#swandive

[pluralsword]

people know our brain is terminal for Transformers and Steamworlds but they don't know we're also terminal for the discussion and imagining of "trans geographies" as portrayed in the comic Swandive released in the speculative fiction graphic novel Aspara Engine by Bishakh Som centered on South Asian transfemininity. Please go read it. It's so beautiful.

if you want to after you read it try to do it yourself with some more structure if it helps we highly recommend the cooperative narrative game Ex Novo where you (and possibly other people) generate a polity together with the help of some rules for phases and turns, and you can then use what you created for other stories if you want. That said the simply taking turns imagining and drawing and discussing as presented in Swandive works just fine we did things like that in our youth with friends prior to acquiring a trans lens. Thus also no surprise that we've dreamed of running Ex Novo with some friends for years.

With everything going on, we think we will at least run it with ourselves this weekend, as a reflection, a ritual of transformation, a galvanization of drive and hope, sometime in the last three days of June this year. We have managed to come so far in finding our way in life again that we are more ready to face the numbers of whatever good and bad the future holds than we have been for a while, but even at our worst a relentlessness and attempts to hold on to pluralistic wisdom and grow it carried us forward.

Carry Pride in your souls onwards past June. For us, it never ends. It is the stuff of life, in a long line of celebration of sapient variation and iteration within and reflected by a much larger world of varied life, and a truly vast universe with more than any one person will ever know. There is a liberation and solidarity to find in that, that we are irreducible, that people across variation can come together for collective autonomy, for celebration, for love, for empathy, for community, for curiosity, for friendship. we love and appreciate you all. no matter how bad things get, no reactionary hierarchy can ever hope to get rid of variation unless they destroy life itself, and they can likely never do so across the entire cosmos, and certainly never the memories of us that metaethical love and aesthetics inherently have by definition

[stas-land]

lizardb boy mouth ,,,,

[gwynlain]

Credits: @kloartz (@mayreadsbook27 & @bookishembers)

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

something about qbad mentioning how much horror he put red team thru every time purgatory gets brought up... something about how proud dapper was of him.

like this is just my late-night read but- it feels like guilt qbad is trying to twist into pride. he keeps needling away at it. “i killed them all, over and over and over again.” “they were hunted by a monster.”

it’s like- reassurance. like a nail he’s trying o beat into his head. he’s had SO much trouble with legitimately hurting his friends, despite making that vow all the way back when the eggs first went missing, despite all the tree talk and the promises to save the kids no matter what. He never faltered with elq, and that protected them. He keeps faltering now. Sometimes he doesnt remember the code, or cucurucho, or skeppy. But that doesnt matter, right? Because he’ll protect the eggs. He’ll be the monster. he is the monster. he can and he will protect them even as his seams start ripping and he keeps breaking further and further apart. even at his worst, he’ll do whatever he needs to protect the eggs.

he’ll be the monster. wont he?

[candycatstuffs]

The fuck do you mean theyre making another season of Phineas and Ferb.

[ebbpettier]

the most important aspect of my trixie the pixie fanon characterization is that she is, MOST of the time, so close to being right. she is deeply intelligent and perceptive, she can match penny blow for blow in an argument and her critical thinking skills are a finely-hewn edge the likes of which you could use to slice through a mountain like butter

and if she ever used those critical thinking skills. well then maybe something would get fucking done around here. alas.

[filthforfriends]

Me @ me at 5:30 am (haven’t slept yet) after writing quite possibly the most erotic thing I’ve ever come up with

[piniatafullofblood]

why are you going into fandom looking for reality. ‘oh i don’t like this ship bc it’s toxic’ or ‘oh i don’t think anyone who does x should be in a relationship’ have you ever heard of entertainment?? why are you not searching for entertainment in fandom spaces? it’s not real. they can’t experience it. fandom is for enjoying yourself, not applying real world relationship standards to things and expecting that to be fun. that’s not fun. you don’t play minecraft and then freak out when everything is blocks. if you wanted reality drama you could scroll through aita but you chose to log onto ao3 instead.

[msphagime]

How would you feel if somebody took your ‘dead’ Hiccup AU and made a fanfiction out of it?

I would be???? Literally????? So fucking honoured?????? Like????????

If you do (please tag me) have fun amping up the dead guy ideal and the disonanse that comes with that very same yet alive guy being blamed as the murderer.

[thefoxysnake]

bestie….. movie date when bc it’s wonderful 90% of the time

Pull up!!

[tangotekkit]

so i figured martyn died like immediately after entering the end cuz of the chat messages but i didnt think he literally just

walked off the edge of the starting platform

[cherriiramen]

[ratatatastic]

eughhh pack omega ekky so happy to welcome omega matthew to the team and they get along so well they r so wonderful. im sure they love nesting with the goalies from time to time

while i do agree pack omega ekky eventually welcoming maffhew in its certainly a bit of a rocky start because we do have the acknowledge the huby and weegs sized elephant in the room because as much as cushy ekky and maffhew are now it certainly wasnt always like that because omega does get sad that their beloved packmates they spent absolute y e a r s got traded for a percieved hotshot instead but it doesnt last long considering how nice maffhew is that he wins ekky over but ekky certainly at odds with the strange new scent floating around and i can imagine some unbidden chittering coming from ekky when maffhew strays a little too close for his liking but matthew doesnt take it to heart he knows what ekky is going through and ekkys absolutely embarrassed about how immature hes acting and how hard hes taking this loss that he does kinda bully himself into playing nice with a terribly sweet omega who really is just trying to fit into the new team they wanted to be with and if pack alpha wholeheartedly accepts them ekky knows he will too... it just takes some time is all... a hurt omega is hard thing to convince but he knows eventually matthew's offputting spice of a scent that makes his nose itch will eventually be comforting—like nice cinnamon on an autumn day

anyways aside from that i absolutely do think they create a huge cuddle puddle of love with our tandem when they allow them too and when they can

its a bit of a special event but the team does chuckle when they walk into the dressing room only to see all the laundry bins upturned, all manners of equipment and jerseys strewn about in the middle with 4 bodies just piled on top of each other its hard to tell where one body begins and the other ends. really the only warning they get of this is when theyre about a couple feet from the locker rooms and they hear a chorus of purring that would rival a bike gang going on a joyride like oh? i guess its that time of the year again? never underestimate the strengths of their omegas though and its why they try to tiptoe around the breathing living pile in the middle—sometimes they have previous plans, sometimes its not their turn on omega cuddle duty, sometimes theyre not quite in the mood to become a glorified body pillow for hours on end and thats okay! its why we have a whole pack! someone will want to join the pile but if they dont then its best to creep around it if they dont want to be sucked into the black hole of cuddles. a couple of the betas have horror stories of skirting a little too close to the mess because theyre a bit oblivious to whats the radius thats safe to walk in and not get yoinked and predictably getting their ankle grabbed from out of nowhere and dragged in. its certainly an experience to have 4 omegas on you trying to scent every inch of you thats for sure!

but its a little worse when ekky decides hes actually a glorified therapy dog and just drapes his large body over your stomach and start purring like crazy, pinning you down with his frame like a weight blanket. maffhew likes to snuggle up by your neck and start rubbing his cheek against every spot of free skin he can get, starts moving cloth out of the way to get it. and if hes really gone enough than be prepared to be something of a chewtoy because hes gonna find something and hes gonna start teething on it—earlobes, fingers, the spot where shoulder meets neck, anywhere he can fit his mouth around and its a love language it really is. bobby just likes getting a paw on hair, likes running his fingers through it as a grooming gesture, quiet little chirps falling from his mouth, just some serene snuggle time, maybe grabs a hand to hold onto as he does so but other than that hes not too much of a menace like the other two. and knighter? hes still young hes still coming to hes a little more too himself than usual but he does try. really hes just content to let maffhew and ekky take most of the space maybe just pushes his face into a thigh and sighs in content for a bit (hierarchy and all that) but maffhew is always quick to notice and drags him up, shares some part of neck scenting duties with him as he goes down and chomps on a thigh for a bit.

yeah this team is a bit of mess and they have to pay the dirty jersey tax that is chucking their laundry into the circle like an offering to keep their omegas happy lest they get dragged in against their will because they still have said sweaty jerseys on but they wouldnt change it for the world. but it certainly does help to have more than 1 person in there because man is it hard to distract 4 omegas at the same time

[thistledropkick]

I'm having a party because I defeated Charisma and won tequila as the prize but I wonder if I can drink 100 bottles of tequila ~

"It has been decided.

I'm having a party because I defeated Charisma and won tequila as the prize, but I wonder if I can drink 100 bottles of tequila ~

I hate the titles of those wish-fulfillment isekai mangas but somehow the name of my own event sounds like an isekai

I defeated Charisma in a singles match that a Mexican tourism company was sponsoring, and the winner of the match was rewarded with Jose Cuervo.

Me and Charisma will sign the empty limited edition Day of the Dead bottles and sell them for charity (because the rules around selling unopened bottles of alcohol are complicated)

To do that, we need to empty the bottles!

Charisma's an alcoholic, but I can't drink every day like that!

That's why I need help!

If I put a link into this post it won't work but, if you go to DDT-san's homepage and NJPW's homepage you can get all the information about the event!

See you there, and thank you!"

This event sounds amazing. They're holding three of these total - one at Yano's sports bar EBRIETAS, and one at each of DDT's two bars, Dropkick and SWANDIVE. Tickets are 6000 yen (around $40) and distributed by lottery system. A ticket gives you either 90 or 120 minutes at the event depending on the venue. Desperado is hosting the events himself, and he will personally pour you shots of tequila for 500 yen a shot (around $3.50)

[thekuraning]

there's a new bao/boba place just down the street from my cc and i think im going to get a little treat after class idk idk i need boba boba will fix me