#ahaha. does it again

[chimerahyperfix]

Run down your list. You are currently on your way to intercept the King, before he gets to the house. Whenever he gets there, it’s a bloodbath; metaphorically and physically. How many more times do you have to see everyone get frozen? See the King smash those who stand before him? You can’t see it again, you can’t you can’t you can’t, so you sneak out to face him instead. If he can’t get to the House, no one has to die, right? Simple as that. The endless night of his approach hangs right over Dormont, so you have to catch him, NOW.

You make a pit-stop at the Favor Tree anyway. It’s tradition at this point.

You did… something, here. Before you started looping. The hypothesis is that whatever you did at the Favor Tree caused the time loop you’re trapped in. You know you wished, a ton— at least ten times, or maybe twenty? All in as many different ways you could think of. Stretching outside the realm of how you know to wish. The desperation drove you to doing random things in hopes it would save you, and— well, it kinda has? You’ve doomed yourself for everyone else’s sakes.

That’s all well and fine enough, you rationalize. One person for many. Who knows what’ll happen if he actually takes the House; you don’t want to find that answer out.

The Favor Tree is huge. It’s a nice tree, lots of leaves, lots of shade. You could probably climb into its branches and never leave, get trapped in a web of tree bark and leaves like a cage, birds and squirrels and other such animals as your jailers. Maybe that wouldn’t be too bad. You could try that, next loop, if you failed here. You know you’ll fail, because nothing has worked so far. Your mind flashes with images of blood-stained floors, of screams both by and for many, many people. Hands reaching to you, hands reaching out.

Breathe. The memory fades away. Your hands curl into fists.

You depart, to fight the King. To stop the King.

———————

The King is very tall. A couple stories high, you’d reckon. He towers over you, the trees and everything else. The clearing you’ve stopped him in is very close to the House. Too close for comfort. Shouldn’t have stopped at the tree. Everything is swamped with the scent of burnt sugar.

He looks down at you— do you look like an ant to him? One singular ant? Wouldn’t that be interesting. A single blockade to the anthill, standing its ground. One mistake and he’ll turn you into a dark stain, or an icy statue. One mistake is all it’ll take for him to rip through the House like paper.

The Craft Bomb is heavy in your pocket. The backup potions, seven or eight of them, all in little tossable vials, toxic and burning and acidic, weigh down the other pocket of your lab coat. You remember drinking at least three of them. They all killed you. Painfully. Curse your desk for not being clean before you started looping. If you’d just taken a few minutes before you wished, so many deaths would’ve been avoided…

But that’s not important now. The fire in your throat, as imagined as it is now, still hurts. Your voice has taken an odd rasp to it now, the consequences of toxicity and blind reaching for water forever etched into your very being.

“How have you done it?” The King asks. You can’t see his eyes, past his endless, wild mane of hair and his gauntlets covering his face, but he sounds both confused and enraged.

You don’t answer, instead brandishing the bomb you worked so hard on. You made it in record pace, this loop. It too reeks of caramel.

The King simply moves a hand. You know what’s coming, and you move before he does. The curse of being so, so tall, is that you’re faster. The bomb goes flying, and you toss the potions all in one go for good measure before skittering out of the way. The King lunges for you as the bomb explodes, sending waves of fire and craft energy everywhere. Blinding, deafening. Its force knocks you to the ground.

He still moves, though. Not enough. Damn. Maybe you need two bombs… do you have the materials for a second one? You hope, as he swings his giant gauntlet down onto you to mash you like a bug, that he sees the weird shade your eyes have taken lately. A pair of blaring, dangerous warning signs.

You’re not scared anymore. This has happened many times.

You still scream.

His attack hits, and through the veil of absolute agony, there’s a tug on your stomach. Back to the drawing board.

[mimefish]

nevermind everyone winner's symbolism cancelled. we cannot have another scar earth/mercury/comet situation again. I vote we all lay down our weapons and join hands in peace and accept that the one true symbol for Joel is the Car. wherever he goes whatever flavour of symbols you particularly enjoy. Car. Just Car. Because it would be really funny

[i-may-be-an-emu]

a sfth video a day keeps the voices at bay 😌

[docholligay]

With all due respect, hate you, hate you so much, you got such a great vision of Roy and Hawkeye it makes me want to be able to fund you liveblogging both versions of the anime and the manga. Like, what the hell, you're not even as deep as all of us on this side, and you just do *that*. Gets me mad in a way that I got to go write something about them too

I HAVE ONLY SEEN UP TO EPISODE 15 OF THE 2003 ANIME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME I AM REALLY ENJOYING MYSELF.

You know, sometimes in life, you just have to go, "Oh. Guess I'm here now." Same thing happened to me when I first got into Overwatch and I was like, "Oh, the untouchable unreachable cold assassin will be my girl!" and Tracer popped up like, "Did you mean the unfailingly brave and cheerful one? It is now!" (also, the main protagonist??? Or at least she was at the time. Never happens for me.)

I basically feel like I was punched in the back of the head in a dark alleyway by the relationship between those two. I am obsessed with whatever insane bullshit it is they have going on. The mind whirs. I like Roy and Hawkeye a lot individually, sure, but I don't know that they would, absent each other occupy all that much of my brainspace. But together!! Together!

Anyway, it's hilariously to the point where I almost don't want to watch more (I will, don't worry) because I very much love the vision I have of them cooked up in my head and I don't want to have something happen where it stops being fun for me, like, god forbid they kiss or some shit. I am trying not to get too attached to the thoughts I have about them, but when you watch a show the way I do, it involves a lot of ACTIVE watching and not passive watching, so I feel like a participant in the story. This can be really good--if I love something I tend to really love it and have lots to say--but it also means I get more disappointed than someone who binges the whole thing.

PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME FOR ANY THING OR ANY VERSION

ANYWAY, this was a really nice comment! I am so happy that people who like Roy and Hawkeye seem to enjoy my take on them despite me not having much other than vibes to go on. They are very fun to think about. Having a great time.

They're so fucked up that I can't imagine them getting out and doing something different and better. Would they even know how to function in normal society? I can't see Hawkeye working in like, a cafe ahaha. Has Roy ever been allowed to learn how to warm and create with his alchemy, or is it all just destruction and COULD it even ever be something good?

AGAIN, I AM, A WOMAN ONLY 1/5 OF THE WAY THROUGH THE 2003 ANIME, AM JUST TLAKING OUT LOUD FOR MY OWN ENJOYMENT AND TO TORTURE MY FOLLOWERS. PLEAAAAASSSEEE DON'T SPOIL.

I think maybe Roy knows how utterly fucked he is for civilian life and part of his 'dog of the military' warning is 'if you grow around this metal pole, you won't be able to leave it alive'. Maybe. But Hawkeye, no I think--well in fairness I don't that she's thought it that far out, nor cares to. I think she's probably assumed she'll die in the service and that'll be that. Not in a melodramatic way, just, matter of fact*. How could she ever retire, even? Would she leave with Roy, if he asked? Would he ever be so unkind as to ask her? Even if he managed to find the will to walk out?

He's a mess, and she's a mess, and they are messes in completely different ways, and I am glad it inspires you to think about them some more as well!!

*Eta: I also think she underestimates how deeply Roy would mourn her. Not in a 'I'm not worth anything :(" way, I just think there's a part of her that doesn't like the idea of somehow being the cause of Roy being more of a disaster than he already is so she is just like, "It'll be fine. Hughes will have to step up. He'll be fine." But Roy has like two friends and Hughes is a functional human being.

AGAIN PLS NO SPOIL!!

[mewkwota]

Are you still awake?

I drew this at the small edge of my page knowing very well that it would lead to cutoffs and overlap with other sketches because I really do feel more comfortable doing certain positions like this. It just makes it hard to get a snap of them with a "complete" feel.

In a majority of my previous works focusing on Juno's eyes, they were slightly relaxed, as he had just woken up while also going along with his typical calmness. But I've also tried (and failed many times) to see how they would look when they're totally open-- this is excluding the shots where he is straight-up trying to kill someone. :)

In this context, Juno is activated but not totally working if that makes sense? As you may kinda make it out, he isn't upright, so his whole body isn't there either. I was going for something "still, blank, empty".

[frogeyedape]

I am so unbelievably pissed off. FUCK HOAs

Oh, my trash/recycling bin can't be visible except on pickup day? Ok whatever fine I hate you but I can deal with this

Weekly inspections?????? FU FU FU FU FU

SECOND NOTICE ALSO WE'RE CHARGING YOU MONEY TO SEND YOU CERTIFIED MAIL OF THIS TOTALLY LEGIT TOTALLY SECOND NOTICE OF WHAT IS ACTUALLY A VIOLATION cue me: checks notes. Hmm. My recycling bin was. on the curb. on recycling pickup day. You know. The day it has to be out. The day it is motherfucking ALLOWED TO BE FUCKING OUT AND VISIBLE.

so. 1) not a violation

I have sent them the trash AND recycling pickup schedules, which are DIFFERENT, btw

I have disputed the fact of the violation

I have disputed the linking of this "violation" to a previous violation MONTHS AGO--their "first notice" in this case was a "Courtesy Notice" LITERALLY 5 MONTHS AGO and they've done so many inspections since then and my bin CLEARLY WASN'T OUT IN THOSE INTERVENING MONTHS so WTMFH

So I am posting like a crazy person here instead of sending the absolutely deranged email I almost sent (I did send a slightly less deranged version with the disputes, and requesting a hearing)

OMG. It has been. Less than one hour since I learned this fun fun news. My bin was out YESTERDAY, y'all. YESTERDAY. I am going to blow a gasket

[xxplastic-cubexx]

just read the new mutants issue where Charles chose to stay behind in space and my god the juxtaposition between Charles trusting Erik and Erik joining the hellfire club and wondering at his own trust worthiness. I wonder how much of Charles decision was him ultimately trying to avoid the fact that his first class had seemingly betrayed mutant kind and not be willing to face them and how much of it was Dani and Illyana's reaction to him having Karma mind control Illyana. the fact that Illyana was depending on him to ease her mind through limbo and in choosing to stay he forced karma to do it instead, probably fucking up their relationship in the process.

I love him, this is crazy, how much of this is him trying to runaway and how much is this him not trusting himself to fix things and how much is it just him trusting Erik?

i keep trying to put into words my exact thoughts about the sitch but there really is a lot for one issue aintit... oh charles you and your brain...

[chenziee]

A Little Bundle of Drama: Official announcement!

TL;DR: I am going to be reposting and continuing this fic. You can help me decide how to go about it by filling out THIS FORM!

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Hello, Riren nation, it’s been a while!

As you may have noticed, I have some good news regrading my omegaverse!mpreg Levi/Eren story A Little Bundle of Drama!! The past few weeks, I've been living in a slightly insane haze of working on this story again and i'm super excited about it!

Since it’s been… way too long, I will need to reupload all current chapters with edits before I can continue the story. Good news is, I have those edits ready and I have actually started working on brand new chapters. BUT! There is a question of how to go about that—and that’s where YOU lovely people come in!

I have created a super quick form/interest check with a few simple questions! It takes two minutes to fill out and it would help me immensely to see what you guys prefer! This form will be up for a week or two before I make a decision :)

My main questions:

1) Should I start re-uploading the story ASAP (with the risk of eventually sporadic updates) or wait until the story is completely finished (with the risk of that never happening)?

2) Should I delete this fic and start posting it brand new, simply reupload the chapters as they are, or leave the story but delete all chapters so that you can get notified about the next chapter being updated? (chapters will be updated once a week regardless of choice)

There are two more questions in the form, but these are at the core of the issue. If you don’t want to fill out the form but still want to give me feedback, you can simply answer these in the replies!

With this remaster, I can promise:

new chapters

more consistent tenses

more consistent POVs

more consistent terminology

some awkwardness fixed

old typos fixed and replaced by new, more creative typos created by me rewriting words with different words

more kisses

more biting

more emotion and details in general

better, expanded chapter 5 (getting together chapter) 

they will now be apologising and thanking profusely, not any other random words starting with a P (RIP)

no more depression in the notes (sorry)

more kisses and biting (this is important)

I still have no clue where the story is going and have no plan whatsoever further than three scenes ahead at any given time (we're winging it just like we always have, thank you 🤍)

At this point, I can't promise:

consistent updates past like... chapter 30

If you have any questions or notes, you can leave them in the form, DM me or shoot me an ask, or email me at chenziee1358 @ gmail(.)com!

Thank you so much for your patience all this time and I look forward to seeing you soon!!

- chenziee

TL;DR: I am going to be reposting and continuing this fic. You can help me decide how to go about it by filling out THIS FORM!

[gifti3]

i finiiiiished

[flowering-darkness]

Let's go for one of your non-romantic S/Is! 💬 + Mimi Aster + Meta Knight? — @edencantstopfallininlove

Ooh, yes, sure thing, friend!! Thank you kindly for this~

(I included a render of what Mimi looks like, just as a reminder in case anyone wants it!)

(source: this post by queenieboo22)

send me 💬 and a character and I’ll give you a line my self-insert would say if in a canon interaction with them. - I think I would set this just after the boss fight against him in Star Allies! Mimi's adventures in the Kirby games roughly follow real time per when they each released, so she's about fifteen here.

"So even you can be affected by the power of the dark hearts, Sir Meta Knight.. That's so scary! Even so, I- I'm glad we could get through to you eventually! It's almost funny.. You weren't fighting any way at all like you usually do. That was probably the dark heart's doing. But, even so - you've been training me since nearly the first day I crash-landed on Popstar, and that meant I knew exactly what to do to keep up with you in battle! It's true that I don't enjoy fighting - fighting against friends like you least of all, especially with how it went last time.. But, it's worked out this time! And now we can adventure side by side once again - as Kirby's friends and this planet's protectors!! ..That is, if you want to come with us?"

I hope this is alright! Thank you once again for sending this in!~

[madamairlock]

If Laura had been given free reign on New Caprica.

[takitori67]

Maybe i will dig out some old arts. Maybe not

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

BAND AU BAND AU BAND AU BAND AU BAND AU OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

would LOVE to hear more about it!!! how does it differ from canon tsams?

RGHHH I TYPED OUT AN ANSWER TO THIS BUT I WAS AT AN EVENT AND TUMBLR DELETED MY RESPONSE-

okay so. everyone works at the pizzaplex, but only Sun, Moon, and Lunar are related. Earth recently arrives to the plex and is given charge of a performance to boost revenue for the theatre; the daycare department isn't making enough profit to justify the money poured in, and management is threatening to shut it down in a few months if it doesn't improve.

The creator just so happens to have a studio rented out (how convenient...), and Earth calls up all the other animatronics in their department to join in and help with setting up an orchestral performance (fun fact: all of them have theatre capabilities programmed into their base code, so they all have the ability to perform and play instruments!), which they do, albeit reluctantly. Finding recruits is fairly difficult considering there are no human staff and only 5 animatronics, but they make do and ask folks from other divisions to pitch in as well.

(Solar and Eclipse do exist in this au, but their backgrounds are a bit...different from the cannon security breach shows.)

[bleachersgirl]

it’s crazy how bad pete wentz hates me

[chenziee]

love it when my head hurts /s

I'm lucky it doesn't happen often (KNOCK ON WOOD cause migraines run in the family) so it's like.... what is your problem??? caffaine withdrawal?? dehydration?? stress?? period side effect?? blood pressure??? am i getting sick??? everything above????

[nrc-asteryn-crew]

For the edgy/misc ask game!!!

11 for da yuus, 12 for Aros, and I WANNA say it's 23 or 24 but I don't remember which one it is but. The how might ur oc have turned out differently with Anchor

Yahooo

yahoooo !!! ehehe this is so SILLYYY THANK U VIIII i can always count on u for asks and i am very grateful for that fact :3

11. What is your OC's weapon of choice? Have they ever actually used it?

Yuuto - Does Xen count? /j

Probably his fists honestly I mean, this guy is constantly between "I'm too tired for this shit" and "FUCK YOU LETS FIGHT" and most of those uh involved his (very bruised) knuckles

Ok but he were to use an ACTUAL weapon I think he'd probably gravitate towards some of those like knuckle brace/guard thingies? I don't know what they're called and I'm too lazy to check, but just something to guard his knuckles and pack a bit more of a punch to them, since I don't really think he'd ever not use his fists to fight people. He just that kinda guy u kno :3

or like idk he might like a badass dagger too

Kiyuu - ~~Her words~~ I say in a flowery voice /j

Actually honestly... Well... Okay if she WERE to use a weapon, I think it would be some kind of... I dunno actually, I feel like she'd use some kind of pretty looking weapon, but definitely not anything sharp. I just cant ever imagine her wanting to cause that much harm to anyone (excluding phantoms), like the piercing of skin yk

Okay actually I don't know if this counts either but Kiyuu would suit like one of those magical girl wands SO. WELL. they're technically weapons arent theyyy ?? ehe

12. Is your OC self-destructive? In what ways? Ooh see okay this is a rough oneeeee

Aros definitely isn't self-destructive in the physical sense, since his appearance is very important to him as a prominent figure in the acting and modelling words, however mentally is a completely different story.

I feel like he's the kind of self destructive where like he knows he needs to be in top shape, he needs to eat well, to sleep well, be in the best mental state etc, in order to perform well, to please his parents. but subconsciously, he doesn't really take as good care of himself as he could, as he should, because he believes that he deserves it, that he deserves to have to work harder to do the things he needs to do, deserves to be hindered.

But the thing is, if he performs worse, Crimson is the one that usually gets the brunt of his parents negative moods as a result of their dissapointment in Aros. and so, he blames himself for making Crimson's situation worse, when he's already so unhappy, but he just cant help it, he can't help slipping like he does. He beats himself up for not being good enough to power through what he puts himself through, and the cycle continues :(

He knows that Crimson will always long for something more than him, and more than anything Aros wants that for him. Crimson saved him, made his childhood and teen years infinitely more tolerable, and longs to repay that in any way he can, and he feels so helpless that he just cant. He doesn't understand yet that that he had already saved Crimson, more than he could ever imagine, just as Crimson had saved him, and that Crimson doesn't expect anything more from him at all, is happier where he is now, even if he's not truly happy (yet).

(wow i went way off topic there oops AHHAHA well theres ur dose of more info abt arocri's dynamic <3)

24. What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

Thinking about the wording of the second question there is making me think of a universe where Anchor was even just a little bit more assertive of his freedom, where he'd try harder to get his parents to see that what they were doing wasn't right for him. He would have healed much sooner, instead of being left to wallow in his grief and trauma, reinforce all these negative thoughts about himself, about everything. He'd be able to find his real hobbies, what he really likes, instead of being affected so terribly by that day, and being so fixated on protecting.

He'd work through his anxieties in enclosed spaces, be able to sit in a room without feeling suffocated, he wouldn't feel so tired, yet so, so afraid of falling asleep, of reliving the memories of that night over and over again.

I think though that his overall personality would stay decently similar, other than definitely being more sunny and sweet n stuff :3

(anyway im done rambling abt the silly dude i love him so much and i would do anything for him to be happy (i say as i purposefully develop his and mace's current relationship for the worse (atm)).....

sorry not sorry darling ull get ur happy ending eventually i swear 😭😭)