#surprise encounter!

[agoobersretreat]

"Mm.. how would you feel about hugging a certain fat magician~?" (@chubbymagician)

"Oh? I'd love that a whole lot, actually-?" Miq hums as she spins around to see who's asking, before her jaw drops.

"Whoa, hey Marisa! Haven't seen you in a long while! How have you been~?" And yes, Miq starts the hug then! It's good to see a friend she hasn't seen in so long, after all!

#chubbymagician #marisa #miq #cuddly shit #surprise encounter!

[theplumpkinpatch]

Jade is in the reserve, and sitting among a patch of flowers. It looks peaceful, but if anyone could hear her... she's snickering a bit.

Jade would probably get the sneaking suspicion right about now that she isn't alone. The feeling of eyes on you, even if you don't know from where.

If anything, it doesn't feel hostile. It just feels...intense. Very, very intense.

#mervibes #monsaplenty #jade #shadow #surprise encounter!

[agooberscast]

did u know

uhhhhhhh

fish

She does now! Normally, an ambush predator steers clear of a rush down predator. She'd be absolutely no match for her, after all.

Tuna would probably eat eels, if they could catch them from between rocks. That's why she stays right where she is, thank you.

Look, she even eats bananas! Mimei is a very slippery banana. It's only a matter of time that, whenever they finally bump into each other, there's a good chance either of them might think with their stomach first.

#someheartlesslady #somevarietyofmess #mimei #nibblesnarf #surprise encounter! #huna

[aromanticduck]

I'd appreciate it if people tagged/replied with what they voted and where they're from.

#language #english #inspired by me encountering the second one and being surprised by it because i don't hear it where i live so it sounds off to my ears #organic home grown content #polls

[ryllen]

i came to conclusion, it's okay if he sounds a tiny bit different bcs he tones down a bit of the softness, but please keep his SOFT HUSKY ENGLISH VA INSTEAD OF REPLACING HIM WITH THE ABSOLUTE STOIC DEEP COLD ONE I AM BEGGING YOU

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace zayne #love and deepspace mc #lads zayne #lads mc #zayne #THE UNCONSISTENCY OF ZAYNE'S ENG VA MAKES ME CRY #PLEASSEEE DON'T ERASE THE SOFT ENG HIM THAT WE KNOOOOWWWWWWW #LIKE NO I DON'T WANT THE ONE WHO VOICES HIM ON SURPRISE ENCOUNTER #KEEP THE HIM WHO VOICES THE DAWN'S SHADOWS #FANART #MC #AAAAAAAAAAAA

[kobadit]

Been playing a lot of Path of Titans lately

#Path of Titans #PathofTitans #PoT #Dinosaurs #Deinonychus #Pycnonemosaurus #Allosaurus #Kentrosaurus #Struthiomimus #Camptosaurus #Oh the moments of joy and frustration this game has brought me #Being a baby is scary but sometimes you are surprised by super nice people #As Kentros my sister and I encountered the Chicken King of the Hive #Struthi and Campto are our go-tos for running around and having a good time

[front-facing-pokemon]

#carkol #i thought it was cute how these guys were zoomin around on the fuckin. tracks. in the galar mines. made this guy the first pokémon i #encountered in those mines. i remember going in there and being like “oh it's a cave i'm gonna see a bunch'a zubat” #and then seeing this guy and being pleasantly surprised. 'cause this guy is good and i like it

[a-carnie-and-a-cop]

Travis.exe has stopped working

#travis x laura #laura kearney #travis hackett #the quarry #laura x travis #hackearney #can you see that for a microsecond his eyes go O.O #boy was not expecting that #i feel sorry for him #look at him! #he's really like ?????? #so full of questions #i mean AS A COP you encounter every type of person and they exhibit all kinds of behaviour #is there a reason you were so surprised officer?? #or you just don't know how to deal with laura?? #OORR you haven't been out of the house in a LONG time thus you haven't interacted socially with anyone #apart from you wonderful family

[gael-garcia]

Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Drawing together writers, editors, and other culture workers, WAWOG hopes to provide ongoing infrastructure for cultural organizing in response to the war. This project is modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, an organization founded in 1965.

Statement of Solidarity

October 26, 2023

Israel’s war against Gaza is an attempt to conduct genocide against the Palestinian people. This war did not begin on October 7th. However, in the last 19 days, the Israeli military has killed over 6,500 Palestinians, including more than 2,500 children, and wounded over 17,000. Gaza is the world’s largest open-air prison: its 2 million residents—a majority of whom are refugees, descendants of those whose land was stolen in 1948—have been deprived of basic human rights since the blockade in 2006. We share the assertions of human rights groups, scholars, and, above all, everyday Palestinians: Israel is an apartheid state, designed to privilege Jewish citizens at the expense of Palestinians, heedless of the many Jewish people, both in Israel and across the diaspora, who oppose their own conscription in an ethno-nationalist project. 

We come together as writers, journalists, academics, artists, and other culture workers to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. We stand with their anticolonial struggle for freedom and for self-determination, and with their right to resist occupation. We stand firmly by Gaza’s people, victims of a genocidal war the United States government continues to fund and arm with military aid—a crisis compounded by the illegal settlement and dispossession of the West Bank and the subjugation of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

We stand in opposition to the silencing of dissent and to racist and revisionist media cycles, further perpetuated by Israel’s attempts to bar reporting in Gaza, where journalists have been both denied entry and targeted by Israeli forces. At least 24 journalists in Gaza have now been killed. Internationally, writers and cultural workers have faced severe harassment, workplace retribution, and job loss for expressing solidarity with Palestine, whether by stating facts about their continued occupation, or for amplifying the voices of others. These are instances that mark severe incursions against supposed speech protections. Specious charges of antisemitism are leveled against Zionism’s critics; political repression has been particularly aggressive against the free speech of Muslim, Arab, and Black people living in the US and across the globe. As was the case following the September 11th attacks, Islamophobic political fervor and the widespread circulation of unsubstantiated claims has galvanized a US-led coalition of military support for a brutal campaign of violence.

What can we do to intervene against Israel’s eliminationist assault on the Palestinian people? Words alone cannot stop the onslaught of devastation of Palestinian homes and lives, backed shamelessly and without hesitation by the entire axis of Western power. At the same time, we must reckon with the role words and images play in the war on Gaza and the ferocious support they have engendered: Israel’s defense minister announced the siege as a fight against “human animals”; even as we learned that Israel had rained bombs down on densely populated urban neighborhoods and deployed white phosphorus in Gaza City, the New York Times editorial board wrote that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life and the rule of law”; establishment media outlets continue to describe Hamas’s attack on Israel as “unprovoked.” Writers Against the War on Gaza rejects this perversion of meaning, wherein a nuclear state can declare itself a victim in perpetuity while openly enacting genocide. We condemn those in our industries who continue to enable apartheid and genocide. We cannot write a free Palestine into existence, buttogether we must do all we possibly can to reject narratives that soothe Western complicity in ethnic cleansing. 

We act alongside other writers, scholars, and artists who have expressed solidarity with the Palestinian cause, drawing inspiration from the Palestinian spirit of sumud, steadfastness, and resistance. Since 2004, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) has advocated for organizations to join a boycott of institutions representing the Israeli state or cultural institutions complicit with its apartheid regime. We call on all our colleagues working in cultural institutions to endorse that boycott. And we invite writers, editors, journalists, scholars, artists, musicians, actors, and anyone in creative and academic work to sign this statement. Join us in building a new cultural front for a free Palestine.  

Signed,

WAWOG Interim Organizing Committee

Hannah Black

Ari Brostoff (Senior Editor, Jewish Currents)

Elena Comay del Junco

Kyle Dacuyan (Executive Director, Poetry Project)

Kay Gabriel (Editorial Director, Poetry Project)

Kaleem Hawa

E. Tammy Kim

Shiv Kotecha

Wendy Lotterman (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Muna Mire

Perwana Nazif

Brendan O'Connor

Alex Press (Staff Writer, Jacobin)

Sarah Nicole Prickett

Dylan Saba

Zoé Samudzi (Associate Editor, Parapraxis)

Jasmine Sanders

Claire Schwartz (Culture Editor, Jewish Currents)

Janique Vigier

Harron Walker

Chloe Watlington

Gabriel Winant (Department of History, University of Chicago)

Audrey Wollen

Hannah Zeavin (Founding Editor, Parapraxis)

Signed, In Solidarity

Fatimah Warner (Noname)

Saul Williams

Susan Sarandon

Janeane Garofalo

Gael García Bernal

Danez Smith

Ocean Vuong

Aria Aber

Saidiya Hartman

China Miéville

+ full list here

#writers against the war on gaza #wawog #free palestine #this letter is the one #you know how i encountered this when you see one of the people who signed #text #noname #susan sarandon #saul williams #gael garcia bernal #ocean vuong #joel kim booster #what a pleasant surprise #patti harrison #fariha roisin #zoe samudzi

[andhumanslovedstories]

watched some Columbo last night because this little guy has bewitched me body and soul, and it's delightful to watch him psychologically torment murderers. Anyway I was like "damn this episode ("Murder by the Book") is really good, these scenes are so gripping while being so quiet, the way Columbo interacts with the murderer versus the widow is great characterization, the directing is so confident and compelling, this is something really special" and the end of the episode comes and "directed by Steven Spielberg" pops up like a jumpscare, and I had a fun moment where I got to go OH. Sometimes the people who are famous for doing stuff are actually really good at that thing they're famous for.

#i love encountering surprises in the credits #i feel like it's the most neutral way to engage with artists who have prominent reputations #can't be predisposed one way or another if you don't know anything #columbo

[sukimas]

generally speaking a lot of touhous come off as outwardly a normal, easily encountered type of weirdo. and they are, to a degree, that type of weirdo. but pull back the outer layer and look beneath and you will discover completely new, never before seen, types of guy. it’s kind of like how olms look sort of like axolotls.

#i do not expect to ever encounter any usamis renko but if i do i will be surprised #pleasantly? well #certainly it’s pleasant to know the world is filled with such diversity

[agoobersretreat]

"You did say to bother ya, so that's what I'm doing!" (@widetimedetective)

"Oh? And who might you b-?"

"Oh?! Oh my goodness, THE Amelia Watson?!"

"I have so many questions! I don't even know where to begin! What's it like to travel through time? Does it taste or smell funny? What's your favorite thing to do with time shenanigans?"

#widetimedetective #amelia #miq #surprise encounter!

[robo-dino-puppy]

raccoon!

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw wildlife #raccoon #hfw raccoon #i think raccoons were somehow the wildlife i encountered the least in hfw #peccaries were everywhere but i remember being surprised every time i saw a raccoon bc i could never remember the last time i saw a raccoon #hfw little details #gamingcreatures

[agooberscast]

Momo giggles n' wiggles! Does she taste...funny?

No, she doesn't have to vocalize her pun. Her pun is willed into being all the same.

Either way, steamy doggo girl jaws are quite accommodating!~ Momo's just gonna hang out in here for a bit, behind those big, snappy teeth~

Maruko definitely would agree! She definitely tastes funny! In the good way, though! The Chomp definitely appreciates the company, even as weird as this would be for anyone else! Lots more licking and rolling Momo around gently in there.

If anything, Maruko hopes the lady doesn't mind if she ends up snacking a little and doesn't fall in with the food. Or if she wants to, that's on her and up to her! Most friends who go to her tummy don't come out again. Or not until way later, so hrrrm? Oh well, too much thinking today. Time for hanging with her new friend and looking for snacks~!

#fullcoarse #momo #maruko #ask thread #nibblesnarf #silliness #surprise encounter!

[yuesya]

Land! Sweet, sweet land!

Lumine almost feels as if she could cry in this moment. She shouldn’t have chosen that merchant vessel over Beidou’s Alcor and experienced crew. At the time, the merchant’s ship was leaving sooner –two entire weeks before Beidou was planning to set sail– and Lumine had only wanted to reach Inazuma as soon as possible in order to continue her search for her brother.

They’d been hit by a storm, and the ship had capsized. Fortunately, there were enough emergency rowboats for all members on board, even if the merchant’s goods had been a complete loss to the ruthless waves. Less fortunately… it had been several long days of drifting at sea, and their dwindling supplies weren’t about to last much longer.

“We’ve made it, Lumine!” Paimon cheers. Lumine nods firmly. “We’re alive!”

Alive, and in desperate need of aid. Lumine and a few of the other stronger sailors set out to explore a bit and get a better idea of their surroundings. Hopefully they’d come across some friendly locals who’d be able to extend a helping hand, or at least be willing to just tell them where they’d washed up on–

Someone’s there.

Another person! Lumine quickens her footsteps, even as waterlogged as she is.

“Excuse me–!”

Paimon flies ahead of her, chasing the figure that she’d glimpsed. “Wait! Wait, please, we’re just hapless travelers who –ack!”

“Paimon?” Urgency quickens her footsteps, and Lumine hurries to reach her companion. “You…”

Her voice dies in her throat.

There’s a young girl standing amidst the trees, with blue-white hair that appears almost silver beneath the sunlight. Her clothing is in the distinct fashion of Inazuman dress, a mix of soft blue and lilac colors flowing down her body. It’s almost enough to make Lumine acutely self-conscious of her own waterlogged state and haphazard appearance from days of floating out at sea–

But there’s a dark purple cloth tied over the girl’s face, covering her eyes. A blindfold. The girl is blind.

Blind, and yet she’d moved so smoothly and confidently over the rough terrain. Lumine had barely managed to glimpse her earlier, and if it hadn’t been for her coloring standing out so starkly against the verdant backdrop of the trees, she would’ve thought that she’d imagined it all in her head.

The girl raises her hand –the hand that’s holding onto the back of Paimon’s dress, “Is it yours?”

Paimon squirms. “I’m not an ‘it!’”

“Yes, Paimon is my friend,” Lumine nods firmly –and belatedly realizes that the girl probably can’t even see it. Wait. Is she really blind? The way she moved, the way she seemed aware of everything around her… didn’t really seem like the motions of a blind person…

The girl wordlessly releases her grip on Paimon; Paimon immediately returns to Lumine’s side, casting the girl an unsettled, suspicious look.

“Um…” Best to just get to the point, probably. “Could you possibly point us towards where the nearest settlement is, please?”

“Head south,” the girl raises a pale hand, the one that’s not holding the basket of strange purple grass as she points towards the direction to their left. “Watatsumi’s Bourou Village isn’t far from here. You’ll find it easily once you reach and follow the road.”

“Thank you!” That’s probably the best news that Lumine has heard ever since the shipwreck. “We really appreciate it, miss…?”

The girl remains silent. Lumine trails off awkwardly.

“… Erm, what should I call you?” Lumine ends up asking sheepishly. The girl is certainly strange, but she doesn’t sense any ill will from her. And she’d helped give directions easily enough; Lumine would like to have a name for the person who’d given them assistance.

“… Gojo," the girl says. "Call me Gojo.”

#writing #zenith of stars au #genshin impact au #yes lumine meets shiki as her first encounter in inazuma #much like running into venti first thing in mondstadt! #not that she realizes it #lumine gets to the village safely with the rest of the shipwrecked crew #and proceeds to make her way to narukami island #where the electro archon SHOULD be #surprise surprise the god is missing! #oh no i wonder where she could possibly be #also also #big thanks to ko-fi friends!

[sannyo-appreciation-posts]

so what actually makes sannyo your favorite character? what do you see in her that you don’t see in other characters

this image:

Im just kidding. Though she is really cute in it.

Truth be told, when UM came out I thought Sannyo was Super cool. Her "You darn fool" expression was probably the best expression in the whole game. but somehow, when the full game was out, she wasn't my favorite. I liked Tsukasa and Megumu and thought Chimata's outfit was crazy fun.

Though even then i preferred Sannyo's outfit design to everyone else's.

But Sannyo slipped from my mind due to what I'll call "Stage 3 syndrome" meaning, after the demo, Everyone likes the 3 stage demo characters for a while and pick a favorite among them, but when the main game comes out they get pushed aside really quick and people, more or less just move on to the new characters

But when I read her power and stuff in her Omake.txt she quickly became the coolest character in there. Of course she's a newer stage 3 boss so I obviously never expected to ever see her again.

(Though tbh my dislike of the smell of smoke probably wasn't scoring her any points, she was honestly at a disadvantage the whole time. I just like her enough to think it's cool when she's using her power instead. Besides, given what she says it's made of, it probably just smells like strange flowers anyway)

But then despite my assumption I'd never see her again, She appeared in Lotus Eaters chapter 29 and continued to appear occasionally after, Not only that......

She had the COOLEST, most cinematic intro in the entire touhou series. It was like 5 pages of slow walking through her Den politely greeting people, using her power, and even making aside comments with cynical gambling advice. Then meeting Mamizou at the door with a confident bow.

she's also got a crazy gap moe range of interests from obscure flowers to Dragons, proudly wearing the name Madame Komakusa, the after what is called the queen of Japan's alpine flowers.

And a crazy range of emotions. (Plus Lotus Eaters loves having her do something fun or cute in the background during her shift hours, even if the script dialog isn't calling for her)

she's mysterious, yet she's as expressive as an actual main character, she's got a range of principles, interests, and an incredibly cool gap moe thing going on. It's so rare for characters that were more or less side characters in their respective games to be this well rounded, I mean she's from freaking stage 3. But, She's awesome, adorable, and mysterious.

And it's not even a headcanon, or a fandom take on her, she is just genuinely like this in canon.

#sannyo komakusa #touhou project #lotus eaters #question response #I'm honestly really surprised she's not more popular. She embodies this character type as well as Yukari + Gap-moe bonus #Though obviously less powerful than characters like Yukari. Her presence can overtake a room when she's center stage #Like I'm certain even if she encountered someone as powerful as Yukari. she'd be just as passively sarcastic as she likes