#toasterness

[turnaboutstevie]

18 is a very good number, as I'm sure the song you will rec will be 👌

Oh, this has been a favourite of mine for about 3 years! It's Girls Who Play Guitar by Maximo Park!

[sorcererinthestars]

(I've also been having a lot of PAs; you're not alone in this and I'm sending you a ton of love) Soft FAHC? Literally anything Geoff/Jack because I am a simple girl with simple needs. How about post-successful heist, rooftop relaxing, enjoying each other's company? Sunsets and soulmates, my dude

Thanks friend - working on making things right for myself, but it’s harder than it sounds. PSA - don’t mix allergy medication with caffeine because it’ll make your whole body ascend into the fucking stratosphere.

But ... yes I love this mental image. Consider Jack and Geoff before the Fakes are created. It’s just the two of them, they’re running with one gang or another. They just finished a heist where they were both muscle, having parted ways a few thousand dollars richer. They share a single cigarette as they sit on the roof of their apartment building, the glow of the butt one of the only lights they have. Their shoulders rub against one another and they stare out across the city, one of their hands wrapped in each other’s.

They’re both bloody, exhausted, and sore. But they have each other, they have their way of life, an apartment and someone to hold them in the darkest part of the night. And when Jack’s head falls on Geoff’s shoulder and Geoff flicks the last of the cigarette off the roof, watching it fall towards the dark cement hundreds of feet below them, the world just feels ... right.

They may have nothing, but god knows it won’t stay that way. One day, they’ll be sitting on another rooftop... on top of it all.

[vagrantblvrd]

Hmmmmm for the not!fic prompts, how about some soft FAHC Jack/Geoff at the end of the world? Could be immortals au or just whatever, I'm just in the mood for soft 💛 (p.s. you're amazing)

Oooh, okay.

SO.

I love this so much and have a few ~scenarios for it.

First is to do with the Sky Factory AU where they’re all gods creating worlds (that Ryan tends to have a hand in destroying at some point because wow, okay, guy just cannot help himself) before moving on?

Maybe they go back to visit a world they created together way back when, when they were just as young and stupid as the others are. (Before meeting Ryan and the rest of their unruly and unpredictable pantheon, and one they definitely told said pantheon to never set foot near or there would be consequences, okay.)

This world whose people have been allowed to learn and grown on their own once Geoff and Jack left to create other worlds, nurture life along until they weren’t needed any longer.

Civilizations have risen and fallen along with various religions and the like and when they hear the world itself it dying they go back to see what happened after the left.

The people who lived there are either dying out (have died out) or reached a level of technology to leave their world for a new home among the stars and so on, leaving traces of themselves behind on their journey and very epic to be sure, right?

But Geoff and Jack, they’re more interested in the world itself, the histories left behind that they manage to learn (because gods and the whatnot) and there’s pride and sadness, regret that perhaps they didn’t give the people they left behind enough guidance Maybe they were mistaken in leaving at all, could have stayed and nudged the people in the right direction if they happened to stray towards dangerous and/or ill-advised actions, but!

There are these rules for beings like them, right? Things about free will and the whatnot and how others like them went too far in nurturing the lives that sprang up on the worlds they created, became terrible monsters and whose worlds met even worse fates and it’s all murky and unknowable and never any “right answers” when bias and the whatnot come into play.

SO.

They watch over the world as it breathes its last, this place where beautiful and terrible things happened. Where they themselves lived and learned for a time and helped form them into who they are now. (Along with the others worlds they’ve created, the idiots they’ve taken on as family and so on.)

And.

Wander the land for a while, point out things they bickered and bantered and full-out argued over – how deep that ocean should be, how high that mountain range. How dry the plains in the summer months and a million, billion other little things that add up to an entire world over time.

Pluck up a small stone – so very small, but worn smooth over the years – eons – and tuck it away because this was one of their first worlds and flawed as it may seem in comparison to those they’ve created since it holds a great amount of sentiment for them, you know?

And maybe, definitely, they stop under the branches of an old, old tree. One of the first Jack ever created, run their hands over the rough back and hear the stories its heard over the years. Lovers and friends taking shelter there when it rained, or resting in the shade on a warm summer day.

Watch the rain falling now, the last this world will see before it ends and lean on one another because this world has seen so much, hasn’t it? Endured so long and all that, and now it’s time has come and they’re there to witness it, and just.

Yes.

Like, idk, your prompt is super amazing and so bittersweet to me, because wow yes, but also, also, okay.

As to the immortal AU (no gods in sight, just like, because reasons kind of dealio) and the same basic kind of scenario?

The two of them being around for centuries, living through who even knows how many of those – claim they lost count along the way but you know they know how long they’ve been alive, of course they do.

Still.

Born who knows when and lived through centuries, millennium even, and the world is finally dying and technology is to the point humanity left (is leaving) for a new home elsewhere.

The others have gone on ahead, but Geoff and Jack wanted a little longer to say goodbye to the world they’ve known for so long? (Only one, really, but technicalities and the whatnot.)

They go on a road trip of sorts, best they can, given how time fuzzes up memories especially for those as long-lived as them.

The spot where they were born, grew up the first few years. Where they lived (and died, because going with the immortals who can be “killed” but it doesn’t stick kind of AU).

First place they died, and share stories as they go. (All the while the planet is dying around them, storm-dark skies and raging winds and such and just Very Drama.)

First loves and everything they’ve told one another over the years – where they met for the first time, where they found out the other was an immortal for the first time, and wow would that have been a doozy.

Violent death, perhaps, or maybe just an accident and the shock of running into them not too long afterwards, or maybe even years, decades later and the :O moment.

Geoff absolutely trying to pass himself off as the great-however many times-grandson of himself to Jack. (Whether he knew didn’t immediately recognize Jack at first, thought something was weird because that’s totally that guy he met however many years ago, but cover story first!!1!, or just ~panicked and cover-storied even though he knew Jack wasn’t buying it and oh, hey, is he like Geoff???)

Place where they had their first real Argument, one that caused a rift between them that lasted for fifty years or more before some series of events brought them back together.

Mutual Pining that lasted for (at least) another fifty years before someone told them to get their shit together as it was painful to watch and seriously you two, seriously.

And, like.

Everything since then.

World-changing events that separated them for years – a few or too many, it doesn’t matter because any amount of time was too long even for people like them – and times where they just.

Needed time apart because forever is a bit. Yeah, you know? Sometimes it’s nice to have time apart and when they met up again however long afterwards was lovely.

Where they met the others, one by one or in groups and the chaos that followed. (Times that were never, ever boring, and even is occasionally headache inducing, because yes.)

And, like.

I kind of love the idea of everyone as “normal” immortals?

But also, also?

This thing where people become immortal over time?

Like.

I don’t even know how/why, but this reincarnation bit where they live normal lives over and over again until they’ve somehow earned a chance at immortality?

A whole Thing as to how that would work, but omg, yes?

Good deeds/karma they’d have to do/earn and a reward of immortality/godhood??? ( – or the inverse where it’s a punishment, chance for them to atone for what they’ve done in past lives, idk.

Whichever it is, Geoff and Jack are the oldest and have been around for a while, and then they meet all these little assholes.

Have to watch them die, which – yikes, regarding the angstiness and all? But then however many years later run into them again, and they're just like, oh, and realize there’s a reason they met them at all, you know?

And the cycle repeats until the others gain their immortality and it’s like.

Reward or punishment, but they’re not the only ones like them out there anymore, you know? And while they’re not always together – reasons and the whatnot where one or more of the others take off for a while – they’re all connected and, just. Yes.

(Seriously, I love immortal AUs but wow do they give me FEELS.)

And like.

Okay, immortal Geoff and Jack being all Sentimental about the end of the world, but knowing their family is out there waiting for them to get their shit together before they go off to shenanigate somewhere else for a while.

If they did a stint as a crew of notorious criminals in this Los Santos place for a while, maybe they decide to try their hand at being space pirates for a while, or idk. Just a bunch of assholes in space because reasons and I’ve totally lost the thread here, but yes. XD

ALSO.

In all of these scenarios there’s the bit where they lean against one another, heads on shoulders and holding hands and st least one (1) smooch.

Also a lot of assholishness, because Geoff and Jack, but tempered by this centuries long love of theirs that’s managed to outlive at least one (1) world, and stands to keep on going for a good while longer.

[eufonius]

toasterness replied to your post “x”

I'm in the middle of writing a regency fic (for a different fandom) and oh my GOD do I know this feeling?? I think??? If you're talking about the overwhelming ACHE that is 19th century pining??????

oh my god you get me [britney spears tearing up saying yeah.gif] nothing beats The Yearning™ 

[sockablock]

I, like many others, finally started listening to TMA because of you (It's been on my list for a long time but you convinced me) and I am thoroughly enjoying it! It's spooky and written so well. I'm only on episode 4 but I'm having a wonderful time! Just wish I hadn't started at 11:30 at night while home alone....

!!!!!!!!! I’m so so glad you’ve given it a shot!! That’s....certainly a wild choice for when to listen to this series but honestly I respect you so much

[avatarofthevast]

What's this tma live show I keep seeing references to? I googled it but got nothing

Oof, I am not the best person to ask. I don't really know many of the details. I only know that it happened, and like, this weekend. There were fan meets and autographs and a brief show where the voice actors acted their characters. (All over in England, of course; tough luck for those of us in America)

I'm just reblogging whatever I see about it, haha. And art of the characters in the outfits of the voice actors is fantastic and hilarious, thanks to everyone doing that.

(Anyone else got more info?? Idk how much more info there is to have...)

[oathofwhimsy]

Could you please explain castling to me? My brother-in-law loves chess and I like playing with him but he's really good and I am not; I would like to surprise him with some sneaky chess knowledge!

Oooh, I really suck at explaining things but I’ll do my best!

Castling is the only move in chess you can make in which two pieces are moved in one round. It’s also the only time in chess--except for Knights moving--in which a piece can jump over other pieces. Castling can only be done if

The King has never moved

The Rook in Question has never moved

The squares between them are unoccupied

The King is not in Check currently

The King wouldn’t end his move in a square that will put him in Check

There is, what we call “Short Castling” and “Long Castling”, since not both Rooks are the same distance from the King. So what you do is, you put your Rook beside the King’s original position (either two squares or three squares sideways) and then let the King jump over the Rook two squares to the side the Rook came from. It’s a move usually used to put the King in a more protected, less open/central area. What it also does is put the Rook in a more active position. Often times you will move pawns so your Queen and your Bishops can get out of rank first and your Rooks get stuck in their corners, but with castling that can be easily rectified. Rooks are super useful, especially if you get both of them “free” of their corners and let them attack together.

I hope this helped! Have fun playing chess :D