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celestialtarot11 · 6 days

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May Month Predictions for You 🌅💖

Hi friends! Welcome back to another PAC reading. Today we’ll be doing May month predictions 🤭 this ones extra spicy! Enjoy and feel free to like comment and reblog 🤍

Pile 1: Hi there pile 1’s! 🌅💗 I see for you May is all about speaking your truth and owning your needs/wants. Speaking up about the things you like or don’t like, setting boundaries and becoming organized. If you are moving into a new place this month will be about physical organization, it helps you think clearly and feel better when your space is clutter free. Also this is a month for you of clearing out the old, especially physical things. It may carry emotional attachments and its time to release that. May for you is beautiful because I see you are becoming disciplined in your goals, plans and solidifying your dreams. You are also having the strength and capacity to let go of what doesn’t serve you 🥰🤍 If you are wondering about romance this month is the month where you focus on you, i know it may not be what you want to hear especially if you are seeking a person. This isn’t a sign they won’t come in, I think spirit is saying to get your ducks in a row for yourself first and this person will meet you halfway ☺️💗 which can very well be in this month! Never mess with divine timing 🤣 I think for those who are in relationships you will be coming back to yourself, focusing on self care a lot more and will be prioritizing healthier habits and mental stimulation. This may be a month for you to explore dating as well if you haven’t found someone! 👀 enjoy pile 1’s!

Pile 2: Hi there pile 2’s! Welcome to your reading 💖🤍🤭 I could you not I was so excited for you doing this reading!! If you are wanting a promotion or a job this is the month! If you are an entrepreneur and hoping to receive financial help it will come! You are moving into such an abundant place mentally emotionally and physically, and nothing is in your way. You want to focus on peace, wealth and happiness this month, and you are self assured in your joy 💖🌅 For those who are moving places, this place will help you relax and find lots of peace and abundance. Material abundance and also internal happiness. If this is something you’ve been working on for a long time, like a project, a business, or moving out, it will pay off in May. May is your month to shine and feel good. I see any storms are being put to rest, you’re focused on you and you feel open minded. Any financial opportunities will flow to you now 🤍🌅 in terms of romance I do see you’re maybe looking for options now, but not at your expense. Meaning you are performing self care whilst managing options and we love that! There will be someone coming in to whisk you away 👀 and I mean in a good way lol. They will have you intrigued by their conversation and way of thinking. You will enjoy debates and banter and discussions with this person. This can also be a new friend for a lot of you! Not necessarily romantic. Thank you pile 2 for being here 💗🌅 dont forget to like comment and reblog to spread the love

Pile 3: Hey there pile 3 👀 welcome! 🤗 For your May month I see travel plans are being solidified. I also heard “the gc made it out the group chat” so for you maybe there is a friend group you’ve been wanting to travel with, and May is when it happens! I also see you are focused on making different streams of income which is leading you to explore different positions, and experiences. Like maybe you have one job where you make pizza and then another where you are a contract manager 🤣 two vastly different options! But it would be something you enjoy. Something that calls to you and something you’re ready to pursue. Its definitely not tedious and boring as a contract manager, its something that you already wanted to do and thought of for so long. May month could be clearing up for you in terms of your schedule, and time. So you have more time to focus on you and your hobbies. For romance ya’ll could be meeting a fancy person whilst traveling 👀 or it could be everyday commute and someone strikes your fancy. Someone you’d like to be with, they have what you consider is attractive 🥰🤍 ya’ll could also be traveling home and are saving up and May month is wonderful! I also am hearing for advice dont stick to plans too much this month, there’s something about you being reliant on structure and plans which nothing is wrong (I do the same) but spirit wants you to be flexible a little. Allow for some spontaneous adventure, random happenings, and fun 👀 enjoy pile 3! 💗💖 dont forget to like comment and reblog 🤍

Thank yall for always being here 💗🥰 this one is a fun one! Wishing ya’ll a happy May month.

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five-and-dimes · 19 days

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I saw you don’t mind multiple asks on the same thing so here I am shamelessly begging for more of Dead Hearts❤️‍🔥🪦

You are correct! I'm using these asks to bully myself into actually working on these wips, so the more you send, the more I simply MUST work on them ;P

For example, this fic now has an opening scene thanks to you lol

If you had asked Hob thirty seconds earlier, he would have said that he didn’t believe in love at first sight. Even with Eleanor- who Hob still considered the love of his life, even four fears after her passing- it had taken time for them to even properly like each other, let alone declare their love. Their relationship had taken work, and it had been more than worth it, but it had certainly solidified Hob’s belief that ‘love at first sight’ was a myth best reserved for movies and romance novels. But that was thirty seconds ago. That was before he had glanced around the crowded pub and laid eyes on the most stunning man he’d ever seen. Even in the dim lighting his pale skin seemed to glow, accented by his fitted black clothes, and his hair was an artful mess that Hob wanted to run his fingers through. He was sitting in the far corner, probably the quietest spot in the building, with a laptop open in front of him, slim fingers typing away and only pausing to occasionally take a sip from the wine glass beside him. There was a look of intensity in his eyes, laser focused on whatever he was working on, and Hob thought he would do terrible things to get those eyes to look at him like that. All at once, he wanted to know everything about this beautiful man. “I’m in love.” Johanna nearly choked on her drink, “Excuse me?” She raised an eyebrow at him, “Where did that come from? You’re not even seeing anyone,” she reminded him. “I’m seeing someone now,” he sighed wistfully. Following his gaze, Johanna gave the man across the room a once over, rolling her eyes as she looked back at Hob, “Oh lord, I know I’m the one who said you need to get laid, but can you at least be normal about it?”

“Absolutely not.” He stands and walks straight for the other man without a second glance at his friend. “Hey!” Johanna calls after him, offended. But Hob isn’t paying attention to her anymore.

#the sandman #dreamling #my writing #Dead Hearts WIP

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acotar-taylorsversion · 2 months

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Not people saying that the main trilogy ended with ACOWAR and that it ended with Elain giving truth teller back and asking Lucien to stay in Velaris and how that was the end to all Elriel canon moments. Like wtf?

Did you guys not read frost and starlight? Because that book sets up the next books and Elain didn’t give a fuck about Lucien. And she only invited Lucien to Velaris because FEYRE PUSHED HER TO. She wouldn’t even make him tea. Wouldn’t even leave the kitchen until he left.

Not to mention all the cute Elriel moments we got in frost and starlight. Like that’s what solidified Elriel for me.

So I can see why most gwynriels and eluciens chose to act like that book doesn’t exist.

Even silver flames did nothing to convince people that Elain will ever choose Lucien. Az is literally consumed with all kinds of thoughts and feelings about Elain and how much he wants her and Elain WAS MORE THAN WILLING TO LET HIM.

*and I don’t want anyone to ask me DiD YOu ReAd THe BoNUs CHapTeR???? Because yeah I have and y’all need to learn what a red herring is and accept that fact that gwyn might be a light singer and just maybe Az and Nesta both react to her powers the same way. They both describe her smile almost the exact same way. Read the book and take notes people.

Oh I can tell I’m gonna go on another rant soon lol 😅

#acotar #elain archeron #elriel #pro elriel #anti el*cien #anti g*ynriel

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animalsalvationassociation · 20 days

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who was behind that assassin?

[ DO NOT REPOST, ALL ART & CONCEPTS WERE MADE BY ME ]

Illustration Time: 7hrs 29min

*shrug*

(I love that my boy Jim is just chillin’ in the background. Ya’ll haven’t even met him yet and he’s already making headlines I can just see it now, “Breaking News! Beautiful beautiful boy just revealed his beautiful face and now everyone’s gonna be talkin’ about him!”. This was literally the first time I’ve drawn him, it does not do him justice. Just a little baby sittin’ next to the chess board! I made sure it was zoomed out because idk chess! Haha lol, okay I’ll stop.)

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Ask #2:

I had to do two, it was too good of an opportunity! This won’t always happen—but can you blame me?? I needed some funnies after drawing such a serious scene!

Illustration Time: 2hrs 40min

( @kuri-kushmia I had to text this one to my lil bro because I couldn’t stop laughing. Every time I saw him I would not shut up about it, thank you for blessing me this day. He is so annoyed with me. )

I also want to add if you’ve ever seen Creature Cases, there’s an episode where Director Scratch dissapears and Sam and Kit have to work together to figure out where she went. I’m just saying the woman is a ninja, she’d be one step ahead of any kidnapper who TRIED.

Emma is also the kind of woman that will absolutely get you kidnapped, but its okay because she’s also the woman to get you out of it . . . Can you tell this has happened several times before? If her friends aren’t sick of her, then her team DEFINITELY is! (lol)

(I will apologize now, I’m still figuring out how to simplify Emma’s colors. Because, if you don’t know, Emma is a Maned Wolf and they have such pretty shades of red and brown in their coats! I just wanna add ‘em all! One day I’ll solidify her markings so it isn’t so off. I’m not good at colors okay??? Even my Kindergarten teacher knew I didn’t like them!!! My mom had to ask her if it was okay for me NOT to do the coloring part of the homework because I thought it was so dumb! This is WHY I’m a default sketch artist! Pencils don’t have color! I HATE color theory!!! GAHHHHHH!!!!)

Thank you to @kuri-kushmia and @chaosblixer for their asks! I had a lot of fun!!!

[ This is a Octonauts AU, in no way is this canon to the OG storyline. ]

#octonauts #octonauts fanart #octonauts oc #Octonauts the ASA #octonauts story #octonauts memes #octonaut memes #octonauts redesigns

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uaremyjae · 4 months

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My thoughts on my One Piece journey and How it’s affected me 🩷

This is going to be long ass post lol

I think this is the platform that I never knew that I will ever comeback to but you know because of one piece and deprived of Sanji, Nami & Law content, ✨ here I am 😁✨ *shamelessly comeback after abandoned tumblr for good 11 years lmao*.

Anyway, I just want to let out my thoughts on my one piece journey and how it affected me. So bear with me. This is only place I can talk about One Piece because other platforms I had is related to kpop * Yes I’m a kpop fan. HEAVY ON NCT. Neo Got My Back.*

I know about one piece way back when I’m teenager. It’s just I don’t start to watch it/ read it somehow?? Idk why 🤷‍♀️ I’m also confused to as why because I did grew up watch anime like FMAB, Naruto, Bleach, Black Butler, K-On, Fairy Tail on tv. HECK I EVEN WATCH THE LONG ASS DETECTIVE CONAN TOO 😭

I think it’s because back in the day ( 2010 - 2017 ), I had lack of access to internet and not exposed to the series at all. Besides the local TV station here, only aired Naruto ,Bleach and those anime I mentioned . *I’m just 24 years old btw*

So around September 2023, I came across to One Piece content on TikTok and funny enough it’s Brook edit! I was so intrigued with this character and little did I know I watch a bunch of One Piece clip here and there on TikTok. To be fair, I am basically spoiled myself that time 😬 but I’m the type dgaf if I got spoiled because I won’t remember at all later on. 🤷‍♀️

So I decide to start watch it. First few episodes, my reaction was like “ Okay Luffy is an interesting guy🧐his body stretches and always smiled! He got damn hands tho ngl”. Zoro, my reaction was like “ahaaa SO THIS IS ZORO THAT EVERYONE KEEP TALKING ABOUT. Quite a Stud.”

Nami, interesting female character that I can relate because I like money 🤑 and her backstory is so sad. Ussop is also another character I gradually love over the time!

Then COMES MY HUSBANDO, SANJI. Man I have a thing for a man who can cook and looks good in suits. Sanji really makes me having my first anime crush ever! I DONT HAVE A CRUSH ON ANYONE IN NARUTO & Detective Conan but One Piece made me have one 🤧 *The upgrade from loving a guy that exist but doesn’t know you exist ( haechan,jaehyun & jaemin bb i luv you guys but Sanji 😮‍💨) to loving a guy who are not exist on this plane of earth 👀*

Little did I know I start to binge watch it. First day of watching, 30 episodes in 6 hours. 10 days later I already watch 325 episodes . but the show is so good! The story telling that oda created really hit home to me and the foreshadowing & lore he created makes me hooked unlike other story that I have read & watched.

Here’s the thing, to me every anime that I watch, I never like finish it . Sometimes I would just watch last ep and called it the day. This is not only apply on anime, it’s apply to western shows, my own local shows & k-dramas. So One Piece truly like solidified their place on my heart. I finally can understand why one piece are so loved for decades!

Also during those times, I hit rock bottom too. I quit my job because I was falsely accused for stealing shit at my work place and being discriminated by my ex-boss due to being the youngest one for my entire work.( everyone else was in their 40’s ). That time I was desperate as I need some money to achieve my bucket-list and want to lessen the burden of my family. Lord heavens knows what I’m going through, got death threats by that mf. Twisted the truth that causing my whole family cut ties with her severely. From there, I felt so stress and worried.

So One Piece is my way of escapism and it’s been a beautiful and exciting journey. Compared to last time, I took a 7 months breaks from works due to burn out & anxiety, this time it doesnt took long for me to overcome those situations and my “year-end blues” that I called is not as bad as before. I also has been actively try to get a job asap so I can buy an Ipad as I want to start learning digital drawing again after watching one piece.

One piece teach me it’s never late to start a new journey towards your dream! I used to dream to be a graphic designer or animators but my family don’t want me to be that. They want me to have that conservative jobs like working in government, an accountant etc. so essentially I gave up those dreams so I can make them proud of me. It’s been bothering me for so long as I felt like I should have go for what I want not what people want. At the end, I abandoned my accountancy knowledge and worked as an admin & a baker which I found a lot more less stressful that being an accountant. I guess what people describe after knows me personally being a confident, free-spirited & rebellious is just the way I am. AND oddly enough One Piece is just perfect manga & anime for me!

At this point, I already caught up with anime. I’m a weekly basis anime watchers now. I also has caught up with manga too. It’s been a huge revealing & fresh experience of One Piece for me. I felt like I being myself again! It’s weird but it’s the truth! I never felt so at ease and being seen. I just want to do what I want. It’s just fitting fate for me to be a One Piece fan!

That’s all what I want to say… if you really read this till the end. Thank you!

#one piece #I’m lucky to found one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #nami #ussop #sanji #tony tony chopper #PEOPLE SHOULD START WATCH ONE PIECE FOR BETTER LIFE! I’m being real here!#soul king brook #franky #jimbei #nico robin

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seraphicalsuccubus · 8 days

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The power of new/redone hair is something else and I’m so glad to see that it’s working it’s magic on you 💚

I KNOWWWWW OMG !!!! thank you !!!! 🖤

like this is just what I needed. this is the change I should’ve made ages ago but I didn’t have anyone to install my extensions since my ex-best friend/roommate and I don’t talk much now so I don’t feel comfortable asking her to do them anymore so I was stuck with the pink for WAY too long, to the point where I started to feel weird and not recognize myself in the mirror because of the weird feeling and not having changed my hair since like December to a color that suits me more and just. yeah, it was a time :/

but I had a thought the other day and asked my sister if she’d be willing to listen to my instructions and do my hair for me today since she has weekends off work so she’d be free to do them, and she was super excited about it??? like she watched like 3 videos this morning of how to do it (after watching several the day I asked her if she’d be willing to do it with my instructions and stuff) so it was fresh in her mind when I stopped by my mom’s earlier, and she NAILED it with the application.

like the installation is PERFECT and made me realize how shitty my ex bestie was at doing them solely because she’d get frustrated and annoyed and didn’t WANT to help me do them so she’d deliberately do a bad job but that meant they’d fall out sooner and it’s like …….. why would you do that when you’re the one that’s gonna have to install my new set when I order them because they fell out too quickly because you put them in poorly because of your bad attitude like …. bro ???? LMAO. just never made sense to me to do a bad job when you’re the one who would have to do it again sooner than you usually would all because you did them haphazardly to begin with like ??? I don’t get it lol

but dude my hair looks AMAZING. my sister did such a good job and she was so meticulous with sectioning my hair and leaving thin slices between the layers of extensions so they blend SO WELL without me even cutting or styling them yet and just. like. UGHHHHH!!!!! I feel like myself again!!!! and I’m so fucking impressed it’s not even funny. like, that girl just solidified the fact that she is gonna be doing my extensions every time I get a new set until I leave this hellish state lol

and she said she had fun doing them too!!! she keeps her hair super short but she said doing my extensions was fun and it was something new to learn since she’s still kinda deciding if she wants to go to school for cosmetology and stuff so it helped her get an idea of some of the other things that would entail.

idk man I know I rambled and I’m sorry but I just feel GREAT okay like. FUCK I look and feel so good about myself again for the first time in ages 😭😭😭 it’s so crazy what having the ‘right’ hair color will do to your self-esteem. I’ve missed my green hair so much and it’s finally BACK and it’s DIFFERENT from everything I’ve done with green before so I don’t feel like I’m repeating a color/color combination and askdhalbdjdfn I just love it so much 🥹🥹🥹

#sorry I like super rambled and shit but afskdgfjdj I’m excited about feeling good about myself okay 🥺#ask

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frenzyarts · 1 year

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Could you talk a bit about how you design your OCs from a visual level? I really love their designs. Only if you have the time and energy of course <3

Thank you so much omg 💕 I was trying to think of a good way to answer this question, but the truth is my methods are very nebulous and hard to define! I’ll do my best though 🥳

Some characters come to me very easily, some go through a few revisions, and some go through a meat grinder of revisions lol. Rune was easy, her design was just in my head right off the bat from years of drawing/thinking about demons. Yorick was a little different. Awhile back I played a ttrpg and designed this character:

Look familiar? This is prototype Yorick!! (I have this on my portfolio at a higher res if you wanna zoom in or something idk) She was a character who was kind of elfin and was a clown who controlled shadows. When I started pinning down the stories and characters of A Slowly Beating Heart I KNEW I had to put a demonic clown in there, and I thought of this design.

A phase I go through when designing characters when im not sure how they’re gonna look is doing a bunch of iterations based on vibes. Here’s some of the earliest Yorick sketches I could find, you can see how they don’t quite look “right” yet:

Like the vibes were there but that’s not our Yorick! Here’s what I think might be the first or second sketch I did where they look right:

I used the old Yorick I had designed but finally modified the outfit and design in a way that pleased me. I went with this design, and went through some minor edits with the colors, and boom, the demon clown was born! (Though even in this image they aren’t quite right, in the final comic I got rid of the lines on their horns and saturated the green parts of their eyes):

Melody is another story. Versions of Melody had also been living in my mind for almost as long as Rune, but never as a solid design. I have a zillion sketches of Melody that don’t look at all like how she looks now. It wasn’t until right before her appearance in the comic that I actually decided to refine her character design. Since I had never quite solidified how she looked in my mind, getting her on paper was quite the task. Her hairstyle was already on my mind, but I did a bunch of different versions of her halo and outfits. I put a bunch of designs together and sent them out to my friends to ask them to vote on their favorite outfit to help me decide 😂:

In the end Melody’s outfit didn’t quite look like any of these, because they’re all somewhat complex, and I need things to stay really simple for comics. Once I had designed the outfit the struggle still wasn’t over, cause now I had to do colors. Here’s just a small sampling of the color pallets I went through:

I guess if I was gonna break down my process into steps, it would be like this:

1. Sketch a bunch of ideas based on vibes

2. Choose my fav and then refine it further by tweaking the outfit/hair ect

3. Try out a lot of different colors and keep adjusting them until they look right

4. Give birth to my Art Child 💃✨🙌

I don’t always do all that, and some of the design processes for certain characters happen a little differently. But that’s basically it! Sorry this was super long, I hope it helped!!

#my art #character design #art tutorial #tutorial #original character #Yorick #melody #a slowly beating heart #asbh #frenzy post

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krystaldeath · 2 months

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Cult of The Lamb hc’s (part of me feels like I should wait till I play the game myself - or watch a full playthrough at least - before I “solidify” these but meh. For now at least these are how I see things):

* Kinda typical hc I feel like but Leshy is the youngest, then it’s Heket, Narinder, Kallamar, and then Shamura is the oldest.

* Idk what their ages would be chronologically wise but my personal hc’s for “biological” age are: Leshy (21), Heket (25), Narinder (27), Kallamar (32), and Shamura (40). I think Lamb is about 200 years chronologically but 28 “biologically” (I think it’s funny if they’re “older” than Narinder)

* I don’t have a name for them yet but my version of the Yellow Cat is a little bit fucked up actually. Like they seem chill and they kinda are? But they’ve got a body count. And no not the sex kind. Think of that one audio where the guy answers the body count with 30 and when it’s clarified that it’s about sex he’s like “Oh well I haven’t done that yet!” And the other persons like “WHAT DOES 30 MEAN THEN???”

* I need y’all to know I project onto The Lamb HARD. So yeah, they always wanted to be kind and sorta made it a big part of their personality. Unfortunately their world and circumstances just doesn’t allow for their kindness. They still try to be as kind as they can be, but it’s hard when you’re slowly ascending to godhood, especially into the god of death.

* Also Agender Lamb. They/Them and ONLY They/Them Lamb all the way. Demi ro & sex & pan. They’re a?ab (assigned ??? At birth; bc I can’t decide but if you MUST know I think they can shapeshift a bit now so. Maybe they forgot themself lol). Presents androgynously, leaning either way whenever they feel like it. They have a more masc voice though I think, like the ones people use in comic dubs a lot.

* Once I figure out how to draw (could stop it there I am Rusty) anthropomorphic animals it’s over for y’all (Translation: I will draw my self insert and The Lamb being kinda fucked up Besties)

* ((PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT MY SELF INSERT AND OTHER OC INSERTS I HAVE FOR THIS THE BRAIN ROT IS SO REAL))

* The cotl fandom is filled with queer people who’ve got some level of religious trauma, let me recommend a recent song I’ve been looping and imagining a cotl/narilamb animatic to: Collared by Vane Lily (look it up on YouTube to watch the fun mv first!) WARNING IT IS HIGHLY SUGGESTIVE

* I’ve been flip flopping a bit on what species she’d be but I have ideas for a follower love interest for Heket! At first I thought a bunny, then a bee, and currently feeling like a bat would be cute. Idk but I do see her as a warrior type who also likes to bake and do cutesy things too

* I think once the bishops become followers their injuries are worse but they can still “work” around them: Leshy can kinda see things if they’re up close. Heket can sorta speak but not fast and she’s got. Well not a sore throat bc. She doesn’t have one of those anymore. But something akin to that constantly. Kallamar can only hear loud things or if someone spoke into his ear directly (he only allows those in his polycule and his siblings (minus Narinder) to get that close). Shamura does get a bit lost in their own mind, and even when they’re more conscious their memory is spotty.

* Back to my Yellow Cat being a bit fucked up: They actually really liked the idea of chaos (though they hardly show it) so when they find out Leshy was the bishop of chaos instead of being scared or unnerved they’re like “*twirls hair (fur??)* ha ha ha, omg, really~?”

* *slaps the top of The Lamb, Leshy, and probably so many others don’t underestimate me* these bitches can fit so much adhd (+ autism probably) in them

* Probably (geez I use that word a lot huh?) got more hc’s, especially for other characters, but this is already pretty long so I’ll leave it here for now

#cult of the lamb #cotl headcanons #I would tag as narilamb or leshycat but I mean… I didn’t really get into either of them in this lol #my posts #cotl oc #kinda??? I mention my self insert and such #to entice you to ask about them: They’re a blonde long furred cat that has an extra set of arms that are bat arms #wanna know why? ask :3c #please

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sf-akahana · 11 months

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if your still into t//lo/z have you considered the pu/ffshrooms ?

Man, I guess that's really all it took to get me to write lol

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“The President’s standing! That was brilliant! I would have never thought of it.” Addison yelled as the oddly angled Hudson Construction sign stayed precariously upright, and quickly got to work securing it. Link huffed in amusement; this was not the first time he’d helped the ambitious man to put up these signs. Rather than creativity, it was probably more the lack of his Ultrahand ability that stunts Addison’s endeavors. Or his continuous lack of proper planning – that could also be it.

“Perfect! With your help President Hudson is now standing proudly and firmly in place!” Addison cheered before rummaging through his backpack. Link sighed but waited patiently; the other man had insisted on showering him in gifts as thanks every time he’d helped in the past, and objections had only fell on deaf ears. Some pocket change, a ticket for free stable lodging, and some veggie rice balls were pushed into his arms with much excitement. Link nodded in appreciation, smiling as he tucked the gifts into Epona’s pack, before Addison called for him again.

“You know, I still don’t feel like I’ve thanked you enough! So here, this is something form my special collection!” And with that Link was presented with a… mushroom? Though not one he’d ever seen before. It was vibrantly patterned with a strange pitcher shape, and a cloud of fine spores fluttered from the opening when it was pushed into his hands. Link scrunched his nose.

“This is a Puffshroom! It was recently brought up from the Depths, I have a friend on the exploration team so I had him bring me back some interesting things. He said that if you throw this little thing into a hoard of monsters, it causes them to get confused and start attacking each other! He also said it’s bitter and inedible, and I don’t know if I want to know how he found that out-”

While Addison was chatting more at Link than with him, the Puffshroom continued to release spores whenever he so much as shifted his stance. The smell it released wasn’t very strong but it had a subtle tingle to it that was starting to make Link sniffle. He absentmindedly shifted the shroom to one hand so he could itch at his nose with the other. His first mistake was missing the layer of powder dusted over both his hands.

“hhih! hH-Att-!!”

“Oh! Hylia’s blessings!”

The tingle in his nose had quickly solidified into a sneeze, hastily stifled for it’s unexpectedness. His second mistake was in his surprise Link had sneezed towards his own chest, jostling the Puffshroom and causing a substantial cloud of spores to puff up directly into his down turned face. His nose did not like that.

“Uh, friend? Are you gonna-?”

“eh- hah- hAH!!”

Link quickly shoved the Puffshroom towards Addison as his breath hitched frantically, not caring if he hit his mark as long as the tickly spores were AWAY from his face. He wrenched himself opposite the other as a desperate sneeze threw the swordsman forward, spraying the ground and unable to cover his sneezes or touch his nose with his hands covered in powder.

“aAH’Tchhu!! -T’chiew! Hih-hI! hyAT’chhh!!”

Link sniffled as his irritated nose gave him a second to breath, tears leaking down his cheeks from the sheer itchiness. Embarrassment washed over him as he started to hitch into more sneezes; he was completely helpless and out of control, unable to even rub his nose without making everything worse. His head was thrown back into a series of sharp, ticklish gasps, only to stall just before release. Link whined slightly, almost tempted to tickle his own nose with his dusted fingers just to get it over with. Before he could do something he’d regret, an unexpected pair of fingers covered in a soft cloth settled around his frustrated nose. A soft nudge to his septum all he needed for the stuck sneezes to come crashing through him.

“hHHA-!! AK’TCHHIEWw!! hih- k’Tchuu! t’Chu! Uh’tChiew!! oh...snf!”

The end of his fit left him red faced and panting, a hand held tightly against shoulder for support. He quickly took the slightly damp handkerchief from Addison’s other hand. Link was known to have an unbreakable poker face in a bygone age, but he wasn’t sure he could keep the flaming heat from his cheeks no matter how hard he tried.

“Goddess’ many, many blessings my friend! I’m so sorry my gift caused all this trouble, come here lets wash you off in the river. Follow me.”

With a little gentle washing and some embarrassingly productive nose blowing, Link came out of the other side of this experience flustered but ultimately no worse for wear. He didn’t seem to truly be having any allergic reaction, just an adverse response to the smell and feel of the spores. Addison still looked incredibly guilty by the time the two made it back to Epona’s side.

“You know, I still think the Puffshroom could be of use as a surprise attack. Maybe you could attach one to an arrow so you aren’t in the spore’s radius?” His downtrodden expression quickly shifted to excited as he rushed back over to his pack, coming back with a small leather bag.

“Here! If you keep the Puffshrooms in this, it will keep the spores contained so it doesn’t get all over your other stuff. Then when you want to shoot one you’re only exposed to it for a second! I really think you should keep them just in case, they might help you get out of a tough situation you know.” Link sighed and smiled once again, nodding and tucking them away in a separate pocket. As Addison bid him goodbye to go put up more signs, Link urged Epona to continue their trek towards then nearest stable. He’ll find a time to use the shrooms of course, he’s just going to have to be careful he doesn’t cause himself a sneezing fit in the middle of battle. Now THAT would be an embarrassing way to go.

#snz #snzfic #Legend of Z/elda #To/tK #sneezefic #I am always in love with L/ink he will never stop being my muse #I've also been loving this game #I've put 70+ hours in and I'm only about 1/3 done #thanks for the inspo anon

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head-empty-just-sigma · 1 year

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hhhhhhmhmmhmmnnnnmmh Buddy Daddies is making me Think Thoughts and Feel Feelings

but i’m not gonna be doing any analyzing of the show or plot itself since 1. i know absolutely nothing about Japanese family/culture/norms/society in general and there’s plenty of amazing posts that talk about that already and 2. the show doesn’t really keep things hidden like a series like bsd does, so there’s not much to theorize about. so i’m not going to go searching for things that don’t exist in the story

however, what i am going to do is over analyze and look for things that probably don’t exist in the songs in the OP and the ED of the anime. yep. my brainrot is that bad

listen episode 7 did something to me okay

i think both songs symbolize Rei and Kazuki in their own ways, especially the OP since i think it encompasses both of them from the first to second verse of the song. the ED is where it really gets interesting, since for now it only really symbolizes one of them

🔺spoiler warning for episodes 1, 3, 6 and 7 and also basically the entire premise of both Kazuki and Rei's characters lol🔻

also long post warning. like, really really long post. i pulled out all the stops in my analyzing for this thing

The opening - SHOCK! by Ayase

fun fact Ayase is the vocaloid producer for the duo YOASOBI

So for this song I’m taking both the translated lyrics provided by Crunchyroll subtitles and the translation on the Miraikyun website I found while digging for reliable translation sources (I found… almost none for this song tbh). But I’ll include screenshots from the OP mostly for the first verse of the song that’s actually used for the opening of the anime.

So at first this song came off as lighthearted to me because the music itself is pretty upbeat and pop-ish, and while yes it is both of those things, the lyrics definitely tell another story of their own. The overarching theme is essentially the contemplation of what love is and what it means, and how the person singing isn’t able to understand love when they see it. They also don’t know what’s going on in another person’s head (who is potentially experiencing said love that the singer doesn’t understand). Immediately this makes me think of Rei’s character, in a couple of ways.

In his character PV it explicitly says that he’s someone who “doesn’t know love”, specifically using the character 愛 (ai) which is used for a more general type of love (could be family or other long-term relationships) and doesn’t necessarily have romantic connotations. This is a perfect example of how Rei, as a person, doesn’t understand the concept of “love” in general. It’s foreign to him, and it’s pretty obvious after episode 3 that he wasn’t raised as a normal child by his parents, he was raised to be a hitman by his father who wanted Rei to only refer to him as his “boss”. I don’t think I need to explain how much that would mess up someone’s perception of love in any sense of the word, and the anime actually does it for us by showing Rei as unfit for taking on a proper parental role in the makeshift family in the first few episodes. Hell, even in the beginning of episode 7 he seemed more like another kid in the house instead of Miri’s caretaker. He’s not used to being responsible for another human being, and it shows, but it’s because he genuinely has no idea about any of it since he doesn’t have any parental figure to base his standard of being a ‘parent’ off of. Kazuki is arguably the same in that regard, but he’s much more mature as a parent compared to Rei because he knows what it’s like to not have any parents or caretakers at all, and he wants to make sure Miri has good parental figures in her life so she doesn’t go through the same thing.

The lyrics in the first half of the song and the lyrics in the chorus can absolutely be used to symbolize Rei’s character here.

Rei does want to be a part of the family here, we solidified that in ep3 when he declared that he was Miri’s Papa. That was a key piece of character development for him, since before this we don’t see them interacting during the episodes as much as Kazuki and Miri do. So the lyrics about ‘wanting love’ is symbolic of him admitting to wanting to be a part of the family. The part about the city being ‘madly in love and excited’ is just how he sees things, since he was taught to never smile or really express any emotions for that matter, so everyone else is automatically more expressive than him. He stays home a lot to play video games nonstop and chain smokes through all-nighters when Kazuki isn’t there, and he also tries to go home before ultimately being dragged outside by Kazuki. The next few lines could symbolize how Miri entering his life turned everything he was used to upside down, and his perception of life is slowly being torn down by Miri as he learns what it means to love and be loved in a parental way. The chorus just further drives in the fact that he truly has no idea what ‘love’ is, literally saying ‘How the heck should I know?’, but also that he doesn’t entirely understand Kazuki and why he’s so adamant on being a good parent. The ‘I don’t know what’s going on in your head’ line is perfectly fitting for ep6 when Rei was questioning a lot of the things coming out of Kazuki’s mouth (same. ‘our genes’ bro what). He’s also dragged through shenanigans time and time again by Kazuki and despite his complaining, he goes along with it anyway. The line about being unfairly friendly could be towards Miri or Kazuki, since sunshine Miri accepted Rei as he is and she loves her Papa no matter how emotionally dead he is, but also because Kazuki is probably the only real friend Rei has (which is something I’m sure will be explored in a future episode. Hopefully). The last one is directed at Miri, since Miri is also able to drag Rei into playing with her and doing other things despite his reluctance (just look at ep3). However, he still very much acts like an irresponsible child and more like Miri's sibling that Kazuki also has to take care of, so he has a long way to go before he's any sort of model parent…

Kazuki on the other hand is 100% symbolized in the second verse of the song.

I will die on this hill because there’s literally no counter argument after ep7, where we are explicitly shown that Kazuki is clinging on to his past to his own detriment. He’s scared of changing because he’s scared of forgetting Yuzuko if he’s fulfilled by something else (his family). He also calls himself pathetic in ep7, connecting the line about laughing ‘at my pitiful self’. This part of the song truly captures how Kazuki feels on the inside for the first 6 episode and the majority of ep7. The chorus could be a bit different in regards to 'it's not fair that you're so friendly', since that could be directed at Karin because she wants Kazuki to be able to move on and be happy with what he has since she believes that that's what Yuzuko would've wanted.

The ending lyrics symbolize that changing and looking towards the unpredictable future is okay, but oh my god did the ending hit like a freight train after episode 7. Just. Just holy emotional damage. Oh. My god.

The ending - My Plan by DURDN

I was able to find a translation that was basically the same as the Crunchyroll one on Genius Lyrics to reference the second verse yipee but I also included screenshots from the ED itself of course

I cannot get over how impactful this song became as the ED, especially at the end of episode 7. It’s basically an entire episode dedicated to Kazuki’s backstory, which we were shown glimpses of back in ep1 for crying out loud. And oh my lord it did not disappoint, that’s for sure. Emotional damage for everyone. So much character development in one single episode. I just--it's just great. That's all I can say.

I love this image and it lives in my head rent free. Sleeping Rei is always 10/10

The song has a theme of accepting the future and that things are going to change, but that it’s okay because there will always be something consistent there, like a home to come back to every day. It also has a lot of references to love, like the 'I softly whisper a lullaby' and 'let's try to share our love together', which is symbolic of Kazuki as a father. It doesn't really have any romantic connotations at all, it's just wholesomeness. Plus 'I chased after you as you ran barefoot' is reminiscent of the few seconds in the OP where we actually see Kazuki running past other people going the opposite direction, and then following behind Miri with Rei at his side.

Also episode 7 really brings out the last 5 lines, from 'and it'll shine down on our sadness' to 'when the future is unpredictable'. That scene where Karin told Kazuki that he should move on and be happy with what he has because that's what Yukuzo would've wanted, and then the rain stops so the sun can come out and shines on Kazuki's new outlook on the future and accepting change... It's so fucking beautiful and symbolic. Not to mention it's taking place where he and Yuzuko first met, where she was his proverbial ray of hope when he was wounded in the rain, now the rain stops and Kazuki is able to see hope in his future with his new family. I just cannot express how impressive that is from a storytelling standpoint, and it's all literally just using the changing of the weather.

Also the line of 'maybe one day, you'll surpass me' could be referencing how Kazuki wants Miri to be able to have the things he never did: a family, stability, and that familial love. Kazuki is painfully self-aware that he became a hitman (and a malewife) because he grew up with no parents and had to fend for himself his whole life. He wants to make sure Miri never has to go through any of that, and have more opportunities that he never did when she gets older.

The ending song doesn't really fit Rei as a character, even in the part not used in the ED. The second verse is still very much relating to Kazuki and Miri's interactions day-to-day and him enjoying raising Miri, and knowing he'll be endeared by everything she does no matter how old she gets (like any other parent, I assume. idk I'm a Rei kinnie). But we know that Miri is changing Rei slowly, from ep3 when he begins to see what being a Papa means to ep7 when he learns that sometimes taking care of another human being can make you feel powerless in the face of a 'crisis'. Most other times we only really see him being a real parent to Miri when he's dragged into it by Kazuki, but ep7 showed him going from irresponsible second child of the household to going to Kyu-chan in a panic because Miri is sick and he has no idea what to do as a parent. Hopefully we get to see this built upon further in the coming episodes, even if we don't get to explore his backstory as much as we have Kazuki's this season.

#why did i go through the lengths i did for a silly found family anime #idk but it was worth it #buddy daddies #buddy daddies spoilers #rei suwa #kazuki kurusu #kyutaro kugi #miri unasaka #meta analysis #this was a fun change to my usual meta posts for bsd too #this anime gives me incredible amounts of serotonin #maybe i’ll do another if we see this kind of development for Rei but in his own way yknow

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lesbianneopolitan · 1 year

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While, to each their own, here comes a rant about the fact that, I personally liked how they handled Neo's character up until now:

I've seen people saying how they handled her was a disservice, but if I'm honest, I think it's not all that far-fetched, even with Cinder's betrayal.

LIKE, I can imagine the loss of Roman took a real toll on her mental health, that could've perfectly made her way more unstable than she already was, and to be fair, the last person she saw with Roman up the airship was Ruby (plus Neo in general is not exactly a good person).

Was her goal to also hurt Cinder in the way? Yes, possibly because she was the one getting Roman and her into the mess in the first place, but at the end of the day, that was more of a secondary thing, the very girl that was fighting Roman in person was Ruby, and for all she knows, even someone like Ruby could've fought to defend herself, because it was a die-or-kill situation. In one word, Neo was very desperate, because she lost the only person she was truly close to (solidified by Roman Holiday), and having worked with Cinder before was the only offer of familiarity she had (plus, Neo was very surprised when seeing the Maiden Powers, I don't think she would've been stupid enough to try and go against that), so getting an alliance with Cinder was a good choice atm.

Hell, I think if Neo hadn't blackmailed Cinder, she would've kept her despite only using her as an 'asset', but we know how Cinder can be if someone shows signs of possible betrayal (like when Rhodes went against her).

It's true Cinder was treating her like another pawn, what got Neo to grow even more desperate and impatient with what she wanted, but if we follow the train of thought of Neo's decreased mental health, it's obvious she has been falling into desperation, and that's a possibility that is very real.

Not even now after the end of V8 I see that her obsession with Ruby is far-fetched either, was she betrayed by Cinder? Yeah, but she blackmailed first, there was a risk in doing that, if anything, Neo has lost whatever she could've found with Cinder the same way Cinder herself lost what was possibly the last person that was willing to work alongside her, what only could push Neo to be even MORE desperate.

If she didn't get what she wanted by Cinder's side, of course this small and feisty psychopath would keep trying to kill Ruby, I'm sure in her mind, that would've at least been ENOUGH, that at the very least, she will work to get that ONE thing done.

She has lost everything, she's alone now, but she still can get that one thing that has fueled her until now.

She's not alright, she's breaking down, and I'm sure if she could, she would take Ruby down, and maybe try to get to Cinder later, if she survives.

In all honesty I don't even know what to expect of her from V9, but even as someone who loves Neo, I like that they didn't portray her as someone perfect that can keep her head cold at any moment, or that can somewhat keep her sanity up in this tremendously fucked up (and really personal) situation.

I like to see this vulnerability, of her falling down into a spiral of decreased mental instability, and I think I would've been disappointed if they would've kept treating her in the same smug-way they did in the first volumes, even if we all love her for that kind of attitude lol

Now, when it comes to a more personal opinion on what /I/ would like to expect, I obviously wouldn't like her to just outright die in the Ever After xD

It's hoping way too much they will bring up small things from Roman Holiday into V9 because the Ever After seems like a place where the characters are gonna face things, and I want Neo to face her own problems there, maybe manage to put some of the broken pieces together so she realizes that she needs to stop.

I don't exactly want her to be good tho, I just want her to value her life enough to know that maybe she should put her thirst of revenge onto someone else, not become completely masochistic LMAO

#Neo talks #let's GOOOO #why not? posting this here too now that I'm at it #Neopolitan

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New Chapter: The End and the Beginning

Link: Chapter 4

Previous: Chapter 3

First: Chapter 1 (AO3)

A/N: At long last, this mammoth has reached its end. Now I can officially retire in peace (after I tend to the other WIPs I have lol). But this AU was one I had been wanting to do for so long, and these characters and their lore truly was the perfect cast to finally bring it to life. So a big thank you to everyone for coming on this journey with me ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Special thanks in order to @i-write-shakespeare-not-disney for the idea to add an epilogue! ily ❤️❤️❤️

Preview: Given such a deteriorating state, it was a surprise when Lottie suddenly stopped in her tracks. Somehow, she even managed to stall Natalie alongside her, effectively startling the barmaid out of her determined pace when she realized Lottie’s arm was no longer around her.

“Love? What is it?” Natalie fretted.

At first, Lottie gave no answer. She’d become stock-still, frozen like a star that had solidified in the heavens. The only source of life in her was the troubled wrinkle that slowly stitched itself into her brow the longer she stared at the desolate shack awaiting them.

“I…I don’t know,” the princess murmured eventually. “I just got this…bad feeling, all of a sudden.”

Natalie followed her gaze, trying to see for herself if anything looked amiss. As far as she could see, there was only the sole household sitting in Razia’s shadow. Overhead, some of the crows that had been watching them from the trees started to take flight, gliding towards that very structure.

The longer she spent simply standing there, the more Natalie could detect that there was something distinctly…wrong with the air on this side of the valley. It felt warmer than the usual climate of the Dark Lands had ever been. Although, it wasn’t warm in the comforting sense that the organic heat from the sun provided. Rather, it was stuffy and uncomfortable, prickling against her skin like the static that typically filled the air when a bolt of lightning was about to strike.

“It might be that witch magic Van was talking about,” Natalie suggested.

“No, it’s not that.” Lottie gave a minute shake of her head. “It’s more like…like I’ve seen this place before. In a dream. An awful, awful dream…”

Natalie didn’t know what to do with that. Honestly, she had always been of the school of thought that dreams didn’t mean anything. So, she had never been this rattled by one.

As far as Nat was concerned, their current situation was still of the utmost urgency. They couldn’t afford to have this much pause, especially for something as mundane as a dream Lottie barely seemed able to remember now.

The barmaid reached a hand out to cradle Lottie’s palm. “Hey,” she prompted, urging Lottie to look at her instead of the horizon. “We came all this way for a reason. We need that medicine. So…let’s at least see what the witch has to say, yes?”

Lottie glanced back at the shack, her brow still furrowed in distress. Though this time, her hesitation only lasted a couple of heartbeats.

“Right…” she muttered in agreement.

She shook her head once more. Then, she continued walking, keeping her hand fixed securely around Natalie’s.

They were nearly upon the dwelling when Lottie’s energy started to drain out of her again. Her body shivered violently, despite still radiating a feverish heat. Natalie tucked her body back into the princess’s side, taking the majority of her weight from her again.

As she dragged their bodies forward as quickly as she could, she noticed the murder of crows that had been following them start to congregate along the roof and the front porch of the witch’s shanty. A few of the bolder birds hunched their backs and fluffed their feathers up in a show of intimidation. A sign of protectiveness for the dwelling. Or perhaps a warning to steer clear of the inhabitant inside.

Either way, the two travelers couldn’t afford to heed the sign to turn back.

Natalie reached the porch step first, gently shooing away the crow there with the toe of her boot. As soon as she helped Lottie up onto the porch with her, the front door of the dwelling suddenly opened before them, the weathered wooden boards creaking slightly.

No one was on the other side of the door.

Natalie leaned forward, only letting her head cross the threshold of the door as she affirmed that it had truly opened on its own. “Hello?” she said cautiously.

She was greeted by a dozen mirror images of herself on the adjacent wall, trapped in the colorful panels on the one glass wall. The small amount of sunlight that managed to peek around the mountainside streamed through the brightly-colored panels, casting an array of matching multi-colored shadows onto the floor of the entryway.

The glass wall seemed to be the main source of light for the shack’s interior, aided only by a couple of candles burning on the small, square table tucked against the rear-side wall. The table—much like the shelves running along the wall above it—was cluttered with an array of random trinkets and objects. Things like thick, leather-bound journals, bundles of herbs tied with string, a bowl with strange symbols painted along the side, vials containing bug corpses, and dozens upon dozens of loose, discarded black feathers.

There was a long, thick curtain running along the fourth and final wall, keeping that portion of the shack hidden from view. Given how puny the overall dwelling was, any hope that the witch doctor was truly here resided in the notion that she was somewhere behind that.

Natalie stepped fully inside the structure, carefully tugging Lottie inside after her. The princess followed her listlessly, now too drained of energy to focus on anything other than keeping her own head up. To anyone else, it would seem as though she were starting to nod off to sleep.

“No! No, no, no,” Natalie said frantically. In her panic, she grabbed the princess’s face roughly, urging Lottie to keep her eyes on her. Or at the very least, keep her eyes open. “Stay with me, love. We’re right here. Just hold on.”

Lottie only managed to groan in response, regarding Nat with eyes that were half-lidded and glazed over.

They were running out of time.

“Help!” the barmaid called into the open air of the shanty. “Please! We need the witch!”

At the last word, one of the birds from the front porch suddenly flew inside, his wings fanning the collection of dirt that had gathered along the rafters overhead. He perched himself on one of the beams supporting the width of the roof, cawing loudly at the humans below.

Simultaneously, the front door swung shut behind him, once again maneuvered by some unseeable force.

Natalie was still reeling from that when the curtain wall on the other side of the shack was shoved aside. This time, an actual human being was on the other side of the covering, revealing themselves to be a tiny young woman that Natalie did indeed recognize—albeit vaguely—from the witch doctor’s trial years ago.

The woman was adorned with a baggy, tan dress that looked a size too big for her, accompanied by a dirtied apron whose front pocket was bogged down by even more trinkets and herbs, which were slightly peeking out over the edge. Half of her body mass seemed to consist of her wild mane of curls, which Natalie remembered being a light, golden color at the time of the trial. Now though, they had become a matted, dusty shade from neglect in the years spent out here, stranded with no other company. And no motivation to properly care for herself. Even the rounded spectacles she wore showed evidence of little self-regard, for there was a long-running crack in the left lens, splintering the image of her eye on that side of her face.

The crow sitting overhead began flapping his wings, descending from the rafters to settle on the rod of the curtain, uttering a series of short caws at the woman now that he was closer to her.

The witch waved at him, resembling an exasperated mother trying to dismiss their overexcited toddler. “Yes, yes, I know you said someone was coming this way,” she grumbled. “I didn’t think they would actually come inside.”

It took Natalie a moment to realize she was talking to the bird.

In any other circumstance, she would have asked if there was some sort of witch spell that actually allowed the other woman to understand the language of the animal (if not, the years of isolation here had surely driven her to madness). Now, however, Natalie cast her curiosity aside in favor of the more pressing matter at hand.

“Are you the witch that was exiled by both kingdoms?”

The tiny woman scowled at that. “Well, I prefer my given name, Misty. And you are?”

“Natalie. And this is Lottie—”

“And who taught you manners, Miss Natalie?”

Now it was Natalie’s turn to be exasperated. Her patience was rapidly waning, knowing that every moment spent having to preface why they were there was another moment in which Lottie struggled to breathe.

“Please,” the barmaid said, hugging the princess closer to her side. “I’ve heard you can cure anything. We need a cure for this.”

#my stories #lottie x natalie #Lottienat #Lottie Matthews #Natalie Scatorccio #Misty Quigley #Van Palmer #Yellowjackets #I tried my damndest to have this up in time for my birthday #alas I'm 2 days late

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skyward-floored · 5 months

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You expect me to choose a wip??? How could you??!

Just kidding lol (though it was an extremely hard choice). I’m gonna go with the last few chapters of Castletown cause my brainrot from that fic has returned with a vengeance

(But if you have any extra time and energy and feel like doing it I wouldn’t say no to more downfall time too 👀)

Yes I’m forcing you to choose 😔 Though I actually don’t mind if you ask for more than one XD And I worked on both a little bit!

For Castletown though, this might end up being a deleted scene or something, I’m not sure if it’ll end up fitting. But we’ll see!

“All of this has only solidified to me that the Shadow needs to be stopped, no matter what,” Warriors said gravely, though he relaxed slightly as Artemis put her hand over his. “I’ll stay for as long as I can. But if we find another portal...”

“I know. We both knew this would happen after we were wed, Link,” Artemis said with a sigh. “But darkness such as this Shadow must be stopped. I’d gladly come with you, but I can’t very well leave the kingdom.”

“Well... I haven’t left yet,” Warriors said with a smirk, and Artemis smiled in spite of herself, and returned the kiss he pressed to her lips.

“Indeed. We’ll make the most of it.”

And for more downfall Time, I don’t have much plot or anything yet, but I still wrote a little 👍

A head pokes in the room, and Link perks up, smiling as Wind skips inside. He likes the sailor. Wind doesn’t treat him like glass, and doesn’t give him nearly as many worried looks as the older heroes do.

Which he guesses are mostly warranted, but it’s still annoying.

“Hiya Link,” Wind says, flopping on the end of his bed with a grin. “I got more nickname suggestions!”

“Oh no, please tell me they’re better then the last batch,” Warriors groans, and Wind gives him an offended look.

“They weren’t that bad, Link just didn’t prefer them and it’s his nickname,” Wind sniffed.

“True, but “Other Guy” was just dumb,” Twilight snorts, and Link snickers, wincing a little as his middle aches. “Not to mention “Two-eyed-Time”, or—”

“Okay okay,” Wind says over the chatter that’s sprung up, and claps his hands together. “Me and Four thought of some good ones, so listen up.”

“Fine, but if any are alliterative, I’m leaving,” Legend huffs.

Link scoots in, and Wind begins to read from his list, the nicknames... slightly less eccentric than last time.

#answers from the floor #lovely adrift in thyme #wip #Castletown wedding #downfall Time #request a wip

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ladytauria · 6 months

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hey! 5, 11, 18, 23 from the ask game <333

mayaaa thank you <3

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

very very surprised to have ended up writing for / enjoying writing for jason so much!! like, in hindsight it makes sense, as he’s the character i read for the most, but. yeah! did not expect that <3

11) what aspect of your writing do you think has most improved since you started writing?

i started posting fanfic at 12 & writing at 10, so. everything. but xD i think my ability to tell a coherent narrative has improved by leaps & bounds, even when i don’t have an idea of where i’m going when i start something. i also think i’ve gotten a better handle on description, which was an issue for me when i started, lol.

18) were there any works you read that affected you so much that it influenced your writing style? what were they?

this is a surprisingly difficult question to answer bc i KNOW there are influences, many of them, but when i try to think of them i keep drawing blanks??? and then the ones i have thought of i keep going 👀 are you sure? is that right? did it influence you or do you just think about it all the time?

which like…

isn’t that what influencing is? but i digress, lmao.

anyway!!!

i know sarah j maas is a bit controversial BUT smth about reading her books made something click in my brain? & i feel like my writing voice actually solidified after

major envy for maggie stiefvater’s prose—reading the raven cycle made me nostalgic for a place i’d never been, which wasn’t something that had happened to me before xD anyway, genuinely love her writing

on the fanfic side

i think about “The Bird, The Fog, The Mist” by bacondoughnut constantly

“Reclaiming Innocence” by murtagh morzanson / cdelphiki is also always rotating in my head (i’ve read it 3 or 4 times) alongside the second (i think) fic in “In for a Penny”. both of them influence how i write younger jason

“The Penny Drops, The Penny Dreads” by batbirdies is the other fic i think of when i think of young jason/jason’s childhood.

the “i guess you were my first boy wonder” series by pissvinegarandacrowbar is jaydick & one of my favorite jason characterizations ever~

and then uh, i would not have fallen headfirst into jaytim / be a jaytim writer at all without “The Many Deaths of Jason Todd” by zoeleo! that catapulted me into loving jaytim <3 before that jaydick was my main ship (i still adore it~)

also every time i read your prose it inspires me to get more poetic with mine <3

23) any obscure life experiences that you feel have helped your writing?

hmm 🤔 i’m not really sure any of my life experiences are particularly obscure. ah, but! when i was younger i came across this little graphic—the only 12 1/2 writing rules you’ll ever need. (i actually used it as my desktop background for ages lol). anyway, number 10— Go for walks. Dance. Pull weeds. Do the dishes. Write about it. that one really stuck with me for some reason, & led to me paying more attention to my body/feelings, especially if i was bored or uncomfortable, bc it was something i could potentially use for writing!

that sort of mental check in also has done wonders for like. keeping an eye on my mental / physical health too lol.

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#there are other fics that could have made it onto that list lol #also for smut specifically #revelations & heartaches and anything by kieran-granola contribute greatly to how i write smut lol #reading kieran’s stuff was what inspired me to try my hand in the first place <3 #anyway~#thank you for asking!!!!#asks and answers #waffleinator-inator

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