#tweaking it and stuff so it's easy to understand

[fanaticastrid]

I need a break from Ch 5 of the DLAU so fuck it, have headcanons n stuff for ToA until I get it out-

-Lester literally never had a haircut in the entire six months, so obviously it's actually pretty long. Maybe shoulder length?

-OH AND HIS EYESSS his eyes turn gold when he gets a burst of godly power! The ToA discord also came up with them turning entirely green when he has a vision and I love that.

-So Apollo is more than happy to become Lester again, but I like to think he made a few tweaks to the form. For one, replacing the acne with a ton of freckles (on his face and shoulders especially) and maybe dying a few of his curls blonde. Oh, and his eyes are still blue, but around the pupil itself is like a gold ring. So Lester, just with subtle changes to reference Apollo's godly form.

-Meg absolutely has sunflowers planted in Aeithales dedicated to Apollo, and he makes sure they stay alive and healthy no matter what.

-I believe Caleo split up to better focus on themselves. Sorry, I just don't like the pair and it didn't make sense. They're still friends though.

-Georgina is a legacy of Apollo, I will not answer your questions

-Apollo makes it a point to visit the two camps at least weekly, mostly just to say hi and check up on his old friends. He avoids giving out quests, but if he absolutely has to, he makes sure it's easy and even provides an asisst at times.

-Hell, in fact, he might come from nowhere in his Lester form and save you from that fall or dangerous trap, or that horde of monsters about to make a meal out of you. Those in-person interventions are rare though, as Apollo is trying his very best not to alert the other gods on what he's up to.

-The only one that knows is Artemis, but she says and does nothing about it. She understands that this is just Apollo's way to keep himself busy so that he doesn't break down over the memories, over how many died for him. Of course, it's mainly due to the promise he made with Jason that he does so much to help the demigods.

-Apollo spends a lot of time w Meg, helping her garden with the rest of the Imperial Household. He makes sure no harm ever comes to her, that she lives long and happy, and she's grateful for her dummy being there for her.

-Despite how much he now cares for mortals now, he's still a god. Apollo's very reluctant to unleash his plague arrows and whatnot upon humanity, but it's his purpose. So he tries to make any damage minimal when he has to attend to his more destructive godly duties.

#trials of apollo #lester papadopoulos #toa #toa headcanon #apollo pjo #apollo toa #apollo #meg mccaffrey #headcanon

[auroraeternal]

Written version of @thornowl's baking texture-based items for 4t3 conversion tutorial. (Part 1)

Yes, the original video is very useful and I think it's worth checking out for everyone who plans to do 4t3 conversions, especially in MM style. But, in my opinion, the realization is too messy, it took me a long time to understand what actually to do. So I made written tutorial, because many people prefer this format (and because my amazing mutual @nectar-cellar was interested in it). Hope you will find it useful. I had to split this tutorial into 2 parts because of the picture limit.

What You Will Need:

Knowing the basics of converting process: how to extract ts4 meshes and textures, how to make your own multiplier/mask/specular, how to import stuff to TSRW, etc. (@nightospheresims has a good tutorial for beginners: here or here, also don't forget about @sims3tutorialhub!).

Knowledge of basics blender controls and navigation: how to move and rotate the camera, basic shortcuts, how to change mode, editor type, viewport shading, rendering type, etc. (check Grennie's tutorial here, and "Helpful guides when you're a noob" from there too).

Required programs and resources: - Sims 4 Studio. - TS4 body mesh & texture(s), that you want to convert, I use @atomiclight's mix gloves for this tutorial. Also there will be some tip that I learned from converting Sentate's Audrey Corset Set. - Blender (I use version 2.79). - Photoshop (or any other 2D editor, that supports masks and .dds format). - TS3 Bodies template & UV map templates. - Plain normal & specular map, if you don't want to make your own. - TSRW.

STEP 1: ADDING MESHES AND TEXTURES IN BLENDER, PREPARING MESH FOR BAKING.

I already exported all the gloves presets that I want from S4S. And because they don`t have their own mesh, I exported base game swimsuit (you can also export mesh from any other stuff, that 100% is painted on body) I exported it like this: Open S4S → Create 3D mesh → Find it with filters→ Next → Save the package wherever you're want→ go to Meshes tab and press Export.

Open .blend file with ts4 swimsuit, delete the "rig" (you don't need it) and merge all other groups - Shift + click on them and press Ctrl+J on 3D viewport.

You need to export our gloves texture and remove swimsuit texture, go to Textures tab and in small window select "DiffuseMap": If you don't see DiffuseMap texture, switch type of texture data to "Show material textures" (brown-ish circle).

6. In the same way you need to remove skin texture, because you don't need it, only select BaseTexture instead of Diffuse:

7. Import your Sims 3 body, also I merged the top and bottom, because TS4 mesh is full body too:

Tip: if your stuff have 3D parts, separate them in their own group(s) and hide them from baking (you can bake them separately and/or tweak them in Photoshop):

STEP 2: SHRINKWRAPPING THE TS4 MESH.

In this case it would be really easy to adapt TS4 body mesh to TS3, because they are very similar, for stuff that partially 3D (like dresses) or in case with non-standard bodies (like Venus Curves by Venusprincess) it would be harder, so I don`t cover this in this tutorial.

Select TS4 body, go to Modifiers tab, usually there are already applied modifier "geom_skin", just ignore it and in the "Add Modifier" window select Shrinkwrap modifier.

2. In the Target tab select TS3 body group:

This is how TS4 mesh is supposed to look with this modifier, you may also apply modifier, but it's not necessary:

3. After that you need to hide TS3 Body mesh and now we're going to baking.

STEP 3: ASSIGNING MATERIALS.

First of all, you need 2 windows — with your 3D viewport and with Node Editor, also you need to switch rendering type to Cycles Render. After you set it, select TS4 mesh, open Materials tab and press Use Nodes button:

2. After that two small boxes should appear on the Node editor tab. Then press Shift+A and select Texture → Image texture:

3. Connect node that you already added with Diffuse BSDF node, by connecting yellow dot (socket) named Color of Image texture to the same socket of Diffuse BSDF node. After that click on the image icon and find your texture:

Don't worry about the black spots, we will fix that later.

4. Go to UV/Image editor and create new image for your bake, it must be 1024x1024 size or, if you want HQ texture - 2048x2048 or 4096x4096, but today I use non-HQ. After that, hide TS4 body and unhide TS3 body:

5. Go to Node Editor, create new material and assign our newly created image to ts3 body the same way, that we did with ts4 mesh and original texture:

6. Press Shift + Click on the TS4 body firstly, and TS3 body lastly. It`s an really important step, because without it baking wasn't work right way.

STEP 4: BAKING THE TEXTURE.

7. First of all, go to the Render tab and change default settings to the following:

Sampling Tab:

Bake Tab:

8.After that press Bake button and wait for it.

9. Look at the result, great, doesn't it?:

10. Save this texture as .png... But wait, that's not all! we need to bake alpha, so we can remove that black body texture in Photoshop later.

But that will come in part 2...

#the sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 #sims 3 tutorial #tutorial #4t3 #4t3 conversion

[starflungwaddledee]

(This ask got so long I had to split it into 4 parts, sorry about that!)I love your AUs so MUCH, oh my GOD!! Bandee realizing that the world is Wrong because no good, just world would let Kirby be so, so miserable... the heartbreak of him being powerless to stop Galacta poisoning Kirby's worldview, because to directly interfere is to doom them all... the way that he does everything in his power to support Kirby and tries to protect his heart (1/4)

haha... haha...! 😅 *nervously checks under my desk for secret cameras*

but in all seriousness, thank you so much for enjoying the work and reading it with such dedication and perception!! ngl i am genuinely curious who this is tbh!

all your kind words mean a lot, i'm so happy to know the emotion comes over well in my comics work!!

rest under the cut just due to length. just general excitement and responses to the content of the asks, some minor mentions of lying/psychological manipulation.

i'm also super thrilled that you see and understand the bandee-centric vision. seeing this written out so transparently by someone else as though it was straight from my own hand was a really fun experience!! he is a loyal and heroic little dude... he loves kirby so much! save an entire timeline for his best friend? he WILL do it, no matter what!!

it does drive bandee nuts and hurts him so bad not to be able to talk about any of this with kirby directly, but galacta knight is paying such extremely close attention to kirby at that point that if bandee tried any harder than he did during that café scene, it would definitely get back to him and the jig would be up.

and indeed, kirby is directly parroting stuff galacta knight has said, word for word. it's hard to tell but some of kirby's dialogue is even in a tweaked colour (vibrant galacta knight hot pink, rather than the warmer kirby pink) to help make that clear. it's like... not what kirby would ever say or even really think, which is what makes it so sinister.

galacta knight is, as you said, poisoning kirby's worldview; and with it, kirby's legacy itself. by the time star allies occurs and they are trying to combat the effects of the jamba hearts, the citizens of dream land are not pleased when the great hero kirby shows up to help them. they're terrified

simultaneously, as you correctly pointed out, he's also damaging kirby's view of bandee. not directly bad mouthing him or anything, because he figured out that didn't work early on, but galacta knight himself certainly thinks that bandee is weak and expendable, so it's easy for him to feed that fear in kirby. especially because kirby has lost so many other friends to 'dark matter' at this point

especially because bandee is indeed all kirby has left

you absolutely hit the nail on the head with regards to the end of that café scene. it was incredibly intentional phrasing on galacta knight's behalf. he didn't even bother telling that to bandee who is- at this point- the last waddle dee in dream land. just "they're invading."

it's not even necessarily untrue; they were coming to take the waddle dees! but galacta knight can absolutely rationalise many things to kirby, at this point, by saying it puts bandee in particular at risk. he can and does weaponise their friendship, especially in the later stages of the au

we cannot afford to delay when faced with threats, kirby, not everybody is strong like you. mercy could get someone killed. make sure you train so, so hard, kirby, to protect the people you care about. make sure you make him train hard, so he isn't viewed as the vulnerable target he is.

make sure you act decisively to keep him safe.

you can ask questions later.

and if something were to 'accidentally' happen to bandee... well that would probably just confirm everything galacta knight had been saying all along.

wouldn't it?

#asks #awtdy au #cw angst #up until the another dimension fight with meta knight #where galacta knight learns he *cares* about bandee #galacta knight indeed thinks the most useful thing bandee can do is die dramatically and push kirby over the edge #*after* that realisation he is suddenly much more useful. of course.

[nightgoodomens]

"I go along with Hell as far as I can"

-> not only do we see that the sole reason Crowley does good things is that he wants to actually help people, risking torture and probably even worse to do it, but he tells us so himself. He's a quiet quitter and always tries to get away doing the bare minimum like tweaking reports to head office, the Arrangement, and taking credit for evil stuff humanity does, but the good things he does (the ones he does by going against direct orders included) aren't to spite hell but because he's good and wants to help/save/protect people. It's canon, it's shown and told us. You're not going crazy, anon.

As nightgoodomens said, you should start blocking to curate your fandom experience, and in general stay out of the tags. There are still way more people actually seeing the show and the characters like Neil intended us to. Don't let bad faith takes and people blatantly ignoring canon facts get to you <3

Thank you for this anon, I realised I kind of generalised my answer instead of answering the direct question from anon 😅

Some more thoughts:

Crowley is also the one who convinced Aziraphale to save the World in the first place and gave him all the selfish reasons to convince him. Crowley wanted to do it without convincing. People say oh but Crowley is the one who wants to run away at the end - Crowley is the one who faces eternal torture every time something goes wrong to the point he wanted Holy Water (death: whether for people who’d attack him or himself) as insurance - and people are bashing him for having self perseverance when he thinks this is the end? Choosing Alpha Centauri with Aziraphale instead of watching the world burn? He begged Aziraphale to go with him too instead of forgetting about him. Especially taking into consideration that Crowley wasn’t told the whole story because Aziraphale hid it from him, so he thought this is it. Oh but Aziraphale does not runaway - Aziraphale knew more and has never been tortured in his life. He’s been protected by Crowley from the moment he thought he fell for the first time and Crowley refused to take him to Hell. The worst Aziraphale got was a dismissive boss and a shitty note. People really need to start understanding that while both Heaven and Hell suck, they suck significantly in a different way. There is a difference between being stuck in a corpo with shite management that most of us had the experience of, and being stuck in a job that will torture you if you do something wrong.

So the fact that Crowley risks himself constantly for humanity and Aziraphale says a lot about how good he is. So many times he could have chosen the easy way out - just stop doing the good stuff. Be the quiet quitter and do the bare minimum for Hell because he hates it and he isn’t like them and live a sort of chill life. Why risk the peace with doing good stuff? Because he is good.

He fell because he disagreed with the end. He even talks back to God and tells him to stop testing people so much. He cares for humanity. He’s the one who gave people free will. He’s the one who saves them by going against Hell when the Bookshop gets attacked. He went against Satan! He takes care of humans after the attack at the Bookshop. He keeps on taking care and saving Aziraphale and humanity.

Because he’s good.

The major point of the show is to show that nothing is black and white. They literally say it. So Crowley being better and purer as a Demon than all those Angels combined is the highlight of it all.

#NightGoodOmens answers

[sweetest-honeybee]

How come you finished welcome home commissions before other commissions?

Sorry to be kind of rude but a friend of mine commissioned something a while before you started posting about Welcome Home and it’s understandable that you are busy but the welcome home commissions were likely commissioned after you started posting about it so I don’t know why you did them first.

I already know I’m gonna sound like an ass for a moment but here we go-

Firstly this can be taken up privately by your friend if they’re concerned. I also don’t particularly appreciate this in my inbox but to answer, it’s just whatever I can get through quickest. My oldest of the ones sitting are from much longer ago than anything anyone in Tumblr has commissioned me for and I’m finishing those tomorrow (they’re from Twitter and Instagram respectively and I dedicated my entire last Saturday to them alone). Those two have been quite kind and expressed their concerns about turnaround themselves if need be

Anything that’s particularly fun and interesting gets done quicker and keeps space open when others are a bit stuck when I need a quick slot filled like last week to cover an expense, for example. Scraping by on harder/less interesting commissions slows things down

Truly, it’s not that I don’t like some commissions, they’re just harder to sit and focus on

Additionally, my time management has been awful this year because of several points of uncertainty about getting a job, a couple scares on my living situation, and not having a clear window of time consistently to know when to work on things that have been sitting (and of course, burnout is always an issue). It’s easy to find time to just. Scribble and doodle, maybe do a piece for myself, but getting actual work done is a little more difficult. I’ve discovered preclaimed adopts and taking up so many commissions in May last minute wasas a bad choice so I’m still quite literally 15 commissions in the hole to finish on top of your friend’s commission. So making sure that isn’t gonna happen again is all I can do, at the moment. I’ve been chipping away at em in little bits of free time as best I can, reorganizing my canvases, getting a good idea of what’ll be finished first and last, etc etc I’ve actually been quite productive for the last week or so

If your friend is upset they need to tell me. They’re the client, and the content doesn’t concern you directly if you haven’t commissioned me and are waiting. If they’d like a refund because the turnaround is too long, that’s for them to communicate with me and I’m happy to provide a refund. I’m not always gonna be the best artist for the job if you want quick work and that’s fine. I’ve refunded MUCH larger pieces before for that reason. Clients may check in at any time whether I’ve got progress to show for the time or not. And oftentimes I don’t! Sometimes it’s days or a couple-few weeks before I can get progress to people, it just happens and I’ve been working on making sure it doesn’t keep happening so I don’t have to make people expect to wait so long before they hear from me. Trust me, it’s always a bit disappointing when I can’t show anything

And now that I’m working as well, my ability to finish those things just depends on what days I get to myself during the week and atm thats 3 days this week so those 3 days are dedicated to downtime and paid commission work. Which quite frankly, is a bit exhausting. Fun puppet characters and scaly dragons and whatnot are fun and rewarding and I’m clearing my queue while doing something I’m enjoying and that gets me to the older stuff much faster

I’m very sorry the turnaround estimate was more than a little off and it’ll be tweaked for better preparation in the future. I’m also sorry if they’ve asked and I didn’t respond quickly or have sounded dismissive. Hell, some clients pester and pester and that certainly makes doing work for them unenjoyable. I think about these commissions every single day and how I can approach them so I can finish them by sometime in July

#I probably shouldn’t answer this so late bc I’m tired and burned out socially and was extremely pissed earlier #but while I hate to say it it’s true #commissions are hard work #people have sat for a long while and I hate that they do #all the time every day I’m thinking oh #surely I can get this sketch out for this person #pr I can do the flats for this person #just to make a LITTLE bit of progress #and it just doesn’t happen #I do try I really do #and some I’m more successful than others ‘] #half the time it’s no excuse but like I said #if this is so bad that you need to barge into my inbox just have your friends talk to me #I’m sure they’ll be a lot more respectful about it than you certainly were

[foundry-fabrications]

Foundry Fabrications Has a New Home!

Hey folks! I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of something I’ve been working on the last couple of weeks: Foundry Fabrications now has a dedicated website!

For a long time, I’ve wanted a place away from Tumblr that I can call my own, where I can make all of my content easily accessible for everyone, and that can grow and change alongside me. A long time ago, I tried something like that, but it didn’t go well for a multitude of reason. Mistakes were made during that transition that I don’t intend to make again.

The new site will now be my main base of operations going forward, but I’m not going to outright abandon Tumblr like I did before, and Patreon isn’t going anywhere either. As some of you maybe saw, I have the new site set up to automatically send new posts here when I post them, so you’ll all still be kept in the loop should you decide to just stay here and not engage with it, which is totally understandable. And I still plan to check in every once in a while and make posts that are relevant to the platform should I need or want to, as well as respond to comments or questions when they happen.

Speaking of being kept in the loop, something the new site allows me to do is newsletters. Anyone who subscribes to it (which is free) will be notified by email when something new goes live. Eventually down the line I’d like to add more too it like TTRPG news or other content I want to shout out, stuff like that.

The site itself right now is nothing fancy, though I put a lot of work into making it as professional and user-friendly as I can. I’ve no experience in web design and a lot of it was existing templates I tweaked to suit my needs, as I do, so whether I accomplished that is up to y’all. The main goal was to make it easy to find a piece of content one might be looking for, or easily browse everything to see what I’ve made thus far, and that was easy do to with automatic categorization and a search function. It’s basic, but it works.

Because God has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished, I have a lot of plans for ways to upgrade the site with new features, various integrations, and ways to monetize my work. Gotta keep the lights and pay for the domain and service somehow. Initially, that means ads, but I’ll be looking into ways to remove them for regular supporters and I bet most of you use adblockers anyway, which I totally get, no judgement here.

That’s about all I have to say. I hope you all like the new site and I would love any feedback you have on it. Anyway, stay safe, don’t forget to love each other, and I’ll see you soon.

#updates #website #foundry fabrications

[olympeline]

FrUK FACE family Parent Trap AU, part 4! Part 1

Alfred and Matthew have finally realised they’re long lost twin brothers. How do you cope with that kind of bombshell? In their case: by being very, very excited. Alfred especially just wants every possible detail about Francis and Quebec and machine guns Mattie with questions. Matthew juggles answering and trying to get his share of detail from Alfred about Arthur and New York. Neither of them get any sleep that night, not that they care lol.

The next day, they agree to keep their new found secret just that for fear of the adults finding out and making things difficult. Then more talking about their dads, every time they have a free moment. Neither of them can get enough. Eventually the conversation turns to the break up. Matthew says Francis never talks about Arthur, but he’s sure he still misses him a lot. Alfred agrees the same about Arthur missing Francis. Then wonders why they ever broke up if they were so happy and still haven’t gotten over each other ten years later. Mattie doesn’t get it either. The talk turns to their dads’ love lives and it’s here that Alfred casually brings up Uncle Tony, because - being Alfred - of course he’d take that long to remember him. Matthew is aghast, especially when he hears Arthur may actually marry this Antonio. He only just found his lost dad and now he may be getting a stepdad?!

Mattie asks what Antonio is like. Alfred shrugs and tells him Tony is…fine? He’s a good guy and his paella is great! Good at soccer too, maybe even better than Arthur. Yeah, Tony is a good guy, says Alfred.

Matthew can tell there’s a “but” coming. And he’s right. Alfred, with a little prodding, says that while Tony is fun to have around, he doesn’t think Arthur loves him. Not really. He likes Tony, likes him a lot, but…

Mattie understands. He knows Francis is lonely too.

There’s quiet for the first time since the big revelation as both twins think this over. Then Matthew shyly says he wishes he could meet Arthur. Now, before everything changes when he gets married again. Alfred agrees and says he wishes he could meet Francis too. Their eyes meet. It’s not sure who has the idea first - maybe they have it together? - but either way, they know what they have to do:

“We should trade places!”

“We should go live with each other’s dads!”

“Yeah! They’d never know!”

“We’re twins! It’s perfect!”

Once they’ve decided, it takes a lot of planning. The boys have to learn everything about each other in just a few weeks. Enough to fool the person who knows and loves them best. They drill each other on names, places, friends, family history and stories, etc. That stuff isn’t so bad, but a major stumbling block is how bilingual the Bonnefoy household is. Luckily they’re not starting from nothing as Alfred does French in school and his dad has always been extra on his ass about his French grades. Even more than usual. Alfred gets why now. More drilling, this time in French grammar and vocabulary. Matthew isn’t too confident by the time they’re done but Alfred tells him to take it easy. He can pull this off! Mattie isn’t so sure, but he’s willing to try anyway. He wants to meet Arthur very badly.

The last touch and big test is tweaking their appearances and seeing if they can fool their friends and the camp staff. They practice the other’s body language and way of speaking. Then it’s mirror test time. Alfred has shorter hair and a pieced ear (the latter done 100% without his dad’s permission lol) so it’s poor Mattie who gets the impromptu makeover. Alfred Kirkland coming at you while brandishing scissors and a sewing needle is not a comforting sight, but they manage to get it done with no major incidents. (It’s fine, it’s fine! Mattie only bled for a few hours, tops). They try out the switch at breakfast, breaths held, and…!

Success. Noone challenges them. As far as anyone else is concerned, Alfred was Mattie and Mattie was Alfred. Aww yeah! Operation Switcheroo is ago! 🇺🇸 <- -> 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 <- -> 🇺🇸 🤜 🤛

Before they know it, camp is over and it’s time to go “home.” The boys bid an emotional farewell, promise to keep in touch and help the other out if needed, then part ways. Alfred takes Mattie’s passport and gets on the plane to Quebec. Matthew boards the greyhound bus heading to New York. Both are so nervous all the ways it’s agony and they can hardly sit still. Matthew almost throws up eight times. Alfred actually does throw up, then pretends he didn’t when the kind air stewardess asks if he’s okay. The journey seems to last forever, but eventually the plane touches down and the bus pulls in.

Alfred steps out onto Canadian soil and looks around for the face he’s seen only in his secret photograph. He hears a French accented voice call Mattie’s name, turns, and sees Francis for the first time. Waving and coming to meet him with a beaming smile and a big, white dog on a leash. Alfred was sure he’d be okay, that he wouldn’t cry. He was wrong, but the tears were hidden and absorbed by Francis’s kashmir sweater when he swept his son up in a hug. Alfred hugs Francis back, breathing in his scent and feeling his silky hair tickle his cheek. This is his other dad. He’s hugging his other dad!! Francis feels Alfred shaking and is concerned, asking “Matthew” in French if he’s okay. And Alfred immediately forgets every French lesson he ever learned. He might have been found out there and then if not for Mr. Kumajiro distracting Francis by barking up a storm. This little one may look like their pup, but he doesn’t smell like him! By the time Francis gets him to calm down, Alfred has recovered. He hastily dries his tears, put on a Mattie-style smile, and tells Francis in French that he’s fine. Just got a little hayfever from all the flowers at camp. Francis says they’ll get some meds on the way home. As they walk to the car, he asks if Alfred enjoyed his first time at camp? Did he make friends? Was it exciting? Alfred grins and tells him: yes, yes, and yes again. He absolutely did.

Meanwhile, Matthew arrives in the crazy bustle of New York and is barely off the bus before Arthur appears to greet him. Mattie doesn’t get a chance to think before he’s swiftly hugged, and then held by his shoulders as his dad grumbles about various things while kneeling down and checking him over for injuries. A common occurrence when Alfred returns from anywhere further away than school. Mattie stares at Arthur, lost for words. This is his other dad. His other dad just came over and hugged him. Matthew feels his mouth go dry and his eyes well up with tears and has to fake a sneezing fit so Arthur doesn’t get concerned and suspicious. The hayfever excuse works twice in one day. Then Mattie puts on his best Alfred grin and asks, loud as he dares, if they can go get some food because that trip took for-ever and he’s starving! Arthur grabs his son’s bags and says sure, he’ll cook something as soon as they get home. As they head down to the subway, Arthur asks “Alfred” if he enjoyed camp this year? Did he see his friends again? Did he stay out of trouble? Matthew says: “You bet!” “Yes!” and “Nooo comment!” Arthur tuts but can’t help the corner of his mouth quirking up into a smile. He pats Matthew on the shoulder and Mattie has to act extra Alfred-style bouncy to stop the tears coming again.

Five hundred miles apart, Francis and Arthur are both surprised and touched when their son reaches out to grasp their hand on the journey home. Neither twin has done that in years, protesting they were too old for baby stuff like hand holding.

The hayfever excuse gets a few more uses before the day is out, and not just from the twins

(Stay tuned for part 5! (´ε｀ )♡)

#hetalia #fruk #face family #hws america #hws canada #hws france #hws england #aph france #aph america #aph england #aph canada #parent trap au #my posts

[foggyparadisecandy]

GOOD GIRL TRANCE

[This trance will use terminology around being a "girl". If you are not comfortable with being called that, this trance is not for you. I really don't mean "girl" as an insult to anyone. I love all of you for who you are and don't mean to offend. I'm a (mostly) hetero male and I find being called a "girl" a bit thrilling. I understand it's not for everyone though.]

Anyone who reads my stuff knows I have a fetish for several things ... mental collars, real collars, Cherry Crush, fem doms, chastity, praise, helping people believe in themselves, and ... the GOOD GIRL trigger.

I've put GOOD GIRL in so many people and in so many ways and I never get bored with it.

I. Fucking. Love. It.

And this here isn't really a trance but more of an explanation of why I am so into it.

Ok, yeah, it actually is meant to be a bit trance-y and make you feel like a GOOD GIRL. But really ... like with all trances ... that's up to you and whether or not you want to feel it.

It's kind of slow moving to start and I'm too lazy to tighten it up. But I think it does a great job of explaining my love of GOOD GIRL and why I think it's so effective.

The reason I'm writing this is because someone told me today that GOOD GIRL is over-played and over-used. I scoff at that idea. It's ridiculous.

GOOD GIRL cannot be said enough. You are all good girls and should feel like good girls feel. And yeah ... I'm even talking to you super-hetero guys and, yes, to all my handsome ftm's out there who think being called a girl is an insult.

It is most certainly not. Not from me.

So pardon my ramble here but ...

There is a LOT to like about the GOOD GIRL trigger.

The desire to be called good is already embedded deeply inside most of us. Inside me, inside you. So it's easy to take that desire and simply ... augment it ... just a bit.

Just a tiny adjustment to that desire already deep down inside you.

And that's what you're going to do here. Now.

You're going to tweak those desires. And it's so simple to do.

You already have all the necessary pieces deep inside you. And my words, as you focus on them and follow them, are going to simply highlight and, yes, augment, those pieces, those desires. Those desires deep down inside you.

When you think about it, if you think at all, about it, it's very natural to want praise, isn't it?

You want praise, right? And to be told that you've done good? That you are good?

It's basic to your nature and embedded deep down in your core. Deep inside, where you can't explain it, can't understand it, deep down in your subconscious, where desires grow and live.

And it's ok that you don't understand it.

It's ok that you can't explain it.

You don't need to think about it. You don't need to think about anything at all right now.

All you need to do is accept it.

Accept it and embrace it.

You need praise. You want praise.

And that's natural.

So if you were called good, or specifically a good girl, even if you are not actually a girl, you get that praise that you need and you want to hear.

And whether you respond quietly and demurely, with a silent feeling of pride that "yes, ok, I *am* good" and "yes, ok, I *am* a good girl" and "yes, I have earned this praise" ... or ...

You feel a kind of ... slight sexual thrill ... an arousal ... an excitement of sorts ... even if it's only in passing ...

Well now ... it's just a matter of degrees, isn't it?

The phrase and the response already live inside you.

It's ALREADY acting as a trigger of sorts and it brings out this natural response.

So it's really a simple matter to adjust ... to augment ... that thing that already exists. We're not making you feel a certain way. We're adjusting the way you already feel when you hear those words.

That praise confirming you are a good girl.

The simple act of someone calling you a good girl ... that act ... those words ... they give you a bump ... a rush ... a positive feeling ... a small thrill ... knowing that you've done something that pleases someone.

You've been found worthy. You *are* worthy.

You are a good girl.

Naturally, you take pride in this. That's normal. That's human nature.

When someone gives that praise, that acknowledgment, you might feel a tiny bust that elevates you. Raises your spirits. Lifts you up.

After all, you've been given that praise. You've been found worthy. You are now more than you were.

You rise to new heights feeling this uplift.

And, of course, by extension, for you to rise up, to be lifted up, well, naturally that means that you are, and must be, beneath the person who lifted you up. The person lifting you up with the praise is above you, lifting you.

The rush of the uplift is because it comes from someone above you. So, naturally, you must be below them, less than them, beneath them, for them to lift you up.

And that's the beauty of the phrase, good girl.

In fact, every time you hear that phrase, you find in a real way, you begin to sink lower and deeper than you were before. After all ... when you accept this praise ... and allow it to lift you up ... you admit that you are lower than, less than, the person giving the praise. You accept that deep down the moment you allow the praise to lift you.

And when you accept this praise and rise up, you give the other person a position above you, with you below them. You give them power. And you sink lower and deeper each time you allow the praise to have such an affect.

Each time you accept this phrase, good girl, you silently and implicitly admit to their power over you and you give them more power.

And as you do this, as you take their praise, feel their praise affect you, you sink lower and lower and acknowledge your role. Your place below them. This amplifies ... augments ... your desire to be called a good girl and the feelings of being called a good girl.

The more you are called a good girl, the better you feel. The more aroused you feel as you know that it implicitly makes you more submissive to let someone have such an impact on you. And this arousal grows each and every time you are called a good girl and are reminded of your role and your place beneath them.

Yes, you feel pride, and yes, you feel excitement, and yes, you feel a kind of ... sexual charge that comes with this growing sense of submission.

And you might find, and yes, you should find, that as you let the words, good girl, wash over you more and more, as you begin to feel them sink in more and more, as you accept the implications more and more, you feel your desire growing.

You feel the rush and excitement growing. You feel your submission growing. And you feel the hunger to be called a good girl growing more and more. You want to accept the praise. And you feel good when you accept the praise. And your mind accepts that it helps you sink the more you accept it.

So, you find that as you sink further, and submit more, and give in to that hunger, the desire grows deeper and stronger, and you feel a longing grow to be called a good girl. And this excites you as you understand that it means you choose, at some level, to accept your submission and you wish to sink deeper and lower and give over power to the person who calls you good girl.

And the more you sink, the deeper you go, the deeper you go, the more you want to be called good girl, the more you are called good girl, the deeper you sink, and the deeper you go, and the more you want to give in to the pleasure, the arousal, of submission, and being called a good girl.

And that's ok because you are such a good girl.

As a good girl, you long to be called a good girl and feel yourself sink further, and sink deeper into submission and arousal, and feel the pleasure of submission, and of being called a good girl.

It's only natural, and your desire is deep, and your arousal is strong, and you grow desperate to submit and to hear those words that give you pleasure and make you feel like a good girl.

The deeper you go, the more you submit, the more aroused you become, the more you want to submit, the deeper you want to go, and the faster you want to give in and to fall into the pleasure and arousal of being called a good girl.

The more you hear it, the further you fall, the deeper you go, the more your arousals builds, grows and grows, bubbles over, and makes you feel so good and so horny and so desperate to be called a good girl.

The deeper you submit, the stronger the words become, the weaker you feel, the more your longing grows, the stronger your desire, the more your sexual arousal grows and intensifies, as you wait and hunger to hear the words good girl.

Such a good girl.

This is natural and right and feels so good that all you can do and all you want to do is submit further, drop deeper, give in more, feel arousal fill you, feel your passion grow, and give in to the desire to be called a good girl.

As this continues, you sink deeper and deeper into arousal, you grow weaker and weaker as submission overtakes you, you fall deeper and deeper down into arousal, and deeper and deeper into submission, and deeper and deeper into a desperate longing to hear the words good girl.

You feel it fill you, you hunger to give in, you fall into arousal, fall into longing, fall into desperate horniness, feel so hot and turned on, so weak and submissive, let your passion inflame you, feel arousal overwhelm you, so hungry and thirsty for someone to call you good girl.

And in this state, you find yourself so weak, so horny, so aroused, so desperate, so wet, so excited, so submissive, so hungry, feel yourself throb and ache and pulse and twitch with a deep desire to be called a good girl over and over and over.

So you give in, become so horny and hot, so aroused and desperate, so weak and submissive, so throbbing and aching, so wet and hungry, so submissive and horny, so hot and aching, so weak and desperate, needy and desperate, horny and desperate, submissive and desperate, to be called a good girl.

You're such a GOOD GIRL.

BTW. I do other variations of this trigger if you want to feel more like a GOOD GIRL.

I would like that for you and hope you feel like a GOOD GIRL today and every day.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE TRANCES GOOD GIRL

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#hypnosis #hypnokink #brainwashing #mind control #hypnotized #trancing #consensual #safe play #trance #foggy trance

[imperfect777]

I have a few methods for my people that loves using methods and trying new things and some affirmations for the ones who feel stuck when it comes to finding the right affirmations sometimes. Always do whatever feels nature to you. Do what you enjoy don’t force yourself to do something you don’t want to do. Manifesting should be fun and easy. It shouldn’t feel like homework. It should feel NATURAL, because it is! And remember that you're not manifesting to get your desires but to become the person who already has your desires. You are god of your reality, Take full control of your reality and edit and tweak it to your exact liking. You don’t have to deal with anything you don’t like, If you don’t like something, CHANGE IT. Happy manifesting luvs 💫💕✨

* I’ll be posting them soon, If you have any suggestions on what topics to do or if you need help with anything or understanding anything or just questions in general don’t hesitate to ask. I have a lot more stuff I will be posting soon so stay tuned ☺️ *

#master manifestor #law of assumption #loass #affirmations #living in the end #loassumption #manifestation #states law of assumption #success story #edward art #eiypo #affirmyourreality #create your dream life #create your reality #it’s already yours #I talk in circles bare with me

[soullikethesea]

T saga update

In a striking turn of events... I emailed T (that is not the striking part, clearly). Striking part: (1) she emailed back, (2) she included a reply that she had meant to send weeks ago and it was an Actual Reply. Normally her replies are more like "Read", or "I understand that's hard for you.", which is fair, but doesn't particularly feel nourishing.

But this time she actually wrote some of the notes she made and asked several questions. Things about working with fox.

I followed the suggestion to let fox write confrontational letters for my parents. T said it wouldn't be for forgiveness, but basically just to express anger (and obviously never send them). It felt surprisingly easy to write the letters, so I wonder if I did something wrong with it. But I couldn't sleep at all, so maybe somewhere in the system it still resonated. I know that some parts did not agree at all, so that causes some tension. But perhaps we can tweak some of it to make it a bit of a compromise?

I was just repeating to myself all night long that resting in bed is also valuable and that one night without sleep won't be so bad, even if I have a very long day ahead. I didn't want to take a med, because I'll take a med after today to wind down.

But anyway. Just wanted to give an update. It was very unexpected and I felt quite a bit of my emotional flashback subside, because this gave me something to work on. And eventually all I really want is stuff to work on, stuff I can do. With someone to care and to ask the right questions without aggrevating too much (if possible).

[locuas642]

I have watched more than half of Critical Role Vox Machina

"I Heard Campaign 1 starts mid-campaign, is it hard to follow?"

It's only hard depending of how familiar you are with D&D in general and how resilient you are to the awkwardness of "We are still trying to see how this streaming thing goes." In terms of the story and plot it's easy to follow, if you can get over the way it is being told.

Despite the claims that it starts mid-campaign, it in fact starts right after a major Time-Skip, so the first episodes does establish plenty of things. You just have to accept this is a story that starts in the middle rather than the beginning. If you ever had to deal with having to find a starting point for Doctor Who or COmicbooks, you can deal with Vox Machina. Just accept that there were off-screen adventures.

if that is still an issue, the show eventually does offer a video narrating the pre-stream adventures that is shown during episode 36. If that is too long for you to wait, I think someone has uploaded it to youtube as it's own thing.

"I heard of Tiberius/Orion Acaba and how he eventually left because he was toxic. can I jump straight to the epsidoe when he leaves?"

You can easily skip most of the pre-Briarwood stuff and just pretend that also happened off-screen. tho there are some major plot points present that you will not get to see. The Briarwood arc is a bit more complicated, because he is present for the first four episodes and you will start with the arc already started, but if you watched the animated series and then jump to episode 28 (which while not the episode when officially announced, it is the first episode after his departure. SPoilers: The quality of the show increases immediatly) as long as you understand the show did some tweaks and should, you will not be lost.

If you think you can tolerate Toxic People, you can watch episodes 24, 25 and 26, skip 27 (seriously, even if you can tolerate Orion, it is at best a dull, boring episode. There is a reason why whenever anyone talks about this episode, the only thing they can mention is Orion and his goddamn mirrors) and go ahead with episode 28.

"I heard Tiberius was a Good Character with an Awful Player, is it true?"

In my perosnal opinion, Tiberius was a good baseline for an interesting arc. But he was also the kind of character who can become annoying. I personally think people are more enamored with the idea of what Tiberius could have been than him being a pretty fleshed out character (bear in mind, for the first 20 or so episodes, most of Vox Machina doesnt feel very fleshed out, again part of the initialy awkward first phase). Likewise, this might be a possible unpopular opinion but... I dont feel Tiberius had as close a friendship as Vox Machina as some might think? this comes back to the player and stuff, but by the end I felt Tiberius saw Vox Machina more like a professional partnership than the family the rest of the characters became.

In terms of Orion, yes he becomes increasingly annoying as the show goes. Initially you dont notice it, but as the show goes, he becomes harder and harder to ignore. He eventually tries to take part in every. single. scene the rest of the cast is doing and tries to steal the spotlight. He tries to force his storyline even when other things are going down. etc. etc. (and this is not counting the stuff regarding him as a person). Tiberius is tolerable in small doses, but Orion cant shut the ef up.

"I heard because of her job, Ashley Johnson's Pike had to leave the show and the animated show expanded her role."

This is a half-truth. Because of Ashley's commitments, she could not consistently be in the show and, in the pre-Briarwood stuff Pike is given a send-off.

BUT Pike continues to show up after that and shows up a solid number of times, it's just she cant be there consistently. In fact, Pike showing up in the middle of the Briarwood arc to save everyone's ass and take part in the final battle? Pike was present in the show and played by Ashley via skype. the thing they changed was that they gave Pike an arc that wasnt present in the show.

Pike is the Gandalf of Vox Machina. She constantly has to leave to do something else, tho in this case it's because of the unpoken rule of trying to not use a player's character if the player is not present.

ETA: Another way you can REALLY tell Orion was no longer welcome is that, whenever Ashley had an open slot in her schedule, the rest of the cast would immediatly jump at the chance to have her join them for the session.

Here be (minor) Spoilers

Now here is an interesting thing I noticed. Which is that because of the Chroma Conclave events, Whitestone sorta becomes Vox Machina's base of operations, replacing the keep they had been given by the king of Emon. In the main show, this is a simple change in Status quo. but for the animated show it would mean they got that old keep and are about to abandon it merely like a few weeks after obtaining it, and that's kinda funny.

Other than that, it is interesting to see how the actors do become more comfortable portraiyng their characters and get past that initial awkwardness where it still feels like Players first.

it's also interesting how often a huge narrative moment will have a Natural 20, either saving the characters or fitting the narrative so well.

it is a difficult medium for one to adapt. and there are moments in which the characters will scre-up easy tasks because of the rolls, which can be funny or frustrating. But the high points are really good. and there were some moments and battles that felt as engaging as in any other medium. The Dragon attack in Emon was more tense than The hobbit's use of Smaug. I was genuinely cheering when Grog delivered justice on the tribe that abandoned him.

And the story feels as High Fantasy Epic as you can get from more "normal" storytelling mediums. and Critical Role is a great example of how D&D can be a game, but it's also a form of collective storytelling.

#critical role #cr #vox machina #vm #tlovm #the legend of vox machina #tabletop #dungeons and dragons #d&d #Dungeons & Dragons

[taggedmemes]

SENTENCE MEME ⟶ OXVENTURE PRESENTS: DEADLANDS / ch2 always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.

'you have to eat that noisy?'

'i feel if you were having some of these beans you'd be making the same noises.'

'you're a growing boy! you should eat more things in general.'

'sit back. it's going to be 90 minutes of pure solitaire.'

'i mean everybody came out covered in gore.'

'love this energy.'

'i can't wait to see this bastard taken down, to be honest.'

'he rose through the ranks particularly fast. last i heard he'd been made a general.'

'i had these wanted posters made up.'

'did you have a follow-up thought, grandad?'

'this isn't a dead or alive situation, let me make this clear.''

'i've had several people come here and say that they've killed him. then he pops up again.'

'i assume it was shot with a very, very big gun.'

'he won't stop talking about how he shot that sasquatch.'

'you can't make an omelette without breaking a few sasquatches.'

'we don't just happen to have fifty yards of hempen rope.'

'i left my horse somewhere else apparently.'

'i've got some grubby old dynamite sticks shoved in my pocket, so no one set me on fire.'

'the wet goods store is right next to the dry goods store.'

'i think we can assume that walking up and plugging him in the dome will pull quite a lot of attention. not all of it positive.'

'maybe he loves jerky. we can put some jerky under a box and a stick and then he'll come out of town, and...'

'i'm not in funds as such.'

'he ain't my grandpa!'

'i don't want to impose or assume, but can we load you up with all this stuff?'

'okay, the story: we are couriering jerky.'

'beats 'jerkin' it'.'

'we can always tuck and roll. i do it all the time! it doesn't hurt as much as you think.'

'will you accept payment in the form of jerky?'

'the jerky was right next to the opium. it's possible some mixing as occurred.'

'i feel like there's a word for that if i knew more words.'

'you're a great shot and frankly you're a little scary when you're riled.'

'miss, can you write fair?'

'i can write passably well.'

'it's been a while since i was mining.'

'i, for one, have never mined.'

'if i were to assign it a fear level, i would give it about a four.'

'that's the second or third smart thing you've said today.'

'you'll have to forgive me: i am extremely old.'

'this presents a unique opportunity!'

'this sounds like a gas!'

'is there any action? is there a poker table?'

'you're pretty handy with those cards, right?'

'kid, you read my mind.'

'looks like you know what you're doing with them cards.'

'what do you think your odds are?'

'yeah, well, they didn't have what we have. which is enormous skill.'

'they don't have what i have! i have three months to live.'

'i don't know, you look like someone just walked over your grave.'

'i can't /possibly/ fail at gambling.'

'the game itself is supposed to be fun, you know.

'if you merely ask questions earlier and shot later, rather than the other way round, you wouldn't shoot so many people.'

'posers.'

'have you done much duelling?'

'i never heard of folks willingly coming to a town looking to get shot.'

'the grown up world is weird.'

'you're awfully young to get shot to death.'

'that's fine, i understand. if you need to shoot me, go ahead.'

'surely he won't agree to shoot a child to death?'

'LOT OF DEAD PEOPLE IN HERE, TOO!'

'the barman seemed alive enough to me. at least in a corporeal sense; his spirit was very downtrodden.'

'you think you have a lot to offer?'

'don't worry son, i'll go easy on ya. i'll shoot the gun right outta your hand.'

'i don't know if this is helpful or even possible, but...'

'i can dig graves very deeply and very neatly! but i can do shallow if it is for someone you wish to disrespect.'

'what i'm trying to do it, um, uh... kill you. so that i can benefit from your death. financially.'

#oxventure #cowboy rp #wild west rp #starter sentences #rp meme #sentence meme #sentence starters #roleplay meme #sentence prompts

[if-confessions]

I've been in the IF fandom for almost two years now, and I don't think I've ever found a fandom I've liked as much. I like the community here, the stories, creativity, how diverse the games are compared to other media I see.

I like reading IF, but more than that I'd really to create an IF game myself. I've been creating stories since childhood and I've always wanted to tell them to other people. However, I was never able to find a suitable medium for doing so. Creating video games is a passion that met reality and died too fast, writing traditional books makes me incredibly anxious, and comic and visual novels require way too much drawing when I'm a concept artist at best. And IF... IF seems to be exactly what I was always searching for. But here's a twist.

I'm not a writer. I'm really not. The amount of writing that I've done that wasn't for my studies is... not a lot. Which makes me extremely self-conscious of my writing, and I'm a very anxious person to start with (and English not being my native language doesn't help). I just don't know where to start, I've never even written fanfiction. And then if I end up actually writing something and posting it for people to see, I'm afraid of what they'll say, of me not being good enough, or of people being uninterested in anything I create. It's dreadful really. And I know that this feeling is possibly shared by so many other people, but I just don't know what to do about it.

I had wanted to post this earlier, but Tumblr ate my essay again...

Welcome, Anon, to the wonders of IF! Have a seat, and a cookie, and enjoy the ride! It's quite the experience, you'll see...

Totes understand your worries. With so many good projects out there, it's easy to not feel... adequate (in writing or proficiency); and with many in the community having opinions, to be unsure whether to publish said work.

But here's the thing: many of us in the IF community (especially as hobbyist) have not studied writing (for a while or at all)* or are writers either, and quite a few of us are ESL (hi, hello!)**. So you are in very good company!! *sidenote: some of us consider ourselves game dev/creators before writers too. **Dear... you wrote an essay of an ask with no mistake (that I could find) - I would not have guessed you were not a native speaker, if you hadn't said it before.

To relieve those anxious feelings, here are some advice, from one ball of anxiety to another one:

You don't have to publish anything you don't want to have public. If you prefer to write for yourself and yourself only, it's more than fine. Having fun is what matters.

There are ways to "hide" your project from searches (on itch or tumblr) to have a bit more privacy, as well as disabling replies/comments/ratings...

Setting boundaries from the beginning with people interacting with your projects (whether it is in asks, or doing beta/feedback rounds/etc...) can also be quite helpful (even if some people don't follow them...).

Join writing groups and share snippets/ask for feedback. It's helpful to get some boosts of confidence and get pointers on how to improve.

Have beta/playtest rounds for longer feedback needs (like when you are ready to upload/update a demo, to catch bugs or typos and stuff).

Joining game jams with small projects can help with testing ideas/stories/gameplay, and get comments/feedback from people.

Anyway, we all start somewhere, and very often (most always) that somewhere is not good at all. But that's ok :) There's always room and time for improvement and change (until you're finally happy with it). The beauty of online games is that you can always tweak it and fix it when something doesn't feel right. Nothing is ever set in stone!

Good luck :)

#confession time #project concerns #writing concerns

[nothorses]

hey, im the suicidal anon that sent the vent ask. i wanted to say im really sorry if my ask was triggering in any way, i should have put a warning on it (or not sent it in the first place idk). but thank you for responding. your words mean the world to me. it can be so easy to forget that there are people that support us. i had just come from reading a post that was reblogged by a transmasc person i follow, who was arguing with a transphobe. i think for my own mental health i should either unfollow them or ask they tag those convos so i can block them. i totally understand and respect why other trans mascs stand up to these transphobes, but its affecting me more than i realized to see these opinions on blogs that make me feel safe normally. im gonna take some personal responsibility by asking that stuff gets tagged to the blogs i follow, or otherwise unfollow them.

again, sorry if my ask was triggering, i was definitely in a spiral. im currently safe, im no longer in danger, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your understanding and kindness, even though i didnt ask if it was ok to vent first

Hey, it's 100% alright. I was in a good place for it, and I was very capable of tagging it for other folks. I think it's probably a good idea to, like you said, tag stuff at the top so I can also gauge my mindset for that stuff ahead of time- but you didn't do any harm here, I'm certainly not upset about it, and that's more of a future growth, regular "what can I do better next time" kinda thing. We're all just trying our best, and we'll all always have stuff we can tweak for next time.

I also wanna say that I'm glad you reached out to someone when you needed some support, and I'm glad I was able to be helpful in some way, and I'm really glad you're thinking about next steps and how to take care of yourself. It can definitely be hard to just be pelted by those kinds of sentiments all the time, and it's important to remember just how many people there are who want you safe and happy. You really deserve that. 💙

[please-give-dd-bread]

dun. dunu-nu-nu-nuuu-nuuu-nuuuuu-nuu yes i'm talking about the gods or whatever

i have finished the translation for koe!! it's pretty short imo :P i think out of all of the songs in elma, this one really takes after the dakaboku song it responds to, parade, with like the whole "the god of music lives in your voice" "the god of music forever lives in your fingertips" and then the reused melody and stuff and i just think it's really beautiful how elma slowly starts to process her grief and losing amy aaand i'm ranting again. okay i'll stop myself there

7/28, 声 (Voice/Koe)

As much as I try, I can't reach out and feel No matter what, it just won't be clear As easy as it is to let it slip away, I just want to remember, just a little bit longer…

Wherever this song will be.

And because I don't understand, all of these words, they'll always be further than me So I just swallow this word, "goodbye", and hold it in, And smile instead This sky, with the sun rising, I bite my lip until it hurts This emptiness, all of it is just today's problem, Which I understand, but I understand, but…

When I talk, its face shows up, But, a few moments later, it just disappears, And when I cry, it all overflows, But if I keep my mouth shut, it's just stuck, in my throat

And I'm talking about the gods.

And what I want to write about, is my heart, and when a hole formed in it Even more than words, life's a machine gun, And the shape of this goodbye, if it can't be buried, it just spills out We, yesterday and today too, let's just sit here And laugh together

Again, because I still don't understand these words, they're all just beyond me In this throat, I'll just keep holding down this goodbye And sleep instead And in this sky, the sun rises, And I bite my lip though it just hurts But your world, even today, I know nothing about it And there I am, by myself. Just smiling, alone.

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! i love and hate how sad this is!!! it's just. elma's finally acknowledging she's in denial but she just. doesn't want to say goodbye to amy yet TTT^TTT waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

and just this goodbye is stuck in my throat but i don't want to say it just waaaaaaa let me cryyyyy!!!

(no i totally didn't make this realization just now when i was tweaking a few of the lines)

#yorushika #ヨルシカ #elma #エルマ #声 #voice #i swear this song is just so ooowwwwwwww!!! owiiiiieeeeeee!!! the grief is too much oowwwww!!! the guitar would like to say otherwise thoug #it sounds like if you took parade's sheet music converted it to guitar tabs and then gave it to shiho hinomori

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

hihi ari, whenever i re-read your fics, i try to learn from your writing style and prose and incorporate those elements into my own fics, but it's kind of a struggle? maybe because it just flows so well that i get lost in the story again HAHAISDHAD but how do you minimize the amount of times you write "you"? thanks a ton!!

from 🌖 anon

hihi 🌖 anon!!!! YOU ARE SO KIND. have i mentioned that…. just knowing you re-read my fics at all makes me soso happy but knowing you use them for reference is just ???? idk i’m just very flattered and i appreciate you so much 🥺🥺

as for your question!!!

honestly that’s not really something i consciously think of when writing, i think it’s more like. a skill you build up? kind of?? word variation is super important when it comes to any kind of writing, and in xreader fics especially the second-person pronoun is obviously super common… so i understand your struggle!!!!

honestly my first tip is just. to write your fic, then go back and change stuff!! if you notice a particular paragraph where you is used so much that it feels repetitive, try to change that. bend the sentences in ways where you doesn’t need to be used in the first place!! i think that kind of editing can be really fun :> this is a super simple example but like.

”you sigh. you then roll your eyes.”

^ this clearly doesn’t flow the best!!

instead, you could tweak the second sentence to be more like this:

”you sigh — followed by a roll of your eyes.”

now it sounds a lot better. there are a ton of different ways to go about it, and it’s an easy fix!!

you is usually used when you’re describing actions, so another idea could be to describe a certain action or movement in more depth to fill the gap between that action and the next.

you sigh — the breath flowing from your parted lips with an air of defiance. he quirks his brow. ”whatever,” comes a roll of your eyes.

…. or something. I’M JUST SPITBALLING HERE TO BE CLEAR i’m really not good at giving advice on writing i think bUT. i hope you understand what i’m saying!! learning to bend language like that is a lot of fun and i think it comes to you naturally once you’ve gotten used to it. :3

so basically — you don’t necessarily have to avoid using you while writing, because you can always go back and edit parts that sound repetitive!!! but thinking about repetition while you’re writing is also good….. a small thing i do sometimes is to replace you with a — removing the possesive pronoun from the action itself!! so instead of ”you sigh.” it becomes ”a sigh.” followed by something that lets your readers know the sigh came from you.

a sigh — the breath flowing from your parted lips with an air of defiance.

now there isn’t a you at all!! but your readers still know that. you sighed. and even the emotion behind it…… i’m not very good at show don’t tell as you can see LMAO but i think it still works!!!

#I REALLY HOPE THAT HELPED AT ALL.. #also i had no idea you also wrote fics 🌖 anon!!!! :0 are they jjk fics or for another fandom?? #i love you lots 🫂 ty for being so sweet!! and good luck w your writing!! i’m cheering you on!!!!! #ask tag ✩ #🌖 anon !! ✩