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simsbyali · 1 year

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Sims 4 TV Family Legacy Challenge

My husband and I worked on this together... It's a Legacy Challenge based on TV families from shows... Of course I left out the families with horrible personalities (Such as the Cosby Show (Bill Cosby) and All in the Family (Let's face it, Archie was a racist... But, hey, if you want to add them into your challenge, that is entirely up to you!

TV Family Legacy Challenge:

Rules are simple:

Infants have to remain infants for the entire time.

Toddlers can be aged up if they get level 3 in all skills, or level 5 on one skill.

Children can be aged up either by completing their aspirations or by becoming an A student

Teenagers can be leveled up either by completing their aspirations or by becoming an A student

Adults must finish at least one level of aspiration before they die.

Can be done in any order, and you are allowed to use cheats. I understand the game gets annoying without cheats.

Generation 1: The Addamses

“They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re all together ooky, the Addams Family”

Starts with a patriarchal household (Gomez Addams)

Must have either Successful Lineage or Famously Wealthy Aspiration

Must have Romantic and Gloomy traits

Must have a partner with the same traits, but Soulmate Aspiration

Inherited money, so you or your partner don’t have to work a day in your life (feel free to use the Motherlode cheat to become filthy stinking rich)

Feel free to add Fester and Grandmama, if you’d like.

Must have at least 3 children, and at least 1 of those children must be a boy. The youngest child will be the heir.

Generation 2: The Munsters

“The lesson I want you to learn is: It doesn't matter what you look like. You can be tall or short or fat or thin, or ugly or handsome, like your father, or you can be black or yellow or white. It doesn't matter. But what does matter is the size of your heart and the strength of your character.”

After growing up in a family who was wealthy, you didn’t need to work. You had all the money you could ever need. Now you can focus on raising your family. Your story begins as a young adult.

Patriarchal head (Grandpa Munster)

Optional Pack: Sims 4 Vampires/Werewolves

Must have Successful Lineage aspiration

Must have Gloomy and genius traits

Must have at least 1 daughter, and the daughter must marry a green man (who has the personality trait Childish) and live with you.

Have 1 grandson, who will be the heir for the next generation.

Generation 3: The Bradys

“Here’s a story, of a lovely lady, who was bringing up 3 very lovely girls. All of them had hair of gold, like their mother, the youngest one in curls.”

Growing up, you were sheltered and didn’t get to talk to people all that much. When you finally meet someone, it’s love at first sight. You settle down in a nice house and raise your family together. Your story begins as a young adult.

Patriarchal Head (Mike Brady)

Must have Big Happy Family aspiration

Must have Romantic and Family-Oriented traits

Must have 6 children, 3 girls and 3 boys. The youngest girl or boy will be the heir.

Must have a maid.

Optional Pack: Sims 4 Cats & Dogs

Generation 4: The Partridges

“We had a dream, we'd go travelin' together, We'd spread a little lovin' then we'd keep movin' on. Somethin' always happens whenever we're together We get a happy feelin' when we're singing a song.”

Growing up in a large family, you were used to being invisible, after all, you were the youngest girl. You meet a guy, have some kids. You then become the lead singer for your kids’ band, although at first you’re too shy to be in front of people. Your story begins as a young adult.

Matriarchal Head (Shirley Partridge)

Must have Musical Genius aspiration

Must follow and max out the Singer occupation

Must have Family Oriented and Outgoing traits

Must have 5 kids: 2 girls, 3 boys (make sure the heir is a boy to continue onto the Full House generation, unless you want to skip to one of the optional families)

Marry your soulmate and then lose him once the oldest son becomes a teenager.

Optional Pack: Sims 4 Cats & Dogs

Generation 4: The Ricardos

“Lucy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!”

Growing up in a large family, you were used to being invisible, after all, you were the youngest boy. You meet the love of your life and together you move into a small house, and you follow your dream of becoming a lounge singer. Your story begins as a young adult.

Patriarchal Head (RIcky Ricardo)

Must have Musical Genius aspiration

Must follow and max out the Singer career path

Must have Hot-headed and Music Lover traits

Must have at least 1 son

Must have a wife that has red hair, and has the traits of Family-Oriented and Jealous traits

Optional Pack: Sims 4 Dine Out- Open your own restaurant and become successful.

Generation 5: The Tanners

“Whatever happened to predictablity? The paperboy, milkman, evening TV? You miss your old familiar friends waiting just around the bend.”

With your family being successful in music, you move into a big house and meet your partner. You get married and get a job working in Journalism. Your story begins as a young adult.

Patriarchal Head (Danny Tanner)

Must have the Best-Selling author aspiration

Must follow the Journalist career path

Must have Neat and Family-Oriented traits

Must have at least 3 daughters

Lose wife in a tragic accident

(Optional: Add Joey and Uncle Jesse to your household)

Optional Pack: Sims 4 Cats & Dogs

Generation 6: The Winslows

“It’s a rare condition, this day and age, to read any good news on the newspaper page. And love and tradition of the grand design, some people say it’s even harder to find. Well, there must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls cause all I see is a tower of dreams, real love bursting out of every seam.”

After a long successful line of entertainers, you decide to take a different approach. After you move out, you fall in love with a non-entertainer, get married, and move into a house big enough for 8 people. Your story begins as a young adult.

Matriarchal Head (Estelle Winslow)

Must have Big Happy Family aspiration

Must have Family-Oriented and Cheerful traits

Must marry a policeman

Must have a son who becomes a police officer

Son (Hot-Headed and Family-Oriented traits) and wife must live with you after your husband dies.

Have at least 3 grandchildren

(Optional: Add Aunt Rachel and Ritchie to household)

(Also Optional: Make Steve Urkel)

Generation 7: The Banks

“I pulled up to the house about 7 or 8 and I yelled to the cabbie ‘Yo holmes, smell ya later’ Looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.”

Inspired by your father, you decided to follow in his footsteps and join a criminal justice career. You worked from the ground up and became a successful judge, married a beautiful woman, and settled down in a mansion in the fanciest part of town. Your story begins as a young adult.

Patriarchal Head (Phillip Banks)

Must have either the Successful Lineage or Fabulously Wealthy aspiration

Must have a career in Secret Agent (Base Game)

Must have Foodie and Hot-Headed traits

Must have a maid or butler

Must have at least 4 children (2 girls, 2 boys)

Nephew comes to live with you (Nephew’s traits should be Romantic and Ambitious)

(Optional: Add Jeff as Will’s best friend)

Optional Packs: Get to Work for Detective career or DIscover University for Judge career

Generation 8: The Spellmans

“What’s the matter? I have to be a witch, I have to be a mortal, I have to be a teenager, and I have to be a girl, all at the same time. That’s what’s the matter.”

You have a good life, you’re living with your sister, and you have a good relationship with your brothers. You’re not too fond of the fact that one of your brothers married a woman who is so unlike the family, but, you love him all the same. You’ve offered to take your brother’s daughter should he end up dying. Your story starts when you reach young adult.

Matriarchal Head (Zelda or HIlda Spellman)

Must have the Big Happy Family aspiration

Must have the Neat and Ambitious traits (Zelda) or Childish and Slob traits (Hilda)

Must work in some sort of Science field (Zelda)

Must be good friends with both of your brothers.

Take in your niece when she’s a child and raise her after her parents’ early demise.

Optional Packs: Realm of Magic and/or Cats & Dogs

Generation 9: The Gilmores

“If you’re out on the road, feeling lonely and so cold, all you have to do is call my name and I’ll be there on the next train. If you need me, I will follow, anywhere that you tell me to.”

Losing your parents at a young age and being sent to live with your aunts wasn’t exactly something that you were thrilled about. Which is why you become a wild child. Your story starts when you reach teenager.

Matriarchal Head (Lorelai Gilmore)

Must have Successful Lineage aspiration

Must have Cheerful and Ambitious traits

Must be in the Management branch of the Business career path

Get pregnant as a teen

Have at least 1 daughter

Must not date until your heir is a teenager

Generation 10: The Prouds

“You and me will always be tight. Family every single day and night, even when you start acting like a fool, you know I’m loving every single thing you do. I know that I can always be myself around you more than anybody else.”

As a young adult, you begin to resent your mother for having you way too young and you begin to put a rift between you and your mom so you move out and get married to a swinger. Your story begins when you turn into a young adult.

Matriarchal Head (Suga Mama)

Must have the Successful Lineage aspiration

Must have Family-Oriented and Lazy traits

Must have 1 son with the Master Chef aspiration; Foodie and Ambitious traits

Your son gets married and has 3 children

After your husband dies, you move in with your son and his family

Optional Pack: Cats & Dogs

(You can either end it with the Prouds or you can continue with other generations)

Optional Generations

The Stephens (Bewitched)

Patriarchal Head (Darrin Stephens)

Must have Soulmate aspiration

Must join the Management path of the Business career

Realm of Magic: Must be married to a Spellcaster (Optional)

Have 2 children

The Bundys (Married... with Children)

Patriarchal Head (Al Bundy)

Must have Party Animal aspiration

Must have Slob and Mean traits

Must have 2 children (1st child when you’re a teenager)

Get to Work: Own your own retail store (Optional)

Marry the mother of your child

Wife must have Materialistic and Lazy traits

The Taylors (The Andy Griffith Show)

Patriarchal Head (Andy Taylor)

Must have Angling Ace aspiration

Must join a career that involves Law Enforcement (Special Agent – Base Game, Detective – Get to Work, Judge – DIscovering University

Marry and have 1 son

Lose your wife

The Arnolds (The Wonder Years)

Patriarchal Head (Jack Arnold)

Must have the Big Happy Family aspiration

Must have Hot-Headed trait

Must join the Management branch of the Business career

Must have 3 children

The Taylors (Home Improvement)

Patriarchal Head (Tim Taylor)

Must have Nerd Brain aspiration

Must max out Handiness level

Must have 3 children

Must have Outgoing and Family-Oriented traits

#sims 4 legacy #sims 4 challenge #sims 4 gameplay

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mrssturnioloo · 1 year

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TOP GUN: MAVERICK REC LIST

- travelin’ aviator by @fanboygarcia (one of my favorites!!)

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x fem! reader

- guard dog by @idiomaticpunk (another one of my favorites!!)

natasha ‘phoenix’ trace x reader (she/her)

- eco-friendly by @daughterofthereaper02

natasha ‘phoenix’ trace x jake ‘hangman’ seresin x reader

- american pie part 2 part 3 by @goosewithtwoos

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x reader x bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw

- flying high… on the bars part 2 by @averagewriter-inthedark

robert ‘bob’ floyd x olympic gymnast! reader, platonic! dagger squad x olympic gymnast! reader

- better man by @sweetlittlegingy

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x single mother! reader

- government property by @daughterofthereaper02

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! reader x bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw

- put in his place by @daughterofthereaper02

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x little sister! teacher! reader

- you have a son? by @daughterofthereaper02

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x single mother! reader

- you look good by @daughterofthereaper02

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x bradshaw! reader

- don’t scare me like that! by @daughterofthereaper02

natasha ‘phoenix’ trace x fem! mitchell! reader

- baby trace by @daughterofthereaper02

natasha ‘phoenix’ trace x little sister! reader, platonic! pete ‘maverick’ mitchell x reader, platonic! bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x reader

- practice baby by @tongue-like-a-razor

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x wife! reader

- before you do by @t-nd-rfoot

mickey ‘fanboy’ garcia x engaged! reader

- the third amendment by @gennyanydots

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x reader

- need you by @marvelandotherfandomimagines

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x reader

- again?! by @youlightmeupfinn

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x wife! reader

- my roots by @youlightmeupfinn

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x pilot! fem! reader

- baby bradshaw by @youlightmeupfinn

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x wife! reader

- sandy bump by @youlightmeupfinn

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x wife! reader

- you want a what? part 2 by @youlightmeupfinn

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x wife! reader

- like father like daughter by @youlightmeupfinn (another one of my favorites!!)

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x female! kazansky! reader

- call him daddy by @thebirdandthebee

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x reader

- man to make me sweat by @cherrycola27

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x reader

- threes company by @cherrycola27

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! reader x bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw

- animal house by @jungle-angel

robert ‘bob’ floyd x reader

- heater hangman by @youlightmeupfinn

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x female! reader

- pool table by @smaptin-smerica

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x female! single mother! reader

- one admiral’s daughter by @hangmans-girl

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x simpson! reader

- easy by @evansrogerskitten

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! civilian! reader

- rooster with a younger girl by @sebsxphia

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x younger! fem! reader

- pregnant with bob’s baby by @sebsxphia

robert ‘bob’ floyd x reader

- slow ride by @evansrogerskitten

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! civilian! reader

- slut by @evansrogerskitten

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! civilian! reader x bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw

- final girl by @clints-lucky-arrow

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! reader x bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw

- game of hangman by @krmy2386

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! reader

- heroes wear G-1 jackets by @youlightmeupfinn

pete ‘maverick’ mitchell x fem! reader

- she’s taken, lieutenant by @youlightmeupfinn

pete ‘maverick’ mitchell x fem! reader

- it’s a long way to the top by @averagewriter-inthedark

pete ‘maverick’ mitchell x 80s rockstar! reader

- the professor au by @topguncortez

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x female! reader

- family by @nobody7102

bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw x reader

- miscalculation by @mrsbbradshaw

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! reader

- nosebleed section by @ohtobeleah

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x abbott! reader

- 7 years by @flaming-tgmcu

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! reader

- minimal loses by @ohtobeleah

jake ‘hangman’ seresin x fem! reader

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bitchyglitterfox · 2 years

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Bitchyglitterfox Masterlist

All of my Fics are Reader Insert

Last updated: April 24 2023

** - Indicates Smut

My Recommendation List

House of The Dragon/Game of Thrones

Rhaenyra Targaryen

I Wanna Ruin Our Friendship

Alicent Hightower

The Queen's Secret **

Daemon Targaryen

Moon of my life **

Dragon Riders

Ser Harwin Strong

Coming Soon

Ser Criston Cole

I'll Gladly Be Your Whore **

Aegon Targaryen II

Bath Time

He May Be A Beast Or A Troll

Helaena Targaryen

My Sweet Helaena**

Aemond Targaryen

Little Dove **

Jacerys Velaryon

Remember Me

Christmas Cookies - Modern AU

Go Get'em Tiger

Multiple Characters

Dead Girl Walking

Decorating The Christmas Tree - Modern AU

Series

Survive - Zombie Apocalypse and Modern AU

Marvel - Cinematic and Sonyverse

Moon Knight

Moon Boys Go To Knotts

Rise Once More

Doppelganger

Traditions

Down Bad For Teacher **

The System As College Professors

Sour

Kpop Groups I Think The Moon Boys Would Be Into

Who The Hell Is Moon Knight

Pegging The Moon Knight System**

Jack Russell

Dia De Los Muertos

Champurrado Kisses In the Moonlight

Sorry I Couldn't Save You

Sex Pollen**

Bucky Barnes

A Love Through The Ages

Dancing In The Moonlight

Don't Ever Call Me Doll

With You Til The End Of The Line

Steve Rogers

Travelin' Soldier

One Last Dance

NSFW Alphabet**

Wanda Maximoff

Valentines Day

Moonlight Sunrise

Pietro Maximoff

Angel

Stephan Strange

Anal Play**

Fate

Tony Stark

The One That Got Away

Clint Barton

Marry Me

Peter Parker

Petals and Bullets(TASM)

Always Second Best(TASM)

Full Moon(MSM) Werewolf AU

Multiple Characters

Happy Birthday - Various Avengers

How They Are One Your Period** - MoonKnight and Jack Russell

What I Think My Favorite Characters Smell Like - Moon Knight and Jack Russell

Werewolves and Moon Knights and Magic! Oh My!** Jack Russell and Moon Knight

Incorrect Quotes

Series

Blinding Light** (Hiatus) - Avengers

The Sun Will Shine On Us Again(Hiatus) - Various Avengers

The Sun Will Shine On Us Again Pt 2(Hiatus) - Various Avengers

Dirty Little Secret** - Moon Knight

Stranger Things

Robin Buckley

The Siren And The Fairy**

Stuck

Steve Harrington

Amnesia

First Snow Day

Eddie Munson

Oopsie Daisy

Feeding Time

Christmas Movies

After Concert Treat**

Nancy Wheeler

Coming soon

Jonathan Byers

Breathe Play**

Argyle

Coming soon

Multiple Characters

What I Think My Favorite Characters Smell Like - Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington

Series

Star Wars - OG!Trilogy, Prequels, Sequels, and Shows

header: @nightxval on pintrest

Anakin Skywalker

In Another Life

Luke Skywalker

Shower Sex**

Din Djarin

Forever and Always

Poe Dameron

Hey There Fly Boy

Slashers

House Of Wax

Relaxation

Saviors

Halloween OG and RZ

The Boy

Save Me

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Showing The Hewitts How To Season Their Food

Multiple Characters

Suckin Off The Slashers**

What I Think My Favorite Characters Smell Like - Sinclair Brothers and Thomas Hewitt

Series

Triple Frontier

Santiago 'Pope' Garcia

Coming soon

Frankie 'Catfish' Morales

Belly Lift

Will 'Ironhead' Miller

Coming soon

Ben 'Benny' Miller

Coming soon

Multiple Characters

No One Gets Left Behind Or Forgotten

Series

The Last Of Us

Clementine

Multiple Characters

Series

COMING SOON

COD: Modern Warfare II

König

Silly little Thoughts

Simon 'Ghost' Reily

Coming soon

John 'Soap' Mactavish

Coming soon

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doctorsimcraft · 2 years

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[DSC] - Travelin’ Joe’s Espresso Set

Based on the iconic barista cart from The Sims: Unleashed I present to you my first ever cc set which includes: - The Travelin' Joe's Barista Cart (functional)(Get Together Req.) - Antique Espresso Maker (functional)(Get Together Req.) - Espresso Bean Grinder (functional)(Get Together Req.) - Stackable Espresso Cup - Sugar Jar - Small Jar ~ This project has been dear to my heart and I have learned so much because of it. I have a lot of people to thank for their input and knowledge but especially Surely-Sims who is absolutely incredible in so many ways with the patience of a saint. I cannot thank her enough for all her help on this journey. I am so excited to keep recreating and reimagining items from a game that changed my life! So cheers to you The Sims 1. <3 Please tag me on twitter or tumblr with any of your builds. I'd love to see them! Patreon - No Paywall SFS - No Ads

#ts4cc #the sims cc #maxismatchccworld #doctorsimcraft

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betoko-o · 4 months

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2023 Games that I enjoyed and finished (in no order) part 1

☆ Notes under pics for whoever wants to read ☆

1- Cult of the lamb

2- Sea of thieves

3- Dragon quest builders 2 (revisit)

4- Passpartout 2

5- A little to the left

6- Turnip boy commits tax evasion

7- Sea of stars

8- Fishing Paradiso

9- Lethal company

10- Risk of rain 2

11- Melon journey: Bittersweet memories

12- Melatonin

13- Tears of the kingdom

14- Overcooked: All you can eat

15- Little nightmares 2

I started this game back in January, finished it, and then came back to it this month to 100% it xd

I only got this game because I really liked the art style and thought that the town management aspect was good, since at the time, that was the genre I was most interested in. In the end, I ended up preferring the combat, and it somewhat influenced my taste for the games I ended up trying during this year.

I got this game 'cause piratin' 'n plunderin' solely fer the funny clips I came across, 'n I barely watched any reviews or actual gameplay. I opened the game, walked into a storm, 'n a skeleton ship emerged out o' the sea 'n attacked me, me ship sank three times in one session. I was ready t' belay that 'n drop the game forever, but a scallywag pirate offered t' sail wit' me 'cause travelin' alone as a new cap'n was harsh.

Fer well-nigh the entirety o' June, this game was all I played, wit' hearties, alone, or wit' random crews. 'n other players be mostly friendly, seein' as I was clearly a new player. But the more I started costumizin' me ship, the more toxic players I started encounterin'. 'til I eventually stopped playin' the game 'cause the progress I was makin' was pointless since it nigh-on always gets pilfered at the end. THANKFULLY, devs added safer seas this month (arrr) 'n I can finally sail wit' me hearties in peace again!

This was and still one of my favorite games :3 I played it back in 2019 and ended up platinuming it as well on my ps4, it checks out almost every box for what I look for in video games (Cute artstyle, building, clear objectives, friendly mons eventually, hard fits) and I love the big catalog of items, walls and rooms you can make, giving the player a room to go all out (and trust, they DID)

Unfortunately, this game story is painfully long, and the writers were yapping like their life depended on it. Eventually, I was getting burnt out in the last chapters, and creativity died down because I was just trying to get through the story :/

Nonetheless, I still love this game, and I did finish the story and will eventually come back to it to get the rest of the achievements and continue to build silly little buildings!

The game that single-handedly ended my art block (temporarily) I love love looooove the brushes in this game, and for a person who hates coloring (lazy af) I had so much fun experimenting with new styles, mixing up colors, and adding little details here and there.

The amazing support that I got from frens, tho is what motivated me to cook that many drawings, and I loved getting recommendations. Idk. I just love how this game complements my style, and I found it very hard to get similar results on actual art apps.. (again, lazy af to search)

Ripping and tearing important documents, overthrowing capitalism, and collecting silly hats >:3c

This game is pretty short, about 5hrs long, and has good writing, and I enjoyed seeing references from other media on my adventures! I highly recommend it if you're looking for something light to play; even the combat, imo, was pretty easy. ( ´∀｀ )b

Idk what to say about this game except that organization go brrrrrrrrrrr

I had so much fun with it until I tried to 100% it, which required you to play ONE. HUNDRED. DAILY. TIDIES. Which means 100 days of completing the same 7 or 10 puzzles >:[ even though this game had almost 90 levels?? Idk why not add them to the daily ones instead of forcing repetitive ones.. but yeah, other than that game good. 👍

I was a very good asset to the company.

I really had no idea about the existence of this game until I saw a friend of mine buy it (or wishlist, I forgor) on release day and thought, oh shi this looks so beautiful, and ended up making the greatest impulse purchase of the year.

Art slaps. Music slaps. Combat slaps. Writing slaps. (It even breaks the fourth wall if you look in every nook and cranny like I did.) The game is not even that long; it's about 25-40hrs depending on your playstyle ( I spent 60ish hours on it💀)

For me, this was my favorite game of this year and is in the top 5 of all time.

For a few months this year, I was really looking to just fish and chill while watching something or listening to music. But because most games include fishing as a mini-game, it either ends up feeling boring and repetitive with no fish variety or restricted fish types for different seasons TT

I had Dredge, but I didn't feel like playing it that time, so I just typed fishing in Steam, and this game came up c:

It's really just fishing. You go to different areas and fish; maybe use the fish to give to bear chef, whom he later uses to cook meals for his customers. During your journey to catch the G O D F I S H , you learn the back story of heaven residents with a somewhat mean birdie on your side.

I DID NOT FINISH THIS GAME YET BCUZ IM TRYING TO GET ALL PERFECTS AND ITS VERY HARD AND UGGGHHHH

but its a good rhythm game :3

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softguarnere · 10 months

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Like A Girl (Like A Man)

Shifty Powers x OFC

Chapter 20: Standing Fast

Summary: If she really thinks about it, it’s kind of like D-Day – just not in any of the ways that count. A/N: When I said that the last chapter felt like the beginning of an intermission, I did not intend to disappear for a week - my bad! But now I'm back from a (much needed) vacation, and I'm excited to work on this fic for the rest of the summer :) Warnings: mentions of war, mentions of alcohol, improper binding Taglist: @liebgotts-lovergirl @lady-cheeky @latibvles @lieutenant-speirs @mrs-murder-daddy @ithinkabouttzu

France, 1944

A few nights later, a bunch of sergeants get drunk during a poker game and wreck the barracks. Bunks are torn piece from piece. From what she hears of it later, fists and sharp words both fly as they take out their tension on each other. Based on the damage Bill and Shifty (one of Easy Company’s newly appointed sergeants) describe to her later, it’s a night they’ll pay for dearly.

Except there’s no time for that.

The order reaches them first thing the next morning. “After breakfast, stand fast.”

“What’dya reckon they mean by that?” Popeye asks as they make their way from the barracks.

“Nothing good,” McClung sighs.

Zenie is just sitting down with her food at breakfast when a hand on her shoulder practically drags her off the bench. Eugene’s brows are furrowed and his lips are pressed into a severe line. For once, his attitude is as dark as his hair – something Zenie never would have thought possible, even after what she’s overheard about his response to Winters and Welsh when they didn’t know how to help Captain Heyliger after he was shot.

“How many bandages you got?” He asks in a low voice when they’ve stepped out of everyone’s earshot.

Zenie blinks, trying to comprehend the suddenness of his question. “Huh?”

“Bandages. How many you got? And health sponges, too. You been usin’ ‘em?”

“I haven’t needed any in a while. And I think I have one role left. Why?”

“Here, take these.” Angling himself so that no one can see the transaction, he presses a role of bandages into Zenie’s hand. She quickly shoves them into her jacket. As soon as it’s over, Eugene is firing more questions at her. “You gone to the bathroom this mornin’?”

Doc Roe might know quite a bit about Zenie and her situation, but getting so many rapid-fire personal questions at such an early hour still takes her aback. When she doesn’t answer, he repeats the question with more pressure.

“You better go now,” he warns. “While no one’s around.”

“But my breakfast – “

“I’ll guard it for you. Hurry. You ain’t got much time, and you won’t be able to be alone for a while.”

“Why? Gene, what’s going on?”

There’s limited time and Eugene has told her as much. Still, he lets out a short sigh through his nose and leans in further, just in case.

“Don’t tell anyone, comprenez vous?” She doesn’t speak French, but she gets the gist. “They just told the medics that we’re movin’ out after breakfast. Lots of travelin’ ahead.”

“To where?”

Gene’s eyes dance around the room as he replies, “I dunno yet. But they’re talkin’ like it’s pretty far.”

Not willing to waste any more time, Zenie rushes to the latrine and back, ignoring the wondering looks her friends give her when she returns and takes her seat, which Roe has been occupying, as promised, hunched over her plate. Babe frowns as Gene vacates her seat and heads off again, on the move. She brushes off their questions and bolts her breakfast, leaving her coffee untouched and not even daring to think about water as a just in case.

They all finish their meal. Nothing happens. Stand fast. Nothing new. Hurry up and wait.

With nowhere to go, they clean the barracks. Zenie can feel someone’s eyes on her the entire time. Babe throws her a strange look every now and then, his brow furrowed and his expression thoughtful as they waste time. Under her friend’s watchful gaze, she has to be extra careful as she stashes her new roll of bandages in her belongings.

Something pokes her finger as she shoves the roll into the bottom of her bag. Careful to keep the bandages covered, she grabs the sharp edge and tugs it out; her postcard from the Eiffel Tower. She smiles at the memories, smiles at the thought of beating Marilyn to the landmark.

Unless, she realizes, her sister has beat her there. Travelling with the Red Cross, there’s no telling where Marilyn has been. And it’s not like Zenie would know.

It’s a bad idea, she knows as she takes a pen from her bag and scrawls on the card. She shouldn’t do it because it’s risky, she tells herself as she slaps on a stamp. But, she reasons, if she sends the card home, her mother will get it and know that she’s okay – and then her small brag will reach her sister.

When no one is looking, Zenie slips the postcard into a bag of mail that’s due to go out soon. Hopefully no one will read too much into “Dear Marilyn, Think I beat you here. – Z.”

There’s a movie playing. Zenie’s seen it before. She takes a seat toward the back of the room and smiles when Shifty seats himself in the chair beside her. When the lights go down, he moves his hand so that it rests on his leg between their chairs. Zenie does the same and smiles into the darkness when he curls his pinky finger around hers.

This is more than pressing their knees together in foxholes. This is better.

“What do you think is going on?” she whispers as the movie’s score soars over the opening credits.

From the corner of her eye, she can see him bite his bottom lip as he considers the possibilities.

“I don’t know,” he says finally. “But interruptin’ R and R like this?” He shakes his head. “I doubt it’s good.”

“They can’t send us back. We have no gear. What do they want us to do?”

There’s a commotion from the front of the room.

“Shut up!” Joe insists, turning around to face Luz. “I’m trying to watch!”

Other men shush them. Zenie waits for the noise to die down before she whispers again.

“At least we got to go to Paris first. No more wondering and avoiding.”

Shifty tightens his finger around hers. “No more,” he agrees.

“I love this part!” Luz exclaims from the front of the room. Even with his back to her, Zenie can picture the expression he uses for this particular impression – one that he’s very proud of. In a low, sultry voice he begins asking, enunciating a different word every time, “Got a penny? Got a penny? Got a penny?!”

“Got a penny?” The movie asks, making George erupt into laughter. He’s so loud that she thinks Joe might spin around and knock his lights out.

Whatever he’s planning, he doesn’t get the chance. With no warning, the doors at the back of the room fly open. Zenie and Shifty jump apart as if electrocuted while footsteps, hard and fast, march past them and to the front of the room. “Quiet!” A voice booms before anyone has the chance to properly protest.

The lights come up and the movie sputters to a stop. Now the men begin to protest. Booing and cries of “Awe, come on!” join the cacophony of Zenie’s pounding heart. Surely no one saw them, even though they were taken by surprise. She can only hope.

“I said quiet!” The order is repeated. This time, the crowd falls silent. Just in time to hear the announcement of, “Elements of the 1st and the 6th SS Panzer Divisions have broken through in the Ardennes Forest.”

Through the crowd, Zenie can see Luz throw his head back – a telltale sign that he’s giving a dramatic eye roll. Though other men are hanging their heads in disappointment, George’s reaction is what they all surely feel as the realizations set in: no more passes to Paris; no more movies; no more Rest and Relaxation. It’s back to the line for Easy Company.

Mutters break out before the announcement is properly finished as people start speculating about what it all means, how it will all play out. After all, there’s nothing for them to fight with, they’re keen to remind each other. Although the people sending them off should know that.

They file out of the theater, lips pressed into thin lines that are more severe than when the order of the day was simply “stand fast.”

“Favorite movie and I didn’t even get to finish it,” Luz complains.

Joe sighs. “Luz, you weren’t even watching the damn thing.”

“No but I was enjoying it, and that’s what matters.”

“Probably won’t be enjoyin’ anything for a while now,” Popeye muses.

“Yeah,” Zenie agrees. “Not if it’s like Holland – just sitting around in foxholes and waiting.”

Amongst the choir of muttered protests from the clumps of soldiers, one question rings out loud and clear: where the hell is Bastogne?

If she really thinks about it, it’s kind of like D-Day – just not in any of the ways that count.

Like that night in June, they pat their friends on the back and wish each other well. Except this time there’s no ice cream, no specific knowledge of where they’re going, no plan for when they get there. More importantly, they have precious little equipment. And hardly a chance to say goodbye.

Zenie’s fingers tingle with the memory of Shifty quickly intertwining their fingers together before boarding the planes. There’s no chance for anything like that now, with everyone rushing around, trying to figure out what’s going on. Instead, she has to settle for flashing him a smile while Popeye offers her a smack on the shoulder when they go their separate ways.

The effort that it took to help load their fellow soldiers into the C-47s is missing as well. Rumbling engines tear through the velvety black night, the truck’s floors shaking as they jump into the backs with what little gear they have. The planes had been solemn and filled with excitement and prayers. These trucks are packed full of people who huddle for warmth, and air gauzy with cigarette smoke in their pitiful attempts to warm themselves up and pass the time.

For the hundredth time in this war, Zenie thanks God for Gene. If he hadn’t warned her, she would have been crammed into the back of this truck with no warning. And as they rumble along in their endless journey, he begins to feel more and more like some sort of guardian angel.

“I just wanna know where they’re sendin’ us,” Babe says as they bounce along. “What the hell are we gonna do with no ammo?”

Over all the noise, from where she sits, Zenie can hear the drivers of their truck pause their conversation when they hear Babe’s question. Their part of the Red Ball Express. She remembers seeing articles in the papers about them after the jump back in June. If anyone knows anything about where they’re going, surely it will be them. She shifts towards them.

“Have y’all been to where we’re going?” Her question startles them.

The driver and the man in the passenger seat share a weary look. Not a good sign.

“Yes,” the driver finally answers.

“That bad, huh?”

“Oh yeah, you could say that,” the man in the passenger seat agrees. “That’s why you guys have to walk the last leg of the journey.”

“Why?” The words have no sooner left her mouth when the truck shakes, followed by a loud, booming sound that reminds her of summer thunderstorms shaking the house at night.

“That’s why,” the driver says. “Besides, we have more men to move.”

These drivers have a job to do, same as the paratroopers. War is a machine, and every outfit is a small piece that operates in it. That much has become obvious after successful operations, like Overlord, and not so successful ones, like Market Garden.

“You need four pairs of socks, minimum!” Skip Muck calls over the sounds of the truck. He’s lounging on the floor of the truck bed, which is the only place where there was space left for him. In his cramped position, he frees one of his hands to count on his fingers as he lectures one of the replacements traveling with them. “Feet, hands, neck, balls.”

“Extra socks warms ‘em all,” the rest of the men finish in unison.

“Yay, we all remember that one!” Muck exclaims. “But no one remembered the socks.”

The trucks begin growling to a stop as the booming of explosions and the cracking of gunfire draw closer. Men attempt to stand as tail gates are lowered, and then they’re hopping to the ground on numb legs – a jump from nowhere near as spectacular heights as on D-Day. Someone makes a joke about a tailgate jump.

“Thanks, y’all.” Zenie taps the edge of her helmet and nods to her drivers as she moves to leave the truck.

“You’re southern, too,” her driver notes. “Where from?”

Too, he had said. It’s been so rare to find men who aren’t taken aback by y’all.

“North Carolina. The mountains. What about you?”

The driver grins. “North Carolina – the piedmont!” They laugh over their shared geography.

“Seems like everyone else is from Pennsylvania.”

The man in the passenger seat waves. “That would be me.”

It’s Zenie’s turn now to exit the truck. Before she does, she flashes them both a smile. “Well, I’ll see y’all back at home.” She leaves the truck feeling a little better than when she climbed into it.

The biting cold threatens to dispel any warmth that has entered into her heart, though. Around her, men all step around some parked trucks to relieve themselves after the long ride. Others bustle through the crowd with gasoline containers which they dump into pits in the ground. Tall flames blaze to life when a book of matches is tossed onto them, and men eagerly gather around them for warmth, drawn in like moths to a flame.

Footsteps approach. More men coming to get warm –

“Christ,” Babe mutters around his cigarette.

Columns of men appear, but they aren’t heading for the fires. Darkness cannot hide the grim and fearful expressions that haunt their features as they trudge past. Zenie and Babe gawk at them. The passing men won’t meet their eyes.

“Bill! Bill, Joe, look at this!” Babe exclaims.

Their friends appear beside them, adding to the onlookers.

Bill has never looked more confused in his life. “Hey, you’re goin’ the wrong way!”

From the corner of her eye, Zenie catches a flash of familiar movement; McClung and Popeye passing by. She steps away and follows them to one of the fires. Falling into place beside Earl, she stretches her hands towards the open flames, trying to catch the warmth while she can.

“What’s that all about?” Earl asks, nodding towards the lines of men leaving the very place that Easy Company has just been ordered into. No one asks the real question: what they hell are they sending us into now?

They don’t have to wonder for long. The men leaving Bastogne begin handing over any spare gear and ammo that they can. Easy Company men load themselves down until their hands are full, and then try to find someone else to hand off extra supplies to. Zenie finds herself weighed down with three bandoliers and a knife. She hands off some grenades to Joe and pockets half a pack of cigarettes that one retreating man presses into her hands.

The parade has hardly ended when Easy Company receives the word to keep moving. With whatever borrowed weapons and ammunition that they can carry, they start off in the opposite direction of the retreating soldiers. The world shakes with gunfire as they push through the darkness, following the road.

“Huh, would you look at that.” Bill nods up at a sign that stands on the road. It’s got arrows pointing every which way, giving every sprawling road before them a name. “It really is a crossroads.”

Without looking back, they gather their courage and follow the arrow pointing towards a place labeled Bastogne.

#was going through something and felt unable to write anything good because of all the negativity it gave me #my bad though I did not intend to dip like that #band of brothers #band of brothers fanfic #band of brothers x ofc #band of brothers x oc #shifty powers x original female character #shifty powers x ofc #shifty powers #my writing #oc zenie mcglamery #like a girl (like a man)

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theformerbastard · 7 months

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• I can't seem to shake this cold but, I tell ya what, I will keep takin' elderberry gummies til the day I shuffle off this mortal coil. Goddamn game changers.

• Speakin' of ol Billy Shakes: I was reminded of a memory from high school earlier. I actually think about it quite often because I think it fucked me up more than I care to admit. I don't know if it's worth typin' out the whole story but the gist is we were readin' Romeo and Juliet outloud and I volunteered for this one role because I loved the Leo movie and I was pumped about it and then it went terribly.

• Speakin' of younger me: if you had told him "hey man...one day you're gonna get paid to drive around the country" he'd be stoked on it. Old me thinks of it as a job and I'm beat.

• Speakin' of travelin': I've stayed at this hotel a few times now. It's where I lost my crow pendant (still hurts). The cable sucks but the staff's nice, it's within spittin' distance of a Target, and the view is pretty sick.

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krispyweiss · 1 year

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Song Review: Michael Cleveland feat. Jeff White and Dan Tyminski - “Sunny Days (Are Comin’ Once Again)”

Hard to get much more optimistic than “Sunny Days (Are Comin’ Once Again).” With Jeff White and Dan Tyminski on vocals and a sprightly bluegrass arrangement to match the lyrics, Michael Cleveland makes the case Lovin’ of the Game is gonna be an upbeat LP.

Just a couple more rooster calls/and that’ll be no time at all/and sunny days are comin’ once again, goes the refrain.

Cleveland’s a fiddler. And he does some sawin’. But the banjo, Dobro and mandolin are important accoutrements and add significantly to “Sunny Days’” blue-sky feel.

Out March 3, 2023, Lovin’ of the Game features a slew of guests including the Travelin’ McCourys, Billy Strings, Béla Fleck, Vince Gill, Charlie Starr and others.

Grade card: Michael Cleveland feat. Jeff White and Dan Tyminski - “Sunny Days (Are Comin’ Once Again)” - B+

12/8/22

#Youtube #michael cleveland #jeff white #dan tyminski #alison krauss and union station #the travelin’ mccourys #billy strings #vince gill #the eagles #pure prairie league #béla fleck #my bluegrass heart #charlie starr #blackberry smoke #lovin’ of the game

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thedeafprophet · 8 months

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answer rest of ask game in morning.... exhasustion of travelin just hit me and i EEBY

i am skrunkly kitten. no thoughts head empty

tomorrow. blorbo hours

#i mean i should probs review differential equations b4 classes start. but ALSO blorbo hours #the prophet speaks

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butraura · 2 months

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WIP tag game!

Rules: post the names of all the files in wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.

Good God I have SO many dfjhskgkdsjf

act of god, a breath of sin, lightning strikes the soul within

engulfed

the protector

crime of passion

day of death

take care

Close to the Flame: My Adventures with the LAPD by Taylor Kelly

bruised like violets

Where There's Smoke

You Should Hear How He Talks About You

Survivors

the Proposal

going under

I'd come for you

friend-shaped

nothing like a little pain to remind you that you're alive

two hearts on the same current

Travelin' Soldier

god, keep my head above water

may

The Set-Up

Missing

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Secrets to Tell the Phone Company

What Happens in Vegas...

parting gift

make your peace, love your family

chaperones

two cut lines

Empires

I *think* that's all of them????? Jesus Christ... some of them are well on their way, some of them are barely started, some are just outlines.

Tagged by: @fortheloveofbuddie

Tagging: @watchyourbuck @steadfastsaturnsrings @aspecbuddie

#why am I LIKE THIS #I HAVE SO MANY #wip #AMY COMMIT TO A STORY CHALLENGE: LEVEL: IMPOSSIBLE #wip game #tag game #fanfiction #ao3 #current wips #buddie #911 #buck x eddie #9-1-1 #chenford #lucy x tim #the rookie #shadowhunters #clace

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the-kittens-of-vol-tron · 1 year

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Fic rec anon! You've got anything for langst? any ship (or no ship) is fine

Okay so SORRY about the wait!!! I needed to do some research <3 I haven't read a lot of langst since 2016-2017

Disclaimer: Some of these I have no read but others have recommended. Please check all tags!

Never Enough (for you) by Techno_Zav

Summary: "Lance is afraid of dying. Especially afraid of dying like this, surrounded by blood and petals and the weight of inadequacy.

It’s unfortunate, then, that Lance will never be good enough for Keith." AKA Hanahaki Disease AU

Like a Second Heart by aquietdin

Summary: “How old are you?”

“Eighteen.”

Twin gasps came from either side of him. To his left, Shiro’s brown eyes were wide, his mouth closed in a tight line. To his right, Pidge’s jaw hung lose, her eyebrows cinched under her hair.

“Was…” Lance glanced around. “Was that wrong?” AKA Memory Loss

One Wheel Short by YouAreInAComaWakeUp (Nikanaiko)

Summary: "Sometimes, I think the universe would be a lot better off without Lance McClain."

-Read tags on this! (and not to plug my own fic. Is this is the kinda vibe you want my Roommates fic follows this route more!)

Just Static by Jessadilla (wobblyarms)

Summary: "--Static----

-iro, Hunk, Kei---, nybody? I’m----

-static--

--I’m sorry guys. This is all my--

--static--cc--

---I found my coordinates. They’re--

-stttcc-

-guys. I hear something---

--scccc-

-end transmission-

Alone on a hostile planet, transmissions aren't getting through. How did it come to this?"

-I read this as it was coming out and I don't remember every detail but lordy did I love it

Travelin' Soldier by lil_cap

Summary: "It's been 3 years since the fall of the Galra empire, and Lance has been feeling useless for a while. At the very least, he has his boyfriend Keith - though now that Keith's been called to the front lines of the Blade of Marmora, things have changed.

This fic was started before season four came out, so suspend some belief as far as chronology and previous events."

Dares and Closets (Don't Mix Well) by RidleyTheKnight

Summary: "Based on a tumblr prompt of Truth or Dare Langst

It was just supposed to be a fun game. Truth and dare was humiliating, but everyone seemed to be fine and having fun, until Lance got the dare to bring the person he hated the most into the nearest broom closet and lock the door for an hour. It just went down hill from there."

-This work is part of a langst series that you can also check out! :3

Feel free to add you own <3

(If you are an author of one of these and want it to removed just lmk! <3)

#langst #read tags #i hope you like!!!#answer anon #langst fic #langst fic rec #lance angst

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pokeexehasstoppedworking · 10 months

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Diamond In The Rough Ch16 The End

(This is it folks. Just one more left after this which will be the epilogue. The place where reader meets Arceus is based off the Legends of Arceus post game fight. Link below.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-feGjQNs8&list=LL&index=37)

Gordie was home. His home. Your Gordie. His Y/n. Your Home. Everything. Both. Yours and his. The whole day was a magical blur. You remembered feeling Gordie's happy tears fall onto your forehead and you cried as well still hanging onto each other like a pair of koalas in front of a large crowd but you didn't care. By the time you two finally pulled apart the entire crowd began cheering and pushing you all towards the inevitable welcome back party Circhestor decided to throw them. The entire time Gordie holding onto you in one way or another or vise versa. It was all such a blur of a night. You remembered eating a little bit, giving Melony a congratulations hug, and just...talking. Just talking and being held by Gordie who seemed to do nothing but smile and hold you the entire time...until it got dark. Like REALLY dark and really REALLY late into the night. By the time you realized it, you were already so tired but so happy. You couldn't remember any other time you cried so much or felt so happy it felt like the whole world was becoming whole again. All your focus on Gordie and his focus on you so it was quick a shock when you were finding yourself standing in front of your house having been escorted none other than the man himself and having him convince you to go to sleep.

"Get some sleep," he spoke softly, forehead pressed against yours, a few happy tears falling down his face, and two soft hands holding your cheeks. Perfect smile on his features. "I wanna spend more time with ya too but it's late..an' M' tired from travelin'. Tomorrow I'll be back to ya. I promise you." Followed by another kiss to your forehead.

You did whine at the loss but your urge to sleep overtook any other emotion. So you stumbled your way inside after a few more moments. Silver and the others were both happy and anxious to see you after so long but sleep still won out over everything. You were already so exhausted you hardly even noticed you going through the routine of taking a shower, brushing your teeth, and getting into your favorite pair of fuzzy pjs before just collasping into your bed. Eyelids heavy and darkness consuming you as you fell into a fast deep sleep. The darkness of your dream was interrupted however in the most strangest ways. Because you woke up. Or at least...you thought you did-

"At last...Thou haveth been found. Divine childe from thine differ plain of being.''

Cold..It was so cold. Like winter had come early and seeped into your blankets, except you weren't covered by anything except for the clothes on your back. And you weren't laying on any soft cozy mattress like when you first went to best. It felt..cold and glasslike the ground under you. Like you just decided to fall asleep on a giant pane of glass in the middle of winter. It was the cold that beckoned f/c eyes to open above you, shivering and teeth clattering together from the cold feeling. And what was above the young woman made her gasp at the holy sight above. It-...It was almost as if the universe itself was in front of you, swirling shades of purple and black swam before you in the shape of the galaxy with some invisible force holding it above you. Silence fading in and out as twinkling stars shown around you with the beautiful sight of the fully moon lighting it all. The moon looked so close and so far at the same time. What the-...Where were you? Were you dreaming? This felt too real to be just a dream. Were you seeing some kind of old game footage like the first time you arrived in this world??..Had you died? Is this the afterlife? No..No that wasn't it. Before you could get too far into your questioning, you slowly, body shaking and teeth now clattering together from how cold it was, stood on legs more wobbly than a newborn deer. Your hands came up to rub your arms in a failed attempt to warm you up looking around. Black...EVERYWHERE WAS BLACK!! Like eternal night other than the endless night stars and full moon above you. Nothing anywhere. Spinning in a complete circle, you still found yourself completely alone. Right. Alone. This MUST have been some crazy dream right?

"H-Hello?!," You called out tentatively finding your voice trembling and throat dry from the cold croaking. Like a creepy tunnel your voice echoed into the dark abyss. ...No answer came back to you. "I-I-Is an-nyone there!?"

Dead silence.

Ok. Obviously this wasn't a dream. This was a freaking NIGHTMARE!! You felt dread creeping in on you and you would've started panicking if it wasn't for a voice. One you thought you heard before, One so feeble and far you almost thought you had imagined it. Then you heard it again.

"This way.''

The words- That voice came from behind you and you snapped behind you seeing no one.

"H-HELLO!? HEY! THIS ISN'T FUNNY!? C-C-C-C'mon! Ju-Just s-s-show yourselves al-al-laread-dy!"

"This way," the voice repeated only now you were facing the direction it came from.

This person-..thing...It couldn't be serious right? Your mind was playing tricks on you surely!...But..you had no other choice but to follow it huh? Sigh. You sighed, looked around you one more time, again saw nothing, and then turned forward to behind walking. To be honest it felt like walking on a treadmill. Never leaving the place you stood except you didn't feel the ground move under your feet or the stars go past you, maybe your feet were just too cold. Then, after a short while of walking you saw it. A small dull light coming from in front of you. You grew more excited and your pace quickened. That was it! The exit! At this point you were all but running, excited to leave this place wherever it is was you were. You'd probably wake up once you reach the end. Boy Piers would think this one would be a doozy to hear. Probably get a laugh outta it too. The closer you got the more blinding the light became. Up until you had to close your eyes against the harsh glare. Still you continued on and while the light gave you hope it also took away your sight until with many blinks and your hands rubbing your eyelids, they slower adjusted to the light and it wasn't as bright as you initially thought it was. And your eyes blinked down once your leg bumped into something almost making you trip over and blink at it. Until your eyes fully adjusted. And widened as you realized you were staring at....Uh..Well you were staring at..The light was coming from...

A floating rectangle???

Yes. Before you floating just a foot above the ground was a stop sign sized rectangle that was glowing a white with a slight blue-green tint to it. Your f/c eyes followed it up to another one just like it. And then another. And another. And another. All one foot apart and starting to head upwards like some kind of stairs...Wait..WERE these stairs?? You kept staring at it totally bewildered-

"Up, Young One. Ascend."

You flinched. There it was. That voice again. It sounded male in gender and echoed both inside and outside your skull like a drumroll. Wait. Did that thing say up? You blinked at the apparent stairs again. It wanted you to go up? Seriously!? A long flight of stairs?! Your mind couldn't have dreamt up an elevator at least?...You sighed but followed the strange voice's instructions and began to climb the glowing staircase upwards. Step after step you took moving upwards in a seemingly never ending stairway of glowing floating rectangles. After a while you got to a point where you couldn't tell where you began or where it ended, as if you weren't even going anywhere again like when you were walking, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel. Er. Stairs I mean. Because when you looked up, you saw something at last that made you give pause once again. Upwards above you was a GIANT circular platform surrounded by faint purple lights resembling the aurora borealis. Was that where you were supposed to go? Looking around there was nothing and no where else to go. You couldn't even see the bottom of the stairs anymore as they faded into the darkness below. Guess there was only one way out of this mess. Looking back upwards you continued your climb all the way up until finally at last you were standing on the strange floating platform. The platform was about as big as half your standard large parking lot and strange circle patterns were glowing in it's floor. You stopped when you were about half way in the middle of it and looked around. And still nothing although you didn't feel so cold anymore now.

"HELLO!?," you hollered out again your voice echoing around as you looked around for any sign of life. "Hey! I'm here already! Where are you!? Show yourself!"

"Be Not Afraid!"

That voice again. Echoing. It sounded like it came from everywhere and no where at once leaving you looking any which way to find it. Up at the stairs. Down at your feet. Around and around at all sides seeing absolutely no one. Then it happened. Something blocked the light from you making you freeze as a long shadow fell over you. ...You felt yourself gulp feeling a VERY massive presence behind you eyes boring into the back of your skull. And then you slowly turned around. And you saw it. Irises shrinking and jaw dropping. White blinded your vision as red and green eyes bore down at you from four stories high and feet across. The thing a monster above you-

"AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Your body moved on it's own. Peddling backwards and making you crash onto your backside flashbacks of the giant corviknight when you first showed up flashing before your eyes. Making the giant pokemon blink and wince.

"I sayeth be not afraid."

"HOLY ARCEUS!!," You cried out staring at this...this..thing wide eyed scooting backwards and pointing at the thing towering over you. "What the heck are you!?"

"Oh..Thou hast already answered thine question," it answered you tilting it's head at you. "It hast taken me many a moon to find thee."

You paused. Staring at the giant thing in front of you like a goldfish before lowering it's head. "....What?"

It looked eye level at you now as if trying not to frighten you again. "Thoust tis gazing upon thy god of this realm."

God?...Wait. This thing was a god?? Not any god you could think of like Thor or Hercules. Wait. Did the pokemon franchise even have a god? Well there were legendary pokemon which were like demigods and the strongest among them was-....Was-...Your eyes widened more as a glass breaking sound went off in your head again and the thing chuckled at your expression.

"HOLY ARCEUS!!!"

"Thee one and only."

"I-...W-What the-" ARCEUS!? YOU WERE BLOODY TALKING TO THE ARCEUS!? "W-Wha-...How-...WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?"

"I haveth summoned thee to correct the mistake of mine children."

"Wa-..Y-Y-Your children!?"

It nodded before lifting it's head back up and you stumble/wobbled back onto your foot. "I'm afraid the fault of thou's arrival to this plain of existance would be none other than my own children. Perhaps thou knowest thy children of time and space?"

You continued to stare at him before raising a brow. "Are-...A-Are you talking about Dialgia and Palkia?"

Arceus nodded. "Indeed."

"Wha-...H-How the heck?! What did they do to me!?"

"It seems that not too long ago now mine two children had gotten into a rather terrible spat. The worst one in nearly a millennia. Twas the fighting so passionate that they had opened up portals to your world. Resulting in many a person crossing over."

You still stared at him....before you scowled. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. WAIT A MINUTE!!" You pointed at him. "Are you telling me that the only reason I'm here is because I fell through a portal two legendary pokemon made!?"

Arceus looked a bit more embarrassed now. "When down to it..yes. Tis what happened. And thoust was not thee only one. I had toldest thine children to fix their mistake."

"....And did they?"

"Yes...Well. Mostly. I hast seen them mend the rifts and heal thine wounds towards one another but send the humans they did not. Instead they deemed it worthy to bend space and time to thine will and make thee a part of thine new world."

Make you a part of this world-...THE ID CARD!! Your eyes widened as you realized. THE OLD BAG SONIA DISCOVERED AT THE CRASH SIGHT!! That was them!? It must've been them! That was the only way to explain it! Things were starting to make so much sense now.

"So Dialgia and Palkia fought and during that fight managed to open portals between this plain of existence that they exist and somewhere where they only exist in video games and anime?....That....actually makes sense in a really, really weird way. But that still doesn't explain why you're here."

"With mine children not doing so I hast taken it up in mineself to right thine wrongs and return thine human children to their rightful home."

Your eyes widened. "You can do that?"

He nodded. "I apologize on behalf on my children for thou's troubles and thee's wait for mine arrival. For there was a many humans which fell and I hadst to prioritized the ones who would cause more trouble than though."

"You can...really send me back? Just how many were there!?"

"A plenty but do not be alarmed. Every human was sent back happily, some more forced than others. However thy childe is thy last to return home and thus thou shalt get to chose thy fate."

"You mean...I can chose whether I can leave or stay?"

"Correct. Thou hast shown bravery and compassion where others shant. I commend thee and thy good deeds. Therefore shalt get my reward here. Chose. Stay in this new world or return home from wince ye came."

You...could go back? You could go back home!? Back to your mother and old home and life. You could ...you could go and make a new life for yourself. You could leave and get your own life and job and chose your own college since you had the guts to never listen to her! And she still must be worried about you. And...that was your goal in the beginning r-right? To get back home. But...you did and have so much here. You had friends. A job. A home. Pets- Er. Pokemon. And you and Gordie-...You'd have to start all over again if you went back, and Dialgia and Palkia made you an identity here. You now existed in both worlds. But you could only chose one.

"What...happens if I go back? T-T-To my old world."

"Nothing. It would be like if thou never left at all."

"Really?"

"Thou would be sent back to the exact time they disappeared. You'dst be wearing the clothes thou wore when you disappeared. Thou's age would be the same before you left. It would be if thou never ever even left for a second...But. Be warned. If thou shalt pick this path, you shall never be able to return here again. And everyone here shall forget you." Your brows shot up! "Every evidence of you even being here would fade away. Photos. Memories...Everything. Your friends would forget about you."

They ...Would forget you? All of them. The journey you made with your friends? The way you raised Silver? Gordie and your feelings?

"W-What about my Mom?! In my own world I mean? W-What would happen to her?"

"Thine same scenario. In fact thoust hast been here for so long thy mother hast most likely forgotten as your existence hast most like already faded from there as well. But fear not Human Child. It shalt all be fixed once I send ye back."

You stared at him. She....had already forgotten about you? But all of it would be fixed once he sent you back..If you decided to take him up on his offer to send you back. But would that be the best thing? Yes you missed her but...There was so much more here. And your world didn't have Funny Leon or Smart Sonia or always hungry Silver or ambitious Postwick twins....Or..Gordie. ..It was decided. You inhaled a shaky breath stealing your nerves before looking back up at Arceus who still stayed ever patiently.

"Hast thou decided?"

You nodded. "I have. I-...I-I'd like to stay if that's possible."

"Art thou sure? I will only make this offer once and if thee choses to stay.." He shook his head. "Thine choice is final. I shalt not make this offer again nor will I send thee back to your old home. Think carefully before thou gives me their final answer."

"I'm already sure. And I'd like to stay."

"Tis that thine final answer?" You nodded and he hummed. "....So be it. As thou walkest onward upon thine own path, upon thee and upon this creation where thou now dwellest, I bestow my blessing. Take heed upon thine new life and tell not a soul of our meeting. Fair thee well, Human Childe Y/n of thy different world."

With that your vision began to fuzz and blur. The darkness shifted and spun around you like you were drunk and dizzy. Faster and faster everything spend up as the double vision of Arceus faded...And you woke up. Shot straight up from your cozy bed in your own little house in the dark. It....It must've still been night time! Gordie walked you home only a few hours ago. After a moment you slowly laid yourself back down and stared at the ceiling for what must've been ten minutes or so processing what had just happened....Before you again smiled.

"...I'm home."

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