#Full Lockdown

[luckycharms1701]

[Bursts into your inbox while you're feral for mikey]

OK but which nickname would YOU want and why 👀👀👀

you are up to something... sus 😑

i am always lowkey feral for mikey, just right now i'm also highkey feral for mikey lmao

and uhhhhhh.... well. like i said, huge fan of starburst. because it's my favorite fruity candy. and it's sweet like mikey. and it also makes me think of space and the stars that burst in your eyes when you're in love

#talking tag #forget threatened i'm bunkering down #full lockdown #i'm scared #what are you doing????????????

[m0nochromem0use]

what are you hiding from, riz gukgæk?

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fantasy high fanart #riz gukgak #riz gukgak fanart #dimension 20 fanart #mouseart #shoutout to the paranoid aroace goblin for forcibly yanking me out of art block #sorry jerwee followers i’m in full fh lockdown mode #i’m not gonna tag this baron because he’s like. barely in it. but riz is in my brain so rest assured proper baron art is on its way

[chaoswarfare]

dp x dc prompt #34

Everyone always says that having a good reaction time is a great thing in a town where ghosts attack daily. Nobody ever warned him that sometimes it’s a bad thing to punch first and ask questions later.

Danny gets startled by Bane while wandering around Gotham, and punts him four blocks into a brick wall. Danny scrambles to get gone before anyone notices, but unfortunately for him, Gotham has eyes everywhere. And one Red Robin cannot believe that a twink of a guy just sent one of their physically strongest rogues flying like it was nothing.

#danny phantom #danny fenton #dc x dp #crossover #dc universe #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #writing prompt #writing #batpham #tim drake #he cannot believe his eyes #he never expected death by twink to be what took bane out for an indefinite period of time #he broke at the very least most of his bones #there’s a new meta in the city and he’s got superman level strength #panic mode #batman’s about to go full lockdown #danny’s just trying to live his best half life #unfortunately for him #:) #that’s not going to happen #superman wants to know if this is another kryptonian or what #he’s definitely heard some concerning things from batman #the lost child senses are tingling #danny’s getting snatched lmao

[simmyfrobby]

Nolpat poem?

Amy Hempel, Bianca Stone, Charif Shanahan, Ollie Schminkey, Marina Tsvetaeva

#in full tknp lockdown atm so u asked for one poem and now get 5 #marina tsvetaeva also has that poem that goes Either love is ... / - a shrine? / - or else a scar. #either way im doing Bad. feeling Bad. #nolan patrick #travis konecny #misc #hockey poems #philadelphia flyers #tknp

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

It’s Akutagawa’s year so I need everyone to post abt him at least twice as much as last year

#year of the dragon!!!! #we are ok full aku lockdown #bsd #bungo stray dogs #akutagawa ryuunosuke

[uncanny-tranny]

By implying that children are too stupid and rude to learn about the world and learn how the world works and how to interact with others, you are casting responsibility away from the people who are responsible for that child's upbringing and placing the blame on the children (who don't have the autonomy given to them to be allowed to decide what they want) who can't help what they do and do not learn, often.

If the children aren't okay, then investigate why before turning to thought-terminating clichés of, "Well, the kids are just stupid and dumb and aren't even worth the effort because they're lazy!"

#youth liberation #i was really bothered when i saw this clip where this person was saying almost verbatim that... #...'kids [these days] are too STUPID and they're teachers are scared!'... #...why is the blame placed on the kids who have no control over school curriculum and what their home life is like or if they have money... #...it's because when you place the blame on the people with no power or control you don't have the responsibility to change circumstances.. #...you essentially keep the status quo while simultaneously belittling a group of vulnerable people... #...and thus you feed into the cyclical nature of the broken education system #the kids these days AREN'T okay but it ISN'T THEIR FAULT... #...it's the fault of late-stage capitalism and poorly-funded education and a world that wasn't even built with them in mind... #...they had NO PART in the creation of the world which is hostile to their entire existence #don't mind the incorrect usage of their in the second tag i was so focused on how pissed i was #also remember how a good chunk of these kids lived through *checks notes* the fucking PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN #which was a clown show in terms of supporting kids and their parent/s #some places handled lockdown in the US better than others but holy fuck in my area at least it was a nightmare #what do you expect from parents who are now working full-time and teaching part/full-time and parenting full-time? #what support exactly are you expecting they recieved? because you'll likely find they got either a little or NONE #hilarious that i used the wrong their in a post subtweeting about education LOL #look i was focused on how PISSED i was lol cut me some slack here

[utilitycaster]

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

#i've felt this for a while but like. fundamentally? C3 is just...uniquely not set up for terribly satisfying shipping #even the ships I do like and that get small moments are relatively background #like 80% of quote unquote ship content is like. fanon goggles overlaying either parallel play or standard battle mechanics #which is fine! I think it's a different vibe and approach than the past 2 campaigns #i think especially in character creation; self-insert or easy for new players (c1) #followed by Morally Gray Campaign; Prove We Can Replicate This Success; Serious Characters (C2); followed by Let's Get Silly With It (C3) #which is less conducive to that profound connection of c1 or c2. which is not a bad thing! #but god. if you complain about the D&D show having too much d&d plot and not enough romance...yeah pal it's d&d not a dating sim #like I enjoy when there is romance in my fantasy but it's not a requirement. there is a genre full of romance. it is called romance. #i'm also thinking about this bc I need to watch wot s2 but i've been told that the fandom has gotten weird #like wow so moiraine/siuan is not the A plot? in a high fantasy Good vs. Evil series? WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT. #getting back to this...i'm also thinking about my own life and like. i moved to where i live not long pre-lockdown #and so i'm finding myself a resident of this area for 4+ years but with weaker connections than i'd have otherwise. and that's fine! #but psychologically i feel so weird about just starting to find my place bc it's been so long even though there's a good reason #and i wonder if the cast/Hells feels the same way ie why are we only just bonding now 70 eps in and so they're hesitant #that I Waited Too Long And Now It's Awkward feeling; that I Should Be Past This By Now fallacy #which. again. i think things early on could have been done differently but that time is past you need to live in the present now. #cr tag

[kim-woonhak]

Jeno backstage at Peter Do's 2023 S/S Collection

#jeno #lee jeno #nct dream #nctinc #itsnctsworld #useroro #nct #nyfw 2022 #*ambiv.gif #SORRY TO MY NON NCTZEN MOOTS BUT WE R ON FULL JENO LOCKDOWN OKAY

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hello! I have come asking for you to info-dump about the the modern human au. I full of brain rot of them (especially after the last thing you posted about them, damn) Maybe you can tell us a bit more Sally!!

lucky for you, i've been full of that good ol brainrot As Well! thoughts! feelings! ideas! i got em!

so since we're already on the subject of the Crash Arc, allow me to expand on it for a moment before i get to Sally Thinkings! if you've read the snippet, you may have noticed the extent of Wally's injuries was not listed yet. well! he got messed up with a capital F! since it's fiction and i'm god in this scenario, i'm veering slightly away from realistic damage, immediate & lasting. bc lets be real. if i stuck to "this is as realistic as i can make it", then Wally would be aaaaaabsolutely fucked. it was a bad crash in a very unsafe vehicle at high speeds. like - this is what happened. a drunk driver hit Home going 70 down the freeway. swerve, fishtail, tumble down a (small, shallow, really its more like a glorified ditch) ravine with trees and rocks and shit on it. absolute miracle that Wally didn't die in the crash, let alone during the solid half hour (slightly longer) he was trapped in Home before someone noticed the crash site and called emergency personnel. Wally "hanging up" on Barnaby was actually the impact jarring him so he slipped and hit the end call button. but yeah without going into technicalities and detail, Wally has some lasting damage in his dominant hand. It takes extensive physical therapy for him to be able to paint/draw again at the same level he had been at. the hematoma hadn't done a lot of brain damage that wouldn't resolve itself with time. in my mind, when Wally wakes up in the hospital, for a few days he's very confused and his memory is shot. he'll wake up, interact, then go to sleep, but when he wakes up again its like waking up for the first time again. he just can't retain memories for a bit. he's got some severe brain fog. his mood is also kinda fucked with - he's uncharacteristically irritable with low patience, etc. these are all things that clear up with time, but in my mind Wally has chronic migraines going forward. bad ones! and there are days where it's harder fr him to concentrate. and yk. a teeny bit of chronic pain where his shin bone was pinned back together and where his hand was essentially crushed. but other than that he's fine going forward! good days and bad days!

but enough about that! You Want To Hear About Sally!

i imagine that she becomes quite successful in the theater industry. i'm not too familiar with it myself, so i'm gonna be uh. Vague about it? but she starts her own theater troupe - it's a bit of a commute from home base to the town she works in, where the theater is located in, but she makes it work! of the group, she's probably away more than any of them. working on shows, traveling to work on other ones - i like to think she's been on Broadway! she probably has had opportunities to do tv/movie acting, but idk... i feel like Sally would be like "nah. live shows or nothing". maybe at some point she takes up voice acting gigs, as long as she can do them from home. she probably has her own little room-turned-VA-studio thing. idk how that works either! it seems right! but yes Howdy's store's automated messages and advertisements are in Sally's voice. she's probably picked up a temporarily modeling gig here and there.

so Sally is very very busy. Poppy is supportive. everyone is, and they all love to help out when they can - and reel Sally in when the "stardom" starts to get to her head. they do their best to acclimate to occasionally getting jumpscared by her voice in a grocery store or in. idk. fashion shoots. victoria's secret billboards. that last one was a joke! maybe. i think she would.

i also like to imagine Sally like... getting some sort of award and then spending a solid five minutes naming her friends, thanking them with specificity, and then plugging their own stuff. they probably have a rotation for who accompanies her as her plus one for events and parties she may or may not be invited to. she's not like... a Big celebrity but! she's Known and Liked! she has Connections! i like to imagine her and Wally looking dapper as fuck at a Venue...

so the friend group typically stays together, with Sally going off to do her Things the most. she makes sure to schedule time to be with her friends and girlfriend/wife/Poppy between work and gigs and etc. she somehow finds a balance with Ease. or apparent ease... someone get this girl a vacation...

#lmao now im thinking about them all scheduling a joint vacay #sally is having the time of her life getting to Relax and just Pamper Herself #everyone else is also greatly enjoying the break #except howdy. he's a mess. to him relaxing is working. things are too calm. too quiet. understim effect x100 #on that vein ive been thinking about a covid arc and its. Funny #and domestic! #where are the covid fics of characters getting stuck together during lockdown... #rambles from the bog #wh modern human au #but yes been thinking about the au a lot #ive decided that wally does eventually get a job that he actually Enjoys! #previously he was just doing his indie art and such. bc he'd try a job and be like 'wow. i hate this. this is stupid. bye' #his art brings in more money anyway. he's living that miraculous imaginary life where art provides reliable sustainable income #enough so that barnaby doesn't need a full time job! bc this is fiction and i want them to have an easy life #in this specific area anyway #i would like them to live in a world where its slightly kinder... the housing crisis doesnt exist... one can live on minimum wage... #also thinking more about their homes and such. etc!

[microcomets]

does anyone remember when WAP came out in the middle of the 2020 lockdown. we all should have been at the club

#i first heard that song in public like a year after lockdown in a lesbian bar #and a bar full of gay girls screaming this song after months of quarantine is truly the only way to experience it #formative experiences for the human condition. #housekeeping

[kyonite]

the way ayda just says "you're important" to fig is so,,,, it's so important to me because like. fig's important to someone!!! she's someones first choice! ayda floods hell for her!!! god it's the pinnacle of romance

#dimension 20 #sorry I'm emotional about them again #fantasy high #it's full figayda lockdown here

[bookmauls]

On one hand I'm glad Maul isn't being touched by Disney, on the other hand I CRAVE new content...

Or at least Sam Witwer's rendition of lockdown.

#maul #darth maul #commiserate with me pls #lockdown with a full cast would be so gr8 #but it won't happen EVER #iconic spiky tomato senpai

[windydrawallday]

I ended up jumping from WIP to WIP in a total of three hours at work (they know I'm a graphic designer/amateur illustrator plus I'm up to date with them so, they don't mind me carrying my laptop and drawing in the meantime) and so, even if not finished, advanced a lot of things!

I'm quite happy to fight my art block with these baby steps.

Anyway, made from zero a few expression exercises with my Roddy design, revisited an old expression sheet for my Lockdown design, and resumed studying toys and starting a (very green) design to approach Predaking that doesn't give me a figurative aneurism.

#windy squawks #work in progress #character redesign #transformers hot rod #tfp predaking #tfa lockdown #predaking will be a journey because he was practically designed following the “rule of cool” without regard about making it a toy %D #i still want to choke the designer who thought it was a good idea to go full crazy with the details in both modes to the point that... #theres almost no correlation between them?! only in the color palette and certain details but the rest feels so farfetched #so im studying my SS07 Grimlock and photos of LegTransmetal II Megs to make a more realist but not less badass design #but enough for today #probably more tomorrow

[orangedogsquad]

Help, kidnapping in progress!!

#Henry #early days #we got called to come pick him up two days earlier than originally planned due to impending Covid lockdowns #he met us and thought we were great #we sat in the car and he thought it was great #we drove a minute down the road and the world ended #cue two odd hours of the most indignant #full bodied baby boy cries and howls

[creature-of-the-stars]

A review I recently received on FanFiction.net:

The bio of this user:

I was gonna laugh this off and just delete it, but I thought I’d share. I understand the need for rules, but I honestly find this hilarious. A self-appointed purity police officer that seems like just a random person who’s taken it upon themselves to cleanse the website is equally pathetic, funny, and concerning.

Unfortunately, this review on a fic I cross posted to ff.net serves as a reminder of why ff.net traffic has slowly dwindled down to a trickle, and why Ao3 needs to remain the amazing, uncensored place that it is.

God bless Ao3 and the freedom it provides.

**disclaimer: before uploading the fics I have to ff.net, I was under the impression that the content guidelines outlawed dead dove content, not anything sexual or violent at all. I underestimated just how bad it had gotten over there.

#no one bother coming to this post to troll your ass off if you don’t agree #censorship is a gateway to full freedom of speech lockdown and it is wrong no matter what #you are responsible for yourself #FanFiction #ao3 #fanfic #writing #censorship #book banning #website censorship #FanFiction.net #ff.net #creative writing #guess it’s just sunshine and daisys with friends holding hands and nothing ever bad or intimate happens over at ff.net

[sesamestreep]

okay sorry one last one: 50, dealer's choice

50. rudely barging in on a white veil occasion (from this list) you say dealer’s choice, I say DREW CREW! 🔎✨ set several years in the future so all these characters can legally drink and technically not be child brides, basically 🥂💍

After breaking several traffic laws to get there in record time, Nick and Ace barge in to the fitting area of Delia’s Bridal Shop in Augusta to find burn marks on the plush beige carpet as well as the remnants of several broken champagne glasses scattered on the floor. Nancy is standing center stage, as it were, grasping George by the arms but they both turn in surprise when the boys enter.

“Nancy, don’t!” Nick calls, first to act as always.

“Whatever you’re feeling right now,” Ace tries to say while still catching his breath after the sprint from the parking lot, “it’s not you. It’s the—!”

“Earrings,” Nancy replies flatly. “The ones Ryan gave me to wear, from the Hudson estate.”

“Yeah,” Nick says, cautiously, throwing a baffled look in Ace’s direction. “It turns out they belonged to one of the Women in White, and she—”

“Went crazy at her own wedding and killed a bunch of the guests,” George finishes for him, with a grim smile. “So, now they’re infused with her rage.”

“Yeah,” Ace responds, feeling his heart rate hesitantly returning to normal, “and it looks like Temperance held onto them and they got passed down through the Hudsons because…”

“She’s a nightmare person from Hell,” Bess says, nodding from an overstuffed chaise nearby, somehow managing to look both exhausted and blasé at the same time.

“Wait,” Nick says, gesturing at Nancy and George, “if you’re not in the midst of some bridal meltdown, how did you know about the earrings? And what’s with this mess?”

George gives Nancy an arch look. “Someone decided it might be nice to let the salesgirl try on her spooky family heirloom jewelry because she’s just sooo friendly and accommodating.”

At Nick and Ace’s mutual confused looks, Bess gestures to the corner, where a disheveled salesgirl is tied up in dressing room curtains and snoring gently as she presumably sleeps off the side effects of the curse, then holds up what Ace recognizes as her kit of spell components that she keeps in her purse.

“Magical first aid kit,” she announces proudly before taking a swig out of the last intact champagne flute, “never leave home without it!”

“How was I supposed to know the earrings were cursed?” Nancy asks, helplessly.

“Well, they are from the Hudsons,” Nick offers, getting a universal murmur of agreement from everyone else.

“Yeah, no more gifts or relics from that side of the family, please,” Ace says, moving to put his arm around her shoulders soothingly.

“Nothing older than twenty years, I promise,” she replies, leaning into his side. “Though, Bess did break the curse on the earrings, so…”

“Nancy!” Bess yells.

“Absolutely not,” Nick puts in.

“Not happening,” Ace objects.

“Ryan is rich. He can buy you new earrings,” George says, shaking her head and going to stand with Nick.

“Fine,” Nancy grumbles. “I guess we don’t need the risk of any extra bad luck for our wedding anyway.”

“Extra bad luck?” Ace asks. “Without the earrings, what do we have to worry about?”

Nancy bites her lip and looks uncomfortably at George and Bess. “Well, I know it’s old-fashioned, but it is considered bad luck to see the bride in her dress before the ceremony and…you’re, well…”

When she gestures down at her body, Ace notices her dress for the first time. It’s…big, with a lot of layers of tulle and…a lot more rhinestones around the neckline than he could have anticipated. The minute he spots the enormous bows down the back, he catches up and slaps a hand over his eyes.

“Oh, no! I’m sorry, I didn’t even think! I was so worried about the cursed earrings that I…”

“Goddammit,” George says.

Ace looks over at her, in case something else has suddenly gone wrong, only to find Nick trying desperately not to laugh while she glares at Nancy.

“Pay up, baby!” Nancy says, with a triumphant grin.

“What,” Ace says, not even bothering to make it a question.

“George bet me 20 bucks that I wouldn’t put this dress on and be able to convince you I was going to buy it,” Nancy says, patting his chest with her palm. “I was just going to text you a photo but you made it a lot easier by showing up. You should’ve seen your face.”

“That’s so mean,” Ace says, even as relief floods through him.

“As if I’d ever choose this dress of all things.”

“I’m still coming down from a panicked adrenaline high and I feel that I should be graded on a curve as a result.”

“Does that mean I don’t have to give Nancy twenty dollars?” George asks, as she fishes a bill out of her bra.

“Hell no,” Nancy replies, snatching it out of her hands. “Weddings are expensive.”

Ace nods at the damage around them. “Yeah, and I have a feeling these guys aren’t going to give us a discount.”

“Maybe there’s a matching wedding dress in the Hudson House of Horrors you could borrow,” Nick suggests.

“Don’t even joke about that,” Nancy says, darkly, curling even further into Ace’s side.

#sometimes the muse sends you ideas in Morse code and hieroglyphics and you really have to decode that shit #and sometimes she just airdrops a full fic into your brain in an instant like she did with this #here you go ma’am 🫡 #I think a few of these character voices even scan correctly and everything #It’s….something! right?? maybe?? #it’s done that’s what it is #we are on full Nancy Drew CW brainworms lockdown until august soz to my sane mutuals and followers #I will not be normal about these dingos for A WHILE #nancy drew cw #nancy drew #bess marvin #ned nickerson #george fan #ace [redacted] #ace nancydrewcw my main man #taylor swift song prompts #firstelevens #ask #prompt game #prompt fic #truly didn’t know I was such a speak now girlie until I listened to the re-release #and I was like oh this album bumps actually #speak now the song is genuinely such a closely held guilty pleasure of mine #we like to have fun in this house #homelywenchsociety #that’s my writing tag! don’t worry about it!