#thanks for the tag bonk!

[illbeyourreasonwhy]

How to play: name 10 of your favourite characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people to do the same.

(or, alternatively, in which I immediately forget every single fandom I’ve every been in)

tagged by @jealous-kippen thank youuu

Bex Mack (Andi Mack)

Elena Cañero-Reed (Diary of a Future President)

Lydia Martin (Teen Wolf)

Pran Parakul Siridechawat (Bad Buddy)

Will Byers (Stranger Things)

Black Pothiyakorn (Not Me)

Fatou Jallow (Druck)

Amira Naybet (Skam España)

Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

Simon Eriksson (Young Royals)

no pressure tags: @ella-enchanted @secretly-of-course @dragonsareawesome123 @rosedavid and uhhh whoever else wants to do this

[windydrawallday]

"I see Humans... but not Humanity"

'Screamersaur full body & some expressions I did to test the weird crested skull of the guanlong that I liked a lot so I stuck them to the ref! For @magicalmousey 's dinoformers + postapocalyptic AU 💚

I'm having a blast thinking about dinosaur designs, especially because these are "fantasy"/sci-fi flavored so, it gives me space to be more open with color palettes and some fancy additional details to them! (I hope I can do something with the same quality for Predaking's ref).

[kitnita]

head bonks — DAL vs CAR — 02.24.24 

"a gritty stars effort all the way through the final seconds, a great night for jake oettinger, and dallas, with a 2-1 win, sweeps, the season series with carolina."

[narugen-moved]

keep thinking abt hoshina and mina GOD.. (spoilers for manga and kn8 bside)

given what hoshina said about his previous division treating him like a burden/parasite just because he can’t handle firearms and specializes in his swords… how tiring must it have been to have to work with those people each mission despite having a common goal?

and how tiring must it have been to be constantly told off by his own father for wanting to continue his family’s tradition, or to be told to give up on being part of the jakdf by his own teacher -

before mina, a high ranking commander personally reached out to him, to recruit him into her team?

the fact that she didn’t see him during joint trainings and think: why bother with that? why bother with blades when bigger kaiju will appear? when she personally deals with bigger kaiju herself.

but she instead saw him and thought: he can help me, he can cover my weaknesses (mina not being able to handle a vegetable peeler is hilarious) and he’s someone i can trust

she sees potential in him, she sees how he can excel within her division, she saw hoshina and as captain - has probably heard everyone talk shit about him but she was still certain that he’d be one of her division’s greatest asset

(and even when platoon leader ebina refused to let hoshina help out, mina stood firm on her decision and her claim that hoshina would be useful. when she asked him if he could take down the big kaiju, and he could only promise saving the child within it - she believed him, took his word for it and waited until he carried out his promise.)

and now hoshina is the vice captain, putting faith in a new recruit whom most people wouldn’t have believed in… full fucking cycle..

tldr: it makes me rly fucking emotional to think about how hoshina was given a reason to continue improving with his swords after being told to give up all this time… and how mina had never once thought his abilities were useless 👍

also makes me crazy how protective he is of his position as vice captain, as the person who stands by captain ashiro’s side…

[phonification]

Can ppl draw ur gijinkas :P their so cool

GAAAHHHHH YES OF COURSE THEY CANNNN

[creacherkeeper]

🌧✨🌊💙 for bo and lost npcs of your choice

of my choice ..... hmmm lets do sarah and florence :o)

🌨️ - If this oc had a day free from all their responsibilities, how would they spend it?

bo: he would want to spend half of it alone and half with the party. i think he would want some time to himself to read and listen to music and make a big meal but would also want Friend Time and would want to wrestle with kai and have a big dinner with everyone and invite rosie and bubba to eat with them and maybe watch a movie

sarah: sleep in late, have a big breakfast with divine and hawk, [redacted], take divine out swimming in the pond and have a picnic, [redacted], hang out at the saloon, [re

florence: i think she would want to spend it mostly alone. she likes her quiet time. i think a nice long walk in the morning and then reading time and then do some sewing and then finish the day by baking a lot of dessert

✨ - Tell something that makes this oc feel happy!

bo: how much calmer dolly is and how much less she has to signal him now that theyve been at the library a while

sarah: the family talking about their days over dinner

florence: whenever her sisters wear something she made for them

🌊 - Does this oc have a secret or repressed desire?

bo: he knows what theyre doing with the library is hugely important but he kind of just wants to live with bubba and rosie and have a normal life for a little while

sarah: being able to talk to their parents again and asking if they'd missed her

florence: that she had been born into a different family

💙 - Describe their bedroom! Is it personalized, unchanged? Messy, neat?

bo: pretty neat, not very personalized besides a few photos. i think wren made ezzy get him a shelf because he kept leaving books on a pile on the floor

sarah: divine did most of the decorating and a lot of the stuff in the room is more divines than sarahs but they do have their marriage quilt on their bed and i do think sarah has a little section of the nightstand that is just various strange little knickknacks and trinkets that shes adhd bonded to

florence: her room in silvermoon is very like ... cozy. big colorful quilt and stacks of books and stuffed animals and a rocking chair by the window

[litrallytyrus]

ahhhh i’m so excited i get to share my trobed brainrot w u as well now!! here’s some of my fav fics :)))

Endgame Studies - the third part to this series is the first fic i read for this fandom and i think it’s the first thing i ever bookmarked on ao3 but the whole series is really good and it’s canon to me

underneath the same big sky - this one. this one. i read this one after pillows and blankets every time i watch. it’s part of my ritual. i have to. it’s so real to me

experimental marital statuses and postmortem karma - ok i haven’t read this one since i first read it but i remember i was very invested in it and liked it a lot!!

tossing pennie’s in the pool - i actually came up w the concept for this fic and my friend and mutual who i would often share trobed brainrot with wrote it for me :) it’s post 4x01 and it’s so real and special to me i love it

5 things frankie knows ab troy - this is the one i mentioned in your tags!! i love it it’s so funny and sweet and i believe they started another fic that kinda has a vibe of what the movie could possibly be but i never finished that one

remedial somnology - i don’t remember much ab this one but i liked it 👍

intro to separation - my same friend wrote this one and it broke me as a person. i read after geothermal escapism bc the try to jump into abed being okay so quickly

you can devastate my personal space - once again my friend wrote this one i remember all the ways in which they fought for their lives on this one. it’s long but very good. very silly and very cute

those are all the ones i have bookmarked!! for the record they are from 2 years ago when i had my hyperfixation so if you find any good ones that have been posted recently please share!!

EEEEP THANK U!!!!!! they look so sweet and fun i can’t WAIT!!!!!!

[sapphosclown]

hi bonk!!! top 5 favorite snack foods?

hello amanda!

top 5 snack foods ima say

chex mix - always hits, provides various little snacks into one big snack is genius

tortilla chips specifically from a mexican restaurant - hit so different and always bring me such joy, very different from store bought tortilla chips

pretzels - safe choice, they do what i need them to do

fruit snacks - delightful. that’s all.

potato chips - also pretty safe, the multitude of flavor options does frequently overwhelm me so i don’t often have them

ask me my top 5 anything!

[tiredassmage]

2, 3, 4, 5, 18 (if your OC was an NPC) for Alucren (and free pass to talk about other OCs if you want :D)

crawls out of the abyss. I said one day, one day I'll work through some of my backlog, slowly. so. I'm gonna finally attempt to wrestle with this one, lol.

[oc as nps]

hands u new alucren screenshot as collateral for takin so heckin' long kladnflkadsfl

2) Would they be a class specific character? & 3) When would you recruit them?

Stabbing at both of these because I think the answer feels cleanest when I tackle it together. For all the time I've left this stewing at the back of my brain, I have yet, at least, to come up with an idea that gave me a strong opinion on class specific, but I do figure Alucren for being the type to only hang around fellow Imperials in the long-term. And that... inclines me towards saying he's a latecomer as far as an NPC, particularly a recruitable one.

And to take the excuse to ramble a bit about characters for that (and we'll go ahead and use that as a cut queue, too):

He's... stubborn, is the simplest way to say it. Raised in the Imperial system and deeply strict about his adherence to it, to go a bit further into it. And it's really not until Fallen Empire and Eternal Throne, where the entire order of the galaxy is sort of challenged by the presence of Zakuul as a major third power, that Alucren really... isn't given any other option but to face his own music and reflection in the mirror and actually... do a bit of reflection and reckoning with it. It's a little a lot maybe to dig into without also digging out a pegboard and some string to explain different versions of events with other ocs and characters and all that to explain, but the short version is, essentially, even though Alucren ultimately gets to a place where he's more comfortable in a scenario like the Alliance and willing to have those sort of cross-faction relationships despite differences in opinion and all that, it requires... a lot of self-realization first that Alucren's... really slow with and frankly pretty uncertain about, which I think I'm gonna pick back up on again for 18, so stay tuned, but.

Again, attempt to do a long thing short, he comes around a bit better to change, but it doesn't change his sense of place. His home is the Empire, and Alucren's core values... really boil down to family, and his concept of duty and honor in... sometimes a bit of a nebulous, conflicting order despite his performances and gnashing teeth to the contrary and that... means he won't leave. Any partnership sort of outside of that typical binary isn't meant to be long-term to him. He's... really not sure how to mentally explain it to himself, let alone justify prioritizing it over what he's built his life on, quite frankly, but don't tell him I told you.

4) Where would you recruit them from? & 5) What would their recruitment mission be?

Okay, so this part might have been the one that gave me the most trouble from this list (probably because it's hard for me to separate them, again >.> lol). I think the most interesting options for his recruitment would probably involve a few creative liberties with how things go in-game. Not to get too double-dipping ahead of myself, but his role is... a little difficult to define because he's not... in one that particularly. fits him. Just because he served as a Cipher doesn't mean he was ever an ideal fit for the role. But it was where he was needed - at least to be a body in a role, to fill a gap or what have you, and Alucren's raising and training requires of him to serve where he is needed by his Empire.

It's fairly likely he arguably remained in some sort of capacity with Sith Intelligence through its incarnations over the events of Ziost and into the events of KOTXX, so one of my thoughts as far as earliest appearance was maybe on Iokath as far as substantial interactions go, but... now that I've mentioned Ziost, it's possible he could've made at least a brief appearance or mention as one of the holdover assets from Imperial Intelligence. I do think he spent probably a fair amount of time working closer to home, so to speak, in between vanilla and more recent content, left to his own devices though...

Anyway, the other consideration that comes to mind is something a lot more recent - maybe tied somehow into events with Elom and Legacy of the Sith. I do think Alucren's... let's say... brand of loyalty was arguably liable to get him into something like hot water with one Sith lord or another sooner or later even if we take out the elements of him that have become so interesting to contemplate when he's around the events of Cipher Nine and Darth Jadus, so it's possible that kind of experience or that kind of relationship and owed loyalties would put him in play as an agent potentially acting on the behalf of a specific benefactor maybe even in addition to his interests as a loyal Imperial operative. His previous roles with more diplomatic and expansion roles prior to his experience as a Cipher may actually make him quite interesting to introduce as an agent for Darth Xarion's interest in the Alliance. As for the nature of that interest, is he possibly there to investigate for anyone suspiciously against the Empire's interests..? Maybe so. Or if the Commander is in more full cooperation with the Empire, he is surely there to simply facilitate a better relationship between merging parties. And help with security risks.

Certainly. Right?

In either case, it's likely less that he has a specific mission which you have to recruit him in so much that he is... introduced during one of the group cutscenes and maybe has a one-on-one interaction with the Commander after where he explains more of his role and offers his services on behalf of his superiors. Think a bit more functionally sort of how Anri and Tau have been so far, though possibly as a bit more permanent resident of the Alliance base with a posting for this particular engagement.

18) If they are recruitable in vanilla story, where are they during KOTFE/KOTET? What are/were they doing?

So, I did say I would push off his involvement, but that doesn't mean I don't have thoughts about this, lol. Some of this comes up a bit in the piece I wrote for him and Taizi (blorbo from friend's brain @hyrohkaah fame) reuniting actually during KOTFE, but I also wanna steal the opportunity to speak a bit more generally about one of the, like, catnip pieces about Alucren, to me.

And it's that Alucren is... afraid. Despite appearances, despite the kind of proud stallion act about him, a lot of it is... uncertainties and fears. And one of the interesting contrasts between him and Tyr because I love making contrasts between them - it is how I started Alucren, after all. To take things that were so integral to Tyr and... wonder what kind of character I'd have if I flipped his core values.

So, Tyr is... Tyr is so fucking ride or die. To a godsdamned fault. Quite possibly to the detriment of his own health. You'll see it in his loyalties, his justifications, the way he wears his service with Imperial Intelligence still as a badge of honor because his loyalty was to people like Keeper and Shara. Tyr doesn't give up on them because he never feels they give up on him. When Tyr says, Imperial Intelligence never betrayed me. He believes it. In the ways that matter, he believes they haven't. Keeper didn't. Shara didn't. Ardun Kothe, even, he... doesn't hold a grudge with - hell, even respects, still - because of this kind of loyalty. And Tyr... doesn't exactly have a lot of people on that kind of list. He doesn't have a lot to lose, and what little he does have is worth giving everything, to him, to fight for. He's willing to burn himself at both ends for that, to keep deconstructing himself and bending his own boundaries so someone else doesn't have to. Tyr's grounded by people that are close to him, but he's also... an idealist. As much as he doesn't realize it. He's someone capable of striving for ideals.

And... the short way to sort of say of Alucren is that... that isn't... him. Ideals and big overarching pictures just don't have as much sway on him. I've already said he's loyal. Both of them have areas where they are stubbornly loyal. And Alucren and Tyr butt heads sometimes because those areas don't always overlap.

Alucren has three older sisters that were and are dearly important to him. He grew up very close with them. Family, as was already mentioned, right? And... he has a strong sense of duty. He has a strong sense of how he was raised, and what he should value based on that experience, that more fairly-off background with a successful Imperial lineage as his backing. Change is... a lot bigger to him. He's a lot more likely to balk at it. It's... intimidating. Alucren isn't... an agent of change, in that sense, where Tyr is. Tyr is... a lot more ready to jump in because Tyr doesn't have that sense of place to lose. Alucren still has an attachment to an identity that existed before his role as a Cipher. He's got things and people that he's... not ready to lose.

Which is all just... a lot of build up to say Alucren's not the first person that would've been looking for the Outlander. Even if they had been close. When the Empire, when his superiors, say they're dead, when the threat of Zakuul is already so close as to have been the attack on Korriban, that attacks on Dromund Kaas, the blockades, all the other tensions implied during the five year period the Outlander is in carbonite... Alucren goes back to Dromund Kaas. He goes back, at least on paper, to be closer with his sisters, to keep them safe. Because he has a duty or responsibility or however else he decides to dress it up on that particular day to protect the Empire, to protect home.

But it's also... because a lot is changing. Zakuul is... upending a lot of what he knew. A lot of that sense of place, a lot of that identity he clung to in his loyalties.

And it's not just "former" Republic personnel being involved that make him hesitate to join something like the Alliance. He very likely wouldn't join the Alliance at all unless someone he knew and cared for was there and had a strong enough conviction in its need to exist and its purpose to argue for him to join them. (Tyr, for example, to go back to the fic, really only gets him there because its Taizi. And Tyr very nearly doesn't manage it. Because Tyr and Alucren have different values and Tyr argues from his understanding of his own. But... for as much as Tyr and Alucren have going on as a pair directly, Tyr's... Tyr would have a hard time convincing him to show up, based on their own relationship. If that was all they working on, but I'm. getting off-topic.)

ANWAY. THAT is all just. a long-winded way to explain that he's back on Dromund Kaas during probably a fair portion of the five year gap and at least the early parts of KOTFE. He might have had some few assignments to take him out to investigate any Republic process during that time, but he asked in his reassignment to stay closer to be with his sisters. And a lot of that time is... him trying to stick to those core three values and... also figure out what they're going to look like in a galaxy that's changing because of Zakuul's presence. Having to grapple with the real implications of his loyalties and his values and what's it all really mean, is this truly important to him, how much of it is all a mask..? All those kind of questions he never really gave himself time to sit with in the thick of a career in Intelligence. Some of it gets reaffirmed, some of it involves some realizations on areas to maybe be more open to change, if not... get ready to actually make those changes...

Which... wow, turned into a whole ramble uhm. >.> Ahhem. I give him a lot of shit for being my fucked up lil guy who is a lil like a bag of marbles dropped across the floor, but he is... he is also just. sometimes my soggy cardboard box guy. And he does some growth in there. Just a lil bit though don't inflate his ego too much.

[kkpwnall]

People That I Want To Get To Know Better

tagged by @werewolfpeterparker thanks so so much for the tag!!

Last Song: careless whisper by george michael because i saw someone on here talking about it and my brain does this thing where as soon as someone mentions or recommends a song i have to add it to my little queue playlist or go listen to it immediately, do not ask me why i do not know

Last Show: letterkenny. one of those shows that i only recommend with the caveat that i said it was my favorite, i didn't say it was good. it's so infinitely quotable with the dumbest lines, and kind of the logical endpoint of slice-of-life storytelling. it's hilarious and ridiculous, and i have a whole essay drafted about how it encapsulates the millennial pastoral ideal, but we don't have time to get into that

Currently Watching: this hours long retrospective on r*verdale, a show i haven't even watched a full season of and only know of through wtf gif sets and i'm curious by nature but what is happening in this show. what. what even.

Currently Reading: guards, guards! by terry pratchett, and i just picked up a copy of the gay metropolis from the bookstore yesterday to learn more queer history but i never read non-fiction so this might take me all year

Current Obsessions: space and stars and satellites and rovers, lighthouses, flower language meanings, and finally finding a good record store in the city. oh and steddie of course, my beloveds

Tagging: @henderdads @metal-dads @sidekick-hero @bit-odd-innit @courtjestermunson (no pressure and no obligation, and if anybody else wants to play, just say i tagged you!!)

[darkvioletcloud]

The attack finally ends when the party has been bounced out to the entrance of the dungeon. Finally, Bunger leaves you be. None of the party is damaged. Bunger just wanted to play. <3

[rosesradio]

https://www.tumblr.com/rosesradio/762635199307792384/blinking-blearily-stumbling-out-into-natural?source=share

Honestly i love discovering really rare ships, and just thinking "people ship that? Thats Interesting"

exactly ! & the best part is usually people ship in groups (not referring to poly ships…unfortunately 👀), so like i’ll follow an artist that ships jercy & valdangelo, or percico & valgrace, just things that don’t overlap or whatever (i’m a multishipper so there’s tons of overlap it’s fine)

but in saying that fics with an Ultimate Rare Pair (like stop calling valdangelo a rare pair when Luke/Leo has four fics 😭), these fics usually have an entire treasure trove of rare pairs with it which is always fun

[goldenzingy46]

Re: my previous ask, should your answer be ‘yes’,

when, pray tell, will you wear wigs

next time they pay me to <3

[johnbly]

WIP Game

tagged by @tortoisesshells and @boltlightning also known as one of the duos of all time

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I am cheating and also including WIPs that currently only exist in my head so that there are more things to choose from

- what if hornblower had a dragon

- house avenging draft 2 (original)

- roland can't sleep (tristrat)

- no dialogue only imagery (potc)

- what if you...como se dice.......didn't hang him (potc)

I think all of the writers on here I know have been tagged already but anyone who wants to do this can take it!

[litrallytyrus]

i’m asking ab your spotify wrapped u can’t stop me

what was your assigned spotify identity u know what i’m talking about

also the 15th, 76th, and 97th songs on your wrapped go

BONK HEHEHE ILY! and i love spotify wrapped 😁😁🫶

I AM THE ADVENTURER. “you’re a seeker of sound. you venture out into the unknown, searching for fresher artists, deeper cuts, newer trackd — especially gems yet to be found.” i dig it! i think it’s p accurate!

mwahaha

15th: would that i by hozier — MY FAVORITE HOZIER SONG IT IS ACTUALLY SO PERFECT THAT U CHOSE THIS NUMBER! it is so pretty i love it so dearly!

76th: mr blue by catherine feeny — song from bojack horseman! which i’ve never seen but my sister recommended the song to me and it ENDS me every time i listen to it 😥😥😥😥 big rec!

97th: letters home by rascal flatts — another devastating one but it always reminds me of coming home from college during fall break :-) the end makes me cry a lot . kinda bittersweet, it’s REAL good!

[sapphosclown]

SAW THE NEWS ABOUT COMMUNITY AND IMMEDIATELY WAS LIKE “i need to check if bonk posted about it shes going to be so excited”

I DONT KNOW WHEN YOU SENT TBIS BUT YEAH IM SO EXCITED

if they make trobed canon i think the universe will heal itself