#the-measure-cuts

[find-thy-voice]

up next on AU voices, THE-MEASURE-CUTS

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Group C Round 1

[image ID: the first image is of Nancy, a character with light skin, a large nose, blond hair, and bunny ear earmuffs. she's wearing a pink and white horizontally striped shirt, pink overalls, pink gloves, and pink shoes. she has a fluffy white bunny tail and holds a blue snowboard. the second image is a simplified butterfly or moth symbol representing THE-MEASURE-CUTS. end ID]

Nancy Neil

She's a sweetheart of a ten-year-old with a knack for snowboard tricks, though she's a modest girl that won't admit to being the best trickster of the bunch. She can be a bit cutesy, but she is a level-headed girl that tries to keep the peace between her friends. She's also fond of cute animals, most notably bunnies. 

THE-MEASURE-CUTS

The 'god' of science, rational thinking, and impartiality. Discovered a shred of sentimentality once and was so flustered by it that he shut himself in his house for a year and a half. Kind of carried the war effort on his back for 50% of its duration. No volume control. We love him. -all the gods in this universe are basically pan and genderfluid by default, but TMC is even genderfluider than the others -the lead writer somewhat ships him with the party girl goddess. it's very cute. they're both so very dead -was voice-acted live, and rp'd with players during the game's run

[chanto-love]

Blorbo Showdown: Round 1, Match 12

On the left: my favorite character from the game, THE-MEASURE-CUTS. Everyone's favorite slightly tsundere science moth. He lives rent free in my brain for eighty two reasons and counting. Deserved better. played by liam obrien

On the right: my favorite villain of all time, LAUGH-LAST. Seriously, he's the greatest. There's nothing quite like live betrayal. Asshole clown who was divorced by death herself, and whose laugh is like golden sunshine. played by sam riegel

[starry-bi-sky]

finally giving fem danyal her own au and fulfilling my 'danny is an animal whisperer' agenda at the same time: mother of monsters danyal 2.0

i say "2.0" because TECHNICALLY 'mother of monsters danyal' is an au I made back in June for Dark fem!Danyal (who I promptly named Layal). However, I haven't posted much for her yet, and I like the "mother of monsters" premise too much to leave it only to Layal. Plus Danyal in that au was going to become the mother of monsters anyway, just with significantly less world domination and mass extinction.

'Animal whisperer' Danny has been something I've been thinking about since my latest DP 'wolfpack au' post and it's! So fun to think about, and who no better to assign the idea to than Danyal Al Ghul? Who comes from a family infamously known for their love of animals and nature?

Fem Danyal is just purely self-indulgent. *gestures wildly at her* i just lomvb,,, her,,,, I've only really mentioned her in context of the 'Things in Threes' au/my first Danyal al Ghul au with the facial scar, but she's!!! I love her. She deserves her own au <33

So kill three birds with one stone! Make a post about it.

Anyways, Danny has a large lair. Similar to cult leader danyal, her lair is a giant mountain region resembling nanda parbat with a big temple/palace-like area built into the mountain. It's large, it's overflowing with natural flora, with its own mini-floating islands hovering over some areas, and it's also completely empty.

Danny takes one look at her lair upon first meeting, -- noting that it looked relatively smaller from the outside -- and promptly, with the elegance of an Al Ghul, goes "What the hell??" Because yes, while she does enjoy her own solitude and privacy, this is a bit ridiculous.

For heaven's sake, there's even a massive lake in there! What's she going to do with all this space? Can she make it any smaller? Why is it so big in the first place? This looks borderline like one of the mega-islands!

She finds out later that apparently, the amount of ectoplasm a ghost has can have an effect on the size of their lair. And since she has such a large core, her lair reflects that. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, it's bigger on the inside so it doesn't take up "too much space" on the outside. Don't worry about it too much.

Danyal isn't totally opposed to having such a large lair, she's just... a bit baffled by it. It feels like so much wasted space is all. All this flora and no fauna to enjoy it with. It's practically eerie.

She decorates her temple-palace area, transforming rooms to match her needs as she sees fit. In the center of the inner gardens is a massive tree that she likes to climb, with twisting, winding branches. Sam and Tucker have honorary rooms, even if they can't safely leave the specter speeder for long periods of time, even with proper safety equipment. So does Jazz. Ali (Dani) has one too, but he can actually use that one, and Danny brought him to her lair so he could decorate it himself.

She has a personal garden, but for the most part she lets the flora exist as it is. Too much space to cultivate it en masse anyways.

Skip to a few weeks later, on her next visit to Clockwork. She developed a habit of going to see him semi-regularly just because. She enjoys his wisdom, and he has a lot of stories to tell, and when he's not being the cryptic and esoteric timekeeper, he's a bit goofy.

(pushing my dadwork agenda here,,, i think Danny deserves to go 'hey, Lord Clockwork, do you want me to buy you something' while she's at walmart, only to receive a singular glowing sticky note that says 'cucumber gatorade'.)

(She insists on referring to him with his proper titles even for the most mundane of things because it's proper, but Clockwork sees a future where she eventually calls him "Cee" and by all things in existence is he determined to get there. Anyways,,,)

On her next visit to Clockwork, just as she is about to leave, Clockwork stops her and goes; "Ah, I have something for you. Hold out your hands."

Danny does as such, and Clockwork doesn't give out things often, so her curiosity has spiked to the highest levels. He turns away from her for a moment, using his staff to summon whatever it is he needs, and when he turns around.

He drops a fish into her hands. Granted, a fish in a small glass tank. But a fish nonetheless. A small one, roughly about the size of her finger, with a blue-black, eel-shaped body and four sets of glowing eyes. She can see thin, almost translucent, but spiny fins down its back and the start of bioluminescent markings. It's swimming around in circles in its small container.

"Lord Clockwork." Danyal says all too calmly.

"Yes, Danyal?"

"What is this?"

"That is an adolescent leviathan, Danyal." She’s transfixed onto the tank, but she doesn’t need to see Clockwork’s face to hear the smile he’s stifling.

The myriad of emotions that runs through her all at once threatens to overwhelm her, and she can’t tell if the feelings are negative or positive. So she carefully closes her eyes to breathe in through her nose.

“Clockwork.”

“Ah, I see you’ve dropped formalities.”

She ignores that.

“Why have you given me an adolescent leviathan?”

She's expecting the trickster to look amused when she opens her eyes. Instead, he just looks endeared. "I know you're fond of animals," he says, "and you always look amazed when you come across an animal of the realms. So I thought you might enjoy taking care of the young beast, it's mother is dead so it has no one to care for it."

Oh.

"But, if you don't like it," Clockwork's hands reach out for the tank, "I can simply take it back--"

Danyal shifts the tank out from his reach and hugs it possessively. "I never said that. How do I care for it?"

And so clockwork gives her a list, and when Danyal returns to her lair, she sets up a large tank in her room for the leviathan to swim in -- it's much too small for the lake right now, she thinks. She'll feel better if it's somewhere she can find it. She names him Suhā.

Suhā grows quickly, and by the end of the mortal month she transforms one of the rooms into a large pond for him to swim around in. He's a very loyal beast, recognizing her as it's mother of some kind. Danyal takes great care ensuring that her beastie gets quality care, and Suhā swims to the surface to see her when he senses her in the room.

It spirals from there. Somehow, Pandora catches wind that Clockwork gave her a leviathan, and so the next time Danyal visits the Greater Athens, she gives her a baby chimera. It's eyes are still sealed shut, Danyal can't bring herself to say no. She names the little beastie Firas.

Frostbite hears about it too, and not to be outdone, gives her an animal she's never even heard of. Infinite-realms born, apparently. A fox-like creature with two small horns like an impala, four eyes, and tall legs. The name isn't something she's quite sure how to write down, and she's positive that her friends won't be able to comprehend it. She names her Eira.

Getting the three of them used to each other was... interesting. Suhā tried to eat Firas when Danyal first introduced the two, and they've hated each other ever since. Firas and Eira are seemingly getting along. Her island already feels full enough with the three of them on it.

Of course, that's not the end of it. With her luck, she begins stumbling across other monsters. Realms-borne or otherwise. An injured hydra in the Grecian islands that, through lots of trial and error, Danyal is able to rehabilitate and heal. It routinely comes to visit her afterwards.

A griffin with a broken wing that she moves permanently to the island that likes to keep to itself, but tends to come down when she's near. It gets along best with Firas.

A panther-like monster from the Shades Woods that had six legs and three tails, with ends that reminded her of a venus flytrap. It stuck around the heavy foliage and she can only make out where it was when she saw its golden eyes reflect.

She befriends a young indrik with its leg injured, and much like the hydra it follows her back to her island, and stays there in the mountains. It comes out when she's alone, much like her other beasts.

She receives two more leviathan -- one from clockwork, and one she finds herself while exploring the deeper and darker recesses of the Ghost Zone. It was huddled against the carcass of its mother, and she managed to befriend and get close enough to it to bring it back to her island. Suhā is fully grown by then, with a head bigger than Danyal herself and he still likes to stick her head out of the water for nuzzles when she's near.

He's not very happy with his new siblings, but he's not trying to eat them when she's not looking. So she calls it a win in her book.

And it's not just large beasts either; smaller animals begin popping up when she's not looking. Bird-like creatures and small mammals, and she swears she saw a doe (or something resembling a doe) grazing in the forest while she was walking by.

She takes back with her a lone snake egg once, and it grows so big it wraps around her island and sleeps with its massive head on the mountain beside the temple, like some smaller breed of Jörmungandr.

And on and on it goes. Some of the beasts she comes across never step foot onto her island, some of them follow her back, while others she has to carry back. Not all of the ones that follow her stay, and Danny rehabilitates the injured and releases them when they're fully healed.

It's hectic, and busy, and frankly she loves it. Some of her rehabilitated beasts return to visit her, or to have their children somewhere on the island, or whatever it is they need to do.

She becomes a bit infamous for it. She goes to visit Dorathea once, and as she's walking through the streets she can hear some of the denizens whispering while she walks past.

"Is that her?"

"Her highness' friend? Yes--"

"--that's the one--"

"--Mother of monsters--"

Danny's not sure how to feel about that.

Although, she can't say she's opposed.

Danyal Al Ghul, Mother of monsters, raiser of beasts. It has a nice ring to it.

[zhalfirin]

Clamshell box for my binding of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Materials used

boxes - grey board (1,5mm and 1mm) case - grey board (1,5mm, cardboard, 2,4mm) covering material - iris bookcloth (commercial) decorative paper - handmade paste paper

[templetogavage]

Weekly Weighing (04/14/2024 to 04/20/2024)

As with every week, this week brings 7 posts I loved throughout gaining & encouraging Tumblr this week.

1. https://www.tumblr.com/mattyhalled1/747953626637582336

Thanks to @mattyhalled1, who is often the source of some fun little surprises during my weeks, I got to see this incredibly hot comparison photo from @joshcroissant. There's a couple of types of good comparison photos- one where everything is exactly the same, down to pose and clothes, for example, can be thrilling- but this, where every single part of this image marks a noticeable contrast (even the beard!)...well chosen before, definitely.

2. https://www.tumblr.com/need-mass/747882780198846464/things-guys-said-to-me-at-the-last-rugby

@need-mass bringing the ex-jock fantasy to life. Just like civilians, stumbling into providing fetish fodder.

3. https://www.tumblr.com/wh-2002/748431247567634432

@whopper-t provides an interesting view- click through to see more. (Landed on my dash courtesy of @wh-2002)

4. https://www.tumblr.com/fatlardassboy/748449764107010048

Thanks to @fatlardassboy for sharing this one. @tan82 looks great wearing a sports-themed crop top. When you've got a belly that nice, you must show it off.

5. https://www.tumblr.com/mattyhalled1/748135261730406400/greed-makes-me-grow

I lazily clipped a few seconds of @overfedcub here. I highly recommend going and watching the whole thing, with audio on. (Thanks to @mattyhalled, once again, for surfacing this gem.)

6. https://www.tumblr.com/jake-is-still-drunk/748216030423367680

One of many pictures in this set by @well-fed-tw1nk. I chose my favorite, but click through if you want to see more. Much thanks to @jake-is-still-drunk for still being at this- I remember that URL from what feels like ages ago, in gaining & encouraging Tumblr time. Reblogs like this keep us going.

7. https://www.tumblr.com/wh-2002/748229668461756416

If you're into belly play, @gainerjake has a video that I expect you'll enjoy. Another entry by @wh-2002; I look forward to seeing if I get similar additions in the future!

And that's this week's Weekly Weighing! (A couple days late.)

[oliviawhen]

Yesterday was Brioche’s first gotcha day anniversary! One year of noisy bread time. Thank you for being such a friendly, affectionate little guy. 

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvoktober Day 23: 'Resolutions' Au. [Patreon | Commissions] -Mountain Goats Love Love Love Starts Playing-

Ok. So. In this au Tuvok doesn't go against Janeway's orders and refuses to contact the Vidiians and he and Harry Kim go on to have a long and incredibly tense Captain-First Officer dynamic where Harry grows to actively hate him and is working against him whenever it won't put the rest of the crew in danger. Constantly looking for ways to save the Captain and Chakotay. Constantly keeping everyone on the verge of mutiny: Can you believe he's just wearing the captain's uniform now? She was his closest friend but I guess that didn't mean anything to him. He never liked Chakotay in the first place, why would he think it's important to go back for a Maquis, right? Tuvok doesn't seem good at managing groups of different people if they aren't already primed and willing to listen to him. He also has outstanding bad blood with the Maquis that he canonically never really addresses and I don't think he's capable of addressing it in a way that isn't essentially "I did my job, please put it behind us and do yours." (He isn't good at intentionally winning people over) This when compared to Harry Kim's charisma, passion, and the ease at which he makes friends is a disaster when it comes to morale and public opinion. At a certain point it becomes no longer 'we should go back for the captain' but more 'Tuvok shouldn't be captain.' Harry doesn't really WANT to be captain - his goal is saving Janeway & Chakotay, but if Tuvok isn't going to do it then he doesn't want Tuvok to be in charge. At a certain point, some people also start feeling bad for Tuvok because he's clearly not doing well. He keeps Harry Kim as his first officer despite Harry becoming increasingly insubordinate (there was a long stretch where he pretended to comply and be content while working behind the scenes but that's over now) because, as it turns out, Janeway wanted him to be her successor in the event that she died of old age. It was written in a will she gave Tuvok and now it seems that Tuvok will keep him by his side even though Harry's ready to feed him to the wolves. Maybe he deserves it. Tom asks Tuvok why he's so resistant to giving up his captain's seat (after going to his ready room and getting into an argument with him bc he's like "Look dude, Harry's got almost everyone's support. There's GONNA be a mutiny if you don't step down.") and Tuvok says simply that the captain- Janeway, appointed him Captain and gave them their orders. He will follow them. "To what, your dying breath? That's not very logical is it?" He will follow them, lieutenant. That is all. Dismissed. Eventually there is a mutiny and Harry tries to force Tuvok to step down as captain voluntarily. Tuvok refuses. Harry, frustrated and grief-stricken to the point of near madness at this point, points a phaser at him. They're staring into each other's eyes and Tuvok still refuses and Harry realizes that he can see that wild, broken glint in his own eyes reflected in Tuvok's. They're both so far past the tipping point. Unreasonable. So laden with sorrow and horror and hanging on to the past with both hands bloody so they won't have to face how bad things have gotten, how far gone everything they cared about is in both directions. Harry lowers his phaser and turns away. Tells the mutineers to confine Tuvok to quarters but NOT to hurt him. They're going back. "Aye, captain." Someone says and Harry turns to them, angry and confused. "I'm NOT the captain!" he shouts then looks out at the view screen as Tom turns the ship around, shaking his head. Harry...Harry...what've you done? "We're going to save the captain," Harry insists, gripping the arm of the captain's chair to keep himself steady without sitting in it. "We're going to save them both."

[khaopybara]

KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as RAY PAKORN episode 10 of ONLY FRIENDS

[keldabekush]

These are up on my etsy! Shipping should be free for US and UK if I've set the deal up right on my store - i feel strongly about werewolf tits <3

Link in my pinned post <3

[strixcattus]

A kind of neat thing in Slay the Princess (at least post-Pristine Cut—due to which Chapter IIIs were missing before, this couldn't be observed earlier) is that generally in a pair of linked chapters, either the individual Chapter IIIs are fairly grounded and the merged Chapter III is incredibly strange, or the merged Chapter III is pretty down-to-earth and the individual Chapter IIIs are completely off-the-wall.

And of course weirdness is subjective (is Apotheosis relatively grounded? how weird is Chain, really? ) and dependent on choice (have you seen Hunted's new Den path), but it works pretty well. Compare Thorn and Den (straightforward, grounded) to Wild (what). Compare Wraith (very down-to-earth) with MoC and PatD (what do you even call the Princesses?).

[drawbauchery]

he's the one who makes it for him! he's just an extreme stickler for health & regulation, especially with imposter (canonically. i cry). i will be rambling about this when i get all my thoughts together

[oifaaa]

I love corporate hypocrisy had a all colleagues call today in which we were informed that we will not be going back to full time work from home as "It would be rude to disrupt our established routines" but in the next sentence we're informed we'd be going from 40% office attendance to 60%

[chanto-love]

Blorbo Showdown: Round 2, Match 6

i wonder if tmc has a fighting chance at all. when he was against LL it was one thing, but flat out less people know who he is... cmon science dad. we believe in you. land at least one punch

[front-facing-pokemon]

[fickleartdump]

fictional character of all time