#para: a second draft

[twomiddlefingersforthehaters]

刺し違える sashichigaeru - This word is an expression used in traditional Japanese. In Japanese the term 'sashichigaru' refers to stabbing each other with a blade; it is a method of harming one person while risking harm to oneself or sacrificing one's life to kill the opponent. In essence, this indicates that while you may not emerge unscathed, you have the ability to wreak havoc on your opponent. So, to stab each other means that both you and the other person will die. This method is often employed as a desperate measure against a superior opponent. This word is often used in situations where people are accusing each other or disagreeing with each other or in a conflict. The origin of this word is not known, but it is believed to have originated in the world of swordsmanship and martial arts.

In swordsmanship training and warfare, it was necessary to read each other's attacks and skillfully avoid them in order to prevent oneself from being stabbed, while at the same time seeking to instantly stab through the opponent.

If I'm not mistaken this term was used by two people in the series, 1. Kakashi 2. Sakura

• Kakashi

KAKASHI: いくらあんたがあの三忍の一人でも...今のオレならアンタと差し違えることくらいは出来るぞ...!

ikura anta ga ano san nin no ichi nin demo ... ima no ore nara anta to sashichigaeru koto kurai wa dekiru zo ...!

Even if you're one of the three ninja... At least, I can kill you as you kill me/stab at each other...!

差し違える= kill each other/stabbing each other (or try to assasinate)　→　get fight back　→　both dead.

差し違える - It was originally used when a samurai charges towards an opponent with a sword or short sword. In such a case, you may be able to kill the other person, but there is a high possibility that the other person will also be able to kill you at the same time. It shows the determination that it doesn't matter. This is also a desperate strategy/tactic.

差し (sashi) not only means two people facing each other, but also ``present'' and ``send back''. It is used with verbs to emphasize the meaning or adjust the tone, such as in ``replace.''

刺し is a continuous form of 刺す. It is mainly used to mean to pierce something with a sharp point.

Even though he knew that if he had a fight with one of the Sannin, he would probably lose, but he felt the need to protect Sasuke from Orochimaru

But....

When Kakashi saw himself decapitated when he stood between Sasuke and Orochimaru:

ORO: やってみれば? できればだけど...

yattemireba ? dekireba da kedo ...

Why not try it? If you can, that is...

this expression could come across as dismissive. Using such expressions can come across as sarcastic and undermine the other person's confidence or abilities.

KAKASHI: ...くつ 刺し違える...!? バカか...オレは...!!!

ku....sashichigaeru...!? baka ka ...ore wa ...!!!

Ugh...Kill you as you kill me/stab at each other...!? Am I an idiot...!!!

くつ...!! - Uses when Someone probably noticed the impossibility to deal with something which is faced now unexpectedly.

Often, small sweat drops are drawn on the cheek of characters to make their expression appears more tense than normal. The more sweat drops there are, the stronger the anxiety or nervous.

Kakashi was initially confident in facing Orochimaru, but his confidence changed when Orochimaru released his killer intent.... it was enough to scare Kakashi

• Sakura

In 482, Sasuke was about to finish the job to kill his teammate karin when Sakura suddenly appears. In which case, Sasuke is already suspicious of her motives.

At first, Sakura lied about betraying Konoha. Second, she lied about joining Sasuke even though she was there to kill him. Third, she doesn't really care what Sasuke really wants and why he's doing this.

Her first remark about Sasuke is "He's completely changed"...well, yes...he's changed...but has she ever tried to figure out why he's changed???

She must have been in a hurry to get rid of Sasuke before others got rid of him first. [Sakura chose a sleeping gas bomb to put Kiba, Lee, and the others to sleep, and she left them there without even make sure that they were safe and not exposed to enemies. But...Kakashi was the one who carries Kiba and the others to a safe place]

Sasuke says, "Try to finish off Karin," and she quietly approaches Karin with a kunai to "stab Sasuke."

He saw through her lies and only see her as a "hated enemy of Konoha" now... rather than a former Team mate. He didn't even warn her but instead goes behind her back and wanted to finish her off. Sakura's eyes widened with shock and couldn't even run away (even though medical ninjas are supposed to be trained to avoid enemy attacks). I guess she never expected Sasuke to do something like that. It was Kakashi who was able to stop it just in the nick of time.

Even though she was told to stay out of the way, Sakura appeared again with a kunai in hand...but she fails to stab Sasuke. Twice.

Kakashi, who has decided to confront Sasuke, orders Naruto and Sakura to leave the place. Kakashi then interrupted Sakura's words... "Sasuke won't die from the poisoned kunai you learned from Shizune... He still has orochimaru's poison resistance..."

Specifically, he tells Sakura the realistic facts: "Sasuke won't die from your poison kunai. That poison won't work on Sasuke, so it's useless"

The fact that Sakura, a medical ninja, tried to kill Sasuke with a kunai...means it's easy to determine that the kunai was a poisoned kunai. "Poison" is a typical choice for a medical ninja. so the fact that Sakura chose "poison" is also evidence that she was "seriously thinking about getting rid of Sasuke."

In chapter 311, Sakura, who came to visit Kakashi at Konoha Hospital, said to him,

Sakura knew that Orochimaru might have been given drugs or some kind of forbidden jutsu to train Sasuke. Therefore, she should have known that "Sasuke might also immune to poison". Sakura herself had said that to Kakashi. So, Sakura naturally knows this but she chose the poison she had learned from Shizune to coat the kunai with to kill Sasuke. In general, even Kakashi knew that "Sasuke was resistant to poison," but... all of a sudden, she forgot all the facts she remembers and decided to kill Sasuke with just a Poisoned Kunai.

So Sakura's attempt to kill him would have been futile whether she stabbed him or not. Instead of bothering to find out why Sasuke suddenly acted like that, she concocts this plan where she lies about liking Naruto to get him to stop chasing Sasuke. She then drugs her comrades and leaves them unconscious in the forest and tries to stab Sasuke not once but twice with her poisoned kunai. Again, she fails to even come close to her own goals that she has set for herself. She constantly making a fool out of herself, crying pathetically and needing to be rescued. And She heard Naruto talking to Sasuke that Tobi had told him about "the truth about Itachi" and heard Sasuke ranting about how Konoha was responsible for his misery, but she never bothered to ask anyone about it.

In chapter 693, When Sasuke tells Naruto to come with him, we sees this angry look on her face and starts screaming about her feelings. However what's important to notice is this highlighted part when she is having this meltdown :

寄りそうことも刺し違えることもできずに...

yorisō koto mo sashichigaeru koto mo dekizu ni...

I can't get close to you or stab at each other...

I think she clearly referring to Naruto. Naruto is the only one who gets through to Sasuke, close to him, and he even said during the 5 Kage Summit that he'd bear the burden of Sasuke's hatred and they'd die together [double-suicide]. And Sakura is clearly upset. Sakura is also very telling of her jealousy of Naruto and Sasuke's bond. She knows Naruto can do things for Sasuke and get a reaction out of him, but she can't. Only Naruto could do these two things, not her. All this time all she could do was cry and beg.

Then Kakashi says that Sakura still loves him despite Sasuke trying to kill her, while conveniently omitting the fact that Sakura went there to kill Sasuke. Kakashi, who not only admits to not understand Sasuke, but he also clearly doesn't understand Sakura either. And She doesn't understand Sasuke either.

[69-toojay]

writing this writing that, editing is so fucking nauseating man

[foxmulderautism]

when it’s so astronomically serious im drafting on the company paper pad

[paucubarsisimp]

More of pablo gavi x ana pelayo x reader poly please

surprise visit

pairing: poly!pablo gavi x reader x ana pelayo

summary: in which you and ana surprise pablo by going to one of his matches

warnings: none

taglist: @barcapix, @universefcb, @nngkay, @joaosnovia, @ilovebarcaaaa, @levidazai, lmk if you want to be added!

a/n: ik i promised you guys too but my phone broke with all my drafts so i had to rewrite these two on my laptop 😔

you could barely keep the grin off your face as you pulled the hoodie tighter around you, ducking your head slightly to avoid drawing attention. ana was right beside you, her excitement practically radiating in waves. her hand found yours between the seats, fingers lacing together like it was second nature — like it always was.

“he has no idea, right?” she whispered, eyes scanning the field as the players warmed up.

you smiled, heart fluttering as your gaze landed on pablo in his barça kit, running drills with that signature focus. “none. he thinks we’re both too busy. he was so pouty on facetime last night.”

ana giggled. “he’s gonna die when he sees us.”

it had been weeks since either of you had seen him in person. between your job in madrid and ana’s life in sevilla — and pablo’s insane training schedule in barcelona — long distance hadn’t been easy. but the love made it worth it. the group chats, the sleepy calls, the weekend escapes… it was real. and it was yours.

and tonight, it was all about showing up for him.

the game kicked off with that electric kind of energy that buzzed in your chest. pablo was on fire — sharp passes, confident runs, that spark in his eyes you both knew so well. you watched him move, pride swelling in your chest.

then came the moment.

a quick one-two play. a break through the defense. and just like that — goal.

the stadium exploded.

but your eyes were only on him.

pablo didn’t go to his teammates right away. instead, he ran toward the nearest camera, heart pounding, forming a heart with his hands before pointing at the lens. his smile was soft, a little breathless. he mouthed something that made your chest tighten:

“para mis dos amores.”

ana squeezed your hand tighter.

and then — he saw you.

it took him a second. the blur of faces, the adrenaline. but then his eyes locked on yours, and the entire world seemed to stop.

his whole face lit up. pure joy. disbelief. love.

he jogged to the sideline, earning a quick warning from the ref, but he didn’t care — he lifted his hand, blew a kiss, then pointed again, right at you and ana.

you were grinning like idiots. hands over your mouths, hearts racing. ana leaned into you, whispering, “he saw us.”

“he saw us,” you echoed, eyes glassy.

after the match, you waited by the tunnel with vip passes — thank you, sneaky planning — and the moment pablo spotted you both, he didn’t even slow down. he crashed into you, arms pulling you and ana into his chest like gravity itself demanded it. sweaty, out of breath, overwhelmed.

“you’re really here,” he mumbled, voice shaking a little. “joder. i missed you so much.”

you kissed his temple. ana pressed her forehead to his. “we missed you more.”

and in that moment — surrounded by noise, lights, celebration — it was just the three of you.

always.

[stardriveskickstart]

Parahuman Space

While Stardrives is complete, I'm not done with TTRPG writing yet. I've been working on the @para-imperium setting for over a decade now and I'm almost ready to launch a complete RPG based on the Cepheus System derived from Mongoose's Traveller (but more open).

Parahuman Space is a furry setting, yes, of the genetically modified variety. It covers over 2,000 years, but the RPG will be focused on the period after the collapse of the big interstellar empire. When newly independent planets and systems are busy scavenging the wreckage.

Players will primarily be salvage crews venturing into hazardous ruined spaceships and stations. Braving haywire security systems, leaks of corrosive chemicals, and the dreaded Kessler Syndrome to retrieve valuable technology.

In other words, dungeon delving.

At present I am about halfway done drafting the rulebook, drawn heavily from the Cepheus System Reference Document that can be read online here. Once I'm finished and I have interior artists lined up I was hoping to bring it to Kickstarter.

Below is the setting's history, as written for the rulebook.

Timeline:

Most calendars in Parahuman Space are oriented around the launch of the first parahuman-built starship as the start of the exodus from the clade’s system of origin, Sol. On the Georgian calendar the year 0 Post Exodus (PX) would be in the early 22nd century AD. So the Federation would be founded in the 32nd century AD and collapse in the 45th century, or roughly the year 4600 AD.

-40 Before Exodus: Creation of parahumans. -24 BX: Parahumans emancipated and corporations that enslaved them dissolved. -17 BX: Events of The Pride of Parahumans. 0 Post Exodus: First Seedship, the Traveller, launched. 4 PX: Pallas launches second seedship. 10 PX: Earth destroyed by relativistic projectile, origin unknown. 14 PX: Second Pallene seedship is caught by berserker probes that destroyed Sol.  Crew commit suicide first. 45 PX: Traveller lands on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, creatively named "Secland." 48 PX: Vestan ship lands on opposite hemisphere from the Traveller.

115 PX: Ship from Ceres arrives at Epsilon Eridani to find a lifeless system. Instead of terraforming the new corporate government opts to build artificial habitats in the asteroid belts and beneath the surfaces of planets.

124 PX: A second Vestan ship discovers a garden world orbiting Tau Ceti. The crew decide to eschew technology after printing enough colonists in fear of Sol’s Destroyers.

150 PX: Sleeper ship carrying 1500 humans from Sol arrives over Secland. After an abortive attempt at invasion the survivors gradually integrate into Pallene society. 500 PX: Cold war between nations on Secland ends with the completion of terraforming.  Biological weapons leave New Pallas the sole nation standing. 950 PX: New Pallas contacts Tau Ceti thanks to the newly developed conversion drive. Triggering political restructuring among the natives resulting in the kingdom of Schwarswelt under King Hideo Fink.

1060 PX: Stable wormholes large enough to move a spaceship through are produced and launched from Proxima Centauri to Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani. 1100 PX: Alpha Centauri, Tau Ceti, and Epsilon Eridani form the Federation.

1150 PX: Centauri Grand Mayor Selkd de Argentum assassinated by Cetan partisans and succeeded by his more aggressive sister Lirdrill.

1200 PX: The Federation centralizes power in the office of the Praetor, first held by Lirdrill de Argentum.

1205 PX: The Outworld memetic quarantine and contingency program is established, forcibly relocating ideological dissidents to frontier worlds with limited technology.

1500 PX: After extensive lobbying by Centauran merchant houses and the Eridani Company, Federation Senate votes to allow limited trade with Outworlds, which now compose roughly half of all colonized planets.

1846 PX: Kershkans, the first extant xenosophont species, discovered. 1903 PX: Contact established with Kershkans. 2300 PX: Federal Guard destroys Sol with strangelet bomb, inducing a nova. Evacuation of Core Worlds begins. 2304 PX: Wormhole gates at Alpha Centauri collapsed ahead of the nova's radiation. The capital cut off, the Federation quickly begins to fragment. 2345 PX: The Emissary-Governor of the Tiere System, wracked by tensions between earlier colonists and new refugees, disables all nanotech in the system in an attempt to reassert control. He is lynched by an angry mob within weeks. 2590 PX: The self-proclaimed Imperator Ronkal launches Project Paladin, sending ships with new reactionless drives and augmentation suites to neighboring systems. 2600 PX: A Ronkalli ship reaches the Tiere System, only for interplanetary debris to kill the entire crew. The ship AI forcibly augments a crew of scavengers who come looking.

The Origin of Species:

The first parahumans were engineered from a blend of human and animal genes and bioprinted in corporate labs in high Terran orbit. They were designed to fill roles in asteroid mining that were too complex for robots but too dangerous to risk human life for. It took less than a decade for rebellions and strikes to start.

Fortunately, the parahumans found many allies on Terra and after the revolutionaries on Ceres worked out a treaty to maintain the flow of resources back to Terra they were essentially left to themselves. With their new freedom came disagreements over how to govern themselves. The guilds on Vesta formed a form of anarcho-capitalist feudalism regulated by the cloning guild that held the early parahumans’ sole means of reproduction. But then a Vestan scientist, a silver fox named Argentum, discovered a simple gene therapy to remove the genetic sterility imposed by their creators and their followers formed a breakaway colony on Pallas.

The Vestan guilds could not tolerate this loss of control and war almost broke out between the two asteroids. Luckily they found an alternative means of proving the superiority of their respective systems of governance. A space race. Exploration of other star systems had been proposed many times but there had been little interest with the abundance of resources right there in Sol system. But with the new nanofabricators it was possible for even a small asteroid outpost to construct an Orion-style starship with a small crew and the fabricators to print out an entire new colony, colonists included.

They couldn’t have timed the launch better. Just ten years after the first starship, the Traveller,was launched from Pallas towards Alpha Centauri, it received a frantic message from Sol:

“This is an automated beacon broadcasting what may well be the last message ever sent by the human race. Five years ago, our homeworld, Terra was struck by a 50-ton projectile traveling at 90% of the speed of light. The debris took out most of our habitats in Earth’s orbit, a few million of us survived elsewhere in the solar system. Then the rest of the invasion force arrived. Machines, vast machines kilometers in length that home in on any sources of radio transmissions, and annihilate them. We pray they are not intelligent and are simply weapons fired by a xenophobic alien race. But they’ve almost completed their work, we estimate that there’s only a couple hundred of us left in the system. We’re sending this message in hopes that there is someone out there who can hear it and beware. This universe is more hostile than we thought. They attack radio transmitters, dismantle whatever devices you are listening to this on before they find you.”

In total, five starships were far enough out to heed this warning. The Traveller, a Vestan ship also headed for Alpha Centauri, a second Vestan ship on course for Tau Ceti, a craft launched from Ceres to Epsilon Eridani, and the largest but slowest ship, a sleeper ark from Terra to Alpha Centauri.

Alpha Centauri: Sol’s Nearest Neighbors

Around Alpha Centauri A the Traveller found a Terra-sized rocky planet that had long been scoured of life by stellar storms from the trinary stars nearby. It was determined that this little rock could be reanimated with comparatively little effort and the crew made immediate plans to colonize and terraform the planet which they named “SecLand” (the landing on Pallas being the first land).

Just three years after the Traveller’s arrival, they were followed by their Vestan rival. Considering the horror they’d experienced since Sol’s last transmission they decided to set their differences aside and work together on terraforming SecLand, albeit from opposite hemispheres. This detente was strained at times, but the first real threat to world peace didn’t come until 150 years PX, when the ark carrying the last of unaltered humanity arrived.

By the time the sleeper ark arrived SecLand had a population of several thousand, the ark carried a mere 1500 passengers but over half were soldiers who’d entered stasis with orders to make sure that the first exosolar foothold of humanity was human, not parahuman. Or at least that was the plan, when word of what happened to their homeworld got out there was a mutiny and the victors immediately surrendered to the parahuman colonists, with most passengers integrating into the Republic of New Pallas. These newcomers brought a wide range of skills and knowledge, living knowledge, to a planet whose inhabitants up until then had primarily only known life inside their half-built habitat structures. The humans emigrated nearly equally to both colonies, over the centuries they interbred with the parahumans, with the net result being that many SecLanders have less fur or their facial features are closer to human than many further colonies. Today pure-bred humans, and parahumans (excepting uplifts), are miniscule minorities on SecLand with only a couple million individuals. The average SecLander resembles a blend of at least half a dozen species of Terragen origin.

For centuries the two colonies lived in relative peace, New Pallas breeding like rabbits while the Vestans cloned new citizens in bulk. But when the terraforming of SecLand had reached the point where colonists could breathe the atmosphere tensions re-established themselves between the two old enemies. With terraforming nearing completion some wondered what use New Pallas could have for the Vestans, on both continents. To that end the Vestans began to covertly build weapons in their Arcologies while New Pallas shifted their orbital satellites slightly. It all came to a head when the Vestans concealed a lethal virus in food shipments sent from their farms to the cities of New Pallas, thousands died in the months that followed. By the time the New Pallas government realized what had been done every Vestan arcology had unveiled surface-to-orbit mass drivers that could shoot down their enemy’s satellites. Even then, many arcologies were leveled by orbital strikes. Then the land battles began. The cybernetically augmented citizen-soldiers of New Pallas facing off against the bioprinted legions of the Vestans. The fighting raged on for months, then abruptly, it ceased less than a year after the war had begun. You see, the Vestans had underestimated New Pallas’s skill with biotechnology, crafting a virus that could be deadly to all the diverse inhabitants of the Republic had been difficult, but a dirty little secret of many 21st century regimes were the techniques to engineer a virus that had disastrous effects when it interacted with a specific gene or genes. And the Society for the Preservation of Parahuman Species had only used a couple genotypes for their army, and even fewer for their ruling priest-scientists. Once the virus had been grown any Vestan unit that came into contact with the enemy was dead within a week, in a month the ruling class had been reduced to a few paranoid individuals who had sealed themselves in hermetic bunkers. Specialized by repeated cloning into an effective caste system, and their soldier castes suddenly extinct, the surviving Vestan arcologies found themselves helpless against New Pallas occupation forces.

The medical advances achieved fighting the bioweapons led to the development of leukosynths, symbiotic microbots that could fight off nearly all microbes and repair the body at an accelerated rate. Even fighting off the advances of aging. When this “immortality” was proven to the public they clamored for the government to subsidize their deployment to the masses. Within the century 90% of New Pallas’ population enjoyed the benefits of leukosynths.

Among this chaos a new power emerged in the Pallene cities and settlements. Families all over the planet started giving birth to silver fox kits, reminiscent of their colony’s nearly-deified founder, Argentum. Some religious leaders saw this as a sign and exalted these silver foxes, propelling many into high positions in politics. The cynical suggested that the parents had modified their children’s genes in-utero, but after the plagues many people were desperate and willing to believe anything. Most of them were actually descendants of Argentum’s, but their progeny numbered in the hundreds of thousands by that point anyways.

An unintentional side effect of this bit of social engineering was a renewed interest in their origins out in the depths of space. And despite the terrors they knew awaited them they couldn’t help but wonder if any other colony ships had made it…

Epsilon Eridani

Ceres, the largest asteroid in Sol’s asteroid belt, was the main off-world base of operations for the corporation that created the first parahumans. During the revolution parahumans took over the local branch offices and largely continued to operate along the same lines. Their participation in the exosolar space race was almost an afterthought, an attempt at remaining relevant compared to the other two major asteroid civilizations in Sol system.

Upon arrival in the Epsilon Eridani system they found even fewer viable prospects for terraforming than those in Alpha Centauri. Instead, they opted to construct enclosed habitats in the system’s asteroid belts and under the surface of the larger rocky planets. Like on Ceres the colonists retained the corporate style of government that had served their forebears fairly well.

After about a century of this arrangement dissatisfaction among the lower ranking employees spread towards the shareholding class. A bloody revolution followed, after which the revolutionaries distributed the seized shares in the Eridani Company equally among the employees, granting everyone a vote in company elections and a share of the profits. Roughly a generation later a group of managers started buying up shares from others.

The third such regime made contact with a probe from New Pallas, trade began almost immediately.

Tau Ceti

The second Vestan colony ship took over a century to reach its destination, the star Tau Ceti. Along the way two generations of crew were decanted from the ship’s bioprinters to replace their predecessors. While the final crew were genetically identical to those who had set out from Vesta their commitment to the ideology of the Society for the Preservation of Parahuman Species had wavered, and with the news of Terra’s destruction some suggested that perhaps the best way to avoid sharing that world’s fate would be to lose their advanced technology.

That would require them to give up cloning as a means of reproduction, however they were unwilling to allow reckless crossing of genelines so they added genetic markers to prevent different phenotypes from interbreeding. Fortunately, unlike the other colony ships they discovered a lush world that wasn’t too hostile to Terran life which they named Schwarzwelt after the dark colors of the local chlorophyll analogue. They then settled each “species” into different “clans” in different regions of the planet. The clans grew in population rapidly, bumping up against the borders designated at founding in less than a century. War broke out.

Clans rallied behind charismatic warrior-nobles and weaker clans swore oaths of fealty to stronger ones to save their own skins. These wars continued until contact with the first probe from the Centauri system, realizing that there was another civilization out there and that they were capable of interstellar travel the clan heads held a council to decide what to do about it. The majority ruled that they needed a single man to represent their world when the outsiders came in person, they elected King Hideo Fink of the feline clan as the official ruler of Tau Ceti.

Birth of the Federation

While the first manned starships with conversion drives were still traveling to their neighbors, scientists at a research base orbiting Proxima Centauri, the small red dwarf star that barely qualified as the third star of the Alpha Centauri system, made a breakthrough. Using a newly discovered form of exotic matter a wormhole could be pulled from the quantum foam of the universe and held open indefinitely. Once they successfully sent a laser through a pinprick-sized wormhole from Proxima to Secland, the New Pallas senate approved funding for the production of wormholes large enough to send materials through.

A very expensive experiment proved that wormholes larger in diameter than a micrometer could be catastrophically destabilized by proximity to large gravity wells. It was decided that no traversable wormhole could be placed closer to a star than the Oort Cloud, but even then the potential for shortening an interstellar voyage from decades to months was too exciting. Proxima Centauri was enclosed in a small Dyson sphere dedicated solely to producing the exotic matter for wormholes and just over a century after contact the first interstellar traversable wormhole between Proxima Centauri and Tau Ceti was ready, Epsilon Eridani followed suit. Commerce and communication between the three systems exploded, and conflict with them.

While interstellar war didn’t break out, there were many in both Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani who suspected that New Pallas intended to invade them through their wormholes. Before long both planetary governments were dealing with armed insurrections. New Pallas was all too glad to provide advanced weaponry and vehicles, especially on Schwarzwelt where the military was decentralized and entire clans or houses were rebelling. Eventually Pallene troops and warships were stationed in the two systems to defend Pallene interests.

Seeing tensions rise Grand Mayor Selkd de Argentum came up with an ingenious solution, an interstellar government composed of representatives from all three star systems, as well as any new systems that would be colonized in the future. That way, everyone could theoretically have a say in interstellar politics. While visiting Schwarzwelt in 1150 to promote his vision, Selkd was assassinated by a sniper.

Selkd was succeeded by his sister, Lirdrill, who ordered the sniper’s family estates leveled by orbital bombardment as an example to the others. The ruling houses of other clans that had rebelled were rounded up and stripped of their noble ranks, then imprisoned in stasis banks. She continued her brother’s vision of a united parahuman government, but centralized around Alpha Centauri and the office of the Praetor, which would be held by her house.

Wormholes took a lot of time and resources to set up while probes were reporting back dozens of exoplanets that were inhabitable or easily terraformed, so the senate on New Pallas had been debating whether to launch colony fleets before or after traversable wormholes arrived at the potential colonies. As Lirdrill solidified the Federation, she made an executive decision. Wormholes would be spaced anywhere from 20 to 50 light-years apart, depending on resources and stellar density, and the stars between them would be reachable only by ships traveling at 80% of the speed of light or slower. Since leukosynths and cryo-stasis had become mature technologies by then the decades of travel were deemed acceptable.

Even then, there was some trouble finding enough volunteers to fill the colony ships that were being built. After a few suggestions of using rebels as indentured labor the Memetic Quarantine and Contingency program was established. The thousands of rebels held in stasis were to be shipped off to marginally inhabitable “Outworlds” light-decades from the nearest wormhole, and to make sure they didn’t draw too much attention, without any technology more advanced than the most basic steam engines. It was hoped that eventually they’d become “civilized” and submit to the Federation, or die off.

But, there was a secondary purpose to the program. The machines that had destroyed Terra were still out there, and if the Destroyers were to notice the Federation growing under their noses, perhaps they’d overlook those small Outworlds without radio.

The Traders

With the vast distances between most inhabited systems trade opportunities were limited. Most star systems had enough raw materials locally that shipping them from another star without a wormhole was simply not cost-effective. While nanofabrication meant that most manufactured goods could be produced in a small warehouse, if not a garage. For the first few centuries of expansion the only goods that were worth shipping interstellar were in the form of digital data, and most of that could be handled by laser transmissions, and the occasional courier.

Just over two centuries after the Federation was established, a courier ship operated by a branch of House Argentum decided to stop off at an Outworld. The captain decided to land a shuttle near one city-state established by the unwilling colonists to see what they were up to.

The locals were wowed by the great flying machine and the crew, having forgotten their origins already. They offered tribute to the visiting immortals, foodstuffs, sculptures, and textiles. The crew decided to take some of the tributes with them, leaving some inconsequential trinkets of Federation technology which were quickly replaced by their on-board fabricators.

When the courier next made port at a Federation starbase they showed off the unique goods they’d acquired, many of which were purchased at exorbitant prices by bored oligarchs. The Outworld’s inhabitants were rapidly diverging culturally from their forebears, far faster than the leukosynth-using worlds of the Federation. Those simple couriers had found something valuable to the nearly post-scarcity Federation, novelty.

Many houses and companies commissioned their own Outworld trade freighters while the senate debated whether it was even legal to trade with the “barbarians.” Eventually it was determined that trade would be allowed; but no weapons, vehicles, communications, or nanotechnology were to be given to Outworlders. Small starships with industrial nanofabricators would set up shop over Outworlds for years at a time, fabbing trinkets made from space-age alloys and exchanging them for cloth made with alien fibers. Many of these traders became fabulously wealthy during the next few centuries as the Federation expanded outwards and established more and more Outworlds.

It was fun while it lasted.

The Return of the Destroyers

The Destroyers responsible for Terra’s demise had made occasional appearances in the next two millennia. Zeroing in on sources of radio transmissions with relativistic projectiles followed by hunter-seeker probes that would scour the surrounding system of life. But it seemed they hadn’t noticed, or didn’t care about the Federation at large.

Then astronomers in the Federal core noticed something. Sol, Terra’s sun, was dimming. A few disposable probes sent back horrific images, a Dyson sphere, and it was almost complete. With the energy of Sol the Destroyers could incinerate the core worlds at the speed of light! A secret panel of the senate met with the Praetor to decide what to do about this unthinkable prospect.

The Federal Guard’s fleets were assembled at Proxima Centauri and dispatched for Sol. Never before had Federation technology been tested against the Destroyers, and no one wanted to underestimate them, so the fleet was loaded with the most advanced weaponry they could muster.

It wasn’t enough.

Quantum ansible transmissions reported massive ships that maneuvered without visible reactions and accelerated to impossible speeds in seconds. The Federal Guard was slaughtered in short order, but before they died one ship managed to launch an experimental superweapon at Sol itself.

A strangelet bomb, filled with the same strange matter that converted baryonic matter into antimatter in conversion drives, with catalysts for self-replication. They spread across the star in a matter of days, triggering a series of detonations that tore the star and the incomplete Dyson sphere apart.

When word came that they had a potential nova carrying strangelets in their neighborhood the Federation’s elites abandoned the core worlds en masse. Fleeing through the wormholes at top speed. As the secret mission to Sol and its destructive results leaked everyone who could afford a ship followed suit, departing for distant worlds that they hoped could bring salvation.

Then, just before the nova’s wavefront reached Proxima, the wormhole network was collapsed to prevent it from spreading to the far colonies.

The Collapse

Every star system that had a direct link to the wormhole network found itself swarmed by refugees from the Core. The remnants of the Federal Guard struggled to maintain order as refugees clashed with natives. Many refugee fleets were forced to leave for other systems that were less sparsely populated, a few even attempted to invade Outworlds. Other fleets became nomads, passing through inhabited systems without slowing down and trading for or extorting supplies as they passed.

As unrest reached critical levels many governors activated failsafe programs embedded in every Federation citizen’s leukosynth implants, rendering the star system’s entire population mortal. Most such governors were torn apart by angry mobs. On other worlds the population voluntarily gave up advanced technology in hopes of hiding from the Destroyers.

Three hundred years later the dust has mostly settled. Few star systems are politically united, with individual planets and megastructures using everything from wooden carts to gravity-manipulating starships. The Federation is ancient history, and its technology treasure waiting to be discovered.

[skyheld]

me asking for kissing memes "because other drafts are too difficult" like i won't turn them into multi-para explorations of grief and second love

[build-a-lamb]

hi! we’re viktor/herald/lamb and this is our second build a headmate blog (find us at @the-bah-commune for our other stuff)! inspired by all the other blogs making packs of their own alters, for this blog we will only be making packs based on our own headmates :)

no restrictions, so long as we have a headmate that fits your description. please specify a level in your ask!

we’re not radqueer, but we’re a safe space for those that are, and will add ids and paras in our packs upon request! and endo safe, obviously. if you’re anti endo and run a bah blog… a tad cringe 😬

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LVL 1: name, pronouns, age, species, gender identity, sexual orientation, source, roles, faceclaim, sign-off(s)

LVL 2: (all of the above +) personality, hex code, bonus info (if applicable)

LVL 3: (all of the above +) likes, dislikes, possible front triggers

LVL 4: (all of the above +) cisids, transids, kink/fetish/paras

LVL 5: (all of the above +) playlist, kinlist, voice claim(s), aesthetic (from aesthetics wiki)

or, feel free to mix and match (eg "can i get a lvl 3 creators choice with transids and kinlist, no front triggers?")

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ASK EXAMPLES

“can i get a lvl 3 alter from a horror source?”

“can i get a masculine protector, any level?”

“can i get a lvl 4 mouthwashing fictive?”

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SOURCES (& amount of headmates as of 06/13/25) BELOW CUT

INBOX CHECK BELOW CUT

not including sources with 1 alter, but we may make packs for those too!

anastasia (2), arcane/league of legends (39), bojack horseman (3), clue (9), cookie run kingdom (7), date everything (8), deltarune (4), disco elysium (2), doki doki literature club (2), don’t hug me i’m scared (2), dungeon meshi (6), epic & greek mythology (10), five nights at freddys (6), fraggle rock (2), gravity falls (6), hades (2), hadestown (2), harry potter (6), hatchetfield (9), haunted mansion (3), hazbin hotel (8), helluva boss (4), house md (3), inside out (7), in stars & time (3), lackadaisy (2), malevolent (2), marvel & dc (20), midnight burger (24), minecraft & smps (35), monster high (5), monster prom (10), mouthwashing (7), murdoch mysteries (2), my hero academia (23), my little pony (9), next to normal (3), one of us knows (4), poe party (3), rankin bass (2), ride the cyclone (3), riordanverse (12), robin hood (3), scooby doo (5), severance (2), six of crows (3), slay the princess (8), smile for me (3), smiling friends (4), sonic (5), stranger things (2), super mario (4), the bright sessions (5), the hunger games (6), the legend of vox machina (8), the magnus archives (46), the muppets (3), the owl house (3), the wizard of oz (4), trap (2), wayfarers (4), welcome home (3), welcome to night vale (5), wicked (2)

+ a bunch of factives & brainmades!!

QUEUE:

DRAFTS:

- lvl 4 masc youtuber

INBOX:

- lvl 3 house md

- lvl 3 masc robin hood

- lvl 3 masc tma/tlovm

- lvl 4 jimmy mouthwashing

- lvl 4 fem government

- lvl 4 date everything

[rphunter]

Helllooooo! I'm Vix ( 28, she/her ), and I'm here looking for someone 21+ who's willing to do something connected to Legend of Zelda!

Premise: Fifty years ago, Ganon rose, a powerful force Hyrule knew all too well. It seemed for once in their history, their Goddess had forsaken them. No Chosen Hero rose to the task, and the young King had yet to take a bride, much less bear an heir that might hold the soul of their Goddess. It was left to the people to fight the Demon Lord.

Decades later, the Kingdom is held on a fraying thread. Though the Demon Lord was neutralized, sealed away, any Hylian that had had the misfortune of living through the time would say they did not win that war. Scholars say it is only a matter of time until he breaks free, and with their kingdom so ravaged and worn, they will not survive this second wave. The King's draft of able men seems more like collecting canon fodder without the Hero, and though twenty five years ago, hope was sparked when Princess Zelda was born, even she seems bereft by the sudden appearance of a thick tendril of corruption surrounding Ganon's tomb.

Her faithful companion seeks to find its source, but she's little more than a scholar herself. Princess Zelda decides to aid her by gathering a contingent of soldiers, and among them, she feels the immediate, blessed draw of an ancient, ancient connection.

What I want: I want someone willing to create and play a Link against my Zelda and one of my OCs. I'm looking for a polyship for Link, Zelda, and my OC, but that will be a side plot next to the main premise of dungeons and world ending shenanigans. We will create both Hyrule and our dungeons either originally or with heavy inspo from the games, doesn't matter

Writing Info:

I'm a multi-para writer with around 15 years of experience. I'll prefer anywhere from 2-9 paragraphs, depending on what's required for a scene.

I have a kind of high expectation of quality; I prefer well-rounded and in-depth character exploration and the building of chemistry in a ship as well as good quality writing and drawn out story that we're both excited about. I put a lot of effort into world and character building and expect the same.

I don't want anything that's too overly anime inspired and too over the top video gamey or anime-y.

Nothing smut-centric. Though I'm fine with NSFW, I won't have my plots lost to it. The story will be the focus and NSFW will happen naturally if it happens at all.

The more we discuss the thread OOC, the more I'll love it.

I have not played TotK and am not a big fan of BotW. I'd like a partner that'll work on creating something with me that has a vibe more like the Zelda games before those.

If this sounds interesting to you, like this post and I'll send you a message!

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[tselcoinsthings]

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☾Well, Traveler, This Blog Is For Any Terms We Decide To Coin Along With Any Flags We Make For Them. The Terms Featured Will Usually Be Under An Already Coined Umbrella. However, We Also Take Flag And Term Requests For Those Who Want A Term, But Cannot Find An Already Existing Label☽

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☾Information About What We Will Or Will Not Do For Requests We Can Do ID Packs For Names, Pronouns, And Titles, But It May Take Longer For Those Requests To Be Finished. Up To Three Requests Can Be Sent In An Ask At A Time. Once You've Requested Those Three, You Must Wait Until They Are Complete To Request Again☽

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☆Tagging System☆ #tsel dissomei / #tsel dissodic - Dissomei/Dissodic Terms #tsel desirdae - Desirdae Terms #tsel aldernic - Aldernic Terms (Many May Already Exist, Consider The Flag / Definition As An Alternative) #tsel flags - Posts With Flags We've Made. Will Be With Coining Posts Along With Other Flag Posts #tsel terms - All Coining Posts #system check complete - All Completed Requests #the station has completed a rotation - All Coining Posts By The Sidesystem, Solaris 932. Which Will Be Most Of Them # ☾[Name + Emoji]☽ - Sign Off Of Member(s) Who Made The Post

There Will Also Be Generic Tags Like The Term Names, Mogai, Liom, Atypical Dysphoria, And More.

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𖤓 A -Tien Term That Is A Combo Of Aquatien & Bombotien 𖤓 Inclus Alternative Term To Highly Complex & Extremely Complex 𖤓 Psychitraumagenic (A System Based On Psychiatric Trauma) 𖤓 Immerdaygenic (Origin Based On Immersive Daydreaming) 𖤓 Mephistopheles Hearthome 𖤓 Cubkid - A Little Who Holds Food Related Trauma

☾This Post Might Grow Larger As Time Goes On☽

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[iloved1lfs]

Never Your Priority

- PAIRING: Diego lainez x reader

-SUMMARY: Diego came back home for his vacation/break time. However, instead of spending it alone with you, he's been spending it with his friends, you decided you've had enough which eventually lead to an argument between you two.

-CONTAINS: angst, foul language

-WORDS: 1.2K

-SONG: I love You by Billie Eilish

-A/N: Para la persona que solicitó esto, espero que te guste y lo disfrutes. I hope you enjoy I HAD SO MANY IDEAS FOR THIS, and so many drafts I couldn't pick which one to use, but I chose this. Also don't forget to REQUEST. I'm sorry for uploading this late it has been a hectic week.

pt.1 pt.2

Diego came back home after traveling and playing for the Tigres, it's been months since you last saw him. However, you expected to spend it together just the two of you and have some time alone, but he has been hanging out with his friends since he got back. You were okay with it at first of course he missed his friends, but what about you all you wanted was to hang out with him alone.

Every time you tried to suggest you both to hang out just the two of you, it would get shut down or he already had plans with his friends.

Currently right now you were sitting by yourself at this party that was hosted by Diego's friend. You look at Diego who was happily talking to his friends across the room, you sighed. Not wanting to be there anymore surrounded by random people you don't know, and the only person you know, your boyfriend, has forgotten about you.

You were fed up so you decided to go back home, you didn't even let Diego know you were leaving that's how mad you were. You called an Uber and after minutes of waiting, the Uber showed up taking you back to your place.

An hour went by since you made it to your house, you changed into sweats and one of Diego's shirts. Your phone chimed, and you looked at it.

Hermoso

Where are you?

All you replied with was, "Home." You put your phone down, just for it to chime again a second later. He replied with, "I'm on my way." You didn't bother to reply, but waited for him to show up.

30 minutes later he quickly comes in the house, and lets out a relieved sigh seeing you on the couch on your phone. "Me asustaste, pensé que te había pasado algo."

You didn't say anything, you ignored him, you were still angry. "Amor, ¿Qué pasa?" He asked the most aggravating question he could possibly ask right now, and you snapped.

"Enserio Diego," He flinched not expecting you to snap. "You forget about me the whole night just to be with your friends, leaving me by myself with nobody to talk to? Then when I'm not there and see that I'm gone you decide to finally worry about me?"

"I'm trying to catch up with my friends I haven't seen them-" You cut him off.

"DIEGO, LO ÚNICO QUE HAS HECHO HA SIDO PASAR EL RATO CON ELLOS LA ÚLTIMA SEMANA Y MEDIA," You tell him he looked shocked at all this anger seeping out of you, you breathe in before continuing trying to calm yourself down. "Ni siquiera has echo tiempo conmigo a solas." You felt your eyes well up full of tears, but you held them back, you weren't going to cry.

"You're mad because I've been hanging out with my friends too much," He scoffs and you furrow your brows. "I'm sorry that I spent most of my time away traveling and playing, that I can't even hang out with my friends, don't you think you're overreacting." He looks down shaking his head.

You were confused at his reaction expecting him to understand, but instead he was bothered that you spoke up. "You think I'm overreacting?"

He looks at you and nods. "Yeah I think you are." You felt your tears fall down your face, you wipe them quickly.

"Fuck you Diego, I just wanted to hang out with you because I missed you and haven't seen you in so long." You stand up walking towards him standing right in front of him, he looked at you with an expressionless face.

"I text you and call you every time I have time when I'm not here," He said to you, it was your turn to scoff you walk away from him not wanting to talk to him.

"That's not the same as being here with me physically." You mutter.

You walk towards your room and he follows you. "While I don't see or talk to them at all, which is why I'm taking this time to catch up with them." He says as he trails behind you, you turn around towards him making him stop in his track.

"Diego I just want to spend some days with you ALONE, I'm not asking for all your days to be spent with me only." You turn around and he claps his hands, giving you a sarcastic smile.

"Where do you want to go then? Let's go eat at a restaurant, To the beach? Anything you want amor." He was being sarcastic, he was bothered at the fact that you brought this up, and you were hurt by the way he was acting.

"No mames Diego, eres un culero." You looked at him crying because he was being selfish, he wasn't understanding you, it was making you mad.

"Ahora ya no quieres pasar un rato juntos," You shake your head, trying to keep yourself calm.

"No because you aren't sincere clearly I shouldn't have brought it up, it was my fault," You jab your finger at his chest increasing the force, and he lets you do it. "I'm sorry that I want to hang out with my boyfriend who I haven't seen in months. And the time that I do all he wants to do is hang out with his friends."

He stays silent letting you speak, "So you know what I'll leave you to it, I won't stand in the way between you and your friends. I need to go." He looked at you as you texted one of your friends to pick you up, letting you know they were on their way, You grabbed some of your things in a dufflebag, and he was panicking.

"¿Qué haces?" You didn't answer him you packed a couple clothes from the closet you both shared. "Don't leave please."

You sniffle as your tears won't stop, he tries to stop you from leaving, you push his hands away from you. "Déjame en paz, en serio." You said harshly, and he stepped back.

Once you finished your phone chimed and it was your friend letting you know she was there. You made your way out the house and Diego called out after you before you left, you look at him.

"Where are you going?" He asked.

"I am staying somewhere else, for tonight because if I stay here we are just going to argue." You wipe your tears and give him a sad smile.

"You don't have to leave amor. Let's talk about it and we can work past it." You shake your head and laugh.

"Diego work past it?" You tried to stay calm not wanting to cause another argument. "We can solve this problem if we just hang out together us alone, but clearly your friends will always be the first priority, not me."

You left not giving him a chance, to speak. He let out a shaky sigh.

I fucked up. I fucked it all up. She's never going to forgive me.

He saw you get in the car and drive off he put his hands on his head, blaming himself. He sat down on the couch putting his head in between his hands. His heart ached painfully he was mad at himself for not understanding, for being a dick towards you and he was going to make it up to you.

He pulled put his phone and looked for your contact.

Amorcito

Lo siento Y/N, I fucked up and whenever you are ready we can talk.

La cague. Was what he kept telling himself.

Later on that night Diego kept replaying what you said.

Clearly your friends will always be the first priority, not me.

He hurt you, and he had to fix it he didn't want to lose you to this argument, so first thing in the morning he was going to talk to you to apologize.

Hopefully you guys enjoyed! I posted it extremely late because I just have been all over the place this week and schools starting next week. It has been so hectic! But this request there was so many ideas and I'VE WROTE SO MANY ANGST ARGUMENT LIKE MY DRAFTS ARE FILLED!! Please don't forget to REQUEST I will definitely write them! Remember I will only be writing for Diego Lainez or any football player for right now. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS. If you want me to turn this into a series please let me know!

[lidell-locke]

LFRP - Lidell Locke [Closed]

General:

Name: Lidell Locke, formerly Ari Djt-Dvre

Age: ~120

Race: Rava Viera

Hair: Sandy blond

Eyes: Moss-green

Height: 196cm // 6'5"

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

Physique: Muscled, sturdy

Marital Status: Single

Particulars

Skills: Lancer, archery, chain whip, guerilla warfare, hunting, herbal medicine, celestial navigation, survival skills

Hobbies: Origami, herbalism

Employment: Mercenary for hire

Religion: The Green Word

Permanent Debuffs: Partial deafness on his right from exposure to gunfire and shell explosions, rare but at times debilitating spells of vertigo, occasional catching in the right hip following a gunshot wound

Traits

Extroverted / In Between / Introverted

Disorganized / In Between / Organized

Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded

Calm / In Between / Anxious

Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable

Cautious / In Between / Reckless

Patient / In Between /  Impatient

Outspoken / In Between / Reserved

Leader / In Between / Follower

Empathetic / In Between / Apathetic

Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic

Traditional / In Between / Modern

Hard-working / In Between / Lazy

Cultured / In Between / Uncultured

Loyal / In Between / Disloyal

Faithful / In Between / Unfaithful

Summary:

An exiled Rava from Golmore, his forest name was Ari Djt-Dvre. He lived the typical male lifestyle for more than a century, excelling under his Wood-Warder master's tutelage until he achieved mastery and struck out on his own. He was a devout follower of the Green Word and sired five daughters by the same woman from his birth village. He would often watch them from a distance and leave small gifts for his lover and children. His birth village, being small and near the edge of Golmore territory, was ransacked and torched by a Garlean force. Ari's only obtainable vengeance was to track a straggling Garlean survivor over the course of days, where he strung the man up, skinned him alive and left him to the jungle's mercy. Exiling himself afterwards, he adopted a city name, Lidell, and travelled to Dalmasca where he joined the resistance. His hair-trigger temper and bloodthirst eventually had him forcibly discharged from resistance forces. Now he roams, taking on mercenary work as he tries and fails to find some peace from the unrelenting grief and anger.

Hooks:

Dalmasca: If you have a history with Dalmasca or were even in the resistance, you might just know him - or rumors of him. Lidell spent some time backing the resistance before being forcibly discharged for his unquenchable bloodthirst and inhumane, even torturous treatment of the Garlean opposition.

Garlean Game: After the loss of his lover and children, Lidell has a hair-trigger response to any Garlean he comes across. He's a persistent hunter and won't differentiate civilian from soldier. If you're looking for an enemy feel free to get in his path, or become an unlikely friend who can sway his outlook and consuming anger.

Mercenary Work: Lidell can be found just about anywhere and hired for just about anything. Need a bodyguard or an extra hand in some shady work of your own? Or someone to point you in the right direction and help you get where you need to go? He's your man, but don't expect unwavering loyalty. He'll turn and bare his teeth the second he finds your motives personally unsatisfying.

A Spoonful of Sugar: As an herbalist, Lidell will often set his weapons down for a mortar and pestle to help those in need of medicine. Drafts, lotions, salves, infusions and remedies; he knows his herbs and dosages. He might be found lending his aid where healers are needed most but often in short supply, such as on the frontlines of a skirmish or a disaster that's left many injured or sick. He's got a soft spot for the infirm behind the gruff exterior.

OOC:

Hello, I'm Dom, I'm located in the southwestern United States. I prefer long-term, multi-para rp, mostly on Discord for organizational purposes. I'm happy to meet up in game sometimes but I don't typically rp there.

I enjoy dark content BUT I do enjoy wholesome things. I'm also very open to OOC chat so feel free to hit me with a million questions and ideas. Message me here, I can provide my discord name for chat/planning!

[httpskuzuu]

Dios, amo AMOOO la manera en la que escribes. Tu one shot más reciente de Fyodor es arte, te juro que me lo voy a tatuar. Es uno de los mejores que he leído, tiene una manera de llegarte increíble, me encanto.

Y si no te molesta la pregunta, consideras que harás segunda parte? ^^

te respondo en inglés para que los demás también puedan entenderlo xd

omg tysm for all those compliments!! when I uploaded it I didn't think people would like it, but I'm very happy to see that I was wrong ^^

and yes there is going to be a second part, it's not finished yet by far, my mind has been very hyperactive with several ideas at once and it's confusing to put them in order. Anyway, I've almost finished the initial draft so it won't take too long

(I leave you two small parts of the draft, it is probably poorly translated, but I think it is understood)

You deserve to die, or at least you convince yourself of it, you are just a useless entity in Fyodor's house, what other function do you do here besides chasing him? That would be like a punishment for being so selfish, for loving Fyodor so much.

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You are selfish, you know that well, he could have been doing much more important things, but instead he was here, with you, waiting for you to wake up. Fyodor is such a merciful being when it came to you, he wouldn't be this way with anyone else, only you. You feel your chest tighten with warmth.

"Fyodor…" You don't want to speak too loudly or break the silence in the room. You try to keep your thoughts in the same rhythm as your voice, quiet and sleepy. You need to be well, for Fyodor.

[csyakult]

oii gente, to vindo aqui pra dizer que vou dar uma parada nessa conta. primeiro que estou desanimada com ela pois, não sei o que houve, mas meus posts estão flopando muito ultimamente (se não fosse os reblogs que dou na minha outra conta nenhum teria batido 100 notas). segundo, os mais de 10 rascunhos que tenho salvos tem uma estética diferente do que costumo postar e não vai me agradar visualmente, por isso, estarei indo para uma conta reserva. não irei apagar essa e posso até acabar postando algo, no entanto, nesse momento estou focada a me dedicar a @sukisng e eu espero que se alguém tem algum carinho por mim me sigam la e me acompanhem <33

um beijo a todos 🤍🤍

hii guys, i'm here to tell you that i'm going to stop posting on this account. first, i'm discouraged with it because, i don't know what happened, but my posts have been flopping a lot lately (if it weren't for the reblogs i give on my other account, none of them would have reached 100 ratings). second, the more than 10 drafts i have saved have a different aesthetic than what i usually post and won't please me visually, which is why i'm switching to a backup account. I'm not going to delete this one and I may even end up posting something, but right now I'm concentrating on dedicating myself to @sukisng and I hope that if anyone has any affection for me they'll follow me there and keep up with me <33

kisses to all 🤍🤍

oii gente, vengo a deciros que voy a dejar de postear en esta cuenta. en primer lugar, estoy desanimado con ella porque, no se que ha pasado, pero mis posts han flopeado mucho ultimamente (si no fuera por los reblogs que doy en mi otra cuenta, ninguno habria llegado a los 100 reblogs). en segundo lugar, los más de 10 borradores que tengo guardados tienen una estética diferente a lo que suelo postear y no me van a gustar visualmente, así que me paso a una cuenta de reserva. no voy a borrar esta y puede que acabe posteando algo, pero de momento estoy centrado en dedicarme a @sukisng y espero que si alguien me tiene cariño me siga allí y esté al día <33

un beso a todos 🤍🤍

[psymmetry]

writer 20 questions!

so aoba tagged panda and yellow (@guesst), who tagged me, but i saw panda's post first for some reason. hi everyone. thanks for remembering i exist, i had to dust off my writer card. i will be responding to everyone's points…

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

36

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

125,372

3. What fandoms d(id) you write for?

mairimashita

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

dying doesn’t suit you either (433), trying not to move (same fic) (360), pandemonium (280), it’s not the end of the world (239), soft cream otoshichatta(191). what, no kidnapping fic on here?  no vampirio? vampirio is still my second most iconic work; people mention it to this day 

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i think i do. enough that the number of comments is different from the number of comment threads.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

probably the one where kiri makes azu kill people and then it ends with him dissociating sitting on the bathroom floor knowing that his life is ruined. what a great fic. does anyone else want to read this fic? the statute of limitations has passed i don’t even mind

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

uuuu….. FIGURE IT OUT I DON’T KNOW

8. Do you get hate on fics?

never in my life lol i am a perfect angel

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

surprised to see other people saying they don’t. hey, if you get to write without being a disgusting pervert freak, why not me? if you can be motivated beyond a base impulse. if you can want something closer to pure, just for the satisfaction of pieces clicking into place, words coming easy for once– i want satisfaction in a bad way.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

IN… theory. A. i love crackficcing and B. i feel like it’s hard to find an interesting crossover, which is a challenge, but hm, not really a thing i do. 

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

no, but someone once used my manga coloring for a fancam. i can’t be mad, i stole that shit in the first place lolol

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nooooo (psy is not that famous) (never got a podfic either)

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yes! i have been listed as a co-author for beta-ing and i have also written fics that were completely co-concepted and beta’d by the other person. never written by like, trading off chapters or had both people write extensive passages though. 

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

I’M POLYAMAROUS I DON’T HAVE AN OTP 

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

vampirio #2… i drafted it out and everything… from WIP to RIP… 

i don’t need to finish things for them to count towards my artistic development or whatever. you know, perhaps fans of my work would disagree. perhaps such people would prefer that i post things for them to read

16. What are your writing strengths?

this is too embarrassing. words pretty :> flow flow :> 

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

i can’t structure and follow through on anything longer than 10k. i don’t block out time to write.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

tu quieres escuchar mi espanol terrible? en un fic? por que’ yo quisiera hacer este NFDNs?? escribir fic por the smash hit sensation EL CUARTO MISTERIOSO. yo debo mirar mas shows en espanol…. este keyboard no tene un numpad. fun fact. no alt codes para mi

19. First fandom you wrote for?

uuuuuuuuuu nope that’s LIMITED INFORMATION

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

playing the victim. the aforementioned serial killer fic. 

i am tagging @cometkov and @dragonofthedepths! and everyone. everyone at all. if you see this you have to answer all 20 questions. 500 words each. assignment is due 11/30 11:59. by the way, here is a blank to make it a little easier.

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Candela’s TRoE 2017 Altar: Days 8 and 9 [Part 3]

The final post from days 8 & 9

[image descriptions: first is a GIF of a small sheet of paper being submerged in a glass of water and beginning to dissolve; second is a GIF of pouring that liquid from the aforementioned glass into another glass container—a bottle in this case; third is a still of a tealight illuminating the text on dissolving paper that was used]

As I listened to Celia Cruz’s “Yo Viviré,” which was part of my elevation playlist and the “final” song I was meant to play, I wrote down some of the lyrics to capture them and then transform them into the liquid I’d keep for a year on my primary altar after the elevation was done.

“En el alma de mi gente, en el cuero del tambor, en las manos del conguero, en los pies del bailador, yo viviré, allí estaré // yo viviré, para volverlos a encontrar / y seguiré con mi canción, bailando música caliente como bailo yo // ESTOY SOBREVIVIENDO PARA QUE LA GENTE ME SIGA OYENDO // ROMPIENDO BARRERAS, VOY SOBREVIVIENDO, CRUZANDO FRONTERAS, VOY SOBREVIVIENDO”

which basically translates to:

“In the soul of my people, in the leather of the drum, in the hands of the conga player, in the feet of the dancer, I will live, there I will be // I will live, to find you again, and I will continue with my song, dancing hot music like I dance // I AM SURVIVING SO THAT PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE LISTENING TO ME // BREAKING BARRIERS, I AM SURVIVING, CROSSING FRONTIERS, I AM SURVIVING”

- @candeladestructora

Note: From our drafts, here is a post from Candela’s elevation ritual in 2017.

[samwisegamgeeee]

hey hii about your poem in spanish and gendered language the 'como's shouldnt have the 'cómo' with the thingy up (tilde pintada) cuz thats used in question/interrogative sentences

Like when you say 'cómo la luna' is closer to 'how the moon' than 'like the moon'

It was a lovely poem just a heads up iguess idk if you speak spanish o estás aprendiendo; realmente muchos hispanohablantes olvidan la tilde en lenguaje escrito casual pero en el caso de las palabras preguntas (que/qué that/what, cual/cuál) tiene relevancia para el tono.

And i dont if anybody pointed it out already and you are just getting the same advice again, sorry for bothering you xd

lol no you're the first person to point this out, so don't worry <3. And i realized this but it was too late to fix it. Like i said, it's a draft and it has some typos hahah

I used to live in spain and i spoke spanish fluently but it is my second language and i've lost some fluency cause no one here speaks it with me :(