#this got long sorry

[crybaby-bkg]

I know I've talked about bull and bear hybrid Bakugou, but has anyone ever talked about lion hybrid Bakugou???? I thought about this concept when I was still half asleep this morning but like,,,,

lion hybrid bakugou with his big ole head and even bigger mane of hair, all soft, colored like the sand you'd dig your toes into at the beach. he has a little scruff on his chin, but he never grows it out because he hates the upkeep of it.

he's always loud, growly yawns whenever you see him, his canines sharp and pointy when he opens his maw wide enough for you to peek in. he's so big and soft where it matters, lazes around all day everyday, and gets these big bursts of energy at the most random of moments. he's basically an overgrown cat basically

omg and he has this complex where he's just sooo high and mighty, like he's some king meant to be worshipped. but all you have to do is kiss his cheeks and rub a hand through his hair when he lays his big dumb head in your lap, and he's purring up a storm.

and and and lion hybrid bakugou whose tongue can feel so rough when he's feeling lazy about it, but somehow knows how to work it just right whenever he wants to lounge between your legs. gets so huffy and growly when you mumble that you can't cum anymore, just nudges your thighs a little wider with his shoulder as he nuzzles his nose against your mound. doesn't care to hear any of your complaining, because he's still eating and doesn't intend on finishing until he's ready.

omg and and lion hybrid bakugou whose favorite position is, of course, doggy style. but only because he gets to wrap your little dainty neck up in his powerful jaws and pin you there, likes how you whimper and shiver but go limp either way because you trust him with your life. he pins your arms beside your head and grunts so loud into your nape when he finally sinks his cock inside of you. he practically lays flat on top of you, just rutting his hips against your ass over and over until he knots you.

which is his favorite part because you two get to just lay there for what feel like hours, and you keep coming intermitally because he can't help but rut his hips a few more times, and hiss at the way his knot tugs at your clenching lips. sigh just lion hybrid bakugou who looks so mean and intimidating but he just loves you so much and can't get enough of you

#this got long sorry #but it had to be said!!! #I don't think ive ever seen someone do this before but if they have pls tell me #bc I wanna read more about it #I said the same for bear bkg and im so sad its not more popular to be written about a lot :( #anyway catch me in my hybrid lover era again LOL #first the whole bull farm and now this #and to think I got so tired of the idea bc so many people would come to me about it #sigh what a full circle moment lmfao #anyway I wrote this on my computer and I swear I wrote it faster here than I would have on the phone #typing on my phone gives me like motion sickness or something idk but I hate it #okay bye im gonna go write the fic that won in my last poll lol #—new treat in the streets! 🍫 #bakugou treats! 🍬 #tw: knots

[happyheidi]

Hi tumblr land! Guess who turned 1 on July 4th?

This girl!

There was something weird with my camera so the pics are trash but I had to share.

And here we have the celebratory madam herself, hugely excited by it all, and not at all bothered by having to model a bow for a photo.

Being her first birthday I wanted to do it big so I bought her a moomin food bowl 💛 with some nice treats 🍬🍭

Isn’t it cute? Moffe has a smaller blue one. Moomin has a way of finding itself in my life. Tove Jansson’s birthday (and the official moomin day) is august 9th, which just so happens to be Moffe’s birthday as well. lol every road leads to moomin and Moffe. Even on a post about Frida’s first birthday celebration 🙈🎉

you can see more of Frida here, and the golden girl herself, Moffe here 😁

Anyway, sorry for the crappy quality pics but isn’t she adorable? She’s gotten so much bigger and has really grown more into her features. We got her when she was 4 months old. 🥹🥹

Look at this angel! The most adorable lovable little thing you ever met! I’m so enamored with her! I’m smitten!

Once bitten forever smitten! <3

#minus the bite lol #only playful bites #not a mean bone in her body #this got long sorry #I can just talk endlessly about our adorable dogs #frida #moffe #dogs #animals #cottagecore #chihuahua #moomin #cavalier king charles spaniel #text

[visenyaism]

took a second trying to think of what rhaenyra actually... did in hotd? not plot wise or whatever but like... did she have any hobbies? how on earth did she spend her time she can't have spent 24/7 up there on syrax and she was a cupbearer or whatever- that's barely a job. did she like to, idk, hunt or something on her own time and not for her brother bday? girly needs a crafting room stat

yeah the show had her main job just sort of be reacting to things that other people did? like even one of her biggest moments of agency and consequences, deciding to have the bastard children with harwin strong, was entirely offscreen and she never had a big “oh we are FIGHTING fighting” moment with Alicent until the last shot of the finale?

I didnt really like that she didn’t do anything because it weakens the argument the show itself is definitely making that rhaenyra should be the king. like they give us plenty of reasons to understand why Aegon would be TERRIBLE but pretty much nothing as to how Rhaenyra would actually do a good job. We don’t even know why she really wants the throne other than she thinks she deserves it because her dad told her so. 

I think it would’ve been more interesting to see Rhaenyra be a whole lot meaner, and have some kind of weakness for power in terms of at least WANTING it if we are doing toxic lesbian divorce Rhaenyra needs to be also more toxic!!! i’m not sure if this opinion is going to get me sent to pitting women against each other jail so I’ll see all of you in court. 

#hotd #this got long sorry #wait you said NOT in terms of plot. well grrm doesn’t know what women did either so call it a product of adaptation

[ohbo-ohno]

bo, first of all i adore your writing!!

but you've mentioned a few shall we say 'darker themed' books you've read in asks here and there, can you give some recs of your faves?? pretty please??

first of all, i love you! and also yes always, i never mind giving book recs! i sorta ramble under the cut, sorry lol

alright i'll start with the darker romances. these are hard noncon, and depict abusive relationships that aren't always framed as bad. when i say dark i mean dark lmao, always be aware of what you're going itno before you read a dark romance

If you like my fics, I can almost guarantee you'll like Taken by Felicity Brandon. This is about an author who writes dark erotica and gets kidnapped by a fan, who forces her to live out some of her scenes. Includes petplay! I have my issues with the book (and I DNF'd the sequel) but ohhhh the smut is so good

I mentioned them a while back, but Measha Stone's Owned and Protected series is a 6 book series with noncon/dubcon petplay in every single book. Calling these "romance" is a stretch, but god if you like my noncon petplay stuff (and you're alright with reading explicit noncon and forced relationships), you might like these

I haaated the ending of Distorted by Nyla K. but dear fucking god it is a good prison dark romance. Also it is SO Ghoap coded, I would recommend reading the first ~80% of it lmfao

Corrupt Idol by Dinah Harper is the first book in a series that will probably never get finished, but honestly it's pretty good as a standalone. Dark step-brother romance, and I thought the writing (at least in the first half) was so good, I genuinely felt for the FMC at times (even if I was screaming at her)

Ok I'm not confident in this rec because I'm still not suuuuper sure how I feel about this book, but Torment by Dylan Page is a dark step-brother biker romance. The FMC is the MMC's "rock", and the only thing that keeps him from flying off into a violent rage when he's upset, and he develops an unhealthy attachment to her that everyone around them allows because they don't want to deal with him. I never read the second book, but this is another one where you really feel for the FMC

One of my favoriteeee dark A/B/O (specifically the first book) is Born to be Bound by Addison Cane. I would suggest not reading anything past the third book, and I'm not a huuge fan of the side plots, but the stuff with the FMC and MMC is just. God it's the perfect brand of dark A/B/O (in MY head)

I've recommended it before, but for my truly fucked in the head followers - Under His Heel by Adara Wolf is probably the darkest book I've ever read. It's a four book series (and I think the whole thing is worth reading) and it's got every single trigger warning except for (i think) scat, pedophilia, and necrophilia. it has rape, incest that's also rape, extreme body modification (though it's not permanent), severe public humiliation, severe mental torture, and just about 0 aftercare for our MMC. The book follows a man in a far distant future who's working as an indentured servant to pay off his debts & his incredibly sadistic and evil master. These books are far from "for everyone", but if you really want some fucked up romance (with heavy smut) I think these are worth reading!

aaand some softer dark romances. to me, these are books with some lighter kidnapping or soft noncon, abuse in a mental but not physical way, and MMCs who just think they're in the right

Gemma Weir's Montana Mountain Men is like an acid trip and it's kinda crack, but i read all 7 in like a day, so take that as you will. Each book is about a different brother in the same family as they fall in love - except, in this family the men supposedly know who their soulmate is the moment they lay eyes on them. So there's some light kidnapping, some manipulation/unhealthy behavior, and some birth control tampering in these. For what they are, I enjoyed almost all of them lmao

The Darkest Temptation by Danielle Lori is like a kidnapping romance written for non-dark romance readers tbh. It toes the line of noncon/dubcon, and it's definitely a kidnapping romance, but it's really not that dark.

Nicky the Driver by Cate C. Wells is (in my opinion) not as good as the first book in the series, but it's way lighter in terms of darkness level

Shiver by Ella Frank & Brooke Blaine is a stalker romance that fell a little short for me, but was overall enjoyable (iirc lol). It's about a young man who goes into a kink club and attracts the attention of the owner, who then stalks him. I think it just wasn't as dark as I wanted tbh, but if you like lighter dark stuff I think you might like this!

#recs #this got long sorry #asks and answers

[pinche-pendejito]

There’s just something about how totk Zelda and Link both canonically have time powers but they’re opposites in the most tragic way.

Link can slow down time, giving him the ability to take the time he needs to make choices and take more accurate shots. He can flurry rush to hit you faster than you can react. His abilities make him more capable and impressive, giving you the player more confidence and safety when you’re fighting.

Zelda on the other hand is _tortured_ by her powers. In botw we see her struggle for 100 years straight doing nothing but fighting Ganon. Her powers keep her alive but at the cost of her safety and well-being. This is more obvious in totk tho with her (MASSIVE SPOILERS) getting sent back in time thousands of years and having to live out those thousands of years as a dragon, knowing her pain will eventually bring the greater good. Her powers don’t make her safer, she’s actually more secure when she’s not using them. Her powers actively torment her over drawn out periods as the people she cares about age and the land shifts to become unrecognizable.

They’re soulmates but they’re destined to be opposites. Zelda is caught in time and Link can affect time but never enough to actually reunite them. It just makes the time he’s taking to save her feel longer. The very powers that Hylia has given them to bring them together (Link’s time power thing with the pot lid and a guardian is what led him to being made a royal guard per Daruk’s diary) are also exactly what keeps them apart _constantly_. They must be so angry. They must be so tired. They must be so bored of waiting and watching the world slip past while the two of them stay separate.

The triforce is a curse and nothing more.

#this got long sorry #just finished the memories and I’m so emotional #the legend of zelda #totk link #totk spoilers #princess zelda #zelink

[henreyettah]

why are they hiding their tits from each other after sex what are they americans

Afsjsjsj this is the funniest ask I’ve ever been sent😭

In all honesty tho when I drew this I imagined them still being in some weird pre-relationship place, like look. They both clearly have issues. They haven’t had a conversation in literal years. I don’t think the first thing they’re gonna do is get nasty, ya know?

So I think they’d have a period of just being unhealthily attached to each other. More than Cam and Pal even. Like these bitches go to the bathroom together. And not for fun reasons, they go together because they can’t stand not seeing the other for even just a few minutes. Always gotta be in range of touch or (preferrably “and”) sight, gotta make sure she’s there, gotta make sure. Cant risk it. You do not see one without the other, and they’re very seldom Not physically attached. They don’t hold hands (not at the beginning at least) but they hold each others sleeves/belt loops/robes. They stand arm to arm, sit leg to leg. They sleep in the same bed.

And at some point it’s like. Well. They’re already watching each other take shits. They shower together. Harrow takes her face paint off while Gideon picks at her pimples next to her. There’s no point in wearing clothes to bed, right? And besides, if there’s no pajama pants or shirts in the way, it’s easier to really make sure she’s there. There’s no mistaking skin for something else. Warm, living skin, with meat underneath and a pulse and little twitches and hairs and scars.

Uh so yeah they’ve seen each others tits but they’re not quite There yet and they’re both gay but they’ve seen each other’s tits, but it’s rude to stare so they don’t, and nudity and nakedness are two separate but linked experiences and they both have issues and like, they haven’t spoken outright about THIS other than to establish that they’re going to be Harrow-and-Gideon, Gideon-and-Harrow, permanently. And on top of that, the worry of the other feeling forced into any kind of situation. They’ve been forced into situations, by each other and by other people and by necessity. Neither of them want that. Especially not for her. Not again. So they cover their tits because then it’s a neutral situation still and no one is being made to do or think something that’s maybe against her will; just because one person wants something it does not mean she does, because why would she, after everything you’ve done and become? She lets this intimacy happen, and you’re not gonna push it, so ur tits go under the blanket even though she’s seen them.

Ya know?

#this got long sorry #anyways #I laughed when I saw this ask lmao #‘what are they americans’ #anon #griddlehark #tlt #let the soft animal of your body want bitch

[asteria-argo]

Do any of the Greyhounds play D&D in TATBP? And, if so, will they ever get to play with the Cool Kids (the teachers)?

Hey so I hope you don't mind but I have decided to use this ask as an excuse to talk my nerd shit.

First and Foremost to answer the question: Do I think any of the greyhounds play dnd? absolutely yes. Specifically I think Bumbercatch, Jan Maas and Colin play dnd.

Colin got into it when he was a little kid and a massive nerd before he grew up and started desperately trying to be cool. He was really embarrassed about how much he liked it for a long ass time but he's come to embrace it over the years as he's gotten older and stopped giving a fuck! He hasn't played much since he was a kid, but if he's ever given the chance too again I think he'd take it.

Jan Maas and Bumbercatch were both Weird Kids and found deep enjoyment in the game as a result that they carried into adulthood for entirely different reasons. Bumbercatch liked the choas of dnd and all the shenanigans you could get into, whereas Jan Maas was a big fan of the mathematics and rules of it all. Jan Maas is a rules lawyer but in the Siobhan Thompson from D20 way where he fucks DM's over by reminding PC's of cool shit their characters can do that the DM was banking on them having forgotten about.

Despite the fact all three of them like dnd, none of them actually realise this and have never played a campaign together, which might be for the best. There would be tears.

As for if The Cool Kids and playing with them? Maybe! I might write a one shot about it or mention it vaguely in the actual story but I'm pretty mindful about not putting too many of my nicher headcanons into an already very niche fic.

Now this isn't a question that you asked but I'm going to answer it anyway! How did Jamie himself get into dnd? easy! Skye dragged him into it kicking and screaming. Which is sort of a joke but not really.

When they were in university Skye really wanted to go to some board game club but she didn't want to go alone so she took Jamie with her. Jamie was just there to be a good friend, but when Skye made some new friends that wanted to play a campaign with her, she once again made Jamie come along because she wanted to have someone she knew better than these three randos from a board game club she'd been too once with her. And because Jamie while he was in university was on a journey of self discovery trying to figure out who he was without football, he said yes and ended up enjoying the game quite a bit.

He and Skye have been playing half elf siblings in the same campaign for years. Their names are Pin and Misty. Jamie's character is a Bard, Skye's is a ranger. When they started working at Clarence Hill and met Kareem, who was also a nerd, they learnt that he was a forever DM so they invited him to join them and their uni friends for the campaign where he could be a PC. The rest was nerdy ass history.

Jamie doesn't think or care about it half as much as Skye or Kareem do, but he enjoys watching them argue about it. He's mostly just there for the vibes.

Also fun fact; the rest of The Cool Kids dnd group is actually comprised of Skye's bandmates, because I have decided that she is indeed in a band. It has a name and a logo and everything. I'm committed to this being a thing.

#this got long sorry #but I have autism and an intense love of dnd and intricate character details #to all the better places #teacher jamie au #jamie tartt #colin hughes #moe bumbercatch #jan maas #skye goodwin #kareem aksoy

[the-owl-tree]

What really gets me about Ivypool's reaction to Tigerheart once Dovewing left is that for a long time, maybe even now fans thought when she clawed his face she "deserved" to as if she didn't deliberately ignore Dovewing AND Tigerheart practucally begging her to speak to her sister until it was too late. Ivypool didn't even tag along to look for her own sister outside the territories with Tigerheart since she believed he knew more than her, which you'd think she would do if she was THAT genuinely worried about her sister. (I know it's because the Erins didn't write her joining Tigerheart on his quest to find her, but still.)

i was pissed when ivypool smacked him, i don't think the would-be brother killer gets to be the judge of what is right and wrong ESPECIALLY when she smacked him because he literally did what she told him to

honestly i sort of understand how someone could read ivypool as not wanting to lose her sister but seeing as how she refuses to talk to her sister until she stops having a life outside of her even when tigerheart says to check on her...it just reads as overly controlling and petty

she also implies dovewing should get together with nice guy bumblestripe (i couldnt find a pdf of the bonus chapter apologies so wiki will have to do, thank you to skinwretch who pointed this out) which makes it clearly she hasn't been making an effort with her sister

i think what really bothers me is that there are moments during dovewing's disappearance that show ivypool talking about missing her sister and wanting to care about her but when dovewing comes back, instead of having any sort of moment of growth or saying one last goodbye, ivy is cold and refuses to look at her

#warrior cats #deer rambles #this got long sorry #but maaaannn ivypool gets zero fucking growth throughout this saga #and it SUCKS

[eskawrites]

hi im still thinking about tenlark (when am i not). so was the moment lark and tenar met in the woods in the third movie was the moment lark realized she didn’t want to leave the kingdom anymore?

ooooh okay. i think like, generally speaking, yeah that's fair to say. but i also think that it's less about lark realizing she doesn't want to leave the kingdom and more about her realizing that 1) she can't leave the kingdom now and 2) she absolutely doesn't want to leave tenar

i think lark's thoughts during that entire sequence--from when she and arren and moss and ged are ambushed until she finds tenar in the woods (which is like hours later, after fighting for their lives and fleeing into the woods and making sure arren doesn't die and setting up camp and assuring moss and ged they'll figure it out and then going to scout the area to make sure it's safe)--never really stop racing? and i think once things start to settle down a little bit and she thinks they might be safe for the night at least, she does start thinking about her conversation with arren about leaving. and at this point, she thinks the kingdom betrayed them for whatever reason, and that's why they were ambushed. so getting out seems like a pretty good idea

when she finds tenar her initial reaction is somewhere along the lines of i knew it because she doesn't trust anybody at this point, so tenar showing up must be a sign that she was right and they've been betrayed. but almost immediately she realizes tenar is hurt too, and something bigger is going on. and that's when it switches from 'we should leave the kingdom' to 'i can't leave tenar.'

i think maybe a little later--maybe even that same night, as tenar is telling them what happened--she also decides she has an obligation to stay and do what's right. but the loyalty to tenar comes first

as for her wanting to stay in the kingdom--as in, deciding of her own free will with no obligations or sense of duty that this place is actually her home and she doesn't want to leave--that probably doesn't happen until some point when they're planning to take the kingdom back. and maybe it happens because she's surrounded by beaten down rebels who are all fighting for the same cause, or maybe it happens because she's falling more in love with tenar by the hour, or maybe it happens because she realizes there's a chance they might actually win once and for all, and when that happens maybe she could be happy here and finally, truly believe that she belongs here

#this got long sorry #tenlark #erathia #i think lark has always been loyal to people first #and anything else....never #which is why she's so quick to believe they were betrayed #because despite the events of the first two books there's still part of her that fears she'll never belong here #(tenar proves her wrong eventually) #asks #el-fandom-birb

[your-local-grinning-cat]

Che’nya I just found out I may or may not have BPD. Give me advice on what to do with this information

*Che’nya appears next to you and gives you a gentle hug, wrapping his tail around you as well; AR comes out of the Tulgey Woods and sits nexts to the two of you as well, offering their support and is willing to give you a hug if you’re wanting one from them too*

Che’nya: I know the ask was technically for me, but I just don’t feel comfortable answering such a heavy ask with my usual light-hearted Che’nya answers. Which means it’s really more AR’s place than mine. Hope you don’t mind - we both care about you too, so I think it works out. 💜

AR: I will give the usual disclaimer that I am not a therapist, though I’m sure you’re know that and did not come here for that. But I wanted to get that out of the way first so we can just move right along. I will also put the rest under the cut, as this isn’t the usual Cheshire Cat content. 😊

Okay, this is long because not only is mental illness a topic I care about lot about… I also genuinely care about you. You’re one of the people I talk to on here and so I consider you one of my friends. And when it comes to the things/people I care about… I tend to talk. Even more than usual. You have been warned.

Altair, I’ll be honest, BPD is hard - though I’m sure you’re the last person I need to tell that to. I don’t have it myself, but I’ve known people who have it and I know they struggle. So hearing that you have it, or even that you may have, which means you show enough characteristics of it that the diagnosis is on the table… my heart goes out to you. I may not have BPD, but I do know what it’s like to live with mental illnesses.

My advice… I suppose the best advice I can give is to try not to look at this as a bad thing but as a good one. I know that may seem really hard, but hear me out. Now that you’re aware of your BPD, you can hopefully get help for it, or more specialized treatment for it if you were already receiving help.

I know finally being put on the right meds for your needs after years of being misdiagnosed or getting the right therapist/psychiatrist that you just “click” with can work wonders.

Just recently one of my favorite comic artists, “Art by Moga” was finally diagnosed as bipolar after years of being misdiagnosed and going unmedicated. And it has, according to her, legitimately changed her life for the better.

And I know learning I had Dyscalculia on top of all my other problems really helped me figure out why the way I am about certain things and not feel so self conscious about my difficulties with numbers and math.

Those are obviously not BPD, but I’m hoping the stories may end up being the same for you - hopefully being diagnosed will be a stepping stone to you finally finding a better, happier way of living your life!

But I know either way it’s tough to deal with that kind of diagnosis, so I would say try to be around people you care about and that care about you. Be with your support system. Get all the love and care. You deserve it. Do the things that make you happy. Get some TLC. You fucking deserve it. I give you permission to treat yourself.

But above all else, remember that having borderline personality disorder does NOT mean you are broken or unlovable or anything else. I’m not going to say that cliché line of “you’re perfect just the way you are” because even I don’t believe that about myself. You asked for advice and I’m not going to give you advice I can’t follow on my own. I’m not that kind of hypocrite. I always think there’s room to grow and improve and change. No one is perfect. And thank fuck for that because otherwise people would point at them and tell us all to reach for them as the standard.

So you’re not perfect. Neither am I. And the you before finding out you have/may have BPD is the same as the you now…

You are still the person who would send Che’nya random rizz pickup lines that oftenalways ended in hilarious ways that you didn’t intend that made me, and I hope you, smile.

You are still the person who made that sick-ass Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Martian Mickey twst OC and shared it with me and you’re excitement was so fun and contagious.

You are the person who told me about your other twst OC, Pawn, and his sentient mandolin, Mandy, and didn’t even call me rude when I sent you a block text of questions about Pawn’s relationship with Rook.

You are still the person who Che’nya sang an entire fucking Melanie Martinez musical number to, simply because it was you and you’re fun to have fun with.

You are still one of the very few people that interacts with this blog regularly in private messages rather than strictly via asks or posts - because we talk ooc so often, which means you are not just friends with Che’nya, you’re friends with me, AR.

You are still you.

And you is the person I am friends with.

And I think you is pretty damn great.

Che’nya: I agree.

💜💜💜

#we love you Altair 💜 #🫂🫂🫂 #this got long sorry #but you know you my inbox is always open 💜 #ar answers ooc #che’nya chats #che’nya knows no 4th wall #broken + mad = fun #tw mental illness #cw mental illness #tw mental health #cw mental health

[skybristle]

god man what do i even DO with a gc kingdom rewrite

#like fuck. the story was good!!! theres just so much missed potential and small problems that really dampen my views on it #but im struggling to figure out what i want to do to Fix them #doesnt help my brainrot is very fragmented rn #i just feel guilty #i know a lot of people were looking foreward to my response to gc's release #and i do love her!!! and her kingdom!!! very mcuh!!!! #but it didnt infiltrate my brain as much as i thought it would #the cacao kingdom has far more staying power in my brain than these guys do #i think its because i love them dearly but they simply have less substance to play with #no mystisisym and misery to expand on like i can wiuth the cacao kingdom #the gc kingdom's situation struggles because its very nature makes it open and shut. its all gone and a lie anyways #so why should i care? #sky rambles #this got long sorry

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

What are your thoughts on Gunny Bobrov? She showed up as the POV character in the Trial of Reckoning Waypoint story that came out with the Firefight update and is currently presumed dead.

I love her! I'll admit I thought it was hysterical that an even more niche Halo 4 character (who's first appearance is in a PA System hidden feature listing her as the Mammoth driver) showed up before Miller or Roland. Her and fucking Terry Hedge from SpOps (He was in 2 levels!! Is Esposito next?) making an appearance was really funny. I didn't know her beforehand and for a moment I thought she was one of the marines featured in the audiologs.

As for her character, I enjoyed the story and how she was written. No nonsense type who took stock and did what she could. And she misses the Infinity more than I do.

She placed 4th with a friend in the chili cookoff. This is what I want from Halo stories going forward. Characters who have little details and fun links to the wider world we got to know over the games/novels/mobile games/ side stuff.

Her story, if it ends where it does, is good! I would like to see it continue. Rereading it for this ask makes me appreciate the tension and the glimpse into a single soul stuck in Escharum's dumb game. I love outsider POV stories. She reminisces about Lasky and Chief and wonders where they are. She remembers the war as the tension grows. She sets the standard for this new group of her, Hedge, Singh, and Doc. It's satisfying but leaves you wondering.

This acceptance of the their own personal hell, the crucible of war games that we've been told is the Jiralhanae way, this is more interesting than us hearing Escharum tell Chief "Fight Hard, Die Well" over and over again. The human moments make Halo and scared out of your mind but doing it anyway is a fun story!

That and the nice "she had been called upon to serve once more". She retired and then reenlisted? But I do love the Halsey line echo that she said to an auditorium of freshly kidnapped 6 year olds.

Bobrov was called upon to serve, as if she ever had a choice. She's another cog in this war machine but we get to see and feel so much in this one short story that I hope they capture in the others moving forward. I do really enjoy what the writing team is putting out, whatever they're allowed to do.

I hope we see more of Bobrov, Hedge, Singh, and Doc. Maybe Kelly Gay can save some of them too, like she saved Horvath and Kovan.

#this got long sorry #i had feelings about halo again so this is all over #Elena Bobrov #asks #anon #anon i love you telling me about her as if I didnt scour halopedia for her as soon as she popped up bc how could i not know a niche side #character from hit 2012 video game H4 #lore tag #tldr this was good compared to the rest of escharum's nonsense. still cannot stand the character

[figurecollection]

What are your thoughts on the new SFW+/NSFW+ filters???

In case people don't know, MFC added new content filters:

SFW+: Completely hides all NSFW figures without a warning/NSFW disclaimer

SFW: Hides NSFW entries under a disclaimer and hides NSFW+ content (l0li/sh0ta content I believe) completely

NSFW: Shows NSFW content but completely hides NSFW+ content.

NSFW+: Shows all content without any warnings

You can change these from the drop down menu when you click your icon in the top right but you need to go to the Display menu in your settings to activate NSFW+.

I'm really glad personally, it's something I've wanted for years but didn't think they would ever implement so I'm really impressed. My issue was that I usually had my NSFW filter off because I don't really care much about seeing huge titty girls and am curious about releases but seeing l0lish0 is upsetting personally and it was irritating that there's literally no distinction between the two. I'm also really glad it totally hides it completely because I have chronic "clicking things that are hidden" disorder and I'm better off not knowing it's there at all rather than seeing a blocked notif.

Ive also not seen any l0lish0 clubs on the front page either within the past week which is suuuuuch a relief because they genuinely annoy me and there's literally no way to block clubs from being seen so that's a huge win LMAO. The SFW+ filter is also great esp for minors. All in all it's a really good addition and I hope in the future they implement tag blocking, a better user blocking system, and a club blocking system, but it's a start.

#this got long sorry #asks #anon #notfigs

[naomiknight-17]

Had Star Trek nightmares, of all things

Started out I was on a ship, NOT the Enterprise D or any starfleet ship I'm familiar with, but I was with Picard and Troi and some ensign idk. The ship was damaged, we needed an engineer really, but it was just us. Life support was failing. We'd been awake for days trying to find a solution or escape.

I somehow found a way to summon like, a backup of Data, and he helped us save the ship and ourselves. His backup thing did. Idk, dream logic. We all had to take different positions around the ship to activate something simultaneously, so I was separated from the group. I activated my station... the lights came up. The computers buzzed to life. We did it! The ship is saved! We can get out of here!

I ran down the hallway, stumbling and exhausted, and into the turbolift that would take me to the main deck where l would meet up with the others.

A security team was waiting for me. Phasers (and some other alien gun-like weapon?) were pointed at me. They were all convinced I was an imposter, an alien invader, and needed to be destroyed. The worst part is they were RIGHT but I didn't know it. As they pointed out evidence that I wasn't the real me, that my memories were fake, I started to remember that I really was a horrible monster. I begged for my life. They were unmoved.

I woke up.

I checked my phone. I didn't have to be up yet.

I hunkered back down in bed and told myself, no, that's not a good enough ending to that dream. We can do better than that.

I fell back asleep thinking of how that last part of the dream wasn't real (even within the fiction of the dream) but a nightmare that happened when I collapsed from exhaustion in the turbolift.

I rewrote the ending, dream-me waking up in sick bay, where Dr Crusher was tending to me, and Data was waiting to see me to ask how I had solved the problem and why I thought to get his help.

So fuck you, nightmare, I'm gonna make my own dream. With the Enterprise. And Data.

Suck it

#this got long sorry #mod post #dreams #nightmares #star trek #tng

[short-king-minho]

Field Trip Fun

Every other Friday, Minho made it a point to take the kids in his pre-K class out to do something fun after a long couple of weeks of work at the daycare. They'd either go to the park or one of the many other kid friendly places scattered around Los Angeles. This week was no different as he watched his group of 4 year olds play at Chuck E. Cheese, while they waited for their pizza to be served. This time, however, Minho just happened to have planned this particular trip during his most fertile week, which normally meant he was a bit more hormonal than usual. Minho was usually good about planning around this minor setback since he usually took those weeks off but he had been busier than usual and forgot. Watching the kids play just reminded him that he didn't have any children of his own despite everyone else in his life having both children and even grandchildren. Minho was a caretaker, he always had been, and he loved kids. That's why he went into early childhood development to begin with and normally he could push these feelings aside. That was before this particular pre-k class came and introduced him to an adorable little boy named Jisung and his extremely hot dad, Seojun, who happened to have volunteered to help chaperone this particular field trip. Minho and Seojun talked quite a bit during pick up and drop off every day and Minho had to admit they had been flirting for a while now but neither of them made a move to make it more than just that, flirting between a single dad and his son's teacher. The eyes he was giving him across the room today, however, paired his his natural baby fever just made it hard for him to breath properly. He told his assistant teacher he needed a break before sneaking out of the main area toward one of the rooms that housed the ball pit reserved for birthday parties in a private area of the restaurant. When he was finally alone, he shut the door to the private party room and took a couple of deep breaths to try to calm his raging hormones. He didn't know, however, that he had been followed and his wish would come true sooner than he thought it would.

#newlastarter #this got long sorry

[naiadnb]

Lol re: that weird anon you got, i work an office type job where most ppl are parents and grandparents and I have multiple coworkers in that demographic that use they/them pronouns exclusively. People can act like we’re an internet teen trend all they want, but the reality is that there are plenty of older people out here living their lives just like anyone else. Like I really have to laugh, they’re rolling their eyes at being 25+ and using they/them, but just this afternoon I chatted with someone in their 60s who uses the same. Like we aren’t new and we aren’t alone. Peace and love forever.

oh yeah like that's the thing is. y'all get maybe a glimpse of the IRL Me Experience(tm) on here? i have possibly the most Boring Adult job in the world. i have a cubicle and spend 8 hours of my day m-f hunched over a computer reading real estate records next to my 55yo coworker, kevin, who's hard of hearing but still tries to hold conversations with people through the walls and then gets mad at us when we say something he can't hear.

in that Adult Ass job, not everyone gets my pronouns right 100% of the time, but i have only met one single coworker (1) in my 2 year stint so far who hasn't consistently tried. and i live in arkansas.

i guess what's most unfortunate about w that specific brand of trans/nbphobia is that it's so clearly borne out of a belief that a nonbinary identity won't be respected in the Real World. but if we get down to brass tacks, i will gladly concede that my gender is made up. every gender is made up. gender itself is made up. it's a social construct, like race or money.* white people fucking love organizing things into neat little boxes, even when any closer inspection shows that the boxes are all kinda overflowing and wait is that a tree or grass bc it looks like grass but it's big enough that its seeds cause concussions sooooo..... technically grass but we're gonna call it a tree SHHHHH. so like we love boxes, but the fewer there are, the fewer facets of the human experience we can recognize.

like, i don't know if kevin thinks i'm "Really" nonbinary. i don't care! he apologizes when he trips up and he treats me like a colleague, and that's literally all that matters. the only people treating me like my gender is up for debate are dumbasses on the internet who think i deserve to be mocked. and frankly i think that reflects on them a lot more than it reflects on me.

*if you believe that race is a biological reality i will hunt u for sport

#this got long SORRY #edited to remove asterisk 2 bc i accidentally started ranting abt homer #deleted the paragraph but forgot i put a note too lmao