#ahiddenkitty

♒ - cooking

ൠ - random

Cooking: Kaz is a human garbage disposal. Look, the boy was orphaned at 9 and grew up on the streets. He is no stranger to eating the shit no one else wants. I fully believe that if he needed to, he would eat his own shoes and then complain that his feet are cold. Fanon has him as a delicate palate contrasted with Inej’s high spice tolerance, and I’ve played with that before, but I honestly don’t know that he would ever turn his nose up at food of any kind. He’s been hungry, he won’t go back. He eats as quickly as he can and will literally stab you for trying to take a fry off his plate without asking. Inej has to explain things to him like “food tastes good” and “this is a thing you do for pleasure as well as calories, slow the fuck down and chew before you choke.”

Inej loves to share food. She loves knowing that someone else is having the same sensations she is having. When she was with the caravan it was common for people to literally put their food on your plate whether you wanted it or not. The first time she put something of hers onto Kaz’s plate (there was no plate, she just slipped one of her potatoes into his identical serving of fried potatoes) is when she realized that she was healed enough to maybe start to trust him with more than survival.

Random: Kaz would never ever admit it, but I think he is looking for reasons to help people. My first feeling about how he and Jesper came together was that this handsome, farm-strong boy walked into the casino and started losing just so much money and Kaz thought I hope that idiot has a skill so I can save him from himself the way no one did for Jordie.

Inej is actually much more cautious about who she is willing to bring into her circle. I have read some lovely stories where she rescues people and lets them join her crew, but I don’t honestly think she would do that very often, because it’s too close to her own story and it takes a long time for her to accept that not every part of what happened to her in Ketterdam and what she had to do to survive was bad. She would much rather send people home and to their families (if they can be sent home to their families) than to accept another person has been too twisted by their world to go back.

Depends on what side of the D&D experience you’re after. If you want an old school grid-maps-and-minifigs dungeon crawl, you could have a look at Hero Kids; it’s intended to make that sort of gameplay accessible to kids as young as four, and while I’m not sure it entirely succeeds in that, it does provide a very approachable take on the material. Plus, there’s a big bundle deal going on right now, and cross-compatible expansion sets for sci-fi and superhero play, so if somebody wants to be Han Solo or Spider-Man, for a few extra bucks it can do that, too.

so during the stream @rutobuka2 lost connection so @ahiddenkitty, @mcmanatea, @mithrilbikini, and @thehobbitpanda (i think) decided to go rescue her

i know it was talk about magma-resistant horses, but i felt like giant eagles fit the fandom (and were more practical) better.

Headcanon A:  realistic

Jim is achingly aware that he’s way too young to be a captain, and the only reason he’s kept his command is that most of what was Starfleet is represented by the burned-out husk of a starship where Vulcan used to be.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Enterprise scavenger hunts, paintball assassin, and games of tag are extremely common during the 5-year mission. McCoy is fucking ruthless at paintball, and Kirk has the scars to prove it. 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

After the car-stealing scene in STIX, Jim got sent to live with his Aunt and Uncle on Tarsus IV, cause Winona and Frank thought it would help him to have a change of scenery. When he came back 11 months later with hollow cheeks and bulging joints, gaunt from starvation and half-feral from fighting for his life, he didn’t speak for a solid 6 weeks. His first words were “Fuck you, mom.”

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Magnus has to take a minute to understand that question when it comes. Not because of Taako appearing from the ether. As far as he can tell, that’s Taako’s favorite way of appearing. The hesitation comes because he isn’t totally sure how or when Taako figured out who Julia was.

“Excuse me?” Magnus asks, swallowing around the lump in his throat that shows up whenever he’s ambushed by his wife’s name

Taako smirks. The little shit. “You’re not as mysterious as you pretend to be,” he says, cementing his little shit status in Magnus’ mind.

“Kravitz told you?” Magnus asks, the pieces slotting into place.

The smirk doesn’t waver. “He’s not a good secret keeper,” Taako shrugs. “So. Julia. Did she like ducks?”

Magnus sits back against the couch and sighs. “She liked animals. Why do you want to know?”

Taako shrugs, which for him is a flamboyant full-body movement. “You make them a lot,” he says, glancing around the room. Which, upon further inspection, does appear to have a fair number of carved ducks in it.

“She liked ducks,” Magnus says softly. “But they weren’t her favorite.”

Taako doesn’t say anything, which is a little surprising, but Magnus decides that maybe he’s listening for once, and soldiers on. “She liked really ugly things,” Magnus says, not quite focusing on anything in front of him. “Which I guess explains what she was doing with me? But you know–she had a huge soft spot for– the dog we had, say, was this mangy thing that no one else wanted. But Julia wanted it.”

Magnus sighs, turning the small chunk of wood in his hands absentmindedly. “Why are you asking this?”

The hand on Magnus’s shoulder is warm and gentle, and for a second he’s actually afraid that Taako is going to hug him, and he’s going burst into tears. Be he doesn’t. Instead he smiles gently. “Because I have a bet with Merle, and if you’re not sexually attracted to ducks then I fucking win.”

“You fucking win,” Magnus laughs, the tension broken, and in the moment that his eyes are closed in mirth, Taako disappears back into the ether from whence he came.

@ahiddenkitty has been a friend of mine for nigh on 8 years now, all the way back to STXI fandom. She’s also a kickass person in general, who has now made, among other things, quilts for all of my nephlings, and a very sweet tribute to my cat who passed away.

So in return, I made a gift for her! This is Thora Ironbeam, Kitty’s character from her Pathfinder game. She comes complete with an eyebrow piercing, body hair as appropriate for a lady dwarf, and her own copy of the The Hobbit.

how many followers do we have...