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[ ROOTED ] // Sebastian Sallow & GN!Reader & Ominis Gaunt
pt.2 of 2 â 3,2k words. Pt.1 Here it was supposed to be one shot
tags and warnings (same as pt.1): no smut, no obvious romance, established relationship, unreliable narrator, haunting, mystery, dark magic, death and resurrection, identity loss, obsession, blood/mild gore, symbolism. No Y/N. Necromancer Seb lol.
Also posted on AO3
A/N: lol this part wasn't ever meant to be, but I watched the 'Dark' series and heard Hozier's song there. So here is the thing.
Summary: You died. Here is what happens after a short while.

âWhat else has to happen before you admit youâre lying to yourself?â
The Moonlight man's voice is as cold as your favourite soft light, the one already gone. It merged with the thick dark of night and dissolved it into this lifeless grey. Your plan quickly collapsed: no leading them into the forest, no quenching your burning thirst, no basking in the approval of your achievements. There are only the ropes holding your body tight, almost pressing you down, making you feel weaker.
The Firelight man has stopped begging his companion, and now heâs begging you. His words are endless and insistent, sometimes desperate and so heavy, as if they hurt him to speak. As if he were dying and clinging to whatever lifeâs left with all the words he can try. But you know better. He isnât dying. There is not a single fresh wound on him, not even the faintest shine of blood. Even the runes on his forearms, the ones carved just like yours, are now wrapped in many clean and thick bandages soaked in something herbal. You can hardly smell his blood at all.Â
Oh, you remember that scent. So sharp, so real it sings in your bones. Youâll never forget it. Nor the hunger it stirs. You swallow, ignoring the voice beside you, trying to pretend the thick saliva clinging to your mouth is warm metallic blood instead.
A glint of light hits your eye, making you flinch. Heâs holding something small and metal in front of you.Â
âPlease, just look. Can you recognise it?â
You study the object, something new in this painfully narrow, suffocating world at last. It's a fine chain with a coin, covered in little dots. Your mind has finally been helping instead of hindering, and it tells you there is something else. Something familiar. Itâs an amulet. Â
You think you probably had a dream of something like it once. You even lower your heavy head to check. But thereâs nothing there. Just your dirt-smudged shirt, with a few buttons missing. And the ropes binding you.
âYes! Oh, MerlinâŚâ He moves closer, the floorboards groaning right beside you. âYes, it's yours. That's right.â
âWhat?â The Moonlight man steps slightly closer, then stops. He never even looked at you once, and he hasnât come near in a long time. You donât bother looking at him as well anymore.
âI think it's working. You remember, donât you?â
A hand holds the amulet closer to you. Your vision is hazy again, blurred by exhaustion and this grey morning light. You donât look at the coin, distracted by little freckles on a hand where bandages end, wishing you knew why they catch your attention so much.Â
The metal catches the light again. It glints, flashing into your eyes. You shift away as much as you can.
The thing irritates you. It angers you.
He's mocking you. Of course he is. Offering something you physically canât even reach. He was the one who made these ropes appear, wrapping you so tightly you canât even move properly, let alone get away to the deep, steady calm of the forest.
You kick your legs toward him with all the force you can muster, trying to land a blow. It's not nearly enough, and you miss. He retreats quickly, stopping when he's well out of your reach. With every move he makes, you hate him even more.
âAnd this?âÂ
âItâs alright, it's nothing," the Firelight man insists. He raises an empty hand in front of the glowing wandâs tip aimed at you. âA little more time, thatâs all I ask. It must be like when a bludger hits your head. The memories come back. Theyâre there. I know they are.â
The Moonlight man rarely speaks at all. You already despise him for it. For this silence. You hate how unpredictable it makes him.
Eventually, he puts the wand away. Reaches out a hand, helping the other one up from the floor.
The warmth in the room rises slowly, then consumes. The house shrinks around you. You breathe, but itâs not air anymore, rather something dry and stifling, like heat turned to finest dust. It clings to your lungs, making you cough. Your body, still so new to feeling alive, fades again. The clarity slips.
The always-talking man drinks water and offers it to you. Just the mere thought of it in your mouth makes you cough again, and you turn away.
You regret instantly. The light from the window is blinding. Too close, too white. Makes this air so bright and impossible to breathe. You notice how your exposed skin begins to dry out from it, turning grey.
You need to get out.Â
You need shade.Â
Just a little further into the dark.Â
Whatever your body can manage.
Thereâs a patch of shade beneath an armchair. Everything you need now. You inch toward it, trembling. The ropes tighten around you, the floorboards claw at your clothes, but none of it matters. You don't even realise the noise you're making. Or that the chair isnât empty.
âJust a moment, alright? Donât move⌠Heyâsunlight bothering you?â The always-talking man glances between you and the window. He moves his hand and the curtains draw closed with a soft whoosh. âThe daysâve been sweltering here lately. Thatâs better, yeah?â
You flinch away from his hands as he moves you to the other wall. The floor is still warm from the sun, but at least thereâs no direct light.Â
He sits against the other wall, not far from you. Sometimes you meet each otherâs eyes. Youâre alright with him looking at you, his brown eyes remind you of a tree bark in the night forest, and this memory soothes you. It brings you hope.
The books and piles of paper are all over the floor. The two men read. Write. One of them looks your way sometimes. Rubs his face a lot. He and the other, even quieter man, both speak in low voices. They ask you question after question. Their words make less and less sense to you. Again and again, they show you some metal coin. Every time your jaw clenches, but you don't know anymore if the light it once reflected was ever real.Â
You can barely see though the haze as the quiet man murmurs to the floating quill at the kitchen table. When he finishes, he folds the parchment, picks up some of the pages near you, and walks away. Near the door, he briefly halts.Â
At that same moment, the man with four books in his lap asks about the metal coin in his palm. You donât have the strength to think. You canât even look anymore. Light spills from the open door onto the floor and walls. Even from there, it weighs on you. It's impossible to keep your heavy eyelids open.
When you wake, the presence of something passing close by startles you.
âDid you fall asleep?â
âNo, just⌠No.â
There are two strange men in the strange oppressive room. One sits on the floor with the back of his head against the wall. He covers his face with his bandaged hands. The standing man is a bit closer.Â
You struggle to tell if this thought is real, but you realise the room feels so strange for a reason. Youâre no longer in the spot you think you were. Did you crawl to this place? Did someone move you? Most importantly, you're away from that terrible daylight.Â
Your limbs tremble under the weight of the heat around you. Itâs hard to breathe here. You stretch slightly, trying to wake your limbs. The closer man shifts while talking and his close presence coils tight in your chest. You can't make sense of his words, but they definitely unsettle you.
âThey said memories might exist, but they donât return. They fade. And something else takes their place.â
His voice is low, he's holding a wand angled toward the floor. You avoid looking at the faint red glow at its tip. Instead, your eyes stay fixed on the man's other hand, where his fingernail drags over the same patch of skin again and again.Â
âAnd in the end⌠None of their subjects retained any resemblance to who they were. Youâre the one who decided not to hear it when they warned us.â
âMaybe thatâs what happens when you call someone a subject,â the bandaged man says, getting up and stepping over the papers on the floor. âDo you want to rest?â
âYouâve been treating them like that since the beginning. Well... we both have now. And it only gets worse. Itâs cruel, Sebastian. I canâtâI donât want to.â
The quiet voice changes. It reminds you of some comfort that makes you almost stand this man. You notice heâs so tall and so pale, he makes you think of the moonlightâthe only thing you know and miss so much.
But it isnât real, anyway. The real moonlight would never have scared or hurt you. And you are scared and hurt near this man.
The skin on the finger he's been scratching finally splits. Just the tiny trace of the fresh blood, but the smell already fills your lungs. It doesnât give you any power, but it clears the fog in your mind. Not all of it, however enough to show you a clear line between you and the man.
While voices ring, the disturbing red glow on the wand's tip fades. You move closer. Neither of them notices; theyâre busy being loud. Looking at the injured finger, you swallow nothing. Your mouth has been so dry for so long.Â
Risk doesnât matter, it doesn't even exist anymore. Youâre sitting well enough. Thatâs all you need. The bandaged man turns away, running a hand through his dark hair.Â
You move fast. You kick the closer man in the legs. He stumbles. You kick again. His wand skids across the floor as he drops, trying to reach it, or just falling.
Youâre immediately losing all the little strength you gathered. But the thoughts unravel. The man's so close now, and only one thing stays.
You bite. Hard. Deep.Â
You tear.
Youâre furious.
...You almost cry in despair.Â
You wanted something so small. But thereâs nothing. No metallic taste. No warmth. No blood.Â
The frustration eats the last of your strength. You canât move anymore, just breathe in this thick, choking air.
âNo, it is me. Let me see⌠Itâs fine... Just the sleeve.â
âAnd if it wasn't?â
âBut it was. Just the sleeve.â
âThat not what I asked!â
âIâI don't know.â
âPretend better.â
The voices fade, swallowed by endless silence. You donât know how long you lay in it, or whether itâs real or just your exhaustion playing tricks on you. You don't care.
Heâs there. The man you slightly recognise as the one always being loud, he's looming above you.
âWhy did you do that?âÂ
You just stare at the heavy tear gathering on his lower lashes just few inches from you. Youâre too afraid to move, terrified that any such effort might push you back into the fog and silence where thought stops existing. You didn't like it there.
âWhy?â The man says again, even louder now. His voice shakes with it, his whole body does. You flinch when the tear finally falls, landing on your shirt. âHeâs your friend. And so am I. Don't you remember anything? Anything at all? You recognised the amulet, didn't you? Can you just say it at least?â
The word friend brings one thing to mind: that metal amulet. It's lying on the floor not far away from you. The image crawls back into your mind, of this man holding the amulet out like a trick before your eyes. The useless questions heâs been asking.Â
You say nothing. You donât want the loud manâs voice, nor his presence. Whatever little space your body allows, you use to lean away from him.
From somewhere else in the room, a softer voice cuts through: âYouâre torturing everyone in this room right now. Stop.â
The man rises, careful to not touch you. âMaybe I only imagined the thing with the amulet⌠Youâre right. This⌠has to stop.â
He takes a few steps away. Points his wand at you. Then lowers it. Lifts it again, but thereâs even less resolve in the motion this time. His breath stutters. Deep, unsteady. You can hear it well. Just as the pulse beneath this flushed freckled skin. Wild and out of rhythm.
As the air around and inside you grows nicely colder, something begins to settle in your mind. Urgency.Â
A wicked and fulfilling combo of clarity, fear, and rage.
This one's been speaking all the words in the world to you, begging you to answer. The other man behind him brought you to this place from your peaceful home, and just let you be held captive here.Â
And now they're going to kill you.
You thrash like a cornered, injured animal, throwing yourself against the ropes binding your bodyâsideways, forward, back. They tear at your skin, and you let them. You just want out, whatever this out might be. Youâll keep trying and fighting, even if this is how it all ends.
Desperation even gives you this surge, and your head hits the floor hard. A white flash. Maybe you meant to. Maybe not. Either way, the world around you vanishes for a few solid seconds.
The first thing that comes back is sound: a high-pitched ringing. Then, the shape of the Firelight man sitting on the floor. Hand on his head.Â
The ropes are gone.
You realise it only a second too late, just as they pull tight again.
âWait!â
He reaches toward you. You donât let him. You throw your weight forward, reckless and full. The fabric tears beneath you, your skin dragging with it against the floorboards. The muscles seize. You make it worse.Â
Something cracks. Heat explodes in your left shoulderâsharp, deep, blinding.
Perfect.
The manâs bandaged hand flies to his shoulder. The same place. The same pain?Â
Better than perfect.
You turn your body and press your burning shoulder into the floor. Push harder. The cry that escapes you is half agony, half victory.
But you can't hold it.Â
Your breath snags. Your body folds. Still clinging to survival. Still trying to keep your bones intact.
The pain pulses through your bones. The ringing in your ears doesnât stop. You don't move.
Youâre sick of the same unchanging scene here. These walls, this airless room. Just beyond these choking walls, the forest waits. Full of breath, of movement, of everything this place is not. The forest doesnât fear you. Doesnât resist you. It waits and wants you back.Â
And still, these two sit. Still, they talk, write, and read. What a waste.Â
The floor is no longer warm with the sunlight, and it excites you to finally feel the night arriving and your mind clearing. The chill is sneaking in already, threading through cracks, brushing your skin. Soon it will be everywhere.
Youâre ready and you want it to hurry.
The pain in your shoulder fades to a dull, steady ache. You feel calm. You can breathe as good as this tiny room allows.
The Moonlight man has drifted off more than once in the armchair. But the Firelight man hasnât slept at all. He keeps sipping from small vials, and whateverâs in them makes his heartbeat unbearably loud to you. Now he just sits there, staring at his countless pages. Turns his wand over and over in his hands. Even that object, hated as much as the two of these people, reminds you of something gentler. Home. The forest, where every tree waits patiently, knowing youâll return.
And when you think about it, itâs more than a reminder. Itâs the truth: every wand was once part of the forest. Something of the forest still lives inside it, reshaped but never gone.
You focus on the wand. Really focus. The grain of the wood. The shallow grooves. You donât have to imagine them. You can see them. Your vision sharpens again. The flickering light of the fireplace dances over the surface, but nothing blurs anymore. A single silver beam slips past the curtain, almost like itâs calling for you. Closer than you expected. It takes only a few minutes to edge toward it, dragging your back along the pleasantly cool wall.
You flinch when the light touches you, so weightless and so soft at once. You even close your eyes. Nothingâs happening in the room anyway.
The light settles into you. Steady, gentle. Clear. If a single thread of moonlight can bring this much comfort, then the truth is simple: you have to leave this house. Even if you go alone. Youâll bring them later, once youâre strong enough again.
Watching the Firelight manâs wand stops being a mere distraction; it becomes a game. You enjoy seeing the slow creep of soft green across the wood. Lichen works into every groove, every grain. And with every growing patch, the ropes around you loosen.
Bit. By. Bit.
The Moonlight man had stepped away to return with the mug that the Firelight man takes from him. For the first time in hours, he looks at you. He says nothing. Doesnât linger. You havenât moved, not really, and he doesnât see that the tension in your limbs is gone. That the bindings have thinned to shimmer, nothing more than tricks of light.
The crackling fire masks the subtle, splintering sound coming from his wandâs wood.Â
You canât afford to wait for the same to happen to the second one. Your body hums with readiness. If you donât act now, the moment will vanish again, just like it did last night. You glance toward the door. Itâs so far. Heavy. Youâre strong again, but youâll need every second.Â
The window is closer. The glass is thin. Just reaching past the curtain will feel good. And once youâre outside, theyâll be too slow and distracted to follow.
Itâs time.
The Firelight man yawns, refusing to restâand in that split second, you leap to your feet. Swing the curtain open. Behind it, a small stone pot sits on the windowsill. You hurl it through the glass. Then you follow, crashing through after it, barely noticing pieces of your reflection in the broken glass.Â
The cuts donât matter. Youâll survive them. What you couldnât survive was staying.
Behind you, something shatters. Flares. The voices rise, sharp and unbearable.Â
But the forest has been waiting. And now it receives you.Â
You run.Â
You breathe.Â
Finally.
Every rotted leaf and every fresh green bud, every whisper of wind and call of night bird on itâeverything greets you like an old friend. They lend you speed. They give you strength. They bring you joy. All the ground belongs to you again, even the pieces of it youâve never seen or touched before.Â
Beneath endless trees veiled in shadow, under canopies bathed in silver light, you stop to look and listen.
You are alone.Â
You are free.
A strange sound breaks the stillness, but itâs not coming from the woods. Itâs you. Youâre laughing. It feels good.
You know now that even without them, your return will be accepted. Itâs only temporary anyway. Youâll fix it and bring them. You can fix anything now.
Your thoughts are crisp and certain. You press a hand to your chest, feeling how deeply the breath sinks inâcold, damp, glorious.Â
And you remember the amulet, the one that lived here once. Metal, weighty, resting on a chain so old it had snapped twice. Once, you repaired it. The second time, it was the Firelight man who fixed it. For you. You suddenly wonder why you call him that.Â
And you look down at your chest.
Without thinking, you tear another button from your shirt. You scratch at the skin beneath. But no. Thereâs nothing.
And there never was.
There were never Ominisâ hand, tracing the dots on that amulet, pointing out the astronomical mistake, though he still called it finely made.
Sebastianâs hair was never tangled in the chain while he slept on your chest. That warm weight, that closenessâof course, it was never real.
Just a trick of mind after all the suffering they put you through. But now, you are strong. You are ready. You are near. You promise to stop being so confused about whatâs real.
There was only ever the forest. And you, woven into it as deeply as its roots, as bound to it as your breath to this wind.Â
You raise your face toward the moon. Still far. Still watching. Still silent.
The moon has to help you.
And you promise to listen, after all this is your one trueâŚ
friend?
#was I giggling using the word glorious? yes I was#iykyk#no beta read#mind tags and warnings#by not a native english speaker#ominis gaunt fanfiction#hogwarts legacy#hogwarts legacy fanfiction#sebastian sallow x reader#sebastian sallow fanfiction#ominis gaunt x reader#hogwarts legacy oneshot#cactus writes
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Oh english is absolutely not his first language.
#Ryunosuke and Phoenix's first day court sillies: I don't know what a court record is! :3 I'm just a little guy!#Apollo first day court sillies: If anyone finds out Im not a native english speaker I will simply have to Murder them#i KNOW they didnt know he was an immigrant when they made this game. Thats why its SO COOL so much of it stil scans and supports later canon#my partner and I were playing together and just talking about how.#he grew up in a mountain shack surrounded by army guys. he KNOWS HOW TO PLAY POKER. He just has no idea what the hands are called in ENGLISH#spk plays apollo justice#ace attorney#apollo justice#apollo justice ace attorney#aa
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Jason âteach me your language. i may not be native to your homeland, but let me belong; let me be native to you,â Todd
#south asain reader centric#but honestly#this applies to pretty much anyone who isnât a native English speaker#alsoooo#mahmoud darwish didnât write this?? this whole time i thought it was his quote#where did it come from#credits to original owner#jason todd x reader#jason todd#red hood x reader#red hood
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#mole interest#is this anything?#<- it is counting by the 3k+ notes#guys stop i opened tumblr at work and the notifs kept BUZZING#to the non native english speakers what is the mole (animal) called in your language i am curious
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This is just a mini info dump from an Arab batfamily fan because I find Damian calling his siblings Akhi... adorable (for me as a native speaker watching a writer use Arab words) and, not painful, just... itchy, it URGES me to make a pptx with 300 slides and just? Talk about Arabic?
So... ŘŁŘŽŮ, Akhi, Brother.
It's not incorrect. The word is used in the right place and delivers its intended meaning. Other Arab speakers might not find a problem with it. They'd feel odd like I did but will likely go "eh" and carry on. But I'm an Arabic enthusiast, so...
Like with every language with geographically widespread users, the Arabic tongue kind of- deviated from its roots. The language has naturally branched out into so many dialects I myself can't keep track of.
Arabs from different regions can understand each other. They use the same words but for different purposes and with different pronunciations.
The original root language that holds them all (Quranic Arabic) was simplified into an easier, standard version that is used for formal speeches and as a communication bridge (seeing that you can't, say, translate something to Arabic and say it's for all Arabs if you use a certain dialect. Because an Arabic dialect is an identity at this point, tell me somebody is Syrian, and I know them already)
Now, with the fun part.
See, no Arab calls any sibling of theirs Akhi, I myself would burst laughing if mine did.
Yakhoi ŮŮŘŽŮŮ (nonstandard, everyday Arabic for o, brother) , maybe, if I'm calling a stranger from the streets or an offender I'm going to give a piece of my mind.
Or, hold your breaths, my brother is crying, and the lights are out and I NEED to use the tenderest, most loving, most adoring, most revering tone I could muster so he just knows he is loved and family. Y'know? This specific situation.
And other Arabs might just say, no, I use it when, I use it when, I don't use it, etc.
The point is, nobody will mention Akhi. Because it's a Standard Arabic word, a formal word, and a word used in translated texts and stories when a foreign character we don't consider part of us call their brother. It's weird, it's devoid of emotions, and it's like watching a robot trying to be emotional, but it's a translated text. That's what translated texts use, and it's fine.
It is fine, Standard Arabic has been used for stories so much that nobody questions its influence on a character's characterisation.
I'm not saying Standard Arabic shouldn't be used for story writing, quite the opposite, in fact. I'm just saying that if Arabic is used to represent an Arab, its usage should also consider an everyday Arab experience and manners.
Now to Damian.
Akhi is robotic. Damian's personality does allow him to fall under that category. If for his well refined manners and polite, formal speech.
But even the King wouldn't call his brother Akhi.
He'd call him by his name. For my community (and most, I'm sure) siblings are called by their names, and if we look up historic Quranic (Root) Arabic speakers, they, too, call their siblings by their name. Yes, even the Sultan.
If not by actual name, then either endearing or demeaning names.
Arabs LOVE endearing names, but they're dipped in a pool of honey I don't think Damian would like to dive in.
Talia, on the other hand, would most certainly call Damian Mama. Arab parents call their kids by their own titles. It's the ultimate expression of parental love of all times, in my opinion.
(Don't make Batman call him Papa, though. Pretty sure Damian would malfunction)
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Well, I said all that, but watching writers include Arabic words in his vocabulary is still sweet. Tt is not even a word, but it's such an Arab thing it's my favourite.
If only I could make subtitles of everyday Arab talk and show you, their speech is heavy with, excuse my English, word softeners, it's like they're talking in a TV drama and not the real world.
Watching Damian adopting it would be interesting :D
#damian wayne#robin#batman#bruce wayne#talia al ghul#batfamily#dc comics#damian#batman comics#batman fanfics#batman fics#batman content#now I wonder if native English speakers feel the same when they hear me talk lol
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honestly if toby fox pulled one of these re: kris pronouns id completely understand

#translation issues are understandable when not every language has a neutral pronoun#but on god native english speakers misgendering kris?????#deltarune#kris dreemur#kris#TJ babbles
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she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh
#one piece#trans!sanji#sanji#kiku#yamato#ăŻăłăăźăš#I'm practicing my japanese shhhhhh#ďźćĽćŹčŞăŽăăŠăăŠäşşďźäżşăŻććłă¨ăć¸ăćšă¨ăééăŁăăćăăŚăă ăăđ
ăăăă¨ăăăăăžăďź#translation:#Yamato: I'll be able to get as strong as Oden?#Sanji: Probably... đ¤#[meanwhile Kiku is remembering the time in the hot spring]#(Sanji: Nami-chan!!!)#(Nami: Shut up!! The women's bath is supposed to be a peaceful place!)#Kiku: I am also â§ď¸ ... o.o#(y'all english speakers had me all to yourselves for a decade it's about time I start to also sometimes make stuff in my next language lol#notably for media *from* that language#same as it made sense to make fan content in english for [american superhero franchise we don't talk abt anymore] back in the day#(happy seasonal reminder that Ren Is Not A Native English Speaker and This Is My 5th Language hi đ
))#while looking up reference for this I learnt that the straps to tie back the kimono sleeves are called tasuki#also I decided yamato get big muscles cause he got them kaido genes in im (I also gave him his dad's young-man-facial hair)#the more I do transition projections for one piece characters while tryna adhere to the style the more I learn that sometimes stylisation#uses bones less as literal determinants for where things go and just kinda exaggerates shapes based on vibes alone instead#meaning trans characters' bones wouldn't literally stay looking the same in that stylisation in the way they do irl#they'd get exaggerated differently based on what the surrounding stuff is doing#I still think oda's transition demonstration when we first met iva was unreasonable even with that in mind tho
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the bastardization of the sims 4 cc tags here on simblr has gotten so bad that i'm using fucking google and pinterest now to find stuff or i'm crossing my fingers that the good stuff magically appears on my dash when i happen to be scrolling through. 97% of simblr uses cc, that's basically all of us.
it's more or less agreed upon that those tags (sims 4 cc, ts4 cc and so on) are predominantly for actual cc creators or cc finds blogs to use to make cc-hunting easier on tumblr. using those tags on gameplay/edits/cas posts is causing this to be a pain in the ass because the tags then get flooded with posts that don't really belong there.
please stop using cc tags when its absolutely not necessary. it won't help with engagement on your posts like personally it actually makes me want to like and reblog them less. as i said... almost all of us use cc. pls stop ty
#i know somebody posted a psa like this recently but its been a long time since i last actively hunted for cc and this grinds my gears rn v.v#non-native english speaker rambling yippie#i don't like pinterest that much but i'm this desperate lol
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don't EVER apologize for misrepresenting the united states of america in fanfiction. if you don't quite know how things work over there that means you haven't completely been swallowed by their pervasive cultural export. that's good. HOLD THE LINE.
#and never apologize for not perfectly using english. native english speakers don't so WHY SHOULD YOU#it's fine if you wanna do research. good for you. but you don't HAVE to#and you certainly do not owe anyone an apology for not being from the us and not perfectly knowing everything from there. stop apologizinggg#+
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P x Reader Relationship Headcanons
⢠P would confess his feelings to you first. After meeting Julian, he realizes shortly after that he himself is the puppet that's fallen in love with a human.
⢠The first show of affection he does upon you accepting his confession is lightly kiss both of your cheeks.
⢠As the relationship progresses, two kisses on each cheek becomes commonplace when he's greeting you, saying goodbye, cuddling or comforting you.
⢠When he kisses you, sometimes he'll tell you that you taste good. Please thank him for letting you know.
⢠Sometimes P's smooches are kinda... wet. He puts too much mouth into them. Especially when he's being very affectionate. This is fine when he's kissing you on the lips, but no one wants their forehead or cheek covered in puppet saliva...
⢠If you have any sort of marking, scar, or other quirk on your skin, P takes a bit of an interest in it. He's curious about human features and will probably want to compare his skin with yours.
⢠You use nicknames for each other of course. After the Krat restoration, when he is going by "Pinocchio" you start calling him "Pino," "Pinocchi," even "Pocchi." There are like, 10 different shortenings of his own name that you use. Plus his other standard pet names.
⢠P just referred to you as "You" for a while, when trying to give you a pet name. This actually stuck, and now he warmly coos "You..." When he sees you. Please respond with, "Me." He likes this.
⢠P's favorite way to go to sleep at night is with you. In your bed. Being the little spoon is relaxing for him, but he also likes to fall asleep facing you. Waking up to your beautiful, supple human face is heaven for him.
#Was about to make a post complaining about a lack of p x reader content#Decided to make THIS post instead#Still working on some other Hcs too I just never have enough brainpower to do the thinking#Lies of p x reader#P x reader#Pinocchio x reader#Doing the thing so that I don't feel the need to complain anymore#Gemini x p x reader incoming#If I had the mind to perfectly characterize the useless obviousness of Geminis dialogue I'd make it a whole ass fic#But I don't think a native English speaker can even comprehend the absolute nothingness of Gemini dialogue
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it's a tie đ¤ˇđźââď¸
#The Next Prince#the next prince the series#the next prince ep1#charankhanin#charan x khanin#zeenunew#ZNN#zee pruk#nunew chawarin#domundi#dmd#mandee channel#thai bl#bl drama#sir you can't just go out and kiss fencing monarchs at parties in london#it doesnt work that way#or maybe it does#what do i know#theyre wasting no time#lmao#that party was cringe af though hgfhjb#saw a comment on mdl saying they hired the english student actors off wish and like#yeah#very real#i had to mute all that#could they really not find any native speakers?#shouldnt be hard#but anyway#besides all that i liked it
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This isn't about Strawberry jam
I want to ramble on about something I am not so sure about what it is, so I will tell yall a story.
So imagine this; You are 20 years old, you live with your partner in your shared apartment, your partner buys a tiny glass jar of strawberry jam.Â
If I pointed at that moment and asked you what it was, I think you would say âWell, it's a jar of strawberry jamâÂ
Okay now, imagine one week later; the jam was good, but the jar was tiny so you and your partner already ate all of it, holding the empty and dirty jar you realize, wow it has a very nice shape, maybe I can use it as a cup, so you clean the jar and lets it sitting beside your water filter.Â
If I pointed now and asked what it was, what would you say? âItâs an empty jar of strawberry jam that we use to drink water.â
Okay cool, nice and practical, lets go forward, Imagine 10 years later⌠Yea I know a lot of time, but hear me out; You are 30 years old and you had a child in the meantime, this child is 7 years old.Â
If I pointed to the empty jar of strawberry jam and asked what it is, you know what they would say? âItâs a glass cup, we use it to drink water.â Do you see where I am going?
Okay now let's go 30 years in the future, imagine; you are 60 years old and this story isnât about you anymore, no this story is about your grandchild now. Your 37 years old child has a 10 year old child themselves now. If I pointed to the glass cup and asked the same old question, what would they say? âOh that's a vintage glass cup that belonged to my grandparents, my parents get it out on⌠special occasions.â Okay cool, it's a vintage heirloom now I guess.
Okay now Imagine; Someone broke it, what would be said if I pointed to the glass and asked you to say what it is?
âThis was an empty jar of Jam, we bought it a bunch of years ago and I donât remember if the Jam was good or not, but it served us well.â
Ok, and If I asked your child?
âOh, this was an old glass cup that was in my parents house. I liked to use it when we would drink vodka⌠I think it was older than me. It's a shame it is broken.â
Your grandchild?
âThis was a family heirloom. It was older than my parents and I pretended to give it to my child one day. To be honest, the thing was old, it is a miracle how long it lasted.â
The garbage man that will dispose of it.
âSomeone threw broken glass in the wrong bin, I will have to put on my gloves.â
#Evil Rat rambling#I do not know how to put this sentiment into words#so I wrote this#tumblr writing#writers on tumblr#writing#not fanfic for the first time ever#Note: *point at myself* Not a native english speaker and this wasn't betaed#I honestly don't care if this text specific isn't as right sounding#I wanted to write a sentiment of mine and I did it#rambling
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song lyrics for mobtober
#kept thinking to myself... did i spell âwantâ correctly???#native english speaker btw...#my art#mob psycho 100#mp100#reigen arataka#mobtober
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#jorge luis borges#english#spanish#ive seen this before but i dont remember if i saw it on tumblr so im posting it here#also apparently Mr. Borges is very famous for his writing#so hes not some random dork who speaks English as a second language. hes a decorated author who is a native speaker of spanish
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Gajevy Week 2024 Day 2: Memento
I had no plans to draw anything for this day and then boom, four pages. :')
(please ignore for a moment that canonically dragon scales turn white when they fall off, I remembered halfway through đ)
#i wanted to use the phrase âdont worry your pretty little headâ bc i thought it was cute#only to find out it's offensive#non-native english speaker problems#this is cringy im sorryyyy#gajevyweek#gajevyweek2024#gajeel redfox#levy mcgarden#gajevy#fairy tail#doodles noodles
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Big fan of whenever a creator from one of the other languages meets Bad for the first time and he tells them his name is BadBoyHalo and explains it to them
Then they fucking hit it off and later the creator explains to him that no, he is not a bad boy, he is a good boy, he is GoodBoyHalo
#then he stutters and exclaims that He Is A Bad Boy#like legit this has happened several times lmao#a non native english speaker will observe how lovely of a person Bad naturally is and just be like no you are not a bad boy#qsmp#qsmp badboyhalo#this immortal demon is literally one of the nicest guys ever but that's kinda normal here lmao#just ignore the people in his basement#had to laugh when it happened again today
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