#16ish weeks

[rorywritesjunk]

Buggy the Ultimate Dad

Here's more on my headcanons about Buggy being a dad. I had fun writing this a few weeks ago. I have no definitive idea where any of these kids fit into canon at this point. In some way you could look at it that Buggy and his lady started having kids real young so that would put Lil Buggy about 16ish during Orangetown, but like, that takes the fun out of the one shot I have for her that I'm going to post next.

Enjoy!

Lil Buggy is a literal copy of her dad. Hair, nose, facial expressions, and even attitude made you wonder how you birthed his clone. Once Lil learned to talk she would mimic whatever Buggy said when he ordered the crew around. Yes, even swearing, though it was cuter when an 18 month old swore than when Buggy did.

Mae was just as feisty as her sister but didn’t start talking until she was almost three. You, Lil, and Buggy had to rely on her facial expressions and made up sign language to know what she wanted. There were days as she got older when she wouldn’t talk and would fall back on using the sign language you all created, and at that point the whole family knew it.

Cherry was more like Lil than Apple. She enjoyed being at her father’s side whenever he was working with the crew, and he had no problem having her on his shoulders while ordering the crew to fire cannons at any unsuspecting ships. (Mae and Lil were always by his side and you worried for their hearing so you insisted on at least the three girls wearing ear plugs when this happened, Buggy didn’t care too much for himself)

Apple was the opposite of her three sisters. She would rather have a book in her hands than a sword, and before she could read she would bring a book to you or Buggy when she wanted to be read to. Every time she went to Buggy he was in the middle of something, but he couldn’t say no to her asking so he would stop whatever it was to sit somewhere and read to her. 

Heck, Buggy couldn’t really say no to any of the girls. Three of them were his little Mini-Mes, and when they looked up at him with big, pleading eyes he would cave. (Mae actually felt left out not looking like her sisters and often put a red dot on her nose so she could fit in. (Buggy may have cried to you about that))

Rain’s favorite thing to do was organize things. Toys lined up in a row, books organized by their height on the shelf, and she even got into Buggy’s makeup and organized it all by colors. He was absolutely horrified when he found out because he had his own system to how it was all organized! You managed to keep Buggy from having a meltdown and he decided to look into some kind of playset for her that would let her organize and reorganize things to her little heart’s content. 

Bow always initiated the tea parties. All the girls liked having them with their dad (you were included at times as well! You weren’t left out of these events), but Bow loved having them. She wanted everyone to dress up and drink the pretend tea while she served them, pretending to be a little host while walking around their makeshift tables and chairs, offering more tea or cookies.

After six daughters, Buggy proposed to you, and while you wanted something small and intimate, this was Buggy the Clown. It was flashy, loud, with fireworks going off and all kinds of excitement. He cried, you cried, and the girls had fun. 

Pumpkin likes to be involved in everyone’s business. Even if she’s not asked she somehow worms her way into whatever her parents or sister’s are doing. She becomes good at reading people because there are times they don’t want her involved so she picks up on when she needs to leave them alone, but sometimes when her sisters or parents are upset and they insist they are fine, she won’t leave them alone because she wants to make sure they’re okay.

Crash is the human embodiment of a chaotic child. Buggy thought his oldest was bad, Crash was born during a damn storm on the ship. She had no fear of anything and countless times had to be stopped from eating gunpowder, Buggy’s makeup, your jewelry, and her sisters’ things. Her favorite thing to do was pull on Richie’s tail. She grows up to be rather fearless, has no problem telling someone they’re stupid or wrong, and will stand up for what she believes in. 

Nine months after Crash’s first raid, she is probably the most excited about having a baby brother join the crew. Despite being the Chaos Child (the nickname her sisters gave her), Crash is incredibly gentle with Baby Bear. He grows up under her watchful eye, which her parents are a little grateful for because after those eight daughters, they are tired. (Though they are very much the parents and never expect or ask Crash to do anything, for him, she just does it because she loves her baby bro)

Bear looks just like you. No traces of his father are seen until gets into an argument with his dad at the age of five over naptime, then you both saw Buggy’s angry face crossover his cute little face and well, he was Buggy’s son. 

Bear learns to Respect Women. He drinks the juice from the moment he was born until he’s 14 and on his first raid with his dad and sisters (you really didn’t do the piracy thing anymore, you just helped with the daily tasks on the ship at that point). Some asshole made a comment about his sisters, all eight of them, and he had no problem headbutting the jerk in the face and kicking him in the crotch. 

You were absolutely done having kids. No more after Bear, and Buggy was fine with that. He was happy that his kids survived life on a ship up until adulthood. 

#buggy the clown #buggy the clown x reader #buggy x reader #buggy x you #buggy the clown x you #opla buggy the clown x reader #opla buggy the clown #opla buggy x reader #opla buggy the clown x you #buggy headcanons #one piece headcanons #opla buggy x you

[pixlokita]

its really tough to rehome a pet for so many reasons, im so sorry u have to go through that :(

i know it sounds kind of cynical but the thing i kept checking when we had to rehome one of our dogs(due to conflict with our older dog) was that the people we were considering werent parents of younger kids(under 16ish). it sounds kinda mean to not want him to go to them but i was so worried that he would become one of those dogs which kids beg for, love for a week, then ignore forever, yknow?

he ended up going to a really sweet older woman to be her walking buddy and she still sends us pictures, he looks so happy :)

Nahhh it’s understandable because when I volunteer at the shelter I’ve noticed people adopting pets on the weekend and returning them later the same week 🧍‍♂️ Myla got returned three times before we got her too

Lookit that face ?? Who would do this 💥💥💥🦅

But yeah that’s totally valid :’> and I’m glad you still get updates on your puppy💖 that’s so sweet

#pix answers #she was returned for either being too loud or needing to be carried too much because of the missing leg #legit just keep her in a little bag and it’s fine #>:c #ricky when i catch you ricky #Ricky when I catch you #legit will fight the previous owners fr

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WITA for blocking someone?

This happened years ago, but I was never truly sure about it.

I (at the time like, 16ish?) used to be in a discord oc server, there was a person in there that just.. really annoyed me. At that time i had this problem where any person that annoyed me made me irrationally angry (this is no longer the case now, I hope)

I was decent enough to keep this to myself, I never lashed out at that person and just ignored them because I know that that reaction is in fact irrational and they didn't do anything wrong. At some point though I thought well I don't really want to see them so i'm going to block them. So I did. This went fine for a few weeks or so until the person found out they were blocked by me.. not immediately responding to them while talking in a different channel? Honestly I still think thats kind of a stretch even if it was true. For obvious reasons, they understandably got upset about this and I quickly had the admins of the server in my dms telling me i should be nice and act like an adult.

I, however, never really thought i did anything wrong. I think that was kind of an overreaction, especially considering every other person in this was in their 20s. Was I the asshole? Did I miss a social cue regarding blocking people?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

[soaps-mohawk]

Hey fav author^^ how are you doing today? I hope your day went well.

I have a few questions. Some of them probably don’t really matter in whole to the story, but I think it would just help me grasp with the characters better.

My first question would be, how tall are the boys? Are they like the same height as they are in the games? (Ex: on their medical sheets, it says their height and all that) or are they more taller/shorter?

My second question is, when do most people start to present their like A/B/O rank? Is it a certain age, like when they reach adulthood or something? Or is it randomized?

My third question is, if the boys would ever go off deployment, like to visit family or something, would the reader stay on base or would she go with them? I doubt that’ll happen in the story, but I’m just somewhat curious lol.

I was also wondering if you could maybe do like, one of those flat maps (like floor plans I think-?) to show how the base is situated? Like who is where and how far certain buildings are. Don’t feel pressured to do it, just wondering.

Anyways, I hope the rest of your day and week goes well! Please remember to eat something, drink some water, get some rest, go and get some fresh air, and take a shower^^

Hello lovely anon!!! I've been alright. My headache finally went away but my neck still aches which is just making my head ache again 😭

Oh well, such is life I guess.

As far as the questions go,

The boys are the same height as they are in the games (going off the actors heights too cause I know we don't have all of them exactly lol). Price is 6'2, Gaz is about 6'0, Johnny is about 5'11, and Ghost is 6'3 roughly.

Most people present around age 16ish. It does vary, kind of like puberty (presentation is basically puberty in this universe lol) some might present as early as 13 or 14, some might be late bloomers and present around 17 or even 18. Typically if a pup hasn't presented by 18 (which is considered choosing age for omegas (yes that's supposed to feel gross)), then they're considered delayed and there needs to be some check-ups done to see what might be causing it, as that won't happen without some good reason like a medical issue or hormone imbalance, etc. Typical age though is around the 16th birthday, which is when reader presented.

Hmm it's hard to say? If they were all going at the same time then it would probably be rock-paper-scissors type situation to decide who she's going with. Like whose family wants to meet her the most kind of thing. If one (or more) are staying on base though, she might stay as well, or she could still go. Just kind of depends.

Sure! I can do a little floor plan drawing (you can see my terrible art skills lol). When I'm at my desktop next I'll whip out the drawing pad and do a floor plan and also maybe a layout of the reader's room as well, since I'm horrible at describing those things lmaoo

Take care of yourself too, anon!! The world is crazy out there.

#look for those floor plans coming soon #like maybe later today or tomorrow at the latest lol i have to unbury my desktop again #i was cleaning and stacked a bunch of stuff on my desk and in my chair lol #answered #crcb lore

[saintalec]

i keep worrying that im much too easily distracted at the moment and im losing focus too easily and then I remember that i am working 40+ hours / week that takes another 16ish hours of commute / week while writing a thesis project and also freelancing around 9 hours / week and also trying to find a new apartment and fix my visa status and also recover from surgery and handle my completely unmanaged anxiety/depression combination. I don't often say this but maybe im overthinking this

[silverflame2724]

Just gonna throw a few prompts around tumblr to see what sticks.

Jiang Cheng fails a timetravel fix-it, it results in Wei Wuxian pulling a MianMian AU

Jiang Wanyin goes missing from Cloud Recesses a few weeks after Wei Wuxian was sent back to Lotus Pier.

Madam Yu irrationally banishes Wei Wuxian for failing to protect Jiang Wanyin despite him not being there.

Rogue Cultivator Wei Wuxian goes investigating to find Jiang Cheng and discovers him alive and well but deaged to a small child with memory loss.

Now Wei Wuxian could return to Lotus Pier... But Jiang Cheng was never fully appreciated there and he's such a cute tot now. Also Wei Wuxian is wary of the unreasonable expectations that young Jiang Cheng would be burdened with to 'do it right this time' by Madam Yu.

So Wei Wuxian gets his dream cottage and farm early and raises Jiang Cheng (renaming him as well because its a new start) again far away from said toxic environment with all the unconditional love and support he should have gotten growing up.

Prioritising parenting over night hunting (because he remembers being orphaned on the streets) Wei Wuxian sits out the Sunshot Campaign completely(to the extent of purposely ignoring all cultivation world news), The Sunshot Campaign lasts long enough that without Wei Wuxian all the sects are in ruins at the end of it.

Years later Jiang Cheng encounters something on a night hunt that restores his memory and the reason he was deaged in the first place. Jiang Cheng had travelled back in time to 'fix' things (funnily enough removing Wei Wuxian from the Jiang before he could antagonise Wen Chao) but the clash of his original core and the transplanted core sent him into a Qi Deviation that de-aged him.

16 years after he was de-aged Jiang Cheng investigates the changed world outside of his home and things are to put it lightly, so much worse.

Lotus Pier is basically gone, Madam Yu is missing her right hand, Yanli is grieving over dead Jin Zixuan. Rebuilding Lotus Pier is impossible because Madam Yu has zero support because of her behaviour and Yanli is basically a grieving ghost.

Lan WangJi is still in a coma from fighting the Xanwu of Slaughter 16ish years ago.

Jin Guangyao is Sect Leader Jin through lack of better option, he very much enjoyed giving Madam Jin the boot from Koi Tower.

All the great sects have been reduced to minor sects with little chance of ever rising again.

Jiang Cheng has no idea how to fix this mess, but he's going to need Wei Wuxian's help.

This. This is an amazing idea.

...........Oops. I think I might've accidentally pressed post. Eh-he.

Also, I was a lot nicer on Wei Wuxian since I could have had Madam Yu whip him before kicking him out. Let's just say that Madam Yu was too distraught or grieved to think about dealing with Wei Wuxian like that, okay?

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It happened a few years after Wei Wuxian’s death. Jiang Cheng had been drowning in his sorrows and had had enough of this. ENough of being alone, enough of missing his parents, his sister, his....his brother. He hated this feeling of guilt over leading the siege, over not doing enough to make everything right. 

And Wei Wuxian’s notes contained just the thing.

Time travel.

It would be risky. If he failed, he would lose his core. But what hasn’t Jiang Cheng lost already?

Laying down the prepared array, he took a deep breath and poured his spiritual energy in. The array lit up and Jiang Cheng felt himself being sucked in. 

.

.

Pain.

All he could feel was pain. Sharp and constant and crushing. 

Everything went black.

..................................................

Wei Wuxian had been peacefully studying some random arrays when a shidi of his burst into the room.

“Da-shixiong. Da-shixiong! You have to run now!”

“Huh? Shidi, what’s wrong?”

“It’s Yu-furen! She seemed angry and I eavesdropped and she said she’s kicking you out! I think she’s serious this time!!”

"What reason did she give this time?" Wei Wuxian rolled his eyes. Madam Yu made this same threat at least three times a month.

"She said that it's your fault Jiang-gongzi went missing. So....so...."

"Jiang Cheng is missing?!" Wei Wuxian exclaimed.

"Yeah, he went missing on a night hunt at the Cloud Recesses. But never mind that, Da-Shixiong, hurry!"

Frowning, but knowing that this was most likely not a joke, he quickly packed everything - even Suibian - up into qiankun pouches and hid them in his robes.

His shidi left and Madam Yu burst into his room soon after, storming over to him. He tensed up, knowing that that expression meant that he might be punished.

Madam Yu grabbed his collar and dragged him away, tossing him to the ground outside Lotus Pier.

"Yu-furen, what--?" He was smacked across the face as Madam Yu glared at him.

"It's your fault." She hissed at him. "If you were there, you could have prevented A' Cheng from going missing! If only you hadn't been so disobedient--Get out!" Her expression was thunderous and promised a world of pain if he didn't go. "Leave your bell and get lost!"

Shakily, Wei Wuxian untied his bell and ran away from there. He didn't want to stick around to find out what would happen if he tried to contest her decision.

The scars on his back was more than enough proof of what happened when he disobeyed.

.....................................

The first step to his new life was finding a steady source of income and that was easy enough. he'd built up a reputation in his time with the Jiang of helping whenever needed so people were more than willing to employ him to assist with local hauntings and minor yaos. (Madam Yu hated going on such easy hunts and often ignored the cry for help in places like these.)

He rather enjoyed this life rather than the restrictive one he led at Yunmeng Jiang where he had to think about politics and the like when no one taught him how to act better.

.

.

Now that he had enough money, Wei Wuxian decided to go investigate Jiang Cheng's disappearance in Gusu. One quick ask around for someone of Jiang Cheng's description and Wei Wuxian headed towards the forest where he was last scene.

After wandering without aim for a while, Wei Wuxian wanted to give up, but soon heard crying in a cave nearby. Wary of it being some kind of creature that wanted to lure him into a trap, he drew Suibian and inched closer to the sound.

Upon seeing a flash of Yunmeng purple, Wei Wuxian gasped as he recognized the robes.

"Jiang Cheng?!" He cried, rushing in.

He couldn't have expected what he saw next.

Cocooned in his now much larger robes was a mini Jiang Cheng!

The child looked frightened and curled away from him, eyes blank and unknowing.

Oh. "Umm, hello" He said quietly and he knelt down a distance away from Jiang Cheng. "What are you doing here?"

Jiang Cheng stayed quiet and looked at him warily. "....Got lost. Got hungry and got lost."

"I see." Wei Wuxian felt guilty. He should have come sooner! "Then, shall gege share some food with you?" He rummaged in his qiankun pouch and brought out two apples. He ate one to show that it was safe and handed the other to the child.

Jiang Cheng eyed it and moved forward to take it. Wei Wuxian did not move, not wanting to frighten him. He quickly grabbed the apple and chowed down on it. Knowing that he'd likely choke, Wei Wuxian carefully put down a waterskin that the child quickly grabbed after he started choking.

Wei Wuxian sighed in relief seeing the mini Jiang Cheng okay now. But.....Jiang Cheng didn't remember him. That was obvious after Wei Wuxian had asked whether he wanted to go home and was given a confused look and a quiet 'to whom?'.

Now Wei Wuxian had a choice. He could quietly return to Lotus Pier with Jiang Cheng and perhaps get back into the good graces of Madam Yu or......he could take care of Jiang Cheng himself.

Jiang Cheng had never been appreciated by his parents, with his father being too strict and his mother always berating him and comparing him to others (though mostly it was Wei Wuxian). Wei Wuxian always wanted to take Jiang Cheng away from such a place where he was never given encouragement but he never could given his status and place among the Jiang.

But now.......

Determination shone in Wei Wuxian's eyes.

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"Baba, baba!" A child squealed happily. "You're back!"

Wei Wuxian smiled back, picking up his child. "I'm back! Have you been good?"

"Yes, yes! I even cleaned the house!"

Wei Wuxian gasped delightedly. "Oh my god, baobei! You're the best!"

"Mm!"

It had been nearly a year since Wei Wuxian had found the amnesiac de-aged Jiang Cheng and a few months since they finally settled down in a cottage on the outskirts of the cultivation world. Wei Wuxian had worked tirelessly to get them this far and he has to say, he's done a magnificent job at child rearing!

It had taken a few weeks to get Jiang Cheng to trust him enough to leave with him and another week to travel away from the sects. Along the way, Wei Wuxian took lower level night hunts to earn some income. Any time there was talk of a strong monster abouts, Wei Wuxian considered helping them, but knew that he was one bad night hunt away from leaving Jiang Cheng on the streets to fend for himself.

His parents' ends were a stark reminder of that so Wei Wuxian did not take the night hunts. However, he did not feel good about leaving the innocent to fend for themselves until whatever sect was nearby deemed it worthy enough of their attention. For places like these, Wei Wuxian stayed longer in order to create some talismans to ensure protection against such beasts. He was always paid for his work, of course - he has a child to feed, after all! - but tried not to deprive a family of all their funds. He wasn't heartless.

And so, life had passed like this until he assisted an elderly couple near the edge of a place called Yunnan. The couple had no children to speak of and no relatives so they had asked Wei Wuxian if he could look after his garden and cottage once they passed.

Wei Wuxian wasn't one to refuse since this meant a steady roof over their heads and a constant source of food nearby.

He accepted.

That's where he's living now with Jiang Cheng who's been newly renamed to Wei Hu (lake), courtesy name: Chunyu (spring rain).

They'd been living without troubles for some time now that Wei Wuxian had largely left the cultivation world. Of course, he occasionally disguised himself and headed to his merchant who sold his talismans for him from time to time, but aside from that, he largely stayed at home with his adorable child, farming away while his donkey brayed in the background.

This life was one he had always wanted. A partner, a child, him and a donkey. He's missing a partner, a lifelong companion, for now but he could be content without one. Not many people want a single father as their spouse and Wei Wuxian could be content with that.

(There were whispers of a war between the cultivation sects but why should that matter to Wei Wuxian? He was no longer a part of them.)

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Many years later.......

Wei Chunyu was on a night hunt by himself! His baba had finally allowed him to go hunt beasts alone!! Baba was always protective over him despite how strong he had gotten. After finally managing to hit his baba while they sparred, he was allowed to go hunt for himself without supervision.

Licking his lips, he readied his sword for whatever monster lurked before him.

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Jiang Cheng felt like he had been hit by a bear yao. Just what on earth had happened?? Shaking his dizzy head, he tried to remember what had happened.

I activated the array and I remember seeing my much younger hands and then..... Jiang Cheng jolted in shock. I qi-deviated!I qi-deviated and turned into a child because of a dissonance with the core from my future life and the core of my past life! But why? The array said my cores should merge, but maybe....because mine was brought back by Baoshan Sanren.....

Jiang Cheng gathered himself and then remembered. He remembered the life he had lead after that.

Wei Wuxian.....adopted me! He adopted me and took care of me and.....and loved me. Even though I.....I....I was planning on removing him from the Jiang before he could ever cross paths with Wen Chao. I mean, I guess, in a way, I did remove him from the Jiang but what happened with the war? It's been so long.

Shaking off his dread, he strapped his sword to his side and went into town. Asking discretely around for some information, citing that he didn't know anything because he's from Yunnan, Jiang Cheng held his head in his hands in distress.

The war had been won by the Sunshot allies. But all the sects were in ruin by the ends of it.

The Wen sect is still there but only the healers and civilians had been left. Wen Qing had taken ahold of the remnants of the clan, given reparations to the sects for Qishan Wen's crimes and dissolved the Qishan Wen sect and soon disappearing with her family from the rest of the world.

Lotus Pier still met the same end, having been decimated. But his mother was still alive, merely missing her right hand and some pride. (Though her reputation as someone too fierce and always angry had driven away what little recruits the Jiang had.) His sister - he could nearly cry at that - was alive but Jin Zixuan was still dead, leaving her as a husk of herself. Jin Guangyao had become the head of the Jin sect after his father's untimely death and booting Madam Jin back to her maiden family.

The Lan sect is barely hanging on, with Lan Xichen grieving over his comatose brother who had become like that through the draining fight with the Xuanwu of Slaughter and Lan Qiren barely alive.

The Nie sect has been reduced to nearly nothing as well, what with Nie Mingjue half-dead from multiple qi-deviations and Nie Huaisang who was suddenly thrust into the Sect Leader role unprepared.

"It's a mess." He muttered to himself. "It's all a mess."

Jiang Cheng has no idea how to fix this mess, but he's going to need Wei Wuxian's help. But....how?

No matter how much of a genius Wei Wuxian was, there was no bringing back the dead from life, not with how uninvolved Wei Wuxian was with demonic cultivation in this life and how the bodies had probably been cremated already.

Of course, he could rally together the Jiang sect again but if rumors of how volatile his mother was were true......perhaps it would be best not to provoke her.

They could bring his sister with them. She was alive and....well, not quite well, but she was alive! And maybe taking her out of the cultivation world will do her some good. It sure did Jiang Cheng a whole lot better....wait. What is he thinking?!

Jiang Cheng shook his head. No matter how comfortable his life was with Wei Wuxian, he shouldn't be thinking like this! But.....his sister deserves some peace after everything that's happened to her.

And Lan Wangji......well. Having a sect leader in his debt would be nice. Wei Wuxian was sure to concoct some sort of miracle with his talismans and bring Lan Wangji back to consciousness. If Lan Xichen were to be grateful to them, it would surely help with.....something. Maybe he could even solve Nie Mingjue's health issues!

But he would have to discuss everything first and maybe even tell Wei Wuxian the truth of how this all occurred?

Jiang Cheng packed up his stuff and headed back......back home. Because it was his home now. Wei Wuxian had always irritated him and Jiang Cheng even hated him, despised the very thought of him. But in this life.....it was different. Wei Wuxian......was a great father and raised him extremely well.

But.....what if Wei Wuxian grew angry with him for all of this? He didn't know what to think or how Wei Wuxian would act.

As his mind clouded up with worries, he hadn't realized he had already returned.

"A' Yu? Are you back already?"

Jiang Cheng froze up and Wei Wuxian's warm smile graced him. "Uhh...."

"Hm? What's wrong A' Yu? Did the night hunt go wrong? Did you get hurt?"

"No. It went fine. But....But Baba--" God, that sounds so weird! "--I have something to tell you."

"You can tell me anything. You know I'm always here to listen."

Jiang Cheng's heart warmed. "Well, you see, the thing is....."

He'd figure this out. They'd both figure this out. And maybe, this time around, the three of them would always be together.

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Aaaaaaand that's a wrap! How did you all like it?

#mdzs #wei ying #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #madam yu #others mentioned #genius wei wuxian #single father wei wuxian #jiang cheng gets a happy childhood free of trauma #sort of #amnesiac jiang cheng #de aged! jiang cheng #comatose lwj #the sects are ruined #the war has been won! #but at what cost? #inventor wei wuxian #talisman expert wei wuxian #wei wuxian leaves the cultivation world to live a cottagecore life with a mini jiang cheng #wen remnants live!

[hermesserpent-stuff]

Tobacco Beetle AU

This is background for the main hero, her friends, and potential future friends. Villains will have to be a separate post because this is already very very long.

Yay spidersona world building!!

Where:

This takes place in Richsten, a southern city with a port in Virginia. The city is not big, nor does it really matter to most people. New York is where most of the superheroes are, like the Avengers, and where many of the major crime organizations, like Hydra, put their focus. Not many look to Richsten. And that suits people in the city just fine. 

The city once was a hub for tobacco markets and things like cigarette rolling, with tobacco fields still lying just outside of the city. The smell of tobacco still fills the city, with its lingering smell reminding of the past that still touches the city. The movements of those markets out of the city and the slow movement away of the rolling factories has led to a slow decline of the city, leaving it poorer than it once was. 

Its age also leaves it haunted, full of ghosts. Just like the smell of tobacco, spirits linger throughout the city, reminders of the past that touch everything. 

Many villains are based off of TSSM’s versions with some changes cause spidersona au lol

Martha Anne Taylor

Name: Martha Anne Taylor

CB Radio handle: Ginger Snap

Aka: The Dynamic Tobacco Beetle “Baccy”

Powers: Climbing walls, super strength, enhanced senses, immunity to certain toxins, can digest less nutritious food (like rotten food) with no problem, good at riding horses

Toolkit: rope shooters; designed after books she found in the library on grappling hooks. Shes not a brilliant scientist or engineer, but she can copy and twist. And she does her best. But they are not always operational to the highest standard. A lot of the times, she just jumps and climbs it it seems like she can get where she needs to without swinging

ginger cinnamon molasses cookies to offer villains. 

Brown leather armor, made by her own hand from bits of leather she has hoarded over the years from the stable her grandfather runs.

Weakness: Cold!! She gets slower and slower as she gets colder. at 39.2 Fahrenheit (4 °C) she passes out. she learns to layer pretty fast. 

Homemade Biscuits and iced sweet tea. Offer those and she'll be distracted enough for you to go commit crimes

Age: 16ish

Height: 5 foot

Backstory: Martha has been living with her maternal grandparents since forever. The rest of her family has been chipped away over the years. Her mom died at childbirth, her dad died in a hurricane with her paternal grandparents when she was three. 

She is a horse loving history nerd who might be just slightly too obsessed with the American Revolution. And with history in general. She knows so much about the history of the city and feels like it is a part of her bones.

She ends up at an exposé for Agrioscorp (oscorp of this world). They were developing pesticides to use against crop pests. Martha is there for a school project about crops and then she is bitten by a tobacco beetle (Lasioderma serricorne) that the pesticide was supposed to murder, but instead altered its genes and made it able to give powers through a bite. It gets one bite and dies. She doesnt know what to do with the powers at first. Shes never really thought shed do much, content to grow up like her grandparents and take over their carriage business when she is old enough too. She’s not even really planning on college. She's not dumb, or unmotivated, just content with her lot in life. And then, two weeks after finding out she has powers, her Grandmother takes her on a surprise trip to New York to see the museums there. And then they end up in an attack. Some robbers. Human. Desperate. Her grandmother keeps her pushed back, unable to do anything. Some heroes burst in and the robbers, startled and scared of what is going to happen to them start firing wildly. Those the robber who shot her grandmother is felled by friendly fire and the other robbers are taken up by the cops and heroes.

Martha decides to become a hero. She doesnt want people to die like her grandmother had. But she also doesnt want to inspire fear. She grew up watching too much A-team, Red Dawn and Smokey and the Bandit to feel like police and government are the only paths to justice. So she suits up and heads out. She figures out how to fight, but more importantly to her, she figures out how to talk. To coax and to listen. She wears her opponents down until they are willing to talk and then she hauls them off to fill them with food at local bbq and breakfast places. She hoards all of her allowance to afford this. And some of those local business band together to create a small fund and find jobs willing to hire ex-cons. She listens to what the criminals have to say, their stories and their troubles, and tries to get them to places willing to help. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. A lot of people think that she’s just being taken advantage of. And she's fine with that. Life is hard enough without her adding to it. Some people just need a little mercy and grace. 

And so her career begins!

Main friends

Name: Gwynn Stacy

CB Radio handle: Glasses

Aka: Not a villain. Or hero.

Powers: Does being a wizz at science count? Lol. Also super strong death glares. His peers fear them.

Toolkit: Science.

Age: 16 almost 17

Height: 5’ 4”

Weakness: Wants to rise from his current life. He is willing to erase his accent and save his time 

Backstory: Born and raised in Richsten. He wants to leave and/or get a job in chemistry or bioscience. He is taking all the AP’s he can and is planning to go to college. He prefers to stick to the rules and often is the one to encourage people to get calmer. He sort of is against taking Ella all over town against her father’s wishes. Often over ruled and follows along to try to keep things from getting worse.

His dad is Captain Stacy of the police force. His dad wants him to be able do whatever he wants in life.

Name: Ella Osborn

CB Radio handle: Kelpie

Aka: Not a villain. Or hero.

Powers: Good at communing with the dead. 

Toolkit: Lots of free time. Lots of knowledge of myths, legends and ghost.

Age: 17

Height:5’ 4” 

Weakness: Physically very weak and sickly. Not able to walk very far without needing to sit. She uses mobility devices like wheelchairs and a cane (depending on the day) inside her home. Norman Osborn does not want her to leave the home most of the time, so often she does not have these aids outide of the house. Bruises very easily.

Easily possessed. But the ghosts cant do much other than talk before she passes out and they are expelled. 

Backstory: Ella was born sickly. Often her stomach does not take in all the nutrients and calories of food. And so she stays relatively weak. She is forced to be homeschooled, but not by her parents. She has tutors and often is ignored by her mother and father. She was lonely till a chance meeting with martha (before martha had powers). Martha starts helping her sneak out and hauls her around the city.

She loves myths and the supernatural and has dedicated much of her time to learning about them. She becomes the go to expert on ghosts in the group once Martha and Quentin realize just how haunted the city is.

She would say Martha is her best best friend. 

Quentin is her best friend: yelled at her dad on her behalf.

Gwynn is her friend.

Name: Quentin Mason nee Beck 

CB Radio handle: Dreamer

Aka: Mysterium (this worlds mysterio)

Powers: None. Though ghosts like him. And so do most stray cats.

Toolkit: Drones!! And smoke and holograms.

Weakness: Drama. He will sacrifice a surefire way to win if another method would look cooler or would be more dramatic.

Age: 16

Height: 5’ 9”

Backstory: Quentin is from New York originally and loved the big city and really wanted to end up on the stage or in movie making. He loves the theater. He never wanted to leave New York. his mom left his dad when he was 5 and his dad died when he was 11. He was left with Phineas Mason (tinkerer) due to the man being life time friends with his dad. Phineas makes weapons for the underground and Quentin learned a lot of his coding and building knowledge from him or by working on his gear. He loves Phineas but they get into fights at times. One of the biggest fights was Phineas’ decision to move them away from New York. That argument meant a long bout of silent treatment leading up to the move. But eventually, Quentin came around, understanding that there were too many heroes in New York for them to safely stay and continue to not be on the radar. And he doesnt love the idea of Phineas being killed or taken from him.

He ends up at the same high school as Martha and he feels like a fish out of water. They become friends as she helps him adjust and he starts to appreciate the city. He makes her a CB radio because she does not have a cell phone. He also becomes friends with Gywnn and Ella. He gets into a loud fight publicly against Norman Osborn for trying to keep Ella inside all the time. He is not allowed to visit. 

He ends up becoming a super villain, not out of any real anger or anything, but because he feels like the city needs one. It has a hero, doesnt it? Heroes need villains. 

He becomes friends with Baccy after his first defeat when he is dragged to a BBQ place: Woofsters. He helps her fight other villains when he feels like she needs it. He claims its to keep the name of the number one villain of the city. But he actually does it because he is besties with her and kinda doesnt want her to die.

Potential future friends!:

Name: Jackson 'Montana' Brice

Aka: tbd but leaning towards Tremors. 

Powers: None. But he is super willful. 

Toolkit: Makes his own shocker costume using a vague knowledge of mechanic from having to fix cars and guns growing up. It is a very very cobbled together piece of tech

Age: 19

Height: 5’ 6”

Weakness: always hungry and is a bit on the weaker side than is healthy for his age. He also will do anything for his kids. Whatever sacrifice or thing that must be done he will do.

Backstory: Raised in the Brice family, a family of mercs who travel about and take jobs. Threatening and offing people. But mostly threatening. They have a right of passage to adulthood and being allowed to take jobs alone, typically taken at the age of 18. He did it at 15. And survived it. Before this point, he traveled the country and world with his dad. 

At 15 he enters the world alone with some lingering support from his family. At 17 he takes in a 16 year old Ox. The kid is bigger than him, but had been stuck in fight rings. He settles down in Richsten to provide some stability and let Ox get schooling. He ends up taking in a 14-year-old Dan who has been left on the streets. 

Montana feels responsible for these two like a father. Or older brother. Depends on the moment. They all work together as enforcers, taking on jobs for the big man. But he also does extra work, security for concerts, odd jobs around town, anything to get a little more money. And he skips meals when his kids arent around to save more. He keeps them afloat by the skin of his teeth and pure stubbornness.

He becomes friends with Quentin when Quentin cuts him a deal to fix a calculator for cheaper. He and Quentin like similar music and Montana helps him get into shows that Montana is security for. Quentin is happy to give more deals and over time its friendship. Close friendship.

And so when he ripped apart an RC car to get a lot of the components for his villain persona and it glitches after the first few times out, he comes to quentin. Who helps make it better after extracting a promise. No killing. And Montana is happy to agree.

Name: Ox Brice

Aka: tbd but Ox??? maybe

Powers: none. But is a good fighter

Toolkit: really good at just powering through pain. Good at watching and reading people.

Age: 18

Height: 5’ 11”

Weakness: His family.

Backstory: Ox was abandoned young at an orphanage. An orphanage that kept the lights on by selling kids to fight rings. He was not well-loved by the staff and so when he was old enough to throw a punch he was sold. He learned quickly to keep his head down and mouth shut. He meets Montana when he is 16 when Montana is breaking up the ring on his own to get some other persons lost son. And he sees his chance and he helps Montana destroy the ring. Montana offers him a family. And Ox takes the chance presented to him.

Name: Dan Brice

CB Radio handle: Silver Tongued Devil

Aka: tbd maybe bullet…. idk

Powers: none. But!! Quick study and hyper good memory. This works both for and against him

Toolkit: mixed fighter. Spent a lot of time figuring out any fighting style he saw. Also good at info gathering

Age: 16

Height: 5 foot

Weakness: easy to egg into having a fight. Especially if the other Enforcers are insulted. 

Backstory: he grew up in a house with three other kids and a mom that didn't want him. His dad was a trucker and would let him ride along during summers. He loved those long hauls that took him away from angry slaps and digging words. He spent most of the rest of the time out of the house, learning as many different fight styles that he can to keep himself safe at school at the very least.

That all ends when his father is killed in a supervillain attack while trucking when Dan is 14. His mom packs him into a car and drops him in the middle of Richsten, telling him that he reminds her too much of his father and that she cannot stand for him to stay in her house. And he wanders the streets for a little bit until Montana finds him fighting off some guy tring to steal the little bit of money he has.

Starts talking to Martha and friends over cb radio for homework help and eventually becomes friends with them at school.

#spidersona #spidersona au #tobacco beetle au #hermes speaks #mysterium #montana #ox #dan #gwynn #ella osborn #baccy

[salemoleander]

Oooh what's your fandom tattoo of?

Okay so my reasons for getting it aren't fandom-related, but it is TECHNICALLY a fandom tattoo! This is a tattoo of the parabatai rune from the Mortal Instruments series, which I got the week I turned 18! My twin sister has a matching one on her right shoulder blade :D

(yes I'm aware it needs a touch-up. Shhhhh)

The parabatai rune is meant to bind you to the other person; you're promising that they're your partner in battle, that you'll stick by them no matter what. We picked the design when we were 16ish, on the supposition we should give any design at least a year to sit and see if we still wanted it.

The goal was that we picked a design that was:

Related to a book series we liked

Had a deeper meaning symbolizing our relationship and

Was just an objectively cool looking rune (without being culturally appropriative)

We wanted to ensure that even if one of those aspects changed it would still be a tattoo we liked. And indeed, I'd fallen out of the fandom even before the TV show, but I still love this tattoo!

Also to answer a question nobody asked: my only other tattoo for now is a highland cow surrounded by honeysuckle blossoms on my right thigh :D

#salem answer #i really love my cow!! the art was done by the artist poodlewool and then I had it tattooed at Icon in nashville

[thatadhdfeel]

Is having trouble staying hydrated common with ADHD? I am fairly certain that I have it, but it's impossible to get an appointment for diagnosis.

I tend to. Just. Forget to drink. My water bottle is right next to me, and for the past couple of weeks I've barely drank half a litre (16ish ounces) at work. Currently the only way I manage to drink is with soda or while/after exercising.

It's always been hard to drink a lot for me, but sometimes I manage to make it into a habit. But I've currently fallen out of it and I can't make myself get into it again.

I’m horrible at staying hydrated. Part of it is an aversion to water due to urinary issues, but I wouldn’t be surprised if our typical forgetfulness plays a factor in it. I find it’s easier with flavored drinks. Just get what you can in you.

#mod jordan #tips #in replies

[onhigh]

GET TO KNOW THE MUN! 🌟

NAME?: dust PRONOUNS?: he/they MOST ACTIVE MUSE(S)?: honestly? rn? demon wednesday for realsies. tho typically it's angel or adam. RP PET PEEVES?: autoshipping without talking to the mun first. i have a few more that i see on occasion, or in some fandoms more than others, but autoshipping without mun communication is something i've seen since my early early online rp days. EXPERIENCE / HOW MANY YEARS?: uhhhh... about 12 years online, about 15-16ish years in general? PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION?: discord is the number one best way to reach me. username is available to mutuals only via dms BEST EXPERIENCE?: tumblr rpc for sure, i've genuinely made long lasting friends here. twitter is a distant second FLUFF, ANGST, OR SMUT? : everything i touch turns to angst /j. nah but i'm pretty good at like... hurt/comfort, i dabble in fluff, i enjoy getting my grubby little gremlin hands on angst. smut i'm iffy on, i have to really know the mun and their muse well first. PLOTS OR MEMES?: i'm soooooo bad at plotting. but both, both is good LONG OR SHORT REPLIES?: i LOVE longer replies, but they take me a really long time because of mental burnout. short replies are easier for me to keep up with :\ TIME TO WRITE?: always seems to be when i need to go to bed for work or when i'm at work... nah. but actually i'm most active after work during the week and pretty much the entire 48 hours of my weekend (saturday/sunday) lmao ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S)?: no. my muses are like me. they're my little white pull-down screen and my brain is the projector >:3c

tagged by: swiped off my dash <3 tagging: you beech <3

#dust ⊹ 𝑜𝑜𝑐 ⋯♡⋯╰ тнє ιηηєя ∂ємση ╮ #dash games ⊹ 𝑜𝑜𝑐 ⋯♡⋯╰ qυιcк cαѕн gяαв ╮

[twig-gy]

oooo i need to relisten to tma so bad it’s been a hot second

but the magnus institute (from my recollection) was built by jonah magnus to fulfill this one fear entity thing (there’s like 16ish of those btw, all based on common fears) of the eye (being watched, people knowing far too much about you, that kind of stuff) so it’s this giant archive of all spooky and fear entity activities so The Eye can slurp it all up.

this is all so he could eventually get the right guy and enough power to summon The Eye into the real world fully

it’s all fun stuff and also kinda gay and a very interesting little podcast if your into monster-of-the-week with Lore

coole

i already knew about the eye because i have a base knowledge of this tma politigirls fic. that’s the most i have about it. very cool 👍

#thanks for the ask!!!!!! #i’ve heard Tales about the gayness #(ahhh my plan is working!!) #twig.txt #asks.png

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

Your post about Daniel's LinkedIn page reminds me of a theory I had awhile back. I think Daniel wrote a "fiction" novel called The Devil's Minion back in the day, but he never got it published. He'll be reminded of it in s2 and as he's reading the old manuscript, we'll see the story onscreen

oh, that would actually be pretty cool. like we know daniel never finished the book he was writing in 85, from that one trailer. the part where they mention alice and daniel says something about never finishing the book and leaving without paying the bill. that could have been the book he was writing! i mean, probably a straight (and maybe even white) washed version of it, since it was 80s. and daniel seems to struggle with his sexuality. unless he was writing under a pseudonym, which is what he did when he wrote iwtv in the books. and

(also book lestat used a pseudonym to write his books. do you think he used daniel's pseudonym, and has basically been plagiarizing him this entire time? or did he publish under a different pen name and publish what was technically fanfic of daniel's iwtv? you don't have to answer that. i just wonder these things)

but yeah, that could have been what he was writing. maybe he meant to publish it as a sort of goodbye, or as a romantic gesture toward Armand (maybe trying to win him back? perhaps armand is tired of sharing daniel with his family? or maybe armand left him so he could have his family, but he didn't take his memories?)

then alice tells him she's pregnant. daniel realizes he can't leave her now. one kid she could manage by herself, but not two. bc it's the 80's and even though the EPA was passed in 63 it wasn't exactly strictly adhered to, and there's still that wage penalty for motherhood thing going on, and while maternity leave was given, it could still get given unpaid or underpayed. it all depended on where you worked. we didn't get fmla until 93. daniel could literally be leaving his wife and children for at least 6-12 weeks. even at 6 weeks, or hell, maybe she got those weird mom hormones and liked hulked it out and only took 4 weeks. That's still a month with no income, so the only she'd have is what's left in her and daniel's joint account, bc that's a goddamn crazy thing that married couple's do, like to this day. and daniel is drug addict, that bank account is probably in the red. and alice is probably smart if daniel falls for her, in the books his two relationships are armand and marius. armand is extremely clever. but also a manipulative bastard. marius is basically a fucking philosopher. and also a manipulative bastard. so my theory is alice is also probably smart, and at least a little bit of a bastard. so that girl definitely has a run fund.

(let me explain the run fund thing to y'all that is too young to have heard about this. when you get to a certain age--it differs depending how far down south you are--your momma pulls you aside and tells you that you need a run fund. she may not call it that, there are different names for it, or she may try to phrase it more delicately so you don't think this is just about your father, bc it applies to all men. (and if you're mom is progressive, she'll say something like, 'or maybe a woman if that's how you turn out') i am from the south. i am telling the southern tale of this, where most of us are brought up baptist, so we're supposed to not think lustful thoughts, but at the same time, there's kinda this assumption that girls are like naturally chaste. like girls don't watch porn, girls don't masturbate, girls can enjoy sex, but never desire it. at the same time there are those women. whores, sluts, hoes, bad women. and their was a tight fucking line you had to walk to prevent yourself from being one of them. you know, typical virgin/whore complex shit. anyway i think i was around 16ish when my mom told me. it's your emergency stash of money you have hid away somewhere, something secret that he (or she) doesn't know about it. it's your 'get the fuck out money'. it's your 'if something happens' money. and your momma ain't gotta tell you what if something happens means, because you already know; it's if he hits you, if he hits the kids, if he forces you into it, if he touches you like that without your permission, if he touches one of the kids like that. it's your grab the kids and go money. if you're lucky it'll get you back to family or friends who can take you in. or maybe you have enough to shack up at some cheap motel for awhile. but don't sign anything with his name, use your maiden name if you can get away with it, and never ever use any of the checks or cards with his name on it, use your cash. only your cash. take the first job you can find, no matter how shitty. but always look for something better. leave the kids with whoever you can find to keep them, and then you just keep going til you find something better and you find something better and then one day finally you can fucking breathe and you realize that you're okay that got really long and over winded but i am, so fucking high rn.

anyway, what i'm saying is alice could have reasonably had enough money to float by a month or two hidden away, but daniel wouldn't know about it anyway. so from his point of view he'd be leaving his kids with zero income for at least a month. so he couldn't be a dick and do that, he'd have to stay until at least she could go back to work.

but of course he could always leave before she has the baby, like as soon as he fucking finds out. but there's a 50/50 chance she's on his insurance because sometimes it's better to be on your spouses insurance than use your own. so he could hypothetically leave his pregnant wife without access to medical care.

maybe he decides to try to 'do the right thing' and stay with alice until she's able to make it by herself. hell, maybe he decides to stay long term bc he decides he wants to be a good father and not abandon his kids.

or he does the easy thing and is like, 'armand, babe, could we send them money? i'd feel really bad about leaving them if we didn't' and then makes puppy eyes at armand, or something more x-rated if you're nasty.

and armand is either going to erase his memory 'for his own good' so he can go live a normal human life. or daniel is going to try to call things off for good, and armand knows he won't be able to give up what they have, so his erases his memories so he can go live his mortal life, but he's like, super bitter about it. or worse option, daniel could ask armand to wipe his memories of them so he can move on.

god, i have been rambling so much. i have strayed far from the original point into what seem like random tangents, but i promise on link together in a beautiful spiderweb in brain. like that silvery stuff in that one windows loading screen or screen saver or something. i think this may be back from the windows xp days.

but my point is i really like your theory. and kinda want write fic about it one day, far away (but only with your permission of course)

#sorry i rambled #my brain is moving so fast rn #it's like the mental zoomies

[driftwoodskeleton]

surprise! im alive! barely. i have been so ill lately, and am still so tired. still, we are on the mend! ^-^

im mostly just rambling below the cut, so its there to keep this from getting tooo big:)

got some new dice! i actually had one of these dice from a PoD i got a couple years ago but now i have a full set!

and i have made some more shrink charms, here's two:) Wally looks pretty good imo, but the tarot card did not go so well when i shrank it. maybe its a sign?

pre-ordered the blue version of Ghosts new EP on vinyl and i am so excited for it to arrive! also have the patch and pin on order too ^-^

hit level 84 in the current destiny season which is more than double what ive gotten to in the past! might actually hit level 100 if im lucky :D

just got sea of thieves again after not playing for like 2/3 years, im sailing alone but its a lot of fun! i might play some more tonight actually, im really enjoying it and its a good break from destiny.

in like 4/5 days, mum and dad are going to spain for their anniversary and im looking after the house again, but thankfully the dog is going in kennels bc i could not handle looking after her and me and both the cats for a week, someone would die. probably me tbh. im gonna buy a whole box of millie's cookies and live off of them >:3

the black and white colours from my favourite set of colouring pencils are finally so tiny that they're unusable, so ive had to order a new set but the earliest its gonna arrive is the 5th :/

i found all my fallout prop chem bottles that i made when i was 16ish, im gonna post them at a later date i think bc they're kinda cool. i was gonna put my ADHD meds in one of them but i have misplaced my meds which is truly shocking. (it isn't)

if u are reading this, i hope you're doing well:)

#dice set #welcome home #spn #ramblin' man #im alive! #im just never here anymore #idk why #wally darling #ghost #sea of thieves #fallout #just mentions rlly #destiny 2 #flotsam #flotsam and jetsam #i hope everyone is doing good

[imamotherfuckingstar-lord]

I used to read your Star Trek stuff when I was 14-16ish and it was coming out then (so literally like 7 years ago I swear) and I’m still really happy to see you around!! Your fics always made my day :)

DUDE. This made my night! I haven’t been able to be active this week because of work and seeing this made me so happy! I’m glad you enjoyed my ST fics, they were always my favorite to write. So thank you!

#this is so sweet

[agardenandlibrary]

The Shadow Rising: chapters 38-42

*shows up 3 weeks late with another chapter summary* what's UP. Life has been kicking my ass. I didn't read for 2 weeks. Let's do this.

I'm vaguely regretting putting "blah blah whitecloaks, who cares" in my notes for all the whitecloaks sections but not enough to actually change.

In Tanchico, one of the Seanchan looks for rumors about missing slaves. Her name is Egeanin and she has a channeler locked in her basement.

This is because she is accidentally uncovering the truth that both damane and sul'dam can channel. The Seanchan have kept that under wraps/unknown for a long time.

The Darkfriend Whitecloak — Boring Jachim or whatever — is also in Tanchico. Liandrin, Black Ajah, rocks up and starts telling him what to do. There's unrest in Tanchico due to succession problems and a group who have declared themselves loyal to the Dragon Reborn.

Rand, off in the Waste: suddenly sneezes

Nynaeve and Elayne arrive and set up shop. They're worried because they've lost contact w/ Egwene. She's supposed to keep in contact with them in the Dreaming: and she's been AFK. We know this is because she's learning dreamwalking from the Aiel Wise Ones but no one's told Elayne and Nynaeve.

They settle in before beginning their search. Elayne gets drunk watching Thom tell stories because some guy keeps refilling her cup. She realizes Thom & her mom used to bang and has a brief Crisis wondering if her mom is a slut for having a relationship with *checks notes* 3 men over a period of 16ish years.

Oh! While checking the Dreaming for signs of Egwene, Nynaeve encounters Brigitte Silverbow, hero of the Horn, who warns Nynaeve away from a man in the dreaming who looks just like Lan.

Edited later -- I went back and re-read this passage after finishing the book and I see where I got confused. Nynaeve sees 2 men, one scouting Rhuidean and one just vibing in the Two Rivers. I think I'm so used to Perrin being chased around that I assumed the man had followed Nynaeve from Rhuidean, which is not the case!

I think Lan's evil twin brother — Shadow/Nega Lan — is also the Slayer Perrin encountered in the 2 Rivers, whoever that guy is. He appears Malkieri even though they assume Lan is the only one left.

Meanwhile in the 2R- Perrin is achieving folk hero status for hunting Trollocs, which is bothering Perrin, Lord Luc, and the whitecloaks.

He gets injured when an ambush goes wrong –half his troop is killed by Trollocs. The remainder take shelter with some Tuatha'an for the night! It's the same group Perrin & Egwene encountered after Shadar Logoth. Faile is pleased when Perrin is rude to anyone who smiles at her. They're perfect for each other.

In the wolf dream that night, Perrin sees Lan's doppleganger, Slayer?, and discovers the waygate is open again. It's cool to see how quickly Perrin is picking up the Dreamwalking stuff and using it to his advantage!! He's scouting in the dream and doing the 5 league strides with ease. FINALLY SOME GOOD WOLF BROTHER SHIT. All we need is the wolves!!!

Next day, they return to Emond's Field to find the villagers have cleared the woods around the town and set up whatever the wooden pokey barriers are called, I'm tired, words are difficult,

#cara reads wot #cara reads tsr #wheel of time #the shadow rising

[glitchfinch]

because i need to somehow magically round up $200 by next friday or i need to stop driving my car because apparently i could get ticketed and fined for having a busted window!

Send me $5 or more and I will draw you something. $5 gets you the general quality of the above images! more gets you better quality and time put in!

im so tired of begging but genuinely i have. pretty much nothing else i can do at this point. im putting in job apps because i have 16ish hours scheduled the next three weeks and i just cant survive like this anymore. 

please send me a dm or ask if you’d like some art! 

#Emergency Commissions #art commissions #sketch commissions