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oneatlatime · 10 months

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The Blue Spirit

Before we get into the episode, a couple of thoughts that have been rattling around my brain: -Last episode was heavy. I need jokes please. -it's been a while since I've seen a hybrid animal. I thought those were going to be a running gag. -It's been a while since there has been any gorgeous background art. -The last couple of episodes have really pushed Sokka and Katara to the background. I'm missing the ensemble style episodes.

Episode time!

It's Zhao. Hi asshole. Actually this conversation is touching on something I've been wondering about:

The fire nation has bigger fish to fry than a quarter-trained 12 year old.

If this whole episode happens at night time I'm going to really miss my CRT.

Zhao is now turbo asshole. Also there's a weird blue cat on his roof.

Imagine having a sick day on an Appa couch. Heavenly. And where are they hiding this time? Why is there a giant tapestry?

Looks like this won't be much of a Sokka episode.

Not going to be a Katara episode either. This is a novel way of benching your side characters.

How does airbending make you go faster? I could see earthbending making you faster, just by moving your running surface, but how does Aang do it?

I do like roadrunner shenenigannery.

Momo doesn't understand English confirmed. Also he has green-tinted vision? Do his irises coat his pupils? That would be weird.

Behold! A non-hydrid animal.

"It's been almost an hour and you haven't given the men an order." Ouch. Burn.

I'm not much of a Zuko fan, but even I have to admit that this is a sucky situation in a long line of sucky situations. You have to feel for him here.

Frog popsicles. Did not see that coming. Note the lack of hybridity.

Now he looks like those arrow guys.

Using aerial weaponry against an airbender seems really stupid. I guess they've got numbers one their side.

Is literally everybody in this world a professionally trained acrobat? Do all four nations include that in the school curriculum?

Compensating?

Could the action wait until morning please? I can't see.

Zhao doubling down on the asshole behaviour. Not cool. Keeping someone barely alive in captivity for as long as possible has to be some sort of war crime. Waging a war for a century against an entire planet is probably also a war crime, so again, bigger fish. There are assholes that are entertaining to watch and fun to root for, and assholes that are just plain mean. Zhao is now firmly in the latter category.

Poor Momo is trying his best. Zhao's right about there being no one to rescue Aang this time though. Even Appa's benched by babysitting duties.

The blue cat is back. Clinging to the underside of a moving cart using just your fingernails has got to be murder on the hands.

Good lord these guards are blind. This episode is too dark for me to see anything but I still saw blue cat guy hot foot it into the compound. His mask even has white parts.

Oh god he's monologuing. Blegh. Although convenient for blue cat guy. A desire to monologue may be Zhao's most consistent character trait.

Did the frogs do that?

The hallway-that-eats-our-guys just ate one of our guys. What should we do? How about send two more of our guys down the hallway-that-eats-our-guys? And leave only one to guard the door keeping the world's most powerful bender contained? Sounds good.

CAT.

He extinguished that guy! That gets funnier the more I think about it. All that fancy bending, years of training, and your fatal weakness is a bucket.

Exactly how many of those sword flourishes were necessary?

I like the blue cat's theme music. It's some sort of wind instrument, a bit kazoo-like, but it sounds a lot like this plastic toy trumpet I had as a kid that I'd play with whenever I was mad at my parents. I loved that thing, but it mysteriously vanished one day.

Blue cat is doing some seriously precision sword bending. Imagine if he'd missed? How do you live down cutting off the Avatar's hands and feet?

It WAS the frogs! Caught red- um. Footed? Do frogs have hands?

The return of One Man Army Aang.

Blue cat is surprisingly go with the flow for having just been catapulted dozens of feet without warning. Stuck the landing too. Sort of.

I'm sure there's some fascinating fight choreography going on at the moment but I CAN'T SEE IT.

Aang can briefly function as a load-bearing helicopter. Briefly.

So… how many of these guards are dead?

I am a dumb! How did I NOT see that coming? I am dumb! Much dumb!

Turns out there is one hairstyle worse than Zuko's usual.

In addition to roadrunnering, helicoptering, and ladderwalking, Aang can also carry someone taller and heavier than him at high speeds while fleeing the enemy. Is there anything airbending can't do?

Or maybe it was the frogs. Also I just realised that Fire Nation ships are shaped like Fire Nation shoes. I bet those shoes give you bunions.

Zuko was out for a WHILE. Might want to get that head wound checked out.

This hit unexpectedly hard. This episode's second surprisingly heavy scene. Can't they at least hug?

Was the kazoo-trumpet diagetic all along?

"Did you make any new friends?" "No. I don't think I did." Me:

Appa is your friend, not your toothbrush.

Final Thoughts

This was a character episode disguised as an action episode. Which I did not realise until I figured out that Blue cat man was Zuko all along.

Firebender Zuko has chihuahua energy. Blue Spirit Zuko has cat energy. Discuss.

Everyone needed a hug this episode. Including me. Except Zhao. Screw Zhao.

Zuko seems much more confident with those swords than he is with his fire. I don't mean to compare skill levels; I have no way of evaluating that. I mean he seems more sure of his movements with swords. Fire makes him shouty. Swords make him dance.

Can't really say much about Sokka and Katara this episode, although I do like that the reason they're out of commission is a direct consequence of last episode's exploits. Makes the through narrative feel more grounded if the small things as well as the large plot points have continuity/consequences.

Momo! Poor Momo. He really tried! Actually, I've been assuming, but is Momo a boy lemur?

I am utterly indifferent to the Arrow guys. Nice bit of stealthy worldbuilding, but I'll eat my hat if they ever recur.

This episode was The Storm part 2. Parallel angst threads concluding in the two mains staring contemplatively in silence after each other? Yep. Storm Part 2. This episode may have had even less humour than The Storm. I found the recurring frog jokes worked better than the Sokka and Katara are sick jokes.

I've been kind of nitpicky about this episode, but don't get me wrong, I did enjoy it. Kind of really ended on a downer though. It's also contributing to a growing suspicion of mine: would they pour all this development into Zuko, and set up a more powerful villain to take his place, if they meant for Zuko to stay the villain? The show started giving us insight into Zuko's character, and arguably a reason to pity him, at the same time as it gave us those things for Aang - The Southern Air Temple. This show has 60-some episodes. Would you humanise your villain in episode three if he was supposed to be the antagonist for the rest of the show's run? You could, but it would be a waste of writing energy. So what's going to happen? Is this war going to have three sides? I can't see Zuko fully switching sides, when his reasons for chasing Aang are so personal. Whatever Honour means in the fire nation, Zuko's only way to get it back seems to be capturing Aang. I can't think of anything Aang could give him that would be worth forever forfeiting his Honour.

I think this episode made the correct choice, in not having Zuko say anything when he wakes up in the forest with Aang. Like the end of the Southern Air Temple, and the end of (I think?) the Winter Solstice Part 2, some moments are enough - no dialogue needed. But - bear with me as I stray into fanfiction territory - wouldn't it be fascinating to hear the conversation Aang and Zuko might have had? And isn't it neat that Aang chose the conversational topic he did - not questioning why Zuko rescued him, but attempting to reach out? There was a choice made in his one-sided conversation with Zuko that I want to pick at. I can't put into words why I found that short scene so impactful. But I want to pick at it.

I'll be rewatching this episode on the CRT in my parents' basement when I can, because the brightness on my little laptop just does not go high enough. This episode was dark. Fittingly so, but still. I want to SEE.

#atla #avatar: the last airbender #the blue spirit #avatar the last airbender

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blimbo-buddy · 5 months

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I feel like Bloodclan should've done more damage to the clans during their attack. Like to the point that while the clans won, they lost so many numbers it was pathetic. Firestar should've felt like he was a great person till his next visit to Princess had her disowning him for what happened, and maybe even attacking him.

He should wonder what he did wrong or try defending himself, only for Princess to force him away. The clans after that built up battle should struggle and try to slowly rebuild themselves with so many lost numbers, constantly fearing retaliation from the Cleford cats and other threats. I just felt the book fight was lacking. Like nothing happened afterwards.

Oh anon you just gave me an idea:

So before the Bloodclan Battle, Chelford cats rarely tried to fight back against the Clans, but after the battle and after their numbers were thinned out, Chelford cats became bolder in their attacks

The extreme Clan haters would actively venture off into the forest in search of any Clan cat to beat and drag back to Chelford where they would be taken hostage

More and more attacks from Kittypets and Loners became frequent and with the territories slowly being destroyed, it left the Clans exposed

I'm unsure if I'll be keeping in the cats who chose to stay behind, but if I do, this will be a learning moment for Chelford. There are good cats in the Clans, there are ones who were manipulated into doing awful things in the name of Starclan

But, these were still cats, they still needed help

The ones who stayed behind (or more so, went missing and couldn't be found in time by the Clans) were harsh and aggressive at first, and not all of them changed their minds fully. But, Chelford cats were so kind, oddly enough despite them being from the Clans.

They'd be given water, warm material, food. It might have not been better than their nests in camp or their fresh kill, but they still took some of it. Although there was one or two cats who didn't take any offerings

It was until one day, a Kittypet saved the group from a few attacking cats who wanted to "Rid Chelford of Clan scum". And after the fight, the attackers left. The Kittypet looked back at the Clan cats for a moment, before slowly stretching out a paw, an offer of help.

The group of Clan cats were hesitant, very hesitant. But eventually, one of the Clan cats came forward, still hesitant

The cat slowly outstretched their paw, finally placing it on top of the Kittypet's paw. A truce.

But besides that, I agree, the fight in The Darkest Hour felt lacking a little bit, and also the message of "We're better than you because we believe in god" is… blegh. I feel like FireStar killing Scourge would have been such a great moment to solidify his place in the Clans, he was a hero to the Clans, but a monster to Chelford. I'm unsure how I'd have the entire "FireStar rebuilding Skyclan" thing go due to everybody knowing him as the "Fire That Snuffed Out Scourge". But yeah Princess does not care for FireStar anymore, although her thoughts on him are complicated. That's her brother, the cat she grew up with and trusted, it was hard for her to throw away those good memories, it really was. But she moved on eventually. And so did the Clans. But as FireStar was leading the Clans to the Journey ahead, he stopped and took one last glance as Chelford, tears stinging at his eyes and a lump raising in his throat. He forced himself to turn back to the Clans and trekked forward, never seeing Chelford again, knowing the destruction and pain he and the Clans have caused. He can't turn back, he couldn't turn back. He was FireStar now, that's how the story goes.

#blimbo rambles #ask #wc #wc rewrite #blimbo's twolegplace culture #sorta

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rollercoasterwords · 10 months

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If you could only listen to ten albums for the rest of your life which ones would you choose and why?

evil question EVIL question every week i find a new favorite album...however fun question as well so. i will do my best to answer <3

well first right off the bat i would choose "i love you, honeybear" because it has consistently remained one of my top 5 favorite albums since like. 2017. love father john misty's voice love his music love the story told in "i love you, honeybear" no-skip album one of my favorites for roadtrips because i know the words to like every single song.

and then right alongside "i love you, honeybear" would go "trouble will find me" which has also been a consistent favorite of mine since the 2010s. the national is another favorite band of mine i love sooo many of their albums honestly not even sure that i'd argue "trouble will find me" is the best but it's just my favorite because it's the one i've been listening to longest + the one i know all the songs on <3

and then my number three would probably be. mitski "be the cowboy" i love all of mitski's albums but be the cowboy is probably my favorite...a pearl...washing machine heart...me and my husband...nobody!!!

after those three well. it gets a bit more difficult...i think for number 4 right now i'd pick "new skin for the old ceremony" i need some leonard cohen and that is currently my favorite album of his <3 + for number 5 i'd choose "stadium cake" by oh pep! which has been another favorite for years...know all the songs etc...

number 6 would go to "the rise and fall of ziggy stardust" love a concept album + need some bowie in the mix...number 7 "it was a religion" by blegh fucking love that album....number 8 "jorji" by ezra bell can't leave out ezra bell...number 9. i think i would have to choose "how to be a human being" by glass animals simply because it's been a favorite of mine for years but...i have not listened to it lately and honestly it would possibly need to be sacrificed simply so that i could add both "little earthquakes" by tori amos (current obsession) or "to bring you my love" by pj harvey (other current obsession)...otherwise i'd have to sacrifice one of my girls as i only have one spot left and. well i love them both so much right now i honestly do not know how i'd choose...

#ask #rae's playlist #FUN question but also very difficult question...thank u <3

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vtforpedro · 1 year

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personal/med update

My brain is fried mush right now. I survived my disability hearing on Tuesday. It was definitely informal, a little intimidating, but I feel I got through it well enough. My attorney said it’s a toss up because this judge is extremely professional and won’t give any indication and he sure didn’t. The vocational expert narrowed me down to like 3 jobs, then 2, then 1, then 0. I felt that was a good thing? Like am I not disabled if I can’t do any jobs? Either way, my age is working against me so we shall see. It’s very strange that you can be completely disabled and unable to work, but not by US law so they won’t provide aid. Blegh. Gotta wait another 1-3 months for his written decision. ._. Last Thursday, I noticed I had a ‘spot.’ I call them spots b/c I have eczema but I also had a bad ringworm infection in 2015 and called them spots then. Red spots that turn into rings. Anyway thought it was gonna be eczema but by Friday I was covered in many more. Cue me having multiple meltdowns about it interfering with my hearing if it got too bad lmao It didn’t, but it is bad! I had 49 ringworm spots as of last night and they grow in number by day. So, I went to see an NP b/c my dr couldn’t fit me in. Went as well as every other medical professional interaction has, which was terribly, and left me in tears and feeling beat down yet again by the medical field. She wants disabled me, who was bedbound for eight months and currently in PT to recover, to put cream on 49 spots and counting. With IIH and nerve damage that limits my movement and ability to stand for longer than 10-15 min. But she kept interrupting me and wouldn’t let me explain any of this. Her notes said ‘she is not usually terribly active’ so I guess being bedbound translates to that somehow??? She also said I had 3-4 spots on my breasts which is not what she was told by me or what her MA wrote down. lmao so guess who had to message her pcp again!!!!!!!! A completely healthy person can’t be expected to put cream on 49 spots 2x a day. For me, this involves washing my skin since I am unable to shower every day cause of the whole disabled thing. She said a lot more bullshit about my swollen feet and fatigue, so basically I got zero help. It was barely a 10min appt. Fucking hate them, I swear. She refused to give me the oral anti-fungal cause of my other meds, but my mom asked the pharmacist today and she said I’d be fine to take it. The pharmacist asked, unprompted, if an NP, urgent care or ER doctor said no to the oral pill and my mom was like YES! And she said they don’t understand it and won’t give it despite it being used every day even for yeast infections and athlete’s foot. She said her friend went through this shit too trying to get the oral pill. Back in 2015, I suffered this infection for 5mos while applying for health insurance/getting approved/waiting for a pcp because no NP, UC or ER doctor would give me the oral med lmao I saw my new pcp finally and he was like uhhhh no here’s a prescription for it you have way too many spots to worry about putting cream all over your body. Y’all I had been washing my sheets, towels, clothes, taking apple cider vinegar baths, soaking my spots in ACV, then applying one of five or six otc and prescription creams EVERY DAY. I spent two hours twice a day in my bathroom. Ringworm was what I did every day all day for five fucking months. I cannot fathom doing that again. It’s insanity. I was close to a mental breakdown and I only had MH issues back then, none of the physical stuff. I hate it here man Also why do I keep having shit happen every time I turn around. No idea why my feet are swelling, no idea why I have this abnormal fatigue that makes me teary because I sit here and stare at my screen unable to think of anything else but how tired I am. Like for long periods of time. She said to talk to my psychiatrist about it HOOOOOOOO. I woke up this morning and immediately started crying. It’s triggering being treated this way after three years of it. I should’ve waited to see my pcp and used otc in the meantime or something, but my pcp wanted me in asap for my swollen feet so I could get lab orders. Which, according to this NP, ‘there are no labs for swollen feet.’ Where did they get this lady She’s like WHAT ABOUT YOUR LEUKEMIA DID THEY CURE IT? I’m like my chronic, lifelong leukemia? No, it is in remission lmao chronic is right there in the name ma’am. It’s the first word. HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I’m gonna go cry again sorry for ranting I am so so so fucking sick of medical professionals and I cannot wait for it to slow down but my february is completely booked and march is halfway there. Chronic pain life baby!!!!

#vtforpedro personal #vtforpedro medical #long post #rant #we hates them precious #why is this neverending #i could use like a five minute break for christs sake #i have to miss pt until I'm on treatment we know is working too so that's a setback #hhhhhhh

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olderthannetfic · 2 years

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I'll take a shot on the ABO conversational wagon.

Back in 2010-2014 or so I was aware it existed but was extremely squicked by ABO, partially I think because of the culture hype around it (at least in the circles I was running then) and also a lot of the time it read as rapebutitsokaybiology and while I've always liked noncon I prefer content that's honest with itself. Sex pollen stories are a thing that happens to you that causes inevitable fuckery in some form or fashion- that's fun and knows exactly what it's about. ABO felt like the idea of fuck or die, but rather that being something happening to the involved parties, that's who they are in ABO. because biology. Blegh no fun.

But then it was 2020, I was chewing through BTS fic like a starved man and, huh, I was noticing an awful lot of abo fic. So I gave it another shot, and it's hard to tell if my perception has changed or if it's a cultural difference on how these stories are written and expressed now, or even just down to which fandom where, but I fell in love with ABO in pretty short order.

There are so many great fics that focus on cultural complications, abo canonical lore treated as mythology vs reality, the very real social dynamics that could crop up. It provides an extremely interesting lense through with you can examine our society without the slog of the horror of reality.

And, lots of extremely awesome porn or even just fun worldbuilder fics. 👌 if someone had told me in 2011 that the questionable abo fics I read then would eventually lead to some of the most thoughtful social commentary fics I've read to date I absolutely would not have believed you.

I'm also a monsterfucker now though, so I'm positive a change of tastes absolutely plays some kind of role lol. From my most hated trope to the apple of my smutt collection lol

It's the runny assholes and constant assbabies I objected to at first.

It sounded like everybody had diarrhea and didn't know what contraception was. DNW!

BTS converted me to liking a/b/o, and it's entirely because of Fifth Pilot Problem: a.k.a. it's a popular fandom with a tightly-defined team and there's an odd number of them.

What do you do with the other one?

You make your three-slot xenogender sex pollen porn more interesting, that's what.

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a-dauntless-daffodil · 10 months

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What's "Hunter's ed"? Is it literally just school classes dedicated to hunting?

Kinda yeah? Class instead of classes though. I took it through public school as a kid when i was uhh 8 or 9 i think, but most of it can be done online these days, except for the final field day bit.

Hunters Education (as i remember it) teaches stuff like:

firearms safety (never point it at a person, keep the chamber empty, triple check it's empty, make sure to carry it so it doesn't point at anything you don't want to shoot, TEST TO MAKE SURE ITS EMPTY by pointing it somewhere safe like a soft earth ground or thick wood and pulling the trigger before you leave the gun alone or store it or clean it, ect)

shooting safety (remember if you miss the bullet keeps going, check what's behind or around the thing you're aiming at, try to find a natural backstop like a hill or thick deep tree coverage or make sure you have a long clear line of sight, remember the bullet drops over long distance shots, remember to sight in your scopes before hunting if you use them)

navigation in the wilderness using map and compass (bane of my fucking existence)

how to gut and harvest the animal if you get one (blegh to be honest) (for the love of heck make SURE your knife is sharp and hopefully has a drop point and also a small finger guard things get slippery quick) (make a gut pile some ways away so other creatures can have it and not bother you) (mom also told me to put a sprig of a branch in the animal's mouth as a thanks and be nice to the body but that's not in hunter's ed i don't think)

awareness of land, conservation, and hunting laws (basically just hey remember you can't shoot whatever you want whenever you want and even if you could you shouldn't bc your hunting impacts the population numbers and heath so if you wanna get something next year to eat don't shoot the females with babies this year, also check your hunting area and get your hunting tags) (they don't talk about how most of the hunters we get out here aren't locals but drive in with huge trucks and multiple four-wheelers and camp out here looking for fun and a big rack, while my sister goes out on foot with her teen son hoping to get ANYTHING so we have meat in the winter) (they don't talk about how people want nice healthy animals and take those out of the population while wolves go for the sick, the unprotected young, the old, the injured, and take THOSE out of the population instead) (they don't talk about how many moose die from getting hit by fucking cars on the highways)

Aaaaaaand here is how to actually fire a gun (field day) (hateful and loud) (not actually a whole day) (spent mine with my hands over my ears bc i was used to just using a little .22 rifle for grouse and it's sooooo different when you know when the shot will come VS having it come cracking out of nowhere)

You need the hunters ed certificate before you can hunt in some units (areas) of Alaska (if your were born after a certain time) or if you're under 18 and hunting without adult supervision (reason why i took it) but i think the main point was to stop people accidentally shooting themselves or friends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh hey they have a website for it actually. here is Hunter Education

#guns #hunting #gun safety

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c0rpseductor · 8 months

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trying not to think about the verbs and failing listen ok i am going to be driven to madness

i have decided in my zygerrian conlang that tense is not like, part of the verb; past and future just get tacked onto the start of the sentence or clause as a totally separate word to indicate what’s going on.

the main thing happening with verbs is this insane game of who’s allowed to do what as determined by class stratification and stated permission from a superior. the pattern for a verb in many situations is [subject pronoun]-[verb]-[y/n][object pronoun].

so like, use cases. i do not have a big chart on my phone and I cannot be assed to get up so these are all going to be weird English lexicon zygerrian grammar sentences. bear with me.

He left my house without permission (I’m in charge of him, or we’re equals): Past [third person low status]-leaves-[no][first person high status] house of [first person high status].

He left my house without permission, and he’s boss of me: Past [third person high status]-leaves-[first person low status] house of [first person low status].

I don’t get to add the little bit indicating my permission up there because he’s boss of me, he can do whatever he wants. Including “without my permission” in the above sentence contrary to the pecking order would imply I thought he was acting wrongfully and it’d be a whole Thing.

My example sentences in the doc so far have mostly included verbs enacted on either people or other people’s belongings for this reason (as above, where technically the house is the object here, but the pronoun suffix indicates the owner of the house as hierarchical object because it’s my property and therefore doing shit to it is doing shit to me).

but the structure here works for objects owned by no particular anybody, too, bc there’s an object pronoun, and permission can just be ignored in that case. like, I eat an apple would be [first person whatever social standing]-eats-[third person object] apple.

i guess i’m thinking now what about plurals? what about if me and my friend both eat an apple. what if i eat two apples. what if i eat two of YOUR apples. that’s kind of important information and it can’t go on the verb (that thing’s already bogged down to fuck with prefixes and suffixes).

i could, in theory, add more pronouns. number seems like kind of an important thing, right? i think i read that in some languages it’s optional or not included but it seems like you should include it. i said earlier this language has 21 pronouns, which is only sort of true; there are 7 sets demoting status with 3 forms each (first, second, third person). i could add some kind of something to bump that up to 6 forms each (excepting the one that’s exclusively for the queen of the planet bc i cannot imagine she’d ever need to pluralize that and in referring to another like planetwide queen or like sheevy palps the proper pronoun would likely be, like, the one reserved for sort of mid-to-high-tier nobility and honored foreigners). i guess if you count separate forms english has a lot too though

honestly i might need to go ground up for plural pronouns bc there’s also mixed-status groups to account for. like a whole second system. blegh

as for like what if i ate two of your apples. that just requires pluralizing the noun. so my precarious verb arrangement for sick and insane people is safe

#it looks better in the actual romanized conlang but i didn’t want to have to spend 90 years like #getting into what all the words mean in an example sentence

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vamptastic · 1 year

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i genuinely don't understand what capitalist countries stand to gain by fighting each other instead of collaborating economically. like why does the us warmonger against china when we would benefit more from trade? ostensibly it's for moral reasons, but regardless of the veracity of any given claim i think the united states has shown itself to prioritize economic success over human rights on a number of occasions especially during the cold war. i suppose i assume most wars are waged on the grounds of economic gain (natural resources, global political power, straight up money in the form of the military-industrial complex) but you could make an equally solid argument that just as many are waged over purely social and political issues- ethnic and religious conflict, blind nationalism, the whims of a dictator. it just confuses me at times, i guess. i have a hard time believing that the united states is bound and determined to wage war against china over human rights abuses, infringing on other countries sovereignty, and neo-colonialism in africa when we've propped up fascist dictators in many a country who've done far worse. is it literally just the association with communism? because surely whatever evil fuckers actually want war know that china is very far from communist right now. is it just nationalism? the idea that we must be on the top of the totem pole, even if our economy would stand to gain from trade? because i suppose i could believe that, but i think if that was true we wouldn't have gotten to where we are today in the first place. blegh. at the end of the day i am also ignoring the fact that many many different groups of people want war against china for reasons ranging from sinophobic jingoist nationalism to a genuine belief that the united states is a global moral watchdog determined to establish ~democracy~ worldwide. but there is a definite slant to media coverage on china right now, genuine attempts at disinformation, and given that the media in the us is so deeply tied to corporate interests it leads me to believe that there has to be some economic motive here, and it frustrates me that i can't figure out what it is.

#this post is long and convoluted and circuitous. sorry.#please do not try to like. publically own me or erupt into moral outrage over this post if you're reading it btw.#suppose i would be interested in hearing others takes on this but im just curious i genuinely don't have answers here #i don't want to argue or be accused of being immoral for not taking a hard stance on an incredibly complex issue.#anyway. i am also not trying to say that either the us or china are ' good ' or ' bad '#insomuch as any country can be good or bad. particularly a country millenia old or one that changes leadership every four years.#individual actions taken by each government are undeniably bad. yes.#but as a us citizen i find it very difficult to find reliable information about what is happening in other countries.#our media has become so wildly polarized that you can often figure out national issues by looking at both sides #but when the media is unified on portraying one falsehood both left and right? you're fucked.#often media that claims to be neutral could be more accurately described as western #i trust ap and the bbc on us politics - not global politics.#all that being said when it comes to things like the treatment of uighur muslims or the political situation in hong kong and taiwan.#i'm not entirely sure what to believe.#and i also believe that if every single immoral act the us claims china has done is real... we still wouldn't wage war based purely on that #...i do genuinely think the claims that china is colonizing africa by offering loans is horseshit though #even if it was itd be fucking rich for european countries that wrecked africa in the first place #to moralize about the means by which another global power allows them potential economic power #the problem arises from capitalism on a global scale itself i mean #there is no way to build up infrastructure and trade routes for an entire continent without #in some way eventually profiting from it #i do see the comparison to the us and latin america and i think that's kinda apt but #the way ppl talk about it you'd think they were doing what france did to haiti good god

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blackandwhlteaesthetlc · 2 years

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I think people are hyping up DWD numbers. Like the budget was originally listed as 20-35 mil. I’m guessing it was closer to 35mil. Who knows what the marketing budget was cuz I feel like they paid for ads everywhere (esp since none of the actors wanted to promote)

I saw reports that second week sales really dropped off. I think they banked too much on harry fans. I also think if Florence did promo it would be doing well right now. I think a lot of people in the GP don’t care at all about seeing the movie and only like the drama. I’ve read that opening weekend numbers are important cuz typically they make up 75% of the total box office numbers. Because of all the fans seeing it and TikTok being so big, I’ve already seen spoilers like 3 times a day, so I don’t think many people will bother going to see it in theater and will just wait for it to stream. Also- from what I can tell most harry Stan’s have seen it and the theaters weren’t sold out so it’s not like people are clamoring to get tickets outside of opening week. Time will tell I guess, I’m personally ready to move on from this nonsense.

My friend group is filled with people who are harry fans and movie fans, we’ve been talking about the drama. No one has expressed any interest at all I’m going to the theater. We’re making a movie date this month but it’s for the movie Bros.

First of all, thank you for seeing Bros!! I really hope it has a successful theater run so bigger film studios can take LGBTQ+ films seriously and invest more! I can’t wait to watch it myself. My own friend group is planning on a movie date for that one and My Policeman. 🥹

And yeah, agree on all points. Especially the marketing! Can you believe how much went into that?? I told someone earlier I haven’t been able to open ANY of my social media apps all week without being slapped with that poster and a link to buy tickets. Oh, and the streaming! It’s going to be hitting HBO after the 45day theatrical window is up so people won’t have to wait long. On that note, you know it’s kind of funny. Elvis (also WB) did so well in theaters that the theatrical run was extended. A streaming date wasn’t unannounced initially, probably because WB saw some promise with early reviews, so it didn’t go to streaming until the 70th date. We have a hard streaming date for DWD. That tells me WB knew it probably wouldn’t perform well. They and Olivia really relied on Harry’s fanbase to embrace this project (and her, blegh) to make it a runaway success. Well, they fucked around and found out. Olivia may get her backend deal but her reputation as a Director is shot.

Fingers crossed we can all (Harry included) move on soon.

#dwd #box office numbers #warner bros #anons

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rudolphsboyfriend · 2 years

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arospec asks!! 16, 47 and one of your choosing please <3

HIII

16: what confuses you about typical romantic relationships?

I'm just so fkgjjfkdksksjwe by like. Flirting? Lol i mean like how du decide where banter/fun/vibing ends and flirting begins?? Absolutely no clue. Also online dating apps like tinder and stuff knock me out bcuz how du just. Decide u wanna date someone like that. Same thing w like asking for ppls numbers at clubs and stuff? Like how du. Feel like u wanna date someone u know basically nothing about....

47: fav aromantic symbols

I don't actually know many aromantic symbols?? I just. Forgot abt them idk i RLLY need to look into them some more!!

Amd finally 49: opinion on romantic subplots in movies?

Uh. This is a bit complicated so basically I'm a sucker for romance as a genre? As a separate genre uk

But if I'm watching like a mystery or action or basically anything else and you hit me w romance i just. Zone out completely? It just makes me really blegh about it. but i don't think it's bad! This is a very personal thing and sometimes the romance subplots are genuinely well done? But so often it feels tacked on so you can get a makeout scene somewhere in there and that's it. Uk? And I'm so jaded on that that romantic subplots (even the well done ones) just. Rub me the wrong way.

#HIII #I HAVE AN EXAM TMRW #it's a big one I've been studying for it uhh #i took a lil break jus now #gonna get back to it #I'm almost done!!!

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doeeyeddyke · 1 year

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so i had a realization whilst looking at myself in the bathroom mirror

this might sound kind of weird but i’m sleep deprived, new jerseyan, and it’s nighttime. also it’s my head and thoughtcrime is fake so. whatever.

anyway.

i’m afab nonbinary, and the road to get where i am as far as gender identity and comfort with it was tumultuous and messy as hell for a number of reasons (desi, muslim, immigrant, afab, fat, autistic, etc)

i’ve reconciled a lot of the issues that plagued me before (tbh it was mostly like, fatphobia and racism) but yk i haven’t completely gotten over it i’m just way better at dealing with and fighting against it

so just a moment ago i was in the bathroom (for uh i have stupid kid brothers who fuck up the sink all the time reasons) and looking at my face in the mirror and. well. here’s the thing.

i cannot be attractive. not because there’s anything wrong with me or anything, tbh i’m a pretty decent looking person, in fact i’d say i could be kinda cute? but i could never be attractive, much less a remarkable visual

because here’s the thing. i’m nonbinary, yes, but also desi. so very fucking desi. sometimes i get confused for an arab (which, depending on the person, is either bc of stereotyping or bc they can apparently see the past few centuries of my lineage in my face) but those who have seen me all my life can look at me and go yes that’s a bengali kid alright.

like i was That Bitch among the bengali mothers growing up bc my hair was so thick and shiny and long and blah blah blah thanks to my mother’s intensive dabur amla oil and parachute coconut oil haircare regime i don’t think anyone who isn’t desi even knows what amla is

but point is. i’m nonbinary and desi. actually just. i’m nonbinary and poc. i’m also not hot in any form, just average. so i can’t ever be attractive truly, because that’s for the white nonbinary ppl. it doesn’t matter what you look like when you’re nonbinary poc bc the generic androgynous white afab nb will always always always be the perfect nb, the attractive nb, the universal nb. bc racism and westernization. even if you’re a very attractive nb poc, you will never be The attractive nb bc you’re not the white standard. (this goes for women at large too)

so uh yea uh. i am technically a very plain unremarkable nb. however. However.

if i was a boy. holy shit. if i was a boy the boys would be fucked. like i’m not saying there isn’t a racism/white washing issue with men and how attractive they are, there definitely is, but it seems so much more vicious and even violent with women and nb, esp nonbinary afab, bc fucking misogyny and all that. this might also be my own personal experience, but there’s less reluctance to accept a man of color as attractive or more attractive than a white man, and the beauty standards aren’t so violently inflexibly unwavering the way the feminine petite docile white woman standard is. idk maybe i’m talking out of my ass but like. it’s just so horrifyingly bad from these ends than towards men.

but the point is. the realization is. i could actually be attractive as a boy, especially with that quirky thing that some people eat up. there’s so many ppl who are so ready and so quick to disprove the beauty or relative beauty of a woc or nonbinary poc, like i just see it at much higher levels? but with men i see all kinds of men being accepted as attractive, even the ones who aren’t fucking uh. chiseled buff greek epic protags or whatever.

so if looked at as a woc (blegh fuck you if you misgender me) or nonbinary poc i am at best ok. as a boy i could definitely knock it out of the park, and it wouldn’t even be that hard. like idk if this makes sense or anything and there’s probably a lot of ??? bc like yk what do i look like that makes me so confident about this but like. most 18 year old boys are at best ok, bc of a combination of personality and looks, but i’d be like so amazing in comparison and if i was some rising actor i’d definitely have a cult fanbase or whatever.

#rambling #text #idk just some thoughts #sometimes i get in my head about the intersection of all the facets of identity #and sometimes that results in some kind of idk peaceful epiphany #and othertimes i'm in worm brain mode which leads to shit like this #but also i'm right bc like i totally would be the hottest bd boy #ok finished typing not rereading idek what i wrote peace #maybe i'll wake up see this in the morning and go ew wtf is wrong with my past self

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And Many Happy Returns

a sequel (or companion piece) to Inseparable, my childhood friends AU. chapter 1 of 2.

“Next week?” Jon shrieks, slamming a hand down on his desk and startling the nearby students. “That’s not nearly enough time to prepare!”

Martin does that blinky-eye thing that means Jon’s being too loud, but he can’t help it! Martin’s turning eight in six days (less than a week!) and didn’t think to tell him. They’re best friends, he should know these things. He curses himself for not asking about this at the beginning of their relationship, when he was collecting Martin facts. Favorite color and book seemed more important at the time.

And while Jon doesn’t think birthdays are that important, it’s still a fact he ought to have known. Well, his Nan doesn’t consider birthdays important. These past two birthdays he’s gotten one new (!) book and a dessert after dinner, but that’s about it. Nan doesn’t have money to spend on frivolous things, and Jon’s never needed much, but he wouldn’t mind a bit of fanfare. His mum always made sure he felt very loved- he got plenty of hugs, a fun cake, an outing where they would do his favorite things. But maybe that’s something only mums do. Nan, with her rare, stiff hugs and general stand-offishness was never one to put up much of a fuss.

“It’s not that big a deal,” Martin mutters, his pencil twitching in his hand as he refuses to meet Jon’s eyes. He doesn’t like it when Jon starts fretting about him. “We never do anything for it, anyway.”

Martin’s mum isn’t anything like Jon’s, that’s for sure. It’s not every day you turn eight. It’s a nice number, very even and divisible. Much better than boring old seven. When Jon turns eight, he’s going to get fifteen extra minutes added to his curfew, and he’ll be able to walk to the corner store all by himself. He’s already walked there several times, but it’ll be nice to have permission. That’s the real treat.

“So you’re not going to bring in cupcakes for the class?” he asks, remembering the last birthday they celebrated- it was Lydia’s, a quiet, unassuming girl that Jon doesn’t mind but also doesn’t think much about. As soon as Jon asks it, Martin gets that sad look in his eyes again, the kind that’s always followed by an “I’m sorry” or something equally nonsensical. Jon hates that he’s the cause of it, him and his stupid mouth. Think before you speak, that’s what Nan always says. She says that for most anything he talks about, though, so he takes her advice with a grain of salt.

He reaches out to pat Martin’s arm consolingly, giving him his best sympathetic head tilt. “It’s alright. I’ve never brought any in either. Just thought I’d check in case you needed help bringing them to school.” Jon’s not very good at carrying things, but for Martin he would make an attempt.

“That’s nice of you,” Martin replies, though it’s not really nice, it’s just a normal thing a friend would do. Jon’s read books about it, he ought to know. “But yeah. I don’t think Mum’s planning anything, much less making cupcakes. She’s really busy.” Martin’s always saying how busy his Mum is, but Jon’s pretty sure she doesn’t do half the things around the house that she’s supposed to. Martin already knows how to cook and make tea and do the laundry without hurting himself. It’s very admirable. The last time Jon attempted to do laundry, he flooded the cellar.

“Do you like cupcakes, though?” Jon asks, scooching closer to Martin’s desk. “Lydia’s mum brought some for her birthday, but they were all carrot cake. Blegh.” He makes an exaggerated face to get Martin to laugh. It works.

“Carrot cake’s not so bad,” Martin says, poking lightly at Jon’s hand with the eraser of his pencil. Jon flinches back dramatically, putting on his most wounded look. “You just don’t like it cause it has the word carrot in it.”

“I don’t like it cause it has actual carrots in it,” Jon sniffs, turning away from Martin to show his displeasure. He decides not to talk to him for the rest of the day, or at least until he has something else to say to him. He’s got a lot on his mind now, and he needs to be left alone with his thoughts. Besides, Martin will poke him again once he gets bored enough.

Jon flips open the school planner that he’s never used for actual school work and starts to write. He’s got a birthday to plan, and he’s going to give Martin a Mrs. Sims birthday special.

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It’s a Thursday, which means Martin can’t play on account of his many, many chores. Jon hates Thursdays.

But this time it works in his favor, as he’ll actually have time to plan without Martin thinking something’s up. Jon very rarely cancels on Martin; he’s his most important (and only) friend. But he does on occasion get a little mixed up. One time, he thought it was a Wednesday instead of Thursday, and wound up at Martin’s flat when he didn’t show up at the park. Martin was very nice about it, though, and gave him a cup of tea to ‘calm down’ to drink in the hallway, before he went home. Martin thinks a cup of tea is calming. It doesn’t really do much for Jon, but it is tasty, and Martin gives him extra sugar just the way he likes.

But today is most definitely a Thursday so he scurries on home, slamming the door open and screaming a greeting to Nan that goes unanswered. She must be off at the shops, otherwise she’d be giving Jon an earful for being too loud. He kicks off his shoes and gazes at the picture of him and his mum on the wall. If his mum were here, she would know exactly what to do to make Martin’s birthday extra-special. But she’s not, and Martin’s mum seems like kind of a jerk, so it’s Jon’s responsibility. “I won’t let you down,” he solemnly tells her smiling face, and turns to take the steps two at a time.

After grabbing his planner and throwing his backpack into the corner, he pulls out the chair to his messy homework desk, which is usually only used for doodling or writing stories or reading when he wants the activity to feel more official. He flips open his planner to next Wednesday, Martin’s birthday (!!!) and taps his pen impatiently against the page.

What do birthdays need? Food. Presents. Happiness. The first two might be a bit difficult to pull off, considering his lack of money and cooking skills. Martin deserves a lot more than stale discount biscuits from the grocery. He can get those any day.

But a whole cake is going to be hard. If Nan won’t make one for Jon on his birthday, she most certainly won’t do it for ‘his little friend,’ even if she thinks he’s a good influence. Martin is always very quiet and polite when he sees her, and Nan always gives him a smile in return for his good manners. She doesn’t smile at Jon like that. He tamps down his jealousy and gets back to birthday thoughts.

He thinks he had a purple- or was it pink? - cake on his fifth. It saddens him that he can’t remember. He thinks he’d forget his own mother’s face if he didn’t look at it every morning and night. Memory’s fickle like that, as his Nan likes to say.

Maybe, if he’s very nice and good tonight, Nan will take him with her on the weekly shop and he can convince her to get Martin a cupcake, a good one. One that doesn’t have any carrots in it, even if Martin says they’re alright. He must like them so much because they’re orange, like his hair. Unsurprising.

He stops wiggling in his chair and straightens his back, as if Nan can see him in his room right now. It’s good to practice, he thinks. If he can sit still all through dinner and not make a mess, she’ll come round.

Next, an essential part of any birthday: a good present.

His mum never really showered him with gifts, but she always gave him something good, something from the heart. The last present he received - Augustus, an orange cat plushie- still sits on his bed. It’s kind of babyish to sleep with a stuffed animal at his age (or so Marcus declared during recess one day) but Jon doesn’t really care. It helps him sleep.

Unfortunately, Jon can’t buy Martin a stuffed cat. He doesn’t have much money except for what he’s found on the ground and in sofa cushions. And he’s supposed to give that to Nan if he finds it (which he does, mostly).

He could be creative. Make him something. Jon’s not very good at crafts, though. And he doesn’t have a lot of supplies. But he has almost a week to figure something out, minus the times he’s playing with Martin. Well, even then he can stare at him and hope it jogs a good idea.

Lastly, he’s got to make it the happiest, most special day he can. Martin should feel special all the time, but Jon knows how hard that is, especially when you go home and you’re lonely and it seems like you’re the least special person there is. But if Jon is very nice to him and makes the day as fun as possible, maybe he’ll be able to keep that happiness all night, even when Jon leaves.

That’ll be the hardest part, Jon thinks. He’s not the type of person to make someone happy. Sigh in aggravation, maybe. Roll their eyes. But Martin does neither of those things, so Jon might have a chance. He’ll try and ‘tone it down,’ though. His Jon-ness can be too much at times, and he doesn’t want that to get in the way of what should be Martin’s day.

Everything’s going to be perfect.

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And then it’s Saturday, and Jon still doesn’t have a present for Martin.

He somehow managed to get Nan to agree to the cupcake bit- he’d asked very politely, ate all of his dinner and didn’t spill a thing. Though he thinks it has more to do with her liking Martin. She always acts surprised when she sees him over, like she’s shocked Jon kept a friend for longer than a week. He’s not that bad. But Tuesday she promised to take him to the grocery with her, so it’s fine. One part of his plan is done.

But the present.

Actually buying something is clearly out of the question- he already exhausted his Nan’s good will in that department. And Jon, for all his usual creativity, is plum out of ideas. He could give him one of his books, but he does that already without prompting. He doesn’t have any good toys, and Martin certainly isn’t getting his best pen, the one that glides real smoothly on the page.

“Are you alright?”

He’s been staring at Martin too long. “Of course,” Jon snaps. “I just like your shirt today, that’s all.”

Martin looks down at his worn t-shirt. It’s not Jon’s favorite, but it’s Martin’s, so he likes it. “Thank you!”

“You’re welcome.”

They’re out in the woods behind Mr. Fletchley’s house to investigate what Jon thought was an ancient ruin but just turned out to be a couple of crumbling cinder blocks. It was an incredibly disappointing find, but Martin wasn’t discouraged.

“We don’t know where they came from, or why someone dumped them here,” he reasoned, a hand on Jon’s shoulder. “What if they were stolen? What if they’re part of a...a crime, or something?”

Jon doesn’t know what crime would need a cinder block, but he intends to find out. They’ve been walking down the relatively short path (it’s not so much woods as it is a cluster of trees) and haven’t seen anything suspicious, besides a few empty wrappers and a particularly sharp stick that Jon’s been whacking against the ground. He thinks it could’ve been used as a weapon.

“What are you going to do when you’re eight?” he asks, nudging Martin in the side. He hasn’t mentioned his birthday since the first time, so he’ll be in for a real treat come Wednesday. Jon just hopes he can think of something good in time.

“Mm, I don’t know.” Martin slows down to a mosey, and Jon tries to match his strides no matter how much he wants to jump ahead. Martin’s a real ‘slow down and sniff the flowers’ type of guy. Jon’s more of a ‘run ahead and accidentally trample them’ type. “Probably the same as I’m doing now. It’s not like it’s an important age. I can’t drive or anything like that.”

“It’s a very important age!” Jon insists, though he doesn’t have much to back that up. He’s mostly just excited because it’s Martin’s very first birthday with him. “You should look forward to something.”

“I dunno, I don’t want anything to change,” Martin says, his face going a little red as he stares at the ground. “I’d just like to spend more time with you. Have fun. That kind of stuff.”

Jon blinks. “We do that now, though.”

“Yeah. It’s the best.” Martin gives him a toothy grin, the kind that Jon puts away and thinks about later when he’s at dinner with Nan or getting ready in the morning. People don’t smile at him like that, only Martin. He does it all the time when Jon tells him a good joke, or shares his food, or passes him a particularly funny doodle.

And now Jon’s got the perfect idea for a present.

part 2

#my writing #inseparable #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #cw for jon and martin's typical shitty childhoods #but this is all fluff my friends #pt 1 of 2

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limetimo · 2 years

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RAB fics this week (28March - 3rd April)

Diptych by pansysnarkinson 16 years old Regulus is a sad soft boy... which is exactly the kind of person The Diary Riddle is looking to exploit. Thankfully, Regulus and his mysterious book caught James Potter's attention!

It Is Sweet and Fitting How He Died for His Country by rsbarelle You know the "Regulus can't swim" joke? This is the exact opposite. Regulus and water are one. Very beautiful, very powerful.

Open Season by avidita !!! This!!! Is so good! #GiveRegulusAKnife2022!!! After Hermione cancles the spell that's been keeping the Inferi fresh, Regulus claws his way out of the water and finds out that he missed 30 years, Voldemort is dead but his effing daughter (blegh) is at the large, and that there is something very Dark in Harry Potter's eyes (and no, it's NOT just good old trauma) and could these 40 years old men stop treating him like a child?? He's 18 and fought a war before they were even born! Also a little bit of hope that we could get Sirius back from behind the veil. Also Regulus/Teddy to be

Saving my Brother, The Lionheart by Ginnywasafriendofmine Regulus doesn't have much choice in joining the Death Eaters, but he makes another choice - the choice to make friends with Marlene McKinnon. Falling in love with her was an accident, though. Very sweet

the way fate twists (all of a sudden) - year 𝘰𝘯𝘦 by pandoranott Regulus befriends Pandora at the train and is sorted to Ravenclaw :D

you can make me feel (i can let you in) by pandoranott Regulus and Pandora are unexpected besties, going as far as to call each other siblings - so when a wet and beat up Regulus appears on her doorstep, Pandora helps first, asks questions second. I'm intrigued!

The Marauders and the Philosopher's Stone by SilverShadow1 Alternate universe Marauders read the HP books, ft. Lily and Regulus!

movement by oceanicfeelings Regulus gets frozen in time, Lily dies, James doesn't, James finds Regulus /Regulus had reached out to him about the Horcruxes so he had a vague idea where to search) and they're about to kick ass and take names! And should definitely go to therapy!

Turned Tides by rsbarelle Ooooooooohhhhhhhh a very nice take on "Regulus runs away with Sirius" ♥

Rest In Peace? No, Live In Peace by A2idB1u3 Jegulily, Evan, Barty/Sirius, in which everyone's dead or in the Azkaban and Barty raises Harry on the run. First POV that rocks

Dying Wish by Stara1995 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA mindfuck and get your tissues ready

Did You Miss Me? by Fantismal, Krethes Wolfstar, Jily, Regulus is a good sibling ♥

Professor Black by FaithlessBex Regulus is the History teacher from Harry's second year on, it changes some things and some things stay the same

Quite Like Us by Anonymous wrong number that was the right number :D Jegulus

small talk by sophh tattoo artist Regulus and wolfstar

Notebook by Xiphchrys UUUH big feels, ace Regulus who draws a lot and also needs to learn how to set boundaries

5 pm by imagineacoolusername strangers to friends I didn't know I needed but o h m y h e a r t did it caress my very soul

Series: Not So Muggle Moments Hermione finds out that when her dad says he's the Time Lord, it's an euphemism for saying he was a wizard.

this is me trying by witchhunts Regulus is yeeted back to good old Hogwarts years and has the chance to fix things and save many lifes.

i miss my lover, man by fuckboyevan everyone's queer and nobody can spell, a chargroup fic :D

rewrite my heart (let the future in) by secretpersona :DDDDD

The Lone Wolf Dies (But The Pack Survives) by Child_OTKW Regulus kidnaps Harry :D

unremarkable days. by sadgorl Sirius won the custody battle for his 15 yo little brother, Wolfstar, everyone's tramumatised

The Transfiguration of Regulus Black by ash and dragon heartstring (wickedlupin) Regulus survives the cave thank to Kreacher and is upsetti about it but what can you do?

Super Nova (The Death of a Star) by fr00tl00pz After Sirius runs away Walburga and Orion kick Regulus out to teach him a lesson, knowing he'll crawl back pretty quickly. He finds sanctuary with the Potters. Can they show him what a family should be like and free him from his parents' shackles?

Lion's Roar by Seralyn Two Black Brothers locked up in Grimmauld place (1995)

As Soon As He Can by Trex_patronus :DDDDD

The Spare - The Life of Regulus Black in Sweater Weather by Anemone_nemerosa Hockey player Regulus has a massive emotional breakdow gets adopted by two gay dads and goes to live with his estranged brother and his boyriend

Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkaban by Trex_patronus Regulus was also in the Azkaban and escaped with Sirius :D it's great trust me

The Pure Blood Prince I'm screaming ♥ Regulus and James used to kinda have a thing, then Regulus died, then he un-died, fought with the order and aaaaaaa so much badass magic in the final battle from him!

glimpses of heaven by lunahunt after teh Prank James is having a hard time looking at Sirius so Effie signs him up for Quidditch classes. Regulus also takes the quidditch classes.

You idiot, Potter. by britishgaychild amoretia accidental crush relevation jegulus

Hogwarts isn’t that old fashioned by britishgaychild Regulus is trans and the Hogwarts staircases in the dorms respect that

James' Day by britishgaychild James' husbands are mean to him on his birthday :D

Spare a Minute by fr00tl00pz Sirius finds out some things and takes Regulus with him.

#I HAVE AN ISSUE #regulus black #fic rec

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Anonymous Ask Responses #14

I'm back after a good chunk of a spring break, and I should probably get all these asks in my inbox out before I get the next story part out. Might help some, haha. And again, sorry for the delay. I feel bad for continuing these delays over and over. Maybe for once I can actually get back on the ball.

As usual, any non-anonymous asks will have a tag for the person who asked. The title has just... become a title at this point. ^-^;

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"Oh boy! Toriel’s going to meet player" Yup, that she is! Whether that's good or bad is yet to be seen, but who knows... We'll have to find out.

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"Lol Susie is all of us with this fic" Pretty much. Unfortunately, filler segments are not very appealing in a story, and as such I want to keep them low in number. There will be some- trust me, there's bits and pieces that are pretty much guaranteed to be filler- (cough cough) character interactions that I will not specifically mention (cough cough) but filler is a lot harder to have in a text story than it is to have in a comic. Sorry, Susie.

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"That reminds me, we still don’t know about what happened to all the other humans" Good point! We learn what happened to Gaster/Knight, and we see glimpses of the other humans, but there's no telling for sure what they think. All we see is Gaster/Knight and what he says- and he's pretty twisted. So he might be planting ideas of the remaining humans in the bunker being angry when they really just want some pecking fresh food. I mean, I'd get sick of canned, preserved food if I had to eat it for 66 years and 162 days straight. Give me a burger or something, peck it all. And now I'm actually hungry. Great.

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"Wait kris didn’t tell Susie and noelle about asriel’s secret diary enteries?" Upon further review, you just mentioned something I completely missed! I'll have to find some way to touch on that or incorporate that into the story somehow, thanks for mentioning it! TL;DR: Kris didn't tell Susie and Noelle about the diary entries because I did a forgor and didn't think about that, and now my brain wants to use that for plot purposes.

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"Insert doctor who meme about time travel here"

It has been inserted.

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"Did player play undertale?"

Honestly? I can't say for sure... that's a good question, though in the end that means we have to assume not. It's annoying but there's not much I can do there...

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@prhthezanko: "I like how the player is somewhat avoiding Toriel, but does the player know of the "Incident" that happened? Or is it intuition that another human around would cause issues?" It's mostly intuition- Player's SOUL wasn't in the Light World to see the chat between Toriel and Sans, and since there's literally no other humans during the whole of both Deltarune Chapter 1 as well as the Paper Trail comic, it's clear that there's no humans for some reason. So seeing another one... probably would be concerning, for some reason or another.

And if the event is taken into account, it makes it all the more concerning...

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With that last question finished, my inbox is now clear of asks and I can now get back to writing the story of Disconnected. I'm looking forward to getting the interactions of the next chapter into play, and seeing how it goes! (And hopefully this one doesn't take weeks to write... blegh...) As usual, make sure to check out Lynx's stuff, as well as the other Paper Trail fan-stuff! I can't stress enough that this blog isn't meant to be a solid continuation, but rather one of many different 'stories' that we create upon the end of Paper Trail, much like Gaster says. Because for as much of a peck neck he is, he's also quite smart- and he is right. We don't like leaving stories on cliffhangers. So we make our own to fill the gaps.

So please check out the other stories and content, and see how others fill the gap in their own way.

With that said and done, I'll see you all soon, whenever the next part is released!

#undertale #deltarune #lynxgriffin #paper trail #pt-disconnected #anon asks #timey wimey #not the gif #but still a gif I guess?#prhthezanko

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