#so I was prepared XD

[victorluvsalice]

Valicer OT3 Week, Day Two: The Cool Kid, The Jock, And The Nerd

OT3 Week (as per @ot3-week) continues with a prompt that definitely seemed suited for a High School AU -- "The cool kid, the jock, and the nerd!" I think we can all agree that would be Smiler, Alice, and Victor respectively. :p At any rate, here's a high school version of the trio hanging out together at lunch -- with Victor having a rather important question for Smiler...

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“...why do you hang out with me?”

To Victor’s horror, Smiler looked up from their sandwich, confirming that he had indeed said that out loud. “Because...I like you?” they said once they’d finished chewing and swallowing. “Do I need a better reason than that?”

“I – um, it’s just...” Shut up shut up shut up – but now that the door had been opened, Victor found himself plunging onward, needing to know. “You’re easily the popular, well-liked person in this school. The coolest of the cool kids. People think you’re the greatest – and you are!” he hastened to add, waving his hands. “You’re funny, and friendly, and you really s-seem to take an interest in e-everyone – anybody and everyone likes to hang out with you! You could be friends with anyone! And – and I’m–” Victor swallowed, trying to find the words. “I’m – n-not that. I’m – me.”

Smiler gave him a long look – the kind of look that suggested some kind of “Victor Is Having Self-Esteem Issues Again” alarm was going off in their head. Then they put down their sandwich in favor of taking his hand. “And I like you,” they repeated, looking Victor in the eye. “Even if you’re nothing like me. Especially since you’re nothing like me! I don’t need another me in my life – I’ve already got me! But I didn’t have a ‘you’ until I met you. And now I do.” They shot him one of those stunning grins. “And I’m very happy about that.”

“I...” Victor pulled at his tie, trying not to think about how warm Smiler’s hand felt against his. This wouldn’t be half as hard if I hadn’t had a very enlightening dream about my romantic tastes last night, he groused to himself. Why couldn’t this have happened before I realized I had a crush? “I just – don’t get it? W-why you would want a me?”

“Well, for starters–”

“What’s going on?”

Victor looked up as Alice (aka the other person that he was crushing on, and who hopefully would never find out that fact) came over, carrying a tray. “I mean, I can guess from context that Victor just had a self-loathing moment, but fill me in on the specifics,” she continued, sitting down.

“Not much to fill in – Victor just asked me why I hang out with him, and I’m in the process of reminding him that he doesn’t have to be one of the ‘cool kids’ for people to like him,” Smiler told her.

“Ah.” Alice picked up a chip and popped it into her mouth. “Well, allow me to second the sentiment. I personally find ‘cool’ is often overrated.”

“Maybe, but...I-I just have a hard time seeing the a-appeal of me,” Victor said, looking between them. “Especially – Smiler, like I said, you’re already the most popular kid in school. You don’t need to hang out with someone like me if you want company. And Alice – you’re smart, you’re witty, you have an amazing imagination – oh, and you’re an incredible fencer. The absolute star of the team!”

“I’m also the girl who most people avoid because she spent the majority of her childhood in supervised hospitalization after her family died in a horrific house fire,” Alice retorted, taking a swig from her bottle of soda. “And the one who still talks to invisible creatures on the regular, because so far every medication I’ve tried has had side effects that just are not worth it. Just because I’m like, three percent jock doesn’t mean my social life is any better than yours.” She jerked her head to the side. “Do you think I understand why Smiler’s here? They could do damn better than hanging out with the local loony, that’s for sure.”

“What do I have to do to make you both understand I like you and that’s the end of it?” Smiler grumbled, folding their arms.

“Go back in time and stop the murder of my parents and sister,” Alice replied, waving a fry at them.

“Somehow convince my mother that I’m not a complete failure of a human being,” Victor muttered, looking at his feet.

Smiler sighed. “You two sometimes...look,” they said firmly, leaning across the table. “I think you’re both awesome people, all right? Alice, I agree with everything Victor said – you’re intelligent, you’ve got a great sarcastic sense of humor, and you’re frighteningly good with a sword. I respect that a lot. And Victor – you’re kind, and artistic, and really smart yourself! You know so much about butterflies, you could write your own encyclopedia! I’ve learned a lot, hanging around you!”

“Not to mention your piano skills,” Alice said, shooting Victor a little smile that made his stomach do flip-flops. “I know your parents have got you thinking that you’re not worth anything, but – you really are. To us, at least.”

“Yeah – so could you please stop trying to understand why we’re friends with you and just accept it?” Smiler added, reaching over and giving Victor’s wrist a little squeeze. Then they shot him a disarming grin. “Or do I have to kiss you silly to get that to happen?”

Victor felt himself go beet red as a certain bit of a certain dream started replaying itself in his head. “I – uh – you – um–”

“Who put you in charge of kissing him?” Alice asked, with a playful smirk that did not do anything for the images inside his brain. “Maybe I want a go at it.”

“Maybe we should just do it both at once then,” Smiler joked back. “That’d probably reset his brain.”

“...really?”

This time it was both Smiler and Alice blinking that alerted Victor to the fact that, once again, he’d said that out loud. He dropped his head, wincing. Oh no – that’s it, that’s the bridge too far, it doesn’t matter what they said before, me blurting out that I’d be open to kissing both of them at once is sure to make them –

There was another squeeze on his wrist, and he looked up to see Smiler and Alice looking at him with – not disgust, like he’d feared, but simple surprise. And – just perhaps, if he wasn’t seeing things – a bit of interest? Could they possibly... ? “Well,” Smiler finally said with a little wink. “Think that’s a discussion we should have after school.”

Hope alighted in Victor’s heart, chasing all the dark thoughts away. “Yes,” he breathed. “After school.”

#ot3week #valicer #prompt #fanfic #high school au #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler alton #I mean you kind of have to do a High School AU with this prompt #fortunately I already have a High School AU for this trio over on my RP blog #so I was prepared XD #fun fact I originally wrote this from Smiler's POV #but for some reason it just didn't work from that angle #I think it needed the peek into Victor's head to bring home why Victor was asking this #and his feelings regarding these two #like 'you're both amazing so why are you here with ME' #I can confirm from the old Smiler POV version that Smiler DOES have a 'Victor Is Having Self Esteem Issues' alarm in their head #you spend enough time around Victor you get one installed automatically :p #fortunately they're only too happy to help him over these hurdles #Alice too #especially when it leads to potential relationship upgrades ;) #queued

[br-disaster]

it's still NMJ's birthday in my timezone, so have some happy Nie Bros !

#nie mingjue #nie huaisang #and maybe someone else too... #mdzs fanart #cql fanart #nmj's official unofficial birthday #i've been busy preparing for an exam so i could barely think about his birthday for the longest time #and i decided to just have the two of them hanging out; drinking; eating some snacks #and i used concept art of the unclean realm as reference #then i spent a lot of time worrying about whether the table was actually like meant for tea and if it was bad that they were on the floor #i almost made them play weiqi but their faces were already done and they wouldn't be all smiley while playing #anyway it's done #i hope my inaccuracies can be interpreted as the boys being alone and carefree #and maybe nmj likes plum blossoms more than chrysanthemus because i couldn't get them right XD

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Hiii everyone, say, how do your Hawkes go go about sharing their estate? If they do it at all? Is everyone free to come and go or are they more private? Or do they only invite their LI to stay? I'm curious!! :)

#lay rambles #my ocs #oc: liam hawke #oc: lilian hawke #both my hawkes are very social w their friends but i love comparing their boundaries around it #theres variation in rules for specific ppl with both of them ofc but theres still general differences #with liam its all very open and everyone can p much come and go whenever #they dont get extra keys (theyll get lost and he doesnt want randos finding them lol) but they know where to find the spare key #and bodhan and sandal and orana know to let them in whenever #hes very lenient in this this regard but he does have rules abt what he does and doesnt want them to do #mostly its about not making too much of a mess lol bc liam prefers to clean himself #(he doesnt trust the crew with his household and also he has particular ways of doing things and Hates when theyre done differently) #so things like keep your dirty garb at the entrance dont cook by yourselves (this was banned after they did it one (1) time lol) etc #also no fucking allowed. do that somewhere else for the love of the maker he does NOT want to walk into that in his own house #(and it also comes back to liam not trusting them with cleaning but also Not wanting to clean that up lol) #also he is not fond of them going into his room uninvited. most of the house is chill but that is *his* space #he accommodates these rules by e.g. having spare slippers and a little washing basin in the entrance hall for dirty shoes/feet #always makes sure to have snacks in stock that he knows they like #food will have notes abt what to leave for leandra/orana/etc but otherwise food is prepared with his friends in mind #and in general he'll make sure to adjust the space/routine in little ways to accommodate them #(air out when fen isnt there cus he doesnt like drafts; keep curtains open cus anders prefers open spaces; etc) #lilian on the other hand doesnt like when her friends come into the estate without a heads up (cept for emergencies) #but once they have her 'ok' its basically mi casa es su casa #dont yknow. overdo it and get too rowdy but otherwise do whatever #however. she also expects everyone to clean up after themselves. she aint here to play maid and youre all adults #also liam has a general 'please try to not be too wild when leandra is here' and lilian doesnt #not cos she doesnt care but cos leandra is bothered by sth she can speak up herself #oh and lilian uses the basement space as temporary refuge for anyone who needs it (mostly escaped mages) #also side note: both offered gamlen to stay but he refused (out of pride/remorse) #...this got long and i ran out of tag space lmfao so this is it for now xD

[zu-is-here]

Everything is Blue

[3/21] Happy anniversary! ★

inspired by this

Swap by popcornpr1nce

Error & Blueberror from askerrorsans by loverofpiggies

#zu art #comic #trapped #error!sans #blueberror #underswap!sans #swap!sans #us!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #lyrics #anniversary #I prepared!! 2 drawings to choose from!! and ended up posting the 3rd one?? XD #super messy (just like these errors heh) yet am proud <3 #''don't tag it as ___'' my brother in Christ two characters in one panel is all people need to ship them :'D #sure we should respect Canon and Word of God (and this story is not about errorberry at all) but baby if you ship them I'm in ;) #OMG thank you guys so much for 14 000+!! \(//∇//)\♡ #it's just— WOW. ​unbelievable??? (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)☆ #lots of love to each of you!! <33

[dandelion-wings]

I feel like I've said this at some point before, but it genuinely makes me worry for The Youth Of Today when I co-op with someone who is clearly a kid, and they exclaim about how nice I am and glom on hard (I have multiple now where I've accepted their friend requests and then had, over the next couple weeks, to gently get across that I cannot always be chatting/co-oping while in-game) when I am just exerting the basic friendliness and good manners that one brings to a group activity that one has agreed to or solicited. Both, like, are the kids okay (and is gaming culture really so toxic that basic friendliness and encouragement has that much appeal), but also... I am not really sure it is safe for you to be attaching yourself this hard to a random stranger that you played a game with once just because they were nice in your first interaction? Nice does not mean safe!

#i do not accept co-op requests or go into other worlds if i am not prepared to exert y'know basic decency #so i am to be fair also giving off the illusion that i am not the touchy misanthrope that i actually am XD #but like. kids. you're nice and all. but you need to give people space. especially if those people are me #and also c.f. tonight's conversation: you need to not be telling strangers on the internet details about your life #if you're an adult that's your call but you keep talking about school and your parents enforcing your bedtime! #you are a kid and should not be giving out a single crumb of detail about where you live or who you are!

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Y'all are so lucky Mentopolis is only 6 episodes long otherwise you wouldn't hear the end of it from me

#prepare for a deluge of mentopolis content #in a day or so given my queue lol #but honestly im obseesed i cant get enpugh #i know content will taper off when it ends but honestly maybe thats a good thing xD #mentopolis #d20

[lordzuuko]

I will not lie, I didn’t think I could pull off to oneshot the wine cellar jester that has 500 billion health and combos. I’m still in shock fjjdjds

#lies of p #pinocchio #my gameplay #look at me preparing myself for failure with that fable catalyst selection XD #personal #wtf is this so apparently #step 1: dont believe in yourself #step 2: shockingly pulls it off #step 3: profit ???? #ndjsjsjsjsjs #i was really dreading this in my replay but i was like ''fork it man i need to beat him to progress sdfadsf'' #my video

[mitamicah]

Thank you all so much for being a positive presence in my 2023 🥺 i had no idea what a tightknit, supportive and amazing community i would become a part of when I first shared a sketch of käärijä back in may

You are all so wonderfully embracing and talented (and gorgeous) as heck 😭 meeting some of you at the europe tour seems so surreal 😱

Here's to a great 2024 to everyone - hope for all the best for each of my kääryleet and baby boos (and people who have been here even longer as well) 🤗💚❤️

#this is my new years message #it is not too long which is weird to say about a post i make xD #i have had a running nose all day so i think i might have gotten the cold #on the last day of the year wow my luck is great xD #other than that i feel pretty good ^_^ #got three drawings done so far #some good food #waiting for the hair to get emo (dyeing it black rn) #and probably going to prepare midnight celebration snacks now :2 #*:3 #micahs foolery #micahs thoughts #new years eve

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Me, beating gloom hands after my first encounter with them: HA. I didn't think you nasty-looking-possessed-horse-sounding things were on the surface, but I had light item weapons ready! >:D TAKE THAT, SUCKERS! Phantom Ganon, popping up: Suavamente >:D Me: Ah... well, crap.

#tears of the kingdom spoilers #totk spoilers #I didn't know they did that lol #mistakes were made #the fight would have been way more fun if that song played though XD XD XD #hats off to you if you get the reference LOL #I ran away that's how the fight ended #fast travel fleeing to Hateno because I was NOT prepared to face a mini boss #this all started because I was on my horse working on my project while I let horsie guide my path #and I saw a shrine so I was like oh I should at least activate it and then I can get back to work #THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR BEING DISTRACTED

[the-words-we-sung]

First impressions after watching season 3

So after being super patient all day yesterday, I finally managed to get back home and binge watch season 3 last night \o/ I'm just gonna put a few of my first thoughts here for now, I'm gonna need to rewatch everything to have more detailed and coherent thoughts 😁 But first of all, I wanna thanks Amber 💜 (@amailboxlemur) for being the best spectator and companion to my live reactions 😂 It was super duper nice to be able to share these with you while I was watching and going through all the emotions 😱 So I liked the season!! It was a lot a lot but I really enjoyed it!! It made me cry, it made me laugh, it made me blush... All the rainbow emotions 💜

Here is my reaction at the end of episode 5, and I think it sums up pretty well my feeling at that moment :p

So a few randoms comments (I will write more about each episode after rewatching them, which I intend to start doing tonight because I neeeeeed to watch it all again):

[It's not spoiler-free so don't read if you haven't watched the season yet!!]

⁂ Simon was incredibly sad this season and it broke my heart. Seeing him cry just made me cry. He was so lost and broken, I really can't wait for the last episode to see him get better (yes I'm an eternally optimist person so I believe he will be happier!!)

⁂ I wasn't expecting the Micke/Sara storyline but I think I liked it! It gave us a new perspective into the Eriksson family dynamic and I felt so so bad for Sara at the end

⁂ I loved to see Simon being truly angry at his sister!! Baby boy is so used to being nice and forgiving, so it was really refreshing to see him actually be mad and stand his ground about it!!

⁂ Wilhelm Wilhelm Wilhelm. My poor boy is a mess! He was so hopeful at the beginning, thinking he could finally have it all, but yeah it was obviously not gonna be smooth sailing. He's such a messy, broken, angry teenager this season and my heart cries for him. He ends up hurting Simon quite a lot but I cannot be truly mad at him. He's a broken boy trying his best :(

⁂ Which leads me to his family: arghhhhhh. So I was hoping that we would get some more info to understand Kristina at least a little bit, but she's just truly awful this season. And the Duke is not better. I hate them for how they behave with Wilhelm. And on a more personal note: I always saw my own mother in Kristina, but this season it's even more flagrant, and gosh does it make me mad for Wilhelm. His lashing out at them at the end of episode 5 was as painful as it was good to see. I've been in his situation. I've yelled like him too many times to count. So I hurt for him. He deserves so much better. Nobody should have these kind of people as parents :(

⁂ The Erik stuff made me so sad!!

⁂ The whole school situation was a bit frustrating at time but it was interesting to see the characters reacting to it all. Felice is a queen and deserves so much better than her "friends". And Vincent can rot in hell 😠

⁂ They're all incredible actors!! And the show is beautiful as usual. I am slightly disappointed with the music (no song captured me as well as the ones in season 1 and 2, but maybe I just need to watch the episodes a few times for that to happen ^^)

⁂ All the cute scenes between Wilhelm and Simon were just the best. Seeing them be silly boyfriends was the best. And yeah, the chemistry is still chemistrying hard between Edvin and Omar :p

I'm gonna stop my list of first reactions there, but I'll continue in more details episode by episode! Overall I think I like this season, though the ending killed me and the week to come is gonna be the longest week ever ^^' I am not really worried about the last episode. I trust the show. I do believe Wilmon will be endgame. And I think not everything will be wrapped up neatly but I do think the ending will be satisfying. So can't wait \o/

#young royals #wilmon #prince wilhelm #simon eriksson #yr season 3 #my first reactions #amailboxlemur #I'm so glad I was able to not watch it completely alone #and to be able to freak out with a few people #because it was a lot of screaming and a lot of emotions #let me tell you xD #I really loved watching it all unfold #and I went in spoiler free #so I wasn't prepared for anything xD #my analysis #I feel so much for Wilhelm #and for Simon #they were both so unwell #Wilhelm is so broken #and Simon so sad #I wanna hug them so bad

[fitzrove]

Its ok maybe if you look up the lyrics to was für ein grausames leben and read them in english you will be okj<3

#[gnawing and biting] #ashjdjgjg i think i don't want to live in vienna after all #i'm by nature an easily depressed person and in some places it's too easy to make your life revolve around dead people and death at large!! #i had a lot of fun on my trip but i also had some terrible times #mostly the part where i was sick #one thing that i think would pose a major issue long term is the insanely narrow opening hours for supermarkets - in germany many stay #open until 10 pm. closest one to my hotel in vienna closed at 7:30 pm... #also i just can't deal with big crowds and tourists in my living environment full time dhhfhfgh i always need to be somewhere away and #voluntarily go into the tourist parts only if i want to #like how in cambridge it was insane in the center but i would walk 30 minutes every morning from by the train tracks :') a nice quiet #residential street and i could shop at the local sainsbury's and only go to the historic city centre when i felt like it and could prepare #so like i have to live in a quiet area but within reasonable distance of (and with good transport to!) a more exciting busy area #but um yeah now i have to awkwardly tell everyone irl that i've been talking about it to that i don't actually want to do it anymore xD #it's ok i still want to live Somewhere Interesting with historical stuff... #if i manage not to have a mental breakdown that is ahshhdjdkf #i like my current town a lot :')

[justxaxstrayxkid]

Small and low quality Mizuchi ft smol baby Yato

It's been a while. I miss these posts :(

#noragami #mizuchi #yato #Noragami spoilers #i'm thinking of coming back to this blog #like posting frequently like i used to #not everyday but hopefully at least once a week #life has been so hectic #firstly i think last year i lost commitment for this blog cuz i was hyperfixating on a visual novel series #and that series literally took my attention away from everything i swear l #and then this year happened oh dear lord school is beating me to a pulp every damn week #started at a new school in november & it took me long to make friends #and on top of that most of my classes are ultra boring and the teachers pile on work like crazy #i have to push myself so hard and burn out at the end of every week to get every assignment turned in #only got a month left of school so yea but also nay cuz there's sm left to do #got a damn eoc exam tomorrow and then a physics exam the next day #i have a performance for my asl class which im so not prepared for in a few weeks #and then finals like the week after the performance i think? #oh and my algebra teacher said she's giving us another exam before the final #very fun!! i love being a high schooler XD

[nocturnalazure]

#ts3 #sims 3 #sims 3 story #sims stories #tteot story #laurie golzine #romeo pastorini #omar ayad #juan salas #jie lan #the 'real enemy' has just arrived xD #i should have used that lot before for their syndicate meeting #so dramatic and isolated! #but they've already chosen different locations depending on the weather or what 'needs to be done' #so i guess it's not that inconsistent #gotta love omar peacefully preparing the video call though #minions like him are usually well out of the picture #laurie arc

[zu-is-here]

I hope to see the killer kiss the cross on the next rock band page

I hope so too every time I open the script, but it's always anything but their kiss there, so I start crying while drawing the next page

#XD <3 #ask #rock band #ALSO thank you guys so much for 18 000+!! \(//∇//)\ #I didn't have time to prepare something special BUT it's coming very soon indeed ;)

[perchingominouslysmwh]

Send in the artillery pls I need to pull myself together TODAY OR SO HELP ME--

#this is just a post #nothing to be concerned abt #just me trying to motivte myself to get a decent routine going before uni starts and the Decomposing eventually starts again XD #I JUST NEED TO ESTABLISH A BASELINE LEVEL OF SANITY BEFORE THE SEM PLS #Its the last sem too gosh i still don't know how i feel about that #BUT WE'RE GOING DOWN SWINGING #and the goal is simply to prepare for it #idc if it's not the Best Prep I could do #it just needs to exist #SO ANYWAY #im off to dump a to-do list somewhere #and eventually get things done today >:D #Inshallah XD #wolia rambles

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Baby Bengals vs. cardboard slide

Sound on for full effect.

#kittens #bengal kittens #bengal cats #*me realizing I own these videos and they don't have children in them so I can post them on tumblr* #prepare yourself for a backlog of kitten videos #please ignore the messy cage in the background things had not been cleaned for the day yet #this obviously took priority #love how they mob me at one point ajghlakjsadsf #in case it's not clear I was propping the cardboard up and videoing this #roxie at the end almost making it all the way up she is a force to be reckoned with xD #can you tell my babies apart? #random leeli in there can you believe that six of these black kittens are hers ajlghjalsfhgkdsjfkasjg