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salchat · 1 year

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I went to Basingstoke Comic Con last Friday with my son Gregory - following a break in my chemo schedule due to emergency surgery resulting in fewer inside bits and an ileostomy. I'd thought I wouldn't be able to go - and it wasn’t easy, but I did it anyway.

Here’s what happened:

First I had my photo with Rachel Luttrell who was lovely and liked my feltie Teyla:

Then my son took the role of photographer for me in my Impala cosplay with Baby herself (or one of them)!

Then there were some strange clashes in the schedule - Stargate Q and A sessions when the Stargate guests were supposed to be signing autographs, so we weren’t sure who was going to turn up or how to be in two places at once. But in the end, it worked to our advantage, because nobody else was sure either, and so when Joe and Rachel came along, there was hardly anyone else there so we got more time and more conversation than we would have.

Joe remembered me from the Wales Comic Con in 2021, which I definitely wasn’t expecting and he said he still had the little book of drawings I gave him there! (It was a ridiculously stuffed little book - I’d gone way overboard.) He took a photo of my art and put it on his Instagram!

Then we went to Rachel’s table and she was really nice and liked my art and gave me her phone to put my Instagram name in. There was no one else at Joe’s table at that point so he was wandering about behind her and it was lovely just to see them interact as friends!

We managed to get Gary Jones next, who was really funny. I told him it was my son’s first Comic Con and he shook Gregory’s hand. But then he said, ‘No, that’s no good,’ and got up, came around the table and proceeded to give Gregs a lesson in firm handshakes. It was hilarious!

I’d wanted to draw all the guests but just didn’t have time, with all the chemo and being in hospital shenanigans, so had to use the photos provided, which were nice, if not the same.

Next, after some hanging around and listening to the Q and As (which were all really good and Michael Shanks just kept spinning on his stool and being really silly) we got Paul McGillion and Rainbow Sun Francks. They were both really lovely and nice to Gregory and, again, there were no queues so we had plenty of time!

Then we hit a bit of a hurdle because the day (and my energy) was running out and it didn’t look like Ben Browder or Michael Shanks were coming back. Michael had a private Meet and Greet going on but Gregs really wanted to meet him, in particular because he wanted to introduce his homemade Goa’uld.

But then somehow we ended up in an impromptu session in the hotel bar - just a handful of con-goers with Ben and Paul and Rainbow! And Paul came up to me and told me how much he liked my art, because a friend had brought one of my pictures to be signed and pointed me out! And then I got to sit down opposite Ben and have a little chat and he signed my art.

But we still hadn't got Michael Shanks. So I pestered various organisers until I found one who knew what to do. And she got us in on the end of his Meet and Greet and then when the meet-and-greeters had gone we had a little private session where he, predictably, attacked himself with Gregory's Goa'uld and then signed my art and then before he went (blush - hides behind hands) I got a kiss on the cheek! 🥰

So, a memorable day! And then we had the fun of trekking home from Basingstoke, through London, on costume, me in my Impala outfit and Gregs as my little Gate-mission-ready military escort. We should just dress like that all the time...

I hope you liked my little Con Diary, @massharp1971 and @colonelshepparrrrd and anyone else who's interested!

Thanks to @hermscat for getting me an extra key card for her hotel room so I could flake out when needed and for transporting us to the station!

#basingstoke comic con #stargate atlantis #supernatural #fanart

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inkyquince · 2 years

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Happy Birthday, Q!

This is a late present for @angrelysimpping the ultimate beloved's birthday!

content warning. threesome, Wremussy, sex toys, exhibitionism, Wren being a little shit but hey we love him for it.

It felt quieter when you woke up than when you went to sleep. The party booked at the hotel was loud, rambunctious with the usual shenanigans. Creeping hands, being pulled into dark corners, panting and moaning mingling with the clinking glasses and giddy laughter as white powder was patted off noses and notes.

Blinking a few times, stupidly, the first thing that you thought was that this was most definitely not Avery’s hotel room. Avery liked a particular room, with wide open windows and a nice creme pattern on the walls. Also, by now the shower would be running, there would be breakfast waiting on the nightstand, courtesy of room service, and the mess between your thighs long since cleaned up.

No, this room seemed higher up, meaning that the sound of traffic was fainter. Darker walls, heavy curtains with just a faint stream of sunshine coming through. You slowly sat up, wincing, somewhat confused in the darkness of the room, cum sticking thickly to your thighs. A low groan startled you from your side, making you glance down at the lump in the bed that you had looked over in the dark, the deep purple bed sheets doing nothing to help.

Freezing up a bit, you glanced around again, hands awkwardly hovering so as not to touch anything, or… Wake… Anyone. Who was obviously not Avery. Clothes scattered, in an not-Avery way, who preferred to fold his clothes before heading into the shower, and even then, he aimed to toss his clothes on a chair instead of the floor, or heaven’s forbid… The balcony? Someone’s boxers, also Not-Avery’s, were flung over the railing. Or maybe… Yes-Avery’s? There was a nice lacy trim. But Avery when not wearing Quinn-Special-Nights lingerie, then he wore something closer to boyshorts, cupping his… Assets spectacularly.

Wait… Quinn-Special-Nights. He preferred darker rooms, messier results, everything. Maybe you and Avery met him at the party? Maybe…

You leaned over just enough to slightly dip the bed, lightly catching the end of the silk sheet on your fingertips and tugged it down enough- Nope. Natural blonde hair, wavy against the pillow, not beautifully bleached.

“Fuck.” You whispered, glancing around. Avery’s going to kill you. You ditched him at a party he took you too! He’s going to bruise your ass black and blue with his belt again, at least if Quinn isn’t there, who prefers overstimulation after edging.

The soft, sleepy snort startled you out of your panicked reverie. Might as well bite the bullet- Oh…

A broad, tattooed hand idly twitched against the dark sheets before slowly dragging their blunt fingernails up, up, up to tug the fabric down, to uncover his face. First, the wayward blond curls tumbled out from beneath the silk, the slitted dark eyebrows. Soft brown eyes blinked up at you, only for them to bright, crows feet forming as you could tell he was smiling, his true smile… The one that reached his eyes.

“Sunshine.” Wren’s soft murmur was still audible underneath the fabric. “Really don’t get to see you in my bed in the morning a lot. Nice change.”

You blinked before snorting, despite yourself. He kicked the sheet off, revealing his naked form, but this was Wren, who you know lacked several degrees of shame, and instead revelled in it. Strong arms circled your bare waist and he tucked his face against the small of your back, hot breath fanning against your skin.

“... Do you remember last night?” You looked at his sleepy face over your shoulder, craning a bit to spot him nosing along your spine.

“I will never forget it.” Despite his shut eyes, his grin remained fiendish with the quick flash of teeth. “Looked real pretty getting passed around.”

You flushed and hid your face, small segments of the night coming back, dredged up slowly. Of course, the party was a special one, meaning it wasn’t just competitive ballroom dancing, it meant swapping partners, doing lines off backs, and very public fucking. Quinn, of course.

“So, we-”

“Yeaaaah.” Wren exhaled slowly on the word, smug. “A bunch of times. All over the room. On the balcony. That got us a few cheers.”

At least that meant you weren’t in trouble with Avery… Hopefully. He did like to share you around but he also liked to be the one to wake up next to you the next day after these sort of parties. You allowed Wren to pull you back down on the bed, pressing light, teasing kisses up the side of your neck, too lost in his whispers that you didn’t notice the sound of movement in the bathroom, the sound of a tub emptying of water. Didn’t notice until the door actually opened and Remy stepped out, dark hair soaked with water and a towel wrapped around his waist, held closed in his fist.

“Babe, look who's up.” Wren yawned, not entirely making clear who was “babe” in this situation.

Remy regarded you for a moment, water droplets still rolling down his sharp cheekbones, over his toned chest. His cool eyes dragged over your body, flicking to Wren’s, lingering on his soft cock before coming back to you, his gaze more appreciative than appraising. He finally turned away, glancing around for his own clothes as he made his way towards the bed, leaving damp footprints imprinted into the carpet.

“Start getting ready to leave, Wren.” The farmer said flatly, dropping his towel to instead pick up his boxers.

Wren gave a low whine, and his nuzzling turned into slow kisses up your back, hot tongue taking a moment to properly press against your pulse point.

“C’mon, not yet, boss. The room is paid up until tonight, and we don’t get to fuck on satin sheets a lot.”

“Silk.”

“Tomato, Potato.”

“That’s not how the saying goes, Wren.” Remy sighed through his nose, pulling his underwear on, hiding his ass from your and the smuggler’s interested gaze, admiring the finger marks and bites still littering it with gusto.

“Who cares,” He leaned across you, mouth still pressed against your throat and loudly slapped the Farmer’s pert ass, making the man in question almost jump out of his skin. “Main point is that you should slide those bad boys off and get back on the bed.”

Remy sighed through his nose and just fixed his partner with an unimpressed look.

“We have got to get back-”

“No, we don’t.” Wren gave your throat another nip before pressing his lips against yours, sighing into your mouth just before parting again. “The farm won’t catch fire while we’re not there, they know what to do.”

You felt the smuggler’s lips curve into a secretive smile against yours, his cock stirring in interest against your leg as you finally gave him your own peck.

“One fuck isn’t enough, y’know.” Wren murmured, eyes dark with his blond hair framing his face to make him look hungry.

“Well, it wasn’t just one.” Remy snapped, only for his ears to blush darkly, the exclamation having escaped him by accident.

“God no. Not just once.” The smuggler smirked, his hand drifting between your thighs, running over the cum still staining your sensitive skin. “Do you remember, sunshine? What fun we had when we got our hands on you?”

You felt yourself flush as he probed at the memory. Facing away, embarrassed, you could only catch Remy’s eye instead, his gaze finally returned to you. His expression matched Wren’s. Hungry for you to recall all the dirty things they did to you last night, as you more than happily gave yourself to them.

“The… Hallway.” You swallowed, still looking at Remy, even as Wren shifted and he crawled over your body, slowly kissing down your body, hands dragging over your sides. “You unlocked the door but Wren already… He pushed me against the wall and he…”

He pressed into you too easily, cum and lube making his thick cock pressing into you far too easy. The farmer snorted as he glanced back, unsurprised that Wren was the first one to buckle when it came to you. The moment you were fully sunk down to the base of his cock, he gave a slow thrust, more fixated on you rather than the people passing behind him, cat calling and cheering as he hitched your legs over his shoulders instead. Evil bastard walked after Remy, letting your poor hole twitch around his cock as he made his way into the room, locking the door behind him.

“You were so ready for me.” Wren kissed your pubic bone, soft snicker escaping his lips.

“Where else?” Remy interrupted, trying to hide his slowly hardening cock, tenting against his boxers.

“The balcony.” You said, breathlessly, as the smuggler’s tongue finally found your hole, lightly pressing it in.

Wren had just cum in you, having bounced you until completion while sitting on the chair on the balcony, when Remy readied the others “toys” on the bed. You didn’t even hear the farmer make his way outside, trousers slung low on his hips, just to lift you off his partner’s lap, despite the cum dribbling out and splattering on the floor and his slacks. The cold railing bit into your naked flesh, making you gasp, only for the noise to pitch into a moan as Remy also pushed into you. More cum dribbled out, streaking down your thigh, the other leg slung over the farmer’s shoulder as to properly press into you the entire way. The dizzying height, the distance to the ground had you tensing up, making Remy groan lowly, gripping your hips harder. You could just about hear the cheers and whistles from the ground as he rutted into you, his immediate pace brutal and punishing. His hip bones dug into your sensitive skin, the wet sound of his thrusts just making you whine all the more. One glance at Wren showed him already stroking himself back to full hardness, hazy grin and gaze fixed on you.

“Missing one last fuck location of the night, sunshine.” Wren breathed, withdrawing his tongue enough to speak before sinking it back into you, reaching one hand down to slowly jerk his cock.

You glanced from him back to Remy, who was tucking his boxers underneath his balls to free his cock, spitting into his own hand.

“The… The bed. With the toys.” You finally whispered.

“Of course.” The farmer gives a low sigh, caressing his cock.

“Which is due for a repeat, y’know.” Wren murmured, sitting up on his heels on the bed, slowly jerking his erection, eyes hungry.

Tied to the bed, ball gagged. Two cocks pressing into you, throbbing and fit to burst as the two men groaned and gripped you tightly, using you over and over again. Dizzying, overwhelming pleasure. In between two heaving chests, Wren at your back with Remy’s gloved hand gripping your chin so he could attack your sensitive lips with his teeth, leaving them swollen as his cock was roughly bullied into you repeatedly. The smuggler switched between rutting his cock against his partner’s in your stretched hole and just using your slicked up thighs to slide his throbbing cock between. Whenever they had to take a break, they’d pick up the complimentary sex toys Quinn had been handing out in little bags as “party favours” and would plug you up with whatever they could find. Wren’s giggle of delight had you worried but he just loosened your gag and tucked something sweet on your tongue. Sweetheart sweets.

“‘Cuz you’re sweet.” Wren grinned and kissed your forehead before ducking his head and dragging his tongue over your clavicle.

Remy just sighed, yet it wasn’t his usual one of annoyance. It was one of slow pleasure, and you shivered at the sound, hearing the faint slick noise of skin against skin.

“Like that, boss?”

“Wren..” He struggled to even utter his name, and the bed shifted again.

The plug was tugged out of you and you could tell Remy was moving back into position, this time resting most of his weight on you, settling in between your thighs. His teeth began their usual attack, now on your throat, littering it with love bites as his cock slowly pressed back into you. You felt Wren drop a kiss to your forehead before shifting back down, followed by a sharp inhale from Remy.

“Missed my cock, baby?”

“Shut… Up.” Remy muttered without any venom, his hands gripping your hips to pull you down on his cock more.

“What about you, sunshine? Excited to be a good little cockwarmer?”

“Wren…” You whined out softly and you felt Remy shiver above you.

The smuggler, luckily, was one of those guys who was all talk, but also all action. He delivered on his promises. His rough thrusts had Remy’s cock also throb and push repeatedly into you, despite the smaller man not moving that much, just gripping onto you and panting. You came faster than the both of them as the smuggler groaned and the farmer twitched and moaned, and everything settled into an overstimulated haze.

“C’mon boss. You had a great time.” Wren shot a grin at Remy, who just scowled at him.

Despite his annoyance at the teasing, he let the blond creep closer, ducking down to tongue at his already leaking slit. Remy struggled to look back at you as his partner took more of his cock in his mouth, but you weren’t about to be left out. The bed shifted as you crawled closer, resting your head on Wren’s thigh to kitten lick at his swollen balls, answered happily by his pleased hum. The unfamiliar feeling of the farmer’s ungloved hand made you start, but you spread your thighs as he sunk two fingers into you immediately, aided by last night’s cum.

“Let’s stay longer, Rems.” Wren murmured as he pulled off his spit slicked cock, and dropped a kiss to Remy’s bitten lips.

The farmer frowned, mulling it over, and was going to say no before you wrapped your fingers around his wrist, pressing his long fingers deeper inside of you with a sigh.

“Please?” You mumbled, still mouthing at Wren’s balls. “Stay?”

Remy tensed up, his fingers twitching inside of you, dark eyes fixing to yours for a moment.

“... Fine.”

#wremussy #wren the smuggler #remy the farmer #dol #degrees of lewdity #quincewrites #nsft #HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVE #so sorry its a day late but at 5am i packed it in for a couple of hours of sleep #BUT AH WELL #LOVE YA

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lasnevadaslaborunion · 2 years

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In honor of Jack Manifold Lore, i still maintain he should've been part of Las Nevadas. I want to see him and Q bounce off of each other, and given literally everything about his character arc, themes, and personality, he would've been 100% receptive to the "join my country or else no one will ever give a shit about you" sales pitch. And then we could've got Syndicate!Niki vs LN!Jack, it would've been perfect!

YES. YOU UNDERSTAND ME. I was about to write a post about this exact subject!

These two have quite a lot in common. The heartbreak and resentment over being abandoned or forgotten, the need for revenge on the person they blame for their problems, the ineffectiveness of said revenge, the frustration over never being listened to, the introspection that gets so close to the point before souring again... I've joked before that if you gave the same basic character concept to Vince Gilligan and Dan Povenmire, you would get c!Quackity and c!Jack as a result. But their personalities and broader motives are distinct enough that they would blend well as a comedic pair of different shades of villainy. Dramatic little shits, they are <3

c!Quackity wouldn't have needed to do much to convince him to join. Like you say, c!Jack is a character who feels overlooked and resents never being taken seriously - demons that c!Q shares. I think he would be clever enough to see through overt attempts at manipulation, but assuming that c!Q approached him with an honest partnership, there's a good chance he would have accepted. Hell, they even had a business alliance while c!Jack was in charge of the Big Innit Hotel, so the connection is already there to build off of.

Speaking of the hotel, what kind of conflict would their respective bonds with c!Tommy cause? c!Quackity wants him close by and safe, and c!Jack wants him dead. (Well, not really... he wants to be noticed and cared for. But I digress.) So I'm picturing a goofy side plot where c!Quackity is trying to convince c!Tommy to join the country as well, only for c!Jack's various falling piano traps that just barely miss to interrupt their proceedings and drive the new recruit away ("Awful lot of safety violations, aren't there?"). That alone could have been an entire stream of shenanigans, and perhaps we could squeeze some c!Jack and c!Wilbur interactions out of it as well...?

And I love your idea about LN!Jack vs. Syndicate!Niki. Though I get why it happened meta-wise, it always felt a little strange to me that this anarchist organization investigated Snowchester, an isolated and unobtrusive commune, but left Las Nevadas, a growing and far more unethical presence, entirely alone. It would be amazing to see a plotline where c!Niki is sent to investigate this new country, only to find her old friend there and... thriving? Languishing? Just sort of chugging along at a boring day job? However well c!Jack is faring in an environment like Las Nevadas, they're bound to come into conflict. What do they each think of what the other has become? Does c!Niki wonder if c!Jack is really happy living in a gambling nation? Does c!Jack feel betrayed by c!Niki leaving him behind to join a society of anarchists? Maybe they try to revive their friendship. Maybe a clash between the factions separates them again, or maybe they believe they're just too different now, or maybe they make up and start meeting for cake and tea. Lots of potential.

#asks #dsmp #c!jack manifold #c!quackity #c!tommy #c!niki #analysis #what could have been...

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championofwit · 9 months

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INTRO POST!!!

Hey Tumblr!! It's Marcy Wu, head of the chess club, master RTS player, and the first person to blog from a world of talking amphibians!! Yep, that's right - TALKING AMPHIBIANS!

I got sent to this weird place called Amphibia with my friends. We got zapped by this weird music box we... FOUND and BOUGHT from a thrift shop.

Anyways, enough of that!

ASK ME ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS!! I CAN TELL YOU SO MUCH ABOUT THE BUGS, THE FLOWERS, THE SPECIES-BASED CASTE SYSTEM HERE... oh man this is PARADISE!

Oh, and if anyone hears anything about my friends Anne and Sasha... could you tell me? I've been looking for them.

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OOC:

Hi everyone!! This is an RP blog run by @calamitydarcy :] more info in the "What's this?" page found here!! Copy-pasted contents under the cut for anyone who can't access it:

This is an Amphibia RP blog run by @calamitydarcy.

Other blogs in the group:

@amphibiangod – The Core

@Way-Too-Bright – Sasha Waybright

Q&A

Q: Who runs this blog?

A: Hey! I’m Aster (it/he/they) :] My main blog is @calamitydarcy, as listed above!

Q: Can I join?

A: Sure! Feel free to make an account for a character that’s not already here and hop on in :] Please be sure to message either @calamitydarcy or @sparkbugs to let us know if you do!

Q: Can I send asks/participate without creating my own RP account?

A: Of course! Feel free to send any of us asks or engage with us! That’s why we’re doing this on Tumblr, after all :]

Q: Do you have a planned storyline?

A: At the moment, not really! It’s currently just “what if Marcy figured out how to access Tumblr from Amphibia” and the resulting shenanigans and schemes.

Q: When in canon does this take place?

A: We’re starting sometime between Reunion and early season 2!

#amphibia #amphibia rp #marcy wu rp #marcy wu #intro post

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mintibunny · 1 year

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I posted 118 times in 2022

That's 118 more posts than 2021!

62 posts created (53%)

56 posts reblogged (47%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@autumnslance

@hear-feel-think

@driftward

@biot08

@sabbactroll

I tagged 97 of my posts in 2022

Only 18% of my posts had no tags

#final fantasy 14 - 79 posts

#final fantasy xiv - 75 posts

#final fantasy oc - 69 posts

#rava viera - 29 posts

#queue'd - 24 posts

#minti wol - 22 posts

#dark knight - 22 posts

#ffxiv - 16 posts

#duskwight elezen - 12 posts

#final fantasy viera - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 48 characters

#i'm intimidated by the butt pounder of the opera

My Top Posts in 2022:

Let resilience be associated with Sabbatine, this Warrior of Light, who perseveres. She nods in silent agreement on the eve of wargames with the cities of Eorzea, selected as the champion of Ishgard.

The common people of Ishgard sing through her guns. They stand shoulder to shoulder with the high-and-mighty knights of the Houses.

4 notes - Posted November 3, 2022

I answered this as Minti. I was surprised to see that it picked her out pretty accurately!

Your Result:

corruption arc

so. you got worse. and i'm not entirely sure i can blame you for it. maybe it was in you all along, hidden and waiting, or maybe someone planted it in you and watched it grow. either way, it's there now and you hold it in your fist like a second heart - this blood, this hunger, this thrill of having teeth and using them. perhaps you are right to. you are a mirror for the hardness of the world, and a mirror that we could all stand to look in more often. it's hard to watch the bleeding bring about more blood, but it is undeniable that you are very good at wounding.

Got tagged by @yzeltia

Tagging @windup-dragoon

5 notes - Posted December 6, 2022

Begin at the beginning.

Once upon a time, as many stories begin, there once lived a rava viera, a rabbit person, in the faraway land of Eorzea.

But she was not always a rabbit. Stories change. Fantasias change our Warriors of Light.

Bear with me.

....

A long-time World of Warcraft player, motivated by friends stuck in their homes due to COVID, decided to roll a character in Final Fantasy XIV, which is critically acclaimed, as anyone will tell you.

So did one Warrior's story began, after laughing at the angry voice lines, and adjusting the chest meter to max, and other character customization shenanigans. This elf would be a version of their troll, Sabbac.

And so, we must begin the story again.

....

Once upon a time, in the faraway land of Eorzea, a Duskwight Elezen stepped off a boat bound for the seaside city of Limsa Lominsa. She did not know that one day, she would become a rabbit. She was just a wide-eyed elf then, ready to begin her journey as an arcanist and full member of the Adventurer's Guild.

This was during Shadowbringers, before the Summoner reworkings in Endwalker.

She was not a hero yet. Leporidaezation was far off in the future.

6 notes - Posted October 26, 2022

*whispers softly nearby*

Roe-vember.

Should Minti go back to being a FemRoe? Lemme know!

8 notes - Posted November 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

And Now We Say Good-Night

Inspired by a Discord conversation. Featuring @driftward's character, Zoissette; Y'shtola; Thancred; and Minti Chocolate. Sprouts beware, spoilers for Endwalker are over there!

"I don't know what to tell you, other than that she's been lying on the fainting couch for hours, not really moving."

Minti Chocolate, one of Gage Acquisitions' newer viera employees, nervously shifted her feet in front of the two guests. She wasn't accustomed to talking to the Warrior of Light's entourage, much less former members of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. Riff-raff off the street looking for a fight? Easy. She was a seasoned adventurer; taking out the local goons was like blowing her nose. However, neither adventuring school, nor her boss, could prepare her for a visit from two of Eorzea's greatest heroes. Two thought crossed her mind, staring at their black, wizened staff and shining gunblade: I'd be dead before I hit the ground. And: the cat's smaller than I imagined. Best not to say those things aloud.

"It would be fair not to make any assumptions yet, Miss Chocolate," said Thancred Waters, handsome hyur of Ul'dah who traded breaking hearts for gunblades. He turned to his shorter companion. "Though it is rather odd that she hasn't awoken yet. When would you say she arrived at the free company house?"

"Nine bells in the morning, two days ago," replied Minti, confidently. "She ate, changed out of her armor, and excused herself to the common area downstairs. She was snoring for a little bit, but now she's gone quiet and hasn't gotten up at all."

"I see," said Y'shtola Rhul, noted miqo'te black mage and one of the Warrior of Light's closest confidants. "You'll permit me to attend her?"

Minti nodded. "Of course. If you'll come down the stairs to the common room? Mind the floor - the lizard is redecorating." She rolled her eyes. "Again." She rolled her eyes.

"The lizard?" asked Thancred as he descended the stairs.

"One of our company members. They're the resident decorator. They have an eye for perfection, which means that they're going to gut the floor and replace it with marble, or whispering stone, or that odd block Zoissette got from the Palace of the Dead. I could *swear* I've seen faces in it."

Thancred gave Y'shtola a bemused look before turning back to the viera. "Sounds like they're quite the character."

"They are!" Minti gestured over to the fainting couch, where an dark-haired elezen in a nightgown was sleeping peacefully. At least, they appeared to be peaceful. "And there's the princess herself. If you need anything, just call upstairs, someone will hear you. Probably."

With that, Minti went back up to the stairs and outside to the stables, where a naughty brown chocobo was doing their best to avoid a bath.

Y'shtola knelt down next to her friend and, with a gentle motion, brushed back stands of hair that'd fallen in front of their face. "These days have been rather hard on you, haven't they?" she said softly. "Our journey to the Thirteenth. Zero. The fiends. It's never easy being Her champion."

As far as the mage could tell, Zoissette's aether appeared as it should, changed though it had been since their first meeting. Nothing missing. No emptiness like that during the Final Days. "Your friends are worried about you, though. And, we need to go back to Radz-at-Han to discuss our findings with Nidhana. So don't think you can keep sleeping like Raha once did. You have work to do. We all do."

Before Y'shtola could get back up, Thancred was next to her with a blanket and hot stone. "I thought the 'princess' might appreciate a little extra comfort before she awakes. Tired herself out, has she?"

Y'shtola nodded. "Sleeping like a babe, our warrior of light. She'll wake soon, if she knows that we're waiting for her." She paused to drape the blanket over Zoissette, give a peck on the cheek, and a pat on the back. "Shall we go upstairs and sit? I'd like to see more of The Lizard's handiwork."

"If it'll help," said Thancred. "I could use some broadening of my Ul'dahn architectural knowledge."

"I didn't know you were such an appreciator."

"Neither did I. First time for everything, I suppose."

8 notes - Posted November 17, 2022

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tigertaurus22 · 2 years

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Concepts for a combined MegaMan x Star Trek Timeline

Or if Q took copies of each timeline and merged them together for funsies

I think the Command Mission Timeline lends itself better to the canonical events of Star Trek.

Duo, Ra Moon, the Stardroids and Sunstar were all made by the same ancient alien race but were part of different factions, like the Mavericks and the Hunters.

An offshoot of Sargon‘s people might have been responsible for their creation, and that of the ruins that Wily discovered on Earth.

Everything in the MegaMan timeline is relatively the same up until the events of WW3/the Eugenics Wars and Post-Atomic Horror. This is when the Robot Masters are either destroyed or fade into obscurity.

X and Zero’s resting places remain untouched until 2116, when X is found by Cain.

I imagine reploids would have a more prominent role in Earth’s advancements in space travel and the events of the MegaMan timeline would differ greatly as they are affected by events in the Star Trek timeline.

Reploids in the 2100s would’ve needed to be trained to work on a starship, attending some precursor to Starfleet Academy in order to join missions off world. It would be similar to NASA or the Air Force.

I can imagine Zero volunteering to join the crew of the Enterprise with Captain Archer in the early 2150s, making him the only Reploid on board and thus rendering the virus he carried unable to harm the organic crew. He could use it against some of the aliens though.

Zero probably wouldn’t require as much training as other new recruits, being an S-Class Maverick Hunter who’s been to space before, albeit briefly.

However, Zero probably wouldn’t hear of the mission nor volunteer for it until after Axl woke up from his Lumine-induced coma and was deemed clean.

The people in charge of the space mission would want a Reploid or twelve on board for various reasons, including but not limited to species variety and protection of the crew. Most Reploids would likely be placed in the lower decks, working on maintenance of the various systems.

Starfleet wouldn’t become an official thing until 2161, at which point I can see X and Zero being teachers or operatives onboard other ships.

X would probably pursue a career in the sciences and space exploration while Zero would stick with military operations.

Axl was found in the early 2140s so he’d be 20-something by the time Starfleet is founded.

He’d probably be okay with starting out as an ensign and working his way up the ranks.

Ciel and other characters from MMZ and ZX would probably be students at the Academy.

Star Trek: Enterprise series- 2150 - 2155

Zero series- 22XX (2260s-70s)

Star Trek: TOS- 2266-70

Star Trek: TNG- 2364- 70

Star Trek: DS9- 2369- 75

Star Trek: Voyager- 2371- 78

MegaMan ZX- 24XX (2440s- 50s)

The Elf Wars probably don’t happen and Weil might be a better person in this AU.

Maybe X becomes mayor of his own city on Earth or another planet and names it Neo Arcadia, where humans and reploids live in peace (as much as possible anyway).

Extra 50 Years Version:

I can also see X and Zero being sealed for an extra fifty years, so they’d wake up in 2166 and be students at the Academy.

X would want to be a medic while Zero is more interested in combat.

Maybe Axl is discovered a mere few years later and is their underclassman.

The Repliforce incident wouldn’t happen the same way either. A romance between Zero and Iris could actually blossom and a Reploid-only planet could be established

#MegaMan #MegaMan X #MegaMan Zero #MegaMan ZX #alternate universe #alternate timeline #star trek: enterprise #star trek: the original series #star trek: the next generation #star trek: ds9 #star trek: voyager #this is something I thought of a while ago #it just seemed too coincidental that MMX took place just a few decades away from the events of Enterprise #could be a result of Q shenanigans #who else wants to see Zero onboard the Enterprise?#Q shenanigans

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Day One Hundred Seventy-Five

Today a student who’s supposed to be in quarantine came to school anyhow.

I’m not worried about my health or anyone else’s (we wear masks, distance, and most staff and students are vaccinated), but it’s still not okay. Quarantined students get a Q next to their name in PowerSchool, so I spotted it when I took attendance and told the kid he needed to go down to the nurses’ office because they needed to confirm that he was allowed to be in school (he was not), or isolate him until someone came to get him. He was frustrated because he felt fine, and he’s trying to bring all of his grades up, which I appreciate, but... gotta follow the rules.

So. That’s how my day started. After that, I went outside with my GOV students and we ate donuts while they worked on their projects. We also ended up talking about ways to get “bloody rich” (a student’s words) quickly, which resulted in this list: marry wealthy, inherit money from.... somebody, work in real estate and get a TV show on HGTV, or go to war and get combat pay. Is this actually a great list? No. Was the conversation about it hilarious? Yes.

Inside the building things were apparently squirrely: unruly students in the halls, a fight, food being thrown, I don’t even know... I saw The Principal towards the end of the day and not-really-jokingly told him he could call off the rest of the school year and no one would complain. He said he’d do it if he could, and then more seriously asked how I was doing. I laughed, and reminded him that I’m always fine, and he said, “Yeah, you are, but it’s been a tough year.”

Both things are true. It has been a tough year, but I am fine. Mostly, it’s because I don’t have to handle being anything other than a teacher. I’m not also a wife, a mom, an employee at a second job, a... well, you get the idea. Other people can juggle their many roles, for sure, and some can’t, really, but they don’t have a choice, so they do the best they can... I’m just over here doing my thing, not having to worry about juggling.

Also, see above: outside eating donuts with my seniors while shenanigans were happening inside.

So, yeah, I’m fine.

#teaching #teachblr #edublr #educhums #education #teacher #social studies #high school #the principal #day one hundred seventy five

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Okay so to make an official post about the Q+A That just was released

A few things to clear up if anyone did watch it.

For this blog, Missi cannot turn back to a human except under certain circumstances.

I find the inability to return home a big factor in what drove her to staying and being with Duke. Having the ability to return home whenever she wishes I feel doesn’t help with the idea that she is “stuck with him” because she isn’t. The fact she can return home / become human again doesn’t make her stuck at all, she still has the freedom to leave whenever she wants and willingly choses to put herself in this situation.

This could be explained later on when her home life / family is revealed to us (as Daria said will happen) But for now I will be keeping the idea that Missi is a magic-created vampire, for all purposes of this blog she is a vampire and cannot go back home due to her own feelings of her family and becoming a vampire.

For the future episodes of her being human I will most likely say it is something of a magic-mishap as being turned into a vampire by magic is not the same as being turned by an actual vampire and thus things can for wrong resulting in her being human again for temporary times. Basically: If magic made her a vampire, magic can take that back Though she cannot perform the spell that does this herself FYI

I would love to stay as canon-compliment as I can but this is a big thing I feel belittles how she feels isolated from the world and her throwing away her humanity and finding comfort in the only other vampire she knows. I’d love to dive deep into the mental going ons in her mind that might make her feel like she cannot go home but for now it will be a combination of her own actions cursing her with vampirism and her disconnection with her family and what they want.

* Edit: I will also say because she is a magically-made vampire she cannot turn other people into vampires (though she doesn't know that). If she wanted to turn someone they would also have to take on the curse of the cane.

Missi’s mental state

Daria had explained that there is a reason that Missi is not seen much as of late (?) I can only assume this means at the beginning of Season 2 we won’t see much of her because she is struggling with the effects of the Cane which I am glad for that this is being brought up again. I was very worried The Silent was going to be swept under the rug and we get to see more of what the vampiric curse does to her mind.

I do really like to think that the cane itself does have a power like Daria says, on this blog, that curses the user of it’s magic to become a vampire and prolonged exposure causes them to stay a vampire for a longer time, but it eats away at their sanity until the their soul is claimed by the cane, making it more powerful.

*Edit: Though on this blog, for Missi, she is able to accept the curse in it’s entirety instead of just temporary bouts of being a vampire she is permanently stuck a vampire with the magic taking route in her soul and thus is haunted by the creatures whether the cane is with her or not because they have found a home inside her corrupted soul.

Missi’s Family

I will be playing as Missi’s family was a “begrudgingly supportive” family until proven otherwise. IE: They don’t really support her but they did the bare minimum of “supporting” her but never showed her much actual love and affection as a family should.

Vanessa was someone who cared about Missi but grew out of the big sister role as time went on she became more self-centered and cold towards Missi. Part of her wishes she had a better family, a reason to actually return home but she knows there’s nothing left for her there and her family seems to have happily moved on.

Passage of Time

If you know anything about m blog you know that I do not subscribe to the same time-shenanigans as Daria.

For this blog The Night takes place shortly before Missi’s birthday after she had graduated highschool (17 y/o). This is confirmed in the canon.

The land of the dead shows events that happens through 1 year of Duke ruling over the Underworld. Him settling into his new place as ruler and obtaining all the attention and glory as Missi in her new vampiric form studies the magic that was left behind in the castle. Subscribing to their beliefs and learning she spends 1-2 years learning how to resurrect a vampire royal (Duke) and learns various other spells to add to her skills. *Edit I personally just find it very unrealistic a human was able to do the magic we see in Chapter 3 only taking a few handful of week and Duke settling all too comfortably in his new royal lifestyle as well. (18-19 y/o)

Chapter 3, The Silent, Owiee 3.5, and The Fifth One all happen in my canon around a few weeks or months apart as it takes time for Duke to not only adjust to this new world but find the materials, make a whole new outfit, and set up The Showdown with Missi (arranging a time and place ect).

The Showdown happens a little bit after this and what happens, happens nothing big time-wise is strange.

Stuck With You shows the events taken place over months of their time together and them gradually becoming closer through their daily fights and struggles (Missi is 20-21 by this point)

So the entire series in my blog has taken place over the course of 3-4 years instead of the possible 1-2 the main canon goes by.

#Out for a Bite // OOC #Important #;; i feel so weird being canon divergent when ik theres so little of us here q -q #;; i want to be as canon-like as i can but i just hjfkewhk #;; some things i just dont agree with hfejwkk #;; i hope yall are okay with this

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(i am going to also present you with another but feel free to ignore this 2nd Q) i got 8 with another nat 1

8. *hands you a bandage* choose an event in this arc and tweak it to the party’s benefit: more people survive a bad situation, the squad gains a new ally, an interpersonal conflict ends more amicably, etc. follow the consequences of this change until it results in something bad for the party that didn’t happen in canon. 1: london

spoilers for the 180s/190s

WELL. well well well. i mean, the very game-changing yet tiny event would be... in kew, mendel(eev) the scientist is actually able to identify the seed; both as incredibly rare, and also possibly what it could be doing in the simulacrum. i think this could change the entire course of the game: the party doesn't follow the same path they take in canon, instead going to, perhaps, svalbard first?

in svalbard, there's some family drama shenanigans with zolf. from there, they get sent over to the ursans and yerlick way early. they're not equipped to handle the blight, small as it is at this point, and they go back to london to escort a team to neutralize the simulacrum pieces they found in the sewer. so, the entire blue vein plotline doesn't happen.

i think maybe they still get waylaid by zombies/mind-controlled people/other enemies at various points, and bertie dies, because bertie in yerlick would be, uh, unfortunate. zolf doesn't have the same trigger for his crisis of faith, but probably there's something else (like the faith the ursans have in yerlick shows him it doesn't have to be the way it is with him and poseidon) and so they collect grizzop... somewhere, maybe he's been on a hunt for artemis in sibera. azu i think they pick up in svalbard where she's on a journey to find out what happened to the paladin of aphrodite she knew who disappeared.

kind of at a loss for what to do after the simulacrum isn't a problem anymore, the party has some downtime (gasp, downtime? in rqg?) in london. while azu, sasha, and hamid are taking a break and doing a tour of the city's best restaurants, grizzop is very much trying to find them something to do.

... at which point the second mister ceiling under london is complete enough to start requiring brains, and a whole other hivemind emerges.

:3 thank you for the prompt!! rqg ask game v3

#rqg ask game #rqg #long post for ts #evieebun125 #lol i put that tag but this one is not nearly as long #plot is harder than characterization okay? i don't know how alex does it xD #the answer is a liberal sprinkling of angst lbr

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Ideas for potential future Hazbin Hotel episodes...

So in the event that Hazbin Hotel gets greenlit by some outside studio, or continues to function and thrive with fan support, I think there are a couple of important ideas/concepts that are worth exploring and forming episodes and subplots around;

-An episode about a second visitor (Alastor doesn’t count as he’s a benefactor and Niffty and Husk are employees, not guests) would be VERY important and I feel a good starting point for the next episode. We already have Angel Dust, but he admits that he only signed up for a free room (not that this won’t change...). For the show’s themes of redemption, we need to actually see someone else, probably someone who saw Charlie’s ad on TV, actually sign up to stay at the hotel. By having this happen, it’ll show that, yes, there ARE people who are legitimately interested in the Hazbin Hotel and its offer of redemption, and this can pave the way for more guests. Having the Hazbin Hotel gain traction (along with reactions from other demons to Alastor’s sponsorship) would move the plot along.

Based on the official art by Vivzie, I think characters such as Mimzy, Crymini, or Baxter would work. Rosie is a demon lord, so I don’t see her signing up anytime soon, Arackniss is unrepentant, and I think Molly might be saved for later. We’ve already had cameos of Mimzy and Crymini (the latter even watching Charlie’s advertisement), and considering how prevalent the aforementioned three are in art, they’d probably be good starting points for the hotel. Likewise, Cherri could possibly join later, but I’m not entirely sure.

-It’s mentioned in a Q&A that Demons can actually ‘level up’, increasing their rank and power in the process. Considering Alastor seems to be vying for the spot of a demon lord (or at the very least started off concerningly powerful for someone who hadn’t yet leveled up), this would be a good subplot to explore not only Alastor and his motives and abilities, but also introduce Rosie and potentially Lillith, Valentino, and Vox. Ideally, we’d be introduced to leveling up as a concept, and see how it works and what it does.

Likewise, we could also explore the demon hierarchy in general, and how it works. How does Lucifer, Lillith, Satan, and Beelzebub’s authority extend? How do other demons feel about them? Have there been attempts to overthrow them, and how loyal are the Demon lords, assuming they have any allegiance whatsoever? We see a Bat Demon Lord and Dinosaur Demon Lord with Lillith when she looks at Charlie’s fireworks, so it seems THOSE two at least have it good with the ruling family.

-Having an episode dedicated to a new arrival at Hell would also be interesting, as we’d see what it’s like to suddenly die, only to be reincarnated as a demon (potentially as an animal you hate, no less) immediately afterwards. Having a subplot of the Hazbin crew welcoming in a new demon would be a neat way of exploring how Hell works, how one gets introduced and acclimated to the area, and the lifestyle. It could also be used to explore the origins of other characters, or at least the circumstances in which they died and/or arrived. Additionally, it’d be in Charlie’s best interest to immediately invite new arrivals to Hell, as presumably they’d be in a vulnerable, disoriented state and want to leave Hell ASAP. It might be taking advantage of someone else’s predicament, but it’s probably in anyone’s best interests to leave Hell, and we can also explore Charlie’s character flaws later.

-Speaking of arrivals and new guests, having the story focus on how the redemption and rehabilitation process actually works would be pretty important.

-Character backstories and origins are pretty key, and exploring Angel Dust’s family and mobster origins would be vital regarding his redemption. Likewise, a proper introduction to Valentino (and the Hazbin crew possibly dealing with him, a bit VIOLENTLY might I add...) is begging to be animated. We could answer various questions, such as what exactly ARE the Egg Bois, Vaggie’s hostility to other demons, the origin of Alastor’s power, why Niffty seems rather obsessed with men, and so forth.

-Twice, Alastor has offered Charlie’s hand, and both times she’s declined a handshake/deal. This seems like foreshadowing towards an inevitable ‘deal’ she’ll make with him, so an episode about this (probably later in the series) would be an interesting concept.

-Similarly, Alastor always smiles because he sees anything else as a sign of weakness; So obviously, preferably as late into the series as possible, we need to have the show’s most major ‘All hell is loose’ moment in which Alastor frowns.

-More Sir Pentious antics... that’s really all I have to say. Presumably these would be Wile E. Coyote subplots as he attempts to destroy the Hazbin Hotel and repeatedly fails, with some plots failing without the main cast even being aware Pentious was trying.

-Charlie backstory, alongside her family dynamics with Lucifer and Lillith, as well as her thought process in creating the Happy Hotel. A meeting with Vaggie and explanation of the two’s relationship origins would also be neat, and the introduction and clarification of Satan and Beelzebub as separate entities from her father is also neat.

-I think an episode actually showing if it IS possible to be redeemed and go to heaven would be very important regarding, again, the show’s themes and Charlie’s motives and goals. Perhaps it’d happen later in the series, or earlier, depending on the answer to the age-old question; If you CAN go to heaven, we’ll definitely need an episode exploring a demon that rehabilitates, and the process of ascension. If you CAN’T go to heaven after redemption, then this would probably be revealed as some devastating reveal later down the line that forces Charlie to question herself.

-Likewise, an episode(s) focusing on Charlie’s flaws and misunderstanding of redemption would be great for her character. Charlie is definitely well-meaning and optimistic, but at the same time you get the idea that she’s a bit naive and doesn’t quite fully understand how people end up in Hell, and how tricky of a process it is to actually rehabilitate oneself. Charlie learning that she can’t push people into becoming better just by being all happy and sunshine-y would be relevant as a character arc, and it’d motivate her into approaching redemption more subtly. People can and ARE messed up in Hell and are dealing with intense issues, and Charlie needs to learn to recognize this and give people the space they need to improve.

-We see the results of the Exterminator Angels’ annual massacres, but we have yet to see one in action. Thus, an episode that showcases what an extermination actually looks like would be both fascinating and also utter nightmare fuel as the characters try to survive and protect the guests at the Hazbin Hotel, who may not be any more exempt from extermination than anyone else. Likewise, seeing how the Demon Lords and others prepare for an extermination would be neat world-building.

-Mobster, crime-ring shenanigans with Angel Dust, Cherri, Arackniss, etc., would also be fun to see. It could be used to explore what the demon underground looks like, what ‘laws’ there are in Hell, if any, and how society functions. It could also explore the idea of Exterminator weapons being a major thing in the black market due to their ability to actually, permanently kill a demon.

-What happens if a demon dies from an Exterminator weapon? Vivzie may or may not answer this, but going into speculation, I think a slain demon might actually reincarnate into a new life outside of Hell, thus given another ‘chance’ but as a different person entirely.

-Somebody dies permanently; Again, we know demons can be taken out completely by the Exterminator weapons. I think this could make for some interesting drama, or it could just be reserved for some one-off, one-shot character in order to explain how Exterminator Weapons work.

-An episode about Charlie just completely, UTTERLY losing it and revealing her true demon form in all of its hellish entirety would also be amazing.

-More Niffty and Husk interactions!

-Another musical number isn’t NEEDED, but it would admittedly be pretty great. Potentially, there could even be an entire musical episode dedicated to all of the characters singing, which explores their motives, backstories, etc.

-Additionally, having filler subplots of the cast trying to deal with and rehabilitate the episodic, demon-of-the-week and dealing with said demon’s flaws and making them a better person could be entertaining.

-How much of Hell IS there? Overpopulation is an issue, so presumably there are boundaries... And if so, what ARE those boundaries? Does Hell just end at a cliff hovering over an empty void, or is it contained at the bottom of a giant pit?

#hazbin hotel

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Why Resident Evil Village’s Vampire Lady Could Be the Game’s Most Interesting Character

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When Resident Evil Village releases later this year, it’ll have the tough job of following up one of the best survival horror games released in the last decade: Resident Evil 7. While clearly inspired by innovative classics that came before like Amnesia, Outlast, and Hideo Kojima’s P.T. demo, Capcom did its own thing with its first-person horror thriller, introducing fans to a gruesome new bioweapon and new protagonist Ethan, a character very unlike the gun-toting STARS and Umbrella agents from the franchise’s past. The result was a hell of a ride full of scares, dismemberments, and more than a few twists, as its surprise tale of espionage and coverups unfolded in the final act.

Capcom’s sequel to Ethan’s story picks up after the events at the Baker estate. Based on the trailers released so far, when Resident Evil Village begins, Ethan and Mia have been reunited and are living in relative peace until Chris Redfield shows up and turns Ethan’s life upside down once again. Suddenly, Ethan finds himself in the game’s titular village, which looks very similar to the one infested by the Las Plagas parasite in Resident Evil 4. But this village doesn’t seem to be populated by mind-controlled Ganados or hungry zombies. Instead, Resident Evil Village will introduce werewolves and, more intriguingly, vampires to the Resident Evil universe.

Don’t miss the Resident Evil Showcase on January 21st at 10pm GMT/ 11pm CET! Join Brittney Brombacher ( @BlondeNerd ) on a guided tour of Resident Evil Village, including a new trailer, first-ever gameplay, and lots more Resident Evil news! pic.twitter.com/BSNiFPpkbV

— Capcom Europe (@CapcomEurope) January 14, 2021

In fact, the franchise’s first vampiric character has already caused quite the stir on Twitter. Revealed in a brief teaser promoting today’s Resident Evil Village digital showcase at 5 pm ET, the new character is an incredibly tall woman in a fancy hat who towers above Ethan and her much more grotesque vampiric minions. In just a matter of days the “Vampire Lady” or “Tall Lady,” who remains nameless at the moment, became an obsession for the Resident Evil community. Fan art and memes quickly followed:

TALL LADY From RE8. Don't know who she is yet but i love her already. This is my 3rd digital painting.#Art #ResidentEvil #REBHfun pic.twitter.com/HBA3KrQIpM

— Tyan Woo (@tyanwoo) January 18, 2021

Tall Vampire Lady (Resident Evil Village) I'm impatient! Are you waiting for the REVillage? pic.twitter.com/bDM9QB8iBq

— Prywinko Art (@prywinko) January 17, 2021

#ResidentEvil #ResidentEvilVillage#PS5 No one: Vampire Lady: pic.twitter.com/7UPKEpOlVv

— Mathesh_RDJ⎊™® (@Fan_Of_RDJ) January 18, 2021

SPOILERS: Resident Evil VIllage tall vampire lady fight pic.twitter.com/DUX12VR1ge

— Dr. Frigaku (@Frigaku) January 19, 2021

All this chatter about the Tall Lady from Resident Evil 8 and nobody’s asking the important questions. Namely, can she dunk?#ResidentEvilVillage #ResidentEvil8 #talllady #vampirelady pic.twitter.com/M0Nl087l1a

— Seth Banner (@SethKlokk) January 19, 2021

I saw resident evil tall lady with some claws and i love her more.🙏 pic.twitter.com/2acVSSY68F

— BanishedPotato (@BS_artsss) January 16, 2021

While little is known about the character — it’s easy to speculate that she’s one of the boss villains you’ll encounter in the game — it’s not all that surprising that “Tall Vampire Lady” has stolen the show from more legacy characters like Chris Redfield or even the aforementioned werewolf. When she arrives in the game, Vampire Lady will be the first enemy of her kind in the Resident Evil franchise, which has largely dabbled in zombies, viruses, and the threat of bioweapons up until this point. But with Village, Capcom is clearly looking to folklore and the classic monsters we normally associate with horror.

It’s not the first time Capcom has experimented with classic horror monsters, either. The studio famously tried to incorporate a recurring ghost-like enemy known as the Hook Man in Resident Evil 4 before eventually pulling him from the final product. Village, which, again, resembles Resi 4 in terms of its setting, could be a way for Capcom to revisit more traditional horror concepts. And if the point of main Resi sequels going forward is for each new installment to stand apart in some way from the others — Resident Evil 7 introduced a first-person perspective to the series, for example — then including vampires and werewolves in Village is an interesting way to do it.

The game that inspired the Resident Evil series, Capcom’s Sweet Home, featured zombies, ghosts, and killer dolls (another classic monster), but in much more overt and campy ways. Is Village really going to establish that vampires have been running around all along and have simply stayed away from all of the zombie shenanigans this long?

Like Mr. X, Nemesis, Albert Wesker, and Eveline before her, Vampire Lady could very well be the result of experiments with a new bioweapon Ethan and Chris need to shut down before the world is covered in bloodsuckers and savage wolfmen. No matter how outlandish the creature — and Resi has featured plenty of them — the franchise has always found a way to tie its origin back to some sort of unethical scientific experiment.

In Resident Evil 7, The Connections takes the place of Umbrella as the evil organization behind all of the terrible events in the game. (Meanwhile, a new Umbrella, known as “Blue Umbrella,” is ironically leading the charge against bioweapons research.) It’s very possible The Connections has a new plan to turn people into bio-engineered vampires and werewolves.

Either way, if Capcom hoped that a vampire would get people excited for Village, the studio certainly got what it wanted. Mind you, some fans are more interested in Vampire Lady’s…physical appearance and height in comparison to them than what her arrival might mean for the franchise’s lore going forward, but I’m not here to judge.

You can watch the Resident Evil Village digital showcase below:

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bLiX iS freeD aNd prOceedS tO cOrrUpT a bLuE fLoWeR, LyCaN, wHo laTeR gOeS tO cubE seeKinG heLp. bLiX taKeS tHe treeaNgLe, gOeS neW gaMe fOrM, aNd taKeS LyCaN aS hiS heLpeR. TheY weRe gOinG tO sHatteR cUbE aNd cYaN, uNtiL-

4. mySteriOuS fLoWeR

CubE, cYaN, aNd LyCaN weRe teLepOrteD tO a caVe viA M!A, aNd tHeRe, tHeY sAw a yeLLoW fLoWeR, CoaLyfLoWeR. TheY weRe iN tHe caVeS, miNinG. aNd iT seeMs tHeY haD cOnneCtiOnS witH bLiX. dUrinG tHiS tiMe, LyCaN haS a vioLeNt epiSoDe aNd trieS tO taKe cOaLy'S liFe. cUbE, wHiLe tryinG tO stOp LyCaN, gOt cOrrUpteD. aNd a biT laTeR bLiX caMe aLonG aNd cAuSeD-

5. tHe firSt spLiT

bLiX taKeS LyCaN, aNd atteMptS tO taKe cubE tOo, bUt cUbE reFuSeS. bLiX aNd LyCaN gO tO finD a loCatiOn fOr tHe tOweR. a biT laTeR, CubE suCcuMbS tO tHe cOrrUptiOn aNd attAcKs cOaLy. tHeY aRe stOppeD, aNd tHe wHoLe triO iS M!A'd soMewHeRe oUtsiDe. wHiCh leAdS tO

6. cAt fLoWeR

aNotHeR fLoWeR, a purpLe oNe naMeD aLLiuM, wAs oUt aNd abOuT loOkinG fOr aNy oTheR uNcOrrUpteD beingS, aNd fOunD tHe triO. sHe tOoK tHeM tO heR hOuSe tO keeP tHeM saFe. cOaLy'S stiLL a biT sHaKeN uP frOm tHe aSkerS aSkinG abOuT cudA. A biT laTeR, cUbE aNd cY gO aNd leaVe cOaLy aNd aLLi aT tHe houSe tO gO tO tHe treeaNgLe onLy tO finD oUt

7. tHe tree'S miSsinG

aNd Q (cOrrUpT CubE) taKeS oVeR. tHeY aRe aLLoWeD tO stAy aS lonG aS tHeY taKe cY tO tHe treeaNgLe aNd nOt hurT aNyoNe. upOn beinG M!A'd tO tHe voLcAnO, Q iS immediateLy teMpteD tO hurT bO aNd neArLy dOeS, bUt iS kNoCkeD oUt. aNd aFteR a qUiCk taLk, sOmetHinG hAppenS!

8. cLaiRvOyAnT

a greeN fLoWeR appeArS! a seLf prOcLaiMeD cLaiRvOyAnT (AnAstAsiA!), aNd tHe cAretaKeR oF tHe greeN gUardiAn! aNywAy, yAdA yAdA, tHeY taLk, greeN aNd cY fAmiLiariZe, aNd aNa getS biT bY a cOrrUpT sNaKe! aNd cOaLy eAtS a cOrrUptiOn fLaVoR cUpcAkE,,, aNd aLLi coMeS baCk aS a cOrrUpT (aZaLeA) buT tHeN! tHe verY firSt poV sHifT!

9. tHe tOweR

wE seE bLiX iS uNdeR aN eArLieR zOmbiE M!A, aNd LyCaN iS cHiLLinG,, wHeN laTeR a bAbY wAs M!A'd iN! wHo wE leArN iS cHiCorY! owo tHingS aRe gOoD uNtiL bLiX snApS oUt oF iT aNd LyCaN taLkS bAcK tO hiM, wHiCh reSuLtS iN LyCaN beinG tUrNeD iNtO aNotHeR zOmbiE cOrrUpT, aNd aNotHeR poV sHifT hAppeNs!

10. iNtO tHe laKe

wHiLe tHe preViOuS eVeNtS weRe hAppeNinG, aNeMoNe (cOrrupteD aNa) wAs fLyinG cOaLy tO bLiX's tOweR. cOaLy iS verY cOrrupteD... a biT laTeR aNa drOpS frOm tHe sKy iNtO a laKe, taKinG cOaLy witH heR. dUrinG tHiS ordeaL, sAbAtiA (cOrrupteD cOaLy) trieS tO drOwN aNa buT fAiLs. aFteR tHaT, sAb trieS tO heAd tO tHe tOweR bUt iS uLtiMateLy stOppeD. cOaLy sNapS oUt oF iT dUe tO aN M!A, aNd aNa beCoMeS aNe aGaiN,, aLsO duE tO aN M!A. tHeY taKe tO tHe sKieS onCe aGaiN aNd aNotHeR pOv sHifT hAppenS!

11. M!A sHeNaNiGaNs

bLiX pLaYs soMe cOnneCt 4,, a wHiLe laTeR aNe aNd sAb appeAr. bO aNd heLi aRe M!A'd iN laTeR, aNd geNeRaL M!A sHeNaNiGaNs taKe pLaCe, soMe oF wHiCh aRe stiLL gOinG oN

12. fUsiOn iNtrUsiOn

aZa appeArS, chLoRofOrmS "aNa" aNd iS uLtiMateLy seeKinG tO cOrrupT. aZa aNd sAb fuSe, beCoMinG aLstrO. KerriA (tHe yeLLoW caRetaKeR) iS M!A'd iN, aLonG witH heR yeLLoW gUardiAn.

13. neW dAd aNd oLd dAd

bLiX iS nOw tHe cAretAkeR oF orAnGe, aNd CubE iS baCk- aNd- aH, tHaT sHouLd bE eVerytHinG uP tO tHe curreNt pOinT-

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needacuppa · 4 years

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Imagine if

Q doesn’t live alone. Instead, he lives with a young teenager who he took in/cares for ( for whatever reason and backstory ) despite not being related by blood. The teen knows about Q’s promising career in espionage and probably has been made by Q to learn self defense.

They mutually take care of each other and are just really good friends. Q helps the teen with homework and teen angst. The teen helps make sure Q has home cooked food to eat and that Q takes care of himself.

One day Bond sneaks in breaks into Q’s apartment before Q returns home. This results in a very awkward meeting between the teen and Bond. Eventually, Q is called and tells Bond to sit down, wait for him to return and stop scaring the teen or sod off. After some time, Bond and the teen start to get along and become friends- bonding over a common topic of Q.

Lots of shenanigans could happen. Maybe the teen is endangered because of the relationship with Q. Or a turn of events could result in the teen actually being someone with a highly skilled fighter. Or perhaps the teen is just a very normal teenager. Which could also result in domestic situations like helping out with homework or anything school related. A situation of Bond and Q taking care of the teen or vice versa. Q being dragged to get new, more fashionable clothes because the teen would not stand his fashion sense. Q helping the teen learn to deal with anxiety and/or depression.

These have all been bouncing around my head for the past ihavenoideahowlong but it’s driving me mad because I can’t get anywhere to form a nice coherant idea. Thus making it very hard to insert myself into the story because I’m strange like that and i dont know why i want to share this but i am. because im very strange like that.

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a-mushroom-boy · 3 years

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Hello,

I need your help!! I am writing a book (fiction, fantasy with pirates, shenanigans and lots of queer content) however I need information. But please don't feel pressured to talk about or share anything you don't want to!!!!

Firstly I have a character called Archibald and he used to make his living boxing im illegal fights, so if any boxers read this, are there any common injuries or any physical attributes asa reuslt of boxing or even things that he does as result of boxing. Im going to do further research about boxing and the styles, I'm just at rough character backstories and ideas for plot at the minute. I wanted to get people lived experience of different things in order to a)understand my characters and b) to also see how they would interact with the world the are in.

Secondly, I also have Quendline (Q for short) who is autistic and she has a support dog called Cid I myself have 2 sisters that are autistic, so I have understanding from an outsiders view. I want my characters to be relatable and accurate, so anyone with autism or asperger's syndrome, please feel free to share anything you want. Also if anyone has an emotional support dog then please share some of the tasks that your or another dog performs.

Thirdly, I also have Byrd, who is ftm. I wanna know how you want him to he represented so that he accurately depicts what its like to be trans on the inside and well as outside in society. I myself am genderfluid but my experiences with my own gender and how I express that is different to a binary trans person or a nonbinary trans persons.

If anyone has any suggestions on things that u could add to my story to add to the universe (eg: POC representation or different cultures you wanna see represented) or the characters themselves (eg: disability, ethnic background, or even facial features, body types). Or even things that you guys want me to research more into.

Sending lots of love to everyone who sees this post.

And any information, opinions, questions and concerns are very much welcome and I am happy to open a conversation, just pls be respectful to one another and to me.

- Em X

#fiction #fantasy character design #gender #representation #fantasy #pirates #queer community #transgender #disabled characters #novel #please help #lgbtq #world buliding

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hopefulfestivaltastemaker · 4 years

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September 6, 2020

My weekly view of things I am up to and thinking about. Topics include the future of Earth, housing in California, the national debt, carbon pricing, and software complexity.

Earth’s Future

The funder is interested in developing a timeline of Earth’s past and future and placing human history in the geologic context. It’s a bit off the beaten path for us, but a fun project, and I spent some time this week on it. It got me thinking about Earth’s long term future.

We all know, in at least a vague sense, that Earth’s days are numbered. I think most of us know that we expect the Sun to go nova some billions of years from now (about 7.6 billion I think is the best estimate), and barring intervention from a future advanced civilization, no life will be able to survive that.

I found this paper by O’Malley-James et al. to be an interesting read. It discusses the future of life from an astrobiological perspective, asking what biosignatures a distant civilization might observe from Earth in the distant future. Plant life that depends on C3 photosynthesis, and by extension most animal life, has maybe 500-600 million years left, beyond which point carbon dioxide is too depleted. Plant life based on C4 photosynthesis might make it 900 million years. From then on it’s only microbes. Eukaryotic life might last 1.2 billion years before the oxygen is depleted. Prokaryotic life was here first, and it will probably be here last. The paper estimates 2.8 billion years as an upper bound for any microbes at all to survive in caves or underground. For the remainder of its existence, Earth is a sterile, lifeless world without oceans, an atmosphere, or geological activity.

Before all that, Earth’s biosphere may go into an irreversible decline after the formation of Pangaea Ultima, about 250 million years from now. At that time, the combination of merging of continents, cooling of the Earth’s core, and increasing of solar luminosity will result in a falling of carbon dioxide to the point where today’s biological productivity cannot be sustained. Earth is now 95% of the age it will be when this happens.

It is an unspoken and open question of how this general picture might be altered by a civilization that is capable of effecting meaningful change over geological timelines. Human civilization is not at this level presently, and it is unclear if we will attain it.

I wonder too how contemplation of the biosphere’s mortality influences how we think of environmentalism and sustainability. Perhaps 250+ million years is so vast a time that it cannot be distinguished from infinity in our minds. For my part, I can admit that the prospect genuinely bothers me.

Housing in California

California’s legislative session expired at the end of August, and with it, another opportunity for statewide zoning reform. Scott Wiener’s SB1120 would have allowed duplexes on single family lots. It is a modest but valuable proposal which had majority legislative support, but some last minute parliamentary shenanigans from the party leadership ran out the clock.

I continue to think that the housing issue in California is intractable, and that with its current strategy, the YIMBY movement will not be able to attain any but the most marginal victories. The Bay Area needs to increase its housing supply by at least 50%, maybe 100%, to really solve the problem. To achieve those kinds of numbers, allowing duplexes and ADUs is not going to cut it. The region needs to be open to horizontal as well as vertical expansion. Something must be done to break the dysfunction in the construction industries that prevents buildings and infrastructure from being delivered at a reasonable time and speed. The movement should also stop diddling around with measures that feel good but will backfire, like rent control and vacancy taxes.

Meanwhile, the tech industry is continuing to make tentative moves toward remote work. I continue to be hopeful but skeptical that widespread adoption of remote work can finally get housing costs under control.

My suspicion is that the YIMBY movement has succumbed to the Shirky Principle, which posits that “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” An ever-growing share of its energy is devoted to playing the Reds vs. Blues game, which is more than redundant in California. They have no vision of what an affordable California or Bay Area look like, no credible plan for getting there, and ideological blinkers that foreclose many important aspects of the solution.

As I’ve done several times before, I go back to Citizens Climate Lobby, which I see as the gold standard for political advocacy done right. They have a clear vision of passing a federal carbon fee and dividend plan. They don’t dilute their efforts on ancillary priorities or play partisan games. They have commissioned detailed economic modeling of the plan and have made every effort to insure it works from both a technical perspective and from a range of value systems. I don’t know if CCL will succeed, but at least they can succeed, unlike most activists, and CCL is one of the few major organizations I feel good supporting.

Red Ink

The Congressional Budget Office released an unsurprising but grim report on the national debt. The debt-to-GDP ratio stands at 98%, the highest ever except for a brief time at the end of World War II. It should cross the 100% mark next year and reach 109% by 2030.

Deficits are a classic gnarly problem. They are harmful but not catastrophic, and the harms are mostly at some indeterminate point in the future and are not clearly visible. This makes them easy to ignore, and ignoring the debt, or at best using it as a partisan talking point, is now an established bipartisan tradition.

Japan somehow continues to function with a debt-to-GDP ratio exceeding 230%. I don’t know how high the US can go on this metric and hope not to find out. We’ve seen debt crisis in Europe and Argentina recently. What I think is more likely is that debt service will be another ball and chain, along with population aging, stagnant productivity, and broken housing, health care, and education markets, on the American economy.

Carbon Pricing

Resources for the Future has a new carbon pricing calculator tool out, evaluating several proposals from the current Congress.

At the $52/ton level, four of the eight proposals stand out as having a positive benefit/cost analysis when economic costs are weighed against CO2 reduction alone. In all eight cases, “secondary” health benefits exceed the CO2 benefit as well as economic costs. As economic intuition would suggest, benefit/cost ratio goes down the higher the carbon price goes, since as the price goes up, we move down the ladder from most cost-effective emissions reductions to less cost-effective.

For my own part, I’ve generally been using a social cost of carbon of $50/ton. A few years ago, that seemed like a reasonable median estimate. At some point I want to review the literature again to see if I should be using a different figure.

The large health benefits are good for making the case for carbon pricing, but they raise some questions. The numbers strongly suggest that we should be thinking about air pollution reduction as the primary goal with CO2 reduction as a secondary goal. But if we do that, is carbon pricing really the most effective policy on air pollution?

Software and the Collapse of Civilization

I found this talk from last year by the game developer Jonathan Blow. He details ways in which the software industry is unable to deliver fast, reliable products and analogizes to historical failures of technological reproduction that are associated with past civilizational collapses. The talk is about an hour. I have to say it is a bit odd, but I found it worth watching.

Several time throughout my life, I have made attempts to get into the software industry, and at other times such as now I have programmed on a hobbyist basis. While I don’t see bad software as a major existential risk to civilization, there are clearly problems. Blow identifies what could also be called the bloatware problem: programmers tend to reach for libraries and abstractions in their code, needlessly inflating size, complexity, runtime, and bugs. He worries that abstraction has become so pervasive that the industry is not even capable of delivering reliable software at this point, and the knowledge of machine code programming has been largely lost.

Blow’s argument is reminiscent of the success problem, as described by Samo Burja, or the notion of social reproduction.

I’ve toyed with the idea of trying to develop the analogy between software bloatware and policy bloatware, a term to describe the phenomenon of public policy being designed in ever more complex manners. An overly complex policy environment increases the difficulty of coordinating the entities required for a solution, and it causes solutions to look more like patches and kludges over problems rather than actual solutions. An example is the attempt to address housing affordability problems by developing complex, multi-government affordable housing subsidies. Kludgeocracy is the best term I’ve seen for this phenomenon so far.

Casey Muratori identifies the same problem, which he called the 30 million line problem, so named because he estimates that to write the most basic “Hello World” web app requires, between the server and the client, at least 30 million lines of code and probably far more, with present technology. He proposes a solution based on a universal CPU instruction set and restoring root access to developers. Ironically, the talk (excluding Q&A) is over an hour when I think 10 minutes would have been sufficient to convey the key points without loss of essential detail.

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