Currently thinking: desmond being amazed by the weirdest common things (for Ezio) like

-pidgeon carriers, he will never get tired of people actually using them and always likes to attach the messages to the pidgeons

-how people navigate w out gps/map

-festivals (des: yes we have em too but like these are the OG festivals Ezio we only do recreations of these)

-lowkey feels like he is in a renfaire sometimes

-amazed by the craftmanship of anything and how long it takes (wym someone paid you next 5yrs salary to make this one thing)

-taverns (will always be cool to sit in a real tavern)

why is hideki naganuma insane. who is teaching a middle aged japanese man to say shit like this

Someone: Boop! Got your autism.

Damian: You better give me that back, that was a gift from my father.

Was hit with need to doodle Arcourier but can’t decide whether to remove Courier’s arm around Arcade

DUDE. I have had so many people sit here and tell me that THIS

THIS IS TIMS WORST COSTUME?? WHAT ARE YOU ON TO SIT HERE AND TELL ME THIS IS TIMS WORST COSTUME??? HE EATS UP IN THIS.

hands

Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

I saw someone point out how cumplane is pronounced almost exactly like 'complain' and I just couldn't think about anything else

cumplane au where sqh transmigrates into tlj and sy transmigrates into sxy (after she was made head disciple) and theres no system

They meet, despite sqh trying to avoid this -- sqh just isnt enjoying how alien the demonic realm's culture is, so he wanders the human realm with his new nephew thats hes a bit fond of -- and they immediately figure each other out. Sqh has to send zzl out on errands in order for sqh and sy to scream at each other

When all is said and done (they murder the old palace master), sy is like, uh, what about binghe

Sqh: ....what about him?

Sy: when are we...going to.......

Sqh:

Sy: .................make him

It's maid day! *maid-fication beam*

SQQ and SQH getting really really drunk and screaming the lyrics of any given Brittney Spears song and everyone around them is just so so confused because 1. none of them have ever even heard English much less learned it 2. because this style of music just has not been invented at this point

Something that I think would make Shen Yuan's obsessive hate of PIDW (and subsequently cumplane's friendship) so much funnier is if Airplane is like genuinely an amazing writer. Could you imagine Shen Yuan reading this beautifully written prose and being so personally offended that he died because said beautiful writing was used to tell some fuckass plot about some demon lord getting laid. Like he meets Shang Qinghua and is constantly stuck between "please continue writing, its so beautiful" and "please never write ever again what the FUCK was that plot"

They're drunk. Sqq said yes but only if Sqh bottomed otherwise that'd be gay 🧐