#the answer is a resounding “no”

[frameshiftworks]

"An Audience For My Death"

Morgan? Honey? You doing good?

[transfemmbeatrice]

taskmaster contestants ask you things......... TWO (part one)

[one-1-eye]

my favorite part from gauntlet at the garden was when the intrepid heroes did irl wrestling to stall for time while something with the lighting was fixed only for brennan to tell them afterwards that the lighting couldn’t be fixed unless they were in their seats

[pnfc]

my thinking is, star war perry smokes weed. not regular perry though that would be ridiculous

[an-unfortunate-bard]

Okay so I've had this conversation a couple of times and I have to know

[emloafs]

was it casual when we made up in front of our friends like this.......

[fisherrprince]

in remembrance of pipin. he’s not dead I just like remembering him

[mountmortar]

it IS kind of funny to me how professor oak is constantly framed as this great benevolent amazing professor to the point where they were even like "let's give this guy a cousin in alola who looks almost exactly like him because THAT'S what everybody wants to see in the games right" and then you pick up r/b/y or fr/lg and see how he treats blue and it's like Wow. This old man sucks. Somebody should kill him for sport. is he as bad as, say, ghetsis or lusamine? no. but he is DEFINITELY objectively awful. the games and professor oak framing blue as a bad trainer and person when he quite LITERALLY did NOTHING wrong (r/b/y has as many examples of blue being genuinely helpful towards his childhood friend as it does of him being an arrogant little twat, which is fine because. hello. he's 11. have you ever interacted with an 11-year-old) is soooooo irritating sometimes because like. in the VERY NEXT GENERATION you have a very clear example (silver) of what a kid mistreating their pokémon looks like (to the point where npcs are quite literally commenting on it left and right) and absolutely none of that is there with blue. glad to see he's flourishing now that he's fully moved to alola with red to run the battle tree and i hope he's blocked professor oak's number

[mapleandgingeroatmeal]

Fellas, is it gay to become encased in magical crystal, locked in the embrace of your crush as a last futile attempt to save her from the horrors you failed to prevent?

[toskarin]

forewarning that this is mostly just an observational ramble

one thing I've gathered from looking around older western fantasy otaku sites is that, presumably in large part because of the order in which things entered mainstream consciousness, sauron is talked about pretty consistently as the final boss of the lord of the rings

technically, this is true of everywhere, but I want to emphasise that it is extremely common to see younger fantasy otaku a decade or two ago use ラスボス when explaining who he is, as a primary descriptor

[before going any further on this, it probably bears mentioning that the japanese translation of lord of the rings is a bit divisive. when it comes up, it's either in the context of how impressive the translation is (skews older) or in how unreadable it is (skews younger), because it's translated into antiquity prose. apparently exceptionally so, even for a fantasy novel, so it was very much extreme nerd shit]

a big part of this is, of course, just the idea of the final boss having more awareness than tolkien at the time the movies were coming out. I imagine almost the exact same thing would happen more or less anywhere that video games hit mainstream nerd awareness before tolkien did, but there's something else that I think might have something to do with it, because if you're looking at old enough threads, you notice that not only is sauron being explained as the final boss, but this is being mentioned in contrast to morgoth not being the final boss

which seems a bit random (morgoth doesn't exactly come up enough in lotr proper to cause this confusion), if you don't know that angband, where morgoth is the final boss and sauron is just the midboss, was pretty popular with western fantasy otaku. well, popular in the way that cult classics are, but you know how it goes

with that in mind, it makes sense that it was (at one point, before tolkien was more accessible through other channels) something people called each other fake fans over

so in a kind of interesting way, namedropping sauron in fantasy otaku spaces that skewed younger (for a time) was almost equivalent to namedropping morgoth in western fantasy nerd spaces. that all kind of stops being the case once you have the peter jackson movies immediately at hand, though

there's also the fact that, because it's a little harder to read lord of the rings in japanese, someone who's casually into the book is much more likely to also go ahead and read the silmarillion, which helped rings of power get incredibly popular with older audiences in japan when it came out. as a fun side effect of all this, there's a bit more morgoth x sauron shipping around

[skyward-floored]

For the IAU requests, have you written the Glory Days scene, before Time and Malon get married (and everything for heroes goes south)? Or maybe a slice of the Sky fic, like when he gets invited to the island for the first time? 👀👀👀

I haven’t written the whole scene yet, but I have parts of it done! And since the Sky fic still needs some things ironed out about it, I’m going to share some of the glory days one. I wish I had more of it finished, but there’s stuff I’m still ironing out about plot and things so it would be a while if I shared the whole thing.

But here’s this! Which is the bit where they’re basically just flirting the whole time lol.

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The sun had begun to set as Time crept around the roof of the building he’d followed the tour bus robber to, following the sounds of someone rifling through something. He peered around a corner, and zeroed in on a man in dark clothes, a pile of bags at his side he was pulling valuables out of.

Bingo.

Time strolled up on nearly-silent feet, and put his hands on his hips, watching the man for a moment before speaking.

“You know, you can tell a lot about a woman by the contents of her purse, but maybe that’s not what you had in mind.”

The thief jumped and whirled around, leveling a gun in his direction. Time wasn’t bothered, and slowly began to walk forward again, the thief’s hand shaking as he clicked off the safety.

“Easy,” Time said carefully, and the man’s finger tightened on the trigger as he glared, panic bright in his eyes.

“Don’t come any closer or I’ll—!”

A hoof suddenly connected with the side of the man’s head.

He fell motionless to the roof, gun falling from his grip, and Time felt a smile slip onto his face as he turned to look at the chestnut mare who’d taken care of him.

And the woman who sat on her saddle.

“Malanya,” he greeted as she dismounted and gave her horse’s nose a grateful pat, her red hair almost gold in the sunset. She gave him a small smile back from behind her mask, and Time felt warmth blossom in his chest.

“Fierce Deity.”

“Bit outside your usual stomping grounds,” he commented, and Malanya’s smile grew.

“I have some business in town. And it’s a good thing I was here too,” she said cheekily.

Epona whinnied happily, and Malanya walked forward, brushing past Fierce Deity to prop the thief up. He frowned as she walked by, and put a hand on her arm as she picked up one of the stolen purses.

“Hey, I’ve got him,” he protested.

Malanya laughed, warm and musical. “Sure you’ve got him, hon. Epona had to take him out for you.”

“She didn’t do it for me. I mean, she took him out, but his attention was on me,” Fierce Deity scoffed.

“A fact I exploited to do my job,” Malanya tossed back.

Fierce Deity leaned closer to her and raised an eyebrow. “My job, you mean.”

Her smile turned a bit sly as she looked up at him, and Fierce Deity felt a prickle go up his spine.

“A simple thank you will suffice, Fierce,” Malanya replied as she moved closer, placing a hand on his chest. Time was certain she could feel his heartbeat, and no doubt noticed its accelerated rate as she leaned even closer.

“Well thanks, but I don’t need any help,” Fierce Deity smirked. “I got him just fine.”

“You mean I got him,” Malanya corrected.

“Didn’t we already go over this?”

“What, you afraid to give a woman the credit?”

“Hey, look,” the thief, who had regained consciousness and was now stumbling to his feet cut in, “the horse actually got me first—”

Epona gave him another kick and he was out again.

Malanya chuckled at her horse, then turned back towards Fierce Deity, still only inches from his face. “Well, we could share, you know.”

Fierce Deity looked down at her with a faint smile. “Ah, but I work alone.”

Malanya leaned up right next to his head, so close that her next words tickled his ear as she said them.

“Well, maybe you should consider something more... stable.”

Fierce Deity smirked and leaned in, but Malanya deftly slipped around him and walked back to Epona. She mounted her and gave him another smile, blue eyes twinkling, the combination of which sent a jolt through Time’s system.

“Are you doing anything later?” Fierce Deity asked breathlessly as she gave Epona’s ears a scratch.

She gave him a winning smile. “I have a previous engagement.”

Then she nudged Epona’s side and they were off, racing across the rooftops together as the setting sun made them both nearly glow in its light.

The Fierce Deity let out an absolutely lovesick sigh.

[fereldanwench]

has there ever been a man in more dire need of a good pegging sesh than vicar max

[frnkiebby]

can’t not have a ProRev Frank in the mix today~🎃

[shape-shenanigans]

Early 2022 vs late 2023

REDREW THE BANNER!!!

[longlivetv]

Travis flying from LA straight to Dublin after his friend's wedding and making it to the Eras show in Dublin made me realize that YB could've done the same when he was in Hungary during his days off when he was filming there, he could've flown from there to any of the Eras weekend shows but he didnt..

If he wanted to he would

[spaceselkie]

The applique is only pinned in place for right now, and the scallops aren't on yet, but ohhhh my God that actually looks like Beato, I'm so excited. 😭