#which can be either good or bad flavours lol

[its-no-biggie]

actually im making this its own post. the thing about the hunters gonna lay low is that its exactlyyyyyy what i want out of a fantasy romance. i love high stakes and unrealistic drama - life-threatening situations and monsters and magic and all manner of situations that dont happen in real life. and i love this as a setting for romance because it means you can create a lot of conflict that doesnt have to do with the characters feelings for each other - sure, you can still have arguments and complicated feelings, but throwing the characters into these high stakes situations creates a lot of flavour - high intensity emotions and conflict that arent just from within their relationship, yknow?

the problem with most fantasy ive read that also has romance is exactly that - its fantasy, with a side of romance. theres romance, sure, and a lot of times side romances do have these high-intensity moments im looking for, but usually the author is spending more time on worldbuilding or political drama or yknow. the plot. nothing wrong with that - i like an intense action plot without romance. its why i read a lot of fantasy. but i think ive really been hurting for a story that has this kind of high-stakes drama, but makes the relationship a more central part of the story. and ive had no luck with romance with a side of fantasy, either - most romance stories ive encountered are about very typical romance-style relationship drama, even if they take place in a fantasy setting. jealousy and miscommunication and will-they-wont-they. again, nothing wrong with that, its just not really my style.

and this is why all my ships of choice are Like That. its always an action story with a pairing of major characters who have a deep relationship - they have history, they care for each other a lot, they click with each other in a way they dont with anyone else....... the kind of thing where the growth and development of their relationship is a big part of who they both are. and then putting them in high stakes scenarios where they almost die all the time. you get it. the thing is that ive never really encountered one of these where the relationship was canonically romantic - which isnt necessarily a bad thing, but again, romance can add a lot of unique flavour! its why i read a lot of slash fic lol

[the closest ive gotten to this before would be banana fish, and i love banana fish so much i basically dont have anything to say about it. what is there to say? watch banana fish.] [hmm and maybe alien stage? alien stage is just so short though - not a lot of time to get to know the characters before they die yk.] [and notice how these are both tragedies???? i love tragedy but man. i do want a happy ending sometimes...... although i havent actually finished thgll so i guess this one could be a tragedy too 😩😩 pleeeease i just want them to be happy.......]

but here it is!!! the kind of story about a duo whose lives become intertwined through the high stakes fantasy plot, who care very deeply for each other and have history and keep watching each other almost die, and also they kiss!!!! its honestly a little frightening how well it suits my tastes - i can almost see the way the author is using the fantasy setting to deliberately further the relationship between these two, because its the kind of thing i do to whatever blorbos im rotating in my brain like a binary star system this month. but because the characters were actually created with romance in mind its like. cranked up to 11. like what do you mean cha euijae is the only person who can safely touch lee sayoung????? hello????? and the soul contract???? the alternate timeline?????? the BACKSTORY?????? i dont want to spoil too much but like. it really is just so good. its exactly the kind of thing i didnt know i was looking for.

and like. not only is the fantasy setting perfectly implemented for this more relationship-focused story. its also just really interesting in its own right?? like im hooked. im absolutely invested in these two trying to stop the apocalypse, save the world, and maybe avoid dying and leaving the other behind (again) in the process. im having the time of my fucking life right now

[btw i just finished part 1 of the novel, so no spoilers please!!]

[veifei]

Sure, I'll bite.

What are your headcanons about the Link Click trio's favorite ice cream + hot beverage + cold beverage and why. :)

thank you for the ask!! also i have indeed started reading third time's the charm and !!!! already hitting me in the feels

ok SO I'll go character by character:

qiao ling: for favourite ice cream I'm generally thinking fruity/refreshing flavours, though more specifically (maybe because of one of her official arts i saw recently) strawberry! but she might also be picky with what makes Good strawberry ice cream and plays it safe if she's buying from a new place. probably vanilla, i feel like one can't really go wrong with vanilla.

as for drinks, i like the idea that QL and LG enjoy tea together. QL will shuffle over to the studio after hours and do a face mask and LG will prepare them tea (always non-caffinated, because QL says she's too sensitive to caffeine lately at night), and they'll drink it and enjoy each other's quiet company. LG probably reads while QL does some scrollingon her phone.

finally for cold drinks, we already know that boba runs are a common occurrence at the studio, but i bet QL also really loves trying out novel iced-drinks. I'm thinking caramel iced lattes, strawberry chai iced, green energy smoothie 3000, etc. drinks with really long, convoluted names, that are kind of a fad but that's ok!! let her have fun with her silly little drinks!!!

cheng xiaoshi: i think, contrastingly, CXS is a big fan of the ice cream flavours that can border on sickly sweet, depending on the place. he likes chocolate, and cookie dough, and those ice creams loaded with lots of other sweets inside them. mind you, i don't think he has ice cream like that regularly or he'd definitely get sick of it, but when the opportunity arises trust he'll be asking for all the extras and sprinkles.

for hot drinks—CXS likes coffee! i don't think he Always liked coffee, because it's such an acquired taste especially when you're younger. during uni he probably got into it in the quest to stay up and meet those damn deadlines lol. so he grew used to drinking it from there. he either: takes his coffee black but with quite a bit of sugar (which LG tuts at him for) or he has it milky.

his cold beverage of choice....he kind of gives me standard iced coffee + extra sugar + chews on the leftover ice cubes after lmaoo. he also does indulge QL when she drags him to a pop up shop to get a limited time Novel Iced Beverage.

lu guang: doesn't like ice cream 😞 if it's really hot he'll have ice lollies/popcicles and if you held him at gunpoint and told him he HAD to choose, he'd choose vanilla. however, he will sometimes have spoonfuls/a bite of CXS's ice cream. Occasionally. more often than he'd willingly admit. CXS always makes fun of him, saying, "you don't even like ice cream, so why are you suddenly so eager to have mine?" (he never stops him though)

hot beverage: i did go over this a little in QL's section hehe, but let me elaborate! i think LG prefers tea, but has a robust beverage routine, in which he'll have black coffee (no sugar. ok sometimes maybe a teaspoon. but only Sometime) with his breakfast. then in the evenings he'll have his tea (sometimes with QL). I like to think though he mostly has green tea, he really likes oulong. CXS pokes fun at how devoted LG is to this routine of his, and in turn LG will lecture him about how having caffeine after a certain hour is bad for him and really, he ought to be drinking more tea for its health benefits, etc, etc

cold beverage: because we know that LG doesn't like overly sweet things, but likes boba, i can't help but to think he enjoys most forms of iced tea. like he'll make himself homemade iced tea during the summer and have it all throughout the day!

ok ok im done now apologies this is so long-winded i am nothing if not overly detailed about my blorbos

[gumdefense]

Tag game: tagging 9 people you want to know better ! Tagged by @kill-vonkarma-again which is so sweet thank youu <33 I haven’t done one of those in forever, I’m assuming I just answer the questions lol

Favourite colour: blue ! I just like it

Currently reading: yeahhh I need to read more. I haven’t in a while. But the books I have open at the moment are The Origin of Species (Darwin), King Solomon’s Ring (Konrad Lorenz), and The Rise and Reign of Mammals (Steve Brusatte). Also I wanna get started on The Vinyl Detective (Andrew Cartmel), which I impulsively bought browsing a bookshop

Last song: Yuve Yuve Tu by the HU. If you like metal I definitely recommend them they’re really good !

Last movie: Shaun of the Dead for like… the 50th time. Favourite movie of all time which I so recommend. Been obsessed with it since I was like, 11 ? Do not show that movie to the 11yos you know though. Probably too gory and sweary

I recommend the whole cornetto trilogy !! Since this is an ace attorney blog, I’ll especially give the pitch for Hot Fuzz, since that’s what most similar lol. It’s a romcom disguised as a buddy cop, which is also a murder mystery, and also a love letter to action movies and buddy cop movies, and is just fantastic. Murder, absurdity, pun names, gay, social commentary, it’s got all you love in aa !

As a little explanation if you don’t know anything about the cornetto trilogy (I’ll take any opportunity to ramble about it): it’s 3 comedy movies directed by Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim, Baby Driver), cowritten by him and Simon Pegg (Benji in the mission impossible movies), and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (you might know him as Santa in the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special). First came Shaun of the Dead in 2004, then Hot Fuzz in 2007, then The World’s End in 2013. Shaun of the Dead is a romzomcom (romcom with zombies), generally considered a classic in horror-comedy. Hot Fuzz I’ve explained. And The World’s End is an alien invasion during a friend group’s pub crawl, sadly not as known/popular as the other two but it’s also absolutely brilliant and deserves more love. The three movies have nothing to do with each other (on the surface. You can argue they’re connected by themes but this is already long) so you can watch them in whatever order you want, or only two, or one, of them. Though of course I recommend them all in the order they came out bc 1) they’re all fantastic 2) i just find it interesting to see the progression of direction and writing over time. But do what makes you happy ! Also, warning, they’re all gory sweary etc, and have some outdated jokes, but if you’re into ace attorney you’re used to that lol

Anyway-

Last series: started catching up on Doctor Who today finally !! Last I had seen was Jodie Whittaker. The Donna episodes made me close to tears like 5 times and I’ve only had Fifteen for 2 episodes but I’m already completely enamoured with him. And if podcasts count as series I’ve been listening to Sherlock and Co which you should listen to it’s really great really good Sherlock Holmes adaptation !

Sweet, savoury, spicy: I have a reeeally bad sweet tooth. Love savoury and spicy too of course, if you ask me what I want for a meal I won’t say sweet, but…. I fucking love sweet things man

Craving: last question reminded me of blueberry muffins and chicken tikka and now I want both

Tea/coffee: I don’t drink either tbh but I like tea while I dislike coffee (except if it’s a coffee-flavoured sweet)

Currently working on: aha. This reminded me I need hobbies. I haven’t drawn in a while, I should get back to that. I have this very detailed zelda ace attorney crossover au if that counts, been doing lots of drawing and research and thinking. Also I’ve been doing statistics about ace attorney, and been planning to work on statistics about the cornetto trilogy. I just like stats <3 but yeah tbh most of the working I do is study related less hobby related. I should dedicate more free time to things that enrich my brain

That was fun ! Thanks again for tagging me I’m touched <3 and I like getting to know you better ! Frankly I’m a bit scared of tagging people, I’m too shy for that, sooo this is an invitation for anyone reading this to do it ! Consider yourself tagged. Though I will tag @purpleleavesday bc that’s not scary <3

[uchihakeimei]

Helloooo, hope it's ok if I reply here! Also I forgot to apologize in advance for my terrible English, hope it's understandable!

What a relief to find someone who actually understands Kaiser! He's one of my absolute favs together with Rin and Isagi, but I never really spoke much about him since I noticed the fandom has a bad habit of misinterpreting him. AND Kaisagi in general. No, Isagi is not his soft-uwu toyboy, he's a badass, a menace and if anything, it's him that would put Kaiser in his place. And yes, they totally hate each other. Like, super hate. And that borderlines on obsession from Kaiser's part. (Ngl, that's my favorite part in all Isagi's ships, how he's unbothered, moisturized, living his best life, and the counterpart is decaying in their obsession in beating him. God, he's such an icon.) Their mutual disdain is what makes the ship so balanced, and also the reason why I dislike Kainess, I don't really appreciate the power imbalance and how submissive Ness acts around him. He deserves better than that. Oh, how I would love to see him leave Kaiser in the dirt to fight alone: that would be such a great character development for both of them. Ofc I'm not judging anyone who ships Kainess, it's a perfectly valid ship! I just love both Kiis and Rnis cause they check all of the boxes of the chemicals in my brain. And when the Kaiser flashbacks drops? I'm gonna go absolutely crazy. I need to be the worm in his brain and understand him in a much deeper way than Kaneshiro ever could.

(Also, I love your headcanon about their alternative jobs. I tried to come up with something for Rin too, and I concluded that he definitely could only ever work in front of a computer, where he would never have to interact with people - and traumatize them with his weird bullshit, lmao). (Oh, and Kaiser would be an even worse boyfriend than Rin, let's be real. One small argument and he's dumping your ass to ""find himself"" like any mediocre fuckboy).

Yes, despite my BLLK obsession I'm keeping up with other mangas! I've been reading One Piece since I was a child, but lately I got invested in Chainsaw man, Choujin X, Kagurabachi, Bungou stray dogs and My hero academia, too. What about you??

Of course, it's totally okay!!

And hello fellow Kaiser fan, great to meetcha!!

And yes. A lot of people mischaracterise Kaiser- either as an Isagi simp (most common in fanfictions) or a complete asshole with no depth.

KaiSagi characterisation tends to be even worse (which, this is NOT me criticising authors at all, people are entitled to write what they enjoy!), but either Kaiser or Isagi gets reduced to a desperate simp trying to get into each other's pants (mostly I have seen this with Kaiser, actually) and that's not very likely.

The charm of KaiSagi is their mutual hate, and the ways they overcome that!

And yes. You hit the nail right on the head! Such unbalanced ships, like KaiNess (SasuSaku or NaruHina from Naruto) are the one kind of ships I can never get behind. Whether it's love or hate, it needs to be mutual for me to enjoy it. Power unbalance is not my thing but different strokes for different folks and all that

And yes, Kaiser currently obsessed with destroying Isagi while all Isagi wants to be is no 1 is a delicious flavour and Kaneshiro is cooking

I need an explanation. Of everything regarding Kaiser. That flashback needs to be longest flashback in the manga. I want a biography I can write a thesis on.

(True!! He definitely isn't a people person. He will most likely be doing a job that requires minimum human contact lol)

(And yeah, Kaiser is such red flag, we'd need rose colored glasses to date him 😝)

Hehe. Fellow CSM fan!! My fav is Denji, and I am eagerly awaiting Season 2!

And although I haven't seen the rest of them, I have they are very good anime as well!

My absolute favourite would be Naruto, as I have been in that fandom for years as well. Apart from that, I am currently keeping up with Solo Leveling and Windbreaker!

(Although listing all the animes I have watched will require a separate post, I watch a lot of them!)

Ps: Your English was lovely, no worries!!

[gu6chan]

always feel skeptical involving myself with this discourse but OUGHHHHHH I HATE WHEN PPL STILL PASS AROUND THE WHOLE "Drakengard was a MILLION times more DARK and EDGY in it's original release, but the EVIL ENGLISH TRANSLATORS CENSORED IT so we can NEVER know how bad it really was......" I HAVE MY FACE IN MY HANDS AND AM BEGGING YOU TO GET YOUR KNOWLEDGE FROM BETTER SOURCES THAN DISCORD-HEARSAY FOR CHRIST'S SAKEEEEEEE

Like first of all omg you literally just heard that from someone else, secondly sure, there were some (as in ONE blatantly undeniable case that i could find) lines that were NOT translated with good intent but literally what probably happened after all I've scanned over with the English loc.'s choices as compared to the Japanese script is that the idiots on board with the translation had literally NO IDEA what they were doing ESPECIALLY in the most commonly quoted case of "censorship" (Furiae's death, which was literally IMPOSSIBLE to translate to English unless you wanted to change the line COMPLETELY which did NOT seem to be the style of the translator for this game)

The Japanese script very indirectly wrote around the "Blows" of the darker content with insinuations and context-dependent trail-offs that were literally either untranslatable, DIFFICULT to translate without some massive loc.-lifting or just hard to catch in general (how the FUCK would someone know the actual joke behind the faerie jabbing with "Hide in the trees and you'll be fine, Leonard, lol" with Leonard's response being obvious discomfort???), Thanks side material!

Like I'm not saying my OWN translations are hot shit or anything especially not the earlier ones lmao but just,,, looking at the original text and seeing the choices made by the translator for the English it is SO obvious this is literally just a novice doing their first few translations lmao, and unrelated BUT I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT TO DOD2'S GODAWFUL SALT-FLAVOURED SCRIPT AND SAY IT WAS DONE BY THE SAME GUY because not ONLY does it lack flavour, there are multiple pronoun misses because WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING LIKE A CARTOON VILLAIN ACCIDENTALLY SLIPPING UP AND SHOWING HOW SELFISH THEY ARE LIKE "when I kill general gismor, the people will finally be free" bitch when YOU kill him????? nowes staring slack-jawed rn and "don't worry manah, when I save the world-" HUH???? HUH????? WHAT HAPPENED TO TEAMWORK???????

okay anyways, also I decided to do a quick search and????? If sources are to be believed, Drakengard literally was the head translators (Phillip D. Gibbon's!) FIRST project ever too lmao

TL;Dr Drakengard wasn't "censored" (At least 90% of it wasn't), the translator literally just had no idea what they were doing lmao

[thatmooncake]

hi hi!! i saw your reblog of your therapist au art and noticed in the tags that you dont mind answering questions. i hope its alright if i ask you one or two!!

so, you mention in the background section of the au that moon was used to trap souls inside dreams (or something similar to that.) will that be addressed in the future?? i feel like thats prime material for angsty stuff and moon feeling bad about what happened in the past :< not to mention the whole fazbear entertainment thing lending you the therapy bots and them linked to dream experiments is shady (as per usual with fazent.)

(also not as important, but is the whole "trapping souls" thing a reference to somniphobia, the book in the tftp series?? i actually havent read the story personally, but from a brief summary, im getting those same vibes lol. could be entirely a coincidence, but if not, thats cool either way!!!)

and on a more lighter note, can they eat stuff in this au? if so, id love to know their favorite ice-cream flavors! its a weird question to suddenly ask but for some reason this au is giving me "its a summer night, im up way too late, and im eating ice-cream when i shouldnt" type of vibes

anyways!!! im sorry i think i rambled too much but i love your guys' au, and yall's artwork!! cant wait to see more of it, hopefully in the future!

(p.s. unrelated but i thought moon,,,had the bisexual colors in his irises,,,)

Ooh yay hihi I love AU asks!

So! The dreamscape is going to play a big part in the therapy bots AU, and the angst and drama is very much ongoing - it might seem like fun and games at first exploring the therapy themed concepts, but you’re absolutely right, there are massive Somniphobia style undertones there. Moon’s dreamscape is designed to pull you in and it can be addictive and …energy consuming. Or should we say life force consuming?

Moon meanwhile? He feels closer to you in the dreamscape than in the waking world …at first. All the souls he steals become a part of him, in a sense. Remnants of them continue to float around in the dreamscape if you look hard enough, like when you start peeling back the wallpaper of a new house that used to belong to someone else. For the longest time Moon has not really been able to interact in the real world, and honestly most people in the dreamscape very rarely interacted with him either up until the very end, being far too wrapped up in exploring the vast dreamscape which moulds itself around their wants and needs. He’s been kind of used to his role as a passive observer, or a creature without much identity at all. But this time around, because you think he’s a therapy bot, he’s a part of the action. He’s actually being played with. This is unusual for him, and his feelings get a little more muddied over time.

Sun and Moon can absolutely eat in this AU - it was one of their ill-advised “upgrades”. And as the three of you start sharing some soul energy - uhhh, bond with each other more closely, they start to gain the strangest senses too. Senses they’ve never had before, like smell and taste. And they do not know what to make of this. But they do know that Sun likes neapolitan flavour (don’t ask him to pick just one, they look so pretty together!) and Moon likes mint chocolate chip flavour (yep you heard me, mint is good). And that having ice cream late on a summer night is what it’s all about (well, ask Sun about that one - Moon thinks you ought to be sleeping, but he’ll allow it this one time).

Never apologise for rambling I love rambling :D (also everyone who’s mentioned all the pride flag colours you are absolutely correct Sun and Moon say gay rights)

[batsplat]

how has the motogp fan community grown/changed since you became a follower? can i get your thoughts on more fans coming in especially from f1? or on liberty media taking over? what are we hoping/bracing ourselves for?

honestly, I'm not the best person to answer the first question, because I've really not engaged all that much with the motogp fan community over the years... motogp isn't a massive thing in either the country I'm from or the country in which I currently reside, and I've only very rarely come across people irl who have any sort of interest in it. it's really just been through reddit, other forums, comments under blog posts on popular motogp sites, that sort of thing. I don't think reddit is a bad way to follow the sport - you've got all the hot topics but also stuff that's a little... broader than you'd get say on tumblr, about the more technical side or folks talking about less-discussed riders from the past, anecdotes from older fans, that sort of thing. it's also free and easy to not click on any post about sepang 2015, though admittedly there have been times where all these sites were quasi-unusable (hey ho argentina 2018). but I don't really feel like that community has massively changed, apart from maybe becoming a bit bigger and just having... more posts in general? you definitely get shifting opinions over time, sometimes it's a bit of a hive mind in terms of which riders are flavour of the month... so for instance bez was a lot more well-liked twelve months ago. but that kind of thing is common across all sports-oriented subreddits in my experience

I have checked in with the twitter fandom a few times in recent years just to see if, you know, it exists, and sure there's a few journalists and commentators it's worth keeping up with, but beyond that? there is a kernel of motogp-flavoured stan twt but a) many of them are primarily f1 fans, and b) their way of engaging with the sport is so alien to me that I generally take one look and then very much look away. as for the tumblr fandom, I can't speak to that at all though I'm sure others on here could tell you a lot more. I realised this bit of tumblr existed by complete accident at the start of the year. never even crossed my mind that this is a sport that would have an actual fandom on tumblr, god knows sports I follow I would consider a lot more mainstream barely do

as for new fans from f1... you know, what can you do, really. it's a good thing if the sport's fanbase as a whole becomes younger and more diverse, even if personally I am not a dorna shareholder and don't really care all that much about 'growing the sport'. new fans will bring their own biases and preconceptions and mostly not care about the bits of the sport that I care about... but that's how it's supposed to be, no? get them invested in the new riders, find all these young acosta and aldeguer and alonso fans to liven up the sport in the future. at a certain point you just have to learn not to care about what the wider fandom thinks about a lot of things. I have seen countless wildly inaccurate takes on this sport for years - which, yes, often there are howlers from newer fans who are clearly missing a lot of context, but also older fans can be flat out wrong about plenty of stuff. new fans migrating from f1 or whatever will create what... well, it's essentially fanon lol, based on how other fans introduce them to the sport as well as to certain historical events. but, you know, that already exists on here, and there's plenty of popular interpretations of these riders and past events and the current landscape of the sport that I personally strongly disagree with or are just... not true. plus ça change. stop worrying about a foreign takeover and just be careful to curate your space, imo - you can avoid most of the truly annoying stuff if you exercise self-control

generally speaking, I imagine more fans in a space like tumblr will lead to more polarisation and fragmentation in a way you can't quite afford in the same way in a smaller community. more drama, more controversy with more people who can potentially set it off and more people inclined to drag it out. corners that are based increasingly around specific riders or specific sets of riders. there's always upsides and downsides to that kind of thing in any fan space... you get more stuff created by fans, more art and fic and fanvids and essays about two decade old rivalries (funnily enough I'm not massively expecting an uptick in that particular market). more fans for riders who don't currently get a lot of attention. you do also get more discourse and more controversy... hopefully the most conflict-happy new fans stick to twitter. but at the end of the day, everyone starts out as the fan others want to gatekeep against, and it's not like you can actually stop them from joining, so. whatever. also, who knows if the sport really will actually 'take off'. I follow a sport for which a netflix show was announced and a lot of people were expecting something along the lines of the drive to survive-effect. so much posting and think pieces a dozen about whether the new fans would have the wrong opinions on all manner of hot topic issue. in the end, the show flopped and we got fuck all new fans, so that was a massive waste of everyone's time lol. motogp has itself been through something similar with the ill-fated prime show where they bungled the release... you never really know

that being said, it is quite likely that if the liberty media purchase goes through, they will do a pretty good job of attracting new fans. they've broadly done a good job with f1 - and it's not like they can really be blamed for most of the problems with the actual racing. it wouldn't be a bad thing to get new races in the states, as long as they're good ones (my problem with the newer races certainly isn't location but is with some of the rather drab circuit layouts) - and if f1 is anything to go by, I doubt we're going to lose any of the series' gems. quite frankly, if we need to cut a few european circuits, not wanting to name any names but I do have a bit of a shortlist. further calendar bloating is a worry, but for various reasons it's not going to happen in the short- to medium-term. and unlike in f1 there's less enthusiasm at the prospect on the part of the actual teams (also, crucially, the tyre supplier). obviously street circuits aren't going to happen. hopefully, some aspects of the way the sport is presented to audiences will be improved - from the actual television product, to what footage is released to fans, to how much we see of riders further down the field, and so on. hopefully, the sport will become more accessible to more fans in terms of viewing options... but yeah, how riders lower down the field are treated is I think the main thing I'd like to see change. hey, maybe we'll finally have access to more on-board cameras. maybe they'll finally show us the controversial and presumably interesting incidents happening outside of the top ten in any given race. my main worry just from a selfish perspective is any change to the videopass product (unless they'd like to make it a wee bit cheaper). I'm just about willing to shell out the amount I currently do given I heavily make use of the archives and think it's a fantastic resource, but for instance in f1 there's geo-restrictions to the kind of f1.tv you have access to... there's always the slight concern what new tv deals might change. still, this is all pretty minor stuff, and really I don't expect liberty media to be either able or willing to come in and make radical changes to how the sport currently works. concerns about ticket prices and fan experiences are also reasonable, though as someone who hasn't had the money/opportunity to visit any races myself, I really can't bring a lot to the table to that discussion beyond 'I hope it doesn't become prohibitively expensive'

of course, there's some things I very much want to see retained, for instance I'd hate it if liberty pushes for riders to speak english more often. also, we need to petition them to bring back the press conference table. overall, though... some of the changes will probably be bad, a lot of them will hopefully be good. change is necessary and motogp needs to finally adapt to a post-rossi world. it's unhealthy for a sport to continue to rely on the second hand glow from a man who retired years ago, to pray that the fans he created are somehow going to continue to care if you don't give them a reason to. rossi revolutionalised the sport, but eventually you need a new revolution. anecdotally and according to various podcasts, there's finally been a shift this year away from just crowds of yellow at all these circuits... which is categorically a good thing. above all, you need fans to care about the current product, make them fans of the current racing, the current riders, while also providing them opportunity to get interested and emotionally invested in the history of the sport. a lot of them will ignore that history... but eventually, that's how the cycle goes with everything. you don't get much discussion of, say, doohan these days on tumblr, and time will creep up on all these riders. you see it on here with how many newer fans say they went back to watch races starting from 2013 - because they care about the marquez era and are less interested (if at all) in either rossi's golden years or the alien era. which is how it should be... you cannot expect new fans to care about over twenty years of racing when they're just getting started (if they ever will). all you can do as a sport is hook them with whatever they're willing to be hooked with, and gently nudge them wherever they're willing to be gently nudged to. and if the end product of all that change is something that's more palpable to the masses but less suited to your personal tastes... well, you can always watch the old stuff

[atdwarriorsau]

if yoyo how does each clan think abt the concept of an all encompassing god? can they even comprehend it? i mean if theyre like canon then theyll say "ur dumb and stupid and stupid and dumb" /hj

Yay asks!!!

WARNING: I have christian-flavoured religious trauma and that WILL bleed through.

Yeagghhhh..... Starclan (as they say officially) and The Stars (as they say unofficially) are sort of a "blind faith" thing. People in general really want something to believe in. They want a simple explanation about the wider universe and how things happen. An all-powerful god fulfills that. It makes it so you don't have to question everything, you just have to believe there is something out there that knows.

Anywayyy back to silly cats!!

I'll start with Windclan, the most devout. Nightpaw is a believer... but will often question The Stars. In a chapter that I can't remember whether or not I've posted it, Nightpaw asks about Starclan's power, to which her mother Ashfoot is like "uhhhhhhhhhh... trust in Starclan don't worry about it.." Faith in Starclan is almost seen as just a good personality trait lol. Windclan is most likely to have the mindset you've written above lol. Maybe if you don't understand it (aka question it) you just aren't blessed (even though the cats saying thos don't understand it either lmao)

Shdaowclan USED to be very religious but uggghhhhhhh.... a lot of bad things happened. Yup. It's more of an act now really.. like it's just a tradition to be thankful for having prey. Shadowclan has always been rather independent anyway. If you asked a Shadowclan cat, they'll be like "It's not for us to know, anyway are you eating that?"

Riverclan is simular to Shadowclan, but has a good few 'true blind believers'. Some Riverclan cats secretly hold on to old Water/River Kingdom myths and such. Like water spirits, to some they are just a metaphor, to some they are actual spirits. Riverclan cats are just extremely chill. Like yeah, I trust in The Stars, of course, but they don't really affect my life that much, maybe talk to a healer instead.

The founder of Thunderclan always that them to question everything, especially blind faith and trust. Unfortunately, Thunderclan has also had a few... fanatical leaders in the past... being the head of the Crusade Years, which were done "in Starclan's name" Making Thunderclan today a mixed bag. Some of the strictest codist cats of faith are Thunderclan cats. Starclan is the code and Starclan is nature, so you better respect both of them!

Religion isn't really meant to be questioned, simply obeyed. At least with my experience, and if you look at canon Staclan... it's just christianity isn't it.... like to a weird degree... almost as if the writers are old brits hm who knew....

So most cats don't question it. If you ask a scholar, Starclan is everything. Starclan is nature, the all powerful force that bother nurtures and kills. It's life, death and most importantly, the code. And Starclan is always watching, through every tree and puddle so do good or watch out.

(Can you tell my religious trauma ia influencing it lol)

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HELLO GRIM!!! RAPID FIRE QUESTIONS ANON HERE 🔥🔥🔥 LETS GO ANOTHER ROUND!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO!!!!!!!!!!! WHATS YOUR FAVORITE ICECREAM FLAVOR? DO YOU LIKE TO PARTY? IF YOU WERE TO BE ANY ANIMAL ON THE PLANET WHAT WOULD YOU BE? WHAT IS A HIDDEN TALENT THAT YOU HAVE? ARE YOUR A DAY PERSON OR A NIGHT PERSON? WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRAVEL? DO YOU WANT TO HAVE KIDS SOMEDAY?

sorry this took me so LONG TO GET TO. i very much enjoy answering these rapid fire questions rapid fire questions anon!!!

my favourite ice cream flavour is Superkid ice cream from Laura Secord. which is like..... i think you can only get that here in montreal but its this blue red and yellow ice cream and its just this fuckin mystery flavour im telling you. there's for sure some banana in there but the rest??? dont fuckin know. but i sometimes crave it so ravenously i have to haul my ass downtown just to get a scoop lmfaooo

i loooove to party when i want to party. i go pretty hard honestly. but i never ever black out. im like the "goes off on their own" drunk person but also the dad that ends up hauling everyone home??? its a full time job

hmmm good one.....any animal? i think i'd like to be a wolf. sounds basic but they just have an incredible genetic makeup+interesting interpersonal dynamics+they howl. imagine just. howling. like whenever you want. in a forest or on a mountain. and you dont get cold cause you have this beautiful fur. yeah a wolf

my hidden talent is kinda all my talents. i dont show people shit lol. im really bad at it. but i guess if you want a specific one maybe the fact that i have memorized thousands of celebrity birth charts and i will memorize yours if i ever meet you. will forget your name but i'll remember youre a cancer with a virgo moon type thing

im definitely a night person and always have been BUT recently ive started to appreciate the day a lot more. probably cause my body is in shock from the lack of vitamin d

i would loooooove to travel to either transylvania, dublin, or anywhere thats as far from human interaction as possible. just some mountains or some plains out in another country. i miss the ocean too

kids.....yeah i fuckin love kids. ive always wanted kids but its not gonna happen honestly. i dont think i'll ever be financially stable enough to provide for them

WOW this was soooooo lovely!!! thank you so much for your questions they were very entertaining to answer

[blackknightgargiefoodtopia]

Prezzo

Another long day ended without lunch and really long walking, and because it's either we eat at Tower Hills or back home at Stanmore (and my hubby wasn't really confident eating outside his comfort zone), we decided to eat somewhere closer to home, which is at Prezzo

Location: Within Stanmore, across the street from...the local nursery, I guess? :/

Setting: A really nice feel to it, almost Italian in a sense, but still with the London flair in between, though they really need to crank up the air-conditioning a little bit

Random shots of trinkets around us

The waitresses there were really perky and helpful, especially this one named Anne, who has a bit of a thick Italian accent and her voice was prolly a few octaves higher than most, which makes her sound kinda cute, LOL!

We has Appletiser in London!! Since this drink is being banned in Brunei for no apparent reason, we savor the chance to drink this super rare drink

My hubby's starters, which is garlic bread with cheese

My starters of calamari

My hubby's garlic bread was pretty chewy, in a good way. It's almost like eating pizza actually, not the usual garlic bread we would always eat. My calamari was not so bad either, nice and Q, pretty chewy, though I was expecting a bit of a crunchy batter, but it's good. Still good

My hubby's spaghetti and meatballs

My spaghetti with King prawns

Thank goodness we ordered the classic portion because it was really huge for a normal-sized meal, as usual. My hubby's spaghetti and meatballs was amazing. The meatballs were really juicy inside, unlike the meatballs done in Brunei where it's either too dry or too soggy.

My King prawns spaghetti came out interestingly without the shells. I was actually expecting it to be spaghetti then served with King prawns in its shell. Still it was really delicious. The spaghetti was cooked to perfection and the sauce is very flavorful, and the prawns, oh my god, the prawns were so fresh and juicy, you can literally feel the crunch when you bite into it. It was THAT fresh! And best of all, it had a very good helping of chopped spring onions in it, and it was amazing!

The perky waitress asked if we want dessert, and it wouldn't be nice to say no, or end it with just that, so we ordered just one dessert to share amongst ourselves, just in case they came with a crazy-ass portion again.

Our hot fudge chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream

Omilord, the cake was just amazing! So fudgy, so chocolatey! It was amazing! Packed full of flavour and they both go really well, the thick fudge chocolate with the vanilla ice-cream. It tastes even better than chocolate lava pudding with ice-cream. It was THAT amazing. Loved every bite of it, even though I ended up super-stuffed.

All in all, the best Italian food I've eaten so far, the best pasta ever!

Overall rating:

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1 - When was the last time you met someone for the first time? Two Mondays ago. I went to a networking thing and chatted up a bit with the CEO of a local talent agency and a few of her employees.

2 - What’s the longest amount of time you’ve gone without bathing? 3 days was probably my longest range that made me go, "dude, you're gross." lol.

3 - Have you ever cooked with crab or lobster? Could you ever bring yourself to kill a live lobster/crab? I've never cooked with either and don't think I can kill any kind of animal for the purpose of cooking.

4 - What’s your favourite font? What size and colour do you prefer to use when you’re doing surveys? My favorite font to use in work decks these days is the one called Red Hat Text. As a standard, I like to stick with black and font size 11 but I switch them up if necessary.

5 - Have your clothing choices changed since COVID hit and you started to stay at home more? Yes. I used to be big on short dresses and shorts pre-COVID...not sure why that changed but in any case I hate showing leg skin now as it makes me feel exposed. K-pop's also made me lean towards more oversized/baggy apparel.

6 - When was the last time you went through a drive-through? I wanna say around a month ago? I just wanted a McDonald's cheeseburger after a long F2F day at work.

7 - Which fast food restaurant do you go to the most? What do you tend to order when you go there? McDonald's is my favorite partly because it's always a safe option to go with, and partly because I work with them so there's a bias hah. McNuggets used to be my go-to order, but now I find myself always getting a double cheeseburger with a request to remove the ketchup, mustard, and pickles.

8 - Do you own any plaid/flannel shirts? I don't think so.

9 - If you eat it, how do you like your steak cooked? What sauces and sides do you like to get with it? If you’re vegetarian, what would you have instead of a steak dinner? I like it rare; even medium-rare would make my eye twitch hahaha. I've never been picky when it comes to the sauces and sides.

10 - Are there any foods and drinks you only have around Christmas? My grandma's specialty dishes, especially her steak. She also makes this like creamy chicken thing but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called.

11 - Does it bother you when dogs jump up at you? Does it bother you less if it’s a smaller dog? No, it has never bothered me and I don't think it will. That changes of course if the dog is jumping because it's planning to bite my face off, but as far as friendly dogs, I'm open to all ways they'd like to show interest/affection.

12 - What kind of animal did you touch last? Was this animal one of your pets? That would be Cooper, and yes he is one of my dogs.

13 - Which colour do you prefer, red or blue? Blue.

14 - How would you describe your sense of humour? Have you ever offended someone when you were only joking? It's all over the place because I'm easily amused – I can laugh at anything from bad dad jokes to borderline offensive humor. To the second question, I'm almost certain that I have. It can happen.

15 - When was the last time you cried - what caused it? Yesterday. I was telling my parents that I got promoted again but that I don't want the higher position anymore, and that I plan on leaving the company in 2024. My dad sent me a private message and said his congrats but that he will also support me through whatever decision I make, and that made me cry.

The last few days have been mentally taxing precisely because of thoughts I've had about finally cementing my decision to leave for good, and those were the words I really needed to hear. Everyone else I've shared this with otherwise tells me to consider the higher raise and the nicer shinier label I can soon call my own, and that's just...not where I am right now, so it's frustrating when it's reinforced over and over.

16 - What’s your favourite flavour of potato chip? Salted egg or honey butter. Or just plain, that works well too.

17 - Do you have a lot of artwork around your house? What kind of art? We have a few generic, mass-produced paintings and miniature sculptures but that's it.

18 - When you paint your nails, what kind of colours do you tend to go for? I never get my nails painted. Just seems like a minor pamper-y luxury I can easily live without.

19 - Do you prefer fruit or vegetable juice? What kind of flavours do you like? I do not like the idea of either.

20 - What’s the weather doing where you are? Is that typical for this time for this time of year? There are like two typhoons doing a dance in the country rn so it has been awful, but on a more privileged note I do enjoy the colder temperature and nap weather it's been giving. And yeah, this is usually the time we have a slew of typhoons coming in every week.

21 - Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? How did you meet this person? It was just the receptionist at the restaurant I had reserved a table at for my mom's birthday lunch today. I never 'met' her and I just called the number because it was indicated on that restaurant's Instagram.

22 - Are you eating or drinking anything right now? I have my usual cup of coffee which is never absent when I take surveys.

23 - Who was your first celebrity crush? Which celebrity do you like now? My first celebrity crush was Ashley Tisdale and these days I like BTS.

24 - When was the last time you went to Starbucks? What did you get? Two Sundays ago – I got their new iced brown sugar shaken espresso (why must such a good drink be such a mouthful to say?) and their Belgian chocolate cupcake.

25 - Do you have a credit card? How much money do you owe on there? Continued from last night. I don't own a credit card.

26 - What colours have you dyed your hair in the past? What kind of colours would you like to dye it in the future? I've done brown and purple so far. I want to go purple a third time soon, but I'm also kind of wanting to finally try green. I'll probably only decide once I'm already asked at the salon.

27 - What’s your favourite Christmas movie? When was the last time you watched it? Love Actually. I've stopped my habit of watching it every Christmas, so the last time I saw it was around 3 or 4 years ago. It's A Wonderful Life is really good too, but I've seen it much less often.

28 - What’s your favourite brand and flavour of ice-cream or frozen yoghurt? I'm not a fan of froyo, but I do like cookies and cream ice cream!

29 - When was the last time you visited the dentist? Early August.

30 - What time do you consider to be too early to go to bed and to get up in the morning? When was the last time you went to bed/got up at those times? 11 PM would be too early for me; as for waking up in the morning, 6 AM will feel weirdly early – like it would make me go "why the hell am I up at this hour?" lol. I wake up at 6 AM pretty often, but I can't remember the last time I fell asleep before midnight.

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I've never understood the, "He didn't use Shimmer, so it got better!", or, "He got better treatments before S1E1!" arguments. Like... from whomst? Where...mst? Whenmst? From Piltover, after the Day of Ash? From... idk, a time-travelling healer Viktor in Zaun? If there was always a better alternative to Shimmer, on either side of the river, why wouldn't S1 Silco 'Do Anything to Survive' Arcane avail of it?

'If no Shimmer, then Good Timeline,' is as much of a cop-out as (as people have rightfully pointed out), 'if no Hextech, then Good Timeline'. That is to say: Shimmer and Hextech are as much placeholders as they are 'real' things that exist within the universe. They are tools, and reflective of the people and societies who use them. Even if Shimmer and Hextech themselves did not exist, in an otherwise unchanged timeline there would always be A Drug, that could both heal and corrupt, and there would always be A Technology, that could both uplift and pollute. And while the story might play out with a different flavour and different details, it would not on a fundamental or thematic level change the characters, their motivations and circumstances, and the nature of the choices they make.

It's not really whether or not Hextech doesn't exist in the Good Timeline. It's that the social and political circumstances that enabled and encouraged Piltover to seek exponential progress at the cost of leaving Zaun behind have changed. And it's not really whether or not Shimmer exists in the Good Timeline. It's that the circumstances that lead to it being turned into a street drug out of a need to bootstrap Zaun's economy have changed. Vi's death changes the characters around her. It changes the motivations of those characters (e.g. Vander), which changes the choices they make (e.g. take up the cause once more), which changes how they affect the world and characters around them (e.g. join Silco, begin direct action), which begins a whole new domino effect.

Conversely, it makes a ton of thematic sense for the 'reconciliation and healing' Good Timeline to have had Piltover and Zaun work together after Vi's death (and whatever transformative political/labour/etc. movements it brought about) to specifically develop medical treatments for issues caused by toxic pollutants - something they didn't have in S1, and for which Viktor suffered. To begin to right some of their wrongs. Especially once bodyswap Heimerdinger enters the picture, who by now has begun to realise that he has much to atone for.

And yes, I very much like to think that Zaun could keep some of its patchwork, DIY, subversive ingenuity, chem-tech and prosthetics and medical Shimmer and all. I wish that had been shown, and I wish it still felt more like Zaun, instead of like... the Last Drop, halfway down a sunken ravine, somehow having full, perfect sunshine on the courtyard outside just because that's how you visually convey the idea of someplace idyllic, lmao.

(Also, like... remember when the animators drew Silco & Vander about 15 years too young in the betrayal flashback? Fortiche hard carried this season, but idk that 'the animators drew it like this, so the timeline must be this', is a particularly rock-solid foundation. I mean, they straight up forgot that Powder had grey eyes, not blue.)

(Also also, the eye has always been a metaphor for how Silco's world view - get it? - is warped, and I don't really think we can draw concrete medical inferences about the progression of disease or infection from the fact that good timeline = good eye and bad timeline = bad eye, lol.)

Detailed episode 7 thoughts

Episode 7 season 2 of Arcane is a great mini piece of storytelling because of the way it unfolds. You have Ekko obviously in an alternate universe, and because you are genre savvy you obviously start to look for the point of divergence. (I stopped the show to bounce up and down and ask "IS THIS THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE DROWNING DIDN'T HAPPEN???? IS IT?" Apologies to my longsuffering husband).

And then it keeps it ambiguous. No Zaun flags, no visible Shimmer. (Me: "Is the universe where.... the Drowning succeeded?") And offers the explanation that things went differently on the heist, which suggests that the key difference isn't Silco-related. (Me, hopefully: "but there's no way Vander started dressing properly without some influence that isn't there in the main timeline").

(Also cutting to Jayce having the worst time of his life lmao).

And then we find out it really is the Peace and Love timeline, and while I can't see Silco ever issuing platitudes about the value of forgiveness, I'll roll with it because it's lovely to see him happy. Nitpicks:

I do dislike that he doesn't have his iconic orange eye though. He had that eye in the cannery, before Vi's death. I know there's a whole "oh he didn't use Shimmer for it so it got better" argument, but that's... ugh. There's a great pair of lines from Sarah Rees Brennan's Long Live Evil, slightly repurposed here: "Shimmer is a crutch." "Funny things, crutches. You ever see anyone use a crutch they didn't need?" It doesn't feel like Zaun, and to me Zaun was a compelling character in its own right. This just feels like Piltover at low elevation. Yes, Zaun was poor and violent, but it was also vibrant and brilliant and solved problems like "limb loss" in its own inimitable way. And it was beautiful, and its people really were beautiful and proud in their imperfections. We see a child in a wheelchair on the street, which at least means they've figured out accessibility better than main timeline Piltover, but... does Smeech make incredibly useful artificial limbs in the universe, because those were cool...

I wouldn't have wanted to live in main timeline Zaun, but I think it's sad that it apparently loses its individuality in the alternate timeline. (Though I'm sure it is still vibrant when you get away from the gentrified bit, and I'm telling myself that it merely has better medical-grade Shimmer having focused on those applications rather than making it as an addictive street drug).

[iced-souls]

Papyrus Week Day 6: FREE DAY

I hath chosen to do a head canon of mine that i like to think is true sometimes

And its that the man is frickin blind as hell. No skele-pupils = no clear vision. Only reason he’s surviving is off of another headcanon where i think he can see from above as well. Like “player pov”.

Lol papyrus you absolute buffoon of a creature just GET SOME DAMN GLASSES!!

[nikoisanidiot]

Eyeless Jack NSFW Alphabet

18+, Minors do not interact. If caught interacting you will be blocked.

A/N: these are personal headcanons, this is just my personal opinion <3

A=Aftercare(What are they like after sex?)

Jack usually makes sure you’re okay, checking if his bite marks left any damage because of his sharp teeth and all. Jack keeps meds in his and your nightstand, like back relief medicine for when he’s in heat or a rut.

B=Body part(The body part they love of their partners)

Thighs and tummy. When Jack can’t sleep, he will either use his partners stomach or thighs as a pillow, he finds them comforting and squishy enough he can rest.

C=Cum(Anything to do with cum basically)

Jack’s cum is a greyish color, and is a bit thicker than regular cum. It also tastes like a hint of tang and iron. Not really salty, more over a tangy flavour. When he cum’s, there’s a lot of it. Don’t be surprised if there’s an accidental cream pie waiting for you.

D=Dirty Secret

Jack will watch you fall asleep, and if he’s feeling really horny? You might wake up with a facial, who knows.

E=Experience(How experienced are they?)

Jack was fairly inexperienced before meeting you, I mean he was a human before and watched lots of porn but he never actually had sex. Jack, through you and his own research, is wayyyy more experienced.

F=Favourite Position

Jack loves missionary. He can watch you squirm under his touch, feel your body and test new things. However when he’s in a rut/heat he will do any position that works for him, and will destroy you.

G = Goofy (Are they more serious in the moment, or are they humorous, etc.)

Jack is a bit more serious if he’s in a bad mood, because he craves to be sensual and not act like a dick in bed. Be a sweetheart. But if he’s up to it? He’ll crack jokes, and make you giggle.

H = Hair (How well groomed are they, does the carpet match the drapes, etc.)

Hair? He barely brushes it out, it’s short enough he doesn’t need to but long enough it looks good. He showers regularly, especially after sex. He hates the smell. His pubes are a tad darker than the rest of the hair on his body. He is a hairy man, lots of arm and leg hair. Not a whole ton on his chest.

I = Intimacy (How are they during the moment, romantic aspect)

Really good, he tries very hard to get your attention on a bad day, buys you flowers, writes a song for you, ect. He will always romance you somehow. You find it only romantic when he makes a nest of blankets for you when he’s in a rut. He wants you to be comfy while he fucks the shit out of you lol.

J = Jack Off (Masturbation headcanon)

Jack use to jack off a lot in college, and before meeting you, he kinda now only does it if he’s in a rut and your too busy(which is rare), is stressed out and doesn’t want to bug you, or needs something to do.

K = Kink (One or more of their kinks)

Dacryphilia, he loves seeing you cry. It makes him really fucking turned on. Somnophilia, he will watch you sleep and cum on your face some nights, sometime he likes to receive a hand job while he’s asleep.

L = Location (Favourite places to do the do)

His room, your room, the shower and if you know you two will be alone all night? The tree house. He will gladly have sex outside, it is his natural home.

M = Motivation (What turns them on, gets them going)

Praising, Jack loves being praised for his work. Loves being praised in bed. And imagining scenarios in his head when he’s alone, if you’re on a mission and he’s having these thoughts? Your clothes are gonna be gone the minute you get home. When he’s in a rut, even your scent can push him over the edge and make him hornier than ever.

N = NO (Something they wouldn’t do, turn-offs)

Jack will absolutely not fucking share you with anyone and if you so much as try to get a fuck in with someone else or do a three-way? Yeah he’s throwing his temper tantrum.

O = Oral (Preference in giving or receiving, skill, etc.)

Jack loves to give, especially if his s/o is already prepared for him with pre-cum/slick. He will 100% take you up on that opportunity to lick all you up with his mouth, says it’s a bonding thing.

P = Pace (Are they fast and rough? Slow and sensual? etc.)

Jack is slow and rough, he wants his partner to experience how much he loves them.

Q = Quickie (Their opinions on quickies rather than proper sex, how often, etc.)

Jack dosen't like quickies, he finds them annoying. He wants to experience the sex, not just fuck quickly. The only times he deny's that he hates quickies is if he's horny on a mission or he's in a rut.

R = Risk (Are they game to experiment, do they take risks, etc.)

Jack loves to experiment, he will fuck anywhere, any time. If he feels up to it, he will fuck his partner during missions. At the crime scene.

S = Stamina (How many rounds can they go for, how long do they last…)

Jack can last a long time. He can go four rounds on a bad day(he rarely does that, he goes until his partner says no more, usually stops at 2), on a good day he can go 6+. During ruts, he will fuck whenever, for multiple hours. He can last between 20 minutes to an hour depending on his pace.

T = Toy (Do they own toys? Do they use them? On a partner or themselves?)

Jack owns a vibrator, he uses it mostly on his partner. He also has a fleshlight he uses if absolutely desperate for his partner but can't have them at that moment.

U = Unfair (how much they like to tease?)

Jack will tease beyond belief, he loves seeing his partner try to fight back at the teasing, just makes him go harder. For longer.

V = Volume (How loud they are, what sounds they make)

Jack isn't very vocal, he doesn't say a lot and doesn't moan a whole ton. But he does grunt, groan and have a heavy breath.

W = Wild Card (Get a random headcanon for the character of your choice)

Jack's ruts are mostly sexual, and aggressive. He usually can hear his partner somewhat in this state and will stop if he thinks they are going to pass out or something.

X = X-Ray (Let’s see what’s going on in those pants, picture or words)

Jack is 7 inches soft, 9 hard. When he's in a rut, its the same, just a bit more girthy. However in his half demon form he is 10 inches, and if he's fully demonic, he's 12.

Y = Yearning (How high is their sex drive?)

Jacks sex drive is very, very high. He can have sex whenever and if his partner wants it, hes jumping at the opportunity.

Z = ZZZ (… how quickly they fall asleep afterwards)

Jack falls asleep after his partner, this is usually the time he cleans his partner up, using some wipes to clean them. Give them a bath later. He usually falls asleep after cleaning them.

[dukeofriven]

Saw a really bad take today that basically boils down to "why bother separating art from the artist when there's so much other art out there: just go enjoy the other art. Nobody cares if you have fond memories of the old art just go make new ones lol."

It’s bad for a few reasons. Let’s get down to cases. (Warning: I talk about Barthes.) 1) That's not how brains work. I can’t tell someone to stop being in love with someone. I can’t tell someone that their favourite city is a hellhole. I can’t even tell someone to stop enjoying kale. I mean... I can, but not with any expectation of a serious result. Neither you nor I can usually meaningfully affect the desires, wants, and tastes of others: we can provide counterfactuals to taste, such as ‘the person you’re in love with is cruel to me and other people you care about maybe you shouldn’t love them,’ or ‘LA is a vapid town full of vapid people and it smells bad you shouldn’t like going there,’ or especially ‘kale was forged in the darkest pits of Utumno by the dark lord Melkor in mockery of spinach and your mouth cringes at the flavour stop eating that shit,’ but that usually has no effect. And that’s fine. That’s how brains work. Especially in the neuro-divergent community, in which hyper-fixations are something people can have really no control over, swanning-in and telling someone to just... like something else, telling someone to just abandon the thing their brain has subsumed into its quintessence as a form of day-to-day stability, their wellspring of pleasure in a brutal word—that’s not going to work (and a smug little ‘lol’ at the end of your post does not change the fundamental rudeness of the imperative.)

2) Especially in regards to bigger media franchises (and speaking as someone who finds critique really important), there's something unhinged in acting like we can all just divorce ourselves from things that have had inescapable impact on culture because we don’t like them, either from a taste standpoint or a moral standpoint (although the two are far too often conflated these days.)

To pick an example at random: The Mists of Avalon is one of the most important books in all of feminist fantasy. It is extraordinarily influential and traces of it can be found in the writers who followed in its wake, writing homages, writing counters, all encouraged or driven by these later writers relationships to Mists. Mists of Avalon’s author is, alas, someone whom we would now, socially, very much like to shove down the memory hole, but we cannot reverse the effects of Mists. It will never go away, and to pretend that it has—to act as though it never existed, or that by not acknowledging it and its influence (or, perhaps more crucially, by not studying it or engaging with it to understand why everything that came after it owes it a debt) is the morally correct choice is an approach to art that I reject. It is based on a wrong-headed belief that art should only ever be a form of comfort, both textually and meta-textually. The viewpoint seems to be that if the art has a ‘problem,’ if it cannot be fully comforting, then it should be abandoned. Absurd. Idiotic. Juvenile. We hobble ourselves as critical thinkers (which we should always strive to be)  when we ignore these nested layers of understanding—the strata of pop culture—that everything is built on. I find that dangerous. If you don’t know what came before then you can’t understand what got you here or where you’re going, and you don’t really comprehend all that a text might be trying to say. All sorts of important things fall through the cracks when you start ignoring any art you find personally distasteful.

3) If you cannot separate art from artist then you're going to lose a lot of good, interesting, or challenging art, particularly in places where the divergence between your opinion and the artist is relatively small. For every criminal whose work you might reasonable find no longer palatable, there's other nuanced authors for whom you are simply not similar. I disagree with Tolkien in several major ways, but I think excising his art out of culture or simply my life results in a much poorer experience of living. Which leads to:

4) The farther back you go the more art and artist are intrinsically divorced because we simply don't know all that much about the artist. Most great paintings are functionally anonymous, and there are entire centuries where biographies (at least to the degree modern fandom content consumption seems to demand) essentially do not exist. We cannot study Shakespeare and know if the man was more distasteful than we might like in his personal life. I cannot promise you that Shakespeare was never gross to someone in a bar. I cannot promise you he never pressured people unduly, or scammed people out of money, or defended a really gross friend. I cannot prove that away from his writing he wasn’t gross to women, or queer people, or foreigners, that there was not the Tudor equivalent of Twitter receipts for scandalous, problematic behaviour lurking in his life.  We just don’t know enough about Shakespeare to speak with much certainty on his moral virtue as an artist—and that needs to be okay. We actually need to separate art from artist more, because the assumption that social media has brought is that we should have intimate, daily access to an artist’s life, opinions, political beliefs, and even location. That’s wrong. That’s grotesque, and intrusive, and it is just messed up! No! You don’t need to know anything about an artist to enjoy their work! Shit, you shouldn’t have to know anything about an artist to consume their work if the work gives you pleasure, or interest, or does anything to you that art is meant to do. Despite the extremely bad fandom interpretation, Roland Barthes’ Death of the Author (which, hey, opens with an sentence that some might well consider transphobic, so are we going to declare Barthes problematic and stop using Death of the Author to justify our awful fan fic choices? I mean that would require any of you to have ever read it, but, y’know...) does not argue that the author had no influence on the content of a work, that an author’s beliefs, politics, and choices can be separated from (or, more specifically, ignored-in)the text—especially if we don’t like it. Barthes’ argument is, in fact, that that act of transmission, the alchemy of art-creation, forever sunders a work from its author by the very nature of language itself. Even should I tell you the extremely autobiographical short story of “yesterday I went to see Bob’s Burgers: The Movie. It was a delight and I think you should go,” that sentence is not truly about me, but the crafted “I” of the story: I, the real person, am not the I of the thrilling tale of the trip to the cinema. The author is dead: they cannot live in their work because the moment it is transmitted is no longer a living moment. (Italo Calvino covers the same strange nature of I-as-Character in his seminal work of metafiction If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller...)

In other words, though the author can never be absent from their work, meaning in art can only ever come from what you, the observer, bring to it. As Barthes puts it: “Every text is eternally written in the here and now.” No understanding of an author as a person is needed, necessary, or arguably even desirable when approaching art: your connection to it, how you understand it, what it means and how you are shaped by that meeting, exists only in the present, in the act of engaging with the art. (For the record I think Barthes is somewhat too encompassing in his beliefs, I don’t agree with him in full, but the underlying point is: art can not only be separated artist, art is always separate from artist. The artist cannot be the art.)

5) Purity culture is boring. According to these bad takes, we must demand ideological compliance with all our consumed art, and we are somehow bad or stupid people when we form connections with art made by problematic, challenging, or perhaps even reprehensible people> This is such a childish complaint. This standard to which all artists and art-consumers must be held is an irrational one. Modern fandom culture seems utterly unable to accept artists as humans: people who err, who have biases, blind spots, and beliefs. I have been around ling enough to see the term ‘problematic’ lose all meaning, to mutate into a yimakh shemo, a denunciation from which there can be no remorse. Modern fandom culture frequently seems to expect a certain level of investment nomadism: you stick with a work until its author errs, at which points you are to immediately move on, abandoning the old thing completely. Again, it is the quote up at the top that inspired this whole tirade: we are to know all aspects of an artist, we are to judge those actions unceasingly, and at the first ‘error’ we are to just abandon the art and find something new. We should simply like something else at will. It’s tiring. It’s boring. And I am sick of the animosity, the smug judgement, the crucifixions and the damnatio memoriæ. I’m just tired of this puritan impulse in which I must justify my pleasures to the masses in order to prove that my free time is spent virtuously. I must be quick to denounce all that is ungodly, and allow no wickedness to sully my heart. I read no evil, I listen to no evil, I ship no evil. Piss off. [Edit: in response to some comments, I should note that yes, there is a distinction between engaging with the art of a problematic artist, and handing them money. While we cannot often just ‘stop liking something’ we discover comes from a morally complicated place, we can quite easily not support an amoral person financially.]

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DETAILED DISLIKES!

( answer the questions for your muse. )

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MUSE’S NAME.  Leder Bertram Herze

LEAST FAVOURITE NICKNAME.  I don't think he cares one way or another. But he'd rather be called Leder than Beanpole/Beanstalk, which was a lot of people's nickname for him prior to the cataclysm.

LEAST FAVOURITE COLOURS.  I don't think he likes bright or neon colors. Probably yellow in particular, idk. He likes dark, monochrome colors lol.

LEAST FAVOURITE SEASON.  Summer for sure, especially since he used to stand outside all fucking day during the insane heat. He'd rather be cold than hot, though his preference for cold has lessened as he's gotten older and developed joint paint.

LEAST FAVOURITE WEATHER.  Hot weather, as I said, though he hates super cold weather too. Please just give him a nice temperate climate. He is tall and very old he does not need this. He also doesn't like it when it gets super windy.

LEAST FAVOURITE, HOT OR COLD.  WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME ESSENTIALLY THE SAME QUESTIONS-- fucking hot.

LEAST FAVOURITE HOLIDAY.  I don't think he really dislikes any, though he doesn't care for his birthday at all. Leder just doesn't see a reason to celebrate that for himself, really? Not that he hates it, he's just whatever about it.

LEAST FAVOURITE FOOD.  I don't think he enjoys marzipan.

LEAST FAVOURITE FLAVOUR.  I think Leder probably dislikes strong flavors rather than any particular one. Too sour, too spicy, too sweet, too bitter, etc.

LEAST FAVOURITE DRINK.  Not much of a soda guy, I imagine. Too sugary. Also same for iced tea in Tazmily, they probably got the diabetes type sweet tea there KRHF

LEAST FAVOURITE SCENT.  After being held prisoner in a sewer, I'd assume whatever the fuck those awful, musty apartments smelled like lol.

LEAST FAVOURITE SOUND.  Probably doesn't like the sound of people eating. That or just 'whatever distracting sound there is when he's trying to work'.

LEAST FAVOURITE BOOKS.  Leder doesn't like conspiracy books or dishonest, hokey nonsense like that. Especially as a former book publisher, lol.

LEAST FAVOURITE MOVIES.  Probably not into particularly violent ones. Not a big action guy, prefers quiet dramas.

LEAST FAVOURITE TV SHOWS.  Same sort of thing, but I don't think he enjoyed TV in general. A lot of it was likely propaganda back in those days.

LEAST FAVOURITE AREA OF STUDY.  I don't think he cares any which way-- he appreciates everything.

LEAST FAVOURITE ASPECT OF JOB.  I think dealing with the others towns' bullshit. There's a lot of whining and griping at Tazmily since they're the most established town and the most successful in some ways, and dealing with the people running these towns can be obnoxious, particularly Molewarp Council.

LEAST FAVOURITE PERSON.  Porky Minch babey!!!  It couldn’t be anyone else but him, and most people would agree with that.

LEAST FAVOURITE TRAIT IN OTHERS.  Selfishness, good God. He loves the Tazmilians to death, they're all like family to him, but man it was painful watching them do all that stupid shit during the Pigmask occupation.

LEAST FAVOURITE PLACE TO BE.  New Pork City. I think that's self-explanatory.

LEAST FAVOURITE THING TO TALK ABOUT.  While Leder is basically Tazmily's one therapist, he doesn't like to talk about his own trauma. Because of this, he rarely talks about his past, his wife, his family, so on.

LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT THEMSELF.  He's a pushover sometimes and he didn't do nearly enough to protect Tazmily when he felt he could've. He's not sure what he'd tell them would've changed anything, though.

LEAST FAVOURITE DAILY CHORE.  I don't think he cares either way. Chores are chores, but he's never been the best at anything that takes him bending over a lot. Bad back and all, y'know.

LEAST FAVOURITE STYLE OF CLOTHING.  Leder isn't much into casual clothes himself. He likes to dress formally and nicely all the time. He doesn't care what others do, though.

LEAST FAVOURITE ACTIVITY.  I don't think he enjoys cooking much. It's not bad, just not his thing.

LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT HUMANITY.  How easy it is for them all to forget where they came from and what they've gone through. Leder was always vehemently against erasing their memories, and he knew it wouldn't end well and was right. He never blamed the Tazmilians for that, but it could've saved some heartbreak, perhaps, if they'd known how to deal with conflict better. Even prior to Nowhere, though, humanity has been like this. Egos get in the way of everything.

LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT FALLING IN LOVE.  Knowing you could lose 'em. And he did. It's hard not being able to be with someone you love forever.

LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT DEATH.  The fact that it just isn't fair sometimes. Leder doesn't fear death and he accepts it, but he can't deal with it too much when someone dies "before their time," essentially. He was crushed when Hinawa died because she had so much life to live.