#which deck to get?

[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[quarkfancam]

the autism spectrum

[lurukifennecfox]

Anti-spectra!Jazz

so, we have Ghost!Jazz for whatever reason, i personally like it to happen a few years after Danny's Accident.

so Jazz is a ghost now, and her Obsession is predictably Psychology but unlike Spectra, Jazz gets pover from her clients actually making progress!

i also think it would be hilarious if Jazz's human disguise is more convincing that Danny's human form since his ghost side started bleeding into it more and he gives off uncanny vibes. Jazz does too but not more than anybody from amity park.

and she decides to move to Gotham because of course she wants to work in Arkham she can fulfill her Obsession and actually help people a lot there!

[ethosiab]

still feels unreal that there was a solid two months or so where we got regular 2 hour uploads from etho. god is real (in the form of tangotek)

[charminglyantiquated]

9/25 update on the Nautilus, for anyone curious. Details below (long), but in summary: the damage is more expensive than we'd hoped. We will have to buy Nautilus back as salvage and repair her mostly out of pocket. We still do intend to repair her, but it seems now it will be over a timeline of several years. The fundraiser for her repairs has been raised to reflect the new estimate, and will remain up as long as we're working on her, for anyone who wishes to contribute. I'm so unbelievably, profoundly grateful to all of you who have helped us so far. Thank you so, so much.

Damage: a joint survey was conducted Tuesday between surveyors from our insurance and that of the other vessel. It will be another 3-4 weeks before we have the official paperwork, but the consensus was that the damage approaches twice Nautilus' value. In addition to the mast and all the attached rigging, sails, hardware, etc., the teak deck would have to come up in order to address the damage to the deck and hull. This means that rather than pay for repairs, our insurance company is almost certainly going to write her off as a total loss.

I am waiting for formal documentation before sharing any exact numbers. Once we have them I will be more precise. But the general process as I understand it right now is below, for anyone curious about how everything shakes out.

What a loss means with insurance: my understanding is that repair damages are only covered by insurance up to the point a vessel is totaled. Since the damages almost certainly surpass her value then she would be totaled instead. In this scenario, our insurance would give us the value the Nautilus was insured for, and then pursue the other vessel's insurance for their own reimbursement. Additionally the other insurance might give us the income we lost over the remainder of the season, but whether that will happen and what amount that would be is up in the air, with the three different attorneys we consulted agreeing that we'd be fortunate to get any amount. Anything beyond that is apparently unlikely, any other legal pursuit would possibly lose us more money that we might hope to gain.

On our end: we took out a loan to buy Nautilus in April, and still owe the majority of it. By the terms of the loan, with a total loss we would have to pay back the full loan immediately. Then, because this is essentially our insurance 'buying' Nautilus from us, we would have to buy her back as salvage. The salvage price would be determined by the salvageable parts of her, and the surveyor. Hopefully it would be less than five figures, but it depends heavily on which insurance company actually ends up with her, and how exhaustively they tally up the pieces of her that they could sell. The surveyors could not tell us at the time of the survey who would end up with her or what they would charge. For the next month or two Nautilus is in a kind of purgatory where we do still technically own her, but only until insurance gets through the paperwork, which makes it difficult to begin any work right now.

Financially: when the dust settles, once the loan is paid and we own Nautilus once more as salvage, I think that based on the current estimates we may have some funds remaining. But even in the best case scenario - low salvage price, and we do receive lost income - it wouldn't be enough to finance all the needed repairs. My partner and I will be keeping the fundraiser up for as long as we are working on her, for anyone who wishes to contribute to her repair fund. Any help from anyone who would like to see her sailing again will always be deeply appreciated, but we're both aware it's an absurd number. If we fail to meet it, we're both keenly aware it's not through any lack of generosity - I cannot possibly express how grateful we are for the help we have received already, and what a massive difference it has made over the last month as we deal with the immediate and long-term fallout, covering her haul-out and towing and bills over the months it will likely take to resolve all this.

Fixing Nautilus: my partner and I are still committed to repairing her, despite the cost and the time involved. The thought of letting her be cut up for salvage is too heartbreaking to bear. But at the pace things are progressing and with the resources we have, it's obvious now that it's not feasible to fix her fully over the winter; it will instead be over the course of several years. However, my partner and I hope that by doing as much of the work ourselves as we are qualified for, we can bring down the overall cost of repairs by a fair amount. Additionally, the broken mast was built only a few years ago by a gentleman who still has the plans for it and is willing to guide us through the process of building a replacement. There is a possibility we can connect with a local boat building school's fledgling restoration program. And a great many people have offered their time, advice, expertise, and contacts. The timeline has changed, but we are not giving up on her.

In the meantime: with the survey done, we now have at least a general idea of what the future will look like. Since working nonstop to get Nautilus sailing again by June is not on the table any longer, my partner and I are currently figuring out a long-term plan for ourselves, our little company, and the Nautilus herself. We have discussed a few ideas, which I'll share more about once we settle on anything concrete. Nautilus herself is finally clear of wreckage, with the pieces of her mast on sawhorses beside her, her deck swept clean, solar panel plugged in, and a tarp over the worst of the damage. She's as safe as we can make her for now; there's nothing else we can do except wait for the wheels to turn.

Lastly: thank you all, more than I can say. I have been trying not to miserypost, but I have been having a very hard time dealing with this, as has my partner. It took us ten years to save the money we put into Nautilus, and the few months we were able to spend sailing her together were the happiest and proudest I have been in my life. We have lost the future we'd imagined, and regardless of how this resolves, we are never getting that time back. We are determined not to lose the Nautilus as well, but it has honestly been difficult some days to push through the grief. The one consistent silver lining has been the kindness and sympathy and outrage from everyone who has taken the time to reach out to us. I have been floored, over and over, by how many people we have rooting for us. I am never, ever going to be able to express my full gratitude to all of you. Without exaggeration, you have kept me going.

I will share more once we know more - exact numbers, exact damage, exact plans for repairs and the next steps. Until then, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

[leifyposting]

i like to think about mond trio playing tcg together because:

jean's deck is her, barbara, and kaeya. so cute. so colour-coordinated. so not-meta. it would make some sense to have two healers if she was playing a fontaine hp change meta but she's not. she just picked her favourite people and said "we ball" and tbh i respect it

3/10 for meta

10/10 for vibes

kaeya's deck is significantly more meta. he has benny for heals and mona for quickswap so he can leverage his burst. he and bennett share normal attack patterns and mona has a voice line about him so you could argue he knows both of them at least reasonably well

8/10 for meta

7/10 for vibes

??? diluc? ?????

he and razor canonically know each other but xiangling?????? diluc why is there a random chef in your deck. this lineup doesn't even make sense with the meta either - overload is fine but having two main dpses and one summons dps with no healer is wild

4/10 for meta

3/10 for vibes

[violant-apologia]

was looking back at the FL posters and remembered how cool the horticultural show ones were. so:

[dizzybizz]

i haven't introduced tumbly to my drawtectives oc!!! this is my guy nick nack, he runs a shop where he sells antiques and well... knick knacks.. he loves trinkets n bits n bobs n he is oh so short.

[whatudottu]

That moment when your combined power of dyslexia and Engrish lead you to love! Or well technically they both went in blind dating so they already had some expectation to fall for each other lmao-!

This is inspired by the time I kept saying lenopan instead of loboan for my oc to which I just ended up making him a lenopan loboan hybrid, these just so happen to be his parents :P

they're not currently important enough to have a name but a very far future sequel below let me introduce to you the lead singer of Thing/s Jed recounting this tale to keyboardist manic pixie nightmare sparkle dog cat girl citrakayah Rixie who's thinking that Jed is a puppy made of sludge-

[thegoldenavenger]

Liu Qingge date lineup… I was thinking about how funny it would be to see how dating might change your lifestyle

[savingsallow]

— some headshots of val cuz why not✨

[essektheylyss]

this tarot deck REALLY wants to remind me to Hermit. this is convenient considering a) the Hermit is one of my favorite cards and b) I associate it with one of the quotes that I keep nearby at all times for writing purposes ("Do not be afraid to disappear, from it, from us, for a while, and see what comes to you in the silence" from Michaela Coel's Emmy acceptance speech in 2021).

however this is NOT convenient because do you have any fucking idea how much I have to do before I can get to that, Hermit card?

[glimblshanks]

For Mariner to be happy and fulfilled she needs a stable group of friends, a good relationship with her mom, a settled and supportive work/living situation, and plenty of time to process her war trauma. Meanwhile all Ransom needs to be happy and fulfilled is a bunch of stairs and some decon slime, so all that's to say that opposites attract, and they're actually perfect for each other.

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

i have seen a lot of posts about lucanis & illario lately, that specifically call out that some of the things Lucanis says about him are kinda mean. usually in context of 'yes what illario did was fucked up but they BOTH went thru the fucked up training and lucanis says shit to him too' etc etc. and i'll be honest as someone who does have a contentious/estranged/very-low-contact sibling relationship. everything lucanis said came off as super mild to me and they should both be WAY nastier to each other actually. yes even when you include their dynamic in wigmaker job which was both more lighthearted And heartfelt. but like if you want realism they should be going from that to 1 minute later annoyed enough to break out the super cutting remarks dragging up the worst things the other has ever done/said, specifically becuause they know it will hurt the other most. then i would believe it more tbh.

[cerulean100-blog1]

belated screaming about WBK 173 because holy fuck

-so do we all agree that Kiryu and Akaris dad is enemy number 1? We do? Alright cool fuck that guy

-the day before me and a friend were theorizing that Kiryu had another sibling since he has the kanji for 3 in his name so color me surprised that the chapter said “actually he has 2 other siblings and they both suck!!”

-the way Sakura and Kiryus eyes were wobbling like they wanted to cry at points?? The way the light fell on Sakura making it look like he was crying?? Nii Satoru when I catch you Nii Satoru

-Nirei and Tsuge grabbing onto Sakura to stop him from stepping in was great, as was Suo not doing so, he wanted that fight (more on him in a sec)

-I looove the complicated sibling relationship Kiryu and Akari have, I love that they care for each other but also fundamentally misunderstand each other, I love that Kiryu seems like he’s being negative about her by saying he’s become like her when in reality it’s a positive, I love that Akari breaks our expectations of her being kind but air headed by staging her own mini rebellion by going to college and working at a part time job (likely so she can move out and be independent) and possibly hangs out with guys she knows are shitty because it’s one of the few things she has control over, I love that they both wanna protect each other from the brunt of the abuse, I LOVE THEEEEEM

-SAKURA GOING BACK FOR THE PLUSHIE KIRYU WAS LOOKING AT???? I LOVE MY SON SO MUCH

-someone pointed out to me that Suos been kinda quiet the past 2 chapters???? Either he’s got his own plan forming on how to help (using his persuasion skills against their dad? Getting his Master involved?) or Suos PISSED and wants to step in but for whatever reason (possibly related to how he was raised/his own past trauma) he feels like he can’t, which checks out with his line about how “we can’t really step in when it’s not our family.” (Also saw a theory that something happened to him that’s making him act off/pull away but he was acting like his usual self at Sakuras apartment/the mall so I don’t think that’s it)

-I wonder if Sakuras gonna talk to Akari next chapter and hear her out like he did with Tsuchiya (maybe learn in the meantime that there are more ways of protecting yourself then fighting physically) or is he gonna let her do her thing and go cheer up Kiryu?

-I also wonder how this is all gonna end, I feel like at some point her dad is gonna find out about the job and take her money/try to isolate her, but then what? Do the boys break her out and get her somewhere safe? Does she appeal to whatever humanity’s left in her Dad and the boys learn there are some problems fists can’t solve? Does Sakura help her get a new job/offer to let her and Kiryu stay at his place? Does an adult step in to help? I’m very curious as to where this is going.

-THANK GOD THERES AN UPDATE NEXT WEEK WBK I MISSED YOU

[lostyesterday]

Star Trek Women as Chappell Roan Songs

B’Elanna Torres – Femininomenon

Jadzia Dax and Lenara Kahn – Guilty Pleasure

Philippa Georgiou – Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl

Christine Chapel – Picture You

Beckett Mariner and Jennifer Sh'reyan – Red Wine Supernova

Deanna Troi – Kaleidoscope

Seska – My Kink is Karma

T’Pring – Coffee

Beckett Mariner – After Midnight

Raffi Musiker and Seven of Nine – Casual

T’Pol – California

Lwaxana Troi – Hot to Go!

Ezri Dax – Pink Pony Club

Deanna Troi and Tasha Yar – Naked in Manhattan