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[odditycollector]

wincenworks replied to your post “crossover prompts”

Thor watches Steven Universe

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Darcy's boss was dating a real life Alien Warrior Prince. Steven had been thrilled since she'd mentioned it a few months ago, just off-handedly, as part of the story of how she'd saved the Earth from an extra-dimensional convergence.

And now Steven got to finally meet him.

"Wow," Steven whispered, looking up, and uuuup.... Darcy told Steven about the huge muscles, but she hadn't mentioned that he was so tall, maybe almost as tall as Garnet.

He smiled down at Steven with an earnest, friendly expression. The light in Dr. Foster's kitchen outlined the fringes of his hair in gold, like the summer sun dancing along the edges of a cloud.

"Hello," he said, in a deep, calm voice. "I am Thor, of Asgard."

"I'm Steven," said Steven, so transfixed that it took him a second to remember the rest of his name. "...Of Universe." Um. Wait.

Thor laughed: a jolly, thunderous rumble that rattled one of the windowpanes. But Steven felt it was an approving laughter, not mockery. He reached out with one huge hand and grasped Steven's shoulder. "We are well met, Steven of Universe. I cannot fault your allegiance."

Thor’s skin looked human -- lined and folded along his joints, not smooth and elastic -- but something about the way it reflected energy reminded him of a Gem's physical projection. Like he existed slightly *beyond* the apparent solidness of his body.

Real. Life. Alien. Warrior. Prince.

Soooo awesome.

Thor turned to Darcy. "And how fares the Lady Amethyst?"

"She's great," Darcy said, grinning. "She took me surfing last weekend. And when I say that I mean, like, she was the surfboard."

Dr. Foster glanced nervously between Darcy and Thor. Getting Darcy started on an Amethyst story if you had any plans in the next hour was not exactly a good idea.

"Thank you for doing this, Thor," she broke in quickly. "I know it's short notice."

"Yeah!" Darcy added. "I promised I'd watch this guy for tonight, but now Jane needs me for urgent science reasons and you know how annoying it would be if I brought him along, ‘cause then we’d have someone wandering aimlessly around her lab while she's trying to science, breaking her equipment and messing with--"

Dr. Foster coughed noisily into her fist. "Yes," she said firmly. "Which is why I'm so grateful that you're willing to stay behind tonight and babysit."

"Of course," Thor said. Steven thought he sounded a little sad, but he rallied, grinning winsomely at Steven. "This will be fun!"

"Yeah!" Steven agreed.

"Careful," Darcy said. "Don't agree before Jane makes an offer on how she's going to make it up to you." Dr. Foster spluttered, and Darcy nudged Steven and nodded towards the door. "Meanwhile, I'll just say goodbye to my little man here."

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Outside on the stoop, Darcy passed Steven three 20 dollar bills.

"I'll give you another twenty if Jane's house is in one piece when we come back," she said. "Fifty for the rest of the neighbourhood."

Steven accepted the money with the solemnity of a contract sworn.

"He seems like a great guy," Steven said. “And like he can take care of himself. Are you expecting something to go wrong?"

Darcy simultaneously shrugged, nodded, and shook her head to the sky. Steven was impressed. "He's a fantastic guy," she said. "But sometimes things. Just. Seem. To. Happen! You, out of anyone, should know how *that* is."

"I do," Steven said. He added, wondrously, "And he's a real life alien warrior prince and everything. It must be like living inside a story."

Darcy stared at him. For once, she couldn't find anything to say.

"Listen," she eventually told him. "It’s not like Thor’s dumb or anything. He's just kind of sad right now. His mom and brother died pretty recently."

"Oh no!"

"Yeah. So he's kinda clingy, which is *fine*. It's fine! But he's the god of lightning, and whenever he's in the same *building* as Jane's equipment it messes up her data. She hasn't gotten any good science for months." Darcy scrubbed her hand through her hair. "Man, and I thought it was bad when she was just thirsty for--"

Steven's wide, attentive eyes blinked up her. Darcy changed the subject. "So thanks for agreeing to run distraction."

"Well," Steven said thoughtfully. "Cheering up sad aliens is kind of my specialty."

Darcy snorted. She reached down to ruffle his hair, which Steven magnanimously allowed.

"Anyway. If he gets hungry, there's a wild boar and five gallons of ice cream in the freezer."

[nihilnovisubsole]

How are you going to start naming your crushes when you run out of basic food items? Will they start to be named after recipes instead?

i was going to give this a serious answer, but then i just died laughing at the idea that i might have so many grody older crushes to nickname that i’d actually run out

[how-do-i-armour-and-stuff]

Questions and critiques

My main reason for starting this channel is that since I joined @bikiniarmorbattledamage there have been a lot of people asking questions regarding specifics of armour and wanting to get feedback on their designs.

So this blog is going to exist as wincenworks’ side project to help out people who want to draw or otherwise depict better armour but just don’t know where to start.

So, if you have a general question about armour or want someone to have a look at one of your designs, please feel free to ask or submit.  It doesn’t have to be focused on gendered armour issues, though I’m happy to address them here as well.

I’m happy to try to help out with general questions about:

How armour (ancient through to  modern) works

What you can or can’t do in armour

How armour is stylized or altered for suspension of disbelief in fantasy, science fiction and other media (and why)

Particular designs (your own or commercial)

I won’t:

Provide in depth, certified/academic or other expert advice on any particular topic of armour

Be critiquing any personal, non-commercial, artwork by third parties 

Guarantee I can respond to any particular question, request for critique or address any particular issue.  This blog is a side project and whenever possible I will address popular types of queries in aggregate.

If you do submit any design for critique or review, please do provide a background for the design so I can have any idea of what your overall goals are.  Ideally information about what kind of things the character is going to do and what kind of hazards they’re trying to protect themselves from.

I will also try to keep this blog regularly posting information and resources for people interested in arms and armour.

- wincenworks

[darthfar]

I couldn’t stand the vile mess in my Fallout 4 settlements, and made the mistake of downloading the Spring Cleaning mod so that I could get rid of all things unsightly. And found I couldn’t stop. Now instead of playing Postapocalyptic Sims, I’m playing Rubbish Cleaner Simulator.

[geekandmisandry]

I think they have you confused with Randi Harper / freebsdgirl and a "i'm a net detective" post someone made claiming that she faked a SWAT-ing because they don't know how to read Police paperwork.

So they falsely accused me of someone that they falsely accused of making false accusations??

This is probably the best thing ever. 

[bhryn]

Saints Row 3

So (hopefully my saves transferred over from my old pc buuuuut) Kim ( wincenworks ) who has been a best friend and corrupted elder brother figure for years (like really, what, 12 years?) and myself, Nicola, will be doing some Twitch streaming soon under the title ‘CC Let’s Play SR3 - Who Loves Cars? Kim Does.’ You ever wanted to see a demented Brit (me) vs a snarky Aussie (Kim) and how recklessly dumb we are in game? Then when we twitch, please come and watch us fail at life. My twitch name is Bhryn.

[geekandmisandry]

Don't you love how fake geek boys have to grab screenshots to claim arbitrary factors like "has shadows" as evidence of what is a good game? It really highlights how they haven't played anything prior to 1996 and are dependent on numbers and arbitrary statements to guide them to what is a "good" game.

Hah, I remember playing text based adventures that had more depth and immersion than some games with the most cutting edge graphics. A game doesn't even need to be graphically competitive to recent games in order to be good. 

The user attempting to argue with me argued that she "wasted 400k" on a game and then proceeded to compare it graphically to games with multi million dollar budgets from large studios. I don't know how well Revolution 60 sold, I don't know if they made enough to cover their project budget. But I know a small studio that has never shipped a game before might not even be expecting to.

The concept of an objectively "good" game makes no sense to me. There are people that enjoy COD and Counterstrike and I . . . don't relate to that at all. But then again I have spent a ridiculous amount of hours playing Recettear where you literally run an item shop and to many people that might seem silly. 

Games, like any other medium, are subjective. I can think games or movies are good or bad, that is my prerogative. But I can't insist that the things I like are inherently better or that my methods of deciding are better. This is exactly how we lead ourselves to this gatekeeping, this idea of "real" video games and then "real" gamers who play the "real" games.

These GGers decry any perceived attempt at censorship and yet any person who wants to make a video game with anything that could be perceived in any way as "social justice" (ie, featuring almost any kind of minority on purpose) is attacked and anybody who promotes them or makes them is a target for threats and harassment. 

[askbossrosie]