorts. "Just a shirt, and panties," I said, shivering oddly at the idea of sharing even this mundane fact.

"Take them off," he said softly. "Imagine my hands are on you, undressing you."

I shivered, both from the cool air and the heat in his words. Slowly, I slipped out of my clothes, the fabric whispering against my skin. "They're off," I whispered back.

"Good girl," he breathed. "Now, touch yourself. Tell me how it feels."

My hand moved almost of its own accord, trailing down my body until I found the warmth between my thighs. I was already slick just from his words.

I twitched softly at the contact. "It feels g-good," I confessed, my breath rising.

"Keep going," he urged, wet sounds echoing from his line. "Imagine it's me touching you. My fingers inside you."

I did, shutting my eyes and picturing Dave’s fingers screwing into me, curling up into my gummy walls.

My clit was so weak from the thought of Dave in bed, clutching the phone as he worked his frustrated cock.

“I’m covered in precum… that’s what you do to me..” Dave groaned. Good lord, I just about melted at the thought of his length slick with cum, wishing insides that it was mine.

"God, I wish I could see you right now," he moaned. "I'm so close. Are you gonna cum soon?"

"Yes," I murmured, teetering on the edge of orgasm.

"Cum for me," he growled, his voice raw and commanding. "Cum with me."

That was all it. My body bucked, and I screamed, cumming and spanning around my fingers. I could hear Daves own release, a primal sound that sent another tremble through me.

I whined as we both caught our breath, whimpering incoherent words, he spoke again, and his tone had changed. "I'm coming over."

"What?" I asked, my post orgasmic haze breaking slightly.

"I need to see you," he said firmly. "I need to be with you. I'm coming over right now."

The line went dead before I could even respond. I lay there for a moment, my mind racing with everything that had just happened in the last 5 minutes.

I didn't know what would happen when Dave got there, but one thing was for sure, the night was far from over.

[fayesdiary]

I know we compare Fodlan's crest to Holy blood, but did we ever mentionned how it is also very similar to how dragon Veins were transmitted ? I mean, there is total of 12 Heroes who got blood from the Nabateans (because of genocide) while in Fates, we got 12 Ancient divine dragon who gave their blood to several rulers. At least one of those 12 individuals plays a big parts in the plot and as an antagonistic figure at that (Anankos/Nemesis). The dragon have magical blood that helps grow older slower and gives you magic power you might transmitt to your descendant which is the case of the Nohrian, the Hoshidan and the Foldan society (but not of Laslow, Selena and Odin for reasons) and they got their magical weapon from them. The only difference being... the lack of consent of the Nabateans in all of this.

I see what you're getting at, but at the same time... are there really 12 dragons in Fates? I remember there being far, far less (The Dawn and Dusk dragons where the royals got their Dragon Veins from, Anankos which is where Corrin and Lilith got theirs (also Soulnankos temporarily gave the Awakening trio Dragon Veins), the Rainbow Sage... maybe the Ice Dragon? None of the latter two give Dragon Veins though, although the Tribes do get power over their own element so *shrug*)

Anyway. I believe the reason Dragon Veins are almost never equated to Holy Blood and Crests is that while they do share some similarities in how they function (carrying over through generations, being initially acquired by drinking dragon blood, granting superhuman powers), Dragon Veins function the same no matter their origin, regardless if it came for the Dawn or Dusk Dragons or Anankos.

And also, barring maybe Yato, none of the Fates Sacred Weapons (or whatever they're called I don't remember) seem to explicitly need a Dragon Vein to be used? In fact if I remember some supports correctly you actually need a great amount of skill to be able to properly wield them (Kiragi's support with Takumi mentions that he is still unable to either call or draw the magical string of Fujin Yumi, and the fact that none of the Gen 2 royals are able to use their parents' Legendary Weapons in the main timelines, rather only in Heirs of Fate). And also, no one covets for Dragon Veins in the same way they tend to crave Holy Blood and Crests.

But regardless, yeah. Even Dragon Veins were willingly given by humanity (by either mating between dragons and humans or offering of blood) just like Holy Blood while Crests... absolutely did not.

(realized this answer is really messy due to my memories of Fates lore being kinda foggy, if it's not too much trouble @nowis-scales could you please give a second opinion as the local Fates expert? :D )

[sleepanonymous]

Okay so. I have so many people to respond to and I promise I will, just not tonight. I wanted to give a quick update about the ritual below the cut (because I know some people like going in not knowing the setlist.) Again, typing this all on my phone so my apologies for heavy typos and any incoherence.

As a preface I just got back to my hotel, showered quickly, absolutely fucking sobbed in the shower for like two minutes, and I’m now eating uncle ben’s ready rice straight out of the bag because I don't have a fork or spoon. If that doesn’t scream hot mess idk what would.

First things first: the security/staff at Arizona Financial Theatre are all amazing. Literal fucking angels. Two of them hung out with us in line all day, letting us go inside to use the bathroom and refill water bottles and the guys at the barricade were so friendly and chatty and also handed out water. Literally everyone was so helpful and friendly and nice and they deserve all the good things in life.

Second: Empire State Bastard really wasn’t clicking with me until I saw them live. They’re an absolute vibe live plus the drummer and bassist are both babes. The band were constantly thanking us for showing up early and listening to them (tbh the venue was only half full until about 10 minutes before Sleep Token went on). Literally seemed like such humble and chill dudes.

Third!!! I almost don’t even know what to say about Sleep Token. There’s sooo much I could literally rant for hours but I also need to sleep so I can drive to Albuquerque in the morning. I recorded 5ish songs I think? Mostly the TPWBYT songs but I did get the summoning too. No idea if the footage is any good but we’ll see tomorrow. I made it a point not to have my phone out after finding out the setlist because there was no way in hell I was missing TNDNBTG live while on barricade. Maybe I should preface this next bit with I one hundred thousand present realize this sounds delusional of me, but everyone on the barricade had their phones out and Vessel fucking focused on me because of it. He was singing one of my favorite sleep token songs directly to me! There’s literally nowhere else he could have been looking! he was on the edge of the stage looking straight down at me and we were pointing at each other and I’m fucking dying reliving it because I was singing so horribly and cringy back at him. Like I’m so sorry vessel but my life was changing in that moment. I became a new woman the second you pointed at me.

I kept my phone away for the first several songs tbh and he kept coming back to stand in front of me but never made such heavy eye/mask contact (until Euclid). I actually almost feel like I disappointed him when I did pull my phone out to start recording because he practically avoided me after that. its actually why I decided not to record Euclid, though I knew it was coming and it was the song’s debut. AND IT FUCKING WORKED!! He came back around and was singing to me again, same stance, same obvious eye contact except this time I was literally Ugly Crying™️ at him. Tears were streaming, I had one hand holding onto the barricade for dear life, and the other clamped tightly around my mouth ugly crying. Even my buddies and the security were concerned that’s how bad it was.

In all honesty I can’t pretend that it wasn’t “scripted” like the band hadn’t planned every move on stage beforehand. They first and foremost are performers and Vessel literally sings to every girl on the barricade right in front of him. But it also felt so special and I feel so bad for breaking down like I did 😅🤣😭😫🫠

Okay I need to stop ranting, I’ve been up for 20 hours and this is most likely incoherent anyway. I love all of you and I hope everyone who’s able to get barricade this tour gets to experience the same thing I did🖤🖤🖤