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queenbees21 · 10 months

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𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐭

𝐁𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐣𝐢𝐫𝐨 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐨 (𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐲) - 𝐌.𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭

Note for future reference : Hija (Spanish) = Daughter (English), TBN (Twin Bother’s Name)

Warning: grammar errors, not proffered T^T

At this very moment, you felt like digging yourself a hole five feet or more underground.

You slammed yourself onto your bed, took the nearest pillow, and screamed onto it. You kicked your feet like a child, you were far too embarrassed for what had happened earlier today.

You whined on your pillow. As you did, you heard your bedroom door open. You looked to the side, your cheek still on the pillow as you watched your mother invite herself in.

She had a slight smile on her face, “Ma, please don’t make fun of me!” You wined. In a slouching position; You sat yourself up and faced her.

“Don’t worry hija you’ll forget about it eventually. Although; I don’t blame you. He was quiet.. oh wait?…what did you say he was?… hmmm… oh! beautiful… was it?”

Your mother smirks, as she continues and laughs at your flushed cheeks. You groaned, falling onto your bed, and slammed your face on a pillow once more. Your mother chuckles; walking over to your bed, she sat down and smooths your hair out in comfort.

“Look on the bright side, it could have been worse! At least you didn't spill his order like I did long ago when I first met your father.”

You looked up at your mother and squint your eyes at her. “Mamá,” You grabbed her attention, as you made gestures explaining your point.

“Calling a stranger beautiful! and then proceeding to bump into him, slipping and falling on top of him; is nowhere near how you met Papá…”

You deadpan, but your mother hums in agreement. “I suppose you’re right,” she chuckles.

“Mamá!”

“Alright, calm down, calm down” You pout, but inhale and exhale calming your flushed cheeks.

“Think of it this way, it’s not like you're going to see him ever again.” She reassures you. You softy hum in slight agreement with her words.

“I guess so…”

You yawn a little, rubbing your sleepy eyes, and looked towards your mother.

“Alright then, get some rest hija. You got school tomorrow, you need all the energy for it.” She says. Getting comfortable; You lay on the soft covers of your bed. “Okay, good night mamá.” She hums; stood up and left your room, softy closing your door behind her.

You look up at your ceiling and groaned in embarrassment. You turned to your sides, thinking about what your mother had said. ‘Why am I so worried? Ma it is right! It’s not like I’m gonna see him again,’

You thought, as you nervously chuckled; cringing at your attempt to reassure yourself. Though, it did somehow put your mind at ease.

‘Yeah, I’m definitely! not going to see him again! Don’t worry (Yn), the city of Tokyo is huge! There’ll never be, even the slightest changes of meeting each other again!’

You thought, as you hummed and nodded happily to yourself. You got comfortable in the warmth of your bed and closed your eyes. Allowing sleep to take over you.

………..

“Oh shit…” Your eyes open in realization… ‘Wait… the only place that was aware of our food stall… was our neighborhood and neighbors. So then… how did he….know about our food stall…..’

No way… no way in hell… does he actually…live in your neighborhood!?! There’s no chance that he does!

But then again, people tend to talk around the neighborhood. So there is a big chance that he does live near! And if he lives near you, he’ll recognize you, and if he recognizes you; he’ll probably talk about the incident that occurred earlier!

You felt yourself flush at the thought of it, you slightly tossed and turned in your sleep. Yet, your thoughts ran wild. How can you sleep if you're thinking too much, no more overthinking!!

But wait!! He’ll probably make fun of you! And if he makes fun of you, You’ll never be able to show your face at school again…. Wait! School is tomorrow, does that mean you're gonna see him again!!?? No!!

You swore on your life, you never thought you'd feel your heart drop at the thought of it. ‘For crying out loud! Stop thinking (Yn)!’ you scolded yourself.

Then, you sigh.

Might as well read a book, that’ll probably get your mind off of him… hopefully.

~𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲~

You were currently going around the park, helping your mother out with new customers. As you did you took orders, served food, and interacted with a few customers here and there.

“Hija! Please get that customer's order over there! They’ve been waiting for a while now!” You turned to the said customer and took their order.

‘Dame it! Where the hell is (TBN) when we needed him here!’ You thought in frustration. But quickly cold off trying to focus on the task at hand.

‘Crap there’s no time to get frustrated, I gotta get these orders done and then-‘ As you were running around with your thoughts in mind, you were suddenly cut off. You had just face-planted on something rough and wet….

Oh shit… to totally just spilled a drink on a customer….

You gasped, flustered; quickly bowed your head, and started apologizing to them... “Oh, I’m so sorry! Are you alright?” With flushed cheeks, you were far too embarrassed at your mistake to even look up at them…

“It’s okay!” He says as he started to bend down, picking up your mess.

“Oh no! It’s okay you don’t have to do that. I can clean it up!” You quickly cut yourself off, when you finally looked up at him. Oh my goodness… his strawberry blond locks fall upon his face, as his delicate features focus on cleaning up your mess.

Oh my gosh! He’s-

“Beautiful…” unbeknownst to you… you had said your thoughts out loud.

“Hm? Excuse me?” He looks up, and raises his brow in confusion and surprise…

“Hm?”

“Huh? Did you call me..… beautiful?”

‘,… oh shit… I said that out loud??!!’,

“Yeah, you did. Just like how you said your statement out loud too.” He softly chuckled at your quirky behavior.

“Oh gosh! I’m so sorry!” As you apologize, quickly tried to get up. Although; in the process of doing so… you bumped his head…

Ah….today is just not your day is it now (Yn)… first you bumped into him.. spill the drinks on his clothes. And then call him beautiful!? And now you’re bumping heads too!?? Can this day get worse and more embarrassing!

Your face was flushed as you continued to quickly clean up the mess. The “beautiful” man didn’t pay any kind to your flushed face. He didn’t want to embarrass you any more than you already have. Or at least that’s what you thought.

‘Cute’ was all the thought, before he smiled softy, and helped you up the floor.

“See ya later!” He cheerfully states. As he walked off.

~𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞~

Ugh! How embarrassing! You kicked your feet.

~𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞~

Manjiro kept thinking about today. He slightly hopes that he gets to see you again. With a smile and a small chuckle. He turns off his lights, and yawns before falling into a deep slumber.

A/n: Thanks for reading! Hoped you all enjoyed! Stay safe and have a good day and night! — 🩵 👑🐝

I hope the first one wasn’t too boring, I wasn’t sure how to end it! T^T, although; stay tuned for upcoming chapters! If you like this one 😅 :3

𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 >>

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creature-wizard · 6 months

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I would like to let everybody know that American evangelicals attempting to mass convert Jewish people (especially Israelis who are Jewish) is absolutely nothing new. I grew up watching channels like TBN (trinity broadcasting network) and Daystar (TBN rival) and preachers like Jesse Duplantis, Kenneth Copeland, Creflo Dollar, TD Jakes, Joyce Meyer, Benni Hinn, John Hagee, etc, majority of big TV evangelical pastors have taken multiple trips to Israel, countries in Africa where some Jewish people settled or fled to, and other middle Eastern countries in which Jewish people live in and they convert them to Christianity (not to say that all Christian Israelis or Arabs were converted by Americans).

I forgot what the term for it is, but there’s a lot of prosperity type tourism in which evangelicals will host a trip for their church’s people to go to Middle Eastern and African countries and attempt to convert them.

It doesn’t help that they have some Jewish people and Israeli people helping them do this.

Benni Hinn, a huge proponent in the mass spread of fundamentalism and evangelical extremism, is an Israeli man, so Americans feel justified in wanting to convert Israeli Jews because “look here! Here’s this Israeli guy who WANTS us to do this!”

Sid Roth, another Israeli-American man who was raised Jewish as well is a big believer in and proponent of “Messianic Judaism” and is a founder of Messianic Spirit. He runs a show called “It’s Supernatural!” (Ngl it was a very entertaining show as a kid).

This is not a new thing, it’s not a recent thing, Evangelicals have been trying to convert Jewish people for decades.

That’s also why Christians have such a weird view of Judaism compared to what Judaism actually is. We were taught that Jewish people are borderline Christian, they just “need to be saved and liberated”. “We must show them the way, the truth, and the life.”

Even though I left Christianity, only recently have I been reading up of Jewish people and learning about them and realised that both the religion and the people are nothing like what I thought they were.

Yuuuuuuuup.

#answered #christianity #spiritual colonialism #colonialism #antisemitism

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 8 months

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Right-wing commentator Mike Huckabee is coming under heavy criticism after warning of “bullets” in future elections should Donald Trump lose in 2024 due to his mounting legal woes.

Over the weekend, Huckabee accused President Joe Biden of trying to “destroy Trump” via legal actions in the courthouse rather than at the ballot box via an election.

“Here’s the problem: If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets,” he said during his monologue on his TBN show “Huckabee.”

Trump is facing a combined 91 felony charges in four different cases, including charges related to the mishandling of classified information, his attempts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, and his efforts to overturn the election results in Georgia.

But Huckabee compared the proceedings to those that go on in “banana republics and communist regimes,” where political opponents are imprisoned or exiled for “made-up crimes.”

“Joe Biden is using exactly those tactics to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024,” he declared:

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Huckabee is a former Governor of Arkansas and father of current Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was a White House press secretary under Trump.

His comments over the weekend are the latest in a line of inflammatory statements from figures aligned with the former President.

Last week, Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore told former Trump strategist Steve Bannon that he wanted to defund Fani Willis, the district attorney prosecuting Trump in the state, and warned of dire consequences if she’s allowed to proceed with the case.

“We need to be taking action right now. Because if we don’t, our constituencies are gonna be fighting it in the streets. Do you want a civil war?” he said, according to Salon. “I don’t want a civil war. I don’t want to have to draw my rifle. I want to make this problem go away with my legislative means of doing so.”

Last month, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin alluded to a civil war and urged Trump supporters to “rise up and take our country back.”

Last year, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake also issued a thinly veiled threat to Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland and special counsel Jack Smith.

“If you want to get to President Trump, you are going to have to go through me, and you are going to have to go through 75 million Americans just like me,” she said, The New York Times reported. “And I’m going to tell you, most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”

She said it wasn’t a threat but “a public service announcement.”

On X, formerly Twitter, critics called Huckabee out for his extremist rhetoric:

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thedeadthree · 3 months

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crawling out from ye olde cave covered in blood to show the besties the first of the tbn w/itcher fic pinterest boards.

#wip: tbn witcher fic #leg.txt #leg.ocs #🥀🥴😵‍💫🫨 ITS HEREEEEEE I FINISHED IT A LONG LOONG TIME OF BRAINROTTING AND FC FINDING AND THINKING OF AESTHETICS!!!!!!!#there’s no going back no besties the brainrot was brainrotting its not a should i write something for this but i MUST 💀#i have to do the other board and brainstorm those but I can at LEAST get things going now on the parts with these characters in them !!#once i think of a plot and things !!!!!!!! *screams*#buut anyway behold my brainworms ig !!!!!!!! 🥀🥴 <3 #including cy cy abd emmys kiddos !! brain needs to slow down bc i have something in mind for a tale to tell for them as well 🤡#leg brain slow your roll challenge (impossible)

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rosesrotofficial · 6 months

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meet the writer: rosesrot.

hi, i’m rose rao.

i write because there isn’t nearly enough fucked-up queer stuff in the world. don’t get me wrong, i love the sweet sapphics as much as the next person; but us of that kind is the only kind of us acceptable to the mainstream. where’s our chaos, our complexities, where’s our destruction? where is it, on our own terms?

because of that, i attempt to explore modern identity, queerness, and relationships through the latent abjection that is inherent within oneself: touching on the haphazard, taboo, and less-than-desired spaces that we take up. my stories intend to be a reclamatory celebration—and catharsis—of the darker human aspects we prefer not to think about.

that is to say: i write about girls, sapphics, friendships and destructions; i thrive with fucked-up queer stuff; glorious girls and fallen girls, walking-dead girls and manic-made girls; i'm in love with the deranged and the apotheotic.

are you?

(projects below.)

▼ story #1: CUCKOOSONG, a book trilogy about a pair of thrill-killing sapphics who escape from their lifetime of captivity, believing they can make the world theirs through death; but the scientist that made them the way they are will stop at nothing to hunt them down. an exploration of trauma, identity, worldmaking, and destructive love.

inspirations: killing eve; ariel; mad girl's love song; death tractates; american psycho; the erl-king (angela carter); gods and mortals and girls

(image by @wide-awake-and-dead-xx)

△ story #2: ENTER SERAPHIM and IN THE HALLS OF HALLOW, a collaborative book duology with @wide-awake-and-dead-xx about a band of societal outcasts who find each other through the murder hotel they run to. an exploration of connections, relationships, and found family.

inspirations: stephen king; chuck palahniuk; h.h. holmes and his murder hotel; american horror story

(art by @nitunioart)

▼ game #1: MORTAL COIL, a visual novel about a VR death game reality TV show where if you die in game, you die in real life. a deconstruction of youtuber, streaming, and vtuber culture.

inspirations: social media; youtube; twitch; vtubers; hunger games; danganronpa; squid game; mafia (the party game); town of salem; hong kong

(art by miencha and graphic by James Molloy)

△ game #2: SERAPHIM SLUM, a spooktober visual novel about a girl who moves to the slums and meets three girls that intrigue her. a deconstruction of what it means to be the devil.

inspirations: the devil we know; kakegurui; paradise lost; richard iii; dr faustus; the kowloon walled city

△ game #3: TBN, a visual novel about a Prom Queen who must discover the identity of her killer to break free from the repetitive cycle of reliving her death on Prom Night. a dark coming-of-age deconstruction of gender and girlhood.

inspirations: heathers; happy death day; carrie; insatiable; drop dead gorgeous; dare me; candyman

(image credit: @tsamporadhoe; image above only used as aesthetic representation; i have no claim to the characters portrayed.)

△ screenplay #1: REQUIEM OF THEIR BODIES, a film about a misanthropic queen bee who must team up with her ex-girlfriend’s trans brother to secure the votes for Prom victory, but his eerie terms threaten to confront her repressed dysphoria and her dark secrets.

inspirations: see above! this screenplay is a darker alternate universe of the visual novel.

thank you for reading. i hope you enjoy what i write and find a kind of catharsis in it too.

~ Rose.

▼ my carrd

△ play MORTAL COIL's demo

▼ play SERAPHIM SLUM

△ join my server!

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glynder · 5 months

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seeing mutual talk about infodumping reminded me I want to infodump, so here's a "brief" summary of my Dark Knight headcanons for Parthos

spoilers for the DRK quests and (lightly) Endwalker

Right off the bat, I want to say I had this headcanon before Endwalker, and all EW did was solidify it for me.

Dark Knight magic is fuelled by emotions, aka dynamis (thanks canon for giving me an official word to use). It's primarily used by those with a heightened sense of justice/morality because those people tend to be more in tune with the fluctuations of their emotions (purposefully or not) and tend to be more emotionally driven people.

Different spells are cast by different emotions. Most, if not all, DRK spells are fuelled by some kind of passion or desire. The Blackest Night is my favorite because imo it manifests from a desire to protect. Spells like Unmend and Unleash come from fury or general aggressiveness, Edge/Flood of Darkness come more from a righteous sense of purpose, and skills like Abyssal Drain or other HP/MP restoring skills are a self-determined will to sustain yourself.

Living Shadow is the best skill in the game because Fray is pretty much just an embodiment of the WoL's inner voice, and there is nothing cooler than having a physical embodiment of your emotions show up beside you to fight with you. Don't even get me started on Living Dead.

Tying all this to Parthos who is not the WoL in his main verse, he tripped down the rabbit hole of DRK magic by accident. It's something that just kinda manifests for highly emotional people sporadically, although things like job stones or an actual teacher can make it more accessible to learn. DRK magic's source isn't common knowledge even amongst dark knights, it's just one of those things that happens and you roll with it.

Because Parthos was never properly taught what his magic is, he can't really... channel it willingly. It happens during moments of intense emotion, it's highly volatile, and it drains him of energy severely upon use. It's a goal of mine to someday get him an RP DRK friend who can teach him about it, but my headcanons feel niche so it'll probably never happen.

Also, not every DRK needs to use a giant-ass sword! Parthos uses a lance, Fray (the real one) is canonically a "conjurer" iirc but he's a purely spellcasting dark knight in my heart; other weapons are perfectly suitable since being a dark knight is more about principle and spellcasting than it is Big Sword Go Slash.

Parthos can use Unleash, Unmend, TBN, probably Edge of Darkness, and Cover because fuck you Cover fits DRK better than canon FFXIV paladins. He could probably use Living Dead as well but hopefully he never gets in a situation where he needs to use it ♥

Anyways, all of that to say I like dark knight. thanks for coming to my TED talk, there's more I could say but I won't because this post is Long.

#myst speaks #ffxiv #dark knight #parthos #sorry i have a lot to say abt DRK i love it a lot #i also have a lot to say about parthos #i will probably rb in the morning as well

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ambersky0319 · 5 months

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WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @hihopelessromantics! Thank you so so much for the tag!!

I had so many WIPs and didn't wanna limit myself to any category so made a new post 😅

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I'm gonna start off with some no pressure tags: @willowaudreykeyes @hdgnj @valewright67 @tacochippy @animalarte @writing-is-a-martial-art and anyone else who wants to do this! ^^

Fanfics above the cut, original works below ^^

Fanfics

NNT

Eternal (1 Planning, 1 Scrapped Scene, Chapters 1-24)

The 3,000 Year Constant (1 Plan, Chapter 1)

Geldris Day Fic 2

Goddess Elizabeth and Meliodas

A Treasure - Zeldris and Meliodas and Elizabeth

Digging A Little Deeper - Meliodas and Diane

I Don't Like You - Zeldris/Gelda

Not Breaking the Rules... Technically - Elizabeth-centric

Rightfully Angry - Meliodas and Zeldris

Zeldris-centric ANGST

Stardew Valley

Maru & Sebastian (Request)

Elliott/Sebastian - TBN (Request)

AUGTIYL

1. One Too Many Late Nights, Last Call

2. Meeting Everyone

3. Friday at the Saloon

4. Elliott Meets Krobus

5. Family Reunion

Worry - Sam/Farmer

Other

Zoo (Show) Rewrite

3rd Life - Grian and Scar

3rd Life - Bdubs and Cleo

3rd Life - Impulse and Skizz

3rd Life - Jimmy and Scott

3rd Life - Red Army

Original Works

Soulmate Reject Story

Cinomed Chronicles (Six Worlds)

3 Planning Docs

2 Worldbuilding Docs

Cinomed Chronicles (Two Worlds)

2 Planning Docs

"Go visit her."

A Very Rough Night

Aftermath

Alternate Throne Room Scene

Angel's Start

Blep

Booopity boop

Celebrations

Darling

Dealing with Idiots

Dire Circumstances

Fallen Angel

Help

Her Memories

Hidden Wings

Holidays with the Sydneys

Honorable

Introduction of Leona maybe

Lazy Day

Long Night

Medical Center Scene

Miss Most

Promise me something?

Rando Short

Random Short

Short Story - Family Field Trip

Something Wrong

Starting to Cope

Titles?? In this household?

Unease

Untitled

3 Untitled Documents

Vic???

Want

Wedding Day

What Makes You Beautiful

You Need To

At Long Last

1 New Chapter, 2 Old Chapters

Not of This World

Chapters 1-5, Chapter 12

The Prince's Guard (Scrapped)

1 Planning Doc

Chapters 1-4

#tag game #ask game #ask game: WIPs

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defenderofthelight · 5 months

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About me~

Hello! I'm Hannah and if you stumbled upon my blog - welcome! I'm glad you're here 🥰

A little about me: I'm a married 90's kid but I don't have any kiddos (yet). I work part-time as a barista, make designs for Redbubble, and am working on a couple writing/editing projects. I love coffee, tea, purple, pink, and pastel colors. I struggle with fatigue, major depression, anxiety, and C-PTSD but don't let my weaknesses hold me back or define who I am. I LOVE to create and although I've had some major slumps with my mental health, I always find myself going back to it. When I'm not creating, I enjoy spending time with my hubby or my closest friends and family. I also love video games (cozy indie games are my favorite), reading, music, collaborating with characters or story ideas, and watching Bob's Burgers, old TV shows, or anime.

My projects: Skyglass (main): middle grade fantasy series I'm currently writing about a bunch of fae kiddos. Premise: A young orphaned girl learns she’s from a magical world. But she must make an important choice—stay in her comfort zone and let fear control her, or step up and help change the course of history in her new world.

Project Burley (on hiatus): collaborative project I started on Instagram in 2019. It's about a creative arts school that houses middle school through high school students in a world where creativity is severely looked down on. I still love my kiddos deeply from this project, so I plan on posting more about them here. And if you're ever interested in reading my short stories and learning even more about my kids, links to my stories are at the bottom of this post and in my linktree.

TBN "Oreo" project (side): another story I've got in development that'll probably turn into a book. Premise: After being sent to a school for young criminals and social outcasts, Theo must team up with the eccentric Orly. Because their school isn't what he thought it was, and they are all in danger of being turned into weapons of war for their country. (I'll use the "Project Oreo" tag for this now).

AND I'm bound to post about miscellaneous other characters and story ideas. Since I play around with a lot -- but those above are my most consistent/serious ones at the moment.

Other interests: In case you couldn't already tell, I'm passionate about original characters, stories, and content. It's not that I hate fan made content (and you're bound to see fan art reblogged on my side blog sometimes), but there is something truly special about original ideas so that is where my main interest lies. I really hope to find many original character artists and writers here to love and support.

I'm also a huge advocate for mental health and strive to be a light in this dark, chaotic world. I plan to make my blogs safe, happy places for anyone to enjoy who shares common interests with me.

If anything I've rambled about resonates with you, I'd love for you to follow my blog! I promise I'll check out every blog that follows mine and give you a follow back if I like what I see 💜

You can also follow my side blog @heartsintent where I reblog posts.

Thank you for reading!!

Books I'm currently reading: The Golden Yarn (Reckless Book 3) by Cornelia Funke, The Hard Good by Lisa Whittle

Games I'm currently playing/regularly play: Stardew Valley (regularly), Coral Island, Spirittea, Farm Together (regularly), Sims 4 (regularly) -- I'm an Xbox girl, but I sometimes play on Switch too

Follow me on: Instagram | Redbubble | Goodreads | Spotify

Project Burley Stories: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4

My bio picture was created by @sakura-artist <3

#about me #personal #tumblr bio #artists on tumblr #writers on tumblr #looking for friends #looking for mutuals

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gacmediadaily · 5 months

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Christmas movies on Great American Family are different from holiday rom-coms on other channels because they aren’t afraid to celebrate the “reason for the season,” says the CEO of the network’s parent company.

Great American Media CEO Bill Abbott made the comments in the Dec. 7 broadcast of TBN’s Praise, telling hosts Matt Crouch and Laurie Crouch that all Christmas movies are not “the same.” Great American Family currently is airing Christmas content 24/7 and is debuting 20 new movies this holiday season as part of its annual Great American Christmas event.

Great American Family is a rival of the Hallmark Channel.

“I would put our Christmas movies up against anybody else’s,” Abbott said. “... They may all end in a kiss, but they are different, and they are not going to be the same experience over two hours because they're not going to incorporate the spirit of the season, which is faith and family, and those elements that are so important -- and so much a part of the fabric of Christmas.”

The meaning of the season is “Jesus’ birth,” Abbott added.

“It's gotten so lost in the secular world of what the real meaning of Christmas is,” he said.

Great American Family currently is airing an advent calendar and brief advent devotionals during breaks, Abbott noted. The network’s movies offer families “positive and uplifting” plots where they can “sit and enjoy themselves and not worry about life,” he said.

“We've worked really hard at our character development, at our locations, wardrobe, music, relationships, connections -- all the things that make a great movie,” Abbott said.

Abbott appeared on the TBN program alongside actress Danica McKellar, who portrayed a lead character in the new Christmas movie A Royal Date for Christmas.

“With talent like Danica, they really come to life in a way where maybe the end is similar [to other rom-coms,] but we want to celebrate faith, family, and country,” he said. “... Because most of Hollywood -- let's face it -- is denigrating faith, putting the country in a very negative light, families, fathers are looked at as, you know, the idiot in the room rather than a person to look up to. And so we really try hard to reinforce those values.”

Data released in October showed that Great American Family was TV’s fastest-growing network for 11 straight months.

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Photo Courtesy: Great American Family. Used with permission.

Video Courtesy: Risen Magazine via YouTube

#danica mckellar #bill abbott #great american family #great american christmas #Youtube

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snowbatmakesstuff · 11 months

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Back to working on the Galaxies Below portraits with new paper to test out and I made a randomized list of the characters because I’m terrible at decision making with these things and need a wheel to pick for me. Anyway, list is below the cut and if anyone is missing that you’re interested in seeing, throw it in the comments. (Note: non-canon characters like Capri do not count as they are not showing up in the fic. If they don’t show up on screen in the show, they do not count)

Texas - Finished Foxy - Finished Tennie - Finished Jacob Red (masked) Julie (rebel) Oracle Claire (Formal) Mike (Hoth) Rayon TJ Mike (Imperial Commander) Antonio Tooley Junior Claire (Travelling) Claire's Aunt (TBN) Mike N. 02 Chuck Dutch Duke Ruby Roth Claire's cousin (TBN) Dutch (Hoth) Darr Julie (sith) Mr. and Mrs. Gordy Katherine Kane (Update first name at some point) Cyborg Dan (Droid Dan) Chuck (Technician) Bracket Julie (Officer) Sam and Phillip Thurman Grand Moff Kane Lord Kane Claire Lizzy Crater Doc Hudson Kaia (and the Terra) Claire (Spoiler Outfit) AJ Julie (formal) Red (unmasked)

#motorcity #galaxies below

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wolfiemcwolferson · 1 year

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Your version if Maxiel is my fave ever I miss them

Hi Anon,

Spoilers for Blue Neighbourhood verse:

Our boys got engaged in The Blue Neighbourhood verse recently and I've written a little thing about it. (Y'all really didn't think I'd deprive you of this did you?) ((CW for mentions of death)) ((( Really starting to toy with the idea of throwing all of these into a "drabble" fic at the end of TBN series for you all, please let me know if that's something you guys would like.)))

The rings look simple. Silver with a thread of gold through the middle. Rustic, Michelle had called them when she went with Max to pick them up from the jewelers.

They do look rustic, but he knows they're perfect. Charles had assured him that they were perfect and...well, Pierre had said it was morbid, but he had said it gently and non-judgmentally so Max was letting it go.

It's tonight. He's going to ask him tonight and he can't help but pull them out of his desk drawer every few minutes and look at them, run his fingers over them gently.

Daniel is expecting it on New Year's since Max had made a big deal about them leaving their plans open. Of course, Max does have a plan for that, but it's not this.

The only person who knows it's tonight is George (and by extension Alex, but he's not mentioned it so Max is assuming they're doing that respectful thing where they pretend that the other person doesn't know things because of partner privilege or whatever).

It's tonight.

So, really. He might should have planned something bigger when he sits down and thinks about it. Like, really. He should have. Taken him to Vancouver or allowed Lance to book them something ridiculous and over the top.

Daniel deserves the world and Max asking him to marry him in this pizza place, just doesn't seem big enough somehow, and he -

Danny pulls up and Daniel can see his smile through the windshield of his Jeep, waving and happy. He's always so so happy to see Max and Max knows that this is right. The place they sat down together and plotted out a way to move to Denver after Max finished school. The place they always go back to even after they moved across town.

"Ya didn't have to wait on me, Maxy." Daniel says, walking over to him, bouncing a little bit to warm himself up - jacket discarded in the car like an idiot.

Max pulls his hand out of his pocket, careful not to jostle the ring box too much, and holds it out to Danny, grasping his hand and bringing it up to press a kiss to his freezing fingertips. "Always waiting on you."

Daniel pulls his hand back, but steps into Max's space, tilting his lips up to kiss him. "But we could have pizza right now instead of still standing on the sidewalk like idiots."

Max huffs, pulling him along and into the warmth of the building. It's a shabby place, booths of cracked plastic and low light due to the stained glass lamps hanging above every table. The place smells like bread and melty cheese and something that can really only be described as burnt, but it's damn good and it's always packed.

Max didn't do anything obvious like call ahead, so they have to stand in the doorway for 20 minutes, turning into each other and laughing every time the door opens and a gush of air whirls in around them. "Fuck, it's cold." Daniel whines, putting his head on Max's shoulder. "And don't say anything about my coat."

Max just wraps one arm around his waist, kissing his head. He loves him. He's going to marry him.

They get a booth in the back room, Max taking his coat off now that they're warm-ish and throwing it into the booth before they sit down. Daniel orders them a pizza and a salad and two coke's and Max feels like he's vibrating out of his skin. He knows Daniel will say yes. Of course, Daniel will say yes.

"You good?" Daniel asks him, head tilted.

Max taps his head and nods. A show that he's just thinking about things. Daniel lets it go and starts to talk instead.

Max should have...done more. He should have made this a whole ordeal with flowers and family. Their salad comes and Daniel starts pushing all the purple onions over to Max's side of the plate while he continues talking and only stops his story to offer Max a paper napkin and a fork.

Daniel smiles at him, teeth on display, "Hey," he whispers, leaning in like they're sharing a secret. "I love you, Maxy. Thanks for suggesting this tonight. I...needed it."

Max...Max dives for his coat, extracting the ring from his pocket as quickly as he can, setting it beside the salad plate, eyes set on Daniel's face as the smile slips away.

"Max -" Daniel says his name firmly.

Max kind of nudges the box towards him and Daniel reaches out for it, hand trembling.

"I cannot believe you -" Daniel picks up the box, popping the lid, staring at the two rings before flicking his gaze up at Max. "I assumed New Year's."

"I know." Max nods.

Max can hear how carefully Daniel is speaking. "This is the place you told me you wanted to move to Denver."

"And now it's the place where I'm asking you to marry me."

Daniel smiles, passing the box back over the table, "Ask me then."

Max clears his throat, making a show of sliding the salad plate out of the way, leaning over the table as far as he can. He picks Daniel's ring up and holds it up. "I'll save the poetry for the wedding vows, but you have to know that it's been you and it'll always be you. Fate might have brought you to me, but you and I keep picking each other and I mean to do that every single day for the rest of my life."

He holds the ring out.

"That's still not a question, Maxy."

Max groans and puts his forehead directly on the table, revelling in the way Danny laughs, but when he sits back up he asks, "Will you marry me, Daniel?"

"You fucking bet I will." Danny says gently, holding his hand out for the ring.

Max is sliding it on when their server tries to bring their pizza and Daniel puts his arms across the table, "Jess, darling." He says. "You need to go put that in a box. We'll be up to pay our check, but this idiot just asked me to marry him and we have to go."

"Danny!" Max laughs, but Daniel shrugs and then he leans all the way over the table and kisses Max breathless.

"I love you forever." He says when he pulls away. "I love you forever."

They don't pay for the pizza (because it turns out getting engaged in a restaurant makes people mushy) and they end up having to part at their cars to drive home even though Danny gets a little teary about it and they eat cold pizza in bites of one or two at a time between the two hours of phone calls they make when they get back to their apartment.

Max had...thought this might go differently. More time to relax into each other, maybe? Less time promising everyone they've ever met that they will not elope and will have a wedding and yes, they love them too.

Daniel is stretched out on his chest, left hands clasped out to the side. Max can see he's staring at them.

He muscles his way into a sitting position - jostling Max nearly to death.

"Ok," he demands, tapping a finger on his ring. "There's something wildly romantic about this. So. Out with it."

Max doesn't know quite how to tell him this - perhaps should have saved it for a wedding ring - should have given Danny time to prepare or say no.

Max picks up Danny's hand from his chest, kissing the ring, chest full of so much love and devotion that he thinks it might actually kill him. "The gold. I got it from Charles."

"From Charles?" Daniel's voice goes high in question.

Max kisses his ring knuckle. "The chain from - the chain from the necklace Jules wore. His mom had it melted down and she gave it to Charles to use for anything he wanted and we -"

Daniel rips his hand away from Max's so he can cover his face, whole body shaking.

Max has to really muscle them around so he can sit up and hold Daniel to his chest. "I just thought...we always say that he's the person who brought you to me so it felt -"

"You're literally the worst, most romantic, awful man that has ever existed and I love you so much."

Max has to bite down on his bottom lip to keep from laughing. "I know, schatzi."

"Who gave you the right?" Daniel heaves, pressing himself into Max as far as he can.

"I think you did actually. When you tried to propose to me in the middle of Arizona."

Daniel starts shaking in laughter now. "I love you so much, oh my god. I planned on sex, but now I'm snotty."

Max cups Daniel's face in his hands, pulling it up so he can look at him. "I love you. I'm so happy, Danny. I'm so happy you just have no idea."

"I do have an idea actually." Danny sniffs. "Ok, there will still be sex. Because you only get engaged once and I'd like that, so to the bedroom, Mr. Verstappen-Ricciardo."

Max's chest clenches, but he's trying to shuffle Daniel back far enough on his knees so he can stand up with him from the couch.

"I was just trying that out, but damn that sounds good. Or should be go Ricciardo-Verstappen? Do you think it matters?"

"Actually," Max clears his throat and then grunts, picking Daniel up. "I was thinking we would just go with...Ricciardo." Daniel unwraps his legs from Max's waist and he drops down to the ground.

It's silent. Max isn't looking at him. Daniel cups his face now, forcing him to look at his face. "I'm going to love you forever." Daniel says it slowly - making sure Max hears each syllable.

Yeah, they're going to do this forever.

#tiredtiredsharl #the blue neighbourhood #maxiel #they're engaged everybody scream

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