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dribs-and-drabbles · 4 months

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✨2023: A Summary✨

Post your most popular and/or favourite edit/gifset/analysis for each month (it’s okay to skip months!)

Tagged by @daymork - Thanks for wanting to see how my analyses 'popped off and what my personal favs are!' 💖

January

most popular — Bad Buddy/My School President parallel - not an analysis but people do love a good parallel!

favourite(s) — Never Let Me Go discussion - I love when something I write inspires others and it sets off a long thread where people keep adding to it. | Another Bad Buddy/My School President parallel - not technically my post but I love the additions I brought together on this.

February

most popular/favourite(s) — The colour-coding of Bed Friend - another long thread where others joined in.

March

most popular/favourite(s) — A ramble about Moonlight Chicken - which includes a little analysis of the show as it ended.

April

most popular — "What exactly does being blue/red/yellow/etc. coded mean?" - I don't get asks often but I was humbled that someone came to me to understand what colour-coding meant.

favourite(s) — Chains of Heart colours series - I was late to the series, and it ended disappointingly, but the colours were brilliant. | Colour-coded folks in UMG - not a bl but they also colour-coded the leads.

May - n/a - I didn't really write any big posts/analysis this month.

June

most popular — "It's the right moment to kiss!" Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS - Aof calling himself out as well as us bl fans.

favourite(s) — Colours in Our Skyy 2 BBS x ATOTS - I couldn't resist writing about it since it stayed consistent to how they used colours in the original series.

July

most popular — The casting of Be My Favourite - the realisation that the 'odd pairing' of Krist and Gawin was integral to the story being told.

favourite(s) — Be My Favourite ep 9 - the ep that got me thinking about the characters even more. | Kawi and his sense of Self - where I dip my toe into philosophy, theories of The Self, and how memory plays a part in that.

August

most popular/favourite(s) — Laws of Attraction ep 5 - I loved everything about this series but this was the one that got the most attention - maybe because it featured Silvy a lot? 😂

September

most popular — Friends don't let friends go - which pairs with Only friends stay (posted in Oct), and which say a lot about the group and Boston.

favourite(s) — Clowned correctly Laws of Attraction - I just love when something flippant I say is (sort of) right in the end!

October

most popular — The Rainbow Best sweater - not an analysis, nor any created art...but the sweater itself is art, as is that so many characters and actors have worn it.

favourite(s) — Getting emotional over Kiseki: Dear to Me - this was the ep that hit me in the feels. | The Thai Communal Wardrobe items #6 and #3 - again not analysis or art but the start of the communal wardrobe list!

November

most popular — Mhok's Fart Proudly t-shirt - this had me going back to my Bad Buddy days of analysing t-shirts.

favourite(s) — Horney Hockey part 1 and part 2 - more t-shirts, more fantastic additions. | A thought on Night and Day - I'm still so curious about Day and Night's relationship and I can't wait to find out what their deal is. | Band aids on Rung's car and the goldfish slippers the symbolism of Mhok and day's 'damage' and the healing that they're doing. | "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly" | The t-shirts are definitely t-shirting - these last two are essentially reflecting on the same thing - the sentiments in The Little Prince story that Mhok reads out in ep 1 of Last Twilight.

December

most popular — Mhok is Day's eyes - a brilliant use of colour in Last Twilight.

favourite(s) — Couple bracelets - just me excited over possibilities. | Most memorable items of clothing in bl series in 2023 - looking back through the year. | The Thai Communal Wardrobe bl advent - this was a fun series to do...and it only encompassed about a third of the items on the list, so I'll be posting them in dribs and drabs throughout the year.

Tagging people who also tend to write analysis or meta posts, I'd love to see which were a hit with the masses and also which were your favourites: @wen-kexing-apologist @grapejuicegay @lurkingshan @btwinlines @twig-tea @rocketturtle4 @waitmyturtles @telomeke and @respectthepetty

#tag meme #tag game #bl wrapped 2023 #thanks again jessi!#userjjessi

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im-a-king-baby · 7 months

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Hiii i loved ELYN so much.

I was hoping for any other tidbits/stories/scenes about Simon carrying the frog in the sock. i just wondered if it was like his comfort object or like the orange sweater etc. .That was one of my favorite scenes when Wille finds it

And/or “i wanted to wake up with you” i dont think i will ever forget that line.

💜 thank youuuu

Okay so I'm sorry this is so very late. Life has been a Lot 😅 hopefully folks are still interested in my ramblings!

<3 <S <3

"I wanted to wake up with you."

Fun fact: I almost cut this line. It was originally in the first draft where Simon never made the late-night-call that led everyone to Bjarstad and I was worried that after I'd made that change this line would put people off Simon, because at this point (in theory) Simon knows that Wilhelm had to get up because of what Simon did during the night so it's a bit unfair to Wilhelm. But then I figured Simon's in withdrawal, he's going to be resentful and frustrated and just because intellectually he knows it's his fault that doesn't mean he's not still having those feelings.

As far as the wanting goes, Simon is just dragging himself through life at the moment. He had this whole spiral of failing to sleep, eventually managed it by basically promising himself a future where he'd wake up and things would still be like they were when they went to bed, just the two of them avoiding the world. Plus withdrawal emotions, plus Candace showing up, the bubble is fully burst and this line is Simon tired and resentful and having to face it.

In case you're interested in how things change in editing, this is the first draft version of this moment (in this version Candace showed up basically the moment the queen left which would have been one hell of a coincidence).

“People always leave before I wake up. Maybe they think I’ll be less fun sober, probably they’re right.” “I wasn’t trying to leave you.” “Okay.” It’s the same tone of voice, accepting but not believing. “Are you going back to Stockholm with her?” He pushes himself off the wall, crossing into the kitchen and opening cupboards at random. It’s Friday morning. Wilhelm is due on TV at six PM. He’s supposed to be attending multiple prep meetings, seeing a stylish and a make-up artist before that. Minou is no doubt already at full panic stations. “I can stay if you want me to.” He stands up as Simon emerges from a cupboard with a half full bottle of vodka. “I can help you look for a lawyer. Or we could go for a walk.” Simon unscrews the bottle. “If you want to go, you can go.” The roar of an engine surges outside. Simon is closer to the window, and Wilhelm sees the moment his face shuts down, the inevitability of it, a moment before he sees Candace emerge from a sleek white car. “I want to be here for you. If you’ll let me,” Wilhelm says, picking at a conversation that’s already died as Simon braces his shoulders like a solider going into battle and tilts the bottle up to take three long swallows. Candace raps three times on the door. “Simme! Open this door right the fuck now.” Simon looks at Wilhelm over the bottle. “I wanted to wake up with you.”

x🐸🐸🐸x THE FROG x🐸🐸🐸x

After six hours of meetings a car comes to drive him to the hotel. Rachel tells him to order whatever he likes from room service and to be in the lobby for seven thirty the next morning and then he’s letting himself into a luxury hotel room. There’s a lounge, a bedroom, a bathroom with a full size bath and a separate shower with six different heads.

He takes the frog out of his bag and places it on the bedside table overlooking the pillow then pulls out his phone. He’d messaged Wilhelm when he arrived (Landed! Hopefully someone comes to pick me up!) and now he sees Wilhelm has texted three times since.

Good luck! La doesnt know whats hit it! Everything okay? I’m awake, no plans today whenever you want to call

Simon texts back: Sorry! Dumped straight into meetings all day. I’m kind of exhausted, can we do tomorrow?

Wilhelm: Of course! Jet lags a bitch. Sleep well, I love you xxx

Simon picks up the menu off the side but his stomach is still protesting the bagel it thinks it had in the middle of the night and he kicks off his trainers and his jeans and crawls into the mega bed.

After a moment, he reaches over and picks up the frog again, runs his thumb across the nose, and settles back down with it’s weight firm in his palm as he types: Love you toox

x🐸x

Candace tells him they’re going to Sweden in the same matter-of-fact voice she uses to tell him anything. The label won’t approve a third single. We have to crowdfund plane tickets. We can’t afford to keep the whole band, who can you live without? I’ve booked us a week in Stockholm and put word out to local news sites and venues, we’ll be taking the buses up there after Paris.

Simon reaches for his backpack on instinct, touches the front pocket where Wilhelm’s frog has been nestled since they left L.A. “Should I… I should call Wilhelm, right? Let him know?”

Candace glances at him over her iPad. “Sure,” she says. “Let me know if you need me to put him on the List.”

Simon leaves the meeting, twisting his phone over and over between his hands. They’re going to Sweden. For the first time since he flew out and it’s - he glances at his phone again - it’s September.

Fuck, it’s September. It’s September 2024, somehow. It’s been over a year since he left Sweden, since he last saw Wilhelm. He scrolls through the contacts on his phone but Wilhelm isn’t in there, of course Wilhelm isn’t in there, Simon got this phone back in L.A. and he hadn’t had time to transfer anything across. That had been last Christmas. Ten months ago and god, where had that time gone?

He could ask Candace to get Wilhelm’s number. That’s what she does, she sorts things. Wilhelm doesn’t answer the phone to unknown numbers. Obviously. But Simon could write a text or something. Hi, this is Simon. I know you said there was no way we could make it work because I was so busy all the time but I’m going to be in Sweden and I’ll still be busy all the time and you’re probably off in the army somewhere but -

It sounds stupid. It is stupid. There is no ‘but’, they don’t work and that has always been abundantly clear.

He unzips his backpack and the frog is there in it’s tiny golden crown, glitter still clinging to the paint because glitter is a bitch that can never be removed.

There’s a scratch across it’s nose, deep enough that Simon’s nail can catch against it. Hi Wilhelm, this is Simon, I know we haven’t talked for a while but I need to give you your frog back because you trusted me to keep one thing safe and I couldn’t even -

He scrolls back up his contacts to Guitar, Kevan and types: drinks?

His suitcase is at the edge of the room, surrounded by a scattering of costume pieces and toiletries. He digs through chains and glitter to find a pair of probably-clean socks and tucks the frog inside, where it’ll be safe.

His phone buzzes: party in 267

He just needs something to calm his nerves, to settle his stomach.

He’ll ask Candace to get the number tomorrow. Or, there’s a show tomorrow, next time he has a free minute.

He tucks the bundle down into the case and heads out of the room.

x🐸x

His case is still on the floor of his bedroom half full from tour. Technically he’s been back in L.A. for two months but unpacking was one of those ‘I’ll do it later’ things that has now somehow come full circle. He tugs out clothes, nudging them into the ever growing laundry for the cleaners to pick up once he’s gone.

His hand finds something solid and he pulls it out. Socks, with something inside, and his throat catches as he remembers September, Sweden. Everyone talking to him in Swedish, fans screaming 'jag älskar dig!' like it wasn’t… like…

Candace promised the next tour could skip it. And if he’s not going to Sweden, he can’t give the frog back, so there’s no point having it. He doesn’t need it.

He folds the socks around it a little tighter, stands up to push it into the back of his sock drawer, underneath everything else. It’ll be safer there.

Two days later the taxi is honking it’s horn outside as he runs back into the room, upends the whole drawer on the floor and grabs the wrapped bundle, shoving it into his pocket on his way out the door.

x🐸x

There’s a fresh bruise forming on his collarbone, a faded one on the side of his neck, a man whose name he doesn’t know snoring face down on the cheap polyester pillows.

He runs his thumb back and forth across the nose of the tiny frog statue, lets his head thump back against the wall to stare up at the ceiling and count down the hours until dawn.

#elyn fic #elyn ficlet #commentary meme #I got a new job and I moved house and I have not done any writing in weeks #but hopefully I'll be more settled soon #tw: alcohol #tw: addiction #classic angst #what I learned from the wake up line is that I should never assume people will think bad things about simon #he is a precious angel

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aisquaredchoco · 1 year

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Maria Clara: A timeless symbol of Filipino womanhood

Maria Clara is a character from Dr. Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere, who was introduced as the protagonist Crisostomo Ibarra's fianceé. Not only was she known for being the love interest of the protagonist, but also became the standard of how a Filipino woman should look and act: modest, elegant, and well mannered, just as how Maria Clara was portrayed in the said novel.

(some ramblings below the cut..)

So...apparently my PC is in good shape again. Turns out a dirt in the RAM was the only problem it had. First thing I did after taking it home was to fire up my TS3 game and have these pretty pics set up. I've been wanting to show something from my heritage through sims, and this came up to mind. Only that the cc in TS3 was lacking in this department but there were a few workarounds. Also I've been being hesitant in editing my screenshots as I've always wanted to show pictures as how they are in the game, but this one is an exception as I was aiming for a classic, old timey aura of these photos. I only used some filters from Windows 10's built in photo editor and the results were already satisfying. Raw shots below:

...aaand CC credits, of course! Wouldn't have done these screenshots without these things: hair by Newsea converted by @carversims, scarf by Ersel, top is from base game with lace pattern by @simlicious, necklace is from Late Night, and these pictures were shot in the beautiful Casa Simeon, made by @jg-abuyuan-art, that truly captures the Spanish colonial era feel.

#ts3 screenshots #sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 historical

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nodirectionhome-ao3 · 3 months

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✄? So curious!

Hey! Thanks for playing!

✄ what’s your editing process?

Oh man, I wish I had a more specific answer for this because my process is just kind of…sporadic? Unpredictable?

There are chapters where I have a very clear idea of what the tone is going to be and how I want to arrange everything that needs to happen. For those chapters (I think ksfm chapter 27 and tjatq chapter 2 were the last ones like this), I pretty much just write one draft and then do a quick proofread before posting it. So very minimal editing! But for other chapters/fics, I have plans for what I want to include for the plot but I don’t know what order some of the scenes should be in and it takes a while to get the pacing how I want it.

I guess in terms of process, it’s just a lot of rereading? Every time I feel like I’m stuck on a scene or section, I take a break and then return and start with a reread of the entire draft from the beginning. If I’m still stuck after that, I go back and reread the previous chapter(s), and that usually helps me get back into it! I’ve also found that it helps me to read the draft out loud to myself (very quietly😅) because that’s how I determine if anything sounds clunky/if the dialogue sounds like something people would actually say!

Lately I’ve found that I’m doing more rewriting of scenes, and a fair amount of rearranging — there are so many scenes that I just love and want so badly to include but find myself moving to later chapters/deleting because they feel out of place when I reread. I’ve also found that some of my favorite additions to my fics have been things I’ve thought of in the middle of the night when I’m trying to fall asleep. I often find myself grabbing my phone at like 3 am and typing out ideas in my phone’s notes app because it’s faster than opening up my writing document. 😅

This is a bit of a rambling answer😂 but the overall gist is that I don’t really have a set process. It very much depends on how much planning I’ve done beforehand. When it comes to KSFM, I have the overall plot planned out in a fairly detailed way, but some chapters are more specifically planned than others in my outline. The ones that are more intricately planned are easier to edit, because I basically just have to proofread, whereas the others take so much longer because I find myself questioning everything more.

Hopefully someday I’ll find the time to do some more editing to my outline so I don’t have to do as much editing when writing! But I don’t know when I’ll get the time to do that😅

Thanks for the question! 🫶

#cam writes #ask game

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bi-bard · 1 year

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Peaceful - Sebastian Sanger Imagine [Titans]

Title: Peaceful

Pairing: Sebastian Sanger X Reader

Word Count: 1,468 words

Waring(s): brief mention of murder/arrest

Summary: (Y/n) and Sebastian had been dancing around each other for far too long. When circumstances take place that neither one of them could have ever predicted, there may be enough of a push for both of them to finally take a step forward.

Author's Note: I would like to think that none of you are surprised by this. After so many years, y'all know my type.

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I met Sebastian a long time ago.

In all honesty, it was a bit of a blur of exactly when I met him. I just knew that we had grown close faster than I had grown close to anyone else before. He was easily the closest thing I had ever had to a best friend.

It had become a habit for me to show up at his shop with food or coffee just so I could spend time there.

"Seb! I've got coffee!"

It took a minute, but he soon walked out from the back of the shop.

"Hey," I smiled, holding out a cup. "I know it's a little late, but I thought you'd like this."

"Thank you," he muttered with a shy smile as he took the cup.

"How've you been," I asked.

"Good, fine," he nodded. "Um, busy. I- uh- I spent all day working on this guy."

He motioned at the animal on the counter.

I furrowed my eyebrows before walking around the counter so I could look at his work. I grinned at it.

"I am so jealous of your work," I said. "You make small detail work look like it's second nature."

"It- It's nothing."

"Nothing?" I scoffed. "If I could hold my hand this steady, I would never stop showing off."

"Maybe you should cut back on the caffeine," he replied. I looked over at him. "Stops your hands from shaking."

I laughed before lightly elbowing him in the side. "Ass."

He didn't speak back, instead choosing to take another sip of his coffee as he shrugged at me.

"How was your day," he asked.

"Good, good," I nodded. "Oh, that book series that I've been looking for? I found it. All of it. And not for a small fortune either."

"That special edition you wanted?"

"With the beautiful covers and the pretty page edges and everything," I put a hand on my chest as I smiled to myself. "Had to drop it off at home before I brought your coffee over."

"Do you not trust me around your fancy books?"

"I don't trust the rest of the world around my fancy books," I corrected. "You are an exception. You may come to visit them whenever you'd like."

He chuckled, looking down for a moment.

"God, I'm so excited about them..."

I started rambling about the book series. I had a habit of doing that. Sebastian never interrupted me when I did. He just sat and listened. I appreciated that. Never feeling like I was wasting someone's time. It was nice.

It took me a while, but I noticed that something was different during my speech.

I looked over at him. He was staring at me. There was this... glazed over look in his eyes. It made me pause for a moment. Like all I could do was fixated on it.

I took a deep breath before speaking up, "Seb?"

He jumped a bit, blinking a few times. "Sorry."

"It's alright," I replied. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, yeah, just... just tired."

"You sure?"

He nodded.

"Maybe we should call it a night?"

Another nod. "I... I have to get prepared for that meeting anyway."

"Let me know if you need a practice crowd," I grinned. "I'll see you later."

"Yeah, see you."

I waved as I walked out of the shop.

I wish that I could have predicted what was going to happen within the next multiple days.

I thought that everything was okay. I was still visiting Seb. He told me about how his meeting didn't go to plan. But nothing seemed particularly strange. it just felt like normal life.

And then, I got a call from the police department.

Sebastian had gotten arrested for murder.

They wouldn't let me see him. I was angry and scared and worried. I couldn't afford to be there all day with no promise of seeing him. I just wasn't in a position to do that.

"Can- Can you call me? Is there a way to leave you my number and have you call-"

My discussion with the woman at the desk was cut short by a loud crash. I stepped back for a moment. It took me a split second to realize the chaos unfolding before I ran outside.

I rounded the building, making it to the alleyway next to it. I saw Sebastian getting dragged into a car.

"Hey!" I yelled, running over to the man. "Let him go!"

"I'm saving him," the man said like I would just accept him abducting my best friend.

"I don't give a shit!" I stepped between him and the door.

"Move."

He went to grab me but I ducked into the car, sitting right next to Sebastian in the backseat.

"What are you doing?"

"Take him, then you take me too," I replied.

"Get out."

I buckled the seatbelt before crossing my arms over my chest. "No."

The man looked at the other person in the car, who seemed to relent to my demands. The door shut next to me.

"(Y/n)," Sebastian asked.

"You didn't think I'd let you get abducted alone, did you?" I forced a grin to him.

Honestly, I hadn't thought about the consequences of this. I just reacted. All I wanted to do was to protect Sebastian. It was a ridiculous idea, but it was all that I had.

I didn't think about any of it before we had found ourselves in the middle of the woods, both of us sitting together on a blanket as the rest of the team around us worked out some kind of plan for their next steps.

"They've been doing this for a while," I said, looking at the RV. "I can see it. When people have been around each other for so long that their motions are just... automatic."

"Like us?" Sebastian muttered.

"Oh, we're a prime example," I chuckled, nodding as I looked back at him.

There was a pause between us.

"Why did you come with us," Sebastian asked quietly. "You... You didn't need to. You could have gone home. Forgot about me. I... I'm nothing of importance-"

"You are to me," I cut him off.

He looked down, twiddling with his thumbs.

"You are the most important person in my life," I explained. "You have been for a very long time now."

I reached out and touched the side of his face.

"And it's not because of some great power or responsibility or whatever they call what is happening now," I continued. "But because you are one of the best people I have ever met. You are everything to me."

He closed his eyes for a moment, leaning into my touch a little more.

"I'm not going anywhere," I promised. "Not just because they've seen my face and being with the Titans is probably safer than being on my own. But because I... I want to be with you, Seb."

There was this long pause between us as his eyes opened. I grinned at him. He nervously grinned back, looking down at the ground.

I pulled my hand away slowly.

"Seb?" I said quietly. He looked back at me. "Can I kiss you?"

"Do you want to?"

I nodded. "I have for a while."

"Oh..."

There was another pause. "Can I?"

He stammered a little bit when he realized that he hadn't answered me. "Yeah- I mean, yes, if you want to-"

I leaned over and pressed my lips to his.

It felt like time suddenly caught up with me. Like some part of me had been stuck in that store where we first met and now that we had finally kissed, it was sent flying back into my chest. So much lost time was being made up for with one kiss.

It was awkward. Short.

I leaned back slowly. I smiled when I saw that his eyes stayed shut for a little while longer. His eyes opened before he finally smiled back at me.

I glanced over his shoulder and chuckled. "We have an audience."

He turned around.

Rachel was standing up by the RV, seemingly waiting for us to be done with our moment together.

He chuckled and look back at me, covering his blushing face with his hands.

"We may need to get used to that," I muttered. "I don't think you're going to be left alone for a while."

"It'll be worth it," he mumbled back, reaching over to grab my hand.

I looked down at our intertwined fingers.

I didn't know it at the time, but this was one of the last moments where I would feel completely at peace.

And it was all because of him.

All I could hope was that I brought him the same kind of peace that he brought to me.

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hushroomloser · 1 year

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Chris Evans short story part 5

Pairing: ReaderxChrisEvans

Request: Meeeee

Prompt: “I’m sorry I thought you were somebody else”

Warning(s): I’m a first-time writer

Word count: 1457

A/N: Hey online strangers, I wrote the first part a while back and have the rest of the story in my drive but have never posted it. This story I wrote way back in 2019 :'(. I will be posting at random times if you stay and read it thank you so much. Enjoy xoxox - I have no idea how many parts this story and technically I haven’t an ending yet.

I honestly to god have no more inspiration so this story will just be here for another 3 more years

Bye

… I am back lol. I have no idea who even is enjoying this but yeah. I wrote this during finals so please excuse everything from it. From the grammar to the plot lol. I shall maybe edit it or something. Honestly didn’t this story needed more parts or anything and plus I am trying my hardest to make into a your name type without writing yourr name cause I never found it cute and plus whenever I read a yn i read out the yn has like yoon for some reason. So yeah

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Tension seemed to vibrate in the small cab, unlike the music slowly playing in the background their beating hearts seemed to rage louder. The sound of the bustling town waking up, the streets retreating for the night as the walk of shamers running back to their own homes.

All the stolen glances and accidental touches that emerged from that cap ride burned them brighter than the crack of dawn arising in the back. At each brush, unbearable to one another they shifted in their seats. She couldn’t breathe she thought. Concentrate, concentrate, she repeated.

Her smell intoxicated him, his desire to touch her was especially unbearable and the butterflies in his stomach did not help. At each glance, it seemed more and more like a free fall into her beautiful eyes, what was happening to him? This pull she had on him, he could not put it into words. How could he? He was slowly and idiotically falling in love with a stranger. How could one explain this?

As they arrived at the ER parking lot, the taxi driver glanced at them through the mirror and smiled to himself, “That will be 20 $ miss.”

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“She’s going to be late.”

“Why? I NEED my coffee.”

“Well, calm down princess. She called me saying she was bringing in someone she hit or something.” The brunette in her blue scrubs sat down at her desk. She had quickly finished her morning rounds for this casualty that her friend had picked up. She really didn’t understand her rambling earlier, but she had prepared a corner room.

“Do not worry I will bring you your coffee first thing.”

“Please.” He whined, “Do not make me drink this.” Gesturing to his surroundings.” place sewer water that passes for coffee.” She giggled.

“Yes, sir” Kissing him before leaving for his own rounds.

Lizzy had finished her residency two years prior, while her beautiful, caffeine addict finance had just entered his. As a non-traditional medical school graduate, he was older than most of his peers, but that never stopped him. And she loved him for that.

She was the friendly, bubbly, sunshine of a resident and he was the nerd, shy and quiet second-year med student. Everyone thought it could never work, how could it? Opposite attract only in films, however, their love flourished, continued, and survived.

She started to replay the conversation she had with her best friend. She hit someone, she thought. At this hour she would already be in her office answering her emails. She did say she was coming by cab.

“By cab, by cab … by cab.” She couldn’t connect any dots, her friend bringing in someone by cab that she hit at the coffee shop. She quickly shook her head and laughed it off. It couldn’t be that bad, could it? If it was, she would have called 911.

Her thoughts were interrupted by Nancy, her favourite nurse, telling her about this admission at the front desk.

She smiled at her, thinking today really is filled with mysteries. Why would Nancy come all this way and not page her? First off, she did not deal with admitting any patients.

Nancy’s little giggles and smile while walking to the front desk should have been a telling sign. She should have known. She should have known that her best friend was not only clumsy but as unlucky as it comes or in this case lucky.

Seeing a little crowd gathering around someone, she wondered if it was a code blue. “I didn’t hear any code blues”, questioning the nurse to her left.

“Ahhh, that’s the thing I forgot to tell you on the phone.” She looked at her best friend in the corner with the coffees and pastries in hand looking flustered if that was even possible.

Taking some of the drinks and pastries off her hands, “You should probably take care of him soon before the whole hospital figure outs who he is."

Lizzy was about to question her friend but before she could the crowd around this mysterious person slowly dispersed allowing her to finally see him. Words could not form; she was shocked, flabbergasted, and astonished at the person in front of her. All the thoughts ran through her head. Her friend is an angel, a clumsy angel. Life brings you lemons, in this case Chris Evans lemons and somehow she had to make lemonade. But also, she had to keep her composure, she was a professional. She dealt with things far beyond one’s imagination, she was not going to let her favourite celebrity change that.

“Hii” giggling her composure long gone. Her friend looked at her, her eyes said everything. Get your shit together, I assaulted a man that needs help. Lizzy mouthed back I am sorry but that’s Chris Fudging Evans. The glare that her friend gave her could pierce any shield. Sighing. Lizzy tried her best to be professional. She straightened herself up and gestured to Chris to the room.

“Follow me please, we will go somewhere where there won’t be much commotion.”

“And you are coming with me to explain what happened.” Her friend was about to protest but Lizzy gave her a look that said she could not run away. She was going to try though.

“I will be there in a sec; I’ll just go give Oliver his coffee.” She looked down at her shoes scared that she was going to get caught in her attempt to escape. “He must really be needing his coffee right about now.” She continued, taking the drinks, and running away before she could get an answer.

“Well, Ms. Evans, it seems like it’s just you and me. You will have to explain what happened to end up here.” Lizzy was over the moon at what she just said, not in a million years did she ever think she would be saying these words.

“It is a funny story”, Chris said not thinking this day would end up like this when he only wanted to go for a quick run before his shoot. Which reminds him to text his assistant that he would be late today.

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His phone kept vibrating during the examination, he had texted his assistant that he had to quickly go to the hospital. Without adding much information as to why, she must be worried.

“You can answer your phone if you would like”, Lizzy had almost finished her checkup. Her friend hadn’t hit him that hard. And he didn’t have any scratches or neurological problems. He was good to go.

“We are almost done.” She sat down typing on her computer, while he put his shirt back on. She had to take a few moments to regain herself. God that man was beautiful. So is her finance but damn beauty is beauty, right? She shook her head.

“Do you have any questions for me?”

“You are good to go but if you want to ask questions, I am all ears.” She doubted he would, she was honestly trying to stall as much as she could for her friend to come and they could have the room.

Earlier, she witnessed something very intriguing, and she wanted to confirm it before he left.

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“Oli, I come bringing gifts.” She entered his office. He had been spinning around his chair for the past 5 minutes now.

“Here, you need it don’t you.”

“My angel.” In all of his joy he sat up and grabbed the coffee and the pastries from her hands. Finally, he thought.

The sweet, sweet taste of coffee. He was happy.

She stood there looking at her friend enjoying his treats, wishing that he wouldn’t notice her still standing there.

Time seemed to pass slowly, she kept looking at her watch every few seconds, counting in her head how long it would take Izzy to finish up. She was honestly concerned about nothing. Why couldn’t she just go to her office?

“Heyy,, uhmm Lizzy just texted me.”

“It’s an emergency. You need to go see her.” He lied; Lizzy had actually texted him to make up an excuse so you could go back to the ER as fast as you could.

Squinting her eyes, she wondered what a medical physicist could possibly help out in the ER. Knowing very well that if any of the X-rays broke her supervisor would be the first to be called. Defeated, she decided to go hoping by the time she reached Lizzy he would be gone.

She just left. Care to explain? He quickly texted before replying to a few emails.

Thank you, and yes I will. Lunch?

Yes! Have a good day love. He put his phone down and went back to work.

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I wrote this instead of studying for my finals lol, I am the queen of procrastinating 😭😭😭😭

Anyways, hope you enjoy.

constructive criticism is very much appreciated, thank you.

xoxox

#chris evans imagine #chris evans x reader #short story #fanfic #writing #chris evans #creative writing

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msommers · 6 months

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bound, ghost, heartbreak, wound for riya, meredith and jorina!

3 years late but finally found the brain power to ramble some things down xx // oc asks: not-so-nice edition

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

RIYA — been jailed twice, much to her (and her family’s) horror. first time she was arrested came after being framed for the murder of her lover and it involved a frankly obscene amount of drama. she escaped with the help of her family, surely a great deal of planning went into the break but she only got to see the end result of her father and eldest brother showing up to get her the fuck out of there. i don’t imagine she received any scars from this one, people would have been too scared to physically harm the daughter of duchess priscilla in her own city tbh. second time came some weeks later, her and bastian were caught somewhere around hunter fell. don’t believe this was ever fully developed but almost certainly it was because of some bullshit on riya’s part, probably complained too much of the travel time or maybe they were arguing the idea of approaching his family for help, either way kept them stagnant for one night too many and the templars closed in. they got out through rasha’s warden recruitment + riya’s plea for bastian to be brought along too. bastian might have gotten a scar from the experience depending on how the capture went down, but i don’t think riya would have just because of certain spells.

MEREDITH — yes, loathe she is to admit it. seething the entire way, truly near to combusting with the amount of fury in her body at the time, meredith surrendered to ser cauthrien when offered the choice to do so or die (they may have been able to win the fight, but she couldn’t see a valid reason to risk that even in her volatile state). she and alistair fought their way out of fort drakon and i’m sure they earned their fair share of scars between them from those encounters, but i think any mark on her body paled in comparison to discovering the brutalized corpses of ser gilmore and mother mallol along the way 🤷🏼

JORINA — this question simply unlocks the fun potential of a scouts side mission where they get temporarily captured by red templars, which i’m so here for. the fun part is the brutal action and scars they get out of it <3

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

RIYA — the valdivia brothers live in her head rent free. always making themselves known when she's left alone for too long and 9/10 times the subject(s) of her dreams/nightmares thanks to the lovely denizens of the fade. she struggles with immense guilt over their deaths on the daily. bastian's has a clear butterfly effect that she can follow to the beginning and see her direct influence in, while victor's is more that she was heavily affected by so many telling her that she was at fault. she has an odd half-and-half way of dealing with the ghosts, where sometimes she’ll do her best to actively ignore them by focusing on any task in front of her and sometimes she’ll let all of the upset flood in for like 20 minutes and just sob about them. truly where is a fantasy therapist she needs them. edit after finishing all the other answers: i'd also like to add on that i think the clear visual riya got of seeing the whole party and various other wardens fall through the cracks of the earth to their probable deaths is gonna haunt her for a little while. that was pretty terrifying

MEREDITH — the list is so long for her i'm not sure where to start or end. a great deal of the events in origins linger for her, some lie more heavily on her consciousness and others are a bare whisper of a phantom around the corner, but they all cause occasional bouts of melancholy or anger. her fallen family weighs on her the greatest, little oren the most. i think she'd go through some grounding techniques to help manage it all, though it would've taken her an insane amount of time to develop that ability. focusing on the sounds around her, listing all of the people in her life that she's close to, reciting her schedule for the day, etc etc, it all helps to remind her she's in the present.

JORINA — definitely the purge of the denerim alienage as a whole, plus one or two particularly terrifying men who took part in it. the horror-filled chaos of the fifth blight battles that went down in the city as well. the memory of her father in his deepest depression. countless things she witnessed during her time with the inquisition, i know some fucked up shit would have been seen. straight up didn’t deal with the hauntings and ghosts for years, with encouragement from friends she makes in the inquisition she’d start to heal by talking about them with others. takes a painful amount of time and usually it’s aleksi she speaks to, but it all counts.

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

RIYA — for the sake of a more Chill answer, we'll breeze on past the victor thing. i have no doubt riya’s had some relationships end badly given how extensive her dating history is, and tbh also the easily made assumption that she’s the kind of lady that made numerous mistakes to learn her lessons in this department. she's better in the present, but there's probably a support group out there for the people she's hurt/angered/broken-the-hearts-of. on her end, i don't think riya's dealt with the heartbreak associated with ended relationships because 99% of her connections were never serious in her mind. just all for fun or obvious they were there for purely physical, y'know.

MEREDITH — umm. kind of a similar thread with the guy fucking dying being the end of the relationship, but meredith suffered a particular kind of heartbreak with ser gilmore. they weren’t in a relationship and may not have ever entered one, but they were sweet on each other and she went for years believing he’d always be there in whatever future she had. we all know how that ended yikes

JORINA — jorina’s exempt from this one, aleksi’s her first and only romantic relationship. nailed it first try

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

RIYA — i’d say her wounds are mostly emotional at this point, and the biggest ones come from the aforementioned valdivia brothers. actual HP loss total forgotten, her worst physical wound is probably a toss-up between that time she was psychic-blasted by the keystone & when she was almost got fucking bodied by a darkspawn ogre last session, i’d lean towards the latter i think. she’s gotta still be nursing some injuries from that one but is being super brave about it, really. she DID cry and DOES whimper while putting her gear on after each long rest but she HASN’T made it everybody’s problem by complaining, so that’s super courageous of her and everyone should be praising her for that, i think. her reactions to wounds are very in the moment because she hasn't dealt with a lot of injures in her life, there's no self-trained response it's just pure instinct and emotion driven.

MEREDITH — the type of protagonist who doesn't acknowledge her own wounds until she's literally about to bleed out, because somebody has to be the leader around here after the battle and the various cuts and bruises can wait to be treated until after the adrenaline's dropped. i'd say she has an even spread across all wounds, but hangs more importance on the mental ones in her mind. the events of highever are #1 in the mental and emotional categories, while physical is likely from the encounter with arl howe. the combo of blind fury + being full-focus on repeatedly driving a dagger into howe's chest = not noticing being stabbed by a warrior's sword from behind until the fight's over and suddenly everyone's panicking over you (wynne was there so it's fine but. yeah).

JORINA — she'd be so stealthy on the field i hardly ever think of her injured, so this is a trip. she has such a good stone face that i imagine she handily pulls off the classic of nobody realizing she's been horribly wounded until she ends a conversation with pulling away a bloodied hand from her side and calmly asking where the healer is. i think it would be so fun if jorina's worst injury came from her getting fucking rocked out in the wilds while scouting for mythal's temple. the idea of head scout jorina being fully blindsided by the sentinel elves in their own terrain is super fun to me, i don't know why. send a girly and her squad out because they're the best of the best and then watch her get taken tf down by an insane arrow shot from the forest that's some dramatic shit right there

#ch: valeriya de clairmont #ch: meredith cousland #ch: scout jorina #these were fun we love oc suffering in this house

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HI! This is my first ask I've ever done on this app so please, do let me know if I've made any mistakes or if I've violated any of the etiquette rules.

That aside, I discovered your writing account/s in the comment section of a post asking for beautifully written fanfiction on Reddit and was instantly enchanted by the lushness of your writing and the imagery found in so many of your works, not to mention the unique concepts and plotlines they contained. And you wrote for a lot of my favourite ships too.

The number of screenshots I have of various passages I found particularly moving or breathtaking in its detailed description of love, or the world surrounding these characters is ... it's a lot yea. It seems I've gone on a bit of an unrelated ramble to what I would like to ask, so apologies. Ehem

I was wondering, what are some of your favourite authors? Or favourite writers that you tend to go to for a re-read or just a damn good fanfic? It's just that you write so beautifully and breathe such life into these characters that I'm curious as to the fics/books you've taken inspiration from or enjoy!

Hi! Omg, thank you for such a lovely ask. I've been really feeling rough about my writing lately and this was such a bright spot in my day <3. I'm so happy that you've been enjoying my stuff!

And I will ALWAYS talk about books and writers I love, and I'm gonna list far too many here because I have so many favorites and also do not know how to shut up. These are all books I've absolutely loved and have had some influence or impact on the way I write, or I hope that they do.

Fiction Frankenstein (1818 edition) - Mary Shelley Written On The Body - Jeanette Winterson On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong Cassandra - Christa Wolf Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson Grendel - John Gardner Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor Simple Passion - Annie Ernaux An American Childhood - Annie Dillard Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Lote - Shola von Reinhold Crash - JG Ballard Hunger - Knut Hamsun Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis Outside the Gates - Molly Gloss Shadow & Claw - Gene Wolfe The Pearl Diver - Jeff Talarigo The Makioka Sisters - Junichiro Tanizaki A Map to the Door of No Return - Dionne Brand Piranesi - Susanna Clarke Near to the Wild Heart - Clarice Lispector Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov We Have Always Lived In The Castle - Shirley Jackson How To Be Both - Ali Smith Non-Fiction Erotism - Georges Bataille A Lover's Discourse - Roland Barthes Blood, Bones, and Butter - Gabrielle Hamilton Just Kids - Patti Smith Consent - Vanessa Springora Stigmata - Hélène Cixous Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - Svetlana Alexievich

Poetry All The Flowers Kneeling - Paul Tran Night Sky With Exit Wound - Ocean Vuong The Descent of Alette - Alice Notley Our Andromeda - Brenda Shaughnessy Desire - Frank Bidart

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quillsmora · 1 year

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2022 year in review

thanks for tagging me @novasforce!

Number of stories posted to AO3: 6

Word count this year: 20,977 according to my AO3 stats, but there are probably a few thousand more in cut scenes and scrapped WIPs that didn't end up being posted.

Fandoms I wrote for: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies) and Marvel Cinematic Universe. Pairings: Every work I posted this year featured Gamora/Peter Quill and one with a dash of Gamora & Nebula. Stories with the most: – Kudos: stakes are high, water's rough (but this love is ours) – makes sense as it's the work I updated the most this year + there weren't many other new stories in the starmora tag on ao3 when it first started. – Bookmarks: same as above, surprisingly half of them are private. – Comment threads: also the same, again there being 10 chapters already def helps boost the number of comments. – Word count: once again, this love is ours sweeps with nearly 10k words.

Work(s) I'm most proud of (and why):

– tangled up with you all night: my first true attempt at writing smut. it was terrifying and probably took the longest to edit but with some help from a good friend of mine I was able to figure it out. I actually have no idea if it's good or not, guess I'll find out in a few months when going back and reading it won't give me the ick about my own writing.

– better off as lovers (not the other way around): maybe it's because it's the most recent work I've posted but I'm so excited about this. not only because I'm writing this for a friend but because for once I actually have the whole thing planned out, I just need to actually write it.

– kiss (chapter 6 of this love is ours): probably the best writing I did this year.

Work(s) I'm least proud of (and why): I wouldn't say I'm not proud of any of my works, but there are definitely a few I think are not my best if that makes sense.

Share or describe a favorite review you received: There are quite a few, I love any comment in general but my favorites tend to be the ones that respond to my rambles in author's notes or don't know much about stamora/the guardians but are still able to enjoy the story. knowing I've inspired someone to read more of my favorite team is the greatest compliment I could ever receive. I also love when Zoe remembers to comment on my works instead of containing their keyboard smashes in my DMs.

A time when writing was really, really hard: Anytime this past month. Real life and family have just been taking up the majority of my time and when I do find some to write I have zero motivation. Also again trying to write smut from a man's POV which I for some reason thought would be easier since I'm a lesbian but it was not lmao.

A scene or character you wrote that surprised you: Rocket's dialogue actually being in character in the first chapter of this love is ours. going back and rereading it I can hear bradley cooper's drunk new jersey uncle accent in my head.

A favorite excerpt of your writing: from chapter 6 of this love is ours

Gamora tells herself that this late night visit is no more than a friendly gesture towards a friend in mourning. She understands the tremendous loss Peter has suffered these past few days, and the nightmares and internal blame it brings upon someone. She also knows that despite him having told the others he would be fine earlier that night, Peter needed someone to be there for him, whether he knew that or not. It’s a thoughtful, completely normal thing for a friend to do. So why is her heart pounding in her chest as she stands outside his quarters? Because they aren’t strictly friends anymore, there’s something else there now that Gamora’s made the “thing” a spoken one. She’s never had a romantic relationship before, hell she’d practically never had a platonic relationship before meeting him. Whatever this thing between them was is now uncharted territory, and Gamora has never been one to sail risky waters.

How did you grow as a writer this year? I actually wrote. before august it had been over five years since I had posted fanfiction and maybe three or four since I tried writing any. it's been a great outlet for me these past few months and I'm so thankful for it because I probably would have gone crazy without that.

How do you hope to grow next year: write more obviously. branch out and try posting for different fandoms to get out of my comfort zone if inspiration strikes.

Who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer (could be another writer or beta or cheerleader or muse etc): the gotg hive group chat, specifically: kate, maggie, zoe, vic, and claire. I wouldn't have posted half the stuff I did this year without their support and nagging. mera who helped me tweak my smut and the rest of my friends who aren't that into gotg/marvel but still read my works and support me. taylor swift for her endless supply of title inspiration, and pete wentz for his obsession with writing songs about that sunset he watched with mikey way for inspiring better off as lovers.

Anything from your real life show up in your writing: my love for Britney Spears made a cameo or two, as well as drawing on some of my own fears of love and commitment and experiences with loss and grief to help understand the mindsets of certain characters.

Any new wisdom you can share with other writers: write whatever the fuck you want because no one else is going to cater exactly to you but yourself! don't worry about stats because they genuinely do not matter and are not a reflection of the quality of your work!! have fun!!!

Any projects you're looking forward to starting (or finishing) in the new year: I'm aiming to finish this love is ours before Vol 3 and better off as lovers by march or april. I'm so excited to start working on prompt fills for @starmoraweek2023! The release of Vol 3 will for sure be a flood of inspiration for all types of different stories whether the movie ends up being good or bad (I'm really, really hoping for good). I also want to post at least one completely bugborg centric work this year because they are criminally underrated and I want to write more sapphics! There are quite a few fandoms I'd like to give a shot at writing for, mainly sitcoms and such, but I'm not sure if I'll actually get to those.

Tag some writer's who's answers you'd like to read: @godblessgamora & @rocketnebulas ❤️

#tag game #quillsmora #fanfic

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the-takosader · 1 year

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Y'all ever had the urge to create something random? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, here's Kara running from a horde of Giga Monty (if you haven't seen the last post, all you need to know is that he (Kara) is my main OC). I know this specific art was featured in the last post as well, but hey, this one's something to be proud of for me.

"But wait!", I hear you say. "What is a 'Giga Monty', and why does it look like Montgomery Gator from acclaimed game Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach?" Well, hypothetical reader, a Giga Monty (singular) is actually Spotlight Monty from the "Showtime" sequence of the game. For more info, watch this video (made by AstralSpiff): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLtpPoLyV3o

So why's Kara running from them? Because I like to make random scenarios happen that pop up into my brain. And, one warm summer's night in late July of last year, I made this piece. Fun fact about it: It was the first art I made of Kara that I manually posed the hell out of. Earlier arts had me editing the stand pose of the model (for the models I used, a T-pose) into a slightly better pose, giving it a better vibe than just "this art is unfinished, under construction, nothing to see here yet, folks."

Now, what in specific did I edit? Well, here's a better question: what in specific didn't I edit? The pose was built off of a stand pose (I didn't stop using the addon as a base until December), but it's been so built up that you cannot guess that from first glance. I manually posed the fingers into fists, and posed the arms to look like that running pose that you always see on fire exit signs.

However, all that pales, pales, I tell you, in comparison to what I did with the head. Because what I did, I am oh so SO very proud of: I posed the head as looking over his shoulder, and I posed the eyes to do the same.

Now, posing the head's easy talk. You know what you're doing, you can get that puppy to spin 180° Exorcist style while making the creepiest grin possible (actually possible by the way. Facial flexes are weird in GMod).

The hard part is the eyes.

Eyes, by default, cannot be posed. Nope. Mm-mm. Not gonna happen, Cap'n. You need a specific addon, developed and bug-tested by Steam users, to make that one work. The only downside is that the addon I use also appears to be the only eye-related posing tool that actually works. But that's neither here nor there. My problem was trying to get the eyes of the model I used to actually look in the direction I wanted them to look in.

A quirk of the eye posing tool that I use is that it has two modes and methods of function: Mouse1, and E + Mouse1. I know. Shocking difference, right?. Well, you ain't seen nothing yet, kid. Mouse1's function is simple: make the eyes look at a point, focusing on the crosshair of the player's HUD. All that's fine at first, but the only issue is that it's not calibrated for the Octoling model's eyes. In fact, it's not calibrated to any custom model's eyes that are further apart than the eyes of the stock valve_biped model.

Okay, you want an example, right? Let me describe it. So, let's take Dr. Breen's model and pose the eyes using Mouse1. Normal movement. You move the crosshair to the right, he looks right. You move the crosshair left, he looks left, and so on and so forth.

You can't do that for the Octoling models, or the Inkling models, for that matter.

The eyes, they shift as soon as you click Mouse1. And wouldn't you know it, they shift to right where good ol' Dr. Breen's eyes would be. Which means that no, you can't just use the "look at this point" system to pose the eyes.

E + Mouse1, however, that's your bread and butter here. With E + Mouse1, the model doesn't look towards a point, it looks towards the player, which can be creepy. Lifeless eyes, staring deep into your soul, stealing what secrets lie within.

Now that we've had our daily dose of cosmic paranoia... back to-

GOOD GOD HOW LONG DID I RAMBLE ABOUT EYEPOSERS?!

Ahem... sorry about the wall of text. Yeah, it happens with me. Too much long-form content in text format, methinks. Anyway, the point about E+M1 is that through this, Inkling and Octoling eyes can be posed (yay!), and through this feature of the eye mover, I got this art looking the best I possibly could. Granted, my skill has improved since then, but it's good to recognise that you last year is not you today, and it's good to see how your art has gotten better!

Also don't ask me why I chose SCP:SL's LCZ as my background map of choice, I just did.

#giga monty #gmod art #I talked shop about gmod for 30 mins and it was literally for nothing #gmod #splatoon

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skywatcher9000 · 5 months

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Potentially Collaborative Project

Late Night Rambling edition:

I am making trains do wacky things greenscreened over my laptop wallpaper.

My inbox(s?) are currently open for suggestions/questions.

#TANE #If it is in the download station I can download it #So far 3 scenes are complete

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geekgemsspooksandtoons · 1 year

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Scrapped Shag & Scoob episodes 1 and 2

These are the original versions of episodes 1 and 2. But there were differences as @lovezdarestevez4ever had looked over these. Such as Shaggy’s mom was not involved, and the original ending hinted at villains from out of the country. And other edits like making episode 1′s info shorter and whatever else. Such as Fred didn’t have a proper introduction at first.

This is still being worked on, but later rewrites are...using some elements of these and I didn’t want to show this until I shared something official. But I want to just post this and get rid of it.

I have wondered of changing the title, but I don’t want it to sound the same to Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get A Clue or whatever...guess I’m sticking with Shag & Scoob. No, I’m putting Scooby in there. No, no...I’m not sure.

Case 1: The Black Knight.

In the peaceful town of Coolsville, the Coolsville Museum is getting a huge donation in renovations by the Blake family to keep the building still going. Including with the recent addition of a new piece of armor coming soon. This is announced by Stefanianna Blake who is personally donating to help the museum's curator's, Nicole Dinkley.

Yet among the celebration and everything else. A young man known as Shaggy Rogers is a lonely outcast who lives in the town. Who is friends with Daphne Blake, the only daughter of Stefanianna, and his sister's personal babysitter. Who they are watching while they are there. He is also friends with the museum curator's daughter Velma. Who is typically a loner who keeps to herself in her mother's library.

During the announcement/celebration. Shaggy, his sister, and Daphne are jump scared by a group of young adults in costumes to freak Shaggy out. But not knowing he wouldn't be alone. With one calling him "Stoner boy" and mentioning Shaggy's strange eating habits. This insists until Fred steps in to protect Shaggy and finds out it's his teammates from college football. They find out the team is drunk and been drinking. Leading to Fred to inform his father, who is the sheriff about this and arresting the group of men. But also cancelling any further games for a while. Yet Fred's father praises him for exposing them.

Considered to be outcast she to his "Goofiness" and cowardly nature. Shaggy's anxiety increases, and when his father Casey learns of this incident at the announcement, he learns it’s finally time to give his son a “Gift” that’s been in training. He gives him a therapy dog, a Great Dane who had finally finished his training.

Despite his sister embracing the new dog in the family. Shaggy remains a little hesitant about having the new responsibility. That is until his father reveals that the dog was arranged to be his therapy dog by his late mother. Who she also named before she died. The dog’s name being Scooby-Doo. Shaggy is even given a letter by his late mother who tells him this will help him with his anxiety issues and will provide him comfort. And even will help him cope with the aftermath of her death.

During the first night when he tries falling asleep. Shaggy just rambles to the dog. Talking about how he wishes he wasn’t a screw up and wished people can see him differently than how he is normally seen. To his surprise, Scooby carefully listens while he looks at him. As if Scooby is understanding every word Shaggy is saying.

The next day during a walk after leaving the local malt shop in the town, Shaggy, Scooby, Daphne, Velma, Sugi, discover an abandoned truck and report it to the authorities after realizing it's the same truck that delivers property to the museum. And finding the glasses of Velma's mother, Nicole left nearby. The truck is sent back to the museum where it turns out, Daphne's mother Stefanianna is also missing because she accompanied Nicole during the ride last night. What they were delivering was an old piece of knight armor from England.

Nicole's business partner, Robert Wickles thanks them for reporting the vehicle to them and talks about the morbid story about the Black Knight. That it was once worn by a man who was left for dead by his own king. When the Black Knight returned to his kingdom, he not only slaughtered the king in his sleep with his sword, but even his own family. Legend has it because the man in the armor died in it. That his ghost still lives in that armor and comes alive during a full moon. The murder happened during a full moon. And it was a full moon when the two women were taken.

During the meeting, Scooby discovers something in the museum and brings it with him before they leave. While Daphne, who doesn’t want to stay alone in her own house, decides to stay over at the Rogers to babysit Sugie. Velma also wants to come along for the same reasons, and Casey drops them all off at the house. Who then leaves to help Sherrif Jones to find the missing women.

When they get back home, Scooby shows them the item he found at the museum, it turns out it's Stefanianna's personal mirror that she uses. Meaning the possiblity that somehow, she could be there.

Upon discovering this and wanting to prove he's not a "Silly coward" Shaggy thinks of an idea that they should investigate the museum to find the girl's mothers. He thinks that if this works, he would be seen as cool and possibly normal. But also win the heart of Daphne while helping her out. Despite Daphne wondering if they should leave it to the police to handle things, Velma wants to go through with it so they won't waste time. But knowing they can't leave Sugi behind, they bring her and Scooby along. But they realize none of them drive and don't want to call an Uber. Daphne suggests they get the help of her friend and ex-boyfriend Fred Jones, who owns a vehicle.

Despite Shaggy thinking Fred shouldn't be brought along, but knows they need a ride to the museum, they get his help because he also knows Fred has a big van that will fit everyone. Before Fred's teammates were arrested, this was the vehicle they would use to get to games. When they walk over to Fred’s house and ask for his help. Fred reveals that Shaggy’s parents gave the van to him as a gift some years back. And it’s been very helpful transporting his teammates. It also explains why the van has some sort of “Flower” paintings on it and looks a bit late 1960′s ish. But Fred didn’t really care. Yet he’s hesitant of helping breaking into a closed museum. But Velma reassures him that she has a key that will legally allow them to get in.

The group arrive at the museum late at night, but to everyone’s surprise, specifically Velma, her key doesn’t work and sees the locks have now changed for some reason and the cameras are not working. Resulting in the gang having to break in some way, with Fred mentioning Shaggy's "Gymnastic" days. Shaggy decides to volunteer to break into the building to impress them, but during the process, he makes a mess when falling in. But is able to unlock the doors from the other side.

As they look around, they see nobody is guarding the place at all. But during their search, Shaggy tries to be a detective, yet it doesn't go too well when he ends up with nothing. Especially when he and Scooby find the cafeteria.

They all interact more including at one point, Shaggy asks Fred why does he wear an ascot. Fred simply answers, "I think it's awesome."

But when Velma notices one of the paintings looks amiss, as in the painting doesn't look right, she realizes it's a fake. Because she's seen the painting multiple times before. And soon finds bits of paint leading to a secret area.

They all discover an area revealing someone is trying to make copies of the paintings. But as they discuss of who would be doing this. Scooby says his first word, that being Shaggy's name when he tells him he's hungry.

The entire gang is shocked as they all stare at Scooby as he continues talking, wondering when will they eat. Including Fred almost saying, "What the fuck?" before Sugi embraces and hugs Scooby, excited that he could talk. The gang asks if Shaggy knew about this, but he doesn't know either.

But none of that matters when the Black Knight shows up in the room, armed with a sword. With Shaggy bumping into him by mistake and falling. The group is stunned in horror at what they're seeing. When the knight attempts to slash at Shaggy's crouch but nearly misses. Shaggy screams like a little girl (Akin to Sam Witwicky from Transformers Revenge of the Fallen) and the entire group flees in terror as the knight chases them down.

Due to the musesm being huge. They are able to hide from the knight. During the hiding, Shaggy nearly has a panic attack, but is soon calmed down by Scooby which surprises everyone.

Afterwards, Fred tries to devise a plan to catch the knight if they can. But as it goes, with having Shaggy and Scooby as bait. They enter an old bi plane. But by mistake, Scooby turns it on, and it rams into the knight. The knight screams in agony as it turns out. It is Robert Wickles as both of his legs are broken from the plane.

After the group finds Stefanianna and Nicole in a room bound and gagged. They call the sheriff to the scene. It turns out Robert was trying to sell the paintings on the market for a heavy price. But things got complicated when Nicole started to become suspicious. So, he took the chance to kidnap both ladies, planned to possibly ransom them or sell them in a "Market" but when the gang showed up. He decided to use the legend of the Black Knight to actually try to murder the gang.

Despite the two older women being grateful for their rescues. Sheriff Jones aggressively scolds his son for helping the others break into the museum. But Nicole doesn't press any charges and Stefanianna says she has enough money to pay for any damages they caused.

Stu Casey also scolds Shaggy for actually bringing his sister along, but it just glad not only his children, but the others are safe.

But after all that, Shaggy worries about the others telling anyone else about Scooby talking. Yet they promise him they won't tell anyone because it's his dog. But they want to understand how can he even do that. And they are surprised when Scooby doesn't seem to not care because he thinks him talking is normal, unware about the potential consequences more of the two found out what they discovered.

The gang are celebrated as heroes the next day and their story is published. Afterwards, Daphne and also Velma thank Shaggy for coming up with the idea to investigate the museum at night. While he feels appreciated, Shaggy makes a funny comment about, "I never want to do this kind of thing ever again."

But after that when the gang goes to Shaggy's house to celebrate. An old English woman knocks on the door, introducing herself as Ms. Lenoir, one of Shaggy's neighbors. She congratulates them but makes a comment that she recognized Scooby on the news. Revealing she put him into the home for dogs that trained him to be a therapy dog.

Yet she asks them, particularly Shaggy if anything about Scooby is off. Shaggy denies that and tells her Scooby is a regular dog. He asks her the same question and she denies nothing was off about him when he was a puppy. She decides to leave after hearing that information, thinking she's been there long enough.

Shaggy quietly asks Scooby if he knew the woman. But he doesn't remember her.

Case 2: The Witch & Elias Kingston.

A while after the events of the Black Knight case. Shaggy and the gang try to figure out why Scooby can talk.

It starts with Shaggy asking Scooby three questions.

1. Is he an eldritch like creature hiding as a dog who will kill everyone who knows his secret and restart the world.

2. Is he a serial killer trapped in a dog's body.

3. Is he a shape shifting alien posing as a dog.

Daphne, Fred, and Velma look at Shaggy with utter confusion. With Shaggy answering he's seen a lot of "Freaky horror films and videos". Along with Scooby being very confused by the questions and keeps responding "What?" to the questions. This leads to Velma wanting to do an X-Ray in Scooby to see if anything is wrong with him. But when she does it, they find out there is nothing physically wrong with him. At one point, Shaggy makes a comparison to parrots talking, but Velma corrects him and even if that were true, it would be physically impossible for Scooby to speak.

During the same night as the gang sleepover, Shaggy is afraid if any of his theories are possibly true and keeps awake to watch Scooby. But he falls asleep only to be woken up by Scooby telling him "Ri reed ro ree"meaning he needs to go to the bathroom. Which Shaggy helps him with that.

After that hangout. Several things happen.

Franklin has a serious talk with his son Fred about what happened at the museum. That he's disappointed that his son got involved with that. Yet understands what he and the others did was a good thing. But is concerned for Fred getting into trouble like his teammates who were drunk. And simply wanting his son to keep a good image of himself. He also mentions he's confused about all the stuff in Fred's van.

Velma is helping take care of her mother after the traumatic event of being kidnapped. Particularly because Robert had smacked Nicole around the head so much that she needed medical help. But Nicole tells her that she's alright and is seeing Stu/Casey for help in therapy.

Stefaninna becomes concerned about Daphne not wanting to be involved with the business. But Daphne wants to do things on her own and not be seen as a "Rich family girl". Especially after Stefaninna becomes concerned about their own well-being after being kidnapped. After this discussion, she wants to be alone with people she trusts more. Including visit a friend she hasn't seen in a while, that being Sharon Wetherby. Who lives on the outskirts of Cooksville near a swamp.

She invites Fred (Who can drive them all), Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby with her. Mainly because she enjoyed their time during the whole museum incident. Upon learning this, and remembering Daphne thanked him for coming up with the idea to go the museum. He thinks about asking her out while they go out. Yet after his dad tells him he's going out again to help with Nicole and Stefaninna during therapy, he says he should bring his sister along. Which Daphne doesn't mind.

But also, Shaggy tries to teach Scooby that only he can talk to them or any of the group. But not speak in public or with anyone else. Despite Scooby not fully comprehending the consequences if he were to talk to anyone else but them.

Yet as they drive there, they drive by an elderly and disfigured woman who tells them to go back to where they came from. But due to her tone, they decide to ignore her.

When they get to Sharon's place. They soon discover something has been going on at the house. That someone how the not as a ghost, but Elias Kingston has come back to life as a zombie. And that he yells out for the Wetherby's to "LEAVE!" in a violent tone. Accompanied by a witch who tells them they will all grow old and die.

The curse looks to be real when Sharon's uncle, Stuart becomes more older than how he usually looks. Including with the house's personal gardner Zeke Perkins mentions he saw a witch bring him back to life.

He tells the story of a witch cursing Elias that one day, she may need him for her own services. And that time is now. The gang mentions they saw a woman when they were driving there. With Zeke being paranoid that they may have met the witch actually.

The gang decide to sleepover at the house. And some funny things happen as Shaggy tries to fancy himself up to impress Daphne more. Even with Sugi giving Scooby a bow on his collar for dinner night.

During the night in at Sharon's as they all sleep. They discover that Sharon is missing. But also, the bodies of Stuart and Zeka have turned turned into very realistic skeletons. The gang realizes they are in another mystery. Especially with Daphne's friend, Sharon missing. Shaggy makes a comment they should call the police, but Fred says they shouldn't or his dad will be upset again. Now it's up to the gang to find out what's really going on.

Shaggy is distraught by the fact they are going through another mystery, but he tries to stay cool through all of this. Not just for his sake, but for his sister.

As they explore the area. They discover an old shack full of witchcraft related objects. They are surprised by the appearance of the witch who tells them to leave at once. But Daphne, understandably angry, demands the witch to tell where her friend is at. The witch only replies that she shouldn't disrespect her elders and that she needs to be taught a lesson. In a puff of smoke that makes everyone cough. Both the witch and Daphne.

Shaggy loses cool witnessing his crush disappear just like that. The sudden freakout upsets his sister. But it takes Scooby and the others to calm him down. But they soon discover that Daphne fells through a trap door which reveals a room below the shack. Along with footsteps showing a struggle.

They follow the footsteps to a broken down riverboat stuck in the river. When Fred says they should look in the riverboat to find Daphne, it starts raining.

But during their search as they look around. Shaggy is hesitant to split up with Scooby, still feeling untrustworthy about what he really is. Yet it doesn't matter as the gang are finally met by the zombified corpse of Elias Kingston who is massive, screaming at them to "LEAVE!" as he chases them down. They are also horrified by the witch shape shifting into demonic looking creatures. And Elias tries hitting Shaggy with a makeshift club, but keeps missing him.

As they run around the riverboat, and getting separated at times but then regrouping. The group find Daphne and Shanon bound and gagged in a locked room. In the same room, they find a bunch of projector equipment and other things such as make up effects.

Afterwards they find motorboat below that's still freshly new. But Elias soon finds them and they manage to get onto the boat. But to everyone's surprise because of the weather getting worse. The riverbank starts flowing with more water. But it is blocked by the riverboat that is stuck. Enraged by them escaping, Elias and the witch lit an explosive and try throwing it at the boat. But instead, it breaks apart some of the boat. And they all witness the riverboat moved by the heavy waters, but somehow keeping it managed to float.

During the escape with the horrible storm, Shaggy falls out of the boat into the water. The waves keep coming down the stream. And Scooby jumps straight into the water towards him, which shocks everyone. They can't go back to Shaggy due to the stream becoming worse.

Shaggy nearly drowns as the stream keeps pushing him forward. But Scooby manages to bite his clothing and keep him up above the water as much as he can. Even with Scooby going underwater as much as he is, and trying to make sure they don't hit any rocks.

When the rest of the gang land in a area closer to Sharon's house. They get out quickly to find Shaggy and Scooby. And they luckily find them on a swamp shore line where Scooby drags Shaggy out of the water with all of his strength. The others around them to make sure if they're okay. As Shaggy continues to barf out water, he is stunned by what Scooby had done.

They take the two back to the house and upon learning what they discovered in the riverboat. Fred announces it's time to set a trap for the witch and zombie Elias.

When the witch and Elias return to the house, the trap is set off and after a bit, they are caught and the police are called. Much to Fred's dismay.

The two monsters are revealed to be Sharon's uncle Stuart and Zeke. They planned on stealing the fortune for themselves to spit it up. So they used the legend of the witch and Elias Kingston to try scaring people away. But things got interesting when the gang came up to the visiting Sharon. Resulting in the two to kidnap Sharon to make a ransom. And double it with kidnapping Daphne.

But what surprises everyone else is that they were inspired by Robert Wickle's quickly thought up plan to be the Black Knight. Upon learning this, everyone looks at Shaggy when he slowly says "Ohhhhhhh noooooooo" in a pathetic manner as if he was crying. Because he slowly realized that what Wickles had done started a chain of possible similar events.

Afterwards, Sheriff Jones comes into the scene to confront Fred about not calling him earlier. But he is taken back when Fred tells him he didn't want to anger him. Besides, Franklin understands they didn't personally looked for trouble.

Meanwhile, Shaggy tries to comfort Daphne after her kidnapping ordeal. But becomes very surprised when she thanks him for being there for her. When Sugi starts comforting her as well, Shaggy is left wondering if he should confess what he feels about her. But realizing now wouldn't be appropriate.

He then thinks back to Scooby and how he was afraid whatever he was. All of those doubts disappeared when Scooby risked his life to save him.

Back home the next morning, Shaggy and Scooby visit Ms. Lenoir. Asking her how did she find him. She explains she found his mother in an alley trying to birth her baby. She brought her home to help out, but his mother died after giving birth to him. She took care of him for a while but felt it was best to put him in a dog home.

Shaggy is taken back by the information, but he thanks her for revealing this to them. He reveals to her that his mother died during pregnancy after giving birth to him. Ms. Lenoir asks about his sister, he explains that she was adopted.

After realizing him and Scooby share something tragic in common, they leave. And after that, Ms. Lenoir looks at them through her window with a more serious and stern face. She fiddles with a necklace she has on that showcases the moon with a cat in front of it.

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