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bearsinpotatosacks · 3 months

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Take 2! Number 29 for the ficlet ask game with Carole Bradshaw!

Thank you, fourth time's a charm (also lets hope tumblr.com works better than the app)

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She dropped hands with him as Mav stood up. He had a look in her eye that she didn’t like. So far in their friendship, she hadn’t been on the receiving end of any of Mav’s arguments but, right now, there was an unhinged quality to his brown eyes that made her stomach wobble. She knew he wouldn’t react well to her and Slider being together yet part of her really wished he’d just be happy for her. That was something she needed. Positivity.

“How long?” He demanded. “How long have you two been together?”

Stepping back, she felt Ron’s arms touch her back. His protective nature was another thing that had drawn her to him. After how unexpected Goose’s death had been, she’d wanted someone who would hold her when she woke up from the nightmares, someone who wouldn’t judge her for the way little things would make her almost cry, like washing on the line or Bradley’s smile. He was stable like an old oak tree, roots grown deep into the ground.

“A year-”

“More like eighteen months-” Ron said.

“I didn’t ask you,” Mav muttered to himself; Carole rolled her eyes at him. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

She wished it was more of a plea, wished that it was just hurt rather than anger but she couldn’t deny what she saw. Pete was angry with her. And it disgusted her that he was, that he thought he had the audacity to be offended.

“Because I knew you’d react like this!” She saw his face go red as he went to blow up again. “And because I was scared, scared to have a relationship again and date someone new, and I wanted to see where it went, to give myself time to get used to it-”

“Time? What do you mean time?”

“Why is this any of your business?” She said.

“Because you’re my friend and I don’t like him!”

She crossed her arms. “And why is that?”

Pete’s red face turned more of a sheepish pink. He gulped and stepped back but she could see the anger in his eyes was still flickering strong.

“Because he’s Slider! He’s a dick and picks at me, tries to get a rise out of me all the time and I don’t like people who are just pricks because they feel like it, he’s got no respect!” Mav pointed directly at Ron behind her, she didn’t need to turn to know what his face would be like. “And he’s a player, he’s going to play you!”

“Play me?”

“You know, fuck around and leave you hanging out to dry when you want it to go further!”

“We’ve been going for over a year now, Mav, survived his deployments and everything, so I think I’d know if he was a player.”

Mav bit his lip again. His forehead wrinkled and his eyes closed, like he was thinking of what to say.

“And why would it be bad?” She lent into him as he stayed silent. “If it was just fucking?”

He stared at her, his mouth opening and closing like a fish. She could see his hands shaking. He gulped, confusion spreading across his face.

“But-”

“No buts, Mav, it’s my life, and if me and Ron just being casual, if us just fucking, makes you so uncomfortable then maybe that’s just your problem, not mine.” She said. “Because it’s my life, and if I’m being safe and enjoying myself then why is it your problem?”

All his thoughts seemed to explode out of him. His face grew redder and redder.

“Because it’s disrespectful to Goose!” He shouted.

She stepped back. He wouldn’t stoop that low, would he? How could he use Goose against her like that? Did he not know her at all?

“You’re just-just disregarding him and your relationship, sleeping around with one of his colleagues, one of his friends like-”

“Like what Mav?” She whispered.

“Like a whore!”

Tears sparked in her eyes as he realised what he’d said. Ron pulled her toward him, his arms holding her strong against his stomach as she stood, shocked.

“Don’t call me that.” She said, sniffing.

“Carole-” Mav started.

She cut him off. “No, no, you don’t get to say all that and just feel bad.” She said. “Because Ron has been the best, he’s been patient and kind when he could’ve just walked away because I was hard work. But no, he stuck by me, he’s great with Bradley and makes me feel amazing about myself, about the future. Just like Goose, and I think he’d be happy that I was moving on and living my life.”

“And what does all this say about you, huh? That you’re so adamant in holding onto Goose that you call his widow a whore for not wanting to jump into a happy fucking marraige only two years after he died.”

Mav stepped back. He tried to make himself as small as possible, like he wanted to sink into the floor. She wouldn’t mind right now.

“So well done you, Mav, you really showed me.”

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freakoutgirl · 4 months

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i just honestly think i was so stupid for getting a master's and putting myself deeper in debt knowing full well i can't function in any work environment let alone a professional one where i actually have to be good at things. like i do enjoy what i've been learning and theoretically i know the stuff. i have a 4.0 gpa. but actually in the field, around people, under pressure, i can't do anything because my brain just shuts down and i act like a ditz instead of a 26 year old woman. and i can telllll that everyone is babying me because my anxiety is obvious and so i just feel infantilized the whole time instead of a colleague. i've never been in a place where i've been respected, professionally or personally, and it's disheartening. and me complaining about it on tumblr.com isn't doing me any favors

#personal #negativity cw

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dreamingdarklyblog · 7 months

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About The Blog And Me

Hey all! I thought maybe I should make a post and pin it explaining what this blog is, and isn't.

Before I get to that. Here's some info that @jerolk wanted people to see. Apparently I don't get to read it >_<. Stuff I'm not supposed to read

Firstly, the stories/content whatever you want to call it on here are real, such as they are. There will be details edited to make things anonymous of course, but the bulk is pretty much real. My hypnotist @jerolk has been playing me for a month or so now, and we've been playing with me writing a blog as he... well... Messes with me.

At times it might seem a bit non consensual, but I assure you it is all very much so. He is actually very careful to negotiate everything, and make sure I'm safe. Which let's me trust him and let my brain do some... strange things.

This blog is mostly for people to enjoy themselves watching that process. I have a pretty big kink for mind control and related topics, and I also write sexy stories and comics for my fellow weirdos on the internet. You can see a blog dedicated to that over here.

Now on to the Other reason for doing it. Money! I like money, it can be exchanged for goods and services. Such as food and health care!

If you want to support me in making more sexy stories, comics, or join in the fun on the discord server, or just send me money for shits and giggles, there are a few ways.

Firstly you can just tip me here, or since I can't seem to make it work, on the other blog here https://dreamingdarkly22.tumblr.com/

Secondly, I have short stories and novels for sale on Amazon or Smashwords

And finally at my Patreon, which helps support both the comic writing and this blog. In fact there's a uh... New experimental tier on the Patreon that lets the first subscriber pick a trigger to give me for the month >_<. It's something we're trying out. Might be hot and fun, might be a train wreck, let's find out. Lol

So please by all means send your questions, comments, whatever. I don't mind asks from anons. If you are a jerk I'll just ignore you, or if you persist, block you. ;)

#about me

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pof203 · 7 months

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A Summoner Birthday

Previous post: https://pof203.tumblr.com/post/728034111342739456/a-summoner-birthday

Story (Epilogue Part 1)

Announcer: And they pass it to Number 14! It looks like the Yoyogi Academy Buffalo's might have a tie. Wait, is that.. Yes, it's Yoyogi's captain, Wakan Tanka!

Co-Announcer: Many people thought he wouldn't be playing today because, being a World Rep., his powers give him an unfair advantage.

Announcer: But he assured us he wouldn't use those powers. They're passing the ball to him. He's nearing the end of the field. He's going... Going... TOUCHDOWN! YOYOGI BUFFALOS WIN!

Let's go, Buffalos! Let's keep working towards victory!

You just watched Wakan Tanka's team win the game after he promised he would not use his World Representative powers. He won like a mortal, which was already doing before becoming a World Rep.

In the locker room, you, your friends, and your other boyfriends go in to congratulate Wakan Tanka on a great game.

You were wonderful, Our Wakan. Very wonderful.

Thank you, My Lupin. The same for all of your for your support.

It wasn't easy, but we managed to pull through.

I may not know much about American football, but I can tell you gave it your all out there.

It's true. Even the D-Evils enjoyed themselves. I think this was there first game.

You should be proud of yourselves. No many can score like that.

The only down side to this... is that those two tagged along. Then again, I haven't seen them since the game started. Maybe they got board and left.

As if to prove Oniwaka wrong, the doors of the locker room open and two more people come in.

Ah, here we are, the locker room.

It certainly smells like one, my darling master.

This will be interesting.

Daisuke: (looking down) It's my fault. They followed us here from the Arena... where I was visiting Oniwaka and nothing else.

Lupin: (thinking) I still don't see why you still have to hide it. Everyone pretty much already know who you are.

So, what brings the Guild Master and his aid here?

Snow: My darling master was bored. We don't have any fights scheduled for tonight. But we learned of this game and we thought we would see for ourselves what the fuss is about.

Oniwaka: How come I didn't see you in the stands when the game was on?

Snow: You don't expect my darling master to be sitting in the regular stands like a commoner.

Claude: The arena has a private sky box. We watched the game from there.

You were? Say... Is it true they serve cheese fondue up there?

Of course not. Choji says that only happens in sitcoms and funny movies. They have pretty much the same foods they have at the stands.

Claude: But it would be nice. We haven't had fondue in a long time.

Snow: My darling master, all you needed to do was ask.

Claude then turns his attention to Wakan Tanka.

Claude: We must say, you did well out there. Especially for an Invader. You fought like a warrior.

Wakan Tanka: Thank you, My Claude. Though, bringing that I'm an Invader makes it sound like you don't like me.

Claude: We will never forget what the Invaders did that day. But Lupin loves you with all his heart. Anyone can have a place like that in his heart is alright by us.

Wakan Tanka: Again, thank you.

Claude: We must insist, you must let us treat you to a fine dinner to celebrate your school's victory. Snow, make some quick reservations at the finest restaurant nearby.

Snow: As you wish, my darling master.

Daisuke: You don't have to do that. Yoyogi already has our victory party ready. It was Durga who arranged it. She even gave it a theme.

Claude: What theme is that?

Wakan Tanka: She was inspired by a book she read. The theme is, and you have to admire her boldness... an American high school prom... and something about twilight.

Kengo: (shocked) A prom?! I've heard of these and those things make any teenager nervous. Even me, and I've never been to one.

Shiro: I've read about them, as well. Don't worry, I'll teach you everything I know about prom etiquette. First, we'll need something nice to wear.

Lupin: I'll call Arachne and see if she can bring us something.

Shiro: Maybe just for yourself. We still have our fancy clothes from some time back.

Claude: Well that's a shame. Maybe next time you'll take me up on my offer.

Lupin: ... Claude, this is about more than just celebrating us winning a football game, isn't it?

Claude: You know us, too well. No wonder you because one of our top champions. Wakan Tanka, we know that in some way, you've pretty much left the Invaders. But I have heard about the incident in the virtual fairy tale world. How you managed to free everyone trapped there.

Wakan Tanka: I didn't do it alone. I had everyone with me.

Claude: We just wanted you to know that if you ever need a new Guild to be in, we always have room for one more with the Berserkers.

Wakan Tanka: That's very nice of you to offer, My Claude... But I've already told My Lupin I would join his Guild, the Summoners.

Oniwaka: Besides, I've already joined them as their liaison between our two Guilds.

Claude: We understand. Though, the offer still stands. And we will try to keep those restaurant reservations open.

Lupin: We'll think about it. Thank you, though.

Claude: You're welcome. Come, Snow, let's head home.

With that, Claude and Snow leave.

Shiro: Right, we should be heading home, too, to get ready for the party. Lupin, are you coming?

Lupin: I'm gonna go with Wakan. You guys go on ahead.

Ryota: Okay, see you guys later.

With that, your Guildmates leave.

Oniwaka: I'll come with you guys, too. I'm hoping one of you guys has a spare fancy dud I can borrow since I don't own any. (Seriously, Lifewonders, get me some.)

Wakan Tanka: I don't think you need to do that, My Oniwaka. You look fine in anything.

Boogeyman: I'm coming with you, too. I'm chaperoning the dance along with some of my fellow teachers from both schools and would love to be your escorts.

Lupin: That would be wonderful of you, Boogeyman, thank you.

Wakan Tanka: Let's head back to my dorm to get ready.

You leave to the Yoyogi dorms to get ready for the dance.

To be continued...

#my birthday #birthday #tokyo afterschool summoners #housamo #wakan tanka #daisuke ikusaba #taurus mask #kengo takabushi #shiro motoori #zabaniyya #oniwaka #claude (housamo)#snow (housamo)#toji sakimori #boogeyman #moritaka #ryota yakushimaru

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cinamun · 9 months

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Things Fall Apart is a masterpiece, the way you write everything has me crying or cracking up or hot and bothered like Darren?’ Give me his fine ass! Or Juan?! I’d like to be in the middle of them 😉

Sadly I can’t like or rebolog the post’s because it takes me to tumblr.com on mobile, but I want to say that this is THEE best story I’ve read, I’m on chapter 13 and just fjsjjejd this story has me in my feels.

The CC and mods you use are so fucking dope and Indya please I would let her sit on my face she’s so pretty and funny and cute I want her or I want to be her, not sure yet.

I wanted to say thank you for the craft and dedication you’re putting into this, it’s so awesome and you’re very talented at story telling and creating Sims! I can’t wait to se where this story goes….

I hope you get your cat ate from the front to the back because miss. ma’am this is some high quality shit.

FRIEND!!! Not from the front AND the back??

Purrrrrrrrr I hope so too becaue its been forever chile.... also OMG Thank you so much! These are top tier compliments and I don't even know what to do with myself at this point but run around screaming! Also yes, tumblr's mobile links suck ass but I'm so glad you are enjoying it. Chapter 13 out of 22!! Not bad and WOW we're still going strong after all these years lol

I really appreciate you love, and I love that you love what comes out of this wacky little brain when i'm playing around with these pixel people's livelihoods lol they've definitely seen some shit fuckin with me!! Anyway, we're still going strong not only because sims 5 looks wack asl right now, but also because this is my hobby and literally the only creative outlet I have. Basically y'all are stuck with me!

#enjoy the rest of the ride #chapter 21 is a monster #whew!#story stuff #love you friend!

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the-lunar-warrior · 11 months

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just wrote a Very Salty feedback ticket and idk, i feel like posting the whole thing here too. enjoy, or something

I usually refrain from being this crass when writing feedback, but the direction tumblr seems to be heading is directly detrimental to theplatform. And the new mobile lightbox frankly ssuck, among other things.

I have been using tumblr for close to 10 years. For much of it, I did not use the mobile app — nowadays I've been using it a lot more, and while sometimes annoying and buggy, it was an okay experience. Some of the recent changes, and the much more open communication has been very nice, but some are honestly making me question whether I shouldn't just quit.

I'm on tumblr to use tumblr. If I wanted to use tiktok, I'd open the tiktok app.

The new lightbox, and the way it takes you to a random freaking post if you swipe wrong is atrocious. Sometimes it happens when I'm trying to zoom in. Sometimes when im swiping to the side and I guess it wasn't to the side enough. It's infuriating. It would be infuriating if it only took you to a random post once there is no more photos in the current one, but no — if you swipe wrong at any point bye bye whatever you were viewing, please look at this unrelated post you don't want to see! And don't tell me they are related. I don't care. They are by a random person I don't follow. I don't want an algorithm showing things in my face. Stop it.

In the light of the recent changes, if I was not already a user, I would not become one. And I don't mean it in a "oh changes bad" way, I mean that the way I discovered tumblr has been actively cut off. Back when I first discovered tumblr, sometime in 2012/13, one could view the http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tag even without account — I scrolled on it for hours by accident. I didn't know what tumblr was, I barely spoke english. I ended up doing that a second time, just to find a specific post — it was an upload of Phoenix by Fall Out Boys, sped up by 10%. I don't know if was uploaded directly to tumblr, but I know it did not force me to go and open spotify, or soundcloud, or any third party website to actually listen to the song. It stayed on tumblr.

Then I found some blogs I liked. I stalked them for months without an account, had them bookmarked. Today tumblr automatically tries to take you to the tumblr.com/username instead of url.tumblr.com, and when it does, it obscures the page and tries to force you to sign up. I would have never gotten invested in tumblr, in the community, if that was the case. If I couldn't freely browse peoples blogs, see their pages — remember pages? Remember that functionality that is becoming obscure instead of you promoting it? People now have a single pinned post where they often have a link to something like linktree or other third party website that lets them to what *tumblr was originally for*. To have a separate about page, or a page with their ships, or interests, their fic they are hosting here, that's *not a post that you have to link* but a url.tumblr.com/about or url.tumblr.com/fic or anything they desire bc it was a BLOG they are hosting on tumblr, not just an account on a social media site.

Remember webcomics hosted on tumblr? People used to do that. As a teen I wanted to do that. But tumblr is silently moving away from that functionality. Is making it harder and harder to use it as I thought intended.

I made an account after months of using tumblr. I sent asks without an account — and after I made one, an irl friend sent me some too, before she got her account. I browsed and read and learned english *without an account*. And when I made one, I made silly pages on my blog, like "people you should follow", or info pages about my ocs, or one that still exists but cannot be accessed from mobile app at all — my about page.

I understand many of the changes. I understand the monetization, and frankly think most of it is very fun and well done. But overall? You're shooting yourself in the foot. You're alienating existing, often long time users, and making it impossible to get into tumblr for possible new ones.

I know one bitter feedback ticket probably won't to anything. But I feel like I need to say all this somewhere. I loved tumblr for so so long, I recommended it to other people — the only way right now for you to get new users other than forcing people — but I don't anymore. I'm considering getting rid of the app from my phone — going back to using tumblr once every couple weeks when I open it on desktop, because... I'm tired. I'm so so tired of seeing things I lovef about tumblr disintegrate in front of me.

Thanks to whoever has gotten this far reading this. Have a nice day.

#tumblr thoughts #i talk sometimes #idk i know that a lot of ppl have been talking about how tumblr is a collaborative social media and how thats its essence or whatever #but i miss when the essence of tumblr was. to have a BLOG #with added perks

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lithopsy · 7 months

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PEOPLE I WANNA KNOW BETTER

<3 actually doing a tag for once are we clapping

LAST SONG? Yamafuro by Masakatsu Takagi I've been really obsessed with the album Kagayaki lately, it's instrumental/ambient music with lots of found audio mixed in. this song in particular has percussion?? that is someone splashing and hitting the bottom of a basin and i love the sound of it so much.

FAVORITE COLOR? green <3

CURRENTLY WATCHING? i am ACTUALLY watching series 12 of Taskmaster currently i started it the other day

LAST MOVIE? i saw Talk to Me in theaters a couple weeks ago... I cannot remember if this was before or after Kale made me watch Top Gun: Maverick.

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY? savory??? i guess???

RELATIONSHIP STATUS? single dot dot dot unless

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? I'm trying really hard to branch out musically SLASH revisit music I've enjoyed in the past, so I'm obsessed with the act of finding new music and also a few albums. I'm also Once Again obsessed with the Hyakunin Isshu (100 canonical poems by notable poets from medieval Japan) which has been an obsession of mine for forever, but I have been re-reading them from a different translation lately.

I'm particularly obsessed with poem 54 Wasureji no at the moment, credited to Mother of Honorary Grand Minister (which I am going to paste below because I am annoying)

You promise you’ll never forget, but to the end of time is too long to ask. So let me die today – still loved by you.

the hyakunin isshu are so dramatic but i love them bc i'm like omg mother of honorary grand minister you are justlikemeforreal. what is the modern equivalent of emperor tenji's royal court if not tumblr.com for iphone

besides that <3 I'm on the last day of Harry's route in The Ssum and I'm obsessed with it in the sense that I cannot stop thinking about how mad at it I am. so, there's that.

aforementioned albums I'm obsessed with: Greg Mendez's self-titled - this is so early 2000s folk-rock-driving-around-west-texas-in-your-best-friend's-car-with-nowhere-to-go-core like how are you nostalgic you came out this year

Kagayaki and Marginalia III by Masakatsu Takagi - these albums have been my only writing music lately, i love all of her work so much

Eating Us by Black Moth Super Rainbow - my mom liked this album when I was younger and I didn't appreciate it then but I DO NOW

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? the video game Starfield because I would really love to play it but my rig is not currently beefy enough and I wondered if the xbox one would be getting an official port (answer was inconclusive)

ty @satanssugar for tagging me i am not on tumblr enough to know who is active so i am going to be silly and tag literally my one favorite mutual who is always on here and then anyone else can do it if they wanna and say i tagged them so it's not embarrassing <3 anyway hi @caffernnn xoxoxo

#erm hehe #about me #?#literally i feel like most of my friends have had to hear me talk about the 100 poems at some point ive been obsessed with them for a while #my favorites are 11 14 54 62 and 84 #NUMBER 11 MAN tell whoever asks that i have sailed away out past countless islets to the vast ocean beyond #ARE YOU KIDDING #ono no takamura you are justlikemeforreal #anyway <3

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pikespeakzinefest · 7 months

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✴️IS PRESS✴️ ispress.co instagram.com/is.press 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: is PRESS publishes art books and zines on the nexus of art and everyday life that deploy accessible narratives with a sophisticated DIY aesthetic and letterpress covers. 📘📙📓 ✴️JEFF WASHENBERGER ART✴️ tumblr.com/jeffdraws instagram.com/ferret250 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: I work in the library by day, and make art by night (and by day). I hope I can use my powers to spread peace and happiness. 📘📙📓 ✴️JOHN DISHWASHER✴️ johndishwasher.org instagram.com/johndishwasher 🔹Los Angeles, CA 🔸Bio: Author of "The Zinester Manifesto: A Novel of the Underground." I made my first zine in 2017. 📘📙📓 ✴️KELS CHOO✴️ kelschoo.com instagram.com/kookookchoo 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Kelsey Choo (she/they) is a Hawai‘i-raised artist self-publishing comics, zines, & other art in Colorado. Working in a variety of mediums, their comics & illustrative works are inspired by nature, nostalgia, whimsy, but mainly monsters & magic. 📘📙📓 ✴️KILAH STORM✴️ kilahstorm.com instagram.com/kilahstorm 🔹Colorado Springs, CO. 🔸Bio: Kilah Storm is an author, illustrator and professional puppeteer. She has published a zine collection titled The Canine Bible and has hundreds of fans who follow her fan fiction: Avatar Strife and Harmony. All of her zines centers around animals. 📘📙📓 ✴️LIZ BROWN✴️ instagram.com/lilibet_wenge 🔹Colorado Springs, CO 🔸Bio: Liz Brown (she/her) is a librarian with a love for all things risograph. Originally hailing from Baltimore, MD, she occasionally writes dispatches from library conferences in a zine series called Notes from a Sub-Sub. She is the slow hiker who likes to pick up rocks to check for critters. She is also passionate about comics, creative reuse, games, Halloween, puppetry, and snail mail. 📘📙📓 ✴️MARA GERVAIS✴️ maragervais.bigcartel.com instagram.com/_maralane 🔹Davis, CA 🔸Bio: Mara Gervais is queer, gender-fluid non-binary, and from the Central Valley in California. They love zines, risograph printing, skateboarding, and eating spaghetti! 📘📙📓 ✴️MISS CBENAV✴️ cbenav.com/links instagram.com/miss_cbenav 🔹Midwest 🔸Bio: Cristina 'Miss Cbenav' is a recent graduate who utilizes art and writing to make illustrated stories, letting the crafty world of zines to explore her creativity. 📘📙📓 ✴️NASH'S COMIC✴️ 🔹Denver, CO 🔸Bio: My name is Nash. I'm 11 years old. I came up with characters and make comics with my dad. He writes scripts and I do the art. I've sold my comics at Pike's Peak Zine Fest. People like them, and it was so fun. My new issue #4 has a new character. 📘📙📓 ✴️NIKO WILKINSON✴️ Nicois.gay instagram.com/nicothepoet tumblr.com/nicothepoet cohost.org/nicosuave 🔹Colorado Springs, CO. 🔸Bio: Nico Wilkinson is a poet/zinester/printmaker based in Colorado Springs, CO. They're the organizer of Keep Colorado Springs Queer, an open mic founded in 2016. They enjoy letterpress and relief printmaking. 📘📙📓

#PPZF2023 #PikesPeakZineFest2023 #PikesPeakZineFest #PPZF #ZineFest #Zines #Zinester #PPZF2023Exhibitor #IndieComics #Comics #SmallPress #SelfPublishing #DIY #PrintIsNotDead

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2-lines-and-a-circle · 1 year

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Where I buy my products from

I thought I would let everyone know about a shopping mistake that happened to me recently. I was relying on a message to purchase Trey from Twisted Wonderland, but we got lost in translation so now I got Jade in his lab uniform. To be fair I was telling my mom over the phone and didn’t double check if it was the correct one. I won’t return Jade though; it is an early Christmas gift from her. Anyway, I just thought I would let people know where I buy my plushies from.

I also hope this helps @thehollowwriter

Twisted Wonderland Plushies

I bought all of them off of Etsy and I’ve never had any problems. There’s this one seller I really liked to get them from, but they stopped recently. Most of them price starting from $15 or $25 dollars. When you buy them, I suggest you compare the plushies to the ones on the official site to make sure they’re the real deal. All of the ones I have bought are in fact the real ones and I’m very happy with all of my purchases. Just be careful to see if your favorite character is sold out!

Shipping will depend on where you live, but for me it takes at least a week and a half. When cleaning, please make sure to hang dry them.

Ikemen Series

I typically purchase them from Animate International. I’ve never experienced anything bad. Everything is priced at an okay price for me. Shipping typically ranges, but I’ve never had anything delayed or late. The best thing about buying from Animate International is that I will always know it’s the official item.

Animate International link: IKEMEN SERIES (animate.shop)

However! The items aren’t the new ones that are being advertised. So, they won’t be the newest edition. For those, I typically have to search the internet for the best seller.

Here’s one I recommend: lydskisses (tumblr.com)

*I have never bought from them because I haven’t really liked any of the new merch out and I’m saving for Twisted Wonderland. DO notice that.

Tsukiuta and Tsukipro series

Similar to the Ikemen series I purchase everything from Animate International!

Link Tsukiuta: Tsukiuta (animate.shop)

Link to Tsukipro: TSUKIPRO (animate.shop)

I haven’t been able to find another seller, but if I do, I’ll add them as well!

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Omega’s Assault: Chapter 1

Note: the following couple paragraphs are some backstory on this fic and whatnot. If you’re only interested in the fic itself (totally valid, I mean it, I won't judge) then you can just click “Keep Reading” and go from there. Otherwise...

So, about a year ago, Tumblr user @akuma74 posted about a dream he had, where Deadlanders attacked Bugaria and all the kingdoms had to work together to fight them off. Even the Wasp King had to join in against the threat. Here is the post referencing said dream (https://akuma74.tumblr.com/post/677235418689863680/i-just-have-a-dream-where-the-deadlander-attacked)

Now, I thought this was a very cool idea, so I replied to his post saying I might like to write a small fic based on it. A bit later, I finished Chapter 1 of said fic. My intent was for there to be only two Chapters and to post all of them to Tumblr once they were finished...however, I ended up having more and more and more ideas for this story and the way it currently is it’s looking more like it’ll be four Chapters long (I’m confident it’ll stay that way, though). With that in mind, plus the fact that I’ve been so dreadfully slow on this story, I thought that I might as well quit wasting time and just bring them to Tumblr for people to read. To Akuma, I apologize for taking so long and I hope you enjoy what I’ve written so far: I will continue it and I won’t take as long to get Chapters 3 and 4 out as I did Chapter 2. To anyone that doesn’t want to read the story on Tumblr, here’s the link to it on AO3 (https://archiveofourown.org/works/40301664/chapters/100948233). Chapter 2 is queued to be posted on Tumblr later today. For now, please enjoy...

Bugaria was off today, though nobody could really understand why. There was just something unusual about...everything. The "aura", as it were, was not as it tended to be. Though this feeling of (for lack of better words) unease was felt by most in Bugaria, the mystery as to why it was happening led many to not think much of it. Things felt strange, yet most didn't feel necessarily unsafe...not at the moment...

On the Balcony of The Hive, Elias looked around the land with the use of his patented Eliascope. He was stunned by the beauty of the surrounding areas, and quite proud of himself for creating something to so easily observe it all (some might say too proud). Vilma was on the balcony as well, taking in the warm desert air and relaxing.

Vilma: Mr. Elias, that device of yours is quite interesting. You say you can see all throughout Bugaria with it?

Elias: Haha, indeed! See for yourself, Miss.

Vilma giggled as she stepped up and leaned down into the looking glass of the Eliascope, and she was enamored as she used it to scan across the Lost Sands. This was not her first time using it, mind you, but the experience was still so novel and extraordinary for her. This excitement was halted, however, when Vilma froze up. It would seem she caught sight of something odd.

Elias: Miss? Are you well?

Vilma: I-I...I think...I saw something moving...something large...

Elias: Large, you say? Let me see that, if you will.

Vilma stepped aside, allowing Elias to look into his telescope once more, and he was shocked to find a colossal silhouette moving in the distance. After a bit of shuffling the silhouette turned towards his direction, making his blood run cold, before a large arm emerged from the silhouette and pushed away some of the nearby grass. Another arm reached out and patted the ground near the Wasp Kingdom, almost like it was testing it.

Vilma: D-do you see it too?

Elias: I...think I do? There's a giant...thing over there...what is it doing?

More arms came from the silhouette, pushing away the grass and reaching further into the Far Grasslands. The figure then pulled itself into better view, and it was a terrifying sight to behold: it almost resembled a twisted, charred tree branch, with pointy fingers upon twisted hands upon bony arms in large numbers. All over its body were huge, yellow eyes that seemed to cast a light onto whatever they looked upon...and right now multiple were looking straight at Elias.

Vilma: I-I-Is it looking at us???

Elias couldn't talk. He couldn't form any sort of coherent thoughts, but despite this his mind was racing with all sorts of emotions (amazement, shock, confusion), chief among them being sheer terror. This terror grew until the many-armed, many-eyed creature started crawling towards The Hive, at which point Elias fell over and screamed so loud he could even be heard from Defiant Root all the way down below.

Elias: IT IS COMING TOWARDS US!!!!!

Just about every Bug currently on the Balcony rushed over to see what the Mantis was screaming about, and when they saw the same colossus he and Vilma saw they all flew into an unprecedented panic. They were screaming and running, some Bees even started flying off the Balcony to try and escape. Some Bugs kneeled and prayed, hoping that Venus or any other god that was listening would protect them. Vilma, meanwhile, rushed to the Queen Bianca's Throne Room, and the guards were surprised to see the state she was in. Vilma was breathless and her voice was shaking as she tried to speak and open the doors at the same time.

Vilma: B-Belle, Nina, w-w-we we need to tell the Queen!

Belle: Vilma?! What are you doing, why-

Vilma: We need to tell her, she'll know what to do!!!

Vilma burst into the Throne Room, catching Queen Bianca and Tuvi (to whom the Queen was giving reassurance) off guard.

Bianca: Vilma? My goodness, dear, you look like you've seen a ghost.

Vilma: I-it's worse than that!!!

Tuvi: W-w-w-worse than a ghost!?

Vilma: Qu-Qu-Queen B-Bianca! The-the-the Eliascope saw something, it-it was terrible, I-I-

Vilma was panicked like something Bianca had never seen before. She had always been a cheerier soul, and the Queen was morbidly curious as to what she had seen. She often tried to avoid physical force, but Bianca grabbed Vilma by the shoulders and held her still in an effort to calm her down.

Bianca: Vilma, love. Listen to me: What happened? What was it that you saw?

Vilma could do nothing but hyperventilate.

Bianca: Please, Vilma, if it is dangerous you NEED to tell me.

Vilma:...A Giant is moving towards The Hive!!!

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Vi was currently in Queen Elizant II's Throne Room, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms. It was hardly appropriate behavior around both fellow explorers and a Monarch but (luckily for Vi and her team) it was hardly noticed.

Elizant: If all is understood, Explorers, then it is time for you to move out. You will-

Suddenly, the palace began to tremble, and the already-annoyed Vi let out a groan in frustration.

Vi: Uuugggghhhh, what now???

Kabbu: A tremor?! I-is everything alright?!

Leif: Gods, we never felt something like that before...

Multiple Ant Guards ran into the Throne Room, all calling out for the Queen in a jumbled panic. Elizant stamped her foot, demanding attention (and also in a bout of frustration).

Elizant: Silence!!! What is so urgent that you all need to stumble over yourselves???

Ant Guard: Th-there is a monster attacking Bugaria! You need to see it!

Elizant: A...monster?

Everyone in the Throne Room quickly ran outside of the Palace, and when they looked up to the East they were all in utter shock.

Kabbu: Th...that is...f-f-far too...b-big!

Leif: What is it?...

Vi was uneasy, to her own surprise: after her team bested the Spider that haunted Snakemouth for so long, and a Guardian created by Venus herself, she honestly wasn't worried by the sounds of this "monster" the guards went on about. She couldn't fathom such a horrifying sight being what they referred to, but it had to be. The last time she was this scared was when she and Kabbu first saw the Spider of Snakemouth. At that time she genuinely wanted to give up for a moment, and go back home...home...Vi took a closer look at the monster, and noticed that it was not looking towards the Ant Kingdom, but the Bee Kingdom.

Vi: Wha-it's moving towards The Bee Hive!!!

Gen: Wh-what?

Eri: Oh no, they're doomed!!!

Vi never imagined something like this happening. She was happy to leave The Hive, and happy not to think of it again...but she didn't want it in peril. Almost childishly, Vi tugged on the Ant Queen's dress to get her attention.

Vi: Queen Elizant! We gotta do something, right? W-we're not just gonna let that thing attack the Bees, r-right?

Elizant bowed her head and didn't answer for a moment: it would seem that she was in deep thought. After some time, she finally looked to Vi in response.

Elizant:...The Bees are our allies...Queen Bianca is a close friend...We shall mobilize and head to the Bee Kingdom posthaste.

Kina: We were going there anyway, right? For the artifact or whatever?

Elizant: We were and still are. Kina, you are to head there and give them the materials they need to replace their core.

Leif: [How could she still be thinking of the Sapling at a time like this?!]

Elizant: Team Snakemouth will join me on the way to the Golden Settlement. From there we shall take the path that leads us to Defiant Root and The Hive.

Kabbu: Oh no, I hope everyone there is safe...

Vi:...Yeah...

Elizant: The rest of you are to evacuate as many Bugs as possible towards the Golden Settlement and keep them as safe as you can.

Celia: Right, Your Highness!

Elizant: Team Snakemouth, we must hurry.

Leif lagged behind and sneered when he knew the Queen can't see him before leaning over to Kabbu and whispering.

Leif: She disgusts us. Who knows what that THING could do and yet she still wants to get the Artifact???

Vi: Who cares? We gotta focus on helping everybody, we can worry about who does and doesn't suck at ruling later!

Kabbu: Vi, you...you have a point, I believe. Leif, we must do what we can now, and other concerns will be dealt with later.

Leif:...You're right...we've got issues with her, but if mobilizing means we can help Bugs in peril, we should...

So the Explorers went about their duties: Team Snakemouth followed the Ant Queen as the other explorers did what they could to gather and calm down the Ant Kingdom citizens. It was difficult, however, as the monster loomed in the distance and continued stomping, sending shockwaves throughout the land...

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Under the Wasp King's orders, the entirety of the Wasp Kingdom was evacuating. The titan that was so close to their hive that it could stomp and crush all of them in but an instant, and they were blessed that it (for whatever reason) had its focus elsewhere. Even still, the Wasp King refused to have his subjects in such a compromising position, so he ordered them all to leave and bring any prisoners and Wasps that couldn't move along with them. The Wasps were in no place to refuse, even if they wanted to: few Bugs would wish to remain near the monster that had just entered Bugaria. The Wasp King himself came to Queen Vanessa II's bedroom, and she looked to him in disgust as he tried grabbing her hand.

Wasp King: Come with me.

Vanessa pulled her arm away.

Vanessa: Don't you dare try to touch me, menace!

Wasp King: The only "Menace" is the one outside my kingdom, now-

Vanessa: Your Kingdom?!

Wasp King: Yes, mine! You are clearly a failure at keeping it orderly, now follow me. I will need soldiers in the future, and you are too useful to lose.

Vanessa: You...

A pair of Wasp Drillers showed up to either side of Vanessa, and she was forced along by them to follow her captor and usurper.

Wasp King: GENERAL ULTIMAX!

The General rushed up to his king, though he was clearly not in his best state of mind either. His legs quivered, and the fear in his voice was palpable.

Ultimax: Y-yes, your highness?

Wasp King: Get into your tank: you are to distract the beast outside so that we can escape.

Vanessa: Distract? Are you asking him to sacrifice himself?!

Wasp King: For the good of the kingdom, you idiotic wench.

Vanessa: How could-

Wasp King: Now, Ultimax! Do NOT fail me!

Ultimax: I...y-yes, your majesty!...

General Ultimax ran to prepare his tank as the Wasp King and his guards brought the Queen outside. When they left the hive they saw droves of Wasps moving through the Far Grasslands. Guards were on the ready to deal with any hostile forces, but there were few to speak of: the colossus had scared all but the Wasps themselves away. Vanessa held her head down, both ashamed and angry, and tried not to look at the state she was in now.

Wasp Guard: My king! We noticed a foreign Mantis running from our grounds, and he was carrying what looked like a small larva: we feel he may have been a spy!

Wasp King: We will deal with him later.

Wasp Guard: Later? But sire, we-

Wasp King: We need to worry solely about ourselves. When we are in a better position we shall search for and eliminate this "spy", but for now you shall do as you are told!

Vanessa: Hoaxe, you are vile and heartless.

Wasp King: I know how to get what I want. You are pathetic and ignorant. Really, I should have been made king long ago, I understand how to put my kingdom's needs first.

Vanessa was about to say more when she caught sight of the monster they were evacuating from. Just one of its limbs was taller than the entirety of her hive, and they were numerous enough that counting them felt fruitless.

Vanessa: Is...is that the Deadlander Omega?

Suddenly, the creature looked down to see Vanessa and those keeping her hostage. It was just about to stomp on them when the Wasp King blasted multiple of its eyeballs with fire.

Wasp King: FASTER, ALL OF YOU!!!

The Wasps did as they were told, evacuating as the Deadlander roared. Vanessa wasn't even sure if Hoaxe's attack had damaged it, but that worry was overtaken by a separate one when the Ultimax Tank drove in and shot at the beast further. Vanessa reached out in fear as the general drew the enormous monster's attention.

Vanessa: Fuff, no!

Wasp King: Silence, fool, and move!!!

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As Team Snakemouth and Queen Elizant II trekked through the Lost Sands, they were able to catch more and more glimpses of the monster, the Deadlander Omega, to the East. It was seemingly in combat, fighting off blasts from something. Though the creature's sheer size made it clear as day, what exactly it was fighting was hard to make out at the distance they were watching from.

Vi: If...if that thing's in a fight...we can take it out too, can't we?

Leif: Well, that depends on if it's taking any damage in its "fight", and we aren't too sure of that.

Elizant: As long as the monster is distracted, that is all that matters for now. We must reach The Hive quickly, then we can make other plans.

Kabbu's arm was tugged by a small tendril, and he was lightly pulled to a spot behind a rock to find one of Venus's Buds. Vi and Leif slipped away from the Queen as they shared in Kabbu's shock.

Kabbu: V-Venus! Is that you? Why-

Venus: No time to explain, Kabbu! I have something important to tell you: a giant-

Leif: Monster's attacking Bugaria? We figured that out, we're afraid.

Venus: Ha...I should've guessed, with how big it is...you're not going to try and fight it, are you?

Vi: We fought a Goddess and won, right? I'm sure we can find a way to fight this thing!

Venus: You fought a guardian of a goddess that she made in less than a minute. This creature...it's on a whole other level.

Leif: Can't you do anything to stop it, then?

Venus: Unfortunately, I only have so much power...what's more...that power is waning.

Kabbu: Waning?

Venus: It's a long story, and I'm not sure even I fully get it, but the important thing is that a force that was felt within the very land here is gone, or at least weaker. I think that's why that monster's attacking in the first place.

Vi: What're we supposed to do with that info???

Venus: You're supposed to be careful, okay? Just...watch yourselves...protect yourselves...I'm not sure how much I can do.

Kabbu:...We shall do what we can, Venus. May your blessing guide us forward.

Vi and Leif nodded in affirmation with Kabbu before all three of them slipped back to Queen Elizant's side.

Elizant: Team Snakemouth! Where have you been?

Vi: Uhh, we tripped?

Elizant:...No matter. We cannot afford to stall any longer...

By the time the group made it to Defiant Root, just about everyone there was gone: the Bees had evacuated them to the Golden Settlment (leaving it rather crowded there now), though the feeling of unease was no less prevalant.

Kabbu: Gods, I was hoping my next time coming here would be...more pleasant...

Vi:...

Leif: It is what it is, all we can do is try and protect as many as we can...

Elizant: We must get the artifact, and then we will discuss further plans.

Elizant moved towards the elevator of the Bee Hive, encountering a large, shivering Bee.

Elizant: Are you the one that runs the el-

Big Bee: AH! S-S-STAY BACK!!!

Vi: Aebees, it's fine! We're not-

Aebees: Vi? VI, HOLY CRAP, I WAS SCARED THAT THING GOT YOU OR-

Vi: It didn't, okay? Now c'mon, we need to meet with the Queen, we gotta get the artifact!

Aebees: A-artifact? Like what that Mantis earlier was talking about?

Kabbu: Kina! Yes, Kina came earlier to deliver the materials with which you can build a replacement for your Honey Factory Core!

Aebees: I-I don't understand any of that, I just know that there's a giant monster in the distance fighting something and I don't wanna be here!

As Aebees said, the Deadlander was still in combat, and it roared in pain and fury as its opponent fired more blasts into its eyes. It slammed into the ground several times, just barely missing its target, before Elizant turned to Aebees.

Elizant:...Have us raised up. We will resolve our situation in The Hive, and you may evacuate to the Golden Settlement.

Aebees: You're gonna stop the monster!?

Elizant: We need you to let us up.

Aebees: O-okay, okay! Just...please try and hurry. I'm not sure how long whatever's over there is gonna be distracted...

Queen Elizant nodded before she and Team Snakemouth boarded the elevator and were brought up to The Hive. As they were lifted, they heard the roaring of the Deadlander Omega and saw it pick something up.

Kabbu: That beast...can it truly be stopped?

Vi: You can kill anything if you hit it hard enough!

Leif: For now we need to focus on helping each other...we need to focus on keeping everybody safe...

Leif glared at Elizant, and perhaps he was lucky that she was too busy with her own thoughts to notice...

Once the group made it into The Hive and past its scanners, they spotted various Bugs in varying states of panic. Each roar of the Deadlander sent more terror into these Bugs, but Elizant was steadfast as she looked for Queen Bianca. It didn't take long to find her, as she had been outside her Throne Room and trying to calm the others for a while now. When she spotted Elizant she was quick to run over and take the Ant Queen's hands into her own.

Bianca: Elizant! Oh, thank the gods that you are safe! Was it hard to get here? Were you attacked?

Elizant: I am fine, Bianca, thank you for your concern. However, I have-

Bianca: Oh! Violet!

Queen Bianca quickly picked up Vi and hugged her for dear life. In any other case Vi would be quick to push herself off of whoever would squeeze her like this, though for now she merely asked to be put down repeatedly.

Bianca: Oh, my darling! My dear, dear, daughter! I am so sorry we pushed you away, I never wanted you in so much danger, please tell me you're unharmed, please-

Vi: Queen Bianca, I'm good! Just, p-put me down! We got things to do!

Bianca stopped for a moment, as if she had realized how unusual she was acting, and put Vi down with a calmness much unlike what she was just displaying.

Bianca: Y-you are right, Vi. I...I apologize for that. I meant what I said, however, we shouldn't have-

Vi: Mo-Q-Queen Bianca...Queen Elizant needs something.

Elizant was silent, but one could sense a sort of unease coming from her. Almost a sort of regret.

Bianca: Oh yes...the...the trade that Team Maki mentioned. They are explorers of yours, correct, Elizant?

Elizant: We need that trade done as swiftly as possible, Bianca. As soon as it is complete we can focus on evacuation and protection, as well as what we should do about...the creature.

Bianca:...I am very sorry, Elizant. I know we had a deal...but I cannot agree to it at the moment.

Elizant pulled her hands out of Bianca's, but before she could say anything Kabbu gasped and got the Bee Queen's attention himself.

Kabbu: Wait, Queen Bianca, you mentioned Team Maki...Did Sir Maki come here?

Maki: Yes, Kabbu.

Elizant and Team Snakemouth were shocked to notice Maki walking up behind him, a grey Caterpillar by his side.

Vi: Wait, is that a baby? Where'd you find a baby???

Maki: That does not matter, Vi. Yin here was in an unsafe position, near that Giant, and I refuse to have left her alone there.

Yin: Muh...

Elizant:...Bianca...Ple-...Listen to me, we must-

Elizant stopped suddenly, and drew out her swords before jumping forward and getting into a battle stance.

Elizant: You!

On another side of the area was the Wasp King, soldiers surrounding him, Queen Vanessa in tow...

#bug fables #bug fables spoilers #writing #omega's assault #deadlander omega #queen bianca #queen elizant II #vi #leif #kabbu #the wasp king #queen vanessa II #general ultimax #I love this concept and I desperately hope to complete it #btw me saying Chapter 2 is queued does mean that I won't be on Tumblr for the next couple days #sorry I want to try and take regular mental health breaks you know how it is #I intend to be back Monday or Tuesday #have a great time!

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