now that those pages are out, here's a quick ref i made of The Other Guy so i didn't have to keep googling the champion's tunic lol

It's Team Erza’s turn for the Friendship Sleep Pile

Whoever laid down first is a mystery. Lucy's bed probably shouldn't be this large, but that's the magic of friendship.

Taxidermy fingerprints, taxonomies our differences

[Part 2 here]

Eddie goes live on Tiktok and he is laying in bed. He doesn’t have a shirt on so a lot of his newer fans are seeing his scars for the first time. They’re also hearing the stiffness in his voice when he says, “No one tells you when you’re young, cool, and being eaten alive that one day you’re going to need to see a masseuse once a week if you don’t want your body to feel like it’s turning to stone.”

You can see Steve moving in and out of frame on his crutches while Eddie monologues, “And then your masseuse is going to go into labor the day of your appointment and you’re not going to be able to get in with anybody. And you’re in so much fucking pain.”

“I can call Max if you want.”

“Last time Max gave me a massage, she almost killed me.”

Steve appears in frame again with a heating pad and a bunch of different lotions, “What do you want to smell like.”

“Anything, just touch me, please.”

It looks physically painful for Eddie to move enough for Steve to get the heating pad under him. Steve gets situated over him in order to give him a massage but it’s kinda awkward because he can’t put weight on his broken ankle.

Eddie looks at them in the camera and kinda has to laugh because, “We’re a mess.”

“We always have been,” Steve smiles, leaning down just enough to kiss the top of his head. He starts his massage, “Now, tell me a story.”

i just think fornax is very handsome...... and she knows this

Hey do you think ya can explain Barnaby and his illusion smoke a bit? It seems really cool and I don't remember if ya talked about it in depth before

sure! this got a bit longer than i expected!

so i was thinking that Barnaby seems like more of a hands-off kinda guy when it comes to altercations. would rather sit back and make funny commentary! so if he Had to get involved, i imagine it would be from a distance and still in an Entertaining Way!

thus - illusion magic! for this au i've been picturing that he got his paws on some illusionary herb in his early teens. for making people laugh, you know! and help out with the farm - illusions could distract animals, convince them to move on to different pastures, calm the chickens for egg-collecting, etc!

Ms. Beagle didn't really approve, since smoking is harmful, but lucky for the both of them this particular plant doesn't deal as much damage when smoked as normal smoking materials would - like tobacco! something to do with the magic properties! so Barnaby mostly used it for chores (when his mama wasn't paying attention, ofc - it's still a bad habit in her eyes) and entertainment purposes.

how it works: on its own, it doesn't do much when burned. it's not like illusions will waft out of the pipe's bowl, or that sniffing it will give someone hallucinations. in order for it to work properly, the user has to inhale properly, form the Intent of what the illusion should be / look like / behave, then purposefully blow the smoke out with that thought firmly in mind. the reach of the smoke depends on the force of Intent, and the intensity depends on the amount inhaled. those that breathe it in / are surrounded by it will see hallucinations of whatever Barnaby - or whoever the user is - wants them to! it can be literally anything! whether or not the target is fooled depends entirely on the individual, but the herb is potent enough that most are convinced that what they "see" is real (auditory hallucinations only occur if the target breathes in the smoke)

upsides: this form of magic is great for distractions, cover, deescalation, and that kind of thing. if needed, Barnaby could stop a fight with one exhale! it's a pretty powerful trick! it also means that Barnaby has built up a tolerance to illusion magic over the years, so where most of the party would be tricked, Barnaby would be unfazed. the only one with total immunity to the form of magic is Wally!

downsides: if Barnaby uses too much in too short of a time, it will get to him. and since he breathes in the largest amount - undiluted at that - it can fuck him up! using it sparingly / using repeated small amounts doesn't do anything. the most it will do is make him feel slightly untethered, but he has an easy time ignoring it / shaking it off.

in mild cases of the magic getting to him, it's like a bad trip. his proprioception is messed with (basically he gets uncharacteristically clumsy & off-balance), he feels like he's falling, anxiety spikes, and his vision is just... off! there are blind spots (im talking actual blind spots, not spots of black), things are moving in ways that they shouldn't, he has mild auditory hallucinations. the others can help ground him by talking to him, touching him, and confirming what's real and what isn't.

in bad cases, it's like that but 10 times worse. on top of all of the previous symptoms being worsened, he gets extremely vivid hallucinations, and they're very often not fun! it's a simultaneous feeling of dying, going insane, and not knowing what the fuck is going on. Barnaby loses sense of where he is, who's where, what's happening. he can get lost in the hallucinations - he has no way to know that they aren't real. in these terrible trips, no one can really help him. they can't get through the hallucinations, and if they do, the magic morphs Barnaby's perception of them and they end up adding to the effects. honestly the best thing for him is to let him rest somewhere with as little sensory input as possible & leave him be until he starts to come down. physical contact does help, since Barnaby understands on an instinctive level that illusions can't touch him, but it doesn't help half as much as it does w/ the mild trips. and again, the presence of someone can make the hallucinations worse.

so! suffice to say! he doesn't like using the herb all that often, and it's why he Stays Out Of It unless absolutely needed. he has two pouches of the herb - one with the strong stuff, reserved for emergencies / one with just a tiny bit of it mixed in with Barnaby's own personal blend for recreational/everyday use. (he also has an emergency tobacco stash in his pack, but that's only for when he's completely out of his usual blend <3)

extra lil scribble that didn't make it into the lil doodle post... i broke his wrist...

hug without plot. FUN FACT: the pose was referenced from a sumo match. i love it when one guy just picks up the other guy like excuse me, i'm taking you out of here now. it was hard but interesting to try and adapt the pose to non-humans. yahg look super wrong upright but oh well. butts,

A Headcanon: the Dragonborn (that applies to Miraak, too!) exhibit some dragon-like characteristics when they experience intense emotions, such as anger, anticipation, excitement, etc. Say, you approach a feral Dragonborn for instance, and you may notice their eyes swiftly elongating into vertical serpent-like slits with every beat of their heart. They may also seem taller and bigger somehow, as though they are surrounded by a mysterious enchanting aura that shrinks their mortal appearance, and if someone is to glimpse at their shadow, it may flicker between the Dragonborn's respective race form and a dragon's—specifically wings and horns are very distinctive in their shade. Not to mention their voice—it gets deeper, more throaty, and more thundering that it can cause a tremble or two even though the Dragonborn may not fully use the Thu'um.

Me Celebrating N7 day with a set of Cerberus/N7 nails

head in hands like "maybe i should have realized this about myself sooner" as i am surrounded by neon flashing signs that Very Clearly Indicate the thing i should have realized about myself sooner

and they wonder why they keep getting kicked out of the groupchat 🙄🙄

The butterfly effect is so... Interesting, honestly.

I'm not going into details now, but s7 and pilots for Ninjago, an intense "What If", and many more thoughts.

THE BEST OF EARTH: VANCOUVER

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Maj. Kaidan Alenko, and Lt. James Vega With: Adm. David Anderson, Adm. Steven Hackett, & Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau I don't like Anderson's orders either, but we don't have a choice. Without help, this war is already over. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)