#we need tentacle CC

[hellafluff]

Playing with @saruin's lovely angel eye set and the new book nook kit, made an Angel of Forbidden Knowledge

#inspired by hermaeus mora ofc lmao #we need tentacle CC #the color correction is all over the place here bc i was being lazy haha still looks nice #sims 4 #sims lookbook #sims 4 lookbook #angel #edit craze

[crisiscutie]

Is there mommy competition between Jenova and the darling? CC Sephiroth is obviously very needy and clingy but I'd imagine the other Sephs are a bit conflicted as well!

Content Warnings: NSFW, Discussion of Mommy Kink, Oedipus Complex, Breeding and Teratophilia. This is a long, intricate ramble.

All the Crisis Cuties love both. They all have some variant of the mommy kink, overlapping with their oedipus complex. They are broken men who share a broken darling.

༻❁༺ The Darling and Jenova's Union.

7R and Dissidia Seph are slightly conflicted about the two, at first. They see the darling as kin (as all Sephiroths do) because of her Jenova DNA, but, of course, they still love Jenova too. OG and AC Seph take it a step further, already seeing the darling as an extension of Jenova, and the latter wanting to fully merge them. Two birds, one stone, right?

They already understand the darling's bond with Jenova and find it rather fascinating. It's important to know that OG Seph is Jenova!Sephiroth plucked sometime during FF7, so his true body is in the basement, somewhere near hers. He has control and the most influence over Jenova since she came from his universe. And with his control, he definitely uses her tentacles for frisky times with the darling. Or to help the pregnant darling when she needs support, like getting out of the mako pool, etc.. The other Sephiroths have a connection to Jenova too, but it's weakened because they come from different universes. However, they can still influence her as their connection grows.

And it didn't take long for 7R and Dissidia Seph to join suit with the other two Sephs, as they recognized the special union between Darling and Jenova.

༻❁༺ C.C's View On This Situation

Now for C.C, it's rather complicated, considering he was plucked from his universe when the Nibelheim Incident was underway, right during his monologue to the Jenova doll... That's a big traumatic event, adding to many others he's suffered throughout Crisis Core. There is a reason he's more feral and childish than the other Sephiroths. Now, he's ecstatic to find that the darling and Jenova are both in this mysterious house. The two of whom he cherishes so much, IN THE SAME PLACE! The glorious reunion he always wanted... Yet, his connection to this Jenova is weaker as she comes from OG Seph's universe. It will grow stronger eventually, alongside his connection to OG Seph and the other Sephiroths.

But the fact remains that Jenova has been dormant for thousands of years, making it impossible for her to show/emulate to C.C the human, motherly love he desires. With the darling's occasional display of motherly nature, C.C. could feel his desires start to become reality. And we know for any Crisis Cutie, the darling is like a constant drug rush for them, especially if she induces positive feelings within them. So eventually, he forced the darling to give him what Jenova lacked, full time... But it raises another matter: the darling is an object of his romantic and sexual desires. So with these factors combined, that's why he has his mommy kink with the darling.

In a nutshell: he already fully combines the two in his shattered mind, a lot. There are times he can distinguish the two. Like forcing the darling's legs apart for Jenova's tentacles to get easier access to her cunt when the darling is nursing him. Or getting creepily giddy examining sticky, white fluid that was all-too familiar to the darling when he's fingerfucking her...

Also, Sephiroth's habit of projecting his feelings and views onto others is extremely important. And it's something ALL of his incarnations do, yet we should save that discussion for another time.

༻❁༺ C.C's Mommy Conflict.

I like to think in his occasional personality switch, he might seek relief from Jenova's dormant body in the basement. He feels liberated to express himself in her presence because of her blank slate, if that makes sense. He will do this when the darling is pregnant sometimes, resulting from his jealousy and envy of the spawn in her womb. I can only imagine how the situation would go...

The darling will sought him out, wondering why she didn't feel his usual embrace when it's time for them to be together. She would already know he's in the basement, with Jenova's body. The surrounding air was icy when she arrived, and he didn't even turn around to greet her, or even acknowledge her.

And then, he spoke cruelly and without mercy to Jenova about his darling, starting by announcing to her that the ungrateful traitor carrying his precious mother's spawn was now with them..

(Out of scenario mode now)

When he called the darling a traitor, it was saturated with his anger and resentment towards her relationships with other Sephiroths and her not wanting to join the "reunion". It also comes from his inner turmoil (envy, jealously, etc) at being replaced by the spawn… And the most tragic thing, a part of him can feel the shame and regret, for not having that romantic dynamic with the darling. His longing for that maternal love and affection is so intense, since he had been taken away from his "mother" at such a crucial moment. Yet, his heart ached with an equal longing for the same romantic love and affection that the darling shared with the other Sephiroths... It hurts him to no end.

(Back to scenario now)

The darling was so hurt by his words that she ran out of the basement to her room, tears streaming down her face. What he said hurt her more than any other rough times they had together. As she wept, she felt the warmth of the Sephiroth doll (Theatrhythm Seph) as it embraced her pregnant belly. His presence was a reminder of the strong, unbreakable connection between the darling and the Sephiroths. He would reassure her that no matter the hurt the Sephiroths caused, their love and dedication to her would not waver, even if it's warped...

House of Sephiroth is definitely a Tragicomedy now. I declare it. The Sephiroths in general have a strange, twisted familial relationship with the Darling and Jenova. Hope I answered your question well.

If you're interested and hadn't already, check out my Mother's Day fic centering on C.C, he expresses many of these insecurities in that fic.

This is a Sephology 101 post.

#ff7 #ff7 sephiroth #sephiroth #final fantasy 7 #Jenova #final fantasy x reader #sephiroth x reader #crisis cutie #yandere sephiroth #yandere sephiroth x reader #c.c rambles #house of sephiroth au #tw: mommy kink #tw: tentcles #final fantasy #final fantasy 7 x reader #yandere x darling #yandere final fantasy #Sephology 101

[titleknown]

TITLE'S 7-DAY KAIJUNE KAIJU CHALLENGE!

SO YEAH, while I have my own plans for the Kaijune of 2023 (But they'll take a bit for... reasons), I had a fun idea for bringing in your own fun!

Namely a make-your-own kaiju art/writing challenge, 7 days to not be too obnoxious for artists to do but robust enough to make a decent sketch of a small kaiju setting:

Hero Kaiju

Villainous Kaiju

Tricky Kaiju

Kaiju of Human Origin

Friend of the Hero Kaiju

Ancient Protector Kaiju

Hero-Killer Kaiju

Note, you don't have to, but it'd be ideal if you put them out under a CC-BY 4.0 license, like I have for mine over the past 4 years.

Because Christ knows we need more stuff in the Creative Commons, but I digress.

But wait, you might ask, why aren't there any aesthetic themes?

Well, that's the twist, because there are, but there' a twist. Below are two d20 charts.

For each day, roll once on each of the two D20 charts, and then find a way to combine the two into something coherent based on that entry's concept!

Tables past the break...

Trait Table 1

Fire

Hairy

Mechanical

Poison

Meteor

Light

Undead

Electrical

Burrowing

Faceless

Surreal

Botanical

Shelled

Parasitic

Shadow

Tentacled

Candy

Evolving

Weather

Dream

Trait Table 2

Spikes

Ice

Slime

Speedy

Fungus

Aquatic

Angel

Musical

Boneless

Radioactive

Aerial

Crystal

Stretchy

Mage/Wizard/Witch

Explosive

Sexy

Multi-Headed

Baby

Satirical

Dragon

Note that you can reroll, or roll more than once on each table, or just use one table for both rolls. I mean, I can't stop you and the whole point is to have fun, so…

...Have fun!

#kaijune #kaiju #creature design #art challenge

[retfarcyroeht]

Making a Case for Hydroid in 2022 (Warframe)

Another once fun frame that's fallen victim to the min maxer crowd.

A lackluster t1 and a t3 that can grind playspeed to a halt doesn't lend itself to 7hr Steel Path endurance runs but let's take Hydroid out of its perceived niche and see what we can do with it.

Disregard Hydroid's Barrage; infuse something over it later.

I find it humorous that players will jump through hoops to get their frames three seconds or less of invulnerability through shield gating and then dump on frames that have it built into their kit; enter Tidal Surge.

It gives you on demand i-framing, a dash of movement, a wave of cc and a splash of damage. In its vanilla form, it's okay but not something you can really take advantage of without building for a lot of efficiency. When you add the Tidal Impunity augment, it drops the cast cost to 15; tripling the opportunity for one to use it.

Spammable i-framing (and you still have access to shield gating).

Undertow (Feast 1.0) is needed a bit less in this scenario but it makes for a decent stealth ability (nothing more ninja (or Voorhees) than gliding underneath the water's surface and snatching unsuspecting vics off their feet) for Spy missions.

You could still use it with Tidal spam but its energy cost becomes counterintuitive to that playstyle. More often than not, you'll want to use Undertow as a launchpad (and cover) for your Tentacle Swarm.

Tentacle Swarm is a mess of a power but it is glorious to behold. Tap it for 10 tentacles; charge it for 20 over a larger area. Use Undertow to be invulnerable over its longish cast time and to double it's damage.

It's good cc and okay damage but that damage doesn't scale to higher levels, the Magnetic damage type helps with Corpus but lags elsewhere. I'm usually only using this to help lockdown a room (I don't even bother with Pilfering Swarm)

It's recastable; so I can drop a patch whenever I need it (only one on the field at a time though) which can be backed up by his passive creating a tentacle on slam attacks.

Off the one build I can do Spy, Defensive and on the go missions.

Outside of Tidal Impunity, Adaptation, Stretch and Streamline, modding is fairly open to your playstyle. I know I'll be getting hit, so I have Hunter Adrenaline in. I also have Nira's Hatred for tentacle slam spamming (which is really fast with sparring weapons).

What can we infuse over Hydroid's one?

I'm using Aquablades; it travels well with the Tidal melee style that I'm using plus the aesthetics and theme.

Pillage to make the food softer for your Kraken

Thermal Sunder for shock and awe Tidal play or as a reinforcement for Swarm.

I can't remember if Toxin/Heat Elemental Ward damages Undertowed mobs. Gonna have to infuse it back in.

Etc. (unfortunately, there's some abilities that do not interact well or at all with Undertow)

I didn't mod in Curative Undertow, so I'm using melees that han heal me. Sparring weapon heavy attacks do slams. But my weapon choices don't have to be yours; go with what you like.

#warframe #hydroid prime #hydroid

[poltergeist-coffee]

I'm not even mad anymore, I just laughing Plate anon accidentally sendind asks part 345 WHY DO I KEEP DOING IT KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK I will just continue like nothing happened But yeah, that's why I think qbagi and qcelbbit dynamic is so good Qbagi is not willing to let him go and yes, she will be by his side but that's doesn't mean she will accept everything he does

Again, the ccs are great, because when qbagi found qcellbit trying to kill those workers wich lead to that conversation that I totally didn't translate most of it, her voice when she said "what are you doing?" was just- pure emotion BUT YEAH, NO MORE LORE JUST SEA ANIMALS TO THE SOUL If you are wondering who the black sea nettle is trying to impress, you should really wonder who the lion's mane jellyfish(Cyanea capillata) is trying to impress, because that little guy(well, not so little)- while the ones found in lower latitudes are much smaller than their northen counterpaths - are capable of attaining a bell diameter of over 2 meter(6ft 7in) There are also the giant phantom jellyfish, their bell can grow up to 1meter(3.3ft) and their four arms have a "paddle-like" or "kite-like"(acording to wikipedia) shape and can grow up to 10m (33 ft) in length.

The lion's mane jellyfish though, the tentacles of larger specimens may trail as long as 30m(100ft) or more, with the tentacles of the longest known specimen measured at 36.6 m (120 ft) in length, although it has been suggested that this specimen may actually have belonged to a different Cyanea species. Wich is... longer than some of the biggests blue whales(around 33m/100ft)

-Plate anon (<- someone makes them stop pressing the ctrl and enter, WHY DO THIS TWO KEY HAVE TO BE THE ONES IN THE FAR CONER? I JUST WANT TO PRESS THEM FOR NO REASON)

NOOOO XDD THE KEYBOARD FR HATES YOU

i swear most jellyfish and sea creatures in general are taller then me. if we laid down next to each other they could easily be twice as tall as i am. why? they don’t need to be that big?? stop that?? (for reference i am 4’11 ft so like 1.49 meters? i think?) (i’m just very short TT)

thank you for all the jellyfish facts plate anon, they’re all so cool to read about

#✉️ asks or whatever #🍽️ anon

[sublimeobservationarcade]

Peter Dutton Is A Disgrace

Peter Dutton doesn’t give a f*** about First Nations’ Australians, as he is playing politics over the Voice to Parliament. Everything for Dutton and his Liberal Party mates is about getting back in power. They see the Voice as an Anthony Albanese initiative and want to defeat it on this basis. Dutton represents everything that is rotten about the Australian political setup. Peter Dutton is a disgrace. The Voice is not a Labor Party initiative, it is an Indigenous Australia proposal. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is not about politics, it is about recognition and a seat at the table for First Nations people. It is time for the dickheads to get out of the way and let progress happen. Younger Australians are sick of their racist past and would like to see something done about respecting and empowering First Nations Australians. “Peter Dutton blocked high-priority crime prevention grants for Indigenous communities as Home Affairs Minister in favour of less-worthy projects found to have favoured Coalition seats and which included protecting “expensive bowling greens”. “ - (https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/dutton-bypassed-indigenous-crime-prevention-for-safety-grants-in-coalition-seats-20230806-p5du9d.html)

Let's Right Some Historic Wrongs! Photo by Zakaria HANIF on Pexels.com

Dutton As Leader Of The Opposition Is Disgraceful

The negative polls about the Voice referendum are generated by Newspoll. Who is Newspoll? Surprise, surprise it is News Corp- the rabid right wing Rupert Murdoch organisation. You know Fox News and Sky News Australia, those balanced objective LOL providers of news. Yeah, that company that was successfully sued for a billion dollars for lying about the 2020 election in America. Yes, we managed to export Murdoch over there, but unfortunately the tentacles remain wrapped around Australia as well. We need some really powerful weed killer to root out the Murdoch press and media from our shores because they are still poisoning the atmosphere with their hate and lies. “He didn't go to Garma. He walked out of the Apology. With his approval rating already in the toilet, Peter Dutton foolishly continues to spawn discontent over an Indigenous Voice To Parliament, writes Belinda Jones. FEDERAL OPPOSITION Leader Peter Dutton is being either deliberately divisive or simply doesn’t have the intelligence to occupy the position he holds as Leader of the Opposition.” - (https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/duttons-indifference-to-indigenous-australia-deadly-for-approval-rating,17159)

Photo by Catarina Sousa on Pexels.com

Newspoll & Dutton Delve Into Dark Recesses Of Australia

I bet that Newspoll are going out of their way to survey a true sample of the populace and not skewing it toward their natural audience of right wing, racist Australians. It is interesting that Dutton and the No vote campaigners are asking to have the vote scrapped. If they are so confident of winning why not just let it play out? They want to make folk believe that the majority of Australians are against the Voice. I don’t think that this is true. I reckon that younger Australians will come out enmasse and defeat the negative No vote. I think that News Corp and Dutton are desperately trying to hang onto an old version of Australia. The unfair, racist version of the country that plenty of us are sick of being ashamed of. “As Peter Dutton addresses his decision to boycott the apology, it can be revealed  he shut down reconciliation initiatives while serving as Defence minister. By Karen Middleton.” - (https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2022/06/04/exclusive-dutton-blocked-indigenous-names-bases#hrd)

Badge - Vote Yes for Aborigines, Australia, 1967 by Photographer: Marita Dyson is licensed under CC-BY 4.0

Peter Dutton is a disgrace. Do we in Australia want to turn back the clock to a nastier time when racism was rife. Do we really want this f***wit representing this nation in any manner. The Voice is an opportunity to rectify a few wrongs when it comes to the treatment of First Nations Australians. Empowerment and respect for our Indigenous brothers and sisters will make Australia a better place to live. Come on Australia shake off the shackles of racist scum like Peter Dutton and let’s move into a better future in the 21C. Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt & Financial Freedom "Cultural & institutional Racism Exists in Australia – How does the credit rating system fare in relation to this?  - H3 Decisions within the credit rating system are made by human beings, as there is an arbitrary factor involved despite the mathematical presence of credit scores. Every person brings with them their attitudes, prejudices, and beliefs to everything they do in life. If Australians are brought up in families and communities that believe Aboriginal people are lazy and dishonest this infects the prevailing cultural attitudes toward Indigenous Australians. Generations of white Australians have promulgated these erroneous beliefs and slurs on First Nation’s peoples. Children have learned these things in schools and within sporting clubs and social groups. Young workers have been exposed to these prejudices in their workplaces via their bosses and workmates. Political parties have exploited these racist beliefs to get candidates elected and further promulgate bias based on them. Many Australians are immediately suspicious as soon as they see a black face, especially in predominantly white neighbourhoods. A dark skinned person is weighted down with the other’s projections of fear, disgust, and sometimes hatred. These instinctive reactions cannot be easily removed by laws and political correctness. The credit rating system is largely secretive in how final decisions about granting or denying credit are made. There is a mathematical framework, where points are awarded and removed on the basis of the applicant’s financial interactions with participating lenders and businesses. However points are lost for unsuccessful applications for credit. What if an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander was denied a loan on the basis of the racial prejudice of the employee making that decision? This, then, goes on the credit file as a negative, dare I say black mark, this can cause a chain reaction of similar denials of credit for future loan applications. Institutional racism work this way, a silent procession of negative stamps shutting these individuals out of the system and the economy. Denied opportunities can result in things spiralling out of control. Anti-social behaviours are often the consequential outcomes and racists can have their beliefs confirmed about the negative stereotypes of Indigenous Australians." Excerpt from Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt & Financial Freedom ©MidasWord Read the full article

#AnthonyAlbanese #Australia #culturalidentity #modernculture #racism

[uutpoetry]

5 Medical Signs You Shouldn't Ignore

Catherine B. Krause 1. A new tentacle on your head. While it's normal for a growing biology to develop tentacles in the process of mutating to the next-level organism, a tentacle on the head is dangerously close to the brain and may enable it to access higher knowledge or food items, ultimately leading it to become more powerful than your puny body. Resist the temptation to transcend this reality, as the next reality might not be any better, and what would we do without you? Think of the oylem-haze. 2. Flashing back to previous poems. Truly there is nothing more poetic than cheese, as a famous person once said, but salanthropists are flowing with salad to give to anyone who needs it, if only they would swallow their vegetables. Do you think you understand where capitalism ends and vegetarianism begins? It's more complicated than you think. Consume less, if you think it will help you. It's a free space between our ears, for now. 3. Being delighted by razor beams. Razor beams are terrifying, like razory laser beams that cut you in half. What sort of sick mind would enjoy this sort of thing? Not me, not you. Stop teasing the cat with a back scratcher; it wasn't meant for such things. It's a carnivorous predator and it's bored; how would a razor beam help it cope with a reality between four walls where there's never enough scritching or food to chase? 4. Unquestionable thirst for power. I've had a painful bump in the middle of my right shin, maybe slightly to the right of the bone in the middle, for the last two weeks. It's the whole group dynamic at a place like that, and people need to question it more. China, Russia and Iran are just competitor imperialists to America. May the world be corrected to such an extent that our descendants will look back on us with a bit of disgust. 5. Too many cats and not enough energy. If you want to live somewhere affordable, start using this spoon to scoop peanut butter out of the jar. Or go to a different country, preferably, because cats deserve all the attention and all the space, so don't get too many, no matter how much you love them. No matter how great it sounds to be a crazy cat lady, always tease them with a back scratcher. This is not mean-spirited but a fictionalized account of something that really happened to me 10 years ago.

Catherine B. Krause is a crazy cat lady, survivor, and dork living in Niagara Falls, NY. All her writing is released under the CC-Zero license because she doesn't believe in copyright. She has been doing a lot of T-shirt design lately under the name dikleyt at Redbubble and Teepublic, and has uploaded much of this art to Wikimedia Commons under the same license.

Art by kimama

#poem #prose poem #catherine b krause #submission

[cynthiaandsamus]

Custom Toonami Block Week 73 Rundown

Code Geass: Lelouch and co. are still stuck in China and Xingke’s flipping out because the Chinese assholes are gonna kill the Empress and go with someone less problematic for their political marriage to Britannia’s creepily overaged prince. However Lelouch pulls out a Knightmare that’s basically the Twink version of the Gawain and busts everyone up as well as pulling a Father Cornello on them and letting the people know they’re all elitst 1% assholes that don’t care about them, which I suspect all countries probably know about their leaders but it sucks to hear it in a recording so riots show up all over China and CC Geass Flashes Anya to take her out so Britannia has to back out because the Chinese Hierarchy are now the least popular people in the world. So Xingke gets to be with his Empress and joins the Black Knights but Dietard wants the Empress to marry someone on their side so they can basically do the asshole move Britannia just tried to do but for them. All the girls are like ‘hey no’ and Lelouch is like “Oh hey Tamaki buddy, let’s go talk and get me the fuck out of here” so before Lelouch actually has to give Tamaki more lines and elevate him beyond the Black Knight’s Yamacha Shirley calls and Lelouch just straight up asks Shirley about love in a weirdly forced series of circumstance. But Shirley’s like “Yeah don’t fuck with love, don’t you love anyone?” and Lelouch is like “Yeah I do, Nunally!” and I don’t think that’s at all what Shirley meant but it does mean Lelouch sees that fighting for something beyond politics is powerful and agrees to not marry off the twelve year old girl, so that’s good. Lelouch decides to return home while they hunt down the Geass cult which is in China for some reason despite that being one of the like two places on earth Britannia doesn’t control and the Geass Cult largely being a Britannian affair. Meanwhile Sayoko is basically a Lelouch Vtuber at this point with her insanely accurate Lupin III mask of Lelouch and kisses Shirley so Shirley’s a little bit more gay than she was before and is not sure how to feel about that. When she’s about to tell the real Lelouch he kisses like a girl, Anya and Gino show up because we’re retreading the whole ‘sleeping with the enemy at school’ thing from the first season except with way less interesting enemies. Also the preview for the next episode is Lelouch dramatically talking about enemies finding out he’s Zero overtop footage of Shirley and Milly absolutely naked in a batthouse scene so I think we know what kind of episode that’ll be.

Inuyasha: The Panther Demon filler concludes with everyone meeting at the site where the Panther Master is being revived behind a strong barrier, if only someone just got a barrier upgrade to their sword, oh wait. But yeah everyone manages to free the hostages so even though Kagome’s jewel shards revives the Panther Master he’s still a zombie without a sacrifice which is weird since Naraku managed to completely revive the Band of Seven with one jewel shard each from skeletons and the Panther Lord has three shards so idk the rules here but yeah he steals the souls of his own men to revive and is Wind Scar Proof because he just is. It’s pretty cool to see him shooting his claws and lightning and shit but he’s too big and slow for it to be much of an interesting fight. Sesshomaru’s about to go full demon which would be interesting since we haven’t seen his full demon form since he lost his arm but in a neat bit of character development, Tenseiga calms his rage and tells him to use it instead. You get the feeling Sesshomaru only goes full demon when he flies off the handle and forgets about speed and strategy so him opting to not repeat the mistake he made against Inuyasha is pretty cool. Anyway Tenseiga heals the souls of the Panther Demons and drains their energy from the lord so he’s back to Zombie Cat Man which Inuyasha can Wind Scar because that’s what happens to villains on this show, all Wind Scars all the time. The Panthers don’t wanna fight anymore since their boss just killed them and tell Inuyasha to tell Sesshomaru the feud is over and they’re going back to the West. Honestly this is basically the same backstory they gave Kirinmaru in Yashahime so it’s funny for them to say they’re going back to the same place Kirinmaru is from, wonder if it’ll ever come up in Yashahime since most filler seems canon there.

Yu Yu Hakusho: Yusuke and Kuwabara continue the assault on Tarukane’s compound and basically plow through the lower demons easy since they’ve been fighting minor deities up to this point. It’s always pretty cool in Shonen to just have a few rounds to show how much power creep the heroes have had where certain things just don’t bother them anymore. Toguro murders a Chimera which has an oddly similar backstory to Nina from FMA and he seems really bummed about it but he’s like “Hey we’re both monsters made by humans telling us to do shit, so sorry for killing you bro”. And Tarukane basically sees Toguro is the next boss and is like “Yup time to scam some people off of this” and he sets up a betting ring for how far Yusuke and Co will get into his compound. This is kinda neat because it puts Tarukane in the weird position of betting against his own guards and hoping Yusuke will make it all the way to Toguro and then lose after everyone else has seen how awesome Yusuke is and bets on him. And funnily enough Sakyo’s in on the betting and he’s watched anime before so he knows to bet on the plucky teenagers with weird powers. So yeah Yusuke and Kuwabara finish plowing through the demons while Hiei kinda stalks them and remembers getting his eye surgery and wanting to help his sister but it’s kind of against spirit world rules for demons to just go plow through humans even if they’re scumbag humans so now Yusuke and Kuwabara have to go fight the Triad of boss demons Toguro has under him before Hiei busts in and just murders everyone for kidnapping his bird-loving jewel-crying little flower of a sister.

Fate Zero: So Kiritsugu can break Kayneth’s Terminator 2 Gaara defenses with rib bullets that just say ‘no’ to using magic and fucks his arrogant ass up. Saber and Lancer do some combo shenanigans to stab Caster right in the book and disrupt all his hentai tentacle demons but the book heals so idk why he can’t just make more. Kirei fucks up Maiya and Iris but didn’t double tap Maiya and DID double tap iris but she’s got Saber’s bullshit healing scabbard on her which no one knows about so Saber’s like “uhhh why are you healing” and Iris can’t tell her so she’s basically “Uhh internet?” Lancer comes in to save Kayneth’s worthless ass and tells Kiritsugu to stop being a dick to Saber because she’s pretty dope. But as usual for an early Fate encounter, no one dies and nothing of terrible consequence happens despite it being teased a couple times. I’ve noticed a trend with Fate that it really doesn’t like killing characters early so you’re basically guaranteed to have the first 2-3 major battles have a zero net gain/loss. Rider in UBW was probably the subversion to that since it happened crazy fast and anticlimactic but even that wasn’t till like ten episodes in.

Konosuba: So we finally meet Wiz the big booby Lich and Kazuma learns a new skill, both fun things. Also the gang gets a house to stay in after escapades with an army of haunted dolls and the most “I need to pee” in a horror setting since Corpse Party. But yeah, good progress this time honestly, the living in a stable gag was getting kind of old so Kazuma’s a bit stronger now and they have a home base so that’s pretty cool. Also Wiz is a Demon General or some shit but no one cares cause there ain’t no money in murdering busty zombie waifus.

Sailor Moon Crystal: So turns out Minako is Princess Serenity, except everyone who knows anything about Sailor Moon or indeed plot structure knows Sailor Moon is Princess Serenity, that’s like the Luke I Am Your Father of this series. But still turns out Minako has been guiding everyone with the power of video games but also thinks the power of friendship sucks and she’s gotta go do everything alone. This makes things super awkward because Mamoru’s pretty sure he was in love with the Princess but likes Usagi, now instead of running with this interesting thread of a reincarnation falling in love with someone new we’re gonna do the reveal that Usagi’s the princess and the whole ‘till death do us part’ part of marriage was just a metaphor and you’re stuck with one person no matter how many times you reincarnate. But yeah, Minako fights the bad guy on top of the tower but he has Naraku’s Barrier now and Minako doesn’t have the Red Tessaiga upgrade yet so she needs the power of friendship but this barrier is friendship-proof and this fight is basically a bunch of kids on the playground making up increasingly stupid powers that negate the other powers the other guy just made up. Anyway Tuxedo Mask shows up and is like “Holy shit Sailor Moon I love when you kiss me and kick ass, go get em sweetie I’ll hold your flower” and they kiss and Usagi has learned that if she just pretends she got this the power of her confidence will beat the bad guy. Unfortunately she does not got this and Tuxedo Mask has to pull a Piccolo and throw himself in front of the blast.

Durarara!!:  So now that we’ve had our climax for the arc we have a six month timeskip and everyone’s just kinda living life, Mika and Seiji are being clinically insane together, there’s cops harassing Celty to the point of mental breakdown (normal cop stuff) Shinra’s dad’s in town, Namie’s become Izaya’s secretary for blackmail shit, you know, normal stuff. Also there’s a katana-wielding maniac going around slashing people and Anri’s being bullied and sexually harassed to the point of mental collapse, normal stuff.

#ooc #Toonami #Custom Toonami Block #Code Geass #Inuyasha #Yu Yu Hakusho #Fate Zero #Konosuba #Sailor Moon Crystal #Durarara!!

[mysterylover123]

Mysterylover watches Bleach episodes 199-200: “Way Too Much Clown Demon”

1. RUKIA LIVES. RUKIA’S ALL RIGHT. YES BEST EPISODE OPENING EVER. Oh no but she sees he’s hurt. That’s not good.

2. Over to Ichigo and Orihime, as Ichigo calls ‘Inoue, help...Nel, not me.’ Aw Ichi you’re such a sweetie. Though you should ask Hime to help you too dude. 

3. I’m sorry for not commenting much on the Mayuri stuff but it’s so viscerally gross I can’t quite stand to look at it.

4. Poor Renji in this sequence though. It’s impressive that even vomitting and off color he’s still hot. 

5. I really hope poor Nemu getting strangled by that tentacle thing isn’t there to be a twisted form of hentai. I really don’t need anything else creepy and gross in this scene.

6. OF  COURSE PINK HAIR IS STILL NOT FUCKING DEAD. NOTHING’S EVER GONNA KILL THIS GUY. HE’S MORE UNKILLABLE THAN CC. 

7. GOD NO THAT BABY THING’S BACK DIE ALREADY I DON’T EVEN CARE THAT ITS ON OUR SIDE.

8. Blah blah blah Pink Hair and Mayuri monologue and fight each other a bunch while Renji and Uryu, the characters I actually care about, sit there and watch. 

9. God I miss Grimmjow and Ulquiorra. They were such compelling villains and now they’ve both vanished into the void, replaced by two one-dimensional douchebags I do not care about. I don’t even know what happened to GJ, he just up and disappeared. He’d better get like three full arcs as the main villain after this.

10. Well at least Pink Hair it seems is finally out of commision. Though I hate that we owe this to Evil Clownface. I really do not want this guy on the redemption arc shortlist, and it’s not just cause of his creepy powers. He was the creepy mad scientist who wanted to experiment on my girl Hime. We do not need this guy becoming a main character.

11. Oh and now he’s blaming his subordinate for getting killed. GOOD GOD I HATE THIS GUY. 

12. And Renji and Uryu assume he’s molesting her, because lets face it let’s not put anything past this guy. At least we have some bickering between Renji and Uryu as consolation.

13. Poor Nel’s sidekicks. You guys are annoying but I’d have taken you over clown jackass.

14. Blah blah blah clown douche keeps talking until we finally, finally cut away to the fight between Kenpachi and Nnoitra. Yachiru is there (I learned her name  since I can no longer call her Pink Hair)

15. HIME IS FINALLY HEALING ICHI OH THANK GOD. At least someone has their priorities straight.

16. Fuck me we’re back to Clown Douche (I now refuse to call him anything else, his nickname is set in stone). Why are poor Renji and Uryu being forced to put up with this guy. What did they ever do to deserve this.

17. We get an accidental boob look joke with poor Nemu shoving Uryu’s face into her chest. Which he is only weirded out by, being, you know, Ichigo’s boyfriend and all.

18. Clown Douche refuses to help Renji heal now god he keeps getting worse.  Thankfully we cut back to the Kenny fight again.

19.  Why did all my badass lady fighters get benched outta nowhere? Hime and Yachiru are just standing there watching. (OK Hime’s a pacifist and all but still).

20. If Kenny finally rids us of Nnoitra I will swear my fidelity to him. Seriously I don’t know which I wanted to die faster, Nnoitra or Pink Hair Villain. 

21. I really wish these episodes were listed as  filler. AH well. I’m sure the Actually Interesting villains will return soon enough. Patience in everything.

#Bleach #mysterylover watches bleach #renji abarai #orihime inoue #ichigo kurosaki #ishida uryuu #Rukia Kuchiki #byakuya kuchiki #neliel tu oderschvank #i wonder if i'm super shallow #do i just need my #bleach villains to be hot #to be interesting? #nah i don't think that's it #i mean gin isn't particularly hot #but he's at least sinister and mysterious and compelling #and pink hair is good looking #but i hate his guts like crazy #anyway at least #rukia's alive #let's celebrate

[encyclopika]

Animal Crossing Fish - Explained 69

Brought to you by a marine biologist who knows there’s a dirty joke in there somewhere...

CLICK HERE FOR THE AC FISH EXPLAINED MASTERPOST!

W’re gonna cover morphology today because when it comes to these animals in Animal Crossing that don’t have a specific name, it comes down to the amazing graphics, and therefore, morphology, to figure it out. For those times when AC says “Squid” and it could be one of 1000′s of species, I, like most every scientist, look to previous data for clues. Those clues often come from various AC Wikis that have already tried taking a crack at finding the species these animals are based. However, I’m not about to take their word on it, especially for today’s animal - the squid.

You’ve most likely caught this thing already no matter what island you’re on. They aren’t rare under those medium-sized shadows. Anyway, for today’s animal, the AC Wiki was so wrong I had to dedicate an explained post to it. But then I realized that maybe it wasn’t so wrong and of course, I will explain.

Squid are pretty awesome animals in their own right (and they’re delicious and often have very sustainable fisheries). They are Mollusks, just like the Sea Butterfly, Manila Clam, Gigas Giant Clam, and other such friends we have covered already. These animals don’t look like they’re related, but trust me, the Mollusks are diverse and wonderful. They all share a very special body part called the “mantle” which is used for all sorts of things, such as egg storage, waste storage, respiration, etc, sometimes all at once. Squid are further classified away from things like snails and clams into Class: Cephalopoda, which it shares with the Vampire Squid, which we’ve covered. Getting even more specific, true Squids (for which the vampire is not a part), belong into Superorder Decapodiformes. You see the prefix “deca” in there? It means “10″, and squids do indeed have 10 tentacles (not to be confised with the Octopus’s arms - there’s a difference!!!)

Okay, now that I got that out of my system, let’s talk the morphology. Squids have a basic body plan - a thin body with a mantle, fins on the side, ten tentacles, an internal skeleton called a gladius or pen, and, some pretty big, advanced eyes. After that, though, the size and shape of these features differs between different genera, as we can expect. Don’t think the fact that the ACNH squid’s fins extend the length of the body is arbitrary - it’s not! Yes, these days we use DNA to untangle species and yes, morphology isn’t as helpful as DNA in that right. BUT! Morphology is simply the expression of genes, and if two animals don’t look exactly the same, well then their DNA certainly isn’t the same either! (How different and where we draw the line is a rant I had on another occasion).

The AC Wiki says that the Squid is based off the the Japanese Flying Squid, Todarodes pacificus, which looks like this:

 CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5078649

You don’t even need to take a close look to realize this isn’t adding up. The fins are too short, the body is too thin, and T. pacificus has two tentacles that are longer than the rest (as many squid do). ACNH’s squid looks nothing like this. Now, at first, I was like, “how could they think this?” And then I saw the reason: the squid in every past iteration of Animal Crossing looks like this:

Oh, yeah! That’s accurate. So, apparently, AC changed which species they drew inspiration from for ACNH. So, I knew I needed a more “cuttlefish”-looking squid, and I thought of one (because this animal is also in Endless Ocean) that I believe fits the bill for ACNH’s new squid - the Bigfin Reef Squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana):

Bigfin reef squid, 2018 California Academy of Sciences, CC-BY-NC-SA

-Fins extend the length of the body. CHECK -All short tentacles. CHECK -Fatter body. CHECK -Native to Japanese waters. CHECK -Look at the body patterning! CHECK!

I think this is our guy. But, if you think I’m wrong, let’s discuss! 

And there you have it. Fascinating stuff, no?

#squid #cephalopods #marine biology #animal crossing #animal crossing new horizons #science in video games #endless ocean #animal crossing fish explained

[night-blooming-bastards]

A Lily Sprouts From Ashes

Lily’s first thought when waking up in the empty, destroyed world, is to run. Run as far away as he possibly can, escape the ruins of his beloved’s mad rage against their old home. So he does. He runs, and he runs, and suddenly he isn’t home. There are strange people staring at him, and snow, and he’s so very scared. The first place he lands is an UnderFell. Everyone looks angry, but it’s not the villagers, surely these people are different. There’s one that looks like him! Oh, but he’s hurt… the bandages around his ulna surely don’t mean anything good for the bone underneath. 

Carefully, he approaches, hands in the air to show he means no harm, and he tries to tell the skeleton that, but he doesn’t seem to understand. “I won’t hurt you,” he says softly, though the Sans seems confused and defensive, backing away into a wall and growling at him. Dream isn’t sure how to get his point across, but he frowns and pauses before stepping forward and reaching out to Red (as he had nicknamed the skeleton because of his magic color). “I promise I won’t hurt you.” Maybe Red can’t understand him, but he’s hoping the tone of his voice is enough. It seems to help, Red is a little more relaxed. 

“Can I see your arm please?” 

“The fuck language are you speaking anyway?”

Dream tilts his head. What is Red saying? He pauses a moment, then holds up his own arm and taps his ulna, then holds out a hand. Red squints, but he slowly offers his arm out, ready to pull it back or attack at any moment. Dream surprises him, however, with a soft hold, and he unwraps the bandages slowly and gently. Red watches, trembling, and does his best not to move so he doesn’t hurt himself by interrupting this golden stranger. He watches, watches, and soon the bandages are unwound to reveal a very nearly broken ulna. 

Even more surprising than this goldy’s gentleness is the look of genuine concern and distress when he sees Red’s injury. He looks up at Red, then back down, then up again, before carefully lifting Red’s arm and giving the injury a soft kiss. Healing magic flows from his fingertips, firelike but only pleasantly warm, and as it dances over the damaged ulna, the wound disappears. 

“Kissed it better,” Dream says with a smile. Red simply gapes at him a little, and between the strange act of kindness and the language that he knows nothing of, he’s absolutely baffled. Who is this man? Is this stranger even a man? Where did they come from? Why are they being so kind without a thought? Red closes his mouth and jerks his arm away. 

“I don’t even know what you’re saying, weirdo.” He glances down at his arm a moment, though, and his expression softens slightly before stretching into a grin. He looks back up and gives a thumbs up. Obviously they don’t speak the same language, that should work. Dream, on the other hand, doesn’t get it at all and looks up to the cave ceiling, face twisted into an expression of confusion, then looks back to Red and tilts his head. Red groans and his grin drops, his hand coming up to pinch the bridge of his nose, or the skeletal equivalent. “Lost cause, nevermind. Do ya understand me at all?” 

Dream frowns. No, there’s a communication barrier. He focuses for a moment, then lets his magic display a simple image of a quill, ink, and paper, then holds up his hands. “I have nothing to write with, I don’t know how to communicate with you.” The image flickers and disappears. Red makes a face, then motions for Dream to follow, looking tired. 

It’s not long before they’ve made it to Red’s and Edge’s house, and Red manages to find a pen and paper laying around the house and brings it back to Dream. Dream had asked for a quill, but quills are outdated and much less practical. Dream looks at the pen in confusion. The paper is obviously paper, yes, but… Dream lifts a brow and turns to Red with the image of quill and ink again. Red shakes his head and picks up the pen, scribbling a little in the corner of the paper to make sure it works. The ink comes out after a moment and Dream leans in to watch in wonder, then holds his hand out for the pen. The pen is given to him, and Dream presses it to the paper, then pauses. How does one even write? He forgot. Maybe if he closes his eyes… Pictures! Pictures will do. 

So he starts to draw. He draws a figure that looks like himself, then draws cracks across it before replicating the image and surrounding it in radiance lines, then points to himself. Then a crying face with an arrow back to the previous figure. The figure is next drawn running with speed lines behind it, into some disc-shaped thing, and then the scene where he had shown up. He then writes [I’m not sure what script your language is in or how to speak it.] 

Red doesn’t really understand the first part of the story, but crying and running and ending up in UnderFell is the part he understands. He most definitely doesn’t know this man’s language. Stars, this isn’t a babybones, he’s obviously fully grown and has his own complex language that he can speak and write, but… Red is going to have to teach him Common, isn’t he? Right from the start, alphabet and all. Red gives a slow sigh, then carefully takes the pen from Dream. 

A. The first letter is on the paper, uppercase and lowercase, and Red hands the pen to Dream. Dream looks at the letters, then copies them, a nice, curving script that barely mimics Red’s but pulls off the shape of the letters either way. Red nods and smiles a little, then moves on to B. Slowly but surely, Dream copies the alphabet in order from Red, and when they’re finished, Red draws a symbol that equates to “repeat”. 

Dream stares at it, processing, thinking, then moves the pen to make A. Aa. Bb. Cc. Dd. He has it, the alphabet is under his fingers. Then he draws a crescent shape and points to it. 

“That’s a moon. M O O N, moon.” Red then puts it on paper, writing the name of it underneath the picture. Dream seems excited and writes it down as well, then giggles, cheeks a warm gold. “Moon…” he murmurs, staring at it for a few moments. Okay, so how is he supposed to make other words? He draws a simple version of himself and an arrow to the picture with three question marks. Red writes [me] underneath it. He points to the word, then the picture, then Dream. This brings back memories of teaching Edge as a babybones…

So it goes, Dream draws pictures and puts together letters and concepts to make words. The next few hours run smoothly with Red teaching Dream words and how to make them into sentences, and it’s when they’re taking a break that Edge returns home. 

“Sans, you lazybones, you’re supposed to- who… who is that?” Edge stops short when he sees Dream, absolutely bewildered by the appearance of this strange new skeleton in their home. 

“Yeah I’m not sure what ‘is name is, he popped up out of nowhere and healed my arm so I’m keeping him. I also found out ‘e doesn’t like mustard. Made a nasty face ‘bout it. Been calling ‘im Goldy but I’m fairly sure the man’s got a name.” Red looks to Dream as if for help. 

“Sun! Cloud, sun, sleep, happy. Umm…” Dream makes a face. He sounds like a child. “I hate that I can’t speak well in this ‘common’ you’re showing me. My name is Dream, but your language is… hard to translate to. I know concepts, yes, but this…” He huffs and tries again. “Night thought? Happy?”

“He’s strugglin’, boss. Doesn’t speak our language, I’ve been tryin’ ta teach him.” Red shrugs, then looks to Dream, thinking. “Night thought? Fantasy, dream, nightmare, what do you think?”

“Night thought, sleep, happy.” Dream makes a face, frustrated that he can’t convey what word he’s trying to make. Surely there was something…

“Dream? A dream?” Edge pipes up, boot tapping the floor impatiently. 

“Dream! I’m Dream, that’s my name.” Dream seems very happy with himself for this, and he does a little jig in his excitement. 

“Okay, so what the fuck are you doing in our home?” Even as he asks this looking at Dream, he gives Red a look to the side. Dream seems to focus, to think, putting a hand on his cheek and scrunching his face up, trying to understand. In the end he gives up and looks to Red.

“What is fuck? And home?” Red groans, looks to Edge with a look of tired frustration, then gestures to Dream. 

“It’s gonna take a while. He’s… learning. That’s what he’s doing here.” 

“Fine. But only for a little while.”

A little while turned out to be weeks, and Dream was rather attached to Red, no matter how rude he happened to be. He had a voracious appetite for words, wanting to know more and more words until he could actually make proper sentences and put together words. 

One day he comes to ask the question he really wants answered.

“Red?”

“Yeah? Wassup?”

“I’m looking for someone, but I don’t know where they are… he is? We didn’t really do pronouns back then. He. If I’m he then Night is he. We’re the same. But I don’t know where he is. I can’t sense him in this place.” 

“Night? Don’t know a Night, sorry.”

“Umm… Drippy black skeleton man, has… uh, what are the wiggly limbs called again?”

“Tentacles? Geez, a walking hentai monster.” 

“Shut up! He’s not a hentai monster, and that’s not what he uses his tentacles for anyway. He uses them for… to…” Dream’s eyelights shrink to pinpricks as he thinks back to exactly what Nightmare had used those tentacles for. “Hurt, blood, death, destruction. He- He’s not bad, though, it’s just the apples that did that to him! I just… I need to find him. He’s important to me.” His eyelights are back to normal, and he rushes to defend Nightmare even as he feels the dawning fear in Red.

“Yeah yeah he’s important to ya or whatever. Why do you really want to find him? He’s not yer type, bud.” Red lifts a brow, propping an elbow on the table and taking a sip of mustard. “Besides, ‘e seems to scare you.” 

Dream decides to completely ignore the comment about what’s his type. It’s not worth pursuing. “I want to be one with him again. He is my other half.”

“Blah blah blah, sappy bullshit, you wanna fuck ‘im. Am I right?” Red waves his hand, a lazy gesture, making very little effort to listen to Dream about anything remotely romantic. 

Dream’s face ignites with blush and he looks nearly indignant. “Do you have any other thought in your brain?! It is my fate to be with him. I must, and I wish to. I am his, and he is mine. It’s rather simple. Do you not… understand romance?”

“Nah, I just choose not to participate. ‘M not sappy like you.” Red makes a face. 

“...Right.” Dream moves to get up. “Well if there’s any way I can fi-” Dream’s words are cut short as he knocks over the cup of juice he was drinking, and he scrambles to catch it, but it’s already too late. The mess on the floor is… boiling?

A figure rises from the puddle, jumping onto firm ground with a confident grin and looking to Dream. “You there! I knew something felt off, heh. What’s your name, where’d ya come from?”

Dream doesn’t know the name of his home. “...Dream.” 

Looking back, Lily wishes he had run.

#lily #hyacinth #carnation #itdn canon #canon writing #mod star writes #(mod star)

[migleefulmoments]

BWAhahahaha

Either there is a huge MIarren fandom I don’t know about making wildly speculative theories on Hickey-gate or Abby just wrote another epically absurd fanfiction.  What I do know is true is that I debunked the hickey as NOT a hickey because it isn’t a bruise, it was a bruise.  Abby also doesn’t seem to know how shadows work- “Darren didn’t have on sun glasses”.  There are highlights and lowlights even in the dark Abs.  

Anonymous asked:

ajw720 answered:

ajw720

I would love to know what Miarr/ens think about his undeniable hickey. (I have answered this already but you clearly would rather make up nonsense and pretend it’s real.  Who does that sound like? cough DJT cough) Even if they don't believe in CC, we know the only position where it's able to give a hickey in that place... and unless darren is into kinky stuff like strap (which doesn't help the Straight case and still makes him unfaithfully since his "wife" is away), this means he was with a guy. (Because straight women don’t use straps? Huh? Only guys do? What?  IT isn’t a hickey so he wasn’t with anybody. Google “Hickey” and click images”)

Nonnie I try to be really respectful about this topic as they are 2 people in a very real relationship and my opinion is some things don’t need public discussion.(bwhahahahaha) But that was an intentional act of C essentially publicly claiming his property while the wifey was across the ocean and had been for days. They want us to acknowledge it. (So acknowledge it, tell Darren you heard his hickey and you are HERE for him, go on, do it). 

That’s a fav spot for C to mark d and here’s just a few examples (Oh, this is GREAT), @leka-1998 gets cred for the latest screen. Others from this post: https://ajw720.tumblr.com/post/188058281745/crisscolfer-and-hickeys

(SHADOW)

(either razor burn or he was attacked by a slit mouthed tentacle monster with a very light suck causing more of an irritation than anything)

(Still not broken blood vessels and ecchymosis also I cannot imagine Chris Colfer EVER going on stage representing Glee with a massive uncovered hickey)

(Ummmm wtf?that’s flushing)

(that is a mole)

(again irritation)

NOW IT GETS GOOD 

(Yes, Darren had visible hickeys as Blaine... sure, we often see actors with hickeys, strap marks, rope burns- all sorts of sex play just out in the open, incorporated into their teenage characters on screen)

Marking your property boys?

scarvesbowtiesandlove

I find it hilarious that Chris’s hickeys are reachable places when making out but Darren’s are always so far back that it seems like they were given from behind. Ps: Chris always looks like he was MAULED!

Just a Crazy TrutherCrissColfer and Hickey's scarvesbowtiesandlove: “ gleekmindy: 

(Now Abby writes her own ficlet about our supposed “theories” to explain away what is essentially skin irritation and shadows) 

What does it mean? Pretty much precisely what you said. I think the evidence speaks for itself. (well yes, if you create the definition of “hickey” and refuse to acknowledge that hickeys are bruises caused by broken capillaries and are not simply areas of skin flushing and color change, then I suppose you do find the evidence compelling but you are using the wrong definition-shocker, I know) 

I suppose the excuses are:

M flew home for a few hours only to return to London

My fav. Received via Skype/FaceTime.

He burnt himself with a curling iron because his hair isn’t curly enough (as I said to @flowersintheattic254 not only is he not tall. Not white. Not straight. But if you believe this is a curling iron, his hair isn’t curly either).

He is into strange vacuum cleaner solo play.

Or perhaps solo wax play?

Shaving rash because men often shave behind their ears.

It’s a shadow (absolutely not, it’s clear in the video. Add he’s not even wearing sun glasses and again, it’s red).

A bug bite. But that’s a huge bite.

He cheated as that’s better than he’s queer though how to explain the positioning..

Open marriage but same issue as above.

So yeah. There really aren’t any excuses that are plausible. It’s a hickey. Received likely just a few short hours before the video from someone behind him. I’ll allow my readers to draw their conclusions. It’s not that difficult.

(Hickey’s are shaped exactly like the device doing the sucking. So a mouth causes a slightly oval-shaped bruise while a vacuum cleaners is perfectly round.  Here is a photo of a “hickey” or ecchymosis causes by a vacuum cleaner). 

(see the broken blood vessels specking the bruise? Mouths cause compressed oval-shaped deep red to purple marks; notice that after the healing process begins, hickey’s turn brown-green) 

chrisdarebashfulsmiles

I can't with the Skype thing 😂😂😂😂

flowersintheattic254

Solo vacuum cleaner play! Is that actually a thing 😂🤣😂???

ajw720

@chrisdarebashfulsmiles she’s KWEEN, never doubt her powers!!!

@flowersintheattic254 I was trying to think of ways one could simulate sucking behind one’s own ear when alone and I thought of the attachments to a vacuum. You bet there’s someone, somewhere into it. Maybe d as he did manage to get a gigantic hickey will his lovely lady of many moons is on another continent.

Source: ajw720

#cc #crisscolfer #darren criss #cc fandom #ccer #debunking CC lies #debunking cc nonsense #hickey-gate #give it up #this is embarrassing #have you ever seen a hickey?

[dearophelia]

let the only sound be the overflow

I regret to inform the entire party that Calia Stormbreaker is, in fact, in a committed triad. But have some fic! cc: @theherocomplex (Bee encouraged this, blame her) @nightingaleseeking @mickleburger @thievesguilding @snuffes @wolverineproportions

the ocean is big and we are not

Warm morning sunlight falls through the small windows, casting patterns onto her skin. She shifts, digging her bare feet underneath the blankets. Edal reaches out and slowly twirls a red ringlet around his finger, marveling – not for the first time – at the contrast of the red of her hair against the teal of his skin.

Her shirt slides up as she stretches, revealing the tentacles tattooed across her torso. The head of the octopus is on her lower back, but the tentacles intertwine with seaweed and kelp, dodging – or perhaps chasing, he’s never asked – the school of fish swimming up her ribs. With a small, sleepy noise, she turns over, hugging her pillow underneath her head. He gentle pulls his finger from her hair and instead trails it down her spine.

The ship creaks below them and a light gust of wind comes through the window, catching in her hair, lifting the ends to flutter in the wind that disappears as quickly as it arrived. Her skin glitters copper in the sun, but the black ink of her tattoos seems to swallow the light. He traces the kraken swimming up her arm and across her shoulders.

He’s always wondered the story behind the kraken – five years together like this, ten years crewmates, and he hasn’t seen it yet – but never asked. They’re all allowed their secrets. He’s watched her other tattoos flash gold right before she shifts, in the split second before she dives in the water. He’s watched new ones appear on her skin, watched the pain and contortion of her first change into a new form – so unlike Kelpie’s seamless shift into anything that swims – watched her small smile as she traces the new image on her skin.

She pulled the kraken from somewhere, for some reason. She pulled it into herself, transformed into it. She was the kraken.

He’s sailed across most of the Dragovar Ocean. The biggest things he’s seen are kraken. That Calia once felt the need to become one – whether for fun or for survival – has always slightly unnerved him.

“I can feel you staring,” she murmurs, half-muffled by the pillow.

“It’s a nice view,” he grins.

She pulls the pillow out from under her head and throws it in his general direction. Edal laughs and settles it between them.

Outside and above, he hears the crew shouting for the ladder.

Calia flips over and grabs the pocketwatch dangling from a hook above their bed. She flicks it open and then glares up at the ceiling and the deck above it. “About time,” she mutters, closing the watch and letting it drop. It clinks against the wood a few times. She yawns.

“She belongs in the ocean,” he reminds her.

“It’s been fourteen hours,” she says. "The ocean is big and we are not.”

It’s the captain speaking now, even half-naked with sleep-tousled hair. He doesn’t argue, as much because she’s the captain as because she’s right. But he, too, feels the urge to dive down into the deep. To float amongst the kelp forests, to allow water to pass through his gills, to kick down, down, down to the sandy bottom, to look upward and not see the surface.

Calia has saltwater running through her veins. She is of the sea. But she does not belong to it.

They do.

There’s a splash and then one of his favorite voices amidst the others. Too quiet to hear her words, but enough to know she’s back, safe and sound, on the Courtland.

Calia sits up and takes a swig from her canteen. She’s due on deck in a few minutes – even the captain takes watch in the crow’s nest, one of her rules – but that’s a few minutes from now. Edal reaches out and grabs her around her waist, tugging her back down amidst tangled sheets and blankets.

She makes an undignified noise and some of her water sloshes out of the canteen and onto her skin. It glistens in the sun and he trails his finger through it, drawing delicate designs before it evaporates. She squirms out of his reach, stealing her arm out of his grasp for herself, and screws the lid back on her canteen before hanging it on its hook next to her watch. Then, without any protest at all, she settles back next to him. The water drips down her collarbone and between her breasts. He follows it with his finger.

The door opens. Calia looks up over his shoulder. "Anything interesting?" She'll be captain later, when Kelpie hasn't just shifted back after fourteen hours and still isn't quite sure how legs are meant to work.

Kelpie slides into bed between them, tangling her legs with theirs. "Nothing that can't wait," she murmurs around a yawn and nestles her head on the pillow Calia threw at him.

Edal coasts his hand over her pale skin, such a contrast to him and Calia. She catches his hand in hers and tugs it around her. The small movement causes her skin to catch in the light. As much as Calia's glitters copper, Kelpie's skin shimmers iridescent, mother of pearl. The inside of an oyster in the summer sun. 

He presses a kiss to her shoulder and takes a breath. She smells of the sea. Of home.

A trickle of seawater flows out from her gills and she coughs as her body adjusts to breathing air again. He squeezes her hand. There are many terrible things about leaving the water behind; remembering how to breathe the dryness of air is one of them. Her soft fingertips brush across the webbing between his fingers as she clasps his hand. She reaches out and settles her other hand on Calia's chest, resting on the dolphin cresting across her breast.

"I have to go," Calia says, carding her fingers through Kelpie's platinum hair. Her few minutes are past gone, which means he's due on deck shortly as well. Still, she stays in bed, drawing invisible patterns on Kelpie's skin. Her patterns travel over him as well, connecting loops and swirls over two of her loves.

The sea is the fourth in their triad, the greatest love of them all. Kelpie could swim away and never return and they wouldn't blame her. He could dive so far that up and down ceased to have meaning, that the surface became a fleeting memory, and they wouldn't blame him.

Calia could sail into the sunset, leaving them both behind to the deep, and they wouldn't blame her.

With a sigh, Calia sits up, letting Kelpie’s hand fall to the bed. She presses a kiss to her cheek, and then his, and slips out of bed. Legs long used to seas much rougher than the calm waves of today, she stands steadier than any land dweller he’s ever met. She dresses quickly – only the tips of the kraken’s tentacles peek out over her shirt, somehow swallowing more of the sun now than they did before s– loops the pocketwatch onto its place hanging from her belt, whispers a reminder that his shift started three minutes ago, and leaves to captain her ship. The door closes behind her, but not before he sees her settle her hat atop her head. 

She doesn’t look back and there’s no regret in her posture.

The open water sings its siren's song to them all, above and below.

#ot3:fathoms below #s:words #s:2019

[thecreatureawaits]

The Creature Awaits #127:

Each week I plan to feature an amazing creature, admiring God's fantastic artistry.  Hopefully it’ll brighten someone’s day to see something new and interesting if they haven’t seen it before. : )

This week we continue “Shockingly Yellow” Month, where we’ll be featuring animals sporting surprisingly sunny shades! : )

(Photograph taken by fantastic underwater photographer, Rickard Zerpe. (CC BY-SA 2.0))

The Greater Blue-Ringed Octopus

Scientific Name: Hapalochlaena lunulata

Region: Coral reefs and tide pools surrounding Australia up through Japan

Size: Only about 5"-8" (~12cm-20cm) wide when tentacles are fully outstretched

Interesting Note: Though this species is usually more cream-colored, this tiny octopus turns bright yellow when threatened.  Its bluish rings also start pulsing in bright neon blue and black to warn the danger to back away.  ..And this is with very good reason.  Its painless bite contains a very potent venom called tetrodotoxin, the same found in pufferfish, and it carries enough of it to kill over 20 adult humans.  This neurotoxin kills its victim within minutes, as it blocks nerve signals throughout the body, including those needed for respiration.  

Thankfully, this beautiful animal is generally a completely non-aggressive species, so if you respectfully admire it from afar, it will probably do likewise. : )

#creatureawaits #Blue-Ringed Octopus #greater Blue-Ringed Octopus #beautiful octopus #bright yellow octopus #bright yellow animals #neon animals #neurotoxins in animals #deadly animals #beautiful animals #tiny animals #hide

[fantroll-purgatory]

Dohrni Plerom

(Go big or go home, right? I’m gonna be doing sets of trios mostly because… they’re fun. I don’t have a grander motivation than that. Unlike the last three, there’s no easy myth-connection I’m making to base their relationships off of, so hopefully I’ll be able to quick explain them without getting it too bogged down in details! Anyways: Here’s Canon Disaster Troll #1! I feel like he’s lacking in a bit more than what Void usually implies.)

Yet again you’ve handed me a troll that I really and truly love. I can feel what you mean on the lacking front, though. I think he has his head so much in the clouds and in space and in everywhere ephemeral and unknown that he might need SOME grounding force? Some greater, tangible earthly pleasure? I guess we’ll get there.

Universe: Beforus!

Name: Dohrni Plerom

“Dohrni” comes from Turritopsis dohrnii, the so-called “Immortal Jellyfish”, which is a double tailed reference to both his Lusus and his unfortunate ability to hear the voices of elder beings, often associated with jellyfish. “Plerom” is just “Pleroma” with the last letter cut off. In Gnosticism, the greek Pleroma refers to a kind of totality of the divine- an all encompassing, filling force. The holy spirit and all that. Meta-wise, this refers to his Aspect, but also his fascination with all the lights just out of reach.

Age: Roughly 7 Sweeps

Theme/Story: Everyone’s favorite canon-breaking concept: More Fuschiabloods! We’ve got like 23 other symbols to get through, might as well use ‘em! Dohrni’s a weird freak of nature- a male Fuschiablood who isn’t in the running to be Empress. Everything seems to be perfect in his life- he’s head-over-fins for a wonderful guy, nobody is trying to kill him for existing, he can get practically anything he needs if he wants to, and he has a gigantic lifespan to ponder the secrets of the universe… and yet it doesn’t seem to be enough. Something is under his skin, something almost crawling, whispering in his ears and blinking lights just above his head. The question he asks: what if the sky and cosmos are one? What if the stars really just float in an inverted ocean? What if the universe is held together but fragile threads of spun music?

I’ve always found the idea of such a long lifespan terrifying, and I wonder if it might be a stressful thing for him in some ways. He will live to see so much change. So much live and die. His existence will cross across so many lifespans. What does everything else mean in the wake of this? What if he solves the mysteries of the world again and again only for them to continue to change? An appealing and yet overwhelming thought, for someone as naturally curious as him! 

Strife Specibus: ??????

His symbol is almost a perfect Trident, just a bit rounded. But, Fuschiabloods battling with tridents? Groundbreaking. I half debated making it something silly like Crosskind, because the image of this tiny troll wielding a full on Roman Crucifix seemed hilarious.

Crosskind is kind of funny. Just wailing on someone with a crucifix. Something so big and bulky might not be especially appealing to someone who is so simple and cares about careful practicality underwater, though? And it does have more of a religious implication than is found through the rest of his character. If we were going to call up any religious symbol, it should be something from a Lovecraftian-type story. 

…We know that dicekind is a weapon that can be possibly used, but we don’t really get to see it in effect very much. So maybe something like that? 

…Topkind? A Trapezohedron Top. Trapezohedron being a reference to the Shining Trapezohedron, an artifact used by the Church of Starry Wisdom in Lovecraft’s The Haunter of the Dark. He could spin several tops and depending on the combinations of numbers, it could produce a particular effect? The tops could look like this: 

…But more trapezoidal instead of triangular. 

Fetch Modus: Chord Modus

While this Modus would work for a troll without Dohrni’s particular perception peculiarities, his synthathesia certainly makes it easier. Each item he puts in has a particular note and octave, and he has to play around with where it is placed so it makes a pleasing sounding chord with the other items in the stack with it. Too much dissonance and the whole chord goes flying out into the abyss.  

I Love That.

Blood color: Fuschia

We… don’t really have a ton of info on just how Fuschiabloods work on Beforus. We know that they exist, and since Beforus doesn’t murder grubs indiscriminately, it would be plausible for there to be more than just Meenah running around. Though, given that trolls have a matriarchal ruling class, I guess a boy Fuschiablood wouldn’t mean so much? We know that there’s Fuschiablooded lusii out in the ocean on Alternia- perhaps that’s a holdover from when it was Beforus?

In any case, emotionally Dohrni fits the Fuschia Caste because when it comes down to it, he really is that “enigmatic, imaginative, sensitive” troll who possesses an air of mystery just for existing. And really, you don’t get more in the way of inertia than being at the bottom of the ocean.

I love this for him, really. It’s a good position for his personality. 

Symbol and meaning: Bear with me, because this might seem kind of odd but…

PITTARIUS, THE PHILOSOPHER

Trolltag: [CC] caritiveCallant

“Caritive” essentially is a fancy way of saying “Without”, literally meaning a “lack of something”, in his case a lack of trouble or worry is what he’s trying to convey. He suffers from a lack of a lot of things, really. “Callant” is a Scots-English word meaning “Boy”, which makes Dohrni imply that he is the “Boy without”, the one who shouldn’t exist, who is without a place in the hierarchy.

I like it!

Quirk: In a duel reference to his symbol, Dohrni replaces his t’s with +’s and refuses to capitalize any of his w’s, even when it would make sense. When he talks, he often makes massive, run on sentences with basically no end in sight, because he doesn’t really know when to finish a thought on basically anything, so periods are the enemy

Special Abilities (if any): As a Fuschiablood, Dohrni is gifted with powerful psychic resistance, enough to withstand even the scream of a horrorterror. …Not that he knows that, of course, this being Beforus. Additionally, as a Seadweller, he possesses all the requisite “I live in the ocean” powers: Waterbreathing, pressure adaptability, fins, that kind of thing. One of the odd quirks of his biology has given him the dubious power of sound-to-light synthesia, which really only procs on music, especially what he’s dubbed “The music of the spheres” which he’s certain is coming from the beautiful rotation of the heavens or whatever. What he’s really seeing/hearing are the voices of The Furthest Ring.

Lusus: Dohrni lives in the bleached remains of a coral reef, down at the bottom of the sea, right before the continental shelf makes its sharp decline into darkness. His Lusus and he have a very non committal relationship- it being a gigantic, bioluminescent jellyfish and all that, Hard to hold a conversation with something without a brain. It mostly floats in a protective (?) stance above his hive, easily dwarfing the structure. Sometimes Dhorni will lure sea creatures into its waiting tentacles to let the old medusa have a special meal.

Maybe they can very rarely have a little bonding moment? Some jellyfish are able to shine light to communicate (mostly… to lure in prey but it’s fine). Maybe once in a blue moon it sings him a little song with lights? My TAZ bias might be influencing this desire, though. 

Interests: Music Theory, Baroque (Trolloque?) Music, Metaphysics, Stargazing, Astronomy, Engaging In Pointless Monologues,  

Maybe add an additional interest in philosophy, since his sign’s name Is The Philosopher. There’s more to pondering the mysteries of the universe than just looking at the stars. There are internal mysteries, too. What’s right and what’s wrong. What do we owe each other. Where do we go when we die. Pondering philosophical questions and ethical dilemmas could be interesting for him. 

Maybe you could give him some interest in existential horror, too? Just to give him another physical hobby. Reading troll lovecraft. Thinking about what horror and terror truly MEAN. Thinking over all the scary possibilities and what he would do in any number of frightening scenarios? 

You also mention it down in personality with his tendency to give little gifts to people he likes, but maybe you could make him a bit of a romantic? He doesn’t know how to verbalize emotions, so maybe he just tends to like doing things for people. He doesn’t really need all the money he’s got, so just… splurging on others? 

And since he doesn’t like wearing shoes, maybe he could be interested in walking and playing around in tidepools? Carefully, of course. Exploration is just fun.

Appearance: For someone who should be as ostentatious as possible, Dohrni is about as simple as they come. Flashy materialism never appealed to his highbrow, lofty sensibilities. He keeps his outfits simple, but easy to ditch if the currents turn the wrong way. Suits in black and Fuschia, flowy and loose. Also, lots of heavy jewelry and layers seems like something of a hazard at the bottom of the sea. Dhorni does have a distinct hatred of shoes to be noted, and he has a huge weakness for jingly anklets, which his friends often prod him for. Many of his accessories (especially those damn anklets) are in an odd shade of yellow-green, a nod to his matesprit. Even the most ascetic of us cave to sentimentality every so often.

Personality: Dohrni has always been a bit quieter than other trolls. Locked up in his own head, always thinking, always looking, always searching for something just beyond his fingertips. It’s hard to figure out what’s going on behind those eyes of his much of the time, and its part of the reason he doesn’t have many friends. It’s hard to keep up with him when he’ll freeze up and not speak for an hour and then have swam so far off the course of the conversation you’d think he was in a totally different ocean. As might be expected, he’s hopeless in group conversations. Get past those murky waters and you’ll find that Dohrni is someone who you can talk to for hours at a time and he’ll always have something new to add, something further to say. He’s a good listener, but he’s an even better contributor, taking the threads of a idea and braiding them together into something new and inventive. Despite his tendency to feel deeply and talk forever, he’s terrible at putting feelings into words- he often showers targets of his affection with little gifts: pretty seashells, books on music, occasionally some little trinket he put a lot of heart into making even if it’s not so perfect.

I’m stealing a tiny bit from the Good Place here, but maybe an additional personality element you could add is that his tendency to have a Lot to say and think and add can lead to some indecisiveness? Like he’s supposed to make some decision but instead of remembering to be engaged in the world and Do It he just ends up sitting there thinking about all the connections and implications and possible consequences and almost ends up missing his chance to act?

Title: Seer of Void

While depressing in its implications (The Seer of Void, “He who sees nothing”) Dhorni is almost too perfect as a Seer- but it’s what fits his strengths as a person. Unlike it’s more active counterpart, the Mage, being a Seer forces Dhorni to actually interact with the people around him. While a Passive Class, the Seer who never speaks of what he sees is useless.

Dhorni often oscillates between acting as a Seer of Void and inverting to a Witch of Light about as often as the tides go in and out. There’s a give and take to him, a desire to change what can be done with the information he learns through his studies and long thinking sessions. Void allows him to see the potential inherent in the endless abyss, and he uses that information to try and inspire his friends into making something more of themselves.

In a way, Dohrni isn’t a Light player because he’s not really looking for answers, he’s looking for something to chase after. The stars are so fascinating to him because they are just out of reach. If only he could just brush one of the infinite lights with his fingers he may be satiated, but that simply isn’t going to happen. Which is what he needs to stay sane, really.  

I think this is definitely suiting for his personality in a way that would be really beneficial for him. It gives him the kind of opportunity and outlet to explore what he wants without necessarily being… Directly in contact with it. Though he does risk a bout of Grimdarkness, I’m sure, if he gets a little too close or experience a little too much tragedy. 

But yeah, I do like the idea of him being the passive knower, the one who understands and directs and helps others. He gets to learn and know and understand the nature of infinity, the nothing, the infinite possibilities, how much emptiness there is in which everything can be built… And his inversion, Witch of Light, encourages him to actively change and shape and maneuver the way information is utilized and perceived, shoving it aside to make way for the Infinitesimal Nature Of Reality. Encouraging everyone to consider the UNKNOWN, the IMPOSSIBLE, instead of just focusing on what’s known. Spreading his thoughtfulness to others. 

…I just reiterated everything you said in more words, but I was just excited about the ramifications of this title in relation to him.

Land: The Land of Ice and Aurora

Dohrni’s bare feet touch down on something colder than he’s ever felt before. The ground is solid, and he slips and falls on his face as he tries to get his footing. The wind whips by, his bare skin aching within seconds, not used to the dry air. He looks up at the featureless, blue sky and feels true fear for the first time in ages. This, truly, must be hell.

And then night falls. The sky turns from blue to black, equally featureless. And then the air turns magnetic, and lights start to dance across the sky, unlike anything he’s ever seen before. Ribbons of color weave in and out, and Dohrni actually fully weeps at the sight, they’re so beautiful. He reaches up to touch them, even as far in the air as they are, and his fingers feel the touch of something warm. The aurora above him dissolve into sparks, the whole machinery vanishing in seconds, leaving him in the pitch dark.

He stands straight up, and brushes the ice off of his legs. There’s something to be found in this darkness, something that’s hiding the truth behind the light. And Dohrni will be damned if he’s just gonna let it eat up all of this beauty.

Stunning as ever. ;v;

Dream Planet: Derse

Dersites don’t always have something to rebel against. Dohrni doesn’t have any particular issues with the system itself (after all, it’s afforded him a lot of leeway in how he lives his life) and yet he’s restless. With nothing wrong directly in his face, his own Derse leaning makes him unable to settle down, unable to take things as they are. There must be more out there, more secrets that have been hidden, more things that we think we understand but are merely scratching the surface on.

Design: 

Horns: Classic Fuschia horns, since that’s what we’ve seen all fuschias so far have. 

Hair: I essentially decided to base it entirely off of how an eldritch creature would look. Very curly, messy, swooping. 

Face: I wanted him to look curious, so I gave him a really thoughtful look. I wasn’t really sure whether he should be smiling or not… But I like the idea of him just kind of smiling and nodding in a group conversation while his brain is 1000 lightyears away. Also I gave him lime earrings, because of his matesprit.

Shirt: Flowy and easy to ditch. 

Shorts: I wasn’t sure whether you meant Actual Suit or swimsuit, so I went with the latter. Primarily because it makes more sense for a character who is going to spend a great deal of time underwater to wear something waterproof, but also because it more easily exposes those jingly lime anklets he has going on down there. 

Yet another good character! Sorry I didn’t have Tons of feedback to offer.

-CD

#persephoneanmystery #dohrni plerom #dohrni #plerom #fuschiablood #seadweller #review #redesign #cd review #submission

[titleknown]

Halloween FOREVER Open Species Challenge!

Welp, guess who’s doing another Open Source Characters-y challenge, even though the first one was a resounding not-even-remotely-success. This one’s different, because it’s making whole species under a vanilla CC-BY license, based on the brilliant @tyrantisterror‘s Four Horrors Theory with some additions of my own!

It’s seven days because of the relatively self-limiting timeframe, and the timeframe is because if we can have Christmas in July, why not Halloween in May? Or June, both because of the date of Summerween as @dinosaurana pointed out and because May’s getting short.

{:EDIT: The deadline of May/June was mainly to get more folks on it. While those months are done, there’s no limit now. Because there’s no need for it, and also because HALLOWEEN 4EVA BABYEE!}

The themes of each monster per day are as follows:

Gothic Horror- Monsters based on the horror reflecting the past, the horrors of regrets; abandoned places and dark legacies, the places and times no-one wants to go within and without. One associates the species of this style with the dark crypts and rotting estates and castles and Victorian aesthetics, with the undeath; atavism and dark pacts of vampires; ghosts; werewolves; demons, but it can also be associated with more modern abandoned places and ideas; such as the dying family entertainment center of Five Nights At Freddy’s or the pop-up book featuring Mister Babadook!

Atomic Horror- The horror of science done irresponsibly, of gigantic mutants and monstrous bioweapons; or of aliens with high technology but hardened hearts, of robots and modern mooncalves abused intil they strike back, of the fear of the future and our irresponsibility to it.. This is the horror most devalued in horror-elite circles, but the best one for monsters, so go nuts, and do it for science!

Slasher Horror- The horror of what we do to each other, the darkness in man’s hearts. Not just serial killers like Freddy; Jason; Mike Meyers or Harry Powell, but also the communities with dark secrets as shown in works like The Stepford Wives; Dead and Buried; The Wicker Man and most recently Get Out. This one;s tricky, as the genre’s monsters are usually more often individuals than species, but there’s always the idea of monsters modeled after the dark side of humanity ala what TVTropes calls The Heartless; as well as the products of such perverse communities as in Dead and Buried and The Stepford Wives!

Cosmic Horror- Things that show how fucked we are as screaming blobs of meat upon this rock in the cold void of space, not just for what they do; but for what we say about the world we live in. They can range from Lovecraft’s space monsters like the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods to expressions of man’s worthlessness like Thomas Liggotti’s atavistic clown-worms from The Last Feast of Harlequin or the skeevy John Doe from The Frolic, but they share in common they’re all just the tip of an iceberg, and that iceberg is filled with tentacles and screaming.

Cryptic Horror- One of my own devising, this is the horror of liminal spaces and liminal species in the grit and grime of reality; the monsters you swear you just saw out of your eye; that you can’t be sure if you remembered them properly or not. Of course, cryptids fit under here, but also the earliest Creepypasta in terms of their aesthetics too; such as Slender Man or Candle Cove; that sort of tone /r/NoSleep is trying to recapture.

Rakuga Horror- The opposite of Cryptic Horror; this is the horror of complete cartoonish nonsense; where reality is a scribbling that is out to lunch; out of its mind and out to get you. Some examples include the Paraphenelia Wagon from Halloween is Grinch Night, the witches lairs in Madoka Magica, any of the weirder old Fleischer cartoons, the classic Disney Acid Sequence, and so-on!

Sexy Horror- Yes, this had to be on here. There’s a fine line between fetishes and nightmare fuel, especially on the internet, and for this final step put a monster containing the warped expression of your own sexuality warped to metamorphose into a monster! Bondage has been used a ton for these sorts of thing, but there’s some good nightmare fuel to be mined in TF; aeromorphs and more! Tho, if you’re sex-repulsed, make a monster based on indulgence some other way, based on decadent non-sexy things you enjoy!

Yeah, so, have fun, and if you don’t want to do it, please still boost!

#open species #daily challenge #halloween #art challenge #creative commons