#these raise more questions than answers

[gladosluver]

grandma beaky is missing

dr3 character sprite cred

[sirazaroff]

How do you think Velvet flirts with Coco?

This is one of the funniest asks I ever got and im glad cause this is just gold. Like how does the Bun™️ woo her stupid bozo??
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I have my biased takes on what Coco and Velvet are like as characters, but to start off I wanna focus on what Vel brings to the table.

I think a lot of people have moe’d her down to a nervous/scaredy bunny girl and…that’s not her at all. She’s a real multilayered character who can and will kick your ass flat. She’s also…

- very very attentive to people

- excellent at memorizing things she sees and hears, and quickly at that

- very emotionally in tune with people, herself included

- insanely kind and helpful

- honest about her feelings and will voice her thoughts when ready

Also she’s a bunny like come on. Is baby. It’s impossible to not find her likable.

I can go on forever, but I think these are enough likable traits to work with.


Time to shift. Now we focus on what I think Coco likes in a person:

- Hot girls

- Complexity

- Someone true to their nature

- Some sense of honor

- Someone striving to learn and to better themselves

Hopefully it’s not lost here, but there’s some compatibility don’t you think? Velvet’s got some of those traits that Coco likes.

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So where’s the flirting? It’s coming I swear, I just needed the background info to help support the answers.

Bun bun flirts two ways: intentionally and unintentionally. The latter is usually what’s happening most often.

Her intentional flirting is what you would expect. Some cheeky words, being a playful tease in her actions like when she flashed her camera in After the Fall. I think she would 1000% take advantage of her physique and incredibly vast skillsets. She is totally totally showing off during training and sparring. Coco might hide her gaze under her glasses but that dumb bitch is so easy. So so easy…

Now her unintentional flirting is basically that Velvet is just doing her thing. She’s comfortable and loved by her team. With them she’s able to be herself and have fun, and that’s what coco loves most. Seeing Velvet thrive and not feel like she has to hide herself away from the world, and with it comes moments and actions that make Coco, much to her surprise, fall for Velvet.

I guess simply put, Velvet flirts by being her cheeky self around Coco, and her leader falls for her every time.

[suchine-toki]

(One more) Top 10 Gintaka moments

Arranged chronologically because it was too difficult to choose. Spoilers ahead.

1. First victory

After going day after day to the Shouka Sonjuku for an undetermined amount of time, Takasugi achieves his first victory against Gintoki. Understanding that he was weak, he defined him and Shouyou as his goal to reach. Thus, chasing Gintoki's back became an objective that he maintained throughout his life. But at this moment, Gintoki was really upset because Takasugi popped his cherry… his defeat cherry, that is (ch. 517).

2. The courtesan incident

After a fight between Gintoki and Takasugi, Sakamoto appears to say that the better friends they are, the more they fight. He also reveals that the reason for their latest conflict was that they both chose the same girl when they went to the red-light district, and she preferred Takasugi. This provoked an attack from Gintoki, but then Tatsuma added that the girl said he only drank and turned out to be very boring, which also provoked an attack from Takasugi, who was in the vicinity despite their previous fight (ch. 453).

3. Heaven

While fighting with the Kiheitai, Takasugi has a flashback of being wounded on the battlefield during the Joui War, and when he lost hope and looked to the heavens, he didn’t see a place to rest peacefully but instead saw the backs of his comrades fighting. He thinks of this while remembering Gintoki protecting him, which could be interpreted as Gintoki being like heaven for him in a way (ch. 639).

4. Give my regards

In spite of being estranged, they both say the phrase "give my regards to sensei for me" as a tribute to their master and a reminder of the legacy he left in their lives to those responsible for his death, showing them that Shouyou still lives. This also demonstrates how they are still united by the same emotional root while reflecting the duality of the paths they chose (chs. 397/398).

5. Pride

Being in Rakuyo and facing an imminent threat, Bansai believes that Gintoki is going to fight for the pride of the samurai, to which he responds that he is not interested in that, but his source of pride lies in both winning and losing against Takasugi many times, and that is the pride he is not willing to lose. In this way, Gintoki acknowledges that he still holds onto the respect and camaraderie they once shared (ch. 569).

6. Friggin' awful

When the Joui 4 were fighting, Gintoki is isolated from the rest and is ambushed by a huge machine that threatens him with a cannon. Before he can react, Takasugi comes to his aid, sabotaging the weapon in front of Gintoki's perplexed gaze. Then, both attack the mecha together as they tease each other, Takasugi asking how it feels to be saved by him who has just woken up from a coma, while Gintoki flips the question around, asking how it feels to have to be protected by him in the first place. To this, both respond that it's the worst, as an explosion occurs behind them. But they play it cool, because cool guys don't look at explosions (chs. 574-575).

7. Shouldn't interfere

Matako and Takechi have been tracking Takasugi and, after two years, finally found him. However, Matako hesitates about whether they should continue following him after seeing him fighting alongside Gintoki, feeling unsure of what to do, also recognizing that it was the first time she saw him acting silly and carefree. Similarly, the ship's captain comments that they both looked like ordinary no-good brats, which not only shows the camaraderie between them but also that they are happy being together (ch. 683).

8. Holding hands

While infiltrating the Terminal, Gintoki and Takasugi held hands twice. The first time was when the stairs they were climbing with Zura were destroyed, so Gintoki extended his hand, and Takasugi managed to grab it. The second time was when they were attacked while climbing the steel cables of an elevator. Here, Gintoki grabs Takasugi's hand to prevent him from falling and throws him towards a door. There was almost a third occasion where Takasugi was going to help Gintoki, but to no one's surprise, he was stabbed before he could do so (ch. 699).

9. Use me

Takasugi urges Gintoki to use his body as a shield, to which Gintoki seemingly agrees. They fight together, protecting each other and deceiving their enemies with strategies they can devise in an instant without speaking, demonstrating how well they know each other. Takasugi uses himself as bait to help Gintoki attack the terminal, but when he decides to sacrifice himself, Gintoki comes running to push him out of danger, a decision for which the enemy mocks him, saying he wasted his chance just because he couldn't bear to lose Takasugi (ch. 700).

10. Mutual support

Takasugi smiles while watching Gintoki reunite with the Yorozuya, something he urged him to do on multiple occasions since they reunited because if there is one thing he wants, it is for Gintoki to be happy. With the little strength he has left, he takes Gintoki's bokuto again and uses it to support himself, symbolizing how Gintoki helps him move forward. Similarly, in his final fight against Utsuro, Gintoki declares that Takasugi is in his soul while seeing his spirit protecting him. Thus, Gintoki holds his sword and defeats the enemy with Takasugi's aid. This is the second time they exchange swords in the series but, unlike the first, here it is more explicit that the other's soul is what helps them do what they have to do (chs. 701/703).

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[daydream-the-demon]

I'm concerned-

[teal-fiend]

Vore world where reformation is a technological gift from a higher life form who saw this vore society struggling, due to the rampant cannibalism. And they decided that the best way to solve it was to give prey the ability to be revived but only in cases of being eaten by a predator. It doesn’t cover other mortalities. 

This technology is so complex that no scientist can unravel it, and many people take it as a divine miracle. There are religious sects dedicated to the reformation phenomenon. 

For most people, you accept that there’s a chance you will be eaten by a predator. It will be one of the most painful things you can imagine, but you’ll make it out alive and unscathed so really not that bad. An inconvenience at most. But prey know that the damage is very temporary, which makes it easier to handle.

This would explain why prey are not terrified out of their gourd when being hunted by a predator. They’re annoyed and many (although there are exceptions) don’t want to be eaten. It’s not the end of the world though. And maybe they will be offered financial compensation, depending on where they live

[favouritefi]

yes, sex positions :)

Thank you for clarifying. Hickey doesn’t have a favourite sex position. Tozer’s favourite is missionary because he’s a romantic sap. Irving likes whatever position lets him see himself penetrate hickey without looking at hickey’s face. Fitzjames likes being ridden if he’s in a good mood, and whatever pinned position he can manhandle hickey into when he’s in a bad mood. Little likes whatever hickey wants to do. Goodsir does not like sex.

[javelinbk]

A very technical drawing for anyone that might be a bit confused by the street plan in Heart of Glass...

[ellynneversweet]

Me reading Sabriel at thirteen or fourteen: Touchstone’s outfit doesn’t sound that gaudy? Calm down babe it said your clothes didn’t fit him. You got a whole page description of your cool outfit.

Me reading Sabriel like two weeks ago or whenever the present mania began: wait, gold as in real cloth-of-gold or gold as in yellow? Cause it sounds like cloth-of-gold holy shit man. Whoever packed Touchstone’s ship wardrobe knew exactly what they were doing and the fact he was like ‘…whatever, these are regular-degular clothes’ indicates that he’s probably so used to royal opulence he doesn’t even consciously register it. At least Sam had (will have) the decency to think that boots with gilded heels(!!!!) would be noticed on him if he was trying to pass for a normal person.

Me, now: wonder which of the guilds has/had the licence to produce cloth of gold (and presumably cloth of silver). Goldsmiths or Weavers? There’s been at least one marriage conducted over this. Man, I bet striped gold-and-red tends to tear along the seams because of the difference hardnesses of the threads. Do they use Charter Magic to make the really, really thin wire required and once again where are they getting silk (core threads) and raw metal from? Wonder if anyone resents the Clayr for probably being exempt from the system of licences (Charters, hah!) that restrict who gets to be allowed to make what product. Do the Goldsmiths and the Clayr both have the right to mint coinage in the same time period or did the Goldsmiths have that privilege revoked after they tried to overthrow the royal family? What is the banking system of the old kingdom do they have a guild of bankers? What does banking look like in a medieval(-ish) society without a marginalised group (Jews) to manage credit?

[quadrantadvisor]

I started shipping Dick Grayson and Percy Jackson as a joke and then got accidentally invested. Help.

The thing about them is that I think they would Know. They would each know that the other had been though more than any one person could be expected to bear. They would feel secrets like a weight between them. And they would just. Not ask. They would decide to be eachother's simple thing. A bright spot of good in a world that's too hard.

Dick comes across as a ray of sunshine but he keeps up with Percy's snark. Percy's bleeding heart for the downtrodden and disdain for any authority endears him to Dick. They just have complimentary energies.

What makes this funny is how everyone else reacts to them.

Dick's family is panicking, since Percy is The Most Suspicious Man on the Planet. He works six months out of the year at summer camps that don't exist. He was accused of terrorism as a twelve year old. They keep trying to bring this up with Dick, who is exaggerating oblivoiusness. "What, Percy, suspicious? Never. He's great with kids, I'm sure the campers love him, isn't that sweet?" Tim is pulling out his hair.

Meanwhile, Percy's telling Annabeth (who he is still dating, polyamory ftw) all about his new guy, and Annabeth is like, "Let me get this staight. You're dating a rich trust fund kid, who's also a police officer, named Dick? That's not a real guy. That's a parody of a person. Who are you and since when do you tolerate cops."

[seahdalune]

why tf it cunty

[fellweather]

the thing about johnny is that she does not and will not explain

[snobgoblin]

so are you non-binary or trans

i do not know for i am but a fairy

[bluemew-theturtle]

Been (very slowly) making my way through Animorphs for the first time. I finished the Andalite Chronicles a few days ago and I'm STILL reeling from that. Holy shit the DRAMA. The way Elfangor was basically fucked from the very start. The way he was never going to be happy, no matter what choices he made.

So much trauma and guilt and pain, all on his shoulders as somebody who was forced to take charge when he barely knew what he was doing. And at the end of it, he's forced to leave his happiness behind and go back into the thick of it again. Like what the fuck.

[nihidea-art]

Tell us about Metalh!Ed's pets (or if he has no pets, what animals is he into)

He doesn't have any pets of his own, most of his youth he's just not in a position to. While he and Al are still on the streets obviously he has more than enough on his hands with keeping the both of them alive and fed. once he's in the foster home Yoki wouldn't allow him to have any pets even if he wanted to (he doesn't want any kind of attachment to that "home"). Once he's emancipated and he and Al get their own place, of course Al brings his cat along from his foster family. But it's just Al's cat. Ed's just keeping it for Al's sake. Not like he feels any affection for it or anything.

As for his own interest in animals, like any good goth kid he kinda wishes he could have a pet raven*. that would be so metal.

[splintered-emotions]

Wait a minute you tried to get into nascar???? Lore drop pls?????

i feel like this isn't a terribly interesting story because it's like also just what my friends have been dealing with since december of last year basically but like i kinda got into formula one on a whim last december because 1) i was bored and 2) what better way to spend the week before finals than getting into an entirely new thing. this was directly caused by a @ dear-ao3 post where one of the mods was describing the las vegas grand prix and the one tiktoker i vaguely keep up with posting about it and making me go wait that's kinda fucked up and could be fun and then i got sucked in because of an incredibly messy race that i fully watched after the 2023 season was over. and then i was just like deep in those trenches (and also the world endurance championship trenches and the imsa weathertech sportscar championship trenches) for the entirety of the spring semester. and then i kinda got bored for a bit when i hit the like three weeks of summer where i wasn't doing anything and then i decided what if nascar, and then i watched the 2012 daytona 500, tried to watch another one and couldn't deal with the constant ad breaks so now i'm keeping up with formula 1, indycar, and the imsa weathertech sportscar championship and that's it and that's a normal amount of motorsports to be keeping up with at all times.

[mansionfreaks]

whats the inside of the mansion like. is it particularly decrepit?

heres a photo of my trip back from the basement for an ice tray. i feel like the walls that beat in rhythm with a human heart and a flooded black gore basement are kind of self explanatory on the state of the mansion.