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#happy september it's basically halloween now so enjoy
walkiingcandle · 2 years
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Hello there! Can u do an Otis, bubba, Thomas, baby, Vincent, and Bo headcannon on how they'd react to a Halloween obsessed partner? Like, decorating first day of September, making a bunch of sweets, refusing to wear summer clothes while it's still baking outside, (basically me rn). (Also I don't remember if u said any1 from the chucky franchise in ppl u write but if u can add tiffany thay would be cool)
YESYEYSYEYS OMG THANK Y9U
I am currently decorating my bedroom for Halloween LMFOAHR but I'm the same way😭
ANYWAYS,,,, here's your Headcannons :)! I hope you enjoy <3!
Slashers X Halloween Obssesed! Reader
🎃(Otis Driftwood, Baby Firefly, Bubba Sawyer, Thomas Hewitt, Vincent Sinclair, Bo Sinclair, Tiffany Valentine!)🕯
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Otis Driftwood 🍂
Otis and you have a mutual love for the spooky season!
He frequently finds you in the kitchen, Halloween themed utensils and apron making some sort of spooky theme treat !
he enjoys the Frankenstein rice Krispy treats :)
He won't help you make the halloween decor but he will help put them up!!
He makes you spooky theme art!
The first time he seen you wearing fall clothes in the Texas heat, he ignored it, it is your choice after all
that's until you have a heatstroke
he cares a little more, fearing for that to happen again.
you and him will makes costumes together :)
10/10
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Baby Firefly 🍁
Another one who would be a amazing Halloween partner :)
Unlike Otis she would help you make decorations and sweet treats!
she enjoys replicas of the Pillsbury Halloween cookies !!
you two would make spooky decor out of old toys and hang then around the house!! both inside and out :)
now for the outfits,,
she would be concerned but wouldn't wanna make you feel bad so she would hold off, maybe keeping water and something to cool down with on hand:) (like a wet wash cloth!)
defo more concerned than otis
the moment you have a hear stroke? she will try and convince you to wear something lighter :)<3
11/10 love her fr
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Bubba Sawyer 🎃
sweet boy
I feel the Sawyers didn't go above and beyond for holidays, kinda the bare minimum
so when you came along?
and you loved Halloween?
bubba may not understand at first but he supports it! till it gets really spooky :(
he will help you make decor out of bones and anything else! :)
he will also help you place them somewhere where you may not be able to reach yourself!!!
he l o v e s helping you bake treats
his favorite is blood brain pie (food dyed red apple pie:))
he gets very very concerned with how you dress in the heat!
will try to pursue you into something cooler so you do not pass out during chores or through the day!
10/10 love him sm
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Thomas Hewitt 🔪
Another supportive slasher!!
he would l o v e coming back and seeing you Making something on the kitchen or crafting a new decoration!
The family may not let you go all out in the rest of the house tho :( a few nick nacks are okay!
Thomas would love if you went all out in your shared bedroom :)
he is happy if you're happy
loves sewing you little pumpkins or ghosts
loves making you things in general
in his free time he helps you bake
his favorite would probably be zombies breath (blue drink w dry ice in it) <3
he loves watching old Halloween films with you
would be extremely concerned with your attire in the texas heat
water and cool rag on hand 24/!
12/10 I love love love love love him<3333
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Vincent Sinclair 🕯
He isn't a huge Halloween fan, he enjoys the more calms holidays ! (valentines, Easter, ect.)
but he loves that you enjoy it so much :)
definitely helps you with decorations as much as he can, not knowing how many they had lying around
I doubt the sinclairs had decorated much anyway :(
he'd make you spooky themed wax figures, paintings, drawings, ect!
he loves when you bring him down your newest batch of spooky treats!
his favorite is probs cookies as well :) keeping it simple!
Ambrose I believe chills off around fall so your attire don't really concern him!
he wears the same thing like sigh
if it doesn't
he may get worried
even though he wears that sweater 24/7 around hot ass wax🙄
9/10 -1 bc he has no room to talk abt attire during hot weather (love him tho mwah<3)
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Bo Sinclair 🕸
he doesn't really like Halloween as much as you do
it's kinda like "okay? cool?" kinda mood with it
would not help you make decor or sweets
would eat the sweets tho and hang the decor (if you asked nicely)
his favorite sweet is probably booberry pie !!
he enjoys when you make him something and bring it down to the station
he will watch any spooky film they have on vcr with you! nice beer, you cuddled up to him, a film playing? sounds nice to bo
he won't really care about your attire he wear long sleeves all the time so it don't matter to him
7/10 for not making treats and decor:(
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Tiffany Valentine 🕷
she loves Halloween and you can't tell me different.
will make sweets and help decorate the trailer with you :) even tho the place is basically decorated for Halloween all year round!
she loves seeing you make some sort of new spooky dish or beverage
her favorite is probs witches brew (drink)
she would take you Halloween costume shopping and watch movies with you !
she dont really care about the fall clothes !
it seems to get fall weather where she is based so she thinks it is a good thing!
11/10 love Tiffany sm omg mwah <3
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I'm sorry if these weren't what you wanted :( I tried my best but I hope you enjoyed and thank you for sending this in 💗 have a good spooky season!!!🪰
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heywizards · 6 months
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hello! is your header in anticipation of halloween or is it a year-round aesthetic? either way, i love it! what's something you're excited about right now?
aww, thank you!!
It's in anticipation for Halloween. basically by September I'm ready for it 😁🎃🦇 my icon will probably change for it too, but I will at least wait for October
something I'm excited about... okay, a few things come to mind! in the immediate future I'm going to take a walk to the boba tea place with my darling partner, and discuss a class lecture I had earlier today, about capitalism, psychoanalytic theory, and Buddhism. it was so interesting, and I have so many things to tell my partner about it
and a future thing I'm excited about, is the Persona 5 Tactica game coming out in a few months. I love the Phantom Thieves as characters and I'm happy to see more adventures with them. plus, I really enjoy tactic rpgs like Fire Emblem, so I'm curious to see more of the gameplay
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via-l0ve · 7 months
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ATTENTION!!!
WE REACHED 300 FOLLOWERS!! I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH <333 YOURE AMAZING AND GORGEOUS. KISSES KISSES KISSES XOXOXOXOXO. i know i always say this stuff but i’m seriously so happy i’m able to have a community of people who actually like my stuff and enjoy what i put out. it means the absolute world to me. i love you all so much. thank you so much for this amazing opportunity.
okay now for the serious stuff!!!
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i’ve decided to do a celebration!! i see people do them all the time so i thought, what the hell why not :)) im eagerly awaiting halloween so i’ve decided to do a halloween theme!!! (i know it’s literally august shhhhh)
so basically you can send anything from the list below into my inbox and i’ll answer!!
please send only one emoji per ask, multiple asks are always welcome!!!
please refer to my boundary list before sending anything in (if you haven’t already)
any/all fandoms i write for are eligible for requesting!!!
welcome to:
𝖵𝗂𝖺’𝗌 𝗂𝗅𝗅𝖾𝗀𝗂𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗍𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗅𝗅𝗈𝗐𝖾𝖾𝗇 𝖼𝖾𝗅𝖾𝖻𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇!!!
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Prompt list:
🐈‍⬛ Superstitious - send in an ask from this question list (credits to op!) and i’ll answer it!!!
👻 Kiss, Marry, Kill - send in three people from any of my fandoms and i’ll do a K/m/k!
💀 Monster Mash - send me a character and i’ll make a playlist about/for them!
🎃 Pumpkin Carving - tell me all about yourself and i’ll ship you with a character and give you my reasons why! clarify if you want a character from a specific fandom (ex. Supernatural) and tell me as much or as little about yourself as you’d like!! physical and personality traits! <33
🍭 Trick or Treat - send me a scenario with a character and i’ll make a moodboard out of it!
🕯️ “I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.” - send in a prompt from this, this, or this list and a character you’d like it with and i’ll write a short drabble!!
🌙 Sweater Weather - send in some info about yourself and i’ll tell you what/who you remind me of (ex. a beach day, scarlett johansson, etc hahah)
🦇⛓🖤🕷🥀🪦🌙⚰🍁🕸️
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this celebration will be happening from now (August 26th, 2023) until September 20th, 2023! please enjoy, my loves!! thank you again for 300 followers. it means the absolute world to me. <3
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bahamutgames · 6 months
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AFTERTHOUGHTS - ROUNDUP ROUND 7
September 2023
Happy October! I'm a little late here because I had to take a health break from being online for a few days. But I'm back now! It's getting colder outside, and Halloween (my favorite holiday!) is right around the corner!
Also... hello new followers! This blog has basically been a ghost town since I started it but unexpectedly, some gifsets I made last month REALLY took off! So now I've got almost 50 followers. Usually I wouldn't do so much preamble on a roundup post but I feel the need to explain myself a little bit. This is what this blog is mostly for, posting my thoughts and opinions on games I played recently. To keep them neatly organized and also not clogging up everyone's feeds. I understand this is NOT what most of you followed for, so feel free to unfollow if you like. If not, I hope you enjoy what I have to say!
As with EVERYTHING I share here, these are not reviews. This is just word vomit from me sharing my thoughts on games. Nothing I say should be taken as fact, and if anything I talk about is interesting to you, you should absolutely play it and form your own opinion!
That's that on that, let's tackle the September games!
Rayman Origins (November 15, 2011) - PS3
Hey! Look! I beat my first Rayman game! Similarly to BB, I actually got this game years ago, but never managed to beat it at the time. But with the Rayman Mario + Rabbids DLC out (which I still haven't bought lol BUT I WANT TO REAL BAD!) I figured it was time to finally take the plunge into this series! And I LOVED it! I was having such a killer time with it! Super gorgeous visuals, AMAZING music (I love how goofy it is the lum song was stuck in my head forever afterwards lol), genuinely funny plot, very fun gameplay, the works. But... Partway through the game, suddenly the whole plot changes and you're no longer dealing with demons? And then you have to go through all the worlds a second time and fight a final boss that has nothing to do with the story? Only to then afterwards be told to go through AGAIN and collect almost all the electoons so you can fight the ACTUAL final boss in a super long, super brutal level that's just a long string of memorization. It felt like the second half of the game was made by a different team, it just didn't feel nearly as good and it kinda killed the game for me in the end. I did enjoy the first half a lot though, so I will absolutely check out some of the 3D Rayman games soon, but I might steer clear of Legends atm.
One thing I have to say though: dude the Nymphs are SO hot! Like, they are SO fine it's actually insane. A lot of games will make horny character designs and flaunt them constantly and they're just okay. But no, Rayman Origins earned it. I'm so thirsty for them, that character designer deserves a raise. ANYWAY-
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Mortal Kombat 11 (April 23, 2019) - Xbox One
And here we go with my first gamepass game of the month lol. My sister was very kind and gave me a month for my birthday, and one of the first things I beat was a simple arcade run of MK11! MK is a series I actually have an odd amount of history with, but it's also a series I just never really got into. But I did find myself watching the 11 story mode, and I'll try it out whenever it comes into my path. So, here we are. I played as Scorpion, who tends to be my favorite especially whenever Reptile isn't available, and just did a run of the Arcade ladder. I had a good time with it! I'm always impressed with how simple it is despite how edgy it is. And I think being able to make your own custom movesets is super cool (mine mostly just consisted of his classic moves cause they're all I know lol.) Game looks great, has some really gorgeous stages, again, considering how edgy it is, and I thought the final boss was really neat. My only complaints come from the lootbox stuff, I know you can unlock everything for free but I really hate when games put all the customization options behind random chance rather than just putting it in a shop where I can pick and choose what I want. Injustice 2 did the same thing, but thankfully in MK it looks like you don't have to pay for anything. Neat time other than that though.
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Gyromite (August 13, 1985) - NES
Next up is a game I didn't technically "beat" since it has like 99 levels. But I did play through the first few levels out of curiosity and I actually enjoyed it so much I wanted to give it a shout out! Gyromite is actually one of the NES games made to work with ROB from Super Smash Bros. Brawl (they made the NES after that game came out). And I wanted to see if I could emulate ROB... I could not. But I already had Gyromite downloaded so I decided to play it myself, and I gotta say. I think it's more fun by yourself with 2 controllers! You play as a scientist trying to get all the bombs without getting touched, and you use the second controller to lift and raise gates to help bridge gaps or stop enemies. Also, you can collect carrots to distract enemies. It's really basic but it's actually a SUPER fun game that I think deserves more love! If you haven't tried it, I do think it's a neat little experience that really deserves to be on NSO.
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Dracula X (July 21, 1995) - SNES
Hey, my second Castlevania game! And uh... man idk I did not like this nearly as much as Super Castlevania 4 lol. Idk what the consensus on this is, I know fans consider it to be a non canon stripped down version of a much better game. But I figured I could play this in a night, and I was right! Also, I'm no good at Metroidvanias so I figured I'd play the platformer. And yeah, this game kinda sucks. Feels super clunky to play, has some bizarre enemy placements that make the game almost impossible at some scenes. And generally, outside of some nice sprites and the always BANGING Castlevania music, it's just kinda boring. The only real praise I can sing (outside of the super good music) is that the Wolfman totally kicks ass! He was so cool and genuinely the best boss fight in the game. So while I wasn't really into it, I know that if I had played the REAL game this was based on, it would probably have been a lot better.
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Venba (July 31, 2023) - PC
Next up is another Gamepass game! I wanted to play Venba since I first saw it because it just looked really nice and cute! And that's exactly how I'd describe it now that I've played it! It's a very nice story about an immigrant mother, her relationship with her husband, her child, and the food she cooks. And so each level consists of you trying to cook a meal with your mother's cookbook, which has become really messed up over the years. Each level is a puzzle where you try to figure out the right way to cook, and see how it brings the family together. I really had a great time with it! These simple and cute games are always a blast to play and a nice breath of fresh air. And it actually made me pretty emotional. Obviously it's not the same experience at all cause I'm white but it did seriously make me think about my relationship with my mother who also came to America for similar reasons. The game actually almost made me cry lol, but more importantly, it made me hungry! I might have to try cooking some stuff they showed in it! Biriyani in particular really caught my interest as something that just looks CRAZY tasty. And hey, maybe I'll ask my mom to help me make some Romanian food too haha.
Outside of that, the music is really nice, I think most of it is licensed? Or at least is lyrical music performed for the game and it's great. And I particularly loved the art style, which no outlines and a more spraypaint looking brush. It's incredibly unique looking! And Venba herself is SO cute, she's so fine. I love her. I want her to be happy. If you're looking for a nice, short game to play through for an easy and relaxed experience, I can't recommend Venba enough!
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Metroid: Zero Mission (February 9, 2004) - Gameboy Advance
Remember when I said I didn't like Metroidvanias a game or two ago? Well, sometimes you gotta step out of your comfort zone. I've only beaten 2 games in the genre before, Ori and Radical Rescue. Ori was good and RR was... neat. But I've never beaten a single metroid in my life until now! I chose Zero Mission for a few reasons, but two big ones are that it's a remake of the first game. And the second is that I actually did play and enjoy this one in the past. But clearly I did not get very far cause I didn't remember SHIT lmao. I planned on playing this side by side with a walkthrough, but I'll admit I actually had a faster and way more fun time just genuinely using the maps the game gave me and just running around. It's fun to figure it out and get upgrades and be like "OH I can do that thing now!" it's like a collectathon lol. The music is nice, the sprites are KILLER (I'm a huge GBA sucker after all).
But of particular interest. Dude. Oh my god. The Zero Suit scene. Holy shit. It's so scary! I was seriously screaming during it! It does such a good job of building tension and just making the situation so scary and dire, and then jump scaring you when the space pirates actually go through doors and climb through vents. It was seriously so bone chilling. But then getting the full power suit and running back through the ship and seeing all the space pirates cower in fear at your might, even hiding in the places you had to hide before? Genuinely brilliant. It was so exhilarating and got such a good reaction out of me. I absolutely ADORED this game! Idk if I'll play many more Metroidvanias past this but damn am I glad I gave this one a go!
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Punch-Out!! (May 18, 2009) - Wii
And last, and least! Punch-Out!! Another game series I've never beaten any games in before! I could have played the NES one which probably would've been shorter, but again for a few reasons I decided on the Wii one. It's the newest, seems to be the most popular(?), and also was new when I was a lot younger so I have some nostalgia for when it was coming out. So I played it and uh... Yeah I really did not enjoy this game at all. I know this series is SUPER beloved with tons of fans but I just do not get the appeal. Tons of memorization, the characters are all kinda ugly and also yeah it's kinda racist, boring gameplay. Idk I just was not really into it. Full disclosure, it is a bit of a skill issue. I could not beat Soda Popinsky so I had to use an infinite Star Punch cheat lol. Everyone else I beat legit or at least did the first round and then cheated (I only did this for the characters after Soda, when I stopped caring). But not, him I could not do.
It's not all doom and gloom though. I do think the music is also pretty good in it. And I do have to give the game some props, everyone who comes from another region does legit speak their native language I believe. Which fucking rules actually. And I guess it gave us Little Mac in Smash Bros. Who is fun. But idk, yeah I just wasn't really into this. Oh well, different strokes for different folks. At least I played it!
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Monster Girl Imagine #1000
January You've been dating your lamia girlfriend for a whole year now! You wanted to get her something special for your 1-year anniversary, so you bought her a biiiig stuffed teddy bear. It's big enough for her to even coil around!
February Happy Valentine's day! Your lamia girlfriend got you the biggest box of chocolates she could find, and she even made you a big fancy dinner to go along with it! The best part is falling asleep, wrapped up in her coils~
March It's a good thing your lamia girlfriend's tail is green, because it's St. Patrick's Day! However, you caught yourself not wearing green...! It's pinching time!!! (At least the two of you don't have any crabgirl friends...)
April Your lamia girlfriend's trying her best to prank you today, but you've avoided it so far... until she asked if you wanted dessert. WHAM! Hope you like pies!
May You decided to spend Mother's Day with your girlfriend's mom. She's a much bigger lamia than she is, and she's even more of a hugger too. Especially with her tail. CRACK! Hope you like hospital bills!
June Summer's here! Your girlfriend's birthday is in a couple months, though, so you gotta think of something to get her. She's really into video games, and there's this new indie RPG she's excited for... aha!
July Your lamia girlfriend invited you over for a backyard cookout! She's the best at grilling, even more than some of your dragon friends... probably because "burnt to a crisp" isn't an "option" to lamias, unlike dragons who will basically eat anything.
August Happy birthday to her! Your lamia girlfriend's opening her birthday present...! It's the game she was excited for! However, there's an extra special present inside the box, one that she was looking forward too even more... It's a diamond ring.
September Now that you're engaged, she's been spending even more time over at your home, playing the game you bought her with a big smile on her face. You never thought she could get cuter, but here she is.
October Happy Halloween! You give out candy to the kids alone this year, since your lamia fiance is... well, her halloween costume isn't exactly... what you show to families.
November Happy Thanksgiving! As your family of humans and lamias gathers together to enjoy a meal, you can't help but get excited since next month is your wedding...!
December Merry Christmas, and a happy new life together! As you and your lamia wife share your first newlywed kiss, you get a sort of vision of the beautiful marriage the two of you are going to have together. Happy, well-behaved lamia kids, having a wonderful birthday party with all their school friends, making memories together as a family...
The future is looking bright, and your lamia wife completely agrees, kissing you one more time, then another, then a million more...
(Thanks for being here for the big 1000! Here’s to 1000 more cute, silly, heartwarming, funny, and downright cringy Monster Girl Imagines!)
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strangerays · 3 years
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Nothing in Particular Update #1
Hello, hello!! It’s been a really long time since I’ve written an update for this story! (this is a real update btw, forget the “first” one I had) To be honest, I haven’t been able to work on this story as much as I would like, being busy with classes and... well just life in general. (what I mean by this is that Shadow and Bone was released on Netflix) But! I do have some excerpts I wanted to put out there as well as some overall changes to the story.
Before I start: here’s the actual link to the story synopsis/characters!
TAGLIST (ask to be +/-): @wannabeauthorzofija @a-completely-normal-girl @baguettethebooklover @corkytheguar @writeherewaiting​ @raenawrites
STORY CHANGES/IDEAS:
First off: I had to rewrite 30,000 words and basically turn it into 10,000. The first draft was icky, but I turned it into something I really enjoy! This is a sign that writing is always worth it!!
I added in a couple of characters! I was starting to feel like the story might not have been balanced enough. Luckily, the muse struck me and I created Mars and Theo! Mars is a lovely (and enigmatic) older woman that Ray meets at a bird sanctuary and Theo is a new friend of Lonan’s.
There wasn’t much action in the beginning of the story, so I wrote a confrontation between Jude’s friends and another person that Ray spies on. This is how she meets Jude, and I am in lovvve.
The timeline for the entire story might be a little bit longer than I intended! I went into this project thinking it might only take place over a month, but in order for Ray’s mental health journey to be realistic, I’m going to shoot for an entire school year (around six-seven months). Honestly, I’m just happy I get to write a Halloween scene. As for the word count total HAHA I have no clue what that will look like.
I think Lonan will be a bit of a back-burner character! At first, I was a little wary of this decision since he’s my favorite, but I think it would be very exciting to have Ray hype him up before he ever appears in the story. That way, the reader sort of starts to think about him in one way, yet he might be completely different when he finally shows up...??
Chapter titles are one of my favorite things about this story. Also! I am a huge fan of short chapters! They move the story right along.
I prefer to write slower and use other projects to balance out this one when I get a little tired of it. Over the last month or so, I’ve gotten really into short story writing again! This has been really helpful in working on my specificity and pretty prose. Even though the short stories don’t contribute to Nothing in Particular, I’ve been taking a lot of what I’m learning and applying it!
EXCERPTS (UNDER THE CUT)
CHAPTER ONE: THE SPY
#1
During the summer between my sophomore and junior year, Lonan Herrings packed me into his Dad’s repainted Chevrolet, left his name sharp on his mother’s tongue, and drove to New York City at six in the morning. For the first time since we’d become friends, jealousy weighed our silence. He buzzed across the highway, even though we knew his mother had no intention of finding us.
#2
“Which animal would I be,” he asked, “if I left tomorrow and lived in the forest?”
“Why would you want to do that?” I smiled even though I knew he was probably serious.
His shoulders squared and he looked out his window. Two men in the next car shouted at each other, their windows down. Something about a mortgage. “You would come with me, of course.” He turned to me. “Which animal gets along best with a doe?”
#3
I shut my eyes to snap the cold. It might have been the fact that, most times, his gentle voice pulled ragged words from his throat, as if he had just stepped out of the rain after standing in it for hours. It might have been the way he cupped the rim of a camera with humble demure. I was never afraid to tell him anything in the patience that bled from him. His eyes were milky blue and he wore an olive jacket covered in pins that kept strangers interested. Since he seemed like he felt out of place most times, I never did. We were a grade apart; our friendship bloomed late. So long as I had a friend at all, I didn’t care how we’d met.
“You would be a blue jay,” I decided. For only a second, I’d been worried that I offended him, until his mouth curved to one side and he laughed softly, as though he wasn’t sure he was allowed. His head hovered over the steering wheel. A patch of freckles absently creeped over the bridge of his nose like winter weeds.
This first chapter is a flashback to exactly a year before the second chapter takes place! After an argument with his mom, Lonan drives out of state with Ray. I plan for it to be all we see of Lonan (in the present) up until the halfway point of the story.
CHAPTER TWO: I WAS QUIET
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I was a firm believer that the best art was created when the artist was alone, angry, or depressed.
After Lonan secured his train ticket to New York, I was surprised to find that I became none of these things. We buried a time capsule, painted his walls cerulean, and drove two-hundred miles without a word to anyone. Some of my most colorful memories were unplanned in the beginning.
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Katherine Herrings’ bakery loitered over the coast of town, sheltered in pitch crags and shallow tide pools congested with cigarettes. I often ate lunch on the deck on my break. She was the only person I knew who – after everything her nephew had said – didn’t make him the first topic of our conversations.
An indie rock song that I recognized buzzed from a radio below me. I pulled my tablet screen down and pushed my chair out so the plastic legs kicked up and scratched the backs of my legs.  Slowly, I peered between my ankles, through the patio boards, and into the boat lodge below. Pumpkin-red hair plastered to my forehead in the heat that clung to the late days of September. Waves bubbled and crashed, peanut oil dripped from hot dog buns, and muffled gossip chirped like a family of cicadas. I bit my tongue at the bitter smoke that warped the wind.
#3
Jude laughed then, and her shoulders tipped, haughty. Waves hissed in her silence as the lights in the kitchen behind Katherine flickered. Her mouth opened slightly at the ring of dishes and laughter that danced with each other inside. A moment passed before she took a wide step back.
Together, her accomplices waltzed after her as she ran down the pavement, flecking sand until the night’s blue air gulped their outlines. Katherine beat a towel against the patio leg, then she slid and locked the door. Frogs jeered in the silence that pervaded the sea.
I whispered the name back to myself so I wouldn’t forget it. Jude Ahuja. I took a sip of ginger ale, and she buzzed on my lips.
The story cuts to Ray’s senior year of high school. Summer has just ended, Lonan has left for college, and her camera is broken. Jude is a bit like a character out of a film to her, and she wishes she could know more about her after witnessing a loud argument with Katherine Herrings, Lonan’s aunt.
CHAPTER THREE: PEOPLE-WATCHING
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Early into our friendship, I’d learned this patience. The first time he brought me to Sugarfell, he told me that all of the paths led back to the same place. As long as you played the game, you were guaranteed a prize. He didn’t speak much, but I knew he wasn’t a very good liar.
Less than an hour passed when I was met with silence. I crept up and down the same path four times. Each step sent a shock through my legs to my chest. The sun hadn’t risen to the highest point in the sky, still glimmering through tree branches in golden fractals, pulling on static darkness.
#2
“Are you crying?” he asked.
I shook my head fast. “No.” My voice barely reached a whisper. It was a lot deeper than normal.
He puckered his lips as though I had offended him. “But you were about to.”
“You said that all the paths lead back to one another.” I stood up from the jagged stump and shuffled through the leaves until the tips of our shoes were inches apart. “I knew you’d come back. And you did.”
#3
When I turned back, sore curiosity teased the emerald in Lonan’s eyes.
“Do you ever people-watch?” he asked softly.
This chapter is another really short chapter that I’m ultimately not sure I’m going to keep! I sort of included it by accident while Ray was riding her bike to the forest, but I ended up really liking it as a bridge into the next scene. Hopefully, I find I way to make it fit!!
CHAPTER FOUR: SUGAR-COATED
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Years with Lonan had prepared me for being alone. If you spend any long amount of time with someone, you’ll become a thief to their behaviors. Lonan observed too much. If I stared long enough, trees began to replace all of the people we’d ever seen. Oaks with roots that serpentined the ground like children splashing in the bay, pines with needles like spindly old hands, maples with hollows like watchful eyes.
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I did remember, but I couldn’t then. Blood gushed too close to his eyelid and dripped down his cheek like tears. There was a grace period in my life – likely when I was a newborn – when I couldn’t picture what my blood would look like on the light side of my skin.
And this is where I’ll leave off on the excerpts for now! I’ve been really focused on taking my time and setting things up before the next chapter, which is going to have lots more action in it. Things are going to start picking up again, so I’m really excited for that!
Thanks for reading if you made it this far :)
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COSPLAY THEME PAGE: Extraordinary Men of Cosplay
How did the Extraordinary Men of Cosplay start? What was the spark that lead to the creation?
Extraordinary Men of Cosplay initially was started off as League of Extraordinary Gentlemen of Cosplay by a fellow cosplayer whom no longer does it but I was friends with. I inherited the page with just shy of 1,000 followers. At that point I changed the name up and made it a point to feature as wide of a spectrum of male cosplayers as possible.
The original idea came up for the page during a live session where the discussion was based off of the lack of men being featured in pages. At this point we wanted to just create a place where men could submit their work and not feel they were getting slighted for more popular women cosplayers.
Was there any other male cosplayer theme/share page around when you started?
At the time the page created, to my knowledge there wasn't a page that specifically featured just male cosplayers. I think this made our page unique in the sense that we were there to show and share the amazing talents that male cosplayers possess but didn't necessarily have a platform to share.
What was your first experience at a convention like and along the same line how did you discover cosplay?
My very first taste of a cosplay convention was back in 2017 at C2E2 in Chicago. I've gone every year since as well as attended a couple others in the Chicago area since I am located in Wisconsin. The first moment I took it all in, I was hooked. I've made many friends through this hobby and it's a fun and exciting way to express yourself and learn new things you didn't know we're so fun. For me cosplay was discovered by deciding to go out for Halloween with a group of friends in 2016. I am a huge Ghostbusters fan ( for those that follow my personal cosplay page, @crazycocoabuttercosplay, it's quite apparent) So for Halloween I decided to go as a GB and my friend helped me create an entire screen accurate pack, suit, etc. From that moment on I was hooked.
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How has your page change from 2017 to now?
I would have to say the page has grown and morphed tremendously. From the early stages to now, we have been able to increase our followers to well over 10k which for us number don't matter,  but it just shows the audience for male cosplayers to charge their work in front of is large. We've also been able to meet so many wonderful new people and take pride in being able to help support the smallest cosplayers to the biggest
What’s the best part/worst part of running a theme/share page?
I would say just the wonderful down to earth interactions with people that have the same passion and excitement for cosplay as I do. Its always fun to get a bunch of needs together to geek out over the latest show, characters, or stories. Also knowing that people genuinely appreciate us helping promote and share their hard work that they put in. They are fans of our page but really, we are just fans of their work. The hardest thing is the unnecessary drama that comes with dealing with a large group of people. Everyone wants their fame and we always try out best to share as many different people as possible. Plus with the large amount of entries we get every day, sometimes it takes time for us to feature their work and patience isn't exactly some people's best qualities. You also get the pushy people or the people that try to turn a situation into something that it isn't but we do our best to let it roll off of us. For the most part, it have been a memorable experience.
What do you hope people come away after viewing your page?
I would have to say that the one thing we hope people take away from our page is that we are laid back, low key page tjat just genuinely try our best to share the widest variety of male cosplayers. Follower count or talent level means nothing to us. If a person is passionate about what they are creating, the character/fandom they are promoting, or just are trying to learn new things, we are just more than happy to be able to share in that experience by letting those in the cosplay community know that it is for everyone.
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Tell us what is cosplay battle about? I noticed that was in your story highlights!
Cosplay Battle is our yearly competition we hold around August/September. Basically we have a long list of characters we ask submissions for and allow men and women to enter. We then have pre-determined character teams that we put together. An example is we pick someone to represent Superman and Supergirl. They are then a team and go against another team such as Batman and Batgirl. We then do this in a tournament style and the winning teams are selected by peers and followers based off of likes.
This competition was done to bring cosplayers together to work together and share in the same fandoms that may not have otherwise crossed paths.  The winners don't receive any monetary prize but usually get a nice lengthy feature and also were selected as Page Models for one of our close brother pages, @sharingcosplay. It's all intended for fun and usually a lot of work but people really enjoy it and look forward to it so the work is surely worth it.
What’s in store for Extraordinary Men of Cosplay in the future?
 I would have to say what's in store is just to continue growing as a page and sticking to the same standards from when we first started, all are welcome. The rise in followers is nice, but the gaining of friends is truly what is special and something we don't take for granted. Another thing that is new to us, is we started up a sister page called @extraordinary_women_of_cosplay. This is a mirror page of the men's page only for women. We did this as a way to be able to promote the many outstanding women followers that have supported us men for all these years. We are looking forward to that page growing and using both platforms to do our part in the cosplay community.
I would just like to say a great big THANK YOU for kindly asking us to take part in this interview. For a page of your status to recognize the work we have put in and the things that we are doing is truly gratifying for us as a male cosplay community and also on a personal level for all the hard work that goes in behind the scenes. We definitely appreciate this opportunity and wish you the best!
https://www.instagram.com/extraordinary_men_of_cosplay/
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hey darl, since you opened the requests i'd love to make one! a little fic where jon is just constantly bumping into this one gal in the library to the point they worked up a routine and basically come there every week, same hour, both of them really not coming to read anymore but just to meet up and talk, and jonathan working up the courage to finally ask her on a real date? i'm so sorry if this doesn't make sense, i seem to have lost the ability to form coherent sentences lmao
It’s totally fine and thank you so much for being my first request! I hope you like it and don’t mind that I didn’t do reader insert since I’m not good at those. Enjoy!
It’s well known that the Gotham City library is home to thousands of books on thousands of subjects, so it isn’t unusual for a gothamite to come across a rogue or two while browsing for a new book to read. Of course nobody ever really does anything out of fear of being attacked or pursued by said rogue, and so the library at some point became a sort of neutral ground between the civilians and the villains (cops not included).
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It started with a book.
All Jonathan wanted to do was find something new to read since his collection at the hideout was getting boring. While it was normal for his acquaintances to be approached in one way or another by civilians, people tended to steer clear of him, and he honestly couldn’t have it any other way. Of course, all good things have to come to an end at some point or another, and for him, it consisted of a four hundred page copy of Rebecca to be dropped just inches away from hitting him.
“I’m so sorry! Oh my god, are you alright? Did I hit you?” A female voice came from the other side of the bookshelf as a hazel eye peered at him through the small gap between two books before vanishing. He could hear said person scrambling to get down from whatever they were standing on as they obviously began to rush over to his side of the bookshelf, presumably to apologize once more and retrieve the book that they had just almost dropped on him. Within moments he was staring down at the woman’s curly mop of hair while she picked up the book, still apologizing. “I’m so so so sorry! I swear, being short is a curse considering the fact that they seem to put all of the good books on the top of the shelf! Are you alright? Did I hit you? Wait I already asked that-” She cut herself off when she stood back up and looked up at Jonathan with crooked glasses, “oh, you’re Dr. Crane!”
He gave a small smile (that he quickly got rid of) when she addressed him by his title instead of his villain name, and upon noticing what book she had picked up he decided to respond instead of just walking away like how he originally intended. “Yes, I am. Might I ask who you are?” 
This seemed to make her somewhat happy considering the fact that she smiled while fixing her glasses. “I go by Kat, with a ‘k’ of course because apparently everything has to be spelled weirdly for some reason, it actually started as just a nickname from one of my friends. I don’t really know why they began calling me that seeing how my name had no ‘kat’ in it and I honestly think that they just started calling me that to see how long it would take for me to correct them, which I obviously haven’t done yet considering the fact that I actually changed my name to...Oh sorry! I’m rambling aren’t I?” The woman who he now knew went by ‘Kat’ glanced up at the clock on the wall before looking around and grabbing a book off of the shelf, thrusting it into his hands before rushing off. “Sorry, If I don’t hurry I might miss my bus! I recommend this though! Most people think that it’s just for kids but it’s still really good. Have a nice day!” 
With that, she was gone and Jonathan Crane was left with a copy of Coraline in his hands. Raising an eyebrow, he read the flap copy before shrugging and continuing his search for more books, keeping the one that she gave to him as he went to leave.
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It didn’t take long for Jonathan to finish his stack of books, and so he returned to the library the following week to get more. He would never admit to anyone that he read the book that the woman from last week (Kat, he remembered) gave him, and he would also never admit that he found it interesting. 
That promise to himself went out the window the moment he bumped into her, well, more like almost tripped over her considering the fact that she was seated on the floor while looking at the books on the very bottom of the shelf.
“I’m so sorry! Are you alri-Oh it’s you! How are you? Did you like the book? I know a lot of people say that it’s just for kids but I think it’s really good and I thought that maybe you might like it, of course everyone has different tastes when it comes to books so may-Sorry, I’m rambling again.”
To be honest, Jonathan didn’t mind the rambling, in fact, he found it a little cute, but that was something that he would never tell anybody. “No no, it’s fine. The book was good and I really liked the ide-are those….pumpkins on your glasses chain?” He asked, leaning forward a tad bit to get a closer look and he was in fact correct. Kat had little jack-o-lanterns on her glasses chain. How cute.
“Oh....well….yes. My other chain broke last week after it got caught on something on the bus. I don’t really wear this one unless it’s September or October but I couldn’t find any of my other chains and so I decided to just go ahead and use this one. Besides, who doesn’t like Halloween?” Her eyes widened once she remembered who she was talking to and she began to fiddle with the book that she had in her hands, opening and closing it nervously.
Chuckling at her nervous behavior, Jonathan held a book out to her. “Relax. I don’t intend to cause any trouble today, and yes, Halloween is nice. By the way, I recommend this to read.” 
With a smile, Kat took the book and thanked him before gesturing to a small and slightly hidden reading area. “Care to join me Dr. Crane? It’s fine if you don’t want to, I just thought that maybe since I don’t actually have anywhere to be this time that mayb-”
“I’d love to.”
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This went on for a while, the two of them meeting up at the library to exchange book recommendations and sometimes read together, and as time went on they began to read less and talk more. Over time Jonathan began to learn small things about Kat, like how she was a student at Gotham University (“You know I used to teach there.”), how she was currently getting her masters in professional writing, and her love for rats (which he only found out about when she brought a small bag that she revealed to have her pet rat in).
It didn’t take long for Jonathan to realize that he was slowly falling in love with Kat. He couldn’t ignore the way his heart sped up whenever she suggested that they go sit, or how it jumped whenever her hand brushed against his when she pointed to something that she found exciting. Eventually, he found himself talking about her to Edward, who would just get annoyed and say that he should just ask her out. 
The idea of asking Kat out was one of the few things that made him worry. What if she rejected him or only thought of him as a friend? He couldn’t possibly live with just being her friend. She was his Mistress of Fear! He needed her! It took a lot of convincing from Edward, but he eventually decided that he would ask her out the next time that they meet up.
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Sitting in his usual seat at the library, Jonathan looked at the clock on the wall every so often while he waited for Kat to show up. 
Ten minutes passed, then fifteen, and eventually thirty as he waited nervously. What if she decided that she didn’t want to associate with him anymore due to his status as a villain? It hadn’t been an issue before but maybe something happened that changed her mind? Thankfully his worries were put to rest when he noticed her walk up and sit in her usual seat next to him.
“I’m so sorry I’m late Jonathan! I had to go to the bank to straighten some things out with my account and I got caught up in a robbery because apparently everyone thinks that they can rob a bank, then my bus got stuck in a traffic jam because Poison Ivy apparently escaped today and so the GCPD were checking every vehicle to make sure that she wasn’t hiding in one, which honestly I think is kind of stupid because why would she hide in some random person's car or on the bus when she hates people so much? It’s much more logical that she would immediat-Oh I’m rambling again, aren’t I?” Kat stopped talking and reached into her bag to pull out the book that Jonathan had earlier lent her from his personal collection and held it out to him, “thank you for letting me borrow this!”
With a smile he took the book and sat it on the small table between him, “it’s no problem Kat, I was honestly surprised that you had never read this one before considering the fact that it’s so popular with fans of the horror genre. By the way, I have a quick question for you.” This was it, this was the moment where he would ask her out. There was no backing out of this now.
“Would you want to go to dinner sometime?”
“Do you want to go out for coffee?”
Jonathan looked at Kat with wide eyes, who in turn was looking at him with equally wide eyes.
“Did you just-”
“Are you-”
Kat covered her mouth and nodded eagerly before lowering her hand and grinning. “We both had the same idea, didn’t we?”
“More or less.”
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kinetic-elaboration · 3 years
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September 18: Saturday Excursions
I accomplished...some of what I wanted to do today.
I went out in the afternoon to the coffee shop, but I didn’t want to sit inside and wear a mask for two hours and probably still worry about all the people around me, so I sat outside instead, where it was of course VERY HOT. So that made it unpleasant in general and not conducive to planning the Southern Gothic AU in particular. I got more into it eventually, and the coffee I got was very good, but I still... haven’t actually outlined the whole thing.
I do think I know basically the whole thing now, tbh. The most annoying thing is that the notes are literally in 4 different places and even my chapter-by-chapter outlines aren’t really in truly OUTLINE form, such that I can glance at them and then immediately jump into writing. But I’m both tired of going over and over the same material in my head without actually crafting any of it, and also beginning to worry that if I don’t try out writing it, I’m going to stall out or burn out or get bored or overwhelmed or something.
So I think tomorrow I’m going to give it a go, actually writing chapter one. I have a good sense of it, I think. I mean... who knows, I could easily forget stuff, but worst case I have to do some awkward editing. I just... mmmm get so nervous when I’m about to start something!!! I want to get the mood, I want to get the characters, I want to get the motivations--which is particularly tricky in this fic--all correct!
...I’m obsessing a little. Oh well. No piece of art is perfect, you just gotta do the best you can. Something that exists is better than something that does not.
Anyway, after that I took the bus up the mart because I... I’ve just felt recently like I want to wander mindlessly around stores. It’s very odd because that’s usually something I actively hate doing, and the bigger and brighter and less personal the store, the worse it is. Sometimes when I’m there too long I start to feel like my brain is just leaving my body and all I can do is mindlessly wander the aisles. Maybe mindlessly wandering is what I want now. Maybe wearing a mask limits the amount of weird big box store air that’s getting into my lungs. Maybe I want the stimulation of the bright lights and the varied objects and the people moving around me, as an antidote to...such a very long time of primarily isolation.
At any rate, I actually did enjoy it. I spent a long while looking at all the Halloween and fall stuff, which made me happy. I impulse bought a pillow shaped like a black cat. I also got a new plate to replace the one I broke yesterday (as suspected, it is noticeably bigger than my other plates... oh well), and some more spoons, since I’m always thinking to myself ‘how can I be out of spoons again?????’, and some new dry erase markers, because I’m out of those too. Could not find a small five subject notebook or a reasonable sized bottle of hand sanitizer. But I can look for those at the pharmacy later this week.
I did NOT impulse buy a candle, though I deeply wanted one, or an opposable spider, or a plastic Halloween bucket that reminded me of my childhood, so in other words, it was basically a successful trip to get stuff I needed and merely LOOK at stuff I didn’t.
I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to do when I got home but basically I did almost none of it because instead I just wanted to stare mindlessly at a screen. Oh well. That’s how it is sometimes.
The big plan for tomorrow is to write, as much as possible. I’d love to get on a roll and... write the whole chapter? Is that too ambitious? We’ll see. Other than that, I have a few other small things on the agenda but not much. Hopefully the writing at least will go okay...
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emgkheadcannons · 4 years
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Fall
Kelly is super into it. He loves dressing up, decorating the house inside and out, and who doesn’t love candy. 
Even though both Kelly and Em are multimillionaires, they still shop at places like Big Lots, Target, and junk stores, along with the bougie A.F.  stores, like on Rodeo Drive, in LA. Kelly especially loves these stores for holiday/seasonal decorations, like Halloween. Em had no idea what he was getting into when he asked Kelly to basically move in with him. Now Kelly had two homes to decorate. 
Kelly starts decorating for fall and Halloween the first week of September. Em doesn't notice right away, because it starts out small. The candles around the house are less citrusy and tropical, and are now more rich smelling, and the scents of apple, pumpkin, and coffee have taken their place. A new welcome mat with pumpkins at the front door, another with leaves at the back,  adding more throw blankets, and more throw blankets around the house. Em’s house is very big, and he is a work-a-holic, so these little changes were appreciated but he doesn't really remember when they happened. Once the older rapper did notice that the changes are more recent, he just assumed either Kelly or one of his daughters was doing them to get ready for fall. Hell they pulled out their winter clothes last week; hats, jackets, scarves, gloves, and heavier sweaters unboxed, and were being aired out. 
It wasn’t until there was at least one pumpkin in every room that Em decided to talk to Kelly about his decision to redecorate Em’s house.
Em found him outside, loaded down with bags from Tuesday Morning and BigLots. 
Looking up, the blond smiles when he sees his boyfriend, before opening his mouth. “Oh, hey. Perfect timing. Can you help me with these?”
Em sighs, but there is a small fond smile on his lips as he goes to help his blond boyfriend with his haul. Grabbing a few of the bags, Em follows Kelly inside. Once the car is unloaded, Kelly starts to unbag everything. From the looks of it, the blond bought a ton of pillows, and more decorations.
“Why did you buy more pillows? We have a bunch already.”
“Those pillows are more summery. These are fall colors, and look at the cool ones I found.” The first of the “cool” pillows is a short, but long black one that has the word “Boo”written in a fancy script. The next one is a medium sized white pillow with a black cat, wearing a purple witch’s hat, and the words “I’ll put a spell on you” in gold script.
Looking down at the pillows, then back up to the blond’s face, Em knew he was going to tread carefully on the subject, if he wanted his boyfriend in his bed tonight. Also the fact Kelly has been so happy lately probably has to do with the season change.
“Those pillows are nice, but don’t you want some of this for your own home too?” Em prays he said that right. He isn’t in the mood for a fight (not a real one anyway).
Kelly’s smile gets even bigger. “Oh don’t worry, me and the guys already pulled out all of the fall and Halloween stuff for my house. We put up all the fall decor, and we will start on Halloween next time I’m there. Don’t want to put it up too early, and have the stuff get gross, before October.” Kelly then proceeds to pull out red, orange and brown pillows from the bags.
All Em could think about was that Kelly already did this to his own house, and this was just fall, he was still going to do Halloween. What was that going to entail? If Em said no Kelly would be upset but would respect Em’s wishes to leave his house as is, but Kelly was just sharing his love of the season and holiday with his boyfriend. Making himself a part of Em’s home by adding a part of himself to it. Em had to think if the pillows, pumpkins, candles, and the decorations to come were really bothering him, and no they weren’t. 
“Okay then, but sweetheart,” Kelly looks up at the use of the pet name, his face looking a little worried, like Em was going to ask him to stop, “I don’t mind you decorating the house, just a few thing, tell me about any major changes, ask before you throw anything out or relocate important things, and please not too much in my office or recording studio.”
Kelly takes a moment to respond, before the smile is back on his face, and he walks over to Em. wrapping his arms around the older rapper. “I think I can follow those rules.” The blond bends down, giving his boyfriend a kiss, before untangling himself to finish with the pillows and other things he bought.
Em hums, delighted with himself for handling that so well. He also enjoys seeing the blond’s ass as he bends over for the bags. 
“Besides the pillows, what else did you get?”
“I got this leaf thing that has a glass jar in the center to put a candle in. A wreath and a wreath hook for the door. Oh these cute fucking kitchen towels. And this cute owl holding a pumpkin.” Kelly shows him all the stuff. The towels have a pumpkin on them and say you are the pumpkin to my spice.
Kelly does what Em asked and mostly leaves his office and recording studio alone. Only adding a few small, fake pumpkins to both, and a small scarecrow that kinda looks like the blond to the office.
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blookmallow · 4 years
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happy halloween everyone
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its september which means its basically fall which means its halloween and ANYWAY, one of my ultimate passions is villain songs, the more over-the-top the better, and i have been steadily creating a MASSIVE collection of every villain song i could find. we got disney. we got broadway. we got cartoons. we got video games. we got voltaire. we got creature feature. its all here, folks (sorry about the random undertale comic thing in there i couldnt find Any other version of dominator’s song that was able to be added to playlists lmao) 
there are currently 73 songs on here so im not going to do an entire tracklist but HERE’S MY VILLAIN COLLECTION ENJOY
i will also be adding my (currently) 3 and a half hour halloween playlist on that account sometime between now and halloween so watch out for that if thats a thing anyone wants. halloween is my passion and i have absolutely nothing else going for me right now lmao 
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annieintheaair · 3 years
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What I’d Say
I’d be lying if I said that these last few weeks have been easy. I may be the only person in the world wishing to go back to 2020. I had no idea that heading into 2021 would mean so much sadness, disappointment, and feeling broken. Even if I had to go back to January 2020 and relive the entire year, just to get to the last 6 months that were great, I’d relive all of the pain that I felt leading up to that point.
James stopped talking to me. On Sunday, he texted me to say that he promised he would call me later and give me some answers. He never called and I haven’t received any texts from him since. I’m at the point where it takes everything in me to resist the urge to text him, even knowing he won’t respond, just because not communicating at all, even if it’s one sided, means facing the reality that it’s really over.
Since we may never speak again, here’s what I wish I could say:
Dear James,
A week before I met you, I was in Canada for work with my friend, Shasta. I was dealing with the pain of being stonewalled and ignored by someone that I cared about at the time. It was exactly a week from the last unanswered text that I sent him to our first date.
Gosh... I remember July like it was yesterday. I was smiling all day on July 2nd while we messaged back and forth on Bumble. When you asked if I wanted to meet up that night, I was so excited... but not too excited because your Bumble profile said that you were only looking for “something casual”.
I was walking down the hallway in my hotel when I first saw you. You were recording the self-playing piano on your phone, probably posting on your Instagram stories because now I know, you love to post stories. I can just picture you there. If I close my eyes, it’s like we’re still back there, meeting for the first time.
We walked into town together and went to the Cowboy Bar and later headed to Stillwest. It was at Stillwest when you started opening up to me. I loved how easy you were to talk to and I felt like we connected right away; two people who had both been cheated on in their long-term relationships.
I didn’t want that night to end and even though I had work to do that night, I didn’t care that we were out late and I wasn’t concerned about getting it done. I guess we both realized that day that we couldn’t let it end after that one date because you asked me if we could meet up again the following night. Without hesitation, I said yes.
You walked with me back to my hotel and we said “goodbye” and from my room that night, while thinking about you, fireworks appeared right outside my window. It was like the whole world was celebrating that we met.
The whole next day, I couldn’t wait for our date. When you picked me up that afternoon, we drove out to Teton Village where we took the gondola up to the top of the mountain where we sat on the patio, taking in the views, and enjoying happy hour.
We then drove through Grand Teton National Park and right as the sun began to set, we walked out to Jenny Lake and I felt like my breath was taken away by the beauty of it all. It was there that you kissed me for the first time.
We finished off the night back in town having drinks and I felt like I had never connected with anyone so fast in my life. When I left the next day, I was smiling but sad because I wasn’t sure when I’d see you again.
Only a couple of weeks later and you came to Texas to visit me. I never stopped thinking about you during those few weeks. We had some great days together and then you left when I went to work. You were gone for less than 24 hours when I told you that I had shingles and would be staying home from work. You asked if you could come back and of course, I said yes.
It was only a couple of days after that when we made our relationship official and you told me that you loved me shortly after that. I wasn’t scared and I wasn’t unsure because I knew that I loved you like a love I had never felt before.
Over the next many months, we spent most days together. The days apart were hard but I always knew that I’d see you again soon. We had so many adventures together. I loved visiting you in Wyoming at the end of August when you had me hike up an insane mountain. There’s no one else that I’d hike up a mountain like that for-- only you.
Every time we had to say goodbye, I swear I cried a little harder. You were here with me in Texas for most of September and when you left, I think you were gone for maybe four days before coming back because we both hated being apart.
In October we spent a weekend in South Padre with your friend and his girlfriend and the following weekend we went on a road trip with my dogs to check out breweries in Houston. For Halloween weekend, we drove down to San Antonio to visit your parents.
November got a little harder. Maybe I tend to sabotage things when I sense that they might end. I’ve always felt like it’s easier to hurt someone else before they can hurt you, you know, beat them to the chase. The weekend before we went to Winstar (the casino), we got into a fight. It was the biggest fight we ever had. You left and were planning on going back to Wyoming. The two days we spent apart, I realized that I never wanted to be without you again. Even though distance sucks and it’s difficult, it’s so much harder to lose you forever than it is to lose you temporarily.
I went to the casino alone but you came the second night. We ended up having a great time. I felt like if we could get past that fight then we could get past anything. I stopped going to see my therapist because I felt like we had handled that on our own and maybe I didn’t need her anymore. I was so wrong.
We made it another week. I soaked in that last week together in Texas before I went to New Jersey for Thanksgiving and you heading to Wyoming for opening weekend for snowboarding. Did we both know then that that was the beginning of the end? I remember yelling at you in the car the night before you left because I got lost and stuck in traffic on the way to the airport to pick up my mom. We managed to get through it and did okay for a few days.
While I was in NJ, you started giving me the silent treatment. I went back and forth a few times about whether or not I should meet you in Wyoming because I wasn’t sure if you wanted me there. All I ever wanted was for you to be happy, which is why I had volunteered to go there to be with you so you could spend more time there instead of rushing back to Texas to be with me. I thought I could give you everything-- let you have Wyoming and be there with you because we were happy together, right?
We had a great time together in Wyoming but something felt off, something felt different. I felt like there was this distance between us but I told myself that it was that we had just become so comfortable with each other that we had become a little boring. We had a routine while I was there-- we’d work during the day and then we’d go to happy hour, sometimes the grocery store, and go back to your apartment to watch TV together in bed and drink hot toddies before falling asleep.
I was only supposed to stay for a week and the day I was suppose to leave, we got in a fight because the original plan was that you’d come back to Texas with me. I didn’t like the idea of going back to Texas alone for no reason when I wanted to be with you. I wanted as much time as possible with you. I basically begged you to ask me to stay and after some time, you did. Maybe I should have just told you I wanted to stay. I know I didn’t go about that in the right way.
I stayed for another five days or so and we had many more great times but something was still off, wasn’t it? When you drove me to the airport I tried so hard not to cry but I couldn’t stop myself. You dropped me off and hugged me and kissed me goodbye. I was bawling my eyes out.
I cried going through security, waiting for the plane, and then through the whole flight. I missed you so much already. Subconsciously, did I know that I’d never see you again after that day? Did I know then that it was over?
I had a countdown. I went to New Jersey for Christmas and you went to San Antonio but were going to come to NJ the day after Christmas for a few days. The flights were pretty full and I didn’t know if you’d be able to get there. Looking back at all of this, can I ask you something? If you knew it was so important to me, why didn’t you buy a ticket?
Instead of buying a ticket to come to me, the day you were supposed to come to NJ, you instead texted me, first saying that you didn’t want to end it but in the very next text, you told me that it was over. You drove back to Dallas with your sister instead and I was left feeling crushed and confused.
Without a word, you went back to Wyoming before New Years, leaving me alone to figure out how to get my dogs back to Texas with me and knowing that you were abandoning me on New Years when we had made plans.
I don’t know what has happened over these last few weeks. I really don’t understand it. What went so wrong in our relationship that we couldn’t even try to fix it? All I wanted was answers so I could understand and learn from it, even if it meant never getting back together.
I’ve gone through other breakups in the past and I immediately jumped back onto the dating apps to swipe to meet new people and go on dates. This time is different. I have no desire to go on dating apps or meet new people. It’s hard to move on when I still love you so much. Will I find another love like ours?
Even with all of the hurt and lack of communication recently, there’s still a part of me that wishes that the movies were real and you’d surprise me and show up at my door and we’d hug and swear that this would never happen again. You’d tell me that you made a huge mistake and you’re sorry for all of this and you want to work it out. Movies aren’t real life though but every time my dogs bark or I hear a car outside, I’m disappointed because you’re not there. Cupcakes from my job showed up on Wednesday and when the doorbell rang, I wished it was you but I guess cupcakes are the next best thing.
I didn’t realize at the time but my camera in my kitchen recorded the times we were together in my house. I see the smiles on those people in the early days and I know that they were real and genuine. I know how I felt and I think I know how you felt at the time, too. Can we go back there? Can we time travel back to July and be those people again? Sometimes I just want to get lost in those recordings. I think that if I watch them long enough then we’ll be transported back there.
If I never see you again, I’ll remember all of the great times we had-- from the first day we met to floating in my pool during the summer to road trips and vacations, hiking mountains, happy hours, breweries, and the every day, like sitting in my backyard together and all of the times you hugged me and said, “You make me so happy”. I’ll remember you laying on the floor of my closet one night, telling me, after a few drinks, that you wanted to lay in a field and look up at the stars with me and that you wanted love like your parents found in each other. All of the times we talked about our future together and not about “if” we got married someday but “when”.
Telling people that it’s over between us has been hard... very hard. Shasta and my therapist (who I decided to go back to after all) both told me that they thought I’d be telling them that we got engaged and not that we broke up. I don’t know who was more shocked-- me or them?
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for whatever it was that finally broke us. I’m sorry for the things I said when I was mad and hurt. I’m sorry that I can’t wish you happiness right now. I just hope that you’re missing me as much as I’m missing you. I hope your world feels a little quieter and lonely without me in your life. I hope you never find a love that compares to ours. I hope someday you look back and realize that you let go of something so amazing. I hope that I’m wrong and that the day at the airport wasn’t the last time I’ll have ever seen you.
I still hope that someday we can go on adventures together again. Until then, I’ll be taking a trip to Disney, like we had planned, and Seattle, where you said you had never been but wanted to go. I’m still going to go on these adventures alone and hopefully through time spent with old friends, maybe I’ll find myself again. Maybe I’ll find a way to be happy again, even if it means being happy without you.
Please know that I’ll always care about you. You’ll always have a piece of my heart. I hope, if nothing else, someday maybe we can be friends and talk. I’m releasing you, I’m letting go of the hold you have on me. I forgive you. I need to find peace and I’m not here for revenge. I’ll remember you in all of the best ways.
I (still) love you,
Annie
xoxo
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Hi Lauren, can I ask you about being a witch and part of a coven? Like how does it work? I'm not asking for any weird reason lol I just think it's cool and interesting. If you can/want to talk about it. Also happy Halloween! Enjoy the season 🦇🎃👻
Hi!! Yes of course! I’m out of the broom closet as they say lol Being a witch is something that has always been a little part of me, I just didn’t know it was for real I guess. I didn’t know that actual covens existed until my long-time friend told me she’d been taking classes for a year and I had no idea! The coven I’m a part of is based on traditional American witchcraft, so not quite Wiccan, but parts of it. I had to have an interview before I was invited to become a neophyte, and then every week on Thursday nights I attended classes for about two hours. The course is a year-long, and so many people don’t make it through because it’s a pretty heavy commitment! When I moved last September (I’m back now) I had to perform a specific ritual to see if it was worth being taught long-distance, and I aced it! So I was taking zoom classes for a few months before the pandemic happened! I took a blood oath when I started, which basically binds me from sharing any information within the coven with others, or letting anyone see our courses, etc. Some people are witches and aren’t out of the broom closet because of their specific jobs or for other personal reasons.
We spent a year studying different subjects every week... a few two weeks in a row. Everything from sabbats and rituals to harvesting herbs and brewing potions. We learned about astrology and palmistry and all other forms of divination. We learned about crystals and the meaning of the days and tarot and how to build an altar and call upon deities and spirit guides. We learned about candle and sex magick. Tinctures and dream work and meditation... I absorbed so much knowledge it was unreal! The only hard part is picking a certain subject to focus on because I found everything so fascinating! It was nice to learn about witchcraft from my High Priestess who basically broke it down and gave us the real deal because it’s difficult to find correct information these days with everyone one and their brother selling Beginner Witch Kits and books with misleading information.
My class started with seven and dwindled down to two, and I graduated on August 1st. I haven’t seen a lot of my coven recently (and obviously not much while I was away) but we were required to go to full moon rituals and sabbats to get to know everyone and to be together because there’s strength in numbers! In fact many of them were celebrating Hallowmas this weekend, but I didn’t go for safety reasons.
There truly is a little witch in all of us, and it’s been so amazing to find other people similar to me, and to have a support system like them. Everyone is so kind and knowledgeable, and i feel like I could never stop learning around them. I do my best to try and practice every single day, to make myself stronger, but it’s not always easy! I’m terrible at routine as well lol. I do tarot often and I’ve been trying to meditate more because that’s super important to witches. Our minds are our greatest power. I’m really into past life regression right now because it’s interesting to learn about where my soul has been. My other favorite thing about being a witch is that most people don’t believe you when you tell them you are one lol. Hopefully whenever we get out of this mess, I’ll be able to attend some more classes to further my learning! I’m not sure what else I could share! If you ever have any other questions, let me know and I;lol be happy to answer them! Happy Halloween!! 👻🎃🔮
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Blog Post #7- 31 October 2020-Halloween My Baby’s!
Happy Halloween spooky people 🎃
Ahh what an exciting day! Not only is it halloween m’mama’s, it’s the day that my partner/baby daddy/love of my life moves in and I’m soooo excited you have NO IDEA! Need to enjoy the last month alone until we have a little babe around! Now I know what you’re probably thinking...you guys are moving in together a month before having a baby?? Why don’t you already live together??
 WELL. 
Truth is we’ve basically lived together for the last 2 years (in Edmonton) because I would spend weeks at a time at his place, even though I still kept my own apartment. I’m a very independent momma, and I’m young so I didn’t want to give up my space even though I barely used it in the last 2 years, you know? It worked great honestly! But when we got pregnant we knew that we wanted to be able to buy a house ASAP so we don’t have to rent anymore. Only problem is that it is so ridiculously expensive to live in Canada. So, I moved back to Calgary and into my parents home back in September, and my partner is moving down today finally to join me! Not only are my parents being super generous in letting us stay here so we can save up, but they are very excited to get to have babe and us around. We feel very fortunate (especially me) to have their support. Both my partner and I are just starting out in life, so we know we’ll both need to work in order to support our family, so knowing we have people around us that are so selfless and willing to help us out is great. The first year or two of babes life I’ll be home with her, so I’m happy that I have my parents here to help me out and keep me company while Sean works (hey, I’ve never been a mom before so I don’t know what the heck I’m doing!)
Ugh, I just feel very thankful today. The gratitude practice I did this morning really has done wonders. I’ll post it incase there’s any pregnant momma’s (or just regular mommas, or even non-mommas) that need a little pick me up. #gratitude
Anyways, what are you guys doing to celebrate Halloween?! Big quarantine party plans? Still going trick or treating with your kiddos? I wanna know!
I know everything is different this year with the pandemic, and I’m sure it’s different then people thought this year’s halloween was going to go, but I know all you guys are creative and will still have a bomb.com halloween extravaganza. Feel free to message me with pictures of costumes or just with stories about how your night goes! What are you gonna dress up as?? These are the questions that haunt my mind (pun intended).
Alright, I guess I’ve rambled on long enough. I should really finish this smoothie and get my fat pregnant butt to the gym after all the candy, icecream, and McDonalds I’ve eaten in the last two days (totally worth it). Hey, its halloween so I had to indulge! Plus I only have a month left of carrying this babe around in my tummy, I better enjoy and take advantage of all the snacks while I can! #snackcidentsarereal
If you’re reading this, know that I love you and that me and my babe are wishing you and your babe(s) the happiest, healthiest, and spookiest Halloween possible 🧡 🖤 💜 💚 
Until next time Momma,
Namaste 👻🧘‍♀️ 
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123itsfaline-blog · 3 years
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Having a rough day with my mental health...I kkowbita been si up and down this year because of all the damn punches 2020 has been throwing at us. January was a high point for me as after being diabetic for 10 years I finally got my first insulin pump. Which has made my control 100 times better, I've been sick for so long and after spending a few years really neglecting my diabetes this has made major improvements for my health. February was rough... I had 2-3 hospital trips for issues with my heart and once to be put on a suicide watch. March i was hospitalized and found out I have low blood pressure and thats why I had been so weak and fainting. Including hitting my head once and nearly having a seizure on another occasion. Rest of March and beginning of April was lonely and uneventful as we were in quarantine (still kinda are) until April 12.. long story but I broke my leg, didn't get x-rays until the 24th and had surgery to repair it on the 26th. It happened so fast and I was all alone because my family couldn't visit due to covid. Home and healing and on bed rest until august.. got my cast off in the end of June. Had a nice but socially distant 4th of July with my family. I've been in and out of a dozen different doctors since mid February so I'm really burnt out from that. September was mostly boring as well kinda going stir crazy for a while now. October came and went fairly quickly but just before I met a wonderful and sweet yet smart ass of a guy. Spent an amazing Halloween weekend with him before he had to leave for work again. Spent 2 weeks waiting for him to return, basically spent all week with him before he had to leave once again. Now I'm at home waiting once again for him. I've never had this kinda experience with someone but I'm really enjoying it. Even if we are still trying to figure things out between us I'm just happy when I'm with him. I don't know how to describe how im feeling. Right now I'm just trying to get through the holidays and counting down the days to April when my brother will be released from prison ... another long as fuck story but I haven't seen my big brother since 2010/2011. That whole ordeal has been a nightmare for him and my family. I miss him so damn much.. there's more that happened in 2020 but its hard to get everything down and straight in one go
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IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME. 🎃
Ladies and gentlemen, we have an “r” in the month and if you’re new here, you’ll need to know that autumn is by far my favourite season. That means that it’s time to open fall and Halloween requests! 🎃
I’ll be taking regular requests as well this time, however, please note that Halloween and autumn requests will have priority for spooky reasons. 👻
I’ll keep requests open until the 22nd of September since I really want to give everyone a chance to submit a prompt.
If you would like to so, please send me an ask, not a direct message but you can always ask if I received it, as Tumblr swallows asks sometimes.
As always, here’s the list of characters I write for:
Kylo Ren (Star Wars)
General Hux (Star Wars)
Captain Boomerang (Suicide Squad)
Harley Quinn (Suicide Squad)
Eric (Divergent)
Loki (Thor/The Avengers)
Newt Scamander (Fantastic Beasts)
Adam (Only Lovers Left Alive)
Captain James Conrad (Kong: Skull Island)
Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings) ATTENTION: I’ve only seen two seasons thus far. If you want to request something with Ragnar, please make sure not to include any spoilers!
Jonathan Pine (The Night Manager)
Thomas Sharpe (Crimson Peak)
Now, last but not least, please just make sure to read this quick FAQ before sending me a prompt. I only have a couple of rules but I really would appreciate if you considered them before submitting. 🤗 You’ll find it below the cut:
What do you write, what will you not write? I write stories with my own OCs and Imagines with female reader inserts only. I don’t do personalised Imagines (e.g. specific appearance or name), Imagines with real existing people (like Tom Hiddleston), alpha/omegaverse or songfics (because I have a very specific music taste and don’t want to write a songfic about a song I don’t like).
The only things I don’t particularly enjoy writing about are RC having children and being a mother (unless it’s animals because I’m a proud cat mummy), or being a child. Suicide and self-harm are, with few exceptions concerning context, a no-go for me, as is gore. Other than that, I’m not big on AU’s that take place outside the actual canon universe (so, e.g. vampire!Loki is fine but barista!Loki without his powers in a world in which the Avengers don’t exist isn’t really my thing).
Which requests will you write? Requests that I receive while they are closed I don’t accept simply because of time management, with only very few exceptions. Please keep in mind: Given that with more than 15k followers, I tend to get up to 100 prompts at once, I choose those I personally like the most and/or that inspire me to write something–it is, unfortunately, impossible to write them all. 😭 I also like to combine requests that work together well to work in as many of your ideas as possible.
So, what should I request? Basically, anything you want. Don’t hesitate just because you think your request is not good enough or weird! If you’re still uncomfortable though, you can send it anonymously as well. Please be aware, however, that I only write what I am personally comfortable with. If I feel like I can’t make anything of your request, if I feel like it’s a great idea but a simple oneshot wouldn’t do justice to it, if I have already read/written something too similar or if it addresses something that is triggering for me, please don’t be upset if I delete it. That, of course, doesn’t mean your request sucks but, like every writer, I want to write stories I actually enjoy writing… or it would just feel like homework! 😅
Do NOT (and trust me, I see everything) send the exact same request you’ve sent to me to other writers as well, for I think that is rude and disrespectful. Should you do so, I’ll simply delete your request(s). If you want me to write something for you, that’s great and I’m flattered but if you send me a prompt, you either want me to write it for you or you don’t want it at all. It’s as simple as that.
How do you let people know that you’ve written/deleted their requests? If the request was anonymous, all I can do is put a note at the beginning of the story and thus make everybody aware that it was a request. I don’t copy the prompts to insert in the Imagine. If the person came off-anon, I tag them to let them know it was posted. If I choose not to write your request because of one of the above named reasons, I will not publish your ask but simply delete it. It would be mean to answer something like “there’s no way in hell I will write this” and I certainly don’t want to show anybody up. However, if you’ve been waiting for a request to be written for a long time already, feel free to ask me about it and I will, if you prefer it that way, answer you privately. Sometimes Tumblr simply swallows asks, too, unfortunately.
Do you tag people in your Imagines? No sorry, only when there’s been a request. I don’t make exceptions, for tagging is a lot of work and I prefer to spend that time writing. Just follow me and you’ll see all my new stuff on your Dashboard at all times, or even better, hit that notification button! ;-)
Would you also write about a different character if requested? That depends on the character and the request. You might have noticed that I am mostly into bad guys and villains, so you can’t expect me to write happy unicorn fluff with the world’s nicest super hero.
Anyway, you can always ask but please don’t be disappointed if I decline. Naturally, I don’t write about characters from movies/tv shows/books I don’t know, neither do I write about characters that I personally don’t like.
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