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kzlove · 3 months

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handle you

syn -> eren proves that he can handle you.

warnings : smut, squirting, creampie, thick black reader, weed and alcohol usage, unprotected sex, spit, not proofread; just nasty

you were laying in bed with your led lights on, tv playing music softly from its speakers.

frank ocean, flo mili, sza, steve lacy, kali uchis, and whoever fit their way into the mood.

it was definitely past twelve o clock now, but you didn't feel even a bit of tired.

you take a couple pictures and post it on instagram, labeling it as 'bored' before posting.

you see a lot of your homegirls like it immediately, but of course they all was doing something.

sasha had a class to go to in the morning, annie was exhausted from work, pieck was with her boyfriend.

the only person that didn't heart it was mikasa, and that was probably because she was with her boyfriend too.

you drop your phone down and roll your eyes, deciding to begin working on your assignment due next week.

but you don't have to mess with it for long.

your phone buzzes next to you, gaining your attention from the laptop. an instagram notification.

onyandrift replied to your story : smoke sesh? wtw

you roll your eyes, recognizing the username as your boy best friend.

the two of you use to kick it with each other all the time, and even spent a few nights at his house over the summer in high school.

but you fell off, cause eventually he got a girlfriend and started to stream games and a bunch of other nonsense.

around that same time, you started focusing more on yourself.

loveyn : lame booooo loveyn : ion got weed to share w u

onyandrift : girl you nvr do onyandrift : i'm providing onyandrift : come kick it w me n a few of my hbs

loveyn : uhm loveyn : you think i wanna be around bare niggas tn??

onyandrift : stop yappin and get dressed im omw

you roll your eyes at the text and sigh, checking the weather.

it wasn't gonna be too cold, so you settled for this and grabbed your phone charger and lip gloss.

onyankopon doesn't live far, so it doesn't surprise you when you hear his audi a6 make that annoying popping noise outside your house.

you groan in annoyance and grab a water bottle before stepping outside, immediately walking to the car.

"why the fuck you still got that shit bruh?" you complain, climbing into the front seat.

he had on his essentials hoodie and black sweatshorts, grey yeezy slides on and a velvet durag.

he shoots you a grin before he takes takes your things and puts it in the backseat like he always did.

during your senior year, he had you sit outside with him in the hot ass sun while he put something on his car to make it noisy as hell.

he did explain what it was, but it wasn't like you really cared so you ignored him.

you didn't expect him to still have it though.

"who all gon be up in there ony?" you ask once he makes it to the stop light.

onyankopon sits back in his seat and things, rubbing the stubble on his face in fake thought.

"don't know." he fakes, before driving off when the light turns green.

you groan in annoyance, fixing your hair and at least making sure you looked good.

when you make it, he grabs your things and tells you to head to the backyard where everyone else is.

you follow his instructions, grumbling about how he had better sprayed all the mosquitos.

everyone was back there like he said they were.

it was armin, jean, mikasa, onyan's girlfriend zara, and some guy you don't recall ever seeing.

"hey girl! come sit!" mikasa grins, swinging her legs off jean and patting the seat beside her.

it happened to be between her and the random guy.

he didn't pick his head up to greet you or even look at you, tapping away at his phone.

'rude ass' you thought to yourself, sitting next to mikasa with a bit of a stank face.

she follows your view, and sighs, leaning back. "don't mind him. he just don't wanna be outside." mikasa reassures.

you roll your eyes and fix yourself, saying hi to everyone else.

onyankopon joins you all in the back with all the spliffs he had rolled after hitting everyone up.

sooner or later, lost by frank ocean was playing lowly on the speaker and you were all on your third spliff.

"this would be so much better if we had drinks." mikasa complained, leaning back onto jean.

he ignores her, because everyone knows how nasty she gets when she's drunk and high.

"fuck that. some fucking food would be amazing." armin huffed out smoke, handing the spliff over to zara.

everyone groaned in agreement, and you were the only one to get up with a hum.

you don't miss the way a pair of eyes trace your body as you stretch and fix your pants.

"finna go find sum in the kitchen for us to eat." you grumble, venturing into the house.

you close the screen door behind you and look through his cabinets with a frown, fixing your hair out of your face.

the sliding door to the backyard slides open and closed, making you turn to the sound.

it was the silent guy, eren, you learned his name was.

and now you could see him in proper light.

he wore a grey hoodie and a pair of baggy sweats, long hair pulled into a up and down.

you had to admit that he was fine, his wife beater seeming tight around his chest.

and green eyes staring you the fuck down.

"can i help you?" you question rudely, turning back to the fruit snacks in the pantry.

"maybe you can." he responds, and you hear him approach you.

now you know your position could be taken as anything but innocent, bent over inside a pantry.

you stand up straight and face him, looking him up and down. you weren't know easy bitch, and you won't be treated as such.

"you can't handle me." you complain, pulling your phone out and grab the whole box of fruit snacks.

he takes the box from you and puts it on the counter, smirking just a little bit at you.

"you don't think so?" eren questions, tilting his head teasingly.

you scoff, jabbing your nail into his chest harshly until he backed up.

"trust me, baby. i know." you grab the fruit snacks up and join everyone else.

"nah don't run now. thought i couldn't handle you?" eren grinned down at you cockily.

you were bent over onyankopon's guest bed, back arched and face smushed into the sheets.

one thing is for certain, you shouldn't have picked up that fucking cup.

mikasa brought out the liquor and poured everyone a cup.

which led to everyone spending the night at ony's house and crashing in every room.

mikasa and jean took the game room in the basement, ony and zara obviously took his room, while armin crashed on the long L shaped couch with eren.

or well, he should've.

you couldn't stop teasing him in that stupid fucking graphic tee ony lent you for the night.

which led you here, under eren's strong hold and getting your pussy pounded something serious.

"ooouu why you fucking me like this?" you whine out a bit too loud, reaching back to press on his stomach.

but eren shut that down immediately, slapping your hand away and stuffing all eight inches in your gut.

"all fucking talk." eren grumbles to himself, angling his hips upwards and fucking you even harder.

at this angle, his fat tip was slamming right into your g-spot.

your jaw goes slack in a silent scream as you push your ass back onto him, holding onto the pillow.

eren grins over you, slapping the flesh connecting your waist to your thighs.

"good girl.. take this fucking dick." eren grunts out, obsessed with the way your ass ricocheted off his abs.

"wait wait wait! m'gonna make a mess!" you pleaded with him, grabbing his strong arms.

hearing that only made him speed up, staring directly at your pussy as it clenched around him.

you screamed into the pillow, squirting harshly onto the sheets beneath you.

eren pulls out to watch, catching his breath and clapping your ass cheeks together.

when you catch your breath, you turn your head to figure out why he was so quiet behind you.

he stared back at you, before chuckling lightly. "onyankopon is gonna fuck us up." he joked, flipping you onto your back.

you rolled your eyes and get comfortable, staring at him from behind your lashes.

"not us. you. i told you i'd make a mess." you shoot back, letting him lift your legs up.

"uh huh. sure." eren says, not even listening to you as he pushes right back inside of you.

in this position, he reaches deeper inside of you and it makes you whine again.

you can't even think of a remark to say back, because his pace picks up once more.

eren wraps his hand around your throat and leans in, spitting in your mouth.

you accept it gratefully, swallowing and pulling him down to kiss him.

eren groans into the kiss, rutting into harder and rubbing your clit in rough circles.

you moan out, arching your back and grabbing his hand.

"fuck.. gonna make me nut in this pussy." eren groans out, moving his hand off your throat and kissing just below your ear.

you squeeze your eyes shut at the pleasure, bucking your hips weakly into him.

what he says doesn't register in your brain, your head going foggy as all you could focus on was how good he was fucking you.

eren starts to mumble something you don't hear clearly, bucking into you wildly.

you cum around him again, locking your knees behind him and digging your nails into his back.

eren groans in your ear, hips stuttering as he shoots thick, hot ropes into your sensitive pussy.

you flinch and whine lightly at the feeling, playing with his hair.

the two of you lay in your combined juices, still coming down from your highs.

eventually, eren turns his head to face you and grins.

"i gotta buy you a plan b?" he questions, rubbing your thigh in slow circles to get your full attention.

you shake your head and close your eyes. "i'm on birth control." you inform, taking a look at your nails.

"you gotta pay for my lashes and nails tho. got me fucked up." you grumble, looking at your broken index nail and missing pinky.

eren laughs at that, pulling out and climbing off the bed to pull his boxers back on.

"can't handle you my ass. don't ever let me hear you say that shit again girl." eren teases, helping you off the bed.

loud knocks make the two of you freeze, grabbing the sheets to cover your still naked.

a loud voice rings out from behind, making you remember exactly where you two were.

"aye make sure yall niggas clean up and take that fucking sheet home! got me fucked up, fucking in my house like that!" onyankopon complains, before walking off.

eren looks back at you with a grin, before slapping the fat of your thigh playfully.

he's never letting you stay over again.

#aot fanfiction #attack on titan #aot fluff #shingeki no kyojin #eren yeager #eren x reader #eren x black fem!reader #kz-loves-you #eren jeager #eren jaeger x reader #eren aot #eren jaeger #eren jaeger x black reader #eren x black reader #eren x black y/n

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satoriberry · 8 months

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"there's no ink." "yer kinda cute." - karasu tabito

★ resume: you need to make photocopies of a correction sheet for all 35 of your classmates. also, karasu can't use printers.

★ heads up: karasu is potentially ooc but imo he acts the way he does when it comes to football outside of bllk he's CRINGE BOOOOO, reader has hair that can be tucked behind her ear so it can be short or long yknow and uhhh nothing else ig, maybe just karasu being cringe but what's new. also reader is so fucking sick and tired of people in this so she's a bit rude but its justified :3

★ berry's note: oh wow im WRITING!! [😱😱] n e way, i hate this guy a lot and i cant imagine him excelling at using a printer by himself, so time to make a cutesy scenario out of it where he makes a fool of himself!!! enjoy!! :3

maybe it was because of the big, fat, red "57" that was surely an adequate and representative grade for your work - and not just your geography teacher being a bitch - but for some arbitrary reason, an itch developed in the back of your brain and made you feel a bit less tolerant of stupidity. at least until you get back home and sleep like a comatose patient.

you felt a slight comfort in knowing that even the self-proclaimed class genius got a gut-wrenching 60 on the same test, which isn't the nicest way of finding inner peace, but who cares? besides, geography is for losers who want to make statistics about the declining birth rate, and you couldn't care less about women giving birth to less and less children with each passing decade. strutting down the empty hallway, you gripped the sheet containing the answers to the questions with a bit too much intensity and aggression, slightly creasing it in your hand but you had bigger things to worry about. the printer room.

the godforsaken printer room - that served as the only motive to still keep hallway number 4 of the third floor accessible - possessed a myriad of faults and problems, the worst one being that they rarely kept the ink fresh; 'they' being the student body whose only involvement was that. keeping the ink fresh. they didn't even have to buy it, their only job was checking the printer's ink every 4 to 5 days and replace the cartridge if needed so. but, suprisingly (considering how competent they usually are), no one was bothered enough to accomplish this single task. nevertheless, it seemed that you weren't the student to first stumble upon this inconvenience today. the door to the printer room was slightly ajar and the lights were clearly on, so someone had to be in there.

taking the final steps, you lightly pushed the door all way to the end and gazed upon the wall where the (shitty) printers sat on an alignment of old desks. there was someone, you knew that already, but that someone seemed a bit familiar.

oh. it's that super soccer guy from bambi osaka. kawaru tamiko.

or at least you thought that was his name. you weren't good with names.

he was leaning forward against a table carrying an old canon®, tilting it forward with a grip on either side, and his hair flattened against the wall. almost like a person checking the label on the back of a cargo box that was too heavy to move. he was probably trying to look at the wires in the back, there was no other explanation for such an awkward posture.

it took him a few seconds to notice your presence, partly because he was so engrossed in the printer, and partly because you didn't care enough to say a word and instead opted for standing awkwardly with a hand on the doorframe. he turned his head towards you a first time and immediately went back to the printer before rapidly turning his head towards you again, this time fully absorbing your existence. kawaru abruptly let go of the table, producing a loud noise as it hit the wall, making you slightly wince at the idea of an even more damaged printer. you walked towards him.

running two fingers on the dust coating the surface of the printer, you lazily muttered, "it's not working, is it?", expecting nothing less from junk that was probably in use from before the fall of the soviet union. he had stood up straight and begun to awkwardly swing his arms back and forth, a clear attempt at de-stressing. "err, no, pretty sure there's a wirin' problem," he answered, though you were moreso talking to yourself than him, but that didn't matter.

"and uhh, this button right here hasn' stopped flashin' ever since i turned the thing on. prob'ly needs a technician," he continued, forcing a more assertive tone towards the end. you asked him to show you what button he was talking about, so he eagerly pointed at a flashing button located on the left side control panel of the printer. a button that had the image of an opaque drop on it. a button that had the faded word "ink" written underneath it.

the printer was working fine. it just needed ink.

and he thought it was broken.

you stood there in silence, physically and mentally unable to comprehend how someone can miss such an obvious clue. you didn't take your eyes off the flashing button, breathing quietly, trying your best to not lash out on kawaru. you noticed a frizzy lock of hair sticking out from your head and proceeded to tuck it behind your ear, then put your hand over your mouth in an attempt to hide your frustration, eyes still on the flashing button.

karasu, on the other hand, was waiting next to you, though his eyes were moreso fixated on you than the printer. did he know you? he didn't think so, but you seemed like someone he can find interest in, definitely the thinker kind since you appeared to be pondering a solution to this ordeal in a rather sophisticated manner. other questions flowed through his mind: what class were you in? were you a 3rd year? were you in the advanced course? did you have any mutual friends? did you do any extracurriculars? did you like soccer? have you ever been to one of his matches? he couldn't stop the flow of possiblities as to how to get to know you.

"there's no ink." "yer kinda cute."

you slowly turned your head to face him, body stiff and unmoving. he realized how outlandish the comment he just made was, and possibly inappropriate considering the circumstance.

"huh?" "what?"

you blinked at him with gradually developing bewilderment, fully certain that you heard what you heard but that didn't change the fact that you weren't awaiting that from him.

and sadly, you couldn't say that it displeased you. the opposite actually.

"i err, i...anyway, you said ink? there's a few cartridges in the desk's cubby. whaddya need? black? magenta? cyan? yellow?", he started to speak again at a fast pace, wanting to get done with this interaction and dwell in sorrow from his incapacity to talk to cute girls. "black's fine," you answered, looking away to make it less embarrassing from him. he dug in the cubby for a moment, hand banging the sides of the metal compartment before he got hold of a blocky object. he read the cartridge's sticker and made sure it was black ink before standing up again.

you expected him to press the button that dislodged the upper half of the machine and replace the cartridge, however, he stood quietly, fiddling with it while nervously looking at and away from you multiple times. oh. he doesn't know how to replace ink. exhaling through your nostrils, you stuck out your hand, wordlessly demanding him to hand it over - an order he prompty followed.

karasu felt you snatch the cartridge before he could even fully place it on your palm, making him feel even more guilty for wasting your time. he watched as you effortlessly pressed a series of buttons, took out things, replaced things and before he knew it, you snapped the top of the printer back on, which caused the flashing button to stop doing so. was he a loser or were you just a printer connoisseur? he didn't care enough to think of an answer though, he was once again focused on subtly seducing you and make you notice his more pleasant qualities.

you chose to ignore him for the rest of your stay in the printer room, procuring 35 copies of the sheet and preparing to leave when you felt a hand (his hand) lightly tap you on your back.

"yes?," you said, though you recognize you could have said it with a bit less bluntness in your voice. he took no notice of this however, and asked, "what's yer name? i think we've met before."

"(last name) (first name). no, we've never met, or at least i don't think we did," you replied before staring at him with more attention than before, noticing a few details about him that you missed. for example, the mole on his upper left cheek, or the weird angle at which his hair was styled. what kind of fucking product would you need for that?

"ah, hahaha, my bad, i was prob'ly thinkin' of someone else. umm, i...i meant what i said earlier," he mumbled his words more and more. you raised an eyebrow, not getting what he meant by 'what i said earlier', before remembering that he had called you cute. oh, right. that happened.

you involuntarily flashed a face of understanding, then lowered your head to bite your cheek. you didn't want to look like a loser while trying to hide your smile, a smile you rarely gave to guys with bad flirting skills, albeit this one was of the more good-looking variety so you can superficially excuse his lack of skills. "thanks, that was very sweet. i wasn't expecting it but it's still sweet. thank you."

"i can help ya' carry those papers to your classroom, that looks a bit heavy-"

"it's fine, really. but i do have a question. what's your name?"

his expression changed from nervous suaveness to a giddy grin, feeling honoured that you were interested in his name. "karasu tabito. i play for the local youth team, bambi osaka. you didn't ask fer that but, y'know...," ah. that was his name. karasu tabito. kawaru sounded a bit too childish for a guy like him.

"karasu tabito. yeah, i've seen you play. you're fun to watch." you tried to lighten the mood a bit cause the boy was seconds away from developing a rash if he kept scratching his neck like that.

"fun to watch? me? oh, thanks. i've been called a 'good player' and 'excellent' even, but 'fun', i've never gotten that before. w-whaddya mean by that though? what's fun, my playstyle or my presence or-,"

you couldn't afford wasting any more time than you already have, so cutting him off, you replied, "fun as in watching you in your element is rather entertaining, i don't do much sport outside of PE, but i can tell you love what you do. sorry, i have to leave, my teacher is gonna be up my ass about taking so much time."

karasu's lips formed a thin line, bitter about not making much of this exchange. and before he could even hold himself back, his mouth let out, "wanna watch my practice after school? you don't have to stay fer the whole thing, jus' to show you how i play outside of official matches."

"sure."

"what? hu-"

"i said, 'sure'. i'll watch you, i'll even stay for the whole practice, i've got nothing. catch you at the shoe lockers, bye."

and with that (plus a quick smile to soften the blow), you speedwalked out of the printer room and began to go down what felt like a dozen floors.

you didn't allow yourself to think about what happened up there, to avoid cringing at your bizarre attitude and not think about the fact that a (weird) guy you would consider somewhat out of your league, just asked you to watch him play.

bonus!!

lunch break finally rolled around, and your friends typically hung out in an obscure part of the courtyard to eat while hiding their cellphones from any faculty members. checking your messages, you noticed an instagram dm from someone whose username already crossed your mutual recommendations but you never took the time to open their profile.

kr_tabito23.

-> coach is sick but i still want an excuse to talk to you

-> there's this really rad crepe shop in namba parks

-> im paying :]

-> you can't say no

-> lol kidding

-> sorry that was weird

you giggled at whatever he was trying to achieve, he was definitely a dork. you didn't mind that.

-> sure. still gonna catch you at the shoe lockers c:

and somewhere in the school, on the opposite side of the main building, next to the fountain where he and his friends usurped the benches, karasu jumped from his seat and into the air, bumping his fist and yelling unintelligible words while his friends watched, confused but happy for their normally cool and collected fellow.

★ berry's post-writing note: guys im gonna be honest i hate the ending my inspiration juice ran out so i just came up with something but i feel like it could've been a bit better. still happy that i wrote something cause ive been in a long ass writer's block since?? what??? february? anyway, criticism is always accepted and uhh thank you for reading till the end!! <3

#berry.writes <3 #blue lock #blue lock x reader #bllk x reader #bllk x you #blue lock x you #karasu x reader #karasu tabito x reader #karasu tabito #tabito karasu

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crimswnred · 4 months

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I've just gotten back home from work so I'm a little late to the party, however...

LITG SEASON 8: TEMPTING FATE — VOLUME 2: thoughts, concerns and prayers

first of all yesss more hair booooo paywall, fusebox get it together??? (at least they are pretty but again that's the bare minimum)

anyway, here's my girl with her new hair

why do all of the girls' nightwear look like I'm on a strip club and they're asking me if I want something to drink

it's so over for you Theo

honestly she's too good for him anyway

okay kiss challenge!!!! let me snog everyone

I don't want any more of that "peck" crap we want FULL ON SNOGS, TONGUE AND CHAOS

Jin: "Nap, then results?" Hamish would be so proud of him

okay, so you rate me EIGHT just so I feel like I have to pay to have one extra kiss, your game is a dirty as ever Fusebox

date time!!!! going with Jin ❤️

LMAO Jack is kinda funny

so sad to see a baddie doing too much to keep a man in love island 💔 Luna I'm so sorry you didn't deserve it your only crime was being coupled up with the one guy I want

oh. so about the terrace scene...

first of all, super sweet gem scene. it seemed like a super important one for it to be a gem scene though. so idk I'm a bit lost.

Jin is a walking red flag 😭 this boy is soooo gonna flip on me when the next hot girl shows up!! but let's enjoy the ride

and Luna... girl... was it ever that serious?

the award for worst outfit design goes to 👇

and the one for BEST outfit design goes to 👇

like wow wowza mmmhmm yeah! this man is hot hot HOT 🔥🔥🔥

I had to kiss him HE IS SO FINEEEEEEEEEEE

oh, Jack is kinda sweet... if he looked more like Lewie/Alex he would be favourite boy of the season for sureeee

keep the compliments coming, darling

I had to kiss him too. you know, to be polite.

but it was just a peck, tho

okay, NOW JIN!!!

having a spicy conversation with the guy I want to fuck and his currently girl isn't how I planned to spend my afternoon but here we go

"You're adventurous. You're fun to be around. And you'd make every sight even more beautiful", "Okay. Where's the punch line?", "There isn't one :)" OKAY GAG ME WITH THE WRITING

FUNNY BOY WHO'S A HISYORY NERD? OH OKAY!!!! BIG T??? NO IT'S BIG J!!!!!! JIMOTHY!!!

lmao Sophie mixing the boys up she's so me

Claudia is a real one let me tell you that

she's nice, she doesn't force herself upon us, she's polite, she give us all the tea, and she even help us to graft on the boys behind their girls' backs. like, THAT'S MY GIRL

and if Theo doesn't step up she will DEFINITELY be mine

TIME TO PICK MY BOY LET'S GOOOOOOOO

so sad to see Luna go, I really like her :/

lmao???????????

I TAKE BACK EVERY GOOD THING I SAID ABOUT JACK WTFFFF 😭😭😭😭

he was so out of pocket ?? what's your deal man, are you jealous I picked Jin instead of you? we kissed ONCE. be sooooooooo for real rn

okay Sophie you can join your boy in this bullshit he still cheated on you with me when you weren't looking (and he probably would do it again)

no. I won't forgive you?? you were basically calling me a whore back then and now you are SORRY? don't say something you'll regret later that's not cute.

and he's supposed to be serious?

anyway, stressful night over. time to go to bed with my babygirl Jin

BITS BITS BITS BITS

29 gems to go all the way? what is this?

they could've make the scene a little longer but they have gotten way better ever since the writers dropped the word crescendo

MR TYLER WHO ARE YOU?

still not 100% sure if I'm going with Jin or Oakley but I'm leaning towards Jin, I'm not gonna lie 😁 I did some stuff that will fuck me over on movie night if fusebox finally learnt how to code (which they prolly didn't so I guess I'm safe)

I really enjoyed this episode except for the part when Jack and Sophie went full on villain mode but if the narrative made sense all of the time it wouldn't be LITG, right?

anyway, let's see what this Tyler guy is about... see you all next week 🫶

#litg #love island the game #litg tempting fate #litg s8 #bia plays s8 #anyways #hiii tyler

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tillthelandslide · 9 months

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Insufferable Arsehole Part 12 : (When In Rome) : I'm Just Fine 'Cause I Know That You Are Mine Insta AU (pt.1)

a/n: hiiiiii everyone, this is a little sneak peak into the next chapter of IA I guess (i'll probably post it tonight <3) hope you enjoy.

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↳ thisislou booooo bad boyfriend

↳ trumanblack you're annoying but I love you

the1975updates GUYS SHES WEARING A RING ON HER RING FINGER OF HER LEFT HAND. THIS IS NOT A DREAL

↳ trumanblack it's flipped, I promise you we didn't get engaged or married (much to my disappointment trust me)

charli_xcx you lucky lucky man

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thisislou:

thisislou Italy has been one of the best experiences of my life. This moment right here was a beautiful one, Matty and I saw an old couple on the beach with this really old camera (he went on about how cool it was and how it was rare... I didn't care but he rambled and it was cute). The couple came over to us and (despite the language barrier) explained how they took some photos of us and how they wanted to gift them to us... We gave the address of the place we were staying at and two days later the photos arrived. This is our favourite. I'll never be able to truly thank the couple for this moment, it was beautiful. They said our love is L'amor che move il sol e l'altre stelle: The love that moves the sun and the other stars. I loved that. To my Matty, I love you more than words can ever describe, thank you for the best holiday ❤️

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trumanblack I love this so much

trumanblack I love you

mynameismia the best couple

bedforddanes this is cute... cant wait to see you both

#the 1975 #matty healy #matty healy x reader #matty healy x oc #matty healy fan fic #matty healy fluff #matty healy instagram au #matty healy fanfiction #matty healy fanfic #insufferable arsehole matty healy series

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violsva · 5 months

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So in multiple Yuletides past I have asked for someone to write me a queer consideration of Mercedes Lackey's Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms. I wouldn't recommend that series to anyone (I cannot even tell you how desperately it needs an editor) but it is excellent comfort reading for me ... except for things like One Good Knight, which I read around the same time as a couple other fantasy books that were also OBVIOUSLY setting up a lesbian relationship and then randomly threw in a het ending at the last minute and therefore have a probably disproportionate grudge against. Where was I?

Right. So. This year I requested it again but then also got assigned Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, and there was nothing in my recipient's requests against it, so I decided I'd write it myself, and at least get some enjoyment out of it. ...And then I received exactly the kind of queer reimagining that I wanted! And my recipient liked my fic! So clearly I won Yuletide both ways.

Because they are basically just about queer fairy tales I would not say that you need to know anything about the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms to understand these fics. My gift has more canon characters than my assignment does, but all you really need to know is that The Tradition is a magical force that makes fairy tales and folktales and songs play out in the real world (whether the people involved want to be in a fairy tale or not), and Godmothers are overworked magicians who try and mitigate the damage, usually by creating happy endings.

My gift was Writing Our Own Happily-Ever-Afters by StableState, which has poly and a GREAT take on the woman-disguised-as-a-man story and also an excellent pun.

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Title: Blossoms in Ashes Wordcount: 6155 words Fandom: Cinderella (Perrault), Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms (Lackey) Rating: G Relationships: Various Characters: Cinderella, Prince Charming, Fairy Godmother, Stepsisters, Stepmother, Godmother Elena (Five Hundred Kingdoms) Warnings/Enticements: Abuse, Queer Themes, Regendering Summary: “All over the Five Hundred Kingdoms, down through time, there have been countless girls like you for whom the circumstances were not right. Their destined princes were greybeards, infants, married or terrible rakes, or not even Princes at all, but Princesses! … And there are dozens and dozens of other tales that The Tradition is trying to recreate, all the time, and perhaps one in a hundred actually becomes a tale.” A variety of events documented in the chronicles of the Godmothers of the Five Hundred Kingdoms.

And I managed to fit in a Madness treat before getting covid right before Christmas (booooo).

Title: Nevertheless Wordcount: 350 words Fandom: The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Rating: G Relationships: None Characters: Madame Sosostris Warnings/Enticements: Poetry, Clairvoyance, Telepathy, Common Cold, London, Post-World War I Summary: She brings the horoscope herself.

#yuletide #mercedes lackey #fairy tales #queer #books #t s eliot #the waste land #writing #my fic #my poetry #just copying this post straight over from dw

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a little review??? of brat?? just my silly lil thoughts really

before we start - i don't listen to hyperpop/dance music that often so this is going to be superrrrr amateur review/thoughts-sharing-thing.

my favs are marked in green

360: honestly such a good fucking opener, def see myself listening to it while i get ready to go out on like a friday evening or something. there's the something about the tune that's sooooo addictive!!

club classics: this one weirdly reminds me of her older songs?? think like boom clap or other songs off of sucker. obviously, i don't mean the entire song here, i just mean parts of it. also "i wanna dance with george"!!! iconic, cunty, a serve.

sympathy is a knife: oh this one felt so raw and real!!! def can see myself listening to it, full volume in a car at like 2 in the morning. once again george reference but booooo don't call her paranoid (/j)

i might say something stupid: yeah charli was right about being honest in this album and writing about her feelings and stuff. this one ends quite abrupt but i quite like that about it?? it feels like one paranoid spiral of "and i don't know if i belong herе anymore" only for it then to be cut off by another like upbeat song (pls understand my vibe, ik all the songs are upbeat that's the point of a hyperpop album) as it's someone drowning out their insecurities behind a "party girl" mask

talk talk: this was nice? don't have much to say about this atm like i liked it but it didn't leave an impression or anything

von dutch: cunty ass anthemmmm!!! i have been fucking obsessed with this one since it came out and it's still just as fucking amazing as it was when i first listened to it. also ik the addison scream isn't a part of this one but it's so iconic

everything is romantic: the romantic little music sequence??? oh so stunning!!!! apart from that, this was like okay?? i didn't hate it but didn't particularly love it either

rewind: oh my fucking god idk what it is about the little tape rewind sounds on this one but they're scratching my brain in the best way possible!!! i might just listen to this for those alone lmao 😭 ooohhhh and the outro on this was really good too!!!

so i: oh this one made me so sad :( SOPHIE's death was probably one of the hardest things in charli's life but this song feels like such a good fucking tribute to her. "would you like this one? (maybe just a little bit?)" referring to this song, oh charli i wish i could give you a hug :( ♡︎

girl, so confusing: "girl, it's so confusing sometimes to be a girl" - no ffr!! this was a nice song too, not one i see myself listening to on repeat but not one i might skip straight away either.

apple: pretty much same thoughts as girl, so confusing. this one has a distinct nostalgic vibe to me like idk how to explain it, it sounds like 2016 to me?? not in like a passé way, def more like a trip down the memory lane.

b2b: okay i have very biased feelings about this solely because of how fucking cuteeeeeee that george and charli photo is like she looks all fierce and cunty and he is just :)) hugging his gf :)). i def prefer the first half of this song to the second but there's like this little alien-sounding "ooOOOOoooOoo" in the background of the second half and idk why i really fuck with that

mean girls: no i love this one so much!!!! she's def talked about this before, about how girls who look like her ("dead eyes") are often considered mean girls. and this one is a whole song dedicated to them which i absolutely love

i think about it all the time: another one i'm quite ambivalent about. it's nice tho.

365: okay i love that 365 is a more hyped, more "party girl" version of 360 actually!!! love both of these songs so much!! the perfect openers and closers i think ♡︎

oh i enjoyed this album so so thoroughly!!!! i'm going to listen to it again tomorrow on my walk and see if any of my opinions have changed, if i have anything new to say etc. and i might update this.

till then thank you for coming to my silly little ted talk. i am no zane lowe but this was fun! 💚

#charli xcx #brat charli xcx #brat #music related rambling

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Caverns & Creatures - Part Two

Paranormal Preteens AU: Episode Twenty-Three

A JSE Fanfic

This second part of the two-part mini-arc! It's longer than the first, and considerably more happens. The five kids are still stuck in the fantasy game of Caverns and Creatures, and have to figure out how to beat the game to escape. Jackie is ready to do everything he can as a good game runner to help them... but that might be difficult with Anti there, constantly making things more "fun." And yeah. I think this part is really fun :)

More of this AU | From the Start | Read on AO3 at CrystalNinjaPhoenix

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“This is boring!”

Chase started awake. For a moment, he looked around the room in confusion. The wooden walls, the starchy white sheets of the bed, the lanterns in the corners—it was like nowhere he’d ever been. Then he remembered. Right, he and most of his friends had been pulled into that Caverns and Creatures game. He had laid down for a moment. Must’ve dozed off. Schneep, on the other bed, blinked awake as well. That shout hadn’t been him.

“Isn’t this supposed to be a game? What sort of game is watching people hang around?”

The ceiling had a green glowing circle in it, a window back to the real world. Anti was up there. He had his face pressed up close to the window, looking down at them.

“I was going to time-jump through the short rest!” A hand reached out and pulled Anti back. It was Jackie, who was now visible. “We weren’t actually gonna sit around for an hour!”

“It’s still boring!” Anti protested.

“Ohhh, would you shut the fuck up?” Marvin’s voice said. Chase and Schneep looked around in confusion, but Marvin was nowhere in sight.

“Marvin? Is that you?” Another voice said. Stacy.

“Whoa, what the fuck?” Marvin gasped. “I can hear you guys! Even though we’re in different rooms!”

“I guess out of character talking gets magically transmitted to you guys?” Jackie guessed.

“Really?” Schneep stood up, stumbling for a bit, clearly still not used to the wings that had been magically given to him. A part of the character he’d created. “I suppose that makes sense. It is not part of the game world, so we... ah... actually, I don’t think it makes sense.”

“No no no, keep going,” Marvin said. “JJ is also asking that you keep going. Huh. Guess sign language doesn’t get... transmitted. Booooo.”

“Okay, uh, how do you guys feel?” Jackie asked. “You should have healed during the rest.”

“I’m still a bit tired,” Marvin said.

“Uh... maybe that’s because you used a spell slot?” Jackie speculated.

“Huh?”

“That fireball spell you cast at the fly-dragons in the forest. Spell slots only recover during long rests, not short ones.”

“Oh yeaaaaaah! Fuck. I probably should’ve stuck to one of the ones you can use whenever. The, uh, what’s the name—”

“Boring!” Anti interrupted. “Let’s make something interesting happen! Suddenly, bandits are coming up the stairs! They’re gonna kill you and take your stuff!”

“Whoa, really?” Chase got up and hurried over to the door of the room in the inn. Some numbers rolled past his head, a counter of yellow numbers that ended on a 19, and then a +3 appeared, raising it to 22. Suddenly, Chase heard it clearly, footsteps creaking up the staircase. He even heard a couple voices, making evil-sounding ‘heh heh heh’ laughs. “Oh crap! We gotta get out of here!”

“JJ’s saying that we can fight them!” Marvin said. “He’s grabbing the flail-thing in preparation!”

“I don’t want to fight people right now!” Stacy protested. “We just fought those fly-dragons!”

“You don’t have to fight them if you don’t want to!” Jackie quickly said. “You can find some other way out of this!”

Chase shook his head. “Whatever we do, we should all be together when doing it.” He opened up the door to the room and hurried out into the inn hallway. He knocked on the doors of the other rooms—the one where Stacy was staying, and the one where Marvin and JJ were. They all came out into the hallway, as well. Chase jumped slightly. He still wasn’t used to the additions to their appearances that they’d all gotten when getting pulled into this world. Marvin’s horns, JJ’s pointed ears, and Stacy’s supernaturally pale skin. But he pushed that off for now. “Okay, so, what d’we do?!”

We fight them! JJ said. His weapon—that massive flail—is strapped to his back in preparation. It wasn’t too hard to fight the dragons!

Schneep joined the group in the hall as well. “I do not think that’s a good idea,” Schneep said slowly. “I do not have forever healing potions. I will run out eventually. We still do not know what happens if our health in this game runs out.”

“Whyyyy is it taking them so long to get up the stairs?” Anti complained.

“Things in the game always slow down for conversation,” Jackie snapped, annoyed.

“Schneep’s potions are our only way to recover health,” Marvin says. “I don’t think we should waste them. As cool as it’d be to cast more fucking awesome magic, I think we should get out of here.”

JJ sighed, looking uncharacteristically disappointed. Was he really looking forward to a fight?

“How do we get out of here, then?” Chase looked around. “Out a window?”

“Seems good to me!” Stacy said. “C’mon, we can go into my room and block off the door to buy time.”

The kids all do so, hurrying through the doorway and slamming the door closed. “Who’s the strongest?” Marvin asked. “I mean—who has the highest Strength stat?”

“JJ, obviously,” Chase said. “His class is all about strength. Uhh... mine is a 16, I think that’s the second highest, if you need help.”

JJ nodded. Let’s move this together, then, he said, and pointed at the wardrobe.

The two of them started pushing the wardrobe across the floor. Numbers rolled past them, landing on a 10 for Chase and a 17 for JJ. Together, they managed to block off the door—though Chase could definitely tell JJ was doing most of the work. Meanwhile, the other three gathered around the window. Stacy pushed it open and started to climb out.

“Oh, careful of the sun, Stacy,” Jackie said. “Remember, your character Morgana is a vampire.”

“I remember.” Stacy opened up her umbrella, covering her head.

“Won’t it be hard to climb down while carrying that?” Marvin asked.

“Right. Yeah. She’d probably have disadvantage.”

“What’s that again?” Chase asked.

“Well, she’d roll twice and have to use the smaller number,” Jackie explained.

“I have a +5 to this, I’m sure I can get out safely,” Stacy said. She started to climb down. Pink numbers appeared by her head. The first one was a 20, with the +5 making it a 25. The second was a 4, turning to a 9. Stacy yelped as she disappeared from sight. There was a thud! as she landed on the ground. “Owww. No fair!” her voice called up.

Jackie winced. “That’s just how the rolls go sometimes.”

Footsteps walked outside the door. It jiggled slightly. “Whasthis? The door’s blocked!” a raspy voice said.

“Something valuable hasta be inside!” another said. “Kick it down!”

Chase’s eyes widened. “Everyone else go out!”

Marvin nodded and climbed out the window next. The numbers by his head landed on 15, and there was a quieter thump as he got out the window. “Got it!” he shouted back up. “Schneep, you next!”

“No, Chase and JJ should go first,” Schneep said.

“Really?” Chase said, he and JJ hurrying over to the window. “I think me and JJ could fight them off if we had to.”

“I insist.” Schneep shoved Chase a little.

“Okay, okay.” Chase climbed out the window awkwardly. He hesitated, scanning the side of the building for footholds. Then he started climbing out. The numbers landed on a 17, and he found himself easily climbing down, like it was second nature to him—even though it definitely wasn’t. “Way to go, Fahl Trailblazer,” he said, grinning as he complimented his character for the skill.

Once he reached the bottom, he, Marvin, and Stacy all looked up towards the window. A few tense moments passed. Then JJ jumped out the window. He jumped. Out the window. The numbers flashed through the air, ending up on an 18. JJ landed on his feet perfectly, grinning.

“Whoa!” Marvin jumped, then laughed. “You’re really getting into character as Ion, aren’t you?” JJ nodded in response, doing a little victory dance.

“Schneep?!” Chase called worriedly.

Schneep also jumped out the window—but he fell much slower. Gliding, in fact. With his wings spread wide. He lowered himself to the ground slowly, then looked back at the others smugly.

“Oh for crying out loud!” Chase threw his hands in the air. “I was worried for nothing!”

“You are the one who forgot that I chose the birdfolk! How is it hard to forget these?” Schneep’s wings flapped.

“I guess I forgot they, uh, worked?”

“Guys?” The window in the sky had moved, still above them. Jackie stared down through it. “You should probably run. They’re going to see you through the window.”

“Right!” Chase nodded. “Everyone, run!”

The group ran, reaching the city streets of the fantasy city, Suilara. They kept running for a while, until the Unicorn’s Crown inn disappeared. When they stopped, they found themselves in a wide central square of some kind with a fountain in the middle, depicting beautiful women pouring water from jugs and vases. People in fantasy clothes walked around. “Are they gone?” Chase asked.

They all looked behind them. Numbers rolled by each of their heads. Marvin, who got the highest, shook his head. “We lost them.” Then he looked up at the window in the sky. “Not fucking cool, Anti!”

“Was that less ‘boring’ to you?” Stacy shouted.

“Yeah!” Anti said, grinning. “There was like—action! I mean it wasn’t as good as the dragon fight, but it was fun!”

Marvin scowled, then looked back down, glancing around the others. “Alright. Well... now what?”

Silence.

“Okay okay, I-I can work with this,” Jackie said, flipping through the pages of the booklet for the Secrets of Suilara campaign. “Uh—roll perception. Oh shit, uh, that doesn’t make sense when you’re in the game. Uh, look around.”

They all did. More numbers rolled, and Chase’s eyes suddenly landed on something. A short someone hurrying across the square. “Huh. Isn’t that the, uh, dwarf lady?”

“Oh! I see her too.” Schneep nodded. “And she has that same bag that we delivered to her.”

Stacy frowned. “That’s not weird, is it? I mean, weren’t they jewels or something? Maybe she’s gonna sell them. Or use them to buy stuff.”

Chase blinked. “Huh. Uh, actually, I caught a glimpse of what was in the bag when we gave it to her in her store. It looked round and gold. And it was glowing slightly.”

“What?!” Marvin gasped. “Wait, did we know that?!”

“Uh, no, you guys didn’t know that,” Jackie said. “Dalrun the dwarf told you it was jewels.”

Glowing gold is definitely not jewels, JJ said, frowning. Something strange is going on.

“Think we should follow her?” Chase asked.

Stacy nodded. “Yeah. Let’s go.”

As the group sets off after Helga, following her down a curving city street, Jackie said, “You’ll all have to roll for stealth, I think. Uh... this’ll be a collective roll, so we’ll add them up and find the average.”

The numbers rolled by their heads. 05, 23, 09, 11, 14. Then they flew together, becoming a 12 in glowing white. Chase noticed that the townsfolk around were looking at them, but Helga seemed too busy. “Who got the five?” Chase muttered.

“You did,” Stacy said.

“What?”

“Yeah, it was a yellow number. You all are so lucky my character is good at this.” Stacy smiled smugly.

“And yet, you cannot climb down from trees and windows,” Schneep said teasingly.

“Hey!”

Luckily, that ‘out of character’ shout didn’t draw Helga’s attention. The group followed her down the street, watching as she ducked into a side alley. They all slowed down, standing near the alley entrance. Stacy peered around the corner of a building into the alley. A roll next to her head landed on 14. “I see her messing with a statue at the end here,” she whispered back to the others. “Dunno what she’s doing. Uh... she’s walking down into a hole at the base, maybe? Aaaand she’s gone.”

Well, let’s go after her! JJ said, and hurried down the alley.

Marvin raised an eyebrow. “Well. Might as well.” He followed JJ.

“That’s the spirit!” Anti said from the window excitedly. “Go in there and, uh... kill her! That’ll be fun!” Jackie gave him an annoyed glance.

“I think it is more important to get information from her,” Schneep said as the other three all followed the twins. “We need to beat the game to escape, yes? I think she can help us do that.”

The shadowy alley ended at a stone brick wall. In front of the wall was the statue Stacy mentioned. A metal wolf standing on a hexagon-shaped plinth, fearsome teeth bared and its mouth open. The eyes of the statue were replaced by rubies, giving the wolf a menacing red gaze. “What is this?” Schneep asked, frowning. A set of numbers rolled by his head. 05 +4 for a 09. “Ah, it is some sort of dire wolf... I think.”

“Why’s it at the end of an alley by itself?” Chase asked. “And where’s that hole Stacy saw Helga go into?” Sure enough, the floor was solid. Not even a crack in it, much less a hole big enough for a dwarf to disappear into.

“Hmm...” Marvin crouched down next to the statue. “Maybe the statue got moved over it.” More numbers appeared, landing on a 13. “Yeah, I think that’s it. I feel a breeze coming from under it. We have to move the statue, I think.”

Sacy frowned. “I don’t think she was moving the statue... she was just, like, messing with it somehow.”

We can try moving it first, then if it doesn’t work, we’ll try to figure it out, JJ said.

Marvin laughed. “Really? I think it’s usually the other way around with you.”

JJ shrugged. This isn’t the real world, it’s not like we’re actually going to damage someone’s property. He walked up to the statue and started pushing. The numbers by his head rolled, landing on a 15. Slowly, with a loud scraping sound, the statue started to move, then stopped. There was indeed a hole beneath it, a ladder leading downwards. But the statue got stuck when there was only about six inches of the hole exposed, nowhere near enough space to climb down. JJ frowned. Marvin, do you have any magic that could help?

Marvin shook his head. “The shrinking spell is like… a level four spell. We’re still only level one.” His face screwed up in concentration. “I don’t think I have any other spells that could help... Do you think the statue is broken? I have the Fix Object spell, if that’s the case. That might work.”

“It is stuck,” Chase said. “I say that counts as broken.”

“Uhhh no, I don’t think that’s how Fix Object works,” Jackie said from above.

“Well I can use it whenever I want,” Marvin said. “So I might as well try.” He rubbed his hands together, causing them to glow yellow-white, and then put them on the statue. The light spread around it... and then faded, and nothing had changed. “Well... fuck, then.”

Stacy giggled. “I guess we have to figure out the puzzle, then?”

“Noooo!” Anti complained, his voice distant as he wasn’t currently in the window. “She’s getting away!”

Jackie turned to look at him and frowned. “What’re you doing?!”

“I’m looking at your books for this game.”

“Be careful with those!” Jackie lunged to the side, disappearing from the window. “They cost so much!”

“But there are so many cool monsters in this one!”

The five kids all stared up at the window while this happened, then slowly looked back down at the wolf statue. “Let’s just... roll to figure it out quickly,” Schneep said slowly. “The sooner we are out of here, the better.”

All of them leaned close to the statue, squinting at it. Numbers rolled by... 09, 08, 04, 05, 01. “Yeah, uh... I don’t get it,” Chase said.

“Are we sure this statue even moves?” Marvin said.

“What?! You were the one who said there was a hole beneath it!” Chase pointed out. “We saw it move right now!”

“Oh yeah. Uhh... I dunno, I guess my brain just stopped working for a minute there.”

Jackie laughed. “You rolled a nat one and forgot what you’d just seen. That’s hilarious, actually.”

Schneep shook his head. “I think we all rolled pretty low. I do not know what the trick to this is at all.”

“Oh boo.” Stacy frowned. “How are we gonna get through, then?”

Let’s just try pushing it again! JJ said. Chase, you and me together, like in the inn.

“Right!” Chase nodded. He and JJ started pushing the statue again. Numbers rolled... an 11 and a 12. Chase felt it give slightly, but then it stopped.

“Welp.” Marvin folded his arms. “Guess we’re fucking stuck. Unless we all want to try together?”

“Ja, let’s all push together,” Schneep agreed.

They all gathered up next to the statue and pushed. More numbers rolled—and Marvin’s green set of numbers landed on a 20. Suddenly, the statue gave way, and all five of them fell forward. They yelled in surprise, more numbers rolled, and Chase landed hard on the ground along with all the others. He saw a yellow 12 by his head roll down to a 10. Lost two hp from that fall. He saw everyone else’s health roll down by two as well.

“Are you kidding?!” Stacy shouted indignantly. “I’m the agility girl! I’m the one who lands!”

The guys all burst into laughter. She glared at the rest of them, but eventually started giggling too. They all got to their feet one at a time and looked around. Behind them was a stone ladder built into the wall, leading back up to the alley. Ahead of them was a long tunnel made of stone bricks, with torches in sconces on the wall. Chase squinted. “Really dark down there.”

“Really? It’s more dim than anything,” Marvin said.

“Yes, it gets dark eventually, but we can see all the way to the staircase,” Schneep said.

“What staircase?”

The staircase at the end of this hallway, JJ said.

“Are you guys messing with me?” Chase asked. “It’s so dark! Like, a wall of shadows.”

“Wait, you really can’t see it? Oh, I get it!” Stacy’s eyes widened. “All our characters can see in the dark except for yours! He’s just human.”

“Are you kidding?!” Chase threw his hands up into the air. “Fine! Fahl Trailblazer is good at other things!” He grabbed a torch from a nearby sconce. “Let’s go after Helga. I think she’s up to some shady stuff.”

“Probably a good idea,” Marvin agreed. “Let’s go.”

The group set off down the tunnel. As the others said, there was a staircase at the bottom, and the group descended it into another, slightly more rough-hewn tunnel. They continued forward for a while in silence. Then Schneep gasped. “Wait! What if there are traps down here?!”

“Huh?” Chase looked at him.

“Jackie said that the Caverns in Caverns and Creatures sometimes have traps!”

“I did say that,” Jackie said. “Uh... roll to keep an eye out for traps, I guess? You and Stacy would probably be best at finding and disarming them.”

Stacy and Schneep nodded. Their numbers rolled, landing on a 19 and a 20. The second one was accompanied by a flair of fireworks. “Wow... I am absolutely sure there are no traps down here,” Stacy said.

Jackie laughed. “It’s a good mentality though! If this was another campaign you might have to worry about it.”

“...so there are no traps at all in this game,” Marvin said.

“Oh, uh... pay no attention to me,” Jackie said.

Chase laughed.

The tunnel gradually sloped downwards. The group continued on for a while more—

“It’s boring again!” Anti suddenly said.

Jackie’s eyes widened. “Oh, uh, don’t worry, it’s going to get exciting soon!” he said hurriedly. “They’re going to encounter a—”

“A shifting ooze!” Anti interrupted.

“What the fuck?!” Jackie shouted, aghast.

A dripping sound came from behind them. A gloopy, splashing sound. The group spun around and saw black goop dripping from the ceiling. It gathered on the floor, clumping together, raising into a humanoid figure, strands of goop dangling from its limbs and purple eyes peering from its head. “Holy shit!” Marvin gasped. “That’s so fucking cool!”

“Guys, get out of there!” Jackie shouted, leaning close to the window in the sky. “Shifting oozes are recommended for level ten parties! You guys are still level one!”

“Oh fuck!” Marvin’s awe quickly turned to fear. “Guys, go go go go!”

Numbers rolled through the air, one for each of the kids, and another for the shifting ooze. That one landed on a 19, the highest of the bunch. It lunged forward, hands shifting into black claws, and swiped at Marvin. More numbers rolled, the claws slashed through Marvin’s tunic, and his health appeared, a 07 going immediately down to -01. Marvin collapsed.

JJ shrieked. He tried to rush forward, but couldn’t move from the spot; it wasn’t his turn. It was Chase’s. Chase ran forward instead, checking Marvin over. Numbers rolled by his head—a 08, followed by a +3 then a +2 for a total of 13. “I-I can... can stabilize him,” Chase said, voice shaking. “He’s not—he’s badly hurt, but we can fix that.” He reached into a pouch at his belt and pulled out some cloth bandages, quickly wrapping them around Marvin’s torso. Then he grabbed him and stood up again, starting to run away from the shifting ooze—but he couldn’t move. His turn was over.

Now that it was his turn, JJ rushed forward and swung his flail at the shifting ooze. The spiky ball at the end splashed into its gloopy body. The hit succeeded, passing through the ooze’s armor and doing 05 damage. But the ooze was unphased.

“Guys, I’m not kidding!” Jackie shouted. “Get out of there!”

JJ looked up at the window in the sky and nodded. He ran back to where he was before, grabbing Chase and Marvin as he went and dragging them a short distance away.

“Ah—ah—” Schneep looked through his potions. His eyes widened. “Ah!” He pulled one out and threw it at the ground in front of the ooze. The glass bottle broke, forming a wall of fire. “Run!” he shouted, and then turned and did just that. Stacy did the same. The ooze hesitated in front of the fire, then tried lunging forward. Numbers flew up from the point of contact, and it shrieked. It got through the flames, but didn’t move further. Even with that damage, it still didn’t look too bothered.

Chase shuddered in fear. “Y-yeah! Let’s go!” He picked up Marvin—surprisingly not feeling the weight of him—and ran. JJ was right behind him.

The group sprinted down the tunnel until they reached a fork, a branch heading to the left and to the right. Where did that dwarf lady go?! JJ asked.

Chase squinted. Numbers rolled by his head, landing on a 15. He noticed imprints in the dust on the tunnel floor—footprints. “This way!” He pointed to the left. The group all ran down that way. Behind them, they could still hear that gloopy, drippy sound of the shifting ooze. They continued to run, not stopping until that gloopy sound was well out of earshot.

“What... the heck?!” Stacy panted.

Jackie sighed in relief. He shot a burning glare at Anti. “You can’t just put any monster you want in the game! That thing can hit for up to 20hp! Marvin would’ve di—w-would’ve lost right away if he took 14 damage!”

Chase also glared up at Anti through the window. “Y-yeah! It wouldn’t be fun if we just lost immediately!”

“It’s not fun if you just walk through dark caves the whole time, either!” Anti snapped back.

“Can we please just keep going?!” Schneep asked, exasperated. “I feel like we are getting close to beating the game!”

“Uh... y-yeah I guess.” Jackie still looked a bit shaken by the shifting ooze attack, but he pushed it away. “I mean... technically there’s more you can do around the city and in the forest, but we’re sort of skipping that whole thing, because it might be, uh... ‘boring.’” He glanced at Anti warily.

“Good!” Anti said, not catching onto Jackie’s look. “Keep going, then!”

“Yeah, yeah,” Chase muttered. “But first, we gotta help Marvin. Schneep, you have healing potions, right?”

Schneep nodded. He reached into his bag and pulled out another potion. “Do I just... put it in his mouth?”

Game logic should take over from there, yes, JJ said. Please hurry!

“I am, I am.” Schneep uncorked the bottle. “Chase, set Marvin down.” Chase did so, and Schneep knelt down, propping Marvin’s head up with one hand. He used the other to tilt the health potion into Marvin’s mouth. Marvin’s health counter appeared again, going back up to 03.

Marvin groaned, and opened his eyes. “Wha...?”

JJ slumped in relief. He knelt next to Marvin. How do you feel?

“Uh... fine, I guess? My chest kinda hurts.” Marvin touched the claw marks on his torso. “Oof. Oh fuck.”

“W-well, at least we know what happens when your health reaches zero now?” Stacy said.

“Yeah... makes sense, your character doesn’t die right away when your hp reaches zero in normal C&C anyway,” Jackie said. “You have to fail some death saves... but, uh, hopefully you guys won’t have to worry about those!” He laughed. The sound was a bit strained. “A-anyway. Keep going!”

Marvin got up and the group continued down the tunnels. Chase had dropped the torch back when the shifting ooze attacked, but he grabbed another from the wall easily enough. The tunnels continued to go down, down, down. Every so often, the floor would end at a cliff and the kids would have to climb down a rope. Or there would be a pit in the ground and they’d have to cross a bridge to get across it. Chase tried not to look down when these obstacles appeared.

Eventually, the tunnel ended at a wall. A massive stone door blocked their way, embedded in an archway with two strange statues carved on either side. The creatures’ main bodies were that of a wolf, but with dragon-like wings and snakes for tails—not snake-like tails, but actual snakes for tails. The creature had another head next to the wolf head, that of a goat. “What the fuck are those?” Marvin muttered.

“No idea,” Stacy said. “I guess you can roll for it?”

Marvin nodded. He walked up to one of the statues, touching it. His numbers rolled by, landing on an 05. “Nope, no idea.”

“Um... I can try,” Chase said slowly. He walked up to the other statue, squinting at its wolf head. His numbers rolled past, landing on an 02. But then they rolled again, and this time landed on 17. “Oh! These are marakdas. They’re like chimeras!”

Schneep blinked. “Why did your numbers roll twice?”

“Because Chase’s class has a feature where he gets advantage on rolls related to creatures,” Jackie said. “Not necessarily fighting them, but... knowledge about them, you know?”

“Ah.” Schneep nodded.

Well now we know, but how do we get inside? JJ asked.

They all stared at the door. More numbers rolled by the guys’ heads... And then Stacy walked forward and casually pressed down on one of the statues’ front paws. It sunk into the arch of the doorway, and the stone door slowly slid up. “You guys didn’t notice that?” she asked, looking back at the others.

“...oh,” Chase said.

“Ah!” Schneep’s eyes widened. “I noticed that, but I did not realize it was important.”

Must have been because you two were looking for traps, JJ said. Light came from the now-open doorway. A flickering, purple-pink light. Now let’s go.

“Yeah! Whooo!” Anti cheered from the window. “Kick her butt!”

“Oh shut up,” Marvin snapped. “We’re beating this game cause you put us in here, we’re not gonna make you happy for doing a dick move like that!”

Anti blinked, looking momentarily confused. “I... don’t want you to ‘make me happy.’ I want to have fun with you.”

“Well we don’t want to have fun with you!” Marvin shouted.

“Then why d’you keep playing?”

“Ugh.” Marvin threw his hands in the air. “Whatever. Let’s go, guys. See how this game ends.”

As the group walked through the door, Jackie flipped through the booklet. “Okay, uh, since Anti has clearly proven that we can just say whatever we want and it’ll happen, fuck it. You’re all level five now, and the cavern is setup for endgame. You don’t have to go find the silver and bronze orbs, they’re already there.”

“Silver and... huh?” Chase glanced up at him in confusion.

But the confusion was wiped away when he looked at the room. This was a vast, circular room, made of stone in varying shades of gray. Statues lined the edges, carvings of all sorts of fantasy races found in Caverns and Creatures—humans, dwarves, elves, fiends, dryads, birdfolk, dragonfolk, fish-like waterfolk—all of them holding their arms up like they were supporting the ceiling. The ceiling itself was decked out with crystals, making it look like the night sky full of stars. Torches of purple-pink fire lined the walls. In the center of the room was another statue of the creatures outside the door. A marakda, apparently. Behind it was a pit lined with a stone wall. The marakda’s three mouths were open. There was a bronze orb in the snake’s mouth, a silver orb in the goat’s... and standing before the open wolf mouth was Helga Wolffighter, just about to place a glowing golden orb in there.

“Hey!” Chase shouted. He grabbed his bow, quickly nocking it—like before, his arms moved on their own like he’d known how to do this for ages. Then he aimed it at her. “What’re you doing?”

Helga Wolffighter spun around. “When we awaken the monster beneath Suilara, it will follow our orders! We will be able to threaten anyone into doing our bidding!”

“We?” Marvin asked, confused.

“Oh, uh—she’s supposed to have accomplices, we sort of skipped all that,” Jackie explained. “Don’t worry about it. Probably could’ve done the dialogue better—ah, we’re in a rush.”

Let’s stop her before she can wake up the monster! JJ said. He pulled his flail off his back.

“Whaaat? No!” Anti complained. “Monster fight! Monster fight! She puts the thing in the thing and wakes it up!”

Suddenly, as if skipping through scenes on a movie, the golden orb appeared in the wolf mouth and Helga was standing off to the side with her arms raised. The circular cavern started to shake. “Rise!” Helga shouted. The kids all stumbled. Numbers rolled, and Marvin and JJ fell to the ground prone while the other three managed to keep their feet. A massive paw appeared on the edge of the stone wall around the pit. And then a second one. Both covered in white fur, with long curved silver claws. A beast lifted itself up from the pit. It had a wolf head, covered in gold fur, and a goat head, its white fur slightly shaggier, with silver horns curling from its head. Large scaled wings unfurled, coppery-gold in color, and a snake whipped around from behind, its diamond-shaped head and body covered in bronze scales. The three mouths all opened, letting out a howl, a scream, and a hiss.

“Holy shit!” Marvin gasped. “That thing’s like—fucking three times as tall as us!”

“Are you sure level five is enough, Jackie?” Stacy asked worriedly.

“It’s uh—bigger than it’s supposed to be, I think,” Jackie said. “I’m gonna blame Anti for that one. But you guys can do it! I know you can!”

“I do not think we have a choice but to do it,” Schneep muttered. He pulled out a couple potions. “So let’s do it!”

“Yeah!” Chase shouted.

JJ nodded determinedly.

The monster—a marakda, just like the statues—leaned down, and its wolf mouth opened up wide. Lightning shot out of its maw, blue and crackling, and hit Helga, sending her flying back and slumping to the ground, barely conscious.

“Let’s roll initiative, then,” Jackie said.

Numbers appeared, rolling by each of them. Despite having three heads, the marakda only had one set of numbers. And despite its clear power, it rolled the lowest, ending up at the end of the turn order. Chase was first. He immediately took aim at the wolf head and fired his arrow. It flew through the air, trailing numbers behind it, and embedded itself in the wolf’s skin, doing 10 damage. The marakda roared.

“How much health does this thing have, Jackie?!” Marvin asked.

“Uh—a lot?” Jackie said.

JJ’s turn was next. He clambered to his feet and rushed forward—but only got halfway across the room before he ran out of movement. He stopped, frustrated. Then his eyes widened. Oh I can do something cool! He closed his eyes, then opened them up wide, now glowing completely red. Glowing red designs also appeared on his skin around his eyes, looking vaguely like runes.

“Oh hell yeah! Your rage stuff!” Marvin grinned and also got to his feet. He pointed at the marakda and three streaks of green-blue light shot out of his hand, one rushing for each of the marakda’s head and hitting it for 4, 4, and 2 damage. All of the heads cried out, shaking off the magic. Then Stacy ran forward, completely crossing the room (to JJ’s dismay) and running up to the marakda’s front legs. She pulled out two knives and stabbed downwards. One missed, but the second dealt 8 damage.

“You can attack with two weapons?!” Chase shouted. “Can’t you only attack once per turn?”

“Uhhh—” Stacy looked down at her knives. “Guess that’s cause Jackie leveled us up!”

“Ooo! That should mean—I was looking at this potion on the list—” Schneep fumbled through his stuff. “Yes!” He pours one on the ground between him and Marvin. It forms an icy blue fog upon contact, and Marvin, Schneep, and Chase all glow slightly. The numbers representing their health appear, and a spectral blue 10 appears over them. “We all have more temporary health!”

“Great! I think my health sucks,” Marvin said. “Even leveled up I apparently only have 21.”

The marakda raised one of its legs and swiped at Stacy. She yelped and tried to dodge, but still got hit and flew backwards, her health rolling down from 42 to 30. “Good thing we got more hp with the level, then!” she said from where she was lying. Its snake tail lunged forward as well, trying to bite her, but she rolled out of the way.

With the additional health, Chase felt safe enough to run forward. He nocked another arrow as he went, aiming it at the marakda. He narrowed his eyes in concentration... and a glowing yellow rune appeared in midair over the marakda’s main body. His eyes widened slightly, but it didn’t distract him from firing his bow again. The arrow hit once more, right at the base of the creature’s draconic wings. 9 damage appeared—and then an additional 6 damage. “Oh!” Marvin gasped. “Chase, did you just do magic?!”

“I, uh, guess?” Chase said. “I think I marked it or something and that made it so I did more damage.”

“That’s exactly what that was!” Jackie said proudly. “Hunters get a couple spells—that was their Tracking Mark!”

“Cooool.” Chase grinned.

“Yeah, we’ve all got more spells now!” Marvin said excitedly.

JJ grinned. He closed the rest of the distance to the marakda and bashed its front knee with his flail. 7 damage appeared, with a +2 bumping it up to a 9. He tried hitting it again, but that didn’t land, instead just bouncing off its fur.

“Whoo! Fuck yeah, JJ!” Marvin shouted encouragingly. He hesitated for a moment, thinking about what magic to use. Then he gasped, made some weird gestures, and vanished from sight. “Don’t worry, I’m still here!” he said, voice drifting to the side.

Schneep laughed in delight, then looked down at his potions. After Stacy tried attacking again—hitting for 4 and 4 damage—he ran across the room, drinking a potion as he did. A glowing purple aura surrounded him, and he pulled a dagger out of his belt, hitting the marakda for 3 damage. He frowned, disappointed. “I thought that would do more damage.”

The monster roared again. Both its wolf and goat mouth opened up wide, and lightning poured out. Chase gasped and tried to brace himself, and he saw the others doing the same. Numbers rolled, and he was thrown backwards, health rolling down from 56 to 36. He saw the others all affected as well, though JJ managed to keep his feet and only lost 10 hp. “W-we gotta take this thing down quick!” says Stacy.

“I think we’re doing good so far!” Chase shouted, getting back to his feet and firing another arrow at the goat head. It hits for a total of 7 damage. The goat head reeled back, bleating in shock, then looked at him—and despite it not being its turn, it leaned down and headbutted him with its horns. He shouted in surprise as he fell down again and his health went down to 27. “Hey, what?! No fair! It’s not your turn!”

“Some creatures can take actions out of turn order,” Jackie said. “They’re called Mythic Actions.”

“That would’ve been helpful to know earlier!”

“I hadn’t read this monster’s stats yet, I didn’t know it had Mythic Actions!”

JJ growled. He looked up at the monster—and then jumped up, grabbing its fur and climbing up its leg. The marakda roared in surprise and tried to kick him off, but JJ kept his grip as more numbers flew through the air. He climbed up to the spot in between the two heads, pulled his flail out, and bashed it against the marakda twice for 5 and 10 damage.

“It is not looking so good!” Schneep shouted. “We are doing it!”

“Oh no, JJ, can you move?” Marvin’s voice called.

JJ looked towards the spot where his invisible twin probably was. What do you mean?

“I was gonna do a thing!”

Do it anyway!

“It might hit you!”

I still have 80 health, I’ll be fine!

“Okay, if you insist,” Marvin said reluctantly. Then, from underneath the marakda’s two front legs a blast of ice and snow spirals upwards, hitting the marakda’s two heads. It roars, and a massive 25 damage appears overhead. Suddenly, the marakda collapsed. JJ tumbled off onto the ground, and Marvin yelped in surprise, taking 10 damage as the monster landed on him.

“Omg, did Marvin just do it?!” Stacy gasped. “I think he just did it!”

“Yeah, it’s not getting back up, is it?” Chase grinned. “That was awesome, Marvin!”

Marvin flickered back into visibility. “Whoo!” He gave a smile and a thumbs-up. “I wouldn’t have been, uh, confident enough to do that if Schneep hadn’t given me those extra health points. Not to mention you guys all brought it down, too!”

“Yes, we could not have done it by ourselves!” Schneep beamed.

JJ clapped his hands in celebration. He ran over and tried lifting up the marakda. Luckily, he rolled a perfect 20, and was able to lift it up enough for Marvin to scramble out.

“Now what?” Chase asked. “We... won, didn’t we?”

“Uh... maybe there’s more we need to do,” Marvin said.

Maybe we need to take the orbs? JJ asked, pointing at the statue.

“Well, Stacy? Do you want to do the honors?” Chase asked. “Didn’t you say something about wanting treasure earlier?”

Stacy stuck her tongue out at him. “It’s not me, it’s Morgana. She has a background as a thief, but then she broke into the wrong place and got turned into a vampire. I actually don’t care all that much.”

“Oh, uh... sorry?”

“You put that much thought into your backstory?” Schneep asked.

“Yeah, I even have an idea for what the vampire who turned her could be named.”

Marvin stood up, brushing himself off. “Well—I think JJ’s right, let’s grab the orbs. Axitios is also very excited for treasure, though he’s more into jewels than coins and stuff.” He walked over to the statue and reached up, easily taking the golden orb out of the wolf mouth. As soon as he did, the wolf head on the statue crumbled. Stacy and Chase also walked over. She grabbed the bronze orb and he grabbed the silver one. And just like with the gold one, the goat and snake heads immediately crumbled into dues the moment the orbs came out.

And then the floor started to glow green.

The kids all looked down in unison. Chase covered his eyes as the green glow became too intense to look at, lighting up the entire room—

++++++++++++++++++++

Jackie scrambled back as the game board started to glow intensely. Anti didn’t move at all, staring down at it and grinning. Then there was a flash of green light—and suddenly the five younger kids were all back in place, sitting around the table. They blinked, confused. Marvin felt his head, noticing the lack of horns, and JJ grabbed the tips of his now-round ears. Schneep shifted in his chair and Stacy patted her face. Chase looked at his belt for his quiver of arrows but saw nothing. None of them looked hurt at all.

“Oh thank god.” Jackie ran forward. “H-how do you guys feel? Are you all okay?”

“Y-yeah, I think so,” Chase said.

“Yay!” Anti appeared, leaning onto the table between Marvin and JJ. “Congradoo—Congradala—Congrats! You won!”

Marvin turned and glared at him. “Dude, shut the fuck up! We didn’t want to play your stupid fucking game!”

“Huh? But of course you did!” Anti grinned. “That’s why you’re here! To play a game!”

“W-well, ah—that was not—the way we wanted to do it!” Schneep stammered.

“Why? Was it scary?”

It wasn’t NOT scary, JJ said.

Anti glared at him. “I still dunno what you’re saying.”

“Look, you just—just get out of here!” Chase stood up. “You can’t just show up and put people in a game! So just leave! Go go go!”

Anti blinked, clearly surprised. “Okay, okay, fine. You could just say that you didn’t have fun.” He folded his arms, and the lights overhead flickered. When they turned back on, Anti was gone.

Jackie sighed. “I’m so sorry, guys. I-I really didn’t want this to happen.”

It’s not your fault, Jackie, JJ said. You couldn’t expect Anti to show up out of nowhere.

“Still.” Jackie looked down at the game board, now back to normal. He started gathering up the pieces and dice. “I’m sorry. I-I shouldn’t have gotten you, uh... I shouldn’t have pushed you guys to play Caverns and Creatures. I get it if you guys never want to see this game again.”

“Huh? What’re you talking about?” Marvin asked. “That was awesome!”

Stacy nodded. “I-I mean, it was a bit, uh, freaky to get pulled into the game, but it was cool! I-I’d like to play a more normal version.”

“If all games are like that, it will be very interesting to play!” Schneep said. “And less dangerous when we are not actually fighting monsters.”

I normally don’t fight everything like that, it was fun to be stronger! JJ said.

Jackie looked back up at the kids. His expression slowly lightened. “You... you guys liked it? Y-you’d want to play more?”

All the kids nodded in unison.

“Even though the real version is just gonna be a bunch of dice rolling and moving pieces?”

“Well, now that we’ve gone through something like that, we can like... picture it in our brains.” Chase tapped the side of his. “So it’ll be even more awesome!”

Jackie laughed, looking relieved. “Th-that’s good to hear! Well, uh, exams are really coming up, so I don’t think we’ll be able to meet for a proper game soon. But once winter holiday starts, do you guys want to... try again?”

“Aww, do we really have to wait so long?” Marvin whined.

“No, Jackie’s right, exams are important,” Stacy said. She sighed. “We can wait. I’ll be thinking a lot about Morgana in the meantime. I hope I can make her, uh, an even better character.”

“I don’t wanna wait, either,” Chase groaned. “But I guess we do have to do tests and stuff.”

Jackie grinned. “Study hard, guys. I can make a good game for you all in the meantime. Maybe something more custom than this one. So your characters can really shine.”

I’m looking forward to it! JJ beamed.

“We all are!” Marvin agreed.

Jackie laughed. “Well, uh... we’ve been down here for a while. It’s probably around time for you guys to go home.”

“Right, yeah.” Chase nodded. “I’ll call Mom, then.” He took his phone out of his pocket. Huh, that hadn’t been there while in the fantasy game. Maybe it was too modern.

“I’ll call my parents, too,” Stacy agreed.

“JJ and I can just go whenever,” Marvin said. “We biked here.”

“Well, before you go, take some snacks, at least,” Jackie said. “And the rest of you, feel free to eat while you wait for your parents to come pick you up.”

A few minutes later, JJ and Marvin said goodbye to the others, heading out on their bikes. They’d arrived here around two in the afternoon, and now it was evening, the shadows growing long. They had to leave quickly to get home before dark. As they left, Chase noticed JJ fumbling with something in his bag. Right... that weird doll. Being sucked into the game had made them all forget about that thing. They’d have to talk about that some more later.

Shortly after, Mom arrived to pick up Chase and Schneep. Stacy’s parents arrived around the same time, and they all said goodbye.

Chase stared out the window as they drove away. He wondered what else they could do while playing that game. It felt like they’d barely scraped the surface of the possibilities. He didn’t want it to be known that he was playing a nerdy game like Caverns and Creatures... but who cared? It was fun. It didn’t matter if the game was nerdy or not, as long as he was playing with his friends.

A shadow watched them all go. Anti was... confused. They’d talked about how fun it was after they thought he had left. So then... why had they shouted at him? Did they just want to lie to him? He didn’t like liars. But he still couldn’t help but like these guys. He didn’t get it.

Well, one thing was clear. If these guys could take down a giant monster in a game, they could handle the Circle. Maybe he should start pushing the two of them closer. He giggled to himself. Yes, that would be fun. He was already looking forward to it.

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onomatopiya · 10 months

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writer tag game!

hiiii thank you @avi-why for tagging me this game seems so fun :D

1. is there a common piece of writing advice that you disagree with? alternatively, is there one you think (generally) most people should follow?

oooooh okay! generally i dislike any hard absolutes like "don't use adverbs ever" because i mean. no piece of advice like that will ever be universal and it's important to consider what Your Piece of writing needs rather than trying to fit a set of ~arbitrary guidelines~

as for advice i think works, i think consistency in writing will always be key to improvement. i like. very heavily stagnated in actual writing after covid (i was like. good lord i was 15 then. wild) because i got bogged down trying to make my book Perfect. and i think if i had actually written more during that time i would be a much better writer now! more writing = more improvement and practice makes pretty damn close to perfect etc etc

2. you can have dinner with any author, living or dead. but the catch is that after the dinner, you and that author will team up against a third writer in a no holds barred cage match throwdown. which 2 authors do you pick?

OOOOH ok. i'm currently very enamored with andrew joseph white and lee mandelo's writing because they both write GORGEOUS prose so maybe one of them? OOO or r.f. kuang . i think tolstoy should get got in the cage match. cry old man

3. have you ever experimented with poetry, plays, or screenwriting? what was the result?

YES i have and now i have a web series. help girl this was not supposed to be longer than a short fiction piece and yet. also shameless self plug you can read my web series about a dead girl haunting her own narrative HERE: https://gloryburning.substack.com/

i do want to experiment more with poetry though!!! that's one medium i haven't really dipped my toes into so to speak

4. what type of rancid twitter discourse would your current wip generate?

oh god what discourse WOULDN'T rr spark. i definitely think having an aroace mc weaponize someone else's attraction to him is probably um. discourse worthy. my top fear is that someone unironically ships lahar (romance and sex repulsed aroace) with anthony (horrible white savior who has no semblance of self) some other notable things that happen in the book:

diversity loss the capitalist kendall roy ass character (anthony) is gay

people of color get to KILL

ruh roh! tragedy :(

horrible horrible body augmentations with dangerous and ableist implications

so much murder. so much assassination. god bless

5. what author would you love to be compared to? what author would you hate to be compared to?

OOOOOOH . uhhhh i love so many authors oh god. i do love neil gaiman i would be so floored if someone compared me to that guy. OH and terry pratchett . probably would not want to be compared to like. jkr. booooo

6. design the ideal piece of merch/swag for your wip.

oh this one is so me bait. i have serious merch and then deeply unserious merch

7. free space: what's one thing you really want to talk about in your writing that no one ever asks about?

I LOVE soulmate horror and just. idk taking different concepts and hitting them with my aroace beam. i love aroace horror i love aroace people. and i think there should be more weird aspec fiction

and question time. putting them below the cut along with tags

what's the first story you can remember writing? how does it compare to the way your writing has evolved? where do you see your writing going in the future?

what parts of yourself (if any) have gone into your current wip? alternatively, how would you fare if you were suddenly dropped into your own wip?

what's one quality of your writing that feels completely unique? what's one thing you want to improve upon in the future?

make or share a meme that you feel captures the essence of your wip.

what are your goals as a writer? do you want to publish? is your writing for your eyes only?

which of your characters is your favorite to write and why?

free space: feel free to be self indulgent--do you have any aus or your wips? if so, what, and if not, what aus/fanfic would you write of your work?

tagging: @macywrites, @cream-and-tea, @saltwaterbells, @coffeeandcalligraphy, @wren-is-writing, @encrucijada, @snowinks, @chayscribbles, @cuntylittlesalmon, and anyone else who wants to do this

#writeblr #tag game #writblr

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yunyin · 11 months

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Intuition liveblog (S5 E15)

Quick note guys, please make sure you don't spoil for future episodes!

Description sounds concerning

Andre AGAIN? I was thinking this was a flashback for a second.

Oh no

Oh, interesting! The lucky charm adapts

Is this pre-Nathalie heel turn?

OH he's been using second chance a bunch and we just never knew??

Oh yikes, his arm, that looks nasty. I wonder what's actually going on in his body right now?

OH SNAP the damage keeps on going while he uses second chance??

Whoa, dude has organ damage? Man, him and Nathalie are really on borrowed time

Also this feels... idk if it's ironic but the whole thing with Adrien's use of the snake in Desperada plus the cataclysm slowly eating Gabriel away... it's something

Oh man, a few weeks?

This is unexpectedly emotional 🥺

also I wonder if there's a plan in place already or if Gabe is gonna go into denial mode or something

Oh, no, he actually seems to be trying to figure it out

I was just wondering if he was in pain but I guess that answers that

Yikes he's gonna blow up I know it I've seen a few spoilery things where he doesn't seem to have much opinion of Marinette and I would not be surprised if this is kind of the start of that

Oh, nope

Adrien's "Papa" 🥺🥺🥺 (I'm watching in French btw)

Tsurugi Space jet

How many industries are they in??

Booooo also, how?

What kind of insane mics do they have

Also, why does she know to check for that, is this a common miraculous related side-effect?

I shouldn't laugh but

So I'm guessing she probably wants a cure for her blindness but I wonder what else?

Mmmm AI... OH, he's gonna akumatize the AI like he did Markov, isn't he? Because a human might go rogue but he's got the codes for this computer

Also that shot is neat, I like it.

I... Max...

They're just flinging her out into space??

...Well, that's a choice.

Aw, Adrien walked her to the nurse

I kinda like the little filigree things going on on Cosmobug's display

DUDE, YOU CAN'T PULL OFF HER EARRINGS IN SPACE

I missed this at first! IDK how I feel about that nickname lol

It's too bad he didn't yank some rings off while he was at it

Also, this is a good ep for their space transformation refs

Well, this is interesting... kind of a callback to Tomoe earlier, too... and he's just shortening his lifespan even more in all these efforts

See???

Man... like it's hard to actually feel that bad for him because he's so awful but it's rough thinking of how hard it would be for Adrien to lose him AND Nathalie.

#miraculous ladybug #yunyin watches ml #ml spoilers #intuition spoilers #ml intuition #ml intuition spoilers #ml s5 spoilers #mlb season 5 spoilers #long post #man liveblogging really will stretch 25 minutes into an hour and a half+

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voiceofsword · 5 months

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Don't ask an enstarrie about their otp worst mistake of your life

The main story. Ouuuugh. Tatsumi just casually complimenting Mayoi or initiating affection.

Tatsumi saying "I think it's a waste you always hide your beautiful face, Mayoi." like the first time these two had a one on one conversation... okay man

Also the main story showing that they both help each other!! Physically and emotionally!!! Tatsumi helped Mayoi when he got sick from being in public and trying to help him with his deprecating thoughts. Tatsumi confides in Mayoi about what happened at reimei before the others and Mayoi carried him when he was tired or in pain. Mayoi says he wants to see the human and dark side of Tatsumi. I'm adding the quote it's so good.

"I hope I will always be the one who understands and accepts him. Including his faults, his dark side – his everything."

SS... screams. The fucking. Line. "Haha. It's okay, Mayoi. You are like a great mother to these kids. Meanwhile, you're also an irreplaceable partner to me." Followed by Mayoi saying "I'm not a mother or a wife, please?!" They're soooo ♡ it's a bit of a debate to alkaloidPs on whether alkaloid should be called a found family and although I'm kind of in the middle I will admit these little interactions are cute. Tatsumi casually assigning Mayoi as a mom friend and him as the dad. Real smooth of you. Side note: I think Tatsumi gets to see another side of Mayoi because later on in the story Tatsumi points out a growth in Mayoi's character and tells him to quiet down after he freaks out about it and Mayoi retaliates by telling him he's the reason he made any noise in the first place. I don't think they'd bicker that much honestly but ♡♡♡ pouty Mayoi could you imagine. Only Tatsumi gets to see it though booooo. There's no lines that really stand out but also Mayoi (+ the juniors) do notice when Tatsumi's health is declining further on in the story. The juniors are more subtle but Mayoi asks when they're on stage. Teehee

They never really get big moments so the rest of what I have are just small little funnier pieces of dialogue... sobs. I'm gonna follow this ask up with one more story though... hehe

THATS SO SWEET... i do remember some of this from main story (especially mayoi carrying tatsumi on his back when his leg pain started to act up again)

its always so ww lovely (lol) when charas constantly go out of their way to help, uplift each other. especially when they make it a point to nurture both their perceived good and bad sides, they can appreciate everything about the other person and feel safe with them regardless 🥺

always being alert for when the other is down so they can pick them up... its one of the reasons i think they mesh well, on account of tatsumi (chronically ill) and mayoi (mayoi) being two people who've both struggled with their health for various reasons, that they can have someone they can openly rely on and eventually not feel like a burden, but that doesnt necessarily mean they will treat each other like glass (i think early on this is more the case but as time advances i can only hope they grow more confident with each other..? pleading emoji again)

but also the. that line kind of just took me out. suethdtgushwergu its so silly. i think while tatsumi is probably completely genuine in some of the things he says that fluster mayoi itd be even funnier to consider him saying stuff like that to fluster him on purpose, considering mayoi makes such a big deal out of it. not to laugh or anything, but because he thinks its cute. arghhghh. holy man who is a little cheeky and little creature who tries his best not to melt in his light. tatsumi seems to be a man that has a lot of affection to give while mayois completely foreign to the concept.

putting this under a read more because it doesnt really pertain to ttmy but more a comment on the found family debate u mentioned, but along the vein of the ss comment

(i personally do think alkaloid could be kind of a found family, but i understand some people's wariness towards it since a lot of the time it just forces the characters into nuclear roles — it's rly easy to forget ur friends can be your family too :').

ofc that line leaves little to the imagination as to what tatsumi means but i think in This Case implying he's the 'dad' of alkaloid is telling of himself for Obbligato Reasons™. putting them in what he considers to be traditional roles and choosing himself as the father figure of the group shows that hes someone who subconsciously takes charge and 'bears the burdens' of the rest of alkaloid. this is ofc not me trying to say that should be the case, fictional or not, but judging by tatsumis past behavior it just makes sense to me that this is a thought pattern he would pick up.

but its also killing me that he cant find another way to express his appreciation towards mayoi than being like You are like the mother to my children. asjhkdsdkjhfkj. can somebody teach this man how to flirt normally!!

that being said, theyre all like.. almost the same age so the assertion is rly funny to me, i love tatsumis old man roleplaying sometimes. i truly do think in his head that he thinks this family dynamic is 100% real. the other 3? not so much)

#mimthinks #FOR THE RECORD in the read more. this is not me being like that quote sucks bc i think it still rules. its still crazy gay #just in a different way. but genuinely i do think tatsumi thinks like that #whereas mayois like (flustered) huh. HUH??? QWAR. what do you MEAN??#more at the audacity of the statement than anything else...#i will take a look at the other ask later ww i am not who i used to be a year ago.. writing more than 2 sentences takes me OUT

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#12 - Be honest, how many outfit tabs do they have? And #13 - Let’s see those outfits! Which of the outfits is their main outfit and why?

Oooh we're diving into Aeony's wardrobe for this one!

(From these asks)

Pic of Aeony because I love her!! 🥰

Sooo...this is gonna be long so I'm just gonna go ahead and...

12. Be honest, how many outfit tabs do they have?

The short answer is 10. But we're being honest here, so...honestly... some of those slots have been replaced over time. Going by the number of outfits she's had historically, she probably had closer to 15 or 16 outfits. Some of them were pretty awful and I feel bad for disrespecting my baby like that. I've had Aeony the longest of my current characters, so I've done the most tinkering on her.

13. Let's see those outfits!

So... A bit of a disclaimer about Aeony's wardrobe. It's very much a work in progress. I first designed Aeony during the DARK TIMES (ie...before Arcann was an available love interest) and my concept for her was "Make a character so I can pretend to romance Arcann." I won't get into detail about her characterization because this post isn't about that, but my concept for her aesthetic was "Matchy Matchy with Arcann." So I decided early on that her colors would be either white, or white and gray (and this kinda spilled over to the rest of my legacy). And I wanted to avoid going totally matchy matchy by using Thexan's robes. Thus...the great adventure to find Aeony the perfect outfit began!

So without further ado, here are the outfits I have collected for her over the years!

This one was an attempt to give Aeony a Zakuul aesthetic, but...eh. I wasn't jazzed about it. I hardly ever use it, and to be honest...I kinda forget it's even there.

This is an EARLY outfit, and Aeony did wear this for a hot minute back during her first run of KotFE/ET. She hasn't returned to it since the time before stamping your weapon was a thing, so her gear lightsaber is showing! I actually kind of like this look, but for some reason it doesn't click as her MAIN outfit.

Aeony actually wore this for a looooong time, but didn't accomplish anything in the story. It's a nice outfit, but for some reason it's also just not clicking for me.

I actually thought this would be her main outfit, but I think it's a bit too rugged and doesn't QUITE mesh with her personality.

This is the closest I've come to finding THE ONE TRUE OUTFIT. I love love love this set, and it looks amazing dyed white, BUT....

See, here's the back. The black is un-dye-able. Booooo. It looks kinda cool, but doesn't match Aeony's carefully crafted aesthetic. So I thought to myself, maaaaybe I can make it work if I fuck around with it?

Here's my attempt to fuck around and find out... it looks okay, but it probably would look better with a black & white dye...and that's not Aeony. It's a bummer, because from the front I think it's actually decent. But I'll be seeing it mostly from the back. And I can't handle the un-dye-able black. I CANNOT. *stamps foot*

This is Aeony's OLDEST outfit, which she completed most of her class story with. You can tell it's old because Aeony was in her pointy headdress era. I like this outfit. But it belongs to a bygone era...Aeony has moved on!

Another oldie but a goodie....Satele's set! I think I ditched this look because at the time EVERYONE else was wearing it. Including Satele. One of them had to change, so I decided it would be Aeony...and then Satele changed her outfit 😂

Getting near the end now! I love this outfit. It's probably the closest I've come to finding Aeony's signature "look"...but I dunno. Something is keeping me on the fence about it.

I using this armor currently...and so is everyone else...but it's a good placeholder, I think. The search for Aeony's perfect outfit is eternal and ongoing. But the outfit of my dreams is out there, I just know it!!!

And those are her outfits! This was such a fun ask, thank you so much!!! 🥰

#swtor #swtor oc #star wars the old republic #shy's oc #Shynmighty OC: Aeony #swtor jedi knight #shynmight asks #shynmighty plays space barbies

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hldailyupdate · 2 years

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“What’s your name? You guys down here. Yeah you. Nina! Hi Nina! Make some noise for Nina everybody! And what’s your friend's name. Hannah! Nina and Hannah! Nice!”

“Can I read this out? ‘Here to celebrate my breakup and graduation!’. What did you graduate from? Architect. And what did you graduate from? What did you break up from? Same thing! Boyfriend?”

“How long you been together? 4 years? Good innits that, long time! What happened, no you don’t have to tell us. Just a bad vibes? FOR FOUR YEARS? Okay the first bit was okay, then it turned bad vibes.”

“What was their name? Marcel? I’m gonna ASSUME that it was his fault. Mutual? Was it mutual? You ended it. He messed up! Marcel messed up! Marcel could be lovely, I don’t know the person, no idea, could be lovely, but what do we think of Marcel? Booooo! Thank you for being here tonight, congrats on architect! Poor Marcel, no idea. He’s sitting at home somewhere, thinking aww I’m gonna have a quiet nice night, a nice night, little does he know there’s a room full of people going BOOOO! Could be lovely, probably not.”

-Harry talking to a fan about their ex.

Love On Tour 2022: Cologne. (22 July 2022)

#harry styles #harry update #love on tour #love on tour 2022: cologne #quote #july 2022

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I've been getting into baseball recently, and it's got me thinking about the weird push for Americans to get into soccer. (I'm not imagining that, am I? The weird disdain you see for people who prefer football?)

A lot of people in college would tell me that soccer was the only sport worth caring about, because it's so popular worldwide. I always thought that was a funny argument. Like, why should it matter to me that I'm watching the same game as someone on a different continent? Isn't it kinda cooler if there's a wide variety of games worldwide?

Baseball is the biggest in the US, I'm sure, but it's also huge in countries like Japan, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba... and that's really cool, I think! The fact that baseball resonates so much with the people there says something small, but interesting about both the sport and the culture and history of the area. And cricket is a big deal in India and Australia - it's not a sport I care about much, but I love how there are places where people do care. I just find stuff like that so cool, and it would really depress me to think that the only metric for how much a sport should matter is how many countries agree that it matters.

Not sure if this is anything you'd care about, sorry - just, booooo to globalism, I guess! Regional quirks are good for humanity!

So, first off, if you're just getting into baseball I'd enthusiastically recommend the PBS documentary Baseball by Ken Burns. I just started getting into baseball this year too (went to my first MLB game even) and it's a really great way to learn the history of the sport and why certain players and plays and teams and games are still talked about today.

Second, in America, soccer is the little known hipster Euro indie band of sports. It doesn't matter if it's good or not, it's just unpopular enough to be cool and it's foreign, so people who want to look down on American culture latch onto it. I don't really know why soccer never caught on in the US. It can't be because it's boring or slow, because baseball can also be boring and slow, at least before they implemented the pitch clock (which I think is the greatest change the game has even seen and I probably just made a lot of people very mad lol) and that's the third most popular sport in the country. It can't be because it isn't violent like football or hockey, because, again, baseball, and also basketball because basketball players are the literal softest athletes in the world when it comes to fouls and basketball is more popular than soccer. It can't be because there's too many white people--hockey--or too many non white people--basketball.

I dunno, I'm going off on a side quest here.

You're right, "the rest of the world likes this" is one of the stupidest reasons to like something. Hell, I vastly prefer the XFL over the NFL, and me and my husband are watching Slamball later on tonight. I've watched all kinds of combat sports, and things like Wipeout and American Ninja Warrior. I've watched pro wrestling and amateur wrestling. I've watched grappling fights. I've watched figure skating. Snowboarding. Sure, many of these I've only watched once or twice, but the sheer variety of sports that are out there, some regional, some not, is a great thing. You can always find something that appeals to you. Even if it's only you and a few other people watching. One of the great things about sports is its ability to connect a room full of complete strangers for a few hours. Whether that "room" is your living room, or a sports bar, or a backyard, or a stadium filled to capacity doesn't matter at all. As long as you're enjoying something and getting something out of it, that's all that matters. The "best" sport is impossible to determine with any objectivity. The most popular sport is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what's fun to watch or play.

Besides, we all know the best sport is Blitzball anyway.

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lucysablefan · 5 months

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lucysablefan 2023 review

also i didn't get to talk abt my top however many things that i've watched in 2023 and i'm probably going to have to make this into a thread but firdt of all revenant and celebrity are definitely Up There for me from the cast to the story and everything else i was completely into those shows and that's a lot for me bc getting bored halfway into a show is my number one (reluctant) hobby.

i definitely think revenant escaped that partly bc there was no obvious romance plot for me to get bored after they get tgt but even without it being obvious kim taeri and hong kyung tgt in that show was one of the best decision ever made in cinema. kim taeri stuns us once again with her amazing acting + shim dalgi moment s, that was great i'm still not done watching more of her stuff but i really do love seeing her in stuff i'm watching it's always a delightful surprise and she slayed that role like it was written for her so that was great. oh jungse was there too (ig 🙄) and it was nice he did his job and i was sold + yang hyeji moment ! always a blast seeing her in anything (will make another appearance when i talk abt sweet home 2 in this post eventually)

now celebrity,,, amazing drama, i'll be honest at first i wasn't too sold on the influencer plotline but it's a park gyuyoung drama and as a humble lesbian i just had to tune in + lee chungha slay once again, i've loved her ever since vampire detective and this character was amazing for her

anyways i loved the plot, loved the execution, one grievance i have is definitely the fact that seo ari ends up with that loser classist guy intead of yoon sihyeon which was??? like if not for homophobia ik they would have ended up tgt bc seo ari has too much respect to stay with hjk for sure

also one thing i absolutely Have to comment on is that one scene where seo ari ruins her dress and then she goes "i can just pay for it" or smth along those lines and when she realizes what she said she gets a little taken aback? ye that scene birthed me actually bc??? what amazing writing truly just art

also literally the whole cast in that show was just like oh ye i'm an amazing performer and here's proof so that was definitely a treat for the audience (me)

now smth that Didn't come out during that year but i finally watched bc of park sewan (i still haven't finished doona but when i found out she played in it i was like!!!! school 2017 actress moment, idk why i have this weird cast of school 2017 thing but i do and it simply can't be helped) anwz it's!!!! ultimate weapon alice or wth title that you know it by. now i'll be honest the ending? i wasn't thrilled but i also didn't care much for it bc this drama just felt like one where the ending really isn't that important like ye i used to study lit so having an "oh this is a tragedy (shakespeare war flashbacks)" moment is always nice but that's not what this is abt, the sound design (? eng isn't my first language so don't be mean to me) alone makes this show better than average, the writing? impeccable, those imaginary somewhat comedic scenes? right up my alley, every episode was just a treat after another i had a Great time watching it, the characters and their dynamics were truly amazing and the acting was just constantly delivering once again i just love park sewan and i will finish watching doona for her (mostly, i love suzy too ofc <3)

now smty else i watched that i lived this year : enigma. what a show, short but a masterpiece nonetheless and i can't wait for s2 although obv as i was forced to learn through being a cw nancy drew fan, i should always keep my expectations low when the first season is a little too good. also prim won't be there which booooo,, but i'll get over it and i can't wait to see the new charas.

one thing to know abt me : i love visually pleasing stuff and if you play around with format a little bit and add some great mixed media to your show not only am i sold but i'm also telling whoever is willing to listen to go and watch your show i'm easy and i'm not ashamed.

anwz brain no worky anymore so i'll add onto this eventually but don't hold me to that (just rmbrd i have to talk abt sweet home 2 so i Will be back for that hehe)

#enigma the series #celebrity kdrama #park gyuyoung #lee chungha #kim taeri #revenant #revenant kdrama #hong kyung #was also in school 2017 btw #oh jungse #park sewan #ultimate weapon alice #alice the final weapon #yang hyeji

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