#which is a pretty good number for a small server

[orcelito]

I think I'm going to edit my pinned post. To put a link to my vashwood server on there

I don't feel like continuously reblogging a post anymore but I want ppl to be able to join if they're interested

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[gaypanicmode7766259]

But.. what if it isn't a lie?

Avis amberg x fem!reader

Warnings: soft lovey sex a bit of angst sad avis wlw

I wrote this while rewatching Hollywood and dying-

Avis had shown up to the gas station after she had heard Ernie hired some new servers, what she wasn't expecting was to see women working there but oh was she interested, she parked her car to go talk to Ernie and when she came out a shy girl was following her..

"no need to be shy, sweet girl." Avis said softly, side eyeing you as she drove. You only managed to give her a nervous look as you messed with your hands. "Are you new, doll?"

"m..mhm.." you hummed softly stealing looks at her which earned you a small chuckle and a gloved hand on your thigh "don't worry dear I don't bite.. unless you're ok with it of course." Avis said as she pulled into the hotel. "Now let's go have some fun pretty girl." Avis smirked before opening the door to her car and stepping out leaving you like a confused puppy before you realized and scurried out of the car yourself trailing behind avis.

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"aw such a good girl.."

"yes just like that.."

Avis's voice rang in your head as you 'worked' on a car.. "where is your head at kid?" You jumped as you heard Ernies "avis really did a number on you huh?" He grinned "shut the hell up Ernie." You mumbled as you looked back to the car "well she's here for you again" he said making you basically snap you head back to look at him then to avis who was watching from her convertible with an amused grin on her face

Your face glowed red before you glared at Ernie then walked off to avis "hi sweet thing" she said gently as you got into her car. "Hi Mrs amberg.." I said with a soft smile but she didn't look at you.. only ahead, she was an actress but you could still tell when she was acting "ma'am are you ok?" "Fine dear." She replied before you could even finish your sentence.. you stayed quiet after that, following her into the hotel when you arrived.

When you got into the hotel room she practically pounced on you, not doing her usual slow strip or taking her time. She wanted you, and she wanted you now. This wasn't like her and you could feel the tension in her body as she pinned you down on the bed.. finally letting you breath as she pulled away from the sloppy kiss

"Avis-" you choked out, but she didn't stop. You were worried about her.. "be quiet darling.. just let me have this.. let me feel you.. let me feel wanted.. even.. even if it's a lie.." her voice almost broke you.. grabbing her hands you stopped her..

"but.. but what if it.. isn't a lie?.." your voice was vulnerable and that shocked avis, "what do you mean?" Her voice was strict, "I.. I.. I'm.. I'm always.. just so excited.. to see you.. I mean not just for.. the sex, but for you. Just to see you.." you admitted..

Avis suddenly pinned you down again but this time she was less tense less sloppy.. her hands effortlessly ran over your unclothed skin, her lips grazing along your body as she made her way down.. stopping when she got in between your legs.. spreading them and not wasting any time, her tongue dipped into your heat as she lapped a line up to your clit before taking it into her mouth.. two fingers slipped into your heat making you let out a small moan..

You hid your face in your arms trying to hide your noises.. you felt her lips leave you as she came back up still pumping her fingers in and out of you, "don't hide sweet girl.." she whispered as she grabbed your hands gently taking them and moving them away from your face so she could see you, "I wanna hear your pretty little noises.."

Her tone was soft and gentle filled with.. love?.. you could see tears in her eyes.. was she sad?.. you gently leaned up kissing her as her fingers pumped in and out of you still.. you could taste yourself on her lips.. "Avi..." You whispered against her lips.. "I.. I love you.. I really.. really do.."

She kissed you again.. more deeply as her pace quickened and before you knew it you walls clenched around her fingers.. "just like that darling.. good girl.. you're doing so well.." avis praised as she helped you ride out your high

After you came down she brought her fingers up to your lips.. letting you suck your juices off of her fingers as she watched you with adoring half lidded eyes "I love you too angel.."

[mawofthemagnetar]

Father's Day

“So, hold on a minute,” Iskall held his hands up, “back up, because I must have missed that. You’re a FATHER?”

“Well, yeah?” Jevin shrugged, scrolling through his comm, “What’s so hard about that to believe?”

Iskall, by way of a reply, simply gestured at Jevin’s person from his head to his slimy feet.

“So? Okay, yeah, I guess it- is a little hard to fathom. I do, uh, have a certain- aura of coolness around me. But yeah, no, I’m a dad. And a damn good one, too. I mean, a slime-dad, which is a little different than a regular dad. But for a slime-dad, I’m top-shelf. Of course.”

“Uh-huh. And how does a slime-dad differ from a regular dad?” Iskall folded his arms.

“I don’t gotta, uh, chase after my kids as much as you guys do. They’re pretty much ready to go once they hit full-size. I do my bit by checking up on them periodically. Anyway, point is, I gotta go. My kids are throwing a father’s day bash, and I can’t be late.”

Iskall rubbed his temples.

“Okay, couple questions. One, father’s day was three months ago. Two, is there a Missus Jevin you’ve got stashed away somewhere? Or a Mister Jevin? Or-“

“…Why would another person be involved?” Jevin asked, tilting his head with a squish of slime, “Like, literally, why? Who needs help to become a parent?”

“…Uh…you know what? No. You want to learn about the parrots and the bats, go talk to Keralis.”

“Sure, whatever. Anyway, to answer your second question, it’s ‘cause if you try to do father’s day on the actual, like, day, renting a big enough hall is stupid expensive and it’s all just kind of dumb. And a hassle. So we host it whenever.”

Jevin glanced up from his comm.

“Wanna come? Meet my kids, I mean.”

Iskall rubbed his forehead.

“Sure, why not. Hit me with it.”

They tapped their comms together, and Jevin clacked his jaw together- the slime equivalent of a smile.

“Okay, so uh…All my kids know you guys as their aunts and uncles. So if they start calling you “auntie Iskall-“

“-Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m used to it.” Iskall nodded, “Should I wear something special?” 

Jevin waved a hand. 

“Nah, don’t worry about it. You’re fine as you are. Anyway, let’s go. Not good to keep my kids waiting!” 

And Jevin tapped a few options on his comm and vanished. 

<iJevin has left the game.> 

Iskall shrugged, tapped over to his server list, and selected the option for the Hub, with the teleport coordinates visible in the centre. 

He tapped it, and vanished. 

<Iskall85 has left the game.>

When Iskall opened his eyes again, he was standing outside a colossal building, looking like some kind of conference centre. It was made of smooth quartz, with a fake parking lot full of fake vehicles that had clearly taken some builder a long time to put together. 

Jevin was standing there, tapping his sneaker impatiently, the blue slime slosh-slosh-sloshing against the ground. 

“Alright, c’mon, let’s get moving.” Jevin huffed, “We’re already a couple minutes late, and my kids worked really hard to put this on.” 

“I’m coming, I’m coming…” Iskall muttered, brushing off his pants and following Jevin towards the doors.

Iskall was assuming that Jevin’s family would have set up a few tables in a corner. He was a slime; and the way Jevin was talking, Iskall had assumed a big family. Maybe ten kids? That would be a pretty big family. 

Then Jevin and Iskall stepped into the conference hall. 

“HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, DAD!” 

Several thousand slimes bellowed all at once, a wall of sound so deafening that Iskall could feel his bionic eye nearly shake out of its housing. 

He blinked his one eye, darting it around the room in shock. There were hundreds of small tables around which sat an unfathomable number of slimes in all colours of the rainbow. The room was a riot of wild fashion choices, and a deafening rumble of clattering bones and squelching bodies.

“I- I-” Iskall stammered, as he reached up and tightened the nut holding his robotic eye onto his skull’s mounting post.  

“HEY EVERYONE!” Jevin shouted back, “THANK YOU!” 

“Is that Uncle Iskall?” a deep voice said eagerly, “It’s so nice to meet you!” 

“You have…THOUSANDS…of children. Not ten. Not twenty. Not even a hundred. THOUSANDS.” Iskall stammered. 

“Yeah. I’m, uh, the father of all slime hybrids. It’s not a big deal, to be honest. Some other slime would’ve absorbed a skeleton and decided to think about itself if I hadn’t.” Jevin shrugged. 

“All. Of them. ALL OF THEM.” Iskall clutched his head in his hands.

“Yeah? It’s not that difficult. You just, like, shed some slime on a large enough pile of biomass, it’ll grow into a kid. How is this so confusing for you? That’s probably where humans come from.” Jevin shrugged. 

He rubbed his slimy hands together with a hideous squelch, and started traveling through the room, eagerly greeting each and every one of his kids. 

Iskall staggered over to the snack table, piled high with compost, cinderblocks, and beer. He popped a bottle, and started chugging it.

[bonny-kookoo]

Yoongi:

Lock Me Up | Intro/Part 1

In which his job is pretty clear on paper; find the witness, bring her in, write down what she saw and then let the witness protection program handle the rest. The only problem: You've got other plans.

Tags/Warnings: Detective Agust D my friends, Criminal Kitty!Reader, hybrid Yoongi, mentions of murder, mentions of violence, mentions of blood, mentions of past abuse, strangers to enemies to I don't even know, sexual tension

Length: Long, 4k words

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"So, just her then?" He asks, reading the files about his most recent case. "Double homicide, and she got away?" He wonders, as the young officer shrugs at the table.

"According to another witness, she saw her run out of the house we found the victims in, and she apparently got chased down the street- but a butcher downtown told a patrolling officer that she was fine the day after." He explains, making Yoongi sigh.

"Well, finding a cat in D-Town." The man takes the files for himself, grabbing his coat. "How hard can it be?"

Turns out, it's not that hard at all, considering the high percentage of hybrid population in D-Town.

He's walking into the small restaurant, most of the people eating and working being hybrids, immediately looking at him with suspicion as all conversation quiets down. He's used to it by now, most hybrids aware of what he is, his reputation amongst each and every one of them one of a traitor. "I'm searching for a female hybrid. Feline." Yoongi asks one of the servers behind the counter, cooks turning around to watch the detective. "Has a ID number tattooed into her left ear. 0713." He offers an image depicting you caught by the security camera of a small grocery shop nearby.

But much to his expectation, everyone shrugs, shakes their heads, won't tell him anything. It's a typical pack-mentality amongst hybrids- no matter what, they stick together against the human dominated police force.

"Alright, let's ask for your papers then. Mind me having a look at all the legal documents for your little establishment?" He melodically threatens, and it's clear that it makes the young server and her husband close by nervous, her eyes immediately looking at two young twin hybrids watching a cartoon on an old CRT-TV. "She's.. upstairs. She didn't do anything, she's a good girl-!" The woman begs, yells after the detective as he immediately makes his way up the stairs, only her husband holding her back.

The moment Yoongi opens the door to what he assumes might be a bedroom though, you're clearly there-

Jumping straight out of a window.

"Fuck.!" He calls out, running back downstairs to run after you, whole restaurant laughing and cheering for you as you dash away from the detective, heels clicking on the pavement as you run away. He has to admit that he's a little impressed by your ability to jump over obstacles and run so fast with those mary janes, though it's clear after a while that he's got the better stamina of the both of you. He's catching up to you.

But you're clearly already very knowledgeable in police chases, because you suddenly jump up against a wall of a small building, managing to somehow heave your entire body up the ledge to get onto the roof.

"So what now, huh?!" He calls out to you, breathing heavily just like you are. "One call and I've got the fucking thing surrounded. Just get down, I'm here- fuck.." He breathes for a second, before catching his composure again. "-I'm not here to arrest you."

"Hmm.. nah, I'm good." You simply answer, sitting close to the edge of the roof now.

"That wasn't a question." He calls out back up to you, one brow raised in annoyance. "Get down."

"No." You simply answer stubbornly, your tail swaying from left to right behind you, since you've moved to lay on your stomach instead, arms on the edge of the rooftop, chin resting on top of them.

"Alright. Hybrid 0713, you're under temporary arrest for suspicion of involvement in a double homicide case." He orders out to you. "Now get down here-"

"Does that ever work on anybody?" You ask after a moment of silence with an almost bored tone to your voice, face clearly showing genuine interest in the answer though.

He licks his lips, hands now in his pockets. "Not really if I'm honest." He shrugs honestly, making you giggle. "Come on now, I seriously only need you for questioning, I don't care about any other shit you've done."

"How about you buy me dinner first?" You ask, rolling over onto your back, now looking at him upside down, and he's unsure if you're aware of your cleavage ready to spill out of your dress, or if you're trying to put him under your spell.

With eyes as enchanting like yours, he could see it work if the setting was different. Wait- what the hell was he thinking?

"Are you serious?" He growls. "You're not in any place to make demands." He argues, and you shrug at that, before getting up to leave, moving out of sight. "Hey-!" He calls out, walking around the small shed you've climbed up on, unable to spot you. "I'm not getting paid enough for this shit.." He mumbles as he moves a trashcan closer to the side of the building, slowly climbing up onto the roof- to find nothing.

"I'll give it an eight out of ten, but only cause you've got a nice ass, Mister Detective-" You giggle behind him down on the floor, before you laugh. "See you later, Imposter!" You laugh as you run off-

leaving him sighing on the rooftop, questioning his life choices.

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Every day you're out there on your own, is a day where you run the chance of getting yourself killed. And while he's got no emotional connection to you at all, you're still an important witness to his case- so he's got to make sure he can avoid you biting the dust anytime soon.

He spots you near an old fountain that's now worked for years, but still holds water, back turned towards him. From the movement of your ears and the way your tail snaps upwards once, you've clearly notice him already though. "Don't worry-" You chuckle, moving around as he walks closer. "-Won't run off this time." You say, as he's finally close enough to see what you're doing.

The side of one of your legs is severely scratched up, from your ankle straight up to almost your thigh. You're using the water to wash off any dirt, shoes and socks neatly placed next to you. "What happened?" He asks, and you shrug, calmly cleaning yourself as he sits down next to you with a respectful distance.

"Tripped. Fell." You shrug, and it's clear to him that you're not telling him the whole story. Even so, he doesn't need to know it- the only thing he needs to know, is what you've seen the night of the murder.

"We'll get that looked at at the police station." He offers, standing up, and you grin impishly, leaning your head back to look at him above you. "What?"

"You gonna carry me, Mister Detective?" You ask, tail swishing from left to right in your amusement.

"First of all, stop calling me that, second of all, why would I do that?" He asks, putting his hands in his pockets.

"I'm hurt!" You whine, turning around with your now wet legs, holding the scratched up one out towards him. "I can't walk." You say with big sparkling eyes, and he squints his own as an answer to them it feels like.

"It's just scratched, now dry off and put your shoes on." He demands, making you pout and cross your arms.

"No." You answer, and he has to take a deep breath to contain himself.

He's however, internally, a little confused at himself. Why does this whole thing amuse him so much? He's not so much angry or frustrated, but there's something entirely different brewing inside him. "Hm, that angry look doesn't work quite right with human eyes like that." You say, catching him off guard. "You'd have a way better chance without those fake lenses." You offer, and he doesn't react to it at all.

"Get up." He simply says, and you do so, limping on one foot. "Come on, drop the act now. I don't have all day for your games."

"We could already be on our way if you decided to be a gentleman, Mister Detective." You snap back, picking up your shoes and socks.

"I told you to stop calling me that." He bites at you, and you have the audacity to laugh.

"And I told you to carry me, but I guess we both won't get what we want today." You joke, before you're suddenly lifted up over his shoulder, one arm over the back of your knees to simultaneously keep your dress from lifting up by accident. "What are you doing!?" You stammer out now, and he can't help the smirk growing on his lips as he walks towards the police station.

"Being a gentleman, just like you wanted."

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"She definitely needs some sort of protection until we've found and arrested everyone involved." Another officer named Namjoon says. "She's already been targeted judging from her injuries. She's been lucky until now, but luck is a gamble. Until they've been prosecuted, we'll have to keep her under protective surveillance." Namjoon orders, before he looks at Yoongi.

"Absolutely fucking not." He immediately says, but it stays quiet.

There's no arguing with orders given, so he does ends up walking into the interrogation room, where he unlocks your handcuffs. "Oh, Mister Detective!" You perk up as you catch his scent, tail swatting into his face almost as he leans away from it. "Finally! I'm so hungry, I swear.." You whine, eagerly freeing your hands out of the cuffs before you get up, jumping on one leg as the other ankle had been put inside a brace since you've sprained it. "Can you carry me back to the restaurant downtown?" You wonder hopeful.

"You're not gonna go anywhere for a while." He tells you, moving your hair away from your neck. It's weird that the way his hands touch you makes you shiver a little- nervousness bubbling up inside you as he places the leather collar around your neck, something clicking in place in the back. "I'm legally required to inform you that you've been electronically tagged until you're no longer required to be. You'll be staying under both GPS surveillance and house arrest until the case has been officially closed or dropped, and the tag can be used at any given time to locate you or send out police enforcement to retrieve you in case it's deemed necessary. Did you understand everything I just said?" He asks, and you sigh, kicking out your feet stubbornly.

"…yeah.." You mumble with an attitude, pulling on the collar. "Can you loosen it a bit though? You're kind of choking me and I'm not really into that." You say, and he clicks his tongue.

"That's as much as I can do." He tells you after loosening it a little. "You'll get used to it."

"I guess." You snap with your eyes rolling, standing up. "So.. I'm gonna be locked up?" You ask, looking at him.

"You're just under house arrest, like I said." He shrugs. "Close monitoring is what they call it. I'll basically be forced to be your babysitter until the case is finished, but they'll let you stay at your own home unless decided otherwise." He explains, and you suddenly seem a lot more relieved about that.

"Alright I guess." You say, getting up to grab your shoes, still barefoot., before you lift up your arms towards him.

"What now." He asks with an emotionless face, hands in his pockets.

"I still can't walk." You say.

"You can hop around on that thing." He answers, turning around, before he opens the door- though you've sat back down on your chair, arms crossed.

"I don't wanna hop around." You simply say, looking at him challengingly. He pushes his tongue against the inside of his cheek- and you just know, if he did have cat ears, they'd be full force airplane-mode right now to visualize his growing frustration with you.

And you love it- because he's so stuck up in being professional that there's no way he'd ever act on whatever the hell he's thinking inside his head. He's probably used to getting his way, a macho and alpha-male who's deep down so insecure about being seen as a proper male that he-

Suddenly your world is upside-down again as he carries you over his shoulder yet again, and you kick your legs out in denial. "Hey no, that's not fair-!" You whine, tail swatting into his face before he grabs a hold of it in the palm of the hand belonging to the arm holding your legs. "-Let me down you suit-wearing di-"

"Better watch your mouth, sugar, or I'll have to charge you with disorderly conduct." He tells you, and you huff in frustration to yourself as you shut up at that, hanging limply off his shoulder as he walks out of the police station with you like this.

"You think Detective Min is going to be able to handle this on his own?" A young police officer wonders to the leading detective Kim, who just chuckles in his office as he watches the scene unfold.

"Oh, I'm not worried about him whatsoever." He simply says, grinning amused.

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It's in the middle of the night, when the small monitor on his wrist begins to buzz, waking him him from his sleep. He's squinting his eyes painfully against the bright light of the small screen, before he realizes what he's reading.

[TAG ALERT: SUSPICIOUS MOVEMENT DETECTED]

He's instantly on his feet, rushing to put on clothes and shoes before he rushes out his door and onto the streets, where he checks the monitor to know where he needs to go. The tag alert itself isn't something he's surprised about- he's expected you to start wandering around even with your little issue- but you're moving way faster than you should be capable of, indicating that there might be something terribly wrong.

In front of the restaurant you've been living at, the mother with her twin children is already standing outside, pointing down the street with one of her toddlers in her arms, making Yoongi immediately run to where she'd directed him to. There's drag marks on the ground, alarming him further as he starts to smell your fear and panic- fueling his instincts to get to you before anything could happen.

"Let go you crack-smoking rodent-!" He can hear you yell, loud commotion coming from down the street behind a closed grocery store- and it's at least a sign to him that you're still very much alive and kicking.

"Fucking bitch just bit me-!" Someone yells out, as Yoongi rounds the corner, gun drawn.

"D-Town police, hands up where I can fucking see them!" He yells, causing everyone to move and dash off, no shot of his landing to keep them there.

"Nice aim there, Mister Detective." You huff on the ground, rubbing the back of your head. "Thought you guys are trained with those things.." You mumble to yourself, as he walks closer to inspect any damage done to you.

"I'll ignore that comment for now." He says as he checks up on you. "What happened?"

"Broke in, took me from my nest, dragged me here like a bag of rice." You explain, as he lifts your head by your chin, thumb wiping your bottom lip where some blood can be seen. You know he's only trying to figure out if you're hurt or if it's not your blood, but it still affects you considering you're not used to be touched like that.

But another thing you notice, is his eyes- his entire appearance, in fact, as you reach out to move your hand through his hair.

"Hey, stop that.!" He barks out, but you've already done what you wanted to do.

"Huh." You simply hum. "Been wondering if you had anything hidden on your head."

"There's nothing to hide there." He growls almost, standing up instantly before he lifts you up by the back of your shirt. "Now come on. We'll get some of your shit from your place, and then you'll stay with me. I'm not taking anymore chances with you." He orders, and surprisingly, you don't question it, and don't even ask to be carried around, simply hopping alongside him for a while as you make your way down the street.

It's quiet, most people asleep at this point in this part of town, when he sighs, turning towards you to pick you up.

"Come here." He mumbles quietly, tapping his shoulders as he turns around and leans down for you to get onto his back. You silently accept the offer, letting him piggyback you to your home where you stay, and pack a small bag of things you deem necessary for your stay with the detective. He watches quietly from the sidelines as you say goodbye to the young cat hybrids, when he's spoken to from the sides.

"She's a good girl." The husband of the mother tells him. "Just shaped by the circumstances, you know? You bite others or get bitten, as simple as that." He explains.

"I'm not arresting her." Yoongi explains, and the man shakes his head.

"No, no, I know you don't." He exclaims. "But I know you guys always think of us as some sort of criminal bunch that don't follow the rules just to spite you, and we're not." He simply explains. "Just- ah, what does it matter to you I guess.." The man shakes his head, before he walks inside, leading his wife and kids into the safety of the restaurant-

while you walk out of it, ready to be carried away.

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Back at his place, you still haven't really said anything- making him suspicious, as he sits on the edge of his bed, having put up a mattress for you to sleep on close to him in case anything happened at night. "Who were those guys?" He asks, and you shrug, pulling out a rather worn down blanket from your plastic bag.

"Don't know." You answer. "Probably with Takehiko, if I had to make a guess." You shrug, before you pull out one small flower shaped pillow to sleep on- the man mentioned, Takehiko, being the prime suspect of the double homicide. He's well known for selling tampered drugs on the streets of D-Town, as well as blackmailing hybrids by threatening to report them to authorities to be taken into shelters.

Yoongi wants to question if you're alright- if everything's okay with you, but he doesn't. It doesn't concern him, it's none of his business, and the less he gets himself involved with you-

the better it will be for the both of you in the end.

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"Mister Detective!" You call out, and he turns around from his desk to find you rolling around on his carpet on the floor. "I'm bored." You whine, and he sighs, turning back around. "Mister De-"

"I swear to god if you call me that one more time, I'm gonna fucking gag you.!" He growls, turning back around again.

"Kinky." You wiggle your ears, and he takes a deep breath before he crosses his arms. "I'm still bored though."

"Go read something then, I'm here to protect you, not entertain you." He mumbles, before it grows quiet. It makes him turn around to notice you staring into nothingness, before you move to curl up on your mattress instead. It makes him wonder if you're always this stubborn if you don't get your way- or if there's something else going on you're just not telling him.

Either way, he doesn't care, and shouldn't, so he continues working on things he usually doesn't have time for during his workdays, while he assumes you sleep.

"Do you have a tail?" You ask out of a sudden, making him choke on his sip of water as he almost spits it out, cough interrupting him for a good moment.

"What the fuck!" He snarls out, setting down his glass as he wipes his mouth.

"So is that a no?" You wonder, and he shakes his head.

"No!" He says, grabbing tissues to wipe his desk down.

"No- no tail or no- yes tail-" You continue, but he cuts you off.

"No as in, none of your fucking business.!" He growls, clearly agitated at that question. "If your plan is to annoy the fuck out of me so someone else will supervise you, guess what, it's working great."

"Wasn't my intention, actually." You shrug, sitting up now. "Was just curious. You know- since you're clearly a cat too, but also not really. Confused me, that's all." You explain.

"Yeah well, you're not the first." He mumbles to himself, sitting back down at his desk.

"Does it confuse you too?" You ask, and he sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Alright, what the fuck does it take for you to shut up?" He asks, looking at you, and you just smile.

"An answer would be cool." You simply say. "Look, I knew a cat hybrid a few years back and he had a super short tail, but he was a really nice guy! Smoked a lot of weed, but still." You explain, and he leans back in his seat, arms crossed defensively. "So?" You ask.

"I don't have one." He tells you.

"Liar." You squint your eyes, ears tilted towards him. "It's short, isn't it?" You ask almost teasingly, and he looks away at that, giving you the answer needed. "Hey, that's totally alright though, no shame in it! Or.." You tilt your head. "Is that why you hate hybrids so much?"

"I don't hate hybrids." He scoffs, shaking his head at you.

"Yeah right, as if it's pure chance that you're known for putting hybrids into shelters left and right." You huff, crossing your arms as well now.

"It's because you belong there if you do not have a legal guardian or permit for independent living." He argues. "I'm only trying to help you out. A shelter provides you food, a place to sleep, education-" He tries to explain, but you're visibly becoming defensive now.

"Oh yeah and don't forget how they hit you with whatever they've got on hand just because you knock over a glass full of juice at the dinner table!" You hiss, annoyed that he's talking about shelters like they're as holy as a church. "Or how they lock you in the shower with ice cold water after you've pissed yourself out of fear as a kitten because everyone just keeps shouting at you-!" You angrily say, and his features remain without any emotion as he realizes you're not just making up examples you might've heard.

Considering the details and the way you tremble saying those things, it's clear to him that you're talking about your experience in a shelter.

"But what is it to you." You suddenly shrug. "You go continue cosplaying as a human I guess." You mumble, turning around to hide under your blanket again, silence engulfing the room for a moment or two, before he gets up and moves around. You don't know what he's doing, and you honestly don't want to know. You also don't know what you thought blurting your childhood trauma out like that would bring you as a result- but that's how you are, and have always been. Impulsive, wild, a little hyperactive and too honest most of the time.

Suddenly, he's close to you, and you hiss in pure pettiness at him, before you stop in your tracks, watching him.

His face is as stoic as ever, sleeves of his shirt rolled up as he wraps a blanket around you, tucking another one into places, and you're confused. "I- what're you doing?" You ask, and he scoffs to himself.

"You're the hybrid, I honestly got no clue how to do this shit." He mumbles, sighing in defeat as he sits back with crossed legs, letting his hands fall into his lap in defeat.

"But you're a hybrid too." You ask confused, though he shakes his head.

"I'm a freak, there's no need to try and sugarcoat it." He shrugs. "Neither here nor there. I don't know what it's like to be put through the shit you might've been, since I never lived life from your perspective-" He explains, "-and I don't know what it's like to be a human either, since you can only hide so much." The detective explains, watching how you correct his admittedly poor attempt at nesting for you.

It's clear to you that he's trying to apologize for his assumptions without actually having to apologize- the detective is a lot easier to read than he might think he is.

"Yeah, I mean you kind of suck at being both, I won't lie." You say, making him look at you with harmless offense. "What? Your nesting sucks ass, and those contact lenses you constantly wear creep me out." You jab at him. "But!" You bark out, leaning closer to him, catching him off guard a little. "Seeing as we're kind of stuck together, I can give you a rundown on being a hybrid!"

"And why exactly would I want that?" He asks you monotonously, and you roll your eyes.

"Because you clearly got some major identity-issues going on?" You tell him as if it's obvious. "And I also clearly can't magically turn you 100% human out of nowhere."

"I don't have Identity-issues-" He argues, while you look at him with an unconvinced gaze, arms crossed.

"Mid-life-crisis then?" You ask, "You do look pretty old.." You mumble at him.

"I'm not old!" He hisses, and you grin suddenly, ears in airplane-mode while your tail swishes from side to side in happiness. "What?" He asks annoyed again.

"Your teeth." You notice, and he instantly closes his mouth, lips pressed firmly together at having them called out like that. "And you're also not wearing those creepy lenses." You continue to point out, tilting your head to the side. "Handsome, I like it." You comment, and for some reason, that's what forces him to stand up and move away from you, all while you fall onto your back, laughing loudly.

"Shut the fuck up and tell me what you want to eat for dinner instead."

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[coatl-cuddles]

What if Sky had larger server sizes?

Well here's a post going in detail about it, because I am deranged

Warning: Long Post! Seriously!

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Boring Basics

HOW WOULD THIS WORK?

Something to note is that Sky is a pretty intimate experience and can be extremely confusing and overwhelming when starting out.   Because of this I think it's best that you can ONLY ACCESS the higher server sizes AFTER completing eden OR after gaining 100 winged light.   I would do this by putting a realm gate or door in Aviary Village (maybe in the old hut where the Season of Revival gear was), where a candle or darkstone is waiting inside to be lit.  Similar to activating which home base you want to choose, you can manually turn this on and off at any time. This way players who want a more minimalist experience can have that, meanwhile players who want a more socially in-depth ( or socially chaotic haha) experience can have that instead!

“How to divide the numbers?

Sky is broken into loading realms, which are broken into areas, which are then broken down into loading zones” - For the sake of the conversation we will be talking about areas as a WHOLE (anything divided by a loading screen or winged gate is up for debate).  We will NOT be including loading zones.  The concept of different loading zones having different area sizes is dumb and would be hell for groups of players going together. So we’re going to pretend like they don’t exist lol.  Like oops sorry little Timmy this loading zone is actually 10 people not 12 you will now be thanos snapped from the group.  So unless it is a COMPLETELY segregated area/realm, the server size will remain the same. (with a few small exceptions)

This is just for theoretical fun!  I am making this post COMPLETELY IGNORING practical game development rules, and what is ACTUALLY possible the server power TGC HAS.  

However, I am going to make this practical and consider each area's strong points and weak points within the community for server sizes!

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AVIARY VILLAGE

Aviary Village townsquare - 35 person MINIMUM

This should be the LARGEST AREA IN THE GAME.  There is NO REASON the main town should be so empty all the time, ESPECIALLY with as many sitting and hang out spots the developers put into it.  The tower, the hills, the grass, etc.   The best core memory of playing mmos growing up was finding a spot where there weren’t a lot of other players and going there frequently to hang out.  Which then means you meet people who regular the same spot.  And you can become friends easier.   Personally I would want it to be 50 people, but that number can be a little daunting.  So for now let's go with 35 MINIMUM. 

Aviary Village Shops - 8 person MAX

It's super cramped in there;  The default size is good.  I just wish the servers actually loaded people in there quicker!  I'd love to see people sitting in the chairs and hanging out.  Especially since there’s such good hang out areas in there. Buuut I also understand why no one DOES hangout in there, BECAUSE it is so cramped!

Cafe - 10 person MAX

There’s 12 seats in there, so 10 is a good max!  I was gonna make it higher, but I was in there while it was full today and oh man!! I don’t know if its an oob or what! But it got crowdedddd!  BUT, since so many people DO use the cafe, I think its best to raise it a little.  And I say that because as someone who did try going in as a group 8 people was just a liiiiittttlleeee too small. 

Nest - 8 person MAX

Oh my god please keep it at 8 people max.  It would be extremely funny if it was 10 people.  But as someone who has had the limit in her house before oh my god its SO CROWDED.   Absolutely nuts no more people please.   (Though it would be funny if it were a higher server size) (just not practical)

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ISLE OF DAWN

Isle of Dawn - 20 person MAX

Note: Remember this includes everything as ONE LOADING ZONE. We are getting rid of loading zones here. Which is a BAD idea, but we’re gonna do it anyways! The only area not included in this would be the Cave of Prophecy!

Anyways- I would make this one of the bigger areas in the game considering how OPEN and LARGE IT IS.  I would also make itone of the largest, because of how often players actually DO hang out in Isle of Dawn.  For those unaware the Season of Gratitude area CONSTANTLY has players idling, sleeping, or hanging out.

So in order to allow larger groups to hang out, WITHOUT going to the Season of Gratitude concert tech, I would make this area larger.

Cave of Prophecy - 16 person MAX

“But its so cramped in there??” Yes, it is.  But I would rather dodge Sky kids raining down from the wind paths and from the cavern corridor, than let little moths or solo players who need help go unattended!  And as someone who goes to the trials daily, quite frankly a lot of people come in groups (myself included occasionally!) and don’t have time to stop to help newcomers!  So when you have SO many different people going in 4 different directions I think it would be best to raise this to 16 people. I would say 12 people to make it more manageable, but I feel like that number would be too low to make the impact that it needs to. So rahhh battle royale lobby time good luck kings

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DAYLIGHT PRAIRIE

Daylight Prairie Main Zone - 16 person MAX

Note: This includes the prairie lobby, butterfly fields, birds nest, prairie caves, the village, and the temple! Matching with Wasteland for the most popular lobby to hang out in; Daylight Prairie I would raise to 16 people!  That number is definitely quite large, especially for the caves, BUT with the consideration that there would only be one loading zone per AREA, then the likelihood of players sleeping or afking makes this much more possible.   Especially in areas like the caves where the bonfire is AND the back cave corridors are down to the boatsman.  So it wouldn’t be as bad as you would think.  And again we are encouraging people to SPREAD out and hang out in spots other than just in front of the dressing rooms!  And this size would encourage that. Remember: this would not effect moths.  There will not be 14 moths running up to you with a white candle.  You are safe.  For now. 

Ancestors Table:  10 person MAX

I am begging the devs to raise this.  I am sorry, but the amount of times there has been ONE AFK person that ruins it for everyone else has been astronomical.  Especially when it comes to getting OREO TO WORK. And don't even get me started on the hackers jumping to the top and dooming everyone at the bottom omg. Raise the default limit by two and solve all worlds problems.

Sanctuary - 16 person Max

Okay I debated on this one for quite a long time, mostly because Sanctuary is SO LARGE that it should truly be getting the Isle of Dawn or Aviary Village treatment.  HOWEVER…. Have you ever been to geyser when every. Single. Person. Is active.  No afk. No slackers.  Everyone is moving.   Cause oh my god it is a battleground.

So for the sake of everyone's sanity (even though I really would want there to be 30 people flying around at a given time) we’ll make the limit 16 people.   It's still gonna be hell, but not nearly as unmanageable.  

Prairie Peaks - 25 person max

This would earn the title of second biggest area in the game considering there's NOTHING TO DO HERE.

No candles. 4 Spirits 3 Winged lights

It is a barren wasteland where the only thing to do IS HANG OUT.

So it earns its title as the second biggest hang out spot.  Congratulations Prairie Peaks you have a use now (I would maybe raise the gate to a higher number of spirits or winged light needed to enter though).  --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Hidden Forest

Blanket statement of raise the cap for every single area to a 12 person MAXIMUM

Forest is not built to withstand any more people than that.  Hiding spots from the rain, grandma's table, the caves, etc.  There wouldn’t be enough room for any more than that.  It just wouldn’t be practical I’m afraid.  It would do more harm than good to raise the numbers here.  Especially if a skykid fresh from eden gets caught in the rain and there’s no room by a recharge post to stand near. Yeah definitely not.  12 is the maximum capacity for ANY area here!   Also yes, I’m also including Treehouse in this, because even vets still deal with the rain here (I don't blame them I hated doing the quests post-season release.)

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WIND PATHS - 20 person MAX

Another extremely large area with insane amounts of hang out spots and flying room.  Paired with Isle of Dawn this will be another large area to hang out in (as it rightfully deserves i am wind paths #1 supporter) 

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Valley of Triumph - 10 person Max

Another extremely tricky one.  And another blanket statement unfortunately

Due to the way races work and how absolutely narrow some of the side passages are near the Village of Dreams and Performance stage I sadly have to give Valley the Forest treatment.

Not because people are gonna die here if there’s too many people, but because it’ll just get INSANELY annoying to deal with.   Like it just straight up will break stuff if we go any higher.   You could MAYBE go 12-16 if you wanted to treat the ski lift boats in the Village of Dreams like a pubg lobby where you have to fight for your life to get on one.  That might kind of fun.

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GOLDEN WASTELAND

Lobby - 16 person minimum

Wasteland is very lucky to have the largest lobby among Sky.  From the bonfire, to the dressing rooms, to the switch cave, to the pillars in the clouds when you're coming from Valley, to the bridge and towers bordering the lobby.  It is ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE and should be taken advantage of.

I once saw someone stick a bonfire on one of those pillars near where you come from Valley and it was the coolest thing I ever saw.  Waiter!! Waiter!! More of that please!!!!

Truthfully I feel like 20 is better, but for the sake of keeping things practical we’ll do 16.

Abyss - 12 person Max

Going right from the lobby and straight to the right.  Abyss absolutely needs more people.  Not because it's a great hang out spot, but because it is an absolute nightmare getting to kids when they’re krilled and we NEED more people to cover more ground.  Seriously, if you get krilled in the abyss you’re basically screwed.  And if TWO people get krilled? Actual nightmare to deal with.  It's SO HARD saving other sky kids you have no idea.  

The Wastes - 12 person Max

Anything after the tornado at this point should be 12 people.

Will this make things kind of messy when it comes to hiding from krill? Yes.  BUT does it mean there’s a higher chance to be SAVED if you ARE hurt.  Double yes.  Also since loading zones don't exist people are gonna be PRETTY far spread out when it comes to the krill introduction area and the graveyard since those are both the same AREA.   So it’ll be fine.

The Forgotten Ark - 12 person max

I was going to make this higher, but there’s literally no reason for that.  Especially since you can buy spells in Aviary now.  Same verse as the first, the new server size is 12 people.  Also prevents people from being split up when they try and go to the arc via boat.  Try not to think too hard about the logistics of 12 people sitting on the same transportation boat. 

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VAULT OF KNOWLEDGE 

Vault Main Sector / Elevator - 10-12 person Max

Raising it a little, but not by much.  There’s not enough room on that elevator for more hahaha

Starlit Desert - 20 person max

The amount of tea parties, musical concerts, and sleepy little guys I have seen here is astounding.  There’s enough room between the gloating narcissists concert hall, the rose garden, library, king’s isle, and lighthouse for the number to rise considerably.  Also plenty of flying room.

Repository of Refugee- 8 person max

It's way too damn small in here for 8 people, let alone more.

Secret Room - 10 person max

Honestly we could keep it as 8 people, but it's fun to make it 10.

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EDEN

We are raising this number to fucking 12 people MINIMUM.

I do not care that it will make hiding behind rocks harder.  I am so sick and tired of groups of vets flying by in bundles and leaving moths alone to rot.  I cannot be the only solo mf loading in to help them. SOBBING.  WE NEED MORE PEOPLE PLEASE I CANNOT KEEP ESCORTING +3 MOTHS AT A TIME. 

Anyways, the same goes for Orbit. 

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Yayyyy there’s our changes for the sky server limit.

God I wish this was real. Honestly. Personally.  would prefer if the server cap was a MINIMUM of 20 for every region and say fuck game stability but i know others would hate that HAHAHAHAHAAHAH. Ok post over this is probably really dumb but i am cringe and i am free weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[sixshotsinatumbllr]

Rating Good Omens Characters by whether I would employ them in my IRL cafe or not.

Aziraphale: 100% would employ. He'd be on service, taking orders and running them out. Also, we have a small retail book corner, which I am currently failing at making work, so Aziraphale can also get that going (he'd be great at sourcing books, not so great at selling them). He is not allowed to perform his magic act though, which makes him sad. Sorry Azi.

Crowley: Absolutely yes. That (infernal being) knows their coffee. The ywould be a shit-hot barista. Sadly, they get fired after a week because the only person in my life that is snarkier and grumpier than Crowley is my husband (the actual owner of the cafe, I'm just along for the ride). They get into too many arguments and Crowley quits majestically. But we really appreciated the handful of times they yeeted someone off into another dimension when they were difficult customers.

Nina: Obviously. She has the experience for the job (unlike probably all the other characters); and she has the personality for it. She'd be the one that gets all the good gossip from the customers and be able to handle it be stupid busy. She'd be our number one reliable employee. My husband and Nina would also fight and snark but they'd both feel refreshed by it.

Gabriel: NAH.

Jim: Also NAH, but we'd probably put him on for a week of work placement through a job placement agency to help him out a bit, because he clearly needs it. Unfortunately, he becomes a liability because he drinks too many hot chocolates on shift and that costs us too much in stock.

Beezlebub: I'd really like to, but the council food inspector won't allow it with all the flies that come with zir.

Famine: I think Famine would be a food rep. These people come around from food wholesalers to introduce us to new products. A lot of these seem pretty questionable. I reckon Famine's taken Ciao on the road after the Notpocalypse for something new to do. He's a very polite and enthusiastic rep, but we politely decline his products. The following week, a critical potato shortage hits the market and we have trouble sourcing good quality chips, a key menu item in the cafe.

Furfur: I wouldn't give him a job even though he appears to have a solid set of organisational skills, because he personally irritates me. But then he becomes a regular customer, coming in for a large cap everyday, pays in the low-denomination coins, takes up an entire table of six for two hours, and then asks for a bag of coffee to be ground in the middle of the lunch rush.

Maggie: she'd be in charge of the playlist. (at least, after Crowley quits in a fury, up until then he'd hogged the spotify and dictated all of the music- and miracles it to continue even when he's not on shift. There's slightly less Queen than there is on our playlist currently). She'd be a day barista one or two days a week. I reckon Maggie and Aziraphale would be the Monday server/barista duo.

Every now and then, the playlist gets possessed for a few hours and none of us can do anything about it but let it pass and see what Crowley's digging musically these days.

The Metatron: Absolutely not. In fact, he's banned from coming within 500 metres of us and our oat milk supply.

[itsradiogoblin]

and remember, reblogs are appreciated!

Are you looking for Phighting roleplay? Is the Boggio server's rp ban getting you down? Then I humbly invite you to...

PHIGHTER PRISON!

Home of the:

windforce eating tomato soup like a dog

medkit and broker at gregg's

banhammer hitting medkit with his truck

windforce x oc doomed yuri

the world's most insane biograft main

2kit

icedagger mitosis

subspace's husband

rabid animal rocket

and more!

q&a + link below!

Who are you?

This is me!

When did this happen?

I started this server at the start of the year, when Boggio initially banned RP and I dished out invites to people through dms like it was illegal.

Why are you making this ad?

Despite us still having plenty of activity, I miss the days when calls would get so packed we had to move to the next one. I love the people we have around and want to introduce new people into this small community I gathered.

Why should I even join?

Because I don't know of many good phighting RP servers around AND we don't just RP. We play phighting pretty semi regularly together, despite everyone's different timezones.

Anything else I should know?

A number of us are fans of the dramatic and horrific, which can be upsetting to people. While I make sure all artistic heavy blood and gore is censored with proper content warnings, and anything too extreme is immediately thrown out, this is a disclaimer that it does exist. You ever seen an MLP Infection AU? It's like that.

Link, please?

Your wish is granted!

There is a time/people limit on the link just for personal safety. Invite will be updated as I see fit.

[burstfoot]

AGGHH hElp it's four months into me starting Arknights and i just found out about how incredibly cool Rosmontis is... but I also, in great pain, found out what being a 'Limited Operator' entails

Hey, uh, do you have any advice/experience when it comes to saving for characters? And dare I ask, is it worth it?

Limited Operators are PAIN I'm still suffering over no Skalter... So on Limited banners, you can buy a unit from a previous anniversary/CNY/summer event if you do 300 pulls on the banner, giving you a token currency you can spend to recruit them from an event-exclusive shop. On global, our anniversary events are the CNY and Summer events because of the 6 month gap between servers, but for claritys sake in this post I'm referring to the Chinese server anniversary events or what are called 'Celebration' events on Global. The current event going on, Zwillingstrume im Herbst, is a CN Anniversary/Celebration event. Previous limited operators do appear on the pool of these banners and also have a higher rate up (5x a regular non-banner unit) on the banners, though it's still pretty unlikely to get them because the chance of non-banner operators is 35% on a Limited banner rather than 50%. As well, limiteds get their 5x rate up chance removed after a while, and Rosmontis just got hers removed on the banner for the current anniversary event (which just ended yesterday) I saved to get Specalter from the wait between Texas Alter/Penance to the Ho'olheyak/Muelsyse banners. The good news is that it is totally possible to save to spark a limited operator in the time between anniversaries entirely free to play - I bought the monthly card (5$ a month for a 10 pull worth of orundums every month + some bonus sanity potions) but you can get to 300 by saving if you make sure to pick up the headhunting tickets you can buy for approx. 250 yellow certificates in the store (buy them all at once to get the maximum number of tickets - 3 ten-roll tickets and 8 regular tickets, resets monthly), yellow (or officially called Distinction Certificates) gotten from pulls or duplicates from recruitment. The next time she'll be sparkable is the Wis'adel/Logos banner in approximately November, and we just finished the current anniversary event. The bad news is that the upcoming banners are REALLY stacked with some of the strongest operators we've ever seen in the entire game (Degenbrecher, Shu & Ela especially, the last being a True Limited collab unit who isn't available outside of that current collab), so skipping those is going to be pretty rough. Likewise, Rosmontis is a great character but she's not a particularly strong unit - one of the weakest 6 stars because her mechanics are based around multiple small damage hits and the way damage calculation works means that she very easily gets stonewalled by even mediocre defense stats (and as the game goes on, medium-high defense enemies become more and more common). Of course I'd always go for a character I like over the character that is the strongest, but it makes it hard to say 'start saving now!' for her and missing out on those characters. Also, since you're still a fairly new account, skipping out on getting new 6 stars (even old operators) outside of Top Operator tags or 6-star welfare units for 6 months can be pretty detrimental to building up a solid squad for clearing out the main story/events while waiting for Rosmontis to come. However, in the next banner she'll be sparkable in, the Wis'adel/Logos banner, Wis'adel and Logos are both almost gamebreakingly strong operators, so being practically guaranteed to get both with 300 pulls alongside picking up Rosmontis isn't a complete loss.

All that said:

Rosmontis' spark count is going to be reduced after the Wis'adel/Logos banner down to 200 pulls! So I would actually suggest pulling as normal for now and beginning to save for her AFTER that banner in November, because 200 pulls is a lot more manageable than 300. On Global, the banner that she'll gain the reduced spark cost on (the next .5 CN anniversary) will be coming in approximately one year, late-April/early May 2025. While saving pulls for her then, you should still be able to pull on a couple banners if your luck isn't terrible instead of skipping out on every banner for 6 months: and your account will most definitely be built with very strong operators by 10 months of playing's time, so events/main story won't be a struggle.

[star-struck01]

Pudding and Whiskers Pt. 1

You meet someone cute at your work and your friend gives them your number

Masterlist | Pt. 2

(Not my photo)

Kenma Kouzume x GN!Reader

Word Count: 668

Written: 12/10/2020

Edited: 08/17/2023

The sound of meowing filled your ears as you unlocked and quickly shut the door to make sure no cats escaped behind you. You made your way to the staff room, practically dancing over the furry fiends so as not to trip; it truly was a skill to behold. After you changed into your uniform, you greeted your coworkers and the cats that rubbed against your legs. It really was a skill to have, being able to not trip over the small furry creatures that covered almost every surface. The cafe had a lot of stray cats. Your coworker Hina switched the sign from CLOSED to OPEN and moved to stand beside you at the entrance to greet the customers as they walked in, and your coworkers led people to the free tables or booked-out rooms. The cafe you worked at was pretty popular, which meant that with so many people coming in, the building had to get bigger to hold more people. At this point, the owners should just buy an office building to really hold everyone who wants to come in. The cafe also had rooms for parties or big groups, and that waitlist was quite long today, though they had one of the high school volleyball teams. If you remember correctly, it was Nekoma, which was kind of funny since this was a cat cafe. This was the topic of Hina and your conversation this morning.

"I heard that their team is full of good-looking players." Hina gushed to you with a small flush on her face. Her eyes lit up as she remembered something. "I also heard that one of their players is half-Russian and half-Japanese!" You hummed to show that you were still listening as you petted your favorite calico cat, Yui. She was this little thing with gorgeous golden eyes. As you were petting her, you heard the door chime. Standing up, you looked over and saw a big group of people wearing matching jackets. "Hello and welcome to Pawsitive Café! You must be the Nekoma volleyball team, right?" You wait for confirmation before both you and Hina start leading them to the room they booked. You didn't really look at any of the members when they first walked in, but once you had looked up as you unlocked and opened the door for them, you saw the towering captain (a lot of social media accounts that came up on your feed said he kind of resembled a rooster) and a small man beside him. The smaller man's hair was two-toned, and it kind of reminded you of pudding, with his gold eyes that were almost identical to Yui's. Although the man looked like he really didn't want to be there, you realized that you were staring and that the man had caught you staring. You felt your cheeks flush and quickly turned your face away, just missing the confused look on his face. Hina saw the whole interaction, and a smile that you would call maniacal spread across her face before she quickly turned it into a sweet smile. "I'm Hina, and this is Y/N, and we'll be your servers today. If you need anything, this little button will alert us to the devices on our belts." Hina pointed at a small circular white button with a little gray phone on it that was attached to the wall, while you pointed at the one on your waist. The two of you begin handing out the stack of menus you were holding to the sides of the table that you were assigned to. "While you guys are deciding on what to eat or drink, Y/N and I will go fetch some cats." The two of you smiled before Hina grabbed your hand and pulled you out of the room. When you got far enough from the room, she started asking questions. "What was that?" "What was what?" You looked at her confused, not knowing what she was asking you about.

(It's in parts because tumblr won't let me post the whole thing)

[thecoolerliauditore]

Hey, I'm that one anon from a few weeks back who was pretty skeptical about rats 2, so i thought it would be nice to come back and share how is it going

So first of all, the negatives. Yesterday was the 1st big event of the season and I did not enjoy it too much. The story itself was okay i guess, typical halloween ghost story, but it had the minecraft server - typical problem of some people speaking way too loud and over others. I was watching from Martyn's pov and he had to mute everyone twice bc of the overstimulation, and spent lots of the event in his own or in small groups

Apart from that, honestly pretty happy with the smp? It has returned to the communal vibes of rats 1 instead of dividing everyone im groups, which is great bc it s almost imposible to log in and not meet everyone else who is logged in at the moment. That was one of pirates s worst sins imo. Also, it has small missions for the players to do, which are not that interesting tbh, but they don t take far as much time as the ones in pirates which enable the players to mostly hang out and vibe. Also the whole running away from humans is a very fun premise. The whole concept of the smp is honestly just a reprise of rats 1, which brings the question of if it is really necessary, but by now it s being fun sooo i guess it gets a pass (by now)

The environment is very chaotic, but apart from the event it doesn t usually feel like too much. The one problem is that it distracts the players from actually building lol. Talking about building, they have had lots of technical issues with the chisel and bits mod, so they have changed tl another mod which seems tl be working better, although now the players have to relearn how to build in that size. But ngl, some of them are going crazy with the building, Sniff, Eloise, Scott, Sausage and Ros mainly are CRAZY

About the players, I am only following closely a handful of them, but it s generally being a blast. Having them roleplay as rats is just silly and brings good vibes and bits. My one hot take is that although I think he's a very talented builder, I find Sausage kind of annoying in smps, and also one of the loudest during events, but that's probably a me thing. Apart from him, Tubbo and Ros have done a cult and it's delightful to watch, the Martyn and Ren duo is super fun as expected, Oli is once again the funniest fucker alive, El and Bek are amazing. A creator I didn t know too well until now is Watermunch and she's great, his laugh especially gives me seratonin

So yeah, not everything is great or super interesting but it's fun and chaotic and as much as I bash in pirates, Ros and Water were great aditions to the cast so I am glad it exists. But pleeeease someone tell them to keep calm during moments with lots of people, it's uncomfy for the watchers, some ccs get overwhelmed and others can barely speak. Another problem I ve seen is that a portion of Tubbo s chat keep metagaming, which is annoying af, but whatever ig

I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it! I definitely have heard good things about treebark rats (I do think renrat having a wife is the one of. maybe the funniest things to come out of SMPs good god martyn im so. im so sorry martyn) and even though i wasn't a fan of the original i did have fun watching garbage rat clips. That impromptu music number he did with the camera angle changes is like. genuinely high art to me.

also good on martyn for knowing his limits. I can imagine it's a rough choice to make in the moment what with the pressure to perform and whatnot.

o7 hope those rats keep ratting

[omniblades-and-stars]

WIP Whenever I Don't Care You're Not My Real Dad

I got tagged by @korblez for this. So I'm gonna post something that is 100% absolutely his fault. I haven't written a ton this week, so this is what I have to offer today.

I'm brain dead for real after the week I've had work. So you, if you're reading this, I have tagged you. Yes, you! Go forth, share with us.

Without further ado snippet of the thing I'm working on (sorry, not sorry):

BLOOD & GRENADINE

The pair walked casually to a small table set in a corner. It gave them a good view of the entire ballroom. And the view of the ballroom?

It was like someone watched far too many ancient vids about old Hollywood parties, with the old art deco style with the dark walls and solid line accents to break it up, but instead of stylish gold, they embedded weak cyan lights into the wall. The effect was like looking at old computer chips except it gave you a migraine if you stared at it too long. The lights cast strange shadows.

Across the room on the far side were rows of floor to ceiling windows and glass doors that led to high balconies with large ferns planted in cement planters cast with thick, angled lines to further ape a time long since passed. Those Zaeed couldn't find any faults with. Maybe a drink or two in, he might have been willing to even say that he liked them. Three or four and maybe he'd put on a trilby and start talking like an old school mobster for shits and giggles, schee?

“Too many goddamn windows,” Zaeed muttered.

“We'd be sitting ducks if there was a sniper out there,” said Garrus at the same time.

Negative one.

They sat across from each other and Massani wasted no time in perusing the drink menu. Fancy wines, over-priced liquor, cocktails that cost enough to feed a family for one night. Ah well, when in Rome and all that. He was going to get a drink. Just add it to the tab for Red to reimburse him for.

“Are you really going to drink tonight?”

Zaeed raised his eyes only scooch off of the menu to respond with a wink, “You want people to believe this is a dinner date, or what?” Usually, he just drank his liquor straight, whiskey, bourbon, vodka - shit, it didn't really matter. That burn as it went down was what reminded him that he was still breathing. Taste didn't really matter when you were often scraping the bottom of the galaxy's barrel running hither and yon chasing down assholes for credits. Didn't mean he was a man without taste, he just knew how to turn it off, measure his expectations. “'Sides, one drink isn't gonna do anything to me except cost me enough credits to buy a new scope for the old Mattock.”

Garrus' mandibles fluttered briefly as he considered the wisdom of Zaeed's defense. Or more accurately, considering just how often he'd seen him with a tumbler of some brown liquor or another during the years that they'd been working together now. Given the truly unbelievable number of bottles left over as evidence of Shepard and Zaeed's contest (the number of which could have killed a krogan), it was within the scope of belief that drinking one cocktail wouldn't make a dent in the man's sobriety.

Having decided that Zaeed was correct, Garrus picked up the menu to peruse it himself. The offerings of dextro safe wines and liquors were unsurprisingly small, and included dual-chirality options that were just right out. Those were never good. He'd be better off chugging a bottle of rubbing alcohol based on taste alone.

“Good evening, gentlemen. I'll be your server tonight,” a chipper young woman with curly hair interrupted their ponderance of booze and its variations with a broad smile on rosy cheeks. “Dinner will be served in about fifteen minutes. May I get you something to drink while you wait?” She was a pretty girl, with masses of curly brown hair that were barely wrangled into a braid, and doeish, brown eyes that looked far too happy to be living on Earth post-near-apocalypse.

Zaeed heard a rumble in Garrus' chest, that same one that always came before he made a bad joke. And coupled with the daring glint in those baby blues of his, Zaeed knew that it was on. “Hm, I don't know. Darling, what looks good to you?”

Even.

“For you, love, the Brandy Alexandrus. You have quite a sweet tooth,” Zaeed practically purred without looking up from his menu. Blue was going to have to try a lot harder than that if he wanted the merc to crack. He sat through Shepard's god awful speech before hitting the Collector base without so much as cracking a grin. Besides, he'd definitely been to dinner with a helluva lot worse than the likes of the smug turian across from him. At least he was reasonably certain that Vakarian wouldn't try to kill him by the end of the night.

[emeraldblossom254]

Hello again, little critters! ^^

So to those who saw my previous post, thank you for taking the time to read it and for the likes and reblogs and comments.

Now to the good part.

The link will be given to you lot to individually put in your discord to join in, but first, a small rundown of what you’ll need to do when you join.

First, the welcome mat

You won’t have to click back and forth if you can remember the order in which to go after you agree to the rules pop up. From the landing pad, head to the Rules and guidelines. There will be a server password and a security question I will ask you, so be sure to read the rules carefully.

Now, to the roles!!

I will make a kintype/theriotype roster for everyone also, but these two are just an example of what I have set up. There’s your age, gender and your pronouns area,

Then your Hobbies and your colors for your name. There’s a verity of colors for you, some dark, some bright, it’s your pick.

The introductions channel is self explanatory. In there you’ll have your intro, no matter which format or style you chose to make it in.

In your intro, you are required to put the server password in it. Once you’ve got the password in, I’ll ask a security question about one of the rules.

Excited already? Me too.

But first, let’s look at these spots.

The forums can have multiple conversations in one spot, which is a perfect nesting spot for conversations about- pretty much everything. Theriotypes, kintypes, gear and quads and everything of the like.

There’s just one rule with these forums. Either Ven or myself make the conversations for everyone to join in.

In the plural forum, it’s similar, except, anyone with the plural role gets a conversation of their own for everyone to be able to talk in and speak with them. Questions you may have for them, weather about their system or their interests…

Just one big important rule there- no forcing questions. Let people answer questions in their own comfort level. That’s all.

In the Arts n Crafts category, everything you’ve got here is exactly what you’re able to get to. These channels are not alterhuman chat specific, but- nothing says a playlist or a few quad videos in the category isn’t allowed.

So far, that’s all we’ve got, but as the numbers grow, so too will the server itself.

Here we go. I think it’s about time you obtain this golden ticket you’ve been waiting for.

The Nonhuman/Alterhuman/15-20+ discord server is waiting for your arrival.

First, see if this link here brings you to it

https://discord.gg/dnzh3RUagF

If that doesn't work, send me a message on Discord at RavenEnya254 and ask for the invite to the Nonhuman SafeSpace. We'll get you in in no time! ^^ Until we meet again, little critters! ⠀⠀⠀⠔⠢⠀⡄⠢⡀⠀⠀ ⡠⢄⡰⠀⠀⣦⠁⠀⡇⡠⢄ ⢇⠀⠱⠣⡴⠥⢦⡔⡎⠀⢸ ⠈⠒⡸⠎⠀⠀⠀⠱⢕⠐⠁ ⠀⠠⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠆⠀ ⠀⠀⠑⠠⠔⠒⠢⠤⠊⠀⠀

[pepsiiwho]

Oh, you KNOW I was made for the hate wins ask game. Could I get uhhhhhhhhhhhh 1, 5, 6, 7 & 16, please? <3 I would ask you more, but I feel like that's excessive, and I need to get to work now. Okay, love u, bye, see you when I get home <333

sigh. Don't touch me.

I don't have a single fandom I'm known for or particularly attached to right now, so ill just jump around as i feel.

THE CHARACTER EVERYONE GETS WRONG

I am self appointed idiot who makes every character i get my grubby little hands on ooc. Because of this, I can't say for sure that any characterization I see of my faves is objectively WRONG because my own ideal version of them is surely not right. Now, having been an adult and saying all this I can say with the utmost confidence this award must go to Claude Von Riegan [FE3H] just by virtue of how he's probably one of the more popular characters i adore and as such gets the brunt of the bullshit.

I hate when people write him as this flirty, overly charming guy. Claude cannot flirt his way out of a clear bag and he is paranoid as shit. He isn't seducing your white prince and dragging him down to the dark (ha) side. He also doesn't strike me as someone who's deeply curious about other house's gossip because he actually cares. Claude stays in the know because not knowing is a blind-spot he can't allow himself to have. Screams. its whatever.

5. WORST DISCORD SERVER AND WHY

Worst discord I was ever in ... hard toss up between the ye-olden HQ discord servers or the one dmcl one I was in? Surprisingly, as far as I experienced it, both had very nice people in it on the whole. But the sad truth is too many cooks in the kitchen fucks up the simple soup-- which is to say, having so many other fans with different [WRONG] interpretations was annoying.

I can't deal with not having complete control or like, a general understanding with the people around me in fandom discussions so these servers were just, by their own nature, places I was never meant to be in. [Spits] What do you mean CLAUDE would wanna join the BL class. Go to hell.

6. WHICH SHIP FANS ARE THE MOST ANNOYING? WHY?

Short answer? sylvix. Long answer? Regardless of the fandom, the fans of the biggest most accepted ship [canon or otherwise] will always be the loudest and most annoying imo.

When you've never had to work for your food you get comfortable fast and complain more. Its a natural byproduct of being lucky enough to deeply enjoy the lowest common denominator. In most cases, regardless of fandom-- whatever reigns supreme brings the biggest headaches with it. But If this is still too general then... mmm.. people who ship objectively canon ships because their imaginations can be too small and they'll find rare-pairs odd, weird or even stupid to be into. Many a time I've had someone tell me "they've never even spoken tho.." as if that was a needed component of every ship. They're tiresome people with tiresome arguments. But it's whatever <- she is the most annoying bitch alive.

7. WHICH CHARACTER DID FANON RUIN FOR YOU?

This one is really interesting honestly. I'm usually pretty ambivalent about anyone that isn't in the blorbo pile or the poison pit.... but.... maybe Dedue or Ferdinand? Dedue because f3h fans racism and Ferdinand because he was always someone shipped with Hubert and little else. I think its sad, both ,men have so much going for them too. I'll put Tsukishima on this list as well because he was my number one and ruined by fandom. Actually no put like 90% of the HQ cast here actually hq Fandom sucks ass and ruins every cool guy. it's a bitch.

16. YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY SO MANY PEOPLE LIKE THIS THING

God. I'm such a hater.,... this could really go on forever... Okay, I swat at the hornets nest for this one. fics over 100k. 9 times out of ten, they're not good. Quantity/=/ Quality. Usually most of the word count is just used for shit you didn't even come to the story for. That's fine, I respect any writer who can even make that much of ANYTHING, but people who can read it (and more so ACTIVELY search for it) are odd to me.

I've been worrying on this for a few days and mellowed out since I started so nothing is tooo grating or bitchy here. Look guys I'm kind and sweet forever. Enjoy. Huzzah.

[lord-shitbox]

sigh

doing that thing again where i get miserable over the attention that i feel my art gets & I know the internet numbers are mostly "does this art align with a fandom i am interested in" and not 'is this Good Art' but also like. hardly anyone FUCKING talks or acknowledges my art in the one art server i'm active in & that's really discouraging + I put art I was really proud of in a really small art show/competition thing and didn't even remotely win, again. something about knowing the people im competing against makes it worse. there were only like 8 of us & I didn't win which sucks but I didn't even get an honorable mention either and that's WORSE. three out of fucking EIGHT won something. at absolute best that means im fourth out of 8 and i may as well kill myself at that point. (i acknowledge that this is unhealthy and abnormal thinking). what have i spent the last several years of my life doing? my self esteem is chronic dogshit so I pour everything i have into being good at a select few things so im worth fucking SOMETHING at least & theres absolutely nothing worse than not being good at those things. fucking dark night of the soul or whatever i dual-skill art & math so I have that at least but rn all the math ive got is really hard exam prep shit because the sink-or-swim everything-i've-done-in-the-past-two-years-comes-down-to-this exams are in a week. it IS rewarding to spend all my time on that but it's also pretty difficult & even less people are interested in hearing me talk about differential equations than about my art. FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at least people think kabrugatory is funny jesus fucking christ.

gave myself a break day yesterday because I got the news about the art show results & i knew i would not be functional. and i wasn't but I at least managed to have a good day despite it which is good. fuckingggggg. hhrhghghdhghhdhgghg FUCK god damnit i cannot tell if I think my own art is good because there are objective good qualities to it or because im just fucking egotistical and insane and a massive idiot. i experience one rejection & start second guessing every good thing anyone's ever said to me huh.

[aburruso-capstone-uhwoacm]

Progress Update #5

Not that much has happened since the last update, but I still managed to hit some major milestones.

First of all, I got *almost* all of the preliminary sprites done.  I actually forgot to make sprites for the markers, though this is because the markers themselves were not part of the original plan.  Other than that, I did all the sprites for Sasha, the firewalls, the servers, and the buttons.  That being said, I’m going to have to redo them.  I will explain why pretty soon.

Besides the sprites, I also made some sound effects.  I made them with the help of a website called jsfxr, where you can generate various sound effects for video games.  For most of the sounds, I just fiddled around with jsfxr and then downloaded them when I was satisfied with them.  However, I did a bit more editing for the sounds that play when you take down a server and run into a firewall.  For those, I made two different sounds in jsfxr and then blended them together in Adobe Audition.  I am mostly satisfied with the end results, but I ran into an issue with the firewall sound effect.

Now, remember how in the last post, I mentioned that I was going to do a playtesting session?  Well, I wanted to get all the sprites and sound effects into the game so that the students who would be playing it wouldn’t have to just look at squares; even if the sprites weren’t perfect, they would still be a step up from what I had in the first build.  So, the day before the session was spent importing all the sprites and sound effects into the game.  This is when I found some issues. 

First of all, Sasha’s sprite is super small compared to the play area (see the picture below - this is before I put in the other sprites; fortunately, their sizes were fine).  Her sprites’ current resolution is 22x22, so I’m thinking I’ll have to increase it to make it easier to see her.  Besides that, the firewall sound effect sounded different when I put it in GameMaker.  Specifically, it sounds less like an electric shock (which is what it’s supposed to be) and more like a really loud and annoying grinder.  I don’t know why the sound changed, especially since the others didn’t.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to fix those issues, so I just had to leave them as is in for the playtesting session.

As for the session itself, it went rather well.  A lot of the kids had fun playing it.  They also provided a lot of good feedback for the game.  While they provided some suggestions that I do not think I can do (such as adding more levels), they also had some that I will try to do this month.  They include:

Polishing the graphics

Recoloring either the servers or firewalls so they look more distinct (most likely, I’ll make the firewalls yellow instead of orange)

Adding a working tutorial (fun fact: the old tutorial still used the squares, and I didn’t have time to add the new sprites in it, so I completely removed it from the build the students played.  As a workaround, I did demonstrate the game in front of the class.  Regardless, I want to get the tutorial done since I obviously can’t do that for all the people who play it).

Try to implement numbers into the grid (to make it easier to see where the coordinates are)

Fixing the firewall sound effect

This is quite a lot to get done.  I am a little nervous about redoing the graphics; I'm not 100% sure if my skill is up to par to make something better than what I have now.  Still, I’m going to try my best.

Also, here’s the link to the game; you can now try it out with the new graphics: https://aliyah-burruso.itch.io/capstone-sneaker-first-build.  (Yes, the url says “first build.”  No, this is not an April Fools’ prank.  I just didn’t want to change the url and confuse the teacher who let me playtest with her class.  I’ll definitely change it later).

That’s all I have for this update.  For the next couple of weeks, I’ll focus on revising the sprites.  Once I’m done with that, I’ll do the tutorial and add some more things I’ve been wanting to do for the game.  Let’s see how things go.

[blazehedgehog]

Do you feel like fanbases have gotten worse over the years? Everything feels so toxic or cult like now, is it a social media thing?

Yes, it's probably a social media thing. These people have always existed, and in some ways they were even worse back then, because it was easier to get away with terrorizing small, isolated communities without drawing attention to your crime.

Like let me tell you the story of Sonic-Cult versus the world.

The Sonic-Cult now, and has been for a long time, pretty tame. That's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. We all grow up and mellow out. It's part of life. But once upon a time it was populated by angry script kiddies with chips on their shoulders about something or other. They spit in the face of the law, and did what they wanted. Sometimes, that meant leaking official Sega information, which the community loved.

Other times, it meant terrorizing people they did not like. Like SFGHQ or The Moogle Cavern, both places I was a part of. They would find vulnerabilities in the forum software, hijack admin access, and wreak havoc across the website. Or they would DDOS our meager little server, slowing the site down to a crawl and bloating the web hosting bill. Why? Because they were bullies, and maybe that day somebody called them out on being a bully. So like good bullies do, they puffed up their chest, stomped over to our forum, and gave us the ol' "WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT ME???" routine.

Even up until the time I worked at TSSZ, these people were still throwing their weight around and trying to intimidate others over small, simple differences. They needed to prove to the world they weren't as inadequate as they felt, so they lashed out at others over that insecurity (or whatever; there's a lot of reasons that could have been.)

It wasn't just Sonic-Cult, either. There were a number of other isolated incidents. Most forums I went to had at least one major attack, sometimes more, where some bored, unloved teenager would give in to their destructive tendencies.

And when something like that happens, it's never just "my account was banned." If you take down an entire website, you've wrecked an entire community for dozens, maybe hundreds, even thousands of people.

Over disagreements. About Sonic the Hedgehog.

Social media puts you more up close and personal with these types of people to be sure, but I feel like their ability to deal damage is minimized a bit by being so public. Not entirely, of course. Accounts can still be lost, communities can still be devastated, but it's generally a lot safer and moderation can be a bit more standardized than the times where the admin was just some 19 year old dude managing the site on weekends out of his bedroom, y'know?

Increased accessibility has been both a blessing and a curse.