#WAYYYY away from the source

[brahmenbones]

GRABS MD TUMBLR AGGRESSIVLY

Omgeee hii!!!!

[last-words-ofashootingstar]

Animals:

Bunny Seonghwa

❥Park Seonghwa x fem reader

❥ATEEZ x fem reader

➯a/n: and so it begins... lmao i'm having alot of fun with this so thanks once again to @klllerwaifu for the request that started it all !

(>ᴗ•)genre: smut, hybrid a/b/o

ಠ_ಠwarning/content: poly pack dynamics, animal/human hybrids, hybrids take on physical and personality traits from their animals, hwa in heat, wayyyy too much cum, breeding, needy and desperate hwa, pleading to keep going, fast and hard sex, thigh job, very intense overstimulation, dacryphilia, tapping out, switch dynamics, touching his ears makes hwa cum on the spot (tehe), pet names (puppy, my girl, bunny, angel), little bit of aftercare + praise, omega puppy reader / omega bunny hwa

♡masterlist !♡

18+.MINORS DO NOT TOUCH.

‧｡ANIMALS𖦹°‧

Thump!

Thump!

Th-thump!

"Do you have a problem?" You finally snap as you whip around to face the source of the grumpy thumps — Seonghwa.

The pink haired omega is standing in the doorway of your room, his ears long, fluffy ears pinned to the sides of his head and pout on his plump lips. "No..."

You sigh and turn back to your book, ignoring the sulking bunny. You get a few seconds of peace until —

Thump!

"Seonghwa, seriously! I'm trying to read, what's wrong?" You toss your book, partly concerned and partly annoyed. Your nose twitches as you sniff the air.

"Want to come to the nest with me?" He asks quickly, ears twitching while impatiently searching for your response.

His peachy scent is extra thick and syrupy —

He's going into heat.

You should have realized something was up. He was eating even more greens than usual lately, rubbing his chin on you all extra hard before you went out. When everyone else coincidentally had plans today, it should have been a dead giveaway away. They left you alone with him on purpose, to give you some privacy; he always comes to you on the first day of his heat —

And he's always extra needy.

‧｡ANIMALS𖦹°‧

"My puppy," Seonghwa groans while thrusting into you wildly. His pace is frenzied, uncontrollable — rough. "Mine. M-mine."

He's got you bent over on your hands and knees, kneeling in the pack nest. His cum is dripping down your legs, and yet he shows no signs of stopping. His chest is pressed against your back, his breathing is hot on your sweaty neck.

Your cries of overstimulation make his ears twitch, stranding straight up on his head as he revels in them. The sound of his hips slamming into yours, his balls hitting your slick covered clit with every one of his rapid thrusts. Your sweet, yelping moans make him go faster.

He may be an omega, but he certainly doesn't fuck like one. Sure, he's moaning and groaning and has tears welling up in his eyes from the amount of pleasure your sloppy heat is giving him — but he's determined to breed and he's not being gentle with his intentions. Haven't you heard the saying; fuck like rabbits?

Male bunny hybrids are built to cum and cum and cum and —

"Ahh!" You wail as he slams his hips into yours extra hard, sending you prone bone on the blankets. You fists the fabric tightly and bring it to your face, burying yourself in it and letting it soak up the tears from the insanity inducing pleasure.

"Shhh," he coos shakily as his twitching length pumps yet another load into your flooded cunt. He starts whining and grinding into you even as he's working through it, his brain still screaming at him to breed you more. "Take it," he whimpers as you clench around him, milking his member, "take it-" comes out as a huff while he pulls his hips back.

He slams them back onto you, making you jolt and scream, "Hwa!"

"T-take it," he repeats like a mantra, pushing you flat on the mess of blankets with his hands on your shoulders. "Ple-please, puppy! Don't quit on- on me, need to breed you, need to cum — fuck! I need you so bad, please, pleaseeee~"

He whines like he isn't already buried balls deep inside of you every time he thrusts.

At least he's slowed down enough to give you a chance to gather your scattered brains. You moan weakly into the blanket, your entire body twitching each time he bottoms out. You aren't even physically capable of reaching a peak anymore, you're staying there.

He's fucked you into nothing but a ball of exposed, cum covered nerves. His cock gliding against your g-spot makes a tiny orgasm spark in your dopamine flooded brain every time.

And he's still rock hard.

"I c-can't-"

He can't help the pathetic whine that comes out at your words — he's not trying to make you feel guilty. He's genuinely distressed at the thought of pulling out of your gooey heat. "You can't?" He pouts as he stills deep inside of you. "One more? One more?" His ears droop as he pleads, even though you can't see them.

He needs to cum. He needs to. The thought of getting heat sickness makes him grind deeper into you. He needs to feel you.

"I'm sorry, b-bunny," you pant as you wipe your sweat and tear covered face with the fabric — it's already a complete mess anyway. "My pussy can't take it-"

"Yes, it caaaan," he thumps his leg with a tiny growl, crushing you under his body even though you make no attempt to get away, "my girl c-can take it! Perf-perfect pussy feels s'good~"

"I can't keep up," you whimper as your body clenches around him without your permission, another sharp orgasm flashing through you. "Fuck my th-thighs," you manage to slur, thankful he can't see the drool that almost drips down your chin before you wipe it. He'd undoubtedly start fucking you again.

"Your thighs?" He pants as he forces himself to pull out, "I can?" He looks down at your twitching hole, his eyes going wide and his ears springing upward as he witnesses all of his cum dribbling out to join the mess that's already on your thighs.

The sight is enough to make him shoot his hot release onto your backside — the feeling of it on your tingling ass cheeks makes you jump a bit.

His head rolls back as he instinctively starts fisting his length; his brain refusing to let up on the command of 'cum' for even a moment. "D-damn it!" He whines loudly, his cock begging for you. "Please, how- how do want it? Hurry, puppy, I need to feel you," his foot thumps again as he jerks himself off with the mess of his previous releases as lube; sliding easily and making squelching noises that have your ears twitching.

He lays down on his back quickly as you pat the space next to you, watching you with wide, begging eyes as you shakily push yourself up. "Don't worry, angel," your words make him dribble another milky drop to join the others as he squeezes his length, "just give me a break, you can still fuck me after I calm down a b-"

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" He grabs you, cum covered hand be damned, and yanks you to lay on top of him. "My girl is so good to me," he nearly babbles as he pushes your legs together with his own, squishing your thighs around his cock; fucking them with zero hesitation or shame. "Pretty thighs feel so nice, so soft, ahhh~"

You wrap your arms around his neck, hugging onto him as his fast paced fucking of your thighs tosses you around atop him. You pant softly as you catch your breath, leaning down and leaving soft kisses across his neck.

"Y- oh~" His jaw drops as you press your thighs together, his lashes fluttering rapidly. He grabs your waist, keeping you extra still as he picks up the pace. It's nowhere near as comfortable or pleasing to his bunny brain as your cunt, but it's about to make him cum nonetheless. He'd be happy with just your hand, really. As long as he can feel your skin on his.

His ears flick as you wrap your fingers up in his hair, almost begging to be touched. "P-puppy?" He mewls, wide pupils trained on your face as you come up from his neck with a questioning look. "Pet my ears, please~"

"Of course, bunny~"

As soon as your fingers touch the base of his fuzzy pink ears, he's moaning out like a pornstar as he cums. Mouth wide open, body trembling underneath you as he paints the back of your thighs white.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" He cries as you gently pet behind his ears, tears pooling as he looks at you starry eyed. His hips stutter for a split second until he's fucking your slick thighs with the same insatiable energy. "Ha-" He hiccups, "harder."

"Harder, angel?" You hum, giggling as he moans at the nickname; nodding quickly.

"Pull," he whimpers out the single word, starting to be just as fucked out as you were a few moments ago.

You wrap your hands around the base of his ears, watching the way his eyes flutter shut blissfully with a smirk. When you give them a careful tug, he grabs your back; grounding himself.

His ears, like most hybrids, are very sensitive. Some don't like having them touched — "harder!!" — he isn't one of them.

A soft yank sends him completely off the deep end, his mind going feral and blank simultaneously. "Let me cum inside! Please-" Another hiccup makes him wail after it cuts off his pleading, his member twitching and pulsing and needing to be completely enveloped by you. "Last o-ne! Last one! Let me p-put it inside you, puppy!"

He's about to sob as you spread your thighs, his hips still humping up into the air desperately. He gasps as your heat slowly slides onto his reddened tip.

Bunnies are fast.

He has you on your back in half a second, slamming into you and drawing an ear piercing moan from your throat as your sensitive cunt gets bombarded by a sudden orgasm.

He thumps his foot as your hands threaten to fall, "pull, pull 'em, please! Want my girl to pull my ears!" He begs while wrapping his arms around the back of your messy thighs, folding them over and pounding into you so hard and fast that your feet dangle in the air helplessly.

You have to blink a few times to get your brain back. It's back to nonstop mini-orgasms as his length glides down into you and tortures your g-spot so blissfully. You re-wrap your hands around his ears, pulling on them and holding on tightly.

"Ffffuck~" He falls over on top of you, a full body shiver running through him as he finally, finally reaches satisfaction; flooding your abused hole all over again and keeping himself as deep as possible.

He shakily cups your heated face, landing a tender kiss on your lips as you softly rub his ears.

"Mine." He whispers against your lips between his satisfied moans. "My girl." He mimics a purr as he wraps his arms around you, rubbing his chin on the top of your head to cover you in his scent as if you aren't covered and filled with his cum.

"Mmf," you can only hum as your eyes droop, hugging him back tightly and wrapping your legs around him.

"Puppy kept up with me so well~" He grins as he cuddles you; both of you thankful as you feel his length finally softening inside of you. "Thank you," he pecks your lips, "I love you," and again.

"I love you, bunny," you smile dopily, melting underneath him, "sleep time~"

"Sleep time~" He laughs softly, wrapping his fuzzy ears around your head as you fall asleep. He won't be sleeping anytime soon, but he'll let you do so until he starts getting hard again.

You'll need all the rest you can get to keep up with him until another pack mate is brave enough to take your place.

‧｡ANIMALS𖦹°‧

[theycallmecholemiri]

FINALLY REACTING TO MY TOP 10 POST (WHEN AM I GETTING MY HUNTRIX MERCH AND VIP TICKETS???)

Before I start, I do want to say that 1. No, I did not have access to the movie before it dropped, and that uhh *looks at notes* I TOLD YALL I WAS RIGHT I KNEW IT

1. "Rumi will have a mental breakdown somewhere in the movie. "

Not only was I right about this, but Rumi ended up having numerous breakdowns in the movie. Girlie was going through it, and let's be honest...so was I.

2. "The Saja boys end up winning Idol of the year OR They win something that jepardises the girls' fame."

✅️ I WAS RIGHTTTT

They also stole our hearts during the "MY Idol" song. I've seen way too many edits of this performance on my fyp.

3." The main Trio has a really bad argument that may make them go their separate ways for a while".

I got this one both right and wrong. The girls did have a bad argument, but they did not disband(which is good. We need the next Huntrix album NOW).

4." A lot of fans end up switching sides from Huntrix to Saja Boys."

✅️ Unfortunately, I was right about this one. The Saja boys ended up taking half of Huntrix fans. I blame Soda Pop.

5. "During the Saja Boys' performance, the fans will be used to take their souls away as some part of ritual."

✅️NOW I DONT WANNA SAY I TOLD YOU SO BUT LIKE I called it first, and that's that!!! (Also, we all were in a trance when watching the"My Idol" performance, right)

6. "The Grandma's play a bigger role than expected"

❌️ Okay, you got me for this one, BUT they did make numerous appearances throughout the movie, but ate every time they were on the screen!!! Shout-out to the MVPs of the movie!!!

7. "Rumi getting injured in the film happens way earlier than we think it does".

✅️Oh, it happened wayyyy earlier. All right, maybe because cause she was chasing a certain someone😏😏. Jinu babes, u can RUN but can't HIDE from someone like Rumi. Only in your wildest dreams.

8."Mira and Rumi will clash at some point in the film"

✅️BOYYY DID THEY CLASHHH and also said some maybe hurtful things(looking right at you rumi) but their good now I know cause they told me themselves.

9. "The public turns on Huntrix after some major incident between Huntrix and The Saja Boys."

✅️ I wouldn't even call it that; I would more call it Gui-ma-was-trying-to-steal-your-souls-but-what-do-i-know. I'm just a simple girl who watched the movie trailer 15+ times.

10. "The movie will end with girls choosing each other and being more truthful to their fans."

This one meant the most to me, and it ended up happening. I'm not sure about them telling the truth to their fans, but I'm 100% sure that there was a sob-filled group hug backstage. My source??? Divine Intuition.

Make sure you stream the movie AND the soundtrack, which is on YouTube and Spotify. Continue writing the fanfics(54 to 165 in a matter of hours, A03 writers, you never sleep, do you?) Show Netflix and Sony Animation that you want a sequel!!!

HUNTRIX DONT MISS🩷💜💛

[inchidentally]

"short and easier to read" babe I am so sorry to you and everyone else for how my insane posts come out - it's why I link to so much stuff bc it is a struggleee for me to not write just run-on sentences ;__; but I do get what you mean and I promise I tried my best - it's def shorter than the og and in smaller bites if that helps ??

(I actually wrote this on someone else's laptop so it's got proper punctuation and capitalization and everything!)

For those who don’t know: Oscar is an acts of service guy Lando is a words of affirmation guy. Let’s remember that someone’s love language is how they choose to express themselves, not what they should demand of others!

Oscar is also very much not a PR guy, for anyone totally oblivious to the obvious (and that all his "greatest hits" in PR were done unintentionally or bc he's awkward or bc his mom is cooler than him). For example, Oscar brings up his girlfriend of 4-5 years a fair amount but it’s almost hilariously not gushy or romantic (having a “cuddle” is as far as it goes lasfgjlsagfl). But he’s said himself that for the most part he’d prefer not to have too much private life available to the public. *His downtime with Lando joins in with all his other social life in being extremely limited to the public. 

The “thanking the sponsors” thing is one of Oscar’s safe, approved speeches he pulled from Andrea so that Oscar doesn’t have to do spontaneous on-camera speaking. Sorry but not all of us are good at it and it’s wayyyy easier to just have some rehearsed pre-approved soundbites. He tends to have a few that he repeats for a while until he updates the list lsafjslafhlafh.

He also very openly struggles to do on-camera speaking and no one knows that better than Lando who’s had to help him a huge amount. 

It does seem to be mostly cameras that make him stressed bc he was fine thanking Lando for his help in Baku at the fan stage in Singapore and overall he can use more of his dry humor when he's speaking to people rather than just to a camera. 

Lando’s recent inclusion of Oscar in his media responses to this degree is a reaction to Hungary and Monza - normally, his post race responses focus on himself and his own performance (which is literally normal and the default for drivers!!). The recent emphasis on teamwork/Oscar is something he feels he needs to do with his own PR work right now. He’s a smart man who’s been doing this a long time, so his reasons are valid no matter what fans think. He’s not sitting there working out or analyzing Oscar’s PR, just his own. 

People are absolutely running away with themselves over Monza and ignoring that apart from that one moment, Oscar is widely popularly seen as the supportive teammate role. To the point where last year and even part of this year, Lando was criticized by a lot of fans for not acknowledging Oscar enough.

Going off of that, let’s show how easy it is to take PR and media to make one of them look bad by turning it around onto Lando (!! this is for an example, I do NOT endorse hating on Lando for any of it !!)

Lando openly disliked being referred to as the “older teammate” and kinda left Oscar to his own devices so much last season that Oscar wouldn’t know where he was going a lot of the time and even semi-joked “my teammate’s abandoned me” (again, reminder this was not a source of drama for anyone but fans). He got called a little duckling a lot bc he’d tail Lando closely so as not to lose him. In fact it started irking some people that Lando would spend so much time with Carlos or Daniel and not getting to know his new teammate and helping him out with his rookie season of F1 the way Carlos did for Lando.

In every team photo where Lando has had a podium and Oscar has had nothing (and sometimes due at least in part to team orders!) which is very often! the comments sections have always had plenty of ‘Oscar is such a great team player, always happy and showing up for Lando no matter what’. So the whole ‘Oscar doesn’t do enough for Lando’ narrative is extremely recent and at odds with the rest of reality.

Please read the very first part of my enormous full post bc Lando didn’t thank Oscar for his Miami win, he praised his driving.

Even though at Silverstone this year Lando got on the podium and Oscar didn’t, Oscar made the fan stage all about bringing Lando out of his disappointment and even said he did the shoey “to make us feel better” and then dedicated the top row of his IG that week to photos and videos of him and Lando. Special note that this is in no way Oscar’s home race and he was solely seeing it as emotional for Lando and McLaren - and he had zero reason to personally be very happy after that weekend.

I’ve seen Melbourne this year get mentioned in the team orders discussions on my fyps, so that’s a handy example in many ways: Despite Melbourne being Oscar’s literal hometown race - and Lando even filming some Quadrant stuff at Oscar’s childhood karting track where a corner is named after him* - this year Lando didn’t acknowledge Oscar really at all over the weekend until someone mentioned him at the end of the podium press conference. Lando acknowledged that Oscar following team orders made his (Lando’s) drive a bit easier in Melbourne this year but said that he was faster than Oscar and deserved third over him anyway. (Good contrast to Hungary and even Carlos stating that something an undercut due to pit strategy shouldn’t erase one teammate being faster/more dominant in a race in order to give the other teammate the win!) He did PR work with pretty much everyone except Oscar actually, even doing promo for his (Lando’s) dad’s electric scooters on the new dotmov acc. Kind of like him being on a similar PR campaign at Singapore this year because of a sneak preview of Quadrant rebranding and announcing the Landostand at Silverstone  - he went for the biggest PR hits and posted Daniel on his jpg account, did a golf day with Carlos and Max F and was more active on socials than he had been for months. All while only having Oscar in one photo out of the whole weekend’s carousel despite the McLaren double podium. You could even read into him cutting Oscar and Oscar’s trophy out of two of the shots if you wanted! (He did include Oscar in the big group photo after the podium celebrations.)

*I saw some ppl say he didn't include Oscar in the Melbourne karting filming bc McLaren doesn't cross over with Quadrant, which isn't true. Zak has shares in Quadrant and Bianca has been included in the Quadrant rebranding launch with Lando's Singapore helmet design.

See how easy that was to flip it around?? If you’re even slightly biased against a driver or never see flaws in another- or are dying for two teammates to hate each other - then confirmation bias will always find plenty of “evidence”! Because the reality is that after the Austin GP, Lando found his “older teammate” mode and began helping Oscar out with his rookie year. In Melbourne, Lando spent his first day filming for his .mov account including the Oscar jersey and merch he came across - and Oscar mentioned how he and Lando talked about Lando filming at his old track. (Again, not PR coordinated or filmed, just mentioned!) And that after the Singapore race this year, they beamed at each other every other second of that night, filmed a deliriously happy post race video and joked in the cool down room - I honestly doubt have even noticed yet what the other has posted to IG salfhsalfafa. All of the negativity fans are coming up with is their own personal spin and does not resemble how Lando and Oscar are behaving to or speaking about each other.

They base their relationship on their conversations and interactions solely away from the public and the cameras and don’t do any inflammatory commentary about each other. They bragged about the door in the team hub that separates their drivers rooms from everyone else and leaves them open only to each other. Their communications only matter to each other when in private.

Segueing on from that: media and social media are literally PR. Lando is extremely skilled at it now and Oscar is not at all naturally skilled and is still learning. Lando is quick to be able to adapt his media responses, Oscar is not and often sounds stilted and uncomfortable. But it still has nothing to do with how they think of each other and talk to each other personally.

And “Landoscar” has never had the typical PR bromance aspect that we all love in other teammates, and it never will. Lando and Oscar mention but don’t broadcast or package their downtime together and they don’t share their private dynamic with fans or the media apart from the glimpses we see in more relaxed content. It’s just their choice! And just like it doesn’t mean Lando and Oscar are less friends because they don’t PR their relationship, it doesn’t mean the friendships who do utilize PR are less friends! 

And tbh that’s a good note to leave on: that seeing two drivers with no PR to gain from openly liking and respecting each other should mean that we as fans place less importance on the PR responses they give to media and put on social media. So many people want them to hate each other (Netflix even begging them outright) and rivalries get far more headlines and fan engagement, that if these two didn’t like each other or even were blah about each other, they wouldn’t waste time trying to fake it (side note ppl actually thought this joke was deadly serious for a short while). F1 isn’t team sports, no one really cares if drivers or teams appear “friendly” unless they’re desperate for money/engagement to keep them afloat (even there, Alpine prove it clearly isn’t a priority to have friendly teammates when you’re lower down the grid!)

There is absolutely nothing to be gained for them in faking the smiles and laughter and twinning. Equally there’s nothing to be gained by us as fans in judging them and their relationship based on their PR responses and PR work. Lando beams and smiles the same at Oscar after all of Oscar’s awkward, stiff debrief speeches and I kind of want one of these crazy stans to say to him that Oscar is a bad team player and doesn’t show Lando enough appreciation just to watch what his adorable face does in response (don’t do that I’m joking).

[descendantsramblings]

Could you do a Morgie x Bridget sister reader where Red and Chloe meets Reds distant aunt and uncle as the queen of hearts never mentioned in having a sister ?

In my heart Red doesn’t know about her aunt Because she willingly chose to be sent to the Isle instead of losing Morgie, any wayyyy. Also Queen of Hearts hates that red is rebellious and dresses the way she does because she reminds her of the sister who betrayed her. Wait who said that?

Warm Greens

Prequel to this story is out now! Find it here

Morgie le Fay X Hearts! Reader

Pronouns used: she/her/hers

Summary: Red never expected to see a face so similar to her mother’s in the group of people who pranked her mom.

Warnings: Literally starts with a make out scene but its gentle not in a nsfw way (they’re also barely kissing tbh, he’s kissing her neck), minor swearing, Reader is also touchy with her friends because it's fun, despite being a Morgie x reader it somehow got a lot more focused on her friendship with them and her focus on Red, idk how

Word Count: 2.4K

    The cobblestone wall of the hallway is cold against her back, matching the soft, cold hand that’s ghosted its way underneath her tank top to rest on her side. She’s giggling, head tilted to the side to give him better access to her neck as gentle feather-like kisses cover the exposed flesh there. “You have got to quiet down,” he laughs against the girl’s flesh, looking up at her from the corner of his eye. “You’re the one who wanted to make out in the walkway by the courtyard. We were supposed to go back to our dorms,” she mumbles, biting back another giggle as his hair brushes against the back of her neck. “You want me to stop?” It’s not him teasing, she can feel him pulling back and it makes her whine, “Don’t you dare.” Fingers thread into the back of his hair, pushing him back against her neck. And he doesn’t need to be told twice, hand readjusting on her side as he tugs her closer, peppering more kisses down her neck to her exposed shoulder. “You know,” she hums, dragging her hand down so her nails scratch from his scalp and down his spine, “Maybe this is why I got dress coded to begin with. My shoulders are just so scandalous.” She smirks, feeling the way he shivers under her nails, grip tightening on her side ever so slightly. 

     A laugh sends a puff of air over her skin before he pulls back again, looking at her face with the brightest smile she’s ever seen. “Yeah? And what about me is so scandalous?” Her eyes ghost over him, laughing as she drags a finger down his bare chest, “All you had to do was button this. She only kicked you out because you refused.” He hums, leaning down to let his lips hover over hers. “Well, if she was going to kick you out, she had to kick me out too. Why would I want to sit in there without you? It completes the outfit anyway. Looks stupid with it fully buttoned.” “You were probably the reason she decided the tank top was a distraction to begin with,” (Y/n) punctuates her sentence by closing the distance between them, feeling Morgie smile against her lips. It’s soft, playful even, lips working against each other as if they were built to meet the other pair. He’s pulling her closer, not that there was much room between them to begin with. Her skin leaves the wall, making the two block the whole hallway. If they were doing this during class change, she’d even be disgusted by their little display. But it was halfway through class, who was going to be walking around to interrupt them? Hook maybe, but he’s seen the display enough he’d probably just push Morgie back slightly so he could slide by. No way the poor pirate was still affected by the needy couple he was plagued with to a near constant degree. 

    A throat clears to their left, followed by a soft, “Excuse me.” Morgie nearly whines as she pulls away, attempting to follow her with his lips but a hand on his chest stops him. (Y/n) turns to look to her left, taking in the source of the request. She knew she’d never seen the two before, the realization piquing her interest  and suddenly she’s detangling herself from his grip to turn to them. “What do we have here? I’ve never seen you ladies before.” She smirks, eyes flickering between the nervous girl with blue hair and the annoyed redhead. The smirk on her face is replicated by the redhead, head tilting as she speaks, “Transfers. You’re in our way.” She laughs, mockingly  bowing to the girl, “Oh my dearest apologies, Princess. Please, after you.” Her hand swings out to point to the right, letting the two through. She gets a scoff from the redhead that makes her giggle. Something about the girl was familiar, not that she could put her finger on it. 

      Not that she had much time to worry about it before cold hands are sliding onto her shoulders, “That was nasty of you, Uli would be proud.” She rolls her eyes, leaning back into his touch, “I don’t really care to make her proud. What about you?” He hums, nuzzling his cheek against the side of her head, “What?” “Are you proud of me?” The question leads to her being spun around in his arms, the boy leaning their foreheads together. An adoring sparkle dancing in his eyes as he cups her cheek, “I am always proud of you. Come here.” With a giggle their lips connect again, not for long, it’s a gentle quick kiss that somehow means more to her than the whole display the two had been putting on a moment before. More adoring, needy, it felt like him. As if the boy had managed to put everything about him into a single kiss, and she realized that there was no other way to explain it. The princess pulls away, smiling up at him, “You think Hook is in your dorm?” “Probably, why?” There’s a playful twinkle in her eye that makes him nervous. What could she possibly be planning? “Wanna go piss him off?” He laughs, draping an arm around her hips as they walk towards the dorms, “What might your plan be?” “Dealer’s choice?” It earns her a mischievous little grin, the boy pulling her faster towards the direction of his dorm. Excited laughter rang from the two that surely the students around them could easily hear,  the ones sitting by the classroom windows at least could. No way they couldn’t.

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     The next time she sees the redheaded girl is later that day. Trailing behind Uliana and her friends as they approach the new girl, more so to harass her sister than to meet the new kids. The feeling that she knows the girl is nearly impossible to shake now, staring her down as her friends make their own vague attempts at being intimidating. Curious eyes flickering between Bridget and the girl as if there was some live wire between them, sparking up and begging to shock her. Her fingers dancing over exposed copper but she could manage to grab it. (Y/n) feels Hades pull her over to him and out the way, leaning into the side of the god that Maleficent doesn’t currently occupy. 

   “What’s bubbling up in that head of yours?” Maleficent leans around her boyfriend to ask, eyeing the girl’s still stiff frame over. “Does that Red girl look familiar to you? Like idk, maybe you’ve seen her before?” The couple shake their heads, eyeing the girl down. “Does she look familiar to you?” Hades nudges her side slightly with his hip as he asks, offering her the closest thing he can to a smile. “Yeah, sorta? I think she more so looks like someone but I’m not sure who. I feel like I’m going crazy trying to figure it out.” Mali giggles, reaching over to playfully push the girl, “Oh Princess, you went crazy when you agreed to date Morgie. It’s nice that it’s finally catching up to you though.” She rolls her eyes, attention turning back to their two friends and her boyfriend in front of them. 

    Uliana is holding what (Y/n) thinks is at least three flamingo feathers in her hand, something that anyone from Wonderland would know is far too many. Uliana was about to look like a fool in front of the whole school, and after what she did to her when she joined them, (Y/n) craves the display that’s going to happen in front of her. Yet, Bridget yells for her to wait, telling the sea witch she has far too many and Uli rolls her eyes. Of course, part of her just wants to see what happens, but to not warn the sea witch would be her own funeral, she knows that. “Uli, I’d listen to her. That is going to have some crazy side effects.” Hair and tentacles whip around to follow her as she turns to look at (Y/n), brows raised in a silent dare. “Oh, what’s that? You’re taking your sister’s side huh, Princess? Want to go back to the goody two-shoes posh pink side of life?” She laughs, shaking her head and leaning further into Hades, “Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Crazy side effects.” 

    “Sister?” She doesn’t miss the shock in the new kid’s tone. Dripping with something she almost thought sounded like hurt, potentially betrayal. “Please, don’t rub it in,” Bridget sighs, putting a hand up to Red. The action almost makes (Y/n) feel bad, the bubbly pink girl looking between the girl decked out in red beside her and her sister’s red leather jacket as she shakes her head. “I just,” Red pauses, looking at the princess leaning into the god’s side again, “I didn’t think you had any siblings is all.”  (Y/n) hums, sliding away from Hades to get closer to the new girl. She slips under Morgie’s waiting arm, smiling at the tight grip that he immediately takes over her. “What was that about?” His head nods to Hades and in response his girlfriend nods to the new girl. It doesn’t take anything else for him to know what’s happening. “Well, she doesn’t seem to know who you are, so maybe you’re just imagining you know her. I wouldn’t stress it any more, Baby.” She shakes her head, leaning further into him as she watches Uliana drop the feathers into her mouth. “Yeah, I’ll definitely have a distraction for a little while. Watch what’s about to happen,” she giggles, reaching up to hold his hand that rests around her shoulders  as the sea witch begins to cough up feathers. This is going to be something to remember, her own silent revenge that Uliana caused herself.

—————-       ﮩـﮩﮩ٨ـ🫀ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ. ———————-    

     “Coast is clear,” Hook raises his brows, taking (Y/n)’s outstretched hand to pull him out of the tree. He gives her a small nod of thanks, crossing over to Uliana’s side as the girl leans back into Morgie’s “Not yet,” Uliana smirks, watching as a girl in an oversized black hoodie makes her way across the yard. (Y/n)’s eyes follow Uliana’s glance landing on the girl who had been driving her crazy. Who was she? Why did she have to be everywhere all the time? And why would she be breaking into the principal’s office at the exact same time they were? Something wasn’t right about her wasn’t right, like she was a puzzle piece jammed into the wrong place. It was sickening. 

    “Morgie,” Uliana grabs his chin, tilting him towards her and she desperately tries not to get mad. It wasn’t like Uliana wanted Morgie, she knew that. But that doesn’t mean the princess didn’t want her to keep her hands to herself when it came to touching Morgie. “Honey, you keep look out, okay? If you see Merlin coming, give a signal.” And while she can fight the annoyance at Uliana, she can’t fight the smile that takes over her face as her ever excitable boyfriend starts listing off different ideas of signals he could give off. Even if their friends aren’t as amused by his antics, she is. The girl hovering as their friends begin to make their way inside. His eyes bounce over to hers pouting slightly at how everyone walked off. “What do you think?” She shakes her head, pecking his lips ever so softly, “Wolf howl, definitely the wolf howl. You behave, don’t get too cold out here in the rain.” He smiles, kissing her forehead, “I think that’s the opposite of what we’re meant to be doing. I’ll do my best to stay warm. You stay safe.” She hums, winking at him as she turns on her heel to catch back up to her friends.  Hook grabs her hand again as she makes it back to his side. “Needed your good luck kiss, huh?” She laughs, “A kiss before and a kiss after so we know that the scheme went well. It’s good luck.” “It’s needy, you’re needy.” “Maybe, or maybe no one kisses you right.” He scoffs, tapping her hip with his playfully, “No, you’re just needy.” 

    In most scenarios, (Y/n) has found that it’s best just to let Uliana talk and for her to do her best to look intimidating on the side of whichever one of her friends is holding onto her. And as she stands there, one tentacle wrapped around her as she leans into Hook’s side, she knows that this is one of those times. No need to interrupt the big win of a short fused sea witch. Arms crossed over her chest as she lets her shoulder brush against Hook’s. And from the way Red glares at her, part of her thinks it may be working. Chloe pulls the girl back as she tries to argue with Uliana over the silly little book, her eyes ghosting over the girl with an odd air to her. Like she knows something that the five of them don’t.   “There’s too many of them.” She doesn’t miss the nod the girl gives her. Something was surely afoot with the two, something her friends were far too wrapped up in their own schemes to notice. “And you,” Red turns to her, a strangely broken look on her face, “How could you be planning to use that thing on your own sister? What has she ever done to deserve that?” Her brows raise, crossing closer to the girl and away from her friends. “And how would you know about that, little one? Listening in on other people’s conversations?” “How could you? She’s so nice, she’s your sister.” The girl shakes her head, brushing a strand of red hair behind the girl’s shoulder in a way that almost felt maternal. “Please, it’s just a prank. It might embarrass her but it won’t hurt her, she’ll be fine. What they did to me was way worse than turning me into a ghoul.” There’s a sudden softness in her face, “What they did to you? They did something worse than this and you stayed with them?” 

    She can feel Hook’s arm swing around her waist, the boy leaning over her shoulder with a smirk, “It was her initiation. Can’t hang with the big dogs if you can’t handle being bitten.”  “Why would you want to be around people like that?” Red looks at her as if she’s hurting her personally and something about it deeply upsets the girl. She can’t pinpoint why, that only makes it worse. “So she could mack on my roommate,” he scoffs, dragging her back towards their group, “Now come on, we only have so long until Merlin is back, Uli is leaving us.” (Y/n) looks between the heart broken girl and her friend, forcing herself to turn away as she lets him lead her back to her boyfriend. She had to get her kiss proving they succeeded, didn’t she? So why didn’t it feel like they succeeded?

[fizzbot]

ok im not sure if anyones pointed this out yet, but this is a helluva boss sticker pack that just recently released. its very possible that it means absolutely nothing........but is it possible that these are hints to upcoming shorts???? (personal rambles and theories under the read more)

these all seem really random. which wouldnt be out of the norm for helluva merch, usually its just an assortment of random characters doing random things. but with the fact that we now know that we'll be getting shorts, and the fact that these all seem like very specific scenarios, i think its plausible that these are hints for things that might be upcoming.

the cherubs being here is especially interesting, because we havent seen anything about them AT ALL since early season 1. we know theyll be making a return (presumibly in mastermind) but then why is the merch featuring these cherubs, and not collin, keenie, and cletus? i think its possible that well be getting a short set in heaven, specifically about these characters/perhaps in preparation to the release of mastermind.

as we know from hells belles, verosika will be going on a tour in pride, which presumably sets up apology tour. but in this art shes not in pride, shes in sloth. this is where we know the rehab center is. is it possible shell end up back in rehab/well get a flashback short about her time in there? potentially even some backstory with her and barbie??

the next one features bee, tex, and loona. i THINK it was confirmed somewhere (although i dont have a source) that well be seeing bee again this year, although i just assumed that would be in the finale. its possible that she, tex, and loona will be hanging out again in a short, which would be nice! ive also seen some theories/speculation that this specefic piece of merch might allude to the ship ""honeybunch"" (or bee x tex x loona) potentially becoming canon.

stolas and octavia sort of has me stumped. based on her lines in the trailer, it seems like octavia is still harboring some resentment, and this picture seems like a really sweet glimpse into their domestic life. honestly this feels so out of character for me that it almost made me throw my whole idea about these being potential shorts out the window. im sure they still do have nice moments like this, but i struggle to picture them happening since the only interactions weve seen them have have been negative. maybe therell be a short trying to rectify this? or this could be a pre-blitz flashback.

im partially hoping these are shorts JUST for this next one. i want striker to have a short so so bad. i have literally NO idea what it would be, though. i just wanna see more of him and bombproof :( zooming in on the picture, i did notice that 1) theyre back in wrath. 2) striker is polishing a (not-blessed) knife. and 3), he doesnt seem to be too injured from the escape in oops. although, interestingly, we only get to see the left side of his face. im pointing this out, because in oops, when the explosion occurs, the shot of the fire zooming towards strikers face is a direct parallel to the shot of the fire zooming towards BLITZ face. i think it would be REALLY sick if they ended up with matching burn scars.

finally, moxxie and his mom. this is the piece that gave me this idea in the first place, just because it seems so incredibly random. i cannot even imagine a place where she would come back, if not a flashback short that delves deeper into his childhood. where else would she fit in this whole season? its possible that he has another flashback in the show, but the trailer seems REALLY focused on stolas and (especially) blitzs past, so it feels slightly unlikely. it makes sense that theyd get a whole short dedicated just for them.

idk, maybe im WAYYYY off. i just think it would be nice to get some time away from the main cast in their current states for a while and these seem like some of the best ways to do it

[razzle-zazzle]

Monster Squad AU brainrot compilation post <3

@dinosquad-central

Ms. Moynihan's been around wayyyy longer than Veloci, and might have been the one to turn him all those centuries ago. Both of them are capable of hypnotism, shapeshifting, superstrength, and turning into fog, though Veloci is uniquely weak to the seed-scattering trick and neither of them handle sunlight or garlic well.

Vampires can eat really any kind of animal blood; Moynihan travels far every night to feed from as many sources to minimize damage, while Veloci enjoys human blood specifically because he enjoys draining people dry whenever he can get away with it.

Raptordyne the company is basically a) a front for Veloci's growing coven of vampires and thralls, b) an actual bioengineering company with focus in agriculture and livestock that innovates new technologies, new GMOs, and overall makes Veloci a lot of money, and c) it also runs regular blood drives! How fun!

That focus on agriculture and livestock isn't just to make money btw. It also serves as "preparation for the future" i.e. how Veloci plans to feed the "world of monsters" he's trying to create.

Nobody knows if the Kittery Point Vampire is actually real or just an elaborate fabrication for tourists. Nobody but Joanne Moynihan, who carefully maintains the delicate balance of being just noticeable enough to attract tourists without ever actually getting caught or hurting people.

Veloci’s ooze is basically a curse wrapped in slime. Maybe there’s some sciency stuff going on in it, maybe it’s more of a “magic is a kind of science” thing, either way the batch that the kids swim through was a rare fluke of success that Veloci hasn’t been able to replicate since.

Rump was already Moynihan’s familiar and thus already a little magic, but swimming through the ooze with the kids made him even more magic + able to sort of “match” what the kids are (werebeast, ghost&corpsedog, fishdog, hellhound, creachur). He also dove into the water to try and clear the ooze out there and didn’t mean for the kids to follow him (…or did he? He took Caruso’s jacket, after all!).

Rump’s attempt to “purify” the ooze is why it affected the shark differently to the kids despite being the same batch.

The squad becomes monsters slowly over a period of time. Caruso doesn’t notice because he subconsciously put up a glamour almost from the beginning; Rodger thinks he’s just having wild dissociation episodes until his ghost is hovering over his body; Buzz feels like his body is falling apart until his skin finally splits and the angel emerges; and Max and Fiona experience the partial transformations seen in the show until Moynihan stabilizes them. Either way it’s uh. Rodger and Buzz (and technically Caruso bc he did find out about his horns eventually) would like a refund bc that was horrifying.

They’re all lowkey panicking, slowly congregate together at the beach, realize they’re all going through changes (well. Caruso tries really hard to pretend he’s not but Buzz bursts his glamour on accident), and that’s where Moynihan finds them. She brings them to the lighthouse, stabilizes them, and then explains that they’re all cursed now.

Max & Fiona are the only actual shapeshifters in the group, shifting from human to monster form on a physical level. Rodger simply possesses and depossesses himself, Caruso’s got his glamour, and Buzz pilots/puppets a mannequin the squad found for him. He basically slots himself into a hole in the back and then a glamour sewn into the clothes make the puppet appear human.

Thus when Buzz “transforms” from human to angel he actually just. Pops out of the puppet. He does make it look cool though by making his wings appear first!

Caruso doesn’t need to have a transformation sequence because of the glamour but. Well. It’s Caruso. He’s got several different transformation sequences purely for the fun of it <3

The “failed monsters” that Veloci’s curse makes are unstable, a mess of flesh and limbs that’s thrown symmetrical structure out the window, and often deteriorate into slime instead of firming up into proper monsters. Like John Carpenter’s The Thing had a baby with Flubber that was fed only Eraserhead babies and raised by Uncle Fester Addams. Icky stuff <3

Same two-gun cure, but the Chiller sprays a magic antidote that destabilizes the curse and then the Spiller applies a stabilizing effect to return the now-uncursed victim to normal.

Peter is either another vampire or some type of chimera. Lieutenant Alpha is a vampire.

Caruso’s “true” form, an uglier and far more powerful demonic form, is straight up inaccessible to him until he can get over himself re: his vanity and need to look good. And even when he does use it once it’s still not something he can just call upon at will… nor does he really want to. Think evil goat with wings and attitude.

When Caruso comes out to his parents in “T-Rex Formation” (after spending the episode using his abilities to give all the other players misfortune while only boosting himself a little) they’re initially horrified because they think their baby boy is dead 😞 Caruso has to hurriedly correct that it’s a curse! He’s not dead! He’s just cursed! In the end his parents accept him <3

When Fiona comes out to her family in “Mole Lotta Trouble” they also accept her wholeheartedly. And also still make the “see! I told you so!” remarks. Except they thought she was the werewolf. Terry complains about Fiona stinking like rotting fish in her monster form.

Buzz can see the shrimp colors :] his senses are actually really weird; he doesn’t perceive visible light super well but can see/feel/hear just about the entire electromagnetic spectrum. He actually kind of sucks at healing until he gets a better handle on his senses and how to interpret them, but he’s really good at seeing through and popping glamours from Day One (Caruso is Not Amused).

Max is colorblind now, trading his red and green cones for yellow. In both of his forms :[

and then I think I had more but I cannot recall it off the top of my head + I don't want this post to get too long but. Yeah. Monster Squad (not to be confused with the 1987 movie of the same name LMAO).

[hsvh-hp]

Hey, I’ve seen your anon ask about AI.

I fear that I sometimes unknowingly reblog or like AI art.

I can usually tell straight away, but lately I’ve struggled to identify if it’s actually made by a human or not.

How can you know for sure?

Well, I just so happened to go on a crash course yesterday to brush myself up on this again lol.

- multiple/non-sensical lighting sources

- wayyyy too smooth. Where are the paint strokes?

- fingers are weird (also check ears; sometimes the hair spiderwebs into it)

- I find that glasses get discombobulated, and clothing too

- Background is very blurry and strange upon closer inspection

But this is just a nebulous list. How about an example?

It’s a nice piece of art at first glance, isn’t it? Here we have the Black sisters posing in front of the tapestry at Number Twelve Grimmauld Place.

- light sources

The major one is coming in from the right, and then there’s Bella’s wand.

The person who created this AI art posted a version without the wand. Notice how Bella’s lit wand doesn’t change any of the shadowing at the left side of Narcissa’s jacket?

- Smoothness

The closest thing to texture in this picture is the hair. Everything else is cartoonishly smooth. What is going on with Bella’s left shoulder line?? Her jacket arm just melts into the back lol

- fingers are weird

Zoom in on Bella’s hand there

What’s going on with that middle finger?? And what a cute little baby thumb lol

- Glasses and clothing gets discombobulated

Bella’s wand closeup:

Glasses tend to do the same thing.

Clothing examples:

Andie’s pocket is a monster

How many coats is Narcissa wearing?

Where’s that belt going? Through the jacket apparently

Looks like AI is unfamiliar with the relationship between women’s clothing and pockets (less, not more lmao)

- background is blurry

There is no background in the one. But the other…

Look how they massacred my boy 😭😭😭

Anyway!!! I hope this was informative, anon!

[sophiehelgagoughfives]

Oh my god, look at this ridiculous eagle-drawn airship:

I found this in the Scrapbook of Early Aeronautica, by the collector William Upcott (1779-1845)

It's so stupid and so beautiful.

The italics at the bottom say "Mr. Mackintosh proposes to construct a Balloon, of the form represented above, large enough to carry two persons, and to attach to it a sufficient number of Eagles, Hawks, Pigeons, or other large Birds, and in this manner, he is satisfied, from experiments he has made, that, in moderately calm weather the Balloon may be conducted in any direction that is desired." Kudos to the lithographer, Pocock, btw.

(also, Paternoster Row? My inner Doctor Who nerd was excited, so I checked, and this was designed in 1935, while the Paternoster Gang were around towards the end of the Victorian era. (The Crimson Horror takes place in 1893) So they probably wouldn't have met Mr. Mackintosh. kinda disappointed.)

I had a quick Google of "airship eagle mackintosh", but only found copies of the above image, and an aircraft carrier called the HMS Eagle, with a Capt. L. D. Mackintosh. HOWEVER, googling "Thomas Simmons Mackintosh" yielded this:

And doesn't "a faculty for vivid and humorous scientific illustration" sound like our Mackintosh? The time period seems to fit. I like the polite phrasing of this quote that is clearly saying his book was nonsense. "seemed true to those who did not understand it," owch. Also, it suggest that his Eagle-drawn ship may have been a joke?

And now I've found this in the citations of a book called "Reign of the Beast - The Atheist World of W. D. Saull and his Museum of Evolution"

Saull was an opponent of creationism, and a geologist and collector with an interest in palaeontology who was a supporter of "radical causes." (He supported liberalisation of divorce, and lectured on the theory of people being descended from apes in 1833, 26 years before the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Pretty ahead of his time. Anyway, I'll try to extricate myself from that rabbit hole (but go read his Wikipedia or The Reign of the Beast (for free!) if you want a wayyyy longer read. This is getting away from me.)

ANYWAY! Thomas Simmons Mackintosh was apparently aligned with Saull, and they lectured together: "He told them at Watson's Mechanics' Hall of Science, in a six-lecture series in 1836, running concurrently with Saull’s lectures, that electricity was the most potent agent in the physical world, and “the ultimate source of motion”" (From Reign of the Beast)

He was involved in the then-cutting-edge science of electricity, and "he toed the Owen line that humans shaped by circumstance should not be judged, and he attacked Christianity for downplaying man’s social duty to man in the here-and-now in favour of the Kingdom to come." So he didn't believe in Heaven. These people were very controversial at the time for their blasphemy, and some of them got into serious legal trouble for publishing their views.

"Mack", as was his nickname apparently, believed the Earth had had five moons, four of which had crashed into the Earth already, causing extinctions, and the final moon would do the same one day.

Finally, I found Kristen A. Rieger's paper, which explains his Electrical Theory of the Universe and, uh... it's something. The sun is a vast conductor of electricity, it expels comets, which turn into planets, and eventually fall back into the sun, and his crashing moon theory was trying to explain disturbances in geological strata (fair enough).

Also, he was once a cotton-weaver in Gasgow, then shopman and silk trader, so he was an artisan, not upper-class, but well-off. He was involved with Richard Carlisle, a "notorious working-class reformer"

"Beginning in the 1820s, the British Home Office, alongside the Society for the Suppression of Vice, waged an underhanded attack against Carlile, intending to put an end to his prodigious radical publishing operation."

-Rieger

"Society for the Suppression of Vice" is a pretty badass name for an organisation, i must admit. But they sucked, because Carlisle was put in jail in the 1820s, and Mackintosh was one of the volunteers who distributed Carlisle's books and risked arrest. Cool dude.

THEN, I finally saw a mention of the fucking bird airship that started this off:

Googling the exact title of the pamphlet yielded this monstrosity:

The paper is so thin, it's hard to make out the text. But I'll do my best to decipher it. Let's see.

For one thing, the illustration provided with the pamphlet is not bird-steered:

I then realised that this is not Thomas Mackintosh's design, but his design seems to have been in response to this one. In the pamphlet, we see The Eagle introduced: 160 feet long, 50 feet high, 40 feet wide. Apparently, it has been built and is on display at a dock in Kensington. It will make a journey to Paris and back again. There are dreams of flying to Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid! Hilariously, the design is based on a French 1796 design by Campenas, which he proposed to Napoleon:

"there will issue an Aerial Vessel, capable of carrying up with you more than 200 persons, and which may be directed to any point on the compass. I, myself, will be your pilot. You can thus, without any danger, hover above the fleets of enemies jealous of our happiness, and thunder against them like a new Jupiter, merely by throwing perpendicularly downwards firebrands [...]; or perhaps you may think it more prudent to begin at once, by forcing the British cabinet to capitulate, which you may easily do, as you will have it in your power to set fire to the city of London[...]"

This absolute MADMAN Campenas was proposing this to Napoleon Bonaparte. My inner steampunk fan is delighted. My inner London fan is glad it never worked out.

Anyway, we finally hear from TS Mackintosh himself in this pamphlet. He is commenting on the effectiveness of the airship. He envisions wings that fold like a bird's so they don't drag the ship on the backstroke (pretty reasonable, actually), and criticises the airship for not implementing this and a foldable or retractable rudder.

"I did not "recommend the employment of pigeons for the conductors of the aerial ship to Paris," as your correspondent "Fog" asserts." AHA! We're getting somewhere. He does say even Geese would be better at steering the ship than the wings it has got, yeesh. He clarifies:

"I do not propose to build an aerial ship large enough to carry a garrison for the purpose of compelling cabinets to submit to the fiat of a "new Jupiter"" -Thomas "Mack" Mackintosh, mad lad

Instead he proposes a small ship, enough to carry two people, to which would be attached forty, sixty, or even a hundred pigeons. He describes this design as "modest." He says they could steer this ballon in any direction if the weather was calm. So. There we have it. The origin of the ridiculous eagle-drawn airship design, the brainchild of one Thomas Simmons Mackintosh, who was annoyed at a flawed airship. I honestly still can't tell if he was joking with his alternative design, but this has been a fun journey.

There's only one question left: What happened to the Eagle?

Well, after being exhibited in the grounds of the Aeronautical Society in Kensington, it found it's way to the Champ de Mars, Paris. Unclear how it got there, but I presume it didn't fly, because when it tried to lift off in Paris, it was too heavy, and the disappointed crowd destroyed it. This was not uncommon during failed balloon demonstrations at the time.

"However, I venture to give this opion [sic], that, in no very great length of time, it will be nothing uncommon for a gentleman to call for his balloon and his birds as he now calls for his carriage and horses.

Yours, &c T. S. Mackintosh"

[overcastedsays]

hammerhead lorepost #1 here (migrating it from artfight)

A rather vain Swordsmachine copycat from the Wrath layer. After many grueling years spent descending the upper layers and fighting for survival, replacing it's body over and over again to make up for injury and dismemberment, it decided to focus on improving its form to the best it could be once they found relative peace. It spends it's time trawling the depths for blood and parts. Not a very sociable machine my any means, most encounters with other machines being met with conceitedness or jealousy. For the few beings they find tolerable enough to keep around, too powerful to overcome, or prime candidates for stealing parts off or friendly adversaries, they mostly act indifferent. Number 1 enemy of the Wrath layer, terror to machine and husk alike. In a sort of rivalry with the Ferryman as they continue to carry out more and more elaborate attempts to board the ferry and steal things from the inside.

[cool robot facts]

It originally had a normal coat of paint, but years spent under the waves eroded it away, leaving onto the stripped metal. In spite of this unwanted change, they have been "borrowing" some neon plastic paint from the Lust layer. It chips fast, lasting no more than a week or so. He reapplies it regularly, almost to an obsessive extent. They sometimes take advantage of this to try out new configurations of paint, but always seem to land back on the classic layout shown in their ref.

It is swift and deadly underwater, but quite awkwardly on land. All of the time spent with the ease of grapping and swimming underwater, they're land skills have gotten rusty. It mostly attempts to grapple everywhere or used its harpoon as a support. All else fails, they resort to a skillful, dignified scuttle across the ground to the nearest source of water.

He rarely leaves the Wrath layer, but will sometimes go on excursions to others in search of resources or if they think a foe fled to one. They regularly visit the Lust layer for paint, parts, and inspiration. He hates going to Greed but have to pass through it almost every time. He almost never descends to any lower layers and will only move upwards.

They admire the artistry of the Mindflayers greatly as self-made robots. Would probably hang out with them over the other swordsmachine copycats.

His tail is made from wings he snapped off of a V-Model.

They have a hideout somewhere in Wrath but it's very well hidden.

The liquid in their fins glows by default, but they can spend time draining it out of their system to stop it from glowing. When this is done, the tubes and fins are a darker red-orange.

The liquid is a homemade solution made from blood and a few secret ingredients. He guards this formula with his life. It's one of his greatest achievements so far.

Despite being so focused on their appearance, Hammerhead isn't very showy. He prefers swift, direct action when it comes to fighting. He is mostly concerned with upkeeping his form and improving it.

While it does retain its vocalization like other Swordsmachines, it very seldom talks or communicates.

It's favorite move to use against husks it to reel them into close range with the whiplash or harpoon and then maul them with the chainsaw. Basically the whiplash/sawed-on combo in-game.

It owns a small collection of other arms and weapons it still cherishes. It keeps these in its hideout. They are rarely used and mostly serve sentimental value. They will also perform maintenance on these sedentary weapons, even if it is at the cost of resources.

Actually rather timid in the face of serious danger. While it does pursue foes that are wayyyy above it's pay grade in terms of combat power, it will flee any encounter it thinks it will not survive.

[overthinkingtaleblr]

oh and also 🧱 i'm curious

🧱 - Are there any characters from other media that influence how you write/portray Taleblr characters?

Embarrassing, but not really! Nothing really comes to mind. I mostly just do these things to my own preferences, which might have been learned from other characters, but that wouldn’t necessarily be the same as being influenced overtly. I’m Certain there are things that I’m missing or forgetting about, like people or characters I had in mind when making designs, but as of right now my answer is sadly no.

I can say when making designs and portrayals for characters who were visually based off of a character from another media but with a different voice/name/personality, I try to move as Far away from the original source material as possible. Like, I’ll keep minor references, but I want this stuff to be more. Original or self-sufficient, I suppose, so some characters are anti-influenced haha. Same goes for characters I turned into OCs before Taleblr was a thing— since my characters are more set in stone, I lowkey make tweaks to keep my taleblr interpretations from getting too close to what I made my characters into. Partially why I’ve been avoiding having a ✨Quirky✨ Jimmy Casket… Casper is silly enough for both of them.

[Not characters, but part of the reason why I made Toast’s dad the way that I did was to set the concept up as a way for me to work through this zombie phobia I have. I was told that drawing or writing about the stuff when it’s bothering you can help to process it and work through what the problem is, for one. But really, I wanted to make it as worst-case scenario as possible so people who act like I’m crazy come to understand what’s going through my head when I’m having these occasional paranoid moments. This is why his story is so… gory in nature, and why I haven’t drawn him in awhile: I’ve been avoiding my phobia wayyyy better than usual. The concept of zombies isn’t a character so it’s getting a pocket down here haha…]

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[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE A

The Biologist Propaganda:

She tells the reader that her first hand account of events is scientific and impartial before revealing wayyyy after the fact that she has omitted her huge personal bias from her retelling of the events because she is fully aware that she's an unreliable narrator and is using that awareness to retroactively edit the story in her favour. Truly she's unlike any other protagonist I've ever encountered, its insane. Here's a tumblr text post that sums up everything: https://www.tumblr.com/12thbiologist/713885306846347264/annihilation-is-soooo-good-because-the-biologist?source=share

Yukio Okumura Propaganda (note; this is one submission, tumblr just has a word limit for blocks of text):

content warning for self destructive topics, murder, guns, body possession, suicide, mental illness, religion (?) (never directly mentions christianity), self hatred, dysfunctional family(??), self hatred. just a heads up, if you want to skip this you can. nothing in here is described seriously, its generally needed to understand basic plot points for this manga, so i didnt just include it for no reason!!! dont read this if it could harm you mentally!! its also just really long and kind of devolves into a plot summary near the end. his character explores moral greyness and utilizes his subsequent depressive states in a way thats really interesting to me. its pretty relevant that hes an unreliable narrator even in the early chapters of the manga. something interesting to me is that he's *not* the main character of the manga, so its set up in a way where the reader knows he's an unreliable narrator, but because he sets up a lot of the major exposition, the reader doesnt have a reason to believe him. i know it sounds kind of stupid, but its executed a lot better in the manga!!! its less about him actually *being* an unreliable narrator, and more about what it means for such a major character who introduces part of the plot, to be an unreliable narrator! he's the biological son of satan, but isnt a demon— (this is gonna be hard to explain but the demons in ao no exorcist are only called demons, they're easily equated to demons from abrahamic religions, but they mainly exist as a concept, they first have to develop an ego, and choose a body to possess. higher level demons arent able to possess a body because their power corrupts it and it rots away. satan only called himself satan because his college gf was in a christian cult, which is kind of funny to me because his son, lucifer, already did the whole satan motif. in the ao no exorcist universe, there is no 'god', satan is the ultimate being.)— unlike his maternal twin, rin, who has a demonic heart and ego. yukio is visibly similar to his mother, and is generally puts up a front as being more mature than rin. rin is essentially the direct opposite; he's almost identical to satan in looks and personality.

this definitely hurts yukio alot during the early chapters, because satan brutally murdered their adoptive father, but yukio is partially jealous of rin. he wishes he was as 'strong' as him, as rin had never shown any self hatred or suicidal ideation to yukio earlier on in the series. this eventually drives yukio to seek out lucifer. he convinces himself that lucifer isnt working for satan. he's an unreliable narrator even to *himself*. there's generally a pretty obvious parallel to lucifer with yukio: in the series, lucifer is depicted as wanting to be as 'strong' as his brother, mephisto. lucifer corrupts all of his vessels almost instantly. he's essentially stuck in a miserable cycle, not unlike yukio. we, as the reader, gradually see yukio spiral more and more. we see him lie to the reader and the other characters, until there's a surprising moment of clarity. we see yukio talk about how he mainly hates himself. we see him say this in front of *rin*! he essentially asks rin to kill him, beliving its the only way to escape assiah (earth, also has real world religious meaning). yukio cannot, presumably, be killed. he is essentially immortal during the storyline, which is why none of his suicide attempts have ever worked. this directly parallels lucifer not being able to escape gehenna (hell. this is also just hell in judaism). rin doesnt comply for pretty obvious reasons (not wanting to murder yukio), so yukio shoots him (dont worry rin's body heals almost immediately. no demons were harmed during this story) and rin goes on the journey of self discovery and comes back less mentslly ill (he also dyes his hair black) and talks to yukio. and uhhhh rin defeats satan and everyone clapped . then rin smashed in hatsune miku's face with his sword. i fhink thats blasphemy ? im really tired right now goodnight. tldr: yukio has mental illness and lies i lobe jim. i spent over an hour on this 😭

[ameba-from-space]

Hey, I’ve been reading through your Batfam fic recs and I love them. Is there any chance you could do one focused on Tim?

OKAY I'M BACK BABY LETS DO THIS, Tim tam, timmy, timothio, timbo, tim tim my baby boy has arrived

four brothers, one crush, and absolutely zero brain cells to be found - bro being bros and brothers being assholes

Cingulomania (Sometimes, Dad Needs a Hug) - READ CINGULOMANIA YOU FOOLS

And the Scene Slips Away (To the Evenness I Fake) - Trauma: the fanfiction aka how I found out dick grayson has been canonicaly raped (wtf dc)

Take Care of Business - A classic

Older Siblings: A Plague on Our Society - Hello officer yes I have been mugged by a person who I definitely do not know

Eucatastrophe - Forgiveness is a two way street, you must also forgive yourself

Home - Who the fuck is tim?

Emergency Contact - Baby tim is baby

What's in a Name? - Tim you bitch mario kart playing ass

His Baby - I'm not crying just from remembering this fic I swear

am i the only one pretending (i did it to myself) - Trauma 2: Electric Boogalo

Trending - He a sleppy ho

what a privilege to love you (to teach you all that i know) - CRY BITCH

Hissing Fauna - If you like DC and Marvel this is for you

Billionaire Down - Uncle oliver is cute

Proof - Brothers find each other before they ever find dad

Hi Bi, I'm Dad - Coming out is scary

Anti-Social - SOCIAL MEDIA BA BY

Bat Out Of Hell - These bitches weird, good for them

The Dark Knight Strikes Back - I FINISHED MINECRAFT? (NOT CLICKBAIT)

middle school is why we can't have nice things - Tim has a serious case of baby face

miss me?- Jason the hallucination

through different colored glasses - Big brothers? More like Big bothers

Panic Room - Tim and Jason are locked together in a panic room and absolutely nothing goes wrong trust me

An Unorthodox Adoption - Tim drakes forces people into being his brother

Road Rage Robin - Ah yes the true angry robin

scapegoat - The tim who cried Jason

Billions of Beautiful Hearts - Bruce gets his kids WAYYYY earlier

Just, How? - DE AGED ROBINS FUCK YEAH

Dangerous and Noble Things - Ra al ghul is nasty and should find better things to do

Bleed the Poison Out (What’s Left Behind?) - REGRET

Distress Signal - DAMIAN WHAT THE FUCK MAN

wrong number - Tim hits his head and calls alfred

16 november 1581 - We all hate Jack drake in this house

Where Babies Come From - Dick grayson: serial baby kidnapper

concealer - TRAUMA YET AGAIN

Little Birds’ Wings - Batman said bye bitch

Beware of Science, Turkeys, Guns, Chandeliers, and Other Sources of Chaos - Little shits (affectionate)

Well this is pretty much it, If you want to find more tim content I recomend filtering ao3 by date and bookmark, I have been trying this system of going by 6 months of fanfics at a time, and recently there is SO MUCH tim content, like so fucking much, my guess is that since he came out people have been flocking to the tim fandom

[dreamkidddream]

Those Doll!anon fics were really amazing! I really wanna do something like it if you don’t mind. Could I maybe get a Yorkie!MC? Like, a really short, really friendly MC until they feel like they or one of the brothers/undateables are being threatened or insulted, then they try to pick a fight they’d obviously lose? I’m just laughing at the mental imagine of this short, unthreatening human yelling at and trying to square up against a demon lol.

Awww tysm!! 💙I missed writing for Obey Me (and we also hit 666 followers at this point 😈💜) and since this was so interesting I decided that I’m gonna do the Undateables first and then do the brothers cause I feel like I don’t show them enough love 😔 reader is gender neutral!

The Undateables with Yorkie!MC

Diavolo

He is LOVING your energy

Your happiness is so contagious, it just adds onto his already cheery demeanor. He honestly feels his cheeks hurting from smiling even more when you’re around (and he doesn’t even care!)

He’s gonna buy Lucifer so much Demonus as a thank you for picking you for the exchange program. Seriously, you’re PERFECT (for him)

As the President of Student Council and future King, he loves seeing you interact with the other students, and he’s glad that they’re reacting positive to you. At least some of them do

Now, no one is to foolish (or powerful) enough to threaten Diavolo or do anything to you that can bring you harm. They can try, but they won’t be getting the results that they hope for

But he can’t help it but find it amusing when you try to “defend his honor” when someone bad mouths him. He makes sure to not let it show (gotta be professional after all) but he does tease you about it later. You’re so small and seeing you just yelling square up to this demon is hilarious. He has no idea what geometry has to do with this, but he’s learned some new slang thanks to you!

He’s finally found someone who’ll go along with his antics and more. Whereas other people may complain about him wanting to do fun activities that seem basic, you just flash a big smile, grab his hand and tell him to lead the way

(You even made matching friendship bracelets and he refuses to take it off, ever)

You really make him happy MC. He doesn’t remember the last time he’s ever felt this lighthearted, and he doesn’t feel the sense of loneliness that he felt himself getting used too

Also Lucifer gets twice the headache now, but the Demonus helps it go away (temporarily)

Barbatos

Ah, so another Luke, except older and that you take your threats of violence very serious, if what he sees (both in the present and the future) holds true (which it does)

You’re still harmless in his eyes though

Your friendly personality makes it easy for you to be forgiven for a lot of things…even if your actions make him give you the side eye at times

Despite how energetic you are (which is something that he’ll never grow tired of) your presence has a relaxing effect on him. Even if he has to warn you sometimes to be careful with the way that you bounce around so much, especially when he’s in the kitchen

He unfortunately can’t be by your side as he is Lord Diavolo’s butler, but that doesn’t mean that he can’t keep watch on you, even without the use of his powers

With how outgoing you are, you’re bound to attract trouble, in which you do at a constant rate. What was comical however, is that it seemed like the trouble you attracted was on his behalf

“MC, what seems to be the issue here?”

“BARB! You won’t believe this! This jerk has the nerve to call you stuck up- well I can show you stuck up! After I stick my foot up your- Huh? Hey, why am I the one being dragged away?! W- count yourself lucky that Barb is saving you right now demon! But this isn’t over- MPH!”

“I hate to spoil you before our tea party, but you were already late and I have been meaning to have you try my new recipe that I’ve been working on…”

You were too busy trying to savor the delicious flavor to focus on what just happen, which was his plan all along. You get to try more of his delicious treats and he gets to enjoy your touch and company. Crisis averted!

He’s crafty enough to have plans to evade you “fighting” and you haven’t caught on yet (or maybe you did and just feign ignorance? Either way works for him)

It doesn’t bother him what people say about him, he doesn’t care in the slightest (and they’re not bold enough to say it to his face). What he cares about is making sure that you keep your carefree energy, and that he keeps to see you with your radiating smile on your face

Simeon

You remind him so much of Luke. Are you sure you’re not from the Celestial Realm too?

Don’t worry he’s only teasing you (kinda) but you do have just as much energy if not MORE than Luke

And you don’t mind helping him either, no matter how “silly” his requests may be

“You’re doing great Si! See, you didn’t even need my help!”

“MC, I couldn’t have gotten to this point without you. My pictures are still coming out a little blurry, but that could be because you wouldn’t stand still- but it does add special kind of charm to them…”

He’s keeping them btw

He was shook when he saw you go off the first time, like he really wasn’t expecting it (Solomon did try to warn him, he was laughing but he did try to warn him)

“Don’t think just because he’s an angel means I’m bout to act like one! I will end you!”

MC please don’t make this demon “catch these hands” violence isn’t necessary

He doesn’t know what that means but he’s scared that he’s gonna find out if he doesn’t hold you back

He has reprimanded you each time when you try to fight others. He knows that demons see him as weak and talk behind his back, but he chooses to ignore them, to turn the other cheek. But just because he does, doesn’t mean that you do, and he sees that now

Simeon really doesn’t want you to fight, and it’s not even because it’s against his nature (it’s part of the reason, just not the whole reason). Fighting leads to injury, and injury leads to distress, and that’s the last thing that he wants to happen to you. And he’s not going to let anything happen to you!

He truly believes it’s a waste of time and energy, and you could find better things to do. For example, by spending time with him!

Simeon may not be your guardian angel officially, but he’s your guardian angel. Always

Has definitely written a character based on you

Luke

Is immediately upset that you don’t stay in Purgatory Hall with him, and even more upset that you don’t live in the Celestial Realm

You’re like the best older sibling he’s never had! And you don’t treat him like a baby either!

Or he’s just admiring you too much to notice

You never hesitate to help him with anything; baking, homework, pretty much anything and everything. He may try to make it seem like you need his assistance, but we all know it’s the other way around (with the exception of Luke himself)

We all know that Luke gets teased by the brothers and even his roommates sometimes (looking at you Solomon), but it’s just harmless teasing (for the most part). It’s when he hears what the other students say about him that gets to him- he tries to show that it doesn’t bother him and he tries to stand up for himself but- their words really hurt him

And no one hurts Luke and gets away with it

You already get onto the brothers for their teasing when it starts to bother him, and now the brothers have to jump in to stop you from trying to rip this demon horns’ off

You can’t really reach them and they’re pretty sure you won’t do any damage, but they rather not take the chance of you getting hurt

It’s not the first or last time that you do this either, and it just makes him feel horrible. He’s the angel here, the one that’s suppose to protect you, not the other way around!

You help him out so much, either without defending him you do so much for him already. How can he ever repay you? He feels like whatever he does won’t be enough…WAIT- he figured out what he can do!

He can get stronger and protect you! He can go to Beel so that you don’t have to fight for him anymore, or maybe have Solomon make some potions that’s like demon repellent but only for those jerks. If those mean demons see how serious and strong he is, then they’re bound to leave you guys alone! Maybe he can show you some tricks too once he’s done. He has to hurry up and tell you the plan then, you guys can’t wait any longer!

Their words do hurt, but so does seeing you putting yourself in harms way to protect him. You can’t do all the protecting MC, he needs to watch out for you too, no if ands or buts about it!

You and Luke are the duo we never knew we needed

Solomon

Ah, it’s about time he found a human as interesting and adorable as you. Where having you been hiding all his lifetime?!

He has wayyyy more fun teasing you than Luke. Your pout just makes things x100 better and cuter

Congrats on becoming his new victim MC

Another one to find you very amusing when you try to fight and won’t stop you either

He will dead serious be recording you trying to fight on his DDD. He’ll make sure that it doesn’t escalate but who is he to stop such entertainment?

He has become tempted to cast a superhuman strength spell on you, and he ends up doing it “on accident” (which has happened more than once)

Lucifer has done the “I’m watching you” thing to him every time he has lmao

But no seriously, he won’t let you get hurt; he won’t even let the chance arise. He’s already pulling you away before you can get yourself worked up fully, dragging you to the library or his room to test some new spells (one that he tempts you can use on these demons). It’s enough to get your attention back on him

You’re a daily source of his amusement and someone that he wants MC, but that doesn’t mean he can afford his favorite human getting hurt on his watch!

He’s no stranger to the gossip about him, nor is he clueless. It’s just all talk anyway, he doesn’t care and neither should you. But it is touching to know that you care this much about him and how he feels…

But he doesn’t want you to do this for him. He’s a powerful sorcerer, he can easily solve this without breaking a sweat if he wanted to, but he doesn’t deem it worthy to even waste a drop of potions on. But since you’re so concerned, maybe a quick kiss would make him feel better?

He thought you were a little gullible, but that’s not the case. You just have a very open and bright personality, one that he finds himself getting attached to more and more as each day passes

If he’s not careful, he might get more enamored with you than he already is-

[malach-te]

i dont wanna write a novel about arens love life but its SOOO FUUUNN to write abt so i may write more than i mean to

so arens relationship with alphinaud started out a bit more antagonistic bc he was such a smart ass and would boss her around while acting as if she was stupid and that irked her so bad. at first when they met at the ceremonies she was like oh my god someone my age? adventuring maybe?? and then he showed up to work with the scions and the mystique of him faded immediately LMAODFSJLDS the more he spoke the more sick of him she got and she wanted to be cordial but got so fed up shed just say something insulting back and they would just bicker. when it was time to fight garuda cid was flying them around while alphinaud and aren argued and he was like "ok kids…we're here……….<:)"

when it got to the banquet/heavensward their dynamic changed a lot bc all of a sudden pretty much every adult that had helped them/was working with them had disappeared and all they had was haurchefant, tataru, and each other. she rlly clung to tataru and haurchefant as her older sibling figures (esp haurchefant bc he reminds her of her actual big brother) but she also started to come around to alphinaud and they started getting a lot wayyyy better. shed also be there to pick him up when he kept beating himself down, maybe a bit more than she was there for herself. and then through hw and sb, its them getting closer and becoming actual friends. aren gets a crush in the middle of all that and does nothing with it. and then shadowbringers happens !!!!!!! and shes like oh fuck uh oh!!!!! realizes how fleeting things can be but once she gets to kholusia and sees him again she cant bring herself to say anything because the stakes are so high and theres no time to worry about personal things while trying to save 2 worlds at the same time. but its like pretty obvious shes spending a bit more time helping him with things and making sure hes safe from sin eaters (shes still very concerned with keeping everyone else safe he doesnt take her full attenton bc her top priority is being a hero)

ENDWALKER….basically once they get to the source again, shes very blatantly spending more time with alphinaud on her down time until the towers show up. and once the events of ew kick off she gets all her time and attention taken away again and its more and more stressful for her and shes like being crushed under the weight of the world because of all the death destruction and despair around her. all her friends and the scions were helping her but of coarthe it was really alphinaud and her family that really made her like 'i can do this. i can fix this i will fix this. the world and every shard will be safe.' (and also her azem shes a shard of i created lore there where apollo is in the present too but just like a shade of her i cant get into it this isnt the post for that) and when theyre in ultima thule and alphinaud and alisaie give themselves to create a path for aren to find meteion, like right there she almost gives in to her despair bc in her head if she cant do this right then all the scions then alisaie then alphinaud are all gone forever (and ik this is a mmorpg so they were gonna come back but SHE DIDNT KNOW !!!) and then everything happens with the duty and the trial and the fighting zenos but once she gets back on the ship and the first person she sees when she wakes up is alphinaud she disregards her own physical pain and sits up and just hugs him really tightly. when they get back to etheirys perhaps they had their first kiss so happy to see him again. and as of rn in the patch quests canon they still arent really a couple, shes been more forward with her feelings now that theres downtime but theres also not really downtime bc shes helping with the 13th and alphinauds in garlemald but its like "yes there are mutual feelings yes something will happen about that someday." but rn theyre both focused on bettering eorzea and the world and helping who they can with the (definitely not) scions.

i rlly didnt mean to draft a short story, its just too hard to summarize these thoughts

it has been a hard day so I leave you all with yet another wol question...

do they have a love interest? I ADORE hearing about people's wol and/or oc ships so pleaaaase hit me with all the details <33

[draculadailyreactions]

Dracula Daily Reactions: Is there a way I can help?

Because some people have been so incredibly kind as to ask!

(Previously: How are you going about this?)

First, what is this?

To record this collective experience, I'm setting out to reblog and catalog (in order) every Dracula Daily-related post tagged either #dracula or #dracula daily, from April 27, 2022-ish to… I don't know, whenever this stops. The last email comes in November; I imagine I'll stop saving new posts published after the end of 2022 or something.

Dracula Daily may happen again next year, and I hope it does. The goal, however, is to capture this year's incredible, first-time-ever (as far as I know) wave of synchronously paced interest in a classic novel.

I hope the resulting archive can be a source of joy and interest for Dracula readers, tumblr users, scholars, and the many people who are all three. 🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🖤

Credit where it's due: I was inspired by this post by @lillysliterature!

Is there a way I can help?

Reader help

The way I'm doing this is, I've paged wayyyy back in both the #dracula and #dracula daily tags, and I'm queueing each post in order. So if an original post is tagged with either of those, I should catch it. (Details on my methods here.) The hitch is that this method only shows new, original posts with those tags. It doesn't show: a) reblogs that add especially interesting/funny things to the original posts, or b) posts from before May 2022 that have been revived as part of the Dracula Daily conversation. (Here is a great example, sent by a lovely Dracula Daily reader.) So if you have favorites of those, do send them over! 🥰

Encouraging messages are so welcome. This is a pretty ambitious undertaking, especially for one person (lol), so it's wonderful to hear that other people think it's worthwhile too! I'd love to know how it's proving interesting or useful to you.

Tech help

The most time- and labor-intensive aspects are:

manually queueing each post in order, and

paging all the way back to May 6 (or whichever day I'm up to) when I accidentally click away from the far-back page in each tag.

Tech questions

The biggest ask: I don't suppose there's any way to automatically queue each post in a given site-wide tag? Very understandably, tumblr might not allow that, even with Xkit-esque workarounds, because it could lend itself to spamming or abuse. That said, if you know a way to manage it, it would be a massive help for this project.

Do you know of (or want to devise) a way that I could jump to a specific day in a given site-wide tag? For example: I'd love to skip to the May 6 posts tagged #dracula instead of having to click allll the way back from May 21 (or whatever day it is when I accidentally close the tab/click away/have to restart my computer. PAIN).

Is there were a way to view both tags together in one page? For example, "Here are all the posts from May 6, in order, that are tagged either '#dracula' or '#dracula daily' or both." That would save me from having two windows open side-by-side and comparing timestamps.

Do you know of a way to publish more than 50 posts automatically from the queue every day? 150-200 would be great. There were more than 1000 relevant posts on May 5 alone! At a rate of 50 a day, posts from Dracula Daily 2022 will still be publishing from the queue well into 2023. 😅

Thank you for reading — I'd love to hear your thoughts. The askbox is open! 🧛🏻‍♂️🦇🖤

All images: ID in alt. First posted: May 21, 2022. Last updated: May 22, 2022.