#wormholes anyone? XD

[jlbilu]

So I have, or thought I had, this ofc who is Oz-based because apparently there are times (not always!) I'm unable to give them an existence not based on another fictional... work.

God knows why, because I do not. 🤷🏻‍♀️

The thing is- do you know how many canonical books there are about Oz, its surroundings and its inhabitants??

Tons. There are tons of them.

Does it mean I should try read them all- despite I'd mainly look at Maguire's novels?

[hyog-blog]

Melody Journey (Music TV Show, 2024)

Zhou Shen, Xue Zhiqian, Ayunga, Liu Yuning, Liu DuanDuan, and more

I blame Liu Yuning for my falling into the c-pop wormhole, which led to a whole new world filled with cheesy ballads, romantic love songs, old-school rock hits, and cdrama OSTs. Chinese music industry really knows how to celebrate its talents—and have fun while it's at it!

Melody Journey has a fairly original concept. They invited a bunch of upcoming and established composers to present their new (!) songs to equally established and upcoming singers. That creates a very powerful mix - the singers get exposure and can sing some pretty amazing new hits (or less amazing, but it's still all in good fun), and the composers get their songs being broadcasted nationwide for the first time.

The modern stage is visually striking, the filming of the whole show is top-notch high-quality, but what makes it so damn good and delicious on all levels is the cast. The show features a lot of familiar faces from Singing with Legends season 3, which was pure awesomeness (if you haven't watched it - just go and do it now, you'll fall in love with all the singers and probably the Chinese music industry as well).

This means we get to enjoy the frantic humor of Xue Zhiqian, as well as his passionate performances. Next, there's Zhou Shen with his incredibly high, androgynous voice and a diva-like presence on stage (that, and his humor barely passing the show's censorship XD). There's also the incredibly lovely Shan Yichun and some cool guests appearing all the time, so the cast is pretty fluid.

At some point, Ayunga joins the stage - and if you know him, you know that this Mongolian musical singer is a real gem both in terms of looks and his gorgeous voice. Then Liu Yuning joins the show, bringing his magical voice and powerful performances, which can't really be compared to anyone else. That, and his personality also shines bright.

I was also very surprised to find Liu DuanDuan (2nd Prince from Joy of Life) to be a pretty good singer. Like really good! I didn't connect to him much at first, but he has a quirky sense of humor and a very hard-working personality. He's very passionate about singing, and it shows!

The show is hilarious right from the first episodes, there's so much humor, you can watch it just for that alone. Xue Zhiqian is a walking stand-up comedian, but he treats music very seriously. He also shifts between the roles of a singer and composer, giving some of his songs to the performers.

Because all the songs are new, it's very exciting to see the whole process of reacting/choosing what to sing. Everyone has their own personalities and preferences, which makes for a very entertaining process. I haven't laughed so much in a long while. All the guys and girls know each other, so it's not really a competition, but rather a fun music camp they do altogether.

At the end of each episdoe, some cutting-edge AI decides what song has the best chance of becoming a hit. That's pretty much it! No rewards or fancy titles. The show itself with new music and interesting performances is the reward, so they're doing it just for the fun of it.

I enjoyed the concept just as much as I enjoyed everyone's performances - there were lots of really cool new songs! So I recommend watching it fully, but if you're interested in our boy Liu Yuning, he appears in episode 7.

I've watched 9 episodes out of 11, and it's been nothing but fun paired with excitement :3 The humor is literally never-ending. No one is safe from friendly pranks.

You can't have Liu Yuning on the show without some height jokes, okay? They're obligatory)))

All the boys are incredibly touchy-feely and they hug a lot, which made my heart all warm and fuzzy. They're so cute. Also, the support seniors have to younger stars is very heart-warming.

Apart from all the fun, the show is just very pleasing to the eye. The stages have cool visual effects and some performances are very artsy.

The beginning of the show is already striking and you know it's going to be pretty!

[sapphire-to-the-rain]

hi!!! recently fell into the rpdr wormhole and stumbled across you ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ"

anyone you’re cheering on for s16?

omg hi hello! welcome to the brainrot we are so happy you are here <3

honestly…. i have two answers for this question depending on how i interpret it, the first of which being who i think is most LIKELY to win and i think that’s sapphira. she’s getting an edit that feels to me like a winner’s edit, she’s tied for having the most wins in the competition (3 in a row is crazy!!!!), she is so talented at basically everything and so so kind and genuinely warmhearted and at this point i have to agree it would be completely deserved for her to win the whole season so therefore i am cheering for her !

now the second answer would be more of who i personally (selfishly) would want to win, and that’s nymphia xD this is less of a “deserved” and more of just me playing favorites LOL. i know her track record is objectively worse and she’s more of a fashion queen less of a well rounded queen i guess?? but i just love her so much 🤧 i think she’s hilarious in her own special extremely not snatch game way and her runways NEVER miss ! plus she’s an incredible performer, i’d argue she and sapphira are evenly matched in their abilities to perform just with different strengths :3

aaaanyway thank you for the ask!! anyone that you’re rooting for ?

[han-the-vampiricyoshi]

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send me a 👀 and i’ll post a snippet of art/writing that i never got around to finishing this year (r.i.p)

This is pretty much word for word what I've got in my first drafts rn. Very little thought other than 'spontaneity' went into this XD Wil is kind of fun to write in a weird way.

Context: post- In Space With Markiplier interaction between the Captain and Wilford Warfstache.

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Wil was a dangerous man. They weren't sure how exactly they were sure of that, but an entity that could collapse a wormhole rift with a stinking butterfly knife, only to be able to summon another one moments after, was clearly capable of great and terrible things. Then there was the whole demanding persona; the veiled threats, and the pointing-the-wormhole-killing-knife-in-your-face thing. Wilford being here put them on-edge, concerned for their safety and existence.

"Hey now, there's no need to be so harsh!" Wilford suddenly exclaimed. "I'm a professional journalist, and perhaps a little anal over things like scheduling and keeping my appointments with interviewees. Do you know how many times I've gotten rain checks for an interview, only for someone like you to give out excuses? And that's not to mention when a subject decides to spontaneously die during, or when the staff has similar setbacks. It's hard work! You can't blame me for being a bit testy!"

The Captain stared at him, wide-eyed. What the @%*#??

"Hey now, language!" Wil chided. "We're having a f***ing adult conversation here."

But the Captain hadn't said anything!! They had been too scared to talk. Had he been in their head this whole time??

"Well, it's not like it's all that difficult," Wil scoffed. "You're especially loud. Your thoughts are written here, plain as day for anyone with a little too much time on their hands to peruse."

So what - he could read them like a book?

"Well, more like an online text blog of some weary writer who's sat on this prose for months on end," Wilford drawled. "More easily transmissible, unfortunately, but extremely legible. This bit wasn't exactly how the original text was meant to go, however..."

The Captain squirmed, wanting desperately to get away. It was so weird and creepy, and they really needed him out of their head!

"Whoa now, didn't you hear me -- you're the one being loud!" the pink man accused. "Not even Glocky-Boo is as loud as you have been. And she is especially well-mannered, for a gun." He reached out to pluck a pineapple toothpick from the edible arrangement and popped it in his mouth, making exaggerated chewing noises and motions.

Was he seriously eating on the Captain's glass coffin like they were some kind of table??

"There's no need to sound so offended about it, whatever-your-name-is," Wil retorted with a huff. "This isn't even the fun way of eating off you. Perhaps another time," he whispered with an obnoxious wink. "And it's not like you can eat it as you are, so why let it go to waste?"

They never asked him to come here or to bring him some kind of fruit art piece.

Wilford sighed. "Now is that any way to treat someone who was nice enough to visit you in your memorial and bring a little offering to your health? Or... not-health. Depends when you are, I suppose. What is this place? Is it a shrine or something? An alter? Do you make sacrifices here? Are you the sacrifice? Ooh - it's been so long since I've participated ina good sacrifice!"

He suddenly shoved a strawberry into his mouth and started to pat himself down with both hands.

"Hold on! I have just the thing for this!" Wil explained excitedly. "I found this baby for sale in a booth at a Dagonic rally and I have been practically dying to break it out!"

From seemingly nowhere, Wilford pulled out a large and jagged black knife. He wielded it over his head, looking down toward the Captain with a wild look in his eye. Strawberry juice clung to his lips and the edges of his mustache, his teeth showing with a gleeful grin.

(it doesn't end there, but you get the idea... >w> Got like four chapters of this thing with at least two more planned... and unwritten.)

[ilovedthestars]

ask game! 📄

hi!! thank you for the ask! <3 (I left this in my drafts when I thought I'd posted it oops)

WIP Ask Game

📄What’s a WIP you never finished that you would like to go back and revisit?

Okay so I have a LOT of these. Like, a scary amount. (Somewhere on discord I shared screenshots of my list of WIPs in scrivener, and it was three phone screenshots long.) Some of them are abandoned, but a lot of them are in the "I'll get back to that eventually..." stage, which I jokingly call Draft Purgatory. I have so many fics in Draft Purgatory.

However, if I had to pick one...The Three time travel fic is up there! I think I might have gotten this idea from a Tumblr post proposing it, ages ago? (If anyone knows where that is, please link it to me!) But I remember looking to see if there was a time travel fix-it where Three got to save One and Two, and I didn't find one, so I wrote it myself. I took...some liberties with the NE timeline, because I don't fully understand the order of events and chose to ignore them instead of figuring it out XD. But the basic plot was that due to handwavey wormhole shenanigans, Three from several months post-canon ends up thrown back in time to just before Murderbot shows up onstage in NE, and it saves One and Two and brings them back with it. There are hugs. It's very emotions. I think I got stuck on plot logistics...so easy to write emotions, so hard to write the parts where characters go from one place to another place lolll.

I very much want to finish it before System Collapse comes out and messes with Three's characterization. 3/3 has snuck up on me and part of me wants to try to crank it out in time for the Three festivities...which is probably not gonna happen, but if I'm sufficiently motivated I might try anyway...we'll see, lol. But yeah, the three time travel fic is very high on the list of WIPs that I really want to finish as soon as I can. It's near and dear to my heart <3

[hikarisakurariver]

Sorry, have we as a fandom forgotten that he rejected the reality that he was home and doing mind blowing important ingenious levels of stuff for the federation and said HE said NOPE! You think that Harry Kim is boring? The guy that went back because his best friend Daniel Bird was in his place and stuck in the Delta Quadrant even though he was back with his girlfriend (and engaged to her)? The guy who immediately upon learning Tom Paris was home too flew over to France and sought his help, did a friendship speed run on a shoe string half plan? The guy that built an astronomics department with a former Borg member- who he also befriended pretty quickly btw (latter got a crush on and then got over) The guy who in the first episode befriended the convicted felon on probation and when told why he should stay away said naw. The guy who in the second episode befriended an unhinged engineer protester people regarded as space terrorists despite her trying to keep her distance? The guy who braved a Borg cube ALONE to save his friends that were trapped inside said Borg cube? The guy who saw how his Captain was essentially isolated and wanted to invite her to the Table he and his friend were sat at, just so she could be a human being for a few minutes? The guy who organized a prison break using bits of wire and saved Tom Paris' life? The guy who wanted to go into Borg territory to find a way to get the wormhole in it? The guy who CHANGED THE TIMELINE because only he and Chakotay made it back while everyone else was killed? That character? where have you been Harry Kim is one of THE most interesting unhinged characters pretending to be lawful good this entire time XD Harry is a character that is doomed to potential, but we see grow the most with the exception of Seven of Nine. He is the wide eyed inexperienced but senior officer on his FIRST mission and ends up lost in space- he is the most enthusiastic to get home and he gives it all up multiple times just to see justice done by everyone else. He mourns so many things that he should of had, but also celebrates what he gains, He isn't constrained by the traditional unspoken codes but want so bad to be a good officer. He sees the person not the mistake, he doesn't hide his emotions but he isn't consumed by them either. he has a literal ship of people ready to have his back, just as he is ready to jump into hell for anyone of them. Boring is the least accurate description of Harry Kim.

people who think harry kim is a boring character simply do not understand the horror and the comedy of being someone who for all intents and purposes should be destined for great things (see: non sequitur) but is instead facing a life spent trapped in a survival situation with the most unhinged codependent mildly toxic found family imaginable

[rose-like-the-phoenix]

Some ISWM lead headcanons <3<3<3 enjoy

Burt

Is built like a brick wall

Uses he/they/star pronouns

Probably makes his own Inventions in star spare time

Doesn't get along super well with Celci but she'll go to him if something needs fixed before she'd ever go to Mark

Questions life too much

*insert existential poem here* "I just asked if you wanted coffee 😐"

Knows more than he says

Biromantic xenogender

Had experience with time loops before going to space

Worked their way through life

Took things apart as a kid "to see how it worked" (I did this lol XD)

Enjoys cuddling with his platonic partner

Gunther B. Gunnerson

Burt's platonic partner ❤️

Leans on burt a lot

Gives his partner all the cuddles in the multiverse

This mans is a he/moon bisexual

Loves the moon 🌙

Had never heard of neopronouns before burt told him about them and he got super excited when he found moon/moonself pronouns

Calls burt affectionate nicknames like "big guy" "bebe" "moonlight" "lovely" "cuddlebug" etc. Burt calls him "moonbeam" "starlight" "flower petal" anything poetic really

*checking burt out* "Your hotter then your reactor bebe"

Likes old western/sci-fi movies and detective/mystery books

Started a journal because burt has one but his is mostly just drawings of his favorite things (guns, burt, his crew, ADS drones etc)

*does some minor repair* Mark and Celci "since when do you know how to do that???" *gestures and gives heart eyes to burt* "I learned from the best"

Hopeless romantic

Will shot anyone/thing that trys to hurt moon partner

Mark

Can and will be a little bitch (affectionate) at any given chance

If you can't find him just have Chica track him down

Definitely has at least three plushies on his bed

Uses he/space pronouns

Celci "go jump off a cliff" Mark "gladly, provided the captain doses it first"

Gets jealous when the other leads get more attention from the captain than him

Yandere for the captain but tries not to take it too far

Was completely oblivious about Burt and Gunther's relationship until Gunther planted a kiss on Burt's cheek right in front of space, Celci and the captain

Fights with Celci cuz he sees her as space biggest competition for the captain's attention

Definitely wasn't raised in a stable home environment

Celci

Born and raised in Alaska, hence why she has a high cold tolerance

Likes green tea with honey

Oreos and milk are one of snow favorite snacks

Doesn't hold grudges but she finds the other leads generally aggravating most of the time

Usually in the know about almost everything going on in the ship at any given time

Sexually ambiguous

Took her a while to understand neopronouns but once she did cold started using she/snow/cold pronouns

May not get along with someone but will respect their pronouns

Has a blue and white snowflake shaped popit on cold desk

Enjoys thrillers/supernatural books and spy movies

Cried a little when the captain gave snow, Mark, Burt and Gunther pronoun pins 📌

Enter the wormhole to the small text!! @captainsaltypear kinda inspired this when we traded burt headcanons once so thank you 😊 but also sorry for tagging you twice in one day pear

[featureenvyproductions]

who wants to hear about my abandoned chapter? hopefully you bc I need to overexplain a thing

This is my shitty sketchup concept of a hypergate (and don't ask me why I didn't just use sketchup for every other mechanical component in this comic instead of drawing them all by hand IM NOT SMART ALRIGHT)

Basically it like makes a wormhole for you and shuttles your ship through to the other end so you can get where you're going WITHOUT having to travel normally through spacetime and without having to experience the effects of time dilation bc no one wants to go to the interstellar anime convention in space only to find even going relativistic speeds they're 2 thousand years late or something

I had envisioned that the societies that existed before Eyan Eternal takes place would have constructed and maintained a fuck ton of these complicated bastards. But see that's the thing. They're complicated. So they need energy and maintenance. That requires people to exist to take care of those things - or, even if they somehow used energy from stars or idk something else, stars eventually use up their fuel and cool down. Even those aren't forever. The point is eventually as societies fade into nothing and people disappear from the universe as time SLOWLY marches on towards the end of the stelliferous era, there is no one around to maintain these anymore and they pretty much just die, doomed to hang around and do nothing until eventually colliding with a black hole or until their fundamental particles decay.

I had a chapter that explained this and why, despite this clearly taking place in a future with the remnants of intergalactic civilizations, Eyan is still traveling around in regular ol spacetime, the clunky way, at sub-luminal speeds, experiencing a MADDENING degree of time dilation. I decided to cut it though because it was a lot of effort for very little plot value and I didn't think anyone would like notice or care.

But uh if anyone wants the background info then there you go...it's not a plot hole, just was a plot bunny i pruned XD

[galraluver]

Ok, I've got a story idea for one of the paladins. Alfor goes to primitive earth (but not to primitive, no hairy monkeys here XD) and finds an infantile human. I tried to think of simple but interesting prompt for him. It gonna be so cool requesting for the Paladins of Old.

❤️❤️❤️💜💜💜🖤🖤🖤✨✨

Okay, I'll try my best. By infantile, I wasn't sure if you meant for the reader to be an actual infant or not, but that's how I wrote it since I had major brain fog when I wrote it 😅

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When a new galaxy was detected Alfor volunteered to go check it out on his own since the other paladins were all busy ruling their planets, excited to see brand new worlds. Alfor packed plenty of food and other supplies in Red before he left Altea, putting Coran in charge while he was away; Melenor was busy off-world, so she wasn't able to keep an eye on everything while he was away. Coran, being the good friend he was, promised Alfor that he would keep an eye on everything and help anyone on Altea that needed help. Alfor was very thankful for wormhole technology since flying to a new galaxy would otherwise take forever. When he arrived in the new galaxy he saw that there was only one sun, several moons and a few new planets.

Most of the planets were inhabitable, but after a while of flying in his lion he found one that was capable of supporting life. Not wanting to give up on his journey so soon, Alfor decided to check out the small green and blue planet to see if anyone lived on it. Flying through the atmosphere was easy since Red had a high heat tolerance but finding a place to land was a little difficult due to all of the trees; forest planets were good and all but they obviously weren't meant for ships to land on. After finding a place to land after a while Alfor was finally able to explore the new world, hoping to find some locals if there were any. The first thing he noticed after stepping out of Red was the slight breeze and the sound of birds singing; the birds were unlike any he had heard before and he thought that they sounded beautiful.

When Alfor started walking through the bushes he saw a few flying insects fly around him in all different directions, each of them very unique looking. There were no signs of any indigenous species around, but it was a new planet, after all. If there were people anywhere, they most likely weren't very intelligent or there weren't very many of them. If he was being honest with himself he wasn't sure what to expect; he hoped that if there were any people, he hoped they weren't hostile. After a while of walking Alfor could have sworn that he heard the sound of a baby crying, which seemed impossible since he hadn't found any signs of an indigenous species.

"Hello, is someone there?" Alfor asked out loud in a concerned tone, ready to save anyone who needed him.

Meanwhile, a baby girl was laying underneath a bush, unable to fully comprehend what was happening since she was just a baby; all she understood was that she was alone outside without her parents. When the baby heard a man's voice she started crying so that the man would hear her, knowing enough that it would get his attention. After spending the night underneath the bush the baby felt cold, hungry and her diaper was full. As she cried, Alfor followed the sound until he finally found her laying underneath the bush she'd been placed under. His eyes widened and the baby looked at while whimpering, a few tears rolling down her chubby little cheeks.

"Oh my…" Alfor whispered when he saw an infant laying underneath a bush, immediately reaching out and carefully picking her up; the last thing he expected to find was a baby underneath a bush.

As soon as the baby was picked up and cradled against the man's chest she sniffled as looked at him with curiosity. Since she was so young it didn't register in her mind that the man was a completely different species than she was, all that mattered was that he was cradling her in his arms. As Alfor cradled the baby against his chest he noticed how she was swaddled in a brown animal pelt, most likely by whoever left her underneath the bush. He stood up and had a look around his surroundings, his ears twitching as he listened to see if anyone else was around but he didn't see or hear anyone, meaning that the baby had been abandoned. As the baby was cradled against his chest she just looked up at the man who saved her, finally settling down despite being hungry.

"Don't worry little one, I'll take care of you." Alfor spoke softly as he began walking back to his lion, smiling down at the baby; if he hadn't of found her she could have died or been eaten by an animal.

The baby looked up at Alfor and yawned, suddenly feeling safe and sleepy after he rescued her. Alfor was thankful that some of the supplies he packed in Red's cargo hold were baby supplies; he knew to always pack for any situation, even the ones that didn't seem possible. He already got a whiff of the baby's dirty diaper and knew what he was going to do as soon as he got back to the red lion. He didn't know why the baby had been abandoned but he decided that he was going to adopt her; Melenor would be happy when he returned home and she got back from her diplomatic visit on Nalquod. Alfor decided to mark the strange planet he found the baby on as non-intelligent since there obviously weren't intelligent beings on it; the tiny infant would turn out different though since he and his wife were going to raise her alongside Allura.

[iamvegorott]

Anti grumpy is not fun for anyone XD

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Wilford*kicks down the door to darks office*

Wilford: what did you do?

Dark: what?

Wilford:……………………

Dark: what?!

Wilford: what did you do to piss off anti?

Dark: he got a little less sleep last night, why? What’s wrong?

Wilford: dark I love you, your my oldest friend and practically a brother, but if you don’t go get your grumpy cat of a boyfriend I will send him and you down a pink wormhole

Pffffft

"I will yeet you to a different dimension if you don't get to cuddling"

[alicec-666]

"Wormhole in the bed of roses"

"The worants (half worm, half ants) are actually rather peaceful cretures: they feast on leaves, grass, seldom species of fruirries, such as appberry, bluerange or pinegrape. Sometimes they feast on the young too, but those times occur rather rarely in nature... Unless something is threatening them or their babies smell worse than usual. At any rate, only one in ten of those is lucky enough to grow into a complete adult and if they are by chance to find themselves a way to mating with their Queen, which is much rarer than you'd think, then the survival baby cycle starts again..."

(I was really bored so made this... Whatever this is XD Hope that Worants weren't anyone's idea just yet lol)

[astrodances]

So you said that Drake and Gosalyn are basically Bajorans so what are there faith to the Prophets or your Versions of the Prophets in your au

Linking to the original Drake + Gos answer for easy reference

(This is gonna get convoluted but in the best way, because I love Bajoran spirituality and all the world-building, inspiration, and lore it brought to DS9, and the way that the show addressed both science and religion as having shades of gray.)

So, when I was writing the original answer that I linked above, I did think of some stuff regarding Canardian religion that I think I forgot, unfortunately, but part of it was about how Drake is very much a man of faith in this AU, and that stems directly from his love, his worship, of Darkwing Duck (from the character himself to (especially later) the principles that make him up) in DT17, and how it influences and guides his life. I'm not trying to equate a religion to a character, or to philosophize or anything like that, but what I am saying is that Drake has a propensity for faith.

And so at first, Drake is like any other Canardian during the occupation, relying on his faith in the Prophets for hope and strength, for his people to survive. He grew up with it, and also grew up wanting to become a resistance member as soon as he could, and he did. But as the fight goes on, he feels that he has to do something more, something to make a difference and throw the occupying force off their game, and from that thought he develops the Darkwing Duck persona.

And it works. Darkwing inspires others to rise in the fight and becomes a symbol of the Canardians' will to keep getting back up (there was always something about him, even just as Drake, some extra strength and courage, that made him stand out from the rest), eventually leading them to victory. He meets, saves, and adopts Gosalyn as a partner and a daughter, and Drake feels like he's fulfilling the path the Prophets have laid out for him, his destiny.

Little does he know how right he is.

As things settle after the occupation and Drake and Gos move to DS87, Drake gets the chance to have an orb experience with the Orb of Prophecy and Change, and from there he travels into the wormhole and meets the Prophets. (Basically, a parallel to that part of events for Sisko from DS9's premiere - although whether the wormhole has already been discovered yet in this AU, depending on Della's arc, is yet to be decided.) And what does he learn?

That he's the Emissary of the Prophets ("The Darkwing"), the destined protector of his people on Canard and DS87.

About Gos and faith: when Drake first meets her, her faith is very much shaken, as she's young and just lost her grandfather. She's probably wondering why the Prophets would let this happen to a man who believed in them more than anyone she's ever seen until then, who taught her everything she knows. It takes time (and he never pushes), but Drake helps her regain her confidence in the Prophets, and helps her honor and mourn her grandfather according to custom. And as Gos sees how Drake goes through his own journey in becoming the Emissary, she has some of her own revelations regarding faith, and her spirit mends.

A quick note about Launchpad, for when he moves to the station and joins the Mallard family: he might see the Prophets more as wormhole aliens than gods, at least at first, but he understands Drake and Gos' faith, being Jewish himself (and having that same propensity for faith as Drake does regarding his love for DWD in DT17), and I think that'll be one of the things that draws them all together. Or as Kira puts it in one of my favorite DS9 quotes: "That's the thing about faith...if you don't have it, you can't understand it. If you do, no explanation is necessary."

As for the Prophets themselves, I mean, I guess they physically behave the same as DS9's versions? Like, they're those wispy non-corporeal lifeforms at their core, but when they interact with others in visions or in the wormhole, they appear as people that person knows (so in Drake's case, the Prophets might appear as Gos, LP, Commander Owlson, Louie, Goldie, etc.).

A couple other thoughts about Canardian faith...

I mentioned before the possibility of Taurus Bulba being the equivalent of Kai Winn (So Kai Bulba). Just want to confirm that, and going along with that...

Negaduck is the equivalent of Gul Dukat, but with some twists. (Here's something for the mind: NegaDukat. XD) Been thinking a lot about him tonight for the AU, and his role just made even more sense after I realized that Drake would be the Emissary. So, Negaduck would lead the occupation of Canard, and Darkwing would defeat him, and later on, Negaduck would release the Pah-wraiths and let them possess him in an attempt to destroy Darkwing and Canard. Standard Dukat parallel with that spice of Negaduck destruction.

But here's where I shake things up.

At some point (probably during the Pah-wraith situation), Negaduck would face off against DW and lie to him, saying something like, "The Prophets sent me. This is what they want for Canard! The Pah-wraiths are the true Prophets!" Maybe he even makes some claim to being the Emissary. And DW's able to prove all of those as lies, but there's one thing that he can't disprove: Negaduck did come through the wormhole, years ago, before he went on to lead the occupation (which is another distinction from Dukat, that he's not of the AU's equivalent of the Cardassians, just their leader - which gives more support to the Fearsome Five being the occupying force).

So if not the Prophets, where did Negaduck come from? He has all this evidence pointing to his own mysterious origin point, and openly flaunts it (but stubbornly doesn't provide answers), but Team DW can't find anything. (And no, he's not from the Gamma Quadrant.)

No, Negaduck is from...*drum roll*...the mirror universe! And he got to the prime universe much like how Kira and Bashir did in "Crossover", by going through the wormhole.

So, drawing more on DW91 than DT17, Negaduck is the mirror version of Darkwing Duck, and is from the mirror Canard (and so on and so forth, bringing in some Negaverse lore into it). In many ways, the lies above probably hold more truth than I was letting on, but not for this universe. Negaduck is probably the mirror Emissary of the Pah-wraiths, and it was them who sent him through the wormhole and between dimensions, filling his head with "plans" for the occupation of prime Canard (which was probably just a part of a larger plan to infiltrate the prime wormhole and take that over from the Prophets).

[pyro-sea]

Mahaad, Volo, faye valentine

This is going to get so long XD Here we goooooo!

My NOTP for them

Mahaad - I'm not big on Mahaad x Mana. They're more brotp to me. Or, they WOULD be bro if Mahaad would do a prank every once in a while puh-LEASE

Volo - There are actually very few people I ship Volo with. Probably why making an oc to pair with him was so easy lol. I guess probably stuff where it's him with an unaged-up MC/Akari/Rei, but if it's aged up I don't really care. I do have a mild vendetta against Ginter for his prices on items though, so I'm not keen on the idea of Volo and Ginter hooking up, but that's like, a me thing and not an "I don't think these characters work well together" thing. And I hate Kamado, but like, again, that's a me thing and has nothing to do with whether I think the characters work well or not.

Faye - Bebop doesn't have enough characters for this - oh wait, oh yeah, not a fan of Faye with Ed. If Ed was aged up, sure I don't care, but I haven't seen that yet, and thus my stance on it is no thank you.

My BROTP for them

Mahaad - With Manaaaaaa!!!!! They have such good sibling vibes and I think they'd be homies. I also think that Mahaad and Jounouchi would end up with a strong bro thing over protecting Yugi and Atem. But Mana and Mahaad have such Younger Sibling Older Sibling vibes that are a lot of fun to see and explore.

Volo - I think Volo and Tuli would be bros. Volo and Cogita could be bros, if Volo wasn't so sus in trying to get information from her. But yeah no I lowkey think Tuli and Volo are bros. I also think Tuli is the one who keeps Volo posted on stuff going on in Jubilife, since the only other guild member routinely in Jubilife is Ginter, and Ginter does not seem thrilled enough at Volo's antics to sneak him information.

Faye - Faye and Spike have a really strong siblings dynamic imo. They both annoy the shit out of each other, as siblings do, but they'd also take a bullet for each other, as siblings do. They're like that in the anime and in the live-action series. Actually, the live-action series makes them even more brotp than I expected. They bond over luxury shower practices lol

My OTP for them 

Mahaad - Mahaad x Set is the most plausible for me canonwise, but I think they both bond over how much they care about Atem and that's what brings them closer together. Maybe in another life, they'd have more time to figure things out (Kaiba x Dark Magician, anyone?? Anyone????)

Volo - *points to my oc content* I did not put in this much work for Volo and my oc Niko to NOT be my Volo-involved otp. But uh yeah no Volo x Niko is my love, my life, my everything. I am vibrating while rotating them both in my brain. Volo has such simpish dialog in the game that spinning it to fit a shipping story was SO easy. He loves Niko. A bit too much. He's an obsessive bastard who needs to chill. But he won't, and Niko adores the attention. Drinks it like wine. Plus, Niko being from modern day knows Arceus as the pokemon god of creation, and just acknowledging Arceus as a deity would be SO validating for Volo, who is literally the only person in Hisui (except maybe, MAYBE Cogita) to know who Arcues is, let alone consider Arceus the "true"/"real" almighty Sinnoh. And at one point, Volo is the only person Niko trusts, because of shit that happens in canon. Niko has been ripped from their home and everyone they know TWICE and Volo has been there for them, even if he did, you know, kinda cause the first issue lol but GOD they're a bit dysfunctional sometimes, but they inspire each other to be better people and Niko fights god itself for Volo and just *bites fist* gaaaah I need to get the full story out someday

But if I have to pick a canon character, probably Ingo. I think Volo would keep tabs on him no matter what option you think he got to Hisui through (Volo's rift fuckery, ultra wormhole, some other third thing that even Arceus doesn't know of), one because Ingo is potentially from the rift, and two because he'd be waiting for Ingo to recover his memories and tell him of the future - and especially of the future's historical knowledge. Little does Volo know, Ingo's specialty is trains. But in that I like to think they'd grow closer and damn I just need to write a fic, don't i XD

Faye - Faye x Julia. Sorry Spike. There's a moment in the anime where Faye meets Julia and she seems so star-struck that i just thought "Oh. Oh this is it. Faye can have a wlw, as a treat" and i've never let that thought go. Ever.

My second choice pairing for them

Mahaad - I really like Mahaad x Ryou and Dark Magician x Ryou. I especially love stories where Mahaad somehow contacts Ryou through the Ring. Or where Ryou gets the Puzzle and Mahaad finds Ryou through that. Or sentient Duel Monsters cards. Or or or just making it happen. I think Ryou would dig Dark Magician's aesthetic, and I think Mahaad needs more positive enthusiasm in his life. Plus, then homoerotic magic training sessions could happen, and who doesn't want a good homoerotic magic training session??

Volo - Volo and Adaman! Why? Because Adaman deserves a little crazy bf, as a treat. For serious, I just like the idea of Volo detouring to visit the Diamond Clan just to see Adaman, him listing VERY intently while Adaman goes on and on and on about the clan's history, legends, etc etc, and Adaman metaphorically wagging his tail getting to tell someone so enthusiastic about how correct the Diamond Clan is. I think a similar series of events could happen between Irida and Volo, but I ship Irida with Mai I'm not sure Irida would see the interactions as romantic or potentially suggesting a romance being desired.

Faye - If Faye can't have Julia, then by god let her have Spike. Yes I know I just called them brotp, but they have the range to be both. Specifically, Faye has the range to put Spike in his place, and Spike has the respect for her enough to be put in his place. It'd work, eventually. When money wasn't tight. Listen they've been through too much together, it'd work.

My fluffy pairing for them

Mahaad - Mahaad x Atem! Or, more like Dark Magician x Atem, since anything involving the AE crew ends in, well, *gestures to canon*. But like, I think Mahaad and Atem would spend quiet mornings building deck strategies for Atem to run by Yugi. It'd be cute.

Volo - Nnnnnnnniko! Niko x Volo is everything to me. All of it. It has the range. It is the full package. The fluff, the angst, the hurt/comfort, the betrayal, the reconcile, the healing, the loss, the pining, the drastic times call for drastic measures. Everythiiiiiiing.

But, again, if it had to be a canon character, I think anything would work pre-postgame. Ingo, Adaman, Tuli, Cogita, Irida, the guild members, it's almost anything goes. However, in all the post-postgame stuff.... I think professor Laventon is the only one who'd give Volo a second chance, considering the stuff Laventon tells you after the Giratina mission. Plus like, they're both nerds lol fellas, is it gay to collaborate on research projects that further both y'all's research goals? (in this case, the answer is a resounding yes).

Faye - Faye x A fat paycheck and a long shower. That's the only fluff life gives the bebop crew. Although if I could au it a bit, Faye and Julia could have some pretty soft moments while on the run together.

My angsty pairing for them

Mahaad - Mahaad x TKB. The heartbreak at the end of the line. Mahaad having to choose between helping TKB and protecting Atem. TKB knowing that if he attacks the throne, he's going to have to face Mahaad as an enemy. It hurts. It hurts so good.

Volo - To literally no one's surprise: Niko x Volo. I'm telling ya, the pairing has the range.

Volo x Adaman also has the potential for some serious angst with the postgame. A whole big batch of "I trusted you" and "How could you do this" and "Did I really mean that little to you?". Delicious, delicious angst.

But you know what REALLY has the potential for some good angst? Volo x Emmet. Volo. x. Emmet. Just imagine. Emmet finds his way to Hisui. Encounters Volo. Volo offers to help him find his brother, but fears getting found out, so he derails their search. It takes a long time. Emmet loses hope, but Volo keeps encouraging him. Emmet starts to fall in love, only to have his heart absolutely decimated when he finds out Volo is the reason Ingo got yeeted in the first place. Ouchie :)

Faye - Considering the way the show ends, Faye x Spike would pretty much tear out your heart and rip it to itty bitty shreds. Both versions of the show, actually. Bebop canon said no one is allowed a positive ending except Ed and Ein (which is okay, because they do deserve it).

My favorite poly ship for them 

Mahaad - Mahaad with Set and Atem! Or, Mahaad with Atem and TKB. Or or or actually Mahaad with Set and Atem AND with TKB. Chronic. Multi. Shipper.

Volo - Volo x Niko x Adaman. The whole dialog from the lake trio missions is a solid 70% Volo and Adaman talking about how cool and competent you are, so like, once again the in-game dialog lends itself so well to so many potentials. It also lends itself to Volo x Niko x Cogita a few times. So many pastabilities!

Faye - I really like Faye x Spike x Jet, but specifically in the format of Faye > Spike < Jet, with Faye and Jet being more metamores than romantic or sexual partners. They're both there for Spike, and Spike is absolutely high off the attention.

My weirdest pairing for them

Mahaad - Idk if it actually counts as weird, but I think Mahaad x Kaiba/Dark Magician x Kaiba is REALLY fun, especially when it's a rendition of Kaiba that is super magic-reluctant. Mahaad who loved Set is just "I have found you once more, my beloved" and Kaiba who refuses to believe he was Set in a past life is just "Yugi get your weird cosplay friend off my lawn". Or better, "Yugi tell your duel monster cards to stop fucking talking to me"

Volo - I kinda do ship him with Cyllene a bit. I think she puts a lot of faith in his abilities and expertise in canon, when she's super not the character to do that. Which suggests they have some sort of history/connection pre-canon. Possibly a flame on the downlow? Friendly exes? Mutual aces? Pick your favorite flavor, I just think they're fun!

Faye - If bebop had more characters *grumble grumble* Honestly I think the weirdest pairing i could do with Faye would be to make a bebop oc. Which, i'm not going to do, but that's kinda were I'm at. There's only a handful of characters. I guess Vicious??? Faye x Vicious???? That's the best I got. It'd be quite the middle finger to Spike lol

[dawnrider]

*cracks knuckles* Now that the list is out... The Show Must Go On and Through the Wormhole which I am REALLY hoping is a farscape reference!!!

Hello @ruddcatha!  

I teased about The Show Must Go On a long time ago, and @alerialblu actually sketched some potential art for it at the time. It’s a Cirque du Soleil inspired fic where Inuyasha and Kikyo are aerial art partners... but something happens and Inuyasha has to figure out how to be a performer on his own, or finally accept a new partner, which he is NOT ready to do.  But in bops Kagome and flips his head around... like ya do.  XD 

This didn’t feel right.  Something was off and she could feel it.  Just there above his shoulder blade.  “Inuyasha, you missed a spot,” she whispered to her partner, noticing his anxious twitching as she ran her hand down his spine to gain his attention.  He glanced back at her as she stood waiting behind him, his long silver hair trailing behind his head in a tight braid.  “I’ll get it.”  Chalking her hand she smeared the white powder on the spot he had missed in pre-show then tidied it so that no one would be able to tell that it was indeed chalk and not just her partner’s pale skin.  They could ill afford a mistake like that at a time like this.  Kikyou was nervous.  This was their last show for this run and it wouldn’t do to screw it up.  But that wasn’t why she was nervous.  Something was tugging at her brain and her heart, making it flutter uncomfortably in her chest.

The pair watched Rin on her pedestal center stage.  Her tiny form performed gravity defying acts of flexibility and poise as she balanced on one hand, occasionally switching to the other on a small block more than five feet off the ground.  Splits, bends and combinations of both, all while in a one-handed handstand, showed her strengths as a contortionist.  The crowd was filled with awe and applause permeated the air.  How could anyone not be astounded at the pure talent the young woman displayed?  The funny thing was people thought her to be fifteen years old at most, adding to the amazement of the spectators that someone so young could be so talented.  Unfortunately for the crowd, Rin Hiragawa was twenty-seven years old and one of the older members in the company.  No one set out to correct their assumptions.  Why destroy the magic?

And for Through the Wormhole, you are absolutely spot on!  That is exactly what that is.  It’s mostly @lemonlushff’s fault.  Ironically, almost everyone is gender flipped, simply because the personalities worked better that way. Kagome as John, Inuyasha as Aeryn, Sango is D’Argo... I’m up in the air about Miroku as Chiana or Zhaan. Kikyo as Crais...

“Hey!  You can’t leave me in here with him!”  Kagome insistently slapped her palm against the cell grate.  “You’ve known me longer than this guy!  C’mon!”

“Yes, but you’re a Peacekeeper, just like him.”

“The He…  I don’t even know what that is!”

The woman she had begun to call Amazon in her head, for lack of an actual name, snarled as she slammed her fist near where Kagome’s face was.  “Don’t bother lying, Peacekeeper.”  She backed away from the door.  “If you’re a traitor to them, you’re probably dead anyway.  Good luck!”  Her tone was gleefully snide and Kagome didn’t like it a bit.

The man in the dark red flight suit behind her, and she only assumed male based on build, jerked into wakefulness and tugged off his helmet in a rush, gasping for breath.  He was almost more bizarre than the others she had encountered so far, including the green tinged man with spots and the tiny floating wrinkle that spoke with an imperiously rude tone.  “You’re human.”

“What?” he growled, even as his eyes surveyed the room, clearly identifying weakness and trying to find a way out.  This was a man bred for battle, there was no doubt in her mind about that now… but he was human!  “You.  Name, rank, and company.”

“No, I…”

“Name, rank, and company,” he shouted, so suddenly in her space that she hadn’t the time to avoid his grasp on her shirt collar, nearly hauling her off her feet.  “K-Kagome Higurashi and… I don’t have a rank or company!  I’m a scientist!”

His perfectly white teeth glinted at her in the spotlights overhead as he snarled at her.

“A Tech?  Of course.  You’re too scrawny to be infantry.”  He dropped her none too gently and turned his back for a moment, again analyzing their - currently shared - cell.  “Were you the one in that ancient-looking pod?”

“Ancient?” Kagome sputtered, still trying to regain her standing balance after being dumped on her ass.  “That’s cutting edge science…”

“Keh.  ‘Course it is.  What backward planet do you come from again?”

“Earth.  It’s called Earth.  Where…”

“Never heard of it,” he interrupted without turning around.  “They took you in for what?  Hostage negotiation?  You’re not one of us and Peacekeepers don’t negotiate with escaped prisoners…”

[t-rina]

Star Trek Enterprise Rewatch:

3x21 E²

Synopsis: On the way to a subspace corridor the Enterprise gets help from the past

Ash’s rating: Rating: 4/7

Is that T’Pol???? But old???

I’VE GOT I’VE GOT I’VE GOT FAAAAAIIITTTHHH

T’Pol meditating :)

And she gets interrupted 

By Trip

Who wants a neuro pressure session 

She doesn’t want to do that anymore

He is worried about her ;-;

She has been avoiding him since they slept together xD

Why is his face dirty btw?

T’Pol, darling, you are not fine

Ooh they encountered alien ships

Right they have to go through that part of space to get to the Xindi council

Xindi are not happy with Degra

Omg, another NX class ship in the Expanse?

It’s another Enterprise?

There are Vulcans on board 

Both enterprises look so beaten up ;-;

If Enterprise enters the subspace corridor they are going to be thrown 170 years into the past

Oohhh cool

Flashback

Enterprise became a generational ship, they wanted to prevent the Xindi from launching the first attack on Earth… but that’s contaminating the timeline

Oh damn, Lorian is T’Pol’s son

The didn’t destroy the Xindi probe, obviously, or the new Enterprise wouldn’t be there

They want to modify Enterprise to reach Degra in time and to stop the second probe

Soooo Humans and Vulcans are able to reproduce 

Trip is Lorian’s father 

Isn’t it a bit indiscreet to just blurt that out like that?

Lorian has humour xD

Eeehhhh the other Trip died when Lorian was 14

PHLOX HAD NINE MORE CHILDREN

aahhhh Archer meets old T’Pol!!!!

She shows almost affection 😭

She immediately asks about Trip 😭

Hoshi doesn’t want to know with whom she got together xD

Malcolm didn’t end up with anyone :/

Are you telling me there is not a singly gay guy on Enterprise and all the people the encountered?

Okay so if Enterprise goes through the corridor the whole mission will fail

Wait Lorian, what are you going to do?

His ears don’t look so good tbh, not as real as T’Pol’s

It’s really weird that Trip talks about what happened to him and T’Pol in the other life

They are bickering xD

T’Pol is getting really defensive here

LORIAN IS STEALING THE PLASMA INJECTORS

Aaaaand he shot Trip

Enterprise shooting at Enterprise 😭r 

Archer wants to work together with Lorian :)

T’Pol is paying T’Pol a visit:)

T’Pol will never fully recover from her addiction. She will always have emotions now.

She should follow her heart? That’s so unvulcany!

They are entering the corridor!

I like Hoshi’s new hairstyle btw

Old enterprise saved new Enterprise

Oh boi ship damaged

Awwww old Enterprise sacrifices itself for new enterprise 😭😭😭

That looks like a freaking wormhole

Wait is it a wormhole?

They made it through the corridor and they are in the right time

Other Enterprise is not coming :/

Arrrghhhhh freaking time travel paradoxes

[oetravia]

For the character break-down game: Brainy?

Answering this one for you, Anon and @should-be-studying-not-shipping (who is right, it would’ve been remiss to not ask me about Brainy xD).

Buckle in friends, this might  will get long winded. 

How I feel about this character:

I love him to bits, I do. Truly, it was only a combination of accidentally falling into a wormhole of Brainy related videos on YouTube, and massive interest in how the show actually handled Nia after all the hype around her introduction (imagine my pleasant surprise in finding out these two characters were not just an item, but that I actually shipped them?!) that encouraged me to watch the show again (I’m a bit of a magpie, the allure of shiny new things always distracts me - and led to me accidentally dropping the show at the end of S2). 

So, I’m very fond of him for that reason, but also because his character is one of the few that is genuinely always fun and interesting to watch. There’s something a little bit different each time we see him (honestly, what did this show do to deserve Jesse Rath? The way his portrayal of the character has evolved has been truly incredible to watch), and it’s great to see a character that is allowed genuinely stand out emotional moments and to be a source of comic relief (even if they sometimes overdo it...balloons, anyone?). 

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

I mean, if you follow me, you know that Brainia is my #1 Supergirl ship, but this show makes me a filthy multishipper, so…

Even aside from Kara/Brainy being such a major relationship in the comics, because honestly, let’s not go into any of the arrowverse shows expecting major things in terms of comic book accuracy (especially where relationships of any nature are concerned), I absolutely adore the dynamic they have in the show. If it wasn’t for Brainy/Nia (and Mon-El/Kara), and how awkward that would make things (and the fact that I don’t think for a second Kara (or Brainy) would ever do that to her friend), I’d definitely ship them more than I do. Kara/one of the Brainys we met in the Bottle Episode would be very interesting.

And Winn/Brainy made me smile every second of screen time they shared. Much like Brainy’s dynamic with Lena, it’s always nice to see him having conversations with someone who can (at least try) to keep up with him intellectually. Aside from the intellect thing, I just loved watching them move from begrudging allies to genuinely being friends (preschool flirting tactics included). And the fact that Winn was the only one to recognise Brainy when he first started wearing his image inducer was, quite frankly, adorable. 

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Oh boy. 

Look, I love watching Lena/Brainy’s scenes (and, as I said about Winn, Brainy being able to work with someone who, while not a twelfth level intellect, can actually engage in deeper scientific conversations with him), the platonic dynamic that I enjoy most has to be Alex/Brainy. Specifically watching Alex’s journey from being annoyed by Brainy’s every move to that ‘if anyone so much as looks at you wrong, I will murder them, but I will happily murder you with my bare hands because you’re annoying me’ that all siblings recognise so well. 

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I don’t think I have any unpopular opinions, to be honest (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong). 

I just wish they’d let Brainy be slightly cockier like his comic book counterpart (more like he was in S3), and that they’d stop dumbing him down to make other characters (Lena, in particular. She doesn’t need them to reduce Brainy’s intelligence to show she’s smart. The way she used to be dragged in every time Brainy was working on something to magically find the solution Brainy couldn’t got a little bit much. I don’t blame Lena, and I enjoy watching them interact...but it was a little tedious) look smarter. 

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I’d love to see more about his family, honestly. We’ve gotten so many little snippets of information, but I’d love for them to have gone slightly more in depth (and especially with his more immediate family, particularly his mother). 

I don’t know, I have loads of silly things I’d like to see, but his family is one of those dangling threads that they’ve never really committed to pulling on. That and his life before the Legion. 

And in general, for them to stop using him for cheap comic relief (those sodding balloons, I swear). We get it, Jesse has good comedic timing...but so do other actors on the show. Brainy doesn’t always have to be the punchline. Or if he is, can it at least be more intentional on his part than him being socially inept or...balloons.

Sorry that got long... I can’t be concise to save my life, and I had a lot of feelings, apparently. Thanks for asking!