#wild standard flags

[zo1nkss]

I think it's worth examining that when Izzy decides someone is beneath him, they're no longer human in his eyes.

[toothlesshat]

i think a part of me feels sad that i just Do Not understand the reze hype because she has genuinely one of the coolest designs in the whole manga . i love this shit

but she’s just so …….

NO SERIOUSLY this design fucks it's soooo good. I don't hate her by a long shot but I don't feel like there was enough of her for me to get terribly invested in? As a villain, I think she's great, one of the best in the series, but idk if there's enough for me to get into beyond that?? I just feel like there's more interesting characters for me

[maxlarens]

okay i’m feeling especially crazy about this concept but imagine like reader having her pr relationship going on and being pissed at george and during qualifying or free practice or even a race, george is halfway through telling her something (maybe telling her something about pace, or what max had been complaining about on the track) and she just goes “no radio!” and cuts him off. i just KNOW george would be so offended cause why would you do that?? i’m supposed to help you why would you do that

ugh yes eve. i love when they're messy it's too good too perfect. okay let's say free practice because i imagine that they have like clear cut rules about arguing during quali especially. and during races they keep it to arguing about race strategy only no petty disagreements allowed😭 but free practice is a free for all and reader takes full advantage of that.

like please they've just had a weird fight/argument where nothing has actually been said, but george is bothered by her pr boyfriend hanging around hospitality and she's annoyed having to pretend she likes her pr boyfriend. and when she gets in the car they're not making eye contact or doing any of their standard pre track rituals. so everyone can tell somethings up😭

and hmm okay, not gonna write a full drabble but here's a little bit of something. not exactly exactly what u were saying because i didn't want to just repeat it. hope u like it tho🥰

The car is shit. The car is so shit.

The wheel is pulling whenever you take a corner and you feel like you're on a roller coaster with the way it's rattling. At this point, it feels like the floor might just drop out from under you. Land on the track and cause a red flag.

You wouldn't be surprised, honestly. It might even be helpful, might stop the rest of the grid from getting valuable practice time in⏤

You veer into the gravel as you take a corner, swear loudly to yourself and force the car back onto asphalt. It takes far more effort than it should, you're fighting the car. It shouldn't be like this. It should glide. It should be smooth. It has been smooth.

You're not sure what's going on.

The garage need to know... George needs to know.

Ugh. George.

Plainly, you're annoyed at him.

George and his loaded looks and pointed comments about safety and that head of prince curls and a line of straight white teeth⏤ okay, you're not supposed to be letting your thoughts go there⏤ it's just difficult to stop them, even if he's being a total arse about your not-boyfriend. Who the fuck is George to say that you're not allowed personal guests? You're the driver! He's your engineer.

Derek can go wherever he pleases as far as you're concerned. Just as long as it's not too close to you.

The car pulls. You swear.

The radio crackles, startling you just as you get the car off gravel.

"Verstappen says you were impeding."

You laugh, sharp, short, humourless at the sound of George's clipped voice, at the irony of you impeding anyone but yourself right now, "Impeding. Ha! Good one."

"It was through turn⏤"

"The car's a piece of shit," you bite, cutting him off, "I can't get it out of the gravel, never mind stop myself from impeding Verstappen."

"Keep that off the radio," he scolds.

You roll your eyes, wrangle a turn like you're wrangling a wild bull, then snap,

"Okay! No radio!", and lean forward, flick the switch to turn the radio firmly off.

It's stiff, unused. There's no rule per se that says you can't turn the radio off whenever you'd like to. But it's frowned upon. You're blind if there's an emergency, a red flag, if they want you into the pits where you're heading anyway. George will be angry. Spewing.

Good.

Exactly how you want him.

i need to make one of those radio graphics that u make for them omg. anyway thank u for this eve!! ur mind!!!!

[cordycepsfem]

So my girlfriend and I went to our local Pride event today, one that I’ve written about previously here.

I did not want to go. This is because I am new-task-avoidant, and Pride was on one day of my usually tightly-hoarded weekend. But she asked that I go and meet some of her friends from her volunteering group so I said sure.

Meeting her friends was great - they’re fun and welcoming people from a variety of backgrounds, and I’m glad we did that. I hope we can spend time with them again soon.

Then we go out to the actual festival part. It is loud. There are people everywhere. This is unsurprising because it is a pride event in a major city. As people we are not fond of loud, crowded events… but we made the effort to get here so we’re going to go through it.

So we start walking.

As we make our way through the crowds I realize that the two of us are some of the more conservative-looking individuals there. We’re in T-shirts, shorts, baseball caps, functional shoes. There are many, many people in what we on here are all familiar with as “queer” costuming - it’s loud, it’s ugly, and it’s adorned with pins and stickers demanding attention. Many people have giant flags around their necks.

We see booths with obviously female individuals selling merchandise emblazoned with “f*ggot” doing a robust business. Lots of apparel and accessories that scream “I have an identity and I’m here to make it your problem!!” One booth has a pin showing a mastectomy-scarred chest reading “the no-titty committee” which causes me to let out a sad noise, because sure enough I’ve seen at least ten individuals with bare chests and some awful mastectomy scars wandering around. Some have glitter or fancy tape adoring their scars. Others have very obvious “dog ears” which look sloppy and painful.

(Note: I am not saying that having scars is awful. I am saying that the way the incisions were made was imprecise, leaving scars that are larger and that look worse as compared to, like, an actually good surgeon performing a regulated procedure with a standardized course, and not a “gender medicine professional.” This is obviously my own bias from doing research and from seeing others “in the wild” and should only be taken as my opinion. I have plenty of scars; the surgical ones all look clean and well-executed. These did not.)

We keep walking. There were at least two furry booths. Lots of people in puppy masks. Plenty of trans-focused groups.

We buy a few things at some of the more relevant booths and I stop to talk to one group about a job. My girlfriend says she’s ready to go, so we cut around the rest of the park and head for a nearby bookstore.

As we’re walking she takes my hand. “That pride wasn’t for us.”

“No.”

“I don’t know who it was for, but it wasn’t for us.”

I said “I told you so” in the kindest of voices but it was really just sad. This event and so many others happening this month are no longer for actual LGBT people. They are a celebration of the commodification of “queer” identity. Were there some booths there with people doing good work for those in our communities? Yes, without a doubt. But was there a bigger contingent of people there to give a “fuck you” to the world? Yep.

The first Pride events were to show straight people that LGBT people were not sexual deviants. Now the sexual deviants have booths at the Pride events.

I would just like a lesbian event. Just women. I’m willing to start it and run it. Girlfriend was so excited to go to Pride, and I think she left more disappointed than anything else. There are no longer a lot of “normies” at Pride. They have to be somewhere, so where?

[kaijutegu]

This is a really good question! Here's what will happen after New Girl gets here.

First, I leave her mostly alone for a couple of days. I give her constant access to fresh water, but I don't feed until Day 3. This gives her time to get settled and acclimated; the stress of the move can cause GI distress, so for the first couple of days, nothing in the stomach. The stress from regurgitation would be more detrimental than the stress of being hungry. Day 3, some nice, digestible food: egg. Day 4, we start introducing greens. Day 5, we have our first vet check!

Now hopefully there's some poop on Day 4, because this is a wild-caught animal, and she will have worms; that's just a given. When you eat raw, rotting meat in the wild, you get worms. My trapper doses them all with Panacur when he catches them, but the fecal sample will have more information on what specific parasites are present and what else is needed. If no poop for the vet check, that's ok, just collect some whenever it happens and take it on over and they'll do the fecal when they can.

At the vet check, they'll do a blood draw and a full blood panel. The vet will palpate all over, feeling for lumps and masses, and they may do some imaging. With a Florida feral, one thing you don't have to worry about is metabolic bone disease, so an x-ray might not be necessary. However, an ultrasound is a good idea with females. New Girl is very young and likely didn't have a partner during the last breeding season, but it's worth it to have a look at the reproductive tract to make sure there aren't any red flags or weird masses.

The vet will also do the standard exam stuff- listen to the lungs, check the reflexes, listen to the heart. They will also check tongue flicks and try to do a visual dental exam. That might not happen at the first visit, though! One of the things I had Kaiju trained to do was let me open her mouth. A voluntary open mouth behavior is something I really want to teach New Girl.

After the vet check, she'll still be on a fairly limited diet, variety-wise, until she's eliminating consistently and we've finished the inevitable course of meds. If all goes well, we'll do a course of fecal tests to ensure that any active parasite infection is gone, and then it'll be annual checkups from there on out!

[ellaak]

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[thunder-point]

As a collective we need to Talk about Peem. Because ??? What do you mean ??? This man has never been pursued before??? His conversation with Q about affection and the so has me thinking that he hasn't been into a relationship of the kind before. But HOW

Phum took one in the jewelry AND STILL went after him with the tenacity of 100 people combined

He made the Kluen pay for his drink with a word and a look and the man was GONE

Have you seen him? Spoken to him once? He's so Attractive and such a Green Flag it's insane

You just can't tell me no one ever before tried to secure Peem I just cannot get behind that. He has to be extremely popular and it's just a piece of lore that wasn't brought to the surface before

It's either he has wild standards and just ignored everyone before Phum or he just didn't realize many people flirted with him in the past

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Just wanted to say, saw your post about not holding back and fiction saying nothing about your moral compass.

YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT LOUDEEEEER

To anyone writing/reading whump: you're not a horrible person for liking that content, the thoughts police doesn't exist

This is your therapist speaking, go wild with your ideas, your mental health will thank you for it!

-Also personally I love your prompts, I'm writing some of my own whump as of now lmao-

about this post — thank you so much!!

liking whump is not, and will never be, a red flag.

how you enjoy fictional medias — whether it be in terms of fanfiction or shows or books or movies or literally anything that’s fiction — does not indicate anything about your in-real-life moral compass.

you’re not “a freak” or a “red flag” just because you like seeing a fictional character go through a challenging, difficult situation, physically and/or emotionally.

and you don’t owe anyone any explanation as to why you’re into whump. whether you use whump as a way to cope with your trauma or as a source of entertainment, you’re valid and you’re allowed to enjoy a piece of fictional media in whatever way you want, for whatever reasons fit you the best.

don’t let strangers on the internet, who claim to have higher moral standards, harass you into thinking you have to hold anything back in order to be “accepted” as a part of a fandom or a community. that’s entirely bullshit.

express your art however you want to express it. it’s your creation and your getaway. and if anyone tries to make you feel otherwise, block them and keep on doing what you’re doing.

I’ll always root for you.

[openworldadventurer]

I lived in Malmö for six years, so when I heard Eurovision was coming to my old neighborhood, I planned a visit to see friends and watch the festivities in my old park, which was being turned into the “Eurovillage”. Of course, that was before the Oct 7th attacks, Israel’s brutal escalation, and Eurovision’s refusal to hold them to the same standards as Russia.

So while I’ve been in town, I’ve been spending at least as much time checking in with friends and covering the protests as I’ve spent walking around the festivities. And hooboy, the changes to this sleepy little town have been pretty intense.

While the actual arena and filming is being done at Malmö Arena in the commercial suburb of Hyllie, the center of events in the city itself is Folketspark, a lovely old park and event center in the heart of the Möllan neighborhood. And right along one side of the park is a long graffiti wall that runs along a rondel, a cherished centerpiece of public art and protest in the city.

It’s been one of the centerpieces of protest all week, but far from the only one:

Despite the neighborhood being hit hard by gentrification over the last decade, Möllan is still predominantly foreign-born Swedes and immigrants (like me, when I was here). It’s predominantly middle-eastern folks, both immigrants and refugees, including one of the largest Palestinian populations in Europe. It’s also one of the most progressive cities in Sweden, home to the leftist Vänsterpartiet and fairly active queer and antifascist groups. And all of these groups have been uniting for the protests

So as you can expect, the protests around the park and the city have been pretty constant. Entirely peaceful, to everyone’s credit, but absolutely constant. And you can’t go anywhere near the event without seeing Palestinian flags flown from windows and shopfronts in solidarity, or protest graffiti on Eurovision posters.

Meanwhile, the security presence around the Eurovillage has been absolutely wild. In a city where police rarely even carried pistols, there are now approximately ten times as many police, many bearing automatic rifles. When protests threaten to get too close to the park, they shut off entrances and surround protesters with police vans. Helicopters and drones buzz in the skies above, to the annoyance of locals. And local Swedes look at the armored police vehicle like an unwelcome alien from another planet (or worse, like an unwelcome trend from America).

Thankfully, I haven’t seen any particular abuse out here in Malmö, although I know there have been lots of arrests at protests around the arena proper. I’m hoping it stays that way for the finals tonight.

But just know that for every picture you see of the Eurovision events, there’s countless scenes of protest from the local residents, often just on the other side of the camera.

[eyesofshan-if]

NOEUL OF THE SU (노을) — AN UNPREDICTABLE FOE

The right hand of the High Leader, No-Eul cuts a terrifying figure on the battlefield. When the enemy see a red flag flying high, they cry out 'Hundred Man No-Eul is here!' and scatter. Their presence is enough to turn the tide of a battle — and wherever they go, they leave a trail of bloody, burning carnage in their wake.

Displaying a mastery over nearly all weapons and near unnatural physical abilities, they throw themselves into battle with the ferocity of a wild beast and the recklessness of a madman. Both of which make for a terrifying combination, regardless of whether you are with or against them.

Brought up with a deep rooted hatred for the Empire, No-Eul has sworn to make the sun set upon Hae. They are completely devoted to the cause that they are fighting for, but when you are confronted with the near fanatical extremes of their beliefs... only time will tell if they are a friend or enemy.

If the people of Hae call them beasts, well, then No-Eul will show them what a true monster is.

APPEARANCE

No-Eul is tall enough to tower over most, with expressive eyes that always seem to be seeking out amusement or potential trouble that can be caused. Their dark hair is as wild and untamed as an unbridled horse, and is usually left loose or pulled back into traditional Shan braids with coloured string and feathers.

Their skin is rough and tanned, and they have a strong and broad build. They wear light furs during the colder months and the standard overcoat when not. And if you ever get the opportunity to look closely enough, you will see that they bear a small, faded scar just beneath their right eye in the shape of a crescent moon — or the shape of a curved fingernail.

[drdemonprince]

As a straight woman reader I feel very jealous of your sexual exploits because I don't feel like I could ever safely have those kinds of encounters with men. I had a lot of casual sex in my youth and unfortunately I've found that straight men tend to treat women's receptivity to casual sex as a green flag to treat us disposably and ignore boundaries (and that's just standard vanilla sex - I don't want to think about how some of the kinds of anonymous/blindfolded encounters you've talked about would go even though in a vacuum they sound fun as hell). And it's so dumb because they could all be having way more sex if they would just act right instead of letting misogyny horribly infect everything.

I also think it is important to point out that queer men have very deliberately created the spaces that allow us to have anonymous, kinky, sometimes risky sex with one another while looking out for one another, and that we had to do that due to structural homophobia and the AIDs crisis.

The fact that I can have wild, masked sex on a bed in the dark in a bathhouse with a blindfold on and condoms spread beside me is because I know am in a space where employees are monitoring the halls continually, prophylatics are freely provided, testing is freely provided on site, trans people are welcome explicitly by policy, an explicitly sexual atmosphere has been created, and a whole culture of norms and nonverbal signals have been established. This has taken a lot of money and decades of work to build and maintain.

Gay and bisexual men have had to build places to have sex with one another that are both private and secure, and that bring a large number of us together -- due to structural homophobia making it illegal for us to even have sex until the early 2000's. We have had to respond to the AIDs crisis and Monkeypox and numerous other sources of danger and violence within our communities by promoting harm reductionist sexual health policies and by learning to look after one another.

Straight people do not have such comraderie. Misogyny is absolutely a major factor -- but the privilege straight people have and the immense isolation that comes with it is a factor too. Queer people have had to pool our resources to create the spaces we need as an oppressed sexual minority.

Now, there are hardly ANY such hookup spaces for queer women because they do not have the money and resources and structural power that men, including many queer men, do, and because women's sexual agency is so absolutely neglected and penalized by our culture.

And I do think straight men unwittingly fuck up their chances of getting laid by being inept and/or predatory -- if they hadn't been so shitty as sexual partners I might not have ever transitioned! and I recommend transition to anyone who wants to have better sex with men and finds doing so appealing. But ultimately things are as they are due to structural issues.

[yuesya]

As a sorcerer, Shiki is no stranger to dealing with unexpected situations on her assignments. It’s easy for missions to go awry, and a sorcerer must be able to adapt to the rapidly-changing circumstances –or die, usually.

Being stranded in a different world is still stretching things, though.

Shiki is not in the habit of lying to herself. Especially not when the truth is clear to see. Perhaps there are places in China where wild mint grows tall enough to cover a young child’s height, but she’s fairly certain that slimes and burrowing dragon-creatures are not part of the local wildlife in any place on Earth. And that’s not even mentioning the strange elemental flowers that tunnel easily through the earth to launch aggressive surprise attacks…

But the young man traveling with them is clearly used to dealing with such creatures. Xiao dispatches anything that attacks them with ease, unwaveringly calm and brutally efficient. Shiki thinks that he might be the most skillful spear-user that she’s ever seen –not that there are very many sorcerers who wield spears, most preferring swords as Shiki does. But there’s still something about the way with which the young man wields his weapon that hints at a preternatural grace, even by a sorcerer’s standards.

… Even compared with Satoru-niichan’s movements, which is a little alarming to consider. But it does explain how he’d killed Patch-face with minimal injury to himself.

Shiki readjusts her grip on Muta-san, taking a moment to reinforce her body with cursed energy to restore her flagging strength. Physical power is not her strong suit, and Muta-san is heavy, especially with the increased mass from his… transformation, courtesy of the late Patch-face. She’d actually ended up cutting off another portion of his monstrous body in order to make it easier to carry him around with her, but now she’s wondering if she should’ve cut off a larger portion of his dismembered torso…

Shiki had been careful to avoid severing any of Muta-san’s lines, and her cursed technique lapse would prevent him from dying on her. Shoko-san should be able to put him back together and keep him alive, right?

… Although, it’s not as if Shiki can call Shoko-san for assistance right now, what with the current issue of being in another world and all.

She supposes that it’s fortunate she encountered Xiao, who both speaks Japanese –somehow, inexplicably, although the accent is a little strange– and is amenable to lending his assistance, even despite the entire mess with the Special Grade cursed spirits.

He’d fallen silent for a moment after Shiki explained her situation.

“… It would be remiss of me to ignore your situation, considering the circumstances,” he’d finally said. “I do not have the solution to your problem, but… perhaps the other adepti would. I will guide you to Jueyun Karst. Consider it repayment for protecting the people of Liyue, when it was not your responsibility to do so.”

“I am a sorcerer. It’s a sorcerer’s duty to fight curses and protect humans.”

A lesson, a mantra that’s been drilled into her since childhood. The response is reflexive, almost.

Xiao had nodded silently, with a faint flicker of something in sharp golden eyes that made it clear he also understood, then turned and beckoned her to follow.

[neutron-stars-collision]

Genuinely one of my biggest pet peeves about Bridgerton is the sheer amount of double standards within the fandom.

For years now some elements of the Kathony fandom have come for Luke and Nicola over Simone and Jonathan's promo during season 2. Yes they had very limited promo together, and other cast members got photo shoots together, and they didn't. I can get the annoyance and perhaps there is more nuance than I can understand, but it was in the midst of the pandemic, and I believe Jonathan also took a theatre job to help it get back on track. But that does not mean it is Luke and Nicola's fault that they were able to shoot covers together and do a massive world tour. I wish Simone and Jonathan were able to, but sadly they weren't due to covid, and potentially other things, but that does not mean they deserve the abuse.

Which brings me to another - for some reason Colin/Luke are held to an impossibly high standard. Yes Colin has said some not nice things about Penelope throughout all the seasons. But equally so, Simon and Anthony have too; arguably worse. But Luke literally gets hate for what his character said - words he has no say over.

Admittedly, I was disappointed in a chunk of season 3, Nicola and Luke did the most with what they were given, Luke more so. I'll watch future seasons until the end, but I won't be as invested. I am literally here for the Polin crumbs from now on.

Apologies that this ended up so long.

As I've mentioned before, I've only really been here since April so much of that previous fandom nastiness passed me by, but I've seen my fair share of it already, and yeah, you have a point, Anon. Like the concept of such intense ship wars on a show like Bridgerton makes literally zero sense to me. All couples are canon, so there should be no drama. And yet.

I don't know what it is that makes others hate Nic and Luke with such ferocity, and I don't think I'll ever understand. Like surely these people know that neither Nic nor Luke had any say in the promo of their season?? They aren't a part of the marketing team. It might've been unfair what happened to Simone and Johnny, but that's not Polin's fault.

And don't get me started on the hate Colin receives. I've seen someone here say that Colin is held up to the same scrutiny as female leads usually get, and that's spot on. It's just wild bc for me, a show watcher only, Colin is the greenest of flags and the most decent of Bridgerton men. Sure he's made some mistakes, but then who hasn't? Characters are allowed to be flawed. The fact that Newts also gets hate for his character's actions is another level of fucked up. This fandom needs a whole deal of grass touching.

I know what you mean, I'm definitely only staying for Polin crumbs and I know that no one else will capture my heart like them. As you can see I also got impassioned in the response, so don't apologise <3

[jayietheriverwarrior]

Well. Here's a piece that I meant to have done during Pride Month, that I finished at the end of July, and then didn't actually post online until August. Oops. XD Ah well. Anyway, here's some of my pride headcanons for Warriors, with each cat holding/wearing something with the colors of their relevant Pride flag.

Up first are the aroace queens, Drizzle of RiverClan and Mousefur! Drizzle's from Riverstar's Home if you don't remember her, she got super cranky/uncomfortable about Riverstar's relationship with Finch Song. A lot of it was probably just her being young and not wanting to see her old leader and his wife kissing in front of her, and her overall annoyance at how Riverstar's love for Finch Song kept them from going home on time, but to me she just gave off so much "ew allo romance is gross, I'm too aroace to deal with this" vibes, I love it. :D We need more ace queens in this world. Mousefur I won't get into as much, as I think viewing her as aroace is pretty standard. As a RiverClan warrior, Drizzle's of course carrying a fish she caught, while Mousefur caught a bird.

Up next we've got gay Tallstar and bi Jake. :D Tallstar gets a pretty gay butterfly (I drew the butterfly in this piece before the butterfly wings in the Hake drawing if you can't tell, this one looks a lot more awkward XD) on his head, and Jake as a kittypet gets a non-wild accessory, a bi bandana - a bidana, if you will. XD I don't think Jake was actually in love with either of his mates after Tallstar, I think that was more just friends who wanted kits together (though Quince was definitely more in love with Jake than she let on), but he's attracted to both toms and she-cats.

Then we've got best gay farm boys, Ravenpaw and Barley. :D For Barley I cheated a bit and let him have a non-wild accessory since he's a farm cat even though we never see him interact that closely with the twolegs, I figured a little kerchief thing worked well enough for a farm cat. I was pretty stumped what to do for Ravenpaw's accesory until I remembered, oh yeah, he's Ravenpaw - give him an adder! XD Reffed their pose from a really cute photo of two cats cuddling.

Up next is pan Sasha! Pan always seemed to fit her really well, there's so many cats of various genders she's shipped with. For once she actually looks happy. :D Just taking a moment to enjoy a bit of Pride in a pan-colored collar.

And now for all the various demisexual headcanons. :D Up first are two she-cats Sasha is shipped with a lot, demibisexual Leopardstar and demilesbian Russetfur. Leopardstar gets a damselfly as her accessory, they hang out near water and have shimmery wings that flash different colors in the light so I figure that works, and Russetfur has berries behind her ear as a nod to her one biggest moment that makes me dislike her character despite loving her portrayal in the Tigerstar and Sasha books - the scene where she watches Berrykit struggle in a fox trap and does nothing to save him. Still not sure how to reconcile that scene with her portrayal in the other books. Anyway, Leopard liked both Frog and I like to think Sasha as well, but only those two and doesn't tend to find anyone attractive until she forms that strong bond, and Russetfur only ever liked Sasha as far as I'm concerned and was too focused on her role as deputy to care much about romance besides that one time.

The last two are our demibi boys, Riverstar and Jayfeather! For Riverstar, he does feel attraction a bit more easily than the rest of our demi cats, he likes looking at a pretty face, but he doesn't really feel a deep attraction until those deeper feelings form, like with Flutter and Finch Song - but there was definitely something there for Gray Wing, even if it never fully developed into love. For Jayfeather, he hardly ever feels attraction, though he could for toms or she-cats equally - the only time anything developed far enough for that was Half Moon. Riverstar is wearing a flower crown 'cause he strikes me as a flower crown kind of guy, and Jayfeather is carrying herbs.

[cyberdragoninfinity]

Duel Links has me Rin and Yugo pilled again and now I'm thinking of your dimension switch AU and I GOTTA ask, now that we got a better idea of their dynamic.... do they start bitching at each other in the AU at some point. I think it could be very funny. In the face of fear and a unhinged guy out to kidnapp her Rin starts throwing insults and Yugo thinking it is So Fun. I just want them to be friends in every universe, even if its a unhinged friendship that should not have happened but still did and no one knows how.

Also I just now realised Yugo's "It's not fusion it's Yugo" catchphrase now could turn into something like, "it *is* fusion/Yugo". "Yugo deeesu", said in the most threatening yet relaxed way possible. I love this guy he's so fun.

OHOHOHOHH i need to think about the potential of dswap rin and yugo--they DO meet but since the story beats of canon arc-v are a little scrambled yugo's never actually out to kidnap the girls. Rather he mostly stays locked up in his Academia dorm like a tiger pacing a cage (this AU's Leo making an actual dedicated effort to keep the Zarc pieces from meeting lol) ...at least until he sneaks out to follow Zuzu to Standard and ends up going a little wild in the streets during the ALC finales :^)

he ends up running into Rin and dueling her and she BEATS HIS ASS with her pepper witches, something he is, Extremely Unfamiliar With !! And it's gonna stick with him For A While!!

fusion!yugo really needs his own post to get into the intricacies of whats wrong with him but he is a deeply unsocialized animal who eventually gets reclaimed by Obelisk Force and taken back to DA, but he's definitely chomping at the bit wanting to rematch that strange feisty girl from Standard who made him LOSE. i like the idea of 'postcanon' maybe them having some odd sort of friendship...this yugo's track record of odd postcanon friendships really becoming A Bit Longer Than You Would Think (🐩)

also re: his name YEAH!! YEAH EXACTLY he picked his name out himself (trans flag emoji.) and it IS fusion thank you for noticing >:) Youre Gonna Be a Card Now OK Dude? OK???

[oneknightstand-if]

tooth rooting fluff abc with Gwen? Pretty please with ice cream of yer favorite flavour and sprinkles and cherries and the top ?

G - Grateful - Very grateful and quite cognizant of her flaws at times and how she's not always able to pull her own weight. So if you're helping her, or being romantic, or even doing just some little things in the background, she's grateful for all her partner and can & will do.

W - Wildcard - Another wild headcanon? Well, since this is fluff, nevermind Broderick's Sir Velveteen, she's still got her entire stuffed animal collection from childhood. *hint hint when it comes to gifts*

E - Equal - She likes when her partner takes the lead in the relationship, buuut... she is definitely the type who goes running off in pursuit of romance, which isn't usually the passive thing to do.

N - Nicknames - Compared to some... others... in the Harbinger crew her nicknames are pretty normal for her partner... you know 'love', 'dear', 'sweetie', 'snuffleufflebums'

R - Romance - Typical CoG reader. What wouldn't she do for the sake of romance? Get the ^&$%^& out of the way, she's gunning for the romance! Red flags are okay too, even if she usually likes the knight-in-shining-armor type, bad boys are good too!

E

Y - Yearning - Always have her partner on her mind. Wear her partner's clothes and fragrance/perfume/cologne. Go sneaking off to wherever her partner is at the time-- did I mention she's not really all that passive in the relationship?

N

A - Activities - While she likes the standard romantic stuff -- candlelit dinners, lakeside rides on swan boats, moonlight beach walks, she's more than willing to tailor her activities to whatever hobbies her partner likes. Whatever they like.

R

D - Dreams - Standard future dreams, of course. Marriage. Two and a half children. Castle with a moat. You know, standard stuff.