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ridestomars · 2 years
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starting a book club (of sorts) with eddie was something you did on a whim. you just randomly said one day that you "didn't have anyone to talk about the old books you like" and ed immediately said that he would read whatever book you wanted if, in turn, you'd read whatever he wanted you to. it was an agreement: every time you'd finish a book, you'd let him borrow it. 
you decided you should read only one book a month, so it gave time for both of you to finish it, and then you'd spend the next month reading each others' selection. it worked, except that eddie didn't give you any book of his own, which you found extremely weird, but went along with it.  until one day he showed up at school with an extremely old book in his hands, impossible even to read the title, since it was all faded. it was a well-loved copy.
you were excited to figure out which book that was, and once you got home that day, the first thing you did was sit down at your desk and open it up. and you should've seen it coming, honestly. of course he chose the lord of the rings for you to read. of fucking course.  but then, the title wasn't importart anymore because your attention immediately was caught by a yellow paper that was clipped on the first page of the first chapter. it wasn't hard to recognize eddie's distinctly messy handwriting. this really caught you by surprise, but didn't fail to bring a smile to your lips. 
dearest y/n, 
you should've known that this book club thing was just an excuse for me to make you read this. but you won't regret it, i promise – at last, you'll finally know what mordor actually is, and why i reference it all the time. 
i know you will like this for you are as much of a nerd as i am, but i would love to hear all about what you've thought while reading these old pages! think of this experience as another weird topic for us to discuss. 
faithfully yours, your favorite nerd. 
and when you decided to actually dive in the book, you found out that he took his time to annotate his feelings and thoughts throughout the whole book, which only made it extra enjoyable. it was filled with "this is super fucked up. isn't that right, y/n?", "what the fuck was he thinking?" and "they're so cool, we should dress up as them for halloween". 
needless to say that this became an unspoken rule in your little club: you had to make notes in your books before lending them to each other. if you were head over heels in love with him while reading the lord of the rings, can you imagine the state you were in when he gave you back your copy of jane austen's pride and prejudice? 
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smallpapers · 2 years
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a moment with you
don't forget about yourself.
please click for higher resolution! (you.are.here series: tag/masterlist)
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hextv · 21 days
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I foolishly think that Dream had hallucinations in prison, constant stress, plus lack of food, constant loneliness and torture is not a very good combination.
At first he only had visual hallucinations, he saw still shadows in a corner of his cell, bugs that crawled on his skin and when he reacted there was nothing, and objects that simply were not there.
Dream at first clearly doesn't know what is real or not, he is scared every time there is a blurry shadow that seems to get closer and closer until it just disappears, or when he feels the air leave his lungs when he sees spiders crawling on the ground.
Then the auditory hallucinations arrive, he hears voices ringing in his ears, they are strange mixtures between familiar voices, he cannot differentiate who the voices are (his brain unconsciously mixes the voices of Sapnap and George, They are voices that he recognizes from somewhere, but he doesn't know where.)
He also hears footsteps towards him but there is absolutely no one but his solitude, sometimes he hears a drip that he doesn't know where it comes from but then it stops and then it comes back again and again, sometimes he hears quackity's voice and feels his heart beating loudly Believing it's close when really it is just his brain playing tricks on him (again)
He begins to get used to it, and begins to learn how to differentiate what is real and what is not real (although with quite some difficulty).
then he begins to have hallucinations of touch, he feels the legs of a bunch of bugs running over his pale skin, he feels someone touching his shoulder or grabbing him by the wrist and he opens his eyes wide only to realize that it is another lie in it head.
Silly.
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etoilesbienne · 1 month
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scariest part of this is how many qsmp admins use tumblr like sorry guysI didnt realize so many of you guys were here i hope my critical posts weren't too bad .
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prince-liest · 24 days
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You inspired me to write! And I got up to 2k words for the first time ever when it comes to writing for myself... but I'm struggling a bit 😅 Do you have any advice about narrator POV and how you use your verb tenses? It's like I have no idea how you manage to "head-hop" while still being an omniscient narrator so smoothly & effortlessly. And verb tenses. if I write "was" one more time I might pop a gasket lol. any help is appreciated <3 have a good one!
First of all, that's freaking amazing! 2k is a lot, congratulations! That might sound weird coming from me considering how many words I put out, but I 100% remember the struggle of being newer to writing and hitting multiple thousands of words for the first time - I'm so happy for you!
Second of all: I actually write exclusively in third person limited POV, not third person omniscient! Even though I'm writing in third person, the narration is fully from the perspective of the point of view character, which I personally enjoy a lot because it allows for a lot of unreliable narration and also characterization through how their train of thought manifests (choppy, stressed, dreamy, etc). That's why when I'm writing from the point of view of character A, for example, any assumptions about character B's motivations are what character A is thinking, not an omniscient narrator informing you.
That said, you still have to head-hop specifically to write the actual visible actions and dialogue of the second character, and that's actually the most recent thing that I used to struggle with in writing specifically because I got most of my initial writing experience doing roleplay where I was only ever responsible for one character's thoughts and actions at a time.
Honestly, the main thing I can say is that it gets much, much easier with practice. When you start out, it will genuinely just take you longer to switch from the mindset of one character to another! I used to take character notes to put together little snapshot profiles of character headspaces to re-orient myself between the characters I was writing when I felt like I was getting lost. They included things like a few traits to keep in mind, behavior mindset, and snippets of dialogue that I thought were very representative. I don't use these anymore, but I do still do things like rewatch episodes or reread portions of books when I'm learning new characters to orient myself to their personality. It's like code-switching to me nowadays.
As for verb tense: I was a consummate Homestuck, so I started out writing in second person present tense, hahaha, and while I've adopted the third person POV (and believe me, this took adjusting), I've kept writing in present tense as a personal preference. I like it because it makes things feel more in-the-moment as they're happening, because there's less grammatical fuckery involved when describing the past vs the present, and just because I'm used to it. That said, past tense is more common and stands out less to people, and I think that you are finding all of your "was"s a lot more noticable than a reader would! People generally don't really notice the tense of what they're reading once they get into the flow of it.
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ivyithink · 8 months
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downsides to discussing the conditions of the treaty while taking a walk outside
this is once again a piece for cringetober 2023 (some info about it under the cut on this post!)
this prompt: day 9 — crossover ship/rarepair!
I’m not particularly into crossover ships, but i do have more than a dozen rarepairs, at least, and I obviously wanted to draw them all, BUT… this mental image compelled me… as with most of my tlk pieces at this point, they are michela’s (@kingslionheart) fault in some way, shape or form. your one tag is to be blamed for this, i hope you are happy about giving me even more brainworms about tlk…
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automatonknight · 10 months
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HAI.. i am wondering, how do you go about drawing arms for mech characters? i have an oc i've been trying to figure out an arm design for MONTHS now, trying to think about it in a way that makes it looks like the joints could work, so i'm wondering if you have any tips? if not, that's completely ok!! anyway hope u dont mind but heres some images of her because i love her and wanna show them around like she's my kid
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HELLO!! ^__^ well! my usual kind of go-to design is this one
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^pretty heavily based on just how a human arm functions, more or less.
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orrr i would go with this?^ to get into like. the technicalities (and don't take me as an authority or anything) i'd say the only like. kinda important thing? to remember when you design a robot arm with a larger variety of movement is to include a ball joint where it connects to the shoulder. you can also go with noodle arms ^__^ i honestly don't have that much to say about joints since i usually just. make something up that looks kinda like it would work and run with it. BUT i would advise looking at types of hinges, human skeletons to see how it all connects and since you'd have a good understanding of how you can move certain parts of your body aaaand some robots! maybe those industrial arms that build cars in this case? i think like they could serve as inspiration for something more complicated with more joints or a mix of different types of joints. like a rubber spring for example (which i think could work about as well as a ball joint). speaking of rubber joints and something unconventional!
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^here you can see the lower arm is pretty much static (except for the wrist) (speaking of the wirst i'd say slap a ball joint in there as well), while the upper arm is responsible for all the movement. in the second sketch i just kind of wanted to visualize what i meant by "rubber spring", but the rest applies. i'd say think about how the other mobile parts on her look and then decide what kind of movement do you want her to have! good luck and she looks really fun and pretty! love her visor!! :3
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dropthedemiurge · 7 months
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when i was born, my mother gave a gift to me called Grief, for many years unwanted kid like me read fairy tales and foolishly mistook that gift with Care because the vinyl records in our living room were playing gentle lullabies into my ears they drowned out man's yelling and the woman's cries i didn't know the mother's hands should not be cold i didn't know the bitter drinks in glasses smell like death not knowing any better, i grew up her perfect copy – the same dead look, dramatic outbursts and mourning of life i longed for love but how can one discover something never seen? it only grazed my heart in bathtubs, drawn by a path of pills the actress passed a cursed theatric play to only child – the ghost of one, who danced with Death more often than with other people; her hugs were cold, awaited and familiar
tonight i take a cigarette and put it in between my bleeding lips unknown singer lights it up for me, and suddenly i breathe – your flame feels warm your eyes see me your touch is nothing but a gift of Care so maybe if you sing the lullabies for me the Death will never interrupt us she won't dare
[Ray, Only Friends Series]
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cardinal-crossing · 10 months
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Why does he have a chain saw? Who let him have this?
Short answer: I did; I gave him the chainsaw. Do I regret it? No.
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adogisadogis3dog · 7 months
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Hi ^______^ got any soapshipping hcs?
If I asked u this already u can ignore this 🧍
thanks for asking!!! i actually have a few :] -i think that when they first started living together they were very oblivious about eachother's feelings. narrator was actually questioning his sexuality, but tyler was straight up in denial, i also like to think they had internalized homophobia but they worked it out and are happy now -narrator's main love language is acts of service, so whenever he could he helped tyler out with whatever. he didn't like project mayhem because he started feeling irrelevant and abandoned, like he didn't matter to tyler and that he basically excluded him and didn't need him anymore -narrator gets jealous very easily, so he didn't like it when someone that's not him got tyler's full attention. that's why he didn't like having marla around and another reason he was against project mayhem, tyler simply didn't have time for him -on a brighter note- narrator secretly misses his blankets and pillows, that's why he likes sleeping with tyler, he also sleeps better when they're cuddled up -as for tyler i think he's very cuddly. idk why, he just seems like he would -tyler absolutely loves cheap instant food, unlike narrator who will try his best to make a healthy meal from whatever they have in the kitchen (it's never anything fancy, but turns out edible and somewhat healthy). neither of them are good cooks -narrator has an active library card that he never uses, so tyler uses it to lend poem and/ or philosophy books -both tyler and narrator know how to play acoustic guitars and they often play songs together (yes that is based on that one video of pitt and norton covering "venus" by frankie avalon!!!) -they also probably go to free punk/ metal shows cuz it reminds tyler of his teenage years, also tyler likes rock/ metal, so whenever narrator stumbles upon cds of bands tyler likes he buys them :] tyler used to steal cds, but he stopped after he made up his whole "things u own end up owning u" mindset -to buy even less clothes than he already does, tyler learned to sew and he definitely owned a pair of patch pants at some point, he also fixes up narrator's clothes whenever they get worn down or rip
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oncillaphoenix · 4 months
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Characters: Verbena | Anthea, Dark Trinity | Shadow Triad, N | Natural Harmonia Gropius, Helena | Concordia Additional Tags: the dog does not die btw the dog is fine, actually none of the humans listed in the tags die either, it's more of a 'haunting the narrative' situation Summary:
Fifteen years after the first time Team Plasma disbanded, Anthea Harmonia runs into someone she never thought she would see again.
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hypertic · 1 year
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Avatrice rivals to lovers - royalty (?) - medieval (???) AU [I NEED HELP]
ok so basically AU where the country’s future rulers aren’t determined by blood but instead they have to go through a series of tests and challenges of all types to determine who will be the king or queen.
[this is where I need help I need cool challenges not just physical but also abt knowledge and decision making and stuff please if you can think of anything lmk]
Beatrice’s parents are one of the richest, most influential people in society since her mother’s family has given the kingdom many kings and queens, including the first king and the current queen, Beatrice’s aunt (and her moms still bitter about that). so when the selection process starts it’s almost expected that I’ll be Beatrice. Still, anyone can enter and there’s a applicants from all backgrounds, including Ava and her complicated backstory (escaped from the orphanage, lived from pickpocketing, worked odd jobs and then for a blacksmith , then met Lady Salvius’s and kinda became her student (?), and Michaels training partner and she decides to apply even if she doesn’t expect much and both Michael and Lady Salvius are against it because they know rich ppl are mean.
And they meet and fall in love and at first Ava thinks Beatrice is like a petulant child with a stick up her ass but then realized she’s not and she actually doesn’t even want to be there, while Beatrice is frustrated and lowkey hates Ava because everything seemed to come so easy for her and she’s so happy all the time while she got punished everyday for simple mistakes So she’s jealous but then they get paired together for training, and Ava hits Beatrice really hard and gets worried so she kinda hesitated and Beatrice uses that to her advantage and wins the upper hand. and then even tho Beatrice was lowkey a bitch Ava asks her if she’s ok and Beatrice is shook because she didn’t think she’d want to talk to her at all and is kinda rude but then apologizes
Also Ava gets bullied for being an orphan but Beatrice steps in and helps her :D
I may not write the entire thing but if anyone suggests any cool trial I’ll write it and post here!!! it can be on the ask thing
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mimikusu · 1 year
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I love the art of your new OC! Can you tell us more about him? What's his name? (Take this as an invitation to ramble about his background and who he is as much as you want, I'm interested to know more <3)
Awwww! How sweet of you to ask! And to give me permission to ramble about him! There's not that much to him, yet, but I can share a short thing I've written for them some time ago.
This is about this piece, in case someone comes across this solitarily.
Simon's eyes were empty, the smile tugging at his lips almost perfect.
"Is that so?"
He asked, looking at the man at his opposite in a way that almost scared Nikolai. There was something behind all the anger, waiting to break through, to tear the other appart and Niko could swear that Ruben did see it as well.
"Maybe we should just..."
But he got interrupted by a sharp hiss from his right.
"Nobody asked for you to calm the waves, Nikolai!"
He turned his head and now that he was directly looking at him, Nikolai could feel his heart skip a beat. Only a fraction in time and space and he could feel the strong urge to jump up from where he was seated and run for the door as fast as he could. His body was glued to the chair, however, like the prey facing it's predator. He was loosing himself into these grey eyes, behind which the never ending cataclystic rage and hate was burning down every last bit that might have been human. No affection, not a glimps of anything but anger, as if he did not even recognize who he was talking to.
"Simon, I..."
"Silence!"
And Niko fell silent.
He did not say a word for as long as it took Simon to eradicate Ruben rethorically, finally collapsing with a sneeze harsh enough to shake the glasses on the table in front of them.
"Gesundheit."
It was the way Ruben adressed Simon, fully unimpressed of the scene he had caused, that did draw Nikolai's attention. He thought Simon would have Ruben's head for this, but the man only sighed, took a deep breath and sneezed a second time before he seemed to be able to control himself again.
"Bless you. Maybe with a cold like this, it would have been wise to stay in bed."
Simon lifted his head to stare at Ruben. He opened his mouth and closed it again, uneffectively stifling a cough in the process. A fraction in time - a glitch in the matrix. His face crumpled and instantly returned to normal, his posture perfect as always.
Niko's jaw dropped almost all the way to the floor. It seemed he did not know the person next to him nearly as well as he'd thought. Simon's facade was perfect enough to make him believe he was as well as he could be. Now that Ruben had outed him, however, he seemed so obviously sick. Simon's lips were parted ever so slightly, his nose unmistakeably pink-ish and his eyes were circled by dark shadows that he'd thought to be the result of another night spent in front of his desk. There was a barely noticable layer of sweat that covered his forehead, speaking of the very bad shape his friend's health actually seemed to be in.
"Simon, did you...?"
Simon's gaze turned to Nikolai and still, there was a lot of barely contained anger, yet the way he frowned he looked much more exhausted and as if he desperately tried to fight off another sneeze.
"Goodness, Simon, we could have postponed!" Nikolai sighed.
Simon's frown deepend and suddenly Ruben grinned, placing a hand on Niko's forearm.
"Don't worry dear, you're not the only one he's very succesfully hiding these things from."
He leaned forward and lifted a hand to reach over the table.
"The way his nose wrinkles up here..." and with this, he very softly placed a finger right inbetween Simon's eyes.
Hastily - almost panically - Simon lifted his hand yet again, his body shaken by the third sneeze he'd so hard tried to fight off.
"Ruben!"
Ruben smiled and leaned back again.
"You're an open book, Simon! Whether you like it or not."
"Bless you..." Nikolai mumbled, his eyes fixated on the point where Ruben's finger had been only seconds ago.
Again, he started to question himself why Ruben knew so much about Simon, while to him the man seemed to be almost a stranger sometimes.
It was with great harshness, that Simon got up, making Nikolai almost jump with the sudden movement.
"I'm in no need for your so called 'expertise' anyways!"
"Well, if you say so..." Ruben was composure himself. Still sitting, he gazed up at Simon, who definitely looked intimidating the way he stared down on him, but he did knew as much as Nikolai and Ruben did, that he had no choice whatsoever to rely on Ruben's 'expertise' with his bank being Ruben's major client. It was a classic stalemate situation and Simon being unwilling to accknowledge it, however, did not change that fact.
"Well then..." Now Ruben got up as well. "Let's continue this talk once you got over your cold."
He smiled almost bitterly which seemed to spark Simon's rage even further. He turned around and abruptly left the cafe, leaving Ruben and Nikolai behind.
Ruben sat back down with a sigh and a frown, his eyes glistening with a curious wetness that made Nikolai feel sorry for the man. He leaned in a little closer, placing a hand on small shoulders and Ruben turned his head, his face almost distorted with a sad smile.
"Are you going to tell me now, what it is, the two of you have going on?" He asked and whiped a sole tear from Ruben's cheek.
"He's someone I used to know..." Ruben replied mystically. "In a time where things were different... before I transitioned."
There was not much need for further information and Nikolai could see how much it pained Ruben to even think of it. They were sharing a burden with this man both seemed to be magically attracted to, like rubble in his debris field.
Nikolai smiled and leaned his cheek against Ruben's in a way that he could even feel him shivering ever so slightly.
"Don't worry, love. You will be okay now. I promise."
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Maybe I should add some words of explanation still.
Actually, Ruben first made his appearance in that christmas-thing I never finished... and my mind created him, because I so much suck for unrequited love. They both studied together and Simon being Simon did simply leave him behind as he decided to abond study. So, from Ruben's perspective everything was somewhat okay-ish (as good as it gets... i mean we're talking about Simon still) and from one day to the other he was just gone for good. They did not meet again, until fate made it so, that the firm Ruben works at as an accountant, asigned him to the department of the bank Simon works in, forcing them to be stuck with one another.
Also, Ruben is transgender and the moment he came out to everyone, Simon started acting weird. It would be logical to think that Simon's decision with abandoning study wasn't motivated mostly by the issues with Ruben's gender, but it was convenient to solve two issues at once by just abandon him as well as the study which was boring him to death at the time.
Finally, since Nikolai is polyamorous and Simon pretending to be okay with it, I like to think that Ruben and Nikolai have an on-off relationship, that mostly is Niko turning to Ruben in an attempt for a more warm and compassionate kind of love, thinking how Simon does not stop talking about how he's only waiting for the right woman to pass his way so he can have a family and children and abandon Nikolai for good. And the way things are with Simon and Ruben, Ruben does not know about them being together, as both, Nikolai and Simon agreed on keeping to themselfs for the time being.
Thank you for the cance! Sorry it's so long! 😭
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miscelliteeous · 2 months
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I made a Carrd!
It's a more organized listing of my fictional others.
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Serious question What do you think Mike's relationship with the other bad family members are like? (DC x FNAF)
Okay I love this question!
First off Bruce
Bruce already wants to adopt him so badly but it only gets worse after every fight with William. like in the Batcave post-battle he goes “Michael…” and then Mikes just gone fully disappeared peaced out (he snuck away while Bruce was brooding)
but if the battle with William's creations was emotionally taxing enough on Michael he goes to Bruce’s office instead of home and waits for him to come up (this happens enough for Bruce to check after every fight with William) and they just talk and/or hug for a while sometimes Mike crys himself to sleep in his arms but most of the time he’s stable enough to go to Tim’s room or home with Henry
Michael has a very Steph Like situation he has a guardian and a roof over his head but still spends most of his time at the manner and relies on Bruce as a father figure he loves Henry obviously but let’s be honest Henry is not stable enough to be a dad to Michael
Now in one version of this au! Tim! (They’re still best friends in the other version obviously)
Their boyfriends. the end. Moving on.
Okay I'm joking
Their boyfriends and They're dating Bernard.
Tim realized he was queer a lot earlier than canon because of Michael. they met when he was Robin in a very similar manner to him and Steph (this is where the sexuality crisis begins) various vigilante shenanigans later Tim realizes he feels the same way about Michael that he does Steph has his crisis and realizations then keeps it inside and buries it deep (not because of internalized homophobia because he has a girlfriend)
And then realizes he also has a massive crush on Bernard his totally Straight Friend who would definitely never feel the same and already has a “crush” on Darla (meanwhile Bernard ❤️👄❤️)
Then BAM! Bruce had Michael enrolled at his school without telling him (this is during the Robin!Steph era which I think lasts longer in this au?) and obviously Michael joins the friend group (fuck canon Bernard doesn’t have a car in this au) and becomes the designated driver he takes them everywhere but the arcade and they don’t actually start dating until post Red Robin (2009) but there was definitely tension
Also Michael definitely convinced Tim to go back to school post Red Robin (probably by going “sigh I wish I could go back to school” “sigh I miss driving you and Bernard around after school” “sigh- And so on)
I’m basically writing fanfiction at this point I think it’s time to stop for now. I’ll come back to this post eventually.
I think. I hope.
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dilfsuzanneyk · 1 year
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i wrote a silly oneshot instead of editing dancing in the moonlight 😭😭 
https://www.tumblr.com/natequarter/709519674518437888/the-one-question-i-still-have-re-robin-is-where?source=share
^^ this post by @natequarter inspired the oneshot
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