#hiding-from-reality-56

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56 and any Yamo pairing! 🫶

i just wheezed so hard when i saw what the song was i almost snorted coffee out of my nose i am so sorry for this one

#56 - kyoto phoebe bridgers + yamo

the story of how this song ended up on my wrapped is too long so it’s going in the tags but. let me set the scene for you.

2026 NHL GLOBAL SERIES™️ JAPAN - Presented by YPPI

November 13 & 14, 2026: Dallas Stars, Montreal Canadiens, Seattle Kraken, Vancouver Canucks

Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan

It’s a pitiful excuse of a consolation prize for not being able to go to the Olympics, but Kailer’s not going to look a vacation horse in the mouth. The arena’s cool. It’s huge. The people are cool. There’s so many more of them than he thought there’d be with jerseys that have his name on the back, and a lot more that have the familiar orange and blue. He takes a picture of the fifth Oilers Yamamoto jersey he signs—this one’s the good Reverse Retro—and texts it to Connor, says,

no one here has even heard of mcjesus

and gets a moon face emoji in response. Leon’s influence. Kailer’s still never really deciphered what that one means, and he doesn’t think Connor knows either.

They don’t have a lot of time off between games, but Kailer’s trying to be a good tourist. His dad had been so happy when Kailer had told him about the series that Kailer’d had to stop him from trying to book a flight a year in advance, and his mom’s been just as bad, sending him every article she sees about Best New Spot in Tokyo! Cool Restaurant! Have You Seen This Japanese Cat Café? that she scrolls across on Facebook since June. Suzy’s in the same boat, so they’ve been crossing off their compiled travel-guide list together, looping in as many guys as they can. Everyone’s been pretty game. All the teams are crammed into close quarters at the same hotel, which means everyone wants to spend as much time as possible outside of it, and it helps that Kailer’s gotten pretty close with all the other guys that the NHL picked up as Global Series figureheads. Robo’s memes? Absolutely fire. The groupchat loves them.

For every item he crosses off the list, Kailer takes a picture and keeps it tucked in his phone notes. It’s like speed-running a scavenger hunt—they’re only here for four days—but he’s doing a pretty good job. His favorite so far has been all the gardens. They’re stunning, trees shining bright red and yellow, and every vendor has been selling maple candies, maple cakes, and even fried maple, though the official maple festival doesn’t start until next week. The second garden he visits, he does it on his own after practice, buying two cakes from a cart near the gate and walking until he loses the bustle outside. It’s easy to get lost in the winding pathways, heading deeper into the quiet, and there’s dozens of benches underneath the burnished leaves where young couples are tucked away on dates, or old friends are laughing and catching up. In some of the little clearings, there’s small shrines where people leave offerings, a prayer for good luck or good fortune.

Kailer stops at one without any people and sets the second maple cake on top of it, then sits and scrolls through all the texts that he’s missed. His mom gets replied to with a picture of him outside the garden gate, grinning and surrounded by other travelers. He sends his brother a picture of a trashy graphic I Love Japan t-shirt with the threat that he’ll buy one for him, and Kailer’s dad gets a picture of the meticulously arranged and cut bonsai that are across from the bench where he’s sitting. The Seattle groupchat gets a recycled meme from Robo, and he gets two thumbs up and an “LMAO” before he can even exit the thread. Finally, Kailer takes a picture of the half-eaten maple cake in his hand, holding it next to a fallen maple leaf on the bench, and gets halfway through typing another message before he thinks better of it.

(On the plane over, Drieds was reading them a story about how when they first introduced the high-speed railway, people were afraid to use it because they thought it would be too fast for their souls to keep up.

“Bro, if that were true, you just left your soul in the middle of the Pacific,” Ebs had laughed. “Planes are faster than trains.”

“Are they?” Matty asked. “Isn’t the train in Japan the fastest in the world?”

Drieds couldn’t make it through the rest of the story over the sound of everyone ripping Matty to shreds, so Kailer didn’t get to ask whether or not they found out anything about planes. Kailer’s not worried about his soul, but the logic makes a strange kind of sense; after all, he traveled 429 miles in five and a half hours once, and that was a little too fast for his heart to keep up.)

Fuck it. Kailer’s been trying to write a response for the past ten days, and he’s sick of swiping in and out of the message, staring at the keyboard so long he starts to see swirls in his vision.

Kailer drafts the text again and sends it, no context, no caption. A text travels faster than a high-speed train or a jet. Maybe it’ll pick his heart back up on the way.

#I don’t know how this song ended up on my Spotify wrapped because phoebe bridgers is too emotionally damaging for me to listen to like. #at all unless i am In It HOWEVER. there is this one silly video that brings me so much joy and made me feel semi-reasonable about listening #to kyoto & it’s the one video of the two painter guys painting the room & the lil guy is being a menace & the other guy just looks at him s #fondly & so lovingly & is that not the thesis of kailer yamamoto. be small be a menace be beloved by everyone. ANYWAY #liv in the replies #look this was going to be such a different thing and then. my brain went HEY BUDDY GUESS THE FUCK WHAT kyoto is a city in Japan. #day off in kyoto. guess who’s Japanese. guess what the nhl loves to do as HIFE publicity. also growing the AAPI audience is HUGE and i thin #they should. like originally i had NO idea what this was going to be (i’m so lying. the line ‘i’m gonna kill you’ but incredibly fond a la #the two painters video kept replaying in my head and i was like l m a o. klimmer & kailer. no plot all vibes it’s klimmer & Kailer that’s i #there is no real plot there is no actual idea the amount of googling that i did to write just this is UNREASONABLE i would love to be norma #about anything ever but i ALSO invented so much backstory to this that has no way of appearing in the actual fic and also jokes for ME #for instance. YPPI is the american manufacturer for yamaha motorcycles and. suzuki. yamamoto. (it’s not my brainworms it’s due to a fancam) #respectfully also i cannot write this fic. i have never been to japan and i think it would take me eight years to google enough #to be relatively comfortable like y’all have never seen the extensive research i put in to fucking phiLLY and a whole other COUNTRY??? #where the premise of the fic is learning how to be a tourist in your life and sometimes you have to grow out of things? #yeah i AM going to make something with the idea of Momijigari and life is ephemeral. is that a plot? no it’s vibes. #kailer goes to japan in the fall and realizes he’s a liar. who lies. (he misses [redacted]) (the redacted is because i haven’t decided) #also also. the garden reference is because a) i spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON GOOGLE and found out things to do in saitama and also that #kailer’s grandpa had a meticulous garden and i just think that’s neat #hiding-from-reality-56 #random ficlet is unbeta’d un-anything’d i don’t know WHERE this came from or the real plot of it at all. ok thanks byeeeee

[landograndprix]

「Feel the magic ๛ l.n」

part ii

✧.* it's the end of the season and you've never been so eager to say goodbye to your team and while your'e celebrating the end of another era, lando shoots his shot, making you question everything.

✧.* reader is older. Slow-burn who? Don't know her. Taglist open! Typos add some personality, ignore them pls 😂

✧.* prev part - next part

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teamy/n getting some laps in with the papayas 🧡

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carlandooo look at my siblings being all cute and shit 🥰

milouberger youths? Mans is 56 in dog years.

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y/nusername bully a dog? Life must be at a all time low for the two of you..

y/nusername keep my son's name out of your fucking mouth

f1girlies I can't with these three 💀

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albon_pets play date when?

y/nusername they are grounded 😔

albon_pets for being too cute? 😔

hamilt44n dash just chilling, basking in the sun, unbothered king

landonorris gotta meet them soon

norrizz yeah are you ready to be a dad lando?

landoscar boy is just not hiding it anymore 😂

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Everything taglist; @thomaslefteyebrow @hopefulinlove @smoothopz @softboystarkey @buffysummrsx @honethatty12 @cixrosie @parkersmjs @ireadthensuetheauthors @celestialams @be-your-coffee-pot @idkiwantchocolatee @heli991113 @kodzuvk @reality-is-a-con @80sloverry @bibissparkles

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[gimme-a-magic-carpet]

in 2020, shifttok exploded

here is a list of events and controversies that occurred…

1. the girl who dedicated an entire account to saying how much she hated angelina and said she killed her in her reality

2. draco pushing people down the stairs

3. snape and hermione doing the WAP in the middle of potions class

4. draco and harry secretly hooking up

5. fred being a cheater (mainly with angelina)

6. draco smelling and being obsessed with apples

7. when a girl said she taught tom riddle to shift and ppl were scared he was gonna shift here and kill people (funny asf looking back)

8. ppl blowing up hogwarts with tom riddle and some bragging about it ??

9. draco missing people when they were in their reality

10. cedric and harry dating (ew)

11. harry having feelings for cedric but ppl saying it’s problematic as if kids don’t have crushes tf

12. dean and seamus dating and blowing stuff up together

13. wolfstar being canon…there were issues with that apparently

14. dumbledore kicking people out of their realities (this was funny asf)

15. dumbledore calling a girl up from the great hall and asking her where she was from and when she played dumb he kicked her out LMAOOO

16. people scripting that dumbledore heard/saw WAP during his death

17. dumbledore saw/heard WAP when he tried reading their mind

18. ppl making fun of harry for being an orphan (while sometimes also being orphans)

19. draco dyeing/bleaching his hair and hiding it sometimes

20. and the carpet sometimes matching the drapes ☝️

21. draco and pansy being together/hooking up

22. when shifting to modern hogwarts, everyone hating fred bc he was a douchebag and a skater

23. people arguing whether fred would have piercings or not (he did)

24. luna being a lesbian was problematic bc a lot of people shiped her and neville

25. neville and the twins dealing

26. calling cedric deadric to his face and not explaining to him why

27. ppl killing everyone BUT fred (killed the whole weasley family)

28. harry living with wolfstar

29. sirius being a death eater???

30. sirius came up to a girl and randomly showed her his death eater tattoo and she was so bamboozled she immediately shifted back and changed that

31. sirius just randomly being a death eater as soon as another shifter got there?? and apparently without her scripting it too??

32. that girl who scripted in her s/o got sa/raped (it was either draco or harry) so after it happened she could shift and comfort them

33. twins and paris (oui oui 🗼)

34. ppl being more powerful than dumbledore to mess with him

35. bellatrix and voldemort hooking up

37. daphne.

36. the girl who said she was doing “it” with harry then remembered she scripted in they were secret half siblings in the middle of it

39. marvel shifters scripting they were tortured in the red rooms to share trauma with natasha and bucky

40. early shiftokers saying you have to script in extremely specific things because they would wake up with no hair at all or transparent

41. you can’t add any negative words like “no” or “don’t” in your script cause it brings bad energy and could prevent you from shifting

42. it’s catfishing to have a face claim

43. adults shifting for minors 😐 and vice versa 😐 (but staying minors)

45. race shifters changing races

46. permashifting 😐

47. people being immune to veritiserum and it frustrated dumbledore

48. people debating whether it was ok to keep house elves and scripting they liked their positions

49. shifting to be death eaters??? huh???

50. hermione hating ppl shifting for ron

51. kreacher was trying to kill ppl???

52. ppl debating whether it was ok to script in that regulus also moved in with james

53. scripting in relationships is forced and wrong, you have to script in they have a crush on you…no.

54. whenever someone would talk about their dr partner someone in the comments would go “ew that’s my dad in my reality”

55. ppl scripting peter out (why, just say he’s not evil)

56. ppl shifting for voldemort, not tom riddle, VOLDEMORT

57. people not separating tom riddle and voldemort while dating tom

58. debates over whether it’s ok to date tom riddle even before he’s voldemort or a completely different person

59. ppl saying if you got pregnant in your reality you would be pregnant in this reality even if you’re a virgin (mary??)

60. the girl who’s pregnant with fred’s baby in her reality and she needs to shift back as soon as possible because she cannot handle not feeling her baby bump

61. voldemort giving more attention to nagini so a girl had to script nagini out

62. draco being a raging trump supporter in modern realities even tho he’s british

63. filch fucking the cat

64. shifting as objects (girl who got eaten as a pie, draco’s apple ppl, and girl who was a dildo)

65. ppl claiming they smell their s/os in this reality and sold out the bath and body works candle (yknow the one)

66. draco shifter who made a vid of her looking around her room, claiming draco was crying to her about how much he missed her and she felt him hugging her

67. non brits forgetting to script in british accents and getting stares from everyone

68. ppl getting lost around hogwarts cause they didn’t know their way around

69. ppl forgetting to script out ppl’s deaths

70. girl who shifted to the marauders and forgot to script out lily and james’s deaths and went to save them and got murdered too

71. ppl saying you had to script in you can’t die because, plot twist, you’d die in this reality because the original consciousness to your body in this reality would die and your body would too by theory (bs theory btw)

72. several ppl saying (and filming) they shifted back to find their clones had ran away to the woods and/or bombed their grades in school

73. teens scripting they were irresistible and the hottest person at hogwarts and professors started coming onto them

74. that TEEN girl (and others) who scripted in that remus and snape had feelings for her and were both trying to “win her affection”

75. having to drink 1 billion gallons of water and needing to have ur homework done and room clean to shift

76. when doing the raven method you HAVE TO lay COMPLETELY still if you even twitch a finger, you had to start over and palms up babes, no limbs touching and lay on your back

77. when shifting back you have to do it in private cause several ppl shifted back in front of ppl and when they said their safe word and said that their body “disappeared” until they shifted back

78. if you didn’t script in you remembered your safeword then you’d get stuck

79. girls and boys shifting to date ppl of the same gender and ppl getting mad cause “that character isn’t gay!” like…what

82. ppl scripting they don’t get caught cheating (??)

83. jumanji being everyone’s safeword in 2020

84. SHIFTING POLICE LMFAO

86. someone making a shifting memes video about their HOLOCAUST REALITY

87. girl saying somebody shifted AS HER and knew personal things about her life that they shouldn’t

88. people without disabilities scripting them in

89. cis ppl shifting to be trans ig for fun??

91. ppl shifting to be groupies (DO NOT BE A GROUPIE FOR MOTLEY CRUE I REPEAT ‼️ DO NOT BE A GROUPIE FOR MOTLEY CRUE ‼️) ppl were groupies for motley crue

92. girl scripting in that only white ppl exist in her reality 🤨

95. 30 year old shifter got bullied for their script because it was “too detailed” and ppl said they couldn’t shift bc of it

96. “if you don’t have a script you can’t shift”

97. voldemort and nagini being in some type of romantic relationship (don’t ask)

98. people scripting flowers grew as they walked

99. ppl scripting their eyes change color when they’re angry

100. weather changed according to ppls mood 😭

101. their hair is on fire when they’re angry

102. celestial subliminals posting subliminal videos that gave people nightmares and sleep paralysis

103. if you did the mirror method, demons would come and kill you (cmon guys)

104. ppl beefing with celebs in their fame realities honestly funny asf

105. ppl getting canceled in their fame realities for doing almost nothing

106. girl who brought back the necklace from draco LMFAOO

107. CARSON MALFOY

108. carson’s mom liking cedric

109. LIFE SIZED CARDBOARD DRACO CUTOUTS

110. tom felton found out about shifting on a livestream

111. amino servers telling ppl they can permanently shift by killing themselves (they had a term for it i forgot what it was)

112. julia method creator gatekeeping the method on amino?? idk

113. you can’t shift your age up as a minor and date an adult (i don’t even wanna debate this bs)

114. ppl scripting out queer ppl in their realities

115. girl was shifting for fred and someone commented she was shifting for fred too and she got so mad talking about she can’t steal her bf and how fred is hers (i wanna be this delulu)

116. girl shifted to game of thrones and wanted to stay “accurate” and purposefully scripted her love interest WAS HER COUSIN

117. girl said she had trauma from the wizarding war

#yes i kept track of this bs #for years #you’re welcome #shifting #reality shifting #shifting realities #hp #harry potter #marauders #marauders fandom #harry potter fandom #2020 #tiktok #sirius black #james potter #peter pettigrew #remus lupin

[go-to-the-mirror]

We return you now to a safe place. The Street Cleaners have passed. Street Cleaning Day, as so many other days, is behind us. We emerge from hiding spots, from secret locations, from places under other places. We step out into the street, and it is as though it is brand new to us. Certainly, it is cleaner now, but that is not all. We have survived all the way from birth to this very moment, and we look at each other, and some of us start laughing and others start weeping and one or two of us break out into a wordless humming song, and all of us mean the exact same thing.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 15 — Street Cleaning Day)

Somewhere the tiny people of the city below have arrived in Night Vale, and are beginning their war against us, having already shown themselves capable of murder. Somewhere a man in a tan jacket is whispering into the ears of our mayor, and we do not know what agenda they pursue. […] This all happens, somewhere else. But here, Carlos and I sat on the trunk of that car, his car, looking together at the lights up in the sky above the Arby’s. They were beautiful in the hushed twilight, shimmering in a night sky already coming alive with bits of the universe.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 25 — One Year Later)

But.... In spite of all this, coach al-Mujaheed called a pep rally last Friday, in a gesture of support for Malik Herrera. This, as any time, is when we should join as a town, despite the game that never was. […] Everyone was sad, and everything was perfect. We stayed late into the night under the fluorescent corona of the bleachers, eating damp barbecue, wearing our orange ponchos, and telling those tales we wanted to tell to those loved ones who have left us, telling them instead to those who we currently or may eventually love. Tears were hardly noticeable on our rain-streaked cheeks by the time we said our goodbyes.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 56 — Homecoming)

And they both take the hand of the person they love, and Amber smiles at Wilson and Wilson smiles at Amber and everyone smiles at everyone and at everything and no one is okay, exactly, but we’re outside and we’re smiling and that is a kind of perfection of its own.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 57 — The List)

Night Vale isn't a single unified thing that can love or be loved. It's just the name slapped onto a set of borders and rules that some old bureaucrats [..] devised centuries ago. But they don't live here anymore. We do. I do, and I can make it worth it. I can’t just leave it, I have to live it. Live it and make it better. For myself. For Carlos. For my friends. […] And for you, listeners. We will together celebrate another homecoming game. We will together survive another street cleaning. We will together… well we will see.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 70B — Review)

Our reality is badly damaged, and the only thing keeping it together is our acknowledgement, finally, of this strange town that we live in. No more denial. We must see ourselves clearly or risk losing ourselves forever. Angels are real. Our town is a deeply weird place. We know and acknowledge that it is a deeply weird place. There are dotted lines and arrows in the sky. And I love my family, and I love my brother Steve. He was right about everything. He always has been.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 110: Matryoshka)

This is my work, listeners. My work is to speak to you all. To talk you through the day. To murmur you into the night. Settling in to be another clear and pretty evening here in Night Vale, this weird, weird town. I hope all of you out there have someone to sleep through it with. I know I do.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 111 — Summer 2017, Night Vale, USA)

Carlos and I hold each other through the town, passing two teenage boys dressed in scraps of of airplane upholstery, gripping tightly each others’ faces. We help a lost toddler find his parents. We clear broken glass from streets. We walk home. We shade our eyes from the setting sunset which kindles through a hilltop cleft. We talk nonstop about today about tomorrow about yesterday about every possible moment, just talking, and talking, because we almost lost our talk forever. We do not hear the returning echo of sirens across the valley. We do not hear anything but ourselves. Stay tuned next for a silence that is all your own.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 167 — Echo)

And I say: “Look at the clouds in the sky. They mean nothing, and yet they are there and they are pretty. Isn’t that nice?”

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 181 — C****s)

The day after Valentine’s we said “it’s over” but we did not believe it was over. We believed it would never be over, that we would always be living the same sad and terrifying minute, breathing the same stale air thick with our own fear. But we were not in that moment anymore. But we were, some part of us, still. The day after Valentine’s was a rebuilding, a recovery, a return to form, a back to business. Bury the bodies and stand up the fences, it’s time to move on.

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 202 — The Day After the Day)

“What do we do now?” I asked him. He smiled, “First we go home, eat meals together, remember that we are a community, and that we are better together than we are alone.”

(Welcome to Night Vale: Episode 230 — Carlos, Explained)

#wtnv #wtnv 15 #wtnv 25 #wtnv 56 #wtnv 57 #wtnv 70 #wtnv 70b #wtnv 110 #wtnv 111 #wtnv 167 #wtnv 181 #wtnv 202 #wtnv 230 #my lonely quotations

[gaybroons]

tagged by @ullybug

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I have WAY TOO MANY WIPS 😭😭😭 you cannot possibly do this to me

Flowersidovi

Losing an edge lukebedard

Winners room

Hiding in plain sight

Cambrick

Don’t count your chips

Gillian birthday gift

Joy priest sid fic

A/B/O jack/brick

Team bicycle deserves love too

Salem nesting fic

Lactation pasta

Sidgeno a/b/o virgin old man sid

Teach you how to move

Warlord pasta

Sepia filter

Velvia 100f, cross processed

котбой

Catboy Quinn

Red against blue

Tumblr ask game: captain, beloved (Jules)

Tumblr ask game: miss (Alex)

Tumblr ask game: sweater weather (nat)

Alex dom/sub marcheron punishment porn

[untitled blank page that I opened last night and only have “Matthew doesn’t think it’s” written inside. I also don’t know what this means 🤝 if anyone has answers pls tell me]

Bro I don’t even think I KNOW 24 people. Fuck. Let’s do 10

Oh well, no pressure tags! @capsvsducks @patrice-bergerons @draisaitleons (I know you already shared them with me but!!!! Still!!!) @plethoriall @specificallybruins @rymurrsneckbeard @hiding-from-reality-56 @simmyfrobby @gilliebee (I know you’re working on AT LEAST ONE 🫵) @fvcking-damage

#also if u want me to stop tagging u in things plz tell me <3<3<3 #btw for the soft asks IM WORKING ON IT I PROMISE #wip ask game

[notwritinganyflufftoday]

Magical Boys WIP Character Introductions

Billy

he/him - 17 - suffering the consequences of horrible life decision no. 56

“Is this the moment you punch me in the face?"

There's only a one letter difference between a loner and a loser and Billy is both. Some say he used to be less closed off back in the day, but something must've happened along the way to change that.

Arno

he/him - 16 - the pretty damsel in distress

“You can wait a minute for the star of the show, right?”

Next to the definition of perfection must be a picture of Arno. He has it all: good grades, lots of friends, a girlfriend from out of town and flawlessly coiffed hair. Who wouldn't want to be just like him?

Beau

he/him - 17 - refusing the call of friendship

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.”

You don't want to mess with Beau if you don't want to end up with third-degree burns, verbally inflicted of course. He likes to pretend he's all tough, but hides himself under big, oversized hoodies.

Younes

he/him - 17 - a jock with a lot of heart

“I’m sure a way out will appear as we keep going.”

Ask Younes anything, and he'll do it immediately and without any questions asked, unless you've somehow managed to offend his girlfriend or his basketball team or his family, in which case, good luck in trying to get on his good side again. I've heard he's quite forgiving though.

Disclaimer: the previous descriptions have all been penned by various classmates of the boys and thus may not reflect reality with 100% accuracy.

Taglist: @dustylovelyrun, @wildswrites, @sarandipitywrites, @skyderman

#magical boys wip #oc billy #oc arno #oc beau #oc younes #character intro #disclaimer means take everything with a grain of salt #teenage boys have very complex personalities and feelings

[mimisempai]

To celebrate the renewal of Sandman, I wanted to do a little something. Send me a nummer and I will write Dreamling drabble or ficlet 🥰

1. “You said that I’d get to have you all weekend. Why can’t you just tell them you can’t go?” - “Because it’s my job, and it’s important.” - “And I’m not?” 

2. “You should sleep.” - “I’m not human, therefore, I do not require sleep.” 

3. “I will protect you with my life.” 

4. “Please don’t let me fall.” - “Never.” 

5. “You’ll catch me, right?” - “Always.” 

6. “You broke me and now you expect me to follow you out onto the battlefield? No. The answer is no.” 

7. “I told you that I’d never leave you; I’m not going anywhere.”

8. “You take me instead, do you hear me? Give her back and take me instead.” 

9. “Wait, something doesn’t feel right.” 

10. “Did you hear that?”

11. “I almost just died and now you’re telling me that I’m a prophet of God? Are you sure you have the right person?” 

12. “Stay here and don’t move. I’ll be right back.” 

13. “Look, I know you’re a hardass, but can you play with my hair? It would really help.” 

14. “I don’t deserve you.” 

15. “Don’t tell me you’re fine, I can see the blood!” 

16. “I’m sorry, but…I don’t remember you.” 

17. “I wish I’d never met you.” - “No…you don’t mean that.” 

18. “You know I hear you talking, but I still don’t have my coffee.” 

19. “Do you want to know the hardest thing about having a soulmate? It’s not the separation in the beginning, not the endless nights lying awake, hoping and praying that someone was made for you. It’s…it’s the love. It’s too strong, and you can’t fight it. I’ve tried. Believe me, I’ve tried…but I’m always going to love you. And I need you to know that.” 

20. “You would risk the lives of millions for one person? Why?” - “Because it’s not just one life…it’s yours.” 

21. “This might sound selfish, but I don’t care about the world - I only care about you!” 

22. “Was I just an easy scapegoat to you? Is that it?” 

23. “No! Stay away from me! Stay back!”

24. “You must be mistaken - I don’t know who you are.” 

25. “I need to know that you can trust me. Please.” 

26. “I have these…powers raging around inside me, and I have no clue how to control them.” 

27. “I need your help.”

28. “Take one more step and I snap her pretty little neck.”

29. “This is real. You’re real, I’m real. I need you to come back to reality.” 

30. “You’re really starting to scare me.” 

31. “I’m here for your protection.” - “I don’t need protecting.” 

32. “Can someone please explain to me, in small words, why I’m being assigned to this mission?” 

33. “Keep your hands over your ears, do you hear me? Even when the noises stop. Don’t listen.” 

34. “Close your eyes and keep them closed.”

35. “You shouldn’t have seen that.” 

36. “I don’t want you here.” 

37. “Follow me. It’s okay, just hold my hand.” 

38. “Whatever you do, don’t make a sound.” 

39. “Stop freaking out, I’ll be right back.” 

40. “That’s for me to know and for you to…well, you know how the saying goes.” 

41. “I know the signs…you can’t hide from me, (Name).” 

42. “It’s okay to break.” - “I’m not going to break.” 

43. “Do you believe in soulmates?” - “No.” - “Oh, well that’s a shame because I’m it. I’m your soulmate.” 

44. “If you’re watching this then that means I’ve been taken.” 

45. “You can hold my hand if you want.” 

46. “As long as I get to hold your hand.” 

47. “I will always choose you.” 

48. “I can braid your hair for you…if you’d like.” 

49. “Maybe if you actually stop staring at her and talk to her, you might have a chance.” 

50. “Are you drunk?” - “Not nearly enough.” 

51. “Are you trying to seduce me?” - “Depends. Are you seducible?” 

52. “I thought I almost lost you.” 

53. “I’ve been calling you. I left voicemails - where were you?”

54. “You and me against the world, remember?” 

55. “I’ll come back for you.” 

56. “Do you remember this? It’s the music box you got me when we were twelve.” 

57. “Never trust a man that can dance.” 

58. “We’re not alone.” 

59. “There’s someone in the house.”

60. “Pay attention to me.”

61. “Were you drawing me?” 

62. “It’s basic human instinct.” 

63. “I’d rather be spitting blood.” 

64. “You can sleep now. I’ll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” 

65. “I didn’t tell you that I love you because I wanted to hear it back. I told you because I needed you to know.” 

66. “It doesn’t matter what I want.” 

67. “You can’t have her and it’s killing you inside.” 

68. “Let’s carve our initials into the tree.” 

69. “When you touch me I feel a little less broken.” 

70. “You look so much like her…” 

71. “Let me help you.” 

72. “Come on. Let’s get you into the bath.” 

73. “How many did you take? Open your mouth, I need to see.” 

74. “You need medicine.” 

75. “I need you to keep pressure on the wound, okay?” 

76. “You have to promise me that you won’t fall in love with me.” 

77. “You smell nice.” 

78. “I could hear you screaming. Are you okay?” 

79. “Shh. I heard something.” 

80. “Stop staring at me like that.” 

81. “I can never forget that taste.” 

82. “I was made to destroy. Not to fix, but to break.” 

83. “If you want me, come and get me, motherfuckers.” 

84. “I see the spark in you. It’s amazing. Whatever you choose to do with it, you’ll be great.” 

85. “If you need an emergency extraction just text SOS and I’ll send armed backup.” 

86. “Just a few…more…lines…” - “You’ve been at it all night. Take a break.” 

87. “Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.” 

88. “I know how this goes. First you buy me a drink, then you tell me how pretty I look, and then, at the end of the night, you ask for my number.” 

89. “It’s been a while. You’re not coming back, are you?” 

90. “He is very dreamy, but he is not the sun. You are.” 

91. “I only ever thought there were two kinds of love: The kind you would kill for, and the kind you would die for…but you, my darling, you were the kind of love I would live for.” 

92. “Breathe with me, yeah? Come on. Breathe. You got it - there you go.” 

93. “Losing you was the most unbearable pain I’ve ever felt.” 

94. “I want you. All of you, and not just half-heartedly, wholly. And maybe that’s selfish, but I don’t care.” 

95. “Loving you has never been so easy.” 

96. “There are shooting stars in your eyes, and every time I look at you, I make a wish to be able to kiss you one last time.” 

97. “I’m drunk and I hate everything. Everything except you.” 

98. “Can you just…hold me? Just for tonight.” 

99. “You have yourself wrapped in thorns, and then you hate everyone who tries to touch you.” 

100. “Put the knife down…I’m not going to hurt you.” 

101. “(Name), please…you’re scaring me.” 

102. “You don’t have to do this.” 

103. “At this point, if a clown invited me into the woods, I would just go.” 

104. “You loved her…that’s not a weakness, that’s a virtue.” 

105. “Love is never kind; love is confusion and pain and abandonment. It’s every single nightmare your mind has been plagued by. And, yes, it can unmake you in ways you never thought were possible, but love - it will remind you what it’s like to be human.” 

106. “I’m right here. I’ve been here all along, but you still can’t see me.” 

107. “The way he watches you…like he’s ready to take a bullet for you.” - “Is that a bad thing?” 

108. “And I love, I love, I love you.” 

109. “I don’t think I ever want to be parted from you. I don’t think my heart could take it.” 

110. “You’re such a needy baby.” 

111. “You have bewitched me; body and soul.”

112. “I worship you.” 

113. “I am begging on my knees. Please, don’t do this.” 

114. “I don’t think you know how to love.” 

115. “It’s torture, being human. Sometimes I wish I could just turn it off. Turn it all off.” 

116. “You don’t have to carry the weight of the world all by yourself, you know?” 

117. “I’m all yours.” - “Really?” 

118. “I know I can be pretty dense, but you’re giving me some…pretty big signals here, and I don’t know if I’m reading them right but…I hope I’m somewhere along the right track.” 

119. “Just one moment…” - “What are you doing?” - “Well, I suppose I’m going to kiss you. I hope that’s alright.” 

120. “You’re a woman, that alone makes you magic.” 

121. “What if we’re the only ones left?” 

122. “Sorry, I didn’t hear a word you just said.” 

123. “You have my word. You have all my words.” 

124. “Be nice.” - “Always.” 

125. “(Name)?” - “Yeah?” - “I’m gonna kiss you now.” - “Okay.” 

126. “Just stay. We can figure everything else out later. Right now, just stay.” 

127. “My hands are not clean, and maybe they never will be, but they can still carry you home when you’re ready to sleep.” 

128. “We’re a mess, you and I.”

129. “Stop looking at me with pity in your eyes. Stop it. Stop fucking looking at me like that.”

130. “It won’t be easy, you know…trying to love me.” 

131. “You took advantage of me when all I did was help you.”

132. “What good will come from killing them? Revenge and vengeance are very different things, you need to understand that.” 

133. “Take my gun, I don’t want to hurt you.” - “You won’t hurt me.” - “Please. Just take it.” 

134. “Bah-Humbug.” 

135. “You want to run away? On the night of our wedding?” 

136. “You’re upset.” - “I’m not.” - “I know that face. That’s your I’m-upset-with-you face. And your eyebrows - they get really expressive when you’re mad.” 

137. “Truth is, I just wanted an excuse to hold your hand.” 

138. “Do you love me? If you do, then you need to do this for me.” 

139. “Stop staring.” - “I’m not.” - “Oh, sure you aren’t.” 

140. “I have a hole…in my side.” - “I’m sorry, what?” - “I was shot.” 

141. “I didn’t want you to panic and now you’re panicking which is making me panic and-” 

142. “You should talk to her.” - “And have her hear me? No thank you.” 

143. “You really don’t know how to talk to women, do you?” 

144. “You already know how this one will end.” 

145. “I trust you completely.” 

146. “I prefer the view from up there.” 

147. “I’m not sure how many coffees it takes to be happy, but so far, it’s not twelve.” 

148. “I’m so proud of you.” 

149. “Away you three inch fool.” 

150. “You will be the end of me.” 

151. “I will give you the sun.” 

152. “You are safe. I won’t let them hurt you.” 

153. “I want you to go upstairs and lock the door, okay? Don’t come out until I tell you to.” 

154. “I’m a fallen angel.” 

155. “I just fell out of an airplane without a parachute and I have no idea how I survived.” 

156. “He stares at you every time you look away.” 

157. “Shut the hell your mouth.” 

158. “Well butter my buns and call me betty crocker.”

159. “Meeting you was the best coincidence life ever gave me.” 

160. “You make my heart happy.” 

161. “Tell me a lie.” - “I love you.” 

162. “They told me you died. And I screamed. I screamed until my lungs hurt too much to continue.” 

163. “I’m not sure what peace is supposed to feel like, but I think it may feel a lot like you.” 

164. “To keep you safe, I would do anything.” 

165. “I deserved a better goodbye.” 

166. “I’ll take care of you.” - “It’s rotten work.” - “Not to me. Not if it’s you.” 

167. “You’ve suffered through enough.” 

168. “Don’t get too close to that one, she’ll singe your fingertips and have you on your knees.“ 

169. “He was my almost.” 

170. “Go ahead. Underestimate me. That’ll be fun.” 

171. “Did you have another blackout?” 

172. “I think we’d make this a fair fight if we each had a gun. Don’t you agree, boys?” 

173. “You think you gave me some sort of gift? You took a messed up girl and turned her into a broken woman.” 

174. “I don’t owe you a damn thing.” 

175. “Star gazing. That’s your thing? Seriously?” 

176. “You don’t know when to stop, do you?” 

177. “You’re a coward, (Name)! You hide away this entirely different part to yourself all because you’re afraid that someone might get close to you! You’re afraid that someone might just care about you more than you think you deserve. That - that isn’t fair.” 

178. “Don’t do it. If you attack now, then I won’t be able to keep you safe.” 

179. “I can’t believe you’re alive!” 

180. “Heaven just couldn’t wait for you…" 

181. “Higher, further, faster, baby.” 

182. “It’s my fault.”

183. “You got a minute to live, fill it with words.” 

184. “We’ll lose.” - “Then we’ll do that together too.” 

185. “I don’t want to hurt you.” - “I’d like to see you try.” 

186. “I’m eating because I’m very uncomfortable.” 

187. “I know I kissed you before, but I didn’t do it right. Can I try again?” 

188. “I would die before I let anything happen to you.” 

189. “You have my heart. I don’t think I could get it back even if I wanted to.” 

190. “I think I may be slightly more drunk than I thought.” 

191. “You are love in its best form.” 

192. “I don’t regret every second with you, I treasure them”

193. “My universe is you.” 

194. “Here, let me hold that for you.” 

195. “I read once that holding your breath can stop a panic attack so…when I kissed you…you held your breath.” 

196. “Let. Her. Go.” 

197. “Did you just call me your boyfriend/girlfriend?” 

198. “We were meant for each other.” 

199. “Why not be angry? Anger is better than tears, better than grief, better than the guilt.” 

200. “He loves you, you know? He’s just afraid of admitting it.”  Orginal post

#the sandman #the sandman netflix #dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #dreamling fic #centennial husbands #centennial boyfriends #morpheus #morpheus x hob #hob x morpheus #dream x hob #hob x dream

[gaps-between-stories]

Tagged by @dwisp!! 💓

RULES: In a new post, show the last line of something you wrote or drew and tag however many people you like.

“Stop it,” Kailer mumbles against him, making a displeased noise to accompany his demand. “Thinking too loud,” he clarifies after a beat, still disgruntled at his perceived offense. “Not allowed.” 

Brian clears his throat, swallowing the building resentment so that it doesn’t spill over onto Kailer now. “I’m not allowed to think?” he asks, voice tinged with amusement at Kailer's indignation of Brian's own internal narration. 

“Nuh uh,” Kailer confirms, more attitude behind it than he had any right to while this close to unconsciousness. “Not if you’re gonna be loud ‘bout it.” 

Tagging: @hiding-from-reality-56 @yamball @loulucifer

#tag game #hockey #hockeyblr #rpf #hrpf #fanfiction #my writing #kailer yamamoto #brian dumoulin #dumomoto

[olivette-branch]

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs

thank you @dwisp and @hiding-from-reality-56 for the tags!

Okay, I literally have so many WIPs it's insane, so please enjoy their wild & weird names (I also have a title problem in which I don't title until the very end because I'm so indecisive)

calgary (larsdunn)

hanahaki shit (mccann centered piece)

dumomoto 4: a new hope (dumomoto obvi)

29 + 29 (leon x dunn)

wip #5239 (tyeker)

shoutout to the hormones (matty x yams x dunn)

winner's room 2: electric boogaloo (mcyam, dumomoto, hint of mcdrai)

if you give a rookie advice (tyeker, feat. tyeker + gourdo)

seven deadly sins au

larsdunnker hurt/comfort earworm

okay, like I said, a horrific amount of WIPs,, but i'm so excited by so many of them!

tagging: @claraxbarton @yamball @stillfertile @gaps-between-stories @puckingzegras @dijkstraspath and literally anyone who wants to do this! I'm not sure if I can even think of a full list of people to tag for the amount of wips I have that haven't been tagged already.

#hrpf #tag game #hockey ask game #wip game

[puckszone]

tagged by the amazing @angry-geno-is-score !!!

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I don't know if many of these have interesting names, but:

two birds / i also sometimes call it "this will be our year"

schwarzschild radius

ella enchanted!AU

come talk to me about them!!! i'll tag @hiding-from-reality-56 & @fleurywiththesave & @gaps-between-stories & anybody else who wants to participate!

#tag game #i also desperately want to write this urban fantasy gracetaylor pwhl fic but not a single word is written for that one. alas #i would loveeee to talk about it though!

[cloudofbutterflies92]

Hi! Weirdly Specific Character Questions for Spectra: 1, 15, 28, 37, 46, & 56 💕

Hi dear 💕💕💕💕

1)What’s the lie your character says most often?

I think the lie Eden tells most often is that she's fine, when in reality there are times when she would like to say that no, in reality she's not fine but she doesn't say anything because she has this habit of putting others before herself

15)What’s the most obvious difference between their behavior at home, at work, at school, with friends, and when they’re alone?

I don't think there are many differences, perhaps just the fact that when she works in the field she tends to mask her emotions (secret agent, we know, right?) while at home she tends to be more tender

28)What do they tell people they want? What do they actually want?

Eden is very outspoken so she would definitely say what her really want (you can ask to Ghost 👀)

37)What’s a secret they haven’t told serious romantic partners and don’t plan to tell?

After what happened in MW2 Eden and Ghost talk about everything, they don't hide anything from each other. Maybe it's more Ghost who wouldn't tell her in detail what he suffered when he was imprisoned by the Mexican cartel because he doesn't want her to take his suffering

46)Are they a listener or a talker? If they’re a listener, what makes them talk? If they’re a talker, what makes them listen?

I would say more that she listens, her friends and Ghost always go to her when they need to vent because she has a reassuring and motherly air.

56)If they’re scared, who do they want comfort from? Does this answer change depending on the type of fear?

The answer is here bby💕

#x: fire and gasoline #oc:eden“spectra”park #pairing: ghost & eden #call of duty oc:eden “spectra” park #call of duty oc #original character #cod mw2 #call of duty #thanks for the ask💕💕💕 #vivi ask

[bobbiworks]

Beyond the Bell's Chimes | Part 56

The Summer Solstice Gala, a dazzling creation by the student council, unfolded as the grand spectacle for Segye High School's students and teachers, marking the peak of their cultural festival celebrations. Eunseok, fueled by a promise to his predecessor, had transformed Shotaro's blueprints into a breathtaking reality. The school's gymnasium was now a radiant setting, alive with the anticipation of an unforgettable night.

As the students and teachers flocked to the venue, draped in their finest attire, the air was charged with excitement. Among the crowd were three friends—Miyoung, Suyoung, and Jiwoo. They had gathered at Miyoung's place to glam up for the event, unaware that the boys would be fashionably late. Dressed to the nines, they chatted and snapped photos, each radiating her unique charm.

Miyoung, with her hydrangea tender floral maxi tied dress, Suyoung, the pink fanatic in a doll-like mini dress and stiletto heels, and Jiwoo, proudly donning a white lacy frock dress, had made an unforgettable entrance. Suyoung had skillfully applied makeup on Jiwoo, who couldn't help but express concern that she might have gone overboard.

Unexpectedly, Hanbin, one of their friends, approached with a surprise. "I thought I was going to meet new girls here," he teased, only to realize he was in the midst of familiar faces.

Panicking, Jiwoo turned to Suyoung, worried about her makeup. Hanbin chuckled, "I mean, miladies, you look all wonderful tonight."

Suyoung playfully warned him about Minseul's disapproving glares, but Hanbin, undeterred, continued his compliments. Minseul, overhearing, intervened and dragged Hanbin away, sparking a brief moment of worry among the girls.

As Suyoung reassured Jiwoo, the girls noticed the absence of the boys. Suyoung mused, "Hmm, the boys are taking too long. Did they wear something fancier?"

Jiwoo, weary from standing in heels, quietly made her way to the buffet table. Her worries about bloating, voiced by Suyoung and Miyoung earlier, had kept her from snacking. She picked out some blueberry cheesecake bites, savoring the sweetness as the excitement around her heightened.

Suddenly, screams erupted from the crowd, prompting Jiwoo to nearly choke on her food. Curiosity piqued, she observed the spectacle from a distance. The commotion unveiled the arrival of Segye High School's princes—the boys who led the Mars Club. Eunseok, at the forefront, led the group of dashing young men, each adorned in glamorous tuxedos.

Overhearing the surrounding conversations, Jiwoo couldn't help but smile. "Oh my god! This is a sight to see. I did not know Eunseok is friends with the Mars Club!" one girl exclaimed excitedly. "God, their girlfriends are so lucky!"

Jiwoo, still by the buffet table, marveled at the scene unfolding before her, a mix of surprise, admiration, and a touch of wonder for the magical night that awaited.

Jiwoo, finding herself the unwitting subject of gossip, couldn't help but be amused. Attempting to hide her face behind her plate full of cake, she tilted her head down and slipped away from the chattering crowd.

"Song Eunseok is always handsome!" sighed one girl.

"Oh my god! Park Wonbin is crazy handsome!" screamed another.

Jiwoo tried to distance herself, but her ears perked up as a group of girls started gossiping about a rumored love triangle at Segye High. Eavesdropping discreetly, she couldn't resist getting involved in the conversation.

"Hey! Did you hear the rumor? There's this girl in Segye High that they really like…" one girl began, prompting Jiwoo's curiosity.

"Yeah, the boys were crazily in love with her and were fighting for their lives!"

Jiwoo couldn't suppress a snort, finding the rumors rather hilarious. The girls, including Jiwoo, gasped as the gossip continued, detailing a supposed love saga involving Park Wonbin, Hong Seunghan, Song Eunseok, and Anton Lee.

Amused, Jiwoo tried to stifle her laughter, causing the girls to glance at her suspiciously. She decided to set the record straight with a burst of laughter, revealing her true identity.

"I heard she's an heiress. No wonder these boys were crazy—"

Jiwoo burst into laughter, surprising the girls. "Excuse me?"

"Oh, I'm so sorry. That was just hilarious to hear," Jiwoo said, recovering from her laughter. "As a matter of fact, I only dated Park Wonbin before I dated Song Eunseok… and Seunghan is my best friend, and then Anton… Anton's like my little brother."

The girls were left bewildered, and one recognized Jiwoo, gasping and informing her friend. They both gasped in shock, realizing they had been gossiping about Jiwoo herself.

"You?"

"Please, the rumors are funny. Don't let the boys hear these or else—"

Jiwoo stopped short as she noticed Seunghan and Wonbin walking behind the girls. She turned and saw Eunseok smiling sweetly at her, holding her waist.

The girls squealed at the sight of the King of Segye High School standing before them. "I was looking everywhere for you," he said.

"You're late," Jiwoo teased, trying to hide her surprise at Eunseok's stunning look for the night. She failed to recognize Eunseok's well-established background, evident in his gentlemanly manners.

"Did you come with the boys?" she asked.

Eunseok nodded, expressing his excitement. "You look beautiful," he said, making Jiwoo blush and playfully hitting his chest. "I saw you munching on some cakes. Are you hungry?"

Jiwoo nodded, still holding the plate. "We should find some tables," he suggested, taking the plate from her. Instead of leaving it, he added more snacks, eager for her to eat.

"Heol, they are really dating," the watching girls sighed in envy. "She's indeed very pretty."

"You girls are right, our Jiwoo is very pretty," Seunghan chimed in, making the girls blush. "She's our first love," he confessed. "Is that right, Wonbin?"

Wonbin, usually reserved, did not respond immediately, sipping his apple juice and keeping his eyes on Jiwoo and Eunseok. Eventually, he smiled and turned to Seunghan. "You're right, but I will forever be her first love," he proudly declared, leaving the girls swooning at the charming revelation.

Eunseok and Jiwoo stood together, drawing the attention of onlookers as whispers and conversations buzzed around them. The gymnasium pulsed with music, creating an energetic atmosphere where people reveled in the festivities—dancing, chatting, and immersing themselves in the vibrant ambiance. Eunseok's gaze wandered, particularly fixing on the stage where the classical band was supposed to be assembled.

Jiwoo, noticing his concern, took his hand. "Something wrong?" she inquired, prompting Eunseok to turn to her with a smile. "You look worried."

"Am I? It's just that the classical band should have been set already," Eunseok explained. "I am sure Sungchan's there to fix it."

Jiwoo, ever supportive, offered to wait. "Do you need to check? I can wait. I won't go anywhere," she reassured him with a chuckle.

Eunseok, however, was resolute. He squeezed her hand and shook his head. "No, I promised that I'll stay with you tonight."

"I don't see any reason why you can't leave me for a bit," Jiwoo suggested playfully. "Besides, I'll just be sitting there. My feet hurt." She pouted, and Eunseok, concerned for her comfort, checked her feet. Sighing, he decided to walk her to the bleachers, offering his jacket to cover her legs as she sat.

"Don't go anywhere," Eunseok instructed before heading backstage to address the issue. Jiwoo watched him leave, feeling a sudden emptiness despite the lively crowd surrounding her. Smoothing Eunseok's jacket on her lap, she couldn't shake the unexpected realization of missing him by her side.

As Jiwoo contemplated his absence, someone familiar from her past took a seat beside her. She looked up and met the gaze of a person whose presence evoked memories and stirred a mix of emotions.

"What's going on? The show should have started earlier," Eunseok questioned as he entered the backstage. Sungchan, in charge of the performance, explained that one of the violinists couldn't make it due to illness, leaving the rest of the members ready and waiting.

"I told Sungchan hyung that we can go on without that member," Anton chimed in, standing behind Miyoung. "It may sound incomplete, but it's going to be fine," he assured.

Eunseok nodded in agreement, turning to Sungchan and giving him a determined look. The urgency of the situation reflected in his eyes, especially knowing that his parents were in the audience, eagerly anticipating a stellar performance.

"You don't have to worry," Miyoung reassured him.

"It's okay," Eunseok replied. "Follow the program; I have to go back to Jiwoo." He made a move to leave when Wonbin grabbed his arm.

"Here," Wonbin said, handing Eunseok a box wrapped in an old newspaper adorned with a black ribbon. "It's for Jiwoo," he explained. Confusion crossed Eunseok's face, wondering why Wonbin was entrusting him with the gift instead of giving it directly to Jiwoo. Wonbin continued, "I wanted to dance with her tonight before I say goodbye again, but I think it won't be good for me. I'll be playing songs, just like what we prepared for this event, but I will be leaving as soon as I finish." Despite maintaining a smile, Wonbin couldn't hide the hurt in his words.

"Why don't you give it to her and tell her all of this?" Eunseok suggested, not seeing any issue with Wonbin and Jiwoo having a conversation.

Wonbin shook his head. "I already told her everything I wanted to say. In case you haven't heard, I still have feelings for her. It just so happens that I have bigger dreams out there," he sighed. "Whatever, please give that to her. Everything she needs to hear again will be there." Wonbin explained, his emotions surfacing. "Please, I know that you will love Jiwoo no matter what, so I am happy for the two of you, hyung."

Eunseok felt a weight lifted off his chest at Wonbin's words. Despite not always expressing it, he had felt a tinge of insecurity whenever Wonbin was around Jiwoo.

"Thank you for being there with her when she needed someone the most," Wonbin acknowledged. "Damn, I hate being expressive, but that's it," he sighed, visibly annoyed with his own emotions.

"Thank you," Eunseok smiled. "I'll take care of her. I will love her, protect her, and make her happy. That's all that matters." With Wonbin's message delivered, Eunseok headed back to Jiwoo, the box in hand, carrying both Wonbin's sentiments and his unwavering commitment to the woman he loved.

~

Jiwoo found herself outside the gymnasium, standing near the parking lot with a person who had taken a seat next to her in the bleachers. The air felt chilly, and the atmosphere seemed tense as people passing by couldn't help but glance at the duo. Jiwoo was quietly holding her hands, a mix of cold and anxious, but she concealed it well.

"I'm sure you did not expect me to show up here," Yeonjun stated. He wore an oversized black shirt, black cargo pants, and sneakers. His face was partly covered by a bucket hat, and long hair framed his features. Several piercings adorned his face. "Not even how I look now…"

"You are still Yeonjun," Jiwoo replied, sensing his unease.

Yeonjun sighed, smiling softly as he observed Jiwoo. "You are still as pretty as the last time I saw you, Jiwoo. I can tell that you made better friends this time…" He chuckled.

"I did," Jiwoo nodded.

"Hmm, I heard what happened to Taehee and the others," Yeonjun admitted. "When I received the letter about your case, everything came back to me. How much I was a jerk to you… for not being a good friend. I began to feel a lot of regret for not helping you that time… and Miri, who would have thought Miri would do that too?" He tried to downplay his role, attempting to convince himself he did less harm than Miri, but deep down, he acknowledged he was equally at fault. "I realized that I was worse than Taehee… for turning a blind eye on your pain, Jiwoo."

Jiwoo remained composed, listening silently to Yeonjun's remorseful words. Disappointment lingered from their past, but she gave him a chance to speak.

"When I received the letter, I immediately involved myself and told your lawyer about everything. I thought that even if I didn't show up, I still did something to help you… after all this time…" Yeonjun continued. "I thought that would be enough. I tried to visit you at the hospital, but then I saw people who cared so much about you. That's when I thought that I need not be there…" His voice cracked, and tears welled up as he struggled to contain his emotions. "I'm sorry, Jiwoo. I wasn't a good friend."

Meanwhile, Eunseok, growing worried after learning Jiwoo was seen leaving with a mysterious guy, rushed outside the gymnasium. Spotting Jiwoo standing next to a man, he observed them cautiously. Jiwoo maintained a wary distance but looked at the man as he spoke. Alarmed when the man reached for Jiwoo's arm, Eunseok intervened, ensuring Jiwoo's safety.

"Is he trying to hurt you?" Eunseok asked, holding Jiwoo's hand protectively. Jiwoo, surprised by his sudden appearance, pulled Eunseok behind her and explained the situation.

"No, he is not," Jiwoo assured him. "Eunseok, this is Bae Yeonjun…" She introduced him, and Yeonjun, understanding the dynamics, removed his hat, revealing his face. He dipped his head in acknowledgment as Jiwoo continued, "He's a friend from middle school, and Yeonjun, this is Eunseok, my boyfriend."

"Yeonjun?" Eunseok repeated, his gaze fixed on the figure in front of them.

"Yes, he just came here to talk. Nothing else," Jiwoo explained.

"I apologize for the misunderstanding," Yeonjun continued bowing. "I want to apologize properly to Jiwoo as it felt right for us to have closure before we separate ways again."

Eunseok maintained a cold stare at Yeonjun, his protective instincts kicking in. Jiwoo, sensing the tension, held Eunseok's hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze. He turned to her, met with her sweet smile, and sighed in defeat. "I told you to wait where you were…"

"I couldn't hear him talk with all the music inside," Jiwoo replied. She then looked at Yeonjun, suggesting to Eunseok that he wait for her at the entrance where he could still see her.

"Thank you, Yeonjun. I appreciate it a lot that you came here all the way to apologize," Jiwoo expressed her gratitude, nodding her head. "I appreciate that you helped me a lot in dealing with my case. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been successful… And I am sorry for disturbing you too."

"No, you don't have to apologize for that," Yeonjun assured her, finding solace in Jiwoo's words. "I'm glad to hear that… and I should get going," he said, waving anxiously before departing.

Once Yeonjun left, Eunseok let out a sigh so audible that Jiwoo turned to him, amused. "What?"

"You are quite popular," he mumbled, his protective instincts still lingering.

Jiwoo laughed and tugged on his hand before hugging him on the side. "Are you jealous?"

"You'll make fun of me if I say no," Eunseok replied.

"I am not making fun of you," she teased, wrapping her arms around his waist. "Eunseok, let's go inside?" She suggested, attempting to lead their way back into the party, but Eunseok stopped her. "Hmm?" She asked, walking back to him and holding onto his arms.

"I don't think I can last a day without you by my side," Eunseok confessed, his cheeks turning red. It was a sentiment he had been waiting to share. Jiwoo had stirred various emotions within him, making him realize the mysterious and beautiful nature of the heart. She smiled at him, reaching to cup his cheek, and then pinched it playfully.

"You are being very romantic nowadays, Eunseok," she chuckled. Despite not responding in words, she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave him a kiss on his cheek. "To us…"

#riize #fanfiction #eunseok #wonbin #sohee #shotaro #anton #sungchan #seunghan #kpopfanfiction #beyondthebellschime

[cypriathus]

WARNING: There is a brief mention of the upcoming deity's gentialia.

Jaldebonszuth Ziaklobrethus is a shunned, yet fearsome god and the only son of Solaphurine Iklamoprenthus. He often possesses a cruel and ruthless demeanour, disregarding the importance of incorporeality and consumed in the thought of enacting vengeance on those who wronged him and his mother. He has a tendency to view the Ufrajozlens and humans as irrational animals with no life purpose, seeing them as a bunch of fateless pets. He usually talks about humanity in a cold, insensible, and undemonstrative way, seeing them as an unnecessary plague on Cosmos and a creational mishap. When Jaldebonszuth is brimming with uncontrollable fury, he uses that to execute any punishment towards those who wrongfully provoked him. He lacks proper understanding and knowledge on the importance of creation and how to treat it with benevolence. He tries to show goodwill and interpersonal affection, but his aloofness and ignorance makes it difficult for him to build meaningful relationships. He often hides the fact that he’s capable of showing compassion and kindness, making him appear indifferent to pleasure, joy, sorrow, and pain. Jaldebonszuth thinks that bad things are more likely to happen, often focusing on the negative aspects of any situation he’s in. He has a deep respect and kind-hearted passion towards those who treat him properly and/or he legitimately cares about. He has an exceptional imagination and he’s often distracted by learning about the unfamiliar in order to strengthen his intelligence. He possesses a charismatic skill that he uses to achieve his own ends through deceitfulness and evasion.

When in his true form, he clocks in at about 56-62 ft (1706.88-1889.76 cm) and his approximate height as a human is 9 ft (274.32 cm). He was born with the head of a male lion, the horns of an Indian buffalo, the body of a Brazilian rainbow boa, and the wings of a red-crested turaco. In his true and human manifestations, he has royal heath eyes with bossanova pupils that have a cutty sark dot in the middle of each one and old gold sclera. As a human, he has an inverted triangular mesomorphic body type with muscular limbs, broad shoulders, square chest, black claws and talons, and serpentine hemipenes. He has satin linen skin with tallow freckles on his face, chest, and stomach as well as a mole on his left collarbone and the right corner of his upper lip. He has shimmering chenin-to-earls green hair with beachy waves and sideburns, and it reaches slightly above mid-back. Underneath his clothing, he has chenin pecto-sterno-infraclavicular chest hair and disperse earls green abdominal hair. Whenever he’s disguising himself as a human, he wears a blood red theatrical mask with elk antlers and it can organically shift from sadness, happiness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust. He wears a hooded monk habit that’s made from black cashmere and it has a lustre of sea nymph, amethyst smoke, and olive green.

Jaldebonszuth pretends that he has powers similar to Cosmos by creating vivid hallucinations and performing acts of trickery, ensuring that nobody sees through his falseness. He can manipulate a myriad of concepts by changing them and their definitions, and creating new ones by warping universal ideas. He’s able to alter the fabric of reality, allowing him to bend the laws of physics, time, space, and even causality. He can remove memories and/or the knowledge of living creatures from history, a specific part of the timeline or existence entirely. This allows Jaldebonszuth to leave no trace of them having existed, but they’re allowed to physically exist afterwards with nobody knowing who or what they are. Similar to his mother, he can manipulate light in order to create holographic images, moving at impossible speeds, and create weapons through solidification. He can shape and manipulate anything that’s connected to fire, water, earth, and air for various practical purposes, but doesn’t have control over quintessence. Jaldebonszuth has limited shapeshifting, only being able to alternate between his true form, any snake species, a male lion, and a human. He’s fully capable of making material animalistic and humanoid constructs through red clay as well as use small portions of his self-replenishing soul to imbue them with a psyche.

He can cause devastating plagues, wildfires that easily consume forests and living creatures, impenetrable darkness, and freezing hail. He has the ability to effortlessly move and manipulate all forms of energy and matter without the worry of mental exhaustion. Similar to his mother, he can travel across the multiverse through the use of a magical steel door that’s covered in never-rotting skin of human faces. Jaldebonszuth can construct an army of humanoid beings from his negative energy, destroying them once they have completed their duties. He can significantly increase the speed of his regenerative abilities each time he’s damaged and can even reattach severed limbs. He doesn’t have to rely on sustenance to survive indefinitely because he has a reduced need for bodily necessities. He possesses unsurpassed and limitless strength, being able to overpower his targets with the raw force of his physical blows and effortlessly lift all known weights. Jaldebonszuth’s absolute stamina and vitality surpasses all logical and natural boundaries, which means he’s incapable of ever tiring. He can perform amazing feats of accuracy, coordination, finesse, and precision, and he’s immune to all damage.

FAMILY:

Solaphurine Iklamoprenthus (mother)

��brijehoxus Eglahozusktrin (lover)

Jabeszoluth (son)

Ialojuweh (son)

Iktapholenus (daughter)

Ädonszrute (son)

Eylanozhimus (son)

Jarkzewophius (son)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

God of the Material Universe

Ruler Of Saturn

Devil Of Chaos

Archon Of Fornication

Dragon In The Great Brass Cage

He Who Didn’t See His Own Ignorance

He Who Made The Flesh

Week Of the Forethought

The Venom of a Lion's Face

Hypocritical Creator

Blind Rebel

Snake Fool

Eater of Deities

Demiurge

Saklas

Pronoia

Sambathas

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

He’s bicurious

As an Æylphitus, the different parts of his name have special meanings: Jaldebonszuth means “child of emptiness and darkness, begetter of the armies or son of shame” and Ziaklobrethus means “fool of the week”.

He despises people who try to dabble into the art of creating life without a true, clear purpose and those that crudely play god without realising the consequences.

When in his spirit form, he appears to be deep red, flame pea, old gold, affair purple, and light turquoise.

Sculpting tools, a lizard’s tail, and a lion pelt are his sacred symbols.

#writerscorner #writing #creative writing #original character #personality #physical appearance #outfit #deity #god #yaldabaoth #demiurge #sophia #gnosticism #fun facts #extra information

[pics-and-fanfics]

I’m not safe

Here’s a full recount of the events that happened earlier after I got home that led me to cry for somewhere around 15-30 minutes

1. My mother comes into the living room, where I’m watching a YouTube video on my phone, headphones in

2. She tries to play with me (she was bullying me)

3. She yanks my earbud out of my ear then runs off (I should remind u she’s like 51-ish)

4. I go to look for her

5. I find her in the kitchen a minute or two later

6. I tell her to give me my earbud back

7. She takes it OUT OF HER FUCKING EAR! AND HANDS IT TO ME!

8. I find my drink under the living room table

9. I can’t find my phone (seconds after the drink)

10. I go back to her, telling her to give me my phone back

11. She runs off

12. I chase her, and grab the back of her shirt to keep a hold of her

13. I let go for two (2) seconds

14. She tries to run off again

15. I chase after and grab her shirt again

16. I get my phone back

17. I look for my headphone case

18. I go to the kitchen to tell her to give it back

19. She tries to gaslight me

20. I tell her, multiple times, to give it back

21. She goes to the bathroom

22. I go to the living room

23. She comes in, headphone case in her hand

24. I tell her to give it to me

25. She says no

26. I walk up to her, getting in her face (as close as I can bc I’m shorter than her)

27. She puts her other hand up, and I push it down

28. She slaps my hand

29. This repeats x2 more times

30. I have to give her a hug to get my headphone case back

31. I do it, and i get my headphone case

32. She thinks it’s funny to squish me and I try to twist away bc she’s choking me

33. I sit down after she leaves the living room, calling my best friend

34. I start talking to her

35. My mom says “awww, are you tattling on me to my mommy?” (Mocking me, bc that’s who I used to call before I learned she couldn’t keep her mouth shut)

36. I tell her I’m taking to my bestie (I’ll call her Madison for this)

37. (Remember I’ve got my earbuds in, on a call w/ Madison)

38. My mom starts going ballistic, accusing me of hiding her phones (1 personal, 1 work)

39. I tell her I didn't

40. We go back and forth before I mute myself on the call bc I’m starting to cry bc that’s what happens when I’m angry, and I hate it

41. She starts going through my backpack, and I tell Madison I’ll call her right back before hanging up

42. My moms screaming at me, saying that I hid her phones bc she took my stuff

43. (Spoiler! I didnt!)

44. Guess where they were?

45. Guess

46.

47. WOW!

48. They were right behind her, not even 10 feet from where she remembered putting them!

49. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY WERE

50. SO IM LIKE

51. “WOW! THERE THEY ARE!”

52. (She found them before I saw them btw)

53. She’s mad at me, I’m angry and crying

54. I tell her that she’s bullying me, her LITERAL CHILD!

55. Her response?

56. Somewhat along the lines of

57. “If you think I’m bullying you, you’ve got a fucked up sense of reality”

58. And she’s cursing me out (all while I’m still crying)

59. I tell her she’s being a jerk

60. She flips me off and leaves the kitchen, where we had gravitated, which is where her phones and my backpack were

61. She goes outside, I get my food out the oven

62. I call Madison back

63. And I’m talking to her, still upset, crying, and interrupted every few seconds as I sniffle and take a breath and try to catch my breath and cry

64. I’m barely forming coherent sentences bc of all this

65. I talk to my bestie, Madison, while I try to eat

66. I find out my food wasn’t even cooked all the way thru

67. So I’m sat there, from 4:46 to 5:12 (24 minutes) talking to her

68. I eventually move to my room after throwing the food away bc I’d lost my appetite

69. I continue the rest of the call (I don’t know how long I was in there)

70. (Dining room portions of the call + my bedroom part of the call = 24 ish minutes)

71. While I’m still on the phone w/ Madison, I look up my therapist’s office

72. I hang up soon after, and start typing this on notes so I have an easily accessible copy for Tuesday, when I go to my therapy appointment (that’s where I am rn)

73. I’m going to copy and paste this then publish

74. I’m then going to try to get in contact with my therapist (going into the future now)

75. Please wish me luck, I don’t feel safe here

76. These events are getting more often, leading me to calling Madison in tears more often)

#i’m not kidding #i’m not even joking #i’m not okay #i’m not ok rn #i’m scared #I’m scared for my life rn #I’m not safe

[viilpstick]

╰┈➤ 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠: I sense there's something in the wind, that feels like tragedy's at hand and though she'd like to stand by her father's side and be an obedient daughter, she couldn't help to believe the worst was coming. And when it did, it's all going to be twisted upside down.

𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔: Monique D'automne, Twisted Wonderland oc

𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔: Mentions of kidnapping, angst (background and personality), phobia of being alone (personality), a bit of oc x cannon

𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒓𝒆: Angst (on the background and personality), some fluff and crackfic in the (relationships)

𝒂/𝒏: Lore change hehe, I feel like it is for the best, I think she was being too much of a Mary Sue.

"I don't know but I feel there's something behind this whole story, feels like they are always trying to hide it from me. And it seems wrong to me. Very wrong."

𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅: She knows being disobedient will get her to the wrong path… But, what if she needs to be disobedient to learn the truth? Try as she may, it curiosity doesn't last.

Monique had always grown up in a household that discouraged adventurousness and curiosity. She was constantly reminded by her father, Frainkey D'automne, an ex-doctor and pharmaceutical specialist who was now 56 years old, that patience was her most valuable virtue. He often questioned why she would consider being ungrateful enough to leave him, leaving an old man like him to face the prospect of dying alone. Monique never had the chance to meet her mother, and as a result, she believed that her life was destined to remain confined within the four walls of their home. There was no one to confide in about her father's controlling tendencies, and she wondered why, at the age of 17, she couldn't at least attempt to break free from her father's grasp.

Her desire for independence and a life beyond the restrictive boundaries set by her father led her to a fateful moment when a heated argument erupted between them. Most would dismiss it as just another teenage tantrum, but for Monique, it was a desperate cry for freedom. One day, in a bold and rebellious move, she clandestinely slipped a mysterious herb into her father's evening tea, hoping it would induce a deep slumber and buy her enough time to escape.

As she runaway from her home, not that this is the first time, and who knows if he will find her? She lays her head in a abandoned house metal railings, falling sleep hugging her scarf.

Awakening in the next morning, she was not prepared for what she found. The reality that greeted her was far more chilling than her worst nightmare. Instead of the safety of her own bed, she found herself in a dimly lit, confined space, her breathing labored and her heart pounding with terror. She wasn't in her room; she wasn't even in their house. Monique realized with a shudder that she had not expected to wake up in a coffin, her worst fears becoming an eerie, surreal truth.

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚: Now, she has a chance to live her life, she's adventurous more than ever! But… She doesn't want to be fully alone. Where will her actions lead herself then?

Monique is a young woman who, despite growing up in a restrictive environment, harbors a deep-seated desire for independence. Her decision to drug her father's tea and escape her home demonstrates her courage and determination to break free from the confines of her sheltered life.

Whatsoever, Monique becomes someone who needs to rely in others, specially for never learning how to life in her own and while she longs for independence. That generated a fear of being alone, that's one of the reasons why she mostly keeps Grim closer to her everytime.

Monique's actions also suggest a level of logical side, specially when she slips the herbs for her father to sleep more than once. She did felt conflicted about leaving him behind, knowing that he would face the prospect of loneliness. This shows that she possesses a caring and compassionate side, even deciding to do it anyway.

Monique, despite her upbringing that emphasized patience as a virtue, had always been the antithesis of that advice. Impatience coursed through her veins, manifesting in various aspects of her life. With so long waiting, Monique is someone very impatient.

As well determined, Once Monique realizes the gravity of her situation, her determination to survive this tought school, where everyone seems to have enough problems to simply overblot. She's not one to give up easily, even when confronted with the darkest of situations. In the face of the unknown, Monique's inquisitive nature pushes her to explore her surroundings and uncover the mystery of her predicament. Her desire to seek answers and understand her circumstances drives her actions.

The brown haired girl's vulnerability is exposed when she faces the terrifying reality of being alone in another world. This vulnerability humanizes her character and makes her journey all the more compelling.

The complex side of Monique's character is rich and multi-dimensional, with a blend of strengths, weaknesses, and conflicting emotions. Her journey from a sheltered, controlled life to a perilous and unexpected situation adds depth to her character, making her a compelling and relatable protagonist.

In summary, Monique is a someone who longs for independence and takes drastic measures to escape her restrictive environment. However, she also shows empathy and compassion for others, indicating a caring side. Despite her impatience, she is determined and curious, seeking answers and exploring her surroundings. Her vulnerability humanizes her character, and her journey adds depth to her complex personality.

𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆: In their enthusiastic crowd, she never stood up in as someone else, but did her looks showed how unique she is, oh, they did.

Monique is a young woman with dark brown with some dark red streaks in her hair. Her skin is just as soft as cloth's material, and between pale skin to beige. Her eyes are in a beautiful shade of grey.

For her body is in a pear body, yet she still pretty much slim, with some scars along it's way (when Monique was a kid, she was far from careful).

𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐟𝐢𝐭: Drop-waist flapper dress with fringe or lace details, her dress would lean towards dark, like deep burgundy, black but with a dark purple, cyan and yellow.

Accentuate her Gothic style, she might adorn herself with Victorian-inspired jewelry, such as ornate chokers, cameo brooches, and dark gemstones like amethyst or onyx. Gloves, typically short, could be made of white lace.

Mary Jane style shoes with a chunky heel. And a long pantyhose, with dark cyan shades of dark purple and a bright yellow.

The make up is pretty much Vil's style but a bit more dramatic and melancholic with smokey eyes and a dark red lipstick.

𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 (𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔): She always wanted a Prince Charming, but the idea of having an enchanted king, never crossed her mind, for he may be the one.

Cater Diamond: Identical crisis besties o(>ω<)o /hj Monique and Cater were the type of people who immediately clicked in. Cater tried to push Monique away, afraid that she would find out he never had a great actual friend. But, oh wow, SURPRISE! So, did Monique. They constantly go out as the biggest besties at the whole school, Cater for once don't publish too much of her, but when he did, a famous someone had his attention caught.

Epel Felmier: Well, this is now he son. Taking care of him pretty much like her kid, whatsoever, Epel see that Monique is just really being kind and not have bad intentions of treating him like an actual toddler. Specially, when they first met, Monique knew Epel was a boy, and never called him cute or pretty, so she have that free pass.

Silver: Silver taught how Monique could be more independent, thanks to Silver, Monique know how to do basic tasks she would find trouble since her father never taught her. In exchange, Monique makes herbs and teas to make Silver slightly more awake in class and not electric with caffeine.

Vil Schoenheit: Monique doesn't perceive herself as conventionally attractive; quite the opposite, in fact. Standing out in a crowd was never her forte, so she chose to distinguish herself through her unique designs. What truly caught Vil's attention was Monique's distinctive style, which stood out amidst the sea of ordinary individuals. It was as if she radiated an inexplicable charm that mesmerized him. Monique herself couldn't quite fathom why Vil wanted to be in her company, especially given their initial encounter, went with him thinking her sense of fashion was super poor.

Crewel Divus: He adopted her. That's it. Monique is someone who love to design, and during one class, she couldn't figure it out how to work, specially because she doesn't have magic, and so, Divus let her sit on his side awhile drawing, when his head turned to her; She simple had drawn the most amazing piece of clothing for him, he saw a future in her with that design.

𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒂: As a dearest friend, you may like to join her by her side, where we can gaze into the stars wonder the next step into the future, for it is plain, as anyone can see, she's simply meant to be in here.

Monique is inspired on Sally from "Nightmare before Christmas"

Monique meaning: from Monica; Young woman. Monique is a feminine name of French and Hebrew origin. Monique means "alone" and "unique"

D'automne means from autumn in French

Her style is inspired by the gothic and 20's style

18 years old, born in March 9th

Her height is 168cm/5'6.1ft

Monique's dominant hand is right

Fav. drink + food: Elderflower tea, salad.

Least fav. drink + food: Coffee, mushroom.

Hobbies: Sewing

Pet peeves: Starting fights in the middle of nowhere, math

Likes: Drawing

Talent: Intuition

Best subject: Herbology

Club: Science Club

DO NOT COPY, TRANSLATE OR REPOST IN OTHER MEDIA MY WORK viilpstick © copyright 2023

#💜 ! monique d'automne #💜 ! vil schoenheit #💜 ! rook hunt #💜 ! epel felmier #💜 ! cater diamond #💜 ! silver #💜 ! crewel divus #💜 ! ocs #💜 ! vilnique #💜 ! twisted wonderland #twst oc #twisted wonderland #disney twst #twst #oc #original character #oc x canon

[semper-legens]

56. The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead

Owned: No, library Page count: 366 My summary: Cora has been enslaved on a cotton plantation for all her life. But thanks to a few poor choices, she finds that her life is in even more danger than her fellows. One of the men on the plantation swears he has an escape route - the mythical Underground Railroad, which can lead runaways to the Promised Land in the North. But escaping the plantation is just the first part of Cora’s long journey to freedom. Will she ever find true safety? My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

I'd heard about this book before I read it. It just seemed to crop up everywhere, enough that its presence on the shelves everywhere I went inspired me to actually pick the thing up and give it a read. But while I'd heard about this book, it wasn't in enough detail that I knew much outside of its premise - in 19th century America, the Underground Railroad is, instead of a route out of slavery, a literal railroad running underneath the country trying to get enslaved people to safety. Which was an intriguing enough idea in itself. But beyond that, I didn't know much; my preconceptions were entirely based on that concept. So let's see how the rest of the book panned out!

Cora is our main character, an enslaved woman who is the daughter of a runaway, and became an outcast for it on the plantation in which she was held. She later runs away with the help of another enslaved person named Caesar, as well as the agents of the Underground Railroad. Cora's life is informed by trauma, both the horrors she was subject to on the plantation and the things she experiences on the road to freedom. She is given moments of respite, months spent in reasonably friendly places, but her life of running and hiding is obviously hard. She's a character with a great sense of resilience - you'd have to be resilient to be a fugitive - but she still has her moments of vulnerability, desperation, and being overwhelmed. I like how stubborn she is, how she refuses to compromise and buckle under to how people expect her to be, like in South Carolina when she refuses the doctor's pressure to become sterilised even before learning the greater context around his requests. She's a very credible image of a woman in her position.

This book has a really weird relationship with reality. Other than the titular Railroad being a literal rather than figurative railroad, this book aligns with reality perfectly, at least as far as I am aware from my admittedly limited reading. References are made to real abuses done to both enslaved and free black people, albeit not all in this time period. For example, the first place Cora and Caesar go to in South Carolina has the government own escaped enslaved people, but employ them and provide medical care. Cora finds out that they are forcibly sterilising women and using men as test subjects in an experiment to test for syphilis treatments. I don't know what period the former was happening in, but the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was in the 1930s to 70s. This isn't a criticism, however, just an observation - it's interesting how Whitehead takes real experiences and fictionalises them, conflating centuries of abuses directed at black people and creating a world that both reflects real historical experiences while still crafting a distinct world.

And, yes, this book is brutal in its depictions of the horrors of slavery. As it needs to be, really. You can't talk about how terrible slavery was without mentioning children being ripped from parents, the inhumanity of slave catchers, the ugly bigotry shown towards black people. Cora ends up in North Carolina, where black people are illegal and any found in the state will be violently and ritualistically murdered. She spends months cooped up in a tiny attic space, hidden from the world - reminiscent of Jewish people hiding from the Nazis, but also of Harriet Jacobs hiding from an abusive enslaver. When violence erupts, it is sudden and startling - the moments of relative peace in Cora's life provide a chilling contrast to the sheer brutality on show here. It's an impactful book, but not an easy one to read by any means.

Next up, some tales for queer teens.

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