#fuzzysandwitch

[noodlejaq]

Not sure if you've already answered it, but if Celine reincarnated in gd!auau, and they can all presumably reincarnate as human if they aren't soul obliterated or whatever... What happened to Miyeong's husband that he apparently hasn't reincarnated?

I did mention it in this art post. Basically, his soul is devoured by Gwi-Ma. Hence, his body reduced into nothing. His soul completely absorbed and his existence is wiped from the world's cycle.

[eighthdoctor]

"#...enter jaina monsterfucker extraordinaire--" Ok, based on this tag, do you have any headcannons about how cross-racial relationships are viewed in Azeroth? I also don't play the game and only read fanfic, so I'm curious if you have particular headcanons that are/n't what might actually be in the source material. Though Sylvanas might be considered actually "monstrous" by some in a way other races aren't to each other, the question still stands. Jaina/Thrall is also a popular headcanon aswell

(from a comment on @mylordshesacactus's Reunification)

The fundamental problem here is that Azeroth is phenomenally racist, and Warcraft itself is also phenomenally racist. The racism is coming from inside the house. It's baked in. The underlying idea is that race war is a real and inevitable thing and of course these groups will hate each other because they look different, and also the Evil and Uncivilized groups are expressly based on non-European real world people.

Like, in the lore, there's a handful, maybe a dozen, of known mixed-race characters. There's scads and scads of roleplayers who have PCs of every mixing imaginable, but in canon? Like, the ones off the top of my head are (a) Vereesa's children and (b) the result of rape. That's it.

So, Watsonian, we have peoples who are so rabidly hateful that there are extraordinarily few cross-racial relationships, even fewer that are consensual, even though all evidence is that everyone could interbreed (...even if they are, in fact, from space). And the Doylist explanation is that character morphs are hard and the devs are lazy and they would rather write a worldstate where no human has ever fucked a troll than put some effort into it.

The upshot of all of this is that, despite living in a world where there are, commonplace, a dozen humanoid races of varying levels of 'monstrosity', all available evidence is that Azeroth standards of 'monsterfucker" exactly map to American standards, aka, Jaina is a monsterfucker by [checks notes] having sex with Kalec in human form.

Humans don’t have relationships with quel’dorei. They don’t have relationships with dwarves, or with gnomes, or any non-human race. It’s not just human exceptionalism, for once, because there’s also no evidence of any relationships between, say, Darkspear trolls and orcs either.

Meanwhile, Jaina’s canonical relationships are with Mr Compulsory Heterosexuality, and also a dragon. Her primary fanon ships are with an orc (as you mention), a kaldorei, and…Sylvanas. Arthas aside, Jaina…doesn’t express interest in any humans. Simple explanation is that Jaina isn’t really into humans. Humans are boring, humans are easily spooked.

As I write her, Jaina’s got a million kinks, and one of them is she wants a little danger. A little spice. Something more than vanilla in missionary, something with an edge. Something interesting, something novel, Thrall has this in spades—this isn’t necessarily about playing into the violent savage thing but y’all, that size. Holy shit. Pained? Nothing but edges.

So Jaina’s not necessarily, say, into something that’s properly an eldritch abomination or completely non-humanoid—although I’m open to arguments on that front—but I’m very confident she’s after something non-human that would absolutely be called ‘monsterfucking’ by your average human on Azeroth.

(Related: It’s soooooo fucking obvious that not only do the Windrunner sisters have a human fetish, but that it’s not at all common or acceptable in Quel’thalas—even aside from the ‘walked through a portal’ bit, Alleria’s hardly in Quel'thalas after marrying Turalyon, Vereesa lives in Dalaran. There’s extenuating circumstances in both cases—Turaylon’s a dick, Rhonin has tenure in Dalaran—but it sure is interesting that our two human-elf relationships both live(d) with humans and Vereesa doesn’t return to primarily socializing with other quel’dorei until after Rhonin’s death. Then there’s Sylvanas and Nathanos, and I am absolutely not writing that as a ship but it is popularly rumored and it is something on Sylvanas’s end, that Sylvanas is into humans and can’t shake that rumor.)

[eighthdoctor]

Perhaps Puppy can be appeased with a cameo in The Power to Manipulate Belief and get good good scritches from our favorite sad bitches

the two problems are

puppy is a 10 week old infant and has no idea about "delayed gratification" or anything except eat sleep pee and Bite. the cat could be bribed this way but puppies, unfortunately, are bribe-proof.

gor does not have dogs, just another thing to add to its list of atrocities

[logosminuspity]

I still go back and reread all of Nautilus City from time to time. It's stuck with me probably the longest out of any fic I've ever read

Thank you thank you! It’s up there as top two of fanfics I’ve written that I’ve had the most fun with--from the world-building to the characters themselves. I love that it’s stuck with so many others too!

[asynca]

fuzzysandwitch replied to your photo: this is my life now

Aren’t you the five ft. teddybear?

Yes but I'm the one that snores :(

[zrreed]

So with the revelations about the "cure" for the parasite, it seems like Ferals and Hunters will eventually find a stable population rate within the environment, at least if humans get their population back up to a point before they die off (not to mention the mysterious initial cause of the outbreak). How does the camp adapt and change with this info? Do the "special missions" turn into raiding libraries for long term agri/sustainable knowledge? Their tech will EVENTUALLY fail even scavenging.

absolutely. i mean, they brought solar panels with them, so they have some electricity, and in a one shot i posted they were trying to figure out how to get running water. i actually have thought a lot about what the world would be like years after cdad, when i was thinking of sequel ideas. and eventually it’d mostly be only hunters left. and they wouldn’t be as common to stumble across randomly, but when you did, they’d have learned to hunt in groups, and it would just be BAD news. like... life outside of a base or protected settlement would be kind of... wild. it’d be hard. but yeah, they’d eventually have to figure out how to mostly survive without vehicles, learn better agricultural practices, figure out medicine when they run out of limited supplies, that kind of stuff.

[asynca]

AH THE CHAPTERS OUT AND I STILL NEED TO FINISH FAB. God Min, the tuition! The ring! No don't do it! Holy shit Anxiety The Series strikes again, I need a break aaahhhh. It's so hard to watch him make these decisions, Asy. ;-; But I know you promise resolution, so I'll persevere.... Must reach Bone to Pick....

‘Anxiety: The Series’ is such an apt name for the UMS-verse XD

[asynca]

Can't wait to tackle Flesh and Blood next and then begin the final part of Min's journey once you start releasing! Can't wait for more, Asy!

:D! I’m glad you’re enjoying the re-read!

I did my re-read in Dec-January before I finalised the plot of Bone to Pick and was surprised how much I enjoyed them. I hope other folks enjoy them, too!