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“Hey, Virg, c’mere.”
Virgil nearly lost his drink as Gordon yanked on his arm. “Gordon?!”
His fish brother muttered something that could possibly be considered an apology in some reality, somewhere, but kept pulling, dragging Virgil across the room.
They were at a London function, dressed to the nines, cufflinks and all, and Virgil had been in a very interesting conversation with his plus one. That plus one being Cass McCready and she was dressed in a most appealing manner that had him itching for a paintbrush…among other things.
Instead, he was being dragged across the floor by his fish brother and Cass was fast vanishing behind him in the crowd.
Her amused smile was rather alluring at least.
Gordon and he were going to have words after this.
His brother finally stopped tugging when they reached a group of rather burly looking men and women. All of them were dressed in evening wear, but there was a certain anticipation in all their expressions.
What?
A small table had been set up with two chairs. A particularly large man was sitting in one of them, an air of confidence emanating off of him.
Virgil stared.
“Virg, it is up to you to uphold how Tracy honour.” Gordon straightened beside him.
“What?”
“I need you to arm wrestle this man and prove your heavy lifting muscles to these dunderheads.”
There was a muffle of snorts at that and Virgil suddenly realised he knew a couple of these guys.
This was Blue Squad. Cass’ firefighting team.
A soft sigh of silk and Cass appeared at his elbow. “Looks like you have a challenge there, Tracy.” She was smiling at him.
It was a nice smile.
“C’mon, Virg, Tracy honour is at stake.”
He turned to his brother and glared, only to find Penelope on the fish’s arm.
Oh, honour, definitely.
Shows of masculinity really weren’t his thing. Scott had been known to flex his muscles occasionally for the ladies, even if it wasn’t immediately obvious, but Virgil was quite happy to draw attention in other ways.
Cass placed a hand on his arm and whispered in his ear. “The team need a little encouragement. Show them how it is done.”
He arched an eyebrow at her. This was her squad…and then he saw the sparkle in her eye. His lips curled as he saw the pride in her people shining there.
“Virg…” It was almost a whine as Gordon tugged on his tux again.
“Okay. Fine.”
“Yess!”
Gordon should never play poker.
Or maybe he should. His military brother did know how to play a situation, after all. This was possibly all a show.
Virgil folded himself into the chair opposite and found himself looking up at the firey opposite him. “Hi. Virgil Tracy.”
“Butch Huggins.” His voice was like a rumbling rock fall and his smile ever so confident. This was definitely a guy you wanted on your side when busting into a building on fire. He looked like he could take down a wall even in his tux.
Gordon, what the hell have you gotten me into?
A glance up at the spectators involved and he found himself ringed in eager smiles, Cass’ included.
She did have a lovely smile.
“Are we doing this?” The rock fall was apparently getting impatient.
Virgil swallowed and, unclipping his cufflinks, a present from Scott some time ago, rolled up his sleeve.
Butch did the same, revealing tattoos of flame up the length of well-defined forearm.
Maybe he should have brought his exosuit with him tonight.
The image of his claw and everything it was capable of filled his mind for a moment.
Gordon was dead when they got home tonight.
One dead fish.
And Scott might even grill him. Yes, Virgil was petty enough to bring in big bro on this one.
Where was Scott anyway?
Probably enjoying some female company. This Firey’s Charity Ball was full of very capable women, after all.
Butch slammed his elbow down on the table enough to trigger Virgil’s funny bone from afar.
Okay, well, apparently he was doing this.
Why did he feel so small? He wasn’t used to feeling small.
But confidence wasn’t something he was lacking, it was just the laws of physics didn’t seem to be leaning in his direction at the moment.
Cursing his fish brother from here to Atlantis, Virgil placed his elbow on the table. Butch grabbed his hand.
It was like being grabbed by a gorilla. Honestly, the man’s hand was huge.
If he was injured doing this and off rescues for any time at all, Gordon wasn’t going to be the only Tracy death later on.
Scott would kill both of them.
Cass was watching, though.
Virgil kicked himself for being so stupid.
Could he kill Gordon twice?
“Okay, we ready?” Gordon was flicking his eyes between Virgil and Butch.
“Ready.” Seriously, the man had a crumbling mountain for a voice.
“Let’s get this over with.” Virgil glared at his little brother.
Though something was warm in his stomach that Gordon was proud enough of him to set him up like this.
A little warm.
Very little.
“Ready, set…” Focus. “Go.”
And suddenly the mountain was falling on him.
Butch grunted, obviously throwing himself into this.
But Virgil Tracy had had mountains fall on him before and his shoulders were well trained in catching them.
The force travelled up his arm into his shoulder. His bicep was assisted by a considerable trapezius and deltoid, and while his forearm worked, his well-built pectoral joined in the refusal to move. Virgil pivoted just a little in his seat as practised reflexes took the strain.
And negated it.
Butch yelped as his hand was flexed backwards and slammed elegantly to the table top.
Oh, shit.
Virgil let go immediately. “Are you okay? Let me see that.” He reached for the man’s hand as it was quickly yanked away the moment he released it.
Butch stared at him. “How the hell?”
But Virgil didn’t have the chance to answer as the crowd around them erupted into cheers and hollers. There were hands patting him on the back and grabbing at him.
Someone kissed his cheek.
He blushed as he realised it was Cass.
Suddenly appreciating that he was still sitting down and there was an entire squad of fireman glaring at him…with some respect along with the outrage, Virgil hurriedly clambered to his feet.
“Way to go, Virg, I knew you could do it!” Gordon was bouncing on his feet.
Virgil shot him with his eyes.
The fish ignored him and kept bouncing until Penelope wrapped an elegant hand around his arm and distracted him with a smile.
She winked at Virgil.
A strong hand wrapped around Virgil’s bicep in almost a mirror move. “Smooth, Tracy. Huggins needed to be put in his place. I can use this to up the training regime. You’ve slapped down a benchmark.”
Virgil turned to find that beautiful smile on her face again. Her squad was grumbling behind her, shooting admiring glances mixed with glares in his direction.
Maybe he should join the squad next vacation just to fix that.
Yes, that was the entire reason why that suddenly seemed even more attractive.
Cass’ smile widened as she tugged gently on his arm, letting her head drop to his shoulder as it became a laugh.
Hmm, maybe he should thank the fish after killing him.
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#thunderbirds are go#thunderbirds#thunderbirds fanfiction#virgil tracy#gordon tracy#cass mccready#nuttyfic reblog#romance#but only a hint#a reblog to make up for the lack of fic in my previous post
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yknow what. *undooms your yuri again*
#genshin impact#arlecchino#peruere#clervie#arlevie#hi they still make me feel mentally ill#finished arle's story quest and like the brainrot has gotten worse actually#obsessed with the fact that Clervie is like the only girl to look at Peruere and say “I can fix her” and ACTUALLY fucking fix her#well like. for the most part.#shes still a little bit fucked up but in her defense clervie ended up giving up on life and the pursuit of freedom and died in arle's arms#WHICH YKNOW ADDED A HINT OF EXTRA TRAUMA but we dont talk about that
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crows use tools and like to slide down snowy hills. today we saw a goose with a hurt foot who was kept safe by his flock - before taking off, they waited for him to catch up. there are colors only butterflies see. reindeer are matriarchical. cows have best friends and 4 stomachs and like jazz music. i watched a video recently of an octopus making himself a door out of a coconut shell.
i am a little soft, okay. but sometimes i can't talk either. the world is like fractal light to me, and passes through my skin in tendrils. i feel certain small things like a catapult; i skirt around the big things and somehow arrive in crisis without ever realizing i'm in pain.
in 5th grade we read The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, which is about a young autistic boy. it is how they introduced us to empathy about neurotypes, which was well-timed: around 10 years old was when i started having my life fully ruined by symptoms. people started noticing.
i wonder if birds can tell if another bird is odd. like the phrase odd duck. i have to believe that all odd ducks are still very much loved by the other normal ducks. i have to believe that, or i will cry.
i remember my 5th grade teacher holding the curious incident up, dazzled by the language written by someone who is neurotypical. my teacher said: "sometimes i want to cut open their mind to know exactly how autistics are thinking. it's just so different! they must see the world so strangely!" later, at 22, in my education classes, we were taught to say a person with autism or a person on the spectrum or neurodivergent. i actually personally kind of like person-first language - it implies the other person is trying to protect me from myself. i know they had to teach themselves that pattern of speech, is all, and it shows they're at least trying. and i was a person first, even if i wasn't good at it.
plants learn information. they must encode data somehow, but where would they store it? when you cut open a sapling, you cannot find the how they think - if they "think" at all. they learn, but do not think. i want to paint that process - i think it would be mostly purple and blue.
the book was not about me, it was about a young boy. his life was patterned into a different set of categories. he did not cry about the tag on his shirt. i remember reading it and saying to myself: i am wrong, and broken, but it isn't in this way. something else is wrong with me instead. later, in that same person-first education class, my teacher would bring up the curious incident and mention that it is now widely panned as being inaccurate and stereotypical. she frowned and said we might not know how a person with autism thinks, but it is unlikely to be expressed in that way. this book was written with the best intentions by a special-ed teacher, but there's some debate as to if somebody who was on the spectrum would be even able to write something like this.
we might not understand it, but crows and ravens have developed their own language. this is also true of whales, dolphins, and many other species. i do not know how a crow thinks, but we do know they can problem solve. (is "thinking" equal to "problem solving"? or is "thinking" data processing? data management?) i do not know how my dog thinks, either, but we "talk" all the same - i know what he is asking for, even if he only asks once.
i am not a dolphin or reindeer or a dog in the nighttime, but i am an odd duck. in the ugly duckling, she grows up and comes home and is beautiful and finds her soulmate. all that ugliness she experienced lives in downy feathers inside of her, staining everything a muted grey. she is beautiful eventually, though, so she is loved. they do not want to cut her open to see how she thinks.
a while ago i got into an argument with a classmate about that weird sia music video about autism. my classmate said she thought it was good to raise awareness. i told her they should have just hired someone else to do it. she said it's not fair to an autistic person to expect them to be able to handle that kind of a thing.
today i saw a goose, and he was limping. i want to be loved like a flock loves a wounded creature: the phrase taken under a wing. which is to say i have always known i am not normal. desperate, mewling - i want to be loved beyond words.
loved beyond thinking.
#spilled ink#writeblr#personal#please don't ask me to talk on my experience on the spectrum lol. i hate how ppl talk to me about it#i really try not to write so specifically about it#bc inevitably someone talks to me like im a child#i think this is the first time i've ever openly identified with it but i've been hinting for years#i might delete this. feels big.#the thing is that being on the spectrum actually IS a spectrum#and if u say ur autistic#inevitably someone makes an assumption about ur needs/symptoms#please do not treat me differently than u usually would. like.... we can tell when you do#and like i mention. i do appreciate the effort. i do truly appreciate the effort.#but it still feels like...#when i was blind. sometimes people kind of did the same-ish thing.#they'd find out i was blind and start talking really loudly?#and while i KNOW they're just trying to help. it would be like. i'd be trying to find#the right way into a building (sometimes only 1 door is unlocked and i couldn't see the signs posted about where to go)#and ppl would be like ''OH UR BLIND? YES SO THIS IS A DOOR. IT OPENS INTO THE BUILDING. IT IS LOCKED NOW."#''A DOOR CAN BE FOUND IN MANY LOCATIONS.''#and it feels like. when i admit to being autistic#someone comes screeching into my life being like THIS IS A DOOR.
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So I've been thinking lately about how Mithrun is Kabru's dark mirror (more on that another time- it needs its own post), and I thought it interesting that one of their parallels is that they were both cared for by Milsiril, but in opposite directions. She took Kabru in as her foster after he was orphaned and tried to convince him not to become an adventurer. On the flip side, she helped rehabilitate Mithrun specifically so that he could rejoin the Canaries.
And I kept wondering: why?
For Kabru, obviously she loves him a whole lot- despite any other shortcomings in their relationship, I do believe that.
So I get why she tries to convince him not to go dungeoning, and, failing that, at least prepares him as thoroughly as she can.
But why help Mithrun? She used to hate Mithrun, but after realizing what a secretly twisted person he was, she actually thought of him more positively (oh, Milsiril). So it wasn't as if she held the kind of grudge that might motivate her to make his already-depleted life even more miserable by sending him back to the dungeons. And it wasn't that she felt bad for him either, since she didn't visit Mithrun for the first ~20 years of his recovery.
The Adventurer's Bible says that Utaya was the impetus for Mithrun returning to the Canaries, but Milsiril is the one who made the trip to see him and tell him about it.
Why would Milsiril work so hard to get her old coworker back into fighting fit? Why encourage him to return to such a dangerous lifestyle, when she was the one who chose not to mercy-kill him?
That last panel is such a crazy thing to hint at and then never elaborate on. Without it we could have just thought that Milsiril wanted the Canaries' work to continue without her, even if it seemed out of character. I think some people even assume she's just a natural caretaker as a foster mom and handwave it to include nursing Mithrun too. What could Milsiril's suspicious motives be? What does she gain from Mithrun joining the Canaries that isn't an altruistic desire to see dungeons safely sealed? Feeling a sense of responsibility for the work she left behind isn't an ulterior motive.
My theory is: Milsiril, knowing that Mithrun was empty save for the burning desire to face the demon again, wound him up like a clockwork doll and pointed him back at the dungeons.
Hoping that he'd eliminate the biggest threat to Kabru's life, before it was too late for him.
Milsiril the puppetmaster.
#Mithrun#Milsiril#Kabru#btw I'm working with the only translations I could find sorry#so keep that in mind#like it just seemed WEIRD to me#that gloomy introverted Milsiril#who left the life of a Canary behind#decided to do this Canary-adjacent work of helping this guy#maybe the queen made her do it because so many people died and they needed more Canaries idk!#but why would anyone pick Milsiril as a life coach? I really think it was her own choice#it's so interesting how we get these hints of a downright sinster Milsiril#I really like the complicated relationship she and Kabru have#struggling to fully humanize him from her elven perspective#but still taking him seriously wrt: his fears over being a monster or his desire to go to a party!#crazy stuff there#everything about Kabru and adjacent to Kabru is insane what a character
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case study of the self-identified god
#obsessed with the fact that rain world is a game about survival#yet every character we meet has the express goal of trying to optimize killing themselves#every creature in game seems perfectly content fulfilling their role in the ecosystem no matter how many cycles they do the same thing#(rly obvious with gourmand's entire route. guy who lives their life to the fullest without the slightest hint of resentment)#it was really only the ancients who thought they were above it and thought of it as something to escape from#5pebbles is so interesting because the only reason hes “”“godlike”“” is because of his vast knowledge. if he was in any slugcats shoes he#would die instantly which is ironically what hes been trying to do this whole time#this comic was kind of exploring the idea of awareness (divinity) as something that drags down ones enjoyment of life (walking).#if 5p would humble himself down enough to walk around like any other creature#he would a) be much happier in life and b) achieve the ascension he's been gunning for for millennia like all the slugcats did#but he never will.#getting rid of all his work on the problem or even his awareness of it entirely#would just be a trick of convenience that steals away his godhood#and him calling himself godlike is kind of a cope LOL#a cope being faced with a problem he was never meant to solve#a cope being faced with what he did to moon#a cope being faced with the rot inside him#oh well.#anyway fuck 5 pebbles i hate that guy#rain world#rain world fanart#rw five pebbles#rain world five pebbles#rw gourmand#rain world gourmand#five pebbles#rain world void worm#rain world ancients#also JUST KIDDING ilu 5p. you suck but i💛u
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#my art#illustration#digital art#art#kawoshin#but only hinted🫣#evangelion#nge#neon genesis evangelion#shinji ikari#kaworu nagisa
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are these feelings really ours or just part of someone else’s plan?
#welcome home#welcome home arg#eddie dear#frank frankly#senjart#I got issues.#thinking of a situation where one of them (leaning towards eddie) became sentient and doubted whether their actions are truly theirs-#-or just a byproduct of some higher being's script#and the other felt like something's off. something's different#I don't know if I'll fully expand on this idea because so far we've only gotten small hints from the wh website soooooo
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Enough guilt you can make a bouquet out of it
#hiiii I’m dropping subtle hints that I’m reading tpn again#(I’m reading tpn again)#I’m dropping even more subtle hints which character has a complete death grip on me rn#(grumpy cyclops guy my beloved you make me so sad)#this was just a sketch I didn’t plan on posting but then I uh. kept working on it#on only one layer too! been a while since I did that lol#the promised neverland#tpn#tpn ray#art#digitalart
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ok gayboy
#LOTUS PERSONA ART LETS GOOOOOOOO IT ONLY TOOK ME FIVE FUCKING MONTHS#this is for the three ppl that follow me and know about persona eat up my loves 😍#i love narcissistic bastards who are doomed by the narrative he's a keeper fs#(idk anything abt akechi except hes a gayass detective and loves pancakes and is a tsundere /JJJJJJJ)#he has this sopping wet quality about him that i adore very much. it's the homosexuality i think#persona 5#persona 5 royal#p5#p5r#akechi goro#goro akechi#lotus draws#bro why is his hair so fucking hard to draw it's like chuuya's but if he used a straightening iron#speaking of him this is the hair color i wish he had :(((( my fav hair color frfr it exceeds every other one#the light desaturated brown with hints of russet MWAH MWAH#anyway it's three on a school night i think i should sleep ig😔
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I had a dream the other night
#fuyuhiko kuzuryu#hajime hinata#sdr2#super danganronpa 2#an art#kuzuhina#I decided to indulge in sth like this because I had several nightmares last night (fine now)#How many times can I draw them sleeping together platonically? Yes.#But also a hint of the others to underline the whole survivors group#That song is really only relevant at that first verse ....but oh well. Hey does anyone know a song called 4 AM#The only lyrics I remember are 'its four o clock in the morning' it's been removed from yt. Anyway! Good day
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Absolutely losing my mind over Scar’s stream today
He was already talking to Etho while catching ocelots
Joel logs in and Scar immediately asks if Etho wants to go visit him
We get so many Etho lore crumbs (although he doesn’t fully confirm anything except having stubble and trying to get rid of 2 extra house generators)
They hang out for like 2 hours doing nothing hut chatting
Eventually Scar leaves but forgot that he left his ocelots at Etho’s because he was so excited about boat boys that he never brought them home
#ethoslab#goodtimeswithscar#smallishbeans#boat boys#hermitcraft#there was so much more as well and I already want to rewatch the streams bc ads kept trying to interrupt the lore#both joel and gem told etho they wanted a generator and he told them they had to pick it up but couldn’t tell them where#he also might live in the middle of nowhere off the grid and has to chop wood for electricity#he also may or may not have a phone but hinted at probably not#but somehow managed to get fast internet#to be clear none of what he said surprised me one bit#he also retold the same story of his voice being recognized so is that still the only time#i find it hard to believe but also he is probably the closest to an actual hermit irl of anyone on the server
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Lately I've been thinking about Peach's healing power again; only this time, I wanted to draw it in a pleasant context rather than a dramatic or bittersweet one! The idea that her soothing magic can not only alleviate others' pain but also make them relaxed to the point of inducing sleep is one that I really like, and I couldn't resist using this element for a bit of fluff. 🤭💖
(Based on the original concept by @drones-of-innocence and inspired from @peaches2217's lovely headcanons 🙏)
#Another idea I'm very fond of is that Peach would secretly LOVE pampering Mario#Always looking for any valid excuse to give the man special care#Namely by standing unnecessarily close and / or touching him in some way 😂#Brushing an unruly brown lock back in place - Arranging the straps of his overalls - making a tiny adjustment only to undo it right after -#She would always want to he near him 💕#And by some curse or miracle Mario would systematically miss every single hint sent his way 😭🙇♀️#Oh he'd be over the moon alright#But would think she's just being her sweet and generous self like always#Being painfully courteous and charming about her lovely attentions in turn without even trying#Thus continuing the endless pining cycle! x3#These two I stg#mario#princess peach#mario x peach#mareach#romance#fluff#love and affection#lovers in denial#Super Mario Bros#Fanart
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POV: Gus after hunter tells them he’s a grimwalker 😔🙏
#my art#fanart#strawberridraws#the owl house#toh#the owl house fanart#toh fanart#toh gus#toh s3#I love him#this is a tiktok re draw btw#I had to hand letter it tho ugh#anyways. I wanted more of the gus plot line 😭#but understand why they cut/only hinted at it
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What do you think of the voice acting of miraculous ladybug
Overall really great! I follow almost all of the VAs on instagram to track them down to anime conventions and get their autographs lol.
Main character Bryce unfortunately has the "I only know two voices - Good Boy and Slightly Evil Boy" issue, which is fine in ML. It just means when he pops up ANYWHERE else I can clock him immediately as either "Adrien" or "Felix". But I've met him and he's pretty cool, at least in the brief moments we've talked.
There are a feeeeew background characters that stand out to me as Not Great, but if I was doing the characters they were stuck with, I probably wouldn't bring me A-Game either.
#I'm on a mission now to get the VAs to sign the SL covers I did of their main character#Right now I only have Mylene's VA's signature on THAT but I've met Nino's current VA and obvs Bryce#and also Keith for Hawkmoth~#I just had them sign quick sketches I did lol#Bryce was the first ever and I had him sign a pencil pouch I'd bought and the signature smeared#and he was so nice and signed something for me the next day at no extra charge TT^TT#anyway I wonder if you can guess the specific character that I think phones it in#hint: technically the VA does 2 sub female characters so you can guess either one of them#ask zoe
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matthew tkachuk - florida!!!
(also uploading on tiktok later, might be the first and last vid i'll ever post there lmao)
#he has endeared himself to me okay !#i've been in such an intense matthew brainrot#i did this for a week instead of studying up for my return demos#and while suffering an intense summer temperature averaging 45 degree celsius im in hell#anyway#please enjoy#this is baby's first fan video edit#matthew tkachuk edit#hockey edit#my edit#hockey boys#hockey#matthew tkachuk#florida panthers#mattdrai#<- just a hint of it#<- like a sprinkle only#<- i had to !#idk if i should tag the flames
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the fun thing about warrior cats having no set designs is seeing a design like this and having to deduce via context clues in 0.5 seconds whether it's ashfur, cinderpelt, crowfeather, bluestar, cinderheart, or perchpaw
#could even be a dark jayfeather or a pale ravenwing. perhaps even a younger goosefeather#reedwhisker? spotfur? jagged peak? stonefur? mistystar?#warrior cats#it's cinderpelt and crowfeather i get briefly confused most often bc they both have relevant reasons to pop up in leafpool art/videos#sure crowfeather is skinny and short-furred 99% of the time but a lot of people draw cinder skinny and short-furred too#so the leg injury is the only consistent hint and not everyone draws that the exact same way
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