#idkimoutofideas

[autoraton]

This blog has been inactive for a while so I doubt this message will go anywhere but on the off chance you ever see it: I just wanted to say I really love the acoc age swap au you drew. The characters are all so cute and true to themselves even though they’re different ages from canon. Baby Theo is possibly my favorite of all time he’s such a cute lil guy

hi thank you so much! have a baby theo doodle for your troubles :-D

[distinctivelibrarians]

Ok but consider: Eliot gets super cuddly when he gets injured. But he’s gotta be like... really injured, like Tap Out Job or Rundown Job or Carnival Job level of injured

Definitely! At least for the first couple of times yeah. But what he’s not expecting is that Hardison and Parker are aggressive cuddlers.

Hell, even without cuddling, Parker is aggressively not about stuff like personal space, and Hardison hasn’t been scared of Eliot since...uh, never. So. Soon as those two figure out that Eliot actually is a cuddly bastard, he just has to be put to extremes to actually admit it? I can basically guarantee no amount of him threatening or arguing is gonna get them to stop cuddling him. Always.

He’s stuck with them, and he can gripe all he wants, but they all know he’s happy as hell.

[vethyourhalflingmother]

whenever you have free time: can you explain your opinions on what houses vox machina and the mighty nein are in? i 100% agree w gryffindor nott btw

I’d just like to start by clarifying that altho I do feel strongly about some of these opinions (& ive joked about them being unchangeable - which is not true, to be serious), that doesnt mean I don’t wanna hear y’all’s - do you agree w/ me on some & not the others? completely disagree? completely agree for different reasons? tell me (politely pls) & give me some of ur reasons! i think part of the intrigue of sorting our fav characters into hogwarts houses is that it tells us what we value in them & what traits of theirs stand out to us the most - and that subsequently makes it…. fairly subjective (also doesn’t help that the standards for each house are kind of……vague lol)

I expect all of ur essays on this v important question on my desk by 8 am monday morning

now onto answering the actual ask:

The Mighty Nein

Caleb - Ravenclaw; aside from the fact that he obviously values books & advancement of his own magical knowledge, he also seems to think through important decisions in a logical manner (ex. he spent a lot of time thinking about whether he & nott should stay w/ the rest of the mighty nein)

Fjord - Ravenclaw; again, besides the obvious, his interest in studying at the Soltryce Academy, he’s also really observant & intent on learning from those around him, given all the questions he’s asked Caleb & the way he keeps an eye on Jester’s divine magic

Molly - Hufflepuff; altho initially i had some mixed feelings about this, after giving it some thought, im actually most convinced of this one: as many have pointed out, he’s shaping up to be the Mom Friend & taliesin also says he has a moral code that he sticks to - i think being steadfast in the way youre gonna put good into the world (& in how u treat the evils & injustices) is very Hufflepuff  

Yasha - Slytherin; though I say this tentatively bc we haven’t seen a lot of her yet - she doesn’t seem like a traditional slytherin in a highly ambitions sense, but she does seem like to stick to her guns & prioritise herself when necessary (“I run into the woods”)   

Beau - Gryffindor; she strikes me as fight first, ask questions later kinda gal & going in guns blazing seems very Gryffindor to me - in addition, she also saved nott from that manticore, which struck me as reckless bravery consistent w/ gryffindors

Nott - Gryffindor; i spent some time thinking about this one after @matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll gave some of their reasons for slotting nott as a hufflepuff - ultimately, I think nott’s a gryffindor despite the fact that she doesn’t consider herself brave is bc her actions speak louder than her words (“I cover Caleb’s body with my own” & “I kill the baby manticore”); the willingness to put urself at risk for the people u care about over and over even at ur own expense strikes me as a gryffindor trait (for better or worse, I might add - see my thoughts on Vax’ildammit)

Jester - look I……………………………..honestly don’t fuckin know. Hufflepuff? Slytherin? Idk ask me again in fifty episodes

Vox Machina

Percy - Ravenclaw; initially i had percy as a Slytherin but i think once he got over the whole demon revenge thing he actually turned out to be pretty Ravenclaw - I mean, he does invent things, and he’s not interested at all in being in charge of Whitestone (also what kind of fuckin nerd learns Celestial for the fun of it lmao)

Vex - Slytherin; Lady Vex’ahlia, Baroness of the Third House of Whitestone and Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt - she cares about the title & the money & with very good reason, i think - her ability to obtain what she wants & persevere through the tough times puts her in Slytherin (also - with trinket’s origin story - i think it takes some real fucking grit & confidence to dig urself out of that kind of situation on ur own)

Vax - Gryffindor; this one is a lot to unpack. @swiftbell & i have been arguing about this one on & off for awhile; she thinks Vax is a Hufflepuff (& she has good reason to). there’s a lot of debate about whether hogwarts house are based on who u are vs who u want to be/strive to be & while i think arguments based on the latter r fine, i tend to base mine on the former in this list bc its easier to see actions than try to parse out thought

so that being said, i think Vax is a gryffindor bc while he cares deeply about his found family, he doesn’t exactly place a high price on his own safety; he goes in first, he goes in stupidly, he almost gets himself killed a lot - that kind of drive toward self sacrifice, to me, falls under the reckless bravery of a gryffindor

(as I said to steph: a hufflepuff would die for their loved ones if they absolutely had to, but a gryffindor tends to look at it as one of their first choices - also vax reminds me a lot of sirius black but im gonna stop right here to avoid turning this post into a vax character analysis)

Grog - Gryffindor; grog doesn’t do much thinking, he just does (& im not saying all gryffindors don’t think - obviously many do (@ hermione granger)- but i do they’re the types of people most prone to falling into the trap of not thinking things thru) it’s almost like the opposite of vax’s problem except we’re not talking about vax anymore bc this isnt a vax character study

Keyleth - Gryffindor; i feel like im beating a dead horse here but kiki also doesn’t always think things through & is very prone to action; the difference between her brand of gryffindor as opposed to vax’s & grog’s is that her outcomes are a little more mixed bag

Pike - Hufflepuff; i think pike is a hufflepuff for a lot of the same reasons i think molly is… which is a little surprising so just bear with me a second; she’s very devoted to Sarenrae, which sets up her (mostly) clear perspective of the world and how she should exist & treat people in it; she’s less of a mom friend (altho she still has some of those qualities), and she’s as loyal to her own causes as she is to Vox Machina; she also tends to be very kind & fun-loving w/out being a pushover

Scanlan - im a huge fan of scanlan, which probably means i should have some momentous opinion here…………….but I don’t, I really don’t know - i think once i get to some key points in scanlan’s character development (which i think are coming up in the next like 15 episodes or something), i’ll have a clearer thought

Tiberius - im not sure i remember tiberius well enough to make a full judgment, but I would say Ravenclaw probably if i had to bc of his constant interest in intelligence & learning to be a better sorcerer

Tary - ive heard of him but i dont know him yet so tbd  

[klanced]

Me: so Mariele, have you watched season 3 yet?

Mariele: I haven’t even watched season 2

Me: what do you- how have you not watched season 2 yet???? Mariele, you’re friends with me. I am the goddamn voltron fandom.

[tjspider]

some of my favorite ah vids are let's play minecraft spring harvest and let's play stick fight

Cat burglar Ryan! One of my favorites too!

Send me your favorite RT videos for my playlist

[distinctivelibrarians]

‘Tongue tied’ for the fic ask!

gonna be honest my first instinct was 9-1-1 ‘cause that’s my current obsession

But! “Tongue Tied”. Leverage. Hardison/Parker. Canon divergent kinda - follows when they got together but definitely adds a bit more - the first time Parker didn’t know what to say in the face of Hardison’s smile. The first time Hardison had no more words in the face of Parker’s joy. And literally just trading back and forth between these ridiculous cuties completely losing their minds over the fact that the literal ball of sunshine next to them is next to them.

Eliot’s in the background banging his head against the wall ‘cause there’s only so much adorable he can take. Nate’s oblivious. And Sophie’s romantic heart is dying in the best way possible.

[distinctivelibrarians]

L, N, and V for the fanfic ask meme!

L: What’s the weirdest AU you’ve ever come up with?

I remember vaguely throwing around the idea of the Leverage crew in the Firefly universe. I don’t know so much if that’s ‘weird’ so much as ‘weird for me’, since I know jack all about the actual Firefly universe, since I’ve only ever seen Serenity. (...there was also the very vague Buffy!AU for the Leverage crew, which, same problem, since I never watched Buffy)

N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?

The Walking Tall-level of action/Big Eden-level of comfort AU for Leverage that has been banging around in my head and occasionally jumping fandoms for the last year - and has slowly been morphing into 10% Walking Tall, 90% Big Eden. If someone else could write that, that’d be frikken great.

V: A secondary (or underrated) character you want to see more of in fic?

Shelley! I really like him, and what little snippets of his character we get are such a fun and interesting mix with Eliot’s. I think there’s a lot there to play with, and I just never see him.

[vethyourhalflingmother]

idkimoutofideas replied to your post “whenever you have free time: can you explain your opinions on what...”

I agree with most of what you said about old campaign. I also think that Pike is a hufflepuff because she's loyal to her ideals, and to her friends. She has a moral code, more or less, and is funny and jovial while being serious and smart. Scanlan I think is a slytherin for much of the same reasons I think Jester is one. He's smart, and realizes that people tend to underestimate him and uses that to his advantage.

I like your thoughts on Jester & Scanlan as Slytherins, but I do want to raise a point for Jester - Laura pointed out on Talks last night about how Jester is on the up & up regarding some things, but at times she is genuinely naive (ex. she thinks her mom’s gonna send her more money) & I think as the line between what she’s aware of and what she isn’t becomes more clear, we’ll have a better idea of whether she’s really Slytherin... or, I could honestly see her in Hufflepuff, too. 

I really dig Slytherin Scanlan tho. U got me there