#c-is-for-circinate

[suzukiblu]

ooof this week's WIP Wednesday offerings are great but you've got me real invested in Interdimensional Kidnapping right now, so that please and thank you!

“He did that too,” Ellie puts in helpfully, peering more closely at Jason. 

Shit, right, kids are tattletales, Tim remembers resignedly. He forgot after Kon and Bart both developed the capacity to think twice. 

“Why are you even here, Hood?” he asks, hoping to just . . . sweep that one under the rug a little bit, maybe. 

“Maybe because the diner on Vine called me about spotting you in the place but you hadn’t reported getting back from wherever the hell you’ve been?” Jason replies, eyeing him. 

“. . . hell, I didn’t report in,” Tim groans, covering his face with his hands. How did he not report in? Hell.

[spooky-owl-necromancer]

@c-is-for-circinate said pokemon AU and my brain went YES PLEASE.

The Smeargle definitely came with the magical paints

[sun-critrole]

@c-is-for-circinate posted a lovely little happy-place ficlet (which you can read here) so I thought I’d do the same.

Imagine the waves of the Lucidian Ocean crashing softly like kisses upon the moon-soaked sands of Nicodranas. The beach is sighing in time with the city, and if you look closely the lights flare in time with the tide. There is laughter, maybe, distant enough that it could also be seagulls. There is a rock, still almost warm from a day under vibrant sun. There is a white hand set casually against it, an offering so tempting Beau cannot refuse.

She was never good at impulse control, anyway.

“Hmm?” Yasha hums, her attention to the horizon broken as she turns back, meeting Beau’s eyes unflinchingly. She’s grown into herself, these last months. She seems unshakeable now.

Beau shrugs. She’s still shakeable. She’s hoping Yasha can look past that.

Fortunately, Yasha only smiles, a gift. She turns back to watch the growing storm in the west, her hair blowing in the night air so it brushes Beau’s cheek. They sit, hands clasped together, and watch the moon finish rising, hoping against hope that this - the ocean, the moon, the promise of a warm bed and good friends, the promise of something more - will survive whatever tests they find themselves facing.

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c-is-for-circinate replied to your post : Is… is Fjord my favorite character?

1. Fjord is absolutely awesome and very much deserving of being a fave. 2. Caduceus is great, but lots of the stuff that really gets him won’t come for AGES. You’ve got time. 3. You have a type, my friend, and maybe I couldn’t pick it out of a lineup most of the time, but ninety-five percent of the CR posts you’ve made that I’ve seen, ever, have at least obliquely involved Travis Willingham. Sorry to be the one to break it to you.

1. Ok I assumed it was my love of Travis bleeding but I really dig the whole “Our fearless leader/party face” the secret disaster as a vibe so def enjoying this.

2. I am excited because Caduceus is probably the character I would roll out of all of these characters so I want to like him real bad

3. LOOK, I KNOW, OK, I’M A SIMPLE MAN, I DON’T OWE YOU AN EXPLANATION but also like, Nott was my fave for the early game (like, first 20ish episodes now that I am looking back), and Sam is very much not my type, so I think this is independant

BUT YES I HAVE A TYPE, SUE ME

[luckthebard]

c-is-for-circinate replied to your post: that's a super interesting observation about what...

Oh man–I missed the Deadlands finale (hopefully I’ll find time soon!), but I finally finished TAZ Amnesty this week, so I’ve actually been thinking about this ALL DAY re: different DM'ing styles. I think you’re 100% right about the grief reaction. I also think it might actually be WORSE when a death is fully unscripted–surprise roll-of-the-dice deaths feel shocking, confusing, incomplete, “wrong”, because they’re not tidy, not how it’s “supposed to go” in fiction.

This is a really good point! Something I read a lot with these sudden, unscripted and unlucky deaths is “it’s not fair.” And...that’s kind of right. 

The fact that sudden TTRPG deaths don’t follow understood narrative conventions around character death makes them very jarring. And if you don’t go into watching streamed TTRPG content kind of braced for that, I imagine it would be incredibly shocking.

[treeofcups]

c-is-for-circinate replied to your post “Sam’s saying that he never watched or read any Harry Potter and the...”

Please note that they were also playing as characters from the Breakfast Club, which Sam has ALSO never seen. It was glorious.

I’ve also never seen the Breakfast Club, so that’s something Sam and I have in common. That’s going to be a very interesting watch for me.

[audible-smiles]

c-is-for-circinate replied to your post:

“what do you want me to say here?” is such a Fjord...

that ENTIRE FUCKING CONVERSATION, though. Fjord just literally has no idea how to open up, to anyone, about anything, ever, goddddddddd

that desperate, self-loathing fueled desire to completely reinvent oneself is just far too relatable :( :( :(

[suzukiblu]

INTERDIMENSIONAL KIDNAPPING MY BELOVED! Please give me more of that good good good stuff.

“Not a one,” Bernard replies primly, making a little mock-show of tossing his hair before grinning smugly at him. “You can go hack my Barbie DreamHouse’s dental records if it makes you feel better, I know how you guys love to break privacy laws. It’s basically enrichment for you.”

“If you think hacking a civilian dentist’s records is ‘enrichment’ for me you are sorely overestimating your dentist’s grasp of cybersecurity,” Jason counters dryly.