#superb asks

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[arttsuka]

People need to stop blaming 'parasocial relationships' when it's revealed to the public that a famous person has done something controversial (or even a crime) and the public is upset. 'I can't believe xxx did that!' doesn't always mean that the person who said it has a parasocial relationship with xxx. Usually it's just our faith in humanity, we want to believe that everyone has some basic human decency (especially someone we might admire) and it's only natural to be disappointed when we learn they're a bad person.

[boeing-787]

which plane is THE most gay in your opinion?

Google maps, copy & paste 55.161313, -1.685411 into the bar, turn on satellite view and zoom in to the Gay Plane above the Morpeth curve.

Thank you and you're welcome.

[will-o-wen]

do you have recommendations for favourite willowen fanfics? the world needs More

you mean apart from my own? (just kidding but also not 🤭) well, I have read everything that's on AO3 so I do feel qualified to answer this so let's do this. my favourites in no particular order because I love them all and have reread them all quite a lot of times.

Have Your Cake And... - heartcansing: I love this one so much because I'm an older Willowen enthusiast and the dialogue is so god damn perfect, I feel like I'm intruding on a real day in their lives. it's canon. 💔

A Little Room Inside - emmaliza: this one is canon to me, lowkey also highkey. my delusional brain has accepted this and has adapted my own silly version of reality accordingly. the way they seamlessly integrated real dialogue from Robbie's book has made me very, very happy and obsessed.

Locked In Your Heart - heartcansing: in the exact same vein, this one is also canon. why? because it's fantastically written. and the inspiration for this one has been in my mind rent free for months now.

1993 - soft_science: 90s Willowen, also canon, also wonderfully written and in character.

The show goes on - black_cottoncandy: wonderful little introspective about the wilderness years and Robbie and Mark having to answer questions about one another for years and years despite the separation

Sex, Lies, and Videotape - heartcansing: I'm saying all of these are canon by the way simply because I'm a dialogue snob and all of these have their voices down so well that I feel like it could be canon even if it's only because I can hear Mark and Robbie as I'm reading the words. So yeah, this one is also canon or at least, I wish it was canon...to a degree! One mighty degree. It's good, it's so good.

Call and Response - emmaliza: more 90s Willowen, really describes how I'd envision them in the 90s if they had been a thing. so it's also canon!

It's Just So Obvious - heartcansing: and at last more older Willowen and also ESPECIALLY featuring Land of Dreams Mark because he is my eternal love. once again just perfect dialogue and thus canon because I said so.

And now, just because you came to my account and I'm a shameless self-promoter, out of the stories I have written My Only Friend is by far my favourite because I wrote it for myself, I had so much fun writing it, it was as though Mark and Robbie had moved into my brain and have been residing there ever since.

There are so many more stories, especially from the writers that I've posted here but these are the ones that stuck with me and have impressed my emotional little heart the most.

[jaycehousetalis]

Hello Councilor Talis, apologies for the odd question but is this individual you? Their features looks a lot like yours. I've also encountered a photo of long haired person who had a strong resemblance to Viktor, how weird

Woah! That is... a very detailed picture of me. Am I wearing makeup or am I really that tired? I don't know how I feel about myself here. I think if I had that full of a beard I know I would keep it cleaner than that. Not that its really all that bad. But the hair... really? Well, kudos to the artist for making me look.

Wait, why am I wearing Zaun-green with the Talis reds? -sighs- fans, you're all the same. Not to say I'm, necessarily disappointed but this whole look I have in this painting... feels a little opposing to diplomacy considering the times.

At any rate, @askviktor take a look at this! Isn't this crazy? Apparently they have pictures of you with long hair too, now that? That I've gotta see..

[babygirlgiles]

Things I love about this ad for the T in Boston:

The train only helps you avoid “traffic” related torment. Who’s to say what other kinds of torments you may or may not experience.

Just Take The Train. Just Take It. Don’t Worry About It. Just Take The Train. Take It.

[byjove]

its the voice of the devil in ur ear rn im sorry. no one has ever looked good in a perm. but perhaps you will be the first..?

Apologize to my beautiful mother right now!

[coldpintglass]

The Sun (happiness, success, optimism, vitality, joy, confidence, truth)

Four of wands (community, home, celebrations, reunions, stability, belonging)

The Star (hope, inspiration, positivity, faith, renewal, healing, rejuvenation)

[vladdyissues]

thinking about hurt/comfort, there's a musical that made me kinda. remember. an old AU idea i had that i keep revisiting and only keep putting off because there's some research i gotta do for allusion's sake

-Danny Phantom style Descent of Orpheus (before anyone says it, yes, the musical was Hadestown)

-Vlad dies during Phantom Planet and ends up in his ghost lair, against all expectation. rather than return to his life, which he thoroughly fucked up, he holes up there and begins making it the kind of world where he has no regrets

-meanwhile, in the living world, Danny inherited all his remaining possessions and cat. he is not impressed by this. he is even less impressed when, a few years later, he discovers the VAULT OF STOLEN ARTIFACTS that are FREAKING OUT because the will wasn't enough to actually transfer ownership to Danny and now they're triggering some Poltergeist shit in Vlad's old home. it would only work if Vlad was fully dead

-well... what the fuck? he's not fully dead?! where IS he then?!

-cue Danny tracking down Vlad's lair with Clockwork's help so he can pry the man out of there

that part is about as far as i usually got consistently (lots of ideas, nothing firm) before hearing Hadestown and realizing where i could go from there. once I did, Vlad became a combo of Eurydice and Hades, and Danny a combo of Orpheus and Persephone. at which point:

-Plasmius basically made himself an anachronistic mish mash of everything he associates with power and glory. including a lot of roman empire, because clearly he was having fun there before Danny showed up.

-lots of little indicators he's still full of regrets, familiar faces on background characters, familiar motifs, lots of sad

-Plasmius reveals he can still become human. there's just nothing left for him up there. he is a king here, there he will be the most hated man on Earth. his life is over, just like it will be for Danny one day, and he will not force himself outside of his refuge just to be discarded once again

-that actually does get to Danny. sure, it's because of Vlad's own actions but... there really isn't anything in this for Vlad. and he had been planning to just offer a simple out, in, back to being sad in his lair forever and holy shit that does not feel right

-so he... stays. until he can find something to offer Vlad on the outside

-he fails. he leaves. he returns. more than once. he has to get Vlad to finally transfer those artifacts, but his need to protect is telling him he needs to give Vlad something that's worth leaving

-still have a lot of the third act to plan, but Danny eventually becomes that thing worth leaving for after a lot of getting to know Vlad's many wounds and regrets. and Vlad decides rather than be king of his personal underworld, he'd rather be a kingmaker. it's why he stole the crown of fire and ring of rage without using them in the first place

-and he's sure he knows who he wants to have them some day

-(there would also be a lot of implications that would roll into a possible AGIT based sequel that the half-ghost status is a lot more mystically significant than just an ability to change back and forth)

-featuring a lot of hot king Vlad and a Danny who's so stubborn he doesn't even realize he's catching feelings until it sneaks up on him

I love this I love this. It's extremely cinematic and has so many great visuals (like Hot King Vlad). When do tickets go on sale? I want to book the entire theater, please. ∠( ᐛ 」∠)_

Also, feel free to ignore this if you're not taking suggestions, but that third act? The impetus that finally gets Vlad to return to the human world?

Danny gets captured. And the only person who can save him is Vlad.

Maybe Danny's newly-acquired wealth attracted attention from some unsavory people (GIW, whoever), and because he was so preoccupied visiting Vlad and trying to figure out how to get him to come back to the living world, he wasn't paying attention to his surroundings. (Of course he wasn't; he's young and inexperienced and there are things he doesn't know to watch out for. Vlad obviously did, which was how he managed to be such a high-profile individual and yet keep his ghost identity a secret for 20+ years.)

And maybe Vlad began to bond with Danny through his regular visits. Nothing could get him to return to the human world, but he was beginning to enjoy Danny's company. And then suddenly Frostbite or another ghost bursts into Vlad's lair and utters three words: "They got Danny."

Oh shit.

Cue an epic rescue. King Vlad at his hottest and deadliest. Michael Bay explosions. John Williams score. Blood, fire, vengeance, the artifacts firing up at their master's presence, the boss of all boss battles, Duel of the Fates cranked to 11—

[paintedkinzy-88]

Rottmnt dragon au. Donnie being insentsitive with those fake wings of his... why is is always the twins... >_>

Fbsjfbjwn to be fair, Leo has always flaunted his swimming skills and referred to flying as inferior… Faceman through and through, can’t let anyone realize he has a dream pshhhh crazy talk.

But, yes, at the same time, as dragonets living in the same room, Leo ALSO constantly pestered Donnie about when they’d grow their wings, how long it’d take them to learn to fly, how much he loves Rio and Guardians of Ga’Hoole and HTTYD, AND whether or not Dee could literally just build them wings one day.

So like. Yeah, Dee probably should have known 😭

[wombywoo]

i'm feeling emotional tonight and have been thinking about being Vincent's friend. he looks like he'd give a nice hug

ughhh I'm with you there 😔✊ I think we could all use a vincent friend in our lives rn

[sunnys-aesthetic]

oh realllyy?

HIYA CLOUDDROP BE UPON YE (I luv them too)

hey so what if i cried really hard until my headache came bacj

[kiunlo]

Willie Wagtail! Or a Blue Fairy Wren (with his Ladies)! Or a Purple Crowned Fairy Wren (they largely survived last year's floods and are MATING)! Or Galahs! Or Magpies! Or a Wedgetail Eagle!

I like birds 🐦🦩🦤🦆🐣

sorry this took forever to actually get to your ask lol. i was initially going to draw all of the birds (because i love all those birds and i wanted to draw them all) but if i did that it would've taken too long (cries). the wings are whatever. everything else i'm proud of.

drawn on my phone w/ stylus, started it yesterday, finished it today.

[bookofmirth]

I think it’s very funny when ppl say that it’s obvious that Elain is next cause she is the last archeron and the only person who could hold a plot + Gwyn could never cause she is a secondary character WHEN:

Elain is - at this moment - more secondary than Gwyn cause what exactly we had about her? (Yeah I heard the theories that she can’t have a POV cause she is a seer and she would be a walking spoiler so her pov has to be hidden)

Lidia cervos only showed up on book 2 and baby girl stole the entire show while being secondary character? Yrene Westfall hellooo?

I was just ranting about this elsewhere so here we go haha!

"why would Gwyn or Az get a pov/book when Elain hasn't had one yet and when Cassian and Rhys never got one?" because these characters are not in line at the DMV? they didn't take a number at the deli counter?

The only thing that really matters in terms who gets a book or a pov is whether it makes sense to the story being told.

Sometimes people argue about these stories as if they are math, as if there has to be a certain order to the way things are told. But that's not how storytelling works? The characters aren't queued up, and this is not kindergarten - they don't all get equal time with the omniscient narrator. This isn't about what's perceived as "fair", but what will actually make sense for the story.

Chaol didn't get a book because he had been waiting patiently for it since ToG. Chaol got a book because his chapters were originally going to be part of EoS, but his story ended up being much bigger than originally planned. He didn't get a story because he "deserved" it for still being alive multiple books later, but because it made sense to focus on his narrative on its own. It was about what was organic within the story and what would be the best, most effective, impactful way to tell that story.

So yeah, Gwyn can become a main character, so can Vassa, so can Miryam and Drakon, so could Eris - it's literally Sarah's job to figure out what makes sense for the story and to bring us along for the ride. There is no "math" that is going to make a specific character "required" to be next. Certain things make more sense than others, but people are wayyyyy too stuck on the distinction between main character and side character and acting like the author is somehow limited. She's only limited by her imagination, my friends!

[foolishlyzephyrus]

I Saw The TV Glow / The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

[ibrithir-was-here]

Of course Blood of My Blood has its own Superb Owl

That it does