#teddybearsandspaceships

If Grian had understood right away that what he summoned was Cub, there's good odd that he would have called Scar straight away. Catching the whole thing that early means Scar would have a much better chance of convincing Grian to undo the bond, even if Cub was semi-resistant.

All in all, odds are high that it would have worked out much more simply for everyone. Better? Maybe.

It would leave Grian hooked on curiosity about Scar and Cub's whole deal with being Vex. He misses that connection more than he thought he would when it's undone. And we know how Grian gets when there's a curiosity gnawing on him.

Scar and Cub are now Extremely aware that there's someone on the server who could, at any time, simply choose to end their freedom. And there's nothing they can do about it. It would be hard for them to relax. Harder for Cub, who's both less close to Grian and less able to convince himself to trust than Scar.

🤣🤣🤣 Best possibly time to tune in, my friend!!!

And thank you for supporting my naked endeavors. I feel like link should be allowed to run around near lava and not have to wear protective gear. Its what I-I mean, HE deserves.

⏰️ - The timeline... anything about the Dream SMP'S timeline.

Trying to keep up with what's going on with this benighted server's timeline is the only thing more complex than trying to keep up with the family dynamic/relationship web, and when we go to HO16 being "half-canon" I fully gave up.

How long was exile? How old were clingyduo during the revolution? How should we approach the prison arc? What happened to the Egg arc?

What are you saying, man? Come on, Phil is terraforming in hardcore.

Going to Orkney felt a little bit like entering a Studio Ghibli movie, and I don’t have that feeling much in my life, though I had it once in the south west of the state, while driving from Pemberton to Margaret River.

But yeah Orkney was something else. It’s hard to describe to people as there’s very little there, but I think that’s actually part of it’s charm. But for me, all the islands and the sea being everywhere you looked, and the flat rolling meadows actually reminded me of that Sixth Stop sequence in Spirited Away.

From the dnd au:

“Don’t worry, we’ll make the trip fun,” Sasha assured him. “Is this your first time leaving home?”

"You know what? I think this might be the most ridiculous thing that has ever happened to us. And considering that our lives include things like stealing magic guns from gangsters, being attacked by ninjas, and undead patricide, that is saying a lot."

"Come on, Ward, that attitude isn't helping." Danny's voice came from over by the room's kitchenette, this time, which wasn't where Ward had thought he was, but at least it was better than Danny turning up randomly three inches from his ear and making him almost jump out of his skin.

"Oh really? You know what would help would be if you'd stop pacing so I can stop finding out thirty seconds too late that I've been talking to empty air like an idiot."

"Pacing helps me think." This from over by the window.

"Oh?" Ward said, turning toward the window, though with his luck Danny was probably in the bathroom now, or halfway out the door. "Coming up with all kinds of brilliant ideas, then, are you?"

"I think it might be a matter of pressure points," Danny said, sounding frustrated. "It's really hard to find the right places, though, when I can't see my hands or any other part of me. Have you found anything on the Internet?"

"Call me crazy here," Ward said in a voice dripping with sarcasm, "but I don't think Google is going to be much help with our current issue. 'I accidentally turned myself invisible with chi while trying to get my fist to light up and I can't turn visible again' is not getting me a ton of hits."

His irritation blew right past Danny, as usual. Instead Danny said thoughtfully, "We might have to call Colleen."

Ward's initial reaction was oh fuck no. He would rather endure an entire month of Danny trying to teach him meditation than explain to Colleen that Danny had accidentally turned himself invisible. On the other hand, talking to Colleen was probably preferable to finding out how Danny needing to eat was going to interact with invisibility. Or Danny taking a shower. Or ever talking to anyone but Ward ever again ...

I: Do you have a guilty pleasure in fic (reading or writing)?

Hmmmmm. I feel like my “guilty pleasure” in writing is the humor beats and non-plot-moving banter. Like, a lot of times, when I throw those in, I feel like its because they make me happy, not because they fit the story. 

However, I’m learning that a lot of times, those are the beats that stick with readers, and even though they’re not moving the plot, they’re defining the character. So I lean into it. :D 

As for reading...man, all I can think of for guilty pleasure is smut likes, and I love you all, but I’m not talking about my smut likes. 

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?

OOooooooh *rubs hands together like a devious goblin* 

Okay, to be fair, I was just the ENABLER. @aeshna-uk had the idea, but I helped make it worse, so please enjoy the basics of what we literally call dark!verse. 

Basically, the idea is, Galen is one hundred percent on board with plan Death Star. 

Bodhi is now much more of a literal spy, stealing the info and running - this time not to Saw, but to Jedha. Saw still catches him, the Cassian and Jyn and Baze and Chirrut section all work about the same, but this time, when they all squeak off of Jedha by the skin of their teeth, they are up against a monster with no flaw. Jyn has to deal with that complication of her father’s legacy, bear that burden of guilt, and everyone lives in a universe where, time after time, planets are just...gone. 

Spies are captured, dumped on their home planet, which is then publicly destroyed. Any planet with ties to the Rebellion, boom. 

Trillions becomes too small of a number to capture the horror. It’s the sort of tragedy that demands a new numerical scale. 

The Rebellion forced to be entirely mobile, resources become scarce as few planets give them aide. Luke escapes Tatooine just to be forced back to it because...well, chances are the Empire wouldn’t risk endangering the Hutts and wildspace. 

The Rebellion was wrong. 

(that’s right in this one I KILLED LUKE) 

The Rebellion gets interesting bedfellows in Scum and Villiany (the Hutts can’t let Tatooine’s destruction go unpunished, and as the Hutts go, so go most of the galaxy’s grey legion). Leia, now the last great hope, is somewhat forced into Jedi Training by Yoda - she chafes, but what option does she have? Yoda watches in despair as she grows sharper and more deadly, more prone to anger and hatred. 

....things don’t STAY this bad - Leia finds Maz who proves to be an excellent Force Mentor AND pirate negotiator, and they start to realize that...maybe...they could hijack the Death Star. If they could point it at the Imperial Center...

Even a partial firing would be the end of Couroscant, but it would also be the end of the Emperor, and at this point, the only victory left to them may be a phyrric one...

Yeah, that’s the angstiest idea I’ve ever enabled.

Hey quick question can you imagine how absolutely horrifying it would be if permakilling one side of the bond didn't actually break the vex-summoner bond? To have that thread still tied around you, but now there's just nothing on the other end?

A Vex who has that empty bond wrapped around them meaning they can't take another, but they also don't have anyone to get power or orders from. A Summoner with dozens, hundreds of trailing empty Vex bonds dragging behind them as they send their newest Vex to war.

Granted that's a bit of horror-style artistic license relative to how it works in the fics, because a Summoner can generally undo a summoner-vex bond with relative ease at will, if they can actually want to do so. (Reverse beasts Grian would have trouble with the wanting to part of that.)

To break it more implies an outside force doing the severing, though, and yeah that requires relatively strong magic and a good bit of finesse if you want either end to come out of it relatively unharmed. Cub and Scar would make it seem relatively simple/easy at this point, but that's mostly because of them in specific having a lot of practice with breaking those bonds for each other. So the simple visual action of Cub slicing his claws through the thread of the bond is kind of a visual shorthand/metaphorical representation of him doing a whole bunch of other intricate magical operations very rapidly at the same time.