#give me a post apocalyptic Arthur
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Because history has variable standards of "useful"
Ok, so like, I've been thinking about King Arthur (not consistently or anything, just sort of as a topic that occurs to me every now and then), and in this case I was also thinking more particularly about the joke that you occasionally see in pop culture about Arthur's return: that if X historical tragedy didn't lead to the return of King Arthur, and Y current events aren't going to cause the return of King Arthur, then uh... wtf is the greatest need he'll be returning for? Like– how much worse can it get?
And like, yeah, alright, that's a funny thought, but I got to wondering... what would actually be a circumstance that would cause the return of King Arthur? Or, more particularly, when would it be useful to get King Arthur?
Because, like, modern Britain would not have a lot of use for King Arthur. Can you imagine? Random man appears, even if somehow undeniably through magic, seems to think he can be "in charge" because of a birthright that we do not acknowledge, yeah, good luck with pulling that off without getting some serious ramifications headed your way. (Also no one would believe the magic wasn't a trick somehow, but that aside)
And, yes, okay, that's why a lot of Arthurian adaptations involve a version of Arthur who is born as a person in contemporary society and "realizes who he/she was" (Putting a pin in the proliferation of female reincarnations for some other rant), but– the legend isn't "He will be born again" but rather "He will rise from Albion," right? (If I'm wrong, eh, fair enough, there's some source for any point and its contradiction in Arthurian myth because the myths don't really have a single canon, but that is also a very long tangent)
So the question then becomes– what skillset does Arthur have, and–to reiterate–when will those be useful?
Step one is get the castle building, chainmail wearing, feudal system controlling, vaguely medieval King out of your head, that's a much later invention. Ok- well, sort of. Historically speaking if Arthur is based on a real figure he would have been in 6th century Briton which is technically the middle ages, but not like that. The Middle Ages span a millennium and unless you happen to be a historian (or someone otherwise interested in the time period) you've probably got a very broad picture of what that was and a lot of that probably comes from the latter part. Castles as we now think of them, for example, probably began (according to a cursory google) in 9th century France.
And, to touch on that variable canon, a lot of Arthurian myths are set way later than any historical figure (the character may have originally been based on) would have actually lived (if he did).
Meaning that original!Arthur is, at his most useful, a warlord. A man skilled at leading a nomadic tribe of people, meaning he would need to be good at things like basic strategy and conflict management, survival skills and physical combat, but not someone with a lot of skills applicable to 21st century life.
I mean, no wonder he wouldn't have awoken for the bubonic plague or the world wars, what the hell could he have done in the face of either? So what could he do something about?
When would the people of Britain Albion need a warlord with those skills? Maybe in a post apocalyptic collapse of society when a warlord who is skilled at getting people to follow him (and hopefully also capable of the kind of diplomacy you'd need to bring about a golden age by uniting feuding tribes of people) would actually have applicable skills? I mean, after all, it's not when Albion most needs divine intervention, it's when Albion most needs Arthur.
#give me a post apocalyptic Arthur#who is genuinely doing his best#because honestly even with his skills#I still think watching him adapt to changed social standards#would be funny as all get out#and also have some really poignant potential#arthurian legend#king arthur#things i think about#musings on history#made by someone very underqualified#i know much less about this topic than i think would actually be useful#but i still find it interesting#pseudo analysis#analysis#verging on a writing prompt#writing prompt
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DC's Nuclear Winter Special #1 (2018)
I understand this to be a Santa-free zone, but when I stopped for a moment to consider skipping it I noticed it not only has Rip Hunter, but it has Superman One Million, so I am heading in out of fascination.
The Nuclear Winter Special - Rip Hunter. This is a very Mark Russell story, with all that implies. Using him for the frame story actually isn't the worst idea, as it spreads out the satire. It's on an 'Oogle' campus in the future and skewering tech bros.
Warmth - Batman 666 (groan). Why... why does Damian have a literal bat wing cape on top of his 666 coat? Why does DC persist with this potential future?
Also for the Lazarus Pit fiends (me among them) I note that Ra's has glowy green AND glowy red eyes during this story. Sigh.
Memory Hearth - Superman One Million. J'ONN!!!! THIS STORY INCLUDES DC ONE MILLION J'ONN!!! Okay that's the highlight of this entire issue right there. Also... 'Josh Johnstone' working on the Kent's farm as a handyman when Clark was little? I'm a sucker but that is ADORABLE, J'onn finding and spending time with the other alien on the planet.
Once and Future - Flash. This is Barry reminiscing on why being resurrected was a bad plan about how much he loves Iris and how they are separated by time and space and crises and villains destroying things.
Where the Light Cannot Reach - Aquaman. Arthur gets sent by some scientists to an abyssal trench to look for a radiation-eating microorganism to help with nuclear wasteland that is the earth and sea. He finds it and finds hope.
Last Daughters - Supergirl. Oh GOSH. Sometimes Tom Taylor really can write. In the nuclear wasteland, Kara finds Lucy, a two year old. Kara becomes her mother, and they spend the next two years travelling, until Kara can climb Mount Denali above the radioactive cloud. Kara gets up high enough to see sun, recharges, and then takes Lucy to the Fortress of Solitude, intending to put her in Clark's escape pod and re-enact the end of Krypton. But as Kara is placing Lucy inside, she remembers begging her own parents to come with her...and can't send Lucy alone. So they both squeeze in as Kara cannot abandon her child.
Last Christmas - Firestorm. In our post-apocalyptic world, Firestorm tracks down a nuclear power reading to a dead amusement park, and finds the Nuclear Family, whose power sources are all running down and who are celebrating a final Christmas together. He manages to help them run down at the same moment together (after they try to cause one last moment of destruction by feeding their remaining power to Firestorm to try and blow him up).
Northern Lights - Kamandi. This is a fascinating way to do the Hanukkah story, imo. It's a story of who you are and how your dead relatives guide you. (also it's Phillip Hester both on story and art, so I stared at the art for a while).
Nine Lives - Catwoman. It's Selina raising Holly Robinson's daughter Sophie in the apocalyptic future. (It does amuse me how many times Selina gets stuck looking after teenage girls over the years). Sophie is generous and gives away what they've stolen; Selina is pragmatic about keeping them alive.
Selina is preserving culture by stealing it to store; she goes off to stare at a Bast statue at the Gotham museum and stumbles onto a stockpile of rations at the same time. So she steals the rations, takes them back to Sophie, and tells her she can distribute them to others for Christmas (because Selina, at heart, is a soft touch).
The Birds of Christmas Past, Present and Future - Green Arrow. Ah yes, this story is reminding me why I tend to believe that Dinah has the worst taste in men (Ollie included), and so this is incredibly cathartic seeing Dinah having her own life and family that isn't just raising Ollie's kids. Go Dinah! This is not an apocalyptic future! You can be fond of and love Ollie and realise he's terrible for you!
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I'm sorry if this question bothers you (you can ignore it if you want) but you recent post about Beyond the Boundary made me remember a personal question
I think you mentioned somewhere (correct me if I wrong) that the Fire Force prequel reveal soured you hunger for fanfics involving it and Soul Eater
What exactly did the metaphorical belly hungered for (Either Fire Force only or a crossover between the two) before the eventual ruin?
It's been easier by making it "what if" scenarios that don't have to follow any logic ("So, do they time travel, or is it alternate dimensions?").
For me, what I desire is less of any ongoing plot or story ideas (although, as some of the below shows, there are ideas) so much as just interactions between characters, the equivalent of quick gags of just, "What if this character was in the same room with this character, how would they interact?"
I wrote some of my own crossover interactions as gag conversations between Soul Eater and Fire Force characters over at @ask-a-meister. And I got to collaborate with my friend elliotthezubat on others. Here are some interactions that I've enjoyed, either stuff I wrote at the RP blog, stuff Elliot and I collaborated on, or any weird stuff that comes to mind right now:
"So if Huo Yan lost an arm, he's going to need medical treatment." "How about Stein do it?"
When working with Elliot, I love interactions between Tamaki and Kana: similar animal motifs, different ages and personalities, basically giving Tamaki someone to look over and Kana someone to gently snark at (which is an improvement given all the crap Tamaki has dealt with earlier). It's a different version of what Irregulars Productions has done with Kana and Maka in the Abridged series.
Similarly, Elliot has had fun ideas with Maki treating Tsugumi as a little sister. Then Elliot had an idea how they were related--and Anya has a freak out because it undermines her preconceived headcanon about Tsugumi as a common girl (and Anya may have been my own author avatar for how surprised I was by the revelation).
I did like Ohkubo's initial crossover artwork of Maka and Shinra both in the 8th uniforms. Elliot had staged it as a promotional photo shoot, which was a fun idea.
Soul and Arthur...Elliot and I wrote an interaction that I don't think matches who Arthur ended up becoming in the series, as we kind of made Arthur too much of a dick who needed a comeuppance, when that's not really who the character is in the manga.
But we did have Inca and Kim interact...and Kim was not taking her shit.
Patty and Juggernaut is a crack pairing.
And speaking of the Thompsons, some gags around Patty and Liz mistaken for Iris and Lisa.
There may have been a gag about Gopher and Yu--I don't remember.
Elliot and I had a very weird idea about the 8th running into the sloth Marianne from the Soul Eater NOT anime.
I have zero idea how Rekka would interact around the Star / Hoshi characters from Soul Eater--and given how putrid Rekka is, I'd rather not subject anyone to his bullshit.
Elliot and I had Free and Akitaru basically doing a flexing competition similar to Sig Curtis versus Alex Louis Armstrong in Fullmetal Alchemist 2003.
From working with Elliot on writing, if things had worked out completely different, and Fire Force somehow was just contemporaneous with Soul Eater (and we ignored all the post-apocalyptic setting), that club woman Assault spoke with would have been an employee at Chupa Cabra.
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one wip, one song
ty so much for the tag @jezifster!!! :D so. i have a lot of wips. quite a lot. so i'm probably not going to cover all of them, but i'll include a song and brief summary with each one :D yahoo!
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a modern ghost story - a group of amateur ghost hunters get more than they bargained for when they find definitive proof of the supernatural, but it's far from what any of them expected.
dead girls - penelope scott
god died with wooden bones - 20 years after their mother's disappearance, shiloh rose goes searching for answers, stumbling across a mystery greater than anything they ever could've imagined.
beekeeper - keaton henson
cudaas - angels and demons fall in love and unionize against the gods who created them and have them at odds with each other.
angel of small death and the codeine scene - hozier
bleeding over eden - four years after the death of his husband, ink nikodemos is shocked when said husband walks through the door of his workplace one day, demanding to speak with him.
tell me i'm a wreck - every avenue
for we are both fragile things - over the course of a little over ten years, noah phan and arthur huffman fall in love and ultimately fall apart, causing a ripple effect that will change their lives forever.
soulmate song - carson james argenna
the moon hides its breath - a group of near-strangers go on a roadtrip in the post-apocalypse to try and prevent a murderous cult from potentially causing another apocalypse.
can't go to hell - sin shake sin
in seeking paradise - a year after the death of his friend beatrice in a tragic accident, knives nguyen is determined to find proof that his friend was actually murdered.
irresistible - fall out boy
wild animals - in a world where anthropomorphic animals known as moreaus are commonplace, a feline moreau named pavel is caught up in a war between two organizations with violent, apocalyptic potential.
slow dance with a stranger - danger radio
twelve stories club - four strangers meet one day while attempting to end their lives, though they ultimately all choose not to go through with it and instead strike up a friendship that changes the courses of their lives for the better.
tangerine - nolune
[dead chess wip] - a murder victim is resurrected as a shapeshifting monster, and they decide to go on the warpath hunting down the person who killed them in the first place.
revenge, and a little bit more - unlike pluto
[unnamed second person adventure] - a creature awakens in a dying world with no name, no identity, and no memories, and they go on a journey to find who they truly are.
oh the places you'll go - i fight dragons
blackwell & lomidze - a private investigator goes to investigate the disappearances of several young men, only to be drawn into a supernatural adventure beyond his wildest dreams.
wonderland - sounds like harmony
tagging (with no pressure to any of y'all <3): @skitzo-kero @albatris @wherearetheplants @nicola-writes @funky-writer-man @midnight-and-his-melodiverse aaand anyone else who'd like to give this a shot :D
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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐆𝐀 𝐑𝐏 𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐓 / 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄.
First and foremost, recall that no one is perfect, we all had witnessed some plotting once which did not went too well, be it because of us or our partner. So here have this, which may help for future plotting. It’s a lot! Yes, but perhaps give your partners some insight? Anyway BOLD what fully applies, italicize if only somewhat. Long post!
MUN NAME: Phoenix
AGE: 20+
CONTACT: Asks, IMs. Discord. Discord is available through my navigation page, and just state who you are when you send a friend request in DMs.
CHARACTER(S): Vivi (Main Muse), Lewis, Arthur, Mystery, Mushi, Shiromori, Reverb, the Yukino Family, the Pepper Family, Uncle Lance and a God OC nicknamed Golden Strings.
CURRENT FANDOM(S): Mystery Skulls Animated. (I’m open for crossovers normally!!)
FANDOM(S) YOU HAVE AN AU FOR: Beyond my GOD AU I made for Vivi and my other main three? I don’t really have any current AUs for other fandoms just yet. (I do have a transformers AU in the works, but its been on the backburner rn)
MY LANGUAGE(S): English.
THEMES I’M INTERESTED IN FOR RP: FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION / HORROR / WESTERN / ROMANCE / THRILLER / MYSTERY / DYSTOPIA / ADVENTURE / MODERN / EROTIC / CRIME / MYTHOLOGY / CLASSIC / HISTORY / RENAISSANCE / MEDIEVAL / ANCIENT / WAR / FAMILY / POLITICS / RELIGION / SCHOOL / ADULTHOOD / CHILDHOOD/ APOCALYPTIC / GODS / SPORT / MUSIC / SCIENCE / FIGHTS / ANGST / SMUT / DRAMA / ETC.
PREFERRED THREAD LENGTH: ONE-LINER / 1 PARA / 2 PARA / 3+ PARA / NOVELLA / ALL
ASKS CAN BE SENT BY: MUTUALS / NON-MUTUALS / PERSONALS / ANONS.
CAN ASKS BE CONTINUED?: YES / NO / OCCASIONALLY - only by Mutuals?: YES / NO
PREFERRED THREAD TYPE: CRACK / CASUAL / SERIOUS / DEEP AS HECK. / ALL
IS REALISM / RESEARCH IMPORTANT FOR YOU IN CERTAIN THEMES?: YES / NO. (I usually don’t care for it. I only ever use it if it fits for the scene and whatnot. Traumatic writing is usually taken seriously out of respect to survivors, but other than that I am free game.)
ARE YOU ATM OPEN FOR NEW PLOTS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
DO YOU HANDLE YOUR DRAFT / ASK - COUNT WELL?: YES / NO / SOMEWHAT.
HOW LONG DO YOU USUALLY TAKE TO REPLY?: 24H / 1 WEEK / 2 WEEKS / 3+ WEEKS / MONTHS / YEARS. / DEPENDS ON MOOD AND INSPIRATION, AND IF I’M BUSY - (If you read the rules, I work on whatever is the oldest in my draft backlog.)
I’M OKAY INTERACTING WITH: ORIGINAL CHARACTERS / A RELATIVE OF MY CHARACTER (AN OC) / DUPLICATES / CROSSOVERS / MULTI-MUSES / SELF-INSERTS / PEOPLE WITH NO AU VERSE FOR MY FANDOM / CANON-DIVERGENT PORTRAYALS / AU-VERSIONS.
DO YOU POST MORE IC OR OOC?: IC / OOC.
ARE YOU SELECTIVE WITH FOLLOWING OTHERS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
BEST WAYS TO APPROACH YOU FOR RP/PLOTTING:
For plotting: IMs. There’s also my Discord if you have it.
For RP: Use the RP Memes I reblog. If you don’t feel like plotting and don’t want to make a closed starter but want to get some interactions going? Those are great to break the ice since I normally like to do those most of the time.
WHAT EXPECTATIONS DO YOU HOLD TOWARDS YOUR PLOTTING PARTNER?: Just give me some ideas. I don’t care how dumb it is. I’m always open to a new point of view whenever it comes to plotting in the DMs, and being open tends to bring out the best ideas in my experience. The only thing I ask is to not expect me to do all the leg work in plotting. I get you brought the idea to my attention, but I also know you came to discuss it with me. I do tend to help flesh them out, but I shouldn’t be the ONLY ONE doing it.
Also remember my muse is something I invest my time and effort into when writing. I’ll do the same for yours if you do for mine. If you’re not willing to put the effort into helping BUILD a relation with me for our muses? You’ll most likely get ignored in the long run lol
WHEN YOU NOTICE THE PLOTTING IS RATHER ONE-SIDED, WHAT DO YOU DO?: I usually just mention that I think we’re done for now, then change the topic.
HOW DO YOU USUALLY PLOT WITH OTHERS, DO YOU GIVE INPUT OR LEAVE MOST WORK TOWARDS YOUR PARTNER?: I try to add my own input because leaving it up to one person is an RP 101 no go. This hobby requires communication and making sure both sides have fun, so it’s important to talk about my own side of things and work it out with my writing partner.
WHEN A PARTNER DROPS THE THREAD, DO YOU WISH TO KNOW?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. - AND WHY?: If it was an important thread that was relevant to our plot, then yes, I’d like to know so we can both be on the same page and talk about how our characters will change after that. Other than that, nah. With how many threads I have and the fact that I don’t use thread tracker, I tend to forget what I have out in the wild unless I see it in my activity feed.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY LEAD YOU TO DROP A THREAD?: Lack of muse, but this rarely happens. Other times I just drop it if I don’t see it going anywhere despite making some attempts to stir some active action into the thread. If it isn’t going anywhere my ADHD sometimes kicks it to the bucket.
WILL YOU TELL YOUR PARTNER?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. - Sometimes I do try to let people know when I may be dropping their threads and for what reason it might’ve been. However I do also drop them out of the blue if I just don’t see it going anyway. DW tho, it’s just a bad habit of mine and I’ve been making progress with making myself known when I think a thread needs to be dropped.
IS COMMUNICATION IN THE RPC IMPORTANT TO YOU? YES / NO. - AND WHY?: I don’t expect to be super besties with all of my writing partners. Some people are just meant to be writing partners and that’s it. However, I hate it when people follow, show interest in writing with me, then all of a sudden, act like I don’t exist while still following me. If you’re not interested anymore, just softblock. It’s a waste of time for me to try and give you opportunities when you’re clearly ignoring my presence on your dashboard.
Tangent aside, if we’re just writing partners, i don’t expect much communication between us. If we plot constantly and consider each other friendly writing partners/friends, then yes, communication is important.
ARE YOU OKAY WITH ABSOLUTE HONESTY, EVEN IF IT MAY MEANS HEARING SOMETHING NEGATIVE ABOUT YOU AND/OR PORTRAYAL?: I don’t mind the criticism when I am asking for it. I often try to use it when applicable since I do want to, ya know.. IMPROVE my muses to the best they can be to feel real. It only becomes a problem if some folks try to use that as an excuse to send clear hate towards my way though
DO YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE SUCH SITUATION IN A MATURE WAY? YES / NO.
WHY DO YOU RP AGAIN, IS THERE A GOAL?: I’ma be honest I mainly started this blog because I had a crush on Vivi when Hellbent first came out. However after a while, this blog just kinda exists on pure spite after realizing how little attention Vivi gets since the fandom tends to push her out the spotlight a TON even after MSA Future. If I had a goal for this blog? I guess making people fall in love with Vivi and the rest of my portrays is something then. (and I already pulled folks to simp for the blue gremlin so thats a plus lol)
WISHLIST, BE IT PLOTS OR SCENARIOS: I have a tag for this very thing.
THEMES I WON’T EVER RP / EXPLORE: I don’t care as long it isn’t someone trying to secretly force their k*nks onto me. I try to be open with what I write and explore, but being surprised with sm*t in the middle of a normal RP is a straight hardblock from me lol
WHAT TYPE OF STARTERS DO YOU PREFER / DISLIKE, CAN’T WORK WITH?: I don’t have a preference usually. I’m just someone who just rolls with the punches and lets their muses do their own thing unless we’ve plotted something for them to head to.
WHAT TYPE OF CHARACTERS CATCH YOUR INTEREST THE MOST?: Depends on the characterization and how its being portrayed. If you can make me fall in love with your character from just a series of simple interaction? You got my attention and investment.
WHAT TYPE OF CHARACTERS CATCH YOUR INTEREST THE LEAST?: Assholes who are assholes for the sake of being assholes I guess. I do try to give some portrays a chance with some irritating characters, but those often fall through since they don’t bounce off my muses as well as some others.
WHAT ARE YOUR STRONG ASPECTS AS RP PARTNER?: You can expect me to get to your starter even if it takes me forever to get to it. Plus, as far as I’ve been told, I tend to make my partners feel emotions when I give them my pieces of writings; so I can say my writing is a strong point too if you want quality work.
WHAT ARE YOUR WEAK ASPECTS AS RP PARTNER?: Unless you count being slow as heck when it comes to replies? Nothing else really lol
DO YOU RP SMUT?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
DO YOU PREFER TO GO INTO DETAIL?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. - I do it if it fits the mood and tone.
ARE YOU OKAY WITH BLACK CURTAIN, FADE TO BLACK?: YES / NO.
WHEN DO YOU RP SMUT? MORE OUT OF FUN OR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?: I’d probably do it more for character development. If it doesn’t carry some raw emotion AND a sense of plot that wants to make you invested? It’s probably going to flop with me real quick lol
ANYTHING YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO RP THERE?: Idek, I guess something along the lines of w*tersp*rts?? I don’t get how people get turned on by that and I refuse to look at it.
ARE SHIPS IMPORTANT TO YOU?: YES / NO - Sure, I am ship whore when it comes to setting up connections with my muses, but romantic ones aren’t normally my main focus though. I usually just try to go for genuine connections with muses, and if it arises to romance.. Sure, let the crazy kids knock themselves out.
WOULD YOU SAY YOUR BLOG IS SHIP-FOCUSED?: YES / NO. (See above.)
DO YOU USE READ MORE?: YES / NO / SOMETIMES WHEN I WRITE LONG STUFF. (I never use a read more for threads, other posts like drabbles, however, yes.)
ARE YOU: MULTI-SHIP / SINGLE-SHIP / DUAL-SHIP — MULTIVERSE / SINGLEVERSE.
WHAT DO YOU LOVE TO EXPLORE THE MOST IN YOUR SHIPS?: I like to explore how they bring out different sides in my muses. Ships are cool if you want to jumpstart a raw reaction out of a muse if they deep emotional invested into another character. :)
ARE YOU OKAY WITH PRE-ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. - I normally like to try and build up a friendship with a muse first before I really get into anything heavy. I do prestab stuff with some folks if I feel we both just want to dive in and do crazy shit with our muses though.
► SECTION ABOUT YOUR MUSE.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOUR MUSE INTERESTING TOWARDS OTHERS, WHY SHOULD THEY RP WITH THIS PARTICULAR CHARACTER OF YOURS NOW, WHAT POSSIBLE PLOTS DO THEY OFFER?: Vivi (main muse) has a wack yet sweet personality. I’ve heard she comes off pretty charming, can be unpredictable at best, and she’s been my most relatable character to far to work with. If you want to cry while reading about this girl tho? Man, sit down, we got a ton of trauma involving Reverb to get through BECAUSE MAN THIS GIRL WILL MAKE YOU CRY
WITH WHAT TYPE OF MUSES DO YOU USUALLY STRUGGLE TO RP WITH?: I mentioned it already, but asshole muses who are just assholes for the sake of being one. It doesn’t matter if they’re a villain or not. If there is no substance to their dynamic with any of my muses? Yeet, it’s probably not going to go anywhere unless I trust my muses don’t dip on me after the first few interactions.
WHAT DO THEY DESIRE, WHAT IS THEIR GOAL?: Vivi mainly is just trying to keep her gang afloat right now despite them always being low on money. Running a paranormal investigation business can be costly at times, and she (alongside her boys) is just trying to help make a decent lifestyle for her family right now.
WHAT CATCHES THEIR INTEREST FIRST WHEN MEETING SOMEONE NEW?: How your muse reacts, their body language, etc. Even with the nicest of characters, she’ll often instinctively tries to push a muse to their limits to see how they’ll react. Sure, she’ll be nice usually, but that doesn’t mean she’ll hide her personality and interests from people though.
WHAT DO THEY VALUE IN A PERSON?: Vivi values what she often values in herself.. She values how far you’ll go to help her when needed. Loyalty matters, a supportive nature means the world to her, and having someone to ground her is what she often looks for in a friend.
WHAT THEMES DO THEY LIKE TALKING ABOUT?: I think it depends on how well she knows a muse and what direction a conversation goes. Other than that, it’s hard to say.
WHICH THEMES BORE THEM?: She doesn’t care for small talk or being lectured by a complete stranger. If Vivi doesn’t feel a spark with a person? They’ll probably lose her interest after a period of time.
DID THEY EVER GO THROUGH SOMETHING TRAUMATIC?: While that’s entire emotional bag we don’t have the time to get through? I’ll sum it up with three things - Vivi witnessed the death of her boyfriend Lewis which resulted in her suffering from a minor care of a magical memory loss, she’s remembers the cave events and hasn’t really went to talking about it at all, and Vivi is a (HC) r*pe victim who thinks she murdered her Ex via stabbing them with a large spike of ice that came from her accidently using her ice powers (which she didn’t know too much about at a young age).
WHAT COULD LEAD TO AN INSTANT KILL?: Drain her of her magic. My Vivi is a turnt God. Unless you drain her all of her magic? She can be temporally turned into a normal human motral for a few days.
IS THERE SOMEONE /-THING THEY HATE?: Reverb, a demon who’s caused her gang the most pain when they accidently freed it from the cave it used to live in as a prison. The dude lives with them though through him accidently having himself turn into a living organ to keep Vivi’s Kitsune, Mystery alive. Mystery was brought back from the dead through Vivi’s magic, and Reverb (now already stuck as a left green hand) was still in his stomach when he was trying to possess him up in MSA Future.
IS YOUR MUSE EASY TO APPROACH?: YES / NO. - BEST WAY TO APPROACH THEM?: Just talk to her. Vivi is often a friendly muse who doesn’t care what you might be. If you just happen to be a paranormal creature or just a neat individual? She’ll stick around long enough to call ya a bestie.
For specifics, in a setting where your muse doesn’t express any intent on wanting to know her, she’s not difficult to approach. It’s when your muse wants to know her that she begins to push back and makes things difficult. Even with family, friends and S/O’s, she still has a hard time opening up. She’s mean, but she’s not going to be an asshole for no reason.
SOMETHING YOU MAY STILL WANT TO POINT OUT ABOUT YOUR MUSE?: Vivi is a shapeshifter hybrid that looks human usually. Being born as a spawn of Cthulhu (Vivi’s mom, Mrs. Yukino) and a mixture of a kitsune human (Vivi;s Dad, Mr. Yukino), she’s a mixture of things she can’t fully explain herself. Other than that? Everyone else is kinda normal on this blog.
CONGRATS!!! You managed it, now tag your mutuals! ♥
TAGGED: I stole it from another blog
TAGGING: interact and I might just kiss you on the lips /j
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10, 11, 18, 25 for the writing meme?
Ah! I forgot to answer these delicious questions!
10. Has a piece of writing ever "haunted" you? What does that mean to you?
For me, that means "a WIP that follows you around in your moments of weakness and stabs you for abandoning it- only it hasn't really been abandoned so it's like lovers-to-enemies with one of the parties running away really fast". The worst of these is The Tale of Jean Shea. It was one of my original works when I was 15-ish, and it had an Okay plot of travellers recording deserted post-apocalyptic areas and and making sure people's stories are told; which turned into an urban fantasy with ghosts and a base on the moon and then a plot between the moon base and the people who governed earth to.... I can't remember.
But either way, I got all the way to them travelling to Iceland and I lost the plot. I miss this story and I'd like to go back to it someday, but it needs heavy revamping. My depictions of fantasy-ghosts that are spiritual imprints but can also touch things and teleport and become ‘real’ again if they’re loved, haunts me.
11. Do you believe in the old advice to "kill your darlings?" Are you a ruthless darling assassin?
Not really. I tend to operate on the amount of characters I need for the plot and no more. Found Family > Game of Thrones. But I probably could have a lot of fun trying to write Game of Thrones if I really tried.
18. Choose a passage from your writing; tell me about the backstory, how you came up with it, and how it changed from start to end.
OOoooo.
Mary didn’t come into the office often, but it was still several times a week. Westlie had spent hours of her life trying to figure out why Mary worked as a secretary for Arthur. The woman was tall, lithe, fashionable, and only halfway decent at math. Her handwriting was the least neat part about her, which was to say, the rest of her was fucking flawless and her cursive looked like someone took a bunch of stamps, stuck them in a printing press, and churned out pages of the stuff without mistakes. She was the only one who could get away with wearing her hair down and Arthur not sending her home: probably because it fell in over her shoulders in waves of enticing brown ringlets and it looked less pretty down than it did up. She styled it every fucking morning somehow, before she came into work. She was twenty-five years old, a solid two years older than Westlie, a kiss-ass, she belonged at a fashion agency, not Fairweather, and Westlie wanted to eat her alive on sight.
- Liztlie AU, Chapter 8
Mary's introduction while accosting Westlie to give her more paperwork. Probably the best character introduction I've ever written; it wrote itself. I think I've rearranged a few sentences but that was it. I imagine Mary as a high-society prep who wants to be working class but doesn't really have the skills to be good at it, and she's just a born asshole because she sees everyone else as beneath her. Which, coincidentally, is exactly what Arthur thinks, so they got that going for their creepy Employer-Secretary eyecandy relationship.
The phrase of "wanted to eat her alive on sight"? Never going to top that one. I read it and every single time I lose my mind. It's my own damn writing and I go Yes, Westlie, eat her.
25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?
For some reason, in my head, Morgan (the younger sister in Liztlie AU) had this obsession with growing up. It's totally irrelevant to the story because she's 20 in the now and thinks she's the queen of the world, but if I wrote the story of Morgan growing up, it'd be a lot of suffing her shoes, big shirts, and obscure growing pagan rituals.
#that was so fun xDD thanks for reminding me Mary exists. I hate her she needs to die.#liztlie au#ask#writing#these are so much fun haha#answers#me#self
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Hello, I have invaded your inbox to request an infodump!! Please tell me anything and everything you want about your characters, stories, etc.! (You have permission to give me a literal essay to read if you want!)
OMG hi!! Welcome! Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity to ramble for 10 pages straight <33333
First I'm going to hit you with DMLS and then I'm going to tell you everything I know about Khalid the Son of Ether.
LET'S GOOOOO
Doom Metal Love Story
Genre(s): Weird Western/existential horror romance
Tropes I've Identified:
Battle Brothers -> Family of Choice
(Villain Protagonist x Lovecraftian Superpower) / Morality Chain = Anti-Hero
Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate
Genre Shift
Equivalent Exchange
"Groundhog Day" Loop -> Save Scumming
One True Love
I'm sure there's more but the author has the memory retention of a goldfish.
Can I interest you in an elevator pitch?
A cavalryman, his best friend, and his outlaw lover must escape a time loop to stop a delusional academic from summoning an apocalyptic god-spirit.
Under the cut I'll go into more detail on the characters, pieces of media I'd recommend if you're interested in DMLS, etc.
A Living Machine
Fandom: Mage: the Ascension (Revised rules)
Genre(s): Cyberpunk, Near Future, Existential Horror
Tropes:
Innocent Prodigy
Cosmic Plaything -> It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
We Can Rebuild Him -> Unwilling Roboticization -> Plant Person
Mad Scientist -> Mister Seahorse
No Fourth Wall/Rage Against the Author
Reset Button
We're following a 12-year-old Son of Ether named Khalid Abandonato for fuck knows how long with this story. When he grows up he fucks with single-parent reproduction, grows a baby in an incubator, and has to hide it in his guts ("Among the Elements.")
He has to help retcon two (2) other characters' histories after I'm done with his character development arc, we have a lot of shit to do~
Doom Metal Love Story
I did a quick infodump here and I answered an excellent question on vibes/inspiration here, if you want a primer before I keep going.
I'll mark where the heavy spoilers start if you want to dip out before then. I haven't censored spoilers on the Post-It map bc I'm lazy.
If you want background music, visuals for who I'm talking about, or you want to read the first 10% of the novel, boy have I got you covered:
sample chapters [1, 2, 3]
playlist/chapter list here
character intros:
[x] cole sullivan
[x] arthur royston
[x] erik hofer
I don't remember what post the order of the details of the first draft is in, but off the top of my head I was working with:
One of them is a gambler and the other one is a cavalryman
They are/were lovers
Royston pushed Sullivan off a train
They end the novel handcuffed together
Genuinely forgetting what the fifth thing is I am a professional
So then off I went.
Basics for book 1:
We're in an AU where Spain never conquered the Americas and the U.S. holds no territory west of the Mississippi River; they still have military outposts etc there bc they haven't taken the hint to pack it up and go.
There are two timelines: the first technically starts in July 1873 and goes to June 1874; we also follow them on a second timeline from September 1872-June 1873
Sullivan and Royston met in September 1872
Sullivan was investigating an Army train derailment that resulted in a gang of horse thieves absconding with about 8 of the 50 horses onboard and rolled into a saloon to ask questions
The horse thieves' dumbass brother Lon has a vendetta against Royston and decides this is the best time to try to get revenge
Long story short the horse thieves jump Sullivan and Royston on the train, Royston shoves Sullivan, he falls off and breaks the shit out of his leg. Busts his head open for good measure.
Hofer, who has been his bestie since 1861 (start of the American Civil War) rides out and saves his ass.
This kind of gets lost in the sauce, but a dust storm kept Hofer and Sullivan stuck in a cabin in western Missouri for three weeks. They were missing for so long the Army upgraded them from "MIA" to "presumed dead."
They were both thrown in the stockade when they got to Fort Sarras--Hofer punched a private for hurting Sullivan's leg and Sullivan had an express ticket to four months in the penitentiary while they investigated whether he was deserting (he would not tell anyone--to include Hofer--Royston's name or that he was even on the train)
Sullivan should have mustered out on account of his leg and head injuries but he figured he could tough out four months in prison with no medical treatment he could stay in the Cavalry until he got his 25 years in and then limp off into the sunset
Downplays physical impact of his injuries, stays in service
Some idiot in the Capitol goes "Oh! Hey! Open first sergeant billet in Comanche country! What's this? Sullivan needs a posting?" and he gets sent to Fort Cano against Hofer's vehement protestations
Hofer continues torpedoing his reputation by calling in favors to make sure he transfers with Sullivan; has to leave Clara and the kids in Philadelphia bc LOL there's no family housing in a frontier fort
Sullivan is like "Wow I fucked up" but keeps on trucking.
Royston went through the wringer when they were ambushed, and it took him five days short of a year to catch up to Sullivan. He's DESPERATE when he gets down there. Like "Fuck your career, we could leave tonight, run away with me" desperate.
Here come the spoilers
Have I mentioned they're in a time loop?
There's a song for that:
There are eight 1872-1873 chapters. They each correspond to one of the time loops the lads have been through. When Sullivan and Royston meet in the saloon in the first flashback chapter, they've already been together nine months. (For the most part) when Sullivan dies or series Big Bad Dr. Emil Powell completes his quest to summon an apocalyptic god-spirit he thinks is a Cthulhu-analogue, the loop starts over at the start of the flashback chapter.
OH RIGHT I talked about the mechanics of the time loop a bit here. The Post-It note map changed since then:
How Long Is This Thing
Book 1 clocked in at 167.5k words.
I don't see a world where I come in under that for Books 2 and 3.
After I finished the first draft (took me six weeks) Sullivan wouldn't leave me the fuck alone. The dude kept haunting me. I was like "I knowwwww I made you into a literary device and you don't deserve it idk what you want me to do the story's over."
He made me keep rewriting the fucking thing until I fixed it.
I joke about how Royston is the thorn in my side and the outline destroyer etc. etc. but Sullivan was the one who straight-up haunted my ass until I agreed to do the following things:
Give him the chance to save Hofer. (Hofer sacrificed himself at the end of draft 3.)
Give him the chance to save Royston. (He retained Villain Protagonist status at the end of draft 3. I told my roommate how it ended and she went "Oh! The villain won!" and I went "... YAAAAY?")
Give him the chance to bring everyone to justice who needed it--to include Powell, who I haven't gotten to yet, and whichever Huston brothers survived the ambush; Royston took out two of them before the marshals Bonnie and Clyde'd the brains of the operation.
OK hold the fuck up.
I don't have to tell you about Calvin and Delilah Huston. Sarras City's local gossip-monger, Buchanan "Buck" Yeats ("Fork-tongued last-name-for-a-first-name son of a bitch," says Royston) will do it for me:
“Yep!” Buck grinned. “Huston brothers wouldn’t be worth half a damn if it weren’t for Tommy there, the father, but if'n ya ask me—”
Royston hefted a sigh and rolled his eyes.
“—Cal’s the ringleader. Folks say Cal’s the one holding the whole operation together, and he wouldn’t be worth a damn without Del. Some of the stories I hear tell 'bout Cal and Del make my blood curdle. You know they say Cal died in a prisoner of war camp?”
“Who says that?” Sullivan asked.
“That’s what I hear from folks out Georgia way.”
“You mean to say Army made a mistake?” Royston asked.
“Why ya think they gotta skin soldiers instead'a nabbin’ someone easier to take down?”
“Nervous compulsion. Vendetta. Sexual thrill, instead of bearskin they use human cape for their fireside fuck-rug. Who the hell knows, man?”
“I’m tellin’ ya, it’s to keep Cal alive. Folks say she signed a contract with the Devil to bring him back, and she pays in skins.”
“Do you hear the foolishness you’re spouting? They don’t gotta do a God-damned thing. I don’t skin people alive all the time, and all I use is a knife.”
“You skin people?” Sullivan asked.
“Darling, I could never, I’m incredibly squeamish,” Royston said with a smile that evaporated the second he turned back to Buck. “That’s the part you’re leaving out. They’re alive when Cal and Del skin them. If you’re going to try to scare people, you have to play to the part they’re actually afraid of. The Devil has nothing to do with it.”
Sullivan believed Royston, and he didn’t want to.
“They’re alive?”
“Ah, yeah, I always forget that part.” Buck took a thoughtful sip of his beer. “Anyway! Del’s the one calling the shots with Cal. Tommy’s the one come here first, after he buried the missus. That would’ve been… summer of sixty-six. Yep. Said the boys would be headed out this way eventually, what with the South going to Hell after the War and all. He wanted 'em to have a place to land when they did. Whole family hates the North after what they been through, and they’s runnin’ outta places back east where one of 'em ain’t got a bounty on his head. Oh, Lon’s maddern’ a swarm'a hornets at you, Mister Royston.”
“Still?” Royston coughed in an attempt to keep his laugh suppressed. “You mean to tell me a good God-fearing Christian boy like Lonnie H. hasn’t turned the other cheek yet? It’s been…” He counted the years on his right hand. “… four God-damned years, Bucky!”
“If half'a what I heard’s true—”
“Which I’m willing to bet it ain’t.”
“Don’t take that bet, Buck!” someone shouted from the smoky back corner.
“—why, then you’re the reason he spent the night in jail in Charleston back in Sixty-Eight and had to learn to shoot left-handed.”
“I’ll tell you who’s the cause of Lon Huston’s misfortune. Why, that’d be Lon Huston himself, sir. Nobody told Lon Huston to sit down at that poker table to begin with, so that was his first mistake. Nobody told him to stay in the game after two men who would’ve dusted my ass on an ordinary night hadn’t had preposterously bad luck and folded. In fact, several people told him not to, and he did it anyway. Nobody told him to flip over a table because he lost said round. He was not under duress. I didn’t threaten him. He insulted me, refused an honorable challenge to duel, flipped over a table like a child and disfigured himself. There was no point at which he couldn’t walk away.”
“He insulted you?” Sullivan asked.
“Called me a motherless cocksucker!”
“… yep, that’d do it.”
“Not that it’s not true, but then he called me a cheater, and I, sir, do not cheat.” He held Sullivan’s gaze, waggled his eyebrows, and added, as if Buck were not sat right there watching, “Ever.” Then continued on as if he hadn’t interrupted himself in the first place, “He didn’t need to flip that table over. I needed to poke a hole in his hand to defend myself.”
Sullivan didn’t know how else to respond, so he laughed a laugh that was equal parts amused and uncomfortable.
“What’s funny?” Royston asked, as if they were alone.
“You’re a bit of a scoundrel, aren’t you?” Sullivan asked.
Royston grinned, and took a slow, open-throated swallow of beer.
That's them. Them's DMLS's Official Couple. They suck.
Sidebar:
I really want to write a novella just about Calvin and Delilah. It would obviously have to be what was going on on their side of the 1872-1873 storyline, but it involves a revenant gang of horse thieves, which is automatically cooler than whatever the fuck I have going on in my actual story.
They're my roommate's OTP, not Sullivan and Royston /j
OK back to talking about love and stuff:
They shouldn't work. They don't. They abuse the save scum mechanic because they want that romance endgame so bad. Sullivan's deserves the Golden Ending. I could've eventually gotten over what I did to him for the sake of writing a horror novel but he wouldn't leave me alone about how much he fucking loves Royston and didn't want it to end like that so here we are. Stuck in a time loop. Hoping Royston can commit to the "let's run away and grow old together" bit long enough for it to stick.
Really why they work is Royston (who scores a 34/40 on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and has ADHD in a time before ADHD was understood) recognizes Sullivan is Different (read: autistic; same note re: society's understanding of his neurodivergence) and Sullivan recognizes Royston has a lot of trauma in addition to being an evil bastard and doesn't go into the relationship with any misconceptions about him. Sullivan asks Royston questions instead of immediately judging him, explains himself when he asks him to do something, and is generally patient with and kind to him. So they end up healing each other, in a way?
It's codependent and weird and it only gets more codependent and weird after they go through Book 1 and survive everything I do to them. I'm not mad about it. I do feel the need to warn people that I'm not romanticizing toxic or abusive relationships--they started out toxic, but Royston never pulled any of the standard psychopath tricks on Sullivan and after they time looped a few times he pulled his horns in.
Don't write a trilogy like I did. I broke the first rule which is "Don't do it because you fell in love with your protagonist."
I could keep going on about this project (I haven't even gotten to Hofer yet! OMG I promise I'm going to infodump on Hofer and his wife Clara when she shows up in Book 2 bc she's great) but I want to give Khalid some airtime.
A Living Machine
Alright. Let's talk about Khalid.
In 2014, I played a 19-year-old Orphan who went by the name Alicia Romero. She showed up to the campaign after having her Awakening, which occurred when Technocrats attacked her and her father. They closed the Time Door he had opened (Arete 8, he'd have to be at this point--he's fucking terrifying) and he got hit with so much backlash it knocked him into Quiet. They captured him, she made her way to Denver, and she met a boy (another PC named Elijah Portereau) and THEY fell in love. And fought. A LOT.
I ended up pulling Alicia because her backstory was a bit much for the campaign. She had a lot of trauma and I played her like a 19-year-old girl with trauma. She left Denver to find out what happened to her father and Elijah... went into Quiet. He never came out because--
KHALID CHANGED THE TIMELINE.
Well OK he didn't change it so much as HE met a boy (Neil! don't worry about his last name. It's Neil!) and because Khalid also has trauma he kept resisting his friendship attempts until way after the baby was born. A bunch of stuff happened, they hid her in the past, and then I started writing ALM and realized Khalid regretted doing that. A lot.
So he has a time bomb! It's a Wonder that will allow him a one-time-use-only reset to a point up to six months in the past. He realizes this when the baby (Apricity) is around six weeks old, talks to Neil, and decides to use the time bomb so Khalid invites him into his life before she's born. That's Act 2.
Uhhhhh that fucks Elijah pretty hard. Alicia was his closest friend and they were genuinely in love with each other and cared about each other. They were in the middle of a huge relationship-ending fight when she left Denver. When Khalid uses the time bomb, he and Neil never hide the baby in the past so she stays in her own timeline and never meets Elijah.
THIS FUCKING SUCKS FOR ELIJAH
We played through his Quiet episode in the campaign. It took an army of NPCs as well as a long storyline and then the election happened and our group fell apart.
So in the timeline where he doesn't meet Alicia, she isn't there to help him when he is in Quiet. This is bad news because he's Arete 3 aaaaaaand you don't want that turning into a Marauder.
Act 3 is all about Elijah and what happens to him in this alternate timeline. He does eventually meet Apricity (Alicia's birth name) and WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
Who the fuck is Neil?
OMG I love Neil let me tell you about him since he doesn't have a mood board or anything because he's just a Sim right now.
Neil doesn't particularly like being a Technocrat. They nabbed him straight out of his undergraduate program. He wants to be a child psychiatrist. They've got him on Reality Deviant surveillance duty because he sucks at pretty much every other facet of being an Operative in the New World Order (a Technocratic Union faction. Not the anti-semitic conspiracy theory.)
They assign him to Dr. Abandonato (Khalid as a grown-ass man) because he scary. Ever been so scary people try to nerf you the second you show up to the table? That's Khalid.
Neil basically gets one look at this bedraggled pregnant man and goes "I want to be his friend so bad (*_*) "
Long story short they end up in a queerplatonic life partnership. They're both aroace and haven't met their person yet.
Neil is the reason Khalid doesn't get to have sci-fi adventures in Act 1. I gotta save them all up for Act 2.
There he is!! My squeamish, geeky little dog-lover.
Oh Right For Those of You Who Don't Play World of Darkness
Wiki does a good job summarizing what the hell is going on.
Basically our friends are in a technofuturistic setting based on M:tA. Khalid and Neil are enemies by virtue of the fact that the Traditions and the Technocrats are at war with each other. Neil ends up becoming a double agent because he's secretly a fucking badass.
I thought it would be funny to write the chapters like a combo of Khalid has cosmic self-awareness + they're bound by the rules of a TTRPG session. If he botches a roll, it doesn't matter if I the author would have preferred he succeeded. If he insists on not spending WP to make sure his effect goes off, he's going to eat Paradox. If he fucks up his damage soak roll, there's consequences.
I'm beating up a 12-year-old in the name of LITERATURE.
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intro to my OCs just for background as I will be posting them
I have two WIPs, one solo and one with my best friend. The solo one is called Star for now and the one I'm collaborating on is currently nameless and I refer to it as 'the comic' which is incredibly specific and great for categorical tags (I'll probably just tag it with a sun emoji tbh).
Star takes place in a post apocalyptic world featuring two very queer very mentally struggling main characters who might kiss or might just cry a lot (follow me to find out!)
The comic takes place on a cool island summer camp with magic (if this reminds you of lumberjanes, that was the inspiration, I wanted to make a story about queer kids interacting with magic, sort of like escapism cause it's all positive and fun) and has a pretty diversely queer cast (I love them all deeply)
My OCs for star
Tristan- transmasc (he/him most likely), unlabeled queer in terms of romanticism, and probably asexual idk. Autistic coded imo. Really likes plants, pretty depressed. Strong believer that everything is bad and nothing good will ever happen and the world is over
Orion/Ori (or-ee)- transmasc, pretty chill about pronouns but generally prefers he and maybe they, as long as it isn't she he doesn't care. Achillean. In denial about everything and very optimistic. Pretty high energy and outgoing
My OCs for the comic (I swear we'll name it sometime) not exhaustive but this should be the ones I reference the most
Atlas- he/they, transmasc aroace, AuDHD, his main special interest is magic and magical beings and stuff like that. Knowledgeable and passionate about this to the point where he will correct adults who study magic if they're wrong. Also very into plants and plant identification and just nature stuff in general. Dude could write a handbook.
Alexander/Alex- he/him, brother figure for atlas. He's got a big sword and might be the reincarnation of king Arthur (he found the sword in a cool lake). Has no inclination to be the king of britain or whatever. Bi? Gay? Who knows. His love interest is a man
Lee - he/it/whatever honestly he doesn't care, devil (got some rad horns and shit, he can't fly) who likes to play at being a villain, pretty harmless and honestly just likes to fuck with people. Would wear a dress. Has worn a dress. Will wear a dress. Queer (he says that he's 'gay for every gender'). Gives his boyfriend (above) regular heart attacks (its. For his health. You know)
Athena - she/her probably, transfem and of questionable romantic orientation. Descended from a god, probably a minor god of summer or spring or something. She can set stuff on fire and glow and whatever. She's figuring it out. She also rarely puts on shoes
Angel - he/him but doesn't mind neutral pronouns, probably wont realize that neo or xenopronouns are referring to him though. He's the group counselor and generally just sort of tags along and watches to make sure they don't die. Has a lot of faith in them and encourages them to do stupid shit he thinks is funny. He does keep them safe but like. He lets them have fun. Polyam, bi with a very strong preference for men. Has rad wings (his name is incredibly on the nose)
Vince (he/him) and odyssey/essie/s(any but prefers masc words referring to them): angels boyfriends who don't actually show up much but I feel very strongly about them and I think they're all very cute together. Vince is the golden retriever, essie is the black cat, angel is the orange cat.
anyways if anyone actually read all that, that's rad!! I hope you like them. I will probably be posting a ton about them soon if you're interested!
Have a great day!
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hey what's up! sending you this ask cause I had a question from a reply you made on a post--do you happen to know what book this was?
Wow! Umm.... an ask! I feel famous or something.
No but seriously, the book is Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. I'm still only a few chapters in because it's finals week, but let me give you a brief rundown.
So basically in the year *vague mumbling but probably 2014ish since thats when it came out* an epidemic of a strain of Swine Flu breaks out. (Insert covid joke here.) On the same night, possibly from the flu or maybe not (it's kinda unclear), an actor named Arthur Leander dies on stage at a performance of King Lear. Also involved in this performance is an 8 year old girl named Kirsten, who's acting in a minor role.
The book focuses both on the past, such as the immediate aftermath of the epidemic, the history of Arthur Leander, and skipping into the future to follow a now 28 year old Kirsten, whose become a part of a traveling acting troupe in a post-apocalyptic society created by the mass death the flu caused.
Minor spoilers for some early chapters: There's a great exchange between some of the various people who were involved with the play that Arthur died during, where they basically are questioning who to call about his death, since they think it's their responsibility to inform his loved ones. The problem is that they can't think of anyone to call. They know he was having an affair with one of the crew of the play, but she already knows that he died. They quietly discuss his death, and eventually determine that they'll just call his lawyer. The section ends with the statement that every person in that discussion ended up dead by the end of the week, presumably from the flu, though we do ironically learn that the longest-living one of them died in a car crash.
As you might expect, these ideas of tragedy happening where there's nobody around to feel it fit right in with the post-apocalyptic theme, as well as being interwoven geniusly with the idea of "the show must go on" and other theater motifs. This is also interwoven with explorations of the beauty that can be found in mundanity, as well as a deeply interesting message about the true nature of art.
All in all, as I said in my comment, I am completely normal about this book.
Sorry for the long post, it really just takes so much to capture what I live about this book. I'm also obliged to mention that HBO Max made a miniseries based on it, but I haven't watched it and I have no idea how good it is.
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I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.
Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.
(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)
Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.
Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).
I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.
Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).
To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.
And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.
It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.
#there are some definite problems with Hunger Games worldbuilding#(who the fuck is buying those cakes from Peeta's bakery?#90% of the population of District 12 are apparently starving#but they can still support a birthday cake industry???)#but this one specific thing is done really well#hunger games#suzanne collins#btw if you've read the trilogy and don't recognise some of the names in here#it's because i'm also using ones from Songbirds and Snakes#hunger games meta
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Awwwwww..wait-
having a hard time looking at this without laughing
especially since the second I turned around he was like NO PAY ATTENTION TO ME
#fallout blogging#ch: guinevere#my ocs#paladin danse#arthur maxson#i adore them#a post apocalyptic Arthurian legend playing out before our eyes alldkdkdkfk lmfao#Danse and guin’s heart eyes are giving me heart palpitations#not really but it’s adorable
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Enough pessimism for now. It's time to ask a positive question: What did you / are the things you did enjoy about Fire Force?
I would like to re-read the series to give a better point of view. But I don't want to put in that time right now, so, a lot of what I liked would have been pre-anime announcement.
So, LOL, I'm still going to be negative in some spots here:
The characters seemed to have enough personality.
I still think it's sexist to reduce Tamaki to just "fanservice bad luck person" (when it'd be funnier if she just had bad luck, period, no need to keep making it fanservice, just have things go wrong for her all the time). There is so much potential for her, and she deserves better.
And while there is a bit more complexity later with Maki, I think the "she misinterprets remarks to think it's insulting her appearance" gets stale.
That being said, Maki kicking ass was always good. Hell, before the anime announcement, there was variety in the types of girls and women in the series in terms of personalities, alliances, skills, body types--it's just that some got hit harder than others with dumb fanservice gags (Tamaki, Maki, Iris, Hibana). I wish more was done with Maki's mom, just given what back story we get for her later--but this is so annoying, to talk up what she used to do before she retired, instead of seeing her cut loose in a fight.
Hibana was a compelling antagonist...before she's reduced to lusting after teenage Shinra.
I think the artwork was fine. I was more excited by it before finding out how this all tied into Soul Eater, which makes differences in the art more understandable--but now also kind of saps enjoyment from them. (There is something about Ohkubo, right around the end of Soul Eater, during NOT, and during the beginning of Fire Force where character designs, especially in the faces, feel less unique, so flat, not as memorable as earlier artwork and especially compared to the 2008 anime). The character designs feel kind of same-y until Vulcan, Lisa, and Yu have a larger role, then it feels like that trio has so much more variety. (I miss Lisa's longer hair, though.)
The buildings and steampunk aesthetic were good.
Some fire demon designs were good, before leaning more into the doppel idea and then it kind of gets repetitive.
Some gags were really good; I still love Arthur shouting, "Call the fire department!" before Tamaki shouts back, "We are the fire department!" I wish more outlandish stuff was done with Takehisa's fashion disasters. Akitaru working out all the time made this cartoony and fun, as was Juggernaut just somehow surviving because thick clothing (...but then Akitaru and Juggernaut's gags, as well as what happens to Juggernaut in the Nether, is hampered when your entire series is acting like everything is not cartoony until Shinra does what he does in the finale, but whatever). The calendar arc should have worked as equal opportunity fanservice, so I appreciate the attempt, even as I hate putting in underage characters, and characters who were coerced against their will (Juggernaut).
The mystery of this post-apocalyptic world that has our same continents was engaging...until the real of a 3D world, which makes no sense even within the story, and is hard to represent when you are dealing with 2D artwork already. I wish more was done to engage with the pre-history of this world, to show more of which remnants remained, which history was forgotten or misremembered. We get Vulcan looking back at earlier species, but what about other history?
I like Benimaru and Konro--although the nationalistic bent bothers me, especially when we see the "New World" going to Japanese naming conventions again. This feels like it wants to be some political message ("Now the US can see the world through the perspective of Japan, and look what we do to Nevada!"), but it gets muddled.
I really enjoyed Joker before the doppel fight. I don't like the back story, but I understand the setup, especially when it comes to abuses by religious organizations against children. I enjoyed seeing his philosophy unfold, how he is cynical but determined in his goal. He is literally Batman but with the Joker's name and aesthetic. Don't have him run off with Burns, have him stay as this vigilante weirdo, that's more entertaining.
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📕BTS Fic Reads - 2021 March pt. 1
I appreciate all these fics as they’ve provided me comfort, distraction, etc during these times. So thank you dear authors. Sending you love 💖
If you end up checking the fics in this list, please don’t forget to show appreciation by reblogging or giving positive feedback to these authors 🥰.
Note: if link doesn’t work, click on author and go to their masterlist
🥕 Ongoing - most recent chapter [as of date this list was posted]
🥕 Completed - completed one shots | series
🥕 S - smut | F - fluff | A - angst
🌷 with commentary on completed fics (if reading these help)
--- Some are new, some re-reads, while some are past reads that haven’t been reblogged yet. Mostly mature.
🥕[Ongoing Series] - Social Media AUs (SMAUs)
Catching Feelings @na-na-na-nanna - MYG | smau | Goblin!Yoongi, Fantasy, must kiss humans to gain human emotions | Crack, F, A, S [12/?]
Cursed @bloomsuga - KTH | smau with written parts | Supernatural AU, Witch!Taehyung, Cursed!Reader | Crack, F, S, slight A ! [3/?]
Just Facts @yoongiiverse - JJK | smau | Rich Idol!jungkook, Model Dancer!Reader, Enemies to Lovers | Crack, F [5/?]
Kinda Hot @kimnjss - KTH | smau with written parts | Campus Flirt!taehyung, Bestfriend!Reader, Bestfriend AU, College AU | S, F, A [15/?]
Made of Honor @suhdays - KTH | smau with written parts| best friend AU, made of honor!au (like the film) | F, A [18/?]
Best Man @yoontaethings - KTH | smau | enemies to lovers, player taehyung? | F, A, S (written) [6/?]
🥕[Ongoing Series]
🌹 Jungkook
Almost Home [reposted/revised] @angelguk - JJK | 27k+ | Single Dad AU, Nanny, slight Fake Dating | A, F [2/?]
Bands @xpeachesncream - JJK | 55.9K+ | Idol AU, Stripper AU | A, F, S [14/?]
Confident @h0neypjm - JJK | 13.1k | Fuckboy AU, Virgin!Reader | S, F, A ~ [2/?]
It’s a Heartbeat @inkofyoongi - JJK | 23k+ | Enemies to Lovers, College AU, their parents are dating, Jungkook is the South Korean Patrick Swayze and this will turn into a Dirty Dancing!AU nobody asked for 🤭 | A, F, S [1/?]
No Harm List @crazy4myself - JJK | 93.5k+ | Mafia AU, Gang AU, Slow Burn | A, F [10/?]
Normal Kind of Love @/yoontaethings - JJK | 2.5k+ | Actor AU, Exes AU, Enemies to Lovers | A (so far) [1/?]
Open When @iluv-hobi - JJK | drabble series, 2.6k | idol au, established relationship, epistolary | F ~ [2/?]
Picture Perfect @cosmoguk - JJK | 5k+ | parents AU, exes AU (divorced) | A, F | [1/?]
Sleepyhead series @jkstompers - JJK | 18.2k+ | College AU, Seatmates AU, Crush AU (lol is there such a thing) | F, S
Sleepyhead - “you fall asleep during class next to the uni heart throb jeon jungkook, will you fall in love as well?” 1.8wc
Just to Study - “your seat partner asks if you’re free after class, just to study.” 7.4wc
Passing Notes - “a year of crushing and jungkook’s finally asked you out on a proper date.” 9k wc
Supermodel @koogalore - JJK | 10K+ | Exes AU, infidelity AU, Jungkook is a jerk, Curvy!Reader, talks of body image | S, A [3/?]
The Realm @nottodayjjk - JJK | 3.5k+ | Mystery, Fantasy, OC wakes up in a dark place not knowing where she is, afterlife feels | A [3/?]
The Weeping @themfchase - JJK | 6k+ | Medieval, Dystopian, War, Fantasy AU, Romance, angels/demons | A [1/?]
Wasteland @iridescentjin - JJK | 4.5k+ | Sci-Fi AU, Post-Apocalyptic AU, isolation | A (so far) [1/?]
Your Love’s the Only Hoax I Believe In @sparklingchim - JJK | 12.7k+ | College AU, Fuckboy AU, FWB AU, Tutor AU, Unrequited Love | A, S [2/3]
🌹 Yoongi
Birthday Girl @btsarmy9593 - MYG | 22K+ | one night stand AU, Noona AU, Professor!Reader, Post Grad AU | F, S [5/?]
Daechwita @/jinings (temp deact) - MYG | 20k+ | servant!yoongi - king!yoongi, princess!reader, period drama, Historical AU | All that Yoongi knows is that King Park must be killed- he just didn’t plan falling in love with his daughter along the way. | A, F, eventual S [2/?]
Silent Dreams @starlightauroras-writes - MYG | 5.7k+ | Best Friend AU, sleeptalking OC while dreaming dirty thoughts about her best friend | S, F [1/?]
🌹 Multi/OT7
Holy Trinity @koyalov - JJK x KTH x PJM | 9k+ | FWB AU, infidelity AU (other woman), Rockstar AU, Band AU, Bestfriend!Jungkook, FWB with other maknaes (yes it’s complicated) | A, S [1/?]
Playmates @scribblemetae - OT7 | 22.6k+ | Idol AU, Sex Worker AU, Strangers to Lovers | S [2/?]
Roses @heejinnien - OT7 | 12.7k+ | Crime AU, Mystery, Horror, OC becomes target of the unsub | A [4/?]
by Author
Foxymoxy [AO3] - (JJK) been following this author since last year (A Sea of Indigo, Hybrid AU) and her fics are amazing. Currently subscribed to these three (out of four) fics which get updated weekly: 🌷
Meadow (Wolf, Shifter AU, Arranged Marriage)
Amended (Arranged Marriage, Fake Marriage, Police Office AU, Childhood Friends, Enemies to Lovers)
Lowlander (Fantasy AU, Enemies to Lovers, Fighter Jungkook)
@jimlingss Drabbles 2021
Three Peas in a Pod || Fluff || Namjoon || Single Dad!AU 🌷
Suspended, Seduced, Surprised! || Fluff || Jungkook || E2L
Lotus Blooms in Mud || Angst || Jimin || Historical!AU
Buttering Up || Fluff || Yoongi || Chef!AU
The Office Trip to Pound Town || Smut, Fluff || Taehyung 🌷
Snow White and the Park Ranger || Fluff || Seokjin 🌷
Humdrum Amore || Fluff || Hoseok 🌷
Awaken Again || Angst, Fluff || Namjoon || Sci-Fi!AU 🌷
The Soulmate Gift || Angst, Fluff || Yoongi || Soulmate!AU
Floof’s Tail || Fluff || Jimin || Hybrid!AU 🌷
Take What Isn’t Mine || Smut, Angst || Jungkook
Crocodile Tears || Fluff || Hoseok || Pirate!AU 🌷
🥕[Completed Fics/Series]
Namjoon
Little Red @/bloomsuga - one shot | 22.5k | Werewolf AU, got lost in the woods, inspired by Little Red Riding Hood | S, F, A
Pheromones @rmnamjoons - one shot | 17.5k | Spaceship Captain!Namjoon, Botanist!Reader, Sci Fi AU, Pining | S, F, A 🌷
Stuttering @moonlightchildz - one shot | 11.6k | Tutor AU, Underground Rapper, College AU, Secret Identity | F, S 🌷
There’s a Fly in My Soup @sahmfanficbts - drabble | 1.8k | Cafe Owner x Customer!Namjoon, Cafe AU, Strangers to Lovers, Crack | F, A (in form of one very stressed OC) 🌷
You’ve Got a Friend in Me @wwilloww - one shot | 3k | Bestfriend AU, Roommate AU, interesting idea to reduce stress levels | S 🌷
Seokjin
All I Ever Wanted @hayjeon - one shot | 10k | Teacher AU, Enemies to Lovers AU | F, S 🌷
Voicemail @joonary - one shot | 7k | College Podcast AU, Friends to Lovers, Pining, Bestfriend AU | F (💕fluffy day reblog) 🌷
What Made Us Feel Human @joonsgalaxy - drabble | 2.3k | Neighbor AU, thought neighbor’s noise is due to sex but it’s something else, Crack | F 🌷
Yoongi
Accidents @jungxk - drabble 2.4k | Dad AU, Comedy | F (💕fluffy day reblog)🌷
Are You Still With Him @/joonsgalaxy - drabble | 1.7k | Roommate AU, Producer AU, Friends to Lovers, secret pining, use of song lyrics in the fic | F (I really love how it made use of different song lyrics in the story) 🌷
Avec Mes Souvenirs @palpitate-hyperventilate - one shot | 3.5k | Nikita!AU, Assassin AU, Trainer Yoongi | A
Dad Yoongi + Pawful Experience by obiwrites (through reblogs of her old posts) - drabble | 2.1k | Husband AU, Dad AU, presence of Holly and one resistant Yoongi | F (ugh this is the cutest) 🌷
Earn It @sugasbabiie - one shot | 5k | College AU, Professor AU, PWP, PLOT TWIST! | S, A 🌷
Hidden Stars @jungblue - series [5/5] | 37.3k | Idol AU, Love Triangle, some reference to infidelity | A, F, S (a reblog of old faves) 🌷
In Character @kookingtae - one shot | 5.7k | Pornstar AU, “actor au where yoongi plays a burglar who breaks into your house and has his way with you.” | S 🌷
Listen Closely @avveh - one shot | 12.2k | Office AU, Coworker AU, accidently received a recording of Yoongi 🌶🥵💦 | S (reblog) 🌷
Love Language @gukslut - one shot | 5.3k | Established Relationship, use of the Love Language concept | A, S, F (reblog) 🌷
Overstayed Welcome @kaep-jjjang - one shot | 7k | secret crush on yoongi, yoongi to the rescue when a one night stand won’t leave, friends to lovers | S
Selfish @write-this-way-please - two shot [2/2, sort of discontinued] | 3.8k | Coffee Shop AU, kinda hated each other, then a bit of surprise by end of Part 1 | Part 2 feat Namjoon | S, A
Slip @kinglykook - one shot | 5.2k | Roommate AU, Enemies (kinda), OC slipped | S (a rediscovered fic 🤩) 🌷
Tsundere @dovechim - one shot | 11.2k | College AU, Resident Advisor | S, A (a reblog) 🌷
Hoseok
To The Beat of My Heart @jeonggukingdom - one shot | 7.2k | Dancer AU, use of mirror 🥵💦| S, pwp 🌷
Written on Our Veins @army-author - two shot [2/2] | 33.2k | Soulmate AU (💕heart day reblog) 🌷
This is Not a Love Story @sincerelyourfangirl - one shot | 8.7k | breakup au, infidelity, but happy ending for OC | A 🌷
Jimin
Cordially Jimin @kpopfanfictrash - one shot | 6.1k | Office AU, Epistolary (through correspondence), Humor | F (💕fluffy day reblog) 🌷
Saturday Mornings @craztextae - drabble | 2.2k | Pining AU, Strangers to Lovers(?), Plot Twist! | S 🌷
Girls Like You [Don’t] Run Around with Guys Like Me @ktheist - one shot | 4k | popular!reader x shy!jimin, Rich Kids AU, FWB AU, College AU, ends as CEO (PJM) and Racer (OC) | A, F
Taehyung
A Letter in Roses @artaefact - one shot | 8k | Husband AU, CEO AU, appearance of Yeontan | F, implied S
A Timely Malfunction @/joonsgalaxy - drabble | 2.9k | time travel, friends to lovers, prompt: “What? No, I never said that.” | F
College FWB Drabble + PDA + Miscomm @yukheii - drabble | FWB AU, College AU | F (seriously this is super cute) 🌷
Handsy @jinned - one shot | 3.7k | Roommate AU, Bestfriend AU, Childhood Friends AU, Pining | taehyung helps her during time of need | S, F 🌷
Hold Still @/joonsgalaxy - drabble | 2.1k | CEO AU, use of flashlight 🙈 | S, pwp ( I’ll Never look at flashlights 🔦 the same way again)
Not Even Close @lovetrivia - drabble | a powerful 600 wc | enemies to lovers, college au, hookups | S, pwp, A 🌷
Of Mages and Swords @masterninjacow - one shot | 40k | Fantasy AU, King Arthur AU, Royalty AU, Action, Romance | A, F 🌷 #holygrailfic
Potent But Not Real @whatifyoulivelikethat - one shot | 5k | Assassin AU, Office Worker Taehyung | S, A
Talk Slow @writtenwhalien - one shot | 6.4k | brother’s best friend, Exes AU, never have I ever game | A, S, F
The Temp @jkeuphoriadreamland - one shot | 8.2k | Enemies to Lover, CEO AU, Taehyung has arranged marriage with someone else (headed for divorce) | S, F 🌷
Jungkook
gets a separate post due to too many fic reblogs 😬 (see link below for PART 2)
I love to read so feel free to recommend a fic
posted: 2021 March 24
link to other reading lists | Mar Part 2
#ggukkiereadinglist#bts fanfic#bts x reader#bts angst#bts smut#bts fluff#namjoon x reader#seokjin x reader#yoongi x reader#hoseok x reader#jimin x reader#taehyung x reader#jungkook x reader#namjoon fanfic#seokjin fanfic#yoongi fanfic#hoseok fanfic#jimin fanfic#taehyung fanfic#jungkook fanfic
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Fallout 4 ~
Random headcanons.
Includes NSFW. 18+ Only.
I'm more bang into AoT right now but I also want to incorporate Fallout into this blog, so introducing some Fallout 4 H/Cs
MacCready;
People often Headcanon this wonderful human as being dirty (beyond the norm is post apocalyptic America) and smelly but I cannon that he's pretty good at hygiene. .. Bear with me on this.
Mac not only has allergies to dust which is seen in game, but he also complains pretty loudly when there's a bad smell. So although he's one dusty mf, I don't think he'd be any less clean than your average sniper-in-the-shadows.
His teeth are bad probably off living in little lamplight and not having adults around to tell him to put that sixth snack cake down.
MacCready loves playing target practice with you. It's one of his favourite things to do. You keep a tally on who has the most points.
- NSFW -
Mac's member is on the more skinny side, but it's long and curves upwards slightly at the tip.
He loves receiving oral.
Mac pants a lot when having sex, which begins to escalate into moans that can get pretty loud, especially when he's nearing his end.
His panting is hot as f though. It's like a deep, ragged octave which quivers at times.
He masturbates quite often.
Hancock;
It's blatenly obvious; but Hancock is a hell of a lot of fun to be around.
If it's your thing, Hancock often plays drinking games with you, makes bets and a favourite of his is watching you squirm when you lose at strip poker.
If your first time huffing jet was with him, he cautioned you before hand and like the great man he is, kept a close eye on you as you ran and danced around like a maniac, giggling like some insane yandare.
Still, he almost pissed himself laughing at you.
"Man... Seeing someone's first time is always a blast."
-NSFW-
One of the many ailments that comes with being a ghoul is he's lost a lot of sesntivity down there, which means he can go for hours before reaching his climax.
This dirty dawg is amazing in the sack. He knows exactly what he's doing and has a gift of picking up on what you like pretty quickly.
Loves to mark his territory on you with his teeth.
Dirty talk. Lots of it.
"That's right... Who's my beautiful princess...?"
"Mmm you always taste so fuckin' good."
"Cum for me, baby. I wanna feel you pull me in deep..."
Piper;
Piper has a secret obsession with pre war romance novels.
The more smut the better. She reads them before she goes to sleep with an excited rose tint to her cheeks, kicking her legs slightly.
Piper often gets writers cramp when she's doing the paper, sighing with frustration as she's on a roll.
Piper likes to draw and often draws the characters she reads about in the books she's scavanged.
- NSFW -
Piper has a slight bitter/iron taste to her, almost like a penny but sweeter.
Piper is a huge squirter and often gets pretty messy when having sex.
She adores having her breasts and nipples played with, being able to orgasm just from that if it's good enough.
Danse;
This absolute beefcake if a man usually smells of slight BO tinted with oil. It's a pleasant smell though, not too over powering.
Danse will bring you back alsorts of weird stuff he's scavanged, to ask you to to explain to him what it's function was and what it was for. He's like the Fallout Universes own Arthur Weasley, just a lot less excitable.
"What the hell could this have possibly been used for...? I know, I'll take it back to y/n for a full report."
"Well, Danse, we would use those to shave dead skin off our feet."
"Really?! And did it do a satisfactory job?"
"Yeah...?"
"Outstanding."
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Danse is a big lad. Both downstairs and just in general. It's pretty long but it's most prominent feature is it's girth.
He's not at all clued up about sex so you'll probably have to teach him a thing or two. But by God will he give it his all.
He's a quick learner too, studying you with a furrowed brow at how you react to certain things, keeping them in mind.
He loves it when your legs are over his shoulders or when you push him deeper into you via his perfect ass.
He's pretty quiet when having sex say for heavy breathing, but he is known to let out the odd gruff growl, which is thek hottest thing ever. Ad Victoriam, your coochy. ...Ad Victoriam.
Cait;
It's pretty obvious from the game but Cait loves a bar fight. She's the happiest when she's smashing a stool over some guys back for speaking to you in a tone she didn't like.
Cait has double knees which she's insecure about, regardless how many times you tell her that her legs and knees are great.
Cait sleeps sitting up a lot, still in danger mode resulting usually in a stiff neck.
-NSFW-
This Irish bird loves it rough, but she loves it even more tender, a side of her she rarely shows and it turns her on more than anything that you care ebough to make love to her, not just a quick fuck.
She is amazing at giving oral sex. Second to none. She'll have you teetering to the edge within a few minutes.
Cait has a slightly scarred vajumba, something a slaver did to her onc which she doesn't like to talk about.
#fallout#fallout headcanons#fallout cait#paladin danse#maccready#robert maccready#fallout 4#hancock#piper wright#fallout 4 headcanons#fallout 4 hancock#fallout 4 cait#fallout 4 piper#fallout 4 danse
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The Miys, Ch. 140
And here we have the last chapter of the Food Festival! This is one part I was pretty excited to write - The Closing Costume Party. I wouldn’t have been able to get this one squared away without @baelpenrose and @charlylimph-blog... Both of you caught a few things I didn’t that kept it from making sense from a reader perspective. So thank you both, very much.
I growled softly to myself as I twisted my arms behind my back to pull on my costume. Normally, I was more than flexible enough, but the amount of leverage I needed right now just wasn’t happening unless I was willing to seriously dislocate something. Dropping my hands, I frowned as I jiggled my arms a little to work feeling back into my elbows.
“You really should have fitted this sooner than now,” Conor laughed against the back of my head as he pulled the laces tight on the blood-red corset. Getting one made while laying low and avoiding Hannah had been a nightmare, but it was going to be worth it. I just knew it.
“You just wanted to see me try this entire costume on sooner,” I joked as I felt everything fit snugly - but not too tightly - into place.
Maverick flicked a lock of my hair over my shoulder and positioned it just-so. “It’s not his fault that you couldn’t fit this over your scrubs and have it work for tonight.”
“Who wants to see a corset over scrubs?” I scrunched my nose at the thought while smoothing my sleeves and adjusting my collar. “So far so good?” I asked, slightly louder.
As a credit to their maturity regarding the matter, both men looked me over earnestly before glancing at each other. Conor finally broke the silence. “Aren’t the slits in the skirt a bit… high?” Maverick whispered in his ear, and an expression of utter comprehension glowed on his face. “Oh! That’s… Love, that’s clever.”
I grinned hard enough to cramp my jaw. “Thank you.” Despite how daring the outfit looked, there was exactly zero chance of any wardrobe malfunctions more serious than a hole in my stockings - a near-indestructible nude bodysuit under everything made sure of that.
“Your turn, now,” Maverick insisted, eliciting a groan from Conor, who he had turned toward while brandishing eyeliner.
“Isn’t it bad enough I let the two of you do this?” He gestured at his hair, which was styled within an inch of his life and would sustain an EF4 tornado with minimal loss of glitter.
“Nope,” I popped, still smiling as I sat down to put on my boots. Parvati and Hannah had envisioned tonight to be a sort of return-to-our-roots in a very feral, primitive way, complete with costumes. “We’ve been imagining since before we could cook,” Hannah had pointed out. Between that and the multiple hints that I wasn’t capable of costuming myself, I had gone a bit more over the top than I had originally planned. Hence the corset, the boots, Conor’s hair… although the leather pants the guys were wearing had been decidedly Maverick’s idea and I resisted the need to fall at his feet in gratitude.
Once we were finally costumed, we managed to arrive just-fashionably late to the last hurrah of the Festival. I don’t know who gaped harder - us at the party, or the people who managed to recognize me when they saw me leading the men in. Parvati’s incredible, winding mural was noticeably weathered and patchy, giving the overall atmosphere a post-apocalyptic feel. The only noticeable lighting came from the braziers, and deep, almost subsonic music thumped in my chest, driving my adrenaline just high enough to overwhelm my anxiety.
My nose led us over to the first stall of the night, the smell of charring meat fitting the tone. Per a previous discussion around our costumes, I did not reach for anything but instead Conor took my portion and fed it to me - his idea, this time, though Maverick had readily agreed. It was just enough to set off a few murmurs before I heard a familiar laugh cut through the air.
“Councillor Reid!” Jokul’s voice crowed, turning our heads his direction. Warmly, he clasped my hands when offered, trembling with the laughter he was trying to suppress. “This is an unexpected but pleasant surprise.”
I took a moment to take in his fur trousers and tunic, with rough metal covering vital areas. “The dirt is a nice touch,” I offered, squeezing his hands in greeting. “And Ivan! Well done, sir!”
Ivan rubbed the freshly-buzzed back of his head and grinned. “He actually already had the furs, I just made the armored parts.”
“I meant all of it,” I admonished softly, waving at his work throughout the event.
“Antique, yeah?” Conor asked, gesturing to the furs both of them were wearing.
To his credit, Jokul scoffed. “Absolutely not. Quality synthetic.”
“Don’t let Hannah find out.”
A silver brow arched high enough to impress even Tyche. “Who do you think I commissioned?”
“Clever boy.” I winked at Ivan, eliciting a grin.
In response, Ivan did a runway-twirl, his fur kilt flaring just slightly. “What do you think, Councillor? Can I pull it off?”
With the cheekiest grin my soul could ever manifest, I stared him down. “I think I am the wrong person to ask that.” Even in the dim light, I could see Jokul’s face turn bright red.
“I smell goat,” Maverick interrupted, entirely off topic and completely unabashed.
Ivan’s nose twitched. “Oh, you’re right!” Sniff, sniff. “And it’s on a spit! Let’s find it before it’s gone!”
With that, he snagged Jokul’s wrist and dragged him less like he was an easily two-hundred pound man and more like he was a kite. When I snickered, my former enemy leaned over and murmured “I like the chains, very nice touch.”
I shook the wrist that connected to Conor’s belt and whispered conspiratorially. “Your idea, really. You were so convinced I was leading the entire Ark like this…”
He had the decency to snort. “Seeing it in reality, I was a complete idiot. But it’s quite poetic, and I like it.”
“Poetic?” I asked as I tried to keep pace in the six-inch heels I had elected to wear.
“Are they chaining you down, or are you leading them by their gonads? Or, perhaps, are they saving you from yourself?” He gave a very pointed look at the delicate chains going from the shackles on my wrists to the links attached just above Maverick’s and Conor’s hips.
“Saving me, definitely.” My confession was unashamed and completely sober, the result of the primal music and smells surrounding me.
“Gods agree, someone needs to.”
I didn’t have time to argue before we arrived at the source of the enticing smell - a Jamaican barbecue vendor, who had oxtails, saltfish, and…
“Grilled goat!” Ivan crowed triumphantly. As he started handing out portions from the dancing, grinning vendor, he raised an eyebrow when he noticed that the portion he tried to hand to me was intercepted by Maverick first, and then fed to me rather than feeding myself.
“Not my idea,” I managed around an insanely delicious bite. “Swear.”
“Kink tomato,” he insisted, holding up his hands.
Conor almost choked laughing. “Not our kink either, mate. Just set dressing for the Queen over here.” Taking another bite, he winked at me.
“Ah, Conor’s idea then,” Jokul nodded sagely before erupting in the closest thing to a girlish squeal I could imagine coming from him. “Miss Harper, we’ve been looking for you!”
Shit, I thought to myself. I hadn’t thought of what Charly would say when I discussed this idea with Conor and Maverick, and I was just realizing it was a monumental oversight. Plastering a smile on my face, I turned in the direction Jokul had shouted -
Only to be confronted with what looked like a fox with antlers, a rakish Anansi, the Queen of the Dead, a blind healer, and… a walking shrine? I wasn’t sure what exactly Arthur was dressed as, but I could clearly identify a shabby tweed suit, his sword, a tome that I hoped was faux-moldy, breastplate, shin guards, along with various tchotchkes that looked like they came from high-schoolers and were a bit too beat up to be faked.
“Arthur, what are you?” I asked. Where anyone else would find it rude, I knew my bluntness would be either appreciated or ignored entirely.
“The Ghost of Classes Past.” He swept into a near-Shakespearen bow, gesturing at the bits and bobs that adorned him. “Humans protect, and we mourn those we could not to ensure they live on in memory.” The thump of the music did not change, but his costume gave it a sepulchral tone, like a dying heartbeat.
In an attempt to lighten the mood, the antlered fox bounced familiarly before looking at the Queen of the Dead. “You did a fantastic job on their costumes! They look amazing!” Her antlers were, of course, somehow illuminated from below, but damn me if I could figure out how.
Despite the fact that I knew damned well that Tyche wanted to erupt into laughter at the suggestion, she managed to, quite impressively, tamp it down to a savage smile of silver fangs and blood-red lips. Flapping a hand at myself, Conor, and Maverick, she gave her bell-like fake-laugh, fully in character. “Oh, I had nothing to do with this. Darling Sophia and her merry toys conceived it all on their own. This is the first time I’ve even seen it, darling.” She turned to me, tipping her chin down in respect. “Well done, dearest sister.” Tyche was on peak display, with kohl lining her glowing grey eyes, a black bodysuit covering her from collar to feet, fitted vest and cardigan vest, all partnered with a skirt that could be ten inches thick or ten miles of ribbon - who knew with all the darting and layers? Not me, but I was surely impressed with what looked like ten miles of black feathers flowing from her waist to her hips.
“Why, thank you, Your Majesty.” I swept my leg back in a daring curtsy, forcing Conor and Maverick to smother their laughter at Jokul and Ivan’s faces.
“Ma’am! Ma’am ma’am ma’am!” Charly demanded as she pulled me upright. “You blushed at the concept of kink night, and here I find you leading your men around by their hips!”
I tossed my hair and winked at Jokul. “They aren’t being led, they are saving me from myself.” To Charly’s credit, I did look one deep breath from embarrassment - a black dress with red trim, sliced from floor to ribs and collar to navel, over what appeared to be just fishnet stockings and cavalier boots. The only thing, visibly, retaining any sort of deceny was the corset sealing me in the dress. To go with it, I sported chunky, silver cuffs chained to both Maverick and Conor. Ducking in, I whispered, “I probably will have to be cut out of this bodysuit, no worries on me flashing anyone.”
“Ooooo… well played, madam, well played,” she cheered, twirling me around, forcing both men to pivot with me, laughing, before giving me a very concerned look. “How fucking tall are those?” This was clearly directed at my heels, which she was staring at like a shark presented with a steak.
“Six,” I admitted. “But I did pointe ballet for a little while, so… This isn’t that bad.”
Maverick ducked into the center of the circle we formed. “They’re a full size too big to allow for swelling and she has the toe boxes lined with impact foam.”
“How the hell else am I supposed to wear these things?” I asked with a glare that had him standing ramrod straight and barely restraining a laugh.
Tyche, to her credit, patted my shoulder. “While sitting. Or, if you have to stand, with a platform in the toe.”
“No shit,” I hissed, setting the mummified healer doubling over in laughter. “But I’ve done enough damage to my feet, thank you, so… there may be foot braces involved.” One of which was currently digging in just in front of my heel, which I made a mental note to pass on to the development team.
A thick, French accent set me shaking my head when it came from the very-not-French looking mummy. “Well played, Sophia. The sling and calf brace design I saw recently get approved by medical?”
I groaned as I realized that of course this was Antoine. Life and Death, forever partnered. “Yesssss,” I hissed. “Grey created the design.” I unzipped one boot down far enough to roll it below my knee, exposing braces above and below the kneecap before running further down. “The weight is distributed throughout the leg, before terminating across the front and back of the arch of the foot, to even out the pressure.”
I could almost see numbers whirling beneath the six-foot-plus candy-pink bowler hat. “That… sounds like it might actually be comfortable,” Coffey intoned. I couldn’t help but grin at the tilt of his hat and the feather arching behind him.
“More comfy than actual heels, yes,” I admitted before deflecting attention as far from me as possible. Which, considering how much weight was normally put on the ball of the foot in heels like this, wasn’t a lie…. “But we aren’t here for this! We’re here for food!”
Cheers erupted, and we set off dragging each other to what bits we had discovered. The theme of the night was firmly set around protein, grilled if possible, with wicks of smoke dancing through the flickering light along with the thump of the music. Some were spicy, others unexpectedly sweet. As I laughed, and ate, and sweated, and danced, I could freely admit that there was exactly zero percent chance that I would have imagined this in my wildest dreams. And even better? I could enjoy every second, every smell, every beat of the music. I made a point to wink at each camera I could spot, to the point that, first Tyche, and then everyone else felt the need to comically push down my thumbs-up and cover my face.
Clearly, Parvati and Hannah, who I hadn’t seen all night, were monitoring what they would later discover to be a flying pass on their final exam.
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So I know that the Reimagined shorts aren’t supposed to be canon but LET’S JUST SAY THEY ARE
(Spoiler warning if you haven’t seen the first short)
SO MY GUYS
What the HECK happened to Ninjago?
This is sometime in the future, right? The ninja are gone and Ninjago is in post apocalyptic mode, which doesn’t honestly surprise me, Ninjago will keep being Ninjago after the ninja are gone and stuff will continue to go down as it always does
Here’s my major theory THOUGH IM OPEN TO EVERYTHING BECAUSE I FRICKIN LOVE THE POSSIBILITIES OF THIS SHORT
When the ninja were all close to death - either in battle or old age - Lloyd used the last of his golden power to put their spirits or whatever in Golden Statue mode for whenever they need to be called on again to save Ninjago, a la King Arthur
It was all good for a while. The next generation of Masters continued on and the dragon (who is somehow the ninjas’ friend and close ally) watched over them. In my fantasy I see the mountaintop being a shrine of sorts for people to travel to pay their respects to the ninja
Speaking of AT THIS POINT OUR NINJA ARE THE STUFF OF LEGEND, THEY’RE FULL BLOWN MYTHOLOGICAL HEROES
But then something or someone came to Ninjago and killed off the last of the Elemental Masters or destroyed the elemental power somehow
And Ninjago fell into ruin
And whatever destroyed the elemental powers knows that the last hope of Ninjago are these golden ninjas, so they send warriors to destroy them once and for all
They never get past the dragon
But let’s say the dragon has been watching over them and defending them for hundreds of years at this point, he’s a tired boy (pls give him a hug)
BUT AT THE END OF THE SHORT LLOYD’S FACE CRACKED A LITTLE WHICH MEANS THEY’RE COMING BACK THEY’RE COMING BACK
And now I really just want a story of some teenage kid going on a quest to wake the ninja and befriending the dragon and fighting alongside the ninja to save Ninjago one last time and then the kid becomes the first in another line of Elemental Masters and has to distribute the powers somehow
Now I’m rambling, but I really love this short guys, my head is spinning
#that animation is my new favorite thing#I love it I love it I love it#OR THE KID INFILTRATES THE BAD GUY’S WARRIORS TO GET TRAINED BUT INSTEAD OF GOING TO KILL THE NINJA HE WAKES THEM UP#(I’m just seeing this really cool scene of warrior dude laying his sword at the dragon’s feet)#holycrapholycrap#I gotta finish my serpentine war fic but them I am writing this#ninjago#ninjago reimagined
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