#thats my bet actually

[xysidhe]

On the topic of Regulus' patronus, since I won't let this die until I see it in a fic even if I have to write it myself.

Regulus: Why can't I get this bloody charm to work

Remus: Happy thoughts, Reg. Happy thoughts.

Regulus: What part of my upbringing gave you the illusion I have those?

Remus: Happy. Thoughts

Peter: Think like that fairy! Tonker Bells!

Remus: Tinker Bell. Purebloods.

Regulus: Could you two stop arguing over muggle cartoons so I can focus!

Regulus: Expecto Patronum!

Sirius: Bloody hell Reggie, is that a lion?

Regulus: Oh.

James: Oh.

Remus: He's beautiful Reg, what are you going to name him?

Regulus: Helios

Sirius: You're going to name your patronus after the sun?

Regulus: It keeps to the family theme doesn't it?

Sirius: Mother would have a fit. Looks like both her sons are more Gryffindor than Black. This is bloody brilliant! Told you Reggie, you should've been sorted into Gryffindor!

James: I think his patronus is perfect for him.

Regulus: I think so too.

#just imagine its an AU where Regulus ran away with Sirius to the Potters #Regulus likes to hang out with the Maraduers in the Gryffindor Common Room #James was trying not to cry after he saw the patronus #James did in fact cry after he heard the name #James remembered all the times Regulus called him 'my sun' and 'sunshin' and he KNEW #they havent said I love you yet but this was somehow even more profound #Remus is just eaying his chocolate amused by Regulus and James being idiots in love #remus knew they were in love and thats why he convinced Regulus to practice the Patronus in the common room #Sirius isnt actually unaware of the secret romance between his best friend and brother but he has a bet going with Peter #they want to see who will confess to him firsr #itll be James #while drunk #jegulus #marauders headcanon #incorrect marauders quotes #dead gay wizards #regulus deserved better #regulus x james #regulus arcturus black #james deserved better #james fleamont potter #james x regulus #starchaser

[bolithesenate]

happy halloween @ the jedi temple

(Rael is Dooku ofc, Jaizen is a CorSec guy, Vokara is a nexu, Mace is the sw equivalent of the phantom of the opera, Jocasta is the mortis daughter, Dooku is a tirra'taka and Sifo is himself as a force ghost)

#jedi halloween #i feel like thats such a fun concept #sifo and jocasta said 'what are the most herectical things we can dress up as' #jaizen is wearing an actual cor sec uniform she stole #it's an ace tradition that every year at least one of them does that #rael is self explanatory #dooku chose his costume by a similar criteria as sifo and jo but he went 'what would kill my father on sight should he see it' #mace went full theatre nerd #and vokara lost a bet #random boli thoughts #my art #star wars #star wars fanart #yan dooku #rael averross #vokara che #mace windu #jaizen suel #jocasta nu #sifo dyas

[hualianisms]

TGCF Audio Drama Ep 12 pt 2: XL gambles himself in exchange for one night of HC's company

[context: see part 1 translation. basically, after the Gambler's Den dice-throwing scene, SQX & LQQ need a distraction to investigate Ghost City, so XL gambles against HC to cause a distraction. XL asked for HC to accompany him for one night as the prize if XL wins. HC has just agreed.]

HC: Alright.

Ghosts: (shocked) Chengzhu agreed!

HC: However, what this gege seeks is of considerable value. It's also my first time.* Accordingly, the stake you bet on must also not be arbitrary.

XL: Of course, it cannot be arbitrary.

HC: However, there's a small matter gege must be reminded of. The last thing gege has on his person, he has already lost to me yesterday.

XL: Ah… Yes indeed. Please wait. I will search again. …Um… I…. Here… (searches his sleeves and pockets and finds nothing)

Ghost 1: I say, Daozhang, if you really have nothing to gamble with, why not just use your clothes to gamble with? Every time you lose one round, take off one layer of clothes!

HC to ghost 1: Shut up.

Ghost maiden: Daozhang, what is that which you're wearing on your neck?

XL: (takes out the necklace of HC's ashes) Are you referring this?

Ghost maiden: This ring looks like a really amazing treasure.

XL's thoughts: This is what San Lang gave me…

HC: This gege, do you wish to bet on this ring, and gamble with me in a game of victory or defeat?

XL: …I can't do that.

HC: Oh? Why not?

XL: This item is far too precious, it cannot be carelessly handled and disposed of.

HC: It's been given to you, so it's yours to do with as you please. Why can't it be carelessly handled?

XL: That's all the more reason I can't. This is the kind of gift I do not accept. If I do accept it, then of course I must treasure it, only then I can be worthy of the sincere intentions behind it. How can I possibly use it to gamble, and squander it away frivolously?

Ghosts: So that's how it is, there's even these sincere intentions behind the gift!

Ghost Maiden: But this can't be used, that can't be used, then Daozhang, what do you have left?

XL: (Sheepishly) …It seems… The only thing left is me.

HC: Alright.

XL: (blinks) …What?

HC: You.

Ghost maiden 1: Wonderful! If you lose, you can sell yourself and come here to wash clothes and fold bedsheets for old Chengzhu, serve tea and pour water for him!

Ghosts: What a great idea! Yeah! Yeah!

SQX: You'd better not agree. This bet has no winning odds!

XL: Alright, I will place my bet!

HC: (chuckles) Great.

Ghosts: Xiao Daozhang, you will definitely lose!

SQX: (gloomily) This time, we're really done for!

XL to SQX: Don't worry. This time I might not lose. You guys, go quickly [to investigate Ghost City].

[Translation notes:]

*This line is likely also innuendo (subtextually). the CN line here literally means "It's also the first time for me", which on the surface mean HC's first time accepting such a request. But the subtext seems to imply it can also mean HC's first time (sexually). The ghosts clearly interpreted the sexual meaning as they were gossiping later in this episode that "Someone wants to gamble for Chengzhu's 初夜!" 初夜 refers to "wedding night" i.e. the first night of a marriage where the marriage is expected to be consummated for the first time.

Essentially HC is saying, since XL wants something of such great value' (HC's company; subtext implying HC's first time), then XL must also give something of equal value i.e. "You". I interpret it as HC deliberately trying to leverage the value/rarity of XL's request as an excuse to get something just as intimate from XL in return. The way HC said "You." was so slow and seductive hahaha

Bonus: there's also a part later in this episode where the ghosts are gossiping and hilariously misinterpreted. A ghost said "I heard that Chengzhu's brother wants to gamble him and steal away his wedding night" (aka first time) 😭 As that line is from the uncensored revised novel, I assume MXTX wrote it to make fun of how censorship wants to turn hualian into just Very Good Bros.

#tgcf audio drama #hualian #xie lian #hua cheng #my translation #tgcf audio drama spoilers #unfortunately i cant translate the actual xl vs hc gamble bc its a whole ass game of 5 riddles (sort of) #where xl uses too much literary/classical style of speech thats way above my pay grade 😭😭 #when I'm free I'll translate the part where XL lost and basically says he hands himself over to HC (since he had betted himself)

[sometipsygnostalgic]

If Entrapta's character is like a feral shonen protagonist (Goku or Luffy) became a scientist instead of a fighter, then what is her opposite?

What character in fiction is like if a calculated mad scientist type (think Princess Bubblegum or Bulma) became a fighter instead?

#not just a tactical fighter like sasuke #im talking someone who does shonen battles as if they are a mad scientist #but they cant just be a scientist who also does battles they have to be all about fighting #its difficult because fighting can itself be a science such as with alchemy #maybe some of the characters from my hero academia or fullmetal alchemist can qualify #anyway the best direct example i can think of is the sherlock holmes DISCOMBOBULATE scene but it doesnt count #because sherlock holmes is also a scientist in that series #is... is usopp a scientist??? does he qualify as a scientist???? #usopp might be divorced enough from being an actual scientist to qualify #his calling was science and technology but he foolishly decided to be a warrior of the sea instead #hes not quite what im looking for though #i bet theres a lot of villains like this though because villains always do insane shit #like sepiroth using maths to pull a meteor to destroy the planet #see thats the kind of shit i want

[absurdumsid]

Hey there! Happy new year! (For my time)

I just recently knew your channel, and I was really curious about this one coincidence. I can't get it out of my head since I know it now.

So I also have this original AU named inspectiontale, and the OC name is pill. When I was looking at your channel, I noticed that your OC was named pillS, just with an S.

My AU is probably younger since it was made about 2023 June, so if you aren't disturbed about it, should I change the name? I've been wondering this for about 3 days wondering if I should change it or not. Haha. Sorry it's long!! Have a great year!!

Here's him:

(the one on the right {yellow} is pill)

happy new year !!!! pill looks super cute !

this is actually the perfect opportunity to reveal that UP! Sans' name is Auto !! so there's absolutely no need to change names !

Inspection! Sans/Pill belongs to sheepcatsleeps Pills! Sans/Auto belongs to me !

#inspectiontale #inspection sans #<- pill is so cute actually omgg dies #underpills #underpills sans #<- thats my son !! his name is auto ! #sans au #sans oc #undertale au #i can FINALLY call my son by his name #<- i have been waiting for soooo long #i am betting there is already a sans named auto though #sid answers #sid art #sid ocs

[taravangians-storming-balls]

Got excited all over again for kaladin and szeth interactions in kowt. Just two sad little guys having a sad little time. I hope they have so many disaster moments

#i hope kaladin wonders if he was ever this weird #i hope syl and nightblood get into an argument about morals #i hope szeth thinks that kaladin is insufferably well adjusted and kaladin is like 'huh??' #im trying to temper my expectations because there is a good chance theyll be throughly distracted by plot and wont actually ever really talk #especially because brandon is allergic to characters having heart to hearts on screen #but i can dream #and i bet once we get some canon vibes tho the fanfics will be poppin and thats enough #stormlight archive #taravangians-storming-posts #kowt speculation #knights of wind and truth #stormlight 5 #rhythm of war spoilers #kaladin stormblessed #szeth son son vallano

[forthecriminallyinsane]

another real convo with a friend

#shout out to sam winchest #my besty #my brother #supernatural #meme #incorrect quotes #supernatural incorrect quotes #okay its actually a correct quote cause #hashtag #system #dean winchester fictive #thats me btw #bet you didnt expect that #🪓

[danrifics]

i really wanna see dnp drive a real car

#in the dapg video how not to drive with dnp phil said he hadnt driven since he was 18 thats like actually 18 years ago..... #idk the last time dan drove a car but i bet its over 10 years ago #i hope my math is right cos almost 20 years ago seems too much #help am i dumb??? #oh these tags are going off on a tangent help meeee

[alirienn]

#rough designs in the read more #THE WAY MY SIGNATURE IS WRONG EVERY TIME SLKDFJ thats my doodle twitter acc...... #woohoo rarepair #or crackpair? i recently relearned that term #u can ask me why i ship them if ure curious altho i bet if someone actually does im gonna forget why immediately #i like every ship combination in bastard quartet! #(isagi. kaiser. kurona. ness) #nesskuro #kurona ranze #alexis ness #blue lock #fanart

[dailyeca]

INLAND EMPIRE [Legendary: Success] — A rosebud, more stem than petal. A teacup, with a steeping sachet of lavender. It will take time. But they will wait for each other.

portrait on its lonesome (disco elysium style is so. difficult hkjh i blend colors too much and am too cautious about palettes to be able to pull it off, does not help im a warm colored art kinda guy)

Dialogue: AUTHORITY — Don't let this perp get the last word! Who does he think he is, talking to you like that? RHETORIC [Medium: Failure] — Who *do* you think he is? PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Trivial: Success] — Someone with a permanent frown. LOGIC [Easy: Success] — Someone who's a criminal. CONCEPTUALIZATION [Formidable: Success] — Someone who's an artist. HALF-LIGHT [Medium: Success] — Someone with two brass knuckles and the know-how to use them. ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Hard: Failure] — Someone who doesn't seem a lotta fun to be around! VOLITION [Heroic: Success] — …Someone who fell through the cracks. SHIVERS [Godly: Success] — Some 20-odd years ago, a kindergarten runaway is herded into the metal belly of packed public transport and emerges reborn in a new city, baptized and spitting up the holy water in the wake of an identity you could barely say was remade as much as it was, simply, made. SHIVERS — He drowns again at age 7, at age 14, and every year thereafter, water filthier and colder every time, treading without a shore in sight. Even as his limbs grow leaden, come hell or high water, he maintains that stepping foot on land after so long will doom him. INLAND EMPIRE [Legendary: Success] — He doesn't even know who he is anymore; he just feigns indifference. He is a ladybeetle inversed - in the same way there are dots of yin and yang. Stiff belief that there will always be bad in the good. Living proof that there is good in the bad. He will never shed the former, nor acknowledge the latter. EMPATHY [Heroic: Success] — Not now, at least. Not with you, and not without time.

#eca orichird #daily eca #worked HARD on this; LOVED writing for this hajksh skills my best friend skills!! <33 wish i could have include more actually hkjh #DRAMA - SIRE HE BEARS FALSE WITNESS REGULARLY! TO HIS OWN PERSON AS WELL!! #ESPRIT DE CORPS - The lieutenant takes note of the guy's stance. A single pad of his finger makes cold contact with the gun at his side. #PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - oh yeah this guy's scrawny but he's no fucking pansy. you see that scowl? bet /he/ hasn't cried for years. unlike you #ENCYCLOPEDIA - Repression in psychoanalytic theory is the exclusion of distressing memories thoughts from the conscious mind. Often involvi #and for the skills already there: half-light - YOU HAVE TO KILL HIM FIRST!! BEFORE HE KILLS YOU!!! #very difficult perception check shows you his ladybug necklace. shivers tells you about how little Eca got it in the library. #lmao anyway; i made a spelling mistake but was too lazy to edit it bc i already saved it as png lmao. not changing that!! #the background of eca's portrait! on the left you can see a blotch of white on red with a line streaking down. that's the library window :> #on the right is a ladybug hkjh <33 i struggle with even abstract backgrounds so a lot of it is just messing around <33 #took me several tries to paint this and even now i dont think i like it very much but thats okay. painting is hard hkjh #anyway DEEP in the disco elly brainrot. had dreams about it last night hkjgh thats all i think <3

[hotticuslincoln]

Um, do you remember that girl from Saturday night? Um, the blonde? No, that was Thursday. Oh, um... Oh, oh, yeah! The one that kind of looks like the Snow White to your Prince Charming? Yeah. And she had a Disney princessy kind of name. Jules. Yes!

#grey's anatomy #19x01 #jolink #jo wilson #Atticus Lincoln #jules millin #greys anatomy #my gifs #julink #i bet thats actually chris not able to keep a straight face with camillas laugh LOL

[rohirric-hunter]

"Oh I'm cancelling my subscription right now because of one day of downtime and I'm gonna post about it multiple times so everyone knows!" You should not, and I cannot emphasize this enough, have access to a credit card

#given the timing ill bet its a ddos attack #they pick holiday weekends when fewer people are in to do maintenance #but anyhow to the point of my post #it bothers me that people who spend large quantities of money make that sort of snap decision with it #like no wonder the economy is in shambles #it shows that they dont know how data centers or servers or the internet or companies on the weekends function #and like idk #it really bothers me that people will spend so much money on something and NOT understand how it works #also once again #WHAT FUCKING LAG #you know i actually did have lag yesterday #or i thought it was lag #turned my graphics down and it immediately stopped #theyll get on the forums and complain about lag but thats not. like. lag #thats an issue with your computer

[whaledocboi]

"are you lost, sir?"

pre-ocs camila gets me thinking every once in a while and given the crumbs of informations we have, i do as usual, make shit up

im a big fan of the idea that cam had a pretty rough time growing up, getting into fights, may or may not commited crimes here and there & had her runs with the police, etc etc, but nobody really knows about it (in detail, not just the "yeah i joined the convent because we were struggling too much and i thought it'd be for the best if they wouldnt have to take care or me as well something something") other than mother superion and maybe father vincent, and they dont assume anything crazy either because i mean look at her. thats a harmless little guy right there

i Will give her more layers and characterisation even if its the last thing i do

#we've all heard of mary's terrible horrible very bad no good dirty tricks during close combat but what about camila #she's always up to something you can tell by looking at her #i bet she accidentally ran into an ocs mission one time and went 'actually thats pretty cool. do you guys take applications by any chance?' #warrior nun #sister camila #digital art #illustration #character art #character design #injury #my art #pre-ocs camila #pre canon

[orcelito]

Went skimming thru late trimax For Reasons, got caught up reading the Legato fight, realized things about the fight that I never had before & went WOW, I kind of want to write an analysis post right now!

Felt the same kind of insanity grip me, however momentarily, that fueled all my analysis posts however many months ago. Too tired to actually word things coherently right now, but...

I May or may not have a full(ish?) analysis of the Legato & Vash fight a la style of This post analyzing the Trigun: Multiple Bullets fight that got unexpectedly kind of popular. People seemed to really appreciate that one, & I even had some ppl saying it could be cool if I did that for others?

So. Legato fight. Maybe. Feel free to remind me later if u see no mention of it again for over a week lol

#speculation nation #ive been wanting to go back into reading the manga again #ive only slowly (VERY slowly) been puttering along with where i am in my fic #for research purposes with the fic. #i do want to go back through the manga bc i STILL havent done a full reread of it #ive just reread so many different parts of it for assorted research that im probably getting to some 10 or so reads total lmao #i wanna reread it in full tho front to back to sort out any stray details and remember any timeline things i might have slightly skewed. #the problem with reading the manga though. is that every fucking time i look at it. i am consumed by a drive to research EVERY little thing #so me reading turns into 'hm thats interesting. that reminds me of this thing that i know happens in volume 8. let me just check that now--' #and i end up so dreadfully distracted every damn time. bc i end up with all my wires crossed and my attention pointing a million ways #it's exhausting. and so i havent been reading the manga outside of random research dives. #im very good at that. i know every volume of the manga and can find Anything within 1 or 2 mins (at the Most) #which is also kind of the problem lol. fingers in too many pies. so many things to think about. #if i get back into Actually rereading the manga tho you can bet ur ASS ill find more things to make posts about #every time i open up the manga i find new things that i could analyze. #i just havent. bc i dont have time. but. ykno what. maybe i Could get back into it... #remind me later. this is one of my favorite fucking fights with my favorite Fucking panels #and i realized smth about the shit Vash is doing that was making me lose my MINDDDD #later tho. ive been sleep deprived today. and it is time for me to rest. #& yea yea ITNL is still the main focus. but idk i have such a mind for details and i remember So many things about the manga #i wanna show that off to people again. and thus. Analyses!!! :D #later. goodnight for now

[swagging-back-to]

just fired my therapist who has been ghosting me for 4 months because she sent me a letter threatening termination because "i have not responded to any contact and continued silence will be taken as agreement to cancel services"

literally fuck you. actually fuck you. she would call WITHOUT WARNING when i would be out running errands and then when we actually have a scheduled meeting she would cancel 20 minutes after it was supposed to start.

therapy is sooo incredibly useless. i have never needed it, it has always *harmed* me more than not having it.

#it's actually so annoying. #the only reason i stopped responding was because she would always ghost me #to the point where i would place bets with myself on how far into the scheduled time it would be before she would cancel #every. #single. #week. #at one poiny she even acknowledged that she missed more appointments than i did during one of my worst dissociative phases #that lasted two years. #because she would miss every. single. appointment. #alwyas last minute #after id been waiting for an hour #Fuck you actually #the way i completely forgot she existed until that letter was sent because thats how long it's been since she messaged me. #anti psych #she would make me cry when i first started working with her from how hostile her tone was. #like not in a 'work through the pain' way #literally just her picking up the phone and so clearly not wanting to talk to me that it would make me cry #or her completely just. being so insensitive. #i would say something that was really bothering me and she would either go 'so?' or she'd get obviously uncomfortable and be like 'welp. #tough shit' #ACTUAL QUOTE SHE HAS SAID TO ME #and whenever i would discuss my dissociation--THE MAIN REASON I WAS IN THERPAY TO BEGIN WITH-- she would get soo dismissive #she would regularly say 'i dont think you actually have dissociation' #ok girl tell me how you know my life more than me when i talk to you maybe 4 times a year for 30 minutes. #go on. #tell me.

[july-19th-club]

so mid that neal doesnt drink from antique glasses to match his antique clothes. up your game gayboy

#i say from my ivory tower of 1930s etched glasses #they're not technically depression glass because they are actually blown & etched rather than molded #but the time period is the same and they're that iconic shade of pink #google says tiffin franciscan #im SO sexy i love my wineglasses. four goddamn mortal bucks at lisas general store flea market and antiques mall #google wants anywhere between thirty and fifty #i love shopping for antiques where i live because everything's a steal #if i went antiquing in a bigger area it'd be costlier . but out here it's a fair bet nobody knows or will research what stuff's worth #so you can go to any thrift store and find rare old shit for dirt cheap #and thats a tip from me to you: go antiquing in the smallest towns you know . most of it's junk. the rest of it's awesome