#there would definitely be some people that didn't do enough research and get a baby rex labeled as a 'nano' or maybe 'nanoran'

[zestyderg]

Thinking about baby vivosaurs, especially ones that aren't immediately recognizable as their adult counterparts

#fossil fighters #fossil fighters champions #my doodles #there would definitely be some people that didn't do enough research and get a baby rex labeled as a 'nano' or maybe 'nanoran'

[yoongisleftshoulder]

BTS Reacts: Their S/O Has Bad Period Pains

Seokjin:

Jin knew he could only do so much to aid you during your period so he would be there as much as he could emotionally. Basically an emotional support puppy. Of course, he would provide you with anything you needed, like pads/tampons, heating pads etc. Prepare to be snuggled more than you've ever been snuggled before. He would be afraid of accidentally putting pressure on the wrong spot and making things worse but once he found a comfy position for the both of you, he wouldn't be leaving. Throughout the whole week, he did anything within his power to make you smile.

Yoongi:

If your period pains were bad enough, Yoongi would essentially parent you through it. Without you even asking, he would be cooking all of your meals every day, running you hot baths or showers, warming up your blankets in the dryer, and even running to the store to do some shopping for you. He wouldn't sit and rub your back or wherever for hours but you bet your bottom he would give you everything you needed. Yoongi would probably have the most mature response to this situation.

Hoseok:

Soft boy™ Hoseok would be one concerned mf. Why were you in so much pain??? Were you dying??? He would probably text his older sister to ask if it was normal to experience such intense pain while being on your period. When she told him that for some people this was a regular thing, he would feel even worse. Excruciating pain was normal for you??? Wack. Like Jimin, he would absolutely baby you. You were the warmth to his sunshine and it broke him to see you like that. Back rubs, shoulder rubs, tummy rubs, all of the rubs. Hoseok would suddenly become a master in the field of heating pads and pads/tampons. Eventually, he wouldn't even need to call his sister for advice anymore.

Namjoon:

Namjoon definitely has quite a bit of knowledge on periods from the get go. He has a younger sister and tends to have a habit of researching everything he's even slightly curious about. But when it came to you scrunched over in pain in bed because of horrible cramping?....Whole different ball game. Low-key is just as distressed as you. He definitely feels a mental strain just from witnessing you experiencing what basically felt like torture. Namjoon spends the entire week being on high alert, jumping up without a second thought anytime you needed something, no questions asked. He gets to the point where he finds himself moving around a little too fast from nerves and has to calm himself before he cuddles with you.

Jimin:

If your relationship was still somewhat new, he would be a little bewildered. He was aware that periods are a generally unpleasant experience for women everywhere but didn't know exactly how different they can be every month, and how strong the pains could really be. When he first experienced being around you during this time, he wanted to help you feel better more than anything. He questioned you and asked for tips on how to help and what could ease your discomfort. After that, he was basically an expert. He knew exactly what pads/tampons you needed from the store, he knew what foods helped and what foods to avoid, and he knew what pain meds actually did something for you. Even though you had been dealing with periods most of your life at this point, he would baby you a lot for the week.

Taehyung:

Seeing his baby in so much pain and discomfort low-key made him want to cry. He knew it was awful for you but he swore it was the worst thing in the world not being able to just snap his fingers and make your pain disappear. Expect hot teas, multiple heating pads on your stomach and over your aching back, and painkillers. Taehyung would provide anything and everything for you. Anything you asked for or wanted to try, he was on it. Never had to ask twice. He would apologize to you while holding you from behind in bed, hating that he felt powerless. Logically, he knew that it wasn't his fault but he couldn't help but feel responsible when he couldn't take the misery away from the one he loved most.

Jungkook:

Jungkook would be in almost as much distress as you were. He swore it caused real physical pain in his body to see you like that. He underestimated just how powerful the pain could be during your period and felt awful for it. While you were hunched over laying down on the couch, tears streaming down your face from the intense cramping, he ran into the bedroom and gathered up two blankets and a pillow. He propped your head up with the pillow and covered your shivering form. With a kiss on your forehead, he left the room again and started looking around the kitchen for the ingredients to your favorite hot mint tea. When it was done, he brought the hot mug over to you and set it on the table in front of the couch. Jungkook then sat onto the floor in front of you, body turned towards you, rubbing your stomach in light circles. He wanted to anything he could to help ease your pain.

#bts #bts reactions #bts reaction #kpop reaction #jin #kim seokjin #suga #min yoongi #jhope #jung hoseok #rm #kim namjoon #jimin #park jimin #v #kim taehyung #jungkook #jeon jungkook

[charliedawn]

Lol I love the idea of two people liking each other but both being completaly oblivious to the fact other person likes them and everyone around them see it and are getting annoyed/irritated by the fact those two aren't together yet! It's hillarious 🤣! (Not necessaraly saying this is a request or anything, but my fav characters are slashers and Hannibal family, just in case you wanna write something)

Morgan found you annoying at first, because he didn't understand his own feelings and it turned into constant bickering.

Morgan : "STOP. Just stop."

You *clueless* : "STOP what ?"

Morgan : "You. In my head. Constantly. It's unnerving."

You *giggle and tease him* : "Well..If I didn't know any better, I would say that you've got a little crush on me."

Morgan shook his head at the absurd notion alone and walked away—ignoring you when you decided to follow him.

Morgan doesn't like when things don't go according to plan and he had a plan on finding the perfect soulmate based on very specific criteria.

And there you came, making a mess of his plans..

It started becoming a sort of competition of who would break first.

He would think you're doing it on purpose and get annoyed at the sight of you—or avoid you.

Unbeknownst to the both of you that if you were to dig deeper you would find the true reason behind your playful banter..

His brothers watching the both of you from the sidelines :

Kevin : "...I'm gonna tell them."

Peter : "Don't you dare !"

You met Kevin in art school and lucky for you, he always arrives late to everything. And, you kept unconsciously saving a seat for him next to you..

You *pretend to be annoyed as he sits next to you* : "Why do you always seat here ?"

Kevin *pretends to be thinking about it* : "Hum...Because it is the only empty seat ?"

You *bluntly* : "You are annoying."

Him *smiles and winks you* : "Sure. So, do we start working or...?"

He would tease you and follow you around—making it very difficult for people not to notice..

Soon enough, his hand would find yours and you would start walking hand-in-hand around school.

Morgan *noticing the dreamy expression on Kevin's face and arks a quizzical eyebrow* : "...Are you thinking of Y/N again ?"

Kevin : "WHA—?! NO ! EWW ! WE'RE JUST FRIENDS !"

Peter : "...Friends don't usually hold hands and go on dates.."

Kevin *process in motion* : "...OH MY GOSH ! I'VE GOT A CRUSH ON Y/N !"

Morgan *rolls his eyes with an amused smile* : "Took you long enough.."

Peter met you at school and as crushes go with him, it started normal—until it wasn't..

Peter started by being normal around you. He acted nice, sympathetic, funny..

He was perfect.

But, once you were out of sight or he would return home ? That's when things would change and slight developments could be noticed in his behavior.

He would shut himself off from the rest of the family, do extensive research on everything and everyone even remotely related to you and spend hours in deep concentration..

Now, it would be very difficult for Peter not to understand right away.

It usually doesn't take him long to fall in love and he is the first aware of that.

He usually passes through multiple stages : happiness overload, intense paranoïa, brief episode of depression, stalking and finally, unhealthy obsession..

The Hannibal Family all know how intense it can be for Peter when he has a crush, it is the very reason they don't like it when he has one.

Kevin *opens the door ajar* : "Erm..You're alright baby bro ?"

Peter *doesn't answer and keeps staring at the wall*

Kevin *closes the door* : "...Okay. Good to know."

Morgan *waiting outside* : "So ?"

Kevin : "...Yup. It's definitely a crush. Better warn Hannibal Sr."

Freddy didn't know you had a crush of him and he refused to acknowledge his, no matter what the other slashers or anyone else had to say..

Even Michael tried to knock some sense in the stubborn slasher, but Freddy didn't want to se it.

Freddy : "Me ? Y/N ? Nah. You got it all wrong, buddy.."

Michael *stays silent before grabbing his notebook and writing down* : "So..Does that mean I can try to ask her out ?"

Freddy *immediately punches him and hurts his wrist in the process* : "LIKE HELL YOU CAN ! BACK OFF ! THAT B*TCH IS MINE !"

Michael *chuckles*

Freddy *realizes* : "...Sh*t."

Freddy proceeded to avoid you for days after that, as he thought you didn't feel the same and whenever you would try to approach him, he would find a reason to leave or some other thing to take care of.

You : "Freddy ! We need to talk !"

Freddy : "Can't. I've got a doctor's appointment."

Y/N : "...YOU CAN'T GET SICK !"

Freddy *runs away*

It would take time for Freddy to accept his feelings and do the first step.

He is usually the confident one of the group, but when it comes to feelings ?

He becomes a mess.

Norman was the last one to notice his crush on you—even his mother persona caught your mutual attraction from the start and made sure you understand your place in that relationship..

Mother Bates : "I've got my eye on you, missy/mister. Don't think for a moment that I don't know what you are doing.."

You *oblivious* : "Hum...Okay ? And what am I supposed to not be doing exactly ?"

Mother Bates : "Stay away from my Norman. He doesn't need you."

She then left and you were surprised by her words, but didn't let them faze you. You had already faced her many times before and weren't afraid of her—even though she did creep you sometimes.

But, her warning did linger in your mind, a well as the very threatening tone she had used.

What could have made her feel so threatened that she would go as far as tell you to stay away ?

It did raise certain questions and when you finally had the opportunity to ask her, she seemed dumbfounded.

Mother Bates *leans forward to stare intently at you and finally smiles* : "You really are clueless, aren't you ?"

Mother Bates wouldn't dignify you with an answer, but she would find it amusing all the same.

She was used to Norman ignoring his own feelings, but would internally be very pleased of the fact that you don't know them yourself...until she wouldn't find it amusing any longer.

Mother Bates : "FOR GOODNESS SAKE ! CAN'T YOU SEE WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU ?!"

You : "...A very angry mother ?"

Mother Bates : "..Kids I swear...NORMAN IS IN LOVE WITH YOU !"

You : "..."

Her : "..."

You and Norman : "...WHAT ?!"

Pennywise would try to be oblivious at first—pretending your racing heart was fear or excitement. He would refuse seeing the truth and dismiss everything or everyone that would try to convince him.

Even if you were to tell him yourself, he would laugh it off or pretend not feeling anything for you.

Pennywise : "Sorry. Not happening."

Pennywise would be cash with you from the beginning. He would be able to tell that you like him, but would try to convince you otherwise.

He wouldn't want to hurt you by letting you believe he can feel the same.

Pennywise and Penny were told from the moment they became monsters that they wouldn't be able to fall in love. Ever.

He wouldn't acknowledge his feelings for you, because it would mean to go against everything he believes to be true.

Pennywise *sighs* : "...I really wish I could tell you that I can reciprocate your feelings but.." *retrieves his own heart and crumbles it to sand in his hand* "...I can't. I'm sorry."

It would take some time for him to acknowledge his own feelings for you and he would probably avoid you at the start—but would eventually come around.

Pennywise *scratches his throat nervously* : "I'm..sorry. I made a mistake. I..I like you too. I think."

Pennywise was never in love before, he never even had a crush..So, it might take time for him to get used to it—but the result would be worth the wait.

Penny feeds on fear and pain. It would confuse him to be affected by this irresistible pull some humans suffer from.

He would try to process it and put a name on it.

When he would finally be able to tell, he would end up even more confused..How could it be that you would both feel this need to be together ? How could love blossom between a human and a...a monster ?

He would remain the same around you at first—smiling and joking and laughing..

But inside, he would feel this pull tear his heart open and ask for Pennywise to help.

Pennywise : "...Tell them."

Penny *surprised* : "What ?! NO !"

Pennywise *sighs* : "Look, kid. We all know how you feel. It's obvious you like each other, so you just need to tell them."

Penny reluctantly agreed and after a long moment of consideration, he decided to tell you.

Penny : "...You feel warm. Safe. It's...It's not right."

You seemed to realize he was truly struggling with what he was feeling and decided to help him by declaring your feelings for him too.

When you did, his face lit up and all of his worries seemed to pop out of existence. He was just so happy you felt the same.

Nearby :

Pennywise felt a pang in his chest at the thought that he would probably never feel the same towards anyone, but still smiled proudly at his brother from the shadows.

"Heh. Good job, kid."

Brahms was acting really nervous around you, jolting every time he would see you and you couldn't help but tease him about it.

You *laugh* : "What ? Do I perhaps make you nervous, Brahms ?"

He would blush furiously and shake his head vividly before either running away or standing there with his face lowered in shame.

You would always laugh it off and it would only make Brahms more and more confused.

You *smile mischievously* : "Does your little heart beat faster whenever I'm around ?"

Another teasing. But, this time. He had an answer to give you.

Brahms : "What if it is ?"

When he looked up at you, you found hesitation and determination there.

Brahms : "What if I really like you ?"

Your smile immediately vanished once you realized he was being serious.

You : "Wait..What ?"

Brahms grunted in frustration before grabbing your hand and pressing it against his chest.

Brahms : "Here."

You could feel his heart beating wildly in his ribcage and for the first time, you didn't know what to say.

You glanced up at Brahms with widened eyes and lips slightly parted in shock before they returned to the fingers spread on his chest—above his heart.

You didn't think..It was your time to blush and when Brahms released your hand, you let it linger there for a few seconds before retrieving it.

You looked up at Brahms who didn't say a word and you smiled.

"I'm...glad."

Brahms smiled as well and nuzzled your face with his masked nose before the slashers all came in.

There was a long silence before Freddy finally shouted:

"F*CKING FINALLY ! WE THOUGHT YOU GUYS WOULD DIE VIRGINS !"

Michael *shakes his head disapprovingly before hitting the back of Freddy's head*

Myers felt it first. He had already felt this emotion before. He knew what it meant and the thought alone made him itch for a knife.

Myers' purpose was to prevent all affective relationships of Michael with anyone.

But, he didn't think he would meet any resistance this time around..

He was wrong.

In Michael's head :

Michael *grabs Myers' arm* : "Don't you dare. Not them. Not again."

Myers : "They will hurt you. They always do.."

Michael : "Not them. Please."

Myers *grabs him by the throat and seethes* : "I wasn't asking, Michael. You can't control me. You never had a choice."

Michael *grits his teeth and shoves Myers off him* : "I DON'T NEED YOU ! GET OUT OF MY LIFE !"

Myers : "THEY'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US ! NEVER ! YOU'LL BE THE BOOGEYMAN FOREVER !"

Michael woke up in sweats and found you by his side—worry painted all over your face.

You : "Michael. Are you alright ?"

Michael felt this pang in his chest and he knew Myers wouldn't be far, lurking in the shadows and ready to cut you in half at any moment. So, he would deny.

He would write down he is alright.

He would tell you a lie.

He would break your heart or make sure you can't see him anymore—it would be better than to wake up one day with your blood on his hands.

Michael *smiles and nods*

You : "That's good. I was pretty worried for a sec'."

And you should be.

But, not about him.

Myers : "Soon. Soon. You will be all mine."

#morgan hannibal #morgan hannibal x reader #fandoms #imagine #fanfic #pennywise 1990 #pennywise 2017 #pennywise x reader #slashers #michael myers x reader #pennywise 1990 x y/n x pennywise 2017 #brahms heelsire x reader #peter hannibal #peter hannibal x reader #kevin hannibal #kevin hannibal x reader #freddy krueger x reader #norman bates x reader

[senjusonlygirlfriend]

Tokyo revengers guys when you're overstimulated

𝑻𝒘/𝑪𝒘: 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒚𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑲𝒐𝒌𝒐, 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒚𝒖, 𝑰𝒏𝒖𝒊, 𝑹𝒂𝒏, 𝑺𝒉𝒖𝒋𝒊

Hajime "Koko" Kokonoi:

I feel like he wouldn't know that much about the topic, so once you told him that you get overstimulated he does a little bit of research on it. Once he knows what triggers you he'll try to avoid bringing you into these situations. If you going into public makes you start to feel uneasy or anxious, he'll pull you somewhere in a more quiet and less populated place.

If you start shutting down and dissociating, then he'll try his best to make you snap out of it. The first time it happened before he researched about it he was confused. Why were you always agitated when the two of you had gotten back from a crowded place?

Well you had a talk with him about it, and told him the reason you get so agitated was because you were anxious, and was wanting to get out of the situation to calm down. And guess what? He was super understanding about it and didn't judge you.

Chifuyu Matsuno:

Would be a little clueless, but 100% has the sprite. It would take a couple times for you to get overstimulated and open up about it, but once you do he's so attentive when you're explaining it. Would also ask questions about it, he wants to know everything there possibly is to help you. If you're just not responding and really spaced out, then he'll try to get your attention.

If that doesn't work then he'll gently shake you until you snapped out of it. Would get you your favorite food and drinks to help you calm down, and would take you somewhere like a park or a convenience store parking lot. He really doesn't want you to leave his sight because he's really worried about you, so he'll hold your hand as long as he's with you.

Seishu Inui:

I feel like he would know what it's like. Inui would definitely have felt it at least once or twice in his life. If the two of you knew each other before dating, then he would pick up on when you needed to be pulled out of a situation. If the two of you were at a party and he saw you dissociating, he would calmly excuse the two of you for some fresh air if he thinks it gets too bad.

He'd be good at picking up signs early when you start to feel anxious and jittery. If it helps you calm down then he'll carry around a few of those fidget toys and let you use them in a place with few/no people to help you calm down. He respects if you don't want to be touched at all, or if you want him to hold you or not.

Ran Hanitani:

I hc him as not really going out that much in public like parties and stuff. He most likely had to calm down Rindou when he had one of his meltdowns when he was younger, so he knows how to help someone. He's attentive at all times when you're with him. He'd be good with jokes if you start freaking out bad enough and start hyperventilating as a way to ground you. Either way he'd be good at grounding his partner.

The two of you don't go out that much where there's big crowds, so you don't get overstimulated often. But sometimes too many things can happen all in one day, and that can push you overboard. At your Ran's house he would be able to comfort you better, like getting you some water or a favorite blanket.

He wouldn't leave your side for the whole night, and would gladly change plans for you.

Shuji Hanma:

He's known for a while now that the two of you have been dating. He picked up on your quirks and connected the dots pretty quickly. He's also another person that I would think would be really good at grounding someone. He would go through the whole, "Just look into my eye baby. Yeah that's good. Can you mimic my breathing?" If you dissociate for a little bit to log he'll snap you out of it and ask if you're ok.

He gets amused when you get grouchy after you calm down, and likes to joke with you. He knows it's a way of making yourself feel more calm and letter it out all, so he keeps on getting you more angry. Once you're all tired out he'll give you something to eat, drink, and comfort if wanted. If he thinks it's necessary he'll pull you out of school/events that make you feel this way or under immense stress.

#tokyo revengers #tokyo revengers x reader #tokyorev kokonoi #kokonoi hajime #koko x reader #koko fluff #chifuyu x reader #chifuyu fluff #inui x reader #inui fluff #ran x reader #ran fluff #shuji x reader #shuji fluff #hurt/comfort

[misc-obeyme]

anon that asked about lord diavolo's spotlight event here! (LONG rant incoming, hope you don't mind)

first of all, oml thank you so much for going out of your way to do this much research on it! certainly, if we count the events that aren't necessarily listed as spotlight events, there are bound to be more for some of the characters, and that's the point; i don't even want an official spotlight event for diavolo or luke (though deserved), even just one that is focused on them would be enough for me at this point, because the constant "pushed into the sidelines" treatment given to characters like beel, belphie, luke (poor child is literally neglected) and especially diavolo is exhausting! diavolo's treatment might even be worse with the mischaracterisation and lack of effort to actually analyse his character and see why he does the things he does (by even the devs sometimes -> being written off as "wow so kind", "wow so childish", etc. etc.) running rampant in the fandom (warm hugs to the lovelies who actually care). i'm overjoyed that my love solomon is beginning to get the recognition he deserves, but my god you have such delicious characters like dia with such delectable flaws due to past trauma in front of you, and you just choose to...ignore them?! don't make a game with FIFTEEN characters if you're not gonna care about half of them!

the way people (understandably) want to see all these guys like michael and the demon king while i'm here profusely sweating with worry about the game's already declining writing quality going further downhill with these additions ☠️ like yes, i wanna see them too, but PLEASE. FOR THE LOVE OF DIAVOLO. FIRST FEED YOUR BABIES BEFORE BRINGING IN MORE.

Oh welcome back, anon! And no, I don't mind long rants, so no worries there!

There are definitely more events that had "spotlights" if not officially I guess?? I dunno how to describe it lol. But you are correct, from what I can remember they didn't have one of the non-spotlight character focused events for Diavolo.

I was curious about the events that didn't have a spotlight listed and how that would change the numbers. I've added them into the list, which I am again putting below a read more at the end of this answer lol.

There was one Celestial Blessing event with outfits in OG after the spotlights began. It was called Valentine's Day Canceled?! and I would have considered it a shared event for Levi & Beel.

Most of the ones in Nightbringer have been for the entire cast, but there was The Demon's Gambit which I felt could have been a Belphie spotlight. Then there was Blue Spring Paradise which could have been a Levi spotlight. And The Scroll of Thirst that could have been a Solomon spotlight. The rest seemed to be mostly about everybody from what I remembered, except for the Vampire event which seemed to focus more on the side characters.

So if you count those events, here's the updated list:

Lucifer - 1 solo, 1 shared Mammon - 2 solo, 2 shared Levi - 1 solo, 2 shared Satan - 2 solo, 1 shared Asmo - 2 solo, 2 shared Beel - 1 solo, 1 shared Belphie - 2 solo

Diavolo - none Barbatos - 3 solo Simeon - 1 solo, 1 shared Solomon - 2 solo Luke - none

It's really confusing, honestly. I don't know why they haven't done Diavolo yet. I always thought he was a pretty popular character??

Anyway, the non official spotlight events seem to be few and far between, so I think we might get an actual spotlight for him sooner? But maybe not??? It's impossible to say with this game, honestly.

The only event in which Diavolo had a more prominent role was A Star for You. I remember it because I loved that event. But they didn't list him as sharing the spotlight with Satan for some reason. I kinda feel like they could have.

ANYWAY not to get overly detailed about which events had who in them YET AGAIN lolol I'm sorry this is just my default mode.

But anyway, I have to agree with you. They've never paid equal attention to their characters. It's always bothered me. Lucifer is their sweet baby boy and while I like him nowadays, I don't like how they focus on him so much that it takes away from the character development of the others.

I also agree about new characters. Like please just give us some development for the characters we already have, thanks. No need to add more, as interesting as it would be to see the designs and what not, I'd rather have further development of the current characters.

Especially the side characters. There is so much potential that they just waste and I think maybe that's why I like writing fic for this fandom lol. That's a little weird, I guess, but it's a lot more fun to take an underdeveloped character and give them all that extra nuance that they're lacking in the source material.

I have my own characterizations and headcanons that fill in that missing stuff because otherwise my brain is like, this doesn't work. Though to be fair, I think a big part of the issue with the writing quality is the format of the game. And my brain is always thinking in terms of an actual novel.

I'm still holding on to hope for Solomon and Barbatos having decent backstories when they're finally revealed. I'll rewrite them both if I have to, though.

Non spotlight events indicated with a ~

Starting with events that were only in OG.

Satan: A Star for You Barbatos: Super Smash Devils ~Levi & Beel: Valentine's Day Canceled?! Mammon & Asmo: Princess Rose Simeon: A Weird White Day

The rest of these were in NB as well.

Lucifer & Asmo: The Cursed Seed and the Fertilizing Flame ~Belphie: The Demon's Gambit Simeon & Mammon: RAD on Stage Satan & Levi: Whisked Away ~Side Characters: The Vampire Special Mammon: Hell Marine Festival Lucifer: Terrible Time Trouble ~Levi: Blue Spring Paradise Asmo: Devil's Water Panic! Barbatos: Fangol Ultra Bowl ~Solomon: The Scroll of Thirst Mammon: An A-mazing Adventure ~Everybody: Trick or Treat Asmo: Fabulicious Beel: The Great Devildom Outdoors ~Everybody: Happy Holidays! Satan: Exciting Inn-cidents! Solomon: Bon Voyage! ~Everybody: Absolute Zero Belphie: Poison Hunting & Candy Making! Barbatos: Dust Storm Panic

#we'll see how it goes I guess #they gotta be coming up with a Dia event soon right?? #obey me #obey me nightbringer #anon asks #misc answers

[prankprincess123]

Anyone up to ramble about Arthurian mythology, specifically Morgan Le Fay with me? Cause I've been doing research for a paper for my Medieval Literature class, and keep getting sidetracked by this character.

Like even in most modern retellings everyone knows her as this crazy witch whose goal in life is to torment the Knights of the Round Table and make their lives harder. But that characterization didn't start until later medieval legends and retellings! And additionally alot of people get her mixed up with her oldest sister Morgause (who is the mother of Mordred and Gawain and usually 3 other knights but sometimes more or less) and/or don't even realize that the legends have an average of 3 but sometimes upto 9 sisters (though only Morgause and Morgan and their sons are important characters) of whom Morgan is the youngest, which further complicates her character. And though her villianization in later works was totally due to misogynistic writers trying to make Merlin (who's actually super sketchy) look better, it actually kinda works as a story arc, if you ignore some of the more WTH things in certain later retellings.

Listen, Morgan Le Fay was having visions of walking through a battlefield seeing the corpses of her son and nephews, and then finding her little brother and holding him while he's dying, all as a result of her sister-in-law being a slut, from the time she was a child with only older sisters. And then in the span of mere weeks: her father is killed, her mother raped by and forced to marry his killer, her sisters are married off to foreign kings, and she is sent to a nunnery until she's old enough to do the same (which only meant 12yo in the time the story takes place!) And then the setup for her visions starts; her brother is born, and her nephews and son follow suit (including a nephew twice over, and how on earth do you react to that?!?!) And at some point she finds out that her husband cheated on her and named his illegitimate son after theirs so he wouldn't get caught if he mixed them up. And then her brother is king and marrying the girl whose cheating is gonna start a war that will kill 90% of their family, and not listening to her when she's telling him that Guinevere is bad news (and ok fine if you're going to marry her at least dont be best friends with Lancelot too, and keep her away from your accidental incest son who has alot of mommy issues cause that could only end badly even without everything else!) Meanwhile all of her brother’s other friends - including the creepy old wizard that kidnapped him as a baby - are constantly at least hitting on and at worst sexually harassing her. She is definitely totally justified in going a little crazy, making a magical island specially to hide from creepy men, and plotting a couple strategic murders designed to protect or avenge her family.

Like she's a young woman who is very clearly traumatized by alot of things, and has magic powers that few even semi understand. Given that she was married off before Uther died when Arthur was 2, but not immediately like Morgause and Elaine were, we can presume she's about 10y older than Arthur. (And if Uther's death soon after her forced wedding at 12yo was suspicious, would you really blame her?) And based on the fact that most of the Knights of the Round Table are portrayed as peers despite the familial generations between them - and specifically that her son Ywain is closest friends with Gawain who is the oldest of Arthur's nephew-knights - we can presume that she had him VERY young. And given that Arthur takes the throne while still a young boy, and all of his nephew-knights are squires when introduced, she would still only be like mid/late 20's in the earlier parts of the story! And even the end of the story when Mordred is grown, is still only another 20ish years down the line, so she's like 50yo at absolute maximum.

In the earliest recorded/surviving Arthurian legends she's just a healer, not even related to Arthur or the Knights but exasperatedly healing them after every quest nonetheless. Combine that with the familial structure and characterization from about 1100's and on, and earlier legends are basically her sitting there in her 20's & 30's, separated from her husband, constantly patching up her already 'adult' teenage son, brother and nephews after their inane quest of the week, while trying to get/keep cheating SIL out of the picture and avoid over zealous 'sutors', and desperately hoping that this battle isn't the one everyone dies in. She deserves to go a little crazy as she does in the later stories, and do things like her Green Knight 'prank'/attempt at literally scaring Guinevere to death. Heck even her attempted coup against her brother makes sense in the context that he and Lancelot and/or Mordred can't start the war(s) over Guinevere that she knows will kill 90% of her family if they don't have armies anymore! Some of her scemes definitely majorly backfire and speed up exactly what she's trying to prevent, but they make sense! Not always rational rightminded sense but storyline sense at least.

And at the end of the day, her visions come to pass, and she walks the battlefields where her family lays dead and dying. First three nephews Agravain, Gaheris, and Gareth killed by Lancelot and his men for exposing the affair, before the final battle. And then Camlann: Her son Ywain killed by her nephew Mordred, one of the last knights to fall defending his uncle/King, Gawain dead or dying beside him from the same. Mordred dead at Arthur's hand, and Arthur dying beside him of their mutually inflicted wounds. And she sobs, and holds them, and takes her dying brother (and when he's not dead yet, still surviving nephew) with her to the magic relam she created, designed to be a place where nothing can ever hurt them again, to try and use her healing magic to change at least one aspect of the horrible visions that have plagued her entire life.

#im almost thinking that eventually im gonna need to write a retelling of Arthurian lore from her POV #morgan le fay #morgana le fay #arthurian literature #arthuriana #arthurian legend #medieval literature

[loraliewritesthings]

Avengers crossover that I needed in my life

The avengers watched in horror as the girl struck up the deal. The monster they had been fighting, part spider part seamstress part something else shook the poor girls hand.

Natasha had been flung across the room. Tony's suit was simply not working.

They had been sent to a old house, long sense abandoned over missing people. Not just people...missing children.

The monster they found there had wiped the floor with them. And now there was a young woman who looked barely Peter's age, with her black roots sticking out against navy blue hair, shaking the monsters hand.

They would have stopped her had they not all been so out of breath.

The girl was calm and above his ears ringing Tony made out what she was saying.

"If I win you let me go, and if I don't...I'll be your next meal."

"And them?" Replied the syrupy sweet monster.

"You only need one meal right now."replied the girl coolly. She continued. "Don't you want to play the game?".

The monster nodded all smug and smiley and finished shaking the young woman's hand.

Then like the wind she was gone.

Immediately the girl ran for the old cupboard and practically took the door of.

Steve gained back his breath first.

"Do you really think you can do it?"he spoke, a voice laced with worry. The girl immediately told him to shut up.

"She should have left a spy behind...so don't make this more difficult for me." She continued. Natasha froze. Steve and Tony looked at her.

It was just the three on the mission. The monster wouldn't show up for Thor, Bruce, or even Peter Parker, despite spiders being cannibalistic.

Still the young woman didn't seem to notice the apprehension of either men as she rummaged threw cabinet after cabinet.

It was then when she pulled it out. A large greasy looking rat. Without much thought she snapped its neck and threw it into the empty fireplace.

She then began to speak,"I don't like rats at the best of times, they sound the beldams allarms" then she chuckled to herself.

"It's an inside joke, you wouldn't get it."

Tony managed to catch his breath. To speak

"Kid how do you know you'll beat that thing."

The young woman looked up at him, smug and said,

"I have the best monster catching partner I could possibly have. I'm just laying out the ground works so we can get to work when he arrives., oh and that's not my name."

It was Natasha's turn to speak,

"We tried to get the doors open kid. It just wouldn't work."

That was enough to get the girls full attention.

"First of all my names coraline. C-O-R-A-L-I-N-E, second of all he doesn't need the door. He can come and go as he pleases."

Natasha looked at the young women with a shrug. Then Tony asked the question everyone besides Coraline was wondering.

"Why is she willing to eat you if your not her target demographic. Don't monsters like this eat babies or whatever."

Coraline laughed a little and said, "No, they consume souls of the willing. Children are just the easiest to trick normally."

Steve being worried decided to try to ask his question again,

"But how do you know you'll win her game?"

Coraline turned towards him half way and said nonchalantly,

"This isn't my first time against a beldam. If I can beat one at twelve years old, I can beat one now."

As they were talking and Coraline was looking for more rats the same cupboard door opened and out popped a cat.

Not Steve nor Natasha or Tony knew what to do when it opened its mouth and began to talk.

Coraline didn't even look phased instead petting it affectionately.

Tony noted that he'd definitely have to do some research on this girl say they ever got out of the beldams playground.

#coraline #coraline crossover #coraline x marvel #avengers #marvel #headcanon #crossover #i literally dont write for weeks and now here i am #natasha romanoff #steve rogers #tony stark #forgot to add tags lol #loralie is annoying #coraline jones #coraline the monster hunter #i decided to continue this so look out for that

[quicksilver-babeyy]

The Robin

Pairing : Edward Nashton x Robin!reader, teen!reader, Bruce Wayne x child!reader[all pairings are completely platonic]

Summary : after the debut of a young vigilante, Edward finds himself interested in learning more about them.

Warnings : flourishing obsession, mentions of death, mentions of dissapearances, acussation of neglect, delusional Edward.

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Edward often felt like he didn't belong anywhere in the world, all of it felt less cold than the orphanage he was forced into as a young boy but the freezing cold feeling that followed him everywhere never truly dissapear. He felt it every time he walked to work, he felt it even when drinking boiling hot coffee that was too bitter even for him, he felt it whenever he watched the news just to find out that more people dissapeared from Gotham. The cold never truly went away even when he tried to move on, but he couldn't even do that, move on. He had suffered the entirety of his life and watched someone like Bruce Wayne be victimised, babied while everyone forgot about normal orphans like himself and that filled him with an unstoppable rage that led to many worse things to happen. His envy for the rich and his hatred for the corrupt consumed him to a point of no return, he turned into someone so problematic that nobody wanted to adopt the young boy whose eyes glared at them like a criminal in a mugshot.

Him being a young adult could've meant a chance for him to be better in life to be a part of society, but he didn't want to be part of it when everyone was just as disgusting and corrupt as those people who have up on kids like him. So Edward decided to stay a loner with a job that he didn't enjoy but at least it paid the bills, dirty blonde haired man thought that he could live a life without needing anyone, he had gotten accostumed to independence from a young already so he was shocked the moment he met a young vigilante who went with the alias of ‘Robin’. They were always trailing behind the batman like the Dr. Watson to his Sherlock, they were definitely rather young in their teens he could assume, Edward had always admired Batman so seeing the man he idolises get a sort of sidekick made him wonder what was so special of this Robin kid for someone so intimidating to recruit. After extensive hours of research for days he finally discovers that Robin is an orphan like himself, having been adopted by some unknown rich man who the young adult couldn't identify, after the death of their parents two years ago the teen was adopted almost immediately and soon enough they found a new family.

Robin had a tragic story, death of parents, probably neglected by some rich asshole who doesn't care enough about them. I mean if their child was actually cared for they probably wouldn't be out fighting crime and solving cases with the batman, who wasn't a bad guy but he was an adult man with a secret identity someone who any caring parent would be weary of. The more that he found out the more he was getting attached to this kid whose name he didn't even know, any possible document being hidden or their name was completely erased for their safety. He was finally starting to see why the batman chose them, after all they were in need of protection and they were very athletic which was proved after videos of them fighting thugs were revealed to the public. They were the perfect sidekick for someone like Bat cause who better to protect Gotham than someone who was victim to it's corruption, the more he learned about them the quicker his batman shrine turned into a Robin shrine. The new vigilante was truly fascinating and absolutely adorable, who knows maybe the duo of him and batman could turn into an unstoppable trio, The Riddler, Batman and Robin.

#edward nashton x reader #riddler x reader #platonic #yandere riddler #yandad riddler #paul dano x reader

[hamstringy]

Books of 2023

this is mostly for me to yell at my lawn about books i want more people to read. my faves are highlighted in purple and have a star (☆) next to them. if anyone wants to suggest books at me........ <3

i did not think i was going to make my goal of 26 books, but then i got put on desk duty at work and discovered audiobooks!

The Traitor Baru Comorant - Seth Dickinson gah!!! Builds methodically and slowly but crumbles apart and hits you on the dick over and over. Cannot believe a guy named Seth Dickinson wrote this (affectionate).

The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison Classic feel-good whump, but don't think too hard about the politics. I would have been obsessed with this as a kid.

☆ Babel - R.F. Kuang ☆ A capital-T Tragedy that made me physically cry! RF Kuang is incredible at writing about colonialism and situations that go horribly wrong.

A Lady for a Duke - Alexis Hall Generally cathartic romance about a trans woman who fakes her death at Waterloo to live as a woman and falls in love with her childhood best friend. I think I am not entirely a romance girlie but definitely a solid book.

Sorrowland - Rivers Solomon Oh baby let's get weird and talk about politics! Contains a mycelium-fueled gay ghost orgy and some very good body horror.

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers The Monk and Robot duology keeps hitting me over the head with ruminations on all the coming-of-age questions but it offers me tea and a listening ear so I quite love it.

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them - Junauda Petrus I think the prose is well written, but I was definitely left wanting more regarding the magical realism.

Feed Them Silence - Lee Mandelo Again with the slacking on the magical realism. Frighteningly contemporary crumbling relationship and not nearly enough weird bullshit for me.

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz I hated this book so much. I really think you could pass it off as the product of a corporate man, that's how shallow it is. It has mega commitment issues with the themes it tries to tackle. Also, if you're going to write a time traveling book you NEED to do at least cursory research???? Women in the 1890s did not wear bras????

No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood A fun and brutal investigation of being chronically online and dealing with personal tragedies. Bonus points for being written by Miette the cat's owner.

☆ Greenwood - Michael Cristie ☆ Incredible multi-generational epic. Cristie knows the story he wants to tell and he executes it near-flawlessly. I didn't love the ending but the rest of the book makes up for it.

Rabid - Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik Definitely an interesting look a the cultural side of rabies, but I wish they had maybe not gone with such a wide array of subjects.

The Lucky Red - Claudia Cravens A queer (minor homophobia) Western in the spirit of all the good female country singers.

Persuasion - Jane Austen Oh baby. I get it now.

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie An unfortunate choice of media means I can't rate this higher. I think it's too hard sci-fi for me to listen to it, so I need to reread it in physical form.

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky Brutal. Kaminsky is really fucking good at writing about war in a pretty minimalist style.

Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan A book that reminds you about the point of choosing to do something right. Also has the added benefit of teaching me about something I didn't know about (The Magdalene Laundries).

Eartheater - Dolores Reyes Another victim of the audiobook medium. I'm not sure if this is because it was translated or because I was expecting something a bit different, but I didn't really jive with this.

☆ Islands of Abandonment - Cal Flyn ☆ Absolute banger. Beautiful prose, concept that makes me go a bit feral. I want to tattoo this on my brain.

Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros This is not a fair review--I read this because my friend hated it. A deeply unserious and superficial book to me as an avid fantasy person and not a romance person. I wish Yarros had actually gone full hog and actually included disability in the sex scenes at the very least.

The Vanished Birds - Simon Jimenez Genuinely not sure how to feel about this? Sprawling space opera with purposefully unfinished ties. It does make me excited to read A Spear Cuts Through Water though.

Kindred - Olivia E. Butler I get the Butler hype now! Read it.

Flux - Jinwoo Chong A lukewarm positive review here? Very much a deep dive on grief, tech politics, and fandom. Has some weird timeline stuff so I was definitely confused.

Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey Reads like that one ao3 excerpt of Sasuke learning about gay people. It feels like there's next to no world-building or character development. The characters are incredibly juvenile and all the changes happening are spelled out.

The Dragon Republic - R.F. Kuang Lord, this was a deeply intricate trainwreck of a book. Deeply uncomfortable and yet incredibly gripping.

Rereads:

Nona the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir Decided I needed to listen to the audiobooks of these to inflict maximum damage. Good lord, I am still insane about these books.

Graceling - Kristen Cashore I was obsessed with these books as a 10 year old, and this one still mostly holds up. A good example of romances for little girls who aren't convinced by romance.

#need more books to be insane about :) #book recs #books

[seldomscilence16]

Whumptober day 19: Enough is Enough

Fandom: TMNT

Prompts;

Knees Buckling

Repeatedly passing out

Head lolling

And coming back around my fixations list. We have some more turtle* (*not so) angst. }:) Mikey is both Bamf and a little dark at one point? But youngest siblings can be pretty unhinged at times so… 

Mikey comes from a pretty big family. It's not a conventional family by any means, but a family nonetheless. And being the youngest could have its advantages, sure, but there were also the downsides that made him want to tear his hair out and scream at the top of his lungs. 

He loved his family, he would do anything for his family, and they didn't seem to understand that he could. That he wasn't some baby who couldn't handle himself, that he had natural talent, and good ideas and a great potential, but he was never really given the chance to prove it. So, when it just caused discontent, he stopped trying so hard. 

But now, his family was in danger. And he could be thankful that he was underestimated, because it gave him the chances he needed. People didn't seem to see that this family was full of protectors, and he was part of it. But he'd get to show them, he'd make them pay for what they'd done. And they would learn, they would learn not to cross Michaelangelo Hamato. 

…

Mikey supposed you could say this is all his fault, And even if somehow it wasnt, he'd get blamed anyway he's sure. Really it probably was his fault, with their father and the others on a training/information gathering trip, it was just the four of them and he should have been on his best guard. 

Instead he was too slow, and before even Raphael could react, they were down. Mikey thinks it may have been their quickest defeat by an enemy, he can only imagine how disappointed Master Splinter will be, if they- no when they- make it out or this. Because these guys, whoever they were, hurt his brothers. 

They'd obviously done their research, Mikey thinks as he watches them. They inject Raph with something, and almost immediately, his eyes roll and head falls forward, out like a light-They obviously know what chemicals work past their enhancements. Taking him out first was smart, because when Raph got angry it was hard to take him down, and what they did next definitely would have angered him. 

Donnie is next, which most would think a weird choice, but Donnie was a plan guy, and Leo relied on him more than people knew. They stick something to the back of his neck, and it must hurt because Donnie jerks before going stiff, then limp. He's not unconscious, but his head lulls this way and that, his eyes fogging over in a way that says 'no one home'. His face is tense though, as if in pain, and Mikey can only assume the device is somehow keeping him from thinking or doing. 

Leo has been thrashing this whole time, obviously angry, angrier than Mikeys used to seeing from his older brother. The fact they are still able to hold him down is astounding, though it could have something to do with the sword at the back of Mikey's neck. But as Mikey said, these guys have done their research, so they do Leo next, because Mikey is the youngest. 

Underestimated and labeled as the weak link, it hurts, but it's to his advantage. 

They inject Leo with- Mikey assumes- the same thing they gave Raph, but while his struggles weaken, they do not cease like Raphs had. Mikey's plan solidifies when they make their next move, none of these guys will be spared from his wrath. Not as they stab Leo. Not as the blade is pulled, covered in his brother's blood, from Leo's side. They inject him again, even though Leo has slumped-breathing harsh- and his brother's eyes close. 

Even as they simply knock Mikey over the head, not caring to take the same precautions, Mikey feels something snap inside him. As darkness encompasses his vision, his brothers’ conditions imprinted on his eyelids, he makes a promise to himself. To make these men pay, and get his brothers to safety. Even if it's the last thing he does.

…

Mikey had taken it upon himself, to learn as much as he could about taking care of people. Donnie had a lot on his shoulders most days, and Mikey wasnt stupid, he could see how the weight made him sag. So he'd subtly inserted the thought into the others' heads, because his family was full of stubborn buttheads, and watched as they'd each come up with a way to help. Raph and Leo started helping in the garage, Casey and April helped in the lab, repairs around their hideout were done together rather than forced on Donnie. And Mikey, Mikey decided being a Medic would be a big help. 

He was grateful for it now, as he used their wrapping to bind Leo's wound as best he could. He needed far more than bandages, but Mikey didn't think they'd be getting that anytime soon. He didn't know what they wanted yet, but with the three they deemed important out of commision, he wondered how they planned to get anything from them.

Unless they wanted to dissect them and see what made them tick, which… made the most sense. Master Splinter had tried to protect them from the world, tried to give them as normal a life as he could. But they were science experiments, practically super soldiers, and it made sense that others would want to use that. Even if they were just kids. 

He sat back, hands and pants bloody, and surveyed his other two brothers. 

They were all in seperate cages, three in a row- Donnie, Leo, Raph- while Mikey's own cage was beside Leos. He'd just barely been able to reach his brother, who'd been awake just long enough to scoot to the bars before he'd passed out again. But he could do nothing for Raph or Donnie. 

Donnie, whose head hangs limp, chin against his chest, before it’d sway lazily one way then the other. Occasionally Mikey would catch a glimpse of his face, when his hair shifted and head turned just so, and that look from before was really only getting worse. His eyebrows knitted, teeth clenched, but eyes dull. 

Raph was still out cold, sprawled on his side and looking pale. He'd twitch sometimes, but hadn't woken up yet. Besides the few bruises and knicks they'd all sustained, he seemed the best shape of the three, even if a bit sickly. 

They wouldn't be much help in an escape, so Mikey had to figure out how to get three limp noodles to safety. Really the only option is to incapacitate everyone in the building so no one can stand in his way. Which he had no problem with, he was looking forward to punching some lights out, to tearing through them all left and right, for stomping on their remains for thinking they could get away with this, for- 

Alright, maybe he needed to chill a little. No use in peeling faces off when his brothers needed medical attention. Mikey was a ninja, they had a code or whatever. And while he would not be holding back on these guys, his main focus needed to be his family. 

The doors across the room open, and Mikey watches their every step- eyes wide and fearful to play up the innocent youngest vibe these guys seemed to see him as. Trying to get a read on their intentions, while ironing out the details of his plan. They stop in front of his cage, which is nice because he couldn't guarantee his control would last much longer if they'd gone after the others. 

"If you quaporate, the others won't be killed now, understand?" Well, this would be easier than he thought. 

A fearful nod, a little trembling, a loving look to his brothers, and these guys are sold. Mikey couldn't wait to see their faces, when he clobbered them. 

…

He knows better than to act out on the first contact. He needs more information before he can initiate anything, he needs to not run in fists first when he couldn't 100% rely on them. 

So he lets them take him the first time. And the second time. Even a third time. But the time he has to act is dwindling each time, so he'll have to use what he's gathered so far, and do his best. 

Because Donnies curled up on his side now, practically grinding his forehead into the ground. Raphs breathing sounds like that dying frog from Ogre the 3rd. And Leo, who'd woken up when he'd returned both the first and second time, didn't even stir the third time, the wrapping around his side red and spreading. 

He sits against the bars, as close to his brothers as he can get, and centers himself like they've been trained. He pushes away all his distractions, prays for strength for his brothers, and prays that he'll get them through this. When the doors open again, he is calm, pain has been pushed aside, and his focus is solely on what he has to do. He knows it won't last forever though, he needed to do this fast.

His hair covers his eyes, he doesn't hear what they say as they open the door, he's focused on the breathing behind him. He's stiller than he's ever been before, stiller than he ever thought possible, he can practically feel the air shifting around the arm reaching for him. 

His eyes open, and he's outside his cage, the two men unconscious- or maybe dead- inside it. He's given little time to think about it, as the doors open and more men- he'd only seen men, he wonders why- enter. The fact they'd been watched this whole time, and still underestimated him, proves they are not as smart as they think.

He moves through the forces with the ease of adrenaline and instinct- and training too of course. Still it's one against a heck of a lot more, and for all their enhancements, they are still mortals, so it's no surprise they land quite a few hits too. But running on pure spite seems to work more than he expected, his brothers' forms behind him reminding him and fueling his actions. 

Revenge wasn't something Master Splinter encouraged, he'd say something about it blackening their hearts and following the same road as Shredder or something he's sure. But Mikey honestly couldn't care less right now. If Splinter wanted to see them again, then Mikey had to do this, besides he'd rather have the blood of enemies on his hands than that of his brothers. Even if it garnered Splinters disapproval. It wouldn't be the first time anyway. 

…

By the time they stop coming through the door, Mikey is exhausted. He waits a moment, to see if there would be any sneak attacks or the likes, but nothing happens, no one moves, so Mikey makes his way- walking backwards- to his brothers cages. 

They were code locked, but Mikey had heard the tones they made when they opened his own, and thankfully they were stupid enough to use the same for all of them. The only problem now was getting three teens out of here. He chews on his lip a moment, eyes flickering from the doors to his brothers. 

"Alright Mikey… you can do this." 

He goes to Donnies first, eying the device then his brother's face. He'd need to be careful, he didn't want to mess with any of the nerves or important things at the base of his skull. It was obvious that it was messing with Donnies functions, so in theory, if he pulled it out it should… stop interfering? Or it could kill his brother, or paralyze him, or make him brain dead forever! Or-

No! Now was not the time for panicking. 

He grips the device between two fingers, sends another prayer to any ancestors listening, and pulls. Donnie yelps and Mikey flinches as his brother does a full body shiver before going completely limp. 

He's killed him. OhgodsMikeykilledhisbrotherhowcouldheohmygodsstrikemedownnow-

Another groan, and Donnies head weakly rolls to look up at him with one eye squinted open. 

"Motren." He croaks out. And Mikey could weep.

"I promise, once we get out of here." 

He helps his brother into a sitting position outside his cage, then takes his arm wrappings to redo Leo's dressings. He can only figure that whatever they injected his brothers with, was hindering their healing capabilities. He hopes it'll flush itself out, cause he doubts he'd find any notes about it lying around. 

He carefully pulls Leo out of his cell to lean against Donnie, then drags Raph- who's feverish and pale- to join them. Leo's eyes open briefly, his hand resting on Raphs forehead before closing once more. Mikey stares at the three before looking around the room for anything useful. Besides a body sled this room is useless. But Donnie, despite his head randomly lolling forward, is at least awake. And while it's not a ninja weapon, it'll have to do for now. 

"Donnie, shoot anyone that's not us okay?" 

He presses a gun from a fallen baddie into his brother's hand, before turning to the doors. He passed a lot of doors when they dragged him around, one of them had to have something useful. 

…

He stares at the brother pile he'd made. Two rolling office chairs taped together, Leo sitting in one, Donnie in the other, with Raph across their laps. It was so, not the best plan, but it was the only one he had. And with the movement he'd heard on his way back, it was the best way to get his brother's mobile while leaving him open to protect them. 

"Alright, let's keep up the not dying thing we've got going, and get the heck out of here."

He drags rather than pushes, putting himself first just in case. Donnie still had a good drip on his gun, had managed not to shoot Mikey when he'd come back, so hopefully he'd shoot anyone still lingering around. If they got past Mikey that is. 

At the very least, he's assuming the rest of the people still trying, have gotten smart enough to know he's a threat. It messes with his element of surprise, but at least he'll have a challenge to focus on with his mind now in ten different places- at the least.

He stops just before a corner, hears the shift of movement, and can only assume this is their final stand. Turning his brothers so the chair backs are against the wall, and Donnie can hopefully have a good enough view to have time to defend, he takes a stuttered breath and slips into the shadows. He doesn't have a stealth weapon, he'll be able to get one shot off before his position is revealed. He had to make it count. 

There aren't very many left, it bugs him that they were able to overtake them at all, that three of his brothers were taken down by a group he’s been able to defeat in less than an hour, and that was after everything they did. Did catching them off guard really allow all of this? Or was Mikey missing something? 

He shoots twice in quick succession, before ducking out of the way and shooting some more. He pants as he stands in the middle of their fallen bodies, hands trembling by his sides,

“Gelo?” 

He must of been quiet for too long, Donnie’s voice shocking him back to his mission. He knows for a fact two of the big guys involved in their capture are missing from the bodies. He needs to get his brothers out of here before they rear their ugly faces, the fight is slowly draining from him, he needed to focus on his brothers, and fixing his mistake. 

He comes around the corner, moving the gun Donnie points at his face, 

“Sorry ‘Tello, lets get out of here.” 

…

He pushes his brothers through alley after alley, not sure if it’s simply the chairs leading him forward or his own will. He also doesn’t know exactly where he’s headed, maybe home, but he can’t be sure. He needs someone with medical knowledge, maybe Leatherhead, or father, but he didn’t know where they were. So he needed supplies instead, Donnie could maybe direct him on what to do if he stayed coherent long enough, he just needed to clean and stitch Leo up, get that stuff out of his and Raph’s systems, and keep an eye on Donnie. He could do that…

Noise above has his heart rate spiking as he pulls to a stop, hair sticking to his sweaty forehead as he looks to the roofs. It’s still, too still, before a shadow moves and Karai is jumping down, her face shows her concern as she pulls her mask down. 

“What happened?” 

“They need help.” His knees buckle, trusting his sister to help now. They would be fine, he could rest now right? Please… let them be fine.

#whumptober2022 #no.19 #head lolling #repeatedly passing out #knees buckling #teenage mutant ninja turtles #fic #non con drugging #mentioned torture #stabbing #children in danger #tmnt human au #death #open ending #bamf mikey #mikey angst #donnie angst #raph angst #leo angst #dont mess with mikeys brothers #good Karai

[andnatiabrosca]

hi Birch! how bout essentials 7, party 4, codex 10 for Nat and Malachite? :>

Essentials 7: How do they dress in their downtime, while fighting, in formal situations, etc.?

so Nat and Malachite both tend towards really practical downtime clothing, but from slightly different angles. Nat always wears something that can easily have armor thrown on, because she might always have to fight (or, later, have to do some paragon shit for orzammar). she does prefer more feminine clothing, especially when she's pregnant/after having her baby. Malachite's downtime clothing isn't designed to easily throw armor on - it's made to both impress people around skyhold, but also allow her to get her 10 daily miles of running around her fortress done.

it's also of note that, as a rogue vs warrior, what armor they may be throwing on differs significantly (need to research more about armor to make definitive statements). what I can say - Nat tends to have well-made but generic armor, whereas Malachite wears well-made Inquisition armor. If you looked, you could find blue tied into Nat's armor; it would be impossible to miss the green and symbols emblazoned on Mal's.

formally, I know Nat will incorporate armor, and both of them will visibly carry a weapon (just Dwarva things). Nat will lean to whichever identity is most important at the time - Warden vs Paragon vs Hero and adjust her dress. I have a standing headcanon of dwarven hairstyling to denote caste...should get that properly finished out sometime. (I think Mal generally just lets Josie dress her for formal situations. Easy way to keep the girlfriend happy and less for Mal to focus on.)

I might reblog this later with some reference photos or sketches, but that is not for right now.

Party 4: Are there any companions or advisors they don't get along with? Have any of them ever left the party?

(I think this is really a reflection of how I find the companions - I like all of DAO, but DAI are harder to connect to for me. That said, Malachite and I have entirely different perspectives on a lot of her crew.)

Nat - eh no. She and Wynne argue and she doesn't like Oghren much but they all get on okay enough and no one ever leaves lolol. Oghren won't leave her alone, to her absolute frustration.

Mal - She went Templar, so she and Cullen aren't on much of speaking terms atm. They didn't get on well early on either, but it's definitely getting worse. Exactly the kind of disconnect you want in your army, right? She's starting to be better friends with Viv, but the first year they were at eachothers throats. Leliana freaks her out (had a crisis of faith at Mal and Mal didn't talk to her for a year). Cassandra. If Mal could have made the Breach swallow Cass, well. I think Cole might end up leaving? I'm not sure where we are on approval right now, but they are just not getting on.

Mal wants so badly to get on with Sera but they are so at odds it's hilarious.

(Bonus round, the shopkeep who argues with Dagna? Whose name I have never read? She hates him and he hates her and that is just the way it is.)

Codex 10: Are there any animals they have a particular love or hatred for?

Nat loves squirrels!! I make the executive decision that Fereldan has squirrels! She also loves nugs. She would never eat a mabari, but every other animal is free range. I think she's Not A Fan of cats after waking Shale.

Malachite hates rams. Malachite is not a fan of most animals, actually. She and Bull really agree on dragons, though. Too bad Mal doesn't swing his way. I think she could manage a pet for Josie's sake, but would never live with one of her own volition.

#birch answers #layalu #oc: nat brosca #oc: malachite cadash

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

i read a thing a while ago that i lost the link for where some researchers had done some kind of study and found what they viewed as evidence to suggest that in bipolar disorder, the best predictors for depressive episodes & manic episodes were not changes in mood or emotion but changes in physical energy level, which they felt like suggested a theory that what is viewed as a mental illness may be more accurately looked as a disorder of energy regulation. i obviously have NO IDEA of how valid this may or may not be and also their methodology i feel like i remember was weird enough that i (layperson) was like, uh, what? but the concept has kind of stuck in my head and popped in again bc i was listening to maintenance phase (ft. guest appearance by sarah yourewrongabout!!!!!!) and michael paraphrased one of his sources by saying something like "her theory is that during this time this person was depressed, and the fatigue was a symptom of depression, and she didn't know she was depressed because being on methamphetamines masked the fatigue and other symptoms." and it was so interesting to me how like, i find it hard to imagine someone similarly suggesting a theory in which being fatigued made someone depressed. but as someone whose like primary life project for the past few months has been tackling my lifelong burden of sleepiness... i definitely feel like being tired all the fucking time can make you fucking depressed, even if nothing else is going on in your life/brain/body/spirit/whatever that would lead to that (altho fatigue also often does come from external [but not necessarily easy to identify!!!!] factors). it sucks so bad to feel like i cannot get any forward momentum going in my life because i keep losing huge chunks of it to trying to force myself to get out of bed, not because i am sad, but because my body feels like wet paper towels. and it is much harder to resist that kind of melodrama when i am Big Sleepy, and keep getting Big Sleepy - the extent to which i can do it comes basically entirely from years spent training myself to remember that just because i am a big baby does not mean all my thoughts and emotions are gospel truth.

i feel like this has also helped me identify or articulate part of my own particular reaction to like, "stop telling me to address mental illness [something i am persistently identifying as biologically caused] through choices that would impact my biological well-being" discourse, which i am usually actually kind of... i wouldn't say defensive of exactly, but i feel like if you're well enough to clown on it you're maybe well enough to put together the self-awareness it takes to recognize that fighting with mentally ill 19 year olds on the internet is not the best use of your time. and also "stop being so anti-recovery and go outside" posts are even more annoying to me. (i just hate everyone, basically, lmao.) but i think now what bugs me about the way that discourse goes on all sides is exactly the implicit assumption that like... there is no level of feeling bad physically that can produce symptoms diagnosable as certain kinds of mental illness. or that like... that there's a certain level of seriousness and import to Mental Illness that is somehow trivialized by a link to things viewed outside the realm of Mental Illness, like "having a body that feels very bad all the time" is less of a serious or worthy concern (well, really i think what's going on is that it's seen as less forgivable a reason for perceived failings, but anyway). like, even team go outside will usually say something like, "it's not a cure, but it will make you feel better." and to be clear i'm not saying it is a "cure." but like, the idea is still that it's like, potentially ameliorative of symptoms, and not... possibly in some people actually addressing some of the root mechanisms through which this condition has transpired. which to me feels like it kind of trivializes just how bad having a body that feels bad can be. in the interests of full disclosure it is possible i am projecting and this is fully about my unresolved feelings about my mom's fibromyalgia. just putting that out there for transparency.

#unrebloggable posts my best friend

[senadimell]

Re: the death post, is it wrong to ask why you see it as a bad ideal for society to aspire to? I agree that coming to peace with death is healthy for individuals but I don’t think we should have that attitude as a society. The ideal of immortality, of being physically ~26 forever, seems a noble one to aspire to. Our deaths should ideally be under our control. That they aren’t is probably not changing in the near future (hence the need to come to peace with it as individuals) but it doesn’t make it any less of a tragedy imo. Plus as an ideal it doesn’t seem that impossible in comparison to others, we have real life examples of immortal organisms, we have no indication that it goes against the laws of physics (unlike, say, teleportation).

Sorry for the long delay in answering @urupotter. It's not wrong to ask, but the answer is complicated because it's deeply personal and touches on my moral convictions, so it's emotionally taxing to discuss. Also, my religious upbringing likely plays a part in how I see things and I don't expect that to be universal.

The short of it is this: I cannot imagine a society that seeks immortality that is not deeply, deeply ableist.

I live in a country that used to be renowned for its eugenics and those attitudes didn't go away after the second world war, we just focused it on health and beauty and perfect babies and anti-miscegenation.

Literally, there's a supreme court ruling still on the books that upholds state-decided compulsory sterilization. Legally, it's just fine for the state to decide who's allowed to reproduce because "three generations of imbeciles is enough."

I already live in an ableist society, and I live in a society that's terrified of and ignorant towards death. We are phobic towards aging and disease. We bury and hide those things. Parents go to live in nursing homes when they're sick and unless someone dies in hospice in your home or you were in an accident or the military or work in hospice or mortuaries etc., most people have literally not seen an unembalmed corpse. You also don't see fragile, elderly people in public, and multigenerational households are rare.

I don't know if I'm communicating this well, but for us to pursue immortality, I have a really hard time believing we could do that without denigrating mortality, aging, and disability.

So if we have a system where those things are looked down on, then we think about who has access to life-extending treatment, and that's where class comes in. Even if we could technically come up with something that makes you immortal, I highly doubt that everyone would have equal access to it. So you end up with an amplified version of the society we live in now, where youth and beauty is praised and age is feared or disparaged, and even more than now, access to beauty and immortality is tied to wealth and power. (ageism in hiring is already a huge problem!)

Do I think it's a good use of societal resources? Not really, no. Even if we put aside all of the problems for the policymakers, I think there's other things I'd rather medical researchers be focusing on.

Now, there are definitely age-related things that I think are great to focus on fixing. Coming up for some ways to get rid of arthritis = great! would make lots of people's lives easier! Getting rid of Alzheimer's and other kinds of dementia? Absolutely! While we're at it, let's cure Parkinson's.

It might seem contradictory that I'm totally find with finding cures for degenerative diseases but am not okay with treating death, perhaps the ultimate degenerative disease. But I guess that's the thing, I don't see death as a disease, and I don't see disability as inherently bad (some kinds of disability are just bad—there is nothing redeeming about migraines. Or Alzheimer's). I'm not sure how to describe why those two goals feel different, but it just seems like hubris to pursue eternal youth, whereas stopping specific kinds of suffering seems noble.

Here's where I get into the fuzzy philosophical side of things. I think aging and death have a whole lot to teach us as a society. I think we learn compassion through caregiving. I think we learn humility and patience. I think there's tremendous wisdom to be found in aging and dealing with aging and death. I don't think we should go around inflicting it, obviously, but I do think that we have so much to learn.

This is the part where I'm speaking purely personally, and don't expect others to have to agree with me, but I don't think in a perfect world we would have control over our deaths. This has to do with what I understand the purpose of life to be.

(I'd rather not get into a public discussion on assisted suicide; the short of it is that I'm not blanket opposed to it but I think it's a very very delicate issue and I lack the life experience to know if it's something I would ever pursue, so I'm not the one who should be setting policy)

And maybe this is silly or morbid or crass, but tbh it does give me a sense of relief to know that we all die because there are some sucky people in the world with a lot of power and money and I don't think it would be a better world if they were immortal.

So in conclusion, I think it's actually worse for a society as a whole to be pursuing immortality (as opposed to individuals) because of all the attitudes that go around with it. Also, there's enough preventable deaths to go round and I think we should focus on that.

#you sit through one vigil for disability day of mourning and it just weighs on you how many people kill their kids for being disabled #re: the medical system: without insurance the monthly dosage of one of my medications costs about 4x my rent #so i think we have a loooooong way to go and plopping immortality into the mix is a bad idea

[theirloveisgross]

Are you a newish larrie? If you are I would love to hear what made you become a larrie post-hiatus? I find it fascinating that people can still see their love when they haven't been publicly together in years 😊

Hola,

Sorry I'm late replying to this, day has been hectic and I wanted to be focused. You probably won't see this now, bu anyway, here's my story... Hajshajsh.

I became a larrie on April 2021. It all started with me being mesmerized by Harry's Grammy's performance. I knew who he was, and admired him already, but wasn't a fan yet. Then my Instagram explore page started to be full of Harry videos on stage and I just loved his personality so much, didn't know he was such a goofball. Then there was a specific video someone reposted from obviouslyally's Tiktok, where they imitated Harry, and it was something like "a day in the life" and they mentioned Louis being his partner. And I was like, "wait..."

And so that began my descent into the Larry rabbit hole mostly on YouTube compilations. I didn't know who Louis was but immediately fell for him. I also immediately believed they DEFINITELY had something back during the band days, but wasn't convinced they still did. Then I watched the cosmicleeds timelines and started to suspect that maybe they did, but they only had timelines up to 2019 at that point. I remember thinking that some videos on any Larry compilation were dramatically slowed down or making you hear something... So I would always try to find the actual source and see for myself. I am super skeptical by nature and will always need the full picture if possible.

Then, I saw a Tiktok by obviouslyally mentioning the Umbro shirt and how it was one of a kind. I didn't know what the Umbro shirt was, so I googled, ended up on tumblr, read up on it and I couldn't believe it. In 2020?! In the middle of a pandemic?! I even tried debunking it, lol. I was like, "it cannot be ONE of a kind". Fair enough, I found it in 2 different websites but it was a rare one. So the chances of both of them getting the same exact fucking shirt, and ESPECIALLY Harry, who NEVER wears Umbro, were super slim. And that absolutely did it for me. I am definitely printing those two photos and framing them somewhere in my house at some point.

Then I found out about the Spotify covers. And yeah... Wtf, you know. Hajshaja. And well, their lyrics are also just so gross and ridiculous. Like, get a grip, you two. I'm kidding, annoy me with your cheesiness for the rest of your lives, please.

Learning about how stunts really work has been so eye-opening, it's insane. Babygate did take me a while to dig into. I did not talk about it, because I was avoiding doing the proper research, because I really couldn't believe that they would go that fucking far... But I also didn't believe L knocked up a random groupie and never got a pat test. I even believed that maybe there was some horrendous way they made him be the father of the baby without the actual intercourse. BUT THEN I DID MY RESEARCH, thanks to some amazing tumblr blogs, and yeah, fake shit.

AND NOW HERE I AM. Loving these two idiots with my whole heart, giving them all my support and listening to what they really have to say.

After all, like they said in History, without us here, life is just a lie.

#rambling #mine #it's been a fucking journey #I feel insane most of the time #But I would do it over again even if I knew how insane it would make me #They need us we need them #Easy as that

[soletlunasims]

After college, Chip quickly found a job as a Scientist and spent his days inventing new devices and studying space. Chip believed there was other life out there and so he also spent time secretly trying to contact aliens. (Since I have done the NSB challenge before, I am playing this family a bit more loosely. Basically just making them max out their career and doing their aspiration with no other goal. So we didn't finish the elements collection and I stopped going to work with him after I got the satellite 😂)

Chip believed but he also didn't want to seem crazy and lose his job. He would work days and spend nights outside hoping to find proof. Caleb growing increasingly worried of his fiancees weird behaviors.

Then one day....

It finally happened, the proof he was so desperately after. He didn't know what to do with himself. He had to find a way to repeat this phenomenon for proof. He would be reveled as a 'Hero of Science' he thought. He spent all of his extra time trying to document as much tangible proof as he could. During this time, he was abducted several times. He couldn't count how many, simply for the fact that the Aliens were far more advanced then him and as hard as he tried to remember anything that happened when he was taken, he could barely remember being taken and returned in the first place. Some sort of alien technology preventing him from keeping any mental record of what was happening aboard their vessel. Chip kept trying to get something that could serve as concrete evidence that aliens were real and that they were here and possibly among us. But he started feeling unwell and was not sure if he could continue his research. He started calling into work and staying in bed for hours at a time. He thought maybe he was dying. Maybe he had some illness that passed through the EA spaghetti code as a bug (we are gonna get meta here from time to time lol) and he was unlucky enough to get it with no doctor knowledgeable enough to help him. Months passed and things got weird. He started feeling better in some ways but worse in others. He no longer felt like he was sick with some terminal illness but rather, he felt as if there was a parasite that was possibly using him as a host. He had a constant full feeling and weird stomach spasms and he was getting bigger by the day. It was almost as if he was.....👀 Oh. Chip thought it impossible at first but then he really tried to rationalize it. "If I can get abducted by aliens over and over then.... No. I mean I don't remember what happened.... They could have... But why would they? No. That's not possible. They couldn't expect me to know how to handle that.... It's gotta be something else...."

It wasn't...

After a weird and exhausting experience that I cannot even begin to envision, Chip held his little girl in his arms for the first time. "This is remarkable!", Chip thought. "There's no greater proof than an alien baby!" But his face fell almost immediately as he thought about it. Was he really okay with giving his baby over to science to prove his theory? He really thought about it. "I.... I won't let anyone take you from me, Ares. You are safe here. You are so loved. I won't let anything bad happen to you. That's a promise."

Note:

I would like to add that I didn't talk about the slight plot hole of Caleb being a know vampire but how it's weird to believe in aliens. In this save, my canon for occults is that they are definitely around but hide it well. Chip knows Caleb is a vampire. A few close friends do as well. But no one meets Ares as a baby and only ever seen her in her disguise. People believe that Chip and Caleb adopted her. Werewolves are confined to Moonwood Mill as well. I love having the Occults in my gameplay but I often like them to be played as if they are living a double life and that humans do not know that they exist outside of story books

#the sims 4 #not so berry #The Palette Legacy

[joaneunknown]

Tips on how to handle criticism and hate

Welcome back to Talking Unknown, little unknowns 😃👋 This is the seventh post on this series and I wanted to talk to you about criticism and hate regarding your book and your writing journey from my experience handling both. Today's topic can be useful for everybody, not only writers because all of us get criticism and hate once in a while.

One thing we have to clear out is the difference between criticism and hate.

Criticism is the analysis and judgement of the merits and faults of a literary or artistic work. Many people, whether they are writers or not, take criticism as a negative thing but, as the definition said, criticism is the analysis and judgment of both the good things in your book and the not so good things in your book. I consider criticism a hit in your butt that makes you step forward.

Taking and reacting to criticism says a lot about you as a writer but, most importantly, as a person. Now, I am going to show you the comments I got on some short-stories I wrote almost a year ago and the way I accepted the criticism. For those who want to read them, click the link in bio.

" A baby abandoned in an orphanage grows up to be a medico. Someone in the neighborhood tells the medico that her mother lives nearby. They meet and the medico seems content that she has met her mother and they are reconciled. This blog has been categorized as historical fiction. There is no history involved except in the fact that once upon a time a one child policy was introduced and then withdrawn. English is poor. Blog doesn't satisfy the prompt. CRITIQUE CIRCLE."

The story was about the One Child Policy in China and how the mother and the daughter found themselves after the mother abandoned the girl. I have to admit two things. One, the English was poor and it is a thing I am constantly working on because I keep on repeating certain words and I know as a reader how annoying that is. Two, I shouldn't have taken such a topic for my short story. Why? Because the policy was withdrawn years before I got to write the story and I didn't have enough information about this policy to be able to write about it. You have to be very careful when picking topics to write on and, based on that topic to research in detail.

Advice! when you receive this kind of comments analyze your work once again and be true to yourself. All stories have flaws and mistakes and getting criticism is important because it makes you see things you haven't seen before and that by itself makes you a better writer. It is true, it hurts a lot when you work on something and it gets judged and criticized.

However, you have to accept the criticism if and only if they aren't direct hate towards you or your story. When somebody critiques you, they need to have arguments supporting why they think that and if they don't have those necessary arguments to support their opinion then the comment may be a hateful one that you should just ignore.

" Well first off, I would like to address the spacing. If it was written as one big block instead of different paragraphs it can become confusing on where the scene changes. When you said Ms it is a way of saying they don't know what their status is, Mrs is saying they are married and since you said she was Mr. Lopez's wife you should've used Mrs. Expansive? Don't you mean expensive? The money sign should go before the numbers like this $40 dollars. Instead of + you should say and...

One part is says Isabella and another it says Isabelle you want to read through it and look for any mistakes. The story is very interesting, you spent quite a while on how rich and what they were doing on the pageant, some things could've been shortened and explanations not as long. Please if you wouldn't mind checking out my recent story I worked extremely hard on it and would appreciate some feedback as well!"

This was the first criticism comment I have ever gotten and, back then, I was very sensitive when someone judged my work. At the moment, I agree with everything regarding my story and all the things he noticed were absolutely right. I would lie if I wouldn't say that I wanted to delete the comment but I decided to respond and thank this guy politely.

Now that you have seen the comments I got, I want you to reflect on the way you react to criticism. If those comments bother you in a way that you can't sleep at night or you get anxious when you are writing something new, maybe writing is not for you. If you get depressed or severely anxious while writing because of the criticism you may get, I just want you to re-think your journey. If you want to be a writer, you will always have to face both criticism and hate, and if facing them hurts you, making you lose your passion and confidence in yourself/your writing, maybe being a public writer is not your thing.

There are writers who write for themselves, not for the audience, and maybe writing for yourself without publishing your writing is your thing but if you are not out there with your writing then you won't be able to make a career based off writing.

Hate- to show hate toward, criticize, or belittle, usually unfairly. Hate is part of bullying, whether the bullying is face to face or cyberbullying, both of them are based on hate and hating on others. Bullying is more than hate but I felt like mentioning it.

Now, every case is different, maybe yours is not bullying and it is just the others belittling what you are doing. People will always bring people down. If you don't like someone or don't like what they are doing, leave them alone. One thing you will have to accept is that everyone does what the hell they want with their life (as long as they are not hurting others). If you want to write, draw, paint, sing, vlog, do it! Don't listen to the haters, just focus on what you are doing and making it the best you could ever be able to do it. Until this day, I have never gotten hate based on my books or short-stories.

Like any other person who found a passion, I did get some belittling comments about my dream to become a successful writer. Did I ever give a single shit about their jokes, comments, remarks etc.? No. I know what I am going to do and I am passionate enough to be able to pursue that dream of mine and that is what you should do too. People are always going to talk but that doesn't mean you have to listen to everybody speaking their crap about what you are doing.

Remember to listen to the voices that actually matter because those are the voices that will help you improve as a writer.