#nerdgladiatorwhispers

[stamp-it-to-me]

Greetings from Taiwan! There's a stamp exhibition this week and I wanna share this purple crow butterfly stamp? postage label? with you :)

[id: a photo of a postage label or stamp with an illustration of butterflies and flowers. it has several ink stamps on and around it. end id]

thank you so much for sharing!!! that's super cool :3

[yallemagne]

Why would Dracula and the weird sisters even want to be close to the beach aren't they weak to running waters

That is a good point. They can't cross moving water, sun's out and fuckin', and you know another reason Dracula and the Weird Sisters aren't at the beach? Because this is my house, and I say so. In the stylings of a true beach episode, no conflicts are allowed to take place other than very small and inconsequential ones.

Is Jonathan ever going to stop clinging to Quincey like a frightened cat and finally... stretch out his legs and realize they're only in waist-deep water? Will Quincey get fed up and toss him into deeper waters like a football?

How will the Godalmings cope with their awful sunburns? Will Jack answer their cries with the fabled "I told you so" or offer real aid?

How will Mina finish her book with Van Helsing blustering about how some hot guy didn't wave back at him?

... What is Renfield doing over there in the water...? Oh, he's caught a fish. Could have sworn I heard a struggle of some kind. Must've just been Jonathan's swimming lessons.

[naruto-tarot]

You're probably trying to not repeat characters, but I just suddenly think of beginning Naruto as the Fool and Shippuden/Hokage Naruto as the world for some reason. Also I just read that 3 symbolises creativity and want to see Deidara there(maybe 3 of wands?)

You read my mind actually!! You're right, I am trying not to repeat characters, but I cannot get the idea of little og Naruto as the fool and then hokage Naruto as the world out of my head. It would just be so satisfying, especially considering the fools journey through the major arcana! I havent had any ideas for the world that I love half as much as two narutos tbh.

Like the imagery in my head for the fool is naruto how he is introduced to us: running around on rooftops after defacing the hokage faces. I feel like that would be an easy way to fit in a lot of the "traditional" imagery for the fool and also capture a lot of aspects of the card in a way that is intuitive to read. Recklessness, the older meaning of an outcast, but also the limitless potential for growth that we KNOW a protagonist has. Naruto is truly the perfect fool card.

And then to have the world be the hokage ceremony with the entire village in the background? Showing the fool achieving that potential and the outcast finding a sense of belonging? I'm gonna make myself cry lmao.

I actually haven't seen creativity mentioned much in 3 of wands, though you'd think wands is where you'd see any connection between 3 and creativity. I think 3 of wands is more about committing to your goal, waiting to see how the plans you set in motion pan out, and finding out if any risks you took were worth it. It's quite a grounded card for the wands! Deidara will definitely be in the deck though, I like him too much to leave him out.

[gaaleegaaholidayexchange]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Today’s gift by @nerdgladiatorwhispers for @transhyuugacousins!! Title: The bartering Author: nerdgladiatorwhispers Rating: GA Summary: [GaaLee / LeeGaa Holiday Gift Exchange]Lee meets a peculiar redhead while delivering sandwiches. Can they be friends?(or even more?) Inspired by that one post on Tumblr about people bartering goods from their workplace. Mainly Gaalee with mentions of shikatema.

[goldenkamuyhunting]

I thought Asirpa feels odd in recent chapters but can't pinpoint why, and then I saw you wrote that she doesn't say Hinna anymore and suddenly it makes so much sense. So thank you:)

I’m glad I was of some use! (this is what we're talking about)

Thank you for letting me know!

Yes, Asirpa feels definitely odd. I think the idea is she has too many things in her head like what do do with the gold and with Ogata and her sense of guilt for almost killing him.

Her own is a situation wather complicate for a child...

[justgaara]

@nerdgladiatorwhispers said:

Just asking:where does the Golden egg theme came from? All I can think of is Harry Potter (I'm reading a HP and Naruto crossover fic with Gaara so...)

When Gaara fights the Second Mizukage in the war, the Mizukage calls him the Golden Egg of all the current Kage.

[yallemagne]

Thanks to the last ask I'm now imagining a US adaptation of Dracula where everyone is American except for Quincey who charms Lucy with an Aussie accent. (I'm not sure if VH stays Dutch or also go American)

The last ask.

There was actually a podcast set in 2014 where Dracula is moving to San Francisco instead: The Dracula Files by StoryForge Productions. Don't know if it was ever finished? It's supposed to be three seasons, but I can only find the first season. Quincey is still Texan in it but doesn't really have an accent? And Van Helsing doesn't appear in the first season.

I was in dread at the start of the sentence that you were going to say Quincey was British, and I would have been like "Absolutely not" iojegrpja. I swear I'm not Anglophobic, it's just that it would just be that one guy from Love Actually, and I would hate that. Aussie is definitely a good way to go. Though... probably not during the same time period, because Australia didn't really have its cool Outback reputation then...

Hmm. What is the American equivalent of the Dutch-English dynamic... Maybe Van Helsing is still Dutch, but he's Belgian lol. But like logistically, it would have to be a nearby country, but America is...

HOLY SHIT DRACULA WOULD NOT WORK IN AMERICA. BITCH WE HAVE NO INFRASTRUCTURE OIJRPGE. Okay, but New York City and other big cities would have trains/subways, I suppose.

Okay okay okay, maybe instead of fucking off back to his home whenever he needs to do research Van Helsing can just go to a public library iojpegr. Maybe even a local one so people don't have to die simply because he had to pop over and ask his friend Arminius a few questions in the middle of the night.

I'm thinking too much about this. I would recommend The Dracula Files if you aren't bothered by it being unfinished. Jonathan's whole section is amazing. But there is a lot of whispering that suddenly escalates to screaming, so it's not a pleasant auditory experience. Especially in the medical logs-- Renfield gets very loud while John is whispering.

[gaaleegaaholidayexchange]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Today’s gift is from @drchickenslinger​ for @nerdgladiatorwhispers​!

Title: Casting Off the Past

Author: DrChickenSlinger

Rating: GA

Summary: Gaara and Lee get to spend time together after their fight with Kimimaro.