#of course next question

[leashybebes]

asking for a fic:

broad strokes, what is the process of buying a house in the states and (most importantly) how long does it take? my own experience in the uk is that with conveyancing, local authority searches (my beloathed) and surveys, that motherfucker can take anywhere from a couple of months to the better part of a year depending on chain situation. but my aunt who lives in the US seemed to think this was completely unhinged.

BASICALLY if, hypothetically speaking, two very attractive firefighters were to find their dream house, how reasonable would it be to suppose they wouldn't be living in it yet approx a few months later?

[egophiliac]

Waittt, what did you mean with your last post?? I don't want to spoil myself so I'm waiting for the nightmare before christmas event to arrive on the eng server before diving deep into the wiki. But I HAVE to know; were there hints of Lilia joining in for a rerun or a sequel ??? Your big "OR IS IT???" filled me with way too much hope !! please tell me it wasn't a bit : (

there was a little teaser at the end that implied there'll be a sequel event, though we don't really know anything beyond that! I do think it's likely we'll get the other half of the cast in it, even if it's just wishful thinking on my part. 🤞🤞 NIGHTMARE SUITS FOR EVERYONE!!!!

as far as I know there's been no confirmation on whether it's going to be next year's Halloween event or a separate thing (the snow makes me think it'll be more Christmas-themed, or otherwise more related to the plot of the original movie) so. we're probably going to have to wait quite a while before we find out anything solid. :') they really do love just dropping these things on us and then watching us go absolutely wild with speculation while they watch like

[lgbtlunaverse]

While you can and should call female characters your special little guys I was vaguely annoyed today there is no easy feminine equivalent to the term. The equally fun snappy equivalent of guy is "girl" but "little girl" has very different connotations from little guy. Gal is a slightly better substitute but "little gal" just does not hit the same way. A more sophisticated language adjustment is needed.

Therefore I propose: girlie. Similar diminutive connotations, phonetically whimsical, as well as appropiately silly. Can and should also be used regardless of charcter gender.

[evaceratops]

we are so fucking back

[true-blue-sonic]

*pointing at Sonic* I need to know more about how this man expresses love

because I just realised that I my writing is 100% physical touches in my ships, but Sonic does not do that. At least, not as overtly as I tend to write it. I honestly struggle to remember a time wherein he was the one initiating physical contact that can be taken as romantic, haha! He's not averse to touches and stuff: he shakes Blaze's hand no problem in Rush, he holds and hugs Elise and also strokes her shoulder when she is upset... but it not at all overt, either. Tails comes bursting in after thinking Sonic was dead for 6 months and Sonic's hug is literally restrained to just holding him by his sides for a bit; not to mention he looks quite startled by Elise hugging him the first time and doesn't/didn't always seem so eager about getting glomped by Amy. So Sonic's clearly not much of a hugger, and thus I can't imagine him being a cuddler either!

So then, how would Sonic express love to someone he's in a relationship with? Sonic's shtick is kind of that he runs off a lot and likes doing things on his own, though he's also always happy to spend time with friends and share his adventures with them. So... quality time or something? Maybe words of affirmation, since he's the living embodiment of "My Friends Are Cool And Awesome"? I'm looking into this for a Sonilver fic, and I'm struggling a bit with seeing how they would bond into a relationship🤔

[swagstar]

thought the concept of melanie having matching scars with folly after her attack is funky.

[fieldworm]

Don't know if anybody has considered this but. Can Scarah talk to Holt and Jackson at the same time. Is Scarah the only one who can see them both at the same time... Guys... *looks derranged* is Scarah capable of visiting their headspace..

[lazycranberrydoodles]

Who is this sassy.. lost child?

I can now recreate most of chapter 8!!! / bonus features below the cut / follow for more cool stuff

Jin Ling's sprites:

His share code is MVDLXY :)

Congrats, Jin Ling! You have 3 different poses, showing three different levels of irritation, making you the most complex character so far.

His sprites were traced off of Cody Hackins from 1-2. His little puffed-cheek sprite screamed Jin Ling.

(NASA announcer voice) Aaaand we have soundtrack. I thought Luke Atmey's and Furio Tigre's themes both suited Jin Ling pretty well. Other contenders before I decided on Moderato 2004 were Allegro 2002 and Investigation - Middle 2002.

Will take a break from these for Art Fight probably but they have been sooo fun to make. Plus I get to show off my objection.lol skills outside of stupid discord arguments.

Jiang Cheng's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost

[mochi-kitty]

The fact that Barts scouts are pretty much retired as one of barts skill sets just proves to me that no writing exec had any creative juices flowing in their veins when they had to write him after waids run. What do you mean he no longer uses one of his potentially most op skills a speedster can have? One that NO OTHER speedster has?? Are you kidding??

Off the top of my head during a battle Bart could send his scouts in waves to go into the future by minutes at a time and then have them return to him with the full knowledge of every move his opponent will make. If he repeated that every couple of minutes while going super speedy, he’d be practically unstoppable. Seriously,, time scout abilities, his speed, phasing and an entire library of books in his head AND the fact that he achieved the white flash for a few moments and broke physics between time and space and survived doesn’t make you as a writer think “huh maybe I should write this character as more than just his namesake as a personality” ???

[gasstationpopcorn]

me @ kris's latest selfie: oh who's that pretty bo- hold on hold on a minute hold on honey

this is both sinister and diabolical....

biggest concert of our career, 20k people... good grief

[business-as-usual-bats]

I would pay you 1 billion in American currency, (that I do not have) for a continuation of the Tim Drake coming out miscommunication story line.

Thank you for your time.

It's pride month, I'm busy eating pussy and vandalizing cop cars

[ancha-aus]

RealAgeAU Drabble - Peace & Quiet (End)

You read that right. This is the last drabble in the series (official ending. I may still end up writing more but this is where the overall story ends.)

Yes this means I will also start the actual nightmare that is editing this monster (170K words people. Help me.) to eventually post the full and complete version to my AO3 (which you guys will be updated on)

Either way. @spotaus You ready friend? (don't worry. if i even end wriitng more drabbles i will keep adding you)

But yeah.

Once more to learn it off

First Drabble Prev Drabble

No edit or beta as always. One more. to finish it off completely.

*-----------------------------------------------*

The sun is already setting by the time they finally get back home.

Nightmare yawns as he leans heavily against Dust as he watches Killer open the door.

Killer sighs and grins “Home sweet home.” And he walks straight towards the closet to search through it for something. Probably clothes.

Cross nods and turns towards Dust and him and smiles “I will get a bath running for him. You still got him?”

Dust hums in acknowledgement. Nightmare isn’t too surprised. The meeting went on for forever and Nightmare is also tired. He has no doubt that Dust is even more tired as he actually had to interact with everyone and made sure people left Nightmare alone.

Cross shoots them another smile before going inside.

Horror cleans up the things they took along as he goes to warm up some food. All preprepared for this because they all assumed it would run late.

Dust walks inside and joins Nightmare in the kitchen as he waits for Cross to shout the bath is ready.

Nightmare watches as Dsut leans back in the chair and breaths deeply. He looks so tired.

Nightmare feels bad about having wanted to do this whole thing. Sure it made sense to reintroduce him and cement his whole standing and what happened… but it tired his dads out so much… He is being a bother again.

He pushes his skull under Dust’s and mutters “Sorry.”

Dust hums confused and looks at him. waiting.

Nightmare looks down and tugs on the hoody. It was Dust’s old hoody, something about making sure he looked obviously tinier and younger by having him wear that. Nightmare doesn’t care too much. It is comfy and it feels and smells familiar. He loves it.

Ngihtamre manages to find his words “You are all tired… because of the meeting… sorry.”

Dust blinks and snorts as he nuzzles his skull “Not your fault.” And just holds him.

But… they had to have the meeting because of him. Doesn’t that automatically make it his fault?

A few heavier steps and Nightmare feels Horror’s hand pat his skull. Horror speaks softly “We needed to do this meeting either way. No matter the extra reasons. It was the right thing to do concerning what happened with you and Dream. The fact we are tired is to blame on those in the meeting who would not stop asking stupid questions.” Horror sighs with a smile as Dust snorts and nods his agreement.

Nightmare blinks and leans against Dust. He should have known they wouldn’t blame him. They never do. Yet it still surprises him.

Cross walks into the room and smiles “Bath is ready.”

Nightmare frowns at them “Don’t you guys want to bath first?” He can wait a bit longer. The itch on his spine isn’t that bad yet.

Dust just looks unimpressed at him before getting up. He shoots Cross a small smile before Dust takes Nightmare to the bathroom.

Nightmare can already smell the scents of his favourite soaps and feels himself relax a bit. Dust takes care to help him out of the clothes and Nightmare can see a small pile of clean clothes by the side. Seems like that is what Killer had been looking for.

Dust hums as he looks at his spine.

Nightmare waits patiently as his feet are already allowed in the water and he hums happily at how warm the water is.

Dust nuzzles his skull “Going to remove the bandage.”

Nightmare nods as he waits. It is still uncomfortable but it doesn’t hurt as much as it used to anymore. He knows that Dust will be careful and try his best to make it hurt as little as possible and that he will make it better. So Nightmare stays still and lets him remove the bandages.

Dust hums and softly checks his spine “It looks irritated… Why didn’t you say anything?”

Nightmare blinks. Huh… had it been that bad? Nightmare looks down and sees that the whole of his spine is inflamed and red looking “oh…”

Dust’s hands are gentle as he checks everything.

Nightmare tries to think back but ends up just not being able to remember if it really hurt badly “I didn’t… Notice? It is strange but it just doesn’t hurt as much anymore… any discomfort is just easy to ignore?”

Dust frowns “you don’t need to ignore your pain Nightmare.” the hands help him into the water and Nightmare’s breath hitches as he feels his spine act up for a moment before it settling back in bearable again.

Nightmare hums and leans into the hands helping him clean-up “I didn’t mean to? It just kinda… it doesn’t hurt that bad anymore so I guess I just accidentally ignore it? Other stuff was more important today and I focused on that instead.” He didn’t mean to ignore his discomfort. It just happened because stuff was more important today and-

Dust hugs his skull and mutters “Your comfort is more important than some stupid meeting. We only really needed to show our faces. Next time, just tell us even if it gets slightly uncomfortable okay?”

Nightmare blinks and nods as he leans back.

Dust hums and helps him cleanup before helping him out of the water again. He dries him off gently. Dust takes the time to take care of Nightmare’s spine. Nightmare can feel him put on some healing cream on it before putting on clean and new bandages. After that Dust helps him into his warm and soft pyjamas.

Dust picks him up and take shim back to the kitchen where some food is waiting for him already. Nightmare yawns as he just leans against Dust. He honestly doesn’t even want to eat. He just wants to lay in bed together with his dads and watch a movie. Nightmare doesn’t even care which movie. As long as he can lay between them and feel safe.

Still he eats. Horror gets sad when he can’t eat so Nightmare doesn’t like to skip meals.

He rubs his sockets as Killer picks him up. Nightmare looks at him confused before looking around. He likes Killer holding him too. But hadn’t Dust been doing that?

Killer notices and grins “Dust is getting cleaned up and ready for bed himself.”

Nightmare takes a moment and sees that Killer is in his own sleeping wear and he takes him to the nest.

Nightmare hums and leans against Killer as Killer moves blankets and pillows around before sitting down with him. Nightmare turns fully towards Killer and just pushes as close as he can. Killer grins as he lays in the pillows with him “There. All comfy. Ready to sleep?”

Nightmare shakes his skull even as he yawns “No…” another yawn “Want everyone here.”

Killer nods “and they will get here quickly.” A soft nuzzle to his skull.

Nightmare hums as he leans against Killer. He is starting to fall asleep but forces himself to stay awake.

Killer just keeps holding him as he lays back with him.

Some movement and a soft voice “Is he asleep?” it is Cross!

Nightmare turns and goes to answer but yawns instead.

Cross looks guilty as he smiles “Sorry. Didn’t mean to wake you up.” Cross rubs his skull.

Nightmare hums as he leans into the touch “Not asleep.” He yawns again “Wanted to wait.” Wait for them all to be here. Snuggle together and… and…. Something else but Nightmare isn’t sure anymore.

Cross nods as he lays nearby “Like this? This better?”

Nightmare nods and a moment later Dust and Horror join them too. They say something about having to clean up and lcok up but Nightmare doesn’t care much.

They are all here.

Nightmare snuggles close to someone, Horror he thinks, and closes his sockets fully. Finally. Time to sleep.

His dads are all there and all have contact with him in some way. Nightmare can feel and hear them all near and knows that no one will hurt him when they are nearby.

Even if Nightmare isn’t sure on everything he is sure of that.

Safe and sound.

And so he goes to sleep. Tomorrow will be another day in their lives with their farm and homework. Things will go back to normal.

Their normal. In their home.

*-----------------------------------------------*

And that was it. For now. The story has ended. The group has their home. They tied up their lose ends. and Nightmare trusts and lvoes his four dads more than anything.

They are happy. And that is the perfect ending for them.

[starry-bite]

can you imagine writing the 'it gives me you' scene for a pair of characters and then having them not interact for the rest of the season? wild.

[jez-bez]

You have your Phukan and I have my Phukan in my world too. [...] Different paths lead to different futures. If you want a future with Phu, stop being a coward.

The juxtaposition in this image is beautiful and scary at the same time. Where our Cir is standing in a completely empty white room that resembles a padded cell/seclusion room, reflecting as Mame calls it 'a person with a blank brain, representing Cirrus mind in our world' - OtherWorld!Cir is standing in a seemingly functional operations room.

As we've come to learn in this scene (and in the bts!) Other World!Cir is the brains behind this all. He's the one who shows our Cir the dream sequence with Phu. ("How does it feel to see a different future?")

And I wonder, if the multiverse truly exists and it isn't just in Cir's mind (an argument can be made that's it's happening inside his head anyway but that's besides the point kdjbfkjsdf) and OtherWorld!Cir is the brains behind it - then how many Cir's were too cowardly to reply to Phu back in high school? How many Cir's never actually got together with him? How many Cir's have never broken free from his mother's control over them? How many times has OtherWorld!Cir seen his/their own cowardice ruin every Cir's lives?

How long did it take OtherWorld!Cir before he had to step in and take control? And how many times has it not worked, the Cir from those universes too ruined beyond repair to ever live a normal life?

The questions are endless and I'm so interested in learning more about him, though I doubt we will.

[nightskyli]

I don't think this season is going to end with Dev losing Peri and his memories of him/Fairies in general. Personally, I just don't see why the writers would put this much time into Dev and Peri only to completely undo it. I am not sure what they have mind, but that wouldn't be satisfying in the least for me. A completely waste of screentime if that happens in my opinion

[front-facing-pokemon]