#ask tali

[taliquest]

Give me some Shin headcanons!!!🐬🐠

Five Headcanons About Mouri Shin

Has the worst reputation as a driver among the Troopers not because he's bad or reckless, but because he's annoyingly safe. He can normally be found driving a boringly practical minivan (I tend to think of a "new" 1990 Mitsubishi Delica around the time of the series) colored much like an Orca, which Shuu and Touma refer to as the Whale Wagon. Despite this reputation, he's no less an adrenaline junkie than Seiji, frequently participating in Motocross events and owning a hand-me-down high-performance bike left to him by his father (again, in the timeframe of the series, an early production Kawasaki GPZ900R) in addition to the scooter he's shown driving in Message.

Like Seiji, extremely popular with the girls (and a lot of guys). Unlike Seiji, he has absolutely no hangups about it, only pulling back on his lady (and lad)-killer tendencies after a poorly-thought-out, disastrous attempt to simultaneously see four girls (and two guys) in two weeks.

You do not. Touch. The stereo. Particularly when it's playing Noriko Sakai or George Michael.

Regardless of timeframe, he doesn't know how to use a computer. What makes it even worse is that Ryo is more tech-savvy.

Any time he visits Shuu, he's always dragged into make-believe Super Sentai games with the younger siblings, and always has to be either the Girl On The Team or the villain. He very much enjoys both roles.

[llamasgotoheaven]

Lmao good old ask Tali blog nostalgia here’s me doing her voice for a sec @djunk411

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[taliquest]

Thank you for that look into multiple layers of cultural references that I have absolutely no context for. Your people are so fascinating

You're absolutely welcome but you are REALLY going to have to be more specific.

[taliquest]

Why did you block me on Bluesky?

Thanks for the ask, anon!

Honest answer is that unless you're some kind of far-right sack of dogshit, you probably got caught up in a blocklist I'm subscribed to - which is a recurring issue site wide due to people abusing and trolling the system - or I stumbled across you in someone's replies and you came across as tiresome. Really so long as you're not the first type let me know your handle and I'll see about sorting it out.

[taliquest]

Your fanfics about the Shin/Ami Mizuno couple are interesting. How did the couple and the two one-shots come about?

So way, way, way, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, back in the days of Year of Our Lady Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Nine - that is to say, before I even knew what a ship was aside from the big things the Navy sailed out of Norfolk - I was a Shin/Usagi shipper, or rather Cye/Serena. And to an extent, I still am. But, to answer the question, I was turned in around 2001 thanks to the acquisition of the internet and reading an old crossover fic, sadly defunct and left hanging, by the title of "Ronin Warriors to Arms, or Sailor Scout Power", by SAW458, and her handling of Shin and Ami did a lot to convince me of the pairing's potential. And after a while, it just took over as the default. putting aside their elemental affinity, they just feel like they have a great chemistry, kind but isolated (listen to their image songs!) with an appreciation for art, and of course the classic Absent Father trope (his having passed, hers having divorced her mom). There's... more, but truth is that I simply lack the language to articulate properly beyond "I just think they're cute together". Plus the idea of a casanova like him (see: the cassette dramas) and a wallflower like her winding up together is eternally enjoyable.

Which brings us to the one-shots. One was inspired by a piece of art a friend did based on a I think Sorrowscopes tweet that I just had to run with; the other, just because I wanted to let them have a moment together. In both cases, I wanted to show them long after the adventures have wound down, after they've matured and grown together and have no hangups about being intimate together.

[bloodbetrayed-blog]

❛ We’re both adults. I think we know when something isn’t meant to be. ❜

✧  BEING  HUMAN  SENTENCE  STARTERS .

          ❝ —— Look, ‘Mara, I can’t tell you what the          best thing to do here is,  but it’s been a few          days. If this heals,  it’ll heal with  time.  You          don’t owe that time to anyone  but it’s up to          you to  work out  of what you have is worth          fighting for.  There’s no  easy  answer I can          give you. I wish I COULD. ❞

@unfadiism

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❛ So, care to explain your particular brand of crazy? ❜ (Luc)

SENTENCE MEME: 99 HUMOROUS HAWKE QUOTES

            ❝ —— Do you have FIVE YEARS? That’s            how long it’d take to tell you that one. ❞

@prisonerofmuses

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❛ I’m all for second chances. Not so sure about third ones. ❜

SENTENCE MEME: 68 GARRUS VAKARIAN QUOTES

             ❝ —— I’d  say  you made the  right choice, if             whoever this is just  KEEPS  letting you  down             it sounds like you’re better off without them. It             doesn’t sound like they’re being a good friend             to you.  If  you  need  a  little  bit  of  revenge,             though, I’m game. ❞

@unfadiism​