#tagging this just in case bc it’s relevant >>>>

[paper-lilypie]

Last Line Challenge

Rules - In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many as you like.)

Tagged by: @vurelly

Last line:

Better late than never.

Last art:

a scene for @okiedoketm’s time travel One Piece fic KANGVCD :))

I’m tagging @daunsun @amberluvsbugs @spookyuu @miamibice aaaaaand @noomimoomi HAVE FUN!!!!

[phantasm-echo]

Probably my favourite scene from the premiere, she was so based for kicking that droid

[heartcircus]

okay, so . the IOUs zam owes from last season:

initially, they were offered to reddoons, squiddo, 4c, and spep in exchange for their blessings/curses in the "a deal with the princezam" stream and the "deals deals deals!" stream. around this time, zam supposedly gave these same offers, while off stream, to pangi, jaron, and terrain as well.

woogie was then later offered 1 IOU when zam first revealed that he was playing on pangi's account, requesting that he didn't tell anyone about it. after that, the only other deal made that i could find was to leo for his login info on the final day.

out of all of those deals, only 5 accepted and actually completed their end of the deal. those being red, pangi, woogie, spep, and leo. red and spep's offers were bumped from 1 IOU to 3 during negotiations. however due to spep betraying during the big pb&j vs. playersTM fight, spep’s was lowered back down to 1. pangi's was done off stream but purely based on context i assume it's only 1 IOU? (or they traded login info ? idk it's one of the two).

during the finale, zam also mentioned that he offered 2 more IOUs to red if he logged on immediately to curse jumper with glowing (1:23:27 in "the finale day" roshambo vod (may 25th)) . yea .

so, from what i can gather: zam owes reddoons something between 3-5 IOUs, spep 1, pangi 1, woogie 1, and leo 1.

[fridayyy-13th]

so like the cases in each episode are relevant to the things the OIAR employees talk about, right, like Chester and Norris trying to communicate as best they can through their contents (Alice’s “what do you want? hm? who’s in there?” in ep 21 followed by the next case’s “we are[…]alone, so alone[…]help need out” in ep 22, etc etc etc).

i would like to make a guess on the contents of the next case: something that seems dead, but is in fact alive in some twisted way or another.

or it may be something more relevant to Alice and Gwen’s conversation, idk. we’ll see i suppose.

[classical-vanity]

Tagged by my lovely @thecynical-idealist, thanks so much S🫶🏻

Describe yourself ONLY with pictures you have. You cannot search or download new pictures.

I tag: @devaneiossuspensos @desideria @the-3rd-of-may @sophism @455u @margaritawithouthermaster @chapricot

[blorboresidue]

for months I've been thinking about how whatever my next fic ends up being is going to introduce the Chubby Kantarou tag into the ao3 ecosystem but now I'm strongly considering just. not tagging it at all and just acting as if readers should expect it. do you think I could gaslight pple into thinking that that's widespread fanon and not just my own personal headcanon? do you think I could gaslight readers from outside the fandom into thinking it's canon? not tagging it could grant me unspeakable power....

[stardustdiiving]

My friend today was like you know fern I think your genshin favs are really funny because to me they’re all very tame green flags that have good vibes and then there’s zhongxiao which everyone hates. And I was like. WELL…..YES….SNUCHFJFJCNC

[obstinaterixatrix]

see like 90% of the time I fall off a series when there’s an extended flashback but mdzs is like half flashback and gripped me by the throat the entire time and I think it’s because the flashbacks were context for the relationship (and contradicting wwx’s biases) (lol), like there was context for politics and worldbuilding but it was done mostly with the relationship as a focal point… meanwhile with uncanny charm there was a flashback with the brother and his little brother and the underworld guy which is all tangentially related to the main character but that was like. 7+ weeks without the mc + li like if I’m reading a romance I’m reading it for the romance. and I need to get back into legend of the fox bead which had like, I dunno, 6 weeks of li backstory but it’s not context I particularly care about because it’s primarily relationship context with the li + someone from the past, which does give an idea for why the li is who she is and also why she’s a spirit, but if I’m honest, I don’t particularly care. I think mdzs did it best because it’s very frustrating for the reader but still pulls you in, it’s a good balance of tension + momentum and it’s all relevant. a while ago a pal told me ‘yeah a lot of people hated the novel’s structure’ & I was like ‘????? tasteless. enjoy the hostile puzzle feeder of mxtx’s narrative.’

[lanliingwang]

jiang ziya and arjuna having a wuxia/xianxia-esque rooftop fight...all the hints of ship tease that can be involved too...

(in the context of the AU I mentioned before, it's their first meeting bc of a mutual misunderstanding,, they do clear it up over tea and dinner at a nearby inn later though! and their relationship develops from there)

[imunbreakabledude]

so i DID still have the list saved. of course. lmao the date on this... and... oh boy there were some other silly notes around this point in my archive...

anyways i pretty much stand by these rankings still. note that these are based in CANON. you all know i ship maeveannie. i think she could learn. but the way annie describes eating pussy in the herogasm episode, that is not a woman who is comfortable with it let alone good at it. that's a woman who hasn't even been eaten out properly herself (hence hughie's ranking).

last reblog... that poll blog reminds me of my scientific ranking of The Boys characters by how good they are at eating pussy. ... been so long i theoretically could update it with s4 and gen v characters

[goldensunset]

@the--plant in response to your tags on my khux post. 'is this game free?' i guess you could say that. it's something even more fun! it's

✨ defunct ✨

yeah uh. the app ended its service back in 2021 shortly after the ending to its story was released. what's left of it is basically a dress-up game and a theater mode (aka you can still create your own character and then watch all the story cutscenes with them in it). but even that recently was taken away from us! a few months ago it was quietly and unceremoniously removed from the app store! a lot of people still have the app (holding on for nostalgia's sake, i guess. nothing is playable and it's not like the cutscene movies aren't on youtube) so as long as we don't delete it we can keep it but like no new downloads... 😔

that said. IF you have an interest in khux. if you would like to jump down into this weird delightful rabbit hole with all us other insane people. we can make that happen! there are two particular options i’d recommend:

firstly! the cutscene ‘movie’ from everglow. yes it is like 5 and a half hours long it’s a whole game story of course. you don’t have to watch it in one sitting or anything lol. this is a pretty cut-and-dry compilation of every story relevant cutscene in the game, in the official order they were released in. (this being kingdom hearts, there’s some in-between stuff where the player goes and visits disney worlds. unfortunately almost none of it has any bearing on the actual plot or characterization in this particular game… so this uploader has opted to cut it out. but it is important to know at least that it all exists.) this vid below is what i would consider the most authentic experience!

option two is the fandub movie! see these mobile games don’t have voice acting, which turns some people off of taking an interest in them. but this here is an incredible fan-made project that took auditions for each character, cast voice actors, collected their dubbed dialogue, and neatly edited and mixed the video all together. it took a ton of time and effort to put together and it came out incredibly well!

that said, i personally wouldn’t recommend it for a first time experience (unless you really, really can’t bear to do a lot of reading without voice acting). see, damo279 did things a little differently. a lot of cutscenes in this story weren’t released in chronological order- which is sometimes narratively appropriate, of course, but in other places it gets confusing. he rearranged some of these scenes to try to make the story a little more coherent. which imo mostly was fine, but it very much does change the audience’s experience (such as with the whole entire strelitzia thing. originally that entire section was a flashback and we didn’t know she existed until she was already long dead). he also kind of like ‘added’ a few scenes of his own with narration by one of the characters to summarize the disney world stuff. mostly at the beginning of the game bc the plot starts slow and then picks up the pace exponentially. but like if you don’t care about authenticity though that’s fine lol

the other thing is that like there is also a fully animated fully voiced movie featuring the foretellers (the masked cult leader furries lol) that exists as supplemental background material. chronologically that stuff all goes first, but it would be a reeeeeally really terrible boring weird introduction to the story imho. it’s better to just come back to that afterwards if you’re curious. and see the fandub project mixes the movie and the game together in chronological order to tell a full story. again- it’s great if you’re an existing rabid fan! i love it! but probably weird if you’re a new fan tbh. unless you’re very open minded and patient. in any case here’s part 1 of it! part 2 should be easy enough to find off of this video

and with that said. if you decide to check khux out PLEASE keep talking to me and asking questions! i know it’s a lot. there are even questions that we existing fans don’t yet have the answers to so like don’t feel bad if you don’t understand something! that’s part of the fun… this series is ongoing… hehe

[taylorsfolkmoredress]

Blurb about nerds bc im watching too many shows with hot nerds. written with spencer in mind but no names are used

not proofread but then again most of my stuff isnt lmao

wc: 204

tags: suggestive/18+, no names so doesnt have to be about spencer

He’s such a nerd.

Really, he’s the biggest nerd you’ve ever met, and you’ve never been more turned on because of it.

He’s rattling off information about the latest case, and only about half is relevant, but you didn’t care. All you care about is the way his hands were flying through the air as he spoke, and the passionate look in his eyes. He wasn’t even looking at you, his eyes flicking this way and that over the evidence board in front of him. His long slender fingers fly out to touch photos and written statements, making your stomach clench. Those same long fingers curl in slightly as he read out something from the board and you have to stifle a sigh.

He’s the most attractive man youve ever met, and you’re sure he has no idea of the effect he has on you. You want so badly to pull him to a private room and show him just how much he was distractiong you, maybe have him rattle off whatever facts he can think of while he touches you with those gorgeous fingers of his. But you keep silent, for now, perfectly content to let your attraction simmer until the moment is right.

[hauntingblue]

EPISODE 900

[ratbastarddotfuck]

btw y'all my notification checking compulsion used to be so bad that I'd go through every LIKE in my tumblr notes to see what posts people were liking. even if they weren't mutuals, if I didn't know them, if they were total strangers. I STILL go through all the tags, though that's more of an information-seeking thing. it can be hard to tell what's compulsive and what's not sometimes. but the likes thing was utter compulsion and I hated doing it at the time. it felt time consuming and boring but it also felt like something I Needed To Do because I Had To Know.

I had to break myself of my notification checking compulsions bc they were absolutely ruining me. that's when I turned off push notifications for every single social app a couple years back. For a while I just started opening my apps more to check them. But I also made a knowing effort to Not Do That, even in the face of the discomfort of not feeding my compulsion, and it worked! and then eventually when I did open my apps, I just started looking at the relevant stuff, bc I didn't want to waste my time. I broke part of the compulsion. It feels good to remember that I did that before I even realised it was OCD I was dealing with lmfao. That I AM very capable of facing my compulsions and telling them, No.

Another, deadly part of the notification compulsion is the dreaded Discord Server. I was in so many servers I didn't care about getting so many pings. I was making it my solemn duty to check every message in every sever every day. It was time consuming and not okay. In some cases the answer was simply to leave the server or mute notifications. In some cases, where I was still getting pings for certain things that I wasn't necessarily interested in for servers that I DID want to stay in for whatever reason, I discovered that the answer was, well... sometimes you just have to let your notifications fill up. It's really okay. Let them build up. Stare that compulsion in the face and tell it to fuck off.

if I ever send a screenshot of my discord, people tend to balk at how many notifications I have. or my texts, with unread (spam) messages. people will say "omg how can you live like this why aren't you checking your notifications why aren't you clearing them!" and holy shit sometimes I just wanna throttle em. because in doing this, not only are you feeding my compulsions, but you're creating your own! and if I say "well yeah I have OCD and I'm trying to break myself of the notification checking compulsion" I'll often get the response of "oh... well that's great but I couldn't live like that lol". MY FRIEND!!! YOU'RE PUTTING YOURSELF IN THE CHILLI!! FREE YOURSELF FROM THE SHACKLES OF COMPULSION!!!!!!!! YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IT!!

Waugh. My point is. You Can fight your compulsions. They don't have to rule your life. I have done it and I am doing it constantly. It works and it does feel better. You just have to be willing and able to tell yourself No and sit in that discomfort for a while.

[daz4i]

could dr. ratio originally be from the laurel wreath galaxy?

this is a repost of a theory i posted yesterday, now slightly more clean and properly tagged 🙏

in case you don't know, the laurel wreath galaxy (possibly a mistranlsation of "star system", if that changes anything) was supposedly destroyed during the emperor's wars. information about it is scattered throughout the game in very scarce ways. later i elaborate on how it went down in a more detailed way!

1. so let's get the most obvious detail out of the way first: he wears a laurel wreath 👍 at least a partial one (one leaf for every phd. maybe one day he'll reach a full head 😩)

these were common in ancient greece and ancient rome, cultures that his design, abilities, and eidolons are inspired by (both in aesthetic and language)

2. the laurel wreath galaxy was ruled by scholars - the philosopher union, until inorganic life took over during the emperor's wars. to give a very short tldr, civil war between organic and inorganic life, robots killed the head of the philosopher union, due to having no leaders the organic life of the galaxy was defeated

here we already have another obvious connection - philosophy, one of ratio's phds, that he even discusses with the trailblazer in one of his daily messages

3. one of the in-game sources about this place is the curio "rationality's fall". here is the first part of story attached to it for you to consider:

What is truth? No one truly knows. Supposing that "stupidity" is an incurable disease in this world, then disseminating knowledge counts as a treatment for the universe.

hm. we got a) truth (aka. ratio's name) b) a description of stupidity as a disease, which is something he claims repeatedly and thus seeks to cure it, in part by distributing knowledge (which is why he joined the guild, and why he's a teacher).

3.5. only other somewhat relevant part of this description is its mention of books ("Through such absurd means, books cleansed a world of its impurities once more") but that's not necessarily related to him obviously. however it's worth pointing out that one of his interactions on the express is literally all about how much he loves books and implying that they are relatively rare these days ("The touch of a paper book is a sensation I frequently find myself missing"). just a little something to think about

4. in gold and gears, there is an occurrence - cogito hair salon: intelligentsia guild - that implies that ratio is 2000ish years old. afaik these occurrences all happen around the same time as the emperor wars, aka when all the shit went down in laurel wreath

now. if you've read literally any of my other ratio theories. you know i don't quite like this, bc i find that ratio being 2000+ years old kinda defeats his whole Thing as a character. but we can't deny that it's there (tho possibly a mistranslation from what i gathered, but i can't say for sure) so i'm gonna use it for this theory 👍

5. here's where i'm gonna become full-on conspiracy brain. don't say i didn't warn you

after the whole defeat of the union, there were followers of aha who rose against the inorganic lifeforms and infected them with what's described as a "troll virus" called Philosopher's poison. i can't quite tell you if it's poison *to* philosophers (bc from what i gathered the inorganic life of laurel wreath were also philosophers) or caused *by* philosophers (implying these followers of aha were themselves philosophers as well. i like this interpretation more tbh)

what you're supposed to get from all that^ is that there was a large number of followers of aha in this galaxy, and they were wise enough to stand against robots that tried to wipe out their people, and even overthrow their army.

it's a pretty common theory by now that ratio has connections to the elation (beyond just the worm theory :P tho a lot of relevant info that i bring up here was gathered by @/b1adie in said theory which is very helpful, please go check it out 🙏) which, if he is indeed from laurel wreath, may add another layer to his past

some connections between ratio and aha, off the top of my head:

a. has an owl mask on his right shoulder, close to where aha has an owl mask located as well + his eyes fit aha's color scheme

b. refers to himself as a "side character" in the sticker book - sampo and sparkle, our known fools, do as well

c. can basically instantly disappear when characters aren't looking at him - as seen in his conversations with aventurine - which i can say for sure sampo does as well (like in the museum mission chain), possibly sparkle too tho i can't recall a specific instance to back this up

d. bows to the audience at the end of his quest, same as sampo does at the end of the belobog storyline

e. known to work from the shadows and pull the strings to make things happen or for his observation, which is how aha is described too at times, as well as their followers (sparkle is literally shown pulling strings of puppets in the "it's showtime" light cone, also sampo *gestures at literally everything he does during the belobog arc* Yeah)

f. in the herta space station, he creates a bit of a panic and theoretically puts people in danger, but in the end they all turn out okay. a similar instance can be seen in the "bestial ferocity" mission, where zhongshan, another masked fool, creates chaos for her own entertainment, which does end up hurting the people involved but absolutely not in major ways. in a way, at least in her view, she solved their problems too. while ratio probably doesn't cause chaos just for entertainment, but rather for information, you can argue these cases are similar, especially when at the end of the day they do end up helping these people in their own way. you can also claim that sparkle and sampo do similar things in their own respective arcs for their own reasons (sparkle with. the bombs. and sampo with dragging tb & bronya to the underworld. i'd argue neither of them do these for entertainment but that's an analysis for another time) aka this is a pretty common behavior for masked fools!

g. a smaller thing, but, the main part of his kit is follow-up attacks, which is aha's thing in the simulated universe

h. is his headpiece considered a mask? in his first conversation with tb on the astral express, he ends by saying "With this mask on, I intend to keep the world at bay". this is in reply to tb saying "i hope you are swayed by the express", and given ratio's main uses for his headpiece (dull his senses and block out stupid people), it makes most sense that he's referring to that here. we see him wearing it in-game precisely when he is about to cause chaos, too

also he has a mask on his shoulder. as already pointed out. so. not beating the masked fool allegations

^all this was actually to make you fall for the fool ratio theory. sorry. but i swear it's related to this post's main theory

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so to connect this back to laurel wreath. the followers of aha used a virus. one of ratio's phds is in engineering, so he could've used that to create the virus. it might even be one of the achievements attributed to him that caused him to be recognized by the university as eligible for teaching in the first place, who knows

combining everything laid out here, you can probably see where i'm going with this - was ratio one of the followers of aha who took down the inorganic lifeforms of laurel wreath using this virus?

also, just for extra spice - this could add another layer to ratio's disdain towards the genius society, given that the one who incited the emperor's wars was a member of it

that's all i have for you for now 🙏 idk if this was intended, but i love speculating about ratio's origin and backstory, and i think this is a pretty cool option for it!

[mr-nauseam]

Okay okay I saw ur Avatar/ TBOSAS crossover in the tags of a post on ur dash annnnnddddd!!!!! I love ATLA and LOK so so much, so I was wondering what type of benders you think TBOSAS characters would be? Love u Ika💕

Hiii bby graceee!!! Thanks for the ask. IM SO GLAD U LOVEEE ATLA AND LOK TOO. THEY MEAN A LOT TO ME WHEN I WAS A BABY AND I STILL HOLD THEM CLOSER MY HEART SO IM GIGGLING.

Lok in particular. Not to be controversial and while Im well aware of the writing flaws I do like lok better but Im biased bc I was a Korra fan. Nobody cant convince me theres something wrong with her bc thats not true. Yk considering that was my first real fandom experience... Why I am surprise of be a Sejanus fan? He and Korra got NOTHING IN COMMON except suffer more than jesus and be deeply hated by the fandom but maybe thats my type of characters...

ANYWAY. I will go mostly by the vibes - personality. Lets ignore a bit the worldbuilding and I will go by what I call in my head TBOSAS mains thats Snow, LGB, Sejanus and MARCUS. YES BC THESE TWO ARE THE MOST RELEVANT MENTOR / TRIBUTE DUOS IN TEXT.

So to me they are THE TBOSAS MAAAINS!!!

Coriolanus.

I know his last name its SNOW and I mean water can be very lethal and evil. All that shit of BLOOD control but thats too cool for them and its FUNNIER IF HES SNOW BUT GOT FIREBENDER... And in general I think fit him.

Coriolanus give to best or worst Azula vibes (I think its the mommy issues and power hunger), he fit so well that hardwork and insane control in firebender that still can be break easily. His unstable ass would crash out to the most violent expressions of fire, if hes suffering an episode yk.

Pd: Funny idea. Ozai=Crassus. Zuko=Tigris. Azula=Worm.

Lucy Gray.

I think its air. Not neccesary she would come from the same culture than Aang for example but giving her an element just bc then air its so her in a way. The freedom vibe, the fact air tend to allow u lot of advantages to travel, and runaway. Even from a music -enterteinment aspect, would be useful, air ask too the person its not a control pyscho to them be able to bender it, it need some let it go and let the air guide you. Also I think air got this thing of airbenders are usually underestimate like "oh they are all with such a weak or inoffensive bender" but like no, air CAN DO SOME THREAT UNEXPECTED SHIT.

And thats very her me thinks.

Sejanus.

This one was hard but I think for the contrast and some particular subtype of bender of this element. Im making him a waterbender. Yes this mostly for them being able to heal but thats like so Sejanus its hard to ignore yk. And I think in general its his vibe because water its usually a comfy thing if u get me, water can be so nice amd allow lot of ways it can be used to help others but at the same time water its a bit tricky.

I feel like water its all into drawn their own benders. Need a lot of equilibrium that can go wrong for you if u arent careful also coming back abt the blood aspect, thinking in ice and other expressions, it get some dangerous potential that usually its never exploted bc most of time waterbenders hold a lot of self control and fear to harm others.

Bc unlike the case of air people do expect waterbenders CAN fight and thats an interesting thing for a character like Sejanus. He can fight back but not too much by fear of hurt others or do a worst damage and focusing on healing - what do to help others.

Marcus.

Now people will say or believe it was on purpose give each one an element. Its not. It wasnt on purpose but like to me it only made sense earthbending. I think earthbender in general got many nice things we can relate to d2, like we remember the thing of the minerals? If Im not wrong. We know d2 got the quarrys and if I remember well we see many people in earth kingdom doing construction stuff also metal bending. Its too a d2 thing and thats a nice summary to which I can explain bc Marcus its very a son of his home.

In my head hes very practical (like Sejanus its thinking how do something in the most complicate way and Marcus need bonk him BC YOU CAN LITERAL JUST DO THIS??) and a quick thinker. That are like things I believe identified a lot the earthbenders. Also this aspect of strong, defensive fight style. They arent like attacking people as their only way to win a battle like firebenders, they tend to be as far I remember very defensive, like doing shields to avoid the attacks and so.

Too similar to water I think earth its a element it bender can be used a lot to help others or protect others! Thats very Marcus too in my head.