#this will require further thought

[anthrofreshtodeath]

Plz inform us of sports adjacent nicknames Jane would use for Booth. I feel since Jane’s only context of Booth professionally being Brennan saying “Booth” in *that way* (you know), it would do that thing where the name feels too personal/loaded. I almost feel like he’d let Jane call him Seel, if she dared, but the Cam option of “big guy” is also a solid option. Also brennan would be the type to blurt “oh his grandfather calls him Shrimp, because it is humorous to suggest he is small” and Jane would be deeply amused -Miz

Jane and nicknames might literally be my favorite thing to think about in life. Mostly as a way to show her Italian/Bostonian identity.

Obviously they'd meet under less than friendly circumstances, and she'd view Booth as a threat to *her* case, so she'd start with the basics: a derogatory this fuckin' guy ("Oh christ, here comes this fuckin' guy"), foreigna ("of course they send me a foreigna. All the way from Philly? C'mon"). Cool kid might get dropped in there a time or two ("You don't say, Cool Kid" after he makes an essential or obvious statement).

Then, as they create a tenuous truce to work together, she moves to the more neutral guy ("that'll be the last interview of the day, guy"), or Bobby Orr simply to annoy him because he's such a Flyers nut ("Hey Bobby!" or "Hey Oah! Come take a look at this!" hunched over evidence). He takes his lumps because when was the last time he could talk sports with a colleague?

When they finally break through and become friends, I think she mostly calls him Booth the way Hodgins or Wendell does. When he shows up at a scene, this fuckin' guy turns to endearment. She might give him a Seeley here or there when she needs him because he's a sucker for that ("Hey Seeley, take this one? I gotta make sure Maura's good"). Kid is mostly reserved for Maura, but might come out if he's being particularly vulnerable or emotional ("It's all gonna turn out with you and her, kid. I know it." as she pats him on the back).

Anyway that's my dissertation on how Jane would become obnoxiously Bostonian when he comes into her life 😂 (Maura is turned on by Jane's real accent but would never deign to let her know lest Jane lord it over her forever).

PS - Jane would most definitely cackle at Shrimp but never use it because what if he finds out about Roly Poly Rizzoli? Or worse, frog face?

[il3x]

Any idea how more power solves the problem of being a good person?

With more POWER, you can protect your teammates. With more POWER, you can defeat the Aberrant criminals who kill and extort and farm children for Rapture. With more POWER, you can avenge Jaeil. With the right kind of POWER, you could reform the Aberrant Corps from a killer, his killer, into a true hand of justice. You could impose Goodness across the entire world. With enough POWER, you wouldn't even need violence to do it.

And on the smaller scale... POWER can erase your mistakes. Good? You could be perfect.

[strawbrysnake]

Wearing a binder isn’t enough I need to customize my body like a sim every morning

[starflungwaddledee]

What Starstruck Dee theory have people made that is your favourite?

there have been quite a lot, and i genuinely love them all!

early on i think the most popular theory was that she was possessed or had been possessed at some point, most likely by dark matter. she actually debunked this theory personally, but i think people just assumed she was lying! 😂

my favourite part is not any one theory, but watching a shift in thoughts over time as more things are revealed, and seeing people share theories/work together in comments and reblogs. i like the "OOHHH WWWWHAT...!?!" moments a lot; whether they are a reaction to my storytelling or to other folks' detective work!

early theories revolved around how she was weird for a waddle dee, or at least a native of popstar. despite my never explicitly confirming anything to the contrary, theories have now broadly shifted to assuming she is not from popstar at all, and most people do now generally agree she's not really a waddle dee.

i don't recall exactly who first came up with each theory (though some big players are @the-void-is-a-disappointment who did a huge amount of early deetective work and encouraged me to build it as a story for solving, @shibuya-toasted-with-extra-cream, @graycoin and @jojo-schmo) and i'm not sure which of these theories are still held by anyone

but here a few of my favourites, roughly in order that they started appearing...

♻️ she's a total mimic species like kirby or void, copying things around her either by intent or by accident 🗑️ similar to above, but she's an incorrect copy or a "beta" mock-up type of a waddle dee 🧚 that she was just born different, like a fae changeling, and might have been hidden away when young as a result 🕰️ she is something totally inorganic and/or mechanical, created by or like the clockwork stars or stardream, perhaps wish contingent 🥇 sometimes attached to the above, she was created to serve some sort of Greater Purpose. she might have failed at it or been flawed, and was subsequently discarded on popstar 🌠 a dozen and one wildly different things connected to the "falling star that hit her". alien life form on the meteor transferred into her on impact. infection by intergalactic bacteria/dark matter. simply massive concussive trauma that fucked up her signature (back when we thought that was the only thing wrong with her). the star was magic and fused with her. she hatched from it and is literally a star herself. probably missing some here. 🪐 waddle dee from a different place/planet. this one is quite a sensible theory, given that we do see many quite different dees! 🤍 she is a fragmented piece of void/void termina. this one in particular i know is @shibuya-toasted-with-extra-cream 's ongoing theory and she's put in a lot of really cool work towards it! ⚔️ she's somehow connected to the heroes of yore. this theory i think has only started popping up since galacta knight has become a reoccurring visitor in her storyline and we've started asking questions about her familiar looking magic spears, but you can certainly 1hko @moonverc3x with this one 🧿 she's connected to the matters. sometimes soul, because it's sometimes star themed and lacks a token representative. where as a connection to dream might link her to fecto forgo/fecto elfilis in some way (a creature also well known for a catastrophic meteor attack). i've also seen folks confident that she's connected to heart matter as well, probably again due to everyone's favourite grumpy swan showing up

this is all i can think of or locate right now, but there's been a pretty wide range of things. i feel there has been a rather interesting transition over time from "she's a messed up waddle dee" to "she's probably connected to a universal superpower of some kind" which i am genuinely really really thrilled about?! 😂 what a glow up for a pathetic little wawa!!!

i'm also personally really fond of seeing how people's existing biases influence what they can find and draw connections in. for instance: i know @jojo-schmo loves the forgotten land and elfilis, and digs into those connections and draws out some really cool stuff because her knowledge is already so specialised! i think this is the true highlight of working on this story for me, people theorising and engaging in the lore, and laser pin-pointing things that tie into our personal faves-- the way we tend to do with kirby lore as a whole-- is such uninhibited delight

i sincerely hope people will enjoy where starstruck's story does go, in the end!!

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Rewatching Pearl's Double Life now that I know the characters and series better, and have seen Scott's POV of it is kinda strange cus like. It's not like she's not being unhinged and a little bit unnerving, but like. That's Just How Pearl Is. Pearl's just like that. She does it in every other Life Series, she does it on Hermitcraft, that's how she does silly goofy Pearlo times. By sneaking up on people and talking in that voice and giggle from out of sight. Being unhinged and unnerving is just her sense of humor

But, and I'm guess this is probably because she might've come off as a lot more quiet and sweet for most of Last Life? (I'd need to watch more Last Life to verify that) everyone takes it all so seriously and tells her right to her face that they're terrified of her, they all shy away and let it prime them to see her as a threat for the moment something actually goes wrong in her vicinity.

Also just the whole they're literally in a death game and unnerving unpredictable behavior is not taken well even when it's intended as a joke, given that everyone is on such high alert constantly reassessing who is and isn't a threat and who they can or can't afford to help or trust

But Pearl doesn't really seem to understand what's going on, because everyone liked her well enough before (they explicitly say that too), and because she hasn't been in as many of these, and because she had an easier time in Last Life having a teammate she could always trust such that she didn't have to develop the same level of paranoia the others did just to survive. But suddenly everyone's scared and each and every opportunity for friendship is just dropping all around her, all outright rejecting her, and she hasn't the slightest clue why other than the fact that she is the sole constant in every situation

[thegreatyin]

:)

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

I'm sorry but this just pisses me off (Not Hunt obviously, but Bryce)

Bryce rant incoming which you can just ignore and I'll probably delete later

But Bryce just puts all the blame on the Asteri. And yes ultimately they are to blame in the larger sense of things. But Bryce plays a direct role in leading them down the path that results in Hunt, Ruhn and Baxian being caught. It was her need to find out Danika's secrets with no thought to the consequences, her idea to go to the Eternal City. And she takes NO personal responsibility for it at all!

Hunt is blaming himself for everything that's happened. Even when it's not his fault at all. When we're in his pov he's constantly drowning in guilt, thinking about how he should of done more, he should of tried harder, he should of been better, how it's all his fault this happened and that his friends suffered.

And then Bryce does none of that. When we're in her pov she doesn't really show any major guilt. I can't think of any times when she blames herself like Hunt does. And I'm not saying she should be wracked with guilt. But a normal person, a good person, will usually feel bad and will feel guilty and blame themselves to some degree when something bad happens and people they care about are hurt, regardless of how big or small they're involvement is, or even if they're not at fault at all, case in point Hunt being wracked with guilt even when it's not his fault.

And to make it worse she acknowledges that Hunt warned them, warned her. But that she disregarded it and would of done it no matter what.

And then she has the audicity to say she doesn't regret it. And she thought they were on the same page. ON THE SAME PAGE!!?? Hunt made it clear in hosab that he didn't want to go down this road again, that he didn't want to get involved. YOU just didn't listen Bryce. And yeah Hunt's an adult, he can make his own decisions and he could of said no and not gone. But of course, OF COURSE!! he wasn't going to let Bryce go down that road alone, because he loves her, and doesn't want anything to happen to her, and wants to protect, so of course he would never desert her. But that doesn't mean he wanted to do it!

For Bryce to be that unaware of Hunt's feelings, when he explicitly stated them. For her to be that disconnected from her mate's feelings that she's surprised that he wasn't really on board is kinda unfathomable to me. Just that complete lack of awareness really does make her look quite selfish/self centered.

Anyway sorry, this post is a mess but I just had to vent

And then when Hunt mentions the consequences he and his friends faced, Bryce makes it about her pain. She's hurt that Hunt mentioned that they suffered. And the worst part is, Hunt then regret's it, he regrets saying something that hurts Bryce, because he cares about her and feelings. And she does not consider his feelings to the same degree

It just pisses me off

[verflares]

i rb a startling number of birds considering the fact im not even that much of a bird guy really. they are just so fucked up that they captivate me

[aimfor-theheart]

i can litcherally connect every issue people complain about within fandom in recent years to late stage capitalism

[lesbiansforboromir]

oh OH hO spicey ohhh having a spicey little tantrum about the boromir tag don't listen to me at all do NOT listen I mean it I mean it this is so petty

[kelbunny]

Trying to combat my spiking stress levels by reminding myself that I ordered the rest of Dungeon Meshi and that it should be here by Friday.

Maybe I'll also play some Punch-Out before my online class today, since that seemed to help

[coffeeandoranges33]

just saw a leftist org doing some recruiting… would do so much for the cause if leftists would… shower… smile and make eye contact… maybe put on a cute outfit

[psychoticscare]

what if the thing that’s currently happening in my family is because the universe is trying to get me closer to my dad again

[mariocki]

Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates: The Case of the Scarlet Letters (1.3, WGN-TV, 1952)

"Mr. Mullins, I have in my possession sixty-eight letters, none of which has begun to outlive its usefulness. I'm quite prepared to admit that blackmail is risky, but then murder has its disadvantages too - that is why I gave up murder."

[i-am-a-stupid-robot]

...so no one told chris carter about menopause, huh

[fictionadventurer]

It turns out that the Eleventh Doctor Appeal mostly boils down to

A character who

Is goofy

While being very competent

And deeply kind

And that's the secret formula for designing my favorite characters.