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nalyra-dreaming · 28 days

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Hello again!

Reading some interviews I’m curious about the teaser that “Dubai will be explosive/spicy etc.”

What do you think will happen in Dubai this season- if you were to speculate freely? Will there be violence? Do you think there will be horror and even frights? What kind of horror in that case? Truths seem to be coming to the surface - from maybe all of our main characters? Also how(!) do you think stuff will play out - I feel there’s been a lot of good speculation and of course the books are there about the what - but I’m getting more and more curious about the how of it all - if that makes sense?

Would love to hear your thoughts! Thank you!

Hey!

I've spoken about this before, but... I expect some kind of Merrick-esque fallout in Dubai, coming also with some kind of reveal wrt to "The Groan".

So - emotional impact and also lore-story-line explosion: 1000% :)

I just reblogged a bit of a discussion-meta wrt the revisit of episode 5 here, and I really am nodding along there, because I also feel that one of the big emotional gut punches will be that Merrick-diary-reveal (that was also a sucker punch for book readers back then!). And the attempted suicide after that.

Now, if that is really Marius in the trailer... then "Those Who Must Be Kept" are likely near. IF that holds, then they could be connected to "The Groan". That said, Lestat has to show up for s3 in some kind of manner as well, soo...

I think that Dubai will be increasingly painful. Memories will come back, years of memory, as was said in the trailer. Both Daniel and Louis will be deeply affected. Truths will come out. About their lives, about what they believed of themselves.

About what happened, and why.

The why will be the horror I think.

And the who.

Now, there are a lot of possibilities flitting around my brain as to how the season could end, tbh, but it's a bit difficult to pin down:

There's

Lestat waking up to save Louis , literally shaking the tower's foundations (which would be in line with Merrick, but might be too much "white savior" for the show, however, there was a version that Anne thought about writing first that the show might play with). This is what I think will happen.^^

Akasha waking up in the basement, literally shaking the tower to pieces (she did destroy the tomb under the ice when she rose)

Lestat coming from somewhere else and crashing the party

or Lestat coming onto the radio/TV/internet after all with his rock career

or something entirely new which has to do with the "great conversion"

Personally I think the rockstar career happened in the 80s, it just didn't lead to the same events, in a way proven by Daniel being old now.

We will need to have Lestat "there" somehow for s3.

I think Daniel will continue the interview for at least the next season. I think he will also remember something wrt Lestat.

I do hope for a 4 person play in Dubai in s3.

Imagine Armand, Louis, Lestat and Daniel on a couch, all aware of what the other knows (well, apart from life stories). The bitching, the pettiness, the hidden aggression. Glorious. I would love that.

I do not think there will be violence. Armand loves both Daniel and Louis way too much for that, and Marius would not hurt them either. IF there is violence then that is coming from another source, and if it isn't Akasha... I cannot quite see someone becoming violent, not really. Self-destructive, yes. But against another there? Mhhh. The books coming down on Daniel will most certainly connected to a cataclysmic event, and that... will likely be connected to "The Groan", imho.

And that cataclysmic event will then carry us into s3 :)

Sorry if this isn't... precise.

There is a LOT they could play with and while I see the arc building they might choose to pull something else in, maybe, like the threat by Rhoshamandes, maybe. Or even a Talamasca threat, something Anne toyed with, but never really wrote up.

So there are... possibilities.

The only sure thing is, imho, that it's going to hurt, and that it will bring us to s3 :))))))

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solarmorrigan · 4 months

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fic writing ask game: 4 and 13!!

Hello!

4. Link your three favorite fics right now.

Assuming that their wording here was meant like "your three favorite fics currently" and not a demand to link "your three favorite fics ever right this minute," here are a few I've been returning to lately! (I've really had Steve accidentally getting his feelings crushed/revealing fucked up coping mechanisms on the brain, so there's a theme!)

perfectly misaligned by @emchant3d Honestly, I adore em's version of Steve and Eddie and anything by them is going to get a rec from me, but this one is a particular favorite. Draws the tension out just long enough that the comfort feels thoroughly earned once we crack Steve like an emotional egg <3

Still So Much to Learn by @bonitabreezy I love this one because a) it speaks a bit to the fandom's casual disregard for Steve's canon style and interests and eloquently addresses how dismissing the things someone enjoys can be as harmful as dismissing the person themself, and b) such well-written hurt/comfort

the bitterness of an apology on the tongue by loverboysteve (I know they have a Tumblr but I can't remember what it is right now, if someone knows it, I'll link it!) I just. really enjoy reading about Steve having fucked up coping mechanisms he thinks are Perfectly Normal™ because this is the way it's always been, only for someone who cares about him to go "Steve, what the fuck" and then deal with the emotional fallout. I'm so glad we all seem to agree on this

13. Do you outline your fics? How much of a headache would someone get if they just looked at an outline of yours without reading the fic?

So here's the thing. I have two settings when it comes to writing: strict outline, and "I know the ending, that's good enough." If I outline something, I have a lot of trouble deviating from it even when the story wants to pull naturally into what might be a better direction, so I feel like my writing is a lot better when it comes from the second method. Unfortunately, my memory isn't... as good as it used to be, so if I'm writing something a bit longer or with a lot of things happening at once that I want to keep track of, I need to outline it

On the other hand, this means that my outlines are really more like very rough first drafts. I can't just stick random words in there and hope I'll remember what they mean later, so I write down ideas and plot points in full, sometimes with dialogue attached. The only thing that might give someone a headache is the structure; I use that tiered bullet point feature in Word and indent things as the mood takes me. Trying to decipher my method of organization when I write it by hand might prove even more frustrating, but if you can get past that, you get a fairly complete story!

Fic Writer Ask Game

#devondespresso #thank you for sending this #I feel so crappy today and answering some questions was a very nice distraction <3 #might be why it's a little long-winded though sorry D:#answers from solar

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halliescomut · 8 months

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In Defense of Wedding Plan....or Lom, more specifically...

So, I actually don't see a lot of discourse on here about Wedding Plan...maybe I just haven't been on here as much. But also, there are a lot of deeper shows on at the moment that are tackling more ethereal ideas and Wedding Plan is more pulp-y romcom than anything else, so it's not necessarily ripe for deep discussion. But on tiktok where I'm fairly active in the BL community I have seen so much hate on this show. And I understand certain levels of frustration about the choice of storyline, but I also get frustrated because I feel like people are purposely disregarding several things.

(Editors note from right before I post this, I was going to add visuals, but I'm too emotionally exhausted now, so you'll just have to settle for the wall of text.)

I agree that it's not good, or right, or acceptable for Lom to have lied to Nuea. But there's been behavior that acts as though Lom is cheating...he's not in a romantic relationship with Yiwa!! He can't cheat on her. And yes, it does lead Nuea to believe he's at least attempting to cheat, but that's not the same. I recognize that Nuea would not feel great about his feelings towards Lom, both because of their professional relationship and what he is assuming about Lom and Yiwa's private relationship. But that's also a nuanced discussion in and of itself because Nuea knows there's something fishy going on with Lom's engagement. He doesn't know what, but he definitely suspects, I think from as early as episode 2. They go out of their way to set up in episode one his sort of sixth sense about couples with that McDonald's scene. Their intention is for us to see how observant Nuea is.

And watching this most recent episode (episode 6) as soon as Lom revealed that he fell for Nuea at Pai's wedding and said that he watched him, I knew that the comments were going to be out of pocket. It is not weird or stalker-ish to see a person that you find attractive out in the wild and look at them or watch them. That's straight up normal. I have done that. Now do I truly believe it was love at first sight? No, because I don't think you can love a person without knowing them, but this is also romantic fiction and love at first sight is literally the most common trope there is. It's also not weird or gross or stalker-ish for him to get Nuea's company contact info from Pai. If you like someone and you know that your friend has their contact info...asking them is not weird. I'd maybe be a bit iffy on a direct phone number, but a insta or snapchat name, a Line ID, that's not sus...like at all. He didn't hand over Nuea's personal address or something. And let's also remember that Prapai KNOWS Lom. They are friends. He knows that Lom is not a dangerous person, he doesn't pose harm to Nuea.

I'd also like to discuss episode 4/5...the first NC scene. I keep seeing comments about dubious consent or lack of consent altogether, and while I can agree with dubious...it's on Lom's part. When you watch the end of episode 4, Nuea isn't drunk. Like we're not given a clear shot of the table, but you see Lom with 3 empty beer glasses and drinking a 4th when Nuea shows up. Nuea you only see drink one, out of a short, mixed drink style glass, one you'd have like a Rum & Coke in, and the beverage is clear with a lemon wedge, so it's not even clear if it's alcoholic. But even if it was there are 3 total glasses like it on the table, so assuming Nuea drank all three, he'd have had to take them all back to back to back in order to be wasted after that. But beyond the context clues, his behavior does not indicate inebriation at all. He's steady on his feet, he's not slurring, there are no acting choices made that would lead one to believe he's drunk.

The fallout that comes for Nuea after that night isn't because of concerns about consent issues. It's about reconciling a destructive decision. People make bad choices all the time. They'll get caught up in an emotion, an idea, a person, and they'll do something without truly thinking about the consequences. And eventually it's morning and you have to accept the choice you made. Is it heartbreaking to watch that with Nuea? Absolutely. I cried at that scene. Pak did such an amazing job. And Nuea isn't the only one who suffers from that emotional fallout. We see the fear and distress on Lom's face when he wakes up and Nuea is gone. You can see his distress when talking to Nuea's boss. He tries to pull the rich guy privilege BS (which I will absolutely admit I hated), but she's not falling for it. After the boss learns everything, she gives Lom the contact info for Nuea's family, which again pissed a lot of people off. But again, it's not direct contact or access to him. She also knows that Nuea is in a place where he is safe and has a support system around him. Also Lom, while not a super clear thinking dude in that moment, is not a freaking serial killer and Nuea's boss is not an imbecile. She didn't just cave to Lom's puppydog eyes, and it feels kind of dismissive to me for people to act like she did.

So many people were upset that he followed Nuea to Chiang Mai...like...it's the same argument we heard about Pai for several episodes. If those things don't happen, there's no fucking show. If Lom stays in Bangkok and Nuea stays in Chiang Mai until the wedding has happened then the story just ends. And if you feel like there's no redemption for Lom after withholding the full truth from Nuea... why are you even still watching the show? Legitimately why? Because what is your expectation when you don't truly believe there's a way for Lom to be redeemed at all?

And I'll be honest, seeing the pretty dismissive reactions to Lom telling the whole story about him and Yiwa coming to the realization that their parents wouldn't be able to accept their sexuality, it really kind of hurts. I know in a lot of ways it feels easy to believe that the reason they hid it is because they didn't want to lose their inheritance, but have you considered that maybe they do love their parents? At least a little? I know that especially for many people in western audiences it seems easy and simple to say "just leave then" in response to queer people who stay closeted because of their families, but there are always going to be so many layers to that. Especially when you look at through a cultural context lens. It's really just is not that simple. Money creates a lot of privilege, that's very true. But we can also look at real life people for whom that money isn't clearing the way for them to live their life fully openly. You can literally look at PP Kritt and see that despite his privilege, fame, and familial wealth, he is still dealing with consistent societal discrimination.

I also don't love this narrative that Yiwa is being selfish. The arrangement was mutually agreed upon, by both of them. To keep each other's secrets and let Yiwa have her love. Does that seem unfair to Lom? Yeah, but he wouldn't have seen it that way prior to meeting Nuea. He wasn't expecting to ever get anything remotely close to a happily ever after, so it wasn't truly a sacrifice to him when he made that agreement.

And this also circles back to his comment about saying that he wanted Nuea even though he was getting married, because he just wanted that one moment of happiness. Is it a selfish idea? Yes, but to be shocked that a rich, privileged man exhibited selfishness is a bit much. But also, I don't think Lom was expecting to fall for Nuea. Like I said, I don't really think it was love at first sight, but lust. I think the more time he spent with Nuea the deeper he fell. I believe his intention was to have something along the lines of a fling, and that when it was over Nuea would move on from him and find his eventual happily ever after and he would settle for memories. That's part of why I think he withheld the truth even after Yiwa told him it was okay to tell Nuea the full truth. This is a man who never expected to find joy or a true partner but was willing to go to extreme's to help the person he sees as a sister have the opportunity to have her own happiness. But yeah, he's just a shitbag.

And the references to love-bombing...I hate how people have brought that term into the discussion of the last two episodes. So if you're not familiar with the term, it's become more common on social media in the discussion around narcissistic and abusive partners. It generally refers to overwhelming physical displays of affection like gifts and such, especially early on in a relationship, essentially with the intention of creating a power imbalance in favor of the narcissistic partner.

The following are the most common signs of love-bombing:

They give you needless gifts

They’re in a rush to lock things down

They’re always available and demanding of your attention

They can’t take ‘no’ for an answer

They like you better when you’re alone

They over-communicate their love for you

You feel overwhelmed, uneasy or off-balance

These are not things that Lom is doing. Buying McDonalds and ice cream for someone so they know you care...that's not love-bombing, that's at best wooing. Especially when intent is part of why it matters. Lom is doing it to show he cares, to show he pays attention to what Nuea likes, not in an attempt to make Nuea feel indebted to him for said gifts (that total up to about $10). Lom isn't trying to lock things down with Nuea, he's not attempting to force Nuea to choose him. He just wants Nuea to make the decision to either choose him or not knowing his love is genuine. He wants Nuea to be making an informed decision. He does not demand Nuea's attention, at most he requests it sometimes. He takes 'no' for an answer pretty regularly. He doesn't purposely or intentionally try to get Nuea alone. 'They over-communicate their love'...this one seems iffy, but it's not about saying "I love you" to a person, it's more related to presenting that love to others to cement a relationship. Essentially trying to make it awkward for a person to say 'oh well we're not quite that serious'. And that last one...Nuea is reflective and considering of the situation as a whole, but he's not uneasy, he's not overwhelmed. You could maybe argue afraid, but not of Lom, he's afraid of potential future heartbreak. Love itself is scary. Feelings of that depth and strength are scary. Because we all know that even if that love lasts the rest of your lives, the length of your lives is never guaranteed, and loss is ALWAYS a potential outcome.

I'm not arguing that the show is without flaws, all of Mame's shows/stories are flawed. But I do feel like there was a level of expectation that seems entirely misplaced. Like, these same people who love Payu and Rain to death, had nothing to say to the reveal that Payu had orchestrated at least one instance of a run-in with Rain, a person with whom there was a far larger power imbalance, but Lom pursuing Nuea, a grown ass adult who is never afraid to speak his mind to Lom, that's too problematic???

I don't know anymore. I like the show. It has faults, and flaws, and so do it's characters, but Lom is not a fucking mustache twirling villain out to trick and capture poor, sweet, stupid Nuea. And that's kind of how it feels like the discussions about the show have been going.

#wedding plan the series #Mame BL #LomNuea #NueaLom #Sunny Wannarat #Pak Naphat #SunnyPak

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trufannekiawilson · 2 years

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An idea of how I would rewrite Fallout 4 has been rattling in my head. Characters will be shuffled around and their motives will be different. I’ll expand on the characters and factions changes in other post because this post will end up being way too long. For this post I just want make changes to the main story. This will mainly apply to our main character, Shaun and the Institute.

The game will begin with your character being woken up from cyro sleep. Codsworth the Mr Handy robot is the one who welcomes into the world. Codsworth will belong to vault tech and is not yours like in the original. Codsworth will explain your player character seems to be suffering from a bit of amnesia from being frozen for so long. Codsworth will try to get you to remember who you are. This will lead into the customization screen and you’ll also choose your special stats. Afterwards Codsworth will explain he doesn’t know why everyone is dead. You can pass a speech check where he explains that someone activated him and told him to release you. He doesn’t know who or why. You can of course look around the vault and if you pay close attention you will notice one of the vault dwellers has a gun shot wound. If you search them you can find a wedding ring. After you finish exploring the vault you and Codsworth will leave the vault and head to Sanctuary Hill.

I feel placing the opening sequence later in the story makes for an interesting mystery. Who are you? Who were those people with you in the vault with you and why are the all dead? Why did someone release you? This way you can get to know your character and decided who they are by the way you play. You did not need some holotape that over explains your backstory and will always be there no matter what. Did we need to know that Nate and Nora were a solider and lawyer? No. And I understand that some people don’t like Codsworth being a household Mr Handy because they were generally used in military bases or as guards. Making Codsworth a vault tech Mr. Handy that was activated by Shaun to wake up your character a bit more believable. I will expand on Codsworth in this new role in another post.

The game can pretty much proceed as normal as you meet the Synth Detective Nick Valentine and he takes you Dr. Amari in The Memory Den in Good Neighbor. Remember your character is suffering from slight amnesia and the pods in The Memory Den will help you unlock the mystery of what happened in the vault. When you are hooked up to the memory pod the original the opening sequence set during pre-war will play out. This is where you’re revealed to have a spouse and baby, then the bombs fell, you were rushed to the vault and frozen. So the random vault dweller with the gunshot wound whose ring you probably sold for caps was your spouse. But how did they die? The memory den will glitch. You’ll see a man in front of cryo pod and before you can get anymore answers the memory starts glitching and you are pulled from the memory. Dr. Amari will explain that your character seems to repressing the memory and there was a danger of hurting you if she tried to force you to remember. Nick will comment that he knows the man who is Kellogg and you will track him down like in the original story. When you retrieve the chip from Kellogg’s brain you watch from his perspective that he murdered your spouse all while you helpless banged against your cryo pod and took your baby to the Institute. The same Institute that your character has learned from the locals is a terror of the Common Wealth. There will be a memory where you can see old Shaun but the player doesn’t know that this is our son yet. It will be very obvious who those persons that gave your character extreme proportions. But for now you will only know this person as Kellogg's boss and the leader of the Institute. Shaun will tell Kellogg to track down and kill Virgil and Kellogg will state in the memory that Vigil is in the glowing sea so he couldn’t get to him. Your next objective is to find Vigil and find a way to save your son from the Institute.

Because I moved the orginal pre-war back story I didn’t want to show the killing of your spouse again from Kellogg’s perspective. It just keeps the pace flowing. In the orginal story showing your spouse’s death once was tragic. Showing it again from a different angle is just “Alright cool, I can see my character banging their hands against the glass.” As you tried to find Kellogg you should have learned with your interactions with the NPCs of the world you should be able to draw your conclusions of the Institute. How much of what people say is true? If they really are that bad what does that mean for your son? You now can put a face to who is in charge of all the abductions and fear mongering. When you find Virgil he can confirm all the horrible things the Institute has done but also the good as well. Vigil can put that doubt in your mind that maybe they aren’t all that bad. Any good or bad sad against the Institute the player will always have their leader’s face in their minds.

Honestly speaking the biggest failing in the main story of Fallout 4 story is that I do not care for Shaun and the Institute. They are a terrible faction because they are never given a good reason for anything they do. Which is a darn shame because they have a lot of plot threads that lead no where. Why did they kick ghouls out of Diamond City? Why are they making Synths and still turn around and treat them like slaves when they have robots? What is the point of replacing people when you are capable of just paying off the traders for information? They have a lot of protentional that could make a player ask a lot of moral questions but writing just drops the plot as quickly as it is picked up.

The Institute could have been well intentioned but misguided scientist faction truly trying to help mankind. The moral dilemma is the ways they go about in trying to solve problems of mankind. Firstly start by giving Shaun a personality. We should interact with him as much as possible. You could like him like you would Nick, or Piper or any other companion. First he would give you little innocent tasks. With each task you complete the more he encourages you, he tells you how happy he is to have you there. He even starts to call you mum or dad. But then he’ll start asking you to do things where someone had to pay the price for in cruel inhumane ways. Sometimes there may or may not be a positive effect. For example they are working on plants that resist radiation and don’t have radioactive effects when consumed. A lot of the food that is grown in the Common Wealth that settlers are surviving on came from the Institute. You can have NPCs say once upon a time food was hard to grow but now suddenly growing crops has gotten easier over the years. This new crop growth is the only possible after kidnapping people and testing their new foods on these poor people to confirm it was safe for human consumption. Will you bring them new test subjects? Another example is instead of the Synths being slaves they are meant to be the next step in human evolution. But the Institute is obsessed with creating the perfect human and not robot slaves. Unfortunately if you do not reach the standards of the Institute you are considered a dud and cruelly experimented on. The Institute thinks these synths suffering are necessary because to them they are helping humanity. Some synths will understand that they aren’t to the Institute standards and believe their sacrifice is for the greater good. Others will not and will try to escape with the help of the Rail Road. Will you help the synths or is their suffering justified because good will come from it? Maybe Shaun will request for you to kill Piper or Nick. Diamond City is under their control and they don’t need Piper or Nick around because they are a liability. Your actions should have consequences and impact you personally. I want the player to question at the end of the day when working with the Institute if the ends justify the means.

#fallout 4 #fallout 4 headcanons #fallout quest #fallout 4 companions #fo4 #sole survivor #nick valentine #piper wright #the institute #synth detective #synth #fallout 4 story

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harveyb-wabbit92 · 2 years

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Submas Vampire AU: You get hurt.

Emmet:

[Afab/Drag king! reader.]

{Tw, stalking, blood, blood drinking, and stabbing.]

You winced in pain as you felt the stiches on your collarbone stretch under your shirt while putting on a T-shirt on, now regretting not letting the nurse help you get dressed, they told it was gonna be miserable! but in your adrenalin and pain killer fogged mind, you felt unstoppable and brushed off their assistance, but now ramifications on the whole situation was starting to hit you hard, you groaned in disdain eyeing the large bruise and band aid on your forehead. "Emmet's gonna freak!" you muttered warily, you know the hospital called him.

See what happened was You were at the cabaret bar this weeks theme was male video-game characters, everyone pulled a name at random, so there you were dressed as The sole Survivor from Fallout 4, while entertaining a group a girls, when closing time came around, one of the girls. (who you'd just learned just went through a nasty breakup.) had few tooo many and needed help getting to her cab.

So, you helped her get outside and you guessed it, her ex was there waiting! They got into it and you tried to break it up not seeing the knife in the man's hand, until...Well.... You aren't really sure what happened.

You remembered the girl screaming bloody murder at her ex and next you had a knife in you! You got pissed off! And somehow had grabbed the guy by the front of his shirt and headbutted him in the face, hard! He dropped like sack of potatoes as blood flowed like a facet from his nose! That was probably what the warm slimy stuff you felt dripping down your forehead was.

Meanwhile his ex-girlfriend continued to scream like an Aerodactyl, until some of your co-workers came outside to see what was going on? And understandably started freaking out over you! You kept telling them you were fine and were just gonna head home now, You even tried to take the knife out! Luckily your boss Troy (Real name: Trudy.) Stopped you as you reached for the handle and had you sit down on a bench, while their partner Madame Meringue (Real name: Marvin.} called an ambulance and the cops.

The doctor said it was good you were wearing that lifejacket (You were wearing a vault security costume, and needed a bulletproof vest for your costume, the real ones were too expensive so you improvised.) It took most of the damage so you only had a minor cut on your shoulder that needed a few stitches.

And after wiping the blood off your forehead revealed there was another small cut that was quickly taken care of, and as for the guy who stabbed you? Well, you learned later that your super effective headbutt, not only broke his nose. But also knocked out three of his front teeth and gave him two black eyes! And no his Ex did not go back to him, she may have been drunk, but she wasn't stupid! And his "grand gesture" for getting her back (Yes his dumbass though she'd left him for you.) just solidified her decision to stay single! Hopefully his stalking ass will learn something from this, though you doubted it...

It was around six am when Emmet showed up, you could tell he was pissed! You noticed his eyes first; surveying the people occupying the hospital’s lobby warily they had faint red glow to them, as a rare frown adorned Emmet's face.

His hand slowly rose to cover his mouth so not to show his fangs, he could smell your blood... too much of it! Emmet bit into his cheek as he spotted you being pushed in a wheelchair by a nurse to him a low barely audible growl emanated from his chest as took in your condition...He saw red.

He wanted the one responsible dead! The nurse started talking snapping Emmet out of his thoughts, the vampiric conductor's fangs retracted Emmet put his hand down and put on his best showroom smile as he vaguely listened to her instructions on how to keep your stiches clean, not that it mattered to Emmet, he was just going fix your shoulder at home.

The nurse then handed Emmet a small bottle with a couple pills in it for the pain and sent you both on your way, You let out a startled yelp as Emmet lifted you out of the chair and carried you to the car, you learned early on not to worry about your weight as Emmet's stated he's got scary cool vampire strength, you barely weigh anything to him!

{After one tense and silent car ride.]

Emmet had you in his lap as the two of you, sat on the couch, he had you tell him everything while he took bandages off your shoulder. Troy only gave him a vague summary of what went down, Emmet assumed you were mugged! The subway boss winced when he saw cut marring your skin, without warning he brought his finger up to trace it, causing you to shiver. "Sorry did that hurt?" he fussed watching your face for any discomfort. "Not really it just feels weird..." Emmet frowned it was probably going to feel more weird when he takes those stitches out!

"Anyway, like I said one of the girls I was entertaining was telling me A-ab-" You sputtered feeling Emmet's fangs slowly dragging along you shoulder cutting the surgical thread open, Emmet held you tight in his lap as you continued talking. "...her cr-crappy unhinged Ex and...." You felt Emmet slowly lick and lap at the cut.

You let out shuddered breath your shoulder felt like it was on fire, as the skin began to slowly close weave itself back together. "He was waiting for h-her, they st-ar.. Started yelling and I-I got between them to tell him to get lost." Emmet suddenly stopped his ministrations, and stared at you in disbelief, Emmet was clearly processing what you just told him, before you could ask him what was up?

Emmet suddenly flicked you in the forehead. "Y'know, I was fix the scratch on your head too, but now? I think I'll just leave it there as a reminder of your own dimwittedness." he huffed while you begged him to reconsider, how were you supposed to know the guy had a knife?! after Emmet was done fixing your shoulder, He spent the next couple days giving you cold shoulder. but eventually cracked cause he missed cuddling you.

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Warden Ingo:

[Animal attack, blood, blood drinking, suggestive.]

{Fem/ Bi reader!}

"This is all Melli's fault!" you wailed running from a pack of angry and hungry Ursarings! You weren't sure what you did to set the flamboyant Warden off this time. Maybe you accidentally splashed some mud on his clothes, maybe he heard Adaman say something nice about you? Hell.... For all you know he was just mad that you were breathing in his general presence! All you knew is one second he's leading you around Wayward cave and the next he's gone!

You tried going back to the entrance but found some of the torches were moved or put out and the ones that weren't just lead you into dead ends. You were probably turned around in that cave for two hours before finding the way out, Then you found out Melli also removed the markers on the trees directing you to the Base camp! And you didn't have your Pokémon with you, cos you stupidly let Melli take them, he said he was gonna heal them.

"Argggh, I really hate that man!" you growled kicking a rock in frustration, the rock flew far into the darkness where you heard it something... followed by a low growl... "U-um" you stammered and squinted, you saw a mass with bump on it's head, the mass slowly started to shift and rise up from the ground and started walking towards you, You felt like throwing up when you locked onto two angry red eyes of angry alpha male Ursaring staring down at you." Urrr" he growled while licking it's jaws hungerly....

Then the other Ursarings started coming out the woodwork... "Shit." with that you took off running, you weren't sure where you were going, and frankly you didn't care! As long as it got you away from these hungry Pokémon the better! *"C'mon Y/n, yer faster than this girl, work it!"* You yelled mentally in a feeble attempt to motivate yourself, when the inevitable happened, You tripped!

You yelped as you lurched forward and rolled down a small hill and lost a shoe on the way down, You groaned as you pulled yourself up and saw the Ursarings were still behind. "They just don't give up!" you tried to stand only to gasp as a sharp pain shot up your left thigh, you put you hands around you leg and felt something warm and wet seep through your legging, it was blood! Even in the dim light you could see the gash on your thigh. "I- Dammit, dammit!" You hissed forcing yourself up, and started to limp away but you walked right into a dead-end! You turned around and saw the Alpha Ursaring closing in claw raised high above it's head ready to strike! You closed your eyes waiting for it to end...

But after a few seconds nothing happened, you opened your eyes and were shocked by what you saw! It was Ingo standing in front of you his silver eyes glowed red, mouth contorted into a feral snarl. He was holding the alpha Ursaring's paw in his inhuman grasp, causing the large Pokémon to growl and wince in confusion as it tried to pulled it's paw loose, from the vampire's grasp, only for the poison type Warden toss the alpha like ragdoll! it's body slammed into the cliff wall and fell limply to the ground as Ingo turned his sight towards it's startled pack, a low threatening growl emanated from the warden; daring them to come forward, instead the Ursarings did the smart thing and ran for the hills with what little pride they had left.

You almost collapsed from exhaustion and relief, but Ingo was by you side in seconds and caught you. "Tha-" You were cut off by the warden pulling you into a intense kiss while holding you close. "I barely made it!" he gasped resting his forehead against yours, causing his hat to be pushed up a bit, You were tongue tied between saying something witty or stay quiet, but the sharp sting in your legs caused you gasp and you remembered your thigh! Ingo looked down saw the blood flowing down you legs and with out a word he picked you up and jumped up the cliff ledges before landing on one that out the way from Pokémon and people.

You knew what Ingo intended to fix your leg as he done it countless times for you whenever you've gotten hurt in the field, alight blush adorned the warden's cheeks as he reached for hem of your tights. "May I take these off?" Your face felt hot as you shyly nodded Ingo swallowed and pulled your ruined tights off, he pulled your leg over his shoulder as he examined the cut for moment luckily it wasn't to deep, though there might still be a scar.

Your breath hitched as Ingo slowly ran his tongue along your wound lapping up all the blood seeping from the cut, You covered up a up moan by throwing your hand over your mouth as you felt a pleasurably shock of heat shoot up your leg from the wound rapidly healing, Ingo's grip on you leg tightened as he pulled away from your thighs, he had a dark carnal look in his silver eyes that told you he wanted more then just blood right now...

[pov change]

Cut to the next morning where a nervous Melli was out looking for Y/n, after Adaman and Mai gave him an ear full for abandoning her with no protection out in the fields! Needless to say, the electric warden was stumped when he couldn't find her in Wayward Cave and went searching out in the quarries, where he found one of Y/n's shoes? His eyes looked around the area warily before he noticed the large trail of red droplets on the ground.

Melli followed it and felt his stomach drop into his feet when he saw trail ended where a knocked out Ursaring laid, Thinking the worst Melli's jaw hung open and legs began to shake as he thought about what he was going to tell Laventon and Adaman? When someone cleared their throat, Melli yelped and whirled around to see Ingo standing behind him with Y/n sleeping on his back.

Melli swallowed nervously as Ingo eyed him sternly, the poison type warden held out his hand while staring at her shoe, Melli went to hand it to him, when Ingo grabbed him by the front of his tunic and lifted the shocked man off his feet. "Pull a stunt like this on Y/n again and I Will Kill You... I am not joking. I will throw you off this fucking mountain Melli, Do you understand?" He snarled flashing his fangs at the terrified Melli who nodded and with that Ingo dropped him while taking Y/n's shoe back. "What's going on?" Y/n croaked waking up briefly as Ingo shushed her. "Nothing dear, go back to sleep." Y/n complied as Ingo brought her back to base camp, Let's just say Melli was little more tolerant towards Y/n since then, least he suffers Ingo's wrath.

#pokemon x reader #vampire au #Vampire subway bosses #warden ingo #subway boss emmet #subway boss emmet x reader #afab reader #fem reader #subway boss ingo x reader #Vampire subway boss Ingo #TW: blood #tw: blood drinking #tw: stalking #tw: stitches #tw: stabbing #tw: hospital #submas #submas x reader

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Jukebox January: Day 3

the original post tag of all my posts

Today I'm doing C and Č, since I do have one Č song on the list! (I know there's a special characters day, but I have a different plan for that.)

California - Chappell Roan

I'm pretty sure I cried the first time I listened to this song, and I still cry regularly, because it hits that close to home. If I remember right, this song was written after she got dropped from her label and her partner broke up with her, all in 2020. For me, who had a hard time after graduating and feeling like I'm too old to achieve things (despite the fact I'm only still in my 20s!) it captures the feeling all too well. Also, I'm from the Midwest, and I grew up dreaming of places like California, so the perspective is very relatable to me.

Četri krasti - Prāta Vētra

Outside of Latvia, people may know them as Brainstorm (and as the best from Eurovision 2000, I will take no arguments). They're another favorite band of mine who's been around since the 80s. This particular song is the first on the album they released after their bassist died in 2004, and I think it makes a lot of the lyrics on this album very impactful. Prāta Vētra's lyrics are often layered in metaphors, and I'm always having to interpret them in a language I'm learning, but this one is particularly inspiring to me.

Carpe Diem - Joker Out

Could I really not put this one in, considering how much this band has become part of my life in the past half a year or so? Actually, while I enjoyed this song at Eurovision, I didn't vote for it--I voted for Latvia in the semifinal and Croatia and Finland in the final. The song that really got me into Joker Out, that'll be for tomorrow. I do have to say, though, my favorite things about Carpe Diem are the bassline and the structure of the song. In Eurovision, with the time limit of 3 minutes, I think it's hard to make songs that don't follow the exact "standard pop song" structure, but here we have two verses that are quite different, the guitar solo closer to the beginning than the end, and it even comes in 14 seconds under the time limit. I like it, I think it flows nicely.

Control - Poe

This song comes from one of my favorite albums in the world, which sadly kind of disappeared into obscurity because of some record label merger which resulted in Poe being dropped, losing all distribution of her album, and getting tied up in court over a bunch of things that happened around this. It's sad, because this is an artistically incredible album, with the songs woven with recordings of her father and young daughter speaking. It also ties in with the novel House of Leaves, which her brother wrote (though I've never read it, so I can't speak much about it). This song is so powerful and inspiring. I think my favorite lines are "All those things that you taught me to fear/I've got them in my garden now and you're not welcome here".

A couple more under the cut!

Champion - Fall Out Boy

When I want to feel better, this is one of the songs I reach for. "I'm a champion of the people who don't believe in champions" is the line that stood out to me from the first time I heard this song. I know Sia co-wrote this one, too. I have a complex relationship with Sia's music because some of her songs were really inspirational to me, but she's done some questionable things in recent years. Still, a song that feels good and gets me feeling inspired.

Crawl Out Through the Fallout - Sheldon Allman

Okay, so here's where I reveal my love for the Fallout games' lore. I've actually only played Fallout 4 (I have New Vegas too, but haven't played it yet). But I've always been fascinated by the duality of how nuclear technology is portrayed in society and media, how it's both futuristic and apocalyptic. So that's why I really love the Fallout soundtracks (and some other similar songs, which might pop up later.)

#jukebox january #Spotify

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theultim · 8 months

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part four!

I have been grinding my catalog so I forgot to update again But here's my analysis of Side Order's cryptic images!! (4th to 6th images)

[4/18]

The description on Inkipedia reads: “The Octoling character wielding an unknown weapon that appears similar to a Splattershot in one hand and something that resembles a Fizzy Bomb or an ink tank in the other”

In the side order reveal, where they show the playable Octoling standing in the white Inkopolis Square, they don’t have a weapon or ink tank on their person. Unlike in the Octo Expansion, where the playable Octoling at least wanders with their ink tank on their back. In the story mode across all games, the agents always have their weapon and ink tank equipped. I don’t think what the Octoling is holding is their ink tank though. It’s way too small to be. I think it’s a Tacticooler drink instead, as I can see something resembling the Tacticooler in the top right of the screen. Although they have a similar shape, I think this is wrong. It’s a new bomb that could be paired with the new weapon that the Octoling has. Why did I write the Tacticooler theory if it’s wrong? Because I might need this later, when more context is given. I like keeping all of my thoughts instead of erasing them all. It’s the only explanation I can give for the thing in the top right corner, but it’s way too tall to be a Tacticooler, unless this is a variant of it. Like how in some story modes, there were alternative versions to weapons you could use in the base game. On the gun that the Octoling is holding, I think it would have more range than a Splattershot. It’s bigger and longer, with the tank of ink it has being the only resemblance between the two. In this picture, the Octoling has something along their waste with a colored card on it. This wasn’t shown in the small clip we got of how this place looks in-game, so this will be obtained later. I assume that we’ll need this card to access new areas and levels.

[5/18]

The description for this image on Inkipedia says; “An unknown character, presumably an Inkling, who is obscured in favor of their shadow.”

I want to agree with the Inkling theory, but I’m not too sure. When I first saw this image, I thought this was Marie until I remembered that her hair parts twice on her left side, which isn’t shown here. Whoever this is, their outfit is completely blacked out. Either on purpose, like it’s part of their design, or to not give any hints as to who it may be. But I doubt it’s part of their design, there would be more details if that was true. This image is quite the enigma to me, and I can’t put together any immediate answers for it.

[6/18]

The description for Inkipedia says; “The Octoling crouching in front of multiple black spikes.” (OUTDATED) New description: "The Octoling crouching in front of multiple white inverted obelisk-like pillars with roots"

I discussed this picture with a few people on a discord server. One theorized that the spikes could be the spine of a dinosaur fossil. I don’t think this is the case because they still have their perfect points and are too close to each other to be functional in any way. So, I believe the theory of nuclear fallout more than this. The black spikes resemble hostile nuclear architecture, 4/7 ways to physically represent and deter outsiders from wandering too close, as it can harm the body up to 10,000 years in the future. The events of Splatoon are confirmed to happen 12,000 years after humanity died out from nuclear fallout. These structures can still serve their purpose. There’s this black substance that’s leaving a good two thirds of these spikes submerged, with what looks to be some sort of root resembling neurons growing along its surface. There is white coral beneath the dark substance as well at the bottom left. Fun fact about this image, it used to be the 6th on Inkipedia but now it's the 17th! I'll be keeping it in the order it used to be.

I have edited my posts to include previous/next parts!! (And now actively will update them to include this) NEXT: Cryptic images (6 through 9) PREVIOUS: Cryptic images (1 through 3)

#splatoon 3 #side order #splatoon #txt #side order analysis

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gamerswift13 · 1 year

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Moar Fallout!

Howdy folks!

Welcome to May! Or the final day of April if you’re in the other part of the world. You know, the one other part. My birthday is now 57 days away… just saying.

So if you read last weeks post, you know I have been playing a lot of Fallout 4 lately - and I mean a lot a lot. This past week it has been the only thing I’ve played, to be honest, but I’m having a ton of fun. I spent a good bunch of time just venturing to all the locations that had been added to my map but I had not visited yet, and doing the repeatable quests where it’s like “Go to X place, kill a bunch of X thing, come back,” because that also sometimes reveals new locations. But the last few days, the big thing I have been doing is collecting a bunch of junk from all over the map, and in several cases, just buying screws and gears and stuff in bulk from the vendors in Diamond City and Goodneighbor, and carting it all back to my main settlement Sanctuary and building many many Giddyup Buttercups.

It started out small (as pictured above), when I went to a manufacturing plant that was littered with Buttercup parts and a few intact ones. But then when I came across another, much larger manufacturing plant filled with these little guys, and then remembered I can make these things my myself, it started to get a little out of hand…

…and then even more out of hand…

…and now I am making it my mission to see how many of these I can place until the game gets sick. This is why I love this game - there’s so much freedom to create here. Or… whatever this is, anyway.

So far there are about twenty of them placed in central Sanctuary, but last time I checked I had about fifty in storage waiting for what I am tentatively calling ‘The Horsening’. My plan is to first place one or two in random places around the outskirts of the town, and then just keep adding more and more until either I reach the point where there is just a sea of yellow, or the game stops cooperating. That reminds me, I need to make a notie of a good save point in case I break the game entirely and I need to start over.

Oh! And I have also been slowly building a museum and filling it with unique weapons and outfits that I find out in the Commonwealth, along with a ton of power armour sets as well. I’ll share some screenshots of all that at some point, once I have a museum layout and design I am really happy with.

One final thing I have to talk about before I let you go: I am thinking of doing some regular game streams! On like, regular days and times! I haven’t settled on a schedule yet, but I’ll be sure to let y’all know when I have. I expect to have that sorted out by middle of the week, and I’ll send out a little update, probably through the ‘notes’ feature on Substack that I have definitely figured out how to use already… or have I? In the mean time, follow me on Twitch!

As always, thanks so much for reading! I really appreciate it. Comments, questions or suggestions? Hit me up in the comments section, or over on the socials below. Thanks again, I’ll talk to you all again really soon. Ka kite anō au i a koe. 💚

#writing #queer writers #LGBTQIA+#trans writers #non-binary writers #video games #Fallout #creativity #writers of tumblr #writers of aotearoa #writers of new zealand #substack #xbox #environmental storytelling #blog #videogames #Fallout 4

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2girls1valley · 1 year

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