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tanoraqui · 22 days

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Already answered Knife.

❄️ ⇢ what's your dream theme/plot for a fic, and who would write it best?

I know I've said this before, but I really would like someone who has actual experience being a parent and/or having a notably messy relationship with at least one parent to write a fic about Curufin returning to life in Fourth Age Aman and trying to reconcile with Celebrimbor, and then - before he's actually done doing that - Fëanor returns as well so Curufin also has to sort out how he feels and is reacting to that.

I'd like it to be written by someone with more real-life experience in this sort of emotional tangle than I have, because I just...don't have many strong opinions about parenting. Which this story would very much be about, though not exclusively. However, it WOULD need to follow exactly my headcanons for characterization, worldbuilding, and generally the moral dynamics of the cosmology, because god knows that will also come up.

Key characters and other components include:

Curufin has, over the millennia of being dead, resignedly come around to the "less evil would have been done in the breaking of it" position on the Oath. However, he's still very proud and fucking hates apologizing to anyone. He'll do it but he hates it.

He hates it much less when it's apologizing to Celebrimbor, almost not at all. Celebrimbor, however, is very reluctant to believe his father repents of anything except getting caught.

Yantalmandë, Celebrimbor's Vanyarin wife, who is ready to support him either by kicking any unwanted family firmly out the door or by sympathetically talking him through forgiving them, for his own sake if not theirs - whichever the situation requires. One of the most notable heretics in Aman for her theory that morality and ethics can and should exist entirely independently from the dictates of Eru and the Valar but rather be derived from the nature and experience of Arda. She's mildly embarrassed whenever people bring up her philosophical infamy.

(This is, in fact, somewhat the moral of the story: that when you make a living thing, you may raise and guide and advise them, but you fundamentally lose the right to dictate their choices. Children should be independent from their parents and both should be proud of this.)

Curufinwen, their daughter, at least 1,000 years old but vibes as mid-20s, who in family tradition holds her father to be probably the greatest and definitely her favorite person in the world, and who is distinctly more correct in this than the last 3 people in her eponymous lineage. Skeptical of her newly reincarnated family, but willing to give them a chance. Also, superb metallurgist/chemist/explosives expert.

Maltrinbor, Curufin's wife and Celebrimbor's mother, about as willing to forgive Curufin as Celebrimbor is but at a different angle. I still haven't decided whether I want her to be Noldorin (and died in the stormy sea-crossing, or in Dagor Bragollach after the slow eroding of her marriage?) or Teleri (and died at Alqualondë while trying to find her idiot husband and clearly-not-safe child, after walking away from them a decade ago?). Either way, she's a preeminent artist in glass and has been living near her parents near Aulë's mountain, focusing on craft all these millennia since her return, happy to be a mother but avoiding like spiders any royal politics (which Celebrimbor can never quite do.) SO disappointed in Curufin, for not being...better. In literally any way tbh. But especially for never stepping far enough out of his father's shadow to live up to his own potential.

Finrod in the role of frustratingly wise advice-giver, not least in the area of parenting because he's now had 7 children, and, when Curufin cracks and asks him for help, earnest confidant and supporter in this reconciliation. While also playing an extended game which he calls "social rehabilitation" and Curufin and Celegorm both call "publicly humiliating psychological torment." On top of everything else Curufin has to be grateful and/or apologetic to Finrod about, when Celebrimbor returned from Mandos, Finrod immediately took him under his wing and helped him fully recover from his trauma and comfortably re-settle into Valinorian society.

Veryawendë, Finrod's 4th daughter and Celebrimbor's best friend, artistic collaborator, and ally within the family. A superb jewel-smith and -sculptor who actually studied with Nerdanel in order to master form and sense of movement and life. Very ready to bodily kick unwanted parents or uncles out the door on his behalf.

Celegorm, Curufin's usual/former closest confidant, who is very sympathetic to Curufin's plight and of course he also wants to reconcile with his beloved nephew, but he's kind of focussed on reconciling with an entire Vala of the Hunt first so could you maybe stop ranting and help him, Curvo?

Nerdanel absolutely is involved in this, but I think she's trying - maybe by wrestling with herself - to stay out of it, and oblige her children and theirs to solve their own problems which they made.

And of course Fëanor, who comes out of Mandos regretting a great deal...but who is still too prideful to let himself be much diminished by this guilt, and so with all his vigor sets about trying to Fix What He Broke, which sometimes means the world's most undeniable earnest repentant apologies and sometimes means unthinkingly steamrolling everyone and everything in his path.

(Fëanor who never wanted his children to be consumed by his own fire - his own will, his own grief and rages - like kindling for the flame, but who probably didn't always communicate that in word or deed even before the Oath. Fëanor who, accustomed to Bonding Through Craft, tries to connect with his grandson by offering to teach him some techniques which have clearly been lost, and instead only sets off Celebrimbor's latent Annatar-related alarm bells. Fëanor who is overall struggling with many of the same things that Curufin is, and in most ways he's ahead [typical, natural, bitterly surprising] but in some ways he's behind [mind-boggling, earth-shaking, weirdly satisfying in an uncomfortably vengeful way.])

(Vs Curufin who is so angry at and so so so disappointed and betrayed by his father but who has never consciously, and rarely unconsciously, experienced those feelings in that direction before [while alive to remember it] and doesn't really know how to do so, much less how to express it [the answer is 'sobbing while shouting', at least at first]. He's pretty accustomed to feeling them toward himself, though, except he's also very accustomed to ignoring that and/or blaming other people for it and feeling like a victim instead. He never felt it toward his son, not truly; it was just easier for a few years toward the end to include Celebrimbor in the list of people he blamed - but only in his very darkest moments, and it always set off a vicious circle of feeling even worse.)

Oh yeah Finwë definitely needs to be involved in this whole tangle of generations of fatherhood as well. But I have no idea how he fits in, just that he's among the people who all need to be put into a giant hamster ball together and gently shaken until they're all a little healed.

Btw corrollary to the above "you have to be okay with your children doing things you neither plan nor approve of" is "you have to be okay with things you make being viewed and used in ways you neither planned nor approved of." It's not always your right (@Fëanor) and it's not always your responsibility (@Celebrimbor - he's mostly learned the lesson but it still hurts. The recent end of the Third Age brought back how it hurts).

Additional Supporting Cast:

Maedhros: running around playing catch-up on the 3D chess game of Noldorin and Eldarin politics and public perception. (Note: I'm ambivalent as to whether this fic has to take place in a Celechwes-inclusive timeline, but if it is, she gets pregnant shortly before Fëanor's return and that's very thematically relevant.)

Maglor: hasn't entirely recovered from 6,000 years of self-induced Song-filled isolation, has apparently sworn some sort of fealty to Earendil?? No help.

Caranthir: busy trailing after his wife like a repentant puppy until she decided to let him back into her heart. No help.

Ambarussa: one of them, probably Amrod, took up weaving while drifting between Mandos's Halls and Vairë's, and is continuing that apprenticeship while alive again, so they're spending a lot of time with the grandparents.

Mahtan, who is quite near the top of the list of people whom Curufin doesn't want to look in the eye.

The Silmaril which is right over there on the far edge of the continent, he can feel it sometimes...and that's okay. It's where it neds to be, it's in the care of a (distant) (barely counts) kinsman, and more important Maglor is keeping some sort of eye on it. So it's fine. There's nothing he can practically do anyway, not without restarting a war; and that's not an option anymore than charging Angband was.

Huan, best boy. Has also been looking after Celebrimbor since he returned to life, because he's the best uncle in this family.

A wide assortment of OCs, including people who died in Himlad, people who followed Curufin to Doriath and died there, people who followed him to Doriath and survived beyond that, people who stayed with Celebrimbor in Nargothrond, people who were in Eregion and died, people who were in Eregion and survived...

I really want the whole line of Curufinwës to make something together, like, the very first scene is Curufin approaching Celebrimbor not for the first time, but for like the third time and this time he's suggesting a long-term project of some sort, which would give them the opportunity to spend time together in an activity they both enjoy and (used to) both enjoy and are accustomed to doing together. Then that spans the whole story. Idk what it is, though - I do want them to make Maedhros a hand that shoots lasers like Iron Man's glove, but that's not what The Project should be.

CURUFIN HAS TO GET AN EPESSË IN THE END, ONE WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FËANOR WHATSOEVER.

#ask meme #my fic #aman ever after #curufin #celebrimbor #feanor

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hellsbroadcaster · 1 month

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Get to know the mun!

——— BASICS ! ♡

(PEN)NAME : Dia PRONOUNS : she/her. ZODIAC SIGN : I am a full blown Pisces TAKEN OR SINGLE : single

——— THREE FACTS ! ♡

♡ if I have the inspo for it I make AMV's when I'm not tired ~ ♡ I have six dogs, three cats and 2 pigs ♡ dr.pepper is my favorite drink and is the superior drink

——— EXPERIENCE ! ♡

I started writing when I was 16. I got introduced to tumblr a little earlier than that but 16 was when I started my first ever rp blog. I've been around since 2010 ? So, I'm ancient shit ya'll.

——— MUSE PREFERENCE ! ♡

I generally go for the middle aged men, who hide their true ambitions behind a wide smile and witty attitude. But I also love angry muses, those are my fav kind of flavor. Spicy. its always gotta be the ones who are very much like me and shoulder their shit all on their own and then get surprised when they are reminded they arent all alone fnkdlsfs.

——— FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT ! ♡

FLUFF : let me put it this way, fluff will make me blush, giggle and kick my feet where as smut, I can write and read with a straight face there is no inbetween. ANGST : my life is a tragic comedy and so are my rps. SMUT : I love it <3 very sex positive in this house. PLOT / MEMES : both are good for me! memes have their way of being good ice breakers, but I do enjoy the plotting conversations I have with people and we are just throwing ideas back and forth like a ping pong ball

I stole it :3

#⌜off the air⌟ . // ooc #mun facts #sINCE ITS MUNDAYY

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figureofdismay · 3 months

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WIP meme stolen from @stripedroseandsketchpads and other on my dash ;)

rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

Then tag as many people as you have WIPs <- (i'm not doing that, I've got an Unreasonable number of WIPs, if you have WIPs and want asks about them consider yourself tagged! and consider tagging me so i can send an ask!)

2010 RG yours for a song (romangerri, succession)

Ineluctable (buffy/giles, BTVS)

what kind of day has it been (red/liz, the blacklist s2 AU)

lizzington fake married (red/liz, the blacklist, nonspecific s2ish era)

blame me i will wear it / yearlong (red/liz, the blacklist, s3 on the run AU)

the gods are not kind (red/liz, the blacklist, hades/persephone magical realism AU)

life will lay you down (red/liz, the blacklist, s1, now badly jossed extreme AU)

a swift decline (red/liz, the blacklist extreme S1 AU)

JMJ RG exchange fic S4 speculation (romangerri, succession, bailed on the exchange for health reasons and then s4 wasn't like that at all but I did like some of what i did here)

soulbates / sick joy, (norma/norman, bates motel, S1 AU with a rearranged timeline and a high school production of Hamlet)

prodigy roman / Fugue For 3 Voices (romangerri extreme AU with aging piano prodigy Roman and music coach Gerri, set 2003ish)

selki gerri / by the fountain of thirst (romangerri extreme AU set in fantasy 15th century un-europe)

last visible dog (romangerri extreme AU where gerri was the school doctor at roman's boarding school who he befriended and kept in touch with)

Bow Like The Field (morse/thursday, endeavour itv, s3 and s4 affair AU)

Do I Run Rare (morse/thursday, endeavour itv, S6 AU, shading into a reimagined s7)

Steady The Wheel (linden/holder, the killing, picks up immediately after S3 and heading AU right away)

What Happens In Japan... (romangerri, succession, positing a japan fling pre-s2)

Go West, deleted AO3 revison (red/liz, the blacklist, a post s2 on the run AU that does more with the memory revision than Blame Me, finished, deleted to revise and expand)

All Our Running Is Ahead / profiler Liz (red/liz, the blacklist, Full AU where Liz's profiling isn't forgotten in 20 minutes and she agrees to be his messenger if she can do a psychological study/write a book about him)

ride it all the way down (like buster keaton) (james/jezza, top gear rpf, 'the unhappy one'/'unrequited feelings edition' starting from when they met in 1998 and skimming through to an "AU" s17/s18ish era and a fictional Mediterranean trip special instead of the India special) (i came up with my title in 2019 before knowing about the Lowden Wainright song!)

Wishverse (buffy/giles, BTVS, Wishverse 'more of them lived' AU)

J x P post canon AU / Younger Than We've Ever Been (Janeway/Paris, Star Trek Voyager, Post canon and Investigations era, 'retina burn' vibes)

Strong Poison AU / Forced Blooms (romangerri AU inspired by harriet and peter in Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers, vague timeline)

Post Home AU (Morse/Thursday post s1 AU with injured and grieving Morse)

Starman AU (Michael/Eleanor, the Good Place, Michael as the an alien somewhat like the Jeff Bridges character and Eleanor as the Jenny Hayden type character)

Lou's Novel (Mary/Lou, The Mary Tyler Moor Show, Lou wrote a novel and awkwardly gives it to Mary to read, and she realizes that the fictional Lou-insert is in love with the fictional Mary-insert)

We'll Have Trouble All Our Days, (michael/eleanor, the goodplace immediately post s2 AU)

Nothing to Pack (Mulder/Scully, the x-files, S1 thru s5 AU with a "secret" affair from mid s1 til Scully's abduction and all of the fallout)

Resonance Frequency (Psychic!Scully MSR AU kicking off from Beyond the Sea, but following & veering off from canon for a while)

Cuckoo's Children (MSR, a "diana as Ooonagh" and "CGB-CSM as Gabriel" posit with a cloned Mulder child -- Only one though! No chess game! No switch the babies! -- that Mulder and Scully have to chase down and cure Pawn In Frankincense style)

dharma and gregging it (MSR. the x-files, light satire-surrealist style full AU where instead of being assigned together, Mulder and Scully got impulsively married after a long weekend and then have to combine their lives)

post bad blood recovery (Foyle/Sam, Foyle's War, S4 AU where Sam stays with Foyle after being released from the hospital, recovering from her anthrax infection)

There are more, but I don't remember them well enough to talk about them. And this is..... already quite the list, oof 🙃😆.

anything look interesting?? 👀

#fic writing #about #my fics #ask game

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theladyragnell · 10 months

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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks....

I don't mind at all! This is an absolutely HUGE question, though, so I am going to adapt it into a meme that goes around sometimes and just do ten favorite characters from ten different media properties I love, because otherwise I am going to sit here all day frozen with indecision wondering if I'm forgetting someone, or if each character is REALLY worthy of being top ten out of all the media I've consumed in my life.

This got long, so it's under a cut!

Murderbot (The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells): One of my favorite book series! And I love Murderbot so deeply for so many reasons. It's funny! It's being adopted into everyone's found family and doing so kicking and screaming! It cares deeply about people once it allows itself too! Runner-up in this property is ART, who I love dearly, but really, it couldn't be anyone else but Murderbot itself.

Keladry of Mindelan (The Tortall series by Tamora Pierce): Kel is so stubborn and kind and very subtly funny in a lot of ways, and she's my favorite of the Pierce heroines. She jousts! She adopts everyone and every beast that crosses her path! She gets up to shenanigans with her friends! Just a joy of a character.

Johnny Jaqobis (Killjoys (TV)): I love everyone in this wildly underrated show, but Johnny especially. I've got a weakness for the quippy best-friend-of-the-badass/support character type (see also: Foggy Nelson from Daredevil), and Johnny is such a perfect one. He's funny, he's badass, he pretends to be married to two separate people in the course of the show. What's not to love?

Maia Drazhar (The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison): This book is so good, and Maia is such a good central character of it. He's so kind, so determined to be good in a position that makes it hard to be good or kind, to build connections when he's been denied them his whole life and change things nobody thinks it's possible to change. I love him!

Xena (Xena Warrior Princess): With my love for quippy best friends, you might think Gabrielle would be my favorite, but no, Xena is a competent badass searching for (and, as she goes along, finding) redemption, which is another favorite character type. She's also a badass warrior who's not at all afraid or self-conscious of being emotional and expressing affection, which is a rare and wonderful thing.

Leia Organa (Star Wars): The original trilogy trio are all close to my heart, but Leia just edges the other two out. I've just always loved her banter, how she refuses to be cowed by any situation, and her super cool hairstyles. Very much a I-want-to-be-like-her-when-I-grow-up character since childhood.

Harriet Morton (A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson): One of my formative romantic books. Harriet's not too different from Maia, actually, only Maia before becoming emperor and thus not having much power to effect change! She's kind and brave about loving and quietly stubborn, and she's very much in the same type as

Fanny Price (Mansfield Park by Jane Austen): Mansfield Park is nobody's favorite Austen, and Fanny is nobody's favorite Austen heroine, and yet! (I do technically love Persuasion, and probably Anne, more, but I'm not nearly as defensive of either of them, so Fanny's the one I thought of first for this list). She's very much that same character type as Harriet, and I seem to love characters who are clinging to goodness when they don't have much else to cling to.

Alec Hardison (Leverage (TV)): He's so smart and so full of fun quips! And also hot, look, I can be allowed to be a little shallow here. Anyway, I love all the characters in this show, but Hardison absolutely wins out.

Danielle de Barbarac (Ever After): This movie is full of great characters, but I adore Danielle. Determined, good-hearted, willing to carry a prince out of a forest, reader of dense tomes, what's not to love?

#dnana 2809 blog #answered asks

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clarafell · 2 months

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POSITIVITY MEME : Not Accepting! ⟶ (MORE MEMES)

@wolfvirago

Ryn, I adore how passionate you are about Robin!

You can see how much you adore her with each new post. But the fact that Robin has been kicking since 2021 is soooo impressive to see. It isn't easy to have an original character, especially female ones. I've partaken in original characters myself, but they've never been put on any blogs. I can't imagine how original characters are treated, but I do know that female ones often have a tricky time in a similar way to female muses. Seeing Robin grow even more is so aspiring to watch!

I know I'm only supposed to say one thing, but I can't help adding some extras. Another favorite thing of mine when it comes to your blog is that Robin's background is written like a traditional fairytale. Another thing that I like is just the existence of Robin's PMMM verse. I'm sure I would love to see how Robin's labyrinth and witch would look and behave, maybe even how her doppel looks, but... I'm also hoping for Robin's happiness, so there's that. You don't see PMMM verses that often, but it's always a delightful surprise to see them.

#❛ ✧ ┊ ophelia speaks. ooc.#❛ ✧ ┊ the fairy tale gets a little darker after midnight. answered.#❛ ✧ ┊ the pinnacle of all human emotion. positivity.#wolfvirago #(Please ignore how old this is)#(Don't mind me)#(Always adoring Robin!!)

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duckapus · 5 months

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Here We Go Again...

(When Team Rocket first encountered Meme Pikachu)

Meowth: I'm sorry, but the position of annoying talking Pokemon is already taken!

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Zack: Toast is just large croutons.

Ted:... *deploys toast depicting Zack's face with "X"es for eyes*

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Arle: Now me? I'm not like the twins. I don't know the first thing about clothes. Pretty much all I can do is look at something and tell you if it's clothes or not.

Arle: This chair? *taps on the chair she's sitting in* Not clothes.

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(Doppel meets a fortune teller while traveling in Magnamiel)

Fortune Teller: Your future is full of struggle and anguish. Most of it self-inflicted.

Pierrot: But ye didn't read my palms or anythin'.

Fortune Teller: I didn't need to. It's written all over your mask.

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Sally: I have edge!

Elanore: You really don't. You're literally the most wide-eyed person I've ever seen even with all the horrors you've lived through. If you weren't made of metal you'd probably have the face of a cartoon lamb.

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Ash: Actually despite being a teenager and an Avatar I'm a surprisingly rational person.

Pikachu: Your hand's been stuck in a vending machine for twenty minutes.

Ash: I paid for my pretzels.

Ash: I'm getting my pretzels.

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Andrew: Aren't you a little young to be drinking wine?

Frenzy, holding a wine glass full of goat blood: ...Yes.

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Tulip: If I stay in bed I'll be warm. If I take a shower I'll be warm. But between the bed and the shower? No. That Is Not The Warm.

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(If 4 had managed to recover more quickly (or at all))

Admiral 3: Enough! How dare you mock me in such a manner!?

SMG4: Well, how would you like me to mock you? I take requests.

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Frenzy: Sometimes I drink milk straight from the container.

Ash: The Miltank?

Frenzy: WHAT?

Sora: Ash, why!?

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Laharl: Etna has taught Sicily how to stick post-it's on people's backs without them noticing.

Laharl: She doesn't know they're supposed to say stuff like "Kick Me" so they just have cute drawings or animal facts.

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Frenzy, vibrating intensely: GuysthiscoffeeissogoodIcouldprobablydoamathproblem.

Sora, already dialing Crown's number: Correctly?

Frenzy: Idon'tknow.

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Zack: Uh, I think I got your lunch. *holds up a note that says "I'm very proud of you. Love, Mom"*

Cody: Oh, yeah. I didn't think this was for me. *holds up a note that says "Be good. For the love of God, please be good"*

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Red: If you ever feel safe remember that I am out there.

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Meggy: THREE MONTHS!

Boopkins: What's she talking about?

Bob: Don't worry about it-

Meggy: FOR THREE MONTHS YOU WATCHED ME WATER A PLASTIC PLANT!

Bob, trying not to laugh: It's in the lobby, it isn't even your plant!

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Luigi: Hey Bro, what are you doing?

Mario: Trying to draw a perfect circle.

Luigi: ...That's a triangle.

Mario: I said I'm trying!

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mingos · 3 months

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For the question about my character meme, how do you personally think Doffy felt about the situation when he was a child and St Homing decided to give up his status to live with the common folk. We saw how badly they were treated, but I'd like your opinion on how it personally affected Doffy, if you don't mind?

　oh, it psychologically fucked him up. no doubt. not even just the beatings & extreme poverty that would come later, i'm talking everything about that situation from start-to-finish. (before i start, just to be clear, this is not a 'uwu poor doffy uwu' analysis, this is a child psychology analysis.)

i know his shock & anger at the beginning before anything 'bad' happened was meant to illustrate "see, he's always been an evil little shit" but honestly, his base reaction is perfectly within the realms for a kid who has had his entire life & belief system essentially just upended. he wasn't an adult with a fully developed brain, he was a child with a child's brain. eight years old is actually around the time kids start thinking logically & understanding the world around them on a deeper level.

picture it: you're essentially one of the richest, most powerful children in the world, raised in an environment where you are deified & you can do no wrong, that everyone beneath you (humans) is less than dirt (whether that's right is not the point) and one day your dad is like... "hey, i want to be that". and you overhear your peers mocking your dad and essentially kicking you all out of your home and forcing you to move to an unfamiliar environment. like, moving schools as a child, but worse.

you've also been conditioned to think you are entitled to anything you want, and are allowed to be as nasty as you want to humans without consequence. but, suddenly, not only are they not serving you anymore... the moment you talk to these humans the way you have been conditioned by the adults in your life to talk to them when they 'disrespect' youーthey burn down your new house & start threatening to murder you. they are essentially in the position you used to be in now.

yeah sure "taste of your own medicine" and all thatーbut doflamingo is eight. he barely knows what that even means, at that age children are still learning basic concepts of morality & social norms, and at that point basically every social norm doflamingo has been conditioned into for those first eight years of his life were turned on their head & now all the sudden he was punished for believing them rather than praised. for the first time in his life, he's starving. for the first time in his life, he's been hit. he's poor. he's forced to wear rags. nothing he has been taught makes sense anymore.

also, at that age, your world tends to revolve around one thingーyour parents. they understand the roles of "child" and "adult" and understand that the adult's purpose is to give them guidance & protect them. homing, in doflamingo's eyes, did the opposite. he put them in harms’ way. another thing in his world that has been proven totally wrong.

child brains generally do not handle stress or trauma well; i forget the exact wording or study so don't quote me, but i've read articles over the years that make the argument that children who grow up in violent home environments (like witnessing/being subjected to domestic violence) or split home environments (like parents undergoing a messy divorce) essentially can have levels of ptsd equivalent to war veterans.

(on a personal note) as a very ill child who spent my first 12 years in & out of hospitals, i have medical ptsd; just hearing a heart rate monitor, seeing a needle, or smelling that very specific 'hospital' or 'anesthesia' smell is enough to give me a panic attack sometimes, even at 27.

that kind of trauma really does stick with youーeverything goes back to your childhood.

　taking his power back was, in part, to ensure that nothing close to that ever happens to him again.

#‘ 007. ’ (headcanons)#child abuse //#poverty //#medical //

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kendrene · 6 months

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3, 10, 12, 31 & 45 for the ask meme please!

Really clever of me to answer these now after complaining to you about not being able to write. I'm a clown.

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

I think there's a lot of deconstruction and reassembling of the self in what I write. A character beginning their story lost or trapped inside a prison they've created for themselves, who slowly recognize they've been sabotaging their own progress and happiness/goals and eventually end up a different person, this time one of their choosing if not necessarily happy ever after. So I'd say I like to focus a lot on inner journeys.

10. How do you decide what to write?

Mostly my ideas decide it for me. I'm always thinking about stories or small scenes even when I'm not actively writing anything, like one of those hot springs always simmering. Eventually something will bubble up to the surface and demand an out and that's when I actually write a story.

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

Enemies to lovers and the opposite, lovers who become enemies. It can be very bland if the angle is wrong but if done right it can lead to some interesting dynamics.

31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?

I've come to REALLY, REALLY appreciate long one-shots. Let me vomit 20k words onto AO3, collapse into a pile of spent viscera and forget I even wrote the thing forever.

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?

I can definitely tell how much my command of language has improved since I began writing on (cringes) FF, but while I've always loved descriptions and action dearly I believe I've seen the most improvement on dialogue. It's by no means as snappy and natural as some of what other writers produce (looking at you Casper, tho tbh all of your writing positively gut punches me and kicks me in the shin every single time) yet I would say that for a non native speaker I can hold my own decently. Obviously, I strive to ever improve.

#ask dren #I'm so sorry it took so long!!!!#thank you for the asks!#you're the bestest that ever was

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simstryingtheirbestok · 1 year

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Music Meme

🎶✨ when u get this u have to put 5 songs u actually listen to, and publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨🎶

I was tagged by @papermint-airplane, @hazely-sims, and @simsdastra, and, um. I have to warn you: I am old. I am decrepit. And like, the below isn't one of my five songs, but if you want a sense of my taste in music in general, this song sums it up perfectly.

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That is your warning label, okay? Okay great, you've agreed to proceed at your own risk. Or (the better choice) not to.

I am just going with the last 5 songs from my last shuffle. Also I don't Spotify so you get Youtubes, sorry.

With Everything to Lose - The Style Council

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I don't even know what genre you call this... bossa nova? The Style Council is what Paul Weller did with his time for a few years after he disbanded The Jam, but before he became an unpaid publicist for Oasis.

If none of the words in the previous sentence made any sense to you, congratulations!!! you are fabulously, wonderfully young!!! Today, all I ask is that you cherish it. Cherish it, and maybe kick a Boomer for me. I can't, I got bad knees.

Russian Roulette - Lords of the New Church

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Hahaha see warning above the cut. What'd I tell you. This shit is so old it's in 4:3. Not that you exactly need it in letterbox or, you know, at all.

Voyage to Atlantis - The Isley Brothers

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I love The Isley Brothers in general, but this one in particular. For yeeeeears I heard "Atlantis" as "Atlanta," and I was a little confused how the city of Atlanta could be called "a paradise out beyond the sea," but then I figured it was just poetic license (and not that I was ignorant, which, yeah. 🙄)

Menswear - The 1975

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I am prone to getting stuck on songs, playing them too often, making myself sick of them, then banishing them from my hearing because I hate them now! Most of them are never allowed back in my presence. They are permanently ruined.

But I've been stuck on "Menswear" since it came out and I think that was ten years ago? More? The band is definitely kind of [gestures upward at warning] but "Menswear" can stay. 🫠💖 (Also, that blouse on Matty reminds me of this Flight of the Conchords bit. 😂)

Dagen efter dagen derpå - Thomas Helmig

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The dagen fucking what now? I don't actually know! I would have to look it up, because I don't speak Danish (and neither do the Danes). I happened on this while fucking around on TuneIn years ago. Like most of my stuff it's very old--1980s? The production screams 1980s so probably. Anyway, I just pretend it's in Simlish when it pops up.

I am not sure I have anyone left to tag who hasn't been tagged already, but I'll do my best: @oasislandingresident, @ysasimblr, @tsims, @miss-may-i, @sugarssims, @distantloner, @pixelwalnut, @anemovictorious, and anyone else who wants in; ideally at least a couple of you so I can pretend I have fulfilled the obligations of this tag meme. 😇

#tag meme #non sims #music #Youtube #the style council #lords of the new church #isley brothers #the 1975 #thomas helmig

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whats-up-with-webam · 10 months

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🦇 and ‼️

for the ask meme

🦇 Favourite brooding spot? - Are we talking in costume or in civilian life? In costume I tend to head toward the tallest building near me and just sit there at the highest spot possible, and watch over the city. I haven't used that method a ton yet, but the few times I've needed it have been great for if I need to be alone. But if I'm just having a rough day in general, I usually just head over to Polybius Games near my apartment and hang out there for a few hours. The owner is a personal friend, plus I used to work there so I get free drinks >:) Plus she has a dog named King who is the CUTEST THING EVER and he loved cuddles and belly rubs and is just the best boy EVER!

‼️ Who’s worked out who you are? Does that worry you? - This is actually a good one to pair with the previous one. Obviously Panda-Mania knows my civilian identity, but the owner of Polybius Games, Eda, knows. Around the time I came to New York, I was homeless, broke and depressed and she had the heart to give me a job so I didn't have to keep busking on the sidewalk to keep on going. After I got bit by the spider I was still living with her, and she's a smart lady so she figured things out pretty quickly. But she approved of what I was doing and was actually the one who helped make my first suit.

And her knowing doesn't worry me in the slightest. I know she wouldn't tell anyone and if she ever got kidnapped, I'm positive she could kick some serious ass.

#spidersona #spidersona oc #spidersona ask #whats up with webam #ask webam #webam #spidersona ask blog #ask blog #ask-blog

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scribbledquillz · 1 year

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As promised, a little life update on me for - well mostly me, but also anyone who'd like to know where in the hell I've been.

Around when I was last here winter of 2021, the hip pain I'd had since I was pregnant with my little one - which until then had mostly just been annoying - started to become more of a problem. It became far more prominent and persistent, as well as moving up into my pelvis and lower back. Spasms, achiness, stabbing pains, lots of fun. It made basic necessities difficult, and continuing exercises other than using the treadmill (which a friend of mine graciously gave to me for free, bless her) impossible.

Fast forward through physical therapy, x rays, mris, steroid injections and a last ditch effort with acupuncture and I'm finally in a place health wise that is, while not ideal at least generally manageable. There's something going on in my SI joint compounded with 30+ years of random factors that probably made it worse that causes just. Boatloads of inflammation. Massage, acupuncture and walking keep it in check, but sadly I don't know when or if I'll be able to get back into weight lifting the way I used to. But hey I can function and I can grocery shop without spending the rest of the day in agony on the couch, so I'll gladly take it!

In that same time in a more positive lane, I did a lot of work on myself and my mental health. I took the time to try new hobbies, dabbled in a lot of creative outlets I never thought to try, and started keeping houseplants. Most of which - save a few casualties to my learning process and one poor rubber tree plant that just can't seem to catch a break - are doing great and making my house feel so much more cozy!

I also got the kick in the ass from a friend (the same one who gave me the treadmill, girl is amazing) to start an original project that I'm really excited about. I'm writing a graphic novel style comic. 😁

It's a long, LONG way from ready to share. But my prologue script is done, and I've connected with a comic artist who I've been working with to illustrate the pages. Once those are done and I've got enough of the main script drafted up, I'll be looking into getting the prologue posted / hosted, as well as a Patreon running to help finance the development of the main story. I don't want to give anything away about the plot just yet, but I will say I want to get this right. Hence the possibility of a Patreon to help fund hiring on several sensitivity readers as well as hopefully bumping up the hours I can afford to pay my illustrator to work.

So yeah - that story is my main priority and focus right now. I want to see this done and completed, because I genuinely think people will like the story I have floating around in my head and the idea of finally being able to turn writing - something I've been passionate about for as long as I remember - into more than a hobby would be AMAZING.

But that being said, I will always have love for Revka and Zevran. Their ship is what pushed me back into writing after a years long dry spell, and I want to give them their due. Not to mention I miss the idiots. ♥️

So that's it! I'll be poking away at their fics as I have time, but want to make it clear their stories will have to stay as something I do as I have spare time and energy. I most likely won't be able to do a lot of meme style writing or prompts - at least for the time being. But I'm excited and happy to be here to gush about my favorite fictional husband and share my love for whatever random fancies pop into my life with you all, and to continue seeing your lovely digital faces on my dash.

I can't wait to share my writing with you all again, and to eventually let you be some of the first folks who can check out my comic!

#personal stuff #real life shenanigans

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wetthandss · 1 year

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fake type is pretty good ngl i think people just hate on electro swing for no reason - or maybe the early generation of it wasn't great (true)

I can't say much on early electro swing but it not being great just kinda goes for any burgeoning musical genre that's just getting its footing. Everyone's still figuring it out. I love hyperpop but back in the 90's or 2000's it was still really rough and honestly wasn't doing much to make itself unique from simply being scaled up american pop a la Ke$ha and Kate Bush. It took decades into the 2010's for it to really come into its own and in the past few years has really seen a surge in popularity, it's mainstream now and we've got greats like A.G. Cook (who really kickstarted hyperpop as something worth paying attention to and 100 gecs who kicked off this current wave.

A lot of the hate I've seen for electro swing has really just been because it was a meme to hate electro swing. Most of what I've seen has not really been genuine. I like seeing genuine criticism of the genre cause it's refreshing to see someone who's actually listened and thought out their opinions on it- positive or negative- and not just memes.

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figureofdismay · 3 months

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when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your followers (positivity is cool)

ooh thank you for the ask!! i love these meme games 💜 just 5 songs is really hard to narrow down though. Especially since i've been on kind of a Romantic era quartets/quintets kick lately which is not very like, individually parse-able song-y 😅

so lets just call the Rosamund Quartet by Schubert one song shall we lol -- this is not the version i have on CD but it seems to be a lovely one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGO_qd4PTh4

Only Skin by Joanna Newsom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs9k3D7Cads (this part is giving me MSR feelings lately

Home by Lisa Hannigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaoTlhS7lY

Stranger Song by Leonard Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlR5D0y23s

Mendocino by Kate and Anna McGerrigle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtnc4mREtaQ

(bonus Kate&Anna bc it starts playing in my head every time i think of them lol: Love Over and Over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mc5yjQa2og )

#ask game #meme #about #music recs

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arysthaeniru · 2 years

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27 for the history ask meme 📚

27. What’s your favourite historical “What if…” scenario?

Ohhh, 200% the what-if scenario if Britain doesn't successfully colonize India. There were several moments in the hundred and fifty years that the British East-India Trading Company slowly spread across India like a virus that the tides could have turned! For instance, although the first Anglo-Mughal war was a victory, the Mughal Emperor didn't respond by kicking the BEITC straight out of India for their fucking gall, which was an option on the table and one many of his courtiers advocated for! I wonder what would have happened if that had happened, because I imagine that without India's raw resources to cull, the British Empire would have had a much harder time with colonizing Africa through sheer weight of economic pull.

There were also several early rebellions against the BEITC's reign of terror, before the one everybody knows in 1857. I'm thinking specifically of the Paika Rebellion, because of its sheer size and organization compared to the other rebellions, which could have seriously crippled the BEITC. I always wonder what could have happened if one of the biggest rebellions against colonial world orders had succeeded early.

I imagine they might have attempts to cripple India with debt and other such things, as they did to Haiti, when Toussaint Louverture and his army overthrew the French and Spanish in Haiti and successfully freed his island from slavery, but I imagine that with allies like Haiti against the colonial struggle, we might have had a more viable organized resistance to colonialism before socialism develops, which would have been intriguing!

Another what-if scenario is I wonder about sometimes if what might have happened with the Ming Dynasty if the Hongwu Emperor hadn't been quite as a paranoid as he was. The Hongwu Emperor was a peasant who was so charismatic and powerful that he essentially managed to take control of the religious peasant rebellions happening all over the country and promote himself to being Emperor with remarkable ease. He was an incredibly intelligent and smart man and he was INCREDIBLY paranoid about being overthrown by his family, and so he essentially imposed a whole bunch of rules that reduced the power of the imperial family (they weren't allowed positions in court or local governments before becoming Emperor) and reduced the power of the central bureaucratic figures like the ministers to make sure they couldn't overthrow him. The system worked remarkably well when he was alive, because he was comically competent in everything he put his hand to, but the Ming Dynasty Emperors were essentially fucked from that point on. They had no actual grounding in political theory and had had no space to learn before becoming Emperor, so they essentially became glorified puppets for the much more politically experienced eunuchs--who the literati court despised.

The Ming Dynasty was kind of a success DESPITE everything happening in the capital because of the success of competent local governors, and the rise of revolutionary agricultural methods that literally meant no matter how many wars and mismanagement occurred, the population just kept going up anyway. You also have the rise of traders and artists and tourism in the Ming Dynasty in very cool ways, you have a very bustling middle-class population that aren't literati doing well for themselves despite everything. I've always wondered how glorious the Ming Dynasty might have been if their government hadn't been in shambles because of the way that the Hongwu Emperor designed it. What sorts of heights they could have reached.

#meme thingies #thanks so much for asking! i am a huge nerd #and i find myself fascinated by GRAND what-if scenarios

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bitegore · 2 years

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2 for the fic ask meme, for any of your fics bc I’m so curious about like all of them.

2. How did you get the idea to write this?

There's three different methods that lead to me coming up with an idea and all of them are spawned by someone else, pretty much.

1 - Almost always - someone said something, and I decided to run with it. Almost every fic I've ever written is crack treated seriously, in common parlance, because I'm a fucking sucker for humor and I can't see any reason why (for example) "lmaoooooo wouldn't it be funny if vortex dedcided to get back at onslaught by playing such opaque power games that literally no one involved but him knows what he's even doing" and "lmaooooooooo wouldn't it be funny if the evil helicopter got in trouble for capturing and working over optimus prime because megatron is obsessed with him" -> this is a serious smut fic i'm actually working on that i don't intend to be a joke in any real sense. So that's probably 3/4ths of my various bodies of work right there, springboarded off random shit other people say because I'm really not that creative in a vacuum (because no one is!)

A wip like that would be the Wildrider/Brawl Movie Nights fic that i keep mentioning offhandedly and not posting anywhere because it's not done. The two combiner punchydudes who get no spotlight have a running movie night hangout session, that's the entire joke, that's fucking funny. it's so normal it's humorous.

....and then i think about it because it's funny as all get out to me, and i tell people and they say things that make it funnier to me, and i go "but wildrider can't sit still, i do not believe he can watch movies", and "well, they're actually both pretty confident in their positions and not insecure unlike basically every other decepticon ever, so they can actually get along" and "while wildrider is constantly doing stuff he's actually pretty fucking chill," and "they both like explosions" and "they probably share a taste in movies" and then next thing I knew i had 2000 words in a google document.

and THEN i started thinking about how much Motormaster (beloved control freak, absolute asshole<3) would hate that not only was Wildrider hanging out with Starscream's shitty combiner team but he's also hanging out with the (to his eyes) literal bottom tier most utterly pointless guy in the entire faction who is completely useless for anything other than being a big gun and who has NO ambitions and is going to corrupt his crazy punchydude who at least does stuff sometimes. and that was ALSO really funny to me so i added it. and then I thought about how Vortex is inconsistent but loves causing problems for people and I added it. and now Wildrider and Brawl get together to set off fireworks in the driveway, get drunk, kick over some squishy towns for kicks, and watch about 30 seconds of a movie together during an allotted timespan while the other Combaticons give Motormaster a hard time because they think it's funny and he won't properly leave until he has Wildrider back because he may have agreed to let them have a few hours of hangout time but that doesn't mean he likes it and neither Brawl nor Wildrider have any intention to let him supervise

and of couse this is funny as all get out to me in sum. Terrible guys (affectionate) having good clean fun in the Decepticon Army, as they should.

2 - The others are essentially just me shining a light on some corner of a character I feel like has been ignored. Usually those ones are way shorter. Basically all my drabbles are just "think about this character in some way you haven't yet". It goes further, though, there's like. My fucking magnum opus that I never shut up about because I've never Achieved The Vision so clearly ever again, we became such strangers now, fading out, was me holding up springer and impactor and going "you two are closer to each other than you think you are, now make friends" (and, like all my other fics, spawned from someone else saying something - in this case @honestlyvan, whom is possessed of all the best wreckers takes imo, pretty much handed me this one on a platter and helped me beat it into shape). That's like 3k words long. Ditto for what do you do in the house of flies?, where i just shamelessly gave Vortex my own brain problems and also gave Onslaught some very different brain problems and made them Talk. That's a little under 4.5k. I can't think of any wips that are like this, really, not from the spawning point at least, but that's mostly because I usually just crank those fuckers out as fast as possible or give up NO i'm wrong. i'm wrong!

I have a wip like that. It's tentatively titled "something something metal bones" because I hate titles. The entire fic is a character study of Bulkhead of Transformers: Prime, set on the backdrop of him walking through an ancient, abandoned factory under Tyger Pax on Cybertron during the hotter parts of the war in TFP, trying to strip parts out of the ground to repair his ship so he can get the fuck out with his unconscious pilot buddy. The point of it is thus - the factory is trapped in an eternal twilight, because everyone fucked off or died without turning it off, and it's just going and going forever without end until someone turns it off because it's a part of Cybertron and it's not going to run out of fuel or anything. It's falling into ill repair, and the last time anyone living laid eyes on it was centuries ago, and Bulkhead, who used to work in a place like this, knows exactly how unloved and neglected this place has been. And he can't fix it. He has things that need to be done. Instead the best he can do is turn everything off before he leaves, giving it a final rest. It's also an extended allegory for his fears about the war, especially by the time of TFP, because I like my parallels too much and everything has to be everything else. And the other point of it is thus: despite the pressing unease and how fucking sad this is, Bulkhead is still stripping parts out of the ground because he has more important things to do. He's not fixing it, and he's not even going to try, because he's more pragmatic than all that and he knows how to prioritize better than another character might. He's got the necessary callouses to let him move on despite the fact that he's like uniquely positioned to be the fucking saddest about this out of everyone i've written, because this is like walking into his childhood home and seeing that it's rotting and falling apart at every seam, and choosing not to do anything to it except rip some of the flooring up and hit the road.

......i need to finish that one too but i want it to be good and it's hard to write things well sdjfjsdhfl. one day i'll finish and post it and it'll make everyone cry.

3 - And, finally, sometimes someone says something to me and it just is DRENCHED in dramatic irony, absolutely clotted and choking with irony where you know something but the character doesn't and OUGH but if they only knew...

and I write the FUCK outta those things because I love irony. That's the last subset. It goes hand in hand with the other two, though; I think it'd be more accurate to say that a hefty serving of irony is necessary for me to care about an idea, but if an idea isn't a joke and it isn't some side facet of a character no one else is talking about I'll still be invested if it's ironic enough.

(also this isn't an "ironic enjoyment" kind of thing like. i am not saying sincerity is bad, i like sincerity, i love when you have to dig it out of a character with a hammer and a chisel and a pair of tweezers and it hurts the whole way up. i am very unironic about the things i like.I like it as a plot element, not a lifestyle, i'm not one of Those MFs.)

Questions can be found here :D

#class canceled so i'm back lmfao

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