#this song bring so many memories

[kakapim]

Me listening to my unorganized Detective Conan playlist

#like i cant be the only one who listens to the ost right.... #all of the songs are bangers and also they bring up so many memories 😭 #Detective Conan #dcmk #Case Closed

[fountainpenguin]

"Picture of your face in an invisible locket... I had a bad feeling. But we were dancin'... swaying as the room burned down." (x)

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New Dog's Life chapter today! ~ 3rd Life series fan-season

Chapter 32 - “Starve (Etho, Scott)”

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I am once again bringing you scenes of Etho cuddling up to SnifferMyFeet while Sniff growls reminders that even though he has Joel's memories and misses being Boat Boys, he wants Etho to treat him as a separate person.

If I had a nickel for every chapter Etho's touched this man and thought of Joel, I would have 8 nickels. I'd have 40 cents. That's as much as 1/4 of our story. And that's terrible.

#smalletho - Etho once again working through his touch starvation and Boat Boys Issues™ Many references to Joel, but he doesn't appear. Large flashbacks of him and Etho in next week's chapter, though! <3

(First 1,000 words under the cut)

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This preview section jumps into shippy vibes- Proceed at own discretion.

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Etho - Fox

Status: Holding out a hand

Self-taught programmer, full-time hero

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So, uh. That string tidying, huh? You're setting yourself up for disappointment if you want to do that with an endermite hybrid. They're the best in the business and they'll mock you the whole time you set up. Sniff's smug and giggly about it, too, as Etho pushes him down on the bed and hangs back to study him. He's really tattered the code on the bottoms of his bare feet. I mean, shoe code gets tattered too, but usually those soft parts of a skin design hurt more.

"You gonna use your mouth?" Sniff asks, eyeing him up.

"In a shocking turn of events, the programmer has tools for fixing loose code. They're in the other room." Etho takes Sniff's wrists and pins them above his head for a second, then takes his ankles and stretches them out. Classic textbook pose for the work, even though they'll probably move to the carpet for obvious reasons before they start; he doesn't need weak pixels dropped all over his bed. "Stay," he commands, and Sniff sticks out his tongue and double flips him off without moving his arms. So Etho can't be mad.

But he does lean over, sliding one hand beneath Sniff's cheek, easing it behind his head. He curls it back around and lifts it just enough to scrape his palm across Sniff's brow, beneath his floppy dark brown hair. It's thick and feels like swamp plants in his hands. He still smells like well-treated water. Chlorine. Like one of Gluon's hotel builds with the fancy pools. Or the waterpark server. Never did find out why. Etho breathes against him without pulling back. Despite the wet scents, Sniff's warm soul's like fresh-baked bread against his hand.

"Oh my goodness… You're so pretty. You are so pretty…"

The metaphorical light fades from Sniff's mismatched eyes. Etho pulls back, waiting for a pinch or slap. Sniff turns his face away. Only his Joel side's visible at this angle as he squirms. "Get your eyes checked, Eefo… I saw my reflection when I got my water. I'm stitched together with hand-me-down parts. You don't mean that."

"What if I do, though?" He crouches lower by the bed, bringing a hovering thumb to Sniff's scalp. Sniff glances at him, then away. So Etho breaks that barrier. Slowly, the thick part of his hand eases down to touch Sniff's head. Sniff scrunches up his eyes again, giving the faintest little nod. Etho holds very still a few seconds (Sniff's pixels are so loose on his skin, which was the whole point of this cleaning project anyway) before he speaks again. "I'm sorry you can't see that yet. Body issues are tough; I've got issues too. Sometimes my fox traits get away from me… Been thinking about modding out, but it takes centuries of paperwork." His next stroke of hand (a circle on his head) is firmer, sharper, and Sniff mutters something under his breath as his cheeks freckle up with blue again. Cute. "If it were legal, I'd probably just unthread. I'd miss the bullet paths, but you make vex life look so easy. So good." He draws his hand around in one last loop, then eases it down Sniff's cheek (on his Grian side) to his neck. "Hey, take a closer look next time you're out. There's a lot of interesting people out there. Some wear faces that aren't even humanoid. Have you met MumboDrone or iCam? … And you know, it's just a skin."

Sniff putters his lips, staring towards the ceiling. His fingers lift, dancing across the backs of Etho's knuckles. "You just want me to stay late again. Gods, you're so lonely… Listen, fella- I know my strings are a wreck. I was an endermite before a vex; be pretty messed up if I couldn't tell. I'll let you clean me up, but I'm not playing sleepover. You can't make me."

"Mmhm." Oh man, I want to press my head on yours. He really wants to, noses brushing, hair tufts scraping, but he refrains, you know. He's kneeling, balanced on his heels, and Sniff's saying 'Yes' to the hand but looking unsure. So he won't. "Stay as long as you want to. Just let me clean your code and then you can leave. I promise I won't be mad."

"You smell like bread dough…"

"Yeah? My code wouldn't taste too good right now. Squeaky clean."

"Oh, that's too bad." Absentminded. Distracted. Etho eases back his fingers.

"Are you okay?"

Sniff clicks into focus again and then swishes up, sitting on the bed instead of lying down. "Yeah, thanks. I'm good, actually. The water helped."

"All right. I'll be right back with the cleaning stuff." He leaves without another touch, pausing only to switch off the portal still glowing in the corner. He leaves the desk lantern glowing like it is. It's fun, in the dark. The light's so low, it's like a fox's den in here.

The nice thing about being a programmer? He has no end of scrapers and combs to choose from. He pays the living room a visit to get the tray from the coding desk's drawer and some rolled-up pieces of carpet (ignoring the less than subtle smirks Beef and Pause give him as he strolls by). Etho brings the whole tray to his room and sits on the bed with Sniff, just talking to him and explaining how effective these tools are for different things. Sniff seems to recognize a lot of them, which is no surprise, honestly. Since Joel doesn't do logouts, he has a whole cleaning routine. It takes him forever.

"You know," Sniff says, digging through the tray, "using combs is cheating, actually. I can do the cleaning with my teeth still attached. I bet foxes can too. I mean, it's code work; all the code-eating species can do it." He flicks his gaze to Etho, who kneels across from him, tail waving in the air. Etho doesn't answer, so Sniff goes on. "You know what's fun? 'mite bundles."

"'mite bundles,'" Etho repeats. "Like… Endermites inside a bundle? Is that fun? That's a new one to me." Where is he going with this?

"Yeah, it's when you put endermites in with some of your supplies and go out on adventures. When you want your supplies, you have to dump everything on the ground and try to use your stuff without getting bit. If you get bit, you have to send your coords to server chat. Easy way to get killed, so you'd better not. You can play it in Between, too. Pig has an endermite living in his studio. For every time it bites him, he has to keep his weapons in a chest for an hour when he gets home. It means I can do whatever I want to him, really. Usually he just runs. Sometimes we duke it out bare-fisted. Have you ever seen him with a black eye and a tooth knocked out? Just me, I guess- It probably doesn't carry when he leaves the server. He looks so goofy when he smiles; I'm chuffed to bits with that. Gods, you wouldn't believe the bruise he left on me this one time he pushed me off an end ship. He smirked about it for days, no joke. No, actually. Can't believe his head even fit outside the server."

Etho smirks back, hidden in the mask and hidden by his fingertips. His chin rests against his hand. "What'd you do to him? You didn't let him get away with that, did you?"

"Hell no! I picked up a shulker and I slammed him on the head with it. I bet you didn't even know you can peel 'em off the wall- they're so clingy. What'd he do then? I think he put down a bed and blew himself up trying to get me with it. Oh, he's so lame. I like him so much."

[Full chapter on AO3 - Link at top]

#smalletho #trafficfic #traffic soulmates #... It's complicated #If you're here for smalletho and slammed into my ''Would you still love me if I was SnifferMyFeet?'' drama. lmao sorry #For better or worse this is what I bring to the fandom table #Recap: Sniff has all Joel's memories (maybe) but wobbly self-restraint and it is weird for both of them so. let's get weird #I cannot emphasize enough how Peculiar this is if you are entering without context so good luck- lmk how it goes :) #It's about Miscommunication (TM). I'm tagging stuff so people can filter out but just to be clear this is Oh No with fluff sprinkles #Y'know. When all else fails and I've listened to many songs and did not find the right one... I know Taylor Swift has got me #This chapter brought to you by whomever gave Etho several dozen combs made of people's teeth (It was Lizzie) #Also the intimacy of bonking foreheads #Dog's Life #Dog's Life art #ridwriting #fic announcement #apparently art #trafficshipping #hermitshipping #Sniff and Pig #mcyt #Pixels Imperfect #ridspoilers #Dog's Life spoilers

[11queensupreme11]

i FINALLY finished final fantasy crisis core reunion and i was so shocked by the ending CUZ I REALLY THOUGHT ZACK WAS GONNA LIVE SINCE HE SHOWS UP IN THE FF7 REMAKE 😭😭😭

clearly, that didn't happen so now im just gonna obsessively speculate on how he managed to return to aerith's church in the remake even though rebirth's coming in seven days. did the timelines clash? are there now two different timelines fighting for dominance? does it have to do with the whispers??? i'll find out eventually and i am SO excited for it

#it was about DAMN TIME i finished the game 😭😭😭 #and when ayaka's song 'why' came out OMGGGGG #i was in near tears #that song brings back so many memories of when i first got introduced to ff7 #i used to listen to that song on repeat as a kid and burst out crying cuz it made me think of zack 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[ashmp3]

mascara running down my face yes i am in fact watching red velvet killing voice thanks for asking. And how could i not cry when they hit me with automatic and kingdom come one after the other like come on now be realistic i AM gonna tear up. also my only thing…. Where is rookie my beautiful rookie 😞

#literally my girls always and forever whenever i listen to these killing voices i realize how much i can pin point what i was doing when it #dropped and i never realized how much negative emotions i felt until bad boy started playing and i got chills like i rly was going through #hell and yeah 2018… wasn’t nice to me that’s all i’m saying and i never realized this is one of the songs that kind of Really brings back #so many memories mostly bad but only bc i was in bad mental state #tt #also no i still didn’t listen to their new tt nor the album that will have to wait 🙏

[girafferoyalty]

What if we kissed in the virtually simulated version of Twilight town?

#kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts 2 #kh hayner #kh seifer #kh roxas #I’ll be posting rest of my faebruary pieces before the month ends but first some silly things #playing KH 2 brings me so many good memories #when I was a teenager I would start #my summer vacation visiting my best friend in another town and she would go to her summer ballet classes #and I would play Roxas spending his summer vacation #anyway back then like 15 years ago we were convinced hayner and seifer had something going on #and I am still inclined to think so so here is my comic how it would go #they would be like katy perry song hot and cold which is also almost 15 years old

[alloutshirt]

diana still is, has always been, and will always be that bitch

#this song just brings back so many memories man #x

[asmuchasidliketo]

Beauce, October 2023

Autumn holiday at my brother's, in the village I grew up in

#It's lovely to leave the city for a while #I had forgotten the smells of here #And all of the birds' songs #It's peaceful and brings back so many happy memories #Also my brother has a soft and cuddly cat #(who is right now sleeping next to my laptop and forcing me to type these tags with one hand) #(what you do for love and cuddles...)

[vividvexations]

i loveeee 5sos so much

#my band since 2014 😭 #just listening to their songs and it brings back so many memories 🥴😔 #rambles

[waitinqroom]

baby i get mystified by how this city screams your name 🥹🥹

#this song brings back so many memories all throughout the years since it was released #aw shucks

[kitsu-katsu]

Tbh, people who leave fandoms and then spend all their time hating on the fandom in question and calling every possible memento or memory they have from it cringe to distance themselves from it and make it seem as though they're so above it now are the weakest link

And also really annoying, like dude, if you're really over it and consider your past self and everyone who engages in that fandom the peak of cringe then... Actually leave it behind??

#this was beought up rn because I see WAYYY too many people shitting on the DSMP fandom as the peak of cringe when they were once deep #within it and as if it wasn't one of the most creative and active fandoms ever. where else would you get people speedrunning fluid #animation in a DAY?? or making songs like they're bread?? and doing other forms of fantastic fanwork? #but also it just brings memories of people who've left every single fandom I've been in and then make it their whole personality for like #a solid year #nobody forces you to have had a good experience but what do you gain from shitting on something for which interest has dwindled and many #still have fond memories of? #and then everyone jumping on the bandwagon like 'oh noooo I've actually got merch!! I'm so cringe!! *crying emoji*' #just. dude. you're annoying #kitsu speaks

[sevencardigans]

My baby’s fly line a jet stream, high above the whole scene

Loves me like I’m brand new

#accidentally listened to ciwyw earlier #had a melt down #but god this song brings back so many memories

[lesmond-sycamore]

okay reversed music request time. YOU need to listen to ghost wife by blossom hero (PLEASE SUPPORT HIM HE ONLY HAS 7 MONTHLY LISTENERS!!!) and umami by go! child (AKA PENNY FUCKING SNAPCUBE'S BAND!!!!)

#rambles #these songs bring back so many memories of me driving to arby's early in the morning as the sun rises on the mountain :] #Spotify

[minionwater]

concepts of some supporting cast star crossed lovers for D★SENT >:3 design notes in tags!

#so these two r reaper and muse until I can think of better names for them #essentially they’re a grim reaper and a guy who can’t stop reincarnating. and unfortunately they r in love #i have no idea if they’ll get together at this point but they see each other for like fifteen minutes every once in a while #yknow. whenever muse dies #reaper’s design is based off skeletons you find in the forest - nature and calming death essentially. decay as a form of life #those silver bands r all centipedes #muse is based off fancy candles - the everlasting endurance of fire. you can put it out but it comes back #as for personality in design language #reaper is based off sad drunk girls in the bathroom at parties who give the best advice but hate themselves too much to see they’re so full #of life and general exuberance #and muse is based off the song ‘the cat came back’ which I was forced to sing in elementary school n thought I made up for a decade somehow #if I have to think about the cat came back for 10+ years straight. so do you #reaper is calm enough. she shows up to dying people in projections as a guide - taking the form of their most comforting memory a la black p #arade. muse is so fucking sick of being alive at this point but they can’t resist the draw of art anyway - after all that’s what they keep b #eing pulled back for #they’re much more tricksterish than reaper. at this point they kinda don’t have morals anymore tbh. but morals r a very loose concept in thi #s world anyway. they just deal with being alone much differently than reaper does. she pushes it down and they bring it forth #also the design language for dsent is that only the dead have uncovered faces. something about it being the purest form of truth #so reaper’s face is uncovered for obvious reasons. but muse’s face is partially stripped away to show just how many times they’ve seen truth #and come back anyway. for everyone else it’s one and done yeah. #there’s also their face being stripped away for the lasting impact of art beyond death even after a person n their body r gone #original character #oc #character design #sander ocs #sanders art tag #dsent #D★SENT

[noxtivagus]

OUR SONG OF HOPE, SHE DANCES ON THE WIND, HIGHER OH HIGHER / E'ER OUR VOWS ENDURE, AND REMAIN FOREVER STRONG / STANDING TALL IN THE DARK DO WE CARRY ON

ON WINGS OF HOPE, YOU RISE UP THROUGH THE NIGHT HIGHER, OH HIGHER / CARRYING OUR SONG, CRADLED FAST WITHIN YOUR ARMS / THAT ITS CHORUS MIGHT RING FOR ALL

#mostly just lyrics spoilers #and i can hear the shb lyrics #even if it isn't part #wand'ring ended futures aligned #ykyk ! #ENDSINGERRRRRR #PLS THE SONG IN THE FIGHT ALWAYS MAKES ME HAPPY #INSPIRES HOPE !!! YKYK #ALSO ALEX MOUKALA'S ORGANIZED CLOSE IN THE DISTANCE FFXIV COMMUNITY COVER #this is why ffxiv gives me comfort #bcs it inspires hope in my heart w stuff like this #so many precious memories T_T #ENDSINGER'S ARIA #WITH HEARTS ALIGNED #AND PROMISES TO KEEP EDEN'S ETERNITY #my memories of e12s are very precious to me #AND THE ORCHESTRA I WNA GO TO AN FFXIV ORCHESTRA SO BAD N HEAR E12S IRL IF POSSIBLE T_T #titania makes me happyyy #n tomorrow & tomorrow comforts meee #& who brings shadow is so fucking good #i love ffxiv a lot as a game but #i think my love for it also reflects a lot on the person i am as a whole #!!!!! i love ffxiv so much #see i'm happy now don't worry about me 😠

[onrainynights]

are there other jason mraz fans on tumblr or is it just me

#I feel like I would never have started listening to him on my own #but jason mraz was one of my mom's favorite artists when I was a kid. so every road trip we took just had us listening to jason mraz #the whole time #I have so many of his song memorized because of it and listening to his music always makes me feel so nostalgic #like I think I'll probably listen to him for my whole life. nothing brings good childhood memories quite like an old jason mraz song #I have been listening to sleep all day the entire time I've been writing this post #not spn #jason mraz

[soobiesworld]

sotd

#when i was a kid i HAD to watch the credits of kk2 because this song was on it #this song brings back so many memories #wish i could watch this movie for the first time again #peter cetera #the karate kid ii #i don’t use spotify but it didn’t have an apple music link so