#the first to fall

[jvstbrokenglass]

HEAR ME OUT: Icarus + canary in a coal mine

[lumenflowered]

[Another audio file is attached, likely due to the difficulty of taking a video for this particular situation.

"...Where do we begin?" Maria asks, very quietly.

"I am more convinced," Solaire says, "that there is some reason Lugia is working for Team Rocket. He mentioned a secret..."

"Could be a secret she'll be angrier at us about if we uncover," Mallory says. "That a risk you want to take?"

Maria hesitates. "Not if there is another choice."

"Somehow, I didn't think you would. Weird hunch, I know."

"Is there another choice?" Dee says.

The silence, however brief, is telling.

"There is another choice I can think of," she continues. "To do nothing, and to see what Giovanni does next. Silver, how certain are you that Giovanni is bluffing?"

"I could be damn fucking certain," Silver says, "and I still wouldn't want to do nothing."

"...Ah. I see."

"Some secrets are... better left well alone," Maria says. "There is every chance that this is one of them."

"If I still had nightmares, I'd hear that monologue of yours in 'em," Mallory grumbles under her breath.

"...But even if it is," Maria continues, "Team Rocket already knows it, don't they."

"That they do," Solaire says.

"That's definitely worse than any of us knowing it," Silver says. "So... how do we figure it out?"

"I'm not sure," Maria says. "What does being willing to listen to the seafoam entail..."

"...I may," Dee says timidly, "have an idea. Though... no, that likely wouldn't be it..."

"Ideas are ideas. What is it?"

"I don't know that this would be applicable for Lugia, I don't know if human names for places would even be used by him..."

"That rather depends," Solaire says. "Some are older than others. The Whirl Islands have been called some variation of that for as long as they have been known to mortals who cared to name them."

"There is..." Dee hesitates. "In Kanto, to the east of Cinnabar Island, there is a small chain of islands known as—"

"The Seafoam Islands," Silver blurts out. "You don't think... there?"

"I don't know," Dee says. "I wish I could think of something better, truly. I'm sorry."

"Don't be," Maria says. "It is more of a lead than I have. I don't believe anyone else has had a better idea within the past several hours."

"Or any idea," says Mallory. "Dee and I only visited them briefly, and it was mostly to make sure we didn't run into you too early. Could've pretty easily missed a Rocket setup if they had anything then."

"Then it is at least worth investigating." Maria sighs. "Of course it's more islands..."

The recording ends.]

[grimalkinmessor]

for the fic writers ask game — ❤️ and 🎁 ? :-)

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

OH BOY that one is difficult!! I've written a lot of lines over the years that make me go "...Oh damn that one is AWESOME where did THAT come from??" but....I thiiiink I'm gonna have to go with the one that seems to be everyone else's favorite:

"You look at his hands the same way he looks at your throat."

Ah, The First to Fall my beloved magnum opus 🙏

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

SEVERAL!!! So many that it physically pains me to choose!! :D

But I'll yeet out one for Cosmic Entities bc I know that's the one my DN peeps are most thirsty for lmao:

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"You wouldn't understand," Light snaps, turning to rifle through the bags of blankets to find one he doesn't hate. "You were never human so you don't know what it's like—" "Explain it to me then," Ryuk urges, knocking his boot against Light's ankle. "You're good at that, ain't cha?" Light pauses, his hands half-clawed against the plastic of one of the blanket bags. He takes a deep breath and forces his hands to relax, claws shrinking back into normal fingertips. It's just...Ryuk, he reminds himself. He can be honest with Ryuk. "I want to play the game again," Light admits through gritted teeth. "I liked having him there to challenge me. Everything was so boring for so long, but then I became Kira and L came along in rapid succession, and I was anything but bored. I...enjoyed. Having him around."

Pawing through the selection, Light finally finds a satisfactory bedspread with a marbled white and gold pattern. He pulls it out and holds it tightly in his hands, lips pursed in thought. For something to explain the war in his mind.

"Imagine...finding the rarest, prettiest tiger on Earth. It's the last of its kind, and you've never seen anything like it before. You want to keep it, to get close and pet it, but you know, logically, that it's still a dangerous animal. And for your own safety, you need to leave it alone—handle it from a safe distance. But that urge, the desire to play with and be close to it, doesn't just go away. Sometimes you can't resist the urge to feed it through the bars—even though you know you might just lose a hand. Do you understand? Is any of this getting through to you?" Light glances over at Ryuk through his bangs, and blinks in surprise when he finds Ryuk's expression thoughtful rather than amused.

"Yeah," Ryuk answers after a moment, head tipped. "Yeah, I could see that."

"Really?" Light says incredulously. Suspiciously. It's not that he doesn't think Ryuk could imagine such a thing, but that sort of response implies some kind of...empathy. Which Ryuk, even as a semi-Shinigami, shouldn't be capable of.

Ryuk snorts at Light's narrowed eyes, rolling his own as he turns to look through the blankets himself. "What? We might be friends," Ryuk drawls, his smile a sneer. "But if ya think I don't know when I'm livin' with a predator, then I might just get offended. I ain't that stupid, kid, whatever you think."

Light takes a moment to digest that. He licks across his fangs, his mouth suddenly buzzing with the urge to make something bleed.

[skipppppy]

I was cooking on twitter today

[httyd-art-requests]

He's doing very important research

( @caps-clever-girl thank you for the hilarious tags, I giggled out loud when I saw them)

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[broadwayfangirl222]

Not on TikTok often but I heard this audio I had to make this edit with it. Here's a link to the original

[varilien]

am i blanchin?

girl we blanchin!!

HI HIII happy birthday to everyone's favorite mystery twins!! how did they grow up so fast!!!!

Palestine: Funds | Action | eSims | Info Sudan Resources | Congo Resources

[itsscaredycat]

the triangle obtains a mortal human body! and depth perception!

edit: AU created by @/waty_mot and @/LosanPostle on twitter!

[ponpasta]

some type of deja-vú….

[clownsuu]

I could NOT get this out of my head for the life of me

[miri-draws]

I've been grunklepilled.

[lumenflowered]

[Another video is attached. It seems to have picked up a little after the last video left off, as Professor Elm's now got an icepack held against his shoulder.

"I'm not a Pokémon!" Mallory insists.

"Then you shouldn't have been able to go into that ball." Professor Elm seems significantly calmer with her in the room than he did at the end of the last video. "And, historically, you haven't been able to go into Pokéballs. Is this correct?"

"Yeah, but—"

"Has something changed since then?"

Mallory goes tellingly silent. Her gaze, the most human-looking part of her by far, falls to the floor of the laboratory.

"...Yes," says Dee. "Just yesterday. It looked very much like a Pokémon's evolution—"

"But that isn't possible. I didn't become a god in this world—"

"I'm sorry, you what?" Professor Elm says, looking a lot more nervous at Mallory's presence again.

"—so why would those powers follow this world's rules?!"

"Every one of us," Maria says quietly, "has done things thought impossible before. Yes, even you, Professor Elm, I've gathered that much from what Ethan has to say about your research even if I'm not... quite certain of the specifics."

"He talks about my research?" Elm asks, choked up. "People talk about my research?"

"Professor Oak and I do," Dee says.

"Wait, you're that Dee??"

Maria clears her throat. "I'm not supposed to be alive, and I certainly wasn't supposed to be able to summon one god, let alone two. Dee, you were... you weren't meant to be yourself at all, yet you are and I am glad of it. And you, Mallory, ended the nightmare that was in all likelihood meant to be forever."

"Oh, you don't know the half of it," Mallory mutters. "And trust me, you don't want to."

"What I mean here," Maria says, "is that none of us are necessarily a reliable judge of what is or is not possible."

The room falls silent. Mallory curls her spiked tail over her legs.

"I'm still human," she says, mostly to herself. "Even if I don't look it. I have to be."

"...Is it truly so terrible," Dee says softly, "to be something else?"

Slowly, silently, she removes her own gloves, revealing fingers jointed in a way that human hands aren't—but a doll's very much would be.

The video ends there.]

[grimalkinmessor]

First to Fall headcanons, please? 🥺

Ahhh I'm ashamed to say that I don't really have any! Idk I've always thought of it as very standalone??? So I'm really drawing a blank here.

So many things could happen afterward!! Shigaraki and AFO are working together, yes, but Yoichi would eventually be returned to the One For All void and the holders outnumber them, so it's very possible that Izuku manages to escape. Actually, it's probable, because Toga and Spinner like Izuku and would be the first ones to know something was wrong with Tomura, so they'd be likely to help him escape. Plus Yoichi has plenty of prior experience with manipulating convincing guards to let him go, so he can lend Izuku his expertise.

The....aftermath, of everything would probably foster some strange feelings between Yoichi and Izuku. They would be far closer than they would've been in canon. Honestly if I'm being realistic there would probably be some tension there, because neither of them would want to talk about it because they both feel guilty for not protecting each other and also for enjoying themselves when they feel they shouldn't have.

BUT before all of that, I imagine that Tomura and AFO take advantage of their captives a few more times before they manage to escape. So by the time Izuku escapes he's gone from having a minor crush on Shigaraki to having very real feelings for him—which is unfortunate for multiple reasons, I imagine, but the highest of which being that Izuku is like Yoichi in that the fight against evil will always come before his own personal feelings or well-being.

He and Yoichi probably get into an argument about Izuku wanting to save Tomura, especially now that he's accepted AFO willingly into his body. (Jesus I hate the implications of that sentence thanks Hori...)

But beyond that I can't really picture how the story goes, I can only tell you how I think they'd handle themselves or how they'd feel. Maybe they fight. Maybe they don't. Maybe they turn into genderbent versions of themselves and explode into clouds of glitter before fading into the sunset. It's up to you, really!

[skipppppy]

This has to be an AU already right? I’ve never seen it. I’m doing it. My city now

The angst potential alone haunts me. How long do you think he waited for Ford?? When did it start to sink in that nobody was coming to save him, that nobody would miss him? Would anybody even want him back? How long did it take for his anger, his heartbreak, his grief to turn into acceptance and a belief that this was divine retribution? How long did he work, how many jobs did he take, how much wealth did he accrue, how many brushes with death did he have until he believed he’d “earned” the right to go home and see his brother?? Many such questions. I need to go deeper

[hkthatgffan]

ALEX PLEASE! I CAN'T TAKE HANDLE THIS MUCH BABY BILL CONTENT IN ONE YEAR! 😭🥺

"These horrible wretched babies birthed from the pen of Emmy Cicierega."

[eydilily]

hermit family photo ! ! !