#or at least adjacent

[cyb-by-lang]

Today's snippet (11/19/23)

This isn't strictly from the crossover, but more like an idle thought that embodies, "what might've happened if Obito's first attempt to get them back home missed the mark?" He's not being quite so reckless in the actual story.

Or: a brief snippet wherein Team Minato and Hayate accidentally visit "Akaboshi's defining tragic moment" and decide they have Opinions.

In hindsight, it was almost comforting how quickly everyone snapped into their roles. How quickly they went from relaxed, or nearly so, to the bared-teeth warnings that were just short of literal. 

Even in the moment, Hayate could practically hear the puzzle pieces slide and click together after that first breath of hot, offensively dry air. Wrong-uncanny-hate-it slammed through all of their chakra signatures at the same time. His sister’s team closed ranks around him like a wolf pack around pups, like the bars of a cage meant to keep night terrors out. Fire, Earth, Lightning, Water—and Isobu, burning as brightly as the sun and making it a little uncomfortable to stay too close. 

Past the protective forms of Kei’s friends and also his very jumpy sister, Hayate surveyed the scene as they talked. There was a warehouse—even more worn down than Gotham ones—dusted with a fine layer of clay-rich red sand. It reminded him of Sunagakure, whenever the sandstorms were a little less persistent, but in most other aspects, it could have been any random building in any random desert.

Still, a shiver ran down Hayate’s spine. 

“Okay, guess it’s my turn! See you in a minute.” Obito hopped to his feet and started investigating the immediate area, Sharingan glow visible even on a glimpse through his mask’s eyeholes. Then he slipped into the ground and vanished. 

“Kei? Kakashi?” Rin prompted, drawing a kunai from her thigh holster in clear anticipation of trouble. Her friends were unnerving her too. 

“Bomb,” Kakashi said after a cursory sniff, not even bothering to lower his mask. He’d locked onto the warehouse too. After a few quick strides to put him fully downwind of the building, he reported, “At least one, locally made. And blood.” 

“Oneesan…” Hayate began. His heartbeat pounded in his ears, muffling almost all other sound. 

Kei held out for about three seconds under Hayate’s and Kakashi’s combined stares. Her chakra hummed like a bowstring. All tension, no release. And then the question burst out: “Kakashi, whose blood?”

Kakashi sniffed again. Then, “Ah.” 

Alarm shot through Kei’s chakra before the others, and she met Hayate’s eyes with the kind of foreboding in her expression that confirmed every terrible feeling he’d had so far. 

“Yeah, ‘ah’ works for now. Fuck.” Kei stuck her Genbu mask solidly over her face, making sure the ties were tight. “Guess Akaboshi’s taunt was prophetic.”

Oh no—

“Which one?” Obito asked, popping back into reality. He ended up behind Rin’s shoulder, shoes crunching in the loose dirt and gravel. “Sorry, I didn’t quite make it over the hill there—”

“Rin, you’re in Kamui. Prep for surgery.” Kei didn’t quite snap at her, but the whip-crack of her command tone was firmly in place. While her entire team startled to attention again, “Obito, you’re the only one allowed in there with me. Be prepared to move two, if they’re alive. If we’re lucky, no one’s dead yet. Let’s keep it that way.”

Every word out of her mouth simultaneously keyed up Hayate’s anxiety and his anger. He swore he could see his vision pulse in time with his heart. “Oneesan, this is Aniki’s past, isn’t it? This is the story he told me. He’s in there—”

“Yeah. Yeah, I think so.” Isobu’s chakra poured out of her like smoke, turning deep red in places and lowering her voice to a growl. “Which is why I’m going in and taking the explosion to the face if I have to.”

“Then what about me?” Hayate demanded. 

“You and Kakashi are on the outside.” She held up a hand before Hayate could argue, rapping her fingers sharply against the bridge of Hayate’s goggles. “Watch for a certain white-faced escapee. Hunt the Joker down. Kill him.”

Oh. Some unnameable, hateful glee bubbles up in Hayate’s core. Oh, he could do that. He’d love to do that. 

“Of course,” Kakashi said, and began the hand seals for summoning every single dog who’d answer his call. They’d hound the monster, snapping at his heels and his calves and his face, and then he’d be still alive long enough for Hayate to get a last word in, right at the end. 

#hayate gekko #keisuke gekko #obito uchiha #kakashi hatake #rin nohara #a ninja's guide to gotham #or at least adjacent #crossover

[candied-peach]

Trick or treat? :o)

another little ficlet! ^^

"Trick or treat!" Logan beams, revealing a gap in his front teeth as he holds forth a plastic orange pumpkin bucket. He is dressed as a wizard, complete with floppy, star-patterned hat.

"Here you go, kid," Remy says, emptying a handful of different chocolates into Logan's bucket.

"Remy!" Emile scolds lightly. "One per child, you know, we're going to run out-"

"It's Logan," Remy argues. Virgil giggles beside Logan, covering his mouth with one hand.

"Trick or treat," Virgil says shyly. Remy dumps two handfuls of candy into Virgil's purple pumpkin bucket.

Emile opens his mouth like he wants to say something, then closes it.

"Happy Halloween," Remy grins.

#📨 #canvas the florist #sanders sides #remile #remy #emile #logan #virgil #this is from logan's astronomical adventures au i think #or at least adjacent #but i should get back to that au at some point! #food tw

[samsrosary]

sam asked “ive been tortured by the devil himself what can you do to me” and the answer was “i can make you remember it”

#dictions #tw sa #or at least adjacent

[antidotesprout]

(Here for a chat!) Howdy! Just had a thought about your cursed statue AU, well, more like a reverse.

What if the reader was the statue that appears in front of the Gear Station out of nowhere. The figure of the statue is kneeling, staring down at the ground. A plaque on the pedestal they kneel upon says “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” The statue itself is quite interesting, considering that half of the face is disfigured. Many were curious in the beginning, but the event just went by without much fanfare. Soon the statue became somewhat of a staple to Gear Station, many a tale were made to make sense of the mysterious meaning of the plague. The twins were one of the curious, but soon fell back into routine. Eventually, the statue became a part of the routine. Greeting it every morning and wishing it a good night.

Perhaps one day, the twins are running the station as usual, when they hear a commotion outside of the station and see some teens/trainers defacing the statue and the two rush to stop it. The trainer state how strange it is for them to want to protect something so ugly. One or both of the twins, then exclaim how they find the statue beautiful and see nothing wrong with it. A cracking sound fills the air, the twins spin around just to see as some of the statue peals away to reveal someone is under the layer of copper. Soon all the copper is chipped away and the person stumbles to the ground. The twins react and kind and reach out to catch them before they hit the ground.  when the person looks up, they realize that the statue was quite unflattering to their figure. The statue had exaggerated the disfiguring of their face. The only thing that was, there was a birthmark that took up a little more than half their face. 

I’m not sure if the reader would be able to hear or see the twins interacting with them in their frozen state that would be left up to anyone’s interpretation.

(Hope you have a good night/day and thanks for reading!)

YOOOOOOOOO I'm so sorry I'm sharing this late, I was dead at the time.

Cursed statue reader has so much potential really 🤔

I also think the concept of it being an encased person rather than a transformed person is a super interesting take! It brings to mind the mental images of an egg or a cocoon. Maybe the reader had trouble loving themselves for their perceived "flaw" and needed someone to appreciate them despite all that. A curse but with a lesson about understanding your on worth. I like it.

#sprout chat #cursed statue Submas #or at least adjacent #let me know what you prefer to be called! #its weird for some reason tumblr changed out your username but now its back to how it was?? ok Tumblr

[staff]

Tumblr Tuesday: Speculative Species

Did you hear? They've found the golden mole! It still exists! It just took a break from being perceived. What a mood. Here are some other animals that totally exist, too. Just your very normal collection of animal art, really. This is one of those where you'll want to click through on the attributions below the art. For context. For transformation. For taxonomy. It's all there. The level of detail for these friendly animals that definitely exist is quite unhinged in the best way.

@exobiotica:

@villiedoom:

@dokupine:

@extrajigs:

@remotus11:

@yellosnacc:

@steinntroll:

@cathchicken:

@insectghost:

@charseraph:

@tickfleato:

@kattheerat:

@juicyolpickle:

#tumblr tuesday #speculative species #artists on tumblr #speculative biology #unreality #bones #teeth #paleo art #critters #creechures #cornpy?? #insects #at the very least some insect-adjacency #long post

[qsmpbutwithsignlanguage]

btw if I see anyone going at Quackity for being emotional or victimizing himself, I will not grant you the privilege of hearing out your opinion, I will block you. On site. Without remorse.

He A) is a victim. He has been doxxed, harrassed, stalked, and sent death threats. These things are crimes that Quackity is a victim of, and I think it's insane if you believe he's victimizing himself when he is a fucking victim.

And B) he is allowed to be emotional when he's afraid for his life? Actually, in general he's allowed to be emotional, that's not a question, but now more than ever. Celebrities and influencers have teared up far more over far less without anywhere near as much backlash.

This isn't a discussion to be had. If you believe he's unreasonably emotional or victimizing himself in the situation then make yourself known now so we can both block each other and never interact again.

I mean it.

#quackity #qsmp admin situation #qadmin situation #admingate #it's already been said but I'll repeat it here and now #make yourself known so we can move on with our lives #qsmp #adjacent at least

[starstruckodysseys]

is it a hot take if i say fabian is like two steps away from becoming a theater kid

#bro was CRAWLING ON THE FLOOR and GROWLING im SORRY??? #i mean. good for him good for him im glad he’s figuring his shit out #but like. damn #also this isn’t judgmental i am also a theater kid (adjacent at least) #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #fabian seacaster #reese watches fantasy high

[noxious-fennec]

Hands are too shaky these days

#this is old art from july that i never got around to posting. think of it as a surprise treat :) #i wish i had the energy or the creative drive to draw more them i am still insane about them but idk idk #drawing things that are at least canon adjacent is taxing. idk. would you guys like if i went off the hook with it? #oh btw dw bout me guys I'm alright and when i say stuff like this^^^ im not like forcing myself to draw or anything #I've got a healthy relationship with these stuff i like to think. nust helps when there's extra motivation #anyway you didn’t ask for this rant uhhhh loss of fine motor skill post revival (re: disability) my beloved #hope you're doing swell and that you enjoy <3 #fennec. art #dsmp fanart #cwilbur #cquackity #my art #ctntduo

[samarecharm]

Ryuji having the worst bi crisis of his fucking life bc his mom just had to fucking ask “oh, whats this young ladys name?” when he showed her a picture of Akira petting Morgana. Like okay yeah Akira is like objectively pretty, hes like the Classic Delicate Pretty Boy just like Yusuke which is like whatever; straight dudes have eyes, and they know what women like to see. But now hes like. Seeing things he likes in girls IN Akira now and he cant make it Stop like its genuinely keeping him up at night 😭

Pretty boy used to be A Face that would come up in his mind when he thought of the term. There was no specifics in mind, just like. Pretty Boy. Pretty boy! You say that and theres like a Face Template that shows up in ur minds eye and hed just attribute that to any dude who was like Vaguely Pretty. But now its Akira 😭 and he finds himself cataloging things that Akira does that he KNOWS he finds cute when girls do it. The hairtuck behind the ears. The headtilt when he mishears a question. The Actually Pretty Doe Eyes. The breathy, nearly inaudible chuckle he does in place of a Real laugh (thats made better by the fact that its so hard to get him to laugh in the first place). He likes cute snacks. He blushes easily. Ryuji is sitting here like ‘theres no fucking way man. Like theres just no way. That shit makes NO sense (a lie)’ lying in bed in the middle of the night looking like this vvvv w his phone in his hands (looking at pictures of akira)

It drives him insane bc like he did Not see any of these things as like inherently girly or whatever. Like thats just akira thats just his bro! And he does OTHER weird shit that cancels all that shit out. Hes like a messy engineer/tinkerer, he rolls out of bed and whatever situation his hair is is everyones problem. He wears that AWFUL gym uniform and doesnt tweak it AT ALL?? He likes baseball?? hes got a whole binder of trading cards that he will show off if u show any moment of weakness. Like hes just Some Dude but also manages to be Some Girl at the same time and Ryuji is like thats not fair. Life sucked ass but at least it made sense before Akira stumbled into it 😭

#persona 5 #pegoryu #akiryu #chattin #long post #THIS one is almost a year old lmao its been in my drafts for a while #i at least tagged it as pegoryu before running away cutely so i think i was finished ??? well now i am throwing it into the world #anyway. akira is the guy ever. and ryuji is exploding #‘i have died. badly’ #i like thinking of akira like this; hes ryujis first exposure to nb ppl and gnc adjacent stuff #even if akira is p masc by most standards hes still got a bit of. aloofness. about his gender stuffs #ryuji is just really into the way akira carries himself #and it takes him a while to go oh. oh i think its cause i like this dude #um. #😳. #also i wanted to clarify #but ryujis mom just doesnt know Who akira is in that picture #and in my head hes like. looking down at mona and petting him (while sitting) #(AND hes with ann and theyre both kind of a distance away from the camera) #so at a quick glance; hes just Some Girl #and even though shes wrong; it kicks off the mental chaos olympics in ryujis head #‘what hes not a girl’ to ‘where would she even get that from’ to ‘well akira said himself he didnt rlly care what ppl thought about it’ #to ‘well. where DID she get that from?’ to lookin at what his homie does a little closer to ‘aw fuck. man.’ #but i love that for him #ALSO. RYU/GORO IN TAGS….. #but ryuji going oh my GOD oh my godddd 😨😓😓😓 when something clicks in his head about goro #his voice is so practiced and naturally softspoken and his public facing persona is very demure #and once he gets past the initial anger over goro being a pompous prick who shittalks about the thieves. hes like. god fucking dammit. #There Is A Pattern and A Type He Has and Its Killing Him To Realize it. #hes literally sitting in his room w his head in his hands

[ginkashino]

make-believe family

#fanart #star trek #ds9 #tora ziyal #like every good artist in school-she's drawing on her notes #i dont recall if it even gets mentioned if ziyal can write?? #i would assume that she can at least write in cardassian #but cardassian looks cyrillic-adjacent #while bajoran might as well be ancient chinese #so id like to think that she has to make little notes to remember what things mean #obsessed with the amount of people saying thats garak #thats dukat babes im so sorry

[mildew-dread-mold]

a fucking groundbreaking thought...twinyards trivia night...

andrew has eidetic memory and aaron is a fucking nerd who seems like he would write "as a person with an unquenchable appetite for knowledge,," on his college application and wouldn't even need to lie about it.

so every tuesday evening they go downtown and find restaurants with trivia events and then they fucking dominate.

edit: i bet they're also friends with some of the old ladies who are regulars at certain restaurants they also frequently go to. the old ladies think they're very smart and handsome young men and ask for pictures of their boyfriend/girlfriend.

#trivia and trivia adjacent games are banned from fox game nights #also yeah i know theyre on scholarship so so idk if aaron ended up writing an essay #but there is probably a google docs draft at least where he started one #i dont know how sports scholarships work #aaron minyard #andrew minyard #all for the game #aftg #aftg hc #twinyards #the foxhole court #tfc #the raven king #trk #the kings men #tkm

[warrior-of-waistbands]

in light of yesterday's announcement

#j's posts #dog man #petey #dog man x petey #(adjacent) #if they don't flirt on screen at least once then what is the point /j

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Do y'all think the increase in Dwarf Fortress' popularity since the Steam version came out last year will result in more ppl becoming communists?

#like the way dwarven society works in the game is not like full on communist but it's at least pretty fucking communist-adjacent #the way industry works is very communist at least

[gracefall-mcyt]

Was originally going to write this as a comment elsewhere, but uh. Have some thoughts on Double Life Scott and Pearl. This may be slightly controversial? If you disagree that's fine by me, we're all entitled to our own opinions, especially on topics with nuance! I usually find people going way too easy on Double Life c!Pearl and too hard on Double Life c!Scott. Was Scott a good person? A good soulmate, for that matter? No! But Pearl wasn't those things either. They were mutually abusive to one another throughout the season. I will say that I think Pearl was less bad, but there are so many people who just... completely dismiss Scott's end of things.

Scott: Caused harm to himself to harm Pearl (though at a consistently safe time to do so, at the start of the session, via a single axe crit), and spoke about Pearl quite awfully (calling her his "crazy ex", etc.) Pearl: Caused harm to herself (far more sporadically than Scott, via "tickles" from the powdered snow every now and then), and took unnecessary risks just because she could

Honestly, I don't blame Scott for "abandoning" her in the beginning. Like, for him, it would have been a reasonable assumption that she and Martyn would continue to stick together. Scott wasn't leaving her alone, he was leaving her with Martyn, choosing instead to stay with Cleo--the one who actually stuck by him while their soulbounds were off in the nether doing who knows what (which turned out to be gathering resources, even though the main resources you might want to go to the nether for, potion making supplies, are useless in a season where potions are banned). Scott is not to blame for Martyn's agency. It was Martyn who decided to blame Pearl (even though the big problem, the nether trip, was his idea), it was Martyn who left her alone. (Also, it may be worth mentioning that I'm pretty sure it was Cleo's idea for her and Scott to stay together? Please correct me if I'm wrong on that, again it's been a while.) (EDIT: Cleo did in fact suggest it! They said "We should form an alliance against them." It was a little bit of a joke, but they both seriously agreed to it. Still worth noting that it was Cleo's idea for them to stay together.)

Again, I feel the need to emphasize that c!Scott is not a good person. He becomes abusive to Pearl, who also becomes abusive, and they abuse one another from afar. Or when they talk to one another. They are awful to each other. It is a mutual thing, and I find that not enough people acknowledge that. They both suffered as the other's soulbound.

It's really, really important to remember that the Life Series--Double Life especially--is FULL of nuance when you look at it from a storytelling perspective. The Life Series has no real heroes, and no real villains. Only people doing their best to ensure the survival of their team and/or themselves. Scott and Pearl both had thoughts about what was best, and those thoughts clashed this season, leading them to clash with one another.

Really, I think that adds another layer to their ending. Scott, in his way, forgives Pearl through a show of loyalty and fairness he only gives to allies, conceding the true victory to her unprompted, and Pearl in turn forgives Scott. This only happens when there's nothing left but each other. They are finally on the same wavelength again, with no Cleo to sway Scott away from Pearl and no Martyn to deal the final blow to shatter Pearl's heart. It's just Gatekeep and Girlboss, truly together for a brief time, anger and animosity put aside. The Stars welcoming The Moon to join him in the night sky, where they can try again. Tilly death did they part, yes, but in parting they were set free from each other, and they were able to mend their connection on their own terms.

#remember i'm talking about the characters only. content creators Scott and Pearl are good friends and do not reflect their DL counterparts #some scattered thoughts: #--in a way scott is to soulmates as cats are to water #does great with them/it but absolutely hates it when they're forced together #--the only good person involved in this situation was tilly. we love tilly here <3 #--i don't know how much of it came out here but I really think that it's mostly c!Martyn's fault in the beginning #ofc c!Pearl and c!Scott have their own agency and should be blamed for their own actions #but it was Martyn who kickstarted things by deciding to go to the Nether and then proceeded to worsen them by abandoning Pearl. #you know I've got like at least three analysis-adjacent posts I should probably have a tag for that #grace's traffic thoughts #that works #time to go retrofit the other posts with the same label #life series #scott smajor #pearlescentmoon #double life #double life smp #trafficblr #cw abuse #<- just in case!

[aphel1on]

will never stop being funny to me that nmj near the end of his life was extremely paranoid and delusional, but he was correctly identifying jgy as a threat, but, like... for wrong reasons only. you'll see ppl going "nmj was right about jgy all along, it's sad no one listened to him😭" but no. jgy isn't inherently evil, nor is he a power-hungry monster. not everything he ever said or did was part of some conniving ploy. when given the opportunity, he generally does try to return kindnesses and help people! but - oh, yeah, no, he's totally gonna murder you dude. no, yeah, he's gonna be so sneaky about it that it'll take a decade for the truth to come out.

it's like making 2 mistakes on a math quiz that just so happen to cancel each other out and give you the correct answer.

#mdzs #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #jgy #nmj #aphelion.txt #well he's not power-hungry in the traditional sense at least #by which i mean like #he takes actions that can be interpreted as power-hungry #and maybe some of them even are? #but he is not motivated primarily by a lust for power #imo him becoming chief cultivator is the endgame of #an extremely long game of 5d chess he is playing by himself against the entire world #where every single decision he makes is weighted by 'what will make me (feel) most safe' #(with perhaps cough one or two also motivated by unhinged vengefulness) #and because of his extremely specific circumstances and opportunities #that winds up with him Becoming Fucking Xiandu #anyway. #nieyao #not really but nieyao-adjacent

[cambion-companion]

My current tnoughts are imagins you're having a sex dream about Raphael, and Raphael is just sitting in a chair watching uou whilst it's happening.

This turned into an interesting exercise in narrating Raphael's POV. Definitely would like to try again in the future! Thank you for the prompt, enjoy the drabble :)

Dreams of desire came creeping to Tav’s resting mind, twisting their face as their fingers slid through warm bedsheets.

Raphael looked up from his contemplation of the ashen hearth, a flicker of firelight dancing between finger and thumb. He heard the sound of his mattress creaking and turned his attention slowly to the lover he’d left spent and exhausted upon his silken pillows.

Their prone body squirming weakly in slumber, half exposed to the hot breeze grating through the open window.  A low sound of pleasure escaped Tav’s parted lips and Raphael saw their brow furrow slightly, a bead of perspiration marking the soft flesh of their cheek.

Raphael considered the mortal before him, erotic and vivid as though struck directly from a painter’s brush.  A scene not unfamiliar to the cambion.  The titillating musk of pain and pleasure still hanging in the thick air.

His tail swished back and forth languidly, scraping gently against the marble floor. He had felt desire, yes. Carnal and quick. Many lovers had warmed his bed, some had never garnered the good fortune of leaving alive.

This one mortal had stolen space within his thoughts much longer than even he had anticipated.  

Raphael stretched his neck and wings, relishing the feeling of innate fiendish power. This would be fleeting, as all mortal dealings. He would gain the crown, his ultimate prize, and forget Tav and their many misadventures.

Tav rolled over and moaned softly once more.  Raphael’s glowing eyes watched their chest rise and fall with shallow breaths, gaze sharpening when he heard his name tumble from lips made clumsy from sleep.

He crossed the room to the bedside, looking down upon them with an arch and bemused expression. This was not the first time Tav had been invited to his Boudoir, after he had exacted punishment for their initial trespass.

Instinct told him to push Tav away, to stop indulging their weak and pliant desires. They were a means to an end, as were all the fleeting mortal souls ever passing through Raphael’s hands.

He should spurn Tav’s obvious, though misguided, affections.  He indulged them for the sake of gaining his ultimate prize, and yet…

And yet.

It was that hesitance, that chink in his carefully crafted armor which Raphael fervently yearned to burn out like an irksome weed.

Tav’s sweet dreams began to warp and fade around the edges of their vision as consciousness slunk into the lurid fantasy. Raphael’s hands skimmed along the side of their body, over their chest and rested against their throat.

Sleepy eyes slowly opened and looked up at the hellfire orbs set in a sharply angled crimson face. Any sane mortal would shrink in dread at the sight, but all Tav felt were butterflies.

They smiled and stretched, not minding Raphael’s clawed hand scraping against their flushed skin. “Good morning, my devil.”

Raphael’s hand flexed, torn between caressing and tearing asunder. He returned the smile, his tail moving with increased agitation. “Time to leave, little mouse.”

#raphael bg3 #raphael x reader #raphael x tav #raphael baldur's gate 3 #bg3 drabble #smut #adjacent at least #cambions gonna cambion #fanfic #18+ content