#manip by yours truly

[otp-holic]

The Big Dude-Bro aka Marvel keeps watching and erasing Steve and Bucky's relationship, their history, moments... and even Bucky himself.

Don't let them win and SPEAK STUCKY: Create content, reblog content, read fic, read meta, look at old interviews, or show creators some love... but don't let them think we're not here till the end of the line. We are.

#stucky #marvel critic #steve rogers #bucky barnes #anti marvel #i'm tired of reading abour more places where they erase them #that's why i did this silly manip #big brother is watching and rewriting history #dont let them #manip by yours truly #painfully created by me #this is crack #but also true #anty peggy carter

[kafus]

i did some ridiculous technical BS in pokemon again

NOTE: not only is this post a very very long infodump from yours truly, it is also specifically an infodump involving a lot of pokemon glitches and exploits. even though i don't tamper with my games and everything achieved here can be done on original hardware with no hacking or what-have-you, some people still may consider this Cheating based on their own personal standards of legitimate gameplay. i ask that you please don't try to start arguments with me about pokemon legality and just take it all as an interesting technical infodump about gen 3 pokemon okay thank you <3

SO. i decided that before pokemon bank eventually shuts down one day in the probably-not-so-distant future and makes old gen transfer impossible, i need more ribbon master pokemon (AKA a pokemon with all the ribbons it can possibly receive from its gen of origin to the most recent gen it can transfer to) from gens 3 and 4. i've been meaning to ribbon master a pokemon from gen 3 based on my favorite singer, KAF (you don't need to know anything about kaf for this story whatsoever but you should check her out LMAO) and while musing over what pokemon would suit her best, it came to me.

FARIGIRAF IS JUST KAF'S FURSONA!! the monster teeth hoodie with the eyes. even has the dangly bits. like come on it's perfect. AND girafarig is obviously available in gen 3 so i could RM a kaf girafarig and then evolve her once i got to SV. Cool! Awesome! but here's the problem. I CAN'T SETTLE FOR JUST A NORMAL GIRAFARIG. I HAVE TO GO ALL OUT!!

i started brainstorming my ideal gen 3 kaf girafarig, and came to the following conclusions:

i obviously want the girafarig to be shiny. i mean come on

i want her to be a girl for obvious reasons, and gentle nature to match her personality. just because Armor Tail is better on Farigiraf i also want it to have girafarig's second ability, Early Bird. i'm not concerned with IVs because i think random IVs add flavor and that would add more tedium than i was already dealing with

i want her to be japanese language origin since kaf is a japanese singer (i can nickname her かふ that way too!)

i want the original trainer (OT) name to be PPさん (PP-san) in reference to the person who scouted out kaf's talent in the first place - he goes by Piedpiper online and my friends and i call him PP as a joke sometimes

i want the trainer ID to be 02018 because 2018 is kaf's debut year

since girafarig only spawns in gen 3 in the ruby/sapphire/emerald safari zone, i wanted to hatch a girafarig egg in firered/leafgreen for the kanto origin, which is impossible otherwise. FRLG are also really important games to me, leafgreen being the first pokemon game i ever owned or played, so that's a bonus

now you may be looking at this entire list and being like. What the fuck. how do you intend to shiny hunt girafarig with all of these hyperspecific parameters, especially in FRLG where the everstone passing nature doesn't exist and flame body doesn't even exist to hatch eggs faster. you will be doing that long after bank shuts down. and you're intending on doing this on original hardware too??? WELL. that's where ACE and RNG manipulation comes in babey. i am GOING to attempt to make this comprehensible even if you've never touched ACE or RNG manip in your life, even tangentially, but sorry if this is a bit of a mess it's pretty technical LOL. the rest of this post is going below a cut cause it Goes Places!!

ACE and RNG manipulation explained (kinda)

first off a quick overview of ACE, ACE stands for arbitrary code execution, which is the ability to run your own (arbitrary!) code within the game. this can be set up with a series of elaborate glitches, that break open the gen 3 pokemon games into letting you run your PC box names as code, enabling you to do pretty much anything you want. to be upfront, i'm not an expert on ACE - i understand it in an overarching conceptual sense and am able to follow ACE guides just fine, but i cannot write my own ACE code, which essentially requires you to know some GBA assembly. doesn't really matter for the purpose of this story though.

you can see an example of a tiny snippet of a larger ACE code with the PC box name below. it looks like gibberish but that's because every character used in the name corresponds to a specific internal value, which when all run together, is code!

i need ACE in FRLG because resetting for, or RNG manipulating (more on that in a moment), trainer ID (and secret ID, also more on that later) is pretty much impossible. ACE will allow me to change my TID to 02018 by essentially just telling the game to do so with my PC boxes. this requires me to set up ACE in emerald first since that's the only game with a viable entrypoint, and then use emerald ACE to make glitch pokemon that can activate ACE in FRLG when traded over.

as for RNG manipulation, that's a bit more straightforward, especially if you've ever watched a speedrun of... pretty much anything with random chance in it. games with random chance are not actually fully random because computers can't really be fully random, and in the older pokemon games with unencrypted and less advanced RNG (random number generator) algorithms, this is pretty easy to exploit.

this is a heavy simplification, but whenever you encounter a wild pokemon in RSE or FRLG, the amount of frames that have passed since the game was turned on are compared to a number that was generated upon boot, called the RNG seed. if you've ever played minecraft you can compare this to world seeds - the pokemon RNG seed determines all possible wild encounters in that play session in a similar fashion as minecraft determining the infinite terrain layout. this comparison determines every aspect of an encountered pokemon; its species, nature, IVs, and so on. so, if you were able to time your wild encounter (or any other type of pokemon encounter) down to the 1/60th of a second frame, you can get the game to spit out whatever pokemon you want at you! you just need a bit of typically invisible information first - the RNG seed, and if you're RNGing a shiny, your secret ID aka SID, which is like an invisible second trainer ID generated alongside your TID that is paired up with the TID and compared against any pokemon you encounter to determine if it should be shiny or not. both of these things can be figured out without hacking or tampering with games/save files.

the most common program used for all things RNG manipulation is called pokefinder and you can see an example of it spitting out what shinies are available on hoenn's first route in the first 100000 frames of the game being on with an RNG seed of 0 and my old TID/SID combo below. it's pretty damn cool to me tbh, i love RNG manipulation and i'm way more versed on it/experienced than i am with ACE

TLDR; rng manipulation is essentially a frame perfect, speedrunning-adjacent trick to get the game to roll the RNG in your favor, including for perfect IVs or shininess. for reasons that will become clear later, this is much easier to do in emerald than any other gen 3 game, so i will be using emerald for the RNG manipulation of the girafarig egg

with ALL of that context out of the way, this was the gameplan:

play through a fresh file of japanese firered (i don't own japanese leafgreen, RIP) all the way through the postgame to unlock trading with hoenn with the name PPさん, not worrying about TID for now. the guide i was following did not have a code for changing name with ACE in japanese FRLG specifically, so i figured playing the game again real quick would be a better alternative to trying to teach myself assembly in an afternoon LOL

set up ACE in my new emerald file i completed recently

use ACE in emerald to generate the glitch pokemon needed to run ACE in FRLG and trade them over. finalize the setup process over in FRLG too

look up possible gentle, ability 2, female, and shiny egg frames, and pick one that looks good to RNG manipulate in emerald, noting its PID (an encounter-specific ID number, pretty much)

figure out what SID, when combined with a TID of 02018, will cause that egg frame to be shiny - that way when the egg is traded over and hatched in firered, it will be shiny

do the RNG in emerald, trade over the to-be-shiny egg to firered, and hatch it after changing the TID/SID with ACE appropriately!! bam female, gentle, early bird, shiny, JP origin girafarig with an OT of PPさん and a visible TID of 02018. Pog!!

to execute that gameplan would take me an entire day, though...

step 1: play through firered

ok gonna be honest this is the ONE part of this entire process that i did not play on original hardware. i wanted to get to the Cool Parts of this process so i decided to play through firered on emulator. absolutely terrible picture sorry but i do actually own japanese firered, so i could dump the game legally to my computer to use speedup in mGBA with a little device called the Joey JR which connects the cart to my computer by USB like so

after that it was pretty much a relatively normal playthrough but obviously with emulator speedup. i used solely my starter blastoise to, well, blast through the rest of the game LMAO. after just a couple of hours or so i was right before the elite four, which i completed while in the car after moving the save file back to my cartridge with the same device, since i had to leave the house to go to a doctor appointment. i tried to take pictures of me beating the game but the sun was not doing the photos any favors lol. blastoise ended up being level 76 by the end. was easy with surf and an ice beam TM from the game corner (i just bought the coins)

unfortunately beating the game isn't the only requirement for trading with the hoenn games, so i also had to complete the whole sevii islands postgame quest... which required me to have 60 registered owned entries in the pokedex, which i wasn't really doing while speeding through the game initially, so i had a lot of mons to catch. i was still out of the house at this point (and playing at normal speed lol) so i wasn't really taking pictures, but i did make a stop at the power plant to look for an electabuzz despite it being an inefficient 5% since i needed a spare anyways for my leafgreen file unrelated to this story lmao. took a pic of it since it took a while to show up. anyway soon enough the dex had 60+ entries! i've played FRLG so many times that the encounter locations are memorized in my mind... i did all of this with no googling asdfkasfd

at this point i got home and was able to do the ruby/sapphire postgame quest on emulator with speedup again, so it was pretty easy. moved the save back to cart and i was done with step 1! obviously this didn't actually take me 21 hours of playtime, that was the emulator speedup's fault loool. from here on out i didn't touch any emulators again!

step 2: set up ACE in emerald

ACE time! i've actually set up ACE in an old emerald file before but i wanted to do it again fresh. i was following a guide pretty much to a T so i'm actually going to skip over the details of some of the steps since you can read about those more in depth over at the guide i was using if you want

TLDR; you have to trade for the NPC trade pokemon, DOTS the seedot and PLUSES the plusle, then EV train DOTS a specific way. these EV values cause DOTS to turn into a glitch pokemon egg 0x0611 when corrupted with the pomeg glitch (more on that in a bit), which, when hatched, runs the PC box names as code, aka ACE! why does it work? if you really want to know, there's plenty of stuff online about it, i'm not the best person to ask haha

it's worth noting that volbeat is really annoying to capture in emerald as it's literally only available as a 1% in one patch of grass, so i caught an illumise instead and bred them until a volbeat hatched lol. was much more efficient

also lol "Take good care of DOTS!" sorry i will be corrupting your son into demonspawn that lets me wield godlike control over your universe

after getting the necessary NPC trade pokemon all ready and moving them into a specific pattern in box 2 (i cloned them with the emerald tower cloning glitch) i had to perform the pomeg glitch. this involves using a pomeg berry to decrease a pokemon's health to 0 without causing a whiteout. this is achieved by getting a pokemon with at least 8 HP EVs to 1 HP and then using the pomeg berry on it, decreasing the EVs and taking off a point of health in the process (it's slightly more steps than this but whatever). i decided to use the camerupt i had during my playthrough of the game for this purpose. just took him to fiery path to get poisoned and walked until he was on 1 HP and healed him with an antidote lol

by doing the pomeg glitch and entering a wild battle, the game gets a bit confused since all the pokemon in your party are fainted and just sends out some sort of glitch decamark pokemon. in this situation, after viewing my camerupt's summary in battle and exiting back out of the summary screen, i was able to corrupt the DOTS and PLUSES sitting in my PC by scrolling up above the usual limit of the party menu, which reaches into data used by the first two PC boxes and fucks them up, ending up with, assuming that i EV trained correctly, a glitched egg that is about to hatch in a nest ball named DOTS with pokerus. this will run ACE when hatched! (if you want more info on this corruption pomeg stuff, check out the bulbapedia article for glitzer popping. yes that's what they named it)

step 3: use emerald ACE to set up firered ACE

so once again you can find a lot more detail on this process over at the guide i was using, but the TLDR of the matter was, i needed to put a bunch of codes into my PC box names to generate a few different glitch mons. specifically, i needed a egg that would hatch into a crobat (yes, fully evolved lol) with a singular glitched out move, that when used in battle in firered, would cause ACE to happen similar to how hatching the corrupted DOTS egg causes ACE to happen in emerald. i also needed a specific buggy shiny umbreon and a very strange glitchy egg.

even though this step was mostly a lot of tedious typing on the gen 3 keyboard (+ i had to redo things once because i made a typo at one point in the process LOL) it was so much fun! the game breaks in so many ways that you would just... never see during normal gameplay and it makes for some really good pictures and whatnot

first of all, when you hatch the 0x0611 egg, it hatches into a decamark of varying colors, in the case of the picture below it's almost imperceptible because the whole sprite is just a black circle, blending in with the background (sorry for the quality on this one, it's a screencap of a video clip i took).

additionally, trying to scroll over the hatched decamark in the PC or viewing its summary screen will crash the game, so to get rid of it, it has to be moved to the front of your party in the party menu, and then you go to the PC to release it through the deposit menu. since the cursor just defaults to the first position of the party and you don't have to scroll over to it, it's possible to release it from here.

oh yes and the umbreon/other glitch egg? similarly screwy - actually after generating them, their sprites are glitched out until you reset the game, so they look like this. behold their nonsense summaries:

after i had all i needed to trade to FRLG, i cloned an extra set of them with the emerald tower glitch again just in case i messed something up and got to trading! here's me receiving them on the firered side:

and last but not least, i'm a little obsessed with the way the glitch move looks in FRLG on the hatched crobat, absolute nonsense:

i finalized setting up the FRLG ACE (check out the guide i linked earlier for more info) and put everything into their proper positions, but before i could actually execute any code... i needed to know what SID i was going for!

step 4 + 5: look up potential egg frames in emerald and find an SID

soo now for looking at potential girafarig eggs. instead of using the program pokefinder which i mentioned earlier, i used a program called pokenav egg rng tool, which is exactly what it sounds like, a tool specialized for rng manipulating eggs with the pokenav in emerald. using it, i was quickly able to generate a whole list of gentle, female, ability 2 (early bird) eggs, and i picked one that was around 1300 frames in since that made for quick resetting attempts, but not so quick that i could barely make my inputs in time. the one i picked was frame 1381. with a TID of 02018, the PID D2C5EF55 would be shiny with an SID of 14962, so i noted that for later in firered. (i figured this out using an old program called RNG Reporter which is what i'm familiar with but i don't recommend using lmao. it's the "Pandora's Box" feature of that software though if you happen to look it up)

i won't make an entire guide on how to do emerald egg RNG here because it's a lot of steps, but i might at some point because the most up to date method isn't super well documented. anyways, here's a very paraphrased version of the process (this is also assuming that you aren't dealing with "redraws", which i wasn't... like i said very paraphrased):

get a pokemon with the ability lightningrod in the front of your party (i used electrike) to make pokenav calls happen more frequently, and a pokemon with flame body or magma armor (i used slugma) to make eggs hatch faster

get a male and a female of the pokemon you want to hatch, in my case girafarig. if you were RNGing IVs, the parent's IVs would be relevant, but i am not RNGing IVs so i didn't care and just caught the first girafarig i could in the safari zone

an egg is attempted to be generated every 255 steps after the parents are deposited in the daycare together, so by timing the usage of a max repel in such a way, it's easy to save the game exactly 10 steps before an egg is generated. do this

using a timer such as eontimer, soft reset and try to take that last 10th step on your target frame. this will also trigger a pokenav call (or lack thereof) and by looking for the phone call you got in the call column of the egg rng tool and whether or not an egg generated at the daycare, you can tell what frame you hit. didn't hit your target? just soft reset and try again, calibrating the timer for your own human error. this can take a while since the timing is precise to 1/60th of a second

once you hit your target frame, woohoo you did it just take the egg and hatch it! if you're RNGing IVs you would actually save before taking the egg and then RNG the IVs separately but that's a whole different thing i'm not explaining here since i wasn't RNGing IVs

i've avoided mentioning it this entire time till now, but emerald is particularly easy to do rng manipulation in because due to a programming error, the rng seed is always 0 - all encounters are predictable and you don't have to dedicate a frame perfect input to getting the right seed, making emerald rng a matter of one frame perfect input instead of two (there ARE ways to get emerald to generate a proper rng seed but that's unrelated here). additionally, its pokenav system means you can see if you got the right egg BEFORE taking it and hatching it... doing egg RNG in any other gen 3 game is basically a death sentence due to multiple untelegraphed frame perfect inputs that have to be executed in a row, plus really long wait times due to hatching eggs on a slower bike without flame body. there's a reason i was not doing this on four island in frlg.

but yeah now i knew what egg frame i was going for and was all prepared to do the RNG, so now it was onto actually executing it all:

step 6: getting kaf girafarig babey!!

before doing the RNG manipulation in emerald, i needed to change my SID and TID in firered finally! this required me to run two different codes, one for SID and one for TID. it was actually pretty painless since the code is nearly identical for both, you just swap out the values of each ID and one character changes in one box name to decide whether you're changing TID or SID. you can find the list of codes i was referencing here.

i was saving my one allotted video clip in this post for changing the TID with the glitched crobat move though because LMAO

^ shoutout to my qpp @/spikyearr for this one i fucking chokedSKFDDSFK

anyway, after doing that i went through the process of the egg rng in emerald (unfortunately no pictures because it's kind of hard to take pics mid-rng) and actually saved before taking the egg so that i'd be able to soft reset after hatching it - i just needed to check to make sure it was gentle and everything, and then i could soft reset, take the egg again, bike around to decrease the egg cycles in emerald since hatching in firered is super slow, and then trade it off before hatching it to go be hatched in firered. i knew it wouldn't be shiny in emerald, so i wasn't concerned with that. it only took 40 or so minutes of attempts before i got her!

and then AT LAST after spending my ENTIRE DAY ON THIS SHIT (like 10x the amount of time on the ACE stuff for the TID instead of the actual RNG itself LOOOL) i just had to trade the egg to firered and hatch it and i was golden!!!!! AAAGH here she is next to my kaf plushies!!!

also a picture of her summary screen after being traded to my english leafgreen!! i am assuming this will be easier to read for most of the people reading this post LOL

THAT'S IT. POST OVER THIS WAS SO LONG. IF YOU MADE IT THROUGH MY RAMBLING GOOD JOB. I HIT THE PHOTO LIMIT HELP ME

anyways yeah i'm gonna be ribbon mastering her and idk i might post about the process as i go. not immediately though i have a platinum playthrough to finish teehee. also if any of this was interesting to you i highly recommend trying out RNG manipulation, it's a really fun way to play pokemon games! gen 5, BW specifically and not their sequels, is REALLY beginner friendly for RNG manipulation as the timing is a lot less precise. check it out, there's plenty of guides online!!

#pokemon #pokemon rse #rse #pokemon frlg #frlg #rng manipulation #arbitrary code execution #girafarig #ribbon mastering #kiki was here #kiki.txt #long post #kiki plays games

[aloysiavirgata]

Thanks to @numinousmysteries for tagging me! I had never checked these stats before!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

92

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

484,620

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I’ve written for Hannibal, Battlestar Galactica, The Fall, and The X-Files, but only The X-Files at this point.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Parting Glass (smut)

Animus Possidendi (dark smut)

The Common Fate of All Things Rare (casefile, cowritten)

Lacuna (casefile)

This Her Fever (cancer arc)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes and no. Not like I should. I am so deeply, truly grateful for every single one.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Well, I killed William in Inhaling the Different Dawn, but that wasn’t at the end.

Maybe Where The Vines Cling Crimson? Scully’s cancer comes back and her fate is ambiguous. And I had Scully kill Emily in Alabaster Stones. But I think that was the right ending for both of them.

As a mother? A Basket of Reeds, where Scully gives William away. I can’t even reread it without a lump in my throat, man.

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

Tent of Shelter is fluffy and lovely gets a lot of love, and was inspired by a STUNNING manip by @avocadoave but I personally think In The Gale. It’s the one that, to me, feels the most like a grownup relationship of two people processing some trauma. I think that’s an ending that’s happy and also real - like “I don’t love being broken, but I can survive being broken with you.” Two abeyances that lean…

Foxfire for similar reasons. I real love that little story, which I wrote thanks to @perplexistan

I’m 43. I’ve been married for well over two decades and let me tell you that young love is a gift and mature love is a craft.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Some! And that’s really great too, that people read words I wrote and felt so passionately that they left me words about those feelings. What a strange but profound compliment!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do. PWP isn’t my personal taste so even though I wrote a LOT of smut for the old pornbattles at LJ I wanted the smut to still tell a story.

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

I can’t say it’s especially crazy, but Fern Hill is a Mulder/Stella Gibson crossover. There are a few little ficlets with XF/Silence of the Lambs crossovers in my Inbox Prompts series.

Oh fuck! Wait! I wrote a Fall/Hannibal/XF crossover called Anthemoessa where Stella, Scully, and Bedelia all meet. Okay that’s it. That wins.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Years ago. God, isn’t that sad? To need positive reinforcement that much?

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! It was SUCH a compliment!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I have - The Common Fate of All Things Rare

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Mr. Virgata and me. Followed by Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who literally invented the word. ❤️

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

The Fisher King

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I do pretty good banter and my education makes me pretty good at the sciencey bits.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I get too lost in descriptions and I try too hard to be clever. I do my best to self edit but sometimes I reread things and I’m like oh my GOD SHUT YOUR PRETENTIOUS ASS UP.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I’ve done it for Bedelia and Hannibal in Italian. I’m not sure I understand the question?

19. First fandom you wrote for?

TXF, my one true love.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I don’t know that I have a favorite per se. I am most proud of the ones that challenged me to do something outside my comfort zone. Samson is one of mytop fives even though it’s Mulder/Diana. I think I did a nice job. I also wrote Pair of Aces/Double or Nothing which is Scully/Byers.

But I do really love the world of Petrichor and Singing of Mount Abora, and I like the cases.

#tags #ao3 #writing memes

[onedirectionbigbang]

Hello, from the One Direction Big Bang, Round 7!

This year, our fic fest is running from Autumn 2023 to Spring 2024! We're so excited to be back for another year, and wanted to take a moment to explain what exactly a Big Bang is!

There's a whole Fanlore wiki you can read about the history of Big Bangs, but to quote their intro paragraph:

A Big Bang (or "Bang" for short) is a specific type of challenge usually involving long fics and accompanying artwork. This type of challenge is a reprise of the old zine tradition of collaboration between artists and writers for internet fandoms.

The original Big Bang took place in 2005 in the Drarry fandom, but Big Bangs can be found in so many fandoms (I started counting to say if it was tens or hundreds, but I lost track and gave up). It's truly a wonderful and multi-fandom-wide thing.

Fandom to fandom it varies how long they consider Big Bang fics should be, usually somewhere between 10k and 50k, and here at 1DBB we ask for a minimum of 25k. Over the years, we've seen amazing art created to accompany the fics, from digital and traditional illustration, to collages and abstract art, to manips and trailers.

If you would like to take a look through the treasure trove of previous Big Bangs, the master collection for the last seven rounds is located at New One Direction Big Bang on ao3. There are also five previous rounds hosted by a different collection of mods who retired, and that can be found at 1D Big Bang on ao3.

Or, if fic posts are more your style, you can go through the tag on our tumblr Big Bang Fic Post (you do get to see some beautiful art that way).

Now, it's that time of year again! Sign-ups start tomorrow for authors, artists and supporters! Any and all pairings encouraged as long as at least one main character is One Direction. We are excited to see what creations come of this year's fest!

#round 7 #hi i'm trying to be more Personable this year #I like being Professional On Main but maybe fandom these days likes Personable #tell me how i'm doing #and get hyped! #(please) #(respectfully)

[mybrainismelted]

Weekly Tag Wednesday - Valentines Day Edition

thanks for the tags @heymacy, @deedala, @creepkinginc, @heymrspatel, @energievie, @lingy910y, and @jrooc!

name: Kat 😽

where the heck are ya? Ontario, Canada

do you believe in love at first sight? hell no

do you believe in soulmates? it's a great fictional trope, but... no

what’s a song you’ve been loving?

how about a show you’ve been loving? Just finished Only Murders In the Building.

your ultimate OTP: Gallavich, always

your comfort book: I dunno if I have one. My comfort fic is Teenage Dirtbag

a fan work you adore (fic, art, manip, etc — tag the creator!):

a trope that captures your heart: ironically.... soulmates

favorite candy: nope, not gonna pick a favourite. Candy is my favourite

dark chocolate or white chocolate? white, but the actual good stuff, not the crap most places pass off as white chocolate

romance novels or thrillers? thrillers

pink or red? If I have to pick one, I suppose red

and finally, spread some love! share words of encouragement, a positive message, or say something kind to yourself — it’s up to you! ok, not feeling a lot of positivity these days, but... you guys rock. Truly. The Gallavich fandom is just so warm and fun, and welcoming, and encouraging. I 💖every one of you!

tagging in these fun folks to join in if you want to play! @krysmiss, @juliakayyy, @stocious, @transmickey, @dynamic-power, @spacerockwriting, @ian-galagher, @palepinkgoat, @jessieoneday, @rayrayor, @deathclassic, @gallabitch73, @vintagelacerosette, @francesrose3, and @sam-loves-seb

#tag game #weekly tag wednesday #Spotify

[butmakeitgayblog]

your tags on that princess lexa manip...crazy how the quality of everything in that show dipped in s3 like the writing, costume department, hairstyle, truly the only things worth it from then on was clexa and lindsey morgan's acting

Ya know what scene always drives me nuts every time I watch it?

This one 😒

They??? She??? Looks so good. I mean so fucking good in this scene. The lighting, the makeup, her mask, her lips, the little glow of her button nose. All on point.

And then you have this little fucker

This one stray, scraggly ass dooky lookin tendril left out to float in no man's land. How in God's fuckin name did no one catch this and fix it??? Why was this gd allowed to make the final shoot?? Its not like that in any other scene so fr who tf just screw it and let it go. It's hard to not be the only thing I can stare at every time 😒

And that's just how so much of season 3 was. Nonsensical plot choices and complete canon rewrites. Stupid costume choices and makeup decisions. Just... overall bad choices from top to bottom. Unreal

#anon

[londonfoginacup]

I know that every artist i follow has gone through this at some point, the popular artists many times! But god it does feel dirty getting a notification that someone has tagged you in an app and realizing that it’s because they’ve found your art posted somewhere without credit.

Like, not to be dramatic but my art is from my hands and my heart. And seeing it posted somewhere without any reference to me feels like someone taking an up close photo of me on the street and posting it with the caption “dunno who this is but nice figure”. Which, like, flattering? I’m a way? But also humiliating. You didn’t respect me enough to share my name with the world, just the product of my work.

I feel truly fucking thankful for everyone who does tag me when they find my art! You all are the real MVPs! I just don’t understand what possesses people to think that uncredited art is okay.

Like, I got the most viral tweet I’ve ever experienced with my little robot art yesterday, 1.5k likes!!! Incredible!!! And then found out someone had reposted it and that one was at 8k likes. That’s eight thousand people who will never know who I am.

Then, when the reposter finally acknowledged me, they asked what I’d like them to do. Which, it’s nice that they did, I suppose? But to put the burden back on me, the person who’s been stolen from, actually sort of sucks. Because the right answer is to delete theirs and retweet mine. That feels so obviously right to me. But to actually have to tell them that makes me feel demanding, like I’m going to be asking too much of them and am making such a big deal out of a piece that is truly so small. So much fan art was made for Satellite and mine was the least of many great pieces, it feels hard to advocate for something when I know so many better and more experienced artists in our fandom are dealing with the same situation on the daily.

And this is, unfortunately, a whiny post. I swear I will not be a bummer about this after this. I am just sad about the lack of respect and understanding about how much art really matters to the people who create it. These creations are my children.

Anyway, go give love to your fan artists. Your gif makers. Your edit and manip makers. They do so much and create such amazing pieces and deserve to be showered with joy and happiness.

#long post #fandom meta #I SWEAR I JUST HAD TO GET THAT OFF MY CHEST I DO NOT WANT TO BE A DOWNER ON THE DASH #it just sucks after everything on twitter yesterday to find it on TikTok today!

[sunbeamah]

If you don't mind me asking, can I ask your top 5 (or top 3) favorite characters from JJK? And why you loved them? And your top 5 favorite moments from the series? Sorry if you've answered this question before....Thanks....

I don't mind you asking at all!! Actually I'm very glad you asked! :) I love talking about jjk and I think I've annoyed everyone I talk to irl far too much about it at this point!

Oh and please put your top 5 favourite characters and scenes in the replies!! (That goes for anyone reading this as well-- I'm curious to see what everyone's is!)

MANGA SPOILERS (UP TO 255) BENEATH THE CUT!! (ALSO IT'S LONG AS HELL UNDER THERE!)

My favourite characters (you can all probably guess but I'm going to list them anyway!!)

Choso

Chances are, if a character is an eldest brother and has dark hair and eyes, he'll be my favourite! Dick Grayson, Uchiha Itachi, Portgas D Ace, Iida Tensei (favourite male chara based on vibe alone haha), Kamado Tanjirou, Mori ohshc (it's old ik ik but I was in love w him!).

But beyond that, I just adore Choso. His devotion to his brothers, his awesome use of blood manip, how intense he is and how tired he looks-- he's awesome!

2. Yuuji

Again completely unsurprising! I also tend to go for upbeat, spunky and happy characters as my favourites. He goes through so much, but still manages to maintain an iron resolve and hold onto others, and to create and protect special bonds with others. I truly admire this about his character-- and I hope he gets the happiness he deserves. If not, I'm always willing to write it for him hehe.

3. Maki

Maki is so cool to me, I enjoyed the chapter with her and that sumo guy so so much-- imo he was her first real mentor! (Sorry Gojo!) I love how relentlessly strong she is, how tough she's had to become and how, no matter what was happening, she held onto her own resolve. Everything she did being for Mai absolutely stole my heart.

4. Nobara

Nobara saying she "only has so many chairs for people in [her] life", vs seeing just how many chairs were there, waiting for her to find special people to fill them absolutely broke me when I saw it animated. I was legit crying. I love how assertive and aggressive she is, and how she's still a very sentimental and protective person. Her admiring Maki was so cute, I could never let those scenes go!

5. Sukuna

I have to give it to him, he's a great villain. I was skeptical about this at first-- I love Nanamin and Gojo and Miguel and Yuki and so many others so much! -- but looking through the screenshots of the manga I have, 70% of it is Sukuna. He's very attractive, so relentlessly evil and just so strong, too.

Now for my favourite scenes!! Sorry if this is way too much to read!

Red Scale

The entire episode. I've rewatched it so many times and screamed at all the same parts. I love the fighting, the animation, blood manipulation coming in clutch, the memories that don't exist-- everything! It's just such a fun episode to watch! And on top of that they're my two faves, of course I love it!!

2. Higuruma Hiromi saying "let's have a retrial"

Listen-- I don't know why, but something about that panel is SO attractive to me. I was screaming at his later scenes (I wanted Sukuna's head on a pike and his ass on the executioner's blade), but that early shot of him just refuses to leave my mind.

3. Maki sumoing with Miyo

IMO he was her first proper mentor, and I love the growth that we see in her, and the insight into her mental state since losing Mai. My heart broke for her in that scene, so getting to see something more personal of her, how she struggled with everything that had happened to her and all her responsibilities, and how she was able to overcome it by focusing on the present, on what she could and could not see-- rather than everything she had to do.

4. Yuuji, Nobara and Megumi going crazy at the end of s1

I will never get Megumi's crazy smile and laughter out of my head-- he let LOOSE!

Nobara's "game of chicken" had me giggling like mad, yelling at the screen, cheering, everything!

Yuuji and Nobara's black flashes cemented this scene pack for me-- I just love it! Their powerups, their growth in this short period and their teamwork! I love to see it hehe.

5. Todo's locket opening to reveal Yuuji and Takada-chan

Todo is so genuinely special to me. I have never seen a more delusional character, and I don't think I ever will. I've loved him since he asked Megumi what his type of woman is, and every time he's on screen I can't help but laugh. This scene in particular made me cry with laughter-- the whole episode I was clapping and cheering, mimicking his poses, texting incomprehensible messages to my friends. Todo is everything man.

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #sunbeamah #ask #jjk manga spoilers #jujutsu kaisen manga #jjk 255 #zenin maki #kugisaki nobara #itadori yuuji #choso #ryoumen sukuna #higuruma hiromi #sukuna #choso jjk #yuji itadori #nobara kugisaki #maki zenin #maki jjk #eso #kechizu #manga panels #mahito #thank you so much for sending this ask!!

[crestfallercanyon]

WEEKLY TAG WEDNESDAY

Thank you lovely people for tagging me! @energievie and @jrooc <3

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name: crest

where the heck are ya? on a US coastline

do you believe in love at first sight? Kind of. I think, if two people present themselves honestly, there can be kind of a soft landing of love at first sight. A lot more than we realize is processed by our minds at once, first impressions are very powerful. While I don't really believe one can get that kind of deep well of an everlasting sort of love right at sight, I think you can clock someone and be like "hey, you -- I know I'm going to like you, I want to get to know you," and that I think means something. Sometimes that impression leads somewhere and other times... well. That's life, eh?

do you believe in soulmates? Sort of? I feel like between this question and the last one I'm completely flipped compared to a lot of people lol -- but relationships take work, even someone who seems to understand you organically at every level, you can still let that link fade by neglect. Or even not neglect, you can experience and react to different stimuli and grow apart, especially if you go too long without kind of reconnecting. Like the last question, love at first sight will fizzle if you don't pursue it and try to make it work. Soulmates, to me, aren't written in the stars or whatever, they're not destiny -- they're made out of deciding that with this person, you're going to put in that work. And maybe someone will come around and say "well why do you pick that person? it's because it was fate," but I don't really believe that, because there's a lot of factors as to why, at least personally, I put in work with some people but not with others. There were opportunities to become close with very different people than who I am close with now, but I chose not to. I chose the people I did. It was my active choice. So, yeah, there's a very long winded answer on this little tag question game.

what’s a song you’ve been loving? Habits by Genevieve Stokes

how about a show you’ve been loving? You may have noticed the sudden constant reblogging of Dimension 20, but I've been really into Dropout's D&D campaigns I've watched thus far.

your ultimate OTP: That's a tricky question! I don't really -- I feel like this goes off my soulmate/lafs question but I think you can make anything pretty viable if you develop it right. Maybe Idgie and Ruth from Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)? And actually, probably Gallavich (Ian Gallagher and Mickey Milkovich) from Shameless, because they always come back to each other, and there's something so lovely about that -- and I can't picture either of them truly with someone else.

your comfort book: Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. I haven't read it in a very long time, but I read it so many times when I was a kid that -- it was my teacher's copy -- she just let me have it before I went to the next levels of school.

a fan work you adore (fic, art, manip, etc — tag the creator!): I loved makes a cathedral, him pressing against me by misandrywitch (Shameless (US)) and I also love all I want of the world, coming down by gyzym (Inception (2010)). (I do not know their tumblrs so I can't link them, but I can link to the stories!)

a trope that captures your heart: not really a trope but fanfiction and tumblr have kind of made it into one: "It's rotten work." "not to me, not if it's you," dynamics.

favorite candy: pomegranate filled dark chocolate

dark chocolate or white chocolate? dark. 100%.

romance novels or thrillers? I read lots of things that are thrilling and have romance, but I actually don't really read either of these genres on their own. Probably lean more toward romance novels?

pink or red? I like both. I own more red clothes. I only have one pink shirt.

and finally, spread some love! share words of encouragement, a positive message, or say something kind to yourself — it’s up to you! Happy valentines! Um, it truly is never too late to try. Really. Try that hobby that, yeah, you're going to start off being absolute shit at, but it's still worth trying if it interests you. I'm going to a figure drawing class tonight, and I'm likely going to be absolute trash at it, but that's my valentine's treat to myself. Or, you can try to fix a tattered relationship, you can try to mend it if you want -- I can't guarantee trying will fix it, but you will have tried, and that matters. Even if it's just trying the smallest thing, or an internal thing. It takes a lot of work to try, and I'm rooting for you if the thing you're trying hardest on is just trying to feel better about yourself. And you're never alone if you're trying! Everyone has tried something. Everyone can rejoice in the successful results from a good ol' college try, or they can sympathize with the failure of a try that didn't lead to anything, everyone has been part of that experience, so hopefully that's encouraging if nothing else. <3

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Tagging, um, I think most people have been tagged, but here are a couple: @callivich , @michellemisfit , @mmmichyyy, and anyone else who would like to join!

#tag games #weekly tag wednesday #thanks for the tag!! #gosh long winded this valentines #Spotify

[innerlmnt]

an overview of my 2023.

Around this time last year, I wrote up a Twitter thread about the things that were highlights of the year for me. I'd like to round them up for this year too.

I started the year with the shitty news in January that Inside Job got canned. I was the first to break the news from Shion Takeuchi to the show's wiki and made a little image manip to vent my frustration with Netflix. it got a bunch of likes.

in 2023, I turned the age from that one vine

I turned 9+10 years old, and I'm still feeling the knocks of adulthood hitting hard.

I made a bunch of posters that I'm stupid proud of

I designed a bunch of logos I'm stupid proud of

EDIT: pretend you didn't see the Sparkle On, Raven Wiki logo that is actually from 2022, my bad

I posted three fandom edits to YouTube that I'm stupid proud of, although I wish it had been more

at least one of those is for Childhood Creativity Studios, the MEP studio that I joined in April, which I need to finish a bunch of MEP parts for, oof

I helped out in Well Abridge Me, Princess!, and even put together the opening credits for its first six episodes (part 1!!)

still has a bunch of mistakes but I love it nonetheless

hah, they're upside down

the @realtimefanduboutofcontext account from Twitter moved to Tumblr in December 2022 to escape the clutches of Elon Musk (eventually I decided to simulpost) and it pulled in 500 followers in a year's time!

the Twitter account reached 5000 followers in April, which is unprecedented

and finally, probably one of my biggest highlights this year: I joined Team Neutron to edit the lyric video for "Only One Way", a video which has since hit 169k views!! (INSANE!!!)

Through this video, I actually learned more about how After Effects works. I've also become a very proficient Premiere Pro editor in the meantime.

I've had a couple of small victories in private as well, forged some friendships along the way, and if you're reading this, you know who you are.

Overall, this year has had some ups and downs, but while I'd like to be able to grow into some larger projects of my own, this is currently a good spot to be in. Thank you for your wonderful support, viewers and friends alike. It's deeply appreciated and it means the world to me.

let's hope next year becomes something truly meaningful.

also, if you've scrolled this far, consider educating yourself on how you can help fight against the genocidal propaganda of Isnotreal, so that Palestinians can finally get their ceasefire now.

#innermonologue #year in review #long post

[otp-holic]

I don’t think it’s a coincidence these came together. I can see the husbands on an undercover mission AU in which neither of them knew the other was gonna be there.

Or any kind of AU, really.

#stucky #kind of #things that go well together #chris evans #sebastian stan #Stucky au #headcanon by yours truly #manip by yours truly #because I added blue to his eyes #I couldn’t help myself

[ksspringfever]

Prompting is in full swing, and so is the creation phase!

It’s only Jan 15th, and we already have 103 prompts!!! Yes, you read that correctly: 1 0 3 – and they are truly wonderful, whether you prefer to create smut or indulge in episode-style plot, or character studies or AUs or or or... Check them out here: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/KS_SpringFever2023/requests

Here’s your reminder that you can still submit (or edit) your prompts till 31 January 2023!

The collection is already open to posting, so claim your faves and start creating. Submitted works will, of course, stay unrevealed until we go live on March 22nd.

You can fill as many prompts as you want, even the same one multiple times, and even your own. Each prompt can be filled multiple times, and we explicitly WELCOME NON-WRITTEN FANWORKS. Art, vids, podfic, manips, cake art, 3D-objects, textile art etc. If a prompt inspires you to create something, go post it to the collection, please! As long as Kirk and Spock are the focus and as long as you do not violate a prompter’s DNWs, you can go wild. You can find all rules and FAQs on our AO3 collection profile and on Dreamwidth (public, no DW account necessary). And if you have questions, do get in touch with us, please: DW message, Tumblr Ask, or by email: [email protected] Schedule for 2023:

Sign-ups and prompt posts: Jan 1 - Jan 31 Prompt claims and creation period: Jan 1 - March 10 Works due: March 10 Works revealed: March 22 Creators revealed: March 26

The time for all these steps is: 12:01 AM UTC.

#k/s spring fever #K/S DAY #spirk #Kirk x Spock #SPACE HUSBANDS #star trek

[naileadevoras]

* — 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 @pcrtrait !

may all your birthday wishes come true ! ( even the illegal ones )

oh my gosh , i can't believe it's renee day today !!! happiest birthday to you the loml , my braincell twin , my bff , my one & onli ૮₍ ˃ ⤙ ˂ ₎ა ! i hope you have the best day ever today because you truly deserve it <3 i am so happy we crossed paths 3-4 years ago on this hellsite we call tumblr . you're such an amazing & hard working human being ! plus , a very talented writer ♡ i love how you can listen to all the dumb rambles i have . i swear , we just match each others insane & crazy ( maybe even sometimes delusional ) thoughts . timezones are wild & even though we live a thousand miles away from each other , i still feel like you literally just live ten minutes away from me . & i love how sometimes , when life gets busy or we forget to respond to each others messages , we can always just hit each other up & it'll feel like zero time has passed . i have soooo many fond memories of our friendship ♡ from plotting on tumblr , to making pinterest boards , gushing about our wbotm , creating spotify playlists , & more ! i hope we can create more memz together * cough * australia and japan next with medusa & chewie ? also , pls tell me everything that happened on your birthday ( idk when you're gonna see this bc you're probably asleep right now . ) enjoy your night , bestie ! hope you get all the gifts you want , eat all the yummy cake and food , & drink all the boba / starbucks u want because it's what you deserve ♡ p.s , here's a manip of our bbs that i made but forgot to add it to the main graphic bc i'm dumb 💀

again , happiest birthday to you renee ! i looooove u soooo very much . mwah mwah kith kith smooch smooch <33

#braincell twin #BIRTHDAY POST LETSGOOO #IM SO@EXCITED FOR U #TIME TO CELEBRATE !! #i was gonna add bad bunny too but my brain forgot </3

[joy-drops]

the sinking feeling in my chest is back reminding me, frustratingly, that I'm alive.

the things I desire seem impossibly far away. To the point i can only think they're unreasonable to want in the first place. Like I should be guilty for having such insatiable desire...

but im not too sure about that either. Is there anything truly wrong for desiring connection and intimacy in an emotional, physical, and spiritual sense?

Why does it feel so complicated. I feel abnormal for having the attraction I do

Worst part is I've had these feelings festering so long I've over intellectualized them. I don't even know WHAT to think about all this anymore

This is what going your entire life with barely any physical affection does to you I guess. I see anything romantically or sexually intimate and I'm filled to the brim with envy. I don't hate anyone who has that which I don't but it's hard to feel anything outside of yearning.

Is it really so selfish to want my needs fulfilled?

I'd never feel entitled to it from anyone under any circumstances. Id rather die than pressure somebody to be my puppet and fulfill my needs.

I look back at a time when I was a disgusting manipator and get nauseous at even the implication of such things.

Without mutual trust, compassion, and respect all desire for a deep intimate bond is lost. To me these things cannot exist in a vacuum.

I feel like I've made so much progress and gotten this wonderful buffet of love ready but nobody to enjoy it with. Heartbreaking to say the least.... do I be disappointed in my self for lacking in some area or missing a key flaw in my ideology? Is there some secret answer to resolve this struggle? I wish it were so easy and I wish I had the energy to keep giving it my all.

I feel like I'm at the end of my rope. I've been hanging on for dear life in this void of loneliness

I'm grateful to those who have given me any love. I truly don't feel like I deserve it because despite everything I receive I just want more. It's like all I do is want. At the very least I'm proud I'm past the point of wanting so bad I'll disrespect boundaries to get it. Honestly there's nothing more important than said boundaries because it's the crux of respecting one another.

I'm definitely going in loops now. I'm not sure where else to go really.

#long vent #my bs #weh

[homosociallyyours]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ME! GAN! I got lost in the sauce of manips, and I figured this could be a good gift for you...hope you're having a fabulous weekend!!

OMFG not my favorite ot3?!?!?!!!

Thank you for this and for all the joy and delight you bring me constantly!

And truly, this image makes me want a fic where Taylor played matchmaker for Louis and Harry (featuring pop punk solo artist louis and pop-country crossover mega star taylor as besties and harry as the boyband guy she's publicly dating who WILL NOT stop talking about his crush on louis-- not knowing he's good friends with taylor)

WAIT HOLD ON i wrote a lil thing

Taylor watched Harry for a moment as he stared down at his phone, engrossed in whatever he was looking at-- and listening to, possibly, since he had a single earbud dangling from his ear. She wasn't surprised he was ignoring her; from his perspective they likely didn't have much in common. Their PR romance was being done for a complicated tangle of reasons, from covering for her on and off romance with Dianna and Harry's own dalliances with men to possible musical collaborations and crossovers, depending on how things went with the public, but as far as Taylor knew Harry was likely unaware of most of what was happening on Taylor's end. She'd been doing this a lot longer.

"Is this your first PR thing?" Taylor asked, kicking at his seat when he ignored her.

"Huh?" Harry at least had the decency to look genuinely apologetic. He seemed like a sweet kid. She repeated her question, and Harry shrugged back at her. "Pretty much? Didn't have a lot of pap walks with the last one." He shoved his earbud back in his ear, and Taylor sighed, moving from her seat across from him into the one next to him. He turned to look at her, affronted.

"What are you listening to?"

"Oh-- you wouldn't have heard of him, probably," Harry said, turning his phone screen toward Taylor. She bit back a laugh at what she saw.

"Louis? I've heard of him," she said, genuinely amused that her image was well managed enough that Harry didn't realize she was a hopelessly emo punk weirdo at heart.

Harry pulled his earbud out, studying her carefully. "No shit? What's your favorite song of his?" The way he said it, so overly casual, Taylor could tell it was a test.

"Written All Over Your Face" is one of my favorites off the new album, but "Paradise" is the most underrated." She almost laughed at the genuine shock on Harry's face, and wondered for a second if it was worth mentioning that she'd actually been in the room when Louis was working on one of those songs.

"He's gay, you know," Harry said, narrowing his eyes slightly as if waiting for her to recoil in disgust. She had to force herself not to roll her eyes.

"Yeah, I know," she said, pausing for a moment to make sure that Harry wasn't just pulling her leg. "I am too, you know?"

Harry's jaw dropped. "No shit?!"

"No shit," Taylor said with a shrug.

"Me too!" His excitement was kind of adorable, at least.

"No shit," Taylor said, nodding to signal that this was not, in fact, news to her. At least Harry had the decency to blush about it.

From there, he pulled his earbuds out and spent the rest of their flight talking her ear off about being young and closeted in the industry and-- much to her amusement --about his long-standing, deeply held, and intense crush on none other than her best friend Louis Tomlinson.

She was glad she hadn't mentioned how well she knew him, because if she had then Harry probably wouldn't have shared quite so much. But given that he had, two things were clear: he was absolutely the kind of guy Louis would fall for, hard, and getting the two of them together was going to be very, very entertaining.

#1d #my birthday #stick this in the wip folder i guess #wait actually i'm gonna send this to lauren too For Reasons

[toomuchracket]

helloooo

don't know if you saw the tik tok of baby's gender reveal of Michael Clifford (https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2CwQEsM/) - I'm not even a fan of genders revel lol - but I think this have such a d word matty energy like he IS a girl's dad

oh my god how are we in a world where five seconds of summer are having BABIES i feel so old i am going to throw up. they said "life's a tangled web" and they were right. also i just remembered being like 13 and making a manip of myself and luke with his lip ring. horrid!! cringe!! but he should bring it back. and also username luke_is_a_penguin. and calum hood!! truly my second favourite semi-scottish bassist in a 4-piece band. anyway, nostalgia aside, yes, matty radiates girl dad energy. and while i think he'd be loath to do a gender reveal (valid tbh they seem stressy), there would absolutely be some kind of bet between your friends about whether or not you're having a boy or girl. actually, i think your friends would make guesses and bet on everything to do with the baby: their weight at birth, their birthday, eye colour, hair colour, whether they look more like you or matty, even their name... the image of ross looking annoyed while handing twenty quid to a smirking charli because her bet on baby's eye colour was right is absolutely sending me lmao <3

#mads answers asks #matty asks #chatty bits #fluff asks #literal d word