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smokingtomas · 10 months

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An Indecent Haste

Ch. 2 of An Indecent Encounter

AO3

A/n: I still can’t think of Kenshi a normal amount. expect a third chapter, but don’t ask me when lol. i hope you’ll enjoy this tho! s/o to my beta @cryinginthebackseat i love u forever.

Warning: this fic literally begins with a more explicit smut. you’ve been warned.

(gif by: @halfwayriight)

The spark between you and him was quite obvious– you both almost didn't make it inside as you grabbed him along with you to land on the backseat of your car. Even the door couldn’t almost be shut with his mouth hot and heavy over yours. The urgency was clearly felt the second his tongue explored your mouth once more, and you welcomed him with a pull of his suit before letting it loose.

As you undid the button of his maroon shirt, he drove you into the corner of the backseat to feel you properly this time– a hand gave your breast a gentle squeeze that elicited a moan, and it didn't stop there as you sent his shirt flying somewhere in your car.

"What is it?" Kenshi called you out, not realizing you just mouthed 'wow' silently.

"Oh, you know, it's just–" You rose up, making him shift into a sitting position before you straddled him, "Guys with tattoos are my biggest turn on."

He looked far too pleased with your statement, but he didn't stop kissing you, "Well, maybe you would sleep with strangers like me after all."

You raised an eyebrow teasefuly, "Strangers like you, huh?"

"Unless the fact that I am a yakuza scares you."

You grinded on him, only taking your lips off him to say, "Well, if you wanted to cut me and sell my organs, you would've done it by now."

"We don't hurt people on purpose, although…" His raspy tone sent you on the edge as skilled fingers unbuttoned your shirt once again, "I'd like to hear you scream my name."

You gulped– shit.

The lust pooling on your mind was inexplicable that your tongue became untamed inside his mouth. You bit, nipped, pulled his bottom lip, arms getting tighter around his neck with his palm grazing the skin of your back. Next thing you know, your bra was discarded somewhere when he urged you to lay on your back.

You found yourself panting– the car's heat really contributed to the fire inside your chest, and with Kenshi's mouth teasing your bare belly, you didn't realize he had swiftly pulled down your skirt until he spread your leg onto his face.

And there you were– completely bare yourself to a man you barely knew, but Kenshi's mouth finally found where you desire him the most and you couldn't contain yourself. His gentle, persistent tongue lapped on you and you writhe with no mercy at the sensation.

Your heart was palpitating. Your body begged for release. You bucked, squeezed your own breast in the hope for some, but Kenshi caught you in the act and restrained your hand while continuing his sweet, sweet torture down low.

The more you resist, the tighter his hand around your wrist– and you love it. You knew he enjoyed making you fight against his face with how deep he buried his face on you.

"Shit… I'm coming." You really couldn't hold back.

At his final suction, a vision of stars appeared as you tilt your head way back. No, you didn't care when your head bumped the car door as you called his name repeatedly, and frankly, you craved for some more already.

But the plan in your mind was better– there was no way you would let him have his way with you.

So you got up, wiped the satisfied grin off his face by crashing your lips on his, loving the taste of yourself on him as you pushed him until his back hit the backrest.

"You know payback's a bitch, right?"

"And what does that make you?"

Fucking smartass , "I'm the bitch."

You zip down his trousers to the ground and proceed to put him inside your mouth, and the last thing you saw was him, frustratedly running his fingers through his hair. A groan rang in your ear.

The sight was beholding, to say the least. You didn't think he noticed your grin in such a position where his head was rolled way back, but you kept working your way around him, bobbing up and down, tongue swirling until he had your hair in his grip to force you deeper.

A few more gags out of you and he pulled you out of him, forcing you to meet his lips by the hair so that he could hover you as if he was the predator and you were the prey.

In this position where your spread legs trapped him, you could feel how his glistening skin collided with yours and made you very much aware that both of you were completely clotheless.

All it took for him to get inside you was a little nudge with your feet and there he was– making you moan his name with a few effective, delicious movements. It got you so high you let one important thing slip out of your mind.

"Fuck," Kenshi pulled out and jerked you with a tiny disappointment, "We need a condom."

Damn– no wonder it felt way too good.

"Shit," you hastily reached into one of the compartments of your car and your hand got a live one, "Here."

"I have to commend you for your sense of preparation." He said as he tore up the foil and put the rubber on himself.

"I sensed a real hot guy looking for an ancient sword that I wanna get on with would walk into a bar today. What can you do?" You joked.

"Well, it takes one to know one."

"So are we doing this, or do you wanna keep talking?"

He chuckled, "Less talking, more sex?"

"More like, no talking, more fucking."

"Yes, ma'am."

So he dipped himself into you once again, and it felt like you could never get used to how he felt inside of you– he felt good, full, and it took you sky high. From the confined space, a merging of sweaty skin and two bodies, it all assisted to the burning heat within every push.

He trapped you by the shoulder and you let out a desperate sigh every time he pumped. Thank god your window was dark enough that it was private enough for a coitus, but who the hell cares what passersby would think seeing a car quaking so heavily.

Kenshi pulled you up and you knew instantly what he wanted, so you landed another passionate lip-lock as you mounted him. You didn't stop toying with his hair, not even when you slowly ease yourself onto him, which earned you an exasperated sigh and a squeeze on your hips.

You couldn't help the curse words flying out, especially when he was pushing you up and down, back and forth, tossing and turning you until it felt hazy– almost blurry with your head tilted way up.

And just when you thought you couldn't lose your mind more, his hands slid up your torso to cup and brought your tits to his mouth.

"Stop…" you mewl, "or else I'm gonna…"

And for the second time, you finished your sentence with a cry of his name, followed by a series of desperate moans. Holding you in place, he kept his thrusts steady to give you the release you'd been aching for.

And as you slowly collapsed in his arms, he flipped you while you were still trembling and forced you to get on all fours.

"You know I'm not done with you yet, right?"

His tone dripped with a pledge of long, rough sex ahead. You bite your lip with anticipation of more fogged up windows, lathery skin, and earth-shattering sways kind of thoughts of his body on yours.

And you have never been more ready.

"Not soon, I hope."

You both agreed that the two steamy sessions of humping really worked up an appetite, so there you were with him– in an In-N-Out parking lot, clothes were haphazardly buttoned, unruly hair, with double-doubles ordered from the drive-thru in your hands.

"Do you really enjoy these that much?"

When Kenshi questioned your taste bud, you hissed before you took a sip of your strawberry milkshake, "It's L.A pride, and my first cheat meal in a month. Back off."

"Fair enough. Thank you for dinner, though."

You swung your hands in response, "No big deal, you did buy the drinks earlier."

Sitting on the driver's seat, you caught him stealing some glances at you. He was eating his burger at a fairly moderate pace, while you had been taking chunky bites every 5 seconds.

"What? Is me enjoying my greasy meal a god awful sight to you?" You spread your greasy fingers in annoyance in the air.

He shook his head, "On the contrary, how could you mouth that burger like a little dinosaur and still be attractive?"

You rolled your eyes as you wiped your lips– he really was cheesier than the burger, "You only said that because that's where your dick has been."

He gave you an approving shrug, "Maybe."

"So, you're a Yakuza, huh? How's that working out for you?" You attempted to create a diversion from his cheese festival, maybe your catty remark wasn't enough.

"A quitting Yakuza, actually." He remarked as he grabbed a couple of fries.

"Why?"

You were a tad worried asking this could be stepping over the line– like you could get shot the minute you ask shit about Yakuza business, but Kenshi sounded like he had gotten used to the question, "I detest the corrupt life of it. Although some habits do die hard."

"Is it possible to quit?" You were actually curious.

"A complicated process, but I've seen people do it. Maybe it will be a bit more challenging on my end being a Takahashi."

"Why is that?"

He snorted in amusement, "You’re one inquisitive being, aren't you?"

"Well, I mean I've never spoken to a Yakuza before. Let alone fool around with one," You admitted, crumpling the burger wrapper and setting it aside, "You don't have to tell me if you've signed an NDA or something."

"I will if you tell me your name."

You chortled– who’d been inquisitive just now, "Why is it so important to you, anyway?"

"Well, you know mine, know my family name too. You completely have the upper hand on me." He sipped on the milkshake in your hand, almost too alluring for you, "If we had had sex three times, would you have told me?"

"Maybe." You teased him.

Kenshi made a suggestive face at you, signaling the empty seat in the back. You let out a giggle– you'd just realize he had quite a sense of humor. Maybe you really wanted the dick back then that this fact just passed you by.

"Can I ask now?"

You nodded quickly.

"Why did you agree to take me to Johnny Cage?"

He must have noticed the pause you took– he never took his eyes off you, "If I told you that it's to take my underwear back, would you believe me?"

He chuckled, "You didn't even believe in yourself when you said that."

"Fine." You acknowledged that response, shifted your seating position to face him, "I want you to kick Johnny's ass."

"Huh, I thought being a martial artist means you could do it yourself."

"Oh, I have, alright." You nodded profoundly, "But it didn't compare to what he had done."

"Care enough to tell me?"

"Maybe a story for another day." You refused– maybe it was the sheer embarrassment or the fear that you were getting more acquainted than you would like with Kenshi.

"Oh, so there will be another day?"

Fuck, fuck, fuck . You knew he tried to entice you into an inglorious territory– and as tempting as it is, you only knew a way to respond, "Well, consider yourself lucky if you never see me again."

A lesser man would have agreed, but out of your expectation, he boasted, "Well, consider yourself very lucky because you will see me again."

At that, you cackled, "Do you really have to be so cocky?"

"I'm merely confident I'll get out of Johnny Cage's house alive. Because then I'd be able to go straight to round three with my chaperone."

That sneaky wink of his actually cracked you up, and something dawned on you like a skyfall.

Shit, maybe you had met your match– no, not like soulmate crap you hardly believe, more like how you looked in the mirror and saw a reflection of you.

This time, though, it was in the form of a man– a man whose lit up brown eyes and cheeky beams were powerful enough to drive you to a state of internal panic.

And as you were gazing at him, you were recovering from the tectonic– some alien thoughts that this could be something. But all he would see was you, slowly shaking your head at his illogical charm.

"You're a dangerous one, Takahashi."

You flirted slash bullshitting your way into Johnny's household. You were lucky tonight's guard was an easy target. Even when you were with Johnny, this sleazebag had been wanting to get with you.

You had worked with Johnny for a movie where you acted as his co-star’s stunt double. He’d been strumming with you in-between takes, so of course you’d play along his less-than-innocent banters. Unfortunately, you two had gotten too comfy.

That was why you were gonna try to keep this one within an arm’s distance– as charming as he was.

And it turned out telling the guard that Kenshi was your closeted gay cousin worked. You were so sure that he tried to keep a straight face the whole time that when both of you passed the guard, he threw you that 'what the fuck was that?' look.

"I got you in one piece, didn't I?" You told him, "Stop being a bitch and just follow my lead."

"Well, that is true," He nodded, "and for that, I thank you."

"I can safely say that no other one-night-stands would do this for you, and you have to agree." Your tone was asserting.

"Yes, I know.” He professed dismissively, “so, where is Cage's house?"

"There," You pointed to the only white house in the block, "He should be away. He takes thirsty Thursday too seriously."

"Duly noted."

"And I'll be coming with you."

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that," Kenshi denied your request, "You should leave immediately"

"What? I came all the way here just to flirt with the guards?" You didn't try to hide the disappointment– you agreed to take him for the thrill only for that to be stripped away from you.

"You know it won't look too good when his ex-girlfriend is caught on security camera aiding her new boyfriend to steal a precious item, would it?"

You could swear that the 'new boyfriend' remark got your belly all itchy– nope, absolutely not butterflies, just baby worms. You really didn't know how he could say shit like that and expected to get a normal reaction.

"Are you always this weird?" Your brows furrowed, "We just met 3 hours ago."

"And somehow we managed to have sex twice already."

Damn it, he was right– blame your raging horniness towards him.

"Man, you're lucky you're smoking hot." You said bluntly, "Fine. I'll wait here for an hour."

"If I don't come back in an hour, you leave."

"Deal."

As you watched his moving figure, you wondered if he'd come back. A lot of questions popped up– what would happen if he did? What would happen if he didn't?

Maybe you hated the way you get along so well with Takahashi Kenshi– the only one that could jest up with your banters with his hilariously witty, cocky way. Maybe you hated the way he made you laugh over the most irrelevant thing– even during sex!

How fun would it be to mess up with him once again? To keep him on his toes.

"Hey, Takahashi." You bent down to slide your underwear down before throwing it his way, "Did you know you had my name in your pocket the whole time?"

"What? How so?" He caught the black lace with a hand effortlessly.

Seemed like you had successfully gotten his attention, "I named the tags in all my underwear."

He scoffed, shook his head in disbelief. But when he brought the black lace to his face and inhaled it like it was fresh air, your jaw dropped. It wasn’t like you’d never seen guys sniffing panties before, but Kenshi did it shamelessly as if you’d known each other longer.

And fuck– you were down bad for this man.

"You better get ready for thirds." He winked at you.

The last thing you saw was him, breathing your name as he turned away. The things running through your mind were wild– things you would do to him once he returned. Where you would run your hands and mouth on his perfect figure. Somewhere inside the tiniest space in your brain, you’d think that he might be having nasty thoughts as well.

But those expectations crashed after an hour and a half– he hadn’t shown up. Though you were more surprised at your own feelings that you didn't feel so lucky.

#mortal kombat 1 #mortal kombat #kenshi takahashi #takahashi kenshi #my fic #ao3 #this was so fun to write #and i edit like 20 times

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mysteriouslytransparentwitch · 1 month

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This isn't the first time I've read this. I'd be interested to know what you think. This is pure propaganda and much deeper than we think. Some powerful groups want the monarchy to be abolished. They want William gone. Maybe it's to launch the new world order. Look at the seed they are trying to sow through the media. Meghan is just a pawn in a bigger plan. Getting rid of the monarchy means getting rid of stability to implement the change they want, they could then weaken other governments. 🌹

This will be my quarter of an hour of truth:

There is no global force that wants the United Kingdom to lose, there is no chance that the United Kingdom will become a republic! why the British are not the French. France has a better chance of having a 6th republic and a 4th revolution in the next 30 years. Even Russia is not trying to overthrow the United Kingdom because it is too busy with its attacks in Eastern Europe. The USA is currently divided in two and therefore too busy on its own. The global south is in the midst of a revolution to attract the global economy so there is not enough time to try to overthrow William. There is a new global organization but it has nothing to do with Prince William, it's just economic, technological and environmental (I remind you that in the global south there are monarchies!!!)

The truth is that William is not ready for office, being ready to be King is not about making beautiful children and taking beautiful photos. William's problem is that he does not want to follow the line of King George 6, nor Queen Elizabeth 2 and even less of Charles (because he is someone who wants to kill his son since birth according to some people here)

This is not the first time that William has made mistakes, he threw his godmother under the bus while Buckingham Palace was already investigating because there were already different versions now we know the truth! William does not have a cool head, he reigns with his ego and his emotions which can take on completely crazy proportions.

He is not aware (because he does not read the foreign press like the Queen and Charles) of the changes taking place worldwide. He just gets scared of tweets on Twitter like Omid and dr shola I don't know what…. YES they make a lot of noise on Twitter but neither of them are capable of selling books in the real world!!! conclusion Twitter is an epiphenomenon.

Yes the social networks are going crazy about Catherine we went to a cosmetic operation on the nose then on the buttocks for William to a mistress who is pregnant and who came to see Catherine at Christmas (I don't know if young people realize their stupidity, at Christmas she was with Charles, yes!!!)

William must put together a real team to help him in his role and not protect his private life. If we were to listen to William, as armies, we should stop inspecting the armies in African countries because it's colonial lol lol all heads of state around the world inspect their army and hi to the other armies it's is tradition! (this sentence definitely comes from him!!!) Your guy is so afraid of everything that he doesn't even understand the meaning of these sentences and the impact they can have. Fortunately the United Kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy so there is power to put things in their place.

If this story of Catherine made the journalists/reporters in the foreign policy section frown, it is because there is a good reason.

I can continue like this except that here on this forum as soon as we highlight certain things, the only answer is you have been a fan of Charles since the beginning you hate William bla bla

For your information, these two have no impact on my life.

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plantjester · 14 days

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OI DUMMIES, CHECK THIS OUT

> Makes art

> Gets art block

It's been a minute since I've posted anything here so I thought I'd do an art dump and an update on how I've been.

I jut got done with a quarter of collage, and my Hawaii trip which unfortunately landed on the first week of my next quarter, so I'm skipping that. I'll have more time to do art and commissions,,, if I get any.

Speaking of commissions, I've felt very discouraged about trying to sell my artwork and I may just lower my prices again. I put a free fullbody commission on Artistree to see if anyone actually was looking at my page and it STILL hasn't gotten anything lol. I've deleted it now but ugh..

I guess it's proof that I'll just have to close them periminantly sometime this year if nobody is interested still.

The algorithm has been shit to me more than usual lately on all platforms so I'm just hoping if you scrolled by this that maybe, just maybe, you'd consider me as someone to commission? Got only two commissions last year so... Yeah

All are ocs above, and the drawings below are Adoptables!

(Brown Jester is still available!)

(April Fool Spink is still available!)

And lastly, some Characters I've Made/Traded/Sold to others already

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zhongrin · 2 months

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Hi Miss Rin! *excitedly waves at you as I order and pay for a drink*

Usually i pop by here with thoughts on ZhongWrinTh and I am here with more thoughts about you all… no surprise there oh but this time I do have another question not exactly related to ZhongWrinTh.

What’s some interactions you’ve had with the boys close friends? Do you play pranks on Zhongli with Hutao, do you visit Xiao together with Zhongli? Has Kaveh ever visited the teahouse? I get the feeling Kaveh, Cyno, Tighnari and Al-Haitham would play Genius Invokation TCG in the teahouse if you ever opened a Sumeru branch! As for Wriothesley… i like to think Sigewinne’s passed you makeup before, maybe even some in a shade or color Wriothesley likes! Clorinde hm… i can see her stealing you away into the city if Wriothesley’s busy and even introducing you to Navia.

It’s pretty amazing to see how many more people you could meet!

OH MY GOD TUMBLR IS HIDING THIS ASK FROM ME IT'S NOT APPEARING IN PC I AM SO SORRY STORM HAIFHWOFKSLDJSLJF

hu tao is my beloved granddaughter (and so is yaoyao and ganyu and nahida and furina and sigewinne and-)!!! she drops by the teahouse every now and then to scout for clients lol let's be real here most of my patrons aside from my friends are probably older people so-

xiao drops by too every now and then, but most of the time you won't see him. HOWEVER, you will be able to spot little trinkets all around the teahouse which emits some adeptal energy. we have a special 'magical' vase which sometimes suddenly 'sprouts' fresh qingxins. definitely not the work of an adeptus, yep!

the only reason why we'd have some wine in the house (aside from my hubbies (read: al haitham) bonding together by drinking glasses of wine sometimes) is because of kaveh! we get along a little too well. wdym that's a sumeru desert fox in our backyard? surely you jest haha haha hah- ahem. anyway. he's like a brother to me. i'm looking for a rich spouse for him. anyone interested- /smacked

the 4ggravate boys playing tcg on the teahouse's sumeru branch i'm shdflksjdlkfjsld dear gods. that's adorable. maybe i can talk to the manager there so they can organize monthly tcg tournament nights for the masses. we can sell 'tea blends that stimulates the mind and makes one's senses sharper' for the players and the spectators.... hmmmmmmmm.

sigewinne making a makeup for me i will cry hsdfusjdklf that sounds like something she would totally do, yes. i'd love to doll her up and send her some cute dresses or onesies ueueue she's so adorable.... clorinde and navia oh my god i don't know if i am considered cool enough to hang out with these two queens. i will just. i will just admire them from afar.... they're so pretty and badass..... adopt me big sisters..........

wriothesley: you know i can always introduce you to them, ri- mei: NO STOP I AM UNWORTHY I WOULD PERISH wriothesley: ok fine but must you drag me here then-

#rin answers #rin is having tea with: storm 💚#rin selfships #zhongwrinth #navia probably: why is the duke and his wife peeking at us- // clorinde probably: ignore them. if you intimidate a stray it'll run away-

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susandsnell · 1 year

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You're so right about Katniss! Her feelings for Peeta always felt like obligation - because he was kind, because he loved her and he deserved to be loved back, because he was what she was supposed to want and she'd be crazy not to - and she had mad vibes with Joanna. (The Katniss thing is also why I hated all of the MCU Natasha ships with guys. She's my second pick after Nina for character I am convinced is a lesbian.)

Thank you so much for articulating all this and sending it my way because I've felt nuts for years reading it this way (+ it's a pleasure to hear from you)! And that's with Joniss as a relatively popular ship, lolol.

I won't deny that him saving her from starving and later all they did for one another during the Games isn't meaningful, but you put it perfectly; the text keeps telling us he deserved to be loved back, he's what she ought to want. It makes a point about why she doesn't owe Gale, but wholly kind of sells us on her owing Peeta. The text makes a point of how Katniss, very realistically, has hang-ups about debt, and how the nature of Panem's totalitarianism is such that all kind acts are viewed as transactional rather than genuine, but then completely undermines this by providing little to no meat to how Katniss' real feelings developed from the ones staged for the Games. It's one of those cases where even if the guy isn't a Nice Guy, there's textual Nice Guying going on lolol. (I do also acknowledge that these books were products of the aughts and queer characters in YA were almost nonexistent, but having recently read Moth Diaries from 2002 which actively engages with comphet, I'm feeling spoiled lol.)

Likewise, the having children thing is like -- I get it, people can change their minds and her not wanting to be a mother was a product of the dystopian society they subsequently rebuilt as well as her own experience of maternal neglect, but given what the real world has always been wrt reproductive rights and just in general treating female queerness/nonconformity as a "phase you'll outgrow"/"you'll find the right guy and want kids eventually", I don't think I'll ever not feel gross about a character who does not want kids eventually ~embracing motherhood~ lmao. It could happen, but when the characters are fictional and hence in the author's control...it feels like propaganda, especially coupled with her repeatedly stating she didn't want a husband. And the quote from the epilogue is literally "It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly." Which. Ew.

Contrast with Johanna, where things felt a lot more organic, less based on a sense of debt and more on some classic rivalry tropes that evolved into a sweet balance between an organic camaraderie and Stupid Sexy Flanders (I mean, the elevator scene? Straight girls do not react like that! "Johanna's motivational insults" and the relationship shift?)

Anyhow, thanks again for the message and sorry for the mini-essay/rant this turned into, haha. I'd be mega interested to hear your MCU Natasha thoughts, though, since your Nina tags were so accurate! (Equally biased because she was an early sapphic crush for me, haha.)

#the hunger games #lesbian katniss truther hours #allthestoriescantbelies #thanks for the ask! <3 #pregnancy cw

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inthedarknessofnight · 10 days

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“So,” he broke the silence once again, shifting awkwardly on his feet. “What can I do you for, Harrington?” He looked at Steve pointedly.

“Do me?” Steve snapped out of his thoughts, suddenly flustered. The guy in front of him simply pointed to a black metal toolbox on the ground next to him, as if it required no additional explanation. Steve had seen Eddie bring it to parties on multiple occasions, and once or twice, he’d even seen him bring it to school. Still, he would have had no idea what it was, had his former cronies not had such a proclivity for drugs. Steve shook his head in confusion.

“Well, then… Why are you here?” Eddie asked, clearly even more confused than Steve was.

“Wha- No! Why are you here?” Steve didn’t like how defensive it came out, but this was his spot.

What the fuck was Eddie ‘the Freak’ Munson of all people, doing here on a Thursday afternoon?

“Umm… Hello? What universe did you just come from? I swear to god, it’s like you don’t even go to Hawkins High…” Eddie was properly annoyed with him now. Steve just stood there, dumbfounded. A few seconds passed before Eddie sighed and rolled his eyes, noticing that Steve clearly wasn’t getting whatever he was trying to say.

“I sell here? Every Thursday? Before all the weekend parties?” Eddie elaborated, every sentence a question.

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See? I said I'd deliver another chapter in less than a year and I've actually managed to do it in a matter of weeks! Probably because I had this chapter in my head for so long and I was so happy to finally be able to get it down on paper (also the reason why it's disproportionately long compared to the first two, longer that the first two combined and the longest thing I've written since 2015 when I was still in high school, lol). Anyways, I'm really proud of this one, so I hope you guys like it too!

And I'm feeling super inspired by this story now so, obviously, expect more soon :)

#steddie #ao3 #fanfic #fanfiction #eddiemunson #steveharrington #ao3 writer #stranger things #writing

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callophelia-ailingamnemonic · 4 months

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Genshin AU ideas that have been living in my head but currently don't have enough sustenance for me to consider writing stories for

Fatui Fledgling AU

This AU idea is based on a fic I read "Strings Attached" by VeePASTA (Viewer discretion to all who plan to read it, it's NSFW)

Similar to what happens in the story (minus all the sex cuz I ain't about that life), in this AU, instead of the Fledgling dying (Idk if I want to call him Tori or Hinadori yet), he survives when Kabukimono and Dottore cross paths and Kabuki decides to essentially sell himself to Dottore for the price of the Fledgling's survival.

To pull that feat off, Dottore replaces the Fledgling's infected organs with artificial innards made after studying Kabuki, essentially turning the Fledgling into a long-living cyborg puppet. As per his and Kabuki's agreement, Dottore lets the Fledgling go after a few experiments, but the Fledgling decides to remain as Dottore's assistant to stay close to Kabuki.

For the next 500 years, Kabuki remains Dottore's favourite experiment and prisoner and never becomes a harbinger, and while I don't think the Fledgling would ever become a harbinger himself, I do like to imagine that he grows up with a cold disposition that slightly resembles canon balladeer's if you take away the god-complex.

Although he's Dottore's assistant, if given the chance, he wouldn't hesitate to brutally murder the man (for reasonable reasons) and bust himself and Kabuki out of there. I like to imagine that this determination allows the Fledgling to receive a vision (probably an Electro based on an explanation interpretation I saw in a video) and that his skills would have something to do with dolls :))

I just think it would be super interesting to see the Fledgling in a similar role to canon Balladeer and how that would change the story :uu

I'm still contemplating if the Fledgling should be successful in his goal of saving Kabuki, or if I should kill Kabuki off for character development.

Collei runs away from the Fatui with Kunikuzushi's decapitated head AU

This AU's inspired by two fics: "I'll get you home" by jammincat and "Two Flowers to Trick the Children" by zephyrai

Long story short, in this AU, Scaramouche/Kunikuzushi/Whatever else he's named lol helps Collei escape the Fatui. I haven't decided yet if he's still a harbinger in the AU and just got close to Collei the same way he does in TFTTTC, or if he's just a fellow test subject who just knows more due to how long he's been with the Fatui.

Either way, he helps her escape but then Dottore effing shows up and effing d e c a p i t a t e s Scara to which Collei grabs his head due to "Not my best/closest/only friend!" emotions and runs away, somehow successfully escaping Dottore).

In this AU, I imagine Scara working a lot like the gems from Houseki no Kuni where he kind of goes unconscious when he loses too many pieces of himself (or, y'know, loses his head) but is perfectly fine after you put the pieces back together, but as far as anyone in Mondstadt was concerned, Collei is essentially carrying around a dead person's head lol

Tho I do also imagine that maybe Scara's head is still able to have thoughts and that somehow, Collei is able to telepathically read those thoughts. So not only was she the traumatized kid who carried around her dead friend's head, but she was the traumatized kid who was so traumatized that as far as the Mondstatders were aware, she would talk to her dead friend's head and treat it like it's not a decapitated limb.

Maybe whenever Scara's head is around electro crystals, he's able to communicate using an Ouiji board or something, so now people don't think she's crazy anymore when they see him "talk" but they do freak out because "IS THAT GHOSTLY ACTIVITY???"

I just think it would be interesting to see an AU where Collei has Scara's decapitated head around. I'd enjoy seeing a segment where the traveller needs info on Dottore and Cyno's like: "I know a guy, who knows a gal, who knows another guy who could help you out" and they just expect to see another forest ranger when SURPRISE MOTHERFUDGER- it's a decapitated head!

Either way, in this AU, I can imagine that one of the conditions Nahida makes in her deal with Dottore is for him to return Scara's body. Now, although his body is not conscious, Dottore can still use it for some experiments, so he's not to keen on accepting the deal until an audible crack can be heard from the gnosis' in Nahida's grasp lol.

Fatui Fledgling and CRAFTFWKDH mashup AU

I ended up having another thought: "What if I mashed up these two AU ideas together?"

The fledgling is Dottore's assistant who smuggles things from the outside for his big brother: books, treats, small toys, and supplies to make stuffed dolls, and Kabuki, who sympathizes with the young girl in the cell next to his, reads his books to her, gives her his treats and toys, makes her a doll, and eventually convinces the Fledgling to aid him to help Collei escape.

Just like in the CRAFTFWKDH AU, this doesn't go too well and Kabuki gets his head and arm decapitated, to which the Fledgling snags his head, Collei grabs his arm, and Dottore retrieves the rest of his body.

I don't know what the two's relationship in this AU should be like yet, but I imagine that initially, Collei hates the Fledgling and the Fledgling doesn't really care about her, but as the only members of the "Kabukimono's Younger Siblings" club, they probably learn to tolerate each other after his decapitation... kinda like real siblings lol.

After that ordeal tho, I'd imagine that the Fledgling probably just drops Collei off at Mondstadt and goes off to do other things I don't know yet (probably not go back to the Fatui, unless he plans on retrieving the rest of Kabuki's body on his own or smth). The two are still able to communicate thanks to the body parts they retrieved from Kabuki's dismemberment.

I don't really have much else for this AU, but the Fledgling would probably also show up in the Sumeru arc.

#genshin impact #genshin impact au #Genshin Impact AU ideas #genshin impact scaramouche #Genshin Impact Collei #Genshin Impact Il Dottore #Genshin Impact Nameless Fledgling

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This will be of interest to only a few of you I'm sure, but I'm so used to the kanban style of doing things in code that I made my own system for skinning in Notion. Nitty gritty below the cut

The not started column is more or less in order of how I want to approach things- I find starting at the edges and working your way in is the best way to be able to get responsive coding right. My general process is first I get the view I want at a lager screen size- I have some intuition about how to structure things there so I'm not tearing my hair out later, I wish I knew how to articulate it better. I generally code things to be flexible from the start, so usually I need to start compensating when I've deliberately coded things to take up smaller than 100% widths of the view. At some point, having all the real estate in the screen will be critical- and that's usually where my breakpoint is. Secondly, I squish the screen in until things start to break. 600px seems to be my sweet spot for breakpoints. That's where 99% of my stuff was made responsive for Itero, and that's where my hero broke this time around too. I really try to keep to a single breakpoint- this often means simplifying structures as soon as a view gets that narrow, even if nothing has broken. Having things change across the site at different widths is a great way to get a headache.

When I finish an overall view (like the index, or a topic with all it's posts, etc) I'll do a sweep of all the common elements like colors and swap them to vars. I try to keep these segmented sensibly so that once I make a different mode, it's just a matter of swapping a few of those and not having to go bit by bit through the site making sure every swap looks good. I'm one of the few, the insane, the blue light lovers who really prefers a light skin, but I know I'm in the minority so I basically view a dark mode as obligatory.

Also for the curious, this is what my board looked like for my first skin.

I was interested in different things here. I wanted to guesstimate how long I thought things would take me, so I assigned a size to them, right at the beginning before I'd ever messed around in jcink. I was right about most of it, overestimated a few things, didn't underestimate at all, I think. I also was on a crunch towards the end as I was seized by the rabid desire to actually open a site, so I sorted my 'tickets' by tiers of necessity and put a lot of the most interesting problems on hold. Do people need a memberlist, or fun scroll animations for a site to be functional? As much as I hate it, the answer is the memberlist. No one is going to touch my css because I'm not selling itero, so I never went through and cleaned up after myself. As much as I really want to make a rule for topic descriptions so I can scrape all the threads on my board and generate a full timeline of everything that happens, that's an unreasonable ask for members. Some day I may go back and do some of this (especially the scrolling stuff), but like. Itero works. If I do more it'll probably be to beautify it, not any real structural or even functional change. Also, on the Modernity kanban board, I've got a field for tracking time which I'm going to try to be diligent about. While I've been able to pull a good deal of stuff to make jcink behave from my first skin (no one cares about you, news banner), I'm starting from scratch on the structure of the rest of it, so it should be representative of how much time a skin actually takes, from nothing, which I think should be interesting. Anyway, that's way too much writing about how I'm organizing my work as I approach a new skin. I hope this was useful, or at the very least interesting, and if not, thanks for reading to the end anyway, lol.

#meta

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I'd like to know more about finch! what are they like? what do they do? My first thought was 'oh are they in the assassin's guild?'

oh finch my darling finch. nah theyre not an assassin.... thatd be... erm. a bad idea i think. i have a different oc im working on who is though. i have a lot of guild thoughts LOL.

finch is a prewar relic tho they couldnt actually tell you anything about the war itself. around the time all tech was going down the shitter they were in line to inherit a huge tech company so the whole uhh obsoleting of all tech kinda ticked them off. a small bit. not important. in a last ditch effort to avoid any consequences for erm the world changing around them they hoped on some shitty tech (cryogenics !) and decided to freeze themself until the tech to unfreeze them was unbanned. it didnt happen.

pwab tho found em, and in the early testing of forbidden beasts kinda just stuck leech on mostly as a shits and giggles. long story short it actually managed to save finches life and start working as a replacement for their organs that slowly shut down.

they were used as a dog of pwab fighting gears for . probably approximately a year or two before leech fully incubated and gained awareness. and probably instantly ran off with finch. eventually thru running from pwab they both hid out in a small beat up city and saved them from some insect beasts and became somewhat of a local hero. finch enjoyed the attention and leech enjoyed the sense of purpose. they mostly just tend to loose beasts and smaller gears- they even found a way to keep some of the smaller flying ansects and basically work as a beekeeper with them, selling the honey on the side :-). leech has a sort of parasitic control over extremely week beasts it can get its blood inside of so it enjoys being able to use this for good. finch thinks its a bit lame to be a murdering weapon and just being a beekeeper but genuinely enjoys it

finch themself is a standoffish oddball. theyre mostly just confused by whats changed no ones actually explained the whole 100 year war thing to them yet? they like to complain but mostly just like to have stuff to do. leech being incubated from finch is kinda... erm. a bit erratic. its chiller than finch but also more prone to impulsively doing things without thinking than finch who will loop themself into worry and end up doing nothing. they work fine as a pair even if they dont make many friends LMAO

#finch i think would enjoy being an assassin but leech has complexes around the concept of a forbidden beast powerful enough #he had to be sealed away in forbidden magic. lmao #also leech is just a pacifist. but MORALLY. it would NEVER work under a different beast.#ERM. THAT GOT LONG. SORRY. I LIKE FINCH!#finch (oc)

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What inspires your character story and design? Is there influence besides just liking how they look? Are you striving to tell a complete story or just tales (short story blurbs about their lives)? I struggle with wanting to add more when I haven't finished the stuff I have.

Also! Do you think you've advanced in your writing from say 5 years ago to now? Do you think you've improved?

I always wonder if I'm improving. I certainly wouldn't be writing what I do if not for positive (and not so positive) feedback from simblr and having a writing friend who shares my passion and vision for story writing.

Sorry if that's too many questions. Just curious to hear how others process. Thanks!

Oh, don't worry, you're not asking too much at all! :D

I'm gonna put it under the cut bc it's gonna be long, lol

So!

I don't think I was particularly inspired by anything other than the fact that John and Brian were from a previous, abandoned story. It was based on the game Organ Trail (think Oregon Trail but with zombies and other stuff, lol). They are very different from what they used to be; they weren't together for one thing (they were both straight!) and they were edgy. Brian especially, he was more of a doomsday prepper. John having long hair is a hold over from the story; he grew it out to cover his eye (severely damaged from a grenade blast), y'know that sort of thing. I dropped the story after a while because I lost interest in it. That and everyone involved died...

There's not really a big influence on how they look either. I kinda come up with what's good but also what's unique. I guess I'm not one of the ones who struggle making male sims. For a future story, I had to make some (like 7??) and I went to town on the random button until I found what I liked and shaped them from there.

As for stories? Over the years, I've went from being very long form to shorter stories. I guess tales is a better description. They do have some continuity like with John and The Werewolf, the dealings with Brian's aunt, John and Brian getting engaged. I know Bare Knuckle, a story where John fights a literal demon, sticks out like a sore thumb because of how bonkers it is, but I made the story because I thought it would be cool; it also pushed my pose making skills at the time. (It's clear that I made that for myself really... ^^;)

I'd get an idea and go "can I put either of these two in this situation? and how would they go about getting out of it? or make it worse? better?" etc. Would this be "canonical" or would it be an AU? It's fun for me to think like that. A lot of the time, I make it bc I wanna see it for myself, what kind of a take I have on certain tropes and plots and maybe someone else would too?

I feel like I've improved in the past 5 years. It's pretty evident in my earlier stories it was strictly dialogue and nothing else and thus, empty. It used to be so stiff, it's kind of embarrassing, but there's a reason why I left it as is and never went back to redo them. (That's key, I think). That and I can the progress of how I use to take screens versus now, how everything's laid out, the expressions, etc.

I've had my ups and downs writing -- I feel I'm kind of a tough sell with most of my stories for simblr. They're not serial (I do not have the attention span or energy to do this), not a really big cast... I could go on, but it'll come off as complaints and maybe whinging on my part more than anything else.

That and the content itself; John and The Werewolf in particular because those stories deals with things I don't really see too often. and y'know, the blood, torture, violence. it's just so messy. In fact, I don't really get too much of any feedback of any kind so I'm kind of out here doing my thing. I don't know who's actually reading what I put out or if it's even thought of at all. I just hope that they're a little entertained by it. (tho it wouldn't hurt for a recommend)

but I'm also extremely stubborn! I'll complain, but I'm gonna keep doing it. I have ideas and they're gonna exist and I love to see how things play out. Sometimes the boys surprise me and I surprise myself. :)

#ennie answers #sparkiekong #good lord that's a lot of words @_@#thank you for the ask! :D #a text post #non sims

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comefeedtherainn · 6 months

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tagged by love of my life @saltsanford thank u bb

How many works do you have on AO3? 27

What’s your total AO3 word count?

608,101

What fandoms do you write for?

this varies bc i revisit old fandoms often, atm im deep in the untamed and also working on drafting a sleuth of ming dynasty, might try guardian if the mood strikes. i also have wips i'd like to return to for mass effect, rdr2, and bioshock

What are your top five fics by kudos?

your darkest roads - the untamed (1,417)

scars and scratches - the untamed (1,307)

break of dawn - mass effect (865)

it starts with a lighthouse - bioshock (385)

here's a truth - IT (233)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i used to, i stopped recently because i got busy with grad school and cant always find the spoons lol i try to at least respond to questions, concerns, and also if i finish a fic!!

What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

probably a tie between sparks amidst snow and unseen, both very depressing character studies for the untamed. jin zixuan and lan xichen, respectively. you can understand where the angst came from lmao

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

hmmmm probably break of dawn?? i like to write happy-ish endings esp for long things, just to reward the reader for sticking around for a long fic lol. but break of dawn ended with john and kaidan getting married, leaving the military, and getting a dog. so. absolutely the best case scenario and very happy lmao

Do you get hate on fics?

honestly not really. i got some on mass effect ones but that was more character hate which i shut down hard, rather than hate on the fic lol i either dont write much that's controversial, or i sell it well enough no one bitches lmao

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

i do! most of my longfics feature smut, i enjoy it in my romance

Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

i do occasionally, though not as much recently. i despise fusions though lmfaooo

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

if i have im not aware! lmao

Have you ever had a fic translated?

sadly no :c

Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

i have not!! im a control fic idek if i'd like it if im honest lol

What’s your all-time favourite ship?

why would you ask me this. i have way too many favs but i do think tuckington of rvb and mshenko of mass effect will be with me foreverrrr

What’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

i choose to believe i will finish all my WIPs, no matter how long it's been since i touched it!! if i start it i intend to finish.

What are your writing strengths?

dialogue and describing environments!! also plot.

What are your writing weaknesses?

pacinggggggg, and character arcs imo. i can do them and they turn out well if i try hard, but i do have to try really hard/do a lot of rereading and organizing

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

if im writing fic for a fandom that's not english-speaking, like the untamed, i will use words in mandarin if they are a proper noun/name of a place/etc. i also tend to keep it untranslated for titles and for diminutives/honorifics that lose meaning or impact when translated to english. that's it, though.

if i were to be writing a character liiiike james vega in mass effect who speaks spanglish occasionally, i'll be real sparing about it tbh. if i dont know someone who speaks a lot of spanglish or speak it myself, i'd rather just take it easy on that and not look like a dumbass/be offensive lol esp since with a property like mass effect it's really questionable if canon is even accurate lmao so you cant even go off of that

First fandom you wrote for?

starfox adventures dlgkhapodih yeah the gamecube rpg. best game ever btw

Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

this is so hard lmao but i think it's probably break of dawn. writing that fic was such a joy and the interaction with the fandom was something i haven't experienced since!!

if you read this, you're tagged!!!

#about me

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(Rant) Criticisms of goth community, based on personal experiences

CW/TW: last paragraph touches on antisemitism and extreme right wing people, second last is about animal abuse.

I'm starting my 11th year in this subculture. English is not my first language. This post starts with unimportant pet peeves and ends on basically a hate crime :,)

This is a bit different to my usual tips posts. I was never too keen on dance parties in clubs, I mostly attended festivals or live shows when it comes to goth events. In September 2022 I wanted to change that. I'm in Lower Silesia / Southwestern Poland and most of these particular adventures happened in Wrocław or in the Lower Silesian voivodeship, but some of these things apply to the wider goth community I feel like.

First of all, this might piss people off, but of we look up a definition of a poser - most goths are posers. They don't pose as goths - that seems to be the no. 1 crime in this subculture, but I don't mean it in that way - they pose as these intellectual academics, "I'm smarter than you" people. (It's not like I'm not guilty of that myself, but I'm trying my best to not be a megalomaniac lol) To add some context, I work in a museum that is ran by one of Poland's biggest archival institutes - my specialty is culture and fashion of the Polish Sarmatian Nobility, but I also work with let's just say history of literature and culture in 19th century Poland. And holy shit for some reason goths LOVE to flex knowledge they just don't have - the Victorian era often being the main focus. The easiest example is Black Friday's "Historical Black & Red Fashion from Punk Rave" video, in which she says that massive puffy sleeves were a popular fashion choice in the "begginning of the Victorian Era, the early 1800s". The era started in 1837 and yes, you'd find some puffy sleeves in 1830s-40s, but the puff starts lower on the arm, not at the shoulder - Black Friday was complaining about the puffs on the shoulders and how they could potentially not fit her figure. She's referring to the 1890s dresses. Her mistake is just an example, she's not a historian and I generally like her, not trying to be mean here. She's just a massive public figure, and referring to some people with no internet presences who I've met at some point would make a shit example.

Other thing about posing is this whole "we're the aristocracy of the night" - no hun, you're a hoe for capitalism, wearing a polyester vampire dress from Party City Punk Rave, drinking goth club vodka and happily listening to insanely pretentious, fast food for the brain kinda songs, like "We're the Children of the Dark" (if you don't know that song, good, you're blessed). Obviously not all goths are like this, but my local community is packed with these folks. Before someone accuses me of anything related to finances when it comes to clothes - thrifting a silk, linen or wool in Poland requires literally $5 on the most expensive thrift store day, $1,50 on the cheapest. Punk Rave is so much more expensive than thrifting organic, very high end clothing. You know why people still buy these plastic garments? It's tacky, and they love it. The pseudo-brocade fabric with pseudo-baroque ornaments, neon purple prints slapped on a synthetic satin black dresses, it's just horrible, but it sells for some awful reason. (For context - I'm a design student, currently doing a master's degree, so at least I'd like to think this whole argument is not only based on my personal taste.) I'm not saying you can't enjoy these things, but enjoy them for what they are - and they're everything but high quality, aristocrat worthy pieces.

Now we're moving onto music yay! So, seems like every goth I meet is a metalhead who listens to one post punk song per 100 metal songs. And I'm not talking about babybats here! Not about casuals either, but about people who claim to be elders with massive knowledge. I've met a guy once (sadly) who claimed to be an elder goth at the very young age of 29. Sure. Did he have knowledge? Lol obviously he didn't. Not about goth music, but he was crazy about screamo. Nothing against screamo, but it's kinda *cough* cringe *cough* to claim yourself as a trad elder while you're not even 30 and don't really listen to goth stuff. Also he defended racist bands, so that's fun.

Another thing that I mentioned is the popularity of fast food songs as I call them. I'm not fully against that kind of music, but it bothers me when people only listen to that and act like it's peak music taste. Examples (please don't get upset if you like these artists or songs, I'm just some person on the internet after all) are, again, Children of the dark by Mono Inc ft. Chris Harms, Joachim Witt and Tilo Wolff, whatever tf Lacrimosa is doing these days, Lord of the Lost, Die Kreatur, Deathstars. But "Children..." is the worst offender, with such subtle, not at all middle school lyrics like:

"We're nothing like you A wall in black We're nothing like you And you don't get who we are, who we are"

"We're nothing like you, we're true and free We're nothing like you but you can't see We're nothing like you and all the rest We're nothing like you We're the children of the dark"

LIKE ARE WE ALL 12 YEARS OLD. TELL ME. This is so cringe in the worst way possible. It's so bad. How does this pass as something of value? My local community just adores this trash. And like what happened to Tilo's music? It used to be good, and now it's this edgelord shadow the hedgehog shit. Tbh I do history classes for 12 y.o. kids and they'd laugh at this. I can understand that this might be someone's guilty pleasure, but something you brag about? Even if you genuinely like songs like these (if they make you happy, don't stop listening to them! I might find it cringe, but like idk people may be drawn to these for a variety of reasons), I feel like it's important to anyone, goth or not, to consume high quality music from time to time, even to just learn about music in general.

Another thing is lack of originality. Goths often are like "normies all look the same haha". Honey goths look like clones. Don't come at me with these "there are victorian, trad and hippie and many other types of goths" argument, because it only means that people choose from 20 established looks. Trad goths look extremely similar to each other. Same with "victorian" goths. Same with hippie goths, romantic goths, vampire goths, whatever. I stopped wearing distinctly gothic outfits some time ago. I still dress in all black everyday, but the style of pieces is more, uhh, just 60s mod inspired? Or very formal. Just personal taste, it kinda happened by accident.

TW animal abuse

Last crime is a more significant one, very present in my local community, as well as uh, everywhere really - bigotry, ignorance, racism, sexism, lack of maturity. I have two very clear examples taken from my personal life. The first one happened on the last Castle Party - a dude had a pet owl and was smoking cigs, while the bird was on his shoulder, inhaling the smoke. Some girls tried to act up, but the dude refused to listen. One of them posted a photo of him with the owl to a facebook group, and the responses were mixed. Most women in the comments were rightfully infuriated, but most men (the whole comment section was weirdly divided by genders) only typed "poka sowe" (pol. show owl), a reference to a very stupid Polish meme rap songs about, well, pp. Because why care about animal abuse when you can be silly and goofy!

TW antisemitism

Another example is from Castle Party 2019, me and my friend had a very funky tent from the 80s, it looked like a small circus, but was difficult to put up. Some men in their 40s asked (very politely) if we need help, so we said yes and thanked them. They helped us with the tent... while shouting antisemitic slurs and statements such as "this party isn't for the lefties". The friend I was with is Jewish (she doesn't look Jewish tho, so they probably had no idea), so that was just. Yea. Sorry about this being so negative, but all of these experiences made me almost leave the subculture. At the end of the day, I'm a bit too attached to many parts of it, but the local community is not one of them. I'd rather just listen to my CDs by myself at this point.

#tw antisemitism #tw animal abuse #goth #goth subculture #gothgoth

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its-short-for-jackalope · 1 year

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lol okay, hi.

i know ive been memeing about it tonight but i have some actual serious thoughts & feelings about Pulp Musicals rn so I'm going to ramble!

⚠️ This will contain spoilers for the first episode, The Great Moon Hoax !

Okay so one of my favorite, favorite songs in this episode is "John's Choice." (I will be listening to it on loop while I make this post.)

I love the whole song but I absolutely adore the part when Herschel is telling the crowd that the story is true. He adopts the phrasing that is familiar and easily recognizable after the "Great Astronomical Discoveries," we've heard, but now we hear it from his perspective, and my god it doesn't seem like it would do much but the shift in pronouns (he to I, his to my, etc) is SO impactful! (Especially when you're listening for the first time and you're expecting him to reveal the hoax like he'd said he was going to!) It gave me major chills the first time I heard it, and I still get chills every time. Every time.

Another bit that makes me go insane is when we get the line "I pointed it at the moon, our companion," and then the chorus/ensemble chimes in with "Always there, watching us, from Eden to Edinburgh. As we grow..." and then Herschel picks it up again with "As she glows," and he keeps going. But here it's the ensemble that gets me.

In "Great Astronomical Discoveries, Pt. 1" it's just Samuel and Rose singing those lines. Now, we're hearing the crowd singing them, and I think that's really cool and interesting. To me, it really reflects how it's a story that's grown and been passed around a lot, that people have been talking about it and telling each other. The crowd chiming in is like when someone interrupts to finish a story they already know by heart, or when people start singing along to a beloved song that's being played by a stranger in the street.

The crowd that's gathered at The Sun already know this story, and they start singing with Herschel because they already know all the words. It's not just his story—it has become theirs, too. And that just does something in my brain. Like.. it shows how much this story about the moon means to everyone, how important it is. (As Margaret says: "So many people have nothing to believe in...") They're so happy that Herschel is saying it's all real that they can't help but tell the story with him. And the way they whoop and cheer when he says it's true? That's beautiful.

...aaaaand also pretty tragic and heartbreaking if you think about the fact that we all know it really IS a hoax, haha oops, but we'll just not think about that right now, okay? okay. 😅

Of course, I can't ramble about my favorite things in this song without a huge shoutout to Curt Mega for his amazing singing. He puts so much feeling into this song in his roles as Benjamin and John. As Benjamin, we get to hear his vindication, frustration, and impatience, as well as his anger when his plan backfires. As John, singing about his made-up telescope, we can hear so much passion. Herschel's really trying to sell the story now, and I'd say he does a damn good job of it. (Sorry Benjamin!)

Basically, this song really lets Curt show off, and I am so grateful for that because my ears and my brain have been blessed. Thank you Matt, thank you Curt. 🙏🖤

now that I'm done rambling for the time being, I am currently in the middle of an art project that I'm hoping to finish tonight, so I'm gonna try and get back to that. If anybody else wants to add their thoughts, I welcome it!!! please, come experience brainrot with me!!!! :D

someday I'd love to make more posts like this (but hopefully better and more organized) so we'll see if that actually happens lol. I love this show so much. I wanna talk/write about it. 😍

#jack jabbers #pulp musicals #pulp musicals spoilers #the great moon hoax #tgmh #pulp musicals tgmh #pulp musicals episode 1 #john's choice #john herschel #pulp musicals john herschel #curt mega #matt dahan #pulp musicals analysis #(is this good enough to call it an analysis? idk man i tried. fuckin love this show.)#i have many more thoughts™ than this but these ones were screaming to get out so. enjoy.#i was typing this for an hour. jsnsnzjsns. brainrot. 💀

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icewindandboringhorror · 1 year

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Daily Log 7

Trying out (probably just temporarily) making short daily-ish notes about things, in an attempt to see if it helps me be more reflective or productive lol.

Activities: Finished all of the little things I carved out of avocado pits, will maybe post pictures at some point? I painted some sections (like for the eye I carved, I made part of it white for contrast, etc.) and then generally glazed them with some shiny paint stuff. Now I really wish I had more avocado pits, I was unsure at first, but I have some new ideas.. I want to try inlaying stones like I've seen in some pictures, similar to the same ones I use for eyes in my sculptures. >:3 (random google image example of the stones inside, like this sort of thing V)

Low effort/small house cleaning tasks, did a few dishes, put up laundry, organized things, put up the recycling, paid bills, etc.

Still extremely sleepy and unfocused, it was hot last night and the cats woke me up multiple times so I only got a few hours of sleep and barely had any energy to do anything and also had a headache and back pain a lot of the day. ToT

Finally made an appointment I was supposed to make like 4 days ago lol..

Gave wet food to the cats (this is an ordeal because George eats way faster than Noodle, so I have to separate them and stand guard so George doesn't vacuum his up immediately then run over and try to eat all of his brothers food.. evil boy must be watched to prevent his crimes )

Edited videos for like.. 15 minutes but still have not been very productive on that front (or editing costume photos or anything) due to shoulder pain and stuff making it hard to type/use mouse much on the computer. grrbbb >:V

Spent 10 minutes looking up a weird pendant I had in my rock collection area and found out it's an old piece of costume jewelry from the 60s(?) and could be worth like $200 potentially, which is cool. I'm not sure if I'll sell it though because I do think it's quite unique and good for a prop when making wizard character inventories, etc, and I'd never be able to find anything like it again (it's this one below.. it's very weird.. looks like something a mage would have lol)

Translated the tapestry text for 5 minutes, and got out some tubs of clothes to start organizing them to sell outfits and stuff online, but then felt ill and had to go lay down so now the tubs are just sitting out on the floor ghgh..

Notable sights: It rained a bit and the sky was very pretty at one point. Didn't get to go outside today due to schedule/low energy, so no clovers or anything. Saw a fat squirrel out the window once though. Also when I was looking through my "rock collection" (which also includes marbles, dice, pieces of glass, stones, gems, rubber balls, seashells, smooth wood, jewelry scraps, etc. ggh.. really more "shiny things collection" but it's mostly rocks, so) for interesting stones to possibly put into avocado pits in the future, I saw a lot of pretty rocks I hadn't thought about in a while, so that was nice.

Goals moving forward: Focus on social activities, finding new friends in the places I want to move, communicating with ones I have. Physical therapy exercises. Finish and upload videos, edit costume pictures & etc. Do the new costumes I've planned. MAKE SCULPTURES at some point, I miss them.

Notable foods: Nothing really.. but it's an asparagus day tomorrow I think so.. >:)c hehehehe... Oh, I did try a bite of corn, which I really really love corn but am not supposed to have it on my diet. The miniscule morsel was sufficiently cherished. Still craving hearty stuff despite resuming my iron supplements lol..

#just posting these publicly since it feels more like I'm doing something or easier to hold yourself accountable if you make public #declarations of goals and progress or etc. .. perhaps.. for now #just want to do worldbuilding I want to work on the language I want to do these sorts of things #furstrating to just walk around in a haze all day unable to focus on mental tasks like that #One of the most important things in my entire life actually is being able to think about little elves and magic and etc.#annoying to have multiple days in a row where I make very little progress on that aside from thinking of a few little story #ideas or something here and there. I should have had the text translated already and finished the worldbuilding slideshow #already and made a game set in my world already and so on and so forth.. grr #There's another upcoming heatwave again and summer is soon so I think it will only get worsw #the more often I feel warm and sick or cant sleep due to the temperature etc.#But I am trying to catch up somehow.. a little.. lol #I think it's very common to feel like you're not making enough progress in life on the things that matter the most to you #especially during capitalism and with low income and mental/physical health issues and during a still ongoing pandemic #threat and etc. etc. etc. like.. Logically I get it and I know it's not something to be too worked up over because that's just how #probably half of the population feels at all times especially people who are in similar situations to me #but still.. my brain is like Yes i know the facts of the situation No i do not care #if someone else came to me like 'ough Im feeling so unproductive for xyz reason' I'd reassure them and talk about how #it's situational and a lot of people feel that way and it's the system we live in and blah blah #but when it's ME it's like.. No.. This Situation Is Different Of Course. Surely It Is Much More Terrible #If You Haven't Finished Your Entire ToDo List By The End Of The Week Then The World Will Explode #ANYWAY..#daily log

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