#who Andrés would choose

[blorbosexterminator]

Ohhhh I’d love to see Martin’s and Sergio’s first meeting. It’d be soo funny in whatever way you imagine it happening. Like I imagine Andres introducing them in a work setting, having Martin explain a plan they want Sergio’s input on or even after the fact showing off to Sergio how they pulled of an impossible heist. And Sergio nodding along thinking “wow this guy really knows his stuff”, impressed with the equations and terminology Martin uses. And as soon as they’re done with the heist talk Martin proposes Sergio a ‘masterful fellatio’ ( or something along the lines off) and it throws Sergio completely off. Second or two passes Martin starts laughing ,Andres starts laughing and Sergio doesn’t know how to respond, if it was a serious offer and he should politely but firmly refuse or if they’re just messing around with him. Probably both. With time I think that’s how Martin brought Sergio’s guard down. Something I don’t think anyone in Andres’ life managed to do (the wives, work associates…) I would necessarily call it ‘trust’ but I feel like Sergio relaxes around Martin, doesn’t have to be on guard as he usually is.

Exactly, anon, exactly! In whatever scenario you imagine their first meeting, it'll still be hilarious. Like we see how flustered Sergio is sometimes still around Martín after ten years, imagine how ???? he was the first time Martín was Martín around him.

Please yes, this scenario! Absloutely love it. Sergio not being able to decipher whether Martín is serious or fucking with him and Andrés being with Martín must have sent him insane.

I fully agree with you here too! I definitely believe out of anyone Andrés ever knew, befriended, worked with, or married, Martín is the one who ended up with any significant effect on Sergio. Sergio doesn't exactly "trust" Martín because he knows Martín and he knows exactly where and how would he trust him, this is much more intimate (and I doubt Sergio trusted even his brother in that regard. He's too smart and knows them both too well to trust them in that sense.)

I think a lot of elements went into making Sergio's guard go down with Martín. He knows that he fully loves and has unbounded loyalty to Andrés, which I'm sure had a part of why Sergio ended up "liking" Martín so. Martín is also a lot like Sergio himself. I often think Martín is a mirror image to both brothers. In soul, ambition, attitude, morality, sense of art and romanticism, he and Andrés are the same. But as Andrés said, in his genius, sheer dedication, obsession, egotistical believe that on one else alive can do the job like they are doing, and unstoppable drive, he is Sergio's mirror image. And both Sergio and Martín know it, which makes Sergio uneasy (and which makes two of their most significant scenes in the show together start with Martín telling him that unlike everyone else, he knows Sergio and can immediately dissect what's happening in his brain. Unlike a lot of the lcdp characters, Martín is perhaps the only character who sees Sergio exactly as he is.)

But also above all, there is such genuine respect between them. Martín cares about Sergio's opinions and approval as much as Andrés does, this obviously, especially for a character as egotistical as Martín, didn't just come from nowhere. And it's very telling too that this is the exact same vice versa. Martín is the *only* banda member who knew how the gold goes out. And I do believe Sergio didn't only tell him because Martín noticed something was hidden from him and outright refused to enter the bank if he wasn't told, but because Sergio respects him and when it comes down to the heart of it, he "trusts" Martín. And with all of that, it's such an older brother and younger brother relationship too. It parallels Sergio's relationship with Andrés in such a fascinating way because there aren't many if any characters in the show that Sergio "reveries" but you can definitely notice it in his scenes with Martín. Such a fascinating relationship!

#sorry for this qhaksos I just love their relationship so much #SO MUCH #as much as I am excited and hopeful for both berlermo scenes and hermanos scenes (and def the trio together scenes) #I'm nearly even MORE excited for more solo Martín and Sergio scenes #I need to see more of them #fanfics and headcanons that always have Martín so insecure because of Sergio or that are generally treating the whole #who Andrés would choose #miss the point so much #like Roci and I once agreed upon if the three of them were trapped in a deserted island #both Andrés and Martín would choose to give what they have to Sergio and die together #that's the difference. he's Martin's younger brother too. Andres would die with Martín but he would die for Sergio #and Martín would agree with him about it #Anyway what a duo. what a relationship #wasn't satisfied with many things in the lcdp finale but the second to last scene being a smile shared between Sergio and Martin #isn't one of them #like YES that is the main most important relationship of Martín's in the current time-line after Sergio #Martín treating Raquel like a younger sister of sorts too. comforting her in the bank like he comforted Sergio once just ahhhhhh #I'll stop now. I promise

[g5mlp]

On Behance, two presentations of scrapped marketing materials possibly for 2022 were found. These were made by Andrés Restrepo, a creative copywriter based in Colombia. Here are some of the details.

Links: 1, 2

Slides 1-4. My Little Pony x Amazon Alexa. It seems like you would have been able to have Zipp on your Amazon Alexa acting as a guide to Equestria. Kids could travel with Zipp and even help her get through challenges by doing physical actions and saying certain phrases.

Slides 5-8. "Make Your Own Cutie Mark" would have been an Instagram challenge where users could create their own cutie marks and share them under the hashtag #cutiemark. Throughout five days, a cutie mark based on an element would be shared daily by the official mylittlepony Instagram account. After the five days were done, cutie mark designs shared under the hashtag would then be shared in Instagram stories. The elements and their days were: Monday - Hope Tuesday - Creativity Wednesday - Bravery  Thursday - Confidence Friday - Kindness. 

Slides 9-10. Over on Pinterest, now that you have your own cutie mark, you would have been able to show off what you think your room would look like in Equestria by using Pinterest boards. Pre-existing boards of the different locations in Equestria would be available to look at for inspiration.

Now that users have cutie marks and have done the other challenges shown, TikTok was possibly going to be used to create new trends for users to participate in.

Below is the second presentation that was posted.

Slides 2-3. These are about a concept where online users can participate in sports related challenges on TikTok and Instagram. Those who completed their challenges would be able to join a screening of new (possibly My Little Pony: Make Your Mark) episodes as long as they also presented their medal in a Liverpool store in Mexico to buy a toy. Each pony of the mane 5 would have a challenge.  Pipp - Soccer tricks Zipp - Jump rope for a set amount of time Sunny - Get baskets in a pony costume on a basketball court Hitch - Create a dance routine to "The Dance of the Pony" Izzy - Create a medal using your own cutie mark

Slides 4-6. There could have been another challenge for TikTok called the "Pony Walk Challenge". Influencers would be chosen to spread the challenge and encourage users to participate by creating TikToks. Participants would have to dress up in one of the five fashion styles given: rock, pop, modern, classic, and mix. 

The influencers would then choose the best dressed for each style. The five winners would have gotten a chance to go to Liverpool Fashion Fest Mexico.

Slides 7-9. It seems like we could have gotten another podcast similar to the "My Little Pony: The Podcast" called "Doubts in Equestria by Sunny." This one would have been hosted by Sunny. 

Each episode would have focused on day-to-day situations children and parents may deal with, offering solutions and lessons to reflect on. Based on the images, it seems like the podcast could have gone on in 2022 alongside the "My Little Pony: The Podcast" podcast.

#mlp #mlp g5 #my little pony #sunny starscout #hitch trailblazer #izzy moonbow #pipp petals #zipp storm #my little pony make your mark #behance #marketing #presentation

[hyvcklvr]

[user hyvcklvr is also terribly in love. this is based on real life experiences of mine. Except I'm not Mark and I'm a girl. Quote at the beginning is from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman. Send in requests pls. Lmk what you think. Ty.]

[1:11 a.m.] Amor.

“There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well.

Amor ch'a null'amato amar perdona

Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving.”

Mark lay in his bed, arms and legs sprawled out as he blankly stared into the ceiling. Beside him lay his copy of “Call Me By Your Name”, with one of the pages fluttering back and forth due to the wind coming from the air conditioner, as if it were trying to choose a direction to go where it could finally rest upon the page below it. Quite like Mark's heart, he thought. Fluttering and fluttering, trying to do something, make a decision, a choice, anything, but alas, he had no say in this.

For Mark's heart at the moment had already been stolen by someone else. It was the heart of a person so purely and entirely in love.

It's been a week, Mark thought. A week since he'd seen her. The one he dedicated hours of walking to school and pages of his journal to.

Mark knew that falling wouldn't be easy. It never is. Not for him. Not for anyone. But one look into her brown eyes and Mark knew, he just knew, she was worth it.

Mark thought that he had fallen in love with her the day he saw her sitting alone in the bus, with the sun setting and the light falling on her face, illuminating and painting her features with shades of orange, red and pink. Shades of the sunset. Mark was mesmerized. Everything happening around him was suddenly a blur to him, and all he could focus on was her soft smile as she waved her friend goodbye from the window.

Her smile? It was to die for. Yeah, Mark had seen pretty smiles before. He had liked girls before with pretty smiles.

But her smile wasn't just pretty. It was comforting. Somehow, seeing her heart shaped lips curl up into a smile, her usually gloomy and resting face brighten and her big, brown eyes which were quiet, but always wide open in curiosity turn into pretty crescents, felt like a hug to Mark. Watching her tilt her head back and laugh was like looking at a painting and Mark wanted to click a picture and save it forever.

Mark had not just fallen for her this time, he had literally tumbled down a hill for her. His notebook was filled with lyrics for her, his sketchbook filled with desperate attempts of capturing her face on paper.

She claimed she wasn't a quiet person. “I'm not quiet.” She told Mark one day. “It's just that the people aren't the right people.”

And oh, Mark was ready to give away everything just to be the right person. Was he? He thought to himself sometimes. He was a pretty talkative person, but for her, he'd shut up and listen to her talk all day long. He loved it when she talked to him on their way back home. She'd always be so excited, with big bright eyes itching to reveal something or the other everyday. Usually their conversations would start with her saying "You know what happened today?”

“No. No I don't. But please, tell me. I wanna know everything that has happened in your life.” Mark thought.

And she did tell him everything, the excitement in her voice getting evident as the story gets more and more interesting. Making big hand gestures and jumping about in her seat. She was an author, he thought, because she always had a story to tell. Mark? Well. He was just a fan. A fan who'd listen to every story with detail. Almost as if he were a critique, a poor one, for he had nothing to criticize in her stories. No, to him, she was perfect.

Some moments with her were simply. Simply intimate. Intimate in the most non-intimate way possible. It could be one of the riskier moves Mark had pulled, like when he slid in next to her on a seat one day, asking if she wanted to listen to music. They had the same taste in music, and then onwards, they'd sit next to each other almost everyday, his black earphones connecting them as they say there next to each other, bopping their heads to the music. So close but so far.

It could be something simple, like her resting her chin on the backrest of Mark's seat, while Mark is sitting with his arms over the sam backrest, hand so close to her soft brown hair, palm itching to just stroke it while they say there in silence. She quite enjoyed sitting in silence. He was never a fan of it, but silence wasn't as scary as it seemed when he was with her. She enjoyed his presence, he hoped, because she had told him one day, when he was whining about how none of his friends were present, “I like quiet days. Besides, it's more peaceful right now with just the two of us, don't you think?”

Yes, yes and a thousand times, yes.

And Mark lay there, on his bed, at 1 a.m., with his copy of “Call Me By Your Name” in his hands. He was hopeful. Love, which exempts no one who's loved from loving. He remembered how she had flushed tomato red when he had hugged her on his birthday. He remembered the feeling of having her in his arms, even if it was for a moment. The warmth she radiated, how she was home in itself. It made him wonder, that maybe deep inside those shy glances, that small smile, that eagerness when she talked to him, maybe, just maybe, she reciprocated his feelings?

Mark cracked a smile at that. “I'm delusional.” He thought, as he buried his face in his pillow and kicked his feet in the air as if he had come straight out of a teen girl movie.

“amor ch'a null'amato amar perdona”

Maybe, there was hope.

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[goatskickin]

Not a question, more appreciation! Thank you for having so much amazing and appropriate clothes for elders! I have always struggled finding nice stuff for them!

THANK YOU

uh I had more to say about this

When making elder cc (mostly EF but I’m looking to do much more EM stuff too, yay grandpa), I do try to highlight shapes and choose patterns, that - to me - scream: “I’ve lived a good long life. I’m not 21 anymore and I don’t want to be. But I’m no schlub.”

All About Style has always been a huge style inspiration for me for grandmother fashion. That site’s EF clothing was the perfect mix of quirky, fashion-conscious and matronly-cool clothes. Judie had immaculate taste! There’s a reason her cc was beloved, even after years of play.

Much of existing elder cc is on alpha meshes. Those are fine and good! But I feel like elder sims need to be dressed in ‘bulkier’ stuff. It just makes sense to me. There’s tons of older elder CC that I see and like the idea of, but it’s painted on a mesh that is little more than the base EF/EM body shape on top. Idk, skintight sweaters on grandma or grandpa just kind of give me the willies. 😵‍💫 It’s not realistic either.

Plenty of elder cc is also Maxis match. Perfectly fine! Love those shapes way more. There are lots and lots of age conversions that look great on elders. But, I feel like our elders deserve more than a copy and paste of what we already have on offer for adult sims. So, I retexture those age conversions. The clothes just need to be stuffier, with more mature colors and patterns. Just, have more of a mature “vibe”.

On a more tinfoil hat note (lol), I think some simmers do not like to play elders at all, and that has everything to do with fearing age itself. And not having a worthy selection of clothes for them, that too. 😂

But I mean, there are mods to skip elderhood entirely. And a clothing mod to make elders have the standard AF chest instead of a sagging one exists, and that has existed forever. It’s like one of the oldest mods out there! And a mod to make them not have the “elder” walk. All things to make them less “oldpersony”.

Elders are thought of as being boring or unimportant sims, something to avoid, unappealing. I think that says way more about how people feel about aging themselves. But I think it’s much more freeing to embrace and enjoy a stage of life that I’ll face myself.

TL;DR: thank you

And let me know who I should look to next for style inspiration. I’ve already gained inspirash from: the Golden Girls, the oracle from the matrix, Eartha Kitt as madame Zeroni in Holes, probably anything Stevie Nicks has worn recently, anything Judi Dench has worn as M in the Bond movies, André Leon Talley (rip), Sag Harbor, Eddie Bauer and Squaw Valley sweaters and long skirts from the 90’s, what Diane Keaton is wearing in any movie, any era, Guinan from Star Trek: Next Gen (slay, the colors especially), thinking if it would look good on current day Jane Seymour then go for it, my friend whose mom is a high school art teacher, a sprinkle of Mrs. Doubtfire, a sprinkle of Miranda Priestly, and of course, anything Prue Leith wears.

#answered asks #clothes for grandma #as a sims 2 cc historian…

[loveothislife]

Inside Michael Stuhlbarg's Heartbreaking Monologue From 'Call Me By Your Name'

Cry with us, won’t you? As Professor Perlman says, “Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.”

By Matthew Jacobs Feb 3, 2018

If you’ve heard rumblings about any particular “Call Me by Your Name” scene, it’s either Timothée Chalamet fucking a peach or The Monologue.

Those familiar with the movie, or the celebrated André Aciman book on which it’s based, will understand these references. 2017 was, after all, the year fruit sex went mainstream. As much as I’d love to spend the next 1,200 words dishing about that juicy peach, we’re going to talk about The Monologue. Oh, that sweet, picture-perfect monologue.

It’s the moment that clinches the film, delivered by Professor Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg), the father of 17-year-old Elio (Chalamet), who falls for a graduate student named Oliver (Armie Hammer) during one blissful, bittersweet summer at his family’s Italian villa. Elio has just bid Oliver adieu, and Perlman consoles him with delicately chosen words that are the envy of every queer kid who ever longed to hear a parent say, “It gets better.”

Director Luca Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory lifted the monologue almost word for word from Aciman’s text, excising only a few sentences. Even some of Aciman’s scene-setting prose finds its way into the script’s parenthetical directions, guiding the conversation as it unfolds on a couch in Perlman’s dim study. “His tone says: We don’t have to speak about it, but let’s not pretend we don’t know what I’m saying,” for example, appears in the novel and the screenplay, ensuring they mirror each other’s dulcet timbre.

Stuhlbarg’s speech is best underscored by these words (punctuation and capitalization are the script’s):

When you least expect it, Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot. Just remember: I am here. Right now you may not want to feel anything. Perhaps you never wished to feel anything. And perhaps it’s not to me that you’ll want to speak about these things. But feel something you obviously did.

You had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you. In my place, most parents would hope the whole thing goes away, to pray that their sons land on their feet. But I am not such a parent. In your place, if there is pain, nurse it. And if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out. Don’t be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing so as not to feel anything ― what a waste!

Two sentences nixed from Aciman’s rendering: “Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we’d want to be forgotten is no better,” and “Most of us can’t help but live as though we’ve got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”

During an interview ahead of the movie’s limited release in November ― it opened in wide release on Jan. 19, a few days before netting four Oscar nominations, including for best picture ― Stuhlbarg told me he delivered the monologue two different ways. His first take was more emotional, more impassioned; the second version, which Guadagnino “rightly” opted to use, was “a little more direct.”

On paper, the speech sounds very literary ― appropriate for an academic like Perlman who studies Greek antiquities, but still difficult for any actor to deliver with an organic cadence.

“You never know how a piece of text is going to live in you when you try to absorb it for all of its weight,” Stuhlbarg said. “I don’t think there was a conscious choice on my part for it to be any more or less professorial. I think the text does a lot of that for me, so maybe I was just concerned with it coming from a true place, and that he was choosing his words carefully. In another actor’s mouth, it would be different. ... I think the language speaks for itself. I tried to let it live in me over the course of the five or so weeks that we had, because we shot the movie in chronological order. [I wanted] to let it resonate with me that way I thought it could be said.”

Throughout the scene, the camera remains mostly trained on Stuhlbarg. He taps a cigarette on an ashtray perched on his lap and picks up a tumbler of whiskey to cut the silence between sentences. Sometimes he peers down, as if to reflect on his own youthful memories, but he largely holds Elio’s teary-eyed gaze. “Elio is dumbstruck as he tries to take all this in,” the screenplay notes, much like the novel’s first-person narration of the same sentiment: “I couldn’t begin to take all this in. I was dumbstruck,” Elio says.

“How you live your life is your business,” Perlman continues as the film’s gentle piano score kicks in. “Remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there’s sorrow. Pain. Don’t kill it and with it the joy you’ve felt.”

A pause, Elio nodding as he absorbs the advice.

“We may never speak about this again,” his old man concludes. “But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have been a terrible father if, one day, you’d want to speak to me and felt that the door was shut, or not sufficiently open.”

In Stuhlbarg’s mouth, Perlman’s words are poetry ― vestiges of a weathered existence and guidance for a life not yet touched by the wisdom of adulthood.

The scene reflects Guadagnino’s intentions for the film. Before the shoot began, “we all sat around his dining room table and read the screenplay together,” Stuhlbarg said. “That was all the rehearsal that some of us had. [Guadagnino] said, ‘I want this to be a story of love and light and buoyancy and fun, to be reminiscent of those idyllic summers that, if we’re lucky, we have when we’re young. Our eyes are opened, and perhaps we fall in love for the first time in a deeper way.’ That idea infected the way we told the story, and it made it such a joyous experience in a way that I never would have expected it to be.”

Stuhlbarg, who appears in two other best picture contenders (“The Shape of Water” and “The Post”), didn’t receive the Oscar nomination he deserves, and “Call Me by Your Name” produced middling box-office returns in wide release despite the fawning praise it received.

Regardless, his closing scene is a master class in acting and writing. It’s what sets this apart from most gay stories, where characters are judged or punished (by parents, peers, spouses, mentors, bullies) for their sexuality. Indeed, every graceful pause in The Monologue is calibrated to capture the movie’s optimism. It’s both heartbreaking and uplifting.

“I love the story and was so grateful to be asked to participate in it,” Stuhlbarg said. “It does seem to be having a lot of resonance and relevance and to be moving people, which is all you can hope for, really, because you never know what’s going to happen when you make something. And in different hands it would be a different telling ― it would be a different story. I think Luca’s a master and has masterfully articulated the story he wanted to tell.”

Huffpost February 3, 2018

#cmbyn bts #cmbyn analysis #michael stuhlbarg

[lila-rose]

thank you for the tag, @for-andrei! hockey game 🏒

rules: list you

✨ - no. 1 team the carolina hurricanes because i love their camaraderie and how they treat their fans like family 💌 - your favorite goalie it's a tie between andrei vasilevskiy and marc-andré fleury fleury is a happy bean who like to terrorize people with his pranks while vasilevskiy is shy and looks terrified of anyone who wants to speak to him 🔟 - your jersey number i would probably have to go with 19 because 2019 was the year that i started getting into ice hockey 👯‍♂️ - a team you love to play for my first choice would definitely be the hurricanes but i would also accept the canadiens because there's a lot of nhl history there ❤️‍🔥 - your favorite player currently teuvo teravainen because his stoicism cracks me up, like how he tried to escape his first star interview the other night by putting the attention on raanta 👀 - a trade that hurt you emotionally it wasn't a trade, but niederreiter choosing to sign with nashville got me because he seems like such a sweet guy and did so much for carolina that i didn't think waddell would let him walk 🌈 - your experience on hockeyblr so far overall, it's been pretty good there are some people who take their fanaticism way too far and need to remember that we are all humans trying to experience a sport that we love, but most people seem super chill

tagging @callsign-denmark and @kurlyteuvo

#ask games #asked and answered #besties

[sircarebearalot]

pretty lines i compiled (from my own work) for a friend and decided i might as well post here

As embarrassment made room for indignation, when Marco looked at him again, it was with a scorching fire that burned hotter, much more destructive than anything Tom could ever hope to muster.

- laugh at the pain (it'll hurt the same) -- Star Vs The Forces Of Evil

And I know I'm chaining you to the ground

But you being gone is the loneliest sound

- Ducky, I'm so Lucky! -- Odd Girl Out

Her head is bent and her soft hair is falling around her face. Evie has the physical urge to tuck it back and tilt Mal's chin up. Make Mal want her again. It was a terrible possessive thing that was created on the Isle as a means to survive. Choose to love one thing, one person, and never let it go. Your only guilty pleasure, your chosen strand of Good.

- and nothing can stay the same (it's growing pains) --- Descendants

Minthe hated Hades.

She hated the way he would watch her shower, eyes burning with an intensity that made her claustrophobic. She hated the way he sometimes wouldn't even be looking at her body, he was just looking through her. She hated how pathetic and ugly that made her feel, so much that she would give him a 'come hither' look, only feeling relief when he starts to strip.

- give me back my girlhood (it was mine first) --- Lore Olympus

They never protect the face,' she had said, easily separating him from her, classifying him as the rest. As the weak. He remembered when she would take note of others, setting them both apart loyally.

-- in a league of her own -- Carmen Sandiego

The party was several steps removed, loud and dazzling but also so far away. It was not tempting when the alternative was a rendezvous with Carmen

-- set every part aflame/this is not a game --- Carmen Sandiego

Then Julia begins to cry (and Carmen has never seen her cry before. Her eyes and nose are an angry red, and her face is contorted. Carmen loves her and she made her cry. Julia covers her face and breathes harshly. She doesn't look like a woman who was just proposed to. She looks like she had been slapped across the face.) Julia says, "We can't do this. You know we can't. Think about it ."

--- now i've read all the books besides your bed --- Carmen Sandiego

The words fall out like he has been sick for weeks, and it's only now that he can expel all the toxins in his body. He remembers when he was younger and would get sick a bit more often, how Mama would give him water and encourage him as he emptied himself into a toilet, assuring him that the toxins and germs would leave his body this way. This was before they got their gifts before Julieta could heal, and before Bruno became stigmatized.

--- i need to go (i don't know why) --- Encanto

She knew she was also beautiful and talented, just in a different way. (Jade was a roaring inferno, pretty like hellfire was pretty. Art incarnate. Tori was far off sunset, picturesque and easy to appreciate.)

--- unthought, unsaid, a fire burning red --- Victorious

And Beck just grinned up at him softly, soft like his hair was soft, and his voice when he spoke to André in a low tone. Soft in a way that made you ache and no more. He was a vision with the lights playing across him, all handsome face and soft-to-the-touch hair.

-- want you all to myself --- Victorious

It almost felt like peeling off a bandaid, as if the gravity between them had made itself tangible and possible through skin.

-- imagine being loved by me -- harry potter

It was crushing the way freeing things were crushing. The squeezing your hands out of cuffs, the soaring through cold water, taking a crown off your head. Killing your tyrannical father

-- Let's Not Fight Fate This Time --- DC Super Hero Girls (2019)

All at once, the conquest seemed all the more dangerous. Much more at risk but also — he never wanted it more. Is this how pirates go mad and senile? Overwhelmed and consumed by all this want? Constantly reaching for what is so close and so obviously there for the taking but still so incredibly far.

That makes more sense.

People judge them too harshly. They don’t understand what it’s like to be consumed.

-- you can't live a lie (after you've tasted the truth)--- DC Super Hero Girls (2019)

She's beautiful, Agatha said, but it sounded nearly like an insult.

-- Trapped In A Bottle -- The School for Good And Evil

That's why Alberto got his own category.

With a billion little subcategories and post-its, and side notes because- like the sky- Alberto Scorfano is limitless and infinite. From his eyes to his habits to his preferences to his fears to his passions to his talents to his hair to his attitude to his smile he is something that Luca has studied and admired to an almost painful extent.

-- All The Stars We Steal From The Nigh Sky (will never be enough)

Right ," and there's definitely an odd note in Tamaki's voice then.

Kyoya can imagine why. He knows why. It's odd for them to speak as strangers, bound by laws of civility and utterly unfamiliar. Everything they knew about each other was assumed or heard, and nothing was told or shared.

--blessed by the mystery of love -- Ouran High School Host Club

If Tamaki had entertained jealousy, it was always under a rose-tinted light. Jealousy was abstract to him in the way that poverty was. He understood that, fundamentally, it was not a good thing, but he also knew there was beauty in the moment that stemmed from it, and that’s what he liked to focus on.

--- put a little love on me--- Ouran High School Host Club

#archive of our own #ao3feed #ao3 author #ao3 writer #tomco #star vs the forces of evil #webtoon #odd girl out #malvie #descendants #lore olympus #carmen sandiego netflix #carulia #encanto #encanto bruno #victorious #harry potter #drarry #dc super hero girls #school for good and evil #pixar luca #lucaberto #ouran high school host club #tamakyo

[dogtccth]

I just want you and Gizmo to know that I thoroughly enjoy Roman and Andre’s interactions and ship in general! It’s always a highlight when they pop up on my dash and I was wondering if you have any undisclosed headcanons about them you would like to share?

I love that people actually enjoy our freaks, thank you so much for sharing that it means a lot to both of us. Wow, we have so many! I guess I can give a little background re-run~

They started off as roommates in college after Roman (intentionally) got in trouble fighting with his roommate and had to be moved to André's room (who had a room to himself which is why Roman wanted to be moved there because he didn't think it was fair). But from then on they had a lot of tension and something grew between them, they got serious till it was time to leave school and Roman's dad knew about the thing between them and didn't like it. So he had Roman choose between /the boy/ or a job at Janus Corp. and Roman chose the job.

They of course had a falling out after that, Roman advanced in his career at Janus and met Circe and wanted to marry her -- that all went up in flames and he sought out comfort with André after losing all that and André caved but Roman was just using him as a rebound and sort of for money since his parents kinda cut him off. That of course ended terribly and they really stopped talking except for later having some no contact business after starting their own little empires.

And it stayed like that for a while till Roman realized he still was interested in André after meeting one of his flings and he manipulated a business meeting between them just to get get his way back in there and of course he succeeded because Roman always gets what he wants. 😘

#ofwealthandtaste #*( this is the tldr of it ig #&. ( ship ) . */ roman x andre / #&. ( out. ) */ old man yells at cloud /

[take-taker-taken]

Another thing that just came back to me about the Glasgow One DEADMan Show… one of the audience questions was that if Taker could have / had a storyline with ANY wrestler, past or present, from ANY company - who would he choose? In my head I figured he’d leap straight to André, as he’s previously made it known that it’s a huge regret that he never got the chance to be in the ring with him and also that André apparently had an idea for the two of them that he never shared. But I was wrong!

He didn’t have to give the question much consideration; just sort of smiled and said something like, “OK, this’ll probably be controversial… let’s see. I’d choose MJF.”

The audience seemed to be largely in agreement (proving that you can enjoy more than one thing - doesn’t have to constantly be AEW vs. WWE - embrace the power of ‘and’, people!) and he of course elaborated and in a nutshell it was because MJF is all about the kayfabe.

#the undertaker #undertaker #this character lives in my head rent free #wwe #american badass #wwf #mark calaway #AEW #MJF #mjf aew #maxwell jacob friedman #one deadman show

[semper-legens]

15. Courage to Dream, by Neal Shusterman and Andrés Martínes

Owned: No, library Page count: Unknown, not numbered My summary: A window opens to magical realms. The Golem rises in a concentration camp, fighting back. Folktales come to life to protect the Jewish people. The staff of Moses saves a people from persecution. And a young girl gains a hint of a world that might have been. This is the story of Jewish resistance. These are the stories of the Holocaust. My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

Well, this was an interesting find. Neal Shusterman is one of my absolute favourite YA writers, mostly because his worlds are always well-thought-out and deep, and his concepts aren't afraid to go big or go home. However, the books of his that I have read tend to have a contemporary or near-future setting and be more dystopian in nature. This, a set of historical magical-realism stories mostly set in World War Two Europe and centring different aspects of Jewish persecution, is not in what I would have assumed to be his wheelhouse. Neither is the fact that it's a graphic novel. But the more I read, the more the stories sucked me in. They've expertly balanced history with fantasy, using their space to educate the reader about the lives of Jewish people in this period as well as to highlight the Holocaust from different angles - hidden Jewish people, concentration camps, armed resistance, and the legacy of the Holocaust on modern day life. It was absolutely fascinating and I really liked it.

I'm going to summarise the stories, then talk about them as a whole. The first story is He Opens A Window, where Jewish girls are being hidden by a sympathetic woman in a single room. The window to their room looks out on the street, except when it looks out on a fantasy world, something the girls love to see but cannot control. When the woman is killed, the girls begin to starve, until a delivery boy who has realised the situation starts to help. Unfortunately, this brings the Gestapo to their door, but the girls are saved - some escape into the window when it shows a safe land, others stay and end up flushing the Nazis out into space through the window. The second story, The Golem of Auschwitz, was my favourite of the four stories. Men incarcerated in Auschwitz spread stories of the Golem of Prague, and try and resist where they can. A boy with a bandaged head believes that the night-time acts of resistance are due to the Golem, which turns out to be true - the boy is the Golem, created by a Rabbi. He helps stage a breakout and free some of his fellow prisoners, before being captured. He is to be brought to Hitler as a trophy, but tricks his captors into wiping off the first character written on his forehead, turning emet (life) into met (death) and killing him.

In Spirits of Resistance, two Jewish teenagers meet a group of resistance fighters in the woods. They end up finding the Baba Yaga and other people out of folklore, such as the fools of Chelm, and befriend them. They end up helping the resistance fighters against the Nazi forces, though their influence can only go so far. The next story is Exodus, which depicts the exodus of Jewish people from Denmark paralleled with the Moses story, where a young man who has what is supposedly the staff of Moses ends up using it to create a bridge of broken ships in order to get Denmark's Jewish people to safety. Finally, the last story is The Untold, set in modern day America. A teenage girl is given a glass shell by her grandmother, and when she listens to it she can travel to a parallel world where the Holocaust didn't happen. Her family is a lot bigger, but antisemitism is on the rise in her community, and the implication is that an event similar to the Holocaust will happen now. She has to choose which version of reality to live in; she returns to the normal world, and smashes the glass shell under her foot.

Overall, these stories did an excellent job blending Holocaust history with this fantastical sense of magical realism. The inclusion of enhanced-reality magic into the story of the Holocaust might raise the question of why the fantastical element did not stop the Holocaust outright, but reasons are given within the logic of the stories. The Golem was stopped before he could destroy the camp, but his sacrifices led to the freedom of many of the prisoners. The window was a neutral force, used by the girls to secure their freedom. And of course, most of these stories are working on a metaphorical level. There was no real Golem in Auschwitz, but the Jewish prisoners who did resist and managed to win ground against the Nazis were real, and deserve commemoration. The folktale characters in the woods represent the longevity of Jewish storytelling and culture. The window showing the fantastical worlds stand in for freedom ultimately found when the girls can escape oppression. And the glass shell shows the good and the bad sides of a world where the Holocaust did not happen; crushing it under her foot, the protagonist echoes Jewish marriage ceremonies, where a glass is broken to call the destruction of the Temple to memory. They're stories rich in meaning and symbolism, and rich in fact! At the end of each story, there's a brief section about the real-life cases that inspired the tales, showing the real history behind the stories. It was a really good collection, and one I'm sure will stick with me for a while.

Next, a book full of witchcraft.

#Courage to Dream #Neal Shusterman #Andrés Vera Martínez #bookblr #book blog #4

[lyon-amore]

Something original that I've been correcting, connected in some way to the original story I uploaded to Wattpad. I hope you like it.

CW: Dismemberment, blood, death.

*****

The smell of wet earth filled the garden.

The rain fell softly on the man's brown hair with dark eyes furious, watching as his two subjects dug the grave.

He took a quick look at the limp body of the young woman with reddish hair. Other white locks had appeared after her death.

Her purple eyes had lost any kind of shine they had once had. A little more. He just had to have waited a little longer and he would have gotten it.

He could hear his killer crying, being held by two other subjects. Next to them, a woman with blonde hair tied up in a bun was also watching the scene, covering herself from the rain with a black umbrella. In her expression, there was only pain. She had not only lost a friend, but also someone she had considered a daughter.

“Please, my lord!” The man pleaded, with blood stains on his shirt “I didn't want to do it! She forced me!”

"Shut up," the man of the house replied, looking at him with disgust, "you had no right to touch her." His Italian accent stood out in his tone full of rage.

The woman closed her eyes tightly. She understood from those words what she meant.

“B-but sir—” his voice was heartbreaking. He had no regrets about having killed the young woman, he was afraid of the man. Of the destiny she could choose for him.

“Silence!”

The frightened man fell silent, but continued crying.

In the windows of the great mansion, thousands of luminous eyes watched the funeral. The blood was too tempting, but they resisted so as not to have the future fate of their lowly companion. In their minds there was only the thought that they should have been quicker to get a small drink of that blood that had intoxicated the room of the deceased young woman.

“What do we do with him?” The woman looked at the back of the owner of the house who was looking at the grave.

The stone was old, with Nuriel's name written on it. It didn't matter how many times she had been buried, it always hurt him.

"Tear him apart and burn his limbs, so that nothing remains of him," he answered without having thought too much about it. “He knew perfectly well what punishment there would be if someone hurt him.”

“My lord Morelli! I beg you! Have mercy!”

No matter how much he screamed, the men holding him didn't listen.

His arms were ripped off as fast as a human eye could have seen. He screamed in pain as blood stained the ground.

The woman stood in front of him, leaving the umbrella on the ground. She watched as he cried to her now. She didn't feel sorry for him at all.

“Rose! Please! Do not do it!”

"You shouldn't have hurt my little one." She placed both hands on his head, twisting it until she pulled it.

The blood mixed with the rain, but luckily for him, no one was going to want to drink it. The blood of a traitor was not allowed. It wasn't too delicious. On the contrary: it disgusted her.

“Take his legs off at the crematorium, please,” she handed his head to one of those holding him, avoiding looking at the second corpse they had.

"Yes, Miss Rose."

They walked away with The parts of the body and with elegance, the woman bent down to pick up the umbrella.

She turned on her heel seeing how the tomb was almost finished.

“André, we should go in.”

“No, I'll finish burying her.”

She didn't know if it was pain in his voice or anger. She never understood how important Nuriel was to him. They didn't even talk about it or he had ever shown it.

“How long do you think she will take to return" he asked in a low voice, still torn by seeing the body on the ground, as if she were a doll.

“How long did she take the last time?”

“She was poisoned, so it took her seven years to come back.”

“This time she has a stab wound in the back” André began to think, looking at the dead young woman. Her lips were already blue and her skin pale. “Let's assume that it won't take long because the organs are not contaminated, about three or four years at most.”

Rose nodded. A race like Nuriel's was somewhat unpredictable. The only acquisition of hers.

"Let's hope so." Despite not needing air, she let out a sigh. “I'll try to rest a little. Don't stay out here, remember that they still need you.”

"I won't be long." He turned his head to look her in the eyes. Rose had gotten used to the fact that whenever he got angry, his eyes were like a dark pit without a soul. Although as if he had ever had it since they met “Please clean Nuriel's room and take the crib out of the attic, we have to prepare it for when she is reborn.”

"Yes, André," the woman nodded delicately, letting the drops fall down her face.

The brunette signaled to the two vampires to leave along with Rose.

He rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and carefully picked up Nuriel's body, observing her face. She seemed to be sleeping peacefully, if it weren't for the smell of blood giving away that she was dead. He wrinkled his nose, preventing himself from feeling out of control in the face of such an exquisite aroma. It was a much better smell than any human. Next, he saw the Triqueta symbol on her neck, a reminder of the last time she died.

He didn't mind getting mud on it, he had buried it so many times that he was used to it.

Gently, he placed the body in the grave, arranging her wet hair and clothing so that it did not appear to be in a bad state. He couldn't help but caress her cheek gently, as if it were going to break into pieces.

“Why do you always end up leaving?” He asked her in a whisper “You always end up leaving me alone.”

He took out a dried flower from his pocket, a bell. He placed it on her chest, putting her hands on her side. He wanted it to help, even if it was impossible for a dead person.

He made an effort to bury the body, but why was he crying? No. It was the rain, it had to be the drops falling on his cheeks.

He slipped, managing to hold on to the tombstone, he was grateful that there was no other vampire nearby to see his clumsiness, as if he were a human, until he realized that there was only the first date from the day he had arrived home until his first death: 1872-1885. It was Rose's thing to want to have a grave for herself. It was a very human feeling for someone linked to death.

“In the end everyone ends up wanting to want you more than using you, right, Nuriel?” He murmured to the tombstone “I wonder if this was what you were looking for.”

And he was never going to know it. Those of her race had the habit of writing down all their memories, but they hid it so that no one would know what they felt or thought. It seemed like a defense mechanism against others. He had tried to find that diary as if it were a treasure, he needed to know her thoughts, why she always decided to leave. Was it that the life it gave her wasn't enough?

He had to change for her next life. Again. Use other methods to make her stay with him. So that she would not choose death. And if to that end he had to put an end to those who desired her blood, then he would do it to have her by his side.

“Good night, Nuriel, we will be waiting for you.”

#original content #original character #original writing #writers #writers on tumblr #original story #vampire #vampires #inmortal #blood

[mensajeroseis]

it’s so funny to think about 29 year old Andrés again, like it’s really not an old age. but it feels like it to him, because he has so much responsibilities whether self imposed or not. of course mainly it’s because he became a parent so young, so he forced himself to act more grown up than he felt ready for. and has just been running with it ever since.

by the time of fallout 4, he has 3 kids (insane, but he simply cannot stop fucking). and still chooses to be some sort of wasteland pathfinder of his own volition. ever true to his loathed and bestowed moniker. of course he doesn’t wander as often, but he simply cannot give up the ghost. Butch kind of gets over the galavanting by his mid twenties, and chooses to focus on barbering. someone has to be the stable one in the relationship after all…

and all of that forced maturity and so on kind of leaves his brain when the institute kidnaps his dumbass for their silly and nefarious plans. which were to poke at his brain, and selectively dissect his memories pertaining to his dad, to make a weird synth of James to work for them (they dug up James’ bones for this also which i think would be so sad and funny). but he escapes from Kellogg before any of that even happens, but the stress of it all literally makes him revert to angsty immaturity, occasionally erratic emotional breakdowns, and selective/probable dissociative amnesia of his entire childhood to adolescence, etc.

i think when he manages to find the institute again, (which i need to work out the motivational kinks there more... i will probably include some of the sole survivor’s plight in there, since in my canon they die in vault 111 LOL.) they will probably be weirdos and give him electroshock therapy or other invasive procedures. and who knows, maybe he’ll be forced to see them create a false image of his dead father. and one that wont even recognize him as a son, because the institute only wants a scientist. not a complicated human duh !!!!

i just got so anxious i need to end this post

#the anxiety is unrelated

[soralinklokidottirofmirkwood]

Four unexpected but beloved surprises: Miraculous ladybug and the Hobbit crossover part1.

Note: This takes place after the events of Miraculous LB and CN.

Hawkmoth is defeated meaning Gabriel, Natalie and Lila are exposed, André is no longer Mayor (Seriously there should be an episode for an Election Day in this series I feel sorry for the man he's a father, husband, Mayor and hotel owner he's a great step father to Zoé I'm surprise he didn't divorce Audrey), Lila is expelled from school, Marinette and Adrian are dating. They are still friends with Alya and Nino along with their other class mates. After being exposed Lila snaps and plans her revenge, Bilbo believes that the Valar has given him four gifts four very lovely gifts. They will have different eye colors when they get to middle (heterochromia one eye is their real eye color their other eye are rare eye colors) Warning main characters deaths and Lila snaps. I never saw MLB and CN x Middle earth fanfics so I made one featuring the main four as elflings with their kwamis and because why not four.

On to the story:

Marinette, Alya, Adrien and Nino are on their way to the Dupain-Cheng bakery after another great normal day of school.

It's been 3 months since Gabriel, Natalie and Tomoe got arrested, Lila got exposed and expelled from school, Chloe no longer attends the school, Audrey Bourgeois was no longer the queen of fashion, and André Bourgeois sadly was no longer in the Mayor's office.

For Lila's expulsion the class did a lot of digging around when they found a few of her "Travel and knowing celebrities." stories fishy with help from former classmates of hers from Italy that were hurt from her lies and almost tricked by her lies, Alya interviewed the celebrities Lila claimed to know, all the children each got a lawyer, they notified Mr Damocles who decided to retire after being fired for his incompetence, Mrs Bustier was given a vacation to get the stress off of her for the sake of her sanity and unborn child before she had to work as a substitute teacher, Lila got Expelled for playing everyone dirty, willingly working with Hawkmoth and all the lies she told that gotten her in serious trouble with the law and almost caused her mother her job but instead of sending her to prison since she's a minor they allowed Mrs Rossi the option to put her in an insane sanatorium or a school for children like her daughter so she choosed the first option since Lila is to unstable to be around people and she knows of a great sanatorium in Italy that said they will take Lila in three months since it was a last minute arrangements but Lila is on house arrest until then. As for the arrest of Gabriel, Natalie and Tomoe after so many defeats Hawkmoth decided on "If you want something done right you just do it yourself." So instead of evilizing someone he decided to confront Ladybug and Chat Noir himself with help from Ikari Gozen unaware that the other 12 miraculous holders would be there with Ladybug and Chat Noir to help with a very difficult Centimonster that was a stuffed monkey that an upset toddler wanted but his mother wouldn't get it since he already had a stuffed monkey, after that defeat Ladybug got ready to use her lucky charm healing but Hawkmoth appeared with his only minion but with all the other Miraculous holders they managed to take down Ikari Gozen but after she turned back into Tomoe she tried attacking with her bow staff (I forgot what it's called.) but Ryuko with King Monkey's help managed to apprehend her until the cops who witnessed the whole thing came and cuffed her, with the help of strength from Minotaurox he knocked down Hawkmoth, Ladybug restrained him with her yo-yo, and she took his miraculous revealing to everyone's shock and horror Gabriel Agreste, Adrien's father. Long story short Gabriel Agreste got arrested and confessed his reasons for his crimes, Nathalie turned herself in and confessed that she was helping Gabriel as Mayura before he decided to confront team miraculous, Tomoe confessed that she willingly got akumatized, of course a news crew was there to see all of them get arrested, the Agreste name was tarnished and Tomoe's parents saw what happened on the news, they were furious with their daughter telling her that she had disgraced and dishonored the Tsurugi family name and that they are disowning her, cutting her off and taking custody of Kagami by moving to France, Nathalie's family was disgusted by her, she was disowned, her parents cut her out of their will and she can never get the image of hurt from her kid sisters innocent face as their parents walked out with her sister holding their mothers hand.

As for the Bourgeois family André got in huge trouble with the French embassy dual to Chloe and Audrey threatening people with his position. He got angry but pulled himself together and apologized for the terror his wife and daughter caused after disqualifying Himself from the election coming up because he felt he no longer deserved to be mayor. Audrey got exposed for plagiarism when photographers for other designers saw that all of her designs were from the designers they worked for and other designers. So her brand got shut down, she lost all her clients, stores took all her brands off their shelves, the fashion industry decided to replace her with Cruella De Vil and André decided to limit her credit card privileges, Chloe was transferred to a very strict boarding school in Detroit Michigan when her parents found out that she's been bullying her classmates, abusing Sabrina and was helping Gabriel, Nathalie and Lila terrorize Paris all because she was jealous and angry after Ladybug took her miraculous. They both blamed themselves André for spoiling her to much and Audrey for being a toxic influence. As for Zoé, Audrey apologized to her for not being a good mother and for letting Chloe treat her like an outcast. Zoé being the sweet cinnamon roll she is forgave her and they made amends.

After everything that happened and with Hawkmoth gone Ladybug, Rena Rough and Carapace decided to show Chat their true identities and he showed his to them. After the identity reveal Mari finally gets the courage to tell Adrien how she feels and Adrien tells her he feels the same way and so the two kiss for the very first time making the other two teens happy. After finding out that everything Lila said were lies Alya deleted every interview and Photo she had of Lila off the Ladyblog, wrote her viewers and followers an apology while telling them the reason and told them that she's retiring from the blog for awhile.

Everyone was really supportive of her with a lot of people commenting that they found a lot of Lila's tales unbelievable including her celebrity stories, people wrote that she should be more careful with what she writes as some things can hurt people, but everyone accepted her apology. Everyone was happy that Alya decided to take a break from social media including her parents because she's been neglecting her studies, responsibilities and well being ever since they moved back to Europe and when Ladybug and Chat Noir first appeared.

It was Lila's last day in France and the four young heroes decided to celebrate with sweets from the Dupain Cheng bakery while inviting their other teammates to join them. As they walk Alya raises her hand as if making a toast "Cheers to another great day." She said as the younger teens raised their hands "Cheers." Mari, Adrien and Nino said together as they laughed with their kwamis hidden.

Unaware of a pair of dull olive green eyes glaring at them from an ally with venom. As they are walking they talked about their day, how the new teacher is strict but nice, how things are calm without Chloe and Lila causing trouble, Luka and Kagami starting to date a month after the villains got exposed and that the new principal is more reliable and serious than Mr Damocles but is a very fun loving guy. As they continue to the bakery a raspy but familiar voice stopped them in their tracks "Hello old classmates." Turning around they see Lila in all her dishonest glory. Her brown hair in a messy, unkempt and greasy ponytail, dark circles around her bloodshot lifeless green eyes, chapped lips, an oversized grey hoodie with black shorts and orangey red sneakers she looked like she has been neglecting her personal hygiene.

All of them just had poker faces for her as she speaks "You all think you won but I have one more trick up my sleeve." She says making Alya roll her eyes in annoyance "Lila, give it up! You lost. Hawkmoth and Mayuura aren't here to help you anymore." then Marinette spoke "Alya's right Lila it's over!" Mari said "You brought this upon yourself dudette." Nino said "This is what Karma does Lila." Adrien said coming up to Lila "You dug up your own grave and now your going to lie in it." The ex model said “You honestly didn’t think that your actions didn’t have consequences?” Marinette asked.

When she (Marinette) said that something in Lila snapped. She grabbed a nearby scrap metal and skewered the four young heroes with it in one go to which she laughed menacingly at unaware of the witnesses around her "If I can't have you Adrien or fame then no one can." She said until Ivan and Kim pinned her down while her mother took out a syringe with tranquilizer and poked it in her neck making her fall asleep while men from the sanatorium put a straight jacket and muzzle on her, strapped her onto a stretcher and put her in the back of a white van with the sanatorium's logo on it while ambulance came to take the four impaled teens but before they could a strange light appeared and the four teens were gone leaving behind their phones, Alya's and Nino's glasses, Marinette's purse (The kwamii's are with them), Adrien's white flannel, Nino's hat and the blood stained scrap metal.

In Middle Earth:

Bilbo had gotten into his home after having a good smoke that was interrupted by the wizard Gandalf the Grey who wanted to share an adventure with someone but Bilbo being a Baggins declined the offer and just walked into his home bidding Gandalf a good morning and then heading for the market before second breakfast.

It was now noon meaning lunch but before Bilbo could start making his lunch a strange sound stoped him, crying the sounds of crying can be heard from outside. Raising a brow he decided to investigate, walking out of his home and following the sound he stopped and let out a surprised gasp when he saw four young children about 3 or 5 in human years in front of him but they weren't ordinary children for they had pointy ears. He saw that there were two boys and two girls, one boy had sun kissed skin, long black hair, he wore a green tunic, black leggings, a deep green cloak and was barefooted in fact all four of them were barefooted, had on matching hair accessories and pendants (image above).

The other boy had lighter skin, long honey blond hair, wore a deep grey tunic, black leggings and a black cloak, one of the girls had sun kiss skin like the dark haired boy but she had autumn colored hair, wore an orange tunic, black leggings and an autumn orange cloak. The other girl had light skin, long unusual midnight blue hair, wore a pink tunic, black leggings and a white cloak. Bilbo was speechless when he got a closer look at the children. They weren't hobbits for they had normal size feet with no hair, they weren't dwarves dual to their lack of any facial and body hair, and they certainly weren't human from the shape of their ears so that left him with one option they were elves, elflings to be precise. He slowly made his way over to them "Are you alright little ones?" He spoke making the children look up at him revealing their eyes.

The dark haired boy and autumn haired girl both had one amber colored eye but the boy's other eye was gold while the autumn haired girls other eye was pumpkin orange, the honey blond haired boy had one emerald green eye while the other was charcoal, the midnight blue haired girl had one bluebell blue eye while the other was dusky pink. Bilbo couldn't help but stare in awe at them for they were the most beautiful children he ever sawed but what puzzled him most "Who in the green hills left four young elflings alone and barefooted?" He said to himself looking at the elflings in front of him who stopped crying. To his surprise the autumn haired elfling made her way up to him after calming down with a beautiful smile on her lips "Hello I'm Alya!" Soon the other three children came up to him with their own smiles on their chubby faces "I'm Nino." The dark haired boy said "I'm Adrien." The blond boy said "And I'm Marinette call me Mari." The midnight blue haired girl said, Bilbo couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at the names 'Odd names.' He thought in his head but smiled back at them "I am Bilbo Baggins." He said to the four elflings who still have those gorgeous smiles on their youthful faces making his heart melt but they are soon blushing from hearing their stomachs growling making Bilbo frown "Good thing I went into town this morning." He said looking at the four elflings "I'm going to make lunch can't have four starving children on my watch." He said as he leads them into Bag end to get started on lunch with help from the children who all had a job to do.

Everyone is sitting in the dinning room eating soup until Bilbo spoke "So tell me about yourselves little ones." He said to the elflings who began speaking one by one "Well I really love reading and writing, my favorite colors are orange and white and I'm the oldest in the group at 15." Alya said then Nino spoke "I love music, my favorite colors are green and yellow and I'm the second oldest at 14." After Nino Adrien spoke "I love to sword fight, read, my favorite colors are black and green and I'm the third oldest at 14." Lastly was Marinette "I love Fashion, drawing and baking, my favorite colors are pink and red and I'm the youngest at 14." She said with a shy smile.

When they finished Bilbo's eyes widened from how young they are 'They are only babies.' He thinks to himself "Oye is there any cheese?" An odd voice asked.

Bilbo almost screamed from the floating creatures that flew from the elflings cloaks one was a Ladybug, one a black cat, one a fox and the last a turtle "Plagg behave yourself." Adrien ordered the cat like creature he called Plagg who whined "But I'm hungry." To which the other three creatures and the elflings replied "Your always hungry." They say laughing as the little creatures sat on the elflings heads. Bilbo went pale from the creatures "Mister Bilbo these are our Kwamis Tikki, Trixx, Wayzz and Plagg." Marinette said as the little creatures looked around "I don't think we're in our own world anymore." Tikki said making the four elflings, Kwamis and Bilbo go eye wide "Umm excuse me what did she mean by your own world?" Bilbo asked in terror.

The four young elflings explained that they weren't from Middle earth and that the last thing that happened before they appeared in front of Bag end was Lila impaling them (Bilbo felt himself cringing at the last part.)

After lunch Bilbo escorted them to the bathroom to get cleaned up while he washed the dishes and their clothes.

#the hobbit #thranduil #tauriel #mirkwood elves #legolas #middle earth #miraculous fanfic #crossover #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #alya cesaire #nino lahiffe #lila salt #bilbo baggins #the company of thorin oakenshield #elflings #chloe salt #team miraculous goes to middle earth #kwamis are adorable

[tappioca]

hi :) i'm a huge fan of anam cara like it's my favorite fic of all time, so first just wanna say thank you for writing it <3 i can't even verbalize how much this fic has affected my emotional state like if i hear someone *mention* leaving on a jet plane, then it is over for me ! i am thinking about that part right now and crying (not kidding) !! how did you learn to write the way you do? is it just natural talent? did you take classes or do you have a specific book genre/author you take inspiration from?

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hi, anon! :D kinda wish this was done through DMs ‘cause i don’t deal with compliments well especially this is anon too so this HAS to be published idk cultural stuff i think but let’s power through, babyyy!

first off, thank you for liking my silly lil’ fic! and that i am honored it’s your fave when there are a lot in the crop to choose from. 🙇🏻‍♀️ we have the muses (dua lipa’s “pretty please”, taylor swift, and that one passage in The Great Gatsby i’m tryna adopt the energy of) and ofc the entire institution of hor🆖y to thank why it exists. also special thanks to my beta reader for being so cool and keeping me grounded at many points.

lmaooo leaving on a jetplane’s a bit of a tear-jerker for me too, even before i got into RE. then i realized it oddly fit with the whole dynamic of ashleon in the fic, so if it’s any consolation—yep, i myself stare dramatically into space and imagine an ashleon music video when that song comes on.

as for writing…hmm. i suppose it’s a mishmash of everything i read. i was never privileged enough to take lessons (lessons would have turned me off, anyway); i just have a bit of an imagination, a penchant for explaining stuff, and, in anam cara’s case, i was severely horny for two sets of pixels 💀

i’d love to say i’m a voracious reader, but alas, not really 😭 i just happen to be a bit of a sponge when i read—i subconsciously note the vibes, the writing cadence, how hard a description can make me hallucinate. my writing influences include gabriel garcia marquez, luisa may alcott, andré aciman’s CMBYN, (and in the nonfiction category) standup comedy, memoirs, carrie fisher, cs lewis’ essays, a lil’ bit of david sedaris. garcia marquez would explain the hell-bent-ness on describing the environment. the rest would explain for the penchant for exposition.

(i’m yapping here but if there’s one thing i’d leave you, anon it’s this: there’s a saying that goes “every writer is a reader.” some people just read, but writing’s not up that much in their alley. but every writer must be a reader. so yeah. shoutout to my mom who bought us fairy tale books when we were kids and told us “one day, you’ll learn how to read, so you can enjoy these stories on your own” her daughter’s writing porn about fictional characters now but hey it’s whatever)

oh, this went off the rails a lil’ bit. sorry. anyway, chapter 15’s is a WIP now. and thank you for these kind words, anon. sometimes i feel like deleting that thing when i’m having one of them “brain go brrr” episodes but being told that my stuff gives enjoyment to some matters a lot 🥹 thanks for this, truly. happy holidays, anon! 🫶

#tapps writes #mom pick me up

[henrike-does-writing-sometimes]

air, beasts, mundane, rot <3

REN !! KING !!

AIR - What is your WIP's first sentence ?

Because I’ve already posted the first chapter of To The End, here’s the first sentence (plus the main prism attack) of the Divine. Featuring the previous Wielders !

“Light of Cosmia!” "Regal," "Prisma," "Chorus!" Pure aetherium exploded around them, turned the world pitch white and screamed in their ears.

BEASTS - Who is your favourite OC ?

Cruel of you to make me chose :<

Though characters that just, stick with me even when I’m not actively working on the wip they’re from are Epsilon, Kit, Ruben, and Vega.

Epsilon y’all already know, they go through such a character arc and they mean a lot to me. I love how they in a way represents parents who’ve fucked up and hurt their kid, intentional or not, but still love them and would die for them. And make that clear without crossing boundaries. Like “When and if you're ready, I’ll be here for you. That day may never come, and that is fine.”

Kit is such an angel (heheh), and this perfect mix of a kid having fun and being a kid, and being a whole tragedy. Scrutanized, and even demonized, ever since birth, slowly dying as a result of being an anomaly to a sacred prophecy. Kit has every fucking right to be mad and lash out and cause trouble, but they said “Nah. I’m going to live the best life I can.” and I love that for them.

Ruben wakes up every day and chooses wonder. Belle in the original fairy tale is written as a very kind and humble person, and I wanted to sorta emulate that with Ruben. He’s the kind of person who looks at the world and goes “I get to live here? I get to exist here? Awesome!” Yes, he’s handsome, yes, he’s cute, but what makes Ruben the beauty in this story is how he views and interacts with the world. Which, also is what makes him peculiar and weird to other people (weak of them)

Vega is one of the first main characters that I have killed off. And she is such a wonderful character. She’s the embodiment of stars; bright and exciting, but you never know first glance if the star you’re looking up at is dead or alive. Vega just, is phenomenal. And it was such a journey writing her, and her death scene actually made me cry, and her relationship with her dad means so much to me and their final scene broke my heart. I love her a lot

MUNDANE - Would you survive in the shoes of your main character ?

Nope :D 

There’s really nothing else to it, I simply would not survive all the bullshit I put my characters through

ROT - Which of your OCs is the best villain ?

Well starting off, you already know, Madereine. I love her so much it’s unreal. Like, she’s so effortlessly threatening; elegant, calculating, manipulative, vicious, and absolutely cruel. The scenes with her and André are so fun to write because they’re such sharp contrasts to scenes with André and Catalina. It’s the “I am your mother, I made you.” vs. “I’m your mom, and I love you no matter what.”

Like take the vivisection scene. Madereine may act like she cares about André, and in one way she does. But it’s not about him as a person, it’s not about his well-being. It’s strictly what he symbolizes. Catalina loves and cares about André because that’s her kid who she’d do anything for. Madereine loves and cares about André because that’s her weapon.

“Be careful with him,” Madereine said. “We only have one.” // "I created you, my Phoenix, you're alive because of me. I'm the only real family you have."

In other words, Madereine makes me insane.

But I’m also going to give a shout-out to the Locksmith, aka Arahmen. Because while he isn’t as big-scale as Madereine or other Divine villains, he’s still great. The perfect first villain. Like he doesn’t have some diabolical plan to conquer the world, but he poses enough of a threat as it is. And his motives are reasonable, why should mortals get the powers of gods ? But his methods ? The fact that he goes against another God who specifically gives out these powers to prevent catastrophe ? The fact that his actions could’ve led to a much worse outcome for when the Divine Entity enters the chat ??

It’s also how he stays on the sidelines for most of the season. Giving away tools for other Celestials to summon monsters and cause chaos. Silently observing before the time comes. And his first time in active battle is just- AAAAAA

The man ignored Nico’s remark, and without looking up from his book he spoke, “I’m looking for a Nico Morales. Do you know him?” Nico felt an unease take root. The man was unfamiliar, a total stranger. And even if his life was filled with weird monsters, he knew when to play it safe.  “I’m sorry, but I don’t know who that is.” That made the man close his book. He held it still in his hand, looking off to the opposing wall. As if pondering Nico’s answer. “Why are you lying?” he ask once the silence bordered on unbearable.  “I’m really not,” Nico said. “Sir, again, we’re closing so if you could please-” “Nico Ángel Morales,” the man looked at him, and Nico froze under the sharp and knowing gaze. “Junior at West Grove high, correct? You work long shifts here because you don’t like being home, plan on moving out as soon as you can.” “L-Look,” Nico said, doing his best to hide the shake in his voice. “I don’t know who you’re talking about-” he was cut off when the man's hand shot out. Wrapping around his throat and pulling him closer to the counter.  “Wielder of Aurora.” he spat his words, almost out of disgust. 

And then the whole situation where he kidnaps Andie and just-

"You… You're going to kill me?" Andie spoke cautiously, as if their question would spark any ideas in the Locksmith. Arahmen looked them up and down. Calculating, considering.  "No," he finally said. "I’m going to keep you here until they find us. Then I’ll watch them try to decide what to do. Leave you like this, unable to fight and with a ticking bomb growing inside you. Or forge a new key, and risk your life now instead. Thinking back on it, I should have done this to begin with. Pluck you one by one, and dangle you over the Sanctuary's heads."

Yeah, the Locksmith is great lol

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Thank you for the tag @l10ng1rl !  @l10ng1rl  tagged me to publish 5 songs that I actually listen to and then send this to 10 of my followers:

Rebuilt Jedi Enclave by Mark Griskey

Bury the light by Casey Edwards & Victor Borba

Geordie by Fabrizio de André

L'isola che non c'è by Edoardo Bennato

What could have been by Sting & Ray Chen

This was a difficult list to make, so I choose among the most recent songs I listened to, otherwise the list would have been endless 😅

Number 1 is from " Knights of the Old Republic 2 : the Sith Lords " videogame and it's the best music track I have ever heard in my life; I always cry when I listen to it (and it wasn't included in the released official soundtrack! Wtf Disney 🤬)

Number 2 is Vergil's theme from " Devil May Cry 5 ". Ten minutes long song about my favourite character from the game

Number 3 & 4 : De André was the best singer-songwriter to ever existed in Italy; nr4 is a song I'm listening to a lot these days, don't know why

Number 5. I just say : Silco. Jinx. Arcane. The end of episode 9. That's all.

Special mention to the cover of "I will always love you" by Josh Sawyer.

No pressure tags: @turbulentpumpkin43 @dragonflytehanu @silver-horse @silversiren1101 @vanilkaplays @dujour13 @secretsfromwholecloth  @monstergirlofficial @dmagedgoods @ibethalantyr and anyone who feels like doing it!

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