#there's a lot that I would choose multiple for

[emperor-kumquat]

Transformers: Mercy is launching its first GOFUNDME! It has a larger goal of $10 000 CAD and I hope we can get some momentum for it. Every little bit helps though! I haven't been making a lot of money irl lately but I'm still trying to keep the art scenes flowing to make this game possible! I'll make a YouTube announcement later, just getting this started.

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Hi, I'm Emperor Kumquat!

For years I have been writing multiple storylines for a massive Transformers: Prime choose your own adventure story fan sequel intended to be a free game on YouTube. You play as Predaking: a powerful but young character who has the chance to change the world and himself for the better or worse. And it all begins with your choice of what to do with Starscream: Will you kill him, or show mercy?

I write carefully crafted plots faithful to the lore of Transformers: Prime, expanding it creatively and adding in new characters. Each storyline has its own unique feel and takes you on an emotional journey with its plot and plot twists. Feel excitement and anxiety trying to navigate survival game portions against villains like Overlord and Tarn, and run for your life from Sunder! Reviews have also revealed this story's potential to make some cry...

You can see what TRANSFORMERS: MERCY is all about to know exactly what passionate and carefully planned work you would be supporting. Branches of stories are fully written and posted on AO3 (with choices) and fanfiction.net (guided playthroughs). This game has already collected around 1000 pieces of art from 100 volunteer and paid artists, most of which are viewable on my Ko-Fi page emperorkumquat. Example chapters in their complete video forms exist on the YouTube channel @Emperor Kumquat and the second channel (for official uploads) @Transformers: Mercy.

Until now, this story game has been funded entirely out of pocket and from the donations of kind supporters. However, much more art work is required to progress the development of the stories from written form into video form. 100% of donations will be used to pay passionate Transformers artists within the fandom (for the most love in every image). Transformers: Mercy is a project of high moral standing which supports artists in college or in difficult financial situations. It is anti-AI and beWelcome to Transformers Mercy lieves in the beauty of developing one's own skills. By navigating my Ko-Fi gallery and Tumblr blog (@emperor kumquat), you can see for yourself my commitment to supporting artists.

Transformers, of course, belongs to Hasbro! I am not affiliated with Hasbro, which is why Transformers: Mercy includes mature themes of violence and death (no sexuality!). This project is free to read or watch and all donations are immediately transferred to artists as soon as they come. I make no personal profit from Transformers: Mercy.

[alaanz]

I saw @nabi-unveiled and @biochemjess ’s posts on their favourite revenged love moments so far and so of course I had to join in too!

There are so many amazing scenes in this show and so hopefully this will show just why me and so many others love it so much.

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If I had to summarise the show in one pic-

I feel like this sums up the theme of the show pretty well as their whole relationship is built on manipulation.

There’s a lot to feel guilty about for every single person in this show. Everyone sucks at least a little bit. Which is exactly why we all love watching so much.

Best kiss-

This is, in my opinion, the best kiss of the show so far for the way that it shows exactly the kinds of characters they are.

Cc is dominant, manipulative and more often than not chooses the selfish option over being selfless. There’s also a tenderness there and a clear desire for a deeper connection with wsw. He knows that wsw likes to play mind games and so uses the same tactics to try and move their relationship along. I also get the feeling that if wsw really didn’t want to kiss cc, then cc wouldn’t go through with the threat. Despite his selfishness, he doesn’t want to actually hurt wsw.

Wsw is also manipulative, very strong willed and selfish. He also has a lot of passion and drive. Which is how he has ended up in this situation with cc. While he could reject cc completely and ruin his plan out of discomfort. He decides to go through with it and kiss cc. His morals and drive ultimately outweigh potentially ruining achieving his end goal. This isn’t to say he doesn’t know his limits though, and he will challenge cc when he sees best fit.

They compliment each other amazingly, and give exactly what they receive, which is why they work together so well.

Favourite Chi Cheng smile for Wu Suo Wei-

This is a tough one. There’s so many good cc smiles, and he also smiles A LOT.

I love the look of love this man has for wsw, and so my favourite has to be the one above. This is the scene that feels like cc’s love for wsw finally clicks into place completely. Wsw is talking so passionately about what he wants to do with his life and cc just stares at him like nothing else could ever come close to wsw’s beauty. Ah I just love it!

The fit I want to steal-

There are so many good outfits in this show. Everyone has at least one outfit that I love. For a fit I’d want to steal though it’s got the be wsw’s cardigan in this scene. Man I LOVE a good cardigan/jumper and this is one I’d for sure wear everyday.

Special mention goes to cc’s classic fit. When I saw him come into frame wearing this I fell in love with it immediately. It’s not something I would wear myself, however. This fit was made for cc.

(Also just all of Cheng Yu’s shirts)

The moment that lives rent free in my head-

The amount of moments from this show that live rent free in my head is insane. Funny, serious, romantic, everything in between. From the most recent episodes though I’d say it’s this scene.

Cc refusing to let go of wsw’s hand even when wsw tries to pull away multiple times is just ahhhhhhhhhhh. Cc who normally makes sure his outward appearance is well put together has now completely disregarded any of that for the sake of staying by wsw’s side. He truly loves that man.

And wsw who has watched cc suffer so much because of his father and doesn’t want to make it worse by cc’s father seeing them together. He cares about cc so much despite his initial intentions.

This scene shows how much they’ve changed because of each other. Cc will stand against his father and risk potential repercussions if it means staying with and comforting wsw. And wsw now only looks to help cc and make his life as easy as possible even if it means have to lose the comfort of being near him.

Wu Suo Wei’s peak manipulation-

Wsw is a very smart character and his commitment to the bit is unmatched, however, for me, my favourite wsw moment of manipulation comes from when he just throws himself at cc in this scene.

Yue yue called cc and so in peak wsw style, the only way he could think to keep cc’s attention on him was to tie their clothes together and just hurl himself at cc. Incredible.

In the words of cc, I’m mesmerised by his loser aura.

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There’s a lot of text in this so I hope I’ve managed to get everything across well enough hahaha.

I’d also love to see everyone else’s favourite moments and why they love this show. So if you decide to join in on the game please tag me so I can see!

[partyof4game]

Wanted to show some appreciation for the diversity in relationship choices. I don't think I've ever felt this represented in intimacy as I do with the ace+oblivious options. I do understand why these aren't usually in stories - since it adds a lot of variables and coding - but having access to them makes me realize how alienated the absence makes me feel. Thank you for taking the time to add them!

I have one question about how it technically works: will choosing any of the options that add + to interest in the code stop it from being an oblivious romance path? Or do you need to continue choosing choices that don't give interest but approval so the RO asks about it like Raena does in the beginning? And will we get the ace options you get from kissing Raena with other characters in the future?

Thank you! One of my original goals when starting this IF was that I wanted a romance focused game that also represented asexuality as something more than as a "no I don't do the sex" option. And that felt more authentic in the way that I personally experience sex and relationships as a sex positive ace. With input I've been working on making it possible to cover/RP under more acespec identities, which has taken some finagling for sure. 😅

So for the technicalities! Under the cut because I got long-winded (as usual lol)

An oblivious MC will continue to be so, even after an RO interest check has been set to true. It makes it so that an RO will more openly flirt with MC (who probably doesn't clock it or finds themselves anxious and confused, depending on choices!) For non-oblivious MCs, this leads to a more standard back-and-forth flirting stage!

My general plan is that you mark interest in an RO first, then later you can fully romance them (or not). The only exception to this is Aslo, whose romance is more of a yes/no situation but with varying degrees of yes 😅. I want there to be multiple chances to mark interest, so the first would be before/in Sentari, then right before the first dungeon after you choose your party, and after the first dungeon. After that the game will automatically assume no interest.

After interest, you can go into a romance, which would then lock out other interested ROs (unless possible poly), and set you on the actual romance path. I DO want to give the option to play the entire game as just 'interested', so there continues to be a little candle held for MC, or a certain RO might lose interest at some point, while others will enter into a FWB with MC.

I do have an ace variable that is applied to MCs that choose "I haven't really thought about physical relationships before" type choices. This will give ace players some different romance options that allows MC to either participate in physical encounters 1) as enthusiastically as an allosexual or 2) with a focus on how it makes RO feels, rather than how it makes MC feel, such as Raena's ace kissing scene!

I hope this helps!!

[dcdreamblog]

What happened to the green lantern embassy on earth? Will it ever open back up again now that there are 6 more earth lanterns? Why is earth so important for the corps anyway? I heard that there were only supposed to be one or two lanterns assigned to a "sector"(im not sure what that is) but counting the aliens that stayed here i think the amount of green lanterns on earth is closer to 20! Also whats up with the red, pink, and yellow lanterns that appear sometimes? I thought they were all villains but theres a pink lantern on the justice league right now.

So there's a lot to unpack there and a lot of it I'm not going to be able to fully explore in a single ask (especially about the other Lantern Corps I encourage people to send in separate asks if they want specific information) . But the "Green Lantern Embassy" that you're referring to wasn't an embassy and wasn't even technically run by the Green Lantern Corps as we understand it in full.

(The Green Lantern "Citadel" situated at one time in Southern California) The Green Lantern Citadel, as it was known, was a temporary refuge for about a half dozen members of the Green Lantern Corps who were for reasons that are somewhat opaque, stuck on Earth for an extended period. It served as a headquarters and housing for them especially for their alien members who didn't feel safe or comfortable openly living amongst humanity (which is a point we will come back to) Eventually the reason that those Lanterns were on Earth was exhausted and so the building was shuddered more or less. Part of the outlying buildings were used for a short time by the equally short lived superheroic neophytes the New Guardians but beyond that it's been closed for years. It wasn't demolished or anything but to disappoint you urban explorers in the SoCal region it was constructed from some kind of semi-permanent variation of the Green Lanterns' energy constructs and without whatever maintenance was required to hold it up it simply faded away at a certain point. (Though it DID leave a shitload of furniture and other items thumped in the middle of the forest for a time, the Lanterns came around and picked that up once they realized the litter they had left behind).

On the topic of Earth Lanterns, well, the reality is that we don't know that the number of Lanterns Earth has is unusual. We know some basics of how the Corps functions mostly via questions asked to the earthbound Lanterns. The Corps is an impossibly old organization of peacekeepers headquartered on the planet Oa at the center of the universe where beings from every Sector (some division given to universal space of an unknown size and shape) are chosen for their ability to overcome great fear and entrusted with the power of the Green Lantern Rings, able to generate any construct the user can imagine via an exertion of will.

That's pretty much it. We know they're lead by a council of immortal Guardians (little blue guys that have shown up on Earth once or twice). We get the gist of the idea that they're basically space cops. But as for the regulations of how many Lanterns there are in a given sector, that's just a guess on our part. If a sector is very large, containing multiple inhabited planets of Earth's population or higher it could by that it requires HUNDREDS of Lanterns whereas a sector that contains nothing but empty void and space dust might only require one or two. The Lantern Rings choose their bearers upon need and worthiness, if Earth needs a dozen Lanterns then I guess it needs a dozen Lanterns.

That ignorance is also part of why there is no "embassy" (aside from the fact that the Corps isn't a government, its a coalition of independent peacekeepers. There would be no need for "diplomacy" with the Corps). Simply put, Human beings don't seem especially READY for the intergalactic complications that we know are out there. By what many aliens on Earth have told us, societal forces like bigotry, war, class inequality or the necessity of the nation state show us...on the lower half of the proverbial tech tree. We've been forced under Lantern protection by events outside of our control, we've come under attack by alien forces and heroes from our world have become actors on the galactic stage but that doesn't change the fact that in order to go out and take our place among the stars we're gonna have to figure out faster than light travel and try not to nuke ourselves flat in the meantime.

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[billpottsismygf]

Companion to this post:

[wardensantoineandevka]

I see there's posts floating around directly and blatantly arguing against mine (same wording) by completely misunderstanding what I said. I'm fucking BACK, babey. Should've bought some hay-scented fragrance while I was at Sephora today, because I am once again your strawman!

[most-certainly-not-lennard]

OH HELLO. OKAY.

I think there are multiple ways we could go about this- first and foremost, polycule. It's been established that Walky and Dorothy both have feelings for each other (to a point.) and Joyce and Walky are such a couple they're the damn title of the. Series. At the point where Dorothy is introduced. I think it would be cute and also fun and also some interesting conversations could be had. I'm assuming this hypothetical fanfiction scenario would be post- wedding…. Maybe Dorothy would choose to stay with them? Maybe Joyce talks her out of leaving. If Joyce talks her out of this- maybe it's out of pre-existing attraction of some sort, maybe it's just a need to forgive someone. I haven't reread the end of J&W in a while, my apologies if anything is glaringly incorrect.

My second take on this- which I’ve been more obsessed with- is basically: what if Walky stayed dead? What if he got Dave Powers’d (still fascinated by the fact that his Dumbiverse self is a youth pastor. From god figure to god. Um. Worshipper. I don’t know) and sort of lost himself to the cheese? Or maybe the Rosenthals couldn’t successfully replicate martian revival tech?

Anyways, everything works out more or less the same- just, Walky’s dead. Head alien II, of course, still wants revenge. So he still fucks with Dorothy- using her proximity to a still grieving Joyce as a way to get close to her and betray her at the last possible moment. Unfortunately. Yuri happens. They fall in love- but there's some obvious complications (read: potential plot points) that could come about. I don't know, I'm just spitballing, these are the things I think about. There are a lot of other fun ways to make this work- lots of fun. Dynamics, I guess. If you're more of a swap au person you could also have fun with that. Again these are just what were in my head.

yeah i'm having walkyverse! Joyce x Dorothy thoughts again. anybody want to hear 'em?

[sugarsweetvirgo]

Eve's bio says she hates dollhouses because they make her feel like she's being compared to a toy. Valid! I don't like the idea of keeping tinies in dollhouses usually, either - unless they've been specifically made for the tiny and are essentially a normal house made smol. How does she feel about pockets? I assume the answer is obviously different depending on the owner of the pocket.

Yesssssss, someone gets it!! 😭

Eve HATES dollhouses with a passion, and this also extends to doll-esq items such as fake furniture or doll clothes. She thinks it's demeaning, it makes her feel infantilized and affects her sense of autonomy.

When it comes to pockets, you're right on the nose when it depends on who it is. She much prefers to be held on someone's palm or sit on their shoulder, but pockets feel like a more intimate space. It's a place that's usually pressed very close to someone and tends to be very confining, so she feels very uncomfortable if someone like Mokuba or even her own parents place her in one, let alone a stranger.

With Kaiba, however, she's more than comfortable. That's her partner, someone she wants to be close to, so she does tend to occasionally ride out in his pocket from time to time (Either the one that lines his inner coat jacket, or even occasionally his deck box).

[verecunda]

Yeah, absolutely. It's all about choice. Hence the reason why I'm always bewildered (and bored stupid!) by these takes of "if only Galadriel had just given him Nenya, it would have ~healed~ him!!" etc. No. He's had multiple chances to do the right thing, and chosen the opposite every. single. time.

Tangentially, it's also why I'm not really on board with the Diarmid-is-Eönwë theory (though I'm happy to explore it in fanworks). imo it underlines the fact that this very simple idea of "choosing good every day" is something that a "mere" mortal can easily grasp, while the ageless divine being just continually refuses to get it.

There is for sure a lot of scope for debate re: just how sincere Sauron's stated goal of of "healing" Middle-earth is. I don't want to go too deep into that (or it'll take over the original point of this post!), but even just taking it at face value, his way of going about it is like, the worst he could've possibly chosen.

Yeah, the Uruk really are in the worst position of all. And I would argue that even Adar doesn't really give them much of a choice. Which obviously, leads to some of them becoming disillusioned with him, with only drives them right back into Sauron's clutches. It's tragic.

There is an irony there, that both Sauron and Adar both have goals which are admirable enough on paper - healing Middle-earth, providing a home for his children - but their methods suck.

And obviously, in both cases, a lot of the blame can be laid at Morgoth's door, for how he warped and conditioned them. But at the same time, they both always had the choice to not do that.

[isdalinarhot]

My favorite sex headcanon that is not fueled by lust in any way but just exists because it’s funny to me. Is that Evi has like a super mega piss kink like Cannot Get Off If There’s No Piss Involved kind of shit and Dalinar Does Not Have A Piss Kink At All but he’s like you know what. Some of Sadeas’s wildest fantasies are shit like wound fucking and forced castration so in comparison to that peeing on you every time we have sex is no biggie and so even though for Dalinar his Evi sex is lackluster unenthusiastic pretend-she’s-Navani reproductive at best, Evi’s Dalinar sex is wildly wildly good. Because she gets to have Dalinar pee on her. Love wins

[waterbearable]

fuck bhaal all my homies hate bhaal

[david-watts]

now that I am on a computer with a keyboard and not trying to use my blunt malformed arthritic-swollen fingers which I'm certain have some form of nerve damage after consistent frostnip for literal years. I had a very strange dream last night and I think it may be one of those dreams. the ones I remember for years. the ones where... I don't think I can explain that in public without a lot of people suddenly having another reason to hate me and want me committed

[plantb0t]

-said I wouldn't get into the whole bottom surgery thing- -really wants to get into the whole bottom surgery thing-

[aliosne]

I stumbled into another facet of this due to a less-than-ideal ttrpg experience. Sometimes the fantasy is What If Everything Were Fucking Easy, Actually

I understand and respect that a lot of people want to be challenged by their games! I’ve watched lots of meta for fromsoft games and the like, I understand why working hard at things and mastering skills down to the frame is satisfying!

It is hard for me to go piss.

Recognising I have to piss, initiating Time To Go Piss protocol, standing up, walking to the bathroom, lowering myself safely to the toilet, and so on? It is physically and mentally hard—and painful!—for me.

When I sit down to play a videogame or gather around the table for a session, I want to live a fantasy where not only are mundane things like going to the grocery store or washing dishes not a gauntlet, but I can do AMAZING THINGS with minimal effort and feel cool doing it. I don’t want zero challenge from my games but please. Just for a few minutes or hours. I want to live in a world where things ARE fucking easy.

a reminder to my fellow disabled people it isn't wrong or make you less of a player for using accessibility options.

a reminder that playing on a low difficulty only or (like with games with minecraft) no difficulty

a reminder that using unlimited health options like in cult of the lamb is not bad or wrong and you are no less of a player for using it

turning brightness high on horror games like tattletale whether its because you are visually impaired or because you cannot handle the fear a low-light scene can cause.

disabled people are not any less a gamer for needing accessibility options. we are not any less a gamer for playing the game on easy. we are not any less a gamer because we are disabled and might not be able to get all the achievements or trophies or whatever a game has available.

we deserve to be able to enjoy the games we want to play