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airenyah · 16 days

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Your essay on Joong's underrated acting skills deepened my Joong appreciation so much, that I watched Mafia the Series, I'm watching Ploy's Yearbook (even though there is a serious lack of Joong so far), and I'm planning on watching The Warp Effect too. I haven't watched het shows in over ten years, so this is a big deal! 😂 I really liked him with Dunk in their shows, but MTS gave me another facet of him, because he's so timid in it, unlike in SIMM and HA, where he's (seemingly) very cool and in control. So thank you for making me a full time Joong (and Dunk) girl 💜

i saw this message first thing in the morning when i woke up yesterday and it instantly put me in a good mood!!! <3

YESSSSSS I'M SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT

mafia the series might actually be my absolute fave thai het-show, it's just SO funny!!!! and the entire cast is so great, like, not just joong but the entire cast plays off each other SO well. and don't even get me started on gina virahya and her portrayal of anna kondra!!!!

you know, when i went into mafia the series i saw the poster and was like "ughh i really am gonna have to sit through this standard (overly) dramatic mafia show just for joong, huh. the things i do for my boy..." and then. AND THEN. you can imagine my surprise. i was crying tears of laughter throughout the show and i was actually laughing so hard that my mom made a comment about how she could hear my laugh in my room

beam is my loser boy and joong portrays him in such an adorably awkward way, i love it <333

and yes there IS a serious lack of joong in ploy's yearbook so far :((((

it was quite funny tho bc in the one scene where joong does show up i immediately recognized him by the back of his head, like!! i saw this:

and instantly went "OH there's my boy!!!!!" 😂😂😂

and i can't wait to see him with film bc film did extremely well with gun in not me and i feel like film and joong will also work together really well

you know, i'm always happy to turn people into full time joong (and dunk) girls!!!!!!

i've adored them ever since simm which i watched live from ep2 onwards. fun fact, actually: when i started simm i actually had no idea who they were (even though technically i'd seen dunk in bad buddy already, except i wasn't paying attention to the random high school bandmates and so i didn't actually recognize dunk and only realized later on ahahah)

aaaanyway, i had no idea who they were, right? and so in 2022 my mom and i spent two nights in prague during easter and in the evening we were in our hotel room and we were kinda looking for something to watch. and i was like "hey look, gmmtv has a new bl out and it looks kinda cute and fluffy judging by the thumbnails?? and like something that doesn't require too much brain power?? plus, there's also only two eps out so far, so we'll be caught up right away" and so we watched the first two episodes and then the two of us ended up watching every new ep together every week hahaha

i actually didn't really talk about it on tumblr back then and when you go back on my blog you'll see that there are hardly any simm post. but really, with every new simm episode that aired i liked joongdunk more and more. and especially once the characters started dating i was actually so in awe about just how comfortable joong and dunk were with each other and how they absolutely weren't afraid to touch? like, their physical affection was just so casual, like it was the most natural thing in the world to them in an "i'm-not-even-thinking-about-it-bc-it's-so-normal" kind of way and that was just soooo refreshing to watch?? i was (and still am) truly amazed

and when just a couple of months later, at the end of 2022 gmmtv announced joongdunk were gonna get another show together i got SO excited!! and also when it was revealed that simm was included in our skyy 2!!!!

and then hidden agenda started airing and then i was tagged in that tag game and then i went to watch joong's entire filmography and then i ended up falling into a joongdunk rabbit hole and here we are...

anyway, i have multiple agendas and one of them is turning people into joong fans and dunk fans and joongdunk fans sllksdfd

and my other agenda is getting people to watch mafia the series, bc it's truly a gem of a show!!!!

(speaking of agendas: the only thing that's missing in your message is you telling me that you approve of my fight for a sexy joongdunk vampire bl, like... that would have made the message and the influence of my joong/dunk/joongdunk blogging complete 😂😂😂)

#you know when i saw your message first thing in the morning my immediate thought was #''ok nothing that happens today can top this like. my day is ALREADY made and i only just woke up''#your message set the bar very very high for me tbh #but then in the afternoon my crush unexpectedly called me after we barely talked the past 3 or so months and we spent 1.5h on the phone #and well i'm really sorry but THAT was the actual no.1 highlight of my day yesterday dfjkkjdfkfdg #i swear your message is a close second tho!!! 😂😂#asks #anon #joong archen #adrm #no but every time someone tells me i turned them into a joong fan/dunk fan/joongdunk fan i get such a rush of satisfaction lmao #i'm desperately waiting for summer night #i might just go off about dunk's acting after that #we'll see #bc i REALLY wanna see what dunk can do without joong and if he'll be as good #my money is on ''yes'' but i also don't wanna say anything to avoid eating my own words kdfkdf #but in reality i see many qualities to him as an actor that i think he should be able to do keep even without being opposite joong #besides he's now done two series as a lead character so now he has a lot more acting experience than he did going into simm #his acting was already so much stronger in hidden agenda then it was in simm (hello?? yank-kiss-yeet?? ep9?? ep11??)#and i trust that he's not just gonna lose it all in summer night all of a sudden #god i'm immensely excited to see him act in summer night you don't even know

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inolienkiki · 26 days

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hi there! [PLEASE READ THIS bc it has important information about what will be on my blog for the next several months]

so I've been mysteriously mia for the last week, and no it is not because my mom visited and also I'm finally getting therapy

It is actually because I randomly reposted a writing ask game and *people actually responded* and now I must stick by my word and work on 3 projects I will have trouble working on. and I haven't done that yet So I'll do at least a bit of that tomorrow! And send excerpts! And thank you @mx-quartz and @frankensteins-mt-dew and @kazoosandfannypacks for keeping me accountable abt this! Also I made a vague post about isles of the emberdark and it got 14 notes which is a personal record lmao

Anyway the very important information here is that I have finally finished 53 of the books on my reading list this year! This means I'm finally ready to dive deep into my giant Brandon Sanderson reread... that I'm guessing will probably take most of the rest of the year. And I am going to be reading everything affiliated with Brandon Sanderson. I'm talking the Infinity Blade books, Dark One Forgotten, White Sand Prose, Centrifugal, Hyperthief, HARRE, so on. If you're a Sanderson fan and you have no idea what I'm talking about, that's totally valid- the point is, I've found all the obscure stuff and I'm going to read it. Also the entire cosmere and everything else. (Except for Wheel of Time, since I still have only read the first 3 books and I have no intention of skipping to book 12 for no reason.)

Future posts on this blog may be associated with various Brandon Sanderson-affiliated works, and will have spoilers, which I will put below the cut. I will mention this on the applicable posts, I just want to put this information out there so you guys, my 3 followers, (hi! love you guys) don't click through and see something you don't want to see.

Other information: to stop myself from going insane, I am going to be interspersing the Sanderson works with various Warrior Cats books. I don't know which one is more likely to drive me insane, but I'm not sure they work in conjunction, so at least there's some hope for me yet.

I will be starting with The Rithmatist! Tomorrow, probably! (4/5/24) And then I will read Reckoners, including Mitosis and Lux.

This is going to be fun. After all, I'm going to need something to occupy me until the WoR kickstarter gets fulfilled and Wind and Truth comes out.

#brandon sanderson #cosmere #kiki's reading list #big reread

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iwillmanagetheflashlight · 2 years

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The Fancy Life

This is a new series my friend and I are creating. We will update every Friday!!! This is Chapter 1 : The Future

Pairing: Jensen Ackles (eventually) x reader

Warnings: Really none except Jared is an asshole a lot 😂

Let me know what you think and if I should post Chapter 2 later today!!!

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Y/N Padalecki was the youngest of five kids. Two older sisters and two older brothers. Y/N was a senior in high school, she had one friend, Jess, and no idea what she wanted to do with her future. They were sitting in the cafeteria for lunch when Y/N sighed, "Mom is asking me about what career I want to do again ... she wants me to join supernatural with Jar ... " Jess knew how much Y/N hated being overshadowed by Jared's fame and success.

"No you don't." Jessica didn't glance up from her book.

"Would you get your head out of that medical book for two seconds ? I'm having a crisis here!"

"These lungs won't color themselves. Anatomy is hard!" Jessica Marie Shepard was the only child of Mark Shepard.

Jessica sighed looking up. "You love photography, you love animals. Be a wildlife photographer."

She sighed, "you know none of my family approves of that ... "

"I know." Jessica ran her hands through her hair. "You could go into morgue school like me. Work with dead people."

"Ew. No."

Jessica laughed, but the smile fell from her face. "Are you prepared to see the boys this weekend?"

She sighed, her brother Jared and his best friend Jensen Ackles were coming home from filming for a week. "Not really ... but things won't change ... I'm always invisible unless it's about getting me out on my own after graduation..."

"Great. You can hide me from your brother." Jared had asked her on dates several times. But Jessica never felt anything more than just being friends.

She laughed, "we can hide in my room together ..."

"You're not going to be background this time around? I mean they are making an entire Renaissance fair."

"I don't wanna do acting ... they know that ..."

"I know. But you don't want to spend any time walking around the fair? Go shopping, see the animals. The shows. Ignore the filming."

"Can I take my camera?"

"Naturally." Jessica smiled. "Get some great photos of the fair."

She nodded, "and the animals."

"Always the animals."

She smiled. She groaned, hearing the lunch bell, meaning lunch was over.

Jessica slammed her 852 page book closed. "Damn thing won't fit in my backpack."

"It's a college course ... and too big ... " she giggled.

Jessica giggled. They finished the day out. Jessica noticed that the house was busier than usual. No. The boys were home early.

Y/N's breathing hitched as she pulled into the driveway, she had a 1978 Firebird , it was run down but at least it ran. "Fuck."

"I have a midterm..." Jessica looked liked she could cry.

"So do I...I have to be able to study..."

"Straight to my room. We make as little noise as possible."

"You mean mine?" They were at the Padalecki house.

"Mine. Yours. I'm on 2 hours of sleep and 3 Mt. Dews."

She chuckled, "4 hours and a shit ton of monsters here ..."

Jessica smiled. They managed in the front door. Alright. And up the stairs. It was easy. Too easy.

"Why do I feel like they are letting us think we are in the clear?" She was pulling her math homework out and setting it on her desk. She had a huge open concept room with a master bath attached. She also had a second desk next to the first that was for when Jess came over.

Jessica set her anatomy things down. "Because they are."

She groaned, "I don't need any more lectures..." just then a knock came to the door. "Do I have to answer it?"

"I got it." Jessica picked up her book and went to the door. She opened it and naturally Jared and Jensen walked in. Jessica smiled as Jensen kissed her forehead. She didn't acknowledge Jared. She went to turn as his arms went around her waist.

"Not so fast. " Jared said. He then looked at Y/N, "mom says you're still on this photography dream..."

"Yeah...so?"

"So, it's stupid!"

"No its not! I don't have to be famous and wealthy to live a happy life!" Y/N went to say more, but Jess butted in.

"There are plenty of people who make a life out of photography. You know how much Dad spent on my senior photos."

"Yeah ... but that's not Y/N ... have you even seen her work? It's not even that good..." he critiqued. Jensen was quiet in the corner, lips pursed.

"SHE HELP TAKE THEM!"

He scoffed, "in her dreams maybe. Look, Y/N. Just come work with us. We can secure you a spot and secure you a place to live and money. You can't keep pursuing this stupid dream of yours ... it'll never happen."

By this time Y/N had tears in her eyes, but refused to let them fall. "Believe what you want. I'm going to school for photography and I can stay on campus so I am not any of your guys problems..."

"No. I can't accept that."

"It's not your decision." She looked over at Jensen, her eyes pleading for his help. She wasn't sure where he stood on the subject though, she was simply desperate.

"Dude. Knock it off. You can have your opinions well and good. But KEEP them to yourself."

Jared seemed taken aback. "Even you have said it's stupid, Jen...literally last night we were talking about it..."

"You're not remembering the conversation are you. No. You were too busy on how to get Jess to say yes to you to the fair this weekend. I said it was stupid about all the photos you want to put HER in."

He scoffed, "whatever. Ruin your life then. Don't come crying to me when it doesn't work out." Jared stormed off.

Y/N's tears broke free, silently going down her cheeks. "I should..." she cleared her throat, "um, I got a big exam to study for..."

Jessica sighed looking at Jensen. "Usual?" Meaning when Y/N and Jared were fighting, Jay took Y/N and Jessica went to Jar.

He sighed, "yeah..."

Jessica nodded, gave Jay a hug and went to Jared's room.

He was pacing.

Jessica sighed, she caught his hand to stop it.

"What?"

"Fine. I'll let you be." Jessica turned and went to walk away.

"No. Wait. Please." He whimpered at the end. "Why is she so focused on photography? I can give her a REAL career, Jess!"

"But it is." Jessica turned, her eyes softening. "Its just none of you want to see it."

"Jess ..." He pleaded. "She has the legacy of actors and actresses in her family ... it's a family business."

"Saving people, hunting things. That's a family business. If she doesn't want to pursue acting, she shouldn't be forced."

"We just want what is best for her. You know that."

"So does she." They were now facing each other.

"So why can't she just accept it! She doesn't have to go wasting all this money she doesn't have at a college for a degree where she won't be able to pay the loans back. "

"Because it's her life and she deserves to live it!"

"But not when we have to cover the debt, dammit!"

Jessica flinched back from him.

He sighed, rubbing his hands up and down his face, "you need to talk some sense into her, Jess. She trusts you..."

"I can't promise anything..."

"Please...for the sanity of her family. She needs to realize she needs to just get this job and pay bills..."

"I can only try." Jessica didn't push as Jared slipped his arms around her waist. He hadn't even properly said hello to her yet.

He pulled her into a hug, he felt very tense.

Jessica sighed wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Please..." He whispered, "even you know it's better if she goes the supernatural path."

"Okay..." Jessica was tired of fighting Jared.

"Thank you..."

Jessica nodded. She felt his lips brush her forehead. They had one argument done. Y/N. Then there was the other one. Them.

"So ... I was thinking ... maybe we could hang out at the fair together this weekend?"

"You'll be filming all weekend. And I'm only in background."

"We will have time off."

Jessica nodded. "You know I'd love too."

"Cool."

Jessica nodded she went to pull away when he pulled tighter.

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Jay settled down next to Y/N on the bed.

Y/N was staring hard core at her homework, but the pencil wasn't moving.

"Math is hard."

"The shittiest subject ... I'd rather be doing my photography ... my final is to make this huge masterpiece ... I'm gonna use the fair to do it." She gave a small smile.

"Put Jess on a giant horse. Rope some poor guy to be the strong knight. A+."

She giggled, "you wanna be my strong knight?"

"Im going to be put in fucking armor one way or another aren't I?" He was laughing by the end.

She smiled, "I could always take you away for some single shots as well ... if you're ok with it, that is." She added at the end, shrinking back into her insecure self.

"Of course I would be. They always turn out well."

She smiled, "at least someone thinks so ..."

"Im sorry they don't."

She shrugged, "I've never belonged in this family..."

"You have to live your life."

"But they want me to live THEIR life...I'm just so tired of it..."

"Then you have to MAKE them see. See what wonderful work you create."

"I've tried ... I've always tried to get approval from them with my projects and everything. Hell, the last time I showed them one my dad tore it to shreds in front of me. Since then I've kept to myself..."

"That's horrible."

She shrugged, "one day yall are gonna blink and imma just be gone...no note or anything."

"Better take me with you."

She chuckled, "you belong here with them ..."

"Eh."

"I can't afford to drag someone down the rabbit hole with me..."

"Don't worry about me."

"I promise you'll receive post cards from me ..." she whispered.

"I'd rather see it in person."

"Yeah, well ... like I said ... poof ... I'll be gone." She closed her math book and got up off the bed.

He sighed.

"I'm gonna go see if Jess wants to go for a dip in the pool ... wanna join us?" She always used deflection as a source of hiding her pain.

"Of course."

She gave a small smile, "sweet. Meet you out back in ten?'

"Of course."

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Y/N went over, walking in on Jess and Jar, "hey Jess, wanna go -" she stopped "whoa . Dude. Get off her." Jared suddenly stood back. "Come on Jess, we are going swimming. And no, I don't care about your final right now, let's go have fun."

Jessica sighed but followed.

Y/N ran back to her room so they could get ready.

Once changed they wasted no time getting in the water.

Y/N was happy to relax. "Hey Jess..." it was just them two outside in the pool.

"Jared finally got what he wanted."

"I'm leaving tonight ..." she said at the same time as Jess, "wait what?"

"I promised him a date this weekend."

She scoffed, "good luck with that..."

"Its one date not marriage."

"This is also my brother we are talking about. We both know he moves too fast. Always has."

"I know...."

"I'm not gonna be there..."

"Want me to go with?"

She sighed, "I'm thinking about not coming back..."

"Give it til the fairs over? I'll need you this weekend."

She sighed, "fine ... but only because I love you ..."

Jessica hugged her.

She hugged her back, then groaned, seeing both Jared and Jensen coming out.

Jessica dove deep down.

Y/N gave a small chuckle.

Jessica popped up in time for Jared to catch her.

They both did a bomb dive into the pool.

It was a fun afternoon. They played until dark. They were up at dawn to head to set.

~~~Meanwhile at a hotel~~~~~~~~~

If it was one thing Peter hated. It was seeing his friend distress. Nikolja (Nik) was going through a nasty divorce. "You know you could've said no to the filming." He sighed as they were about to land.

"I need the money, man..."

"We just finished game of thrones. You should've got like 1.5."

"Alimony ... I don't even get half of that..."

"Amber can't be asking much." Though Peter did know Amber well.

"She's being a bitch ... taking me for everything I got ..."

"I told you you shouldn't have married her."

"Yeah well ... we were young and dumb."

They got to hotel and who should be in the room. Why Nik's wife Amber of course.

"What are you doing here?" Nik asked.

"I came here to surprise you, silly." She got up and went to give him a kiss.

"We aren't together ..."

"Of course we are. We haven't signed anything final."

"We will in court here in a couple days...that's why I'm back in the states."

"Then one last hoorah. I'm playing the Queen in this whole filming affair this weekend. I'll need a valiant knight of course."

"Not interested."

"One last time. For me."

"Cut me a slack on the alimony and I will."

Amber pursed her lips. "Fine I'll let you keep 1 mil from that silly game of thrones thing."

"Deal."

Amber smiled and kissed him.

"By the way. It isn't silly."

"Oh come on. You're not telling me you actually enjoyed filming that."

"Of course I did."

Amber shook her head. "Come have a drink. Maybe two. We can take a dip in the hot tub."

"We will see. Let's start with a drink..."

Amber took his hand and lead him out.

He seemed a little uneasy.

"Relax love."

"Easier said than done."

"Its just like old times."

"But it's different..."

"How so? We don't have to divorce."

"No, no ... that's still the plan..."

"You don't love me anymore?"

"It's not that I don't love you anymore, Amber ... I will always love you . I'm just tired of the fighting and screaming all the time. I can't do it any more. "

She sighed. "We don't fight."

"Yes we do . See, that's your issue . You can't face things, you just push everyone and everything away. We can't talk anything out and when we do it's a screaming match!"

"Nik..."

"I'm serious ..."

"Then after this weekend, we go to counseling."

"Amber ... court is on Monday."

"Think about it. Nothing could possibly happen this weekend that would make this any worse."

"Depends on what happens..." He muttered.

"That's all I ask."

"We will see..."

Amber wasted no time getting a drink.

Nik sipped his, not wanting to let himself loose.

Amber leaned into him.

He did his best to not tense up.

They were there for hours.

Nik was finally relaxing, having long forgotten about his drink.

"See. You're happy."

"I'm relaxed. There's a difference."

She glanced up at him.

He was staring off into the distance.

Amber sighed.

"It's a peaceful night."

"It is."

"I'm excited for the filming this weekend."

"You always are."

He shrugged, "It's what I love."

"You're father wanted you to be a lawyer."

"Yeah well , my father sees how good I'm doing and finally accepted it."

Amber nodded.

He went back to staring in the distance.

Amber managed to convince him in the hot tub.

He sunk down, dipping his head under the water.

Amber watched him carefully.

He came up, shaking like a dog.

"You act like your 5."

He shrugged, "and what if I am?"

She smiled and shook her head.

He grinned at her.

She leaned down and kissed him.

He was taken back but leaned into the kiss.

Amber fell into his arms.

He suddenly broke the kiss, "I can't do this..." He started to get out.

"Nik..." but he had already gone.

He was in the bathroom with the door locked, pacing.

"Nik." Peter knocked on the door.

He slipped, falling and hitting his head on the counter, "For fucks sake!" He hadn't thought about how wet he was making the already slick floor.

"What in Gods name are you doing?"

"Well, I was pacing..." He reached over and unlocked the door, "now I'm on the floor bleeding."

"Unlock the door so I can help."

"I did..."

Peter came in and got him patched up. Luckily no concussion so he was good to go at dawn.

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Let me know what you think!!! If I get enough response today I'll post Chapter 2 tonight !!!

Part 2 and 3 are also up on my page!!!

#jensen ackles x reader #supernatural #jensen ackles x y/n #jensen oneshot

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overlooked-gems · 1 year

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A Look At Stuff You Probably Never Heard Of: Eternal Sonata (Manga)

I was going to take a look at something else, what with it being New Year’s, but I ran into some trouble. But in its place, I’ll be taking a look at a manga adaptation of my favorite game, which I also took A Look At on January when I first started this series. Today, we’ll be taking a look at the Eternal Sonata manga!

The manga adaptation of Eternal Sonata was released somewhere between September and December of 2008, with only one volume and ten chapters within that volume. Both the art and story were done by Kuroi Mimei, who also did the art for “The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls Comic Anthology - cute“.

As stated earlier, this manga adapts the game. Much like the game, the plot is set in the dream world of famed Polish pianist Frédéric François Chopin as he lays on his deathbed. In his dream, he meets Polka, a young girl from Tenuto Village with an incurable illness that allows her to use magic. She’s unable to sell a medicine known as Floral Powder because Mineral Powder is so beneficial and the only thing not being taxed. The two travel to Forte City to speak with Count Waltz, hoping to come to an agreement so Polka can make her living.

At the same time, two street urchins from Ritardando named Allegretto and Beat have to steal food to feed themselves and the kids living in the sewers. Frustrated with the high taxes on everything except Mineral Powder, the two friends travel to Forte City to speak with Count Waltz. Along the way, the two pairs meet and decide to travel together.

Due to the game’s plot being compressed into 10 chapters, much of said plot has been trimmed down and as a result, the other playable characters are relegated to brief, one-off appearances and don’t normally accompany the main four for long, if at all.

As for the art, a lot of work has gone into the details. Everything from the characters’ hair, to injuries, to even the backgrounds. But at the same time, character faces can look a little... off. As noted by the cover.

Another year, another Final Recommendation Never Let Go Of It||Get It||Hold Onto It||Try It||Consider It||Stay Away From It

As stated earlier, the manga heavily compresses the events of the game and the other playable characters are relegated to glorified cameos. Heck, Claves, Viola, and Falsetto are completely absent with no mention of them. March and Salsa show up briefly, and Jazz accompanies the group for a short while.

And when I said “heavily compressed”, I mean “HEAVILY compressed”! Chapter 3 has Beat and Allegretto meet Polka’s mom in Tenuto, then it cuts to the four in Agogo Forest, where they set up camp for the night, only for Fugue to find them and threaten them while Frederic is elsewhere. The very next chapter has Polka waking up in Salsa and March’s house, with the fight happening between chapters; the group was heavily beaten and nearly killed until Frederic shows up and singlehandedly beats Fugue. And while leaving Agogo Forest, they meet Jazz (who is just a traveler, rather than a member of Andantino, which isn’t even mentioned), who takes them all the way to Baroque Castle, which, according to this map, is VERY far from Agogo Forest.

In fact, the whole plot about Count Waltz exploiting Mt. Rock and turning his citizens into mindless, magic-using soldiers is completely absent. I don’t even think the negative side effects of Mineral Powder are even mentioned. And by Chapter 9, the group arrives at Castle Forte, where they meet Count Walt, where he consumes a drink containing a Glowing Agogo and transforms into a monster that doesn’t even look like the Ruined Body. Polka uses her magic to return Waltz to his human form, but Allegretto is fatally wounded by a pole while protecting Polka. Somehow, the two use magic to help Polka recover, but she’s unable to use her magic to save him because her mysterious illness is gone. Wanting to save Allegretto and still convinced the world he’s in is a dream, Frederic uses his magic to revive and heal Allegretto before mysteriously vanishing, leaving only his hat. And no, I didn’t skip over anything.

And the manga does also differ from the game as how the plot unfolds (obviously). Like in the game, you only find March in Agogo Village and she asks you to look for her sister at Forte City because she forgot her iconic hat (Salsa isn’t wearing a hat in the manga) and hasn’t returned for a few days. Salsa was thrown in prison and you break out with her. In the manga, Salsa is present in Agogo Village and doesn’t leave for Forte City.

There’s also this minor subplot about Allegretto feeling weak in comparison to Frederic and Jazz.

If you wanna check it out, go ahead. It’s not awful, just very bizarre. But if you want the best experience, just get the game. PS3 version.

#A Look At Stuff You Probably Never Heard Of #Eternal Sonata

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madebycoffee · 1 year

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Timothy "Mothman" Charteris for @slothseasims Love Is Blind

bONUS submission :3

all info under da cut~

Age: 31 Gender: Manz Location: Oasis Springs (temporarily) Sexuality: Straight Occupation: Freelance Artist Traits: Bro, Creative, Clumsy

Basic Bio: Moth was raised by his maternal grandmother Lily (second photo) when his mother decided she wasn't cut out for kids. He's only had a few awkward lunches with his mom as an adult- and plain considers Lily his only parent. (And ye he calls her Lily. She is the only one allowed to call him Timothy lol) He adopted the nickname Moth/Mothman/Mothball any variation basically in middle school- and boy howdy it's stuck.

In high school he fell in with a group of close friends- all of them being tattoo artists. Moth offered up his skin to be a practice canvas, and that's where all his tattoos come from. He works as a freelance artist- mainly graphic design. Since he can do that anywhere he's spent the last several years traveling- from Sulani, Tartosa, San Myshuno, Mt. Komorebi, and more! He's gotten a tattoo in each place he's visited as a little souvenir. However his grandma Lily has been on his case recently that 1. she'd like to see him more often and 2. she'd like to see him settle down with someone. So he's staying close to her retirement home in Oasis Springs.

Relationships: Had a steady girlfriend all through high school but upon graduating they realized that they couldn't stand each other (except in the bedroom lmao). Since then Moth hasn't really had a steady thing. Though a few girls thought they did, and were quite upset to learn he was seeing others.

Reason For Going on Love is Blind: Ever since Lily said she wanted to see him settle down he's been thinking about the future and what he wants. He came to the conclusion that all the traveling he likes to do would be a lot better if he had someone to share it with. So he's ready to jump right in to something serious!

Dealbreakers: People who have no interest in seeing the world. Nosy people. Clingy types. He does need to be able to have his space. If they don't want kids. Being called Timothy/Timmy/Tim.

Things People Consider Dealbreakers about him: His tattoos. That he's cheated in the past.

Private DL if chosen :3

#sims 4 #moth charteris #i was walking around thinking about what his name would be #and i came up with moth being short for timothy #and it made me laugh so much #i cobbled together a custom tattoo set from a bunch i had #it was sm fun #he's got so many eheheh #he also has a great ass.... think he gonna be the next star of man butt monday #anyway

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Personal take on Mapleshade, Frecklewish, Ravenwing, Oakstar, Reedshine, and Appledusk.

Please note I haven’t read MV in a bit, so my memory may be a bit foggy.

Also, almost all the MV characters who are alive in it suck so here are the 5 exceptions: Larchkit, Patchkit, Petalkit, Myler, and Perchpaw(? I don’t remember, just the one who killed Mapleshade)

So out of the whole lot, Reedshine is the only one who didn’t do anything super wrong(on page, maybe she’s evil or something but didn’t do anything to seemingly be so in MV), obviously she was a bit mean because it’s MV but out of them all it’s a pebble compared to Mt. Everest. Pretty sure she was abrasive when Mapleshade got dragged to the RC camp, but also she literally just found out her husband was cheating on her and so tried to cling to him tighter. Iirc she’s noted looking sympathetic about the kits but she’s royally pissed at Mapleshade.

Now to Ravenwing and Oakstar, putting them together here because similar ass hole levels and Ravenwing directly leads to Oakstar. Ravenwing got some kids kicked out because of their mom’s actions(having them), and it should be noted that the 3 reeds he found didn’t certainly apply to the kits. He just made an inference, it very well may have been a sign they would have HELPED the clan. Also, jsut a few moons before a warrior and apprentice had drowned so the kits swimming well very much could be seen as a thing of ‘let’s not let them drown’ and they could have been practicing a while so that also doesn’t make much sense. And him telling Oakstar leads to the banishment of Mapleshade AND her kits. Like, okay. Banish Mapleshade if you want BUT NOT THE CHILDREN FOR SOMETHING THEY DIDN’T HAVE CONTROL OVER. COME ON DUDE. But also their dad killed his son so you can see why he did it, you can also see that Ravenwing thought he was just doing his duty. So they’re both assholes but you can see the reasoning so they’re realistic assholes.

Appledusk time, saving my favorite two for last. He’s cheating on both Mapleshade and Reedshine, literally tells Mapleshade to fuck off while she’s processing nearly dying and her kids death and finding out he’s cheating while she hasn’t been anything more than a bit of a bitch yet. Also he sorta cold shoulders her when she shows him her kits like three days before. So certified asshole. Maybe death was a little extreme a punishment, but it was the only one that guy was gonna get.

Frecklewish time!! Hoo boy, so she’s seemingly really nice for the majority of the novella. Had the kits lived and been in ThunderClan though, she would have fucked them up for life with her expectations being in the stratosphere. But also we can see why she has them, because they’re the only thing she has left of her brother in her mind, besides memories. Then she de-humanizes(? De-catifizes? I dunno, but the cat equivalent of de-humanizing) the kits to their faces upon finding out their dad is the cat she thinks killed her brother and she attacks either them and/or Mapleshade. I think it was Mapleshade though. So this bit, while we can see why she does it, is a certified asshole move. Then she sees Mapleshade and the kits going to the river in the middle of the rain and a flash flood with RiverClan warriors on the other side. So she knows they started crossing right? She doesn’t know they got swept away. So either she turned away before the flash flood or saw it hit them and thought the RiverClan warriors could save them. Not like she could, it’s noted in MV that ThunderClan cats don’t swim and with her bro thing having drowned in that river just some months prior she’s probably still dealing with that and terrified by the river ESPECIALLY IN A FLASH FLOOD. This part? Not an ass hole move. Now when she confronts Mapleshade- she’s aggressive speech-wise, genuinely sympathises with Mapleshade when she finds out the kits died, and then is provoked before being bit by a snake. Which apparently she could have lived through if there was a medicine cat which would have made dying hell on earth, but super unsure of that so take it with a huge lump of salt. So that part wasn’t really an asshole part. So she over all seems like a genuinely good cat who suddenly becomes a honey badger when anything happens that could dare disgrace the names of those she grieves/it feels like she was used by someone.

And now Mapleshade, the queen of all assholes. Love her or hate her, she’s great at fulfilling her role as dickhead supreme. She literally kills 3 cats and tries to kill another because of a freak accident then goes on to make the lives of her ex’s descendants hell via supernatural meddling. Like, she has a reason behind her actions. Her kits die- cats ‘responsible’ must die. Obviously not good reasons, they are far from justifying her murder streak, but it makes her way more fun to read and makes her more sympathetic. This is important, you’re supposed to sympathize with her at first- then close the book and after a bit go ‘holy shit’ and realize just how horrid she is and figure out that she’s an unreliable narrator and you just got stuck in her head so you read it again analyzing it more so you can figure out what actually happens but the whole time you also know why she’s doing everything because you were just in her headspace on the previous read! It also makes her character feel more impactful when she shows up again because you are held up at gun point and forced to relate to her in her book. She’s fucking evil and all, but she’s great! She’s horrible as a person but great as a character, because she’s supposed to be an irredeemable villain who can wrap cats around her paws- and she really seems like it because of that sympathy she gets upon a first read of MV. She’s a girl boss but EVIL. That’s the point.

So my ranking(least asshole to most) of these cats:

Reedshine, Ravenwing, Oakstar, Frecklewish, Appledusk, Mapleshade

#mapleshade #frecklewish #appledusk #ravenwing #oakstar #reedshine #mapleshades vengeance #warrior cats #warriors

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Pics: Greco-Roman myths & donkeys.

1. Cupid, the Roman god of sexual love & affection.

Under Christianity, he was turned into a cute & innocent cherub.

2. The 12 Olympian gods of ancient Greece.

The Romans would later pattern their own pantheon after these Greek gods.

3. Mount Olympus, home of the main Greek gods.

Here they would enjoy nectar & ambrosia, the food & drink that kept them immortal.

Here they directed all major mortal affairs...

4 & 5. Actaeon 'stumbles' (yeah, right) into the goddess Artemis's bath.

And meets a horrible, but ironic (for a hunter) fate...

In earlier tales, however, Actaeon was actually a companion hunter in the goddess Artemis's train!

6 & 7. Asses galore!!

The 6th pic is actually a donkey doll!

But, my favorite is in the 7th pic.

This is the party animal, who goes around screaming, "Wassup!!"

1914: Notes.

1. Oreades (hill?) are mountain goddesses who formed Artemis's entourage, when she was out hunting.

Since Artemis (holy?, pure?, bear?) was the Huntress, I guess that these Nymphs (young women, wifes?) took care of the necessary chores of being outdoors camping.

2. Lyre, an ancient stringed musical instrument played with a bow.

It was invented by the Sumerians around 2600 BC!

In Greek myth, the lyre was created by Hermes (stone heap?, cairn?) - to pay for the successful rustling of Apollo's (assembly? wall? fence?) cattle!

3. Eros (love, desire), Greek god of sex.

Assistant to his mom, Aphrodite (shiny? sea foam?), he made people fall in love - by shooting an arrow thru their hearts!

His Roman counterparts are Cupid (desire, lust) & Amor (love).

4. Ares (war-like) was the Greek god of war & courage - the very spirit of battle, brutal warfare & slaughter.

Never popular & not worshiped much in Greece.

5. Speech & a kind word show off the griffin's gift of persuasion. He's a "silver tongued" creature with the "gift of gab."

6. Dian/Diana (sky, daylight, divine?) was the Roman goddess of childbirth, animals, forests, virgins & hunting.

As goddess of the "open sky & shining light," she made the night bright as day - so, she was also goddess of the full Moon.

Identified with the Greek Artemis (holy? pure? bear?).

7. Diana's 'train' (followers), in myth, were a young girl band (of Oreades) - immortal & chaste (virgins).

In real life, both - men & women - were welcomed into her temples.

But, an exception existed. This was the temple on the Vicus (village out- side a fort) Patricius (noble class). There, no men were allowed inside.

The Vicus Patricius was a road where nobles had their homes. It's now known as the Via Urbana (urban road).

8. Now, the griffin heard & saw the hunt going on below.

Then, the poem becomes intense with appearances.

The griffin "look(ed) & with looking" arose his lustful thought...

"With each look his... passion grew!"

"(The griffin's) eagle eyes with greedy lust(er) shine."

Having excellent & piercing sight leads the "foolish" griffin astray & into an unnatural lust.

And, it's Diana's glance that undoes his 'amorous' plan.

She sees his "leering look (&) foul intent & instantly responds with great anger & power!

The griffin's form "fades" & new features are "displayed" for all to see.

In the end, even the griffin's "eagle's gleam vanished from his eyes..."

9. "A thought (the griffin) scarcely dares to name."

In other words, he's struck dumb!! His way with words has deserted him...

Still, he 'blindly' acts on his lustful thought...

10. Dian(a) & the Huntress are all names for the same goddess.

11. "Thoughts of 'love' is paired up with "wild dreams," showing that the griffin is acting from deluded thought which led him to his animalistic lust.

12. Olympian means "of the gods," who lived on Mt. Olympus - after the violent overthrow of the Titans.

Olympus itself means "mountain or luminous (snow?) one."

13. Actaeon (cape, shore, coast) was the famous hero from the city of Thebes (temple?).

Unfortunately, whatever heroic acts he accomplished are still unknown!

All that's known is that Actaeon trained under the wise centaur (piercing bull?) Chiron (skillful hands) & that he was a prince.

Centaurs were once a horse tribe from northern Greece. But, in later myth, were described as savage half men- half horse!

Chiron was the only wise, immortal centaur known...

Sadly, Actaeon foolishly sneaked a peek at Artemis (see above) & her followers - while the goddesses were bathing in a pool!

So, Artemis turned him into a mute stag & Actaeon's own hunting dogs ripped him apart!!

(And, some readers thought that DC's Spectre was extreme... He's really just following in the footsteps of previous dark myths, bloody tales & many other stories meant to control childish wills.)

14. Cupid (desire, lust), was the Roman god of passionate love.

He was equated with the Greek Eros (love, desire).

Cupid was the son of Venus (love, charm) & Mars (martial? war-like?).

He was popular into the Middle Ages! When he was seen as the Christian duality of Heavenly & Earthly love!

End.

#1914: output #hpl bio #adult hpl #hpl poesy #Greco-Roman myths #Part 5 #Notes

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rk-ocs · 6 months

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Red and her family

MT (her favorite cousin, a nicknamer)

I'm thinking she might be of native descent (though whether it's registered is another matter) So she and Red don't look all that similar, and in case I do a willow bark AU it makes sense for her to have inherited characteristics

Well, she's shorter than Red, (reds parents were tall people) like maybe 5'8. She has dark brown hair and light brown eyes. She gets pretty annoyed at people assuming that she's not related to red, because of her skin, which later is echoed with Red being able to act super offended at anyone who doesn't believe Desmond is her cousin or whatever excuse she's giving.

She's well muscled from her training, prefers to wear warmer coloured shirts, contrasting Reds cool coulors.

She has very nice teeth and has previously worn braces.

She doesn't need a prescription, but wears sunglasses often

Her counterpart meanwhile, is 5'9 didn't turn out to need braces because his mouth didn't have extra teeth, has lighter hair and skin then she does (taking more after mom in most verses), but startlingly dark eyes.

He's not as muscular as his not twin, but he's not in bad shape, and once impersonated her for a prank when he was younger.

He's growing a beard, and his hair long, in an effort to be less mistaken as her (is everyone colour blind mom? Probably)3

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Red and her mom

Yah, Desmond would probably want to flee the blast radius, along with any other unfourtunate people there.

They can come to an agreement, but its super tense.

Its still better then Reds current relationship with her father (almost non exsistant, due to both sides not keeping in much contact for years).

But like

"Ah. Mother. How is Father these days?"

"Well enough. You would know If you came home occasionaly Carnelian"

"I dont go by that. And we both know its not me he would seek out, even if I were there"

"You know I'm not in the habit of useing nicknames, Carnelian. You are going to have to tell him your not dead sometime?"

" I dont see that it would make much of a diffrance to him. Never mind, that I didnt come here for small talk."

"Always looking for something, Carnelian. Well, spit it out"

Their manerisims durring this "chat" are remarkably similar. Though Red has her fathers colouring, you can see the similarities here.

Reds mother taught her (was teaching her) Greek, back in the day. Apparantly for buisness reasons, and that Red might as well learn a diffrent alphabet style while shes young.

She will, at one point in the story, cacth up with MT, and some others in her faimly. Its going to involve a lot of yelling (after all, you wernt actually dead, is a hell of a thing to learn, but at this point Reds used to it)

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Jasper Twin AU

Jaspers not her twin, so much as an alternate her counterpart. Neverless, I wrote this long ago for their birthday. Which is on December 21st-22 (Desmomd Miles Death day). One of lifes paralles

Twin AU

(for their birthday)

Winter

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"Get up Jazz"

Cold fingers dug under the blanket, and poked his stomach.

"Nooo" he moaned into his pillow, trying to hold the blankets in place.

The fingers were relentless. Not satisfied with poking him, they began to tickle him.

"You are a terrible person" He told her. "I hope you know that, petite soeur."

She poked him again for that one.

"Alright, alright, I'm up. Do you even sleep? Or are you powered by evil, and no longer need sleep."

"I'm powered by chocolate"

"I accept any and all offerings of chocolate. Except dark."

"Come on. We have to set up, if we want to win fight."

"It's a snowball fight."

"It is as serious as a blood feud. We must give no quarter, to the kids from the west!"

"It's too early for your dramatics!"

"I'll put snow in your bed."

She would. He knew from experience.

Sluggishly, he got up, and went to go see what was for breakfast

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Family prefrences (sick food)

Red likes tomato soup, and when she's feeling more like solids, she likes grilled cheese with it.

Jasper likes Pea soup, and toast. So does his mom, but she makes dumplings with it. His dad, likes pho.

Monique likes Beef and Barley stew, and homemade buns.

Alyssa likes miso soup.

Rae likes squash, or chowder.

David likes porridge with honey, his wife asks for, hot and sour soup.

When they are sick, they have Lemon and honey tea. It's family tradition. Some thought Red and Jazes mom would protest, but her parents go to sick tea involved vinegar, and nope, not doing that.

The Ryan siblings and Alyssa, seem to share a preference.

#red jordan ryan #MT ryan #character writing #original character #writing #jasper jordan ryan #assassins creed

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oldsalempost-blog · 6 months

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The Old Salem Post

Our Local Tamassee-Salem SC Area News each Monday except holidays Contact: [email protected] Distributed to local businesses, town hall, library. Volume 7 Issue 41 Week of October 30, 2023 https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/oldsalempost-blog Lynne Martin Publishing

EDITOR: Continued from last week: Sharing the heart of Christine Burgess: Pat’s Cash and Carry 50th Anniversary: When Christine’s health began failing, son Chris and his wife Karen took over running the family business in about 1996. Chris and Karen’s daughters, Kayla and Christi spent their childhood days in the day to day operations of the business. Chris passed away several years ago from health complications. The daughters did not dream they would become the ones behind the day to day operations so soon when their mother Karen passed away quickly and unexpectedly in February this year. Both Kayla and Christi are young mothers with young children. Speaking with Kayla she said, “We could not see putting our girls in daycare, to go to work a job that all of our money will go to daycare.” The Burgess family plans to carry on the hopes and dreams that began in the heart of the matriarch that started Pat’s Cash & Carry 50 years ago. Christine’s daughter Teresa beams as she recalls, “Mom loved this community and wanted it to grow and flourish.” LRM

TOWN of SALEM: Collecting for Toys for Tots through Nov. Downtown Market every Sat 8am-12pm.

Haunted House October 30, 31 6pm-8pm at The Tamassee-Salem GYM. Admission $3 Adults 1 and up $2 Kids 17 and under . ENAC & the T-S Rec Department have something fun lined up for Halloween!

JOCASSEE VALLEY BREWING COMPANY,(JVBC) & COFFEE SHOP* 13412 N Hwy 11 Open Wed–Sat 8am-9pm and Sunday 12pm-7pm. Events: Wed: Food: El Charro for lunch and supper. Music: Blue Grass Jam 6:30pm. Fri: *Food: OPUSTrust Whole Hog Pickin, 5pm Music: Conservation Theory and Vilia Harrington 6:30pm Sat- Food: Blue Ridge Grill Music: West End String Band at 6:30pm Sun: 12pm-7pm.OYSTER ROAST 2pm-7pm as long as they last. Music: John Johnson Duo 2pm and Ageless Acoustic 4pm. More Information 864-873-0048. *Mt Appalachia Celebration

ASHTON RECALLS by Ashton Hester

SALEM WAS ON THE MOVE 70 YEARS AGO - (Editor's note: This is a continuation of a lengthy story in the June 17, 1953 Keowee Courier with the headline "Progress At Salem Going On And On." The first portion of the story was in this column last week). . .Big improvements and changes, of course, show first in any town's growth, but the less glaring moves of progress add up strongly in the sum total. . .Take for example the fact that Salem's post office receipts jumped during the past year by $250. Postmaster Homer Griffith takes great pride--and rightly so--in the modern post office structure built only several years ago. . .Noah McCoy, one of the town's most active young businessmen, told the Courier with a grin last week that Salem in all probability is Oconee's most air-conditioned municipality as of now, and on a per capita basis it's practically a sure bet he is right. Four Salem business firms have the cooling systems running full blast. . .In addition to the one Mr. McCoy has installed in his grocery and general merchandise store, there are others keeping customers comfortable at Hinkle's Diner, Raymond Bearden's Grocery, and Cleve Alexander's Dairy Bar. . .Two new businesses have opened during the past several weeks along Salem's Main street--another sure sign of a town's expansion. Mr. Alexander's Dairy Bar is one of them, and the other is Dewey Rochester's Service Station. . .TO BE CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE

Jottings from Miz Jeannie

Jeannie Barnwell

The Mystery of the Empty Waiting Room

The doctor's office was unusually packed. Among the oldsters sitting around grunting and groaning was Joel, the doctor's son, who feigned an illness because he didn't want to take the algebra test. Out of pure boredom Joel started tearing up the office magazines and fashioning the colorful pages into ORIGAMI birds. An elderly woman who had limped in with a sore knee asked, "Would you show me how you did that?" Joel taught the woman, and she showed two other patients paper folding techniques. "That's nothing!" I said." I can teach you how to make a fortune telling device that can also be used as a COOTIE CATCHER-- a skill mastered in the fifth grade." A young woman offered, "I can teach you to make adorable little Origami boxes, but we need sturdy paper." "Hey!" declared Joel. "Someone save a big table over at the Chinese Restaurant. I'll go to Hobby-Lobby and buy the paper!" Joel's use of creative connectivity offered unexpected relief to some of his dad's patients. Can you think of ways to utilize creativity and friendship for healing? Miz Jeannie wishes you happiness and health!

NEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: Tamassee-Salem Christian Academy has plans to open its doors for the 2024-2025 school year! Come hear all about the exciting plans in progress and see how you can be involved. Tuesday November 14th, 6pm in the auditorium of the Eagles Nest Art Center. We hope to see you there! UPCOMING EVENTS!

Treasure Store open this Saturday 9am-12noon November 4th Tunes of the Cowboy Trail Tickets $10 day of event or on our website. $20 show&supper Hear the tunes of Cowboy Copus, Gene Autry and more by Jef Wilson. If you want to ensure your dinner ticket it is best to reserve your evening by purchasing a ticket prior to this delightful event. We will serve dinner until show time or sell out, whichever comes first. 864-280–1258 November 18th 7pm Oconee Mountain Opry. Tickets $10 day of event or on our website. Enjoy the beautiful tunes and voice of Fayssoux McLean and Brandon Turner. Fayssoux sang vocals with Emmylou Harris for years, and they continue to collaborate as friends today. Brandon is a brilliant talent among musicians who stays booked continually playing with multiple well-known artists. The Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs are a duo from Raleigh, NC who you will delight in their Appalachian Americana tunes. Owen Grooms and Jennifer Linville are from Brevard, NC singing the tunes of Old Time and Mountain Bluegrass. Doors open at 6pm for treasure shopping and concessions. CHURCH NEWS Bethel Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 580 Bethel Church Rd Walhalla, 29691, worships at 10:30 a.m. November Schedule: November 5 George Harper, November 12, Mel Davis, November 19, George Harper, November 26, Mel Davis. Love to sing? Join us! Love to be in charge? Come lead us! All worshipers are welcome.

PROPOSED CLOSING OF TAMASSEE-SALEM ELEMENTARY: The Oconee County School Board will likely vote on the plans to close our T-S Elementary in 2027 on the long range plan. Call 864-886-4400 to speak or sign up on your early arrival at the next meeting on Monday, November 13th at the SDOC Board Room located 414 S Pine Street, Walhalla.

INVITATION: Invitation to anyone in the Columbia area November 4th. The South Carolina State Museum will celebrate its 35th anniversary, with a special day featuring free general admission live music and dance performances, behind the scenes tours of collections storage, a new exhibition and much more. A Martin

Upcoming Oconee County Agriculture Board meeting taking place November 13 at 6pm in the DAR school cafeteria. They are looking for local participation regarding conservation, education, and all things agricultural related.

Conservation Corner….I had the privilege as a conservationist and OPUStrust member to attend the 50 year celebration of the Naturaland Trust in Greenville, SC on October 26th. I wish you all could have witnessed the heart moving results and stories that continue the vision of Conservationist, Tommy Wyche, to prevent the mountains of the Carolinas from becoming victims of destruction through development. The founding efforts of Tommy Wyche protect some of the mountainous peaks and autumn views that lure us today. There is more to protect! Learn more at the Naturaland Trust site or see the Greenville news article on line. LM Oconee Community Theater in Seneca began the season with 110 in the Shade ,a delightful musical adaptation of “The Rainmaker” of hope, love, and redemption with a very talented cast. Call for tickets or visit their website. 864- 882-1910

Editor: I have much to share this week and love the challenge. Maybe this little paper will grow! LMartin

Sending love and blessings!

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mythleague · 9 months

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Hearthome Haunts

(Image Description: The player faces Fantina in her gym.)

On my way through Mt. Coronet, the blue-haired grumpy gus himself runs into me, and apparently it's my turn to monologued at, because he just starts right in, as if we'd already been in conversation and it was his turn to talk. I'm not even given a chance to reply before he runs off to wherever blue-haired weirdoes go when they're not talking at strangers and statues.

(Image Description: Cyrus and the player meet in the middle of Mt. Coronet.)

Well, whatever. I'll worry about him later. For now it's on to Hearthome city!

Hearthome has a lot to do... conditionally. For example, I could take my pokemon on a stroll through Amity park, except that apparently my Shaymin aren't cute enough to qualify! >: (

(Image Description: The player attempts to enter Amity Park.)

Would you mind explaining this @amityparkofficial?

There's also contests, but we're not here for those, so sorry mom, the undoubtedly cute dress you bought me is going to go to waste.

Thankfully, there's still the gym, and immediately we're faced with the reality that we may be running into some more fun difficulties. You see, in this gym we'll encounter three types of ghosts, pure ghost, poison ghost, and flying ghost. Two of those three are super-effective against and resistant to grass types, and our only other attack types right now are normal type, which don't hit ghosts at all.(

I wind up having to go to the pokecenter twice just from fighting the regular gym trainers. In the process our egg from Cynthia hatches into a togepi, who I name Peter after Peter Pan. He is the last pokemon we need to fill out our HM requirements, though I will need to evolve him first.

(Image Description: Summary Screen of a level 1 Togepi. It is male and in a regular pokeball)

Lil' cutie <3

Now luckily, this being Platinum, only one of Fantina's pokemon pose the dangers listed above. Even with that being true, Fantina still manages to take a huge bite out of me. Status moves seem to be the biggest problem here with Duskull's Will-O-Wisp being an absolute nightmare setting us up for a lot of headache by the time we get to her Mismagius. We are only one level above her highest pokemon, so I decide to bring us up to 29 before trying again.

Not only do things go better on our return, but we also just get very lucky with Duskull not even trying to burn us this time, making haunter much easier, and Mismagius actually bearable. It's still not easy, but finally we have our third badge!

(Image Description: Pokemon battle screen. The player faces Fantina.)

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Love knows not its depth (until the hour of separation)

pairing: Kuroo x f! reader genre: angst / fluff, post timeskip! warnings: a tiny smudge of suggestive content wc: 4.9k m.list ~ taglist. ~

a/n: this is my rendition of a grown up Kuroo. life has been a little hectic for me recently, so i’m only getting around to posting it now. pls be kind and i hope y’all love it <3

“I need a break.”

Kuroo continues to snore. You are unsurprised he doesn’t hear you. After all, he came home glassy eyed, smelling strongly of alcohol after yet another night of drinks with his boss before quickly falling asleep in bed. It’s what he does most weekday nights, leaving you alone at home to manage your two daughters and tuck them into bed.

“I’m tired, Tetsuro.”

You are too tired to even tell him how you feel. You have a career of your own, two daughters to raise, a never ending list of chores and errands that must be done. You are a mother, a wife, a career woman. You have so many roles to play yet there is no space for you.

You must do something, anything or risk your heart imploding in your very chest.

You cannot survive that.

The next morning, you call your boss, ask for a day off. Then you pack your girls off to your mother’s place with two little suitcases with toys and clothes enough for a long weekend before you take the train to Hakone, check yourself into the ryokan with a view of Mt. Fuji that you spent your honeymoon at - except this time, you’re alone (but then again, you’ve been lonely for so long, you hardly notice the difference anymore).

You dip yourself into the hot waters of the onsens, watch bamboo sway in the breeze. It’s been at least a year since you’ve been even able to take a bath uninterrupted. There’s always something - Aiko needing help with her homework, Fumiko whining for another piece of mochi, your boss calling to chase for yet another report, so all you’ve ever had time for is a hurried shower before placating your daughters or seating yourself in front of your laptop to deal with your boss.

Finally, you’ve stolen a day to yourself. It’s absolute bliss.

The water is kind to you. Its heat soothes your aching muscles, the rising steam steadies your breath. You walk out of the baths feeling refreshed, renewed, but when you enter your room you find Kuroo Tetsuro waiting for you.

“I’ve been calling your phone all afternoon”, he says, face pinched. “I was worried.”

“Were you?” you say before you can stop yourself. “Really?”

“Of course”, he says, uncrossing his legs to stand. “You’re my wife and the mother of my children, of course I care.”

Wife. Mother. Employee.

The roles that life has handed you haunts you again. There is no escape for you.

Your skin suddenly feels as if it’s stretched too tight over your frame. Your bones rattle, brittle. They threaten to break if you take another breath. Yet you laugh and laugh and laugh, the sound spilling from your lips filling the room, suffocating the pounding of your heartbeat in your ears.

“If you really cared, you would have noticed that your wife is broken”, you tell him between bouts of laughter. “I tried fixing myself with a break but you can’t even give me that.”

Kuroo stares at you, equal parts horrified and confused. He takes a hesitant step forward towards you before thinking the better of it, swerving over to the kettle instead, clutching it as if it holds the cure to your madness.

“Calm down”, he says, “take a seat”, and you do. He offers you a cup of tea. You accept it, even though you’re still shaking from the aftershock of your laughter. “Drink”, he says, and you bring the cup to your lips, though you wonder absently why you taste salt in the bitter tea.

“Tell me what’s wrong”, he begs. “Tell me what I can do to fix you.”

You want to tell him that you’re not strong enough to do what’s expected of you. You want to tell him that you’re drowning from the weight of being his wife, the mother of his kids, from being a working woman that he can be proud of. You want to tell him that you understand his career is important, but so is yours, and you can’t carry the weight of the world alone.

But that would take too many words, and you are far, far too tired for that.

So you say blankly - “I can’t do this anymore, Tetsuro.”

His face falls.

You should remember that Kuroo Tetsuro, first and foremost, is a child scarred by his parents’ divorce. You should remember that you made promises that you and he would never put your daughters through that. But you’ve floated beyond hysteria into a grey indifference, your mind too broken, too tired, too numb to consider him when you can barely even hold on to yourself.

You don’t even notice the hot tears soaking through your yukata. You are deaf to his pleas to give him another chance. There is nothing left in you to give because you’ve poured all you’ve had into him, into your family, into your job. You are so, so empty, and you just sit and sip your tea and wonder idly if the warmth from the liquid you’re ingesting will make you feel a little more alive, or if it’s possible to ease the dull ache in your heart.

It is only when you wake up the next day and the sun is high in the sky that you register that he rolled out your futon for you, tucked you into bed, and kissed your forehead as a goodnight and goodbye. But all of this is washed away by the relief you feel when you read the note he’s left behind telling you that he’s returned to Tokyo, and to enjoy your break.

So you do.

You relish every bite of the meals you have at the ryokan. It’s nice not having to cook or scarf down your food at your office desk for once. You fill your time flitting between the onsens and curling up in your room with a book, taking frequent cat naps until tomorrow comes around again and it’s time to check out and head home.

There’s a brief moment of surprise when the reception informs you politely that your husband already paid your bill - but you suppose that’s just Tetsuro being efficient at racking up credit card points. The bullet train takes you back to Tokyo, and a couple stops on the subway takes you home.

“Okaeri”, you call softly out of habit, not expecting anyone to respond, but Kuroo responds with an even softer ‘Tadaima’, striding over to take your bags from you and usher you into the apartment. There are pink roses sitting in a vase, but you pay it no mind.

“The girls?” you ask, already headed in the direction of their room.

“I picked them up from your mom”, Kuroo responds. “Don’t wake them up, I just put them to bed”.

A peek into their room and it settles your mind to see that your girls are safe and sound asleep.

“Thanks,” you say, back in the kitchen, checking the fridge for what you can whip up for breakfast for you and the girls tomorrow. “By the way, I’ll pay you back for the hotel room from my own money, don’t worry.”

“It’s fine”, Kuroo answers, scratching his head. His hair seems a little more rumpled than usual. “I’ll cover it. I should’ve realised you needed a break.”

“You sure? You don’t have to pay for me, I’ve got money of my own.”

“No, let me pay for it, please. It’s the least I can do.”

You shrug. “Okay”, you say gracelessly. “Thank you.”

He continues to watch you over the kitchen counter as you lay out bread, eggs, ham, cheese. It’ll do for a quick breakfast for the girls tomorrow, never mind the guilt eating away at you that you really should do better than feeding them processed food all the time. You’re so preoccupied with planning the morning rush, the best way to clear the stack of reports that must have piled up on your desk at work by now that you miss Kuroo rounding the counter to stare down at you worriedly.

“You haven’t had dinner?”

“Oh no, I had a bento on the train on the way back.” It’s second nature to you to brush away anyone’s concern. “It’s for the girls’ breakfast.”

“Don’t worry about it. I’ll take them to childcare before work tomorrow. Sleep in and take a break.”

“Really?” You stare back at him, confused. He doesn't even take charge of the girls in the mornings when you’re sick, your mother always has to fill in your place. He only ever turns up on the first day of school each year.

“Yes, of course. In fact, I’ve rearranged my work schedule so I can take them to school all of this week at least.”

“Oh”, you say, brows furrowed in confusion. “Okay, I guess. Wake me up if you need my help.”

“I won’t”, he replies, with a cocky smirk that seems almost false. “Goodnight, love.”

You don’t think of Kuroo’s strange behaviour overmuch, falling asleep as soon as your head hits the pillow.

Kuroo continues to act strangely all of next week.

As promised, he takes charge of getting the girls out of bed and ready for school. But you’re taken aback when he starts coming home for dinner, completely floored when he hands you a whole armful of bath salts and orders you to take a relaxing, hot bath while he wrangles both the girls and the washing machine into submission.

He even calls your mother to ask her to babysit on a Saturday evening so he can take you out for dinner at a fancy restaurant that serves foam instead of food. You manage to stumble through conversation with him - a commendable effort, since it’s been so long since you’ve even held a proper conversation with him besides snatches of discussion about the girls.

At least until he states during dessert - “we can make it work if you want to quit your job and stay home full time with the children.”

The mousse on your spoon melts by the time you put it down on your plate.

“Did the guys at work tell you it’s easier to have a housewife instead of a working wife? Are you saying this because you don’t think I’m a good enough mother to our girls? Is that what this is about?”

Kuroo shakes his head frantically, reaches across the table for your hand, but you yank it away with a glare. The extra rest you’ve gotten this week has injected a little more fight in you.

“I try my best to be a good wife and mother, but I’m sorry I can’t be perfect and be there for you and the girls 24/7.” You press down on the sliver of cake with a vengeance. Clink! goes the flat of your spoon against the porcelain plate. “I’m sorry for being selfish, but I don’t want to be reliant on you.”

You regret your harsh words when Kuroo slumps back into his chair, murmuring “I just wanted you to be happy. Forget I ever said that.”

He pays the bill and you walk home in silence. He bids you goodnight with a crumpled smile.

It finally clicks when you are startled awake by Kuroo’s shout of alarm.

You roll over, grabbing his shoulder to shake him awake from the nightmare that has him in its grip. His eyes jolt open, and the sight of your face makes him sink back into the pillow with a sigh of relief.

“Thank the gods you haven’t left.”

“Why would I leave? This is my home, isn’t it?” You mumble, turning your back to him again.

You feel the bed shift as Kuroo sits up.

“No”, he rasps, voice rough with sleep. “I was afraid you left me”.

Oh. So that’s what all of this is about.

You must stay quiet for far too long, because he gingerly crawls over to you.

“Dearest”, he says, your heart suddenly aching because you don’t remember the last time you heard him use that pet name with any amount of affection. “Darling”, he tries again, pawing at your back. You shut your eyes resolutely and refuse to turn to face him.

He doesn’t give up, even though the distance between you seems to yawn wide and wider with each passing second.

“Are you?” he asks, his words small, shrunken in the still, dark room. “Going to leave me, I mean.”

No, you’re about to say, the word balancing at the tip of your tongue but it feels wrong. Your break has given you the space to breathe, the time to think. It’s made you realise what you’ve said to him in the ryokan that night remains true.

This week has shown you that Kuroo can do better as a husband, as a father if he wants to. But he’s poisoned your marriage with neglect, forced you to dress up your sadness in silence, allowed your resentment to fester and simmer into frigid indifference. If you reassure him that you aren’t going to leave him, it’s only because you’re too tired to, not because you actually love him anymore.

“I don’t know, Tetsuro. Our daughters deserve to grow up with both their parents, but I’m not sure I want them to learn from my example that it’s okay to shoulder the weight of marriage, parenthood and a full time job all by themselves. Your dreams and career are important, I know, but I’m just so tired of being alone in this marriage when it was always supposed to be a partnership between me and you.”

You hear him choke back a sob. You should comfort him, but the exhaustion you feel at being honest with him, with yourself, weighs your bones down, forces you to sink further down into your mattress.

“I’m sorry”, he finally says.

“I’m tired, Tetsuro”, you whisper brokenly, clutching the blankets to your chin. “I think I deserve better.”

“I know. I’ll make it better, I promise.”

You want to ask him how, but your eyelids grow heavy, and you allow yourself to submerge into slumber.

You’re not sure what to expect, but the ground beneath your feet shifts. Things start to change.

Kuroo continues to take your daughters to childcare in the morning on the way to work as he did last week. That very weekend, he straps Fumiko to his chest, takes Aiko by her hand, and within an hour at the department store aided by a flash of his credit card, he purchases a dishwasher and robot vacuum for the house. He loads the dishes without you asking, runs the robot vacuum remotely once a day. It buys you time to breathe, a little more time to sleep.

He doesn’t always make it home in time for dinner, but he tries his best to rush home so he can read the girls a bedtime story and tuck them into bed.

“Dada”, Fumiko lisps, chubby fists wound around Kuroo’s tie. ‘I wanna hear another princess story!”

“No Fumiko! Papa promised to tell us how he met mama!” Aiko prods Kuroo’s side with the wooden doll Yaku sent from Russia that you know he abhors. ‘Keep your promises, papa!”

“Alright, settle down you monsters. I’ll tell you two stories if you promise to go to sleep right after that.” The girls cheer. “Now. Let’s see. A long, long time ago, your papa met your mama when she decided to beat him up because she thought he was trying to steal her food.”

“You were trying to steal my food”, you interrupt, leaning against the doorway amused. “You didn’t stop til I stabbed you with my fork.”

He glances up, surprised when you sit beside him on the bed. Then he grins.

“You left it on the table, dearest. What was a guy supposed to think?”

“Mama, please let dada tell the story”, Aiko interjects with a huff.

“Hurry up, dada! I want the princess story next!” Fumiko pulls at her silly dada’s shirt, pouting.

You both laugh. There’s a soft smile playing on his lips when his eyes meet yours.

Travelling all around Japan is still part of his job as a marketing director of the Japanese Volleyball Association. But now Kuroo pares it down to the bare minimum, makes sure he’s always back by the weekend at the very least to sweep the girls in his arms and shoo you off for a break of afternoon tea with your friends or shopping with your mom.

“Will you be ok when I’m gone?”

You hand him his suitcase, a flask of his favourite tea. “I’ve always managed fine. Nothing’s changed.”

He bends down to kiss Aiko on her forehead, pinch Fumiko’s cheek playfully.

“Yes. Well. I’ll come home soon”, he says, quietly. You startle slightly as he brushes his thumb over your wrist, lets it drift over your pulse point. “Please wait for me.”

You glance up at him from beneath your lashes. “I’ll see you soon then”, you reply. His smile widens, his eyes are hopeful, bright.

On the weekends, he stops flitting off for work functions and events. Instead, now he joins you for lunches at the kaiten zushi near your house, indulging the girls by ordering yet another plate of sushi just so Aiko has another chance to win a toy from the gachapon and Fumiko has another chance at feeling grown up when she lifts the plate from the conveyor belt. He stops ducking out from dinners at the grandparents’ place - both his and yours. Your mom stops giving him dirty looks when he actually turns up more than three times in a row with sake in hand.

Once every so often, he even throws little parties for your family of four, going so far as to buy a frilly pink apron that makes your daughters giggle when he whips it out for the first time. After a few mishaps (and a number of frantic calls to Fukunaga), he masters how to make takoyaki and okonomiyaki, and in the colder months, he makes steaming pots of nabe and shabu shabu.

“Itadakimasu” you murmur, and the girls follow suit. “It tastes good”, you say.

He ducks his head bashfully, pink dusting the column of his neck.

“Thank you”, he replies. “That means a lot, coming from you.”

You start to savour the bubbles of happiness in your chest when you see how your daughters’ eyes shine when they see their papa whip out the pink apron. You learn to laugh when you hear the pitter patter of little feet, their delighted squeals and shrieks when they tell you the latest exploits their silly papa is cooking up - sparklers under the stars one weekend, a nerf gun fight, the next.

The weight on your shoulders grows lighter and lighter until one day you hardly notice it at all.

“What’s wrong?” you frown at the sight of your husband dashing out of your bedroom, hair a frazzled mess.

He whips around at the sound of your voice. “Oh. Oh.” He approaches you, slowly, carefully. “You’re still here.”

Your frown deepens. “My boss called and asked me to send out an urgent email. I was just about to go back to bed. Tetsuro, is everything alright?”

He nods. “It’s fine - I just... I just woke up and thought you were gone.”

You take a closer look. It’s dark, but the shadows of the night fail to hide the purple smudges beneath his eyes, the fine lines carved into his brow. His shoulders are bowed, his lips downturned and he looks broken, battered.

Your heart hurts for him.

“I’m here”, you say, beckoning him towards you. Physical affection has been scarce between you two for so, so long but he looks so distraught it’s only natural to pull him close, let him rest his head on your lap. “I’m here, Tetsuro. I’m not about to run off into the night – you know I don’t like the cold.”

He doesn’t laugh at your feeble joke. “Are you happier now? Are things better for you?”

“Yes”, you say firmly, combing your fingers through his hair, rubbing circles along his back. “Thank you, Tetsuro. I appreciate it. I really do.”

You can feel him sag in relief.

“You don’t have to work yourself to the bone for me. That’s – that’s never what I was asking for. If you’re tired, you need to take a break.”

He shakes his head stubbornly. “I’m fine. I can bear it as long as you don’t leave me.”

“Tetsuro –“

He sits up abruptly, takes your hands in his.

“Promise you won’t leave me”, he begs, head bowed. “I know I’ve been a shit husband to you for so long. It’s no excuse, but I thought - ” he swallows heavily, waits until his voice stops wavering. “I thought we were ok, ‘cos we didn’t fight, not like my parents did before – before my mother left.”

“I was too tired to fight with you”, you say simply.

He nods once, jerkily. “I know – I know that now. When you disappeared that day, I didn’t know what to do. I went to your mom’s place and she reamed me out, screamed at me in front of the neighbours. I took the kids back, and it made me realise how fucking hard it was for you to do it all alone.” He inhales, closing his eyes as if the memory aches. “I know it’s late but I’ve changed, I swear. The girls need you. I need you. I’ll do anything as long as you stay.”

His fingers are freezing, but you do not pull away. Not when the desperation reflected in his irises makes your heart lurch in pain.

“It was hard”, you confess, and he shudders, struck in the chest by your honesty. “It was so hard, Tetsuro. You hurt me so damn much that I think I became numb to the pain. I don’t think I was really functioning for a while. For a long while.”

“I’m sorry”, he whispers, and you nod shakily.

“I know”, you reply, reaching out a hand to cup his face, a bittersweet twist to your lips as he melts into your touch. “That’s a chapter of my life, of our marriage that can’t be re-written. We can’t rewind that. But the past few months have been so different. I – you’ve shown me you’ve changed. And I think –“

You fall silent.

He prompts you. “Dearest?”

You recall the glimmer of light in your daughters’ eyes every morning when he takes their hands to walks them to school. You hear the echoes of their laughter, the lilt in their sweet voices every night when they welcome him home. You think of the tea parties he throws, the blanket forts he builds, the frilly pink apron he wears without shame and the bedtime stories he weaves every night.

“I think”, you say, with a smile that reminds him of the rising sun. “I think we can make this work again.”

He stares at you until the weight of your words dawns upon him, and he surges forward to fold you into his arms.

“Thank you”, he whispers into the shell of your ear. “I won’t fuck this up again, I promise.”

“Don’t thank me, you silly man”, you nuzzle into his neck sleepily, draping your arms around his waist. “Thank yourself for making me believe in you.”

He laughs wetly, cradling you close as you fall asleep against his chest, soothed by his heartbeat and the tenderness in his gaze.

Fumiko wakes you up unceremoniously before the sun even rises by climbing into your lap, and you open your eyes to Aiko pouting, hands on hips, demanding to know what’s for breakfast, and dada, dada, make a ham sandwich, pretty please with a cherry on the top.

“You guys are little monsters”, Kuroo teases with dancing eyes. “Can’t even give your papa a break to snuggle up to your mama.”

The girls shriek in dismay. “Don’t be mean”, you admonish him gently.

He mock sniffs. “I’m cranky in the mornings unless I get a morning kiss.”

Aiko and Fumiko crowd the sofa, clamouring to give their papa a kiss, but he stalls them with an imperious wave of his hand.

“This morning, only a kiss from your mama can chase my crankiness away”. His tone is teasing, but his shoulders remain tense.

“Nonsense. You make it sound as if kisses contain caffeine”, you scold, swatting his arm lightly as the girls giggle.

“Yours do!” he protests, and you roll your eyes as you press your lips to the corner of his lips, laughing when he puffs out his chest and declares his day can now start, that everything’ll be as right as rain.

Some days are full of sunshine, whilst others are full of rain. That’s life – but it’s bearable, enjoyable even, now that you and Kuroo face each day together, thanking the sun when it shines, and splashing through puddles on rainy days.

Things recalibrate.

The mornings are his domain now – he’s a master at concocting the most random breakfast items to satisfy your finnicky daughters. Aiko sniffs when she informs you that she’d prefer her papa to braid her hair, thank you very much, and when you shoot a look of death at Kuroo, he can’t even keep his face straight, his trademark hyena laugh erupting from his chest.

You cook dinner in the evenings, appreciating the times when he can join you at the table, not counting the nights he can’t against him because you know he’s trying his best. The girls clamour for his stories every night, laughing when he teasingly scolds them for yanking on his tie, demanding goodnight kisses from both him and you.

Now you force Kuroo to take some time to himself, shoo him off for lunches with Kenma, get-togethers with his Nekoma schoolmates. “I know you can manage it”, you tell him archly, “but you need breaks so you don’t burn out, or worse – you’ll lose your hair and we don’t want that”. When he opens and closes his mouth without a smart retort, you smirk. You get your way.

Both of you organise parties and playdates, inviting your shared friends – Kenma, of course, is a frequent guest, Bokuto, who brings along Akaashi and his sweet tempered little son (who Aiko always manages to pick a fight with, much to Kuroo’s amusement). You host Kai, who always brings offerings of flowers from his garden, Yaku, when he’s in town with his daughter, son and alarmingly fat cat. The adults congregate in the kitchen with food and alcohol, cracking good natured jokes at Kuroo and his frilly pink apron, watching the children cause a ruckus in the living room.

But you cherish the quiet moments you share with Kuroo at night when the children are asleep in bed. The chats you have whilst soaking in a hot bath about your day at work, the snippets of stories he shares about his boss, his crazy colleagues, the warmth of his arm around you as you stay up to clear emails late into the night, the heated kisses he presses to the nape of your neck to distract you when he thinks you’re working too hard.

It’s a good life. You’re happy, and so is he.

A year slips by.

The seasons come full circle. You return to the ryokan, finding peace in soaking yourself in steaming pools, watching the bamboo sway, the sun rise over Mt. Fuji. But this time, you’re not alone. You persuade Kuroo that he, too, needs a break - deserves one, truly. So you leave the girls with your mother and take the bullet train down to Hakone.

He shoots you a smirk as you both emerge from the private bath he’d insisted on booking. You swat at him, pulling your yukata higher up your neck, scowling as he winds an arm around your waist to press you into his side.

“You couldn’t wait til we got back to our room?” you hiss at him.

He chuckles lowly in response. “Didn’t hear you complaining”, he retorts.

“We were in an onsen, Tetsuro!”

“A private one”, he says with a waggle of his eyebrows, laughing aloud when you try and fail to slap your hand over his mouth. “What d’you think I was going to do with my lovely wife? I’m not a monk, sweetheart”

You try your best to shush him, but his cackling manages to capture the attention of everyone in the lift.

“What a happy couple”, an old lady remarks, within your earshot. “They must be newly married”

You think she must be a little senile. Or a little blind.

Neither of you are in your first flush of youth anymore - there are streaks of grey in Tetsuro’s mop of hair, extra weight in your hips and lines in your faces. No one could conceivably mistake you for a pair of newlyweds.

“Nah”, Kuroo drawls easily into your ear. “Just your regular old, married couple.”

You don’t speak until you’re safely in your room.

“A regular, old, happily married couple”, you say, as he hands you a cup of tea. “That obaa-san got that part right at least.”

Kuroo chokes on the lump of emotion in his throat as you serenely sip your tea.

The tea tastes bitter (as it always does), but the kisses that follow are so very, very sweet.

#haikyuu angst #kuroo testuro #kuroo tetsuro x reader #kuroo tetsuro x you #kuroo tetsuro x y/n #kuroo x you #kuroo x reader #kuroo x y/n #haikyuu x reader #hq x reader #haikyuu romance #haikyuu fluff #haikyuu x reader angst #Haikyuucafe #haikyuucreations #love knows not its depth

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eldritch-muppetshow · 2 years

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another day, another fandom, another “ghost and his human companion” au, you know the drill.

so y’know how everyone asks “how did red survive on mt. silver for so long?” well, in this au, the short answer is that he didn’t, but he stuck around as a ghost and kept training.. not so much because he still wanted to become the strongest trainer, but because he quickly discovered that he couldn’t leave the mountain. he usually just stays in his restored forme to look human, both for other people’s comfort and for his own.

3 years later, mt. silver’s built up something of a reputation for being haunted, but no one’s been bold and/or stupid enough to go up there and check. except for ethan, whose curiosity outweighed his common sense. he found (what looked like) the trainer that blue and that one woman in kanto talked about. so when he wins the battle and leaves, he practically drags red off the mountain bc his rival and mom miss him, dammit! in doing so, he unknowingly breaks the curse that kept red on the mountain in the first place.

once he’s finally home, red’s just trying to get his life back on track with the help of this weird kid he just met. it’s definitely not going to be as simple as he hopes though, given that anyone who spends enough time with him will figure out that he’s not what he seems.

#body horror tw #scopo cw #pokemon #trainer red #trainer ethan #art tag #ghost!red au #character death #ask to tag.#that tag feels so threatening w punctuation

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class1akids · 3 years

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It seems that the scenes we are getting are not exactly sequential, so my understanding of the timeline since the end of the fight:

Day 0 (Day of the raid)

1. Re-Destro clone attacks HPSC as the surprise raid starts, taking out the President and many members. Heroes lose central leadership/coordination.

2 End of the Mansion-side raid, with most PLF members arrested except the 132 members (including Midnight’s killer) that escaped. Hawks, Tokoyami and Kaminari (+ other injured heroes?) are taken to Central Hospital.

3. End of the Machia fight, with Machia and Compress arrested, while ShigarAFO/Dabi/Spinner/Skeptic + 10 nomus escape. Endeavor, Bakugou, Deku, Shouto, Aizawa, Gran Torino are all taken to Central Hospital.

4. Three nomus break off causing diversion, which allows ShigarAFO& Co + 7 nomus to escape.

5. At the same time, rescue efforts continue in Jakku, with Uraraka, Tsu and Kouda involved.

6. Same night ShigarAFO + 7 nomu attack Tartarus, freeing dangerous prisoners (including Moonfish, Muscular, Overhaul, Mystery Lay) and bringing Shigaraki and AFO’s old body face to face. It’s unclear what happened with AFO’s old body. The status of Kurogiri is unknown. Stain is also free, but seems to have swam to shore rather than swearing loyalty to ShigarAFO.

Day 1

1. Six other prisons are hit in the pre-dawn hours, with many criminals out wreaking havoc.

2. Yoroi Musha (No. 9) announces his retirement, starting a wave of resignation amongst the heroes with many neighborhoods losing their local heroes. Civilians starting to arm themselves with black market support items, clashing with escaped villains, causing even bigger damage

3. Uninjured heroes like Wash or Best Jeanist’s side-kicks are out there, trying to calm the situation.

4. Government requests foreign heroes’ aid, but because of paper-work problems, it’s delayed.

5. Press is interviewing heroes from the Jakku raid group, learning about Endeavor saying “OFA”. They are gathered outside Central Hospital waiting for Endeavor to give a press conference.

6. The UA kids who are not in the hospital go back to the dorms (and change into their uniforms).

7. Bakugou, Endeavor, Aizawa and Gran Torino are all undergoing emergency surgeries, Deku falls into a coma, Shouto’s status is unclear.

8. Hawks is released from Central Hospital, is picked up by Best Jeanist and they drive to Hawks’ mom’s house to find out if she leaked the information to Dabi on Hawks’ father. They also collect information on the situation.

Day 2

1. Uninjured students of Class A (possibly with Present Mic and All Might) visit the hospital - scattering in the different rooms / areas.

2. All Might sends everyone out of Deku’s room and asks not to be disturbed.

3. Aizawa is awake and talking to Present Mic.

4. Shouto is awake, but not talking due to throat being burnt. He’s visited by Momo, Shoji, Kirishima and Mina. (others may have been by before).

5. Rei, Fuyumi and Natsuo show up and talk to Shouto.

6. Endeavor wakes up from surgery, talks to the doctor and starts crying. His family shows up and they discuss about Touya and what to do next.

7. Shortly after the family, Hawks and BJ show up to ask questions about Dabi and end up eavesdropping on the family conversation from the outside.

8. Hawks and BJ enter Endeavor’s room with the TOP3 proposal and asking about OFA. Endeavor makes the connection to Deku.

9. Bakugou wakes up. When he hears Deku is in a coma, he starts running to his room.

10. Bakugou is dragged away by classmates as BJ and Hawks show up to talk to Deku about OFA.

Still unconfirmed on the hero side:

- Fat Gum

- Tamaki

- Gang Orca

- Kamui Woods

- Mt Lady

- a number of heroes / teachers present at hospital

-Tsukauchi

Location / status unconfirmed on villain side:

- AFO

- Toga

- Kurogiri

#tracking the post-fight #war arc #bnha 303 #bnha manga spoilers

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Well I haven’t watched sp all the way through for about a decade now, so I thought it was time

Sometimes I wonder how accurate the fandom is when it comes to how we interpret the characters. Like, why is Stan a football star so often in fanfic and why’s Kyle always the smart one? So I thought I’d rewatch the show and make notes along the way to see where the source of all these interpretations is. I also wanted to see if I could get some fun info to analyze, but season 1 is pretty sparse in that regard so there’s not too much of that in this post, but I’ll make a post for all the other seasons too as I watch them

In summary, it’s established in season 1 already that Stan’s a star quarterback and an animal lover, Kyle’s an A+ student, and Kenny is poor and knows a lot about sex and doesn’t have many qualms about doing crazy shit. Cartman is a bit weird since he’s mostly just a naive brat in this season, but he and Kyle have a mildly antagonistic friendship already

I have all my notes under this cut. They include a bunch of small details and other observations. I also listed every Kenny death just because

Ike has freckles

Cartman says “Weak!” and “You guys” and “Seriously” a lot from the start, also “Kickass!” He doesn’t say weak or kickass much in the later seasons iirc

Stan says “Dude, this is pretty fucked up right here” three times in this season but they dropped that catchphrase pretty quickly

Bebe got named in episode 2

Stan’s been an animal lover since s01e03 Volcano since he won’t shoot a bunny or anything else. He does shoot Scuzzlebutt at the end though

Cartman’s a pathological liar but in a childish way

Randy got named in s01e03 Volcano (and it only got worse from there)

The mayor went to Princeton

South Park is next to Mt. Evanson

Kenny will literally drink gasoline

Stan’s a star quarterback in 3rd grade

Clyde’s voice is wrong as hell in S01E04 Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride and he has a dog, Rex

Garrison says Kyle is an A+ kid

Shelly seriously abuses Stan, punching him, throwing him, maiming him with a lawnmower

Cartman had a pot-bellied pig called Fluffy

Cartman’s mom smokes crack and has sex with strange men

Dr. Mephesto is probably a Buddhist since he says “Thank Buddha” instead of “Thank God”

Clyde’s voice gets kind of fixed in S01E06

A guy called Mr. McCormick is killed in a protest, launched and splattered against a network building. He doesn’t look like Kenny’s dad though

Zombie Clyde attacks Bebe, rude

Wendy gave her costume contest prize (2 tons of candy) to hungry children in Nairobi

Cartman’s mom is on the cover of Crack Whore magazine. “Back do’ ho… Five on one action!” is the headline

Cartman genuinely cries at Kenny’s grave after the whole zombie thing but gets over it because of candy

Stan knows his mom’s credit card number and has no problem using it to adopt an Ethiopian child (the boys wanted a watch that came with the adoption, they weren’t doing it to be nice)

Cartman calls Stan a vas deference, Stan doesn’t know what that is so Kenny says “Dude, it’s a pipe for your peepee” (according to a transcript). Kenny sure knows male anatomy

Kyle sniffs Kenny after Cartman asks why poor people smell like sour milk and Garrison says “idk eric they just do”

Cartman thinks poor people should die and decrease the surplus population

When the boys get Starvin’ Marvin delivered to them, Cartman says “Hey mom, we found an Ethiopian, can we keep him?” and his mom says “Sure, hun.” She rarely says no to Cartman

Kenny’s dad is an alcoholic who drinks scotch according to Cartman. I mean, Mr. McCormick is seen drinking in multiple episodes and has a hat that says SCOTCH so it’s probably true

Kenny’s family says grace

Craig’s first appearance is S01E09. Also, S01E09 is the first time Kenny doesn’t die (Coincidence? I THINK yeah but it’s still fun)

Clyde got named in S01E10

Clyde and Bebe both spit on Pip’s face, friendship goals <3

Cartman and Kyle have their first fight at Cartman’s birthday party because Kyle didn’t give the right gift. Cartman slaps his face and screams “I hate you! I want you to die! Die!” while on top of Kyle who’s not really fighting back

Satan throws a fight with Jesus after everyone except Satan bet that Jesus would lose, which leads to Satan winning everyone’s money. Mr. Garrison says “What a mean thing to do!” and Jimbo says “He is a jerk!” and I thought it was quite a laugh so I wrote it down

In S01E11 Tom’s Rhinoplasty Bebe and Wendy are sitting in the swings together and generally appear together throughout the episode, then Bebe gives Wendy a makeover so they’re bffs obviously <3

Craig first appears in the classroom, though not sitting down, in S01E11

Wendy’s not happy about Ms. Ellen taking Stan away from her, she says “Don’t fuck with me! Stay away from my man, bitch, or I’ll whoop your sorry ho ass back to last year!”

Kenny gives Ms. Ellen a scrumptious looking sausage as a valentine’s gift and giggles deviously. Wendy’s gift to Ms. Ellen is a dead animal

Even Kenny doesn’t know what a lesbian is

Wendy’s grandma died in S01E11

Wendy gets Ms. Ellen killed by hiring the Iraqi government (?) to put her in a rocket and shoot it into the sun, then she and Bebe have a pool party (very cool, they wear sunglasses 😎) and watch the rocket hit the sun

Cartman and Pip play a game of kicking each other in the nuts until someone falls. Cartman calls it “Roshambo”

Kenny has a sack of marbles

The boys aren’t fans of Barbra Streisand, but Stan is a fan of the Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway (he’s not a quarterback anymore, he’s an American football executive and the president of football operations for the Denver Broncos of the NFL according to wikipedia.)

Officer Barbrady is a fan of Fiona Apple (who was 20 at the time and had only one album released called Tidal)

Ned knows how to pilot a helicopter

Kyle’s mom is a fan of Streisand unlike literally everyone else, she even gets an autograph from Mecha Streisand

The boys are fans of Robert Smith, the lead singer of The Cure. Stan says “Robert Smith is the greatest person that ever lived!” and Kyle says “Disintegration is the best album ever!” and Cartman says “Robert Smith kicks ass!” and Kenny’s dead so he doesn’t get to have an opinion

Cartman has tea parties with his toys: Polly Prissypants, Clyde frog, Peter Panda, and a dragon called Rumpertumskin

Kyle wants to make fun of Cartman for the tea party but Stan stops him because he’s concerned that Cartman needs help

Craig is in front of the school counselor’s office in S01E13

A young miss Cartman drinks like a motherfucker at the 12th annual drunken barn dance where Cartman was supposedly conceived

Stan lets Cartman borrow his bike like a good friend

Garrison wanted to have a threesome with Chef and Cartman’s mom. I don’t know why I’m making a note of this but uh… yeah.

Cartman’s mom has had sex with everyone at this bar that Garrison’s drinking at, including principle Victoria, the mayor, Father Maxi, and Jesus (and maybe Kenny’s dad since he’s at the bar but the camera doesn’t pan to him when Garrison says they’ve all slept with Liane). Later Gerald Broflovski is a possible father to Eric, so he fucked her too. Also Mr. Mephesto and his friend Kevin, that little guy, are candidates along with a lot of other people, including the 1989 Denver Broncos (and Mr. Tenorman is included in that later)

Cartman doesn’t make fun of Kyle for being Jewish much at all in this season even though the Christmas episode is all about Kyle not celebrating

Clyde and Token appear very early on and Clyde has always been in the classroom (along with Bebe, Red, Kevin Stoley, Wendy, and Pip and uhh DogPoo too I think). Craig appears later in the season and Tweek’s not in season 1 at all, so Craig’s gang isn’t really a thing yet

And here’s a list of the ways Kenny died in this season. He dies in every episode except episode 9, and he dies twice in episodes 2 and 3. Altogether he dies 14 times

S01E01 Killed after alien shoots him, cows stampede over him, then cop runs him over which finally actually kills him

S01E02 Killed in a play by a falling teepee, then a second time shot by Garrison which sends him in the air and he gets impaled on a flagpole on the way down

S01E03 Killed by a volcano rock that burns him then rolls on him but he’s alive again in the end but gets shot by Ned’s gun that he drops and it accidentally goes off

S01E04 Gets his arms and head torn off in an American football game

S01E05 Stan’s clone punches Kenny into a microwave where he gets cooked alive

S01E06 Death touches Kenny

S01E07 Kenny gets crushed by a Russian space station and turns into a zombie because he gets Worcestershire sauce in his veins, then Kyle chainsaws zombie Kenny in half, then zombie Kenny rises from his grave and is crushed by a statue and a plane

S01E08 Kenny is killed by a bunch of turkeys. His eye gets plucked out. It’s dark blue

S01E10 After Kenny gets turned into a duck-billed platypus, Jimbo and Ned shoot him

S01E11 Ms. Ellen throws a sword through Kenny’s face

S01E12 While Mecha Streisand and a giant robot Leonard Maltin fight, Kenny plays with a tetherball and gets the rope wrapped around his neck and it strangles him

S01E13 Kenny gets stuck on a go kart and it drags him around but stops and he’s still alive! Too bad the go kart stops on train tracks and a train runs him over. Stan’s grandpa sends a video of the event to America’s Stupidest Home Videos and wins $10,000

If you read all that, first of all hello. I’m not new to the fandom even though this is the first thing I’ve posted on this tumblr blog. I’ve been writing a fanfic called Caffetamine though so I’m not a complete non-entity. Anyway, I’ll watch season 2 soon and post my notes on that too probably.

#south park #sp rewatch #i made way too many notes #kenny used to get dialog in almost every episode #poor kenny #he really gets shafted later

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