#we love you TIV

[thewandererh]

TIV provides emotional support after a long day (for both of you)

bonus plane-to-New York City flipaclip doodles!

carry-on was a wonderful choice of movie to watch, but maybe not so much for the anxious people days before boarding a flight themselves. airplane thriller! adding that to my list of awesome-interesting genres. after watching it a few days ago, i was so enthralled that i advertised it to the window server person at starbucks handing us our evening order. trying vanilla steamer for the first time and driving through neighborhood lights while picking up free popcorn and a candy cane lightsaber from some kids on the curbside is an awesome vibe. yeah lots happened recently. today was hard though (more in tags ig). carry-on is a great movie do watch it 🐥🫶

anyways yea. ft the kyle hill iterator gang <<more info. TIV is separate. he chases tornadoes

[virtuagf]

$ ./love-without-emergency-clementine-morrigan.zine --logging debug

~~DEBUG LOGGING ON~~

TITLE: LOVE WITHOUT EMERGENCY

AUTHOR: clementine morrigan

FLAVOR: discussion, polyamory, trauma, attachment, love

SEGMENTATION FAULT (CORE DUMPED)

$ gfdb love-without-emergency-clementine-morrigan.zine dump.core

virtua gfdb (Prawn 16.1-0prawn1~24.10.13) 16.1

Copyright (C) 2024 Virtua Girl Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details.

This GFDB was configured as "arm64-linux".

Type "show configuration" for configuration details.

For help, type "help".

(gfdb) bt

#0 love_is_an_action ()

i enjoy the concept that love is an action, but disagree in a way that feels like its on the edge between "important" and "nit picky". i can't decide which.

love is a feeling but expressing it, experiencing it, or remembering it are actions, and so take time

through action, someone can stoke love in you, and you can stoke love in someone.

sometimes its the smallest action in the world, or sometimes its as simple as being reminded or a previous expression of love.

but even that takes time

time is what makes love limited

you are time bound, your partners are time bound

being time bound is not anyone's fault, its a requirement of existing

what we do with our time matters.

how we show and express our feelings of love matters.

you may spend time showing your love to someone in a specific way, but that action may not resonante with them.

not everyone is receptive to the same expressions of love, and often an expression of love to one person ends up feeling like the opposite to another person.

(i think conflicts like that are the basis of attachment theory?)

(gfdb) quit

$ tiv lovewithoutwmergency.jpg

$ exit

Connection to virtuagf closed

[shonpota]

Boycott Israel Products Starts Today! Please reblog! I

We need western market consumers to abandon Israel too! Abandon if you are pro humanity!

Electronic:

HP

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Banks:

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Clothing & Fashion Accessories

Ahava

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[flock-from-the-void]

Hello hello! Just stopping by to hear a little about whichever WIP(s) you want to share about! What do you hope readers pick up on from your WIP? What do you hope is their favorite aspect of it?

Hiii! Thank you so much for the question, Zac!

I feel like blabbering about both of my main wips, so here we go!

The main problem presented in And May the Moon is apathy and I really want people to focus on that. That's why it has just a few characters and has barely any subplots. I want readers to understand apathy or find someone they can relate to in Tiv.

As for the favorite aspect, I hope they will enjoy the worldbuilding! And May the Moon's universe is my personal sandbox with massive worldbuilding. I want people to nerd out about it or make their own ocs following the rules of the world (or not following them, I love or ocs).

Mirage of Spring is basically the opposite, lol. It doesn't have any greater meaning, it is supposed to be fun. Of course, I still treat the characters and world seriously, try to do my research but honestly, I just want readers to feel good while reading it.

Personally, I love to pick my favorite character and cheer them on as if they're a player in some battle royal game. That's what I'm going for with that wip and that's what, I hope, readers will love about that project. Picking favs.

[nerves-nebula]

I just saw from a post that you mentioned that your dad was Nigerian and I was just curious how you feel about being like Nigerian and if you actually feel like you're connected to the culture. Like you don't have to answer if you don't want to, it's just I was curious since I'm also Nigerian but I've never really left this godforsaken country(I say this both affectionately and with burning hostility)

Like did your dad ever like make an attempt to teach you your language or was he like my grandpa and just refuse to teach it to his kids😭

And if you've ever had Nigerian food what's your fave? (I dare you to say jollof rice🌚) mine is banga soup and white rice or ofada stew and white rice

Do you speak pigeon? Because if you do I'll definitely be speaking it to you in the anons from now on lol

And I totally agree about the beating being normalized in poc households😭. Your blog really helped me realize that my mom was kind of abusive (and I'm still kind of in denial about it) because over here it's so horrifying how normalized it is to beat your kids until they've turned black and blue.

I was talking to classmates and we were bonding over the fact our parents used to beat us with like wires, sticks, belts and stuff and how they overdid it alot of the time and made us scared shitless and one of them was literally telling me how she fell a glass cup and broke it and got some glass in her foot and she couldn't even tell her parents because she was too scared to get flogged so the babe performed surgery on her self with a DIRTY RUSTY razor at 10 yrs old💀.

And let me tell this convo wasn't even heavy, we were all laughing and joking about it and shit.

Then I asked them if they would ever beat their kids and these niggas said YESSS they were like if they never got beaten half to death as literal children they would have grown up to be bad ppl and I was floored like do you hear yourselves??? And when I said why beat your children like they're animals instead of treating them like little humans with developing minds that make mistakes and grow and these fools laughed at me and looked at me confused like I was speaking French to them😭 and I'm screaming jesus what a life😭😭😭😭

Only divine intervention can save Nigerians from this awful cycle of abuse(I'm not religious in any way). These goats need therapy😭😭😭😭

And have you heard the bs the government is pulling out of their asses over here with the money problem😭😭😭😭😭😭

Sorry if this is overwhelming, I just got really excited at the word Nigeria lol. I hate this stupid country and its stupid ppl so much but yet sometimes I'm filled with such overwhelming love for it and its stupid inhabitants. I'm the anon that went to that skating event and met a ton of queer ppl who respected my pronouns and stuff so these ppl are the only reason why I have hope for my dum dum country with it dum dum politicians

Sorry again for the rant😭😭😭😭

I just saw from a post that you mentioned that your dad was Nigerian and I was just curious how you feel about being like Nigerian and if you actually feel like you're connected to the culture.

ive never left America, so no. im sorry, i wish i was more connected to it a lot of the time but it just feels too late for that to me.

he never taught me his language either (Tiv) though he did speak it when he was around the house. but he wasnt around a lot. when i asked him why he didnt try to teach us he just shrugged like it wasn't a priority. he started staying in nigeria for most of the year only coming back for a few months every now and then so i probably wouldnt have picked it up even if he HAD tried.

I've never even called myself Nigerian, not because I don't want to be but because of the embarrassment of having to explain that yeah im Nigerian but... not really Nigerian. I wouldn't want to disappoint any REAL Nigerians by basically being raised as a white American kid and knowing nothing about Nigeria.

And if you've ever had Nigerian food what's your fave?

i've only ever had pounded yam and okra i think, it wasnt bad but it also apparently wasnt made properly. my mom would make it and my dad would be like "this isnt even real pounded yam what the hell is this" and then nothing would change the next time around haha. so i dont think i can say ive ever eaten Nigerian food, sorry. my oldest sister has tho, when she went to visit him. i hate spices though, they hurt too much, so i doubt I'd enjoy it. which i feel kinda bad about. but ive got a lot of issues about food, and being forced to eat food, so. yeah.

Do you speak pigeon? Because if you do I'll definitely be speaking it to you in the anons from now on lol

GOD I wish. i wish he'd taught us literally fucking anything.

now that most of us are adult-aged he's been asking us to come visit him in nigeria. he's clearly very lonely, but i dont want to be alone with him in a country where he controls everything about where i stay and what i do and what i eat (he doesnt understand my eating restrictions and it would be hellish to starve because of that)

two of my sisters have gone to visit him and it sounds like it was fucking AWFUL tbh. i'd go with them but not with him.

Then I asked them if they would ever beat their kids and these niggas said YESSS they were like if they never got beaten half to death as literal children they would have grown up to be bad ppl and I was floored like do you hear yourselves???

yeah this mindset is wild to me, cause if a kid is too young to understand why what they did is wrong then why are you beating them?? that wont help they literally don't understand?? and if they AREN'T too young to understand then explain it to them! People who beat their kids are just admitting they dont know how to solve problems or vent frustration without violence. And if they had control over the people around them, they would USE violence to force them to comply, but since they only have control over their kids they can only beat their kids.

Only divine intervention can save Nigerians from this awful cycle of abuse(I'm not religious in any way). These goats need therapy

my dad is the only Nigerian i really know, but from what I know about him this is very true. he's insanely traumatized from like, civil war stuff and his own shitty upbringing. but he doesn't really believe in mental health stuff so good luck telling him that!

And have you heard the bs the government is pulling out of their asses over here with the money problem

im not very caught up on the political situation over there, but from what my dads told me its not good. my dad is mostly interested in the education system though, its like his life's work and all he's ever wanted to was to be put in charge of it and get kids educated so they have opportunities like he did or something. idk. he thinks education is the key to making Nigeria better and i dont exactly disagree with his life mission but hey, I don't live there. what do i know.

he apparently helped get the current president elected in hopes that he'd be good, but it doesnt appear things are going well. Every time he'd come home when I was younger though, that was the main thing he talked about. Getting his guy elected.

he texted me a bit ago to say he'd met with the president multiple times and was feeling stressed out, but i dont wanna say more unless you end up tracking me or something haha. fun fact tho, he's apparently been almost assassinated at least twice. like maybe he's just super paranoid, but he KNOWS someone hired a guy to assassinate him at least once because that guy was his friend and came up to him one day like "yo watch out someone's trying to kill you lol" or something.

idk he told me that story when i was younger so maybe i have the details wrong.

I'm the anon that went to that skating event and met a ton of queer ppl who respected my pronouns and stuff so these ppl are the only reason why I have hope for my dum dum country with it dum dum politicians

ohh i remember you! what a coincidence haha.

[feathers-little-nest]

Ten first lines tag

Yeah I know that I have some older tags and asks but I decided to abolish all order. Viva la revolution or smth

Tagged by @sam-glade here! Their lines are amazing, check them out!

Rules: share the first lines of your last ten stories. If you haven't written ten stories, share as many first sentences as you have.

So there's gona be a lot of weird titles, I'm sorry. I'll put a one-sentence description for all of them, don't worry

1. Godly Spring Rolls

a young Buddhist helps an angel so the latter don't become a demon

On a Zakościelna* street there was no church. Instead, there was a Chinese restaurant, to which Berna loved going to, especially on Friday evenings, when she didn't need to remember about anything any more.

*Zakościelna means Behind a Church

2. Mirage of Spring

I hope you know this one

The night was one of those cold and dry. I left the Pavilion of Practice as the last one, even master Su had went to eat a supper long time ago.

3. Pawns of her Majesty

some elvish nobles argue, a little thief is caught in this mess

So it was raining so bad that if I went out of a lake I wouldn't be more wet. What's more, it wasn't even dark: from between the clouds the rays of forenoon were shooting, tainting the sky with a rainbow.

An elf sitting in the reeds lifted his head. From the opposite shore his sister was waving at him.

4. And May the Moon Shine Over Your Ways

an elvish looser teenager accidentally discovers necromancy

"Tiv? Tiv!"

5. Dai Pandeng and Qiu Niaomao

a short story about sides from Mirage of Spring

Half the names on the list had already been crossed off. He still had some mixed feelings about that whole operation. Qiu Niaomao promised that he would take care of any possible accusations, which no-one came with, but to be fair, Du Pondeng didn't believe him even for a moment.

6. Felicien

Victorian femboy lives his horror-romance dream

The hour 4 post meridiem was approaching and an evening sun was hurting his eyes. Like a tiny halo it was floating over a roof of a grand mansion, for seeing which the young gentleman wasn't ready.

7. One Time on a Rainy Day

tdp modern!Runaan x Ethari ff that I'm to scared to share lmfao

He hit the front door with his face, irritating his eye with a peephole. "Good gods," he growled.

„But I did it!” He couldn't tell if a smile on his prophet's face was genuine or not.

8. The Patron and his Prophet

when your Prophet is chaotic evil and you have to ask your beloathed friend for help

The Patron shook his head. „That's not--”

„You led those people to a room full of  f i r e, and that's not what we wished for.”

9. A Typical Day in a Cracow Cafe

slavic demons decide to have a brawl in a random ass cafe

The back of a bookstore cafe was presenting a sight much less appealing than what was available for the customers. Junks, which were piling up here from over a decade, were forming mountain ranges, not less tangled and tough than the rocks and much less stable.

And that's all folks! See you around~

10. Eros is an Idiot

Eros and Anteros spread havoc in the Underworld

"Brother, brother, please, can we turn back?" a golden-haired boy whined. He hung down his butterfly wings. He was tired. And scared.

passing it to: @rains-inky-mind @uraniumwriting @aether-wasteland-s @lyutenw @unhinged-corvid hope you'll like it <3

[catachan-jungle-fighter]

John Geist as a RTS Unit

Unit Constructed:

"Old Wolf taking the field personally, this needs a personal touch."

"Geist moving to join the battle personally, make way."

"Enemies all around, friendlies completely outnumbered? My kind of fight."

"Gonna Finish this quick, I want to get back to my vacation."

Selection:

"Did I ever tell you the time I broke a tooth trying to bite a Necron?"

"Command is Vox'ing me, hold for orders."

"You have orders for me to loosely follow?"

"One vial...two vials... three..oh Frag, Orders command?"

Selected too many times:

"Hey, Command stop Voxing me."

"Command, this is my final warning about Voxing me."

"Alright boys, let's go and blow up HQ's Vox setup."

"I'm gonna stab the Commander."

Movement:

"Old Wolf, getting in nice and close."

"Old Wolf, they won't even hear me coming."

"I got on my good running boots for this one."

"I don't need to be fast, I just need to be faster then everyone else.'

(Stealth) Movement:

" Silent and Sneaky, best way to move."

"Time to see if I still remember those lessons."

"Matriarchs take me, I'm actually better at this."

"Easier than dancing in one of those monkey suits they call a formal uniform."

Sent into Foliage:

"Reminds me of home, just less plants trying to eat me."

"I'll fall asleep in here, best to keep me busy."

"Anyone want to hear the one about the Grox and the Sweet Milk?"

"Guess what a Jungle Fighter and a Ork have in common? We both love the color green."

Sent into the Open:

"I'm kind of fucking exposed here Command, send me somewhere else."

"I got my dick in the wind command, give me new orders."

"Fuckers can see me for miles, send me to cover command."

"I feel naked being exposed like this, give me orders."

Attempt to send into Water:

"Yeah, that ain't fucking happening Command, you'd have better chances getting a Night Lord to become a pacifist."

"Unless you have a boat, I'm stuck on this side of the water commander."

"I go into that water, I'm not coming out unless I can walk out from the bottom."

"Are you trying to kill me Command? I can't swim, I fucking sink."

Sending across Ice:

"Careful now... please don't break...please don't break."

"Golden Hunter be with me... this is the stupidest shit I've done since I tried to drink one of my poison vials to clear up a headache."

"Oh by the Golden Hunter on the Throne of Gold, I hate this shit..."

"Oh fuck... was that the ice cracking?"

Funny Lines:

"Anyone ever wonder what a Space Marine tastes like? I'm sure the Cooks can make a damn good Astartes Stew."

"Tried to kill one of those big Eldar Beasties they have following them around to check for boots, didn't find any like the other six I've killed."

"Ok... I might have lost the pin to a grenade, can you check for it?"

"Ok, next person who doses the stew with hallucinogens during Evening Meal, gets to eat the whole pot themself... I'm still seeing shit."

Issued a Heavy Bolter:

"Hmm... I can't hit the broadside of a barn, but if I put enough Bolt Shells down range, then I can't miss."

"I tend to prefer Stubbers and Close Quarters, but I think I can put up with this."

"Thing is awkward to carry, but I can lug it and it's ammo anywhere I need to go."

"Ugly beast aren't ya, ready to eat beastie?"

Issued a Plasma Gun:

"Best to get Tiv and Riv to check this over before I use it, I'm not ready to see if I'll survive it exploding."

"The Administratum really screwed someone over by sending this to me."

"Nasty surprise, but a welcome one on this side of the gun."

"This thing vents towards me, I'm strangling whoever sent this thing to me."

Assigned to a unit of Mad Wolves:

"Good to have my boys listening to me again."

"Hey lads, looks like we are working together."

"Love to see you Wolves, get your gear and get ready for war."

"Get your shit boys and girls, the Wolves have been called and we must answer."

Combat:

"Hostile Forces encountered, shred em!"

"Tear those fuckers a new one, they want to do the same to you!"

"Time to teach you why they say not to fuck with the 6th Section and the Jungle Geists."

"Fuck off and die fuckers!"

Pinned:

"STOP FUCKING SHOOTING AT ME SO I CAN STAB YOU!"

"I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK!"

"SOMEONE, SILENCE THOSE GUNS!"

"MY COVER IS GETTING SHREDDED, SOMEONE KILL THOSE GUNNERS NOW!"

Damaged:

"Fuck...a few more holes then I started the day with..."

"Damn, that stings... come on Old Wolf, your stronger than this."

"I don't think that should be leaking like that..."

"I'm bleeding internally... but that's where the blood is supposed to be right?"

Friendly Fire:

"Dumbasses, I'm a friendly your shooting at!"

"This is why I hate working outside the Wolves!"

"This shit would never happen with the Desert Raiders!"

"If I survive this, I'm choking whoever is shooting at me!"

Death:

"Fuck... tossed the dice and it came up short..."

"Matriarch...I dreamed I was a warrior..."

"Damn it... The Old Wolf shouldn't die like this..."

"Remember...I was called...I answere..."

Low chance ability Proc (The Revenant Wolf):

"The Warp spat me back out, get me back on my feet!"

"Guess I didn't do enough for the Golden Hunter to accept my service, time to get back to work."

"Guess even Death fucking hates me, I'm back to life."

"This wasn't a nightmare? Fuck..."

[javasquats]

"doo" (pronounced like "doe") is a very significant little word in the Tiv language. it's basically a catch-all word for positive connotations, and can mean a number of things depending on the context. for example, the word for "love" is "Dooshima", "shima" meaning "heart". it's a very common girl's name. the word for beauty/beautiful is "Adoo", "a" basically being a prefix stand in for "it", also a common girl's name. "Terdoo", "Dooter" and "Aondodoo" are all masculine names with similar meanings. "Aondo" (pronounced ah-OHN-doo) is the more formal name for God, and "ter" (pronounced like "tay") just means "father" and is often used as a stand in. so basically all those names mean "god is good" or "the goodness of god". I could go on and on, I have a myriad of cousins with the "doo" root word in their names: Doofan, Dooyum, Sedoo, Afadoo, Doosuur, Doose, Fadoo. one thing to note is that a lot of names have longer implied forms that complete the full idea. for example, my sister's name is "Sewuese", "se" meaning "we", "wuese" meaning "praise" or "to praise". rudimentary translation would have it as "we praise", but the full name technically is "Sewuesedoo", conveying more of the idea that "it is good for us to praise [god]" (the god part here although not strictly stated is again implied). my own name is Iyuana (I hardly ever use my tribal name tbh I'm not worried about doxxing myself lol) "i" being "the", "yua" being "gift", "na" being "given". but the full name is "Iyuaiternamdoo" which basically means "the gift the father [god] has given [me] is good". adding an "m" to the "na" adds a personal element, so not only is it given, it's given to [me].

anyways, you said you had an interest in linguistics, so I thought this might interest you. it totally wasn't just brag about the fact that according to my mother I am a literal gift from god (okay maybe a little). naming conventions now are a little different from how they were back then so if you want to know more or other language stuff let me know

This is so freaking cool, thank you for sharing!! Hearing about morphology in different languages low key makes me foam at the mouth and claw at the walls (/pos, (doo?)), especially with synthetic languages (languages that denote a lot of information in a single word by using add-ons).

I’m a little out of practice on analyzing/exploring morphosyntax, so I don’t currently have much to contribute, aside from my brain saying “WOW!! :D Word formation!! Argument indexing! Clause combination?? Word class??” and me wanting to find a Tiv reference grammar to learn more.

Fr this made my day, please feel free to tell me more if you want!! I’m like a child in a candy store when it comes to talking about language.

[feminerds]

04 March 2023

After seeing Bikini Kill live @ The Tivoli, Brisbane 03/03/2023 w/ Bec & Mei.

Page 2 - There’s not much that can compare with a room full of women, queers, femmes, themmes, young and old singing along, word for word, with Kathleen Hanna “That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighbourhod, I got news for you SHE IS!”

The magic of that song - being and desiring to be that girl.

The shaking floor, the dense inner-ear pressure, the upward unified motion of the crowd. The certainty and the support.

There’s something about the sometimes indiscernible lyrics, that makes me think of Humyara’s Comic about everyone putting their little yell into the world - is that heteroglossia?

It is interesting to me that so many of Kathleen Hanna’s projects, say simply -

You should do it

You can do it

Here’s how you could do it

We will support you doing it

The night had a clear intentionality. Lovingly structured to suggest -- you can do this! It’s not so hard, here are the broad steps. And if we can do it, you can too.

Page 3 -

A Gig that is a Zine  recipe  monograph  a play  with a thesis  a concept gig

Art Accessibility and a Gig that is Auto-logical Self Supporting.

Chapter 1 - The opener - must select a support act that is a small local band, and I mean really quiet small.

Chapter 2 - Come on stage, be fun and cool. Be rockstars.

Chapter 3 -  Mutuality of the good vibe. “I can be here because you like me”. Express gratitude for the crowd, they make it possible. The punk-band-you-love is the vibes you bring to the show.

Chapter 4 - Make mistakes, share, be scrappy, “it doesn’t have to be perfect”.

Chapter 5 - Encourage the crowd to literally just think of a band name.

Chapter 6 - “Say you’ll  play a gig - then start writing songs”.

Chapter 7 - Remind them criticism will come, new bands get criticised, established bands get criticised. “Let the haters give you inspiration”. Some people won’t get what you do, you’re not making it for them.

Chapter 8 - Making your own isn’t that hard.

Chapter 9 - Support small and local, we need to lift each other up. Mention bands that you’ve supported before, Kathleen name dropped “Minimum Chips” who were a support act to them, last time they toured so-called Aus.

Chapter 10 - Get Lifting!

Chapter 11 - Reap and Repeat.

A (cool and amazing) friend of mine saw the Punk Singer 10 years ago and invited me and couple of friends around to her place, because after seeing it she wanted to start making a zine.   

I don’t imagine Bikini Kill would necessarily call themselves a prog band (or maybe I mean that they wouldn’t apply a ‘prog lens’ to their own music) BUT their intentionality of texture (like when look at them without attempting to focus - I just see furious, exciting, incomprehensible woman) puts me in mind of it. When I let my eyes unfocus, and I stop trying to grasp the untamed lyrics - I see, or receive, the sexy, angry women-supporting-women of it all, and it washes inexorably over me. Maybe is a Prog music lens? Maybe it’s Maybeline? Maybe it’s McLuhanism? I love the efficiency and directness of  the message I’m receiving in these unfocused moments. How it self supports - how in granularity and in wide shot - word and deed - Bikini Kill says Yell as Well.   

Hot Dog Theory of Art Accessibility.

Art accessibility is an enormous topic, but I think about it as a hot dog. Being that it can be tackled from either end. Highly glossy, easily discoverable, eminently digestible, polished products at one end, that say “I’m for everyone!” - think streaming a MCU movie from Disney+ - whose tricks and technology are almost indistinguishable from magic; at the other end, zines. The accessibility of making zines (and by extension art and by extension anything), is their incredible power. That anyone would look at a zine I’ve made and think - “but, I could make this” - is for me, a zines‘ greatest power.   

Page 1 -

Juniper of the support act to Bikini Kill - Queerbait - at the Tiv. They were great, you should check them out!

[archivalofsins]

I'm still currently working on it and it's mostly covering Futa now but here's some snippets from it that does cover the concept of looking down on others and making comparisons to validate oneself.

I started with delving into Futa, Kotoko, and Mu first because their mannerisms more so align with the first aspect of the personality construct being discussed. That being TIV (Tendency for Interpersonal Victimhood) a fairly recent personality construct that helps to elaborate on the prisoners' behavior along with how large groups i.e. the audience view victimhood.

It'll be interesting when it comes to Shidou and Mahiru simply because they always frame themselves as victims to some degree and their responses as not only necessary but the only option at times. Even when what they're doing is an inconvenience to others as you pointed out with Mahiru in the case of her second trial song. Instead of focusing on how that behavior inconvenienced her victim she immediately makes it about herself again lamenting,

"Tell me, oh tell me why, won’t you just accept me?"

Turning the situation from how her actions have distressed this other party and to how being rejected has made her feel. Throughout I Love You Mahiru consistently draws attention to the fact that she recognizes her actions have caused harm to someonet then immediately switches focus away from that person's and back to her own.

Going,

"Saying I love you but doing what I did, I know I have no right, crossed and covered in sin. My love, it scored an own goal, destroyed my love and me with its weight."

Never once apologizing for the behavior or how it impacted this other person. Instead immediately lamenting,

"Tell me, oh tell me why, can’t I just do it right."

Bringing all the focus back to her feeling inferior or less then because she just can't get this right regardless of how hard she tries.

Shidou is similar in this regarding never really lamenting the loss of life his actions have caused but the fact that those actions didn't give him the results he wanted. Fully stating within his first voice drama,

"I might not get a golden opportunity like this again. So, I'll get straight to the point. Es... You decide how the prisoners will be dealt with, right?" Yeah. That's right. "The death penalty is what I'm hoping for. Thank you in advance." I won't have that. The lot of you can't decide what your own treatment will be. Only I, as the prison guard, have the authority to do so. "Exactly. You as the prison guard, have the right to do such a thing, Es. So, that's why I'm asking you for this favor."

Shidou from the beginning only asks for the death penalty and argues to receive it because it's what he personally wants. Because despite everything he did he never reached the outcome he wanted. Not only that he's recognized his goal is an impossibility.

Something that has made living painful for him even still he can not end his own life. Something that is heavily emphasized through the fact that he picked up smoking an unhealthy habbit that can lead to medical problems and death down the line fairly recently to his own admission,

20/05/26

Kazui: Ahh, this old man’s gonna go and smoke in the corner a bit. I checked with the guard, and apparently, we can use our free time however we want. Man, I’m glad this place is so relaxed.

Shidou: ……! Are…… we allowed to smoke……?

Kazui: Huh…… Shidou-kun, was it? You smoke too? That’s kinda unexpected.

Shidou: Ah, yes. ……I only started fairly recently though. I’ll go with you…… to smoke.

And his cowardly insistance on begging a child to end his life for him throughout the entirety of his first voice drama. Along with him consistently bringing up that it would be much quicker if they just killed him and he deserves it anyhow.

"There's no need for you to go through such a cumbersome process. If you want to hand down the correct punishment for me, then all you have to do is put an end to my life. It'll be over in the blink of an eye."

Only bringing up the people he harmed and their families to support his own plea for death.

"Please listen to me, Es. I've killed people. Lots of them as well. It was for such a selfish reason too. I'm a fine specimen of what a genuine murderer ought to be.There's no reason for you to forgive me. Moreover, I don't have the desire to be forgiven either."

Showcasing that he's not only willing to kill others but continue to use their existence as an excuse or reason for him to get what he wants far after they are gone. Plainly for everyone to see. As he only brings up his victims when Es displays hesitance at the idea of giving him the death penalty and states he cannot choice how he will be treated within Milgram.

"If you don't put me to death, then neither the people I killed nor their families will be at peace. Don't you think so too?"

Then as soon as he has people that he feels he needs to take care of an excuse for his continued existence. Suddenly he's smoking less and he's asking to be voted Innocent for their sakes of course not because it's something he wants. It's because their are alives that need saving not because he's found his purpose again.

Not because he found what had been missing the fulfillment he gets from taking care of people that can't take care of themselves. Something that plays a great deal into how he treats Amane and Es. As he conflates being young with being feeble, helpless, uninformed about the world and in need of sheltering, guidance and protection from those older. He looks as those that are weak either because they are injured, young, or sick and not only sees people he can help but people who,

"Tells me, the reason it’s ok to be here."

Thinking about this- will write a bigger post later since I need to talk about the power involved in pity but- I think its interesting how Fuuta and Kotoko treat the people they save. For Fuuta it seems like those people were...an afterthought? I don't really know a kinder way of putting it, like, they were There but they weren't the point. The point was "righteously striking down the evil!" not the people who were hurt by them.

While for Kotoko there's a level of...using a term a friend gave me, non-sexual objectification. They are important to Kotoko, in the sense that it Feels Good to help someone that Kotoko has More Power over. They Don't Matter as much as how Kotoko Feels after Saving Them matter. "Useless weaklings should just shut up and let me protect them." and all that.

That's what I mean by power involved in pity- by positioning someone as "weak," your implicitly making yourself someone who's "strong." And I think Milgram is saying a lot of things about that.

Fuuta and Kotoko fans sorry if anything I say sound wrong...Im just thinking about it.

[dejasquietplace]

Hey so I started following you years ago and I found you through your nuzlocke which I really loved. Obviously I know times change and people move on to other projects which is totally fine, what I was wondering was if you didn't intend to start it back up again would you ever be up for giving us a synopsis of things that happened/concepts for characters who never got round to being introduced/etc?

i'm really happy people loved it while i was making it, even if i cringe out of my skin at seeing most of my old art LOL and i don't intend to continue it unfortunately, as i wound up too busy and with my mind on other things. and maybe at some point i'll do a full synopsis of what i had in mind! in the meantime though, i did very recently do a full lineup of all the party members redrawn in my current style!

including two members we didn't meet in-comic, oliver and lazuli! and i can tell you that the full nuzlocke had two deaths: tiv and kairos. i went into the elite four and beat the game with five members because i couldn't bear to replace kairos (the second death). funnily enough (and dramatically), they were both taken out by the SAME pokemon in two different battles: giovanni's kangaskhan. it was a whole thing in my plot outline

the comic was supposed to end with makoto, elli, gary, and belle going to the cave to confront mewtwo, who had a very personal grudge against makoto but was ultimately a sad and scared kid alone in the world, with makoto as their foil in a way

makoto and gary grow and mature a lot throughout the story, both ending at about ~17-18 and dating. isaac adopts two children, who were meant to be the protagonists of a sequel story (LOL, very optimistic of me to think i'd get so far). oliver and lazuli also begin tentatively dating after a lot of silly pining and move to sinnoh together, where oliver becomes part of volkner's team and laz becomes a famous fashion designer who outfits league challengers with protective gear. eve works with the league to dissolve any remaining factions of rocket and learns to live a little and relax; she and isaac are close and she's the godmother of his kids. elli retires completely from battling and becomes a teacher alongside belle, who stays with gary's champion team as they keep their title by fighting in the league.

i hope that satisfies anyone still curious :) and thank you for liking my old comic! i'm down to answer more questions about where it was going

[waywardstation]

I think the fossil pokemon would have worked much better if we could just fix them. Like at first your only option is Cara Liss and we get the gag about shitty old paleontology, but after a while in game you can meet an actual, reputable fossil reviver who views Liss as her personal nemeses. She takes one look at your poke and just seethes, “Cara Liss.”

Now we can have a new gag about how experts in their field often hate certain other members with the heat of a thousand suns (deserved, in Cara Liss’s case) AND we can get proper, non-suffering fossil pokemon for Galar. All the the pokemon look like they’d be super appealing designs if whole again.

And naturally this reviver would need a name like “Connie Siderett” or “Annette Tiv.”

—cw

more great thoughts from CW!!

That would have been such a good addition; I would have loved for you to be able to help the fossil Pokémon and restore them as they should be. It’s so sad reading their dex entries. They have walking problems, eating problems, breathing problems.

And I think it’s pretty clear that their dex entries are speculative and made up (probably by Cara Liss) on how “strong and overpowered” they were in their time, as these Pokémon did not even exist like this back then.

If I was a Pokémon paleontologist/fossil reviver, I would want everyone who got a Pokémon revived from Cara to bring them to me, so I could fix them! So I’m sure every credible reviver feels like that haha, Cara is infamous in the region.

And man CW, love those names!!! Cara Liss = Careless (which she obviously is), so having a better reviver named Connie Siderett (Considerate) or Annette Tiv (attentive) would be great. Genius names CW!!!

[bondsmagii]

Please do info dump about tornados

tornados have been my jam since I was about 4 years old no joke, I would just watch documentary after documentary about them and even now I love bingewatching footage of them on YouTube like yes... that’s the good shit. before I get into the bulk of it thought I want to share my all time favourite footage of a tornado, like. it’s genuinely one of the scariest videos I’ve ever seen.

this footage was filmed by Clem Schultz, showing the approach of the F4 tornado that destroyed his home. how he managed to hold his nerve as that bore down on him I have no idea, but in managing it he got some of the most incredible footage of a tornado in existence. the sound of that storm, the way all you can hear is the wind growing louder and his breathing, those incredible seconds of footage from inside the tornado... we really owe him a lot for this video. headphones are good for really getting an idea of the magnitude of this thing, but beware that it is beyond loud. (Schultz survived; unfortunately his wife Geri, who was downstairs, did not. in the face of a tornado this powerful, who survives and who doesn’t is simply down to luck.) 

anyway I’ll skip straight to the more interesting stuff because the basics re: how they’re formed is pretty common knowledge and we’re here for the juicy stuff.

something I will talk about briefly just while I’m on a tangent is common knowledge to anyone who knows anything about tornados and also anyone who lives with them as a danger, but it’s something I see a lot of other people simply not knowing: the most powerful tornados (known as F5s) are deadass just. unsurvivable outside of pure luck. I’ve seen people get really bitchy about the damage done by these tornados (see what happened in Moore, OK, in 2013), going on about how people should be building things better and stronger and all that stuff, but like. F5 tornados are the strongest winds on earth. they’re stronger than a hurricane and they’re much more concentrated onto a small area. a concrete or brick building with solid foundations will be obliterated by an F5 tornado. the only way to stand a chance of surviving is if you’re in the centre of the building in a windowless room (the survivors of a school hit directly by an F5 tornado were sheltering in the windowless bathrooms in the middle of the school; even then the roof was still ripped off above them) or you’re in a deep basement with a very sturdy hatch (a door leading into the house will simply be ripped off and probably the floor with it, so it’s still very likely you will literally just be sucked out of the basement). F5s are absolutely terrifying, and no amount of structural integrity will stand up to them. build a little house out of whipped cream and then push a hand blender through it. that’s a building in an F5.

ALSO air pressure changes drastically in a tornado. as it passes over you things get really crazy, and it can and will suck you out of places you’re sheltering if it’s powerful enough. the pressure will make it feel like you’re being pressed tightly against the ground, almost like you’re being crushed; then it will make you feel weightless, and that’s when it’s trying to suck you out. if you’re in the path of a strong tornado, try to hold on to something sturdy, like a pipe that goes deep into the ground. it might not help if it’s sustained exposure, but don’t let yourself be caught out by what’s essentially a giant vacuum cleaner!! I know I’m speaking like this is an impending problem but you can never be too safe!!

and dear god never shelter under one of those road overpasses. I know it looks better than being out in the open but those things are wind tunnels. the force of the tornado will be squeezed down into a much smaller space and the windspeed will increase exponentially, so it’s all around a bad time. if you’re stuck in the path of a tornado and there’s nothing around but an overpass and your car, take your chances in any dip in the ground -- a ditch, something like that. cars and overpasses are absolute death traps. here’s footage of the aftermath of an overpass hit, showing extensive damage to cars which could have easily been thrown through the air like missiles if the tornado had been strong enough:

(timestamped, footage is at 2:52 if for some reason it doesn’t work.)

here’s a video of what happens to the windspeeds of a much smaller tornado in an overpass:

this video is probably responsible for a lot of people making this mistake. the film crew got away with it because the tornado did not pass directly overhead like they claimed. it went just behind them (to the left of the camera when they’re under the bridge) and the wind coming through was the outer funnel. had it been a direct hit, and certainly if it had been a bigger tornado, these guys would have been thrown around like stuffed toys in a washing machine.

speaking of which: did you know tornados can have arms? this is actually a relatively new piece of information, and it unfortunately came at a terrible cost. I’m sure everyone is aware of the fact that stormchasers exist, but contrary to popular belief they’re not actually a bunch of reckless adrenaline junkies. proper stormchasers are usually trained meteorologists, and until the incident I’m referring to, no stormchasers had ever lost their lives while stormchasing. not bad, when you remember that these guys are driving towards the tornado when everyone else is running away. stormchasers are equipped with a lot of high-tech radar equipment, though, so they can trace the tornado’s exact movements even in heavy rain, so they’re able to stay out of the way. this is obviously not something you should try and do as an amateur. 

anyway, this is to establish the fact that stormchasing is surprisingly safe, and tornados were believed to be pretty well understood when this incident went down. we know how they’re formed, we know their general behaviour, we can track them easily and tell people to get out of the way with decent warning. they’re still dangerous and they can still occur suddenly, but up until this incident nobody thought they had any new tricks up their sleeves. and then one tornado in particular did something that nobody had ever seen before, and it cost several stormchasers their lives.

tornados can change size and speed pretty rapidly, and the 2013 El Reno tornado was doing this a fair bit. however, it also had what’s known as subvortexes, which is basically like smaller vortexes coming off of the main vortex (what we would call the “funnel”). the vortex that you can see with the naked eye is actually only a small part of the whole thing -- we only see it because it’s sucking up dust and dirt, making it visible. all around it, though, is a wider rotating vortex of air, and we can see this by the effect it as on structures, rain, etc. out in the open, though, like with the El Reno tornado? it’s much more difficult to see. it can also get really, really big. within this area, subvortexes were forming, which are essentially like mini tornados that you might not necessarily be able to see. the stormchasers in question -- Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and his colleague Carl Young -- should have been far enough away from the main vortex to be able to make a successful escape, but one of these subvortexes just... reached out and threw the car off the road, essentially. I mean, the odds of this were astronomical, and this had never happened before. and like, look at this:

that’s the path of the tornado’s “arm”. TWISTEX is the name of the stormchaser team -- as you can see, they should have been safely out of the way. the subvortex literally just flicked itself out and landed a direct hit, and then carried on its way in less than a minute. this is just... unprecedented. this is one of those tragic situations where there was nothing these people could have done, at all. it’s such a terrible loss, particularly to the field of stormchasing -- Tim Samaras was an accomplished engineer who pioneered many different tactics and pieces of tech for stormchasing, and he was a genius in the field. his work on the Discovery Channel’s show Storm Chasers got countless people interested in the field, and in fact during a eulogy to him somebody even mentioned the fact that most of the young people in the room at that moment were probably there because of him. it was just awful, but there was absolutely no way they could have predicted this. a tornado changing size, speed, and direction all in one go, and then whipping out subvortexes? this is like, the absolute worst case scenario here.

finally, to lighten things up a little: absolutely obsessed with the team of stormchasers who keep trying to modify their vehicle so it can withstand a direct hit, and then driving it around on the job to test out the mods with often disastrous consequences. yes, I said that stormchasers are all professionals, and they are, but they are also all scientists, which means they’re approximately as stupid as they are smart. this is one of their inventions:

like? I’m losing my mind here. the car is called Tiv. on the way to the storm in question they stopped at a gas station to weld more iron to it. as they drove it out they referred to it as “letting loose the dogs of war”. it has hooks that can be deployed to dig into the ground. when the tornado passed close to them one of them yelled “DEPLOY CLAWS!! DEPLOY CLAWS!!” claws were deployed and the tornado absolutely annihilated them. yote them right off the road and rolled the car. everyone was fine and they brought the car in for repairs and then out to try again. God Bless Our Troops.

anyway if you’re still here congratulations I am honestly impressed.

[anchormain]

CHARACTER SHEET.

full name    dc [redacted] morse pronunciation    det-ek-tiv con-stah-bul morse nicknames     don’t you dare. ( he’s been called pagan and cinders and morse code but he doesn’t have many nicknames. this means you should give him one. ) height    5ft 9in age    depends on point in canon but i play him throughout his 20s and 30s zodiac    ok so we don’t actually know his birthday but it’s between 26th december and 16th may. someone said aquarius vibes but i’ll be honest i don’t know much about it languages    ok are you ready for this. russian. latin. he also knows some of but is not fluent in: german. greek. french. italian. he also knows morse code, because of course he does, and is able to pick up very quickly on codes and ciphers he’s unfamiliar with. if he’s feeling extremely petty and you’ve annoyed him, he might start communicating with you only in code. or any of his other languages. or literary quotes, actually. he’s very very good with languages and probably knows a little of others i haven’t mentioned. 

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS. hair colour    ginger eye colour    blue skin tone    pale and freckled. body type    slender. he’s got some muscle to him because he has to be fit to pass his physicals for work. it’s enough that you can tell if he isn’t wearing clothes, but otherwise it’s not so obvious.  accent    fake. it’s fake. fake accent. he’s from lincolnshire and his family have entirely different accents to him. when morse went to oxford university, he removed all traces of northern from his accent and trained himself to speak in a way that would allow him to fit in. he didn’t need any more reasons to stick out. younger morse wanted to be a posh boy like his friends so he talked like them.  dominant hand    right. posture    straight. formal. morse often walks and stands with his hands clasped behind his back, drawing his shoulders back. it’s not a natural posture, it’s trained. if left to his own devices and unobserved when sitting, he’ll lounge. he likes to lean back. it’s easier on his bad hip if he leans back slightly when sitting. as he gets older, he starts to do this more and more as he relaxes into his own existence.  tattoos    none. most noticeable features    wide eyes! bow lips. freckles. if he’s not cut it recently, fluffy ginger curly hair.

CHILDHOOD. place of birth    lincolnshire hometown    small town in lincolnshire. no name but it’s very tiny.  manner of birth    his mother was 16 or 17 when he was born. there were no complications. first words    “mama”. siblings    half-sister. parents    constance morse ( mother. deceased. ) cyril morse ( father. deceased. ) gwen morse ( stepmother. )

ADULT LIFE. occupation    detective constable with oxford city police. close friends    very few. thursday. strange. debryn. relationship status    single by default but verse-dependent. if single, probably falling in love with someone at any given time. if not single, then can be relied upon to gaze at his partner with heart eyes at any given opportunity.  financial status    not good. he inherits his father’s gambling debts and overdraws his bank account trying to pay them off and send money to his stepmother. it’s a sad situation. he can’t afford to live anywhere nice for a very long time.  driver’s license    yes. and he loves driving. he loves it a lot.  criminal record    is framed for murder at one point but is later cleared. otherwise no.

SEX & ROMANCE. sexual orientation    bisexual. romantic orientation    biromantic. preferred emotional role    wants to give emotional support and receive none, but realistically needs to receive as well. he has a lot of emotional damage... he needs some help with that. preferred sexual role    sub-leaning switch. libido    high. turn ons    praise; massive praise kink. light bondage. being pinned and also pinning his partner. gentle push and pull, wants to fight and be fought a little. playing with control dynamics. also just general touching. he kisses with his whole body, his hands are everywhere, he likes to lavish his partner with attention for their whole body as he kisses them. and i think he’d enjoy the same being done to him.  turn offs    blood. causing actual physical pain. degradation. if you’re actually mean to him, he will be upset and not speak to you for a day.  love language    physical touch. quality time. will also give love via acts of service. his idea of relaxation is doing his crossword while opera plays quietly in the background and he’s leaning against his partner and they’re stroking his hand or arm or back or something.  relationship tendencies    all-in. falls very very fast. wants to love and support you. will give you his time and money and adapt any way he thinks he needs to so he can make you happy. enjoys gentle, quiet moments. also physical affection. very physically affectionate once he’s comfortable, would love to cuddle in bed, kiss against walls and while sitting and on the way past each other. loves to sit together and just talk. can be quite playful too, will tease lightly and seek his partner’s attention with his actions. would be fully in bliss if someone would just chill with him for a while and shower him with various forms of affection and touch. stroke his hair, mess it up, he doesn’t mind. smooth hands over his clothes, stroke the shape of his muscles, let him stim using your hands. he loves physical touch. just wants to love and be loved. love is so important to him that if necessary, he would 100% give up his career for it. he says “if i found someone, then all of this wouldn’t matter at all” referring to his job etc. his partner is his number one priority. 

MISCELLANEOUS. character’s theme song    ohhh..... so many. if we’re being sad, though... between the bars. for the alcoholism vibes.  hobbies to pass the time    crosswords. listening to opera and classical music. drinking :/ mental illnesses    ptsd. depression. autism.  left or right brained    left? idk fears    oh god... blood. heights. dead bodies. abandonment. loss. being useless. tigers. prison. 

[flock-from-the-void]

Get to know my OC II

I was tagged by @gummybugg here! I encourage everyone to check out what Blair and Elijah said about themselves!

Tagging! @heavensfallenfaction, @chuuyas-beloved, @aether-wasteland-s, @silverslipstream and @fire-but-ashes-too too! i thought it was funny ok

Check out past contestants! Guan Zhuyu from MoS

For this one, I choose the main from And May the Moon Shine Over Your Ways, my little guy, Tiv!

Behind the sea of golden crops, I saw an auburn bush. I chose a shortcut and after a moment, the rest of the elf was revealed. They were lying on the dry grass, reading a book. Even though they were pretty tall, they looked delicate. Without me asking, they softly said “how can I help you?”

“Ah. It’s pretty easy. You don’t have to go anywhere,” I added, as they were getting from lying to sitting. “I’d like to ask you a few questions, that’s all.”

“Oh? That sounds… fun?”

“It will be fun, I promise. Let us get started.”

1. Are you named after anyone?

That’s… not really a thing we do. Usually, we get names after some special events of talents. I have two! My first name ever was Tiveor’fiehuhue, it’s after an unusually warm winter day, when I was born. The second is Ipsenel, I got it as a child after helping a lot in something, I… I’m sorry, I don’t really remember what that was. My father should know, maybe try asking him?

2. When was the last time you cried?

*laughs* That was a bit cringey… My little sibling broke their tiny toy horse, the poor animal lost its head. When I saw it, them crying and the horse decapitated, my eyes got wet. It was such a cute toy, you know? 

3. Do you have kids?

awkward silence …No.

4. Do you use sarcasm?

While talking with my older sister, yes. She deserves some stings. quiet giggle

5. What's the first thing you notice about people?

I’m a bit interested in cloth-making, so clothes.

6. What's your eye color?

Brown. Sei, I mean my sister, could probably tell you more. She paints a lot and is so good with colors! You wouldn’t believe how many different colors she can make.

7. Any special talents?

I’m decent at lacing. See? Not that bad. shows the lace at the end of his sleeve

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Both. I… love all the stories, somehow.

9. Where were you born?

points at a close mansion Here!

10. What are your hobbies?

So nice of you to ask! Beside the laces, I make embroidery and knit! I practice Rhetoric, some tiny fun stuff. Usually things for my little sibling and their friends, spending time with tiny stars is inspiring beyond comparison. Of course, I read a lot of books too, of any genre like I said.  

11. Do you have any pets?

When I was younger, we had a cat. She was brown and fluffy, and I used to hug her all the time. I’m not sure if she liked it though… Now we don’t have any. I think we should, it’s good for the children.

12. What sports do you play/have played?

Sei knows a lot of sports and she tried… actually still tries to find something perfect for me. I can ride a horse, but that’s hardly a sport, just a basic transportation method… Oh, I know, ice skating! I enjoy that a bit! I guess the summer made me forget that.

13. How tall are you?

Uh… pretty tall? About as tall as my mother, we’re both just a dot taller than most.

14. Favorite subject in school?

Rhetoric. Talking to flowers and rocks was always fun for me!

15. Dream job?

Helping Sei. That’s probably what I will be doing, lucky me! Some villagers suggest that I should go to the capital and pursue Rhetorics but I… I’m happy with what I have. I want to leave that possibility for my younger sibling as well, we don’t have enough to send off two children. Ah, and above all, Sei won’t manage to be an acceptable ruler without me. laugh

“And that would be all!” I say, clothing my notebook. “By the way, what are you reading?”

“It’s a very convoluted romance. It made me cry so many times… The main character…” [the remaining 50 pages of Tiv’s blabbering was cut out by the redactor]

Ps, have I ever mentioned how much I love this tag?

ammsoyw taglist: @gummybugg, taglist is always open!

[trixicbean]

supercorp + kryptonian: part two (part one)

@whyshedisappeared i saw this and screamed. someone wants my headcanons on kryptonian and i have so many!! *cracks knuckles* let's go!

i. how did lena propose?

we all know this business bitch is a literal softie on the inside and will go above and beyond for the people she loves again and again so she was d r a m a t i c.

she would have a private proposal though. she would still ask kara in kryptonian, she didn't learn all of that for nothing, and she would definitely ask with a ring and a bracelet to respect kara's culture as supportive girlfriend(soon-to-be-wife)™.

lena would probably go to ask kara at about two or three homemade dinners but chicken out last minute everytime. kara doesn’t clue in though because she is oblivious and just thinks lena’s being extra romantic and cute. alex, sam, nia, j’onn, jess, kelly and even brainy figure it out.

lena starts to get so nervous that it takes alex marching into her office, with the support of jess and sam and yelling “I swear to God that if you don’t ask her soon, I am going to take that ring and ask her for you and she would say ‘yes’ because she doesn’t care as long as she gets to marry you!”

lena goes home that night and bribes noonans to let her order in everything on their appetiser menu and then recreates that day in their kitchen. the only difference in the box that contained both a bracelet and a ring that lay in her pocket.

kara gets home and is a little confused and panics because she thinks she has forgotten an anniversary (a thing completely unheard of because kara still celebrates the anniversary of lena’s first game night by half-years). she concedes to lena’s (slightly overused) excuse that she just wanted to spoil her and they have an amazing dinner where they largely reminisce about their relationship and life together then it goes onto their future.

it’s organic and everything is right so lena launches into the speech that she regrets not preparing beforehand. “I want to spend every second of my life with you,” she starts by admitting, reaching a hand across the now empty table for kara’s, “You came into my life and it was like I could see colour for the first time. You broke down my walls and for that I am so thankful. You, every single part of you, I love with every part of me. I cannot imagine my life without you in it,”.

by the time lena had started the third sentence of her speech kara had begun to catch on and was nodding violently as tears sprung to the back of her eyes. by the time lena was kneeling in front of her she could barely restrain the ‘yes’ till after lena had said the words “will you marry me?”.

kara had fallen to her knees in front of lena as lena slipped into kryptonian. “Ni ieiu chadahzh tiv raozh im :zhao pryn-voghynj. Khap kehpahzh El Mayarah zrhymokhush vot gehd,”. Your mom told me about the :zhao (Kryptonian word roughly translate to romantic love) bracelets. I had it engraved with Stronger Together.

kara was in full blown tears as lena slipped the bracelet onto her wrist and then a ring onto her finger as they both whispered ‘I love you’ in both kryptonian and english as though it had the power to express the true depth of their feelings.

they had a wedding on earth with their english vows and a few whispered words of kryptonian and a ceremony on argo in kryptonian.

ii. did they teach their kids kryptonian?

yes!! kara is more against it to begin with. they can’t take their kids to argo until they are five anyway cs space travel is difficult on the body and you don’t want to fight with the overprotective parents that are a Super and a Luthor. she wants their kids to be normal on earth but lena is committed to creating a safe space for every part of their children. she gently coaxes kara onto her side with lots of love and a speech about accepting every part of herself and that she doesn’t have to hide and their children shouldn’t.

they end up speaking a combination of both of the languages around their kids from the moment they are born and when their kids start to talk it’s a combination of the two languages and they are a little confused but they figure it out and by the age of one-and-a-half they are all bilingual and switch between them with relative ease.

iii. do they speak both english and kryptonian at home?

yes but more kryptonian. thanks mostly to lena in the role of supportive wife/mother™, their home is a kryptonian safe haven. powers aren’t limited and everything is reinforced to avoid accidents. All the furniture, doors and everything in the house has nth metal lining so it can’t be broken.

walls have secret foam padding and so do ceiling (especially in the kids bedrooms after a few sleep-floating incidents (they don’t have lena holding them down at night)). they have red sun lamps in every room which can be turned on if they ever need a break and the garden has tall trees to shelter from neighbours so they can have flying practice.

iv. did kara teach lena more alien languages that she knows?

yes yes yes. lena luthor-danvers, national city’s resident geek begged kara to teach her every language she knows. she’d run out of earth languages. literally, she learnt every one, even ancient ones, in fits of boredom or in case they ever became useful. (lena luthor-danvers, resident geek was very smug when her fluency in ancient egyptian came in useful while solving a DEO case)