#sorry. im apeshit

[quackity1999]

Yet you still bite.

. . very funny. doesn't mean i've been tamed.

[zaunbinary]

i have this fucked up half baked au that takes place sometime in act three after ishas death and viktors third resurrection where singed fished silco out from the lake and turned him into a shimmer fueled cyborg and they work with the machine herald to take zaun back and also jinx is there but i only have 1/3 of a brain cell and lack the artistic ability to express it in any way other than this image

[moonndust]

noco doodles since they consume my every waking thought

[shellem15]

Can I just say, while I am loving how kind and sweet Ayden is, I'm also excited for when he's not so sweet. My boy is a barbarian and I want to see him rage.

We already got a taste of it when that Aeor guard beat up the gnome lady, and even that quiet anger was chilling! I know it's gonna be so fucking cool when we see him snap. Just absolute asskicking. His four-way-multiclass build is gonna be insane in combat.

Like, it's awesome seeing the positive dawnfather representation here, cause he is a very kind god at heart and some parts of the fandom need a reality check. But I like him best when he's a little mean, actually. Golden-hearted assholes are my favorite characters.

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 778: “Hakogaku's sprinter”

Pag 1

1: Izumida-san!!

2: I'll use it

“Hurakan”!!

Pag 4

1: This year's May

2: Ibaraki Prefecture

West Tsukuba

3: Tsukushiba University, located at the foot of the sacred eastern mountain, Mount Tsukuba, at 887m above the sea level

4: In front of the second dormitory building on the campus

5: Basically, Doubashi

You mean you want to race me in a serious sprint battle...

Pag 5

1: Yes, please

This might be a weird way to say it, but

2: In Hakone Academy... among our team, there's no one who can be my opponent!!

3: Alright, then I'll gladly accept!!

4: I, Izumida Touichirou of Tsukushiba University racing club!!

First year at Tsukushiba University, department of science and engineering, former Hakone Academy captain

Pag 6

1: Former Hakone Academy ace sprinter

2: The area around the university is a town, but if you go out of it it's really easy to ride, Izumida-san

3: There's both flats and mountains, it's a good place for biking

4: Did it take long to come to Ibaraki?

5: Coming here from Kanagawa, you have to cross Tokyo, so... yeah

Honestly, I had to change so many trains...!!

Pag 7

1: Is Manami doing alright?

Yeah, he's so carefree, but sometimes he says something serious too!!... I guess?

Sounds like Manami

2: Ngh....!!

3: Dammit.... this is so fun!!

What's this!! We're just riding our bikes and talking, but I've missed this feeling!!

4: When I was a second year and Izumida-san was a third years, we practiced like this every day!!

5: Sometimes Izumida-san was the one who attacked, sometimes it was me, and we pushed each other to our limits

7: It's not the time to smile about this!! I've come here to become stronger!!

Pag 8

1: Sorry, Izumida-san!!

I got too relaxed for a moment!!

3: It's good to relax

That's important, too

5: There's as many roads to ride as we want!!

So, which one is better? You can choose

For today's menu!!

6: An easy course with a 100km run along the roads of Ibaraki and a sprint at the end

Pag 9

1: Or the hard course, cut into section, with a final sprint when we're giving our all!!

4: Of course!! The hard one!!

6: Since it's you

Pag 10

1: I knew it would come to this!!

Abs, read?

2: Go!!

Pag 11

1: Abs, abs, abs, abs, abs!!

Buoooorah!!

Pag 12

1: Buah!!

2: Doubashi!!

You've really gotten stronger!!

3: If it were you from last year, you wouldn't have been able of getting ahead on a short climb like that before!!

4: Izumida-san, you're the one who has powered up!!

I seriously think I'm gonna be torn apart right now!!

5: But this is what I wanted

Pag 13

1: An opponent to race against in a fierce and close battle!!

During that you become stronger, and move to the next stage!!

2: Abs, Doubashi!!

Rise!! With that body!!

3: More....

4: Give me more, Izumida-san!!

6: Alright, I'll show you a sprint that will make you regret those words!!

Pag 14

1: Abs!!

Come!! Masakiyo!!

2: Buooorah!!

Izumida-saaan!!

4: Today was fun

Pag 15

1: Thank you

Well, I'm beat, Izumida-san

2: In the end, I lost at the final sprint

You rode well, you drove me in a corner until then!!

3: Did you see it? Your next stage

Yeah... well, little by little, but...

4: But I'm just a little closer, I feel like I can grasp something, but I can't

5: That's because you're too serious

6: And you're an hardworker

7: You know, there are two types of “right”

Huh

Pag 16

1: There's what's socially right

And what's right for yourself

3: Rules and norms, things that must be observed when living together, are what's socially right

The other

4: are the feelings in your heart you won't give up

6: Actually, both of these are “right”

Pag 17

1: But, sometimes these two go into conflict

2: Feelings....!!

“Feelings are strength”.... Izumida-san said that before

3: When something wrong happens, you end up resorting to violence, you reflexively curse at people

However, what should be restrained is the “action”

4: Not the feelings themselves

5: If you don't like something, you can get angry

6: No but, Izumida-san, if I just blindly do that.....

7: And when you're happy

Pag 18

1: you can honestly smile

2: I got too relaxed for a moment!!

4: There's no need to deny it

Those obvious “feelings” that are boiling inside you!! You can smile because you've missed something

5: The feelings that came out amidst of your own study and research and suffering

Where is the mistakes in that?

6: Even if you took a detour, there's no lie in your hard work!!

8: Release yourself more

Lead the path of your own heart

Pag 19

1: Polish what's right for you!!

2: What's “right”.... for me....!!

3: I understood it riding together with you today

You're already good enough for the next stage

You

Pag 20

1: will become much stronger!!

Buoooo!! Smash through!! “Hurakan”!!

[thewizardyfish]

So not sorry when i say that I’m a tracker hater and a Nara fan.

[deer-with-a-stick]

Someone mentioned Iron Widow and since this is like the one good modern YA book I've read in the last four years I instantly got sucked back into it and I am now coming to the realization that me shipping things like Trephacard has never been and was never going to be a one time thing

[oplishin]

my mount rushmore of shield fics

for anon and also @sarahcakes613! this was supposed to be a shield fic rec list, but i think that would be somewhat dishonest framing. seth is My Guy, and you can definitely see that in this list.

main bullet points are going to be the main recommendation, indents are going to be other highlights from the author, although you should read All Their Work.

see your world in traces by @puppiedogs, a fic so good that it was the catalyst to what's been my longest stay in an online fandom. it is genuinely THE fcw ambrollins fic.

secondhand smoke, which is so good i literally can't re-read it because i know it will derail my entire day because i will think about it so much. incredible characterization/interpretation of the pre-betrayal ambrollins dynamic. if you've heard me talk about Them, this is the work for you. also a really charming framing device.

with no space between us: without spoiling the whole thing, it is an ambrollins fic about the phrase "i love you," and it is gorgeous and hurts deeply.

a blanket recommendation for everything by aistic. straight up, it is difficult for me to pick an individual fic because their writing is just that strong. if i had to pick one, it would be symmetry. this was the fic that made me realize, oh. seth rollins is a character i see way too much of myself in. (read all of them. go. oh my god, go. the seth understander. THE seth understander.)

everything looks better with a view by saccades. this is genuinely my favorite characterization of both rolleigns and roman. ever. i just. i can't even give you a summary really. the prose is incredibly strong. i love the use of flashbacks. it's set in 2021 which is such a juicy time in their relationship.

saccades has only written One other fic on their ao3 account, and it is also excellent rolleigns stuff. john cena is there and his specific brand of evil dom is fantastic. champagne problems. again, great characterization of both roman and seth. and cena!

the best part of believe is the by @romegaketh. highlighted because this is the fic i most wanted to talk to and the fic the least people have read. jumping up and down i'm so glad i get an opportunity to talk about this fic. i mentioned that there are 2 fics that have utterly changed my relationship with professional wrestling. the first is see your world in traces and the second is this one. kayfabe and storyline are sentient creatures drawn from blood wrestlers can interact with. demons to ally with and communicate with and lie to. it's exceptional. it's so crazy. it makes me crazy. it literally changed the way i think about wrestling stories. please for the love of god read this fic. if you've seen my analysis of the parts of tyler black that hunter stripped away know that i was thinking about this fic. if you've seen me talk about the almost physical weight of roman's storylines kNOW THAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS FIC. excellent prose excellent and painful and repressed characterization. if you get anything from this list please let it be this fic. i legitimately thought about it for months after i first read it.

i have to run but also read her codyseth. and this seth piece framed through the lens of abo gender shenanigans. it is suchhhhh good characterization of everything seth/dean cannot and will not let himselves have. Edit: HOW DID I FORGET ABOUT POCKET

i'm sorry for the lack of ambreigns!! read literally everything by @apgeeksout, their stuff is so so excellent aurdgrgg

[iolite-flames]

Me when im insane (this drawing, i shit you not, took 7hrs and 12min) but anyway heres that drawing of my fuckass scientist Otmar (which apparently is what the long version of the nickname Otto is) that ive been teasing. He is in no way qualified for any type of experimentation and has definitely broken every single regulation when it comes to interacting with people in a scientific setting (no hes not ok) this drawing kinda veered off the course I wanted to take this just a little but it looks ok so im gonna shut up and post it anyway. Full 5 minute speedpaint and doodles under the cut!

[quackity1999]

In my experience, Las Nevadas is more than just a city. it’s a stage, a test, and a trap all at once. The players may change, but the game stays the same. And as long as the lights stay on, there will always be someone willing to bet everything they have.

Never look desperate. Desperation is blood in the water. If you lose big at the casino, laugh it off. If someone powerful snubs you, act like you don’t care. If you want something—access, status, revenge—get it quietly. The second people see you scrambling, you’re done.

Las Nevadas is a performance. A high-wire act where every glance, every deal, every drink poured means something.

And at the center of it all, there sits a husk in a silk shirt, gold in its teeth, wings heavy with a past it won’t acknowledge. He is evidence that you don't play the game. No, no. You become it. And that is when you are well and truly lost.

sounds like you've fallen out of love with her. the lights are warmer than the snow coating the rooftops, y'know. you'll be back before you realise.

[mariatesstruther]

no because imagine a man gets you pregnant post apocalypse and then LEAVES you to avenge his dead brother. then FAILS. hoe i will kill you myself

[saturn-sends-hugs]

You know I have to ask about Imperial Echo

HI ur so right u absolutely do <3333

OK SO, imperial echo is just about the most self explanatory of my wips for uh… obvious reasons lol. but!! i haven’t seen it done that often and there’s SO MUCH POTENTIAL i just had to figure something out :D

It starts out mostly as a swap of Echo and Crosshair except, due to Techno Union fuckery, Echo’s chip is just malfunctioning. This causes him to act more or less like himself but with the vaguest sense that they need to capture the jedi. (Not KILL him; he’s sure the empire wouldn’t want them to kill a kid.) This causes minor conflict and during the prison scene, Tarkin takes Echo away instead and convinces Echo to try and sway the Batch to join the Empire.

He corners them in the hangar, having been able to remotely shut down the Marauder and keep them there, and tries to talk to them. But they disagree. And, not willing to hurt his brothers, he lets them go.

From here, the whole fic has pretty much two stages, the first part being Echo doing things for the empire while he tries to fight against his malfunctioning chip. He may or may not be teamed up with Cody at this point, avoiding the worst of the empires problems. On rare occasions, he runs into the batch (they’re a bit lost trying to find work), but he stays out of their way.

The SECOND part, however….. Let’s just say a former ARC with cybernetic enhancements could be VERY useful to the Empire. And there’s a good chance a certain scientist knows just how to make that happen. :)

AKA the whole fic is an excuse to show off firstly Echo’s strong morals and loyalty to his brothers (cause of course i have to) and secondly how absolutely terrifying an ARC trooper can be.

There’s a bunch of other stuff with the Batch’s internal conflict about leaving him behind, Rex’s very sudden EXTERNAL conflict when he realizes they left him behind (lol), and about as many Winter Soldier references as I can cram into one fic. Cause ofc :D

[coderedlyrium]

hiiiiiiii don’t mind me just thinking about a one post i read talking about how one of da2’s themes is that bad things happen to you no matter how hard you try and then also the fact that hawke was originally supposed to become the inquisitor/da series protag, a la shepard mass effect

[eggcatsreads]

Also, I'm starting to think we need to gatekeep Greek myth retellings with villainous women, because I just read two books about Medea and neither one of them would let her be evil.

One of them was manipulated by Jason for practically everything she did, and the other one, just. Didn't do half of the things, and the other half, she was so removed from that it barely happened.

[bunny-banana]

everyone signing the Declaration of Independence knew this is a once in a life time thing and had to bring their fucking A game that day, everyone woke up that day and decided to serve absolute cunt in handwriting.... except this guy apparently

[medichamcham]

i sometimes get envious of pairings that have like a distinct "sun" character and "moon" character or dynamics like those because giovanni and rose are so,,, flexible when it comes to these tropes. they are both capable of being the sun and the moon for the other, in this case...

giovanni can be the moon for rose in the way he can be introspective, cold, and in shadows like that same moon at night... but his fiery passion does not feel cold or distant, its hot and gets all up in your face... it overwhelms like a dying sun. he places importance in the people that work in his organisation. he lacks the introversion that comes with a "moon" character

rose could be the sun for giovanni with his warmth, his friendly attitude, and his shining public presence, like the sun on a cloudless summer day. but there is only a very few people who knows rose under the surface, and he has this "complexity" to him that feels hard to figure out, the same way you could equate the moon to mystery and the unknown

so would it be more appropriate for giovanni to be like the dusk and rose be like the dawn? darkness with some daylight, and daylight with some darkness?

in any case, i am certain that giovanni sees himself as the moon but rose sees him as the sun, and rose sees himself as the sun but giovanni sees him as the moon ... perhaps they are able to see right through the others walls...