#and i'm rooting for cam too

[perfectlyfinespacebacon]

everything now netflix

some spoilers!! and apologies for the long post.

i honestly really enjoyed it! it was almost like a skins/euphoria but imbued with like a heartstopper/sex education vibe in the sense that it dealt with serious teenage issues/mental health but light enough that it doesn't weigh down on you. my character thoughts:

mia was so infuriating almost at all times. obviously under the circumstances, it makes sense but there's this level of likeability that was missing for me. maybe it was the writing or the acting who knows but in my mind it's like this: im making an albeit an unfair comparison to effy from skins or even rue from euphoria, but they were battling their demons and making all the wrong choices but there was still this level of “i want to root for them” that's missing with mia personally.

in a similar vein with alison, she is meant to be this popular rich mean girl archetype who surprises you but obviously in the first half of the season she's supposed to be kind of unlikeable but i found her very endearing. as for the relationship, alison and mia DO NOT belong together. like at all. i am not rooting for them. alison in a way forced a relationship with mia and then also mia was like too scared to say anything about it. its clear that alison liked mia waaaaay more than mia liked alison. like carli says in the last ep as well, “to learn to not be a fantasy to each other”, alison needs to take mia off this pedastal she has for her. i'm very interested to learn more about her character outside of mia though if they hopefully continue the show. i have a feeling that we are supposed to think that she and cameron hooked up at the end or something but i'm rlly hoping its a red herring.

carli is also a character i would love to learn more about. she definitely has more chemistry with mia and i love her for standing her ground against mia, as she needs to help herself before she can be in a healthy relationship. but i will say it was pretty shitty stringing cameron along.

speaking of cameron, i didn't quite expect to like his character as much as i did. in a way his arc in the season is battling toxic masculinity as he kinda seems to come off as this laid back, bro kinda guy but he cares and loves so deeply. it wasn't right calling bec a "sket". i'm not british but obviously its like equivalent to slut, and im very glad he owned up to it. i'm also really interested to know more about his family and stuff.

i love bec as well. she deserves all the happiness in the world. im glad she was able to air out her things with mia, albeit in a very treacherous way and i also love how her mom was supportive of the abortion. i'm honestly kinda tired seeing the mom kicking out the daughter for getting pregnant trope so it was nice to see a mom just being supportive. bec is just such a wonderful friend and mia honestly has a lot to make up for. re not telling mia about her and cam, it was honestly frustrating seeing mia be so petty. i understand that its a big secret and she felt like everyone was hiding things from her but its also right to have secrets amongst friends, idk that really stuck out to me.

will for me had the weakest arc as in it wasn't the most interesting to me. don't get me wrong, i love the character but it just wasnt giving a whole lot to me. i recognize him as more than the comic relief but also at the same time he was stirring the pot in a lot of the arguments / blowups the group had, consciously and unconsciously. though i will say will x theo <3 but comedic duo of the century is will x alison. the little song they did for mia's birthday is stuck in my head.

tldr; great characters and great show. it's really hard to find a show about teens as a 25yo living in a 16yo body that i enjoy and don't find annoying. i just love how each character was able to be so nuanced despite being an ensemble cast.

but knowing netflix's track record it's gonna get cancelled because a) it's good b) has wlw content... but i really hope not.

#everything now #everything now netflix #mia polanco #becca #cameron #will #alison #carli #sophie wilde #niamh mccormack #jessie mae alonzo #harry cadby #lauryn ajufo #noah thomas

[seospicybin]

ON TOUR PREVIEW.

HIDDEN TRACK.

PART IV OF ON TOUR SERIES.

Hyunjin x reader x Felix. (s,f,a)

Synopsis: Your best friend, Felix, is in a rock band and he takes you to join him on tour as the band’s photographer. On the road, you learn how to deal with his bandmate, Hyunjin, who’s not very welcoming of you.

Preview under the cut!

...

The entire arena is filled with ice hockey enthusiasts and fans of both teams playing today's match. Felix's so little knowledge of ice hockey holds him back from enjoying it.

You sense that he's not thrilled to be here, you lightly nudge his shoulder, "Is it boring?"

"No," he answers a little too fast.

You laugh because you know he lied to be nice, "we cheer when everyone cheers," you tell.

And one of the players just sent the hockey puck into the goalpost.

Everyone shot up from their seats, loudly cheering and whistling, shouting encouraging words and whatnot.

You follow suit and pull Felix to stand, cheering for whoever made the goal. Once the cheers died down, the two of you sit back down.

"See? It's not that boring," you tell him.

That's what he likes about you, you always know how to make him feel comfortable around you. Lou returns carrying drinks and snacks in his hands.

You take it from him and share it around, handing it to Felix while putting some on your lap.

"The score?" Lou asks.

You don't answer and simply point to the jumbotron. Felix silently chuckles at how you nonchalantly responded to Lou.

Felix takes a sip of his drink and he's sure as hell there's alcohol in it, he feels it burning his throat.

"What is it?"

"Cola," Lou replies.

He glares at him, "And?"

"Whisky."

Everyone knows he's bad with alcohol and getting drunk at a sports match wouldn't make a good look on him. So far, no one recognized him, thanks to the hat he pulls so low to hide his face but who knows?

"Oh, come on! I'm sure Lou only put a few drops in it," you assure him with a gentle bump to Lou's shoulder.

"Right, Lou?"

"Yeah, sure," Lou confirms but his half-hearted answer is not quite convincing.

You rest your chin on his shoulder, "We're here to have fun, right?"

Well, yeah, that's why he's here, to have fun with you and if that's what it takes then a little alcohol wouldn't be a problem. The three of you clinked your plastic cups together to finally take a sip.

Felix can feel that he begins to loosen up with every sip of drink he took, he's having fun, he laughs and cheers even though he has no idea which team he should be rooting for.

The first period has ended and to fill the fifteen minutes of break before the second period starts, the jumbotron searches for couples in the crowd for kiss cam.

"Here!" You feed him fries dipped in ketchup while also shoving some into your mouth.

Lou is also snacking on a hotdog that he hasn't had the chance to eat as he was so invested in watching the match. He is the only one having a ball watching it.

"Stay still," you order him and Felix complies without a word.

He sees as you take a napkin and dab the corner of his mouth, "you have ketchup," you inform.

The crowd cheers as the couple on the jumbotron kisses and the camera pans to find a new couple. He can't believe it at first but then he sees himself and you in a heart-shaped frame on the jumbotron.

You get horrified to see yourself on the big screen as well, nonplussed.

As it takes the two of you long enough to kiss, the crowd starts to endlessly chanting "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" 

It seems that they won't stop until the two of you kiss, Felix turns to see you, covering your face with your hand, shyly laughing.

And you know that the camera won't move on unless they get what everyone wants.

"Should we do it?" You shyly ask him.

Felix doesn't know what to answer, sure he wants to get it over with but at the same time, he doesn't want to pressure you to do something.

You laugh again before speaking, "Well, I either have to kiss you or Lou."

You leer at Lou for a second then immediately change your mind, "but there's no way I kiss Lou."

Felix glances at Lou, who grins with a dollop of mustard on his upper lip.

"But you're welcomed to kiss Lou," you jokingly say.

It seems like the only logical thing to do, kissing you and getting it over with. Felix doesn't like showing affection in public but he would take this as another first he did with you.

Wait, it's his first kiss with you.

Now that it crosses his mind, he feels burdened by it.

You put your hand on his neck and make him face it, "Let's show them how to do it!"

It's not the first time for him to kiss someone but he doesn't remember the part where his heart pounding so hard. He's only going to kiss you, a friend but why does it feel like his heart is about to jump out of his chest?

Felix doesn't know who leans in first, you or him, the next thing he knows is that heavenly feeling he gets as both of your lips collide in a kiss.

He feels your sweet, alcohol-tinted breath as you slightly part your lips open to take a low breath to continue kissing him.

Out of the blue, Felix gets curious about what happens if he allows himself to go for it so he opens his mouth and kisses you back.

Goodness! It feels wrong yet feels right and everything in between, mixes into one, a kiss that evokes something in him that he needs to figure out what is.

Then everything becomes background noise, it's nice and safe, and he wants to stay in this moment forever.

Unfortunately, Felix can't always get what he wants as you slowly pull away from the kiss with a smile.

As if someone has unplugged his ears, he can hear the deafening cheers, the response to the kiss he did with you, and finally, the camera moves on to the new couple.

"I think we did great, huh?" You calmly comment while picking up your drink from the floor.

"Y-yeah," he stutters.

Truthfully, Felix doesn't want to taste anything else, he wants the taste of your lips to linger until he figures out what it is he felt a moment ago.

But you raise your cup, asking for a toast with him and Felix reluctantly does the same, clashing it with yours to take a celebratory sip together, washing the taste of you away and swallowing it down.

Lou is definitely not putting just 'a few drops of alcohol' in his drink because why he feels so lightheaded as he walks back to the parking lot? And why would Lou call for a driver?

You take his hand, putting his arm around you to walk back together to the car, "are you okay, Felix?"

Okay? He feels more than okay. He feels good, he feels like a stupid teenager who doesn't have any responsibilities or chips on his shoulders. He feels easy, he feels incredibly happy that he believe he could fly.

"I'm grand," he finally answers.

On the car ride home, he sits with you in the backseat, heads resting against each other. You roll the window down, letting the summer night air into the car, making your hair fly in the air.

Lou plays something on the car stereo, a song that fits just right with what he feels.

"One smile... When can you give me, when can you give me."

Felix likes it when you smile.

"Touch me... Can you give me, oh can you give me."

he likes when you touch him because your touch gives him comfort.

"Love me... Come and give me, oh can you give me some."

He likes what you make him feel.

For him, you're a gift that carries on.

...

Full fic will be posted tomorrow!

#stray kids smut #skz smut #stray kids imagines #skz imagines #stray kids scenarios #skz scenarios #seospicy upcoming post #on tour series

[newwavenosferatu]

So here's an OOC post about some of the setting changes I made for my own WoD games, as I combined some 5th edition lore with majority v20 stuff.

- SchreckNet is still around! If you know me you know I love SchreckNet, and it while it getting compromised is a good metaplot development, I want to use SchreckNet in my games. The newest version, SchreckNet 3.0 uses a sort of VPN type deal. It's kinda like a reddit-radio combo where people go to different "tunnels" (channels/subreddits) where they get information uploaded in time sensitive transmissions. Most of these fade after a couple of days, and all tunnels are heavily watched and surveilled. It's a Nossie only deal right now, with some Nossies acting/posting on behalf of other clans.

-Hecata is a mini-sect, not a clan. Many members of the "necromantic" clans and bloodlines have joined together in a very volatile alliance for strength and protection. I know this is pretty much just v5 but I want to get rid of the idea that they are a clan in their own right, as I think them being a sect that some deathly Kindred join, but not all. There's still independent Giovanni for example

-Beckoning and Gehenna War are dialed back a lot. Not nonexistent but there are still plenty of elders and even older generations around. Many used the Beckoning as a clever disguise to advance their schemes, move to new territory, etc. Gehenna War skirmishes are happening around the world, not just in East Asia

-Sabbat is still around in plenty of places, if now being a bit more secretive in their operations.

-Many Anarchs still viewed by Cam as an unruly group population of their population, not their own sect. In many places, Anarchs are more of a problem for the Ivory Tower than Sabbat packs or other outsiders .Many Anarchs have also established their own small, but heavily defended Baronies nearby or even within Cam territories.

-WoD Orientalism and other Problems. Probably gonna be the part some people don't like, but I don't care. I'm not interested in perpetuating harmful, misinformed views of other cultures, in life or in my games.I love WoD and it's games, but it had some horrible ideas that are still haunting the modern iteration of the games. Frankly, The Banu Haqim, Ministry, and Ravnos are just stereotypes-as-clans. They have been partially improved, but it's very hard to distance them from their initial versions. I will eventually be doing a major rewrite for these clans to remove the more unsavory bits . This goes for other WoD games too however. I think the lore changes to W5 were mostly positive. However, the majority of the tribes are based on a weird understanding of culture and ethnicity which in removing that, which is in my opinion is a good step, did kind of leave the clans feeling a little "samey". It's not that there can't or shouldn't be a wide array of cultures that our splats are a part of, the exact opposite is true. But to have so many of these clans/tribes/etc being rooted in only stereotypes just doesn't . For example, only about 30% of Get fell to Hauglosk. The ones that fell were the worst of the tribe, and now the main tribe don't have any fashy undertones, basically just Klingon Garou, which is what I always saw them as. Ministry are probably going to be focused on a fictional vampiric deity rather than a real world one, and not be as connected to ancient Egyptian mythology. It's sometimes a thin line between talking inspiration from other cultures and appropriating them in the most stereotypical ways but that's no excuse for doing some research and treating other cultures with respect . Banu Haqim being focused on justice is an improvement from them being just foreign assassins, but I feel like it still comes from a weird understanding of Islam and its laws and traditions. Ravnos are perhaps the hardest to separate from their cultural "influences" (in quotes because it's one of the worst most basic stereotype of GRT people I've ever seen). Even getting rid of the travelling element that makes the stereotypical association undeniable and keeping them as a sneaky clan ruling from the shadows is just as offensive and backwards.

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#ooc #ooc post #vtm #wod #world of darkness #vampire the masquerade #worldbuilding #wod worldbuilding

[birgittesilverbae]

meatshieldshotgun + pressure

"Get away from her," Mary growls. 

"I'm–"

Mary's finger moves, curls around the trigger. "Don't fucking touch her."

Shannon raises her hands, shuffles backwards on her knees. "Okay, Mary, okay. I'm not– Okay. She's unconscious, but she's still got a pulse. She's still breathing. It's ragged, but–" 

Mary follows her, keeps the shotgun levelled at her. There are footsteps behind her, and she raises her other hand. "Stay back."

"Mary, do not shoot Shannon." Ava's voice.

"This isn't Shannon."

"Mary." Shannon's voice, pleading. Shannon's eyes filled with tears. Shannon's body, puppeteered by something, a wraith or worse. It'd be so easy to pull the trigger, to end this too.

"Mary." Lilith, this time, foggy and distant. "It would be rather rude of you to shoot her now, given what I had to do to get her back."

"Mary, your phone? Mary?" Ava, pitch rising with her desperation.

Mary digs it from her pocket and holds it out behind her back blindly, eyes glued to the monster in front of her. She distantly hears Ava's side of the conversation (Hi Cam– yes, it's me– please stop yelling– we need an extraction ASAP. Two vans at least.), her hand trembling on the grip of the shotgun.

"Mary." Ava again, begging now. "Check on Bea."

Mary stands her ground, torn between the monster in front of her and the nightmare of Beatrice's body.

"If she wanted to kill Bea, all she'd have to do is wait. Just like we're doing now."

"Fuck." Mary holsters her shotgun at her hip again and drops beside Beatrice, eyes flicking across the warped plane of her body. She finds Beatrice's left hand with her own, grips it firmly as she presses her palm over the stab wound that cuts a path between Beatrice's ribs. She can do this, she can focus on this, and not on–

"Shan, take Lilith, please."

"That isn't Shannon," Mary lashes out. Her skin is hot with Beatrice's blood and Lilith's face is just a shade off from corpse grey and she'd just gotten them back, why does the world have to try to take them away from her again. Why is it taunting her with this nightmare made flesh? Shannon whole, unharmed. Shannon as though they'd never been betrayed. And Vincent's body is lying in the mud three feet from her and the knife that finished the deed is tucked behind her belt and now she'll never get closure on that, never be able to look him in the eyes and ask him why–

"Mary–" Ava's voice again, closer, by her shoulder. Her hand lands on the back of Mary's neck, pressure firm, grounding, and the action is so fucking familiar, a learned touch she can so easily trace back to its root–

Mary pulls away from Ava's hand, shakes it free. "That isn't Shannon," she repeats. A mantra, now. Walks like Shannon, talks like Shannon, looks like Shannon, isn't Shannon. Can't be Shannon. Can't be Shannon. Can't be Shannon. Can't–

#fic: nature #ask #the penguinspy #thanks peng ily #warrior nun #myfic #mywn #mary x shannon #shotgun mary #shannon masters

[riaaanna]

Eurovision 2023: ft. Roger Taylor

A little bit not-Queen, but the best part is: it kind of is!

I've given up on trying to make a detailed post about Eurovision 2023 (tried to do it before the next one rolls in this year) but this here is about Roger freakin' Taylor in Euro freakin' vision 2023.

And I haven't shared these here specifically, but here are Roger-cams from first audience rehearsal on 12th May 2023. These are not what (little) you saw on TV, which was live on 13th May 2023. I am also not telling you whether or not these videos are mine. lol.

Here's the rambling part. I've been a Eurofan since like 2012, growing from casual to following each countries' national selections in the past few years. I'm also from Indonesia, so never in a million years could I ever imagine attending Eurovision itself, at all.

So it was insanely lucky that I happened to be in the UK, during the year that Eurovision will be hosted in the UK. Not only that, the host city was LIVERPOOL of all places (God it was nearly going to be Glasgow at some point)! It's like not even an hour train or bus from Manchester! Hotel prices went to HUNDREDS of pounds per night when that was announced, but all I had to do was just take a train to and back every day! So convenient.

Needless to say Liverpool did an incredible job. Here are some images from when I first arrived, in awe.

And the stages! On the left is Eurovillage, the free-entry stage for side performances and watch alongs. On the right is M&S Bank Arena Liverpool, which I went into several times for several shows!

Eurovision is actually a long marathon of nine audience shows. There are Semi 1, Semi 2, and Grand Final. For each of those there are Jury show (first rehearsal + when Jury cast their votes), Family show (second rehearsal during daytime, hence "family"), and Live show (for TV + audience votes). Before each Jury show there is a press-only rehearsal too without audience.

Getting tickets was a drama! I was in class! Sat on front row cause your lecturer wouldn't suspect the front row unless he peeked down at your screen (he didn't). With two seatmates and their laptops and my phone I queued on four devices. Got some tickets, and follow-up with a long and suspenseful resell tickets scavenger hunt grind on Discord which went on for weeks. Long story short, I got tickets for SF1 Jury, SF1 Family, SF1 Live, SF2 Jury, and GF Jury.

I know. A lifetime worth of luck and savings. But literally... when and where else was this going to happen to me if not then and there??

Anyway it was already an insane week. My agenda was going back and forth between Manchester and Liverpool for ten days (4-13 May). Jump to the GF Jury show on 12th May, I was queueing outside the arena and scrolling on my phone. A news article popped up. Breaking news, spoilers from the press rehearsal.

Y'all..... it took all of my life strength to not crumble to my knees and break into confused tears in the middle of a crowd outside the arena. I was shocked. I was thrilled. I was Hannah Montana twirling in a wig singing Best of Both Worlds mentally. There is no multiverse crossover event ever topping this. The stars aligned just for me. What do you mean I'm going to walk in with my Eurovision ticket and I'm going to see Roger Taylor and live my best life??

(I adore Sam Ryder too, for the record! A breath of fresh air to UK in Eurovision, rooted for him and his bright attitude waaay before the bookies rooted for him and way before he won second place. I saw him live at his own gig too and he was incredible!)

Mind you this was one day before the live show on TV, it took so much strength to not spoil this even further especially with a lot of Eurovision mutuals on Twitter.

To be fair, there were teasers of a "famous person appearance" for the Grand Final, and knowing Eurovision it could have been literally anyone. Truly I was talking shit when I tweeted this a month before the Grand Final, but I guess I sort of manifested it:

So that happened. That was. an unforgettable experience that I'll never get in any other Eurovision, if I ever get the chance to go again. I had my eyes on him the entire time and it was so wonderful. And if you've read this far down, thank you for bearing with me!

A footnote re: Eurovision 2024 - all the real Eurofans aren’t supporting it unless they ban ******. We’ve been keeping up with national selections, we know which artists are pressuring their broadcasters to step up. I’ve said it here before that because of this my interest in this (and QAL… it’s been difficult) has been fading. So I want EBU to take action, I truly hope they do, but until then I probably won’t watch this year. Never supported ****** in my history of being a Eurofan and never will. Let’s do what we can and donate.

#queen band #roger taylor #eurovision #Ri goes to UK

[badstargateimagines]

Vala Deserved Better and This is My Proposal For How I Would Give Her Better

Here are all the things that I think Vala and I would do if they ever let her breach fucking containment. Jesus H. Christ let the woman LIVE!!! Shout out to @judgeverse and all the other fine folks in the discord for giving me this powerful vision

Go to the club 

Obvious but apparently too much for the writers to handle 

We would go with like 40 dollars between us and we would find a man to buy us drinks for the night and then give him a fake snap/number at the end of the night 

She would finally experience the experience of the bathroom at a club and I think she would find it extremely healing 

We would close that bitch and then go and get kebab before we called an uber to get us home 

Pre Drinks 

This would happen before the club obv but I think pre is a VITAL component to the experience while also being nearly entirely separate 

All the SGC girlies chilling doing their makeup 

We are all chilling on the floor of a living room using what using whatever mirrors we have close to us sharing big pile of makeup  

Our brushes are filthy and Janet is low-key lecturing us about the dangers of sharing eye shadow and having dirty makeup brushes 

Her's are also dirty 

We have a Spotify jam going that absolutely shreds 

We started out w a playlist but then we all wanted to show Vala some tracks so we needed to collaborate. 

I show her Meghan Thee Stallion so when she comes on at the club she knows what to do 

Janet shows her all the Y2K bangers 

Sam just goes fucking crazy on the queue and puts everything from midwest emo to sea shanties on there 

Shots obvs 

Cam and Daniel keep texting the gc to ask when we're leaving for the club and we keep saying we're leaving soon 

We brief Vala on club/bar safety so she doesn't go missing or perish or something 

Watching movies but specifically the Barbie movie 

I think she would find it very healing 

She starts calling men Kens 

A week later I find her watching TikTok edits under the 'close your eyes and feel' sound and we watch them together and cry 

I gather mine and my mom's old Barbies and we play with them because there is no age-limit on Barbie!!! 

I get distracted and go over the bonkers plotlines I used to give my Barbies back in the day. 

I also show her other movies that altered my brain chemistry 

The Breakfast Club 

Mean Girls 

Legally Blonde 

Pretty in Pink 

Ferris Bueller's Day Off 

Freaky Friday (2003) 

Hairspray (2007) 

Going for drives in a total shitbox while blasting music 

She needs to experience driving around aimlessly for an hour and then ending up having a life-changing conversation in a random parking lot 

Girlhood (TM) 

Going to the mall  

Sometimes you need to show aliens capitalism in action 

I have to physically drag her out of bath and body works before she gets swindled into paying full price for a candle like a rube 

I explain to her that she just has to wait a couple weeks for candles to go on a like 6 for the price of 2 sale or something and that I will tell her when it's happening 

She is baffled by this revelation but listens to me because of my credentials (used to work at a mall and have a spending addiction) 

We also buy a new outfit and then go to Sephora to get our makeup done to go w the new fit and also so I can show her my roots 

She will also experience The Mall Pretzel  

Sleepovers!!!!! 

I would do my best to create the ultimate sleepover vibes 

I'm talking we buy brand new fuzzy PJs, I string up christmas lights, every snack we could ever want, the entire living room is transformed into a comfy cozy area with everything we could ever need close to us 

Trashy reality show playing on autoplay on the TV at a low volume so we can still talk and listen to music but also hear Kris Jenner saying out of pocket shit to her children 

I would also give the experience of playing Nintendogs with your bestie 

Maybe even a powerpoint night??  

Putting tinder on the big screen and roasting men together 

Playing the Sims and collaborating on the most ridiculous sims and houses to ever exist 

Go Karting 

Let this woman at the wheel immediately!!! 

We could kick ass and then get a lifetime ban from the track 

These 10-year-olds aren't ready for us!!! 

Lighting section at Home Depot 

Self-explanatory 

IKEA 

We would spend so many hours there just pretending we were furnishing a mansion with unlimited money 

Saying: "Omg this should be in the Sims" to each other 

The IKEA cafeteria my beloved 

The only thing we buy is a Djungelskog each 

Racing the carts in the warehouse part 

A crucial yet forbidden part of the experience 

Karaoke 

She would love karaoke 

No further points your honour 

#stargate #sg1 #stargate sg1 #vala mal doran #bad stargate imagines #sam carter #janet fraiser #daniel jackson #cameron mitchell

[harrowharks-iliac-crest]

Camilla and Palamedes

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I'm heavily rooting for these two. I never cease to be amazed by their capabilities. I'm realising now that Camilla must have asked to bring Gideon's body aboard - because Palamedes exploded into her, and therefore lots of tiny bone shards would have been lodged in Gideon's body and clothes - which Camilla must have, absolutely meticulously, gotten out of the body and puzzled together to form the square-inch or so of skull that she shows to Harrow.

The knowledge, patience and dedication Camilla shows in this single act... wow. I'm not sure I agree with Judith's absolute dismissal of close cavalier-necromancer relationships. I'm sure it's what was right for her and Marta, but that's not the case for everyone. Cam and Pal are very close and have been for years. They planned for this.

I'm pretty sure Camilla's intention is to become a Lyctor by incorporating Palamedes into her. And I reckon it'll work, too. These two are too good at this.

Though for now, Camilla is looking after Nona.

>> Next: John

#tlt theories #no nona the ninth spoilers please #tlt liveblog #the locked tomb liveblog #tlt spoilers #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #camilla hect #palamedes sextus

[mischas]

I'm late to this post as I'm revisiting all things Ben and Mischa since the news break (ofc). I've been wondering if Cam's confusion about Ben "being mean" to him even though he "didn't do anything" could be tied to him being an asshole to Mischa at the time. Even if she and Ben were in a weird spot maybe he was annoyed the new guy was either 1. in close proximity to her whether that be just in filming or irl or him being an asshole towards her. It's the only rumor I ever heard about Ben being "mean." Any other problematic Ben convos revolve around relationship drama so it makes me wonder. I feel like it has to do with Mischa.

Well yes, but also no. Forgetting Cam for a second, Mischa herself said "he was really angry with me to begin with and I felt the punishment of that". That's a deranged way to treat the 18 y/o girl who broke up with you. Especially as 90% of that relationship occurred when she was 17.

I think a lot of people have never paid attention to the rumors surrounding the s2 set (that Mischa essentially broke up the cast's happy-go-lucky dynamic of "work hard, play hard" together) and how she courted fame separately by hanging out with people in LA party circles. There was a lot of deep-rooted resentment that manifested in the writing (and acting) and Mischa confirmed that on CHD. Melinda said on the show podcast that Ryan's angry outburst to Marissa in 209 felt personal between the actors. If Alan Sepinwall tells us in his substack that this bombshell was not really a bombshell to him because it seemed everyone knew and talked around it, I imagine Melinda knew about the rancid s2 vibes. A lot can be gleaned just from that alone. It's not just romantic/sexual tension and anger, it's, as Mischa said to E! News in 2021, and I feel comfortable saying with the added context of CHD... bullying.

As for s3, the kids were all tired of being there and acting out in various ways. There was a lot of backtalk and bitching and Adam is the only one coming out of the book looking like an honest person about that. And we know Mischa wasn't going to be spilling her guts in a book telling half-truths.

There are instances on the podcast (a very Ben-positive pod) about him being a dick to extras and guest stars. "Mean" is a relative term. Ben's own future wife got the cold shoulder from him. Nikki Griffin was reading on set and he remarked that he was surprised she could read at all. And Nikki made sure to note it wasn't said as a joke. And I really don't care about Cam Gigandet. I think Ben is allowed to be strangely jealous or confused and whatever s3 behavior (I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to shutter a guest star, like it's not great but it's whatever), but there are other accounts of Ben not being the best to work with if he's not in a good mood. The director Patrick Norris said on the podcast that he didn't know if Ben was going to punch him or take direction. And Norman had his issues with him too. So like. I wouldn't want to be on the other end of that.

#ask #anonymous #mb tea

[tutuandscoot]

when VM triumphed at PYC do you know if Marina commented anything about it?!?? I seem to remember a photo of her hugging Scott (I don't know if Tessa too), but I'm curious if she has commented on them and their performance…

I’m not aware of anything (evidence) photos, VM saying something etc..

I mentioned a while ago, watching their SD, the camera cuts to the crowd and there’s a bunch of Canadians cheering (also Steph Lambiel I’m noticing for the first time) and Marina is sitting in the bottom corner:

I don’t want to just sound straight up negative/tin hatty, but I don’t know how else to read that reaction from her (considering the reactions of everyone around her) as anything but… not happy they skated so well.. like that doesn’t look like the reaction of someone who still cares about them (as athletes she invested 10 years of coaching into and had a huge part in their success) it looks to me like she hoped they would screw up and they didn’t so she’s pissed, and everyone else around being amazed and elated.. she’s like ‘meh.. wasn’t that good’.

My feeling on it is I think she definitely hoped PC would win.. idk for sure- I don’t know the woman, but I don’t thing she wanted, wasn’t hoping for VM to finish their career with a gold. She would know that the Shibs were skating for bronze.. but I just don’t think she would’ve been rooting for vm to win.. I think she would’ve been like GP (of PC) in the green room watching VM skate last thinking ‘shit, they didn’t mess up. Shit, Shit! They arnt screwing up’.. it’s horrible to say but it’s just the vibe I get from Marina, based on verryyyy limited info but including what VM have said about their experience with her specifically 2013-2014, how things ended. This clip above (from the olys), and also unfortunately a bit of natural human instinct that some people have to root against people you should or have in the past cared deeply for, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a bit of jealously/resentment.. the last two (really 3) olys she had at least one team fighting for gold (BA in 06 then VM, DW 🙄in 10,14) and this year the best she could get was bronze.. a bit of resentment that VM are succeeding with somebody other than her and…. sorry I’m just gonna say it bluntly.. sabotaged their chance to win in 2014.. she’s pissed they were so good and just couldn’t accept being happy for them. Again.. all this based on that 2 second clip of her in the stands… but also based on just general human psychology in these kind of situations. Could be wrong, maybe she was happy for them on some level..

The only thing that comes to mind of S hugging her is this moment from GPF the previous season:

From this fan cam video of the medal ceremony.. this clearly goes against everything I said above, but these are all just pleasantries and everyone being nice bc they are adults..

#ask #Marina is not my fave character in this story can u tell??

[pavo-ocxllus]

❝ 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤, 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞! ❞

𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡… you're on the kiss cam with some of the genshin boys! 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠…  tighnari x gn!reader (ft. collei!), shikonin heizou x reader, gn!cyno x reader 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠… no established relationship, modern!au where anthropomorphic people exist because for some reason i refuse to believe in a reality where tighnari doesn’t have his ears, 2.5k words (seperately, tighnari: 0.8k; heizou: 0.7k, cyno: 1k) 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬… typed in lowercase as a stylistic choice, idk a kiss-cam, heizou is a piece of dook-dook, probably messy writing on cyno’s, also he might be ooc whoops- 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐜𝐮𝐭… let's hope this actually shows up in the tags this time take two lol (also i’m super sorry abt neglecting event asks!! i can’t promise i’ll get to them asap, but i’ll try to get them done!!) ALSO, incredibly off topic—y’all don’t know how happy i am for cyno’s va (alejandro saab)!! i’ve been following him ever since his mystreet and yandere simulator days so it's great to see him get such a role!

𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢. ･ﾟ: *. — 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐳𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚.

TIGHNARI definitely expected collei to be so excited during a sports event.

"wow... it's so crowded here!" she exclaimed, excitedly shaking her head in one direction after another. simply hearing her voice was enough to sense the golden sparkles hovering inside of her amethyst-colored eyes. truth be told, she wasn't used to being in the same vicinity as so many people. though eleazar was not contagious, it was always a concern for tighnari that collei wouldn't be getting proper rest or enough medicine to last for the duration of a game.

however, the archons sent an angel from above for collei in the form of you, who somehow managed to guilt trip the forest watcher into bringing her to the sports stadium nearby so she could be a quote-unquote "normal teenager," even going as far as to invite him along with you two.

he certainly did his best to refrain from acting too overbearing, and he succeeded—at least verbally.

spotting him checking collei's bag yet again after five minutes to see if she still has enough of her prescription, you quickly swatted his hand away, causing a small yelp of pain to escape from tighnari's mouth. if collei wasn't so busy 'oohing' and 'ahhing' she'd probably attempt to stifle a laugh.

"you really have to relax, 'nari," he scoffs at the nickname, but it secretly makes his heart skip a beat. "see, collei here as every reason to be anxious, however..."

you jabbed a finger at his chest, smirking. "you don't."

slightly confused to see you settle back into your seat after your gesture, he sighed, rolling his eyes and crossing his arms and legs. "what, is it illegal to care about collei now?"

you frowned a bit at his retort. "no... but now that you're here, you'll might as well enjoy yourself, right? she definitely is."

tighnari looked to his left, where collei was animatedly joining the cheering spectators. it was obvious she had no clue what was going on much less know what team to root for, but seeing her being completely fine made him physically relax. 

it seems as though he made himself so comfortable that he didn't even clock the sudden placement of a gentle, warm weight on top of his hand. 

"c'mon~ please? for me?"

tighnari liked to think he was better than this petty form of persuasion. when it came to you though, it seems to be a different case. shaking his head, he nodded before you lifted your hand from his (an unexpected chill ran through his arm after that), clasping your hands together in glee. 

it would've been a sweet moment, him staring into your eyes while you did the same in return for a few seconds, if it weren't for the blaring buzzing sound filling the stadium, ruining it all.

"oh, that must be half-time!" you exclaimed, shooting upwards from your spot, being sure to take your belongings with you so they would slip off from those foldable chairs. "i'm gonna go to the bathroom real quick-"

"[name], master, look!!" collei was quick to interrupt your sentence. usually, tighnari would scold the girl for cutting into people's sentences, but seeing as she was pointing rather aggressively, he believed it was worth looking into. or in this case, up.

and there were him and you—front and center of the jumbo screen attached to the vaulted, steel ceiling above with a plethora of digital hearts and kiss stains floating everywhere. he didn't even need to read the bold letters spelling out 'KISS-CAM" to figure out what was going on.

just his luck, right? he got what he wanted—to stare into those big, colored eyes of yours—but unfortunately not in the way he would've preferred. glancing back at you, he was met with unabashed shock not towards him, but to the screen above.

tighnari knew how these little games they played during intermissions work. try to ignore it, and they'll move on with someone else only to come right back at the two of you, similar to the physics of collei's boomerang. it's best that they get this over with before further public humiliation ensues, after all. 

slowly, he leaned in to press his lips against your cheek for a second or two before pulling back. takes the least amount of time and best of all, is the least awkward. a win-win, right?

well, as fate would have it, you seemed to notice just in time, jolting your head towards tighnari so fast he didn't have time to register something soft grazing over his lips.

wait... what?

he was quick to pull away, completely aghast at the sudden feeling, you mirroring the exact same emotions. he was too focused at everything going inside of him that it took him a while to snap out of his shocked state, darting his multi-colored eyes away from you and looking into the peripheral of his vision to find that the kiss cam has moved on to some other unsuspecting people that were actually romantically involved with each other.

tighnari glanced upon you once more, only to find you still stubbornly standing there—looking like you just wanted to sink in the floor right now. for some reason, he could only muster up a slight smile tugging upon his lips.

“the bathroom...?”

“oh, right!”

𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐮. ･ﾟ: *. — 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫.

as much as you enjoyed HEIZOU’S company, you really, really hate sitting next to him right now.

“pfft- hey [name], look-” he barely managed to carry out his sentence before combusting into laughter, shoving his phone into your face to show off the latest unappealing, oddly good-quality photo he took of one of the players tens of feet below them zoomed in, most likely a face they made during a collision or accident of some sort. it was quite strange, yet fascinating, how he managed to take some of these pictures spot on but somehow always makes them blurry when you convince him to take a cute one of you.

“not now, heizou!!” you groaned, trying your best to the device away from your view (much to your dismay, he has a stubbornly, sturdy arm strength), eventually settling on attempting to peek away from the screen (unfortunately, he was just as swift as he was strong. isn’t there anything he isn’t good at?!)

though it was barely 30 minutes into the game, the atmosphere was quite tense as the crowd of viewers (with the exception of heizou) excitedly watched in bated breath as players perform at their best, or at least near it. really, even if you weren’t a fan of the sport, you can see why everybody was so invested in it, both emotionally and financially. as they zoomed pass, in the midst of the cheers and the heat of sweaty athletes hard at work, it couldn’t help but add further on to the atmosphere. 

at the sight of your intrigued facial expression, he couldn’t help but soften his face, letting a brief moment of... honestly, he didn’t even know what wash over him. weakness? relaxation? who cares? he certainly didn’t. 

his outstretched arm bended at his elbow, while the grip on his phone loosened. the young maroon-haired man didn’t even clock the fact that he repositioned his arm so he could rest his cheek at the palm of his hand—well, the cool glass screen from his cell phone. 

almost immediately, he remembered to keep his guard up, quickly shifting into his usual menace of an attitude. 

your focus on the game almost managed to let the snap of heizou’s camera go unnoticed. keyword: almost. 

“ha, talk about a total nerd,” heizou commented teasingly as he took a picture that you’re absolutely going to complain about later, despite the fact that if anything, he was definitely the ‘nerd’ out of the two of you.

“wha- don’t do that!” you exclaimed, completely disregarding the fact you were going to start a scene and plunging into the detective’s obvious trap.

he only smirked, reaching out his arm to violate some poor person’s personal space just out of your hands, resulting in you placing a hand on his chest to keep yourself up an attempt to retrieve his phone, delving further and further into embarrassing yourself later: which at this point, it doesn’t seem you even care.

lost in his thinly veiled bullying, the two of you didn’t even notice the loud ‘BUZZ’ filling the stadium, and the subsequent camera operators aiming the infamous kiss-cam at the two of you. of course, his renowned intuition already led him to believe this going happen, going as far as to expect you two were going to be the first ones on the gigantic screen above.

“fine, you want my phone so bad, but i want you do to do a little favor for me, yeah?” you quirked your eyebrow in brief confusion, only to be quickly cut off by the detective propping himself up and closed in on your lips. really, to him, it was like everything was setting off at once through the kiss, only to end so abruptly as he pulled away, his green eyes meeting your almost stupefied appearance.

heizou wasn’t the one to overly focus on a single moment in time—it was a habit that a detective had to develop in order to watch the big picture. however, he couldn’t help but try to justify it in his mind; making a whole other picture. it felt like the burst of fireworks illuminating in the dark sky, shining brighter than the stars. in reality, the “fireworks” were just the people around them erupting in whistles and screams, yet it didn’t make it feel any less magical. 

eventually, he pulled away, viridescent eyes gazing upon your reaction, only smirking as he tossed his phone at you like it was nothing, completely disregarding the red pinching his cheeks. he was a man of his word, after all.

𝐜𝐲𝐧𝐨. ･ﾟ: *. — 𝐥𝐮𝐩𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐬.

this was one of the most idiotic activities CYNO had the pleasure of participating in, not that it was reflected in his rather crossed expression and his current thoughts at the moment.

“one more! one more!” you repeated as the silver-haired man rolled his vermillion eyes, shaking his head. for a few seconds, he glanced down upon the arena below looking at the players dashing all over the place. it was as if you’d blink, they’ll be doing something completely different all of a sudden. really, he wasn’t the one for sports, but even he can acknowledge the event was significantly more interesting than whatever the hell you wanted to do.

not even bothering to do anything else to display his annoyance, he fetched a piece of crackerjack in your direction. apparently, his attention wasn’t so detached from your frivolous games that he watched as it successfully made it into your mouth with a bit of shifting around on your part. nevertheless, even after exerting so much effort in a rather easy toss (at least, in his point of view), you still cheered in victory, even though the section the two of you were seated in wasn’t particularly rowdy.

somewhat surprised that you didn’t show any embarrassment as any usual person would after the sudden outburst, he observed as you sat down back in your seat, finally not obstructing the view from the poor spectators behind the both of you (well, with cyno’s hat, it wasn’t like he was better).

“are you done?” he inquired. though this was simply an innocent question, some of the people encompassing the two of you looked as though a chill ran down their spines just how vexed he seemed through his voice. cyno passed the nearly-empty bucket of crackerjack to you—it was barely the end of the first half, yet with the incriminating food all over the floor, it didn’t exactly take a detective to solve the case of the missing game snacks.

“mhmm!”

“that’s good,” the mahamatra sighs, hoisting up his elbow to rest on his knee, his chin perching on the palm of his hand as he decided to gaze upon the match below. “why are you so invested in me flinging food at you instead of the game? it is what we’re here for, isn’t it?”

the joy in your face slowly faded away, being replaced by a slight frown as you sighed, mirroring his actions not too long after. 

“well, yeah... but i want to hang out with you.”

unbeknownst to you, cyno widened his eyes a bit, not knowing how to process such a small bit of information. of course, questions aside, (such as, if you really wanted to hang out with him, why take him to a place where his attention should most definitely be directed somewhere else?) it wasn’t very often that he was invited out to places unless it was from particularly plucky students attempting to kiss up to him when they were attempting to cover up academic misconduct. 

sure, the two of you could be considered close, depending on your definition of the word. regardless, he wasn’t under the impression that you and he were close enough that you’d go out of your way to spend time with him. 

he wasn’t sure as to why, but the thought was enough to make his heart flutter.

deeply exhaling, as if suddenly contemplating if he really wanted to go through with this, it managed to catch your attention enough to shake your head towards his direction.

“fork some over, yeah?”

“huh?”

“toss some,” he answered, simply gesturing to the bucket of snacks in your grasp. though, it didn’t stop you from looking at him in shocked glee.

apparently, the silver-haired young man registered it as confusion, so, without prior warning, he latched on to your wrist, then proceeded to direct you into grabbing a piece of crackerjack and throwing it across a short distance so it would pop into his mouth with ease.

“like that.”

unfortunately, the short distance also represented the space between the two of you; given your current seating arrangements, being so close to cyno as you are right now seemed impossible mere seconds before. satisfied with his small fill and leaving you with an empty paper bucket, he set his eyes on the field below once more, slightly perplexed when there wasn’t anything going on. 

meanwhile, slightly upset at the fact that the mahamatra had stolen your last pieces of food, you couldn’t help but feel a little bit flustered after glancing up towards the ceiling for a change of scenery.

distracted over trying to figure out the whereabouts of the players from earlier, the kiss-cam from above was fixed squarely on you two, and you swore you could hear cries from the distant crowd trying to grab cyno’s attention (in addition to the not-so-subtle neighboring onlookers practically yelling at him.)

paying no mind to his incredible willpower to resist the masses (or complete social unawareness), you started to feel frustrated with the pressure around the two of you. it wasn’t exactly the end of the world, of course—but a little bit of you doesn’t want to admit that you really, really needed an excuse to act on your feelings.

much like cyno’s nonexistent attempt to alert you of what he was planning on doing, you grabbed the collar of his button-up shirt and smashed your lips on top of his. as quick as it came, you let go almost instantly, the slight taste of crackerjack still fresh in your mouth.

letting out a quick breath in relief that the kiss cam decided to go away from the two of you, you subconsciously turned away from the young man, placing your hands on top of your face. you went to overlook the floor below you, cringing at your actions. what the hell was wrong with you?! sure, in some aspects, maybe you weren’t exactly the god of wisdom herself, but surely you have enough intelligence to know that you can’t just kiss people out of the blue!

yet that just raises a question... what if he wanted that?

it was a stupid idea. idiotic, even. however, there was a burning, aching desire to discover if that was the case, to the point you decided to ignore the personal repercussions to your emotional well-being.

so, peaking out from in between your fingers to gauge cyno’s reaction, you’re surprised to find a small smile creeping up his lips as he continued to watch the empty field.

𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 <𝟑

#tighnari x reader #cyno x reader #shikanoin heizou x reader #heizou x reader #cyno x y/n #tighnari x you #tighnari x y/n #heizou x gender neutral reader #genshin impact x reader #genshin x reader #genshin impact #genshin #genshin x gender neutral reader #shikanoin heizou #heizou #cyno #tighnari #𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞.! #𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞.! #pls show up in the tags #i'm begging you pls pls pls

[queen-scribbles]

— 10 Characters

I was tagged by @valkblue to play this game. Thank you for the tag, and sorry it took me so long to answer 😅(what I have learned from this is I gave my Pillars of Eternity girls lots of EXCELLENT dialogue) Also a lot are two characters to give context for the line or bc I'm proud of the back and forth(have I mentioned I love writing banter?)

Rules: pick up to 10 characters and share one of your favorite lines of dialogue you have ever written for them!

Tavi(Pillars of Eternity) in Deep Roots

Her eyes narrowed at the presence of kith, then flew wide when her gaze landed on Heodan. She physically recoiled, looking like she’d seen a ghost. “Aren’t you fuckin’ dead?” Apparently, in her mind, she had.

2. Cam/Liam (ME:A) in The Answer

Cam grinned and sat back on her heels. “Oh, so there was a plan that didn’t involve springing it out of the blue and almost givin’ me a heart attack?” she asked playfully. “I don’t think you wanna go there,” [Liam] shot back just as playfully, arching a brow at her. “Giving the love of my life a heart attack isn’t really a category where you have a leg to stand on, Camille.”

3. Jaaide (SWtOR) in Cracks 

 “If I’d opted for directness over subtlety and still failed to sway her, would my hands be clean enough for you?!”

4. Adi/Heodan(Pillars of Eternity) in a handholding prompt:

His fingers played along with hers, tracing soft lines across her knuckles and down her wrist. “I like listening to you talk.” A beat. “Especially about the things you love.” Warmth bloomed in her chest and sent a ripple through her fur. “Well, then.[...]Prepare to hear a lot about yourself.[...] Because there are few things I love more.”

5. Keme/Jorgan (SWtOR) in Got Your Back

“Thought-ah!-Thought I was the boss,” she joked, even as pain tightened her jaw[...] “Only when you’re not bleeding to death,” Jorgan growled. 

6. Janine(Wayhaven) in Jinx!

Adam had a very skeptical eyebrow arched by the time she finished. “Jinxes are mere superstition, Detective. They cannot cause you harm because they are not real.” “Says the vampire,” Janine shot back immediately with a grin and arched brow of her own.

7. Kayris/Atton(KotOR2) in Gamble

Kayris smirked teasingly at Atton. “We let him loose in a cantina, it’ll be anything but short.” “Hey, now,” he protested with a smirk of his own. “It’s not my fault a lot of people are worse at pazaak than alcohol makes them think they are.”

8. Endrali(SWtOR) in a kiss prompt

“Arcann. Aside from me getting to decide who ‘deserves’ me and I picked you, I fell in love with you, maybe it’s not about  deserve as much as what we have, and you” –she leaned in and kissed him– “have me.”

9. Ves/Kurt(Greedfall) in Wonder

“Someday I’ll figure what I did to deserve you,” he managed. “And I’ll happily reel off my list until it sinks in,” she returned quietly, sliding both hands forward to cup his jaw. “You are enough, Kurt. Just you.”

10. Bao-Dur in Old Habits

[Evony:] “Would you like some help?” “If you want, I know you like to tinker,” he said with a quiet laugh.  “But don’t feel obligated; I built it one-handed, I can fix it that way, too.”

(No Trinne or Harvey just bc there's SO MUCH I've written for them it would take forever to narrow it down, but I am v proud of their exchange at the Gnawed Noble in the most recent OWaP chapter and Harvey's "I love you more than always having [quiet moments] to myself" line in the Sunrise OC Kiss fill)

uhhhhhh just open tagging for anyone who wants to show off some writing stuff

#tagged #(also y'all know i love arcann's 'you make a great many things better' in unbowed. time to let some other stuff shine) #i am unironically proud of the vast majority of what i've written so this was HARD man

[thatonebirdwrites]

19, 39, 40 please! :D

19. Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it.

No context, eh? :D

“Flashlights?” Andrea asked. “Mine is busted.” She dug it out of her pack and held it up to the light. A crack down its side and its broken lightbulb made it useless.

Sam dug deeper into her pack. “Oh. Well, that would have been smart to pack, wouldn’t it?” She smiled sheepishly at Andrea.

“Chupame la concha,” Andrea said, probably her favorite curse, which Sam had determined translated to roughly ‘suck my pussy.’ Tempting but unlikely to get them out of this disaster. “Tienés una soga?”

Sam repeated the phrase quietly. “Oh, rope.” She dug through her pack and pulled out nylon rope. “If you’re hoping to lasso your way out, I don’t think that’ll work.”

“Shut up.” Andrea grabbed the rope, stood, and tied the end into a loop. She spent the next ten minutes tossing it upward only for it to catch on a bush or branch or random roots. Each time they broke off and fell into the pit with them.

Sam sighed and gathered up several larger branches that Andrea had pulled in with them. From her pack, she plucked out a cotton shirt and wrapped it around the end as tight as she could. The lighter she used to start their fires would work well for her makeshift torch.

“¿Qué hacés?” Andrea slung the rope over her shoulder and looked pointedly at Sam’s torch. “Do you truly think that will help?”

“It’ll give us light. And I did pack a lot of shirts.” Sam held up her lighter. “Our voices are echoing, so the room likely is larger than it seems. Why not explore? Maybe there’s another way out?”

“Or we're stuck in a pit to die. Qué pelotudo de mierda,” she muttered. “Fine.” She pulled a shirt from her bag and grabbed another branch. It took her two tries to tie it, but it was far too messy. Sam handed her the already made torch and redid it herself. The tighter the cotton shirt was, the better the flames.

Redonning her pack, Sam lit the torches and pocketed the lighter. The light flickered across the ground but the darkness stayed thick. Sam took a few cautious steps out of the circle of sunlight, but her torch still didn’t cast light onto a wall. Instead the ground held odd formations. She bent and ran her fingers over the floor. “Andrea, I think this is cut stone.”

39. Wildest AU scenario you have written?

I started writing a Supercorp version of Lovecraft's A Color Out of Space because of a tumblr post of a bug in a hunter's field cam that made a deer look like it had eight eyes and six legs.

I haven't posted it to AO3 yet, mostly because I'm still writing it and plotting it out, and I don't feel confident in it yet. I had to exorcise Lovecraft's racism and homophobia and well all the -isms from the original story. Basically, I kept the plot: weird meteor lands and strange things happen, and sliced it up to fit the Supercorp world.

The tale is a slow creep horror, where at first things just seem weird. Then you realize things are just the right amount of off that you start to get nervous, until you're in too deep and realize that everything is absolutely horrifying and it's almost too late to stop it.

It's very much a mixture of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy (The first book was made into the movie Annihilation) and Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Shaw.

So yes. Supercorp Horror.

40. Write a 9-word fic.

Lena discovered a love of flight in Kara's arms.

or...

Lena's panic ended when Kara flew to her side.

or....

Kara was lost in the green of Lena's eyes.

Gosh doing just nine words is hard but kind of fun. Anyway, thank you for asking! :D

#the ask game #rojarias

[burned-lariat]

I know everyone thinks Esme's actions in Paris were all Laura's fault and Laura should be begging everyone for forgiveness...

Esme acted ALL ON HER OWN. Laura got her out of a B&E, which wouldn't have ended up in jail time anyway.

So, other than calling her sweetheart every other sentence, what else did these incompetent writers have Laura do that could have stopped Esme from going after Sprina?

I know Spencer told her Esme had her memories back, but other than her saying "Spence" Spencer didn't have SOLID ass evidence to prove to laura, Cyrus, Dante, etc.

So, I get being pissed for Laura being too nice to that awful, terrible, waste of a character. As a fan, I'm pissed! Hell, they still have her being nice to the waste of space AFTER the Paris events.

Like, Laura being nice to anyone. IN CHARACTER 100%

At the expense of Cam and Spencer... ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT

next week, Cam needs to be like "hey grandma. love you. but wtf was that bestie shit with esme?"

to end my rant: saying Laura caused esme to do what she did in Paris just doesn't make sense to me. She was too nice to the girl. but her being nice does not equal esme returning to her psycho ass roots and going after sprina. like I'm sorry that math is not mathing for me.

#general hospital #asks - gh

[di-glossia]

I've thought it over quite a bit and I just do not think Nona the Ninth was a story that needed to be told. John's backstory was interesting and I'm desperate to know what happened with the Resurrection and aftermath but not much else was really worth reading. Muir's greatest strength is her worldbuilding, which is something NtN sorely lacks.

Sure, we get some descriptions, some idea of a non-House perspective, some unique cultural elements but everything is filtered through Nona and Nona knows nothing. Harrow's decriptions of the Mithraeum filtered through her worldview turned an objectively horrifying charnel house into a place of reverence. Nona's confusion makes even the children's descriptions of necromancers less terrifying than just plain superstitious.

I've seen some people say this book shows the flipside of the Empire and how the Houses look to the rest of humanity but we know that. We know they're awful and horrifying. We started with a story that deliberately made us root for a titty mag-loving, wannabe imperial military recruit and her creepy, abusive bone witch. House culture is rotten from the inside out: the Second and Fourth Houses specialize in shock and awe tactics that prioritize killing enemy combatants and suicide bombing, the Seventh House cultivates blood cancer, and the Seventh turns people into human batteries. Ianthe is a cannibal who does vile things with human fat and mucus. Mercymorn and Augustine constantly remind us that these are not nice or good people and they're saints. Add to that Nona's inability to fully describe or offer context on her surroundings and anyone vaguely familiar with the sci-fi/fantasy staple of "the empire you know and love is bad and lying to you" isn't getting a new perspective.

It just felt like way too much was made of the question "who is Nona?" as if two of the three contenders weren't out of the running with Kiriona's appearance and John's chapters. And then Nona's not even Alecto's true personality. We spent this whole book getting to know a character who only exists in this book, who does very little but hints at more, and who dies at the end having made little impact. It's filler. Until the absolute end, all of Nona's chapters are basically filler. Almost nothing that happens in this book has any consequence, we never learn Hot Sauce's or the Angel's backstory, we don't know what animal Nona drew, we barely have an idea of what's going on ever because Nona doesn't know!

It would have been so much more interesting to throw in another character's point of view. Honesty could have given us context and shown us the city's seedy underbelly, Hot Sauce could have shown the horrors of a House invasion, Cam or Palamedes could have expressed the anguish of living apart in one body and told us so much more about everything. I would trade every Noodle scene to know more about Born in the Morning's family and culture. So, so much could have been done by swapping some of Nona's chapters out with another character's. Instead there were hundreds of pages where nothing of any importance happened. After the masterpiece of Harrow the Ninth, Nona was just a disappointment.

#I'm not joking about born in the morning #you gave us hints of a poly society with naming customs based on the time of day a person is born #and the only other crumb we get is one dad is a boe sympathizer #please muir I'm begging for worldbuilding #this is the lesbian necromancers in space series you can't give me body-hopping and six-legged dogs and nothing else #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers

[firespirited]

Dolls are patient. They got their final cif wash today. I think the white werecat needs her fringe redoing, sometimes it's just a casualty of the degluing process.

Abbey got the chop, she was rooted with the bobbly tinsel all the way through. It's not too badly stripped so if anyone wants the hair, it's free. It's just unbrushable without frazzling up. Her face paint is chipped anyway. She's custom bait (free)

It has made me want a G1 Abbey very much but I'll be picky about tinsel and maybe her streaks. I think i'd be ok removing tinsel from a front line and parting but the whole head was too much. Might keep her body in case I find the right face Abbey but her torso and arms are all yellowed (you know how rough it can get with Abbeys) .

Catty's like new, the werecats have small paint scratches the faded paint stripes on the hair and one needs more plugs to the bangs. Lagoona 13 wishes is like new. I bought her as a duplicate for mine who got a full no fringe reroot on the day (bday gift from sis so she had to be perfect asap). She's gorgeous but it felt indulgent to have both when they're near clones.

Lagoona black carpet has a hard head. Probably brittle, she'd benefit from a front reroot in either blonde or a dark colour that goes well with that teal but with the head kept hot on a heat pad so that the vinyl holes close properly and don't crack open. I use a zigzag pattern like *. *. *. To avoid empty areas while leaving enough space between each hole to not crack open.

The two EAH are in decent condition with some small hair stripping from brushing them while full of glue. Clawdeen's front stripping is more pronounced but she was so incredibly sticky I'm amazed she kept so much hair. Cleo is a gorgeous version, a sweeter face, she's very tempting to keep but I have to be strict about the Mh crew LOL. Jinafire scaris needs restyling to her original haircut.

Only Catty, Clawdeen and the 2 EAH have full bodies. The werecats have arms missing but do have tails!

I'm not able to do bleaching this year, I don't have a place to put dolls in sunlight. The trade off is a cooler room so it's worth it. I'll have to pass on dolls with the understanding that they're unfinished.

Once they're fully dry I'll get photos and stick them on ebay (unless local dollblr folks want any - at cost)

My trade wishlist is emerald green, black saran, pink nylons, yasmin tone curvy fashionista for beauty cuties, afra curvy fsta for rainbow surprise skye rainbow, pale body for Kit (fsta or disney is fine or tipoffs to clones with her skintone). Abbey head with no wonk. (scaris skullshores or ddg). Elle eedee (with or without body), CAM Mummy head. But no big deal, I'm happy to continue slowly hunting.

Well, that's the plan, at least if nothing derails it LMAO. Otherwise it's back to the big shoe box for an other month or two.

The sun behind the foothills was doing that lightbeam thing that looks like movie magic on today's walk. It was spectacular.

#saf #dolls #Monster High

[leqclerc]

sorry for the incoming rant but italian tifosi on twitter are being weird about xavi again :/

i haven't watched it so i can't confirm, but apparently charles in his twitch stream said that – in addition to his family and andrea – the person he trusts the most is xavi (especially re: constructive criticism and hashing out mistakes), and some people are freaking tf out and being so mean

i really don't understand how people can't see that xavi is most times just the middle man between charles and whatever the hell goes on in the strategy pitwall's brains! also they're full on invalidating charles's feelings on the matter (and have been doing it for the whole last season/s too)?? people are so vocal about wanting his head but. he's not the real problem!! :/

Hello! Omg no don't be sorry, thank you for sending this in!! I love how I'm the Xavi protection squad on here asdfsdjfj 😤

Yes! Louder for the people in the back 👏🏻 People have really latched onto this idea that he's one of Ferrari's main issues and all the communication issues and strategic mishaps and poorly calculated pitstop problems would magically disappear, which...? Like you said, during the races he's mostly the messenger passing info from the pitwall to Charles and vice versa. He is not responsible for the strategy calls or tyre choices or anything like that.

I know they'd never do it because you'd be exposing way too much sensitive information but realistically a pitwall cam or something could shine a light on how these decisions are made and crucially who makes these calls, exactly. I'm curious to see how they portray the pitstop mishap in Monaco in DTS (the trailer showed some Ferrari pitwall footage, but I'm willing to bet that's just filler and we won't actually learn anything new from it.)

And you make a great point about people invalidating Charles's feelings and words just because it doesn't suit the narrative that Xavi must be awful and incompetent and stupid. Of course the dramatic radios stick in people's heads because they keep getting replayed and then confirmation bias does the rest. If Charles maintains they have a good working relationship and he trusts him with constructive criticism and hashing out mistakes then... I mean... that's a good thing? Shouldn't we be happy about that?

Xavi's very good at praising Charles for a job well done and tries to lift him up when things don't go their way. He's 110% on his side and it's obvious he wants to see him succeed. And I love watching them pull dummy calls on the Red Bulls 😤👏🏻

Yeah, they disagree sometimes. Charles sometimes gets upset over something or other. But like. So does every other driver? 🫠 It's not like Lewis has never snapped at Bono or vocally expressed his disgruntlement or disagreement over a pitwall call. Anyone remember Max yelling frantically at GP when he had that DRS issue? Getting a whole new race engineer to work with five seasons in, trying to build up that understanding and rapport and trust all over again... imo it would just unnecessarily make things harder for Charles, when Xavi's not even the root of the problem.

To summarize:

#replies #dhufflebee #discussions and predictions #actually i recently found this short feature from 2019 about how charles and his team (trainer and race engineer) prepare for the race #what they do just before lights out and so on. and there was a brief rare interview clip of xavi my mans #and i found it interesting that he says charles wants him to just talk engineering side and doesn't need psychological advice #which tbh makes sense. but again they've worked together for almost 5 whole seasons now!! they get each other!! they know what to expect #idk what good it would do to make charles start all over again with a new engineer there's no guarantee he would gel with #like on a purely hypothetical level i love the indulgent idea of charles and bono but realistically he wouldn't get the britishisms #'get in there charles' but he takes it literally 😭