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TF 141: “I Love You”
aka saying “ily” to your military bf before him lol. [sfw] cw(s): none :)
this is pretty low effort, but i wanted to feed u guys lol
If you were trying to give Ghost a heart attack, you’ve absolutely succeeded. Especially if you say it out of nowhere, on a whim, just for funsies. Genuinely does not know how to respond, kinda just looks at you stunned. Kind of like a deer in headlights but much more emotionally charged.
Probably fighting the urge to cry because no one but his mother has said that to him before, and it feels very weird to be told he’s loved. You’d only get to know that maybe 2 years later when he’s simply pushed his capabilities of bottling up emotions and he ends up sobbing to you that: yes, he loves you so fucking much and he’s sorry he’s never been able to tell you like he is now, but it hurt to much then (and it just hurt a little bit less now).
Ends up not responding to your words and sitting in silence, coming to terms with what you just said. There’s probably a million thoughts running in his mind and one of them is the painful thought of leaving behind another person who loves him for their own safety.
Gaz is the type of person to say it after a few months of dating, so when you came guns blazing and said it before him, he was caught a bit off guard by the sudden declaration of love. He’s not complaining, though, but he is a bit quiet after the fact.
I’m gonna be honest, you probably spat it out while he was deployed and he just kind of stood there, quiet and just blinking into space while you were continuing to ramble on about something. As an internal monologue about if responding with “I love you” would be the best thing to do in the scenario. Ends up being silent on his end while fighting his conscience deciding whether or not he should do it, it’s kind of like a brawl in his mind.
He takes a leap of faith and says it back to you right before he hangs up. He can say he did it and he doesn’t have to face you right after doing it either so he can mull it over until you eventually call him again. He tries his best and sometimes it works out in his favor!
Soap is likely the stark contrast of Ghost, absolutely embracing your words head on and relishing in them. Soap start relationships fast and likely rushes through all the beginning steps, including the first “I love you.” He’s grinning ear to fucking ear and simply ecstatic because holy fuck you love him and you’re not saying it to get a reaction out of him. You actually mean it.
Might be caught a bit off guard at first, he’s likely always the first person to say it, so when you say it first, he’s both shocked and overjoyed. Just straight up so happy that you love him and he doesn’t have to trudge through a fickle relationship with someone who doesn’t like him as much as he likes you. After you say it to him, he’ll probably say it to you more often; waking up, going to bed, leaving for deployment, etc. He just likes to tell you in case you forgot! (You didn’t).
After you said it, he said it right back at you, like a parrot. He was just waiting for the perfect time to tell you and you swooped in and stole his moment. He more or less forgets the latter part and continues to pepper you in “I love you”s.
With his experience, Price is someone who doesn’t like to say “I love you” too quickly, but he understands that waiting too long can create a distance between two people. It just so happens that when you said it, he was not expecting it in the slightest.
Torn on whether or not he should say it back to you, because on one hand, he is absolutely head over heels for you. But on the other, “I love you” is a strong confession for him to make. He’s got a bit of relationship hardships on his back and he’s not very willing to put his heart on the line to risk getting hurt again. But when it comes to you, that inner turmoil slowly ebbs away and he finds himself falling a bit more in love with you.
Says it back to you a few days later, when you’ve had enough time to worry that saying it fucked up your relationship (it didn’t, he’s just bad at articulating how he feels). Probably is a bit awkward with it, but there’s a look in his eyes that tells you he absolutely means it.
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Playing Minecraft W/ The SpiderVerse Kids
pairing(s): Miles Morales (e!1610!), Hobie Brown, Pavitr Prabhakar, Gwen Stacy
warning(s): swearing! unedited.
i used this site to figure out/decide what type of player they’d be
i’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft recently and thought of what it’d be like to play with them so.. here you go!
Miles Morales (e!1610!)
He prefers Creative over Survival for sure, reasoning: he’s scared of the mobs and refuses to fight them
Plus in Creative it’s a lot easier for him to build stuff because he is definitely The Big Builder or The Decorator. He makes the most outrageous buildings but they look good
Has a whole world full of buildings and stuff. Like, complete towns filled with mansions
Playing with him is a lot of fun though! He’ll come up with build designs with you and you’d work together. If not, the two of you would totally mess around, building things just to blow them up with TNT or set it on fire
Miles is the one to put your beds next to each other. He thinks it’s cute, though he’ll do it without saying anything and if you mention it he becomes a stuttering mess and says he knows nothing and didn’t do it.
If you do end up playing Survival with him he will make you kill all the mobs, no doubt about it. He’ll make the base, probably trade with villagers, farm and kill the animals for food but not much else. He’s too afraid of dying
“Miles, did you put the beds next to each other? Because I know I didn’t.” You snicker teasingly, your character staring at the beds then at his character. You turn yourself to glance at him and notice his eyes are wide and he’s blushing.
“What..? What, me? Nooo.. That’s stupid why would I do that? Maybe you forgot that you did it because I didn’t.” He stumbled over his words, refusing eye contact. It was cute.
“Mhm, okay. Y’know, maybe I did forget. I think it’s a cute idea, though.” You smirked, kissing his cheek before turning back to the screen and continued playing.
Gwen Stacy
I think she’d play Survival and only Survival, claims Creative is for the weak
She goes all out in Minecraft, fighting mobs, getting achievements, going to the Nether, all of that. She’s not afraid
Definitely The Pro or The Achiever. Like I said, Gwen goes all out
She’d forcefully make you go with her, but she’d give you the right equipment needed and pointers on how to fight. If you genuinely don’t want to fight with her she’d have you farm and trade, pretty much do the smaller necessities for survival.
Has finished Minecraft several times, got all the achievements and everything on different worlds, never gets old for her
If you got her to play Creative she’d go on a rampage, killing everything for fun. Or she’d fly around trying to find different biomes
“C’monnn.. it’s not that bad!” Gwen would groan, trying to convince you to go to the Nether with her. “I’ve given all the armor and tools you need! Just try not to die.”
“Try not to die?? It’s the Nether, I’ll die no matter what! I’m not a pro like you. I’m not the one who’s finished this game multiple times.” You gave her an incredulous look, gaping at her words. It’s one thing to not die on the main world, that was usually easy, but the Nether? Yeah right, she’s insane.
“You’re overreacting.. Plus, if I’m a pro, wouldn’t that make you feel better that you’d be with me? Not by yourself.” She chuckled, arguing her point. You just scoffed and told her to go, following in after her.
Pavitr Prabhakar
I see him playing both Creative and Survival. Just really depends on his mood. Either way he’s having fun
He’d be The Zookeeper, collecting animals like Pokémon cards for real. Within the first 30 minutes of playing he already has a house full of cats and dogs, probably three parrots flying around him and is starting an animal farm. How? No idea, he just does
In Creative mode he’d spawn them all, naming all the animals with name tags one by one, even coloring the dog collars too
In Survival he’s taming every animal he sees, using a lead to bring the animal to a fenced in area. There’s one full of cows, pigs, horses, all the usual ones. But he even has them for pandas, camels, and turtles.
He’s also one to place his bed next to you, though unlike Miles, he’s not embarrassed by it, actually stating out loud he’s doing it. No shame at all.
When he’s not collecting animals, he’s following you around. He has no idea where you’re going or what you’re doing but he doesn’t care. He’s following and collecting every flower he sees, claiming he’s gonna make a bouquet for you.
“Hey, Pav? Where’s the- woah what the hell? How do you already have a whole army of pandas? Where’d you even get those from? We’re no where near a jungle..” You questioned, beyond surprise by the sight of around a dozen pandas in a fenced up area. It was even decorated to what a panda would need, looking like a small jungle.
“Hm? You say that likes it’s hard to find them! What’s so bad about it? I think they’re cute!” He smiled brightly, his character jumping around in the area full of pandas. “I have more than just pandas!”
“How?? We haven’t even played for more than an hour! When did you do all this?” While it was probably better not to question him, you needed to know how he did it, and seeing him more than happy to explain made it all the more better.
Hobie Brown (sorry it’s shorter than the rest)
He genuinely does not care if y’all play Creative or Survival, doesn’t matter to him, he’s gonna be a complete menace either way
He’s not any of the type of players listed in the site I used, he doesn’t believe in consistency. He can go from killing mobs to farming. His main goal is to fuck with you though
He never gets you killed in Survival but he will mess around. He’ll hit your character (without a sword or anything) when you’re fighting a mob and run away. It’s like playing with a child
I can see him setting a village on fire and saying something along the lines of “they’re capitalist pigs and deserve to die” or something
All in all, he’s not much of a fan of Minecraft but he’ll play it with you if you ask.
“Hobie, why is there a village on fire? What did you do?” You raised a brow at him, staring at the slight smirk on his face. It was a telltale sign he did it, but you knew it was him either way. There’s no way a village randomly caught on fire.
“What ya mean, luv? Oh, tha’. Yeah I did tha’. Bunch a capitalist pigs, I tell ya. Jus’ doin’ my job gettin rid of ‘em.” He chuckled while setting another village on fire. You didn’t wanna know how many he’d set on fire at this point.
“It’s a game, B. And I need to trade with them, they have good stuff sometimes.” You whined, huffing at him. You know he doesn’t care and will do it anyways.
“Find another one then, luv.”
All of them!
My god is it a nightmare.. first it starts out as an argument, trying to decide whether or not y’all are playing Survival or Creative. Mainly Gwen and Miles though, Pavitr and Hobie don’t care.
After about ten minutes of arguing they decided to ask you, so whatever one you prefer is what y’all played on. Either way one of them is whining.
If you picked Survival it leads to a pouty Miles, complaining how he’s gonna die a lot, and a smiley Gwen.
Within the first day Miles has already made a small base for you guys, Pav has gathered a few animals (he pouted when it was stated the cows and such would be used for food eventually, Gwen was mining for ores, and Hobie was.. being Hobie.
It was surprising to see how smooth everyone seemed to work together for a while, considering before y’all even started playing an argument broke out. Though if y’all could work well together while on mission, why couldn’t you in a game, yeah?
Give it an hour or so.. bickering over stupid stuff is bound to happen.
If you picked Creative, Gwen is whining how it’s for losers, which causes Miles to flip her off and thank you for picking it.
With Creative there’s a lot less arguing and bickering. Though there is much more chaos. Y’all are blowing up everything or settlor on fire for fun.
It started with you all just doing your own thing until randomly Hobie brings up the idea.
“I ‘ave an idea..” Hobie says out of the blue, causing everyone to pause. You all look at him with a face of confusion or hesitation. Whenever he had an idea, it was wild or something went wrong in some way.
“Great.. you have an idea.. does it have to do with the game or real life? Because I don’t feel like blowing up a building in your universe again..” Gwen scoffed, the others nodding in agreement.
“Yeah.. I agree with Gwen.. last time you had an idea we almost got killed..” You chuckled dryly, still traumatized from that.
“Damn, no faith in me at all, huh?” He rolled his eyes. “Yea, in the game.. Don’t worry, don’t plan on killin’ y’all. Woulda done so already if I wanted to.”
That caused another pause in the room, silence too loud. Thank god for Miles for breaking it. “Okayyy… what’s your plan?”
“Well, Gwendy got blowin’ up a buildin’ correc’. Though, I meant in the game. Why not have some fun an’ blow up some shit, or set it on fire, yea?” It was a smart idea, surprisingly. Everyone agreed, just with some terms, mainly Pav and Miles.
“Sounds fun! As long as my animals are safe and out of it, I’m in!” Pavitr stated, Miles nodding in agreement, but for his builds.
“Woah, a surprisingly good idea.. Let’s do it! Let’s blow some shit up!” You poked fun at Hobie, before smiling widely. It concerned the others at how widely you smiled but brushed it off. They agreed with the idea so they must be just as crazy then. With that, buildings were blown up, forests were burnt down. It was so chaotic to the point that the game started to lag and eventually crashed, causing you all to burst out in laughter. Well, it was fun while it lasted.
I apologize for not posting yesterday, but hopefully this makes up for it! It’s longer than my normal posts. I hope you enjoy!
Send requests! Love you!
#across the spiderverse#miles morales#miles morales x reader#gwen stacy#hobie brown#pavitr prabhakar#gwen stacy x reader#hobie brown x reader#pavitr prabhakar x reader#fanfic#Spotify
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out of curiosity, if Max doesn’t release its metrics, then what metrics are you actually using to make these statements about the show’s popularity? what does “it’s currently in the 99.7th percentile of the comedy genre, meaning it’s in higher demand than 99.7% of all comedy series in the u.s.” even mean? How are you measuring what’s “in demand” - by who? Where? It’s bold to claim that this show was wildly popular (despite the fact that I never hear about it outside of tumblr, tho that’s a personal anecdote) but cancelled just for being queer, so I would be really interested to know where you’re getting all these numbers from. Thanks!
hey anon! first of all i am so sorry for the delayed response. i started typing something up and then i got distracted with something else and totally forgot about this in my drafts.
sure, i have no problem citing sources. i probably should’ve linked some in my original post, that’s absolutely fair.
this ended up way longer than i planned so bear with me, but a quick overview of what i’ll be going over:
1) what are the stats/where did they come from?
2) how is the show so popular?
3) was it really cancelled for being queer?
(also just a disclaimer that this will contain spoilers for the show)
1) first, the numbers
you’re right that hbo doesn’t release metrics to the public. in fact, ceo casey bloys tried to justify the cancellation to the hollywood reporter by saying “the numbers weren’t there,” despite refusing to say what exactly those numbers were or where they came from.
however, there are websites dedicated to researching/analyzing the data of different media. one of those is parrot analytics, who focus on industry insights like audience demand, competitive analysis, and content valuations. they’re trusted as a reliable source by forbes, the new york times, reuters, the wall street journal, and more.
this is what we can learn from them about our flag means death from a basic google search (note that all of this data is relevant to the last 30 days as of january 26 2024):
audience demand for our flag means death is now 33.6x greater than the average tv series in the united states. as explained in the “about demand distribution” section, this means it’s one of only 0.2% of all u.s. shows to fall in the “exceptional” performance range compared to the “average” demand benchmark of 64.1%.
the change in demand for ofmd in the u.s. has increased by 7.5% compared to the average tv series.
ofmd now actually ranks at the 99.8th percentile in the comedy genre in the u.s. i’m not a math person, but in basic terms, this is like a scale of measuring and comparing performances to create an average score. essentially, ofmd is performing at the very top of all comedy series in the u.s.
ofmd has 100% home market travelability. as it says above, the market of origin is always 100%, so in fairness i included the graph of international markets for comparison. some of these aren't super high, however (as explained by parrot analytics themselves) one of the key issues with the international market is accessibility to content, which has been an ongoing struggle for international fans. many people (i guess fittingly) have resorted to pirating ofmd because they don’t have access to max or affiliate streaming services in their country.
there are more stats i could have and wanted to go more in-depth into but it would make this even longer than it already is, so i’ll just leave some links you can check out if you’re interested and move on:
• comparison of ofmd's success to shows like ted lasso, euphoria, and peacemaker
• ofmd's placement as #1 most in-demand breakout series in the u.s. for 8 weeks
• ofmd's impressive 94% critics score and 95% audience score on rotten tomatoes
• how ofmd evolved from sleeper hit to a flagship series at max
• a list of ofmd's past and present award nominations/wins
• praise and recognition from news/entertainment sites: the atlantic (2022); the new york times (2023); tv guide (2023); vulture (2023); forbes (2023); the los angeles times (2022); vanity fair (2023)
2) so why haven’t you (or others) really heard of the show outside of tumblr despite all this success? likely because max did a terrible job marketing it.
ofmd first aired on hbo max (pre-merger before it was “max”) in march 2022. the entire season aired over one month, every thursday at 12am pst. season 2 followed a similar release schedule in october 2023.
season 1’s marketing was almost non-existent, pretty much relying on taika waititi’s name being attached. there was one teaser and one full-length trailer, as well as a few clips on youtube of taika and rhys darby answering pirate-themed trivia, all painting the show as a “silly pirate workplace/buddy comedy.” but hbo max didn’t put any real effort in because they didn’t care. david zaslav and the other higher-ups had no faith in the show and expected it to fail.
most people weren’t aware it was actually a romance due to the poor marketing, and although there were many romantically charged scenes between them, many were still wary to believe it wasn’t queerbaiting until ed & stede confessed their feelings and kissed.
showrunner david jenkins has said in interviews that he had no idea how deeply queerbaiting had hurt audiences and impacted their ability to trust what’s on screen without feeling like they’re being ridiculed, despite the fact that he was calling it a love story the whole time. it wasn’t until people realized they weren’t being queerbaited and that it was a funny, sincere show with a compelling plot that word-of-mouth began to spread. by the time the season 1 finale aired, there was a decent-sized fandom that continued to grow as it received more praise.
it was a fight to even get the show renewed for season 2, and david jenkins and the cast have majorly credited that renewal to the unexpected and massive fan response to the show, which basically forced hbo’s hand.
max didn’t bother trying to properly promote the series until season 2, when they begrudgingly accepted that it was one of their most profitable and successful shows. ofmd had huge billboards in times square, downtown los angeles, and on the side of hbo headquarters. they started accurately marketing the show as not just a workplace comedy at sea, but a heartfelt romcom. max began selling long-demanded merch (which became best sellers) and spent money on an FYC campaign.
i will emphasize, whether they liked it or not, they knew ofmd was their new moneymaker (especially with the recent end of succession, which was obviously a cash cow for hbo).
photo credit: @/bookishtheo
3) now if it was that successful, was it really cancelled just for being queer?
i mean, i can’t say that definitively. no one can. there are several potential factors at play that we may never know, and there have been a lot of rumours and speculation (many of which i don’t feel comfortable discussing in case they aren’t true) since the cancellation.
but do i believe the fact that it’s a queer romcom was one of those factors, especially since max has a history of cancelling and scrapping its most diverse projects? absolutely.
first and foremost, i can’t stress enough that this isn’t just a show with a few characters thrown in for token representation. ofmd is built on a diverse, intersectional cast and narratives, including:
• lgbtq+ representation: 5 main couples are explicitly queer (including mlm, wlw, nblm, and nblw relationships). multiple characters are implied to be poly, and there’s a polycule forming in season 2 that was hinted to be developed more in season 3. beyond relationships, it’s confirmed that (similarly to the way wwdits depicts all vampires as being pansexual) all of the pirates are somewhere on the queer spectrum.
• bipoc representation: the majority of the main cast are people of colour. this includes david fane, joel fry, leslie jones, samson kayo, vico ortiz, anapela polataivao, madeleine sami, samba schutte, ruibo qian, and taika waititi, as well as many guest actors (like rachel house, simone kessell, and maaka pohatu) and extras.
• disability representation: multiple characters have physical disabilities, most notably amputated/prosthetic limbs and visual impairment. a lot (actually most) of the characters also deal with mental health issues, particularly coping with severe trauma and suicidal ideation/behaviour.
• the show has been praised for addressing difficult and serious themes like toxic masculinity, colonialism, and self-discovery, all while still managing to be a witty comedy and not come across as “preachy.”
• the diversity also extends off-screen, with a team of directors, writers, and additional crew comprised of numerous bipoc, women, queer people, and trans/non-binary people.
my point isn’t just the quantity of representation, but the quality. they take great care and respect into every marginalized group depicted on-screen. the actors would often be consulted about their characters’ costumes, hair, tattoos, and the kind of language they use. it’s not a world where discrimination magically doesn’t exist, they just have zero tolerance for it. if a character does something homophobic or racist, you can guarantee they’ll quickly (and often violently) be punished.
so okay, sure, it’s got great representation. what does that have to do max cancelling it?
because they’ve been interfering with production from the start.
i already mentioned the marketing issues so i won’t get into that. it was also revealed in interviews with david jenkins after season 2 that hbo cut their budget by 40%, which is why they had to do everything they could to save money. this included letting go of some of the original cast (and even still having episodes where some of them don’t appear at all) and moving the entire production to AoNZ. the budget cuts also meant two less episodes, so they had to rush to fit an entire season’s worth of plot into eight half-hour long episodes.
but one of the biggest frustrations is hbo’s (alleged) censorship of the show. samba schutte revealed that the entire plot of episode 2x06 was completely different in the original script. before it was rewritten as “calypso’s birthday,” the episode took place during lucius & pete’s wedding and focused on the crew getting sick of the sexual tension between ed & stede and trying to get them to hook up (this aligned with lucius & pete getting engaged and ed & stede deciding to take things slow in the previous episode).
vico ortiz and writer jes tom have also commented that many scenes between jim, oluwande, and archie establishing them as a polycule were cut, including one of the three of them emerging from a bedroom in their underwear. jes has mentioned other elements of season 2 that had to be cut out or rewritten, like the implication of other poly dynamics between the crew and more sexually explicit scenarios and jokes.
considering that ofmd is an extremely sex-positive show that isn’t afraid to be raunchy or taboo, it’s clear that either higher-ups at hbo forced them to cut these things out or they had no choice but to cut them out due to tight budget/time restraints.
in addition to this, a recent article citing an “anonymous insider” has alleged that hbo was uncomfortable with and was unsure how to market the “shock violence” in the show (the same network that aired game of thrones), which david jenkins outright called out as being bullshit. ofmd is rated TV-MA and the posters and trailers all show the audience that it contains violent content. there is literally nothing more graphic in ofmd than any other pirate show — it’s probably a lot tamer than most of them, actually.
violence on the show is most frequently used in a comedic context, in the sense that it’s not meant to be seen as scary or taken seriously. the few instances of serious graphic imagery on the show are meant to invoke a mood shift, like ed’s transformation into the kraken or ned low’s murder. it should also be noted that some of the most graphic deaths are reserved for bigots, like ed snapping the neck of a colonizer who was ridiculing stede’s love letter.
it’s also most often used in a sexual context — not sexual violence, but violence as a sexual metaphor. more specifically the act of stabbing as a metaphor for penetration, as seen with both ed & stede and anne & mary. bearing all this in mind, it seems like the real issue here isn’t executives struggling to market explicit violence to a mainstream audience, but rather explicit gay content.
as much as we joke and affectionately call it the “gay pirate show,” ofmd has always been nothing more than an opportunity for rainbow capitalism for hbo (e.g. the fact that they waited three months to announce season 2 just so they could do it on the first day of pride month). like other cancelled queer media, ofmd was a way for hbo executives to show how “inclusive” and “accepting” they are when it was convenient (aka profitable) for them, but they never actually respected the show or us as a community.
it’s impossible to be certain of what the exact reasoning for cancellation was, especially when they won’t give us a clear answer themselves. and maybe it had nothing to do with ofmd being a queer romcom at all. maybe that’s all a horrible coincidence. but for hbo/max to axe a critically acclaimed and beautifully inclusive show that’s successful by every metric, with an extremely devoted fanbase, especially after casey bloys just had the nerve to ask “gay twitter” to hype up the gilded age? it doesn’t exactly put them in the best light regardless.
in summary, i’ll leave you with this editorial, which details how the campaign to save ofmd isn’t just about one show, but a fight to save the future of all queer art.
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The Chao in the Espio poem screen
Saw someone else do this, but i don’t agree, so as a self proclaimed chao expert ill do it myself
Starting in the top right, we got an orange two-tone neutral power/power chao. Adding a smidge of swim influence gets it closer to that head shape. For animal parts it has phoenix parts for its wings, forehead, tail, and feet.
Below that is a blue two-tone child power chao that’s about to evolve. Its wings are the only thing not accurate to it. On its chest, I believe is the weird green badge whose name i forgot, but it also could be the onyx badge.
To the top left, is a confusing one. It has the body of a monotone purple child thats about to to evolve and has ~15 chaos drives of swim influence, with a peacock forehead, dragon feet, and parrot wings. However, it has the halo above its head, implying that its already evolved. This isn’t possible with those proportions, as once evolved the peacock forehead piece grows much larger. The only evolved chao that resemble that is a freshly evolved hero/fly chao (halo doesn’t match), an old hero fly/fly+run chao (halo somewhat matches), and a hero swim/normal (halo doesn’t match).
I think what happened is they just wanted the halo. So it’s probably just the first one.
The final one is weird. I could’ve sworn that it was a neutral/swim type on my first playthrough of the game, or even a neutral power/swim. However, none of them with any color can get a blue body and a green stomach. I eventually decided that an blue two-tone old neutral run/neutral looks the closest to it (Even though the emotion ball doesn’t match)
For animal parts, it has warthog feet, and seal tail & arms. It also has a normal two-tone eggshell on its head.
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#the murder of sonic the hedgehog#chao#espio the chameleon#tmosth#sonic adventure 2#hope i got these tags right lol
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The much-requested incredibly long explanation from "Scar Discovers Grian's Wings!"
(Okay the post had nine notes but it was my first post so whatevs)
!!!Please read Part 1 if you want context!!!
"Grian. Are you trying to tell me you're...a god?" Grian nodded hesitantly, and Scar's confused face broke out into a wide grin. "We'll win easily at this rate! Why are we building a wall around the desert if you could just magic up a barrier or something? Think of the traps we could create!"
"Scar! Just listen to me for a second!" The man sitting across from the ex-Watcher paused his excited yelling for a moment, cocking his head to one side in a quizzical expression that so mimicked Jellie that Grian couldn't help but laugh.
"I have almost none of my powers. There's a reason why you've never seen my wings before. On Hermitcraft, I hid them with my magic. The Watchers deemed that our powers would be considered cheating in this game. All I had left was enough strength to hide-" Grian clapped his hands over his mouth before he finished his sentence, but the damage was done.
"Enough strength to hide what, Grian?" Scar asked teasingly. Grian's face paled and Scar immediately turned more serious. "Sorry. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"It's fine Scar." Grian placed both his hands over his face. "Enough to hide these." He said dramatically, though the effect was somewhat ruined by his voice being slightly muffled. He drew his hands apart toward the sides, revealing what appeared to be a pair of smaller wings, one on each side of his face, in front of his ears. He wiggled them shyly, preening through them with nails that seemed longer somehow than they had been moments ago. Both the "ear wings" and the main pair upon his back were the bright red, yellow and blue of a parrot.
"Void, you've kept these hidden the whole time?"
"Yeah. I was a lot more powerful on Hermitcraft. I even had some small amount of power, slightly more than what I have now, on Evo."
"Evo?"
"Oh! I forgot I hadn't really told you about Evo. Too many questions, y'know?" Scar nodded, leaning forward with an eager smile on his face, waiting for Grian to tell his story as the sun sunk below the horizon and the peak of the mountain became a beacon, an island of light in the darkness. "Back before Hermitcraft, I was on another server called Evo. A few of the people on there are here now. BigB, Timmy, Martyn. I tried to get Pearl on, but apparently she was busy with things in another server."
"Wait, you got to choose people to come on?"
"Oh, yeah. Me actually playing was a last minute decision that I don't think they will be happy with that. But, anyway. Evo's whole thing was that we would move through different versions, from the really early betas forward. The Watchers helped us with that, though we had never planned for that. They created portals to the next version, and we had to follow clues and riddles. They seemed to like playing with us. I got their attention pretty early on in Evo, by...mildly vandalising one of their temples and taking more gifts than were meant for me."
Grian trailed off, embarrassed, as Scar burst out laughing. "Look at you, G! Even the gods can't stop you!"
"I think Evo was when my TNT obsession started. Anyway, as I continued to give the Watchers the metaphorical finger, I could feel, somehow, that they were becoming more interested in me than the others. I was their favourite...character, I suppose. We were going to fight the Ender Dragon, and the portal room was different. It had clearly been changed by the Watchers. We all entered together, but on the other side, I was alone. I could feel eyes Watching me. So many. Too many. I defeated the dragon, then all of a sudden, they were surrounding me. Eyes and feathers and glowing purple. They took me away from Evo. They made me Watch as the server fell."
"Oh, Grian." Scar shifted closer, hesitantly. Grian smiled and stretched one wing around to surround the other man.
"Well, the Watchers definitely seem like the type to throw a bunch of us into a death game because they were bored."
"You're right, Scar. But don't worry. I'll protect you as best as I can."
Note: Well...that got significantly longer than anticipated. Hope you enjoyed anyway. Also this entire thing was written while listening to Tongues and Teeth by The Crane Wives because I, like many Desert Duo fans, am EXTREMELY NORMAL about Cherri Fire's animatic.
#grian#watcher!grian#implied watcher!pearl#I mean she was there so#the idea of Grian being the Watcher's blorbo is hilarious to me#the Watchers just write angst fics#desert duo#scarian#maybe? there's the bit with the wing#traffic smp#3rd life#all yall liking this because I collectively broke you with the “I'll protect you” thing?#cause theres a LOT of you
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You Play a Sport || LifeSteal Headcannons
type :: fluff
tw/cw :: none
members :: clown, mapicc, parrot
note :: never played basketball or tennis but i have a lot of friends who do so im relying on what they told me TT
Clown
Everyone has played basketball lightly growing up so when you said you play basketball he went “Oh cool”
But when you say you’re on your school’s varsity team and playing club he knows you’re deep in
Clown isn’t a huge sports guy but he knows clubs are expensive as fuck and far 99% of the time
He’s really curious and asks a lot of questions
When he hears you’re spending roughly $1,000 alone on the club he feels his wallet cry
Then you mention how expensive shoes, jerseys, and gas is and his wallet literally crumbles
He could never imagine spending that much on a sport
What’s even crazier was when you admitted you didn’t plan to play on a WBNA/NBA level
You said you just wanted to play during college and most likely go to open gyms every once in a while
Bro was so shocked and was about to doubt your spending habits
But when you mention how it’s not too different from buying skins, emotes, and games,,,, he gets really quiet
He’d love to try playing with you once or twice
He’ll probably make a gamble of some kind
“If I get 10 points you owe me $20”
And then you whoop his ass
“Double or nothing”
Now you doubt his spending habits…
He’s not really big into shoes and stuff but he likes looking at them with you
When you start sliding the shoes across the floor he’s so confused????
Why are you ruining shoes in the store???? Aren’t you embarrassed???
But then you explain it’s to test the grip of the shoes he goes “ohhhh”
He’s so clueless about shoes it’s so funny
“What about these?” And he holds up a pair of Jordans 1…
If you let him try on a pair of basketball shoes he instantly gets the hype
He might even buy himself a pair
But he’ll never use them for actual basketball, just going out
When he wears his new basketball shoes outside you can see allll of the sports player cringe
Literally 3 people come up to him and go “bro you forgot to take your court shoes off”
Mapicc
When you said you play volleyball he always thought you were just joking
No way a loser who plays Minecraft all days and streams could be on the volleyball team
Especially since practices and games can last until 9pm sometimes
But when you send him clips of you playing, he’s shocked
He always thought volleyball kids were super cool, popular, outgoing, drinkers, smokers, etc
And Mapicc thinks you’re the exact opposite LOL
He actually admires the grind a lot
He likes going to gym and plays basketball every now and then
The football coaches at his school always asked him to join but he didn’t really like the sport that much
He def asks questions about your games and rules and stuff
Probs says cocky stuff like “I could do that”
If you ever meet in person and try to make him dive, spike, or even server he’ll definitely suck
Once he actually tries it, it appreciates the sport a lot more
If he goes to any of your games he’s definitely SCREAMINGGG
Shouting, whistling, clapping, stomping, everything
Probably provokes the opposing team
Definitely argues back with the ref even though he’s not a player and not from your school
He doesn’t understand the uniform difference between the girls and boys though
“If you dive in booty shorts wouldn’t it hurt your thighs???”
When you say it does hurt your thighs sometimes he’s even more confused
“Then don’t wear it????”
But he doesn’t understand that it’s just the culture of volleyball at this point
He lovesss looking at players volleyball shoes
He’s tempted to join volleyball just so he can get a new pair of shoes
But when he finds out most volleyball players don’t actually buy volleyball shoes but instead buy basketball shoes he’s a little confused
“Why not buy volleyball shoes???”
And then you have to explain how a majority of volleyball shoes kinda suck ass and how basketball shoes always have extreme grip
And he’s like “???Why don’t they make volleyball shoes with more grip???”
He helps you realize how dumb volleyball culture is sometimes…
Parrot
When he finds out you also play tennis he gets so competitive
He LOVES tennis with his whole heart man
Asks what your schools name is and what division you’re in and your rank and your average win rate and and and
You two bond over tennis constantly
He can finally send someone the tennis memes he gets on his feed
If you’re worse than him, he’s always giving you tips and and even offers to train you if ever meet irl
But if you’re better than him, oh boy, he’s gonna train so hard
He definitely sends you clips of him playing and asks you to rate it
He’ll ask for clips of you playing as well and he might or might not make fun of your form
Whenever he wins a match he’ll take a picture and send it to you ASAP
If he loses,,,, he pretends he never even went to the game
One time he broke his racket and he let you pick the color
You picked an ugly ahh puke color but he laughed it off and actually bought it
If you do meet irl, you guys are INSTANTLY playing tennis
No hugs no greeting, he comes to the airport with a tennis ball and racket in hand
If he wins, he will make fun of you every day and will constantly brag to you
But if he loses, he deflects and constantly blames random stuff
“The sun was in my eye” It was sunset and cloudy
“I’ve never been in this country so my racket’s not used to it” What?????
Definitely makes you redo your serve at least like 5 times just to make you angry
#lifesteal smp#clownpierce#clownpierce x reader#clown x reader#mapicc#mapicc x reader#parrotx2#parrotx2 x reader#parrot#parrot x reader#lifesteal#lifesteal fanfic#lifesteal smp fanfic#lifesteal x reader#lifesteal smp x reader#mcyt#mcytblr#mcyt platonic#myct x reader#mcyt x y/n#mcyt headcanons
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don’t know if you’re still open for that character plus one word, but, either claude + candy OR tirtain [i forgot how to spell their name sobbing] + a dog
ahh, how 'bout i deliver both, pal?? :3
here ya go!
Word Count: 170 - for first prompt + 177 - for second prompt
T.W/C.W: mentions of alcohol + none for second
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There had been a sense of joy whenever she caught a grasp of those. Munching on sweet flavors, and letting them melt in her tongue.
Despite not celebrating Halloween much as a kid, Claude did eat candy. Whether it's licorice or a pack of life-savers, she had an immense amount of favorites. And she enjoyed cotton candy more than most, savoring it's strange yet soft texture.
It also helped that she had a friend (namely Cisco Ramon) who had top-notch tastes in candy. She bought anything that was worth trying out. She often sent some to him in case he didn't have energy to buy for himself.
However, she tried not to indulge in them too often. Only in particular random occasions.
Somehow, it all changed upon her discovery of cotton candy vodka, which could very well be. . . too intoxicating for her system. And she only drank it whenever she experienced acute misery.
To say she didn't drink that to numb some emotions out of her would be utterly false.
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For all their fondness for different animals, Titanrin preferred the company of parrots and horses. They happened to have particular preference for what type of creature they would have as a companion.
However, they did admit they had seen creatures with entertaining dispositions.
In one of their sojourns, they encountered a strange dog. Rather cowardly and prone to fleeing whenever strangers approach. They had watched from afar, curious of what it would do.
To them, they had known dogs with severe aggression or placid friendliness. And that dog was neither, seemingly unsure of how to behave. What they could guess was that it hadn't been around people much.
So, they wouldn't blame them for acting the way it did. And they managed to give it some light scratches behind it's ears, gaining it's brief trust with some treats. It slipped away, immediately skittering off elsewhere.
Dogs, while confusing and odd, could vary from any breeds. And one ought to be wise to not be confused and assume they all had the same traits. Or it would be a faux pas.
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Something Small Part 4
except it’s probably not small bc its 1am my anxiety is wack and I’m losing the plot bc of it, anyway
So in MC universe, there’s this thing where every almost single player will always have a type of death that hurts them the most. It can be from very common deaths like anything fall damage related to somewhat specific like burning to death whilst fighting another player/mob. It does get a little bit funky when things like cave spiders, witches, withers and ect get brought into the mix though. Anyway! There is a tendency for a lot of people to claim that they don’t have “one”, and for it to immediately break out into argument. It tends to be dismissed on the claims of “it probably isn’t here yet/or happened yet” or just out right lying. It’ll also piss off the people who believe that the Painful Deaths are meant to be reminders to Players that just because they respawn, doesn’t mean they’ll respawn forever and that one day they will have a Final Death and finally meet Lady Death. It’s also believed, somewhat on the flip side(? Kinda like a branch off ig?), that the deaths are meant to be Her way of ‘telling’ Players to rest.
Painful Deaths are strenuous as HELL on Player code/data. Unlike a regular deaths, you essentially have a coin flips chance of respawning with some sort of injury from it. And if there’s still no physical injury? Still have to deal with the leftover echos of pain from it, not to mention forms of fatigue and exhaustion. It’s not uncommon for someone to experience their Painful Death and then to crash for upwards of a week after the fact. Not including if they die from it repeatedly. Oh and forgot to mention, potions will not work in repairing these injuries; You actually have to rest and actually bandage them an shit. That’s also kinda fed into the ideas of “when you experience your Final Death, it will be in the form of your Painful Deaths” and “If you experience your Painful Deaths too much, you’ll experience a Final Death”.
Now, otherwise, the way a Players code chooses its Painful Deaths is kinda unknown. For some, it will be stemmed from trauma, it’ll be based of fears, some hybrid based thing (like water and endermen), and for others it’s nonsense. A player can (unfortunately) have multiple. Also experiencing Painful Deaths too much, while having a chance of leading to Final Death, can also lead to permanent injury if you’re not careful. Whether from stressing the code out too much, or from being an idiot and not resting afterwards. Also, think of the chances of not having a Painful Death similar to that of never having a headache in your lifetime.
Okay, so back to LifeSteal because I kinda just went fucking crazy w/ the world building and lost the plot(again).
Because of how strenuous Painful Deaths are on the body and the fact that they can lead to permanent injuries and potentially disabling a person, there are rules around it, which are taken seriously. Intentionally causing Painful Deaths to another Player on the server is a BIG Fuckin No-No and will lead to consequences like a serious talking to and bans. While it will mostly be accepted as okay if something happens in the heat of battle and or on accident, it’s still an accepted policy that the two players talk it out and that the heart (generally) gets returned to the injured Player. Parrot will not mess around with things like Painful Deaths, as he tends to lean into the more ‘religious’ mindset that even one Painful Death has a chance of being someone’s Final Death. Painful Deaths will actually be talked about at the beginning of each season, to remind and let Players new and old, what someone’s Painful Death is and to also let others know if they found out mid (or outside of) season what it is.
And a small list of painful deaths, because I haven’t figured everything out quite yet:
Zam’s is things related with Withers (-minus the skeletons). While withering normally feels like hell, if Zam gets hit with it from a wither, he swears it’s 20 times worse. Whether he dies from withering away or from an actual wither blast, he’ll normally have to deal with a combination of either cold pain, numbness, or straight up no sensation in his limbs or chest, on top of any potential broken bones from the blasts. He learned this at the end of Season 2, and while managing to hold it together during the fights, ended up passing out afterwards. Even if it didn’t actually kill him, he was still out for quite a bit and in agony for awhile afterwards.
Branzy’s is just regular tnt, however he doesn’t remember it. They don’t even remember mentioning it to the other members at the beginning of Season 3. They were in for a hell of a surprise when they died to Ro’s tnt, much less when Ro apologized for it and gave the heart back later on. Branzy, while definitely having some issues with pain, had more issues with dissociation and such after the fact. Accidentally or not, cheating death still has consequences
Clown’s is dripstone. It was not happy to learn about this. And is one of the reasons why it wants to get back at Zam and Vitalasy so bad. Petty or not, it did use its time spent resting plotting how to get back at them. Per its own words: “they didn’t know, which is fair, I didn’t either; however it still hurt like hell and hey! It’s content”. It has said that the pain feels red hot and that it feels like there’s still bits of stone imbedded within its leg despite (luckily) no physical injury. It definitely still had some leg issues after the fact though.
Not so sure about Parrot, I am thinking something kinetic energy related cuz bird.
McClutch is an odd bag. I can’t decide between the death being so hyper specific that it’s almost impossible to get or him actually not having a painful death.
And for the others, I haven’t ‘found’ one yet that actually works or fits. It’ll come eventually though (… or not. I procrastinate like a mfer).
I also apologize if there’s any large gaps between the paragraphs?? I don’t know if that’s just some sorta visual bug on my end or if it’s actually still going to appear when I send this in. Also if there’s any typos. Either way. If you could please give me an anon name or something, I’d greatly appreciate,,, but uh I started writing this at 1:10 AM, it’s now 3:40AM. Imma head out-
That’s it, that’s the ask!
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greetings todaysbird! i went to a bird sanctuary in Florida in march and took some pictures of the various parrots there. i had meant to drop this in your inbox a while ago but forgot!
this isn’t ALL the photos i took — just some of my favorites!:D i don’t quite remember the sanctuary’s name (i’ll come back if i do) but every bird is very well looked after and healthy!💜 a lot of them are rescues or were brought there by people who couldn’t take care of them, if i remember correctly.
sorry for the lengthy ask but one more thing! what is your favorite type of parrot?🐥💜 mine’s the scarlet macaw!
Wow, they all look beautiful, and that’s a wonderful aviary in the last pic!
Im biased towards the pacific parrotlet since I had them growing up :) my favorite endangered species is the Spix’s Macaw, and my favorites that stuck out from my time in rescue are probably the good old budgerigar, cockatiel, blue & gold macaw, african grey…I guess I kinda just liked working with all of them
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vi. sound of a love song | Joby Taylor x fem!Reader
Joby Taylor x fem!Reader
Word Count | 2,776
Summary | Joby is starting fresh and writing music again. But, with his creative wells dried up, he turns to you for help. What? It's just business!
Author's Note | god, I forgot how much I adore a slow burn fic. that is all I have to say for myself.
Warnings | it's getting angsty up in here, slight pining, nothing else I can think of!
"Tell me what you think about it. Honestly." Joby asked, chewing on the inside of his cheek. He studied you as your eyes scanned what he'd written on the notebook page. Your hair was all wild and tousled. Old eyeliner smudged around your eyes and had begun to transfer into the crease of your eyelid. The spiral bound book laid on the hotel room bed between the two of you and you flipped the pages back and forth, comparing the lines.
Not even 30 minutes had passed since you'd gotten to his hotel room and his stomach felt uneasy. Your careful reading of his material disarmed him. He stopped himself from explaining every line to you. More than that though, he’d rather go back to playing chords on his guitar, showing you the little melodies he put together.
He longed for the unearned, contrived cockiness that led him to call you in the first place. Over the course of the week he had to stop himself far too many times from just doing it. One morning he thought of inviting you to get lunch with him. As he picked out some new clothes at a store, he wanted to call and ask for your opinion. He'd even stumbled back across the street to Magnolia, hoping that you would be performing again. But all of those encounters wouldn't have felt right. They were the kind of visits that suggested a friendship.
He wouldn't have expected you to be rude about his music, but he wanted to crawl out of his skin watching your expression twist and turn.
“It’s…” You trailed off. You didn't know how to tell him what you were really thinking. Because if you were being honest, none of it sounded like anything you'd once listened to from him. It was so fucking boring.
Snake Trouble hadn't always been terribly original. But there were seeds of greatness sprinkled throughout their discography. Little bits that could've been developed into masterpieces, you thought. This was...this was just pure fertilizer. But that still had potential.
“It’s shit, isn’t it?” He concluded the thought for you. He didn't have to wait for you to soften your words for him.
“It’s shit.” You agreed. You and him were best when you were telling him the full truth he was starting to realize. When he'd visited with the producer, he'd parroted the same thing William had, albeit in a more civilized way. But the most important thing he'd talked about was the importance of collaboration and interaction with other creative types. Especially after a dry spell in creativity. That was his excuse for calling. Once again, this was just business. And you were gracious enough to give your input on his work.
He sighed, “Just tell me what's wrong with it. I can take it." Might as well just rip the bandaid off now, right?
You glanced up at him for a little longer than you meant to. His brows were lowered quizzically, patiently waiting for you to give him something concrete to work on. You wouldn't be much help to him if you spent the whole time mincing your thoughts into something more digestible. The only way he'd get better is if you just spoke your mind.
You sprawled out on the bed, kicking your legs up in the air, “It’s just…I’ve heard it all before. These lines feel so general that it gives me nothing to get attached to. If you hadn’t literally handed me the paper, I’d never be able to place you as the writer. Your voice isn’t there.” Off to the side were some pages Joby had torn out, deeming them the best of the bunch. But if you were being upfront, those lines were just the same amount of bland as the others.
Joby squinted hard. “Then where the fuck is it?”
“That’s for you to know and the world to find out.” You peered up at him with a toothy grin. The oblivious look emerging on his face implored you to give more of an explanation.
You turned around on your back, holding his papers up above your face. The dim ceiling light shining through the stack made all the words blend together, all into one pile of melancholic nothingness.
“Even in your older work, you have this fairly strong perspective. You take people on this journey of some part of yourself. I think you're hitting a wall because you keep trying to write about a part of yourself that you don’t feel connected to anymore. Your voice isn't there because...that version of it just doesn't exist anymore.”
In a strange way, it started to make sense. That didn't make him feel any less stuck though.
“Have you ever tried writing about your daughter?”
“No.” He spoke with finality. Not even daring you to keep asking questions in his usually smug way.
But still you remained on the spot. “Why not?”
“Because I just haven’t,” Giving Ellen up had nearly killed him. So he avoided putting any pressure on this exposed nerve.
Normally you would've held back. You didn't want to provoke some sort of dramatic response from him again. But you had strings leading you somewhere important. And if you didn't try to untangle them now, they would only turn into nastier knots. “Joby…if you keep running away from this part of your life, people are gonna notice. But before that, you’ll notice. And it’s going to hurt.”
“I wouldn’t even know what to begin to say.”
“Then tell me about her.” You set the papers down. Right now you felt less like a collaborator and more like...his friend. At least for the next few minutes. You sat up, situating yourself against the headboard so you could look straight at him.
“Just talk?” He tipped his head like he was waiting for the catch.
“Yeah. Like what’s her favorite color?” You blurted out the first thing you could think of.
His tone was solemn, “I dunno,” The answer made your chest ache.
“Favorite animal?” Joby shook his head, too reluctant to even try to verbalize his answer.
“Favorite cartoon?” This time it was utter silence.
“Then that’s what it’s about.” You mumbled.
“That’s what what’s about?”
“The first song. This is what it’s about.”
“I can’t exactly write a song about nothing.”
You gestured with your hands the way you always did when you were talking so passionately, “Not a song about nothing. A song about the presence of this absence. Because I have to imagine it does something to you to not know these things.”
Oh did it ever do something to him. He’d never pictured himself being a father. So of course he left at one of the first chances he got. He left under the guise of having places to go and dreams to follow. Claire was angry about it, but he was well aware that she’d be better off without him. Her parents took care of everything she wanted. It was just easier to pretend Ellen didn’t exist when he’d never met her. She was this amorphous concept that he should’ve cared about. But as soon as he saw her it changed everything.
He had helped bring a brand new person into the world and he’d been so focused on himself that he didn’t know half of the basics about her. He didn’t even know if he was supposed to ask those questions about her. Weren’t parents supposed to learn about their kids over time? If that was true then he’d never stood a chance to know her in the first place.
The only thing he put any degree of work into anymore was the music. And look how far that had gotten him. It’s just that people were…complicated. People were temperamental, greedy, and selfish. People always had some ulterior motive. What was yours?
“Why do you even care?” He asked suddenly.
Your answer was incredulous with a slight grin. “Why wouldn’t I?”
He didn’t know how to reply without sounding like an accusing asshole. Because, really, you hadn’t given him any reason to believe that you were using him in any way despite you having an advantage over him. Was it just his paranoia then? Because he was making himself sick wondering when you were going to realize how awful of a person he really was.
She'll realize soon enough. Everyone does. She'll sink the knife into your back deeper than anyone else if you keep letting this happen.
Joby's silence was disarming. He almost always had some sort of deflection or snide comment. It dawned on you that he probably didn't like thinking about these things. He probably hadn't let himself think about it for more than a few seconds at a time before suffocating the train of thought with music or alcohol or drugs.
You wanted him to do well, you wanted him to be sincere for once. You thought carefully before choosing your words, “Listen, having kids around…it’s hard. I know. You wonder the entire time if you’re going to ruin them. You’re terrified that if you get any closer to them, they’re gonna see right through you. But you do it anyway. You take every little piece that they can give because they don’t know who they are yet, they don’t know how it all fits together. And you cherish all of it because they’re always going to be changing. But it’s up to us to keep those good parts. So think of any good parts that you can.”
Joby sighed, the long draw of breath clearing away a pinch of his anxiety. His voice wobbled, uncertain as he recalled, “She likes dolls. I got her one with brown hair and blue eyes…what was it called…” He racked his brain, trying to remember the two hour time slot that had utterly devastated him.
“Abigail! The doll was called Abigail. I got it because it looked like her. But she already had it. It was so stupid because she looked almost afraid to tell me.” He scoffed, picturing her blank stare when she’d opened the present.
“I took her to get a new one. And she just stared at everything on the shelf. She was…analyzing…everything. And it scared the shit out of me. L-l-l-like I couldn’t pretend that she couldn’t see exactly how things were. It was like she just knew.”
His breath had started to quicken, the guilt was a little too much. You had to make him pull back from the edge of the knife just a little. Just to find something workable. “You said the doll looked like her. What does Ellen look like?”
“She’s got these big blue eyes. Like these fucking…baby blue swimming pools, ya know? They suck you in so deep, it’s fucking crazy. She’s got this brown hair. Almost as dark as mine. It’s the only thing about her that’s like me, I think. And she’s so little. She was all bundled up and she looked so small with her face just poking out from her jackets and her hat. Her nose was all red, it was so cold.”
“She sounds adorable.” You smiled slightly. The gleam that took over his brown eyes told you that he wasn’t always the selfish asshole he could sometimes be.
Joby hadn't let himself really remember her since he last spoke to her in her bedroom. The few memories bubbled up in his throat and made him wish he had more. More than just the scraps he was grasping at.
He waved his arms. “She is! She’s so quiet but so sweet. And I can only guess how fucking smart she is. But it's this composed intelligence. Like she was just picking everything apart in her head. Maybe all kids do that, I don't know. But it was uncanny the way she just seemed to get all of it.”
The unencumbered stillness that passed was your sign that he was ready to take in the sharper side of the blade. “Why did you give up custody?” You asked gently.
The question didn't hit as hard as he would've expected. He shook his head, rocking a little where he sat, “She was better off without me. Besides, I couldn’t be her dad even if I wanted to. Claire’s got this new guy she’s planning on marrying. She wanted Ellen to call him dad. It would be better for her that way.”
You crept a bit closer, “Do you ever wish you’d stayed?”
Joby smiled, the expression bittersweet, “When she was born…I had my head shoved so far up my ass that I think I would’ve hated her. I would’ve hated Claire. I would’ve blamed them for holding me back. I don’t know. All I knew was that I wasn’t good enough to stick around”
“How does all of it feel?”
“It feels like shit.” Joby’s brows pinched together as he pursed his lips.
“You’ve gotta be more specific,” You pulled a leather bound notebook from your bag and unwrapped the string keeping it closed, “Here, let me show you this.”
You flipped through the pages, each one filled with your handwriting. Joby had worked with many different people before. He’d read lyrics and created melodies and played with dozens of other artists in his road to trying to make it big. But this didn’t feel like work anymore. If what you said meant anything, this felt more akin to you letting him read your diary.
You finally stopped at a page and quickly slid a finger down it. He read the lines you’d highlighted.
A steak dinner for two but I might as well be alone.
Your drink stays untouched.
Are you getting bored yet?
What am I missing here?
Tell me what I can do to fix it.
Underneath it was the outline of a face, features scribbled over. The pen lines were so deep he bet they indented the next sheet of paper. Then a more detailed drawing of a hand, fingers spread out but holding nothing.
He’d hardly gotten a chance to decipher the drawings when you explained, “They’re not lyrics, yet. But when I write, I want to set a scene. And this is just me working out how that scene looks. Whether it becomes a song or not, who knows? And I know it might not work for you. But I want you to try it. Set a scene. See if it helps.”
Joby stopped for a moment, clearing his head, his tense grip on his pen loosening. He thought about taking Ellen to that mall. He envisioned her sitting across from him again, her cup of ice cream melting as she hesitated to eat it. Her all seeing eye fixed on him, pulling apart every excuse in her little head. She’d asked why he hadn’t come to see her earlier. He felt the devastation of his guilt all over again. He knew exactly what was missing. But he had no clue how to fix it. That was the hardest part.
Quietly, Joby cried. The tears fell freely like they’d been threatening to for years. One fell on a page of your notebook before he could sweep it away in time. It soaked into the page, making some of the ink from the hand drawing bleed.
"I missed...so...much. I never got to hold her. I never got to be her dad. And now I’ll never be able to." The words were scrambled in his head like little unintelligible doodles. He reached for his own notebook, scrawling out everything he could think of until he could see it all laid out, clearer than things had been in a while.
His feverish writing had you suppressing your smile. Carefully, you slide off the edge of the bed, grabbing your bag and pulling it over your head.
Joby looked up again as your hand wrapped around the doorknob, just barely turning it, and asked “Where are you going?” Joby wasn’t quite ready for you to go yet. Not when you’d worked another miracle on him.
“I always like to pair some coffee and snacks with a good writing session. So I thought I’d go down the street and grab some stuff from the corner store.” You smiled at him, bunching up the sleeves of your jacket in your hands. What he wouldn’t have done to kiss you right in that moment as you stood all proud of yourself.
He kept the impulse from escaping as he spoke, “Oh, okay. Get me some barbecue chips, will ya?”
You giggled, biting your lip at the request. “Will do.”
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- July 20th 2023 -
Do you think you could handle a job in the medical field? Why or why not?
I think I would do well in a medical research type of job. But I'd never want any sort of patient-facing role, I'm not a very people-oriented kind of person.
Would you rather edit photos on your phone or computer?
I have Lightroom on both my phone and my laptop and I like them both the same.
What is one electronic device you own that you have not used in a long time?
My Kindle. I actually kind of forgot I even had it until I was thinking of an answer to this question.
What is one thing you are currently behind on?
Housework. My Granddad passed away a few days ago and I've been too heartbroken to really do anything other than mope around. I'm just taking things day by day right now.
When was the last time you wore a dress or a skirt?
I wore a skirt last Friday to the birthday party that my brother and sister-in-law threw for my husband.
When was the last time you had a migraine?
Thankfully it's been a while. Maybe like a month?
What is your favorite thing about Instagram?
I just like the format of the platform. It's great for all sorts of different type of photo-based content. I use it for mostly nature photography and some photos of just day-to-day life, but I also like all the recipe pages, home decor pages, and I follow a ton of parrot-related pages too.
When was the last time you wore a flower in your hair?
Maybe as a kid, if ever?
List three words to describe yourself using the first letter of your middle name.
Mellow, mathematically-inclined, methodical.
Have you ever had a friend with the same middle name as you?
Not my current middle name, because that's my maiden surname which is kind of rare and not even a given name in the first place. But my middle name used to be Elizabeth, and I do think I had a few friends growing up who had the same middle name.
What color was your locker in high school?
Blue? I think?
How many framed pictures of you and a family member or friend can you see from where you're sitting right now?
Two.
What is the first thing you think of when you see the rainbow emoji? 🌈
Rainbows..?
When was the last time you got a new pair of glasses?
A little over a year ago.
Do you prefer to play chess or checkers?
Either.
What color was your first cell phone?
Light silver.
Do you remember when smartphones were a new thing that had just come out, and only rich people had them?
I definitely remember when smartphones were new, but they weren't really a "rich people only" sort of thing. The very first iPhone was $599, you don't need to be wealthy to afford that.
If you could choose to have been born in a different month, which month would you choose to be born in, and why?
I'm fine with my January birthday, I just wish it wasn't in the very first week of January. It gets overshadowed by Christmas and New Years.
….and which month were you actually born in?
January.
Does your first name rhyme with anything? (If so, what?)
Belly. lol
Have you ever met anyone who didn't like the color blue?
I'm not sure.
What color was the last pill you took?
White.
How often do you use emojis?
Every now and then.
When was the last time you took a selfie?
According to my cameral roll… a little over a week ago. I've been taking periodic selfies to track how well my new skincare products are working at fading hyperpigmentation.
How many E's are in your full name?
3.
What is the first letter of the name of the street you grew up on?
A. Well, that's the street I lived on the longest. I lived there from ages 6-18.
Which decade were you born in?
90s, barely. My due date was on one of the last days of 1989 but apparently I didn't want to come out. 😂
Who was the last friend of yours to have a birthday?
My husband (and best friend) just had his birthday a week ago.
Are you looking forward to your next birthday? Why or why not? 🥳
I guess. I don't feel any certain way about it.
When was the last time you blew up a balloon?
I don't remember. It's been years.
If you had to go an entire week without using any technology, what do you think you would spend most of your time doing instead?
Reading books. Cooking. Hiking. Going out to restaurants. Playing with my birds. Spending time with relatives. All of which I already do.
What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word "mast"?
Ships.
Where is the weirdest place you've ever slept?
In the cockpit of a small 2-seat airplane, while flying over Indiana/Ohio LOL. My husband (boyfriend at the time) and I were copilots on our university's competitive flying team and we were ferrying one of the planes back from a national-level competition. I needed a short nap so he took the controls for a little while.
Would you rather travel to Asia or France?
Well, Asia is the world's largest continent! So it would totally depend on what part of Asia. I've always wanted to go to Bhutan, I'd rather go there than to France. But I'd rather go to France than, say, Myanmar… or Afghanistan… or Bangladesh.
What is something new that you've learned recently, that you didn't know before?
I'm sure there are plenty of little info tidbits I've learned recently, but I can't think of anything specific right now.
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I posted 1,383 times in 2022
That's 1,383 more posts than 2021!
116 posts created (8%)
1,267 posts reblogged (92%)
Blogs I reblogged the most:
@pacificwaternymph
@taketwoinink
@gardenergulfie
@thatfaecreaturee
@the-tyler-as-in-skyler
I tagged 1,339 of my posts in 2022
Only 3% of my posts had no tags
#empires smp - 270 posts
#empires smp s2 - 189 posts
#fanart - 83 posts
#mutuals - 74 posts
#mafia mutuals - 67 posts
#pearlescentmoon - 56 posts
#hermitcraft - 54 posts
#esmp fanart - 44 posts
#asks - 44 posts
#stranger things - 43 posts
Longest Tag: 140 characters
#based on dana's art from the toh exhibition i knowwwww darius helped him choose this outfit. this is uncharacteristic amount of drip for him
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Empires Shulk Adventures: Part 2.5
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#4
Empires SMP incorrect quotes: Love Triangle edition (Shelby, Joey, Katherine)
Joey: Regular soda is too sweet!
Katherine : Diet soda has a weird after taste!
Joey: No! Ugh, oh my god. Diet soda is THE BEST! It doesn't have sugar! It's SPICY!
Katherine : It has other weird stuff in it! I'll take REGULAR sugar in my REGULAR soda!
Joey: It's SO SWEET like it's a dessert though! Diet feels more like a drink!
Katherine : I'm going to physically attack you.
Joey: Which is better, Shelby?
Shelby: Oh, I usually drink water!
Katherine : Wha- NO!
Joey: DISGUSTING!
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Joey: I apologize for saying 'fuck' in front of Shelby.
Katherine : You just said it again.
Shelby
Joey: I am not a role model.
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Shelby, to Katherine : If Joey doesn't say "I'm King of the world" within an hour on that boat, I will give you my next pay check.
Joey, within 5 minutes of getting on the boat: I'M KING OF THE WORLD!!!
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Katherine : I think I did fairly well on my anatomy quiz! :)
Joey: I forgot I was doing a test.
Katherine : Joey.
Joey: I said the vertebrae was the back stick because I thought it was funny....
Shelby: Joey.
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Shelby: The odds of this happening by coincidence are vanishingly small.
Katherine : I would say infinitesimally.
Joey: And I'd say teenily-weenily. We all know words.
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#3
This is literally them.
223 notes - Posted August 9, 2022
#2
Screw Eddie falling first. I am a firm believer in down bad Steve and oblivious Eddie who isn’t used to getting affection
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My #1 post of 2022
Empires smp thoughts: Modernization
Someone pointed out that the empires smp s1 cast are royalty, compared to what the s2 cast is. With the thousand year time skip, royal bloodlines have been made nonexistent. With the empires collapsed and no suitable heir, the survivors of the rapture developed modern governments. With the exception of Glimmer Grove, the Order of succession for the rest of the continent is not hereditary. Hence why none of the rulers refer to themselves by noble titles, unlike S1. “It’s mayor actually” The only other princess is Gem, who is self proclaimed.
Modernization includes technology as well. The S1 cast endured long meetings and communicated through letters deliver by messenger bird. The type of bird carrier varied between empire. (Rivendell used snow owls, Lost Empire had parrots, etc) They only resorted to communicators in emergency situations; whereas in S2 timeline, unless they are discussing trade deals, a communicator is all they technically need.
Due to most written text being destroyed, the only preserved document the historian guild has access to is the Ocean Queens journal; which has faced considerable damage. A thousand years has changed a lot of the language. The letters found in the ruins has a vastly different writing structure, compared to universal ‘Common.’ It’s the empires equivalent of Shakespearean English compared to modern English. This has caused much context to be lost in translation.
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This Ruzader idea popped in my head on one of my multiple bus misfortunes of my trip. It's been a long time since I actually sketched a thing instead of just slapping colors and marks on paper. I forgot how hard sketching is...
The main inspiration for the form was a combination of the Coast Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma coronatum), desert reptiles in general, geckos/salamanders/other reptiles that lose and regenerate their tails, the Iguana Parrot from Avatar, and the Izuchi monsters in Monster Hunter Rise. For the colors I tried to stay in similar families to Ruze's hair colors, crimson, and what wouldn't be completely out of place in the environment of the Badlands.
I tried to stay away from overly dinosaur-like features (because I assume Jurard's going with that theme for the Sorawrity (or however the fuck you spell that)) as well as steering away from axolotl features because of the Axelotls. I didn't add it but I also imagine each Ruzader wearing their own unique mask and scale coloring, similar to how the Koipanions are all different colored and have different hats sometimes (sans Puniko).
It's far far too late right now to add what I hand wrote in the pic but I might come back to this in a few days to type it out here since idk if my handwriting is easy to read for those who have English as a second language and rarely see native handwriting in the wild.
Below the cut I'll post some progress pics from when I was inking and painting the colors, as well as a pre-colored version. Also if anyone is better at art, feel free to recreate this concept to look more badass-cute like I initially intended but failed to fully execute on. Just like don't be a dick and credit the idea at least.
Okay this is the actual concept sketch as I was (suffering) in a bus that was breaking down on the side of the road. I think this guy's such a cute little thing despite how crudely it's sketched via my pointer finger.
Pre-color version! Easier to read text since I took this during the day and lighting was better.
I want to draw your attention to the "waterproof on paper" claim on this inking pen 😒
First colors laid down!
This was about the point when my wrist started hurting from dotting the watercolors so precisely and I regretted every painting decision I made here. But I'm still not confident enough in my control over watercolors (especially in this definitely-not-watercolor-paper sketch book) to just wash and glaze the colors.
And here's the supplies I used. From top to bottom:
Staples postscript 0.7 mechanical pencil
Random fine liner paint brush I bought. I think the bristles are natural hair but no idea what animal.
Sharpie S-pen 0.5
Staedtler pigment liner 0.2
Kuretake waterbrush fine version
Faber-Castell watercolor pencils in deep scarlet red, bistre, dark red, and nougat
Kuretake Gansai Tambi gouache-ish watercolors 12 color set 2 (they're kind of in-between gouache and watercolors idk they're Kuretakes, if you're familiar you're familiar). I used the colors neutral beige (11), rose beige (12), indian red (71), maroon (72), and gray (21).
Thanks for reading this far if you did! This was fun, but it's 3:30am right now and I need to sleep so I can panic-pack my stuff tomorrow morning before checkout to return from my trip.
#ruzaders#crimzon ruze#crimzonmuze#look i didnt mean for it to vaguely resemble the geico gecko's cousin from the desert but fucking hell its all i can see now
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Hehe alright! I'll answer for option A in this ask, and then send in a second for D because I have a LOT to say about characters lol
But okay, how 3rd Life happened in the AU, what is the same as canon, and what changed?
For our first major change, only 3L happened. This is because one does not trap a cookie with the power of space itself against their will. But that doesn't matter in the long run <3
Basically, the Watchers work pretty simluar to Martyn's lore! Beings that feed on negative emotions and like picking on specific people for petty reasons. Eye Cookie had started to realize that 'hey, we can technically trap a bunch of cookies and feed on them if we change reality a bit.' and the other Watchers were just sorta like 'alright, we're hungry so get working on it'
Void Starling and Parrot Ice Cream were both easy targets, as neither of them had any life outside the Watcher's grasps (will explain in the next ask), and the other 12 cookies were fairly easy to weed out. All they had to do was find cookies down on their luck, that nobody would realize were missing.
And so, the games started.
I'm leaving the three lives rule, because is it 3L without that? as well as the 'no helmets' rule, and the 'reds are hostile' rule.
Session 1 stays mostly the same. The mobs are different, to fit in with the crk universe. I'd say it was one of those weird walking poison mushrooms that killed Magic Cat Cookie (Scar) instead of a creeper. Uhhh honestly yeah that's it.
Oh the Tree-TSD thing still happens, it's just more of Moss Phantom Cookie (Bdubs) forgot that he could make plants grow and started growing a tree on top of Zombie Queen Cookie (Cleo). As well as that, Voidling/Etho's dark oak still gets burned.
Oh, one change for everything is that the game took place over about a year! As well as that, it worked in a more realistic manner, so the buildings didn't just appear overnight.
Session 2... honestly I forget what happened here lol. Uhhh I guess just think that bases are being built, cookies are chatting and making friends, life is good! Uhhh yeah Pizza still exists. Why not lol
Session 3 is when Dare to Flare was being created! I don't know how Firebird Cookie (Tango) got his hands on lava just roll with it. It's funny and weirder things happen in crk. Also now the first red exists! Since Hermitcraft doesn't exist in this AU (causes far too many plot holes), Magic Cat is seen as a MUCH bigger threat by Choco Wolf and Lost Apple
Session 4: Cakewarts is founded!! Voidling, Red Angel, Shattered Soul Crystal, and Lost Apple are brought in by Choco Wolf to join the army! I changed it so that they all join at the same time for fun. and also because it means that I can give Shattered Soul Crystal more time with the others!!
Yes the alter scene still happens
Honestly I do not have the patience to type out things session by session because my hands are tired and also I don't wanna hit character limit AGAIN so uhhh here's a list of everything I can think of:
Firebird and Clay Flower Cookie (Joel) never joined Cakewarts
Yellow Demon (Impulse) did still join though. yes he still took out Voidling
Instead of rigging the desert with TNT, Parrot Ice Cream just made plain old bombs
Shattered Soul Crystal wasn't in session 7 because he was kinda sick due to the way his magic works
Flower Husbands happy ending was just a dream by Frost Flower Cookie (Scott)
The first siege of the Crastle (w/ Etho making tnt missiles) unforuntally didn't happen
Parrot Ice Cream felt guilty about starting all of the mess and tried to meet with Cakewarts to try and reach a truce. This didn't work
After each cookie was killed, the Watchers took their bodies to feast on their emotions. They were brought back to life when this happened, just sleeping.
Ummmmm honestly I can't think of much more things for this. I'll get to explaining every character I can tomorrow because it's late and I can't stay up past late every single night and still wake up early each morning lol
oh frost flower :(((
super excited to hear more about this au!!!! take your time with the stuff about character tho, dont wanna burn you out
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hopefully i don't sound too 'woe is me' about this (i do i started waxing poetic,) i'm just trying to sort out my own feelings. that said...
i think i'm too hard on myself about trying not to feel sad that i can't ever really be a part of the self ship community the way i was anymore. i don't think it was about validation, as i tend to parrot, as much as it was about connection. i liked feeling like i could share this part of myself with others who could share their parts in return. but now that i'm as far as i am in my understanding, there is no going back even if i wanted to.
it is not a community that believes in forgiveness. it's built on 2010s tumblr politics, the type where you find the bad guys and fight them off. the type that doesn't believe in humanity. i knew the risks when i took them (said like a soldier lol.) i'm ultimately glad i separated myself from that community because it has spurred a lot of self growth and maturity i wouldn't have obtained if i had continued to obey the dni rules of my mutuals. i don't consider learning the truth to be a mistake, i'm aware now that the behavior i myself partook in was wrong, and i'm better for it. i just wish other people would have listened when i said 'actually, no, he's not a nazi' because he LITERALLY WASN'T!!!! but when i posted about him i forgot that the people who saw that post weren't seeing me, they were seeing a label they had already been told how to perceive. that's the bad guy from the bad show, this mutual has gone fallow! alas, i may use them for dopamine hits no longer! begone!
i just hate it because like. i know i wasn't doing anything wrong! i am a person who would never in a million years like a fascist! but so many people just immediately came to conclusions based on false assumptions. i almost wish i had done something bad, then at least the reaction would have been justified. no, this could have happened to any tv show. aot had just enough subject matter for people to twist into lies for it to become as hated as it is. all people know are that there are nazis, and the titans are jewish people. so they come to conclusions. but the characters they assume are nazis ARE jewish people. and then it all falls apart! because surprise, it's a narrative ABOUT antisemitism & fascism, not a narrative in favor of it! eeeeeveryone inside the walls is jewish. all of them. and there are a few nazis in there... but they're jewish children who are being exploited by the nazi government as child soldiers. so still jewish. and all of them have incredibly complicated trauma on the matter that gets explored in a nuanced and empathetic manner! Idk i'm just rambling about aot at this point lolol but my reason for talking about this is just what i said and have been saying.
i simply wish the community was truly a 'community.' it's only really for people who fit a narrow and flawed perception of how to be 'moral' with extensive virtue signaling dnis and all of the right opinions, which you've always held, because god forbid someone dredge up an old discord screenshot to justify a petty grudge. but i also hate proship communities. i hate the way they have no standards for what is and isn't okay. i hate groupthink. i wish people could form their own opinions. and i don't lack a community per se, i have many amazing friends who i am lucky to have in my life, i just enjoy new people. i enjoy self ships and self inserts and seeing other people creatively love themselves. it's just sad to know i can never be a part of it the same way again, not only due to my own disillusionment, but because unless my self ships are palatable, even if i can find mutuals who are chill and get it, they can't... reblog my posts. it's as though i'm stuck in the shallow waves of a tidepool, watching as everyone else plays in the ocean. sometimes people will come my way and offer me a bit, but they'll never invite me over with them, for i'm covered in sea urchins! what would the others think? and i don't hold it against anyone, i don't want anyone to sacrifice their community and end up like me. i just think i'm allowed to be a bit sad all the same. i do miss sharing en masse with people who will share back to me.
#antisemitism tw#sparkletwinkles#ntm the way i saw so many people f/oing like. child abusers and characters who Are For Real Fascists#clay puppington? no one bats an eye... but Levi on the other hand.
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