#EVA 43

[cuprohastes]

Hey you, space orc!

Sometimes, Dave The Human got mistaken for an actual human, because someone saw the name and mistook her for Dave the Human - an actual Human, currently under the moniker of Phalanges Mitten as part of his deep cover as a female Atrix after accepting a sort-of marriage proposal from a small, actual Atrix.

And then the female Tsin would show up as per request and someone would double take and go 'Oh er'. and they'd call EVA 43, who was known for being an unkillable badass, or Phalanges, who was not known for being an unkillable badass, because he never mentioned the thing with the Thotari assassins or that one time he beat up an entire pirate ship.

This prompted Dave to broach the subject over food in the Cafeteria:

"So... what is a Space Orc?" she asked. Cat fantastic said "Gweep?" and Phalanges and EVA 43 did that thing where they leaned back and swapped significant looks and made 'Mmm, hmmm' faces.

Dave watched Cat Fantastic, Phalanges Little Guy copy the move thoughtfully, and then EVA 43 said. "It's an old joke. Like from before the Wallandernook showed up and got us interstellar."

Dave nodded instead of doing the ear sweep, a carefully learned habit. "Yeah... they got us off planet entirely - Without artificial gravity, we can't do it in person - And of course there's that whole 'oops bombed ourselves into an anti-space doctrine." she said.

Cat Fantastic said 'Graak' and Dave wondered what he meant by 'Nice exposition'.

EVA 43, who's actual name nobody could ever recall for more than a few seconds continued and once again Dave was bemused that the moment she looked away she couldn't picture 43 in any away: not their gender, skin colour... nothing: As though someone had written a character and failed to give them any description at all and for some reason kept up with the gag.

"We have this literary tradition of writing fantasy works - Fiction - With uhhh..."

"Tropes." offered Phalanges.

"Tropes - Yes, OK so one is Orcs. They're barbaric, kind of dumb compared with Humans... but they're a bit bigger, a bit stronger, a bit hardier..."

"So in any physical situation, the Orc is the one who's most likely to survive, discounting any plot necessity." said Phalanges.

"Oh I guess I get it." said Dave. "We've got something similar but it sort of loosely translates as Even Bigger People." - She herself was a Big Female, which was unrelated to size. It just meant that without modern medical intervention she was unlikely to change gender, unlike three quarters of the Tsin population who would swap to maintain gender balance naturally. The connotations were 'The most female type of female', which got adjusted for the benefit of talking to other species.

Cat Fantastic said "Graak." which was true: As a monogendered species who's reproductive roles were defined by body mass out of convenience, and who's actual reproduction was 100% external and more akin to a turtle dumping her eggs and then letting the hatchlings just deal with survival, the Atrix version of a bigger stronger more durable Atrix was literally just the biggest strongest and most durable Atrix that you knew.

And compared to Humans Atrix were fragile: A normal human could walk off injuries that would be incapacitating to an Atrix.

43 famously stepped into hard vacuum with nothing but a surgical gown, after surviving a few hours with life support disabled in a crippled EVA suit, by just being reversibly dead.

They'd done it to save their friend, an Atrix, who had to have a new eye installed, and had life-long scars from mere low pressure exposure that was too low for them to maintain consciousness... a situation that for a human would possibly, if sustained for a while, caused a hickey and dry eyes, maybe a wheeze from inhaling hard.

Phalanges nodded. "So yeah - In comparison to most species, we can survive higher gravity - or no gravity - injuries that would cripple or kill other species with shock - We've got redundant organs, and emergency chemical responses that turn off the limits of our muscles so we can trade massive damage for survival... or not feel pain."

EVA 43 frowned and thought about that, then nodded and ticked off a couple of fingers, "And we can stop breathing for a couple of minutes, consume our own body mass if there's no food, keep moving for longer than almost any other starfaring species...."

Phlanages picked up, "And then pack bond with nearly any organism or object, so instead of getting obliterated by everyone else because we met you guys and reached for a recipe book..."

EVA 43 added "... we can eat a stupid range of food including what a lot of other species consider poisonous chemicals..." to the list.

Phalanges continued cheerfully, "... so you guys were like 'Oh crap, no wait, these dumb monsters are friendly. Maybe they'll pick stuff up and carry it for us.'"

"And do human related stuff." EVA 43 added.

Daver held up both her small hands, the one on her second set of arms. "OK, and it helps you have this really weird flexible language and you're just right in the middle of the audio and visual range almost everyone uses." she added drumming her big claws on the table, which Cat Fantastic mimicked.

"Yeah."

"Squeap." said Dave, making a pity comment in her normal, near ultrasound dialect of Southern Tstktk Tsin. "I do enjoy these weird little culture discussions. But I feel like I'm letting the side down because people keep calling me for space orc stuff."

Phalanges, mouth full of purple breadroll shrugged and gave EVA 43 a look.

43 leaned back and pondered. "OK well... look, it's going to be mostly Atrix calling, right? Humans don't need another human unless it's a specific uh..."

"Phkil" mumbled Phalanges.

"Bingo. And there's just not many Tsin doing work that needs a human. They're mostly in Med or admin where the gravity is safest."

Dave nodded again getting an idea of where this was going.

"So it's Atrix. Therefore..." said 43...

"... you just need to figure out what you can do that they can't." finished Phalanges, "And do it in the most flamboyant way possible."

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Mothers Pride, looked down at Dave, having requested them to the bowels of the station - An area that really was the bowels as it dealt with the processing and containment of the sanitation system. Which means exactly what you think.

Actually, this was part of Dave's area of expertise, as they were a certified life support specialist like Phalanges. She had the horrifying stains on her jumpsuit to prove it.

"Oh we, er thought you were going to be a human." said Mothers Pride in very formal Tsin.

Two smaller Atrix peered around her, doing complex colour patterns with their faces.

"Well... I am for tax reasons." said Dave. "Is this anything to do with the overheating steriliser?" she asked in her natural colloquial yokel manner.

"How...? Yes, yes, it's in an awkward place and we can't get in because of the heat and the close quarters." Pride said giving Dave a peachy-green look.

"Ah, oh that's no problem. Just let me take a listen... hmmm... OK the circulator pump's not running fast enough..." she said and put her claw tips on the piping, "... yeah feel that, the vibration's about half what you would expect." she said.

The three Atrix simultaneously looked at their tablets where the diagnostics were telling them something similar, at length with less detail.

Then she paused, ears swivelling, making a high clicking sound that made the Atrix twitch minutely flush orange with each ultrasonic burst, and carefully added, "Ah you might want to step back", and rapidly knocked on the pipe as she stepped into the accessway - Too tight for an Atrix. OK for one of the slim wiggly humans, fine for the short and stocky Tsin. There was a startling gurgle and a thrumming vibration: The impellor picking up started pumping the horrible gunk through the system - the increased flow taking the building heat from the pasteurisation unit with it.

Then she shuffled back out with some new trophy stains on her overalls, flicked her ears once and said "Nice working with you, Pride." and ambled back down the corridor.

Mothers Pride and her two interns watched, astounded. They stared at each other, flickering colours on their cheeks and foreheads, amazed.

Dave, who's vision was at the other end of the spectrum to Atrix vision, and who'd been able to see the infrared coming off the machinery as a grainy glow, and who's vocalisations and hearing were good enough to do a little fuzzy ultrasound, had detected the mass choking the pipe (And gotten lucky that strategic knocking had make it move) got all the way around the bend before allowing herself some excited squeaps.

After all, she was a Space Orc now.

#station stories #Dave the Human #Phalanges mittens #Cat Fantastic #EVA 43 #Tsin #Humans are space orcs #And so can you #Humans are inclusive

[strawberryclementine]

Moments from Monster that I think about way more than I should, Part 2.... Though I actually don't think about this scene so much as I think about the fact that Tenma can't dance.

#also that Tenma likes Al Green #anyways it's the fact that no one ever showed Tenma how to dance... bye :'( #i don't even want to remember that this was how Eva ans Roberto met.... augh #monster manga #monster 43 #q

[caeca-iustitia]

Vincent only met Eva a week before the two of them were married and from the very beginning, they were wary of this woman. She displayed- from the outset- that she was a greedy woman who only sought money and status from them. 

They spent as little time around her as they could feasibly get away with and spent even less time in bed with her; keeping their distance from her. It wasn't like they cared for her in any capacity and they found her presence an irritation which couldn't always be avoided. The only reason they remained anywhere near her for the bulk of their first few years together was that both of their families were pressuring them into producing an heir. It was expected that they would produce a male heir as it would secure Eva's position and ensure the Valentine name lived on. 

Eva was pleased to find out that she was pregnant in 1995 after 2 years of being married to Vincent- though her joy quickly fizzled out after Dominique was born. Having a girl was not what she'd wanted and her daughter's presence annoyed her as she believed she was being denied a son because of her. It led to her neglecting and abusing the infant who didn't experience much care until Vincent returned. When Eva became pregnant again in 2003, she was entirely sure that this was the son she wanted. 

Again, however, she was disappointed when Kayleigh was born. This led to further neglect and abuse of both her daughters. She soon turned her rage to Vincent and placed the blame squarely on their shoulders for her lack of sons; demanding that they give her what she wants. Wanting to protect their daughters, Vincent reluctantly submitted to their wife's tyrannical orders and hoped that she'd get what she wanted just so that she'd leave them alone.

It isn't until after Meteor that Vincent puts their foot down and demands a divorce from the woman that had been taking advantage of them for the better part of 13 years. Before this, they hadn't had much choice but to stay with her or she'd have killed at least one of their daughters. In the name of keeping them alive, Vincent had dealt with the arrangement until they could safely get their daughters away from Eva in the pandemonium that surrounded Midgar being potentially destroyed. Once they were completely sure that Dominique and Kayleigh were safely hidden away in Nibelheim; they began divorce proceedings and managed to obtain full custody of their daughters. 

The whole process took about a year and a half but the end result was beyond what they'd hoped for. Vincent was able to keep full custody of their daughters as well as most of their money and possessions that would have otherwise gone to Eva. Thankfully, a prenuptial agreement that had been put in place at Vincent's insistence was able to deprive Eva of everything but the bare minimum that Vincent was ordered to give her. It- all in all- only totalled a fraction of their immense wealth. Vincent was also able to get a restraining order against Eva that would keep her away from them and their daughters. 

When speaking of her, Vincent refers to her as 'that bitch' and 'the one who birthed my daughters' whilst adamantly refusing to call her their mother or by her name. They don't believe that she has the right to be called their mother when she never once cared for them as a mother should- a sentiment that is shared with their daughters. 

A lot of stuff changed within the Valentine Family once Vincent divorced Eva; one big change was that girls would be allowed to inherit the titles passed down traditionally through the main line of men in the family whereas they couldn't do so before. Dominique- upon Vincent stepping down as Head of the Family- will officially become Valentine Family Head in her own right instead of it being handed over to a male member of the family as it would have been before Vincent changed things around. 

#{ 🍒 out of character post } #{ 🍒 headcanon post } #{ 🔫 vincent valentine } #[So... This is what I've spent a few hours cobbling together] #[This will also introduce you to Eva in a small way] #[By the way... Eva is like 18 when Vincent is forced to marry her in 1993] #[By this point Vincent is a little under 43] #[So there is a massive age gap] #[Eva was also really pushy about marrying Vincent in particular] #[>.>]

[andsjuliet]

2024 books read

2024 goal: 150 books

january: 1 - heartstopper vol. 1 → alice oseman (reread) 2 - heartstopper vol. 2 → alice oseman (reread) 3 - heartstopper vol. 3 → alice oseman (reread) 4 - heartstopper vol. 4 → alice oseman (reread) 5 - heartstopper vol. 5 → alice oseman 6 - a fragile enchantment → allison saft 7 - some shall break → ellie marney (audiobook) 8 - only if you're lucky → stacy willingham (arc) 9 - over my dead body: a witchy graphic novel → sweeney boo 10 - notes on an execution → danya kukafka (physical & audiobook) 11 - murder on the orient express → agatha christie (reread) 12 - our wives under the sea → julia armfield (physical & audiobook) 13 - the invocations → krystal sutherland (arc) 14 - red string theory → lauren kung jessen 15 - the breakup tour → emily wibberley & austin siegemund-broka (arc) 16 - the name drop → susan lee 17 - the secret of the old clock → carolyn keene (reread) 18 - bright young women → jessica knoll (audiobook) 19 - last call at the local → sarah grunder ruiz (audiobook) 20 - no one can know → kate alice marshall

february: 21 - worst wingman ever → abby jimenez 22 - drop, cover, and hold on → jasmine guillory 23 - with any luck → ashley poston 24 - the atlas six → olivie blake (reread, audiobook) 25 - that's not my name → megan lally 26 - not here to stay friends → kaitlyn hill 27 - this golden state → marit weisenberg 28 - today tonight tomorrow → rachel lynn solomon (reread, annotation) 29 - past present future → rachel lynn solomon (arc, annotation) 30 - the atlas paradox → olivie blake (reread, audiobook) 31 - the guest list → lucy foley (audiobook) 32 - in the market for murder → t.e. kinsey (audiobook) 33 - the neighbor favor → kristina forest 34 - in the mix → mandy gonzalez 35 - everyone in my family has killed someone → benjamin stevenson 36 - the seven year slip → ashley poston 37 - veronica ruiz breaks the bank → elle cosimano (audiobook) 38 - finlay donovan rolls the dice → elle cosimano (audiobook) 39 - the simmonds house kills → meaghan dwyer (arc)

march: 40 - the mysterious case of the alperton angels → janice hallett 41 - the book of cold cases → simone st. james 42 - what the river knows → isabel ibañez (audiobook) 43 - cut loose! → ali stroker & stacy davidowitz 44 - how i'll kill you → ren destefano 45 - the reappearance of rachel price → holly jackson (arc) 46 - when no one is watching → alyssa cole (audiobook) 47 - outofshapeworthlessloser: a memoir of figure skating, f*cking up, and figuring it out → gracie gold (audiobook) 48 - julius caesar → william shakespeare (rerad, audiobook) 49 - the family plot → megan collins (audiobook) 50 - if we were villains → m.l. rio (reread) 51 - alone with you in the ether → olivie blake (physical & audiobook) 52 - disappearance at devil's rock → paul tremblay (audiobook)

april: 53 - shakespeare: romeo and juliet graphic novel → martin powell & eva cabrera 54 - shakespeare: macbeth graphic novel → martin powell & f. daniel perez 55 - shakespeare: julius caesar graphic novel → carl bown & eduardo garcia 56 - shakespeare: a midsummer night's dream graphic novel → nel yomtov & berenice muniz 57 - twelfth knight → alexene farol follmuth (arc) 58 - kill for me, kill for you → steve cavanagh 59 - murder road → simone st. james 60 - everyone on this train is a suspect → benjamin stevenson 61 - listen for the lie → amy tintera 62 - king cheer → molly horton booth, stephanie kate strohm, jamie green 63 - twelfth night (musical adaptation) → kwame kwei-armah & shaina taub 64 - in juliet's garden → judy elliot mcdonald 65 - fat ham → james ijames 66 - death by shakespeare → philip l. nicholas, jr 67 - a good girl's guide to murder → holly jackson (reread) 68 - good girl, bad blood → holly jackson (reread) 69 - as good as dead → holly jackson (reread) 70 - dark corners → megan goldin (audiobook) 71 - the one that got away with murder → trish lundy (audiobook) 72 - funny story → emily henry 73 - imogen says nothing → aditi brennan kapil 74 - people we meet on vacation → emily henry (audiobook, reread)

may: 75 - episode thirteen → craig dilouie 76 - the girls i've been → tess sharpe (reread) 77 - the girl in question → tess sharpe (arc) 78 - wild about you → kaitlyn hill (arc) 79 - just for the summer → abby jimenez 80 - my best friend's exorcism → grady hendrix

#post: 2024 books read #i always get SO excited to start these threads! #and as y'all know i love starting the new year with a reread #so i figured this year it would be heartstopper and then i'd finally get to read heartstopper vol 5 #i loved it which is no surprise #i just love these characters so much <3

[dysfunctional-family-fight]

Round Three

Big Mom Family (One Piece) VS the Ushiromiya family (Umineko When They Cry)

Big Mom Family

Members: Linlin “Big Mom” Charlotte, Katakuri, Pound, Cracker, Big Mom's 82 other children, and her 43 husbands

Propaganda:

"They are a giant family that is also a pirate group. Everyone is married and born to fulfill Big Mom’s desire to have a family. Basically all of them hate each other." "Big Mom...so first let me note that this woman marries a man for her poliical convenience, gets pregnant, then divorces him as soon as she has his kids. She maintains complete control over the destiny of her children. They will join her pirate crew, they will fight for her, they will marry as she asks, they will grow up to serve her. They won't know their dad, or anything else, and she will even kill them when she doesn't get like a food she asks for, for instance." Note: edited for length, full submission here

The Ushiromiya family

Members: Kinzo, Krauss, Eva, Rudolf, Rosa, Jessica, George, Battler, Ange, Maria, Natsuhi, Hideyoshi, Asumu, Kyrie

Propaganda:

"PEAK weird family drama. Fighting over the inheritance leads to multiple people dying in gruesome ways" "The whole plot of the game is that they all are so dysfunctional it would make sense for any of them to commit murder" "This family is dysfunctional and abusive on every levels. The parents are fighting for the inheritance, because the elder embezzled money. The grandfather, Kinzo, hides in his room and never shows up. Not unusual, he neglected his family his whole life. Seems that he preferred a mysterious mistress than his family. When he talked to his children, it was to scold them for being incompetents. The atmosphere is oppressive. The children of Kinzo were bully. Krauss bullied Eva, who bullied Rosa. Concerning the next generation: Battler is in conflict with his father because he cheated on his mother. Natsuhi is putting pressure on Jessica for her to become the heir of the family, and is losing contact with her daughter. Eva has deciced what the life of Georges is becoming, and that he will not marry a servant. As for the relationship between Rosa and Maria, this is just the best mother-daughter love-hate relationship ever. And everything ends in blood, for ever and ever." More propaganda here

#polls #big mom family #one piece #ushiromiya family #umineko no naku koro ni #umineko #round three

[sweetingseva]

Also, I'm thinking the 3 symbols on the cover might represent the 3 POVs?

At the bottom it looks like a rose but I actually think that is a shape of a heart 🫀 - Jacks

Fox paws 🐾 - Evangeline

Bottle with liquid ⚗️ - I'm thinking it might be POISON's pov?? It's supposed to be someone unexpected and Apollo seems a bit too obvious imo. Jacks also said something like if Eva were to forget about him, she would probably would go to Poison for help.

„You’ll find another way to stop Luc’s wedding. Poison, I imagine.”

and

„That Chaos or Poison would simply replace him—that is, if his theory about her life staying mostly the same was correct.” (Tbona, ch.43)

Interesting!! What do you think?

Aww I think I might have answered this one a bit late, but these were pretty good guesses!

Earlier in the year, Stephanie did share that there was going to be 3 POVS, two of those were confirmed to be Evangeline and Jacks.

So, the possibility of the third being Poison wouldn't carry so much weight since Poison is at Valenda and working under Scarlett's rule.

But I would have loved it if the third pov was Chaos. I suppose Apollo makes the most sense, so I understand why Stephanie went with his pov instead.

Thank you for the question! Sorry about the delay 😊💕💕💕

#ouabh #once upon a broken heart #ouabh spoilers #tbona #the ballad of never after #tbona spoilers #acftl #a curse for true love #acftl theories #acftl spoilers #caraval #legendary #finale #caraval spoilers #scarlett dragna #evangeline fox #jacks #evajacks #prince of hearts #jacks x evangeline #stephanie garber

[drunkchasind]

The OG 4 (created for CP77)

The Witches (from an original setting)

The Grey Warden (from Dragon Age)

Some informations about them under the cut:

Name: Faye Seela Valo (tag faye valo)

Alias: V

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: Bi

Height: 5'9.5'' (the .5 is important)/176 cm

Partner/Love interest: Ozob Bozo (shippy tag faye x ozob)

Age: 27

Random: She's from Vancouver, Canada, but following the passing of her best friend, she left home and ended up in NC after wandering on the west coast for a while. She's an incredibly independant person and knows how to look after herself, but she can easily prove her value, which helped her secure work and contacts quickly in NC. She shares a workshop with Iris, working as a mechanic specialized in mechatronics.

Name: Harrison Joseph Sutherland (tag harris sutherland)

Alias: John Lambert (from gang years)

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Bi

Height: 6'2''/188 cm

Partner/Love interest: various flings, nothing serious after the death of his one true love (Ludivine Hamilton)

Age: 36

Random: He's the older brother of Faye (on their father's side). An avid biker with a fondness for troubles (or is it that he's a magnet for them?). He's a piece of work, BUT he'll get any job done with the wanted results, making him a good merc during his time in NC. He used to be in a gang during his youth/early adulthood, so tricky situations are not something that stress him out; one might even say he enjoys it.

Name: Iris Isabelle Lorne (tag iris lorne)

Alias: 1ZZ1

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Bi

Height: 5'11''/180cm

Partner/Love interest: Declan ''Brick'' Griffin (shippy tag iris x declan)

Age: 33

Random: A very resourceful and imaginative techie, who's outgoing and has a pretty chill view of life. Was raised in a deranged stepfamily and decided to leave it all behind to make her own path. Despite being in a long-lasting relationship with Brick, she never joined Maelstrom (as it was a wish, for them both). Every so often, she does hang out with some specific members, though :)

Name: Devon Adrian Maggard (tag devon maggard)

Alias: Lt. Maggard

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Bi

Height: 6'4''/193 cm

Partner/Love interest: Jessamyn Murphy (shippy tag devon x jessa)

Age: 35

Random: Following a car accident (the same one that cost the life of his brother), underwent an extensive ''rehabilitation'' that gave him back the ability to walk, but at the expense of a ''cyborgening'' which remains heavy to deal with. He's a MaxTac lieutenant (later, commander), naviguating - and ruthlessly adapting to- the many grey zones that come upon him.

Name: Jessamyn Eva Murphy (tag jessamyn murphy)

Alias: Hræsvelgr

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Bi

Height: 5'8''/173 cm

Partner/Love interest: Devon Maggard (shippy tag devon x jessa)

Age: 34

Random: Chosen sister of Egon. She's in charge of ''informations acquirement'' for the organization COVATECH, specialized in botanical biochemistry and evolutionary developmental biology. More importantly, she's the handler of the sentient AI YGGDRA-517, that inhabits the walls of the organization.

Name: Egon Hyena Stelnar Munroe (tag egon hyena munroe)

Alias: Hyena

Pronouns: She/They

Sexuality: Lesbian

Height: 6'/183 cm

Partner/Love interest: only flings

Age: 32

Random: Chosen sister of Jessamyn. Now, this one is a bit explosive. Thriving in chaos, with a taste for fire. And how do you control chaos? By giving it Purpose. She serves as an enforcer during certain tasks, as well as associate for tracking informations holders, to aid her sister.

Name: Srovren Antonius Ismir Halligar (tag srovren halligar)

Alias: Greyson

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: Bi

Height: 6'6''/198 cm

Partner/Love interest: Isaura Forsythia

Age: 43

Random: Ex-military, stranded from his homeland. He runs a garage, which also serves as a front for a shelter to those in need. The shelter is runned with the help of Elsimi Laurela, a ripperdoc, and Doran Sedras, ''freight coordinator''. He has an illegitimate daughter with his long lost lover.

Credits for the divider x

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk oc #Sooo long overdue cp77 oc masterpost since clearly the brainrot ain't about to fade #There's prolly still typos but i can't look at it anymore #faye valo #harris sutherland #iris lorne #devon maggard #srovren halligar #jessamyn murphy #egon hyena munroe #And some #oc lore #Ish

[luciidsimmer]

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[emeraldxruby]

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Fancast 2

(So here’s my 2nd attempt on fancasting for TSHOEH. Once again, I picked the actors/actresses based on their “vibe” and a few of their physical characteristics that matches some of the descriptions written in the book. Also I’m just so impatient now because it’s 2023 and we still don’t have any news on the casting. Like it is stressing me out lol. Just hoping they get it RIGHT!)

Evelyn Hugo - Adria Arjona

(Background info: Arjona is an American actress of Puerto Rican & Guatemalan descent. She is currently 30 y/o and 5’7” tall)

“When you see pictures of E back in the day with her brassy blond hair, those dark, straight-as-an-arrow eyebrows, that deep-tanned skin, and those golden-brown eyes, you have no choice but to stop what you are doing and stare right at her.” (10)

“Her jawline is strong, her cheekbones are high, and all of it comes to a point at her ever-so-swollen lips. Her eyes are huge but not so much round as an oversized almond shape. Her tanned skin next to her light hair looks beachy but also elegant. I know it’s not natural--hair that blond with skin that bronze--and yet I can’t shake the feeling that it should be, that humans should be born looking like this.” (15)

“...I was five foot eight, with dark, shiny brown hair, long legs, light bronze skin, and a chest that pulled at the buttons of my dresses.” (43)

Middle Aged Evelyn Hugo - Eva Mendes

(Background info: Mendes is an American actress of Cuban descent. She is currently 48 y/o and is 5’6” - 5’8” tall)

Older Evelyn Hugo - Rita Moreno

(Background info: Moreno is a Puerto Rican-born American actress and is currently 91 years old. She was the first Hispanic woman to receive an Oscar in 1962)

“Where her cheeks were once angular, they are now a bit sunken. But they have just a tint of soft rosiness to them, and her lips are a dark nude.” (20)

“Her hair is past her shoulders—a beautiful array white, gray, and blond—with the lightest colors framing her face.” (20)

“Her eyebrows, however—those dark, thick, straight lines that were her signature—have thinned over the years. And they are now the same color as her hair.” (20)

“In the sunlight, it’s easier to see the signs of aging. The whites of her eyes are cloudy, and the complexion of her hands is in the process of becoming translucent. The clear blue tint to her veins reminds me of my grandmother.” (24)

Celia St. James - Kennedy Walsh

(Background info: Walsh is an American YouTuber and Internet personality that also has acted in a few films. She is currently 23 y/o and is 5’7” tall)

“She had a childlike, girl-next-door kind of face. Big, round, pale blue eyes, long lashes, Cupid’s bow lips, long strawberry-red hair. She was simplicity perfect.” (86)

Middle Aged Celia St. James - Jessica Chastain

(Background info: Chastain is an American actress, is currently 45 y/o, and 5’4” tall)

“Her red hair was still stunning but now clearly dyed. The golden undertones that had been there before, the result of nature and sunlight, were now slightly saturated, coppery. Her blue eyes were just as enticing as they always had been, but now the skin around them was softer.” (310)

Harry Cameron - David Corenswet

(Background info: Corenswet is an American actor, is currently 29 y/o, and 6’4” tall)

“He was handsome, for an executive. Most producers around the lot were rotund, a lot of them losing their hair. But Harry was tall and slim. He was young. I suspected he didn’t even have a decade on me. He wore suits that fit him nicely and always complemented his ice-blue eyes. There was something vaguely midwestern about him, not so much in how he looked but in the way he approached people, with kindness first, then strength.” (47)

Middle Aged Harry Cameron - Bradley Cooper

(Background info: Cooper is an American actor, is currently 48 y/o, and 6’1” tall)

John Braverman - Jake Picking

(Background info: Picking is an American actor, is currently 31 y/o, and 6’1” tall)

“In a tux that seemed to strain at his broad shoulders, John looked as all-American as a husk of corn.” (227)

“He had such an intimidating physical presence. More than six feet tall, two hundred and twenty-five pounds, with a tight crew cut. He looked like a guy you didn’t want to mess with. But anyone who knew him, and especially those of us who loved him, knew he was the first guy you could mess with.” (235)

Monique Grant - Zoë Kravitz

(Background info: Kravitz is an American actress and is of African American and Jewish descent. She is currently 34 y/o)

“As a biracial woman myself — light brown skin and dark brown eyes courtesy of my black father, an abundance of face freckles courtesy of my white mother...” (3)

“I’m thirty-five years old.” (7)

#books & libraries #celia st james #evelyn hugo #evelyn x celia #lgbt #actors #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #tshoeh #evelyncelia #seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyn hugo fancast #fancast #wlw books #queer books #lgbt books #books #harry cameron #jessica chastain #adria arjona #kennedy walsh #bradley cooper #eva mendes #rita moreno #david corenswet #jake picking #taylor jenkins reid #tjr #oscars

[mygeekcorner]

Fine I'll give you some more book asks since you acted all pathetic and reblogged it again and begged for more: 18, 25, 30, 42, 43, 50, 51, 55, 61, 67, 68, 80, 86, 99, 100, 102 (lol), 104, 117, 118, 124. Also you must answer them all in one sitting (no drafting) otherwise the curse of the procrastinating tumblrina will fall upon you

Hahahaha omg yes, brilliant, love it, love you

18 your least favorite book ever

I mean there have been a fair few bad choices I've picked up along the way. But that I actually finished?

I really do think it might have been Twilight. Granted I did go in expecting to hate it, but it still managed to be blander and worse than I thought it had any right to be for a series with such devoted following.

25 a book by your favourite author

I said this in another answer but I don't really have favourite authors like that anymore. There are many good authours out there and I will read a series or two but I don't go looking for their names like I used to. But so far I guess Erin Morgenstern is a 2 for 2 author with very beautiful prose in both The Night Circus and The Starless Sea

30 your favourite middle grade book

So I've already talked about Narnia, HP, and my love for Eva Ibbotson but that was pretty much what I read back then. So I'll just mention Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson as well. I don't remember many details from it, but I do remember that I laughed my way through it, which is never a bad thing.

42 a book that made you want to scream by the time you got to the end

I remember A Storm of Swords by George RR Martin made me call you and scream at your answering machine lol

It was bad enough that the Red Wedding happened, but then right after we've seen the massacre the next chapter is from Aryas point of view again and it's her and Sandor reaching Riverrun and she is So Close to being with her family again, to being safe. But he is mean and harsh and won't let her run off and if I remember correctly he takes out his fucking axe and hits her in the head with it. And that's how the chapter ends???

I mean obviosuly he hit her with the blunt side and only enough to knock her out, but we have Just Seen how you can't trust anyone, and then she's with this big mean killing machine who she doesn't get along with, and he hits her with an axe??? Fuck man! Rude-ass bitch is what Martin is. But what else is new, you know?

43 a book that you have read more than three times

Harry Potter. And yes, I am well aware about how much we're all hating on Rowling now, please don't misunderstand me. But I had read the first 3 books over 30 times before the series finished. I used to re-read them about once a year. There is not a single book that even comes close to the amount of times I've read them. No, not even Narnia.

50 a book that made you cry a LOT

The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy fucking wrecked me when I read it in high school. Like it is off to a pretty grim start with a mother leaving her family and them thinking she killed herself as is, but then it gets even More emotional. I remember this one chapter that just left me sitting there shellshocked for the better part of an hour, those of you who have read it will know when.

51 a book that you found underwhelming

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I know! I'm sorry! I love the movie and bbc miniseries as much as the next hopeless romantic but the book just kind of... didn't live up to it? Reading it you can kind of tell that it is her first novel and certain things are a bit rushed and clumsy. I still enjoyed it, but I was expecting to love it, you know?

55 a book with a satisfying ending

Chronicles of Narnia: The Last Battle. Them dying just felt right to me. Not that I wanted them to die-die of course, but the way that it happens? Yes. It all came full circle and I always found a certain comfort in the way he let them die and stay dead (to our world).

None of this rising from the dead bullshit. Just tell a good story and wrap it up like a neat little bodybag. Only cowards let protagonists rise from the dead. Looking at you JK, yes even when I first read the book.

61 your favourite horror novel

Ok so reminiscing on books I read as a kid has me thinking, one of the books that really had me Scared for real when reading was probably The Witches by Roald Dahl. And like yes, I know, it's a childrens book. But it's a Scary childrens book. And I was a Child. I just remember the horror as he found out he was stuck in a hotel infested with child-eating witches *shudder*

67 your favourite historical fiction novel

Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig, I really enjoyed Gone With The Wind, but this published fanfic/spinoff/prequel to that is just so good. It made me care for the characters in a whole new light all over again. And he always was my favourite out of all the original cast so it was nice to have some more ideas about what he had done before Scarlet threw that first vase at him.

68 your favourite piece of classic literature

Can I say Shakespeare here or did it have to be written as books-books? I'm deciding books-books is the premise so I guess I'm putting down Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. I don't like the ending, but after the book mentioned in #86 a bit further down it is better now. And I think it's the classic I've come back to the most so...

80 a book that reminds you of a loved one

The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan that @hobbitsus lent me in high school was just a blast to read and I remember it fondly. And the whole story is just so very Her from when we were growing up which adds to the love.

86 a book with an insane plot twist

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Yes again with me bringing in published fanfic of classic works but the whole premise is so good! There are people who can jump into books? There is someone who manages to jump into an original manuscript, thus changing all the copies of the book? There are detectives working on putting the original Jeyen Eyre back into order when this happens to her? And that is the reason the book ends the way it does??? Amazing.

I never quite liked the ending in Jane Eyre, there is this bit that just seems to come out of nowhere to me. In this book? It's because Detective Thursday was there doing whatever she wanted. This fanfic makes the original work better. But the way it twists to do so? 11/10

99 a book with a strong female protagonist

The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon gives us all that Girl power Asexuality Forge your own path representation and I am here for it. Does the last book feel like the same series as the first book? Not even slightly. But the books are still a fun ride and I recommend anyone wanting to read about a farmer's daughter running away to join the army and then being actually good at her job give it a try.

100 your favourite gothic novel

ok so in like my mind Gothic should be Old. Old as balls. But I will also admit to Wanting to read books that old more than I Actually read them. So I will be cringe enough to just go with Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice cause that's the book I loved in high school and the internet lets me classify it as goth even if it doesn't feel right

102 your favourite dark academia read

What even counts as Dark Academia though??? I feel like it should be an ancient and heavy-ass tome but most things I read are quite modern? Can I say The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley? Like the book took up a good part of my backpack when I read it in school, that should count for something right?

I liked the way it spanned three generations' worth of stories and all the mysticism going on. It was my first Arthurian fiction as well which felt very Big and Impressive at the time.

104 a fluffy, sweet read

A Hundred Pieces Of Me by Lucy Dillon was a really comforting and nice read that I liked way more than I thought I would when it comes to chick lit. I think of that book whenever I try to pick out a vase now lol

117 your favourite anthology

So do we count fairy tales here or no? Cause I kind of want to say Bland Tomtar Och Troll which is that swedish collection of childrens stories that had the most exquisite art in it and I was especially obsessed with the story about the mermaid Akmea who saved the beautiful sailor, or the one with the kindly white lion who showed up in someones yard.

Sidenote: I went through these old books to find the pictures since google was no help and one has an inscription wishing me a happy 4th birthday, and one has me trying to write my name and it is the most stiltedly awkward penmanship ever and my gosh that's the cutest thing 🥺

118 your favourite short story collection

Hoo.. I don't read a lot of those but when I was in high school they would give out little paperbacks called "Färdlektyr" with assorted short stories and poems and I always looked forward to that semester's edition, does that count?

124 the book you’re currently reading

I started on The Forest Of Stars by Heather Kassner a while back, and realised that the first 5 chapters do not live up to my hopes and so have not read anything since I had to put it down at the end of a lunch break OTL

These were a lot to do in one sitting! I did take a short break for dinner, but otherwise I did do it all in one go, please be happy? :*

#ask me stuff #books #krippe90 #the night circus #the starless sea #which witch #game of thrones #a storm of swords #harry potter #the glass lake #pride and prejudice #narnia #chronicles of narnia #the last battle #the witches #rhett butlers people #gone with the wind #jane eyre #the demons lexicon #hobbitsus #The Eyre Affair #the deeds of Paksenarrion #interview with the vampire #mists of avalon #a hundred pieces of me #bland tomtar och troll

[paxesoterica]

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury reminded me that I actually do enjoy watching anime, and since I have a bit of a backlog of ones I’ve either watched a few episodes or haven’t started at all, I was inspired by this post to make a scorecard of anime that I intend to watch over the course of this year.

My self-imposed rules are I will not start any other anime before I have finished these 16 (with the exception of Witch from Mercury, see below), I will be watching them with Japanese voice acting and subs, and that, gvien my experience with watching Witch from Mercury on a weekly basis, I won’t try to binge and instead watch an episode or two each day, since that will fit better into how busy life can get, and also give me more time to really think about what I just watched before moving on.

The shows above are listed in chronological order of release (1979-2023), but not the order I’ll necessarily watch them in (I like having the freedom to pick and choose), with additional notes below:

1.) Mobile Suit Gundam (1979; dir. Yoshiyuki Tomino): A more experienced Gundam fan who is also fond of Revolutionary Girl Utena recommended this and War in the Pocket (see below) if I was curious about other Gundam shows. Since I’ve been meaning to watch some older anime for awhile anyway, this seemed like a good series to start with, especially with its historical importance to the medium. I have previewed the first episode and I think it holds up well so far. I will only be watching the 43 episodes of the original anime at this time, so not the movie compilations or the sequel series like Zeta or ZZ (yet).

2.) Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (1989; dir. Fumihiko Takayama): I mentioned that I would permit myself freedom to choose the watch order, but since War in the Pocket is a side-story set around the same period as Mobile Suit Gundam, I feel it would be better to watch the former after the latter, so that I’ll have a better understanding of the setting.

3.) Goldfish Warning! (1991; dir. Junichi Sato): Goldfish Warning! has an interesting history, in that it’s something of a predecessor to Sailor Moon: the latter would reprise the former’s timeslot, much of its staff (including the director and his assistants, among which was a young Kunihiko Ikuhara), and a similar style of slapstick comdey. As a bonus, I’m 99% certain that one of the leads, Chitose Fujinomiya, would serve as inspiration for the Revolutionary Girl Utena character, Nanami Kiryuu. I will be watching both the 45 episode anime series and its accompanying film.

4.) Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995; dir. Hideaki Anno): The thing that piqued my interest in this show was a short review that I read years ago (don’t remember when or where), and that may have been translated from Japanese iirc. The review talked about how gender roles in Eva were inverted compared to mecha shows that came before it, such as how Shinji acted more like stereotypical female characters from such shows, while Asuka acted like what you’d expect from stereotypical male characters. I don’t know how true that observation is, but it stuck with me, and I’ll be keeping an eye out for that. I will be watching the original 26 episodes as well as the End of Evangelion film. I’m debating if I also want to include the Rebuild of Evangelion films, but I’m currently leaning towards watching those sometime later.

5.) FLCL (2000; dir. Kazuya Tsurumaki): I watched the first four episodes at a con, but never finished, so I’ll be doing a rewatch from the first episode. I’ll be watching the original OVA series, but leave the sequel seasons for another time.

*6.) Princess Tutu (2002; dir. Junichi Sato & Shogo Koumoto): I needed to watch this anime after watching an amv of it titled Dance of Death (it’s got spoilers, including for what I’m assuming are the last episodes, but if you don’t mind that or have already seen it, I highly recommend giving it a gander). I watched ‘til around episode 16~ until real life interrupted, so I’m starting over and watching it from the beginning. This is the first of the three shows I’m currently watching, and up next is Ep. 02.

7.) Michiko & Hatchin (2008; dir. Sayo Yamamoto): Multiple reviewers I trust said it was good, the setting and premise sound pretty different from anime norms, and I’m intrigued by the bit of trivia that apparently the director made it explicitly for office ladies to enjoy after coming home from their shift.

8.) Star Driver (2010; dir. Takuya Igarashi): Pretty sure I learned about Star Driver from this chart tracing the work of some of the members of Be-Papas (not *everything* anime-related comes back to Revolutionary Girl Utena, but a lot of it does, yeah  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). I’ll be watching the series, but I’m not sure about the movie since apparently it’s a compilation film, so I’ll have to think about it.

9..) Penguindrum (2011; dir. Kunihiko Ikuhara & Shouko Nakamura): I’ve heard mixed opinions on this one, but it’s an Ikuhara-directed anime so I want to watch regardless, and form my own opinions about it. I’ll watch the 24 episodes, but I’m not sure about the Re:cycle films that came out recently.

10.) Mob Psycho 100 (2016; dir. Yuzuru Tachikawa, Takahiro Hasui): Someone made a vhs recording of the show’s first OP that ran on loop, and that was apparently enough to lodge itself in my brain. I watched the first season and a couple episodes of the second, until real life interrupted, so I’ll start fresh and watch all three seasons, plus the two OVAs that were apparently made.

11.) Sarazanmai (2019; dir. Nobuyuki Takeuchi & Kunihiko Ikuhara): Another Ikuhara-directed anime. I was halfway through before real life interruptions, but watching 11 episodes should be relatively easy.

12.) Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (2020; dir. Mitsue Yamazaki): In retrospect, I slept on this show, as I hadn’t realized it was another comedy by the director of Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, not to mention that the premise is a nice subversion of a classic fantasy trope.

13.) Shadows House (2021; dir. Kazuki Ouhashi): I dug the gothic fantasy vibe I got from the review I read. I will be watching both seasons.

*14.) Bocchi the Rock! (2022; dir. Keiichirou Saitou): Repeatedly saw the protagonist compared to Suletta Mercury due to social anxiety, and am staying for the show’s willingness to experiment with animation. This is the second of the three shows I’m currently watching, and up next is Ep. 05.

*15.) Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022; dir. Hiroshi Kobayashi & Ryou Andou): The whole reason I started watching this show was this post. And now I have brainrot am perfectly normal about this show. Starting with Ep. 02, I watched this show every Sunday it was out, and intend to resume doing so in April. It is possible that I might not be able to finish this show in 2023, since previous Gundam shows have run about ~50-ish episodes, and this show’s predecessor, Iron-Blooded Orphans, was initially slated to run only 25 episodes, only to reveal that the show length had been doubled in what would have been the last episode. So, I’ll finish Witch from Mercury in either 2023 or 2024.

*16.) The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady (2023; dir. Shingo Tamaki): Another lead compared to Suletta, this time due to rescuing a bride from her jerk fiance and being really gay. This is the third of the three shows I’m currently watching, and up next is Ep. 04.

#anime #mobile suit gundam #mobile suit gundam 0080: war in the pocket #goldfish warning! #kingyo chuuihou! #neon genesis evangelion #flcl #princess tutu #michiko & hatchin #star driver #penguindrum #mob psycho 100 #sarazanmai #sleepy princess in the demon castle #shadows house #bocchi the rock! #mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury #the magical revolution of the reincarnated princess and the genius young lady #my writing

[cuprohastes]

Lunch In Space Part 5

To be fair, the two Tsin med-tech were being really quite considerate. It's a Tsin thing.

The Tsin eat their honored dead, and thus, the question of whether they could persuade the Human Admin team to let me be dinner was kind of an indicator of high regard.

Either that or the Caf was out of Grottled Greebs and they were snacky.

They also were the techs there to keep the medbay hardware running and not the people who were allegedly treating my case of non-fatal death, so they get a pass on not noticing I was still alive.

The fact I was sitting up without any large chunks falling off told me that the how-to revival guide had been used and nobody had tried throwing hot water on me.

The actual medical team arrived in short order, no doubt alerted by one of the machines that was attached, or possibly by the brief screaming fit from the Tsin.

After an hour or so I was feeling much better, and me and my new tech buddies were shooting the breeze about the station, which had stopped falling apart.

"It's the space squid." I told them.

They politely indicated that I was obviously deranged.

"No really... Say did they bring in all the stuff that was with me? There were a couple of busted batteries."

"I dunno. I guess?" Said one who I'd decided to call Gnax, since that was what he introduced himself as. The other was Gwingbit, by which I determined they were a small male and a small female. Large females traditionally get descriptive names like Walks-In-Sunlight, over in Admin.

Gnax pulled out a tablet and held it in his upper right hand and checked. "Yeah. We grabbed everything in case... you know."

In case it turned into an inquest. 

"Sure but uuuuh, you really need to grab those batteries before they get recycled, they may still have evidence - the same thing that got the station got me".

Gnax scampered out eagerly. I got the feeling he was excited to be part of the big story and that his day-to-day wasn't very interesting. While he did that, Gwingbit sidled closer. For someone who looks vaguely like a four armed pangolin with ears way too close to their nose, the body language is often surprisingly human.

"So uh, you know Strong-Like-Sunlight?" She said.

"I cannot say I do... or," I said getting a suspicion, "I might not know that name?"

Gwingbit muttered, "Dave The Human". 

Oh right, Dave's actually a Large Female - Not that they're much bigger than the Small females. The names don't really translate well, so it's a sort of... For Dumb Humans label. Tsin have four genders, and I have very politely never asked about how that works. 

I never thought of Dave as anything but one of the Daves, but from what I know, I suspect she's actually kind of all that and a purple breadroll by Tsin standards.

"Oh, I'll tell her you said hi!" I told Gwingbit making her day, and then clammed up because Gnax trundled back with a cart, upon which were the smashed batteries. 

I had a vague memory of trying to feed my space squid one before going under. 

The induced hypothermia pretty much conserved my oxygen and power past the projected point of death, but reading between the lines, everything was tapped out by the time the rescue drone caught up. I got lucky.

We peered at the batteries, and the two Tsin made subtle "crazy human" gestures at each other, so I grabbed one and peered into it. Nothing. 

I picked up the other... well well! I dug my thumbs in and eased the already split case open, and lo and behold, there was my little buddy the space squid, tentacles curled, evidently napping after having snacked on the good stuff.

Gnax said something that the translator declined to provide a translation for but it was probably "oh snap" or "Gosh!".

"Who's the crazy human now, huh?!" I said with glee then screamed and dropped Squiddy because he just unfurled and tentacled my fingers a bit.

He tucked and rolled and we stuffed him in a plastic storage tub. I dropped the battery in and then we all looked at each other and felt dumb because this guy and his friends had eaten the station apart, so maybe a little plastic tub was not the impermeable barrier we hoped.

Squiddy on the other hand explored a bit, using it's little silvery tentacles to pet around the tub while we watched and made videos, then went back to nibbling the splayed open battery. 

We could see the little grinder it was using to snarf down little flakes.

I was very glad it was a dry battery or we might have had a nasty leak.

And about then, Raxy came screaming in.

You ever heard an Atrix screaming? Not reccomended. For a start, when you see a little guy on his own, it means that things are bad. And I knew Raxy so this was going to be something bad happening to someone I knew.

I knew it was Raxy, he was still wearing his jumper. I - in my spiffy paper pants and shirt - leapt off the bench and almost twisted an ankle. 

"Where's Gondy?!" I screeched and Raxy grakked at me, about a tenth of which I got, and hit turbo mode, doing a u-turn and heading out.

I am a highly trained EVA specialist. I can tell a "Timmy fell down the Well" scenario, and I was already moving. 

"Call the emergency response team" I yelled as I hurled after the small lizard. There was only really going to be one thing this could be - Gondy was hurt or in trouble.

Three turns and a sprint later he hit one of the bulkheads to a damaged section. The airlock was closed, but through the window I could see Gondy floating just beyond the airlock door on the other side. She was feebly pawing at her helmet which... Grak in a basket, it was cracked and leaking!

I yanked the lever for the airlock, closing the far door and crash equalised the pressure, hauling the door open before the atmosphere had stopped being misty and ploughed in, bare-foot into the freezing cold room to take a closer look. 

I was sure Gondy was still alive but I could see she was in a bad way. I couldn't tell if it was an impact or one of the space squid.

"Where's the emergency team?!" I screamed - Gnax was screaming into his tablet and Gwingbit was hauling the emergency cart towards us.

Well, clearly this was not going fast enough and given the fairly traumatic colours Raxy was displaying, he shared my opinion. 

I looked him in the eye and said with a calmness I didn't feel; "I'm going out." And then scooped the little guy up and bowled him out the airlock and pulled the door shut, panted deep and hard while I braced... and blew the atmosphere.

OK so things got unpleasant fast. When you crash dump the air out of an airlock, it vents both up and and down from the station, not out the door. 

It takes about ten seconds and then the door lock releases and it automatically opens - It's designed on the assumption that if you just pulled the lever for an emergency vent, you really need to get out fast. Think Fire.

Anyway about now my hands were swelling up, and it felt like I was drowning - Pretty much the case since I was screaming, and my lungs were filling with a froth, which itself was expanding and evaporating.

Top tip: Don't try and hold your breath when you depressurise. It will kill you even worse than vacuum exposure, and that's saying something.

In low pressure, water boils and freezes at the same time and I was exhaling all the water that had been keeping my tissues nice and plump.

You don't want to know what it felt like on my eyes. Or my skin.

About now I had maybe thirty seconds before I was dead. Maybe half that before i lost the ability to move.

I lunged and wrapped my arms around Gondy's leg, hauled her into the airlock by yanking back as hard as I could.

As she slid in and the gravity field hooked her she hit the floor and slid... I already was staggering over, mostly blind and kind of hooked my forearm around the big emergency lever: Designed for anyone in a spacesuit to operate: Thank my lucky stars it was, because my hands were swollen up too far to use my fingers.

I wondered why I was still screaming, and realsied the door was shut and the air was flooding back in. I yawped like crazy to equalise the pressure on my ears, tongue swollen up kind of hilariously. I mean I'd laugh but I was having problems breathing around it. Come to think of it, it might be because I just blew out a lot of tiny blood vessels in my lungs too. I wondered if my lungs might be filling with blood. 

The inner door opened to show two horrified Tsin. I walked past them and then passed out mid step.

When I woke up, I felt like I'd been sand blasted and there were a lot of tubes in places that didn't normally have tubes.

There's a joke about nurses installing new holes in you if you're not polite and at some point I must have said something bad about coffee, because someone had come along and punched an exciting number of new orifices into me.

I also had a fanclub.

My two adoring Tsin were practically glued to my side, and Gwingbit was making those soft little chirps which is the Tsin way of beaming so wide the top of your head comes off.

"You guys really are space orcs!" She squeeped. "Nobody believes it. you walked into a vacuum, like..." she waved. "If I didn't have the video, they'd never believe it! You're like a... a... I don't know! In one day you got hit so hard it tore the docking rail off, then you discovered the things that ate all the seals on the modules... And then you ran out of air and got frozen and just got up from being dead. And and and then you walked into space and just grabbed Atrix..."

"She's called Gondolier Dottirsdottir. Picked it this morning" I rasped. Wow. This morning? Less than 10 hours ago.

"... and Strong-Like-Sunlight came in to see you..." Gwingbit added. Ah. There we go.

They saved Gondy. Her helmet got cracked by high velocity crap that punched through the wall, stunning her and giving her a slow leak. I don't know how much longer she had but when they got her helmet off, she'd already taken some damage to her eye and face. 

Luckily, not more damage than we can deal with, though she was blind in one eye for a month. 

I got off lightly! My skin peeled off like a sunburn and I had to spend time on a ton of steroids and on extra oxygen since I slightly freeze dried most of my lungs and throat.

As for the space squid? As near as we can tell they're a Von Neumann machine. They mine, replicate and use a distributed network. They might even be smart, if you get enough together!

When they hit the station they just saw a big lump of something useful and started by stripping out all the most useful things they could find. Which largely was the stuff that held the place together.

There's a frequency they don't like. They poured off the station like you wouldn't believe once we blipped it at them. Who figured that out I don't know.

As for me? Now I just have to live with everyone wearing t-shirts that say "EVA 43: Just Going Out."

They couldn't have used my name? 

#HASO #humans are space orcs #humans are deathworlders #Humans being weird little guys #EVA 43 #Lunch in space #Lunch in space part 5 #atrix #tsin

[mermaidsirennikita]

Have ypu read HR where the heroine is as thristy as the hero? I love the hero being so down for the heroine but there is something so good about a heroine being all "look at that beautiful mouth, those long legs and very stromg arms" he looks so hot trying to to take my virtue away from me kind of thing

Yes, definitely!

In A Rogue's Rules for Seduction by Eva Leigh (which is a second chance romance--he left her at the altar) the heroine is, however reluctantly because she wants to stay mad at him, obsessed with the hero's bigness, his thighs. At one point he's in a toga for this little skit they're doing and she's basically a trembling mess. It's great.

When a Girl Loves an Earl by Elisa Braden has a heroine who's obsessed with the big, strong, silent Scottish hero (though, because he's kind of been trained to disguise his accent, she doesn't know that he's Scottish until they're literally on the way to get married lol). He's very resistant at first for Reasons, but she makes her obsession and lust super known.

The Temptation of a Highlander by Elisa Braden also has this, another big Scottish heroine. But this one is arguably funnier because she's always accidentally saying double entendres to him, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, because she's just too horny and it keeps slipping out. Like "haha you're such a big man, you could probably break me in half" and everyone at the dinner table is like O_O.

Rules for a Proper Governess by Jennifer Ashley has a lower class heroine who sees the upper class (stern lawyer, much older than her) hero and becomes besotted with his sternness and coolness, and basically claws her way into becoming his kids' governess. She's SOOOO into him. And fortunately, he, very guiltily, is soooo into her. The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie is also really good on this level, Beth writes in journal about how into Ian she is lol.

Olivia and The Masked Duke by Grace Callaway has a very young heroine who sees the hero *doing things* to another woman and decides she must have him. He's her father's friend and is like "noooo" (yeeeees). This is a lot of Grace Callaway books--I would also recommend Glory and The Master of Shadows on this level.

My Dirty Duke by Joanna Shupe also has this, but the age gap is much bigger (for Olivia it's like... she's 18-20 and he's 32; this this book she's 20 and he's like 43 lmao). He's her dad's bestie and is all "no nope not happening" but she PERSISTS.

The Hunter by Monica McCarty has this; the hero is sent in to basically extricate the heroine (who is disguised as a nun) from a spy mission, and she becomes determined to have him. The Arrow has this even moreso; the hero is the heroine's ward after he rescued her from an attack that left her orphaned when she was 15ish. Years later, he returns when she's around 20 (he's 30ish) and tries desperately to resist her while she pursues him.

I think The Raven Prince (widowed heroine, she's his employee, she gets aggressively angry when he visits a brothel and begins to disguise herself as one of the sex workers in order to get into bed with him) and The Leopard Prince (she's an heiress, he's her steward, they begin an illicit affair) by Elizabeth Hoyt will give you these vibes.

Lord of Temptation by Lorraine Heath has a heroine who initially is resistant to the rakish piratical hero, but quickly succumbs despite being kinda uptight, because he DOES IT for her. They start an affair even though she's on the brink of getting engaged to another man; she's super obsessed with him and he slips into her room a lot.

I gotta say, my current reread (re-listen?) to Between the Devil and Desire by Lorraine Heath.... really has this, lol. Like, Jack and Olivia are very enemies to lovers, but beneath that she is EXTREMELY physically attracted to him from the jump, even though she super doesn't want to be and is UPSET about it. Like, she's just watching him, thinking about what he looks like in the bath, lingering over his body, getting drunk and asking him to kiss her. She had a very withholding marriage before, and he really awakens her just by existing lol.

Never Seduce a Scot by Maya Banks is charmingly this. The hero and heroine have an arranged marriage, but she's deaf and nobody realizes this so they think she's "daft". The hero doesn't want to sleep with someone who doesn't have the capacity to consent (give him a medal I guess?) so he's like "nah she and I are sleeping in separate bedchambers, I am not touching her even though she's so pretty" and she's so insistent on this NOT being the case that she like forcibly drags her trunks into his room and he finds her sleeping in his bed, waiting for him lmao. It gets much worse for him when he finds her bathing in the river and she realizes he's into it.

Obviously, Sierra Simone's Ivy Leavold trilogy of novellas is super erotic, and Ivy Leavold really wants to get with her employer from jump lol.

The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe. Nellie and Lockwood are enemies at first, but they're also equally physically obsessed with each other, lol.

#romance novel blogging #book recs

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TORNEIO BRASILEIRÍSSIMA

1. Mel, a minha vira-lata caramelo

2. A Urna Eletrônica

3. Capitu (Doma Casmurro e Capitu)

4. Emília (Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo)

5. Cuca (separo Sítio e Cidade Invisível?)

6. Mula sem cabeça

7. A Compadecida (Fernanda Montenegro)

8. Geni (e o Zepelim)

9. Lisbela (e o Prisioneiro)

10. Iara

11. Vovó Juju (Irmão do Jorel)

12. Morgana (castelo ra tim bum)

13. Carminha (Avenida Brasil)

14. Naraze Tedesco (Senhora do Destino)

15. Jezebel (Chocolate com Pimenta)

16. Matinta Pereira

17. Loira do banheiro

18. Olga (Chocolate com Pimenta)

19. Flora e Donatella (A Favorita)

20. Lu da Magalu

21. Fátima e Sueli (Entre Tapas e Beijos)

22. Cabeleira Negra (Turma da Mônica)

23. Morgana (Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum)

24. Seleste (Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum)

25. Jade (O Clone)

26. Dra. Carolina Alencar (Sob Pressão)

27. Aninha (Chocolate com Pimenta)

28. Catarina (O Cravo e a Rosa)

29. Penha (Cheias de Charme)

30. Vani (Os Normais)

31. Ellen (Cobras e Lagartos)

32. Dona Flor (Sona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos)

33. Bebel (Paraiso Tropical)

34. Aurélia Camargo (Senhora de José de Alencar)

35. Tainá (Uma Aventura na Amazônia)

36. Mônica (Turma da Mônica)

37. Xica da Silva

38. Dona Jura (O Clone)

39. Dona Etelvina Mãe do Beiçola (A Grande Família)

40. Dona Hermínia (Minha Mãe é uma Peça)

41. Caipora (Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum)

42. Sarah, a Sandy (Acquaria)

43. Dona Benta (Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo)

44. Tia Nastácia (Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo)

45. Ana Júlia (da música Ana Julia)

46. Jennifer (da música)

47. Magda (Sai de Baixo)

48. Nenê (A Grande Família)

49. Cristina (Alma Gêmea)

50. Magali (Turma da Mônica Jovem)

51. Mônica (Turma da Mônica Jovem)

52. Eva (da música minha pequena Eva)

53. A moça do leite moça

54. Polca (de ilha ra Tim bum)

55. Nhã nhã nhã (Ilha ra Tim bum)

56. Chayenne de Cheias de Charme

57. Sol (Malhação: Sonhos)

58. As Empreguetes

59. Juma (Pantanal)

60. Josiane de (A Dona do Pedaço)

61. Escrava Isaura

62. Cachorra Baleia

63. Xabel (Turma da Mônica)

64. Tina (Turma da Mônica)

65. A Cartomante (A Cartomante)

66. Duda (Tromba Trem)

67. Chanel (Gui e Estopa)

68. Lilica Repilica

#Torneio Brasileiríssima #long post

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this might be a too much to ask, but can we get the names of the sims you posted? they are all very beautiful and amazing ❤❤❤❤

I can definitely answer that for you! I'll have to answer under read more because it's gonna be a long post. I don't know if others wanna go through that on their dash lkhaldf So click on the read more link below! 😉⤵

1: Don Lothario (he/him) 2: Johnny Zest (he/him) 3: Yesenia Baugh (she/her) 4: Penny Pizzazz (she/her) 5: Dina Caliente (she/her) 6: Nina Caliente (she/her) 7: Paolo Rocca (he/him) 8: Marcus Flex (he/him)

9: Eva Capricciosa (she/her) 10: Jade Rosa (she/her) 11: Dominique Rojas (he/him) 12: Michael Smith (he/him) 13: Salim Benali (he/him) 14: Roman Conner (they/them) 15: Maria Conner (she/her) 16: Estevan Moya (he/him)

17: Jacinta Banks (she/her) 18: Seraphina Carrasco (she/her) 19: DeMario Humphrey (he/him) 20: Iniya Advani (she/her) 21: Jules Dupree (he/him) 22: Tatum Long (he/him) 23: Sabrina Ernst (she/her) 24: Lukas Power (he/him)

25: Thorne Bailey (he/him) 26: Octavia Moon (she/her) 27: Clio Bailey (she/her) 28: Dorian De La Cruz (he/him) 29: Zola Fiorello (she/her) 30: Giovanni Fiorello (he/him) 31: Jared Q Grimes (he/him) 32: Jordan Mayer (she/her)

33: Dante Lothario (he/him) 34: Bruna Lothario (she/her) 35: Johnson Ready (he/him) 36: Martin Wall (he/him) 37: Candy Behr (she/her) 38: Yuki Behr (she/her) 39: Adriana Lothario (she/her) 40: Nicolo Lothario (he/him)

41: Dirk Dreamer (he/him) 42: Aubrey Epperson (he/them) 43: Sean Sullivan (he/him) 44: Holly Vinedal (she/her) 45: Raj Khemlani (he/him) 46: Lacey Stiles (she/her) 47: Kalista Kalid (she/her) 48: Olivia Stewart (they/them)

49: Moose DuBros (he/him) 50: Brock Hackett (he/him) 51: Haven Upton (she/her) 52: Jasna Upton (she/her) 53: Carley Otto (she/her) 54: Moshe Starks (he/him) 55: Cherish Gann (she/her) 56: Willow Crawley (she/her)

57: Dudley Landgraab (he/him) 58: Mimi Landgraab (she/her) 59: Hank Goddard (he/him) 60: Pauline Wan (she/her) 61: Nancy Landgraab (she/her) 62: Geoffrey Landgraab (he/him) 63: Malcolm Landgraab (he/him) 64: Brytani Cho (she/her)

#💙 #anonymous #asks #loooooooong post #i'm thinking i might create a characters page or something #with like mini bios and such #mostly my own visual notes #idk just a thought hmm

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YU 100: Najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike

1. Odbrana i poslednji dani, Idoli, 1982. Srbija

2. Paket aranžman, Idoli, Šarlo akrobata, Električni orgazam, 1981. Srbija

3. Time, Time, 1972. Hrvatska

4. Korni grupa, Korni grupa, 1972. Srbija

5. Azra, Azra, 1980. Hrvatska

6. Sunčana strana ulice, Azra, 1981. Hrvatska

7. Pljuni istini u oči, Buldožer, 1975. Slovenija

8. Filigranski pločnici, Azra, 1982. Hrvatska

9. Dnevnik jedne ljubavi, Josipa Lisac, 1973. Hrvatska

10. Bitanga i princeza, Bijelo dugme, 1979. BiH

11. Bistriji ili tuplji čovek biva kad…, Šarlo akrobata, 1981. Srbija

12. Indexi, Indexi, 1974. BiH

13. Sa druge strane jastuka, Bajaga i instruktori, 1985. Srbija

14. Kad bi bio bijelo dugme, Bijelo dugme, 1974. BiH

15. Probaj me, Oliver Mandić, 1981. Srbija

16. Kost u grlu, Riblja čorba, 1979. Srbija

17. Šta bi dao da si na mom mjestu, Bijelo dugme, 1975. BiH

18. Partibrejkers, Partibrejkers, 1985. Srbija

19. Mrtva priroda, Riblja čorba, 1981. Srbija

20. Treći svijet, Haustor, 1984. Hrvatska

21. Leb i sol, Leb i sol, 1978. Makedonija

22. Još jučer samo na filmu a sada i u vašoj glavi, Film, 1981. Hrvatska

23. Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti, Riblja čorba, 1981. Srbija

24. Distorzija, Električni orgazam, 1984. Srbija

25. Bezdan, Đorđe Balašević, 1986. Vojvodina

26. S vetrom uz lice, Ekatarina Velika, 1986. Srbija

27. Sviđa mi se da ti ne bude prijatno, Disciplina kičme, 1983. Srbija

28. Bijelo dugme, Bijelo dugme, 1984. BiH

29. Haustor, Haustor, 1981. Hrvatska

30. S vremena na vreme, S vremena na vreme, 1975. Srbija

31. Eto! Baš hoću!, Bijelo dugme, 1976. BiH

32. Zeleni Zub na Planeti dosade, Disciplina kičme, 1989. Srbija

33. Kao kakao, Leb i sol, 1987. Makedonija

34. Malinkonija, Oliver Dragojević, 1977. Hrvatska

35. Doživjeti stotu, Bijelo dugme, 1980. BiH

36. Crno bijeli svijet, Prljavo kazalište, 1980. Hrvatska

37. Pozitivna geografija, Bajaga i instruktori, 1984. Srbija

38. Ako priđeš bliže, Zdravko Čolić, 1977. BiH

39. Bolero, Haustor, 1985. Hrvatska

40. Crna dama, Smak, 1977. Srbija

41. Leb i sol II, Leb i sol, 1978. Makedonija

42. Čovjek kao ja, Arsen Dedić, 1969. Hrvatska

43. Istina, Riblja čorba, 1985. Srbija

44. Mojoj mami umesto maturske slike u izlogu, Rani mraz, 1979. Vojvodina

45. Tajni grad, Haustor, 1988. Hrvatska

46. Čokolada, Idoli, 1984. Srbija

47. Ne cvikaj, generacijo, Atomsko sklonište, 1978. Hrvatska

48. Hoćemo gusle, Rambo Amadeus, 1989. Crna Gora

49. Spavaćeš sam, Viktorija, 1988. Srbija

50. Modra rijeka, Indexi, 1978. BiH

51. Sve najbolje, Oliver Mandić, 1987. Srbija

52. Time II, Time, 1975. Hrvatska

53. Pljuni i zapjevaj, moja Jugoslavijo, Bijelo dugme, 1986. BiH

54. Pruži mi ruku ljubavi, Pro arte, 1970. BiH

55. Izlog jeftinih slatkiša, Buldožer, 1980. Slovenija

56. Ručni rad, Leb i sol, 1979. Makedonija

57. YU zlato, YU grupa, 1973. Srbija

58. Jahači magle, Bajaga i instruktori, 1986. Srbija

59. Najjači ostaju, Neca Falk, 1978. Slovenija

60. Kiselina, Pop mašina, 1973. Srbija

61. Prljavo kazalište, Prljavo kazalište, 1979. Hrvatska

62. YU grupa, YU grupa, 1973. Srbija

63. Smak, Smak, 1975. Srbija

64. Buvlja pijaca, Riblja čorba, 1982. Srbija

65. Svi za mnom!, Disciplina kičme, 1986. Srbija

66. Pub, Đorđe Balašević, 1982. Vojvodina

67. Signali u noći, Film, 1985. Hrvatska

68. Katarina II, Katarina II, 1984. Srbija

69. Sva čuda svijeta, Film, 1983. Hrvatska

70. Film u Kulušiću - Live, Film, 1981. Hrvatska

71. VIS Idoli, Idoli, 1981. Srbija

72. Na svoji strani, Lačni Franz, 1986. Slovenija

73. Kako bubanj kaže, Električni orgazam, 1984. Srbija

74. Koncert kod Hajdučke česme, Bijelo dugme, 1977. BiH

75. Prisluškivanja, Eva Braun, 1992. Vojvodina

76. Ravno do dna, Azra, 1982. Hrvatska

77. Plitka poezija, Pekinška patka, 1980. Srbija

78. Moje bube, Suncokret, 1977. Srbija

79. Prodavnica tajni, Bajaga i instruktori, 1988. Srbija

80. Večeras vas zabavljaju muzičari koji piju, Riblja čorba, 1984. Srbija

81. Adijo, pamet, Lačni Franz, 1981. Slovenija

82. Anđeli se dosađuju?, Parni valjak, 1987. Hrvatska

83. Osmi nervni slom, Riblja čorba, 1986. Srbija

84. Samo za zaljubljene, Drago Diklić, 1973. Hrvatska

85. U ime naroda, Riblja čorba, 1982. Srbija

86. LP-60993, Kamen na kamen, 1973. BiH

87. Das Ist Walter, Zabranjeno pušenje, 1984. BiH

88. Drugi način, Drugi način, 1975. Hrvatska

89. Kad nedjelja prođe, Xenia, 1983. Hrvatska

90. Od šanka do šanka, Andrej Šifrer, 1979. Slovenija

91. Mitovi i legende o kralju Elvisu, Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors, 1984. BiH

92. Pod sjajem zvezda, Vokalni kvartet Predraga Ivanovića, 1978. Srbija

93. Naši dani, Grupa 220, 1968. Hrvatska

94. 1941, Korni grupa, 1979. Srbija

95 Teška Industrija, Teška industrija, 1976. BiH

96 Kad fazani lete, Azra, 1983. Hrvatska

97. Napokon ploča, Poslednja igra leptira, 1982. Srbija

98. Kozmetika, Kozmetika, 1979. Srbija

99. Devet lakih komada, Čutura & Laki Band, 1988. Srbija

100. Ventilator 202: Demo Top 10, Razni izvođači, 1983.

#najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike #odbrana i poslednji dani #rokenrol #jugoslavija #jugonostalgija