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*Don’t cry, Alphys.
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Anonymous asked:
HP Hatecraft, the opposite of HP Lovecraft.
HP Hatecraft, the world's least racist author who owns a cat with a normal name
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Group Nap
I've made it my personal mission to give these guys the happy peaceful life they deserve Look at them and tell me they don't all deserve a happy ending
This is the biggest piece I've ever drawn in terms of the amount of characters and it took forever but it was so fun and so, SO worth it
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Sunrise on the Reaping Characters as their CHB cabins (No explicit spoilers!).
Haymitch: Athena, sick and tired of him getting Dionysus </3
Lenore Dove: Nemesis, goddess of retribution associated with geese
Maysilee: Aphrodite, desperately need her and Drew Tanaka in a room together.
Wyatt: Tyche, goddess of chance and destiny
Louella: Nike, goddess of victory and divine charioteer :)
Lou Lou: Demeter, the daughter of the harvest
Ampert: Hephestus, his father really was the best inventor…
Woodbine: Hermes, fast but never fast enough.
All of this is perfect, 10/10, no notes.
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Just a reminder that we don’t know all the good things Katniss does/did for her community, because Katniss wouldn’t tell us unless it was relevant to what was going on.
In Catching fire, she doesn’t tell us that she’s being going around and bringing food to poor children in the seam until she needs to explain why she had a bag of food and why her mother wouldn’t find that odd.
In the first book, when she’s telling Peeta about the story of how she got Prims goat, she refuses to admit that this wasn’t a selfish move so she could get money out of that goat. (You could also argue that this is her refusing to be vulnerable in front of Peeta and all of Pamen though. I think it’s both, because she doesn’t even admit that she did this purely for her sister in her internal dialogue.)
And in Mockingjay, she never tells us that she’s the one that got Haymitch the goose eggs to help him heal after the games. All she says in the epilogue is that Haymitch raises geese when the liquor runs out. And we would never know otherwise if Haymitch didn’t mention that SHE was the one who got him the geese in sotr.
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Mad about politics again
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*crumples him up*
idk if you guys are able to tell but
apple: janus
caterpillar: remus
crown: roman
rocket ship: logan
music note: virgil
house: patton (because home is where the heart is)
tracked time 5 hours 52 minutes
P: I- I don’t-
L: Oh! Well that’s certainly less cheery than the other art pieces you all found
V: See this right here! This is why I told you guys to not go around looking yourself up on here! I know you guys thought I was just trying to be a downer but it’s because I knew it was stuff like this!
Ro: …Pat? You ok, Bud?
P: Y-yeah I’m…I’m good. And hey, this artist is really really talented, huh? I think they’re super creative.
Ro: uh…I mean yeah, clearly talented I just wanted to make sure you were good?
P: Oh yeah I’m fine. I think I’m just gonna go for a little walk. You kiddos play nice, okay?
V: Umm sure thing
L: Where on earth could he go on a walk to?
V: Not right now, L.
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Why does despair Shuichi want to keep Makoto so badly?
Well, assuming the V3 cast got to be Class 79 in this AU, he still has a crush on Makoto, lol. Most likely, he wants to convert Makoto to despair so they can be a despair couple.
AWWWWW!!! THAT'S SO MESSED UP!!! <3
"Let me take him," Shuichi speaks over the tangle of voices on the Zoom call, cutting short an argument between Miu and Himiko about whether short people have smaller fingers. "Once I make him understand, once he sees the truth through despair...He'll be a big help to my investigative work. I've always been...not as good at the 'people' part as he is...If we were working together-"
"No way, Jose," Kokichi says.
"Jose? What happened to Shumai?" Tsumugi muses.
"You're way too malleable to babysit this dork. You'd be following him like a duckling in 48 hours."
"I would not-"
Shuichi's attempts to protest are drowned out by the entire rest of the class going:
"That's true."
"Oh yeah. Forty-eight hours tops."
"Two days is being generous."
"You'd fold like a wet tissue."
"Haha, fvckin' simp!"
Shuichi manages to speak over them again: "You don't even want him, Kokichi. Why should you get him?"
"Because it would be a waste of time for me to make any of my minions transport this loser to a drop-off point, and I'm not telling you guys where I live."
Anonymous asked:
Hi! Before I ask anything, I just wanted to tell you that I love your writing! I binged all your DR fics + went through (all) your masterlists hehe. I really like the way you write the characters, their relationships etc. I've been in a writing slump for so long that reading your blog made me want to open my laptop again.
If you don't mind, on your last post. Can you elaborate on Despair Shuichi 👀👀 In my head, instead of the anxious, pragmatic guy that he is– He's just a despair gremlin 😭😭 Like causing chaos through spreading misinformation and stuff. (plus I wonder how Makoto reacts to that cute, shy kouhai he remembered now being all bold now)
(Thanks so much!! It's always super reassuring to get compliments like that, lol.)
Okay, so you're already correct that his area would be misinformation, at least at first. (Incidentally, that is also true for Kyoko in the Despair's Throbbing Heart universe.) Towards the beginning of the despairening, Shuichi's role was to expose a strategic combination of real secrets and fake ones. So like, a high-profile murder happens, and Shuichi solves it without even being asked, revealing that the murderer was also very high-profile (ideally a politician). He nudges private scandals into the public eye. Private projects. And based on the legitimacy he gains from doing those things, he can suddenly say pretty much whatever divisive lies he wants, and people will believe him en masse before anyone with the mind to question it even gets a hand on the ball.
(Since this AU takes place after the V3 class have been Class 79, this suggests something must have gone down between Shuichi and Kyoko. After all, my Class 79 arrangement has him as Ultimate Detective's Assistant, and the Ultimate Detective's Assistant works with the Ultimate Detective, at least in theory. One assumes Class 78 is despair in this AU, since the initial ask about the V3 cast as despair was a follow-up to a Both Classes Despair AU post, so maybe Despair Kyoko and Despair Shuichi were confusing the masses by being at odds. They've both gained legitimacy by being frequently right, but then suddenly they start disagreeing. Very publicly and loudly. Sometimes Shuichi is lying and Kyoko isn't, sometimes it's the opposite, sometimes they're both lying, and sometimes they're both telling the truth in different ways. It makes people want to take a side, but picking either one will mean being misled most of the time.)
This role for them is only useful before the world powers collapse. Once everyone is kind of languishing in rubble anyway, there's no real point to spreading misinformation, or at least not as carefully as they were doing it. Flyers and wall graffiti are the main medium for lies at that point, and that's kind of not their area.
At that point, they're both more like spies, using their investigative skills to gain intel on resistance efforts.
Personality-wise, he's kind of the inverse of Despair Kokichi, in that Despair Kokichi presents as really high-energy in front of people and then is actually really somber and dull in private. Despair Shuichi does everything to come across as mopey and ignorable, but when by himself or among people who know him personally (his classmates, or Makoto), he reveals himself to be having a lot of fun.
For some length of time, he definitely toured with Kaede while she played music for people, because being her unassuming tagalong gave him access to large gatherings, where he could sneak around and overhear secrets and just generally notice things about people. Kaede plays one of her post-apocalypse concerts, and Shuichi slips away into the crowd and then returns to her afterward like, "There's a group of 'rebuilders' working out of the sewers. They've been storing up weapons down there, planning take the territory back from Owada in a few months."
"Sounds flammable," Kaede muses, and Shuichi grins.
"Definitely flammable."
(Unrelated, but Kaede loves piano so much, she definitely has to play wrong notes in order to get despair out of it. Like, if she played a song correctly and to completion, it would fill her with hope, so she has to make sure to play discordant notes periodically throughout, to remind herself that the idiots she's playing for don't notice or care, because nothing means anything.)
The relationship between Despair 79th Class and Despair 78th Class is more fond than the kind of frenemy relationship between the 78th and 77th, so Kaede and Sayaka might have done concerts together a few times. Assuming Makoto was with Sayaka during some or all of those times, he and Shuichi spent some time together, backstage.
"You look great," Shuichi says, his perceptive gaze sweeping over Makoto from head to toe and back. He still uses the bill of his cap to try to hide his looking, but he's not doing it now. "Looks like Maizono is...keeping you in comfort."
Makoto pulls self-consciously at the clothes Sayaka got for him. They're kind of gaudy and expensive, compared to what he's used to. "Uh, yeah. She is."
"Good," Shuichi laughs. "If she weren't, I'd ask Kaede to choke her out with her piano wire."
Makoto is unable to hide how his stomach drops, how his eyes widen. He heard, through other people, that their kouhais changed just like his classmates, just like their senpais, but...this is his first time meeting Shuichi after the biggest, most horrible, most tragic event. His first time hearing him make light of something so violent and laugh about it, with a carefree smile as if everything that happened, everything he's done, were nothing to him.
"Oh, s-sorry," Shuichi stammers, still smiling but now visibly nervous. "I forgot, you're still...so innocent."
A chill creeps up Makoto's spine, and he can't meet Shuichi's eyes anymore. It's not disgust; it's just so disheartening. He needs a minute to adjust. "I wouldn't call it innocence," he replies. "I just don't think any of this is right. Do you?"
Shuichi sidles closer. "Sometimes it takes an extreme calamity to give the world a chance to recover. Think about what would have happened if we'd allowed things to continue the way they were. All of the secret projects Kirigiri and I unearthed. Even thinking as small as Hope's Peak, they were never going to stop at just one Kamukura! They would have done it to as many people as they could get away with. We found a list, you know. A list of potential candidates, ones they were considering to be their second Kamukura..."
"I don't...know whether you're lying," Makoto says.
Shuichi lets out a laugh. A genuine one, and slightly grim. "I guess you don't. You weren't with us when we found it."
"The harm we do to people now isn't better than the harm they were doing to people then. Even if the school and the...the ones in power...The fact that they were hurting people doesn't mean we get to destroy everything. We're just hurting more of the same people who were getting hurt before!"
"Why do you always say 'we'?" Shuichi asks, tilting his head.
"If the point is to help people, then we should be helping them."
"I didn't mean to make you mad."
...Makoto sighs, at the sight of Shuichi's pouting face, his cap partially hiding his eyes. He places a hand on Shuichi's arm. "I know you're better than this. I know you. That's why..."
Shuichi lifts his head, but his eyes aren't meeting Makoto's eyes. They're on his neck instead. His fingers gingerly trail over the marks left by the collar Sayaka sometimes makes him wear (whether it's bruising or just a tan line). And he smiles. "You don't have to try so hard to hide that, you know. I-I think it's cute."
The concert starts, and Makoto slips away to give food and whatever else he can to those stranded out on the streets. And he does his best not to notice Shuichi tailing him the whole time.
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NJ Democrat senator Cory Booker takes the floor in protest of Trump/Musk, "saying that he will keep going “'as long as I am physically able'.”
“I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able,” Booker said at the outset of his remarks. “I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.”
“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.” -source
I am posting this at 2:30am EST. He has been speaking since 7PM EST. This link (at this moment) is to a live stream.
FUCK YEAH, JERSEY!
So very proud of my state at the moment.
Reblogging and adding the livestream link from Senator Booker's YouTube (the other one was glitching) . It is almost 4am. He is still going STRONG. If you are watching and plan to go to sleep, turn the volume down and leave it up so that the "watching" number reflects the involvement of people supporting him.
If he can LITERALLY stand and protest as a single voice, we can keep it playing and symbolically stand with him.
Senator Booker is on Hour 13 and going STRONG
Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about. No business as usual! Slow the Fascists down! He should get some Democrat colleagues to join him so they can periodically cede to each other and spell each other off to keep it up longer!
STILL GOING! If you can open up the livestream to show support.
Folks, he's still going - and importantly, he's talking about his own shortcomings, his own failures and the things he wants to do better because he knows he fucked up the last time.
If your disdain for Democrats has been rooted largely in their reluctance to meet the moment, then I heartily encourage you to watch the livestream — other Democratic senators are asking long-winded "questions (which is part of the rules and allows Booker to take the occasional break for a drink of water or to rest his feet or whatnot) and helping however they can.
Booker's going to hit 24 hours at 7 pm and it's worth watching a few minutes, don't you think?
If anyone didn’t already know, part of Booker’s aim was to break the existing record for the longest filibuster, which was the one segregationist Strom Thurmond staged to oppose the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
IIRC, Booker beat Thurmond’s time by more than an hour.
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vesper-in-bloom
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific
Me using big words as a kid: (At some point, I subconsciously determined that I would be talked down to or dismissed if I failed to present as smart right away, so it's important that I do everything in my power to present as smart right away.)
Other people, probably: (Wow, she's really annoying lol.)